#partially bc i like knowing i am liked bc of course but also. why would you do that to yourself lmao

[thecherrygod]

I've been having a specific thought all day and now it's 3 am so you know what that means <3

[renren-006]

Y'all did know? - Daryl x fem reader

Anon: i absolutely fucking love your fics, i read so many fanfics i don’t always remember authors but i for sure remember and recognize you and your work partially bc i reread it often❤️ after reading your last daryl fic at 4 am bc i couldn’t sleep i had an idea for a fic for him. what if it was slightly the opposite thing, like daryl and reader got together early on, maybe the knew each other before hand like reader was a bartender at merle’s favorite bar bc we all know daryl takes time to warm up to be ppl, and the cdc happens, while drinking they make their confession and get together officially, but readers like daryl with the fact they’re kinda shy and take a while to warm up to ppl so they don’t do pda and stuff publicly, not really intending to hide it but also not wanting the attention, and maybe they assume their ppl from their group know (this is where the set up for that last fic got me bc i can see this being a long timeline)......

original ask: Ask

a/n: hey anon!! i decided to copy some of what you wrote here but it was a massive request and I absolutely enjoyed reading it and writing it!!! thank you for the kind words!! you guys are why i love writing and helping make your stories become reality! hope you all enjoy reading it! word count: 3107

taglist: @rosecentury

Before World Ended:

You met the Dixon brothers a few years before the world ended. You were a bartender at a small driver's roadside bar off Atlanta I-85. You started working there after you graduated from college, hoping to make some money to put away to get out of Atlanta. 

Merle was always a loud drunk and a loud customer throughout the day. Daryl, however, was a kinder soul, apologizing for his brother before seating himself directly in the center of the bar area. The two of you chatted through your shift, mostly about who comes in, how his day was, and what the weather for the week would be like. It was small talk, but with the other rednecks checking you out, you felt comforted by him. Daryl never made any plans to put any moves on you in the three years he knew you, but when the world ended, and you almost got killed, he knew he had to.

"I like ya," he said aloud. You looked over at him. He was gazing up at the sky, a beer between his knees. You just sat there watching the man. 

“What the hell does that mean?” you asked, slightly annoyed. You not only had almost died by an undead customer, but also it was an undead customer. The idea that people could die and come back to life as something unlike themselves was utterly unbelievable. You watched blow you as that undead walked around without noticing you and Daryl on the bar's roof. Merle was blocking the rest of the bar to keep everyone out. All three of you knew you would have to leave soon, but it didn't matter; the summer breeze was still blowing, and the beer was still cold for now. 

“It means…ya almost died and the shit of the world, so… I like ya.”

“You are a master with your words,” you told him sarcastically. You've known Daryl for years now; the two of you spoke the same language with people. You were always shy, and Daryl just took a while to open up to people. You both were a lot alike, and that's what kept you together and attracted you to one another. “I like you too.”

GEORGIA:

The two of you never addressed your relationship with each other, not that anyone really needed to know. Nor did the two of you showcase it. Since both of you were shy and had a bit of a more rigid exterior about letting people in, you just figured when you were alone with each other was the time to be closer, but out in the world hand, holding, loving looks, and conversation were the way to go about it. 

Merle knew, of course; he figured it out quickly. He was the only one learning about the two of you and not caring. Daryl acted the same as he had, except he didn't dare flirt with you. Daryl had given him one look on the road when you walked ahead, and he was staring at your ass that he never tried again. Merle may be mean to Daryl, but he never would cross-touch what were his brothers. Everyone thought it was a word.

“He doesn't flirt with you, does he?” Andrea asked you a few months into living together. You shook her your head. “Weird, he never stopped with me.”

“Maybe you're just his type, Andrea.”

“And you're not? Anything with tits and an ass and Merles all over it,” she said to you, not noticing the slight touch of hands with Daryl as he walked by and the smile you gave. She kept running on about Merle's annoyance, not noticing anything else around her. 

FARM:

“You crazy bitch” you yelled towards Andrea. She had run over far behind your form and Ricks. The two of you dashed towards the fallen man without a second thought in your mind. You ran towards your man, who was lying in the grass, groaning in pain. Daryl was barely speaking in Rick's arms as they carried him off. 

“Don't worry, your man will be fine,” Shane said, keeping you from absolutely bashing Andreas' face in. She took one look at your anger and held her hands up, walking backward towards Dale. “Don't bite her head off for this.”

“Whatever,” you said, shoving him off and walking up towards the house, where Daryl was now being brought inside. You didn't even consider Shanes's words that day, “your man.” it never crossed your mind that he was teasing you. Shane was a dick; everyone knew it more recently. You could see Shane's vacant eyes glancing at everyone in a way that made your skin crawl. You thought the only reason he was acting like that towards you was this asshole was flirting. He knew you were taken, right? You were mistaken. 

ROAD AGAIN:

You handed over a can of soda to Daryl. You had only found two in the house you searched.  Surprisingly, the can was left in a cabinet, meaning you could drink it if you wanted to. Daryl and Rick approached you once they entered the house. They both came to help you in the bigger house. You placed the soda in Daryl's hand.

“It's not beer, but I know you'll enjoy it anyway,” you said to him before heading up the stairs. 

“She's sweet on you,” Rick said with a smile, teasing the man beside him about you as you skipped the last few steps. 

“I know,” Daryl said as he went to look for other things inside the house. Rick looked back and forth between the stars and where Daryl had gone off, too. He laughed slightly.

“Those idiots,” Rick said, thinking they both had no clue about the other's feelings when everyone else was oblivious to their known feelings. 

PRISON:

You stood on the watchtower, scouting the land ahead. Daryl and a few others had gone on another trip to look for supplies. You had your rifle on the railing as you watched, and then you set up their gear and trucks. Maggie slid in next to you. She watched you watch Daryl move around in the ground, setting up his motorcycle. He looked good down there; the way his body moved, his mussels, and even the way his hair was falling was driving you wild. Maggie caught a glimpse of you checking him out.

“You're so obvious,” she told you. You laughed slightly.

“Sorry,” you apologized; you knew you were obsessed with watching him, but how could you not? You’ve known Daryl for so many years now it was impossible not to watch or admire the man before you. You loved him, and he knew that. Daryl was also quite aware of your joys of watching him, sometimes he would put on more of a show of stretching or giving you those lustful eyes you knew would mean the two of you wouldn't get any sleep that night. It was his favorite thing to do to get you worked up throughout the day. 

PRISON:

Daryl knew he was forgetting something before he even shut the truck's door. He heard her voice before she even reached the hill in the Prison. 

“Wait.” Daryl glanced out the window of the truck, putting his arm out and waving. He knew she was smiling from that before her face popped up in his vision. “You forgot your water bottle!” Smiling up at him was you, his girl—Rick snickers from the seat beside Daryl. 

“Thanks,” He said, grabbing the water bottle from your hand, “saving my ass.”

“Always am,” you responded, giving him a wink. Have a safe trip out.” As you said it, you turned with a wave and walked back up the hill. Swaying our hips bit as you did, you gave Daryl a show that you knew would make him come back to you tonight with a mission. 

Daryl and Rick headed off on their scout to a new town they had spotted on the map, a few miles away from the other town they had picked clean. As the two looked around the houses, Daryl went through many jewelry cases for anything that might seem like something you would wear. Rick came in on him, picking through when he had found the perfect thing.

“She would love this,” Daryl said. Rick came up next to him, observing the (silver/gold) necklace with a bird on the end of the chain swinging in the air. 

“Do you think about anything but her?” Rick asked, laughing as he exited the room to look in the one next to it. Daryl chuckled and shook his head. No, you were always on his mind. 

Little did he know, Rick assumed Daryl had a massive crush on you, not that he had any suspicions you two were already together.

When they returned and Daryl was back sitting next to you on that mattress on the floor, he pulled out the necklace. 

“I found it,” he told you, handing it over to you so you could see it. “I know how much ya miss these types of things.”

“Haha, did you know I missed jewelry?” You asked him, shocked he somehow knew how much you missed having something to wear around your neck. He nodded his head.

“I knew, ya mentioned it a while ago. Been looking for something for ya”

“Daryl,” you said with admiration. He put it around your neck; the man who you had met in a bar all those years ago was now putting a necklace on your neck in a run-down prison at the end of the world. 

AFTER PRISON FALL:

“Daryl?” You said, besides Carol, who had just completed her job of destroying a massive facility of cannibal people. You had been with her, the girls, and Tyreese since the fall and had been so scared that Daryl didn't make it out of the prison. You had run out of the hut and left Tyrese once you heard the explosion. You had found Carol and walked over to the others and saw him. 

Daryl didn't hesitate to run straight for you. You hugged me so tight you felt the air in your lungs stop for a moment, but you didn't care.

“I miss ta. I thought ya died,” Daryl said as he clung to your body. He had gone through hell to fight and find you, and here you were, not a scratch on you and in his arms again. That necklace still hung around your neck, a form of commitment to the both of you about who you were with.

“I'm alive. I'm alive,” you said as you held the man in your arms. The others stood and watched your reunion, no one thinking anything- “Wow, they must care for each other a lot.”

Once he broke off the hug, it was like looking into the eyes of the world again. You could see color, purpose, and meaning. He was everything to you.

 

AFTER TERMINUS:

After the terminus, Daryl stuck to your side. The two of you walked together, ate together, slept near each other, and went on runs together. When Carol and Daryl went to Atlanta, so did you. 

“How long have you two been together?” she asked as you walked through another building in Atlanta. Daryl casually answered as he passed an office door with a walker trying to get out.

“Since Atlanta fell,” he answered. Carol stopped, turning back to the two of you.

“You've been together for more than three years?” She asked the two of you. “How did no one pick up on it?”

“Wait, what?” you asked, shocked, “How does no one know Daryl and me are together?”

“You two have never been very…affectionate,” she told the two of you. Darly glanced your way. The two of you laughed a little at that.

“Yea, that makes sense,” Daryl said. This was the moment the two of you started looking towards the others for any answers if they knew you were together. For the last few months on the road, getting to Alexandria yielded you the response that no one knew a thing. It caused a bit of agitation for the two of you about how maybe your attitudes about being affectionate were causing more harm than good. 

ALEXANDRIA:

Once you all had gotten settled in and jobs were assigned, you all started to try and live a normal life again.Since moving into the two houses, you shared a space with Miccone, Rick, Carol, Daryl, and the kids. You and Darly took a room downstairs along with Carol down the hall, and the rest were split in the rooms upstairs. No one questioned you staying with Daryl or even looked at the fact that there was only one king bed in that room with the two of you. 

While Darly was assigned to go on runs to look for people, you were assigned daycare and teacher duty at the house designated for the school. It kept you busy while Darly was away, and on the days you had off or no one showed, you hung around with Crol or took watch. Many days, you walked around the complex, taking in the signs and the ability to walk in peace. That was until one day.

“Hey, you're one of the women from the new group, right?” a man asked as you walked back to your shared house. You could see Daryl on the porch talking with Carol, but he had not seen you yet. 

“Uh yeah,” you said, continuing to walk back; the man pulled your arm to face him.

“You know it's rude to keep walking when someone is talking to you. Or did you forget that after living in the wild for so long?”

“I didn't forget anything; I just don't want to talk to you,” you told the man, shaking your arm out of his grasp and walking faster towards the house. Finally, you made eye contact with Daryl. The way his face looked, you knew it was because he had heard. The man didn't stop trying. 

“Hey, don't walk away from me,” he said, running back up to you, grabbing your arm so hard and pulling and making you stumble back. “What if I'm not good enough for you? Can’t a man ask a girl for some action or what?” he said, pulling you closer to him. 

“Stop it,” you yelled back, but you didn't have to fight hard. Daryl was a flash before being by your side, and the man's face was flush against his fist.

“Touch me woman again, and that's the least I'll do to ya,” he said. The man froze as he looked up at you from the ground. That was the day you realized the longer people didn't know either of you was together, the more people would try and come up to you, assuming you were not. 

Daryl went to bed that night, angry. You knew it wasn't towards you, but the coldness in the room made you feel like the world was ending if you and him couldn't be more open. 

ALEXANDRIA:

‘What if you two just got married?” Carol asked as she was cooking in the kitchen. You paused your reading from the chair in the living room to look into the kitchen at Carol. 

“What?’ You asked, shocked by her expression. She turned away from what she was cooking on the stove to talk to you. 

“Well, since the people in Alexandria won't take the hint you've taken, and Daryl's upset, and also the issue of our own family not knowing…maybe you should just go out, find some rings, and get married.”

“I…hadn't thought of that,” you told her. “You think Daryl would be okay with that?”

“I think Daryl is more on board with that idea than you think, y/n,” Carol told you. She knew about the distance that had been caused by the repetitive men hitting on you. The guy whose nose was broken never once tried to come up to you and denied anything happening with you when others asked. No one knew what Darly had said that day apart from those there. The decision was made, at least on your part. You stomped your way over to Aaron's house. When he answered the door, you stomped in. 

“Need Daryl,” was all you said before heading to the back of his house to the garage. There, Daryl's bike sat as he tinkered with it. You slammed the door open, causing Daryl's head to look towards the door. A shutter went through the house.

“The hell, woman..” Darly almost got out. 

“Marry me,” you said when he was almost done speaking. Daryl's mouth closed, looking at you. “Do you need me to repeat myself? Daryl Dixion, marry me.”

“Ya no, I heard ya y/n,” he said, standing up, “why?’

“Why? Because I love you, and no one can even tell I do or that we have been together for more than four years,” you told him, frustrated by the string of events of the past year. 

“You want to marry me?” Daryl asked, taking your face in his grease-covered hands.

“Yes,” you told him, smiling.

EVERYONE'S REACTIONS:

Rick was holding a dinner for the family that night. Carol completed a large spread, and everyone showed up. You and Daryl were late. When you showed up, the two of you were holding hands. Michone was the first to welcome the new development.

“You guys waited long enough,” she joked, causing other heads to turn. Daryl looked down at his feet, and you just let out a sigh.

“We didn't, though,” you told them. Everyone looked twords you two in confusion. 

“Didn't what?” Michone asked, clearly confused by what was happening. 

“We've been together for four years,” Darly said, “And we just got married to prove it.” He lifted his hand to show the gold band on his finger, and yours lifted as well, showing the (silver/gold) band with a few small diamonds on it. The two of you had found a jewelry store and had fun picking out your ring, while Darly wanted something simple. 

“Holy shit,” Abraham said. 

“Wait, what? '' Carl shouted, clearly confused about how his uncle had been together with you for so long, and he didn't know.

“Congratulations,” Carol answered. Everyone else was shocked. “Oh, I've known about them for a while.”

“Tonight's dinner story is how the two of you got together,” Rick said as he motioned for the others to sit, “And no one is leaving out any details.”

[sammygender]

thoughts on how the sam & dean part of the fight before sam left for stanford went !

i am addicted to thinking about precanon so thank you for this <33

i think people r generally way too optimistic about how that initial seperation between them went. dean is awful to sam about stanford even years after he left and years after he came back!! hes still very visibly angry about it in s5 which is NINE YEARS after he left in the first place and refuses to even tolerate the idea it was a good moment for sam. i cannot comprehend how people think 22 year old dean had the emotional maturity to even let sam go without a fight, nevermind be supportive about it.

like. theres this amazinggg art on here of sam hitchhiking to stanford and all the comments are like 'erm that black eye would be from JOHN actually!' (side note but it is so funny to me how spn fans decide john hit them based on implication (which i agree w... to an extent...) but dean hitting sam onscreen multiple times somehow translates to 'DEAN WOULD NEVER DO THAT'. erm. okay.) 'nooo dean would've given sam a lift!'

and like. what show are you watching. if dean would've given sam a lift he would've done it to the bus station in moody silence and then locked the doors of the impala so sam couldn't get out to catch his bus to stanford and they would've started physically fighting for the car keys and dean eventually wouldve let sam get them and sam wouldve left. or something. but it would not be some sweet brotherly moment bc that directly contradicts canon <3

i do think the worst of the fight is between sam & john - that's always what's implied in canon - and in my head dean's just standing there stonefaced maybe refusing to even talk to sam until theyre left alone somehow and he breaks. but i also think dean hits sam at some point, will always have the image in my head of sam showing up to stanford w a bloody nose and fending off questions. (internally hes like no my dad didnt do this it was my brother so its fine. <3.) theres a scene like this in one of my fics so im just drawing from that. but. like....

idk how dean/john finds out. if dean found out before john, i think dean probably wouldve run to him about it in an attempt to get sam Not To Go as much as it would be nice if he didnt, so i reckon they have to find out at about the same time. i think sam is unsure what to expect from dean, who of course (as far as we see both in flashbacks and in canon) alternates between genuine care and support and angry, desperate possessiveness. he probably hopes for the best and expects the worst and gets the worst.

there r definitely lots of different ways it could go....maybe sam tells dean and dean tells john. maybe sam tells john without telling dean at all and thats how dean finds out which totally wrecks him. maybe sam tells them both at the same time. maybe sam never tells them and they find the acceptance letter. this is why stanford fight is sooo fascinating. i feel like i could write five different versions of it and all would be possible/interesting.

but whichever way, i just dont see dean as contradicting john. he generally Doesnt Ever precanon, this is established, he admits it himself, thats why its such a huge moment when he defends sam at the end of s1.....sam going on about dean 'protecting him' is 1. more subtle and probably to do with dean being the one to shoulder most of johns emotional baggage than the heller misinterpretation of 'john hit dean but not sam and thats what this means!!!' (tho i am sure dean did genuinely Protect sam sometimes including from physical violence. of course he did. this isnt to discredit that..i just emphasise the Sometimes.). and 2. partially just classic Sam Rewriting History (u always protected me from dad, from lucifer....girl he did those things very little certainly not always. know your worth sam winchester).

so if dean gives sam a very angry lift (to a nearby bus station...there is absolutely zero fucking way hes driving him to stanford and tbh i already find this quite unlikely but possibilities r interesting) its on john's say-so or at least not disapproval. which like. sure maybe. john certainly is concerned about sam's safety even after he kicks him out, checking up on him at stanford etc, id believe that hed want to ensure sam Gets there even if the fight ended up so bad he told sam he couldnt come back. tho hes stubborn and i dont think hed say it. so maybe itd be a case of dean kind of picking up that that's what john wants and complying even though right now half of him wants to never see sam again and the other half wants to tie him to the radiator so he can never leave. sorry i am literally brainstorming fic ideas in this ask answer now.

anyway....SORRY id say long ass answer as always but this is actually INSANELY long......sorry guys im about to embark upon getting tested for adhd and maybe then my rambles will be, while not shorter in length, more cohesive? tldr fandom is wrong dean is an absolute ASS during stanford fight. obviously sam leaving devastates him and how does dean cope with devastation or perceived abandonment do we think?? hm?? he is just as angry as john for the same and different reasons. and thats really so much more interesting than him being Secretly Supportive. <3

[alwaysyouuuuuu]

So i was thinking about your Wolfstar Marvel AU again (it should pay rent with how much it's spinning around my head) and like,,,, Sirius not having any kind of closure about Remus,,, he doesn't know what happened to him, they never found a body or any traces of him and then he was pronounced dead and Sirius just. Doesn't know. He doesn't even know why they took Remus in the first place. And he probably feels guilty about it too (bc ofc he would!!!). Just, the lack of closure of it all, the big question mark haunting him, up until 70+ years later when he's face-to-face with Remus again (I'm loving it)

Hi hi hi!!!! 💕💕💕 Thank you so much for the ask! I am so happy we both find it consuming haha and I agree. AU needs to start paying me hourly wages for just how much it keeps me up and wondering at night. I would be in tears and at the end of my wit, if I had to do just part of this research in school (I was not into history or any literature for school, and that's putting it mildly.) and now I do this willingly lol.

You know one of those, "I'm so glad you asked"- *7 hour long vm* memes? I fear this will end up like that. Bear with me.

Before we get into that, I'll clear up some background? So Remus was first taken along with a lot of their troop (ambush?), and they were partially injected (plot reasons plot reasons!! I feel like you can guess why!!) and the Sirius and co rescued them etc etc. And then Remus was targeted specifically.

So before the permafrost, I feel the situation was very bad for Sirius. For one, he would have agreed to the Serum in the first place because Remus was in captivity (also for the war effort, of course, but to Sirius, at that point there really was no room for question which may have been there otherwise), and then he got Remus back. Just to lose him again.

And then, to the Military and almost everyone else, Hope and Lyall Lupin lost a son, but Sirius Black lost a fellow soldier. He lost a comrade. Sure, they were friends, so him being vengeful is believable, to an extent. And no one really gets the blank look in his eyes, after.

I believe there was a quote that went like, "Should you lose a spouse/partner, there is a shared understanding of the relationship, but when you lose a friend, there's no tangible evidence, no widely acknowledged way to mourn."

Except, for Sirius, he did lose his partner, love of his life and dearest friend of so many years. And no one understands. Maybe James and Lily know, but it is the 40s. Realistically, they are quiet about it at best. For him it is both, and all the more painful. And he doesn't get exactly why Remus was targeted either. Remus was at an integral position in the OSS, unusual for his age, recruited at the very beginning, one of the sharpest minds, so it could have been that. And god, he was cold blooded when he got to fighting. But of course, he cannot shake the feeling that it was because of him.

So, in that time, the days he spent looking for Remus with James and Lily, (which really wasn't much, they would not have been allowed to!) he is partially cynical. Not to the point of self-blaming but enough to self-destruct. James tries to get him out of it, but Lily grits her teeth. She doesn't say much, because she understands, I believe, how much at that point he just wants it to end.

*BAM* permafrost.

After he gains consciousness, he would have blanked out for a while, because what even is this? But he doesn't, because after the first few excruciating minutes, when the blood is pounding in his chest, looking at every flash of light, every building and car that look unnatural, really, the first thing he processes is Moody telling him that the War is over. Good, at least something went well, he thinks.

They tell him many soldiers were rescued, because that's the first thing he asks. After it sinks in, he wants to hope, and maybe he does. Because this is real, he can see it. As outlandish as it is, he is in the future. If this can be real, how foolish would it be to hope that maybe Remus made it too? He would be old, and he would have lived his life. Maybe with someone else, and that's okay. If he gets to see him one more time, Jesus, it's okay.

They tell him what happened with HYDRA and his family. They tell him about James Potter and how he revolutionized weapons, they tell him about Lily Potter, who later went on to join the NSA. God, he gets fucking giddy hearing all of that, because it worked out. For someone, it did. For James and Lily, it did. He wants to meet Harry.

And he starts to have a nagging thought, because with how they speak of and to him, maybe they would have mentioned his known childhood friend. And Remus was known to his own credit.

So he asks, slowly about one Remus Lupin?

And lo and behold. They know of him of course, of course, he was Captain America's best friend. But nothing was known of him post war.

He tries to hold his face and nods, but Moody gives him a strange look. Tells him that he'll look into it for him. He tamps it down, though, there is no point in a wishful fantasy. He would have begged Moody if required, but there really is no point. And he doesn't think he can open his mouth without saying something incriminating.

Moody offers him the initiative, of course, but they tell him to take a breath, see the world, find himself first. And he does, he takes a few days. But then he gets time to think about it, to mull things over, to reevaluate his last choices. When he is trying to ease into the new world, he is busy, things are overwhelming. But once he gets home, he spirals. He remembers how panicky he had been during the first rescue mission. He had been desperate. And what if that clued them in? There were others in the OSS. So why just Remus?

It had to be him.

So he throws himself into missions, trains hard, exhausts himself so doesn't have to think. He does what he's always been doing, he helps SHIELD and doesn't question much, because he is still processing. Some things stick out but one can only handle so much, yeah? Besides, James and Lily were the co-founders.

He finds out. Well. Many things about his past and it's just so much (I'll stop or this itself will spiral to 3k.)

I feel he's quite mercurial at times in these days. Unsettled, but he keeps going. He drinks sometimes, gets shit faced. Those days are increasing, really.

Then he meets Elena.

And there is something striking about her. Such a young girl, and he can see it in her eyes that she has seen a lot. Too much. He sees himself in her. And he is protective. He is maybe a little taken aback. Because she seems so much... like an old soul.

And Elena is drawn to him too. She opens up, slowly, slowly, which she doesn't normally. But he is fiery. Like her. And they mostly have the same stances. She doesn't speak of her childhood, and so he doesn't ask. She does mention she had a dad, and though seemingly not for long, she remembers her name from him.

She seeks out his company and it soothes something in him. I feel he's a little more settled? With time? I mean it's hard to pity yourself when there is someone dragging you out to bowl and join soccer clubs, when that someone is a loner too. Even though thinking of Remus' hurts a little more each day, because he feels that Elena and Remus would get along so well. Man she even fights like him.

So when he sees Remus again, it is whiplash of the worst kind. Remus is just there. Because it is Remus and it is not, and he is standing there just staring because this Remus even fights the same. And he sees Elena standing frozen there, and it suddenly hits him that she looks... like Remus.

Except for her eyes and it is like he is watching everything from afar. All he can do try to hold Remus back. Until Neville flies them away.

Because what has his life come to?

Elena is not responding. She is not even looking at him. And Sirius is thinking a thousand miles an hour. I think he'd find out everything he can about whoever this Winter Soldier is.

Before they finally bring R in for questioning I feel S would be overcome with guilty and longing and a lot of painful confusion, really.

And mostly, Sirius is guilt ridden. Remus was in there, with them doing who knows what to him, for 70 years? He never deserved that. Sirius was outwardly rebellious. It was his family helping fund HYDRA. And then there's Elena. Is Elena Remus'? Because how in the world did Remus manage to have a kid while he was trapped in a facility?

There is something really cool about her name. if you look closely.

Outside of his blackouts, Remus solely spoke Russian to everyone around him for 70 years right? So it seems logical that's what he'd speak to elena in that environment, mind controlled half the time etc, before they were separated (she was like. 7) and he'd find it a little difficult to slip into English again, or that's what Elena thinks. So when he demands to meet her first, she storms in, defensive stance (Sirius is standing right outside by the way) but Remus just blinks. Because they said it was Elena Chernova. But it's not. It's Helena Black.

And Sirius just. Dies a little.

Basically. He is spiralling.

So is this, so I'll stop here.

Based on this post. + snippet.

[varlaisvea]

this is a post about my OCs

i have to make a post about my OCs for an exchange. so here it is.

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The Story

the closest i have to OCs are characters of the longfic i've been working on, which is currently titled Palimpsest. Here's a post which summarizes The Story So Far, and also gives a little background on this ~spicy portrait (nsfw-ish but sft) I drew of the two main characters. This is the only real visual reference I have for them and it's not great. Sorry about that. But, I included some imagery in the posts for each of them.

right now I have two good problems, but big problems. first, zerith-var's story fits thematically with mine very beautifully, so his existence has thrown a wrench into what i had planned for the story. second, this exercise of trying to make a post about my OCs intensified that crisis further... i don't really know what the story is about, right now! it'll be fine, probably!

anyway, I mostly have the two main characters fleshed out, but I have some other characters in the story who have interesting back stories, so I'll try to post them too. But let's start with the main characters.

In General

Perhaps it is problematique on tumblr dot com to make your OCs conventionally attractive, but sorry: while i am attracted to ever so many body types, as a power lifter, I love toned muscles. a lot of my OCs, including both main characters, are toned and notably muscular, but not beefy or dehydrated-looking. muscular like people who work at physically demanding jobs, maybe.

systemic gender oppression doesn't really exist in 2nd Era tamriel, which means there's no real need for the concept of queerness—people are what they are and love who they love, and it's not notable. my characters do not contemplate their gender/sexuality (why would they?), but by real-world standards, pretty much all of my OCs are bisexual/nonbinary—I consider this sort of the default in a world w/o gender oppression. of course they have tastes and preferences, but it doesn't really occur to them to classify/define/identify themselves by their tastes. however, all the friendships/relationships depicted in my story have a distinctly queer flavor. obviously. sometimes it can't be avoided, but in general i avoid using gendered terms (beyond pronouns) or identifying characters by their gender, as those terms mean totally different things in a world without structural misogyny. anyway. at any rate, both of my main characters are explicitly 'queer' as in they are both depicted having relationships with people of many genders.

Them

The main characters' story takes place in the 2nd Era (ESO), but they feature heavily in the 4th Era (Skyrim) portion of the story. Their pages reference each other, but some information is repetitive, bc I wanted the individual pages to be able to stand alone, too.

Eymei Gwylanwe (she/her) — Altmer psijic witch from Sunhold. Healer, teacher, and practitioner of the Old Ways. Maaayyybe kindasorta partially responsible for the Great Collapse. Born under the sign of The Ritual.

Araszha-dar (he/him) — Khajiit siphoning mage from Riverhold. Later becomes the first Khajiit Arch-Mage of the College of Winterhold. Appears in the 4th Era timeline as a spirit with very little memory of his life; he is indifferent about this fact. Born under the sign of The Lover.

More later i guess!

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Honestly idk I have like a lot like A LOT of unresolved insecurities and rlly weird thought about masculinity, but uhh context is I am a trans man and I have ocd and it can lead to really messed up assumptions

Like this is far from the first time that I'm learning that something I've been obsessing over so much that I just kinda believed it to be true is actually not and i just let my intrusive thoughts win. And most ppl don't think like that, actually

Sorry for the weird ask, i think i do a good job at figuring out those things most of the time bc it's ridiculous (ALWAYS like not a single instance when it wasn't a delusion) but I also read mostly TERF content when I was still figuring it out so maybe it just stuck with me? (Kinda TMI tbf but I had like a couple months straight where it kept me up at night and I would get gender disforia until I manged to finally shut my brain down one way or another)

Anyway this actually eye opening so I'm gonna write it down and talk to my therapist abt it

Again, sorry 😞

Didn't mean to give you a glimpse of my mind, it's a terrible place to see on a good day

honestly anon i think *all* of this is TMI but like im kinda fascinated that you actually came in and just told me all this ngl im very impressed

genuinely don't really know how to respond to this other than telling you my stance on the whole zhongchi/zhongchili thing? not as in like. admonishing you or anything. more- since you mentioned struggling w those things. if nothing else the post where i mention it is buried who knows where lmao

sparing the rest of you with a cut

now this is probably partially because ive been in fandom spaces for like. upwards of ten years now. but ive always been an advocate for unique ship names, as opposed to just the character's names mashed together or putting an 'x' in the middle

aside from the fact that i just think this closes people in on having to stick to one or the other (AxB or BxA for example) and thus keeps them from exploring different facets of the characters, this also, as you've probably realized, just- perpetuates the idea that people HAVE to be one or the other. there's no room for nuance. straight ships of course have their own trove of issues for this, but at least (whether for better or worse, mostly worse if you ask me) people there have a more general consensus on woman-bottom man-top. but for mlm wlw ships? since it's usually two men or two women, people lose that sort of- taken-for-granted system of deciding who tops or bottoms, and so they start going on sketchy territory trying to decide which traits will make the characters in these senarios which role. this obviously usually just results in feminine traits being associated with womanhood and therefore bottoming and masculine traits -> manhood -> topping. which is all bs if you ask me but that's beside the point

this all gets even more cumbersome when, as is the case for me, you don't even write sex scenes. or anything sexual for that matter (intentionally). so why should any of us care whose dick is going where if no dicks are ever going to matter. the most these idiots are gonna do is make out. do we want to assign top/bottom dynamics to kissing? i personally don't. what about the nuance if we do? it vanishes. it becomes boring. we go right back to the childish notion of dominating -> masculine -> man -> dick in hole -> top. isn't that super trite? where's the room for more interesting variation, more characterization? nothing wrong with a character following that exact ruleset, but shit gets boring real quick if that's all we do. and as you're likely far more aware than i am, anon, it becomes harmful for ourselves irl

this is my main gripe w ship names like AB and AxB. i use them because i am one person and unlikely to change established fanon at this point, but if i could, boy would i love to propose we start actually being creative about ship names. i was so pleasantly surprised when people started calling mualani/kinich 'pixelshark'. like?? 1) that's so fucking cute and 2) i don't immediately think who tops or who bottoms. yes you can make the argument that this is still in a kinich top mualani bottom order, but it's a massive improvement from like. kinilani. or something.

so when people ask whether i write chili or zhongchi, i wish i could just tell them neither. i couldn't give less of a fuck as to who you think is putting their dick where. it gets all the more... odd, when people assume it's one or the other based on the dynamic i present, which again always circles back to combinations or variations of masculine -> dick in hole -> top. this is of course not to fault anyone for how they perceive my fics! we've started using zhongchili here because it sort of combines both and thus leaves you thinking what is actually going on. like afaik zhongchili isn't used to specify one or the other? we have zhongchi and chili/tartali for that. idk where you got that from anon imma be real

but the point is that i wish i could avoid this mess altogether. i wish i could just put 'marriage chopsticks' or whatever in the ship name and speficy sex dynamic if needed. i wish the fandom would agree to always list ship names in alphabetical order so we could list childe/zhongli for tag purposes and not have to debate who's bottoming

but oh well

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not on anon because i am a brave little boy . but i really love your adventure forward point designs, they might be my favorite depictions of them ! are you fine with me asking what inspired them? theyre very inspiring to me personally and i'd like to know your thought process on them %]

yes. of course. i love having autism. i’ll organize it in a little list because otherwise it would be 26 pages of me talking about nothing

General point things:

- all (non-pure) points have a mask with their point on them. they’re like fused to their face or whatever. i wanted it to reinforce the theme of identity, and the points having used to be people before this.

- the pure points are all based on an object. passless is a roll of film, morward is a crystal ball, yawgate is a star gate, and voixer is a crack. it was originally unintentional, but after designing morward and yawgate i realized it would be awesome.

- points and how human they look generally connect to how closely they feel human. in my mind the points shapeshift based on their state of mind. it’s slow. you can see it best with ulipse and ixol i think, since those are the two who i feel are the most other-ed by the other points (mainly cyalm) for the majority of the game. i think the only one who doesn’t really follow this rule is arrolin, but yknow what arrolin can be a dragon bc they are awesome.

- color pallets were mostly limited to a point’s gradient and symbol color. There was def some shifting for the more neon points (why does arrolin have to have such a bright red and green bro) and accent colors were added for others (ulipse is all purple/blue basically. i’m not cursing them like that)

- a lot of aspects are inspired by other designs. the pure points esp were directly inspired by gaycyalm’s pure point designs. because they are AWESOME !!! i don’t remember who inspired what for most other points so uhm woops

going in order now

shallare:

- unfortunately not a lot to say. they’re a very basic design. prolly my most basic.

- they’re just a mechanic i dunno what to tell you.

- though, the one detail i like is their background on their apron.

- i was going to redesign them at some point, i had a few sketches. the main difference was that they had a prosthetic arm that was like cobbled together and powered by a big ass battery on their back. it’s awesome. maybe i’ll draw it again idk

signol:

- unfortunately also one of my more basic designs. neither of these two have much to work with personality wise. which sucks. i love shallare.

- they have an outfit associated with jazz. the buttons on their outfit are their symbol. not much else to point out sorry 💔

compale:

- ok this one is actually fun

- compale a outfit is inspired by inuit clothing. everything about is almost taken from it directly, in fact.

- the thing that hangs from compales waist that i can’t remember the name of has part of a compass, and is supposed to represent the north star.

- i will be so honest i didn’t realize anything about compale’s symbol changed in their true form. i thought their gradient just swapped. and that’s why i didn’t design a true form for them. wooos

ploque:

- besides the obvious woodworker things, i think the only thing i can point out is that they have a saw shaped hair tie and that’s awesome. sorry ploque fans

anshine:

- obvious angel motif, shares a similar halo with the angels themselves

- anshine is FAT and a TRANS WOMAN!!!!!! because i LOVE THEM!!!

- like genuinely anshine and maynot are number 1 trnasgenders. i really wish that in the game about identity that we got at least one person who was trans. because why wouldn’t we.

- i wanted purposefully to stay away from the mayor outfits other people had on their anshine designs at least partially for this reason. and also because i feel like it’s a bit silly ascending your city into Actual Heaven and then Not getting a sick outfit change.

- anshine is the only other character i’d say breaks the ‘relation to humanity = how human you look’ rule, because i didn’t have it in mind yet, but i think the idea of humanity itself changed over time for them thanks to seeing humanity literally evolve in front of their eyes

ulipse:

- ok. this is a big one.

- ulipse has a lot of goat theming (boots and horns being the main part). this is mainly due to how i bee ulipse as having a low self esteem and in a way demonizing themselves to the point where they literally show ‘demonic’ features

- ulipse outfit is representative of how close off they are, you can’t see much of their body and they wear clothes that are loose fitting so things like their arms are hard to make out, They’re hard to make out

- i didn’t have reference of how the pre-points looked as i was designing the points and i thought umbra had a pony tail, which inspired the smoke thing on ulipse’s head

- ulipse’s true form almost literally has them breaking out of their shell. they show a lot more skin, their hair is taken down, truely another Transgender™️ moment

(fun fact: apparently me and voixyy (i think that’s how you spell their name) had the same idea when it comes to ulipse’s horns. i don’t think we were inspired by the other but it was really funny looking at the wishing stars au blog and seeing just Mh Fucking Guy)

mino:

- i don’t like my mino design that much. i will be truthful. i like mino a lot but they’re prolly the most boring design of mine.

- main inspirations were lego and r15 roblox characters

- mino is teeny because it would make it easier to reach into the small spaces in their machinery. and because it was funny.

- i don’t draw it often but mino has a whole gaggle of gadgets they use to make communication easier. mostly screens that project them that move around near eye level and drone like things (similar to dr.egg man ig) that carry them

arrolin:

- obviously took a lot of inspiration from a specific chinese outfit which i cannot remember the name of at this moment

- i deliberately avoided giving arrolin wings because the chinese dragons i had seen never had them and i wanted to remain accurate to that. they can still fly tho. because they deserve it.

ixol:

- so let’s start off with the fact ixol’s a freak

- they are the person who is most disliked in the emporium by a long shot, for mostly sound reasons.

- over time being isolated from like. living people and abstract beings being your main company. i think you’d get fucked up too

- i think ixol is really the only point that can shapeshift when they want. i think it’s a good way to represent how ixol’s mind is ‘broken’ or whatever.

- they do use it just to fuck with people. btw.

- they don’t use the normal form i had drawn them with in the original reference like. ever. it was mostly just to fuck with the 2ss.

- i wanted at one point to redesign ixol. or like reimagine what parts of them look like because god. they are a little boring. but i for the life of me could not figure out what to change. this id just the perfect ixol in my mind i guess

naen and solgon

/ they get to share this because they’re boring and i don’t like them

- i know someone pointed it out when i first showed off their designs. but on they’re little belt chain things solgon has little power up charms and naen had 8 red coins and a star. because i thought it was funny

- these two took the most inspiration from other designs. because i don’t like them and i had no clue what to give them.

- i very intentionally avoided any kinda ‘money hungry ceo’ or ‘super fancy rich guy’ aesthics that i saw other people have. because naen. doesn’t do that???? like they’re just a cashier idk where people get the idea they have the money to afford fancy clothes. bro is paid minimum wage

- both of them do try to look fancier then they actually are tho. mainly in their matching top hat headbands.

- solgon has a bunch of punctuation littered across their design. idk why solgon has punctuation in their background but it gave me Something to work with so i’ll take it.

yawgate:

- as i mentioned before they were inspired by gay cyalm’s design (and are the pure point most heavily inspired)

- was an object before being an object was cool

- fingers are very much inspired by peridot of steven universe fame. cause why not

- i really like my yawgate but i don’t have much to say about them,.. i sorry 💔

morward and passless:

- they get to share this one not because i don’t like them but because they have a grand total of 10 text boxes between them

- these ones took me so long to get right bro. it was so bad.

- passless’ body was based off those old baby dolls, the ones with the plush body and like porcelain limbs and morward’s is a lava lamp

- they are very much supposed to contrast each other as much as possible due to the past/future theming. passless is round and morward is sharp. morward is a skinny fuck while morward is a fat fuck. you get it. they are like mario and luigi only cooler

voixer:

- man i mean they of the hour

- i went through a lot of iterations when making voixer. originally they were going to be based on an ink bottle instead of a crack but i couldn’t figure out how to do it in a way i thought fit them well.

- i’m still not entirely sure about the crack idea either. but i really cannot think of anything better of them.

- i wanted to make sure their true form literally showed the piece of cyalm they were forced to have in them.

- it’s like a self made mockery

cyalm/celesteal:

- this bitch

- so the main point of cyalm’s normal form is to lure the 2ss into a sense of safety. like cyalm is someone who can be trusted without a doubt

- the bath robe is supposed to be kinda hiding their actual clothing, though you can still see it despite how (poorly) cyalm tries to hide it.

- unlike the other points also, you can see the strap holing cyalm’s mask on.

- cyalm’s second form is mainly just a transition between forms. not much to say unfortunately.

- celesteal.

- based mostly on fencing outfits, meant to look as different from cyalm as possible. any stars that were on cyalm’s outfit are replaced with their symbol. bc really it was all about them from the start.

- in my mind celesteal’s mask is shattered after the first phase. hence, showing off what they really look like

stratosfear:

- i leaned very heavily into the scorpion theme because god they really only used it for the tail. their outfit is directly based off scorpion anatomy

- they have a bunch of scars across the entirety of their body meant to represent the weird slash things on their af1 design

- i totally didn’t realize strat was Blue when designing them. i thought they were like fully grey. but i like my design too much to change it.

bonus things (guys that aren’t points or aren’t in af2 but i wanna talk about anyways)

red x:

- as you might have noticed cyalm doesn’t follow the pure-point rule of being based on an object. dont worry! church+stained glass window be upon ye!

- i planned at some point to mess w/ celesteal’s design to be more in line with red x, but i never finished it. it’s sick tho trust

verfextion:

- i don’t like how verfection was planned to be in vain revival. i think having a second stratosfear would’ve been boring and it would’ve contradicted the fact cyalm was the only person who could turn people into points

- my version of verfection is a 2ss who feels like they have failed, running away from the points and hiding their identity so they don’t have to face their mistakes head on. when the possibility of cyalm returning comes they are quick to make sure that they don’t fail again.

- their outfit stay mostly the same. but unlike the other points they don’t have an unatural skin tone and their mask has a strap. because they aren’t a point.

blueband:

- what if we took maynot and made her evil. wouldn’t that be fucked up or what.

- i have always had the opinion that blueband is a creation of cyalm’s. i don’t care what the wiki says they don’t cite their SOURCES!!!

- as such i made him look like maynot. because i think it would be a very celesteal thing to make someone who looks like ur dead gf give you the task that dooms you

pre-point things:

- despair, cynocurna and umbra are gods. of destruction, winter, and the moon specifically. because i thought it was like the easiest explanation as to why they’re stronger than the other points.

- umbra looks normal because they ran away from their duties sorryyyy

- they also all have a bird theming in their true forms. despair being the most apparent since they are literally a harpy

- all the other pre-points are as normal as normal can be. like actually half of them are just like cashiers.

- also half of them are transgender

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okay okay okay so I held back on this one because I asked alternate already BUT. can you put Gene and Cassidy in a sci-fi story. what would they wear what are their roles do you have scene snippets or dialog? sci-fi is my favorite thing ever and as always feel free to ignore if this isn't the vibe!!! i love you bug /p!!!!!

OHOHOHOHOHHOH SETH I LOVE U /P

i am all for a sci-fi vibe. even if star wars is TECHNICALLY a space opera, i love love love the space setting and i would be DELIGHTED to talk about it.

im gonna word vomit on the page first and them ill try my hand at a few drabbles in this au. strap in for ANOTHER very long post. THANK U AGAIN SETH I LOVE UR ASKS I TRULY CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF THEM /GEN

okay so. since i'm only really well-versed in star wars sci-fi concepts, this is going to be a vaguely star wars inspired au but i'll try to phrase it in a way thats more applicable to sci-fi in General (its always so fun to translate their jobs and personalities into different settings)

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we'll start with gene. idk why but i'm getting very much a bounty hunter vibe from him. like someone who maybe works for a larger organization or guild hunting down notorious criminals (i mention that he works for an Entity bc i think its sort of important that he doesnt choose his bounties himself. he gets them assigned)

i think he would still do it out of a sense of responsibility because he doesn't think bad people should just be running around like that, but also because. a man's gotta make a living. he's gotta pay the bills.

i can see him having his own little ship that he practically lives out of considering how much he travels, and i feel like he'd get very attached to his ship (much like calliope. sorry calliope you've become a spaceship in this au)

OMG AND ALSO A THOUGHT IS BEING BEAMED INTO MY HEAD.

he wears a mask. you can't see his face when he's out doing jobs. he conceals his face, partially because he doesn't want people to see when hes scared or smug or anything like that and partially for the Swag.

that brings me to his overall outfit. i believe in my heart of hearts that gene would wear something like this (i wish i could credit the artist but i couldnt find it)

except instead of an entire helmet, it would be more of just a black piece of cloth pulled loosely over his mouth and nose. and im also seeing him in a very wide brimmed hat that he can tilt down to Brood pls tell me you guys see the vision.

he'd have a little revolver-looking blaster and knowing him, it'd be set to stun. i don't think he really enjoys bringing people in cold, and does his best to avoid it when he can

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OK now onto cassidy. my beautiful darling boy silver. my sweetiepie.

it was kind of difficult to translate his profession into this setting because. it involves more people other than him.

ultimately i decided that, similar to the modern au, he is a part of an underground business, kind of like a rebellion of sorts, that fight against the injustices of the galaxy robin-hood style. of course, montana is the leader (unfortunately) and cassidy is essentially his right hand man

i can see cassidy traveling planet to planet, dismantling corrupt governments, providing for the needy, and having an absolute blast doing it, but his methods are. very illegal. and there is a growing bounty on his head.

nearly every major government wants specifically him locked away for life because of the destruction he's caused, and of course they hire the very best bounty hunter around to track him down.

and of course cassidy is a slippery fellow

cue their little cat and mouse thing they've got going on. gene wants to catch him because if he does, he'd practically be set for life. cassidy runs away because, well. he has a job to do. he can't get caught, especially by the weirdly attractive masked dude that talks to his spaceship.

and lastly, here is what i think cassidy's fit would vaguely look like:

he loves ponchos he can't help it. they're too comfy.

he too would have a little revolver-blaster thing and of course, his knife and hat. one thing that it different is the stolen jewelry. i decided that instead of stealing jewelry from the awful people, he takes mechanical/droid parts for his little buddy that he keeps around named SC-071-1 (haha. ahaha get it. please tell me someone gets it.)

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OK ONTO THE DRABBLES AND SNIPPETS! you get 3 because im feeling Generous /pos. here in the first little snippet for you. this is the two meeting in a bar and not wanting to make a scene (gene tracked him there) (i just wanted to write a silly tense scene)

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Cassidy heard Gene before he saw him.

The man was always stomping around in a way no one could quite replicate. His footsteps were deliberate, cold, and unmistakable.

And they were right behind him.

The business end of a blaster was suddenly pressed into Cassidy's ribs and his mouth went dry.

"I'll have a Jet Juice. On the rocks."

Gene tossed the bartender a coin, to which he grumbled indignantly and began on the drink.

Cassidy risked a sideways glance at the bounty hunter. His expression was unreadable and hidden as always, and he didn't even turn to look at Cassidy. Instead, Gene leaned close and spoke lowly into his ear.

"Make a scene and you're dead. Try to run and you're dead. Turn on your comm and you're dead. Am I clear?"

Cassidy smirked, and mocked a salute. "Loud 'n clear, sir."

Gene gave a curt nod and turned to the bar. The bartender slid him his drink, which he downed in one go, and he was just about to order another when--

He sputtered when he felt something pressed into a certain.. important area. He blanched.

"Didn't say anything about fightin' fire with fire, did you, cowboy?" Cassidy grinned. The sight of the big bad bounty hunter squirming because his family jewels were threatened never got old.

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DRABBLE 2 HERE WE GO. this one is gene finding cassidy after a mission gone sour. cassidy was effectively abandoned by montana with the promise that he would come back for him.

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The whole mission was a bust from the beginning.

Cassidy should have known. He had a gut feeling-- that it was some sort of trap specifically designed for the organization. When he brought it up to Montana, he said that it was just Cassidy being paranoid. And, of course, he believed him. He always did

And now, there he was, beaten within an inch of his life and left to the elements by the government higher-ups.

They really didn't like people messing with their system.

Cassidy took a labored breath for what felt like the millionth time. Each time it was getting harder. His arms were pinned awkwardly above his head and to fill his lungs, he had to pull himself up. It quickly became exhausting.

The worst part was the cold. Montana had mentioned that this planet's average temperature was a little below what Cassidy was used to, but he didn't mention that the city they were infiltrating was located near the northern pole of the planet.

It was freezing.

Cassidy had long since stopped shivering.

He let his head loll forward. He wasn't sure he had the strength to wait for Montana anymore. He wasn't sure he had the strength for anything anymore. Even keeping his eyes open seemed a monumental task.

So, he let them fall shut.

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When he woke up, it was because he registered his center of gravity tilting on it's axis.

There was a body pressed against his. And it was warm.

If he had any remaining strength, he would have clung to his rescuer like there was no tomorrow. Instead, he settled for letting his head fall against the person's chest as he let out a pitiful whine.

A hand chafed up and down his shoulder. "Just relax. We'll get you warm. Don't you dare try to run off, Silver."

He wouldn't dream of it. Not when he could feel himself melting to putty in the arms of this stranger.

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LAST DRABBLE it's gene's turn. in this au he has spasthma (space asthma) and sometimes it hinders his job in Not good ways. and cassidy isn't heartless.

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Cassidy really wasn't thinking when he threw the smoke bomb. All he knew was that the damned bounty hunter was catching up and he needed to throw him off.

He did not expect him to fall to his knees with a guttural coughing fit.

It would have been so easy to leave him there to rot, to hop in his ship and escape without looking back.

But when did Cassidy ever take the easy way out?

"Shit," He hissed, darting back to where Gene was kneeled with a palm supporting him on the ground.

He was clutching at his chest, choked gasps leaving him intermittently. His eyes looked vaguely panicked.

"C-Can't--" He wheezed, getting cut off by another coughing fit. He looked as if he was about to topple over.

Cassidy caught him by the arm and dragged him away from the busy street. He propped him up against an wall tucked into an alleyway and began rummaging around in his bag.

One of the younger kids with the Montana's crew had the same condition with all the same symptoms Gene was having right now. The kid was pretty forgetful, and Cassidy always made sure he had an extra rebreather on him. Just in case.

Gene was going to owe him big time.

His fingers finally grazed what he was looking for and he yanked it out, fumbling to get it open. He shook the small canister and pressed it to Gene's lips.

"You have to puff. Just try, okay? Just a little." Cassidy grabbed Gene's hand and placed it on his chest, exaggerating his own breathing to show him what to strive for.

Gene hiccuped slightly before taking a flimsy inhale. He breathed out and tried at it again, and found it gradually got easier.

When he could finally take a deep breath, he collapsed against the wall, panting. His hand didn't leave Cassidy's chest.

"Thank-- thank you," He whispered.

Cassidy smiled.

"Does this mean I get a headstart now?"

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SETH thank you SO VERY MUCH for this ask and this au. i think i may like it more than their original au GOD i love them so so so much FHDJKFH. thank u for the requests and as always PLS dont be afraif to send more if the mood striked you but no pressure ofc! /gen

hope you enjoy my rambling bc this post was LONGGGGG

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hey rae!! just wanted to thank u for ur fics and ur blog -- first thing i check every morning lmaoo. (pls ignore the previous anon btw -- ur very consistent with ur fic and very active on tmblr -- and even if u weren't,, well its wip -- i think ppl forget that fic writers arent content machines loll)

ANYwaysss,, i loved the lastest chapter in ATWMD!! i was one of those ppl who though that sirius and dorcas were gonna be having sex so imagine my excitement when i realised it was wolfstar!! *chefs kiss* but sirius has no idea omg the angstt that would occur if sirius does ever find out omg.

Speaking of dorcas tho, I remember u answering an ask saying that she doesn't want to be pregnant. and we know that throughout the fic she clearly does not want to get married and she also sneaks out a lot. Out of curiosity,, well we ever find out what's going on with Dorcas? Why doesn't she want to get married? why does she not want to get pregnant?? what's going on with her??? Or is that aspect simply not relevant to the story? (that's completely fine btw,, I've just been headconning that dorcas is out sleeping with marlene but idk if that's just my post-thtf brain lmao))

anyways thanks for everything!! ur literally my role model <3

thank u lol appreciate the kind words etc <3 <3

& as far as dorcas goes. well the main reason that she does not want 2 get married & get pregnant is that she's a lesbian lol. like gay marriage does not exist within pureblood culture in this fic (& even if it does she might not want 2 get married) & she doesn't wanna get pregnant partially bc she doesn't wanna have the kind of sex that would lead 2 pregnancy but also bc she simply. is a person who does not want 2 get pregnant ever like even if she was w a gf who could get her pregnant she wouldn't wanna have a baby lol. so i mean all that is just part of her character in this fic.

however there is indeed some stuff going on w dorcas aside from all that so. currently i am planning 2 reveal eventually what's up w her...unless of course i change my mind & take the fic in a different direction etc. but yeah glad the hints r being picked up on etc...glad i have successfully managed 2 plant the seed of "hey is something going on w dorcas" lol

[mangoisms]

Im just soso obsessed with figuring out tim as a character rn i cant stop thinking abt it (ive always been a jason todd girlie but i read ur fic and that angsty twink latched onto me and refuses to let go)

I think u have a pretty good hold of him, especially bc in present comics writers are so intent on elevating tim in spite of other characters (barbara and her hacking skills for example, or any comparison made btw him and any robin, really) that most portrayals of him are so boring it makes me cry, while you on the other hand took the approach to write about his flaws (which are MANY) while still making him charming and handsome (he is so... !!!!)

To me flaws are also tied to not only the good traits of characters but also their core beliefs and ideals so what can you say abt tim?

I know he can be stupidly arrogant and patronizing at times, that he's always idolized the position and legacy of robin and constantly fights his insecurities with this role and his abilities for the job, that he can also be incredibly selfish or outright mean when it comes to being mindful of other people's feelings for the sake of logic (re when he didnt tell tam abt his dad not being actually dead), but at the same time i cant figure out exactly what he wants to do with his role as robin (or red robin) or why he would want to keep going when his main goals first were just making sure bruce wouldnt go down a dark path, im pretty sure he mentioned not being a vigilante forever but his actual goals remain unclear to me

(Im in the midst of reading his solo robin run but ive read red robin so give me a little room for this, you are definitely free to talk abt more of his comics bc i havent read everything yet and everything im saying should be taken with a grain of salt, video essays and the issues ive read can only get me so far)

He could have gained an inherent desire to help people after all his time as robin and the so fucked up shit that happened to him, maybe as a ways to channel his grief (much like dick and jason and bruce, im thinking abt identity crisis here) after he isnt "needed" as robin anymore, but at the same time that would be so tragic because he was supposed to be different to them, he was supposed to remark the importance of robin's role in helping be "batman's light" and not becoming like batman himself, its just so interesting and im still trying to really understand the extent of his character so id just. Love to get ur thoughts and musings on what fuels tim as a character and how you see him

(I dont have this problem with jason bc his moral conflict is very crystal clear to me and also so freaking juicy, his actions are logical and so understable, granted he also hasnt had as much screentime as tim and i can see when writers just Dont Get Him, misunderstanding the original intent of his character coming back etc etc etc, tim has grown and evolved throughout his tim as robin so this might factor in too)

Anyways sorry for the long post i hope this is alright !!! Loved ur fic to bits and ur writing is a blessing mwah

okay HI i am not exaggerating when i say that i have been thinking about this ask since you sent it HAHA tim is just a parasite in my brain he won't let go...

that's the funny thing about portrayals of him today... i feel like people want to elevate him as a potential batman or a character closest to bruce in terms of intelligence and detective skills, which isn't true at all, i think (because, exactly, you have babs Right There), and of course, narratively, this is all a good thing (this post covers it well, i think). it's in the same vein of people making tim out as the most dangerous person in the batfam, should he ever chose to go down the path, which i can partially blame red robin (2009) for with this panel....

(and i don't think that's true either. he has the potential to be dangerous just like any of the others but i think the ones to really be scared of are babs, dick, and cass but ANYWAY)

in general, red robin 2009 was a bumpy time for tim with bruce's death and his spiraling, but it seemed to really inform what they were going to do with his character. no more time for the civilian life, committing himself much more thoroughly to The Mission like bruce. which is, if you ask me, a negative progression of his character, which isn't bad, exactly, in terms of storytelling, but it feels like all we get are the 'good parts' now -- the intelligence, the status, the resources, and then we don't get to grapple with the consequences.

there were some in red robin 2009 but it was more tim accepting them and making no move to change his actions, which is fine, but now... idk. but i also don't touch modern comics with a ten foot pole so this could just be. Wrong. but that seems like what's going on. so i feel like that's where people get the idea of him being... idk not the Perfect Robin exactly but. you know?

no no yeah i totally agree!

re (because i want to break this down i'm telling you i have Been Thinking About This): at the same time i cant figure out exactly what he wants to do with his role as robin (or red robin) or why he would want to keep going when his main goals first were just making sure bruce wouldnt go down a dark path, im pretty sure he mentioned not being a vigilante forever but his actual goals remain unclear to me

exactly this. he did say that and i've reblogged this at some point i think, showing a panel from robin 1993 where he mentioned he wouldn't be a vigilante forever, then paralleled with that panel i put in earlier from red robin 2009. (there's this post, which touches on another thing about tim trying to set himself apart as having friends and thus not being bruce LOL which is another topic entirely)

i think that was what red robin 2009 was - a negative progression of his character, one that, again, we never really grapple with, especially as dc shoves robin back onto him now.

his motivations are an interesting thing to me, because he did start out coincidentally, saying batman needed a robin but he didn't assume he'd be that robin, it just kind of happened because he was there (well much more went into it but you know?).

but aside from that, i've never gotten the impression tim really does it for people. i mean batman in general has been about the detective work but i think towards the 80s/90s/00s there was a shift to focusing on the people but tim has never really struck me as a hero of the people. he's more about fighting crime than he is about helping people. i think it is partially informed by the genre - re detective comics, etc - but still. he's not like, say, peter parker/spider-man, who is a hero of the people, of the working class. the people are inherent to him as spider-man. tim does it out of duty and responsibility i think, being the light to batman's dark, of course, but he's also very much a teenage boy about being robin - the cool factor, pointedly mentioning he wants to let off steam by knocking around 'criminals' that kind of thing

which doesn't mean he's unfit for it but he operates in an odd grey area as far as his motivation goes, which i think is where we get red robin? he was defined by being robin and he did his job, then he got the boot. so it is very much an identity crisis but we're seeing that negative change as he changes for the worse, for something darker. i mean, yes, red robin 2009 was again bumpy because he was at a very low point in his life but in general, that run was dark for him.

editorial wise, we'd never get to see what they made of it because they did the reboot and started new-52 a few years after. but whether he'd continue being red robin/going down this path, or if he'd shed the identity and go for something lighter... it's hard to say.

i kind of like the thought that he'd change his identity and try to take a lighter approach, try to pull himself from bruce's influence, though with how it's all set it up, it seems fated that he'd end up there. there was red robin 2009, but then there was his sixteenth birthday incident (which sounds bad here and i'd read this before reading it myself but god when i read it it pissed me off so bad... really what turned me off bruce as a 'good' father figure, i can't lie). he ultimately ends up going back and becoming robin and this is the turning point for him where he agrees to enter this mindset that bruce wants him to be in. (this post talks mainly about timsteph but it is also a point to the end about the shift in his character and how that affected his relationships as well)

i mean i know red robin 2009 is marked by the grief of bruce's 'death' and a bunch of other Very Bad Shit but even when we got past that and he had his little 'Let me let in the people who love me because i am Not batman' he then proceeded to go a little surveillance crazy and make a hit list (something like that, it's been a while..) but. yeah.

ultimately, at the core of his character, i think he is good and compassionate and kind, so, even aside from all that (like the birthday incident), i think he would've made his way there eventually. it could maybe be why we see him returning to robin, if we wanted to try and pretend dc making him be robin is a completely normal and logical decision that they actually thought through. like a way to return to the bases and feel it out from there. though i still think they could've just. idk. given him a BREAK from vigilantism to figure it out. i'm a big proponent of civilians and their place amongst vigilantes and superheroes and i feel like tim's due a break, which is why i put that stuff in my fics. i do want to see him step back and try to figure out his life, because at one point, though robin 1993 was arguably defined by the balance between robin and tim drake and had plenty of civilian friends to keep things interesting, we don't see much as far as what he wants to do. which i suppose could be part of his relatability factor that tim drake, the character, was conceived with

but idk at this point they have to give us something 😭 anyway. this got VERY long i am very sorry.. i don't mind long asks either but i might've overshot my response... alas. i also hope i more or less answered your question??? if not feel free to slide back in here and talk to me! i rambled a bit here and it's like. 3am rn i'm scheduling this to post because i wanted to get it all written Now and. yeah.

thank you SO much very happy to hear you're enjoying everything <333 hope you continue to enjoy :**

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9, 11, 23?

9. How do you find new fic to read?

ah well, i used to read fanfic and original fic voraciously, but a few years ago some mental health stuff happened and my capacity for reading got wiped out for the most part (i’m hopeful this will improve. my ability to play videogames took a similar dive, but as i’ve been putting work into rebuilding my wellbeing that has been coming back to me - in related news Rain World is fantastic and i love it to pieces - which seems like a good sign that over time reading will come back to me too. thank god bc i miss reading fic so much ;w; ). so these days i hoard update notifications from writers and fics i’m subscribed to, and pick out one of those when i’m having a particularly good reading day

back when i used to read a lot i my go-tos for finding new fic were; when i really like something i’d check out everything else that author has written, looking through the author’s bookmarks bc if i like their fic there’s good odds we’ll have similar taste, and searching the fandom tag + additional tropes i enjoy to see what’s around

11. Are you partial to a certain character/pairing or are you more equal-opportunity? If you are partial to any character/pairing, why do you think that is?

in terms of reading? well, i’m more likely to give fics a go if one of the main characters is someone i find interesting, but i find a lot of tf characters interesting so it effectively becomes equal opportunity

now in terms of writing i’m more narrow, but i’m not partial to a certain character/pairing so much as to dynamics where the ‘complicated relationships’ tag is applicable. taraprowl needs no explanation here, i like writing jazzwave most when they’re enemies grappling with being unfortunately very compatible as people, and even cdrw has shades of this with the patterns of poor communication and lying. i just really enjoy dynamics that involve strong positive and strong negative feelings simultaneously

23. What’s a trope, AU, or concept you’ve never written, but would like to?

god okay this is very much a ‘no i am not allowed to think about doing anything like this when i already have other big projects going on’ thing but. i’ve been kicking around this idea for like, established relationship Jazz/Soundwave where the war is over and it’s all peace and good times… until Megatron gets assassinated. and the plot is a Soundwave pov where grief and hunger for revenge drive him to investigate who did it - not just who pulled the trigger, but everyone who was involved in forming the plan and making it happen. and of course the crux of the tension is whether or not Jazz was in on the plot. was their whole relationship a calculated distraction to keep Soundwave from seeing this coming and stopping it? i like the idea of there being strong evidence to support Jazz being involved and also strong evidence that he wasn’t, the tension of Soundwave (and also the reader) being genuinely unable to tell which is true is a tension i vibe with. which i think is why trying to cement whether or not he was involved then drains away the things about it i find compelling to write. so i’ve got this neat idea but no ending for it, and leaving it as a vague ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ‘i guess we’ll never know’ isn’t satisfying either

and a separate thing, which also brings me around to the question, is that a concept i’ve never written but would like to is one where Jazz and Soundwave are in love but such a significant personal/philosophical line has been crossed that even that doesn’t stop them from fighting to the death. the energy of that would be electric. except also in a sad way bc wow that would be a downer ending, i'm not too hot on the idea of getting people invested in a story only to do that to them

the breakthrough happened when i was talking to my friends about our yearly tradition of getting together and playing the new Dark Pictures Anthology game when it comes out; more than once during our first playthrough of these games we’ve gotten endings that are ‘bad’ in the sense of how they fit into the established genre schema of Good Endings & Bad Endings in videogames, or lack closure, or are incredibly tragic (thinking about part of the ending we got for The Quarry for this one, which is not a DPA game but is by the same developer) - but the ends never felt unsatisfying to us because we’d gotten there through choices we’d actively made and we knew it was just one ending of several. this conversation later made me realise that hey, i have experience with game programming. if i dust off those rusty skills i could probably make a text based game… and that would sort out the issues i’d been having with the above concepts! my programming knowledge is a bit basic, but using it to make a fanwork is also a concept i’ve always wanted to try since it seems like an interesting challenge 

the really exciting part about this imo is the possibility of having tracked variables. with those i could give the story branching paths based on decisions readers make, something like 1) Jazz is an active participant in the assassination plot, 2) Jazz was involved in the plot but stopped being part of it before the assassination happened (perhaps he opted out of his own accord? or was kicked out bc the others worried his attachment to Soundwave has compromised him?), 3) Jazz was not involved, or 4) Soundwave never uncovers whether Jazz was involved or not. having that branching + something like a loyalty meter for Jazz that tracks how loyal he is to the assassination plot/people involved, and something similar for how dedicated Soundwave is to getting revenge, allows for really interesting variation/directions for the story to take based on reader decisions

all in all this is something i’d really like to do at some point, but it would be a very big project so i’ve firmly parked it behind doing (Re)Experience and Networking first

[hallasimss]

🚲💋 and 🧸 for your most fav OC!

fav OC currently is split between Ha-sang and Abhi (my beloveds!!!) so i'll answer the first and last ones for Ha-sang (slightly rearranged bc uh. depending on how hot it gets in here the kiss one might need to go under the cut sksksksk) and leave the one in the middle for Abhilash—this might get long <333

🚲 : Does your OC enjoy playing the field? Or are they more monogamy-minded?

i feel like he leans slightly more towards one-to-one relationships more than anything else, although depending on the person he can be open to trying something new—monoflexible, is it? i'd say it might be the partial fear of abandonment, but this is some of the reason it usually takes him forever to get over break-ups (despite the fact that most of them have ended well) and is also why he's mainly been on and off with his uh, how should i put it, current situation. (not 'situation' as in derogatory, just 'situation' as it's way more complicated than the FWB that they started out with in the first place and we haven't figured out what we're going to do with that yet)

there's also a situation going on with his ex-boyfriend (*cough* Sun-wook *cough*) but those two have had that going on for at least five or six years by now, it's once a year, mutual and they know what they're doing—if the two of them could tell me what that is, of course, rather than filling my brain with plot rot about the much more unstable pairing on Ha-sang's end (which might be revealed. if i haven't given it away in the tags of some of my inspo reblogs yet rip), it would be much appreciated

🧸 : Into public displays of affection or are they more reserved?

Abhi is going to hold your hand. he is going to hold your f*cking hand and probably be the clingiest partner you've ever had but it's fine!!! they're holding your hand bc they need to make sure it's big enough for theirs and also the 56 different shopping bags/luggage/various containers they're going to make you carry after that mall date. you have two hands tho don't worry you should be able to handle it

he's not much of a public kisser, tho at least if he is he hasn't told me sksksksk, but he'll go for a peck on the cheek when others are around. he also bites? behind closed doors like an extremely autistic and tender cat—you'll be reading a book and they'll be lying on your lap and if your arm is anywhere near them prepare for the gnawing. chomp chomp chomp we are biting you biting you biting you @rainymoodlet i hope it's ok to tag since this is Abhi meta but Dan i hope you're taking notes

💋 : Is your OC a good kisser? How do they do it?

the amount of gifsets i have in the drafts of this man's FC just going at it istg—it's embarrassing. completely embarrassing i am being outed as simping over my own sim. (they will post. eventually, but not yet since i do not want to scandalize the viewers) the common thread in all of them is that he usually goes in first, and then pulls back to look at the other person and then it's right back in again. just. that is hot to me

and tongue!!! Ha-sang will usually ask first before he goes ahead with it since he's very gentle and reserved most of the time (and bc consent is sexy kids!) but when things get heated out comes the tongue. it's a war scene you're going to lose at least one piece of clothing that you will never get back bc it ended up under the sofa or some sh*t like that—if he kisses a line all the way up your jawline you are done for. finished. the end of Solomon Grundy as we like to say in the Caribbean. tell your driver you're not going home tonight if it's right from your collarbone up the curve of your neck i doubt you're making it to the bedroom. God forbid we get any of this started in the car tho it is highly unlikely

send me piping hot oc asks!

[automatayaoi]

inviting you to infodump about your soul eater self insert i have one also i am placing her before you gently

WAH thank u for the infodump pass!! i am grabbing your insert and shaking her around excitedly. soul eater inserts unite

^ menace 2 society

so my soul eater si is a witch bc how could i resist the star crossed lovers tension of it all, their name is Acherontia Styx and they're a death's head moth (heavy handed symbolism? yes incredibly). their magic is very based in moths being omens of the future, and so their main role pretty much all their life as been as an oracle, first to the witch order and then to death

it's a bit handwavy bc who needs to remember details. but their family (the death's head clan? i don't actually know how witch families work in soul eater they never expanded on that) has been held in high esteem as oracles and advisors for other witches, thanks to their powers of foresight, and styx was groomed to be the heir of this legacy from the moment they were born. they lived a very strict and very sheltered life from a young age, but when they were roughly a teenager probably not long before their aging started to slow, they somehow fell into the hands of lord death

again handwaving bc i haven't nailed down the details of how or why that happened yet. i'm thinking along the lines of styx being especially proficient at their divination magic and giving the witch order an edge in the war against death, which he was Not fucking happy about and was trying to find a way to take down their advisors. i imagine they'd be well protected usually, not even counting their divination magic, so most likely styx saw a chance to escape their gilded cage in the witch dimension and took it

unfortunately it was out of the frying pan and into the fire for them, or out of the cage and into the dungeon, in this case. whether or not they surrendered willingly didn't particularly matter to death, a witch was never to be trusted. but he did see the obvious potential in their foresight magic, so he took styx in and promised not to, well, kill them, in exchange for them to become his oracle

digging into their powers more, i see their magic actually working a couple different ways; their main powers focus more on what is more or less "scouting" magic, i think is the best way to put it. they don't have perfect omniscience, of course, but i'm thinking it works sort of like...they use the moon as a focal point and as a "mirror," and can see anything the moon can see. does this make sense

the other kind of magic they can do is the real divination magic. the spell is called "Thousand Eye Wings" and is basically a form of very advanced calculation magic. you ever hear about laplace's demon? it's like that. they take the information they learn from their moon scrying and calculate a future outcome. this kind of magic is very, very taxing, as you can imagine, so it's performed far less often and only in important situations

and yeah!! Styx becomes death's oracle (taps the death's head moth name again. heavy handed.) and is sort of kept as a secret advisor for him, both bc he didn't want them to be stolen back by the witches, and bc working with a witch might not go over so well with the meisters. and that's how they pass a couple hundred years: locked in a dungeon, known only by death and his closest allies, brought out for spells that would end with other witches being killed. Not a great time!

as for my boys :3c spirit of course knows abt them as a deathscythe, and i think stein learned about them himself before death actually told him bc of his advanced ability to read souls (i imagine death uses wards of some kind to keep styx hidden while still able to use their magic). even then they didn't really talk to them much, until the revival of the kishin sort of kicked the need for an advisor into overdrive

this also resulted in them being revealed to some of the shibusen students, namely the main kids, partially bc they could benefit from their help and partially bc maka and kid were both able to pick up on their witch soul

OKAY I THINK THATS LONG ENOUGH NOW DJSKLFHDSKJ THANK U SO MUCH FOR ASKING. I AM ALSO STARING HANDS OUT FOR LORE ABT YOUR INSERT.

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Currently working on some world building for atlas and nightlights world. I started a journal for them but I wanna finish writing all the character traits before I start writing down the premise and anyway I wanna put more of their lore here.

In pretty much every big city there’s a fair amount of crime and supervillains and most cities have at least four superheroes to defend it. The thing is most heroes never work at the same time since the crime happens 24/7.

So instead of working together to stop it all as a team, they take patrol shifts. Each person works six to nine hours a day. This way the shifts can overlap and now they can work together on cases, or solve multiple cases at the same time, or just fill in for each other if someone’s tired or injured.

The story’s gonna follow Atlas and Nightlight (of course) and they both take shifts in the night. Atlas usually goes on patrol between 6:00 PM - 3:00 AM while Nightlight takes 3:00 PM - 12:00 AM. I drew a graph to visualize how the time schedules work. Everyone gets three hours to themselves, and six hours with a partner.

The two other heroes in the story sometimes have to work with Atlas and Nightlight bc of some really bad villain that needs all hands on deck, but for the most part everyone sticks to their schedules. I haven’t come up with names or designs for the two other heroes but I will talk about them some bc I have ideas.

Also, in this world, the government isn’t saying like “oh you have to work for us and we have to allow you to stop crime and you can’t do anything until we give the go ahead” bc I think that’s fucking stupid. Idc if that part of the story seems unwritten, I’m not putting that in the story. These silly guys save the city and save lives and the government doesn’t interfere bc they’re doing their job for them for free. Either that or just a lot of people have special abilities in this world, it’s just some people trained to be superheroes while others trained to be like, builders who fix the city back up faster after the heroes save the day. But I’m probably not doing that.

As for the two other heroes, i said a second ago I don’t have names or designs, but one of them has the ability to transfer large bits of information or memories or hypnotizing someone by making out passionately with tongue. This is partially inspired by Starfire, but mostly inspired by some of my brothers headcanons for the young justice show. (No I will not elaborate on what those headcanons are.)

The thing is they don’t tell anyone that they have this ability bc they just assume this is normal for everyone and some people just don’t know they can do it yet. The other three heroes just go along with it bc 1. This persons pretty smart so anything they say must be true and if they want all four of them to make out at once who are they to question it and 2. All four of them think the others are hot. Why would they pass up the offer to kiss each other.

I might give them more powers later, like some form of dumbed down telekinesis, but for now this is their only power. The other superhero has special guns specifically designed around their powers of turning any projectile they shoot into a couple different elemental things. Sometimes they can turn a bullet into a kind of freeze shot, or a fireball, or a bunch of plants, etc. things like that. They use rubber bullets bc even if the shots aren’t real bullets after they shoot they’re still afraid of killing people. I’m not as sure about this power though, I might scrap it and use something else.

Another thing, I’m not explaining how any of them get their powers. I just don’t want to. Nightlight is the closest I’ll get and I’m basing her lore off another ocs lore. She’s basically just an alien. Atlas just has their powers. I still haven’t even decided if their wings are mechanical or not.

I also haven’t made any supervillains yet but when I do they’re gonna be extremely dumb. Just based on some random object like a pepper shaker. They are just extremely funny.

The villains also like, care about the heroes to some extent. They enjoy fighting them. They think of it like a hobby. They’re just also psychotic and insane and don’t realize they’re hurting a lot of people. In their eyes, they’re having little playdates with the heroes instead of a large dangerous battle in the middle of the city with hostages and lives on the line etc.

But sometimes they’ll be fighting a hero and notice they’re punching a little too hard or are a little too jumpy or didn’t block in time from a VERY predictable hit and the villains will stop everything to sit them down and be like “hey man, are you ok? You’ve been off all night, you know I’m here for you when you need me man. Do you wanna talk about it?” And the heroes do talk about it. Bc these freaks may be insane but they still somewhat appreciate them for all they do.

Thats all my thoughts right now. I’ll have more later.

[p-taryn-dactyl]

Hello, if you're still accepting requests may I request one with spider person reader x Agatha Harkness, and the mask being like spider woman or Cindy Moon that partially covers the face, Idk if will make sense but like Agatha traped reader and do her thing of being flirty and then reader blushes and Agatha can see because the mask just cover half of reader face, so some kind of enemies to lovers I guess;

Hope you have a nice day 👍

a/n: hi! I’m sorry this took so long but here you go!! (also i am definitely still accepting requests! i love getting them) warning(s): none really? fluff; Y/N knows who Peter is; also not a warning but mention of Miles Morales bc i love him word count: 693 tag list: @coolbeans32 @our-blood-is-our-ink @nyx-aira

Swinging through the air, feeling the wind through your hair, watching the city’s landscape below, you understood why Peter and Miles described this as the best feeling in the world. You swung over to a light post, standing on top of it as you observed the night lights of your city. It was a quiet night, one where you felt like you could enjoy the crisp air and bask in the setting sun.

But of course, that didn’t happen.

As you looked around, you felt your Spidey-sense (or as Aunt May affectionately calls it, the Y/N tingle) fire off warnings rapidly. You barely dodged a giant sphere of magic as it was hurled at you. As you fell, you shot a web at an empty construction crane, propelling yourself away from your attacker.

“Itsy bity spider, come out to play!” A sing song voice filled the air and you felt your stomach drop.

Agatha Harkness.

You tried to swing away from the city, hoping to keep the fight away from the public when purple magic swirled around you, blind-sighting your vision. Slowly, you blinked away the magic, letting out a sigh of relief when you felt your mask still covering the lower half of your face. But panic started to sink in as you felt magical bonds on your wrists and ankles, keeping you in place. You looked around for the witch, realizing you were in an abandoned building, the foundations crumbling.

��I know, I know, this isn’t the ideal first face-to-face but it’ll have to do.”

Agatha’s voice floated through the air as she dramatically appeared from behind one of the pillars. You struggled against the magical bonds, hoping your strength would help you. It didn’t.

Agatha stalked closer to you, her eyes raking your form up and down. She brought a hand to her chin, cocking her head to the side like she was inspecting you.

“Aw the little spider fell into my web. How lucky I am, that this cute spider would crawl into my presence.”

You swallowed, desperately trying to keep your heart rate down as the witch came even closer to you, invading your space with her beautiful presence.

In the past few months, you had avoided any contact with the witch, only helping the others from the sidelines when Agatha was involved. You told yourself it was because she was dangerous and your enemy but you knew that wasn’t true.

Agatha leaned in, her eyes widening, shining with accomplishment.

“Oh did I embarrass the spider? Or…” she dragged out the word, walking around you, trailing a finger on your shoulders as she went, “is the little spider flustered?” She spoke into your ear suddenly, making you startle. She came back to stand in front of you, a smirk on her face.

“Oh shut up, Harkness.” You mumbled not so much under your breath.

Agatha raised an eyebrow, raising her hands in mock defense.

“I didn’t say anything.”

Silence dragged on between you two, uncomfortable for you but Agatha seemed to be thriving in it. Finally, she spoke.

“Do I scare you?” Her voice wasn’t vulnerable but it had lost it’s flirty edge, making you crave the warmth in her tone. Surprised, and almost on instinct, you shook your head rapidly. Something almost seemed to click in Agatha’s mind as she leaned forward, the smirk reappearing on her face. It only got wider as you felt heat rise on your cheeks, appearing over your mask. Agatha made doe eyes, blinking.

“Aww, does the little spider have a crush?”

You gritted your teeth and looked away, her condescending tone irking you. Agatha chuckled slightly at your frustration, using her magic to make you face her again.

“It seems you’re in luck, little spider. You fascinate me, in a way no one has for centuries,”

You cursed yourself for how hard you were blushing, Agatha’s honeyed tone and your vulnerable position sending shivers down your spine. You held your breath in anticipation as Agatha leaned in, her eyes migrating down to where your lips were covered by the mask.

“Now, let’s see who’s under the cowl, my cute little spider.”

a/n: ok this one i feel like i didn’t do so well on the prompt but i had a genuine great time writing this fic! Thank you for reading <3 i hope y’all enjoyed this! As always (until stated otherwise) Agatha requests are open!! (also, sorry for the weird ending in this one lol)

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since my rtc superhero au post reached 100 notes this morning (and bc @luckynature wanted more and her aus inspire me!!), here's more detail of my rtc superhero au that i plan on writing One Day!! i'm going to be scheduling some posts over the course of me being asleep :)

as i mentioned in the tags of the first post, spacedolls is chaotic witnesses and a pre-established relationship, blackrose is friends to enemies to lovers, and nischa is enemies and lovers

here they're uni-college age, it starts in september-ish (yes around the time of the cyclone accident how could you tell), and all of them are 19 (second year if they're in uni)

so the age hcs in here are constance being the oldest and mischa being the youngest bc... Vibes

i have no idea where this is going to be set bc canon is canada, but most superhero stuff is in the us, but i live in australia and i can only talk to Experiences there (esp since most media is high school focussed not college/uni focussed)

noel and ocean went to the same school since they were 12 (i have no idea if it's middle or high school it depends on the country) and when they walked into university they immediately saw each other and went "oh. it's this bitch again."

noel has had his powers of spontaneous plant creation and plant control since he was five (think perfuma from she-ra, perhaps poison ivy but idk dc that well??). he grew a rose out of his hand for mothers' day and she went "OH OKAY. GREAT. THANKS SWEETIE. NEVER SHOW ANYONE EVER."

a couple of times he'd accidentally grow plants and panic before exploding them into spores. when he was 13 he accidentally grew cactus spikes all over his body. ocean saw him. she brought it up to him in private the next day and noel said "please don't tell anyone. i don't know the consequences and i don't want to." and she respected him, but partially out of fear, which he was thankful for.

ocean can stop time (and like she doesn't age in this time, she can drag other people out of how time has stopped and like have conversations with them while time has stopped, even if they don't have powers or know of ocean's etc.).

ocean realised she had powers in a maths exam in year 11/junior year, she accidentally stopped time and (when time continued) noel could Tell. she wanted to ask for a re-do so the exam was fair, but noel told her that he also has powers and you just... don't tell people about it, plus he really didn't want to do the exam

through the rest of high school they would check up on each other every so-often, but they weren't close.

then when they re-met in college/uni they go "okay clearly we need to stick with each other" so they join the choir (eyyyy) and agree to hang out for lunch twice a week (at first, but over the course of their first year they start hanging out more and more, taking a latin elective in their second semester bc i am a classical latin noel and ocean truther)

let's go to our "be gay do crime" friends

idk if constance or mischa are in college bc i want to clarify that's not the only life pathway, but it enables them to interact more so idkkkkkk

the two of them met when mischa came to [wherever this is set] from ukraine, he went to the cafe where constance worked and since she was so friendly, she invited him to stay until the end of her shift so she could so him around.

since she was the first person he met and the two get on like a house on fire, mischa sticks around at her cafe and they chat when traffic is slow + after her shift

but boyboss needs to get a job (perhaps this is the equivalent of the blackwood cafe, perhaps constance's been working there for 3 years) so constance hires him and mischa is like *weirdly* good at being a barista/waiter???

all this is backstory for when they're like 18, all this is happening right in the year before the fic is taking place, that's why it's relevant!!! i haven't decided yet on if she's just taking a gap year or what other intentions she may have but yeah!!

sO one night they're closing up and Vibing, and mischa cuts his hand on a piece of glass, constance asks if he's fine and he's like yeah but internally he's like no so constance says "i can tell you're injured, do you need a bandage or a free pastry?". mischa replies "hey bestie what the fuck are you some mind reader" then she's like "oh yeah!! sorry i really try not to, but when i get too tired i can't block other people's thoughts". "wait do you never use it on customers" "...it does depend on if they're a bitch"

once they finish up and go out, mischa goes "oh! i have powers too! check this out :)" then he lifts up the rubbish and fucking yeets it into a bin that they can barely see in the daytime. and he's really proud of it too!!! sweet man 10/10 golden retriver