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Ulterior motives
Characters: Shimura Kyomi, Solomon
Story: The Devil's Gift (multifandom fic, here in the Obey Me part)
TW: none
WC: 336
"You know, staring like that isn't going to be helping me." Kyomi briefly stops drawing to glance at Solomon leaning over her.
"Sorry, I just wanted to make sure you were doing it right," he says, lifting his hands as he backs off. "Seals are difficult."
"Well, if I'm still doing it right, which I'm gonna assume since you didn't say anything, then so far not really." Kyomi shrugs, going back to drawing the seal. First get it down, then imbue it with magic. And once she's good enough, she can imbue it with magic while getting it down.
"Well, you're doing perfectly so far. Is it really not that difficult to you? Most apprentices struggle with it, from what I've heard."
"You just gotta. Remember what you're supposed to be drawing." Kyomi tucks her hair behind her ear again, wishing she'd thought to put it in a ponytail before she started. Luckily, Solomon seems to notice her predicament, as he approaches once again to carefully pull her hair back and tie it with a ribbon.
"You're almost done. And then we can see how good it is." He lets his hand rest on her head for a little longer before backing off again, studying her instead of the seal. Idiot.
Kyomi gets up on her knees, carefully drawing the last lines while trying to avoid smudging the rest. She'd have to do the entire thing over. "And there we go."
"Well, use your magic, darling. See what it does."
"If this blows up in my face I'm holding you responsible." Still, she does as told, pouring her magic into the seal until it reacts. And just like it should, it seals the meal Solomon made. Good riddance, even if she'd never say that to his face.
Solomon whistles, nodding at the seal. "Impressive, darling. I think even I would have some trouble breaking through that. You've sealed that really tight. Which means the food will stay fresh, and we can eat it later!"
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Fuck.
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#my writing#Shimura Kyomi#Solomon#The Devil's Gift#they both have ulterior motives#solomon wants to keep his food fresh#kyomi wants to not have to eat it#isaiah posts
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Tbh i do run with the theory that tfone Starscream lost to D-16 on purpose btw
#transformers#maccadam#tf1 starscream#tf1 d 16#he saw an opportunity#and that opportunity needed Starscream to take the L in the moment in order to reap possible rewards in the future#tfone spoilers#transformers one#doesn't help that i think tfone Starscream is also plain old a bit of a masochist#one can both be a masochist and have ulterior motives for purposefully losing your leadership (temporarily?)
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@thesoundofrayne once again leaving us gagged. they’re all so good but the price ones in particular i- ✋🏻😭
ily rayne thank u bb <3 <3 🩷💕💖🩷💕
KONIG X READER HUNGER GAMES AU
‼️⚠️🚨MAJOR VICTOR II 🚨MEMES/ SPOILERS BELOW!! ‼️⚠️
more TGWCM memes
#okay no i’m glad you brought up the reader selfishness thing#and not to lecture you like a dad after you tried to tell a joke#but i really did try to thread a theme here of reader’s spite and selfishness taking the wheel throughout the story#and her true motivation the entire time WAS to die. she was already committed to it!#konig’s act of sacrifice was out of love#and that’s not to say readers wasn’t as well#because the thought of her having to live without him took her breath away and triggered her more the thought of going home#she couldn’t even let herself love him until that day#konig is the love that cannot be reasoned with and reader is the hateful spite that cannot be reasoned with#even her last thought to konig was nothing but spite#they balance each other out but they’re toxically dependent. they need each other and they ruined each other.#and they both need each other so much they cannot fathom living without the other regardless of the ulterior motive#anyway#‘old man shouts at clouds’#uhohask#tgwcm#memes
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bonus points if u say your favorite ship or favorite fic that uses it
#do i have ulterior motives with this#maybe#but regardless i like making polls#mine is either forced proximity or oh. OH#both extremely good#anyway vote and maybe i'll write something#>:)#polls#writing#writing polls#fanfiction#tropes
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yeah sorry having transfemme lucius and bella thoughts. yeah. sorry
#lucius being a well respected death eater and commanding a lot of respect#locked away in bellas chambers afterwards where she dresses lucius up in lacey underwear and pampers her like a lady#yeah sorry#lucius being heir and bella wanting to be heir and the role reversal of it all#like yeah hes the man of the family but what if hes also bellas babygirl idk#secret relationship first war type beat#yeah bella is a few years older.. yeah.#bella getting to taste what its like to hold the power of the man of the house#and lucius being her girl#sorry yeah#thats where we’re at friends#also lots of ulterior motives and backstabbing. sorry.#bella using this as opportunity to get closer to voldy#their communication is not a healthy one#sorry about that#its a messy first war affair about secret desires and lust and ulterior motives#yeah.. gonna need a minute#no feelings involved just doing each other favors#both of them using each other to get a taste of something they’ll never have#<— lucius desire for womanhood / bellas desire to be equal to men (male heirs)#its also about humiliating the other and holding it above their head#etc etc and so on and so forth#complex! i love it here
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‘Edmund was the worst I would never’
Have you considered:
A) Peter was a bit of a dick to him
B) no one holds a grudge like a 12 year old
C) Lucy had met a stranger in Narnia and he was just fine
D) the Witch is deliberately manipulating him
E) he had literally been in Narnia 10 minutes, no one had told him about the Narnian political situation
F) maybe the Turkish delight was that good
#nina has thoughts#people with siblings have you not been been upset with your siblings#maybe it’s just me but I know there were times as a child I would’ve sold my brothers#for a popsicle on a hot day#also functions tumnus and the white witch are the same at first#*functionally#both trying to lure a child with ulterior motives
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sorry guys got really into the shadowhunters subreddit this week and saw red over a show-centric meme that shit on sizzy and have been simmering in resentment ever since . If only they had walked a mile in my shoes (desperately refreshing cassandra clare’s website in 2014 waiting for shadowhunter academy teasers to be released because you were desperate for simon and isabelle to finally get their happy ending) and also the show had fucking bothered to give isabelle any kind of consistent characterisation at all . If only.
#sizzy is the one het ship that i actively raise my fucking hackles over Do not insult them in front of me i fear#no other tsc ship matches each other’s freak like they do and i’m so serious.#both of them actively fighting and losing the idgaf war. flirting with each other for ulterior motives but secretly meaning it.#both of them getting blackout drunk and trying to confess their love to each other. finding each other in every universe. Oh i’m sick.#no offence to clace or malec but they would not have fucking survived the trials and tribulations sizzy went through
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Aemond ( @rejectory ) said ❛ Sin begets sin begets sin. ❜
"It does." She closes the distance between them, demure, as if walking towards a dragon not her own. Because he is that, Aemond has grown so much. Into a strong, handsome man, fed well on Vhagar's power. Delicately she places a hand on his forearm, quells a shiver at the feel of firm muscle underneath her palm. "That is why it is up to us to purge it. To purify the world, to heal the damage done to our family." She looks up at him purple eyes, shining and wide. Hopeful.
#rejectory#rejectory : aemond#answered / ic.#this is so unhinged i love them both having bonkers ulterior motives dkljfghjklsfd#cursed content <3
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im seriously losing it this is the most insane revelation since the trigger
#THE LIKE. WHAT IS CLEARLY A DELIBERATE ARTISTIC CHOICE TO HIGHLIGHT WAYS AIDEN LOOKS LIKE MYEOL. WHAT THE FUCKKKKK#Aand like. this has gotta be how he got the scar on his hand. and also the question of is this phill being gay fr or is this some sort of#mind game he was playing or some combination of both. its gotta be both right.#bc if he wasnt into aiden i dont think he wouldve cared as much about the stabbing bit but also even as pavlik i do not think he was capable#of being normal enough to hit on a guy he liked with zero ulterior motives. freak.#god i cant stop pacing. hope i dont have to go anywhere this week ill be fucked…#mine#immortal days#immortal days spoilers
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#kickdraw#granblue#eusaac#eustace gbf#isaac gbf#i forgot to post this when i drew it lol#oops oops :')#i still love them - rewatched isaac's fate eps w my bf the other day cause he hadnt seen them and oouugghhh he is Going Through It#they also have more comparison points than i remembered - im truly a genius#(guy who just slapped his 2 favs together) 'its for the themes!!'#though the otherworlders showing up to haunt them both about their past around the same time frame really has me hooting and howling lol#i just think... if they could got written together in an event... they could work with each other really well.....#i have no ulterior motives of course of course : )
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Me when I get fixated on a ship so niche one of them barely has screentime and the other DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A NAME OR AO3 TAG AND HAS 0 TUMBLR POSTS ABOUT THEM 😭
#this is about lillith malevolent and the writer who murdered and then pretended to be edward william allan 😭 i love them. i have wips of#them theyre like everything to me now and theyre so doomed by eachother core. NO LIKE HE FRACTURED HER AND SHE PROBABLY KILLED HIM OR#CONTRIBUTED TO HIS DEATH#AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WAS PROBABLY HIGHLY MANIPULATIVE AND TRANSACTIONAL AND THEY BOTH HAD ULTERIOR MOTIVES (she wanted to enter the world#and he wanted a passage to the realm of the outer gods 😭)#BUT LIKE?? I STILL FEEL LIKE THERE WAS SOME LEVEL OF FONDNESS FOR EACHOTHER AND SOME ATTRACTION GOING ON AND LIKE GLIMPSES OF VULNERABILITY?#he literally wrote that there wss something more to her and that he could tell she was playing a character and hiding something and wondered#if she was a prisoner... LIKE?? IDK. THEY DOOMED EACHOTHER BUT YOU CAN NOT CONVINCE ME THERE WAS 0 ATTACHMENT THERE#i need to draw them... i love insane bisexual people#<- oh yeah he literally they thems her like. he canonically wasnt sure of her gender but that didnt stop him from being 'in awe“ of her so-#wow im normal about them#txt#pipe dream#<- THATS THEIR SHIP NAME. HAHA GET IT? BECAUSE THEYRE DOOMED#okay sorry
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one of the (many) reasons why this exchange makes me so emotional is that Dazai knows very well the feeling of only ever being used and taken advantage of as a tool, and not knowing anything other than that life. He understands that Sigma can’t yet comprehend the notion of someone wanting you without any ulterior motives, of people just having natural relationships that don’t involve wanting to get something out of each other, because that was his life before he met Oda, who was a “balm for the soul” (in his own words) for him; hence, he doesn’t try to explain it to Sigma at first. But he does relent once Sigma takes Dazai’s initial silence as him being unworthy for an explanation... He doesn’t go into more detail as to why “understanding would be difficult”, because that would require opening up about himself which is something Dazai is still far from ready for, and because he knows Sigma wouldn’t be able to fully understand or accept all of this yet, but just the two reasons he does give for choosing him are already causing Sigma to start to rethink everything he’s ever known about the world and how people treat each other.
Dazai chose him to use his ability, just like everyone who’s always used Sigma has -- but he also chose him to save his life, and to help the agency, people he cares about and wants to help for completely selfless reasons, without expecting anything in return (sure, Dazai jokes about him being on the agency’s payroll, but that’s just his usual deflecting to avoid admitting that he cares :’). This is completely foreign behavior in Sigma’s world, where everyone has to use each other in order to survive, but he’s realizing that Dazai is different from them: he’s realizing what it feels like to be wanted simply out of compassion and love, and not because of how valuable he may be. Sigma isn’t just any other ordinary orphan Dazai saves; he wants to save him particularly because he empathizes with him and sees his old, hurt, jaded self in him, and he’s slowly becoming the balm for the soul for Sigma that Oda was for himself back then, which is truly touching.
#bungou stray dogs#bungou stray dogs spoilers#meta#bsd 105.5#Sigma is 100% joining the ADA by the end 😭😭😭 I just know Dazai has already adopted him#look at the softness in his face!!! he's making this Sigma's entrance exam you cannot tell me otherwise!!!#i know people like to say that Dazai sees his younger self in Atsushi#and yeah in a general more broad sense you could argue that#but Sigma is really who he can empathize with#even though Sigma personality-wise is more similar to Atsushi#but his past and the worldview it's given him of how people only ever have ulterior motives and want to use each other#is more similar to pre-Oda Dazai#he has Atsushi's anxiety and low self-esteem issues but his life experiences are Dazai's#he fought so hard for a home on his own - the casino - because no one else would ever give him one#he never had any reason to believe anyone ever would give him one#he's always wanted a HOME but never expected a FAMILY#but now Dazai is the first person who's ever chosen him for /him/#Atsushi showed him kindness earlier too but Dazai CHOSE him#both are so important and are having such a profound effect on Sigma#I'm also convinced that Sigma's ability got information from Atsushi before he thought he was going to die about his purpose or something#in exchange for the info about the page#and that that's going to come into play here during the peak of Sigma's development#it all just makes me so emotional ahhhhhhhh 😭🥺💜 i love these two so much *CRIES*
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Gerbug
#heyo#i need to actually talk about this hold on.#both ships very much fit the ‘sopping wet character x way more confident character’ trope but#rag is a lot more warm and like… conventionally sweet than bo is#i think bo sincerely does have good intentions with his actions both towards his friends and strangers/acquantances#but a lot of the time because of his offputting nature he’s believed to have ulterior motives with rag… i mean there’s an AU here and there#but otherwise? not at all#so the element of the more confident one ONLY being soft toward the other character being taken away and dulled down severely#which is likeee one of if not my number 1 fav thing about gerbug because it really just emphasises how he loves him ssoooooo much#gerbo is often thought to have pointless/insignificant reasons for things but he isn’t selfish either like other things like that are to bo#and it’s just so insane to him that such a truly pure-hearted creature of fun and joy could ever exist#and i do think that’s how rag feels about pom too!! that’s how this wraps around#heheheehehhehehhehe#granted im not NEAARRLYYY as stupid about these guys as i am gerbug. Like not even remotely i just love comparing things i like with#things i love even more#Oay
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The Doren storyline has so much potential i hope it gets more content soon
#Just. The way Doren realizes that PC's behavior isn't normal and tries to genuinely help them#I especially like to imagine her and Foxy's dynamic... She knows Foxglove is a troublemaker but also worries abt her#She can see the signs of abuse a mile away and has the combo of authority and warmth that loosens up Foxy and helps her feel safe to vent#But like... Despite her noble ''i can fix her. platonically'' aspirations i doubt Doren would be able to scratch past the surface much#Foxglove is never saying the name of the partner that makes her cry and show up with a split lip or dried blood in her nose#And Doren is Too Nice to push the issue. So she just offers a warm embrace and whatever measly comfort she can#I also love the idea of her going softer on Foxglove despite her misdeeds because she can see she's Going Through It lol...#She endures the weird stares it gets her from other teachers if she mentions it (especially Winter) bc she just wants to help so bad#Doren and the dog with bite issues she picked up at the pound and insists it just needs some love#Meanwhile Foxglove i think would lightly cling to her. Probably run to her every time Avery is being a dick. Just to end up having another#breakdown bc it isn't Avery comforting her but also deep down i think she genuinely appreciates it#Just. Someone offering you compassion w no ulterior motives for the first time... Both scary and delicious#Foxglove trying her hardest to not Act Out because Doren is just So Nice would be so funny. Her veins r popping
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I still think Fallen/Tarn in the context of tfp au could be interesting! Especially if Fallen gets to experience the new bits :3
You're so very right and their dynamic was fascinating because Tarn was focused on Pharma and Megatron first and foremost. But Megatronus was an facet into this because he was not only a partner in his scheme but his personal life at that point. Someone who finally reciprocated in his own way.
Iicr the thing that was alluring to the fallen was after all this time, there was someone who could "touch" him right back. After all the isolation and watching, someone who was just as as much a monster. Someone who finally reciprocated in his own way.
#suggestive#tbh their dynamic was so fun#Tarn's twisty logic was so interesting and Megatronus prime saw it as it was_ twisty logic_ but pushed past it#both had their own motives that were somewhere between clear and ulterior to each other#and it was fascinating how in the bad ending_ after Megatronus got what he wanted_ he didn't know what else but tarn#he ultimately experienced things he couldn't have hoped to dream of back in his life before the prison dimension#tf fallen#megatronus prime#same guy#tf tarn#tfp au
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HEADCANON. Sam... has a dislike for crushes, I think. Sure, it can be nice if it's just something light and sweet. But crushes aren't called 'crushes' for nothing. Crushes mean looking at someone with rose-tinted glasses, in actions that—-to her—-are meant to get closer to the object of your affections. They're overwhelming, obsessive, and tend to masquerade as 'puppy love' when it can really just be infatuation.
That's why, should she get a crush on someone? She'd stay far away from them. She has enough self-awareness and experience to know she wouldn't be looking at someone clearly with her own feelings in the way nor would she be acting like she'd normally would like with others, and would probably wait them out before interacting with them again.
( Granted, it's a much different story should her chemistry with someone be more natural, if that makes any sense? Think Hanako and Nene from Toilet-bound Hanako-kun versus Nene and her crushes. )
#;; 🇹🇭🇮🇸 🇮🇸 🇼🇭🇴 🇮 🇦🇲 ( headcanon. )#;; all the world's a stage ( persona 4 au )#;; the girl who cried wolf ( persona 5 au )#this goes for almost /all/ her verses here#but ye#girl experienced some pretty bad things with crushes on both the receiving and giving end#very much so of the mindset that when you have a crush on someone your actions start to have some ulterior motive#to try to 'get' the person you crush on instead of actually figuring out whether you'd both work together#and because of that she does her best to just. avoid any crushes at all costs aKJDAJKSGD#that and she never really learned on how to handle them any other way unfortunately ;;#...it'd be nice to have her open up on this kind of topic actually--#maybe have her ask another muse on how they deal with it?#especially if there's no way for her to avoid seeing/ignore said crush#how she goes about it will depend on the verse (main one excluded) but y eah
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