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neverenoughmarauders · 11 days ago
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Hi! what are your thoughts on the ever present fanon idea that James repeatedly asks Lily to date him before she finally concedes (he pesters her tbh)?
I feel like this throws a lot of people off of Jily as it just adds a bit of creepiness to the ship and makes it weirder for Lily to get with James considering this behaviour, after what must’ve been a fair amount of reckoning since he tormented her childhood best friend for years. Like even if Lily hated Snape at this point I don’t think she’d forget how James treated him easily and let James off the hook without a proper reckoning so adding pestering behaviour to that dynamic just makes their relationship more unlikely ya know. Honestly just tryna find reasons why fandom in general dislike Jily more than jegulus atp.
Hi anon
This idea that James repeatedly asked Lily out I think far precedes Jegulus. In my youth, the few fics I engaged with (often because my best friend kindly helped translate them) seemed to position it as a very cute thing - although it always annoyed me even then, because it has no basis in canon. The day and age where James persistently asking Lily out was seen as cute are over, and now this fanon idea is presented in favour of Jegulus or Snily.
Actually, as an aside, in general the marauders' story is one that has aged poorly... You can't really view the marauders without the lens of it being the 70s and during a wizarding world war - but people do and it completely changes everything.
How do I feel about it?
I feel the same way about this as I do with all fanon ideas that get presented as evidence. It drives me up the wall no end. We all get carried away with our own interpretations and that's fine, but if people cannot separate canon from interpretation of canon /headcanon from fanon, how can we have an informed debate?
Canon:
"Why are you so obsessed with them anyway? Why do you care what they’re doing at night?” “I’m just trying to show you they’re not as wonderful as everyone seems to think they are.” ... “I didn’t mean — I just don’t want to see you made a fool of — He fancies you, James Potter fancies you!” The words seemed wrenched from him against his will. “And he’s not ... everyone thinks ... big Quidditch hero — ” Snape’s bitterness and dislike were rendering him incoherent, and Lily’s eyebrows were traveling farther and farther up her forehead.
My interpretation of canon:
The conversation between Snape and Lily to me indicates that it is a relatively new development (which means sometimes not long before/after the whomping willow incident). At this point I think it's hard to argue that James has asked Lily out - why on earth would Snape feel the need to point out that James fancies her if this be the case.
Canon:
“I will if you go out with me, Evans,” said James quickly. “Go on ... Go out with me, and I’ll never lay a wand on old Snivelly again.” ... “I wouldn’t go out with you if it was a choice between you and the giant squid,” said Lily. “Bad luck, Prongs,” said Sirius briskly, turning back to Snape. ... “There you go,” he said, as Snape struggled to his feet again, “you’re lucky Evans was here, Snivellus — ” “I don’t need help from filthy little Mudbloods like her!” Lily blinked. “Fine,” she said coolly. “I won’t bother in future. And I’d wash your pants if I were you, Snivellus.” ... “What is it with her?” said James, trying and failing to look as though this was a throwaway question of no real importance to him. “Reading between the lines, I’d say she thinks you’re a bit conceited, mate,” said Sirius. “Right,” said James, who looked furious now, “right"
Also canon: Lily found James attractive at this point, despite not liking him very much. It was confirmed in an interview, in response to whether or not Lily hated James, but as we know even from the source text:
“How come she married him?” Harry asked miserably. “She hated him!” “Nah, she didn’t,” said Sirius.
My interpretation of canon:
James is being an immature d***. That aside, nothing about this dialogue suggests to me that James has ever asked Lily out before. Why? James looks FURIOUS at the rejection, he does not give off the vibes of someone who has routinely been rejected by Lily.
There's also the small stuff which doesn't by itself mean anything but which adds up, such as Sirius' and Snape's reaction. Sirius doesn't come across as someone who has seen this a hundred times. He's obviously far less affected or surprised by the outcome, but that's not the same thing. Snape completely loses it with Lily - why? It's not the first time James and Sirius has bullied him, but if it's the first time Snape has listened to James ask her out - worse still, use him to ask her out, he might be furious. He told her so, didn't he? James Potter fancied her.
My headcanon:
We know Lily found James attractive, and that James is shocked to be rejected. We also know Snape is nervous that Lily might be falling for James: 'I’m just trying to show you they’re not as wonderful as everyone seems to think they are' Why? Probably because by now Lily and James have flirted a little on and off. If Lily spoke the way she spoke to James by the lake - if James routinely asked Lily out - then the conversation between Severus and Lily makes no sense.
If people want to like Jegulus, they can. Personally, I think Jily holds everything I want from an "enemies" to lovers trope, and if I want another trope it's usually best friends to lovers, and I've got prongsfoot for that. Or if I am feeling like I want both, there's always Jilypad <3
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moxfirefly · 2 years ago
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you've unleashed something with this and you already know I want my leader in blue going feral for reader
[ REMIND ] for our muses to have passionate sex meant to remind one party who they belong to.
❝ i want everyone here to see that you’re mine. ❞
❝ are they making you uncomfortable? i can do something about it. ❞
❝ you wanna lose a limb? beat it, fucker. ❞
Tried to stay in the limit, can't wait to see you work your magic!!
Friend you never disappoint 👌
Let’s do this,
Rated Explicit (18+ only)
“Once I start, I cannot stop myself”
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His peripheral alerted him immediately.
Because Leonardo always had some part of him keyed into your moods and their various shifts.
Right now he could tell you were bothered, annoyed.
Naturally once he saw the reason for said annoyance he could empathize.
Vern Fenwick wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea.
Yours and Leo’s thing had started a few months back and the two of you had opted to keep a low profile. So of course Vern didn’t know which meant he thought he had the go ahead to pathetically flirt with you.
And that little nugget of information had nested within Leo’s stomach in the worst of ways. The basket ball game felt like a thing of the past now, Casey and Raph’s bantering far away. Mikey and April’s hushed laughter white noise, Splinters even breaths as he meditated a simple hum.
He doesn’t quite remember getting up from the couch, his large frame standing at full height had been your alert. Your eyes going back and forth between his approaching steps and Vern’s close proximity.
Something screamed in the back of your mind the second that Leo was behind Vern. All you could envision was the large terrapin suplexing the Falcon into the eighth level of hell.
“So how about it? You and me, a flight to the vineyard and a bottle of rosé?” Vern’s smile faltered the second he felt a large none human hand fall on his shoulder. There was a little jump but soon a sigh of relief. He must’ve thought Leo was Raph, who wasn’t too fond of him either.
“Hey Leo-oomph!”
Vern was not so gently shoved behind him. Leo’s she’ll serving a shield for privacy.
In a hushed whisper he simply asked, “is he making you uncomfortable?” And Christ, Leo had never looked this serious before. Not just serious but downright mad.
“Hey Blue, I was in the middle of something here with Y/n, you mind?” Vern’s eyeroll could be heard more than seen.
You huffed at his words, to which Leo added.
“I can do something about it”
Stern. Truthful. A vein on his forearm more evident as he fisted his hands.
You didn’t want conflict, any moment now everyone would look over and nothing about this screamed ‘friendly banter.’
But Vern naturally had to fuck things up further.
You didn’t hear it, Leo’s large frame was in the way but the way his eyes widened and the way he turned to face Vern was very telling.
“Run that by me again” Leo’s voice was in what everyone joked as ‘leader mode.’
Vern audibly gulped and whispered closer to Leo.
“I said I’m trying to get something going here with Y/n, be a pal and let me close the deal here will ya?” there was a little scoff and laugh as if trying to keep his cool but that quickly went to shit when Leo leaned down closer to Vern’s face.
“You wanna lose a limb?” Was the simple question Leo posed.
“E-excuse me?” Vern visibly shrunk.
“You have two working ears, you heard me” whatever looked Leo was casting at Vern had the man turning pale as a sheet of paper. You felt a small exhilarating rush.
“Well of course not, no-“
“Beat it, fucker”
Oh.
Oh shit.
It dawned on Vern, the warning bells rang and before he could come to the conclusion to what really was going on here, he had scurried off to the living room like a robot.
“Holy shit Leo-“ Before you could finish your sentence his lips had found yours. A three finger grip on the back of your neck kept you in place as he kissed with every intention of everyone finally knowing.
When he released you, the gang (sans Splinter who was deep in meditation) was staring and blinking. Your nervous smile faltered when Leo grabbed your hand and pulled you in direction of his room.
You didn’t miss Mikey’s “good for them” as the door closed.
“Jesus is it spring or are you really this upset?” You smiled and laughed nervously some more once Leo backed you up against the wall.
“No, but if I ever see anybody talk to you like that, I’m going to break their legs” His fingers found the button of your jeans, he undid it and knelt to roll the fabric down vast your knees. Your face heated, pink and red and hot at the sight of his hands giving your underwear the same treatment.
“Leo everyone’s here, they’ll-“
“I want everyone here to see that you’re mine”
The words knocked the air out of you.
Before you could fathom an excuse he used stuck a digit into his mouth and wet the appendage. He found your clit and drew circles. Knees buckling and lips twitching you forgot what sentence you were creating. “I’m going to cover you head to toe in marks…” He stood back up, finger never seizing its movements.
“When you leave this room, you’re leaving smelling of me, on you, in you…” A finger slipped inside of you, thumbs continuing to circle your clit. The action made your hands shoot out to grab at his plastron. “Oh f-fuuuck” You muttered out, a hand slipped to grab his wrist.
Leo’s other hand cupped you’re face, a loving stroke across your lips made another gush of heat pool at his knuckle.
He smiled.
“Please-oh-Leo!” You squeaked as he turned you around and pressed you against the wall.
“Everyday, if I have to remind everyone everyday from now on, I will” His teeth found your shoulder and sunk, hard enough to see the indentations of his teeth on the flesh. “Is that a pro-promise?” You smiled against the concrete wall, stuck out your rear and relished the growl like churr that escaped him.
The rustle of clothes made you bite your lip.
You felt him, inch by excruciating inch.
Felt the desperate need to claim you overtake him as he wrapped an arm around your waist and fucked you.
His mouth found your neck and sucked a bruise onto it, hips rhythmically slapping against your rear. The finger that had been rubbing teasing circles was now in your mouth. Your eyes fluttered, palms against the cold concrete, his heated body a delightful contrast.
He muttered praises at your ear, the ones that with each syllable made you stand on your tippy toes as that familiar pressure overtook. He boxed you against that wall, his massive body pressing up against you wantonly, deliberately, with every intention of your orgasm bouncing off of the concrete against his very soul.
It was a rush, everything weightless and then so very heavy when it hit you. You bit down on his finger and felt your bones turn to jelly as he held you through it. The shaking alone made Leo smirk as he continue to thrust, to push as much of his essence into you. Your drool dribbled down his finger, his own seed doing the very same down your inner thighs.
You felt your world spin as his teeth found another spot on your shoulder.
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leahnardo-da-veggie · 7 months ago
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Lich-Queen pt 2
Read pt 1 here
At the ground floor, the guests were already thronging. Vampire nobles sipped goblets of blood, chatting idly with the few fae that deigned to grace my crowning with their presence. Shapeshifters mingled with the Chosen emissaries of the gods. Even a small contingent of elves lurked mistrustfully in a corner, though there was not a human in sight.
I approached the elves, casting a slight glamour to obscure my fiendish appearance. It would not do to frighten them off, after all. “Hello, distinguished guests,” I said in Syvniqian, their native tongue. I had brushed up on my linguistics during those long, lonely nights whilst my sister flirted in court, and it finally paid off.
The lead elf, resplendent in a museli veil and robe-dress, long braid trailing the floor, said, “We appreciate the invitation, Lich-Queen. It is a rare honour to witness the rising of a new star. We are Saivere, Vice-Councilman of Sylvandor.”
My smile must have slipped when I heard that they only bothered to send the Vice-Councilman, for Saivere quickly added, “We mean no offense, Lich-Queen. Head-Councilwoman Naibara is currently with child, and she cannot undertake the journey to these lands.”
I forced a smile back onto my face. This was not the Ceredellian court, I reminded myself sternly. These people did not shun me for being low-born, for having not-quite-human features or a far more beautiful sister. When they said they meant no offense, they did not lie.
Nodding, I exchanged pleasantries with the rest of the delegation, before extricating myself. I could not show favouritism as a host, naturally. 
Oh, by Astril, I was a host at a court party! It gave me a thrill, and I wanted to giggle like a little girl, which was a most undignified look on a powerful Lich-Queen. 
I had to quickly cover it when a shapeshifter approached me. The shifter wore the body of an angel, wings the colour of salmon, hair twisted into a bun, and seemed vaguely masculine. He smiled and bobbed his head in a small bow. “Our leader politely requests your attention. She would like to speak to you regarding some international matters,” he said.
I nodded. “Thank you,” I told the shifter, turning to follow him through the hall. “Might you tell me what I may call you?”
Names were a touchy business, I had found, especially amongst inhumans. Elves, by and large, tolerated the use of their name by an equal or superior, but shifters and spirits were extremely prickly about the matter, often insisting on going by titles and nicknames instead. 
The shifter paused and titled his head to a side. “Ya know, I haven't quite thought about it,” he said, a hint of an accent creeping into his voice. “I was thinking Hashbrown, perhaps. Or Chocolate-cookie. Or maybe Cake. I do love human foodstuffs.”
I barely hid my wince. It was hard to tell a shifter's age, what with the whole shapeshifting, but this one? Yeah, he was a kid. And nobody, not even a kid, deserved to be saddled with a name like Cookie. At the same time… It was hilarious.
Amusement won over kindness, and I said, “Why, I am certain a powerful shifter warrior named Cake would shake fear into the hearts of any human who heard it,” I said wryly. “By the time you are fully grown, the mere mention of chocolate will frighten children into silence.”
“Ya really think so?!” He beamed at me. “My sis’ always tol' me I'd be a fool to call myself that. I'm so glad she was just teasin' me. Oh, thank you so much!” He briefly moved to embrace me, then remembered who I was and backed off, hand kept by his sides, though his wings were all aflutter.
The sudden breach of decorum should have irritated me, but it didn't. It made me feel slightly bad about messing with this overly-earnest kid. “I advise something like Brown, or Cho, however. Just to keep things subtle,” I suggested, trying to minimise the damage I was doing to this kid's credibility.
The shifter considered my words. Then a smile lit up his face. I meant that quite literally. In fact, he rather glowed, attracting curious glances. “Hash,” he announced. “You can call me Hash.”
“Sure, Hash,” I replied, smiling slightly. “Please, lead the way.”
He marched off towards the back of the hall, and I followed, appreciating how my guests moved aside to let me pass. I had always been the one doing the moving, in the past. They bowed and scuttled, my ghouls mingling amongst them, holding trays of hor d'oeuvres. Idly, I plucked one and put it in my mouth, savouring the explosion of salty roe.
The shifters were lounging in a corner, their leader a tall woman with the claws of a Lich and the greying skin of a ghoul. She rose when I approached, her mouth spreading into a sepulchral grin. “It is an honour to witness your coronation, Lich-Queen. Such an honour, that I have taken a Lich-form to honour your people,” she explained. “I hope I have done it justice.”
Looking at the gems encrusted on her high cheekbones and those eyes like shards of diamond, I could only say, “You have.” 
She was beautiful, with her long limbs and elegant toga. Suddenly, I felt like an awkward girl-child, struggling to stitch cloth whilst my sister was given lessons by the High Magician. Useless. Ugly. Unwanted. 
I shook my head and dropped my human guise. “I appreciate the effort,” I said, taking control of my tongue. “Now, what was the matter you wished to speak with me about?”
The shifter spread her hands and smiled. “This is the first gathering of inhumans in millennia. I hoped to ask you to call a meeting of us immortals. I have a… Proposal, of sorts. One that might be impolite to be mentioned in the presence of our elven siblings.”
I nodded, and tapped the sides of my face in the shifter gesture of agreement. “Certainly. If I may know what the matter is first, of course.” It would not do for them to surprise me before my new allies.
The shifter reciprocated my movements, and said, “We would like to suggest an alliance of all the immortals — to band together and reclai-”
The doors slammed open. I startled, missing the rest of the shifter's words. “Welcome Her Majesty, the Third Spirit Empress! The great Sucsu'anane No-clan has arrived,” Blood-toil, my doorman, announced, halting all conversation within the room.
Empress Sucsu'anane stood in to the fore, and… Well, I hated to say it, but she looked like a little girl playing at Queen. Her crown barely reached Blood-toil's elbow, and he was not a tall ghoul. Her eyes were wide and doll-like, their effect only exacerbated by her oversized dress, which spilled onto the floor. “Hello, sisters,” she said with an atrocious accent, pronouncing her ‘r’s like ‘e’s. “It is I.”
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bosskie · 6 months ago
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Git Yer Bundle Today
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This post is sponsored by Molluck's MouthLube 'n' Cigars. [Just joking, sadly... I mean, I would be glad to collaborate with him! Not encouraging anyone to smoke tho', but maybe in Oddworld... I don't even smoke; I'm just a cigar owner!]
Yeah, I have had this idea on my mind for some time and decided to draw it now, especially when I'm struggling with cold or something right now... So, Molluck had also invented his own cigar brand and that Molluck's MouthLube we hear about in Abe's Exoddus (I kinda love how 'wrong' it sounds) but they were flops...
I'm wasn't really sure how to design those products, so I used the one Exoddus uses for the bottle. Felt also drawing that ad image from the game but with my edits since it's basically just that yelling Gluk with a bottle. So yeah, just used his basic logo for his stuff, like the SoulStorm Brewery has basically the same Gluk there and it's also Molluck's... Maybe he could have slapped his own face on them too but well, it was simplier to draw them like that...
Frankly, I had no idea about the slogan either but I guess that it would work on Gluks. 'Wanna be as successful as Molluck the Glukkon? Use this stuff, ya chump!' Yeah, dunno how well Molluck could market his stuff but just look at him! I mean, he is such a beautiful Glukkon, he is a perfect commercial model! While drawing this and looking at him I have been just thinking how huggable he is... He is just so cute! I know, it doesn't relate to this but I just cannot resist that face... He is the most beautiful creature to me. He is OWI's masterpiece or at least the most important thing OWI has given to my life!
I'm not sure what else to say... But welp, related to this, I have been wondering how much health issues smoking really causes to Glukkons, like would they live longer than 65 years which is their average lifespan if they didn't smoke. In SoulStorm, Molluck is 50-something, so he has lived about 80-90 % of his life, making him indeed being close to retirement. Though, I don't know if this 65 years is still the case since back then it was said that Molluck is 40-something but Lorne answerer to me that he is 50-something (it was a part of my question). Don't really know if he has actually changed his age or something but yeah, Molluck being 50-something makes more sense to me actually. But we at least know from Munch's Oddysee that Molluck's mother, Lady Margaret, seems to have health issues from smoking, needing new lungs. We don't know her age though, like how long it has taken that this health issue appeared. But we don't really see Glukkons having a cough or any other issues from smoking really. Maybe their species is so used to that stuff, heh, I don't know. Frankly, I would suppose Molluck's teeth being more yellow from smoking but maybe he uses something to whiten them or Glukkon teeth are somehow more resistant...
Oh, and yeah, that Molluck's MouthLube has 'bothered' me since I heard about it... 'Say it, don't spray it!' Whatever that slogan means... Maybe it's used to keep the mouth moistured making smoking better. I have been also joking that it's the reason why Molluck's cigar stays so well in his mouth since well, I have been looking at those animations quite closely and sometimes, his cigar looks more like glued to his lips... So, I could point out some animation flaws I have found but you know, nothing is perfect. Still showing what I mean here though:
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If you look at this part of the bad ending, you can see how his cigar does look like glued to his lips... Or maybe Molluck got some talent there! Yeah, I have just been looking at those cutscenes so much that I also basically know which cutscene to open for reference material...
But yeah, just more of this beautiful Glukkon! ✨
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moonlight-tmd · 1 year ago
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ife bumblebee was small, like human small, I'd bet he'd go into a store and not come out without buying something.
I strongly believe if he were to go into walmart, costco, or any big store, he'd be 100% amazed. he'd want to see everything in that store.
lol i actually had an idea of what if he was toy-sized. He's basically the size of a teddy bear and when in alt mode he really looks like a RC Car.
Like, Sari would bring him to the shopping trips with some employees that babysit her or something and buy him countless of doll accessories to wear or mini versions of things. All the shopping trips have a requirement of him getting something from it.
When he's toy-sized, he can easily make himself have a spa with a big bowl and hot water and bubbles. Sari is defo in on it too.
He once taped a controller to a drone and flew around on it. Now it's his 2nd favorite thing after skating.
Another thing is that he's honestly surprised how warm Sari feels when she's hugging/cuddling him. He likes it, the hugs were very nice to begin with but the warmth radiating off of her is just adding to the coziness- he fell into recharge like that more than once.
Ya know, it would be funny if he got ever so slightly bigger- like Sari's size- before the lazer gun broke again and Ratchet needed another day or two to fix it. (Spoiler; he took an entire week cuz this shit kept breaking during repair)
He'd go on a rampage with buying clothes, he would defo wear one of Sari's copy-paste dresses. He'd get a baseball cap, some loose pants and one of these hoodie-shirts, he looks like the Cool KidTM from any 2000's movie.
One bad thing is that people constantly point at him and call him a robot kid, especially other younger kids. It's pissing him off, he ain't a child! And he really wants to drop kick that teen who made fun of him- the only thing holding him back is that he'll get in big trouble with Optimus if he hurt a human.
You cannot tell me that this bot did not walk into a Target and didn't come out with some big game-themed t-shirt. He's gonna go to every place possible that he could not have gone into before. Every.
I mean, Cybertron had fashion stores with cosmetic upgrades or restaurants or normal food shops. But this- this is fuckin 1000 times better. Everything is so colorful and there's music and omg the decor and statues at the mall are amazing.
He really wants to eat all the foods they serve purely because they look so good.. But Ratchet will chew him inside out for that. Plus the tank cleaning is not pleasant at all.
I bet he's gonna bother Prowl to eternity to give him a ride- like in games. I can imagine Prowl having just mentally given up and driving him around so he'll shut up. They get to go full speed on a forest road and all the fallen leaves fly behind them and drift on some stray roundabout. Bee is so happy and Prowl is not as disappointed as he thought he'd be.
It's still very strange for him to ride in his teammates cabins- or on Prowl, but it has it's perks, so far the most impressive cabin in his opinion is Optimus'. He bought them all those fluffy cubes so they'd match. Optimus doesn't really like them but he doesn't have the Spark to take them out and make Bee sad, Bulkhead likes them; they are cute, Ratchet- the cubes don't bother him as much as he thought so they can stay. Prowl has them tied around on one of the handles- he would take them off but they're just out of his reach on the back.
Bee has a fun time while it lasts. Not sure if this si the answer you wanted but you got an answer alright.
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goldendaydna · 2 years ago
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Ya know what? I think I will scream into the void about Robbie's character design
Reminder that this is a random person on the internet and what I say below derives from things my silly little brain thinks.
The amount of connections from his human form, his Ghost Rider form and his personality is so dang cool. When you look at his human form and you look at his Ghost Rider form you still know which ghost rider he is even if you take away one of the main components which seems to be his jacket, you can even know which ride is his.
Design wise, I love that his skull isn't your average skull, ya know in a sea of ghost Riders with a lot of them having normal skulls. It makes a viewer just KNOW Robbie isn't you're traditional Ghost Rider. I'd include his car into that but I won't cuz there's been a horse as a ride before and there are so many other vehicles as rides now. (And as it should be cuz it would just be pretty silly if all Spirits restricted their rides to just motorcycles. They need to get things done, lol.). Also I think we can call it a skull cuz like, what else can be done? It's got the shape, and it's not a helmet, there is an organic jaw fused to it, just saying.
The v shaped scar and the single white streak in his hair, boom, the center flame on his skull. Heck it even makes a connection to the blower on the hood of his car.
Adding to that, because the flames on his skull are directed and channeled through holes in the back of his head, the center flame, his eye sockets ,and his mouth; can make for a better gauge on his emotions and what he's feeling due the size, shape, and location of be it flames, sparks, smoke and even the appearance of molten metal.
Just imagine a scenario where Robbie is transformed like
Gabe: Robbie are you ok?
Lisa: Yeah cuz you are sparking and smoking like crazy right now
Ghost Rider Form Robbie who just missed out on a good sale for groceries cuz of Eli's bs: I'm good.
Then there's his car in general. Not only does it have a history with Robbie, it becomes an extension of himself and he would be a liar if he says he doesn't like it. It lets him do things he hasn't been able to do freely before, like race or take his little brother to school or just out the house in general. Heck, it let's him be a mechanic with an actual car XD.
Still going on about the car but I have to say this. The fact that Robbie is a Mexican American and his ride is a car has to be 100% purposeful. Cars have such a rich history for Mexicans and Mexican Americans. Especially in California and Texas, and some of Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. From revolting, to artistic expression, to family connections. It's really too bad that the comic's run was cancelled cuz there could have been so many cool topics to mention stuff about it.
Onto his apparel, when he's Ghost Rider it becomes that of a racer. Something Robbie loves to do and is VERY good at. I don't even need to point out his leather jacket in his human form. The tight shirts mentioned in the comics are more of a reflection of his situation. They are too small for him and it's more than safe to assume he doesn't bother with new clothes until they cannot be used anymore, cuz that costs money that he can't afford to spend. Grey jeans, black jacket combined with a white hoodie, or just a simple t-shirt, it's simple monochrome and it's harsh. Much like the hell charger. Also two jackets in Cali? Either becoming a Ghost Rider did something for him to be unbothered or suns heat be damned the drip is just too important.
Now we move onto his eyes and some of the scars. I just personally love it when powers or superhuman abilities are given to characters and they leave a physical mark cuz they are physical reminders to the character in question that they are no longer the same. It can also gives a chance for side characters to make note of or mention.
(This one is more headcanon-ey) Even with his teeth. With some of the other riders all their teeth look pretty flat, at least from what I've seen but it's a pretty safe bet to say genetically Robbie is one of those people who have a set of sharp little canine teeth. That get longer and sharper in his Ghost Rider form which are visibly the most organic part of his skull when transformed.
I will say, I think his white hair streak being something he dyes is a missed opportunity, but that's just me. Eyebrow slits are always cool so there is that. That undercut and the little beard patch just makes sense. The plug earrings, also cool. Just, I love Robbie's character design. It's more modern than his predecessors, and it very much so says "Yes. It cannot be denied, this kid is Latino." And it's fresh and respectful and gives him his own personality. It's a 10 out of 10 for me.
I'm also not gonna talk about weapons, they just seem pretty inconsistent throughout his appearances so I don't got much to say on that.
Did I miss something? Probably but it is what it is lol.
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s0lar-ch3ri · 1 year ago
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hurricanes coming on my brithday so time to dfo a chip ramble! (spoilers)
before we go in, yes itll be a multi ramble because i can since its my birthday tmrrr!! (im giving you guys a gift cause yes)
ok so i cannot stop thinking about how a lot of the time chip in mana was called "racist" it was like, something he wouldnt have known. the "are your horns real?" weird question, sure, but it doesnt really sound like it (THIS IS NOT ME TRYING TO UNDERMINE IT! if its racist, it doesnt matter how it sounds, it is racist.) would be that offensive. the special accent done when he was being "drip"? immediately shamed and not even told what he did wrong. as i noted, no, racism is racism, but it just seems like whenever chip fucks up, its called out upon and is never explained why its so terrible. and thats really what bothers me on it, because both times, its races that chip has never really hung out with (a tiefling [niklaus]) (chip was disguised as a triton yet used i guess a voice similar to a grung??? its confusing, and before you say "but chip knows felipe who was a grung!!" yes, thats why the 'never really' was added, because while he knew felipe he probs didnt know his culture and shit) and wouldnt have known what was considered offensive. and yes, they have every right to be mad, but if i said something fucked up, i would have a right to be explained why it was wrong. i dont know, maybe somewhere in me now chip probably while more cautious with his words, has some anxiety on what he says will be offensive and he'll get yelled at for it and shit (maybe self projection tjhough you can never tell).
while ive seen reasonable ideas of ollie and chip being like brothers, it means a lot to me that like, chip, who didnt really have a parental figure before and the closest he had was arlin, still tries to be a good dad to ollie. like, he knows ollie has an actual dad and mom who probably are worried sick about him, but hes out here with him. and the guilt must sting, but when that kid tries to get into some crazy plan of his crew mates and he sees that smile, he sees why theyd want this kid back. its like "i have barely a clue how to be a parent, let alone a good one, but i will try my best to be one for you here until we get you back home." and ollie sees it too, and i feel like ollie loves his sea dad (who he knows is super cool). i just, them
ya know how i used the "i arely know how to be a parent" thing? i kinda thought on it, and thats basically chip. "i barely know how to do this/be this, but ill try my best to do it right, for them". he wants to be a good pirate for arlin. he wants to be a good captain for his crew. (as i mentioned) he wants to be a good dad for ollie. he wants to be a good person and friend for jay and gill. he wants to fight this war for gillion and lizzie. and he wants to be the best chip he can, not just for his friends sake, but his own. he does it all with a purpose and while he has barely a clue how to, hes going to fucking try and with willpower and destijny, hell fucking do it.
a joke chip fact mentioned in ep 90 for chip was that hes lactose intolerant but he still drinks milk and i cannot like stop thinking about it. cause like, it makes sense. its not his craziest. when getting chased by a dangerous creature, he immediately becomes its "ideal mate" and gives himself "birthing hips" as like his first reaction. he became an old lady and tried to get his pinkie chopped off by the fucking child one time (it instead was done by gill...who used his big fucking sword. yeeouch). i just think about it cause chips insanity is only brought up when it comes to his plans. but, like, where is the crazy chip when his plan fails and he has to bullshit it?! wheres the talk for fucking "hot mode"?! where are the girlies that find it so silly and funny when a bad guy threatens chip and he just comes back like a fucking toddler?! chip is so silly and its just only discussed when chip has a stupid plan (DO NOT GET ME ON ABOUT "if you have another dream me and chip will kill the sun" which while said by gill, chip has no problem with it. like hes not questioning it) which is very sad imo
another thing btw about how chips "horrid plans" are always, like referred to be bad and fail, but he has had working plans and good (even if insane) plans! sure, hes very cringe fail, and he has had bad plans, but its not every plan that fails. his plan with cedric? worked pretty well. using the ball bearings to make that robot trip? gillion just failed his fucking blessing and got a nat 1. the old lady jay disguise? the navy general disguise? granted, some of the best working plans were disguise related, but even the risky one with the fucking suitcase and ollie had worked! so honestly, i was surprised (and still dont believe) when chip had to share a secret about himself and said hes never had a plan. because honestly? the fucking bullshit he thinks up has no right to be insanely well done improv. like, jay doesnt have to be "the one smart person on board" because theyve all had moments of smartness and yet only jay is shown it
anyways im losing ideas maybe ill ask the fnc guy for characters to ramble on lmao
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little-laughing-alligator · 9 months ago
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day 7 of daily divination series
Baraja Española Deck/Loteria Deck
The Harp
L'arpa vieja de mi suegra ya no sirve pa'tocar.
The old harp of my mother-in-law is no longer fit to play.
The Melon
Me lo das me lo quitas.
I can take it or leave it.
There’s hidden malice, time to banish again. One thing that I really love about the Baraja and Loteria decks is how concise their messages are, like all the fat has been trimmed, it’s refreshing. Hidden malice seems to be a common theme in modern life so it’s likely this isn’t your first rodeo, but it’s time once again to clear out the cobwebs in the corners and haul the crooked little ghouls out from under the bed. It doesn’t even need to be a major operation, personally I’ve pared a basic banishing ritual down to the minimum amount of steps necessary for maximum efficiency. Do-easy magick a la Burroughs. Why bother with even semi-regular banishing at all? Because unfortunately participating in the day to day aspects of modern society seems to leave more residual psychic sludge than it used to. Not that there was ever a sludge free society I highly doubt that but late stage capitalism and new technology seems to have made things exponentially worse. Cleansing one’s energy and home is enough to deal with any random (as opposed to targeted) build up, but adding a banishing ritual can help you stay healthy and unbothered longer if there’s an ongoing issue. Like at a place of employment for one example, yes you can do cleansings every day when you get home but if there’s a source of negativity that you cannot avoid- like a horrible boss- a banishing ritual will create a barrier to halt the spread of the negative energy transfer. Keep them off you and away from you as much as possible. It’s like putting a plug in a leak, as opposed to just cleaning up it’s mess every day. I should mention however that specific intent is as essential here as it is in all magickal operations lest the results be more severe than you’d intended, some effects are not so easily undone, physical harm being one example.
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thedarling · 1 year ago
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Bitter.
9:33 a.m. Have to head out for family visits but, before I go, I have to tell you how boring FF XVI is. Like I am genuinely bummed by how seriously this game took itself, and how hard it suffers because of it. First, this world is hwhiter than hwhite; practically every character aside from Ninetails looks and feels caucasian. There are seriously no people of color which is baffling (being tan doesn't count either).
Also, this world just sucks. There are no bright spots in this realm and everyone is a sad boi or girl. I need *some* comic relief, like please, give me something to keep my hopes up because otherwise, I hate this fucking clubhouse and want to leave. They really should NOT have added this game to the FF series roster because, to me, the best parts about FF was the party system and having party members. Every time I think I have a new person in my group they fucking die. They should have put a big asterisk next to the game title with 'Not Your Mama's FF' because what the fuck is this story? I honestly think they looked at FromSoftware, took some edgy pills, and said 'LET'S DO THIS' because a lot of sequences and dialogue are so needless. After a while, it feels like the game just makes fun of itself, no different from a soap opera, which is not what I wanted or thought it would be. I honestly thought the demo/first chapter was an amazing starting point: it welcomed you in, showed you around, didn't let you know how fucked up everything was just yet, and presented the stakes (great). But then everything after that felt clunky, boring, and monotonous - like, hey, did you like playing that first sad-ass chapter? Great! Want to do that twenty more times? I thought the initial presentation was to break us down before they build us back up - but no, they just keep breaking you. That's it, that's the game.
Last thing I'll say, because it bothers me so much: the way this series writes women sometimes is so stupid, gross, and awful. They presented Jill exactly like they presented Neon (Stranger of Paradise) and Kairi (KH): empty fucking vessels and Mary Sues. I HATE this trope. Jill's primary attraction is she has no defining qualities whatsoever (fuck personality, fuck flaws, ya' girl's perfect and she rarely ever speaks). Even when Jill does speak, I fall the fuck asleep. Everything she says is so empty. "I'm sad," GIRL, ME TOO. And then there was Benedikta... I CANNOT stress how disappointed I am with this character. If Jill is Eve, then Benedikta is Lilith because we are instantly trained to hate her. Bene continuously sleeps around, cries about it, needlessly kills everyone, and then straight up dies. The shittiest character arc I have ever seen and again, I hate this trope (chaotic manic pixie). I thought she was going to join my party after we beat her and THE WHOLE TIME I told myself, "she's really mean but shows a lot of remorse, this will be nice to unwind when she's finally in my group", DIES. I fucking killed her. Um... WHY? All I can think of is 'because she was evil' (again, all of her flashbacks are her sleeping with men of influence, i.e. 'she's a whore' and she's Satan) therefore she has to die. Great Bible verse, guys, sucks, thanks, I hate it.
I don't know, man. This shit sucks and I don't think I'll finish it. I really gave it a chance, at least twenty hours of my time and I just don't want to continue. I'm going back to Bandai Namco for more favorable story-telling. When they let me down, I'll be fucked.
10:55 p.m. This little asshole!
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jasonvtodd · 8 years ago
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tagged by @boydbaeulieu (alice is angel send her love)
So if tagged, answer the original questions and either add (or delete if you’d like) to the list of questions, then tag more people!
Which book are you reading right now? cut and run by abigail roux and madeleine urban (i’m so close to the end and whoever the anon was who rec’d it to me... PLEASE COME BACK TO ME CAUSE I DONT KNOW ANYONE WHO HAS READ IT AND IM HAVING  F E E L I N G S)
What’s the best beverage when reading? TEA, always (leaving alice’s answer here cause heck yes)
What’s your favourite book quote? no no thank you. i don’t want to do this. i have so many what the heck, trc’s dream me the world or tfc’s hope was a dangerous, disquieting thing or lastly Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human. from Vicious (honestly i have so many these were just the first ones that came to mind)
Are you looking forward to a certain book release? If yes, which one? A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic, #3) so keen so keen SO kEEn oh wow umm Our Dark Duet (Monsters of Verity #2), King's Cage (Red Queen, #3) and there’s a few others but idk if they’re defiantly getting released this year or anytime soon
What’s your Hogwarts house? i think hufflepuff but i geniuenly can’t remember???
If you could get on a plane right now, where would you go? (And yes, fictional places are good as well. You could also travel via wardrobe/ train/ etc.) ANY OF THE FOUR LONDONS FROM SHADES OF MAGIC SERIES and if lila wants to take me on a tour with her i wouldn't say no (and if we swing by Texas first that’d be OK too)
What’s your favourite holiday read? something i’ve been waiting for to arrive after i just ordered it
When do you put your Christmas decorations up? not really a big christmas person so whoops this was the first year i didnt put any up shrug.emoji
Spell your name using book titles!
Evanfall
Milk and Honey
I'll Give You the Sun
Looking for Alaska 
You Against Me
Would you like Booklr to do something for Christmas/ New year? christmas happens to be over now whoops but i do always love their lists ♥
Are there any books you want to recommend to the rest of us? icos icos always icos but other ones i guess could include; timekeeper (it only came out early november and i need there to be a fandom already), vicious and shades of magic series by v.e schwab... basically just ya’ll should just go through here
What books do you want for the holidays? i got the books i wanted for the holidays ♥ (leaving alice’s answer again cause true true)
What is your favorite nonfiction subject to read? i honestly don’t read enough nonfiction to have a favourite subject
What types of book covers do you find most aesthetically pleasing? see: soc hardbacks
Favorite book you’ve read this year? okay so i’m going to go from my 2016 reads and oh fuck as if i can just pick one?? icosicosICOS timekeeper was a good way to end 2016 also crooked kingdom and the raven king.... plus all of the foxhole court ofc and... look ican’t just pick one okay literally i read so many goddamn good books last year shit
If you set yearly goals for yourself, how many books would you like to read in 2017? i want to say 100 cause that was my goal last year and i got to 50 which was half so i mean... h o p e fulllyy this year i may just reach it :) 
Do you eat anything while reading?If so, whats your fave reading snack? i don’t really like reading and eatting. it bugs me. 
Who are your auto-buy authors? v.e schwab, leigh bardugo and nora sakavic if she ever did more work (there’s a few more but ya these are the first one who come to mind)
Who is your favorite literary character, and why? ok like im trying real hard not to write tony stark or jason todd here cause i know they’re a comic character but whatever fight me otherwiiisee... hsin liu vega and ronan lynch who can and would kick your ass but have each had their traumas but still find it within themselves to find love and happiness with the one they love and would do anything to protect the ones they call family or friends
this was really fun to do ahh thank you lovely :) annd i guess i’ll tag;
@bcydbeaulieu @vintersins @czrenys @hsincerely @nickyklose @ohvaltersen @jeremoreau @petalloso
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jaesqueso · 4 years ago
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Relax (m)
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I do not own any rights on the above image (found on weheartit).
pairing: co-worker!taeyong x fem!reader
summary: You're feeling very stressed with work so Taeyong drops by to help you relax
word count: 1,618
warnings: oral sex (receiving), fingering, office smut
a/n: just because I have this crazy idea that Taeyong gives great head! (sue me) anyways, do give me some feedback please! ❤︎
☽ ・・・・・ ☾
Swamped. That’s how you’ve been feeling in your work for the past two weeks. One of your colleagues quit her job and left the company right as you two were about to finish a big project and since your boss was having trouble finding a replacement for her it was up to you to do all the work. On one hand it was better that you didn’t have to waste time explaining the whole project to someone new so close to the deadline, but on the other you could really use the extra help. These days you felt like you barely left the office, coming in early in the morning, leaving late at night, crashing in bed as soon as you get home.
Today was the worst day of all as you’ll have to present the project on the next day, and you felt like you still had so much to do, maybe this time you will actually have to stay the night and run home for a quick shower in the morning before the meeting.
Too focused on your computer screen and the papers scattered all over you desk you barely notice the knock on your door.
“Y/N?” You look up and see a head poking through the door.
“Mr Lee.” You greet Taeyong as he steps into your office, closing the door behind him. You look at the clock in your wall and realise it’s already an hour past your regular exit time.
“Another late night?” He worried looking at your tired eyes. “You really shouldn’t be doing this to yourself, you should go home and rest.”
“Oh I can’t…” you lower your head and rub your temples. “I still have so much to do, I’m not even sure I can finish it, I’m starting to second guess every single decision I’ve made so far…”
“Hey,” he moves closer to your desk, “You’re gonna do great, you always do.”
“What if this time I don’t?” You look up at him. “I don’t want to let everybody down…”
“You’re not going to,” he smiles gently as he continues “they put you in charge of this project because they trust you, so you should trust yourself too.”
“But what if I mess it up? I can’t lose that promotion…” you look back at your papers trying to refocus on your work. This project could be your way up in the company and you’ve been working so hard for it you can’t mess up now.
“Well, if it’s up to me you’ll still get it.” Taeyong is part of the management team, although he’s not directly your boss he will have a say in that promotion you are longing for, he’s even going to attend your presentation the following day along with the other members of the board. You two occasionally saw each other in the office making the typical co-worker small talk, but over the last two weeks you got a bit closer as he usually left the company later than everybody else and you pulling extra hours every day. He always made sure to walk you to your car, doing an effort to get to know you better. You weren’t sure about his intentions but you were keen to keep your relation as professional as possible as you didn’t want to cross any line and compromise your job. Yes, he is damn handsome, but you wouldn’t dare making a move. With time you realised that behind this cool and relaxed attitude he has on a daily basis, he is a very hard working man and got where he is through his blood sweat and tears. He quickly became someone you really admire.
“Well, I want to get it because I deserve it and I did a job, not because I persuaded the board.” You smile at him, quickly looking back to your computer.
“You mean you’ve let other managers walk you to your car too? And here I was thinking I’m special!” He pretends to be hurt and offended.
“Don’t be so dramatic.” You giggle. “But, by the away, you can just go ahead today as I’ll still be here for a while.”
“Are you sure you don’t want to take a break and relax?” He gets up and walks around your desk dragging his fingers through the borders. “I could help you out.”
“That’s very kind of you but you’re not even familiar with the project.” You keep typing on your keyboard.
“I’m not.” He walks behind your chair. “But I was actually talking about the relaxing part.”
“W-what?” You widen your eyes. He cannot mean what you think he means, you’re probably just too tired and mishearing things. “W-what do you mean-”
You stop talking as he places his hands on your shoulders giving you a soft massage. You close your eyes and slowly relax your shoulders, it feels like your are being touched by an angel. As he presses into your tension points you involuntarily let a moan slip through your lips. You open your eyes again trying to understand if he heard it.
“Does it feel that good?” Shit. You’re too embarrassed to even reply so he lowers his face next to your ear and whispers “Cause I can do even better.”
You feel the warmth of his lips against your neck. A shiver runs down your spine as his hands go down to your chest over your blouse, but you suddenly come to your senses and grab his hands stopping him from going down to your breasts.
“Mr Lee…” your voice is trembling.
“You know you can call me Taeyong out of office hours.” He rotates your chair so that you are facing him now. He kneels down in front of you and snakes a hand slowly up your skirt brushing his fingertips in the waistband of your underwear. Because you were rushing to get to work this morning you didn’t even bother to put on some tights.
“T-Taeyong…” your breathing got heavier. “This is wrong-”
“My name sounds lovely coming out of your mouth.” He stops you, slowly dragging your panties down your legs as you involuntarily lift up your hips. He then pulls you to the edge of the chair pushing up your skirt and exposing your cunt.
“We really shouldn’t do this-” you spoke these words but internally you were begging him to continue.
“I told you I’d help you relax, so don’t worry, just sit back and enjoy.” He smirks as he spreads your legs, eyes never leaving yours.
You open your mouth to say something but only gasp when he lowers his head blowing some air into your pussy realising you are already wet for him. He sticks out his tongue and takes an experimental lick. You drop your head back at the feeling. Happy with your reaction he starts sucking your clit. You clench your hands around the armrests of your chair biting your lip, too embarrassed to make a sound.
Your breathing gets heavier as he circles is tongue around your sensitive bud. You’re not sure where he got his technique from but the movements he’s making are getting you too hot too fast, it’s like he put a spell on you with his saliva mixing with your own juices.
You feel a finger teasingly brushing around you hole spreading your wetness. He then slowly pushes it inside never stopping the movements of his mouth. How does one have such coordination? As he starts pumping his finger in and out, you can no longer hold the moans trapped in your throat.
“That’s it baby, don’t hold back.” Taeyong leaves your clit only to encourage your sounds and then continues his service adding a second finger inside you.
Your moans get louder and your grip on the armrests gets tighter as you feel the orgasm build up inside you. You start to squirm around, pleasure getting too much to handle, so he wraps his free arm around your thighs holding you still. He realises you are getting close so he curls his fingers on your inner walls touching just the right place to send you over the edge.
You moan his name as you come undone, arching your back off the chair. He removes his fingers out of you but continues with his tongue to help you ride off your high. This was probably one of the best orgasms you’ve ever had in your life, no one ever ate you out like that.
As you come back to reality you ear a phone ringing. Not recognising the ringtone you assume it’s his. Taeyong gives your clit a last kiss and gets up removing his phone from his pants.
“What’s up?” He answers the phone putting his fingers that were just inside you on his mouth, cleaning them up looking straight into your eyes. “Sure, no problem. See ya.” He hangs up.
You then realise you are still sitting in your chair, skirt up, no panties, legs spread, your juices dripping out of you, looking like a real mess. You quickly sit up adjusting your skirt, too embarrassed to pick up your underwear from the floor.
“Well, I gotta getting going,” he says walking to the door, “but I hope you are feeling more relaxed now. If you ever need another one of those just let me know.” He winks and opens the door.
You gulp at the possibility of having his mouth pleasuring you like that again.
“Oh and by the way,” Taeyong looks back at you with a smirk before he’s about to close the door, “good luck on the presentation tomorrow, I know you’ll do great.”
Shit, the presentation!
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commentaryvorg · 2 years ago
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Digimon Data Squad Dub Comparison Episode 44 - Human Potential
This is a companion to my commentary on the original Japanese Digimon Savers! Reading my commentary on the original version of this episode (which you can find here) is recommended before reading this dub comparison. 
Original name ~ Dubbed name
Masaru Daimon ~ Marcus Damon
Yoshino Fujieda ~ Yoshino “Yoshi” Fujieda
Tohma H. Norstein ~ Thomas H. Norstein
Ikuto Noguchi ~ Keenan Crier
Yggdrasil ~ King Drasil
Craniummon ~ Craniamon
BanchouLeomon ~ BanchoLeomon
[Since several characters share the same name between the original and the dub, quotes from the dub will always be in italics, while quotes from the original will not, in order to distinguish them.]
  Yoshi does the recap, which is fair. It sounds like she’s talking kind of weirdly fast to get through all the words she needs to in the short space she gets, though.
Agumon:  “I’m sorry, Aniki… Yggdrasil is your…”
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Agumon: “Sorry, Boss. I forgot King Drasil was your father.”
Wow, Agumon, “was”? Way to rub it in even more and make it sound like his father’s gone and never coming back.
Masaru’s brief flashback to his dad’s impassive face included his mouth moving, but with no words. The dub is still utterly insistent that if a character’s mouth moves, they must be saying something, even if it’s just in a flashback that was silent originally, so King Drasil’s line from that moment is added in. It’s not an issue, it works fine, I just continue to be boggled at how much effort they bother putting into lip-flap consistency and nothing else.
Agumon:  “Aniki…”
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Agumon: “Sure, Boss… Sure…”
Agumon’s response to Marcus’s insistence that he’s eager to take his dad down too sounds not just worried if he’s okay in the dub, but actively unconvinced that he even can.
Craniamon: “This time you will not defeat me.”
He didn’t defeat you last time; all he did was make you drop your spear, and then your backup showed up and you thoroughly defeated him.
Masaru:  “I have to go punch out my dad!”
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Marcus:  “I don’t have time for this! I gotta have a sit down with my dad!”
So… just literally talk to him, then? No punching of any kind planned at all? Apparently not.
Craniamon: “That is impossible.”
Marcus:  “Oh yeah?! Why?”
Because of the changed line before it, this bit cannot be interpreted to mean that it’s impossible for Marcus to ever defeat his dad and be stronger than him. I am disappoint.
Craniamon:  “If you renounce your allegiance to this… *human*, and surrender to King Drasil, you will be spared.”
That’s being a bit more openly disdainful of humans there, with his tone of voice when he says the word. (The original line is basically the same but without that contemptuous emphasis on “human”.) It sounds more like disliking humans just because they’re humans is Craniamon’s genuine feelings on this matter, which it is not supposed to be.
Agumon:  “Cut the crap! Like hell I’d submit to you!”
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Agumon: “Why don’t ya ask me to cut off my arms and legs too while you’re at it?”
Aww, Agumon’s support is perhaps cuter in the dub, in that he’s comparing renouncing Marcus to cutting off his arms and legs. His boss is like a part of him!
Gotsumon:  “I, too… I, too, don’t believe that they are wrong!”
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Gotsumon: “Uh, excuse me, could you go over those choices one more time? I’d just like to know my options.”
Meanwhile, Gotsumon’s stance is completely flipped in the dub. Or, well, he doesn’t necessarily hate humans like he used to in his previous life, but he’s firmly being a coward who’s putting his own self-preservation over any question of who he actually feels is right in this matter, which is a lot less actually-kinda-sweet of him.
The shot following this in which Marcus looks back at Agumon and Gotsumon in surprise therefore definitely doesn’t express him being touched that Gotsumon is on their side like it did in the original, because, well, he’s not really.
Craniummon: “Yggdrasil’s decisions are absolute. You dare to oppose God?”
Masaru:  “Do you really think that?”
Craniummon: “Hm?”
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Craniamon: “King Drasil’s decision is final. You shall perish with the human.”
Marcus: “Over my dead body!”
Craniamon: “That’s the idea.”
Decently amusing joke, but I don’t like that it comes in place of something interestingly Masaru-ish and relevant to the point of Craniummon’s arc in this episode – questioning if Craniummon really believes all this stuff he’s spouting about Yggdrasil being absolute.
(Also: oh my god, they used the word “dead”, it’s a miracle. I guess you’re only allowed to do that for jokes, apparently.)
Marcus: “Why you overgrown muffler, do you know what’s happening on Earth right now?!”
Wow, that sure is a thing to call Craniamon. He also called him a “tin can” in an earlier line. I don’t precisely mind these jabs, because Masaru’s opinion of Craniummon was also pretty low at this point due to him not thinking for himself. That is the sort of thing the localisation might translate into this kind of trash talk.
Masaru:  “Loads of people are suffering!”
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Marcus: “People’s homes have been destroyed, and families have been separated!”
I enjoy that Marcus specifically makes a point of families being separated. Yes, of course he’d care about that in particular, hee.
Craniummon: “The egoistic behaviour of millions of your species has rubbed against God’s imperial wrath!”
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Craniamon: “The egotistical behaviour of your species has angered King Drasil.”
Craniamon does not claim it’s millions of humans who’ve caused this, making him more actually correct and less over-exaggerating to make himself feel better about this than his original counterpart.
Masaru:  “So just because he’s a God, he can get away with anything?! I’ll never accept that!”
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Marcus: “Yeah, well, I have news for you: your king *is* a human! So that means he’s the cause of all this, too!”
Uhh. I mean, I guess from Marcus’s perspective, in which he’s convinced his father really is King Drasil, this is a reasonable argument to make, pointing out that it’s silly for Craniamon to be hating on humans when he also answers to one? But it really should then lead to Craniamon actually responding to that argument in some way, like by pointing out that King Drasil isn’t actually a human. Of course they can’t have that, because he didn’t do that in the original, so that’s just kind of awkwardly left hanging.
(And I do miss Masaru’s point in the original, touching on his sense of responsibility and kind of calling back to that “shouldn’t get to call himself a God” speech from a few episodes back – which was intact in the dub! This’d have worked just fine with God changed to King, too.)
[Masaru continues to glare at Craniummon]
Craniummon: (This boy…)
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Craniamon: “Rrrrgh…”
[Marcus continues to glare at Craniamon]
Craniamon: (This boy…!)
This moment in the original read very much as Craniummon beginning to find himself somewhat impressed by Masaru’s tenacity. But his added growl and the tone of his thought in the dub makes it distinctly sound like he’s beginning to get angry at Marcus, and isn’t impressed by him at all. Not supposed to be the idea here, since the whole point of this episode is Masaru impressing Craniummon.
Masaru:  “Don’t you have any personal feelings about this?”
~~~~~
Marcus: “What’s the matter? Am I making too much sense?”
Marcus is continuing to insist on his argument about King Drasil being a human and therefore the Royal Knights are hypocrites, which makes it seem a little too much like it might be the actual reason Craniamon’s hesitating here. (It is not, since King Drasil is very much not human and he knows it; he’s just mysteriously not mentioning that for no reason.)
This comes in place of some more Masaru delightfully insisting on trying to get Craniummon to think for himself, which was very relevant, because in the end we learn that he does have personal feelings about this that he’s choosing to ignore.
The response to these lines is the same in both versions – Craniamon repeats his insistence that King Drasil’s word is absolute, and Marcus calls him a puppet – so that point about Craniamon not thinking for himself isn’t entirely lost, but it is somewhat watered down because Masaru’s first line in this exchange was changed.
Craniummon:  “An inferior human like yourself dares to reprove a Royal Knight… It’s laughable how you don’t know your place!”
~~~~~
Craniamon: “You may have taken me by surprise the first time we met, but now I know your capabilities. And I promise you that you will not defeat me again!”
He still… didn’t actually defeat you the previous time??? Where is this coming from. Did the dubbers just not remember how the fight in episode 40 turned out? Even if they didn’t, why on earth would they go out of their way to add in, out of nowhere, these mentions that he was defeated, despite the original never saying so?
Masaru:  “Just so you know, you’re in for a shock if you look down on humans!”
Craniummon:  “Then show me… this human potential you speak of!”
~~~~~
Marcus:  “I know you don’t think much of us humans, but we’ve got a lot more potential than you give us credit for!”
Craniamon: “Then show me… Show me this human potential you speak of!”
Marcus actually uses the word “potential” in his line for Craniamon to pick up on and challenge him to show, which I guess makes that connection a little neater.
Huh, I was wondering what felt weird about the BGM here in the dub, and then I realised – Masaru charging at Craniummon to begin the fight had Provocation Infinity in the original, but it doesn’t have the dub’s usual equivalent of Probably Marcus’s Theme here. Perhaps because we’re going to go to an evolution soon, and that needs to have the evolution BGM as always, and so there’s not enough space for it before then.
Craniummon’s shield Avalon is instead called the Omni Shield in the dub, for no particular reason. (You’d think the Omni Shield would belong to Omnimon, that being the dub name of a different Royal Knight, but apparently not.) Changing the spear’s name makes some sense because it was hard to pronounce, but what’s wrong with this name?
Craniamon:  “I told you I plan on never losing to you again, and now you shall find out for yourselves.”
YOU STILL NEVER LOST TO HIM ONCE. This bit is, again, added in out of nowhere with no original equivalent line. The dub is being so weirdly insistent about this!
Craniummon:  “If you humans truly do have this potential that you claim, use it to evade my strongest spear, and neatly smash through my strongest shield!”
~~~~~
Craniamon:  “If you humans have the kind of potential that you claim to have, then I am laying down the gauntlet right now, and challenging you to defeat me in a battle to the very end!”
Really? A battle to the very end? So even if he breaks your shield, you won’t admit defeat from just that?
Yeah, that’s, uh, not supposed to be the point here. This, and Craniamon’s bewildering insistence on not losing to them again (when he never even did in the first place), makes it so that in the dub he’s still very firmly trying to win, rather than testing them, like Craniummon was in the original.
Though him bringing out the shield may make it seem like he’s trying even harder this time, I noted in the original commentary that Craniummon never uses the super-speed we saw in episode 40, which can be read as him actually going easy on them in some sense, to give them a chance to prove themselves! But it can’t be read that way in the dub; I guess Craniamon just totally forgot he had the super-speed, for no reason.
Gotsumon:  “What made you ever think you could challenge a Royal Knight in battle?!”
~~~~~
Gotsumon: “What made us ever think we could challenge a Royal Knight?!”
Where’s the “us” coming from, Gotsumon? Obviously you didn’t agree to this, since all of your flailing is supposed to be protesting about how much you disagree with their reckless decision to fight him.
Masaru:  “I won’t run away! Not until I’ve punched out my dad!”
~~~~~
Marcus: “I’m not gonna back down until I get to see my father!”
Marcus still just wants to see his dad. Not fight him or punch him or anything involving fists.
Rosemon:  “Are you all right, Yoshino?”
~~~~~
Rosemon: “There, there. I’ve got you.”
This is possibly a little sappy but also kind of cute, as Yoshi freaks out after falling a long way and being caught by Rosemon.
Yoshino:  “No matter how many times we come here, it’s the worst.”
~~~~~
Yoshi: “Maybe next time we come, though, we take the bus.”
Pfft, yes, definitely a valid transportation method to the Digital World.
That God Breath barrier attack is instead… Power of Breath. Without the “god” part in there it sounds a lot more underwhelming. He’s gonna create a barrier by… breathing powerfully.
Craniamon: “That wasn’t enough of an effort to even make me breathe hard.”
What, did you not breathe hard for the Power of Breath attack just now?
Dynasmon:  “It’s because their strength is assured that we can complete our mission in the human world with confidence.”
~~~~~
Dynasmon: “This actually works to our benefit. Since the human and ShineGreymon are out of our way, we can complete our mission here without any further interference.”
(Not that this matters because this entire scene is extremely pointless, but) Dynasmon’s making a slightly different point in the dub. Originally it was that they don’t need to worry about anyone getting near Yggdrasil because Craniummon’s so strong, so they can complete their mission without getting distracted. Here it’s that Marcus having headed to the Digital World gets ShineGreymon out of their way. (Apparently he doesn’t consider MirageGaogamon and the others a threat, somehow, because he doesn’t seem to realise they’ve also headed off to help Marcus and should think they’re still here in the human world.)
ShineGreymon: “That’s the most solid shield I’ve ever seen!”
To be fair, ShineGreymon, it’s not like you’ve seen or fought against that many shields in your time at all.
Gotsumon: “Don’t you realise that going up against a Royal Knight spells certain disaster?!”
Marcus: “It’s a good thing I can’t spell, then, ‘cause this guy’s goin’ down!”
Okay, heh, that is a good dub-style gag, I am amused.
Marcus: “Get up, ShineGreymon! On your feet!”
Marcus’s tone here sounds a little too much like he’s angrily ordering him, rather than simply encouraging his friend to give him the strength to stand again.
I really think both Marcus and ShineGreymon’s voice actors genuinely believe it’s called the Geo GreySword, they are very consistent about using this pronunciation.
ShineGreymon: “I’ll put everything I have into this attack!”
~~~~~
ShineGreymon: “Don’t underestimate our heart!”
A little bit of a cheesy line in the dub, especially given it’s going to fall flat when the GeoGrey Sword promptly shatters against the shield. At least his – admittedly also a little over-dramatic – line in the original kind of explained why the sword shattered, given that the shield’s presumably made of stronger material than it.
Gotsumon:  “Because… Because I’ve gotten involved with these people… What… What’s going to happen to me now?!”
~~~~~
Gotsumon: “Why did I get involved with this people again? What’s Craniamon gonna do to me now that he thinks I’ve betrayed King Drasil…?”
Gotsumon in the dub still sounds like he doesn’t actually want to betray King Drasil and side with the humans, if he’s saying that Craniamon only thinks he has. Really should have taken that offer to denounce them and surrender at the beginning, then, bro, if that’s actually where your loyalties lie! Apparently the dub really is changing this aspect of Gotsumon’s character in this episode. In the original he’s scared but doesn’t actually seem to be changing his mind.
Masaru:  “Ow…”
~~~~~
Marcus:  “I feel like I need a giant ice pack for my whole body…”
Marcus is being more elaborate in expressing his pain, which is fun, but probably less in-character for him to be actually admitting how much he’s hurting out loud.
Craniummon: “They stand up again.”
~~~~~
Craniamon: “How did I know they wouldn’t quit…”
Craniamon mostly just sounds exasperated at their tenacity, rather than impressed. If he did already know they wouldn’t quit, it ought to be a sign that he’s already acknowledging their potential on some level, but with this fed-up tone, it doesn’t come across like he thinks their stubbornness is a good thing.
Masaru:  “Listen up, ShineGreymon. As long as our hearts don’t give in, we haven’t lost! That means… we’ll never lose!”
~~~~~
Marcus: “Listen up, ShineGreymon! As long as we have faith in our hearts, we *can’t* lose! We’re the ultimate team, and no-one can beat us!”
The dub truncates Masaru’s line here in order to add in the “ultimate team” thing, which I guess is appropriate for the dub. I am a little sad, though, that because of that it’s harder to see the actual logic in what Masaru was saying. If you only lose when you give up, and giving up is something you can just choose not to do, then you can ensure that you’ll never lose! That’s presumably still what he’s supposed to mean in the dub, too, but it’s less clear and comes across more as generic shounen platitudes with no actual coherent thought behind it.
Marcus: “That shield goes down first. Seems like he’s pretty proud of that little gift from my dad.”
The bit about it being from his dad (aka King Drasil; Craniamon mentioned this at the beginning) is unique to the dub, and I like the added notion that this fact is on Marcus’s mind.
The best thing about how I enjoy the new Burst Mode version of the evolution music is that there’s few enough instances of it left in the series that I’m probably not going to get bored of it.
Masaru:  “I’m gonna meet my dad… and we’re gonna talk together with our fists!”
~~~~~
Marcus: “I’m here to meet up with my father! And you won’t stop me!”
He still really insistently just wants to meet him, apparently. Every single line in this episode in which Masaru talks about punching out his dad – namely, communicating with fists with him – nah, that’s gone, Marcus just wants to literally talk and nothing else.
Craniamon:  “If the only way to defeat you is to destroy you, then so be it.”
Dude, when you’re putting “destroy” on a different level from “defeat” like this, you clearly mean “kill”, why can’t you just say it
Masaru:  “Not yet! Like hell I’m gonna let that finish me off!”
~~~~~
Marcus: “No…! It can’t! It can’t end like this…!”
ShineGreymon: “Goodbye, Boss…!”
Marcus’s tone of voice, and ShineGreymon’s goodbye (cute though that is!), makes it clear that they both actually believe they’re going to die here (even though Marcus in particular hates to admit it). I much prefer Masaru’s utter stubborn refusal to give in even when he physically can’t move to avoid the attack, it’s so much more appropriate for his sheer unbreakable tenacity in this fight.
Masaru:  “You guys… Why…?”
~~~~~
Marcus: “Thanks, guys… but why…?”
It reads a little weirder that Marcus asks them why when he just thanked them. Surely the thanks means he’s already acknowledged the reason – because he needed it (especially given he’d accepted more than Masaru had that he was a goner without their help).
Masaru:  “What are you doing? Why did you come here?”
Tohma:  “Don’t say that…”
~~~~~
Marcus: “Why are you here? Are my mom and sister all right?”
Thomas: “Relax, they’re fine.”
Cute addition that Marcus asks after his family! He did partly leave his friends back in the human world to protect them after all. It’s a little less appropriate for Thomas to be the one to reassure him of this, when he wasn’t involved in protecting them, but then, lip-flap, he was the one responding to Masaru originally.
Tohma:  “…we came because we were worried about you.”
Masaru:  “I never asked you to.”
~~~~~
Thomas: “And we came because we care.”
Marcus: “What?! I never asked you to do *that*!”
Masaru’s casual dismissive comment could have been read just about equally that either he’s saying he never asked them to worry about him, or just that he never asked them to come and help. Marcus’s wording and angrier tone makes it clear that he’s saying he never asked them to care about him, like he’s frustrated at the idea that they might, making him a lot more tsundere here. (Even though he thanked them for saving him, when Masaru didn’t!)
Thomas’s tone is also sterner, like a part of him’s wondering why he bothers to care about Marcus. Why is everyone more of a dick in the dub. Why can’t Thomas and Marcus just openly be friends as much as they are in the original.
Yoshino:  “Consider this a loan. You can pay me back later.”
~~~~~
Yoshi: “Duh, you didn’t have to! By the way, you’re welcome.”
Yoshi’s line is cute, but I miss Yoshino being opportunistic about Masaru’s stubborn refusal to accept help.
Craniummon: “How can you readily leap into this battle when you have no possibility of winning?”
Tohma:  “Possibility, huh?”
Yoshino:  “Let me tell you something nice. There are things in this world that won’t go simply according to calculation.”
Tohma:  “That goes especially for Masaru. Calculations and common sense never work on him.”
~~~~~
Craniamon: “How can you just head into battle without any chance of winning?”
Thomas: “What? *You* have no chance.”
Yoshi: “Let me tell you something about the human heart and spirit. It gives us the opportunity to rise above the odds, even when nothing is in our favour.”
Thomas: “And Marcus here has more heart and spirit than any human I’ve ever known.”
Okay, that’s kind of sweet of Thomas to say that, I guess. But man, the changes to Thomas and Yoshi’s lines here make it so transparent that they’re deliberately removing any trace of the notion that Masaru doesn’t adhere to Tohma’s logical calculations. They also completely removed that aspect in episode 31 as well. This is a pattern. Why would you get rid of a neat contrast between them like that on purpose, dub. It’s so frustrating.
Masaru:  “Potential is something that’ll come surging out of anywhere… just as long as you don’t give up!”
~~~~~
Marcus: “Human potential is something that never stops flowing from our bodies and minds, as long as we never give up!”
The same sentiment here, but it sure is a weird image to picture potential as something that can flow from someone’s body. It’s not quite that literal, Marcus.
(Also, Marcus is making it specifically about human potential, whereas Masaru was happy to say that anyone – implicitly, human or Digimon – would have the same potential so long as they didn’t give up.)
Oops, the censors were not on the ball this one time and forgot to cut the fanservice shots in Rosemon’s Burst Mode animation. They’ve been pretty good about it most of the time, but of course they had to slip up once, because it’s the dub and they’re careless.
Tohma:  “Let’s go, everyone!”
Everyone else: “Yes!”
~~~~~
Thomas: “Attack Formation!”
Everyone else: “Roger!”
Okay, but how does everyone else know what attack formation they’re supposed to do. “Attack Formation” is incredibly vague as Thomas’s codenamed formations go. (Not that the others would know any of his more specific ones anyway.)
Masaru:  “His shield! Aim for his shield!”
Yoshino:  “I see… You’ve done some thinking, Masaru.”
Tohma:  “I get it. If we destroy his shield first, we’ll lower Craniummon’s defence, then we can attack through his breaches, am I right?”
~~~~~
Marcus: “Okay, listen up. The key is his shield. Everyone aim for it!”
Yoshi: “Looks like you’ve been doing some thinking, Marcus.”
Marcus:  “If we destroy his shield, we lower his defences, and we can attack him full-on!”
Thomas: “Can’t believe I’m saying this, but… good plan, Marcus. I guess there’s a first for everything.”
What? No! Marcus is not supposed to be the one thinking that destroying the shield is a strategy! If all Marcus cares about is being able to attack Craniamon directly, well, congratulations, they can do that now, now that they have four fighters and he can’t point his shield in more than one direction! (as far as they know, Power of Breath omnidirectional barrier aside.)
Granted, it was silly in the original that Yoshino and Tohma thought destroying the shield was a good strategy at all, but it’s even sillier that Marcus of all people is also thinking of things this way.
(Also, within the nonsense narrative where Marcus actually has a good plan here, it’s not a first, Thomas. He has actually used things resembling strategies before.)
Masaru:  “That’s not it! I just want to push him off his high horse!”
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Marcus: “Okay, let’s do this! […] I can’t wait to knock Craniamon off his high horse and onto his royal butt.”
They still have the sentiment of wanting to knock him off his high horse, but in the dub’s context, it’s just meaningless trash talk about wanting to win. The point of that comment in the original was that this was why Masaru wanted to go for the shield at all, to hell with the strategy of it (because hey it’s really not the best strategy actually) – just because Craniummon’s been so pompous about how unbreakable it is and he wants to prove that wrong. That was so wonderfully distinctly Masaru of him and it’s completely lost in the dub.
And also, Masaru may have been at least somewhat thinking about how Craniummon directly challenged him to break the shield. Remember how Craniamon in the dub didn’t do that at the beginning of the fight? Hm.
Rosemon’s Kiss of Breath attack is still insistently “Kiss of Breath, mwah!” I guess that’s just part of the name, right.
Another of Ravemon’s elaborate Japanese attack names that means Unmatched Soaring Wing Formation gets localised to Crimson Formation. Which would be a decent enough name if it wasn’t for the fact that it’s… not… crimson. It’s purple.
Craniummon:  “No matter how many times you try, my strongest shield, Avalon, will never fracture!”
~~~~~
Craniamon:  “No matter how many times you try to attack, my shield will not fail me!”
Slightly less fun that Craniamon doesn’t word-for-word describe exactly what the shield does just a second later (it fractures), like he did in the original.
This might be the longest version of any variant of the evolution music I’ve heard. The fight goes on for quite a bit after they all go Burst Mode, and it would lose the hype to switch to a different and less exciting bit of BGM partway through. Props to them for actually recording (or at least splicing together smoothly) something long enough to fit this.
Gotsumon:  “Craniummon’s… Craniummon’s shield…”
~~~~~
Gotsumon: “Marcus did it! He said he would… and then he proved it!”
Yes, gasp, Gotsumon, Marcus doing the thing he said he would do, so remarkable. Something about the stating-the-obvious of this reads as stilted. In the original he is also kind of pointing out the obvious about the shield breaking, granted, but it reads more naturally as him being gobsmacked that such a thing is even possible.
Craniamon:  “My shield… gone! The *human* bested me…!”
Craniamon still sounds more angry than impressed at being bested by this human, which does not sit right with what he’s about to do.
Masaru:  “Well now, that shield you’re so proud of is gone. Now we can…”
~~~~~
Marcus:  “So now that your shield has more pieces than a jigsaw puzzle, let us through!”
Did you really need to phrase it in that silly way in this dramatic moment, Marcus?
Also, uh. Why does Marcus actually think Craniamon’s going to let them through just because they broke his shield? Wasn’t he just strategising about how destroying the shield was only for the purpose of being able to attack him directly? Didn’t Craniamon present this as a fight to the end?
Masaru seemed to be fully expecting to continue the fight, having apparently forgotten that Craniummon (in the original only) had challenged him to break the shield. Or at least, he didn’t realise Craniummon genuinely meant what he’d said at the beginning. But Marcus somehow knows this is over already, for no good reason at all.
Craniummon: “I’ve told you earlier to evade my strongest spear and smash through my strongest shield. You’ve done just that. In other words, I have lost.”
~~~~~
Craniamon: “You have proven me wrong, and I am willing to admit it. You have handled my strongest spear and destroyed my strongest shield. I have lost.”
So, uh. What was that you said at the beginning of the fight, Craniamon? About how you were challenging Marcus to “defeat me in a battle to the very end?” Because this sure isn’t that. Way to flip-flop and go back on your word, giving up more easily than you said you were going to.
I mean, either way, I guess the point is still that Marcus impressed Craniamon by achieving something Craniamon believed was impossible. But it’s more respectably honourable of Craniummon in the original that he’s actually keeping to the exact words he started this battle by, and was always willing to back down if Masaru somehow did manage to do that. Meanwhile Craniamon in the dub just had a sudden complete swerve in attitude out of almost nowhere, especially given how much more angry he’s sounded about humans compared to the original!
Craniummon: “You may go.”
~~~~~
Craniamon: “You may now enter the Server Tree and seek out the destiny that awaits you.”
I still like how it’s explicitly called the Server Tree in the dub. I am a little bewildered that Craniamon cares about Marcus’s destiny, though. It’s not like he has any investment in the part where King Drasil is apparently Marcus’s dad.
Craniamon: “Now hurry and go, before I change my mind.”
Seems more likely that you might in the dub, because apparently you changed it mid-fight instead of sticking to what you’d said at the beginning!
Thomas: “Marcus, what if he’s setting us up for a trap?”
Marcus: “Don’t worry, Nerdstein. He wouldn’t do a thing like that!”
Oh, for god’s sake. Why. Why does Marcus still feel the need to call Thomas this. I mean, yes, it basically comes across as affectionate ribbing in spirit, but it’s still an unnecessarily unkind sentiment. Just don’t. Just don’t make him more of a jerk, is that so much to ask.
Masaru:  “It’s obvious!” [he holds up a fist] “We’ve talked with these!”
~~~~~
Marcus: “Because I know!” [he holds up a fist] “Our fists… they both speak the same language!”
I’m sorry, dub? Suddenly NOW you’re okay with the notion that fists can be used to communicate? Only now, and not literally every other time Masaru has said anything to this effect? Because if you are okay with this concept, why the hell did you remove it the rest of the time.
I mean, geez, I should be glad that they’re at least keeping this bit the same here, but, ARGH. The hypocrisy and lost opportunity for every other bit like this is excruciating. Most likely, whoever’s job it was to rewrite these bits was just sleeping on the job, since this is the only time it’s kept.
Craniummon:  “I shall the two worlds on that infinite potential of yours.”
~~~~~
Craniamon:  “I shall stake the survival of both our worlds on your great human potential.”
I do like that this episode keeps the emphasis on potential – and it’s neat that it’s the dub title, too! – but it’s a little odd to me that it’s always specifically about human potential, in the dub, where it wasn’t in the original. It seems to be suggesting that humans have something magically special about them that Digimon don’t have (literally just DNA Charge, I guess), which seems unfair to Digimon, rather than that humans can have just as much potential as Digimon and are therefore just as deserving of survival.
Craniummon: “God is not absolute. BanchouLeomon, were you aware of that?”
~~~~~
Craniamon: “You have taught me that King Drasil’s word is not absolute. I wonder… if BanchoLeomon learned that very same lesson… before sacrificing himself like he did.”
I mentioned that the subs’ translation of this felt a little off to me and it was probably meant to be a more rhetorical, “you were aware of that, weren’t you?” Because, I mean, obviously BanchouLeomon was aware of that, or he wouldn’t be doing what he’s doing. It reads as especially odd that the dub’s taking the idea of it as a question and running with it even more by having Craniamon ask if BanchoLeomon learned that – which means that, whether BanchoLeomon knows what’s up now or not, he definitely once upon a time did believe King Drasil’s word was absolute. I kinda doubt that, somehow?
Craniamon specifically saying Marcus taught him this also removes any hint that he might have already been thinking this himself, and that maybe that idea was first planted in his head by a certain someone else a long time ago.
Also, the bit about BanchoLeomon sacrificing himself is a bit much, given that he’s not actually dead in there. I wonder if the dubbers don’t realise this.
Marcus: (Dad… I’m coming!)
No wording nitpicks here, just wanna mention that I enjoyed Marcus’s delivery of this, yes good.
Overall differences
On the one hand, this is a big fighty episode, so not much is different in a big way. However, a lot of nuance of the talky bits is lost, because of course it is – this was an episode full of delightful distinctive Masaru-ness, and the dub’s always been terrible at keeping much of that.
Pretty much all of the good Masaru-ish bits are either lost or noticeably watered down: wanting Craniummon to think for himself at the beginning; his reasoning for why they’ll never lose; Masaru not adhering to logical calculations (something the dub keeps removing every time!). Then Marcus somehow actually thinks attacking the shield is a good strategy, and wanting to kick Craniamon off his high horse is separate from that rather than the only reason Masaru was even going for the shield.
A little bit like in episode 41 where they watered this down and made it unclear, here they change all the bits where Masaru talks about punching out his dad into Marcus just wanting to literally talk to his dad, because I guess that future encounter isn’t allowed to involve any punching. (It is absolutely going to involve punching.) They keep insistently removing this delightful aspect of Masaru’s character about communicating with people using his fists… except for one line here regarding Craniamon, in which suddenly Marcus is talking about that, out of nowhere.
Gotsumon’s a little bit different. In the original, he’s willing to voice his support of the humans and doesn’t go back on that even though he’s scared, whereas here, he seems very much not on humanity’s side at all to the point that it’s frankly surprising he doesn’t just side with Craniamon. A reboot has not changed him that much in the dub.
Then there’s Craniamon, who challenges them to “defeat me in a fight to the end”, seeming generally a lot more angry and less impressed at Marcus than Craniummon was in the original – but then he still lets them past as soon as they break his shield, despite this not being what he said he’d do at the beginning. His turnaround came a lot more out of nowhere. (Which is actually, probably unintentionally, in keeping with how he also completely flip-flopped in his stance on humans in episode 39. I guess the dub just doesn’t grasp how to write him subtly.)
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Genshin: Mafia AU 2 ャ翁温
YA GIRL PULLED THE KAZOO! Lauren bullied me into doing it, and now I have no primogems (that, and I also got c1 Mona :_)). Oh well, time to whale!
May all Kazuha wanters be Kazuha havers! If you don’t have Venti, he is so useful. He and Geo Traveller just helped me skip through the entire level 80 ascension quest.
Kazuha will also be added to the harem of Tumblr, if you wanted to know! Normally, I wouldn’t do a character I don’t know much about, but I fell in love with the pretty wind boy pt.3.
Credit: Jessica
Warnings: mafia behavior
Word count: 1028
“So that’s what happened.” [Name] told her friend, Venti, who was sitting next to her in a cafe. She had her head buried in her arms.
Venti licked the spoon of his sorbet. “I don’t see why you’re so upset over this. Seems to me like you’ll just eat food, make sure a few people don’t get murdered, murder a few people…”
[Name] lifted her head to glare half-heartedly at her friend. “Easy for you to say, you ditched your responsibilities a long time ago.”
“Ehe.” Venti chuckled.
Venti was part of the mafia before but quit due to him wanting to pursue a different career. At least, that’s what he told everyone. [Name] knew better. He quit because he was a lazy bum. Nonetheless, Venti had many connections and knew just about everybody, so he wasn’t completely for moral support.
However, that didn’t change the fact that sometimes [Name] felt like clonking him on the head. Like one time, when he was drunk and sung her an entire love song, and didn’t even bother denying it the next morning.
“Oh, that?” he had said. “Still, it cannot fully express your beauty.”
[Name] really did clonk him on the head for that.
“If you’re that worried,” Venti’s voice interrupted [Name]’s thoughts. “I can get in touch with an old friend of mine in the Liyue mafia. He’s a bit of an old man, but he’ll make sure everything runs smoothly.”
“Really?” [Name] said skeptically.
“Yes, of course!” Venti said with a chuckle. “It won’t be difficult.”
[Name] was still a little unconvinced about this, but she nodded her head anyway and gave Venti a pat on the head as payment. Not that she doubted Venti, but true allies, ones that stuck with you even after your mafia times, were few and far in between.
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“Albedooooo.” [Name] draped herself over him, sighing dramatically. Albedo himself was seated in front of his computer, typing away.
“Yes?” Albedo said, quietly a little pleased that she was openly expressing affection.
“I’m bored.”
“I’m well aware,” Albedo hummed. “You’ve already said that four times.”
“Doooo something about it.” [Name] whined. She peered at his screen, resting her chin on his shoulder.
“Did Venti make you drink? This is very uncharacteristic of you.” Albedo remarked.
“No.” [Name] huffed. “This is what boredom does to you.”
Right now, it was around eight in the evening. [Name] and Albedo had just finished dinner, and Albedo was working (like the workaholic he is), and [Name] was lying on his bed like a starfish, motionless. That is, of course, until she came over to bother him.
“What were you doing before?” Albedo questioned. “You seemed quite content just lying there.”
“I was trying to think of nicknames for you.” [Name] said shamelessly. “Do you even know how difficult it is to find a nickname for ‘Albedo’?”
“And how were the results?”
“Yeah, I got nothing.” [Name] said.
“You may ask Kaeya for his opinion.” Albedo said smoothly. “I remember him conducting a similar experiment not long ago.”
“Kaeya?” [Name] asked, “You’re close with him?”
“Mmm.” Albedo said, his voice noncommittal. “We’ve spoken a few times.”
Before [Name] could ask more, the door to Albedo’s room slammed open. In came a crashing little girl in red, holding a big backpack in her arms.
“‘bedoooo! Are you almost finished? I wanna play with Miss [Name]! And I want fish!”
This was Klee, Albedo’s adopted sister. Actually, it was Albedo that was adopted, but they looked so similar it was difficult to tell. Klee was not a part of the mafia. Albedo had considered adding her in due to her talent for making bombs but [Name] talked him back to his senses every time.
“She’s a child, Albedo!” [Name] yelled at him. “You can’t possibly be thinking of making her join the mafia!”
“She’ll be safer!” Albedo shot back. “I just don’t want her to be in danger.”
“Danger?” [Name] scoffed. “What do you think we do all day, play cards? The world of the mafia is guns, violence, death, and you want to bring a little girl into it?!”
“WHAT CAN I POSSIBLY DO?” Albedo screamed.
Albedo took a deep breath, sinking to his ankles. In all [Name]’s years of knowing him, she had never seen him look so hopeless. “I… I know what the mafia is like. But despite that... how can I keep her safe if I barely even know where she is half the time?” he choked.
[Name] crouched down next to him, pulling him to her chest. “She’ll be okay, Albedo.”
Albedo released a shuddering breath, relaxing into her embrace. “I hope so.”
[Name] shook her head, clearing her mind from those memories. “Sorry, Klee, but your brother isn’t finished yet.”
“Aw.” Klee pouted. “Okay…”
[Name] bent down to her level, placing a finger on her lips. “But… If you’re good, I’ll take you to whatever restaurant you like.”
“Really?” Klee said happily. “Any place I want?”
“Yes.” [Name] giggled. “But you have to keep this a secret. You know your brother doesn’t like you eating out too often!”
“Yayyy!” Klee cheered, running out the room. “Fish!”
Unbeknownst to [Name], Albedo was watching her with a fond smile. Even more than his research, Albedo treasured his sister, and seeing Klee and [Name] getting along so well filled him with a beautiful warmth.
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“[Name]! Can we have fried fish, pleeeease?” Klee begged [Name].
[Name] gave her a pat on the head. “I don’t see why not.”
“Yay!” Klee said. “Come on, Miss [Name]! Let’s go!”
“Yes, yes, I’m coming.” [Name] laughed. As she walked with Klee to the restaurant that she wanted, [Name] made eye contact with a man with orange hair and wearing a wine red shirt. When she made eye contact, she could have sworn she saw him smirk. He raised his hand in a ‘come here’ motion, and when [Name] looked for him again, he disappeared into the crowd.
[Name] spent had a great time with Klee (and Albedo, once he got out of his room), but still, her mind wandered back to the orange hair.
‘That couldn’t be… right?’
Notice that everyone in the mafia calls [Name] Lady [Name], even respected figures like Jean and Diluc. Wonder why that is 🤔.
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limit-list · 4 years ago
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CONCEPT!! okay okay look but i wanna see a modern day zukka fic where zuko is a tattoo artist!! his uncle is a renowned tattoo artist, owns a parlor called the Jasmine Dragon, and zuko works for him there. his designs are absolutely killer, he studies a bunch of different styles (that i do not know the names of because i know nothing of tattoos and i’m too excited to do research), like the cool samoan ones and cartoon styles and he’s really good at photo realism, but his favorite is to just treat tattooing as any other art form and use his personal style.
zuko’s a growing name in the industry, and his uncle’s competitor shop is the Flying Bison (cause why not). the Flying Bison is just a couple streets over, and in it you can find aang (tattoo artist), katara (piercing person), suki (works the desk and manages everything for the owner, kyoshi), sokka (hangs out to bother katara when he isn’t in class at the law school), and toph (likes to hang out and make recommendations until people realize she’s blind and get really awkward. she works at the flower shop next door because we like tropes and flowers and tattoos just go together, okay??)
one day, suki is complaining about losing another customer to the Jasmine Dragon and katara is agreeing, and sokka is like “ehh they can’t be that great, the owner is some old guy!! i bet if i went and got a tattoo i could cause a big ol stink about it being awful and lose them some customers” and katara is like great idea you go do that and when it sucks aang can fix it!
sokka, who was joking in the first place, somehow ends up walking into the Jasmine Dragon and stopping just inside the door cause w o w that boy is hot. what the fuck why is he hiding in here when he should be a walking poster boy, those tattoos are nice.
(zuko has the burn on his face, long shaggy hair that he ties up in a bun when he’s working, a tattooed dragon that curls around his neck, a sleeve on his left arm that’s got some flames, some symbols, another dragon curled around his wrist, and on his right forearm he’s got a white lotus pai sho tile with writing around it)
(not relevant at the moment, but sokka has the moon between his shoulder blades, a boomerang on the side of his left wrist, the pattern from his mom’s betrothal necklace on his left shoulder, katara’s handwriting that says “hey loser” going up his right side, aang’s air symbol on his right shoulder, and appa on his lower back)
zuko catches sokka staring and blushes, obviously checking him out, before asking him if he needs any help. sokka’s like “yeah actually i’m here kinda as a representative of the Flying Bison, ya know, your rival. i’ve come to get a tattoo so that we can know that we’re better than you, but now that i’m here i’m kinda seeing that nothing could ever be better than you, oh fuck i just said that out loud”
...needless to say they’re both blushing now. that is, until zuko’s like “wait? you what?? what kind of guy wants to get a tattoo just to prove that you’re better than someone else???”
sokka’s like “uhhh actually i was joking when i suggested it but then my sister said i should do it and i can’t legally deny her anything so... here i am” and then they just kinda stand there in awkward silence. for a long while. somewhere between a minute and a century.
then zuko just kinda clears his throat and is like “so um where do you want it? what do you want?”
and sokka is like “???? i JUST told you i’m here to make you make me look bad and you’re just fine with it?”
and zuko just quirks his eyebrow and smirks and scoffs a bit and is like “i couldn’t make you look bad if i wanted to. and i wouldn’t let you make me look bad.”
which, the first part is CLEARLY flirting except the second part is so condescending and sokka has never been more attracted to someone since yue tattooed the moon on his back. sokka has never been known for his exceptional decision making skills. which might be why he decides to say “so about that tattoo. does me being attracted to you create a conflict of interest?”
and zuko blushes but the smirk turns into a grin and he goes “not unless you have an issue with me being interested in you too.” and sokka cannot believe he is LIVING THIS LIFE!!!!
they hammer out the details, set up an appointment for the next day. sokka goes home and refuses to tell katara anything except he’ll be getting a new tattoo tomorrow. zuko goes home and rants to his uncle about the boy from the Flying Bison that he definitely flirted the crap out of, is that a conflict and can i please tattoo this boy even tho he’s from our competitor shop? (iroh says yes of course, though he plans to send ty lee to check out the Flying Bison in retribution)
(unseen future: ty lee and suki start dating. iroh finds this hilarious)
sokka comes in the next day for his tattoo, asks zuko to do something like his dragons cause he thinks those look cool, but gives him free reign to do whatever else he wants. it takes forever, but when they’re done sokka has officially developed an actual crush on zuko beyond just his appearance. they’ve talked about their moms, hakoda and iroh, katara and the rest of the gaang, zuko’s development as a tattoo artist, and they’ve developed a comfortable silence as music plays lowly in the backround.
when sokka looks at the tattoo for the first time, he’s absolutely speechless. zuko’s added in koi fish around the moon, in a yin yang pattern, and between the moon and appa, he’s put the sun with a dragon curled around it, head resting on its tail at the bottom.
zuko’s watching him anxiously, terrified that he’ll hate it even though he’s tried to match the style that the moon was done in as much as possible. already he’s sputtering stuff like “it’s kind of too late if you don’t like it, you did tell me i could do whatever, did i overstep with the koi fish, oh my gosh here i’ll go get your money back—“ and sokka cuts him off by turning to look at him with affection just evident on his face and wtf who gave him permission to be that cute—
and then sokka is asking “hey, can i like kiss you or is that too much for the health guidelines?” and sokka’s honestly surprised that he could even ask that much, he loves these tattoos and if he doesn’t get to kiss this amazing boy soon—
and zuko is in shock apparently, but he snaps out of it with “okay let me get you wrapped up, oh god that sounds so bad, let me treat your tattoo and ring everything up and say all the precautionary health stuff that you already know so i can take my break and then we’ll see” and that’s what they do!!!
when zuko’s break is up, iroh exits into the back alley to find sokka has pushed zuko up against the wall and they’re making out, didn’t even notice iroh coming outside. of course, iroh is an embarrassing uncle and goes “ah zuko, i assume this is the competition?”
to which zuko draws back and thumps his head into sokka’s shoulder, not letting sokka back up more than an inch. “uncle go away i’m busy” “ah yes, i can see that. is this a new method of exchanging trade secrets?” “uncle.”
sokkas chuckling breathlessly as iroh hums and goes back inside. “trade secrets huh?”
(katara is infuriated that sokka loves his new tattoo, especially since it clearly shows that zuko’s an amazing tattoo artist. aang wants to meet him and learn from him like NOW, suki wants to recruit him, and toph thinks they’re dating. she isn’t wrong, but sokka bribes her to shut up so katara doesn’t find out)
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bananapie99 · 4 years ago
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Leaving Home
Part I of my new Home series
Part II here
Part III here
Part IV here
Inspired by Welcome Home from Bandstand the musical
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Bucky Barnes x Reader, Steve Rogers (brother) x Reader
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The scraping of a key in the lock jolted you back to reality. Your hands flew to the chest on top of yours and shoved back. Quickly you attempted to straighten out your dress and rake your fingers through your hair. You straightened his tie and desperately swiped your hand over the lipstick smudged onto his lips. Your hand found its home back in your lap from wiping around your own mouth just as the door swung open. A silent prayer danced across your lips as your brother’s eyes came to meet yours from the doorway.
“You’re home early,” you noted in what you hoped was your usual tone.
He shrugged off his coat casually. “Got lucky today I guess.”
I don’t think he caught on to what he practically just walked in on....
The man next to you on the sofa cleared his throat. “Busy day punk?”
“You wouldn’t believe it Buck. I’m just happy to be home now.”
Just as you thought you were off the hook, your brother seemed to pause mid thought.
“Buck, why are you here? I thought you weren’t gonna be by ‘til tonight.”
No.
“Oh, ya know punk, I was just around. Thought I’d stop by and see how your sister was doin’.”
“Steve, when is he not here?” You try to say it casually, with a little laugh in your tone.
That seemed to satisfy him. “Alright I’m starved,” he said walking down the hall. “What’s for dinner tonight (y/n)?
Dinner. You hadn’t even thought about that today. You were a little...preoccupied.
“Umm...” Your thoughts were interrupted by a nip at your collarbone. You shoved your elbow towards Bucky and let out a soft growl. “Not now James.”
He let out a laugh and threw his hands up in surrender.
“I was thinkin’ I would just heat up the meatloaf from last night. I’ll get that goin’.”
As you stood from the couch to head towards the kitchen, Bucky made a grab for your waist. You stumbled back a step but he was quick to catch you on his lap.
“Beautiful and quick on her toes,” he whispered into your ear. Heat rushed to your cheeks, his warm breath brushing your neck sent a tingle down your spine.
Pulling yourself together again, you pushed off him. “Still not the time. Care to help me in the kitchen?”
“Baby doll, you know I don’t cook.”
“Well at least keep me company?” You batted your eyelashes and held your hand out towards him.
Rolling his eyes he replied “how am I supposed to say no to that face?”
With a smile, you risked a quick peck to his cheek. Heavy footsteps approached and you dropped Bucky’s hand, making a beeline to the kitchen. Pulling the leftovers out, you strained your ears to try and catch what Steve and Bucky are talking about, listening for any clues that your brother was not as clueless to what he walked in on as he seems. Sadly, your hearing has never been amazing, so you were left praying for the best.
Lost in your worry and preparing the meatloaf, you jumped out of your skin as familiar hands slid across your waist. Out of fear that Steve would hear, you managed to choke on your scream.
“James, stop it! Steve could walk in and see.”
“You think I’d let him catch me with my hands on his baby sister? That wouldn’t end too good for me baby doll. He’s got a headache, said he wanted to lay down for a bit.”
Bucky’s hands on you, his chin resting on top of your head softened the blow of Steve not joining you for dinner. Feeling the sudden slump in your shoulders, he squeezed at your hips.
“Chin up cookie. You’re all decked out and now we can have a nice little dinner for two.” He spun you around to give you a real kiss. Whether you were dizzy from the spin or the kiss was anybody’s guess.
The rest of the night was a bit of a blur between the wine and Bucky. Steve must have decided to call it a night and never made an appearance. Even so, you two tried your best to keep your voices low and your hands to yourself... mostly.
A little past midnight Bucky decided to head home. “Wish I could stick around, but I don’t want your neighbors thinkin’ you’re a different kinda dame, baby doll.”
More intoxicated by the wine than him, you stumbled to the door of your apartment, steadied by Bucky’s hands, to let him out.
“Goodnight (y/n), I’ll see ya tomorrow.” He pulled your hand up to his lips and left a soft, lingering kiss. “Lock the door behind me.” With a wink, he disappeared into the night.
Somehow you found your way to your bed and fell asleep as soon as your head hit your pillow.
You woke up with your head throbbing, dreading opening your eyes. Then a noise caught your ear. You could not understand the words being spoken, but it was definitely two men talking. Steve and Bucky. The thought of seeing Bucky provided the necessary motivation to try and get up. No way were you getting all dolled up feeling like this, but you found your way to the bathroom to wash your face and brush your teeth. You cleaned off the smeared makeup left over from yesterday and just added a little mascara. Yesterday’s dress was all wrinkled from sleep, but it would do for now. Following the mumbles, you found your way to the living room where Steve and Bucky were seated on the couch.
The sight in front of you seemed foreign and you could not pick up on what it meant. Bucky’s head hung low in his hands, a piece of paper seated next to him, your bother’s hand on his shoulder.
“It will be okay Buck.”
Your eyes zeroed in on the paper again. The longer you looked at it, the deeper it sunk into the cushions, the heavier the air got in the room. Suddenly you felt off-balance. When did the stars start coming out with the sun?
You woke up on the couch, Steve and Bucky’s faces coming in and out of focus. Finally your eyes locked on Bucky’s and that was when you broke down, sobs shaking your whole body. Both men put a hand on you in concern.
Bucky spoke first. “Baby doll, what’s wrong?”
“You- you c-can’t leave. They can’t m-make you go.”
The words were tangled in your throat, fighting their way out.
“I’ll be okay (y/n), I promise. I’ll be home before you know it. I could never leave my best girl.”
You were too upset to register the implication of what was just said, but Steve was not.
“Your best what?” His tone was caught somewhere between shocked and indignant.
“Steve, I’ve been tryin’ to decide when to talk to you...”
“You- You’re with my sister?”
“You gotta understand, I love her, I really do.”
Silence is deafening. You had never understood what that meant until now. Somehow you sat yourself up on the couch and reached for Bucky. He moved closer, taking a seat next to you. The rough pad of his thumb wiped at your tears, pleading with them to disappear. You collapsed into his chest, no longer afraid of what your brother might think, instead afraid of losing the man you love to your country. Steve remained quiet, observing the two of you. He watched you relax into Bucky’s arms, your sobs softening to whimpers. He saw how Bucky stroked your back, how he fingered through your hair. He saw Bucky’s lips moving near your ear, the words inaudible to him, but seemingly soothing to you. Steve’s body relaxed with your heart rate. When you turned to face Steve, his heart shattered. Your face puffy from crying, mascara staining your cheeks, your arms extended to Steve. He knelt in front of you and pulled you into him.
“It’ll be okay (y/n). He’ll come back to us. He’ll come back to you.”
You could not bring yourself to look at the paper, could not bring yourself to ask when he had to leave. Bucky opened his mouth to speak.
“Please,” you whispered. “Not yet. Don’t tell me when. Not yet.”
He nodded and kissed the top of your head before pulling you back into his chest.
Bucky did not leave Steve and your apartment that day, even decided to stay the night. The men would be lying if they said they were not worried about you. Something broke in you upon arrival of that letter. That night before bed you finally asked.
“Buck... when do you have to go?” Tears threatened to spill over but you fought them back.
“In a week baby doll. We have time.”
A week was no time at all. A week to live a lifetime. It could easily be the last week at home for his lifetime.
Stop it. You cannot think like that right now. Bucky is here, safe in front of you. What comes after this is not yet your concern. Love him now. You squeezed Bucky tight, as tight as you could. He hugged you back, gentler but just as desperate. His hands slid around your waist to hold you there. He started rubbing up and down your back as he felt your chest start to shake.
“No need for tears cookie, not tonight. I’ll be right here waitin’ when you wake up.”
The next few days went by quicker than you would like. Before you knew it Bucky was leaving tomorrow. How can that be correct? He just got his letter yesterday.
Steve was kind, understanding of the new relationship between you and Bucky. Well, new to Steve. The two of you had been sneaking around for a while. You had been scared your relationship would ruin their friendship. You loved Bucky, but you would never put your happiness before the two of them. They had been inseparable your whole life. Whether Steve would have always taken it this well or if it was a result of the letter, you would never be sure. Knowing Steve, you believe he would have gotten to this place eventually, it just might have taken a little longer under normal circumstances. You caught the two of them talking and laughing the night before, same as always. That warmed your heart. Both of the men had been so concerned with how you were handling the letter, you were worried they had not processed the information for themselves. As the thought crossed your mind, you caught the little sniffles and chokes mixed in with their laughter.
Bucky was acting different today. How could you blame him? He ships off tomorrow for training. It’s 1943, by now you all knew the statistics of those shipped overseas. Holding onto hope was necessary to not just collapse then and there, but that was an exhausting task.
You got all dolled up that day for Bucky. You put on his favorite dress, which had actually been a Christmas gift from him the year before. It was beautiful. The dress was navy blue with a scoop neck that showed off your collar bones. The sleeves ended just above your elbows, the waist cinched in with a matching belt, and the A line skirt landing just above your knees. You spent extra care on your makeup this morning, though you are sure the mascara will not last the night.
The morning and afternoon went by as it would any other day, the three of you pushing the inevitable to the back of your minds.
Around four o’clock that evening Steve asked you to run an errand. It seemed inconsequential given the circumstance and you argued it could be done in a few days. Steve insisted it be done now, and indignantly you left the apartment.
You arrived back around forty-five minutes later, errand completed. As you inserted your key into the lock, you picked up music coming from inside. Once the door opened you instantly recognized the tune, Glenn Miller’s “Tuxedo Junction,” your and Bucky’s song. The lights were low, candles everywhere. You did not remember owning this many candles. You followed their glow and the music into the dining area. There Bucky was seated, dressed in his best suit, waiting for you.
“James, what’s goin’ on?”
“Sit down baby doll.” Bucky got up from his seat to pull out your chair.
As you sat down, he pushed your chair back in and leaned down to kiss you.
“I should be doin’ this for you, you shouldn’t be doin’ this for me.”
He let out a low laugh. “No (y/n), tonight is all about you.”
This felt backwards. He was the one leaving for war, not you.
Steve appeared from the kitchen, two plates in hand. He sat one in front of each of you, then retreated back towards the kitchen.
“Steve where are you goin’? You should be eating with us.”
“Tonight is for you, (y/n). Bucky and I had our time while you were out.”
With that he disappeared and you and Bucky were left alone, just the food, music, and candle glow to keep you company.
The two of you were silent for a while, afraid speaking would ruin the illusion that this was just a romantic night in with one another, and not possibly your last.
Bucky was the first to speak.
“(Y/n), you know I love you, right?”
“Of course James, why would you even ask that?”
“I know we’ve been dancin’ around what tomorrow means.”
Your heart dropped at the mention of it. He noticed the change in your demeanor and reached a hand across the table to hold yours.
“Baby doll, I love you more than I thought a man could ever love anything. You make up my whole world. Without you, there is no life I want to live.”
“James...”
“Promise me you’ll be waitin’ for me when I get home.”
“Of course I will James. My heart leaves with you tomorrow.”
“(Y/n)... I talked to Steve, asked for his blessing.”
His blessing? You are both adults, there is no need to ask for a blessing to love one another.
He stood from his chair and took a step closer to you before kneeling.
Oh.
“(Y/n), I know there’s no time before I leave, but when I get back...” He reached into his coat, fingers pinching an object. His hand came back out and the object caught the candlelight, creating a little sparkle like in a dream.
A ring.
“When I get back, will you do me the honor of marrying me? Since our first secret date I knew you were the one, cookie. Please make me the happiest man on Earth.”
You lunged forward, taking his face in your hands and kissed him as tears streamed down your face.
“Yes, James. I am yours forever and always.”
He slid the ring onto your finger. It was beautiful, elegant in its simplicity. For such a small ring, it weighed heavily on your finger.
When I get back he had said, but he meant if. If I get back.
Please God, bring him back.
The night was again a blur, made up of wine and Bucky. Your Bucky. That night he slept with you, tradition be damned. Steve did not even bat an eye as you led Bucky towards your room. All of the ifs weighed heavy between the three of you.
Morning came too fast, and Bucky gathered his things to leave. You did not bother with makeup this morning. It would all be gone before he even stepped out the door. You stayed in bed while he got everything in order. He found you there, wrapped tight in your blanket and clearly lost in your thoughts. He slid behind you, placing an arm over your waist, pushing his face into the back of your head, clinging onto your scent.
“It’s time, baby doll.” He spoke just above a whisper.
No. Not yet. It’s not fair.
At that moment you broke again, violently, much like when you first saw the letter.
“Shhh, it’s okay cookie. I’ll be back in a jiffy, just you wait. I’ll write ya a letter every day. Cross my heart.”
Knowing this was even harder for Bucky than it was for you, you forced the tears to stop. You forced the sobs silent, and you turned to face Bucky.
“I love you James.”
“I love you (y/n).”
With his help, you got out of bed and headed towards the front door. Steve was sitting on the couch, waiting. He stood when he was the two of you. Bucky walked over to him and gave him a hug. Both men teared up, praying this was only a temporary goodbye.
“Don’t do anything stupid ‘til I get back.”
“How can I? You’re taking all the stupid with you.”
One last embrace and they let go.
Bucky turned back to you and opened his arms. You leapt into his arms, wrapping your legs around his waist and your arms around his neck. You buried your face in him, your turn to memorize his scent.
He kissed your head and you looked up. Steve was right there, but neither of you cared, and I doubt he did either. Bucky kissed you, long and deep, trying to make up for all the kisses you will miss between now and who knows when the war will end. The kiss of a lifetime.
He set you down, wrapped one arm around you again in an attempt to delay his departure. He released you, hand landing on the doorknob. He twisted it and pulled the door open. One last look back.
“Come home James.”
“Before you even have time to miss me.”
With a wink he closed the door.
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suganovakawa · 4 years ago
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Hello I wanna say that I love ur work 🥺 I’m new to the haikyuu fandom and ur work gives me life! Can I request a HC with Tanaka, Daichi, Suga & asahi and how they would react when they see other teams at a tournament flirt with you and how they act when they’re jealous? Thank you !
absolutely omg i love my karasuno babies and them being jEALOUS??? this is my calling goodBYE
btw btw welcome to the hq fandom bby !! enjoy your stay here 🥺💞💘💓
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𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐋𝐘 𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐎𝐅𝐅 !
karasuno boys fend off other teams as they try to flirt with you !
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these boys don’t take too kindly to other teams trying to flirt with you . . . and they’re not gonna deal with it for much longer ! >:)
a / n : jealous anything >>>> and you cannot change my mind because it’s my weakness k thx bye 🥰
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lmao flirting w you is like asking for a death sentence i do not make the rules
tanaka is not afraid to show you off , nor is he afraid to show off your guys’ relationship at tournaments either
he has full trust in you dw , but that doesn’t mean he trusts the men that get a little too close for comfort
if his death glare alone doesn’t scare them off i feel so sorry for them
ryu will 100% call someone out if they’re obviously flirting with you
“ hey , punk ??? you’re trying to flirt with them , huh ??? gotta tell ya , you’re out of luck , go find someone else . this hot stuff right here is mine , thank you very much . ”
he gets so confused when you get embarrassed because what ??? he’s just telling them the truth
“ ryu ! you can’t just call me ‘ hot stuff ’ in the middle of the gym !! ”
“ why not , baby ? you are hot stuff ! they’re just bummed out you’re not theirs . ”
not to mention , 8 times out of 10 noya will probably be right there with tanaka scaring off the suitors
those two are literally your bodyguards , and once they know that someone else has their sights set on you , do not expect them to leave your side
also , he holds a FULL GRUDGE against ladies men type people
cough cough tooru i’m talking bout u bby
you are to stay a mile away from oikawa and all of aoba johsai at all times , ryu will not accept otherwise
oh , and terushima ??? YEAH HES NOT EVEN GONNA LAY EYES ON YOU ONCE LMAO
at least , not without tanaka’s arm wrapped around your waist
gotta make sure they understand you ain’t on the market
all in all a very protective baby crow , can and will fight anyone who tries flirting with you so pls don’t test him
daichi sawamura
daichi is definitely the silent but deadly type let me assure you
i don’t care where that man is , he’ll always have an eye on you regardless
oh and he’ll probably have the rest of his team have their eyes on you too ; just in case there is a small instance where he can’t keep his eyes on you
yuu , ryu , and shoyo will be paying the most attention to you when the captain is not able to watch over you at the tournaments
lord have mercy to those who somehow actually get past daichi’s security
my best guess is that you’re probably on like , a water bottle run in between games , so that everyone can have fresh cold water during timeouts n whatnot
yeah you’ll probably get hit on by another guy in the halls ( let’s pretend it’s yuuji because i love him so much LMAO pls hit on me teru )
anyway he’ll def be at your neck like how he was tryna get kiyoko’s number
sadly you can’t do much because you have a bunch of water bottles in your hands so you’re just tryna shimmy away but terushima is not having it
out of nowhere his face blanks
literally pales
you’re about to ask him what that’s about until you feel an arm snake around your waist
like i said , the silent but deadly type
you can’t see daichi’s face as he’s staring down yuuji , but you can hear the annoyance in his voice
“ oh there you are , y/n . you need help carrying these water bottles , baby ? ”
you turn to yuuji , who has his hands up — clearly getting the message daichi was giving to him
“ alright alright , my bad ~ ! didn’t know they were yours , man . i’ll take my leave . ”
but he did add a “ see you later cutie ” before leaving the two of you alone
you couldn’t help but laugh as the captain latched onto you protectively as the two of you went back to the gym
“ daichi , it’s okay , he’s gone now ! you’ve done your job in saving me ”
“ nonsense . i can sense their eyes on you from everywhere . you’re not leaving my sight again , y/n . ”
koushi sugawara
koushi is definitely also a silent jealous type
but he’s more mellow when showing it subtly
but don’t get me wrong , the effect it leaves on others is just as menacing
he’s the type to leave that shiver of fear when he shows up
basically he’s a sweetie until people mess with you and that’s just on periodt
suga is not too protective over you , since he does trust you and has full confidence you won’t do anything to hurt him
cough cough he still wants the other nasty boogers keeping their hands off you though
i literally just imagine him going up to people like “ :))))) ??? ” when people try flirting with you LMAO
like ?? no ??? they’re ??? mine ????
not ???????? yours ??????
he’ll have that chilling ring in his voice that’s deadpan but menacing at the same time — sometimes he even scares you with it
you had a run in with tooru at the preliminaries , RIP bless his soul
you went to go watch a match while karasuno was resting ; seijoh was resting at the same time
he got a little too close for comfort in the audience stand
flashed you a famous smile of his , “ what’s a cutie like you doing here alone ? ”
“ she’s not alone , actually . ”
KFKKDKFKFKD both of your heads went a whole 180 at the sound of koushi’s voice
oh no he had that creepy smile again
“ baby , we were just looking for you . is oikawa bothering you ? ”
he turned his :) to tooru , who had already stepped a decent distance away from you
“ heaven forbid you’d be bothering y/n , oikawa , when you have a whole fanbase of girls you could be bothering instead . ”
the great king had never been so scared of a karasuno player in his life
he left in a hurry without saying much — though he was grumbling something you two couldn’t understand
switch from scary suga to soft suga uwu
he wrapped his arms around you and grinned pleasantly this time as he hugged you
“ sweetheart , don’t hesitate to tell me if anyone else is like that to you , okay ? i’ll make them go away . ”
“ koushi , you’re so scary when you’re angry ”
“ i am ? i didn’t think i was ”
“ look at how oikawa backed away when you came up ! hardly anyone can phase him ”
“ oh . maybe i am scary , but only when it comes to you . ”
he laughed and took you by the hand , and you two walked back to the rest of the team
scary suga never fails to keep the nasty boogers away
asahi azumane
he won’t even realize he’s jealous until someone points it out to him
i think nishi would be the one to point it out to him , because woah asahi looks mad
“ yo , asahi ? you good ? your knuckles are turning white ! ”
he’s been looking your direction ever since the date tech players started surrounding you , striking up conversation
he didn’t even realize yuu was talking to him until he literally had to jump up and wave in his face
asahi snapped out of it once noya caught his attention — his fists were still clenched tho
“ oh — noya . i’m fine , why ? ”
the libero didn’t buy it one bit because he didn’t know the ace even had it in him to be angry
he looked to where asahi had his eyes on the whole time before turning back to the third year with a smirk
“ you’re gonna let them just flirt with y/n like that ? what kind of boyfriend are you ? go go go ! ”
oh no yuu what did you do
“ they’re flirting with y/n ? ”
he was f u r i o u s at the thought of it
oh no no no they were not going to be flirting with you , not while asahi was your boyfriend no sir
he stormed over towards you — your back was towards karasuno so the date tech players noticed him first
asahi + scary dark death glare = run
and the date tech players — besides aone — did just that , scampering off in a hurry
you were confused until you turned around , smiling when you saw your giant teddy bear of a boyfriend
you were utterly oblivious to the stare down between him and aone
“ asahi ! shouldn’t you be practicing now ? ”
he placed a gentle but firm arm around your waist , pulling you closer to him without taking his eyes off date tech’s ace
“ yeah , but we were looking for you . i’ve come to bring you back , y/n . ”
oh heck yeah there was tension as he brought you back to your guys’ court
“ those players weren’t flirting with you , were they y/n ? ”
“ huh ? oh no ! i was just catching up with a couple of them , since i went to middle school with some of them . why ? ”
“ oh , nothing ”
you couldn’t even ask him anything else as he walked away without another word , which was very not like him
you had to get the answer from nishinoya later on , who was laughing hysterically at your description of the way your boyfriend was acting
“ OMG Y/N HE REALLY WAS JEALOUS , I TOLD HIM THAT DATE TECH WAS FLIRTING WITH YOU I CANT BELIEVE HE BELIEVED ME ”
after the tournament both of you were blubbering apologies to each other
you apologizing for making asahi jealous
and asahi apologizing for acting like a brat about it
in summary , asahi + jealousy = pls save yourself from that man he is terrifying
he’ll make it up to you with tons n tons of cuddles later so he’s still your big teddy bear <3
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