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"I'm gong to put 'being a WAG' on my CV"
Authors note: Here's a little Max Verstappen x TechCEO!Reader. Bet you didn't see that comng. Anyway, got the idea for this a few days ago, and I guess my love of Italian food made me finish this
Summary: Max's new relatioship causes a social media stir, but the new couple couldn't care less whilst in Italy.
Warnings: English isn't my first language, no use of Y/N, female reader, famous reader
Word count: 2k
You understood it, to a degree. Max had just broken off a three-year-long relationship right before summer break, and now suddenly he was spending the summer with you. Now youāre at the paddock... No wonder people thought there was some crossover.
The truth? You two met last New Year's at a party for some sporting event. You, being one of the sponsors for your country's national sports committee, were invited, and Max... well, Max was Max Verstappen. You hit it off, exchanged numbers, showed him around your company a few times, and took him to all of your favorite restaurants in NYC. But you knew he had a girlfriend; everyone knew. And he was taking care of her kid too.
That breakup was hard on him. He had stopped loving her, but he couldn't just kick a woman and her kid out of his house. Max waited for them to have a huge fight, and then they just... broke up. And to your surprise, he was in New York the next day, saying that he needed someone to talk to. Bullshit. You knew he liked you. Otherwise, he wouldn't have come all the way here 'just to talk.'
But here you were, in Italy, spending time with him before Monza. You were currently typing away on your phone, trying to make peace in the finance department. Max glanced up from his phone every so often, stealing peeks at you while grinning.
He had never quite been so into someone like you. You were smart, funny, talented, pretty, and on top of all that - you were also rich. But you were also the most challenging girl to flirt with Max had ever met.
"You look like you could use a break," he said, after watching you tap away at your work laptop for a few minutes.
"Probably. What's the point of having interns if they don't do anything?"
"Then you should consider hiring me; I'm pretty good at helping out," Max teased, looking up from his phone and sending you a cheeky smile. He loved a woman who was in power, who knew what she was doing, and he could tell you were used to being the boss. "Come on, take a break. You know you deserve it," Max encouraged, resting his hand on top of yours to stop you from working some more.
"I guess I could eatā¦" You say, closing your laptop. "I saw on Google Maps that thereās a nice pizza place down the road. We can go if youāre hungry.ā
Max smiled and nodded. āYes, Iām starving; letās go,ā he said, reaching for the car keys.
āNo, itās okay, letās walk,ā you stop him. He turned towards you, slightly confused. Usually, women would give anything to drive around with Max Verstappen. Maybe thatās just what makes you special.
The two of you walked out of the hotel, your bodyguard Lenny standing outside the door. The tall, muscular man just nodded as the two of you entered the elevator. Max found it funny that you preferred Lenny guard your stuff more than you. Especially the laptop. He sometimes wondered what you kept in there...
āIs Pierre gonna be at the race?ā you asked as you exited the building, breaking the silence.
Maxās head snapped towards you, and he raised his brow. āUh, yes, of course he is⦠Why?ā
āBecause I want to see Kika.ā
āOh, so sheās your secret F1 crush, eh?ā Max said, relaxing.
You laughed. āPierre is a solid seven with a better haircut. Kika is a twelve on a bad day.ā
As you got to the bigger streets, you started to understand why Max drove everywhere. Unlike you, who were a chiller and niche celebrity, despite being incredibly rich, Max was a real superstar. Your short walk to the pizza shop became a fan meet and greet, with people coming up to you every three seconds and asking for photos.
āIs this your girlfriend?ā one of the people asking for a picture asked. As you finished taking the photo, you noticed Maxās slightly flustered face as he heard the question. He stumbled, but you answered with a simple āYeah.ā
As you arrived at the restaurant, you noticed that Max was staring at you. He seemed⦠surprised. You laughed at his facial expression. The sound of your laugh calmed him instantly, his heartbeat beginning to return to normal. Max cursed himself in his head; he was better than this. He chuckled nervously, rubbing the back of his neck.
"Is it something I said?"
Max ran a hand through his hair, feeling his cheeks heating up slightly. "No, no... Not really," he reassured you, trying to sound casual. "I was just... thinking."
"Okay, well I'm thinking about the food. I think a Vesuvius sounds great right now."
Max chuckled and quickly glanced down at the menu to hide his embarrassment. "Vesuvius? What the hell is a Vesuvius?" he asked, though his eyes scanned down the menu, searching for it.
"It's a type of pizza," you teased. "It's been like three minutes; have you not even skimmed the menu?"
Max fidgeted under your gaze, feeling the heat rise in his cheeks again. "What?" he asked with a nervous chuckle. "Why are you looking at me like that?"
"You tell me. Why are you staring?" Max shook his head, glancing up at you questioningly. He had no idea what you were thinking about. "No... What are you thinking about?" he asked, his curiosity getting the best of him.
"There are pots from 4000 years ago found in ancient Egypt that are made out of an incredibly difficult to manage material and are cut to such perfection that they balance on their round bottom."
Max's eyebrows shot up in surprise. He was expecting something totally different. Something that had at least a little bit to do with him. He chuckled, still somewhat surprised as he studied your face. "Where did that come from?" he asked incredulously.
"The Egyptians. They were like, cooking pots and stuff. Royal cooking pots probably, but still," you teased.
Max chuckled again, shaking his head in disbelief. "You're thinking about cooking pots, and here I am, just trying to figure out what I did to make you say that we're together so casually."
"What do you mean? Are we not together?"
"Well, of course we're together," Max said, his voice taking on a more serious tone now. He glanced around the restaurant briefly, making sure no one was listening in on their conversation. "I just... I didn't expect you to say it so casually," he said, his eyes meeting yours again.
"Oh, sorry. I didn't know we were keeping it a secret. I mean, I was at the paddock and all last time, and I took days off work to come to this raceā"
Max shook his head, realizing you completely misunderstood what he was saying. "No, no, it's not that... I just..." he began, struggling to find the right words. He took a deep breath, his fingers fidgeting in his lap. "It's just... you're so casual about it... and I'm... a bit too flustered for my own good," he admitted, a tinge of embarrassment in his voice.
You softened up a bit. "Oh, okay, I get it. It was just a bit too shocking for you... Yeah, sorry."
Max felt his heartbeat a little faster when you softened, a smile tugging at the corner of his lips. "Yeah, it was a bit... unexpected for me," he chuckled, feeling somewhat silly for being so flustered. "But it's fine, honestly."
"Do you think my stomach is gonna have space for gelato later? There's a really good gelateria; I can see it from the window... They make the ones with the macarons..."
Max chuckled, loving how you were so excited about the gelato. "Well, based on the amount of pizza you usually eat," he teased, a smirk on his face. "I'd say you're probably fine."
"No, they put the macarons on the gelato."
"On the gelato?" Max repeated, his eyebrows shooting up in surprise.
"I've never heard of such a thing," he said, leaning forward to get a better look out the window at the gelateria you were talking about. "Well, in that case," he said with a grin, "we're definitely going there for dessert."
After eating so much that your belts barely held, you came back to the hotel, Lenny greeting you at the door as usual. Max's stomach was stuffed to the brim, but he was in such a good mood from the good food and even better company, he didn't even care. He walked back into the hotel together with you, his hand still holding yours. Lenny greeted the two of you as usual, but Max couldn't help but notice the way Lenny looked at you, like he was analyzing you.
"All good, Len. You go to your room for the night," you said to Lenny. He nodded, smiled at the both of you, and then went off. Max watched as Lenny walked off, then turned to you, a small frown on his face.
"He was looking at you funny," he said, a protective edge to his voice.
"He thinks it's funny. That I'm dating a Formula 1 driver."
"What's so funny about that?" he protested, his grip on your hand tightening ever so slightly. "He just... I don't know, he's a big fan of yours I don't think he's processed it yet". Max's frown relaxed as you explained it, his ego immediately soothed a bit. Of course he was a big fan of his, who wasn't?
"Oh, so he's a big fan?" he teased, a hint of pride and cockiness in his voice.
You take your shoes off and lay on the bed, your stomach bloated from all the good food "Yeah. Talk to him a bit, I think it'll make him happy" You let out groan as you move "I hate you Italy. You has so much good food... I love it though"
Max chuckled, watching as you dramatically threw yourself onto the bed, your stomach protesting the amount of food you just had. "You're such a drama queen sometimes," he teased, grinning as he took off his shoes as well and joined you on the bed. He lays down beside you, running a hand over your bloated stomach. "You'll be fine," he said, though there was a hint of amusement in his voice.
"Oh, you know what I saw on TikTok?"
Max raised an eyebrow in curiosity, his hand now resting on your stomach. He didn't typically pay too much attention to TikTok, but he was more than happy to listen to you.
"What did you see?" he asked, turning his head to look at you.
"Well first of all, I'm a WAG now. Thank you for that, I will be putting that on my CV. But second, they liked that I was wearing Red Bull merch. I thought they wouldn't like it, but they did"
Max chuckled as you spoke, amused by how casually you mentioned being a WAG, and how seriously you were taking the fact that you were wearing Red Bull merchandise. "Well, of course they liked it," he said with a smirk. "You were wearing the merch of the best team out there."
He gave you a smug look, his hand moving up and tracing a lazy pattern on your stomach. "Not to mention the merch of the best driver out there."
#max verstappen#max verstappen imagine#f1 x reader#f1 imagine#f1 fanfic#max verstappen x reader#f1#formula 1
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I LOVE the version of Lucius in your fic Prison of the Phoenix. He's different from a lot of portrayals I've seen. Why did you decide to write him how you did?
A lot of the fun of writing a book-accurate fix-it fic comes from taking the events of the book, and removing JKRs (simplistic, misleading, sometimes just weird) narrative framing. Slytherins = baddies, Gryffindors = goodies, you know.Ā
This is especially fun with Lucius Malfoy, who just like⦠isnāt very evil? Chamber of Secrets is his most villainous book, and Iāll get to that, but otherwise? He tries (unsuccessfully) to get the animal that attacked his kid killed. He donates to hospitals (but in like, an evil way.) He is a hilariously incompetent Death Eater, and then he's Voldemortās punching bag.Ā
Thatās kind of the point of Lucius. He looks the part. He commits to the aesthetics of the thing, with the hair and the peacocks and the snake-wand-cane. He likes the mystique of walking into a room and knowing that you know (but canāt prove) heās a dark wizard. It allows him to be⦠kinda lazy. He can coast on his family name, money, reputation, privilege. I really think that if you sat Lucius Malfoy down and asked him to walk you through all the wizard-supremacy talking points he wouldnāt be able to do it. Heāll toss around words like āmudbloodā and āmudblood-loverā no problem, but in the end he doesnāt really care. Lucius is not a true believer. The way the world is set up benefits him tremendously and he doesnāt want Voldemort back. Thatās just text:
āUse your brains, Ron,ā said Bill. āIf they really were Death Eaters⦠I bet theyād be even more frightened than the rest of us to see him come back. They denied theyād ever been involved with him when he lost his powers, and went back to their daily lives⦠I donāt reckon heād be over-pleased with them, do you?ā
Lucius and friends had too much to drink at a sporting event, put on the old outfits (again with the aesthetics) and started levitating muggles. Which obviously isnāt GOOD, but theyāre not killing or torturing, or furthering any kind of agenda. Itās important that Barty is so insulted and pissed off by the way theyāre basically playing Dark Wizard that he casts the Dark Mark to āshow [them] what loyalty to the Dark Lord meant, and to punish them for their lack of it.ā Which kicks off most of the events of the book.Ā
Prison of the Phoenix is going to have a companion, parallel fic told from Harryās POV (tentatively titled Harry Potter and Malfoyās Suspicious Interest in Werewolves.) Lucius does show up in that one, and I was honestly surprised by how much more frightening and intimidating he is when filtered through Harryās perspective. Because with a Severus POV⦠when Severus is used to spending time around Voldemort, Greyback, Bellatrix, honestly Dumbledore and Sirius Blackā¦. Lucius is not scary. Lucius wants to buy presents for his son, go to high-profile events with his beautiful wife, and wear a variety of snake-themed accessories and extravagant hats.Ā
I wanted a kind of college-roommates-who-stayed-friends feel for the Severus + Lucius relationship, because they are friends. Sirius calls Severus Luciusā ālapdog,ā and Narcissa calls him Luciusā āoldest friend.ā Lucius is also part of the welcoming committee when Severus is first sorted into Slytherin. Heās five years older (I think Jason Isaacs is the only Harry Potter adult the same age as the character he plays), which would have affected the dynamic between him and Severus a lot in school. Personally, I think it makes sense for Lucius to be a little protective of this brilliant half-blood kid with no money. And as an adult, thereās some guilt mixed in there as well. Severus probably would not have been sucked into the Voldemort thing nearly as deep or nearly as fast if it hadnāt been for Lucius, and the war kind of destroyed him. Lucius remembers a younger Severus who was modding potions, inventing spells, coming up with cheeky nicknames for himself, and that person is gone. Thatās a big part of the reason heās so invested in the Severus/Remus relationship in Prison of the Phoenix. Something about Remus has managed to wake up parts of that younger Severus, and Lucius thinks thatās fantastic.
I also think Lucius might be the character who knows Voldemort the best. Heās one of the only Death Eaters who Voldemort calls by their first name (Bellatrix, Severus, and Draco are the others) and heās weirdly familiar with his āslippery friendā Lucius, addressing the whole speech about how/why he returned to him, for some reason? Anything that helps Voldemort make sense as a person Iāll take, and to me it makes sense that young Tom Riddle charmed Abraxas Malfoy, Luciusā father, first. The dates are right, and heās exactly Tomās type - rich, pureblood, probably easily flattered (letās be honest) and sitting on a pile of magical artifacts. Itās very Hepzibah Smith vibes, is what Iām saying. And rich, posh, popular seventeen year olds donāt join cults. But if Luciusā father was already in a cultā¦Ā
It also makes sense to me that Tom Riddle got sort of stuck when he killed Marvolo Gaunt, and made his first horcrux at sixteen. He has this fascination with sixteen year old pureblood wizards (so Barty, Draco, and Lucius would have fit this profile.) He sort of wants to be them, but also sort of wants to break them? Itās messy, and complicated. Itās creepy and compelling, that Lucius is aging but this spectre thatās dominated his life isnāt.Ā
And so when Lucius gives Ginny the diary in Book 2⦠it makes sense that heās just trying to get rid of it. He was just at Borgin and Burkes selling dark artifacts, but knows that the diary is worse. He needs to make sure it canāt possibly be traced back to him. So he gives it to the daughter of the head of the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts office. (It is an enchanted muggle artifact, after all.) If Arthur Weasley finds it and deals with it, fine. If Ginny is discovered with it in a way that blows up in Arthurās face, also fine. If it does get to Hogwarts and does open the Chamber of Secrets - well Draco is going to be fine, and it might undermine Dumbledore. If it was really important to Lucius that the diary rid the school of muggleborns⦠he would have given it to Draco and had him use it. Or given it to Draco, and told him to leave it somewhere for an enemy to find. But Lucius doesnāt do that, because he doesnāt want Voldemort back and his politics just arenāt that important to him.Ā
The one trait I did give Lucius is being an unrepentant wife guy. (And I mean⦠it doesnāt contradict anything. There isnāt anything in the books to suggest that he isnāt a wife guy.)Ā EDIT: I cannot believe I forgot the little "it's going to be okay" wrist squeeze Narcissa gives him right before he passes Voldemort his wand. This meta does a fantastic job getting into who Narcissa is, and I am officially justified in writing them just as googly-eyes about each other as I want. Also going full Gomez and Mortica makes them a better foil for the Weasleys, and the (not typically on the same page) Arthur and Molly.
#prison of the phoenix#hp#jkr critical#lucius malfoy#lucius malfoy meta#severus snape#snupin#remus x severus#fanfiction#hp analysis#tom riddle
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Connor Stoll
Early Childhood at CampĀ
He arrived at Camp at a young age, around 9 (two years before Percy). Speaking from my own experience, when you get on well with your siblings, you donāt tend to befriend other people. Youāre happy with your brother and donāt want or need anyone else. So, Connor stays close to Travis and he doesnāt make a lot of friends: he befriends Annabeth because sheās smart and iconic, and Beckendorf, but otherwise⦠nobody, not really. Heās happy with his little friend group.Ā
AND THAT IS IMPORTANT FOR LUKE. Many demigods joined Luke because they looked up to him. But Connor already had Travis. Why would he care about Luke? And once again, siblings donāt like sharing that siblings. Connor doesnāt want Lukeās attention if it means sharing it with everybody else.Ā
Titan War
Connor is way more hot-headed than Travis. Heās more harsh, more brutal. He will break your kneecaps, Travis wonāt (unless you messed with Connor.).Ā
When Travis was around (so majority of his life), he kept Connorās feral energy in check. Travis is more laid-back than Connor and Connor followed his big brotherās lead. So, they do pranks, like the Golden Mango (and thatās how Connor and Drew become friends by the wayāConnor pranks Drew, Drew curses Connor with full makeup, and befriends him instantly when he harbors it proudly) and chocolate Easter bunnies on Demeter's roof. Plus, with all the wars, Connor is more focused on staying alive and saving Camp.
Titan War AftermathĀ
Connor lost almost all his friends (Beckendorf and the dead Ares kid that he was super friend with), and Annabeth has less time for him than before. Now, at fifteen, he has to find new friends (and itās hard because all those kids accused him of being a traitor. He doesnāt want to be friends with them). He already had Drew but their bond deepens immensely when he doesnāt mind that she considers Silena a traitor (he gets it, after all. He doesnāt think Luke is a hero either. But the others donāt like that. Annabeth doesnāt like that, so he keeps quiet. He doesnāt want to be alone). Thatās the thing: Connor has never been alone and he never wants to be. Cue becoming best friends with Drew and Malcolm (Malcolm who is in Annabethās shadow, Malcolm who ran a cabin just like he did and is a total icon).
Heās also mad attached to objects. He has a chest under his bed.Ā
Thereās red sweater way too big for him that belonged to the Ares kid. He puts it on sometimes, even if it reaches mid-thigh and he floats in it. A friendship bracelet from Beckendorf. Pictures that make his heart ache. Battered, old sneakers that are hanging on for dear life- they are the ones he wore during the Battle of Manhattan so theyāre āluckyā shoes and he refuses to give them up. He learned to sew to repair them.Ā
During the ten months gap between the Last Olympian and The Lost Hero, Connor grieves for the first two months, as does the rest of Camp, and when heās finally in the mood to cause some chaos : Percy vanishes. Annabeth isnāt in the mood for pranks so Connor and Travis keep it in check.Ā
Instead, they sneak out of Camp to go to bars, bowling alleys, the movies even. They live a short normal teenage live.Ā
Trials of ApolloĀ
Travis left for college.Ā
For the first time in his life, Connor is without his brother and it keeps him awake at night- thinking of him miles away. Then the communication die out, and Connor starts going feral right there. Because heās terrified. Monsters are coming back, evil powerful crazy romans emperors are plotting and he canāt contact Travis.Ā
He almost left Camp, even before Lester showed up, but Cecil disappeared and Connor chose to stay. He felt like Travis would have done the same and it soothes his heart.
Doesnāt mean he isnāt anxious and snappy. The only way he finds to relax ? Putting on his ratty sneakers, sneaking out to abandoned warehouse with his trusted baseball bat that Travis gifted him for this tenth birthday and go break some things.Ā Itās liberating, because demigods are used to violence. Itās like lashing out against monsters without the prospect of potential death. He does it until the communications are back, and Travis rushes to Camp after learning it had been under attack.
And when Travis comes back, stays for a few weeks? Heās damn proud of his baby brother that stepped up for the younger kids and started living his own life. Connor will always miss Travis when heās not aroundābut heās starting to understand that it doesnāt mean that he canāt live without him.
#pjo#percy jackon and the olympians#percy jackson#connor stoll#travis stoll#heroes of olympus#trials of apollo#camp half blood
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Quick-Fire Headcanons (13)
In an argument, Asmo fights dirty, often referencing embarrassing things that his opponent has done in order to make them look awful.
Diavolo has a special pillow that he has to use; otherwise, he will wake up with a sore neck.
Mammon is quick to jump to conclusions but is also good at handling other peopleās problems quickly and effectively (just not his own).
Satan, Simeon, and MC form a very successful study group.
Lucifer will not wet his toothbrush at all when he's brushing his teeth; he'll just put toothpaste on it and call it a day.
Diavolo, Simeon, and Solomon all have very loud sneezes.
Before MC, Lucifer would buy himself a couple bottles of Demonus on Valentineās Day and drink his sorrows away.
Due to the many scuffles heās gotten in, Mammonās become quite good at parkour/freerunning.
Solomon once had flame decals pasted onto his vehicle.
Out of his brothers, Asmo can blow the biggest bubblegum balloon.
Out of his brothers, Levi sunburns the easiest.
Simeon really likes raisins.
Lucifer usually carries a lighter on him because there have been times where he is so stressed out that he will smoke a cigarette or two (or if heās in the human world, a whole pack, since Devildom cigarettes are more powerful than human world ones).
Asmo once got too cocky with the epilator and ripped out a large portion of one of his eyebrows.
Levi knows how to do the Mario and will bust it out at parties if heās drunk enough.
Mammon was once dared to retreat into the sewers fully nude and search for rings and coins.
Diavolo will sometimes order things off the kidsā menu if heās not feeling super hungry (and knows he wonāt get recognized and consequently dragged for it).
Solomon sometimes browses the internet for pictures of taxidermy gone wrong (and prints some out to scare people).
Beel once had a dream where he broke into a gym, slathered baby oil all over his body, and slid around on the floor.
Thereās a part of Lucifer that wants to run off into the mountains and pretend to be a cryptid in order to scare people.
Lucifer and Barbatos like the taste of black licorice (which Diavolo finds disgusting).
Belphie would complain about the heat while he insists on wearing hoodies (for the aesthetic).
MC once showed Luke a couple of iSpy books, and the boy still has not recovered from the experience.
#obey me shall we date#obey me mc#obey me lucifer#obey me mammon#obey me asmo#obey me asmodeus#obey me brothers#obey me satan#obey me levi#obey me leviathan#obey me side characters#obey me simeon#obey me diavolo#obey me belphie#obey me barbatos#obey me belphegor#obey me beel#obey me beelzebub#obey me solomon#obey me lord diavolo#obey me luke
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I'm not sure why I made this. I just thought it would be fun to do and now all you have to see the fruits of my labor. So, without further ado, the Pro Hero Parent Tier List. Hope you all enjoy it and try not to take it too seriously.
F Tier: Gran Torino, Recovery Girl, and Yoroi Musha: The simple fact is that these three characters are way too old to be parents. Maybe if this were a grandparent tier list, they'd be higher, but it isn't, so they're all going in the F Tier.
D Tier: Endeavor: Look, do I even need to explain this one? You all know what he did. One of the biggest problems in the story is the result of all the messed up stuff Enji did as a dad. His attempt at redemption was to remove himself from his family. Easy bottom tier.
Nana: While I'm someone who tries to understand Nana's position and decisions in regards to her kid and her role as a "One For All" user, she still didn't seem like a very good parent even when she was around. She herself even admits that, so that is what puts her so low.
Gang Orca: What few interactions we see him having with kids is screaming about their failures and throwing them when he is dissatisfied with their answers. That is bound to cause some trauma later. Like some Pavlovain response when they think of Free Willy.
Hound Dog: He may be a guidance consular that works with kids, implying some understanding of child psychology, but if his first reaction is to yell and growl at any emotional problems in front of him, he probably isn't going to communicate with his own kids.
Thirteen: I get that Thirteen is someone who takes a lot of care and consideration with her power and is quite safe to be around. That being said, I don't think that someone who is at risk of destroying their own child at the atomic level should really be handling children.
C Tier: Edgeshot: There really isn't a lot to say about Edgeshot as we don't get a lot of personality outside of being stoic, which could certainly be an issue for a parent. That being said, being willing to sacrifice yourself for a kid does push him above the bottom of the tier list.
Mount Lady: If we're considering her early in the series, she'd definitely be at the lower tier given how irresponsible and self-centered she is. Though considering her development and how mature she's gotten in general, she barely scrapes by as an average parent.
Kaumi Woods: Kamui Woods is just kind of average. There just isn't a lot going on with him that could give or detract merit from the little hero work he's done. He's here by default. His inability to hug his kids without giving them splinters would certainly be an issue.
Manual: Again, he's average. The most we have is that he seemed to do pretty well with handling Iida's whole situation but didn't seem to notice it in the first place. Otherwise, he's pretty plain. I could see him being the lame dad his kids don't want to talk to or be around.
Miruko: Definite Tiger Mom. She'd be making her kids do all kinds of sports stuff and getting them to exercise all the time. She cares, but she shows it by trying to make her kids excel at what they're doing. Great if they're into that, but I can see it fostering a lot of resentment.
Sir Nighteye: Like Miruko, but at the other end of the spectrum. He would be the kind of dad to make his kid study a lot because that's what he would think would be best for them. Cares and can loosen up when needed, but is emotionally distant most times.
B Tier: Ms. Joke: She is a teacher, meaning she must have some understanding of kids. She'd definitely be the "Fun Mom". She'd always try to keep a smile on her kid's face, even if that meant making terrible mom jokes. Be ready, she has been working on them for years.
Ectoplasm: He seems to be pretty good with kids, but the real clencher is his power. No matter what, he could always be around to be present in his kid's life. And hey, family dynamics are always changing. Who is to say a family can't be just a kid and their thirty-six identical dads?
Ryukyu: She can be hard on herself, but she seems to have a soft spot for children and do well with her wards, given how well they have turned out, being commanding without being harsh. And let's be real: who wouldn't want to have a dragon for a parent? That alone would put her pretty high up here.
Eraserhead: This may be a controversial pick putting him so low, but hear me out. I think Aizawa would try to be a good dad, but he's married to his job, being too tired and absent to really make it work. And did you see what he bought for Eri to wear? What self-respecting father would ever do this his child?
Fourth Kind: A good role model to any kid who tries to foster strong moral foundations and understanding of community in his wards. All around, a pretty stand-up guy to have as a dad. He loses points because punching kids is not a good way to punish them, even if it hurts him more than it hurts them.
Midnight: This could be because I read Vigilantes, but Midnight actually shows quite a few parental traits, like being highly empathic and understanding of those younger than her. Then again, I can only imagine the kind of teasing and general awkwardness that would come from having the R-Rated Heroine as a mom.
A Tier: All Might: If we're counting him without "One For All", otherwise he'd be working too much to be a dad, I think that he'd be a parent. If his students are anything to go by, he'd be a pretty effective parent. We can also tell that he plays favorites with his kids, and that knocks off a few points.
Present Mic: This may be a surprise pick, but I can see him doing pretty well as a parent. He can be the fun, comic dad that plays with his kids and can get on their level, but he can instantly go into serious mode if he needs to. The fact that he can do both so well, which you kind of need as a parent, puts him pretty high on the list.
Best Jeanist: Another stand-up guy, just trying to be a good role model and look amazing while doing it. I mean, the guy had an actual positive impact on early series Bakugou. That has got to count for something. Probably has all kinds of weirdly good life advice if you can understand fashion metaphors.
Rock Lock: One of the few real parents on this list, Rock Lock just seems like a responsible parent. He did try to call out the kids for being on missions, but he was kind of right in that regard and just looking out for them. Probably try to keep his kid from doing stupid stuff. He'd be a good, but restrictive father.
Hawks: Like Present Mic, I could see Hawks being a chill dad who doesn't seem to know what's going on but actually knows everything that happens and always has one eye open when it comes to his kids. He'll give his kids their freedom, but he's going to be there to catch and guide them when they really need him.
S Tier: Mandalay: Another one of the few real parents here, and one with a pretty bad hand. Mandalay not only had to take over as a guardian out of nowhere but had to do it with a heavily traumatized child while trying to lead a team as a pro-hero. The fact that she seems to be doing as well as she is puts her this high without question.
Fat Gum: No one should be surprised that Fat Gum is this high. He's super protective without being overbearing, tries to instill valuable lessons to make them develop, and does his best to encourage his wards to be the best they could be. And could you imagine him giving hugs? That would make any problem vanish.
Tensei: Tensei is just such a good guy. He's a good role model and leader for his team without it being detrimental. He knew Koichi for about a day and he was able to understand Koichi and tried to set him up for success. Imagine how well he'd do with his own kid. Plus, he's an older brother. That's like a being a parent with training wheels.
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Agatha all along spoilers
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First off! Iāve seen people on Twitter already going mad but I think I need people to understand, this show was never targeted at a specific lesbian ending, yes! Very queer show and of course lots of Agathario but Rio is death, I always thought a kiss of death would happen because otherwise weāre being silly with ourselves itās not queer baiting and itās not helpful to be mad because marvel wont want to do things like this again if we start getting angry, the cast and crew were so proud of this and we should be too (we can vent a little and I plan too but I wonāt tag actors or creators because Iām not weird)
But! I will say dying for Billy (technically I know she did because of Nicky because Billy got into her mind like a loser and a bitch and she wanted to redeem herself or whatever) is a bit strange I guess I get people saying āoh well of course lesbians get screwed overā but you know for a marvel show to have actual canon lesbians who are kissing, yeah itās scraping a barrel but if itās received well I have no doubt theyāll do it again, I mean in the comics agatha gets resurrected and whoās to say that wonāt happen? Anyway Iām ranting and yeah a little sad about the ending because it does feel like the killing eve ending but! Letās get into the two episodes
Alice! My love, my baby Iām so sorry! Rio was right you died doing your job as a protection witch but it still hurts! I hope the afterlife is good to you and treats you well I love you š„°
Jen! My beloved you did it! You got your powers back, I canāt believe agatha bound her thatās so funny and messed up! God agatha were you that low on cash???
āHeās an abominationā Damn right Rio get him!
Also the change in agatha a little about not wanting to see Rio when she died like yeah itās a quick change but I think itās Agatha putting her shields back up, she does want Rio back she definitely does but also itās like āoh actually Iām putting my guard back up because Iām scared and you did something that hurt meā (she is my scar!)
Rio being pissed off that agatha doesnāt want her and that she loves it when sheās like this unfortunately ladies this foreplay went a little too far and got ruined by a man (fucking typical) them basically flirting through their whole fight was great too
Also going back to episode 1 where Rio said āso take my powerā and Agatha replied ācute, but you know that would kill meā BECAUSE SHE HAD TO KISS HER TO TAKE HER POWER! Did I get it right? Pretty sure I did so I declare that in their private moments agatha never kissed Rio but just started at her neck so not to accidentally kill herself during sex (dramatic lesbians)
Also in ep 4 when Agatha tries kissing Rio but then Rio stops her, I have a depressing feeling that Agatha was so upset at being reminded of what happened to her son she was willing to take the kiss of death I guess? Or maybe Rio can control stuff like that and kiss Agatha fine if she holds her power in but thinking sheās death I think itās the first one
Rio cutting the road and stepping through Iām not gonna lie I was shocked! I gasped guys and I donāt do that often like obviously they knew was fake but I didnāt I love just thinking about Rio stepping in and out of the road but also where is the āroadā? Is it just Agathaās house? Have they been walking around in circles this whole time, god the citizens of westview may need to start looking for other places to live
The Salem era! I loved it (I do want more backstory but I think weāll get some interviews explaining it so thatāll be fun) āborn from scratchā beautiful line Rio turning up I was like āoh daddyās here to help with the birthā then I quickly remembered sheās death and agatha begging not to take him and then I realised daddy isnāt here to stay for good reasons (like most dads)
Little Nicky was adorable! Such a cute kid and helping his mother trick witches? Putting him to work agatha, I like it! Start them early I say
Also they created the balled! So cute and heartbreaking since Agatha had to sing it all the time when killing these witches constantly being reminded of her son
Also her killing everyday then the one night she doesnāt rio takes their son??? God Rio give her a fucking day donāt you have like billions of other souls to take?? Just walk very slowly š
Billy carrying the trauma of killing three (thatās right I count Sharon too!) witches because he created the road makes the ending worth it actually (not by much) because he has to suffer the consequences and deal with ghost agatha, get recked!
Rio and Agatha will definitely reunite (source: Me) Rio says she hates ghosts but only because sheās death and ghosts probably donāt want to move on, be a bit like trying to round up cats. HER AND AGATHA CAN FINALLY WALK TOGETHER FOR ALL ETERNITY
Anyway I have work in an hour and Iāve been up since 4 itās now 6 and Iāve slept about 3 hours soooo if this is all ramblings Iāll try to add things later but yeah I loved the last two episodes yeah we couldāve gotten a bit more Agathario but I truly think they didnāt anticipate the overwhelming reception for them (Kathryn and Aubrey did though definitely)
Iām up for any discussion too I love talking about this stuff but works been hectic recently hence why Iām watching the episodes before work because after Iām just knackered but Iām off this weekend so I can reply properly to people
#marvel#mcu#agatha#agathario#agatha all along spoilers#agatha x rio#agatha coven of chaos#agatha all along#agatha harkness#rio vidal#billy maximoff#billy kaplan
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Chapter 19: You again!

She knew for 15 years that this day would come. She knew her destiny had already been written. That her death had been foretold.
She knew she would have to stop him. She knew she would have to kill him. And she thought she was prepared for all of it. But the day she met him she realized how wrong she wasā¦
Set in Season 10
Pairing: MoC!Dean x Female!OC
Warnings: the usual SPN, language
Episode mapping: During episode 17 of season 10 "Inside Man"
Note: The events of this story are following season 10 of Supernatural and are taking place between October 2014 and July 2015. I tried to make sure that all the references to weapons, tech, etc. are accurate with the time period.
AN: This is my first time writing a fanfic but the story has been in my head for too long and it just needed to get out. I hope you like it.
AN: English is not my first language, I apologize for any mistakes.

I slowly descend the bunker's stairs, gripping the railing to keep my balance.Ā My head is throbbingā¦Ā Fucking hangover! That's why I don't drink!
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"Just on time!" Sam says coming from the library. " Let's go!" "Where?" "I need to check out something." "Where is Dean?" "He called to tell me he is running some errands in town. Come now. We don't have much time." "Can I at least get coffee first?" "Can we take the Jeep?" Sam counters me. "Yes, but you are driving." Just now he looks closely at me and raises his brows. "You ok?" He asks. "I feel like I was hit by a truck⦠twiceā¦" "Are you hungover?" He muses. "I thought you didn't drink." "I don't⦠Last night was an exception. The only exception."
He sits in the driver's side of the Jeep, adjusting the seat. I offer him the key when I climb next to him. "Actuallyā¦" I pull back the key and I press my finger next to the ignition. "Jarvis, say hello to Sam." "Entering a new biometric signature." The car's computer answers. "Please, state your full name." I make a gesture for Sam to reply. "Sam Winchester." "Voice pattern saved. Please put your hands on the steering wheel." Sam obeys every command the computer gives him. I show him how to work with the dashboard and then I lead him to the truck to explain the equipment.

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"Here you go!" I say to him, finally giving him the key. "It is yours." "What?" Ā He asks, confused. "Why?" "I've meant to do this for a while." "But why?" "Just take it and say thank you!" I snap at him. My head is still hurting. He starts the engine and drives out of the garage without saying another word.
"Jarvis⦠Really?" He says after an hour driving in silence. "You are such a nerd." "I never said otherwise." I chuckle.
Sam parks the Jeep by the side of the road, behind Cas' car and he goes to talk to him. I desid to wait in the car, since my head is still throbbing a little. I'm way better than I was in the morning and the burger I ate on the way helped a lot.
"What are we doing here, anyway?" I ask Sam. "We need Metatron's help." "Because you think Metatron might have information about The Mark of Cain?" "I know he has." "Are you sure, though?" We are approaching a playground when a man stops us. Not a man. An angel. Four of them. And they are not happy to see us. And⦠definitely not letting us talk to The Scribe of God. "Cas, let's go." Sam pulls the angel away. "What? We're leaving?" "Yeah, we can't fight off four angels." "So⦠so what? You just want to give up on Metatron?" Castiel protests. "No, we need him. Time for plan 'B'... We break him out."
We are walking down a dark street toward a house. "So, back in the '50s, Oliver Pryce was a kid psychic." Sam fills us in. "He performed everywhere⦠carnivals, Atlantic City⦠you name it. He was the real deal. Now, The Men of Letters were teaching him how to control his powers when they got⦠you know."
"Mr. Pryce? This is Samā¦" "Winchester. You're Sam Winchester, Man of Letters." A bald man opens the door. "Yeah. How did you, uh..." "Mind reader, remember? And you're... What are you?" The psychic asks Cas. "I'm an Angel." "That... No, you can't be." "Why not?" Cas asks, really confused by the man's statement. "Because I'm an atheist." I burst into laughter. That is the most ridiculous statement I have ever heard. "Not anymore." Sam says passing by Mr. Pryce, entering the house. "And youā¦" The old man looks sadly at me. "What happened to you?" "I'll just stay outside." I'm quick to interrupt him. "Oh⦠no, no, no! Someone can see you standing there. And then⦠they will all start knowing on my door. No, no, no!" He pulls me instead. "You can wait here." He points to an armchair for me to sit.
Sam, Castiel, and Mr. Pryce are sitting around a table with candles on it. Sam's plan is to contact some old friend named Bobby, who died a while back. By the way he is talking about the man, I believe he was more than a friend⦠more like a father to him and Dean. So⦠Cas is explaining the plan to Bobby and I'm sitting in the corner the entire time. "I like her!" The psychic says when they are done. "She is smart and funny and really sassy, despite her dark thoughts!" Sam looks at me and then at the psychic. "She was wondering if the angels had changed the place of the door to Earth in the last 50-60 years." The bald man shrugs. "Metatron changed it to be behind door 42 when he was in charge of Heaven." Castiel answers. "And they call me a nerd!" I laugh out loud. "What?" Cas is confused once again. "I'll explain it later." Sam says and gets up from the table. "You will need to talk to that young lady as soon as possible." I hear Mr. Pryce says to Sam, just before he shuts the door behind us. Yeah⦠we will need to talk.
I splash water on my face and when I look at the mirror my eyes flash black for a second⦠Panic fills my chests and I blink at my reflection. No! I'm not giving up control. Not yet! Not until I'm sure Emilia will be ok.
"Been waiting for you." I say to the demon when he finally appears. I expect him to start a fight, to try to kill me, like his mother tried just an hour ago. "Squirrel." He just retorts.
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"Look, I'm not saying that I didn't want to slice and dice the witch. I'm just saying that that's not how it went down." We are sitting in the empty bar. "So she's a liar." "Must run in the family." "Mother says The Mark is just a curse, can be removed. Of course, she doesn't know how." "Figures." I pour myself another drink. "But I'm good, thanks." "Who's the liar now?" Crowley frowns.
"What do you know aboutā¦" I hesitate for a second but I clear my throat and ask the question that was bugging me for a while. "What do you know about soulmates?" Crowley looks at me with a question in his eyes. "Is this bullshit real?" I ask. "Well⦠yeah⦠It is⦠but it's rare, as far as I know. Why don't you ask Castiel? It's more in his line of work since it's Heaven's way to arrange their perfect future heroes." He is quiet for a moment, then he continues. "Actually⦠Iām kinda surprised they haven't hooked you and Moose up with your own already⦠Imagine⦠the poor girls⦠they will be dead in a weekā¦" I do not answer him, do not even look at him⦠"Oh! Bloody hell! They did! Didn't they!"
Cas walks through the portal with Metatron. Well⦠it turns out, the angel was trying to play us out until he could escape. He knows nothing about The Mark. He has no idea how to remove it. I'm not surprised but I keep my comments to myself. There is no point of told-you-so-s. But the sneaky angel manages to convince Cas he can take him to what's left of his grace.
"So⦠why did the psychic insist that I need to talk to you as soon as possible?" Ā Sam asks me.Ā We are going back to the bunker. He is driving and I'm just staring through the window in the rain. "We had run out of time." I breathe out. "It can happen at any moment nowā¦" He looks at me confused, trying to keep his eyes on the road at the same time. It takes him a moment to understand what I'm talking about.Ā "But you saidā¦" He starts but then looks at me again, finally catching up. "It was your birthday yesterdayā¦" I turn around staring at the rain again.Ā I don't need to see the hate returning into his eyes. I'm the enemy again.
"Hey." Sam greets his brother. "Hey. How was the movie?" "French." The younger Winchester lies. "What about you? What did you do last night?" "Played some pool. It was kind of boring." Dean is lying too. He is definitely hiding something. But we all areā¦
I decide to wait for an hour before entering the bunker. It's obvious that Sam doesn't want Dean to know where we were. Or that we were together. Well⦠there is no point in telling him if Metatron doesn't know anything.Ā So⦠I'm standing outside in the dark trying to get in peace with my fate once more⦠Hope is a dangerous thingā¦
"Look who decided to come home! Did you have fun?" Dean smiles at me but there is a bitterness in his tone. "Kindaā¦"Ā He is looking to start an argument but I have no strength left in me for it. "So⦠Sophie!? Another alias?" He pokes. "Ahamā¦" I mumble. "And this guy⦠Thomas⦠was it? Another ex fiancĆ©?" He continues to push the subject. "No⦠just a simple undercover job⦠in and out⦠just four or five days⦠nothing too complicatedā¦" I quickly answer and hurry to my room, not wanting to deal with lying anymore today.

Chapter 20: Games >>
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Who Guards the Bodyguard
T, 3k - No-Powers AU, Humor, bodyguard!Bucky
One college bar, one bodyguard, one sleazeball who can't take no for an answer. Shaken, not stirred.
Hey remember when I took birthday prompts, like��� 9 months ago? Good times. Anyways guess what I finally finished.
The prompt was some combination of āYouāre my new bodyguard and youāre cuteā / āHelp me Iām being hit on at a bar please be my fake boyfriend for a secondā / āIām going to save you from the terrible date youāre havingā So I really just mashed all of those together and ended up with this lol. I hope you enjoy it @clarajanedesperaux!
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This job is supposed to be easy.
All Bucky has to do is keep an eye on a billionaireās spoiled, wild son and make sure the kid doesnāt end up kidnapped or otherwise killed. Easy.
And yet, it has not been easy, most notably because Tony Stark canāt know that Bucky is guarding him. Howard had been very insistent about his sonās ability and determination to ditch his previous bodyguards, and half of the stories were honestly impressive if true. So Bucky has a very strict set of guidelines to follow that most days make him feel more like a stalker than anything else.
He gets a ping whenever Tony leaves the Stark familyās Fifth Avenue mansion, and satellite tracking makes it quick work to follow him anywhere in the city. Buckyās not exactly sure how Stark has GPS-tagged his son, but heās not paid to ask questions.
Heās paid to put his experience in black ops and undercover work to good use and not be seen while heās following a twenty-year-old around the city making sure no one kills the kid.
Totally normal, super easy.
Yeah right, Bucky thinks to himself in bemusement as he watches Tony over the rim of his beer.
This is the third bar the Stark heir has been to tonight, and Bucky really must be getting old because all he wants is to go home.
Heād kind of like to tell Tony to go home too, and not just because it would mean Bucky could go back to his apartment to hang out with his cat. Itās because he knows what Tony is doing, he knows the rotating cast of friends that meet Tony at one bar just to abandon him at another. He knows how damn lonely that is.
He might be watching from a distance, but Bucky is pretty damn good at what he does and he can tell thereās a lot more to Tony than the kid lets on. Heās got a bigger heart than he likes to show and hidden scars, he deserves better than fake friends and a father who wonāt even give him a chance.
But thatās none of Buckyās business.
Two more bars later, Bucky is feeling a lot less generous towards his charge. This place is too damn crowded, and loud, and Bucky has to keep moving around to keep Tony in his sight. And for what, just to watch him half-heartedly flirt with some asshole in a trucker hat, of all things? The kid could at least have the decency to have some taste.
Bucky forces down some more unsavory thoughts about trucker-hat-douche as he slides onto another seat at the bar and waves for a refill on his beer. He pointedly ignores it when the guy on the next stool spins to face him, keeping his gaze fixed firmly on Tony near the pool table across the bar. Even if he wasnāt working right now, he is in no mood and he does his best to convey that with the side of his face.
The asshole doesnāt take the hint though, and Bucky can feel the weight of his sleazy smirk as he asks, āWell hello, you come here often?ā
āNope,ā Bucky says shortly, which is conveniently both true, and will hopefully cut off any further conversation.
"That makes sense,ā the man says with a nod and a widening smirk, continuing to ignore all of Buckyās not-so-subtle hints, āI would remember seeing you before.ā
He probably thinks it sounds flattering, but he just comes across as gross. Bucky takes his eyes off his charge just long enough to glance over at the man next to him, taking in his flushed, sweaty face. The asshole is definitely drunk, probably completely hammered, and Bucky doesnāt want to deal with this.
He fixes his eyes forward again, hoping the guy will at least take one of his hints if he just keeps throwing them in the assholeās face.
āCāmon, Iāve seen you moving all around the bar,ā the man says, because of course he canāt just give up. āItās obvious youāre looking for something, only to wind up next to me,ā he continues in what he probably thinks is an alluring tone, āthereās no reason to play hard to get now.ā
"āM not playing anythinā,ā Bucky snaps, cutting his gaze to the side just long enough to give the man a sharp glare, "and Iām not interested."
The asshole on the next stool just laughs, and Bucky can smell the vodka on his breath as he leans closer. āDonāt be like that,ā he says with another slimey laugh, āyou donāt even know me yet, and Iām very interesting.ā
Bucky lets himself outright scoff at that, because he very seriously doubts that this bar-regular who canāt take no for an answer has any sort of hobby that Bucky would find interesting. He can see it from the corner of his eye when the asshole scowls, when his fingers curl tighter around his drink, and Bucky sighs internally.
āWhat, you think youāre too good to even give me the fucking time of day?ā The guy demands, abandoning his attempt at a sultry tone in favor of a snarl. It sounds more natural for him, honestly.
There are a lot of ways Bucky could answer that.
He could point out that technically at this point it would be ātime of night.ā Or he could get brutally honest and say that while he doesnāt usually think very highly of himself at all these days, he does still think he can do better than this random bar asshole. Maybe not a whole lot better, but better.
Instead of saying anything at all though, Bucky reluctantly tears his eyes away from the Stark heir across the small bar. He turns to finally face the man next to him and fixes him with a dry, expectant stare, quirking an eyebrow and letting the man fill in how āinterestingā Bucky thinks he is for himself.
The assholeās face starts to twist with rage, but he smooths it out again with what looks like a fair amount of effort before saying, āWell, how about you let me buy you a drink and give me sixty seconds to change your mind.ā
āNo,ā Bucky says shortly and starts to turn away. But then the man starts to reach for him, like heās going to grab Buckyās shoulder to stop him, and Bucky goes tense all over.
Part of him, a big part, wants to break this assholeās wrist and be done with it, but that would draw way too much attention. He doesnāt trust himself to grab the manās hand without breaking something, and he canāt even risk punching the jerk when his entire job relies on Tony never noticing him.
So Bucky has to settle for moving out of the assholeās reach, shifting half off of his stool to accomplish it, and glaring harder as he snaps, "Do not touch me."
If the man was less drunk, and less of a dick, thereās no doubt that Buckyās best death glare would be enough to chase him off. But he is a drunk asshole, so instead of running he grits his teeth and narrows his eyes.
āListen, asshole,ā the guy starts and Bucky does outright laugh at that, sharp and mocking.
Heās not surprised that the manās face flushes an angrier shade of red, but Bucky really couldnāt help himself. The asshole continues to sputter for a second before sliding ungracefully off his stool and pulling himself up to his full height, wobbling slightly in the process.
āI donāt appreciate you- fuckinā- talking down to me,ā the asshole spits furiously, but Bucky isnāt listening to him anymore.
With a sigh, Bucky slides the rest of the way off of his own stool and he can only hope that Tony is still distracted with the trucker-hat-douche because this is definitely about to become a scene. At least itās somewhat gratifying to watch the drunk stumble back half a step when Bucky pulls himself up to his full height and squares his shoulders, but it doesnāt look like the man plans on backing down.
āLast chance to walk away,ā Bucky warns because he has had it with tonight. At this point he will be perfectly happy to get kicked out of this shitty bar and fuck this job.
The asshole has his mouth open to respond, but then his eyes go wide as Bucky feels someone winding their arms around his and plastering themself tightly to his side. Bucky feels his own face twitch in shock when he jerks his gaze to the side and realizes that itās Tony clinging to him.
Tony, who Bucky is supposed to be keeping an eye on, and who is not supposed to even be aware of Buckyās existence. Tony, who is smiling up at him like Bucky isnāt a complete stranger to him, like he knows Bucky.
āThere you are, hot stuff,ā Tony says, his tone as familiar as his grin, and Bucky has a terrible feeling about the future of his employment. āI was starting to think you were standing me up,ā Tony continues, fluttering those long eyelashes up at him.
The eyelashes that Bucky has tried so hard not to notice, but heās sure as hell noticing them now.
Even caught off guard, and maybe a little distracted, Bucky isnāt a complete moron. He knows what Tony is doing, so he quickly pulls it together and works up a smile of his own.
āWouldnātāve been so hard tā spot you if youād picked a less crowded place,ā Bucky finds himself saying, because he canāt not complain about this dive bar now that heās been given the chance.
Tony throws his head back with a laugh, and Bucky does not let himself get caught up in the sound of it. Not even a little.
āI * knew* you would hate it,ā Tony says gleefully and the light in his eyes isnāt just teasing, itās knowing.
Like Tony actually chose this bar just to annoy him, and Bucky is officially in so over his head.
He is also reluctantly charmed, and Bucky canāt fight down a tiny grin of his own even as he shakes his head and says, āYou-ā
āHey,ā the asshole interrupts, apparently not happy with being completely ignored.
Heās glaring at both of them now, and Bucky automatically shifts so heās a little more between the drunk and the person heās supposed to be secretly bodyguarding. He can at least still do half of his job. Tony grins at him like he knows exactly what Bucky is thinking, and hell, he probably does. Just like itās probably no accident that Tony is wrapped around his good arm, making it much less likely that heāll throw a punch.
Nothing would really surprise Bucky at this point, Tony is so damn smart and apparently Bucky has been underestimating him, too. And apparently, Tony has been watching him back, and Bucky has no idea what to do with that.
When the asshole makes another impatient sound Tony finally deigns to look over at him, barely tearing his gaze away from Bucky long enough to flit his eyes over the man from head to foot.
āBye,ā Tony says, his tone artfully dismissive, and then goes right back to grinning up at Bucky like the other man doesnāt exist.
To Tonyās credit, his cold, superior tone has the asshole automatically taking a step backward, even as he sputters, "Dude, wh- what the fuck-"
āWhat part are you not getting?ā Tony asks, one sharp eyebrow crawling up his forehead as he slowly turns to face the asshole again, like heās still unconvinced that the man is worth the effort. āHe was looking for someone, now heās found me,ā Tony continues as he smoothly fits himself under Buckyās arm, āno part of this has anything to do with you, so you can go ahead and leave now."
Bucky canāt quite bite down his laugh when the drunk man sputters dumbly again, and the tiny grin that Tony flashes up at him has Buckyās heartbeat doing truly concerning things in his chest. But heās not thinking about that, just like heās not thinking about the way his arm has automatically fallen around Tonyās shoulders, the way Tony fits perfectly against his side.
āL-Listen here, you little-ā the asshole stutters and then trails off, his face going scarlet as he seems to notice all of the people staring at them.
"Little what?" Tony asks coldly, the look on his face just daring the asshole to come up with something that Tony hasnāt been called before. Bucky is equal parts impressed, enraged at his employer all over again, and trying his best not to be completely smitten.
The assholeās face is nearly purple as his eyes dart from side to side, taking note of the increasing number of people watching them with open interest and amusement.
āFuck this,ā he grumbles and finally starts to back away, deciding to save what little face he has left in front of this crowd of college douchebags. He apparently has to try and get the last word though, because as he turns he shoots Bucky a final glare he loudly mutters āI could do better anyways.ā
āDoubt it!ā Tony calls after him gleefully, and the on-looking crowd laughs. Then he turns his bright grin up at Bucky, and oh, fuck.
Bucky is so fucking fucked.
āDo you want to get out of here, now?ā Tony asks, quirking an eyebrow at him.
āYes,ā Bucky groans instantly and emphatically, all thoughts of his imminent unemployment momentarily forgotten in the force of his relief over getting to leave.
Being caught by Tony is the least of the rules heās broken, but he can worry about that later, or maybe never. Itās not like anyone needs to know that heās been slowly but surely failing the first rule of bodyguarding over months of catching glimpses of the real Tony. Except Tony might know, because heās been watching Bucky back.
And Tony is still grinning smugly as he starts to drag Bucky out of the bar with his arm still looped comfortably around Buckyās waist, staying plastered to his side. Bucky has no idea if itās necessary or not, he canāt tear his eyes away from Tony to see if the asshole is still hanging around.
He does spare the most fleeting thought for the trucker hat douche that Tony was flirting with before, but thatās only to think that at least this mess is getting Tony away from that asshole. Tony deserves so much better, of that Bucky is sure, heās had way too much time to think about it while watching Tony flirt with every type of douchebag.
Once theyāre out in the cool night air Bucky drags in his first deep breath in what feels like hours, relishing in the slightly less disgusting smells of the city. At least thereās less old-vomit smell.
When Tony snickers Bucky looks over at him again, honestly not sure what to make of the teasing, knowing smile on Tonyās face.
āSo, where to now?ā Tony asks innocently, like heās not still actively throwing Buckyās life into chaos.
āOff to look for a new job, probably,ā Bucky grumbles, but he canāt actually force any annoyance into his voice. Itās not like he actually likes this job, after all, butā¦
Heāll probably never see Tony again, once heās fired, and that thought sends a sharp pang through his chest that Bucky is trying not to think about too hard. Tony is still staring up at him as they start to aimlessly wander down the sidewalk, apparently trusting Bucky not to run them into any street signs, and Bucky is trying not to think about that either.
āWhy?ā Tony asks, sounding genuinely confused, and then he pouts as he adds, āI can go back to pretending not to notice you, is that more fun? Little weird, big-time stalker vibes, but I can work with that.ā
Bucky huffs out a laugh, then raises an eyebrow as he asks, āāS that what youāre into? That why you havenā ditched me yet, like all thā others?ā
āGive yourself some credit,ā Tony says, patting his side, āI did try at first, but youāre hard to shake. Plus, youāre much cuter than the rest of them were.ā
Bucky tears his eyes away from Tonyās teasing, flirty grin, looking back down the dark street and trying to ignore the heat rising in his cheeks. āMaybe Iām jusā sick of beinā dragged to college bars,ā he says after a pause thatās probably tellingly long.
āOkay,ā Tony says agreeably, and when Bucky looks over at him in surprise, he finds Tony grinning up at him with an almost hopeful look in his eyes as he asks, āHow do you feel about burgers?ā
Bucky finds himself trailing to a stop, still staring at Tony, who stopped right along with him and is now watching with a nervous little smile, like maybe he thinks the ābetterā that he deserves is somehow Bucky.
For a second all Bucky can do is stare, his mouth gone completely dry. He has to lick his lips, watching Tonyās clever gaze track the motion, before he can croak out, āSeems like Iām gonna be fired for a different reason.ā
Tony laughs, delighted, and starts leading him down the street again as he asks, āWhat are you talking about? What better place to guard me from than up close and personal?ā
Bucky is pretty sure that the elder Stark would not agree with that statement, but like hell is he going to be the one to point that out. He knows this is probably a terrible idea, and heās definitely going to get fired for this sooner or later, but with any luck, it wonāt be the last time he sees Tony.
āSo, burgers?ā Bucky asks as he tightens his arm a little more around Tonyās shoulders, and when Tony smiles wider Bucky finally lets himself acknowledge the way it makes his heart flip over itself in his chest.
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Letās talk about dynamics
The click on post is coming but itās been a while bc I thought I posted yesterday but apparently *I did not*
Anyway
I want to do a few posts throughout the next few days discussing dynamics between characters. Please request them. I donāt know how to start otherwise. Duos or trios!
Or rather I will start with one I like possibly the most. That being Kyan and Foz. Theyāre polar opposites in almost every way, yet get along arguably the best out of most friends in the show. Kyan is a boisterous, athletic superstitious kid who loves mythology and stories. On the other hand, Foz appreciates academics more, he is more polite and timid, loves academics and tends to dislike fantasy, much preferring fact.
Yet somehow, they get along extremely well.
This relationship was first given a proper chance to bloom in S2:E2: Matterhorn, where despite Kyan being somewhat dismissive of Fozs fears, and Foz returning with somewhat irritable remarks about him going too fast, Kyan fully enabled Fozs confidence to start developing.
Kyan seems to bring the best out in Foz, constantly making sure his self esteem and confidence are high. Foz, in return, is happy to spend time around Kyan, and go out of his comfort zone to partake in activities which he would not normally in order to spend time with him.
They get along surprisingly well for people so polar opposite, even if it does seem slightly strained or unreciprocated at times. They tend to cover each others weaknesses and compliment each others strengths in such a way other dynamics donāt do. They wonāt be perfectly interested in each others specialities but thatās okay, because they genuinely do care about each other.
In the show they arenāt given much time together on a team, but in a way I feel that it was for the best. In the least comedic way possible, they would be too powerful as a team. They cover an insane amount of range when it comes to their skills, and between the two of them, wonāt find many issues that they canāt use either intellect or muscle to surpass. Sure they might have arguments due to how their personalities clash, but in terms of skill, theyāre a perfect pair. Foz can formulate plans and figure out solutions, while Kyan can put them into action when Foz may otherwise be too weak or untrained to.
Itās not just professional either. In several canon instances, Foz and Kyan are shown willingly keeping each other company. Their friendship is genuine, and while I donāt know if it would have formed if they werenāt on a team, I have a feeling itāll last long after it. They have both been essential in each others lives, helping the other with maturing emotionally.
This is a mini post but I am intending on doing multiple of these a day for every dynamic, so I canāt go into long amounts of detail. I can elaborate further at a later date though!
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I genuinely think Slade is only in Task Force X because he wants to be paid for killing people, and hasn't yet figured out he can go freelance
I'm assuming, based on the emphasis put on Lex gaining power in Task Force X in combination with Waller dismissing Slade at the end of the last episode, that they might be gearing up for him to eventually leave and embark on his independent mercenary career. I'm a bit iffy on it, if only because I think that only works if they do a shared universe kind of thing, since Deathstroke isn't really a Superman villain. He's a Teen Titans villain, his most famous and most emotionally impactful stories involve his beef with these fucking kids (tho he can also show up sometimes in Batman stuff, not even Nightwing related Batman stuff, considering he literally pops up out of fucking nowhere during the Under the Red Hood arc to offer Black Mask a hit squad to take out Jason, tf did Jason ever do to him why did he just decide to send a goon squad after a literal nineteen year old for no reason whatsoever????).
I'm also not entirely sure if that can be his entire motivation for Task Force X specifically, for two reasons. One, if Leslie clocked him correctly and he is former military, then he didn't need to join a super secret black ops division to be paid to kill people, that's what the military is for. I don't even mean that in a "the evils of the army" kind of way, I mean that if Slade wants an opportunity to commit homicide in a situation where this wouldn't land him in jail and he could amorally use some flimsy justifications to allow himself to go further than most would approve, he already has it by being in the armed forces. Two, Task Force X doesn't really kill people. I think part of that is just that this is meant to be a somewhat family friendly show (I don't think it's a kid's show, but they are erring strongly oln the side of caution rather than giving us something like Invincible), but the brutality of Task Force X and Waller's (and previously Lane's) whole enterprise is in what it does to the people it apprehends. Task Force X seems to specialize in weapons manufacturing to fight Superman/Kryptonians, and in human experimentation. And while Waller's the one who ratcheted it up by taking random civilians from the prison system, this is something that's been at work for a while, apprehending people deemed disposable and experimenting on them or otherwise torturing them into compliance to fit their agendas. It's something Slade is involved in, and probably an outlet for some sadism, considering how goddamn cheerful he was when administering electro-shock to Leslie (does it say something about me that this is what cemented him as "new favorite guy" in my head?), but it doesn't seem like he has a lot of opportunities to kill people, since killing people other than Kryptonians during the eventual invasion isn't really the goal.
Am I aware I'm reading way too much into a side character? Yes, but this is a side character who has been consistently present since the premiere and is literally the first antagonist we ever really met, and I have thoughts about him and the hints of backstory and characterization that get dropped seemingly at random.
#personal#answered#anonymous#my adventures with superman#plus how am i not supposed to be obsessed when this version of slade is totally different from literally any other version of slade#anyway glad that the absolute constant excitement i have had for this dude since the moment he showed up on screen#is starting to entice other people#let's discuss him more he's the best#i cannot overstate the joy i felt when i was watching 1x02 already knowing deathstroke was slated to show up#and then i saw this dude in a black and orange color scheme and realized what was gonna happen
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Babysitting
Morning, I actually wrote a HypnoWarren fic, sort of. They're already married by this point so
Note the fic also established Jasonnie so if you can't stand that uuuuh sorry bye
Hypno let out a sigh as he sunk into the giant, plush sofa in the living room. He had half a mind to turn on the TV, but after a morning filled with the joyful screams of children at the nearby kindergarten, he preferred the silence. Besides, the light was on over Warrenās door which meant he was currently recording. The less noise the better.Ā
The silence kind of made him want to nap. Maybe just a quick one. He did have to wake up early to get ready, after all.
But just then he heard the faint creak of a door. Hypno glanced down the hall to see one of Warrenās doors open, the light up top going off.
One of his doors, because two smaller ones were built into the main door.Ā
When Donatello built this apartment complex, he took great care to renovate all the flats to accommodate whatever mutants wanted to move in. So for the wormās bedroomāin which all the furniture was designed for his small size to the point it was practically a houseāhad a door up top for him to hover out of, and a door on bottom for him to crawl out of.
The upper door opened this time, and Warren hovered into the hall on the little hover scooter that Donatello also built. The worm mainly just used it to get around the building. Otherwise he just sat on Hypnoās shoulder.Ā
Warren looked like he was going to head to the bathroom, but then his gaze met Hypnoās and he smiled.
āYouāre home earlier than I thought.ā The scooter shot across the room and stopped next to the sofa. āHow were the kids?ā
āEh, could have been worse.ā Hypno didnāt hesitate to pick his husband up and put him on his shoulder. The hover scooter gently drifted down onto an empty cushion. āGot the new episode recorded?ā
āYou bet.ā Warren beamed, hands on where his hips would be if he still had them. āI was excited to get to work on it this week. Breaking news, famous chef making a comeback with a new restaurant for mutants and y��kai alike.āĀ
Hypnoās ears perked up. āOh gosh, is the opening next week? We gotta go down and tell Rupert congrats.ā
Warren waved a hand. āWay ahead of you. We can tell him on opening night, I got us a reservation. A romantic date and a chance to do a follow up report with a review. The listeners are gonna love it.ā
āListenersā referred to the hundreds of mutants and yÅkai who tuned into Warrenās weekly news podcast. Not the same as being an anchorman, he often insisted, but it was familiar enough that he enjoyed it. He had fans again, and a means to earn them some extra income.Ā
Plus, mutants and yÅkai in the city had been complaining for a while about their lack of personal news outlets. Itās where Warren got the idea in the first place.Ā
āIām just proud of Rupert.ā Hypno leaned back against the sofa. āTook him so long to give up all that crime stuff.āĀ
āYeah, well, even if Orange Boy hadnāt enticed him with that deal, Iām pretty sure the power houses those turtles turned into would have changed his mind.ā
No kidding. Hypno was glad he and Warren started going on the mend years ago. After ruining Leoās first magic show and having to work at a bagel shop to pay it off, the slider actually did something nice by giving Hypno some work recommendations. With a far more reliable and legal source of income, he and Warren didnāt have to stress too much about a living space.
And when Donnie built this first apartment complex, well, that just sweetened the deal. No insane rent costs. As long as you paid your portion of the utilities and for any damages you caused, the rent was rather low.
He supposed the owner of a very successful tech company didnāt really need the extra money.Ā
āSo, whatās the plan for the rest of the day?ā Warren knocked Hypnoās top hat off and climbed up on his head. His tiny fingers played with the hippoās hair. āI need to get to editing that audio, but I can do it tonight. Should we go to the park or something?āĀ
Hypno thought about it for a bit, and was going to fire back a reply, when someone knocked on the door. He immediately turned his head to the right, forcing Warren to look that way as well.Ā
āWho could that be?ā The worm muttered. His tone obviously frustrated that they were interrupted.
Hypno got up. āPossibly just a neighbor who ran out of something in their spice cabinet.ā It happened more than once. Especially considering that while mutant sightings were common these days, going to the grocery store was still an ordeal.Ā
Hypno didnāt even peek outside before opening the door. He was a bit surprised to see Donatello standing there, but not by much. The turtle lived just a few doors down.Ā
āOh thank goodness youāre home.ā Donnie's eyes looked absolutely exhausted as he closed them and clasped his hands together.Ā
āSure are, Flapjack,ā Warren said. āNeed a favor?āĀ
āI know this is extremely short notice. But could the two of you watch Holly this afternoon?ā
Now that did surprise Hypno. He knew Holly, of course. Heād seen the infant turtle more than onceāmainly because her dads could not stop showing her offābut baby sitting?Ā
āYou sure you want us to do that?ā Hypno pointed to himself.
Donnie groaned. āLook, Draxum is at work. Holly Blue and Jason are also at work and stuff has gone absolutely off the walls there. They need my help. The sooner I get over there the better so trying to drag one of my siblings over to watch her isnāt an easy option. You guys live right over here.ā
Hypno didnāt know if it was worth bringing up their history considering they hadnāt fought in, what, a decade at least.Ā
Still, āI donāt know all that much about infant care.ā
Donnie kept running his hands over his face. āNot a problem. She doesnāt act like a typical infant. Itās super easy, I promise, if you guys are free at least.ā
āWellāā
āWeāre not doing it for free.ā Warren mumbled.
āWarren.ā
āWhat?ā
āNo, itās fine.ā Donnie waved a hand. āIf you do this, Iāll waive your water bill for the month.āĀ
The hippo balked at that. Not having to pay for water? That meant he could take as many long soaks in the tub as he wanted. He usually tried to limit itādespite how badly his skin needed itādue to, well, how much water he had to use per bath.Ā
Warren must know exactly what he was thinking, because the worm snapped his fingers. āDeal. Show us what weāve gotta do.āĀ
āSure.ā The turtle nodded. āGrab anything you think you might need and meet me over there.ā He turned and left.
Hypno wasnāt sure theyād need much, and they could always just hop back over here if they did, but Warren insisted they grab a couple of those canned coffee drinks just in case. He also insisted Hypno change out of his work clothes.
Yeah, that was fair.Ā
Now with a much more casual button up, Hypno carried Warren and the coffees over to Donnieās apartment. The door was propped open so they let themselves in.
Always so surreal how different it looked despite the similar floor layout. Where Hypno and Warrenās apartment was decorated wall to wall with posters and had silly nicknacks and props in every corner, Donnie and Jaseās apartment looked far more sleek. The fancy TV and speaker system, the massive massage recliner chair, and all the purples made it feel like something on a sci-fi themed cruise ship.Ā
But as they followed Donnie to Hollyās room, the entire vibe shifted. At present, the tiny turtle baby mostly stayed in a personalized tank. Not that it was small by any stretch of the word. The tank was custom built, taking up half the room. The entire thing was built in a U shapeālikely so you could reach her from anywhere while giving her plenty of space to move around. While some areas looked like a traditional tank, with sand, plants and water, the other half looked like a tiny bedroom. Blankets, pillows, and toys were scattered all over it.Ā
Hypno wondered where the child even was, but the smallest squeak alerted him. He finally spotted her pressing her hands against the glass wall as Donnie reached in and picked her up.Ā
She was definitely bigger than the last time Hypno saw her, but still tiny enough to fit in the turtleās hand, and therefore Hypnoās as well.Ā
āOkay,ā Donnie began, eyes unfocused. āYou guys know Holly. Holly, this is Hypno and Warren.ā
The baby turtle didnāt even look in their direction. Her attention was completely fixed on her father.
āGood news, you donāt have to bottle feed her. She knows how to drink water and eat solid food, though I recommend you chop it up small for her. Thereās a number of containers in the fridge labeled for her, just pick what you like.ā Donnie pointed to a pair of bowls in one part of the tank, then a bottle that hung from the glass. āShe has water in more than one location, food goes in that bowl.ā
āKinda sounding more like pet sitting than babysitting,ā Warren mumbled.Ā
Hypno gave his shoulder a sharp shrug to jostle his husband.
āWhat?ā
āNo, youāre right,ā Donatello sighed. āBut truthfully, even if the mechanics are different itās not that far removed from raising a human baby. Moving on.ā He pointed at Holly, more specifically at the cloth wrapped around her bottom half. āDiapers. We have to custom make them and theyāre all cloth. We keep clean ones in that drawer.ā He pointed to the dresser that was barely visible over the array of fabrics. Were those just the ones not yet cut up? āUsed ones go in that hamper.ā He pointed to what looked more like a trashcan than an actual laundry hamper. Probably for smell reduction. āAny questions so far?āĀ
Warren asked, āDo we just leave her in the tank?ā
āPretty much. Sheās allowed to wander around this room but only this room. We havenāt baby proofed the rest of the apartment.āĀ
āSo why call us?ā
āBecause she eats. A lot. And she can also get bored pretty easily. And also I just worry a lot about something going incredibly wrong if one of us arenāt around.ā His eyes went so wide they looked like they might fall out. Then one of them twitched.
Hypno would suggest the guy take a nap, but that would probably be rejected immediately.Ā
āItās just the afternoon.ā Donnie lowered Holly back into the tank. She let out a few high pitched squeaks of protest. āJason and I should be back at six at the latest.āĀ
Six? That was more like the whole day considering lunch hadnāt even passed.Ā
But this did seem like a fairly low stress task. Make sure she didnāt hurt herself, toss around some magic to keep her entertained, order some delivery for them to eat?
And also, no water bill for the month.Ā
āWeāve got it.ā Warren answered. āGo do what you need to do.āĀ
āRight.ā Donatello nodded and went for the door. āYou have my number if you have any questions or thereās an emergency orāā
āWeāve got it.ā Warren insisted. āGo help your husband out.āĀ
Another nod. Hypno peeked out into the hallway to watch Donnie leave. The turtle gave him a few looks, one more curious and the final one deathly serious. As if to give a brief warning of, āNothing better happen to my daughter or else.āĀ
And yeah, Hypno knew that. In fact, what worried him the most about this was if something did go wrong, Donatello could blast him and Warren into the next country.Ā
Itād be fine. Low stress.
Hypno went back into the room and sat on the floor. At least there were plenty of cushions around here to use. Holly was already moving about her tank. She went straight for the big pool of water and dove right in.Ā
āYeesh, four-month old is already swimming.ā Warren slid off Hypnoās shoulder and onto his lap. āI bet sheāll be walking in another month.ā
Quite possible given that the turtle was already crawling.Ā
āDid you put those coffees in the fridge when you came in?ā
Hypno shook his head and got up. āNah, let me go do that. Iāll locate the food too while Iām at it. Make sure I know where to find it.āĀ
He found the cans still sitting on the small table in front of the sofa where he left them. Hypno picked them up and went to open the fridge. The frigid space was far more organized than his, but not to the point it looked unnatural. Donnie wasnāt kidding either, multiple containers had Hollyās name tapped on the top. Hypno picked up a couple to glance at the contents from the bottom. Looked like sardines, ham slices, and even peeled shrimp.Ā
Hypno put them back and returned to the bedroom. Warren managed to pile some of the cushions together for him to climb up to look into the glass of the tank. Holly pressed herself against it as well, staring at him with her tiny eyes.
āKeeping her entertained, Love?ā Hypno stood behind him.
Warren smiled when he looked back. āShe seems to be enjoying the silly faces, at least. Why donāt you see how she reacts to some magic?ā
Well, why not? Hypno leaned over the top of the tank. Holly almost fell over when she tried to look at him, appearing a bit more nervous.Ā
Then Hypno reached into his sleeve and plucked a flower out of nowhere. The child didnāt laugh or clap, like most children did, but those small eyes widened. Hypno lowered the flower into the tank and she instantly reached for it. Her little fingers wrapped around one of the petals and then she tried to bite it.
Only to quickly reel back and stick out her tongue.Ā
Hypno and Warren both chuckled and he pulled the flower back out. Just in case eating it wouldnāt be good for her.Ā
āMan, this is gonna be the easiest job of our lives.ā Warren snapped his fingers.
Hypno shook his head. āDonāt count your rabbits, Love.ā
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Well, at least so far it was going well.Ā
The kid really did get bored easily. She needed as much stimulation as some of the toddlers Hypno would do tricks for. And he mainly took the charge for that, on account of the fact he could summon tons of colorful flowers, sashes, and even balloons. He did make the mistake of popping one, however, which resulted in Holly hiding under a few pillows for a solid ten minutes.
Warren lured her out with a snack. She seemed to really enjoy the peeled shrimp.Ā
The biggest problem came from diaper changing, but that was mainly because Warren had to do it with his smaller hands and he had to complain about it the entire time.Ā
Hypno could see right through him, however. Especially after the anchorman washed his hands and picked the kid up to return her to the tank. Her little hands touched his face and she squeaked and the worm melted in an instant.Ā
Maybe it was just due to the rare occurrence that Warren met anyone smaller than him these days. Even human babies were typically larger.Ā
āNews flash.ā Warren posed as he held her. āThe most handsome man in the world spotted with the most adorable child in the world. Ron, take a picture.ā He waved his free arm.Ā
Hypno chuckled and took a few shots. āLetās not turn her into a photo op, Love.āĀ
āAre you kidding, she was built for the camera.ā Warren held her up and she giggled.Ā
But not long after that, the kid got wiped out. Hypno placed her in the tank where she immediately curled up in a nest of blankets. The sight of it was so cute, Hypno took another photo. He sent that one to Donnie, just in case the guy needed some reassurance. A miracle the turtle wasnāt spamming them with texts asking if she was safe.Ā
Donnie replied with a heart emoji, then a thanks, and then a message saying that Jase appreciated it too.Ā
Hypno added some details about how well it was all going.
āWell, with her asleep we should take a break.ā Warren scooted toward the door. āHow about a snack and those coffees?āĀ
āIād feel bad taking their food.ā Hypno stood. āI think Iāll hop back over to our place to grab something. You good with getting to the kitchen?ā
Warren rolled his eyes. āOh I can get to the kitchen just fine. Getting to the coffees⦠might be tricker.ā
Hypno chuckled and opened the door. āI wonāt be long.āĀ
And he wasnāt. They hardly locked their doors in this building so it was simple to grab a couple of apples for himself and a bag of Warrenās favorite chips.Ā
He returned to Donnieās apartment and got the coffees out of the fridge before placing them and his husband all on the table. They ate and drank and chatted about weekend plans.Ā
Only about thirty minutes later, when they finished up, Hypno went back to the bedroom to see the door open.
āWarren, did you not shut this?ā He glanced at the worm on his shoulder.Ā
His husband crossed his arms. āWhy should I? Kid is fast asleep and she canāt get out of that tank anyway.ā
Hypnoās ears went back as he went inside. āBetter safe than sorry, you know?ā
āCome on, Babe. The kid is rightāā Warren pointed down to the blanket nest, but it was empty. āErā¦ā
Despite the stab of panic, Hypno didnāt let it consume him. The tank was huge. The kid could have gotten up and wandered somewhere else in it. But after searching back and forth in thereāand turning over every pillow or other large object she could hide underāthey found nothing. Hypno even dug into the sand at the bottom of the pool.Ā
āDid she get out?ā Warren shouted. āHow?āĀ
Hypno darted over to the door to shut it. Just in case the kid was still in here. āIt doesnāt matter. Start looking. If Donnie finds out we lost his daughter we are going to get launched to the next state.ā
āDonnie?ā Warren raised his voice even higher. āAre you kidding? You think Donnie is the threat here?ā
For a second Hypno wasnāt even sure what his husband meant.Ā
Then he immediately recalled the short lived mess where Donnie got kidnapped by some business rivals. He recalled the look on Jasonās face when he left the building that day. And he recalled the news report less than an hour later of a massive dragon tearing a warehouse down to nothing but scrap.Ā
Hypno put his hands on his head. āJase is gonna have his dragon rip us to shreds.ā
āJust start looking!āĀ
Hypno did. He let his husband focus on the floor while he checked everything else. He didnāt rule out the shelves, cabinets or even the drawers. He tossed aside every piece of clothing, every box, and even tipped over the empty water pitcher just in case.Ā
They still found nothing.
āIām going to start looking outside.ā Hypno tossed the door open and went into the hall.
On the bright side, all the other room doors were closed, including the bathroom. So that meant Holly had to have crawled into some place in the living room or the kitchen.Ā
Hypno crawled around on the floor, looking under the sofa, the chairs, and even peeking under the rugs. Then he checked the TV stand, every shelf and behind any of the blocks of machinery. Still nothing.
Eventually Warren came out to help. Hypno hoped that his much smaller husband would have an easier time checking out the more cramped areas, but it still didnāt work. Damn it, Holly was so small. Could she have fit into the ventilation. Oh no! Theyād never be able to get her out of there.Ā
āWhat do we do?ā The panic was definitely getting to him now. āWarren, what do we do?ā
āI donāt know.ā The worm snapped back, just about as good at dealing with stress as he was. āWait. Wait! Newsflash!ā
āWhat?ā
āThe shrimp.ā He pointed to the fridge. āShe loves that stuff. Pull some out, maybe we can lure her.āĀ
A brilliant plan as any right now. Hypno got out the container and gave a piece of the shellfish to Warren who sneered at the smell of it. Still, he began to crawl around, waving it.
Hypno did the same, though in the kitchen this time. He was still on the floor, praying that the tiny child hadnāt found a way to climb up on the counters or something. There were knives up there!Ā
As he moved closer to the fridge, he heard a squeak.
Hypnoās ear and then his face turned toward the noise in an instant. āHolly? Is that you, Love? Come here.ā He waved the piece of shrimp closer, hoping the smell was strong enough.Ā
Another squeak, a bit louder. Then finally the tiny turtle wiggled her way out from underneath the fridge.
Just how did she get under there? When?
Hypno snatched her up in an instant. Holly squeaked in surprise and even struggled for a second.Ā
āWarren, I got her.ā
āOh thank goodness.ā The worm shouted. āLetās get her back.ā
Hypno headed in that direction, but then realized just how much dust and grime Holly had picked up on her little adventure. āMaybe we should give her a quick wash first.ā
āFine, but make it quick.ā Warren reached up. āWe need it so her dads have no idea this happened by the time they get home.ā
Hypno agreed. He handed Holly the shrimpāthat she kept reaching forāand then put his husband on his shoulder. He carried them both to the bathroom where he plopped Holly in the sink. Donnie didnāt give them any bath instructions, but there was a tiny basket on the counter with some light soap and a soft brush.Ā
Warren handed her the other shrimp and turned the sink on. āI hope she doesnāt splash a lot.ā
Hypno chuckled. āDonāt count your rabbits.āĀ
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One messy bath later and a lengthy dry offāwhich was mostly Warren trying to fix his soaked shirtāthe pair returned Holly to the tank.
Upon which her method of escape soon became clear. As soon as they left her in there, Holly stepped away from the glass only to take a running leap at it. She tried to grab the edge, but missed it, smacking into the glass instead.Ā
āHm, Donnieās going to have to make the walls higher.ā Warren pointed to one of the pillows. āKid is too smart. Prop one of those up so she doesnāt bruise herself.ā
Hypno did. And it sort of worked, with Holly crashing into the plush material instead.Ā
āHow does she still have energy?ā The hippo sighed. āNo wonder Donnie looks so wiped out.ā Even he was feeling it at this point.Ā
Thankfully, after a few more failed jumps, Holly gave up. With a tiny yawn she fell back asleep on the blankets, and this time Hypno kept watching her to make sure she stayed there. Warren climbed onto his lap as he sat, also flopping over like heād take a nap.Ā
Hypno began to doze himself, but then he heard the front door open.Ā
The hippo sat up straight, jostling his husband in the process. Warren complained, but didnāt protest as he got picked up and placed on Hypnoās shoulder.Ā
He opened the door right when Donnie got to it.Ā
āHey,ā the turtle didnāt look any less tired. āEverything good?ā
āYeah,ā Hypno gave a nervous laugh. He waved at Jase who came up behind Donnie, then stepped aside as the guy came into the room to kneel next to the tank. āYou guys might want to raise the walls a bit though. Seems sheās learning how to jump out.āĀ
āWhat?ā Donnie groaned. āSheās barely grown two inches since sheās hatched but sheās doing this?ā
āAre you really surprised?ā Jase carefully lifted his sleeping daughter out of the tank, cradling her in his hands. āYour dad did say you guys were escaping into all kinds of places as babies.āĀ
āYeah, but he didnāt have a custom built tank.āĀ
āWeāll just put a few extra inches of cushioning to block her.ā Jase shook his head. āThanks for babysitting, guys.ā
āYeah, of course.ā Hypno smiled and glanced at the two of them. They both looked beyond exhausted. āAnytime, actually. You guys look like you could use the break.āĀ
āProbably,ā Donnie admitted. āBut we knew what we signed up for.ā
āStill,ā Jase added. āWe could probably allow someone else to watch her for a bit by this point.ā
āAfter I adjust the tank.ā
āOf course.āĀ
Hypno chuckled at their usual banter.
āWell, this was fun.ā Warren snapped a finger. āBut Iām hungry. Have you guys eaten?āĀ
āNah,ā Jase sighed. āCame here right after work.ā
āOh, let us go get Chinese then.ā Hypno slipped past Donnie. āOur treat.ā
āOur treat?ā Warren scoffed.
āWell, they are paying our water bill this month.āĀ
āFine, fair enough.ā He waved a hand.Ā
Hypno looked back at his neighbors. āIs that good with you guys?ā
āWell I definitely donāt want to cook,ā Jase said. āSo yeah. Just get our usuals.āĀ
Hypno gave them a thumbs up and headed out of their apartment and toward the stairs.
Warren was oddly quiet on the way down the steps. Usually he loved to ramble after such a chaotic event.
Hypno shrugged his shoulders to nudge him a bit. āSomething on your mind?ā
āHm?ā His husband blinked. āWell, no, maybe. Mostly tired. Just made me think umā¦ā He kept looking up as he tapped his chin. āDid you uh⦠ever want to have kids?ā
Hypnoās ears went up. āWhat brought this up?ā
āWe just babysat one.ā
āI know but⦠did you want to have them?ā
āNot really?ā The worm cringed when he said that. āI mean, I guess I wouldnāt hate it, but itās not something I really want to do either. But we still havenāt talked about it even though we got married years ago soā¦ā
āAh, I guess that makes sense.ā Hypno opened the side door and stepped out onto the street. āCanāt say itās something I really want to do either. Sides, I think helping look after that little one will be more than enough.āĀ
Warren chuckled, a genuine smile on his face as he leaned against Hypnoās head. āYeah, youāre telling me.ā
#rottmnt#scribbly fics#hypnowarren#hope that's the right tag F#they end up baby sitting Holly often enough they become her unofficial uncles#A while back I saw a clip from an article about#how some softshell turtles will do running leaps to escape their tanks#so you have to make sure they're tall enough lmao#posting this early idc
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⦠HEIGHT COMPARISON ā¦
Thanks for the tag, @yourpenpaldee!
RULES:
Use this site to compare the heights of your OCs.
I'm not going to lie, I have mixed feelings about this tag, haha. I mean, it was pretty fun in a lot of ways! But the website was also laggy and, uh... diverse body types and stuff? Definitely not, whoops.
On a more positive note! I decided on the colors for each of these characters a while ago, and this is also a cool way so show them off! Tell me what you think of everyone's colors, and if I did a good job making them distinct from one another!
(The amount of my characters I saw related to blue without even realizing it... I had to move some to shades of purple!!!)
SUN AND SHADOW
This one was disappointing in body types both for ridiculous reasons (why no harpy for poor Crow? š) aaaand... a lot more valid ones. Like, okay, there wasn't a single icon for a person with a cane. Not even for a thin one! So instead we just got Soren with his hands in his pockets.
THE ARCANE RIFTS
Large cast, sorry guys! š Believe it or not, I actually made a separate one with a few more of the characters if you guys want me to post it separately! I just didn't want to crowd this post up any more than it already will be, haha.
Gene is a smol boy, both from genetics (š) and malnutrition, whoops. Although they won't show up in the Arcane Rifts (or... not any time soon? š), I have a lot of Gene's family built out and they're all pretty short, haha. So it was a given he would be, too! Thennnnn there was also the "no option for a cane" thing. š
Adilzhan, on the other hand, has always been planned out to be gigantic, haha. If there were any harpy icons, I could've done one for him and shown another reason this man is considered to be hulking! Dude's terrifying, I love him. 10/10.
This is the kids' fully-grown heights btw! Obviously seven-year-old Gene isn't 5'3, haha. He'll only be that tall later into book 2.
RISING FROM THE ASHES
Another place the lack of diverse icons reallllly didn't vibe well with me, oops. Guqayya wears a headscarf for religious reasons, but there weren't any avatars with it and, well... idk, maybe she's not a real person, but I really don't like having anything representing her without one.
Sammy, on the other hand? Great, 10/10, haha. One of the Things⢠about him is that he looks much younger than he actually is, and one of the ways that shows is in his height! He's actually 15, though, he just absolutely does not look it, haha. Poor kid.
Also it greatly amuses me that not only is Caron not that tall (meanwhile his son towers above him), but Guqayya is taller than him. Cranky old healer lady ftw am I right?
(More seriously, it amuses me because he's a super intimidating presence. Tbh he's got a lot of muscle--though he hides it under loose-fitting clothes--and he's got a lot of other factors that makes him more intimidating. Like, famous and known to lead a knight's college for one. But also he's got a generally very collected manner, doesn't really show his emotions, and--oh, right. Is powerful enough magically that he radiates an aura of power, haha. Still! It's so funny to picture that in an otherwise almost average-height man! I think it's not done that often tbh.)
ALL MAIN CHARACTERS
Aaaand the actual main characters of each of the stories! (Well, technically minus the MCs of the later books of tAR, but that's not really relevant, so--)
Turns out my MCs tend to be kinda short, haha. Oh, well! I think I did a great job diversifying the colors for them, though, so hopefully it'll be easy to distinguish when I start making posts about them again!
Despite the lack of diversity, I did mostly have fun with this tag! It's interesting looking at the characters' heights actually put side-to-side visually like this--I've never gotten to see it before, haha.
Also, this might've let me mess with the numerical heights to better match those that I saw visually occurring between the characters... I'm not that great at converting numbers to distance in my mind. The aphantasia doesn't help, whoops.
I'm proud that it seems I've done a decent job of varying the heights and generally making them accurate to irl averages, though!
Tagging (gently!!!): @the-golden-comet @darkandstormydolls @the-letterbox-archives @illarian-rambling @wyked-ao3
@ath3alin @mysticstarlightduck + open tags!!!
Gorgeous divider by @saradika!
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just a looong ramble analysing and rethinking Rey's character and turning whatever conclusions I get to into my headcanon without changing any plot points in TFA because I don't have the energy for that....
First things first. With everything I write here and publish on my blog from now on I refuse to believe that TROS ever existed. Everyone is free to have their personal opinions as long as they don't harass or hate on anyone, and this is mine. Almost every choice in that movie has left me scarred, even up til now, 4 years after its release. I thought I can ignore it, like any other healthy human being, but - oh boy, I cannot. If you are interested in reading another ramble on that, here's the post.
Since I am writing my own take on what could happen after TLJ (you may call it a fanfiction, I'm gonna call it a fanscript since that's gonna be its format), this post serves the purpose of getting my head clear around what's the deal with Rey, analysing, and lying down a solid foundation for my WIP. The story I'm writing has barely reached the end of Act I (out of III) at the moment I am composing this commentary, and I constantly notice that I get stuck with Rey's character every time I have to think about her for different reasons I will address down below.
I will make some rewrites as I see fit and necessary along the way for her character to make sense to me. All rewrites are in Tumblr's
chat style
This post will be linked to my AO3 fancifction as a reference for people to understand how I treat her character as soon as that one will be finished... *clears her throat* ...ANYWAY-
Let's have a look at Rey, shall we?
Rey's introduction.
When we first meet Rey, there is already a lot we get to learn about her. She's a scavenger. On a pretty much deserted desert planet. Water and food are scarce. She gathers parts during the day to sell them in exchange for food rations.

She has no friends, no family. She's lonely. And has been for quite a while. And yet, though hard, it looks like a pretty peaceful and stable life. If it were significantly different, we would have gotten introduction scenes of her battling some gangs or other scavengers for parts or something. But instead we were provided with beautiful, peaceful cinematography and John Williams' incredible score.

She manages. She manages because she has to and has never known to do otherwise. This on its own is already a very solid introduction. And it becomes even more powerful as we are provided with additional context later on, as she tells BB-8 that she's waiting for her family.
We know who she is, what she does and what she wants. No more questions, right?
Well, this is where it gets confusing, at least for me: there's one shot in Rey's introduction which always leaves me puzzled about her actual wants. It's the moment she puts on the rebel pilot helmet.
Maybe I am reading too much into it, but it feels like it kinda wants to draw parallels to Luke Skywalker in ANH? What exactly is the purpose of this shot? Is she putting on the helmet just for fun? Is it to show that she is still a kid inside? She seems to enjoy herself. Is it to show us that she maybe wants to be a pilot...? The gesture on its own is too little information to imply that, let alone that she already is a very skilled one, so probably no. Then, is it, perhaps, to show us that she dreams of more? Like Luke, who wanted to get off the planet that is "farthest away from the bright center of the universe"?
The interpretations, especially when looking at it in context to the rest of the movie could go on and on and on.
Quick detour.
The reason it works so well with Luke's character is because from the very beginning, with everything he does and says, it is perfectly clear that he doesn't want to stay on Tatooine. It's his only want when we first meet him.
Luke has friends who tell him about the galaxy. He seeks adventure.
And he's very impatient about it.
Everything he says basically SCREAMS how much he hates it there.
Now back to Rey.
Am I expecting Rey to show the same interest in getting off Jakku with the same attitude and level of energy as Luke, should that have been what TFA was going for? No, of course not. They are (supposed to be) two different characters after all. But I do believe that, given the setup, that helmet scene leaves too much room for confusing and unnecessary interpretation. (More so because I am trying my best to avoid nostalgia bait wherever I can.)
I am not denying the fact that she wouldn't have heard about the wider galaxy, that she wouldn't wonder about what it would feel like, being out there. People travel. And with people traveling, so do stories. So if you want to hint at that, do it subtly, all the while keeping the focus on her biggest want.
I might really just be reading too much into it, but still, in my humble opinion, a way to solve this confusion is cutting out her interaction with the pilot helmet completely. Let me demonstrate.

Inside her home we already see this self-made rebel pilot puppet. Just like the puppet lying around, instead of having her pick it up and putting it on,
the helmet remains part of the environment, stuck in the sand. There could even be a close-up on it as Rey puts down her empty plate next to it when she has finished eating if you really want to show it. She then rests her arms on her knees and looks up into the sky, following the ship that has just departed from the far outpost into the high atmosphere until it disappears. Waiting.
What is achieved by changing the interaction with the helmet is that it keeps her wants just as clear as Luke's. Luke wants adventure. She wants her family back. Period.
...I rewatched this scene after writing these paragraphs and yes, I admit, in the end it happens so fast that one could probably just let it pass and interpret it as Rey being very bored and using it as entertainment to wait out the days. But even if it were just that, the effects this little tweak would have on the following scenes is quite interesting to look at nonetheless.
The tweak I am going with from now on: Having her not actively wonder about possible adventures at all. She doesn't believe those stories to actually be true, because she's never allowed herself to. She's never allowed herself to actually want to ever leave Jakku.
What would it mean for her characterisation? It would make her slightly more serious and grounded. And the movie (except for the helmet scene) actually already treats her that way. Notice how she, while fixing BB-8's antenna, takes a moment to look at him before asking:
She's never seen such a droid before. At least not in such good condition. So, of course, she's curious. But when BB-8 says it's classified, she only laughs about it. "Classified? Really? Me too. Big secret," as if to say, haha, yeah, right. She rejects that possibility. And she doesn't bother asking any further, because when she is confronted with the choice to go and explore, she is reminded of her promise to herself, which is that she will wait for her family until they return.
Now, here is where I insert some very subtle "rewriting". When Rey first meets Finn, she is suspicious of him...
...and should actually remain suspicious,
instead of admiring him and falling into this, let's call it, "excited, fangirly smile"...
She doesn't know him. She has no reason to trust him. Instead, the tone of this line should be one that reflects her emotions as it slowly gets to her that those stories she's been hearing about might actually have some truth to them, that there might actually be a wider world out there. So make her be gradually interested.
Huh. This man I just forcefully hit to the ground, a Resistance fighter, knows about BB-8 and his classified information. What are the odds of that?
"So you're with the Resistance?" Rey asks suspiciously, looking down at the man.
The man stands up, brushes the sand and dust off his jacket and answers, "Obviously. Yes, I am. I am with the Resistance."
Rey frowns, "I've never met a Resistance fighter before," scanning him with her eyes. Why would there be any on Jakku? Nothing ever happens here.
"Oh, this is what we look like, some of us. Others look different."
Rey cannot help a little smile at his strange attitude. She looks back to where BB-8 rolled off to. Puzzled, she tells him, "BB-8 says he's on a secret mission. He has to get back to your base..." Even hearing herself pronounce that out loud feels so surreal to her. None of this makes any sense. Why-
"Apparently he has a map that leads to Luke Skywalker and everyone's after it."
What? "Luke Skywalker?" she asks, confounded.
CUT TO ACTION.
Whether she wants it or not, the plot forces her into the stories she's been hearing of. You don't want to believe they are real? They're real, all right. She has no choice but to run and get along. And later, she does get more and more interested, specifically when she meets Han Solo, the legend himself. Her whole beliefs turn upside down. It's exciting and she embraces it. Why? She's made a promise to BB-8 that she will get him home, and those things kinda come hand in hand.
Rey's physicality.
Rey is very fast to jump into action. She doesn't think twice about what she's doing. She just acts. Because that's how she's learned to survive all this time on her own. When she but hears BB-8 struggling in the distant sand dunes the first time they meet, she immediately reacts and goes to help (which also shows how compassionate she is towards people - and droids - in need of help).
And she's incredibly stubborn about it. If I may even word it like this: it's something she carries with pride.
So she's a good fighter. And I have but one request: DO. NOT. FORGET. THAT. HER. FIGHTING. STYLE. IS. ROUGH. AND. DIRTY. AND. HAS. NO. TECHNIQUE. WHATSOEVER. WHILE. THE. STORY. PROGRESSES. OK? Ok. What else? Ah, yes. Piloting. I don't know which of the two aspects has brought more uproar in the SW community, with the addition of the Force to these 2 points making people call her a Mary Sue, her being overpowered and so on. Let's have a look at that.
Rey's piloting skills.
She obviously knows her way around the Falcon. And it's plausible. "This ship hasn't flown in years!" It's been there for quite a while. Maybe she has had the opportunity to sneak onto it once. What about her flying skills? Well, that takeoff definitely had me worried. At this point I am even amazed this ship is still all in one piece. Which has me thinking... just a thought...
While trying to get those TIEs off their tail, Rey damages a visibly big part of the Falcon's exterior. "Ups," she comments, hastily checking the controls. Ok... The ship still flies. All good.
"What was that?" Finn calls from the gunner position, seriously worried for their lives.
"Nothing to worry about!" Rey quickly shouts back. All in all, the flight is messy as hell, and the Falcon needs some heavy repairs. But they still manage to get out.
"Nice shooting!"
"That was some flying! How did you do that?"
"Thanks! I don't know! I've flown some ships, but I've never left the planet."
(This is me reacting to their dialogue in the new context:) Yeah, guys, good work! You've almost destroyed the Falcon in the process, but you're alive, so I guess it's fiiiiiine.
What am I going for here? Adding to their level of expectations, which are... pretty low, and hopefully Rey's likability.
And then, later, Han is horrified of the state his ship is in, "Who did that?" Rey doesn't answer his question, but instead immediately offers her help, "I can fix that for you," feeling a bit ashamed of handling the ship of a legend this carelessly. And Han is... well, Han about it.
When would the Falcon get those repairs, you might ask? Eh, *hand gesture* there's plenty of time on D'Quar for that while they discuss how to blow up the third Deathst- *clears her throat* Starkiller Base. And obviously it's not gonna be Rey doing those repairs.
This addition tones down her abilities, puts more focus on her skills as a scavenger and makes her more relatable. I'd also argue that it puts more weight to her decision to eventually decline Han's offer to join the crew because of her wants. You see, once immersed into the real thing, the stories becoming true, meeting the legends, she becomes genuinely curious. She asks questions. Why did Luke leave? What fight? She gets incredibly excited when Han offers her a job. And yet, despite all, she still wants to go back.
Nevertheless, Rey displays pretty amazing piloting skills under those stressful circumstances on Jakku. After all, flying the Falcon is....
Her instincts are implacable. One might even say that she*
She just isn't aware of it yet. It is not until some scenes with Han and the rathtars later that we get the first hint.
The Force.
Now I might be wrong, but I have a theory, which is that the piloting performance under high pressure on Jakku might have been it. The Awakening.
The Force calls to Rey through Luke's lightsaber. And she listens to it, not knowing what will follow. She experiences the Force vision, and is horrified.
"That lightsaber was Luke's, and his father's before him, and now, it calls to you!"
"I have to get back to Jakku." Again.
Even when Maz tells her, "You already know the truth. Whomever your waiting for on Jakku, they are never coming back,"
she still refuses to believe that.
Tears run down her cheeks
and she shakes her head. No.
"But there's someone who still could."
Rey frowns. What is Maz implying there? "Luke?" she asks and realises what it's leading up to, and doesn't like it. Her emotions are a mess. She gulps back and keeps shaking her head as Maz speaks.
"The belonging you seek is not behind you. It is ahead. I am no Jedi, but I know the Force. [...] The light. Feel it. [...] The lightsaber. Take it."
Rey doesn't want to hear of it. Any of it.
"I am never touching that thing again!"
Rey just witnessed complete horror. She is in denial. Keep in mind her clear wants from the beginning of the movie. Ideally her want for her parents to come back should be replaced by the character fulfilling her needs at the end of her arc. But we're not nearly there yet. What Maz tells her about the Force completely contradicts Rey's experiences. She cannot just accept the truth. And how does she handle it? She runs away. She's terrified.
She wants to go back to the way things were before any of this mess started. But the plot doesn't let her run away that easily. It knows she has to face her fears, one being her fear of the Force and one the fear of perhaps never making it back to Jakku ever again.
It forces her further into these situations, making it impossible for her to get out of them. She's trapped. Literally and figuratively. And fighting her way out won't work this time, the one ability she always relied on to save herself. It's her darkest moment. And if that were not enough, Kylo Ren, this stranger, this man inside that mask, the man from her vision, shoves all her insecurities right into her face.
"And Han Solo." Rey jolts up. Either out of fear of possibly betraying Han and slipping, giving away a location, or out of rage that Kylo has gone too far into her personal space. Either way, this rage gives her some strength to oppose him. "You feel like he's the father you never had. He would have disappointed you."
"Get out of my head!" He backs away for his own reasons, not wanting to think any more of his father, but still holds onto her mind. Rey does all she can to withstand him, and the longer she does, the more time it gives her to understand what is going on.
And Kylo senses it. What he's trying to do here is not working. Concern washes over his face, which makes him lose control over the situation. The connection opens, inviting Rey to tap into his mind. She's inside his head. Now she understands. She understands she can use this power on him, too. So she does.
And there it is. She's strong with the Force.
And that's intentional. Why? For reasons we discover in TLJ and numerous other fanfictions. (TROS? w-what's that-)
She has found a way out of the situation. Now, has she ever heard of Jedi mind tricks? Maybe? But remember what she just discovered: She just tapped into Kylo's mind. So she tries that again on the stormtrooper. Because when she knows how to act, she just does. She's always been confident in her physical abilities and skills. Why would she have to treat this new power any different? And luckily it works, after 3 tries.
And that's fine. Let's move on. Kylo kills Han. Explosions.
Notice this. Even though she knows she now has these new powers, the same powers Kylo has, she still draws her blaster at him after calling him a monster. She acts on emotion and choses the quick, familiar way.
I actually like to believe that Rey really doesn't know what the Force is and how it works, at all. How would she? Yes, Maz did tell her about it, but how do Force-powers manifest in people? She's never seen anyone use it before, upon meeting Kylo Ren. So in every scene she does use it, she just copies Kylo. That's the only reference she has. Remember how proud she is of her physical abilities. And she is so naive that she just goes and tries it for herself, without thinking of whether it will work out or not. And it works out for her. Because, again, she is strong in the Force.
It's true that her flaw, her naivety, is not really addressed in TFA. It never really backlashes on her. And, to be completely honest, I have no idea how to make room for that without some heavier rewrites yet. But maybe it's not necessary. TLJ takes care of that. TFA just introduces us to Rey as a character after all.
Now, is the force-summoned lightsaber making her overpowered? If you interpret it as "Kylo couldn't get that thing out the snow but Rey could," then yes, yes it is. BUT, if you see it as "while Rey is observing the fight, she sees Kylo trying to summon it, so she copies him, the way she copied him with the mind-tapping, and reaches for it the moment Kylo conveniently gets it out of the snow for her," I don't think it is, though I do agree that in order for the second version to be true, the scene happens too fast with too little shots to explain it. *OP takes a breath* So, here is what I suggest:
Kylo reaches out for the lightsaber. SHOT of the lightsaber in the snow, fidgeting slightly. BACK TO Kylo, pulling anew. BACK TO the lightsaber. It gets free. CUT. Another shot of it flying through the air towards the camera.
SHOT on Rey witnessing that - she is already on her feet again - and immediately reaching for it as well, outstretching her arm towards it.
SHOT of Kylo as he feels the momentum of his pull shift and dodges out of the way. The lightsaber flies past him, into Rey's hand.
Rey has always been fast to react to action. So it would make sense for her to be able to do that. Ok. Now to the fight itself.
*sighs* I don't even know where to start. ...One thing's for sure. Kylo at this point is pretty much destroyed emotionally from having killed his father, but he's still big and strong and aggressive in his movements. Rey, on the other hand, kinda seamlessly knows how to handle a lightsaber, which... is definitely not believable at all.
Let's step back for a moment. Why do we have this fight? Rey needs to get Finn and herself out of there and Kylo is pretty much in the way, so she wants to eliminate the problem. And what does Kylo want? Sure, he is interested in Rey and her raw powers which eventually adds up to them being equals in the Force, so he doesn't want to kill her...
But he also wants that lightsaber, doesn't he?
(God, I am looking at this fight to find any clues and I'm just sitting here, elbows on the table, resting my head in my hands, massaging my temples, wondering, "why the hell are there so many cuts in that fight scene?") (I am no expert in fight choreography, so bare with me as I try to make this work.)
Rey is the one who draws first at him.
She has never wielded a lightsaber before, but knows how to handle a staff... so she treats the lightsaber like a staff within its limitations.
Because remember, HER. STYLE. OF. FIGHTING. IS. ROUGH. AND. DIRTY. AND. HAS. NO. TECHNIQUE. WHATSOEVER. So, pretend we have some well thought out choreography in this part.
Kylo blocks her with ease. Rey is frustrated. The lightsaber feels heavy and difficult to handle. It doesn't take long for Kylo to
get her cornered at the edge of the newly formed cliff.
"You need a teacher! I could show you the ways of the Force!" he exclaims.
Rey considers, out of breath, "The Force?" Rey takes a moment as her mind connects the dots. So that's what these new powers are? Kylo watches her, waits for her to make a move. No time for pondering about the Force any more. Rey moves. Kylo LETS her duck and free herself from his block. She runs, backs away from the crater. He follows her. He outstretches his arm. Rey is stuck. She's literally petrified. Again. Kylo draws nearer. He twirls his saber, now holding it backwards (you know, Ahsoka style). "No," she hisses through her teeth, struggling. Heavy breaths. She closes her eyes. When he almost touches her hand holding the lightsaber, "No!" she RESISTS his force-cage and GOES FREE.
Because, you see, even though Maz told her to "close her eyes" and "feel the light", Rey has never done that before, and when under stress, I do believe she would rather choose a quick, familiar way to get out of the situation. The only thing she knows how to do with the Force at this point is to copy or resist Kylo. She wouldn't know how to to draw power from the Force, yet. She'll have plenty of time to learn that from Luke later, should she survive this fight, so we better continue.
Kylo stumbles back as she draws at him. Rey goes for a swing to hit from above, which Kylo manages to block last second, bringing his lighsaber up from behind his back. As their lightsabers are crossed again he quickly reaches for her right hand, which is holding Luke's saber, with his left hand and moves it aside to his right towards the ground, using his crossguard for more momentum to force her down. He steps his left foot accordingly to keep himself stable. Rey cries out from the unexpected movement. They are kinda back to back. His left shoulder against her right one. The position is uncomfortable. He squeezes Rey's wrist. Rey cries out in pain. Then, she realises how close they are.
Time for some close combat, ladies and gentlemen.
She gives in and lets go of the lightsaber, lets it fall to the ground. Kylo releases her to reach for the fallen lightsaber. But before he can pick it up, Rey KICKS his left hand away with her right heel and PUNCHES his JAW with her right elbow from below. Kylo's head rocks back. He stumbles backwards from the harsh impact, causing him to turn his back to her in order to catch himself. Rey summons Luke's lightsaber back into her left hand, and ignites it. When Kylo turns back to his opponent, left and unprotected side first, Rey is ready to stab him in his left shoulder.
Kylo stumbles back some more, she brings her hands together for another strike leftwards, he barely blocks it, he stumbles back some more, it leaves his posture open, Rey strikes again, rightwards, lower this time, wounding his leg, he falls to his knee, leaving Rey the final blow to provide him with his scar.
The reason I started writing this entire ramble in the first place is a conversation I had with my friend which brought up the fact that Rey should be able to beat Kylo by using her rough, unpredictable moves. Shout out to my friend who, bless her, is willing to listen to and survives every one of my sw rants and who pointed this out in the first place!
Is this a good fightscene now? I have no idea. I hope so? I do have it very clear in my head now though, so I might go and have some fun storyboarding it in the nearest future.
You know the rest. The ground splits, she runs to Finn, Chewie picks them up. . . .
There are some more moments which I believe need some tweaks, like the meeting with Leia, which is just so unfair to Chewie, really, but if I go on and on about this, I would end up changing the entire movie, which I do not have the strength for atm. This ramble was supposed to be about Rey and her alone, so I am done here.
I guess in the end Rey does realise her needs and is able to let her wants aside for a bit longer and focus her hope on actually helping the Resistance and get Luke. Hope that, with finding Luke, she will get to understand these new powers. I do feel like the movie could have provided us with a more emotionally rich reactive scene to the fight and her abilities, and generally just more of those, but then, what am I expecting from a JJ Abrams film? We have Rian for that.
My conclusion? I'm bad with conclusions and summaries, so here you have it, my take on Rey by only adding to the existing dialogue, changing some attitudes here and there, adding a scene, and changing the fight sequence at the end and how she treats the Force.
I do have a clearer understanding of her character now, which was the entire purpose of this ramble, so I guess, mission accomplished. Congratulations on having made it till the end. It was a long ride. I did consider splitting this beast into 2 parts, but while writing this, at one point I just decided to fully commit to it.
You are totally free to, of course, agree with me and stay tuned for my WIP fanscript or disagree, never read through this thing ever again, ignore it and leave it to die on Tumblr's graveyard.
Before you ask, because I also considered doing that just for the sake of having fun with GIFs on Tumblr (all text gifs are taken from YARN btw), I will not do a post like this on TLJ, since I have no problems with Rey's character there at all. Props to Rian Johnson at this point, for managing to make sense of her with what TFA gave us.
#rey#rey nobody#the force awakens#the force is strong with this one#character analysis#character rewrite#headcanon#this is my headcanon now#ramble#long ramble#long reads#have i mentioned it's long?#star wars#star wars fanfiction
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Tiger & Bunny Week Day 2
Tiger & Bunny First Series Anniversary
(allowing for airtime shenanigans lol)
I can't quite put together a full review, but I want to list some moments in Season 1 that I found striking/intriguing/wonderful/thought-provoking when watching it for the very first time (around the end of December 2021):
1 - The princess carry
I said I started watching T&B at the end of 2021, but I had actually been distantly aware of its existence well before that, for a reason I find extremely amusing: I had seen Taibani BL doujinshi while browsing for doujinshi of other anime shows š. My vague impression, based solely on the name of the show and the cover art of said doujinshi, was that "Tiger and Bunny" were something like two detective partners... and that the original series was explicitly a yaoi one, because, come on, surely you wouldn't name your characters Tiger and Bunny otherwise, right?!?
I knew by the time I clicked play on Netflix that that last bit was wrong. The princess carry told me that I was not that far off, though, either. š
2 - The reveal that The King of Heroes is actually a massive dork
You kind of catch glimpses of it in the previous episodes, but I sort of dismissed them as "eh, it's his over-constructed Hero TV persona, this guy is the King of Heroes, after all, he must have all of his ducks in a row".
But in the very first episode we see him out of the suit, we find out that Keith is, if anything, even more of an overeager puppy when he's not on the clock as Sky High, and this made me fully realize what a rich world of characters I had landed in (and made Keith start to rise very fast in my personal preference ranking of all the heroes).
3 - Barnaby's fear (?) of fire
This one was, to me, a missed opportunity for what could have been an even deeper look into Barnaby's character.
Barnaby here says he "hates" fire (ē«ćå«ćć§ć). From his expression, and the flashback that follows, I think it would be fair to assume that fire makes him at the very least uncomfortable, if not downright afraid. And Barnaby has both and enemy and an ally who have fire as their power, as evidenced specifically in this episode, so I was expecting that to be addressed... but nothing specific ever came of it.
It's true that Barnaby in this first half of S1 is very cool and collected at all times, but finding out if and how his feelings about fire color his perception of and interactions with Nathan and Lunatic would have been extremely fascinating, IMHO. (Even just an explicit acknowledgment of the fact that he doesn't let it influence his relationship with those two characters in the least would have been interesting, and added to his characterization in some small way.)
4 - Episode 17 ("Blood Is Thicker Than Water.")
Definitely one of my very favorite episodes overall (which means a lot, considering it doesn't feature Nathan, or even Keith, for one single second, lol).
We learn so much about Kotetsu, his family, his history; at one of his lowest points, he manages to shine when it matters the most, where no one can see him, but the thing he cherishes most in the world, Kaede, is at stake. And the thing that struck me the most is that he saves her by completely subverting the way we've always seen him apply his power to being a hero: by being still and quiet and attentive, instead of strong, rash, loud. And then he doesn't even need his power to finish rescuing Kaede, to be her hero; just a good old jolt of parent-with-a-kid-in-danger adrenaline.
It's a really fantastic episode.
5 - The ending of episode 24, and the title of episode 25 ("Eternal Immortality.")
(And I don't just mean the whole "gosh, the fried rice thing was pretty gay, but the eyelash comment was REALLY gay, huh?" stuff, lol.)
See, when I watched this, I already knew that season 2 was coming up, so I should have logically assumed they would not kill off their main character here... But I was way too caught up in the story and way too distraught to remember any sort of logic, and I was staring at my screen like "surely they wouldn't... right? RIGHT?!? š„"
And then I remembered that oh! The last episode is called "Eternal immortality"! It's the only one with a title that doesn't fit the proverb scheme! It must be very significant!
And so I was fully convinced, for the, oh, 10 minutes between here and the moment Kotetsu stands back up in the last episode and explains he had just simply passed out, that he had indeed died, or about as close to is as to not make a difference, and that his Hundred Power, after diminishing, would actually fade completely right there and then and turn into a different power, that would grant him infinite regeneration (see: him healing himself with Hundred Power in episode 13), and thus, essentially, eternal immortality.
Hey, it would have been pretty cool.
(the prompts!)
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ALRIGHT SO !!
Shiryu as HadĆØs and How His Character Could Have Had More Screentime (this is going to be long and like...not even half of what I have to say sorry)
First of all : Shun is actually a good character for Hades, the whole kind guy turning into World's End Maker was a good plot twist BUT character wise he was already pretty central and full fleshed, Shiryu otherwise....erm (I rlly love Shiryu but he gets so bad/forgattable after Sanctuary...sick) + don't forget those are the main plotlines !!! I have a whole developpement in my head but you don't want to read a whole novel so please bear with me
I feel like he was tossed a bit of the side after the first arcs and it genuinely makes me sad, his character is a bit alike to Shun's on some points but except losing his sight every five episode well...he's not as well developped as Shun lmaoo š that's why I believe it could have been interesting, even without the whole developpement points who are hard to add in a show like this, his character could have been a little more than what he is...Shun has a pretty shiny role, Seiya is the mc, Hyoga has a familial story or something like this every arc, and Ikki also has meaningful parts in fights/story, while I feel like Shiryu was often here because well he had to, but doesn't have a role that big (minus maybe in Asgard, but here he was a bit of an ass with fenrir for no reason so um š)
Anyway so ! First of all, Shiryu is the only one without a known family member (Seiya -> Seika, Shun -> Ikki, Hyoga -> his mom), no real backstory, nothing (thanks Ohko for trying at least, genuinely it made Shiryu's character rlly much cooler) so I decided to change it to give him at least something ! Also the necklace trope is also included but I won't extend myself on it, you guys know how it works
Changed his whole non existent backstory in the AU, basically, instead of being an orphan with the other kids, he would have been taken home by Dohko, who would have protected him from Pandora and Hades when his parents died from their attack (I always saw Shiryu as Chinese, I scrapped the whole brothers trope bc I don't like it + it's manga only) Dohko is a powerful Saint and could have done that.
I feel like he'd know Shiryu was like...different, his job is looking at the reincarnation of the Specters so yeah, he felt it. But killing a child, right after Athena was taken away and almost killed ? Yeah...no...he'd feel too bad, and would take Shiryu with him instead, keeping it to himself in hopes a good teaching and keeping an eye on him could prevent anything bad from happening (almost worked ig, oops)
It could make an interesting plot point with Shiryu and Dohko's dynamic, because as much as Shiryu likes him as a parental figure and master, he knows he's keeping secrets from him, and would feel some resent when learning about the truth y'know ??
After that it doesn't change much from the plot, except when it comes to dynamic within the Bronze group : Shiryu is sent to check what the hell is going on with the Galaxians Wars (a bit like Hyoga did in the manga), Ikki makes a whole ass mess, etc etc. Also it'd "explain" how Shiryu was so eager to end Ikki's life : he doesn't know him like the others do. For him he's just a threat to put an end to, which would be interesting dynamic wise too...Seiya would try to integrate him to the group, Shun, while understanding his view, would feel some kind of discomfort BEFORE trying to learn to know him better (I love their friendship srry), and I feel like he'd connect with Hyoga with the whole "My dad is a Gold Saint and while I love him well sometimes he tends to be a bit weird with me" and with Ikki I have a whole another plotline but I can't sum up that. This post is already long enough. Anyway the dynamics would have been changed and I think it's interesting to learn to know characters through someone who doesn't know them as much as they do know each other ?? Honestly most of the developpement is made in my head here are just the big lines
ANYWAY, back on track, nothing changes that much from the og anime before Hades (or it does change in my head because Shiryu was badly written in those ā¼ļøor not written at all idk) and...yeah š whole big mess...Dohko has to explain to Shiryu how and why he kept like...HUGE stuff from him all his life in order to protect him, also to Shion because "why the fuck didn't you say anything" (he cares for the kid and was afraid Sanctuary would take him from him), also I don't really remember how the whole Pandora plot point was made in the thread I made with the person on discord (sorry it was in march but I remember Pandora has a different plotline than in the og anime) but starting here it's just, yeah kinda the same I guess !! Except for the Ikki part/dynamic with Shiryu, but ONCE AGAIN it's a part of my Shiryu/Ikki plotpoint and it'd be too long (before some ask, YES, Ikki stops himself from killing him, because YES, Ikki cares about his friend group), also if it sounds silly sorry, but he sometimes (in the og anime) had a bit of extreme reactions, was willing to go pretty far to protect the people he cares about (Fenrir, Ikki...) and it could be a bit of a hint to his soul sometimes awakening to his HadĆØs self... He's not like, cruel or really mean, there's just sometimes something off about him, he sometimes "shifts" slightly and ppl can't really pinpoint what it is (not sure about this one does it make sense ???? Idk)
The most important parts of this AU are basically the developpement of his character through that "newcomer" lenses, learning to trust the others, and overall develop a more meaningful dynamic with them and giving him a bigger role !! I know it sounds a bit "Saint Seiya, everything is the same minus Shiryu is Hades" but there's more to that I swear, it's just hard to explain like this without making huge walls about dynamics
(Can you tell I'm shitting myself. Please don't be rude rlly, if you don't like the idea just ignore !!)
#this is way too much plot and developpement for sts i'm sorry LMAOOO i know all of this would never have fit inside the show#ALSO DON'T BE MEAN OR CRITICIZE THIS I'M NOT A BETTER WRITER THAN KURUMADA OK I JUST THINK SHIRYU DESERVES MORE SHINE#erm erm anyway this is a bit personal to share damn.... anyway š hope it wasn't TOO bad i did this at midnight while playing flash games#sorry if it's disappointing !!!!! personally it makes me happy#kotz#knights of the zodiac#headcanons#cygnus hyoga#dragon shiryu#pegasus seiya#andromeda shun#phoenix ikki#hades saint seiya#saint seiya au
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