#poor kid Mario has no idea how to feel about all these people that want to hug him

[angelxd-3303]

Huh, how would DK react to teen Mario? He would be overprotective of him?

DK isn't gonna cry, what're you talking about?

Nope, definitely not gonna cry.

[geraldthellama]

Bowuigi Corpse Bride AU Lore Post

So I said I would probably make this and while I thought about making this into a fanfic and making ya'll read that, I decided that I need to commit to the other three (two and a half?) Mario fanfic ideas I have. So if anyone wants to make a full blown fic or whatever with this AU, feel free (but tag me ofc because I've got to see it).

(This will not be short, just a quick warning that this is a commitment).

This AU is very loosely based off the actual movie. Instead of them being in the underworld, they're just in a haunted house that Boo lost to Bowser in a game of poker, and instead of being a corpse (as the name suggests), Luigi is just a slightly annoying boo. Him and Polterpup are the only ones that inhabit the mansion, and, with the house completely abandoned, it's probably going to stay that way.

In this world, ghosts only stay after some massive traumatic death. Problem is, Luigi has no recollection of how he died, he just knows he hit his head and a little while later awoke, a ghost that's unable to be seen, heard, and is completely alone as a newly-deceased. Aside from the yipping ghost dog at his feet (Luigi has always been afraid of both ghosts and dogs).

As a ghost, Luigi originally spawns (spawns?) into this world with little ghostly abilities. Living beings can't see or hear him and he doesn't have the power to manipulate objects or people in any way. He is essentially a specter, watching the lives of other people for years until, eventually, it's abandoned, and the Peasley family mansion (one of many, that is) is gambled away to King Boo.

But, King Boos already got his own slew of creepy haunted mansions, and, frankly, this one is haunted by a ghost he can't stand. A ghost that hasn't been able to speak to someone for around a decade. A chatty ghost that hasn't been able to speak to someone for over a decade. He's not exactly torn up about parting with it.

Bowser, the poor thing, is on attempt...

Attempt... 2 hundred... something.

(at least 4 proposals a year, for around 20 years... that's...)

Let's just say, Peach does and has not wanted Bowser for a long ass time, and it really doesn't help his self esteem that he's still being thwarted by a plumber that's old enough to be his dad and uses a cane. He really can't understand what Peach sees in him, especially considering she still looks like a youthful 20/30-something into her 60s. Frankly, it's unfair. He's got money, kids (some really awesome ones too), power, looks (he thinks so at least), and isn't 3 pudding cups away from dementia.

What he hasn't got, until right now at least, is an awesome mansion, specially built for human(oid) creatures. Maybe she just didn't like gothic castle architecture? Maybe, as Boo suggests, he just has to get her scared enough to fall into his arms for safety. He's got this all planned out.

Boo did not specify that the "ghostly inhabitants" of this mansion were a hyperactive ghost dog and naive plumber. He didn't think it was important information at the time.

So, when Bowser is plotting and practice-proposes (does he really need more practice?) to the striking blue eyes of a, surprisingly, human painting, the last thing he expects is to be met with a ghoulish grin.

Barely ghoulish, because, god, the thing is bright. The smile and the bio-(bio?)-luminescent energy it's attached to. For a ghost who's wearing bloodied bandages and has been dead for 30 lonely years, he's surprisingly optimistic.

"Really?! And you're not even a boo!" :D

He's very optimistic, in fact, because he's willing to believe that this complete stranger might just be his ticket out of this wall-papered purgatory. He died meeting up with his forbidden love, after all, so it must be a sign. He does not hesitate to shove that ring on his finger, even if his new fiance looks hesitant (he might be naive enough to go with it, but he's not blind). He's convinced the two will make it work.

Luigi is... very tired of looking at the same things everyday. Now, he can attach to his new fiance, who's only slightly hesitant to engage with him, (and is not bad looking at all, in Luigi's opinion). Together, the two can actually have a life together. Luigi was only 25 when he died, and he was far too shy then to do any adventuring. The most rebellious thing the man had ever done was sneak out.

Man, look where that ended him.

For Luigi, this is his opportunity to live the life he wasted was robbed of.

And the guys got kids! How awesome is that?

Bowser is not liking the new pets at his side. One never stops yipping and yapping and one is a dog. Luigi is... fine. From a distance. The problem is that they physically can't get any. As long as Luigi is attached to him, consider them hand cuffed. This stupid, green boo is crimping his style, and any game he had with Peach is virtually ruined when he's got his "fiance" clinging to his side like he's the best thing since breathing air.

At least Luigi appreciates his kids. The ghost obviously has some taste (of course he does, he chose him for pete's sake), and Junior and the rest seem to like the ghoul enough... Even if Junior isn't completely sure that Luigi is a ghoul. Both Luigi and Junior agree that boos are scary.

Maybe, after some hard self-reflection (with Luigi close and present, of course), and some growing emotional intimacy and openness, Bowser begins to kind of, perhaps tolerate Luigi. Just a little. Just enough to find his stupid quirks endearing and just enough to start to think that maybe he's always been too good for Peach, anyway. Maybe he should be with someone who appreciates him and loves his family. It's not like her and Mario had ever had kids in their relationship, and her not wanting kids is kind of a deal breaker.

Bowser's newfound attention on Luigi is driving everyone else nuts, though. Boos barely seen the man since his unfortunate run in with the green leach and no one else at their poker table is any good. At this rate, Boos not even satisfied winning Peasley's riches off him anymore. Occasionally, a guy just wants to lose, y'know? Boo hates only one thing more than Peasley whining about the consequences of his gambling addiction, and that's boredom. He misses when the Koopa King spent all his time plotting against the old-ass plumber. At least then he showed his face at their meetings.

And when Boo finally brings up his grievances, because he deserves to rant, Peasley seems... nervous. Boo loves nervousness.

"There's a... human boo... in the mansion I gave you..?"

"One, you didn't give it to me, you lost, fair and square. Two, yeah, and he's just about the chattiest thing I've ever met. All dressed up in a white suit, the pretentious-"

At that, Peasley turns about as pale as a ghost. Well, if that were possible, considering he's a legume. Suddenly, he's got some important things he has to do somewhere else.

This poker table is looking weak.

When Peasley asks Bowser to meet at the mansion, Bowser warns he can't come alone. It's a stretch to get the green ghost to go back with him, and as much as Bowser wants to tell him "you're coming with me, whether you like it or not", he can't bring himself to say it. Instead, he convinces Luigi that it's a quick stay. Essentially, a welfare visit on the old house and a quick meeting with an old friend. Luigi's narrowly convinced.

Stepping back onto that porch brings back a lot of old memories for the human. Few of them anything good in retrospect.

But he does want to see his painting again. He always did cherish that painting. He's sure Bowser will too, right?

Is that painting a good memory for Bowser? He wonders.

It was all those years ago that a young Peasley gifted him that painting. Like him, he had been optimistic and in love. Even if his rich, snobby parents weren't a fan of the human, they had an entire life ahead of them. Peasley had made him a beautiful painting. It was the one part of the house Luigi felt was his. A good memory.

He never expected to be greeted by the same image he had all those years ago. Peasley, now older, stood in front of the painting. His face now wasn't proud or love-struck or whatever expression he had had then (Luigi can barely remember Peasley's face until just now), he looked somber. It was a rare occasion that Luigi wasn't green, and his teal glow seemed to throw Bowser off.

And divert Peasley's attention away from the miserable painting and over to the ghost, who was nervously twiddling his thumbs with a sympathetic look in his eyes.

It's not long before Bowser realizes that this meeting was never about him, and he feels more awkward than anything else...

Except that Polterpup has been on edge since the moment he saw the bean (now) king. Has he ever seen the dog not wag it's tail at someone?

Immediately, the older man apologizes. Things were never meant to end up how they did. He tried his best to help when he could.

Luigi's not angry, how could he be? Luigi's fall was an accident.

Peasley says he didn't know Luigi had stuck around, and if he had, he thinks he would have done things differently. He would have at least had the place cleaned instead of just letting it rot.

(So Peasley abandon the mansion? The perfectly good mansion for no reason, leaving Luigi alone.)

And, of course, Peasley's sorry for not telling Mario or his parents about what happened to him.

(HUH?)

He insisted that he waited for hours with Luigi, hoping he'd recover with enough gauze. The man told him it was a lost cause. If he could have saved him, he would have.

Hours?

"I was unconscious for hours?"

It came out as barely a whisper.

"I stayed almost the entire night. As long as I could."

Bowser didn't know boos could turn so many colors, especially that quickly. Bowser didn't think Luigi even had it in him to be anything less than smiley, especially completely enraged.

Luigi had never been more angry in his life (death).

Even Peasley's insistence that "You don't understand what they'd have done to me if they'd known I went against their wishes!" fell on deaf ears.

When Luigi's aura finally finished raving, Peasley had backed away from the now red ghost. Again, Luigi recognized the position they were in;

One of them backing up, away from the painting and towards the basement stairs. How could Peasley forget that door never closed all the way? It had only been the exact thing that killed Luigi 30 years ago. The exact thing that, of course, Peasley hadn't fixed.

Luigi swears he didn't push him, even in that state. Bowser believes him, only because the still angry and unaware Luigi yelled angrily down the stairs: "You better not die here, because I'll make your death hell!"

If they both hadn't just watched Peasley fucking die, Bowser would have kinda been into it.

It took Luigi a second to realize that even if his own fall had been an unlucky hit, Peasley wasn't 25 anymore. And he wasn't responding. His red hue didn't last long, especially when Polterpup no longer seems threatened (and Bowser notices that the bean king no longer seems to be breathing).

"What did I do?"

Bowser suggests fleeing the crime scene, which normally isn't his move, but he'd rather not be tied to the murder of a fellow royal. Luigi shakes his head.

This is his fault. And as angry as he still is at Peasley, he can't flee what he's done. Not in a right conscience. Not like what Peasley did to him. Luigi suffered enough sitting in that mansion alone for 30 years, and, as much as revenge tastes sweet, a small part of him still cares. Had he lived, Peasley and him would have had a life after all.

But he hadn't lived, did he.

Bowser can't remember a time ever seeing Luigi's color look quite as dull as it did then.

Playing with his engagement ring, Luigi thinks back on the part of the man he loved. Peasley never did buy him the ring, like he had hoped. Luigi remembers getting himself all excited over the possibility of a scenic proposal as they walked through the flower garden of the mansion. He had gifted him a painting. Which was almost as good.

He couldn't even count how many times he had stood and looked at that painting, thinking:

Was it worth it?

An apprehensive smile comes onto his face. A nostalgic smile. A somber one.

Doesn't really matter, does it? He'd never know if it was worth it in the end. This was how it ended up. Luigi had always believed that fate is what had brought him and Peasley together, considering everything else had lined them up for failure. Fate was what brought him here. What kept him here.

Who is he to drag down others?

He returns Bowser's ring.

"I'm sorry."

Bowser never deserved to have him weigh him down.

"I wasted my life chasing after a family I never got, and then spent my death doing the exact same thing."

Bowser awkwardly matches Luigi's bitter laugh.

"I lived my life, be it a short one, but you deserve to live yours."

Luigi pats the ring on his hand.

"I hope she likes it." He smiles. He means it. Peach sounds wonderful.

Tears prick Bowser's eyes, and all because...

He never did tell Luigi about him and Peach, did he? He can't help but laugh. Tears streaming down his face kinda laugh. The laugh you only get once a year kind of laugh.

"You spent, what? Maybe five non-consecutive years chasing after a family? Try twenty!"

Luigi's eyebrow goes up. This is supposed to be a super emotional goodbye and this goobers laughing? On about his conquest to marry Peach (who, apparently, is already married) and make his picturesque life. Luigi can't help but laugh, because it's so stupid that Bowser's laughing about this right now.

"Her and her stupid, human, mustachioed husband Mario have been kicking my ass for decades. I promise you, boo, you weren't ever getting in the way of anything."

Mario?!

"Mario?" (!)

"You heard of him?"

The excitement in Luigi's eyes (and aura) is obvious.

"My brother's name is Mario!"

With a look of determination, Bowser promises he'll tell Luigi the story of all his and Mario's exploits if he does him two favors.

Leaves this, frankly, ugly and decrepit mansion with him. Because this story needs atmosphere.

Puts the ring back on his finger. Because how else is everybody going to know they're engaged?

Luigi gives a grin.

He looks down the stairs. What about doing his due-diligence?

"I promise you, boo, if fate brought you and Peasley together, and pushed you down those stairs, and brought us together, and then pushed him down the stairs, fate is on your side."

Luigi's lips are still pursed.

"And it's almost sunrise," Bowser points out.

"So?"

"Well, we've waited almost all night, seems like a fair amount of time to me. It's obviously a lost cause."

At that, Luigi begins laughing. Not quite Bowser's guttural, teary laugh, but certainly a cackle. Enough to turn his aura back to a vibrant green, just like before. Enough to make him hunch over and take some (not really) much needed gulps of air.

When the laughing dies down to a hurt giggle, Bowser assures him that:

"You didn't kill him, Weeg."

No. I guess he didn't, did he?

Looking down the stairs one last time, (his death completely bloodless, the lucky bastard), Luigi's brows furrow for a second and he twiddles his thumbs.

If Luigi's learned one thing from being a condemned ghost, it's that you should take every chance you get.

The bottom of the stairs don't look so intimidating now.

"I...

I forgive you."

Maybe that is all Peasley deserves.

Luigi deserves to have another chance. And maybe Peasley does too, maybe he'll find one in the next lucky winner of poker. Someones gotta replace his spot at the table.

Bowser shares that he certainly deserves a mother to his children, and he's already got a quality candidate who's proved he's got what it takes. ("One who cooks, cleans, can't call in sick, die, and is pretty good looking! I hit the jackpot!")

Maybe, at the very least, Luigi deserves to see his brother one last time.

And maybe a few more times after that, for good measure.

Anyways so the original plan was just to have either Luigi and Bowser straight up immediately abandon the crime scene (not really crime scene) or have Luigi sit in the mansion forever and live out a miserable existence.

But I couldn't do that to my boys now could I. (But Peasley still gets abandoned because screw Peasley I hate that little bean man /j).

This wasn't meant to turn out in the format it did but, y'know, it did. Just know this isn't brief but also isn't comprehensive. I might (big emphasis on might) make a shorter headcanon post on this, but we'll see.

I hope you enjoyed. And sorry for the length, I am not known and will never be known for being concise.

[skulls-soul]

I love the idea of Bowser always being in love with Luigi another princess peach

Like hear me out and imagine with me the first time Bowser kidnaps the princess he was like oh she’ll be a perfect mom for junior and queen for my kingdom and although technically he’s not wrong the feelings just don’t spark and I also like to imagine that peach doesn’t really want kids currently so she’s just like “no no kids for me not until way down the line I am not ready to be a mom ”

Bowsers people love and respect the king and don’t really care who he picks to be his partner as long as they love the king back and would treat his kingdom with respect , you know? So they’re kind of on the fence with peach since it seems to be a one-sided relationship (not knowing that Bowser doesn’t actually love peach)

Bowser would try thinking about who else he can have as his spouse and then remembers the green guy and how even though he looked like he was about to pass out still tried his best to protect the princess and Mario

 by the third kidnapping or fifth peach no longer sees Bowser as a threat and more of a nuisance since he’s never actually threatened to hurt her and only asked her to marry him twice The rest of the time he seems to be asking relationship advice and whether or not The human with the big blue eyes and fluffy/curly brown hair is single

Peach automatically assume that Bowser is talking about Daisy  and peach would say something along the Lines of “all depends are you planning on kidnapping them like some sort of lunatic”  And Bowser responds with a scoff  saying “maybe I don’t know how else will get to know them”

 before the conversation could continue however Bowser ends up getting beat up by Mario and Luigi (well mostly Mario) because of this peach ends up asking Mario if around the time when Bowser would usually come and kidnap her if instead of staying in mushroom kingdom to protect her he’d go to the other Kingdom where princess Daisy resides to stay with her Mario’s like “but what if Bowser comes to get you” and peaches like “if that happens I have Luigi to help protect me plus you’ll come to my rescue if I get kidnapped again“

 Of course Daisy doesn’t get kidnap but peach doesn’t get kidnapped either instead peach ends up seeing Bowser taking Luigi instead and I can imagine that peach just thinking about all the relationship advice that she gave Bowser and how he talked about there was this human that he was interested (that was before he gave a clue of the blue eyes and brown hair Bowser thought that this would be a good enough clue because he low-key forgot what Daisy looked like since the three humans that he sees the most is Mario peach and the green one who he embarrassingly still doesn’t know the name of)

Peach would definitely feel horrible about not realizing who Bowser was talking about especially since Luigi looked so shocked and scared when Bowser grabbed him looking at peach like if she had the answers which technically she did

And you know the rest is literally just bowser’s crush becomes him lovesick and Luigi a gay mess I Think bowser probably wouldn’t tell Luigi why he kidnapped him since unlike peach he actually has feelings for Luigi, also poor Luigi would be completely oblivious and will take all of Bowser‘s excuses as the truth. so for the longest time Luigi would think his feelings was one-sided since how could Bowser his brother‘s nemesis ever fall for Luigi the awkward shy scaredy-cat of a human and also he was in love with peach in which the only thing he has in common with her is the fact that they both have blue eyes it just wouldn’t make sense there’s no way!!

And you know something that I don’t see that I wish I saw more of. Mario finding out before Luigi with this story/idea I think peach would help him find out because on their way to save Luigi (peach of course would join )  peach would probably blatantly say “I can’t believe the person Bowser‘s been crushing on this entire time was Luigi” and Mario would probably get whiplash just by the speed of him turning to look at princess peach  his eyes slightly twitching as he asks “what did you say?”

I could add more to this concept but I have to get ready for work also to anyone and everyone who has their own ideas to add to this by all means please do and if you want to write a story with this concept 👀 you better @ me :)

[absolutepokemontrash]

Hi! So, I absolutely love your series where the MC is the kid of Lucifer, and I was wondering if I could request that with Diavolo and Barbatos? •v•

:0 you definitely can! Right now I’m just doing Diavolo, but Barb’s will be up sometime soon!

MC is Half Demon and Oh Shit They’re Diavolo’s Kid-

Diavolo wasn’t exactly what one would expect of the prince of Hell, I mean, he was suppressing the urge to bounce in his seat from pure excitement. I mean, his exchange program was starting! Humans, demons, and angels, all together, his dream was coming true.

All that was left was for the student to arrive, the portal opened, and the human fell flat on their back. Oof, maybe Diavolo should have set up some kind of landing zone filled with pillows. No matter! The human was-

…

What peculiar eyes this human had…

Oh… oh dear…

Dad-volo

The MC was his child, no question about it. This was… very unexpected. Well, the entire assembly hall was completely quiet, and the kid looked like they were getting impatient.

“HEY! Mind telling me what the hell is going on?!”

After that, Diavolo launches into his explanation, also the explanation that he’s definitely this kid’s dad. Kid was not impressed, they tried to square up with Diavolo and Lucifer had never been more confused as to what to do.

Well, the moment MC sprouted wings and launched themselves at Diavolo, Dia caught them with one hand and continued speaking like nothing happened.

MC, please calm down… Diavolo didn’t know they existed, let him make it up to them! They’re going to stay at the Demon Lord’s Castle! Dia’s going to be a good dad!

“This feels like the plot to the world’s most messed up fairytale.” MC jammed their hands into their pockets and grumbled. “I get sucked into hell and find out I’m royalty there. Great.”

Diavolo managed to smile and awkwardly reach out to give them a pat on the head, then retracted his hand after the kid shot him a glare. “Well, it’s not a very traditional fairytale, but I’m sure you’ll enjoy your time here.”

“Mm, sure.” MC mumbled.

Okay, so his child wasn’t that enthusiastic about the exchange program, but Diavolo was sure they’d come around.

Dia tried everything he could possibly think of to get his kid to both like him and enjoy their time as an exchange student. A lot of things had… mixed results.

Also, legally recognizing MC as his child and legitimizing them caused a big stink amongst the nobles who were opposed to the exchange program to begin with. So MC then had to deal with a few assassins. Wonderful. Fantastic. Show stopping. Dia, be a good dad and comfort your angsty murder target- I MEAN preteen.

They do manage to build a good relationship fairly quickly despite their less than stellar first impressions, and Diavolo made them a promise that he knew he wouldn’t ever break: he would let them live as normal a childhood as possible.

This means that MC gets to do all the normal kid stuff that Diavolo wasn’t allowed to do. It honestly works out great for everyone. MC gets to live their life, Diavolo gets the satisfaction of knowing that his kid’s having fun, and Barbatos doesn’t need to worry about MC causing chaos in the castle.

Man… does this kid’s magic potential scare the shit out of everyone though…

Tired Uncle Lucifer

No. This has to be a violation of his worker rights. It cannot be legal for him to be this stressed.

He knew this exchange program was a bad idea. LUCIFER FUCKING KNEW IT. This kid was judging him. Why did he suddenly feel self conscious about every single one of his features? This child was picking him apart and they hadn’t even said anything!

He confiscated Asmo’s phone immediately, this was a matter of national security! Satan’s too! Beel as- oh shit Lucifer may have to give Beel the heimlich maneuver, then take his phone.

When all the brothers eventually got back to the HOL, they were greeted with Mammon getting shaken down by Levi.

“Lucifer! Ya won’t believe this! Levi- what’s wrong with you?” “The exchange student is Diavolo’s child.” “What..?” “*pops the cork off a bottle of Demonus* the exchange student’s Diavolo’s child.”

The worst part about this kid was that they took to the privileges of being royalty like a fish to water. MC went out and did whatever the fuck they wanted, and Lucifer needed to make sure a state of national emergency wasn’t called just because MC picked a fight at RAD.

It didn’t help that MC was just so unimpressed with Lucifer. Anytime Lucifer would tell them not to do something they would just raise their eyebrows and challenge his authority without saying a word.

What the fuck.jpg

The things he does for his prince boyfriend…

Cool Uncle Mammon

Huh, so this little pipsqueak is Lord Diavolo‘s kid? Hm, do ya think they’d let him into the royal treasury? No? Okay… lame.

Mammon then decides this kid would be just perfect for scamming people! Who is going to say no to the Crown Prince’s kid? A suicidal person, that’s who!

And the kid is… up for it? Wow, Mammon didn’t even have to grovel! Awesome!

It’s such a shame that Lucifer came in and promptly removed MC from Mammon’s presence. Tsk, killjoy…

Mammon and MC do get along swimmingly after MC stops angsting. Whenever they hang out it’s pure chaos.

And they would have gotten away with it too- wait, they do get away with it. Because who’s going to question the Crown Prince’s kid? >:)

Reclusive Uncle Leviathan

Levi was in the middle of throttling Mammon for his money back when Lucifer burst through the door looking like he had spent over 1000 Grimm on a gacha game only to not get the card he wanted.

And where was that human he said would be staying with them? Huh? The human’s HUH????!!!!

… wack. Maybe he shouldn’t have skipped out on that Student Council Meeting…

Either way, ew, new person he needed to talk to. NO THANKS. Well, no thanks until MC started to visit the HOL to hang out with Mammon. Of course those two normies decided to bug him. OF COURSE.

Levi finally snapped when MC loudly proclaimed that they could totally beat Levi in Mario Kart. Haha, NO. Levi challenged the little runt to a 1 v 1 race on Rainbow Road.

Kid lost. Obviously. Rainbow Road is rigged.

Honestly, kid’s alright. Still a total normie, but not completely terrible.

Cat Uncle Satan

Huh, a half human child of the soon to be demon king, how very interesting.

Oh, and just look at Lucifer’s face. :D priceless. Satan wished he was fast enough to get his DDD out to snap a picture, but he wasn’t able to…

But back to MC, oh how very intriguing. How much power do they have in comparison to Diavolo? Will using that power rip their fragile little body apart? Would they learn to control it? Satan was just dying to find out.

His feelings on the child themselves were mixed at best. They were clearly unhappy with the situation and Satan could sympathize, being thrust into a completely new world and then being told you can’t leave and are also royalty? That has to be hard. But this kid was still being an unreasonable little shit.

Satan continued to try and study MC from afar until the kid themselves walked right up to him and half demanded half pleaded for his help in studying for a test.

Not being one to avoid an opportunity to flex how smart he is, Satan agreed to help out. (Nerrrrd)

And honestly, it went well. When the kid wasn’t being a little shit, they were actually quite pleasant to be around.

Overly Affectionate Uncle Asmo

…wut

Listen, when Asmo asked Lucifer to pick a cute human, he didn’t mean cute as in CHILD.

This kid was DIAVOLO’S?! What lucky human had gotten to have the experience of [Jesus Fucking Christ, Asmo I’m not writing what he said for the sake of the nation]

Anyhoo~ little MC just made his heart go “SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SO CUTE!” They were so cute Asmo could just eat them up!

But they were so mean! That scowl they always had on was going to give them wrinkles and ruin their perfectly cute face!

Sigh, oh well. He can’t manually rearrange people’s expressions. What he can do is take this child shopping. Poor Diavolo was constantly in his RAD uniform, this poor innocent baby shouldn’t have to suffer the same fate.

The kid continued to scowl at everything, but at the same time, their little quips were very entertaining. This little kid spitting verbal venom at anyone who displeased them reminded Asmo of someone… he just couldn’t place who, but they definitely had amazing hair and a cute face :3

Hungry Uncle Beel

Where’s the takeout- I mean human? What’s happening? …are all humans this small? Dang, that’s barely enough for a snack.

So the human’s not going to live with us because they’re not fully human and Diavolo’s kid? Huh. Wild. Anyway, what’s for dinner?

Beel’s not too invested in this drama, he misses Belphie too much to be that interested…

The kid’s weirdly interested in how cool and strong Beel is though. MC tails him to the gym pretty often.

Diavolo and Beel already being gym buddies send tweet-

Since this benevolent little shit likes Beel so much, they decided to take it upon themselves to help with the family drama.

Beel finds that very sweet 🥺

Murder sleepy Uncle Belphie

Oh man… if you thought Belphie was being unfair to L!MC due to their parentage… hoo boy…

When this kid waltzed up the attic steps like they ran the place, Belphie needed to hold himself back from trying to break down the door and throttle this kid.

Pff, of course Diavolo would have a half human kid. Of course.

…kid beat the shit out of him when he tried to kill them. We stan this MC.

After all is said and done, Belphie still isn’t overly fond of MC. They’re brash and rude and only funny 40% of the time. They don’t even like napping 😒

But Beel likes the little runt, so Belphie and MC put up with each other.

Bonus! Your Angelic Uncle Simeon’s Chihuahua

:0 friend!

MC: *speaks*

>:0 not friend! Begone! *throws crucifix*

[koiblossom5]

tr characters at a sleepover

takemichi: probably the most normal one, which is not a good sign. he’s the type to chomp down aggressively on popcorn during scary movies bc that’s how scared he is. he’s also the first one to pass out, making him the ideal target for pranks (courtesy of mikey, smiley, and kazutora)

mikey: oh god oh fuck. this very violent gremlin will hog all of the snacks, and by all, I mean ALL of them (he’s willing to lend takemichi the popcorn though). nobody can get any sleep bc this little shit snores louder than a vacuum cleaner, much to everyone’s annoyance. oh and the nasty ass creature that’s stealing all of the food in your fridge at night? that’s not your sleep paralysis demon. that’s just mikey with his stupid 3 am snacking.

draken: takes on the role as mikey’s impulse control, but only because no one else will do it. everyone cuddles up toward him during the scary movie because he’s strong and has a very reassuring presence. by the end of the movie, he can’t feel either of his arms or legs. he’ll be willing to buy extra snacks from the local dollar store just so he can get away from mikey.

baji: honestly? just as annoying as mikey. he’s ready to get wild, and constantly squabbles over the snacks with mikey (but he’s willing to share with chifuyu). he lets emma play with his hair while he gets his nails done by chifuyu. before sleeping, everyone has to roll baji up into a blanket burrito because this mf will NOT stop kicking in his sleep. have you ever been strangled in your sleep? oh don’t worry that’s probably just baji dreaming of choking kisaki to death

chifuyu: sneaks peke j in because he can’t sleep without his cat. thankfully, he’s one of the calmer people, probably second to takemichi. he also brings over his nail polish and offers to do everyone’s nails! oh uh, ignore the barfing noises in the background: that’s just chifuyu after he’s eaten one pop tart too many. given up on sleep yet?

mitsuya: he’s willing to be more chill. he loves his sisters, but it’s practically a gift from heaven having one night to himself. he brings all of the snacks, much to mikey’s delight. he’s also probably surprisingly calm during the scary movie, but only because he had a weird but short phase sometime during middle school where he would watch nothing but horror movies. it explains a lot about luna and mana’s upbringing, actually. he’ll try to get inui to model in some clothes for him, much to hakkai’s jealously.

hakkai: slightly bummed because mikey has a super tight grip on the snacks and won’t seem to share (it’s fine, draken is going to get some more). also, mitsuya is asking someone ELSE to model for him, which he seriously can’t stand. luckily, he has someone to rant to (ahem, angry) while he gets his nails done by chifuyu. he’s terrified out of his mind during the movie, screaming really loudly during the jump scares. it’s an odd sight: hakkai’s six foot ass cowering behind mitsuya, who’s calmly munching on some popcorn with takemichi without batting an eye.

pah chin: don’t tell koko, but he somehow managed to sneak his dog, pochi into the fucking house. chifuyu’s not the only one who can’t sleep without his pet. peh-yan is the only one who knows pochi is there. they hide pochi in a closet, occasionally feeding pochi some leftover snacks that mikey hasn’t claimed yet. it’s literally the worst kept secret because these two share a collective brain cell, but somehow no one has noticed yet because there’s too much chaos going on. unfortunately, the closet they hide pochi in just happens to be where koko’s shoes and fancy clothes are stored. don’t worry! koko doesn’t find out until the very next morning, or the morning after THAT, because he’s so exhausted he literally passes out for two days. that’s how much of a headache these dumbasses are

peh yan: nervously helps pah-chin smuggle pochi inside koko’s house. he nearly spills the secret like three times to five different people, but everyone thinks he’s joking. he works off the stress by playing (several) rounds of mario kart with smiley, who is unsurprisingly good at it. after the end of his rage-quit, the TV’s shattered and broken, the consoles are split into two, and koko’s headache turns into a migraine.

smiley (nahoya): whatever you do, do NOT turn your back on this fucking demon. he’s all ready to party and get wild, and by party, he means pranking the shit out of everyone at least once. he’s already got to takemichi literally after he just stepped into the house with the classic bucket prank. takemichi seems to be his favorite target by far, partially because he’s so easy to prank. he reluctantly stops filling the water balloons with boiling hot water only because mitsuya catches him in the act. did I mention that his son of a bitch craves violence?

angry (souya): kind of becomes everyone’s therapist for tonight. he sympathetically listens to his friends’ ranting, purely because he just wants all the tea (keeping a secret? forget it. he’s gonna spill to smiley like ten seconds later anyways). during the water balloon fight, he grabs a giant nerf gun instead, which automatically makes him the winner because everyone’s desperately trying to escape his carnage. after all, he was closest to winning smiley’s paintball party last year. 

koko: man I feel so sorry for this guy. everyone chooses his fancy-ass mansion for the location of their sleepover (without permission because permission is for weak ass nerds ofc ). his blood stress and headache is higher than usual, which is saying something. you know that feeling when you’ve had a busy day at school, and your backpack is so fucking heavy it’s practically killing your spine, neck and shoulders? that’s what he’s feeling right now, but worse. don’t worry, everyone trashed his house, but paying for the property damage will barely scratch his bank account.

inui: it’s a little awkward for him because he’s rarely slept over at someone else’s house (other than koko’s), and he isn’t quite close to the others yet. he pointedly avoids other people (mitsuya, who he literally whacked over the head with a baseball bat, hakkai, because he used to be taiju’s subordinate, mikey. because mikey made it very clear that he doesn’t like inui very much, and koko, because fuck you, read the manga). he sticks close to draken’s side and kind of just follows him everywhere until draken tells him to get to know the others better. that leads to him chatting quietly with takemichi, who seems to welcome him. chifuyu’s very eager to paint his nails (red, because it’s the colour of mitsuya’s blood after he got whammied in the head!). mitsuya is determined to make inui his new model project (again, much to hakkai’s envy and distress), and tries to talk to him, which makes inui avoid him because he’s worried that mitsuya’s going to confront him. luckily, it turns out that mitsuya just wants him to try on some clothes, much to inui’s relief. he ends up making some new friends!

kazutora: you thought mikey and baji was bad, huh? well kazutora is (arguably) worse. he’ll keep it civil for the first hour, only making like, 20 snide comments toward chifuyu while chifuyu is doing his nails (the only thing that’s keeping chifuyu from dumping acrylic nail polish all over on kazutora’s stupid egirl banana hair is that the nail polish was expensive as hell ). kazutora’s favorite prank victim also happens to be poor takemichi, which leads to a competition between smiley and kazutora to see who can prank takemichi the most. suffice to say, takemichi had a truly awesome horrible night.

kisaki: i’d like to make one thing clear. this bastard was NOT invited at all. he’d be a mood killer to have around anyways. even if he was, chifuyu would have killed him before he could even take a single step inside the house.

hanma: in a hypothetical turn of events, let’s just say that if hanma WAS at the sleepover (hypothetically, of course), he would be just as chaotic as smiley, except his idea of “fun” is setting something on fire with those stupid cigarettes of his (don’t smoke kids!! protect your lungs). stealing baji’s forte? not cool hanma. :/

[makeste]

BnHA Chapter 300: Days of Our Todorokis

Previously on BnHA: Hawks was all “hey Jeanist, wanna go on a road trip with me to my mom’s house?” Jeanist was all “you know it,” and so they hopped into Jeanist’s jercedes and took off. Hawks took a nap and had a flashback to his Dickensian childhood living in a abject poverty with his jerk mom and jerk dad, thinking heroes were make-believe until one day Endeavor arrested his dad and Baby Hawks was all “OH SHIT.” And then he saved a bunch of people, and the HPSC was all “what do we have here,” and blah blah blah, you know the rest. Back in the present, Hawks was all “well my life is currently in shambles, but on the plus side there’s no one bossing me around anymore so that’s pretty cool,” and then decided he was going to talk to Endeavor. Fandom was all “I can’t believe Hawks would side with his childhood hero over the man who burned his wings off and posted a video calling him a violent murderer who took after his abusive dad,” so that was fun and stuff. I can’t wait to see what piping fresh takes this new chapter will bring.

Today on BnHA: Our old friend Carbonation Carl tries to loot a Starbucks and gets his ass kicked by a senior citizen. Society is all “YEAH, WE’RE REALLY STARTING TO GET SICK OF THIS SHIT.” Old Man Samurai is all “this room won’t stop me because I can’t read it” and abruptly decides to retire, which, fun fact, is literally THE LEAST HELPFUL THING ANYONE HAS EVER DONE. Anyway so then a bunch of other punkasses follow suit, and while I won’t say that I’m actually starting to root for Stain to kill some peeps, just for the record I’m not not saying that either. Back in the hospital, Endeavor cries some tears because his life sucks, and then is confronted by his entire family, LED BY QUEEN REI, FIRST OF HER NAME, BACK IN BUSINESS AND LARGE AND IN CHARGE. Rei is all “fuck feeling sorry for yourself, we have a rogue Murder Son on the loose” and I swear to god I have never felt so alive.

so here we go! and just for the record, even though the last two chapters have been phenomenal, I don’t necessarily have any sky-high expectations for chapter 300, mostly because chapters 100 and 200 consisted of Mei Boobs, and Toadette and her horrific quirk lmao. so go ahead Horikoshi, what are you gonna pull out of your hat for this one

oh, back to this stuff again. sob

I guess there was only so much time we could spend having hospital antics and exploring Hawks’s past before we got back to dealing with the whole “the world has gone to absolute shit” issue huh, lol

omg

what’s with these bizarrely cute Noumus. why do I want to pet them

so the narrative text is going on about how people have been super paranoid about the Noumu ever since the USJ incident a year ago. so yeah, I guess the fact that there are now a bunch of them confirmed to be running around is really freaking people out even on top of everything else

wtf is happening here

what did this poor lil glass ever do to anyone. r.i.p.

OH MY FUCKING GOD

SODA SAM IS BACK ON THE LAM

tsk tsk tsk. my man has graduated from snatching purses to raiding cafes. going after that big money. this man has no business sense whatsoever lmao

OH BUT WATCH IT NOW!!

OH SNAP THE PEOPLE ARE FIGHTING BACK. WHATCHA GONNA DO NOW SAM

THIS MAN IS 172 YEARS OLD AND HE’S NOT HERE TO PLAY GAMES!!

WTF IS HE LIGHTING THIS THING ON FIRE OR SOME SHIT. GETTEM GRANDPA YEAHHHH HE’S CHARGING AT EM YEAHHHHHH

lmao so that was fun. and now we’re cutting to Wash!! omg. look at him

he’s so dedicated. too bad you don’t have a car like Best Jeanist. probably takes a while when you’re just running everywhere

you see?? you were too slow!!

NOOOO, GRANDPA. he defeated Pepsi Pete, but lost his life in the process. this is too tragic

anyway so the good news is that the cafe has been saved! but the bad news is, there really isn’t much of a cafe left. huh. I guess that’s one of the reasons why people are supposed to get a license to use their quirks like this

oh snap and now everyone is coming outside, and they’re none too happy to see poor old Wash over here

seriously Wash, get a bicycle or something. also the way this guy is gesturing so dramatically with his hand in this sort of “YOU SEE!! YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS!!” manner is sending me

OH MY GOD

HE SPEAKS. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS. IT MEANS JEANS PUNS ARE YESTERDAY’S NEWS, FOLKS!! MAKE WAY FOR THE LAUNDRY PUNS. CAN’T WAIT TO WATCH THIS ALL... UNFOLD

“the heroes had dwindled away” okay real talk you guys, it is literally only a matter of time before they press-gang the children into picking up their slack. I still don’t know how to feel about that, but it is happening one way or the other regardless. Child Soldiers 2 Electric Boogaloo. wonder if we’ll see a rise in vigilante action as well

OHO WHAT’S THIS? THIS IS A CHAPTER OF GRANDPAS HUH

-- no fucking way

WOW. WOW. WOWWWWWW

wow. so he didn’t do a fucking thing while the rest of the top ten were being turned into red mist in the previous arc, and now that it’s all over and they need his help more than ever, he decides... THAT IT’S TIME TO RETIRE. holy shit. “fuck you” doesn’t even begin to cover it my guy. you stand there and soak up those boos you coward

ohhhhhhh shiiiiit you guys. oh shit

the “I am not here” breaks my fucking heart for real though y’all. oh man. everything he worked for is gone just like that

(ETA: okay so a couple of the takes I’ve seen on this make it seem like All Might is somehow the bad guy here?? “this is what happens when society puts a bunch of glorified cops on a pedestal”, “finally the cracks in hero society are showing”, etc. etc. so, just a friendly reminder that this isn’t happening because of too much trust and a lack of critical thinking; this is happening because the villains killed all the heroes and broke a bunch of murderers out of jail. it’s happening because an organized league of terrorists succeeded in terrorizing, and so society is now understandably awash in fear and panic. like, it’s just wild to me that AFO is RIGHT FUCKING THERE, and yet week after week fandom still has their “IT’S ALL THE HEROES’ FAULT” signs still up on their lawns. BUT WHATEVER, MOVING ON.)

also though, so exactly how much time is passing here now? I wanted to go straight back to the hospital and see what happens with Deku and the Todorokis. please don’t tell me we’re jumping ahead sob. my aaaaangst

OH SHIT

STAIN. LISTEN UP BUDDY. I KNOW WE’VE HAD OUR DIFFERENCES, AND I STILL DESPISE YOU FOR CRIPPLING TENSEI AND TRYING TO KILL MY BEST BOY TENYA. BUT AS IT HAPPENS, THERE ARE ONE OR TWO OTHER HEROES OUT THERE NOW WHO I WOULDN’T MIND YOU PAYING A VISIT I’M JUST SAYING

LOL BUT IT ACTUALLY ISN’T THIS MAN, FFFFFF

sob. yeah I was talking about Old Man Samurai actually but YEAH. HEY THERE ENJI

also is this entire hospital actually run by characters from Super Mario Bros though. first Yoshi and now this guy, come the fuck on that is not a coincidence

lmao they stuck him in another one of these cavernous creepy hospital rooms

wtf is it with Horikoshi and these giant fucking rooms lately. Kacchan’s in chapter 298, then Tomie’s colossal house furnished with like one table and a TV, and now this. and the weirdest thing about it though is that “huge space with nothing to fill it up” is like the exact opposite of what you’ll usually find in Japanese homes lol

so now Enji is just sitting there thinking things like “my head is fuzzy” and “I’m alive” lmao okay. not quite all there yet, huh. I’ll give you a minute

I’m so fucking curious as to who his first visitor is going to be omg. either way it’s going to be interesting af, and either way fandom is probably going to feel some way about it but OH WELL

okay now his thoughts are getting more coherent! and he’s remembering Touya, and feeling regret for freezing up and forcing Shouto to deal with everything instead

!!! OH HERE GOES BRACE YOURSELVES Y’ALL IT’S ABOUT TO GET SPICY

NO TOUYA PLEASE DON’T CRY HONEY NO PLEASE

ohhhhhhh man

okay, I mean I didn’t expect you to, but so instead then you’re just going to do... what? lie there and wallow in regret and self-pity for the rest of your life? son you know that’s not how we deal with our problems here in Shounen

though also, I totally do get it though. honestly, thinking on it, I probably would have been disappointed with any other response. but so this is where the rest of his family (including his adopted son) come into play now though, because like it or not they’re all in this thing together. and so friends, I am once again asking you WHO IS GOING TO BE THE ONE TO VISIT ENJI FIRST

AHHHHHHH

KRANCH!!!! OMG AND THE OTHERS ARE SO TINY NEXT TO HIM THAT I ALMOST DIDN’T SEE THEM AT FIRST. IT’S BECAUSE THEY’RE TWENTY MILES AWAY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS REGULATION HOCKEY RINK OF A ROOM

holy shit I’m so excited lkjlklhlglkasdsjldfk

SDKFJLSKHLKJL

the way she has him by his collar lmaoooo. “lol nah you’re not going anywhere pal.” damn straight, siblings have to be ride or die in situations like this. banding together for survival. strength in numbers

OH MY STARS I’M JUST WARNING YOU NOW THAT I’M ABOUT TO DISSECT EVERY LAST REMAINING PANEL OF THIS CHAPTER PROBABLY YOU GUYS. WE COULD BE HERE A WHILE

love how Fuyu has absolutely no idea how to segue into THE SINGLE MOST AWKWARD CONVERSATION SHE’S EVER HAD, so she just GOES FOR IT in pure small talk mode like they’re meeting up for brunch somewhere

I KNOW IT’S A SMALL THING, BUT I APPRECIATE THAT THE FIRST THING ENJI ASKS IS WHETHER THEY’RE OKAY

lastly while I can’t wait for more of this delicious Natsu angst, I also just have to say that Enji has as much reason to cry right now as anyone on the planet. you can’t deny that being confronted by your not-dead-but-you-thought-he-was-dead son who’s all “SURPRISE DAD I GREW UP TO BE A MASS MURDERER AND I HATE YOU AND EVERYTHING IS ALL YOUR FAULT AND NOW I’M GONNA MAIM YOUR OTHER KID” with a side order of “EVERYONE HATES YOU AND SOCIETY IS CRUMBLING AND NOTHING WILL EVER BE GOOD EVER AGAIN” is enough to bum pretty much anyone out. there’s a Pagliacci the Clown joke here somewhere. BUT DOCTOR, I AM THE NUMBER ONE HERO

oh man lol he is seriously falling apart

damn. like you guys, I’m sorry, go ahead and cancel me, but I do feel compassion for the man. it’s therapeutic for me to see an abuser actually feel remorse and be truly sorry and want to change and want to make it up to his family. and it’s also compelling as fuck to read a narrative about a family that’s trying to grapple with that, because let me tell you straight up, as someone who’s done a version of that song and dance -- it is exhausting. it is a piping hot mess. it’s a gigantic mishmosh of extremely volatile emotions that all somehow all contradict one another. love, hurt, hope, anger, betrayal, resentment, attachment, longing. it’s something you can both be desperate for and also want nothing at all to do with. and attempting to portray all of that and write about it is a monumental task, and one which Horikoshi has done so, so delicately thus far, and damn but I appreciate it. anyway, so I’m here and I’m ready for my latest helping of Todoroki Fam Feels you guys

GASP

oh man. OHMANOHMANOHMAN. CAN IT REALLY BE. IS THIS THE REDEMPTION ARC OF CHAPTERS 100 AND 200???

LMAO SHE’S ALL “WE ALL FEEL BAD YOU JACKASS STOP CRYING ABOUT IT”

LAY INTO HIM REI!! SORRY ENJI YOUR PITY PARTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED IN FAVOR OF A “SO WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT” PARTY COURTESY OF QUEEN ELSA OVER HERE. THE PEOPLE TOOK A VOTE AND WE WANT LESS WHINING AND MORE ACTION

oh my god look at this lady folks

NOTE THE HAIR BLOWING IN THE NONEXISTENT WIND. NOW WE KNOW WHERE SHOUTO GOT THIS POWER FROM

(ETA: btw guys, seeing Rei handle this crisis like an absolute champ despite everything she’s been through is everything, though. I’m reminded of Hawks’s line last week about people sometimes unexpectedly finding liberation when they’re backed into a corner. like things may be shit but goddammit her kiddos need her.)

THE CHAPTER IS ALREADY ENDING SOB, IT’S ONLY A 17-PAGER THIS WEEK, BUT GODDAMN WHAT A WAY TO CLOSE

oh my god. oh my god oh my god. AND FUCK YOU HORIKOSHI FOR CUTTING IT OFF THERE sob. it’s like each week the wait for the next chapter becomes more painful. the Todofam is about to get real, and on top of that Hawks is gonna crash the party at some point down the line, and on top of that we’re still waiting for Kacchan to have his own heartfelt discussion about What The Fuck Are We Supposed To Do Next with his best friend who’s currently in a coma. all I want to do with my life is read about these three things, and all I can do is simply wait as they are portioned out in agonizing, addicting little installments every week

anyway! tune in next time as we answer the question of whether or not fandom will finally run its train of logic all the way through to its natural conclusion and somehow manage to cancel Noted Abuse Apologist Todoroki Fucking Rei. don’t act like it can’t happen. you all know nothing is sacred lol. anyways but I’m ready for anything lol, bring it

[ch1giri]

heyy!! I found your blog recently and I really enjoy reading your writings! You’re an amazing writer! I’m really happy to see more Blue Lock content as well! Blue Lock is such an awesome manga and I love it so much! I look forward to more of your works! 💘

Could I also request maybe First Date headcanons with Sae, Rin, Nagi, Chigiri, Reo, Kunigami, Isagi, or any of the Blue Lock boys? Thank you!

Hi anon you are such a sweetheart thank you so much! This made my day (*≧з≦) I apologise for making you wait too long, I hope you'll like it! Also, sorry some of them were much longer than the others

First date headcanons

Characters: Sae Itoshi, Rin Itoshi, Nagi Seishiro, Reo Mikage, Chigiri Hyoma, Kunigami Rensuke and Isagi Yoichi

Sae Itoshi

• You have to be very special to catch his eye. He doesn't go just for anyone, but you, you're definitely special

• And once he confirms his feelings for you he confidently asks you out. Bonus points if you get flustered a bit, he thinks it's cute that he has that effect on you.

• Once you guys agree to go on a date this boy immediately rearranges his schedule around the date

• He tried suggesting that you two go on your first date in Spain or France. But you politely shut down his idea down, saying that he doesn't need to go overboard for your first date

• So you guys settle for a nice restaurant in Japan, he was a little bummed that he had to stay here but it's with you so he will manage

• Sae is a true gentleman, opens the door for you, pulls you out a chair, compliments you and pays for the meal

• If someone happens to see you two outside on a date tho, rumours will start immediately. But he couldn't give two shits tbh

• He would enjoy listening to your interests, Sae loves watching that spark light up in your eyes he knows the feeling of happiness that rushes through you when you talk about your interests.

• If they do happen to ask him about you on some press conferences he would just say: "Yes I'm currently dating someone, I don't get how is that related to my career."

• After your date, he would drive/walk you home and kiss you on your forehead. And when he comes back home he would have to fight the urge of buying some tickets for a foreign country to take you on your next date.

Rin Itoshi

• Like his brother, Rin seems very cold and calculated. So you have to be super interesting to catch his fancy

• Rin is introverted, so he wouldn't like to go out to some fancy restaurant. So he would take you out to the movies! He enjoys horror films so I feel like he would pick out a really good one

• After movies you guys would get ice cream and walk around, talking about anything and everything

• He would complain about all the lukewarm people he met in blue lock. And he would offer an ear to your complaints.

• He is so cute I swear, Rin is trying so hard to hide the smile that is stubbornly trying to show on his face. He doesn't want to blow his "cool guy" persona yet.

• He would walk you home and you would walk you home, but you would have to be one to initiate something. He wants to hug you, but the poor boy is just super embarrassed.

• When you hug him, or kiss him on the cheek. You can definitely see the red color creeping on his ears. When you two finally part your ways. Rin is letting that simle show, just this time it's much bigger and the pink dusting his cheeks is much more visible. But when he gets back home he puts on his cold facade

• He is not into PDA, so on your next date I feel like you two would walk around with your pinkies intertwined

Nagi Seishiro

• This one is a given, Nagi would totally take you out on an arcade date! He could effortlessly impress you, plus who doesn't love arcades?

• You two would play few intense rounds of air hockey. After the fifth time that you lost he let you win one round, just to see you jump around in victory

• After that you guys played some co op games, Mario Bros, Bubble Bobble and other classic

• Your small rivalry will continue as you guys start playing vs games like Street Fighter, Tekken and Mortal Kombat if you main Kitana you are immediately attractive idc again he will let you win just to see that cute smile on your face

• Please if you have the willpower make him play Taiko or DDR. At first he would be hesitant, because he thinks that it would require so much effort but if you bat your eyelashes he might just fall for your trap

• What can he say it's hard to resist when it comes to you. Surprisingly he is really good at Taiko, which of course earned a compliment from you "You should consider becoming a drummer." please just imagine drummer!Nagi what a concept

• Nagi saw you eyeing one of the toys in the claw machine and he just had to jump at the opportunity. So here you were with two milkshakes in your hands cheering Nagi on

• It took him a while but he got it in the end! He knows that you will treasure it, and the huge smile on your face was totally worth it

• You two walk to your house hand in hand and talk about all the games that you played you leave him with a kiss on the cheek and a promise to beat him fair and square next time

Reo Mikage

• This guy goes all out, like it's unreal how much effort he put in. The second you agreed to go out on a date with him he started planning everything out to the smallest detail

• A limo was waiting outside for you, I mean he did tell you to wear something nice, but you didn't expect this much

• He bought you flowers, he went as far as renting out the whole restaurant. Which is one of the most expensive in town.

• At first you felt kinda awkward, I mean isn't he going a bit too far? He probably spent a lot of money on this. But he reassured you that you deserve to be spoiled

• After some time you get much more comfortable, and you stop caring. You don't feel uncomfortable and out of place because Reo is there, and that's the only thing that matters

• After a very nice dinner made by the best cook in the country. You guys went on top of a tall building and just talked your hearts out, admiring the beautiful navy sky

• The limo took you guys back to your place and you were standing on your doorstep hoping that Reo would do something and he did!

• He kissed you! And you had to hold in a scream of happiness, after he left you ran into your room to let out that happiness by screaming into your pillow

Chigiri Hyoma

• Okay, you two would go on a study date! He feels like that's the best option, it's lowkey and he wouldn't feel as stressed to actually ask you out

• But just because the date seems casual, it doesn't mean he didn't carefully chose the location you two would go to. He checked all the local cafés and what food and drinks they serve

• He would choose the most beautiful café, a beautiful slow melody is bouncing around the room. The whole café was decorated with wood and plants, making it look like a whimsical forest

• You two ordered tea and got two Strawberry Shortcakes, Chigiri and you opened your books, you guys talked a bit about the harder subjects you have to get to eventually

• But as the conversation started to flow, you two kinda forgot about the pile of books you had on the table

• You talked about your favorite writers, and other hobbies you share, the tea was great and so was the Shortcake

• After a long talk, it was time to part your ways. Chigiri walked you home, and you guys just couldn't stop talking about everything and anything

• You didn't want to go and neither did he, so he immediately asked you out on a another date, and of course you were so excited

• When he left he just couldn't stop thinking about you, so he called you and the two of you talked for so long.

• Both of you couldn't wait to see each other again

Kunigami Rensuke

• The two of you would go to an amusement park! Eating delicious, colourful cotton candy as you guys talked about all the ride you want to go on

• Kunigami would win so many games, you would have so many stuffed animals by the end of it

• Like his hands were full and you were carrying two stuffed bears each settled into your hands

• You guys would ride the fastest, highest roller coasters. But if you are afraid of heights, that's okay too. There is a lot of other fun rides and games you can try

• You would go on the teacups and you would ride a carousel giggling like little children throughout all of it

• Kunigami suggested that you should visit the Haunted mansion, everything was fine at first, but then a second jump scare happened and then out of reflex Kunigami hit the poor worker in the head

• When the sun started to fall asleep and the sky splashed with orange gradients. The two of you went to a farriers wheel

• Walking home still laughing about the aftermath of the punch Kunigami accidentally landed and your hands full with the stuffed prizes, he asked you out on a next date

Isagi Yoichi

• Isagi took you out on a picnic! At first he was kinda hesitant to ask you out. He can get really insecure at times and you are just so perfect he thought you were way out of his league

• When you said yes, he was the happiest he ever felt it's the same feeling he gets when he scores a goal

• In an attempt to surprise Isagi, you decided to make some sandwiches

• Isagi had the same idea tho, so when you two met up, both of you were holding baskets full of food earning an angelic laugh from Isagi

• The field looked beautiful, it was filled with flowers and some kids were running around. The two of you sat on a blanket right under a blossoming cherry tree

• Munching on some sandwiches, you talked about anything and everything

• After you stuffed your faces with food, Isagi suggested that you two play football. And you eagerly agreed

• Sure, maybe you aren't the best football player. But seeing the spark that is dancing in his eyes is totally worth running around trying to kick a ball

• To your surprise, you played football for hours laughing and playfully bickering

• And everything was fine until the rain began to fall. Quickly starting to pack your things up, Isagi looked for the shelter

• The two of you ran to safety, never dropping your smiles, your hair and clothes totally wet by now

• Your house was closer so that's where you went. You begged Isagi to stay until the rain stopped. And he oh was he embarrassed, he's never been in a girl's room and now here he is. Changing into some clothes you had laying around while you were making tea for the both of you

• After some time passed, Isagi finally got comfortable and you laughed the whole situation off

• When the rain stopped, it was time for him to go even though you didn't want him to

• He thanked you for the stuff you lent him. Promising to return them on the next date

[kookie-doughs]

Beta Tester

Kozume Kenma X Reader

-YN LN is a popular mangaka

Chapter 29: Tested

As you sat in the middle of Kenma's sprawled leg, you two cuddled with controllers at hand.

A year at most had passed since the release of Puri Puri Magika: Lost Magic™ and things happened.

Of course PPM recieved a lot of rewards and the hype of the game still hasn't died which surprised you. A multi-player version was also released after 5 months.

You had publish and completed 2 Manga and have a new one on going. Your Manga recieved an anime adaptation which made you proud.

Kenma had won awards as well. Not that we'd go into that🙄. He also 'forced' you to move in so he could make sure you're living healthy and not staying up for a week finishing your script. He also dedicated a day where he streams with you, so you could rest.

You both usually used your time playing games that were on top charts. And among all the games only 1 game almost topped PPM.

The game Kenma had asked Sakujo to make. They publicly released it as a dating simulator, which you could either end up with Kenma or you.

"You idiot! Just fucking die already!!" You screeched as you button mashed.

Right now you were playing Street fighter to match with Kenma's retro theme of the month.

"You suck at this."

"Shut the fuck up! How do I do Kamehameha?!!!??"

Kenma sighed, "It's not called Kamehameha idiot. It's called-" He didn't need to finish his sentence when his character finished you off with a yell of "Hadouken!"

You looked at how your character lost and clenched you jaw.

"You suck!!!! You're a cheater!!!! I hate this let's play something else!!!!!" You screamed.

Kenma frowned at how loud your were but obliged. He checked the comments to see which games they were recommending.

"Let's play th---" He was cut off when the door slammed open outside.

The two of you looked at each other.

"Y/N!!! BABEEEEE!!!!" You heard your Soulmate yell at the living room.

"AHHH! Kuroo!!!!" You hopped off Kenma and ran to the door.

Kenma wouldn't agree but according to the comments, Kenma gave a horrified and broken look the moment you jumped off.

"This idiot." He grumbled and followed you as fast as he could not bothering with his stream.

He saw how you and Kuroo approached each other in slow mo, skipping to each other. So Kenma had no trouble grabbing you by the hood of your hoodie and frowned at Kuroo only to see Alisa holding Kuroo in a choke hold.

"Hey Kenma!" Alisa smiled.

The blond nodded and dragged you behind him.

"Alisaaaaa! Kenmaaaa!!!! You can't split away soulmates!! Let us goo!!!" You and Kuroo struggled from their hold.

Managing to free a hand you both tried to reach out to each other, only for Alisa to choke Kuroo harder killing the poor man.

"I came to borrow YN~" Alisa sang looking at Kenma.

"If she's going be like this, you can have her."

"Swap her with Kuroo?"

"Why the fuck would I want Kuroo?"

"Well I can't have both of them! Do you seriously want them arrested? Again?"

Kenma groaned at sighed. He let Alisa drag you to your closet and he was stuck with Kuroo.

After you got prepared to go out you gave Kenma a kiss and tried to do it Kuroo as well but the demonic aura of the two scared you both so you decided against it and went out.

Unbeknownst to you the two male had a talk about something. Unfortunately unbeknownst to them, the stream was still active...

Alisa dragged you from shop to shop. Buying this and that.

After what seemed to be 3 hours you and Alisa went to a food court.

To your surprise you saw Keiji, Tenma and Yamaguchi together.

"Y/N! Alisa!" Satori greeted.

"What are you guys doing here?" You asked shocked.

"Well we wanted to hang out and Alisa said you were with her so we went here." Tenma grinned.

"Satori dragged me with him." Akaashi said.

They all joined you and then conversation just flowed perfectly. You talked about this and that while eating.

You'd check on your phone hoping to see a message from Kenma but you got none.

"You keep checking your phone, want us gone that bad?" Satori frowned.

"N-No! I was just checking if Kenma left a message."

"Did he?"

"Nope. I kinda wanna go home now."

"Oh my god what if he's cheating on you?" Satori gasped. Which earned him a hit from Alisa and Akaashi.

"As if that hermit could get anyone else. Especially with Kuroo following him. My Soulmate would make girls pass out before they could even glance at Kenma."

"I don't understand why YN loves Kuroo more than Kenma." Yamaguchi laughed nervously.

"Alisa prefers Kenma. Kuroo prefers YN. Kenma hates everyone." Akaashi pointed out.

"If Alisa would let me I wouldn't mind being a third."

"One thing we agreed on is never put you and Kuroo together and unsupervised. So no I don't think so."

"When did you learn that?" Tenma asked.

"After the two got arrested." Akaashi answered.

"Huh?"

"It was at a train. Something... Explicit happened." Alisa sighed remembering what happened.

"H-Huh?"

"YN went on her knees on a train. They didn't actually do anything, just suggested the thought but I guess it was enough to get them arrested." Akaashi explained.

"That's where the KenYN break up came in."

"I'm surprised Kenma and Alisa are still dating you and Kuroo at this point."

"I know right?" Alisa cringed. "Anyway we should continue our shopping spree."

You all stood up and roamed around for another hour or two until Alisa got a message.

"We should go home. Kuroo just texted me. You guys wanna come with?"

They all shrugged and said they'll meet you at your place.

When you got home you got home you laughed seeing how messy your place was. It was like there's a con going on at your house.

Everyone in it was Cosplaying as some game character. There were people you didn't quite know who.

"Y/N!!!!" Kuroo came barelling towards you in his Luigi costume with Mario right behind him.

"Ahh! Where's Akaashi?!" Mario, who turned out to be Bokuto, asked.

Alisa stepped in front of you before Kuroo got to you and turned to Bokuto. "He's on his way. He probably changed clothes."

"What's happening? Why is everyone dressed up?"

Kenma came out of the room with his Overwatch cosplay. You told your friends you were going to Kenma and went over.

"Well hello there. What's up with everything?"

"Do you not know what today is?" Kenma asked.

"Oh fuck, is it our anniversary?"

You and Kenma just looked at each. You fucked up.

"You don't know when that is?"

"P-psh. Of course I-I know!

Kenma flicked your forehead and walked away after saying, "Get dressed. Choose whatever you want."

And now he's upset at you. You felt guilty about forgetting what today was.

Luckily you and Kenma often Cosplay during stream so you had spares. You decided to go as Graves from League of Legends with face beard and all.

Everyone was looking at you when you got out of the room which made you feel anxious.

Was this party for you and you forgot about it? It wasn't Kenma's birthday that's for sure. What could it have been?

Alisa came to you in a KDA Akali Cosplay that you assume Kenma lent her.

"Oh my god the photos are gonna be so great."

"I think Kenma's mad at me..." You mumbled.

"When is he not?"

"I don't know what today is..."

"Just- it'll come to you sooner or later."

You frowned as you scanned the room for your man. You saw Akaashi in a Kingdom Hearts Cosplay, Satori and Wakatoshi in a Tomb Raider costume. Hinata and Kageyama in Danganronpa. Link, who is Atsumu, clinging to Skull Kid. Sakujo and his husband wearimg you and Kenma's character in PPM.

But you found no one in an Overwatch costume.

"Excuse me..." You heard from the front. It was Kuroo, Bokuto and Kenma on an improvised stage.

"I'm sure everyone here knows what's going on right?" Kenma said exaggerating on the word everyone.

"Today, to continue our celebration we will be having a treasure hunt! The treasures you're looking for are in a form of a game loot box of various game style."

"There are a total of 21 loot boxes around town. One of them empty. You are to bring the loot box unopened here and you'll claim the prize of whatever it is in it. You could either come home empty handed or 100k courtesy to our dear host."

"The clues to the boxes are cut evenly to all the players. All the players will have 1 clue. Each players could only get one loot box and it has to correspond to your clue. Come up and get your clue!"

With that, Bokuto brought out a box with a hole on top. Everyone went on stage and got their clue. You were the last to get the clue so you were excited.

The thought of at least 45 adults in Cosplay running around town looking for boxes humored you. So you excitedly looked at your clue.

What made today special.

You froze. It was as if they were doing this in purpose. You had no idea what today was, and of course you had to get the clue asking for what today was.

You looked at Kenma and he gave you a look. Did he know which clue you got, and is disappointed you didn't know what it was?

You took a deep breath and went over to Kenma. "I-I'll win! I know it."

Kenma nodded. "That'll be one less 100k. Do win."

"Ready???" Kuroo called everyone.

"Go!" Bokuto yelled and everyone went out.

Eyes were on us with a bunch of adults wearing Cosplay coming out of a room. Some recognized people it made you realize everyone running right now was a pretty big deal in entertainment industry or related to someone. No one recognized you though. Bless your fake beard.

You ran to wherever you could think of. Enix, Jump, your place. But you saw nothing. Then you thought of the party.

The party wasn't a year ago from today but it was the only one you could think of.

You ran you were just so tired. After all you've been running for hours. And when you got there.

It was empty.

It broke your heart. You couldn't remember what today was. You failed Kenma.

You just gave up. You needed Kenma's comfort, but you were afraid you won't get it since you failed.

You sadly made your way back to you place. Tears threatening to fall. You were disappointed in yourself.

"Y/N." You heard someone call. You lifted your head to see Kenma.

The tears fell. "Kenma... I could find the box..."

Everyone was already back, and was looking out.

"I-I looked everywhere and I-I just couldn't find it..." A soft sob escaped your lips. And you looked down.

"Y/N."

"I-I don't remember what today is..."

"Y/N look at me." Kenma called.

You lifted your head and saw that Kenma was on his knees. Your eyes widened.

"H-Huh...?"

He brought out a Overwatch loot box from his pocket and cleared his throat.

"Today... Was the day when it all started. The day you showed up in my steps with a stupid flash drive..." He laughed weakly.

You blinked confused of what's happening.

"The day I saw, was the most important day for me. It was the day... The day I noticed you. I really hate you back then. You were so annoying, you still are. You're so persistent. So loud. You ruined my stream. And you kept bothering me. "

"Now you're just insulting me..." You laughed sadly.

"I-I... Look... I love you. I love you YN LN." And looked at the box, "Do you want to know what box you got?"

"Uh-Hm..."

When you opened the box there was a ring.

"Marry me."

You took the box from him and laughed. "You are such a nerd!" Wrapping your arms around him and gave him a kiss.

The crowd hollered and awed at you two. Chanting "Answer him!" and "Say yes!"

When you two parted you rested your forehead against his.

"I love you so much Kenma. I'd love to spend an eternity stuck with your stupid nerdy ass."

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This was the last chapter!!! Thank you very much for sticking with it!!!!

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[larrythefloridaman]

Y'all like your deities with or without the shell?

Under the readmore is aaaaaaaaall color god observations and musings based on them, because I am studying to become the world's Premiere Chromatheologian and RGB Understander so under the cut is pretty much Oops! All Spoilers! up to the most recent episode of season 3.

Apparently Universal Color God Attributes:

Damage to their domain hurts them, but fixing the issue, or lashing out by using their powers destructively, can help them to repair the damage.

If they sustain enough damage, it can temporarily paralyze them and send them into a strengthened but 'exposed' state (chartreuse's spirit activation in the last fight of 19) and further damage after that will activate a failsafe, which is unique by domain but seemingly designed to give them the chance to balance things, but can get… very out of hand or backfire depending on circumstances. (see: cobalt’s failsafe sending mark's universe into a never-ending apocalyptic war because word of the cure for death became too widespread for the killing urge failsafe to affectively balance anything because every side could simply revive their fallen.)

Chartreuse's failsafe is something of a stopped time bubble quarantine where processes that require the passing of time cannot complete, allowing her the time to wear down the offending party to beat them to death or plan around finishing them.

Cobalt's is inciting war, the casualties serving to balance the scale. I'm not sure we know Crimson's yet- he's never taken enough direct damage without doing damage to compensate in order to trigger it, although i dont remember season one well enough to recall if any of the universe stuff in it tracks with the pattern bc season one is a bit fucky

Connected in a fashion that allows them to simply Sense the overall status of the others to some extent, although they don't know Why theyre in the state theyre in without asking (chartreuse [and by extension, folk, presumably on her information] confronting crimson via crimsonaut for pretending to be dead, Cobalt confronting both his siblings about how they are handling their duties improperly but not knowing about Folk. He knew about the constants deaths because hes a death god, duh, but he didnt use their names like crimson did, possibly implying they're erased upon death so thoroughly that only crimson and the constants can really recall a shattered constants' existence, not even the other guardians.)

Abilities of the guardians can be replicated by mortals through three apparent methods- through machines (dimensional bus, the time machine, presumably J0hn's part in Sephiroth's resurrection,) simply through advanced enough individual skill (Home MD curing death, potentially Dantoinette's universe portal travel, maybe Genwun's sped up time bubble that evolved them into Genfour? although that could very well have just been an illusion and theyre just like, a fuckin theater kid that was doing pretend character development for the Bit or something given GenFive turned out to be a zoroark) or through stealing some of the power of the relevant god (Dr. Order stealing Chartreuse's power, Dani maybe having stolen some of Crimson's when she beat his ass. Dani's one woman universal travel is like, wicked ambiguous)

Cobalt:

Can seemingly perceive or act through any living material. (The Tree. Cobalt instructed Larry to slap his hand on that tree, that shit glowed and he had a new deal tattoo without Cobalt ever having been physically present)

Can influence the resurrected by giving them a killing urge. Represented by an aberrant brainwave and a ringing in the undead's heads. This doesnt appear to be direct control- as the Grunk could clearly restrain himself from killing people that genuinely didn't deserve it (like nightly and cha cha, who WERE grunk event targets but not fatally so. Nagito was a crimson thing so it really doesn't count here. God poor grunk his life really is just a constant plaything in the hands of the gods huh) and Sephiroth very much had personal motivation to want to kill Folk. failsafe activates this ability on the scale of war.

Deals. The extent of what Cobalt can do with these is unclear but Iggy's god powers were taken from him as his part in the deal so what he can take isn't limited to physical things or things obviously related to his domain.

Weaknesses:

Deals. While this ability is impressive his preference for making deals for those that offend against his domain is potentially very exploitable- Larry's knowledge of the cure for death is, if word of it were to ever get out beyond Larry, wildly dangerous for this dimension, so technically the safest thing for the iron-fisted cobalt to do would be to nip the problem in the bud and get rid of him. But, fascinatingly, that wasn't even put on the table, the first thing Cobalt does is threaten J0hn, prompting Larry to make a deal. While Cobalt enforces death, he also doesn't like unnecessary death, and Larry demonstrably knows how to keep a secret for the good of the world even at great cost to himself and Cobalt is aware of this- easily clarifying to Larry the aberrant thing endangering the universe wasn't his timeloop business. So while he's clearly not letting his resurrection fuckery go unpunished, he's being pretty merciful when he doesn't have to be and from a strictly, brutally pragmatic perspective probably shouldn't be.

His control over the undead manifests as a ringing and an aberrant brainwave trackable by J0hn's equipment, and could probably therefore be accounted for and circumvented? J0hn has, wisely, largely sworn off fucking with people's brains after the sephiroth fiasco went So Wrong, So Very Wrong, Oh God Oh Fuck Someone Cool Almost Died, but if he hadn't, and if J0hn let his dislike for authority and keeping Larry safe outweigh reason like he let safety, spite and comedic value outweigh good ethical sense when reprogramming sephiroth, in theory Mr. 'hacked a time machine for breakfast?' could. y'know. probably do it. what is a god's authority to an anarchist, what better to challenge life and death than the cold and eternal machine, you get the point its a fun scenario

Olive Garden Breadsticks and Small Cute Dogs, apparently

Chartreuse's:

Time Clones: taps into parallel timelines to retrieve alternate versions of herself to utilize.

Time Travel: what it says on the tin. Travel to the past creates painful splits in the prime timeline, but through careful action and traveling back into the past, these can be weaved into a time loop. A split from the timeline is a wound, and a successful timeloop is the surgical scar it can become with attentive care, to use a medical metaphor. Carefully closed and healing. Keeping Folk here is essentially akin to chartreuse pulling out her stitches on the initial incision.

Time Stopping: creates a space wherein things that take time to complete cannot complete, where things can move, but everything within is in a perfect unchanging stasis until the bubble drops. This is the form her failsafe takes.

Timeline Creation: can create timelines from scratch.

Can fuse alternate timeline versions of the same individual to allow them to coexist. (Ryan's confirmed in the discord that Dantoinette experienced both failures in 20, because Chartreuse fused the two instances of her to save the post-raid instance from fading. Could... theoretically do this to Folk and save herself the pain, but while Folk and Therapuppy are the same person, there's seven years and untold amounts of difference deriving from the time and circumstance between them and the inherent cognitive dissonances that would result from attempting that would be wicked fucked up to inflict, and that's assuming there isn't some reason that it wouldn't be possible anyway. while the two Danis had like. A day or so's difference between them, so she could be safely fused with the only dissonant thing being that she remembers both being too slow to prevent order's time escape and beginning to dissipate post-raid, AND losing that fight to her pre-raid. RIP Dani, that perfectionism must be kicking her ass)

Weaknesses:

Unwilling to use her powers destructively in her pursuit of domain repair and thereby much easier to damage to the point of paralyzing her, making her particularly vulnerable to Power Theft

Morally Optimistic. At one point in 19, she briefly justifies Crimson's shitty evil actions to herself after experiencing for herself how Wack the kerfuffleverse is firsthand, ("and all he did was kill a couple people!" Chartreuse. Honey.) and when she fights Crimsonaut she seems to actually believe for a second that he's actually worried about her when Crimson asks if she's okay after he beats her. Additionally, as D+, she concerns herself with trying to understand doctor order's motive, and after Larry defeats Order, he makes a point of confirming she feels no remorse before making his request for what Chartreuse does with her, and appeals to the idea of letting Order fulfill her desire to be a god in a way which isn't a problem for anyone and Chartreuse is more than happy to oblige under these conditions after what Larry's done for everybody. Then immediately threatens to evaporate him for playfully teasing her about having a crush on folk. Fucked up a little bit

Crimson's:

Universe Shifting: Travel between universes.

Universe Correction: appears to replace an aberrant individual with the 'correct' version of themselves for that universe, presumably sending them back to their own. (Mario from super mario was universe corrected, but still seemingly exists in wario form as evidenced by smashup kerfuffle, and was simply temporarily replaced with his corrected universe counterpart. But like. The dimensional bus system is still active crimbo doing the Put That Thing Back Where It Came From Or So Help Me routine aint gonna work if they can come back with a shrug and bus fare. you're fighting the symptoms without treating the problem)

Universal Constants:

Three individuals per universe that serve as the pillars which stabilize said universe, created by absorbing red orbs Crimson creates. Becoming a constant grants power, but also makes the constant fragile, and death wipes them from the face of the multiverse, only crimson, those he's possessed and the other constants seemingly able to recall they ever existed, although some physical evidence is still left behind (Larry's record of Nagito's death, which is just as redacted as everything else relating to him but still is very much something Larry has. Kind of a Voidfish adventurezone type beat ironically enough? Taako really has seen all this shit before no wonder he peaced tf out)

To counterbalance the weaknesses the constants have, they have a sort of spidey-sense to alert them to danger, and an intrinsic bonded connection to their fellow constants, and additionally, Crimson apparently doesn't suffer any pain from the death of constants or the structural instability of a universe.

Possession: what it says on the tin! Seemingly can only be done with permission to living things- none of crimson's direct hosts seem to have entered that agreement unwillingly, Valentine lost a bet, Hamburger and Crimsonaut have been by all evidence intentional allies to Crimson- but electronics are fair game, as seen with The Guy's suit. Kinda curious how that rule applies to bitches that are half and half, like J0hn or the clonebot gang, as its unclear whether The Guy's suit was yoinkable without permission because it was mechanical or because its not sentient. could go either way but if it's the former that's potentially very frightening

Fusion: Two individuals from alternate universes can be fused into one shared body which can take on aspects of either depending on which is currently in control. (possibly allows someone who traveled into a given universe to become a fixed resident there without it being an issue for Crimson, whose job is to prevent interdimensional travel?) Monday Mark and possibly T.O.M. are our main examples.

Corruption:

Unpleasant As Hell and can even kill you instead of changing you if you cant handle it.

turns the corrupted individual into a twisted exaggeration of themself, allows them supernatural control over their shape, and makes them very difficult- if not impossible by traditional means- to kill, based on Garfield.

Subjects them to control by Crimson, but can be exorcised of this influence just like crimson's direct hosts can, although the supernatural changes to their physiology are seemingly permanent, judging from Shantae.

Notable Weaknesses:

Exorcism can be performed to free a possessed or corrupted individual of Crimson's influence. Its unclear how exorcism works/is learned in CPUK, but confirmed exorcists: dantoinette and yung papaya's snake dad, confirmed non-exorcists: folk

The universal constant orbs are physical objects so they are Very Stealable and they grant a power boost so theres literally an Incentive to beat his ass for anybody who wants to be strong and either doesnt know or doesn't care about the whole 'getting erased when you die' part

Crimson has lots of tools to create pawns, but all of them have drawbacks. Corruption could kill a potential pawn, possession generally seems to require permission, and he has no control over the constants' choices and actions

Manipulative bitch's highest stat is charisma and it shows. This motherfucker is selling snake oil. If he was mortal rather than a Whole Entire God he'd make an excellent ineffectual saturday morning cartoon supervillain and i think everyone, including him, would be happier for it, ngl

Something interesting ive realized that likely wasnt fully intentional, is that a lot of Dr. Order's creations, considering her motive, can kind of be sorted by a color god it appears to be a crude attempt at mimicking the abilities of. My Grunk is a poorly executed resurrection, the clonebot gang vs chartreuse's timeclones (this one deserves special mention because Chartreuse used this shitty attempted mimicry to her advantage with D+, very smart and ironic play, excellent job Treusy,) spirits are somewhat similar to universal constant orbs (orbs which can be absorbed to grant power, but which have physical repercussions- key differences being that spirits require activation and grow stronger while attuning to a user without being used, and having far less severe drawbacks, taking a heavy toll on the body, but only once they've worn off and without the risk of wiping yourself from the face of existence,) and she also augmented Perfect Spriteman and Larry, which kind of track as crude imitations of Crimson's corruption!

Garfield was an acerbic cat who loved food and hated mondays, now its an actively malicious ever-hungry amorphous entity whose only weakness is monday and whose only consistency in form is 'cat-like.'

Shantae was (to my extremely limited understanding of shantae,) a friendly heroic type who had to introduce herself often, and she became something akin to a biblically accurate angel that can *only* introduce herself.

The Grunks a tough but sweet and supportive single dad with stage presence and a tendency to fly off the handle when he or his family are slighted, and now he gets so hype in the audience when his son does well that he bursts into flames and ascends and we get random grunk events along with the associated murder charges when he gets mad and the target sucks enough that he doesn't hold himself back from killing them.

Perfect Spriteman and Larry fit the trend of exaggeration of already present traits- Spriteman fucking loves sprite and became something that only thinks about sprite, and Larry the Florida Man, characterized from minute one by unpredictability and who spent his first matches in the series pre-shapeshifter transformation staying alive keeping stocks for Shockingly Long even despite getting seventh, became literally physically random as well as developing the ability to regenerate, albeit with the ability to feel pain normally very much intact, unlike Garfield just... Soaking up damage like its nothing in his pursuit of Jon. The fact that Arbuckle legit defeated Garfield, even temporarily, is terrifyingly impressive honestly that dude is fucking built different for being so chronically bland

i dont think they're actually corrupted in any meaningful way we have to worry about, to be fully clear, Spriteman was cured with fucking antacids, i simply think they could be a fucked up attempt at making something that kind of seems like it from a functional standpoint, from the wannabe god doctor that brought us green clones whose only fundamental association with time was accelerated aging and who thought an actively rotting corpse thats just reanimated enough that it can throw hands was as good as curing death

[clearsky]

My Top Comfort Characters/Kins and My Main HCs For Them

(Note, not all my kins/comfort characters are on here, just the ones I have more than 5 hcs for)

CW: Korekiyo Shinguji (DRV3), Himiko Yumeno (DRV3), Shinsou Hitoshi (BNHA), Kyoko Kirigiri (THH), Tsuyu Asui (BNHA), Entrapta (Spop), Ibuki Mioda (SDR2), Celestia Ludenberg (THH), Funtime Foxy (FNAF), Peril (WOF)

Korekiyo Shinguji (DRV3)

Nonbinary

He/They pronouns

Autistic

Chains and loose accessories are for stimming

Likes the feeling of silk and cotton

Can't stand the feeling of anything rough or bumpy

He likes collecting small trinkets and the bones of small mammals

Can't stand anything salty. He'll eat it but he certainly won't enjoy it

Dating Rantaro

Can flirt, but only if he doesn't try

Petnames are a hell yea

Gets sunburnt really easily

Group dates with Celesnaegiri and Ikuzono

Can't cook for s h i t

Had a scene kid phase in middle school

Went to the same middle school as Celeste and Maki

Knew them when Celeste went through her "I'm not like other girls" phase and Maki was a Band Kid™

Himiko Yumeno (DRV3)

Female

She/Her pronouns

Lesbian

Can force herself to fall asleep within seconds regardless of where she is

100% forces herself to fall asleep when she doesn't wanna listen/talk to someone

Himiko/Angie/Tenko relationship. I'm calling them the Traffic Light Trio

She likes taking naps in the forest

She prefers enclosed/tight spaces more than open ones

Has several hundred stress balls and squishies laying around

She overheats easy

Shinsou Hitoshi (BNHA)

Questioning his gender, but goes by any pronouns

Knows he's Asexual, at least

Has no clue what his romantic orientation is though

The kind of person to carry treats in his pocket just in case he runs into a cat

Will stop to pet literally every cat he comes across

Great at reading people

Doesn't talk unless it's 100% needed

Hangs with Tokoyami, Jirou, and Denki most often

Aizawa has 100% unofficially adopted him

Fosters kittens

Not a big fan of physical touch

He is 100% in the bakusquad. Anyone who says he's in the Dekusquad is a c o w a r d

He and Tsuyu vibe

Knows a bunch of random facts

Dark humour? Dark humour

*skates backwards into his therapist's room slowly sipping from an absurdly huge cup of coffee* Candice you're not gonna BELIEVE the shit I just went through

In case I forgot to mention it, he skates

Kyoko Kirigiri (THH)

Mtf

She/Her

Bi with female preference

Burns go up to her shoulders/collarbone/chest

Prefers to just listen as opposed to saying anything

Knows a ton of random trivia about everyone else in her class

She keeps a notebook she fills with all the trivia

Doesn't celebrate her birthday. She just doesn't see the point of it

Doesn't hate sugar/sweets, but if given the choice she would choose literally everything else

Cuts her own hair

A cat person

Permanent dark circles

T-Tall 😳

Like,,, 6'1 at LEAST

Only person taller than her is Yasuhiro (6'3)

Canon no longer exist

Ahahaha healthy life habits? What are those?

Can't handle horror games

She's the kind of person you'd go to if you needed to rant but didn't want any advice

Polyamourous yo

Celeste/Kyoko/Makoto

She's a dom yall are just scared to admit it

Tsuyu Asui (BNHA)

They go by They/Them

Lesbian

They and Ochaco are dating

They like to hang with Shinsou

Which mainly just means the two sitting in one of their dorms in near total silence doing whatever

Can speak English and French as well as Japanese

Learned English from cartoons

Picked up French bc they thought it'd be fun

Prefers to stay neutral in the whole Bakusquad / Dekusquad thing

They're invited to all outings/events by/for both squads

They like puns

They're a dumbass but willingly, and for fun

Like "someone says they like dark humour and they'll turn off the lights before telling a joke" kind dumbass for fun

Great at poker

Likes Disney Movies

Very touchy once you get close enough

Not in a sexual way, just likes physical contact

Especially fond of piggyback rides and cuddles

Extreme fear of needles

Entrapta (She-Ra)

She/Her or It/Its

Doesn't bother trying to figure out whether she's cis, trans, nonbinary, or what

Was AMAB though

Short as fuck (4'7)

Strong as fuck though

Cuddle game strong

Physical touch is a fuck yes

Cuddles

Piggyback rides

Hugs

Anything where she's touching someone is wonderful in her book

As long as she's the one that initiates it

Anyone else touching her without her permission makes her freak

Prefers being high up

Makes it harder for anyone to sneak up on her

An ace at video games

When it comes to sexuality she just says she's Questioning

Ibuki Mioda (SDR2)

Any pronouns + Pup/Pupself + It/Its

No idea what their gender is otherwise

Biromantic Asexual

Just likes sexual jokes

Gets distracted easily

Has severe hearing problems

She's plays her instruments as loud as possible, with the amp right next to her, without ANY ear protection

It's caused some damage

She talks so loud bc she has no idea how loud is considered acceptable

Wears hearings aids most of the time

Several piercings and tattoos

Likes hearing things jingle

She has a bracelet with a few bells hanging from it

She'll shake it whenever she's bored

LOVES hair accessories

Ribbons are a particular favourite

Occasionally she'll hang little charms from her hair "horns"

The kind of person who never takes any pills/medicine bc she keeps forgetting she has to

Frequently uses emojis

Skates everywhere but she isn't very good at it

She keeps crashing into everything

Has broken every bone in her body at least 3 times

Most of which was bc she keeps trying to kick in doors and skating down the stairs

Celestia Ludenberg (THH)

Nonbinary

Any pronouns, mainly goes by She/They

Bi, 70:30

Collects mini hand sanitizers and can tabs

Has single handedly gotten Mario Kart, Mario Party, Monopoly, Uno, and Clue banned a grand total of 17 times (and counting)

The kind of person to purposefully target someone regardless of what game was being played

Favourite victim is Byakuya (bc he gets so upset about it and she finds that hilarious)

Mains Waluigi

Celeste/Kyoko/Makoto

Has several banned Twitter accounts bc whenever she's bored she'll start discourse on purpose

Hangs with Korekiyo, Ibuki, Byakuya, Yasuhiro, and Leon most often

It's a weird friend group but everyone's sorta gotten used to it

She and Byakuya gamble together occasionally

She tries to avoid it bc he'll willingly blow his entire fortune in an attempt to beat her

Autustic

Can't stand the feeling of water

Mainly bc she can't swim for shit

Horror movies? Hates them

Gets flustered super easily

Taka is her twin brother

Kotoko, Kokichi, and Gundham are their half siblings (Same father)

Peko and Toko are their cousins

She sucks ass at go fish

Fuck canon she's 4'11 now

C h u b b y

Freckles

Once she gets comfortable enough with herself she dyes her hair in the peekaboo style

Either black and red or black and blonde

Haven't decided yet

I'll be doing Celesnaegiri hcs as a seperate post but I just feel it's important for you to know that she expresses her affection verbally and is a very touchy person

Went to middle school with Maki and Korekiyo

Has horrible eyesight

She wears contacts most of the time but she always puts off buying more

After the 5th or so time she ended up blindly stumbling around a week after her contacts ran out Kyoko convinced her to buy glasses as well

Religious accessories yo

Like chokers and dangly earrings with crosses and pentagrams and shit

Likes wearing wacky earrings

Can run and do all sorts of tricks in heels

She and Mukuro are exes yo

Keeps her hair short so it's easier to manage

Hair never gets longer than her shoulders if she can help it

She seems like the kind of person who'd keep her bangs grown past her eyes regardless of how frustrating or inconvenient it is

She's a sub yall just don't wanna admit it

Funtime Foxy (FNAF)

I'm going on the record to say this

Funtime Foxy is genderfluid and that is that

Goes by Funtime

Any pronouns, They/Them most commonly

Plays music (keyboard and guitar mainly)

They and Funtime Freddy (Freds) mainly play with the kids

Freds mainly tells stories with Bonbon while Funtime more so plays one-on-one

Has nicknames for everyone

Circus Baby - Ringleader

Ballora - Bells

Funtime Freddy - Partner

Bon Bon - Bun

Peril (WOF)

I like both Nonbinary She/They Peril and Mtf She/Her Peril

They're both such good concepts

She's a lesbian, Harold

She only had a crush on Clay bc he was pretty much everything she was supposed to like in a guy

Gimme a moment while I force all my mental disorders onto this poor child

Autistic, Anxiety (Social anxiety, mainly, but she has most types), Adhd, PTSD

I'd like to reiterate yet again that She's a lesbian

Sunny and Glory were her gay awakening

Peril in Book 1: Damn, Sunny and Glory sure are pretty. Anyone would be lucky to date them. Clay would probably go for them over me. He would be stupid if he didn't. I myself would willingly date them over someone like me. They're just so pretty :(

Peril waking up in a cold sweat in the middle of arc 2: WAIT-

Rarepair alert but Peril/Sora

Peril meeting Sora: "Hmmm She's attractive. I would love to date her. Too bad I'm straight and in love with her brother lmao :P"

Peril, a mere month later, waiting for Ruby to leave Jade Mountain, pacing in her cave, running face first into a wall: WAIT-

I remember reading this one amazing story where Sora taught Peril to read/write and Peril found out she set off the bomb and comforted her/convinced her her run so that's canon now

Btw if anyone can remember what that story was called/what platform it was on and could tell me I'd appreciate it very much

I'd even be willing to draw a character of your's or make you an icon or something

I usually don't accept requests bc I get burnt out easy but this is a special case

She runs into Sora again sometime between the beginning of TOP and the end

I like to imagine she just goes wandering around

Anyway she confesses like a mere few minutes after running into her again bc Peril is just subtle like that

The actual confession takes 15 minutes and the entire time Sora is just sitting here like "👁👄👁 sure"

Bam Peril/Sora

Peril plans to keep it a secret for a little while longer but she spends 3 seconds around Clay and pretty much blurts it out

Clay, who wasn't even aware that Peril was a lesbian, is just "👁👄👁"

I wanna say Clay doesn't know what a lesbian is but in my canon Sunny is a lesbian so Starflight has already told him

Anyway he's super supportive

From that point Peril is sorta open about her sexuality?

Like, she gives Clay permission to tell the rest of the D.O.D bc she isn't about to risk being in front of them when they hear the news

(When Sunny starts actively seeking her out as a hang out buddy and Tsunami, Glory, and Starflight appear to tolerate her presence just a bit more afterwards she pretends she isn't confused by the change)

She's pink, white, and blue bc I said so

If you look at a certain angle in the right lighting her eyes, mouth, fire, and under her scales all look purple

But her fire is normally white and blue bc I said so

Also she pale as fuck bc in my canon their fire just sorta burns their colour away

You know how you leave something outside for too long and it gets sunbleached? Where it gets all washed out?

Like that but more extreme

By the age of 10-12 firescale dragons are just white with pale eyes

That's right not even the eyes are safe

Ram horns :P

I'm also fond of Peril/Sunny

Or maybe Peril/Sora/Sunny

But Peril/Sora is the main thing

On the topic of that bringing in my hc that if one sib in a sib group is fire resistant all of them are

She,,, She can change her scale colour

But only slightly and only if her emotions are strong enough

Bc I don't give a fuck about Darkstalker's scroll we were robbed of hybrid Peril

Unfortunately all of Peril's emotions are strong

Rainwing ruff along her head and neck

It's like a hood

It's mainly smoothed to her sides but when she's startled it flares out

RAINWING PUPILS

Y'all will know what those look like as soon as I get off my ass :P

She,,, She can mimic bird cries

Hates the summer

She has more than enough body heat already and the outside is just hot enough to add on and make her feel sick

She can somewhat control her heat but most of the time it's based on her emotions

It can go from standing-in-the-middle-of-a-burning-building-cant-see-your-nose-smoke-is-so-thick heat (Strong emotion) to Hey-thats-a-nice-cozy-campfire heat (Calm/"weak" emotion/Sleeping)

I'm just gonna make a different post with all my Peril hcs cuz there isnt enough room for all of them here

[icollectyoursins]

Heyy!! Congrats on making it to 50 followers!! I know it's not much but sooner or later it'll grow big and you'll have tons of mini minions who love and adore you! + your writings too!!

I just want to say that your Caesar blowjob with a twist got me hooked on recreating questionable scenarios while I was folding the clothes and my brain said "How dare this person make me go horny without consent!!" Just kidding, I give my utmost thanks from getting my hormones set off from your writing❤❤

I just recently finished watching SDC and I'm in the big sad from seeing Kakyoin dying while listening to Goodbye Nostalgia before crying because the lyrics hit me so baddd

Would it be alright if I were to request a small scenario that Kakyoin survived the hit? I just want my cherry boy healthy and well dhdhdhdhdhvf

I also love my cherry boy, so yes. You can have that. Now I need to go mop up my tears because this whole thing was so sweet. This may be a little sad, but it gets better. Just... my poor boy, he needs to heal. Honestly, this was a nice break from what I usually write, so thanks for that! Had to hold back lots of happy tears with this one.

Kakyoin is finally released from the hospital after healing from his DIO-induced injuries and he could not be more excited.

Have a character, but no idea? Prompt list here!

Looking for more? Master post here!

WARNINGS: A little bit of sad, but mostly happy reunions! Paraplegic!Kakyoin.

Word Count: 1205

Hope and Recovery

     Kakyoin’s feet dangled over the side of the hospital bed. He looked at them with a sad curiosity, narrowing his eyes and focusing, willing them to move, to feel that tingle, the feeling of stretching them out. But, they wouldn’t. No matter how hard he tried. It was still too soon, according to the doctors. He couldn’t help wanting to be that tiny 1%, that little miracle person. For now, he would have to be okay with a wheelchair seeing as using Hierophant would be a little too odd for people who can’t see stands.

     He sighed, pulling his legs back onto the bed, arranging himself so he was lying down again. He smiled, staring at the bed table near his feet. Various pictures of smiling family, friends and whatever Iggy was feeling in the picture Polnareff took. A chuckle escapes him freely. Iggy had sunglasses on and what looked like a smaller version of what Mr. Joestar would wear on vacation with a small vibrant drink in the lower corner.

     Looking over to the calendar on the wall next to the clock, he checked which day it was. Of course, he knew what day it was, he just needed to keep reminding himself that it was happening. He was going home today. After so many months of healing in the hospital, he was finally allowed to go home. Home to his bed and games and beanbag chair, his dad’s awful jokes and his mum. He missed her the most, he thinks. 53 days travelling and then another 3 months on top of that was too much, to say the least. They’d visit, of course, but nothing compares to waking up to her cooking.

     Kakyoin laughs to himself, thinking of what his father and uncles would say at parties when he was a kid. He really was a mama’s boy and proud of it! He looks at the clock, then back to the calendar for the umpteenth time today, pinching himself to make sure he wasn’t dreaming. This day was finally here.

     And Avdol was late.

     Funny, the warm-hearted man was usually very punctual. Maybe Mr. Joestar was driving them. He and Avdol had grown close, sharing this room together while they healed. The Speedwagon Foundation had given him robotic hands, like Mr. Joestar, so it was a bit easier for him to heal probably. Meanwhile, Kakyoin chose to keep his legs. When he woke up, they had told him that there was a small chance that he would be able to walk with his own legs again and, by God, he was going to take it. Even if it didn’t work, he was sure they’d come up with some way to help him.

     All of the sudden, Polnareff burst through the door, flowers and balloons in his hands, smiling like a buffoon, not that he could blame him. His own cheeks hurt from smiling so much today which was only amplified by the grin he gave his friend. The two laughed whole heartily as they hugged, being careful of Kakyoin’s injuries, babbling about how exciting this all was. He barely remembered what they said! It was all a blur. Someone came in and gave him his clothes, then helped him into the wheelchair so he could change with a little help from the nurse.

     Everything was a buzz with excitement as Avdol pushed him down the hallway, flowers in hand and the balloon tied to the handle of the wheelchair. They all waved at the doctors and nurses, laughing about the good times of Egypt, exchanging inside jokes, the like. When they arrived at the doors, he saw Mr. Joestar and Jotaro standing together, a rare smile graced Jotaro’s lips as he saw his friend approach him, joking about him looking like shit when he could see how tried Kakyoin was.

     “I couldn’t sleep last night. I was looking forward to the morning too much.” They all smiled sincerely, Joseph clamped a hand down on shoulder, laughing loud enough to draw attention from the passers by.

      Looking out the glass door, his eye was caught by a familiar form. “Mom!” He said, putting his hands on the wheels and rolling as fast as he could towards her. She turned at the sound of her son’s voice, then grinned. 

     “Noriaki!” She ran to him, almost falling to her knees when she was close enough to hug him. He tried his best to catch her, pulling her close to him. They laughed through happy tears, reunited. She immediately went into telling him about what happened at home when she pulled back. His dad came over and did the same, kissing him on the temple gently, patting his back. 

     It was evident they were all happy to see each other, happy to get back to their usual routines. With these people around him, healing would be a breeze! It would be like it never happened. Perfect.

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     “Oh, come on! No way!” Kakyoin shouted with glee, hitting the buttons on his controller harder than he was before. He was trying to beat Dark Link from Legend of Zelda 2, but to no avail. One final stab from the black pixel counter part and he was toast, dropping his hands to the couch and letting out an exasperated sigh. He looked over to Jotaro, who was trying to hide his smug smile. “As if you could do any better!”

     The two laughed lightly, reaching into the bowl of pop corn they had sitting between them. He closed out of the game, done with the fight for now. One day he’d get it. One day. 

     “Was there anything you wanted to play?” He asked. Jotaro shrugged. “There’s not a lot, but there is Super Mario Brothers. You seemed to like that last time. Until the Goomba.”

     “The what?” He looked over, confused and perturbed. 

     “The Goomba. It’s the mushroom thing that kept-”

     “Oh, right. Is that what they’re called?”

     “Yes, that’s what they’re called. Do you want to play it? If not, we could watch a movie,” Kakyoin mused, trying to get his friend interested. He heard him sigh and smiled.

     “Fine, I’ll play.”

     “Great! Would you mind getting it set up? I would do it myself, but...” He gestured to his legs. Jotaro got up wordlessly, getting the new game and setting it up the way he had taught him to, the proper way as he says. Kakyoin did whatever he needed to on his end, the familiar, joyful music filling their ears. He quickly reminded Jotaro how to play and then they set off on starting a new file. 

     Everything was going well, until the Koopas at the second stage. Jotaro made Mario jump on to the first one properly, and then hit the wrong side of the shell, making it barrel the other way, killing his tiny character. Kakyoin laughed.

     “Well, it wasn’t the Goomba!”

     “Let’s just watch a movie.” Another loud laugh made the taller teen hide his head behind his hat. He couldn’t help letting a small smile creep across his lips. Content. Glad that he has his friend, now and forever, as cheesy as that was. It felt nice. For both of them.

[shoyoluvrr]

jamais vu.

a/n : i came up with this idea while listening to the song by bts and reading other bakugou fluff lol 

summary : you have an encounter with your mom which causes you to spiral. your other classmates notice this, especially bakugou. this goes on for a day until he confronts you

pairing : bakugou x fem. reader

word count  : +2k

warnings : fluff, angst, cursing, TRIGGER WARNING, toxic mother

You were sitting in the common area playing some mario kart with Mina, Bakugou, Kaminari, Kirishima and Sero. 

“WHO THREW THAT FUCKING BLUE SHELL!” Bakugou was in first place. You drove right past him. You heard Bakugou mumbling curses under his breath as the others laughed at him. “I’LL KILL YOU!”

Just as you were about to pass the finish line, Midoriya was calling for you.

“Hey y/n! Your mom is here.”

His efforts to get your attention were futile. You had just won and you and Bakugou were yelling over him.

“EAT THAT LOSER! WHO’S THE EXTRA NOW! AHAHAHA” 

“WHO ARE YOU CALLING AN EXTRA, DUMBASS”

You jumped out of your seat and were jumping around the room, reveling in your victory. You had always managed to beat Bakugou in Mario Kart. No one knows how. Kaminari even has a theory that winning Mario Kart is your second quirk. But whenever the subject is brought up you always shrug it off, leaving them more confused.

Nonetheless, Midoriya was still trying to get your attention. “Y/N.”

That time you and Bakugou had both stopped screaming and looked over at Midoriya.

“What do you want, Deku?” Bakugou was now glaring at Midoriya. The poor kid...

“Um, well...you see. y/n’s mom is here,” Midoriya motioned towards the front of the dorms, obviously shaken up.

“Oh, thanks Midoriya.” You began walking towards the entrance and your mind was off. Why was she at school? Did I do something wrong? I must’ve done something if she came to see me? With those thoughts swimming in your brain, you could feel yourself drowning. A feeling you had become very familiar with when it came to your mom. 

You froze in place when your eyes met your mom’s. She was talking to Aizawa and she had a big smile on her face. She greeted you with a hug. You stood there dumbfounded. 

“Now that you’re here, y/n I’ll leave you two to talk.” With that Aizawa left you two.

You had wished he stayed. You grew more fidgety as your thoughts had started crashing in your brain, becoming louder and louder. Until, your mother’s hand collided with the side of your head. 

She sucked her teeth causing a tsk sound. “What took you so long?”

You rubbed the spot where she hit you. “I was with my friends.”

Her face formed a frown. “So you were out with your friends, but have no problem leaving your mom waiting? What a daughter I have.”

“Sorry, mom.”

“Yeah, you only have one mother. And those friends of yours are going to leave anyway. You’re not going to the best hero school in Japan to make friends. They know that too. So when they do leave don’t get too upset.” She said shaking her head as a matter of factly.

It took you a second to process her words, but when you did, oh boy. That water your thoughts were swimming had become a hurricane that began to pour out of you. Your eyes were overflowing with tears. 

“And why are you crying?”

“You just told me all my friends are going to leave me and that they don’t care.”

“That’s why you’re crying!! Not the fact that your grades are struggling and you don’t care about mother,” She sucked her teeth again. “I’m leaving.”

“Wait, mom-”

“I don’t want to hear it. I’ll see you later.” She stormed off the campus, leaving you in tears and shock, which for you, were not a good mix.

You walked back into the dorms and headed straight for your room. You didn’t bother to address your friends who were waiting for you back in the common room. You just couldn’t face them.

You threw yourself onto your bed. You knew she was right. She always was. But it still hurt. Just because this time people showed interest in you, doesn’t mean they won’t leave. You stuffed your face in your pillow. They’re going to leave you. You’re so annoying. You can’t even keep friends, so why do you think these ones will stay. Stupid. So stupid. Those words kept repeating in your head and you didn’t even bother to look at your phone when you heard the buzzing. I mean what was the point? It’s not like they even cared. A moment later, there was knocking at your door. 

“Hey y/n you okay?”

It was Mina.

You cleared your throat, “Yeah I’m fine. Just tired. You guys play without me.”

“Okay, goodnight.”

Her footsteps receded and you went back to your pillow. You closed your eyes, hoping that sleep would take your mind off of everything. But you were so wrong.

-

It was dark. You were standing in the middle of the field. Alone. Kids were running around laughing, but you weren’t. You tried to reach out, but you couldn’t touch them. Your hands passed right through them. You breathing quickened. You stared at your hands. What’s happening to me?

Then the kids were now laughing at you. Their fingers pointed directly at you. Their laughter grew louder and louder. Their laughter then formed into chanting. “They’re going to leave you.” They kept repeating until their words swallowed you whole.

-

You shot up out of bed. Your breathing was heaving. It was as if the room was spinning. You began to rock back and forth as your breathing got worse. The tears just wouldn’t stop. You didn’t stop until your alarm went off.

You went to the bathroom in hopes to hide your swollen eyes. You looked in the mirror and regretted it once you did. There you were. With big, red, swollen eyes. You stared at yourself, analyzing everything. You began to nitpick at your flaws. Pointing what could be better. Your reasoning? Maybe if I looked more attractive everyone wouldn’t leave. There in the mirror stood your flaws. Mocking you. Laughing at you. Singling you out. Making sure you knew your place. 

This continued as you put on your uniform. You slipped on your skirt and tried your best to think better of yourself, but that voice in you head had other plans. If you didn’t look like this, maybe you’d have friends who care.

Throughout the day, those thoughts wouldn’t go away. You walked into the class, more tired than usual. Your eyes still puffy. But no one questioned it. You didn’t even bother at lunch. You played with the food in front of you. Not even daring to put it in your mouth. Your excuse was, “I had a big breakfast.” And they didn’t really think anything of it. Even during quirk training you were a zombie. Your body was moving on it’s own. You just didn’t have the energy to move. At this point your brain was mush. And whenever anyone asked you just told them, “It’s nothing I’m just tired.” It became second nature.

But while you were lost in your thoughts, Bakugou paid extra attention to you. He saw how you rushed to your room after seeing your mom. And when Mina came back and said you were just “tired”. He knew something was up. You wouldn’t miss the chance to beat him in Mario Kart. Even in class, he saw your eyes and how puffy they were. Bakugou just wanted you to tell him what happened. You trusted him right? This only built when he saw you didn’t eat. ‘I had a big breakfast.’ Yeah that was bullshit and he knew that. He knew you barely ate breakfast because eating in the morning made you nauseous. He wasn’t stupid. And this night he was going to confront you. He couldn’t bare to see you like this. It hurt him more than he wanted to admit.

He watched as you didn’t even bother to hang out after class. You just headed straight for your dorm. He followed you. You didn’t even notice he was behind you until you reached your door. And there he was. He was frowning as you stood in front of the door. 

“Listen Bakugou, I’m just really tired. I’m not in the mood to play games tonight.” You walked into your room and began closing the door, but Bakugou’s hand stopped the door. His eyes met yours. He stared deeply, not breaking eye contact.

“I’m not leaving until you tell me what happened.” His eyes narrowed.

“Bakugou, please.”

“No. I’m not leaving until you tell me. Because you and I both you’re not tired. And I also know you didn’t skip lunch because ‘you had a big breakfast’ or whatever bullshit you said. So what is it?” He sounded angry, but it wasn’t the usual Bakugou angry. More of a worried ‘tell me what’s wrong’ angry. 

You decided to not beat around the bush and just let him in. You were both now sitting on his bed. You were both silent. This was the first you two were in your room, alone that is. Because of the situation, your mind didn’t even process that. You could both feel like the tension and noticed how impatient Bakugou was getting. So you thought it was in both of your best interests to just tell him. “It was my mom.”

“I knew it.” He mumbled. “What did she say?” His face softened and it formed an expression you didn’t know he could make. He looked genuinely worried

“What didn’t she say?” You paused. Before you could even get the words out, you started crying. “You wanna know what she said? She told me I shouldn’t bother to make friends because they were just going to leave me anyway.” Once you said that the tears just wouldn’t stop. 

Bakugou sat in shock. For a brief second he didn’t know what to do. Who would want to leave you? He thought of beating up your mom for saying that, but came to the conclusion that that was too violent, even for him. Instead he put his arms around you and pulled you close.

You continued, “And the worse part is...I believed her. I mean I still do.”

Before you could go on, Bakugou stopped you. “Y/n. No one’s leaving you.”

“You say that now, but last time I checked your quirk doesn’t allow you to look in the future.”

“I don’t need a fucking quirk to know that I would never leave you.”

“It’s just ever since I was a little kid I had a hard time making friends and the ones I did always left, so how can you just say that,” You managed to choke out. Your head fell into his lap and the tears fell. 

“I just know y/n. I promise.” He ran squiggles on your back to try and calm you down.

“But how Bakugou? Because tomorrow you-”

“I love you, y/n.” 

You quickly got up and looked at him. “You what?”

“I love you, dumbass.” He pulled your face to his, inches apart. His eyes asking permission and you nodded. And with that, his lips were on yours. You were expecting Bakugou to be rough, but it was the opposite. He was soft, gentle. It was almost as if he was nervous to be too rough. It didn’t last very long until he pulled away. He began placing soft kisses on your swollen eyes and then on your tear stained cheeks. He held your face in is hands. “Are you feeling better?”

“That helped.” You laughed softly. “And for the record, I love you too and thank you.”

He smiled. He wrapped his arms around you. “Don’t you ever think that I’m gonna leave you. And if this happens again, tell me. Okay? Just because she’s your mom doesn’t mean I won’t beat her ass.”

“Bakugou...”

“I’m kidding.”

You raised your eyebrow. 

“Whatever, just come here.” He pulled you onto him, so you were now laying on him. “Now you can sleep. I’m not gonna let anyone hurt you. I promise.”

a/n : ngl this hurt when i was writing it like knsdfgldfgkjndf i may or may not have cried when i wrote it but uhhh anyway I tried a new layout for it idk if im gonna continue so if you have any thoughts on the matter do tell 

[ofstoriesandstardust]

the woes of an unrequited crush-luther hargreeves (part ii)

a/n: this is part 2 of college!au luther fic. enjoy :)

masterlist | prompt list

part i

warnings: mentions of death (no I promise I did not kill her), mentions of food, swearing probably, kissing, mentions of bullying

word count: 4,753

It had been exactly 5 months, 28 days, 34 minutes, and 12 seconds since you’d last spoken to Luther... not that anyone was counting. Your junior year of college had just started and you were living in a new apartment with Sophie and Charlotte, with a new room mate this year, named Kayla. If anyone asked, your summer had been great. You’d had the opportunity to work with your advisor as part of a program your college offered, doing summer research. Your classes were off to an amazing start and you’d even gotten a new, high-paying job at your university’s writing center. 

In all honesty, your summer had sucked. You had gotten so far in over your head with the research program and your grandfather had died just three weeks before the start of the new semester. Your living situation was beyond awkward, with Sophie and Charlotte making it a point to never bring any of the Hargreeves over, or even say any of their names. Kayla was kind and sweet and she did her best to include you, but it wasn’t the same. Your birthday was coming up, and you were dreading it more than anything. A year ago, Sophie and Charlotte had banded together, pulling out all the stops, giving you the best birthday you’d ever had. Now... now you weren’t sure what to even expect. You sighed as the cool air hit you as you opened the door to the building, heading down the hall to your advisors office. The woman was kind and young and new to the university and a lot of students drifted towards her when they needed a nice chat or help with citations or a good talk about the Cold War. She’d been sympathetic to your situation, even if you withheld some of the details. She didn’t need to be bogged down with all your petty personal life drama and she had enough on her plate. You turned the corner and knocked into someone, stumbling back a bit. You looked up to see Allison. “Oh my God, I’m so sorry.” She said, straightening up. 

"No worries.” You breathed out, throat closing up. Why, why did the world hate you? You gave her a tight smile and continued to move down the hallway until you were safely inside your advisors office. She smiled at you as you sat down in the chair nearest her desk. Max, one of the other History majors, shot you a smile from where he was sitting on a bean bag chair. You discussed your ideas for a final project for one of her classes, wanting to make sure you found all your research even thought the semester had just started. You wanted this project to go perfectly, it was your favorite time in history, which happened very little and you would be damned you didn’t do it well. You stayed to talk to her for a little bit longer, but eventually left as Max was leaving. Max was one of the sweetest boys in the department and the two of you were quite friendly. He’d been one of the saving graces of your summer and he’d been on the listening end of a many late night phone call about your problems. Kayla had even teased you that the two of you would be together in no time. You had laughed her off, because Max had a girlfriend (who was just as sweet as he was and was a good friend of yours as well) and because for as hard you tried, no one really compared to the way you felt about Luther. It sucked and you wanted nothing more than to move on with your life but you had never quite gotten closure and there was painful dull in your chest anytime you see him or his siblings on campus. Which just your luck, Diego, Luther, Vanya, and Allison were standing off the side of the doorway, and they went silent as you walked past. You kept your head down as you willed your feet to move quicker and Max gripped your arm as you stumbled out of the building. That was the closest you had come to them, besides your run-in with Allison just an hour prior, and you felt like you were going to throw up. 

“You want to come over?” Max asked. You shook your head, blinking back tears. You needed to get over this. “I’ll let you play Mario Kart on the Switch.” Max offered and you were tempted to say yes, but you really should go back to your apartment to work on some homework. “C’mon, I’ll buy you McDonalds.” That was the key word. You laughed a little, looking up at him. “You deserve the world (Y/N/N), don’t ever forget it.” He said, slinging his arm around you as he walked to his car. 

-

The Hargreeves sat around the apartment, laughing at some joke Klaus had made. Sophie and Charlotte had invited them over to see the new place and meet the new room mate and (Y/N) was at Max’s (who lived just down the hall). Sophie had promised she wouldn’t come back for at least a few hours, so it was the perfect time. “Mmm, I ran into (Y/N) today, like literally. Practically knocked the poor girl over.” Allison said as she ate a strawberry. 

“Jeez Allison, tell us how you really feel.” Five joked. 

“That was the most awkward thing ever when we saw her today.” Vanya said, to which Diego agreed. 

“We need to talk about that.” Sophie said, shifting away from Klaus. “Her birthday is coming up and the situation is getting unbearable, so you guys need to make up and soon.” 

“What, the five months of radio silence not enough for you?” Ben muttered and Sophie shot him a look. Diego opened his mouth to shoot something back when keys jingled in the door. 

-

You walked through the door, sighing to yourself. You’d spent a good few hours at Max and Elena’s (who lived just just down the hall, conveniently) and it had been a good break from the drama of the real world. But you had homework to do. You walked into the entryway, seeing all the Hargreeves gathered in your kitchen along with your room mates. Kayla, ever the peacemaker, shot you a bright smile. “How was your day darling?” She asked as you eyes narrowed, surveying the room. You made brief eye contact with Luther and quickly looked away. 

“I’m too sober to deal with this.” You huffed, turning around and leaving the apartment again. 

-

The door shut behind her and Diego swiveled towards Sophie. “That really seems like she wants to make up with us.” He snarked, shooting her an ugly look. Sophie shot an equally ugly look back. 

“Look, I don’t care what you say or how you do it. I just care that things stopping happening like this. Fix it.” 

-

You trudged back down the hallway and opened the door to Max’s apartment. He turned to you, a teasing grin on his face. “Back so soon?” You crash-landed on his couch, face-first. He came over to the couch, propping his legs up against yours as he sat down. You twisted and sat up, legs still covered by his lanky ones. 

“Every single one of them is in my apartment right now.” You huffed. 

“The Hargreeves?” He asked, quirking an eyebrow. 

“No, all of Santa’s elves. Yes, the Hargreeves.” 

“Hey, I was just making sure I understood. Why are they there?” You shrugged. 

“Beats me. And I’m too sober to deal with anything any of them have to say, so... here I am.” 

“You’re always sober.” 

“Exactly. I’ll will be dealing with that situation approximately... never.” He shook his head. 

“Well, we need to talk about your birthday.” You groaned, flopping back down on the couch. “What are we doing?” 

“How about nothing? Can we do nothing? Is nothing an appropriate answer?” He shot you a look. 

“C’mon, our advisors want to do something for you.” The advisors in the department really liked you and tried to make the best of everyone’s birthday, so yours was no different. They’d just picked the wrong year. “How about like, a picnic or something? While the weather is still nice?”

“I don’t care. You decide and I’ll just show up.” 

“That’s not how this works.” 

“Well then, I want to do nothing.” 

“We’re doing something.” 

-

You squinted as you trudged towards the tables in the park near campus. The sun was out and the weather warm and your friends had gone a long way to give you the best birthday. The day had been good so far with Kayla bringing you coffee this morning and Elena taking you out to lunch. A picnic in the park with a larger group of your friends and movie night in Max and Elena’s apartment later that night with your core group was the plan for the rest of the day. For as much as you had dreaded it, you couldn’t deny how good it felt to be appreciated by the people around you and it made your heart feel full. You cherished the hugs and laughs as the afternoon wore on, and every minute felt so full of joy until... until you saw the Hargreeves minus Luther but plus Lila walking towards the group. Sophie and Charlotte made their way over to the group, along with Elena, who knew Allison through the theatre department. You rolled your eyes, turning to Max. “You have to be fucking kidding me.” You said, shaking your head. You turned to walk away from them and were suddenly faced with Five. You jumped. “Jesus Christ. Weren’t you just...” You asked, turning back to where his siblings were and you were sure you had just seen him there too. “Never mind.” He sighed, sticking his hand out, present in his grasp. 

“Happy birthday.” You stared at the present dumbfounded and he shook it. “Take it. I’m not going to stand here forever.” You tentatively took it from him. 

“Thanks.. I think?” A teasing smirk settled on his face as he shoved his hands back in his pockets. The smirk was quickly replaced by a serious look though. 

“Look, I’m sorry things happened the way they did. Don’t tell my siblings I said this, but not having you around has kinda sucked. I wish there was something we could do to fix it, but as much as your room mates want to pretend otherwise, this is between you and Luther.” 

“Thank you.” You said sincerely. “Why are you guys here though?” Five sighed. 

“Your room mates, well Sophie, think if we’re around long enough you’ll just like us again. But like I just said this is-”

“Between me and Luther, yeah.” You sucked in a deep breath and you could feel Max’s weary glance at you. “Well, thanks for this,” You said, shaking the present in your hand. “And thanks for coming. Help yourself to the food.” You gestured to the table and quickly turned away. Losing your friendship with the Hargreeves had been one of the worst parts of the whole situation and you were truly starting to wonder if you had been wrong from the beginning about them. You shook your head to clear that thought. No, no they were still the bad people you knew them to be. Sure, Five was his own entity and made his own choices separate of his siblings. But the others had set you up to be one big joke and you would not tolerate people like that nor let them back into your life. They were all like Luther, who wasn’t even present, cowards.

-

You sat in Max’s apartment that night as the rain pattered down. You guys had gotten one of the last summer rainstorms for the year that night and your whole world felt at peace. You’d been able to have a really good conversation with Ben and Vanya earlier, and while it didn’t change anything, the look Charlotte gave you was enough to ease just a little bit of the pain. Luther had still been a no-show, which was probably for the best. You weren’t sure how you would’ve reacted and you weren’t sure what might’ve come out of Max’s mouth. Your phone dinged and you looked down. Speak of the devil, you thought to yourself. 

Hey, are you home? I have a birthday present for you. 

You sighed as the phone dinged again.

I want to talk to you. 

You could never say no to him and maybe... maybe just maybe this would give you the closure you needed to move on with your life. 

Give me five minutes. 

You pulled on your shoes. “Hey, someone is here to drop off a present for me. I’ll be back in like five, ten maybe?” You said, standing by the door. Max gave you a thumbs up and you disappeared out the door. You took a deep breath as your feet pounded down the stairs, anxious to get this over with. You opened the door to your building, warm water cascading down as you hurried over to Luther’s truck. You opened the passenger door and slid in, desperate to get out of the rain. He turned to look at you, giving you a soft smile. Your heart ached. He wordlessly handed you neatly wrapped gift. You took an unsure look at him and he nodded, encouraging you to open it. You tentatively and carefully unwrapped the gift, a book sliding out. It was an original copy of your favorite book, and you looked up at him, a warmth spreading over you. “Luther, how- we talked about this, what, maybe once?” He shrugged as you bit your lip. He shifted in his seat and you looked back to him. 

“(Y/N), I’m really sorry about all of this.” 

“Luther-”

“I just want things to go back to the way they used to be. Where we were friends and my favorite part of my day was getting to see you smile.” You closed your eyes, heart warring over disappointment and forgiveness. You were disappointed it had taken this long to hear him say those words, over the way you knew things could never go back to the way they used to be, but your heart felt forgiveness towards him all the same. You opened your eyes and you realized you were much closer to Luther than you had originally realized. “I really want to kiss you.” He whispered. You closed your eyes, and connected the distance, throwing everything to the wind, to just know what this feeling was like one time. The book slid off your lap, thudding to the floor of the car, and you pulled away abruptly. Why had you done that? Now you were only going to be able to think of the taste of his lips on yours as your heart continued to break over the fact that you could never have him. 

“I’m sorry Luther, really, I- I can’t.” You whispered, grabbing the book off the floor of the car. He looked at you in hurt and the look was enough to make you run, slamming the car door behind you. The rain seemed to come down harder as you rushed back inside, willing yourself not to cry. He had hurt you, and no kiss could change that. You could forgive him, but you could never forget. 

-

You could hear the noise from down the hallway, which only made your feet move faster in giddy excitement. A bunch of you were getting together to have dinner at Max and Elena’s, and even though Allison and Diego (and probably Lila if you were being honest, because the girl didn’t go anywhere without Diego) were going to be there, it couldn’t diminish your excitement for the night. You let yourself into the apartment you were a constant visitor of, and the boys cheered as you kicked off your shoes. There were a few graduated students here and one, Dean, had just gotten back from a few months in Italy and he wrapped you in a hug. You were surprised, you hadn’t expected to see the boy for at least another few weeks. He squished your face as you turned, surveying who else was there. As to be expected, Allison was seated next to Elena and Diego and Lila were in the living room with a few of Max’s friends. You made your way over to the couch, sitting down as the boys played Mario Kart. 

“So, (Y/N), any new romantic prospects on the horizon?” Reyna, a senior theatre major, asked you. You shook your head. 

“That’s not what I heard.” Dean said, taking a sip of his drink. Everyone turned to look at him, but he turned to Max, a smirk on his face. “She kissed Luther.” You shot up from where you were laying on the couch as everyone turned their attention back to you. 

“I’m never telling you anything ever again.” You said seriously, but his grin was light and teasing and you don’t think he even really knew what he had just done. 

“You kissed Luther?” Max questioned but Allison broke into a shit-eating grin. 

“Alright, finally! Took you like eight months longer than I had expected though.” She said. 

“No, no. Yes, I kissed him, but it wasn’t like that. It was a mistake and it’s never happening again.” 

“When?” Max asked, voice grave. 

“My birthday.” Max sighed, turning his back to you. 

“So.. you kissed Luther. That should change everything.” Diego stated. 

“It doesn’t change the fact that you guys fucked me over.” 

“What did we do to make you hate us so much?” Lila asked. 

“I was just some sick joke to you guys, you played with my feelings and left me humiliated, and I refuse to be the butt of everyone’s jokes. I was in high school and I refuse to be the same here, especially not to you people.” 

“What are you talking about?” Diego questioned, eyebrows furrowed. You sighed. 

“I’m not explaining it to you. You can’t even be bothered to own up to it.” you huffed, pushing yourself up from the couch. You pushed past Dean and Reyna, making your way out of the apartment, and down the hall. So much for a fun night. 

-

The door slammed behind her. Diego swiveled towards her friends, utterly confused. Why hadn’t Luther told anyone he had kissed her? “Okay, what just happened?” Allison questioned. Max sighed. 

“She has it in her head that this is some sort of elaborate prank to humiliate her for liking Luther.” Elena explained. 

“That’s ridiculous, we’d never do something like that.” Allison defended. Max sighed, yet again. 

“Look, this is something you may not know about her, but you have to understand. While she was in high school, and throughout her freshman year, she was the butt of everyone’s jokes, constantly being played and left out. It wasn’t even until she became friends with us that she got a taste of what real friendship is like. So, for you guys, the most popular people on campus to actually like her? It’s foreign and she doesn’t know how to handle that.” 

“But Luther wouldn’t hurt her like that. He really liked her, still does.” Diego defended. She should know Luther better than that. Max shrugged. 

“I said that too. She told me this story, how in middle school, boys would come up to her as a joke, to ask her out to embarrass her and run away laughing when she’d say yes. I think it left a memory that no one would ever really like her, so for Luther to like her, her first thought is that it was some twisted prank rather than him actually liking her.” There was pause. “As much as she wants to pretend that this doesn’t change anything, it changes everything. And I really hope she figures it out because I’ve never seen her as happy then when she was with him.”

-

You sighed as you locked the door to the Writing Center. It was late at night and you were dreading the walk back to your apartment. You and Sophie were originally supposed to work this shift together but she had changed her mind at the last minute, not wanting to be on campus so late. It was fine, really, but it left you without another tutor and without a ride back to the apartment. “Hey, are you just heading you out?” You heard from behind you and you turned to see Luther. You nodded, not trusting your voice. “Can I give you a ride?” You shook your head.

“It’s fine Luther, really.” 

“Please? It would make me feel better knowing you got home safely.” You wanted to make a snarky remark about not doing things for him but you couldn’t bring yourself as you looked at him. You knew that as much as you didn’t want to sit in a car with him, you didn’t want to walk home this late at night more. It also meant a lot that even after everything, he still cared so much about your safety. You nodded, readjusting the straps of your bag on your shoulders. He cracked a soft smile and the two of you walked out in silence to his car. He opened your door for you and you slid in, dropping your bag to the ground. He walked around the back and got in, starting the car. The ride back to your apartment was silent and awkward and you felt a wave of relief roll over you as you saw your apartment building come within sight. Luther parked the car, but you made no move to get out. He had turned the car off completely and you had a feeling there was something he wanted to say. The silence continued until you felt forced to say something. 

“Luther, I’m sorry, I really am.” He looked at you. 

“Why’d you kiss me?” You sighed, shrugging, as you pulled the sleeves of your sweatshirt around your hands. 

“I wanted to know what it was like.” You said softly. 

“I just... still don’t understand what happened that day. I mean, I really liked you, I still do, and I thought that you liked me back. But then you freaked out, and I still don’t understand it.” He said, never once taking his eyes off of you. 

“I was, I am in love with you, and all I ever was to you was some sick joke for laughs. I couldn’t do it.” 

“You think you were joke? (Y/N), I am just as equally in love with you, and I would never hurt you like that.”

“Why? Why are you in love with me? What could I possibly have to offer you that every other girl on campus who pines after you doesn’t have? I’m certainly not as pretty or as smart as some of the girls you hang out with.”

“Because you’re you! Because when I’m having a bad day, I can just talk to you and it seems like all my problems fade away. Because you’re so incredibly smart and passionate and you aren’t afraid to pursue your dreams. Because you get along with my siblings, because I can get lost in your eyes! There’s not another girl on campus who looks at me for me and not for my name.” By this point, you were in tears as you had a horrible sinking feeling that you had royally fucked up. This whole time, you had thought it was a prank meant to hurt you when you had been the one to cause all the hurt. All this... for what? “And I thought after that day that you kissed me, that things might get better, but we still aren’t talking to each other but I just want my friend back, in any way I can have her.” Your head rested in your hands, unsure of what to do or what to say. You were still crazy in love with boy, and he you. 

“Where do we go from here?” You whispered, looking up at him from your hands.

“Well, you have two options. You walk back inside your apartment and don’t look back, and we let the other go. Or you sit here and we talk about everything that needs to be talked about.” 

“I mean, how do we even fix this Luther?” 

“We start over. Start from a place of trust and communication. Tell me the truth about the last six months.” 

“You want the truth? I am in love with you and it scares the hell out of me, because I’m so used to everyone leaving me or using me for their own gain. And I was so scared you would be like everyone else that I left before you could hurt me anymore, convincing myself this was some elaborate lie to hurt me. But the last six months have been hell and there were nights where I wanted nothing more than to seek you out because I felt so alone.” Your voice broke on the last word and you weren’t sure how much more of this you could take.

“I would’ve been there, you know. If you had asked.” You nodded. 

“I’m sorry Luther.” You whispered, and he put his hand on your knee. 

“I’m sorry I never reached out earlier. I should’ve, because you were clearly not okay.” You shrugged, wiping your tears. 

“I kinda deserved it.” 

“Hey, I could’ve at least fought for the girl I’m in love with. I just let you walk out of my life.” You took a sharp breath because you weren’t quite sure you’d ever get used to hearing him refer to you as the girl he was in love with. You looked up at him and he inched closer. “I’m going to kiss you again, if that’s okay with you, but you have to promise not to run away again.”

You nodded. “I promise I’m not going anywhere as long as you want me here.” He kissed you again, and it was so wonderfully different from the last time, because you were both trying to communicate everything you weren’t sure how to say, and because you weren’t sure this would be the last time you’d kiss him. He pulled away, but the two of you remained quite close, feeling his lips mumble his next words against yours. 

“Five owes Kayla so much money.” You laughed, cupping his face. He smiled at you. 

“Hey, can I kiss you again?” He nodded, and you placed a short, but sweet kiss on his lips. He held you close though. 

“Hey, what are you doing on Saturday?” You shrugged.

“Nothing.”

“You want to go on a date?” You nodded, smiling giddily. A pause. “Hey, we can’t hang out on Saturday. I’m taking a really pretty girl on a date.” You snorted.

“Oh yeah?” He nodded, a stupid grin on his face. 

“Yeah, I’m really nervous.” 

“Well, you should give me a kiss for good luck then. The date has to go well, obviously.” He smirked and kissed your lips again. You reveled in the feeling as he pulled away. You let his thumb rub soft circles on your cheek as you looked at him. Your phone dinged, and you sighed. It was Sophie, asking if you’d be home soon. “I should probably get inside, it’s getting late.” He nodded, looking slightly disappointed. “Can I have a goodnight kiss?” He nodded, pressing a brief kiss to your lips. “I never want to stop doing that.” He smiled. “I’ll text you in the morning, okay?” He nodded again.

“Sleep well.” He said as you opened the door, grabbing your bag from the floor. You slung it over your shoulder as you stood by the door. 

“Night Luther. Love you.” 

Being able to say the words freely put a smile on your face, which only grew when he responded with a “Love you too.” You shut the door, waving to him as you headed inside your apartment building. For the first time in months, you could go to sleep feeling the happiest you had in years. For the first time, everything was going just right, even if had taken a couple months longer and left turns to get there. 

[bokunoheroanalysisforthefuture]

Chapter three! I already skimmed through it and just. Holy fuck I’m falling in love with this series all over again, and this is just the opening arc, how the hell is this so good??? I’m genuinely just in awe and fuck is it making it hard to decide where to have a cut-off point for this chapter. I suppose we’ll just have to see what fate decides.

(Also, the temptation to just paste in all of the last three pages of the chapter is so incredibly strong, you don’t understand.)

[No. 3 - Entrance Exam]

We start off with some exposition: UA’s hero course is designed to give students all they need to go pro, and is the toughest and most popular hero course in the country, with only a 1 in 300 acceptance rate. Discounting the four slots that are recommendation students, that’s 36 slots a year, which is about…

Yeah. That’s a lotta applications, and that’s just for the hero course! 

Several alumni are mentioned: All Might, who declined the people’s choice award; Endeavor, who’s stopped more crimes than anyone else in recorded history; and Best Jeanist, who’s won the Best Jeanist award eight years running. (One of these things is not like the other~ One of these things just doesn’t belong~) The exposition suggests that graduating from UA is basically a requirement for becoming a great hero - something which we’ll learn soon enough isn’t quite true.

But yeah, Endeavor with the record for crime handling, even above All Might. Quite the impressive hero, though that face…

Not precisely reassuring.

So yeah, Izuku here mentions the date of the exam - February 26th. I figure that this has to be a Sunday, for the simple fact that Japan has a slightly different school schedule than us. Most notably: Japanese schools (some of them, anyways) have 5.5 day school weeks. Yes, that means the first half of Saturday can still be a school day. 

While I couldn’t confirm for sure whether this is more common among the higher end schools, I feel like a school like UA, with its ‘Plus Ultra’ motto, would definitely be a school to have a half-day (or even a full day) on Saturdays, and since they also have to accomodate for middle schools that have Saturday morning classes, I figure that it would make the most sense for UA to schedule this exam on a Sunday. 

The benefits of this, as we’ve already seen, is that we can then narrow down the timeline for the rest of the series, just based on that single, confirmed date. We know from the last chapter that the Sludge Villain had to happen on a Thursday or Friday of the first week of school (April 14th/15th), with the first training session two days later (the 16th/17th). But what this also gives us is when Izuku’s first year of UA starts, AND the possible years it could start on. 

Since we see the glowing baby is in a modern hospital, we can assume that’s correlated to about our times. Give it a few generations, and we can guess that we’re in the 2200s or 2300s for the current era. Based on that assumption, we get the following years that have February 26th on a Sunday:

23rd century potential years: 2204, 2209, 2215, 2226, 2232, 2237, 2243, 2254, 2260, 2265, 2271, 2282, 2288, 2293, 2299

24th century potential years: 2310, 2316, 2321, 2327, 2338, 2344, 2349, 2355, 2366, 2372, 2377, 2383, 2394, 2400

As a side note, when I got into the series, my brain weirdly latched onto the idea that this had to all be happening in the year 2317. I don’t know why I decided on that number, but that’s what I rolled with, and hilariously I could be RIGHT about the year the current manga arc is happening in, provided Izuku’s first year is in 2316. Sometimes you just know, ya know? I know at least one other friend made these calcs independently of me and chose to run with 2237, which is totally valid! Probably makes more sense to be in the 2200s, but there’s room depending on how much time one thinks has passed.

As for when Izuku’s high school school year starts, we know that Japanese schools start on the second Monday of April. Since we don’t know if this is a leap year or not, we’ll end up with two dates, but that’s fine!

Feb 26 (Sun) -> Feb 27 (Mon) -> March (6/5, 13/12, 20/19, 27/26) -> April (3/2, 10/9)

Therefore, Izuku’s first day of classes (not counting the orientation, which I’ve seen a few other timelines assume is on the Sunday before classes start) is April 10th (or the 9th if a leap year)! I know this is all in the future from this chapter, but still, I wanted to share this at some point and figured now was as good a time as always.

Math!

Sorry, I’ve just wanted to share this math I did for a while now, I put a lot of work into it and I am very proud of it. Let’s get back to the chapter.

So Izuku lives a 40 minute train ride away from UA, and has made it just in time for the exam. Apparently, this is only the practical portion? Or well, that’s the part that gets focused on in this chapter, with no mention of the paper exam. I would imagine they’d be the same day, though? But I suppose one can do whatever they like with it.

He’s standing there looking at the school, thinking about how he didn’t have a chance to test the power, while the other students head in-

Excuse me, Toga?? I know that hairstyle is just a bit off, but… ???

...right, anyways. Izuku is wondering whether the hair really did anything (also, it was apparently sour, which, ew.) Katsuki comes up behind him and tells him to move aside.

Truly a flattering image. Izuku panics a bit and greets him, but Katsuki just walks by without another word or gesture, leaving Izuku confused as he watches him head on into the building. The narrative notes that since the villain incident, Katsuki hadn’t bothered Izuku, while the unnamed characters in the background apparently recognize Katsuki from the ‘sludge’ incident (well, not shocked how the fandom held onto that name). 

Izuku notes that he’s gotta stop flinching instinctively, and then tries to hype himself up, noting that it’s not like before, and think about the past ten months while taking a wobbly step forward- and then tripping over himself.

I’m sorry Izuku just has so many fantastic faces in this chapter I am crying trying to limit myself to just a few. But yeah, that little derp as he realizes what’s happening is adorable, especially while Ochako gently sets him back on his feet. She mentions that it’s her quirk, and apologizes for using it, but that it’s a bad omen to trip and fall. (I wonder if that gets played with again during later parts of the series… will have to check to see.)

While Izuku freaks out over talking to a girl, Ochako notes that the exam is nerve-wracking, and then heads off while wishing both of them luck as Izuku stares after. 

This fucking kid. I love him so much. His flustered excitement gets him some weird looks from the others still outside.

We transition to a new character (Present Mic) who immediately shows off his performative side by calling for a ‘hey!’ which… is met with silence from the crowd. He doesn’t let this throw him off, instead letting them know that he’ll present the guidelines for the practical, followed with a ‘YEAH!’ that gets met with an even heavier silence.

Izuku and Katsuki are seated next to each other, with Izuku descending right into excited muttering over Present Mic and how he listens to his radio show every week. Also with the assumption that all the UA teachers are pro heroes, which I mean, true, but still. Katsuki tells Izuku to shut up.

Present Mic explains the test: ten minute long ‘mock cityscape maneuvers’, with the applicants split among seven arenas, labelled ‘A’ through ‘G’. With more than 10k applicants total, that’s about…

Yeah, more than 1500 per arena. Fucking hell, no wonder the robots deplete so quickly in only a few minutes. Also of interest:

“Bring along whatever you want.” So technically, if Izuku were able to procure the tech and training to handle the robots, there would be nothing keeping him from getting into UA quirkless… though I imagine any kid who gets in mostly on tech probably gets side-eyed… though if said kid made their OWN tech, they might also get an offer from the Support department.

(AU where Mei accidentally took the heroics exam and got a shitload of points, but she ended up taking the offer for Support instead despite setting the record for most points in said exam. Katsuki forever wants to fight her. Izuku and her are good friends.)

Also, another thing I love is how Katsuki just told Izuku to shut up a moment ago, and then:

He’s the one to initiate conversation on the details of the test, basically agreeing on the reasoning behind dividing up the students between arenas. Katsuki is annoyed at not being able to crush Izuku, which has Izuku awkwardly silent. 

Also mini-Mic.

Poor, poor Mic. He just wants audience participation. Anyways, he continues on to explain the points system, with the help of cute little Mario-themed silhouettes. There are three kinds of faux villains, with different points awarded for defeating each based on their difficulty levels. Also, attacking other examinees is prohibited!

A student (cough Tenya) raises their hand to ask a question, going on to note that the handout sheet appears to have four varieties of villain, and that such a blatant error (if it is one) reflects poorly on Japan’s top academy. He then spins around and points at Izuku, calling him out for his muttering and how distracting he’s been, and that ‘if this is some sort of game to you, then please leave immediately!’ 

Is that… Mineta seated behind Izuku? I can’t find another panel that disproves that theory, so. Whelp. If you ever for some reason want to have Izuku accidentally deal with the grape early, he’s right there. 

Anyways, Present Mic brings the convo back to the initial question/comment, noting that the fourth villain is worth zero points, and is more of an obstacle. He then brings up Super Mario Brothers, the old retro game, and compares the Zero Pointer to a thwomp. There’s one per site, serving as a gimmick that’ll rampage in close quarters. Tenya thanks Mic and apologizes for the interruption. 

And so we get our final words from Present Mic:

??? either he's referencing the original guy (which I think would be a misquote because I doubt OG Nap ever noted anything like that) or some French hero or the like who took on the name.

Discord offered this to me while putting together the post:

So there you have it. Tentatively confirmed.

Those EYES man, dude’s got the Rinnegan going on.

Honestly, I have to end on this panel just because of that last line from Present Mic. Like, look me in the eyes and tell me this isn’t the exact point to end on. 

The discord’s takeaway from this:

[queen-of-my-goofball-army]

Come With Me And Never Go Away~ A Proposal Fic

Hi everyone! Welcome back to another writing one shot that I had a lot of fun with! I thought of this really cute idea for how Miya would propose to Sakura in their mid 20's after they were both settled in with their careers picked out and everything else. I hope that you all enjoy my writing because this one was a ton of fun to make!

Kicking off my shoes after a long day, I sighed as I entered my apartment that I shared with my boyfriend of eleven years.

“I’m home…” I announced tiredly and heard the familiar sound of Mario coming from the living room as I saw my adorable boyfriend sitting crosslegged on our couch.

“Baby! Welcome home, you look exhausted come here.” He instantly wrapped his arms around me and I melted into the tightly wound hug.

“I am exhausted. It was a crazy busy day at the restaurant today. Being the full chef now after I’ve been training for the last seven years is really tiring. I know that dad fully prepared me but still.” I whined as my boyfriend picked me up and carried me over to our couch.

“I know that you’re really tired Saki but hey, you get a day off tomorrow. Didn’t Jiro give you the day off?” I nodded my head. My dad had given me a mandatory one day off per week once I officially started working as a full chef. I think part of it was so that he could still work at least one day a week since it was his restaurant.

“I have something planned for you tomorrow! I’ve been planning it for a long time but I think that we’re both finally ready for it.” I blinked my red eyes curiously at my boyfriend for the last eleven years. I wondered what on earth he could have planned out for tomorrow.

“Carla, am I missing an anniversary of some kind?” I asked my own “Carla” prototype that my mom had given me when I moved out, mostly to keep track of important dates and little things like that.

“You are not forgetting any anniversary mistress.” I turned to my boyfriend just making sure that I hadn’t forgotten any big holiday’s.

“No sweetheart you haven’t forgotten any big anniversary or holiday’s for us. Even if you did you know I’m not that into celebrating them. As long as you come home to me at the end of the day that’s all I care about. How was the restaurant today?” I smiled softly putting my feet across my boyfriend’s lap with a small sigh.

“It was great. I love working in the food industry it’s one of my favorite things that I’ve ever gotten to do. How was your day? Did you stream go alright?” He nodded his head with a small smile on his face getting out his computer.

“It went really well! All of the money that I raised is going into the charity that will help me to teach those kids to board.” He promised himself and I smiled softly at my boyfriend forever proud of the life that he had decided that he wanted to make. I remembered when he told me that he wanted to mostly work from home. At first I was terrified that he wouldn’t be able to make his dream a reality but he loved what he did. He got to play video games for a living and then teach kids to skateboard for fun at the local indoor park where he was a coach.

“I’m so glad that it was able to work out in your favor love. What did you play today?” I asked him curiously and he just blew the hair out of his face.

“I played this new remastered Crash Bandicoot game, you’d love it! It’s a lot of fun, you always did love Crash. You can play as Coco throughout the entire game though~” He sang song and I instantly made grabby hands for my switch.

“Let me see it! I need some stupid mindless fun.” He laughed at me instantly grabbing the coral pink switch as he inserted the game cartridge.

“Get your socks off baby, I’ll message your feet.” I blushed a bright pink playing with the ends of my hair nervously. It amazed me that even eleven years of dating the same person I was still flustered by him.

“You don’t have to…” He instantly just took my hand in his lightly messaging out the kinks in my muscles from a day on my feet.

“Saki I want to do this for you. You’re dead on your feet and you’re going to accept my help no matter what you do. I don’t care about feet smell. Just give them here.” I sighed knowing that my boyfriend wasn’t budging from his ideals.

“Fine don’t say that I didn’t warn you cat-boy.” I slipped off my socks and he just smiled at me lightly starting with the top of my leg where I had been standing all day.

“I seriously don’t get what the big deal is. So you work on your feet all day and you sweat, so what baby, everyone does it.” I sighed halfheartedly and just melted against the back of the couch as I picked the character that I wanted to play.

“I’m just self conscious of it I’m sorry…” I apologized and Miya just smiled softly at me as he squeezed my hand.

“No need to be sorry Saki, just relax baby I’m right here.” I sighed a little bit with a small smile on my face.

“I love you Miya Chinen.” I told him and he just kissed my hand that was entwined with his as he used his other one that was lightly massaging my feet.

“I love you too Sakura Nanjo, you’re the best thing that has ever happened to me.” He reminded me and I smiled softly at him.

“So, what are we doing tomorrow sweetie?” I could see the small shred of panic that went down his spine with a small nervous smile on his face.

“How about the amusement park in the next town over? It’s been a while since we’ve gone and done a little day trip like that.” I nodded my head with a small smile on my face. We had so many fond memories of that theme park, it was just your typical fair but we loved it.

“That sounds great! Thank you baby, that means a lot to me. I haven’t been able to go to actually go and have fun on my day off in a while. Working all the time like I do at the restaurant while it’s lucrative it’s super tiring.” My boyfriend just smiled understandingly at me. He rubbed down my ankle and I leaned against the back of the couch.

“I just want to make you happy on your day off. This has been something that I’ve been planning for a long time.” I looked at him with an understanding smile. I knew that he had been planning a talk with me for a while but I didn’t know what it was.

“Miya hey, look at me sweetie.” I reminded him lightly picking up his chin. His sea green eyes were slightly worried and I just smiled understandingly at him.

“It’s okay to be nervous to do something. You know that right? I’m supposed to be the nervous one idiot. Don’t you go taking my job cat-boy.” I lightly teased him and he just laughed a little bit leaning his forehead against mine.

“I’m not taking your job my love it’s just that this is something that I’ve wanted to do for the last few years. It’s just that the timing was never right enough for it to work.” I blinked in confusion for a split second cocking my head to the side.

“Miya seriously, what’s wrong?” He just squeezed my hand with an encouraging smile on his face as he ran a small circle around my hand.

“Nothing is wrong Saki I’m just being all paranoid I’ll be fine I swear. Tell me more about your day? How was the bread today?” I went into my purse sighing a little bit at the fact that old habits definitely died hard and gave some of the bread that I put in there for my boyfriend.

“Try it for yourself and let me know. It seemed that everyone really had a great meal today. That’s what I love about my job getting to see people’s happy faces when they eat something that I prepared for them. Even if I have to stand on my poor feet all day I know that in the end it’s all worth it. There was a little girl there today that I helped to make her own personal pizza.” I explained the favorite part of my day since we both had a soft spot for kids. We had agreed that we wouldn’t talk about adoption until after we had gotten married though.

“Did she enjoy that?” I nodded my head with a bright smile on my face pushing a lock of hair behind my ear.

“I think that she did! Her smile and the way that her eyes lit up when she saw this was enough for me.” I rolled up the sleeve of my dress seeing the familiar tattoo.

“Kids do love noticing that, I’m just glad that you’re extremely happy with it. I know that you weren’t the biggest fan of getting it done.” He thumbed along the edge of the words that had always been there to help me whenever I needed them to.

“It did hurt, Haru knowing him probably made it hurt more somehow. But I can’t regret it because I love it now that it’s completed. Do you still like yours?” My boyfriend nodded his head nuzzling his nose against mine. He had decided on getting something even smaller, the day that we had officially started dating on his wrist. It was next to a pink bow on on one side and a purple skateboard on the other end of it.

“I still love it. I can’t regret even a second of it. Even those three year shot you were in Italy and we were in different time zones. I missed you, so much.” I sighed a little bit watery at the memory of how much we had both hated those years.

“I missed you too baby. I’m sorry but I felt that if I didn’t do the three years away than I wouldn’t be the chef that my dad is. I hated that feeling of inadequacy so I knew that I had to do something to fix it. And that’s what I did.” He clung to my shoulders and melted into my embrace with a bright smile on his face. He rested his cheek on the side of my neck.

“Sweetheart, you’re not inadequate as a cook okay? I hope that you know that now. You worked so hard to prove yourself that you could play on the same field as one of the best chefs in Japan. I know that you didn’t want to let everybody down but I’m still so proud of you my love. Do you know why?” I shook my head with a curious expression in my red eyes.

“Because Saki, you’re the best chef that I’ve ever known. You made me love food and helped me understand that food wasn’t the enemy. My mom shoved diets down my throat but you helped me to learn that food is delicious. You need food to survive. I love you from your open heart to the way that you’re always so determined to make the best food possible. Are you hungry? You are not cooking.” He already ordered me but held me to him as he walked over to the phone.

“The local Japanese place okay?” I nodded my head with a small smile on my face. I had already been around Italian food all day and I smiled softly at the memory of growing up with my dad how he never wanted to cook Italian after a long day on his feet.

“That sounds delicious. Thank you.” He kissed my forehead before peppering the kisses across my cheeks, finally kissing my lips.

“Don’t thank me for food weirdo. You’re fine and I want to look out for you as much as you do for me. Do you need me to carry you back to the couch?” I shook my head with a small smile but tightened my arms around his waist.

“You can’t act like you’re not just as clingy as I am cat-boy.” He laughed joyfully at me pressing me closer to him.

“You’re the one who introduced me to physically affection baby so I blame you. What do you want to watch? Attack On Titan? It’s not too gory for you?” I shook my head, the show had been a favorite of my boyfriend’s when I was away and it helped him to work his way through his missing me. I had just barely started it and even though it was bloody I still couldn’t but help enjoying it because he did so much.

“It’s not, I’m not a frail little girl anymore idiot, I can handle myself.” He just laughed a little bit at me leaning his head against my hair.

“I know you can but you shouldn’t have to watch the show with me if that isn’t what you want to watch with me.” I melted into the affection of my boyfriend and rolled my eyes lightly at his ridiculousness. He called in our regular order before hoisting me up.

“Hey! I told you that I was fine and that I could walk on my own.” I lightly swatted his shoulder but he continued to carry me through the hallway.

“Darling, it’s fine I really don’t mind. Besides I’m strong enough to carry you now that I’m not the weight of a twig.” I sighed a little bit knowing that he wouldn’t back down from this without some big argument. He ran his hands through my hair that wasn’t carrying me. He flipped through the streaming services before finding our Crunchyroll application. I entwined my legs through his with a small smile on my face.

“I love you, goofball.” He laughed a little bit at me kissing my nose as I settled in next to him after another long day. He held me only letting go when he heard the doorbell ring.

“You’ve got to let go love, if you do then we can get food.” I sighed regretfully untwining my limbs from his.

“Fine, go and pay the fee, remember to tip extra god knows that they need the money.” I reminded him lightly and I swung my legs back and forth distractedly.

“I remember it’s what you always tell me sweetheart. I’ll be back in just a few minutes.” He reminded me with one more final squeeze of my hand. He went up the hallway and paid for our food that we had bought.

“Alright love now we can relax. Come here.” Miya instantly pulled me against his chest and I laughed a little bit at his typical clinginess. I somehow managed to eat even when I was caged in. I felt myself drifting off to sleep by the ending of the fifth episode. Miya carried me up the stairs to our bedroom before draping our sheets over me and pulled me into a cuddle position.

“Sleep well my love, we’ll have fun tomorrow. I love you.” I muttered back that I loved him too and he just lightly kissed my forehead. I pulled out of his cuddle position when I woke up an hour later out of sheer discomfort.

“I forgot to put on sleep clothes…” I muttered to myself quickly changing when I saw something hanging in my closet.

“Wha?” I laughed a little bit at my boyfriend’s tiredness kissing his cheek with a small smile seeing his bedhead.

“I’ll be right to be your grounding material. Just give me a second I have to brush my teeth and so should you. We both had dessert.” I reminded him lightly and he just ran his hand through his hair. I saw his Sonic themed sleep pants and I couldn’t help but smile. Adorable idiot. He yawned and I heard the little squeak at the end of it that caused me to giggle at him.

“Shut up I’m tired and my grounding device left my bed.” He mocked me lightly bumping his hip with mine and I couldn’t help but roll my eyes at him. I grabbed my toothbrush and as I brushed my teeth I started talking to him.

“IthoughtIsawanewdress.” Miya looked at me with his sea green eyes trying to process everything that I had just said.

“What the fuck?” He asked me rapidly blinking and I couldn’t help but laugh at my boyfriend spitting into the sink.

“I thought that I saw a brand new dress in my closet.” Instantly my boyfriend’s face paled and I pushed a lock of hair behind my ear.

“Sweetheart it’s late and you’ve had a long day. Check and see if the dress is still there at a reasonable hour. Come on, let’s get you to bed.” He wrapped his arms around me protectively and I just sighed a little it knowing that he was right. He played with the ends of my hair as his eyes slowly slipped shut.

“Night baby.” He purred softly against the hands and I melted into the touch nuzzling his nose against mine.

“Good night my love.” He murmured and I finally felt sleep begin to take over. I was exhausted from my day at the restaurant and looking forward to spending the day with the love of my life. The smell of breakfast was what woke me up and I saw Miya pushing open our front door to the bedroom.

“Morning baby! I made you breakfast.” I looked at the breakfast in front of me and saw the waffles that I had made over the weekend but the eggs he made. It still made my heart skip a beat.

“Baby…” He sat down at the foot of the bed and squeezed my hands with a small smile on my face. He kissed me gently and I couldn’t help but smile at him.

“What did I possibly do to deserve this?” He laughed a little bit pulling me back from the hug and crossed his ankles together.

“You want a full bulleted list?” I rolled my eyes at him but tried the eggs. They were perfectly made. Scrambled eggs were one of the few things that my boyfriend could make better than I could.

“I don’t think that we have the time for the full bulleted list.” I joked pouring the syrup over the waffles. I cut into the fluffiness and I handed my boyfriend a bite that he ate off my fork.

“Thank you for this Miya, you didn’t need to go through all this trouble. I could have made a simple breakfast.” He just shook his head at me as he put his arm around my shoulders with a small smile on his face.

“I am taking care of you today Saki don’t you dare protest. I want you to spend the day just relaxed and free.” He reminded me lightly as he pulled me closer into his side. The warmth that was radiating from my boyfriend never failed to turn me into a pile of comfortable goo.

“Your waffles are the best my love…” He sighed taking another bite off my fork and I laughed a little bit melting into the touch.

“Thank you for this sweetie you really didn’t need to do that for me.” I took a bite from the waffles nodding my head at the fluffy breakfast food.

“Oh sweetheart you don’t need to than me, you already do everything around the house. I just sit on my butt and play video games all day.” I lightly pulled at his cheek as he whined and protested in pain. He was always such a big baby about this sort of thing.

“That is not all you do. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve come home to see that you’ve done the dishes and everything else around the house. I love you Miya thank you for this. It’s going to be a great day.” I saw that there was indeed a new dress sitting at the edge of my vanity. It looked extremely familiar and then it hit me.

“You didn’t…” I trailed off seeing that he had bought me the dress of my childhood dreams, Ariel’s blue town dress from my favorite Disney movie fairy tale The Little Mermaid. Skimbleshanks stretched from his cat tree and slowly climbed down.

“Good morning baby boy.” Miya sneezed next to me reaching for his allergy medication and sighed once he had taken it.

“God I hate my allergies…” He whined and I couldn’t help but feel affection for my boyfriend. I wrapped my arms around him as Skimble climbed into my boyfriend’s lap. He sneezed again as I ran a hand through his hair.

“Hi Skimble, sorry just give me until the medication kicks in.” I fed my cat a blueberry from the bowl of fruit and he just ate the food I had given to him.

"That’s better sorry about that I hate my allergies so much sometimes.” He complained and I just leaned my head against his shoulder.

“I know you do sweetie but you still take care of him anyways during the day. You’re the best.” He laughed at me a little bit before taking his own breakfast.

“I think that’s my line sweetheart. Also since your precious cat interrupted me yes I did buy you that.” My heart ached at the idea that he had done this for me strictly because he wanted me to.

“Thank you Miya. This is so important to me.” I thanked him and he softly hummed at the idea that I was so thankful.

“It’s really no problem baby, you already do so much for me and I wanted to surprise you. There’s a ribbon to match the dress.” I saw the matching blue ribbon and tears flooded into my eyes when his arms tightened around me.

“Hey, what are the crocodile tears for baby?” I shook my head singing deeply and trying to calm down a little bit.

“I’m just emotional because I really love you Miya. you’ve done everything within your power to make me happy over the years that we’ve been together even when you couldn’t physically be there. I’m sorry that I’m such an emotional mess it’s just that I love you so much.” Miya hugged me tighter to him and he just ran a hand through my hair.

“Oh my light in the darkness you’re so ridiculous sometimes. I love you so much baby it’s going to be okay. You know how I hate making you cry because then that makes me want to cry and that’s never a pretty picture.” He joked lightly and I let out a watery laugh as he gave me a bite from my waffle. I melted into the touch and the flavor of something that I made.

“I love you too Miya, more than anything in the entire cosmos. You’re the best things that has ever happened to me you coming into the restaurant that day. I can’t imagine what my life would be like without you I just love you so much.” My boyfriend just ran his hand down my shoulder with a small smile on his face.

“Sweetheart, we need to really start getting a move on so that we can celebrate today.” He reminded me lightly and I clenched my fist with a small smile.

“Okay! Why is today so special?” I asked him and he just looked at me with an understanding smile on his face but I could see the traces of worriment there.

“It’s nothing really that special my sunflower, it’s just another day when I can celebrate with my best friend in the entire world. I want to treat my queen the way that she deserves.” My heart positively lunged in my chest as tears pooled in the corners of my eyes.

“Please stop saying shit like that idiot I can’t finish my breakfast if I keep on crying.” I lectured lightly and he just kissed the side of my forehead with sticky syrup lips.

“Sorry sweetheart, I can’t help it.” I leaned against him when I saw our other much smaller and younger kitten hop up on the bed. We had just gotten him because we knew that Skimble’s days were numbered amongst us due to how old and frail he was getting.

“Hello Berlioz…” I greeted my boyfriend’s Russian blue cat that he had decided to name after his favorite of the cats from The Aristocats. He curled up in my lap and I fed him a little slice of mango.

“Sakura I need to ask, are you happy with me?” I blinked at my boyfriend with shocked eyes and I just squeeze his hand.

“Baby, of course I’m happy with you. Where’s this coming from?” He just sighed a little bit his nervousness palpable.

“I just wanted to know if you’re contented in with me in your life. I love you more than anything and sometimes I just need to hear that you love me too. Even though you tell me that you love me all the time it’s still what I worry about.” I wrapped my arms around my boyfriend’s waist. I sighed a little bit, I think sometimes I worried so much and he had to take care of me if I could take care of him.

“Miya, don’t be an idiot. You’re the best thing that has ever happened to me. If I could still with you forever I would. Hell I plan to stay with you for the rest of my life. I love you so much. You’re my savior. You brought me out of the darkness. I was just living before I met you. When I met you it was like my world had blown up into this world of color.” He just tucked a lock of pink hair behind my ear with a small smile on his face.

“Light in the darkness, I love you so much. I know that you’ve struggled harder than anybody to keep your head above the water that’s why I didn’t want to tell you about these anxieties that I had.” He kissed my forehead softly running a hand down my side.

“There you go it’s okay to have fears about these types of things. Come on, let’s get some breakfast. Then we can celebrate and have a fun day with whatever you have planned my love.” He kissed my forehead with a small smile on his face.

“Do you have a matching Prince Erik costume?” I teased lightly seeing the pink flush go across my boyfriend’s cheek.

“I do…” I squeezed his hand with a small smile on my face. The fact that my boyfriend had gone this far into giving me just a simple good day off.

“You didn’t have to get a matching outfit Miya, I would have been fine just wearing the dress that you worked so hard to find for me.” I objected and he just laughed a little bit at me kissing my forehead with a small smile.

“I wanted to besides it’ll work for part of a surprise that I have for you at sunset.” I pouted at the idea that he was alluding to having a surprise for me but not telling me in the slightest what it was.

“You know that I hate it when people are like I have a surprise for you but then don’t tell me more details. I hate surprises because the suspense in just exhausting for me.” I kicked my legs back and forth whining at my boyfriend’s way of teasing me.

“It’ll be a good surprise I promise baby. I’m sorry to be such a secret keeper right now but it’s for the best. I just want you to be happy.” My heart melted at the idea that he just wanted to celebrate the idea of being together. I wanted to finish my breakfast as quickly as possible so that I could get on the road with my adorably goofy boyfriend. I accidentally got some food lodged in the back of my throat.

“Whoa, take it easy there sweetheart, don’t give yourself a stomach ache again. I probably shouldn’t have said anything before we leave.” He rubbed my back lightly trying for me to get whatever it was lodged out of my throat.

“Thanks sweetie I’m alright. I’ll be okay. I’m actually full, do you want the rest?” He nodded his head getting the rest of our food into his stomach. I went into the shower to get ready for the day. Putting on the dress that he had bought for me and brushing out my hair I tied my hair back into Ariel’s ponytail with her floppy bangs

“Saki…” I heard Miya’s voice from the now steamy shower as he left the bathroom with a towel around his waist.

"You look like the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen in my entire life. I love you so much, more than anything. How am I dating this gorgeous creature?” He dramatically leaned against my shoulder and I just laughed at my long time love.

“You’re just as pretty as me if not more so my love get over yourself.” I rolled my eyes at him lightly and he just shook his head at me.

“I’m still saying that you’re prettier. Oh! Before I forget this is your new purse.” He handed me a Flounder purse and my heart positively melted.

“Thank you!” I flung my arms around his neck with a bright smile on my face. He just kissed my forehead with a small loving smile.

“Now that you’re all gorgeous I feel inadequate, be gone with you.” He waved his hand dismissively and I laughed a little bit at him.

“Yes your highness, I have to put on makeup anyways.” I lightly stuck my tongue out at my boyfriend and went into our bathroom. Brushing my teeth and going through the rest of my morning routine I spun around in a small circle in the mirror. I truly felt like the mermaid turned princess in the getup that Miya had accumulated for me.

“It’s remarkable how you look even prettier to me without makeup on but you still look beautiful with it on. I know that you’re just wearing it for the aesthetic and the appeal to look more like your character.” I looked over at my boyfriend now fully dressed in his Erik attire. My heart skipped a beat at my childhood Disney prince come to life right in front of my very eyes.

“You clean up surprisingly nice, who are you and what have you done with my cat-boy boyfriend?” He sarcastically laughed at me but just jokingly flexed his slight muscles.

“Okay don’t go getting a bigger ego than my dad now. Black shoes where did I put you…” I muttered trying to find my black flats that would match the rest of this outfit since I couldn’t function in heels.

“They’re towards the back!” Miya yelled at me and I found the shoes in question and slipped them on getting on final look at myself in the mirror.

“You look absolutely breathtaking. Am I in heaven? Are you an angel Saki?” I blushed a bright pink and tried to use my hands to cover my face.

“Baby, don’t do that shit okay just look at me. Just look right at me. There’s nothing that you need to be embarrassed about around me. I know you, you’re my best friend. Just take some deep breaths with me before you get too far into your own head.” I followed the familiar breathing instructions and tried to follow his cadence for breathing. It always worked better when he was here holding me and making sure that I was breathing deeply and regularly to get me out of my own head.

“Did Haru tell you about his latest customer last night?” I shook my head and my boyfriend just laughed openly, one of my favorite sounds in the entire world.

“Oh god, so this Karen she came in demanding that he make her the tattoo of her baby’s birthday but when he was out of the right shade of pink that she wanted and he told her that she should come back when he had the color in stock, she threw an absolute hissy fit. Said that a cis person wouldn’t have made her go through all the trouble. Do you know what he said to her?” I shook my head knowing that whatever Haru had told her it had to have been a gold line.

“He said ma’am if I may be frank a cis person and a straight person would have thrown you flat on your ass the moment that you opened your mouth and started ranting about not having the right color of pink that you requested once you got here even though I asked you for colors a month in advance but luckily for you I have the patience of a saint and an amazing girlfriend who knows how to help me with my anger management.” I laughed openly totally getting this image of Haru doing Kyo’s count down from 10 to 0 just like in the Fruits Basket anime and manga.

“Thank you Miya that does make me feel so much better now that you told me something stupid. I love you.” I thanked him and he just lightly nuzzled his nose against mine taking a deep breath of my shampoo.

“There is nothing in this whole world that I love more than your laugh my sunflower.” He snuggled against me and I melted into the affection.

“I love your laugh too~ your laugh is so open and unabashed.” His hand entwined with mine and I squeezed his hand.

“I used to hate my laugh when I was a kid it wasn’t until I met you that I learned to love my laugh.” He intertwined his pinky finger with mine. When we had first started being friends we would constantly be holding pinkies when we were together.

“Well you know I was also self conscious of my laugh too. I love laughing with you though because our laughs are both equally loud and they balance each other out. Especially when you’re playing video games, come on amore mio let’s get out of here. Do you think that the boys can handle themselves?” I asked him and he just laughed a little bit at me.

“I think that Skimble can keep Berli in line. You both be good and we’ll be back later tonight.” He put his arm around my shoulders and pulled me into his side.

“Do you think that you’d ever go to your brother for another tattoo? Maybe a Little Mermaid one?” I nodded my head. I knew that I should ask my brother to design me another one since I did love the that I had.

“I’m going to call Haru tomorrow and make sure that he has an opening spot for me within the next few weeks. He’s usually really busy but I love supporting his small business.” Miya lightly rested his cheek against my hair.

“I’ll support you and squeeze your hand no matter what the pain is. I know that you can’t deal with pain very well.” My heart squeezed in my chest with a small smile on my face. No matter what I could always count on him to be there for me.

“I love you so much Miya.” He just sighed a little bit kissing my forehead with a small smile on his face. When he lightly guided me through the house and into the car he locked the car door.

“Okay, do you have everything that you need for the day? Nothing else?” I shook my head with a small smile on my face.

“Nope.” I popped the p and he just laughed at me pushing a lock of hair into my ponytail. I got into the car and looked through my bag to make sure that I had seen everything.

“I made sure that everything was in there before you left with it. Maybe some extra things as well.” He squeezed my hand as he pulled out of our apartment complex driveway with a small smile on his face. I opened the purse going through it. I saw the typical things, my phone, but towards the bottom I saw that there was a new set of bracelets, new earrings, and new lipstick there. He must have noticed that I was almost all out of my favorite shade of red.

“Thank you baby, this means so much to me.” He just kissed my hand that he was holding before pulling out of the hold so that he could focus on driving.

“It’s really no need to thank me sweetheart. I just wanted to see your smile. You can pick the music that we listen to.” He handed me his phone and my heart warmed when I saw the familiar lockscreen of me sleeping on his shoulder dead to the world. I went through our music just finding a playlist of my favorites and putting that on shuffle to make things easier for me. The only thing that wasn’t included here was Rush because I had them in their own separate playlist to keep it from being over 24 hours long. Hearing the familiar sounds of Journey’s love song that I had grown up hearing playing through the speakers.

“It’s our song…” Miya smiled nostalgically and I couldn’t help but smile at the memory. We had our own private prom since it was around the time when I got really into American culture and how it all worked. Miya had surprised me by doing such a simple thing and using our local skatepark but decorated for a prom for both of us.

“I’ve loved this song since I was a kid. It always had a special meaning for me. But for years I never really knew what until I met you. It was just a pretty song with lyrics that I loved.” I looked out the car window seeing so many childhood memories of going around the city when I first started skateboarding with my boyfriend. There were so many minor injuries but I wouldn’t change a thing about how I did it now.

“I didn’t know a lot of American songs before I met you. It was through you that you taught me about all different kinds of things. I found kindness in humanity again due to you. I was lonely before I met you and I-sorry I’m getting all sentimental.” I squeezed his arm with a small understanding smile knowing where he was coming from. When you’ve been dating the same person for the last eleven years of your life you learn all their little ticks. Miya’s was that he was surprisingly soft and sentimental.

“It’s okay amore I get it. Are you sure that today isn’t anything important that would make you more sentimental than usual?” He looked down at the steering wheel before sighing a little bit. He tucked a lock of dark hair behind his ear his eyes brimming with tears.

“It’s the anniversary of the day that you first talked to me…” I blinked my red eyes rapidly trying to turn back time and find out if he was right.

“It is? We don’t celebrate that one, how do you remember that?” He just nodded his head with a small smile on his face.

“I know that we don’t celebrate it but I always remember it. I loved you even back then when I was a petty eleven year old that hated the rest of the world for abandoning me. You didn’t give up though. Even when I ignored you when you tried to talk to me. You continued to press me for information about myself and why I loved skating so much.” Miya remembered the moments before we were friends and I just closed my eyes flashing back to that first day. I had seen a young skater when I was blading home from school in the skatepark that had done a rail slide down the railing. I thought that he was beautiful at skating. Little did eleven year old me know that she had just opened Pandora’s box and her life would change forever.

“Why didn’t you just tell me?” He sighed but looked over at me with his sea green eyes traced with that worriment.

“I didn’t want you to think that I was some kind of creeper weirdo for remembering such a simple thing…” I instantly wrapped my pinky around his with a small understanding smile on my face covered up by a laugh.

“You really are an idiot. Miya, I’ll never think that you’re a creeper. You might be a weirdo but that’s my job to tease you and make fun of you lightly. I can’t blame you for remembering that first day that I reached out to you. It was the first time that somebody had given you an ounce of human kindness in a long time.” My longtime boyfriend’s worriment steadily went away but I still little traces of it in those eyes that I loved so dearly.

“I’ve been kind of low key panicking about that for a good chunk of the day so I’m glad about that.” I squeezed his arm with a small smile on my face.

“I get it okay? I panic all the time about the dumbest of things and I just overanalyze the hell out of my situation before eventually just coming to the conclusion that I am socially awkward and it’s a curse.” I joked and Miya just laughed at me.

“You are the farthest thing from socially awkward you just have to get yourself out of that little turtle shell of yours and open your mind to new ideas. I know that the concept is hard for you but you’ve come a long way from where you were. You were able to make a really amazing friend other than me two of them in fact.” He reminded me lightly kissing my forehead with a small smile on his face as he pulled onto the highway that would lead us to the next town over.

“It was more like Kayla picked me and you know it. I was so bad with friends at first at least least when they weren’t you. I’ve always been good at talking to you baby.” I saw the slight flush on my boyfriend’s cheeks.

“I think it’s because we’re both sort of wallflower loners but it’s okay. I always had you around so I couldn’t be lonely anymore after you came into my life.” I smiled softly at him pushing a lock of hair behind my ear.

“I never really needed anybody else other than you tesoro. You were enough to make me happy. Even during those years that we spent apart I just kept thinking that one day I’d come back to you.” He just sighed happily squeezing my hand with a small smile on his face.

“It was hardcore but I needed that time too. I think I of all people was too codependent on you and the friendship that you gave to me. I needed the opportunity to make friends of my own. That and to get my head on straight for what I wanted to do for work. I couldn’t rely on my gorgeous girlfriend forever for clout. I needed to learn how to provide for you.” I sighed a little bit fluttering my hands around in a small circle in front of me just needing something to do with all of this excess energy.

“You didn’t have to provide for me my darling. I can perfectly well provide for myself out here in the world. I love you but that’s the truth. I love that you enjoy what it is that you do for work. It’s fun for you and you always wanted to do something with video games. Being a streamer was always your dream job because then you could work from home.” As we drove into the town I could see the people gathering up their young children for the fair.

“Do you still want to adopt one day?” Miya asked me swiftly changing the subject and I nodded my head seeing a small girl outside walking between her mom and dad.

“I do want to have children and to give them a better life than the one that they’ve known. Maybe older kids and give them a place to call home. Nine year olds and up.” I thought to myself and my boyfriend just smiled softly.

“I rather like the idea of you caring for a smaller child though, one like that mom there.” He noticed and pointed out a young mother that was carrying what had to be a three year old child.

“I just think that you have really good maternal instincts Saki. I’d love to see you with a younger child. We’ll certainly adopt some older ones too but I want at least one less than five.” My heart melted at the idea of him as a dad. I knew the concept of fatherhood was foreign to him but I also knew that he would be amazing at it. He’d teach the kids to skate, play video games, show them various anime’s. He’d be the best nerdy father figure.

“Just keep the gooey stuff away from the baby.” I lightly warned knowing that he would but just wanting to lightly mock him.

“Oh please, I’m not stupid no matter how much you call me an idiot.” I lightly drew a small circle into my dress just trying to do something with my hands.

“Just because I call you an idiot doesn’t make you stupid caro. It means that you sometimes do things that are silly.” I reminded him lightly and he just smiled softly at me leaning his head against my shoulder with a hum.

“I know you do hey look sweetheart, there’s the amusement park.” I looked ahead of me and saw all the rides and attractions as well as the games that were ahead of the parking lot. Miya got out of the car first and rushed to open my door.

“I could have gotten it.” I protested and he just took my hand squeezing it encouragingly with a small smile on his face.

“It’s okay baby I wanted to get your door for you. Come on, let’s have some fun~” He sang song and I nodded my head with a small smile on my face. We walked together to the front of the ticket counter.

“Two tickets please.” I buried my head into my boyfriend’s neck with a small smile on my face. He must have sensed the light nervousness that I had about how this day was going to go.

“Are you the one who called in about the-“ Miya nodded his head rapidly making the mime to stop talking right then and there.

“The what now?” He just leaned his cheek against my hair wrapping his arm around my waist with a small smile on his face.

“Nothing Saki, it’s a surprise for later on today. I had a carriage ride planned out and this guy just ruined it.” He whined and I couldn’t help but feel tears come to my eyes at the amount of planning that must have gone into this. We were handed our day passes for the amusement park and we got them scanned as we went under the tunnel that led us to the bright and shiny main street.

“Excuse me lady, are you princess Ariel?” A small girl who couldn’t have been more than four years old asked me. I beamed down at the girl realizing that when Ariel wore this costume she didn’t talk.

“That’s not Ariel you idiot she has the wrong hair color.” The boy that the girl was with reprimanded his friend harshly and I felt a small shiver of panic go through me.

“My girlfriend might not be the real Ariel but she is a fellow Little Mermaid fan. Also brat, I’d watch your tone when you speak to her. She’s a lot nicer than you’ll ever be. You can’t treat people like you’re better than they are just because you feel superior.” I knew that my boyfriend felt like he was talking to a younger version of himself and my heart ached.

“It’s true, I’m not the princess that you want me to be. I’d still love to take a picture with you though if you still wanted to. What I’m doing right now, it’s called cosplay. I wear the costume of the character and it helps me to feel more confident. I’ve done with a handful of other characters but they all match my hair color.” I reasoned with the little tike in front of me and she just nodded her head at me grabbing her mother.

“Mama! She says that she’s a cosplayer.” The mother looked at me with a small sort of fake smile on her face.

“Oh did she now?” Miya’s arm tightened around my waist his protective nature coming through in full force.

“Mhm! She’s Princess Ariel today, she’s so beautiful isn’t she?” The mother just picked up her daughter and what looked to be her son.

“You are both despicable both claiming to be characters for the lives of young children.” I heard Miya mutter, maybe you’re just a despicable mother as I swatted his arm.

“Tesoro let’s just go. I can’t be around here anymore.” He just squeezed my hip as we walked together to him drawing a small circle there.

“Come on sweetheart, let’s just go and have fun. I see the carousel!” He encouraged as a distraction and he instantly led me over there. I saw a seahorse that was one of the riders that you could sit on.

“I’ll help you up there my light in the darkness.” He offered and I looked at him with an understanding smile on my face.

“I can get up there myself.” I whined and he just lightly squeezed my hand. I just knew that I had to let go and let him take care of me.

“I know that you can my love. I just wanted to help you out anyways.” Once the ride came to a stop he gratefully helped me up onto the seat of the horse that I wanted to ride upon.

“Oh my god that is the sweetest thing that I’ve ever seen in my entire life…” A middle aged woman came up to the two of us.

“I grew up watching that movie and I think that you’re absolutely adorable.” Miya squeezed my hand encouragingly.

“Thank you very much ma’am! I wanted to just surprise my girlfriend on her day off. She works as a head chef and is always busy working or her brain is running a million miles an hour.” I wrapped my arms around my boyfriend with a small smile on my face.

“You two are the cutest thing ever!! I love that so much, it reminds me so much of me and my beau. He runs the Disney carnival games.” My heart ached at the idea that there was a good chance that they both met here most likely.

“We’ll have to stop by there later once we get to the end of the day. I’ve been known to be quite a good at carnival games. I just don’t want to win her a giant stuffed animal and then have to carry it around all day.” He squeezed my hands and the worker just got teary eyed at the two of us before going off to start the ride. Carousels had always been my childhood favorite to ride with Haru since he got easily motion sick growing up. Now he was the biggest thrill ride seeker out there and so was Kayla.

“I love you angel, you’re so beautiful today. Don’t mind that stupid bitch of a mother she’s doing a shit job of raising her kid.” I laughed openly at my best friend. Leave it to the love of my life to realize things that I didn’t even think I was worried about.

“Are you okay though amore?” I asked him thinking about his lecture to that bratty kid who couldn’t have been more than four years old.

“I’m fine my light in the darkness. I just wanted to smack that kid upside the head so badly that I was barely restraining myself. How dare he say that any part of my girlfriend is unnatural looking!” He vented and I couldn’t help but laugh a little bit at him.

“Miya don’t let that stupid kid get to you. Let’s try and have a nice day okay?” He nodded his head squeezing my hand with a small smile on his face. The ride slowly came to a stop and the operator stopped us giving Miya a massive handful of tickets.

“These are good for any of the games that we have here on the house for being such couples goals. I’ll have to talk Jin into cosplaying with me one day.” I smiled gratefully at the young woman that had supported the both of us.

“Thank you very much ma’am!” I lopped my arm through his and leaned his head against my shoulder. We walked through the park and saw the carnival games that were set up and one booth caught my eye.

“Hey, I think that’s where that woman’s boyfriend works! Look at that massive flounder.” My eyes went all soft and misty when I saw the stuffed version of my favorite Disney side character all set up.

“I’ll win that for you.” Miya promised his fist clenched and I smiled softly at my boyfriend as he walked up to the worker with Jin’s name tag on it.

“Can you do me a favor, do you have more of the large Flounder’s?” Miya asked him and I saw the worker smile softly.

“I keep stock of all my stuffed animals if you want to win one for your beautiful princess. I can tell that she is the apple of your eye. I look at my girlfriend the same way she runs the carousel.” I smiled softly at him when Miya just lightly kissed my forehead but I moved to kiss him.

“We’ll be back by the end of the day to get that for her.” He promised Jin and he just smiled softly at us nodding his head.

“I’ll be looking forward to it. Have a nice day folks!” He got to talking with the next little girl in line to get a stuffed animal.

“I want to see if she gets her animal. If not I’ll get it for her.” Miya watched as the young girl struggled to hold up her gun and her shots went amiss.

“I’m going to go and talk to her.” I nodded my head with a small smile on my face as I watched him go over to the little girl and lightly coach her on how it was done. He helped her to aim the gun so that she’d be able to hit the target.

“Your boyfriend is really good with kids. That’s my daughter.” A man pointed to the young girl with a lilt to his voice that I could tell he loved her.

“He’s always been amazing with children. I think it’s because he’s basically a big kid himself so he’s able to relate to them easier.” I smiled softly at my boyfriend as he cheered for the girl when Jin handed her the stuffed animal that she wanted.

“How long have you two been dating?” Miya put his arm around my shoulders possessively and pulled me closer to my side. I could tell that he was having a bit of a jealous fit but I thought that it was adorable.

“We’ve been dating for the last eleven years now back the hell off.” I laughed a little bit at my boyfriend rolling my eyes at him.

“Tesoro he wasn’t even flirting honestly how do I put up with you half the time when you act like this?” I asked him exasperatedly and he just melted into the touch of my hand against his cheek.

“You have nothing to worry about friend, I’m very much taken. I don’t even play for her team. That’s my husband.” He pointed to a man that was throwing basketballs into a basketball hoop game to win basketballs.

“We’ve been married for the last six years and recently adopted our first child the one that you just helped to win at that target game. I was just about to go and get my hubby to help her but you beat me to it.” Miya kissed my palm that was calming him down and he just sent me the loving smile that I initially fell in love with.

“Great job sweetie! You got the one that you wanted?” The little girl nodded and hugged my boyfriend who blinked owlishly in surprise.

“Thank you mister!! You really helped me and I appreciate it a ton.” She thanked him and he lightly patted the little girl’s head.

“It’s really no problem, I’m Miya, this is my longtime girlfriend Sakura.” He introduced me to the small girl in front of him and I got down on her level.

“Which stuffed animal did you get sweetheart?” She showed me the stuffed Marie that she had picked out and I couldn’t help but smile at the nostalgic value that character brought for me.

“Because I’m lady that’s why, excellent choice she’s always been a personal favorite of mine. We have a gray cat named Berlioz he named him.” I jerked a thumb at my boyfriend who just smiled at the two of us interacting.

“That was the first Disney movie that I ever saw. She showed it to me because I didn’t have the luxury of Disney movies growing up. I think that we are actually going to go and ride some rides, but you have a good day with your dad’s okay?” The little girl nodded her head with a small wave as I sighed wistfully at her retreating.

“That’s going to be us one day. I want to adopt kids so bad.” Miya just squeezed my hand with an understanding smile while pointing to a moderately intense looking rollercoaster.

“What about that one next baby?” I looked at the ride in question while nodding my head hesitantly. I had a feeling that the wind would probably majorly mess up my ponytail but it would be worth it. Miya loved rollercoasters and I loved hearing him laugh while he was on them. It never failed to light up my heart and live rent free in my head.

“Sure, it looks like you’d enjoy that one! Did you seriously buy a horse and carriage ride knowing that I’ve always wanted to do that?” He nodded his head with a light pink flush on his cheeks. I couldn’t help but lean that much closer to him wanting him to know what he had done really meant something to me.

“I wanted to surprise you and spoil you because I don’t get to do it very often. You don’t usually let me.” He whined plaintively and I couldn’t help but laugh at his childish nature.

“That’s because if I let you then you’d never stop wanting to. I can’t let you buy me everything caro. I have to take care of myself.” Miya took the hand that he was holding and pressed a gentle kiss to it as we got in line for the rollercoaster that he wanted to go on.

“You don’t have to do everything all by yourself. You’re not a one woman show you never have been. I know that you love having your independence and I wouldn’t want to take that away from you for anything in the entire world.” He reminded me lightly. I knew that he was right but it was my own stubborn sense of pride that got in the way of things sometimes.

“Sweetheart it’s alright to rely on me for certain things. Especially ones that I like to buy for you. Today I’m spoiling you and you’re going to lie back and not get your wallet out all day.” He swore jokingly and I couldn’t help but laugh at his over exaggerated nature of being a gentlemen.

“Okay okay cat-boy I won’t pay for anything. You didn’t have to jokingly threaten me or anything like that.” He leaned against me as the line moved forward ever so slightly. The day was rather crowded especially since it was a Friday afternoon. Once we got to the front of the line and Miya and I got to sit together at the back of the train. The train instantly started moving super fast and I closed my eyes.

“My light in the darkness open your eyes.” Miya encouraged me and he squeezed my hand and I instantly felt this shred of panic go through my body. When I looked over at my boyfriend he had a bright smile on his face. He was laughing loudly at the idea the rollercoaster and I felt my heart lighten.

“I love you.” I screamed over the rest of the sound of the rollercoaster and I laughed at him a little bit. He was beautiful.

“I love you too gorgeous!” He showed through his laughter. I knew that for the rest of the day I would be letting him pick the rides. Miya’s openness and his beauty was never something that failed to take my breath away. As the rollercoaster pulled into a stop and I pushed my hair into my eyes. I pulled my hair back into my ribboned ponytail.

“Was that ride too intense for you my love? Here, let me redo your hair.” I nodded my head with a small smile on my face.

“It was a lot of fun actually! I love watching you being happy. You can pick the rest of the rides that we go on~” I leaned into the touch of my boyfriend’s gentle hands running through my hair. He was always so gentle with me it was something that never failed to make melt positively into a puddle.

“Are you sure that you want to go on the rest of the rides with me choosing them?” I nodded my head with a small smile on my face. I had desperately just wanted to hear my boyfriend laugh all day long. It had been so long since I had the opportunity to hear it for a full day.

“The next one will be more your speed!” Miya led me over to my favorite ride at the parks that would allow for me fly amongst the sky.

“You hate this ride…” He shook his head with a small smile on his face leaning against me. He leaned against my forehead with a small smile on his face.

“I don’t hate it, I actually rather love it. Mostly because you look so cute when you’re all happy like that.” He reminded me lightly as the line moved a lot faster this time around. Our buckle got put down and I instantly felt like flying. This ride always made me feel like I was on the back of a broom. Throughout much of my childhood this was one of the few rides that Haru actually enjoyed because it was soothing. Miya clung to my shoulder but I could still see that he was happy.

“Miya, look at the ground! You can see the whole theme park from here.” I looked down my breath being taken away by the beauty of everything in front of us.

“That is really quite beautiful. Nowhere near as beautiful as my company though.” I flushed a hot pink hearing the light laughter of my boyfriend against my head where his cheek was resting.

“It’s adorable that even after eleven years I can still make you just as flustered as I did when we were thirteen.” My heart squeezed in my chest and I just lightly rolled my eyes at him. We got off the ride shortly after but walked around back to the rollercoaster section of the park.

“Come on sunflower, that one looks not too crazy. There is a loop though if you don’t want to do that than I totally understand.” My boyfriend told me and I instantly felt this little shred of panic go through me. While I could handle rollercoasters I wasn’t the biggest fan of ones with loops. Still though, the idea of Miya’s laugh stuck in my head and I knew that if we went on the crazy coaster that I’d hear it again.

“I can handle it tesoro. I know that I can because I want to hear your laugh again.” He just smiled softly at me putting his arm soothingly around my shoulders.

“In my defense the only reason that I want to go on another thrill ride is so that I can do your hair again. I love doing your hair because it’s something that only you let me do.” Miya softly led me over to the line that was in front of a small rollercoaster.

“I am going to take it easy with you today because I want you to be happy more than anything. You’re my best friend.” My heart warmed at the idea of celebrating this day with the love of my life. It made me smile that he was actively caring about me and worrying about what I would want to do.

“Are you sure caro? You love rollercoasters…” He just smiled softly at me leaning his forehead against mine happiness in those sea green eyes of his.

“I do love rollercoasters but you know what I love more? It’s you. You’re everything to me sweetheart and going out of my way to make sure that you’re happy that’s the most important thing. I have one more surprise at sunset too.” I blinked at him. What was it with him today and surprises? I didn’t feel like I was worthy of all these various surprises.

“You stop that right now my darling, I already know where your mind is going.” He lightly kissed me and I just smiled softly into the kiss.

“I just don’t feel like I’m worthy of all these extravagant gifts…” Miya just squeezed my hand understandingly.

“It’s okay that you don’t feel like you’re worthy because I know you are. Sometimes our brains tell us things that simply aren’t true. Yours tells you that you’re a burden and that you aren’t worthy of the love and affection that you get from other people.” I sighed a little bit because damn it, my boyfriend had a good point.

“You’re right as per usual amore. I’ll be alright I promise. We’ll still have a great day! It’s just I need to to stop analyzing everything.” He lightly pulled me along the line and we got seated towards the front this time around. The entire day of riding rides, eating junk food, and just spending the day with my boyfriend was something more than I could have ever asked for.

“We’ll get your stuffed animal after this surprise.” My boyfriend told me getting out a blindfold. I looked at him curiously but put it around my eyes anyways.

“You are so lucky that I trust you tesoro.” I told him teasingly and he just squeezed my hand as he led me to some place where I could hear slight running of water.

“You can take the blindfold off now my love…” I looked at the river in front of us and saw a boat in front of me.

“Are we doing the scene?!” I asked him excitedly and he rubbed the back of his neck in his awkward tick. I squeezed his hand.

“Hey, what’s wrong? Are you okay?” I asked him rapidly and I heard his soft chuckle before he just pulled me to him into a hug.

“I’m fine. I’ve wanted to tell you something for a while. Since Christmas.” My brain did the math. Christmas was over eight months ago and it was now late summer just started to cool down into early fall.

“Let’s just get in the boat…” He carefully guided me into the row boat and slowly started rowing us away from the shore. “Miya what’s wrong caro?” I questioned trying to not let my worry seep into my actual tone and my boyfriend just filtered around his pocket.

“Saki… I had a script for this but I feel like now I’m just going to wing it.” I looked over at him as he took my hand and stopped rowing the boat.

“Ever since the first day that you started talking to me at school I’ve loved you. I might have been too much a stubborn brat to notice it at the time but it was always there. It was there in the way that you persisted and kept trying to talk to me even though I acted like a little shitbird and told you to leave me the hell alone. I didn’t know it at the time but that day going into Sia La Luce changed my entire life. It was the day that I saw this entirely different side to you. You weren’t just the snot nosed popular girl but you were passionate, outspoken, determined, independent, and absolutely the most amazing girl that I had ever met. After we started becoming friends part of me didn’t want it to end. It didn’t want for you to become friends with other people because I thought that they’d take my role in your life.” Miya started and I saw him reach into his pocket for something before taking his hand back out.

“When you told me that you loved me before I ever got the chance to tell you, I was pissed. I couldn’t have been man enough to tell you the way that I felt and you had to tell me in order to tell you. I promised myself that in that moment I’d never stop telling you how much I loved you. There aren’t enough words in any language or any dictionary for me to tell you how much I love you. Every day that I spend with you is the best day of my life. Before you came into my life I was living a life full of loneliness and I treated everyone around me coldly. You brought the warmth back into my life. You gave me a purpose that I could be a good enough person to consider your friend. I wanted you to not regret picking me that day. You could have remained the most popular girl in class but instead you decided to just be my best friend.” As Miya went on I saw him continue to fiddle with the item that was in his pocket that was bringing him so much anxiety.

“When we started dating I’ve never been happier. I got to hold your hand, kiss you, be with you all the time, and I could finally do something with the feelings that I had for you from day one of our relationship. Dating you all throughout high school and getting to be there for you through all that hell and all that anxiety. Through all the shit that my mom put you through when she made you feel inadequate everything you’ve stayed by my side. All I’ve ever wanted was to stay by your side for forever.” He reached into his pocket puling out the object that he was holding in there. It was a ring box. I gasped instantly feeling tears come to my eyes and start overflowing.

“Sakura Nanjo, will you make me the happiest man alive, and make me Miya Nanjo?” I felt the sobs leave me. I couldn’t believe that he had gone through all of this trouble to do something that he could have done at home. Taking me out on a boat to recreate my favorite Disney scene ever made just so he could do something as simple as propose to me.

“Is it too soon?! Shit- I knew that you told me that you wanted to wait until you were settled into your new job and everything and you’ve only been doing the pro chef thing for a little over a year now.” I instantly threw my arms around my future fiancé’s neck. I couldn’t allow for him to just continue stewing in self loathing.

“It’s a yes you idiot. Of course I’ll marry you. I’d love nothing else in this whole world. You’re incredible Miya Nanjo. Are you sure that you don’t want for me to take your last name?” I asked him my voice watery and he just shook his head at me tightening his arms around my waist.

“I love you so much Saki, thank you for everything. Thank you for saying yes to me and allowing for me to propose to you. Thank you for saying yes. The Chinen name means nothing to me. I’d much rather be a part of your family.” I softly played with the ends of his hair as he lightly cried against my shoulder. It broke my heart how his mother had never even cared enough to notice her son as anything more than a meal ticket.

“You are a part of my family baby, the best part of my family. You’ll always be part of my family okay? There isn’t a way in this earth that I would ever say no to you when you asked me to marry you. Did you really get a horse drawn carriage or was that just a cover for all of this?” My boyfriend laughed lightly against my shoulder where his head was resting.

“I did get you a horse drawn carriage woman chill I’m coming down from a panic attack.” I laughed a little bit at my boyfriend kissing him lightly.

“You really had nothing to worry about tesoro. Nothing would make me happier than being your wife. Absolutely nothing in the whole wide world.” I leaned my head against him with a small smile smile on my face as he sat back down.

“That was probably the most nerve-racking thing that I’ve ever done in my entire life.” I smiled understandingly at him squeezing his hand.

“You did not need to go this hard in your proposal Miya. I would have accepted a simple take out meal at home.” He squeezed my hand with a small smile on his face tucking a lock of pink hair into my ponytail.

“I know that you would have but I wanted to do something more special for you. Come on, let’s head out of here.” I smiled softly at him as he road back on the boat. I looked around at the atmosphere around the two of us.

“I still can’t believe that you did all of this for me… everything….” Miya just lightly cradled my cheeks in his palms kissing me.

“This is something that I wanted to do for you. I want to look after you and take care of you for the rest of my life. I love you more than anything in the entire world.” I repeated the sentiment and my heart melted as we repeated back toward the exit.

“Come on my light in the darkness. We need to get you onto that horse and get you that Flounder.” I cheered at the prospect of getting my stuffed animal as we stopped off at the carnival games. Jin waved us down and I smiled brightly at the worker.

“You already know what to do man, but this time for one of the big ones you need to hit it ten times.” Miya kissed me for luck and I went to sit down next to him. I watched as my boyfriend hit the target ten times in a row.

“Nice going! Okay, here’s your Flounder ma’am. Congratulations on the engagement!” He encouraged us and I squeezed the new stuffed animal that I had received. “Do you love him baby?” I nodded my head with a small smile on my face as I hugged my fiancé tightly. I looked down at the ring on my finger and saw the sparkling diamond there.

“It really is beautiful. It’s simple and not too big…” He nodded his head against my shoulder with a small smile on his face.

“I wanted to get you something simple but a to the same time something that you’d still enjoy.” I nodded my head gratefully as I leaned into the embrace of my best friend.

“Well you amore succeeded at picking out the perfect engagement ring!” I encouraged him. I had never been one for gaudy makeup or rings mostly because I preferred the simple and elegant things.

“I was so worried that you’d hate it…” I lightly cradled his cheek in my palm forcing him to look up at me.

“Even if I did for some weird reason hate the ring that you had picked for me, I would love it because it came from you. I don’t need some big fancy wedding. I’d prefer a smaller one with family and friends.” He nodded with a small huff of a laugh against my shoulder as I saw the horse and carriage that was up the road.

“Mr Chinen?” The horse driver asked us and my newly found fiancé nodded. Fiancé that was going to take some getting used to.

“Congratulations to you both!” The worker helped the two of us onto the back of the car. I squeezed Miya’s hand tightly throw my own.

“I love you, so much tesoro.” He kissed me lightly and rested his forehead against mine. He squeezed my hands in his.

“I love you too my savior, more than anything else on this earth.” The carriage road down the cobblestone road and I snuggled deeper into my fiancé’s arms. This had been the best day of my life. Hands down, no contest I’d do it all again.

[gustafsnightangel]

Shattered Lives Ch 31 Pt 1

The days following Sildie’s birthday passed with the usual pre Christmas rush, work, and kids. Sildie and Gustaf got caught up in the holiday spirit, buying presents, squaring away the legal paperwork, working out the logistics of moving. It was a little daunting for both of them. Then there was the Christmas party and dinner with his family Christmas Day. Out of the two, Sildie didn’t know which she was dreading the most. At least she was on vacation until the kids went back to school mid January and had the time to chew on it all. She needed this time with them, with Gustaf. The time to make sure the six of them could coexist together.

“I have some good news.” She said sitting down at the table with a fresh pot of tea after the kids had gone to bed.

“I like good news.” Gustaf smiled, and tugged her into his lap. “I like good news and you in my lap for Friday night tea dates.” He kissed the nape of her neck and lingered, the scent of her grounding him. They had reinstated their Friday night tea dates as a way to talk about anything and everything, a designated weekly vent and purge session. She’d missed them.

She reached over and grabbed her messenger bag and pulled it into her lap.

“No work.” He growled, and it wasn’t his usual playful tone. “You’re on vacation Sildie.” And he’d see that she’d get the rest and relaxation she needed.

“It’s not work. It’s my good news. Our paperwork came in today. Approved by your lawyer and mine, all we need to do is sign and I can file on Monday.” She said quietly, she still wasn’t sure this was actually happening.

“Get me a pen.” He said without hesitation and she chuckled as she held one up. She stopped him before he took the pen by gripping it tightly.

“Read it first. You know it as well as I do but read it before you sign, just in case.” She said gently. He was being rash and stupid and he knew better, read before you sign and read everything. Kissing her cheek he started to read.

“Just excited.” He mumbled. She leaned back as his arm came around her.

“I know you are but read first.” She sipped her tea and snuggled into him staring at the tree, all lit and sparkling. They were about to move in together, be a family. Her gaze rested on the digital frame that held a Christmas photo of when the twins were still babies. Quinn and Dana happy, the pang of grief echoed in her chest. Whatever it takes Quinn, she thought, I’ll see them all happy and cared for if I meet the same fate as you. Please don’t hate me for it, she said silently, he’d a good man.

After reading through it he signed the bottom and handed her the pen. She felt as if a huge weight had been lifted off her shoulders once pen had been put to paper and her own signature had been placed next to his. The kids would be safe, whatever happened to her, they would be safe and cared for.

“Can I ask you something?” He said kissing her on the spot below her ear.

“Of course.”

“Move in with me?” He grinned against her skin as she chuckled. He felt suddenly alive and excited.

“Not wasting any time are you?” She laughed

“Fuck no.” He kissed her, long and slow. “I want to be in our bed. Move in with me.” He murmured.

“After Christmas. We have the party tomorrow and then dinner with your family. Boxing Day we can start moving.” She said softly. She was excited but it terrified her. They hadn’t told the kids yet, and what if they hated the idea.

“So that’s a yes?”

She giggled. “It’s a yes. Yes I’ll move in with you. Yes we can tell the kids. Yes to sleeping in our bed.”

“Have I told you lately how much I love you?” He grinned kissing her hard. It was like all his Christmas’s had come early.

“Repeatedly.” She was smiling so hard her cheeks were hurting. “At least every hour.”

“Then to keep that winning streak going, I love you Sildie.”

“Sweet man I know you do.” She placed a hand on his chest over his heart. “I love you too.”

“You’re moving in with me.” He said quietly as if the thought hadn’t really sunk in yet, that shit eating grin spreading across his face.

“Yes I am.” She whispered. His kiss was other worldly, nothing short of mind blowing.

“Are you ok to sit with the kids tomorrow? I have some shopping to do that I didn’t get a chance to do last weekend.” She asked as she filed the legal paperwork back into her bag.

“Sure. What time’s the party again? Six right?”

“Yes, and you’re sure Bill is ok with all of them?”

“He offered. I was on the phone with Alice and overheard she was booked. I think Alida and Oona are coming over for a bit too, so Lily will have a playmate.”

“I need to make sure I have something nice for them.” She said as if making a mental shopping list of things to get and do tomorrow.

“No you don’t.” He said firmly.

“Gustaf.” She sighed.

“You don’t Sildie. He’s doing it because we’re family and because he wants to.” He said gently, it would take her a while to get used to that, to be able to depend on family without feeling guilty for it. “Let him help. The poor guy has been wanting a rematch with Finn on Mario cart anyway. He’s still in disbelief that he was bested by a seven year old.” He snickered.

“Is he ok with it being overnight?” She asked sipping her tea.

“He’s fine with it. He has all the details of the hotel and the party. Things will be fine.” He reassured her, and he’d have to do it again a thousand times over before leaving tomorrow night. He kissed her neck, lingering, tasting. “I know we’ve been busy as hell the past week or so, but I miss you.” He murmured, that low tone making her belly quiver as his hands roamed under her silk blouse to find the gorgeous black lace beneath. “I’ve missed touching you.”

Between her work schedule, court, and the kids Christmas parties with friends and school camp activities they’d had a dry spell. Then there was the legal paperwork and moving in, they were both a little stressed, a little anxious. Sex hadn’t even crossed her mind until just now.

She turned in his arms to straddle him. “It’s been a rollercoaster. So much crammed into each day, I’m fucking exhausted.” She chuckled.

“I feel much the same. I like being with the kids but it’s taking a bit to adjust.” His huffed laugh was humorous. “It’s full on, all the time with them. Will your work and court schedule get easier in the new year?”

“To a point, unless I take partner and then it’ll be much the same. Which reminds me.” She fished around in her bag again and handed him her legal pad. She had the most elegant writing he noticed. “Would you take a look at this? It’s my list for Oliver and I want to make sure it doesn’t sound too demanding or ungrateful.”

“Of course.” He kissed her. “You’re considering it.”

She shrugged. “Still on the fence. I need to get past Christmas and revisit it again once we’re all moved in with you. I need to see it with a clear head.” Her kiss was tender. “Things will change when you’re out of town and I want to be sure I can handle it.”

“You’ll have my family as backup.” He said softly and twirled the loose wave of hair around his finger. “And we can always book Alice to take the pressure off you. Or we can hire a housekeeper and or a nanny. You’re not alone anymore love. If I can’t be here physically to help then I’ll find another way.” He kissed her sweetly. “When are you going to give Oliver the list?”

“In the new year. I’ve already told him I need to get past the remainder of this year, especially with all the changes. He understands and partner isn’t something they want to rush into either, even though they want me to start yesterday.” Her chuckle made him smile.

“That’s a good plan. Can I read this tomorrow?” He asked as he glanced at the pad. “I don’t think I’ll comprehend much tonight.”

“Whenever, there’s no rush.” She kissed him sweetly, her hands wandering to dip into his sweats and stroke him.

“Sildie.” He breathed. “My Sildie.” His hands streaked up her thighs and pushed her skirt to bunch at her waist before his mouth took hers tenderly.

“I need you.” She whispered. “Right here, right now.” She kissed him, mouth hot and hungry. “I want to ride you.” He hooked her g string to the side as she slipped his tip along her wet heat.

”Take what you need love.” He murmured, mouth claiming hers roughly.

It was that soft cry as she impaled herself on his cock that always made him weak for her. She rode him slowly, his massive hands on her ass grinding her into him as he stretched her, filled her.

“So big.” She moaned as she threw her head back offering him her throat. Not wasting the opportunity he savaged it, her release cresting. “Gustaf.”

“Take me with you.” He groaned as he felt her body bow before she came hard, her pussy clenching him tightly as she rode him. “Sildie.” His breath caught as he held her onto him buried deep inside her as he came, spilling his seed.

“I love you.” She said softly, his face cupped in her hands. “So much.”

“I love you too.” He held her close as they caught their breath.

She yawned. “Sorry, now I’m beat to hell.” She chuckled.

“To bed love.” He said gently with a smile. “Big night tomorrow.” He leaned his forehead against hers.

“I’m still not too keen on going.” She huffed, but she also wanted to get it over and done with so she could move on.

“I know, but I’ll be there. We can get the business end done and then enjoy a night out.” He kissed her slow, lingering to take it deeper as she relaxed.

“It’s not the dedication that’s freaking me out, it’s all the people coming up afterward to tell me how sorry they are, or stories of his time in court. I don’t know if I can handle it all being shoved in my face all night. Sorry I’m rambling and...” She closed her eyes and took a calming breath as his lips pressed a kiss to her forehead, lingering to help her find that calm she desperately needed.

“Will there be dancing?” He asked against her skin, hopeful.

“Yes.”

“Good. I’ll just dance with you for the rest of the night so they can’t talk to you.” He smiled.

“That’s not a bad plan.” She looked at him, kissing him quickly. “It beats getting shit faced and blubbering in your lap outside my front door.” She grinned at the memory.

“And we have a room in case it gets too much and you need to get the hell out of there.” He had created a safety bubble for her. A quiet space where she could retreat to because he knew at some point tomorrow night a panic attack was highly likely. “Speaking of a room. Bedroom, let’s go, because I need some damn sleep too.” He laughed. Lily had decided that 5 am was her new wake up time regardless of the holiday season and for the past week Gustaf’s sleep had been cut short. He’d made sure Bill was ok with the kids for most of Sunday because he was getting a damn sleep in after the party.

She curled into him and plummeted into sleep, exhaustion and relief that there was no work to rush off to for a few weeks taking her under hard. She’d been better since getting past her birthday. The grief was still there but it seemed manageable, like she’d turned a corner and was able to exist without it constantly consuming her. He was slightly worried that it would rear its ugly head in spectacular fashion at either the party tomorrow or with his family, he’d prefer it to be with the latter. They at least would understand and she’d have the space to distance and collect herself if needed. It felt like a ticking time bomb just waiting for her guard to be down before blowing up in her face again.

His own anxiety was a little high too, she was moving in. He wanted her with him, in their bed, under one roof, comfortable, as a family. It did not negate the fact that it was scary as hell, especially if the kids hated the idea. He’d dropped a few questions to feel them out, what they were thinking and they seemed like they’d be ok with it. He was hoping the work he’d done on their rooms made it easier. Sleep took him a little while later and it felt like he’d only just passed out when Lily was up chattering to them.

“Morning little lady.” He slurred, the cobwebs of sleep still addling his brain.

“I’ll get her.” Sildie mumbled and stretched out on top of him before kissing him sweetly. “Go back to sleep love.” She murmured. “You’ve had her and her crazy ass wake up schedule for the past week.”

“K.” He breathed and sleep took him under again.

Sildie changed a somewhat grumpy Lily and headed out to make some tea. “Well little lady if you’d just sleep longer you wouldn’t be such a grumpy pants.” She chuckled, snuggling her in and kissing her head. She would let Gustaf sleep, the man had been up with the kids and keeping them occupied for nearly two weeks while she’d been plowing through work and a mentally taxing court case. She felt a little guilty for leaving the house and kids for him to deal with and knew it wasn’t a habit she could fall into. She never forgive herself if she took advantage of him, or made him feel like she was.

Once Brendan had surfaced she left Lily with him cuddled on the couch and took a shower, Gustaf was still out cold. After spending most of the morning with the boys, she changed Lily and sat of the edge of the bed.

“Dad dad dad. Sooch.” Lily said softly.

“Time for dad dad kisses huh?” She set Lily down on the bed and stroked a hand down his chest. He snapped awake with a sharp inhale and blinked at her.

“It’s eleven love.” She said gently as he looked around wondering where the hell he was.

“Shit I didn’t mean to sleep that late.” He scrubbed a hand over his face. “Sorry I know you have shopping to do.”

“It’s ok you needed it.”

“Dad dad.” Lily squealed and his low chuckle made her smile.

“Hello Lily bear.” He said and lifted her up the bed to kiss the tiny girl before snuggling her in.

“Would you like some tea?”

“I would, but first.” He tugged her hand and she chuckled as she curled up with him. “My two best girls.” He murmured, the familiar sentiment choking her up. Damn it she thought, she couldn’t get emotional now, she’d never get through the night. His kiss chased that thought away, slow and loving. “Morning my love.”

“Morning.”

“You heading out shopping?”

“I’ll make you some tea first, but yes I’m about to try and do shopping.”

“Brave girl.” He chuckled. “It’ll be madness.”

“Yes but I have stuff to get.” Like for tonight, she thought. She had her dress, she just needed the underwear. And she had a plan for that underwear. She kissed him tenderly and got up to make a pot of tea.

Gustaf came out carrying Lily as she set the teapot on the table to steep for him. Her belly did a little flip at his disheveled look, all soft, warm and rumpled, still half asleep. Damn she wanted to go back to bed and snuggle with him, do erotic things to him.

“Bye love, have fun.” He kissed her softly as she grabbed her bag and left for a few hours. She’d done most of her Christmas shopping online and had them wrapped and under the tree, but needed stuff for tonight, something for Bill and something for his parents even though Gustaf had said it wasn’t necessary. For him it wasn’t, for her however, she needed to, she couldn’t turn up empty handed.

Gustaf goofed around with the kids, he’d shower before they went out tonight, but it was nice to just have a pajama day. It was relaxed and carefree, and he’d noticed that the kids had settled since he’d been staying in the apartment with them the past month or so. That was a good sign he thought, moving next door may not be as emotional or stressful.

Sildie came home around 3:30, arms full of bags. Some of it was wrapped and the kids were more than happy to place it under the tree, shaking boxes as they went to try and determine what she’d purchased.

“You look like you had fun.” He chuckled, taking one of the bags from her hand and placing it on the table before kissing her.

“I did actually. But now I have to get ready, go get my Christmas glam on.” She kissed him chastely.

“Do you want to do that here or in our room?” He asked.

“Here. All my stuff is here.” She said quietly.

“Ok, Bill texted and he’ll be here at five or so.” He kissed her tenderly. “Once you’re out of the shower I’ll go home and take one and bring my monkey suit back here.”

“Sounds good. I’ll need help with my dress at some point.” She said wickedly.

“I think I can help you with that.” He winked at her as she took her bags to her room and disappeared.

In all honestly he loved the way Sildie looked with no makeup and in sweats but he couldn’t help but fantasize what she would look like all dolled up. He went home and showered, grabbed his tux and headed back to Sildie’s in clean sweats. He didn’t want to have to put it on until the last minute. Bill arrived just after five and he sat talking to him until Sildie called out.

“Gustaf? Can you come help me please.” She called from her room.

Nothing prepared him for the sight of her in black lace and deep Christmas red heels. He shut the door and leaned on it, pinning his hands against it with his ass.

“Fuck me.” He choked and her giggle was wicked. She walked to him slowly and he shook his head. “Nope. Kitten if you touch me we aren’t going anywhere except to our bed.” He growled.

“You’ll just have to control yourself.” She purred. “Remember on my birthday when you said you wanted to see me in black lace and heels and that blindfold, tied to our bed?”

“I remember.” His voice strained, he was close to blowing his load in his fucking sweats like a teenager.

“Looks like Santa got your message. I don’t want to stay overnight at the hotel, I want to come home to our bed.” She walked her blood red nails up his chest and stroked one over his jaw. “I want you to do things to me.” She purred and kissed him sinfully. “All night long.”

He was struck speechless. He’d never had someone that played this game so fucking well.

“Cat got your tongue?” She smirked, those ice blue eyes sparkling mischievously.

“My kitten has.” He growled and her seductive chuckle make his cock twitch. “Fuck I love playing this game with you.” He breathed as she leaned a palm on his chest and kissed him.

“You need to get dressed.” She purred and palmed his erection making him groan.

“So do you or I’m going to fuck you where you stand kitten.” He growled.

“Patients daddy.” She breathed, nipping his bottom lip before sashaying over to where her dress was hanging.

He stood there and breathed, willing his cock to calm down at the mention of her endearment for him. It was difficult considering the vision in front of him. Black lace corset, g string, suspenders, lace top thigh high stocking with a red seam running up the back of those incredible pins she called legs. The red heels were four inches so they would be the same height tonight, and screamed fuck me.

She stepped into the dusty gold column sheath dress and wiggled her hips to get it on. A simple cut, figure hugging, plunging neckline, thigh high split. Modest for a formal party, devilish enough to tease Gustaf all night. She felt him stand behind her and help zip her up and secure the clasp for the deep Christmas red sash that cinched her waist and draped to the floor with the rest of the skirt. He rested his hands on her hips and kissed her neck seductively.

“You do realize I’m going to need a defense lawyer after tonight.” He said softly as he started to dress.

“Why’s that?” She asked a little confused, walking back to the bathroom to touch up her makeup and apply the 24 hour deep siren red lipstick she’d bought as a why the hell not.

“Because I’m going to have to kill every man in the room that looks at you.” He smirked pulling his tux pants on and zipping them up.

“I hope we can get a two for one deal then.” She huffed.

“Why?” He chuckled as he buttoned up his shirt and tucked it in.

She stood in front of him and ran a nail down those buttons, half tempted to strip him naked and take him in her mouth.

“Because you’re fucking royalty for one.” She scoffed. He watched her as she tied his bow tie, that bottom lip sinfully red and beckoning to him. “And every woman there is going to want you, I’m going to have to beat them off with a stick.”

He chuckled at her words and her smirk tugged the corners of her mouth. “I love you Sildie.” He said softly. “You’re the only one I want.”

“I know. You’re the only one I want too.” She kissed him, his brain melted as her tongue teased his. “Seeing you in this makes me all tingly.” She moaned biting her bottom lip.

He gripped her by the chin gently and teased his thumb over her bottom lip before kissing it, slowly. “Mine.” He growled, his eyes met hers as her pussy tingled at the possessive tone. “Are you ready to go kitten?” The intimacy swamping them both.

“Yes.” She choked breathlessly.

“Let’s get the business end of it done. Then...” He kissed her longingly. “Then kitten, I’m going to do all kinds of delicious things to you.” His low tone caused and involuntary shiver to ripple across her body. “Mmm, you like the sound of that don’t you.” It was a statement more than a question. The man was able to bewitch her with his words, his tone.

“Mmm hmmm.” She was already drunk on him. “You smell so good.” She purred. He kissed her again before pulling away, a cocky smirk on his face.

“Let’s go lovely lady.” He chuckled, sitting to slip his shoes on. Standing he held out his hand for her, his gilded goddess, her halo of molten copper cascading down her spine. And that dress was something else entirely and he knew what was hidden under it. That was going to be fucking torture all night, he thought, the little minx.

Bill almost choked on his drink when Sildie came out, the boys all standing around gobsmacked.

“Piddy.” Lily squealed pointing at Sildie from the safety of Bill’s arms.

“Yes little lady, she is very pretty.” Gustaf said and kissed her until she giggled.

“You’re sure you’re ok with this lot?” Sildie asked, still a little nervous as Liam hugged her.

“More than ok, besides I have a rematch with Finn to take care of.” He grinned. “Have fun. I’ll text you if I run into any issues.”

“Thanks again Bill. You bailed me out.”

“Anytime, they’re great kids.” His grin told her he was having just as much fun as the kids were.

Gustaf helped her into her coat and the pair set out for the hotel. She was nervous, her hands wringing in her lap as he drove was a dead giveaway. He took a hold of her hand and brought it to his lips kissing her fingers. “Just breathe love. I’ll be right here, all night.”

“Sorry.” She chuckled. “I’m on edge.”

“As expected.” He pulled up to the hotel and looked at her. “Deep breath. Together love, you and me.” He kissed her fingers again and stepped out of the car to walk around and open the door for her. Holding his hand out, he helped her to her feet, the top of her stockings peeking out from the split. Fuck me he thought, she would be the death of him. Giving the keys to the valet he slipped a hand around her waist and held her to him. “Breathe.” He said, lips at her temple. “Let the lawyer surface and take care of business.” He kissed her cheek sweetly and looked at her, his courtroom lawyer looked back. “There’s my girl.” He growled as they walked into the hotel ballroom. “I’m proud of you. You’re so fucking strong.” He kissed her, not caring who could see them. She was moving in with him, he loved her, and he wanted to shout it from the rooftops.

Her firm had spared no expense, and there were tables for at minimum 300 people. The room had a massive dance floor and stage, blue and silver glittered everywhere to turn it into a winter wonderland. Snowflakes and fairy lights, fresh flower centerpieces and silk festoons.

Gustaf took her coat and he felt his arousal spike again at seeing her, his gilded goddess on the outside, his erotic sex kitten beneath. They were met by Oliver and swept up into the throng of introductions and small talk. For Gustaf working a room was second nature, it was just like a press junket, but for Sildie it was anxiety central and to compound matters her grief was hovering waiting to pounce. Thankfully Oliver had kept them moving quickly before he could be too overwhelmed with people figuring out there was a celebrity in the house. It was one of the downsides of his chosen profession. He didn’t want that overshadowing the party, he was just along for the ride, to support Sildie.

“I owe you one Oliver.” He said as Sildie stepped away from him to talk to Dana’s partner in family law.

“How’s that?”

“For shielding me.” He chuckled.

“Thank Sildie. She sent a memo to everyone before tonight and talked to me specifically. She wanted you to feel comfortable with her family.” He smiled.

The penny dropped, this was her family, the only one she had left now that Quinn was gone.

“Ah! I see she didn’t forewarn you.” He said quietly.

“No, she didn’t.” He said wistfully, looking at the gorgeous woman just out of reach, he found his fingers itched to touch her. “She’s had a lot on her mind.”

“It’s none of my business, but I’m glad she has you, glad the kids have you.” Oliver said carefully, not wanting to overstep.

“I’m so ridiculously in love with her.” Gustaf said shyly. “And she’d kill me for telling you that.”

“Your secret is safe with me. I know the feeling.” He said looking at his husband of six years.

Oliver hesitated. “Is she doing alright?” He asked gently. “I don’t like to pry it’s not my business, but I think of her as my own daughter and she’s been through hell.”

“She’s doing better.” Gustaf said quietly, keeping his gaze fixed on Sildie. “Her grief and guilt is substantial.” He didn’t want to divulge her painful moments, it was none of anyone’s business and he wouldn’t betray Sildie’s trust by spilling it to her boss, father figure or not.

“I can only imagine.”

“I’m sorry Oliver I can’t elaborate. Her grief is her own story to tell.” Gustaf said gently, trying to be as polite as possible.

“I completely understand and apologize if that put you in an awkward position. We all felt the loss, no one more keenly that Sildie.”

“She’s doing better, so are the kids. I love her Oliver, and I’ll move the world to see her and the kids happy.” He said, feeling a need to make his intentions known.

“You’re a good man Gustaf.” Oliver said as Sildie walked back to them with Elsa.

“I’m trying.” He huffed a chuckle.

“Your past is just that, the past. We all have one and we’re all far from perfect.” Oliver held out his hand for the man walking over with Elsa slipping it around his waist and kissing him as Sildie introduced Gustaf to Dana’s partner in law.

By the time they were asked to sit for dinner he’d been introduced to probably half the room. Pulling the chair out for Sildie he had to contain his groan of disappointment, Lucas and his date had made their way over to their table.

His entire system froze as his gaze landed on her, the quick polite smile on Lucas’s lips as his eyes focused on Gustaf. The familiar prickle and wave of heat as his fight flight response kicked in at seeing a threat. You vindictive asshole, Gustaf thought silently. Throwing his sobriety and addiction in Sildie’s face was one thing, but an ex girlfriend, that was just cruel.

Sildie sat and saw where his gaze had landed.

“Hey.” She said softly and his eyes snapped to hers, concerned ice blue looked back.

“Hey back.” He smiled, he would not let this asshole get to him and ruin her night. He’d promised to be on his best behavior around Lucas and although tempting as it was to stalk over there and press his fist to his face repeatedly in an abrupt manner, Gustaf knew how much it would embarrass Sildie, she’d never forgive him.

“You ok?” She asked gently. Something was up she could feel it.

“Yeah, I just wasn’t expecting Lucas to be at our table.” He shrugged, trying not to let the woman sitting next to Lucas get under his skin either. He wouldn’t think her name, he wouldn’t say her name, she was just a blip in his life.

“Gustaf I’m sorry, I should have told you.” She said apologetically. “There’s been so much going on I forgot.”

“It’s fine love. I just don’t want him upsetting you, especially.” He let himself get lost in her for a moment, calming the white hot rage at the man across the table by running his fingers through her hair, watching it shine.

“Let me handle him. He’s just bitter and jealous.” She said quietly trying to contain her own irritation. She’d tried to get him to sit at another table but in the act of goodwill toward all men she’d let it slide, now she wished she hadn’t.

“Of what?” He chuckled softly.

“Of you love.” She kissed him tenderly, she needed to set his mind at ease. “You have the one thing he wants, the one thing he’s never going to get.” Her kiss was sultry, that hot seduction burning him from the inside out.

“I love it when you kiss me like that.” He grinned.

“I know. I’ll handle him if it comes to that, ok?”

“I know you will, but if he upsets you like the last time.” He toyed with a wave of hair she’d meticulously curled just for him. “We will have words.” His tone was unmistakably equal parts, protective and possessive. “Tonight is difficult enough for you, I won’t see him, or anyone for that matter, make it worse.”

“Fair enough, no punching him, no making a scene.” She said seriously, she didn’t need them getting into a fist fight over her in the middle of the office Christmas party. “Remember, I still have to be able to show my face in court with everyone in this room.” She said flatly, the lawyer had surfaced and was in complete control.

“I’ll only need words love. I promise I won’t do anything to embarrass you or lay a finger on him.” He kissed her tenderly not giving a shit who saw, especially Lucas, especially his ex. Lucas was the one with a problem, not him and he wouldn’t jeopardize what he had with Sildie over a few snide remarks and bringing his ex to a party. He would just ignore them, in his mind they weren’t here, he had other things to worry about.

Dinner was exceptional and she found herself enjoying the time to catch up with Elsa. She couldn’t help but flick a glance to Lucas’s date, she looked oddly familiar. They hadn’t met but she’d seen the woman somewhere before and it was irritating not to be able to place her.

As dessert hit the table she felt Gustaf’s finger stroking her thigh where the split in her dress had revealed silk lace and bare skin. His touch both calmed and aroused her. She smirked at his soft tone as he talked with Vera. The poor girl was beyond it, her voice meek and shaky as she spoke to the Scandinavian god beside her.

“Stop breaking my admin.” She whispered and Gustaf chuckled as Oliver took the stage.

“Just making small talk. She’s a good kid and very shy.” He said kissing her temple. “Deep breath love.” He murmured, his lips lingering. “Together, you and me.” His words grounded her as Oliver started speaking.

It was the usual spiel, the recap of the year, the high and lows, achievements and gains. “Tonight we start a new tradition.” He said gently and his gaze fell on Sildie. She felt her gut plummet as he continued. This was it she thought, just sit and get through it, you just have to listen and smile. “Tonight we honor the tireless work of two of our greatest attorneys, their lives and careers cut short, their compassion and humanity greatly missed.”

Gustaf stayed where he was, his hand on her thigh, an arm casually around her shoulder, his lips at her temple. He’d felt her tense, her body preparing to take flight the moment she was pushed, the moment her anxiety threatened to overwhelm her. “Easy kitten.” He growled, the tone and endearment enough to snap her out of it, her breath shuddering out. “Breathe love, I’m right here.”

“Dana excelled at family law, courageously fighting for the rights of families, mother and father, and most importantly children. Quinn was the complete opposite.” The room chuckled, including Sildie. “Quinn O’Rourke was ruthless in the courtroom, an adversary many of us here tonight faced on a daily basis. Although ruthless and stubborn, a man that could skewer holes in defense counsels case like Swiss cheese while he was prosecuting, Quinn held the same beliefs, the same compassion as Dana when defending. A rare soul that believed there was always some goodness left in a person if you took the time to look.”

He heard Sildie choke back a breath at Oliver’s words and gently squeezed her thigh. “I’m here love, you’re ok.” He whispered and kissed her temple. “Deep breath.”

“The Swedish Bar Association, in recognition of Dana and Quinn’s commitment to justice have founded an achievement award for exemplary conduct by an attorney inside the courtroom in their honor. To be awarded to someone that shows the same tenacity and compassion, the same humanity and dignity toward others as they showed, in the pursuit of justice.”

That just described Sildie to perfection, Gustaf thought silently.

“It was therefore only fitting that the first recipient to harness these qualities of such a prestigious award be Quinn’s sister, Sildie O’Rourke.”

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