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witch hat atelier hat theory proves that snufkin would be a bad guy in that universe
#I don't think he really has a concept of good or bad#he's the fuck around and find out but he ends up with brim-hat#not that he uses magic for bad purposes#he's just little mischievous and steals from people#witch hat atelier#snufkin
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oh!!!! fic titles for you: the body is a blade OR bad luck charm. (both from the nhw playlist. fwiw <3)
Strider used to call him his bad luck charm.
It was more of a family joke than anything else. Vyncent had sat on Strider's lap once when he'd lost a game of blackjack against Min, but the joke had only really taken off when Min, who had welcomed Vyncent after Strider's lighthearded banishment, had lost three games in a row. They kept playing and she won overall, but—Vyncent had been so delighted by it. Just being near someone, tipping luck's hand just with his presence. It made him feel special, like he had a great power just as impressive as the Greats'. His dad didn't like it when he played pretend with powers, would take toy wands from his hand and make some stupid, dramatic exclamation and suddenly his pretend wand was a pretend sword. Vyncent didn't mind so much, because then his dad would play with him and chase him around the house and they would kill dragons and. Bullshit.
The point was that his dad sucked, and Vyncent had latched on to the idea of a power that was luck instead of magic. A fun, fake, special thing that was all his. It was a fun game to bounce between everyone on game night when he was too young to participate, magnanimously choosing a loser with his great, childish wisdom. They'd even played along sometimes. Not all the time, but...
There was one time, one game that was all about aim. Ram was taking the whole pot, smoking like a racehorse and grinning easy. Greyson had taken Vyncent aside and loudly put on a whole bit for him—begging, telling Vyncent that he was their last hope, that he had to save them from the tyrant Ram and it was all up to him. Vyncent had taken to it like a shooting star, and Ram, fucking Ram, threw every single round afterwards.
Vividly, Vyncent can remember one night his mom was on a winning streak. He can't even remember the fucking game, but he remembers she was taunting the others. She'd said something to Alphonz that Vyncent had thought was just this side of too mean, and they'd all laughed when he gravely settled in at her side. His mother had laughed, too, held him and kissed his head and used the opportunity to sweep him away to bed.
His hand hurts, and his heart hurts. Next to him, William is trembling. Vyncent knows that it isn't—it was a fucking kid's game, his bad luck gift, but it's sticking in his head now. Something backwards to it, the way things got worse when Vyncent left. The way his presence didn't make things better, but there's flecks of blood on William's hands that weren't there before and he knows his absence just made it all so much worse.
William told him that he wasn't going to kill David. William didn't kill David. He did some freaky curse nonsense instead, but Vyncent had been present to see him do that and he really doesn't know how bad it might have gotten if he hadn't been. He's glad he punched David when he did. He wishes he'd done worse. He's glad he didn't.
William is still trembling.
Vyncent hears the Winnebago in the distance. He closes his eyes and breathes. Dakota won't be happy. He just prays that they'll be lucky enough for him to stay.
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HI ROS HI HI HI!!!! sorry it took a minute yesterday was. So fucking busy ! Nhw Playlist songs....... 👀👀👀 okay but the fic thing I won't get distracted here this fic—yeah vyncent having a good fucking time. I think most of what I'd want to explore got touched on here. The idea of things being Worse when vyncent is gone (and in a longe fic it'd touch on his whole world going to shit) and it'd touch on his passive stuff and some overthinking of maybe he's bad luck overall?? but greyscale just. Cementing to him that he IS a vital part of the team, at least emotionally. It'd probably be more exploring how I want to characterize vyncent than an actual Study of him because i struggle w him
#ask#pd#i think thered be a layer of inversion too#like oh in fauna you cant use magic youve gotta use swords and youre considered bad luck as a lil joke hehe#but in prime its. your blade is too sharp so you only have magic left. things go wrong when hou arent tbere. you dont have to sneak#into missions youre taken along on purpose#tapping a lil at his identity crisis and who he wants to be and what he wants to do#and thered be one scene where fucking jason king is talking about a movie he made about gambling#and hes pulling some clever analogy shit f#that the audience can point at and go oh ho ho#but vyncent is just there like .-. what. huh. okay. uh huh. yesh sure#paying NOO attention and irritated by the fuckin nonsense#writing
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Love to torment my sister's do-nothing boyfriend. easiest method is simply doing things to reinforce his belief that my cat is actually my familiar (he is genuinely superstitious to this degree). this is easy for me because my cat is very responsive and easily trained. our recent accomplishment? she is meowing and i say "Cashmere, inside voices" and she pauses and then takes up meowing again...but quieter. Saw my sister's boyfriend struggling really hard not to immediately "call me out" in front of my sister.
#my sister is tired of her boyfriend trying to 'prove' that i'm capable of using magic to curse him#also it's not really a cute fun little 'teehee i'll trick him into thinking i can do magic and have a cool cat familiar'#and more I actively hate this guy#and he truly believes that you can't train cats to do anything beyond using a litterbox#he's also one of those guys who watches sketchy documentaries and weird podcasts and believes weird conspiracy shit#and also like just random stupid shit#the dumbest i've heard so far is that if you have glasses you should stop wearing them#so that your eyes can 'fix themselves'#not sure if there's like some alternative homeopathic bullshit he thinks you should do on top of that#but yeah my astigmatism is not gonna correct itself if i stop wearing my glasses dumbass#there's more but i think you get what i'm working with#all i need to do is teach my cat some simple tricks like 'lower your volume on my signal' and 'go where i point'#and he will start quietly (my sister will not be amused if he brings this up again) flipping his shit#like i'm lucky my cat is really responsive and trainable too. i've taught my cats simple tricks in the past#but i'm more motivated now that i have a purpose for it (riling up my sister's shitty boyfriend)#he just gets so frustrated because he wants to call me out so bad + he knows i'm 'being obvious' on purpose because no one will believe him#and it's true. he'll sound crazy if he tries to convince anyone i'm an actual witch–sorry tumblr witches but i do not believe in witchcraft#and i like to emphasize this by openly saying things to my sister like#'haha almost slept in this morning because Cashmere turned off my alarm so we could cuddle longer'#i previously explained to my sister that she figured out that if she smacks the thing making noise it will stop#so these statements are traps. if he brings up the familiar/witch shit my sister will chew him out#because she already got the 'haha my cat smacks my noisy phone to make it stop' explanation#so him saying 'obviously this is black magic' is not gonna go well for him
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Saw a post t’other day that was like “Wonder what it would’ve been like if Neal had been around for the fight between Emma and Gideon” and as much as I like him, I just know Neal would’ve taken one look at Gideon and decided there was too much of Rumple in him and he probably would’ve been even more reluctant than Emma to believe he wasn’t evil. Neal would’ve been too obsessed with making sure Emma and Henry didn’t become collateral damage in what I’m sure he would view as Rumple’s mess to spare a kind thought for his enslaved brother.
#was rumple at the crux of that storyline?#yes#....bc it was HIS CRAPPY EVIL MOM who was the big bad there#was his son involved in it?#also yes#....bc HIS CRAPPY EVIL GRANDMA HAD HIS HEART#I just feel like Neal would've taken it all too personally#and he wouldn't have given Gideon the benefit of the doubt#he would just see 'guy who's using magic for nefarious purposes' and be like 'yeah he's evil like dear old dad has been in the past'#he would also blame rumple instead of the dark fairy I'm sure#Gideon gold#neal Cassidy#rumplestiltskin#martianbugsbunny opines
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it’s interesting to me that for a series that promises an unflinching look at the reality of a world where the wealthy have access to magic and don’t care about the negative impact that it has on other people (and i think does largely do a good job of showing that!), the ninth house series seems to sort of … pull its punches when it comes to the suffering the characters endure at the climax of each story? recently reread ninth house for the first time in years followed by hell bent, and the scene where the souls that marguerite belbalm consumed then consuming her felt sort of. ikd. optimistic? after all the emphasis on “consumption of souls” heavily implying the idea that those people had totally ceased to exist and had only become fuel for belbalm to draw upon it was a bit confusing to learn they were actually all still around and could take vengeance on belbalm. and then in hell bent tripp turns into a demon instead of completely dying which is probably not, like, a super fun experience, but he seems to almost completely maintain his personality from before so it almost feels like nothing major really happened to him, as opposed to linus reiter, who seemingly was utterly eradicated by the demon who took his place. idk. both of those things kind of made me go “this feels like it is breaking the established rules of the universe in order to make things not be as bad as they would actually be.” i don’t know if there’s a bigger conclusion from this, i’m just thinking about it since i recently finished hell bent.
#obviously alex held darlington's soul without consuming it but she was trying NOT to do it#and darlington seems to have maintained his personality mostly but whatever he went through seems quite different from tripp#idk. i still like the series and i think it's good#considering how dark it is it's strange that i want the characters to suffer even more#but both of these things rang a little bit hollow considering the rules of the world?#idk. food for thought#pie says stuff#ninth house#hell bent#alex stern#oh also turner dawes and alex should have smashed the horrible amethyst table made by slave owners#considering an amount of page time was dedicated to talking about how it was a fucked up artifact i wish they had done that#might have done a bit more to drive home the theme of how some of these magical artifacts#are truly awful and made for bad purposes and should not be used#anyway! i did overall like hell bent. i simply like to overthink things
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Bro’s playing Chrono Trigger, hopefully with intent to finish this time, I suspect.
I stalled out when playing DS during the final sidequests, but therefore functionally played the entire game and have been trying very hard not to spoil That Particular Plot Point. (If you have to ask you don’t know which it is.)
This led to me going “wait, how far in is he” after he got kicked out of Zeal the first time, which led me down the rabbit hole of the Chrono Compendium wiki, which does not just have theory pages but DISSERTATIONS on how time travel would have to work in these games. So now it’s 3:45 AM. I’m pleased with how I have spent this time.
#the answer is 'not yet'#He figured out the Prophet's identity but I forgot the Prophet exists straight-up so I accidentally spoiled Janus to him#he does not mind that one since he DID call the Prophet part#(also it was me remarking on a name and Bro immediately made the jump from there to Janus)#he also figured Magus was either the final boss or a party member. Me: Well he's one of those. Bro: Is he mutually exclusive with Frog?#Me: No you're good they can reach an Understanding.#Bro: Good because even if the game demanded I use Magus or get the bad ending if I couldn't use Frog I'd get the bad ending#(he had previously referred to Frog as the main character and if it's not him it's Magus. Bro likes knights. Crono who?)#I did say Atlantis would fall (forgetting the name of the kingdom) but like. That's just what Atlantises DO.#They represent a shining technological and magical marvel far exceeding the modern world. And then they fall. Cataclysmically.#This is their narrative purpose and has been since fucking Plato.#they are the hubris of man made manifest. Often inherently and fundamentally flawed in a way that allows them to flourish#but will ultimately bring them down. Sometimes the flaw is merely 'humans didn't realize there was a volcano there.'#and sometimes a giant space tick that's been influencing the course of human history advertently or no is involved
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i finished 7th dragon a lil while ago n some of the worldbuilding is so funny i cant stop thinking abt it. why is the lost city of atlantis populated by catgirls
#they made it so the women are all catgirls and the men are all more elven which is. something?????#story is kinda wild n not the Most interesting considering all the games ive played w time travel being a main focus#but its ok. enough to get thru it without issue after u get past the tutorial#the characters are also in the same boat where theyre alright but ive seen too many that did each characters job better#i DO rly like the custom character designs n stuff tho. might make ocs out of some of em that i grew fond of#i also appreciate that its a game set in the future that actually has ceased homophobia entirely AND openly. not enough of those i think#also idk if the balancing for the character jobs is perfect (bc one of em is just completely busted) but the dynamics u can create are fun#i always kept each team the same so i didnt play around w that part much but pairing physical-based jobs w each other#and magic-based jobs w each other seems really good#u can even base a team around most of ur characters dying for ridiculous damage output. rly funny idea that i might try one day#my favorite unit is the silly lil catgirl i had w the busted job. she wasnt on my main team so i discovered just how good it was p late#also u can date quite literally everyone. which has both good and bad perks as u can imagine#kind of a. persona type deal. yknow.#on the bright side there was a tragic clone character 👍 they did him so dirty tho there was so much more they couldve done w him#also theres an alien that looks like a stuffed rabbit and uses he/him that also turns into a girl. peak gender tbh#if anything the queer rep in this game kinda rules#not even sure if its on purpose or not. but it rules
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history of magic classroom - @wolfstarmicrofic - word count: 278
"....and then the werewolf army joined the rebels, singlehandedly causing a massive amount of casualties..."
Remus wasn't paying attention. He was used to hearing about how werewolves had joined the 'bad' side of whatever war they were studying. Long ago, he'd given up on researching the involvement of werewolves, trying to find out what was actually true. It felt like no matter what he did, Wizardkind was desperate to paint werewolves as truly evil monsters.
As he sat in History of Magic, hearing about them again being bloodthirsty beasts was just part of the routine.
So he - and everyone else in the class - was shocked when Sirius raised his hand.
"Mister Black?" Professor Binns asked, obviously confused at the interruption.
"No disrespect, Sir," Sirius said, looking like he didn't much care about disrespect, "but didn't werewolves fight on both sides of this war?"
Binns blinked, looking quite caught off-guard.
"I read about one werewolf that actually lost his life trying to stop others from purposely turning people to help the rebels," Sirius continued, jaw set. "The rebels tortured him for hours before they killed him, but he saved a bunch of innocent people from being bitten."
The Professor cleared his throat. "Er...yes. Well, that's...that's not incorrect. However, we need to move on to talk about the next battle. Now, where was I? Oh, yes. And in 1403..."
But Remus was still caught up in Sirius's quiet defiance. Turning to his friend, he sent him a small smile. And when the other boy grinned back, he tried not to think about the butterflies that took up residence in his stomach, instead focusing on trying to take notes.
#marauders#harry potter#marauders era#marauders fandom#fanfic#harry potter marauders#the marauders#marauders harry potter#marauders fanfic#the marauders era#marauder era#marauders fanfiction#marauders fic#remus lupin x sirius black#remus lupin and sirius black#sirius black x remus lupin#sirius and remus#remus loves sirius#sirius x lupin#remus x sirius#sirius black deserved better#sirius black#sirius loves remus#remus john lupin#remus lupin#sirius x remus#wolfstar fic#wolfstar#harry potter fanfic
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The ghost of a past regret
The tome hidden under Damian’s mattress continued to burn in the back of his mind. He knows he shouldn’t have kept it. Magic is dangerous, that of the Infinite Realms especially so. And there was no guarantee the book was even accurate; he’d never given the cultists a chance to make use of its contents.
But a single section from it refused to leave his mind. He couldn’t just throw out the opportunity it offered.
‘Danyal…’
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Damian had hated to admit it, but his twin brother could be cannier than him at times. Danyal had caught on to the harm of the League long before he ever had.
And he had tried to get out. To get them both out.
Damn him. Why couldn’t Danyal have been selfish for once in his life…
But Damian had still been caught up in it all. He was the perfect heir. He was loyal. He would not betray his family in the League.
And yet he’d been so quick to betray his brother…
Danyal’s shocked gasp as Damian’s knife slipped between his ribs still echoed in his ears when he awoke from nightmares. Sometimes, on particularly bad nights, he would swear he could still feel the blood dripping down his hands, and amount of scrubbing ever made the sensation go away.
He was sure Alfred at least had noticed the redness of his hands, but he never pushed for answers. Damian was thankful for that, even as he felt undeserving of the comfort. It had all been his fault.
At the time of the betrayal, Damian had felt little of the emotional weight. He was disappointed in his brother, but he was just doing his duty to the League. It would only be later that it set in, and the regrets continued to eat at him long after his family forbid all discussion of the traitor his twin.
What if he hadn’t fought? Would they have succeeded at escaping? Would they have met their father sooner? Would he still be able to see Danyal’s smile?
It was pointless to wonder. Danyal was gone.
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But perhaps not completely.
The siren song of the spellbook continued to call to him. The first thing to ever offer even the faintest glimmer of hope for finding closure.
For it contained a ritual to summon the ghosts of the betrayed.
Maybe it wouldn’t work. Regardless of the book’s accuracy, he’d never done anything like it before and wouldn’t be using the spell for its intended purpose. It was described for use in combat, tearing apart enemies with the specters of the vengeful dead, not for seeking atonement. Was changing the context even possible without entirely restructuring the ritual? He didn’t know.
And it wasn’t like he could ask the magicians of the Justice League Dark for help—even the most unscrupulous among them would still try to dissuade him and likely inform his father.
But how could he not try?
It might be wishful thinking to hope he would ever forgive him. But even if Danyal rejects the apology, it would still be worth it just to see his brother just one more time…
He grit his teeth and clamped his eyes shut as emotions warred against logic inside him. It was a terrible idea. He shouldn’t do it. He shouldn’t.
‘Damn it.’
The tome felt impossibly heavy as he pulled it from under the mattress with unsteady hands.
He had a ritual to set up.
#i’ll leave it up to you if Danny actually died there or survived until the portal incident#surviving would put him closer to DP’s canon#but he could still become Amity Park’s ghostly protector and make a new life there either way#demon twins au#bruce wayne is danny’s bio father#betrayal (in the past)#dp x dc#dpxdc#dc x dp#dcxdp#danny phantom x dc crossover#dp x dc prompt#dpxdc prompt#dc x dp prompt#dcxdp prompt#danny and damian are brothers#danny and damian are twins#danyal al ghul au
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The Construct of Loyalty
Pairing: Cassian x Rhys's Sister!Reader
Summary: After months of "disobedience" your father calls upon Cassian to be your personal guard. That leaves Cassian, a soldier in the Night Court army, your childhood friend, and a man deeply in love with you, to protect you from all fronts—including the arranged marriage you were born into.
Word count: 4.2k
Warnings: Angst, arranged marriage, panic attacks, dual pov ;)
a/n: This wasn't going to be so long initially but then whoops it developed its own life. Part two will be necessary I think ♡ For context and clarification, the reader grew up with the IC and everyone is around 50-70 rn. Rhys's other sister is alive still but not really important to the plot.
Main Masterlist ♡
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“What if we just—”
“No, y/n.”
“But, Cassian, this is ridiculous. I’ve been stuck in here for three days.”
“And you’ll be stuck a lot longer if you disobey your father again.”
“You don’t even like the guy! Why are you so intent on kissing his ass?”
Cassian bit the inside of his cheek and narrowed his eyes at the defeated posture you’d adopted. In truth, he didn’t like your father—hated him, actually. But Cassian knew the life you lived and what would come if you continued to act out against him. He knew things were becoming serious because Rhysand voiced his concerns over your circumstances when he was usually too protective to divulge anything, and he knew things were bad because the High Lord of the Night Court tasked him to watch over you.
Him, a bastard-born Illyrian who was nothing more than dirt on the bottom of his shoe.
But Cassian was dirt that you’d actually listen to.
According to Rhys, your father had appointed six high fae to be your personal guard over the past six months. All six had been sent away rather abruptly when they failed to rein you in. But “rein you in” was a ridiculous sentiment, as you called it. All you wanted to do was to get out of the room your father kept you cloistered in and actually experience a life.
You wanted to speak to people who weren’t your assigned propriety tutors or servants. You wanted to get out of the Moonstone Palace and be a person outside of the marital obligations your father placed on you. You wanted to shop in Verlaris with Mor and make Cassian take you flying and, above all, you wanted to understand your magic—to hone the combination of night and day that your father’s choice of mistress had carefully curated.
Because that union was the entire purpose of your birth, and the moment you turned 50 you were ripped from your family and hurled into the Moonstone Palace to live out your purpose.
You were to be the figurehead of the alliance between Night and Day and you were to fulfill that duty through marriage.
It didn’t matter that you were hardly seen as a person; you were a pawn, and as long as your father lived, you would continue to be used and maneuvered as the court saw fit.
Rhysand had been trying his hardest to keep you from marriage for as long as he could, but the more you acted against your father’s wishes, the closer you got to your fate.
You knew it was coming. You’d had far more freedom before you turned 50 but you’d still lived under your father’s thumb. Cassian always hated watching you get pulled from quiet nights in with your sister and would cast you sad looks when you were made to watch from the sidelines when everyone else was training. But that had always been your life, and there was never anything he could do about it.
Cassian clenched his jaw in abject frustration. “Y/n… don’t do this.”
You scoffed and harshly sat on your bed, the gauzy material of your dress splaying up before floating back down to rest on the blankets. Whatever hairstyle had been twisted upon your crown this morning was unraveling in a pretty mess around your face and Cassian itched to brush away the strands.
You’d always been so pretty.
He turned his fingers into his palm as you began to speak. “He wouldn’t even have to know. I wouldn’t leave your side once,” you mumbled. Your words felt more like a routine and less like an actual request. Because Cassian always said no when the other guards always gave in too easily.
Or you had simply slipped past them too easily.
“Look, Starfall is coming up. I’m sure your father would let you go out to be with everyone.”
You twisted your mouth in a way Cassian knew meant you were trying not to cry. You blinked up to look at the ceiling and nodded your head with your teeth embedded in your bottom lip, and Cassian’s heart was dangerously close to breaking.
When he’d gotten the station report—or rather, demand—to be your personal guard, Cassian had seen it as a good thing. He’d get a break from the grueling hours of being a soldier in the Night Court’s troops and he’d get to spend more time with you. He’d missed you terribly since you’d been sent to Hewn City.
But then he’d gotten to your room and spent three weeks telling you no and watching you go stir crazy and he was three seconds away from caving. It wasn’t surprising that the other appointed guards had failed so quickly—you were too lovely to deny, especially when you looked so sad.
Cassian breathed out a sigh and walked to your seat on the bed, his leathers groaning as he moved to crouch at your feet. You were still staring at the ceiling and Cassian was still aching to somehow fix all of this.
“Hey,” he prompted. When you only tightened your grip on the piles of luxurious blankets on your bed, Cassian took your chin between his finger and thumb and brought your gaze down to him. “There she is,” he smiled, but the hazy gleam in your eye felt like a punch to the gut.
“I hate this,” you whispered, all shaky and upset.
Cassian tsked. “I know, sweetheart.”
“I just want to go back home.”
“I know.”
“It’s so weird that you’re in charge of me.”
Cassian snorted. “I’m not in charge of you. I’m the one that has to follow you around.”
You narrowed your watery eyes. “If that were true you’d let me go back to Velaris. Or go anywhere other than this wretched place.”
“Well, in that way I guess I’m more protecting you than in charge of you. That’s what a guard does, sweetheart.”
“Protecting me,” you laughed, jaw clenching as Cassian kept it in his soft hold. “What would be so dangerous about going to Velaris, hm? Or… running away. Really, really far away.”
“Can’t run away, y/n. We’d all miss you too much,” Cassian teased, but the hint of panic in his eyes was unmistakable.
You raised an unamused brow. “Because you all see me so much now.”
Cassian offered you a bittersweet smile and gave your cheek a soft pat. “You know I’m not protecting you from the people out there. You know why I won’t let you leave.”
You looked resigned, but that reality was becoming more commonplace. You sighed and reached up to place your touch on Cassian’s knuckles. “I know, Cass,” you hummed. “I know.”
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You shifted in your seat for the countless time that evening, the stone throne at your back doing little for comfort. The heavy crown on your head was giving you a headache and your father kept yelling, exacerbating the pounding behind your eyes.
You were made to attend official court business more often, your father assimilating you into the role he birthed you for with more urgency as you rebelled. Cassian stood behind you with a stiff posture and murder in his eye, playing the role of a guard to perfection. And you knew, with all certainty, that if anyone looked at you wrong they would be on the floor.
That was one benefit of having a personal guard—even more so a guard that you grew up with.
“—not accept this insolence,” you heard your father bite out. He jutted his hand back to the shorter throne you sat upon. “And you bring it in front of my daughter. I won’t have this. Not in my court.”
You hid a flinch as the man before the dais was forced to the ground by a free-flowing darkness you could recognize anywhere.
Your father’s show of power.
The man screamed and pleaded and you couldn’t remember what had brought him to this, but you knew this was just a ploy by your father to assert his dominance over the court. You breathed through your nose as he continued to scream and plead, pressing your lips into a line and maintaining your mask of neutrality and boredom.
You were never made out for the life your father expected from you.
After the man was thoroughly incapacitated and groaning, your father let up and sent him away and you were left feeling sick to your stomach.
Almost done, you reminded yourself, and then you could rot in your room with nothing to occupy you but the dread of your upcoming fate. You could feel Cassian’s presence at your back and it was somewhat reassuring that he would be rotting along with you. Maybe he would even play cards with you today or you could pass the time begging him to help you with your magic.
He always denied with an apologetic expression and you knew, deep down, that he would never agree to anything. The back and forth was simply a way to get through the day.
The doors to the throne room burst open with a loud boom, startling you out of your roaming thoughts. You sat up in alarm when a small brigade of soldiers dressed in Day Court armor marched in, preceding a well-built, stoic-looking man with a grimace plastered on his face.
You whipped around to look at Cassian in an uncharacteristic act of impropriety. Cassian looked just as lost as you were, but he blinked away the concern and sent you a reassuring nod as if he had everything under control. You watched his ruby siphons flicker and his fists clench as he clasped them together by his thighs, but you turned around. You had to turn around because you were not supposed to consult a guard about matters of your court.
A quick glance at your father told you that he was surprised as well, but pleasantly. “Blaise,” your father greeted, clapping with the word. You hid another flinch. “I was not expecting you today.”
“Clearly,” Blaise snarked, stopping before the thrones at the head of the room. “Your full court is not even here. Where is your heir?”
Your father’s expression morphed into a glare. “Training,” he said. And then, “But that shouldn’t be what concerns you. Your bride is just beside me.”
The world slowed, your thoughts and the movements of those around you sticky and heavy. You thought you might have opened your mouth but the action was delayed and it was hard to find the path to your muscles. Your chest caved. The light in the room became dim.
Blaise smirked and trailed his gaze to your figure. He let his eyes rove from your feet up to your face, so unhurried, so lax. As if you were already something he owned and he could take all the time he wished. In a way, you guessed he could—it wasn’t as if you had anywhere else to be.
“Huh.” Blaise stuck his tongue against his cheek. “Come.”
You blinked as the man stuck his hand out and waved his fingers in three harsh motions, beckoning you to him as if you were a dog.
It felt like you’d been doused in ice water as onlookers watched you expectantly. Rhys had told you he was buying more time. Cassian had told you. Azriel sent shadows to your room and you took them as signs of something. But before you stood your betrothed and behind you stood Cassian and there was nothing to be done.
You looked over to your father.
“This is Blaise. He is a duke in Day. You shall be married. Go to him,” he commanded, nodding towards the stern brow in the center of the throne room.
“Father—”
“Go to him.”
You rose. Everything fell off its axis, a rush of lightheadedness making you lose your balance and lean back to grip the arm of the throne. A steady hand on your elbow grounded you. You didn’t even need to turn to know it was Cassian, but you did, anyway.
Hazel eyes bore back into yours, devastation and determination mingling in the hues. Something dropped in your stomach and something else made you tear your gaze away and stare at your fate head-on. Cassian’s fingers lingered. They pulled away when you fully righted yourself.
“Do you give me an ill bride, High Lord?” Blaise accused with a mean raise of his brow.
“Of course not. Do not insult me.” No further explanation.
You passed your tongue across your drying lips and took the steps down to meet Blaise, the man instantly snatching your hand and raising it above your head. He walked around you, inspecting you as if you were something to be appraised before buying, and nodded after completing the circle. Then, to set your stomach rolling, he swooped down and pressed his mouth to your ear. You heard a rushed step behind you, but the sound was drowned out by hot breath and whispers.
“You’ll do nicely, given that you’re house-trained. Virgin?”
You pushed back on his armored chest to gain some distance and Blaise cackled, knocking his head back in delight.
“A bit skittish, but that’s fine. You said she’ll be used to Day? Definitely not staying here.”
Your father hummed, taking a bored sip from his chalice. “She’s spent time in Day. Her mother hails from the court.”
The rest of the conversation was lost to buzzing.
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Cassian was wrought with panic.
He had already opened his mind and shared the information with Rhys, but Rhys was still honing his daemati abilities and Cassian had no idea if his brother even got the information.
He hid his panic behind a stone wall of neutrality and malice as he walked you back to your room, cataloging the way you took even steps and stared blankly at the walls in front of you. His facade was breaking down with each step you took; you seemed to be escaping into yourself and Cassian was becoming increasingly worried.
Part of not being able to practice and control your magic came the dangers of it overtaking you. No one was sure if you harnessed daemati powers like your father and brother, but if you did and weren’t aware, you could get stuck. Cassian had witnessed Rhys’s struggles with that when he was first learning to control his magic and emotions were high.
The moment your bedroom door clicked shut, Cassian’s hands were on your face.
“Y/n? Hey, look at me,” he urged, tucking his wings into his back because maybe the light from your windows would help somehow.
When you didn’t look, a faraway haze to your eyes, he shook you, rattling your head in desperation. You should be screaming, crying, begging him to let you leave after what you just discovered. And, instead, you were blank.
His next demands were stern. “Y/n, I can’t get Rhys here. You need to snap out of this. I don’t know how to help you.”
You breathed a little deeper, but no change.
“Fuck.” Cassian looked around the room, his head whipping back and forth as he searched for anything that could help. For Rhys, it was easier to develop skills to get him out of this state because he had been expecting it. For you, there was no prep, no warning.
Cassian turned back to you, his heart pounding out of his chest. If he couldn’t get you out of this before your father noticed—
He saw your eyes shift and something clicked.
You were staring intently at the red siphon gleaming on Cassian’s chest, blinking quicker the longer you stared.
“This helping?” Cassian murmured, yanking the siphon from his chest without care to hold it up to your eye level. “Okay, we’ll work with that.” You blinked even more with the tone of his voice and Cassian took that as motivation. “Keep working yourself out of this, sweetheart. You do this and I’ll teach you how to use a blade. Haven’t you been asking? Dumb question—you’ve been asking since we were twenty but—”
Cassian cut off his rambling when the first few tears fell down your cheeks. He watched each as they fell, wiping them away with his thumbs as he waited. And waited. And then you choked out a sob, and as much as he hated the sound, relief flooded through him at your state of consciousness.
“You—you said there was more time,” you stressed, stumbling over your tears. “Rhys… he told me there was more time.”
Cassian shook his head as he spoke. “I know. I know, sweetheart, but we’ll figure it out, okay? Me, Rhys, and Az. We can—”
“You can’t do anything,” you cried. Your breath was picking up. “No one has been able to do anything my entire life. Not my brother or you or even myself. I—Cassian, I was only born to do this. No one cares about anything else. You’re only here because my father willed you to be. Because it serves his agenda to have you guarding me.”
Cassian’s fingers buzzed as he wiped more and more tears from your face. He kept opening his mouth to say something, anything, but it didn’t matter. Nothing would make up for this.
“I—I can’t. I can’t be married to that man. Being locked in here was bad enough. Being coddled and prepped for my entire life was enough. I’m not a princess, Cassian. I’ve never wanted to… and now I…”
You were hyperventilating now, raucous inhales colliding with heavy, painful exhales. You dropped to your hands and knees and Cassian followed suit but with the sole purpose of propping you up and placing a steady hand on your stomach. You fought him, desperate to claw at the ground and escape the world, but Cassian wouldn’t have it.
“I need you to breathe,” Cassian requested, his words firm but soft. “I need you to focus on how I’m touching you and I need you to breathe into my hand.”
He’d done this before, it was familiar.
You used to get panic attacks anytime your father forced you to stay at the Palace for a weekend to view one of the many horrors at the Court of Nightmares. Rhys helped, but it was Cassian who noticed the tells—the uneven breaths, the panic in your gaze. It was Cassian who felt pain himself each time your throat closed.
You shook your head at Cassian’s demand, clawing at your chest.
“Yes, y/n. Try. For me, please.”
He could tell you were trying, even as you continued to shake your head until that ridiculous crown toppled onto the floor. You tugged at the shimmering black material on your chest and never broke eye contact with Cassian and you tried.
Slowly, eventually, Cassian saw your chest stutter and your breath begin to even out.
“That’s it,” he praised, rubbing his thumb along the boning of your dress. Your lashes fluttered until your eyes closed. “That’s it, baby,” he muttered, the endearment slipping past and getting lost in the air.
You reached down and gripped Cassian’s wrist. “I’m okay now. I think I’m okay.”
“You sure?”
You nodded. “I mean, I’m not okay. But I can breathe and think.”
“Those are accomplishments I guess.”
“I don’t think this is part of your job description,” you joked, the small laugh that followed half-hearted and weak.
Cassian smiled. “Did the other guards do it?”
“I can’t say they did.”
Cassian readjusted his position on the floor and shifted you to no longer sit on your knees. He brushed your hair back and fixed the neckline of your dress.
“You scared me,” he admitted, still focused on adjusting the mess you’d made of yourself.
“I’ve had panic attacks before.”
“No, not that. You got stuck, I think. Like how Rhys would when he was first learning to use his daemati abilities.”
“Don’t tell my father.” The words were so quick from your mouth that Cassian shot up to look at you. “Don’t. I already have a difficult time with the court abilities and I don’t need him to—”
“Y/n, I would never tell him,” Cassian interrupted, a furrow in his brow. “Why would you ever think I would do that to you.”
You cast your gaze down. “Well, I don’t know. You’re in his employ—you have to report to him and be loyal. The other guards—”
“I am not another guard.”
“Well, I obviously know that. But I just wasn’t sure where that part of you started and my friend ended.”
Cassian closed his eyes for a long, disappointed beat.
It was pretty obvious that Cassian was in love with you—at least, it was pretty obvious to himself as of three weeks ago. The moment he saw you again after months away, all pretty and sequestered away and so happy to see him you were glowing, he knew he was a goner. There had been hints of it when he was growing up, but seeing you again made it hit him full force.
Of course, you could never know, because as much as you said you weren’t and were adamantly against the title, you were a princess, and Cassian didn’t want to add more stress to the plethora of horrors in your life.
Still, the realization of his feelings only made your questioning tone hurt that much more.
“Y/n, look at me.” Eyes met in your bedroom. Cassian kept his hands in his lap and you had your fingers pressed to the ground. “My only goal is to keep you alive and happy. I frankly don’t give a shit about your father. Everything I do or have done has been to keep you safe. He isn’t safe, so I make sure to follow his orders because not doing so is dangerous for you. Rhys… Rhys has been keeping close tabs on the situation from the outside and informs me what I need to divulge or keep secret. Nothing has ever been done out of loyalty to your father.”
You released your bottom lip from your teeth and Cassian watched your shoulders sag in relief. He was about to say more, but then you launched yourself into his chest and his arms were wrapping around you without him willing them to. He had to stop the two of you from lying flat on the floor, jutting an arm out to stabilize the hug before bringing it back around to rest in your hair.
“I thought I'd lost you for a little while there,” you admitted, your face buried in Cassian’s shoulder.
Guilt ate at his heart. “I thought you said you understood why I was making you stay?”
“I did,” you mumbled. “Or, I thought I did. I knew you wanted to keep me safe, but I thought you also wanted to please my father.”
Cassian dragged you back from his chest, hands resting along your head and back. “I’m sorry it felt that way. I have only wanted to please your father for your benefit. I’m—we’re family, y/n—” and I love you, he wanted to add “—you’re my family.”
You stared back at Cassian, tears still fresh in your eyes and on your face. “Can we leave now?”
Another piece of Cassian crumbled, shattered. “We can��t. You can’t. Rhys is working on another way out of this but if you try to run right now you know your father will only come after you.”
“What about the human lands?” you rushed out, hands on Cassian’s chest and so close to his heart. “Or I could go off-continent. I could learn to glamour myself and try. Cassian, I could try.”
“Y/n, you just got lost in your own head and you have no idea what kind of powers you have beyond that. You have no fighting skills, no way to defend yourself. I know you’re capable, but you’ve had your every need catered since you were born. And your father would be after you. I don’t know if you’d survive.”
Cassian watched you deflate as he spoke. He brushed his hand up from your back to run a soft touch along your jaw. “And I would come with you—if you ran. But your brother has his head up his ass and he’s going to need help when he becomes High Lord.”
You smiled some—a sad, dejected smile.
“We’re gonna figure this out, sweetheart, just like I told you.” He leaned forward until your foreheads touched. “You’re not going anywhere I can’t go.”
“And what if none of you can do anything about it?” you whispered.
Cassian ignored the fear that threatened to cease him at the prospect. “Then I’m going to fight like hell until I can.”
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Mommy long legs reader or slender man reader x Hazbin hotel 🌚🌝
AHHHH I LOVE YOU MY GHOST ANONNNN! SLENDERMAN?? YOU FINNA BRING OUT MY CREEPYPASTA PHASEE🦆✨💗‼️‼️‼️
HAZBIN HOTEL X SLENDERMAN! READER
prompt: a faceless creature of the height of 10’5 (or 7’9 idk I got two different heights from safari lol) came to hell to serve one final purpose…get a damn job.
Two words, scary tall…
So say your height was 10’5…
SHIT GON GET WICKEEDDDD!!!
Okay so I can see Charlie being scared staring at you as you just sit like a nice gentleman as your body doesn’t fit the whole seat… (y’know what, let’s go with 7’9…) you told Charlie you use to be a leader before you somehow came to this wrenched place
Charlie felt bad and gave you a job here so yon can stay. But she was confused when you said “somehow”’ as if you didn’t die as a Human…WAIT A MINUTE..DID YOU JUST TALK WITHOUT A MOU-
Lucifer looked up at you and was like….“What in the fucking nine circles…” and you two became friends because of how Lucifer put accessories on you like a Christmas tree
Y’know how people make slenderman wear reading glasses sometimes? That’s you. 😭 with your blind ass LMAOO (I also wear glasses dw…) But I can see you wear the glasses and residents be so confused because…you don’t have eyes for Christ out loud-
“Fuck you wearin' glasses for?” Husk said to you once as he caught you even reading a book…now he was more confused. “I’m reading…” “…..okay..” husk was so done with this buffoonery as you had no mouth and eyes. But yet you could still read, see, and fuckin talk? Yeah he must be drunk as hell itself…
You treat niffty just like how fanon slenderman treats Sally. That’s how I headcannon it.
I headcannon you to be the fanon version of slenderman rather the cannon version. Cause you being the fanon version is just sweet considering the chaos that can happen in the hotel and how you treat niffty.
I can see people thinking you are a new overlord as you had a stern aura around yourself as you had a proper straight walk as you held a high chin not showing any weaknesses.
“Woah….did you see that sinner get lit in flames…” “yeah I did.” It got so quiet so quick as angel gave you a confused face as you just stood there. 😭 Angel couldn’t tell if you were being fr or being a smartass
You were just sleeping on the couch, dead ass like a passed out beer dad after watching football. And fat nuggets sat in your lap sleeping. Then angel came and slept by you, then husk, then niffty, AND THEN EVERYONE JOINED 😭 big ass family cuddle💗💗🦆
You deadass could be the bodyguard of the hotel as you could escort a sinner who is trying to be an ass to the staff and you’re just like, “YEET!” And boom they are thrown away
You and Alastor definitely bond the most as you two got black tentacles. It’s just for Alastor it’s based on his powers when he uses his magic. But for you, it’s just your appearance as you use them to pierce your enemies. But mostly you use them when you are too bored to pick up objects with your hands
BIGGG headcannon that when slenderman do that static thingy, for you it clouds their vision and hearing as you make them pass out. Either to death or just to knock them out.
Lol I can imagine the whole creepypasta mansion going crazy while you drink tea like “this is fine” as you are in some other universe- 😭 crossover type shit
Like Drowned Ben is spam texting your phone like, “slender. slender. Help. Slendy. Octopus. Father. Help help.. help JeFF STABBED ME!”
And your tall ass is just sleeping as everything is going soooo peaceful in the hotel.
While we are at that, EJ definitely was using a book to try and to summon you with sally behind him hugging her teddy to see you again. Meanwhile Jeff was chasing Ben as he goes through a tv to hide from Jeff.
I imagine people in the hotel would hug you except for Alastor as he hates touch. But the people would dead ass hug you as one of your tentacles hold them.
You picked up angel, niffty , Charlie and Vaggie with your four tentacles as you read a book. It was a funny but cute sight as Charlie was like “:p” while the others had a cartoony ass expression or a blank one which is definitely Vaggie and husk
Adam and Lute definitely glanced at each other confused at what the fuck you were as you didn’t have a demonic or angelic aura. But you had some type of power in you. It was weird asf as you just stood there like “🧍🏾am I ugly?” They just kept staring at you
I can see you having the same expression as the picture above when you met pentious as you and Alastor was having tea just chilling with the hellish weather.
“Do you know that guy?” “I have no idea who that pest is my dear friend.” Alastor says with his usual smile as he hands you a cookie.
Just straight up tea times with Alastor is so peaceful as Alastor was kinda suspicious when you didn’t say anything if he ate a cannibalism meal. But I mean…slenderman! Reader is use to people being a cannibal.
The vees are definitely intrigued with who the hell you are and how powerful are you as you were the talk of pentagram city when you first came.
I headcannon a sinner tried to cut off your tentacles only to be grabbed by one of them and slammed to the ground. You just stood there and let static ring loudly in their head to the point it exploded.
#creepypasta#creepypasta x hazbin hotel#creepypasta x reader#hazbin hotel#hazbin hotel headcanons#hazbin hotel imagine#hazbin hotel x creepypasta! reader#hazbin hotel x slenderman! reader#slenderman! reader#crossover#hazbin hotel lucifer x reader#hazbin vaggie#hazbin husk#hazbin alastor#hazbin hotel x platonic!reader#hazbin hotel x male reader#hazbin hotel x you#hazbin hotel x reader#hazbin lucifer#hazbin charlie#hazbin angel dust#hazbin niffty#hazbin pentious#creepypasta! reader
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braids? | s.reid
summary; when spencer has time off to heal after being shot in the knee, and his hair is finally long enough, you figure theres no better time to teach him how to braid.
warnings; fem reader, fluff, mentions of being shot in the knee, jesus hair spencer, i love long hair spencer, mhmskajhawgktgrf, reader has long enough hair to braid, established relationships, fluffy fluff fluff
an; so.. another chap of beartober, out of order but this is the one i wanted to post so get over it. i am still in fact dying on illness but i deprived you all for a really long time and i feel bad. i am not longer in hospital. yippie!
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You sit cross-legged on the floor of your living room, a tangle of hair and laughter surrounding you. Spencer sits across from you, legs spread widely (because he had no other choice with his current injury) his brow furrowed in concentration as he attempts to follow your instructions. You can’t help but smile at the determination etched on his face, even if his fingers seem more suited for catching a football than braiding hair.
He was bored, you knew he was. Having to take time off of work in order to heal from his knee injury, using crutches and having to rely on other people. Well he wasn’t exactly fond of it. So were you exactly shocked when he asked you to teach him how to braid, no. Were you excited to finally show him how to do something nice with his hair now that it had grown out? yes.
“Okay, Spencer,” you say, reaching out to tuck a loose strand behind your ear. “It’s really not that hard. Just grab three sections of hair.” You separate your own hair into three neat parts, demonstrating the flow with the ease of practice.
He mimics your movements, but his fingers fumble as he gathers the strands. “Like this?” he asks, his voice tinged with uncertainty.
You nod encouragingly. “Exactly! Now cross the right strand over the middle.”
Spencer looks at you with a mix of admiration and confusion. “Over the middle? So, this one?” He raises a finger, pointing to the strand that’s supposed to cross.
“Right! But you just picked the wrong strand,” you giggle, trying to hide your laughter. “No biggie! Just start over.”
He lets out a mock groan, the corners of his mouth twitching up. “This is like trying to solve a Rubik’s Cube blindfolded. How do you make it look so easy?”
“Spencer, if anyone could solve a rubix cube blindfolded it would be you.” You lean forward, resting your chin on your hand. “It just takes practice. And maybe a bit of magic.”
“Magic, huh?” he replies, rolling his eyes playfully. “I’ll just need a wand then.”
“Yep, a pink sparky one!” You wave your imaginary wand, and the sound that leaves his lips is bright and infectious. “No other ones would work.” You shrugged. You were still trying to convince him to dress up as a fairy for halloween, (it was not going well)
“Okay, let’s try again,” he says, determined to return to his features. This time, he grabs his hair with more purpose, his fingers moving with the rhythm of a cautious dancer. “So, cross the right over the middle… like this?”
You nod, trying to keep a straight face as he tangles the strands yet again. “Close! But it’s actually the left that goes over next. You’re almost there!”
“It seems Almost is my middle name,” he quips, shaking his head. “I’m starting to think I should stick to less intricate hairstyles—like a buzz cut.”
Your jaw drops, as you instantly shake your head“Spencer, please don’t! I’d miss your gorgeous hair.” You chuckle, and he grins, leaning forward the best he could to brush his lips over yours before pulling back.
“Maybe I should just keep growing it out long, Would that impress you?” he teases.
“Oh, yeah.” You can’t help but laugh again, and Spencer joins in, the sound of your voices mixing in the cosy space. “I actually really like your long hair” You added, you don’t miss the way his cheeks warm slightly, the sight only makes your smile widen
He shakes his head, changing the topic away from your affection, “Alright, serious face now,” he says, trying to regain his composure. He focuses intently, his fingers fumbling as they once again clash into a confusing mess of strands.
“Okay, okay! Let’s break it down,” you say, suppressing another giggle. “Right over middle, then left over the new middle. Just think of it as a dance!”
“A dance? My fingers are definitely not rhythmically inclined,” he replies, puffing out his cheeks in exaggerated frustration. “What’s the next move? A cha-cha?”
You can’t help but snicker. “Nah, not my style. More like a ballroom dance.” You mumbled, “Maybe with an added shimmy.”
He attempts a shimmy while still holding onto his hair, which only results in a larger tangle. “Who knew hair braiding required so much coordination? I feel like I’m trying to juggle chainsaws while on a unicycle.”
“Maybe don’t picture the chainsaws,” you suggest, your laughter bubbling up again. “Just focus on the hair!”
“Right! Hair. Got it,” he says, his focus shifting back as he tries again. “Okay, let’s do this!”
He manages to get the strands crossing in a somewhat coherent pattern this time. “I think I’m getting it!” he exclaims, his eyes lighting up with a mix of pride and surprise.
“Yes! See? You’re a natural!” You lean closer, encouraging him. “Now, we just need to finish it off. Keep going!”
Spencer’s confidence surges, and he concentrates on the braid, his fingers working diligently. “I should be a professional hairdresser. This could be my calling,” he jokes.
You roll your eyes playfully. “Right, because that’s the career path I imagined for you.”
“Hey, I could be the first male hair braider in the history of ever!” He says, knowing he is definitely not the first male hair braider, he finishes the braid, pulling it together with an awkward but endearing clasp. “Ta-da! I present to you… um, something that vaguely resembles a braid!”
You can’t help but clap your hands in delight. “It’s beautiful! Look at that creativity!”
Spencer’s grin grows wider as he surveys his handiwork, which resembles a chaotic, yet charming, structure. “I think I’ll add ‘hair magician’ to my résumé.”
You reach out, gently tugging on the braid. “You’ve got the magic touch, Spencer. You just need a bit more practice.”
“I think I can manage that,” he replies, looking at his hair in the mirror, now adorned with his whimsical creation. “Can we do this again? I want to get it right.”
“Definitely! But next time, I get to teach you something else,” you say, the giggles still bubbling in your chest.
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Things I Liked About the Agatha All Along Finale - Initial Thoughts
Wooooo boy. Hey look I'm a bleeding heart shipper but I'm old and have been in enough fandoms. Let's process shall we?
Alice! Alice echo-ing what so many fans are saying about her lost potential. Rio actually being kind in reminding Alice her death did have purpose. "You're a protection witch, you protected someone."
The development of Billy's extremely complicated relationship with Agatha. Kid's not loyal to Agatha, he's understanding her, or starting to at least. He sees her being a relationship with Death and he's curious about the story there. He cares enough to connect the dots and see Agatha as a full person. And we see that developed as the finale goes.
"That's it? That's all the time that I get?" The show reminds us that death sometimes just happens – "Sometimes boys die" – I wonder if one of these writers is a Sandman fan because I immediately clocked a parallel to Death of the Endless taking a baby's life in her first comic appearance.
Death of the Endless is of course much kinder than Rio is with her (iconic) reply to that eternal question. "You lived what anyone gets... A lifetime."
That whole convo we got in the preview clip. And then them just sitting down and talking more? Albeit with layers of manipulation but y'know that's them.
Agatha telling Rio that she'll hand over Billy if Rio leaves her alone: essentially making Rio once again choose between her duty and her feelings towards Agatha. The deepest cut Agatha could make – which we see echoed with "If you do this I'll hate you forever." They know each other and the best ways to hurt each other.
I laughed waaaay too much at Agatha ragging on Jen's last vegetable name.
Jen's unbinding ritual was powerful and a fantastic moment for the character. She recognised and embraced her power. Agatha's mask slipping a little at the end as well. Amazing. Sasheer killed it.
The whole scene with Agatha working with Billy to bring Tommy back was beautiful and emotional and well put together and showed the side to Agatha that cements her as a great mentor (when she's not being the biggest murderous asshole).
Agatha using what she learnt from her Alice and Jen – and what Lilia told her – to hold her ground with Rio... okay it lasted like 10 seconds but it was a nice callback! Agatha's such a shameless survivor.
Incredible kissing. We knew Hahn and Plaza would deliver and they did. When it comes to kissing women, these two absolutely go for it.
Rio looking absolutely gutted with having to take Nicky away. Plaza really delivered with Rio's pain in these eps. Agatha calling her "my love", cursing and then begging.
Rio being soft about Nicky despite her job. Nicky willingly going with her with no fear, no hesitation – suggesting that they did bond somehow? Nicky knew she was a friendly face and trusted her. It was really a good death, all things considered. He wasn't sick, he wasn't in pain, he wasn't scared he simply fell asleep and just went.
Rio reminding Nicky to kiss his mom goodbye. She cares so much, as much as a personification of death can. It's funny how some people thought Rio was going to be this manipulative big bad but no, Agatha's the more toxic one in this relationship.
Okay like imagine Agatha finally dying and just straight up BOOKING it before Rio pops up. Rio hates ghosts. The number of times Agatha deliberately pissed her off this finale was amazing.
"I'm sure he'll forgive you for... whatever you did." Aw Billy is a good kid. Just like Nicky was. Agatha needs that reminder, that anchor to not be the Worst.
Chemistry aside, Agatha and Billy being mentor-pupil makes a ton of sense because these Maximoffs do the most fucked up shit (unintentionally) with their magic and Agatha's got the knowledge, charisma, cynicism, and the morals of a spinning compass to support him.
Alright when are they announcing the sequel / spin-off? I know there's a rumour of it happening. Rio's got 2 abominations and one endlessly aggravating ghost of an ex to deal with now.
#agatha all along#agatha all along spoilers#agathario#agatha harkness#rio vidal#tv: agatha all along#aaa meta#we actually got a bunch of great things y'all
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You know what? It's so weird that Dark Magic in TDP is basically biomass energy conversion (a type of renewable energy that requires living or once-living matter such as plants or animals), when most 'dark magic' in fiction is typically something more realistically dangerous. Normally, dark magic in fiction includes things that are practically or socially harmful, such as necromancy, ounieromancy, possession, suppression of will, mind control, ect. Dark magic in TDP is capable of these things, sure, but these things are still not a core tenant of dark magic in TDP.
Dark magic in TDP can be used for healing, defense, transformation, tracking, ect. All the 'typical' types of dark magic are considered normal in most magical settings. Because it makes sense that if you want an action, you must provide energy for that action.
When you think about it, TDP's dark magic is really no different from its elemental magic in its potential for harm — after all, the weapon Viren used to harm Rayla's parents was none other than sky magic! No, the difference between the forbidden and the permitted arcane power in The Dragon Prince is not potential for harm. The difference is who wields the power.
current messages of TDP:
“If you’re afraid of the people who drove your ancestors out of their homes, you’re a bigot”
“gaining power you weren’t born with is wrong”
“curiosity makes you easy to control”
Wow these sure are interesting messages for a supposedly progressive show to give to impressionable young children
#tdp#prev#this show's messaging and core themes fall apart when you think of them for more than 3 seconds#the second one in particular because like. dark magic gets its energy from killing magic creatures/plants and that's seen as wrong#and it's like. these writers know what eating is. right? it's like that. kinda#and it's worse in the context of callum being able to gain and use sky magic since he wasn't born with that either#but THAT'S portrayed as fine since. protagonist i guess#they don't even portray callum using dark magic as bad outside of rayla's reaction since it LEADS to him gaining sky magic#and a lot of the time when dark magic is shown on screen it's used when there's not a lot of other options!#like the VERY FIRST TIME we see it it looks like some guy using it for nefarious purposes or smth#and then we find out he used it to stop sol regem from killing a village full of innocents like yeah man i would've done the same#there are more examples but this is a shit ton of tags so i'm gonna shut up now. but yeah#i have so many fucking gripes with this show and its writing it's a fucking mess#“listen all I'm saying is if you put a tdp mage in your typical fantasy or xianxia they are more or less fine as long as no one dies”
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As High Marshall Commander, a title foisted on him by the Galaxy’s fakest bitch aka Chancellor Palpatine, Fox theoretically has privileges and authorities like no other clone. In practice, he has a headache and gets ignored more obviously than before.
What he also has is a fancy new function on his personal comm unit modified to broadcast GAR-wide to all commanding officers, up to and including Jedi. It gathers dust next to his own modified button that sees much better use - a private channel to Stone, the only vod that will let Fox bitch at him to his heart’s content without hanging up (Thire) or bitching right back (Thorn).
It’s been a long shift of 72 hours, the maximum Stabby allows him to do without a well-placed hypo to the neck, when Fox finally collapses on his rickety cot in the Command quarters and hits the private comm connection to Stone without looking. He’s already rolling his eyes so hard it tweaks at the migraine that’s been building since hour 18 and heaving a put-upon sigh.
“Everyone is stupid, Stone, and asking to be thrown face-first from the Dome balustrades”, he begins, settling into a low, dead tone of voice to warm to the building monologue. It’s a marathon, not a sprint. “I swear to haran I’m going to wring Amedda’s stringy neck one of these days. I don’t know what magical Force gods his mother pissed off, but they made sure to punish her and the Galaxy at large a hundred times over. He sucks the joy and competence out of every room like a black hole of stupid. I’d call him a has-been, but I trust in the power of nepotism and also just don’t believe he ever was. I swear he’s doing it on purpose and - oh, kriffing Sith-damned hells, you know who’s definitely doing it on purpose?! The kriffing Chancellor, that wrinkly ass-faced ballsack!”
Taking a deep breath, Fox lets that sit in his chest for a moment, indulging in the feeling of bright weightlessness. “I swear he’s trying to keep the war going - no one man can be that incompetent and still draw breath, not even Amedda or Taa. Goddamn Taa - but anyways, kriffing hell, Stone, either the senility isn’t an act or he’s a bad cartoon villain from Dooby Scoo. Yes Sir, sending Senator Amidala to a Seppie-infested planet for negotiations is a great idea after her fourth bomb threat of the week. No Sir, I can’t hear you cackling evilly with Count Dooku under your lame two-credit robe as you’re definitely not colluding with the Republic’s enemies. What, you have a red lightsaber?! Oh, of course I don’t know what that means, I was dropped on the head as a tubie!”
Barely pulling in a harsh breath, Fox continues, palms pressing into his eyeballs hard enough to cause sparks. “And speaking of lightsabers and senile fucks, haran smite my ass off but who the kriff thought it’d be a good idea to give absolute tactical and military authority to the kriffing eldritch space monks! The Force didn’t bless them with the collective good sense it gave to a kriffing rock, and I’m tired of pretending otherwise! Has anyone kriffing read the Theed Convention of Sentient Rights in Wartimes?! NO?!! Well, color me UNSURPRISED, because war crimes ARE NOT! GOOD! BATTLE! TACTICS!!”
“They run around in crop tops, Stone, in crop tops! Oh, the Force provides - WELL I’M GOING TO PROVIDE MY FOOT UP YOUR ASS, AND IT’S GOING TO HURT BECAUSE YOU’RE NOT WEARING KRIFFING ARMOUR!”
“Sure, let’s send the preteens into active warzones under heavy artillery in kriffing party wear! Surely nothing will ever go wrong! And give them commanding positions equivalent to CC-clones, WHO WERE LITERALLY GENETICALLY CREATED FOR IT! WITH A DECADE OF INTENSE TRAINING! LET’S DO THAT, BECAUSE WE’RE ALL KRIFFING STUPID!”
He’s gesturing wildly at the ceiling now, face heating up as his blood boils beneath the surface. “And you know what really gets my lowers in a twist, apart from the preteen commanding officers and blatant kriffing high treason and war profiteering?! Is it the complete lack of recognition? Gratitude? Basic sentient rights?! No, Stone, no, I would take all that in stride if it meant I never had to see Skywalker and Amidala kriffing canoodle right in front of me again, and pretend like it isn’t the galaxy’s worst conflict of interest case in the making!”
“By all levels of Sith-hell, what the kriff is wrong with that woman? You have it all, you could have anyone, and you choose that twatwaffle?! And then they have the gall to lock themselves in a broom closet for twenty minutes straight and have me guard it! ‘Oh yes, Senator, naturally we all go rattling brooms with our good friends! Nothing dodgy happening at all! I definitely believe you were looking for detergent and have used a washing machine before!’ The absolute nerve on those two! And then last week - you’ll never believe this - High General Windu passed by, and I swear he looked like he wanted to throw himself off the roof! I’ve never been less impressed by anyone in my life, and I’m batch-mates with Bly!”
“Speaking of Bly, that little bitchtit - if I have to edit one more, one more kriffing propaganda piece of him staring at General Secura’s bits, I’m going to stab my eye out! And if I have to edit one more of Secura staring at his bits, I’m going to stab the other one out! The only good thing I have to say about them is they’re more subtle than Skywalker and Amidala, which means nothing really. I will never understand that woman - but then she’s worked with Jar Jar Binks for a decade and not had a nervous breakdown, so she either has nerves of steel or is on some good-ass drugs.”
“Girl, your choices. And you know what else is a choice? Kote kriffing roundhouse-kicking heads off droids when he has a perfectly good blaster right there! I don’t know what the Longnecks put in his tube, but I hope to kriff it’s not contagious. I’d say I’m glad he has Kenobi to keep him in check, but that man wouldn’t know common sense if it punched his nose clean off his face. Flirting with General Grievous, ugh. I’d say he can do better, but honestly, they deserve each other.”
“And Wolffe - “, panting, Fox pauses, considering. “Well, Wolffe is an asshole and stupid, and I hate him because he’s stupid and has a stupid face. Also he keeps drunkenly submitting adoption paperwork on General Koon’s behalf - I wish I could say something mean about that, but honestly, his existence is roast enough. Anyways, bitches are trying me today, and by bitches I mean everyone. Commander Fox signing off to go not commit treason, unfortunately.”
Thoroughly powered out, Fox sinks into his hard mattress with a deep sigh. Several seconds of silence reign, and then his comm unit starts blaring in alarm.
Somewhere in the Jedi Temple, Mace Windu is knocked flat on his ass by a gargantuan shatterpoint exploding.
#commander fox#corrie guard deserves better#commander stone#mace windu#mas amedda#chancellor palpatine#padme amidala#anakin skywalker#commander cody#obi wan kenobi#commander bly#commander wolffe#plo koon#aayla secura#jar jar binks#credit for twatwaffle goes to a tumblr post i can’t find anymore#fox spends several minutes staring at his comm in horror#and then turns over to go to sleep#‘i’m sure when i wake up that everything will be better’ he says ‘it was just a vivid nightmare’#well when he wakes up palpatine is dead and the war is over so he’s not entirely wrong#this is also how cody finds out fox technically outranks him#sibling rage activated#mace saves a permanent copy of the voice memo to a private server once he’s done screaming in pain#ponds doesn’t know what to think of this#but is faintly horrified at the realization that his general and vod’ika share Vibes#this is so long it’s a bit sad#i should be working#instead i’m yapping in the tags about my blorbos#justice for commander fox#sw tcw fic ideas
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Can you do headcanons of an MC who absolutely LOVES tight hugs
Like if they can breath it’s not tight enough, hug them tighter lmao
Can you do all the datables and undatables for this one please?
hi! of course!
please enjoy!
Mc who loves tight hugs
Lucifer
he enjoys giving hugs, but there aren't many who want to get close enough to him to so that
luckily, he has you now!
his first few hugs are tepid at best, but once he gets comfortable, you get your dream hugs
when you hug, you know he's smiling and feel the joy radiating off him
Mammon
probably likes to give hugs where your feet leave the ground
so naturally, these are kind of tight so you don't... y'know, fall although that would be kinda funny
he's also the type to match your energy, so if you squeeze, so will he!
always still a little careful out of worry since you're his favorite human
Levi
he's probably shy at first
but once he gets into it, you'll get your tight hugs all you want
especially after a particularly close match, he'll hug you, tail and all
you may have to ask him a few times if you want one at any other time, but after that he'll break down and give it to you haha
Satan
not much of a hugger, but since it's you, he doesn't mind giving you all the hugs you want
most of the hugs he gives are side cuddle hugs so he tries to put power into them
if you want his full attention, mention lucifer in passing
or maybe even just say his name randomly, and you'll get everything you want
Asmo
he doesn't look as strong as he is, but he dishes out hugs like he's handing out his devilgram handle
you learned quickly you just needed to ask him to give you a good squeeze
after that, those are the kind he gives you all the time
now, he reserves the super tight hugs for you (and maybe solomon) only
Beel
this is your man fr
he can and will squeeze you so hard, but not usually on purpose
sometimes he gets a little overexcited and forgets how strong he actually is
while he feels bad at first, his heart is always warmed by how happy you look afterwards
Belphie
most of his hugs are unprompted because he's usually asleep
when he's awake, his hugs can also tend to be on the weaker side
maybe tickle him a little to wake him up more and ask him to death hug you
ask and you will receive! he tries his best to remember you like your hugs tight
Diavolo
another huge tight hugger!
anytime, anywhere, you say the word, he's got you
even during RAD, just send him a text and he'll get you that break you need from class
he doesn't give out hugs to many others, but those that do get them say that you get something of a special treatment
Barbatos
he doesn't seem like he gives tight hugs, but it's just that nobody hugs him
feel like solomon asks frequently and gets shot down every time
while it might be scary to ask for a tight hug at first, you don't regret it
probably the strongest hugger out of the group (he doesn't do all that cleaning without getting mega buff)
Solomon
while his hug tightness can't compare to that of demons, he tries his best
loves hugs, so he'll hug you for hours if you wanted
if he's incapable of getting it to the level of crush you want, he's ready to use magic to help
anything for you <3
Simeon
just like he's great at giving massages, he's a great hugger
he always adjusts to what he thinks the person he's hugging would enjoy the most
somehow, he knew right off the bat that you loved to be squeezed
how'd he know that? he'll never tell
#obey me#obey me!#obey me x reader#obey me satan#obey me mammon#obey me asmo#obey me beel#obey me levi#obey me lucifer#obey me belphie#obey me solomon#obey me simeon#obey me barbatos#obey me diavolo#omswd#obey me mc#obey me shall we date#obey me! shall we date#headcanons#gn reader
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