#the romance started good. with jack telling the guy whos name i already forgot to get his ass in the tent already.

[townslore]

discovery of the day

[baekhypnotized]

drive me crazy [M]

it’s a just normal occasion that baekhyun brought you out for a dinner with one of his partner. everything was perfect at the first but when his friend mentioned about his rival, he became intense. on the way back home, you decided to make him relieve his stress, made him go crazy.

GENRE: smut, romance, oneshot

PAIRING: byun baekhyun x you/fem reader

WARNING(S): fingering, oral, handjob, blowjob, car sex, dom!baekhyun, sub!reader

WORDS: 3.3k+

AUTHOR’S NOTE: I improvise this oneshot so I decided to post it out. But, I’m so sorry if my writing skills are still suck because I kinda having problems with my insecurities towards writing :( sorry for any common errors and for the bad smut oneshot too. will try to improve more in the future!! please leave some of your thoughts after reading this!! thank you in advance for dropping by and read!!

Byun Baekhyun is just a busy businessman, the greatest CEO in the city as he owns almost all of the shares in Byun Corporation which it's his family company. At a very young age, he became the Chairman just because his father fell sick as he was unable to contribute himself into his hectic schedules or not, he will get a heart attack due to high blood pressure.

Instead, Baekhyun took the biggest role among his siblings because his eldest, Baekbeom, is busy handling their company in China plus he already has two children and it does make sense that Baekhyun is the most perfect one to take the position other than his close relatives.

But, here you are, always be by his side to support him no matter what happens. Even though Baekhyun said you are his pillar of strength in his life, he is your source of light. He shines brightly in your life the moment he came in the first place. The one who taught you that life doesn't only revolve around you, where problems can be solved even if it takes thousands of years. That man helps you a lot to realise that you’re that kind of person who deserves to live in this world.

"Babe..." A soft tone calling you.

Currently, you are reading your book on the bed with Baekhyun, sleeping soundly beside me as he hugs your lap lazily like a child. You divert your gaze to him, stroking your fingers through his messy, fluffy permed hair full of adoration. Putting aside your book on the bedside table, you bend your body with your arm supporting your head. You continue to stroke his hair softly, trying to coax him from his exhaustion.

Baekhyun's eyes are still tightly shut but his cute snores have turned into several sighs. He had a sleepless night before, busying himself into meetings with shareholders, business partners and also piles of paperwork.

"Yes, Baekhyun?" You reply to his call.

"I’m fucking tired..." He confesses and again, he leaves out a huge sigh. Your lips tilt into a small smile before you plant a soft kiss on his crown a little bit longer, hoping it will soothe him a bit.

"I know, baby. I know. Have some rest, hmm?"

"I can't. We can't. We have dinner with my business partner from London, remember?" He replies. You almost forgot that he told you two days before that he's going to bring you together with him to the dinner since he wants to introduce you as someone who's the most important to him to them. But, right now, you would want to force him to stay at home instead, telling them he will not be able to join the dinner since he's sick or something. Baekhyun can pay all the expensive dishes for his business partners just to give him the bill.

Yet, he's not the kind of person that you know.

Baekhyun is a responsible man, always prioritises and cares about his company more than himself because he wants his dad to be proud of him but of course, his dad is already proud of him no matter what. His dad once told you to always remind him to not immerse himself too much in this business because at once, he will never have thoughts about his health. Like the one that his parents believe in, you moved into his apartment after you graduated from your university and since then, you are the one who's taking care of everything about him.

"But Baekhyun..." You are about to fight him when he suddenly cuts you off with placing his soft lips on yours, indulging into a long, passionate kiss. Baekhyun brings his calloused hands to cup your cheeks, tilting his head a bit to devour your wet cavern deeper. Involuntarily, both of you sit up, as you are wrapping your hands around his neck while he pulls you to sit on his lap. The two of you drown into the long kiss, able to replace all the kisses that you guys were supposed to exchange always for the past few days when he was busy.

He breaks the kiss, tugging a strand of your hair that is hiding your face behind the ear. Your heart flutters as you could feel your face flush. "I’m sorry for not being with you for the past few days, babe. I'll make it up to you later." He lifts your chin up to look into his eyes straightly, "Cross my heart."

You bob your head several times, placing your head slowly on his broad chest as you inhale your favourite scent of his that gives you comfort somehow. Baekhyun places his chin on your head, caressing your hands adoringly as the two of you stay in this position for a few minutes before starting to prepare for tonight's dinner.

He wears a royal blue tuxedo, pairing with a silver metallic wristwatch from Rolex and his hair was combed nicely, making him look the hottest tonight. As for you, you wear a short satin silk dress in also royal blue colour to match with his tuxedo. You dangled a pair of crystal blue earrings and also a wonderful expensive necklace that Baekhyun bought for you together with the dress. You slip yourself into blue high heels and bring your pouch to the dinner.

Baekhyun prefers to drive his Black Audi Rs7 rather than having his private driver to drive the two of you to the restaurant. The interior of the car was designed beautifully as it suits well with him. Maybe that's why he prefers driving his favourite car. And whenever he drives the car while using only one hand on his steering, somehow he looks so magnificent. Every time he focuses on the road, he slides his other hand to intertwine with your hand, planting a kiss on the back of your hand. That small action can make your heart beats like there's no tomorrow.

Baekhyun makes you fall in love with him every second of the time.

When the both of you arrive at the restaurant as he parks his car, Baekhyun guides you to the private dining room that he reserved by placing his hand behind your waist, keeping you close to him because there were a lot of people on our way as he’s afraid of losing me among the crowds.

"Baekhyun!" A man who looks like in our age greets him from afar as the two of you go closer to the table. Baekhyun sincerely greets his business partner with a warm hug while you shake hands with his escorts.

"Finally, you’re here in Korea! Let's take our seats, shall we?" Baekhyun invites all of us to take our seats as I land myself sitting right beside him. Baekhyun comfortably places his hand on your thigh, caressing it. You do have fear as you would become so nervous with strangers but thanks to him, you feel calm and giving a bright smile across your face.

"Jack, let me introduce you to my favourite girl," He introduces your name to his business partner as you lift yourself from your seat to shake hands politely with Jack.

"Nice to meet you! Baekhyun often tells me about you!" Jack says that cause you to flush. The thoughts of Baekhyun mentioning you to his friends make you blush because obviously he wouldn’t stop doing it as he in love with you. Like deeply.

The waitress comes to your table, handing the menu booklet to each everyone. Once you open the menu to take a look at the choices, you are stupefied by staring at the price. It was extremely pricey that makes you gulp a large lump in your throat.

"Baby, order anything that you want," He murmurs, pats your thighs to assure you to choose anything that you want. Well, he's too rich to pay for the dishes for sure. After the four of you guys order the food, Baekhyun and Jack start to discuss the business while me and Maria (Jack's escort) exchange stories about our countries.

You sneakily take a few glances on Baekhyun, feeling ease seeing him laughing out loud when Jack tells him some jokes. You are very delighted to see him in this way even when he talks about his company's business. The qualms that you worry finally lessen slowly.

The food expressly arrives after a few minutes but as usual for women, Maria and you take pictures of the dishes first, leaving the men snorting silently as they are watching both of you. After a few shots, the four of you finally devour the dishes. For real, the foods are so mouth-watering, making all of you guys busy indulging the good food silently and focus.

"Anyway, do you know that Park Corporation is currently trying to win some of our shareholders' attention?" Jack asks, causing Baekhyun to stop swallowing his food. You can see his face becomes tighter and the facial expression becomes serious and intense.

"Really? Has he succeeded then?" He asks in return. Baekhyun, trying his best to not spoil the dinner, casually continues to cut his beef.

"Our shareholders' grip strongly on our trust, Baekhyun. But you know how determined he is, trying to let your business down..." Jack expresses it slowly, understanding that Baekhyun also has his own temper that he needs to control when it comes to his company.

Baekhyun grabs his expensive wine, gulping it, "No worries, we will never lose them." He replies with a small smile, trying to not make Jack worry about the current situation. "Let's finish this up, guys. It's getting late already."

The moment becomes silent because no one is brave enough to utter anything currently. Including you. you could only caress his thigh softly in circles, murmurs discreetly into his ears saying, "Everything's going to be fine, baek." You comfort him with a soft tone.

When the dinner ends, we bid goodbyes to Jack and Maria, inviting them for a tour later when they have more leisure time to visit Korea because Jack has a business that he needs to settle back in London, that's why they need to catch the next flight by tonight.

The drive back to the apartment continues to become silent. you hate this kind of moment when Baekhyun looks so scary and serious as you are afraid to talk to him. But you know, only you can break him through that intense moment between the both of us. Daringly, you travel your hand to his crotch, begin to massage his clothed members slowly but pleasurably, causing him to hiss softly.

Baekhyun tries his best to focus on the road, gripping the steering wheel tighter the moment you continue to massage his balls. You slip your hand into his pants and boxers, feeling his bare meat as you grip your fingers around his member. He’s so fucking thick. You take out his member freely from his pants, playfully playing with his red tip using your thumb pad in circles.

"B-baby.." He calls.

You ignore him, start pumping his shaft around your fingers by adding more pressure. Moans start to elicit out of his mouth. You continue to cup his big balls with your other hand, trying to make him crazy while you're working out with his cock with your hands. When the veins at his dick start to protrude as it starts to stand proudly and hard, a few pre-cums start to release. "Eyes on the road, Mr Byun."

You begin to engulf his whole long length into your mouth, bobbing your head up and down your mouth while taking a glance at his pleasurable face. You can finally taste his small amount of juices in your mouth. Moans and low grunts are escaping as Baekhyun slams his head back to the headrest. He tries his best to focus on the road, trying to avoid us from getting caught into an accident. You could see the visible veins decorating his throbbing dick.

It didn't take long before Baekhyun finally surrender . He purposely bucked his hips upwards, accidentally causing his tip to hit the back of your throat as you gag having his cock fully inside your wet cavern. You try your best to give him the pleasure that he wants since he loves it when you mercilessly give him the blowjob. Your tears start to prickle in the corner of your eyes each and every time Baekhyun's cock hits your throat as you are breathing heavily through your nose this time.

"F-Fuck... it feels so good, baby-" He mutters as he moans. The sounds of you gagging and choking yourself with his big cock is the music into his ears where he doesn't need to turn on the radio. But instead, listen to that drench and sloppy wet sounds that you’re making with his throbbing dick. You are speeding your pace to engulf his cock as it's abusing your mouth.

"I'm coming, baby..." Baekhyun warns you with his husky yet breathy voice. Before he succeeded in releasing his juices into your mouth, he parked the car safely, somewhere as it's a perfect place to hide the car from other people's sights.

Baekhyun tightens the grip on the steering wheel, causing his knuckles to turn into white the moment he releases his hot seeds into your wet cavern, leaving a loud gasp. You try so hard to gulp and swallow it quickly. He pulls you off from his cock, some of his seeds trail from your lips as you lick it off.

"You're such a bad girl. I was driving and you blow-jobbing me, huh?" Baekhyun cups my cheeks with his hand, holding them with a force as he stares into your eyes seriously.

Innocently, you nod your head.

"Are you already wet?" He asks.

"You need to find it out then," You arrogantly reply as you smirk. Spreading your legs wider, you invite his fingers to feel the wetness that already drench your panties after listening to his moans from previous sessions. Practically, your wetness is pooling at your core, dripping wet but still waiting for him to settle it.

Baekhyun chuckles huskily, bringing his fingers to cup your drench panties before he pulls it off, leaving your bare pussy revealed to the exposed air. You breathe heavily, with the thoughts are currently playing in your mind which are Baekhyun finger fucking your hole.

Baekhyun strokes his two fingers along your folds, caressing on it while his thumb abuses your swollen and sensitive nub. Your toes start to curl and you grunt softly. "What do you want me to do with you?"

"Fuck me with your fingers, please" You finally beg. Suddenly, he hardly pushes his 3 digits into your tight cunt, passing through the walls without any warning..

You start to squirm badly when he begins to thrust your pussy with his fingers as he continues to play with your swollen clit. Your eyes are shut, biting your lower lip to bear with the pleasure that he gives when he keeps poking your sensitive spot over and over with his fingers.

You grip tightly around the seatbelt but it's unable to make you stop squirming badly, feeling aroused having him sliding his digits in and out easily because of your wet juices as the lubrication.

"B-Baekhy- Faster-'' you command. In any minute, his eyes dilated, increased his thrusting and hit your spot non-stop. You pull his nape into a deep kiss, swallowing the moans as he slips his tongue to stroke the roof of your mouth.

You double over the gasp when he brings his mouth to your clit, sucking and licking it badly while his fingers continue to pump in and out of your pussy. He quickens his movements and fucks you faster with his digits. You can finally feel the build-up in your stomach as he rolls the bud between his lips. The string of arousal finally snaps. You let out a loud mewl. You grip your fingers hard around the seatbelt, squeezing your legs together with Baekhyun lodges his face between your thighs.

"Oh my god.." You pant hard, feeling the last wave of pleasure rushes in you.

You cum having his mouth abusing your pussy. Baekhyun gives a few licks of your juices, swallowing them. Your legs feel so weak as your heart is beating too fast.

"Come here," Baekhyun invites. He unbuckles your seatbelt and lifts you up from the passenger seat, placing you to sit on his lap. "Thank you for being such a bad girl for me, babe," Baekhyun mumbles into your ear, dragging the tip of his hard cock along your slit. "Let me reward you." He breathes.

A sexy moan leaves your mouth when you lift yourself to push his tip between your folds and into your wet pussy. Baekhyun sheaths himself even more until his cock completely buried inside of you. Your walls squeezing tightly around his thick rod. He groans, his hand placed on your hips while your hands wrap around his neck.

"You're so..." he sounds breathless, "tight.."

You start to ride his cock relentlessly while Baekhyun works out with his hips upwards to meet with your thrust synchronously. Your inner muscles clench around him involuntarily. He grunts into your ear.

Your legs start to tremble to the fact that the pleasure weakens your energy. Baekhyun keeps on ramming your tight pussy with his thick girth while your pussy is trying to engulf his rod fully in me. The sexes slide smoothly just because the two of you guys’ pre-juices lubricate it well. "B-Baekhyun-"

Baekhyun slaps your bare ass, causing you to let out a surprised squeal as your pussy suddenly tightens around his throbbing cock, causing him to groan loudly. His breathing is loud and shallow in your ears.

Your mouth parts as you receive the same arousal that he keeps on giving. You roll your eyes back, slamming your head together each and every thrust. He cannot stop calling your name, abusing your g-spot with his swollen tip over and over. The overstimulation that you’re currently having, causing you to slow down from thrusting.

But, he aids you, pinning your back to the steering wheel as he uses his force to pound into your tight snatch. Tears start to stream down your cheeks as you feel like about to burst.

You bump your back on the steering wheel, accidentally hitting the honk. There are also a few times your head bumps towards the roof of the car, causing the both of you to chuckle for a second. Baekhyun pulls me away from the honk, afraid we will catch the neighbourhood's attention while we're busy fucking in his black car. "I'm cumming, Baekhyun..."

You couldn't hold it anymore. Baekhyun continues to hit that specific spot with a few more thrusts, you explode around his cock, your walls convulsing. He also released his hot and warm semen into your womb as both of us panting hard, trying to catch our breath. Baekhyun pecks your lips, wiping your sweaty forehead with his hand. "Thank you, baby." He plants a kiss on your crown.

You slowly pull yourself to sit back on the passenger seat, gasping softly the moment his throbbing cock sliding out from your cunt, feeling empty inside. You grin widely at him when the mixed cums start to drip from your hole. You pull out some tissues to wipe off the cums around your pussy, worried that it will stain his leather seat. Baekhyun also takes some tissues to wipe his drench throbbing cock before he slides his member into his pants back.

"Sorry if you accidentally stained your seat, baek.." You mutter softly as you apologise, making him chuckles.

"It’s okay, baby. This is also your car anyway and only you can sit here," He points it out to the seat that you’re sitting, "And the place where we'll be making out other than our bed." He smirks seducingly, causing me to slap his chest softly.

"Let's go home, hmm?" You buckle your seatbelt securely before looking at him. His engine roars the moment he starts the car, buckling himself as he slides his hand to intertwine again with your fingers.

"To our home, we go."

[ushiwakaout]

Boyfriend! Tsuki || Haikyuu!!

Genre: Fluff || Romance ||

Warnings: Manga Spoilers Ahead || Nsfw some where down the line ||

Gender Neutral Reader

Dedicated to @lemmien​ bc he’s a tsuki simp, come get your juice ma’am 

Mans will clown you 24/7

you’re shorter than him no doubt

friends with Tadashi

nicknames in public: shorty, short stack, short stuff, stumpy, midget

nicknames in private: shortcake, peanut, munchkin

YOU CANNOT TELL ME HE DOESN’T HAVE YOU UNDER SHORT CAKE WITH A PINK HEART GRRRRRRRRRRR BARK

You’re not the Karasuno manager, so how’d you guy meet?

You’re in the same class y’all debated on some social construct and he just looked down at your fiestey figure and was like, cute? 

it made him internally gag that he might have feeling for you ,like , hello? he was like no no no no no no NO, you wanna here it in spanish? NOH! english? NO! 

When he consulted Tadashi and it was def that scene with Legosi and Jack: video here

probably avoid you the best he can tbh until he can’t

y’all got assigned together for a project that can’t just be done in class

it was like a whole week thing he had to go to you place or you had to go to his

he refused to let you go to his place but one day he forgets that he made plans with you and lucky you, you ended up snagging his address from Tadashi so you’re at the door, you knock and guy who looks like Tsuki opens the door. He’s equally as tall or maybe more and isn’t wearing glasses

“Oh? Who must you be?” - Akiteru

“Y/N, I’m sorry to intrude but I’m looking for Tsukishima.”

“Y/n? You mean you’re THE y/n? It’s nice to meet you, I’m Akiteru, Kei’s older brother. That kid doesn’t stop talking about you!”

Huh? D-did you just hear him right?

He smiles and tells you to come in, “Kei! You’re girl/boy-friend’s here!”

From his room you could hear a bang, “Ow, shit...” He comes our rubbing his eyes and he’s like “Who are you talking about-” Sees you and it’s like a light bulb light up in his head, “Ah crap, I totally forgot didn’t I?” “What are you doing here?” he pretends like he doesn’t remember.

You’re kinda butt hurt about it “We had plans remember? The project? I was waiting for you at the cafe for like an hour! I looks dumb the whole entire time bc i kept telling the waitress to buzz off since I thought you’d show up, but no, it seems like you had other plans! Anyways, i’m just here to drop this off, I did my part of the project already- If you didn’t want to work together you could’ve just said so instead of letting me humiliate myself.” You shove the half completed project onto his chest and you let yourself out but not before apologizing to Akiteru

Where you crying?

The few droplets of water on the project said yes.

What was this wrenching gut felling?

Did Tsukishima actually fell bad fro making you upset

“Welp, there goes your chance.” 

“Shut up Akiteru.”

Doesn’t stop you from hanging out from Tadashi but if Tsuki ever comes up to y’all, you dash.  

Tadashi lectured him to apologize 

Does he? Not as soon as he should.

I think he finally gave in when you where sitting in Tadashis class eating your lunch and you see him, your fist instinct is to drop what you’re doing and pack up

“Don’t you think this is ridiculous?” He ask you but you don’t answer “I asked you a question.”

Tadashi is surprised when he dropped his things to chase you

“L/N” it’s probably the 5th time he’s called you name and you finally stop

“What? What could you possibly want Tsukishima? To humiliate me again?”

“I want- I want to apologize.” 

you are SHOCKED, Tsukishima Kei, was apologizing to you.

“ I knew I forgot something, and when you came to my house it just clicked. I’m sorry.”

You low key didn’t wanna forgive him... but you where going to humiliate him now

“You’re brother said you talked about me, and he called me your girlfriend/boyfriend... What was that about?” 

He makes that “tch” noise and drags you to a nearby crook, and this mother fucker kisses you. bold. very very bold.

did it turn into a makeout session... yes it did. 

so both of you are blushing when he pulls away, a hot streak of saliva connecting your plump lips, his glasses are kinda foggy.

“This doesn’t mean I forgive you.” You tell him while panting a lil.

THAT’S HOW YALL START DATING

Dates with Tadashi, you really wouldn’t have it any other way. 

Sometimes he feels bad so he hangs out but leaves early so y’all could enjoy your date, he starts picking up a habit of doing it but sometimes it’s just like WHERE U GOING?! THIS ISN’T A DATE

Do you hang out at his house with no intention to actually hang out but just lay in his bed, wearing his clothes

HIS MOM LOVES YOU SO DAMN MUCH, JUST ADORES YOU so when you forget that Tsuki has practice she’s like “no no no, come in, let me feed you plz, you can just hang out in Kei’s room too.”

So sometimes there are days when he comes back from practice and your sprawled on his bed wearing only his shirt and his spare set of headphones 

Will throw a plush dinosoure to catch your attention

“Oh! Welcome home! You’re mama let me in.” 

he’s like ofc she did, bc i wouldn’t have (sure tsuki, sure)

he gets ready for bed, we’ll getting ready to do homework

If you wanna get cuddly, you’re gonna have to pull him away from his homework to sit on him like a baby koala

he doesn’t mind anymore, bc you’ve learned not to sit on his cord and pull his headphones off his head

timeskip tsuki

y’all fight about the stupidest things

Has be made you cry? One to many times 

85% of it was probably while fucking

you mock him so hard when he decides to go pro 

“I thought it was a club kei, I thought you hated volleyball.”

“shut up woman or i’ll shut you up”

challange accepted

you kept mocking him

thank god you’re at home bc you would have been in big trouble if you were in public.

You where just reading some manga on the couch when he’s standing behind you and he tilts your head back, his fingertips digging into your cheeks “You don’t learn do you?” you kinda give him a cheeky smile and chuckle

he gets worked up easily it’s funny to push his buttons

you push his buttons bc if he does get pissed off which is 100% of the time, it just means he’s gonna rail you 

lets add some nsfw

Does Kei fuck you in his Sendai Frogs jersey to break it in... oh hell yes

YOU CANNOT TELL ME THAT THIS MANS DON’T HAVE AN ONLY FANS BUT PEOPLE DON’T KNOW ITS HIM SKDJSFJSJFHJ

 his sub is like 45 dollar a month bc he doesn’t just take pictures, most of his videos are of him fucking you so good. people want to know who you guys are.

when he doesn’t wanna focus on filming, the only thing he’ll post is an audio of you guys fucking and I think people like those a lot better because they can hear your moans and your pleads 

His degrading you half of the time

“You’re such a stupid whore fore my cock aren’t you. You can’t even speak.”

He has his fingers wrapped around your neck while you’re hold your knees to your chest

 you’re a crying sobbing mess and the audio records the way you sob out his name, but it’s always bleeped out, they can only hear your swearing and you’re babbling

will fuck you mating press style if he really wants to fuck your brains out.

he’ll start fucking you so slow, it doesn’t make it better but he’s trying to ease up on you bc as much as he loves it when you cry and plead, he want you to know that he loves you even if he’s calling you names

He start to kiss your forehead, your nose, your wet cheeks and then your lips.

The last few minutes is a distorted audio of him talking to you while he fucks you slowly, He’s repeating the words, “You know i love you right?”

But you’re like “fuck you Kei.” there’s a whine in your voice while he starts to speed up for the last time. in between moans you’re just like “Kei, just cum inside me already, please just- just fill me up already.” 

you’re knees are on his shoulders and he’s riding out both your orgasm and his

and while he does that you’re just like “I fucking hate you, god fuck- oh god, I fucking love you.”

“Do you hate me or do you love me, make up your mind woman.”

“Shut up kei, just kiss me.”

Request Are Open!!!

[nonatanahlada]

do you ever love someone | tbz younghoon x tbz hyunjae

it started with a typical saturday night—quiet and dim lighted for kim younghoon's minimalistic apartment unit on the twelfth floor of the whole building. september just ended and the season is transitioning from a scorching summer to rather windy fall. thinking that by having his longtime bestfriend and actually romantic interest came over to fill the chilly gap tonight, there is lee jaehyun in the other side of the dining table. the both of them just finished the dinner younghoon cooked himself with a bottle of wine from one of the finest château jaehyun's or hyunjae's (there are too many jaehyun's around so) fancying over. then the lee asked if he could stay over as he is too drunk to drive himself back in which the kim surely agreed to.

the both of them changed to more comfortable fits, brushed their teeth, and moved directly to the shared bed. being bestfriends since they were newborns in the hospital ward—family friends and its perks they said, made sharing the same bed as an occasion that is not to be fussed about too much. though as younghoon realized his romantic interest towards hyunjae, this slightly succeeded in fastening his own heartbeat. not wanting to be more flustered than he is at the moment, younghoon quickly pulled up the covers and asked hyunjae to turn off the bedside lamp.

moments have passed and the kim has successfully reached the deep unconsciousness—in the opposite, the lee is still trying to find the comfortable state to fall asleep. hyunjae knew there is something bugging inside his mind recently and somehow he got this odd guts saying that it would fade away the moment he asks it out to younghoon.

"hoon?" hyunjae somehow couldn't resist the urge to ask. though he might be an asshole at times, he would never really want to disturb others' deep slumber—yet his odd guts literally made the decision that he should this time.

the one being asked—younghoon, randomly mumbled then changed his position from backing away to face him kind of properly. his eyes tightly shut but hyunjae is sure that his ears are all in.

"can i ask you something?" hyunjae continued.

younghoon chuckled weakly as the sleepiness is still there—he proceeded to reply in his morning voice (it was a little over midnight at the moment in fact), "mind you that 'can i ask you something' is already a question, jae."

ah, kim younghoon and his subtle teasing nature, hyunjae thought.

younghoon was never the type to intentionally make others flustered by teasing them—he absolutely doesn't need to and it's more of hyunjae's kind of thing, but he does though he only shows it to selected few including hyunjae.

"i'll take that as a yes," hyunjae sighed and younghoon noticed the seriousness and anxiousness the other had, he tried harder to open his eyes.

"do you ever love someone so much at the point it scares you to tell them what you're actually feeling?"

oh my Lord, oh my good Lord.

this is absolutely nothing kim younghoon would expect to hear from someone like lee jaehyun—the lee jaehyun he's known since the very first memory he had in mind, the one that is known as a true heartbreaker (the nice one though, the type to keep things genuine but only for a short period of time—never cheated or something like that). he couldn't even keep up with the number of girls and actually guys hyunjae have dated with over the years. the lee possessed God gracious sculpted good looking physical appearance, literal jack of all trades, interesting personality, and those qualities are surely attracting many.

but then his mind traveled back to the fact that hyunjae asked something like 'do you ever love someone so much at the point it scares you to tell them what you're actually feeling?', that's a question only a true romantic would ask! younghoon never took him as a true romantic as hyunjae has too many hearts broken under his name and it should numb his concept of romance. yet younghoon quickly got over it—hyunjae is an honest bastard, sometimes way too honest and that is why he is a bastard. the way he can't tell whoever he meant about his feelings must be torturing him deeply (younghoon was not sure that they were really talking about hyunjae himself though).

"hoon? uh, i guess that was odd? well, let's forget it and sorry for disturbing your sleep. get back on it, good night-"

"i do, and i still am," younghoon—still with eyes struggling to open and morning voice, cut off the other quickly.

and it's you, the one i'm loving way too much at the point it scares me to tell you the truth.

hyunjae felt a timid surprise throughout his system as he sees younghoon as someone similar to himself, a heartbreaker—though more in the calmer side with prince like outlook and somewhat unapproachable as he has this shy introvert nature. but a heartbreaker is still a heartbreaker by the end of the day right?

"it's the best of not really the best feeling ever, you got it?"

hyunjae hummed quietly, he agreed though—the best of not really the best feeling, it is as messed up as it sounds.

"why?" younghoon tried to continue the conversation as he noticed that hyunjae's hum could end everything they have at the moment.

"why what?" hyunjae asked back, eyes finally fell on the august born he's known all his life.

"why did you ask something like that? especially to me at this hour."

hyunjae felt his throat drying up, he lost the strength to answer somehow. yet younghoon patiently waited while staring back at the september born's twinkling orbs.

"i didn't know either—my odd guts told me to ask you, it has been bugging my mind recently," hyunjae replied after a solid ten minutes of silence.

younghoon hummed, "you have someone in mind then? the one who made you thought of it."

the idea of someone strucked hyunjae like a blazing lightning inside his mind—someone, someone he has known way better for way too long. and younghoon kind of got the memo, oh please keep in mind that neither the two of them were never the clueless type—they're literal heartbreakers, know how romantic interest works, and have been understanding each other the best.

and just like that, younghoon shifted from his laying position to sit himself up on the bed with eyes finally wide awake. he simply leaned closer and unsurprisingly hyunjae kept still—not showing any sign of uncomfort at the disappearing space between. they could feel each others' pacing breath as their nose tips began to touch each other. but as the party who has been realizing longer, worries and hesitation started to grow on younghoon—luckily, hyunjae being the risk taker he is noticed it and took over the lead.

do it, just do it. now or never, once for ever.

and there you go—

lee jaehyun kissed kim younghoon right on the lips at sharply 1 am on the shared bed of minimalistic apartment unit on the twelfth floor during the transition of summer to fall.

the kiss—it was a quick peck actually, a chaste one too. it happened too fast at the point the both of them kind of forgot how each others' lips tasted like (kind of 'gross' but guess that's just how people in love act).

"can i do it again?" hyunjae asked in rather small voice, risking it all in the contrary.

younghoon simply nod.

and they kissed, again. this time longer, more demanding, and filled with various unsaid feelings. through that, younghoon learned that hyunjae's lips tasted like a warm wine from a certain château—it was drunkenly sweetening. hyunjae also learned how younghoon's lips tasted like the softest combination of cherry and coffee—it sounded weird but he loved it.

"i never really thought we would—more on myself though, develop romantic interest to each other," hyunjae opened the conversation as they parted the contact.

"i thought the world has gone mad the moment you asked that question earlier," younghoon smiled vaguely.

"how long has you realized yours though, hoon?"

"two to three years, i guess? i'm not particularly sure either, i just happened to wake up one day and realized i wanted to kiss the hell up of your lips and spend my entire life with you."

"cheesy," hyunjae cringed.

"but i like it, let's do that."

"let's do that."

[firstdove15]

April Reading Spaz

Still going strong. And more than halfway through my annual reading goal.

1) A Girl Like Her by Talia Hibbert (Four Stars)

I actually started this book March 31st but I finished it on April 1st. I wanted to check out some of Hibbert’s earlier works before the Brown Sisters trilogy but I had to buy the ones I was most interested in because they weren’t available at the library or Libby. I’m not mad. I had fun with it. I was scared I wouldn’t enjoy it as much because it’s an earlier work but the snark/banter was still top notch, the familial relationships felt real and more guys who are in tune with their feelings and making actual effort to, you know, be a good partner. Bless. Just bless. There was a twist that I wasn’t expecting but it was well done and, again, that familial relationship be on point.

There was one part that felt like it resolved too quickly, but the turn itself was a pleasant surprise. Either way, I’m glad I got to read it and I’ll definitely continue with the series. Literally the only one I’m missing is the in-between novella but given what I know about the antagonist from the first book, he can choke and I can be okay knowing his soon-to-be ex-wife bounces...

2) I’ll Be the One by Lyla Lee (Five Stars)

I read this book for the “Read a Book that You Predict Will Be a Five Star” challenge from Jesse’ TBR card game. And I highly enjoyed it. The fat representation, the complex relationship between the main character and her mother, some things that are left unsaid but made narrative sense, the adorable romance, the girl friendships that were just as important as the love story and family drama. I breezed through this book as well. I bought it back in...November? And I wanted to read it then but a reading slump kicked my butt and I just never got to it until this month. I’m glad I finally got to it and I’m keeping it.

3) Once Upon An Eid by S.K. Ali and others (Four Stars)

I read this one for the “Read a Book about a Muslim family” challenge from Jesse’ TBR card game and, heh, I really need to look at my TBR for more Muslim books because the fact that I had to study my bookshelf to find something for this prompt was eye opening.

I found it charming and cozy. It had some great lessons and warm moments between family and it was nice to read about someone else’s culture. I wasn’t expecting it to be middle grade (not a complaint; just an observation). They also included illustrations that were just full of life. I definitely recommend it.

4) The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon (Four Stars)

I read this one for the “Read a Book That Has Been Adapted into a Movie” challenge from Jesse’ TBR game. It was between this and Sense and Sensibility. I wasn’t confident that I would breeze through the latter so the former won out.

I prefer slow burn but I could buy the instalove in this one for the fact that there was a lot of dialogue in terms of getting to know what makes each other tick and what their core values are. I also breezed through this book and I had mixed feelings about the epilogue but overall I enjoyed it.

5) The Way of the Househusband by Kousuke Oono and Anindhita Raghia (Four Stars)

I don’t have much to say here. It cracked me up and I plan on continuing the manga and watching the anime on Netflix. I want to see what made him change. Also the author’s snark in the afterword cracked me up cuz I feel like any artist with a pet has been there. XD

6) The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang (Five Stars)

For the second time I got the “Read a Book Your Favorite Antagonist Would Read” card and it was thanks to brainstorming with Mom that I predicted this book would be up either Azula’s (ATLA) alley or Drosselmeyer’s (Princess Tutu).

Drosselmeyer would’ve ate this book up. Holy. Crap.

It’s a fantasy heavily inspired by the Sino-Japanese wars and I knew very little about it (or if our school did touch on it, I forgot most of it.) so the only thing I anticipated was that Rin and her classmates would probably lose that war and I dreaded it because I came to care about her, Kitay, Jiang, and Nezha (Ironically, I couldn’t STAND him at first, but his character development made sense.). The pacing was great and I loved Rin’s dynamic with her best friend and her mentor.

As much as I loved the book and found everything compelling, I’m taking my time with the sequels because the aftermath of a massacre jacked me up. And finding out it was heavily based on what really happened made me so distraught. Like. Yeah. It was bad. I mean, I already know why and how such cruelty can exist in the world (and the book itself explores why cruelty even exists) but...yeah.

TLDR: Highly Recommend but Emphasis on Read with Care.

7) Act Your Age, Eve Brown (Five Stars)

Originally I was going to read Arsenic and Adobo by Mia. P. Manansala next but the library sent me a notice for this book and I desperately needed something funny after The Poppy War. And Talia. DELIVERED. As always. <3333 Both A Girl Like Her and Act Your Age, Eve Brown had (own voice) autistic representation and it was just nice to read. The banter was hilarious, the brief friendship before the smash/romance was cute, and the communication for the most part was top notch.

8) Nubia: Real One by L.L. McKinney and Robyn Smith (Four Stars)

I finished this book at work today. The art style was really cute (Nubia has an adorable tooth gap) and I loved the friendship and family dynamics in this story. I didn’t expect them to heavily touch on racism and police brutality/violence even though I should’ve known so it was a fun and heartbreaking read at the same time (i.e. Nubia’s encounter with the police officer after she had been falsely accused of being the one who robbed the convenience store broke my heart.). And in a rare case for me with superhero comics, I found the crush story genuinely adorable. I look forward to reading more.

Books I’m planning on reading for Asian Readathon in May

1) If I Tell You the Truth by Jasmin Kaur

2) Know My Name by Chanel Miller

3) Want by Cindy Pon

4) Descendant of the Crane by Joan He

5) Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala

[rosemary-morgan]

Josiah Trelawny X Reader: I was lost without you - Part 1

Hello, friends ;) This time, I'll bring you a new story about Josiah Trelawny. I just love him ^. ^ I hope you will like it. Please don´t be surprised if you find some grammatical mistakes. English is not my native language.

Warning: Nothing in this part ;)

Part 2

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I was lost without you - Part 1

Rhodes, 1901

Two years had passed since the Van der linde Gang broke up. You had lost many of your good friends, and most of all the loss of Arthur has hit you hard. He was such a good person and a special friend to you. He always protected you and he was like a big brother to you. Dealing with his death was very difficult for you, but you accepted it. Arthur had finally found his peace and you knew that wherever he was, he was fine.

You would like to know what happened to the rest of the gang. You miss them all very much. Mary Beth, Karen, Jack, John, and even Uncle. Charles, Abigail ... But most of all, you missed Josiah.

Josiah Trelawny. The charming and handsome magician who had stolen your heart at your first encounter. You stared in thought, and you had to admit that you miss Josiah very much. How many times have you dreamed of being in his arms? You two had been writing letters for a while, but at some point, Josiah had stopped answering yours and you still didn´t know why.

In the end, you also stopped writing to him. That was three months ago. It took a lot of courage to reveal your feelings for Josiah. And now? Now you stood alone in your kitchen and couldn´t forget this man. You dreamed of spending the evenings with him in front of a warm fire and sleeping peacefully in his arms at night.

A soft sigh came over your lips. >>Why am I doing this? Josiah probably forgot me ... << But you would like to visit him and tell him all the things you never dared to utter. And most of all, you wanted to know why he suddenly stopped answering your letters. But as mentioned, you were too shy to confront the magician. So you had no choice but to accept his decision. As much as it hurt you.

His letters had been so wonderful and he had also revealed his most intimate secrets to you. Some of them had brought a blush to your cheeks. Romantic and at the same time very erotic stuff that he would like to do with you. Did he just play with your feelings? He had flirted with you a lot back then, and maybe those were just lies? You didn´t want to think about it. You felt like an idiot because you confessed your feelings to him. >>Oh, God... I don´t want to think about it. This is so embarrassing!<<

Your eyes fell on the clock. It was getting quite late, but you couldn´t think about sleep at the moment. Maybe a good book would distract you a little bit? Silently, you went into the living room and reached for one of your books. As it was not to be expected otherwise, you hold in your hands an erotic romance novel. You sighed softly as you read the title. You really loved this book, but was that the right thing for you? At this moment? "Alright .." With a sigh, you sat down on the couch and opened the book. You don´t start the book from the beginning, but you opened the interesting places. You had marked these clearly visible. The erotic love scenes in this book aroused you every time and when you read the first few lines, you bite your lower lip and you immediately imagine how Josiah would do all those things with you. Some things you dare not say aloud, but you dreamed of it.

You had to smile and your cheeks turned red.

"Oh, Josiah ..." you whisper and close your eyes. In your imagination many naughty things took place and you suddenly got very hot, so you put the book aside and you made yourself comfortable on the couch. Your hand slips slowly under your white, short nightgown and you moan softly the name of your loved one before you give yourself to this temptation...

A few days later...

"Ah, good day, (Y / N)!"

"Good day, Alden! Do you have any letters for me?" you asked hopefully, but unfortunately, Alden had to disappoint you. There was no letter from Josiah.

Alden knew about your weakness for Josiah. But what you didn´t know was that Alden was very jealous of Josiah and that he was the one who intercepted Josiah's letters so they couldn´t reach you. "I'm sorry, dear. There's nothing for you." You sigh softly and you lowered your gaze sadly to the ground. "Oh, (Y/N), why are you doing this to yourself? Josiah has forgotten you and if you ask me, he's an idiot! " "Alden..." "He's an idiot, (Y/N)! Otherwise, he wouldn´t just forget a woman like you!"

Alden's words flattered you on the one hand, but on the other hand, they hurt you. Maybe Alden was right? Maybe you should give up waiting eagerly for Josiah. "You're such a beautiful woman, (Y/N)! Everyone would be happy to have you!"

Alden gave you a warm smile, but you sighed softly and shake your head. You just don´t care about other men. You had rejected some of them who wanted to go out with you. Maybe that was a stupid decision from your side or maybe not...

"Forget him, (Y/N)! You're still young! Go find a nice guy and who knows, maybe one is not that far from you!" A small smile crossed your lips. It was really sweet of him to cheer you up. At least he tried. "Alden, I know you just want the best for me but... can´t you understand me? I love him, Alden. How could I forget him?" When your eyes filled with tears, Alden sighed softly and he suddenly felt bad. He regretted that he had hidden Josiah's letters from you. Now he saw your tears and he was very sorry about. Alden didn´t know how much you loved Josiah. Until today.

You look questioningly into his eyes. Didn´t he know what it meant to love someone? And hopeless to wait for your love to come back? It was damn hard and it hurts. "Oh, (Y/N). Of course, I understand! But I can´t stand to see you suffer! Josiah should be ashamed of himself! "

Again you sigh and maybe it would be better if you make your way home again. Somehow you disliked this conversation with Alden. Because every time Alden pulled Josiah in the dirt and he didn´t deserve this. "Stop insulting Josiah! He's a good man!" With these last words, you leave the post office and make your way home. At the moment you had enough of the people around you and you wanted to be alone. With folded arms in front of your chest, you look completely lost in thought. "Uff..." You sighed softly. Have you been unfair to Alden? You run your hand through your hair and sigh louder this time. You were sorry about how you treated Alden. He just meant it good with you. At least that's what you believed.

But what happened a few weeks later, opened your eyes for the truth...

It was a rainy day when Alden suddenly stood at your doorstep. He was visibly nervous and held a bundle of letters in his hand. "Alden, that's a surprise! How can I help you?" Your eyes fell on the bundle of letters and you frowned questioningly. Then you look up at him and he looked ashamed to the ground and finally handed the letters to you. "These are yours..." "What?" Alden looked ashamed in your face but turned his eyes away from you again. He just couldn´t look into your eyes. Because what he had done was unforgivable. Alden had realized that he had wronged you and Josiah, making you very unhappy. Both of you. That just wasn´t fair of him. He acted like a child. "These letters... Josiah wrote these letters."

Your eyes widened with fright and you could hardly believe what Alden said to you. You stare at the bundle before you take it in your hands and take a look at them.

Josiah Trelawny. Gordons Street 21. Saint Denis.

"B-but... Josiah..." You couldn´t explain where all these letters came from. And there were a lot of them! There were at least ten letters. "Where are they coming from?!" You had a premonition, but you didn´t want it to be true. Had Alden intercepted Josiah's letters? And these withheld from you? But why would he have done such a thing?

"Alden, what does that mean?!" "I'm sorry, (Y/N)! I don´t know what got into me! It´s just... It´s... because I didn´t want you to be happy with Josiah." You were speechless and shocked. With wide-open eyes, you look at Alden. "What?! Alden! Why?! I thought we were friends!" Did Alden have the slightest idea of ​​what you had been through? Did he have any idea how you felt during the last months?! You were speechless and shocked. "I'm sorry, (Y/N)." But you shake your head and close the door again, leaving Alden back in the rain. You didn´t want to see this bastard anymore. He hurt you deeply. Your eyes filled with tears and suddenly they break out of you.

Leaning your back against the door, you let yourself slowly slide to the ground while holding the letters firmly pressed against you. Josiah had never stopped writing to you. "Oh, my dear lord..."

This seemed like a nightmare to you. The whole time you believed that Josiah had forgotten you... that he had lost his interest in you. But it was not like that.

With trembling fingers, you opened his letters. One after the other...

"My dearest (Y/N),

I am probably the luckiest man on earth! You're such a wonderful and beautiful woman and I am honored that you have chosen me.

Oh good god, I'm speechless! I'll be back in Saint Denis in a few months, but until then, I'll write to you from Charleston. I kiss you, my love.

I can´t wait to hold you in my arms, (Y/N). You breathed life into me. I love you, (Y/N)."

Your loving Josiah."

"My dearest (Y/N),

It's been a while since I heard anything from you. Is everything ok? Did I do something wrong? Maybe I was too intrusive in my letters? It's already the third letter in a row that I send to you.

Have you changed your mind, dear? I will accept your decision but please: give me a clear answer and don´t leave me in doubt. You mean far too much for me to just forget about you.

I know that the age difference between us is big, but believe me when I tell you that I love you. I really do my love.

When I read your letters, I always felt that you feel the same for me. Not in a single line could I find the opposite. But now you suddenly seem so far away, dearest. Please let me know what your heart tells you.

Your loving Josiah. "

The whole truth lay before your eyes. Josiah never stopped answering your letters.

"Oh, Josiah ..." What now? Could you still save this relationship between you? How could Alden do this to you?! He had interfered with your relationship and probably ruined everything. You would never forgive Alden.

"Oh, Josiah. I didn´t know that. I didn´t know that..." you whisper softly. You thought about visiting Josiah in Saint Denis and explaining to him what had happened. He deserved the truth just as much as you, and maybe that would save your relationship with Josiah. God, you haven´t even held each other in your arms! You didn´t want to think about it, because that made you incredibly angry with Alden. You sighed softly and tried to calm you down.

Two days later...

You just put your last things in your suitcase when someone knocked on your door. You didn´t suspect who stood at your doorstep. When you opened the door, you thought your heart would stop beating at any moment. "Josiah?!" You couldn´t believe that Josiah was standing in front of you. With a wonderful bouquet of red roses and a rather sad smile on his face. "Alden told me everything. He sent me a telegram." You were overjoyed that Josiah was standing in front of you. You didn´t hesitate long and throw yourself in his arms. Without hesitation, Josiah caught you and hugged you tightly. "(Y/N) I missed you" he whispers, burying his face in your neck and pressed your body closer to his. "Josiah ..." You felt his body, perceived his unique scent that twisted your head. He smelled of fresh mint. Your fingers claw gently into his hair as you felt his lips cover your neck with gentle kisses. That felt incredibly good and a soft moan came over your lips. "Josiah ... hah ... I missed you too." You whisper and close your eyes. It felt so good to be in his arms ...

[gaarfielf]

k im gonna throw in my hot take on part 5 now i think the time has come where i’ve watched enough of the damn series i can make a coherent essay on whats what on what (putting it under a read more bc this shit is gonna be long and i dont want my followers to suffer too much)

I’ll do this character by character starting with the new ones

Ami: I’m having a hard time deciphering whether she’s being underutilized or over utilized because number 1) her character isn’t interesting enough to have her keep coming around, especially when her only connection to the group is Lupin. She hasn’t had any interaction with Goemon or Jigen that i know of and she hates Fujiko for ??? reasons. That being said, I would’ve preferred if she was fleshed out more because 2) literally having her be the distant girl that is quiet and doesn’t understand social norms is..... really boring. It’s almost as boring as having a female character whose only there as a set of boobs... (coughs). She isn’t interesting because they didn’t make her interesting, yeah? It’s hard to hate a character based on the fact alone they were clearly written by a man but I mean it very literally when I say she could’ve been something great. Having her confess her love to Lupin was straight up disgusting and I really expected more from tms in that vein. Putting romance where romance doesn’t need to be is bad enough let alone when you jack knife it in between a child and an adult. And for those of you saying ‘Oh hhhh she’s like nineteen’....look into your heart. Even if she is 1) she sure as hell doesn’t look it and 2) Lupin is like 40-50. In the wise words of me, children loving adults was a myth made up by pedophiles in support of the devil. Npot to mention pitting her against Fujiko because they both like Lupin?? I ain’t even gotta explain why that’s a pathetic excuse at writing. But I will. Fujiko is a grown ass woman so why the fuck would she care and Ami is a child who shouldn’t be in love with him anyway. She has truly been nothing in the series except a tool and even at that not a likable one.

Yata: Do I even have to say that I can’t write anything about a man who hasn’t had more than 4 minutes of screen time in the last 24 episodes? He was hyped up before the series started and he’s done nothing but be Zenigata’s personality in the place of Zenigata y’know. Actually speaking and having one for himself BUT WE’LL GET TO THAT LATER. He’s done nothing but yell and cry over literally nothing? Like he fights Zeni’s fights because for some reason Zenigata got super lazy this season (again, we’ll get into that later) and he’s just a pointless character.

Albert: Gay rep for life haha just kidding he was bad at that too. I think they literally introduced him as faux-gay rep because they know the fans wanted more sensitive interactions from their already existing male cast members and they were like ‘well that’s gay so we’ll give them this guy’. And speaking on behalf of myself - ‘I don’t want these’. So Albert shows up, supposedly having a HUGE connection to Lupin’s past and then............we never see him again. And they literally tell us nothing about him except he’s gay and works in the government. Apparently when we say ‘we want gay rep’ they hear ‘very minor gay character??’ and didn’t hear us say ‘no’ back. And every time I hear anyone say 1) ‘well, his connection to Lupin is supposed to be a mystery!’ I can feel hives growing on my skin because i’m allergic to bullshit like if they weren’t gonna tell us the connection, and whatever the connection is didn’t reveal anything new about the character outside of ‘Lupin knew somebody that wasn’t Jigen when he was younger’ then why?? mention it?? why make an entire arc dedicated to not telling us something if the end result was ‘it doesn’t matter who he is’? 2) ‘well they’re obviously cousins’ except they obviously aren’t. if they obviously were, they’d say that they were cousins. like if y’all are digging up bits of the manga from 40 years ago to say ‘there was a character who had the same last name’ but are also out here saying ‘Jigen doesnt have a sister bc they said that over 40 yers ago and haven’t mentioned it since’ then I ain’t got nothing to say to y’all, you’re just dodgy and ain’t worth the stress of talking to. 3) ‘they’re maybe gay’ well the cool thing about gay rep is that we don’t give honourary mentions out for series that were too cowardly to actually come right out and say it. So in conclusion, Albert was written by cowards who couldn’t decide what to do with him.

Enzo: Boring. That’s literally all I have to say. Trying to give him depth by making Ami his daughter was predictable and not at all interesting. To be honest I completely forgot she was looking for her dad anyway because she didn’t seem to care that much about finding him either (or seem to care about anythign really). He’s a shitty villain and every time he speaks I got my finger on the right-key because I don’t care what he has to say and so far I haven’t missed anything good so yeah. Just disappointing.

I think that’s it??? For new characters?? So I’ll move onto the main cast

Jigen: I 👏 WANT 👏 JIGEN 👏 TO 👏 DO 👏 SOMETHING like good fucking God the man hasn’t done anything this whole series up until 24 where he got  5 minute scene dedicated to him killin’ cops (direct action) but like?? As a character he hasn’t progressed he has BARELY spoken and we’ve learned one new thing about him the whole series in the episode where he meets the daughter of a woman he used to work with. And that one thing that we learned was: he used to work with the mother of this girl. That’s it. Episode 24 he got a little bit of dialog with Lupin that I guess was supposed to be like character development but it was so weird because it was kind of directed at the audience?? So it’s like is he talking to me or to Jigen because if I was Jigen I would not have one goddamn clue what he was talking about. Also, he’s so depressing this season?? Right up until now we’ve seen very little personality from him aside from Angry and Complains a Lot. He smiles sometimes sure but like he doesn’t exactly have a lot to smile about this season considering he’s not really in the limelight anymore and is only brought back to foreshadow how much he hates technology and wants to retire. Personally, Jigen is one of my favourite characters and the fact he hasn’t achieved much this series is a big let-down

Goemon: I can’t even imagine how let down Goemon fans feel because again, up until Episode 23 he did nothing. He had an episode where he fell in love?? With a girl?? Disguised as a woman?? For some reason?? It was in one of the throwbacks and I’ll admit that maybe the episode made sense and I probably missed something but to me I had no clue what was going on. ANYWAY like his big scene in the spotlight is 3 episodes before the end of the series (its not like he’s a main character or anything) and he cuts Lupin. Because he thinks that he isn’t really his friend. That’s it that’s the only reason he almost murders his friend. Just kidding the other reason was that it was a half ass attempt at shock value to make sure the audience was still paying attention. They can’t seem to decide this season whether they want Goemon to be edgy or stupid but I think we’ve gotten a greta big helping of both so thanks tms /sarcasm/. They’ve really just dragged his character through the mud this season because he used to be stoic, mysterious, traditionalist but lowkey clumsy guy and then now he’s. I don’t even know how to describe it he’s just become so cutesy and edgy at the same time so we get him cutting Lupin in half right in front of UwU i eat my fish skin first ! I’m quirky ! like what am I supposed to feel about this grown man? He’s really too back-and-forth for me this season

Fujiko: I’M GONNA GET HEATED ABOUT THIS ONE SO BUCKLE UP I’ve never seen Fujiko written this poorly since TWCFM (yes i’m outting that as a bad series too so don’t @ me about that lil tidbit). She’s there as a piece of eyecandy bUT SHE IS SO POORLY DRAWN IT MAKES ME WONDER IF ANYBODY AT TMS HAS EVER SEEN A WOMAN IN THEIR LIFE TIME. Seriously her proportions are so off and outwardly repulsive looking it makes it hard not to skip anything she says in the series on account of how half-ass her character looks. Not limiting herself to being visually repulsive, she also has a half-ass personality. Suddenly Fujiko isn’t the come-and-go as she pleases, mysterious woman that gives Lupin intel on very high security operations she’s just. There. At some point in the series she said ‘a woman’s body is just a tool to get something she needs’ and I wanted to puke this is NOT Fujiko’s character at all and I’m disgusted that they’re brushing her off as a pair of walking talking boobs. Also her absolute lack of empathy is just mind numbing because they’re somehow trying to convince the audience that Lupin broke her heart due to wedding related reasons that still haunt her but? Seeing him cut almost in half does nothing for her? And then she deadpan ‘This is just how it is’ like this is just putting her in such an evil light that I hate because I love Fujiko! In every other season she’s fighty and sarcastic and witty AND NOT JUST THERE FOR EYE CANDY. And going back to the wedding thing, why is this being made into such a big deal? There’s literal episodes in other seasons called ‘Fujiko Doesn’t Look Right in a Wedding Dress’ ‘Fujiko Doesn’t Want to Be Married’ ‘A Ring Is Like a Trap’ like she 👏 don’t 👏 want 👏 to 👏 be 👏 married 👏. And the preview for the next ep shows her in a wedding dress so I’m ultimately preparing myself for the big season finale being them getting married.

hurray.

Final thought on Fujiko being, the episode where she picks up Lupin to save him from succumbing to his crossbow wound (easily the funniest thing thats happened all season) I mean. Yeah it’s kinda cool. I don’t really have any strong feelings about that like I’m not about to praise them for something like that when it was immediately followed by her and Ami slap fighting over him again.

Lupin: In my days of watching Lupin movies/specials my slogan was ‘if the ratio of screen time in the movie between characters is 10:0 in Lupin’s favour then it ain’t a good movie’ and it’s ringing true to this season where it’s all about Lupin. I understand obviously it’s a series called Lupin III like I’m not stupid but the amount of ass kissing to his character is something else like they’re putting him on this huge pedestal like he’s a do-no-wrong kind of guy to the point where he’s boring because he’s done nothing wrong. Ever. He doesn’t argue with anybody he doesn’t have any strong emotions really (outside of that episode where Zenigata loses his memory we see him outwardly angry for a minute). It just makes him such a dry character when they try to mold him into being absolutely flawless and admirable. Also the amount of faking his own death and ‘oh no is he gonna die’ moments are just not entertaining. Like I said earlier when he got shot with the crossbow that was the hardest I’ve laughed in a long long time. It played like an SNL skit (you know what one). And again we aren’t learning anything new. Whose Albert to him!? We never got to know, What’s his relationship to Fujiko!? We’re probably gonna find out they’re getting married last episode after all the touching moments they had together this season like.... like uh.... when they uh... oh right they’ve barely spoken to each other all season. And when they did they were arguing. Love is in the air huh?

Zenigata: AI’ll try to keep this brief but Yata’s taken over his character this season. He’s barely spoken, he has like, NO energy or determination. After the episode where Lupin faked his death (the first time, not the proceeding 90 times) Zenigata just stopped appearing and stopped doing anything productive. If anything his character became an excuse for an info dump. Like oh we see a war torn area whats going on? Zenigata is conveniently nearby to say ‘these people are at war!’ and then outside character will tell a 18 paragraph history on him of whose at war and their history and then Zenigata says ‘okay’ and doesn’t appear again for the next 2 episodes.

Now for the closing thoughts I guess

i don’t know why they’re looking at Lupin having plot as separate from Lupin being episodic. Like they’ve separated him from adventure so he’s just doing the same things over and over again. Not to mention like I said earlier, the fans wanted to see more sensitive interactions between the already existing characters, and if anything, they’re farther apart and just really confusing and contradictory. It’s hard to get through an episode when every week its another ‘great time for another plot arc they’re never gonna finish’. When I watched episodes of Part 1 and 2 and 4 (not so much 3 because i can’t find anywhere to watch it lol) I’m pretty attentive all the way through because the series drops tidbits of information about the characters and they make the episode enjoyable to watch. This season is so dreary and dry I can’t find anything to enjoy about it because it’s just one disappointment after another. I’m trying to to sound bitchy as I type all this out but I mean I’m speaking as a fan who is just really disappointed. I know I’ve said ‘disappointed’ a lot in this whole thing but there isn’t another word to describe it because that’s really the way that I feel about part 5. Seeing my favourite characters on screen is supposed to make me feel happy and excited to see where they’re gonna go and what they’re gonna do not make me think “I hope they don’t ruin this character for me’ in every. single. episode. This season has been underwhelming, unenjoyable, inconsistent and just really exhausting to me overall.

i gotta go eat now so peace out and if you read to the end of all this then hopefully i’m not the only one in this boat but if you don’t agree with me then i guess thats just how it is yeah?

EDIT: I forgot to mention that the callbacks were cool at first but now I just find they’re baiting me into thinking i’ll enjoy the episode because i’ll find something I liked from one of the better seasons in it. They’re just really overused at this point because these callbacks aren’t being used for anything. like ‘lupin is making his plan at the cagliostro castle!’ like. why. ‘detective melon is also angry at lupin!’ but if she isn’t like teaming up with zenigata or actually doing anything to find him why should i care. 

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Unexpected Pt.11

Pairing: Jungkook x Reader

Summary: You never expected your trip to Seoul to end up like it does. You didn’t expect to step off the plane and have coffee pour down your shirt. You also didn’t expect the guy to offer to show you around the city. You notice things about him that don’t quite make sense, like how he shows interest but will only see you when he has the time which is at random hours during the day and night. Who knew your only friend in Seoul would turn out to be an international star and just how difficult things could get.

Word Count: 5.4k

Warning: None

Genre: Romance/Friendship

Part: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6.5 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10.5 | 11 | 12 |

You looked over to your left and saw that JK had fallen asleep before the two of you made it fifteen minutes into the movie. You shook your head and turned the movie off and decided to wait until he was up to watch it with him. He had been spending a lot more time with you, even if it was only for twenty minutes. It was nice seeing him more but each time you saw him he looked worse than before. You knew something was wrong and had asked him about it, but he told you that he wasn’t ready to talk about it. You dropped it and didn’t ask him again, but you couldn’t help but notice the toll that it was taking on him.

You set a timer on your phone for two hours. You figured it wouldn’t hurt to take a nap with him, because the weird hours of him coming over had your sleep cycle a little jacked up. You didn’t know what his schedule was so you figured two hours was a safe bet and decided to let him sleep. The couch wasn’t very big so it didn’t leave you a lot of room since JK was so tall. It wasn’t the first time he’d fallen asleep and taken up most of the room. Lately he seemed to be falling asleep around you more than usual. You leaned into him and let yourself drift off.

The two hours felt like two seconds because your alarm was going off only moments after you had set it. You opened your eyes and noticed that you were completely laid out on the couch and the warmth that had been there before was gone. You sleepily pushed yourself up into a sitting position.  You wondered if JK had left while you had fallen asleep. You grabbed your phone and turned off the alarm.

“You need to choose a different alarm, that sounds awful.” His voice said from the hall. He walked back into the living room to sit with you. You sleepily curled into his side and he wrapped  an arm around you. He got really quiet so you looked up at him. His worry lines were more prominent and looked lost in thought.

“Hey.” You said softly and he looked down at you. You hadn’t realized just how close the two of you were. You decided not to ask him the burning question you’ve wanted to know the answer to.  So you decided to break the silence. “I’ve noticed you’ve been falling asleep over here more. I’m worried about you. You’re pushing yourself too hard.” You bit your lip.

His eyes bore into yours, “Sleep has been escaping me lately. I guess I just feel comfortable with you, but I am sorry I keep falling asleep instead of spending time with you.”

“It’s still time, and I'm not complaining. It was just an observation that had me worried.”

“I promise, there isn’t anything to worry about. It will pass.” You nodded and he pulled you close and kissed the top of your head. “But unfortunately I do have to head back so I can practice.”

“You’ve been practicing every day. You really should take a break, even if it’s just for a day.” He gave you a smile and told you that he would call you later. You instantly missed the warmth when he left.

You realized you had gotten so used to him being around your apartment and being beside you when you napped or him just being around you in general. That it now felt weird when he wasn’t around, which didn’t make sense. There was no pattern to seeing him, it was basically when he had time and if you weren’t hanging out with Jackson.

At that thought your phone rang and you saw Jackson’s name pop up. You grabbed your phone, “Hey Jackson.”

“Hey, you busy?” you knew it was a nice way of asking if JK was there or not. It wasn’t that the two of them disliked each other...actually you weren’t sure what it was all about and you didn’t feel like trying to figure it out.

“Nope. What’s up?”

“You remember a few weeks ago I told you that if I could get tickets that I'd take you to that BTS concert, well it’s not really a concert but they’re performing. Well, I was able to score some at the last minute and wondered if you wanted to go.” You remembered the conversation, it was the day you bought that beanie for JK. You hadn’t realized that Jackson had been actively looking for tickets, so it kind of surprised you when he asked.

“Sure, I guess. When is it?”

“Tomorrow. It isn’t too far away luckily so we don’t have to travel too far or anything.” He seemed excited and it made you smile. He got excited over the smallest things. The two of you talked about specifics and you told him that you’d be ready to leave by the time he picked you up.

The rest of the night went quickly since you had to do laundry and also clean your apartment, it wasn’t that it was dirty, but you just needed something to do. You were in the middle of switching laundry when your phone went off. You finished up and went to check it. JK had text you.

JK: Hanging with you is 1000000x better than this

You couldn’t help but smile. The dynamic between the two of you had somehow shifted in the last few weeks. The feelings that you’d been fighting so hard against were start to seep through and it scared you. You couldn’t get attached or involved with him. Being attached was already out the window since the two of you had spent a majority of your time in Seoul, together.You never did get a response to your reply so you assumed that he was probably busy again, despite the fact it was two in the morning when he text you. You really wished he would sleep and take better care of himself. You loved dance just as much as he did but he was running himself into the ground.

You finished up what you could and then headed to bed. You really needed to get your sleep schedule back on track. You slept all the way into mid  day.

When you woke up you saw you had a message from JK.

JK: I probably won’t be able to come see you today, but promise me you’ll be completely inconsolable about it.

Y/N: I promise. It’s okay though, I have plans with Jackson. I meant to tell you last night but I forgot, so it works out.

There was no reply to that and honestly you didn’t really expect one. When Jackson was mentioned he always either changed the subject or went radio silent for a little bit before text you or calling you about something else. You knew for a fact that it was jealousy because of his statement the night he put your furniture together.

Boys say that girls are hard to understand but girls don’t even come close to guys and trying to figure out why they do what they do. The next message was Jackson reminding you to be ready by noon so the two of you could head to where the performance was without hitting any traffic. You dressed more for comfort than for fashion, but even you had to admit what you managed to throw together was pretty cute. The weather was still chilly sometimes but it had warmed up significantly than when you first arrived.

Jackson tried to give you a quick rundown on the group along with their names. You couldn’t keep the names straight so eventually he gave up, “Look I only came because you paid for the tickets. Odds are I won’t even like the rest of their songs.” Jackson decided the answer to your statement was to play some of their old songs. It seem they didn’t even stick to a certain type of genre, but it somehow worked for them.

The drive wasn’t too horrible and for the last half hour of it you and Jackson ended up talking about what both of you were like in high school. The both of you had been polar opposite in that time of your life. “Alright sunshine, we’re here.”

You looked up to see a stage off into the distance and a lot of people walking around. There was food and drink stalls, so it was basically a fair...but not. The both of you walked around and got food while waiting for the music to start, which didn’t take long. You heard the MC start talking about BTS and what not. You weren’t really focusing, you were casually walking and watching people freak out and run towards the stage. You rolled your eyes, “You realize this is a boy band right? I haven’t been into a boy band since N’SYNC.”

Jackson laughed, “Why are you so against kpop?”

“It’s not that I'm against it, I guess I just don’t get it. It’s cheesy songs with absolutely no real content. I bet you most of the kpop boy band songs are about love.” you laughed.

“BTS write their own lyrics and they don’t have a lot of love songs, so stop being narrow minded.” He gave you a mock glare, “Just enjoy your time with me and listen to good music.”

“Are you a BTS fanboy?”

Jackson shook his head, “I don’t know if I would call me a fanboy. But I like BTS and their music, they talk about a lot of things other idol groups don’t. They write, compose, and produce a lot of their own music.”

You found that interesting to say the least. Most artists in America didn’t write their own songs, so you figured you should at least respect the fact that they do. You flinched and covered your ears once the screaming started. You could see a line of guys up on the stage now and give a greeting. They didn’t spend much time talking oddly but from where you stood, which was pretty far back, you could see the choreography and you were very impressed. What they were doing wasn’t easy in any sense and the guy in the center was able to do that and sing without his voice wavering. “Damn.”

Jackson had a smug smile, “I told you.”

You stood there and listened to the song and Jackson was right, it wasn’t just a stupid love song. You didn’t move for a while, you ended up watching them dance through a few songs, but your eyes never left the guy that was normally in the center. He danced a lot like JK, which you had always admired.

“Wanna move closer?”

You looked over at Jackson completely forgetting that he was right beside you as you had been sucked into the performance. “Yeah sure, just let me get a drink. I’ll come find you.” Jackson nodded and headed towards the crowd. You went to the nearest stall to grab something with caffeine because you were exhausted. You heard the girl talking in front of you. “God, the way Jungkook moves is down right sinful. The things I would do to him...and his voice, god. He will forever be my bias.”

You bit your lip to keep from laughing at the girl in front of you. You continued to listen as they talked about Jungkook, whichever one that was, and found it quite hilarious...and graphic. Once they got their food and left you took a step up to the stall. “Can I just have a coke?” the person behind the stall went to get it.

You looked over at the stage because one of them had started talking to the crowd, he seemed winded which you couldn’t blame him. Each member started talking but you tuned them out once the person handed you the drink and you gave them cash and told them to just keep the change because you didn’t feel like messing with it.

When you started paying attention again they had moved on to the next song. You weaved through the people while you listened to the music and you couldn’t help but like each song you heard. So maybe Jackson was right about them being different. You would definitely be checking them out later to listen to some of their other songs. It took almost the whole song before you found Jackson dancing by himself in a small pocket in the crowd.

“Is everyone having fun?” everyone screamed in response and you had to cover one of your ears. Fan girls had iron lungs and the pitch of a flying creature when it came to boy bands.

“As you know we’re preparing for our comeback for our next album ‘The Most Beautiful Moment in Life’ and we’re really excited to share it with you. We all contributed on this album so we’re even more excited for you to hear it.”

Another voice picked up where he stopped, “Actually our maknae wrote his first full song which made it on the album.” the screaming was even louder than before, you managed to squeeze into a spot beside Jackson and you asked him to hold your drink while you fixed your boots that you had on that someone had decided to step on while you were walking through the crowd.

“I don’t think we should keep them waiting, do you? Here’s our first performance of ‘Save Me’. Let’s do it!” your head popped up at the voice, you heard it enough when you hung out with him but you were certain that JK wasn’t here and was most likely practicing. You were losing your mind and have now come to the point of hearing him when he isn’t around. Maybe you did hang out with him too much.

You thanked Jackson for holding your drink while you listened to the song. You really liked it and the lyrics were amazing, yet again. They had already won you over despite wanting to not be into a boy band. You actually really liked this song and decided that you’d probably add it to your Spotify playlist when it was released. You watched as all seven of them danced so in sync. You were in awe of it before but even more so now since it seemed they were always in sync with every choreography of every song.

When the song stopped all of the people in the group were breathing hard “We hope you enjoyed the song. JK anything you want to add?” the tallest asked.

“Yeah, I hope you enjoyed the song and please show it lots of love.” your heart practically stopped beating, you without a doubt couldn’t mistake that voice for anyone. You looked over at the stage and saw him standing there, your eyes got wide. You’d been watching him this whole time and hadn’t realized it. You didn’t hear anything else that was said after you saw him. It made sense why it seemed like the guy moved a lot like JK did. Your mind was running a thousand miles a minute.

You turned to Jackson “I need to go.”

“What? Why? Is everything okay?” he looked so confused and worried.

“I just need--” you couldn’t even finish your sentence the thought, “I’ll call you.”

You handed him your drink and weaved through the crowd, you faintly heard him calling your name but you kept walking. You needed to get away from the crowd of people. You didn’t really know what emotions you were feeling. As your mind was slowly processing what just happened some of the things in the beginning of your friendship made sense, like the mask. You walked a ways up the street and found a bench to sit on. It was far enough away from people that you felt like you could breathe. JK was an idol and part of you was so frustrated. He didn’t lie, technically, but for some reason you felt a small sense of betrayal. It didn’t make any sense. There were so many emotions that it was hard to identify them.

You weren’t sure how long you’d been sitting there but the crowd had mostly thinned out, so the event must be over. You saw a few SUVs pull up to the curb in your peripheral vision as you leaned back and ran your fingers through your hair. You didn’t know how he had kept this from you for months.

You stood up and stretched, your body aching a bit. This was a sign that you had been sitting there longer than you thought. It was the sound of his laugh that made you turn your head quickly. He was walking with the other people of his group to the SUVs. He was laughing with a few of them but you made eye contact with one person, and it wasn’t JK, it was Jimin the guy that had shown up at the dance studio when JK had taken you there. You were frozen and he seemed to be surprised seeing you standing there. He reached out and stopped JK from walking any further. He looked at Jimin in confusion and pushed him playfully but Jimin hit him in the stomach and tilted his head towards you.

What probably had only been a few seconds felt like minutes. His eyes had looked over at you and your stomach flipped, but this time it was different. It didn’t feel like butterflies, and it made you feel sick to your stomach. Neither of you said anything but what little color he did have in his face had left. Jimin leaned in and said something in JK’s ear and climbed into the SUV. The vehicles didn’t leave but the rest of the people had given the both of you as much privacy as they could.

“Y/N.” he started walking towards you but you put a hand up stopping him from walking any further. You didn’t know if you could have any type of conversation until you had a chance to process everything, you didn’t want to do or say anything rash. Part of you was irritated that he felt like he couldn’t tell you and part of you was hurt he didn’t think that he could trust you, and a million other feelings that you couldn’t quite explain.

“What are you doing here?” his voice shook a little..

You don’t know how you managed it, but Jackson’s name tumbled out. The two of you just continued to stare at each other. You were finally able to find your voice after a moment, “So you’re an idol?”

He looked scared, “Y/N I've been trying to figure out how to tell you. I’ve been going out of my mind trying to come up with some way of telling you that didn’t end badly.”

“So all of this,” you waved your hand around, “is the reason for the weird hours and you finding ways to fit me into your busy schedule while I wait around to see if I'll even get to see you.”

“Don’t say it like that, it has never been like that.” You hadn’t meant for it to come out so harshly, but part of you couldn’t help but feel irritated that you were basically at his beck and call while he lived his idol life. It hadn’t bothered you as much when you thought it was just him and his dance studio, which didn’t make sense, but finding out the real reason made you mad. You were trying your best to keep your emotions in check.

“This is bullshit.” the phrase came out in English which sounded weird after talking in Korean for so long, but you weren't sure how to express how you felt in Korean.

“Look, can we just go talk? I’ll find a way to make it work so we have time.”

Yet again, he had to try and fit you into his schedule, “Actually I'm not sure I can fit you into my schedule.” you bit your lip knowing what you were doing was petty, but you wouldn’t apologize. “I need time to process all of this.” you took a few steps back getting ready to walk away.

“Y/N, please! Why does it matter what my profession is? I’m still the same person, nothing has changed. How I am with you, that’s me. I’m just JK when I'm with you, I'm not an idol, I'm not part of BTS. I’m me.” He was pleading with you and you felt your chest tighten.

“Like I said, I just need some time to process and figure things out.”

“Please don’t shut me out.” he pleaded, but you said nothing. He looked like he was in physical pain and your instinct was to make him feel better, but this was one time that you couldn’t. “Will you text me then? Whatever your decision is, good or bad.”

You nodded, “I gotta go.” you turned and pulled out your phone. You immediately closed all the notifications from Jackson. You got yourself an Uber to take you home, you didn’t care about how much it would cost to take you back. It took everything in you not to look back and see if he was still standing there.

You were sitting on your couch curled up in your blanket watching a movie with Jackson. Truthfully you weren’t even watching it. You’d felt off the entire week and you really missed having JK around. You’d gotten so used to his presence being around all the time that the apartment seemed quiet and lonely without him there. You still hadn’t been able to fully figure out how you felt about everything, instead you’d spent the week doing whatever you could to keep yourself busy. The crazy thing was you knew your emotions didn’t fit the crime, which there wasn’t one.

The TV turned off and you looked up and then over at Jackson who was holding the remote, “You’ve been in your own world for the past week. You’ll barely talk and you won’t tell me what happened at the concert, which was when all of this started.”

You chewed your bottom lip, You couldn’t talk to him about it. JK had a right to his privacy and you didn’t want to cause him any issues. “I can’t talk about it.” you sighed.

“Why?”

“It’s complicated.”

“Can you give me a cliff notes version? Give me something that will at least tell me what's going on. I’m worried about you. You’re never this quiet and you’ve closed yourself off with anything to do with the outside world. You haven’t left your apartment in a week.” You knew that he wasn’t going to drop it. He’d been getting frustrated with you more and more, and you couldn’t blame him. He tried to make you feel better but everything just felt off.

You turned yourself so you were facing him on the couch, “What would you do if you found out someone important to you had kept a huge secret from you?”

He seemed to think about the question, “Depends on how big the secret was.”

“Pretty big. To the point it could change a lot of things.” you started picking at the fringe on your jeans.

“Well, did they have a valid reason?” After a moment he nudged you when you didn’t answer.

“Kinda. That’s the part that’s complicated.”

“Have you talked to them about it?”

You shook your head, “No, I've gone radio silent until I can figure out how I feel about it all.”

“Let me ask you this, does the secret change what you think or feel about that person?” He was watching your every move and it you disliked him reading you so much.

“No, but there’s a lot of factors.”

He sighed, “I’m going to be blunt, is this about JK?” You tried so hard not to react but your heart started beating faster and you froze, “That explains a lot.”

“Jackso--”

“I know you care about him in a different way than you care about me. You’ve been miserable all week. Just call him and talk it out.”

“We’re just friends.”

“You suck at lying.” he laughed.

You opened your mouth to argue but there was a knock at your door. You got up off the couch and walked to the front door and opened it. You jumped when you saw JK standing there looking nervous. “JK what are you doing here? I told you I'd call yo--”

“It’s been a week and I've tried so hard to be patient, but I'm going out of my mind Y/N.” he rushed out.

“JK, now isn’t a good time. I’ll ca--”

“Actually it’s a perfect time you t--holy shit!” you spun around and saw Jackson standing there with his jacket getting ready to leave. You looked back at JK who had taken his mask off to talk to you. He looked startled and your mind was completely blank on what you should do or say. “You’re Jungkook.” he said shocked.

All three of you stood there awkwardly no one knowing what to say. Jackson looked at you, “This explains SO much and why you bolted at the concert. With that being said, I’m going to leave you two to talk things out.” He slid past you but still looked shocked to see JK standing at your front door.

“Jackson you can’t say anything.” You told him before he made it too far.

“I wouldn’t.” he said and then looked at JK, “Don’t let her push you away, she’s been moping around all week.”

“Jackson!” you yelled out.

“What? You both look miserable, so talk it out. Call me if you need me.” He slipped out the door leaving you and JK standing there awkwardly.

“Please just hear me out.” He pleaded with you softly.

You opened the door wider allowing him to come inside. He walked in and headed towards the living room. You followed behind him after shutting the door. He hadn’t taken a seat on the couch like you had expected him to. Instead he was still standing and was fidgeting. “Okay so what do you need to say?”

“Can you at least sit down?”

You nodded and obliged. You took your normal seat at the edge and tucked your feet beneath yourself and waited for him to start. He stood there, “JK?”

“Sorry, I'm just trying to figure out where to start.” he put his hands in his pants pockets before pulling them back out again. “I know you’re mad that I didn’t tell you sooner, and I get that. You have every right to be, but it wasn’t just me that I had to think about. Whenever I decided to tell you, it would then involve the other members. I wanted to tell you so badly, but part of me was worried that if you knew what I did or who I was to the public that things would change. I liked being able to be myself around you and I didn’t want to lose that. I can’t get that anywhere else but the dorms but they’re my brothers, it’s different. With you there wasn’t talk about work it was just me and you hanging out and sometimes that was the only thing that got me through my long days. I know not telling you was messed up, and I'm sorry. I tried to find a way to tell you multiple times ever since you mentioned BTS in your kitchen. I was scared that I would lose you if I told you because I didn’t tell you sooner, and I know that doesn’t make much sense but I didn’t want to lose you. Jimin told me that I needed to tell you because if you found out from anyone but me that it would be worse. I wish I could take back how you found out, not that you did but how it happened. I would do it all over and I would tell you in person so I could explain like I am now.”

You weren’t sure he took a breath at any point during his speech with how fast he was talking, but you were pretty sure you caught every word. You didn’t really think much about the fact that the other people in the group had to be taken into consideration. You felt guilt start to rise up in your chest from not talking to him. You could see the prominent dark circles under his eyes and the fact that he looked like he was going to pass out from exhaustion at any second. “JK…” You weren’t sure what you had planned to say, so his name died on your lips.

He walked around your coffee table and sat down on it across from you so it brought you two closer to each other, “I promise that I will be completely honest about everything from here on out. I talked with everyone the day you found out, once we had gotten back to the dorms. Jimin helped me explain the things I couldn’t put into words because I was still recovering from watching you walk away from me. Jimin was the only person that knew before the hyungs, and while the rest of them were confused at first and there were a lot of questions that I had to answer. I told them that you never pushed for answers I wasn’t willing to give and that you didn’t see me without a mask for the longest time. We talked for the rest of that day about everything and what possibilities there were now that you knew.” He paused and put his hand on your leg, “Y/N I've done everything I can think of. There are limitations to what I can talk to you about and things I can take you with me to. But those limitations are for the other members privacy and there are other things that we can talk about later, but please don’t push me away. Not seeing you or talking to you this whole week was one of the worst things I've had to endure in a long time.”

He sat there and waited for you to say something. “JK I've been trying to figure my emotions about this whole thing for a week. Yes, it sucked knowing that you didn’t trust me enough to tell me. I get not telling me in the beginning but we hang out almost every day and it’s been months. Plus I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that you’re an idol. From what little Jackson told me in the past was that you guys were getting even more popular and that’s intimidating. Hell, I haven’t even had the guts to use Naver to look up BTS. It’s new for me just like it is for you, only you’re a celebrity and a shit ton of people know your name. You should hear the things those girls were saying at that concert.”

His face turned red, which meant he knew what girls thought about him. You’d never think he actually knew with the way he carries himself. “I’ll do whatever, I just don’t want to lose you. You mean a lot to me.”

You gave him a small smile, “You aren’t going to lose me. I still don’t know how I feel about everything and I'm still trying to figure out a lot of things with the new bit of information I have.”

He visibly relaxed, “would you be okay if I stayed for a little bit? I don’t have anything to do today, I honestly thought I'd be trying to convince you all night.”

You nodded, “You’re always welcome here, you know that.”

“Good.” He sat on the couch and leaned back, “Want to watch the movie from the last time I was here?”

You nodded, “Sure.” you got up to go through the stack of DVDs you had. “Hey what was the last thing you remember?” you called out over your shoulder. After a moment of no answer you turned around and JK was passed out on your couch like he always did. You smiled to yourself and got up to grab a blanket and sat beside him and got into a position you were comfortable with and decided to take a nap with him.

AN: I hope there aren’t too many mistakes in there, i tried to proof read it but i didn’t have a lot of time. So i just want to let you know that there are actually 3 other versions of how the reader finds out but i ended up choosing this one so hopefully this will satisfy everyone. I’ve you’ve stayed with the fic until now, you’re a trooper. Future chapters will be longer since I’m not confined into a small area of what the reader can do without finding out. Thank you guys for being patient, i tried my best to get it out as fast as i could without it being complete and total shit. This isn’t the best, but i can deal with the outcome of this one. I hope you at least enjoyed reading it and sorry it’s so long, i debated breaking it up into two chapters but i figured i have tortured you enough. Ugh! Why am i nervous to post this!?

*requests are OPEN*

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Protagonist Prep Ch 9 Team Time

All respective characters belong to their respective owners.

             Deep within the school all of the teachers were inside a room discussing a topic that concerned the students, this room was huge nearly two hundred feet wide and long, it’s ceiling round with images of various battles involving the teachers, and it was lit by a chandelier that made entirely out of fireballs of varying sizes. Normally in this type of room one would normally hear laughter and recollections of past victories or battles, instead only roars of arguments and anger were heard in that room.

 “Sargent, you can not be serious about this decision!” Barrage roared out in surprise, well granted he worked with Drooler he should start to expect surprise by now.

 “No, I’m Drooler.” Drooler told the bronze being with a completely straight face with tone being both serious and jovial, this caused the group of teachers to let out a groan. Like the surprises they should’ve gotten use to the terrible dad jokes but that doesn’t mean the jokes were any less terrible.

 “Fine no more dad jokes but I am serious about my decision.” Drooler told the group his voice no longer carrying a jovial tone, this caused the uproar to increase in the room loud enough to shake the fire chandelier.

 “Jefe are you sure about this, most of those ninos aren’t exactly amigos or the team type.” Ghost said remembering how Chloe and Marinette went at each other’s throats, from the observation videos they had to watch before letting the kids come to school though he was confused why Jefe was grinning like a Chesire when any romance happened.

 “Got to agree with spikes, leave those kids alone for a few minutes and they’ll tear each other part like sharks tearing apart a carcass.” Boulder said adding his two cents, thinking about how hostile Sashi and Gaz would act when faced with social interaction with others. The former a bit more than the latter considering Gaz would just ignore them but Sashi would react rather violently.

 ‘Heck, those two would probably maim someone if their buttons got pushed too hard.’ Boulder thought to himself, though he didn’t realize that familiar bird like was listening in and disagreed with the thought.

 “Actually Boulder, I have seen Ms.Membrane in action and she is willing to work with others. “Tech told the wolf dragon hybrid, who just glared at him and let loose a warning growl.

 “Now no fighting we can’t add to the chaos, but I do have do agree with Tech those children can work together at times.” Behemoth said both scolding the two and defending the idea.

 “I gotta agree with da boss, sooner or later dose kids are going to form a teams sooner or later.” Jack told the group throwing his hat in the ring with agreement of the idea, but all that did was increase volume of the argument. It took over a hour for things to quiet down, even then it was louder than a space shuttle taking off. Luckily all that ended when Zizzoro was tired of the bickering and just zapped almost everyone in the room leaving them a little annoyed.

 “If all you will stop acting like a nest of hatchlings, I believe I have an idea.” Zizzoro told them his tone stern and his gaze steely, the group slowly began to settle down though they won’t forget the little zap they got.

 “Anyway, the idea is that we test the kids in a holodome and one of us will monitor them. From the data we collected we find out which kids do the best with each other and from those interaction we form a team, next we assign a teacher to watch over them.” Zizzoro told, across the room there were mummers of agreement and it was much better than Drooler’s original plan. So with a chorus of cheers the teachers began to put the plan into action, so the next morning Zizzoro tapped the combination on the wall and dropped to his arms to walk through the hole. To his disbelief the students were already dressed and awake ready to start the today, also so that they wouldn’t experience anymore surprises.

                         “Huh, you guys are up early.” Zizzoro told them surprised, from what he learned about human teen is that they preferred to sleep in late and usually tried to avoid waking up or getting out of bed.

 “Well if we didn’t want anything else to be destroyed.” Sashi told him as she gestured to the girl’s dorm door, which was still crumbled up in a ball, and the boy’s dorm door, as it still laid flat on the ground. Zizzoro made a mental note to remind Drooler that new doors were needed.

 “Well since all of you are ready, follow me.” He told them as he turned back to the entrance and began to walk out, after avoiding Zizzoro’s sweeping tail the kids followed him out. However they began to worry as they passed the classrooms and went down an unfamiliar hallway, continued to do so for quite awhile it was also eerie that Zizzoro hadn’t said a single thing when they began walking.

 “Ummmm, where are we going?” Alya asked him but she met with silence, he then stopped giving the students a look of their destination, it was a surprisingly human sized door that had design similar to gears working in unison.

 “You guys have to go through there.” Zizzoro told, he then walked away from them later disappearing from sight leaving the kids alone in an unknown area. A sense of dread began to form within the stomachs of the students for a couple minutes no one did anything, but then Star carefully walked up to the door and opened it. From the opening the kids could see a strange room that was entirely made up by white cubes, with weird projectors in each corner, and large mirrors on the right side of the room. Slowly the kids began to filter into the room slightly creeped out by the lack of color or anything comforting, all of them having one question.

 “Where are those beasts??!!” That Zim yelled out in annoyance at the confusion and the mystery that the teachers created.

 “I suggest that you watch yourself private, Zizzoro is waiting for a chance to turn you into a fried snack and I don’t want to go through the paperwork right now.” A familiar militaristic voice rang out through the room, although it had a bit of anger in it. The kids jumped a little, slowly getting used to the surprises, and began to look for the owner of the voice.

 “Ummm, Mr. Barrage where are you?” Connie asked, hoping that Barrage wasn’t a telepath too.

 “I’m behind the mirrors, they’re actually a special type of one-way windows.” He explained although that did nothing to lessen the creep factor of the room.

 “So what exactly is this place?” Sashi asked rather hostile being in rather odd and unknown emviroment.

 “It’s called the holodome, it was going to be used for something else but Sargent thought it was best to use for all of you. So now it’s designated as the team training room.” Barrage answered, however there was one problem with what the bronze chitin beast said.

 “Not to put a kink in your armor dude but the only team here is me, Penn and Sash.” Boone told the Barrage, who just rolled his eyes.

 “You see Mr.Wiseman, we believe that a team of heroes is better than one. So we’re going to test how each of interact with each other, and those interactions will determine your teammates. Now team up!!” Barrage told the kids, quickly all of them began to join into teams not really thinking about who went about who they ended up with. What he forgot to mention that the process was a long and tedious, for five hours the kids were tested and each hour Barrage ordered them to switch. Finally, they heard Barrage told them that testing was done, which sounded like heaven, many of the kids were out of breath and some of them even collapsed on to the floor dead tired. The holodome’s door opened and the kids either walked out or they were dragged out, when they were all gone Barrage began to do something in the observation room. He walked over towards a huge monitor display that showed what the kids had to experience and for the first time since he was assigned here, Barrage actually smiled.

 “Heh, they might actually survive.” With his lower right arm, he plucked a small flash drive looking device from one of the monitors and walked out of the observation room. Later that day the teachers were back in the conference room ready to find out what the results of the holodome were.

 “As you can see the teams that function superlative are listed as Team Dimensions, Team Alien, and finally Team Miraculous. Team Dimensions is consisted of Star Butterfly, Marco Diaz, Penn Zero, Boone Wiseman and Sashi Kobayashi; though they tend to be a little crazy in planning and execution they get the job done. Next is Team Alien which is Steven Demayo/Quartz/Universe, Connie Maheswaran, Gaz and Dib Membrane, as well as Zim; now for the most part they would rather avoid conflict either trying to talk or deceive their way out however if there’s no other choice they’ll fight. Lastly is Team Miraculous those involved are Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Adrien Agreste, Alya Cesaire, Nino Lahiffe, Nathaniel Kurtzberg, Chloe Bourgeois, even though a good portion of them don’t have any powers they seem to do well; they use the environment and their minds to defeat their enemies. Now any questions?” Barrage finished his speech with a question to the other teachers, who seemed to lose interest and Zapp even looked like was asleep.

 “What’s with da names?” Jack asked confused by the names, Barrage just sighed and muttered out.

 “I thought that assigning names to the kids would prevent confusion, and they sound pretty cool.” A small blush appeared on his muzzle, most of the other teachers were ready to tease the bronze beast but a harsh glare from Drooler quickly shot that idea down.

 “So, who’s getting a team and who’s going home a lonely man?”  Drooler asked, Barrage just rolled his eyes but answered the fire beast anyway.

 “Sargent this isn’t the Bachelorette, but since I’m already talking I should probably just tell you anyway. Team Dimensions is going to be assigned to you Sargent, Team Alien is assigned to Behemoth and finally Team Miraculous is assigned to Zizzoro.” However, that answer created more problems than it actually solved.

 “Umm incase you haven’t noticed two of the kids on Team Dimensions sort of, what’s the word, oh right. Hate me!!!!” Drooler exclaimed referring to both Sashi and Star, with Star he could understand since he did threaten her parents but with Sashi that girl just flat out hates him.

 “Though I do agree with most of the ones you picked, but I do have an objection with Zim. Irkens are known to be a rather war faring species so how would he react to being led by a pacifist?” Behemoth asked, actually sounding concerned for the small insect like alien.

 “I’m fine with it.” Zizzoro said his voice holding nothing negative in it, Barrage just sighed and began to explain the choices that were made.

 “Yes Sargent, but you do have a past to be an asshole. So could you please just try to restrain yourself form doing anything too drastic.” Said asshole opened his maw to defend himself but closed it as he remembered what he did in the past, Barrage then began to address Behemoth’s problems.

 “Behemoth, the reason why I put Zim with your team for his own safety. Considering the fact that Zizzoro will turn him into ash if he tries anything and Sargent would probably light on fire, either accidentally or by purpose.” Barrage told the gentle giant while Drooler just acted hurt at the statement, he did have a hard time containing his excitement which resulted in extremely hot hellfire.

 “Now Zizz—” Barrage began to speak until he was interrupted by something unexpected.

 “I said I was fine with it.” That little statement caused the other teachers to just stare at him with wide eyes and open mouths, they never thought in a million eons that Zizzoro would be fine with this. Heck he wasn’t that pleased about the plan to begin with but here is not really upset about being stuck with kids. Annoyed at the dumbfounded looks Zizzoro just glared at them and angrily asked them a question.

 “What?” His voice trying to reign in the annoyance he currently felt, after a few awkward mutters and whistling it was Jack who finally broke the ice.

 “No offense Z but you ain’t exactly da most kid friendly guy.” He told the Godzilla like creature, still feeling bad for the child prince that they had to guard in dimension 687-903MJ.

 “Not to mention you have a rather short temperament.”  Tech mentioned, who still had nightmares about the mission on 248-92A and hoped that the inhabitants have gotten over the attack now. Meanwhile energy began to spark off Zizzoro’s dorsal spines, which caused the teachers look like as if a nuclear bomb was about to go off. For awhile most of them dared not to talk or move afraid for what could happen, however during this entire ordeal Drooler stayed eerily calm.

 “If you keep acting like this I’ll have to spill about your little trip to Dimension 298-556MA.” He told Zizzoro, with Drooler’s tone sounding completely calm and relaxed. That little sentence caused Zizzoro’s body to stiffen and the energy to just disappear, he just turned to his cousin and hissed out.

 “You wouldn’t dare!” His voice filled to the brim with anger and his tone more venomous than a thousand cobras, Drooler didn’t even react to the extreme anger. He just calmly leaned back in his seat and gave a warning to the lightning master.

 “I won’t if you calm down.” Begrudgingly Zizzoro did but he did send his cousin harsh glares, meanwhile in the kids in the student area were pondering why the teachers schedule the impromptu training exercise.

 “So, anyone else confused about what happened?” Marco asked the others from his position on the floor, he was used to an hour-long karate class but a five-hour long training session was something else. Still the kids agreed with tired groans and moans.

 “Yeah, what was up with that?” Star wondered, her abundant energy slowing returning to her but it had while until it was full.

 “Don’t care, too tired.” Chloe told them, her ill prepared muscles still aching and sore from the extreme usage.

 “We should care! For all we know they could be using that data to destroy us!” Dib yelled out from the couch.

 “Oh yeah, like a bunch of kids would be a threat to giant interdimensional monsters.” Sashi harshly snapped at the conspiracy theorist, which caused to blush in embarrassment.

 “I agree but not that rudely, maybe they were testing us for something important.” Steven suggested, offering Dib an apologetic look.

 “Can we talk about this tomorrow? Everything still hurts.” Boone complained, though no one was against the idea of going to bed but questions still buzzed around in their minds. Skip to the morning where many of them were sleeping peacefully, until a thunderous bellow woke them up. Grumpily they got out of their beds and did their morning routines, some of them still sore, as they exited the dorms they saw Jack standing outside the student area.

 “Ah youse guys finally woke up! Come on Boss and da others want ya down at the auditorium.” Jack told the kids, a little impatient from waiting and he heard that these kids were early risers. After a good five minute walk the group arrived at the first door they saw when they entered the building, when they entered the auditorium they saw Behemoth, Barrage, Drooler and Zizzoro. When Jack stopped so did the kid but they were slightly confused why there was only a few of the teachers were present in auditorium, then Barrage began to speak.

 “Thank you Jack, you may leave now.”  Jack just nodded and stomped out off, going somewhere else.

 “Now when I call your names come up to the stage and I’ll tell you which teacher you’ll be assigned to.” Barrage told the kids his strict military tone sounding even more serious, that made the kids a little nervous. However, they didn’t have time to try and calm those nerves as Barrage began to list off them off.

 “First is Star, Marco, Penn, Sashi and Boone.” The five teenagers nervously walked, well Sashi was indifferent and Star seemed to be excited, up to the stage. When they reached the stage, they revived news that they would rather not hear.

  “Your teacher is going to be Drooler.” Now this caused Sashi to gain a lethal glare and for the excitement in Star’s body just drained from her body as her facial features turned cold, Drooler just shivered from the looks and joked about it.

 “Brrrr, did Jack leave a blizzard or is it just Star?” Though none of kids laughed or even smiled, this caused Drooler to gain a sheepish grin and let out an awkward cough. Let’s not dwell on his embarrassment because if we did he would probably roast me like a rotisserie chicken.

 “Next group is Steven, Connie, Dib, Gaz and Zim.” As they walked up to the stage Zim was shaking with fear, especially when Zizzoro gave him a hard glare and a growl. When they reached it the five of them braced for what would come next.

 “Your teacher is Behemoth.”  A huge sigh of relief escaped their lungs as they realized getting Behemoth would be comparable to winning the lottery, considering despite his size he’s one of the nicer teachers. As they walked to the gentle giant he gave the group a warning, well mainly Zim.

 “Now though I do hope we forge amazing adventures I will not tolerate any tomfoolery understand.” Though his voice held no malice or anger, his facial features made the kids know that he wasn’t joking. Which surprised the kids they normally saw a kind and warm face on him, not one of fierce gravity that was currently on his maw. Then the final six, Team Miraculous, just walked up the stage and towards Zizzoro who currently had a small grin on his muzzle. While Barrage was just annoyed by that little action.

 “I did have a system, anyway I believe that all of you have some team bonding to do.” Barrage told the three groups as he walked off the stage and out of the auditorium, creating an awkward silence between the groups.

[kuriboo]

yeah this is happening tonight so let’s have ourselves a big old recap! we’re in season 4, yeah, but season 4 has the same like plot line, antagonists and stuff that season 3 did, so like, let’s think about all that and make sure we got our heads on straight, our shit all figured out. i can remember most of this stuff separately, but not altogether as one season.

-in season 2, we successfully dismantled the social (and financial and just in general) structure of our setting, new domino city. as such, the best three protagonists (yusei jack and crow) have all moved in together. they are all roommates, renting out a place. yusei, who formerly had no real occupation, is now a mechanic. crow, who had no real occupation but took care of several small children that had no one else, now does like, odd jobs, sometimes late at night. jack, formerly a professional duelist and considered for some time to be The Best until yusei kicked his ass, now has no job, and spends his time spending what little money the trio have on coffee. 

-season 3, our heroes spent their downtime preparing for the World Racing Grand Prix, a dueling tournament involving teams of 3, turbo duels, sharing life points, relay races, fun stuff like that. as a fun nod to make me happy, if memory serves, the princeton family (chazz princeton from gx, but also like, his family) is sponsoring this shit. do you think chazz does turbo duels now? probably. anyway, season 4 kicks off with the wrgp actually finally starting

-the city has three new directors of like, public safety or whatever the fuck. one of them has a sword. they are really bad at their jobs. they’re often just like not around when needed and spend their downtime creating dueling robots that threaten public safety. they’re the obvious antagonists

-the dueling robots? they have a recurring theme of summoning monsters that can absorb people’s synchro monsters. since literally everyone’s ace monsters in 5ds are synchro monsters, this is an obvious problem. yusei spends a whole like five episodes figuring out how to like reliably defeat that. the answer just plops itself in his hands eventually, in the form of an asshole wearing an asymmetrical visor. this asshole shows him accel syncho summoning, the like worst thing to ever happen to yugioh, somehow beating out contact fusion. basically, you drive fast and tune two synchro monsters to make another synchro monster but it’s an accel synchro monster. it’s super unnecessary, i have no idea how that solves the issue in any way, and it’s like barely even come up even in passing discussion since it was introduced and i hope it stays that way. (it won’t, i know)

-one of the teams competing in the wrgp is team unicorn, who are super good but also huge assholes for no reason. i have no idea why they get as many episodes around them as they do. they really. aren’t that relevant to the plot. but let’s center like 4 episodds so far around ‘em

-the crimson dragon was a relevant thing in the first two seasons. it really doesn’t do anything now besides a) bring six people closer together into the circle of forced friendship by association, and b) allow the protagonists to cheat at card games. it keeps helping people cheat so it’s still relevant but i don’t know. why. it doesn’t really. matter? but like everyone chosen by the thing has a cool dragon and crow didn’t have a dragon but then oh he had it all along the real dragon was actually friendship (kind of) so that’’s a thing. crow has a dragon so now he really can be a protagonist.

-jack doesn’t have a job but regularly accidentally interferes with police work and makes it up to them by bringing in whoever they’re after himself. at this point they might as well hire him and pay him. it’s the closest thing to a job he has. i want to say this has happened for sure at least three times, but definitely absolutely it’s been at least twice.

-halfway through season 3, some asshole named bruno washes up on the beach, and you guessed it, lost his memory. the police shove him into yusei and co’s house because they can. bruno and yusei regularly stay up all night doing mechanical shit. bruno thinks he is a pacifist, but also nearly chokes someone to death in the first episode of season 4, so, who the fuck knows. he is still around and still doesn’t remember a damn thing.

-there’s a clown guy named lazar. he’s the vice director under the directors previously mentioned (his previous employer? also evil. never trust someone who is a director kids) and he like does what they want usually but sometimes fucks shit up. he’s currently on paid leave to be on the run and hide so the directors don’t like, kick his ass for something or another. he’s been doing that for so long i forgot he was a thing at all, in the show. he has a wife and kids who have the same haircut as him, but in different colors. he literally runs a clown deck.

-there’s this girl named sherry who has the worst fake french accent in the world. she like had a happy life with her parents and shit and then her parents were kidnapped or killed or something because of some weird ass yugioh card. sherry and a butler of her family’s (they were rich and shit) survived and have been living on the run ever since. sherry spends her downtime trying to figure out exactly what card ruined her life, like, what is it and why even is it that important and who used to have it. apparently iliaster was involved with the incident and she’s convinced that they’ll be involved in the wrgp and has been trying to set up a team. she tried and failed to recruit yusei in that. listening to her is a nightmare

-i don’t think we know much else about iliaster, other than that they were involved with the antagonists of season 2, the dark signers. the name’s been thrown around but i don’t think anyone knows a single fucking thing about them. they exist.

-the directors previously mentioned have these tall like organization 13 chairs but just like three of them. they are usually sitting in these chairs. they stare at a glowy circle thing, i think they call it a circuit, and they want to power it up with duel energy. the protagonists apparently provide the most so they kick the protags asses a few times. the circuit has all the energy it needs? no idea what this means. fuck it. it’s tournament time.    on a side note, these guys should’ve been fired by now what the fuck. i think it was a case of like, no one else would take the job, though, so, yeah,

-for whatever reason, two of the main characters are now voiced by iris from pokemon, since season 3 started. both voiced by her. sometimes it’s hard to tell who’s talking without like, looking at the screen. one of these characters has started stealing iris’ catchphrases as well. yes, they both have dragons.

-so season 3 we have new directors, dueling robots that render synchro monsters useless, accel synchro monsters, an amnesiac named bruno, a dueling tournament, and some lady trying to figure out the secrets of a card that ruined her life. so there’s a whole like season of that, and then the last like eight episodes of the season take place in the wild west. with guns and the gold rush and quick drawing and shit. yeah. centering around a former antagonist of season 2 that we all probably almost forgot existed, no less. it’s extremely jarring and makes no sense and while it’s nice to see what happened to you kalin, this would be better not in the middle of the overall plot story arc when we already have like five other plots going on.

-they keep trying to push this thing with like yusei and akiza and romance? but yusei only cares about motorcycles so it’s awkward and feels really, like, bad. out of nowhere everyone starts joking about them being a thing when the girl hasn’t been around for like ten episodes (which is a good thing), so like, that exists but i don’t like it

-crow’s arm is broken because he practiced too hard. went too fast. he’s banned from dueling.

this is like every ongoing plot point i can think of it’s ridiculous, like, side plots are fine but like five on top of the main plot all so mixed up that i can’t remember them all most of the time.