#temporarily or not
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Text
Spiderverse thots
#across the spiderverse#into the spiderverse#across the spider verse spoilers#ALSO GHE COWBOY SPIDER-MAN????? đ©·đ©”đđ#I guess#not really but just in case :)#I fucking loved spider punk#hatred of British people temporarily paused#fuck Miguel#fuck Jess#miguel o'hara#miles morales#gwen stacy#peter b parker#spider man#the word spider doesnât seem real anymore#god couldnât have made that movie it was too beautiful for his corrupted hands to tarnish with his sins#god bless the spiderverse#godâŠ.. poetic cinema
67K notes
·
View notes
Text
the progression of dick and jasons relationship over the years is honestly probably pretty consistent
Robin!Jason: would you love me if I was a worm :(
Dick, with much disdain: âŠis this a hypothetical or like. an upcoming scenario
Red Hood!Jason: would you love me if I killed a guy :(
Dick: is this a hypothetical or do you mean like. within the last 24 hours
#he did mean within the last 24 hours#Bruceâs no kill rule did not pass down to Dick fully#the man literally killed the joker temporarily#dick grayson#jason todd#batfam#nightwing#red hood#robin#dc robin#robin jason todd#nightwing dick grayson#batman
6K notes
·
View notes
Text
narratives about doomed love that arenât romantic in nature. the love between siblings who understand each other the most but are growing apart no matter how much they try to come back to one another. the love between friends whose life paths pull them apart and they never see each other again, only remembering the face of a once kind childhood. the love for a hometown that year by year becomes less and less the one that raised you until you are a foreigner in your own backyard. there was no stopping it. the love was there and it mattered and you can never come back again.
24K notes
·
View notes
Text
puppy playtime!!
early access + nsfw on patreon
#whenever soap's wolf takes over#the 141 temporarily becomes a doggy day care#so happy i get to show them being soft with soap in his full wolf form#been waiting to indulge like this since i started the au#monster 141 au#simon ghost riley#john soap mactavish#captain john price#kyle gaz garrick#giragi art
7K notes
·
View notes
Text
I'm gonna throw some nuance in here!
Expecting effort is normal from the people you care about!
Understanding that effort looks different for everyone is the key here.
Sometimes your disabled friends effort isn't meeting you at the mall even when they're exhausted, sometimes it's texting you back to let you know they can't make it so you don't show up alone and upset.
Sometimes your depressed friends effort isn't cleaning their apartment when you come over to visit, sometimes it's just being willing to let you into the mess at all
Sometimes a strangers effort isn't walking faster when they're walking really slow in front of you, it's not being an asshole when you walk around them
Sometimes effort looks like going out of your way to do things, and sometimes effort looks like going out of THEIR WAY to do things.
Effort looks different, and as long as someone cares, they will do what they can to show you that when they can.
when someone truly cares about you, they make an effort, not an excuse.
#everyone has the capability to put forth effort#it just looks different for everyone#dont shame your friends for not trying just because their capability for it may be lower than yours#temporarily or not
6K notes
·
View notes
Text
In case you have little choice on having to use Windows 11.
Option 1: Guide to basic install de-bloated Windows 11 (by Chris Titus, with video and blog article)
Option 2a: Use a script to de-bloat Windows 11 (by simeonsecurity. more digital literacy. check "how to install" section)
Option 2b: Use a script to de-bloat and harden Windows 11 (by simeonsecurity. more digital literacy. check "how to install" section)
Note: If choose Option 2, choose either 2a or 2b. not both.
#sad: have to temporarily use windows 11. win: debloating windows and using linux server for secondary.#text post#o post#magz upload#tech stuff
3K notes
·
View notes
Text
I love the concept of âmy soul got along with yours before the earth was even created and we recognised each other in this worldâ
#even just friends#and people that temporarily stay in your life#we met before and we will meet again in Jannah#mine#thoughts
3K notes
·
View notes
Text
Sketches from the last week
#IDK WHY IT POSTED WITHOUT TAGS THE FIRST TIME???#im reposting it WHATEVER#pearl houzuki#off the hook#art#splatoon#splatoon 3#splatoon 2#agent 3#agent 8#callie cuttlefish#marie cuttlefish#squid sisters#sanitized agent 3#i didnt know that was a tag#temporarily pinning this
2K notes
·
View notes
Text
Melanie Kinggg
#I wish Jon and Melanie could have had what Jon and Daisy temporarily had#they're besties in another universe I know it#maybe in a somewhere else AU where it's a parallel universe and Jon meets Melanie again#and she has no idea who Jon is or why he's so anxious with her at first but they can start over#PLEASE#anyway#the magnus archives#the magnus archives art#tma#tma art#tma podcast#melanie king#melanie king art#tma melanie#rusty quill#rusty quill fanart
2K notes
·
View notes
Text
where does battdadinson he keep finding these children? who keeps approving this?
#dc#mine#battinson#the batman 2022#batdad speedrun#hes fostering duke temporarily until they get better â€ïžâđ©č#and they will. its my made up world and ur living in it
3K notes
·
View notes
Text
initiating touchâŠ
#kimharry#oughh the feels#disco elysium#disco elysium fanart#kim kitsuragi#harry du bois#digital art#doodles#de#meiq art#im back from the dead#second sem just endedâŠgahh temporarily free from the shackles of uni#ibis paint has this cool retro filter#had to layer it over
2K notes
·
View notes
Text
Miss Zelda can be forgetful sometimes
#totk#tears of the kingdom#totk zelda#this can be read as Pre-Upheaval#or Post-Upheaval where Professor Link temporarily took over Miss Zelda's class#so she can have her beauty rest#it's not easy to be a Princess and a full-time scholar at the same time#this is my 2nd time to use this meme but 1st for this fandom#loz#legend of zelda#totk art#loz art#my art#my comics#zelda
7K notes
·
View notes
Text
Rewound Infinitely
Gojo Satoru x Reader
Part one: Infinite Rewind
Synopsis: A decade later, Gojo has finally caught up with you. Weddings take a lot of planning.
Word Count: 8.6k
(Warnings: flashbacks to gore, not healthy trauma coping, thats all tho! pretty wholesome compared to last time)
Some things about him had changed within a decade, while others stayed the same.Â
Even taller than you last saw him. His hair has been styled, no longer ivory chaos. You can't see a single blemish or mark despite the decade of fighting curses. He's as flawless as the first day you met him. No glasses; the entirety of his blue keeps you still.
You've seen this Satoru before: Suguru's memories, with glassy eyes, ruffled ivory hair, and an empty expression. Seeing such beauty yourself when you're standing right in front of him, it's breathtaking.Â
Even the lights of Tokyo couldn't compare to him.Â
You say nothing. You can't. Your mouth is dry and pointless. You're not even sure where to even begin. In front of a God, your insecurities pile up all over again. Is he disappointed by you? How could you explain everything that you put him through? Your mouth opens, you think you're about to speak: an apology, a plea, anything-
"âYou're late!"Â
His hands reach up to squish your cheeks together. It was so unexpected, you squeak.Â
And Gojo Satoru is pouting.Â
It's a wave. The ocean of anxiety, guilt, and fear crashes into the shore. You feel nothing but indignant rage at the brat who clearly hadn't matured one damn bit.Â
"I'm not late!" You hiss back. "If anything, you're the one who's late. I wasâ"
You're cut off by his laugh, light and happy.Â
He isn't offended by your outburst; he's overjoyed about it. His cheeks are dabbed with pink, and his lips are so wide that he's showing his teeth. Your anger wanes when he pulls you into his chest, arms circling around you. You can smell his cologne when he buries his face into your hair.Â
"There you are. Finally." He melts into you like butter. "I missed you, Greeny."Â
His voice is soft, quiet, and sincere. You can't do anything but hug him back, allowing him to sink.
"I missed you, too." You whisper.
He hums. Apart from the wind, it's quiet. He's clinging onto you as though he's afraid once he lets go, you'll disappear forever. His behavior is justified. You were constantly meddling with his life before whisking away. Just this once, you allow him to keep you within his reach, letting the cat catch the canary.Â
"This is sweet 'n all. But we're actually getting late." He mutters. "Also, we gotta do something about your clothes."Â
"Hm?"Â
One moment, you're atop the Tokyo Skybridge; the next, you're standing in an upscale boutique.Â
Satoru skips away from you. Meanwhile, you're frozen, brain scrambling to catch up with what happened. Teleport. He can teleport now.
"Mr. Gojo, sir." A voice calls. An older woman smiles at him.Â
He gives her a casual wave before gesturing over to you. "Mind giving this one a dress? It's a black-tie event. We don't have a budget."Â
The woman turns to you with a smile. "Of course, sir."Â
What?
Dazed, you pliantly follow the woman into the back of the boutique. Her hold on you is gentle as she ushers you through the hall with one hand on either side of your shoulders. When you look back, Satoru is waving with a wide grin. The door shuts behind you.Â
"Do you have any preferences?"Â
You turn back to the woman. She's still smiling. You can't tell if it's genuine or customer service. Perhaps both.Â
Did Satoru not like what you're wearing? When you look down, it makes sense. Your time on the tower wasn't kind to your hair, not to mention your clothes. This morning, you'd just thrown on the first thing you saw.Â
This morning. That felt like centuries ago.Â
She's still waiting. You give a trepid smile.Â
"Anything," you say, "anything as long as it's cheap. I'm not exactly swimming in cash."Â
She gives a confused look. "Oh, but Mr. Gojo is paying, isn't he?"Â
Was he? You had no idea what was happening, much less what he had just said. She returns to her usual smile.Â
"If you have nothing in mind, let's see here..."Â
Some time later, your usual clothing was removed and replaced by something satin and long. It was a pretty dress that fell right to your feet. A set of women also flitted in and worked on your hair and face, putting everything back in your face so that you looked more human and less cryptid.Â
"What do you think?" She asks, looking at you through that mirror.Â
Pretty, you looked pretty. But when you looked closer, no amount of make-up could remove that look in your eyes.Â
When you step back out, Satoru is waiting with a tapping foot.Â
"Finally!" He exclaims, standing up. He doesn't acknowledge the dress, probably because he's seen himself in better. "Thanks, Hana. Okay, let's go."Â
"Go?" You prod. "Go where? Youâyou still haven't told me what you're even doingâ"Â
It's no use. He grabs your hand, instantly warping you away from the boutique.Â
You're outside. There's people everywhere. In the distance, you can see a crystal glass dome. The sun was still in the sky, which was strange because you remembered watching a sunset not too long ago, unless you weren't in Japan anymore. To prove it to yourself, you check your phone location. Yakima, Washington. What the fuck.
Was this some type of torture, him flitting you from continent to continent, all in a ploy to punish you for something? You give him a pleading look.Â
"Just tell me what's going onâ"Â
"Nuh-uh." He grins. "It's a surprise! Besides, you'll figure it out soon enough. Now, I gotta' go. Stay here, be good, and find the panda!"Â
And then he's gone.
You always knew he was insane, but this is ridiculous, even for him. To leave you in the middle of nowhere, that asshole. Â
There is no one you recognize in the crowd, but they are all walking towards the dome, so you meekly follow. What did he say? Find the panda? It had to be a metaphor of some kind, or perhaps there was a panda statue you needed to wait under.Â
And then you see a panda on two legs walking and talking with a group of teenagers.
Seriously, what else did you expect?Â
Feeling like you've just aged five years, you approach the group. Including the animal, there's five. They all look like 14-16 years old. You feel like you're in high school all over again when they glance over at you. The girl looks particularly unimpressed.Â
"Hi." You look at the panda. Maybe it's a really good costume because no one else looks shocked. "Satoru said I should find you...?"Â
One of them seems to get the code. The one with black hair and puppy eyes perks up.Â
"Ah! Are you 'Greeny'?" Did he tell everyone about that nickname? Didn't you tell him it was supposed to be a secret? Though, it doesn't really matter anymore.Â
"It's not my actual name." You say before introducing yourself.Â
He gives a nod. "Okkutso Yuta." He bows. What a polite kid. "This is my friend, Inumaki Toge."Â
The kid with half his face under his scarf gives a wave. You smile.Â
"Just Maki." The girl steps in before she gives you a once-over. "I like your dress."Â
"Oh, thank you!" You say happily, "I love yours as well!"Â
She looks away, but you have a feeling she has a hard time taking compliments.Â
"I'm Panda." The panda fucking says, and no, it isn't a costume, but you're too tired to ask at this point. "Nice to finally meet you."Â
When the final kid says nothing, Panda reaches over and wraps a furry hand around his shoulder.Â
"And this is Fushiguro Megumi! He's shy." Panda says cheerily. The boy flusters under his weight.Â
"Get off." Fushiguro gripes.Â
"Don't mind him." Maki rolls her eyes. "He's just throwing a tantrum because his sister couldn't make it, and he's gonna have to socialize with people instead of hiding behind her."Â
Fushiguro glares, but he doesn't respond to that. He just gives you a nod, and you decide these are good kids. At the very least, they're all way better than that brat Satoru.Â
"So, why are we waiting out here?" You ask, peering around.Â
"The doors haven't opened, yet," Okkutso kindly relays, "we're just waiting out here until everything is set up."Â
"If they're taking this long, then they should at least ask for help." Maki crosses her arms. "We've been waiting out here for at least thirty minutes."Â
"At least there's food." Panda tries to assuage.Â
"Salmon," says Inumaki.Â
"They're serving salmon out here?" You give him an incredulous look and he waves his arms around.Â
"Bonito flakes." Inumaki says. Okkutso tries to come to his rescue.Â
"Inumaki can't speak anything but food items because of his curse-" Maki quickly yanks him down by his collar frantically. Fushiguro is whispering something in his ear. You watch them go back and forth before it clicks.Â
"Does it have something to do with his technique?" You ask, curiously.Â
They stop squabbling.Â
"Oh, our bad. Sorry 'bout that." Panda gives a sheepish grin. "We didn't think you'd know about jujutsu sorcery 'cause...well. Your cursed energy is really low."Â
"Super low." Maki agrees.Â
"Salmon."Â
"Even lower than Maki's." That earns Panda a punch from her.Â
"Thank you," you dryly say, before you turn back to the building.Â
"What's going on in that place anyway?"Â
They all give you an odd look before they look at each other. Did you say something wrong?
"Did Gojo-sensei not tell you anything?" Okkotsu asks.Â
You allow yourself to leak some bitterness. "Satoru just dropped me on the sidewalk before teleporting away. He never tells me anything.
"That sounds like him." Panda nods.Â
"Idiot," Maki says.
"Such an idiot," Fushiguro says, and now you feel bad for Satoru.
"Our sensei's getting married today." Okkutso supplies. He points at the dome.Â
You don't get why you didn't realize it sooner. You knew these kids, at least Okkutso, Maki, Panda, and Inumaki. They all showed up on the very last day Geto Suguru died. Okkutso, in particular, had fought and defeated Suguru.Â
These were Gojo Satoru's students.Â
You think back to the last time you saw Satoru. He didn't look like a groom, but he's an eccentric guy. You wondered what kind of person would put up with him for the rest of their lives. You pitied them.Â
"Oh." You frown. "His wedding? IâI would have at least brought a gift."Â
"I don't think he'd mind," Panda said, "besides, you didn't even know!"Â
You still felt a bit guilty.Â
"We didn't bring anything either," Fushiguro states, and it helps just a tiny bit.Â
"When the ceremony begins, you can sit with us," Okkutso tells you, "we're supposed to keep an eye on you, anyway."Â
"You're not talking to a dog." Maki grunts.Â
"Oh no IâI didn't mean to be offensive!" Okkutso backtracks. "It's justâwell, Gojo-sensei's been talking about you for a while, and we want to make sure everything goes smoothly and we were all really excited to meet you soâ"Â
He keeps rambling like that until Inumaki pats his shoulder. You laugh, amused.Â
"I wasn't offended or anything." You tell him before his words sink in. "Wait, Satoru talks about me?"Â
"All the time." Maki responds, an edge to her voice. "'Greeny this', 'Greeny that'."Â
"We usually tune him out when he gets like that," Panda says, "honestly, we didn't even think you were real until just now."Â
"I always thought 'Greeny' was an inside joke Gojo-sensei and Haibara-sensei had," Okkotsu admits.Â
Something warm bubbles in your stomach.Â
"So," Fushiguro speaks, "how do you know Gojo, anyway?"Â
You didn't know the story Gojo told them so you simply keep it vague.Â
"I knew him as a kid."Â
It's Panda who gets the most excited about this.Â
"Really? What was he like as a teenager?"Â
"A brat." You instantly respond, and then you think a little more. "But I don't think that ever changed."Â
They ask you a couple more questions about Gojo's high school days. You oblige, thinking this as payback for how Satoru dropped you here without saying anything. You don't know how long you spend out there, airing out Gojo's younger days while his students get increasingly giggly.Â
Okkotsu is the one who notices the crowd is moving.Â
"I think they opened the doors." He smiles. "Let's go, everyone."Â
You follow behind Maki, admiring the architecture. It's a grand building. Sparkling crystal glass lets the sunlight bleed in. The decoration was something else entirely. Small white flowers adorn the chandelier, and they cascade down the edges. Ice sculptures of angels greeted the guests. Live music was already playing. Satoru knows how to plan a wedding.Â
Maki finds you all seats. You sit next to her. Fushiguro follows you. Okkutso, Inumaki, and Panda take the seats behind you. While you wait for the guests to settle down, you pass your time, waiting for the students to bicker with one another. From your assumption, it looked as though Maki, Panda, and occasionally Inumaki butted heads with each other. Okkutso often served as the timid referee, trying to get everyone to calm down, which almost always made things worse. Fushiguro just elected to ignore everything.Â
"Are they always like this?" You lean over to whisper to him. Fushiguro gives a tired nod.Â
"Every. Single. Day." He's saying this from experience, but at least you get a show.Â
Everyone settles down eventually. The kids grow quiet when the music starts to swell. The indoor lights dim. It's starting.Â
You've never been to a wedding this grand before. There was a live orchestra. Women and men were dressed in baby blue, gently strumming away their cellos, violins, and violas.Â
It's how you miss Satoru's entrance. He's already standing on the altar by the time you look back. He's changed into something more formal. The suit and green tie fit him. A perfectly put-together beauty. As though he can sense your stare, he catches your eye and winks.Â
But why was he already up there? Shouldn't he beâ
"Sensei's coming!" Okkotsu whisper-yells. Inumaki hushes him.
Everyone turns to face the door. You do, too.Â
Your heart stops when you see him.Â
It's all there. Black hair, but it's longer this time around. Of course it is, he's had years to grow it out. He's tall, he must've grown since highschool.Â
You don't think you're breathing when you watch him walk down the aisle. The music is low, barely loud enough to hide the click of his heels. He takes his rightful place beside Satoru, his best man. Satoru gives him a nudge, and Suguru shakes his head fondly.Â
Everyone turns to see Shoko's entrance. You should too, but you keep staring at him. How much he's changed since high school. How much he's changed since he waltzed onstage wearing a priest's outfit, filled with nothing but empty hatred for those he viewed as weak.Â
But he's not wearing that twisted monk costume. His eyes aren't dull and dead and bitter. There's no sickly faux smile on his lips.
Today, Suguru looks like the happiest man on Earth.Â
His eyes are wide and eager and sparkling purple beauties. He's 27, but he looks younger. The lines of exhaustion and heartbreak aren't so prominent. And youâand youâ
You just sit there, watching as Shoko walks up to the altar, watching as they stand as bride and groom. His daughters, adorned in pretty blue dresses, stand right behind him, smiling so hard you're sure it hurts. The priest speaks. They say their vows. You can't hear a single word. It's like you're behind a glass wall, and you can see him, but you can't feel him.Â
 When they kiss, everything comes back. The crowd celebrates. Satoru ruffles Himeno's hair. Nanako smiles wider. Behind you, Inumaki and Panda sniffles. Okkotsu hands them a tissue.Â
"Itâs pretty." Maki comments. Fushiguro gives a hum of agreement.Â
⎔
Satoru finds you and the kids when you're waiting for the reception to start.Â
He appears behind you with a cheery, "And how are my lovely students holding up?" You almost spill your drink in shock.
"Sensei!" Okkotsu chirps. "Where's Geto-sensei and Ieiri-sensei?"Â
"Shoko's around; Suguru's taking a break," Gojo answers with a grin. "If you don't mind me, I'll be stealing this one for a sec."Â
He doesn't wait for an answer, steering you away by your shoulders. You look behind you. Panda waves. Fushiguro just looks even more upset. You wave back at them regardless.Â
"I can't believe you put your students out on babysitting duty." You tell him. "And what's with this wedding? There's no alcohol anywhere." To make your point, you take another sip of your apple juice.Â
"We have kids here. Kinda' have to make it alcohol-free," Satoru says.Â
"The bartender could ID them." You suggest.Â
"You think teens who fight curses daily wouldn't figure out how to get around that?" He grins. You frown at his frustratingly good response.Â
âWhatâd you think of them?â
âHm?â
âThe kids.â He urges. âWhatâd you think?â
Your brows scrunch. You have no idea what he means by that. Eventually, you take a breath.
âI like how...close they are.â You eventually say. âThe bond they share. They care. I think each one of them will be good sorcerers.â
Heâs silent, and you think you might have misunderstood his question.
âI learned that from you,â Satoru says, âkeeping them together, making sure they can grow, get stronger, together. You were always so insistent on that, back then. Iâm glad you were. It was one of the best things about you.â
You stare at him. Really stare. Youâve never heard him sound so genuine, so sincere before. You look into his crystal-blue eyes, wide and earnest. Part of you wants to take a picture, so you could keep it forever.
Eventually, Gojo successfully drags you to a less crowded area of the party. He looks around.Â
"Hm, he should be around here somewhere...?" Satoru hums to himself.Â
"Who?" You ask. That question answers itself.Â
Haibara Yu is waiting a little ways ahead. By now, the sun was starting to set. His brown hair turned gold. Gojo eagerly hurries you forward as he calls out to him. You stumble, still lost at what you're seeing.Â
"Guess who I brought?" Gojo sweetly sings, Yu-Haibara, he hasn't let you call him Yu yet-tilts his head.
He smiles, confused. "Oh? Hello!" He says cheerily. "Who's this?" He asks to Gojo.Â
"Guess," Gojo says.Â
Haibara stares at you, and you decide to give him a hint.Â
"Brocolli head?"Â
He gapes. It's almost the same reaction he had last time. Last time, when you had to convince him to kill you so you could go back in time to save Satoru. Â
"No way." He gasps. "Greeny?"
 He doesn't remember. He wouldn't, why would he? Still, it's nice to see the innocence on his face, rather than the pain you saw last time. Right before he snapped your neck.Â
You think he was crying the last time you two saw each other.Â
In this timeline, Haibara is hugging you so tightly you think your head's about to explode.Â
"It's really you?" Haibara says, but his bear hug muffles his words. "ââIâI canât believe it? Itâs actually you! I thought Iâd never see you again even though Satoru said we'd see you again one day, andâand then suddenly you pop up outtaâ nowhereânot that Iâm complainingâ butââ
"Haibara." You plead. "You're suffocating me."Â
"Oh! Oh, I'm so sorry." He lets you go, and your lungs inflate again. "IâI'm just so happy! Andâand you're a girl!" He says it like it's the most surprising thing about this whole revelation. Maybe it is.Â
Satoru is always needy for attention and whines as always.Â
"Wait, you two came up with a code word?" He complains. "That's not fair. We never did that."Â
"I mean, it was Haibara's idea." You point out. "You should be smarter next time."Â
That makes him frown even more. You laugh.Â
"Yu." Haibara suddenly says.Â
You turn to him.Â
"My friends call me Yu."Â
It's nice to know that no matter what timeline you're in, Yu will always remain stagnant.Â
"Okay, lover boy," Gojo says with a not-so playful bite, "keep your eye on this one for me, okay? Gotta' go do more best man shit."Â
Satoru's gone once again. You look at Yu.Â
"He's been running around since I got here." You tell him. "Does that man ever rest?"Â
"Nope." Haibara grins, before taking your arm. "Follow me; you should meet a couple of people."Â
He leads you through the crowd. You spot the teens moping about out of the corner of your eye. Panda and Inumaki seem to be in a push-up competition. Maki is egging them on. You wisely decide not to disturb them.
Yu drops your hand to wave to someone. There's no need for any kind of introduction for these people.Â
Riko and Misato Kuroi smile at you first. Miss Kuroi's aged beautifully since you last saw her. Wispy silver hair knitted seamlessly into brown strands. She never got that chance to grow gray hairs last time. You're staring so much it might be rude.Â
"Yu?" Riko asks and you think you're about to break because they know each other. "Who's this?"Â
"Uh, this-" Haibara chokes before looking at your awkwardly. Right, he doesn't know your actual name.Â
Come to think of it, Satoru doesn't know either. He never bothered to ask too. Probably on purpose. Ass.Â
You smile and politely introduce yourself. It takes everything within you not to scream and hug them both because in this timeline, they don't know you. They never did.Â
But you can change that now.Â
"Hello!" Riko beams. "I'm Kuroi Riko, but just Riko is fine! And this is my mom: Kuroi Misato."Â
She says that so plainly, like that had always been her name, like Miss Kuroi had always been her mother. You wonder how long it took for those two realities to become her norm. Or maybe it hardly took time at all.Â
"It's wonderful to meet you." Miss Kuroi states before she tilts her head. "May I ask how you know the couple?"Â
Haibara jumps in for you. "Umâactually, this is Satoru's date!" He fumbles.Â
You do a double-take. No, you technically weren't Satoru's date. But you technically entered the wedding with him. And he was the one who 'invited' you. Fuck, you were the brat's date. Damn it.Â
"Ah." Nanami cuts in for the first time. "So, you're the one Gojo won't shut up about."Â
His accusation sounds like Maki's, but less harsh. You wonder if he has a favorite student.Â
Nanami looks the most different from his high school counterpart. A new haircut, less slouchy, more tall and refined. He blinks at you, slow and calculating.Â
Sheepishly, you laugh. "Yeah...that's me....sorry."Â
"Don't be rude, Kento."Â
Ieiri arrives with a soft smile and painted features. She's changed out of her glowing gown, sticking to something small yet perfectly elegant: a short white dress that curls ever so slightly at the ends. Riko's the first to hug her, ecstatic. Ieiri hugs her back, too, because they've become friends in this timeline. The circles under her eyes are less prominent. Her smile looks more real. This isn't the timeline where she's had to bury her friend; it's the timeline she's allowed to marry him.Â
"Congratulations," you say politely once everyone is done cooing over her. She smiles at you, the way a stranger would.Â
Then, her head tilts.Â
"Sorry," she hesitates, "do we know each other? You...feel familiar somehow."Â
Ieiri was the first person you met when you activated your technique and returned to the past for the first time. She was the one who calmed you down, kept you grounded. In a way, you owed a lot to her.Â
Looking at her, you can see why Suguru kept her cigarettes in his pocket.Â
You shrug. "I must have one of those faces."Â
The attention turns back to her, her beautiful dress, pure and white and beautiful. You feel Haibara stare at you. You shake your head at him. It wasn't the time. Maybe it never will be.Â
"This really is a beautiful wedding," Mistato says when the conversation reaches a pleasant lull, "I can't imagine how much it cost."Â
She shrugged.Â
"Probably a fortune, but I let Satoru deal with the numbers."Â
Misato looks confused, and Ieiri laughs.Â
"He paid for everything." She gestures to the venue. "Suguru and I didn't have to fork over a single cent. It's the least he could do for being a pain in the ass for 12 years."Â
Damn, you knew he was rich, but you didn't know he was rich rich. Maybe you should consider being nicer to him. If you ask politely, perhaps you could get him to pay off your car loans.Â
"I'll get him to pay for my wedding too." Riko proudly says.Â
"He'd probably do it, too." Ieiri nodded along. "He offered, just like that. The only thing he was hellbent on was the date."Â
"The date?" You echo. Ieiri shrugs, messing with her laced sleeves.Â
"Said it absolutely needed to be on December 24th. Something about spirituality. I never listened to that guy's rants."Â
It comes to you immediately, but you're pushing it away. No way. Satoru wouldn't. There isn't a chance in Hell he would have convinced his friends to have the biggest day of their lives on the same day you were supposed to meet him.Â
No, of course, he would do that. Ass.Â
"So, how do you know Satoru?" Riko asks you. When she realized how rude it sounded, she backtracked. "IâI didn't mean anything by it! It's just...the guy only knows five people. When he spoke about bringing someone along, I thought he was joking."Â
"Same here," Nanami says. Haibara stifles a laugh, and you realize all of Satoru's friends think he's a loser.Â
Friends. Back then, he only had one of those.Â
"Um." You toss Haibara look. He shrugs. "We met a few years ago! But we just recently reconnected." That's close enough to the truth. Good enough.Â
You remember your blunder. You sympathetically look at Shoko.Â
"I'm so sorry I wasn't able to bring a gift," you say, "I was blindsided. Satoru barely gave me enough time to get ready."Â
You laugh, and you're hoping they laugh it off too. They don't, instead Shoko, Nanami, Riko, and Misato look at you. Then, they look at each other.Â
Nanami speaks first. He clears his throat.
"Did Satoru....abduct you?"Â
"What?"Â
"That sounds like him." Misato sighs, more exasperated than anything else.
Riko nods along with her. "We tried to teach him. Where did we go wrong?" she laments.Â
Haibara and Shoko laugh as you desperately try to defend your not-date date because he didn't actually kidnap you, but he did bring you here against your will and started dragging you along like some toy, but it's the context about that that matters. You wished they could've had a bit more faith in him. Poor Satoru.Â
It ends eventually. Ieiri excuses herself. Riko and Misato go too. You stay with Yu and Nanami, watching as they get into increasingly petty arguments. Itâs hilarious how quickly Yu is able to bring the usually staunch and serious Nanami down to his level.
Sometime later, you find yourself roaming the balcony. The party roars on indoors, laughing, talking, cheering. It was chilly outside, you should go back in within a few minutes. You just needed a break from the action.
The sun had already gone down, by then. You were somewhere out in the country. The buildings sparsely dotted the horizon. There were no artificial lights. It meant the stars could shine as brightly as they wanted to, with no one to stop them.
You hadnât seen Satoru in a while. You had no idea where heâd run off to. It didnât matter; you knew heâd eventually pop out of a box to harass you again.
But now that you had space for yourself, you needed to think.
You rest your hands over the rail, looking up at the stars. There were so many out tonight.
You fixed the future. You changed everything. Does that mean you still needed to tell Satoru about the past timeline?
You promised him answers the next time you two met. You promised him an explanation. He waited ten years for that. You pinch at the fabric of the dress.
This future that you carefully built, crafted with your own hands. Itâs delicate, a glass castle.
Itâs justice, but did that make it right?
âWant one?â
The voice makes you jump.
He stares at you, leaning against the rail. Purple eyes, mirroring the starry sky.
You knew these eyes, for a while, they used to be yours.
You stare at him. Then, you stare at the cigarette in his inviting fingers.
Your fingers twitch.
âNoâno, Iâm fine.â You smile. âActually, Iâm trying to quit.â
âAh.â Suguru says, lighting it up before bringing it to his lips. âShouldnât tempt you, then. Pardon, whatâs your name?â
You can hear your heartbeat. Itâs loud, right in your ear. You wonder if he can hear it too. Are his curses around? Can they smell it? Your blood? Are they still as ravenous as the last time, eager to tear and fester and eatâ
âItâs Greeny,â you say, âyou can call me Greeny. â
He hums in approval.
âGeto Suguru,â he says, âthough Iâm pretty sure you already know that.â You both share a huff of laughter.
âMy fiancĂ© quit a few years ago.â Suguru starts, mentioning the cherry-red cigarette. âThought Iâd follow in her footsteps, but here I am.â He shrugs before he winces.
âWife, sorry.â He corrects. âI still canât believe it.â
The monsters come out to play their song. You close your eyes, forgive Suguru, and you die once more.
You smile at his tone. He sounded like that 12 years ago, when he was still just a kid. Full of soft wonder.
âIâm guessing youâve been planning this for a long time?â You ask.
He shrugs. âShoko did most of the work. This is all thanks to her, really. Unfortunately, I was too busy managing the school.â
âI heard you were a principal?â You prod.
Suguru nods, âOur current one recently retired. Iâm trying to follow in his footsteps.â
You think of Principal Yaga, the one with sunglasses and a stern expression. He looks a lot like Nanami in some areas. But he acts more like Suguru than anyone you ever knew.
And you knew Suguru; you knew him as well as yourself.
The screams start up again, and you forgive Suguru.Â
âI can tell youâre already making him proud,â you say, âI met your students. Theyâre good kids.â
He smiles, soft, gentle. Those used to be your smiles.
âThey are, arenât they?â He repeats back, âsome of them had a rough beginning, but it all worked out somehow.â He hums. âIâm glad.â
His daughters, the ones standing beside him as he kissed his wife, wide eyes and even wider grins. They didnât have the darkness in their faces. The bitterness. Like they did in the last timeline.
You were glad, too.
This death is a lot more painful than the others.Â
The curse that's holding you is more intelligent than its predecessors. It keeps you alive, tearing at your skin, feasting on your flesh. Blood is everywhere. You scream until it rips out your vocal cords. It's almost a mercy to just die.Â
You forgive Suguru.
âIt sounds like youâve had personal experience with that sort of thing.â When he looks at you, you quickly say. âYour eyes. IâI can see it. Iâve always been good at that sort of thing.â You knew Suguru. His eyes matched yours.
He doesnât look offended. Suguru takes a minute, reaching up to his black locks. He removes the elastic, pretty black hair falls down his shoulders Heâs grown it out since high school. It reaches his waist.
He eases himself back onto the rail, looking up at the stars. You follow.
âYeah, I do,â heâs saying, âI think I know what itâs like being them at that age. Alone, isolated, slipping down a rock. Drowning, but no one can see it.â Ingested. Exorcised. Ingested. Exorcised.
âWhen I was younger...it was really hard. Some days, I was so full of hate and anger. The pain was a lot. Sometimes, I had this despicable idea that it was someone elseâs fault I was like this. Someone innocent.â He laughs, bitter.
âAnd, on those days, I would often feel something.â
You look at him. Suguru doesnât stare back, eyes lost in the stars.
âSometimes, itâd be a voice. Other times a small nudge on my shoulders, pushing me in the right direction. Once, it was a hug, keeping me from doing something that wouldâve changed my life forever. And it would be just a bit more bearable, like I wasnât so alone.â
You can feel your heart in your throat. Your fingers grip the railing.
âWhat did you think it was?â You expect hate, disgust. You want to give yourself a reason.
You forgive Suguru.
He takes a moment, coming back from heaven. His eyes find yours.
âIâm not sure.â He admits. âIâm not religious, but I always liked to think of it asââ
An angel. A hand of God. A higher power. It doesnât matter what Suguru said, you knew what he meant.
A part of you always wondered why Suguru would return to Jujutsu society, when he wanted nothing more than to run from it. You expected him to retire. Instead, he took the reins of the beast, wrangling it down. Now, you get why.
âThatâs why youâre a teacher now,â you say, âso you could be the same thing for your students.â
He nods, and you think of Maki. You think of Okkutso. You think of Panda. You think of Fushiguro. You think of Inumaki. Suguru must have been there for Maki, even when her own family wasnât. Suguru must have helped Okkutso control his technique, being the only one who could. Suguru, must have made these kids better than they ever possibly couldâve been. Fighting for them instead of against them.
âSorry.â He blinks. âIâI didnât mean to get so sentimental. Itâs been years since I thought about my own highschool years.â He laughs, voice full.
âYouâre just...really nice to talk to.â He hums. âI donât think I can explain it but itâs...familiar somehow.â
You look at him. Heâs older, but in some ways, he hasnât really changed. Even now, when you look at him, you see a reflection of yourself.
âI can see why he likes you.â
âWho?â You ask when he brings you back from your thoughts.
âThe idiot.â But he says it so affectionately, so lovingly, you canât help but smile. âI saw him dragging you around earlier. Sorry about that. I wouldâve stepped in but...â He trails off, thinking.
âItâs been a while since I saw him like that.â
You hadnât noticed anything about Satoru. He smiled just as brightly as he did in highschool. Now, you wonder if this was the first time in a while Suguru had seen that side of him: carefree, no longer The Strongest.
It hurts. It hurts so much. Blood seeps into the pavement. You can hear the curse laughing. It sounds like him.
You forgive Suguru.Â
âAre you and himâŠâ he trails off.
âNo.â You laugh. âNo, Iâm hisâŠ.childhood friend. We just havenât seen each other in a while.â
âOh?â He tilts his head. âHow long has it been?â
You decide to be honest. âTen or so years, give or take?â
He whistles.
âNo wonder heâs bouncing around like a yipping puppy,â He says, and you canât help but agree with the analogy.
âIn any case.â He leans over the railing. His cigarette is down to its last embers. âI hope you stick around. A friendâŠI think he needs more of those more than anything.â
You stare at him. Those purple eyes. You can see what Shoko sees. You can see what Satoru saw all those timelines ago. They only ever saw the light, the gentleness, of Geto Suguru.
You are the only person in the world who knows him.
Heâs killed people. Heâs killed you. No matter how much logic or justification or pain was involved, the blood of the innocent is still sticky. It still drips across the pavement, scarring the sidewalk in red. It still hurts.
When Suguru would kill you, youâd force yourself to forgive him. You needed to die without regrets, because the pain of hatred builds up, youâve seen it happen firsthand.
But now that youâre free, what Suguru did to you wasn't fair. Just because his innocence was taken away doesnât give him the right to take the lives of others. It never gives anyone the right to murder. You keep telling yourself that this Suguru and that Suguru were differentâŠbut they werenât. Not really. The look in their eyes matched perfectly.
Heâd do it again, in the right conditions.
And yet.
You forgive Suguru.
You canât judge him. If there is a God, maybe Suguru will have to pay for the crimes he committed all those timelines ago. You canât save Suguru from that. But to you, the debt is paid.
Besides, youâre too tired to hate him. And you wonât allow yourself to fall into the same cycle he struggled to break free from.
You look into his eyes. Then, at his ring. You smile.Â
And that's enough.
âI will,â you say, âI will.â
Then, as two parts of a whole, the two of you stare at the stars for a little while longer.
⎔
The reception was nice. A fancy dinner, you canât remember the last time you ate something. The speeches were beautiful, especially Shokoâs. You swore you saw Nanami shed a tear, but you never said anything about it.
You saw a glimpse of white hair in the crowd before the first dance began. Stunning music. The couple must have practiced for months. Bride and Groom, husband and wife, held hands and looked at each other like they were the only ones in the room.
Megumi stood beside you, watching Ieiri and Geto sway to the music. As though the kid could sense him, Megumiâs serene face sours. Youâre about to ask him whatâs wrong when thereâs a tap on your shoulder.
âCute, huh?â Satoru starts, mentioning at the dance. âIt didnât look this put-together in the beginning. Shoko gave him a ton of bruises,â he says with a shit-eating grin.
You frown. âShouldnât you be doing something else than gossiping about your friends?â
âI am! Iâm checking up on my son!â And then he turns to Fushiguru. âMegumi!â
âNo.â Fushiguro instantly rebukes.
âDonât mind him.â Satoru chides. âHeâs going through an angst phase.â Fushiguro rolls his eyes, but he shifts just a tiny bit.
âYâknow, he was actually supposed to be the flower boy, but he refused. Such a shame, the pictures wouldâve been something else.â Gojo sighed and now youâre convinced they arenât father and son.
âThat was never going to happen.â Fushiguro says, and as if he thinks youâre naive enough to believe Satoru, he glances at you. âNever.â
âOf course not.â You crack a smile.
You watch as Ieiri descends into a graceful spin, Geto taking the lead. When he tips her over, your eyes soften.
Gojo leans over; you can feel his breath in your ear.
âNext year.â He whispers. âFor us, itâll definetly be next year.â
You jerk away but heâs already skipping off, having the audacity to call out a cheerful âtoodlesâ.
âWhat did he say?â Fushiguro questions.
Thatâs what you wanted to know, too, but you were so tired, and the night was so long, and you couldnât bother to get out your Gojo translator and figure it out.
âThe same stuff he always says. Nonsense.â You decide on. Fushiguro takes the answer.
âI donât understand how he has all that energy.â You mutter, watching Satoru disappear through the crowd.
âI thought heâd get better with age, turns out I was wrong,â Fushiguro says.
âI wanted to ask,â you start, your eyes still on Ieiri and Geto, âhow do you know Gojo? Arenât you still in middle school?â
âEveryone knows Gojo. Heâs pretty famous in the jujutsu world.â Fushiguro shrugs. âBut personally...heâs my benefactor. Took me and my sister in when my parents left.â
You look at him. And you feel like an idiot.
Heâs the spitting image of his father. Sharp cobalt eyes. Black hair. Fushiguro Toji is all over the young man.
Gojo Satoru, the one who killed the sorcerer killer, took care of his enemyâs children.
âWhat?â Fushiguro asks when youâre smiling
You shake your head. âNo, no itâs nothing.â
Satoru told you that youâre the one who taught him about the importance of bonds. But you think he should take some of the credit too.
⎔
Eventually, everyone gets on the dancefloor.
Itâs a mess. Absolute chaos. Panda and Inumaki are trying and failing to do the waltz. Maki and Okkuttso are lightly swaying to the music. Theyâve managed to get Fushiguro up there too. Though, he doesnât look extremely happy.
The adults are even worse. Apparently, the retired principal Yaga is a pretty good dancer. You think one of them found alcohol, because Haibara looks absolutely wasted. Heâs swinging his arms around, almost hitting the other guests. Nanami is trying to get his attention, but the guy wants none of it. When Haibara catches your eye, he wildly waves in clear invitation.
You smile back, but you shake your head. You think heâs about to come up to you, but something else catches his eye, and heâs grinning at a very irrated-looking Iori.
You were sitting on a chair, just people-watching. It was a nice break from everything. To listen to the music, lightly tap your feet, play with the frill of your dress. You werenât really in the mood to dance.
Besides, you werenât technically invited here anyway. Itâd be rude to just burst on the scene.
âThere you are! Been looking all over for you!â
You donât have to look over to see who it is. Satoru slumps down in a chair next to you.
âGreeny, you gottaâ do something about your cursed energy. Itâs so weak. Like finding a needle in a haystack.â
âThanks,â you say dryly.
âAlways happy to help.â Satoru beams, and then he glances over at the floor.
âWeâre dancing after this song, by the way.â
âAbsolutely not.â
âItâs so cute you think you have a choice, Greeny.â
You frown. âThereâs no point in calling me Greeny anymore. Unless you still donât know my name.â
âI do, but it doesnât matter,â Satoru says arrogantly. âYouâll always be my Greeny to me.â
You roll your eyes. Even now, heâs a brat. You thought all these years would mellow him down just a tiny bit.
âSo,â you start, âare you done with your âbest man shitâ?â
âYup.â He announces. âNow, I can sit back and enjoy the show.â
You smile, but you can still feel the butterflies in your stomach. Heâs been running around so far and itâs given you time. Now, that heâs free, it means you two have to talk.
And you arenât sure if you truly want to.
You flex your fingers.
âUm, how have youââ
âStop.â Satoru interrupts. âLetâs not make this awful, Greeny.â
You nod immediately, relaxing. His voice gets softer, after that.
âIâm glad you chose that color,â he says, âI was sortaâ hoping you would.â
You look down at the dress. A deep green. You hadnât even thought about the color, the boutique lady had basically thrown it at you.
The shade of Satoruâs green tie matches your dress. You can feel your smile again. Typical.
âIâm glad I did too,â you honestly say. And then, you continue to fiddle with your fingers. Ultimately, you decide to just bite the bullet.
âI thought youâd be mad.â You finally say, words jittery and unfocused. âAngry at me for...for what I did.â
Heâs silent, and you feared that it was all true. The laughs and the jabs were all a facade.
"I donât think I was ever mad." He responds, staring into the crowd. "Hurt, yeah. Then, it faded into something that stung everytime I thought about it, and then...something else. And now, I know it's a waste to get mad because you're finally here now. With me."Â
His tone pitches upwards as he reaches over to painfully pinch your cheek.Â
"'Sides, I know you can't escape me anymore, Greeny," Satoru cheerfully says, "Now, I know your face, your name, and with little effort, I could probably find your address, your social security-"Â
"Okay! Okay!" You pull away, rubbing your cheek. Damn, he's scary. "Threat acknowledged."Â
"Good!"Â He straightens himself back up, and you find yourself slumping again.
âI am sorry, though,â you say, âfor leaving like that. I...I always wished I could do that a bit differently. You deserved better.â
âDonât do that.â He shakes his head. âDonât blame yourself for only doing what you could. It eats at you, Greeny. It really does.â He sighs, leaning forward in his chair.
âYou deserved better too,â he says back, voice barely above the music, âI always had some regrets about those years. I thought I couldâve done more to help you, back then.â
There it was again: selfishness, the urge to do good to others while retaining that greed. You supposed you taught him that.
You put your face in your hands.
âEven though, you dragged me here against my will, I feel so guilty being here.â You complain, hoping itâll lighten the mood. âYou should apologize to everyone because I crashed the party.â
Satoru scoffs. âWhat are you talking about? Everyone loves you!â He exclaims. âLook, Yuâs ecstatic. Riko wonât stop gushing about you; you even have Nanamiâs approval! I donât even have that!â You roll your eyes, sinking back in your seat.
âBesides, you needed to come. You needed to see it.â
âSee what?â You ask.
âThis.â He points to the venue, the ballroom full of glittery whites and sparkles.
âLook around, Greeny. Look at all the people you saved.â
Haibara and Riko are dancing together. Two dead children finally had the chance to grow up. Misato speaks to Nanami. Beautiful gray hair, eyes that arenât so tired. Shoko sparkling in her dress, and Getoâ
The same day he was supposed to die, Suguru was getting married.
âThank you.â When you look at him, Satoru is staring right at you. His sea eyes give everything and more.
âThank you for saving all of us.â
Your heart skips, then just stops completely. You canât cry, you wonât not here, not on such a happy day. But your eyes are stinging. And Satoru is turning blurry.
And then, like Satoru always does, he ruins the moment.
"Did you just fall for me a little?"
His head tilts. That same mischievous, irritating smile lights up on his face.
You relax, laughing out of disbelief. When you speak, your voice is barely scratchy. "You're so full of yourself; it's actually a little cute."Â
"You think I'm cute?"Â
"Did you hear anything else that I just said?"Â
"I heard you think I'm cute,â Satoru responds proudly, and you doubt heâd ever let you hear the end of it.
âAnd besides! Today is supposed to be a celebration for you too!â He exclaims.
âOh really?â
âYes,â Satoru says proudly, âyou did it! You became a fully-fledged sorcerer. Considering your low CE, you might pass as grade four, but when I talk to our new principal, Iâm sure heâll make things right. Get ready to join be and him in the big leagues.â
You could read between the lines. Satoru wanted to tell everyone. You think a while ago, you might have agreed, but...
âCan...Can I quit being a sorcerer?â You ask. âIâm tired.â
He takes a second. Some of you wonders if heâll try to talk you out of this. Itâs more beneficial for him if you stay as an asset to the jujutsu world. How many peopleâs lives will be saved by a technique like yours? To be able to go back in time again and again and again. To die again and again and again.
âSomeone once told me that itâs okay to be selfish every once in a while.â Satoru looks at you, eyes like lilies once again. âI wonât fault you for it. I donât think anyone will.â
When you try to smile, it feels wobbly.
âThat person sounds smart.â
âNah.â He grins. âAn idiot, actually. Way too oblivious.â
You laugh, despite the insult.
âQuit,â Satoru says when itâs quiet again, âdo whatever you want. But...you canât run away, okay? I wonât let you.â
Itâs barely a touch. His hand reaches for your fingers. Youâre the one who grabs it.
âI wonât.â You promise. âI wonât.â
Heâs satisfied with that. You can tell when he squeezes your hand back.
You look at him, and you decide you won't tell Satoru what happened in the last timeline.
There's no point. It wouldn't do anything but shatter everything he worked so hard to make. Why would you break the glass when you could just add concrete, make it stronger? You saved everyone. A few white lies here and there just keep this future safe.
And you know this Satoru. If you told him, he'd carry that burden with you like the soldier he was. You don't want him to do that. You don't want him to have the same look you see in your own face. One last sacrifice.
When you come back, Satoru is shifting in his seat, uncrossing his legs.
âSo...about that dance?â
âUgh, fine.â You stand up. âOne dance. And if you do anything embarrassing, Iâm leaving.â
âClearly, you donât know me as well as you think you do.â He grins, standing up himself.
He doesnât release your hand for the rest of the night.
You donât mind.
(When you disappear again, Makiâs the one who finds you.
By then, itâd been long into the night. Shoko and Suguru were already gone, off to their honeymoon in the Maldives. Riko, Misato, and most of the students were sleeping off the night. Maki, his most diligent student, was helping the remaining adults pack up the venue.
Sheâs dragging chairs away when she grunts in Satoruâ direction.
âBy the way, your dateâs sleeping outside.â
Ah, you were on the balcony. No wonder he couldnât find you. Satoru needed to do something about your cursed energy. Whatâs the point of having six eyes when he canât even find the one person whoâs evaded him for a decade?
Youâve completely passed out. Slumped over on a chair, head bent at an angle that could not be comfortable. Satoru knows he should feel bad. He dragged you around the entire night like a ragdoll. This was partially his fault.
He canât really blame himself, not when you were finally here.
It still feels like a dream. Being able to hear your voice, not Suguruâs, not Yuâs. Your touch. Your eyes. Your face. Your laugh. For years, heâs wondered what it sounded like.
Reality beat even his perfect daydreams.
Seeing you up there on the Tokyo Skytree. The wind pushing your hair back and forth. It was breathtaking.
Even the lights of Tokyo, couldnât compare to you.
He leans down, lips at your ear, voice low because heâs too prideful to let anyone else hear, not even you.
âI know itâs too late, but you looked really pretty tonight.â
You say nothing, but you shift, murmur something in your sleep. Itâs all he needs.
He ditches the clean up party, taking you within his arms. He thinks he says something to Yu, but Satoru doesnât really care if he heard. Right now, he only has one priority.
Tonight, heâll sleep on the hotelâs pull-out sofa while you snooze in the luxurious queen-sized bed. Youâll probably be mad in the morning, something about how you shouldâve taken the couch, but he doesnât mind your mindless acts of selflessness.
Heâs waited a decade. He deserves to keep you.
And he knows you wonât fault him for being selfish one more time.)
#gojo satoru x reader#gojo x reader#jjk x reader#jujutsu kaisen x reader#slight yandere gojo#butnotrlly#time travel fix it#time travel#unrequited feelings#temporarily unrequited feelings#maybe#x reader#jjk fluff#just a bunch of closure rlly
1K notes
·
View notes
Text
Good reveal au, where after learning phantom's identity and realizing the atrocities that the GIW have committed (or alternatively, ethical science au, where they find out the GIW plagarized them), the fenton parents decided to create the 'ultimate ghost-ending weapon' and sell it to the agents.
They go absolutely overboard, describing to the agents in meticulous detail how it evaporates any ghost it hits near-instantly and describing it quite ruthlessly in the blueprints, and soon the GIW have raplaced all their main weapons with the new gun.
Except it doesn't actually kill ghosts. It's the Fenton Bazooka. You know, the one that creates a portable portal to suck the ghost back into the ghost zone? What they actually did was retool it slightly to make it look more grusome than it actually is. They even added a beacon in Phantom's Keep, which all Fenton Bazookas will target when they open a portal, so the ghosts are always delivered to the keep.
From there, Phantom stationed an emergency medical team at the keep to treat the many injured and ragged ghosts that the GIW 'destroyed,' and to explain what just happened.
What they didn't anticipate was that now that the GIW have a mass-produced weapon that they believed would effectively eradicate ghosts, they would go on the offensive. They have a number of cities they've been monitoring but didn't want to get involved in without better tools.
One of those cities is Gotham.
And the Bats are ectocontaminated enough to register as ghosts.
Batman witnessed several of his children get evaporated by green energy weapons within mere moments of each other. He's absolutely gutted. Devastated. They didnât even stand a chance.
He'll get his revenge, and it's frighteningly easy to track the weapon to private subcontractors. The Doctors Fenton, in Illinois. Their research calls for the genocide of all ghost kind, and apparently, that war started by killing his own children.
His children will not die in vain.
He gets to Amity Park and finds the Engineer's Nightmare of a building that is Fentonworks, but that night, before he can hack through the security and break in, one of the windows opens.
It's one of his kids that he had watched evaporate before his very eyes. They give him a silent signal of one of their identifying security codes and gesture for him to come inside.
Is it a trap? A prank in poor taste? Utterly genuine?
He goes through the window.
All of his dead kids are there, wearing borrowed pajamas and only their dominoes to conceal their identities. Daniel Fenton (son of the Fentons, this is his bedroom, has voiced a few arguments against his parent's views, but still an unknown) is among the crowd of teens and young adults, twirling on an office chair and obnoxiously sipping a capri sun.
"First thing you need to know, Bats," Daniel says after finishing his drink, "is that my parents are absolutely NOT genocidal ectophobic scumbags, and that is the reason why your kids are still alive."
#the bats are not the first human liminals that the giw 'killed'#whenever humans land in the keep frostbite immediates calls phantom to take them back to earth#alternate scene at fentonworks:#bruce spies maddie on the phone and overhears her saying she'll 'inform batman when he arrives'#its frostbite/phantom on the phone telling her to keep an eye out for any bats because some of their team was 'killed'#and shortly after she spots batman spying on her and gestures for him to come in#and when theyre both in the lab the spectre speeder returns chock full of various bats and team phantom members#needless to say bruce is very relieved and incredibly confused#and his kids have a pretty wild story to tell#i deliberately left which kids vague#but i imagined jason and tim for sure and possibly two others#they hadnt left fentonworks yet as to not inform the giw that they survived and knowing that bruce would find them#it would also give away the fenton's trick and dont want to reveal that before the agency has been stopped#so they have to make a plan that doesnt reveal that theyre alive or expose the fentons deceit too quickly#the fentons may have to be temporarily arrested by the justice league while the investigation is ongoing#to hide the fact that they werent actually helping the giw#dpxdc#dp x dc
2K notes
·
View notes
Text
the machine.
a comic about being a 'creator' online.
creative notes:
#in light of recent online 'success' i feel like this may come off as ungrateful#just wanna say that all the comics i make in this series are written about experiences i felt in 2022#which was a rough year personally and creatively#and i very luckily don't feel this way anymore#and this also isnt to shame anyone who DOES feel this way#its easy to start to feel like all you are is a vending machine of art#and like thats all you are to people#theres nothing human to you#it can be a bit of a pit#and on some level this damage is self inflicted but social media really doesnt help that feeling#this wont work for everyone but having friends around you who you can talk to about stuff that ISNT art#going outside for dinner#maybe walking around#its good for when you need that feeling to go away even a bit temporarily#youre a human being#not a mindless content creation machine#and i hope anyone who feels like this now can get to a place where they have a healthier relationship with their own work#good luck to all of you#and thank you for reading#comic art#its 10pm#stillindigo art
14K notes
·
View notes
Text
thinking about a kinich who is always around the corner when you need something đđ
oh someone is hitting on you?? will pull them aside (if he doesn't already confront them first) and threaten kindly remind them that you're off limits!
some hillichurls are attacking you?? he's either swooping you away or jumping in front of you, taking them out in one blow.
it doesn't matter if you have a vision or not, he'll always make some type of excuse to protect you. (if ajaw doesn't make a comment first.)
you need to reach something?? he's not that tall but he's already doing some spider-man shit to get you the item.
+++ um he definitely has done the spider-man kiss thingy at LEAST once. idc (i actually need someone to draw that i might die without it)
sigh i love kinich guys đ
#ââ ê° order up! ê± à±šà§ .á#genshin impact#genshin#genshin x you#genshin x reader#character x reader#kinich#kinich x reader#kinich x you#kinich x y/n#drabble#ily kinich#also hi... i'm back temporarily#i've been thinking about kinich a LOT so um#hope yall are fed#đ
812 notes
·
View notes