#the poor radish

[ahunkofmanmeat]

Never forget the cursed Hanayo official art that started so many debates back in the day

[tooselfaware]

White radish to Cale: We are similar. You are now my fated enemy.

Alberu to Cale: We are similar. You are now my younger brother.

Duke Fredo to Cale: We are similar. You are now my son.

Cale: I just wanna be a slacker. Now give me cookies and money.

Raon: Yes, we're gonna live happily ever after with your cookies and money.

[doeneb]

Last thing for the day!

Threadville fanart!

I love him, he's so silly

Color picking is hard though, there's no 2D of the characters yet so it's hard to get their colors down!

The game's not out on roblox yet, but i am eagerly waiting! >:3

[kstaki]

Every scene in the episode is just so great though can I just appreciate this scene. It like they have a mini picnic & for once they can relax & have fun for just a moment in middle of all chaos. 🥹

[donkey-trousers]

Found this little guy while looking at some medieval art.

He looks dead inside...

[definitely-not-an-alb]

Since it's radishes season and everyone's getting way too many radish bundles in their food saviour crates and foodbank boxes and smuggled into their shopping cards by harried supermarket employees tasked with getting rid of all! these! radishes! here's what we're going to do: We're going to go home and immediately cut off the greens as close to the radishes as we can, and we're going to sort and wash them thoroughly, and then we'll cut up a few cloves of garlic and put all that in a food blender and add olive oil and salt and maybe a handful of whatever nuts and fresh herbs we have at hand and a dash of lemon and a bit of zest, too, and blitz that up, and put that in a jar, and put that in our fridge, and live in the knowledge that we have delicious home-made pesto for the next two weeks.

And maybe we'll even mix it up with equal parts yogurt for a dip, or put it on the radishes and have ourself a little salad, or eat it on baguette, or a swanky sandwich, or just on noodles.

[wellnesscard]

stumbled across the tiktok term "ingredients household" the other day. everything coming from that app makes me go insane. food is ingredients is ingredients is food the fuck do you mean. and i did look it up dont try to explain it i looked it up alr chill. im just venting here bc i think its stupid, nonsensical, and basically just means low/minimally processed so like. how are you gonna look at for example what i packed for lunch today and not see food in front of your fucking eyes. idk. yall are too much. whats actually not a real food is these "snacks" made in some factory providing you all the nutritional value of sand off the beach.

[twistedappletree]

aaaaand immediately after writing that fic, now i wanna write another drunk junior fic 😭

[inbabylontheywept]

the house i grew up in was a little bit of a fixer upper. for the first 19 years, my dad just sort of slowly fixed it, but pretty early on in college, he came into a large amount of cash and decided to just do the whole thing at once. so he rented a different house for like, 2 months that was just a block down from us, and then got a bunch of contractors to fix original house ASAP. it was kind of crazy, but it compressed many years of work into like, three months.

the sitting in a new house for three months was actually pretty fun. and i shouldnt really complain at all (staying at home while in college is a sweet deal)

but.

but. my parents are fairly hard of hearing, and their bedroom in the old house was in the furthest possible annex from everyone else. wheras in the rental it was just in the middle of the house. so without going into details, i was extremely aware that my parents were having sex like, eight times a day. my dad had just retired and i guess they were celebrating, which is great i guess, having parents that really like each other is way better than the alternative, but also, it did make me envy their deafness. i kept headphones on for so long that year i got literal ear calluses.

at the same time, the house my buddy from the shoe incident grew up in flooded. turbo flooded. they burst like, two pipes at once and the damage was so severe they had to redo all the flooring and all the drywall. his family actually had homeowners insurance, which is either incredible or suspicious for a family that used the drained pool in their backyard to store rusty scrap metal. so insurance was handling the work, but in the meantime, they were crammed into a very small hotel room space. we did the math on it then, it averaged about 80 square feet a person.

so one day i got home, and i was chilling, and then six rolled around, and apparently six o'clock was sex o'clock because my parents decided to flex their cardio. i grabbed my headphones and prayed that god would do for me what he did for beethoven, but that failed to work, and then seven rolled around and my parents were still at it, which again, very impressive, but was pushing me to swap out judas for mozart in those prayers. there's a definitive point where you stop praying to be deaf and instead pray that god could take you to a nice field and pop you like a gore-balloon.

i was about five minutes away from that point when my friend called me and basically said i have been stuck in a 500 square foot space with 6 people and i didn't have many marbles to start but what few i had are gone. please. if we are friends, if we were ever friends, take me out of here just for a moment.

and i was still pretty mad at him, but i had pity on the poor guy. also helped that i was desperate to leave the house. so i drove the chickenshitmobile to the hotel and i picked him up, and then we did our normal hangout activity, which was go to food city and buy produce. his normal house was, on a good day, nasty, and his backyard was, as i stated before, mostly used to store mosquito larvae and rusty metal, so what we'd always done before was just walk to the grocery store a half block away and leer at vegetables.

so we did that and it was like old times again. they had some radishes that were expired, so i could buy like, literally an entire grocery bag of them for about $5. so i did. i really like radishes. he got a coconut because he liked fruit and beating things with hammers.

which probably would've been great except we didn't have a hammer, so instead we spent about 30 minutes stomping itike it owed us money. when it finally cracked we cheered like we just got the winning touchball at the superdome and then he ate some of the flesh, and i ate some of the radishes, and we admired the black, starless sky of the city before i took him back to his hotel room.

and then we got pulled over.

i forgot to turn my lights on because the street all around the food city was ludicrously well lit. so it went from being pretty bright, to pretty bright and flashy, then i pulled into a parking lot and a cop came to ask us for IDs which is where everything went to shit:

i’d forgotten my license at home. 

the cop was was actually kind of chill about it - he said he could get by with just an address. except i did not know my address. i hadn't memorized the new one yet. so i told the cop, my house is getting remodeled, i don't know my address right now. and then he went to my friend, and my friend said the exact same thing. house getting remodeled, staying somewhere else, no address, sowwwwwwy.

now the cop genuinely didn't know what to do. he went back to his car, and i was stressed that i was about to get into HUGE trouble so i started eating the radishes and my buddy started eating more of his coconut, and we actually managed to eat like a quarter of both before the cop came back. we ate enough produce that he could smell something weird in the air, and he asked what the smell was, and i said radishes, and my buddy said coconut, and the cop said which, and then we produced a large bag of droopy radishes and an absolutely brutalized coconut, and the cop was just like

so my buddy tried explaining how he was sharing a 500 square foot apartment with 6 people and wanted a fruit he could fight with power tools, and i tried explaining how i'd actually tried buying my parents like, board games and puzzles and stuff but nothing worked - the only thing my parents seemed to like doing right now was each other, and we both went on long enough and pathetically enough that the cop eventually went:

ok. stop.

and we stopped.

and he said do you know why i pulled you over?

and i said, because of my headlights, and my friend (who is hispanic) and the cop both looked at me like like i was the dumbest person in the entire world. and then the cop said no. that's why i'm allowed to pull you over. i checked your car because this neighborhood has a terrible sex trafficking problem, and i pull over every car i can to make sure no one is buying or selling sex. and you two are obviously doing neither. now i could give you, like, four tickets right now, but that would do nothing to make this area safer, so just turn your lights on, go home, drive safe, and try to be less stupid in the future.

and i said okay but i was thinking, you know, damn, this is just how i live man, i don't have a hidden third gear i can shift into. people can't just get smarter because it would be convenient. it's always convenient to be smart. i am literally trying my best.

but i didn't say anything because i was, slowly, learning how to filter what i said. instead i nodded and the cop left then i dropped my buddy off, and the last thing he said was said he owed me for responding to his SOS. I said he owed me for a lot of things, and he agreed that was true. then i drove home with my lights on, 5 under the speed limit, and arrived to a peaceful quiet home. I could’ve wept with relief but instead I went to bed.

the relief was short lived. i was woken up at 6 am by my parents. i swore, and then i prayed, and when i did not explode, i swore again. then i got up to make breakfast before my first class.

[blueteller]

Halour, I'm kinda curious... What crimes have Cale done, exactly? I see a number of "crime list" videos about him but the wiki don't really confirm anything💀

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...The Time Has Come. 😌

I have long promised this list, so perfect timing! Thank you very much for this question! Allow me to introduce you to:

Cale Henituse's Crime List

(Just for the fun of it, I tried to give a different example for every single one of these. Some events repeat, but not the crimes!)

1) Accessibility of Records for Tax Department

Cale looted significant amounts of money from the Magic Tower and many other places, without leaving any legal trace.

2) Affray

Multiple occasions, like pretty much everything that happened in the Molden Kingdom.

3) Aggravated Assault

Cale rarely gets physically involved in a fight, but I think suddenly strangling Prince Adin qualifies.

4) Aggravated Burglary

Every single time "Real Arm" is in business.

5) Allowing Dog or Cat To Be a Nuisance

How else would you call encouraging your animal shape-shifting kids to be involved in criminal activity? Also Fluffy the Puppy was under Cale's command even if he technically belonged to Princess Jopis, I say it totally counts.

6) Ammunition – Possessing, Acquiring or Carrying

Cale intentionally pocketed magic bombs from the Plaza Terror Incident and used them later on.

7) Animal Cruelty

...Does Cale subjecting On to his "nice act" in front of Litana counts? Oh it definitely counts. That poor child.

8) Armed Robbery

That time Cale & co. robbed the Mercenary Guilds in Leeb-An City, for instance.

9) Arson

Setting the Wind Island on fire.

10) Assaulting or Resisting Police

That time Cale & co. went to Sez Kingdom. Pretty sure the knights trying to stop them from kidnapping the king counts as "resisting law enforcement".

11) Being Disguised With Unlawful Intent

Priest Cale in a nutshell.

12) Blackmail

That time Cale talked to Antonio Gyerre.

13) Breaking and Entering

Cale coming to the Sekka Estate.

14) Careless Driving

Debatable since a fantasy world doesn't own cars – but. I count Cale breaking through walls of a maze on a mother-effing Stone Imugi as "irresponsible driving". Just think of what kind of example you're setting for the kids, Cale!

15) Carrying a Loaded Firearm in Public

Cale has Raon following him everywhere, so.....?

16) Carrying Out Plumbing Work Without License or Registration

Cale has an underground villa in the Forest of Darkness. I'm pretty sure whatever construction work they did there would count as illegal.

17) Carrying Out Work Without a Building Permit

Cale had Dragons teleport an entire castle into the Forest of Darkness. Yet again, involves a building with no legal paperwork.

18) Causing Injury Intentionally

Obviously. Like making fiery lightning bolt strike in the middle of an Elf Village attack. Or hitting a radish with a rock.

19) Collecting or Making Documents Likely to Facilitate Terrorist Acts

Everything involving Knight Rex after he became a terrorist.

20) Conspiracy

Cale and Alberu talking about anything.

21) Control of Body Armor

After reading it up, I decided that mana disruption device ABSOLUTELY falls into this category.

22) Control and Use of Dangerous Articles

Cale adopting pretty much everyone on his team.

23) Corrupting Benefits Received By Commonwealth Public Official

Cale using Alberu's golden plaque to trap the White Star with Embrace. I mean, if being infected with that clown doesn't count as corruption, I don't know what does.

24) Cultivation of Narcotic Plants

Cale letting Hong eat plants in the Forest of Darkness. It IS, in his own words, his own backyard.

25) Dangerous Non-Guard Dog Attacks or Bites a Person or Animal with Person in Control

Cale letting Choi Han beat up Adin. ...Well, Choi Han COULD be counted as a Guard Dog, but. They never formalized the paperwork? I say it counts since Choi Han isn't legally registered!

26) Dealing With Property Suspected of Being Proceeds of Crime

Cale renting a house from Odeus Flynn.

27) Dealing With Property Which Subsequently Becomes an Instrument of Crime

Cale buying the Magic Tower before he proceeds to kidnap Mueller.

28) Delaying the Entry of Police

Cale not letting the law enforcement know about the Plaza Terror Incident beforehand. Also, activating the mana disruption device, knowing it would hinder their efforts to stop terrorism. ...Yes Cale & co. prevented said terrorism better on their own but it still counts.

29) Deliberately Omitting Information

Cale making an Vow of Death to Choi Han claiming that he can't tell him anything.

30) Destroying, Damaging and/or Interfering with Any Works of a Water Corporation

Setting the Lake of God's Tears on fire.

31) Destroying or Damaging Property

Cale destroying houses in the Gyerre territory.

32) Destruction of Evidence

Cale and Raon blowing up Hais Island 5 to cover up Ron's infiltration.

33) Directing the Activities of a Terrorist Organization

Cale's entire career in a nutshell, really.

34) Discharge Missile to Endanger Person or Property

Cale blowing up the whirlpools in the Ubarr territory.

35) Dishonestly Cause a Loss

Cale tricking the White Star into the abandoned underground city.

36) Disturbing Religious Worship

Cale messing with the Sun God's Church for being mean to Mary.

37) Driving an Unregistered Vehicle

Cale & co. using Mary's bone Dragon.

38) Drunkards Behaving in Riotous or Disorderly Manner

Cale pretending to be drunk in the Gyerre territory.

39) Endangering Safety of Aircraft

Cale letting his allies abroad an airship during the Jungle battle.

40) Entering a Place Without Authority or Lawful Excuse

Cale rescuing Raon.

41) Extortion With Threats to Destroy Property

Cale threatening the slave traffickers in the Gyerre territory.

42) Failure to Notify the Authorities of Criminal Activity

Cale doesn't notify Alberu of crap, unless it's to make him clean-up the aftermath.

43) Failure to Register a Pet

Pretty sure Cale registered exactly none of his allies. ...Except maybe the Tiger Tribe that one time they moved into Harris Village with Deruth's permission. Everyone else? Not a chance.

44) Falsifying or Concealing Identity

Cale acting as Naru von Ejellan in Endable Kingdom.

45) Forgery of Documents

Cale and Taylor faking an ancient document to fool the White Star.

46) Fraud

Cale promising Plavin Singten benefits for siding with the new Sun Church.

47) Getting Funds To, From, or For a Terrorist Organization

Cale sponsoring his allies, like giving Rosalyn magic stones.

48) Going Equipped for Stealing

Cale making Real Arm uniform.

49) Handling Stolen Goods

Cale using Divine Items.

50) Identity Theft

Cale introducing himself as Bob.

51) Indecent Assault

Cale telling Choi Han to strip that one time. (Yes, it actually happened. ...Not the way shippers wished for, obviously.)

52) Inducement to Be Appointed Liquidator

Cale helping Princess Jopis overthrow her sister on the condition of benefits for the Roan Kingdom.

53) Insider Trading

Cale selling Alberu dead mana from a Dragon.

54) Intentionally or Recklessly Causing a Bushfire

Cale setting that bush monster on fire in Xiaolen.

55) Introduction of a Drug of Dependence Into the Body of Another Person

Cale letting Rosalyn drink coffee on Earth 3.

56) Kidnapping

Cale & co. capturing Venion Stan.

57) Leaving Children Without Supervision

Cale letting the kids look for Mueller.

58) Lighting of Fires in the Open Air

Cale using Fire of Destruction against Sky Attribute.

59) Loitering Near Schools

Cale & the kittens in the Sez Kingdom.

60) Loitering With Intent to Commit an Indictable Offence

Cale letting Clopeh Sekka spot him that first time.

61) Manslaughter

Cale letting Choi Han, Rosalyn and Lock go and destroy the Archduke's Estate.

62) Membership of a Terrorist Organization

Cale making up Real Arm.

63) Murder

Cale killing the White Star.

64) Negligent Manslaughter

Cale letting Ron go on a vacation.

65) Non-dangerous Dog Attacks

Cale letting Choi Han spar with Hilsman.

66) Obtaining Property By Deception

Litana giving Cale free stuff.

67) Offences Connected With Explosive Substances

Cale commissioning Eruhaben to create Dragon's Rage.

68) Other Acts Done in Preparation for, or Planning, Terrorist Acts

Every morning Cale drinks lemon tea.

69) Possessing More Fish Than the Catch Limit

Cale dealing with Whales. ...Whales are fish, what are you talking about?

70) Possessing Controlled Weapon, Housebreaking Implements, and Things Connected With Terrorist Attacks

Everything Cale owns in the Super Rock Villa.

71) Possession of Precursor Chemicals

Cale making Billos buy alchemy ingredients.

72) Prohibited Weapons

Cale utilizing the Dragon Bones in battle.

73) Providing or Receiving Training Connected With Terrorist Acts

Cale letting his people train in his backyard.

74) Public Nuisance

Cale letting Choi Han act.

75) Reckless Conduct Endangering Life and/or Endangering Serious Injury

Cale every time he uses his Ancient Powers.

76) Recruiting for a Terrorist Organization

Cale adopting the Tiger Tribe.

77) Robbery

Stealing magic stones from the Alchemy Towers.

78) Sabotage

Cale going behind the Empire's back while he helps out the Whipper Kingdom.

79) Setting Traps to Kill

Cale Ghost Operation during the sea battle against the Indomitable Alliance.

80) Smuggling

Cale helping Cage and Taylor into capital.

81) Stalking

Cale entering Alberu's bedroom whenever he wants.

82) Stating False Name When Requested

Cale never letting anyone know about the transmigration and calling himself Cale Henituse.

83) Tax Evasion

Willful tax evasion for sudden wealth increase.

84) Terrorist Acts

Cale & co. detonating a bomb at Maple Castle.

85) Theft

Cale obtaining the blood drinking crown.

86) Threats to Inflict Serious Injury

Cale & co. threatening King Bakehe.

87) Threats to Kill

Cale cheerfully informing Adin he's going to personally kill him.

88) Torture and Interrogation

Cale ordering Beacrox to deal with the Magic Spearman.

89) Unauthorized Access to Restricted Data

Cale & co. coming to the Directory. ...Yes Bud was the Mercenary King so technically it was legal, except from the Mercenary Guild's perspective, it was break and entering.

80) Unlawful Assembly

Cale hanging out with Dragons.

81) Unlawful Oaths to Commit Treason

Cale promising to destroy the Alchemy Belltower to Rei Stecker.

82) Unlicensed Driving

Cale riding Dark Tiger Alberu.

83) Willful Damage

Cale employing Archie to destroy Duke Sekka's statues.

Any other crimes I forgot to list? Let me know!

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BONUS CONTENT

With the help of others, we've expanded the original list of Cale's crimes!

84) Aiding and Hiding Fugitives

Cale helping out Hannah and Jack.

85) Aircraft Hijacking

Cale & co. taking over the Empire's airships.

86) Being an Accessory to Crimes

All Cale's deals with Billos in a nutshell.

87) Child Labor Law Violation

Cale making children work for their meals. Even if he's actually just adopting strays under the guise of formal work, said formal work is still illegal. Just admit you care, you weirdo.

88) Defamation

Cale spreading recordings of Adin being evil acros the Empire.

89) Deliberate Damage and/or Destruction of Currency

Cale happily throwing coins into lava.

90) Ecoterrorism

Wiping whole islands off the map counts as severe destruction of the environment.

91) Fly-tipping/Littering

Cale casually defenestrating Adin. Watch where you throw garbage, Cale. There are trash bins for a reason!

92) Harassment

Cale ordering Beacrox to beat up mountain bandits.

93) Illegal Detention/Imprisonment

Capturing prisoners of war, like the Dragon Half-Blood or the Flame Dwarves.

94) Illegal Goods Trade

Cale selling and buying items at the Caro Kingdom Auction.

95) Impersonation

Cale pretending to be different people in the Indignity Test.

96) Intentional Destruction of Cultural Heritage

Cale setting the Lake of God's Tears on Fire. Also, blowing up the Magic Tower.

97) Plunder of Public Property

Cale & co. destroying the walls of the capital of the Empire.

98) Trafficking Endangered Plants Accross Borders

Cale transporting the Fake World Tree in his badge.

99) Treason of the Crown

Cale treating his Hyung-nim with utter disrespect, such as comparing the Shining Sun of the Kingdom to a squirrel.

100) Trespassing

Cale in Endable Kingdom.

BONUS BONUS CONTENT

Not technically illegal, but:

101) Crime Against One's Well-Being

Cale abusing his health in such horrific ways even a regeneration power cannot keep up with him.

102) Crime Against Fashion

Cale preferring only black and plain clothes when he could look good in anything.

103) Crime of Self-Delusion

Cale thinking he still has a chance at slacker life.

104) Spreading Misinformation

Cale's track record of causing misunderstandings everywhere he goes is frankly terrifying.

105) THAT FACE

Cale's fabulous looks are a crime in of itself. It deserves a spot on the list.

[strawwiibernyy]

Bitter Love - Park S. [Part 2]

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[Bully!Sunghoon x Reader]

warnings! yandare!sunghoon, mental-physical abuse, fat-shaming, cursing, suggestive, making out, smoking, bullying, obsessive behaviour, in general VERY DARK CONTENT.

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╰┈➤ After Sunghoon took all your loved ones away, you decided that you should fight back. However, fighting back Park Sunghoon meant following along will all of his desires till he gets tired of you. The more you find out about the boy, the more you fall into his sweet trap.

♪ Ultraviolence by Lana Del Ray ♪

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Phisically you were at school, yet your mind was still stuck on that day. The day which Park Sunghoon made it clear you couldn't escape him. The day you lost contact with all your favorite people besides your family. Now who will protect you?

There was no other choice anymore. You had to protect yourself.

Scanning the students at the cafeteria, your eyes finally found Sunghoon. You clenched the lunch box in your hands, taking a deep breath in desperate attempts to calm down your heart. Your steps were fast as you walked towards him, even if your whole body was trembling.

Your Japanese best friend, Arisu, watched you with disbelief as you skipped her table. She was frowned, looking at the direction of your gaze, then back at you. And when she realized, her eyes flew wide.

"Sunghoon!" You shouted as loud as you could, waiting for the black-haired boy to acknowledge you. His friends began laughing with each other and whispering from ear to ear. Sunghoon still had his back at you, typing one last text on his phone.

The boy turned around with his infamous smirk plastered on his face. His eyes travelled up and down your body before standing up across from you. The height difference made you shallow hard, feeling the self-confidence you had build up slowly fading away.

"What do you want, hippo?" He replied, his eyes fixed on your own frightened ones.

"Here!" You said, suddenly bowing and stretching your hands to him. Between your sweating palms was a neon orangy lunch box. "Please accept it, I made it for you!"

You knew Sunghoon wouldn't like that move. You knew Sunghoon likes to play tough and such actions in front of everyone would embarrass him. However, you sure weren't waiting for such a reaction.

Sunghoon's smirk dropped and his eyebrows came together. He grabbed the lunch box from your hands and you raised your gaze on him. You had noticed Sunghoon never had homemade lunch. His parents always gave him money to buy the one served at the school's cafeteria. Yet the times where Sunghoon had actually bought from here were very few. He preffered to share lunch with you instead.

"What the fuck." The boy mouthed, anger building up. You took some steps back noticing how the boy's eyes narrowed and his hand gripping the box with all his power. You were afraid he would melt it in his hands with such a grip.

In seconds, the lunch box flew from Sunghoon's hand to the trash bin behind you. The box opened and the food you had prepared scattered across the floor. Scents of pork backbone stew mixing with the rice next to it filled the place. The salad along with the radish kimchi were the only dishes to make it into the trash bin.

You watched the food which you stayed up all night to make now accompanying the floor. Yes, you awaited a bad reaction, but for a strange reason this hurt more than you would like.

He stepped closer to you, lowering his forehead against yours. "I don't need a fucking lunch from a poor girl like you."

The whole cafeteria had gone silent, watching the scene unfolding in front of them. A scene coming straight from a horror movie, or a phycological novel.

Your eyes had gone watery, unable to hide your fear anymore. This is the expression he loved the most from you. When your face stayed firm, trying to hide your feelings, but your big eyes teared up, revealing everything to him.

"You could have acted nicer." Your best friend shouted at him, yet Sunghoon didn't even flinch from his place.

"I, ah, I am sorry." You whispered, closing your eyes and wishing for your nightmare to end.

.・゜゜・　　・゜゜・．*Time Skip*

The bell rung, making you curse under your breath. Your next class was with Sunghoon, which by itself was upseting. Yet now you didn't have a teacher to protect you, only yourself.

You walked in and locked eyes with the boy. He was waiting for his toy like usual. Legs spread out and his right hand resting on your chair. You carefully sat beside him, ignoring his dangerous presence.

Sunghoon was waiting for such a reaction, so he began early with his teasings. His hand from your chair started going lower. Falling to your back, then down your waist before it slide to your thigh. His cold fingertips made you shiver, but you held any type of whines back.

He was watching you, waiting when you will break. His eyes were narrowed on your face as his hand worked up and down your thigh. Your remained unmoved, trying to focus on your studies instead. Sunghoon was getting impatient by every passing second.

"Quite apathetic are we, hippo?"

"Do whatever you want, I don't care." You replied, lying right at his face. However, this time you wouldn't let him realise that it was a lie. The boy smirked wider, receiving your words as a challenge.

"Whatever you want, hippo." Your eyes got wide, feeling his hand going further and further. No, you shouldn't show even a bit of emotion, because that's what he craved. Monsters are feeding by people's fear.

"You like it?" He whispered in your ear, his lips brushing your earbone. You shook your hand negative, not daring to speak in case some other sounds accidentally slip as well.

For the rest of the class, Sunghoon was trying to get you do something. Anything. Your eyes to fill with fear, your legs to shake, your hand to hit his, to moan, to cry, anything that can count as a reaction. But this time it was harder than the rest.

You were determined to your role, and he was determined to break you.

Therefore, after school he had you a surpsire.

"Sunghoon, let me go!" You yelled, your back rubbing against the hard tree trunk. The strong contact would definitely leave you scratches later on, along with his hands gripping your wrists. His fingers had already left an imprint.

"Why, Y/N? I thought you liked it." It was the first time in ages that he called you with your real name. His face lowered against yours, placing a violent kiss on your lips. "You didn't seem to mind it back at class."

You closed your eyes shut, trying to hold back your tears. Sunghoon's lips touched yours again, his tongue fighting to enter your locked mouth. His hand gripped your hair roughly, making you gasp. That's when he found the change to slip his tongue in.

He began kissing you, so rough but at the same time so passionate. You had never see him kiss a girl like that. Like he was waiting for this moment since his birth. Unaware of what to do, you kissed back attempting to catch up with his rhythm.

The boy was clearly taken aback, but he didn't stop. No, not now that he finally had you participating. His hands left your wrists and traveled to your waist. One rested there while the other took a hold of your chin, pulling you Impossible closer to him.

Your hands fell down at your sides. You couldn't help but leave small gasps at the feeling. Sunghoon was handsome, too handsome to be true. You felt guilty for enjoying the kiss with him.

A sudden voice reminded you your plan. People were coming closer and you pushed Sunghoon away from the heated moment.

His lips were swollen and you wondered if you had caused that. The voices soon faded and your raising heart calmed down. However, the monster was still standing in front of you.

"Hippo, do you get it now?" He asked, breathless from before. You looked back at him, your eyebrows coming together at his words. "Quite the act because it will only get worse. Now, let's go to my place."

"There is now way!" You shouted, taking some steps back from him.

"I don't want to do anything weird to you, hippo. I just want to have some fun with you. Come on, I even have a ping pong table." You frowned at his last sentence, thinking if he actually just wanted you for company. You weren't sure, yet you followed him.

Because inside him, there might be the silenced and abused child the teacher had described to you. Because maybe you can change him.

You went home with him, and his house was exactly what you imagined it to be. An enormous mansion in a minimalistic style and a thousand rooms. You couldn't even understand what rich people did with so many rooms.

First, he took you to play ping-pong, as he had promised. It was your first time playing and Sunghoon learnt you the basic tricks. Of course, he won every round. He didn't even let you win on purpose, like some boyfriends do with their girlfriends.

But you suppose your relationship with him is very complicated.

Then he took you to his gaming room. It was a space filled with all the kind of games, and even contained a big screen at the center of the wall for playstation. There you and him put on vr headsets. He picked all the horror ones for you to play on purpose. He enjoyed your terrified screams.

Lastly, he took you to tennis. He had a room inside his house for that as well. You hated tennis. Every time you went with your parents to the beach, you couldn't even hold the racket properly.

Sunghoon, instead of teaching you, he started making fun of you. He liked seeing you struggle and pleading him for help. In the end, he gave in and taught you some things. Yet again, you couldn't beat him.

"This is my room." He said, opening the only door painted in blue compared to the other plain white ones. He stepped inside and sat on his bed, waiting for you to do the same.

Yes, you had fun today with him. He showed you a side you had never seen. Actually, a side none had ever seen. The childish side of Park Sunghoon, the innocent one, before his parents could destroy it. Today you felt like you had encountered the child Sunghoon, and not the teenager one.

However, the gaze he was giving you right now was a far cry from innocent.

"Why are standing there? Come inside!" He repeated, watching you being frozen in front of the open door. "I don't bite." He smirked. Oh, he knew himself that was a lie.

"Um, I want to drink some water first. I got tired from tennis." Sunghoon looked at you, his face completely apathetic. Your hands were sweating, waiting for his response to that.

"Alright." You released the breath you were holding at his response. "Go down and ask one of the maids for a glass. I am waiting for you here. Don't you dare escape!"

You nodded and rushed down to the kitchen. There, you found three maids running around, cleaning every little corner of the room and eliminating every tiny dust. Walking closer, you noticed an elderly woman sitting alone at the head of the table. You locked eyes with her, and the woman stood up.

"You must be my grandson's friend the maids told me about. Welcome to our household, I am Park Areum." She was tall for an elder and was strict and scary. You took some steps back, wondering what should you say.

"Hello, I am Y/L Y/N. Thank you for having me!" You ended up saying, bowing as low as you could in front of her. The woman eyed you up and down, and then a smile broke from her. A smile which made her whole face change from a strict lady's to a caring granny's.

"Y/L Y/N, I need to have a serious talk with you. But don't get scared! It's about my grandson, Sunghoon. Please have a seat." She gestured a seat across from her, and you followed her instructions. The room's atmosphere felt cold and chilly.

"Sunghoon is a very troubled child. His parents are like strangers to him, rather me and his maids took care of him. But I don't want to blame my daughter for that, because it's her husband who is the true monster. Sunghoon's father is an egoist, money monster. He used to beat Sunghoon's mother daily and force her to follow his sexual desires. Hoon has caught them several times, so he grew up thinking that's how love works."

You listened to the granny's words and felt your heart ache for the boy. He used to be an innocent child, like all the others. However, his parents took his innocence before he could even attend middle school. Pairing it with the model industry that he joined early on, what he could have encountered there makes the situation even worse.

"This is very sad, and I truly feel sorry. But why are you talking to me about this?" The elderly woman took a deep sigh and then her eyes looked straight into yours. They were sparkling with hope.

"My son never showed this side to a person. He must really like you." A smile formed on your lips, more of an ironic one than a usual, happy one. His actions were the total opposite to his granny's words. "I want you to learn him true love."

"What?!" You exclaimed, standing up from the table. Maybe she would consider this bad manners, maybe she would kick you out of her mansion soon. However, you didn't care. "You know what your grandson has done to me? My life is hell because of him! He took all my loved ones away and bullies me daily. Why do I have to bear this?"

"I am suggesting it for your good also! He doesn't plan on leaving you alone anytime soon. Please, try to change him at least in the progress! He can be a good man, I know it!" The woman stood up, not letting you escape.

She was desperate. Her small eyes were glittery from tears and was begging you with her hands together. Your gaze softened at the sight. Should you give Sunghoon a change? If you change this terrible monster, you will not free only yourself. For instance, other students who are being bullied by him, people that love him and people that want to see him change.

"Alright." You ended up replying, looking down at the floor. "But I don't promise you anything." The woman run to you and gave you a tight hug. She broke in cries into your shoulder while you tried to hold your own back.

After a while, you went back to Sunghoon's room. You were gone a long time, and you were afraid what the boy might say or do. Your trembling hand pushed the door open, only to see Sunghoon sitting on his bed.

He was unmoved, doing nothing other than waiting for you. His stare was blank, making you feel uncomfortable under the dim light of his bedroom.

"I am sorry that I was late. I happened to see your grandmother and you know I, um, I had to explain myself what I was doing her- AHH!"

A scream left your mouth as the black-haired boy pushed you down on his bed. His fingers wrapped around your wrists, licking his lips at the sight of you. The tears had already begun forming, trapped in Sunghoon's white sheets.

He placed one leg in between yours and the other at your right side. You felt his knee getting higher and higher and you adjusted yourself up. "Please, Sunghoon, no!"

"If you love me, you must not decline this." He said before his lips pushed into yours. Those words were more than simple letters. The things that his grandmother said to you could be heard in his words. That's the way he got taught love feels like.

His room's door was closed. None could hear you. Sunghoon had begun leaving his wet traces lower, currently biting your neck. This was the end. You can't convince him to stop.

"Msr. Park! I am sorry for disturbing you, but your mother has arrived and wishes to see you." A maid said, making Sunghoon stop and leave the bed. Dear God had heard your prayers, now you were safe.

"Shit." Sunghoon whispered, looking at you, then back at the door. "Stay here, I am coming in a minute." Those were his final words before exiting the door. And, of course, you disobeyed them.

When Sunghoon's footsteps were gone, you left his room and rushed down. You could see from afar Sunghoon chatting with his mother and his grandmother. He seemed pissed. He had crossed his hands against his chest and his jaw was tight. You felt bad for him, watching how he treated his own mother like an annoying stranger.

But in such cases, it is never the child's fault.

"Ouch!" You hissed under your breath when you came in contact with a maid's back. Your eyes got wide, realising they've caught you. The maid wouldn't let you escape now.

"I am so sorry, I am just looking for the bathroom-"

"Go." She interrupted you, gaining a confused look from you. "Go while Sunghoon is busy and don't tell anyone about this." You thanked the kind woman and ran to the front door.

Maybe you can't keep your promise to his grandmother after all.

.・゜゜・　　・゜゜・．*Time Skip*

Days passed, and Sunghoon's bullying was getting worse day by day. After you visited his place, he would try to bring you back to his mansion. You escaped with dumb excuses such as "I am writing an exam tomorrow" or "My mother wants me home to help her clean the house".

Sunghoon wasn't stupid. He had figured you out. So this time that he managed to catch you after school, he wouldn't leave till you accompanied him to his house.

"Wait, please, wait!" You yelled, trying to free your hand from his strong fingers. Sunghoon stared at your perplexed face, like you wanting to admit something, but at the same time you were afraid to.

"Hippo, let's go." He said and turned around to walk away. You left desperate sounds as he dragged you along with him. That was the last straw. You needed to talk to him.

"Wait, Sunghoon, I have to tell you something! Please pay me attention!" That caught his interest, and he left your hand free from his grip. You caressed a bit your aching wrist and then you began your speech.

"Sunghoon, this is not right. Our relationship is not right! When you love a person, you don't torture him and definitely don't do the things you do to me. But I promise, I will love you if you change!"

"What?" Sunghoon scoffed, a big frown decorating his face. He acted like he didn't understand, yet he understood every word coming out of your mouth. Every different tone of your voice that each word had.

"I am not better than you as well, but I know about love. I live daily with my parents and my best friend in it! Let's grow together, Park Sunghoon. I can learn you what genuine love means, just please stop this!"

Silence fell. The freezing wind made the green leaves of the trees rustle under the grey clouds that had covered the sun. Sunghoon's expression was apathetic, yet his eyes had changed. There weren't the same unemotional eyes, characteristic of Park Sunghoon.

It was the first time they held emotions. The first time they were so sparkly and soft.

"So if I stop, you won't leave my side?" His words made your breath get caught in your throat. You didn't know what would you do either once you convinced him to stop his bullying. The bullying that he translates into his mind as an expression of love. The lust that he has mixed with the way of adoring someone.

"I can't, even if I want to." The boy got even more confused by your sentence. Suddenly, his eyes turned back to normal. No, even worst. Anger. His eyes were full of rage.

"This is bullshit!" He shouted, throwing his bag down on the muddy road. The birds left the trees and scattered around the sky, flying in another direction. "What are you trying to do, Y/N? Fix a monster? I was born and I will die like one."

"No, I know you are a good kid. You are not a monster! Your granny knows this too-"

"Don't ever call me like that!" He interrupted you, pushing your hand that had gone to wrap around his forearm away. You almost fell on your back from the intensity, yet you ended up staying firm in front of him. Your eyes were watery and before you could realise it, the first tears had started to run down your face.

You were unable to say anything anymore, and the boy noticed that, so he took the lead. "Be my girlfriend, and maybe I will act more kind to you."

You weren't talking with Park Sunghoon anymore. You were talking with Hoon, a little boy who just wanted to be loved. His fingers interlocked with yours, and you raised your head to look at him. He was the most complicated person you had ever met.

"So you agree?" You whispered, afraid to irritate him again.

"Yes, hippo, try to change me." He replied, not daring to glance at your way. Your head felt dizzy and you could barely see through your tears.

You had become Park Sunghoon's official girlfriend. After all he had done to you. After all the nights you spend crying, wishing for him to die. Now, he had become a part of you.

Were you meant to be bound forever with this beautiful monster?

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A/N: Sorry for posting late from the day I had promised. Lot of things coming up and life is getting hella busy for me. Anyway, here is the second part. Turned out more dramatic than I had planned it, lol!

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[restingdomface]

Wei Wuxian: *crashes out of Jiang Cheng’s guest quarters in a fury* -and that is ANOTHER reason why you NEVER ask me to sit down for a talk like this ever again-

Jiang Cheng: *looking just as furious* -how DARE you, Wei Wuxian, I came here as a curtesy, you don’t OWN being a cutsleeve! If I fall for a man then I fall for a man-

Wei Wuxian: You little brat, that’s not why I’m mad!

Jiang Cheng: THEN WHY ARE YOU MAD?

Wei Wuxian: YOU ASKED ME TO SIT DOWN FOR THE TALK AND IT MADE ME THINK YOUD TELL ME YOU WERE DYING OR ONE OF THE JUNIORS GOT HURT!

Jiang Cheng: …fuck… that’s fair… how DOES one break the news they’re a cutsleeve?

Wei Wuxian: Adopt a baby and have your beloved raise it into the perfect child to prove them all wrong idk

Jiang Cheng: Too slow, I hate this method. Gimme another one.

Wei Wuxian: idk, then, idk, tell me the next time you’re trying to distract me after someone actually gets hurt?

Jiang Cheng: Okay, I’ll wait til his dad is on his deathbed to tell him.

Wei Wuxian: …that rules out it being any of our friends. None of them have dads anymore.

Lan Sizhui: *was volunteered to go interrupt WWX and JC out of an entire group of worried juniors* Senior Wei-

Wei Wuxian: A-Die, if you please.

Lan Sizhui: *blushy blush of happiness* A-Die 🥰

Wei Wuxian: Yes, my radish?

Lan Sizhui: I was asked to remind you both that telling someone you’re a cutsleeve on their deathbed is considered shocking enough that it might expedite the death to occur in that bed :)

Wei Wuxian: …that sounds like something Wen Ning would say; is Shushu Ning back already?

Lan Sizhui: :) he is. He’s helping Baba with the bunnies.

Jiang Cheng: *having been looking at his hands in confusion til now, looks up to study LSZ carefully* Where’d you get this one? Let’s just go with your first idea. I could hand my beloved a child.

Wei Wuxian: Labor Camp :)

Lan Sizhui: :/

Jiang Cheng: …I’m gonna find a street urchin. It ruined my parents marriage but maybe if I’m not married yet it’s a good luck charm…

Poor Scarred Juniors Who Had To Watch That: -~- 👁️👄👁️

[dark-elf-writes]

Yanli and Wuxian end up pregnant at the same time bc Wangji is struck with the most intense baby fever after seeing Wuxian with A-Yuan

And well, they’d already promised the radish a sibling. They had buried him and everything

Lan Wangji the minute he sees Wei Wuxian laughing and holding a toddler on their hip: If I don’t impregnate them right now I’m going to punch down a forest. I need to give them another baby. I need to give them a dozen babies. We will acreage an entire sect entirely comprised of our children we

Wei Wuxian, oblivious: A-Yuan wave to your daddy! I know he looks very serious but he’s the best!

—

Poor Jiang Cheng rushing between his siblings trying to prove his best uncle status before the babies are even born.

[stahl-herz]

So, I started watching Dragon Ball Z for the first time and my friend is being entertained with my reactions to stuff happening in the show.

Some of them being:

-I assumed the first Saiyan that showed up that /wasn't/ Goku was Vegeta. It wasn't, it was Raditz (who I had called Radish at one point).

-Yelling about how Piccolo is being dumb when he tells Raditz (who is dying) about the Dragon Balls

-Saying 'Hey, it's Vegeta :D' . Then he blows up a planet and I remember 'Oh, yeah he's a villain at the moment' .

-Getting upset bc Piccolo kidnapped Gohan (even tho he had a point w/ training Gohan), then happy bc Gohan ends up growing on Piccolo (like a fungus) and Piccolo has reluctantly come to care for the kid!

-Poor Goku is now in a medical grade blanket burrito after the fight with Vegeta and Nappa!

[butterfirefly]

You've gotta be kidding me.

The dokkaebi spouts more nonsense about how this is a privilege for the boring humans, their chance to become fighting cocks instead of just cows raised for slaughter, but Yoojin isn't listening anymore.

There's no time for hesitation, no space for moral dilemmas—the simple truth is this: He's trapped in this supermarket, a dozen kilometers away from Yoohyun, and the only way to get to him is to get out of this alive, and in order to stay alive, Yoojin has to kill.

Before any of the other shoppers around him can fully digest the dokkaebi's words, Yoojin sets his basket on top of the radishes and makes for the kitchenware section at a dead run.

The isle is thankfully deserted, and Yoojin quickly goes for the longest kitchen knives. A cast iron pan would work just as effectively, but he's learned long ago that people tend to scare more easily when confronted with a blade.

Before he can fully tear out the knife from its sturdy packaging, however, someone else comes skidding into the isle.

The slightly older man looks panicked out of his mind, panting like a dog, and for a moment he doesn't even notice Yoojin standing just a few paces away from him.

Then their gazes lock onto each other, and Yoojin shifts his feet to face him fully.

"If you come at me," he calls out to him. "I'll kill you."

There's no inflection in his voice at all. Yoojin doesn't bother saying it like it's a threat—he delivers it like the fact that it is, plain and simple.

There's a brief moment where the man hesitates, his foot shuffling backwards, but then the first screams echo from afar, and the man is spurred into action, grabbing a skillet off the shelf, so Yoojin abandons the still-packaged knife in favor of the large, heavy wooden chopping board to his left.

The reflexes of a dormant hunter is no match for an ordinary citizen's—just as the man has reached him, pulling his arm backwards in preparation for an attack, Yoojin swings the chopping board sideways in a violent, merciless arc, the board slicing through the air and catching the man on the side of his head in one solid hit.

He feels the man's skull crack under the blow, and the man's legs fold under him, eyes rolling to the back of his head. He crashes down hard onto the floor, his limbs twitching every which way.

A second later, the white tile of the supermarket is decorated in vivid red as blood slowly pools under his head—a macabre halo.

[You have achieved the 'First Kill' achievement!]

[100 coins have been earned as additional compensation.]

Yoojin waits for guilt to set in, finds none, and settles for a poor imitation of it.

He picks up the discarded knife and tears it from the packaging, then sets off towards the nosiest part of the supermarket.

If the surest path towards his little brother is paved with blood, Yoojin's not about to shy away from making a river of it.

[pinkwhalepjs]

I LOVE that the collapse of several character relationships this episode comes down to class at the heart of things. The three who were born small folk have infinitely less agency in their own lives. They rise and fall at the whims of the powerful people they serve.

Amangeaux may see Karna as a daughter figure but as she begs her to let her go Karna can clearly see that her biological son is infinitely more important to Amangeaux than Karna could ever be. Amangeaux doesn’t want to play at being queen anymore and it is Karna who must suffer for it. She then attaches herself to Senator Ariana Gemelli and then again to Delissandro. She is dependent on them and lives ultimately at their whim. She may even love Deli but she must know that their relationship can never truly be one of equals. It is part of the tragedy of her character that she seems to always to some extent yearn for those she serves, admiring and caring for them in a way that is unlikely to be returned in full. And even more so that she seems an unwilling servant of the Hungry One who takes of her flesh in return for power and continued life. Unfortunately a good parallel for her relationships to her fellow mortals.

And this is what breaks apart Collin and Deli too. Collin was born to live in fear of what high born can do to those who cross them. He poignantly rebukes Deli that he does not doubt he will be a great leader of the Meatlands, but he is no leader Collin would swear to. He is a cruel and uncaring lord like the rest. He cares not for the innocent he condemns to death on his road to glory. Collin returns to the home of the man he killed because this life matters to him and he knows it does not to Delissandro even though he took it for his sake. Collin grows sick of being an instrument in the same sort of uncaring violence that killed his own family. He leaves behind the blades he swore in service to Delissandro. His anger is much quieter than Deli’s blusterous rage. It feels more directed at himself than at Deli. How could he have deluded himself into seeing this man as a friend and equal all these years? A man who doesn’t even know who he is after all those years by his side.

Raphaniel is the most scattered and broken because he began to think of himself as no longer a member of the small folk. But he forgot that he lives and dies at the mercy of his superiors still and that which is given him can just as easily if not far more easily be taken away. To gain power takes a lifetime but to lose it takes an instant. He scrambles again and again until it destroys his mind and body to gain some foothold of power or at least some sense that he serves some higher purpose but is met at every turn with empty sound. He was born cursed with visions of something terrible beyond but finds perhaps more horrible than the sense that there is something special wrong with him alone is the growing sense in his old age that his life and acts may in the end be meaningless entirely and when he dies he will leave behind just as little mark as any other poor born radish.