#studdy buddy

[rainfallkai]

I NOW PRESENT TO YOU (it's not even good. Why. Why am I saying it like it's good)

THE KAI FOXIE!!!

I'm going to be real, I have no clue on how to draw foxes. I…just drew using a pinterest reference. I really hope you like it kai <3 (and yes the fox is wearing Layla's flower-like accessory)

I am going to hug the fox and never let go of it, I humbly accept your gift. But now I shall snuggle with your gift while we both do homework for...what is it? Like uh- Astrology! Fuckin- my ADHD is all over the place today-

[ursanazyalensky]

study buddy | ursa & artus

for: @artuswestwood location: Ursa's family Deli

His mother really did need the help at the deli but he hadn't expected that help would come in the form or Artus Westwood. He was popular and rich and Ursa was pretty sure his parents were famous and yet, he was working in their family deli. Ursa never asked the question of why, deciding it wasn't his business unless Artus wanted to tell him. Not that he would, the two weren't friends, not really but they shared a class and now they shared this after school activity.

He sat in the deli that afternoon, absently chewing on the end of his pen while he thought about it, well about Artus. The other man had been on his mind a lot lately and Ursa didn't understand why but he found that he didn't mind it so much. The only downside was that he was distracted, endlessly so and so he had already failed the last pop quiz. Now he was still trying to focus but his thoughts kept drifting to Artus. "Artus!" he said in surprise, his eyes snapping up. When he had gotten so close? Ursa thought he was still behind the counter but now he was placing coffee in front of him. "I mean… thanks. Did my mother send this over?" he asked.

[willowcrowned]

once again the fact that all the non-starbucks cafes around here close at 6 is personally hacking my body to pieces

[bymerlinsgreattits]

gods, I'm reading my own rabithole that is the tag Geoffrey of Monmouth and at every turn I'm like, this cant get any worse, but than it happens and i keep reading like i should not have been in bed like 10 hours ago

[xxgoldie]

hi, I would like to order a bouquet for Lighter 🤭 can the focus flower be lillies, with ivy, delphinium and heather as filler flowers, in pink paper wrapping? thank you!

-🐇 anon-

goldie's gift shop : order list for : lighter lorenz // lilies + ivy + delphinium + heather + pink paper [confessions + jealousy + first kiss + idiots in love + college au] florist's note : your friend was the one who brought it up, but it made complete sense - lighter was an attractive guy who lived with a bunch of girls. one of them had to be his girlfriend, right? it was an assumption you'd been running under almost as long as you'd been friends and studdy buddies. so why was he always looking at you like that? and why was your go-to coffee order always waiting for you when you met him at the library? and WHY did the words 'i need to tell you something' just leave his mouth???

wc: 1.2k a/n: this is the fic that was giving me grief, i just love college lighter a lot and this took so much reworking to try and do him any justice notes / warnings: lighter x gn!reader, basically just fluff, reader lowkey doing some simone biles level mental gymnastics, brief mention of burnice x pulchra, no use of Y/N

"I don't want to burst your bubble, but don't get ahead of yourself. I'm pretty sure he has a girlfrienzzd. Or he's a player. Or both."

Your friend's words had, unfortunately, very much burst your bubble. You'd just gotten home from the first meet-up for a group project, for which you'd miraculously been paired with Lighter, the guy you'd been pining for across lecture theatres since you started university, and you were excited to giggle and debrief with her over the phone. And you had, telling her how he was not only hot but so nice, that you definitely thought you had a chance, until you'd sent her his Instagram handle, which you'd gotten the courage to ask for just before leaving the library, and she went quiet.

The conversation shifted to a different kind of debrief then - she told you about how she shared a few classes with a girl he lived with, Burnice, and he was always meeting her after lectures, how his house consisted of him and four girls, and every time she'd seen him around campus he was with one of them. By the end of the conversation, your high hopes were left significantly dropped. No matter what way you looked at it, the way your friend described it convinced you - whatever the situation, there was no way he was truly single. You'd accepted it as true then, and there had been no indication that anything had changed in the last few months, even as your friendship with him grew.

So just what on earth was happening to you right now?

"I need to tell you something."

Those were the words Lighter Lorenz had just said to you. The classic, default, 'I'm about to confess' line. While standing at the door to your dorm room, uncharacteristically fidgety, avoiding eye contact, and- shit, was he blushing?

This was the last thing you'd expected when he'd messaged you ten minutes ago, asking if you were busy, if he could come over. You'd expected he wanted help with the assignment due next week. Or he was bored and just wanted to hang out. Or he'd gotten into some fight and needed someone a bit more sane than his roommates to see if his cuts were serious. All of them had happened before.

A confession? No. Not on the list of possibilities. You'd long since accepted that no matter how much you liked Lighter, he was off limits. You'd yearned from a distance, lamented to your friends and your notes app that someone else was lucky enough to have him, thanked the universe that at least he was private and barely talked about the relationship so he didn't see how your jaw clenched when you thought about it, and did your best to move on with your life. It was difficult, when the two of you had a weekly standing reservation at your favourite table in the library, and he regularly joined you for movie marathons in your cramped dorm room, but you'd been making a valiant effort. Because you had to. Because he was taken.

"Look, I've been dancing around it because I really value our friendship, but it's getting to a point where I can't just push it down anymore," Lighter continued, still sheepishly avoiding meeting your gaze, unaware of the error messages flashing in your mind, the complete loop he was throwing you for, "I like you. Romantically. Like, a lot."

With a deep, shaky breath, Lighter forced his eyes to finally meet yours. He wasn't sure what look he expected to see on your face - he'd hoped for joy, had prepared for both shock and pity. But your face bore none of those - instead, you looked monumentally confused, blinking at him like he'd given the confession in gibberish.

"Don't you have a girlfriend?" "What? No?"

The words had slipped out of your mouth before you could think of a better way to phrase them, but at least now he was as confused as you were. For several seconds, the two of you stood there in the doorway to your room, eyes wide, staring at each other.

Then, you processed several things at once.

One: Lighter had never, to your recollection, said anything about dating anyone. Not once. You'd been running under the assumption for months, and he'd never said anything that confirmed it.

Two: You didn't even know which one of his roommates you thought he was dating. You'd seen how friendly he was with all of them; the barrelling hugs from Burnice, the makeup he bought for Lucy, the daily gym sessions with Caesar, the way Piper fell asleep on his shoulder. And had somehow never considered he was just like that with close friends.

Three: Lighter liked you. He bought your coffee because he liked you. He made himself free whenever you wanted to see him because he liked you. He came to you first when he got injured in a fight because he liked you.

And as it all hit you, the gravity of your stupidity, all you could do was laugh. You tried to restrain it, fearing you'd think you were laughing at him and not yourself, but the pure ridiculousness left you cackling until you were out of breath, a mixture of embarassment and elation as you realised that none of your problems were even real.

You retreated back into your room, beckoning Lighter to follow you as you sat down on your bed, trying to collect yourself. He stood awkwardly just inside, door clicked shut behind him, quizzical yet fears slightly soothed by the fact you wanted him in the room. In any other situation, he'd be more than content to watch and listen as your laughter bubbled past your lips until you cried, but right now, there were slightly more... pressing matters on his mind.

"I thought you had a girlfriend," you confessed, when you calmed your amusement enough to speak, "Oh my god, I'm such an idiot. Why did I think that?"

And Lighter had to laugh as well, heart thrumming at how relieved you seemed at the information.

"Who did you even think I was dating?" he questioned, padding closer to stand by where you sat on the bed.

"That's the thing, I don't even know!" you started laughing at yourself again, lying back on the bed, "One of your roommates. I think I'd have bet on Burnice."

"No way. Even if I was interested, she literally has a girlfriend - you know Pulchra?" he sat down next to where you lay, but the last dregs of his earlier unspoken question still itched at his mind. He was pretty sure he had his answer, because now that the universe had given you permission, you were looking at him in a way that could only be described as starstruck. "So... I like you. Thoughts?"

You couldn't help but giggle again, even though your cheeks were hurting from all the laughter. Then you grabbed him by the collar and pulled him down towards you, pressing his lips to yours; clumsy, both of you surprised and smiling against each other, and melting into it perfectly.

After a couple seconds, he pulled back, grinning dopily at you lying and breathing heavily under him on your bed.

"I've been wanting to do that for forever." "I'll take that as you like me too?"

And then his lips were on yours again.

[magewritesstories]

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im.not.yn. @paris.geller is my new favourite study buddy (sorry @rory.gilmore.official)

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→ rory.gilmore.official never took you for the fredo corleone type      → im.not.yn. sorry babes, but you talk too much sometimes

→ paris.geller. thank you, you’re my favourite too     → jessnotfound she said favourite studdy buddy, im her favourite person

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im.not.yn one party with @pretty.girl.madeline and @dumbblondelouise is enough to last me a year

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→ whoislorelai aah reminds me of the good old days      → jessnotfound you mean the mesozoic era?      → rory.gilmore.official you might wanna run away again @jessnotfound, my mom’s looking for you      → xo.lane everyone let’s collectively pray for @jessnotfound

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im.not.yn my three favourite things rainy days, jane austen and coffee

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→ LukeDanes how did you not spill that coffee?      → im.not.yn its a secret i’ll never tell

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im.not.yn taking pictures of jess when he’s not looking is my favourite way to pass time

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im.not.yn midterms at chilton suck

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im.not.yn its my fav time of the year again

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[dojunie]

MESSENGER; HRJ SMAU

[★]; YOU FIND A PHONE NUMBER WRITTEN ON THE MIRROR OF THE SULIM LIBRARY'S SECOND FLOOR BATHROOM. It's scrawled messily across the glass in erasable expo marker, the handwriting underneath almost closer to hieroglyphics than lettering— and what you thought it read, was 'SEND DUCK PICS FOR A GOOD TIME.'

(You suppose, in hindsight, it was a good thing this person's penmanship was so shit— because if you knew what it really said, you might have never stumbled across the oddly intriguing inbox of one Huang Renjun.)

info;

smau (with many written parts)

renjun x fem!reader

strangers to lovers

quotations means written, no quotes means text!

PART 1: DUCK DEALER

PART 2: PICS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN

PART 3: 2AM

PART 4: "COFFEE VS TEA"

PART 5: SPORT BALL

PART 6: "FACE TO FACE"

PART 7: STUBBORN

PART 8: "SHH!"

PART 9: ONE LAST TIME?

PART 10: QUICK THINKING

PART 11: BRIBERY ♥︎

PART 12: "SWITCH UP"

PART 13: BUNNY TAX

PART 14: WRITING ON THE WALL

PART 15: "TWO FACES"

PART 16: STUDDY BUDDY

PART 17: DAYS FLYIN' BY

[and more to come soon...!]

LAST UPDATED: APR 24, 2024

[chaotichyperfixations]

I was looking in my drafts for something and found these and like. What!! What was I on!!!

Sitting waiting one day and thought what if pizza tow real. Rela the toer? And my buddy was like tower pizza tou want real and i was lik yeah but then they were like you are art!!!!!! Studdy art!!!! And i was like boowomp art no oizza real then he said wait!!!!!!! Towrr. And i wa like wait!!!!!!! Peppinos Pizza is a local pizza place with 3.9 sta!!! Rating and we were like yes!!!! Get the architecture into this!!! And theyw ere like you want us to tower near the peppinos pizza?????!?!! Ans we were like yes yes yah tower near the pi!!!!!! And rhey were lik ok but why and i wa oizza towr andrhey nodde dknoslignlt like oh yes!! Ozza tower!!! NN and they towered and my bud was like wait tower but jo pizza?? And wenwere like CRAO and thiuf thow to oizza the wmtower??? Then my enginwrrinf friend was like hey?!!!!!!! I will pizza your tower!!!!! N we ere eooo ahooy and excited and enginewr made pizza face and !!!!!!!then engneering said wait how pillar for pizza??????Biology go!!!!!! Then biology wa slike no i cantdothis myselfm!??? And the chemistry came in and was like de dw i will help and biology and chemistry pillared and cloned and it was awesome cause architecture alsi helped, but thenw r realiEd wedidnt have everyone else. So i entered peppinos pizza and wet to the chef and was like hey tou anxiety run fast? And he was like no so we replace dhimbwith guy peppino but that guy wasnt peppino enough so wr were like whhat???!!! What di we do then physcis was like portal and engineering was like hell yesh!!!?? Then they portaled and we al laughed because no anime girls only piZa towr grggehehehehr Nd wr wer wsosoosos happy but then we reakized towrr isnt decorated!!!! So we hired interir design and they designed the interior! Nnhrhueeayyrray!!!!!and the pziza tower was real and evrryone xlapped, workd eoaxe has veen acieved

[r2in2p]

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[ktechnicolour]

Yoglabs: Behind Closed Doors - Mass Spoiler Post

General Outline

So the general outline for the plot revolved around my OC Subject K, and her rose tinted perspective on the state of yoglabs before slowly uncovering the truth of her own purpose as well as the underlying secrets the lab holds.

The story is set after the events of Shadow of Israphel and Yoglabs with the series like Blackrock, Flux buddies, Flux Baddies and Sipsco all being cannon to the universe.

Character Plots

Since the story is so heavily character focused and thats kinda the layout in my head, ill breakdown events via characters and important points.

Subject K

The main character of the story. She was born on a boat to an archaeologist couple, however her mother died in childbirth. Her father treasured her dearly, and brought her along for alot of his studdies, teaching her to draw and gifting her the sketchbook she has. During studies into the lost 4th dimension, (the aether, the nether and the errebus are all cannon with the lost 4th dimension being oceanus) their boat is attacked by a greater elder guardian and destroyed. This gives her a deep fear of the sea and anything tentacle-y. K washes up on a beach and walks aimlessly for days in search of any kind of civilization to help her. She finally comes across a town of people who rather than help her, drive her out as an ill omen saying she'll only bring destruction. Tired and close to giving up on everything, she hides away in a nearby cave for shelter and decides she's better off alone. She ends up stealing what she needs from the village to survive, surviving but never really making anything of herself. One night, during a usual raid on the village, it also gets raided by yoglabs, capturing the villagers and herself in the process. She is then used as the 11th subject in project divinity, a project aiming to recreate Ridgedog. she's spliced with his DNA and given a secondary heart and circulatory system, and though she survives, she doesn't manifest any of the power or abilities of her predecessor. The fact that her second heart doesn't work is actually what saves her life. in a desperate attempt to kickstart her 2nd heart and her magic, Xephos decides to use what they have left of Ridges Ichor, essentially, liquified magic that pumps through the secondary circulatory system of a demigod fuelling their power. This kickstarts her magic, but she cant control it properly. Her body just keeps generating energy with no limit. her outburst of power on the village, destroying it entirely stops her from burning out and overloading herself by venting some of the excess power. When she's brought back to the labs, she's fitted with her collar and told by Xephos its to keep her alive. while not entirely a lie, what she isn't told is that it slowly siphons her energy to fuel a secret project at the labs Site B. more on that later. She's thankful for a proper home and a second chance at life and through her interactions with Xephos, she comes to understand him as a very conflicted and troubled man. At one point she finds him late at night passed out with a bottle of gin next to Honeydew's clone vat. at that point she develops a sense of sympathy for the lonely spaceman as a kindred spirit. She knows herself how devastating loss can be. Once her magic awakens, she has dreams that are flashbacks to Ridge's life including time spent with his brother, who always refers to him as "pup". (i had some ideas with coming up with a fun anagram for his brothers name, but the best i could do was Earlship)

Xephos

Originally an alien who crash lands, leading into the events of Shadow of Israphel, they face off with the man himself deep in the heart of one of his facilities (heehoo site B) where Israphel is attempting to rebuild one of the huge robots (remember the hand in the sand?) and has been using a cloning system to create workers and versions of himself. He is also using Ridgedog as a generator to fuel the energy needed for the giant robot. The original Israphel is hooked up to what seems to be a large life support machine. they stop Israphel's plan, but Xephos receives a fatal blow. To save his best friends life, Honeydew hooks him up to the life support system granting him control of the facility. They rebuild the Yoglabs main site, originally using it for good, but Xephos becomes obsessed with the cloning systems. after loosing Knight Peculiar, he cant bare the thought of loosing Honeydew and through extensive testing develops a strange desensitization to the meaning of loss. After the Clone Labs Takeover Honeydew's current clone replaces the original master version. (yes I know that's not exactly how it goes in the episode, but CREATIVE LICENCE) however, since cloning at this point is still imperfect, this new Master Clone slowly deteriorates, loosing memories, cognitive functions. imagine immense dementia. until the point Xephos stops cloning him, not wanting to make the situation any worse. Xephos thows himself even deeper into perfecting cloning to save his best friend, but begins loosing sight of his reasoning through obsession. When he begins trying to clone Ridgedog despite ridge's warnings, the first attempt ends in a catastrophic failure, destroying a large portion of the labs in the process. Ridgedog confronts him on this to which Xephos challenges him to a duel. Ridge begrudgingly accepts, and the swordfight takes place on the cliff above the main door of the lab. Ridge easily beats Xephos and begins lecturing xeph on the danger of what he's messing with. as ridge turns to look out over the cliff face, Xephos strikes, running him through and leaning close revealing himself to be controlled by israphel; "you always were too trusting, Pup." before kicking him off the top of the labs. Ridge falls landing in a huge explosion of light. While Xephos is being controlled by Israphel, most of the time its rather subtle, twisting xephos' beliefs and desires into his own. With the original Ridgedog now gone, Xephos dives even deeper into project divinity, driven by Xephos' regret and Israphels need for a replacement power source for the giant robot project; Sentinel. Thus, K is created being the first surviving subject.

Lalnable Hector

Lalnable is one of 3 active Lalnas in the universe. the others being Lalna, the Flux Buds Variant and LividCoffee the original from the Duncan's lab series. Lalnable plays the biggest part in the story of the 3 being Yoglabs' clone. while defective, Lalnable is all yoglabs is left with in terms of lalna since Livid left destroying any record of his original DNA in the process. Lalnable does leave yoglabs before subject Ks creation to investigate the flux buddies and the events of Flux Baddies takes place. However, Specimen 5s Flux corruption quickly grows out of control and rather than deal with the mess and fast spreading flux corruption, he cuts his losses and flees back to yoglabs. The magical corruption however gains the attention of a certain endermage, Rythian, who tracks Lalnable back to the labs, breaking in to confront the scientist about his actions. Rather than kicking rythian out, Xephos takes the opportunity to make a deal with the mage, if yoglabs offers its resources to deal with the flux, rythian would offer his understanding of magic to help subject K better control her powers. Xephos orders Lalnable to assist and capture specimen 5. Subject K begs to go along, and against Xephos' wishes and through Rythians persuasion, she's granted leave under the exception that she wears a special system, in the form of a backpack that connects to her collar, since the system isnt designed to work outside the labs. I was planning some rather fun interactions between the 3 of them with Rythian taking a begrudging liking to K because of her resemblance to Zoeya.

Specimen 5

In an attempt to better understand Lalna, Lalnable creates his own version of Nano. However, since 5 is created from already corrupted material, 5s corruption spreads abnormally fast turning her into an abomination of tentacles and claws that spreads flux wherever she goes. Lalnable, although having developed feelings for 5, is a reckless coward who flees rather than facing his responsibilities. The magical corruption created by 5 gets the attention of Rythian, since due to his background, is rather sensitive to magic in the world. Due to this sensitivity however, he is unable to deal with the flux alone since it would very quickly corrupt him if infected.

Rythian Enderborn

After the events of Blackrock, a space fairing bounty hunter, Fiona crash lands at their castle. through helping repair her ship, Zoeya develops feelings for the bounty hunter. torn between Rythian and her new love, Rythian makes the difficult choice to encourage her to leave. Left with fishton and a painful goodbye, Rythian is once again alone. Living with the regret of loosing the girl he loved and never telling her the truth of how he feels, he shuts himself away, endlessly studying and taking up a deep interest in alchemy. While out on a material gathering trip, he comes across the huge amounts of flux quickly spreading through the lands and the horrifying creature causing it. with further investigation, he spots a fleeing Lalnable who he decides to trail all the way back to the labs. He confronts Lalnable on his recklessness before Xephos walks in on them, K in tow. after getting the whole story Xephos sees the opportunity to gain a magic expert and a monstrous weapon in one go and tells them to capture the creature, promising Lalnable they'll help Five any way they can. (a blatant lie) and in return for Yoglabs' resources, Rythian would help K with controlling her magic, Xephos hoping she'll make a more useful asset in the future. Rythian agrees to help, intending to sneak away once the flux is cleared. however, through traveling with subject K and Lalnable, he grows a fondness for K. she reminds him of Zoeya. When they finally confront Five, K freezes, terrified by the tentacles, reminding her of the night she lost her father. Rythian manages to get her out of harms way before working begrudgingly with Lalnable to secure Five. Back at the labs K is excited to have a new friend to show around. after a few days of working together, she decides they should take a break so K can show rythian her favourite part of the labs. She takes him to the botanical conservatory, excitedly showing him all the generating flora she's been working on in her spare time. Its a very sweet moment of downtime before the sprinkler system kicks in to water everything. Rythian's skin burns and blisters in the downpour and K panics to get him somewhere safe. This is when her healing magic manifests as she apologizes profusely, healing the burns, much to rythians surprise and awe. Rythian vaguely explains his enderborn origin, though not going into much detail about his past. After some reminiscing he mistakingly calls K zoeya, leading into a conversation about his relationship and regrets. K sympathises, but also tells rythian he should never have let her go. understandably, rythian becomes rather upset and leaves the labs later that night.

Dr. Riviera, Epsilon and Grimm

Sometime after rythian leaves, K is wandering the labs upset and mulling over her conversation with rythian, when she notices something watching her out the corner of her eye. She chases it, managing to corner the strange creature which huddles in the corner chewing on a book. K realises this is her Sketchbook and become extremely irate. Riviera comes across the two, attempting to diffuse the situation, slowly convincing Epsilon to part with the sketchbook in return for a bag of jellybeans. Riviera takes the two back to Bio-engineering, getting Epi to apologize, though her words are broken and childlike, explaining that Epsilon isnt supposed to leave this section of the labs and that if Xephos knew about her, Riviera would be in trouble. K finds herself unable to stay mad at the adorable creature and promises to keep her secret just as they realise Xephos standing in the doorway. Xephos lectures Riviera on his purpose in the labs, that he should be creating bio-weapons, not kids show mascots. he threatens Riviera with cutting his med supply, which Riviera sadly agrees to, promising he'll fix epsilon soon. K tries to ask Riv about the purpose of his meds and why he seems so scared of Xephos. She promises to come by again soon and bring epsilon some less sketchbooky snacks. When K returns a few days later Rivieras mannerisms are off and he seems strangely excited to show K his work on epsilon. Epi is completely unrecognizable, having been reworked into a monster, he mouth dripping with acidic poison. K is horrified by his inhumane treatment of the creature he showed so much care for, calling him a monster. Riviera seems to argue with himself about this before K flees in disgust and just generally being creeped out. Epsilon breaks out of containment, creeping into Ks quarters during the night. K manages to wake up and notice before Epsilon destroys her sketchbook snatching it away just in time. K is furious with her sketchbook almost being destroyed and what Epsilon has become. She kicks Epi out into the hallway against the wall when Riviera runs over blocking Ks way. She confronts him on how he could do this to herm getting very mixed and confusing responses. This is when she finds out about Grimm, who manifests threatening Riviera. Grimm essentially appears as a phantom of smoke escaping from Riviera's missing eye socket. imagine a Jekyll and Hyde kind of deal. Riviera gives in to Grimms threats promising to keep working on Epsilon. Riviera explains Grimm to K and apologizes for what he's done, telling her about the meds that keep Grimm in check. K promises she'll help him find another way and that Epi doesn't deserve this.

The True Nature of the Collar

K attempts to confront Xephos on the matter with Riviera and sees a side of xephos she never has before. he threatens her, telling her to know her place since she belongs to him. he reminds K that she's nothing without the labs and that everything she has was given to her by him. K, unable to stand against xephos attempts to flee the labs, but as she crosses the threshold of the main doors exit her collar overloads, electrocuting her and shorting out the labs systems. Xephos comes running and K expects the worst, but instead his mannerisms are forgiving and concerned. He reminds K that the collar is keeping her alive and cant work outside the labs. he apologizes for his previous comments, telling K he only wants to keep her safe. He sends her to the med bay to have her and her collar checked over for damages. (aka, turning up the amps to knock her out next time) As Xephos leaves, he muses over the power of the shock the collar delivers not being high enough to knock her unconscious, revealing the true nature of the collar; Keeping K bound and loyal.

Dr. Riviera, Epsilon and Grimm (.Cont)

K returns to Riviera explaining what happened, and Riviera reveals he's working to change epi back to her adorable self. K advises Riviera to appeal to Xephos' better nature, and Riviera explains the fate of his previous experiment, Delta. Delta was an extremely smart and powerful creation. essentially, similar to the endo rex from Jurassic world, but far more intelligent. Riviera reveals that Delta was created with a human brain, which although caused it to be intelligent, introduced issues of free will and was inevitably destroyed. Riviera was warned against using human brains to create creatures, but reveals that he broke this rule when creating epsilon. Epsilon, rather than being created to be a bio-weapon, was intended to be a secret project for Riviera to create a companion, purely for company. Were Xephos to find out about her origins, or Grimm to finish his work on her, both would be disastrous. Lalnable, being bored and poking his nose around find out about epsilon, and realises straight away she's far too intelligent not to have a human brain and uses this info to barter for info on the flux buddies. Naturally, Xephos is pretty pissed at this and confronts Riviera, telling him he was only hired because of Grimm. Epsilon manages to sneak away in the heated argument and seek aid from K, who confronts Xephos on what the labs stand for meanwhile Grimm sees an opportunity in Riviera's emotional state to attempt full control. in the struggle, Riviera manages to take the corrupted missing eye out of his pocket but cant bring himself to destroy it, so K does instead, destroying Grimm. Xephos' response is to fire Riviera before storming out of the bio-engineering lab.

Confrontation

K tails after Xephos, demanding explanation and telling xeph hes being unreasonable, and Xephs facade with her drops. he's cold and harsh to her, telling her she's nothing more than a means to an end. she looses her temper, but before she can loose control of her powers, Xephos activates her collar shocking her unconscious. She then awakes to find herself in a dark and unknown part of the labs with her collar hooked up to a bunch of glowing pipes and systems trailing off into the dark. (yall remember the flashback on page 15?) Unlike ridge she manages to overpower the system, partially because her body creates more energy than the system was built for originally but also because ridge never tried to break out of it for backstory reasons~ She finds her way into the deeper parts of site B, finding the original xephos hooked up to some kind of life support system. She's discovered by the imposter Xephos who reveals his plans for reviving a giant sentinel. (remember that hand in the sand?) After some big bad guy monologuing, Israphel/xephos reveals himself and his real reasoning for trying to remake ridgedog. They have an epic giant robot boss battle showdown, and K realizes that he's dependent on Xephos. She pulls Xephos from the system, but he wont wake up. She pours so much healing magic into him that she burns out her magic entirely and collapses just as he wakes up. She finally comes to in the med bay with xephos looking over her and they go over what happened.

Wrap Up

Essentially, this was the end of the first arc. I had some rough ideas for a Grimm focused spin off dealing with what happened to Epi and why Riviera is troubled by Grimm.

I also had plans for K going off to find Ridge to restore her magic and a whole story that involved Kirin too. But that was more self indulgent and a little more creatively licensed in terms of what the characters were like. This also included a scene with K standing between Ridge and Kirin mid fight which causes the giant scar on her back thats been shown in a few of my arts.

So that's kinda the whole deal. Lord knows i've probably missed a bunch of details and little things, but generally that's the whole story.it would've been cool to finish the whole thing but personal health and mental stability just didn't allow for it. That said, the story is still very much alive in my heart and I'm always happy to talk to people about the setting for behind closed doors. If anyone has any queries or questions about anything that I've missed or not covered properly, feel free to drop something in my ask box anytime :) Footnote: This ended up taking a lot longer that I intended since I've recently had a lot of mental health struggles so please be kind ;u;

[screamforyani]

scream masterlist

ethan landry

drabbles

↠ stargazing

dubcon, use of a knife, unprotected sex

gf!ethan x (f) reader

↠ teasing gf!ethan

noncon, knife play, choking

gf!ethan x (f) reader

↠ stepcest with ethan

stepcest, noncon to dubcon ish but no actually smut

stepbro!ethan x (f) reader

↠ killing your ex in the locker room

murder, mentions of blood, implied dubcon

gf!ethan x (f) reader

↠ sextape

smut, fluff, non-gf! au, oral (f receiving), no actually recording in spite of what the title implies

bf!ethan x (f) reader

↠ addicted to your body

smut, nothing to warned about

bf!ethan x (f) reader

↠ all ours

noncon

gf!ethan x (f) reader x gf!chad

↠ ultimatum

smut, noncon to dubcon, ghostface call

gf!ethan x (f) reader

↠ hazy

smut, noncon, drugging

studdy buddy!ethan x (f) reader

full fics

↠ make you proud

angst, smut, macher!reader, mc has a panic attack, violence/character death, logically mc would be around sam’s age but we’re gonna ignore logic for the sake of you being a fresh college student

gf!ethan x (f) reader

series

↠ still friends, not lovers

in kindergarten all the way until your freshman year of high school, you were best friends with ethan landry. then, your grandma got sick, and your parents decided to move to kildare island to take care of her and her bakery. there’s tension between ethan and jj, your new best friend, but you don’t exactly have time to reconcile with ethan because there’s a killer out.

old best friend!ethan x (f) reader x new best friend!jj maybank (outer banks)

[nuuralshams]

hellooooooo beloved mutual, is this you? are we studdy buddies? 🥹🤭 in the same yeolpumta study group?💐🙈

if this isn't you, please ignore lmaoo

no meri jaan but I would do anything to be that nourhan in the same study group as you 😔💖🌹

[the-ultimate-muses]

@despairs-memorial cont. from (X)

Did Kazuichi 'wish to-', yeah yeah he really fucking did. Kissing was just kissing, something he'd done dozens of times before. With Ibuki, they kissed as a greeting or departure, he'd taught his buddy Leon how to kiss after a girl had said he sucked at it, getting sloshed at Ibuki's parties and making out with some random person who showed interest in him used to be a thing near every saturday night. It was the one thing he wasn't nervous about when it came to 'relationship stuff', which was why he'd decided early on that Gundham would have control over when and where (or even if) they did it.

'Let things come naturally' Kaz had said that night they decided to start...whatever this was, and here he was blurting out his desires just because he'd spaced out looking at Gundham. He was bored, having studdied for literally only an hour way too long, so naturally he'd begun to drift, eyes eventually landing on the breeder while he did his own thing across the room. Probably Devas stuff, Kaz hadn't been paying attention obviously.

'I wanna kiss you', he had said, Kaz being just as surprised as Gundham at the words. "S-Sorry- I uh...I was just kinda..." Watching you and thinking about kissing you clearly. But before he could take it back, reassure that they didn't have to if Gundham didn't want to, the breeder was not only okay with the idea, but stepping closer to carrying it out.

Back in his element now, Kaz couldn't help but smile at just how flustered Gundham had becoming, a calloused hand reaching up of its own volition once he drew close enough. He doesn't move, doesn't press any more than needed to return the affection, the only indication that he was returning the kiss really being when he'd chased the breeder's lips when he pulled away. Hand still raised where it had rested against Gundham's cheek, a smile came easily with the sight he'd opened opened his eyes to, half lidded and so very soft in their gaze.

"Cute." Something else he hadn't meant to say, but this time he committed. "Super fucking cute."

[wildcardjoey]

As someone well versed in Vanguard, I'm going to write their deal out and let you choose what to do with it.

Vanguard is not just Th Foundation, it is also The Serpent's Hand, The Church of Maxwellism, the Nälka, and a number of Freeports having come together under a united front. Unlike The Foundation, they are not barred from the Library. In theory, it is lead by a much larger choir of voices than The Foundation, they have a Council of Dirrectors including all their dirrectors rather than an O5 Council of oligarchs, but in practice, or at least as far as is seen in the stories that have been written so far, the loudest voices on that council are Dir. Tilda Moose, The Black Queen Alison Chao, and Karcist Varis. This seems to simply be bias of perspective on the part of the stories, rather than an actually in-universe problem, though.

Karcist Varis stars as one half in a buddy cop routine with Dr. Clef in on series of tales from the canon.

If Vanguard exists, the veil is gone. Breaking The Masquerade was the first thing they did after forming. This is because they are one of two possible outcomes of SCP-6500's Impasse. Without The Impasse, Vanguard doesn't exist, and without collapsing the veil, they have no further stated goals. Their plan was 1) collapse the veil 2) educate the public on the anomalous 3) protect the world, including the anomalous world, in a new world where containment is no longer possible.

Which is another big thing. They do not contain any more. They can't, not since they almost killed magic and the universe with it by restraining it like they had for over a century. No more cells, no more D-Class, no more deaths in the dark.

They can studdy, but they can't secure.

They can inform, but they can't contain.

But they can Protect. They can be the Vanguard.

Another humanized SCP GoI. This one is of Vanguard. Did this as a request from a friend.

I don't know that much about Vanguard to I tried my best with everything.

Keep Reading has explanation of character design and Headcanons as always.

I don't have much to say around their design. I went with a chill speaker kinda style, not to formal but more put together than whatever GAW would be wearing, think protester type even though Van would most likely give proper speeches. I didn't have much of an idea with the hair so I went with Daenerys braids vaguely looking like their logo.

However the only thing here with thought and intent was the coat. It's a hybrid between jean coats and a lab coat. This is because of how Vanguard came from the Foundation corpse and retains traits from him that are slightly altered.

Now for headcanons:

These were mildly hard to come up with my Vanguard lore knowledge is in the shitter.

Because Vanguard comes from the Foundation's death, Goc loathes him. He thinks that Van took Found away from him and is an empty husk of his former companion, puppeteering old traits they pick up from the Foundation's scraps to mock people

Presentation man, a large part of their work.That he works on for a large amount of hour to get it right

Like Foundation they are prone to rambling about topics. However unlike the Foundation they do not have a limit to what he will say. Gets him in trouble sometimes

Studies and uses leftover Foundation technology (normal or anomalous) to see if they will help Vangaurd (as an organization) or is useful to society

Most GoIs tolerate him because his goals and aspirations are different enough that no one cares unless it deals with the Veil

Shelter for the shelter-less; Runs a mass hospitality project for anomalies with out homes or in need protection

They also uses the shelter to seem more safe to the general public

[xxgoldie]

order list [masterlist]

all orders aimed to be delivered between 11/02/2025 and 18/02/2025, GMT (may be slight delay due to employee availability). check back periodically for more florist's notes.

flower orders

for : lighter lorenz // lilies + lily of the valley + wild aster + clear wrap [confessions + injury + teasing / banter + canon setting] florist's note : TBA

for : billy kid // peonies + heather + wild aster + ivy + clear wrap [valentine's day date + idiots in love + teasing / banter + jealousy + canon setting] florist's note : valentine's day with billy is a whirlwind of fun, morning to evening the two of you check off all of your favourite joint activities. your favourite movies, your favourite takeaway, but first, your favourite arcade, that happens to have a claw machine full of the cutest limited edition valentine's plushies. the new cuddly friend billy wins for you comes along for the whole day, and he's totally not jealous of some silly toy (spoiler alert: he's definitely jealous)

for : lighter lorenz // lilies + ivy + delphinium + heather + pink paper [confessions + jealousy + first kiss + idiots in love + college au] florist's note : your friend was the one who brought it up, but it made complete sense - lighter was an attractive guy who lived with a bunch of girls. one of them had to be his girlfriend, right? it was an assumption you'd been running under almost as long as you'd been friends and studdy buddies. so why was he always looking at you like that? and why was your go-to coffee order always waiting for you when you met him at the library? and WHY did the words 'i need to tell you something' just leave his mouth???

for : asaba harumasa // orchids + jasmine + mini carnations + astrantia + clear wrap [fake dating + enemies / rivals to lovers + only one bed + wedding + canon setting] florist's note : there's many things that frustrate you about asaba harumasa, but if there's one thing that takes the cake, it's how hard he makes it to say no to him. and then your family insists you bring the boyfriend you've been telling them about to your cousin's wedding - the boyfriend that doesn't exist. it's only fair to cash in all those times you covered to yanagi for him, right?

for : caesar king // peonies + narcissus + baby's breath + delphinium + clear wrap [valentine's day date + mutual pining + childhood friends to lovers + first kiss + canon setting] florist's note : it's become a tradition for you and caesar - every year that both of you are single on valentine's day, you spend the day together having a bestie date. it's her turn to plan it this year, and maybe it's the flowers she gets you or the stargazing picnic she's prepared, but something is telling you this isn't quite a 'bestie' date anymore.

for : hoshimi miyabi // orchids + narcissus + heather + yarrow + clear wrap [fake dating + mutual pining + idiots in love + forced proximity + canon setting] florist's note : TBA

chocolate orders

for : ajax 'childe' // white chocolate + marshmallow + almond + vanilla cream + rectangular box [no/minimal D/S dynamics + praise + oral + virginity loss + canon setting] chocolatier's note : TBA

[average--loser]

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