#this is how i see their reunion

[zyoumeval]

dark paradise

possessive behaviors, yandere, manipulation (caleb being caleb)

some scenes are based on <homecoming wings>, dark paradise by lana del rey

there's no remedy for memory, your face is like a melody — it won’t leave my head.

your soul is haunting me and telling me that everything is fine

“All I see is your face, Caleb…”

You grunted lowly as your hands brushed your face in turmoil. Your mind raced with the memories you shared with Caleb for your whole life, it’s like… there was no situation where Caleb’s not there. Of course, he had been by your side whether it’s physically or just through the phone to accompany you.

You chuckled grimly, “Funny, you were engrained to my entire soul and you left just like that… turned to dust as my whole world crumbled down.”

The vivid image of the blowed up house where Caleb and Granny were inside still haunting you every night. Sleep was no longer an option as your head turned into overdrive to replay the memory again and again. Sometimes, you would see Caleb standing in front of you and kneeling down to cup your cheek with his warm hand saying:

‘Why are you crying, pipsqueak? Don’t waste your tears and keep moving forward.’

You wanted to scream.

How could you move forward when there’s no ground to run on?

every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise. no one compares to you

You’ve tried to gather yourself to stay strong after the tragedy. It was torture, to hold on to the shared memories between you and Caleb, to keep reminding yourself about the harsh reality where the world no longer held them in its touch.

You went on and thrived the path as a hunter, the dream that always supported by them. Which assured by Caleb amidst your hesitation to take the test a while ago, he believed in you.

That’s why, you honored them by facing the cruelty of your reality head-on.

You’d stare into the sky at times, hoping you’d see a glimpse of Caleb parting the clouds with his plane — bringing light back into your life.

But all you see was void.

all my friends ask me why I stay strong, tell 'em when you find true love, it lives on. that’s why I stay here

A whole year of your determination to move on vanished into thin air as you saw Caleb standing in front of you adorned the Fleet’s Colonel uniform.

He found out about your cover like playing hide and seek. The man that interrogated you was not the man you grew up with, although, the warmth that slowly became unfamiliar finally returned to you.

Just like that, gravity took a hold of you back to the ground from the endless torment.

I'm scared that you won't be waiting on the other side

The man in front of you was not the same person you remembered.

“You think I’m not myself?” He tilted his head to the side, “What makes you think I’m different from the ghost of the past? Do you ever wonder if this is me, when I’m no longer bound to the role I’ve ever played in?”

“You are! You’re not my Caleb, this is not him!”

Caleb took steps forward and you kept taking steps back, “I’ve always been like this, pipsqueak.”

He caressed your cheek before he gripped your jaw firmly but still with a hint of gentleness. “Look at me in the eye and see the truth. There’s nothing different.”

“You…!” You gritted your teeth as you bore deep into his eyes. His purple eyes exuded firmness and anxiousness, as if he was desperate to make you believe in him. Your shaky voice escaped, “You are…”

“Believe in my words when I say this. You’re my whole world and I will give you everything that you’ve ever wanted,” Caleb furrowed his eyebrows and smiled a little, “I will protect you, I will love you with all my heart that no one else will. I will always be by your side as we have this future together.”

I don't want to wake up from this tonight

The returning presence of Caleb brought you calmness despite the growing awareness. You noticed how he had been protecting you in ways that were different from what normal people would do, how he had been reliving the faint memories back to life with different approaches, and how he looked at you with deeper feelings coming from his soft eyes.

But the thought of losing him again scared you to death, you wouldn’t let that happen again.

In the end, you devoured rationality as your heart took the lead towards his embrace.

“Never disappear on me again.”

He chuckled and nuzzled your hair, pulling you closer to his side. He smiled when you snuggled to him.

“I never intended to leave you, pipsqueak. I’ll always be here. Always.”

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The math just adds up!

[majunju]

olorun

[toytle]

“My best friend. My ally, who’s saved my life more times than I can count. And I shatter him as recklessly as I shatter our friendship.”

PROMPT: reunion + healing. leave it to barry to carry guilt for something he did in a dream (it’s not abt the dream)

@halbarrysecretsanta gift for @galaxy---ghost!

[ID in alt + below cut]

Fancomic of a reunion between Barry Allen and Hal Jordan, page 1.

Panel 1: Barry and Hal sit atop a building, both in hero uniform except for Barry’s cowl pulled down. The city lights illuminate them from below against a starry dusk sky. Hal says, “Glad we can finally catch up with each other like this.”

Panel 2: Hal turns his head in Barry’s direction, revealing bright green cracks forming at the corner of his eye. “Must be nice to slow down for once, huh?” he says.

Panel 3: Closeup of Barry’s eyes going wide, noticing the fractures on Hal’s face.

Panel 4: Closeup of Hal’s eyes, green cracks spreading across his mask. The faint outline of his pupils glance up at Barry.

Panel 5: Barry looks stunned in return.

Panels 6-9: Sequence of the cracks spreading from Hal’s neck to his chest and arms, all the way down to his hand. Barry tentatively reaches out to place his hand on top of it, thumb rubbing the fracture on one of Hal’s fingers as if trying to smooth it out.

Panel 10: Barry turns his head away, the top half of his face cut off by the panel. “Yeah,” he says stiffly.

Page 2:

Panels 1-2: Hal is in silhouette, viewed from behind. He looks down at their hands before looking back up with a smile. “Someone’s clingy.”

Panel 3-5: The sequence of panels are outlined like cracked glass. Barry’s hand stills on top of Hal’s but he can’t bring himself to let go. He squeezes it instead. “Sorry,” he says. A close-up of his eye glances up, filled with guilt.

Panel 6: Hal looks back at Barry, the panel taking up most of the page and shattering like a broken window. In half of the shards, Hal is the same, present in GL uniform with the sky darkening behind him. In the other shards, Hal resembles the version of him from Barry’s nightmare, skin burnt and mottled with green cracks all over his body in the same place as what Barry had been seeing.

Current Hal starts to say, “You miss me that much?”

Nightmare Hal says in faint, cracked word bubbles, “It killed me, but you wouldn’t know that ‘cause you weren’t here. As usual.”

Current Hal continues to say, “C’mon, it hasn’t been THAT long.”

Page 3: Sequences of flashbacks fill the page like shattered glass. All the figures’ faces in each panel are obscured.

Panel 1: Parallax gestures with his arms out in a grandiose manner, green light swirling behind him. Barry’s narration box reads: “Hal…”

Panel 2: Barry’s Flash statue stands upright with a streak of green from Hal’s flight making a path right past him. The memory invokes the time Hal visited Barry’s statue after Barry’s death.

Panel 3: Barry looks down at his hand grimly, his whole body vibrating. Hal is right behind him, giving him a small, supportive smile. The memory invokes the time Barry came back to life with Hal comforting him as he tried to readjust.

Panel 4: Barry and Hal are sitting at a bar construct in the sky as Hal smiles at Barry with a hand on his shoulder. The memory invokes the time Hal gave Barry advice and reminded him that every second is a gift.

Panel 5: Barry’s POV of looking at his own hands, sharp-taloned and weathered by the Speed Force. His suit is singed off up to his wrists and sparks fly off his skin. Past his hands is Nightmare Hal’s dismembered body, broken up into fractured blocks. The memory invokes the time Barry shattered Hal in Knight Terrors. Barry’s narration box reads: “I could never miss you enough.”

Page 4:

Panel 1-2: Flash-forward to Hal and Barry on the roof, a close-up of Barry’s hand on Hal’s as before, except they both resemble the ones from the nightmare. He lifts his hand off of Hal’s. The panels are outlined like cracked glass.

Panel 3-5: The panels are outlined in green. Barry forces a smile, looking up at the sky instead of Hal. “You wish,” he says. The next panel zooms in on their hands which have returned to normal. Barry’s hand now sits next to Hal’s, but it’s vibrating tensely against him. A close-up of Hal’s eyes glance down at it.

Panel 6: From behind, Hal stares up ahead pensively. Barry is silhouetted, head tilted downwards.

Page 5: A series of 3 present-day panels overlay a backdrop of sequential panels. The background panels are framed like a broken window, each fracture a panel.

Present-day panels:

Panel 1: Barry’s hand vibrates tensely when it gets nudged by Hal’s pinky. Hal and Barry’s hands resemble their hands from the nightmare, with Hal’s hand fractured with green cracks and Barry’s hand sharp and weathered. A panel in the background reveals a shot of Barry looking down in trepidation at Hal’s touch.

Panel 2: Hal’s hand reaches over Barry’s hand, fingers going beneath his palm. The cracks in Hal’s hand are fading. Barry’s hand is also starting to return to normal.

Panel 3: Hal’s fingers interlock with Barry’s. Hal and Barry’s hands have fully returned to normal, without cracks or injury.

Background panels, from left to right: Nightmare Barry balls his hand into a fist before it gets swept away in a motion of lightning. Nightmare Hal’s hand is severed, the open wound blotchy, bright red, and solid without bone. The ring on his fist gradually pulls him together, veins stretching out to connect the pieces. Present-day Hal holds Barry’s hand as Barry slowly, tentatively reciprocates. The previously weathered fingers of his suit have rematerialized.

The background panels circle a cracked opening in the corner, framing a shot of Barry. He looks at Hal with wide, glowing eyes. Confusion, fear, and hope cross his face.

Page 6: A splash page of Barry and Hal sitting atop the building, angled from below. Hal holds their hands up, their knees tapping together. He smiles, responding simply, “I missed you too, buddy.”

[galpalo]

Just realized something funny

A hunk means “a large, strong, sexually attractive man.”

“Brain scrambled enough to have a kid”

“If my wife’s closet is right, the planets gonna try to eat us soon”

If this is not the definition of “married” I have no clue what is I frickn love them.

[lotus-pear]

never forgiving bones for fucking up this scene

[macksartblock]

beware of burnout it's so real i'm afraid

also bc ended up making my writing into a font to avoid killing my hand as much and bc I saw Caden do this, I thought it would be fun to see who y'all think it suits lol

[im-smart-i-swear]

"Pinepaw, I'm so happy to see you."

@barrenclan (sorry for being obnoxious. You posted the issue like 2hrs ago and i'm losing my marbles already. I hope youre happy with yourself)

[zeilenziege]

Can we talk about this moment? When they agree and then make this significant eye contact? I'm in tears.

[frog-girlfriend]

i kinda love when we get rt news it’s like we all come crawling out the woodwork

[lumiilys]

Love reading fic from before s2 aired when it was largely believed that Ed would be furious with Stede when he saw him again and either attack him or avoid him like the plague etc etc. meanwhile in canon Ed couldn’t stay angry with Stede for even a day and folded the moment Stede said one nice thing to him!

[bookdork1]

i was waiting PATIENTLY to see reynolds in the show’s present day and what did i get??? BRIMSLEY DANCING BY HIMSELF!!!! HOW DARE THEY

[cynyari]

so i just played through Cyno's story quest it was great, just wanted to share some of the Nahida dialogue that i caught

Sethos- after the funeral for his grandfather

I honestly feel like these are really important lines and I'm surprised they are locked behind Nahida

this was just funny to me. some haikavehass behaviour tbh (except they were like so chill in this quest they didn't even argue once)

This is after their final conversation at the very end. Cyrus has taught him well

[lemongogo]

viktor prev 🤖

[rcbertleckie]

masters of the air · part nine

[johnslittlespoon]

i just finished the prologue of the mota book and i don't know how i haven't seen a single post talking about how after john and gale's stalag reunion, they were then separated for another four months.

my heart is aching so bad. imagine being reunited (after almost three weeks, oct 8–26th) and having that tiny feeling of 'everything is going to be okay' and then being ripped apart again for four fucking months. 120 more days of not being able to be at each other's sides.