#then she takes a normal job and now some guys harassing her

[stari-hun]

Yeah I mean like sure Forget me not could always end up switching sides to Vertin’s team one day like Druvis and other manus personnel have but Carbuncle Jr’s funniness and evil aura are the best parts of him. If you have him a redemption arc unless he became a cry baby or sumn as intense you’d be ridding him of all seasonings

Yk the funniest part with that too? Like not EVERYONE hated him. He’s SO annoying with his menacing when you read the side content because he’s like SIGNIFICANTLY less unfortunate than some of the people in the game and they never even considered turning evil. Not that I’m down playing the divine right of a person to go apeshit over years of piled in discrimination but like the evil to backstory misfortune ratio is kindaaaaa funny.

[kyemna]

Hazbin Hotel headcanons

TW: Mentions of sex and alcohol. some suggestive themes that's it, it's mostly just fluff.

(English isn't my first language)

Charlie

-Will do anything for you.

-you want flowers? Done. You saw a cute stuffed animal in the store front and you want it? You got it. Somebody harassed you on the streets and you want them punished? Let her take care of it. Normally she's against violence, but when it comes to protecting you? She'll do anything.

-will sing to you, all the time

-made a special song that she sings to you when you've had a bad day

-the best listener ever.

-will sit and listen to you talk for hours

-if she needs to get to work early, she'll make you breakfast and leave you a note that says something like:

-hi, good morning lovely! I hope you sleep well.

I had to leave early.. something happened at the hotel while Alastor was away, and they needed me.

See you 2night, i love you:)<3

-i think her love languages are physical touch and words of affirmation

Angel Dust

-whisper's provocative things to you during meetings

-definitely a physical touch kind of guy.

-Will cling to you at the most random times

-keeps Valentino as far away from you as possible.

-tries his best to keep his relationships hidden from him as well

-if you'd come home after a long day, he'd give you a massage

-is super funny, tell me otherwise.

-has a high sex drive, and is pretty kinky due to his job.

-so expect him to ring you up at the most unexpected times.

-PS. Don't put him on speaker when you're in public..

Vaggie

-was pretty cautious around you in the beginning, but slowly warms up to you

-once she's comfortable, she tells the wildest stories and acts them out for you

-if you don't know how to fight, she'll teach you

-if you do know how to fight, you guys spar all the time

-jealousy issues, and you can't tell me other wise.

-she hears someone talk to you in a tone she doesn't like? Glare. Someone low-key flirting with you? Glare. If looks could kill.. she will actually kill them though, so..

-not super experienced in bed, but she's open to suggestions

-once she finds something she likes/is comfortable with, she askes you for it all the time

-a "words of affirmation" and "acts of service" girl for sure

Alastor

(i am perfectly aware he's ace, but these are scenario's for if he wasn't, don't come for me)

-now, Alastor is a great dancer.

-he has great music taste too!

-listens to 1940's and below.

-i think he's mostly into Jazz and Classical music to be honest

-i do think Amy Winehouse and Dave Brubeck are his exceptions when it comes to listening to 1950's and above

-somehow always knows where you are..? You often see his shadows follow you, so that's probably why

-kills for you. Also because he has a thirst for blood, that needs to be satisfied. So that's 2 birds with one stone

-holds doors open for you

-just a general gentleman

-loves it when you wear dark red, dark blue and dark green

-it can be anything. Lipstick (just red though), a hat, a dress, heels, etc.

-expects you to respect his personal space but doesn't respect yours LMFAO

-gift giving and physical touch

Husk

-knows all your favorite drinks

-loves to dance with you

-also a Jazz person, but I don't think he'd mind country music to be honest

-once he secretly took a picture of you.

-he thought you looked so good, he keeps it in his nightstand.

-doesn't really talk about his problems/feelings, but prefers it if you do.

-respects your boundaries more than anyone.

-you don't wanna talk? He'll kiss your forehead, and leave you alone.

-you don't really like being touched? He'll always ask first.

-other than making amazing alcoholic drinks, he makes great coffee too!

-quality time and physical touch.

It's been quite a while since i've written something, so I apologize if there's any grammar mistakes or sentences that just don't make any sense LOL

Thank you for reading!

[gabessquishytum]

Time for some dreamling crack! I apologize for the length, it got out of control. Destiny is done. He's just done, okay? He's had enough of his parents who were never there, siblings who are constantly up to some shit, and his ultra-serious job with no vacations. Moreover, being constantly chained to a book (especially when it's such a huge and heavy book) sucks. So, one day he makes an ultimate decision to go on a holiday into some remote galaxy for a century or two, but first, he needs to complete one task that he actually assigned to himself. Technically, he's not supposed to intervene and all that cosmic bullshit, but he's Destiny, and that's his destiny, pun intended. He's the CEO! The year is 1389. Destiny calls Death and tells her they need to go to Dream asap. She's surprised and slightly worried but obeys without questions. Dream is even more surprised - Destiny normally never visits, so the circumstances must be exceptional. Which they are. Destiny is in no mood for pleasantries and gets straight to the business, informing Dream that he needs to get laid for the common good. Dream bluescreens, and so does Death. 'I beg you pardon?' Dream blinks. Destiny never jokes, and he must have misheard… But Destiny, in his impassive, 100% serious tone, repeats that Dream does need to get laid. To prevent the deaths of thousands of dreamers in the 20th century, to prevent the grudge with hell, to save multiple dreams and nightmares, etc., but ultimately, to save himself from the ill fate. 'All this can be prevented if I get laid?' Dream's metaphorical head is spinning. 'Yes,' Destiny deadpans. 'Okay...' Death interrupts cautiously. 'Why am I here, though?' 'Because he needs to get laid regularly, and there is only one human who can handle this task. He must be made immortal for this reason.'

Dream feels like the Dream.exe file has been irrevocably damaged. 'I need to get laid regularly?' He repeats weakly. 'Brother, you know how important my function is. I have no time for-' 'This is exactly why you meet your doom in all the futures but one.' '…where I'm getting laid?' Destiny nods. Death beams. Dream pales to a previously unexisting shade of white. Without further ado, Destiny takes them all to the White Horse, buys some ale (his vacation mood starts to kick in - he expected more objections from Dream), and nods at one table. 'Robert Gadling. He is the chosen one.' 'Brother, you surely do not want me to lay with a mortal who has fleas and hasn't bathed for Delirium knows how long,' says terrified Dream. 'I surely do. Fleas are the least of your potential problems, little brother.' 'Alright.' Death says. 'Robert Gadling is immortal now. Can I go?' Destiny nods again. Death smiles and, before disappearing, loudly whispers to Dream to invite her to the wedding. Dream glances one last time at his brother and approaches Robert's table. If this is his destiny...and it's for the greater good of the universe and dreamers...Besides, this Robert Gadling is quite handsome - well, unwashed and smelly, but handsome still. Destiny is very pleased. Now, he only needs to sign up Desire for a few millennia of uncancellable therapy, and he can go drink his cocktails in a galaxy far, far away!

I love this, thank you so much for writing it all out. It really made me chuckle.

I'm absolutely obsessed with the idea of Destiny just getting really sick of the universe and all the bullshit that it contains. He's the equivalent of a harassed middle aged working parent attempting to keep everything under control and inevitably watching it all go to shit. He deserves such a good vacation, I hope there's a really good spa in the galaxy he's picked out.

Being the oldest sibling is hard, even when you come from a family of cosmic entities. And honestly? Destiny kind of likes the look of his new human brother-in-law. If this guy can keep Dream from going off the rails then that's wonderful, but the fact that he's cute? Also helps. Destiny may be blind but he is not immune to the Hobpropaganda. He's actually kind of not dreading the next family dinner? He can already see that it's going to run a whole lot smoother with Hob around the table.

But first: bottomless mimosas in a different star system. Bye, losers!

[shotoyami]

Could do gambit x f reader basically f reader is a normal person working and is saved one day by gambit in a fight and offers to take her home and basically gets to know her and take her out on a date’s <33

prenotes: Gambit beloved <33 !!! The silly little Cajun man, he has my heart… I loved writing this sm, super cute, might make a part two if anyone would like to see that!!!

Thank you so much for the request, anon<3

pairing: Remy LeBeau/Gambit + female reader

warnings: none, yet again!

genre: fluff, that’s all to be seen here

notes: so please ignore the jokes I make in here if anyone doesn’t like them, I had to make them as a retail worker and the usual daily struggles of retail. but if anyone laughs, I’m glad! (please respect your retail workers, they don’t get paid enough or appreciated enough)

word count: 900+

Sir, this is a Walmart…

Work. Mediocre, stressful, annoying. At least, that’s a normal day on the job. Another day at some high end grocery store that cannot be named here, just dealing with the same customers to expect every day. The entitled old people, the crass young people that shouldn't be without adult supervision, crying babies that the mother literally is not even a foot away from and doesn’t care about, and so much more stupidity. 

“You young kids and not respecting their elders. I swear, it’s like I always talk to the same person no matter where I go unless it’s a machine!” Like now, where an older woman is harassing me.

I force a civil smile onto my face, knowing everything is both on video and on audio, and that anything against store policy could get me fired. “I’m sorry to hear that, ma’am. Unfortunately, I can’t bend the rules for anyone. If I change the price for you, I’d have to change the price for everyone in the store- which can’t happen, of course.” I try to explain to the woman– which is stupid, because when do entitled people ever listen to reason? She starts shouting, which is to be expected, and of course a supervisor comes over, trying to gauge what’s happening, and now she’s screaming at them too. The supervisor gives me a glance and I just put my hands up defensively and turn and walk away– because I don’t get paid anywhere near enough to deal with this crap.

I fall into the breakroom’s couch with a long sigh, making one of my coworkers giggle. “Gosh (y/n), tell us all how you really feel girl.” I groan, but let out a small laugh, finding humor in my coworker’s words. “Was it Sharon again? Or Beth?”

I sat up as I respond, “Neither, it was Martha.” My coworker grimaces at the name, before she sighs.

“Yikes. I’m sorry girl, she’s a pain.” I snicker, nodding in agreement. “But have you seen that new looker that’s been coming in recently?” That sparks my attention, and I sit fully toward her, attentively. “No? Okay, so there’s this guy that’s been coming in, right? And he’s got weird eyes and a southern accent, and he flirts with everyone.” I nod along as she speaks, humming afterward in thought.

“No, I haven’t seen or met him yet. He sounds interesting?” She nods in agreement, but we’re interrupted as our supervisor comes in, rolling his eyes.

“Martha.” Is all he says, making both of us giggle. “You’re good to go back on the floor, (y/n).” I nod and hop up, making my way back out onto the sales floor.

Of course, my luck willing, there’s some weird looking people (hey, we’re not trying to judge here, but just imagine this the same kinda way as describing your neighborhood crackhead) getting into a fight on the sales floor. I stand there, awkwardly, because I’m not trying to get into the middle of all of that. 

As I go to shuffle on by, because I don’t get paid enough to care, some kind of metal comes flying at me. My survival instincts aren’t survivaling because I just stare at my impending doom for a moment, accepting my fate and all, until a card with a purple looking hue just flies in front of me and blows up the metal??????

Whilst pondering my existence and how I didn’t just die, I get grabbed and my snatcher???? savior???? just kind of runs, cursing in some other language – french? Once again accepting my fate, I don’t exactly struggle or anything because this is all on camera and surely  someone will clock me out for this or just give me extended pay time for dealing with this crap.

The person finally stops and sets me down in the back of the parking lot, and I find that it’s my coworker’s deemed ‘new looker’. “Ya’ alri’, cher?” I slowly nod, probably looking like a big eyed fish or a barn owl or something. He chuckles, offering a hand, “The name’s Remy LeBeau, ya’ welcome fa’ the save. How’s ‘bout yous make it up ta’ me by lettin’ me walk ya’ on home? Ya’ off the clock?” Again, I just nod stupidly – my coworkers can clock me out, it should be fine. Fortunately, I use public transportation anyway, so it all works out.

Of course, everyone’s staring at the man next to me. Not so much for his “good looks,” but moreso for his odd appearing eyes – red on black. The entire subway is…rather quiet for once. It’s a nice change, a welcome change. He’s the one that breaks the silence as we get off of the subway, “Ya’ from ‘round these parts?” He sort of leans over me, smirking but still being quite respectful. He’s probably fishing for something in common, given his thick southern accent.

“No, I’m from the next state over.” He slowly nods, humming and keeping the conversation going similarly until we arrive at my front door. “So, I be seein’ ya’ again? Here, le’mme give ya’ my fone number.” He quickly comes up with a way to scribble down his digits, handing the paper to me. “An’ maybe we can go on a nice little date or somethin’ soon, cher?”

A goofy smile comes onto my face at this words, a bit shocked that all it took was a bit of small took to charade this man, but I nod in agreement nonetheless. “I’d appreciate if it involved me not being in immediate danger next time?” He chuckles and nods.

“See ya’ then, darlin’.”

[thekeeperof-thefandoms]

TW: sensitive topics

Adam slowly becomes more tolerate and less misogynistic over time via osmosis but won't admit it and instead hides it.

Adam thinks women bitch too much about the pink tax until he's sent out to get period products for Reader and Lute, only to realise that his cost of his shopping just doubled in price from just one pack.

Adam thinks women bitch too much about not being welcomed to normally male occupied spaces until he's playing late night online and hears a woman join only to leave after five minutes because everyone kept harassing them.

Adam hounds a girl for her number, thinking that he's so smooth for getting it in the end, but then decided to lose it after watching a film with Reader and Lute where it showed a girl terrified of what would happen if she didn't give a guy her number and hears Reader and Lute, two very capable women, talk about how they've been in similar positions.

Adam has done a lot of thinking lately.

Personally, I'd like to think that Heaven, while flawed, is above some of the nonsense like the pink tax. I do still think catcalling and being harassed happens, probably mainly in result to a lot of men modeling Adam's behavior.

But once he gets with you and you start calling him on his shit, and therefore Lute gets more comfortable calling him out, and especially after the period simulator, he's more aware of certain things.

I feel like eventually he'd ask you if this is how bad it is now, what did you do when you were alive? When you had to work constantly, sometimes 2 jobs at a time, just to afford basics. That's when you tell him you didn't really have a choice but to suck it up. That you weren't allowed to get a hysterectomy, you couldn't take sick days just for a period, and that most doctors wouldn't believe you anyway.

Especially if you're a trans person this is a big foot in the door to explaining how poorly women and queer people are treated. Hit em with the fact that religious nuts use Adam and God as examples for their behavior and he's going to feel physically sick. I think he'd have to take a few days to just be by himself and really think about how he acts and how people interpret that.

From there it's a slow build up to correcting his behavior. And it's not always gonna be easy. He's going to be defensive, he'll tell you that you're overreacting and that him persistently following a girl around to ask her for her number repeatedly isn't bad, it shows he's interested. He's a nice guy.

Tell him that's what other men thought too until "insert any woman you can think of who was assualted".

Lute's more direct, she sits his ass down and has him watch as many true crime stories of women getting kidnapped, SA, tortured, and murdered as she can find. Usually she picks ones based off the names you drop. He really only has to hear 4 or 5 before it sinks in. (Tiktok reminded me of the girl who was tortured to death for 45 days and assualted with lit fireworks so, have that fresh horror in your minds).

Tell him about any personal experiences you had and how terrifying it is to be a woman or queer. Show him the responses to the man or the bear question. Let him fully realize how many people, people he knows as strong and capable, would rather face the bear because "the worst the bear can do is kill me". Or "Nobody accuses me of liking being attacked by a bear"

"No one asked me what I was wearing when the bear attacked"

"People would actually believe me if I said I was attacked by a bear."

"The bear sees me as a person."

"The bear lives in the woods, the man probably followed me."

Each answer is gonna send a new shiver down his spine.

Reforming Adam isn't an easy or fast process but it's fully possible because I don't think he's bad or a fullblown narcissist. I think he's been told his entire existence that he's a good guy, a pinnacle of creation, someone to be admired and obeyed without question.

You could argue he may be a bit controlling and narcissistic because of how he treated Lillith and requested a submissive wife with Eve. And I don't think he's ever not going to be full of himself and expect his ideal partner to be a bit more traditional in the sense that they're a housewife/domestic type. But he also likes people who go out and have fun, can get wild, and he definitely thinks it's hot if you can defend yourself even if it strokes his ego if you let him do it.

But overall, I think with enough time, patience, and exposure Adam could become a better person. Probably the type who would throw hands with himself if he could. Definitely becomes the type to start borderline hating other men.

[talesofsonicasura]

Venom and Shadow

A crossover that came to mind thanks to the latest Sonic the Hedgehog 3 trailer. This partly stems from a different idea I had for a while. If you guys are wondering about the other members of the Sonic movie cast, that will be for a different page. Now let's get started!

It has been 3 months since Eddie lost his job and marriage due to the Life Foundation 'scandal'. Things have been difficult as he struggles to find jobs to keep the roof of his cheap apartment over his head. Nevermind the still fresh emotional turmoil the man inflicted on himself.

Eddie honestly thought the insanity was almost over. That is until one fateful night changed his life forever. He was shamefully walking home in complete darkness. Eddie recently came from another failed job interview, the fifth one this week to be exact.

There is only so much cash writing minor tabloid articles could make him. He was running on fumes and it's only a matter of time before he had nothing. Eddie needed another job if he doesn't want the bills to stack. His thoughts are interrupted by a strange noise in a nearby alleyway.

Any normal person would have ignored but the man was too curious for his own good. Eddie honestly expects the source of the noise to be an alleycat at best and a shaky homeless person at worse. He never expected some black furry creature with red highlights.

Or the white gloves it was wearing to be stained blood from the gunshot wound in their side. Eddie didn't have much of a choice when the being collapsed to the ground. Hopefully he wouldn't regret taking them back to his apartment.

Yup! Eddie's first encounter with the otherworldly is with Shadow instead of Venom. Before anyone even asks, he wouldn't give him up. The movies take inspiration from the comics and Eddie's character is one such thing. He stands up for those who can't defend themselves through words even after he got Venom.

Eddie could use Shadow to gain money or fame but the man wouldn't. By doing so will make him no better than the corrupt individuals he fights such as Drake. To summarize how the hedgehog got out, you can blame an incompetent GUN officer for not monitoring his stasis pod well.

Although Shadow didn't come out of it with just some gunshot wounds. Whatever the officer done to free him resulted in the hedgehog developing amnesia. The only thing he remembers is his name, Maria's and that he is a hedgehog.

Due to his amnesia, Shadow is closer to a docile, nervous yet curious blank slate than an angry vengeful mess. (Like the fandom portrayed him before we got the first trailer for Sonic 3.) Eddie obviously doesn't know what he got himself into. Yet something inside him told the man he had to help the hedgehog.

The next three months consist of Eddie caring for Shadow. It includes taking him outside for nighttime activities, giving him an education to some extent, and anything else the hedgehog needs. This includes clothing to cover up the obvious inhuman appearance whenever they got out especially during the day.

Eddie also studied up on veterinary and standard medical procedures as well. He can't exactly take Shadow to a doctor nor a vet. The man didn't offer him food that normal hedgehog's eat because it might've offended the kid.

Only one person knows what Shadow really looks like: Maria. Meeting the homeless was a very rough affair for two reasons. The first being how it exactly happens.

During the first month, Eddie got into an argument with Shadow and the hedgehog ran off. He runs into Maria being harassed by a few drunks on the street thus he defends her. The woman's name accidentally triggers a lost memory and the intensity of it causes Shadow to collapse. He wakes up in her arms while she lectures Eddie.

This isn't the first incident where regaining a memory would cause the Ultimate Lifeform pain. Even the smallest thing like a cartoon could trigger a memory within Shadow. The more important it seems to be, the more painful it is.

Something that made Eddie extra cautious when it came to finding any information about the hedgehog. He knows it's only a matter of time before Shadow regains his memory. Thus the man would rather take it slowly for both their sakes.

Overall, everything had been mostly peaceful for the duo. Eddie doesn't feel like drowning himself in a bottle as Shadow keeps him grounded and mostly content. That is until Maria goes missing.

When Dora Skirth(female scientist) asks Eddie for help, he's very quick to jump on it. Shadow wasn't taking Maria's disappearance very well and the ex reporter is afraid that the kid will run off to find her. A fear proven true when the hedgehog appears at the lab to rescue the now unconscious woman.

Shadow was able to get Maria to a nearby hospital in time and doctors were able to resuscitate her. The Venom Symbiote however had already jumped into Eddie. You can bet it was awkward when the amnesiac hedgehog sees his dad walk into the apartment like a zombie. He does stop him from eating trash chicken but couldn't save the tater tots or dino nuggets.

Things get even more chaotic after Venom nips Shadow for trying to save the food. An unknown yet familiar power deep inside the hedgehog slowly begins to awaken. Something that the symbiote seems to recognize.

These newfound Doom Powers immediately put Shadow in the crosshairs of Carlton Drake. Now Eddie has to fight against the Life Foundation while trying to solve the deeper and darker mystery about Shadow. He can't forget trying to manage a predatory symbiotic alien's voracious hunger either. Or the sporadic mutations that begin to emerge within his hedgehog son.

Luckily for them both, Venom is happy to help Eddie protect his 'offspring' than just deal with Drake. Although the Life Foundation isn't the only thing he has to handle. Sometimes the past refuses to stay behind.

Whether it be his or Shadow's.

@foolmariofest @umtrem @halfakitsune-nordiluskitsunaly @moth-looking-for-a-lamp

[ilikekidsshows]

About you being harassed by Marinette fans. I don't know if me doing this is weird, but you being open bout that makes me want to open up more too. I've send you 4 anons by now (u probably could already tell they were from one person) because I don't have a miraculous Blog anymore since the hiatus before Destruction because Marinette fans found one of my posts criticizing Marinette's treatment of Cat Noir and her leadership and they went after me for i think almost an entire week. I ended up deleting my blog in panic and fear of it getting worse the more traffic it got amongst Mari stans.

I followed the show and Fandom til now from afar to see if any of my Marinette problems were getting the fixes everyone screamed about season 5 would deliver but I can't say that happened. I wholeheartedly agree that with alot of other people that it only got worse with the doubling down and her gettin less heroic underneath the surface.

So I'm still here and upset that I was bullied out of this fandom for things I was apparently right about to degrees I didn't even knew back then how right I'd end up being....

I found a couple of blogs to follow that share my opinions and you guys have been interwoven alot now so I thought sending anons to dip my toe back into being part of the discourse is a good idea. I hope I didn't cause any Mari stans getting angry at you for it, I've been worried bout that ngl.

I would like to ask bout one of the topics Marinette fans cyberbullied me for but I still think I'm right for questioning:

How much value does Marinette see in being friends with her love interests?

Oc im not doubting that she sees at least some worth in it, but it feels very shallow. Fandom is working the lion's share to take what little canon gives and run with it til they think their fanon is real.

Marinette values friendship, sure, but Zoe is the only love interest of hers for whom that feels right to say

Marinette in Canon has said many times that for her being friends with the one she loves is the worst thing she could possibly imagine. E. g. Psycomedian. And she was rewarded with Adrien being her devoted and desperate prince for her doing probably the most friendship related thing she did in all season 4. She had a basic little convo with him about understanding to have problems and that's where it ended. Where did Marinette ever even try to be rlly Adrien's friend? She said 500x that she's finally gonna put her romance feelings aside for a bit to focus on her job (which I hoped would mean she'd work on her weaknesses in the platonic Ladynoir team dynamic too... Silly me... )

But that never goes anywhere? Weren't Adrien and Kagami the ones literally having been created out of the feeling love or to love someone in particular and even THEY could overwrite their senti programming better than Marinette ever could get over her normal ass feelings for a week? Adrien and Kagami value the friendship with the one they love deeply, is that the difference? That Marinette can't ever move one from loving someone because friendship feels like an awful downgrade and torture to her so she stays the same? What does that say bout her?

Or that Luka and Cat Noir never caused her stalker paranoia to break out that Derision claims she does to protect herself. Why does it only apply to Adrien? And not even Cat Noir, too? In my other anons I brought up how awful I think it is that Marinette seemingly has no interest in leaning anything rlly about the boy underneath Cat Noir's mask, now she barely acts like she remembers that he's real and that they'll one day reveal where he'll then find out how many times she deliberately deceived him with her civilian identity in very hurtful ways.

How does that correspond to her being in love and more important for my question, what does that level of refusal to treat someone like a real person say about her willingness to be Cat's friend? Cause I can't see friendship in Ladynoir anymore. Marinette was the one who killed that in season 4 and then season 5 didn't improve her in much. Friends don't treat each other the way Marinette so easily uses, hurts ignores, silences and deceives Cat Noir without batting an eye.

The only effort she really made was before Kwamis choice. When she thought he was still in love with her and expected that s4 magically caused no damage to his feelings for her. she seemingly thought she could just allow him to dedicate himself to her for an overall easy way to sweep everything under the rug and make him "happy" again without her ever having to really try and do better herself because that was the comfort she was seeking at that time (shoutout to Familyagrestefanblog and erisluna35. I've been paraphrasing them alot and wanted mention that too. Didn't get to write out my own opinion in a while and I agree with them x})

This refusal to face her hurtful actions of s4 quickly developed into her craving for him to give her his easy love and not wanting to take anything less than precisely the endless devotion she wanted from him now. No matter what the price. No matter how much it put him too in danger (what even meant Cat Blanc?), and yet, still no interest in him as a person.

Once she had to take the no, she left and then she never again made a genuine effort in Ladynoir. Any effort to better herself was romance related. Determination may have been the episode where she rlly noticed her changed feelings for him, but she did try earlier than that. But it fully stopped with his no as did her changed feelings vanish as quickly as they showed up. So what does that say about her and how she views their "friendship"?

Season 4 has her already show that she doesn't want Ladynoir to be an actual friendship since she treats him barely better than a magical pet she rarely ever thinks about, which caught her off guard over and over that she isn't being the kindest and adoring person of all time to him. She treats him so much worse than her actual friends and in s5 she isn't trying to build a real connection beyond wanting him to shower her in his devotion and love.

What season 5 shows bout Marinette's view of the Ladynoir friendship is in my most generous reading her not getting to hide behind any romantic feelings from either side that she doesn't know how to be his friend, after she had to learn in season 4 that she was a really really bad one. But even with that generous reading, it would still mean that Marinette then went on prioritizing not having to feel any further discomfort or having to owe up for her actual mistakes in their bond over her finally being the friend she SHOULD think Cat Noir deserves. A friend he desperately needed but never got cause she called it a day with her personal needs being met my having her best friend Alya with her.

Friends don't do that. Marinette denied him any genuine friendship he obviously truly needed as Cat Noir because she personally didn't need it from him anymore cause of Alya. And he rejected her desire to now be adored by him so there was no purpose left anymore for him to fulfill in her life besides the easy partner she made clear cant ask shit from her.

That is so unbelievably selfish... How on earth is that supposed to be FRIENDSHIP?

Srry, for this being long. Last point.

Luka of course needs to be mentioned too. Sure, the show says they are friends. But are they really? Their friendship is built on him being her platonic therapist back-up boyfriend who doesn't ask shit of her either. This is still the same pattern as with Catrien. Luka does all the emotional labor and Marinette just takes and takes and that's what makes her so comfortable around him but she isn't interested in him either beyond what she sees day to day in front of her.

That doesn't count as friendship in my book. For Adrigami you can still feel their friendship after their breakup. But Lukanette is Luka being a platonic therapist boyfriend and Marinette being just as disinterested in him as with Cat Noir while being just as comfortable getting showered in emotional labor that she's unwilling to work on giving back the way she should.

How is that friendship? What value has friendship for Marinette once any romantic feelings are involved from either side and it isn't Zoé (feels like a homophobic backhanded compliment lmao)

That was very long, I apologize. But thanks to writing in anon I started becoming more comfortable with the idea of joining the Fandom discourse again. I've got alot I wanna say after all that time in silence but I'm not sure yet if I should put myself out there again with a blog. With how season 5 ended Marinette stans are gonna be vicious beasts to any criticism they come across and I don't want that to happen again :(

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I hope this isn't a case of speak of the devil and he shall appear but lately things have been really quiet on the Marinette stan front. The worst I’ve gotten was this really unhinged one, but they were so unpleasant they didn't have any friends so the harassment was very one-note and stopped pretty quickly since they had to run it alone. It could be that now that season 5 confirmed that season 4 wasn't an outlier, that the show’s writing has gotten incredibly sloppy and nasty, the critical side of the fandom has become unified and we add to each other’s posts and kind of back each other up. It's harder for Marinette stans to target us one by one, and their preferred tactic is dogpiling a single blog. A lot of the Marinette stans protesting my posts now shut up right quick when they see more people agreeing with me adding to the reblog chain.

As for the question, I agree with your assessment. It really does appear that Marinette hates the idea of being friends with a love interest. She whined about Adrien seeing her as just a friend all the way back in Riposte. Adrien sung her praises to Kagami, while she spied on them, and she had the gall to whine that the boy she “loves” thinks so highly of her because it wasn't the kind of thinking she wanted.

There was this one thing I said in a previous post that I think is accurate: Marinette part-times being Cat Noir's friend. Even the part of time she acts as his friend, she ignores his feelings, insults him, pushes him away, refuses to give him emotional support in any way and lies to him about anything she possibly can. She only approaches him as Marinette when she wants to complain about Adrien not coming to the date he didn't know was a date, when she thinks she can score a date with him or so that she can practice confessing to Adrien on him. Marinette's “friendship” with Cat Noir is all take with no give when she isn't outright ignoring his existence.

She also ignores boys who have feelings for her in her civilian life. Nathaniel is very suspicious of her in Reverser, having to be convinced that she wasn't planning to humiliate him, implying he isn't part of her friend group since he doesn't know her well enough to know she only humiliates people when they're in her way of getting at Adrien. (Alix makes it sound like she wouldn't do that period, but we know the truth by now.) She also refused to come to Juleka and Luka's shared birthday party if Luka was present after they broke up. I bet if you tried to tell Marinette, or her writers, that your romantic partner should also be your best friend to make a healthy relationship, they just wouldn't compute. 

I don't want to say Marinette doesn't hold friendship in high regard period, because the amount of exceptions she makes for Alya shows that she at least values Alya’s friendship. I think she just doesn't value friendship with boys. I feel like Marinette is the kind of person who doesn't think boys and girls can really be friends, which would explain why she thinks Adrien considering her a friend is worse than anything else. If boys can't really be friends with girls, Adrien using the word “friends” means they aren't even that.

Consider this: how often does Marinette hang out with her guy classmates when it isn't 1) a whole-class outing or 2) more likely that Marinette just wanted to hang out with his girlfriend? Like, in Animan, Marinette had no idea Nino had a crush on her, but she still acted like an outing with him at the zoo was the worst thing ever. I get that she was disappointed Adrien wasn't there, but Nino is one of Marinette’s oldest classmates, yet she doesn't want to spend time with him, unless she's planning to use him to get closer to Adrien, since he's Adrien’s best friend.

Of course, she doesn't really value the time with her other friends for its own sake outside of Alya either. It seems like the only times they hang out together is to plot or participate in her get Adrien quick schemes. The only times the girls do something not Marinette related is when Marinette hasn't called them together, like when they were going to the pool in Gorizilla, something Marinette completely forgot until Alya called her. Marinette has poor memory but, despite her knowing she has poor memory, she apparently gave herself no reminder to hang out with her friends. You bet I write down every occasion I’ve agreed to see my friends specifically because I have bad memory as well.

It seems like, unless you're Alya, Marinette only cares about you for how able and willing you are to help her catch Adrien's attention. I keep saying Marinette treats her Adrien romancing problems as the most important thing going on at any given moment, and it's true for all areas of her life. Maybe that's the reason we didn't see Socqueline for four seasons despite her supposedly being such an important friend to Marinette, and why she never joined the friend group proper; Socqueline couldn't help her get with Adrien so she wasn't worth Marinette’s time.

This is a yet another thing where Miraculous is actually pretty sexist; girls and boys can't ever just be friends and girls care more about getting guys than they do about their friends. Another thing of course is this idea that boys just don't have as in-depth feelings as girls or should bury their feelings and never ask for emotional support, which is why all of Marinette's love interests are her emotional support dispensers whose opinions on anything don’t matter when their job is to simply mindlessly worship Marinette while their feelings are devalued by the narrative every time they dare to try to ask Marinette for some support back. Luka gets Akumatized which convinces him to break up with Marinette when he had emotional needs she wasn't willing to fulfill. Meanwhile Adrien goes through the travesty that is Kuro Neko

“Power of love always so strong” but only when it's Marinette's toxic idea of love and when it isn't platonic love. Unless you're Alya, I guess.

[laduenadelswing]

Love game (Vox x female OC)

Chapter 3

Isabel stood in front of the old, red, rusting Hotel. Just as she was about to knock on the door. A blond, cute and overall positive woman opened the door. “I am Isabel, I don't know how I got into hell and could use some help.” She sopped. “Oh, don't worry, there is always a place for a lost soul. I am Charlie.” She smiled, hugged her and seemed happier than everyone. Oh, yes! Vox told her Charlie was a sunshine and naive, it's not that hard to manipulate her. Isabel thought. “Uhhh, I need to introduce you to our family.” She exclaimed excited.

Alastor - A deer like demon and hotelier. Everyone seems intimidated by his presence. Angel dust-porn star, famous very horny and masking. He would understand her, they went through the same things in a different setting Charlie – Sunshine and rainbows, way too happy for hell. Naive. Husk-Barkeeper, seemed pretty smart but wouldn't be to be manipulated easily Sir Pentiuos- Not as powerful but had deep-rooted desire for friends Nifty-small, clean, crazy Vaggie- instantly distrusted Isabel, never smiles except for Charlie but seemed to support her no matter what.

This would be a challenge.

“What do you guys do all day?” Isabel asked intimidated. “In the morning, we usually work on redemption and trying to become a better person. After that some go to work, go to Husk at the bar or work in the hotel.” Charlie almost screamed while laughing, happier than any human has ever been. “So nice, what do you eat normally?” Isabel asked, her stomach growling. “Normally everybody grabs something,” Charlie explained, scratching her head. “Let me cook something, since everybody has something to do and every exercise is done. Let me help.” Isabel smiled nervously. “Of course, Alasitor, help our new guest please.” Suddenly a tall figure appeared behind you, he had claws, deer like hair and the biggest smile on his face. “I've seen you before?” Isabel thought. She couldn't quite remember exactly what happened on her first night, but the demon looked familiar. “Pleased to meet you, darling.” He smiled. After your brief introduction, Vaggie pulled Charlie aside, her eyes killing you. “How can you get any kind of food here?” Isabel asked. “We could take a stroll, but for now you can leave it to me.” With a snap, the whole kitchen was equipped and food appeared right in front of your face. “Wow impressive, I assume you're vegetarian? Since you resemble a deer.” Alastor glared at her. “Why dear. In my days, hunting was really normal. I was pretty skilled.” As the last words left his mouth, the surrounding air heated up, the lights began to flicker and his face turned dark. He is intimidating, know I understand why Vox wants me to keep an eye on him, Isabel thought. She forced a smile on her face. “ I have never hunted before. The paparazzi always hunted me.” She confessed. Alastor laughed, “Oh dear, I couldn't be this bad, couldn't it?” Now her face turned pale, thinking about how many times she was stalked and harassed made her sick. “How did you survive your first night, darling?” Alastor deflected. “ I just ran into someone who gave me a job and a place to stay.” Isabel answered truthfully, thinking about her previous night with Vox, he was really caring. “Convenient” Alastor exclaimed. Together they cooked a balanced dinner with fresh meat, raw meat for the radio demon, a bunch of different vegetables and fruits. The whole hotel crew feasted on their home cooked meal. Charlie loved it, Angledust was horny as always, Husk smiled, nifty couldn't stop eating, Sir pentious was happy and praised the food. Vaggie, however, stayed quit and glared at her. 

“You are a really great addition to our team.” Charlie fangirled. This made her smile, no one has ever been so cheerful in her presence and meant it. “I love to help, maybe you can help me someday to go back to earth.” Charlies eyes grew bigger. “How is earth right now?” She asked curiously.

“Right now? I don’t know if it´s getting better or worse. So many people fight and hate each other, the real beauty is forgotten. But to be able to travel anywhere you want is actually amazing. I am sure you would love the sun, beaches, galas and stars.” Isabel answered Charlie's happiness was addicting. Charlie smiled. They tidied up, everybody seemed to go their way. Alastor showed you your. It was small, but it had character. With some pictures and cool pillows, it would be very comfortable, she thought. After that, he also left, she could leave after they did all their funny games. She waited a couple of days before leaving the hotel at night. Vox lost his mind. He covered every centimeter of hell with cameras, except for the hotel. Not seeing his obsession made him sick. He gave you into the claws of his enemy. Until she left the hotel one night, she looked so stunning. It was way too long since they have last seen each other. The chokehold she had on him was unbelievable.

She went downhill and as soon as she wasn't right next to the hotel, Vox appeared. “Long time no see.” He greeted her and kissed her hand. “Vox, how are you?” She asked him as they walked into the night. “Ah you know the usual, work, Velvet, Valentino. Nothing special.” He smiled. “I love seeing you again. Hell can be exhausting. It's refreshing to have someone like you around.” He admitted. They tried to vanish into the crowed. Some demons looked around to attack the couple. “Oh, she looks like fresh meat.” They murmured with their predatory smiles.

They cornered Vox and Isabel. “Gentleman, I am sure you don’t want to get into a fight with me.” He buzzed. As they came closer, his left eye started changing, his smile grew bigger, and he shoved you gently behind his back. The gang of demons turned away immediately, hypnotized. “Let's get out of here.” Vox whispered. The rest of the walk was uneventful, Isabel tried to vanish in Vox´s shadow. Vox towered her and made sure she was under his protection. “Finally.” He stretched when they entered his apartment. They sat down, Vox purred both of them a drink. They caught up on the events that they missed. As the night continued, they climbed up the rooftop. “I really missed that.” Vox confessed. “What did you miss, the company or the view?” She shot back playfully before continuing, “I missed our conversations too Vox, the hotel is great, but this is something different.” Isabel admitted.

At that moment, Vox's internal conflict became palpable. He wanted to taste her lips, get a taste of how their intimacy would be. Vox restrained himself, he was a master manipulator, always in control. H e wanted her closeness, but only if she desired him as well. Vox tried to get some space in-between them. She was caught in Vox's magnetic field of desire, the energy between them was growing. Shivers ran down her spine. She looked at him seductively. Her face painted in a light blue shine.”Blue suits you.”He whispered. “Thank you for saving me.” Isabel replied. He tucked her hair behind her hair. She took his claw and gave it a small kiss, looked up and gave him a Hollywood smile. At this moment she could see the electricity shooting through his body, his eye glitching a little. “You know, Vox, sometimes it's good to let loose.” She whispered, while Vox became stiff under her touch.

“Chaos can be beautiful.” Isabel added her smile made his world lit up. “I really don't want you to go back there.” Vox admitted. “Vox, you are the one who wanted me there.” At this moment, he knew it was too late to kiss her. Or was it? She turned away from him and faced the breathtaking view from the roof. A shy smile appeared on her face. “Oh, I think I need to go. I don't wanna cause any trouble.” She faced him, “Thank you, Vox.” She smiled, hugged the Overlord a little bit longer than adequate, and left smiling. Vox repaid her smile, it was genuine. He walked her to the hotel. “You wanna come back tomorrow? Or whenever you want.” He asked with a hint of shyness, before he turned on his best PR- smile. Isabel, not wanting to cause any commotion, went back to the hotel. As she entered, Angle sat on the couch. “Had a long night, Sugar?” He asked playfully. “Kinda.” Isabel replied. “You're dating someone.” He asked half-heartedly whilst scrolling on his phone. She chuckled and left into her room.

Authors Note: I would love to hear some feedback. Also, I am so excited for tonight's episode. Thank you so much for all the love. It means the world to me.

[kharmii]

ngl it’s always interesting to watch and observe the American Elections as an European.

The fact that the results were this overwhelming this time is telling.

People are sick and tired of the nonsense that was going on in the past 4 years.

And now the people have spoken.

The cope is so entertaining to watch. I’m sitting here in Europe and eating popcorn while the wokies loosing it.

🍿

Want some?

They went too far, as the radical left always does. The populace does not want expensive food/gas, abortion up until birth, unchecked immigration, mutilation of children, and unprosecuted crime. It was telling a guy named George Gascon lost reelection in the most leftist leaning city in the country, Los Angeles. He was one of those 'defund police' clowns who caused endless misery and death allowing criminals to operate freely. Sane normal people don't want that, even if they are left wing.

Anybody who wasn't the most foaming at the mouth cause head fanatic also didn't think it was right for the left to use lawfare to make Trump a felon, and of course it was the most horrific thing ever how they are actually putting out messages in the media encouraging nut jobs to take a shot at Trump. Now he won, the minorities and gays are all like.....HE'S GOING TO GENOCIDE!!!!!! (.....blahblahblah) when actually that man is the least vengeful person on earth. He's totally chill and hopefully will just get right on pushing through policy that will make everybody's life better.

I'm also hoping he'll pardon the political prisoners that were real victims of left wing lawfare. We still have Jan 6th protestors and abortion clinic protestors rotting in prison. A few cops who put down criminal noncontributing members of society who were dangers to the public were railroaded because the criminal scum happened to be minorities.

There's the ongoing case of Daniel Penny who put a crazy homeless guy named Jordan Neely in a chokehold after he went around threatening to murder people on the subway. The guy was a repeat offender with a history of threatening people and being a nuisance. Daniel Penny's chokehold didn't even kill him. He was still breathing when let go, but none of the responding officers wanted to put their mouths on his mouth to perform CPR because they were afraid of catching Hepatitis from a gross disgusting filthy homeless guy. Now Daniel Penny -instead of being labeled the hero of the subway- is being charged with murder, all because leftists are upset that a white guy had the nerve to stop a black guy from harassing people.

Then there's the case of Tina Peters who was given an 18-month prison sentence because she questioned our last fraudulent election. Left wing activists came up with reasons to charge her with a crime. Not only was she found guilty, but this douchebag activist judge told her off during sentencing in the worst way. He ground her face in the dirt and made her apologize. When handing out prison sentences, judges are supposed to take intent to commit a crime into consideration. There are murderers and child rapists who were treated less harshly than a women pushing sixty who questioned an obviously fraudulent election.

[corazon-calaveras]

Late Night Thoughts

Okay so..............

The coffin of Andy and Leyley. Where do I even begin?

It's a very good game I'll admit that and I'll give credit where credit is due. The game has a very simplistic but cool art style which makes it very recognizable to the fans of the game or at least those who have either played it or seen playthroughs of it. The overall story telling and pace is very well done and it certainly has kept me intrigued. I tend to have a soft spot for plots that contain edgy and dark themes to it (so long as it is written really well and not overdone) and this game seems to have done a good job of not overdoing it.

Now then, on with some issues I personally have with a certain aspect that has definitely left a sour taste in my mouth (and not in a good way considering I love sour candy and what not).

(Just a heads up, I'm not saying that the topic I'm about to talk about can't be used in stories, in fact this topic has done a really good job to make me feel bad for Andrew but at the same time be like "Dude, are you dumb?!". The incest aspect of their relationship is actually written well because it's done one hell of a good job to make me feel uncomfortable as fuck and I hate it. Now do I support incest? Absolutely fucking not, that shit is hella disgusting and I DO NOT condone that shit.)

On to the rant.

The major issue I have about the story of the game is the overall relationship Andrew and Ashley have and of course it's the incest aspect of the relationship. But that's obviously a very obvious topic that a lot of people would not be a fan of (unfortunately there are some creeps out there who ship the two regardless). Let's set the incest aside for a moment and discuss the main issue of the Grave sibling's (that's their last name, right?) relationship and that is how very toxic and abusive it actually is.

In the first episode of the game we see that Ashley has a very unhealthy obsession with her brother and although there's nothing wrong with having a fondness of your sibling, Ashley just takes that fondness to the EXTREME. We see that she gets overly jealous whenever Andrew remotely gives another girl attention and would do anything to get them away from Andrew as we could see in the game. I mean c'mon, she not only committed manslaughter (straight up murder actually) she also consistently harassed Andrew's girlfriend until she dumped him. But oh, that's not the only horrible things she's done to Andrew. Ashley would straight up emotionally manipulate him into doing all the dirty work only for her to later on be like "I didn't tell you to do it, you CHOSE to do it yourself." Miss girl don't lie, we all know you literally manipulated him into doing it to appease you only to later have the AUDACITY to gaslight him.

Now I won't go too hard on Andrew considering that he's the victim in all of this but there are times when he literally could have put an end to Ashley's abusive behavior and stand up to her, but seeing him try to do so only to fall back to being submissive made me feel sorry for the guy. However, things would get even weirder with him when he asked his girlfriend to tie her hair up so she could resemble Ashley a little more which uh.....HELLO??? Nah nah nah, you wrong for that one Andrew. I'm sure there's a few other things he's done that's equally as weird as Ashley but so far that's the one example I can think of at the moment. Oh wait, there's that one official art of Ashley just sitting on Andrew's lap with a bitemark on her shoulder while he's lighting a cigarette and has a hand up her thigh as if it was completely normal. *Sighs* Sweet home Alabama.

I know there are people out there who will say things like: "But the game literally has cannibalism and murder but you draw the line at incest? That makes no sense!" Um, no not really. It's literally in our nature to find incest disgusting considering how the offspring will come out with a lot of issues and thus will not survive out in the world. Yes I'm aware that royalties in the olden days literally married their distant cousins to not "taint" the bloodline and I say that those people are equally as weird as the ones who ship Ashley and Andrew. As for the cannibalism part, yes it's also disgusting but if you think about it it makes a lot of sense that someone would resort to it if it's for survival, a last resort if you will. Incest? Now how the fuck is that going to benefit human survival? Last I checked no one has ever done the dirty with their own family members to survive.

Alright, and I think that concludes my rant for tonight. I just felt like ranting about the Grave sibling's relationship because I literally have no one else to talk to about this and I do find the topic interesting.........very disturbing though.

Eugh, gross.

[verysmolnerd]

Double-shift Drowsiness

Drabble: You're ten minutes from closing and your former professor comes in asking for directions.

I think it’s blatantly obvious that I don’t like working minimum-wage jobs. Hell, my very first fic posted on the internet was because I was treated like shit at a retail store. Now, it’s a little better but that doesn’t mean I’m still not getting the butt end of a stick. This be a vent drable… my bad. 

Cw: Swearing

God fucking dammit. 

You’re here again, for another summer, to take a ludicrous amount of bullshit from your coworkers just to shell in a few more dollars towards your college tuition. 

Normally, the shifts are bearable and you can come home fine, but when you’re there all day sunrise to sunset, it isn’t ideal coming home with so much grease on you. When you shower, you don’t even feel the water on you for a minute because of how much grease had gotten in your skin. 

As for the coworkers part, it’s mainly just one blonde bitch in particular. Specifically, a carhop that’s more entitled than the angry customers here and has the audacity to be a douche to anybody and everybody. When she speaks it always sounds like she cops some sort of attitude when she comes back into the kitchen. 

The only time -as of recently- when she isn’t acting like a punchable brat, is when the general manager of the kitchen staff is around. You had pointed out to them that she was only doing this to be in their good graces, and they agreed; explaining to you that they’ve already talked with her numerous times but she still refuses to listen. You could only hope that one day she’ll get the boot like someone that everyone else in the kitchen even refuses to talk about. 

It always feels like when one problem from the kitchen gets extinguished, three more pop up. With whom that shall not be named is gone, all the kitchen staff are comfortable with talking with each other and making jokes without someone coming in to ruin the mood or harass you. Now, the problem is the one carhop acting like the next cockroach of the damn place and new hires refusing to do work. May you be reminded that you’re only here for the summer and ONLY HERE TO MAKE MONEY FOR THE UPCOMING SCHOOL YEAR.

…

Why do you care so much? It’s just who you are, sadly. 

Now you’re here, still at the restaurant ten minutes to close. You were calmly wiping down the countertops while the general manager had some nostalgic slow songs from the 2000s playing on a Bluetooth speaker that somehow is still working after months of straight abuse and constant use. 

Your other coworkers in the kitchen -you guys just call each other comrades at this point with how tight you are with all the workers that have those strong skills back here- were sweeping and restocking the fridges for the deep fryer or grill. It’s peaceful, well, as peaceful as a food service kitchen could be. 

Everyone was just as tired as you were because it was really late and a long day for those who didn’t work a double shift like you. You needed the hours, what else could you say? Unfortunately, the amount of tiring work doesn’t dawn on you until you’re working over forty hours a week. 

You could see the silhouette of two cars pull in from the packing window, and you sighed. Late stragglers. Somehow, the most desperate people to get to a cheap chain restaurant are also the people who order half of the menu, it infuriates you to no end. 

One car pulled right up in the spot in front go the building, and the other pulled in at a farther spot. You close your eyes and exhale, this is a common thing to happen so you’re not surprised. You are, however, annoyed that everyone in the building is bitching about it. 

What you weren’t expecting, was the person who parked so close to the building to come inside. It’s not like you truly cared anyway, you were just upfront to refill your drink; you haven’t done so in hours and you were beyond parched. 

Your back was to the counter as you waited for the machine to finish pouring your drink, not expecting your name to be called. You turn around, thinking it’s some sort of coworker calling you….

But it was Otto. Your former professor of all people. Dressed in those turtlenecks that hug his figure with dress pants and completing shoes that shine under the restaurant lobby’s lights. 

You lock eyes with him and freeze, both of you staring at each other in shock. “What are you doing here?” You ask him, you’d never thought that you’d see him again…period. “I could say the same about you,” he responded, fumbling with his hands. 

You can feel a few of your coworkers peer through the small window to look at you and the front staff watch the conversations from the blind spots of the counter. You sighed, “This is my hometown. I work here in the summer.” Otto glanced over the counter and noticed the nosy staff, they quickly retreated to the backrooms when they were discovered. 

“I just came to ask for directions since my phone died.” Otto held up the dead device. You nodded, setting your cup down on the counter, “Where are you headed?.. Or where do you think you’re headed?” This isn’t a common thing when people want to go somewhere in this part of the state but end up getting lost, the maps are outdated when you’re this rural, so you’ve had to point a few people the right way. “A retreat where some of my colleagues are, it’s supposed to be more up north..” He paused, you know Otto very well; he hates making mistakes, to be seen as an idiot when he genuinely didn’t know something, “but I think I took a wrong turn- ” he told you the name of the camp with a few descriptors of the place, and you nodded. 

You walked up near the front of the store and picked up a pamphlet, “I think this is the camp you’re talking about,” You handed the advertisement to Otto. He smiled brightly, “Yes it is.” You can see the relief across his face. 

“Good news then. You’ve only got two more hours worth of driving on the main road.” Otto’s face fell, it seemed that the urban convenience he’d had his whole life might’ve been a stunt to his patience. Though you don’t blame him, night driving in the countryside can be quite nerve-wracking.  Deer are the most ruthless to people from the city. 

You let out an airy chuckle, “Is it bound to get dark soon,” You eyed the electronic clock, it displayed the time 9:00 pm, “Are you sure that you want to drive when it’s dark out?” Otto looked like he wanted to say yes, but he stopped himself. 

“You’ll crash at my place tonight.” Otto opened his mouth to protest, but the carhop of your nightmares entered the restaurant and walked right up to him. “Hi! How can I help ya?” You clenched your jaw at the sickly-sweet tone she uses. Otto waved her off, “Ah, no thanks I’m just asking for directions from a friend of mine.” Otto gestured to you with those huge hands of his. You felt yourself heat up with pride, he sees you as more than a student; well, you do have his number…

You can see that the source of your dismay clenched her teeth with a customer service smile before walking away. Otto cleared his throat, “About earlier-“ “Yeah, you can just follow my car home.” You gave him zero room to say no.

“Ah, just a sec,” You walked into the kitchen to see if it was okay, but the team lead already waved you off and said, “Go.” 

Well shit.. alright then..

You grabbed the stuff you brought with you and you clocked out on an outdated machine up front. You waved to Otto to follow you, to the parking lot. You got in your car, and he got into his, and now you’re leading him to your place. 

It wasn’t that far of a drive, the longest part was making a left turn from one of the main roads, there always seemed to be cars there when you wanted to make a turn.

You pulled into your driveway and were now getting your keys out to unlock the front door. You felt the warmth of your previous professor at your back fighting the chilly night air. It was about time that the nights got cooler again, it’s nearly September after all…

You open the front door and hold it for Otto, but he uses his height to keep it open; his hand is high above your head to keep the door open, “No, it’s fine you can go in first.” You thanked him and went inside.

You were in the process of putting your things away in their respective spots when the front door shut behind Otto, he was watching you move around your house with ease; like clockwork. “You keep yourself on quite the schedule.” He watched you move around your kitchen, but then you stopped to look at him after he said that. “Oh, don’t let me stop you.” He moved his hands in a manner to tell you to keep moving. “No, I was just wondering if you’ve already eaten dinner? I can whip something up if you’d like.” You explained yourself, Otto nodded and you swore his face was a bit pink, “I did, thank you for asking, but about staying here-“ You cut him off again, “What kind of person would I be if I didn’t let the person I care about stay here for the night,” You turned to shut off the kitchen lights and show him to your bedroom, but you stopped yourself to relay that information to him, “You can stay in my bedroom, what kind of host would I be if you’re not comfortable?” 

“I was just going to say that I can sleep on the couch,” Otto protested, but you weren’t having it. 

“No, I’ll be fine. I have tomorrow off, you need the rest so you can drive.” “You need the rest so you can have a nice day off.” Otto folded his arms.

“No-“

“Let’s not-“ 

You both cut each other off in the argument..

….

You and Otto are now both dressed down in bed, looking at each other completely flushed and in partial shock from the stubbornness you both share. 

You click off the night, and Otto speaks, “Well, good night.” “Love you.” You automatically responded. You froze and Otto laughed. 

“Love you too.” 

[cosmicjoke]

"There is so much hostility toward the Eruri fandom by Levi stans" Excuse me but Wtf. Dear Anon, have you ever thought about why this happened? From your other colleagues lynching Levi saying they are homophobic for shiping with someone else, especially a woman, to the fact that Levi has a life outside of Erwin and his own character, you are always bullying people for saying it doesn't revolve around Erwin and then you play the victim card and say "they are so touchy" "we only presented (vague and mistranslated) canon evidence". "E L has a faithful and loving relationship and they are jealous that it's not on their ship"Saying and somehow you manage to get rid of your own messes. While Erwin and Levi have a well-crafted relationship in canon, in your fandom you make Levi ugly, a sewer rat, a spoiled who is always angry, but who is calm and knows his place next to Erwin, and you make Erwin radiant, clean, a god. And you write about a dynamic that follows Erwin as if this is the ideology of his life, that he follows every order, that every action he takes is only about Erwin, and that he is ready to drag everything, including humanity, to hell if his countryside is harmed. Yours say it's a Canon, not an Hc, and to those who say it's not, you do what you do best and gather all your friends and bully them. There are so many dramas that you have been doing for years that if I count these things, there will be at most 3 full pages, but I will mention a few of them here as an example;

A month ago, when the Bad Boy spin-off was announced, and it was mentioned that some guys were making Levi do "the same job as his mom" and it was implied that Levi was being sexually harassed in some way, some Eruris were happy and fetishized it… Because it meant that Levi would have a sub and that he would probably be gay… It's so vile and disgusting.

At least one-two years ago, an artist on Twitter said that Levi has no romantic feelings for anyone and that no ships are canon. While some shippers and people agreed with this, only the Eruris didn't accept it and harassed the artist. Some time after that the artist's account was hacked in a strange way. Luckily she was able to get her account back.

Last but not least, this just happened. 2 weeks ago a Lh shipper who was known (both by her toxicity and by her Lh friends and artists she loved) died of her illness. While most of her friends were mourning, someone who was known for bullying and harassing those people and people who didn't ship Eruri for years with her friends because of the ship she didn't like on Twitter, and who got rid of all the shit she did, made fun of the death of that person and said that she faked her death because her ship was not canon in the anime. Although she did not seem to regret what she said, she wrote an apology post because she lost a few followers. The silent followers who supported her and bullied her are just as guilty as this person. Fortunately, someone on Twitter created a post exposing the toxicity of this person over the years for awareness and I am leaving the link here for other people who are not aware to read it. [update:Unfortunately, I can't post because of the link..]

I know you'll say that there are toxic people in every fandom, but there are also normal people. Yes, there are. I've seen various toxicities in other levi shippers. But when I see the sewer rat comments about Levi being ugly and the fetishization of his abuse, when I see the misogynistic comments about him being selfish and hating women and the mischaracterization of his character, these discourses come out of Eruris the most. As much as I see a lot of toxic eruri, I also have Eruri friends who understand the difference between canon and fanon, who appreciate the two characters separately and love and ship the dynamics of both. I used to have them. Now, after seeing the toxicity of Eruri and their views on Levi, they stopped posting. All they do is art appreciation.

So Anon, I hope I was able to explain why they have so much hostility towards Eruri. Half of your fandom is busy twisting Levi's character for a ship and proving that even if the ship is not canon, Isayama is still trying to say that it is canon through subtexts. And your are trying to convince those who do not accept it under the name of 'discussion'.

Do you argue that Isayama, who focuses on subject-oriented the series rather than romantic relationships and is cold-blooded on these issues, is actually resorting to fanservice by drawing a heart on Levi's cheek and silently shouting that it is canon? If we are going to start from subtexts, why only Eruri? Lh and RivaPet, they also had subtexts that resembled romance.

And that's pretty much it in a nutshell. A certain sect of the eruri fandom just can't let it go, and harass anyone who denies their ship, over and over and over again. The whole reason I was so blunt and short in my initial replies to this person, because they just never stop, and they never accept your opinion, and they just keep pressing. Their passive-aggressive BS is blatant, hiding behind a facade of friendliness, only to expose themselves for the raging psychos they are when they don't get what they want.

[endlesscrimson89]

FFXIV Write2023, Prompt 23: Suit.

[New AU]

Senri hardly ever felt like he fit anywhere, much less when stuffed into a borrowed, expensive suit that was just that side of unpleasantly tight in strategic places. He fought not to let any of his inner anxiety show in his expression as he let his pale eyes drift across the massive, beautifully decorated interior of the lobby while avoiding looking at the assistant - or whomever the blonde female was in this building - that seemed bent to expose her cleavage at him whenever his eyes landed anywhere in her vicinity. 

Normally he would simply shoot her down with short but to the point, 'Don't bother, I'm gay,' but he was quite interested in the vacancy that brought him here, so he kept his trap shut, hoping she would get a clue on her own... eventually. 

The job offer seemed perfect for him, considering it asked for nothing more than for the candidate to be 'well-built' and experienced in combat, so his best friend, Alisaie, who shoved it in his face after he wailed at being fired again, was convinced he could pull it off. The company - Allag Corp - was reputable and well-respected in the city, and she apparently knew the guy who was offering that gig, so she was convinced he wouldn't be faced with his usual... issues. 

The company was famous for developing ultra-advanced technologies based on the use of aether, and Alisaie’s buddy, who looked for security due to some ridiculous threats, she assured Senri, was a nice, meek guy who wouldn't fire him because so his miserable mug. Or, to be more precise: the miserable effect his stupid face had on people around him. 

Ever since he was a little kit, his stupid face brought him nothing but trouble. He was only lucky that his older brother shared his affliction, so as soon as Senri grew big enough, Ares made sure to teach him how to protect himself. Both of his older brothers were extremely protective of him - the baby of the family - but they could only do so much, too. 

Alisaie was his first and only real friend, and by the time they met - in college - he was beyond burned on anyone who paid too much attention to his face. 

Especially women, because a scary number of those believed that his sexuality was too much of a loss and they could cure him of it... and some wouldn't take no for an answer, either. 

He got some crushes over the years, obviously,  but it never went anywhere because who would want to deal with the bullshit his appearance brought about? Ares was single, too, for the same reason, despite having a tad more leeway with being bisexual - and cynical as fuck. 

In college, he heard his classmates countless times say how much would love to change with him - and he used to react to that with nothing more than a wry smirk, knowing that if they knew the truth of it, perhaps they wouldn't be so kin to do that. 

His work record was another example of his rotten luck, too - because apparently, when you look like him, you're somehow obliged to put up with constant sexual harassment. Because people laughed when he complained or thought he should be happy about horny bitches pawing at him whenever in arm's reach. 

And he tried to put up with it, he did... until his last boss, an older and married woman, downright threw herself at him and then fired his ass when he balked. 

That was a month ago, and looking at his thinning savings, he was getting a tad desperate and much less picky - if still refusing to go anywhere where women were in charge. He was far too sick of that bullshit!

"Mister Mallory will see you now, sir," the blonde chirped, and Senri blinked, getting back to reality. He sighed and stood up, then fixed the lapels of the borrowed, black suit and sent her a weak, strained smile on the way to the door of the office. She beamed, exposing her breasts even more obviously, but he ignored it, knocking briefly and heading inside while steeling his back and pushing his chest forward. Usually, he strived to keep his massive height and build as non-threatening as possible, but considering the nature of this gig and the pay Alisaie mentioned? 

Hell, he wanted it bad!

"...sir?" He said gruffly toward a surprisingly small figure slouched over a pile of papers covering a massive desk below the floor-to-ceiling windows showing the panorama of the city below. Despite Senri being invited in, the redheaded figure flinched as if surprised, and then a pair of shockingly ruby eyes shot toward him with an adorably owlish look at a handsome if quite as surprisingly young face. 

If that man was older than him, it couldn’t be by much. And again, he wondered how Alisaie knew someone in charge of this company. 

"Ah..." A Seeker, like him, blinked those ruby eyes at him, gave him a quick once-over, and then leaned back, clearing his throat. "...Senri?" He fixed glasses on his nose, their frames somehow, even more, accenting that baffling... cuteness if his expression remained curiously unreadable when he pointed toward one of the chairs set on the opposite side of his desk. "Please, sit down?" His voice was calm if carrying this interesting, soothing quality that sounded like silk for Senri’s ears. 

"Um, yeah..." he complied, though trying to keep his nerves at bay when the redhead folded his hands together atop the papers in front of him, still watching him with that impassive expression. 

Alisaie said that she 'vouched' for him, but he wasn't sure if he had already somehow screwed up... or something, because as much as he disliked the usual reaction to his appearance, its seemingly complete lack here... unnerved him a bit. 

"Alisaie assured me that she thoroughly explained what this... gig would require?" The man said calmly, and Senri nodded, clearing his throat a bit nervously.

"Y-Yeah, she did," he fought himself not to tug at his tie, as suddenly it somehow seemed much warmed inside the spacious, beautifully decorated room. "If I still don’t exactly understand, why wouldn't you hire a professional... sir?" it felt weird to address like that someone who looked very much his age, but... he really needed this job if he didn’t plan to make it too obvious... unless forced to. "She told me it's about some... gala?" 

"Professional?" The redhead blinked twice, then tilted his head with a slightly suspicious smirk. "There seems to be some misunderstanding... Considering the situation, it's of utmost importance - for me - for the whole thing to be... discreet," he accentuated, then sighed at the sight of lack of understanding on Senri’s face. "Let me guess... Alisaie failed to mention that if you would be interested in this... job, I would need you to pretend to be my boyfriend?" He drawled with amusement and thinned his plush lips when Senri's jaw dropped. "...I guess not."

"...huh?" He finally gasped in thought swearing he would wrangle his best friend’s scrawny neck the next time he saw her. "B-Boyfriend? She made it sound... I mean, I thought it was about... protection. Like bodyguard type of thing?"

The redhead blinked again, slowly, and his smirk turned into a sort of comforting smile that had Senri relax involuntarily, leaning back in the impossibly comfortable seat. 

"It is, however..." the man's expression appeared somewhat sheepish with his next words as the hands in front of him seemed to tighten their grip. Was he nervous? "...it's very important for me that my family - who will be present at the said gala - does not realize that I felt the need to seek out this sort of... arrangement. My older brother, whom this occasion is to celebrate, can be quite... overprotective - to the extremes - and I rather avoid gaining his attention. Hence, when Alisaie assured me she knows someone perfect for the job..." he trailed off meaningfully, raising his dark-red eyebrows, and Senri exhaled slowly. 

Well, if nothing else, he could definitely understand the issues of overprotective brothers! Hell, if either Ares or Hades heard he'd been threatened... there would be literally hell to pay, not to mention they would fucking smother him in the process! 

"Think I get that," he said with a slow nod if keeping his expression carefully neutral. "If I feel pressed to mention that Alisaie likely had more than one motive on mind suggesting... me," he hedged, trying to read the redhead's face, but it appeared impossible when he tilted his head slightly, freeing one hand to motion for him to continue. "I'm not sure how you know each other... but you’re aware she's quite a stubborn matchmaker?" 

"Oh?" He frowned, perhaps in habit biting his lower lip... and suddenly the room grew even hotter, while Senri forced himself to keep his gaze on ruby eyes behind the glasses. 

"Listen...?"

"Raha," the man offered easily, smiling again if it looked a bit uncertain.

"Okay, listen, Raha..." he took a deep breath and straightened in his seat. His family taught him never to be ashamed of his sexuality, and with how obvious was this ploy on Alisaie's part...? Not to mention how fucking cute was this redhead? "...I'm gay, so I don’t know how comfortable you would feel with me..." he stopped, pointing at himself, then at him." ...playing your boyfriend."

Raha blinked again, and his whole expression seemed to close off completely. 

"What that has to do with anything?" He finally said calmly, almost infuriatingly so. 

Really, what does it...? Only, he was so freaking cute, and those lips... were downright fuckable!

Senri felt that if shoved into the role of this man's boyfriend, well... it might be hard to resist the idea of using it to turn that play into reality!

"I mean..." he started, then trailed off, feeling the way his face heated up. 

"I just need a proper company for one evening, Senri," that comforting smile again, and he found himself nodding, despite his whole body going hotter for no reason. "Marvelous. The gala is this weekend, Saturday evening. If you write here your address..." now he seemed like a flurry of movement, pushing a piece of paper and pen toward him. "...I'll have a car pick you up."

"Y-Yeah, sure..." he sighed, then leaned in and hastily scribbled down the address of his apartment. Normally he resented giving it to anyone, especially a stranger, after some issues with stalkers, but... fuck, he needed cash, and for just one evening of pretending this dude's boyfriend, the pay Alisaie promised was beyond nice. He could stay being picky about his next job for quite a bit longer, if nothing else... "That’s all?"

"Yes, of course," the redhead announced with a smile, taking the paper back from him but holding his gaze still with that unreadable look in his unique eyes. "If you leave your measurements with my assistant, I'll have a tuxedo delivered a day before, then after that party, you can keep it alongside the agreed upon payment. Is that alright?" 

He didn’t really need a tux... but hell... Senri nodded, standing up when the redhead did and accepted a handshake above the papers spread over the table... trying to ignore the jolt it sent up his arm. He pulled his hand back quickly, nodded again, then turned and headed toward the door. 

"Nice meeting you, Raha..." he tossed a tad awkwardly over his shoulder, then, without waiting for an answer, left the office, heading toward the desk of the blonde assistant. 

Well, he might not strangle Alisaie after all... maybe. 

*_*_*

When the door closed, Raha exhaled loudly and fell back in his seat, then pressed his hand over his insanely pounding heart.

"Idiot," he hissed at himself under his breath, praying to any gods who would listen that Senri didn’t notice any of his usual awkwardness. 

He thought himself well prepared for it. He rehearsed every word so many times it should have been easy... but they all seemingly fled his head the moment the love of his life set foot inside the room! 

Alisaie trained him well, and he thought that he managed not to show any hint of his attraction toward the impossibly beautiful male. She warned that her best friend reacted badly to that, and considering he scarcely managed to convince her to help him in the first place...? 

They were friends mostly due to their parents being one, and since he was little, they met constantly at various gatherings. Alisaie liked him well enough, he supposed, but she loved Senri like a brother and was fiercely protective of him. He knew because it took him literally months of whining before she caved, agreeing to play her part. 

Mostly after he admitted that he's been in love with him for-fucking-ever, but was too chicken shit to do anything about it other than watch him from afar. He wasn’t at all surprised that Senri didn't remember him at all, as the last time they met face to face, they were barely kids. 

...when Senri saved him, and he fell madly in love with his adorable grin. With his kindness and the way, the other boy dried his tears without a hint of judgment. Stayed and played with him despite the other kids laughing at his freaky eyes. 

Then, the next day he was gone, and it took years before he found him again. By accident, no less. 

Or, perhaps... fate. 

He didn’t mind one way or another but simply wanted one chance... to see if it could work. One evening to convince Senri that he could be everything he wanted, as he was everything Raha wanted. 

He sighed, then ran his fingers through his hair, still watching the closed door. He had four days to prepare to - somehow - sweep him off his feet. 

...if you dream, dream big, right?

[Continues in the next one o.~]

[despair-to-future-arcs]

Are you ready guys?

Wait, so if I'm understanding this right; your mother encourage the sexual harassments nor did you have a bank account?

Uh yeah, she did - she say that it means getting more money from my job as a waitress, means our family would be provided.

Besides, given how often she got pregnant she couldn't get a job so I didn't mind.

Right, you say your mother had multiple partners but it sounds more like she was a prostitute and had an orphanage and left you along with the older siblings taking care of your younger siblings, that's... not normal.

Maybe to you it's not but to me, that's normal; that's how life was like and I didn't question it, I just accepted whatever.

Also for the record, mom doesn't like being called a 'prostitute' or a 'whore' she told Hinata that it's an 'open relationship' or 'polygamy' or something like that, I'm not sure.

Honestly relationships didn't interest me too much anyway, so I never really question or care at all. Just as long as we had food on the table, that's all that matter to me.

I see, well I think I got some understanding of your family structure or an idea regarding you and your mother.

You do, what do you mean?

Well first off, I want to ask a few questions and you need to answer them truthfully, if you mind.

Sure, go ahead...

Okay so regarding your mother, Ryo Owari - when did her getting partners and having sex constantly started?

I think it started when I was 4, that's the earliest I remember - she always brought a partner home and usually kids are left under her care, it happen after dad died.

Alright, does she take care of her own children or does most of the child raising are left with you?

I...think usually she takes care of a child for a year when they are born or if they are older kids when brought in, then me along with Hinata, Yota and Makiko take care of them. Yu doesn't help at all...

Have you... interacted with anyone outside of your family around your age, what about school?

I...I don't think so, I never really went to school much or attended outside of elementary school, I was busy with the younger ones; Hinata and Yota was probably the only one of us older ones that went to school, I only went to my job after finish elementary school so doing that math was easy.

Alright then, now a final question; do your siblings come to you for their problems, how often do you get call to help them and are able to spend time with yourself and away from your family? Do you often make sacrifices that go unnoticed by other family members?

...They do, honestly they... always do, I...I don't think my siblings care much unless they had food or worry about other things but what does that have to do with what's wrong with my mom and me.

Simple, your mother seems to be suffering from a sex addiction and you are the result of Parentification of the instrumental kind.

[koolcece22]

Enter Venomgirl

Ch.11

Shade’s POV

I only got one hour or two hours of sleep. Would you blame me since I have a piece of a killer in my body or have a massive load of worry on my mind? I just sat there most of the time. Play some games on my phone till the battery dies. Reading some of the books that were in the room. Mainly about spiders and their anatomy. Which didn’t surprise me. I looked around the room, noting the claw marks were almost everywhere and the wall had metal materials so who or what was here last didn’t have a good day. I continued to look around till the little A.I. woman who was usually with Miguel appeared before me.

“Good Morning. Venomgirl.” She said with a smile 

“You can just call me Shade, I trust you guys a bit.” 

“Ok Shade, well Miguel and Andrea are on their way to take you back to medbay. My scans show you seem in a better mood, your heart is more stable and your temperature also seems low.” 

I nodded, I did notice I did feel better but Kuro had been quiet. She only does that if something is wrong with me. I wondered have she had been up all night too, to keep it at bay.

“Well, you can follow me then.” 

We walked back to Medbay where Miguel and the Doctor Spider-women were there waiting for me. I couldn’t help but be annoyed. It remind me of my childhood, how I been harassed by the Doctor for endless checkups and test only after I turned 10 did they stop. Now I know the reason for all those doctor visits. 

“I see you looking better.” the Doctor Spider-women said nonchalantly almost annoyed. Something tells me she one those doctors who have a hard time at her job. 

“How are you feeling by the way?”

“I’m Feeling better, still tired and achy, but that is probably from my body still healing itself from the fight.” 

“I’ll take a look. Have a seat at the bed.” 

I walk over to the bed. As she brought some vails and devices, must be future stuff that know nothing about. She started to place them all over my body and even some on Kuro, who was about to throw a fit but I told her to stop and she did. The beeping and lighting started to irritate me. She must took note of this and so did Miguel.

“Do this before?” Miguel asked, I didn’t answer but he got his answer.

“My name is Andrea by the way.” I Heard the Spider-doctor or Andrea said. I looked up at her but she didn’t look at me. Still, look at the machine on my results. 

“I should introduce more. But that my name, is going to be up to you if once you are cured from Carnage if want me to keep your info. I’m still obligated to my the doctor creed of HIPAA.”

“Deleted when you done or else,” I said with a glare didn’t mean it to come out like that but I’m really starting to be annoyed by this. So Kuro who was growling right beside me. 

“We will,” Miguel said. I then remember that they need to figure out where that Carnage came from since it is not from Earth.

“Did you figure out where he came from?” I asked try to take my mind off of all this testing. He and his A.I. look at each other, guess debating on telling me or not.

“Will here the thing we can’t now,” Lyla said 

“ What do you mean you can’t?! You guys are from the future!” Kuro Growled 

“Here the thing, once we unthawed it symbiote remained it burst into flames.” 

“Is that normal for symbiotes? Wait, if I die I’ll burst into flames?!” I said. the beeping of the machine was starting to get louder and the lights brighter. A million thoughts came to my mind everything started to be too much. Miguel put his hands on my shoulder I flinched, I was so deep on thought. I barely know anything that I am, Just now know i’m a symbiotic or something. But what Carnage said is that I’m a freak in our kind too. 

“Shade. breath.”  

I snap out of my train of thought and look at him realizing my tendrils have started to come out of my body without permission as it started to wrap around Miguel's leg and some were heading to Andrea. I call them back into my body realizing I was panicking from all this. Was I really that bugged by this?

“I-I’m sorry I-” 

“I know it's a lot to take in. we trying to find out who is behind all this don’t worry.” He said with reassurance. I nodded, I had no choice but to trust these people.

“You don’t mind if I take some of your blood?” Andrea asked

“Sure, just make it quick I hate needles” 

“Done.”

My eyes went wide “Wait what?”

She just smirked then she show me the string that was attached in my arm. string was pink from my blood as it went into the device. The string detached from me and i didn’t feel a thing. 

“ Cool, how you do that?” 

“Train secret, I so from what I’m getting at that carnage that was inside of you is almost gone. It was around 20% when I checked yesterday, it was down to 10%. I’m guessing it be gone by tomorrow. So just get some rest or something.” Andrea said then gave a band

“This will help monitor you but she is here another day chief,” she said as she looked at Miguel and then headed out of the room. “You all excuse me. I have to take care of dumb Peters who don’t take rest seriously.” then Andrea left me and Miguel. 

“Since you staying here another day, you are allowed to explore HQ, I’ll inform everyone you are not anaomly so you don’t have to worry about anyone capturing you.” I nodded with my eyes rolling. Jeez, thanks.

“I do have some rules, 1. You can't leave the HQ. 2. When we call you come back here so we can see the carnage is completely gone from you. Understand?” 

“Yes.”

“In your watch, I made so you don’t get lost, and give you a route you can walk to.

“Ok? Well, I guess I’ll explore a bit. Got nothing better to do.” I said as I headed out. It was morning the last two times I was here it was always night. Looking out the window, the city was very pretty seeing the flying kars around. Neon signs, movable walkways. Man wish I had a better first time. I head to the cafeteria to get something to eat. They were Spider that was looking at me. I try not to let bug me, but it is kind of hard too. I waited in the food line as I got up to the counter to order I was surprised to see a spider-like creature serving food.

*click click* it made a noise 

“Huh?”

*click click*

“He said," What do like to eat?” 

I turned to the person who was next to me, who like a little girl maybe in her early teens. She has a little spider on her shoulder. 

“It takes a while to get used to his pattern of talking. I remonand the Miguel’o Burger. It really good,”  she said 

“Uh right… can I have 5 of those burgers,” I said not wanting to overdo it like last time.

“ Aaawww I want more than that.” Kuro groaned, the girl looked at Kuro who was on my shoulder now. I prefer her being in my body but she really likes being on my shoulder or my head. Kuro caught the girl staring at her and she hated being stared at.

“ Hey! Stop vucking staring at me!” 

“Kuro, please.”

The girl waved her hand to defend “Oh, I’m sorry I stared I didn’t mean it. It rare seeing a symbiote out in the open.” 

“I have been hearing that a lot.  Uh, my name is Shade by the way.” I said trying to be a normal person once in my life. She smiles 

“I’m Peni Parker, from earth- 14512 and this is Sp//dr.” she pointed to her spider that gave me a little wave.” I think I heard from you from Miles.” 

“Really?”  I was surprised she knew him, there seemed to be a lot of spider-people here.

“Yep, we're friends, want to sit with me?” 

“Uh thank but I think I’ll eat by myself. I’m a bit sick.” I said in truth I don’t want to be near people. It has been forever since I talked to people so even being here in a room full of people started to get to me. I walk off and I can tell she waving at me.

“ She seems nice we should hang with her,” Kuro said as pop out to eat two of the burgers. I just ignored her. I want to, but it is safe to be away from me. I finished eating and decided to explore more. I noted that spider-people have walkways so they can walk on the ceiling similar to how Arachnidqueen is. I follow the map since he is right, I wouldn't get around like everyone else here. Before I could decide where I should go next I heard a voice.

“Hey, mate.”

I turn to see Hobie who was in a brighter mood from yesterday. He smiled and waved at me. 

“I see you look better than yesterday. Hope the doc didn’t give you a hard time. She can be a hard ass, but not as hard as the big man.” 

“Heh, yea. They want me to stay till tomorrow to see if the carnage is still in me, she said It is nearly gone so that's good. I-I should thank you and Gwen for helping me yesterday. If you guys didn't come I-”

“Don’t sweat it, come with me Gwen would to her your thanks.” Hobie then grabbed me by the hand and took me to where he was going. He is webbing to get us there. The room said Training room. We entered it to see a group of people who were also there. I saw Gwen, Miles, Pavitr, and Peni. but I also saw four other people I had never seen before. And a guy who wearing all black, a girl who was wearing purple and glitching, and a guy who was wearing a different mask from the usual Spiders, and there was a…cartoon pig?! Huh?!

Hobie walks over to them with me along. 

“Hey guys, hope you don’t i brought a friend to join us?” 

‘Friend?’ 

Miles, Gwen, and Pavitr look at me and Hobies

“Hey Hob! Hey Shade!”  Miles said as walk up to us. “I’m glad you are joining us Shade.” 

“Wait joining?” 

“Wait Hobie you didn’t tell her?” Gwen said with her arm folded while Hobie shrugged, with his hands in his packet. 

“I was going to tell her on the way, but I was so hyped that I completely forgot.” 

“Hobie!” Gwen and Pavitr said. While Hobie gets scolded by Miles walks over.

“What Hobie was supposed to tell you, is that we want you to join us for training. Here let me do with our team.” he showed me the five that were there.

“You already met Peni. she plot a mecha-robot like the one in those animes. Do you have anime on your earth?”

“ Vuck yea, we do!” Kuro chimes in hopping on Shade’s Shoulder. 

“Yea, Me, and Kuro love anime I’m more of a manga read though,” I said he pointed to the all-black dress spider 

“This is Peter Parker of many. We call him Noir.” Miles said as a point to Noir. his jacket was blowing but there was no wind. 

“Do…does your jacket always do that?” I asked

“Wherever I go the wind follows as crime never stops.” He said with a dramatic tone.

“ Weirdo,” Kuro said I quieted her real quick by slapping her. She just growled, trying to get people to hate us?!

Miles led me to the next one who was the talking cartoon pig that I was trying really hard not to gawk at. 

“This is Peter Porker or Spider- Ham.” 

Porker then walks up to shake my hand with his very wet hand, Great ones I hope it's just water. 

“Just call me ham,” he said 

“ We should be calling you dinner.” 

I ignored Kuro to Shake his wet hand. Worse feeling in the world, I quickly shake my hands of the wetness. Then turn to the woman and the other masked guy.

“And this is Spider Byte or Margo, you probably saw her when she sent her home.” 

I vaguely remember when I was being sent home when I was first here. I noted that her body reminded me of the A.I. Lyla. She must read my mind. She then showed me video of a girl with a headset on eating chips.

“My real body back at home. It's just easier to escape from my home life.” Margo said with a little bit of sadness in her voice. I didn’t dwell on it too long when I turned to the last person.

“And this handsome fellow is 42.” Miles said with a joke. 42 just folds his arms not amused by Miles's joke. 

“Why am I here again?” He said, his voice distorted by the mask. unlike the rest he didn't take off his mask. wondering he have trust issue?

 “Hey! you did want to train with us more. And come on you're part of the team now. We got to work together remember? We don’t need another loner here.” 

“I only said I want to train with all so I can know how to fight you.” he pointed out

“Right…” 

Before I can say anything we turn to see someone else enter. It was that one Spider-Man who was with Miguel the other day. He pulls down his mask to show an older man. Miles smirks with hands on his waist shakes his head

“What took you so long, Pete?” he said. Peter smiled back at the kid

“You know talk to migs and getting back from a mission. The love I get from you guys, I could have stayed in medbay to heal my broken pinky.” Peter showed us his injury pinky. The kids laughed. I couldn't help but giggle, to superpower people it was like a scratch.

“Thank you again for letting Shade join us,” Miles said, I looked at him with a confused look. I was just exploring. I know nothing about this! Peter must sense my confusion as he walks to me.

“I was the one who suggested it.” 

“What? Why?”  I asked

“Well. Miles told me you were having a hard time and since we might have to help your Earth out it best we first get you ready.”

“I will be fine. Once this collider thing is done I will be out your guy's hair.” I said, it came out colder then it should but I was really starting to hate all this attention as I fully I was getting now. It felt so suffocating now that I wanted to leave. I started to head out.

“You don’t have full control don’t you?” 

I stopped, hearing what Peter just said. I couldn’t but glare at him. I can sense his feeling changed not to fear of me but more concern for me. Everyone did. 

“It's not your or anyone's concern,”  I said coldly

“Ok, that came out wrong. I mean-

“We just want to see you succeed mate,” Hobie said as he walked up to me and put his hand on my shoulder to reassure me. I quickly push it away, not in the mood to be comforted, not in my state of mind. Hobie didn't seem fazed by it. 

“We all had trouble controlling our powers. Besides you have us now.” 

“Yeah, Shade! Give us a try!” Miles chimes in. I look at the group trying to encourage me to join them. I give.

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Okay so just a rant on the whole Uzi and N situation:

She was the one thing that made him happy; and made him realize he could finally break free from being a monster and hurting people, something he never liked doing but did so for multiple reasons: needing to eat, because that was his job and he wanted to help people thinking that maybe this was all done for a good cause in a way (you know because commiting genocide must be for a good reason right??), being stuck in this planet and not having any place to return and having no idea what is gonna happen to him if disobeys (which is even worse if you consider that they might have cloned N multiple times if he did end up rebelling and that he can't die due to backups and that he can also regenerate so just is just stuck in this limbo of following orders and being tortured if he does not obey to them), only having his two coworkers as friends to him that can understand what is like o be like him and wanting so hard to be liked by them that he would go for miles to do so, being mistreated by his kind nature and having to become the bad guy to be respected and liked by his supposed friends that JUST TREAT HIM LIKE CRAP ALL THE TIME, not wanting to be the leader because he actually starts believing he is useless in his job (even though he HATES HIS JOB in a way and they might be one of the reasons besides confidence issues), feeling guilty but not being able to get over it so he puts a persona, which is shown when he is scared or seeing like V harm others or some other moments too, like dude IS HELLA COMPLEX, and the fandom and the show treat him either like a baby or an object like if he had no feelings or wasn't a person of his own because he is a nice person and thinks that dispise people behaving badly they might have a reason for it, or might become better if given the opportunity; dude really thought that after all this mess he could just forget this whole deal and go back to earth happily; but now there is NOTHING else for him; got his pride and selfsteem destroyed by the constant harassment, has a bitch of (a possessed so she isn't in full control but she still made a deal with the AS and experimented in people/drones so STILL) of a sister that he loved more than anything and turned him into a monster, is ignored, and thinks his life is worth nothing if he can't help others; and so maybe other things that are wrong with him here that I could make like an ETHERNAL essay over, like N has problems, maybe he is the one in this show that got to suffer the most being forced in a role that he never wanted when in the end he just wanted things that a normal teenager would want: a girlfriend, playing with friends, reading books watching shows and so on; and when he realizes that he had enough and that maybe in the end it was all pointless because he would die REGARDLESS he asked his boss (that got into this position because he gave up on the leader position for wathever reason, because if you guys do not know N is the original leader of the DD, is confirmed!) she kills him, even if he was doing this whole thing also, because he wanted their approval and because he wanted to protect V and J of that weapon Uzi created; And even after all the crap he did in the pilot and even before that, Uzi then landed him a hand and a chance at redemption that was denied by her dad, and even when he was having problems showing this more confident part of himself she was always like take your time man, like in the pilot when he says that J was mean to him, they both fistbump and she says "nice"; like seriously?? Uzi is great!

Now about Uzi:

And the one person that he tried to kill, harm and even made her situation with her dad worse than it was, was the ONLY person that actually treated him right and showed him that he mattered and if he wanted to change he could; that he could do more than just being stepped on by people, and starts building his confidence, and actually LOVING HIM for who he is. Like Uzi had every right to just left him to die, but she didn't (mostly because she needed him because she was short to get to the ventilation shafts but still, even before that she was nice to him), but she decided to listen to him and time and time again kept on helping him out in his struggles; she trusted him so much she went to LIVE with him for a while dispise all the crap he pulled on her, because to an extent he was also a victim in this; and she decided to forgive him like she wanted her dad and everyone to do to her; he wanted to fit in as DD and she wanted to fit in as WD, while both of them are the opposites of their nature in a way, Uzi being more revengeful and wanting to change the world with her fists if she finds it necessary, even if she has a more kind nature, being that edgy thing more of a persona to her; and N just wanting peace and have fun, even he if he does have a murderous nature, and this happy go lucky personality is part of his persona; while in the end they just want love an appreciation. Uzi shows her more caring nature, and N shows his more confident one after knowing each other more; he already gave up so much because people kept telling him he either "needed protection" that he doesn't "know better" or for the "greater good"; and that one girl is the only thing that made him feel like he was not a freak and could be normal or have a piece of his old self back; and now they want him to kill her too??? Are YOU SERIOUS??? Everyone says they love N more than Uzi, but nobody recognizes that N is just this person that he is now because Uzi told him he himself was enough and didn't have to put on a persona to make others happy while he was miserable, that he himself should respect himself more instead of other people; like seriously she is an angel of a person, but for whatever reason the fandom aways says that the only thing to her is her thoughts of murder, when she is not only that...

Anyways that's my rant. I want feral N to protect Uzi; like she always did for him! Girl saved him from his internal demons and became the little light in his life. I trust you N!

You don't understand, Tessa. That one little drone is N's universe