#of course she's still going to have the qualities of a 16yo girl

[hislittleraincloud]

...I just had to explain to someone, seven chapters in, that Satisfying Afterburn is a love story, since they complained(!) that they "didn't like Wednesday in love" because she's acting more like a teenage girl.

Well sorry not sorry, she's still sixteen (since I'm going by N/Canon and following the canon story). No matter what attributes she holds as a character, she still has teen girl qualities that are embarrassing sometimes...except that that behavior only comes out with Donovan, and that she isn't much embarrassed by them when with him. Why? I could get deep into the psychology of it, but what's the use if people are just looking for straight-on, graphic smut?

I'm also at a loss as to where in this last chapter I deviated from the character that I've already established (which is really not too far off of N/Canon). Where did she even act any different than she usually does? Her reactions are pretty consistent. She became a real bitch when she thought she was threatened/betrayed/harmed (Enid, Kinbott) and then went after Enid's boyfriend. Is that the part? Because the way she targeted Ajax is in-character/IC, since he will prove useful in the long run for her. She's a user, and that hasn't changed. Here I thought I'd get complaints about Enid (who I deep dive into in the chapter, and Wednesday's Day Off has BFF/Wenclair vibes...I mean, she's literally got both Donovan and Enid on the brain)...so this was unexpected.

Gah.

Anyway. They're standing closer in the above comic photo. They're also surprised at that kind of feedback.

[madamslayyy]

Random M’Baku HC’s:

A/N: This was the originally my first draft for my work “M’Baku Titty Fetish HC’s” but I started writing and it got waaaaaaay off topic and became trash but a couple people asked to see it way back when so and it’ll probably be deleted tomorrow anyway so why not.

Warnings: THIS WAS ORIGINALLY SCRAPED! It’s trash, convoluted, unedited, has major plot holes, and a shit ton of ocs for no reason. If you don’t like it I’m so sorry but i warned you. This is not the quality of work I would ever put out.

Taglists: @muse-of-mbaku @chaneajoyyy @wakanda4neva are theonly ones i’m tagging because the responded to my post (so sorry this is late, i know i said i’d drop it the other day)

-M’Baku has always been and always will be a faithful and dedicated TittyBoi™️.

- It’s true that the women of the Jabari tribe are naturally well endowed in most areas but it’s the swell of the bosom that has always drew M’Baku’s eye.

- Growing up with M’Baku as your best friend, he never saw you as a girl or a boy, just his best friend.

- Until you guys reached your teenage years. And M’Baku became a dog.

- By the age of 16, he had grown to a considerable 6’1, and was starting to fill out nicely, looking much older than his intended age, while at 16 you still had none of the curves you wanted and all the baby fat you didn’t. Your chest was still as flat as a board and if not for your longer hair and eyelashes, you could easily have been mistaken for a boy. Or at least you thought so.

- Needless to say, you looked like most average 16yo girls but you were still far from the realm of anything M’Baku considered desirable.

- He would chase any pair of globes in sight, going above and beyond for any girl with an ample chest.

- You tried to pretend you weren’t jealous. You were.

- You tried to pretend it didn’t make you insecure about your own flat chest. It did.

- The final nail in the coffin was when you were sitting in Weapons and Refinery 103 and M’Baku strolled in with even more swagger than usual (if that was even possible). He immediately went into detail to his boys about his ‘glorious’ night rutting with Anika, a curvy upperclassman that was any 16yo boy’s wet dream come to life.

- You’d heard M’Baku brag before and had mastered the art of tuning out his scandalous recollections when suddenly one of his friends, Riki, called out “What about your girlfriend over there?”

- Growing up, because you and M’Baku were so close people often thought you two were an item. You’d both shrug it off or simply tell them no. But this time was different because M’Baku was put on the spot.

- And M’Baku tended to go into defense mode when he was put on the spot.

- He let out a barking laugh with the other boys following suit. “Please! You think I’d go for her!?” He laughed and you felt utterly humiliated.

- “As if you could ever get me!!” You yelled back, causing the laughter to stop abruptly. You felt your cheeks heat up with even more embarrassment and you quickly stormed out the room.

- That was the last time you spoke to M’Baku.

- A year later, it was time for you to graduate from the Academy. You were chosen to give a speech at the ceremony. At first you didn’t quite understand why, you weren’t at the top of your class by marks nor were you even an extraordinary student in any particular area but upon asking your teacher why she’d selected you, she replied with “You have a lovely voice.”

- So that was that and you prepared yourself to read your specific lines of the same speech they gave every year at the ceremony. You didn’t know who would be reading the other half of the speech until the day of graduation came and you found none other than M’Baku waiting at the entrance hall to escort you in.

- Of course they’d choose him to be the other student speaker, he was the Cheiftain’s son.

- The two of you walked arm in arm together without saying a word. You gave your lines, he gave his. You sat down by his side, not really paying attention to the rest of the ceremony, your mind currently occupied by the enormous figure crowding you to your right. Had he always been this big?

- Even though in the year since you’d last spoke to him, you’d changed considerably, you found yourself feeling like the same inadequate girl as before when sitting next to him.

- “It’s a nice ceremony, eh?” M’Baku grumbled lowly next to you. You tried to pretend you hadn’t heard him.

- “Oh come now, you’re really not going to talk to me?” He chided again. You made a show of rolling your eyes and looking forward.

- “Stubborn as always,” he grinned. “I miss my best friend.”

- “Then you shouldn’t dog her out in front of your boys.” You huffed.

- “That’s why you haven’t spoken to me in so long? And here I thought I’d done something wrong.” M’Baku mused.

- “You did!” You said a little louder than intended. Not enough to interrupt the ceremony but enough to make M’Baku grab your thigh in caution. You jerked your leg out of his grasp.

- “Foolish musings of an incompetent child. Plus, I said that mostly for Riki’s benefit. The poor guys been after you since we were in Rudimentary, like that would ever happen.” M’Baku said with a cocky eye roll.

- “He what?” You’d never thought of him that way, or any way honestly. Your list of schoolyard crushes began and ended with M’Baku. After that devastating rejection, you hadn’t put your hopes into anyone really wanting you. Not even after your small ‘glo-up’.

- “He’s always had a thing for you. So have most of my friends, as if any of them even stood a chance. Believe it or not, you’re not ugly.” He said as if it was supposed to be some sort of compliment.

- “Whatever,” you rolled your eyes, tuning into the ceremony.

- The ceremony soon commenced and you found your way to your family, trying your hardest to push M’Baku and his pigheadedness to the back of your mind.

- However it was evident in the weeks that followed that M’Baku was not ready to be ignored.

- He was always around, finding ways to miraculously ‘bump’ into you. He was trying to establish himself as your best friend again and you weren’t having it. He couldn’t just saunter back into your life as if nothing ever happened.

- You were well on your way to give him an earful when you came across Rikki first.

- After much beating around the bush on his part, and you throwing out a exasperated “Look I really don’t have time for this right now.” Rikki finally asked you out.

- The “No” was on the tip of your tongue before you actually stopped to appraise Rikki. You had never really noticed Rikki outside of being one of M’Baku’s friends after you two got older and grew apart. He wasn’t the worst looking guy, but he was almost painfully plain. Not actually muscular, but not quite skinny either, no facial hair to speak of (quite uncommon for Jabari men), and taller than you but still no where near M’Bakus massive height.

- But he was the first boy to ever ask you out. Boys in the village never showed any interest in you period, a fact that you tried to not let eat at you but it did. You knew that you were far from the ugliest girl in town but Jabari boys would often break their necks over girls that majority would deem unattractive yet ignore you completely. So even though you didn’t see it, or understand, there was something about you guys found ugly or repulsive.

- But not Rikki. According to M’Baku, he’d always seen your beauty. So you hesitantly agreed to the date seeing no true harm in it.

- That date, however, never happened.

- Rikki came to you the next day apologizing that he’d suddenly lost interest and wanted to cancel the date. That hurt.

- So you decided to let it go and focus on yourself. You didn’t need a man to be happy, you were happy on your own.

- However an entire year went by. And you were still as lonely as before. You saw literally everyone around you together, in love, in relationships meanwhile a man would never look your way.

- Your self esteem really took the largest blow and you couldn’t deny you never felt more unlovable.

- So once you could pull yourself out of your own self pity, you decided to get proactive about your dating life. That included dressing more flirty and putting more effort into your appearance. Of course no one noticed but it gave you the confidence you needed.

- Then you moved on to commence phase two of your plan. Actually shooting your shot. You didn’t particularly have your eye on anyone but you figured you’d just go for a reasonably attractive guy just to get into the swing of this whole dating thing.

- So you finally got up the courage and asked out K’nu. He was single, handsome, tall, the standard Jabari man. And he said yes! You were so excited you could barely contain yourself, making sure to triple check your appearance before heading to the restaurant that following Saturday. You waited there fore 3 hours before it sunk in that you’d been stood up.

- Again it was disheartening but you wouldn’t give up just because he was a jerk. So you asked out Bhenalla. His response was a bit.... different.

- “Is this a joke? Are you trying to set me up?” He asked his eyes narrowed.

-“A joke? I’m not sure I-“

-“Look, I like having all of my bones intact and my face not broken so no I’ll pass.” He rolled his eyes and walked away. You didn’t understand what he was talking about but you couldn’t deny it hurt to be shut down like that.

- So needless to say you found yourself in a bar later that night, alone sipping on yet another drink. You’d had enough two drinks ago but that didn’t stop you from downing another.

-The tears were slowly leaking from your eyes and you’d quickly swipe them away. Your face was almost completely red and you couldn’t tell if it was from the alcohol or crying.

- “She’s had enough bartender,” A deep, graveling voice said beside you. You knew that voice anywhere. Everyone did.

- You looked to you right to see none other that Morkurra. He was a year ahead you and M’Baku but he often looked much older. It probably has something to do with the fact that he was so scary looking. He had a huge scar that ran down his left eye and eyebrow onto his cheek. The scarred eye, though it retained vision, was a light sky grey while the other was a normal brown. In addition to his full beard he also had long hair which he mostly kept back in a long ponytail so it wouldn’t get in his way. He was littered with smaller scars throughout his body and he was massive, carnal looking even. The fact that he had his canines sharpened to enhance his battle performance didn’t help.

- He was also a shoe in for the position of Commander for the Jabari Army, as soon as the current Commander stepped down which everyone was betting would be any day now.

- “Tell me little one, what’s got you balling your eyes out in a place like this?” He asked, gently taking your half full glass from you.

- “N-Nothing,” you hiccupped, causing your face to flush even more.

- “Surely it’s something if you’re this intoxicated and still upset.” He said handing you one of the napkins from the bar. You weren’t sure if it was all the alcohol in your system or his unexpected kindness but you burst into tears once again.

- “I was born hideous! Hanuman has cursed me with such a repulsive appearance that no man in the village will go near me!” You cried. There was a long pause before Morkurra burst into laughter.

- “Surely not even you can believe that tale. Is that truly what is causing you such sorrow?” He laughed even though you’d yet to find anything humorous.

- “If you knew the true loneliness I face, you wouldn’t find it so funny.” You grumbled, trying feverently to wipe your tears away.

- “Look at me. Don’t I look like a man that knows true loneliness? Almost everyone in town is afraid of me, and rightfully so given how I look. You, on the other hand, do not have that problem,” he said, bringing your drink to his full lips and finishing it.

- “You’re gorgeous and I’m not just saying that because you’re crying. Any man in the village would be honored to have you and probably would jump at the chance if not for that temperamental brat that’s due to be our next chief.” You were having a hard time concentrating on everything he was saying in your drunken state but it sounded like he was alluding to M’Baku.

“Our next Chief? You mean M’Baku? What’s he got to do with anything?” You asked causing Morkurra to let out his bark of a laugh once more.

“You really don’t know? The boys smitten with you. Let’s everyone know that you’re his girl and he dares anyone to challenge him.” Morkurra finished and this time it was your turn to laugh.

“Ridiculous, M’Baku is a friend, nothing more. He’s made that quite clear. Also he chases anything with breasts, at this point I’m not sure he’s even capable of loving one girl with all the numerous affairs he carries on.” You scowled.

“Well I’m not sure he sees it that way.” Morkurra downed the last of his drink then stood up. “Are you ready for me to take you home little one?”

“I -hiccup- don’t need supervision,” you said but you could already feel your head swimming.

“I don’t doubt that but I still can’t let you leave here alone. Allow me to at least see you to your door in one piece,” Morkurra offered his hand. He truly was scary looking but you sensed a sort of gentle demeanor about him. You figured it couldn’t be all that bad and allowed him to walk you home, even though it was mostly him carrying you along while you stumbled about.

- “So what time should I pick you up tomorrow?” Morkurra asked once you’d made it to your front door.

- “Pick me up tomorrow?”

- “For Lunch. You said you couldn’t get any man in the village to go near you but I’m not just any man. And I’m certainly not afraid of vague threats made by the likes of M’Baku.” Morkurra declared and you suddenly felt you face flush, though this time not from the alcohol.

- “I don’t know.... Lunch... time?” You offered, causing a smirk to grace his stoic features.

- “Lunch time it is. I look forward to seeing you in your sobriety, Little One.” He gave a small bow of his head and was off.

- The next day, you almost couldn’t believe your eyes when you found Morkurra at your door. You also couldn’t believe he’d still offered to take you on a date. A date that went surprisingly well. He was unbelievable gentle despite his appearance and you couldn’t deny you were quite taken with his soft personality.

- Which is what prompted you to accept his offer of a second date. And a third. And before you knew it, you found yourself slowly falling for the beast of a man. It wasn’t long before he was crowned Commanderq of the Jabari army, being crowned by none other than the Chief of the Jabari himself, M’Bakus father. You stood off to the side as you watched Chief M’Boka pin Morkurra’s gigantic frame. Once ceremony hit its conclusion Morkurra roared and the rest of the Jabari cheered for him. It was in that moment he saw fit to grab you from your post on the side and draw you in for a searing kiss.

- It was far from the first time you’d kissed Morkurra, however it was the first time you’d kissed him in front of nearly the entire Jabari tribe. M’Baku, who was still standing near his father looked incensed. Before anyone could stop him, he lunged for Morkurra. The only thing that allowed M’Baku even the slightest advantage was the fact that Morkurra was still holding you and he refused to let anything hurt you.

- However by the time M’Baku has pulled his fist back for a second punch, Morkurra had already pushed you aside and was able to land a hit of his own. With one swift punch to the face, M’Baku was out cold and the crowd looked nervous.

- Even though M’Baku was wrong, he was still the Cheiftans son and as hardheaded as they come. This wouldn’t be the last time him Morkurra fought, M’Baku would never settle for a defeat. He would keep coming after Morkurra until one of them lie dead.

- You knew you had no right to seek him out but that’s exactly what you did when you heard they were taking him to the Jabari medical center. You waited there for hours until he finally woke up.

- “Y/N? W-What are you doing here?” M’Baku croaked hoarsely after a few moments of silence. You weren’t sure how to phrase what you were about to say so you decided to just blurt it out.

- “Don’t make Morkurra kill you,” the confused look on M’Baku’s face prompted you to continue, “ look I know you have problems accepting defeat and are gonna keep coming after him until you win but we both know that won’t happen and my baby’s not a killer by choi-

- “YOUR WHAT?!” MBaku boomed. “You mean to tell me out of everyone in the village, you chose to allow THAT creature to steal your heart!?!”

- “HE was the only man in the village who interested!”

- “Except the one sitting right before you!” There was a elongated silence between you two, the air thick with the anger seeping from the two of you.

- “You really expect me to believe that crock of bullshit? Do you not remember when you and your friends laughed in my face at even the mere concept of you being with me? Because I sure do! You have the gall to say this to me now after you and everyone else ignored me for years!?”

- “And why do you think that is?! I wouldn’t let any man in the village go near you because you’re mine! Always have been!!” M’Baku stood now, his height allowing him to tower over you. This made no difference to you however. You didn’t care how large or intimidating he thought he was, you knew he’d never lay a finger on you.

- “Well congratulations M’Baku, you missed your chance!” You hissed through gritted teeth.

- “We’ll see about that,” M’Baku growler before pushing past you out the door of the medical wing.

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also i’m gonna get together a Morkurra mini vision post for this because i was thinking of him being more attractive than not when writing this even if he was a little scary looking