#oh they cut the scary monster! that makes sense lol

[adhd-merlin]

#but merlin is leaving iplayer in 9 months so it's a bit late XD

sorry what do you mean merlin is leaving iplayer in 9 months

@adhd-merlin Sorry for tagging you, but I saw in another reblog of your post that you hadn't seen the uncut version, so I thought I'd make this up for you

I think the iPlayer version is the CBBC rerun episode, instead of the original that aired on BBC One, simply because the "what the hell" wasn't censored so much as the big scary monster was :P Probably just cut to make it cleaner.

Still do not understand the "lover" line being cut though, that's such a strange one. Probably being extra careful with parents, this was 2008 after all

[lucyswinter]

request!!! the nightmare trope with cilly. reader wakes up scared in the middle of the night and he comforts her 💖

pairing: cillian murphy x fem!reader

genre: fluff

warnings: none! <3

(a/n): thank you so much for the request ml!!!! alsooo new divider!! creds to @/saradika-graphics 💗💗 this was not proofread, but ava got a sneak peak and liked it so lmk if there’s any grammatical errors lol

You let out a sharp breath as you jolt up into a sitting position, dry sobs echoing the walls of your bedroom as you cross your arms and grip the opposite forearm for support. You don’t even notice that you’ve woken Cillian until he made himself known.

“Lovey? What is it?” he asked you worriedly, eyes wide, slowly sitting up and leaning on his arm so that he could see you properly.

“I-I…” you manage to pant out, eyes watering.

“Love, you need to use your words. What’s wrong?” He puts a hand to your cheek and softly strokes your face with his thumb in a comforting rhythm. He always knew exactly what to do to calm you down, even when you didn’t.

“I had um.” You pause to take a nervous gulp, eyes now overflowing enough for a few tears to race down your cheeks, some pooling up around Cillian’s thumb. “I had a nightmare…” a sob punctuates your sentence, prompting Cillian to furrow his brow with worry.

“Ohhh my poor sweet girl” he laughs, his hand moving down to rub your shoulder and pull your head against his chest. “I’m so sorry”

You try to lift your head from his chest. “Cill i’m going to get your shirt all wet with tears” you sniffle, another sob of guilt coming on.

“Shh it’s alright love. I can change later. This is about you right now. I’ll be fine.” He pulls you back on his chest and continues rubbing your shoulders. “Now, would you like to talk about what happened, or no? I won’t pressure you, but I’m here if you need me baby.”

You let out a few more soft sobs before wiping your cheeks and lifting your head to look at him. A sense of relief washes over you as soon as you meet his bright blue gaze.

“I just…I was being chased by this monster and he chased me into this house, and when I got into one of the rooms I-“ you’re cut off by a slightly more violent sob, the tears returning your cheeks, your eyes squeezed shut in an attempt to make them stop.

“Shhh take your time, sweet girl. Poor baby.” His lips connect with yours, and linger for a few seconds before he pulls back to give you his attention.

You take a deep breath out and continue to explain to him what happened. “And when I got into this room you were there but…but you were dead” you wail, the tears streaming down your cheeks like a waterfall.

“Oh my sweet caring girl. I’m so sorry you had to think about that. Ohhh poor girl.” He wiped tears from your now puffy eyes to reveal red cheeks. “But I’m here. And I’m not dead, lovey. You don’t need to worry about that.” He places a kiss on your cheek, and begins to rub your shoulders again. “I must say, angel, that sounds an awful lot like the movie we watched tonight…I don’t mean to jump to conclusions, but is there a possibility you got a bit frightened by the movie and that’s why you had this nightmare?”

You nod, ashamed to admit that a silly movie scared you.

He let out a soft chuckle, more pitiful than condescending. “Well why don’t we go back to sleep, baby.”

You lie down on your side and snuggle up closer to him so that his chin is above your head. He puts his arms around you and gentle rubs his thumb against your back, causing a tingly sensation to spread through your body in waves, lulling you closer to sleep. Your eyes flutter, and eventually close. You let out a soft sigh, and he leans his lips close to your ear, tickling the sensetive skin with his warm breath.

“No more scary movies for you, sweet angel. I hate seein’ you all scared.” He whispered. “Sleep now, love. Dream sweet things”. He planted a soft kiss on your forehead as you slowly drifted into a peaceful slumber.

(a/n): ty for reading!! next up is a neil lewis oneshot and a hotch oneshot!! <33

[oogaboogaspookyman]

Okayy SO 👏

This is what the guy behind the scares is like

Under the cut because lomg

I'm a teen that's mentally older and bears the curse of autism /silly

I'll be very silly goofy a LOT of the time, it's sorta second nature now

Not asexual, trans* or anything of the sort so i WILL get a few things wrong when writing characters that ARE part of these groups. Feel free to tell me if i do mess something up and i'll do my best to fix it

I don't have the best skill when it comes to taking things seriously, i'm very goofy and immature and even then when i do take things seriously, it turns out as gibberish because i'm also very shit with words

I'm very fucking stupid lmao i play around with scary and fucked up themes and all because i like it and it's sorta therapeutic, getting to make a character expirience my pain y'know? Although i also play with things i don't know enough and apparently it's not my choice whether i wanna google the theme to learn more or not. This means i WILL get something wrong and when it does happen, tell me and i'll fix it up as best i can

That being said, i also lack the control i guess? Like- i'm not good with choices either, and besides i don't even get the chance to choose because then my own damn body goes "no lol" like the lazy useless piece of shit it is

Funky sense of humour. I laugh at a lotta things. Yes this includes fucked up stuff, i have a bit of liking for dark jokes, which is another flaw of mine i believe...

Overall i'm pretty much a cheetah when it comes to- checks notes- BEING HUMAN, so don't expect me to do a good job dealing with certain stuff

Oh yeah i'm also loud, impulsive and kinda active in a way?? Doesn't take away the chill from me tho! At least i hope not- i try to be chill and laid back and keep my god damn hands in line, and if you've known me for a while you'd know i do a bad job at that...

I'm not a stable guy. Like, at all. If you've seen the shit that happened a few times, you'd know the extent of my instability. I won't blame you for looking at me like a monster or murderer, but just don't come at me about it, i got it bad enough.

Little bonus: if you've seen this and feel like it's a little different, that's because i edited this to not be a vent! I sorta got lost in my feelings so it went to shit and turned into a vent, and after something that happened i decided to trim this and make it at least a bit more friendlier and peaceful. If i did a good job, tell me and i'll love you forever

[rottenbrainstuff]

Bg3 playthrough: exploring the underdark, Dhourn + friends

(Spoilers)

Wow this area is so dangerous, haha! I never thought I’d need to rest just from walking around. Dangerous but SO PRETTY! I took a million screenshots of my tav backlight by all the glowing mushrooms and the beautiful sussur tree. Plus now I’ve figured out how to not get blown up by the red mushrooms so I’m navigating much better.

I am playing the game on easy, but you know what, I am actually thinking I just may switch to medium. I’m actually finding the fights a bit TOO easy now. The underdark monsters are scary and tougher than the ones on the surface, but I feel like it’s not much fun if I can kill everyone in one round.

At least the spectator fight took a couple rounds longer. Holy smokes I didn’t know that fight was there at all, total surprise. Oh wow I have triggered a cut scene while I walk through an area full of… ominous drow statues… I’m sure that everything is fine….. Oh shit.

I was kind of expecting that fight to be a bit harder. TBF it WAS really hard in the beginning when I didn’t know how to approach the fight, and didn’t want to attack the un-petrified drow at all. In the end though I found dissonant whispers works quite handy on the spectator, and I realized hitting the drow exactly once will break their charm and they will fight with me. After knowing that, we smashed that spectator like a birthday pinata.

And what was my reward? A conversation with the most insufferable little dickhead I have seen in the game so far, lmao! Dhourn was absolutely hilarious. What a stupid little piece of shit. I love how he’s going on and on about all this bullshit that the player doesn’t even have a clue about, basically just having a conversation with himself while you watch. “What? You didn’t rescue me, I ALLOWED you to ASSIST me.” Little jerkoff. I absolutely LOVED how indignant he was that a rival brought a spectator to the negotiations, because it messed up the ambush that he had planned. Oh, drow. I wonder if my tav missed this kind of petty drama, lol. And no matter what you do**, in the end he fights you. Which is… I mean yes, this is all the thanks I get from this asshole, but also hilarious, like, my dude you have a quarter the HP that the WEAKEST member of my party does, plus that spectator took a chunk out of you, what did you think was going to happen here?

**there is only one single way (that I could see) to have Dhourn SURVIVE the spectator fight and NOT attack you when it’s done, and that one single way is to be / be disguised as a female drow. His dialogue won’t be too much different, he’ll still rattle on and even if you are a female drow he can barely keep his contempt contained, but you do get some extra dialogue options and the ability to convince him to back off. In the end though, it didn’t make much roleplay sense - why would my character have known before the fight to disguise himself as a female drow? and fuck that guy anyways, he’s insufferable, so we ended up fighting him and I don’t feel bad about it.

By the beautiful, beautiful sussur tree, we ran into one of the rivals he mentioned, Filro the Forgotten. He’s a sad little guy singing a sad little song in his camp that’s covered with hook horror shit, lmao. It was sad to beat him up, but I couldn’t figure out a way to talk to him, and online seemed to confirm that there isn’t. He’s probably just as insufferable as Dhourn though so I imagine no great loss there. Damn, poor little guy though. If you creep up close enough without aggoring him, you can hear him singing. He gets quite unhinged during the fight. If you speak to his corpse without disguising yourself, he will accuse you of killing his beloved. (which I don’t… THINK? was the hook horror I killed? He sings a song about a Melinda, his true love, who has gone missing / left him / died. I think the poor guy has just gone nuts. Internet suggests Melinda is the dead gnome at the camp but personally I don’t agree, his corpse will say the hook horrors brought him gnome meat to eat and I assumed the gnome was just… a snack. Internet people are saying the stupidest things about this game anyways so I don’t trust a single person on any forum that I see) Poor old guy.

Blurg and his uh, unusual associate were quite the surprise!

Then I found the kuo toa colony. Astarion gives a 5 approval if you kill their false god, which causes them to start worshiping you. I’m sure he thinks it’s fucking hilarious and he’s going to call my tav the great mahkloompah all the time now. Also spit take? Doni can write?? And has a dad somewhere??? PLEASE tell me I can find this poor kid’s dad and reunite them???? (please tell me when I meet Doni again I can write him a message?) God these tieflings make me so sad and I haven’t even got to the sad parts yet.

Fun things I have done so far with the spectator bottle:

Opened it in the druid grove right in front of my least favourite druid, very satisfying to watch those bastards fry.

Sicced it on that spectator by the temple.

Tried opening it at camp right beside Withers hoping to get a fun reaction out of him, but nope, nothing.

I’m having so much fun in the underdark. I’m really struggling though between the urge to go everywhere, see everything, do everything and rip through this game as fast as I can because everything is so cool and I want to see all the neat things that happen in act 2 and 3, and the urge to go slow, mill around, even reload and replay some scenes, take my time and slowly enjoy the shit out of it.

[a-pagancongregation]

I am back

having reread TLT

I am also late

apologies to my 4 followers

ooh

they nailed the vibe of the attic

Percy really just insulting every mythological being he sees

thats a cool visual

oh

they aren't showing the last two lines

interesting

percy immediatly going for annabeth

hes knows how smart she is

love how they included grover talking to animals

ooh

they just saved the last lines for a more dramatic moment

by this grover means tin cans

i hope he eats at least one at some point

love the drachma design

more varied than the books

THE SHOES

cant wait for grover to almost be pulled to tartarus

i love how the wings look

IS HE GONNA TELL LUKE THE LINES

i dont think hes going to

thatd be crazy tho

thalia appearance v2

grover loredump v who knows

i mean

he right tho

she is in charge

and we've got 3 tweens on one

well

2 tweens and grover

who is 24 years old

i wonder why they got rid of "names have power"

love sassy annabeth

sleep song?

magic?

no

sadge

tbf to annabeth here

they gave 12 year old $200

oh no

"thats bees" lol

interesting new monster lore here

wise girl knows

ooh

sass off between annabeth and one of the scariest monsters

i wonder where the other two furies are

mist is fucking strong huh

there they are

good fuckin throw

aww

they cut the fight

uncle ferdinand mention

annabeth managing to give a pep talk and insult at the same time

poor percy still not realizing how much the gods suck

why did grover sound so excited

hes vegan

i guess it was more curiosity

why did she know immediatley

i guess to save time

i love the furies' design

love how they all immediatley looked away

dont fuckin look at her percy

shes just

not hiding it huh

i do like how Medusa's nice

i feel like people treat her worse than they should

it isn't her fault she got cursed

girl

"snacks"

hes so real for that

love the fancy glasses for lemonade

oh?

oh right

she was a priestess

my mind immediatley went to "gay Medusa"

i like that it isn't shown as Medusa's fault

she's a victim

annabeth

girl.

she is not

remember Arachne

i know they'll probably end up killing her

but im fruitlessly hoping they wont

shes not a villian

she never talked about him that way caused she fell in love with him at nineteen fucking years old

and he impregnated her

and fucked off

i think nineteen atleast

she was definitley young

what was in the box?

i cant remember

i cannot look at her eyes

it feels unsafe

i guess that just goes to show how good this is

what is this?

oh

thats fucking scary

fighting Medusa in low light could be good and bad

hes just gone

oh right

the shoes were in the box

the snakes look sick

oh

thats smart

that mustve been weird to act in

aww

is he not gonna send it to olympus

there goes alecto

oh

i knew this was going to happn

and its still so sad

ship it to olympus perhaps?

yall are really arguing infront of his dead (maybe?) uncle

oh

he told them

thats interesting

poor percy man

thats a heavy fucking prophecy

this is just how demigods answer questions

violence

YES

HES GONNA DO IT

THE MADMAN

im so happy

HE SAID IT

you might wanna clean that hat

the hard cut there

is amazing

Hermes?

ARE WE GONNA SEE THE GODS' REACTION

aww

i wanted to see their reaction so bad

and also just see them

i guess it makes sense theyd hold off on showing us the gods for now

that was a good episode

the only criticism i have is that they cut the moving bus fury fight

mostly because percy did the most stupid shit in that fight

THATS RIGHT

we have the water park next ep

and the chimera looks sick

cya

ill be back next week

hopefully not late this time

Watching PJO TV and liveblogging, a thread

Don't read if you haven't read the PJO and maybe HOO books, there will be PJO spoilers for sure

Sally best parent

Just gave him Riptide huh

"Don't stand up for yourself", he's so sadly real for that

Love Percy's protective instinct

Yooo water grabbing

She really just attacked him in the middle of the street huh

I just realized Grover's not crippled in this

Grovers a fuckin narc

Fuck Gabe

I am going to hit him with a baseball bat

I'll let Sally get the kill though

She deserves it

Sally's a mood tbh

BLUE FOOD

WOOOOO

Sally best parent v2

Love Sally's accent coming out when she's angry

Demigod dream wooo

Percy's a little shit (affectionate)

I'm not neurodivergent can someone let me know how accurate Percy's description is I'm curious

Poseidon mention#1

Poor Sally trying to explain this

Why is Percy christian

Sally Jackson loredump

Grovers back woooo

Percys so confused as to why Grover knows his mom

You bursted into the loredump g-man

Grover loredump

Minotaur appearance

THE UNDERPANTS

"I'm actually 24" g-man you can't fuckin do this to me

Welp, that other cars dead

Sally first? Murder

Not the last

Holding out hope she still kills Gabe

YOOO THALIA APPEARANCE

Totally thought we were about to get the first River Styx oath

Sally best parent v3

Sad they made this scene so much less dramatic

Why are you just standing there my guy

Keep running

Slightly disappointed Percy isn't going to rip out it's horn and stab it with it

I'm about to eat my words aren't I

Yep

Wise girl you are so in love

Like

Girl.

Anyways

loved that

Final thoughts

Less dramatic than the book

Hope the fight scenes get cooler

Good episode

Ooh post credit scene

[obeymycok]

MC’s Demon Form - Satan

Just to be clear, MC can use all their forms. This is just the one that the brothers first saw MC in. If you haven’t read the setup for these headcanons, as well as the pact headcanons that explain what’s happening here, I strongly recommend you do so (they will be linked below) Otherwise, on with the reactions!

Taglist: @trashlord-007  @waldeinsamkeit600  @simpinginthecorner  @xxgenderenvyxx  @q-ueue

Pact Headcanons     Setup

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“MC!!!” Mammon shouted as he sprinted to the fallen beast followed closely by the rest of the brothers. Apparently, too close. Mammon stopped dead in his tracks, feet still sliding over the dirt as his brothers crashed into him at full force. They all got up ready to curse him out, but the sight in front of them quickly shut them up.

There you were, but you looked like..?

Satan...

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Lucifer

Overall, he’s shocked more than anything 

He’s understandably a little concerned about temper tantrums because of Satan, but he’s willing to be patient

Pretty much baby proofs your sharp tail because of how many cuts Satan got from his on his legs

Dad of 6 is preparing for another Satan lmao

Mammon

Oooo scary MC

He tries to act all cool but he’s so terrified of pissing you off and it very much shows

Please do not yell at him, he will cry and he’s trying his best

For real though, he wants to see you kick some ass

Leviathan

Scared boi 2.0

He will also cry if you yell at him, but also if you look at him the wrong way

Reassure his self conscious ass, maybe a head pat or 2 to make him all blushy

“This is just like that anime ‘My Human Friend And Pact Mate Takes On Different Forms To Fight Evil Monsters’ it’s so good we have to binge it now!”

Satan

Suck it Lucifer

Another very shocked one, I’d say his pride and worry are about even

His demon form is dangerous and you could get very hurt MC...however...

Oh my GOD let him spar with you he promises he’ll take it easy but this is his love language!

Also will keep you informed on how to care for the form,offering to help when he takes care of himself

Asmodeus

“Oh my, MC! I hope all that anger isn’t going to cause you wrinkles.”

45 is like my favorite brother duo, so Asmo is hyping you both tf UP because I said so

One of the brothers who first starts tending to your wounds or any scars you may have gotten fighting or getting used to your wrath form

He just loves you and Satan so much he’s too excited to contain himself!!💖💖

Beelzebub

One worried giant

I’ll say it again, even though you’re all tired of it lol Satan’s form is DANGEROUS and the last thing he wants is someone else he cares for getting hurt or worse

Hesitant on watching you fight, knowing there’s a chance for getting more bloodied

Gives you his snacks when he senses your anger rising🥺

Belphegor

At least it isn’t Lucifer

Really though, he probably thinks Satan is pretty cool considering the skill it takes to out-maneuver Lucifer

He’s worried as fuuuuuck, but Beel’s got it covered so he tries not to let it show too much he fails

He’s also very VERY VERY excited to see you go all-out rage mode on some monsters so please let him watch👉👈

[ratsoh-writes]

Skelly got a call from S/O in the middle of the day. "... Hi? Ok, don't be mad at me. I'm at the hospital. I'm also under a car." When skelly panics asking them if they mean by that they got rolled over by a car, S/O laughs. "No, no, it's worst! there was a kitten under the car, I wanted to help. Then I got stucked, so they took me to the hospital with the car. And now the doctors are destroying the car with axes to get me out, and the owner is pissed, can you come to help...?" For the main 10!

What even

Sans: Oh he’s coming alright. And he’ll bring popcorn with him lol. Sans is mostly there for moral support for SO. He’s also useful for once in talking the angry car owner down a bit. SO is still gonna have to pay for the car, but at least they aren’t getting sued now. Bless sans and his people skills

Papyrus: “NOOOOOOOOO-“ the phone cuts off and SO is there as the doctors prepare the power tools. Suddenly in the distance, you hear a familiar “nnnnoooooooooooOOOOOOOO!! DONT CUT THE CAR!!” Papyrus has come to save the day, and he’s brought a highly amused undyne as well. Together the two strong monsters are able to lift one side of the car so SO can wriggle out.

Star: “ON MY WAY!!!” Normally he’d just shortcut to you, but it takes a minute as he doesn’t know exactly where you are. Star gets real huffy when he finds out your shirt is too tangled in the car for him to shortcut you out. He’s honestly annoyed with you right now and will be tapping his foot impatiently while you get cut out

Honey: he low key wants to cry. His SO is trapped under a car and possibly hurt. He’s gonna go there and there will be firefighters dismantling the thing while the car owner screams at them. And every one is covered in cat fur. Honey still goes because he needs to make sure SO is alright, but it’s not gonna be a good day for him

Red: with a huff, he’s able to shortcut right to SO. Red gets there before the doctor arrives and is able to see exactly where SO is stuck. With a bit of convincing, he even gets the car owner to pop the hood for him so he can track in and unfasten the ripped part of SOs shirt. Being a car nerd has made red save the day.

Edge: he’s pissed. It doesn’t matter if it was for saving a cat, his SO is a world class idiot for climbing under a car like that. Poor SO gets treated to a long winded lecture on common sense when edge arrives. Even the car owner feels a little bad for them

Mal: he’s also pissed and will be practically grinding his teeth together when he arrives to see SO. He grabs their hand, pauses briefly, then with a pop, mal has shortcutted them out. He’s not gonna help them out of paying for any car damages though. They brought this on themself

Cash: lol what? When he arrives and sees SO sheepishly surrounded by firefighters with axes, he can’t stop the giggle from escaping. Cash can tell by their face that they’re perfectly fine, just stuck. He’ll tease SO of course and will keep them entertained with stories of his own blunders while they get cut out

Oak/Willow: after the core failed in horrortale, cave ins became common place. So this is incredibly scary to hear for oak and willow. Both would take their brother as moral support. Oak is practically non verbal and refuses to let go of SOs hand the whole time. Willow has to be chastened and kept from trying to lift the car side in case he hurts his back

[heytheredeann]

Since there're a lot of AUs all around, how 'bout this: TMFU Witcher AU where Illya's the witcher and Napoleon's his bard (or feel free to make it the other way around, if you like it better). Do you have any headcanons/ideas, pls? Thnx.

LOOOL yes yes thank you, I love coming up with thoughts for AUs. Honestly, both possibilities are great, so you are getting both LOL

Witcher!Illya + bard!Napoleon thoughts:

Napoleon is a lover of the arts and adventure, he likes travelling around to share his music and to meet new people and to just be free to explore as much of life as he can. He’s actually very popular, because he’s great at his job and he’s too charming for his own good. He likes meeting people and having some company, but he maintains that he travels better alone;

Illya is a witcher with a strong sense of Duty and Dedication to his job, going around the Continent chasing monsters and trying not to get killed. It gets pretty lonely but he maintains that he works better alone anyway;

the first time they meet it’s because Napoleon happens to be in a town where some major monster disaster happens. He sees Illya doing some dangerous stunt and he’s like “Immediately I love him”;

it’s not that Napoleon is prone to bad decision making okay. and he isn’t reckless or “out of his mind” as some people very rudely put it. it’s just that the witcher is really handsome and he probably has seen so much cool shit and look Napoleon is pretty sure that the guy needs someone to lighten his mood, look at him. And since said witcher just saved his life with his daring heroics it only stands to reason that he would offer him a drink, right? And if he can use that as an excuse to convince Mr Handsome Witcher to let him travel with him for a little bit... he isn’t going to complain;

one thing that I think fits Illya very well about witchers is that people would probably be afraid of and intimidated by him (not knowing that he is actually a cupcake, of course), which I think is the case in the movie too. He doesn’t want to be scary, but it’s not like he can keep people from reacting Like That to him. And then some random bard slides in the seat next to him and offers him a drink;

look, Illya doesn’t need company. If anything, this is probably going to be an annoyance. He can’t be responsible for some bard trailing after him. Yet, Napoleon doesn’t seem at all intimidated by him, he annoys him into telling him where he’s going next, very theatrically goes “OH what a COINCIDENCE, I’m going there too!” and Illya has had a long day, he isn’t going to argue with him. He is probably going to realize that trailing after a witcher is no fun soon enough anyway;

cut to like two days later and Illya is like “I’ve only had my bard for two days and a half, and he’s been annoying me for most of this time, but if anything happened to him I’d kill everyone in this room and then myself”;

this scenario would include:

probably Napoleon having a crisis at some point, because he only meant to hang around Illya for a bit, get some cool stories out of it, and then he blinked and he found himself extremely attached, oh no;

Napoleon singing annoying little tunes when he is pissed at Illya;

Illya bodily throwing Napoleon into a river, clothes and all, when he keeps complaining about needing a bath and he starts singing one of the aforementioned annoying little tunes about it;

Napoleon making up very unflattering songs about people that are mean to Illya and being a complete uncaring little shit that smiles very innocently when these people then get mad at him (“Oh my, but it was all in good fun, sir, I never meant to offend!” is a phrase that usually preceeds Illya breaking up a brawl);

the funny thing about Napoleon is that he starts so many brawls and yet he seems to always somehow slip out of them unscathed, or mostly unscathed anyway. Illya finds it a little irritating and extremely endearing;

Illya being very protective of his tiny bard and looming over people to show it. Napoleon loves it, 10/10;

a lot of arguing about whether Napoleon is, in fact, tiny or not. Napoleon insists he’s not, he towers over most people, why is this even an argument?! Illya just picks him up like he weights nothing, throws him over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes and walks away;

Napoleon getting drunk and getting super emotional about Illya spending his life fighting terrible evil monsters and always trying so hard for everyone and people thinking he’s scary too while he’s actually all soft and mushy inside and he should get hugs. He tries to turn it into a song but he keeps forgetting the melody and sobbing mid-lines. Illya ends up half-carrying him to their room while pretending not to be extremely touched;

Napoleon annoying Illya into getting a day off every now and then, so that he can relax and enjoy himself for a change. There’s a lot of playing Gwent involved, which Illya is actually extremely good at, much to Napoleon’s frustration (though Illya looking all smug is still very cute).

Bard!Illya + witcher!Napoleon thoughts:

I know that this one is not the immediate combination that comes to mind but hear me out. Napoleon is a witcher, coping with his pretty horrific past and life through humour and trying to retain some agency in his life by enjoying nice things (such as buying nice clothes for instance) even though he pretty much has an obligated path;

Illya is a shy awkward bard who actually sings and plays really well, people do love listening to him, but when it comes to the public relations part of the job? Terrible. He hates it. He just plays and disappears as quickly as possible;

Napoleon actually sees him making an awkward and fairly rude exit when there are some women fawning over him, and he’s like “woof, what an asshole”, even though he did spend the entire performance being Very Interested, obviously;

when Napoleon gets back to travelling guess whom he finds heading in the exact same direction, though on foot? But the bard from before, obviously. Now, could Napoleon just pass him by and go his own merry way? Of course he could. Is he going to? Nah;

as it turns out, bantering with the bard is surprisingly fun, and he has a really nice smile. Napoleon low-key wants to keep him;

Illya finds that he minds the company a lot less than he would have guessed: Napoleon is fun and once they get in the next town he also finds out that he’s a magnet for social interaction and that Illya can just stay there a little to the side and the People(TM) are suddenly not his problem. immaculate. So when Napoleon finds that he has a contract around there and says goodbye to him, expecting him to go mind his own business and proceed to the next town because he hadn’t meant to stop there to begin with, Illya just... figures he should wait. at least to see if he makes it out okay;

Napoleon does make it out okay and he’s also extremely touched and delighted that Illya waited for him. At this point, it stands to reason that they would travel together to the next town over;

this scenario would include:

Napoleon discovering that Illya is actually very nice and soft and revelling in how kind he is to him, it makes him feel loved;

Illya singing to him to make him feel better when Napoleon gets injured;

Napoleon getting drunk and dancing to Illya’s songs when he’s performing. He usually manages to charm people out of being too scared of him, but let’s just say that no one in that entire town can take him seriously anyway after that. Illya finds it extremely adorable;

Illya purposefully getting monster facts wrong in the first drafts of his songs because Napoleon is a monster lore nerd and it’s fun to see him go on long tangets about how aCTUALLY-;

Napoleon doing stuff like really casually and noisily cleaning his swords in a corner when people are being mean to Illya. When said people turn to him he just smiles innocently and stares until they get the message;

Illya being very reasonable about Napoleon’s requests NOT to follow him on hunts: he is not a witcher and he doesn’t want to make his job harder of course, so he will stay away, where it’s safe. Except if Napoleon is like five minutes late compared to the estimate he gave him Illya just grabs his stuff and goes looking for him. Usually Napoleon is fine and complains to him that the job sometimes requires IMPROVISATION and that if he’s a little late it doesn’t mean he’s DYING, but Illya is just like *shrug* “Until the day it does mean you are dying”;

big scary witcher Napoleon being the little spoon. Illya just really wants to cuddle and protect him from the world.

[makeste]

BnHA Chapter 289: Looks Like the Gang’s All Here

Previously on BnHA: Horikoshi was all “you guys don’t really need to know what’s gonna happen to Deku and Shouto right now” and cut away to Toga and Ochako before anyone could get a word in. Skeptic utilized the power of Freak Shounen Coincidence to magically zero in on Ochako and Tsuyu amongst the fleeing crowd. Toga was all “IS THAT OCHAKO” and immediately leaped down to fight them, ignoring Spinner’s heartfelt speeches about Villain Found Family because fight now, hug later!! Down in the streets of some unidentified crumbling city, Ochako was approached by a sweet old lady and was all “I better help this sweet old lady who is definitely not leading me into a trap”, which unfortunately turned out to be poor decision-making on her part. Anyway so now she and Toga are going to throw down. AND ALSO, P.S., BEST JEANIST IS STILL ALIVE, and that doesn’t really have anything to do with anything right now, but BY GOLLY I JUST HAD TO SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS.

Today on BnHA: Iida and Hadou are all “is it our turn yet”, and Horikoshi is all “yes”, and so the two of them finally burst onto the scene and are all “hello Shouto, Gigantomachia is on his way, btw do you need help” and so they all get ready to fight Tomura together. Meanwhile in Unnamed Ochako And Toga Fight Town, Toga is all “what’s up Ochako, oh is this the All Might doll Deku gave you, I guess you must like Deku as well, just like me, we truly are the same, btw I can use other people’s quirks now” before she vanishes in a flurry of knives and ambiguity, as mysteriously as she came. So that’s a thing that happened. The chapter ends with Gigantomachia and the League STOMPIN’ ONTO THE SCENE, JUST IN TIME FOR ENDEAVOR TO WAKE UP AND BE ALL “OHHHHH SHIT.” YOU’RE DAMN RIGHT, “OH SHIT.” Finally the pieces are in place for Dabi to reveal his true identity to Hadou and Iida, JUST LIKE WE ALL EXPECTED.

before I start, thank you so much to everyone who sent birthday messages on Wednesday!! I had a good day; my quarantine impulse purchase guitar that I ordered months ago but had been backordered finally arrived, and so now I can do something productive with my time as I continue to while away these months in isolation! not to say that capslocking over fictional characters and their shounen escapades doesn’t also count as being productive lmao. anyways, my fingers hurt so typing is kind of a bitch right now, but I’m having fun still. IF KAMINARI CAN DO IT THEN SO CAN I

anyway so let’s see what mishaps my various catastrophe-prone children are getting up to this week

okay there are several things happening in this panel which I want to comment on

IIDA!!!

HADOU!!!

“some time after” jesus fucking christ though, how long have Deku and the rest actually been fighting?? like it’s absolutely absurd to imagine that they’ve been managing to hold off Tomura for more than a few minutes, and yet everything we’ve seen these last couple of chapters suggests that this is indeed the case. which is just pure insanity tbh. excuse me sir, but I have an emotionally maturing son, a homewrecking grandpa, and a sleep-deprived one-legged platonic husband who are all in DIRE NEED of medical attention just FYI

lastly, I direct your attention to these two cool cats in the background who are both riding on hover surfboards. living it up like it’s Back to the Future. why are there two of them. do they both just happen to have the exact same quirk. what are the odds. ARE THEY TWINS. I want to know everything about them dammit

anyway so Hadou is asking Iida why he’s tagging along, because unlike the others, he can’t fly and is thus vulnerable to Tomura’s attacks and such

well Hadou I’ll have you know that it his DUTY AS THE CLASS PRESIDENT to tag along and THAT’S WHY

oh shit you guys IIDA SAID “FUCK THE LAW”

“plus Bakugou-kun, whom I am not particularly close to, but nonetheless hold nothing personal against!” well uh, kind of a weird distinction to make there bro, but okay. listen everyone, it’s a tense situation; if Iida feels the need to clarify the ins and outs of his interpersonal relationships with each of the people he’s rescuing then please just respect that okay

anyways though have I mentioned how much I fucking love Iida Tenya though you guys. feels like I haven’t mentioned that enough. I LOVE HIM. there

FINALLY

AFTER THREE WHOLE WEEKS WE FINALLY CUT BACK. OH MY GOD. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW LONG OF A TIME THAT IS TO BE HOLDING YOUR BREATH. [EXHALES]

is it bad that my immediate reaction to this page was A LOT OF LAUGHING, though. fkldlksh this entire situation is SO ABJECTLY TERRIBLE that if I were Shouto I would almost be fighting the urge to look around for a hidden camera at this point. ASHTON KUTCHER WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU DOING HERE. OH THANK GOD, IT WAS ALL JUST A PRANK

anyway so uh. heh. how screwed are we at this point, exactly. oh and also, whose speech bubbles are these. who the fuck would look at this situation and these bleeding children and say “HA!” what kind of monster. just ignore that paragraph right before this one please

OH SHIT, OH SHIT, OH SHIT

TOMURA I CANNOT BELIEVE I’M SAYING THIS, BUT PLEASE LISTEN TO AFO FOR ONCE AND JUST LEAVE

pretty please. we kind of have a situation here. not that I wouldn’t love to see what this icy flamey boi could do if push came to shove, but I also have had just about enough of watching children get maimed for today though

OH SHIT

THE TIMING OF THIS MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE AT ALL BUT I DO NOT CARE!! THE CAVALRY HAS ARRIVED THANK GOD

“WHAT UP GUYS, WE BROUGHT YOU SOME TERRIBLE NEWS” FKLSHLKHLK

WELL GEE IIDA THANKS SO FUCKING MUCH!!

lmaoooo a wild Lida has been spotted what the fuck is this translation though

I don’t know which is better, the “Lida” (DO YOU EVEN READ THE SERIES BRO), or the “CHRIST” gkfhkg. CLASSIC LIDA

OH SNAP HADOU

sobbing at Manual cradling the still-warm corpse of Gran Torino like a tiny baby khlk;h. BUT ANYWAYS HADOU SAW HER TEACHER ALL BLOODIED UP AND IS READY TO THROW DOWN, YESSSSS, THE MY LADIES ACADEMIA ARC CONTINUES

(ETA: listen you guys, there were many things at the end of this chapter that brought me joy, but perhaps none more than the inclusion of Hadou in the final two page spread looking all serious alongside the Todorokis, as if she has any fucking clue at all wtf is going on slfkhlkhgghsl. what I wouldn’t give to see her and Deku and Iida all making frantic bewildered eye contact at each other throughout the next chapter lmao.)

GOD FUCKING DAMMIT DEKU

ARE YOU PROPPING YOURSELF UP WITH YOUR ARM THAT’S IN SPLINTERS, I CAN’T EVEN BELIEVE YOU RIGHT NOW. SOMEONE PLEASE SLAP SOME SENSE INTO THIS CHILD. SIT YOUR ASS DOWN

LMAO TODO’S READY TO TAKE AFOMURA ON. THE SHARED HERO BRAINCELL HAS ALREADY EXPIRED. FUCK IT LET’S DO THIS

“true, I already watched him murder my dad, my boyfriend, my other boyfriend, my teacher, and dozens of other people, but gosh darn it, I just feel like the fifteenth time’s the charm you guys.” shit, I ain’t even mad. who’s up for yet another episode of Todoroki Shouto Attempts to Murder a Bitch

-- “TIME TO CUT AWAY!!” laughs Horikoshi as he gleefully dodges out of reach before I can punch him, that SON OF A --

goddammit. you’re just lucky that I’m invested in the girl power fight too

YESSSSS OCHAKO

DON’T BE SORRY FOR KICKING ASS! NEVER BE SORRY FOR KICKING ASS

damn, looks like she managed to touch Toga’s shirt but not Toga herself. both of them are so fast

now Toga is monologuing from the shadows

we’ve all been there, Toga. sometimes you see someone you really like and it’s just like, ahhhhhh gotta kill them am I right

lol I love Toga so much you guys, but I’m also kind of wincing in anticipation of whatever essays are gonna materialize out of the fandom this week explaining how hero society has failed her utterly and she is just a victim here. CAN YOU NOT SEE HOW SHE JUST WANTED FREEDOM TO BE HERSELF AND MURDER A BUNCH OF PEOPLE flhkklhl

OH SNAP SHE WENT AND TOLD HER THE THING!!

and it was fucking awesome and scary as shit, Ochako. like damn, still sends a chill up my spine just thinking about it

anyway so now Toga is continuing to explain that she can use the quirks of whoever she transforms into

and Ochako is kind of freaking out, which I don’t blame her for, since it’s probably really upsetting to hear that your stolen blood and quirk were used to murder a bunch of people. shit

so now she’s all “WTF WHY WOULD YOU EVEN TELL ME THAT”

??? was this somehow the wrong answer?

for fuck’s sake. Toga you literally came down here to ask her if she would be willing to kill you, and here she is telling you “I would never be happy about killing someone, that’s fucked up”, and you’re all “......”

like come on though, what else do you want her to say?? and why does Ochako look so shocked now

OOP

LMAO

THEIR FACES DKSLHFKG. TOGA NO THAT IS MEAN. and jesus christ Ochako it’s just a toy. I know it has Sentimental Value and shit but is this really the thing to be getting distracted about right now

FOR FUCK’S SAKE

JIN-KUN WHOM OCHAKO HAS NEVER FUCKING MET?? THAT JIN-KUN??!

OM NOM NOM

this entire confrontation makes absolutely zero sense to me you guys. just. Horikoshi was all, “this is the kind of stuff girls talk about when they’re battling to the death, right?” just, are you okay my dude

anyway so Toga has somehow deduced that Ochako got the doll from Deku, which means that she and Ochako are exactly alike in every way, and this is somehow an important plot point, and now they’re finally getting back to the fight lulz

OH SHIT

OCHAKO BOUT TO SLAP THE SHIT OUT TOGA WITH THIS BOOKCASE ON A STRING AND THIS LOUIS BAG OH FUCK

so now Toga’s all excited and she’s all “THERE’S SOMETHING I OUGHT TO TELL YOU, I’M NOT LEFT HANDED EITHER” oh snap

fuck, it almost feels like she’s trying to warn her. Ochako idk maybe you should run shit I do not like this ( ﾟдﾟ)

but of course she is not running, and she’s all “I’ll have you take responsibility for your actions”

HEY NOW

WHAT IS FUCKING HAPPENING, DID TOGA JUST FUCKING MURDER TSUYU, WHAT THE FUCK. I AM TERRIFIED, I DON’T WANT TO SCROLL DOWN, SHE THREW LIKE FOURTEEN KNIVES INTO THE DARKNESS, WHAT THE FUCK

OH

IT’S POSSIBLE THAT I MAY HAVE OVERREACTED

so did Toga just Swip a bunch of knives for no reason and then abscond, lol what. CAN ANYBODY PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT THE PURPOSE OF THAT ENTIRE SCENE WAS. ASIDE FROM GETTING TO SEE OCHAKO TRY AND YEET A BOOKCASE AT SOMEONE

fuck, she was crying??

DID MY GIRL TOGA JUST KILL AN OLD WOMAN, NAKEDLY LURE OCHAKO INTO A BUILDING, ANTAGONIZE HER INTO SAYING “I’LL MAKE YOU TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR KILLING A BUNCH OF PEOPLE JUST BECAUSE YOU FELT LIKE IT”, STEAL HER DOLL, GIVE HER DOLL BACK, TELL HER “OH SO YOU LIKE DEKU TOO HUH? BTW I CAN USE OTHER PEOPLE’S QUIRKS”, AND THEN RUN AWAY CRYING??? BRUH

-- OH SHIT, OH FUCK

[SIRENS BLARING WILDLY] [AUDIENCE LEAPING OUT OF THEIR SEATS] [T-SHIRT CANNONS BOOMING IN THE AIR] [VIKING WAR HORN SOUNDS IN THE DISTANCE] FUUUUUUUUUCK

well never the fuck mind about Ochako and Toga and WHATEVER THE FUCK THAT ALL WAS SUPPOSED TO BE, I guess, BECAUSE!! MACHIA MADNESS HAS ARRIVED. SPEARS SHALL BE SHAKEN!!! SHIELDS SHALL BE SPLINTERED!!

AND LOOK WHO WOKE UP FROM HIS NUMBER ONE HERO BEAUTY NAP RIGHT ON CUE, TOO!!! ATTENTION ALL PASSENGERS... IIIIIIIIIIT’S TOUYA TIMEEEEEEEE

[everyothermouse]

OCS BELONG TO @peapod20001!

hi I made another pea au bcus I’m weak 💀 won’t become a whole thing like the last one i just wanted to do smth that included some stuff I don’t get to do in blau :3

basically it’s in modern human society but some ppl are clowns which are sort of like. Monsters/superhero’s who do magical girl transformations into their clown sonas ig lol. Normal ppl don’t know clowns exist, so there’s an a organization that covers up their tracks and takes care of all magic related issues (Harley is a part of this, he’s not someone who does the magic hiding he’s just a therapist so clowns have someone to talk to abt magic issues since they can’t tell normal therapists abt that.)

All of the brothers were separated for a good portion of their lives, but now they all live together in Harley’s house with his kids. anyways I’ll write sum background info on each of the siblings under the cut cus them :)

Shirley was adopted by daniel and janes family, they thought he was going to become a typical magical girl clown superhero like most clowns do, but she decided to become a drag queen. The parents and daniel are all part of the magic protection agency, which is made for hiding clowns from normal people, and frankly they were pretty glad Shirley decided to not do a career that used his powers cus her magic is obnoxious as hell and hard to cover up, I mean it’s literally drawing attention to themself and having a giant void inside his face. As for the family powers, Dad can erase peoples memories, Mom can sense auras, Jane can fly, and shirley’s power is drawing attention to themself, she can also make people physically freeze in terror by making them look at the orb of darkness in his head, but mostly they just uses it as a pocket dimension bcus she doesn’t like being scary.

Charlie lived with his last foster parents Ben and Belle, along with their biological children Thomas and Charlotte. Ben has big aes claws, Belle can extend her limbs, Thomas can talk to animals and walk through walls, and Charlie can make force fields. Ben, Belle, Charlotte, and Thomas don’t know Charlie is a clown and vice versa.

Emerson and Grayson lived in a home for disowned clown kids (and still do sometimes), they couldn’t stay with their big bro Charlie in the foster system since their powers are obnoxious as hell and they have no control over them. Grayson has fire powers, Emerson has ice powers. Their superhero home is run by the carolina parents and subsequently they lived with their kids (carolina and rory both have fire powers, Budget creates explosions, and fleur moves the earth) and a bunch of other clown child ren.

Harley had to go into the clown equivalent of witness protection after he had his identity revealed while a vigilante and half the villains in the city immediately went to kill him lol. He had to leave his family and change his name and basically disappear off the face of the earth, but now he’s back to see his siblings :) He takes in his siblings so they can live together again, but charlie still has contact with his last parents, shirley is already an adult with new parents but decided to live with his fam anyways, and frequently the twins have to drag harley to hang with them at the clown kid home instead of the other way around because they can’t control their powers yet and don’t want to constantly be destroying harleys house lol. Oh yeah and harley has temperature control like the twins, but he can also make plasma rays and make fire that doesn’t cause any damage and stuff, hes way more in control and experienced than they are.

Um plot things, Charlie is exploring career options (vigilant? Clown organization? Makeup artist? he do not know) but is more concerned with his highschool crush than that and keeps getting distracted, Shirley is struggling with self esteem and trying to readjust to life with his siblings again, the twins are just trying to handle their fucking powers and apprenticing under ben and belle, Harley is trying to be a good dad to his kids and brothers, Daniel is having to put up with the fact that Jane is a. being annoying with her powers and b. dating a boy who he knows is a city villain but who he legally cant say is a city villain cus he only knows abt that through the family business. Yeah just fun family things and also there’s magic basically :)

[m-aster-of-spinjitzu]

orange and gold

...I just need more Cole and Vania content, they seem like they'd be great friends.

Basically it's just 'Cole goes to visit her there, they almost burn down the kitchen, and make way too many puns', lol.

Set a few months after Master of the Mountain, but before Seabound or The Island.

Also yeah, I couldn't think of a better title, sue me- I just know that they wear one of the colours at some point, so... 🤦‍♀️😂

Trigger warnings: none I think? Huh-

Also, bingo!! I really need to learn better time management, dear freaking gosh- I hope I'm not too late though? I know it's like half a day late, eek- and I was supposed to post this earlier, but I ended up literally falling asleep while writing it😂

Thank you so much Fabro, for hosting such a cool event!:D Your comments on my fics literally never fail to make my day<3. And I'm so glad that I met so many awesome, really skilled people through this event too - it's been a lot of fun working alongside y'all:D, I wish I'd had more time to interact instead of posting stuff and vanishing lol, but exams be like:////

Prompt: cooking (does baking count as cooking? I realized too late lol-) from @ninjago-bingo 's warm board.

Word Count: 2497

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Trying to escape from killer dire-bats hadn't been on Cole's to do list today - although the mountains were kind of beautiful.

It was a bit difficult to see them while he was being dragged to his death, but hey, didn't Jay always tell them to be more positive?

That was, until he made the mistake of looking down.

Miles of snowcapped mountains touched the pastel blue sky, but he was more focused on exactly how high he was from the ground.

Great.

Trying to swing back onto the Bounty, he didn't notice a golden-winged blur shoot past the bat, almost dropping their spear in haste.

"Let my friend go, or I'll-"

"Vania?"

She throws the spear at the bird, successfully knocking one of its wings.

Huh. She must've been practicing - throwing with accuracy while flying seemed kinda difficult.

"I'm so sorry!" she replies, grabbing his arm before he fell down too. She winces at the strain on her wings, almost dropping him onto the deck. "I was supposed to come earlier, but there was an issue with one of the mines, and it took forever to-"

"There ain't anything in this world that's managed to kill me yet," he replies jokingly, checking that the autopilot hadn't been damaged. "I doubt an angry bird is going to be the first."

"Didn't you mention that you became a ghost once? Pretty sure that means you were dead-"

"Shh, that's not an important detail," he jokes.

"If you say so," she replies with a grin. "Did I mention that Chompy's been tearing down the palace flower arrangements again?"

"Send my regards to the gardener-"

"Did you just make a pun?"

"Remind me why I decided to visit you again?"

"Because you love me?" she asks stepping onto the ground as the Bounty landed gently.

"I hereby crown you as my platonic soulmate," Cole deadpans, taking her hand. "Vania and Cole-"

"Destined to annoy each other for eternity," she giggles, swinging their hands up and down. "But seriously - thanks. I don't think I realized how much work being a queen was."

"What's it like?"

"I mean - I'm glad that people trust me, and they come to me if they have a problem, but the paperwork is a nightmare. I never get to go outside anymore, I swear."

"Paperwork? Also, you just invited me here for a week. I don't wanna disturb you?"

"Nah, I cleared my schedule, don't worry. And trust me, you don't want to know. Everything requires some sort of official written thing, and it's so boring-"

"Official? But you're the queen?"

"Well, yeah, but I don't really want to change something unless it benefits the people. Not after..."

Her smile dims, eyes straying to the palace walls.

Oh- oh.

"You're nothing like him," Cole says firmly, squeezing her hand. "I mean, if you need to take a break, or you can make your job a bit easier by cutting out something unnecessary, that's just gonna help you become a better queen. You've definitely got the interests of your people at heart, and that's the most important thing, you know? And well, uh, everything seems to be going great so far - you don't have to beat yourself up over someone else's mistakes."

"Thanks," she replies softly, her smile slowly returning. "Speaking of breaks, what do you think we should do this time?"

"You could show me around the city again?"

"You've already seen everything cool," Vania giggles, skipping ahead of him. "We don't renovate much - unlike you guys-"

"Hey, it's not our fault that our city gets destroyed every few months-"

"More like every few days," she teases, tying back her golden hair. "How about we find some dragons to adopt?"

"Tempting, but where would you keep them?"

"They could sleep in my room-"

She breaks off when she notices him laughing. "What?"

"N- nothing," Cole replies, in between laughs. "Jay and I just made a bet."

"On what?"

"How many dragons you've adopted. I bet at least six, he bet fifteen."

"Well, jokes on both of you - I'm pretty sure my advisor's going to throw a fit if I show up with another one," she starts, giggling. "We've got twenty living in the palace right now."

"Twenty dragons?"

"They're so cute! You just look into their adorable little eyes," Vania pauses for breath, continuing her animated gesturing, "and you can't help but wanna hug them!"

"Oh, Jay's going to be so mad."

"Aww, I'm sorry guys. They're just too adorable!"

"...Wanna hear a funny story?"

"Yeah, sure!"

"I actually used to be terrified of dragons-"

"No way!" Vania exclaims. "Y'all have been on a lot of adventures though, so-"

"Nah, we used to have our own dragons at first. They were pretty cool! I just- I'm a simple guy! Huge animals with wings are scary up close when you're barely a teenager."

"Or when you're really short-"

"We're the same height!" Cole exclaims, facepalming in a bit of a fondly exasperated way.

"I'm two years younger than you-"

---

"Ugh, whose idea was this?"

"Yours," Vania grins, sitting down on the kitchen counter.

"You were supposed to help me, not leave me high and dry!" Cole accuses jokingly, staring at all the appliances they'd found in the cupboards.

"'One must always be prepared for new adventures,'" she quotes seamlessly, waving one of- what was his name again? Mulch something? Oh! Clutch! Some explorer he was, leaving them to die in the pyramid - Clutch Powers' books in the air.

"Fine," he sighs, staring at the old recipe book she'd found in one of their back cupboards. "But you've gotta help me? I almost burned down-" "Woah, what? If you finish that sentence with 'kitchen'-" "In my defense, Kai was playing a prank on me-" "In my defense, I wouldn't like to explain how the queen of Shintaro burnt down the palace by teaching one of her friends to cook," she grins, flipping through the pages. "What do you wanna start with?" "Something simple?" "Have you ever tried baking bread before? It's a lot of fun!" "I haven't really had the time, but that sounds kinda interesting."

He skims the recipe, raising his eyebrows. "Wait, why does this take hours? I thought you said it was simple?"

"Trust me, it is," she laughs, adding, "besides, I still wanna hear about all your adventures!" "Uh... okay," Cole replies hesitantly, "but if this fails, I'm so sorry." "Give yourself some credit, you guys literally saved the world! Multiple times!" "Bold of y'all to assume we know how we did it," he laughs, only half-kidding. "Besides. I botched soup once."

"I've botched toast," she mock-sighs, smiling. "Pretty sure that makes us even."

"Lemme get this straight. You've messed up toasting bread, but you can bake it from scratch?"

"Trust me, I don't know either," she giggles, trying to open a brightly coloured packet of... something? Did flour come in packets that small?

"Uh, why are you opening something called 'feast'?" he asks, eyebrows creased in confusion.

"Feast," she echoes, trying to stifle her laughter. "Off to a... rocky start, aren't we?"

It took him a second.

"I already regret this," he jokes, facepalming. "But I'd say that your puns are, uh, gold."

"I've un- unleashed-" breaking off, she half-falls off the counter, laughing so hard her face starts to go red, "a monster."

---

"Uh, is it supposed to look like that?" Cole asks, frowning.

The mixture looked less like the dough he'd been expecting - more like one of Jay's inventions gone wrong.

Badly wrong, he thought, eyes widening at the goopy mess of foam that threatened to spill over the jug.

"The yeast?" Vania echoes, poking her head out of one of the cupboards. "Yeah, all good! It always looks a little gross, and you're gonna doubt ever eating bread again, but at least it doesn't taste like it's fermented-"

"It's what?"

"Yeah," she grimaces, exaggerating her disgust a bit. "If aliens ever fell from the sky, they'd think we were crazy for eating bread-"

"Aliens? I think we're a bit crazy!" Cole exclaims, trying not to laugh.

Vania smiles, then sighs, lugging a huge bag of flour onto the counter. "I can never open these bags properly," she starts, eyeing the the bag a bit warily, "and it always makes such a huge mess all over the kitchen. You'd think they'd make it easier for people to use, right? I swear-"

He jokingly puts his hands over his ears. "I can't hear you!" "But you know that I've sworn off swearing-" she replies, breaking off with a laugh. "Pun not intended - that actually made sense in my head. I swear!"

"No," Cole interjects with a grin, shaking his head. "You don't, remember?"

"See, this is why we're friends-"

"Friends? Is that all I am to you?"

"Oh, be quiet," she shoots back, exaggeratedly dragging a hand down her face. "I mean, sure, just because everyone thinks that we're dating doesn't mean that we-"

Wait. What?

"People think that we're dating?" he asks, clamping a hand over his mouth in a poor attempt to muffle his laughter. "I- I- really?"

"I know, right?"

"Even my friends thought so at first," he confesses, dragging a hand down his face. "I mean, as much as I love you-"

"I love you too," Vania replies, completely seriously. "Even if you'll always be more like an annoying-"

"Hey-"

"Sibling to me than anything else," she finishes, grabbing a pair of scissors. Cole watches, a little alarmed, as she stabs them into the flour bag over and over.

"Is it... supposed to be this difficult to just open the bag? Seems kinda stupid-"

"Well, er, they have this piece of paper with glue that you're supposed to pull away from the rest of the bag, but it never works properly and I-"

"Well, we could always make our own flour," Cole interjects, laughing. "I mean, I've got a scythe? Let's go!"

"Uh, but we don't have wheat growing here. I don't think it'd suit the climate very well?"

"Wheat a shame," Cole sighs jokingly, measuring out the flour (which had, finally, escaped the bag).

"Oh my gosh," Vania deadpans, "you did not just-"

"Yep, I did."

"You're horrible," she giggles, "then again, I was the one who started this whole debacle, so I think we'll share the blame."

"Debacle? Where'd you pick that one up from? Sounds kinda cool-"

"Oh, it's from a book someone wrote about you guys," Vania says casually, pouring a cup of water into the bowl.

"Hey, uh-" Cole starts hesitantly, twisting his fingers back and forth, then breaks off. "Why'd you read all that stuff about us, anyways? Adventure books don't really seem like something you read a lot, since we have similar favorite books. I mean..."

"Well, um..." Vania trails off, clearly uncomfortable. "Uh- I guess, well, it sounds kinda stupid, but I'd never really met anyone my age who wasn't a royal or something. I... er, I didn't want to be left out, you know?"

Cole thinks back to a scroll; a quest, a sacrifice. One that his friends never seemed to really notice, unless it was with horror or flinches. Not that he blamed them, but - joking about how he was much more useful to the team when he was freaking dead than he was before he'd stumbled and fell in the temple?

That had been a bit far, even for his best friend. Locks could always be picked or something, he didn't need to be a ghost to provide some sort of value-

Well, that's not completely true, is it? a small voice questions, and he can't keep his hands from shaking a little.

"Jay here thinks you're the least valuable ninja."

Not enough to be a performer. Now, not good enough to even be a ninja, apparently.

Well, he reminds himself firmly, you don't have to be the best - just stand up to those who are cruel and unjust.

Nothing but a scar that glowed warm orange occasionally left of the whole Cursed Realm ordeal, sometimes it was all too easy to forget - or pretend - that it had never even happened in the first place.

Other times, like when he'd dropped a glass of water on the floor and his hands hadn't stopped shaking for hours, or when he woke up screaming, expecting to fall through his bed again, it still felt like he was trapped as a ghost. Literally - and maybe a little figuratively as well.

Yeah. Yeah, I know.

"Thanks for trusting me with that," he replies softly. "And I'm sorry. That sounds... horrible, but, honestly, you're a pretty cool person, and I ain't just saying that because we're friends. People can be awful, and they can- they can leave, but you don't need to pretend to be someone you're not for people to accept you. I kinda know what it's like, and it's... just, uh, not great."

"No, thank you," Vania says, rubbing her eyes. "You're pretty cool, too. And I'm glad that we become friends, even if wasn't in the- the, er, greatest circumstances."

"Right back at ya. The fall was pretty terrifying, though," Cole says casually, as if memories of that nightmarish plunge into the depths of earth don't still send shivers down his spine.

"No, definitely! I was so sure we were gonna splat onto the ground or something, thank gosh we didn't."

"Yeah..." Cole trails off, reading the recipe they'd been following. "Oh- do we just leave the bowl somewhere for a few hours now?"

"Oh, yeah," Vania answers. "Other than clean up the kitchen, what else do you wanna do?"

"That's kind of you, but, ah, I don't mind. You can choose something."

"I don't mind either," she replies, covering the bowl with a dishcloth. "Seriously, I don't."

"Same here though."

"Really, I don't mind-" Vania breaks off with a laugh, adding, "Well, actually, there is something."

She doesn't elaborate, thoughtfully gazing out the window.

"Well, what is it? Don't keep me in the dark."

"Ugh, it's kinda stupid-"

"I'm sure that it's not- well, unless you want to try to jump off a flying ship with a homemade parachute to prove a bet to someone-"

"Do I even wanna know?"

"...uh, probably not. We're way too crazy sometimes, our Master has a hard time keeping us in check. Your thing, though?"

"Can I give you a hug?"

Cole blinks for a second, expecting some sort of punchline.

"That's your thing?"

"Well, yeah- I mean, I said it was kinda stupid-"

"No no, that's not what I meant. You're so sweet - that's all."

"Well, not more than you-"

"Nah, you're sweeter-"

"Let's just call it a tie," Vania says with a smile, reaching over to give her friend a hug. "Thank you so much, I swear- well, no, I don't, but you know, anyways-"

"Yeah," Cole replies, laughing softly. "I know."

[shyneanon]

Just wanted to write a x reader about HT Sans out of curiosity, so I did. Kinda long though. But I hope you guys like it. Have an x reader of mine where Axe doesn’t do anything incredibly stupid, lol.

(I promise the longfics are gonna be updated I just wanted to write this >~<)

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It had been a long time since you had first fallen into the Underground. Long enough that you’d lost track of time. Though that wasn’t hard to do when there was no sky to watch.

To be honest, you were lucky to not be dead. You had the feeling every other human to fall down here had died at the hands of monsters.

For some reason the two skeletons… hadn’t killed you. Which was odd, considering that when you’d first met them you’d had to navigate some deadly traps while they’d watched. When you’d made it past everything, the taller one had seemed impressed with you, and proud.

The shorter one hadn’t seemed so pleased.

Their names were Papyrus and Sans, apparently, and upon Papyrus’ insistence they’d snuck you through town and to their house, where you resided to this day. You wondered if it had anything to do with the fact that you had survived their traps, which Papyrus insisted on calling “puzzles,” despite the fact that they had obviously been designed to kill anyone who failed them. But at least Papyrus was kind to you. He was happy to talk, though he was very hesitant to answer a lot of your questions. Often he responded by telling you that he couldn’t answer your question at all. But he liked sharing his hobbies and favorite media with you, so even though he was holding you captive, he’d become like a friend.

Although you had the feeling that holding you captive was more for your benefit than theirs. When they fed you, it was always the same food. Some kind of meat.

You had the feeling you knew what kind.

But you wouldn’t ask. To spare your sanity.

Sans wasn’t hostile. But he made it a point to ignore you. Even if you needed help with something and you asked, he would simply act as if you weren’t there, as if he couldn’t see or hear you. If you annoyed him enough he would shoot you an unsettling look with his one red eye and you would back down. You quickly learned not to bother. You decided he didn’t like you, and that you were lucky he hadn’t killed you by this point. Especially considering that he hauled a giant axe everywhere. So you left him alone and spoke to Papyrus instead.

Over time, though, Sans started to change.

One day you were asked to throw out the old food, and as you were attempting to figure out which of the meat was older and therefore likely to go rotten soon, Sans intervened.

And he helped.

The whole time he barely said a word to you, and he didn’t look at you for even a second, but he helped. Though you tried not to get too optimistic. Perhaps he had simply been annoyed by how long you’d been taking.

A few days later, when you and Papyrus were playing a board game to pass the time, Sans sat next to his brother to watch. This was also new-- he usually did his best to stay as far away from you as possible at all times, dinner being the only exception.

He joined the two of you to watch several times, and then one day Papyrus asked him if he wanted to play a game for more people. And Sans said yes.

That day you saw a different side of him.

Rather than brood silently with an unsettling grin on his face, Sans started to crack jokes. Bad ones. At first you were too confused and almost bothered by the sudden change to laugh, but eventually he made a particularly fucked up joke and you laughed from the shock of it, despite Papyrus scolding him.

The next time you and Papyrus played a 1v1 game, Sans sat next to you.

Several sessions of this happened, Sans sitting and watching. You couldn’t tell if he was rooting for either of you, though he occasionally made jokes mocking you specifically. You’d noticed he never liked to say anything mean to his brother, however, so maybe that explained the lack of jabs at Papyrus.

Then one game, as you were contemplating your next move, Sans leaned in next to your ear. You leaned away, expecting him to say something threatening or cruel.

Instead, he gave you a hint.

As it turned out, Sans was really smart. He understood strategy, though he rarely employed it much when he played with you two. You had the feeling he liked letting Papyrus beat him.

He wasn’t such a bad guy, it seemed.

Then he asked to play a game of chess with you one day. You had the feeling he’d beat you, but you said yes.

You were right. He beat you quickly and easily. But he seemed to enjoy himself, particularly with some jabs at you that were accompanied by winks. So you didn’t mind.

Though you did feel something kind of odd whenever he winked at you. And it didn’t stop even when winking became a regular thing. In the following weeks he started pulling pranks on you, something he apparently enjoyed a lot. Papyrus seemed annoyed about it at first, but then confessed to you that it had been a long time since Sans had regularly cracked jokes and pulled pranks on others, and he was happy to have glimmers of the old Sans back. You’d had no idea this was what he had been like before… whatever had happened in the Underground had happened. Neither of them would talk about it. Regardless, seeing Sans smile and laugh so sincerely felt really good.

...

And then he cornered you with his axe.

Or, at least, that’s what it felt like at first. One day, weeks after he had begun to lighten up, Sans approached you when you were in the kitchen, dragging his axe behind him. Papyrus was out of the house, though you didn’t know where, or doing what. They never told you that either.

He’s going to kill me.

“Heya,” he said.

You tried not to stare at the blade. But it was hard. “Hi,” you said.

He took a few steps closer to you. There was nowhere you could go. You were against the extremely tall sink. If he decided he wanted to chop you up into little pieces, there was nothing you could do about it.

“Think we can talk?” he said.

You nodded, but once you did you weren’t sure if that was the right decision.

“Cool.”

Before you knew it he was standing over you and you were pressing yourself back against the sink. You felt so small.

This is it. He’s going to take his axe, and he’s going to cut me into little pieces. And then eat me.

“So…” he began.

Please just make it fast. Please just don’t make me suffer. Please just get it over with--

“I wanted to say thanks.”

“... Huh?” was your only reply. You realized you were shaking.

“Thanks,” he repeated. “For being nice to my brother. And… to me, even when I haven’t been so nice to you.”

Not sure what to say, you just stared.

“He’s… been through a lot. He’s really needed a friend. And I’m glad you’re being that friend to him.”

You weren’t sure if he was trying to put you at ease before murdering you, but you smiled a little. “It’s no problem. Papyrus is fun, I like spending time with him.”

“Yeah?” Sans smiled one of his more sincere smiles. “Yeah, my brother’s really cool.”

There was an awkward (and, at least for you, tense) silence as you both looked at each other.

“Sorry for scaring you.” His red eye looked away. “I know… I look scary.”

Hm?

“It’s not you,” you said. “You’ve just… been holding that huge axe… the whole time, and I didn’t… Y’know, I just thought, maybe…”

He looked at the blade as if he’d just realized it was there. “... Oh. Oh, that makes sense.”

He unceremoniously let go of it and it dropped to the ground.

“Still, I know I’m… intimidating.”

“The way you look doesn’t scare me,” you told him. “It hasn’t for a long time. Your appearance is just that, your appearance. No big deal.”

He watched you, as if he were looking for signs that you were lying.

Then he smiled, seeming almost… reassured.

“Cool,” he said.

He moved closer. His smile was different, though you couldn’t figure out what he was thinking. Though, that was often the case with him.

“Listen, I don’t hate you anymore. I haven’t for a long time. I’m sorry… for the way I treated you.”

“It’s OK,” you said. You weren’t sure why he’d treated you that way, but he was apologizing.

“Thanks.”

You realized the two of you were making eye contact, and then you noticed the pupil in the middle of his red eye. It was… getting bigger?

“I… like you a lot, actually.”

What do I say?

“I like you a lot too,” you returned. It wasn’t really a lie. He was fun. You just… weren’t ever sure what he was thinking, so you had always been slightly afraid that he wanted to kill you.

You saw his cheeks start to turn a blue color. You had never seen that before.

A… blush? Or am I insane?

Wait, when did our faces get so close?

Why is my heart beating so fast?

“Anyway,” he said, leaning away from you. When the gap between you widened you suddenly felt like you could breathe again. “I’ve got stuff to do, upstairs.” He winked. “Like nap.”

He picked up his weapon and turned away, though he looked back at you.

“See ya.”

All you did was raise a hand, and he left.

After that day, things were different.

Sans had been nicer to you for a while, but now he was really nice. He threw you compliments, and they didn’t seem sarcastic. He sat next to you on the couch regularly. He would breach your personal bubble-- albeit carefully. Sometimes he would brush hair out of your face, or put his hand on your shoulder when talking to you, or sling an arm around your shoulder. It… seemed friendly, but you weren’t sure if it was supposed to be more.

Either way, your heart would beat fast and your senses would heighten whenever the two of you made contact.

He spoke to you whenever Papyrus was out and he wasn’t. Sometimes he ended up telling you stuff that he and Papyrus had refused to address early on in your stay. He didn’t give details, but… it was sad.

A couple of times you gave him hugs to comfort him. They were returned, and the two of you would just… stay like that for a little while, holding onto each other. Even you started telling him about home. You were kind of like confidants now. It seemed that Sans didn’t tell Papyrus a lot, in an effort not to worry him. Papyrus worried already, it made sense that Sans wouldn’t want to make it any worse.

Then one day, while you were sitting together on the couch, he finally explained to you how he’d gotten the hole in his skull.

A former friend, the current queen… had stabbed him with a spear.

You held him, and he held onto you.

“Thanks,” he said, “for listening to me.”

“I’ll always listen to you,” you told him.

Like that day in the kitchen, you realized that your faces were close. This time it seemed very intentional, though. Sans was watching you carefully. Your own face got hot.

“Sans?” you said. It was almost a whisper.

He pressed his teeth to your lips and you froze up, shocked.

Almost immediately, he let out a soft moan, as if just the kiss were releasing tension. He pulled you closer. Your heart started to pound, and without thinking you threw your arms around his neck and kissed back. His arms wrapped around your waist, and you sank into him. His teeth then pressed against your neck and you shivered, sighing. It was followed by his teeth slamming into your lips, and you were swiftly pressed down onto the couch. It felt like his touch was a shockwave that moved through your whole body. You opened an eye and saw that he was flushed blue.

“I haven’t felt this good in so long,” he told you. “Everything sucks here. But you…”

More kisses. He sighed. Your eyes drifted shut again.

“... you make everything go away. You make me… feel things… I’ve never felt before.”

A hand worked its way down to your hip. He looked… high.

“... Y’know… Paps… isn’t gonna be back for a while.”

Your face got hotter than it already was. Was he insinuating what you thought he was insinuating?

“Geez,” you said with a shy smile, “we just kissed for the first time. At least… take me out to dinner first, right?”

He chuckled. “OK… yeah, maybe I’m moving a bit fast….”

Another kiss, this one more gentle. He cupped your cheek.

“I’m just… not used to feeling this good. It’s… kind of addictive.”

You fluttered your lashes playfully. “Ooh, I’m addictive?”

“Yes,” he responded. There was no irony in his voice. “Yes, you are.”

You were clutching his hoodie, and you realized that what you had thought was blood on his clothing was actually ketchup stains. You could smell it. It made you giggle.

“What?”

“I thought this was blood but it’s ketchup.”

A deep laugh. “You didn’t notice that all this time?” A wink. “Wow, you’re slow. Try to ketchup.”

You flicked his forehead playfully. “Get off the stage, nerd.”

“Hey,” he said.

“Hi,” you replied with a smile.

“Y’know, sex is great and all, but y’know what’s better?”

You raised a brow. “What?”

“A nap.”

You snorted.

“Don’t say it’s not true.”

“It’s true,” you told him, smiling.

“Here,” he said, pulling you up from your horizontal position and then flopping back, pulling you with him. “I make for a great cushion.”

“You do,” you observed. He was a skeleton but it actually didn’t feel weird to lie on top of him. So you got comfy.

“Nice. If Paps gets mad at me I can blame you.”

A wink, and you stuck your tongue out at him.

“Aw, c’mon now. That’s just childish.”

He wrapped his arms around you.

“You’re insane for liking me, by the way.”

You grinned. “Eh, I blame Stockholm Syndrome.”

He snickered.

[cottoncandyjester]

What if another person tried to kidnap the yanderes darlings👀

All their reactions will of course be to get you back so I only did the ones that would have the strongest reactions

Also im gonna start pairing hikaru with a y/n who doesn't give a shit about his degrading..cause it's wayyy funnier

Warning this contains: death, talk of torture, cannibalism, yandere behavior, kidnapping

Theodore

Definitely wasn't expecting it

Theo is normally prepared but he doesnt have any idea what to do

He of course has to find out who would touch you and how to get rid of them

He is usually so calm and collected but when he gets you back he is merciless with your captor, cold and unnerving downright sadistic

He wants them to suffer for worrying him and stealing his little wife/husband

"so this is where you've been hiding" Theo spoke softly to you with a smile as he gazed at your restraints before setting you free and kissing your wrists which were lightly bruised from the restraints but he heard footsteps his eyes growing cold.

"angel, close your eyes and cover your ears okay? Don't stop til I say..please" he spoke softly before turning his back to you before walking away. Soon screams of pure agony filled the air a constant screaming before utter silence, Theo soon returning to you covered in blood now wiping his glasses clean with a gentle humming

"how about we go home and take a shower, okay angel?"

Axis

He gets his brother to help

He is unstable without you

Like he can't think straight and all his senses seem to not work properly he is utterly hopeless

The person who took you will feel his wrath

Axis always shows his his cute side but when he gets you he gets dark as hell

Aka he lets salem devour them

"sweetie! Oh thank goodness I found you!" Axis chirped out pressing a kiss against your lips before he set you free from the cage you were in. "Let's go home okay? I missed you so much!" He huffs out.

"you can't take them" axis shuddered at the voice of your captor and something feral come out of him, they took you..took you away and did god knows what. With a whistle it seems he got salem's attention who was sitting outside the room. Axis turned to you smiling sweetly while salem pounced the sounds of screaming and bones cracking filling the room as axis helped you out the cage and covered your eyes from behind guiding you out the room.

"don't mind the noise okay? I know it's loud." He whispers in your ear before pressing a kiss on the back of your neck.

Yuki

It's cute that people think they can take you from him

Is very prepared

It takes three hours before he's coming to you to get you

He doesn't seem angry but he is

He's downright cold just cruel

You sobbed softly as your captor tortured you using a knife to cover your body with small but deep cuts, you soon heard a faint sound and looked to the window seeing Yuki open it softly when the two of you locked eyes he pressed a finger to his lips signalling silence.

You tried your best to avoid staring at him as he hopped down from the window into the room the soft sounds of his footsteps alerting your captor who turned around.

"whose the-"

Yuki shoved a gun barrel into the stranger's mouth his eyes cold and dull as he locked eyes with them. "Die." Yuki whispers out shooting the pistol watching them drop before he aimed at them firing again..and again..and again. He didn't stop until the gun clicked so he checked the ammo and was about to even put a new magazine in bloodlust swirling in his eyes.

"y-yuki!" You snapped out your body shaking at the sight of the clearly dead body filled with holes. Yuki glanced down and tilted his head to the side giving a sleepy little oh before putting the gun away and untying you noticing your cuts and shoved his sweater onto you before scooping you into his arms.

"I'm teaching you how to fight."

His mumbled out as he took you home.

Rin

Sweetheart he is the leader of a whole gang of clown thugs

It takes him like thirty minutes to find you and the entire time he's smiling

Like "oh well what are you gonna do I guess haha time to get my y/n lol"

In actuality he's PISSED

When he gets you he doesn't show it though

He actually encourages the captor for a little bit before utterly slaughtering them.

"one step closer and I'll kill them!" You whimpered as you were held at knife point staring at rin with fear in your eyes but rin... simply pulls up a chair and plopped a seat his smile never leaving his face. "Go ahead" he stated out now gazing at his purple painted nails.

"boss, are you sure?" One of his goons asked out and rin chuckled before getting up. "They won't do it, that's the funny part. They are just a dumb coward too scared to do it" he explained skipping over to you watching how your captor shook in nervousness pressing the blade closer to your neck blood starting to spill.

"do it motherfucker, I'm fucking waiting" rin whispers out leaning in close his eyes widening almost looking like they were glowing. "Y-you're a monster" your captor cried now shoving you but rin wasn't done tormenting them. "I'll give you two choices, slit your throat...or suffer as my gang force you down and touch you in ways that makes you wish you were dead, over and over til you're a broken bitch, I mean either way they are gonna violate you but wouldn't it be better for them to do it when you're dead and you can't feel their groping hands?" Rin cheers out

Your captor backed up til their back hit a wall as rin hummed sweetly walking closer and closer to them before grabbing them by the shirt yanking them close.

" stop being a fucking pussy and choose or I'll be the one doing the violatinf and trust me you don't want that" rin whispers darkly in their ear before shoving them down and turning to you and his group.

"have fun boys try not to make too much a mess, I'm going home!" he cheers out now walking towards you and holding his hand out towards you with a grin helping you up. "Aweee are you crying?! You're so cute! Cutie cutie cutie!" He cooed now squishing your cheeks together completely ignoring the violence happening behind him.

"let's go home and eat dino nuggets!" He said happily before glancing behind him with an annoyed hiss "fucking coward slit his throat..." He mumbled under his breath but shook it off now taking your hand and skipping with a happy him guiding you away.

Hikaru

He doesn't realize you're gone at first

It takes him a day

He thought you were being a brat and hiding again so he decided to be pretty and ignore you..but he missed you and realizes you're kidnapped

He is pissed at you for being a dumbass and getting taken but also pissed at himself for letting it happen

When he goes there he doesn't even save you at first first he has to bitch about it

You two legit argue while you're tied up

Your captor is like "should i go orrrr..."

Of course they meet death but he has to complain first

Hikaru huffs as he stomped into the warehouse without a single care in the world his eyes glaring at you as you looked at him with relief finally he came for you

"hika-"

"bitch do you know how much of a waste of time this is? Like damn y/n you love wasting my time and money so much you get snatched up" you felt all your relief get replaced with annoyance as your eyes drooped into a glare.

"oh yes hikaru cause I got kidnapped on purpose. If I wanted to waste your money I would steal your credit card" you hissed back and hikaru scoffs lightly.

"well I'm here, what's all the fuss about?"

"I'm fucking kidnapped hikaru! How about you stop being a dick and help they could kill or even violate me!"

Hikaru gave you a sassy expression clearly already fed up with you at this point. "Sweetie, they won't violate you. Gotta be worth violating for that" he sneers out

Your captor gazed at the two of you nervously as to two shouted at each other for the next ten minutes. "Excuse m-" hikaru took out a gun and shot them in the knee as quickly as they spoke before getting back to his argument.

"...all I'm saying is a thank you daddy would be nice! Like I came all the way over here I had a hair appointment but nooo I had to save you. You're so damn selfish"

"oh my fucking god...thank you daddy for coming to save me even though you're my damn BOYFRIEND! I'll get someone else to save me next time" you snapped out and hikaru pouted "your sass is not needed" he grumbled out before untying you.

Your captor who was in very much pain tried to speak and hikaru gave them a disgusted expression, was this plebian speaking to him? "Shut the hell up, it's your fault too you could have taken anyone but no you had to take my pet" he snapped shooting them in the head before grabbing you by your arm dragging you out while grumbling under his breath.

"I better get my dick sucked" he hissed out now shooting you an annoyed look.

Rocket

He is so worried

Like so worried

He's a himbo so it takes him a bit to realize that you aren't at the store getting him more hamburger steaks

One he figured it out he quickly went to find you

He was such a mess

Once he found you he was crying and hugging you so tight

Snapped your captor's neck

Uses his strength in scary ways.

"y/n! Oh darling! Are you okay sunshine? Are ya hurt?" Rocket squeaked out as he started to untie you his breathing shaky and tears in his eyes. Rocket heard footsteps come closer, in a panic he was shoving you in a closet to hide before meeting the eyes of your captor.

Wasn't long til he was breaking every bone in their body,starting with their arm snapping it like a twig before moving to their leg then to neck making it more and more painful. "I usually hate violence, but my sweetheart..is my everything" he whispers out before turning to you with a gentle smile

"darling, let's go home"

[cadaceus]

C2E138

This was another short episode that had so much packed into it. I was literally on the edge of my seat the whole time, and it really does feel like it is ramping up to something big. My full spoilery liveblogs for Campaign 2, Episode 138 are down below but be forewarned that there are many capital letters because... yes, I got excited. MULTIPLE TIMES.  Can we time travel to next Thursday please?

- I came in one minute late and the Nordverse is going wild, Chosen One Travis never fails to make me laugh! (also *harp music* Laura Bailey~)

- I know it makes sense for it to be the end of the Campaign but it will still make me slightly sad every time he says it  😭

- “Cree Deeproots” ooh we’re getting Cree lore?  👀

- ROLLING INIATIVE RIGHT OFF THE BAT OH GOD

- 60 POINTS OF DAMAGE?? LET’S GOOO VETH

- Extort Truth?? Have we seen Beau use this ability before? Either way, that’s super cool

- Empire Sibs picking up on Cree telepathically saying “Nonagon, help me” I am both terrified but also kind of sad, I almost don’t want her to die?  😭

- WHAT DOES VESSEL OF THE PATTERN MEAN OH GOD DGVHFDJNKLDFL EVIL AVATAR STATE WAIT WHAT TF IS HAPPENING WHY IS SHE GROWING A WEIRD MONSTER BODY

- You know what, I take it back, y’all can kill Cree now because uhhhh ruh roh

- Everyone: battling scary monsters, having moral conflicts over killing Cree Meanwhile, Widojest in the corner:  💃 (I know what they’re doing is important but the difference made me laugh lol!)

- God, Matt is so good at describing things--the way he described Cree’s face in the creature is so amazing yet spooky

- “Read in books” Or read in one specific book... that may have given them eyes...  and powers similar to what Cree is experiencing? 👀

- My heart skips a beat any time Beauyasha call each other baby <3

- HOW DO YOU WANT TO DO THIS VETH THE BRAVE?

- DUNAMANCY!!! Immovable Object was so clever, oh my god, Caleb I love you

- FJORD VETH AND ESSEK HAVE RED EYES IS THAT WHAT THE WIS SAVE IS RUH ROH 

- EVERYONE HAS AN EYE?!?! (except for Jester and Yasha, okay... I wonder how much of a role these eyes will have beyond just like... creepy aesthetic value and seemingly okay powers)

- All of them having Telepathy with each other (minus Jester and Yasha) is actually quite badass

- Essek finally admitting he’s hurt and then Matt RE emphasizing it later   😭 Heal my neutral evil NPC

- ESSEK SUGGESTING TIME TRAVEL I WILL FINALLY GET MY TIME TRAVEL ARC IF ITS THE LAST THING I DO 

- “We’re on what is essentially the largest Cadaver in history, I was born to put this shit down” CADUCEUS GO OFF, this gave me chills

- “Like I deserve all of the things that haunt me” it’s true but it makes me sad anyways

- Yes my internet cut out the first time around watching this, yes I am watching the rerun at 2am, don’t worry about it :P

- ESSEK’S NATURAL 20 I KNEW HE WOULD GET THERE EVENTUALLY AND THE FACT THAT IT’S ON A ROLL THAT COMBINES HIS PAST RESEARCH ON TIME TRAVEL WITH HELPING HIS FRIENDS....... POETIC CINEMA DARE I SAY

- it worked!!!!!!

- Mind Blank danggg! That is a smart choice I think!

- I’m glad Yussa is alive(? okay?) but big Yikes to Beau getting sliced!

- Gaudius seems so pleasant which makes them CREEPIER, also the politics of the Cognouza are so interesting, like the different relationships between everyone, I’m so curious

- YUSSA WITH A HOLE IN HIS FACE RUH ROH

- Caleb Banishing Yussa, thank goodness... also Caleb is being so Good with spells today what’s sexier than wizards....

- Beau et al. willing the flesh tunnel into existence... this place is almost like creepy body horror Alice in Wonderland?

- a FOURTH eye on caleb  😭 😭

- “Nine pulsating orbs” Are these orbs Luxon beacons or something else???

- I know the Somnovem are saying important things right now but I’m just so entranced by Matt’s voice

- Proto realm? Hmmmmmm “About to be born” don’t like that either

- LUCIEN???

- NOT A FLESH THRONE. HOLY SHIT. HIS AESTHETICS ARE ON POINT I’LL GIVE HIM THAT

- I keep expecting Matt to end the episode but I don’t want it to end dfgfhjkl

- WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE INTUIT CHARGES HELLO????

- Another short episode this week! (Funny that we can call three hours as “short”!) But oh my goodness this was such a good episode, and I was on my toes for so much of it... I genuinely feel like I’m about to go FERAL over here because we got: Almost all of the Mighty Nein (including Essek) with eyes, Cree battle/death, time travel, Somnovem lore, freeing Yussa,Lucien doing whatever tf he just did.... this is gonna be a lot to process

- BUT until next week... I love you all so very very much. Is it Thursday yet?

[gumdropgamespot]

Check In Tag ✔️

From the incomparable @izayoichan , who I thought was just a good storyteller and then saw your blog in desktop and now feel the need to redo my theme because ooohhh ahhhhh 😱. Très jolie!!

Why did you choose your URL? – I genuinely don't remember. I just wanted something that sounded nice, and my sims at the time were all in pastels and such. That was before all the sims went vampiric/monsters-of-the-deep/etc. 😄

Any side blogs? – Technically a (very messy) poses reblog and another, currently empty, stories blog that will not stay empty.

How long have you been on tumblr? – Four or more years? Although not in an active, engaged sort of way. I just reblogged the cc I wanted in-game. I'm new in the sense that I became active this year. You can probably still scroll to the end of my posts pretty easily. 😅

Do you have a queue tag? – Nope.

Why did you start your blog in the first place? – CC reblogs. And then I fell into all the stories simblr, and here I remain. I used to log in just to read @cyberth0t 's updates but then I found all of ✨you✨ and now I have to hunt through my follows just to find them. (If u don't follow this story, u should. One time I hopped into their livestream and forgot I hadn't introduced myself and felt very awkward for the rest of my life.)

Why did you choose your icon/pfp? – That's Sugar. She's all over this blog. She'll be all over the story blog too. She was my simself, but she grew a personality, and I pretty much let her do what she wants now. She has a whole family and goes on adventures and shows up in every save I have... I'll let you see some of her shenanigans one of these days.

Why did you choose your header? – See above. The Shakespeare misquote seemed like a good way to exemplify those sims. Sweet, with a suggestion of scary.

What’s your post with the most notes? – Not counting reblogs, my sleeveless shirts recommends post. But I'm small, so it ain't no thing.

How many mutuals do you have? – Math. Um... I think 85. If I subtracted right. I'm big into making pals here. :)

How many followers do you have? – 93. Should I do something for baby's first 100? Maybe I'll just tag you all so you can meet each other haha! (that thought scares me, lol!)

How many people do you follow? – 333 OMG what a perfect moment for that question.

Have you ever made a shitpost? – I reblog memes... but that's the best we get over here. You'll have to seek flames elsewhere.

How often do you use tumblr each day? – Twice or more, but I try to cut down to posting in the evenings. It's also when I auto-post, so things get active then!

Did you have a fight/argument with another blog once? who won? – Only playful teasing with a 🍋certain someone🍋 once or so. I *may* send secret love to her on occasion. 👀

Do you like tag games? – I like the game, but the tagging is hard. Who will want to play?? Have they already been tagged??

Do you like ask games? – Asking makes me shy, but I do it anyways. It can make people so happy to get something nice in their inbox!! I always delete the chain-mail parts, though (or modify them).

Which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous? – Oh goodness. Are people famous on tumblr?

WAIT I HAVE IT

@queenofmyshuno A. Literal. Queen. 😘

Do you have a crush on a mutual? – HA. I haven't had a crush since I was... not the age I am now. 😋 But I love you all, so that counts for something.

IDK if everyone has done this but @heartwave99 (bc literal check-in; hope you're doing okay, lovely) @shessoblamblam (hugs to you) and @pixel-bloom (if for some reason you haven't done this yet 💘)

[that-wizard-oki]

theres something that morganthe said that's always confused me. In the final fight against her: "Face me in all my forms and despair." Why does she have other forms of Balance, Ice, and Storm? Is there an in-lore or headcanon reason or is it just... something the devs picked just to make the fight more of a challenge worthy of being arc 2's ending?

I don’t believe there a confirmed canon explanation for this, though (to absolutely no ones surprise) I do have a very good guess to what these multiple forms might be!

To start let’s take a quick look at the forms themselves

First you have Ice, depicted in a deep blue and star patterns, then Balance, which is mainly void of any color or pattern, Death in Grey and lunar symbols, an finally Storm is purple and clad with solar pattern. 

Which yea, at first glance- nothing particularly unusual stands out about this. Save for Balance, each “version” of Morganthe here is colored in accordance to their respective schools within the game, and... wait a minute though. Doesn’t this seem a little... familiar? 

Oh yea, now I remember-

Y’all, Morganthe’s Memories share the exact same color scheme as those “forms” we see in the Shadow Palace. This, in my opinion, can not just be some wild coincidence and definitely has place within the game’s Lore about Morganthe herself. 

If you’ve kept up with my theories (which if your reading this i assume you have lol), you know I’m very sold on the idea that Morganthe was put through the conversion table process, and was infused with shadow magic so that she could be puppetted and controlled by the one connected to the Shadows core- Old Cob himself. We’ve seen the dialogue that’s stated this a few times, so i won’t get into that here- however, that still begs a interesting question- HOW exactly does the “conversion” process work, especially for Morganthe?

I think it would be so fitting if Spider was actually able to alter/tamper Morganthe’s own memories to how he wanted her to act as Shadow Queen. He talks about how “reluctant” she was to continue working with the Arachna once she figured out they wanted to use her knowledge and ability with Shadow as a weapon. THIS was bad for Spider/The Arachna, because ultimately his plan was to use an outside force so great and terrible (shadow queen Morganthe) that it would eventually lead someone (the wizard) who he could more easily trick into freeing him and then beginning the events of Arc 3 since Morganthe ended up figuring out what his true intensions were. 

So instead of emotionally manipulating her into doing what he wanted (like how he was able to do with the wizard), the only option left was to control her more literally- aka, the conversion tables.

However, I think Morganthe was an especially different case from how we see the Mantises and other Arachna being infused. We See Old Cob simply unweave the shadow tacked onto them with the use of crystals if I’m not mistaken. With Morganthe though, this girl is a fucking wizard prodigy who re-discovered the inner workings of Shadow Magic. I Would imagine that Cob probably had to take a more desperate approach to making sure he had her under his thumb to get what he wanted. 

And, as we know, Shadow magic deals a lot with memories. I think that Spider was able to tamper with Morganthe most formative memories, cut out the parts that grounded her in reality (like her Memory in Avalon of wanting to resist what her brother was doing, and her displeasure over hurting people), and stitch in the parts that influenced rage and power (such as the hurt she felt over Ambrose banishing her) in order to create what we know as the Shadow Queen. 

So in sum, the “forms” we see in the Shadow Palace are Morganthe’s Memories, though they are the ones altered by Spider- that’s why they appear as the Shadow Queen does because he made them into his image. The things we see in Radiance Reborn could very well be the “true” memories, the untampered scraps that Spider had tossed because they were of no use to him.

Now, as for the Balance “version” we see- I think that’s a Forth memory in the progress of being formed. The Blue, Violet and Grey versions we see are obviously Morganthe memories (tampered or not), and they all stand ground in in what are definitely the most prominent events in Morganthe life- all up UNTIL she actually becomes Shadow Queen.

Despite being controlled by Spider, her own shadow still exists within her, and she can still create these physical forms out of her memories. I think that Balance one- the one devoid of any particular color or pattern- would eventually become the memory that signified her time as Shadow Queen, like the three memories we’ve seen before. 

The reason it might be depicted as balance is because the Memory has yet to concrete itself in something that represents the time that it symbolizes- the Blue Memory being Ice makes sense because Ice often symbolizes strength and foundation- The memory of Avalon is obviously set during Morganthe’s very early youth, where she was very impressionable. It could also attribute to her feelings of grief and loss- she might have wanted to remain “frozen” in a time before Malory's death.

Violet being Storm makes sense- Morganthe being banished, her wand/deck being taken from her, accidentally hurting her classmates, ending up homeless/an eventual pirate, and generally being scared of her powers than NO ONE seems to know hwo to help her control, probably leaves her with an extreme sense of anxiety and sadness, such easily represented by the power and energy of Storm Magic.

And then you have Grey, the memory that kicks off all the unspeakable stuff occurring for Morganthe in Khrysalis, and is obviously reprehensive of death magic. For me, I think this time, especially once she starts to refuse the Shadow Magi, is perhaps Morganthes lowest point. All she really wanted was to learn how to control astral magic, “find her true self”, and return home and prove she wasn’t some monster. But here she is, having been groomed and tricked by the Magi into re-discovering lost knowledge and wanting her to be their grand weapon in a war she wants no part in. Needles to say, this memory being rooted in Death fits. 

So then, what would the fourth forming memory be? For me, I think Fire. The most uncontrollable element, and one obviously linked with rage and destruction, I think fits the time in Morganthe’s life were she was the Shadow Queen- even if Spider was partly controlling her the entire time, it was still her. (Also, as shadow queen she’s clad in a deep, scarlet red color with her usual black robes... just sayn’ lol)

Speaking of, I actually wanted this memory to be a focal point if Morganthe ever gets a redemption arc. While I think she could more easily accept thosr first three memories/shadows as a part of herself, i’d expect her to actually repulse the idea that this... “Scarlet” memory/shadow belongs with her. The biggest reason for this is that, if she “accepts” this part of her life, she’ll ultimately have to remain with the reality of what was done to her, the Spider had control of her, that she DID hurt and kill so many people... that’s scary, and I think could speak to a lot of trauma victims in the same what Arc 3 speaks so clearly to those with broken or divorces families.

Anywho, i’m really starting to ramble here, but TL;DR: Morganthe’s different forms at the end of Arc 2 could very well be related to her memories we see in Radiance Reborn, and also allude to the idea that Old Cob, when Morganthe went through the conversion table process, may have tampered with those initial Memories/Shadows, and created memories that would help fuel Morganthe’s power as shadow queen. 

And yea, It’s very possible the devs simply picked Ice, Storm, Death, and Balance for game play purposes, and it doesn’t have anything to do with anything, but! What’s in the fun in that y’know? I think this, or something akin to it, is a lot more intriguing and gives a lot more depth to Morganthe’s character, as well as the story for Arc 2 :D