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potpourri-of-ecclecticism · 6 years ago

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Why I “ship” Murven - Commentary

I’d come across an enthusiastic post from a fellow Murven fan @shippertrash37 calling the tiny fandom to list reasons why we ship these two incredibly well-crafted characters, John Murphy and Raven Reyes (Murven), together. I’d written a meta as a reblog but I think it warrants a post of its own. Please bear with my redundancy just this once.

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I do not “ship” Murven per se but I inherently admire their arc growth and the dynamics Richard and Lindsey bring to the couple. Their story, as far as romantic canon is concerned, has only just begun and I truly believe this because of how seamlessly their arcs have converged since S4.

Back in S1, they were virtually strangers to each other, no one knew a thing about the Bellamy-led clan follower-turned-rat, John Murphy, nor the girl who landed from Space all by herself and started building bombs, Raven Reyes. They didn’t even know each other. Things changed when Murphy shot Raven in the leg as collateral damage. In the pretext of taking out all that pent up anger toward the delinquents on Octavia, he incapacitated an innocent, a stranger. A switch flicked in him.

2x01: First Significant Encounter

In the drop-ship in 2x01, he found a connection with Raven, one of death and anxiety, which deepened when he saw a flicker of empathy in her eyes for him. “Yeah, I’d have shot me too,” he said; who knew the rat had the courage to a) realise how much he was loathed and b) voice it out to someone who loathed him the most? That was the trump, she’d become his trump card in future. When Abby and Kane reached the drop-ship looking for the delinquents, notwithstanding both their severe injuries, Murphy said, “Help her!” -- a desperate plea to anyone who would hear him at that point. He couldn’t fetch her help himself so the first person he saw in sight, he asked for it NOT FOR HIMSELF BUT FOR HER. That’s when I saw him for the coconut that he was, tough exterior ingeniously concealing the mush inside. He was intimidated by her. His redemption arc began ever since. Raven saw it and it was one of the reasons why she didn’t turn him in to Kane and Abby. I saw it and that’s why I was butt hurt when she betrayed him by deciding to turn him in to the grounders. They betrayed each other, Murphy unknowingly and Raven, with a bit of malice and a tinge of protective instinct for Finn. Murphy’s expression gave away the sting he felt. The one betrayal that punched him in the stomach after his mother’s was this one; those he suffered in the hands of Bellamy and the delinquents didn’t stand a chance. So, he left Camp Jaha for good.

S2-S3: Exploring their strengths and weaknesses alone

Raven and Murphy then embarked on separate physical and mental battles, oblivious to each other’s miseries. Both found happiness with other people (which, I say, was a needed break). Even in this time apart, their struggles and romances mirrored each other’s - Murphy falling for a disabled and displaced Emori while Raven being the disabled partner who Wick could give a limb for. Their mental struggles - ALIE and Raven, Murphy and ALIE-fied Emori - almost broke them. Their storylines at this point served to highlight pivotal similarities in their personalities – perseverance, loyalty, survival, rebellion, and tenacity to name a few – virtues that would eventually justify their union.

S4: Safe Haven and journey to friendship

Then came the time to revisit each other. From ashes we rise. They rose and came back to each other. Well, that’s my sappy version of it, up until 4x06 at least. And 4x06 happened, Raven called Murphy out followed by Luna. It was then that things came full-circle. I, as a viewer, knew that Murphy still beat himself up for the things he’d done in his past and Raven was the walking-talking proof of that. Every time he saw her, it pinched a sore vein. He felt her pain, her helplessness and he beat himself up more and more for it. “She doesn’t hate you for that as much as you hate yourself,” Luna said, and that was partly true. They’ve all had blood on their hands, but when it comes to an apocalypse and survival, they are bound to understand one another. Raven still felt abhorrence toward Murphy, and her disability rendering her incapable in front of him ticked her off even more. She needed a release to be able to move past it and forgive. Murphy gave her just that.

To digress a little at this point, what Raven felt for Emori in their initial interactions also holds significance for Murven. “Friekreina… Don’t call her that!” Feeling defensive for this stranger, just like Murphy. She felt the same empathy for Emori that she did for Murphy. This may have been the beginning of when Raven started respecting Murphy. She saw a bit of herself in Emori, at least physically, and the fact that Murphy loved her, reaffirmed Raven’s validation of the person Murphy had become.

4x09: Showdown, Forgive and Forget

DNR culminated in the long awaited Murven showdown. Result? They reconciled, for good. They forgave and forgot little-by-little. No bad blood, no sour history remained. “This isn’t your fault Murphy. I can live with losing my leg, but losing my mind…” She could live with losing her leg, it was the first time she said it out loud and it was in front of him. The brave Raven broke down in front of John Murphy, just like he had to her back at the drop-ship. There was friendship, and more, right there. The hug between them was laced with so much pain, understanding, and forgiveness and it was their undoing. It was intentional to have the hug there, instead of a lingering look or handshake, they needed that connect - to not just say that they were letting go of their shared past individually, but together. There has been no looking back since in their friendship.

Raven is looked up to as a hero by the delinquents, her intelligence is rewarded and revered. But Murphy, he calls her out. He makes her say things she wouldn’t say to anyone. She can lie to Bellamy and get away with it, but she cannot lie to Murphy, he’ll know immediately. He was intimidated by her in the past, but not anymore.

Now, he stands by her to impress Emori but the more he thinks about it…

Starting from hurting each other to being able to count on each other, they have come a long way. No, I don’t “ship” Murven, I live for their development.

#murven #otp: cockroach and the bird #meta #murven will rise #the 100 #character development #ship development #epic ships

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lurafita · 5 years ago

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Hi! So, I have so far only seen you post stories for the Starker pairing, or Iron Dad. Do you do other pairings, too? If so, would you consider writing something for Spideypool? Please and thank you.

Spideypool was my absolute OTP for a long time (though I did have some side pairings I also enjoyed with Peter all the while), I’m a hoe like that.

Anyway, it took me a while to answer this ask, but I do hope you enjoy what I wrote up.

I sometimes like imagining Spideypool as the kind of power couple, where they both are just ridiculously badass.

No-powers AU, established relationship, police detective!Wade, mysterious background!Peter.

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Edward Collins, suspected for weapons dealing, drug smuggling, and human trafficking, looked far too smug for a man currently sitting in an interrogation room, with his hands cuffed to the table.

Captain Steve Rogers watched the man through the one way mirror with a suspicious frown on his face.

“All our evidence so far is circumstantial. It was enough to bring him in, but it won’t hold up in court. I don’t like that he waved his rights to a lawyer. He must think he has some kind of trump card. We need either a confession, or for him to incriminate himself in any way. Just get him to talk, Wilson.”

Next to the blond captain, the ex-special forces turned New York police detective, grinned sharply.

“No worries Captain America. I’ll have him singing like a bird.”

He ignored the familiar demand of “Stop calling me that!” and strode leisurely into the room.

“Eddie! Pal, Amigo, dirt under my shoes!”

He let himself fall into the chair right across from the man.

“So, what’s a scumbag like you doing in a place like this? Also, you don’t mind if I call you Shirley, right?”

Most of the precinct would describe Major Crimes unit’s detective Wade Wilson anything from ‘slightly eccentric’ to 'bat shit fucking insane’. They would also say, however, that at the end of the day, Wilson always got his shit done. So as much talk there was about his methods (and general being), it was usually accompanied with a measure of respect.

Wade reveled in it. Not just the respect, but also all the gossip about his 'crazy antics’. In fact, he liked to stir up the rumor mill every now and then, exaggerate on some tales, spice up some details.

His long time partner, Nathan Summers, had tried to reign him in during the early stages of their work relationship, but after damn near 7 years of being friends with Wade, he had given up.

It was too bad that good old Nate wasn’t down here with them to see him work his particular brand of magic on their suspect. (Someone did need to do the paperwork, after all. And Nate had lost at rock-paper-scissors)

Wade so loved aggravating his uptight partner.

Anyway, back to business. There was actually (sometimes) a method to his madness.

Sure, Collins had seemed pretty relaxed and put together so far, but how would that facade hold up when he was angry? What would the man let slip if Wade pissed him off enough?

If there was one thing that Wade liked to pride himself with (apart from his excellent taste in food and the love of his life), it was his ability to piss people off.

“You know, on second thought, you look more like that old woman in that horror game, after she was taken over by that parasite or whatever that was, and had all those cockroaches coming out of her crotch. What was her name again… Marguerite! That was it!”

The look on Collins face had darkened significantly, and his fists were clenched tightly on top of the table.

Bingo.

“So, Maggie-moo, let’s talk about last weeks shipment for your company.”

He pretended to rifle through the stack of notes to his side.

“You know, the one that, according to your books, should have been transporting sheep wool from Uruguay. However, it says here the ship hailed from the exotic shores of Columbia, and was carrying about twenty-five million dollars worth of cocaine.”

He affected a shocked look, complete with dramatically slapping his hands to his cheeks.

“Marguerite! What a bad, gross looking, girl you have been!”

Collins face was growing red, eyes pinched, teeth grinding together. Guy was gonna blow any second now. It was almost too easy.

“It’s because you weren’t hugged enough as a kid, isn’t it? I mean, I totally understand that your parents didn’t want to hold what must have been the ugliest baby on the planet, and I’m not blaming them one bit. But maybe it was a little much for them to chain you up outside and tell the neighbors you were just a mangy dog for all those years.”

Just as it looked like the other man would explode into an all condemning rage, Collins, surprisingly, suddenly calmed. The angry red left his face, his tense shoulders relaxed, the fisted hands intertwined their fingers together, and the man leaned back into the chair with a long exhale. Then he smiled.

“You said your name was Wilson, right? Detective Wade Wilson. I thought the name was familiar. I read about you in the newspaper the other day. An engagement announcement, wasn’t it?”

His smile turned nasty.

“And what a lovely creature your fiance is. Peter Parker, 28 years old, works in Queens 'Little Tykes’ daycare center, doesn’t he?”

Wade’s demeanor changed instantly, as a cold, foreboding feeling spread through his stomach. Collins went on, smirking as he saw the panic building up in the detective.

“It would be such a shame, wouldn’t it, if something were to happen to that pretty little fiance of yours. While you are in here, wasting your and your departments time and resources by accusing a good, honorable citizen of crimes he didn’t commit.”

Wade pressed his hands down on the table before him hard, and leaned over to be as much in the slime-bag’s face as possible, and spat out through clenched teeth.

“What did you do?”

He knew that his captain, who had been watching and listening to everything from the other side of the mirror, was likely sending people to his house right now to check up on Peter, as well as calling him on his mobile. It was the only reason why he remained calm enough to not break Collins bones one by one right then.

But Collins remained seemingly unintimidated.

“Why, Detective Wilson, I didn’t do anything. I have been in this room ever since you and your friends in blue so rudely interrupted my meeting, waving these false arrest charges about. I can hardly be held accountable for any accident that might befall the man you love, because you happen to be bad at your job. Did you know that most accidents happen at home?”

The gears in his head turned as fast as his rage grew.

“You sent someone to my fucking house, didn’t you?! Who did you sent? How many?!”

He was becoming frantic, his muscles shaking with the effort to keep himself from lunging right at the smug mother fucker.

“You wouldn’t have sent a lot, right? You have neither the brains to plan accordingly, nor enough underlings to organize something like this on such short notice. You would have sent only one, right? Two at the most! Two couldn’t cause too much damage, right? Tell me you didn’t send more than two!”

The man was far too satisfied with having rattled the detective so much, it didn’t occur to him to wonder about the strange nature of the questions. He was just about to taunt him more, when a new voice cut into the room.

“Four.”

Both heads whipped around to look at the person standing in the now open door.

Peter Parker’s brown hair was slightly ruffled (but still looked ridiculously fluffy if anyone were to ask Wade), his jeans had a few unidentified stains on them, and the too big flannel shirt (Wade’s) that he wore over his science pun t-shirt, was ripped all the way up his left arm. Other than that, however, the younger man looked completely fine.

If you didn’t count the scowl on his face.

“He sent four guys. They trampled their muddy shoes over the new rug in the living room, bled all over the furniture, and broke the vase Aunt May gave us last Christmas.”

Wade had just straightened up and slapped a mollifying smile on his face. “Baby boy-”

Peter’s pointing finger stopped him right in his tracks.

“Don’t you 'Baby boy’ me! I told you not to buy the white rug, because it’ll be a literal dirt magnet. Did you listen? No. You were also the one who insisted on the hard-to-clean couch, because 'But Petey! It’s so soft.’ “

Behind Peter stood one astonished looking Steve Rogers, and a snickering (SNICKERING! The traitor!) Nathan Summers, who had undoubtedly followed Peter down here.

Then his fiance pinned Wade with another withering glare.

“Since our house is now a 'crime scene’, and I will probably have to wait several hours to get back to reading my book in some semblance of peace, until the CSI has found all of the missing teeth from your suspects amateur cronies, I’ll be spending the rest of my day off at Gwen’s place. And who knows, maybe we will go on a little trip down the street, to the shelter on the next block and get a dog.”

With that, the younger man turned on his heel and left a gaping Wade, his full out laughing partner, and their gobsmacked captain in his wake.

“But Babe! We were supposed to pick out the dog together!”

If Peter heard him, it went ignored.

The captain still didn’t know how to react to what had just transpired, it seemed, as he questioningly turned to face one of his best detectives.

“Say, Wilson, how did you two meet again?”

Summers just laughed harder for some reason, and Wade, instead of answering his captain, turned to (the up to that point forgotten) Collins.

Clearly having not anticipated that the detectives twink-looking fiance would be capable of defending himself against the men he had sent out, Collins’ previous bravado melted away faster than ice cream in a microwave. Add to that the now absolutely murderous expression on Wilson’s face, and he was seconds away from wetting himself.

Wade stalked over slowly to his suspect.

“Do you have any idea, how much sex my baby boy is going to withhold from me for this?”

It took both his partner and the captain to restrain the detective long enough for Collins to confess.

#spideypool #au #fic #alternative universe fic #ask #peter parker #wade wilson #no-powers au #detective!Wade #bamf!Peter #short story #op lurafita

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juicedguava · 6 years ago

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Winspector: Episodes with Best Character Moments

So you're sick of Tokusatsu episodes where you get to know more about one-off characters than the heroes. Out of 49 episodes in Winspector, more than half contain moments that reveal the core team’s backstory, motivations and general awesomeness so that you'll care whether they succeed and survive their dangerous cases.

Read more for short summaries of 27 Winspector episodes organized by character(s)!

Entire team/Multiple members:

(Episodes that feature Winspector’s growth as a team also contains the best of Commander Masaki Shunsuke.)

E1 - Introduction to the members of Winspector.

E2 - Insight into the bond between the Kagawa siblings and Hisako+Masaki's shared backstory along with Masaki’s reason for forming Winspector.

E13+E14 - First upgrade two-parter! Bikel gets a police bike and Demitasse, a new lil' and snarky robot buddy. Ryoma falls off a cliff and nearly dies. Masaki steps up to test an upgraded version of the Winsquad, only for Ryoma to appear whole and healed due to siscon a burning heart of justice.

E15 - Ryoma gets amnesia after Masaki's old nemesis lures him into a trap. The most intense mindfuck out of the many mindfucks in this series.

E17 - Winspector VS alien goo that thrives on protein! Also the Zombie episode where zombified civilians are literally on the attack with pitchforks. NOT TO BE MISSED.

E23 - Ryoma and Hisako go undercover as a Four-eyed Lackey and a Very Important Person to uncover a plot about a killer plant and illegal dumping.

E31+32 - Second upgrade two-parter! Part One involves Brian, a police robot who has lost his 'heart'. Part Two involves Ryoma using the new weapon without suiting up and Masaki/Ossan!Miyauchi bruised and bleeding like it's his Kaiketsu Zubat days again.

E49 - Goodbye Winspector! The entire police force is occupied with a scheme that has caused the entire Tokyo to go berserk. Masaki wrestles with the ugly feelings that result from years of staring down evil. Ryoma, Junko, Walter, Bikel, and Demitasse joins the Interpol in France while Masaki stays in Japan to create a new organization.

Captain Kagawa Ryoma:

E4 - Ryoma's heart to heart with a wanted criminal whose sister is in the hospital. BRO TO BRO.

E5 - Ryoma gets super emotional about a mad scientist genetically modifying a bird. He is a friend to both the animals and the children.

E8 - It's Ryoma VS the goofy Omagari detective agency that tries to be a low budget Winspector! Daughter Omagari/Ryoma is my OTP. Ryoma be HELLA CHIVALROUS.

E10 - Ryoma freaks out because of a bunch of kids' cockroach prank, but stands up for them anyway when adults accuse them of committing arson. He trains to overcome the CrossTector 5 minutes time limit. E11 - Criminals hold Ryota and his crush hostage to force Ryoma to cooperate in a heist. Ryoma saves the day with morse code. E46 - Ryoma legit forces Ryota to befriend a kid taught by his grandpa to do 'bad' things every day. Enough to make an overly helpful '90s Sentai Red cringe.

E48 - Backstory of how the Kagawa siblings became orphans. Ryoma is once more a victim of mindfuck and also a victim of fashion.

Undercover Investigator Koyama Hisako:

E9 - Hisako takes revenge by arresting the criminal responsible for her father being KIA.

E20 - A guy who used to box in high school has a dorky crush on Hisako. They have a cute moment amidst Ryoma flirting with the guy and the guy's intense bromance with the perp of the week. Ah well.

E26 - A young girl is bent on taking revenge for her father's death. Hisako stops her from ruining her future, cause she has been there.

E38 - Hisako protects her former junior high schoolmate who's on a hit list of 'worthless people’. This is Hisako’s last case in the series :(

Inspector Fujino Junko:

E21 - Junko's former shooting rival tries to fuck up Junko's sanity and police career. Junko hands in her badge, gun, and a resignation letter, but all’s well ends well with Commander Masaki tearing said letter into little pieces :')

Police Robots Bikel+Walter:

E16 - The Walter episode. A lil girl has a crush on Walter and Junko finds it cute. Hijinks ensue. E22 - The robots and Inspector Rokkaku from Division One make a Promise Between Men! That involves keeping a secret about Rokkaku’s kid nephew sneaking away with Rokkaku’s police issued gun. Masaki thinks Bikel and Walter deserve a spanking for that... E25 - The Bikel episode. Bikel's star-crossed romance with a young lady who is actually on a roaring rampage of revenge. Starts off as cracky, then legit touching.