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January 15: Monty/Raven, Accurate/Indefinite
As is so often the case with me, I don't know what this is. I didn't have a strong idea going in so I just went with Dramatic.
This is part of the Ark AU, and takes place before the beginning of that story.
Monty/Raven, ~660 words, written in about 20 minutes
For the prompt "accurate, and its antonyms (inaccurate, indefinite, unreliable, faulty)" from my July Break Bingo 2023 card.
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One thing Raven and Monty have in common is an unerring desire for accuracy in all tasks and perfection in all results, paired with a stark understanding that such things will never be. Their ship is old and faulty, and it cannot ever be otherwise again. They are both only part of the shoestring and glue that holds the thing together—not that Raven would ever admit to Monty's face that she gives him as much credit as that.
Their relationship, too, is uncertain and stumbling: indefinite, and in that way, one might say faulty, too. Two months after the first time, she finally invited him back to her quarters on Mecha. But then they hardly knew what to do with each other in the privacy behind a locked door, in the space of a single bed. He showed a certain patience that she'd never felt in him before. She would not be so naive as to say it was love or even desire, because desire is something lofty and beautiful, and they've only ever been clawing and scratching in the dark. Still, he took his time and he stretched himself out and he kissed her slow. He left her with hollows of time in which to think—something she'd always avoided in the past, with him.
She's heard rumors that all his other girls are ex-Prison Station, which makes her wonder if she's special, if there's some sort of hidden meaning there. Maybe he knew Finn on the inside and figures, close enough. Or maybe Raven crept up on him in some unexpected way, and he intends this no more than she does, and is compelled to keep going like it's some kind of dare.
Sometimes she shows up on Go-Sci just to rag on him about the hole in the security system in Alpha Sector 4, something she shouldn't even know about except that any fool could see it, and sometimes he reminds her that the patch job in that section of family quarters on Farm is so weak, he could probably rip it apart with his bare hands. He grew up on Farm and knows that's always been a damn trouble spot. But if she's such a genius, why can't she figure something out?
"I am a damn genius," she answers.
He flicks his gaze all the way down her body, slow, then raises his eyebrows like a dare.
Maybe she is special.
Maybe they will always be indefinite, faltering, because they've been broken up in pieces and turned old before their time, and they cannot ever again be otherwise again. That's when she thinks when she catches sight of sweetness in him. When she spies him across the cafeteria at a crowded lunch hour, laughing and joking, hiding that laughter behind his hand. He's only twenty, looks young still, sometimes, for his age.
For a while, in her quarters, he slides himself down under the covers and just lies there, his breath hitting ragged and tired against the bare skin of her hip. She lets her hand fall down and cards her fingers through his hair. Her lungs are working hard, trying not to burst. Something's cracked up, uncertain, a story they could have had together but she just can't find the thread of it, doesn't know what she's doing. She’s thinking not about the Skybox girls but about the Station itself, how he never talks about it, how he'd up and leave now without a second-thought if she even said the word. She's the shoestring and the glue, sliding her fingers again and again through the soft strands of his hair. Holding them both together, somehow. He pokes his nose against her hip. Underneath the blanket, he must be hot, sticky with sweat, unable to ignore for a moment the lingering scent of them, too aware of the wrinkles on the sheets that, somehow, they've half-pulled off the mattress. Surrounded on all sides by the wreckage they've created and become.
#the 100#monty green#raven reyes#monty x raven#the ark au#ark au#can't remember which i use#the 100 fanfiction#mine#my writing#the year 2024#2024: free write#july break bingo
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I just thought about that one face Ponyo makes when Sosuke says he loves her and ended up doing more doodles
#sonic#sonic the hedgehog#studio ghibli#maria robotnik#ark sibilings#my brother the hedgehog au#my art#digital doodles
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#ark draw#tadc#the amazing digital circus#tadc au#pomni#kinger#ragatha#gangle#jax#zooble#my crazy idea get over me
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dr frankenstein amd her creature :3
#my art#fanart#digital art#shth#shadow the hedgehog#maria robotnik#ark siblings#sonic fanart#sonic fandom#sonic#halloween#dr maria au#but not really djeht#portfolio
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Yeah yeah we've all seen baby Shadow but what about baby Maria huh. What then
I got lazy on this one but I still thought it was nice. Smiles :)
#sonic the hedgehog#sonic the hedghog fanart#Sth#shadow the hedgehog#shadow the ultimate lifeform#maria robotnik#ark siblings#Sonic au#Baby Maria au
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Maria would have grown up to be menace
Hedgehogs have sensitive noses, poor bastard
I wish I could find the video with the shaky syndrome cat reacting to the candle tbh this was inspired by it
Edit: thank you guys for helping me find it😭🫰
Inspired by this cat
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#shadow the hedgehog#sonic the hedgehog#shadow au#maria#maria robotnik#sonic adventure 2#the ARK#sneef#hedgehog things#maria and shadow#shadow and maria#meme#Youtube
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AU where I ship em as an old married pair who meet and realize their partners suck.
Also, that whole movie shoved in a series worth of plots into 2 hours.
✧Reblogs help artists more than likes ✧ ~Please don’t repost or use my art~ (Commissions are open right now in my shop!)
Two old farts in a haunted house? One has a kid from an old marriage, the other has a banshee x-wife who tried to kill him? Like, he meets her while trying to escape his ex and she agrees to marry him instead since her fiancé admitted to not loving her except for her money. But she needs to be married to keep the house and he wants to be human, so marriage of inconvenience but they end up liking each other and stage ghost stuff for her show. Something something he lives or she dies and we get a dramatic ending.
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♫ I don't think that I can take it~ 'Cause it took so long to bake it~ And I'll never have that recipe again~ ♫
MacArthur Park by Richard Harris
#beetlejuice au#old ghost demon x old goth human#Beetlejuice#Betelgeuse#lydia deetz#Beetz and Deetz#beetlelyds#tim burton#beetlejuice beetlejuice#beetlejuice 2#beetlejuice movie#halloween vibes#beetlejuice fanart#marriage of inconvenience#I wanted a redemption ark and I got Wednesday Addams and a soul sucker instead.#just give me a reboot where he interacts with her as an adult#and have a series of ghost shenanigans or money troubles#ill get off my soap box filled with ideas#What if Rory made her wear white but she wanted red#so he changes it. I'll stop. The AU will take over me.
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Dc au- lil scamps on the Ark who love dirt
I imagine they’d often go to the section of the ark that is specifically for growing plants and food to play in the dirt and plant apple seeds leftover from their lunches
They are often chased out but they always manage to sneak back in
#Maria is the troublemaker and Shadow is her accomplice#art#drawing#sonic the hedgehog#sonic#sth#doodles#sonic fandom#sonic fanart#digital art#sonic the hedgehog fanart#sonic au#sth au#sth art#digital aritst#sonadow harlivy au#sth fanart#sonic art#shadow the hedghog fanart#shadow the ultimate lifeform#shadow fanart#shadow sonic#shadow the hedgehog#maria robotnik fanart#maria robotnik sth#maria sth#maria sonic the hedgehog#maria robotnik#ark siblings
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My buddy made an edit of the little guy as a chill guy ima cry 😭
(I got perms to post the edit)
#tiny hedgehogs au#sonic the hedgehog#art#sonic artist#sonic fanart#shadow the hedgehog#my art#sonic#sth au#sth fandom#sth#sth fanart#baby shadow#shadow au#sonic fandom#fandom#silly art#sillyposting#silly little guy#digital artist#sonic art#original art#ark siblings
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so uh... ark siblings iron giant au?
inspired by dark beginnings and sonic movie 3 (so i'll put in the spoiler tag juuuusssst in case :P)
#topharts#SONIC 3 HAS ME IN A CHOKEHOLD SO HERE YOU GO#sonic movie 3#sonic movie 3 spoilers#ark siblings#shadow the hedgehog#maria robotnik#sth#ark siblings iron giant au
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ghostly sweet romance
#ark draw#the amazing digital circus#tadc au#tadc#the past of dhl#digital horror land au#dhl au#stuff#leave me alone im just into it you cant say no#martha mildenhall#princess loolilalu
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I keep thinking about these guys ... Idiots....
#I hc Abe thinks him and Shadow have a rivalry but Shadow's like :( why doesn't he like me#i also like to hc Maria has very strange taste in things and Abe is weirded out. but he blames Shadow for that LOL#maria prefers to spend time with Shadow which makes abe mad LOL#i actually kinda hated the fact he existed for a while but now i like him#he's not a big fan of freaky things so he doesn't like being around that stuff#he excludes himself 😭#he's a brat imo and that's funny#my art#art#sonic the hedgehog#sonic#shadow the hedgehog#my au#abraham tower#gun commander#Maria Robotnik#ark siblings
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I didn't think I'd get so into this studio ghibli inspired au but the wonderful fanart y'all are making of it is making me crazy. I need to have an obligatory falling/flying through the sky scene in this au
#sonic the hedgehog#sonic#shadow the hedgehog#maria robotnik#ark siblings#abraham tower#my brother the hedgehog au#my art#digital doodles
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I made a crime
an absolute crime for @sm-baby
#ark draw#ark talk#the amazing digital circus#tadc#tadc au#the amazing digital carnival#tadc carnival au#carnival pomni#carnival kaufmo
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dr maria au sketchbook lines bc ive been thinking of her so much these past couple of days
#my art#fanart#traditional art#sketchbook#sketches#maria robotnik#shadow the hedgehog#shth#sth#sonic#sonic fandom#ark siblings#dr maria au#sonic au
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[id in alt]
i am obsessed with @smallpwbbles's biolizard shadow au
#monotoneart#sonic#sonic the hedgehog#shadow the hedgehog#rouge the bat#maria robotnik#ark siblings#i think the lore goes that shadow didnt get his rings until he started growing like crazy? hope i got that right lol#also usually i draw shadow with an ear tag / a hole where it used to be. depending on the timeline.#but for this au he probably wouldve been growing too fast to use that method of id'ing or whatever#(<- totally didnt completely forget to draw it)
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