#rosa’s designs are always so cute!

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i love the celestial event story 💖

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OC Deep Dive - Rosa Núñez

What common/uncommon fear do they have?

In life Rosa feared commitment very very deeply but was in a cycle of doing NOTHING about it. She dated the girl her parents picked out for her (as a man at that point) and was even ready to propose cause her dad said it was time

In her vampire life Rosa fears killing on accident very deeply, she sees it as the final showing she is no longer her own person. She also has a fear of deep water. And being seen as "replaceable"

Do they have any pet peeves?

SHE HATES BEING TALKED DOWN TO. And she hates getting attitude when trying to help.

She dislikes people who can not see the deeper meaning in things like art. She gets super angry when someone picks a flower with no purpose for it. She also hates those who attack the insecurities of others.

Also dirty nails. As a gardener and botanist she is always making sure her nails are clean.

What are three items you can find in their bedroom?

You would find ALOT of plants but mostly Holy Ghost ORchids as its what she needs for her bane to sleep. She has them usually put around her bed and some physically on her bed. ALso other plants hanging above her bed

You would see ALOT of really cute vintage platforms, its one of the few luxuries she loves. She loves a cute platform knee high boot more then anything

The portrait of her and her wife that is in a frame made of human bone.

What do they notice first in a person?

Face shape, like literally how their flesh hangs on their skull. She loves interesting facial shapes, after that is smell. She is very into the scent of a person so she tries and places it quickly.

If its a more business or serious setting its how someone speaks. She will ignore physical looks and smell to HEAR you, she believes so much of how someone is is the way they speak to someone and use their voice.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how high is their pain tolerance?

This is complicated.

Physically: I will say her tolerance for Physical pain is FAIRLY HIGH. She is a Koldun and alot of her sorcery requires her to do BIG AMOUNTS of damage to herself and even sometimes with fire. She takes it in stride pretty well. Also her and her wife get into "Freaky shit" So I am going to give her like a 8 out of 10. I will say however even if she can HANDLE IT her body will give out alot sooner then her mind will

Mentally: If its anyone thats NOT her wife like a 8. If its Alezya like a fucking 3 if THAT. Her Resolve is her highest stat but it just doesn't matter when its Alezya she knows how to really get in there deep

Emotionally: Basically the same thing as mentally. Like a 7 but when its Alezya it knocks it down to like a 5.

Do they go into fight or flight mode when under pressure? (Or freeze or fawn?)

Oh its actually flight. Very rarely does the "pressure" get to her but when it does she fucking leaves. ITS HER WORST TRAIT, She is really tough and will stand by you but if it ever gets TRULY HARD on her she might run

What animal represents them best?

So I usually use a weeping Willow to represent her like even in my mind her Beast is a old and scary tree. But if I had to use an animal.

I think the pfeffer Cuttlefish. Its cute and its rare to run into it but it can kill and it kills so easily. Even without wanting to do it. Also the other worldly nature of it works perfectly for her.

How would a stranger likely describe them?

"Extremely beautiful and kind (She has the 4 dot looks merit)" Very much feels and looks as if she is wise beyond her years. Even has a motherly vibe for a woman so "young"

I think once she speaks to them it shifts to "Beautiful but also strange. She almost looks sad under that smile"

Do they have any hobbies?

Oh Rosa's main hobbie is botany and cross pollinating plants. She also enjoys sewing every so often and other artist things. She presses flowers and also designed 90% of her own tattoos.

Besides that she has been trying to catch up on music so she listens to atleast 100 new songs a week. There is also Koldunism but she doesn't consider that a hobby anymore since she is a fairly accomplished Koldun at this point in her unlife

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Thank you @aztarion for tagging me! I alrady did it once but this was a good excuse to do it again for Rosa!!!!

I already tagged a fair bit of people last time but ill tag @eric-the-bmo @rhiannon42 NO PRESSURE if you dont wanna do it!

[amemenojaku]

I saw umineko stage ep3 today!! it was amazing. the quality level is insane. I got goosebumps several times and it even managed to make me tear up... everyone's performances felt like they all know their characters so well now 🥺🙏 the lights, costumes and choreography were all perfect too

some thoughts (major umineko spoilers obviously):

young eva/evatrice's performance in particular was just. literally perfect? the way she delivered her lines, carried herself, her laugh resounding onstage and the little things she did when she wasn't the center of attention were all 100% in character. she was adorable during the ceremony where she becomes the new beatrice, introducing herself to the goats and giggling w the 7 sisters, and she was absolutely terrifying in rosa's and maria's death scene. also mad props to the costume designer(s) who did her sailor outfit that turns into the witch outfit almost instantly

everything beato's actress did had me go :] there's a lot of cute beato scenes in ep3 and she was adorable in the goofy, endearing way og beato is in the story while still being cool and fun when needed in the other scenes

and last but not least eva's actress did an amazing job too, especially during the emotional scenes of her character (when she solves the riddle, finds the gold, hideyoshi's & george's deaths). her lungs' strength is impressive lol. it's been 4 hours and I still clearly remember her screams

overall I loved the way so many of the actors and actresses would just do little things when they were on stage but not in the spotlight/not talking, like the chiesters whispering in each others bunny ears instead of their human ears/covering their bunny ears because of loud noises, or the 7 sisters just jumping around and messing w each other, maria taking her notebook out of her bag and reading it, etc. they weren't just standing doing nothing and it always felt very in character, too. there was always something new no matter which part of the stage you're looking at

rudolf's actor looked and acted like he came straight out of a yakuza movie? ik he was already like that in the previous episodes but for some reason I felt it even more this time. might be because of the fight against the sisters before he and kyrie die (which was probably my favorite action scene btw. really cool choreography). I'm not complaining though. made me like the character even more

speaking of rudolf. at some point during one of the scenes where the adults discuss beato's first letter, he just... started massaging hideyoshi's shoulders? he did that for at least a full minute before hideyoshi's actor nodded as thanks and he stopped. I have no idea if this was part of the script or if the guys just decided it on their own??

when gohda does his night check of the mansion right before his death he was actually walking in the aisles with his lantern before he got up on stage!! he got to tell a joke and do some fun stuff before being killed and never being relevant again. rip

beato asking battler to give her a new name now that evatrice inherited hers, ronove on the side of the stage writing a stupid nickname on some paper to show her only for her to get annoyed, rip the paper from his hands and stomp on it

I don't know if this was done on purpose or not, but when eva fires the shot that blinds jessica and jessica accuses her of being the culprit, pointing at some random direction since she can't see anymore, she actually pointed at shannon's corpse on the sofa behind her. it could very well just be a coincidence. but. yea

krauss drinking straight from the fucking bottle during the golden land party scene at the end and getting completely smashed

ange!! she was so cool and cute. she punched the goats. I can't wait to see her in ep4 😭

battler literally Just Standing There at the very end, when ange and beato start duking it out before the episode's over 🧍

the curtain call was super cute. everyone got together to pose for the cameras before they realised beato wasn't here so they had kinzo cry for her in the infamous kinzo way and she graced them (and us) with her presence :)

battler's actor: "so we'll need your support -and- your gold for episode 4 to happen"

cat nanjo be upon ye

[imagitory]

Review: Wish (2023) [SPOILERS]

Evening, everyone! Tonight my mother and I went to go see Disney's most recent film, Wish, which fortunately came to theaters in my area right before its formal American release date. I'd been very curious to see how this tribute to Disney's last 100 years of filmmaking would turn out, and now that I've seen it...well, I have to be honest, I was a little disappointed. I want to be very clear both that I was going into this with a rather sunny outlook and that there are things I really liked in this film...but overall, it felt like a lot of the good ideas it had were only half-baked, and I found myself -- forgive me -- "wishing for something more" than what we got.

For a more comprehensive deep-dive...a cut!

The Good!

+The single best element in this film for me was Chris Pine's performance as our villain, Magnifico. There are definitely some things I can critique about Magnifico's overall storyline and "character arc" further down, but Chris was clearly having a grand old time being an egotistical, sassy jerkwad, and it totally showed. Even in his villain song This is The Thanks I Get?, which just screamed "passive-aggressive abusive parent," you can hear how much fun Chris was having in the studio, recording it. I just about always enjoyed when Magnifico was on screen, and I actually did really like the idea that a lot of his villainy is rooted in him being obsessed with control over everyone and everything. In a weird way, Magnifico's turn to the Dark Side parallels Anakin Skywalker's in the sense that he lost so much in the past that he's determined to never lose anything important to him again -- especially the power he's accrued to make himself feel strong, after having felt so powerless. I find that very interesting, and I kind of wish that aspect was really highlighted more in the story, but we'll talk about that later.

+Asha was a likable enough heroine, even if I found her to be a lot like a two-way fusion of Mulan and Anna placed in a vaguely Snow-White-ish role in her clearly Seven-Dwarf-inspired friend group. Ariana DeBose portrayed her rather well, both acting and singing-wise. I also liked the "social justice" bent to Asha's character where she wants better things not just for herself and her family, but also Rosas overall -- in the French translation of her main song "This Wish," they even push this further by having Asha wish "to see the world happy again someday." We haven't seen a heroine really express this kind of desire for a positive change in the world since Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and that's cool! Plus representation in mainstream media for previously underrepresented groups is always nice. ^.^

+As much as I don't think they all got enough focus as individuals, I liked Asha's friend group! Especially the fact that it is a friend group made up of people that are around the same age as our protagonist, which -- let's be honest -- isn't that common for Disney heroines. Often with "sidekick groups," you're more likely to have situations like Cinderella with the mice (who are more like cutesy sidekicks than equals) or Snow White with the Dwarfs (who are all quite a bit older than our heroine)...so a friend group made up of peers with their own personalities and motivations was kind of fun.

+The setting of Rosas itself could be pretty. I liked a lot of the Mediterranean-inspired architecture, especially inside Magnifico's tower.

+The combination of 3D and 2D-esque animation was also interesting! It really served to give the film its own distinctive visual style that sets it apart from other Disney projects, which I always appreciate.

+Star was...cute. Obviously just designed to sell plushies and definitely reminded me way too much of Kirby, but cute enough. I do think it's kind of cool that they're never gendered at all in the entire movie, because it'd be silly to think of a sweet little androgynous ball of stardust as being specifically male or female.

+I liked the idea of Simon "betraying" Asha, only to be turned into a pawn by Magnifico in the process, but not being treated unsympathetically by the story for it. Didn't love the full execution of the idea, but hey, that's what the negative section is for.

+The idea of everyone finding the power inside of themselves to stand up against Magnifico (because they're "all stars," and presumably all have the magic needed to make their wishes come true) was a little predictable, but still sweet. I have problems with how the film wrote it (which we'll get to), but the idea itself was wholesome and fitting.

+I like several of the songs, just on their own -- I added This Wish and Knowing What I Know Now on my ITunes as soon as I first heard them prior to the film's release, and now I've added At All Costs too: it's a really pretty duet! (Gorgeous work, Chris and Ariana!) I'll leave my praise here, though, because sadly the soundtrack is going to get a lot of discussion in the less positive section.

The Not-So-Good...

+This film being "Disney's 100th anniversary film" really got in the way of this movie telling a compelling and unique story sometimes. The whole movie really twisted itself into a pretzel trying to check off all the usual Disney tropes, and there were points that certain choices made the story seem incredibly stilted. For instance, one common Disney trope is a dead parent, so of course Asha has lost her father -- but we learn so little about him and he ends up playing such a small role in Asha's arc and story that it seems like an unnecessary detail. Asha's grandfather honestly plays more of a role in Asha's motivation throughout most of the film, so it would've made just as much sense to have Asha's grandfather be the one who believed in stars having power, rather than her father. Another example is the concept of the cute animal sidekick who's just there to make jokes -- as much as Valentino the goat didn't annoy me personally, he added just about nothing of value to the story whatsoever aside from comic relief, in contrast to other funny sidekicks like Sebastian from The Little Mermaid or Olaf from Frozen, who also serve a plot purpose and have a developed relationship with the protagonists. Then there's Asha being cut from the same "naive, awkward, wide-eyed idealist" cloth as many of our Disney Revival heroines like Anna, Rapunzel, and up to a certain point even Mirabel are; Star being in a similar vein to cutesy, innocent sidekicks like Pua, Crikee, and Baymax while Valentino is more akin to sassier, comic ones like Mushu and Sisu; her friends literally being based on the Seven Dwarfs from Snow White; our heroine getting a pretty standard "I Want" song and the villain getting his own solo number that doesn't really take any risks...oh yes, and we mustn't forget the trope of the Storybook opening, which (I'm sorry) I know was supposed to be a reference to Snow White, Cinderella, and Enchanted, but just gave me Shrek vibes the entire time. I was waiting for Shrek to rip out the page and use it for toilet paper any minute. It just felt a lot of the time like the movie was very paint-by-numbers, rather than throwing in much that was surprising or different.

+This isn't even touching all of the pointless meta references to other Disney movies. Asha wearing the Fairy Godmother's cloak and getting a wand like hers at the end -- the mushrooms crowing "we love crazy!" the way Hans did in Love is an Open Door -- Asha riding the reindeer the way Kristoff did in Frozen 2 -- Magnifico using green smoke hands a la Ursula -- the ending with those obvious Wendy and Peter Pan look-alikes, come on, really??? That was just painful.

+As much as Magnifico was an awesome idea for a character and Chris Pine's performance was beyond entertaining, the movie did not always write him as well as they could've. From the very start, we see this guy is an egotistical control freak -- obsessed with his own image, incredibly hard-to-please, arrogant, vain, desperate for attention and unwavering praise and adoration from all of his subjects, and determined to keep an iron grip on everyone else's wishes because of the power it gives him. He's ALREADY a terrible person, from the start -- and yet the film tries to introduce this dark magic book that gets no explanation or backstory whatsoever and has no real characterization or presence, so it leaves no real impact on the audience corrupting him and making him a bad person, when it didn't need to! Magnifico was already the villain this film needed! Just let him fall head-first into madness without the book prompting anything! Even if Magnifico "lost everything" in the past, that doesn't make him a good person, if he takes everyone's wishes away from them and hoards them all to himself, only to grant a few now and again when it would make him look good.

+This above point actually leads nicely into one change I really, really wish the film had been ballsy enough to make -- have Asha already be Magnifico's apprentice, not trying to become it at the start of the story. Give our villain and hero a real relationship, with history that started before the events of this film! Asha lost her father at the age of 12...how interesting would it have been -- whether to make Magnifico more of an anti-villain or show how manipulative he really is -- if he'd tried to fill that fatherly role for our main character and twist her to serve his ends? What if At All Costs was rewritten to be about Magnifico not just being determined to hold onto all of the kingdom's wishes, but also this apprentice he sees as an extension of him and his legacy, while Asha is determined to protect this Star she's accidentally summoned and the suppressed wish of hers it represents? This change would've made Asha's break with Magnifico so much more powerful for both of them -- it would've both justified Magnifico's descent into madness and given Asha more reason to feel like it was her responsibility to stop Magnifico. You even could've then played more with Asha's relationship with Queen Amaya too, in this kind of a scenario.

+Oh yeah, and on that note, Queen Amaya. OOH, this really annoyed me -- okay. So this woman is supposed to be a good guy, in this story. But as I touched on earlier, Magnifico was already a pretty awful person, hoarding people's wishes away in order to make himself powerful. Was Amaya truly so blind to that? Did she truly never question anything, ever? But no, really, she only turns on Magnifico after he starts using the dark magic book and actively threatens her. Only that makes her turn from him, and it's pretty damn immediate. Now okay, I hear you saying, it's like Amaya sings in Knowing What I Know Now, right? "The good in him, I've watched it melt // I was blinded by the love I felt"? Excuse me, lady -- but Magnifico wasn't a good person, before. He was just playing a part so as to stay powerful and adored by the masses. And if the story wants to claim otherwise, and act like that dark magic book was responsible for Magnifico going bad, then why would our Queen decide to keep him locked up in his staff's crystal forever? If the book was responsible, then Magnifico would be the Frodo or Golum to the book's One Ring -- he'd be a victim, in such a scenario: one in need of help and pity, not punishment. So either Amaya is a selfish person who only cared about her husband's mistreatment of others when it affected her, or she's a needlessly cruel person who decides to punish her husband for a vice that anyone could fall prey to. Either way, I don't want this woman ruling anyone! Make this woman a straight-up villain, same as her husband, and have the whole monarchy come crashing down after she and Magnifico both go down in flames! VIVE LA RESISTANCE! (Playing into my idea with Asha being Magnifico's apprentice all along, maybe there could even be a twist on the Evil Stepmother trope with Amaya, where she's jealous of how much Magnifico has tried to groom Asha as his apprentice, rather than spending time and/or starting a family with her or something.)

+As I touched on earlier, there wasn't even close to enough time to develop all of these characters properly. Since our heroine and friends are most similar to Snow White and her friends the Seven Dwarfs, let's compare cast size. Snow White is 83 minutes long and has a cast of ten (Snow, the Prince, the Queen, and the Dwarfs) -- Wish is 95 minutes long and has a cast of fourteen (Asha, Magnifico, Star, Valentino, Amaya, Asha's mum and grandpa, and our seven Friends). This results in us getting the vague idea that "Grumpy" role Gabo is sweet on our "Bashful" role Bazeema, but no time to develop their relationship or give it any kind of conclusion; the others saying "Sneezy" role Safi apparently loves the castle chickens with no sympathetic explanation why, to the point that he gets super excited about a chicken growing to a giant size for no real reason; "Doc" role Dahlia having a crush on Magnifico that is then dropped immediately after Asha turns against him; oldest kid and "Sleepy" role Simon feeling incomplete without the dream he gave Magnifico and "betraying" Asha as a result in an attempt to get it back, only to get stabbed in the back by Magnifico, and then have no time for a proper redemption after he's unhypnotized; Asha's grandfather turning on a dime about whether or not he wants to know what his wish was if Magnifico thought it was dangerous; Magnifico getting some justification in his backstory for his bad behavior, but Amaya's backstory being a complete black hole before she married Magnifico when you'd think it'd explain all the more why she stuck with him so long; and Asha's mum having her wish crushed to dust by Magnifico and then given back without us EVER LEARNING WHAT IT EVEN WAS IN THE FIRST PLACE, even after we see just about everyone else's wishes as soon as somebody picks it up and Asha's mum's wish gets picked up multiple times!! Come on, if you're going to set up NOT showing it, you may as well have a pay-off for it!! At least give us some moment where Asha's mum hugs her in relief and acknowledges that her daughter was her wish! That would've been a nice "aww" moment for everyone!

+Okay, I said I was going to talk about my problem with the songs, so here goes. As I said before, I listened to the soundtrack before watching the movie, and even when I did, I could immediately sense a problem: these songs did not tell me much of anything about the movie, just on their own. Welcome to Rosas, which is pretty much just an exposition dump about the kingdom and how Magnifico founded it, didn't really paint a picture of our setting or characters much at all, the way opening songs like Belle or The Family Madrigal do. This Wish, although pretty, was something I could hear just as easily on the radio -- it didn't feel as tied or necessary to understanding our heroine the way something like Part of That World does. I'm a Star, quite frankly, felt like a lot of inspirational word salad, rather than anything particularly memorable or revelatory -- why else wouldn't it even be worthy of a musical salute in the reprise, where Asha remembers that she and everyone else are stars during the climax? Even after reading summaries of the plot and spoilers from the storybook for this film, I could not figure out for the life of me how At All Costs would fit organically into such a story, being sung by our villain and hero. It wasn't until I saw the film that I saw how the filmmakers decided to fit it in and honestly...the song didn't help tell that particular scene at all. It's a really pretty song and I like it a lot -- but it lacked any of the irony or contrast that kind of a scene that introduces the difference in focus between our hero and villain required. If the scene itself is needed to understand what's supposed to be going on while the song is playing, then the song is not effectively telling the story and is therefore unnecessary. There wasn't even a particularly Spanish or Mediterranean flair to the soundtrack to help set the stage, aside from the occasional flourish of castanets -- instead it sounded very contemporary, which I guess is appropriate, since it was largely written by pop composers rather than any musical theater talent.

+There were also points where the songs felt the urge to shove in a bunch of extra words just because, rather than have the words flow well and really mean something. I'm a Star is most guilty of this, of course, but even in This is the Thanks I Get?, we hear Magnifico gripe that "I let you live here for free and I don't even charge you rent" -- mate, THAT MEANS THE SAME THING! If you live somewhere for free, then you are NOT paying rent!

+Knowing What I Know Now is a bop and I like it (aside from Amaya's stupidity), but I'm sorry, all I can think when I hear it is "This is clearly trying to be Ready as I'll Ever Be from Tangled the Animated Series, but that song blows this out of the water." However fun the song can be, it would've been so much stronger if it actually addressed the contrast between the characters and revved us up for a big final battle, instead of it just being our eight underdeveloped characters psyching each other up.

+The idea of everyone being stars was a lovely idea, but the execution of Asha remembering this fact and using it to defeat Magnifico was terribly handled. First off, there was no revelatory phrase or action that prompted Asha to remember this fact, so her suddenly saying that "they're all stars" came out of nowhere. Second, even putting aside that there'd be no way any of her friends could hear Asha from all the way up on the tower if they're stuck in the courtyard below, there's no reason I can see for Asha's friends or family to know what the hell she was even TALKING about. They weren't there when the I'm a Star number happened! And the way that number made it seem, just based on the visuals, it looked like the "star" power came from a person's dream, since it's the same glow that returns to Asha's grandfather when he gets his dream back, but most of the town's dreams have been already yanked out by Magnifico at this point! I think the idea is that since everyone is a star, even with that big piece of them and the power accompanying it taken out, they still have enough stardust inside of them to be powerful enough to chase their heart's desires...but yeah, I'm sorry, for all the word salad I'm a Star threw around, this world-building aspect was really not made clear, and because of that and the lack of a proper callback to this plot turn, the climax didn't hit as strong as it should've.

Overall, this film felt a lot like a batch of unbaked chocolate chip cookies that someone decided to throw a bunch of brightly colored sprinkles on top of, just because they could. A lot of ideas just don't feel like they were fully developed, and there was a lot tossed in that didn't contribute to the overall taste or bring the disparate elements together in a cohesive whole, instead feeling more like a distraction than anything of actual substance. That doesn't mean I couldn't eat it -- I like eating cookie dough as much as the next person -- but that doesn't mean it felt like a complete, finished product worthy of great praise. Instead I'm left looking at the wasted potential and wishing the movie had carved out its own path more, one distinctive to itself, rather than just be a mashup of previous Disney concepts and tropes. I won't act like there's nothing to like here, nor that it's completely lacking in heart: I actually would love to see fandom for this movie re-imagine it in ways that could've improved the story and characters, because there were SO many good ideas here...but for me personally, this movie left me colder than it should've and -- like Asha after meeting Magnifico -- a bit disappointed.

So I make this wish...to have Disney make a film better than this.

Overall Grade: C-

[dani-luminae]

I'm thinking about Wish again. So as the only Wish liker I know of, tell me what you liked about the story and also maybe some things you thought could be improved!

I would be honored! And it got long, so... below the cut.

What I liked:

I would die for Asha. She is so precious!

All her friends were so cute! I love that they were a tribute to the Seven Dwarfs. People complaining that the friends had no personality... neither did the Seven Dwarfs, really. I am so happy that they clearly accept Simon immediately when he returns after the spell is broken.

Dahlia specifically tho. She is always right there for Asha no matter what, trying to calm her and support her right before the interview, stalling with silly questions so that Asha can get into the castle for Sabino's wish, being the first to join in "Knowing What We Know Now" after Asha, and especially!!!! In "This Wish (Reprise)" when Asha is nearly defeated and pleading to the audience it is Dahlia who answers first! She doesn't even know if it's going to work, if anyone else will join, but she's right there pledging her wish with Asha because she cares about Asha so much!!!!! (Yes I might ship them. Why do you ask?)

I actually really like Magnifico as he is. He's a great example of a villain driven by trauma, with a great amount of charisma and genuinely entertaining to watch while also being so "love to hate"able. (The same cannot be said for a lot of stans.)

I love Amaya. Perfect arc. God I feel so bad for her but now she can rule as she sees fit, not playing second fiddle as an accessory to Magnifico. (I don't doubt that they love each other but there really was no repairing their relationship after he hit her with magic.)

I love Asha's mother and grandfather so much.

I LOVE STAR!!!!!!! FUCK OFF STARBOY

They structured the plot similar to old, cherished Princess movies like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and most specifically, Sleeping Beauty.

The end credits!!! Having little nods to all the Disney animated movies (except Meet the Robinsons apparently????) it was so sweet.

Could be improved:

The music. I liked about... half of it. The other half felt flat. I think that's because they hired pop radio writers instead of like, lyrical writers, if that makes sense. Both of "This Wish," "Knowing What we Know Now" and "This is the Thanks I Get?!" were so great, but "At All Costs" just had me sitting in the theater like pretty lights, but did we really need the song? and I don't even remember "I'm a Star!" because it felt really flat.

I love Star but we were promised "an origin of the Wishing Star!" and we did not get that. He just happens to be a character. I wish we'd gotten that actual origin story. I wrote a little rewrite about it, in fact, in which Star gives his life and magic to Asha and she is the Wishing Star we see in all the movies.

Also I didn't... much like Valentino. He was funny for the first five minutes he could talk ("Who knew my voice would be this low?") but then he just kind of became obnoxious. He didn't really bring anything to the plot that I can think of (even Hei Hei in Moana justified his role by actually, for once, being useful in catching the heart of Te Fiti).

I think that situating Rosas in a geographically real location was a shortcoming, because suddenly there is a myriad of real-life local cultures native to the Iberian peninsula to chose from aesthetic (clothes, architecture, etc.) wise and they didn't. For example, Asha has long braided hair specifically inspired by the Amazigh people, who the designers imagined her having heritage from specifically from Sakina's side, but there wasn't a lot else there. I like the design of the clothes and stuff in the movie but it feels short compared to culture of the area.

Lore. Apparently this movie is set before all other Disney movies and Asha is the very first person to ever wish on a star? Except clearly her father did the same, and her friends are at least familiar enough with the idea of wishing on stars that they see it as childish (Gabo's comment: "What are you, five?" or something like that.)

Asha deserved a whole magical transformation. Her pose when Star dusts her with sparkles is an exact pose reference to Cinderella, but while Cindy got the most gorgeous change (and Walt Disney's personal most favorite piece of animation), poor Asha just gets glitter. A massive downgrade made even more down because of the reference, in my opinion.

Both liked and could have been so much better:

References. So many of them. Some were nice (Sandra's wish to make the most beautiful dresses being shown as Sleeping Beauty's dress, a man named Peter wishes to build a flying machine and his companion is a brunette dressed in blue like Wendy). Some were weird. Some felt like they had no real business being there (see: Valentino's comment about an animal utopia suspiciously similar to Zootopia.)

(No I swear I'm not bitter that Atlantis and Treasure Planet didn't get in-movie references)

Miscellaneous comments:

I understand the whole "people are reluctant to let Black girls have a love interest" thing and I completely understand. But Starboy was just not it. This fandom already ignores Asha for him and he doesn't actually exist. If he had made it into the movie I already know how people would be treating Asha.

I know I said I love Magnifico as the villain but I would very much love to explore an AU where Asha *did* become his apprentice, and maybe he was like a stand-in father figure to her, actually careful and guiding, before something threatens all the wishes. I don't know what, but I feel like there's a lot of different ways that his trauma could have been explored without necessarily making him lash out and require so much control.

The movie feels rushed. I'm not saying that in an "it was bad, eew" way but in a "it could have been so much better" way. The literal tagline was "A story a century in the making!" and that drummed up a lot of expectations, but the end result is that honestly, it kind of feels like it needed more time to bake.

That being said, it was clearly crafted with a lot of care and thought put into it for what it was meant to be, and time constraints aren't the creators' faults.

[evostar]

I just imagine something cute!

You know that family tree in the kitchen? What if Dolores has the same thing in her room but with Mariano and her kids?

Bisabuela Rosa at the top of the tree. Mariano + Dolores in the middle. And the children start from youngest to oldest, Starting with Diego to Victorio.

Also, here's a few picrews you can use to design the kids (if you'd like) -

Bighead kid picrew

Pixel friend

Makowka character maker

And some from books + movie

AAA THAT IS ADORABLEEEEE!! I will definitely make one after I have the design for every kid!!

New kids unlocked!!! And lore 💪

Okay firstly the tree kids, the one in the front, frisco segundo madrigal and her brother, vicenta segundo madrigal (decided to make them siblings since they look alike to be siblings 👍) their sister (who was their step sister in their past family) Patricia ortuno madrigal!! They lived in a not so great household, often having to take care of themselves since their parents didn’t care, they didn’t get parental love neither did they get cared for good, their parents ended up in jail from some fight and since then Dolores took care of them!! (She basically did before but now they live with her) all of them are 5 year olds!

The two girls wanted their hair to be like Dolores!! Also some earrings :D and Camilo showed vicenta some outfits he might like, which he loved!!

Onto the nexttt, the ginger head is rafaela lazcano madrigal!! He is an orphan, he was in a lot of foster homes, some great and some awful, in the end he got adopted by Dolores since his past foster family was not so great and he also hated hopping into a new foster home every few weeks. He is 7 year old!!

Esmerelda Jerez madrigal!! She did have a parent who cared (her father) who then later on left, her mother didn’t like her since birth since she claimed that esmerelda wasnt her child. Esmerelda actually came from an other town!! Since her mother had left her in this town alone and then left without her. Ofc, Dolores who heard all of this immediately went to her, and now she lives with Dolores :D she is 8 years old!!

Leandra henriquez madrigal! Was the neighbor from Mariano, his parents always left him alone at home, leaving leandra with no food, no money, no nothing. Mariano noticed it and started to take care of him, later on Dolores joined too. He firstly was hesitating (he struggles a lot with abandonment issue like Esmerelda) but then he opened up, they took care of him till they fully took him in! (His parents never came home after one night.) He looks up to Mariano a lot and hopes to become a lot like him. He also is 8 years old!

Camilo trying to make fun of Camilo but it just ended up being humiliating for him!! (He couldn’t carry rafeala for more than 3 seconds) leandra is getting impressed by how strong he is and Esmeralda is admiring mirabels sewing skills!!

The last one is the two siblings, Bronco and Almira socarras madrigal!! (Decided to switch the names with ages) Bronco, who is a curious 3 year old, and his baby sister almira. The 1 year old almira takes a lot from his brother, their curiousy takes Dolores a whole level away!! Their parents didn’t care much about them, mostly letting them outside in the garden not knowing the danger (Dolores had to save them multiple times,) and only doing stuff with them when it comes over to fame. (They care a lot about how people judge them.) In the end, the house was in a fire, dolores safely secured them before any real harm happened. Luckily it was just some scars but it was still very traumatic for them.

Bronco loves candy, but Dolores doesn’t let him eat that much since he’s got a small stomach which gets bad fastly but his Abuela makes sure he gets some daily ;)

Almira loves admiring and touching faces (mostly Dolores’s and isabela’s :D) she’s very curious!!

Thanks a lot for the suggestions!!🩵

[hummingjay]

Hi!, idk if I have done this before, but this is when I ask 🫵✨you ✨🫵 to share any random fun fact (about any OC) that you want to share, but haven't had the opportunity to do so

OHOHOHOH THANK YOU THIS IS GONNA BE FUN!!! (and long)

Okay so let's start with Eddie! I did mention that she hates getting touched except by close friends, and of all the said friends it's usually Cricket. Whenever Cricket's panicking Eddie'll just quietly sit down with her to give her something tangible to hold. I just think it's a cute image.

OH! Eddie's not very sensitive about her face either. She rarely takes off her mask but she doesn't purposefully hide it from everybody per se. So if you spend over a couple days with her you'll see it. She also has a shrapnel scar on the side of her face.

Millie is the only one who routinely does something with her hair! She braids it mostly, while the other kasuars just use their low ponytail. Rosa likes styling it. Cricket also wears flowers in her hair whenever her visor is up, mostly cause she likes seeing Jensen happy. After Rosa gets used to Cricket's overall creepiness, Rosa also styles Cricket's hair.

Cricket ALWAYS smells like blood no matter what she does, and Jensen always smells like sulfer and potassium nitrate, just barely covered by the scent of wildflowers she finds. Also you know how Cricket likes tapping on Jensen? She has a favorite spot, on Jensen's palm, she just rubs it with her fingers whenever she's holding hands. Other than that, she puts her head in the crook of Jensens neck, leaning on her shoulder, whenever they're actually sitting down and snuggling. (Cricket is also the little spoon)

Eddie hangs out a lot with the Storches and Starlings. They think she's cute and has an odd polyculish situationship going on. At least 3 want her carnally. Eddie is unaware.

If you hit Eddie with a shovel that says "I want to kiss you" she'd ask you if you dropped your shovel.

Ritterhelm, if not under supervision and off-duty, will get drunk and eventually will snort gunpowder. She's rowdy but mostly harmless. Ritterhelm is the 'funny friend with a darkness in her eyes'. She's the most humorous and thrill-seeking, cracks the most Jokes, and the is overall the most spirited. She also wears the ruined hat of her dead lover as an armband and carries a photo of the two of them on her at all times. She's also the best wingwoman and helps Millie and Cricket out with their girls.

Eiche teaches Eddie swordplay! Ritz eventually loses her glaive and gets taught too after she replaces it with a sword.

Eddie is pretty much Eiche's adopted daughter, and she was the first to get transferred to Eicheholz's unit. Eiche is pretty much the mom of the group.

Originally (as in story-wise, not just in my head) before she stole the sword and blunderbuss, Eddie used a club and a pistol. She still has the pistol and gave the club to Cricket. She didn't have a name before she got her distinguishing weapons, just her designation.

Cricket's original design featured much bulkier armor and I plan on bringing it back. Despite the fact that Cricket is the big, hulking, violent monstrosity of a Kasuar who would 100% fistfight a god and win simply because she refuses to die, she's the baby of the group.

You can't really tell what Cricket is feeling by facial expression. she has a perpetual deer-in-headlights look. Nobody knows if this changes in combat because she flips her visor down. She also won't die. In reality she can obviously but she refuses to on account of she's worried about what'll happen to her friends. She's been impaled, shot, stabbed, and poisoned but somehow survived.

Cricket has never once used a nickname. Ritz is Ritterhelm, Eiche is Eichenholz, Jenny is Jensen, Millie is Millipede, and Eddie is Edward, sometimes Edward Teach or just Teach. She's not humorless, just not a nickname person. Everybody calls her Kiki after they get to know her though. Jensen is the only one who ever uses a separate nickname; "Little bug" or "little Cricket." (though Jensen still does call her Kiki often.) Cricket won't say it aloud but she loves it.

Kasuars are not inherently afraid of Falkes themselves. Just their voice. Once a Falke starts talking they freak out, then they're agitated by the Falke's presence. If a Falke is nice enough they can acclimate and get over said fear, like Eiche did. ÆON got wind of this and started forcibly making Kasuars work under Falke units to make highly efficient strike teams. They acclimate, and sometimes it works well if given time. Usually, they're thrust into it too fast and it shows, like they're not all there. I'll yap more about that later so I'll pause now.

[micechicken]

nicole. family lore. nowsies.

Okayyy Idk what I've said before so uuhh

Nicole's dad, Kash. He cares deeply for both his wife and daughters. He is incredibly wealthy and runs a successful line of clothing that is very overpriced. He's also rather large compared to the rest of his family and rotund. He likes to smoke but doesn't do it around others despite but keeps a cigar in his beak at all times. He's willing to bail is daughters out of any situation and even fund Nicole's movies. He loves her movies and often relates them to his own relationship, even when it barely applies.

Nicole's mom, Lilian. She grew up poor and often spent a lot of time outdoors exploring the wild and farms. By chance she caught the eye of Kash much to her suprise. But he was captivated by her and even though she wasn't wealthy like him, he loved her natural beauty and work ethic. Discovering Lilian's natural eye and talent in fashion he brought her in to design for him. Kash often calls Lilian "[his] Lily".

She felt it was important her daughters were more aware of the world and often took them to farms and orchards to show them what it was like to live that way. Nicole loved it, Marilyn hated it.

One of Nicole's movies is inspired by the two and is favored by her parents despite the exaggerations and inaccuracies (it also a Christmas movie lmao, a typical small town girl catching the eye of a wealthy man).

Nicole's sister, Marilyn. Older than Nicole by 4 years. She loved being dressed up and looking at clean and cute as possible. Caring more than even her parents about manners and etiquette. When she was younger sometimes her and Nicole would sneak out of the house to go shopping, spending their father's money. He never cared though, he just likes seeing his girls happy. Asked her dad to help her develop and start a business of her own, she came up with the ideas and brand, and he just funded it while giving her pointers. She now owns a popular brand for birds for their feathers, skin, and beaks.

Lives in a mansion with her daughter. She broke up with her ex who fathered her daughter after she caught him cheating, believing he was only with her for money and status. Now she cares little for dating unlike her sister. Loves her daughter but spends more time caring about her business than her, leaving her to her parents or sister. Refuses to use anything but her own products and forbids the presence of any other kind but hers.

Nicole's Niece, Rosa. I think she's 6 but I forget. A trouble maker, Marilyn kinda sees Nicole in her. Loves to spray others and things with water guns she always has filled up. There's weird stashes of them all over the mansion but Marilyn is used to them at this point. Likes to bother others and annoy them cause she thinks it's funny. Enjoys pranking people too. Nicole often uses her to sabotage her fellow DBS directors by destroying sets or interfering with recordings or stealing footage. Rosa is more than happy to do it. She's homeschooled and has personal tutors hired by her mother but thinks it's boring.

None of them know what Nicole's ex husband was like and all think his death was an accident. But if they did know they'd hate him too and wouldn't blame her for what she did. Even still she's never truly admitted it despite her movie Lola being about it.

[denimbex1986]

'“What? …What?” were David Tennant’s first words when, to everyone’s surprise, including his, he regenerated out of Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor, and not Ncuti Gatwa, as we all expected. For three episodes the 10th Doctor is back as the 14th, before Gatwa takes over at Christmas, and in his first proper episode – after a neat appearance in a Comic Relief sketch – he has moved onto “Why?”

Allow me to help you there, David: falling ratings.

Oh, you feel bad for Jodie Whittaker, a great Doctor unfortunate to be trapped in a wormhole of so-so episodes and constantly under attack from galactic sized fury-bots, slamming down their GB News mugs (filled with good, white tea, love) and taking to the social medias to cry about the bloody woke mob at the BBC filling our children’s heads with stupid ideas about tolerance and being nice.

But really, the problem, to my mind, was that while showrunner Chris Chibnall threw everything at Whittaker’s Doctor, he didn’t truly hit upon a transcendent stone-cold classic episode, and the whole thing felt like it was trying too hard; it lacked a bit of easy-to-watch magic. Something which is immediately back with “the one in the skinny suit”, under returning showrunner Russell T Davies.

As Dr Who’s 60th anniversary approaches, this should turn into something of a celebration of Davies, the man who kickstarted the new Who back in 2005 with Christopher Ecclestone as the Doctor, before hitting absolute gold with Tennant. While Chibnall was working on multiple meta-levels leaving us all trying to keep up, Davies pitches this first episode as more like E.T. in Eastenders. This sense of bringing things down-to-earth is helped further by the return of Catherine Tate as Donna, easily the funniest of his companions.

Taking place in London – and I do love Davies’ London, he was a pioneer in showing positively, and accurately, a city remarkable for its peaceful diversity (don’t believe the hype) – The Star Beast sees a cute little Furby-like alien called The Meep ‘crash’ into the city, which falls under the protection of Donna’s daughter, Rose, as some other ant-like aliens hunt it down.

The Doctor is back to help, with the catch being that he has to prevent Donna from remembering who he is, otherwise She Will Definitely Die. Without getting too bogged down, the last time we saw Donna, she basically had to have her mind wiped for her own protection, after she took on Time Lord powers that were too strong for her human body – her tragedy, heartbreaking at the time, was that she’d have to live her life without remembering her time with the Doctor.

However, as we all know in post-Marvel entertainment, there’s always a way around She Will Definitely Die – but the particular way this episode plays out is really going to upset the Woke Police. For Donna’s daughter Rose is trans, people – cue GB News mugs smashing against flat screens – and her trans-ness is very much central to the plot as well as the thematic ideas of identity crises and Otherness (not least with regards to the Doctor) and what do we do, attack these people or rally around them. Oh boy, is it going to drive people mad.

It's actually an almost touching move by Davies in the way it backs up the seriously upfront progressive humanism of Chibnall’s tenure, and comes in defiance of those who thought featuring Rosa Parks in an episode was the end of the world. What people seem to forget about Doctor Who, both the Woke Police and those other furrow-browed joy deniers, the Fanboy Police, is that it is a family show, designed to be watched with kids.

Yes it should be clever and mind-bending but it’s not supposed to be careless or cool. You need a bit of Horrible Histories, you need a bit of future thinking around humanity, because, well, this is science fiction – it’s the nature of this game even more than dressing up as Klaatu.

Anyway, the truth is this episode is a little bit thin, the big twist around The Meep pretty obvious (though not to my shocked 8 year old), and the saving of Donna does end up being really quite clunky. But it doesn’t really matter.

It’s about the magic: the chemistry between Tennant and Tate is winning, the laugh out loud moments hit double figures (I particularly like Donna’s repeated disses to the cutesy Meep – “space rat”, “ferret from Mars”), the Tardis has had a rather natty Modern House renovation, and the Disney money now coming into the show is well spent on set-pieces that manage to be Spielberg-ian in uniting the spectacular with the suburban.

It’s a hoot, and as a way to drum up attention and goodwill towards the series in the run-up towards Gatwa taking over, it’s quite irresistible.

Gatwa will certainly have a lot to live up to, mind. For Tennant truly is the best Doctor ever. Yes, yes, I know you liked Tom Baker when you were a kid, but really, you're wrong: Tennant is the best. Like a Tex Avery cartoon trapped inside Camus’ Meursault, he’s an existentialist hero for all the family. Saturday night must-watch TV is back, and it’s Woker than ever, folks...'

[whenthechickencry]

Labor Thanksgiving Day Gifts

Released between EP5 and EP6

The cousins are all hanging out in a coffee shop, discussing what they are giving their parents for Thanksgiving, starting with Maria's letter and origami. Maria's letter contains unlimited shoulder massages for Mama for the entire month!! Oh...

George buys Hideyoshi a new wallet, and a kitchen knife for Eva. A lot of these short stories do give us the opportunity to see the characters outside the family conference, aka the worst day in the year for them, with a bunch of people they don't get along with and who remind them of their childhood trauma, and that is definitely very appreciated.

George enjoys showing off how much more "mature" he is than his cousins, as usual.

Maria explains a bit of what magic means to her...

They go to the clothing store and Jessica decides to get Krauss a padded Kimono because he complains about his stiff shoulders because Natsuhi makes them wear formal clothes at home. I am sorry Natsuhi but I think that rule would drive anyone fucking insane over time.

Battler got Rudolf an electric razor because apparently, he gets Kinzo's beard if he isn't shaving constantly. Now we suddenly turn to Beatrice complaining to Virgilia that this story is boring. I kinda realized it didn't make sense timeline-wise that Battler was hanging with his cousins but I didn't think much of it, but I guess this is Virgilia's forgery, haha.

Beatrice is allowed to cowrite, with some restrictions.

Beatrice switches the presents around, so Eva gets a kimono instead, but Eva is pretty happy anyway! George is pretty damn confused, though, haha.

Meanwhile, Krauss gets the fucking shoulder rub card, oh my god. If I was Jessica I would be fucking dying of shame here, I am so sorry.

Jessica now thinks her dad is a weird pervert.

By process of elimination... Rudolf is about to get the knife and Rosa the razor. Battler is going to be the biggest winner here, I think. Kyrie agreed to make his gift a joint gift with Battler, bc apparently Battler doesn't have a lot of spending money. But uh, Rudolf now is gonna think Kyrie and Battler spent 100k yen each.

Meanwhile, Rudolf is cheating... god i hate this man.

Fucking deserved Rudolf, damn. Jesus christ.

He can't even appreciate presents because he knows his actions have made everyone around him hold some resentment towards him, which thank fucking god this man deserves nothing.

Akihito? Design company? Rena's mom's 2nd husband? ooook then I guess.

You suck so fucking bad Rosa. She filters her guilty conscience as Maria even though Maria would never tell her shit about that, but hey it lets her externalize her guilt even though it is also ruining her relationship with her daughter.

Rosa gets the razor, which freaks the fuck out of Rosa by making her think that her daughter somehow caught her and is sending her passive-aggressive messages, and Rosa now is coming home, so Maria's present kind of worked anyways. I am not sure her real present would have succeeded, anyways, so....

Beatrice gives Virgilia a coloring book of like, historical paintings. Then it's revealed it's for really old people struggling to keep up mentally, and Virgilia is now trying to kill Beatroce.

And then, no one was left alive. Just kidding, presumably. This one was cute, It was very much very fluffy but some out of Rokkenjima characterization is always nice. Some Beatrice Ronove Virgilia moments, as well.

[kitabasis]

ok I’m working on my monster high redesigns and I can’t decide some lagoona stuff so. Im leaving it up to tumblr.

Basically, her origin has always been the murkiest (haha water pun)—she’s inspired by a lagoon monster from the Amazon, but she’s a sea monster from Australia (or, in G3, from Honduras). None of the places she’s from, to my knowledge, have any well-known sea monsters (I’m open to correction though). Not to mention none of her iterations look anything like the Lagoon Creature (probably because that would be hard to sell to kids).

So, in line of making her have a bit of a stronger monster identity, I’m changing her origin a bit.

i’m debating between making her parents a boto cor de rosa, skylla and kharybdis, or something else if a better idea is proposed.

Reasons for and against each:

Boto Cor De Rosa

+ since these guys are from the Amazon, it makes a nice reference to the home of the monster Lagoona was originally based on (The Creature From The Black Lagoon was from a lagoon in Brazil)

+ it actually justifies her G3 pink color scheme

+ it gives an easy explanation for why she can be on land without a tank like Gil—she’s literally a mammal!

+ Swapping her and Gil’s freshwater-saltwater origins would give more in-universe “justification” (not that bigotry is justified but you know) for the bias against her family—maybe freshwater monsters, especially mammalian ones, are seen as too close to land/humans and “not real water monsters”

+ the “very chill but fierce in defense of those she loves most” personality I’m probably giving her works well with the fact that botos are very cute but have some scary myths about them and what they can do

+ could potentially change her last name to de Rosa as a reference to the “Lagoona Pink” fan nickname, her new origin (if this is chosen), and the birth last name of the woman who designed the Lagoon Creature Mask (di Rossi)

— it would require keeping her pink, which a lot of fans aren’t fond of

— it would require getting rid of her gills and scales because dolphins don’t have those

— her leg and arm fins would be less justified if she’s a dolphin shapeshifter. Although I wouldn’t get rid of them because they’re too iconic

— some of the boto myths are frankly disturbing in a way that i don’t necessarily want attached to this version of the character?

— it would require making her a freshwater monster and Gil a saltwater monster and I don’t know how people feel about that

Skylla and Kharybdis

+ I think it would be really fun if Skylla and Kharybdis were in lesbians and had a teenage daughter

+ original lagoona had 1 sea monster and 1 nymph parent, and both are sea monsters and Skylla was, in some tellings, initially a nymph, so that’s a fun continuity nod

+ she stays a sea monster with fins and scales and such

+ justifies her having a lot of teeth which I just think is fun, even if she never uses them really

+ kharybdis justifies g3 type water powers more or less

+ she could maybe be childhood friends with deuce or something? Because they would both have lesbian greek myth moms

— a little harder to justify she’s from Brazil (which is something I do want to have her be)

[crimsonblackrose]

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Omg Rosa giving Robby a sack lunch. This melded family is exactly what Robby needed.

Lol Johnny putting beef jerkey in both of their lunch bags.

Okay that's super cute, Anthony stealing Daniel's croissant and blocking Daniel's moves and look at his big smile.

Omg Chozen.

Amanda's face when she see's chozen. 🤣 She does a double take.

Aw Robby with his new student welcome folder.

Johnny: We're going to the warehouse to break some bricks.

Miguel to Robby: Can you give me another? Robby: More tape it is.

Poor Johnny his warehouse he was using for his dojo is gone. That's his second dojo...gone

I mean, he shouldn't have been using an abandoned warehouse, but still. Ow.

Daniel knows what it's like to one day out of nowhere have your home destroyed (start of TKK3)

Aw Johnny looks like he's going to cry.

Devon having fun sparring with Chris, Bert, and Nate.

Did you make this Mitch?

Aww Chris and Mitch made up

All that remains of Eagle Fang's warehouse dojo:

Poor Johnny on top of losing his dojo his teaching day got moved behind Chozen's.

Wow we got a lot of new students.

Sekai taikai happens every 2 years

omg lol what is THAT?!

Wow Chozen, that was mean and low.

Also like why? They got along so well last season? They were bros. What the heck happened?

I mean of course Daniel wasn't going to go for Guy Fieri vampire Mr. Miyagi. And Mr. Miyagi never would've wanted his face on the dojo logo.

Daniel, did you tell him the importance of the original bonsai patch? That Mr. Miyagi's wife made that for him, the one who died in with his son in a concentration camp. I think if you expressed the importance of it you wouldn't have ended up with this type of logo.

Because I can't fully blame the kids, they're trying to find balance and they're wanting to ensure everyone is included and their feedback is heard.

Like the history of the design is important too but no one knows.

Also poor Daniel. Now he's got two to deal with.

Most awkward double date ever.

I mean chopping down a tree and having the kids pull it is an interesting idea. But maybe start a little smaller? For the new kids at least? Also where are you going to do this Johnny? There's no space for this at Miyagi-do and what tree are you going to cut down? You can't just cut down random trees.

I can't believe we're back on this. I thought we fixed this last season. Also it feels like they gave Daniel's whole deal over the name to Chozen. Like Chozen, I get sekai taikai is huge, but this isn't really your dojo....you are a karate master with your own classes in Okinawa.

Lyle, why do you even have that? Also, Johnny is Lyle who you go to for all your non-grocery store/non-hardware shopping?

Where are the kids when you need them to make a lotr joke? "And my axe!"

Johnny will back down if he loses, but he won't give up with out a fight is just...well always been him. And he's right he's been training these kids longer than any of them except maybe Daniel and Sam.

Daniel claiming Johnny sort of as a friend and paying for the rest of the axe.

good point tory, college for robby and tory might be difficult.

Omg the TKK1 call back!!!! That's a good one!

Ali was pissed at Daniel when he did that too.

Kenny has got so tall, is he taller than Robby now?

SHAWN! They did say he was supposed to get out over the summer.

Chozen, why are you doing what Sato was doing in TKK2?

The point of Sato doing this was that he and Mr. Miyagi had found that piece of wood themselves. It was a symbol of their friendship he was trying to break because he was hurt and angry. You don't have anyone in the states that you've been friends with since childhood that you're challenging to the death.

Daniel has a point. Plus he's already gone down this road before, see season 4.

Chozen got 80 stitches in his back.

Omg, Chozen you're pissed at Johnny because Kumiko didn't call you back?

Oh wow he broke it, the only other person we saw do that was Mr. Miyagi himself when Sato was pinned under one.

Lol Johnny going into Coyote Creek with his axe.

You know, I also was expecting Kreese. I was not expecting Stingray making his own version of cobra kai in the woods with a bunch of kids and an audio recording of Kreese. Kiddos, do your parents know you're here? Have you all been kidnapped?

Johnny training Miguel to fight a batting machine all the way back in like season 1 coming in handy.

It hasn't been very long, Tory's hands still bandaged.

Omg shawn punched through the wire fencing and got stuck. Maybe he should also join miyagi-do/eagle fang

Stingray...where did you get that photo?

This Saturday.

Okay follow up question, Johnny why is that one of the photos on your facebook page?

Awww Stingray. Cobra Kai was awesome when Johnny was in charge.

stingray's movie mention: Revenge of the Nerds

Stingray hows the kids 40 bucks due to a swear jar

Stingray pointing out how much Johnny letting him study in his dojo helped him and how his way of building up student's confidence is better than any other sensei around.

Awww Shawn pointing out that no one took the shots they could've.

Another kid not knowing who they are or who they want to be after all the karate stuff.

Shawn is such a good big brother.

Oh man, so proud of Daniel.

Also so proud of Johnny.

So much growth

I also love that Chozen and Johnny are like hell yeah we're still fighting, but now for funsies.

Both Chozen and Johnny look so happy.

KENNY!!!! (he looks like he's going to cry)

Omg the look Chozen and Johnny give before attacking Daniel. These old guys finally having fun.

I was so concerned, and now...so happy.

Love the new patch because it honors Mr. Miyagi but also acknowledges that Johnny is a part of this and everything he's been through.

[thedaydreaminggamer]

Harriet May

Backstory: Harriet never got along with her mom, Rosa, especially as she was always getting a new boyfriend and moving the two of them from town to town rather than spending time with her daughter and causing Harriet to care for herself alone. Harriet is now a teenager and can't wait to move out on her own for university...until she's hassled with Rosa's unexpected group of sextuplets after Rosa has skipped town. Stuck with the six toddlers while trying to get on her school's honor roll, have her own life and attempting to acclimate to the spooky and strange Midnight Hollow, Harriet's hoping to make the most of it...as long as her new siblings aren't too much of a burden.

Family: Rosa May (disappeared), Jason, Jasper, & Theodore May (half-brothers) and Cassandra, Charlotte, & Ariel (half-sisters)

Traits: Rebellious, Bookworm, Natural Cook and Hopeless Romantic

So I was bored yesterday and looking for a new challenge to try. I came across the sextuplets/deadbeat parent challenge which was originally created for the sims 2. I usually give up on challenges pretty quickly but I have a good feeling about this one. I love Harriet's design--she is so cute ^^ Technically all the siblings are fully-related in-game because CAS can only do so much. I adore Midnight Hollow's aesthetic but haven't played in it too much so I figured this would be a good way to utilize it more. I created a random man in CAS to play with Rosa's genes so some of the kids have dark hair like Harriet does or they have their mom's red hair. It probably would've been cool to keep Rosa alive in-game for drama reasons but it was getting late and I was tired so I just did what the challenge creator suggested and had her die of starvation :') The challenge ends once all the kids are grown up and you've taught them all their skills. I hope Harriet and I can survive six screaming toddlers (and the occasional game glitch!)

[soliiisortus]

AUTUMN AESTHETICS

Rosa’s second favorite season.

Gold, Yellow, Mocha, Red and Coral color schemes for her outfits.

Likes pumpkins, but prefers apple cinnamon flavors.

Sits outside to admire scenery of the color changed leaves, but not too long as she gets cold easily.

Always wearing boots with heels. 

Her wardrobe consisting of sweaters, sweater dresses, coatdresses, blazers and scarves.

Half braided updo hairstyles.

[alstroemeriadissonance]

Hello. First of all thank you for the amazing Vyn content! Have a small request, maybe it'll inspire you to write another funny shenanigan. I'd like to see how would guys react if Rosa appeared in NXX hq in a sexy attire, specifically in a suit (there is only bra underneath the suit jacket), with make up etc. She droped by hq to leave some documents for example. She can meet all of the boys together or approach them personally as each of them is busy with their own stuff. Thanks!

NXX gets some service (NSFW)

Omg this is by far one of the most amusing asks I have ever gotten. Like, I just got up from a nap when I checked my phone and my jaw pretty much dropped when I saw this. Thank you for giving me a wake up nosebleed, anon!

I decided to really have fun here so expect everyone to be written a bit OOC or have their characterizations exaggerated.

(Goddamnit Artem. For a fictional character and even in this set up it's taken a lot of work to have you included in this. Fuck.)

I put in a bonus at the end all in good fun (also, as a shameless attempt at wish-fulfillment)! It's pretty long in itself but I wanted to append it by the end of this piece instead of making it its own post so people read it in intended sequence and aren't too....weirded out. It also ended on a questionable note, I blame it on booze

Warning: NSFW. Please do not interact if minor, etc.

You've always wanted to do something like this. Ever since you have been working with the eligible, unattached, handsome bachelors of the NXX Investigation Team, it has been one of your wildest dreams to get to know each of them on a more intimate basis.

You have never been given a good reason to, of course, until you have encountered one fateful moment wherein a brush with certain death has reminded you that yes, death may come at any time, that yes, increased chances of kicking the bucket comes with your profession, and yes, death will come probably when you least expect it.

Funnily enough, it is this realization that set your resolve to do that one thing you have always wanted to do.

A bucket list of a single item that you absolutely must do before you die.

Fuck each NXX member senseless. Go, you.

Luke

The first one on your list is your one and only best friend, Luke Pearce.

While you know that he always carried a torch for you, possibly since childhood, your friend Luke has always been so pure and so next-door neighbor friendly (never mind that at some point in your life, next-door meant next-door to your own room) that he does not seem to be hook-up material; certainly not someone who you would find hanging out in a bar that is not rife with hired killers, contraband, and information.

(Why Luke can be found in bars rife with killers for hire, contraband, and information is another matter entirely)

But one thing you could bank on though, is how easy it is to fluster him into doing things--especially if it is you doing the flustering.

The plan is easy enough: Wear something seductive, come on strongly, then profit off the rewards. Or something like that. You just know that once you get his cute, handsome face blushing you've already won half the battle.

- Where are you Luke?

- I'm fixing my bike here in the auto bay. I'm about to finish up though, where do you wanna meet Watson?

- Wait there. I'll come over.

The NXX Headquarters automobile bay located in the basement level is spacious, designed to fit around twenty vehicles, but always almost deserted by virtue of the NXX only having five active members at the moment.

And that among those five active members only one is knowledgeable enough about vehicle maintenance to have a legitimate reason to stay there for more than an hour - Luke.

Needless to say, if you were to do the dirty in the automobile bay, and the recipient of said dirty deed is somehow named Luke Pearce, then the location should be ideal.

So you strut along in your stiletto heels, and larger-than-usual suit jacket that covers you up to the middle of your thighs, almost up to the same length as your skirt--if you wore a skirt, that is.

Your heels emphasize your foot falls in the stairwell leading to the basement level, lending a certain feel of authority to the way you walk.

You bank on this temporary sense of dominance; you certainly need a bit of courage to pull off what you want to pull off today.

As you exit the stairwell and cross the threshold to the automobile bay, you see Luke nearby next to his motorbike, gathering his tools.

"Luke," you call out. You do not need to shout; the acoustics of the place carries your voice quite well.

"Heya, Watson," Luke says, preoccupied with loading the tools into his bike's top box to give you a look. "Why'd you--whoa."

Finally he manages to give you a glance.

"Rosa. Um. You look rather..."

"Rather?"

"Uh. Nice? Um. Really nice...make-up."

You sigh. Of course he'd react like this. He never saw you in anything other than your standard work clothes except in those rare cases where you meet in formal functions, like a ball, and even that happened only once, when he infiltrated the formal event as a waiter.

"What's the occasion?" He asks, fumbling around for words. "Um...I could have picked you up where you're more comfortable, you know. You didn't have to go all the way here..." his voice trails off.

You have the feeling that you'd lose steam and go cold feet the longer you let him flounder about, so you steel yourself and cross the distance between you two.

And, throwing caution to the wind, so to speak, you reach for the collar of his outer jacket and pull him in for a kiss.

For a sweet few seconds you could feel him giving in. For those few seconds you could feel him tentatively return your kiss, his tongue mimicking the movements of your own.

Until he regains composure, when his NSB agent mode finally kicks in.

He extricates himself from your embrace, taking firm hold of your shoulders and pushes you away from him at arm's length. "Rosa," he says, tone grave. "Who put you up to this?"

You blink, totally caught unaware about your friend's complete change in demeanor: first he is your friendly, soft, easily-flustered best friend that you have grown up with, the next moment he does a 180 and you see him channeling that same coldness you would only briefly see from someone slightly unhinged like Vyn.

"N-no one," you say, but you are so unnerved you find yourself stammering.

"This is so unlike you, Rosa," his grasp on your shoulders tighten, and you can almost feel him resisting the urge to shake you into common sense. "Tell me, who put you up to this, why, and where can I find--"

"I said no one, it's just me, Luke," you repeat what you say, now grasping at what remaining courage you could still grab on to. "I wanted to surprise you, is all."

"Surprise? What kind of surprise?" Luke's brows furrow--nothing about this situation makes sense to him. Everything about this is totally coming out left field for him. Of course he will think something is suspicious.

What you decide to do next surprises even you.

"This kind of surprise," you say, and you shrug off your suit jacket, letting it fall to the floor, revealing your actual outfit for the day: lingerie, a lacy confection of bra and panties so sheer one could almost see through them. Which Luke is doing at the moment.

"Shit."

He then quickly gathers you into his arms and, running, carries you to a far corner of the automobile bay where Artem's SUV is parked. "Are you insane?!" he hissed. "There's security cameras here!"

"You act as if anyone else apart from the group can access the security cam footage," you say.

"What, you don't care if Vyn sees you pull off this stunt?"

You already thought about this of course. As long as you keep your antics within the NXX Headquarters premises, you are essentially ensuring that the owner of the estate, Vyn Richter, will be the only one privy to your misadventures.

And that is fine--you want him to know that you are coming for him, eventually.

"Of course not," you say. "It's just Dr. Richter."

"Alright." Luke says, clearly torn between taking your words at face value or cuffing you to take you somewhere for further interrogation--frankly, both options are welcome--and he takes a deep breath to compose himself.

Wordlessly he combs his fingers through your hair, touches your nape, briefly checks the jewelry you are wearing, and essentially pats down your underwear and even your bare skin. He also takes off your stilettos and peers at them closely.

"What are you doing?"

Luke remains silent until he is satisfied with what he sees. "Just a standard check if you're bugged," he says. "It's a bit easier with you since you're wearing next to nothing."

"Okay, since you saw nothing. are you satisfied now?"

Luke shakes his head. "You're not in the clear yet," he says.

"First, do you know what you are doing? Tell me."

"I'm trying to seduce you, Luke."

You can see him gulp nervously, but only for a split second. He quickly regains composure.

"...Fine. Second, why?"

"Because I want to have sex with you?"

Luke groaned. You're almost winning.

"Okay, but why now?"

"Because if you guys weren't able to save me the last time, I'd be dead, and if I am dead I couldn't fulfill my selfish wish of having sex with the handsome, unattached men I work with every goddamn day?"

Luke only stares at you wordlessly, his expression incredulous, his mouth opening then closing as if he couldn't find the words to reply with.

Instead, he just pulls you in and kisses you roughly, his breathing hard and fast as his tongue explores your mouth haphazardly.

You give in to his unrestrained handling, making yourself pliant to his hands roaming the soft skin of your body, the same hands that eventually settle on cupping your ass.

"Is this...is this what you want?" Luke whispered. "You could...you could have told me during one of your visits at my place, you know."

"I actually tried, Luke," you say--which is the truth--"but you are so pure and cute and wholesome whenever I come over I couldn't find a good opportunity to say 'hey, wanna make out' or 'hey, lets have wild sex?'"

"Goddamnit. This is crazy," Luke muttered as he lets go of your ass to grope your breasts. "I swear, Rosa, we really need to talk about this next time."

He dips in to take a nipple in his mouth, sucking on it as a hand fondles your other, neglected breast. You find yourself squirming a bit; each time Luke flicks his tongue on your nipple you almost feel similar phantom sensations on your sex.

"Let's do a quickie," you say, your words coming out in a moan. You are finally getting impatient--you need him inside you, now, immediately, posthaste.

With nimble fingers you pull down your own panties. It is already apparent how wet and horny you already are, based on how much the crotch of your panties are soaked.

"Fuck. Sure. Fine," Luke says breathlessly as he quickly unbuckles his belt, working on the buttons of his jeans, letting them fall to the ground. He then grabs you by the waist, and sets you up against the rear door of Artem's SUV.

"Ready for it, Rosa?" his words come urgently, his hand hooking one of your thighs around his waist, his other hand rubbing the tip of his cock against your wet mound, and with one hard thrust he rams into you hard--you wanted it quick, you are getting it quick--and he pauses to relish the feel of being fully hilted inside you.

"Damn it," he whispers against your ear. "I came here to fix my bike, not to get fucked. Haha."

"Haha, Luke." you quip drily. "Now move."

"Well," he says as he starts thrusting, holding you firmly by the waist. "Aren't you feeling bossy today, Watson?"

At that point you find that you cannot retort, you are so engrossed with losing yourself to the sensation of getting fucked by your best friend, hiding behind the car of your senior partner's, no less, and the only sounds coming out from you are moans and your fast, shallow breathing.

There is no one else in the automobile bay, nor is anyone expected to drop by, so Luke does not care that his thrusting is hard and fast enough that it makes Artem's SUV rock slightly back and forth.

If Artem finds out--he probably wouldn't, he wouldn't know what signs to look for, anyway--it would have made for a good drinking story.

Marius

Up next is Marius.

Marius, you think, would be easy. He has been all over you every chance he can get, and next to Vyn, who himself is the most shameless of the bunch, Marius is the next flirtiest.

So for Marius, you try putting a bit of a playful twist on things.

You wait until the NXX meeting ends; you tell Marius that you need some help with setting up remote access to NXX files in your personal laptop, complete with security access protocols.

"Huh?" Marius looks at you, perplexed at your suggestion. "Missy, not only is it bad news security-wise, but do you really want to take your NXX work home?"

While you appreciate his thoughtfulness at this particular moment, you are also cursing him inwardly because you do not have a lot of excuses you can use to keep him from leaving the headquarters along with the others.

"I just want to--um. I have this tendency to remember things and if I can't cross-check my ideas with the facts of the case, it'd be a brain itch and I'd lose sleep," you say to him, hoping against hope that he would just take your word for it.

"Ehhh...Missy, I--"

"Just indulge her, will you, Marius?" Vyn cuts in as he passes the both of you on the way to the door. "If nothing else, hash out with her the pros and cons of whatever she wants done. She will not let you go otherwise."

"Fiiiiine."

You give Vyn a glance, and he flashes you a brief, knowing smile before he exits the conference room. Damn. Does he know?

If yes, then...maybe he'd watch the security camera footage later?

The idea gets you wet already.

Thanking Vyn profusely from the bottom of your (degenerate) heart, you quickly check if all is in the clear: Luke has already left, and so has Artem. Vyn just left as well, leaving you and Marius as the only ones in the conference room.

All clear.

"Anyway," you begin. "Yeah. I actually placed my laptop in the server room, could I bother you to get it for me, pretty please?"

"Why is it way back there in the server room?"

"I had to charge it. Sorry!"

"Okay." Marius pushes out his swivel chair from its comfortable position deep under the glass conference table and stands up to pad his way toward the NXX server room, whose entrance is located in the far end of the conference room.

Having bought yourself some time, you quickly shimmy out of your one piece dress, revealing a high cut satin bunny suit, sans ears, which you fish out from your purse.

Having put on your bunny ears you make your way towards the server room yourself, and upon reaching the door you feel immense cold wafting from inside the room--the temperature inside the server room is several degrees lower than the conference room's air conditioning.

The hairs of your bare skin stand on end upon touching the cold air, but nothing too uncomfortable to daunt you from your task.

Inside you find Marius turning over almost everything in sight just to try and find the laptop that you actually left at home.

"Hey, Marius."

He grunts, having bent over to peer at one of the lower pedestal drawers in an attempt to locate your machine. "Missy, I can't--whoa."

For in front of him, blocking his path back to the conference room, stands you in your bunny costume outfit.

"Um. Missy?" Marius von Hagen for once finds himself at a loss for words. "Ah.

"...What game are we playing tonight?"

"Oh, I don't know," you tell him, clearly playing coy. "Maybe a game of you and me staring at each other?"

"Miissssy~" he begins, then immediately drops the act. "Come on, tell me what the hell is going on here," he continues in his normal voice.

So aside from Luke, even Marius is not easily convinced that I just want to fuck them? Damn Rosa, you are such a good girl.

You almost fear how much difficult dealing with Artem would be when it is his turn, but you shelve that thought for now.

"I just want to get in your pants, Marius," you say, "is that so much of a difficult thing to understand?"

"Uh-huh." Marius is clearly unconvinced. He crosses his arms, yet his eyes gobble up your svelte form clad in a bunny suit anyway.

"Okay. Any...ulterior motive I should know about? Anything at all?"

Ah damn. You didn't think about triggering his massive trust issues. You only banked on Marius acting like a fuckboy, so you thought he would think like a fuckboy. Clearly, it is all an act--he has been nothing but prudent and thoughtful ever since you started trying to get into his pants.

"Nothing, Marius," you say. "I just want to fuck you."

Marius runs a hand through his hair, breathing deeply, trying to think on his feet regarding the weird situation you're putting him through. "Missy...um. Look, I know I've been sending you mixed signals but--"

Goddamnit. You cross the server room to close the distance between you and Marius, your heels clacking authoritatively. When you finally reach him, you slam your hands against the server rack behind him, trapping Marius in your arms.

"...What the fuck Missy? Those are server racks behind me!" You can see that Marius is actually sweating bullets from his brow, and the server room is actually very cold.

"I know what they are Marius," you say coolly. "And if you don't give me what I want, I'm going to kick one of them down."

It is at that moment that Marius actually composes himself. "You are actually serious, huh?"

"Whatever makes you think otherwise?"

"Because you're my nice, prim and proper Missy Lawyer?" Marius cocks an eyebrow. "I mean, if you were another girl I'd be down with it, scandal be damned, but if it's you..."

"If it's me...?"

"Well, you certainly deserve better than getting fucked on the floor of this horribly cold server room."

"What if I want to?"

Marius actually looks as if he is giving your question some thought. "Hmm. Well..." he makes a show of scratching his chin.

Finally, he leers at you.

"I want to see you beg for it." He licks his lips. "Come on now, you can do it Missy, can you?"

"Beg?" It is your turn to cock an eyebrow, then reach down to cup his hard on through his pants, your fingers caressing the bulge--you can feel his cock twitching with your touch.

"When you're the one who's clearly turned on?"

==

"Mnhh--hahh...Marius..."

Marius writhes underneath you, lying down on the cold floor of the server room on his back, pawing at your bouncing breasts as you ride his cock.

The costume you have prepared for him does not even get worn for more than fifteen minutes, and those fifteen minutes were spent trying to convince the boy that yes, his Missy Lawyer wants to fuck him.

"Shit...haha, I totally can't--ahh--believe this is happening," Marius says in between gasps of breath. "What the--nngh--hell came over you?"

You do not reply, as you concentrate on moving your hips, letting his hard cock slide in and out of your hungry slit. The sensation is turning you on so much that you feel you could almost come from it alone, but you still find your fingers wandering to your clit to give yourself release.

"Aah. That's it, rub yourself--hahh..." Marius lets out a breathy laugh at the sweet absurdity of his current situation. "Damn. This is so good..."

Eventually your thighs feel too burned for you to move, so you slump over him finally, his length slipping out. "Ugh...Hey Mister I Do Extreme Sports, think you can do the work?"

"Aww, poor baby got too tired," Marius whispers as he moves to sit himself up, taking you along with him. "Fine. I got you babe."

Soon enough he has your back pressed against a bare wall, both your thighs wrapped around his hips, him effortlessly bouncing you on his cock.

You desperately cling to him by his neck, stifling your loud moans against his chest. The utter sensation of getting fucked helplessly while your feet dangle in the air has you whimpering--you're so aroused that you know the moment you reach down your clit you'd just instantly unravel around his shaft.

"Well, Missy?" Marius says, then grunting as he adjusts his arms grabbing your thighs. "Like this? Huh?"

"Ahh--yes--God, please," you plead, your words slowly become incoherent. "Fuck me more--ahn, Marius...!"

"Shit." Your cries are sending him over the edge. "Missy...I'm coming--I'll need to come inside, is that okay?"

"Yes," you breathe, your fingers finally reaching down between your bodies slamming against each other to rub your now sensitive bud. "Can't have you spilling on the equip--ment--ahh!"

A second later you feel bursts of his come spurting deep inside you, with Marius pushing his cock deep inside as much as he can.

"Goddamn, Missy," he pants as he starts to recover from his orgasm. "That was pretty...hot..."

He slumps onto the floor, bringing you down with him.

Both of you are sitting up on the floor and holding onto each other, catching your breaths. As your breathing starts to calm down, Marius touches your chin, guiding your face to look at you in the eye.

"Hey, Missy," he grins. "We haven't kissed yet."

So saying, he captures your lips with his, and both of you spend your heated afterglow cooling in the server room while your tongues acquaint themselves with each other.

Artem

Now, Artem.

Mr. Wing--Artem--is a special case. You absolutely cannot hope to take him in the workplace, or in the NXX Headquarters; you know he'd just clam up and scurry away faster than you can say "I want to fuck you".

So for him, you are willing to make special concessions in order to have him feel comfortable, then escalate things accordingly. Don't worry. You got this.

Good luck.

===

"Thanks for dropping by, Mr. Wing, really appreciate you helping out." You greet your senior partner as he arrives by your doorstep. "I'm really, really sorry for the short notice."

"Not a problem." Artem excuses himself and makes a beeline towards your kitchen. He already visits your place frequently enough that he knows where to put away the groceries; he knows where to find any specific kitchenware, dinnerware, or whateverware that you own.

Artem is intimately familiar with your home. He even knows the passcode of your main door.

All things considered, Artem is almost acting like your boyfriend at this point. He chalks it up to taking care of his junior partner, sure, but he has been hovering around you protectively so much that you'd think he has been actively warding off any overtures made by other men towards you.

Even Dr. Richter cannot get near you or talk with you at length whenever Artem is around.

So, you are left wondering why the two of you haven't fucked yet.

"What's the screenplay about?" Artem asks you as he opens your overhead cupboards to stow away the bag of uncooked rice he brought along. "Do you think it is any good?"

You settle yourself on a stool by the dining table, watching him as he works in your kitchen as if he belongs there. I don't mind being exclusive with him, is your thought as you idly stare at his broad shoulders, but at the moment that the both of you still aren't exclusive, all bets are off for now.

At least, until you manage to cross out the illustrious Dr. Vyn Richter off your list.

"Not really. It's very campy," you answer him. "The script is undoubtedly B-movie camp."

Artem then looks at you over his shoulder questioningly. "Then why do you want to act out the screenplay?"

"Mm. I always thought that there's value in delving into camp from time to time."

"Yes, but..." Artem takes out a ladle from a rack, and pauses thoughtfully. "You want to act out a B-movie script?"

You give Artem the most dazzling smile that you can muster. "Yeah. It's going to be really, really fun."

You lick your lips while he isn't looking.

===

"This is the screenplay that I am talking about, Artem," you flick on your phone's screen to initiate file sharing. "Or at least, the first half of the script."

"Just the first half?" Artem accepts the file, and quickly gives the text a scan.

"Oh, just so we aren't overwhelmed," you tell him. "It's easier to focus on the screenplay bit by bit, I find."

"Mhm," Artem makes a non-committal sound. No doubt he does not need such methods in memorizing scripts, as the man's memory is almost photographic. "We can work with this first then."

The script only has two characters for the entirety of the screenplay: an unnamed Executive and his also unnamed Secretary. The screenplay is set in the Executive's office at night.

The first part of the script is basically the Executive growing increasingly tired after spending several hours on overtime. The clock on the wall indicates that it is already approaching 10 o'clock at night.

The Secretary, faithfully supporting her boss the Executive, has decided to stay despite him giving her permission to leave the office ahead of him. She adamantly refuses as she has seen him work tirelessly day in and day out for the betterment of their company, and she wants to support him as much as she can.

The first part of the script cuts off where the Secretary offers to give the Executive a massage on the shoulders.

"It's fine if we read off our phones, Artem," you say after you have changed into your office clothing.

To fully immerse yourselves in the screenplay, you also had Artem bring along the usual suit that we wears to the office, down to the tie. Artem has already changed, and like always, the sight of him donning his work clothes takes your breath away.

Now that you have him in the privacy of your own home and not in Themis Law, it takes a lot of effort from you not to pounce him or come on to him too strongly like you did Luke and Marius. Everything you have prepared would be for naught if you did.

"The set up is actually just an executive table and an office swivel chair," you tell Artem as he gives the script one final glance before he slips the phone into his pocket.

"We can use the table and my chair here," you point at the desk and chair set against the wall.

"Ready, Artem?"

"Yes. I have the script in my head already," Artem smiles at you. "It's simple enough."

Good.

===

It is already ten at night. Executive glances at his wristwatch, then as if trying to validate if he really did spend so much time in the office, looks at the wall clock as well. Both tell the same time: it is already ten o'clock, and once again he has spent a full day of his life working in the office.

He hates it. He feels underappreciated by everyone despite the hard work and the gains to show for it. Everyone except the Secretary, that is.

He gathers his papers and arranges them in a pile; the sound of which prompts his Secretary to peek into the office.

"Sir," the Secretary calls out by his door. "Are you already done?"

"Not yet," he says, quite irritated. "I'm almost done but I'm still waiting for someone's input to be included in the shareholder report."

"So you've nothing to do while you wait?" asks the Secretary.

"Nothing. And it drives me mad. I want to go home."

"It's not much, but let me give you a rub on your shoulders at least to help you relax," says the Secretary.

"Ah, don't worry your pretty little head about me, dear. You best go home. Everything is over and done with except for that damned report."

"I insist, sir," the Secretary walks over and stands behind the Executive's chair. "I owe you too much to just leave you here."

"If you insist, then. I appreciate it."

"Please take off your jacket then, Sir."

===

You take the suit jacket off Artem's hands and drape it over the sofa. With that taken care of, you turn towards Artem's back again, and whisper directly into his ear "Sit up straight, but lean forward a little so I can give you a massage?"

Artem looks up at you, this is not part of the script. You are adlibbing at this point, and you carefully place your hands on his shoulders.

You pretend not to notice his initial confusion, and begin by pressing both of your thumbs by each shoulder, and slowly, with considerable pressure you move your thumbs toward Artem's spine.

You hear him groan softly in relief, before he catches himself and clears his throat.

This cute reaction from him makes you smile a little.

You repeat the motions, loosening the knots on his shoulders through the fabric of his shirt.

Then, your hands wander down ever so slowly to his chest, you bending over closer to him from behind, so close so he can smell your perfume...

You hear his breathing hitch. You see his ears burning red. Even his skin turns warmer to the touch through the cotton.

Artem is getting flustered.

This is no longer part of the massage of course, but a bit of the sweet poison that you lay out for him so that he slowly sinks into your trap.

Just a little more. Just a little more.

One last push.

"Let me forward you the second half of the script." Your left hand does not leave his chest--you make sure that he is not distracted away by your touch--and so you are left with your free hand to fish out your phone and, with an awkward fumble, transfer the file over to him.

It only takes less than ten seconds to register the gasp coming from Artem's lips as he finally reads the second part of the script.

"Rosa? T-this is..."

"Hm, Artem?" You want the words to come from him.

He gulps. "This is. An erotica."

"Yes it is, Artem," you whisper sweetly to his ear. "I picked it for the both of us to perform."

You see his hands grip the armrests of your chair tightly--he is clearly getting wound up. You need to act now, before he wrests away from your grasp.

With one swift motion you turn the swivel chair so he faces you.

You bend over, bringing your face right next to his. His lips are now millimeters away from your own, and it is taking the strength of your entire being not to capture with your lips those stern, yet soft ribbons that you sometimes catch yourself fantasizing about.

If fear has a scent, you would be saturated with it by now--Sweat is beading across his forehead, and you could even spy his lower lip trembling slightly--and yet his cerulean blues strive to hold your olive gaze in a valiant effort to safeguard his pride.

You place your hands on his knees. "Artem." His name comes sweetly upon your lips.

"Yes," he manages to reply, trying his hardest to keep himself from falling apart in front of you.

Your slender hands slowly glide across the herringbone fabric of his pants, stopping just nearby his crotch.

"I've wanted, wanted you for so long," comes your confession. "Can I..."

"Can I taste you?"

This is now or never, then.

And then you bring your lips to his for a kiss.

When you feel his arms finally pulling you even closer to him, you can only sigh in victory.

Finally.

Eventually he parts his lips, and you close your eyes, softly nibbling on his lower lip with the tiniest of kisses. Then your tongue slips in, and you allow yourself to moan as Artem sucks on it quite needily.

Softly you caress his cheek with the lightest of touches. "Artem, relax," you breathe softly on his lips. "Let's enjoy this."

You carefully straddle his lap so as not to startle him too much; as you do so your skirt hitches up, and your little trick is finally revealed: you are not wearing any underwear.

Impishly you take his hands, and guide them to your bare bottom.

"Rosa...?" Artem's eyes widen slightly, then once again the crimson blush overtakes his face. "W-what are you doing..."

"I did say that I wanted to taste you for so long, Artem." You smile at him; and you slowly undress while still on his lap: you shrug off your blazer, letting it fall off to the floor. Your blouse comes next. And your skirt, you only gather up to your waist.

You are left naked on his lap.

But before Artem could do anything yet you climb down from his lap and kneel in front of him.

"You're too nervous," Your fingers undo his belt buckle and the buttons of his pants. "Let me help you relax..."

When you finally pull on the zipper, Artem's breath stops--until you give a tentative lick on his raging hard on through his underwear.

"Ssh. Just lie back and enjoy, okay?"

"Rosa, I..."

Your fingers slip into the band of his underwear, grabbing the base of his cock and freeing it. "Let go, and enjoy."

Slowly you lower your mouth around his shaft, the tip of your tongue teasing that sweet spot underneath the tip. You start sucking gently, making lewd, wet sounds as you bob your head up and down his cock.

"Damnit. Rosa--" you can feel Artem writhe in his seat. You try humming in the back of your throat, letting the resulting thrum cause tiny vibrations as you massage the shaft inside your mouth with your tongue.

Soon his hands thread fingers through your hair--holding your head in place as he starts thrusting into your mouth, the tip of his cock hitting the back of your throat over and over causing tears to run down your cheeks.

"Mmph--" You grasp at the shaft that could not fit into your mouth, helping Artem along in achieving his release.

"Oh god, oh god," Artem moans, teeth gritting. "Rosa, I'm sorry, I--"

Before he could finish what he has to say, his come gushes into your mouth, shooting directly to the back of your throat.

Wanting to make Artem's first blowjob one of the best he's ever had, you eagerly take in as much of his cock as you can, as his shaft spasms inside your mouth.

"Let me clean you up," you murmur as your lips and tongue lightly suck on the stray drops and traces of come.

Artem slumps deeper into your swivel chair, an arm covering his eyes. "Hahh...damn...that felt...good?"

"Doesn't it?" you ask as you once again climb onto his lap. Artem is a bit overwhelmed by the release, however, so you just hold him close, cradling his face next to your breasts. "Do you like it?"

"Mm. Yeah." His lips feel warm on your skin. "I like it."

"Think we can do that in the office?"

"Hell no."

"Aw."

"...but...maybe...I don't know. We'll see."

Vyn

For Vyn, you slip into his office in the NXX Headquarters wearing nothing but your lacy black lingerie and stilettos.

There's no need to for further preparation when it comes to him--judging by the incessant overtures Vyn always throws your way, you know that he would probably just welcome you to his bed should you explicitly ask him to pretty please fuck you.

When you enter his office Vyn has his back towards you, him staring out through the windows overlooking his garden outside.

Then, noticing your presence, he turns around and gives you a cordial smile, as if he has been waiting for you all these time. "Ah, Rosa, our little hardworking succubus," he says with his gentle voice. "Is it finally my turn now?"

He has been watching my security camera footage. You briefly wonder if he even saved the video files into his phone for...personal use.

"Take a guess?" You return his smile. "Or are you too busy, Dr. Richter?"

Vyn walks over to you, his arms open wide to receive you in a warm hug, like greeting a close friend. "I did tell you, dear Rosa, that you can call on me anytime, and I will come for you."

He then touches you chin, guiding your lips to his in a soft, tender kiss.

"How I have longed for you," he says as he pulls away from the kiss, his gold eyes misty with need.

"Dr. Richter?"

He only smiles at you, wordlessly.

Then he takes off his white laboratory coat, and drapes it over your shoulder.

"I'm not really cold, Dr. Richter," you say. "Why are you covering me up?"

Vyn allows himself a soft laugh. "My dear Rosa, I am not covering you up," he says as he takes you by the hand towards his executive chair; as he sits down he invites you plant yourself onto his lap. "Sit here on me?"

Settling down on Vyn's lap like a good little succubus that you are, you ask, "what do you mean, your coat is not for covering me up?"

Vyn then idly lets his index finger toy with the edges of your bra, running the fingertip underneath the garter and the lacy edging. "It is not to cover you up, yes," he repeats himself.

When you look into his eyes what stares back at you is no longer the the genial smile that he is well known for, but rather the wolfish gaze that threatens to eat you whole.

"It is to mark you mine."

Then the sparkle once again returns to his eyes, Vyn's lips curling in that usual poker smile of his.

Despite yourself you find yourself blushing, and a bit nervous--you have willingly perched yourself in Vyn's lap, his arms now around your waist, and there is nowhere left to go. Like a snake coiled around his prey.

"Well, Rosa," Vyn now undoes his wine red necktie, slipping it off his collar and gathering the silk strip in his hands. "You will find me quite easy. Or," he tips his head to one side, as if to inquire, "Do you want me to pose a bit of challenge too, like Luke and Marius did?"

You shake your head. "No, thank you, Dr. Richter," you stretch out your arms, wrapping them around his neck. "No. I'm actually glad you're letting me relax this time around." Your lips meet with his, your tongues entwining with each other languorously.

"Artem required a bit of work, most especially," You say as you resurface from the lazy kiss. "Took a lot of preparation."

"Oh? And here I thought I am not the last one in your list." Vyn's thumbs hitch up you bra to finally free your breasts. "Where did you fuck your senior partner?"

You proceed to tell him the basic details of your conquest on Artem.

"That is most impressive," Vyn murmurs before he dips down to let his tongue traces the edge of your areola. "He is very lucky to have a good first sexual experience." His lips then gently bite on your nipple, eliciting a soft moan from you.

"He should be so lucky to have you."

You feel Vyn's mood going a bit too somber, so you say "Well, I did save the best for last."

"Flattery will get you nowhere, my pet," but despite his words Vyn smiles a little. "So, before we formally start...do you have any unresolved issues that you may want to discuss with me first?"

"You," your reply comes quickly. "You are my unresolved issue, Dr. Vyn Richter."

(Then it hits you, the reason why you always thought there's something different about Vyn Richter that you couldn't quite pin down. The most plausible explanation that you can come up with is that Vyn is like one of those magic pictures you had as a child--lenticular images--where one image when looked at from a different angle becomes a different image. This realization unnerves you a little.)

"Really now," Vyn smiles rather greedily this time. "Let us play, then."

===

"Vyn! Aah, please...!"

Both of you are still in Vyn's executive chair, you bouncing on Vyn's cock while blindfolded with his necktie and hands bound to your back by his handkerchief.

You are still wearing his lab coat--he has been adamant in having you wear it during your entire play.

Vyn grunts quietly as he thrusts underneath you, his cock meeting your hard descent with his own rough thrusts. His hands do not touch you--he makes it a point to have his cock and thighs your only point of contact.

His hands will only reach out to catch you if if you go too far off the edge towards his knees, in danger of falling off your lap.

"Please, Vyn, let me touch myself, I want to come!"

"Hahh--no, not yet," Vyn says in between thrusts. "Not yet."

You can only whimper in reply.

Your head feels a little lightheaded, and your repeated up, down movement jostling your head and insides are threatening to drive you utterly mad. If you could bend just a bit, if you could make Vyn's cock hit you at a certain angle, maybe it could rub against--

"Ah...!" You feel yourself tilting far too forward, but before you fall off Vyn catches you with his strong arms, pulling you back towards him without missing the rhythm of his thrusts.

"You should be more--ahn--careful--" Vyn hisses as he corrects your position. "You could hurt yourself."

"I want to come, please, Vyn." This is the first time that you feel like you are on the verge of vaginal orgasm, however you cannot quite reach it yet--a maddening sexual version of the sneeze that never comes out--and you want something, anything to rub at your clit to grant your release.

The blindfold is also making things worse--your sense of touch is amped up to such a degree that the simple touch of Vyn's fingertips on your skin is guaranteed to cause goosebumps.

"Please, I'll do anything, anything....Just let me come!"

This catches his attention. "Anything?"

"Yes!" you hiss, no longer caring that your words will have consequences, and that you are around the worst person when it comes to letting their words hold power over you. "Anything...!"

"Then tell me--hahh--that you're only mine." Vyn's thrusts become even more forceful, and at a faster cadence. "Mine!"

"Yours, I'm yours Vyn, no one else's!" you cry out loud. "Please--"

"Say it again."

"Yours, yours, Vyn Richter!"

And then you feel Vyn's fingers reach over to brush at your now begging nub, coaxing it into a explosion of utter pleasure further amplified by your lack of sight, making you cry out a high-pitched moan that you are sure would be heard outside Vyn's office.

"You are--mine, ah--!" Vyn cries out as his seed spills inside you.

===

Vyn watches you take a nap in his embrace, your face nestled in the crook of his neck.

Fingertips brush away stray strands of hair from your forehead.

You told him you are his, but he knows--as most do as part of common knowledge--that words said in the throes of sexual climax do not count for anything.

It was nice to hear at least.

Vyn plants a kiss on your forehead as you slumber. As long as he can touch you, he should be content.

Bonus: Rosa gets totally serviced

Unbeknownst to Rosa, NXX-OS has a folder hidden by an additional layer of encryption. Vyn had this prepared as part of a contingency measure for when shit has properly hit the fan, so to speak, like in situations where nobody knows who is betraying NXX, etc. Access to this folder is currently limited to him and those he invites on a per case basis.

He does not expect that the first entry in this hidden folder will be the following:

Surprise Birthday Party for Rosa

Involved Parties: Adjudicator, King, Libra, Raven, Rosa

Handled by: Adjudicator

Case Details

We need not elaborate too much on the service that the male members of NXX have recently received from our dear muse. Given that we were immensely satisfied by whatever we have received, we should return the favor in kind for her upcoming birthday on dd/mm/yy

Some degree of planning is required to achieve the perfect return gift for our beloved muse. May I ask that each of us give a brief description of what he received from Rosa, so we can incorporate it into our plans. Of course, you may feel free to add your suggestions.

PS - None of your shitposts, King

Adjudicator: I shall start the thread. She indulged my predilection for uniforms. I am suggesting we incorporate an article of costume on our person while we service her.

King: What do you mean shitposting? I own the infra this entire thing is sitting on. Anyway she wore a little costume for me too. It's not just you Judge lol

Adjudicator: I meant my uniform. This is also what I meant by shitposting, King.

King: Your uniform? Man you are such an utter narcissist

Libra: Cut it out. We need to decide immediately, her birthday is coming up in two weeks.

Libra: She did not wear costume of any kind for me. I only received some...service.

King: You don't have to be shy about it.

Libra: I reserve my right to keep the details to myself.

Adjudicator: That precisely defeats the point of this secret chat, Libra.

Libra: Fine. She put on a little roleplay for me. It was based on a screenplay she chose.

King: And?

Libra: She gave me a massage to ease tension on my muscles.

King: "massage"

King: Anyway yeah for me I got her in a cute costume and we did it in the server room. Pretty hot.

Adjudicator: That certainly explains why we had an alignment problem with one of the server racks and damage to a blade server.

Adjudicator: We kept to ourselves in the comfort of my office. She was utterly delicious on my lap.

Raven: Don't turn this into a goddamn pissing contest

Raven: As for me, she surprised me in the automobile bay as I was doing maintenance on my bike. We did it there.

King: ...Wow. In whose car?

Raven: No one's.

King: Lol ok. Wish you guys victimized someone's car at least.

Adjudicator: We finally identify the main elements that we need to incorporate in our birthday surprise for Rosa: costume, roleplay, massage/stress relief, service.

Adjudicator: Basic but important nonetheless. King, do you have any ideas for a location?

King: One step ahead of you. I had a feeling this'll need a really private setting. So I just finalized arrangements to reserve an entire island off Nosta coast

Libra: Sounds about perfect.

Your head is throbbing slightly when you come to.

The sun feels too bright, even with your eyelids closed. Strangely enough...you are smelling the sea breeze, and the sounds you hear are the crashing of the waves and the occasional crying of seagulls.

You have not opened your eyes yet, but you already know you are somewhere not in familiar territory.

I must still be dreaming...

Then you open your eyes, fully expecting to see the familiar sight of your room's interior. But what you actually see--

When you look around, all you see is sand, and the endless blue sea right in front of you. This is when you notice that you are lying on a recliner underneath the comfortable shade coming from a sizable rainbow-colored beach umbrella staked into the sand beside you.

You move a little, and it is when you realize that you are no longer wearing the sundress you slipped into early this morning, but instead donning a cute little number in pink with white ruffled trimming; a beach dress.

What the hell is going on?

The last thing that you remember was meeting Dr. Richter for morning tea. You also remember finding it strange, that the psychiatrist infamous for sleeping in is inviting you to tea at exactly seven in the morning, but you had pegged it as part of something he prepared for your birthday--which is today--and happily obliged anyway.

Your memory cuts off when you took a sip of the tea he offered you--

"Are you comfortable, madam?" comes a very familiar voice behind you, interrupting your thoughts.

You turn, about to call his name, but what you see has your mouth agape leaving you quite speechless.

Dr. Richter approaches you, in a black button down shirt and casual slacks--nothing out of the ordinary--however, around his waist is a pure white frilly apron reminiscent of what French maids wear, with a matching lacy headband adorning his silver hair.

A silver tray bearing what looks to be a multilayered parfait is expertly balanced on his left hand.

"Um. Ah." Your mouth finally remembers how to make sounds, but your brain doesn't quite catch up to form words.

Dr. Richter, in a white frilly apron, and a lacy headpiece with black ribbons is something your brain wouldn't be able to come up with on its own, not even for a fever dream.

He sets the tray on a nearby folding table and unfolds a stool to sit beside you. "You must be getting thirsty on this hot day."

It is rather hot, but the sea breeze is refreshing enough to dispel the heat under the shade of the umbrella.

You look at Dr. Richter in his makeshift maid/butler outfit as he reached for a what looks to be a glass filled with parfait, and a silver spoon.

"Um. Dr. Richter, what...where are we?" You finally regain your ability to speak.

He only gently smiles at you. "Today, I am not Dr. Richter," he says in his gentle voice laced with an unmistakable seductive undertone. "Just call me Vyn, madam."

"Um. Sure." You totally don't know what to say to that. "Vyn."

He does not answer your question, but you are too flustered to insist. Dr. Richter in an apron, sure, but the headband?

"Let me treat you. I am sure you are...thirsty."

You gulped. Having just woken up, your throat does feel dry...and the multicolored layered parfait in Vyn's hands does look refreshing...

You lick your lips.

Vyn then spoons a bit of the parfait, including the cherry topping, but instead of lifting the spoon laden with delectable ice to your lips he puts it into his mouth instead.

Oh shit.

You know where this is going, and your heart races.

He coaxes you to lie back down, with one of his hands supporting the back of your head, holding your face to his.

His other hand wanders to your thigh, caressing your skin as he obviously indulges in you. His touch is electric--his cool fingertips makes the tiny hairs of your thigh stand on end, and wetness to slowly gather in your inner folds.

With a gentle touch of his fingertips he guides your lips to his. This time, you know what he is about to do, and you make sure your lips perfectly lock with his as his tongue pushes the refreshingly cold, sweet treat into your mouth.

A layer of orange sorbet, and cherry. The tart and sweet flavors melt perfectly on your taste buds bringing with it sweet, cool relief from the parched dryness of your mouth and throat. It would be so wholesome, if it weren't for the fact that a man is kissing you at the same time you enjoy the exquisitely flavored ice melting in your mouth.

Vyn still lingers in your mouth even after the successful delivery of the icy refreshment, and you eventually gulp down the treat even with his tongue entwining with yours--making you dribble a bit of molten sorbet down the corner of your lips.

It turns you on so much that you cannot help but moan as you return his cold, icy kiss.

He however resurfaces from the embrace, and flashes you that goddamn mysterious, Vyn-like smile that just sends your nethers gushing to critical levels. "We still have to finish your parfait, madam" he gently reminds you. "Or do you want additional...service instead?"

"S-service...?"

Vyn bites his lower lip seductively and gives you that small, mischievous wink. "Service," is all he says.

He is about to dip his mouth to your neck, when--

"Ehh, Vyn, are you starting already?" comes another voice from behind you. "You said you were just going to check on her!"

You spy a flash of annoyance on Vyn's gold eyes before you turn around to see Marius--in tight swimming trunks that show off his athletic physique. Including his abs.

And, on his head is a pair of dark purple-black cat ears.

Oh god. Too cute. You can't help but bring a hand to your face.

Marius is carrying a cooler, and when he turns to set the cooler chest beside your recliner you see that there is a cat tail attached to his trunks. You also notice that the Z pendant he almost always wears on his person is replaced with a tiny bell.

Too fucking cute!

"Um you two...what...what is going on?" you ask, this time demanding an answer from both tutor and student. "I'm really sorry and I really don't want to break the mood but--but--"

Words fail you yet again, because you can't even decide where to start questioning: the location, the costumes, and how they are acting, among other things.

"Relaaaax Missy," Marius purrs. "Today is your day, so just stretch out, chill, and let us..." he licks his lips languorously, "service you."'

You then turn to Vyn who says nothing, instead devouring you with lustful grin.

"Heehee. Missy, what do you think so far?" Marius grins as he kneels beside you and places his head on your lap. "Oh right," he says, as if he just remembered something.

"Nya~" Marius purrs, raising a hand with curled fingers in an imitation of a cat paw. "This sight is only for you Missy Lawyer, so you better enjoy it!" And he quickly appends, "Nya~"

Holy shit.

(At the back of your head you mentally jot down notes to remind yourself later on to come up with more swear words to shout inwardly. You are running out of them the more you spend time in NXX.)

You can feel so much heat flowing to your face that you start fanning yourself with your hands.

"Eheheh, you like me, don't you? Missy~" Marius gently bunts the top of his head to your cheek, exactly like how affectionate cats do. "Come on. Come on, give me a kiss, nya~"

"You are making madam flustered, Marius," Vyn chides him. "She is already overheated as she is."

"As if you weren't totally going all the way before I came here," Marius retorted, his arms now wrapped around your shoulders possessively.

"I was cooling her down with my parfait."

Marius makes a show of squinting at Vyn. "Riiiiight."

"Um. Ah...Marius? Vyn?" You say, but realize you do not have a reasonable way to put something like could you please be nice and share? without making you sound as if you are a toy being fought over.

"Very well then, I suppose I did have my moment already," Vyn concedes.

"Yay." Marius then proceeds to gather your face gently in his hands. "Hey," he purrs. "I know I'm not supposed to be a puppy, but can you tell me if I've been a good boy?" His purple eyes stare at you, quite needful. "I am, yeah?"

His lips briefly brush your ear. "Nya~" he whispers directly into your ear in a low voice, almost baritone.

"Hah--Marius, yes," Your hands shakily ruffle his dark hair, careful not to accidentally knock off his cat ear headband. "Yes. A really, really good boy." Oh my god. This is just too much.

"Hooray." Marius then gives you a childish grin, then in a split second the grin is replaced with a more primal, lustful expression. "Shit. I'm too turned on, sorry Vyn," he whispers urgently as his hands knead your breasts through the thin fabric of your beach dress--this is when you realize whoever changed your outfit did not replace your underwear--and your nipples turn to hard sensitive peaks against his palms.

"Hahh--Mariu--mmph!" Whatever you want to say can only wait, as Marius has started aggressively sucking on your tongue.

Not to be left out, Vyn takes one of your hands and slowly sucks each of your fingers slowly, putting them one by one into his mouth starting with your pinky. His free hand wanders to your naked mound, teasing your clit as he enjoys the show of Marius heavily making out with you.

Someone coughs from a few paces away.

"Vyn, Marius," comes a stern voice.

"Vyn, of all people I did not expect you to deviate from the program that we have planned," says another, one that you have known for most of your life.

Vyn takes out your ring finger from his mouth and just looks at Artem and Luke over his shoulder. "It is but a guideline, not a procedure," his words come out in an almost drawl.

Luke sighs, putting down the large box of various supplies that he had been carrying. "Oh well. Not like we can't still do it." He then cracks his knuckles. "I'm all good."

"Er...maybe we need to let Marius and Vyn...finish whatever they are doing, first?" Artem mutters in a low voice, obviously blushing. He then pretends to be busy putting away the things he carried to the site: chiller bags, most probably food ingredients for him to prepare and cook.

When Marius finally lets go of you you clearly see what the other two are wearing: Luke has board shorts on--with chocolate brown puppy dog ears on his head.

You fight the urge to extricate yourself from Marius and Vyn to throw your arms around Luke and smother him in kisses.

Artem is slightly different. He is wearing the same kind of swim trunks that Marius has on him, only in a different color--dark red--but he has no headpiece on, animal ear nor lace ruffles.

Instead, what he has on is his necktie around his bare neck, the strip of silk hanging across his bare, sculpted chest.

Shit. This is one of those things that I only get to enjoy only once in my lifetime, huh.

"Guys," The word comes out strained, with you overcome with emotion that you could not comprehend. "I'm not sure how I deserve this but...but...haha..."

You smile, the brightest smile you can muster, complete with the ear to ear grin. "Thank you!"

Somehow the lusty mood lightens up a bit with your words and, all four of them smile back at you gently.

"Happy birthday, dear Rosa," Vyn says, planting a peck on your cheek. Soon after the other three follows with their own well-wishes, last of which is Artem, who is holding a folded piece of paper for you to read out.

"Happy birthday, Rosa," Artem says, handing to you the slip of paper. It is folded, but you can make out that it is of legal size.

"That's my birthday gift to you. I hope...you like it."

You unfold the paper and give its contents a read.

The farther you go into the text the wider your mouth opens.

"Artem," you gasp, "I--I can't make you do this! You can't possibly shave my workload this much for a year!"

"Ah. I have gone over the details with Celestine for some time. It is all planned out." Artem grasps your hand, shyly planting a kiss on your knuckle. "Don't worry about it. The newer hires need the training."

You somehow blush at the gesture--it is the most chaste that you have received so far, and so cute.

"So, our little hard working succubus," Vyn says as he stands up from his stool, "Please enjoy your day today--I believe these two," he motions to Luke and Artem, "Have prepared themselves to give you a well overdue massage."

"Oh? How n--wah?" You are about to comment on how delighted you are at the idea of getting a massage, only to be interrupted by Luke and Artem taking off your dress, slipping it off your shoulders in a mere millisecond.

You do not have any underwear on, so you are now literally in your birthday suit.

Artem shakes a bottle of body oil in his hand as he takes over the stool that Vyn recently vacated. "Lie on your stomach, Rosa," he says, voice gentle. "I'm not really an expert on this but--" he clears his throat. "I know I'm mostly the cause of your back aches with all the overtime you have spent no thanks to the work that I assigned you.

"If it's alright, let me help ease your discomfort."

Luke, for his part, takes his spot by the other end of your recliner, getting ready to give your perpetually-tired feet a rubdown they finally deserve.

He stretches his fingers and checks if there are any knuckles left uncracked. "Lemme know if it hurts, I'll adjust, okay?"

===

Vyn and Marius settle themselves by the breakwater, Rosa's spot with Artem and Luke in full view, from a distance.

Vyn, still wearing his lace headband and apron, is drinking red wine off a paper cup, deep in thought.

Marius, fiddling his cat ear headband with his right hand, is sipping on a can of beer that is slowly growing lukewarm.

Despite the distance they could hear Rosa's loud moaning. Either Artem and Luke are doing too much of a good job with the massage, or they have now moved on to doing something else--it is hard to make out as the beach umbrella obscured part of the view.

"Wow, look at them go," murmured Marius as he takes a swig of his beer.

"Heh. Jealous?" Vyn coolly looks at Marius as he sips on his cup.

"You're one to talk." Marius throws the now empty beer can into the air and tries to catch it in a turning kick. He misses spectacularly. "You haven't been saying anything ever since we left our spot."

"I am just working out the...schematics of our relationships in my head, nothing more." Vyn turns to reach for the bottle of red wine and refilled his cup. "Have you figured out how her parents may possibly be related to the NXX case?"

"I only have fuzzy facts at best," Marius shrugged. "Hell, even Luke's parents had their data scrubbed off and the NSB can't do anything to trace whatever it is they were really working on."

"We may need to keep an eye out." Vyn says as he takes another sip. He does not elaborate.

"Mhm." Marius then faces his tutor. "Still, you are jealous, aren't you?" He grins, looking down at Vyn's face--he easily towers over him in height.

Vyn only gives him a side-eye in response.

Rosa's moans have now turned into almost sobs, and if they strain their hearing hard enough they may hear both Luke's and Artem's ragged sounds.

"Ehehe." Marius smirks at Vyn, slightly bending over to look at him squarely in the eye. "I'm here, you know."

"What are you insinuating, Marius."

"You know what I mean."

"Heh. So we are going to play this game?" Vyn then faces Marius and, for good measure moves even closer to the other man, so close that he could smell the alcohol in his breath. "Again?"

"I think not, student" Vyn murmurs quite menacingly, a cold glint in his eyes. "Know your place."

Vyn then lets out a laugh and pulls away, making his way back to Rosa and the others. "I am going back there to reclaim my place as Rosa's diligent whipping-boy."

Marius kicks the sand, clearly frustrated.

"Tch."

[some-creep]

Bayonetta 3 thoughts in no particular order:

Most of the music was mid. Some of it just sounds like movie score to me.

Let's dance boys third climax is a better song but a worse dance than the first game.

Lumens are mentioned once at the start of the game as creating the island and they are never brought up again.

Too much of this game's plot was shoved into files I didn't read.

Seriously the game reveals that Sigurd is Singularity but it's revealed in a file that no actually he isn't. What was the point of that

There should have been a lumen bayonetta. That's such an obvious au I don't know why they didn't do it.

In fact bayonetta probably should have just been singularity. No I haven't thought this through it would require plot restructuring but it would be more interesting if still incredibly stupid.

This game really hates Jeanne. The first alt Jeanne we see dies. China and France don't even have Jeannes.

Egypt Jeanne and Bayo switching princess roles could have been interesting except Egypt Bayonetta is fucking annoying.

Why do you only play as e girl Bayonetta in Japan and this never comes up again.

China bayonetta is in the trailer and barely features in her level even though her design was the most interesting.

Bayonetta never reacts to uhhhhh well anything really. But especially seeing her other selves die.

She kills a bunch of humans and this is kinda just a thing that happens and doesn't matter.

Rosa existed just to die again only they never interacted so who cares.

I like Viola :)

I hate PLAYING as Viola. Changing the button for witch time just confuses me so I do very badly as her :( #skillissue

Bayonetta 1 2 and 3 all being different people with baby cereza from 1 specially being bayo from 3 suggests that as a child bayo from 1 had a beehive haircut since apparently they never change their hairstyles.

The part you play as b1 bayo in the singularity fight at the end with the HUD from b1 was cool if not shameless nostalgia bait. But why didn't 2 get a feature? That was disappointing.

Luka being a magic fairy werewolf is so fucking stupid and he isn't a substitute for a proper rival fight I don't care what anyone says

Luka being a magic fairy means his dad died like a bitch for no reason and that's funny

Apparently seeking the one truth is why he became an investigative journalist meaning it had nothing to do with the very obvious things he was investigating in 1

Viola being able to do witch time suggests that umbra magic is passed through hereditary when it isn't. Umbra and lumens are just humans who learned magic

I guess bayo could have taught her but I don't think it's ever mentioned and since fairy transformations are hereditary I guess so is being a witch

One of the cut chapters was another Jeanne chapter. The game really really hates Jeanne and I don't know why.

Enzo's family is killed and it's played for a joke I guess even though it's not actually very funny it's just tonally really weird.

Was Bayonetta always an important title you pass on because I don't think it was and none of my friends seem to remember that either.

A lot of individual parts are really good but this game is truly less than the sum of its parts.

Bayo saying she and Luka have always been together is just straight up actually not true. It's actually weird how not true that is.

I don't care if it's an au that doesn't mean it has to be bad :(

Viola still could have been bayo and Lukas daughter from another universe without them getting together in the one we play in. What's the point of an AU if the outcome is always the same

No one mentions jpegnetta at the end of the game because they're not on screen very long but am the extra bayos are just crude jpegs of concept art it's really funny

Is no one gonna talk about the optics of rodin being a demon slave. No? Alright

Secret chapter was cute I liked the outfit but it looks bad in the main game. Actually she kinda looks like Katzy (?) From sailor moon

I assume the fairies + this are setting up for dlc or a sequel but it'll be incredibly funny if neither of those things happen.

"You bitch!"