#tagged with gravity falls because it's trending and I want her back

[fruitcupsaregreat]

Hello! After seeing many of the lovely Gravity Falls Ocs that people have made while playing swooning over stans, I have decided to throw in my hat and present my oc, Viviane Estrella!

(I unfortunately don't have any drawings of her since I'm more comfortable sharing my writing than my art, so I hope you enjoy!)

Inspiration

I knew I wanted to make a more self insert type of oc, and honestly, who doesn't sometimes? Especially when it comes to your favorite character, it's fun! So I gathered inspiration from myself, an old oc I'm revamping with this, and my idols(can be fashion wise or personality).

I'll list a few I have on a pintrest board in no particular order; Selena Q, Lady Gaga and her role in the house of Gucci, Mon Laferte, Shelly Duvall, Marilyn Monroe, Fran Fine from The Nanny, Maria Felix, and La Muerte from The Book of Life

Description

At the earliest point of the story, Viviane was in her mid-20s, and when it gets back to 'the present,' she's in her mid-40s. She's a Mexican-American with medium skin and dark brown hair and eyes. She's 5'7 and in the words of sir mix a lot, she's got a body for days but the girl won't flaunt it.

In her 20s, she followed the latest trends, adding a spin to it to combine her interest in the 60s fashion. In her 40s, she's still into the 60s era of fashion, however she experiments with her style with the time she gets in Gravity Falls becoming more relaxed with her time spent with Stanley.

She's a very stubborn woman, but when she's around the people she values deeply, she's able to let go and see things from their perspective. She loves with all her heart and finds beauty in the mundane. She's also a huge gambler and very competitive. She has a bad habit of swearing when she doesn't need to, and another of just being wreckless. At the end of the day, her aspiration has always been to have a loving family and to sing her heart out.

Story

Back in the 90s, Viviane was in her mid-20s when she met Stanley, and he was in his 40s. She was singing at local clubs and anywhere that would have her while he had gotten the Mystery Shack off its feet enough to interest him in heading south to good old California, with its beaches and casinos he hadn't been banned from.

Unlucky for Stanley, his car broke down and he needed to buy parts for the car. Problem was he already spent a pretty penny at the casinos and was running low on everything. Thankfully, an old buddy of his owned a music club and decided to give him a job as security.

This not part might get spoilery, so if you see ⚠️ sandwiched between paragraphs, that's your cue to skip if you'd like.

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Viviane was getting everything ready for her show at that club when she met Stan, though the two didn't hit it off right away, arguing and making bets against each other until the day she performed and a guy nearly climbed on stage, only able to grab her ankle and make her fall back on the stage. Stanley was at the front of the stage, struggling with the guy before he made her fall. This ticked Stan off and it became a brawl in the front row fast.

When everything settled and the show ended early, Stanley, his buddy, and Viviane's dad got into a screaming match, Viviane joining as well. It boiled down to Viviane and her dad yelling and then to convincing the men to let Stanley off with a huge warning instead of being fired.

To repay her, he offered her to a pleasant evening out, and she declined, offering to go to the casino instead before she had to leave town on the count that she was only in the city while everything for her tour was being set up. They went and they won big time, obviously excited as they held each other and had an unexpected kiss to which he apologized for and she continued it.

Okay so, after ONE night of fun, they spent half of the day together talking about everything and nothing. That's when she asked him if he wanted to tag along for the tour he could to which he was hesitant to because he needed to get back to the shack and getting his brother back though he never said anything about it, lying instead saying that he was unsure because of how her family doesn't approve of him.

She reassured him and told him when and where to find the bus would be departing. He vaugley said that he would have to see if he could or not, and she got ready to leave the room they got wuth the money.

Sadly, the day would come to leave and Stanley would be nowhere in sight. She had the buss delayed by an hour before her family finally got her on the buss. Stanley, would be chased out of the state and back into his normal canon life, while she waited at every show to see if he would show. She would write about him in songs, landing her hit after hit. She would eventually rebound with another man and a month into their relationship, she discovered she was expecting.

Though she longed for the life she could have had, she settled for the one she did have, getting married to shield from gossip and having the baby. She continued her work with support from her friends and family members, painting it all as a love story and overshadowing the one with Stanley.

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Conclusion

OKAAY WOW I didn't expect to write so much about it but that's the lore. The after cannon I have in the works. If you'd like to read more I plan on posting it on here or on ao3 when I actually make an account. For now, thank you for reading this and remember we're all people behind the screens and this is just for fun!! Thank youuu<3

[doing-all-write]

the art of flirting on a hoverboard

Ivy runs a successful arts non-profit and Joe tags along when Rami and Lucy go to visit her. But what happens when a simple bet made over a hover board competition gets out of hand? 

Pairing: Joe Mazzello x Ivy (OC)

Rating: Rated B for background and C for characterization. (We love exposition in this house)

Warnings: None! 

This is for sure going to be a multi-part fic so here’s the first part! I hope you guys fall in love with Joe and Ivy as much as I had writing them! Ivy wasn’t inspired by anyone tbh, I tried writing in the second person but it kept confusing me so she can be a self-insert or an OC, whichever way you want to read it! 

Any comments, notes, love, hate WHATEVER you got for this, let me know! 

Reblogs and feedback are much appreciated bc I crave validation!!!!!

"EXCUSE US. HOVER BOARD COMING THROUGH." 

Joe jumped, looking around to locate the voice, and said hover board, as Rami sighed with longing.  

The hover board in question was attached (by what Joe could only guess was a jump rope?) to a scooter. The scooter carried two kids while a third desperately tried to keep their center of gravity underneath them as they all raced down the hallway, laughter and profanities left in their wake. 

The receptionist behind the desk leaned over, offering encouragement as her iPhone lens tracked them as they all loudly screamed upon realizing they would have to turn a corner. 

As they took the corner (with only one loud "FUCK" uttered as the hover boarder's shoulder made contact with the wall, but impressively, stayed on) the receptionist shook her head as she watched the video back. Snickering, her thumbs flew as she added a caption. The nameplate attached to the front of her desk identified her as Erin.

Erin looked up once the video had been posted to her Story and her eyes lit up as they fell on Rami.

"Well, well, well. Look who came CRAWLING back to us. Mister Oscar Winner."

Rami rubbed the back of his neck, "Seriously, Erin? I literally saw you last week." 

Erin made her way around the desk to wrap him in a hug, "Doesn't matter. And besides, I just like seeing the internal struggle that you go through where you want to brag about having an Oscar but also don't want to seem like a massive prick." 

Rami shrugged, "It's a fine line always." 

"Sometimes it's so fine it's nonexistent." Lucy piped up which caused Erin to collapse into giggles as Rami rolled his eyes and Joe smirked. 

"Oh, I'm going to enjoy your company IMMENSELY." Erin said as she turned to Lucy and shook her hand.

"Likewise." Lucy offered as Erin turned to Joe.

"What about me? Are we going to become instant besties?" Joe joked as he shook Erin's hand.

Erin shrugged, "Depends, are you going to roast Rami with me?"

"Absolutely. No hesitation. He's not even my friend."

Erin clapped him on the shoulder, "Good man. We're now besties."

Joe hissed a "yes" as Rami, oblivious to all of this, craned his neck to try to see where the joy riders had disappeared to down the hallway. 

"Glad to see the trend of 'tying wheeled objects to other wheeled objects' hasn't died out." He shot a knowing smile at Erin who rolled her eyes. 

"They'll be back, they usually make a few laps." Erin sighed. "They usually do this whenever new people show up, trying to impress you guys," she fluttered her fingers in the direction of Lucy and Joe. 

"Plus around three everyone starts getting stir crazy so...hover boards." She waved her hand flippantly in the air as if that gesture explained the inner mechanisms of bored teenager's brains. 

Rami nodded, "I have fond memories of us, well, Ivy, almost dying when we tied a skateboard to a bike and tried to make it down the hill, you remember that?" Erin nodded as she threw her arm around his shoulders as they both sighed at the memory of being young and stupid.

Lucy's eye flicked over to Joe who shrugged. 

"We should definitely recreate that" Rami declared.

Joe's eyes lit up at the prospect of doing something so chaotic as Lucy turned to Erin, "Do you have a bike, jump rope and skateboard?" 

Erin laughed, then upon seeing the trio in front of her not joining in, realized they were serious, and quickly swallowed her laughter as she cleared her throat.

"We definitely do but your 'meeting'," Erin put air quotes around meeting, knowing full well it was an excuse for them to fuck around and do stupid shit like this for the rest of the day, "with Ivy is in like, two minutes and she'll be so pissed if she misses out on that." 

Erin paused, eyes raised up and to the right as if she could look right through the floor to where Ivy was. "Honestly, if you propose the idea to Ivy right away, you guys could discuss logistics for this week and build that at the same time." 

Rami nodded once in understanding, "Good call, she's always been a fan of multi-tasking anyway." 

Erin laughed, "Yeah, remember when she was just starting this foundation? She had so much to remember and do, and we came in one day and she was grouting one of the bathrooms, on the phone with a sponsor and was sending out a mass email asking for volunteers all at the same time?"

Joe and Lucy exchanged looks as Rami and Erin chuckled over a memory that went right over their heads.

Lucy spoke up, "Sorry, but you two'll have to explain further. All Rami told me was that he was visiting an old friend and I was on the phone with Joe at the time and he invited himself."

Joe adopted an affronted expression, "Well EX-cuse me for ruining an outing that you were already barging in on!" 

Lucy gave his shoulder a gentle shove with a twinkle in her eye,  "Maybe if you didn't have to call me every time you heard a Queen song in public this wouldn't be an issue!" 

Joe opened his mouth to respond when Rami interjected, "Ivy's been my friend for forever. We met doing community theater. She always talked about how it was so hard for kids to get involved in the arts because there was such a sense of elitism attached to it, she wanted to make it more accessible to kids."

He paused and took in the scene around him, people running back and forth through the lobby, calling out to each other, going over song ideas, running lines, carrying pieces of props back and forth, collaborating on beats, and that was just in the lobby. He knew that further into the building they'd discover recording studios, blackbox spaces, auditoriums, dance studios, a gym and a living space that had been added on after Ivy and the��other co-founders had been caught camping out in one of the auditoriums after a particularly grueling event planning session for the foundation. 

Erin picked up where Rami had trailed off, "And not just things like acting and singing. All the backstage work, the stage managers, the people who mix music, who build sets, who do special effects makeup, all the non-acting and singing jobs, she wanted to shine a light on them too. So, she started this foundation to give kids a chance to explore all the options the arts provide. She likes having individuals who have 'made it' come in from time to time. Either to visit, maybe talk to the kids, teach some classes, give a lecture or even, in this case, just to hang out."

"I think she mainly wanted me to come so she could meet Lucy since I wouldn't shut up about her every time we talked." Rami admitted with a grin as Lucy threw her head back and laughed.  

Erin glanced between them, "So, how long have you two been dating?" 

Lucy glanced at Rami, "About a year now."

"But it feels like forever." Rami quickly added as he squeezed Lucy into his side and planted a kiss on to the top of her head.

"Oh that's disgusting. Get out of here with that shit." Erin said as a smile broke over her face.

"They're always that cute. Frankly, I'm getting fed up with their happiness." Joe said as he smiled at Erin and rolled his eyes. 

"Well, what about you, Joseph? You dating anyone?" Erin crossed her arms as she directed her piercing gaze onto him.

"Ah, well, no. Not at this time. I don't know, guess I haven't found the right person." Joe shrugged as he scratched the back of his neck.

"Hmm. Tell me Joe, how do you feel about women who can grout a bathroom AND ask for money all at the same time?" Erin jokingly said as Rami snapped his gaze over to Joe.

"Holy shit, dude. No, this could be perfect."

Lucy, smelling a scheme and wanting in immediately, turned to Rami and Erin, "What do you mean?" She shook her head, "You know what? Doesn't matter. I'm in."

Joe, looking very much like a panicked gazelle after realizing lions hd him surrounded, looked between the three of them, "I'm not sure I like where this is going."

Erin completely ignored him as she turned her full focus onto Rami and Lucy, "They would be perfect together. I mean, Rami, you know Ivy. Tell me they wouldn't be so cute together." 

Lucy scrunched her nose as she pondered what Erin had just said, "Wait, is she the one with the nose piercing?"

"YES." Rami turned to Erin, "Ivy's FaceTimed me a few times and she's met Lucy that way."

Lucy's eyes lit up, "Oh my god, she's beautiful. Yeah, they would be such a good match!"

"CAN I GET A SAY IN THIS PLEASE?" Joe interjected as he waved his arms over his head to get the groups attention. 

Everyone's gaze snapped to Joe and Erin had the decency to look guilty, "Sorry. I got carried away. Ivy just," her eyes flitted around as she tried to pick the best words to describe her friend's situation, "She doesn't think she deserves to date nice guys so her past few boyfriends have all been assholes. I just really want her to date someone good and if Rami and my new bestie Lucy think you're a good guy well...I trust them." Erin said as she shot Joe a half smile.

Joe crossed his arms, "Alright, that's...sweet. But still. I'd at least like to meet this girl before you guys pick out rings for us."

Erin's phone vibrated at that moment and risked a glance down at it. She looked up to announce, "Well, luckily you'll be able to meet her in a few minutes, Ivy's current meeting is wrapping up in two minutes. So, get ready to meet your future wife." she joked as Joe rolled his eyes and Lucy snickered. 

"You guys can take a seat while you wait. I should probably actually go do my job." Erin said begrudgingly as she trudged back behind her desk.

They all offered their thanks and wandered over to the chairs in front of Erin's desk. The desk was situated in the middle of two staircases that came down from the second floor. Joe could see glass-walled office spaces, each outfitted with a dry erase board, tables, chairs, charging ports and a mini fridge. 

Rami nudged him as he pointed to the first room at the top of the right staircase, "You see the girl writing at the whiteboard? That's Ivy." 

Joe followed his finger as his eyes swept over the room noticing the two men and four women. Only one of the women was scribbling something onto the white board, her back facing the lobby. 

She was wearing a pair of denim cutoff shorts, a white t-shirt and converse. She spun around and her hair followed as she opened her mouth in a silent laugh. 

Her smile made the whole room brighter, everyone seemed more jovial as she talked and gestured with her hands to drive her point home. 

Joe couldn't take his eyes off her. 

Lucy looked over at Joe to make a comment about what his first impression was of his future girlfriend but when she saw the dazed look that had come over him, she pressed her lips together and knew that it wouldn't be "maybe" they'd start dating but "when" they started dating. 

Rami raised his hand in an enthusiastic wave to try to get Ivy's attention. Her eyes flicked toward the movement then away. A second later they clapped back onto her friend as her face broke open into a wide smile as she waved wildly back. 

"Gang, let's wrap up this meeting, Rami's here and I want to hang out with him." Ivy announced to the room. Everyone agreed and started gathering their things.

"I didn't know Rami was coming to visit, did he bring his girlfriend?" Ava, their HR Wonder Woman/personal trainer, was peering down into the lobby waving wildly back at Rami, who at this point, was jumping up and down.

Ivy glanced up from her laptop as she saved her notes and snorted at Rami's actions, "Yeah. I told him if he didn't bring her here, to his humble beginnings, I'd track her down myself and force her to come visit." 

Charlotte, their finance wizard and the one to corral board members, barked out a laugh, "Yeah, that would look really good for us. 'Local Non-Profit Investigated for Kidnapping Charges.' That would really help us get more money."

"Better than us bamboozling funds." Adam, their music mixing master, pointed out as he pushed Ivy's cup of iced coffee closer to her so she wouldn't forget it. Ivy smiled her thanks as she took a sip.

"Yeah, better to explain a kidnapping charge than doing weird shit with people's money like buying furry costumes or having wild orgy parties." Sean, their 'Bob the Builder' of set designs, chimed in as he stood by the conference room door, sticking a pencil behind his ear.

Gracie, their social media coordinator looked up from her phone, "Why would we be having wild orgies?"

"Well, wasn't Dionysus the god of theatre? He was also the god of parties and all things hedonistic so...orgies." Sean offered as if that all made perfect sense.

"Also, it's a well known fact, all theatre kids are horny on main so it probably wouldn't be a huge shock to most people." Ivy said as she took another sip of her drink. 

"As much as I love talking about orgies and kidnapping others with you guys, Ivy you better get down there. All three of them are jumping up and down and waving now." Ava offered from her vantage point by the window.

"All three? I thought it was just Rami and Lucy?" Ivy's brow crinkled as she walked over to the window.

"There's a third guy. He seems pretty cute in a 'basic white boy' way."

"Oh my god. Ivy. Date him. He sounds like he’s just your type." 

"God, Adam, you act like I've never dated anyone, ever."

"Well, no one good at least." Charlotte mumbled under her breath as she continued furiously typing.

"CHARLOTTE." Ivy screeched as she whirled around to face the room at large. 

Gracie threw up her hands, "Someone had to say it! It might as well be Charlotte! She's known you the longest."

"Yeah, but-I mean, this is-c'mon guys!" Ivy knew her voice was getting whiny but she couldn't help it. Her friends always ganged up on her about her dating life and she really didn't want to hear it. Especially when she was so close to getting out of work for the rest of the day.

Adam threw an arm around Ivy's shoulder as he passed by her on his way to the door, "Now, now everyone. Just because Ivy's never dated a good man before doesn't mean she ever will. It will just take an act of god to make that happen." 

"Fuck. Off."

Adam planted a loud kiss to Ivy's cheek as he scurried out of the room with Sean following close behind, "LOVE YOU IVY."

Ivy rolled her eyes and turned to the remaining women in the room. 

"Is my taste in men really that bad?" 

"YES." 

Ivy winced as all three of them answered with no hesitation.

Charlotte sighed as she adjusted one of her dreads, "It's because we love you that we say these things. We want what's best for you."

Gracie and Ava nodded in agreement as Ivy slumped against the window and groaned.

"I know you do. I can't help it! Every time a guy is actually nice and sweet I get so scared he'll leave me that I just...go for the exact opposite so I don't get hurt."

There was a long pause then Gracie blinked, "That's...a lot to unpack."

"You're telling me." Ivy mumbled as Ava wrapped her in a hug.

"We still love you but maybe, just try going for an actual nice guy. Just this once. I know I'm just a simple lesbian but I'm sure there has to be a nice guy out there right?"

"Do you really believe that?" Ivy leaned her head on Ava's shoulder. 

"No, not at all. I just thought it would make you feel better. Did it?"

"Well, it did until you told me you lied."

"Hmm. Yeah. My bad. Well! Go get 'em." Ava said as she patted Ivy on the back and swept out the door.

Ivy rolled her eyes, "Will I ever hire or befriend people who aren't a giant pain in my ass?" 

"Not likely."

"Thanks for the vote of confidence Char."

"No problem. NOW GO. See your friend. We love you."

Ivy waved as she walked out the door toward her office, thumbing through her phone till she got to Erin's contact information.

As she stepped inside her office, the light coming in from her bay window almost blinded her as she dropped her stuff onto her desk. 

"Are you coming down or what? You told me you'd be down like, three thousand hours ago."

"Your perspective of time is a little worrisome."

"ARE YOU COMING DOWN OR WHAT."

"Yes, oh my god, I just wanted to let you know that I'm dropping my stuff off in my office then I'll be down and I would be oh so grateful if you'd rely that information to Rami, Lucy and Joe."

"Yeah, I can do that. By the way, Joe? Very cute. Good sense of humor. Single. Seems like he'd have a nice dic-"

"ERIN."

"WHAT. I'm just letting you know what I've observed so far!"

Ivy rolled her eyes, "I don't even want to know how you got to that last conclusion but honestly he's probably not even going to be interested in me."

Erin scoffed, "Want to fucking bet? He was definitely checking you out earlier. Mayhaps someone has a crush..." She singsonged into the phone as Ivy's heartbeat sped up against her will. 

The idea of someone like Joe having a crush on her was, well, too much for her to even consider. It was easier to go for guys that she really didn't like or who liked her more than she liked them. That way, she never got hurt. She never had to spend another night crying over some guy who didn't give her the time of day. No one was disappointed when they finally got to know the real her. She could keep her focus on her work, which is where her focus should be.

Not on some cute, seemingly nice guy who might break her heart.

But some nights, some nights she couldn't help but wish she had someone she really, genuinely liked holding her close.

She started to imagine flirting with Joe. Going on dates with him. Holding his hand. Kissing him. She felt a warmth start to seep through her stomach as she imagined him kissing her, then moving down to kiss her neck, her chest, her-

"...ASS down here so I can prove to you I'm right." Ivy refocused her eyes on her reflection in her dark monitor screen as Erin's command broke through her thoughts. "Alright, alright, tell them I'll be down in, like, 30 seconds."

She hung up and took a deep breath. She ran her fingers through her hair and walked towards the door. 

She paused, turned back and rifled through the drawer of her desk. She quickly applied some lipstick and sprayed a cloud of perfume in front of her, waited a beat, then walked through it.

It couldn't hurt.

~~~

Erin, shaking her head, lowered the phone from her ear and looked at the trio in front of her, still waving like those on a dock waving to an ocean liner on its maiden voyage. "She's running to her office real quick and then she'll be down, promise."

Rami lowered his arm as Lucy shook her's out, "Yeah, I saw her race off." Lucy nodded in agreement and spared a glance at Joe who kept running a hand through his hair, a sure sign he was nervous.

"So, I saw some guy kiss Ivy's cheek, did she start dating someone without us knowing or..." Lucy trailed off as she subtly flicked her eyes over to Joe then back to Erin. Erin's eyes widened in understanding and inclined her head to let Lucy know Don't worry, I get what you're trying to do and we're on the same team. Lucy nodded once and in that moment, an alliance was born.

Rami couldn't tell what had tectonic shift had just transpired between Erin and Lucy but decided to stay out of it.

Shaking her head, Erin replied, "No, that's just Adam. He's known Ivy for forever. Everyone here is pretty affectionate with each other but, like I said earlier, Ivy's single," she emphasized as Joe's hand stilled in his hair, "and Adam has a serious boyfriend who's usually hanging around here." Lucy nodded knowingly as Joe felt a weight being lifted from his shoulders. 

He didn't like to admit it, but the idea of Ivy having a boyfriend had caused him to deflate, just a little.

"Speak of the fucking devil," Erin muttered, then louder, "THERE YOU ARE. I was about to send out a search and rescue mission for you." 

"Well call it off. I'm here. And it wasn't that long!" Ivy said defensively as she trotted down the stairs. 

Erin noticed how Ivy's hair looked liked it had been brushed, the waves were softer. The woodsy scent of Ivy's favorite perfume reached Erin's nostrils as Ivy gave her a quick hug. When she clocked the freshly applied lipstick it all clicked. She smiled as she realized that Ivy must have taken a while to freshen up because she was trying to impress Joe. 

"What the hell are you smiling about?"

"What? Can I not smile?"

"I mean, you can. But it was weird to come out of the hug and have you just smiling at me. It's a little creepy." 

"Well fine. See if I ever smile at you again." Erin bumped her hip against Ivy's as Ivy turned to greet Rami. 

"WELL, WELL, WELL. If it isn't Mister 'I Won an Oscar So I'm Too Good For My Non-Oscar Winning Friends'."

"IT'S NOT LIKE THAT."

As Ivy continued to tease Rami and meet Lucy in person, Joe got a chance to look at Ivy up close. He noticed she had freckles covering her cheeks and nose he hadn't noticed before. Her lips were full, her eyes bright as she laughed at something Lucy had said. Her smile was even more radiant up close. She was short, shorter than Joe and he wanted nothing more than to wrap an arm around her shoulder and tuck her into his side. 

Ivy shifted and Joe noticed how the muscles of her thigh moved underneath her skin and wanted nothing more than to feel those thighs wrapped around his head as he went down on her. Feeling them squeeze the sides of his head as he wrapped one hand around her thigh while the other hand teased her entrance...

"Joe? JOEY. Come back to us." Erin laughed. 

Joe snapped back to attention and saw a bemused Ivy staring back at him with her hand outstretched. 

"I promise I don't have cooties."

Joe shook his head as he mentally kicked himself, "Yeah, no, I'm so sorry, uh, I'm Joe! It's nice to meet you." 

"Nice to meet you too. A little disappointed you didn't bring the cardboard cutout of Ben."

"That's going to follow me until the day I die isn't it?"

"Well yeah. Especially since I'm assuming you'll be buried together." 

Joe laughed and Ivy smiled at him.

Erin and Lucy exchanged looks as they both noticed their hands were still connected. 

Rami cut in, "Ivy, we saw these kids roll past on a scooter with a hover board attached and it reminded me of the time we did the same thing but with-"

"-with a bike and a skateboard, hell yes!" Ivy exclaimed as she let her hand slip from Joe's as she turned to meet Rami's excited expression. 

Joe flexed his hand and realized how cold it was. 

"I know where all that stuff is, follow me." She linked arms with Rami and started skipping down the hall with him. Lucy laughed while Joe, not one to be left behind, linked his arm through Lucy's and started skipping after them.

"Soooo," Lucy said as they followed the laughing pair down a hallway lined with vintage concert posters and records with doors that led to recording studios, "what do you think of your new girlfriend? Is there a spark?" 

"I think she's really great." Joe offered with a noncommittal shrug, "I don't really know what else to say beyond that, but I think we're going to get along well." 

"Do you think she's pretty?" Lucy pressed, never one to beat around the bush.

Joe took a second and finally decided that with Lucy, the truth was always better. She would find out anyway, "Yeah, I do." Hoping the forced casual tone of his voice would downplay how beautiful he really thought she was.

Lucy nodded while on the inside she was jumping up and down and cheering. 

All the while, Erin watched them receding down the hallway and spoke to herself, as if she were a Greek chorus of one, "I give them a week before they can't keep their hands off of each other."

[winterpower98]

PKNE Droids

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

[I am Paperinik and I’m a hero!]

[I live in the 21° century, but I happen to travel to the future!]

[Sme time ago, someone tried to stop me...]

PK: ... and maybe today you're trying to make me waste time!

PK: Hey, where...

???: PK?

PK: Tyrrel Duckard?

PK: I’m ok, thank you for asking! And you?

Robot Agent: Do not move, this is a police check!

Robot Agent: You are violating the law on public order!

Tyrrel: Everything in order, agent!

Tyrrel: We were chasing the wanted man who knocked out my partner!

Tyrrel: Excuse him, he woke up a little confused!

Robot Agent: Explanation recorder, you can go!

PK: Let me understand too ... especially why you’re calling me partner!

Tyrrel: Because we work together!

PK: You and I?! But you were the one who wanted to erase my reality!

Tyrrel: UHM ... You got hit pretty bad!

PK: You mean you weren't the one ...

Tyrrel: Who knock you out? If so, why would I have taken you to 2179!

PK: Who am I suppose to thanks then?

Tyrrel: I’ll explain everything with a warm drink!

Bartender: Nice cape, friend!

PK: Thank you, I’m happy it’s still an ongoing trend!

PK: Well then? Talk!

Tyrrel: I’m in this century because of an ongoing investigation!

Tyrrel: Since the timepolice has reinstated me ...

PK: O-oh! You’ve become a good droid!

Tyrrel: You can bet!

PK: Keep going then, I’m listening!

Tyrrel: Even if you can’t remember it, we are on the same team!

Tyrrel: You understood that when I came and asked for your help!

Tyrrel: The situation is delicate, a group of droids escaped from the 23° century!

PK: This should be an everyday job for you?

Tyrrel: Not this time! The timepolice discovered where they went ...

[ ... And when! A decisive year for their evolution!]

Tyrrel: We were about to capture them, but something went wrong!

PK: GULP!

PK: Let me guess! They put me k.o.!

Tyrrel: Yup! We located their hideout!

[ While I was inspecting it, you stayed outside on lookout ...]

[ And one of them caught you off guard!]

[ LuckllyI had all the necessary to neutralize their weapon effects!]

Tyrrel: And when you woke up, you hit me!

PK: I suppose I own you an apology then!

Tyrrel: Nevermind, partner! Let’s get back to the hunt instead!

Robot agent: Bartender!

Robot Agent: Those two are regular customers?

Bartender: UMPF! Luckily they’re not!

Bartender: That guy with the ask ruined my menù in 20° century style!

Bartender: It was printed on authentic vintage replypaper!

Tyrrel: This is my office!

PK: So, you’re here in official capacity!

PK: I thought you timepoliceman acted in disguise!

Tyrrel: And it is! This is only a cover!

Tyrrel: I came from the 23° century and in 2179 time travel was already invented, but it’s secret! I can’t attract attention!

PK: Don’t worry, the furniture isn’t too flashy!

PK: But I did expect a device to track down the fugitives’ signals!

Tyrrel: They don’t have any signals, they are standard models!

Tyrrel: Only us timepolice droids have locators and cronoengine!

PK: The how did they escape!

Tyrrel: From a normal public cronostation! Those droids are property of Ruvo Chandra, a big guy in 2298!

Tyrrel: The temporal travel permit was in his name!

PK: Great! Now tell me you don’t even know what they look like!

Tyrrel: Don’t exaggerate, I have their record card! She is Zyba, personal secretary of Chandra!

PK: An updated model of miss Quackfaster! EH EH!

Tyrrel: Miss who?

PK: Nevermind, keep going!

Tyrrel: Soren was his bodyguard ...

Tyrrel: And Moris his attending replica!

PK: Attending what?

PK: Use my words, I can’t understand yours!

Tyrrel: “Attending replica” means he is Chandra lookalike!

Tyrrel: Every celebrity has one for dangerous or ... annoying situations!

PK: It’s not much to track them down!

Tyrrel: We have another clue! I found it in the timepolice archives!

Tyrrel: Recognise someone?

PK: Impossible! I have never been to this future before!

Tyrrel: Well, this proves the opposite!

PK: I ... don’t understand!

PK: Actually yes! You used me!

Tyrrel: Nothing personal, everyone knows your the droids friend!

Tyrrel: You could have been in league with them!

PK: And if this is another me?

PK: One that came from who knows which century, for example!

Tyrrel: plausible hypothesis! Meanwhile, take a look at the view!

Tyrrel: If you didn’t notice, there is the headquarters of Robolab!

PK: The name is not new ...

Tyrrel: I believe it!

Tyrrel: It’s the society that has been studying droids since the 21°t century!

PK: I don’t think I saw any of them around!

Tyrrel: At the moment there are only robots, but in a few years droids will be everywhere!

PK: EH EH! They will fall in price?

Tyrrel: They ever told you you’re funny? They lied!

Tyrrel: The Robolab was bought by a young genius who will revolutionize the research!

Tyrrel: You should know him, his name is Odin Eidolon!

PK: Maybe he is the goal of the fugitives!

PK: What could they want from Odin?

Tyrrel: For example, grant droids more freedom rights from the beginning!

Tyrrel: Or take his place!

PK: You’re raving! They don’t look like him!

[ But this gives them an advantage because Eidolon never appeared in public!]

Odin: Good day, gentlemen!

Tyrrel: Once in command of his industries, the droids could rewrite history!

PK: ULP! No trace of the other me ...

PK: ... But that is Soren!

Tyrrel: Stop! If we follow him he will bring us to his ...

???: Detective Duckard?

Inspector Wuff: I am Inspector Wuff! I would like to talk to you!

Tyrrel: Hard to say no with those assault Robotagents that are with you!

PK: Don’t try to escape, big guy!

Soren: OOOH! PK!

Soren: What are you doing in the 22° century? I would never have hoped to meet you here!

PK: Eh?! Did you hear him ...

PK: ... Duckard?!

PK: This was not planned!

PK: Now you tell e why did you hit e and what are you and your partners planning!

Soren: I ... what?! And What partners?

Soren: We left the future to save us!

Soren: Let me explain!

PK: Alright, but be convincing!

Soren: Good, but let’s go away from here ...            ... There are too many curious persons!

[Here is a completely different thing, eh?]

PK: There are at least one billion people!

Soren: Exactly! In this crowd, who would think of us?

Soren: Zybra and Moris will be here in a bit!

PK: I wonder why did I let you call them!

PK: If you’re thinking of pulling a trick, you didn’t understand anything!

Soren: I just want to tell you everything with them!

Soren: I’m not good with words, I’m programmed as and action droid!

PK: I know! After all, you’re the one who sent me sleeping before!

Soren: GASP! D-do you often do that?

PK: Actually, I didn’t remember being able to! Maybe it’s the amnesia!

Soren: It looks like a verification protocol of the mnemonic transfer!

PK: Protowhat? What are you talking about?

Soren: During the memory upload, fragments of elementary contents are distributed!

[The droid activates only when ...]

[ ... manages to reassemble them!]

Soren: Are you sure no one manipulated your memory?

PK: What have I got to do with it? I’m not a droid!

PK: But she is!

PK: She didn’t see us, let’s go to her!

Tyrrel: PK!

Soren: ARGH!

Tyrrel: Don’t lose time! Neutralize him!

Soren: I thought you were on our side!

PK OOF!

Tyrrel: Move! We’ll lose him!

PK: I can’t use the shield with all these people!

Tyrrel: old-fashioned scruples?

Tyrrel: At least moved from the shooting line!

Men: YAGH!

Soren: You won’t take me back!

Men: UH?

Soren: I didn’t do anything bad!

PK: Are you alright?

Tyrrel: Yes! Nice catch, partner!

Tyrrel: Now let’s finish the job!

PK: But .. he’s not stopping!

PK: Is that gadget useful for something or is it only ornamental?

Tyrrel: Don’t be in a rush!

Tyrrel: He’s slowing down, see?

Tyrrel: The inhibitor disables any droid without risk to living beings!

PK: The effect is not really instantaneous, eh?

Tyrrel: No, but it works! Why didn’t you use it?

PK: Maybe because we don’t have that in the 21° century!

Tyrrel: That’s why I gave you one, forgetful!

PK: GULP!

Tyrrel: Look here! How much interesting material!

Tyrrel: There is nothing else, we can deliver him!

Tyrrel: The Chrono - translational will bring it back to the 23rd century!

[ An unwanted journey in the future would confuse anyone, but not PK! Well, more or less .. by the way: better to travel in time at a standard speed and in a week you will know how the mission is going! ]

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[the-savewoy-letter-blog]

A general but lengthy SaveWOY template

Hey, all! I wanted to upload the first letter template I made, from last year. It has a lot more info (and passion) contained, so it’s a lot longer than the other ones that exist so far. Feel free to use it whenever you like! Here’s the download for the word file, and the letter itself will be included below in the read-more as well.

Greetings, Disney.

I am a fan of Wander Over Yonder, writing to express my feelings as to why the series deserves to be finished the way it was intended. About a year has passed since the second season ended, and in that time, much has happened concerning fans of the show, old and new. I think it would interest you to know of the fans’ efforts to keep Wander Over Yonder alive, and to try to someday bring it back for at least one more season.

Over the years of this generation, a trend of reviving series seems to be taking effect. It is not uncommon for fans to work hard at bringing back the shows they love that were ended before their time. The 13-year-old Samurai Jack was revived for a final season due to fans’ support. The 14-year-old Invader Zim was revived for a comic series, and now a tv movie after its fans kept demanding continuation. The 13-year-old Hey Arnold! now has its intended finale in production, since people have been supporting it for so long. Not to mention the series that have been saved before true cancellation, such as Harvey Beaks, as well as Disney’s own Future-Worm! and Kim Possible. With all this being written, it should not be surprising that people who love Wander Over Yonder have come together to join the revival trend and save the wonderful show they all love.

In just one year, the campaign to save Wander Over Yonder– or “SaveWOY”, as it’s most commonly referred to– has made incredible progress.

Almost immediately, when the cancellation of the series was announced, a few fans began a petition to show to Disney how many people wish for WOY to continue (https://www.change.org/p/walt-disney-encourage-disney-to-make-wander-over-yonder-season-3). In only one day, it reached its goal of 1,500 signatures. In one weekend, it reached 4,000. By this year, it now has over 42,000 signatures. This is more even than the petition which Gravity Falls fans are using in an effort to get said series on DVD. Not only that, but a map has been made to show the support of fans around the world (https://www.scribblemaps.com/maps/view/SaveWOY_Petition_V2/S9qbMCKcUL). This does not include the several other petitions that have been made for the SaveWOY campaign(https://www.change.org/p/the-walt-disney-company-tell-disney-to-bring-wander-over-yonder-back-for-a-third-season

https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/wander-over-yonder-let-it-continue).

Fans of Wander Over Yonder have made many pages through which anyone may seek information on the efforts to bring the show back, including, but not limited to, a Tumblr account (http://savewoy.tumblr.com/), a Twitter account (https://twitter.com/savewoy), a Facebook account (https://www.facebook.com/groups/488409891359644/), a Deviantart account (http://savewoy.deviantart.com/), a fan Wikipedia (http://savewoy.wikia.com/wiki/SaveWOY_Wikia), and a page on savedisneyshows.org (http://savewoy.savedisneyshows.org/).

Things such as the aforementioned are only the beginning. WOY fans have created several projects in order to express love for this series, such as videos still in the works that contain a collaboration of fans’ messages and art from around the world, a mass of letters for DisneyXD executives that contain 200 reasons to save Wander Over Yonder (http://peepsqueak.tumblr.com/tagged/200rtsw), a SaveWOY raffle (https://alicia-lvn.tumblr.com/tagged/raffle), a 30-day email project to send SaveWOY emails to DisneyXD executives (http://peepsqueak.tumblr.com/tagged/email-campaign), and a charity project to send holiday cards to children in the hospital (http://peepsqueak.tumblr.com/tagged/savewoy-holiday-card-project). Incidentally, a new project has been made, where people all over the globe plant little flags at popular sites with the character Lord Hater’s face on them as a fun game to pretend to conquer the planet earth for said character, although the true motive is to have fun while making another map of worldwide WOY fans (https://operationforce.tumblr.com/).

Fans not only collaborate with projects, but also meet up with eachother in celebration of the series we love. A potluck picnic was arranged (http://savewoy.tumblr.com/post/152888374823/savewoy-good-morningafternoonevening), and additionally, every month, Wander Over Yonder fans on Tumblr do Secret Santa-esque exchanges with one another (http://savewoygiftexchange.tumblr.com/).

There are things we continue to do as well. Fans are still sending letters and emails to Disney, as well as a flash-drive containing updates of the progress of our campaign. Every month on Tumblr, and from time to time on Twitter, the hashtag #Wander Over Yonder trends. This is because an effort has been made to show our love for the series every monthly anniversary of its second season finale (http://peepsqueak.tumblr.com/Trending%20Twenty-Seventh). Additionally, fans have created certain days of the week to make posts about Wander Over Yonder regularly (http://savewoy.wikia.com/wiki/Wander_Wednesdayhttp://savewoy.wikia.com/wiki/Season_3_Saturdayhttp://savewoy.wikia.com/wiki/SaveWOY_Sunday). The “villain leaderboard” from season two is still ‘updated’ by fans every month as a way to keep the show’s spirit alive. Whenever a page on Thunderclap is made, not only is more than the required support gotten, but ends up in the top five of Thunderclap pages that week. Even in addition to all this, there will still be more to come, and things not mentioned here; Wander Over Yonder fans love the series and will always continue to keep it in our hearts!

It is not only the fandom of Wander Over Yonder that rallies support for the series. It is quite apparent that simply anyone who enjoys it wants to see it end the way the WOY crew wanted. Videos from popular people come out more and more about the quality, and the chance WOY deserves (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD30N7h1pyZU5YV-AYBWRwyFm-sFZJgtb). A show with such positivity and joy and fun has helped countless lives when one simply looks for people’s takeaway, online or anywhere. Furthermore, it is quite apparent that Wander Over Yonder in general is something deserving of praise, and of more chance than it was given.

Wander Over Yonder has not only been nominated for– and won– several Annie Awards for its character design, animation, and overall quality as a series; but has in fact been Emmy-nominated for its overall quality as a short-format animated series. Not to mention, Wander Over Yonder had gained far more attention than ever once season two premiered– already after its cancellation. Moreover, after the middle of season two– the airing of the episode “My Fair Hatey”– an even bigger boom of fans came to realize what a fantastic show WOY is, not even including the fact that the song within the episode, “I’m the Bad Guy”, is nearing 5 million views on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdEo_t-iVbM&spfreload=10), more views than any other Wander Over Yonder video has ever received. It is clear that even people who haven’t watched the show love the character Lord Dominator, and would love to see more of her. Since the current end of the series, more people than ever before are coming out to say how much they love it, and moreover wishing it hadn’t ended with a mystery left unsolved. Now that the Wander Over Yonder reruns have come back, perhaps the viewership numbers will be surprisingly much higher than before.

I thank you for taking your time to read this lengthy letter, and I hope you can see that my message is one that sincerely hopes you can take all that is written above into consideration, and hopefully take into consideration as well the amount that Wander Over Yonder means to so many people, the efforts they have made to spread awareness of the show, and the hope everyone has found from others making efforts just the same and having success come out of it. I hope that the tone in which all of us fans have been contacting the people at Disney means something, and that it helps our message to be seen more clearly and understandingly.

With this letter, and with all that people have done to make their feelings known, I hope you might begin to consider that maybe the show people love so much could be allowed at least one more chance.

Please let SaveWOY save Wander Over Yonder.

Best regards,

-A Wander Over Yonder fan.

[mercurygray]

OP, I know this post is from February, but a friend found it this morning and I also think it's a really good question and I wanted to give my answer to it, which is -

I think the prevalence of readerfic is one of the results of the Mary Sue scare. It's just that the people doing a lot of this writing don't know what a Mary Sue is and don't know they're living in the shadow of something that happened before.

It's been my experience that writing OCs is usually one of the first things we do in fandom, right? (I say this as someone who is still doing it fifteen years later, so I'm not going to call it a phase.) And for a lot of us who started writing during a very particular period in fandom culture, when things were moving online, digital space was cheap and you could put up literally anything you wanted, including a lot of baby's first fanfic.

Some of it was good; some of it was bad. Lots of people had strong opinions about it, and better writers than me have written about the role that (largely female) wish fulfillment fantasy plays in fanfic. But I think there is a generation of writers, and I am one of them, who are VERY self-conscious about writing OCs because the phrase Mary Sue was used very liberally in spaces I was in when I first started.

What happens in a lot of Mary Sue fanfic? The center of gravity in the canon story changes; this new character, who is kind and lovely and awesome and kicks ass and looks great in her uniform du jour has a character fall madly in love with her. Most of the time…that's it. There's usually not a lot of sweeping plot change.

That's also what happens in a lot of readerfic. The only difference is that this character doesn't get a name, and doesn't get a physical description, and sometimes, but not always, doesn't get a distinct personality. They are there to be loved - they are there for wish fulfillment, just like Mary Sue was.

I think this fear about writing original characters, which stems from the widespread distaste expressed in early internet communities, converged with a general trend in culture to be able to completely customize your latte, as well as another trend towards being 'inclusive' which I put in quotes because other, much smarter people than me have written about how most readerfic is NOT inclusive for many, many reasons.

In one of the fandoms I am in right now, someone is writing a multipart 'reader-insert'. The 'Reader' has a nickname, which the other characters refer to her as throughout the fic. It is wildly popular, and I've read some of it. It's pretty good. It's also not a reader insert; It's an OC who doesn't have a first name. And I think, to return to my original assertion, this author is doing this because reader inserts are the hip thing to do right now, and they're hip because we couldn't write OCs for a while, so we stripped the names out so everyone would read them and no one would feel bad about wanting some wish fulfillment, and we started calling it something else.

I'd like to see us return back to writing OCs. I think it would be good for us. The vague handwave of 'but Reader could be anyone' does not do representation any favors. And as I look at a lot of readerfic now being specifically tagged as 'this is a plus size reader' or 'this is a reader of color', I wonder why we can't just give this person a name. I think reading original characters like this encourages us to develop empathy - because not every story can be about us. In the spaces I'm in now, there are several authors who are very deliberately and specifically writing either characters who look like themselves, or characters who don't, in the interest of making a point about the story around them. I think that's smart. I'd like to see more of it.

I’m really curious to know if the mary sue scare is still a thing that affects how people write and work with their OCs, or a pressure that people put on writers, or if the prevalence of readerfic/self-shipping/anti-cringe-culture has made that less of a forethought. Genuinely curious.

[savewanderoveryonder]

A SaveWOY Letter Template by Wherefancytakesme

Hey Wanderers! I’m really late in posting this! But the super awesome, wherefancytakesme worked extremely hard on creating a SaveWOY letter template for you all to use to send to Disney! I’ve had a read through it and it’s one of the best I’ve seen! They’ve worked so hard on it and it’s so informative about the whole SaveWOY campaign! 

If we could get a load of these mailed out to Disney, that would be great! This can also tie in with @cerise-the-traveling-artist‘s July letter project!

Go give wherefancytakesme lots of love for working so hard on this and being generous enough to provide us with this awesome template letter!

You can find the Disney addresses here.

You can download the letter template as a Microsoft word file here.

I’ll also paste it under the Read-more below but be warned as it’s quite long.

Greetings, Disney.

 I am a fan of Wander Over Yonder, writing to express my feelings as to why the series deserves to be finished the way it was intended. About a year has passed since the second season ended, and in that time, much has happened concerning fans of the show, old and new. I think it would interest you to know of the fans' efforts to keep Wander Over Yonder alive, and to try to someday bring it back for at least one more season.

Over the years of this generation, a trend of reviving series seems to be taking effect. It is not uncommon for fans to work hard at bringing back the shows they love that were ended before their time. The 13-year-old Samurai Jack was revived for a final season due to fans' support. The 14-year-old Invader Zim was revived for a comic series, and now a tv movie after its fans kept demanding continuation. The 13-year-old Hey Arnold! now has its intended finale in production, since people have been supporting it for so long. Not to mention the series that have been saved before true cancellation, such as Harvey Beaks, as well as Disney's own Future-Worm! and Kim Possible. With all this being written, it should not be surprising that people who love Wander Over Yonder have come together to join the revival trend and save the wonderful show they all love.

 In just one year, the campaign to save Wander Over Yonder-- or "SaveWOY", as it's most commonly referred to-- has made incredible progress. 

 Almost immediately, when the cancellation of the series was announced, a few fans began a petition to show to Disney how many people wish for WOY to continue (https://www.change.org/p/walt-disney-encourage-disney-to-make-wander-over-yonder-season-3). In only one day, it reached its goal of 1,500 signatures. In one weekend, it reached 4,000. By this year, it now has over 42,000 signatures. This is more even than the petition which Gravity Falls fans are using in an effort to get said series on DVD. Not only that, but a map has been made to show the support of fans around the world (https://www.scribblemaps.com/maps/view/SaveWOY_Petition_V2/S9qbMCKcUL). This does not include the several other petitions that have been made for the SaveWOY campaign

(https://www.change.org/p/the-walt-disney-company-tell-disney-to-bring-wander-over-yonder-back-for-a-third-season 

https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/wander-over-yonder-let-it-continue).

Fans of Wander Over Yonder have made many pages through which anyone may seek information on the efforts to bring the show back, including, but not limited to, a Tumblr account (http://savewoy.tumblr.com/), a Twitter account (https://twitter.com/savewoy), a Facebook account (https://www.facebook.com/groups/488409891359644/), a Deviantart account (http://savewoy.deviantart.com/), a fan Wikipedia (http://savewoy.wikia.com/wiki/SaveWOY_Wikia), and a page on savedisneyshows.org (http://savewoy.savedisneyshows.org/).

 Things such as the aforementioned are only the beginning. WOY fans have created several projects in order to express love for this series, such as videos still in the works that contain a collaboration of fans' messages and art from around the world, a mass of letters for DisneyXD executives that contain 200 reasons to save Wander Over Yonder (http://peepsqueak.tumblr.com/tagged/200rtsw), a SaveWOY raffle (https://alicia-lvn.tumblr.com/tagged/raffle), a 30-day email project to send SaveWOY emails to DisneyXD executives (http://peepsqueak.tumblr.com/tagged/email-campaign), and a charity project to send holiday cards to children in the hospital (http://peepsqueak.tumblr.com/tagged/savewoy-holiday-card-project). Incidentally, a new project has been made, where people all over the globe plant little flags at popular sites with the character Lord Hater's face on them as a fun game to pretend to conquer the planet earth for said character, although the true motive is to have fun while making another map of worldwide WOY fans (https://operationforce.tumblr.com/).

 Fans not only collaborate with projects, but also meet up with eachother in celebration of the series we love. A potluck picnic was arranged (http://savewoy.tumblr.com/post/152888374823/savewoy-good-morningafternoonevening), and additionally, every month, Wander Over Yonder fans on Tumblr do Secret Santa-esque exchanges with one another (http://savewoygiftexchange.tumblr.com/).

 There are things we continue to do as well. Fans are still sending letters and emails to Disney, as well as a flash-drive containing updates of the progress of our campaign. Every month on Tumblr, and from time to time on Twitter, the hashtag #Wander Over Yonder trends. This is because an effort has been made to show our love for the series every monthly anniversary of its second season finale (http://peepsqueak.tumblr.com/Trending%20Twenty-Seventh). Additionally, fans have created certain days of the week to make posts about Wander Over Yonder regularly (http://savewoy.wikia.com/wiki/Wander_Wednesdayhttp://savewoy.wikia.com/wiki/Season_3_Saturdayhttp://savewoy.wikia.com/wiki/SaveWOY_Sunday). The "villain leaderboard" from season two is still 'updated' by fans every month as a way to keep the show's spirit alive. Whenever a page on Thunderclap is made, not only is more than the required support gotten, but ends up in the top five of Thunderclap pages that week. Even in addition to all this, there will still be more to come, and things not mentioned here; Wander Over Yonder fans love the series and will always continue to keep it in our hearts!

 It is not only the fandom of Wander Over Yonder that rallies support for the series. It is quite apparent that simply anyone who enjoys it wants to see it end the way the WOY crew wanted. Videos from popular people come out more and more about the quality, and the chance WOY deserves (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD30N7h1pyZU5YV-AYBWRwyFm-sFZJgtb). A show with such positivity and joy and fun has helped countless lives when one simply looks for people's takeaway, online or anywhere. Furthermore, it is quite apparent that Wander Over Yonder in general is something deserving of praise, and of more chance than it was given.

Wander Over Yonder has not only been nominated for-- and won-- several Annie Awards for its character design, animation, and overall quality as a series; but has in fact been Emmy-nominated for its overall quality as a short-format animated series. Not to mention, Wander Over Yonder had gained far more attention than ever once season two premiered-- already after its cancellation. Moreover, after the middle of season two-- the airing of the episode "My Fair Hatey"-- an even bigger boom of fans came to realize what a fantastic show WOY is, not even including the fact that the song within the episode, "I'm the Bad Guy", is nearing 5 million views on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdEo_t-iVbM&spfreload=10), more views than any other Wander Over Yonder video has ever received. It is clear that even people who haven't watched the show love the character Lord Dominator, and would love to see more of her. Since the current end of the series, more people than ever before are coming out to say how much they love it, and moreover wishing it hadn't ended with a mystery left unsolved. Now that the Wander Over Yonder reruns have come back, perhaps the viewership numbers will be surprisingly much higher than before.

 I thank you for taking your time to read this lengthy letter, and I hope you can see that my message is one that sincerely hopes you can take all that is written above into consideration, and hopefully take into consideration as well the amount that Wander Over Yonder means to so many people, the efforts they have made to spread awareness of the show, and the hope everyone has found from others making efforts just the same and having success come out of it. I hope that the tone in which all of us fans have been contacting the people at Disney means something, and that it helps our message to be seen more clearly and understandingly.

With this letter, and with all that people have done to make their feelings known, I hope you might begin to consider that maybe the show people love so much could be allowed at least one more chance.

Please let SaveWOY save Wander Over Yonder.

 Best regards,

 -A Wander Over Yonder fan.

[time-in-reverse]

I’m alive (on vacation, but still alive)

Tagged by: no one, though I saw @entj-werewolf do it so I thought I’d give it a shot

LAST:

1. Drink: Water 2. Phone call: my dad   3. Text message: my aunt 4. Song you listened to: Pumped up kicks by Foster the People 5. Time you cried: A couple of weeks ago. Reason is embarrassing so I won’t tell. 

HAVE YOU:

6. Dated someone twice: No. I found out the hard way that my last (and first) ex is a manipulative asshole. Dating him is an experience that I do not want to repeat.   7. Kissed someone and regretted it: Yeah. ^ 8. Been cheated on: Nope 9. Lost someone special: No, although I do wish I’d gotten to know my grandfather from my dad’s side of the family before he died. I would have liked to have gotten his perspective on his and my (narcissistic, unfortunately) grandmother’s divorce. I also think that the divorce deeply impacted my dad (although he doesn’t really talk about it) and I would have liked to see the two have some closure. Unfortunately that’s not possible since he passed away 12 years ago… 10. Been depressed: Yeah, due to loneliness (not clinical depression though, I think that’s an important distinction I need to make).11. Gotten drunk and thrown up: No. I’m underage but have tried alcohol before, don’t like it, and don’t plan on getting drunk any time soon.

LIST 3 FAVORITE COLORS:

12-14: Blue, Purple, Black

IN THE LAST YEAR HAVE YOU:

15. Made new friends: No, but I’ve reconnected with some family members (discovered that I got on quite well with my aunt + cousin after a family gathering) 16. Fallen out of love: Yep, although I don’t consider my past relationship “love”, more like “infatuation/idealisation” 17. Laughed until you cried: Yeah. good times man :’) (wish it happened more often, though) 18. Found out someone was talking about you: hahaha… #5. Generally speaking though, my family is very straightforward so whatever they say behind me they say to my face. (Thankfully this has never happened with friends/classmates…) 20. Found out who your friends are: I think I’m in the process of doing that right now. If there’s one good thing that came out of my waste-of-time relationship it’s that it’s given me an opportunity to bond more with my INFJ friend (who went through an eerily similar experience) and my friends from my old school. 21.  Kissed someone on your Facebook list: my ex #regret 

GENERAL:

22. How many of your Facebook friends do you know in real life: all of them. I don’t use Facebook that often though, only to message classmates/friends as I find the constant spamming/ads/people parading their "social lives" annoying 23. Do you have any pets: no, but I hope to have a cat some day :’) 24. Do you want to change your name: I thought about this when I was younger, but nahhh. Brooke fits and is a memorable name IMO  25. What did you do for your last Birthday: I attempted to bake cupcakes without parental supervision but the cupcakes ended up turning into fudge because I forgot to add flour (dang it inferior Se!!). I also ate dinner at Pizza express with my friends.  26. What time do you wake up: Depends. Now that it’s summer I get the luxury of waking up later so 8:30 (school days it’s 6:00 T_T)  27. What were you doing at midnight last night: sleeping.  28. Name something you can’t wait for: to finally settle on a college choice (and leave for college, getting tired of high school)  29. When was the last time you saw your mom? 15 minutes ago. Currently at home typing this and she’s outside on the porch  30. What is one thing you wish you could change in your life: My outlook on things, since I tend to be quite cynical and find it difficult to tamper it at times. I think that with a better attitude, extraneous factors become less daunting so that’s why I picked something personality related.  31. What are you listening to right now: my parents talking outside, lol  32. Have you ever talked to a person named Tom: my brother and a former classmate are both called Thomas, so yes.  33. Something that is getting on your nerves: my dang siblings (and to a lesser extent, my parents), also college/academic stuff. for the former, I’m getting tired of them (being stuck with them on vacation for nearly 3 weeks is taking its toll. my siblings are getting bored and keep teasing me while my parents keep nagging me to do more chores >_< I wish they would shut up for once and quit irritating me!) while for the latter I’m feeling the pressure to study so I’ll be prepared for SATs and when I go back to school in a month. 34. Most visited website: Youtube/Tumblr/Reddit  35. Mole/s: Yeaah I have quite a few. They don’t bother me too much though 36. Mark/s: A crescent shaped birthmark on my right arm. I find it kinda cool. Then a scar on my 4th finger from the time an elevator door closed on it. On my left arm I have a scar from the time I scraped it against a bookshelf corner (yikes!) 37. Childhood dream: To become a fiction writer. Hasn’t changed much, lol, though now I read a lot more non fiction (psychology B) so that’s a potential area I may look into  38. Hair color: Dark brown 39. Long or short hair: Medium  40. Do you have a crush on someone: Nope (thank god, also).  41. What do you like about yourself: my perceptiveness, sense of humour, and honesty  42. Piercings: Two ear piercings. Unfortunately I got lazy wearing my earrings so the holes have grown in a little.  43. Blood type: A  44. Nicknames? Nope  45. Relationship status: Single 46. Zodiac: Gemini (don’t subscribe to horoscopes so…)  47. Pronouns: She/her  48. Favorite TV Show: Gravity Falls 50. Right or left hand: Right handed all the way! 51. Surgery: …do cavity fillings count? Other than that, nah.  52. Hair dyed in different color: Nope, I like my natural hair color as it is 53. Sport: Basketball/badminton  55. Vacation: Always wanted to go to Scandinavia lol, preferably with friends/alone.  56. Pair of trainers: Stan smiths. the superstar ones. a couple of months ago I decided I’d hop aboard the trend train (these are quite popular atm). these sport a classy look and go well with (almost) any outfit.

MORE GENERAL:

57. Eating: Not eating anything right now since I had dinner an hour ago.  58. Drinking: Nothing  59. I’m about to: go outside on the porch for some fresh air.  62. Want: a lot of stuff, but right now- some peace and quiet away from my family, also to see my friends again. 63. Get married: Maybe. The way I see it, if someone happens to meet my standards + we’re compatible + they’d be OK without kids then maybe, although it’s not something I’m hellbent on. 64. Career: Writer all the way! 65. Hugs or kisses: in an intimate relationship? hugs/cuddling.  66. Lips or eyes: eyes  67. Shorter or taller: taller.  68. Older or younger: older  70. Nice arms or nice stomach: I don’t really notice this kind of stuff since personality/intelligence is what matters the most to me, but I guess both would be better than without either so both?  71. Sensitive or loud: ehh… I tend to be attracted to ambiverted people so I guess someone in between.  72. Hook up or relationship: Relationship. Would never hook up… I imagine it’d feel cheap and pointless  73. Troublemaker or hesitant: in between

HAVE YOU EVER:

74. Kissed a Stranger: hell no 75. Drank hard liquor: Again, am underage and don’t like alcohol 76. Lost glasses/contact lenses: Don’t own either so no 77. Turned someone down: once. my ex actually (long story, but I turned him down a couple of times before we started going out. Should have stuck with my initial decision(s) ) 78. Sex on the first date: No. Never had it, would never do it that early. Plus, it isn't smart either as I’ve read that the hormones released during sex can muddle your perception/judgment of the other person (first date is vital for seeing if the other person is compatible for a relationship). 79. Broken someone’s heart: I hope not, but I also doubt it. Aside from my ex I’ve never had any guys express outright interest in me so I’ve never rejected anyone. 80. Had your heart broken: Nah. 81. Been arrested: No. 82. Cried when someone died: …don’t know anyone personally who died, so no. 83. Fallen for a friend: Don’t have any male friends and am not bi, so no.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:

84: Yourself: I guess...  85. Miracles: Yeah.  86. Love at first sight: I think it’s possible but rare. So I’m a skeptical believer, I guess? 87. Santa Claus: when I was a kid, yeah. 88. Kiss on the first date: depends. if i’ve known the other person well enough + there’s been attraction/love prior to dating, then maybe. It’s not something I personally care about that much though, plus my one experience with kissing has been unpleasant (didn’t really enjoy it, the “spark” thing is either a myth or my ex was just the wrong person).

OTHER:

90. Current best friend name: … T_T 91. Eye color: Dark brown 92. Favorite movie: Zootopia, probably. That movie made an impression :P

Not tagging anyone unless anyone wants to do this 

[tylerhoech]

daliaaaaa could you tell me your fave sterek fics please?? :)

How could you ask me this? Do you have any idea how manysterek fics I’ve read over the years? How many I’ve loved?

This is a short list of the very few I could think of offthe top of my head. I think I’ll probably make a recs page, because I’ve beenmeaning to for a long time. I have a recs tag, but that includes differentpairings as well.

Sideways and Slantways and Longways and Backways

“I called you a slave-driver!” Stiles cried hysterically. “I called you an ogre! I stole all the blue paperclips!”Derek raised an eyebrow at him.“That’s company property!” he shouted, waving his arms madly in distress.Derek ran a hand over his face. “It’s not theft if the vice president of the company gives you permission.” (Otherwise known as the Elevator AU)

The Price

Stiles must surrender the most important thing in his life to protect the town… and no one can figure out what it was.

Around The Bend

The first time Derek catches sight of the new yoga instructor, Stiles is in the middle of showing a class how to do downward-facing dog. Derek walks into a wall.

Things don’t exactly improve from there.

Derek can’t stop staring at Stiles, the bendy new yoga instructor at his family’s gym. Stiles thinks Derek’s a repressed homophobe who hates Stiles for making him want the D. They fall in love.

can’t be hateful, gotta be grateful

“Be cool, Dad, we’ve decided to con Grandma.”

(Or, the one where the Stilinski men drag Derek to Thanksgiving dinner at Grandma’s and she gets the right wrong idea.)

Possibly I Like The Thrill Of Under Me You

It’s not that the idea of Stiles talking about him doesn’t make his stomach wrap itself in knots, it’s that it does just that. It makes him unbelievably uncomfortable and he doesn’t quite know why. He’s twenty seven years old, he pays taxes, he takes his mother out for lunch on Sundays; he is a grown up. But he’s getting weird butterflies when he glances over his shoulder to look at Stiles and a heat in his chest that feels something like what he supposes want must feel like.

i want to say all those things that would be better unsaid

Derek is a lonely professor who decides to call a phone sex line.

Stiles is a poor grad student who needs to make a living somehow.

“One night stands were never this good. Hell, his previous relationships were never this good. Derek was so screwed, but right now he didn’t care.”

Little Kid Crush

“What’s your name?” Derek asks, wiping the last of the tears off the kid’s face with his sleeve.

“’tiles,” the kid mumbles, and Derek frowns, wondering if he heard correctly.

“Tiles?” Derek repeats.

“Stiles,” the kid repeats, pouting at Derek slightly, defiant even though his eyes are still puffy and red and his cheeks tear-stained.

Ten Days

Derek Hale does not like babies. So when his pack gets turned into babies, it’s pretty much the worst thing that could happen to him.

Introduction to Zero-Sum Anthropology

Stiles buys Derek a set of cooking spoons. Derek retaliates with lunch.

The war begins.

Here’s My Hand if You’ll Take It (I Can Be That Part of You)

When Stiles is away at college, he realises that he’s in love with Derek. He also realises that he doesn’t exactly have the qualities an alpha needs in a mate. Boyfriend. Whatever. So he decides to change, with a little help from Martha Stewart. It’s just that Stiles isn’t all that great when it comes to tending to the betas, baking or cleaning. But maybe he doesn’t have to be.

The One Where Stiles Vets Derek’s Girlfriends

Across the loft, Cora claps her hands. “Okay, new rule. Any time Derek wants a date, one of us has to vet her first.”

Scott, who’s actually upside down on Derek’s couch, in apparent celebration of their defeat of the alpha pack—which somehow ended with Kali trying to give Derek her number, and he still doesn’t know how that happened, because he’s the worst alpha ever—says, “You know who’s got really good people instincts?”

Blind Date With A Book

Stiles thought the Blind Date With a Book trend was a great way to drum up business for his small bookshop. He definitely thought it was a great idea after the hot guy kept returning and buying more blind dates with books.

Derek didn’t know how he kept getting set up on blind dates by his family, or why he kept going on them. The highlight of his night was when the date was over and he could go to the little bookshop in town and buy something to read for the rest of the night. He wanted to read, not date.

the banana bread incident

“Is this a plastic spoon?” Stiles demands in disgust. “You do realise that there’s actual cutlery in the kitchen, right? I’m surrounded by morons who don’t know how to use a kitchen.”

“I know how to use a kitchen,” Derek protests lazily. “It’s just that all the other spoons were dirty.”

“There’s this revolutionary new invention,” Stiles says, widening his eyes in mock-amazement. “It’s called a sink.”

In which there are tiny pink shorts, a kissing gate, a cat called Pumpkin and a plethora of awkward moments.

Gravity’s Got Nothing on You

“Three weeks,” Derek says.

“Still don’t want to,” Stiles says.

“I’ll pay you,” Derek says, and that… that has Stiles interested. Alf’s Antique’s may be a great job, but it’s not a high-paying job, and half of Stiles’s tuition is coming from financial aid, so…

“How much,” Stiles asks, “are we talking here? Because I know your family, dude. And it’ll be kind of awkward after.“

“My family thinks you’re some sort of fucking gift to the world,” Derek seethes, like he’s jealous, “they’ll probably be pissed at me when we break it off, so don’t worry about that. Five hundred bucks.”

“A thousand,” Stiles says, because screw ethics. Also, the Hale family is loaded. Derek can deal.

A Cunning Plan

Stiles has a plan to get Lydia Martin to notice him. Derek is not impressed.

Strut on a Line, its Discord and Rhyme

“Carry me,” Stiles says.

“No.”

“But I’m injured.”

“You have a rash,” Derek says. “On your arm. Your feet work just fine.”

“Please?”

“No. You weigh almost as much as I do. And you ate a pound of chicken at lunch.”

“Well, yeah, but I pooped like an hour ago, so.”

“You’re disgusting.”

“Don’t play, you love me.”

I do, Derek thinks, relatively horrified. I really do.

Jerk of Art 

The worst thing, ever, is being uninspired. There is literally nothing worse than putting a pencil to paper and having nothing come out. So, of course, when Stiles’ visual arts professor instructs the class to sketch someone as detailed as they possibly can, and Stiles pulls up a blank on people to draw, he wants to punch himself in the face.  

Safety In Silence

It’s perfectly understandable. Even Derek wouldn’t want to be Derek’s soulmate. 

Every Step You Take

Stiles accidentally ends up magically bound to Derek. It’s super.

Hemingway Can Suck It

“For those of you who just transferred into this class or simply decided that day one wasn’t important enough to attend, I’m Professor Hale. Welcome to English 346, The American Novel.”

Stiles is pretty sure his mouth is hanging open right now and that his eyes are wide with shock, because holy fuck, he thinks he knows why his students transferred. Hell, if he was still an undergrad, he probably would have transferred, too.

(Or: In which Stiles is a Biology professor and Derek thinks he’s a student.)

Untamed

Of course, the transfer kid gets mentioned because transfers are rare, but the news isn’t that exciting. In fact, according to Laura, no one even seems to know his first name. The only thing anyone has really figured out about him is that he’s American. And that’s not exactly hard because he obviously has an accent.

The only thing Derek really knows is that, despite other reports, he seems quiet enough, prefers to work alone, and has the most amazing shade of amber eyes that Derek has ever seen.

Not that he’s looking. Obviously.

OR: A Harry Potter AU where Stiles is a Slytherin transfer student and Derek is the grumpy Gryffindor who falls in love with him.

There are also potions, elves, and falcons involved. Oh, and illegal use of magic. Obviously.

Midnight Wolf vs Abominable Snowman!

Derek almost makes the mistake of saying, It’s not fanart, but he manages to catch himself, biting his tongue. This stranger, who’s already identified himself as at least a casual fan of Midnight Wolf, doesn’t need to know that he actually is the artist and author, not just another fan.

headlong (I’m falling in a)

Kink meme fill: When Stiles goes to college, for some reason, he has to share an apartment with Derek, which sucks, because Derek still hates him the most. They fall in love.

Binomial Coefficients

In which brainy freshman Stiles Stilinski wants star quarterback Derek Hale to join the math team, AKA math nerds in love.

John Hughes Did Not Direct My Life

Stiles and Derek are childhood friends who drifted apart. When Stiles joins the lacrosse team against his will, the universe (with a little help from Laura and Lydia) chooses to push them back together.

Patterns of Intention

Derek looked like the stuff of his deepest fantasies. His shirt was rumpled where Stiles had his hands in it, and he was breathing hard as well, chest heaving. His eyes—his eyes were glazed over and he looked stunned, like he’d been—like Stiles had—

“No,” Stiles said, blood draining from his face. The word was croaky and felt like it had to be wrenched out of his chest. “God, no.”

Insane Chemistry (with Derek Hale)

Derek is the popular, varsity jock, prom king of the school, and Stiles is not going to be the cliche that ends up falling for him. (It’s not a cliche if no one else knows about it, right?)

Not Your Disney Romance

After a long-forgotten agreement of an arranged marriage between Derek and the daughter of another pack’s alpha resurfaces, Stiles takes it upon himself to become the most amazing fake fiancé that a clueless, desperate alpha werewolf could wish for.

Five Times the Sheriff Found Derek Hale in His Son’s Bedroom

There’s a pattern Sheriff Stilinski just can’t ignore.

here is the deepest secret nobody knows

“Derek,” Stiles groans. “You have me. You’ve always had me, you absolute moron, how many physically impossible feats of life-saving heroics do I have to perform before you get it?”

There’s so many more I want to rec, but I think these are enough for now!

[magioftheseas]

50 KomaHina Sentences

So a tag meme reminiscent of memes I used to see everywhere like, over five years ago  but not so much anymore was making rounds and I thought, Hey, you know what was ALSO a thing over five years ago and not so much anymore? THIS FIFTY-SENTENCE PROMPT THING.

And then next thing I knew, I filled out one that I literally had to dig out of my folders and.... Now there’s 50 sentences of single sentence komahina prompts. Hurrah. Have fun with this blast from the past.

sdr2-compliant in terms of main story and island mode, but also dr3-divergent (but perhaps closer to Bonus Mode from v3)

Warnings: Canon violence and Komaeda being Komaeda.

**Alternate Ao3 Link**

O—Ring

“Whatever shall I do,” he hummed as he observed the way the HPA ring glimmered on his finger. “I might just end up liking you more and more...”

O—Hero

“When heroes go through trials and tribulations, that just makes them stronger, doesn’t it—isn’t that how things work?”

O—Memory

“It’ll be like old times when we explored this island together—doesn’t that sound nice? Let’s go already, Hinata-kun!”

O—Box

No matter how he looked at it, that gaudy, glimmering pink thing didn’t match Komaeda’s tastes at all.

O—Run

“I’ll have to pass, but feel free to run around like a dog to your heart’s content!”

O—Hurricane

“Isn’t it beautiful, isn’t it lovely?” Komaeda gushes as Hinata can only watch with building unease and dread as the grays and greens in his irises swirl into a terrifying, chaotic mess.

O—Wings

Well... Hinata can’t help but think with a twinge of amusement as one of the birds nestled atop Komaeda’s head as Komaeda himself cooed at another perched upon his hand. That’s one crowd he’s popular with.

O—Cold

“Hinata-kun, you really are cold sometimes...” For some reason, he flinches at that, almost as though he recalled something unpleasant.

O—Red

“Hinata-kun?” Komaeda wonders, and the headache worsens as Komaeda says, almost breathlessly, “Your eyes...”

O—Drink

“So your favorite kind of soda is one that calms you down?”

O—Midnight

He’s up playing this stupid game at midnight because Komaeda begrudgingly had a point—not because Komaeda’s words got to him.

O—Temptation

“You tempted her, didn’t you—just like how you tempted me...”

O—View

“Are you always looking in the direction of the main building, Mr. Reserve Course?” he asks, almost teasingly, and Hinata turns away with a huff.

O—Music

As expected, his taste in music is also strange... Hinata thinks as he swipes through the list of songs on the surprisingly pink mp3 player.

O—Silk

Oh, Hinata thinks as he pinches the soft fabric between his fingers. So Komaeda favors curtains to blinds.

O—Cover

“You forgot your umbrella, right?” Hinata asks over his shoulder. “Come on, then, we can share mine so that you don’t catch a cold again.”

O—Promise

“It’s possible my talent might be utterly worthless, so—” “No way! I’m absolutely positive your talent will be something amazing, Hinata-kun!”

O—Dream

Going to HPA with his head held high had always been his dream, it had always been—Komaeda cuts those thoughts off with the cruel question of, “Were you just someone following trends?”

O—Candle

It should weird him out more than it does to see Komaeda looking so contemplative during blackouts, his thoughtful look illuminated by the candle’s dim glow.

O—Talent

“An immense talent is what gives birth to an immense hope—you do understand that, don’t you, Mr. Reserve Course?”

O—Silence

“I feel like I could enjoy even silence with you,” Komaeda murmurs, so softly that he might not have actually heard anything at all.

O—Journey

“In some stories, it’s the journey that matters,” Komaeda tells him cheerfully one day. “But truth be told, those kinds of stories don’t actually appeal to me at all.”

O—Fire

The fire is blazing on and on, and he’s remembering Komaeda’s crazed smile and laughter with his arms spread out, but what gets him running as fast as he can to the fire extinguishers is the realization that Komaeda is trapped in there.

O—Strength

“Don’t get the wrong idea... The reason why I talk to you, the reason why I try to understand you in spite of everything...is because I’m just a coward who’s scared of leaving everything as it is.”

O—Mask

Komaeda’s always smiling, always, even when he talks about all these horrible things that happened to him that make Hinata’s head hurt and his insides twist.

O—Ice

“Your hands are like ice,” he complains, to which Komaeda retorts, “I didn’t ask you to warm them.”

O—Fall

“Keep that up and I might just fall for you,” Komaeda teases to which he quickly laughs, waving his hand when Hinata shoots him a look. “I was just kidding—that thought’s way too unpleasant, isn’t it?”

O—Forgotten

Even though he knows he’ll forget everything towards the end, he’d like to stay friends with Hinata until then.

O—Dance

“Class trials are like poetry in motion,” Komaeda says with a sweep of his arm reminiscent of the bow before a waltz.

O—Body

Komaeda is frightening and unpredictable—but he’s also so frail that Hinata can’t help but be afraid for him as much as he’s afraid of him.

O—Sacred

“Talent is everything, the talented are everything,” Komaeda speaks with both agitation and reverence, and he’s shaking so badly that the thought comes, unbidden and unpleasant and absolutely unallowable of a reserve course student to think in regards to a SHSL, that perhaps Hinata should hold him.

O—Farewells

Don’t worry, Komaeda, I’ll definitely listen to your last words.

O—World

And at Komaeda’s last words, the world around them kept skipping and glitching with stopitstopitdontstop—check the web for more details.

O—Formal

“Hinata-kun, Mr. Reserve Course.” “Komaeda.”

O—Fever

“I’m fine—I’m always fine, I’ve never been better,” Komaeda babbles on and Hinata’s hand recoils from just how blazing the temperature of his forehead was.

O—Laugh

Sometimes, he can’t help but think about how Komaeda’s laughter, wheezy and hysterical and awful and terrifying, also sounds unbelievably painful.

O—Lies

“I’m fine, I’m fine, don’t get near me, I hate it when you’re near me,” Komaeda’s practically chanting as Hinata clicks his tongue in annoyance but brushes the sweaty ivory strands back all the same, his frown deepening as he notes that the fever doesn’t feel as though it’s died down even a little.

O—Forever

“Happiness is fleeting, fickle, and unreliable—but hope is absolute and eternal, so... I have need for little else, you see...”

O—Overwhelmed

“It’s not that you’re detestable or disgusting or whatever—you’re just overwhelming.”

O—Whisper

Komaeda’s voice is barely above a whisper, and it sounds so much like a confession except when Hinata hears what he actually has to say, he can’t help but laugh, “Oh, that’s all you wanted?”

O—Wait

“I’ll be fine because...even when my life is threatened by such despair and misfortune—there’ll always be good luck waiting up ahead, and I’ll always believe in the absolute hope that will someday arise.”

O—Talk

“It’s true that I’m never bored around you...” “Because I come up with such interesting conversation topics! Like—like...oh... Don’t worry, I’ll definitely come up with something!”

O—Search

“Hinata-kun!” Komaeda exclaims, with a resolve that he couldn’t help but find admirable. “Let’s do what we can just as our leader said, and see if we can find some clues!”

O—Hope

“Hinata-kun, from the bottom of my heart, I love...the hope sleeping inside of you.”

O—Eclipse

Blocking the view of the radiant, blinding sun is this white-haired, pale faced guy who’s worriedly asking if he’s okay and—dammit, he’s really not.

O—Gravity

He understands that in a situation like this, he can’t trust anyone and can’t even trust himself but—Komaeda’s soft smile and calming demeanor draws him in just as it had before and, hell, Hinata might cling to him a little harder if he neglects to keep himself in check.

O—Highway

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, Hinata recalls but it’s hard to not suspect malice when Komaeda’s so gleeful about everything.

O—Unknown

I can finally find out Hinata-kun’s talent—he’ll be so happy when he knows! That was his last thought before everything shattered to dust as he read the profile in a long stretch of silence and nothing more than a confused, broken, “What...?”

O—Lock

It’s funny, it’s really, really funny as his heart struggles under the locks and chains he’s wrapped around himself upon finding out the truth—just because Hinata-kun’s pitiful expression was such an aching sight.

O—Breath

He’s not sure how long he spent breathing in spite of the bleeding wounds and his taped mouth, but he knows that when thoughts of Hinata-kun intersected the swirling thoughts of hope and despair—his breathing, for a moment, came out a little more wheezed as everything around him burned.