#seems like the leech arc is close to done

[b-kut]

I know what you are

[1218-814]

Jade Leech Analysis and Theories

Again this is for myself, loosely based off of what other ppl think, but he's my kin so I may be biased

requested by @thehollowwriter

His actual Personality (Iced Tea Theory) and his hobby

No one has actually gotten Jade's trust and trusted him back. He's desperately trying though, but he's not getting the right idea of how. His actual personality is frozen, but the only one that comes the closest to helping him is surprising: Kalim Al-Asim.

For Jade, you have to dump a ton of sugar (sweet love) into the tea.

Remember what he said in response to the tea?

"It feels like all my teeth will fall out."

What is Jade's unique magic written as?

"The teeth that bite."

I'm going to call Jade's actual personality iced tea for this reason.

Also, the mushrooms are a metaphor, as well as Jack’s cacti, for personality. Jack and the Octavinelle trio are from a cold place, Jack comes from the snowy region and Octavinelle comes from the icy ocean. Cacti grow poorly in cold places, which equals undeveloped Jade, which needs some sun and warm air to grow. It’s odd how suddenly there’s the story about a cactus and the detailed reason just to go to the greenhouse. And how much they emphasized that Jack is from a snowy country.

Jack said that he wanted to get his cactus some light in the greenhouse, and Octavinelle showed up, together, which is weird to me. 

Maybe this is what happened in the even (as in odd or even) chapters with Octavinelle. Ace and Deuce don’t seem to have memories of Atlantica Museum, and other positive things in that arc. Maybe the one who blotted was Jade? (There are different plot lines if you look closely, wasn’t it odd that you see how Malles was feared in the main story, but not in Halloween events? Even in part 5 how Ace and Deuce were like “long time no see” when you saw them before the end of 4?)

I think even at this point, his clinginess hasn’t resolved; so Azul and Floyd are accepting it, saying to him “Let’s change it little by little”. I mean it’s hard for someone like Jade, who lives for someone else to be just told “live for yourself!”.

I mean Azul asks him what he should do when Jack ruined his mushrooms; which I assume is letting him decide what he wants to do, as a part of helping him live his own life.

Jade talks to someone he doesn’t know from him, and the mushrooms are near a “sunny place” (with cloth). Azul insults him with a serious face and Floyd calls them “mushrooms” not “shitake”. Jade being in the middle is especially the weirdest. This is highly unlike them, and I think they want to “face Jade properly more”. 

Jade fake cried, which I assume is a form of therapy; even if it’s fake, it’s teaching him “that it’s okay to cry, tell us your feelings”.  Yes, even if Jack worked at Mostro Lounge, he has no merit, but Floyd said “Yeah let’s do that.”, which is a really good response because if he said that he would have no merit, the situation would go back to “listening to others, instead of yourself”.

He dragged the whole thing, and Floyd oddly didn’t complain about it, and he touched Jack’s ears. I think he wanted to do that from the beginning, and he didn’t go “Oya oya Floyd” and ignore his own thoughts/opinion. And Floyd said that they were “Jade’s treasure”, as opposed to in Jade’s lab coat when he said to throw it away.

Jade's heart is expressed as teeth, something sharp/hard and protected, and in Jack's lab coat story, I also assume the reason why they put the mushrooms in a sunny place is that it's a metaphor for Jade's real self-being "defrosted." Remember what Jack did? He threw Jade’s mushrooms away. I think this is expressing what people have done to him; the softest part of his heart is trampled and thrown away "for the time being" and "somehow" Jack and Jade are on opposite teams on Beans Day, probably because Jack is Jade's "Night", but Azul is Jade's "Day".

Jade wants to be defrosted by Azul, and that's why his relationship with him is co-dependent.

Jades and diamonds are kind of similar in a way; Diamonds are the toughest stone but are brittle. Jades are not as hard and easy to scratch, but they have a very strong toughness and are hard to break. (Cater and Jade)

Jade and his little… attachment Issues

Jade is so silly,  we all know he’s lowkey psychotic and loves Azul but he himself most likely doesn’t. I personally relate to him heavily and know most likely what he is thinking so let me explain his attachment to Azul. Think of Jade as a little child, or Ariel from the little mermaid, but she’s, like, 190 cm.

Do you know those people that are attached to one person? Jade is basically that with Azul, but a little hard (?) to tell. So you know how I said that Jade grows mushrooms because Azul praised him once for it? That is why he has that attachment; this goes for why he takes care of Floyd, it's something that he was praised for, something that gives him an “identity”.

He visibly sighs during flying classes, which reflects how it’s a very weak point for him while he’s very good at other things, so when he can’t do something less than another person can, it makes him stand out more. No praise no gain.  I know this is probably harder for people who aren’t like Jade to understand but basically, if you get praised by someone that you think understands you about something that you didn’t really know about yourself, you are like “Oh I didn’t know that!”. However, what he doesn’t know is that Azul doesn’t really understand Jade as much as Jade thinks. So when Azul says he’s someone that is “good at getting into people’s comfort”, he doesn’t really mean it as praise, but Jade takes it as one. His thought process is basically “If Azul, someone who I trust has good judgment because he always knows what people desire and what their weak points are, then there is no doubt that I am a bad guy who puts on a gentle and humble mask.”, and he believes that fake identity (also kinda gullible) as is. 

To Azul, he doesn’t trust Jade because he appears to have no desires that are to be gained through his contracts. It's fake but in a self-protection-type way. That illusion that he makes for himself makes him look strong, but deep down he is a very sensitive child. And that is why he became so attached to the little crybaby who spews out ink; he thinks they are the same in how sensitive and scared they are. Both haven’t been like this from the beginning, and that’s why Jade doesn’t fear the scheming personality of Azul. This also could apply to why he is okay with Trey (who is like him, but nice (?) and why he isn’t as close with Vil (who is someone who was born strong and honest about himself). Azul doesn’t notice because of hits low self-esteem

Just on a side note, I think Jade hates people who write stuff like this. This is a call-out post to some of the Jade kins out there. AKA me

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I pulled this one out of the grave too

This is a small chunk of Octa, the google doc I have is 50+ pages

They're like a lot of context needed bc I post my old posts out of order so if there's a request, I am willing to pull those out

[gralunaisland]

Hi you mentied in one of your post about Juvia sacrifice herself for Cana , and you had problems with it ? I would love to hear more of your thoughts on the matter (also I agree with Juvia friendship with the girls , it’s a shame we never saw Lucy snap at Juvia . Since Juvia always calling her a love rival , bimbo or just being mean . She post to be close to Gajeel but I can’t remember any scenes with them just bonding without Gray being involved in any conversation.)

Why the Cana v. juvia scene does not prove that juvia is a good person

Ah yes, I'm so glad you asked! It seems like you refer to a point I made in my Veritable Essay post, which is crazy long, so kudos to you for reading through it! For those who don't know, it's an analytical post picking apart a Pro's argument that I found floating around online.

My main issue with that Battle of Fairy Tail scene is that everything juvia said there comes off as disingenuous when you take into account her behavior throughout the rest of the anime. Sure, her words sound great and all here, but she doesn't act on them later. I'll explain down below.

First of all, she literally told Cana that her motivation was to prove herself to the guild, so clearly she had other motives. her exact words were "I wanted to prove to the guild that there's no reason to doubt me." she wanted to show hey look at me guys, I love Fairy Tail! Even though I didn't care WHATSOEVER when it disbanded! Even though the ONLY reason I joined was because the hawt ice wizard is a member! Even though I have NEVER formally apologized to any of the people I hurt during the Phantom Lord arc! But look at me, I'm a good person, I promise! You don't need to kick me out of Gray's guild! In the end, looking good to her guildmates really only helps her quest in snagging Gray for herself, because, as they actually do in the anime, they support juvia and admonish Gray for not returning her manic affections, aiding in gaslighting him until he thinks he's an awful human being for having basic boundaries and rights to consent.

I am not so jaded to believe she was thinking all these things consciously.

But all that really becomes true when you consider how she doesn't have any loyalty to Fairy Tail, only Gray.

You see that when, again, juvia only decided to join Fairy Tail because that's where Gray was. You see that where juvia tries to literally kill fellow guild member Lucy by making her air bubble smaller, because she saw her as a love rival. You see that clearly in the Daphne arc, where she shows that she doesn't care one lick that Gray betrayed and hurt everyone. You see that in juvia frolicking off to follow Gray after Fairy Tail disbanded, happily living her "best life" leeching off of Gray and invading his space without his consent (and the manga shows that she stayed despite him not wanting her there because he said she barged in and refused to leave, which she found funny). You see that when juvia wishes something horrible would happen to one of the Team Fairy Tail members in the Grand Magic Games just so she could join the team to be with Gray. You see that when juvia doesn't care at all about trying hard in the GMG even though it's their chance to make up for all of the hardships FT had to go through thanks to all the most powerful members being gone at Tenrou for 7 whole years and of course ends up lusting after Gray the whole time and being an idiot and failing. You see that when juvia excessively harasses and bullies other (supposedly beloved by her) Fairy Tail members like Lucy and any living, breathing woman (and even a freaking Exceed, Frosch, not to mention a literal child, Wendy).

her inconsistencies go on and on. her exact words of "I love all of you. The Fairy Tail guild will always be my home" in that Battle of Fairy Tail scene are proven completely false because of all that I've mentioned.

So, my real problem isn't with the scene by itself. If juvia had said and done all of those things and then changed her nasty behavior towards Gray and towards all the women by leaving them the heck alone and actually being kind to them for once, then it would have been a huge milestone for her (currently nonexistent) character growth. However, as I showed here, that is not the case. In the end, her words and actions in the Cana v. juvia v. Freed scene ring hollow and empty because her later actions do not prove them to be true. In fact, they prove them to be false. That's even worse, because it just shows how juvia really basically lied to Cana in that scene.

Moving on, I'm glad you agree about how juvia should have no friends thanks to her behavior. I really wish we got to see Lucy tell juvia what's what, but Mashima would never have his characters truly berate juvia for any of the horrendous things she does to them. Plus, Lucy is just a good person who wants to believe in the best in everyone.

And such a good point! juvia is supposedly close friends with Gajeel, but they really never interacted after the Phantom Lord arc, and even then, they interacted severely minorly. juvia really doesn't make "friends" with anyone without Gray being involved somehow. (And before Pros mention Meldy/Meredy, she only became "special" to juvia because she "proved" to her that Gray "loved" her through her powers of linking people. So Gray was still included there.)

All in all, thank you for your ask and for your patience! I hope I explained things well enough!

[anti-katsuki-lounge]

Hii, how are ya?about the recents ask on kirishima and as a formally mha manga fan well... it makes me really sad and reflexive to think about the wasted potential and the negative way bakugo affects other characters :/ if only bakugo had actually changed and develop at least the situation would be more understable. Anyways recently re reading the manga i just wanted to say all those ask bring really good points, yet im sorry as an still kiri fan these days and feeling attachment to him i don't completly agree and have to defend him a little </3 can't really speak about other mha media but in the manga at least more clearly in the beginning kirishima wasn't in my opinion the yes man to bkg or dormant to his bad attitude, maybe these instants aren't very significant but they are still there, calling out all might to stop the exercise saying bkg is crazy and wanted to kill izuku, calling a jerk when he turn the other students agains 1-A, telling him not to be rude to shinsou, calling him an idiot for going his own way in the license exam, like idk it's frustrating because back in the day it really seem their relationship was going to be significant and develop so much more, kamino was the first significant step towards a right direction, it had an emphaisis in the story but then..well nothing happened after that, and that's were the problem starts which was really sad cause at that time their bond(never ship them) seem very sweet to me, bkg was still an horrible person and needed to do so much more to improve but in these instants it seem he still kinda had a soft spot for someone and gave a little reciprocity or a "kind" action(giving kr money), encouragement(the rappa fight flasback)at least in "his way" it was the only positive thing he had going on for me and i think so much more had to have happened after all of this, but then hori seem to forget completely about these two so we just had to assume they were friends now because we were told so thought never actually really shown except for the few(i can testify to this) interactions they have which all can paint this bad image of kr's purpose just to be bkg cheerleader and remind us that he "changed".

Excuse my english and all this blabler that became this really long ass essay but just wanted to share this with u, can't really hold some things against kr cause i still love him from a far and i'm sad that his closeness to that gary stue harmed his potential and sweet character that he still is cause he's not the only one that suffer from this bkg influence(that still doesn't make this situation better) will still read and love fix it's were they show him directly confront bakugou and take real actions that make bkg really change, take responsibilty and atone for all he's done

You bring up a very good point and it’s that Ejiro wasn’t always Katsuki’s “yes man”. Same thing with Denki. They vocalized disagreements with things Katsuki did. Sadly it’s once we hit the post-Sports Festival arc that the characters lose their sense of agency. Where they would normally voice their disagreement (even if it was brushed aside) became them supporting Katsuki every step of the way. Like I’ve said before Ejiro has some of the best writing in the series but it’s unfortunately sucked away by Katsuki the leech.

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Hope your day's going well! What are your top 5 favorite side characters?

My day is going good! (or was? It's 0102h right now, so I suppose it's tomorrow already. I worked the evening shift and got home late at night, haha). Sorry it took me so long to get to answering!! Thank you for sending this ask :) (based on this post)

Since media and franchise weren't specified, I will just be doing an overall Top 5 💜💜 I do have some criteria for myself that I've established as to what I consider a "side character", and that is characters who are not the main protagonist, who the audience does not know as much about as they do the main character, and who do not have a major/central arc within the story/plot that is focused on them. They may be supporting or background characters on either side of the main conflict, or hardly involved in the conflict at all. Keeping all this in mind; this list is still subjective to what I consider to be a side character, so some people may have different opinions :)

Top 5 Favourite Side Characters:

The Cabbage Vendor from Avatar: The Last Airbender. I love this man so much. The utter devastation when he cries "My cabbages!" is so top tier. He is literally just trying to make a living, and these damn teens keep messing up his produce. Honestly, do not even blame him for writing the "bad" adaptation of the avatar's adventures to be performed by the Fire Island Players; if teens continuously messed up my merchandise and destroyed my produce with their ridiculous fights about the "fate of the world" 🙄🙄🙄 I would try and make a buck off of it, too. Lol.

2. Kenpachi Zaraki from Bleach. Hmm, it's been a while since I talked about Kenpachi...and that's not ok! Let's rectify it. The man has a one-track mind; all he cares about is fight, fight fight. Being the strongest. Etc. But despite all that, he cares for Yachiru who is basically a child, he has the unwavering respect of Squad 11, he refuses to fight/pick on people weaker than him...and he's so strong🥰🥰 He would be able to pick me up one-handed, I guarantee. Delightful. I absolutely love Kenpachi!

3. Keeping on the Bleach theme, next is Rangiku Matsumoto! I really love her character. She comes across really ditzy and as if she relies a lot on her looks and party-like attitude. However, there are also moments where she's serious and thoughtful and deep; just enough moments to have me craving more. I really enjoy her character, and I think more could be done with her. Her ditzy personality seems to be more of a cover-up, to keep people unaware and lull them into a false sense of security. I know she is important to the Bleach story, and yet I feel like she was not given as much of a limelight as some of the others. I dunno, I just really cherish her in my heart. I actually have lots I want to write in terms of fanfiction for delving into her character. Maybe someday I will get around to putting it all down and posting it, ahaha.

4. Divus Crewel from Twisted Wonderland. I would marry him.

5. Amaimon from Blue Exorcist. Because, who doesn't love a homicidal maniacal demon? :D It was honestly quite close between Amaimon and Floyd Leech for the number 5 spot, but if I'm being honest: Amaimon was in my heart first, and he's just a bit more intense with his actions than Floyd (and I love that so much). To be honest, though, he and Floyd are like, same guy in a different font...lol.

Honourable mentions: Floyd Leech (Twisted Wonderland), Jade Leech (Twisted Wonderland), Ruggie Bucchi (Twisted wonderland), Usagi (Juuni Taisen/Zodiac Wars), Soifon (Bleach), Brelyna Maryon (Skyrim), Jane Bennet (Pride and Prejudice), Viktor Licht (Fire Force), Maki Oze (Fire Force)

(If you think there's a character who you assumed would be on my list or at least an honourable mention, but they're not there...it's likely because I consider them to be a main character by my standards 💜)

Hope you enjoyed my answer!

[blkgojo]

Two Superheroes, One Bed | Carol Danvers x Reader

In which, you and Carol hate each other, but have to share a bed. 

Request: Anonymous

Despite popular misconception being a former terrorist does not make people like you. If anything, it makes them hate you. Despise you. Question you incessently with things such as, "Why did you do this? What is wrong with you? How could you have justified those acts?" And to be honest, your answer was less than satisfying. There was no tragic backstory. No great villain speech. Just you and your hatred for the government.

Living in the Avenger facility did little to change that.

See, the thing about Carol Danvers was that she wasn't an "Earth" hero. Logically speaking, there should've been no reason you disliked eachother as much as you did. You didn't work for the Kree. You had no squabble with saving refugees from colonial rule. On paper, you two were two peas in a pod. Both looking after people who didn't have others to help them, but you hated her the moment you laid eyes on her. Carol Danvers with the huge ass ego. Carol Danvers who somehow was fighting an intergalactic empire, but saw no problem with the way the US military conducted business. She hated you because honestly, who likes a murderer. Redemption arc be damned. You know how it goes.

"I just feel like I've done nothing to deserve this."

"You've killed hundreds of people."

"In total, the Avengers have killed like 2000 so, I don't really see how that's relevant."

Natasha sighs. Steve steps forward and when you cut your eyes at him, he raises his hands in plea.

"Half the universe's population is gone. The US government just needs a win."

You nod slowly. "And sending me across the fucking galaxy with-" You gesture vaguely to the blonde who until that point had decided to be quiet. "- is somehow a win."

"I hate to say this, but I agree," Carol interjects. "I work better alone. Y/N will just hold me back."

"We just need someone to go back to the planet where the infinity stores were destroyed. Make sure there are no remnants."

"It'd be quicker if I did it by myself."

"Y/N is the only one with the ability to replicate organic life," Steve retorts. "If there's a possibility she can locate some particle of infinity stone and replicate that, we need to take that chance."

"It'd be good publicity for her image and it'd bring us one step closer to bringing them back," Natasha continues.

"The world needs you to put aside your differences for the mission."

That was another thing you regretted about joining the Avengers. Steve had no shortage of motivating speeches under his belt. The good thing about villains was that they weren't much for conversation - there was no need to give motivating speeches when the odds were in your favor.

But, people were gone. Wanda, the only one you remotely liked, was gone. Snapped. Looking at Carol now, it looks like she must've lost someone, too. Her unpleasant face looks somehow more restrained than it usually did.

You sigh and fold your arms. "Fine."

All Carol does is nod.

--

It would take two earth days to reach his planet. Two. There'd been complications with the engine and so, it would take not the twenty four hours you expected, you know the time span that was customary for light travel, but it would take two days. Between that and the ship having to lower the heat to maintain proper oxygen levels, it wasn't fun.

"I could fly us there," Carol offers.

"Are you forgetting I can't breathe in space?"

Carol shrugs. "You replicate organic life right? Just replicate yourself a new pair of lungs."

"Fuck you."

She smirks, takes the only other available chair next to you. At first, she seems content to annoy you by tapping her fingers against the dashboard. Then, she grows bored. Worse, she tries to talk to you.

"Isn't all of this stuff automated?"

"Yes."

"So," she begins, stretching out the word. "You don't actually need to be here monitoring it. You can get on the cot." She shrugs. "Take a nap."

"I'd rather keep watch."

You think that'll be it and she'll be done, but she continues. You never would've pegged her as the type to not like silence. But, maybe that's not even it. Maybe, she just wanted to squeeze information out of you. God knows you weren't exactly open with the other Avengers when Fury made you join.

"You ever been to outer space?"

You shake your head. "When you're flagged as a global liability they tend to prefer you on the ground."

"A global liability? Is that what terrorists call themselves?"

"At least, we don't give ourselves cutesy nicknames like Black Widow or Captain Marvel."

She scoffs. "No. You guys just blow up innocent civilians."

"Yeah, I guess accidentally killing them is way better." You smile thinly. "For the greater good and all, you know?"

She stares at you long enough that you don't think she'll actually speak. Finally, she looks away and out to the empty abyss in front of you. "I don't pretend to know what the Avengers did while I was off-world. I see them now and they're good people."

You don't respond and she continues. "You must agree. Otherwise, you wouldn't be here."

"Fury said it was either this or experimentation."

"Fury didn't say that."

You laugh bitterly. "He didn't, but he didn't need to. The governments experiment on all mutants - that's how we got Steve and Wanda - they just don't talk about it anymore." You spare her a glance. There's nothing in her expression that would tell you what she's thinking. "So, I chose the Avengers. And here we are."

"You could've escaped."

"Where?" You lean forward in your seat and prop your elbow on the dash. "Please tell me. Where can someone who's wanted internationally hide?"

She squints her eyes. "I'd help, but unfortunately, my knowledge of ideal vacation spots is pretty limited."

Carol's lips seem to be trapped in a permanent smirk - the corner always tilted up in vaguely hidden amusement. Even now. Her snark never stops. You feel your own anger dissipate as quick as it came. There was no point being angry with her. She loved it. Fed off it like a parasite or leech.

"It's almost like you're trying to piss me off."

She places her elbow on the console, leaning forward to shrink the gap between you two.

"Would it make you more angry if I was?"

One time, you and the raccoon had a bet. Whose eyes were more blue: Captain America or Captain Marvel? Like this, you'd have to say Carol. Her eyes had their own halo wrapped around the rim, highlighting the blue and making it fluorescent.

You rub your lips together and lean back in your seat, turning away from her to once again, look at the controls.

The ship breaks down when you reach his planet. You and Carol spend the first ten minutes after landing, arguing back and forth, blaming eachother. The next fifteen, Carol leaves you. Fucks off like a glow stick and searches the planet. When she returns, you haven't moved. Haven't left. You opted instead to lie down in the flowers. It was a beautiful planet. Perfect for retirement. The air was pure, almost light enough to get high in.

"I found his cabin."

"Great." You jump up. The blood rushing to your head and spotting your vision briefly, almost enough to cause you to wobble. "Let's go."

She steps in front of you, quick. You stop just short of bumping into her. Your faces are inches apart. That same infuriating smirk on her lips. Your eyes dart down, down to her chest - she was quite muscular, you could see that even through her clothes-  down enough that she has to clear her throat.

"It's too far by foot." When your eyes meet, she's trying to not look smug.

You arch a brow. "Well, we can't fly."

"I'll have to carry you."

You groan.

"Believe me. I'd be more than willing to do anything else."

"Fine. Do it."

You step back and gesture at her to turn around. She rolls her eyes and in a breathe you didn't know you were holding, throws your arm around her shoulders, wraps her arms around your waist, and jumps. You scream. Through the rush of wind, you think you hear her laughing or perhaps, that's a lie and it's you. Laughing hysterically. No. You are screaming. Hitting her chest. And she's laughing. Fuck Natasha. Fuck Steve. When this is over, you're quitting.

When your feet touch the ground, you bend down and kiss it. Pray to it.

"Anyone ever tell you you're dramatic?" She asks.

"Anyone ever teach you about consent?"  

"You told me to do it."

"I don't care!"

The two of you spend hours looking for remnants of the stones before you finally give it up and return to the ship. You were careful not to drift too close to his cabin. The Avengers never recovered the body. The rot of Thanos was thick, enough to gag over if you got too close. This planet wasn't used to death, not the harsh meat of Thanos. It had been months and he was still there, newly rotting as if it had been a week or two.

"I'll look again tomorrow before we leave." Carol pops a chip in her mouth, her feet kicked on the co-pilot chair while you lounged on the cot. "For now, you should get your rest."

"Don't you need to sleep, too?"

"I have been." She gestures to the chair.

You stare. Frown. The chairs were nowhere near comfortable.

"We can switch. I'll just take the blanket," you offer reluctantly. The nights here were cold anyways. Much colder than space. You involuntarily shiver.

"I prefer to sleep sitting up."

"Is that a military thing?"

To your surprise, she laughs. "Why?"

You shrug the blanket higher - the thin layer providing little comfort. "Cap likes to do that too."

As the sky gets darker, the cold filters in the cracks of the ship and between the layers of your comforter. You snuggle tighter within yourself, curl your knees up to your chest, burrow your hands underneath your pits. When that doesn't work, you shift again. It was always something. The blanket doesn't cover your feet here. You're uncomfortable there.

"You still up?"

You peek up to glance at Carol. She's leaned back in the chair, her head propped back against the headrest. When you shift, she pops one eye open.

"It's cold," you respond. "Are you cold?"

She shakes her head. "Temperature stops being a concern when you get superpowers like mine."

"Oh, yeah. Forgot you're a glow stick."

She snorts. "You talk a lot of shit for someone whose close to being an icicle."

"Bravado under pressure. It's my best quality."

You think she's gonna retort with another snort, but she stays silent. You make a move to stand, but she stops you.

"It's colder over here. See." She breathes out and you can see the cloud of her breathe. You frown.

"I can't sleep like this."

You think she's gonna do something like procure a blanket or throw you her jacket. You even think she might use her powers to heat the ship. It would make sense. Now, that you thought about it - she could've flew your ship to Thanos's exact location. You open your mouth to say as much, maybe, even yell at her as well, but she surprises you by standing.

Her head tilts to the side. Her mouth opening and closing again as if she's mulling over her next words carefully. If it were brighter, you might say this is the closest to nervous you've ever seen her get.

"I could lay down next to you." You blink. "My body generates a certain amount of heat due to -"

"Your powers. Yeah, I get it."

Slowly, you scoot over in the small cot. There wouldn't be enough room. You'd be touching regardless, but if you didn't turn over, it'd be okay. You could pretend instead of Carol, it was some space heater next to you.

"Come," you order.

You feel her weight in the cot, the warmth of her sinking in and spreading across the fabric. It hasn't even been a minute and already the cold has been dissipated. You could sleep if you wanted to. But, you don't. No matter how much you had wanted to pretend she was just some space heater, she was Carol. She felt stiff like a board and she was unbearably loud in her stiffness, her unwillingness to move.

"You can relax you know," you mumble.

"I sleep on my side."

You wonder now if she's smirking.

"No one's stopping you from doing that."

She moves and you know without looking that she's facing you. Her breathe tickles the hair on the back of your neck. You wouldn't be able to sleep like this. She's thinking so loud that whatever thoughts she's having are sure to interrupt your dreams. You turn over towards her - your faces are a hair apart. She's not smirking. Her lips are parted and her eyebrows raised, her expression torn between surprise and delight.

"You're making it difficult to sleep," you say simply.

"Am I?" She retorts. There it is. She's grinning. "That sounds like a personal problem."

You don't take the bait. "You know why you're making it difficult?"

She shifts her head slightly to imply 'no'.

"You're too far away. I'm still cold," you say.

She arches one brow. "This is too far away for you?"

You nod.

She shifts closer. Close enough that there's no room for you to glance at her lips. There's only her eyes staring into yours.

"This good enough?" She whispers.

"No."

"You're proving difficult to please, Y/N." And you can tell she's trying to be smooth, but right now, you just want her to shut up.

You barely have time to open your mouth to say as much before she's kissing you. Pressing her soft lips to yours, her hand finding its way to your hip and resting there. She tugs you closer to her until your bodies are flush against one another. The soft pecks growing longer. Light sparks from her fingertips, burning the trim of your jacket. She fists it as she presses you into her. Her touch still gentle if demanding.

You pull away slowly to breathe. To catch air. You forget why when your lips stop touching.

"Been wanting to do that for awhile," she says with a smile.

"I didn't know I wanted to do it honestly," you respond because it's true. All you knew was that Carol was infuriating. Still is. Only now you want to kiss her, too.

"Really?" Carol asks. "You didn't know you wanted me?"

"You find that hard to believe?"

"I do," she grins. "You know the raccoon and Groot have a running bet on which one of us would crack first. Groot bet on me."

"Groot lost, then." You mean to kiss her, but she pulls back.

"You're the one who invited me into bed with you."

"Because you offered your services."

"Because you complained about being cold."

You groan, snuggle into her chest so you don't feel the need to respond to her. Thankfully, she stops. Her spare hand strokes your back and slowly, you drift into sleep.

[letstalkaboutfandomsbaby]

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wait ?? what arc didn't you like ?? was it, the, uh... infamous part with nanami ?? tbh i was close to dropping it too (but more bc of nobara...).

ok, jjk manga spoilers in this tiny paragraph. so in ch191... naoya returns... & he's a worm... how does it feel knowing mr scumbag has finally turned into his true self ?? a worm.

& yee, mental health stuff sucks when it's not going great. you said in the tags it might be bipolar. & it could be !! i'm diagnosed with bipolar 2. the more depressive one T-T you might've had a manic / hypo-manic episode & then dipped into a low. but it could be a multitude of other things. but, if you're diagnosed or have a possibility of adhd, bipolar might also be there. the two often goes together for afab people. it sucks, lmao.

ALSO !! a while back you recommended that pâtissier manga !! & i went to read it & I AM IN LOVE !! i'm not done yet tho !! i'm at, like, ch12 i think ?? but gosh i love it T-T i've had a pâtissier au with todo on my mind & it's driving me insane T-T

Yeah, it was Shibuya :/ idk, i wasn't too invested in the story to begin with but then that happened and i was like ok i don't really have a reason to keep reading so why foece it 🤷‍♀️ i did skim ahead a bit and found Naoya but tbh i don't know jack shit after he kicked the bucket sksksk

Tbh it's v fitting that he showed up as a worm. Idk if i agree on him being such a powerful worm, but yeah it represents him well sksksk. I would've made him a leech of some kind, maybe he latches onto others and drains their energy and that's how he gets his power bc he seems like the kind of guy to do that.

WHY DOES EVERYONE THINK I HAVE ADHD 😭 pls alfjlanfal no but i had therapy yesterday and my therapist knows me really well, she said it's probably just a bump in the road bc im seeing all these horrible cases at work and reality is sinking in that yes this is what i would have to do as an emergency vet. It may be something else, but my meds have worked wonderfully for me in the past and i was fine just a month ago. I made an appointment two weeks from now so we're gonna keep monitoring my emotions and see how it goes :)

Isn't it the cutest thing?? 🥺 All i can picture is Nanami, pls i just want someone stoic and composed to be a complete wreck behind the scenes :( it's such a cute manga, i wish the artist would continue it

[mst3kproject]

Beast from Haunted Cave

I’ve actually received a couple of requests for movies to review, and I am looking into them.  I just have a few others I want to get through first… like this one.

Beast from Haunted Cave begins with a familiar tune – over the credits we hear the same jumpy ‘suspense’ music that opened both Night of the Blood Beast and Attack of the Giant Leeches.  It seems to have been a favourite of Gene Corman (Roger’s brother), who produced all three movies.  The writer, furthermore, was Charles B. Griffith, who did the same job for half a dozen MST3K movies, including It Conquered the World, Gunslinger, and Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II.  Finally, Beast from Haunted Cave has the strange distinction of being the only movie I’ve ever seen that thanks ‘the people of South Dakota’.

A master criminal and his drunk, stupid henchmen (one of whom is a drunk, stupid henchwoman) have decided to rob a mining operation.  In the process they annoy some kind of giant bug monster that was living in the mine, and it stalks them and their guide through the wintery mountains until they reach a cabin where they hole up to wait out a blizzard. Between the monster lurking outside and the fact that the gang are all getting fed up being stuck indoors and starting to hate each other (a familiar scenario in 2020), it’s a good bet that no more than two of them are getting out alive.  Probably the henchwoman and the guide, since they were kissing earlier.

Beast from Haunted Cave is a typically cheap Corman production.  The familiar music persists through the entire film, and gives the same impression it did in Blood Beast – the soundtrack people were given a set of pre-existing pieces and did what they could with them.  A terrible winter storm is represented by howling wind noises, but it never actually snows.  The monster is dreadful.  The webs draped over everything demonstrate that it’s a spider, but all we actually see is a featureless head and a couple of flailing arms that resemble nothing so much as one of those inflatable tube men at a used car lot.  When all we’re seeing is one leg reaching out to grab people it’s not awful, but as soon as we get a good look at the whole creature it’s clear that this is some kind of repurposed Hallowe’en decoration.  The gold bricks the thieves came to steal are just… well, bricks painted gold.  The paint isn’t even shiny.

Outside of that, however, the movie isn’t really that bad.  Everybody on the crew seems to have known what they were doing, and did their best to work within their meagre budget.  The photography is surprisingly competent.  The lighting rarely qualifies as atmospheric but there’s always enough of it – even in scenes set at night or in a dark cave, I never found myself squinting and wondering what’s going on.  The snowy landscapes are shot on location and look suitably hostile (although they could often only do one take, since after that the snow wouldn’t look pristine anymore).  You can see the actors’ breath, which gives a visceral sense of the cold.  The writing is mostly just serviceable but every so often there’s a little gem tucked within it.

The two places where this shows best are in the character of Marty and in the relationship between the mastermind, Alex, and the henchwoman, Gypsy.  Marty is a drunken buffoon but there’s more to him than that. ��Early in the film he invites a cocktail waitress from the ski lodge, Natalie, to make out in a cave with him.  They disturb the monster, and Marty escapes but leaves Natalie behind.  For the rest of the film, even as he continues to be a drunken buffoon, it’s clearly eating him up that he abandoned this woman.  There’s an ambiguous moment when he finds Natalie’s still-living body webbed to a tree in the middle of the woods – perhaps it really happened, or maybe he’s having a nightmare.

Gypsy has clearly been working for Alex for some time, as secretary, girlfriend, and as a way of distracting the targets of his robberies. She’s an alcoholic sad sack who looks ten years older than her stated age of twenty-six, and clearly regrets her self-destructive life.  She cannot leave, however, because Alex is controlling and violent, and because she wouldn’t know what she wants or who she is without him.  When he beats her up for kissing Gil the guide, she later says Alex had a perfect right to slap me.  At the same time, the film hints of happier times between the two in a running gag, never explained, where Alex and Gypsy call each other ‘Charles’.  This seems to have once been an endearment, but is now a passive-aggressive insult.

One character whom I wish had done more is Gil’s housekeeper, Small Dove.  She rarely speaks, but she carries an axe and spends a lot of time judgmentally watching the stupid white people.  She could have been this movie’s Eulabelle, but she ends up getting eaten by the monster without ever doing anything badass.  Shame.

Let us now return to a familiar question: who is the main character in this movie?

I guess Gil is the ‘hero’.  He’s the hunky male lead, who gets the girl at the end. He never does much to further the plot, though, except for urging Gypsy to leave Alex and figure out how to lead her own life. Although she seems romantically interested in him, Gil may not return the sentiment – it’s hard to say.  He doesn’t kill the monster, Marty actually does that by setting it on fire with a flare gun.  Gil is just sort of there, a cardboard cut-out in the ‘handsome guy’ box all movies must have.

Gypsy has a much better claim on the protagonist role.  The script takes much more interest in her situation than in anybody else’s, and we are encouraged to sympathize with her feeling lost and trapped.  She survives at the end to run off with Gil, though we’re not given any indication of what they’ll do now or whether the budding relationship between them will last.  Like so many other movies of its era, Beast from Haunted Cave has no denouement.  We simply fade to black from the monster on fire (another thing they could only do once, since they actually burned the prop).

Gil is the one who describes the cave as ‘haunted’, but this never has anything to do with the story.  There is not even a hint of a ghost or even a ghost story connected with the cave.  I assume the word is in the title mostly because Beast from Cave sounds like a dinosaurs-and-cavemen movie made by the cavemen, and having put it there, Griffith felt he had to justify it with a line of dialogue.

The character who had the most potential to go through an arc is actually the antagonist, Alex.  He’s been pulling heists like this for years, and is proud of his success.  He has no reason to think this job will be any different, and yet as the movie progresses, Alex has to watch his plans fall apart all around him.  One of his henchmen is going mad from terror and guilt.  The other, Byron (who you can tell apart from Marty because Byron is The One In The Stupid Hat), is developing a crush on Small Dove and thinking about getting out of crime and settling down.  Gypsy is kissing Gil right in front of him, and Alex worries what she might have told him about the real purpose of the ski trip.  Then there’s the storm, which means the plane that was supposed to take them to Canada can’t get to them, and the lurking monster.  At the end of the film, Alex is still trying to regain control of the situation, even as the monster closes in on him.

Criminals on the run getting menaced by a monster seems to be a surprisingly common plot for a movie.  Voodoo Woman and Killer Fish were both variants on the theme.  I’m guessing this serves two purposes within the plot: the first is that it means we’re not too sad when the main characters die, since they were already bad people.  The second is what I think Beast from Haunted Cave was going for – it means that the characters cannot ask for help with their situation.  The group know, from hearing it on the radio, that they’re being hunted by the authorities.  If they were to call for help, whoever came to the rescue would find the gold bars in their bags, and they’d go straight to prison.

This idea is mostly implied.  Nobody ever actually suggests calling for help, or even trying to contact the people who were gonna be flying their getaway plane.  It also seems that they had no contingency plan for bad weather, which makes the whole operation look very poorly-planned.

One thing I did find myself thinking about is that the radio news mentions the police looking into the theft, but we never actually see the cops investigating.  This applies to the other movies I mentioned above, as well… in Voodoo Woman we’re in an area that doesn’t seem to have much by way of police, but in Killer Fish, too, law enforcement is entirely absent. This is a good choice on the part of the writers and directors, because it allows us to focus on the monster plot. If they were to include detectives, that would unnecessarily complicate things and require a resolution of its own.

Then again, if they had two resolutions, they might have had to include some ‘wind-down’ time.  I don’t like it when movies end abruptly after the monster dies, because it tends to leave dangling subplots.  Gil and Gypsy are still in the middle of nowhere, and must now shelter in the cave until the storm ends.  Are they going to be okay?  Last time we saw Small Dove she was weakened from blood loss but not yet quite dead.  Can they save her?  Will Gil and Gypsy stay together, or will he encourage her to go find herself? So there’s another lesson for aspiring film-makers: don’t end your movie until the story’s actually over.

[gayregis]

do you have any examples of the witcher subverting common fantasy tropes? (other than the obvious like ciri being the chosen one but doing evil actions, the male lead being a pacifist etc) i like the books but i have friends who don't wanna read it bc they think it's just another generic fantasy story based off the netflix trailer, i obviously am not gonna force them to read it if they absolutely don't want to but it always hurts when good works go unnoticed because of misinformation

okay!! i won’t give book quotes for this one, this is just off the top of my head, because i think including quotes would take a really long time and wouldn’t helo the point. also there’s probably things i missed here

geralt 

tropes: Icy Cold Killer / Witches Stealing Kids

actuality: is a very emotional man who was born into his profession of killing and never had a choice in the matter. doesn’t want to kill for a living, is a pacifist at heart. adopts ciri because he truly is a good father and loves her and eventually teaches her witcher skills so she has a form of self-defense.

yennefer

trope: Bitchy Witch

actuality: sincerely selfless woman who risks her life multiple times to save her child from harm, does many things to save her lover, only seems bitter and closed off to the most of the world because she has been hurt by everyone she knows and doesn’t let everyone in.

ciri

tropes: Prissy Princess / Chosen One

actuality: she is a princess for approx. 1.2 seconds and then she loses everything she’s ever known, and will continue to lose everything she’s ever known. 

as the chosen one, her powers don’t help her much, she’s super powerful but still super vulnerable and her life continues to be shit - she loses everything again because of her powers, which make her a target. everyone is after her for her powers, she’s the macguffin of the story, she’s been reduced to the holy grail because of them. being the chosen one is more of a curse than a blessing.

dandelion

tropes: The Coward / The Freeloader / Slovenly Bastard

actuality: okay yeah he’s all of these things never mind he demonstrates incredible bravery and loyalty (doing something even though you’re scared to death to do it is bravery), he keeps being by geralt’s side not as a nuisance or a leech, but because geralt genuinely needs him there as his best friend.

milva

trope: The Girl of the Company

actuality: isn’t just there to be sexy while shooting arrows, is not a love interest to any of the main male characters, literally just exists in the company as a woman and no one is creepy towards her because of it. pregnancy arc is handled relatively well and she is given actual story and emotions of her own instead of being reliant on any male characters for developent

regis

trope: Every Single Vampire Trope Ever (esp. being heartless/part of an evil organization)

actuality: “the epitome of humanity,” is a healer/medic/surgeon whose profession it is to preserve life, is kind and acts with goodwill. 

the vampires in the witcher don’t drink blood to survive like hungry beasts or out of evil cultlike activities, but instead it’s like alcohol to them and they face the same social issues as humans surrounding it. also of course every other vampire trope is broken, like sunlight, garlic, wooden stakes, running water, religious symbols...

cahir

trope: Evil Soldier of Darkness

actuality: he is a young man who was manipulated by his family and his society into service of an imperialist nation, he never wanted to cause harm to ciri but raher just sought honor for his family. he then spends the entire rest of the saga redeeming himself.

angouleme

trope: Shitty Orphan Does Crime For Fun

actuality: she’s an extremely young woman who has faced abuse her entire life and has stolen and killed out of pure survival. she is actually a genuinely good person and warns geralt of the attempt on his and his company’s lives.

the sorceresses who were on thanedd and of the lodge

trope: Vain Women Get Nothing Done And Only Think About Men

actuality: 10 insanely powerful women form a powerful political cabal, at least one is a lesbian, they unanimously decide to bar the organization from men because they speak about how men are too emotional and can’t be trusted, they are capable and dangerous as an organization and would have succeeded if not for freak accidents.

witchers in general

trope: godless fiends who thrive on violence

actuality: they were created as a profession to eliminate monsters as being threats to humans, but the threat of monsters has faded and now finding work is more difficult than ever.

sorceresses in general

trope: witches steal kids

actuality: sorceresses take in unwanted daughters, from families who gave them up, and if they show magical prowess they continue to be trained

the striga (princess adda)

trope: Horrific Monster

actuality: a 14 year old girl who has been mistreated all of her life

a grain of truth

story: beauty & the beast

actuality: the real beast is the beauty who tries to rip her boyfriend’s head off

the lesser evil

story: snow white & the seven dwarves

actuality: snow white is no princess, she has been forced into a life of killing which she has become comfortable with

the last wish (heading into the bounds of reason)

trope: love at first sight

actuality: electrocute your ass at first sight, yennefer and geralt fight in the last wish, and after they fall in love date for 4 years they inevitably break up again because love at first sight doesn’t exist and they’re both too immature to hold a sincere relationship until much later

the bounds of reason

story: a peasant can kill a dragon, dragons are beasts that attack villages

actuality: you’d need professionals to kill a dragon, and also the dragons were trying to protect their child and are sentient, intelligence, respectable, and beautiful creatures.

dudu

trope: Evil Doppleganger

actuality: dopplers are incapable of being evil, they mimic forms to survive in this world dominated by violent humans.

the aen seidhe

trope: Elves Are Pretty Boys Who Don’t Do Violence

actuality: these pretty boys do a lot of violence. they kill humans because humans have usurped nearly all of their territory and pushed them out.

the aen elle

trope: Elves Are Pretty Boys Who Don’t Do Violence

actuality: these pretty boys do a lot of violence. they’re colonizers and slavers who take over entire worlds.

unicorns

trope: Unicorns Are Pretty And Docile Creatures

actuality: unicorns and elves have been at war, unicorns are incredibly intelligent and sentient and are their own civilization

nilfgaard

trope: Evil Empire

actuality: it is an imperialist nation, thus it is evil, but there are many nilfgaardian POVs throughout the saga which demonstrate that even though they are committing atrocities they are still very much human. they’re not faceless evil.

geralt’s company

trope: Grand Quest To Save The World

actuality: geralt in the saga, i think as one of the sorceresses said, is just running around lost, getting upset. geralt running around with his gathered company in the wilderness is not a grand march towards power or fame, but rather the journey of how geralt becomes a better person and a better father, he finally accepts help, he finally becomes a leader.

the quest doesn’t concern power or being a grand hero, it’s not a beautiful march. it’s a bunch of idiots traipsing through the forests, grasslands, and marches, trying to dry out their boots and footwraps because the ground is muddy. 

the goal of the quest is not to save the world or find great power or complete a prophecy or save a desperate lover, but rather to just get geralt’s daughter back. his daughter. because he loves her and wants her to be safe. that’s all.

you can’t step two inches in the witcher without breaking a trope. they’re strewn everywhere, like crackers on the sidewalk. step, step. now the pigeons are eating the crumbs

i think largely you have to look at sapkowski’s personal history with writing and fantasy bc iirc he was a scholar or something about arthurian legend and also he was influenced by many polish folktales

[angstyaches]

No Fly Zone

If anyone’s relatively new (or wants a refresher), it might be useful to read this fic from the Prologue arc, where you can see exactly what goes on with Shayne’s foster family.

This is not really a sickfic, it’s mainly for comfort, character development and plot. 

CW: implied mentions of grief, abuse, conditioning. Very slight touch aversion. Shayne swears quite a lot. There’s no emeto, but there’s angst and Emotions.

Swallow the World: The Ouija Board Pt. 9

They never thought to close the curtains, so the sun woke Shayne again as soon as it broke the tops of the trees and spilled through the window and across the floor to Charlie’s bed. He was lying on his back, so it fell right across his face, and he would have rolled over to block it out if he didn’t have a sleeping Charlie on him.

Shayne watched Charlie’s head rising and falling gently as he tried not to breathe too deeply and disturb him. He also dreaded to think about whatever noises were happening under Charlie’s ear; his stomach felt weird, like it was doing backflips inside him.

He found himself running his fingers across Charlie’s head for a minute or so, freezing when he felt the blonde boy shift slightly. He didn’t take his hand back, but he didn’t keep fiddling with his hair either; he just held his head, which felt just as awkward as it sounded.

“Morning,” came Charlie’s soft laugh.

“Good morning.” Shayne pushed his fingers a little more firmly through Charlie’s hair, now that he knew he was awake. He couldn’t remember saying good morning since he’d lived in this exact house with his birth parents; Madelyn and Watson were always sleeping while most people were starting their day.

Charlie started to sit up, eyes heavy with sleep, hair sticking up from where Shayne had been playing with it. The smile that crossed his face made Shayne’s heart skip a beat, but it quickly disappeared as Charlie turned his head and covered his mouth to hide a yawn.

Shayne started to sit up then too, eyeing Charlie carefully as he straightened himself. The screams he’d heard come from him still rang in his ears if he let them, and he had to suppress a shudder. He wanted to ask if Charlie was okay, but knew the uncertain answer he would get. Charlie might have been thinking that way too, as he eyed Shayne back with the same resigned worry.

“We should, um – we should text Rin,” Charlie said. His voice was so thick with sleep that he sounded drunk, or out of breath. “Let her know we survived the night.”

God, yesterday was such a mess in Shayne’s head that he couldn’t even remember when he’d last seen Rin. Or the vampires, for that matter. The more he thought about it, the tighter his chest felt, but it loosened again as Charlie yawn-yelled into his hands and rubbed at his face.

“My, uh, my phone’s downstairs,” Charlie mumbled when he’d recovered.

Shayne watched in fascination as Charlie climbed over him, positioning his legs at either side of Shayne’s on the way. He shouldn’t have been shocked, not after the way Charlie had huddled up on him after his nightmare, but somehow the closeness seem different in the light, in the calm.

“I can grab you a towel on my way back, if you wanna take the first shower?” Charlie smiled, stretching his shoulders. "Sound good?”

Shayne blinked up at him and his dishevelled hair, nodding shyly. “Yeah. Sounds good.”

 __

“Coffee’s almost done. Want some?”

Shayne mumbled something inaudible, even to himself, before crumpling into one of the chairs. He curled one elbow onto the dining table and rested the side of his head against it. Every muscle in his body felt like it was being massaged, his skin tingling pleasantly inside Charlie’s clothes. He’d been physically shaking and thought he might fall on the stairs, but now that he was sitting down, the trembling had eased to a slight humming sensation in his bones.

“Are you – are you okay?”

“Mmmmm. Hot showers. Amazing.”

Charlie gave a heavy-lidded frown. “Do you not have hot water at home?”

“I live with vampires. Cold blood. Cold water.” Shayne almost added cold hearts, but he cut himself off. The morning was too warm, and Charlie was too sleepy, for him to bring up anything like that.

“You should come shower here, more - more...” Charlie leaned on the shiny countertop, rubbing his face with both hands as he yawned yet again. He still hadn’t fixed his hair. When his gaze met Shayne’s again, he cut the yawn short with a laugh.

“More often,” he finished. “I seriously don’t function until I’ve had coffee. Why are you looking at me like that?”

Shayne tried to think of something to say while his stomach did another confusing little flip. “Your hair’s a mess,” he said. Weak, considering his own was wet and dampening his borrowed hoodie.

“And whose fault’s that?” Charlie grumbled as he started trying to flatten his hair down a bit. “Any better?”

“Nope.”

“I’ll shower in a minute anyway.” Charlie combed the hair out of his face with his fingers and gave up, folding his arms over his chest. He glanced to his left, towards the glistening touch-screen stove and the newly-fitted oven. “So, um – what, you used to help your mum bake in here, right? I’m still struggling to picture you as domestic in any way.”

A slow wave of grief drifted over Shayne’s head and shoulders, chasing out the deep relaxation in his muscles. A quick intake of breath made him feel a little steadier, and he lifted his head from his arm.

“Mmhmm, I mean –” He got up from the chair and made his way over to where Charlie stood, feeling like he was walking on clouds. “The kitchen’s been ripped out and put back in since the – the, um, the stove and everything used to be on that side.”

“Yeah?” Charlie followed Shayne’s gaze only for a second.

“Yeah, and the tiles weren’t white, they were brown and -” 

Shayne’s heart skipped a beat as Charlie’s hand slipped into his. It was Charlie’s right hand reaching for Shayne’s right hand, and he felt himself slowly being pulled in front of Charlie.

“And dark green.” 

Shayne’s throat fluttered. He was used to the handholding, and being close to Charlie when they were sharing a bed, but this was new and he didn’t even know what to call it.

Charlie gently pulled Shayne’s back against his chest. He looped his arms around his waist, hands crossing against his stomach. Shayne felt his hair lift despite being wet, his adrenaline spiking at the sensation of suddenly feeling bound and immobilised. Even if it was just by Charlie.

“I-I –” It was hard to concentrate, but he scrambled for words anyway. “I was short for my age, so I’d stand on a chair next to her so I could see what she was doing.”

“Cute. I can kind of picture it now.” Charlie hummed happily to himself as he tilted his chin upward and rested it lightly on Shayne’s shoulder. “I’m glad you’re still kind of short.”

“Fuck off,” Shayne mumbled, though he couldn’t help curiously turning his head to look at Charlie’s face. 

He’d imagined putting his head next to Charlie’s from behind, just yesterday when he’d been sitting above him on the picnic table. He’d wondered what it would be like to get a whiff of his hair from that close, and now here he was, having just used Charlie’s shampoo himself.

Charlie’s smile shifted slightly, and Shayne closed his eyes before he could see what happened after that. 

He sure felt it though. 

One of Charlie’s hands moved up to his neck, fingers spreading apart to tilt his jaw and hold it casually in place while also making his neck and throat tingle. Charlie’s mouth pushed against Shayne’s, lips tugging at lips until they were both pried apart. Charlie’s other hand slipped under Shayne’s hoodie and t-shirt. Fingers glided across his just-washed skin, up his belly and over his waist, resting briefly against his chest while his heart pounded wildly.

Shayne had no idea what to do with his own hands, or with his tongue even, because Charlie’s was in his mouth, and it was moving - 

It’s just a demon. This is what you are. 

And he was being held and restricted -

Ungrateful shit, why can’t you just do it? This is what you’re for.

“Stop, stop, stop,” he gasped.

He shuddered out of Charlie’s embrace. His stomach was twisting painfully, and he put his hands on the back of a chair to stop himself from doubling over.

“Oh, god,” Charlie whispered. “I – I’m so sorry, Shayne –”

“What the fuck’s wrong with me?!”

Shayne slammed his hands down on the dining table. He went dizzy with anger and self-hatred, fear of damaging the table piled onto everything else. His teeth cut into his lip and the insides of his cheeks and he swallowed against the taste of blood. He felt like he was going to dry heave, but despite being painfully inexperienced in this kind of thing, he reckoned dry heaving after kissing just wasn't right.

“Nothing is wrong with you,” Charlie said quietly. That was the response he’d chosen to give to the question that Shayne himself knew was a pointless one. He had chosen to lie.

Shayne knew what was wrong with him. He knew what was wrong with Charlie. And somehow, he’d still let this happen.

“Shayne.” Charlie rounded the table, so he was in Shayne’s view again. He was squeezing his fingers together and pulling them apart repeatedly.

“Listen, please,” he said, “I – I don’t know what I was thinking, I –”

A sound rang out that made Shayne take a sharp, painful breath and duck his head even further. A clean, elegant shriek that could only be meant for him this time.

“Damn it,” he growled through clenched teeth. “Fucking damn it all.”

“Wh-who is that?” Charlie stammered, as though he’d heard it too. In reality, he’d probably just heard the crunch of gravel as a car pulled up outside the house. The colour leeched from his face.

“Elliott and his sidekick,” Shayne told him. “I’m getting rid of them.”

He slapped his palms on the table once last time before turning to leave the kitchen. He heard Charlie call out his name, but he ignored it. He was trembling all over, but it felt good to direct the mess of emotions and fears into something clear-cut like hatred. He let it solidify, dark and swirling, in his chest. He let it push everything else into a tidy knot in the pit of his stomach. 

In the front hallway, he drew his fists across his face to get rid of a couple of tears. He widened his jaw with a crack that made his ears ring.

“Oh, I don’t fucking think so!” he yelled towards Elliott’s car as he opened the front door. “No fucking fly zone, assholes!”

[mochuelovelli]

Fix-It AU for the Moonvasion Arc!

I would like to preface this by saying that this is gonna seem real fanfic-y and for that I am sorry. I want to bullet point some ways to change some aspects of S2 from Whatever Happened to Donald Duck?! onwards.

Whatever Happened to Donald Duck?!:

The segment that shows the McDuck/Duck family tree has Donald Crossed out not because he is captured but Lunaris PLANNED to kill him before going to Earth once he would basically tortured him for information

Donald is tripped by Lunaris which makes him land on Penumbra, allowing him to sneak the device under his hat as it falls off without Lunaris noticing. After Lunaris explains his plan he throws Donald and the scene transpires as normal, save for Don attaching the clamp to Lunaris and finding the remote. 

Lunaris still ends up getting the upper hand and punching Don away but he reveals the remote and presses it. Only for it to, of course, get broken on impact and the rest of the scene transpires normally.

[Here is the biggest change]The rocket DOES end up exploding. It makes it to Earth's atmosphere but of course the bullet hits one of Scrooge's satellite and rickashays back to the moon again. Upon realizing he is going to crash, Donald jumps out but just in time as the blast from the pod knocks him semi-conscious.

Last shot is him falling toward a crater and shows Donald gaining conscious only for him to see he is falling into the moonmite's mouth but doesn't reach beyond making a groan and the scene cuts to black with the jaw snapping sound (alternatively it can just cut to black as he falls)

The Jones Scene ends with Scrooge saying the same line about not paying Donald bills. Only he also adds once closing the door, "Fallacious tightwad, I ain't payin' for some leeching city counselor. I'll find that lad a proper therapist when he gets back. One that doesn't have an arachnoid infestation." *cue spider coming to crawl on Scrooge's face before he chucks it off*

Webby's line is cut down to "Well I guess there really wasn't some big mystery to solve." But the kids' lines stay the same frome there on.

Scrooge gets only Donald screaming "Uncle Scrooge!" before the audio cuts to audio to one of Mrs. Crackshell-Cabera's novelas due to the satellite being damaged(does that make sense? No but neither do moonpeople). You could probably make a suggestive joke here about cruises and Scrooge's line can stay the same. The camera pans up as the line is delivered still but it is just a shot where the moon is in focus. That or it's the satellite falling instead.

Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake! until Moonvasion:

(know it would be a pain in the ass, but I think it be cool to edit the intro to remove/replace Donald during the time he isn't shown in an ep. Though I guess they don't change the intro until season 3 so yeah. Mainly wanted to give the illusion that he is "missing" to scare anyone under 8 that "oh no maybe he is GONE gone just to be a prick

The Golden Armory of Cornelius Coot!

Trim down the Bigtime C plot like a LOT. Maybe end that original scene with Ma Beagle by having Bigtime lean on something (statue, standing on some "moss") and fall down to the caves. 

The cart scene with Bigtime still happens but that cut back from Launchpad and Della doesn't happen until after Della yells at Launchpad when she is flying. (So not the scene where Louie is kicking rocks)

Maybe cut the scenes where Bigtime is bragging about "finding a name for himself" and just have one scene where he ties up the boys and saves his family but they argue and waste time til Della and Webby come back. The end where Ma says BT is welcome back is cut as well, she just says it and then complains about the popcorn

After the scene with LP, Della and Webby, the camera pans up to the sky so a transition to the moon happens. Transition zooms out to reveal Penumbra looking at the Earth with her spear, before she turns upon hearing the moonmite screech and readys herself.

The moonmite is then shown crawling up from a hole at first by itself before Donald's torse is revealed, his hair is a bit longer and feathers are ruffled. Penumbra stands down and looks a bit more open before asking "Did anyone see you?" 

Donald just says no before hopping off, of course falling along with the equipment he brought. The shot is focused on Penumbra looking towards Donald's silhouette as he gets up.

She then asks "How's the leg?" To which the camera cuts back to Donald and we see him in full view, his model is similar to when he is on the island only way less beard and his hair isn't quite as long yet. But the most notably difference is that his right leg from the knee down is now a golden prosthesis. Don responds with "Fine, thanks for making it for me."

Penumbra turns back as Donald is shown to clumsily put the equipment on a nearby table and says "I couldn't have forgiven myself if I let Della's brother die." Donald nearly falls over again before she turns to face him and asks if he is ready to which he nods before they turn and the camera reveals the broken Spear of Selene. Penumbra's voice is heard then saying "Then Let's get you home." Before the ep ends.

The Richest Duck in the World!:

Everything is the same except when Penumbra calls, She says "This is LT. Penumbra calling for her friend Della Duck!-" [Della's Line] "All of your defense satellite just went down for some reason. Della-" Familiar quacking can be heard and Della even questions it before Donald's voice comes on. "Della!" "Donald!" Della parrots as she grabs the SATCOM box. "There's going to be an invasion! He's coming for the kids!" Episode ends the same from here.

[I'll make a second post l8r since I planned this to come out before 10 and it's already almost 1130 so yeah. Literally all these changes are basically to set up a bit of a stronger connection between Della and Donald (as well as giving Donald more screen time) by having the twins mirror each other a bit more. I personally headcanon that like Donald, Della is unlucky as well but in a different way. Where Donald has bad luck everyday of his life which mostly comes in the form of physical harm (secondly it would be emotional harm), Della's bad luck comes in the form where she is just as "lucky" as the rest of her family (maybe discounting Louie) but while she enjoyed 20ish years of adventuring relatively unscathed, she then crashes on the moon after a freak storm happens and is stuck there for over a decade. To me, her struggles on the moon in Whatever Happened to Della Duck?! And The Golden Spear! really showcases her bad luck, almost as if the universe decided to throw the biggest karma bomb at her all at once. But just like her brother she is fuelled with determination and love for her family in order to survive anything, she just has to do it all by herself (another thing which is worse for her bc she doesn't have them) at that point. And it isn't a one and done thing, it's something permit as she now is literally 11 years behind on parenting and the show continues to show her stuggle with that. By having Donald lose his leg and have a journey back to his family that's quicker than Della's (along with having company from nearly the beginning) it parallels that unluckiness the Duck twins have. It also can serve as a plot for future eps (well fake eps lmao). 

Ik that this au wouldn't have been possible as Disney would be really anal about having one of their mascots have a total design change. Unless they really wanted to milk having characters with prosthetics for park days or whatever, maybe it wouldn't be THAT big of a deal aside from some fluff articles. I realize though, it might overshadow Della's trauma so ideally I would hope to figure out or map out an ep where it would be addressed along with some other family issues.] 

[kikis-writing-world]

Hey, congrats on the milestone! 🥳🎉🎊 If it's not too late, can I participate in the shipping game? I am a designer and a I am always drawing, sketching and creating. I'm really shy (untill you get to know me at least), I'm always making jokes and I appreciate people with a good sense of humour. Oh, and I am a sucker for redemption arcs and characters that seem to be cold but are soft, as I am a big softie myself. Thank you so much! - 🍑

Thank you! You’re not too late at all. A good sense of humor and a redemption arc? Oh baby, well I hope you also like vampires because I’m shipping you with Max Phillips. Acts cold but is soft? That’s Max. Big bad vampy boy who runs the company but honestly melts if you cuddle with him because you’re so nice and warm. This man is a leech, but not for blood, for warmth and he will go to any cuddling lengths to get it. He’s got a good sense of humor, you might just have to train him to bring it to a bit of a less “it’s funny because I ate them” place.

Redemption ahoy!

Max Phillips isn’t really a vampire in the traditional sense. When he goes to Romania for school he pisses off the wrong people and a curse is put on him. He’s stuck living as a vampire until he can reverse the curse. Of course, he’s a douchebag and fuck that, he’s just gonna be himself and live forever - party on, dudes. Besides, they didn’t tell him how to reverse it even if he wanted to, so might as well make the most of it.

He carries on in his doucheyness, very much being the Max we see in the movie for quite a while. Compelling people to do his will, taking over companies, making himself out to be awesome - but the whole time he’s got this angsty loneliness in him. All his friends his age are starting to calm down from their rambunctious ways of their youth, getting paired off, having kids etc. He couldn’t even if he wanted to, so he doesn’t want to slow down.

Then he meets you. I like the idea of you working reception in the building, but not directly for his company. You work the desk downstairs, helping to guide people to the offices they’re looking for and stuff like that. You see him everyday and greet him politely. He always greets you back but it’s nothing special. One day he says something on the phone while he’s passing you and it makes you laugh. He stops, looking over at you and you apologize for listening in. He says not to worry about it. That’s how the friendship starts. Soon he’s making a point to chat with you for a few minutes when he passes. He brings you coffee or tea every few days. 

You don’t really know how important you’ve gotten to him until you miss a day of work and he shows up at your apartment. You’re feeling a little ill, nothing major, but you’re mostly confused. How did he find your place? Why is he here? When he realizes you’re sick, he asks you to invite him in so he can take care of you. You refuse, but he claims vampires can’t get sick and eventually you let him in. He orders in some soup for you, and when he touches your forehead you sigh because he’s chilly and it feels nice. The two of you end up cuddling - he’ll never admit he liked it just as much as you do, he totally only did it for you don’t @ him.

You two get closer. You’re a little surprised but not unhappy about it, meanwhile Max is tearing himself apart. He knows you’re way too good for him, and he can’t give you some happy ever after anyways. He’s really torn between pulling himself away for your sake and enjoying what he can have in the meanwhile. After that time of taking care of you, you two often have silly movie nights where you end up cuddling together and eating junk food.

Max is driving himself crazy so he finds a way to get in touch with those that cursed him. He demands they tell him how to break the curse. They laugh and laugh, which only pisses him off worse. He threatens to kill them all, being very macho about it and baring his fangs. They’re not scared. Finally, they tell him he needs to kill someone who loves him. He immediately thinks of you. He doesn’t know if you love him, but you’re the closest thing he can imagine. Now he’s even more torn apart. He can’t have you if he’s a vampire, but to kill you to be human wouldn’t give him what he wants either.

He starts avoiding you and you’re hurt obviously. You want to know what happened or what you did. Eventually one night when you know he’s working late - which is just another excuse to avoid you - you corner him and demand to know what happened. He tried to be dismissive, telling you to go away but you refuse because you love him and you want to know what’s wrong. He loses his shit when you admit that, and he tells you not to love him. How he’s a monster now and forever, and that is never going to change and you’re better off without him. You try to tell him that you don’t think he’s a monster, despite being a vampire. Eventually he vamps out (the first time you see it in person) and threatens you, trying to get you to leave. You won’t go, you tell him to do it. To bite you. He grabs you and holds you like he’s going to, but of course he can’t. He drops you, falling to the ground himself.

He’s crying now, and you can barely understand him but he’s saying he can’t do it, that he’s sorry for everything he’s done, that he truly understands how cruel the curse is. A gust of wind swirls through the office from god-knows-where, the two of you looking around to figure out what’s happening. Max’s face turns back to normal, but more than that... he looks tired. His skin isn’t as clear as it once was, his cheeks rosy and his eyes bloodshot. Bags appear under his eyes that he never got as a vampire. He feels... warm. He grabs something and pricks his finger, and he bleeds actual warm blood. To break the curse he didn’t have to kill you, he had to spare you despite being told that he had everything to gain from it. It was the final test to prove that he’d learned his lesson.

(This got really long, but also it’s officially the last ship request, so let’s go out with a bang!)

SHIP REQUESTS ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED - thanks everyone!

[border-spam]

Took a bit of time and some morning coffee and wrote up my feelings on why I’m feeling so let down by the twins.

Copied from my Reddit: Just finished the game and am still reeling at how poorly the last few hours went story wise. There is a clear disconnect between how the twins were built up as the game progressed though echo logs, direct communications with them etc, and how things actually went down as the story began to wrap up, which is why things feel so rushed and not satisfying. Troy was the key to this game having a fantastic ending, and he was thrown away out of the blue despite all the twin's character development being on him solely.

While Tyreen suffered a lot of the same issues, my god.. they really.. really.. screwed up how they handled Troy, and they needed these villains to go down perfectly to be able to be on the same level as Jack. They came so close, it was incredibly frustrating to see them throw it all away.

As the story ramps up, cutscenes and echo communications very purposefully begin to show you the relationship between the twins isn't that stable. Tyreen has a clear disgust for keeping her brother alive, and Troy is far quieter, and willing to defer to her opinions. Once he absorbs Maya's powers, things take a noticeable shift. He's more confident, more ready to disagree with her, his cutscene in Jacob's alluded to him having his own goals not related to hers. His echo messages started dropping tidbits like how he always thought he was just a freak, and how good it feels to have power now.

Everything was building to "This dude is going to turn on Tyreen and end up taking her powers if she doesn't start treating him with more respect", and by the time you reach the cathedral we are right at the peak of this foreshadowing, with the twins aggressively mouthing off to each other and Troy ready to snap while channeling energy to Elpis.

When Tyreen started screaming "STOP, YOU'RE GONNA KILL ME!!" lines during his fight, I don't know anyone who didn't immediately think this was it, it was the plot turn point and shit was about to get amazing, and then he dies.

He just dies, the end. All that foreshadowing and threat, all that character development that Tyreen got none of, and hes's gone, and we are meant to see Tyreen as the threat again despite her having absolutely 0 development or growth across the whole game? She didn't even react to his death, there was no depth to the entire scene, it was rushed and painful to watch.

So what the fuck actually happened? Did the writers just change at that point? Did GB run out of time and threw together a fight with him despite it not matching ANY of the huge amount of foreshadowing they had spent so long working into the game already?

I could have written a better ending in 5 minutes, most of us could have. What I would have expected was:

Him to continue to leech from her during the fight, accidentally kill her because he got too cocky with his new powers, then had a breakdown when he recovered and tried to wake her up to let her know they had done it. The final fight being a deranged "God King Troy" who had continued on with his sister's plan solely out of guilt and spent the fight screaming her name and looking for her would have been fantastic and in line with the "Seeking power only leads to pain, family is the true strength" over laying plot of the game.

Points off the top of my head written into this character and then completely trashed with this fight ending:

What were his goals, he said he wasn't a follower and seemed to be humoring Tyreen most of the game.

The fuck was up with his face? Jaw hinges? We'll never know. Why are they there?

What happened to his arm, it was such an important visual feature and was never confirmed as being part of them being conjoined.

Was his main aim to break free of his parasitical relationship with her and be healthy?

What's the extremely high tech spinal and skull implant he has that's unrelated to his arm's tech

Why does he have actual tatoos under his siren tatooos if Tyreen had her powers since being a child

What were his base siren powers, did he have any bar the one he found out about midgame

What were the glowing crystals he carried that matched his tatoos and sword

Where the fuck did the sword come from, it just appears out of the blue in his fight with no pre context.

He was the only male siren in known history, this was a massive deal and wasn't even touched on once

TLDR, Troy was laid out as key to the entire plot arc and received all the character development for the twins. He was thrown away with no followup after the whole game foreshadowed his rise to power. Shitty writing that affected most of the characters in one way or another, but completely crippled the twins from being as great as they could have been.

[foundouthatdabiistouyatodoroki]

do you believe hawks decent into villiany?you reblogged a post about it.

Do I believe hawks is going to fall into villainy? Yes.Mainly I found the whole “Hawks is going to die death flag” idea distasteful.

BNHA is a feel good series. We had Nighteye already die with his character arc resolved ending in a high note. It would be far too depressing if Hawks died with a grim conclusion of his arc;for a feel-good series having Hawks die would be gloomy end to his character arc.

The person who first mentioned this is cutiesabyle who brought up this theory and made a lot of good points about it.

In chapter 191, Hawks and Dabi’s conversation in these panels  is what made me think that Hawks is turning to the dark side. If you look at the panels his face is darkened out in them:

Hawk’s face covered in darkness while he’s talking to Dabi in these panels. After his conversation with Dabi when he leaves his back is swallowed up by the darkness while Dabi is walking to the light.

This could refer to him falling into darkness.Hawks is compared to the fall of Icarus (the Greek myth); that why a lot of people believed he would die when they read this.

But, it’s something entirely different.This meant that Hawks will fall in a more disgraced unheroic or better yet turn into a villainy.

As hamliet described it if you see the BNHA volume 21 cover it would be this:

Hamliet:Hawks has his back turned, and in front of Hawks are blue-ish flames and darkness, which seems to be again symbolic of the panel in which Hawks walked towards the darkness, perhaps foreshadowing a future fall to villainy and of course, representing the deal we know he’s struck with Dabi.

As hamliet once described about Hawks on volume 21 this could be the passage of another hint of Hawks falling into villainy and this cover foreshadows it.

Having more free time may seem like he’s carefree response to Endeavor, but when you look even deeper you see a glimpse of his background.

Here in the flashback  of chapter 192 of Hawks back when he was a child,  in this panel he looks to be from a impoverished background holding an Endeavor doll. The words “must become a hero” isn’t something Hawks has said. These words are from his handlers;not his words but the word of the people who leashed him.He was exploited at a young age because of his quirk and circumstances of his background:

All we see that his entire life he had no choice. He was never given a choice to live freely he was never given a choice.

Hawks was no more than a tool to be exploited when he’s given are orders he can’t turn down. Hawks is very well aware this but obeys their orders.Hawks mentioned the investigation with Gran Torino: he hides in his hood when asked. He can’t talk back to his captors but instead jokes not to earn their ire.

These people control Hawks. He’s treated as a tool by these people.

They exploit hawks for their own convenience. Hawks is very well aware that he is essentially a captive; he knows this and he can’t escape because the people are the ones leashing him and handling his reins. Hawks is used as a sacrificial pawn by his handlers and forced to investigate the league of villains.Hawks acknowledges this, bows, and does what he thinks has to do for his goal.

What does this say about hawks he was never free was never given a free choice? This has a much more deeper meaning.

Hawks is self-sacrificing by nature; perhaps too self sacrificing.His self sacrificing nature is going to rear its ugly head.

During Tokoyami internship Hawks is isolated from the rest of his sidekicks being flown too fast and to show the difference what he has gone through.

Tokoyami interns with him which allows Hawks not only to get info on the USJ incident, but also shows how he sees himself in Tokoyami.

This personal moment with Hawks giving wisdom to Tokoyami: “no need for you to be on the ground.” These words reflect a part of himself that is trapped with no way out and cannot fly away.

Speaking of which, didn’t Hawk’s intern have a darkness quirk?Tokoyami who has the dark shadow quirk, which could also be a part that foreshadows his fall into villainy; the personal moment he said birds should not be confined to the ground could be another foreshadow of him flying the coop.

Hawks is a fan of Endeavor; he admires Endeavor for never giving up despite it looking impossible. This is genuine.

We seen in the way he talks to Endeavor he doesn’t know that Endeavor abused his family for the sake of his entire ambition to surpass All Might. This is going to be heartbreaking when Hawks finds out what Endeavor has done to his family for his ambition. Tragically Hawks and Endeavor formed a genuine bond; finding out what he’s done will hurt him deeply–not just Hawks but Endeavor as well. The truth is going to hurt the both of them let me point something about betrayal in writing it’s done by someone you trusted the most as it says down here:

is done by someone you trusted the most betrayal if its someone you trust.

Horikoshi plays around with symbolism seen when he first introduced Hawks. Who he in many ways is related to the Icarus theory with the opening quote: flys to fast for his own good. His quirk using feathers relates to the wax wings Icarus had.This is seen again when Hawks gives Endeavor his feathers to fight being burning up resembling

Icarus wings when they melted from the sun. There’s an interesting detail about about Endeavor: his super move being “prominence burn” came from solar prominence. Endeavor could be the metaphorically “sun” to the theory. Hawks will burn if he gets to close to Endeavor;the whole “flying too close to the sun” would refer to how Hawks becomes too close to Endeavor.

If he does, Hawks will find out the truth faster than anyone, and if he found out the truth what Endeavor has done he will get burned. The fall could mean his fall into villainy and Dabi could have something to do with it

Let’s  talk about Hawks’s character. Hawks is very carefree smiling and joking with the situation even joking around with Endeavor.He doesn’t take things too seriously when in reality he is surprising hardworking and diligent.During the Hood attack, Hawks managed to remain cool-headed in the crisis shown to be very calm in stressful situations not panicking when things got worse. Hawks is sharp and quick on the uptake, catches on faster than anyone noted by several characters. Hawks is an info leech and good at reading at people like when he works he is looking for information and he’s observant and his able to think quickly giving him the ability manipulated the situation based on the people’s characters.

Something I would like to point out about Dabi.Dabi was put in charge of the raid pulled of the forest mission.I pointed there’re a lot of holes in the plan in my post yes the plan may have a lot of things to point out but despite the forest raid only suffering three casualties and things he did not predict he completed his objective he completed his objective in capturing Katsuki.Dabi didn’t only pull off the summer camp raid he also helped the league of villains in making UA take a huge blow to its reputation hero’s protecting its own students.

Dabi achieves the same thing with Endeavor who recently became number one.He send a high end nomu Hood, a nomu stronger than the others on Endeavor succeeds in severely wounding endeavor this started to cause people to question the security of the hero society in question. Dabi drove Endeavor and Hawks into a corner. Even Hawks was greatly unsettled by this.

Hawks was the one that Dabi notified about the nomu Dabi threw Hood on him and didn’t tell him that he is stronger.He set the hood nomu in a heavily populated area of the city knowing full well that hero always save the lives of others first to further drive the heroes in a corner.Dabi manipulated the situation one that Hawks didn’t predict, Hawks who is perceptive and observant was run over by Dabi. Dabi pulled all this over Hawks’ head.Dabi is the only person who gets under hawk’s skin  Dabi is the one who made Hawks lose his cool.

Here are things you need to note about Dabi. I mentioned that Dabi is not unintelligent; I stated before in his stats. Dabi’s good at seeing through people this is seen with Snatch, Eraserhead, even Shoto. During the forest raid mission Dabi distracts the pros from the league’s true objective: Dabi was keeping the heroes on their toes while the plan proceeded.

He knows what makes people tick goes under people’s skins and uses that to his advantage.He attacks when they don’t retaliate like with Endeavor and Hawks weakened after the fight with hood, as seen with Snatch when he used “hero always save the lives of others first”

he identifies Snatch’s weakness.

He noticed that the rational Aizawa is fierce and asks if he’s gotten unders his skin:

Dabi knows that Aizawa cares about his students leaving behind a cryptic message which visibly unhinged Aizawa.

Dabi taunts Vlad, anticipating his reaction and saying that he voicing completed his objective while driving the rest of them in a corner.

Dabs ran both Hawks and Shoto in circles. Shoto is very powerful,quick and smartest in his class, known to be very agile, yet Dabi catches Katsuki in front of him.

These attacks are done by Dabi. He pulled off two successfully He. led two of the major operations that put the league of villains in the spotlight. Dabi would is one put the league of villains in the spotlight Dabi might really have a big effect on the media as a whole. Despite his success and failure of the last two attacks he was really good at doing what he is doing. Despite being called weak he could be one of the most dangerous members that’s how deadly he is this demonstrated just how ruthless Dabi is as a villain.

What does that half to mean for the media attention for Dabi? Well in the meta liberation arc Himiko doesn’t want to be pitted by others she wants to live life her own normal way:

She never wants to die and be painted as tragic figure. Himiko doesn’t want to be used for media attention especially for the meta liberation’s army motives.

Himiko’s backstory would not be seen as sympathetic I mentioned in of my posts. it won’t work since her backstory is far from sympathetic it wouldn’t be justifiable just be picked apart by critics why more quirk restriction. The meta liberation army tried to use Himiko to show the truth but unfortunately she’s not painted as a tragic lead that the meta liberation is going for as Himiko is not a sympathetic figure.

Dabi and Himiko are foils when they are first introduced:

Dabi seems to have the flare for the dramatics seen in the beginning of the forest raid standing on top with his opening speech.

with Vlad he talks about how the league of villians already completed the objectives with abudting one of their students how the loss of faith will spread like wildfire all the while pinned down.

While talking to Snatch he’s happy that he got media recognition for his burn murders:

Dabi seems to be happy that he is getting more media recognition for his villainy. Himiko’s story would not garner sympathy, but Dabi’s will. Which would make his reveal being Endeavor’s son turned villain exposing Endeavor is going to cause public outrage. His story would have more media attention than Toga’s; Dabi could be painted as sympathetic, not Toga.

People said that Hawks is going to find out about Dabi’s identity; here’s the thing” he won’t.As I mentioned before Dabi ran Hawks in circles he knows something that he doesn’t and he holds something over Hawks’ head that and Dabi is incredibly ruthless he knows how to get under people’s skin. Dabi is going to spring this on Hawks in a more dramatic and unexpected way. Also Hawks’ entire situation is that he’s trapped :exploited and used since his childhood.

Hawks would be integral into finding out that Touya is Dabi in the theory. His bond with Endeavor would also serve as a focal point for his character. This would be very great narratively speaking for a hero becoming a villain. Dabi would be the one who is responsible for his fall by revealing that he is Touya Todoroki and Endeavor’s abuse.

This is why I believe Hawks will fall into villainy and why I don’t believe in the death flags but him falling into the darkness. Thanks to cutisayble that brought up this theory and allowing me to talk about it.

[queensconquest]

INSIDE  CHROLLO’S  MIND

   So  I  want  to  talk  about  Chrollo’s  mentality  and  address  the  whole  idea  of  what  kind  of  man  Chrollo  is.  Clinically  he  is  NOT  a  psychopath.  ( Bless  my  mom  being  in  the  psychology  field  and  all  her  books.  )  He  DOES  possess  extreme  levels  of  primary  psychopathy,  but  excessively  lacks  in  secondary  psychopathy  which  ultimately  means  he  fails  to  technically  qualify  as  a  psychopath.  Using  the  PCL-R  model  of  psychopathy  and  explanation  on  primary  vs  secondary  psychopathy,  I’ll explain  why  below.

PRIMARY VS SECONDARY PSYCHOPATHY

The  easiest  place  to  start  is  with  primary  vs  secondary  psychopathy.  Psychopathy  is  considered  to  be  a  combination  of  personality  and  behavioral  traits.  Primary  psychopathy  is  heavily  personality  based.  Individuals  in  this  class  are  cunning,  manipulative,  remorseless,  and  have  a  lack  of  empathy  for  most  if  not  all  others.  They  are  calm  and  rarely  affected  by  anxiety  or  stress.  Secondary  psychopathy  is  more  behavioral.  These  individuals  are  more  prone  to  impulsive,  anxious,  reckless,  and  generally  see  themselves  as  being  unbeatable.

Now,  there’s  more  to  this  and  it  will  be  discussed  in  the  discussion  of  the  psychopathy  model.  Not  all  primary/secondary  psychopaths  display  every  single  one  of  these  traits, and  even  clinically  diagnosed  psychopath’s  don’t  have  them  all.  Likewise,  some  are  evenly  balanced  between  primary  and  secondary,  and  others  may  be  all  one  side  or  all  the  other,  or  mostly  one  type  with  a  few  traits  of  the  other.  Chrollo  himself  is  entirely  a  primary  psychopath,  which  are  often  the  minority  within  psychopathy,  and  the  traits  of  why  are  discussed  below 

PCL-R  MODEL

This  is  the   model  used  to  diagnose  psychopathy.  In  all,  there  is  20  areas  of  criteria,  and  each  area  can  receive  0,  1,  or  2  points.  0  means  there  is  none/very  little  and  2  being  a  lot.  0  is  someone  without  ANY  psychopathy,  and  40  is  a  perfect  score,  every  category  psychopath.  To  be  diagnosed  as  a  psychopath,  one  must  score  a  30.  Below  are  the  criteria  and  Chrollo’s  results

glib and superficial charm - 2

grandiose (exaggeratedly high) estimation of self - 1

need for stimulation - 2

pathological lying - 0

cunning and manipulativeness - 2

lack of remorse or guilt - 2

shallow affect (superficial emotional responsiveness) -2

callousness and lack of empathy - 2

parasitic lifestyle - 0

poor behavioral controls - 0

sexual promiscuity- 0

early behavior problems - 0

lack of realistic long-term goals - 0

impulsivity - 0

irresponsibility - 0

failure to accept responsibility for own actions - 0

many short-term marital relationships - 0

juvenile delinquency - 2

revocation of conditional release - 0

criminal versatility - 2

TOTAL: 17

As  his  score  is  less  than  30,  Chrollo  FAILS  to  qualify  as  a  psychopath  DESPITE  the  fact  he  has  a  near 100%  in  primary  psychopathy.

ANALYSIS  OF  POINTS  HE  SCORED  A  2  IN

glib and superficial charm - Chrollo  is  very  good  with  words  and  charming  people  in  both  speech  and  actions.  he’s  smooth  and  fluent  and  can  tell  people  what  they  want  to  hear,  but  almost  never  means  it.

need for stimulation -  He  is  someone  that  often  needs  to  be  kept  interested  by  something,  be  it  a  book  or  an  object  or  a  topic.  He  tends  to  need  something  to  keep  his  mind  busy  or  occupied.

cunning and manipulativeness - Chrollo  knows  how  to  get  what  he  wants  and  when  he  wants  it,  and  how  to  manipulate  and  use  people  without  them  truly  realizing  it  and  he  often  uses  it.

lack of remorse or guilt - He  harbors  no  remorse  or  guilt  for  the  things  he  has  done.  From  those  he’s  injured  or  killed  or  shattered  to  get  what  he  wants.  He  wants  it  so  he  takes  it  and  anyone  who  gets  in  his  way  will  be removed

shallow affect -  Chrollo  is  capable  of  faking  reactions  that  aren’t  genuine  and  unless  he’s  with  the  Phantom  Troupe,  he  often  WILL.  It’s  easier  to  blend  in  with  the  crowd  if  you  do  fake  emotional  responses  and  it  can  lure  people  into  a  false  sense  of  safety.  For  example,  freaking  out  over  Neon’s  fall  despite  the  fact  HE  caused  her  to.

callousness and lack of empathy - He does not empathize with the vast majority and disregards others.  Unless  you  are  close  to  him  or  have  use  to  him  or  someone  else  in  the  Troupe,  he  will  not  care  about  their  suffering

juvenile delinquency -  This  is  partially  due  to  the  environment  of  Meteor  City.  He  can  do  whatever  he  wants  and  so  long  as  he  is  not  caught,  or  is  able  to  overcome  opposition,  who’s  to  stop  him  ?  He  began  thieving  and  manipulatin  and  injuring  people  at  a  very  young  age  to  get  what  he  wanted.  It  was  necessary  to  survival  and  it  got  him  what  he  wanted  

criminal versatility - Chrollo  is  exceptionally  good  a t what  he  does,  from  thieving  to  murdering  to  trespassing,  evading  law.  Near  any  criminal  activity  he  excels  in  or  good  if  he  wished  to  learn  it.  Thus,  he’s  a  very  versatile  criminal.

ANALYSIS  OF  POINTS  HE  SCORED  A  1  IN 

grandiose estimation of self -  Chrollo  does  not  see  himself  as  being  some  sort  of  higher  being  like  a  god  of  the  world  or  anything  of  the  sort.   In  fact,  we  see  him  say  that  his  death  basically  does  not  matter.  One  because  of  Neon’s  poem.  We  also  get  the  flashback  where  he  says  the  spider  must  live  on,  even  without  him.  Someone  with  grandiose  estimation  of  themselves  would  say  HE  is  the  most  essential  thing,  but  Chrollo  says  the  very  opposite.  He  says  the  TROUPE  is  the  more  important  thing.  But  he  DOES  display  an  unconscious  view  of  entitlement.  That  something  should  be  his  purely  because  he  wants  it.  In  the  sense  of  entitlement,  Chrollo  would  absolutely  score  a  2  (  to  round  the  total  to  a  18  ).  Everyone  in  the  troupe  essentially  has  this.  But  as  himself,  he  does  not  believe  he  should  be  treated  like  royalty  or  pampered,  thus  he  only  earns  a  1  since  he  only  fulfills  one  of  the  two  aspects

ANALYSIS  OF  POINTS  HE  SCORED  A  0  IN

pathological lying - He  is  not  a  pathological  liar  because  he  does  not  lie  compulsively.  He  lies  intentional  and  when  necessary,  but  is  otherwise  very  honest,  if  perhaps  vague

parasitic lifestyle - Chrollo  supports  himself  and  does  not  leech  off  of  anyone  else  so  he  does  not  have a  parasitic  lifestyle.

poor behavioral controls - This  man  is  EXTREMELY  capable  of  controlling  his  emotions  and  behavior.  No  matter  what,  he  is  almost  always  calm  and  collected.  He  does  not  lash  out  in  anger  or  have  meltdowns  or  anything  of  the  sort.

sexual promiscuity - He  has  no  real  focus  on  sexual  matters.  He  is  not  naive  on  the  subject,  but  simply  does  not  indulge  in  such  things.  He  is  not  opposed  nor  repulsed  by   it  by  any  regards  though  !  It  is  just  not  something  he  finds  necessary  in  his  life.  for  ship  partners  he  does  actually  have  a  sex  drive,  but  only  for  them.  It’s  like  a  switch,  and  Chrollo  almost  always  has  it  off  unless  he  has  a  partner.

early behavior problems  -  Contrary  to  what  might  be  expected,  Chrollo  did  not  have  early  behavior  problems  such  as  lashing  out  at  authority,  or  behavioral  issues.  While  he  might  get  very  focused  on  a  task  as  child,  he  was  also  capable  of  disregarding  it  or  going  about  it  another  way,  or  stopping  if  told  to.

lack of realistic long-term goals - While  for  OTHER  criminals  it  might  be  unrealistic,  Chrollo’s  goals  are  not  unrealistic  for  the  Phantom  Troupe.  We’ve  seen  how  powerful  they  are,  how  dangerous  they  are,  and  how  skilled  they  are.  Chrollo  is  very  realistic  about  their  abilities  and  what  can  and  cannot  be  done.  While  he  may  give  some  tough  jobs,  they  are  far  from  unrealistic.

impulsivity - Absolutely  not.  Chrollo  plans  everything  but  also  leaves  room  for  flexibility.  While  an  action  may  APPEAR  impulsive,  it  is  never  impulsive  with  Chrollo.  If  it  seems  like  it  is,  it’s  because  he  WANTS  people  to  think  it is.

irresponsibility - This  is  a  man  running  an  extremely  successful  group  full  of  volatile  personalities.  Chrollo  is  a  very  responsible  and  coordinated  leader.

failure to accept responsibility for own actions - If  Chrollo  messes  up,  he  will  own  up  to  it.  Even  in  the  Yorknew  city  arc  he  mentions  how  he  misanalyzed  something.  He  accepts  the  responsibility  and  facts  of  his  actions,  he  does  not  blame  it  on  others.

many short-term marital relationships - He’s  never  had  any,  nor  does  he  look  for  them.

revocation of conditional release - This  might  be  a  bit  of  a  shocker,  but  from  what  we’ve  seen  of  Chrollo  (  at  least  ot  the  point  im  at  )  Chrollo  does  not  violate  his  terms.  For  example,  Kurapika’s  chains.  He  shows  he  does  not  fear  his  own  death,  he  could  have  done  something  but  he  does  not.  Likewise,  he  makes  no  attempt  to  fight  or  escape,  but  accepts  what  is  happening.

[a-dakhtar]

I absolutely ADORED that Thor and Tony fic. Any chance I can prompt you into showing us that 3k you mentioned?

anon is referring to this fic where thor and a kid!tony somehow end up in Jotunheim and have to make their way out of it. also, anon, maaaaybbe just a little bit of the 3k. maybe. (edit: I think mobile is messing with coding - sorry if you're on mobile!)

> prompt rules: here

> prompt 1 / prompt 2 / prompt 3

prompt 4: fimbulvetr

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“Wait, they’re what?” Steve’s tiny voice echoed through the line, sounding shocked and pleased. “They’re really back? Both of them?”

“Yup,” Clint popped, kicking his feet up onto the coffee table, phone lodged in between ear and shoulder as he distractedly fiddled with an arrowhead. “Hale and healthy. Thor looks a bit mountain-man-ish, but then again he rocks the look so it’s not really that detracting for him, the lucky shit.”

“And Tony?” Steve asked breathlessly, the sound of fists hitting bodies and grunts of fighting clearly audible in the background thanks to the superiority of Stark phones. “He’s okay too?”

“Eeeh,” Clint wavered, making a so-and-so motion with his head as he kept staring at the image before him. “Kinda? He’s fine, sort of, just…”

“Just what, Clint?” Steve demanded, the whistle of his shield being thrown like a damn boomerang adding urgency to his question. “What’s wrong with Tony?”

Staring at their recently lost and found teammates, Clint wondered how exactly he should answer.

The little kid masquerading as Tony stared back at him from beneath dark curly bangs.

Weird.

“Uuh, not gonna lie, Cap, this is pretty damn weird. Ever wondered how Tony looked when he was, I dunno, how the hell old is he even, three? He looks like he’s barely out of diapers.”

An insulted look passed across the kid’s face, but rather than speak his mind like the- the- the real Tony would have, he just buried his face in Thor’s knee. As if that wasn’t weird enough, it was Thor – big, fluffy, puppy Thor – that turned angry, and in a low, threatening, voice said, “I would watch your tongue, friend Barton. Anthony deserves none of your ire.”

Barton, Clint mouthed to Natasha, bewildered. Since when the hell did a simple question warrant the surname threat?

“Did- did you just say three?”

Oh, right, Steve.

He’d forgotten about him for a moment.

“Look, just- aren’t you wrapping up your mission by now? Shit, I thought you’d be done with it years ago, what the hell is Barnes doing? Filing his nails?” Clint complained, eyes still trained on the little boy using Thor as a shield. Damn, the kid was way too small, Clint hadn’t been kidding about the three year old thing – or the diapers. “How long until you’re due back, anyway?”

An aggravated sigh came over the line, followed with an irritated, “You can’t just tell me something happened to Tony, mention three years old and diapers in the same sentence, and then completely change the topic, Clint, jeez. We’re finishing up here, just some stragglers- oh, no, they’re down. We’re finished. Now can you please just tell me what’s wrong with Tony?”

Clint got an idea.

“Better I just show you,” he said, pleased with his own quick thinking. “Hey, Jarv, be a doll and send Cap a good pic of the kid, arc reactor ‘n all.”

Strangely enough, the kid perked up at that, curiously looking around the common floor’s living room as if searching for someone. He jumped a little at JARVIS’, “Very well, Agent Barton. The appropriate camera still has been sent.”

Now the kid looked confused, peering everywhere for where the voice had come from, and strangely enough even looked to the ceiling.

Huh, Clint thought to himself curiously, nobody ever thought to look to the ceilings. A quick glance at a leaving Natasha showed that she was impressed herself. Good thing neither of them had ever been sent to assassinate Tony, then. He’d have sussed them out quickly if ceilings were within his realm of paranoia.

“Oh, a file,” Steve beamed over the line, always happy to get anything, even from annoying advertisers. “Let’s see, press here and- oh, I got the picture! Is that-”

A new voice called from the background, the familiar tone of Barnes quickly growing louder as he probably came up to wherever Steve was.

“-is going on?” Clint heard dimly.

“Thor and Tony came back!” Steve told his best friend happily. “Clint called to tell me. They’re fine, apparently, though something happened to Tony.”

“Look at the picture,” Clint urged, growing excited at the thought of their reaction. “Jarv, record the rest of this conversation, please, it’s gonna be freakin’ amazing, I can just feel it.”

“He says look at the picture,” Steve related, “I hope Tony’s alright, come here Buck, let’s see… There’s Thor, and… a kid? Why is Thor with a kid? A boy? That’s strange- wait. Clint, is that a blue glow coming from the boy’s chest? Clint? Why is there a blue glow coming from- Oh my god, three years old and not even out of diapers, Clint, tell me that isn’t Tony!”

Snickering at Barnes’ echoing surprise in the background, Clint caught the kid in question suspiciously peering at him, and jokingly made a face at him. Mini-Tony jerked back in surprise, made a confused face, and buried his head back into Thor’s side. Thor seemed completely unbothered by the little leech, but then again, if what he’d said was true so far, the two had spent up to four months in close contact with each other and nobody else. Long enough time to get more than friendly with one another.

“He’s… sort of cute,” Steve said then, bringing Clint up short. “Look at his fluffy hair and big eyes, aaaw, little fella must be terrified.”

Was Steve serious?

“Let me guess,” their Captain continued, “Amora’s spell did this? But why did she turn Tony into a kid? Heck, what did she do to them both in the first place?”

“Apparently it was a location spell, a bid to try and get Thor away from us so she could probably get him all to herself. But it went wrong because Tony thought it’d be hilarious to jump in like he always does, so they ended up in some realm or other and Tony ended up a kid.” Clint explained, running a hand through his short hair. “Bruce is checking his blood for his own peace of mind, but we’re mostly sure it’s Tony. Otherwise it’s some random kid that scarily looks like Tony at the same age with the same arc reactor in his chest.”

“Alright,” Steve sighed, “We’ll be there in a few hours and call a team meeting to try and figure out what to do to get him back to adulthood.”

Clint clucked his tongue, spied the kid peeking up at him from Thor’s side at the sound, and said, “Apparently, all we have to do is wait it out. Thor’s words. And since this is magic, he’s our residential expert and what he says goes.”

Steve sighed again, but this time in relief. “Thank goodness. Then we’ll just take care of the little guy for as long as he’s with us. Have you called Fury? Pepper?”

“Natasha’s doing it now.”

“Good. Try not to let Fury anywhere near the kid, please. I’d rather avoid terrifying the poor guy.”

Still eyeing the small child, Clint wondered at the red cape wrapped snuggly around his body, at the broad shoulders and firm countenance of the Thunder God, at the fact that they’d apparently spent four months in some realm where frost giants were totally a thing.

Clint had seen a lot of strange things in his life – most of them terrifying – but frost giants were not one of them.

Poor kid already looked terrified.

“Yeah, sure.” He said instead, blatantly staring at the little heap of red cape and dark hair on the opposite sofa. “Got it.”

Just as he hung up, Natasha walked back into the room, Pepper’s tap tap tapping of heels hailing her arrival as well. The two women entered the room like they were on the warpath, and both of them looked pissed.

“Fury has officially been ordered to release Tony Stark into the care of the WSC,”

Natasha bluntly announced, coming to a stop besides Clint. “He’s delaying them as we speak.”

“And Stark Industries has officially informed the WSC that they’ll have Tony Stark over my dead body,” Pepper finished succinctly, hair and eyes taking on the faint orange glow of Extremis. “We can ultimately keep them off for as long as we can, especially if we go drastic and take this public, but they can destroy us by simply labelling us a terrorist organisation and having us legally branded as criminals. So we need another preventive measure to stop them.”

Thor huffed a laugh, grabbing all their attention, and simply said, “None shall take him, for he is under my protection. Have your pitiful council know that Asgard and Stark Industries have anointed Avengers Tower as the embassy of the realm of Asgard, and any trespassers on Asgardian land shall be dealt with most swiftly. If they attempt anything further, then know that I, the crown prince of Asgard, will officially give you all political asylum from their pathetic grasp.”

Pepper blinked once, cleared her throat into the ensuing silence, and said, “That… would very much work. Thank you, Thor.”

“Where the hell did you even learn about that?” Clint demanded, bewildered at the calm Aesir in front of him. “Seriously? Embassies? Political asylum? I’m pretty sure Asgard doesn’t even know what either of those things are.”

"Friend JARVIS is kind enough to teach me of your realm’s way of life, friend Clint." Thor shrugged, as if his knowing how to loophole the judiciary system of the entire planet wasn't huge. "Anthony and I spoke much about what to do in the chance a situation like this would arise."

Pepper pulled a face as she took her own seat, kicking of her high heels with a relieved sigh. "Is that why Tony would always tell me we could run off to

Asgard whenever something went wrong?"

Chuckling, Thor grinned at her - looking more like the usual happy-go-lucky Thor rather than the strange solemn one he'd been only moments before.

Then Clint heard a small voice say, "Ja'vis?"

The room went deathly silent.

Surprisingly, JARVIS broke the silence with a calm yet curious, “Yes, sir?”

The child looked around, dark brows furrowed over intelligently wary eyes, and said, “Whe’e are you?”

Eyeing Natasha for some sort of hint of what the hell was happening – since when would athree year old Stark know JARVIS? – Clint tightened his fingers on the arrowhead as JARVIS carefully replied, “I am wired into the building, sir. As I am wired into many other locations that you own.”

Tiny Tony’s eyes widened dramatically, something like horror flashing over his face as he blurted out, “No! A’e you-? Did Dad make you a robot?”

Pepper shrugged at the looks they all shot her, looking just as confused and worried as the rest of them. But this time, it was Thor that spoke up. He bent closer to the small child, putting a wide palm on the boy’s shoulder, and said in a low voice they could only barely make out, “This is not the Jarvis you know, little one. He is a different Jarvis.”

Little Tony huffed a huge exhale in relief, looking almost close to tears as he clutched at Thor. “Whe’e Ja’vis then? Why he not here? Whe’e Mama? Dad? You said you take me home!”

Clint stared at the grief-stricken expression that flashed across Thor’s face, stared as the mighty thunderer bent further towards the tiny boy and fervently begged said, “I shall! I shall take you home just as I said I would! But you must give me a little while longer, a few days to regain my strength, yes? I must recuperate first, little one, but be confident that I have nothing but your wellbeing in mind.”

“… P’omise?” Little Tony hiccupped, wiping a tiny fist against a watering eye.

Thor gave a single nod, face set in grim determination as he stared the child in the eye and said, “I promise.”

The little child nodded, seemingly accepting the words for what they meant, and buried his head in Thor’s hip.

He refused to move from his spot for the rest of the day.