#this made me smile thru my tears so ty!
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we've never talked or anything but i just wanted to come by and say that i really hope that you can get past the whole heartbreak of all of this. i hope all of us can enjoy our ship even if it's not canon anymore and that i really also hope that you will have a better day today than what this last night/day has been 🤎
hey!
omg, this is so sweet of you to send me tysm 💛
i wish the same to you and everyone else who is going through it right now, we are all holding hands and supporting each other <3
i know i was relatively new to the show and fandom of it all and wasn't a vocal part of it besides my gifs but i must say that hand on heart this section of the fandom has been the sweetest, kindest and most supportive of each other and the talent between all of you gifmakers/meta writers/fic writers has been exceptional.
amongst all the drama and vitriol and constant abuse, you have carried the true spirit of fandom within you guys, and i hope as time settles and maybe wounds heal we can get back to the good times again or see where we go from here.
#soph asks#this made me smile thru my tears so ty!#from someone who had never witnessed this fan space before you guys should be so proud of yourselves for the way you got thru it#whatever they say and do from now on via the show or the other toxic side they cant take that away from you.#i'm gonna try and keep watching because i do love the other characters but i just cant get attached like this again#bucktommy
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random share but you know the "depressed geto who just needs you sooooo bad to feel better" fic trope? (me and my friend eat that shit up lol). i had a revelation of a related prompt: "geto who is no longer in a depressive ep and his drive is thru the roof" 🤪
suguru was wearing you the fuck out, you losing your breath and him tying his hair in a bun as you try to catch your breath, the same thing has been happening every single night and even twice a day if he felt like doing extra work.
suguru hasn't been doing the greatest the last three months, and you tried your hardest to help him, but he just needed time, and he got it, a random week he was back to him, feeling better and wanting to do different things, that including you, and he wasn't playing when it came to that.
his sex drive was through the roof and him jerking it wasn't helping shit, he needed your pussy sliding up and down on his every second, he didn't even want to slide out not to cum inside of you, he was disconnected to you and never wanted to disconnect, he didn't realize how much he missed you until you finally laid the pussy on him.
his eye twitching when he first had you slide onto him, that's when he realized he needed you every second of every day. suguru even took days off just to fuck you, he couldn't help it, it felt too good to just stop and pick it up at night, he was going to go on for hours and take advantage of the time he had with you.
“you're the one who took off, not me. i have to go to work.” a pout on your face as you stare at him moving in closer with a sly smirk on his lips as he takes his arm, wrapping it around your waist and moving in for a kiss, his other hand around your neck. he needed you so bad he could barely think, his dick pushing out his sweatpants, you could feel his bulge press against you.
“i'll pay you double what you would've made this whole week. please? i need you.” kissing you again before you toss your bag on the floor and him pushing you into the bed, wasting no time stripping off his sweatpants and getting to work. there was nothing else on his mind beside you, the only thing flashing throughout his head was your pretty smile and the nasty shit he was going to do to you.
those seven days he tore your ass up, you couldn't even form sentences in between what he was doing, your pussy still tingling even after he was thankfully out of you. his cum leaking out of you as you tried to catch your breath, his hands still rubbing over you as he laid in between your legs and played with you, your eyes going blurry from the tears that were forming in your eyes, light moans slipping out of your mouth, you could barely breathe.
your whole body covered with hickies and your knees bruised from you kneeling on the ground from suguru face fucking you, and some of his cum still in the back of your throat from before. it was like he was trying to test hard far he could get away with doing things before you finally told him to stop, but you never did, you just let him keep doing things because it felt too fucking good not too.
even though he was tearing you down and thrusting into you s hard you could barely breathe and tears were sliding down your pretty cheeks, it still felt good to have him inside of you, his dick stretching out your walls over and over again or his dick sliding on your tongue and his cum leaking in the back of your throat.
this was better than anything you've ever experienced and both you and suguru wanted to savor the moments where his sex drive was so high he didn't care he had to pay you back double the amount you would've gotten paid, he just needed you, or he was going to breakdown, you and only you.
your pussy tightening around him every time he finished inside of you, his dick still sliding in and out, the stimulation of how wet your pussy was and his cum mixing together to make lewd sounds, it drove him crazy. sweat forming on his naked body, falling onto your body with every thrust, his body still moving as he ties his hair up so that he can see your pretty expressions to everything he does to you.
pushing into you over and over with no care in the world if the neighbors hear or not, all he knew was that he wanted to be buried inside of you forever and always without a care in the world. his cheeks flushed red from staring into your beautiful eyes and your pussy squeezing around him tightly every time he said something.
his hand on your cheeks, his fingers pushing open your mouth as he slammed into you, gathering his spit and having it slip into your mouth slowing. the feeling of his warm spit sliding into your mouth made you roll your eyes and jerk with pleasure, shortly after closing your mouth with his. his tongue sliding over yours.
“ i love you so fucking much, you're mine.” his eyes piercing into yours as he slams into you once more, his cum leaking into you again, filling you whole.
#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#jjk x you#jjk x reader#jujustsu kaisen x reader#x reader#jjk suguru#jjk geto#jujutsu kaisen geto#jujutsu geto#geto suguru#geto x reader#geto smut#getou suguru x reader#jujutsu kaisen suguru#suguru geto smut#geto#suguru geto#getou suguru#suguru
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"Chapter 9 will be the angstiest chapter yet" im sorry im a functional illiterate and read angstiest as angiest as in like angry in baby-talk like the meme "no talk to me im angy" and while it hurt my heart i cant stop laughing imagining könig in a corner like that...our sweet cute almost 7ft baby angy spare his heart please!!! Anywyas taking advantage of this already long message to praise you for such amazing writing! And to thank you for sharing it with all of us <33 the fact you keep reader neutral is nothing short of a blessing for my gay ass- i mean yeah my 5 ft tall ass wouldnt be able to get in the military, but i can live my soldier romance dreams thru Sneaky! Theyre quite the enjoyable protagonist, i believe in them and i believe in you!! Take your time and take care as well, make sure to have fun every day <333 and again ty for the smiles (and tears!) <3333
Omg this made my morning when I read this 😂 thank you so much 💕
In fairness, I can completely imagine König arriving to the original exfill site with Horangi and Gaz and standing there arms crossed silently fuming to himself because he has no idea where Sneak and co are at. But then it’s so funny to think about Gaz going to ask König something Horangi just puts his arm out and says all sagely like “Gaz, I wouldn’t recommend that. Do not talk to him while he is angy.” 😂😭
I’m so glad you’re loving Rocky Start and appreciate the neutral character! I think RS was the first time I’ve ever written neutrally and ever since doing it I’ve really appreciated that it’s been able to reach a much wider audience and so many people are able to connect with the character 🥰
Slowly untangling various life things and getting those pages up when I can, everyone’s nice messages and comments really help 💕 thank you, hoping you have a great day/night ahead ✨
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Hi i love ur work! Can i request a vinnie smut wherein they just finished having sex n vinnie tells her to just keep his cum inside her (maybe leaking thru her lingerie idk) n then they go down to socialize with other hype members n it gets y/n n vinnie horny again bc its very sexy n all that + d ppl dont know whats up lol + y/ns being such a tease abt it AAAA can it also have lots of dirty talk 😮💨🏃♀️ thank u sm! I appreciate it.
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!warnings: smut, unprotected sex, oral, dirty talk, daddy kink, spanking
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“oh vinnie” you moaned out, “please fill me up”
“who?” he grunted in response, speeding up his thrusts.
“d-daddy” you stuttered out, unable to form complete sentences due to the pleasure.
“what do you want?” you didn’t respond, overwhelmed from the stimulation. he gripped your jaw forcing you to make eye contact. “answer me.”
“i w-want your cum so b-bad”
“such a pretty little slut, always wanting my cum. you want me to fuck my babies deep inside you? huh angel?”
“y-yes please.” you replied, feeling your orgasm approaching quickly. vinnie noticed and kissed your neck, trailing them to your ear lobe before whispering, “cum for daddy”
you felt yourself come undone by his words, raking your nails down his back and moaning his name. the clenching of your tight cunt was enough to send him over the edge cumming deep inside you, coating your walls.
he collapsed on top of you, breathing heavy and matching your own. he met your eyes and kissed you passionately before slowly pulling out. he glanced down at the pretty mess, tracing his fingers around your folds making you squirm.
“keep this cum inside of you.” he states sternly, getting off of the bed and throwing you the black lacy panties he had previously ripped off. “and you better behave when we go down to hang out with everyone.”
the way he spoke to you made you want him more and more. as he started toward the bathroom he made one last look at you. “understand?” he asks.
“yes vin.” you respond.
“good girl. now get over here.” you quickly slid your thong and shuffling to the bathroom. you stood in front of vinnie watching his eyes wandering over your body and stopping at your clothed mess. he smirked making you look down. his seed had soaked your panties and began to drip down your leg.
“you look so good right now gorgeous, i wish i could fuck the shit out of you all day.” his hand reached over and tucked a strand of hair behind your ear. “but we have plans. get dressed.”
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downstairs you began to socialize with everyone else, acting as if you didn’t just get fucked into the next universe. however, the feeling of vinnie’s cum dripping slightly out everytime you stood was making you impossibly horny again. you know you told vin you would be on your best behavior but you couldn’t help the feeling between your legs.
you walked over to him on the couch and sat next to him, he smiled gently and put his arm around you. you scooted closer to him before pressing a kiss to his cheek.
“are you having a good time?” he asked, you nodded and put your hand on his thigh, trying to send him a signal. he ignored it.
“can i sit in your lap baby?” you stuck your lip out, pouting, making it difficult for him to say no. once on his lap you guided his hands to your hips and very subtly adjusted yourself so his member was against your core.
“what are you doing y/n?” vinnie whispered, tone of voice dropping.
“i was just getting comfortable relax.” you smirked knowing that you would get him to fold any minute now. you once again started to slowly grind yourself on him feeling his pants tighten beneath you. his hands grip your hips tightly. closing his eyes.
“upstairs. now.” he growls in your ear, gently pushing you off of him. you wave bye to your friends before slowly walking up the stairs being sure to sway your hips just right as you felt vinnie’s eyes on your every movement.
vinnie apologized to everyone making up an excuse about you not feeling well. everyone looked at each other and shrugged as vinnie headed up the stairs behind you.
in the room he shuts the door and clicks the lock slowly walking to you on the bed.
“you couldn’t ever wait an hour you little slut.”
“i didn’t even do anything-“ he grabs your face, cutting you off.
“don’t even finish that sentence baby girl. i told you to behave.”
his words were harsh and you knew you were about to get punished. the excitement between your legs was growing rapidly but you weren’t going to let him know that.
“i’m sorry vinnie.” you apologized he shook his head.
“you’re going to regret being such a tease.” he smiled, “you just want me to fuck you like the little whore you are don’t you princess? not behaving so you can have this dick right?”
“yes daddy.” you responded. he knew you like the back of his hand.
“good baby, now turn around” you gulped knowing what you were about get, and hesitated to do so.
“i don’t think i asked you a question. turn. around.”
you obeyed him turning around, his hands quickly ripped off your skirt leaving you in the soaked black panties from your wetness and his cum from earlier. he gently rubbed your ass cheeks, the coolness of the metal from his rings making you flinch.
“how many should i give you for being bad baby?” he asks.
“10”
“no baby” he laughs “little sluts get more than 10 spankings for being bad. how about 20?”
he didn’t even give you a chance to respond before his hand roughly collided with your ass. the sudden action making you gasp.
“count.”
“o-one.” you obeyed. as the words flowed out another slap was placed. the sound echoed off the walls.
“two.” another. “three” another.
it seemed as if the spanking was never ending. the pain was unbearable but at the same time the pleasure was. you felt yourself getting wet with every single slap.
“t-twen-ty” you moaned out. he gently rubbed his hand over your now red and bruised ass.
“you were such a good girl for me.” he says, trailing his hand down to your panties, pushing them aside. “do you think you should be rewarded pretty?”
“please.” you whimper, he then inserts two fingers into you soaking core. you moan at the much needed touch.
“you’re dripping baby.” he grunts, “you love being punished don’t you?”
he thrusts his fingers fast, and rubs your clit with his thumb. the feeling in your stomach builds embarrassingly fast.
“vin i’m gonna-“ he then pulls out his fingers, delaying you from your orgasm. before you could complain he sticks his fingers in your mouth.
“you taste so good baby don’t you think?” you suck his fingers tasting yourself. you can tell that this arouses him even more.
“fuck get on your knees”
you obey him, scrambling to your knees. you watch in awe as he strips himself. god he looks so good. he pulls out his hard member, stroking himself a few times.
“you just gonna stare or you gonna let me fuck that pretty mouth of yours?” you open your mouth wide in response. vinnie quickly pushes his tip to your lips in which you wrap them around.
you suck and lick at the pre cum before your hair is gripped and pulled back, forcing you to make eye contact with vin.
“no teasing.” he pushes your head back toward his member on which you take him in your mouth. he lets out a low moan in response. he begins to slowly thrust his hips, making his cock hit the back of your throat. your eyes water as you gag, black tears fall down your cheeks from your eyeliner.
“you’re such a pretty mess.” he groans, “i love to fuck this pretty mouth.” his thrusts speed up, you moan at the feeling causing him to twitch into your mouth. you reach up to play with his balls, pushing him over the edge.
“oh fuck babe.” he moans, shooting his load down your throat. you suck a little before pulling off with a pop and swallowing all his seed. he then pulls you up to mash your lips together. the makeout is sloppy, intense and full of lust. you are gently pushed back on the bed, careful not to break your kiss. you feel his member becoming hard once again against your thigh.
“you want this cock pretty?” he asks reaching down to rub it against your clit. you moan in response.
“use your words baby. i’ll give you want you want.”
“fuck please.” you whimper.
“please what?”
“please fuck me daddy, i want your dick so badly. i need it.” accepting your begging, he slams himself into you making no time for you to adjust to his size.
your moans are loud and pornographic, making vinnie confident. he leans down and begins to suck on your nipple. the sensation enough to send you over the edge.
“daddy f-fuck.” you moan out, “i’m going to cum.”
pulling his lips away from your nipple, he speeds up his thrusts before responding, “no.”
“please i can’t hold it anymore.” you beg, your orgasm approaching very quickly.
“you can and you will.” he grunts, “unless you want to be punished some more.”
his thrusts are fast but becoming sloppy letting you know that he’s close, you clench yourself around him receiving a low groan from him.
“do that shit again.”
you clench around his cock once more, the pit in your stomach going to release itself any minute now. he notices and leans down, whispering in your ear. “cum with daddy baby, i want you to cum all over my cock.”
his words instantly lead you to your release, you moan out his name and tug at his perfect locks as you cum. vinnie fucks you through your orgasm before twitching inside you.
“fuck angel-“ he cuts himself off with a loud moan, shooting his second load of the day into you. he thrusts it deeper into you before slowly pulling out. he watches as his seed spills out of you and leans down to press a kiss to your clit. you gently push his head away, sensitive from your previous orgasm. he smirks before holding your hips down.
“think you can cum for me one more time princess?” he asks, kissing on and around your heat.
“n-no.” you stutter out.
“that’s too bad.” his mouth is immediately connected with your pussy, tongue lapping at your clit. you scream in pleasure as you pull at his hair.
he inserts his finger in you, still sucking your bud and curls them perfectly hitting your sweet spot. your orgasm approaches very fast, feeling yourself already coming undone on him.
“i’m cumming daddy.” you shout, squishing his face between your thighs. he pulls away from you, looking at your sweaty exhausted body laying on the bed.
he walks toward to bathroom and comes back with a cloth. he cleans up the mess softly before laying down next to you. he rolls your body on top of his, your face connected to his sweaty chest. you trace your finger along his tattoos as vinnie strokes your hair. he pressed a small kiss to your forehead.
“i love you y/n”
“i love you vin.”
a/n: i hope this is something that you wanted! this is one of my longer smuts i made soo idk how good it is
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ೃ pairing: (eren jaeger x fem! reader)
ೃ tags: college/modern au, fluff, humor, love at first sight cliché, mikasa is your cute little sister, armin, sasha, jean, and connie are your besties, and eren is a himbo who works hard and has terrible friends.
ೃ warnings: strong language and mild suggestive content
ೃ part 1/??? of my (eren x reader) college au!
ೃ word count: 3000 words
ೃ my nav → my mha writing masterlist
ೃ This is my very first snk x reader fic! so i hope you bear with some errors! qwq
i’ve been following the anime ever since it was released in 2013, and this is the first time i’m going to be writing for it. this month’s manga chapter really took me out so why not channel my sadness thru writing an fluff! eren fic? 🤧 i hope you enjoy either way!
ೃ please do reblog if you enjoyed!! (feel free to add tags too because i love reading them and my heart swells with happiness when people love my work!)
ೃ in which (Y/N) (L/N), 20, still in school, and regretfully-unregretfully-her little girl scout sister's assistant, meets eren jaeger in an embarrassing too innocent door-to-door cookie sale whilst a humiliating party was going on.
cookies, suspicious maybe-maybe-not pot brownies, meddling little sisters and friends, “oh my god they were roommates” vine on replay 24/7, homework, tears, and fairy lights bring them together.
“I’m going to enter now.”
“Ahhh yes, please!”
“Shut up, please.” Eren muttered to himself as he tossed and turned around in his bed, but still couldn’t get to sleep. “When will they ever stop doing this?” Why did Eren’s next-door roommate and his girlfriend have to do this five times a day? They had a lot of stamina for 21-year-olds who didn’t have anything better to do.
Eren’s thoughts eventually brought him to his parents.
His parents- did they even exist?
For pretty much 14 years of Eren’s life, they had been out of town or out of the country. His older brother, Zeke, blonde, bespectacled, tall, and sometimes too far up his own ass older brother who Eren is able to confide in from time to time, recently got a girlfriend whom he’s hopelessly in love with (they’re even thinking about getting married which isn’t really a problem since the girl is genuinely nice to his older brother so Eren is good with her.), so… things in the family had been a bit rough and busy to say the least.
Communication with his parents wasn’t always the best.
Eren would study late at night back when he was seven, because no one bothered to help him with homework. Along with the fact that he wasn’t the brightest kid in class, and he knew that very well, but he had ambition and he was determined to make it big in the world. He focused more on sports, particularly Soccer in middle school and high school, and tried to balance that with his studies. After being granted a Sports Scholarship from Shigashina University, Eren decided to rent and share a flat, living with his batchmates who he met at a mixer party (before Uni started as this whole meet and get to know each other kind of thing) and whom he was so quick to call his ‘friends’, just so that he could get out of the hellhole that was his own house.
But things turned out much worse than expected.
Eren thought that the ‘College Life’ was to focus more on pursuing your future career and make a name for yourself but… it was the other way around.
He thought that after Freshmen year, everyone would take things seriously. Sure, have some drinks, get wasted after finals, or have house parties from time to time. But he was unfortunately, dragged into the wrong crowd. After attending around 5 parties in the first few months of being generalized as one of the infamous and pompous freshman archetypes present in every university, he called it a year and spent the rest of his nights doing homework, projects, playing video games, staying at the school soccer field until 10PM while his roommates were probably smoking crack and not caring about the number of units they needed to take for each of their goddamn subjects.
He was ~living the life~ and now that he regrets most of the decisions he made in freshman year, the only option that he has left was to wait until his third year and move to a different apartment.
Now, here he was, Sophomore year, nearing the end of the semester, and very much eager to get the hell out of here and also study for his upcoming finals on Constitutional Law II, as his professor, Mr. Erwin Smith, was going to throw hands if one of his students score below average on the exam.
“EREN MICK JAEGER! BROOOO!” Eren winces when he hears the shrieky and annoying voice of his flatmate Thomas Wagner, calling out to him. “Wanna go and party with us?” Eren smiles halfheartedly, shaking his head, “Ah, no thanks. I have a game tomorrow and finals coming up on Thursday.” Thomas smirked and wrapped his arm around Eren, “Oh fuck that, live the college life ya spoon.”
“No, really I have to study.”
Thomas frowned and groaned, “Oh god, you’re such a killjoy. Fine, if that’s what you want. Don’t blame us if we tell you to buy some beer down the block.”
Eren cracked an obviously fake laugh and pushed Thomas away from him, “You’re an ass. That only happened once and that was when we first met. Don’t you even dare try to ask me to buy you shit again.”
“Woah. Woah. Woaaaaaah. That was a joke Eren. Loosen up will you?” Thomas raises an eyebrow, clearly taken aback by the brunette’s sudden aggressiveness. He hums Moves like Jaeger by Maroon 5 as a way to spite Eren whilst passing by him down the staircase.
The brunette shook his head, tying his hair into a bun carelessly and sprinting into his room without uttering another word.
Eren just wanted to study. He really did.
Instead, his roommates, all of them, mind you, were all partying in the lounge and the music was too loud and Eren was too annoyed.
They did manage to bring him out and make him stay in the kitchen where he mindlessly glared at anyone who came in. He sighed and tapped his pen restlessly amongst the insane amount of books on the table.
There was a knock.
His roommate, Floch, came in the kitchen with his girlfriend who Eren couldn’t even name with all the women he has brought into the apartment. She was hanging onto his arm and giggling. Floch’s eyes were red and his speech very slow and lazy. "Eren!" he said with a sly grin.
Eren raised an eyebrow, shooting him an irritated look. "What now Floch? Are you here to tell me to take a shot again?" The ginger-haired’s girlfriend giggled once again and kissed Floch’s cheek. Floch laughed and swatted her away, though he missed by a long shot. "Someone's at the door," a thumb pointing to the den. "wouldchumind ge'in it?" another giggle. The girl nodded sloshily. "Yesss! Erenieee get 'em door, please. Be a dearrrrr."
Eren frowned and stared at them menacingly, earning no reaction from the two as they were mad drunk. "You were just in the den," Floch’s eyes widened. "My lovey wovey-we was in the den?" His girlfriend’s mouth went into an O. "Di'nt notice tha'!"
Eren sighed and stood up. He miraculously got through the throng of bodies and to the front door. "Yes?" he called out exasperated, not knowing who was outside.
"Do you want cookies?"
Eren turned and looked to see a little raven-haired girl, a girl scout no less, a blonde-haired boy pulling on a trolley who looked significantly shorter than him, wearing rimmed glasses, and an overall appearance whom his “friends” would immediately label as a nerd they had to be a few feet away from if they saw him and lastly, a girl who looked very tired and very done with life.
Beautiful (h/c)-colored hair, her eyes looked like the starry night sky, twinkling as he catches her gaze and a smile that looked forced, but warm all the same.
A girl who was just absolutely fucking gorgeous.
Eren was captivated. His heart was beating like crazy and he could feel his ears turn red. He would make a fool of himself if he looked red as a tomato right now.
"Um," The girl peeked inside and grimaced, squeezing the hand that was her little sister's shoulder and catching Eren’s gaze. "Mikasa, I don't think these kinds of guys would want cookies."
“Unless they're pot cookies,” Eren almost said. Mikasa pouted and widened her eyes at Eren.
The older girl crouched down and frantically covered her little sister’s eyes. "Nopenopenope, Mi, don't pull that on him."
"But (Y/N)!"
(Y/N).
Her name was (Y/N).
Eren smiled sincerely (for the first time today) and leaned back inside to the drawer by the door to grab the extra cash he and his roommates put there for emergency pizza and stuff. "You know what? You're absolutely brilliant at selling cookies. I'll take one."
Mikasa smiled back at him cheekily and tugged her older sister’s hand. "See, (Y/N)?! He wants some! Go get 'em!”
The raven-haired girl then turned to the blonde teen, practically jumping up and down. “Armin look! We sold another one!"
“We did!” The boy who was apparently named Armin, clapped his hands together, then gave the little girl a high five. “You’re a natural at this Mikasa!”
(Y/N) looked at Eren, then Mikasa, and sighed. She grabbed a bag from the trolley Armin was dragging around and pulled out a box of cookies. Eren grabbed them slowly from her, their hands almost touching as he gave (Y/N) a small smile. The (h/c) girl blushed lightly, though not visible enough for the brunette to notice.
"Hope to see you again!" Eren called out when the siblings said their thank you's and bid farewell.
And, this time, even for the slightest moment, Eren’s serotonin levels were going straight through the roof. His heart was still beating loudly, almost in sync with the trash music his roommates were blaring on the speakers. and for a moment, even just for a moment.
He felt genuine happiness that he hasn’t felt in a very long time.
The three of you continue to walk animatedly, now that the coast was clear and the guy from earlier wasn’t within earshot, your blonde friend just had to break the silence.
Armin smiles, pushing his glasses up to the crook of his nose. “(Y/N), you did see how he looked at you right?” The blonde chuckles softly, catching his best friend off guard.
You blinked. “Him?” You try to stop yourself from smiling, blushing profusely. “Geez Armin, I don’t even know his name yet.”
“I’ll bet you 100 bucks that he goes to our Uni.”
“Even if he does, it’s not like we’ll talk to him or anything. Judging from the place he lives in and the people he was hanging out with, we’re in two completely different worlds.” You shook your head in denial, holding Mikasa’s hand, your interlocked arms swinging playfully. Armin gives you a knowing look in response.
Mikasa continued to wave back at the boy whom they had just sold cookies too. (Y/N) looked over her shoulder and smiled. “Wasn’t he nice (Y/N)?” Mikasa asks her older sister. (Y/N) returned her sister a small smile, “He was.”
"I hope we see him again!"
"I'm sure we will."
The day of Eren’s dreaded finals finally arrive.
He has prepared tirelessly for this. Hours upon hours of hard work. But, before he finally gets his well-deserved sleep, he has a few more hours to cram and absorb more knowledge for his exams.
So, what better way to do so than head straight to the library as soon as it opens at 6 AM?
This time, no one was going to bother him. No annoying roommates and no distractions.
Eren heads over to a table near the coffee and snack machines. He puts down his bag on a seat next to him, and begins to study once again. Looking through the course materials and the lessons that he still didn’t quite understand. Eren was so absorbed with studying and relying on his gut feeling that no other student in this university would think of going to the library at 6 AM on the day of finals… then he’s wrong. Very wrong.
“Sasha, should you even be eating mashed potato this early in the morning?” Armin asks the brunette worriedly, a huge tone of concern in his voice.
“Armin! Don’t chu worry! I ate heavy breakfast! Bacon, Eggs, and Toast! Did you not see me in the kitchen!?” She reassures her blonde friend, continuing to scoop up the mashed potato on a reusable cup.
“Liar.” Connie hissed, narrowing his eyes. “I was awake since 4 AM. Not once did I see you sneak into the kitchen until (Y/N) woke you up.”
“Atatata. Can we… stop with the negative vibes for a second?” Jean tries to become the mediator by holding his hands up against his two friends who were about to start an argument. “It’s finals week. We have to keep a clear mind, body and soul-“
“Jean, you know that’s BS.” You yawn widely, still practically half-asleep.
“Oh, come on! Can’t you just let me be positive just this once!? If we fail this exam I’m going to blame you!“
The five of you continue to talk mindlessly on the way to the library. Connie pushes the glass door open, very much excited to have this huge library all to yourselves.
Until…
There was someone already there.
Your eyes immediately come into contact with Eren’s. His radiant jade eyes staring into yours, mouth practically agape, his hands holding on to wooden chopsticks as the hot air of instant ramen breezes through his face.
“Oh?” Connie blinks. “Guess we aren’t the first ones here then.” He whistles.
“(Y/N)!” Armin nudges you in the arm in an attempt to tease you. “Guess your wish came true huh? We did see him again! By himself too!”
“W-what am I supposed to do exactly?” You turn to Armin, speaking in a hushed whisper.
“Say thank you to him! Offer him to go on a boba date or something!”
“You got the Sasha seal of approval (Y/N)! He’s hot!” Sasha motions you a thumbs up and you can’t help but feel yourself already wanting to die of embarrassment.
The four of them slightly push you towards his table. With your friends cornering you like this, there was no way of escaping this.
All you had to do was talk to him and properly thank him for buying cookies from your little sister.
That was it.
No need for any extra ad-libs or poor and bad attempts of flirtation.
Just thank him (Y/N).
You can do this.
You breathe a hefty sigh then approach his table with confidence. The brunette continues to look up at you whilst turning the page of his reviewer that he wasn’t even looking at.
“Hi again! I just wanted to thank you properly for helping my sister and I, out the other day. Mikasa really appreciated the gesture you did for her, and she couldn’t stop talking about you to our parents since we saw you. You see, none of the other girl scouts want to be paired up with my sister because they think she’s an emotionless and monotonous freak. They’re really mean to her but she really wants to continue being a girl scout so my friend and I accompany her whenever she has to sell cookies!”
“It’s N-no problem!” Eren quickly replies, running a hand through his hair. “Why would they say such horrible things to your sister like that? Judging from the way she acted in front of me, she was quite the opposite. In a positive way of course! Those kids are just assholes who are intimidated because another girl their age is seemingly better than them.”
You giggle in response. “Thank you. I’ll tell Mikasa that you said that!”
There was short silence for a few seconds until you realized that you forgot to say something.
“Ah! I’m (Y/N) (L/N) by the way!”
“Eren.” He smiles, reaching his hand out to you for you to shake. You grip his strong and calloused hand firmly, and Eren could feel his ears turning red again while you were about to blush as red as a tomato.
You hear your friends snickering in the background and you took this as a sign to go back to your table. “I guess, I’ll see you around campus?” You ask, tilting your head. For, you actually really wanted to see him again after this.
“Yea! I’ll be seeing you!” He grins widely, watching you leave where he was seated. His smile then envelops into a frown as soon as you went away then he goes back to studying.
“(Y/N)! (Y/N)!” Connie whispers loudly, calling you over by waving his hand. Why was this dunce being so painfully obvious? “Ask him if he’s looking for an apartment or if he wants to live with us!”
“Already!?” You ask in disbelief, a bit shocked by what Connie had just said. He scoots to the left, as you take a seat between him and Sasha. “Guys, you’ve known him for like… 3 minutes. Only Armin and I actually interacted with him before this.”
“He has to pass the vibe check first.” Jean shrugs, sipping on an iced expresso. “But, yeah, he does seem alright from a few feet away.”
“Come on (Y/N)! Ask him!” Sasha nods approvingly. “It’s weird that he’s studying alone like this while we’re in another table trying to remain unaware that he looks lonely as hell.”
“UMmMM… maybe he wants to study alone because that’s the only way he can focus? That’s a thing that normal people do, Sasha.” You remark sarcastically, trying to think up of more reasons to not approach him again.
Armin clears his throat, “Look, (Y/N), it won’t hurt to try right? Besides, don’t you feel a tiny bit sorry for him? He does seem lonely and you do have a crush on him so… more ways to interact with him right?”
Your shoulders slump and you breathe a defeated sigh. “Okay okay fine.” You make your way to Eren’s table again but before you do, you turn to your friends. “By the way, I don’t really have a crush on him just yet. I just find him cute okay?”
“Yeah yeah.” They say in unison as you continue to walk back to the brunette’s table.
“Hi again Eren!” You wave and try your best not to fumble or look painfully obvious that you were infatuated by him. He looks up and you try your best not to smile like a weirdo.
“Hm?” He hums.
“Would you like to come over to our table and study with us?”
To be continued.
#shingeki no kyojin x reader#snk x reader#eren x reader#attack on titan x reader#eren jaeger x reader#aot x reader#attack on titan#shingeki no kyojin#eren jaeger x you#eren jaeger x y/n#eren x you#snk#aot
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Colorful Consequences - JJ Maybank
summary: jj dyes his hair after losing a bet
word count: 1718
warnings: a little swearing, just friendship fluff
a/n: this is so cute don't even look at me + and this is for @maybanktho for the concept prompt
*this is how i imagine the color, but he just dyes the fringe/front part of his hair*
It all started with a bet—as most things do between you and JJ. There had to be a prize and a consequence, it was just your friendship dynamic. You two became friends through a competition he set in the fourth grade during recess. You both played on the field, juggling half pumped up soccer balls and booting them into opposite goals, not wanting to get in each other's way. Until he kicked his soccer ball into your goal on purpose, proposing a bet that he could sink a goal from farther away than you could. However, much to his ten-year-old chagrin, you won. He had to eat a hot dog from the cafeteria the next day—the hot dogs were chalky and an abnormal color. You, however, got to be one of his best friends for life. He would say that he got the winning end of that bet in the end, having you by his side for the past six years outweighed the stomachache he had after eating that hotdog.
This time, it was a surfing bet, and, as were getting gloriously used to, you won. His punishment was he had to dye his hair, and your prize was you choosing the color. A schedule wasn’t set for the day you had to become his personal hairdresser, so you were going about your Saturday morning as usual—half hungover and asleep on your couch, not having gotten to your bedroom before passing out the night prior. Your parents were nowhere to be found, probably on the mainland having affairs with rich people for money, or something along those lines—you didn’t particularly care anymore.
The familiar knocking pattern of JJ Maybank, your best friend, slammed into your eyes, almost abrasively as your head throbbed from the alcohol you consumed last night. Once you collected your thoughts together, you were surprised JJ was awake, not being the “up-and-at-em” type in the slightest.
Somehow, you managed to pull yourself off the couch, the crick in your neck loosening as you stretched.
“You look like shit, Y/N,” JJ announced, leaning against the doorframe as you wiped the sleep from your hardly open eyes.
“Thanks for noticing, Sherlock,” you smiled wryly, pushing the hair from your fringe falling over your face. “What’re you doing here? And why are you handling your alcohol so much better than me?”
JJ walked past you, patting your shoulder as he entered your small house, the homey decor and familiar scent of fresh cookies and linen febreze inviting him in with as much vigor as you did the first time he came to your home. “Today is the day, my friend. And, in regards to the whole hungover deal, I so happen to not be a lightweight, unlike some…” he trailed off to glance at your slouched frame, the cuffs of your paper bag denim jeans bunched up around your shins, and the thick strapped tank from Pelican Marina that you chopped the bottom off of, was pushed up around the band of your bra. Normally, you’d be self conscious of how much of your torso was on display, but you were feeling like a dead squirrel, and it wasn't like JJ hadn't seen you in a bikini almost everyday.
Moving towards the couch to refold the blanket you had knocked onto yourself before you fell asleep, you asked, with an increasing amount of pep and clarity, “Today is the day for what?”
“I’m glad you asked, Y/N! You're dying my hair today. Get ready so we can go to the store.” He seemed a bit nervous, his hand instinctively going to the blond pieces of hair that fell as fringe over his forehead. A goofy smile spread across your face as his words sunk in, the leftover cranky drunkenness fading away as you almost jumped in the air as you ran to your bathroom to get ready.
Once you got out of the shower and changed into a t-shirt and shorts, you met JJ back in your family room, his eyes glued to the phone screen in his hand, his eyes tracing over the photo he was looking at. His phone was open to a picture Kie took of you two on the HMS, having been in the midst of a shotgunning competition. Your hair fell in waves, from your ears down it was a light teal color, matching the oceanic background. JJ zoomed in on the picture, scrolling between the bright, superficial hair color to his photographed blond locks. “Hey!” You made him jump, as you leant against the back of the sofa, looking over his shoulder.
“I was thinking this color?” He sounded a little unsure, but as a hair dying veteran, you knew it was just virgin hair jitters. You took pride in having watched enough Brad Mondo, making you think you could do his hair just as well as a hairdresser.
You reached over, swiping so the camera app was open, and you maneuvered your ponytail to lay over his forehead, the pastel turquoise color of your hair covering most of his face, “I think ya look great.”
He jumped off the couch, grumbling about you being a total dork, and to just get the damn car keys. Having completely sobered up, you grabbed the keys to your old pickup truck and all but skipped out the door. JJ, being blond, had such good hair for dying. You had wondered what he’d look like with crazy colored locks multiple times, he had just never agreed until you won the bet.
Once you two had arrived at the store, a wave of air conditioning hit you, pricking at your bare legs and arms. Having been very acquainted with the beauty supply store, you walked straight to the aisle of hair dye, JJ following cluelessly in your wake. The lanyard holding your keychain was tucked in your denim short’s pocket, the ribbon loop brushing your knee as you bent down to pick up a mixing bowl and color application brushes. You looked towards JJ who was watching you with stitched together eyebrows and evident confusion. “These are semi-permanent colors,” you pointed to a section of the shelves, bottles and tubes or paint like hair dyes sprawling out in front of JJ. “Your hair is light enough that it won’t need bleach… so how long are you committed to this merman look, ya think?”
JJ turned his head to look at you, his eyes lazily gazing at your dimpled smile. “I’m in this for the long haul.”
“As you should!” A laugh bounced from your lips as you nodded, pulling two bottles from the shelf of semi-permanent colors, knowing he’d want to be able to change it at some point. “I used this dye for my hair, if that’s what you want.” He nodded and took the bottle from your hand, staring at it with optimistic intrigue. “C’mon,” you motioned for him to follow you to the checkout line where you two split the bill and you teased him with the cashier with whom you were familiar.
Once you drove JJ back to your house—after going through the McDonald’s drive thru because JJ was hungry—you rummaged through your bathroom, stains of pinks, greens, blues, purples, reds, oranges, and blacks danced along the edge of your sink and shower from your previous dye jobs. You threw a blue towel at JJ to wrap around his shoulders, knocking a french fry out of his hand. “Hey, I was eating that.”
You mock pouted at his indignation but stayed silent so you could pour some of the dye into the mixing bowl. Before slipping on plastic gloves, you sectioned out JJ’s hair with old butterfly clips and barrettes he used to make fun of you for wearing in the sixth grade, claiming you were too grown up for hair clips. Although, he was owning the look now, pretending to flip his fringe sassily before you peeled the strands of blond off his forehead.
JJ was swiping through his phone, looking for Spotify before putting on his playlist and drumming on the counter with his fingers to the beat. You had to hold his head still multiple times with one hand, your other hand otherwise occupied with a brush filled with hair dye. Once he calmed down, you started brushing the color on the ends of his fringe, following the sections you had created. By the time you had finished and worked the dye to the roots of his fringe you handed him a mirror. “Whatcha think?”
He stared at the mirror like he was looking at a foreign object. “I mean I like it… Do you think we could stop here, just dye the front pieces?”
You hummed in response, grabbing the now empty plastic bag from the store and tying it just over his hair to incubate it with heat. “Okay, now we wait for thirty minutes.”
“Let's watch Avatar the Last Airbender.” JJ suggested, as you two walked into the main hallway of your small house on The Cut. Responding with a short word of agreement, you watched JJ jump over the couch to sit on it, aiming the remote at the screen.
After your phone beeped, signaling the end of thirty minutes, you had to tear JJ away from the TV, him having become engrossed by Aang’s adventures. Somehow you managed to rinse his hair out in the basin of your shower, adding to the colorful splotches on the rim. He complained about the water being cold then when you warmed it up, he cupped his hand under the faucet and splashed you with it.
Using all your self control, you extinguished the beginnings of a water fight in your bathroom and rinsed all the dye from JJ’s hair.
Shaking his hair like a wet dog, water droplets flying at you, JJ haphazardly dried his hair before looking in the mirror. “Wait, that's actually so good.”
“Really?” You asked through a grin, excited he liked the color. He wrapped his arm around your shoulders and squeezed you into his side.
“Yeah, it's awesome, Y/N!” He let go of you just to grab your hand and pull you through your house, “Let’s go show the others.”
Another bet he lost with more than optimal consequences.
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the cutest man alive.. invented being thankful and grateful
#bambam#got7#still feel like ass shit but this made me so happy#thanks for all the messages btw ily all huhu#ty bambam for making me smile thru my fucken tears.. only u could have done it
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𝕺𝖚𝖗 𝕾𝖜𝖊𝖊𝖙 𝕻𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖒𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖚𝖒 ℭ𝔥𝔞𝔭𝔱𝔢𝔯 2
𝒞𝒽𝒶𝓅𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝟤
"You didn’t eat much did you?" James questioned as he walked thru the door. Closing the book, you walked past him and headed over to the fridge, grabbing an apple out. Taking a big bite, you held the apple in front of him. "I’m eating now arnt I?" you snapped, walking over to the back door and taking a seat on the old wooden bench that you had found at a junk shop and couldn’t resist buying. "Just worried about you that’s all" James replied, his back towards you. Quickly you shoved your feet into your boots and headed off down to the stables. The last thing you felt like doing was getting into yet another fight with James. Throwing your apple over the fence to one of the horses you quickened your pace as you realised it was getting a lot colder, and darker. Switching the stable lights on and grabbing a jacket, you threw it on as you walked into the feed room. One by one you fed all the horses that were in work, 12 in total, and loaded up the trailer with hay for the rest. You loved this time of the day, even though it took nearly an hour and a half just to fed everyone, but the enjoyment you got from sitting on the deck after a long day with a glass of wine watching the horses munch away happily, nice and warm, made it all worthwhile. "There girl" you whispered to Munchie, as you did the straps on her neck rug up, giving her a pat before placing her feed and hay down in front of her. Munch was the first horse you ever owned and she meant the world to you. So much so that you sold everything you owned and paid a small fortune to bring her over with you from New Zealand. Reaching old age now, Munchie was definitely the most spoilt horse on the property. Climbing the fence you were just about to hop back on the bike and head back up to the stables when you thought you saw a faint light coming from down in the gully. Walking slowly down the path you realised that the light was coming from the first cabin. The curtains were pulled and soft smoke was flowing freely from the chimney. Thinking nothing more of it, you jumped on the bike and within minutes were back at the stables. After locking up you made your way back to the house laughing as you were greeted by an excited Goldie, jumping and bounding like she was 2yrs old instead of 12! Her excitement meant one thing...you had a visitor.
"Bloody hell!" you screamed as you were scared half to death by Sam jumping out from behind the back door. "Surprise! Mwah haha I rang from in town, you weren’t expecting me this early were you!" she laughed, grabbing you in a bear hug. Wrapping your arms around her waist, you rested your head on her shoulder and squeezed your eyes shut. "I stopped at the grocery store and got all your favourite things, oh and some of mine too. Didn’t know how much wine you had so I brought a carton!" Sam laughed as she still hugged you. “And I also got some...." Sam was saying when she stopped suddenly, dropping her arms and turning you to face her. "Hey what’s wrong?” You couldn’t even bring yourself to look her in the eye. "Long story" you managed to whisper, fighting back the tears. "Oh no here's trouble" James laughed, walking into the kitchen after shaking his boots off at the door. Sam gave you one last glance before turning to James. "Don’t you know it buddy!" she laughed, heading over to James and giving him a hug. "So how long are you staying? Hope you’re not going to be too much of a bad influence on my girl" he smiled walking over to the fridge and giving you a kiss on the forehead as he passed. "Unfortunately only a few days, then I have to head home, but...." she said as she rummaged thru her bag, finally pulling out a bottle of wine, "...I do have a few weeks off in a month or so, and will definitely be out then". You walked over to the cabinet and pulled out 2 wine glasses. "Plus...” Sam continued, "I might even let this one...” she pointed to you, "...talk me into riding one of those smelly brown things out in the paddock!" she laughed, pulling out a seat at the breakfast bar. "I’m going to hold you to that!" you smiled, thinking of the first time you had talked Sam into going for a ride. You were laughing so hard you thought you were going to fall off the horse! "Well I'll let you girls catch up. I’m heading to bed, got an early start" James said, leaning in to give a kiss. You felt him tense as you turned away so instead he had to give you a kiss on the cheek. "Night" he smiled to Sam as he headed up the stairs. "Wow" Sam gasped, filling your wine glass up again. "What’s up with you guys?” You took a deep breath and followed her out onto the deck, grabbing a blanket as you passed. 3 hours and 4 bottles of wine later you were exhausted. You had, laughed, talked nonstop and were now rather drunk, listening intently to Sam as she filled you in on her latest boyfriend. "If only my life could be that easy" you sighed, pulling the blanket up around you. It was nearly 3am and the valley was so still you could hear the odd bird call and the soft sound of horses munching away in the closest paddock. "It can be Hun, and it will be" Sam said, kissing you on top of the head as she stood up. "But for now...I’m off to bed". "Hey Sam?" you called out, just as she was heading in the door. "Mmm?" she said, turning to face you. "Thank you for everything" you smiled. Sam blew you a kiss and turned, closing the door behind her. You sat for a moment, with your eyes closed. Your mind swirled, thoughts racing at a million miles an hour and you wished you hadn’t had so much to drink. You thought about Sam and you thought about James. It wasn’t fair to him that you carried on with this relationship and as Sam made you realise tonight, it wasn’t fair on you either. Standing, you slipped your boots on, nearly falling over in the process, and threw the blanket around your shoulders, holding it in front of you. Even though it was pitch black you knew this place better than anyone and made your way slowly down to the bottom paddock. Taking a short cut thru the bush, you stepped over logs and branches, trying your hardest not to fall into the creek that ran beside the path. You heard the familiar nicker of Munchie as you walked up to her, throwing your arms around her. She grazed quietly as you freely and openly sobbed into her neck until you couldn’t cry anymore...
You didn’t know how long you had been outside, but you knew you were cold. Laying for what seemed like forever in the soft damp grass, you watched Munchie in what light the moon reflected thru the trees, eating away happily, her life so simple and carefree. Rolling over onto your back you stared up at the sky, the stars visible thru a clearing in the trees. You knew it was going to be hard. Probably one of the hardest things you were ever going to have to do but it had to be done. 'I can’t go on like this' you thought. 'It’s killing me'. Your mind was made up; there was no way around it. You were going to leave James. 'Shit...I’m going to do it' you told yourself. "I’m actually going to do it" you made yourself say aloud. Guilt overwhelmed you as you thought how horrible you were being. That you were actually happy, almost proud that you were going to break someone’s heart. No matter what, you had made up your mind. If James loved you, he would understand, wouldn’t he? "Ahh...excuse me?" someone spoke. You jumped up suddenly, almost pushing the person over as you clambered to your feet. Spinning around you saw a dark figure with long brown hair peeking out from under a black woolen hat. Stepping backwards slowly you didn’t know wither to punch him, or run away screaming. "I'm sorry..." he spoke again.”I didn’t mean to scare you...but when I saw you walking into the forest awhile ago, I was worried that you were lost or hurt". He stepped closer to you as you held your breath, not sure what to say or do. From under his hat as he got closer, you could see the most intense, yet softest, green eyes you had ever seen. "Are you ok?" he asked again. Nodding, you picked up your blanket and started to make your way back up to the house, not saying a word. You couldnt say a word. A combination of drinking, being freezing and just getting the fright of your life, you could only just manage to breathe let alone talk and you didnt even care that a random stranger was walking on your property, you just had to leave. You turned just as you were leaving the forest to see the man walking back down towards the cabin and disappearing into the darkness...
'Oh god my head hurts' you groaned as you rolled over. Opening one eye you noticed that the curtains were open and dark grey clouds loomed overhead, threatening to downpour at any second. 'Shit...need to put rugs on'. Sitting up and brushing your hair out of your face you managed to drag yourself into the bathroom. Tying your hair up, you threw on yesterday's dirty clothes. 'No point putting on clean clothes if you are just going to get drenched' you thought. Slowly you made your way downstairs, the smell of the cooked breakfast made your stomach churn. It was nearly half ten so you knew James would be at work. Walking over to get a glass of water you noticed a note from Sam saying... 'Gone into town, not sure how long I’ll be but have my cell if you want anything. Love u x x'. You grabbed a glass of orange juice, carrying it out onto the deck. You had only just reached down to pull your boots on when you felt the first faint drips of rain blowing onto your face. By the time you got to the stables the rain was pouring down. Watching from the stable doors you waited a moment to see if the rain would pass. 'Damn it' you muttered as you made a run to the bike shed throwing your jacket on as you went. About half an hour had passed by the time you had loaded rugs and the feed's you had made onto the trailer and were on your way around the paddocks putting rugs on certain horses and feeding the others. Finally you arrived at your beloved horses paddock and were greeted, as usual, by her nicker, excited at the sight of her breakfast. The sky was getting darker making it seem more like nearly dusk instead of 10am. Quickly jumping the fence you placed her feed bin in front of her which made her stand still while you threw her rug on. The wind had started to pick up as you reached back to do the back straps up. As you walked around behind her to do the other side, the cottage down in the gully came into view. You noticed smoke still coming from the chimney and just as you were doing the front straps up you saw the front door of the cottage open. Sheltering behind Munchie to block the wind, you could see thru the blowing trees as someone walked out onto the small deck and stretch their arms above their head. Slowly last night’s events crept back as you remembered what had happened. You thought that you had imagined it or maybe even dreamed it. Jumping the fence and climbing back onto the bike you made your way back to the stables glad that this morning’s chores were over and you could finally have a coffee. Pulling the stable doors closed and switching off the lights you were on your way back up to the house, glad that the wind was finally starting to ease, as a truck pulled into the drive. With everything that was going on with James, and with Sam arriving you had completely forgotten that you had a client’s young horse arriving. 'Great...just great' you thought as you motioned for the truck to back into your round pen. The client who owned the horse, Susan, as you often thought of her, a bitch. One of those people that had more money than sense. Yes she had top quality horses that were on the competition scene and earning top money, but horses to her were like a machine instead of an animal, with real emotions and feelings. You had worked many of her horses that were on their last chance or had problems, so she had always sent them to you. As much as you didn’t like dealing with her, you couldn’t stand it if any of her horses went elsewhere and plus she paid well. Pulling the truck door down, you were nearly knocked off your feet as a black blur flew past you, smashing straight into the side of the round pen. "Whoa...easy" you soothed as the horse tried to run back past you and out the door. The truck driver quickly shut the round pen door behind you and climbed up on the viewing step that went around the outside of the pen. "Got a good one on ya hands this time!" the driver laughed. "You should have seen us trying to get the bloody thing on the truck! Talk about dangerous. Might just be the one you can’t beat!" he smirked before jumping back in his truck and leaving. You had abit of a reputation on the horse scene for trouble horses and when you had moved into the area, you weren’t entirely welcome. A lot of the older horse breakers where not impressed that someone was moving in on their territory and taking their business, let alone a woman. Watching as the horse ran in panic around you, you could tell by the look in his eye that this was indeed going to be a hard one. Looking at your watch, your stomach started rumbling as you saw that it had just turned 12. Slowly you edged your way to the door, squeezing out as soon as the horse went past. You could hear the horse instantly slow down when he realised any possible threat had gone. 'Poor thing' you thought to yourself as you made your way back up to the house to be greeted by Sam on the deck, two coffees in her hands.
"Ha! You look how I feel!" Sam laughed, handing you your coffee. "I haven’t drunk that much since, well last weekend!” "You’re such a bad influence" you smiled, sitting down on the deck beside's her and dangling your legs over the edge. Listening to Sam talk about everything from when she was in college to what she had to do when she got home, she were startled by banging coming from your round pen. "What the hell is that?" Sam asked. "Yet another of Susan's stuff up's" you murmed, making a mental note to call her. "Oh dear, just don’t get hurt please" Sam said, concern in her voice. "Mmm don’t plan on it" you replied. You were just about to head in doors to ring Susan when you heard James truck pull into the drive. Taking a deep breath you grabbed the phone and headed into the office. Flicking thru your address book, you found Susan's number as James walked into the office. Dialling quickly you prayed that Susan would answer so you wouldn’t have to talk to James. Instead you got her answer phone. After leaving a brief message, you quickly headed back towards the kitchen, hoping not to run into him. You knew you had to talk to him, but at that moment, you couldn’t face him let alone tell him what you had decided, what you had to do... "Hey Morg, making a sandwich, you want anything?" James yelled from across the room. "Ah no thanks, going outside for a few hours" you replied, grabbing a bottle of water from the fridge as you walked past. You had just reached the back door when James spoke. "Hey.." he said. "Mmm?" you asked, turning back to face him. "I won’t be home till late but..ah.. I need to talk to you about something, but later though, ok?" he asked, not looking at you. "Sure, ok" you said, wondering what was up. James didn’t seem his normal, laid back self. Even though you knew things could never continue between you two, it didn’t mean that you didn’t care about him, or wished him any harm. Sam had gone upstairs to make a few phone calls and answer some emails and you heard James leave again just as you were heading out to the stables. You had grabbed a halter, lead rope, jacket and a book. You loved this part of dealing with horses, gaining his confidence and trust for the first time. You were heading out the door when the stables phone rang. "Hello" you answered breathlessly. "Hi, it's Susan, has the horse arrived?" she said, emotionless. "He has" you said, again thinking to yourself 'why did you deal with this woman'? "Look, I'll put this bluntly, I don’t like the horse, but it has potential. He hasn’t been handled much and what handling he has had is, well let’s just say, that you need to be careful around him. He has a month, if he isn’t up to scratch by then, then he has to go, and I mean go" she said. "Ok, I'll see what I can do" you replied. As you were about to ask her his name, she cut you off. "He doesn’t have a name, don’t care what you do with him, just fix it" she said before hanging up on you. 'Ok good to talk to you too, bye' you muttered sarcastically. Finally getting to the round pen, you looked thru the viewing hole in the side of it. The horse was standing at the far side, sweating and shaking. 'What has she done to you?' you thought opening the door and stepping in. Instantly the horse started to pace, facing away from you to avoid any eye contact. Walking out into the middle of the round pen, you laid your book, halter and lead rope down and put your jacket on. All the while the horse still kept walking, every now and then when you made a sudden move he would pick up the pace and start trotting. 'And so it begins' you thought as you sat down on the sand and opened your book. As much as you tried to concentrate on your book, you couldn’t. Your mind kept wondering back to James, Sam and the mysterious man staying in the cottage. All you could remember was his voice, so deep and soothing and his eyes. You had never seen eyes that colour. Your attention was brought back by the black horse snorting. Slowly he had calmed down but his breathing deepened as he edged closer and closer to you. Ignoring him, you turned your back to him, looking down at your book. Behind you, you could hear him edge a little bit at a time closer to you and every time he came around your side to face you, you again turned your back on him. This continued for over an hour until eventually the horse was less than a metre away from you. Just as he put his head down to sniff you; you held your hand out. At the sight of your hand the horse reared, before spinning and again running manic around the pen. 'Definitely been beaten' you sighed turning to your book again. Eventually he settled, but this time watched you from a distance, too fearful to approach you again. After looking at your watch and realising that you had been in there for over 4 hours, you slowly made your way out of the round pen. Filling his water bin and putting in a hay net and a feed, you peaked thru the viewing hole as the horse sniffed at his food, then walked back to the far end, dropping his head and trying to rest, visibly exhausted. 'That explains a little' you thought as you headed back to the stables. 'Obviously the horse has been bribed with food before, as hungry as he is, he doesn’t even have enough trust to eat'. Feeding the other horses and putting rugs back on, you checked the horse again on your way back up to the house. He had picked a little at the hay but hadn’t touched his hard feed. 'At least it was something' you thought as you walked in the front door to be greeted by a beaming Sam. "Guess what, guess what, guess what!" she squealed, taking your hands and spinning you around the kitchen. "Mmm I don’t know..." you laughed, "but it must be good!"... "Guess who is the new regional manager with a big, fat pay cheque to match?" she laughed, dancing around the room. "Oh I don’t know?" you smiled "Tell me?” "Ha Ha" Sam laughed, playfully punching your arm. "Yay...congrats!!" you replied, pulling her into a huge bear hug. You knew how hard she had fought for that job and to finally be put in that position must have felt amazing. "What a perfect excuse to open a bottle of wine" you said as you walked over to the fridge. "Oh come on!" Sam laughed, grabbing two glasses from the cupboard. "You know I only drink on special occasion's...oh and any day of the week that end's in Y!” You couldn’t help but laugh at Sam, happy that she was happy. "But..." Sam continued, a sad look spreading over her face. "Mean's I have to leave earlier....like tonight". "Never mind" you lied, trying not to let your disappointment spoil her good news. "You never know..." you continued as you walked out onto the deck with Sam following behind you, "...maybe it will be me secretly surprising you next time". "I hope that's a promise!" Sam laughed, sitting down beside you on the deck. For awhile you both sat in silence, sipping your wine, watching the horses and listening to the birds wildly going about their business as the sun started to set, taking any last morsels of food back to their young one's before dark overwhelmed them. "Isn’t life funny?" Sam asked, turning towards you as she pulled her legs up to her chest. "What? As in you spend the day with gorgeous men in suits and I spend the day covered in hair and shit?" you laughed, sculling the last of your wine before Sam topped your glass up. "Exactly!" she laughed, wrapping her arm around your shoulder. "But..." she smiled, giving you a peck on the cheek, "But...I wouldn’t have it any other way!" you replied, giving her one back. "Amen to that!!" she laughed as she raised her glass in the air.
An hour and 2 bottles of wine later, Sam was packed and ready to go. Standing on the deck, you felt guilty that you wanted Sam to stay, but also knew that no matter what, she would always be there for you and you would no doubt need her in the weeks to come. "Please please PLEASE promise me one thing?" Sam asked hugging you as her taxi pulled up. "Anything" you said, carrying her bags down the stairs. "Do what your heart tells you" she almost whispered, giving you one last hug. Fighting back the tears, you closed her door as she wound the window down. "Will call you tomorrow and also tell James I said bye" she yelled as the taxi went down the drive. Running up to the deck you just managed to see her wave as the taxi disappeared out of view. Instantly, as soon as you realised Sam had gone, the tears started...and you didn’t think they would stop.
Walking back into the kitchen you headed straight over to the fridge. You were glad you had run out of alcohol, choosing water instead. As you were about to head upstairs, you saw a note on the table.
"Hey babe....Dry those bloody eyes and harden up!! Love u, miss u all ready, will call u first thing :) Sam x x x".
God she made you smile! You headed up to your bathroom this time noticing a card sitting on your pillow. 'Sam!' you smiled again to yourself as you opened the card. Instantly your heart dropped when you realised it wasn’t Sam's writing, but James'.
"M, please don’t worry but I'm staying at George's tonight. Lately I've sensed that things have been abit off between us, and wanted to give you, and myself, some time out. I have my cell on me, and George's number is in the office so please call if you need anything...or me. J". Lying down on the bed, you held James' card to your chest and squeezed your eyes shut tight. 'So he does know what's going on' you thought to yourself as you rolled onto your side and pulled your pillow under your head. Knowing that gave you some sort of relief amongst the guilt. At least it wouldn’t just come out of the blue, like blurting out one day at the dinner table 'So hunny how was your day?...Oh good, mm mm yes me too oh by the way...I’m leaving you, can you pass the salt please?'. Ha if only it could be that easy! Tomorrow night, defiantly tomorrow night you decided. Walking back downstairs, you pottered around for an hour or so before lighting the fire. It wasn’t until you realised you had spent nearly 40 mins watching the flames that you forced yourself to get up. You were exhausted. Physical and emotionally. Back in your bedroom you ran a bath and poured way too much bath gel in, nearly causing bubbles to spill over the edge. Removing your clothes you slipped slowly into the hot water, feeling your skin tingle at the sudden heat. After what seemed like hours, and several refills of hot water, the tiredness had started to kick in as you slowly drifted in and out of sleep, when you were woken up by knocking. Not sure if you were just hearing things you ignored it as you rested your leg on the edge of the bath. There it was again, there was someone definitely knocking on the door. 'Damn it' you muttered, deciding to ignore it before reality kicked in. 'What if it was an emergency? What if the horses were out?’ 'Grr' you groaned as you pulled yourself out of the bath, wrapping a towel around you. Your wet hair, still clinging to your face and neck, covered your shoulders and was still full of bubbles. The person knocked again. "All right, all right, I’m coming" you yelled as you got to the front door and opened it. Gasping at what you saw, you felt like your legs were going to crumble as your heart leapt in your chest. Standing in front of you was possible the most beautiful person you had ever seen in your life. Wearing a navy beanie, his dark hair curled out from underneath, swirling it's way over his intense green eyes and down around his neck, sitting on his black hoody that was pulled up around him. "Um....hi" was all you were able to say. "I'm sorry..." the man apologised, "Didn't mean to interrupt...” he smiled nervously, motioning to your towel. You had been so mesmerized by this man that you had totally forgotten that you were standing there practically naked. Blushing, you instinctively wrapped your arms around you, holding the towel firmly. "Can I help you with anything?" you asked, suddenly shy. "Oh sorry, I just wanted to make sure you were ok?" the man replied, staring you straight in the eyes. 'What?' you thought to yourself as he spoke again. "I saw you the other night...was worried that you were lost or hurt" he continued as it all came flooding back. 'He was the man in the forest' you remembered. 'The man with the eyes'. "Mmm I'm fine!" you laughed. "I had a date with Mr Beam that night....Mr Jim Beam". The man laughed a deep, throaty, yet cheerful laugh. "Oh I've met him too!" he replied. "Many...many times!!". You both laughed, followed by an awkward silence. "Ah would you like to come in?" you asked. You don’t know why you had asked him, but secretly hoped he would say yes. "No no, I'll let you get back to your bath" he replied, motioning to your wet feet. Turning to walk down the stairs. "Might be able to sleep tonight now that I know your ok" he said quietly. "Thank you" you managed to whisper as he turned away. You stood in the doorway momentarily as you watched him disappear into the darkness. Closing the door you bolted upstairs to get changed. Quickly throwing on your pj's you were pulling back the duvet on your bed when you suddenly stopped. Staring at your reflection in the mirror opposite your bed, you were slightly shocked. You hadn’t realised it......but you were smiling.
That night was possibly the first night that you had slept peacefully in a long time and when you woke that morning, instead of groaning and rolling over to sleep some more, you were up and out of bed in a flash. You had no idea why you all of a sudden had an energy burst, but wanted to use it to your full advantage. After showering, you actually felt like eating for once and wolfed down a bowl of cereal before feeding Goldie and headed down to the stables. Within the hour you had feed out and taken rugs off, finishing at your beloved Munch. As you walked down to the far end of her paddock to get her feed bin that had blown under the tree's, you noticed the front door of the cottage down below open and you instantly thought of the man that was staying there. The man that had visited you last night. The man who's eyes you couldn’t forget. Smiling to yourself, you headed back up the hill, climbed on the motorbike and made your way back to the stables. After bringing in a few horses to work you let them settle in the yards with a fed and a hay net each before checking the horse of Susan's that had spent the night in the round pen. Looking thru the viewing hole you could see that he had eating his hay net but not touched his hard feed or water. You grabbed your gear, a halter, lead rope and book and slowly opened the round pen door. The horse stiffened his body as soon as you entered and watched your every move. Still not making eye contact you kept your back to him, slowly edging your way into the middle of the pen. As much as you enjoyed this part of dealing with horses, you also knew how dangerous it was. Many times you had been kicked, run down and knocked out by horses in the same situation as this one. But for some reason, this one was different. 'So far so good' you thought as the horse still stood still, not yet fearful enough to run from you. After ten mins or so, you heard the horse move as he edged closer and closer to you until you could feel his breath on the back of your head. "What a good boy" you murmed softly. The sound of your voice made the horse snort as he backed off a few steps. "Must think of a name for you aye boy?" you told him, still not turning to face him. "What about Black Beauty?" you laughed at your stupid remark. "I know...I know...not very original for a black horse is it?” After awhile of blabbering about nothing in particular, the horse had become more and more comfortable with your voice, and was even standing beside you, sniffing your hair, your folded legs and spreading his slobbery lips all over the pages of your book. "Oh thanks for that!' you laughed as you folded up the book, placing it under your jacket away from his prying lips. Slowly you stood up, standing right beside the horse’s head, the closest you had been to him yet. As you gently held out your hand, the horse took one quick sniff before backing up and again you turned your back on him. This time you walked a few steps away, and as expected, curiosity got the better of him until you could walk a whole lap of the round pen with the horse following behind. After filling his feed bin you walked with it in your hand before stopping and placing it at your feet and again turned your back on him. Within seconds the horse was happily munching away. Silently you left the round pen and peaked thru the viewing hole and watched as he stood contently, head in his feed bin. "I don’t know much, well anything, about horses, but he is a beautiful" someone said behind you. Startled, you jumped around. It was him. "He is" you whispered, turning back to face the horse so you wouldn’t have to look at him. You didn’t know what it was, but around him you felt odd, intense, as if time stood still. "Is he yours?" he asked, this time standing closer to you to look thru the hole as well. "No sadly, a clients horse" you replied, turning to pick your gear up. You started to head down towards the stables, and turned the corner into the yards as you looked over your shoulder back at him. He stood watching the horse for a moment before turning and walking back towards the cottage. 'What a dick!' you told yourself. 'Why the hell did you just freaking walk off? God imagine what he thinks of you now?' you thought as you started to tidy up, banging the buckets together in frustration. Grabbing the two horses from out of the yards, you were walking them back down to their paddocks when you noticed him patting Munchie over the fence. "Sorry for just heading off like that" you apologised as you were letting the horses go. "Not a problem" he replied, picking some grass for Munch. "I can see you are busy". "As always" you smiled as you jumped the fence. It had started to get warm so you decided to take her rug off. "Ville" he said suddenly, catching you off guard as he placed his hand out. "I’m sorry?" you asked him. He started laughing. 'That laugh' you thought, causing you to slightly smile. "Ville, my name's Ville" he said again. "Morgan" you replied, placing your hand in his. Your fingers tingled as your hand touched his. As if you were placing them in a hot bath again. "Pleased to meet you Morgan" he smiled. "I didn’t recognise you with your clothes on!” You couldn’t help but laugh, your cheeks flushing with embarrassment. "Ha very funny!" you smiled as you were climbing over the fence. Right at that moment, your foot got caught in the wire, causing you to trip. Suddenly you felt Ville's arms around you, saving you from completely falling. You stood up catching your breath. Looking up, your face was so close to Ville's that you could feel his soft breath on your face. "Ahh...thanks" you whispered as you felt his arms still around you. A small smile spread across his face. The curl in his lips was almost unbearable not to kiss. As you leant closer you could see the surprise in his eyes, yet also the urgency for you to kiss him. What the hell were you doing! You scolded yourself, but you just couldnt stop.Your heart beat quickened and you felt Ville's arms tighten around you as he pulled you closer towards him. Just as your lips were about to touch, you were both startled by the sound of a truck pulling into the drive. James' truck. "Damn it" you muttered as Ville's arm's left your side. "Umm better go" you said, stepping away from him. "Another time" he replied as he bowed, turned and left. You watched as he walked towards the cottage and once you felt like you could walk, you took a deep breath and made your way up to the house. 'Here goes nothing'...
Walking into the cold house, you switched the jug on and pulled two mugs out of the cupboard. "Not for me thanks, all ready got one" James said as he walked into the kitchen. You sat down as you waited for the jug to boil. There was an awkward silence as you watched James finish his coffee and rinse his mug in the sink. He turned to you, resting against the bench. For a moment he looked at the ground, shifting on his feet. It wasn’t until he looked you in the eyes that the tears started to flow. And once they started, you didn’t think they were ever going to stop. James walked over to the table and sat down opposite you. "I love you" he said reaching out to take your hands in his. "I love you too" you replied. And it was true, you did love James. "But..." he asked, taking a deep breath. "I'm not IN love with you" you whispered. James sighed, his hands tensed around yours for a brief second before he dropped them and sat back in his chair. "I'm sorry" you sobbed, wiping the tears from your face. You could hear James' breathing deepen and forced yourself to look up at him. Silently you cried as he held his face in his hands, his elbows resting on the table. You heard him sniff every now and then, eventually standing up. "I'm glad you finally decided to tell me the truth" he said, a slight hint of anger in his voice. "I don’t know why you couldn’t have trusted me enough to tell me earlier". "I thought I could have made it work, I really, really did" you replied. James walked over to the bench grabbed the tissue's and placed them in front of you. "Drink?" he asked. You nodded yes, watching him as he poured you a large coke. You’re favourite. That was James, knew all you quirk's and habit's, like's and dislike's, and even though you had just broken his heart he still made you his first priority. "So what happens now?" he asked, getting himself a beer out the fridge. You shrugged your shoulders. What did happen now? "No matter what...” James continued, "...this place is yours, I'm not taking your dream away from you". "Thank you" you murmed. You both sat in silence for a moment when James stood up. You watched as he headed upstairs. He returned a few minutes later with a couple of bags. "You don’t have to go...” you said quickly, standing up. James smiled as he placed his bags on the deck. "Yes I do" he replied, turning to face you. "I'll be back at some stage to get the rest of my things and sort stuff out". The tears started falling again as you squeezed your eyes tight trying to fight them back. You felt James step closer towards and wrap his arms around you. "I'm sorry...” you wept again into his shoulder. "I know...” James replied before letting you go. You watched as James threw his stuff into the back of his truck and climb in. He gave a simple wave before heading off down the drive. You don’t know how long you sat on the step that night, Goldie by your side. But once the tears finally stopped and your body couldn’t take the cold anymore, you dragged yourself to your bed, not bothering to change and fell instantly asleep.
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Summary: never look for conflict for the thrill
A/n: it's long, poorly written, and has no plot. the ultimate writing checklist. took me an entire week to write, I annoyed my aiding teacher with the clicking during class
Wc: 4k+
She was very quiet. People always asked what was wrong with her, if she was deaf or mute, why she never talked.
She did talk, just not to people outside of her bubble. She found it was easier to do that than to try to interact with people because people were very mean.
Tyler, her best friend, always took it upon himself to help her. It had always been that way, ever since they met. The two six-year-olds immediately clicked, and y/n’s parents always knew Tyler was special.
He got her to talk to him, and no one else had ever done that outside of the family.
When Tyler offered her a job as his makeup artist, she got so excited. She wouldn’t have to talk to anyone that she didn’t know, and she would be on tour with her best friend.
“Tyler, wake up,” y/n shook her best friend by the shoulder. The bus had stopped and they were now at their next stop in the tour, “Ty, come on.”
“Hmm,” he groaned, “five more minutes, peach, please.”
Y/n loved that nickname. It made butterflies explode in her belly and her face heat up more than ever. He started calling her that after her 14th birthday when she received Paper Mario and forced Tyler to help her play it. She was never as good at video games as he was. He called her peach after Princess Peach (she had commented that she wished she looked like Peach, but Tyler said she never had to worry about that, Peach wasn’t as pretty as y/n.)
“Nuh-uh, Tyler, Josh said that if you sleep ‘til noon, you’ll ruin your schedule and we’ll all have to stay up with you,” she continued poking him, trying to get him up.
Or you could climb in with me, “Fine, but I expect something out of it,” he finally rolled and looked at the girl, we could cuddle until sound check. God, she was beautiful. She had obviously been awake for a while; her makeup was done and her hair styled to perfection. Sleep all day in each other's arms, only get up for food and water, maybe ask Josh to pick up some food and we can all sit on the couch and watch that new show you like. He rarely went a day without thinking about her. (if he did, it was because she was with him.)
He only wished she was his, so he could ask her every question and said every statement that had been on his mind since they were twelve.
“we can get Taco Bell if you want to,” she replied. He didn’t get enough time, in his opinion, to admire her because she turned away and started going toward the front of the bus. She knew exactly what that did, it forced him to get out of bed. He wouldn’t let her go out alone when he was awake, that hadn’t happened since she left for college and he started his music career.
Even then, they spent every spare moment talking and once she got back, they were even more inseparable.
Tyler sighed, one day he would be able to tell her. until then his fantasies would suffice.
-
Josh was the only other guy she talked to on tour. (Actually, that wasn't entirely true, she said please and thank you and excuse me when she needed to, her mother always raised her to have manners.)
Tyler would be lying if he said he wasn’t terribly jealous every time Josh made her laugh so hard she started crying, or hug him and whisper things in his ear. These would make Tyler pouty and gloomy all day, but eventually, she makes it better by giving him the attention he craves.
It was their day off, and all Tyler wanted was to hang out with y/n and Josh.
But she wanted to go out and have some fun. So here Tyler was, sitting in a booth with a Mountain Dew in front of him, watching as Josh and y/n joked around quietly (y/n refused to raise her voice in public).
The waiter came to take their order and gave y/n a dirty look when Tyler ordered for her. That was no big deal, Tyler was used to that, she never ordered her own food unless they were in a drive-thru. (Even then, sometimes she would switch seats with Tyler or make him talk loudly to the speaker from the passenger seat.) It was a big deal when the waiter refused to take her order because she wasn’t talking.
“Can’t she order herself? She’s not a child!” the waiter chided, and when Tyler repeated the order again, he didn’t write it down.
“Are you seriously refusing because someone won’t talk to you?” Josh asked, the dirtiest look on his face.
“Well, she ain’t a child, now tell me what you want, miss,” the waiter replied.
Tyler saw her swallow, opening her mouth and closing it while she panicked. She didn’t like this at all, he was being so mean, and this had never happened before.
“I think we’re just going to pay for our drinks and leave if you’re going to be rude,” Tyler snapped at the man, standing up, “I don’t know who you think you are, but you messed with the wrong person, dude.”
Josh took out his wallet, throwing a twenty onto the table before, he too, stood up. The three walked out of the restaurant and got into the car. y/n had her head down with tears in her eyes and held onto Tyler’s hand. Tyler sat in the back seat with y/n while Josh sat in the front seat, driving.
Once they were settled, y/n burst into tears.
“Why can’t I just be normal?” she cried. Tyler hugged her, she laid her head on his chest, tears staining the fabric of his t-shirt.
“No, peach, don’t say that.”
“If I were normal, you guys would be able to eat without having to worry about me,” she cried. (They always asked her about her food before they dove into theirs. If they didn’t ask her if she liked her food, she wouldn’t say anything and pick at it until they were done and say she wasn’t that hungry.)
“Peach, there’s nothing bad about that,” Tyler knew he was lying. How would she function if he or Josh wasn’t there to help?
“I don’t want to have to rely on you forever! I’m so dysfunctional, you should just leave me! Maybe then I’ll learn to be normal.”
Josh spoke up, “no one is leaving you, y/n.”
“you should.”
Days like that made her miss her dog because he didn’t mind cuddling with her until she stopped crying (he was a German Shepherd, so he was basically just a big teddy bear), and she didn’t feel bad for smothering him with her blubbering.
-
Things weren’t really the same. Tyler saw it, Josh saw it… hell, the fans saw it. They commented on his photos with their concerns. She didn’t know what was going on with her, she felt herself withdrawing from Tyler in the same way she withdrew from her family in middle school. But even then, she still had Tyler.
She did their makeup in silence, barely looking either of them in the eye. She didn’t participate in group activities; she just went to her bunk or hotel room.
Tyler didn’t know what to do.
-
“You’re gonna have to talk to me,” Tyler cornered her while she was cleaning her makeup brushes. She looked like a deer caught in the headlights, wide-eyed, and frozen in her spot.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about, Tyler,” she whispered, finally continuing what she was doing.
“But you do, y/n,” he mocked her use of his name, “you’ve gone and shut me out, and that’s not what we do around here.” She didn’t reply, her already clean brush suddenly getting dirtier and dirtier as she looked at it more. “Are you listening to me?”
“I would prefer not to,” she murmured. Tyler took the brush away from her, sitting it on the counter.
“What did I tell you when we were kids?” he asked. She rolled her eyes
“We’re in this together, Peach,” Tyler whispered to her. They had just started high school, and she already hated it. Everyone picked on her and Tyler for… everything.
Over the summer, y/n had hit a growth spurt and grew two inches (it didn’t really make a difference, but somehow everyone noticed), her bra size grew slightly, and her face had blown up with acne. She was a walking target.
Tyler had also grown quite a bit, he was now the tallest boy in most of his classes and the scars on his cheeks from acne were red and bumpy (y/n found out how to help him with those, so they were going away, slowly but surely, but they were still there.) He didn't think too much about the teasing, but he knew his best friend did.
“Even if you get famous?”
“Especially then,” he intertwined their fingers and kissed her knuckles, she blushed. “Because for you, I’ll step to a dude much bigger than me.”
“You’d end up so messed up, Ty,” she giggled, squeezing his hand.
“it’d be worth it,” he pulled her closer. The bed they were sharing was big enough for each of them to have their own space, but everyone knew that wouldn’t happen. The two constantly stayed cuddled up to one another, which did weird their parents out and they forbade it. (What they didn’t know wouldn’t hurt them.)
“At the expense of being humiliated in public, you want to still be with me?” her eyes widened, “I-I mean, be my best friend.” Nice save, she reprimanded herself.
If Tyler caught that, he didn’t say anything. Baby steps.
“Of course,” Tyler scoffed, “I promised you I would always be here, and I intend to keep that promise.” She smiled up at him, only slightly, but there was pure happiness beaming from it.
-
Y/n really enjoyed the show that night, bobbing her head and singing along. Tyler looked over and smiled at her as often as he could, asked if she was ok by shooting a thumbs-up her way, and made sure she always had a water bottle in her hand.
-
“Tyler,” she started, “can we please go to that little market in the small town an hour away?”
“Why, peach?”
“They sell candles and soap and some vintage posters, I just want to look around and see if there’s anything I can buy for my apartment,” she asked sweetly. Tyler smiled at her, she always did this when there was a shop she was interested nearby.
“Tyler, they sell emu meat!” “But, they make natural perfume, it says they have vanilla on the website.” “Josh said he’d go with me to the Pommes Frites place, do you want to?”
She was so perfect, to him, in every way.
-
It had been a few weeks since their pow wow and y/n thought she and Tyler were getting closer to what she wanted without either of them prompting it.
But then, Tyler met a girl.
Amanda was beautiful, kind, and talkative. She was a lighting technician they had brought in after their other one went on maternity leave. She would be on tour with them for the rest of that leg. Tyler, being the nice guy, he is, introduced himself on her first day because she seemed lonely. He later invited her to dinner, and then brunch, and then a movie, and then a bar… and it continued for weeks.
y/n felt replaced, (although she knew she wasn’t, it still felt like it.) Her best friend didn’t have the same amount of time he used to, for just them, anymore.
Josh felt for her.
“You can talk to him,” Josh said while she blended his eye shadow out, sloppily.
“I know.”
“Then why don’t you?” He gave her a look. Her parents gave her that look when she would complain about a teacher forcing her to speak up or talk in front of the entire class.
That look that told her, she would have to suck it up and do something because no one else was going to take care of it for her.
“I’m just going to let it happen,” she sighed, “I waited too long and he met someone else, it happens.”
“God, you’re so stupid,” Josh scoffed. Tyler went on and on about how in love he was with her, Josh had really started to get annoyed, “you both love each other but you’re too stubborn and he’s too soft.”
She shook her head, “he doesn’t like me like that, Josh, let’s just drop it.”
Josh rolled his eyes.
-
She didn’t mean to. The bus was a communal space, everyone came and went without knocking, and she knew she was allowed in there because all of her stuff was in there.
Why couldn’t she go get her phone charger and the makeup she forgot in there?
Because Tyler and Amanda were having a quick shag in the back of the bus, that’s why.
She walked in, thanking Jeffrey (the driver) for opening the door because it was locked and he had a key. Josh was waiting outside, leaning against the side (he was already scrolling through his phone when she was with Jeffrey, not even concerned with why the bus was locked in the first place and whether there was a murderer hiding in there ready to spring out at her. Maybe, she watched too many Criminal Minds episodes for her own good, but she really loved Mathew Gray Gubler.) She didn’t see anything at first and didn’t hear anything, either. So, she assumed Tyler and Amanda were hanging out in the green room.
She opened the door to the storage area in the back (that’s where her stuff was) and was up-fronted by the sight of Tyler ramming his dick into Amanda with his hand covering her mouth. She squeaked and back up out of the room.
“Oh god I’m so sorry!” she covered her eyes with her hands.
“Don’t you know how to fucking knock?” Tyler yelled, “Get the fuck out of here!”
She quickly ran out of the bus, spouting apologies. Once she got off the bus, Josh was already standing in front of the door, concerned by the sudden shouting, “What happened?”
“Nothing! Let’s just go,” she spoke quickly, tears ready to fall at any second.
-
“Sorry, I can’t come to dinner with you and Josh,” Tyler seemed to apologize a lot recently. If it wasn’t for accidentally being late to get his makeup done, it was for not being able to keep plans. He was always out with Amanda or… in with Amanda. He hadn’t mentioned the incident, and she was very glad. She was so embarrassed when she got off that bus.
(Josh tried to tell her it wasn’t her fault, the bus is a communal area, everyone is off and on it all day, they should have known not to have a quickie in the storage area. That made her feel only a little better.)
“It’s OK,” Josh answered for her, she only smiled at him sweetly, “you can just join us next time, yeah?”
Tyler thanked them and headed off toward the tour bus. Amanda was waiting for him.
Instead of going to dinner, Josh dragged her to a bar he heard a lot about, and she didn’t remember much of what happened after the second beer, she later figured it was because she was already a lightweight and she hadn’t eaten since breakfast and only had two pieces of sushi off of Josh’s plate.
The next morning, she woke up in her hotel room with a killer headache and a weight holding her down by her waist. She rubbed the sleep out of her eyes and looked to her right. A tuft of curly hair peeking out ever so slightly from under the blankets.
She screeched, throwing his arm off of her and jumping out of bed. That was when she realized she was nude. The sudden noise of her scream and the ruffling of the sheet woke Josh up, who looked at her just as she wrapped said sheet around herself.
“What the fuck?” he said groggily. Then his eyes widened. “did we?”
“I don’t fucking know!” She whined, “do you have clothes on?”
“…. yes,” he looked guilty.
“Really?” She felt reassured for a second.
“No,” he confessed. She scoffed, pivoting on her heel and taking off to the bathroom. The bathroom was a mess, and there were two condom wrappers sitting in the sink, each of them without their original contents.
“Oh god,” she suddenly remembered their make-out session in the bathroom. She had gone to brush her teeth, giggling about the taste of the last cocktail she had drunk (it was sex on the beach) but Josh had another plan. She could still taste the alcohol in the back of her throat with something… salty.
She didn’t want to think too far into that.
She quickly got her toothbrush and attacked her teeth with it.
When she exited the bathroom 20 minutes later, her hair and body freshly washed, Josh was sitting on the bed, fully dressed. She went toward her suitcase across the room. She changed into fresh underwear and a bra, Josh, apparently, had seen a lot worse than her backside last night, so suddenly she wasn’t as self-conscious as she once was.
“We couldn’t have been more obvious with our little… escapade,” he sighed, “people all over Instagram and twitter keep tagging me and asking questions.”
“I’m so sorry,” she sat next to him.
“You don’t have to be, it takes two to tango,” he locked his phone and wrapped an arm around her waist, “It’s just as much my fault as it is yours.”
There was a knock at the door. Josh dropped his arm when she got up to answer it. Tyler was at the door, his hands tucked into his pockets, looking off into space.
“Yes?” She asked.
“Is Josh in there? We have sound check soon,” he didn’t look her in the eye. She couldn’t blame him. Josh walked toward the door, and nodded, saying he was just about to leave.
He kissed her on the temple before he stepped out, “I’ll see you later, okay?”
She nodded in agreement and said her goodbye’s, and shut the door, not even wishing Tyler a farewell. The men walked to the elevator together and as soon as they stepped in, Tyler snapped.
“You slept with her?” he asked, although it was more of a yell.
“Yeah, so what?” Tyler was surprised by this response, the accusatory tone, “Aren’t you fucking that girl… Amanda, is it? You and y/n are not together, she’s a big girl, she can do what she wants!”
“You told me you didn’t feel anything for her!” Tyler yelled.
“You told me you loved her! Apparently, that’s not enough for either of us to keep our dicks in our pants,” Josh snapped, “At least I have balls enough to admit that what I did was bad, admit that it was wrong. You yelled at her for walking in on you fucking someone else, in a tour bus that everyone has free range of, and haven’t even apologized for it! You’re mad at me for taking care of her while you’re off doing god knows what with the girl you talked yourself into liking.”
“I didn't-”
“She’s just basically a fucking replacement for y/n! And when you finally admit that to yourself, this shit will get a lot easier.” The elevator opened up at the bottom floor, Josh got off before Tyler.
“She’s not a replacement,” Tyler said under his breath. They walked to the car that was going to take them to the venue.
Josh didn’t speak to Tyler for the rest of the day.
-
y/n didn’t talk to Tyler either. Amanda could tell Tyler was struggling and tried to reassure him.
“Baby, they are just selfish, I mean, why else would your two best friends have sex with each other? I thought there would be some bro code thing about that.” That didn’t help.
-
Josh knew it wasn’t a good idea, but y/n insisted she was ok with it. They were sat in her new hotel room, in a different city. She initiated the kiss, and Josh just followed along.
“You’re just using me to get back a Tyler,” Josh said in between kisses.
“Does it hurt?” she whispered.
“No.”
“Then shut up and kiss me,” she kissed him again.
-
“We can’t do this anymore,” Josh said when y/n greeted him with a kiss. weeks had passed and she had ended up in bed with Josh more often than not, and she refused to look at anyone else. All her attention was on Josh.
“Why?”
“I’m just a rebound,” Josh intertwined their hands, “And you know it too. You’re just trying to get back at Ty.” She knew he was right, and she nodded in response. “So, talk to him. Amanda is gone, he hasn’t talked to her since she left.” (Esther, the original light tech, had come back from maternity leave earlier than expected, her husband decided to stay home with her instead.)
He left a few minutes later, leaving a sweet kiss on her temple. Almost like clockwork, ten minutes later, Tyler knocked on the door.
“Can we talk?”
-
Tyler sat on her bed, next to her. Neither talked. She was looking down at her feet, her socks didn’t match. She knew how much Tyler hated it when she did that, and all she wanted him to do was get onto her and make her find all of her matches and put them together.
“So… you and Josh?” he awkwardly asked.
“Not really,” she whispered, “you and Amanda?”
“…not anymore.” There was another awkward moment of silence, then Tyler spoke once again, “I missed you.”
“Then why didn’t you try to talk to me?” She asked.
“You seemed busy with Josh.”
“You seemed busy with Amanda.”
“My god, we’re shit friends,” Tyler laughed. She giggled too, agreeing. “I’m so sorry, peach. For ignoring you and yelling at you… and ditching you. The day after you and Josh started to… you know,” he paused, “the day after, Josh really did me in, made me see how shit I was being.”
“Sounds like Josh. And I’m sorry for ignoring you and not trying to communicate.” Tyler reached out for her and she hugged him, tucking her face into his neck.
“Is that all you wanted to talk about?” she whispered, not wanting to ruin the moment. He shook his head, murmuring back a 'no.’
“I wanted to tell you something I’ve been holding in for years,” he said, pulling away from the hug to look her in the eye, “I’m in love with you.”
-
That night was a turning point for the two.
Of course, she still couldn’t talk to anyone outside of her bubble. (No love was strong enough to cure selective mutism, even though The Big Bang Theory kind of made it seem that way.)
The two were so, so happy after that night. They spent the rest of the tour attached by the hip way more than they used to be. Then, a few months later, the tour ended and they all went back home. Tyler had promised her at some point they would move in together, rent out a house with a big back yard so her dog, Buddy (who was with her mom until she returned), could run free, especially if Jim was to visit. She would furnish it and make it her home and Tyler would get his own room and an office.
She was laying on the couch, a TV show playing quietly in the background as she read the latest Erik Larson book.
“Tyler,” she called to him, “can you come here?”
Tyler yelled back, “Yeah!” and went downstairs.
“Can you go get me my drink, I don’t wanna get up,” she smiled the smile she knew he couldn’t refuse. He scoffed at her and left the living room to get the cup of water off the counter. The cup, although it was just a simple plastic one with a galaxy design (it was from the dollar store), it reminded him how much he loved her. She would leave for tomatoes that she needed for dinner that night and come home with new dog toys, cute dishes, puzzles, and no tomatoes.
“Here, you lazy bub,” he handed the cup to her. She happily took the cup and singsonged a thank you.
“Aren’t you gonna come cuddle with me?” She asked sweetly.
“How could I pass that up?” he said, laying a sweet kiss on her lips before sliding onto the couch next to her, pulling her as close to him as possible.
He never wanted to let go.
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Hydrangea
Chapter 3
By the third drink, I’ve all but decided that tonight was a bust. Almost everyone was there that I had already known and there were even new friends and family to meet. No Bill tho, and it’d be a few days till Eija showed up.
Alex hadn’t left my side the entire time I’d been there and was being very hospitable, and being around his family, and being a gentleman was keeping him pretty PG, but a couple more drinks and all bets were off.
” I really like your whole face.” he slurred slightly, ” no, don't look at me like that! Lauren. Lauren look in my eyes. Usually, this might be a line, and I've been drinking, but that doesn't change the fact you've got a perfect face.”
”Thank you, Alex, but you want to know what a perfect face looks like?” I bent down and picked up Max, nuzzling my cheek against his little face.
”If that isn't the cutest fucking thing I've --”
”ALEX! Language in front of our guest, have I taught you nothing?” My said sternly, flashing me a playful smile. ”we’ve set up karaoke, and I believe you're first.”
Alex was about a dozen drinks ahead of me. He was all for it. He attempted to drag me up to sing with him, but there was no way I was doing that, so he took Max with him to sing a Swedish song. Poor little Max looked very confused in the arms of the giant Swede who was belting out the song with gusto. Luckily he liked Alex, or he may have peed on the man.
I had planned to make my exit now, but he had my damn dog. He was not as dumb and easygoing as he came off. He definitely had an agenda, and I needed to get myself off of it.
My made her way back over to me and sat down. “How long are you going to be here? Bill and Elja will be so pleased to see you.”
“I doubt they even remember me.”
“Bah! You are kidding. You were their best friend, and they still talk about you every summer. I think you don’t give yourself enough credit. You are very loved here, my dear.” She smiled and patted my leg.
I loved My. She was such a warm person. And although her and Stellan were no longer together, they still acted like the best of friends. This family was so different than mine. My family was cold and standoffish. I’d forgotten how much I loved being here.
“I’m not sure. I broke up with my fiancé and then realized I had nothing tying me there, so I left and came here. I don’t know if I’ll stay here forever, or start a new life in Australia or France, the world is my oyster.”
“What a brave, strong girl you are. You and Bill are so much alike.”
“Where is Bill?” I tried to ask as casually as possible.
“He’s somewhere. He disappears in the woods or the city and comes around now and then. He’s very reserved. He has a harder time with fame than his brothers.”
“I don’t blame him. I got rid of my cell phone and have no internet or anything. I’m going no technology or social media and finding myself.”
Mys eyes widened, and she slowly nodded her head, “like I said. Brave girl. May I be a little forward?”
“Yes.”
“Alex likes you, and you’re not interested. Am I correct?”
“Yes.”
“You came here to see Bill.”
“I did.”
“Bill said he’d be here by tomorrow to help prepare for the big party. I was expecting him tonight, but he gets sidetracked.”
Just then, several people outside began shouting and greeting someone. I immediately felt like I was going to pass out. I had to keep it together! Probably wasn’t even Bill.
I looked over at Alex, who had just finished his song and was staring at me longingly. He almost looked sad. I’m sure I was letting my imagination get carried away.
I looked over to the front door, just as a tall, statuesque, man with flashing green eyes, sharp cheekbones, full, pouty lips, and a confident, dare I say cocky air to him walked in, hugging people left and right. I was sure it was my Bill. He was devastatingly handsome, and I all of a sudden felt very self-conscious. Maybe these do look like pajamas. Shit.
He spotted My and made his way over to us. He wrapped his arms around her, wrapping her in a big hug, and told her how he had missed her. He glanced at me, doing a double take, and shamelessly stared before asking me why I looked familiar.
“You don’t recognize Lauren Bill? “ My asked incredulously.
“I thought I did, but I didn’t want to break my own heart if I was wrong.” He laughed and embraced me more enthusiastically than anyone else, swinging me around in a circle. He set me down and grabbed my hands as he took a step back and looked me over. “I am so fucking happy to see you. You have to tell me everything! I want to know it all!”
“She was actually on her way out, Bill. She’s only arrived today, let her sleep, and you can hassle her tomorrow.” My said patting me on the shoulder.
Thank God for his mother, because I was not mentally prepared for Bill in all his glory. He was absolutely stunning to look at, and he kept touching me, and I LIKED it, and I felt like an idiot. I refused to be that giggling fool, hanging on his every word, but I needed some time to process what he’d turned into. Maybe take a Xanax, and shit if I know.
“Nonsense! You want to stay! Right beautiful?” Bill asked, eagerly. His big green eyes pleading for me to give in.
“I really am quite tired, and have gotten maybe 4 hours of sleep in the last 48 hours, so I really should sleep, Bill. I’d love to catch up tomorrow.”
Bill jokingly made a sad face but then grabbed my hand and pulled me towards the exit.
“What are you doing?” I. asked, eyes wide with surprise at his abrupt exit.
“I’m walking you home before anyone else can try.”
“Ok.” As he reached to open the door, I turned and yelled goodbye to everyone, and whistled for Max who leaped from Alex's lap, and sprinted into the night with Bill and me.
I tried to read Bills face, but it was nearly impossible to tell what the gorgeous man was thinking or feeling. We walked across the yard in silence until we reached my connecting gate and stepped thru it, and I tugged at Bill to halt him so I could wait for Max to do his business.
I could feel his eyes on me and nervously watched Max sniff around, before turning to Bill.
He was watching me, and when we locked eyes, it was like the world stopped turning and he was the only person id ever seen. I wanted to look away, but couldn’t break his intense gaze, realizing suddenly we were still holding hands. Then a flash of something in Bill’s eyes scared me a bit. What was it? I furrowed my brow and glared at him, and he broke out a stunning movie star smile.
“Still hate when I stare at you .” He chuckled.
She felt her face grow red, “you always make this face, I could never figure out. Feels like you're mocking me.” I smiled, realizing how foolish I sounded.
Bill scoffed and played up his mock horror, just as Max jumped on my calf, signaling he wished to be picked up. I scooped up my little dog and gave him little kisses on his head to his delight.
“Well, Bill, thank you for walking me home, ever the gentleman. Do you want to come over tomorrow and catch up? I’m going to go into town to stock up on house things since there’s nothing in the museum, but if you want to come over in the morning...”
“I’m spending the whole day with you.” He interrupted.
“Excuse me?”
“I’ve missed you more than you can imagine. Every year I’d watch your house, praying you’d appear and you’re finally here. I'm not letting you out of my sight.”
Wow. “Sounds like a deal,” I said going in for a one armed hug, but Bill made an embrace to Max’s displeasure. “You’ll suffocate him, Bill,” I complained jokingly as I pulled away.
Bill still had my hand, but finally released it. He had the strangest expression on his face, and I still had no idea what to make of it. I walked up to the door and glanced back and stuck my tongue out at him. Oh my gosh, I am so lame! I quickly closed the door behind me and locked it.
I stood there grinning to myself like a fool, daydreaming about Bill knocking on the door and telling me he loved me as he said to that baby in that weird Netflix show he was in, when reality grabbed me by the throat and bitch slapped me.
The events of the day came crashing down on me until I was a weeping mess on the floor. Max licked at my tears, but it was no use.
I was a criminal, maybe even a killer, and I couldn't get involved with anyone, let alone a famous person.
Maybe I should fuck Alex since everyone else does, and he would hate me... No. I couldn't do that. And who was I kidding? Bill probably didn't even like me like that; he didn't try to kiss me or anything. He probably just missed me and I'm getting all worked up over nothing.
I got up and made my way to my bed, too tired to think anymore, crashing on the bed, fully clothed, in my shoes, falling into a dreamless coma-like slumber.
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what are the things you like and dislike about the '97 anime and the films?
ty for asking, i’m just gonna write a few long lists lol
97 anime likes:
the animation, including the like, yk the more detailed stills they pan over in place of action or to punctuate important moments, i love it
the gorgeous backgrounds
most of the colour choices. red eclipse, femto’s blue eyes, casca’s skintone, griffith’s mauve clothes, etc.
how close it is to the manga. like, it’s a solid adaption just by virtue of making very few changes.
so like, most of it really, because i like the manga
special mention to the entire lead up to the eclipse from griffith’s reality break to the sacrifice tho, because i think that was all pretty damn perfect. it’s the most important scene and they did it right.
actually also shout out to casca’s flashback to griffith and the dead kid, gennon, the river scene, all that. another difficult v emotional sequence that they nailed imo.
griffith thinking about how he “loves” guts during the monologue
skipped most of the griffith/charlotte sex scene iirc which i approve of
the glimpse of black swordsman guts in ep 1. it’s not perfect but it’s way better than the ovas starting w/ 15 yr old guts
the opening and closing themes. fucking love both songs ngl
also the opening monologue. never get tired of hearing it
the score
the portrayal of griffith was honestly pretty solid imo. i have very few issues there. and lbr that’s important lol
97 anime dislikes:
not a big fan of griffith or guts’ character designs.
just about everything that isn’t identical to the manga is a change for the worse
turned griffith’s scratch marks into that giant unexplained scar
adding extra scenes where casca is secretly impressed with guts’ skills in battle in an attempt to build up their relationship better, which instead just made casca look unfair for still being a dick to him for 3 years and made guts stupidly gary stu-ish
obviously the straightforwardly romantic portrayal of guts and casca’s relationship
through several seemingly minor changes (eg, skipping guts’ night of self-doubt after he leaves, giving guts’ stay with godo its own half-episode, making guts inviting casca along super romantic rather than the incredibly casual and assholish way he does it in the manga, etc) it makes Guts’ dream seem legitimately noble and worthwhile, with none of the like… implicit critique the manga has. like honestly it completely fucks up what i consider one of the central themes of the story lol
the pre eclipse stuff also fails to sell guts’ sense of regret - through things like playing guts’ theme while judeau is telling guts to leave, not repeating guts’ statement of regret after casca tells him to leave again, the tone remains consistently in favour of guts’ dream. wrong and bad.
like it really reads like the suggested tragedy is that guts doesn’t get the chance to ditch griffith with judeau and take off with casca and the raiders lol
also fucks it up by never directly mentioning guts’ csa trauma
also fucks it up by losing guts’ self-destructive single-minded urge to fight monsters that we saw thru the wyald stuff. i’m not gonna say that losing wyald was a bad decision, but they should’ve at least moved erika suggesting that guts just wants to fight zodd again to the fucking waterfall scene in question, which they portrayed completely sans zodd discussion, completely sans implication of the self-destructiveness of guts’ dream
like in the manga he nearly gets killed by the falling logs and just laughs it off like a dumbass while erika is concerned and suggests that guts is driven by something irrational and not actually a ~noble~ dream, ie, wanting to fight zodd again (ie, going deeper, his csa trauma), while in the anime we get a 2nd scene where he successfully slices through the logs as a super basic symbol of growth and a narrative pat on guts’ back that shouldn’t be there!
honestly just fucking everything about the portrayal of guts’ dream lol it just takes it at face value in a way the manga consistently never did and always undermined and critiqued, and it bugs the hell out of me.
guts is just drawn in a way that makes him look angry way too often and he often feels ooc to me bc of it. like he lacks a lot of the warmth he has in the manga imo
showing that griffith is awake when guts says “i’ll stay too” even tho in the manga those words are placed over a panel of him asleep for a reason like, ffs
lots of other random nitpicky details that only i give a fuck about because my opinions and feelings about the story are too strong lol. like not showing griffith’s face when he asks if guts thinks he’s cruel
oh huge one: moving the scene where the torturer rips off griffith’s behelit from about a day after he was imprisoned to right before his rescue. completely trivializes griffith’s torture because it still looks like he’s been in there for a day at most
why on earth did it end where it ended????????????? who’s bright idea was that? the perfect ending is skull knight riding tf out with guts and casca and femto not killing them, but then they also cut out skull knight’s first appearance so idfk man.
oh some downplaying of griffguts, like i can’t complain too much about this because it was still p homoerotic, but things like omitting guts assuming griffith wants to fuck him right before their first duel. boo.
ultimately at the end of the day as much as i do genuinely like the anime, it’s not telling quite the same story the manga was - the story it’s telling is more boring and basic. but because it sticks so close to the manga the good story still shines through? it just means there’s inconsistent tone choices and stuff, like the aforementioned grievances.
it’s like, they kept casca’s diatribe at guts line for line while she’s screaming that griffith needed him and a man can’t live on dreams alone, but they don’t extend that train of thought to guts going off to pursue his dream, while the manga does.
anyway despite that giant list of dislikes i still think the anime is pretty fantastic overall. i just also like, blame it for a lot of wrong fandom takes lol.
movie likes:
character designs! honestly imo everyone looked pretty great.
they played up the homoeroticism and i appreciate that
illustrating griffith being torn between guts and his dream through that lovely moment when he catches guts when he nearly falls off the stairs right before he catches charlotte, and in a more romantically suggestive way
the whole scene where griffith shows up at charlotte’s window thoroughly improved on the manga, so hats off there. loved how completely out of it he was to the point where he barely realized where he was and immediately turned to leave when charlotte was like ‘woah dude wtf,’ love that charlotte was the one to ask him to stay and then physically move his hand back to her tit, love how emphatically griffith was thinking about guts during that sex scene, etc. like it’s still not perfect, but it is a vast improvement.
griffith showing up in person after the hundred man fight was a nice touch
it was cool that they got a lot of the same english vas from the anime dub back, and they all did a gr8 job. like it’s a pretty good dub imo.
i liked that they moved ‘the crystalization of your last tear shed’ to after guts’ post-eclipse breakdown
compared to the anime at least gtsca was more low-key and chill rather than dramatically romantic. still don’t want it there, and still not as… unromantic as the manga, but i’ll take what i can get
the animation during griffith’s transformation into femto, yk that whole sequence, was cool
slan’s english voice was super sexy
ummmmm i feel like they conveyed the whole dreams are stupid theme, and guts’ decision to leave being a mistake, better than the anime? like i got the sense that the ova ppl recognized that was a theme, at least. i’d have to watch them again to really be sure of that tho
movie dislikes:
GRIFFITH’S. NARRATIVE.
like holy fuck they completely destroyed his character lmao
i cannot believe
no backstory! no tombstone of flame! no ‘do you think i’m cruel?’ THAT WAS THE REASON HE MADE THE SACRIFICE FFS HOW DO YOU SKIP IT????
no dead kid angst, gennon only in vague implication, no self harm - oh no wait we saw self inflicted scratches, they were just completely contextless and meaningless to the point where we could assume charlotte’s nails made them
no torture chamber monologue
no guts monologue in the tavern either for that matter
no rooftop scene
again barely the implication of guts’ childhood trauma, both the sexual abuse and the general parental abuse. one vague flashbacky nightmare doesn’t cut it, it’s the cornerstone of the story
like i get it, it’s a movie trilogy, you have to cut some things, but goddamn, cut out gtsca. trim the hundred man fight. add 20 minutes to the first ova and take the insanely long rape scene out of the third. trim down the whole eclipse sequence. don’t cut out like… the story. like they cut out SO MANY emotionally relevant scenes and kept so many much less relevant scenes, idek.
and like let’s be real here, they turned griffith from an immensely interesting and complex character into a 1 dimensional dude who is torn between a vaguely evil ambition and being in vaguely evil love with guts, just for the sake of streamlining the least interesting aspects of the story
they don’t even try to pretend otherwise lol, look at his fucking hilarious evil smile here
also while i’m looking at it, in general i think they failed at the whole eclipse sequence. looks, lighting, colour, build up of tension… there are a few minor improvements here and there (eg casca’s point of view shot of femto, femto telekinesising guts back a la the black swordsman arc which emphasizes his failure to act when he escapes), but overall it doesn’t work for me at all. like imo the anime has the exact same highs and lows as the manga, but while the ova avoids some lows it never reaches those highs.
they also had griffith overhear guts saying he wants to stay. i really don’t get why this happened twice lol, like… ok his face is kind of shadowed here but he’s still very clearly asleep? this is an important detail, guts’ interrupted words are even on that very panel, so why would you go out of your way to show that he’s awake and listening at that point.
the pacing sucked. 3rd movie was too long, 1st was too short, and they skipped waaaaaay too many significant scenes that should’ve been there as emotional beats
honestly the movies are pretty, they’re nicely fanservicey in ways, they capture some good subtleties and nuances at times, but they’re a husk of the story
oh did i mention the music during the eclipse rape? incredible.
also i am actually generally positive about the movies too despite what it seems like here lmao. i’ve watched them all like, 3 or more times and i find them v enjoyable.
i just have a way easier time listing nitpicky flaws than positives honestly. the flaws stand out to me, the virtues pass me by because i’m just enjoying them and not dwelling on them
and lbr here at the end of the day no adaption will ever really satisfy me unless i somehow find several million dollars lying around and make my own lol. and that would probably be a flop anyway.
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So You Think You're In A Struggle.....?
What Is American Truth?
Is it not true that white European settlers came seeking more land due to the chaos and over population of their own land brought about being greed and whoredoms?
Is it not true that white settlers came and stole this land from it's inhabitants by way of carnage and murder?
Is it not true that a vast majority of those inhabitants were black indians (so called because these pilferers were looking for the Indies)?
Is it not true that since that time, white people have been at war with somebody/somewhere?
Is it not true that blacks and other minorities (to Indians, Asians, Mexicans, Jews, etc.) we're also enslaved, raped, lynched and murdered by racist white settlers for sport?
Is it not true that this nation was built on a he backs blood sweat and tears of slaves, while white racism sat on their asses with whips chains and shot guns in hand?
Is it not true that blacks fought in the Civil war?
Is it not true that blacks and other minorities fought on foreign land for this nation and we're shot guns n the back of their heads by White racist American males?
Is it not true that the blacks that made it back to this America (whatever that means), were greeted with the racist slur, "nigger"?
Is it not true that all these documented facts have been deliberately left out of American history to make blacks and other minorities look and feel inferior?
Is it not true that this racist white America used Native Indians (Wind Talkers) to win a war, only to return the favour by means of an oppressed reservation lifestyle of alcohol and a third world existence? To Date!
Is it not true that this America has deliberately kept blacks specifically in such a state of economical deprivation and poor educational foundation of contrived lies in order to suppress their achievement?
Is it not true that in order to achieve their goal of black suppress, racist white America burned down entire black towns and communities?
Is it not true that White America murdered both John and Robert Kennedy for their supportive stance of Civil Rights?
Is it not true that White America has recently launched an effort to brainwash young black males that their ancestors were better we off being slaves yesterday; whereas, they didn't have to endure Apartheid and other disparities of current day Afrikaans?
Is it not true that that ritualistic cry/lie of heroism and saving grace probably created the white extremist mentality of Apartheid by removing black Kings and heirs and making them slaves? (Shame the fuck on you comedian Eddy Griffith)
Is it not true that the same racist European agenda is currently working on it's controlling chaotic takeover of Hong Kong?
Is it not true that the recent past elections or having Trump as president didn't really create the atmosphere of racism hatred inequality and bigotry, but merely gave it's citizens eyes to see what other nations have loathed and detested for hundreds of years?
Is it not true that while present generation white America proclaims no association with past ancestrial actions, that they too have been so brainwashes with the theology of empowered White Supremacy that they can't negotiate the very same self demeanor of their ancestry?
Is it not true that White America thru attitude and posture gloats and smears their privilege and n the face of minority deprivation?
I HAVE BEEN AMUSED TO SAY THE LEAST, AT THE UNRAVELLING OF THIS COUNTRY'S SEGREGATED SOCIAL UNBALANCE. THIS NATION WAS CONSTRUCTED, BUILT UPON THE PROLIFERATION OF THE SLAVE OWNERSHIP MENTALLY TY. TO THE VERY POINT THAT IT HAS TOTALLY ENSLAVED ITSELF AND EVERY WORKING CITIZEN. INCLUDING THE POLITICAL FORUM?
IS IT NOT TRUE.....?
Earlier today I had a fire truck try to rev me. I have much issue with train and we'll paid (supposedly) professional beating their chest and embracing the heroism of others just based upon title.
To all my antagonizers and revers! This GIF is for y'all. SMILE WITH LOVE!
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I have decided to Continue it. Your welcome @chocolate1721
“No” she said which had everyone even more shocked. “You don’t get to say anything, you helped them turn me into this, Chat” she practically spat the work out causing everyone to flinch. “Hope your happy with the changes, I’m now everything you said I was”
she smirked as she said that. she was happy to see the flinches from everyone there. oh, except for her lovely Dove and Chloe. she didn’t enjoy seeing them flinch. she made her way over to them and pressed a kiss to Damian’s cheek, smiling softly at him. “I’ll always be the same for you Dove. you could do nothing wrong to hurt me. you always wanted to protect me and defend me from these rats and sheep. thank you” she pressed another kiss to his other cheek before turning to Chloe. “And Chloe, you did your best to help, you truly did. you've changed so much for the better. I'm glad. but those nasty little parts, well they had to go somewhere” she said smirking over at the class, loving that shiver that coursed thru them
“Angel, please, this isn't you,” Damian said and she turned to him.
“I’m sorry Dove, but this is the new me. even Tikki agreed. we’re done with these fakes and liars. if you’ll excuse me, I have a class to deal with now,” she said turning to the others which have run to and hide behind either Batman or in alleys.
“Im afraid I can’t let you do that, Bug” he said and Bug cackled at that.
“You technically don’t have jurisdiction Batsy. This is a French problem. Not a Gotham problem she said with a smirk as Damian and Chloe backed up not sure what to do.
“Your in Gotham tho. and your class is under the guardianship and protection of Mr. Wayne and so, by me as I protect Mr. Wayne and his family. So yes, you are in my jurisdiction,” Batman reason and Bug tsks and jerked her head to him and Joker smirked as he started distracting Batman.
Bug went over to the group and smirked as they scrambled away. “Oh Lila~” she sang out sickeningly sweetly causing Lila to whimper. “There you are~! why don't you come out and play~” she sang with a cackle as she but an edge to the word ‘play’ and watched as Alya, sweet sweet Alya, the one who was her friend but ditched her for the next shiny thing, pushed Lila out from the group. “Oh, Alya~! that wasn’t very nice~ kinda like what you did to me~’ she sang tying her yo-yo around Alya and pulling her forward.
“W-what do you want B-bug!?” Alya demanded holding her phone up and live streaming to her blog while Bug cackled once more.
“Why, for you to learn a lesson. you preach about fact-checking and proof but never do it yourself. You believed Lila with none of that. you treated her as if she was God himself. Your golden ticket. so did the rest of you. the only good thing she’s done tho? show me how much you guys are like rats and sheep. always demanding my time, my skills, my work, and never giving anything in return. you were pulling me along for so long, with promises of forgiveness if I did what you demanded. But not anymore. You aren’t getting anything you don't deserve. and right now? you deserve revenge” she spat.
“p-please B-b-bug! I-im sorry! I-i-i lied about everything! about being your friend! about knowing Prince Ali! About saving Jagged Stone’s cat! about YOU BULLYING ME!! I ACTUALLY BULLIED YOU IM SORRY!” Lila shouted putting her hands together as she fell to her knees crying, real tears which was shocking, Bug didn't think it was in her, putting her head to the ground as her hands were raised to the air, to Bug.
behind her, the class gasped. they couldn’t believe it. they started getting angry, especially Alya. and Bug tsked loudly. “oh, you don't get to be angry. I GET TO BE ANGRY” she shouted causing everyone to flinch. “You should have believed me when I told you. not believe some new bitch to the class. should have KNOWN I WOULDNT STOOP TO WHAT SHE CLAIMS OF MY CHARACTER” she shouted angrily, her voice seemingly multiplying causing everyone to cover their ears.
“M-ma-mari pl-please-” Adrien stuttered before stopping at Bug’s glare.
“It’s BUG, NOW AGRESTE! even if I did go by Mari, you don't get to call me that. i am NOT your friend. nor anyone else’s friend here. only Chloe has the right to call me Mari. she earned it after everything. she knew and learned from her mistakes and turned over a new leaf. but she also knew not to believe things at face value if it dealt with other people. something I thought you people knew” she spat causing Adrien to flinch. “Please, m’lady. come back to us. go back to you were, and everything can go back to how it was” he said and that had everyone freezing
how stupid can that boy be?
that ran thru many peoples heads. everyone was confused when they saw Bug’s face soften and made her way over to Adrien. Alya and smiling victoriously and filming it, thinking true love broke thru the ‘bully’s’ head.
but no one was prepared for what actually happened
Bug snarled as she slapped Adrien hard across the cheek before kicking him in the gut. Adrien grunted as he flew back and skidded a bit before running into Ivan’s feet.
“Wha-why did you do that!?” Alya demanded, fear flickering across her face as Bug turned back to her with a sinister smirk.
“Nothing will ever return to how it was. he knew ever single thing Lila said was a lie and let her do it. let her walk free as she terrorized me. Practically let her with how he acted. and I'm done letting rats and sheep walk over me demanding my time and work. Im not doing anything for anyone unless they pay for it.” she said turning back to the two girls. “now now now, here we are. my two main tormentors, right in front of me~” she sang out once more in that sickeningly sweet tone.
Lila whimpered from her spot, having not moved an inch hoping to maybe lessen the punishment Mari was going to give her. Bug smirked as she ripped Alya’s phone from her grip and pointed it at her face.
“Hello Paris. As you may have seen, it’s me, Ladybug” she spat the name out. “But I've changed. I now go by Bug. and since they know, you get to know as well. In my civilian life you know me as Marinette Dupain-Cheng and know Chat Noir as Adrien Agreste. these three people” she turned the camera to Lila’s bowed form, Alya’s scared face, and Adrien’s red-hand shaped blotched face, “have been making my life hell. but oh, they had help” she said panning the camera out to the rest of the class. “those lovely sheep followed the Liar called Lila Rossi’s every word never checking a single thing she spewed. You can thank them for turning me into this new me. I go by Bug now. I’m helping Joker. and Hawkmoth, Mayura, if you know whats good for you, leave your miraculous at my balcony unless you want to see what a protege of Joker can do” she said giving the camera a sinister grin before shoving the phone back into Alya’s hands.
“wha-what are you going to do to us?” Alya stammered out and Bug smirked.
“I’m sure Paris has their own revenge planned for the rest of the class. Adrien, oh, his life will be ruined once i show the evidence of what he’s done to me. so that slap and kick are enough. you two, oh. everyone is already tearing you apart along with your reputations. I wouldn't be surprised if dozens of lawsuits are being drawn up for slander and defamation. just look at what you’ve posted. an airport letting a little girl unsupervised onto an active tarmac? jagged stone writing a song about a minor without anyone knowing? not even said minors mom? Clara Nightengale stealing Lila Rossi’s dance moves? that's just the tip of the iceberg. yes, we all know now that moi, Ladybug, Bug now, has a song written by Jagged. but we’re superheroes and Jagged thought we were older. he wouldn't willingly write a song about a minor. but it doesn't have any lyrics so i doubt he'll get in any trouble” she said and Lila whimpered once more at the thought of all the lawsuits shed get.
“y-you cant do this!” Alya shouted and Bug’s smirk turned to her.
“Oh, I cant?” she asked and Alya paled as she realized her mistake. “Oh, Im just getting the justice i deserve! something you all did to me when you thought miss Liar Lila was God himself. What makes it that you can do that but I cant!?” she demanded and Alya gulped. “see, you don't have a reason. you just can't stand having it dished right back at ya,” she said and Alya was visibly shaking with the phone shaking slightly as well
“wh-what are you going to do to us?” she asked shakily and Bug smirked.
“Nothing much. I do have morals unlike you. I’ll get my revenge and the rest of Paris will finish it. Lila, stand up” she said glaring at Lila as she shakily got up looking at Bug fearfully, her face pale. “oh don't worry Lila, you said sorry, so I won't do much to you. Especially since Paris and the many people are going to have it out for you~” Bug whispered the last sentence into Lila’s ear, absolutely loving the way she squirmed. she pulled back, that smirk never leaving her face as she started circling Lila, humming softly under her breath as she figured what to do to Lila that would suffice her need for revenge.
Joker keened out a laugh from his place on the ground with Batman in front of him. his hands were behind him but he smiled. “Oh Batsy, it's her right to get justice for what they've done to her” he said happily and Batman grunted as he forced the man down near Damian and Chloe and made his way toward Bug.
“I can't do that, and you know that” he grunted out.
“Oh don't worry. She's too sweet to do something like that” Joker called out and Batman sent a glare. he then started back toward Bug and the two girls. he was shocked, to say the least as he watched Bug punch Lila squarely in the nose. Lila shouted as she fell down onto her ass, clutching her nose as it started bleeding. “See, just a broken nose!” he said excitedly.
Bug turned to Alya then and in quick succession punched her shoulder and kicked her legs out from under her. Alya hit the ground harshly on her shoulder that was punched, causing her to cry out while her phone fell to the floor, a crack appearing across the screen. her hand held her throbbing shoulder while the other picked her phone up and pointed it at Bug.
“I got what I wanted. now go. go see what Paris has to say about what you did” she spat going over to Damian and Chloe, kissing Damian softly on the lips before pulling back. Damian had the rightfully confused look as Bug started pulling them along. Plagg appeared next to them holding his ring in his paw and holding it out to Bug who shook her head. he nodded, handing to Damian as Bug’s transformation fell. really showing everyone that Mari and Bug(and Ladybug) were the same person.
Not that anyone was going to mess with her. they saw what she’s capable of. and who she knows.
Don’t mess with her unless your ready to see God and Satan together. For she nor Joker came to mess around
Well, here it is! i hope you enjoyed it!! now i REALLY doubt this will get a third part lol. enjoy
Here is another prompt WARNING: this could get angsty but that is only by the author’s decision when writing it
So the class get held hostage by the Joker while in Gotham. And Lila and some others push Marinette into the joker and escape. The joker then decides to make Marinette his side kick because, how messed up can you be when the people who are supposed to be tour friends and the person who is supposed to take care of you, literally throw you to the wolves to save themselves. And (batboi of choice) saves her
Please I want so many people to write their own stories for this. I realized that my last prompt was a bit constricting so I tried to not do that for this prompt. Please tag me in this to
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Chapter 1:
“Tighten up you fat bastard”
Kharkhad desperately tried to keep his gut in “An actual bastard calling me a bastard, just do your job” he yelled back at Kherdis who tried to swing whatever was left of the leather strap around his fingers and finish tightening the armor around the commanders waist.
“How do I look?” he slapped the metal plates on his belly twice with a slight smile.
“There” he sighed “like a well stuffed pig before Newsummers fiest”.
“Have I gotten that fat?” he thought with a smile “And the men complain about the lack of food here…”.
Kharkhad was not particularly a thin man, but that in no way was a result of gluttony, rather a diet of fresh meat and the daily hardships of life in an encampment and at the front. None of the men could match his physique other than a select few from the builders company, and even those grew only in their waist rather than shoulders surprisingly, which might explain the lately slacking reported by men close to Kharkhad. Many in the camp admired him for his image, it coincided with the image of a leader, a prince, and a future king, strong, superior, worthy of serving. It’s a shame his boyish beardless face usually tainted that.
As he finished tying the final strap under his chin he turned around to face Kherdis, whose agile build in comparison left him with a few minutes to spare as he watched his prince desperately trying to fit in. He walked toward him and they exchanged a strong hug.
“It is done then?” he took a sit on the chair near the map table.
“It is done” Kherdis sighed.
Kharkhad could tell that it was not with an easy heart he was giving these orders, but he dare not questioned. “Never spit on the road before you, for you might turn it into mud and get yourself stuck” he remembered a saying he’d once heard from Eghayn back at the local inn in his town.
“I was offered no choice… You understand that right?
“I understand little I suppose, politics isn’t really my place my Lord, I’m just a soldier”
Kharkhad lifted his arm to Kherdis’s shoulder “you’re more than just a soldier, you’re one of the 3 and you know that, and I want your…” he swallowed his words” I need you to be with me on this one, I want to make sure everyone is with me before we proceed”.
Kherdis kept staring at the ground “You shall have my sword as you always have my Lord”.
Kharkhad knew he was not completely convinced that they were doing the right thing, but neither was he, nevertheless duty triumphed over emotions, it was the way he was raised, the way he lived and the way he fought. And just as always duty triumphed when the message arrived. The king had ordered the complete bombardment of Orderadi from a distance with stones and fire arrows before the army was to proceed. It went against all of the old laws, he thought. It wasn’t standard procedure, remove the ruler of a region, install a new leader and leave a portion of the army big enough to quell revolt, but never in any case lay hands on the inhabitants. Trade was to flourish, migration to be celebrated and the skilled artisans attracted to the southern crescent. This was not the practice of the old laws, the Bronze tablets or the Faithful, But Kharkhad as throughout his life never questioned, merely with a pinch of bitterness gave out orders such as these in the name of duty and a better future. Some of the men had complained, none openly, but a good commander knew the movement of thoughts among his army without having to speak to each soldier in person.
“Have there been any complaints” he asked Kherdis.
“None so far, I’ve heard some whispers here and there but mostly opinions”
They both stood up and stepped out of the small Tent. Kharkhad inspected the encampment before him, some five hundred meters of now half dismantled tents and loaded carts ready for departure. On the top of the hill before it seven longhaulers stood tall erected the day before ready to commence with the assault, the seven thousand strong army group assembled into 3 lines standing side by side in front of them, ready to charge down the hill with ease.
“Ready to go home?” he turned to Kherdis.
Kherdis paused, he did not look at him he preferred keeping his focus like that on what mattered, the technicalities, procedures, his duty and debt. “By your will my Lord” he put on his helmet and fastened the leather straps at the chin.
“By the will of the Lord” he replied with a standard gesture as they both traversed thru the encampment towards the hill.
Kherdis made his way to the left line of which he was in command. Orikhdas the commander of the seventh was already on the right line awaiting them. Kharkhad stood in front of the middle and looked at both commanders briefly exchanging nods with each before climbing on his horse and going back and forth from one end of the army to trying to inspect as many soldiers as possible. Discipline was key in his army group, floggings and harsh punishments were a habit of the men, but none held it against him, the fruits that came from such discipline after each conquest were too quenched any bitterness accumulated in the time before it. After each successful raid or occupation, Kharkhad would allow them one night of leave, within the conquered settlement with all expenses during that night paid by his family “Go onto these new lands and feast, and drink, and bed as many women as you can, the crown gives thanks to its brave warriors, and rewards where necessary, but lay no waste and cause no trouble, for any harm you do you will get 10 times as much from me”. But this time was different, there were no smiles, no drool and no lips bitten in lust for pleasures, for they knew no pleasures awaited them in the hill before them, only death, ruin and bodies, if any are still left in one piece.
“Dochridi infantrymen” he yelled in a thunderous voice and the entire army moved one step forward and extended their spear arm to the side “I know the heavy heart with which you march down this valley… I know, believe me. But as I have done my duty and as you and many others we’ve conquered have given their youths to the serving a higher pourpouse, and reaped the rewards of that service throughout these long years, I know you will not disappoint me. I have placed my trust in you more times than I have in my own mother throughout my life, and I know that today I can place it again” it was just one of his tactics of control over their minds, making them feel like they need to live up to his expectations, to earn his respect “It is my belief that a hard fight should not go unrewarded or uncompensated, for I have given to each family of a lost son twice his earned wage during his entire service, I have allowed you such liberties on the front that even some commanders of other armies would be envious of, but this final battle is not of physical hardship. Therefore there is no liberty or wealth I can offer that is within my power to show you my deep sympathy for what you are about to do” he signaled with a raised hand to the scribe standing behind the lines to come between them and took the cloth scroll he held and opened it to face the army “I Lord Kharkhad, first son of King Tichrod, heir to the Dochridi throne, Grand Commander of the Ukhaili armies and holder of Lord Cloedeh’s blessing, by the law crafting powers given to me by my father the king” his voice reaching ever higher “sign this order and issue it’s execution upon the end of the battle, that all men serving under the banner of Lord Kharkhad who wish to be released from their seven year service contract shall be released instantaneously, and may carry home from Orderadi as much wealth, women or slaves that their hands, bags and chains can carry”.
Tears in the eyes of some of the men began to appear especially the younger ones. The promise of wealth and flesh was a splendid news, but the promise of braking the contract they sign upon recruitment, for some there was no greater joy, the spoils and wealth they have accumulated along the way was enough for a lifetime, but every day at the front meant a possibility to loose all that, including ones life.
Kharkhad closed the scroll “Any man who dissagreas with my decision, may he raise his spear now and throw it to the ground, he will not be punished, but he will not feast on the same privileges as those who fight”
A short pause before some of the men on all lines got down on both knees, then more, and more. In a brief moment the entire army was on it’s knees. No answer was required, it was a common sign - “Your will be done my Lord” a saying the Dochridi adopted which was officially only spoken to the gods.
“Let it be so…” he gave the scroll back to the Scribe, who placed it in a bronze chest, such was the custom to show the importance of of someone or something, dress it in bronze.
Kharkhad turned his horse and faced Orderadi on the opposite hill. A well-fortified encampment with stone walls only reaching three meters tall, but a hill in front of it steep enough to prevent a cavalry charge and cause an slippery, impassable, muddy obstacle during a rainy day. He stood for a minute… He admired what he knew was soon to be a heep of rubble, ash and blood. He raised his hand and lifted his head to watch as a rain of giant boulders thrown by the longhaulers, a monstrous wooden machine as tall as twenty strong men, and fire arrows flew towards the settlement. Arrows were fired back, but most never landed nearer than fifty meters from Kharkhad and his men. He did not lower his head for the entirety of the spectacle. Much death was seen at the front in the past decade and a half, but never were screams of dying men and women heard in the background so loudly, innocents and valuable people whose only fault was being at the wrong place in the wrong time.
Several minutes later, the screams subsided, or were they overlapped by the sound of falling stones, or the crackling of the wooden frames of houses, they were too far away to tell. He lowered his head to look at the giant cluster of smoke rising towards the sky. In the distance he could see burning bodies, even people on fire rushing out of what was once close to a City, some falling from the walls in a last attempt to save themselves. The walls meant to protect them, became a prison that quickly turned into a slaughterhouse. He turned around to face the men and saw the horror on their face, that look of despair, the look of regret, he knew it all too well. He shared that exact feeling. In a quick swing he took out the sword from the holster on his waist and raised it in the air.
“All wings!” the men on all lines placed their big shields facing forward “Normal Pace!” The drummers on each side began instantly with a regular pace march rhythm as they moved onward. Kharkhad allowed them to pass before following them from behind.
They marched with a normal speed to the beat of the drums on either side whose echo reached all the way to Orderadi. The barrage of stone and fire stopped as the men advanced closer to the target, never increasing their speed. There was no need to, no army to meet them, the gates burst wide open with chunks of rock all over them. The walls, or whatever was left of them, broken and charred in some places littered with burning or splattered bodies.
They were now only a minute march from the entrance. Not a single guard at the gate, but Kharkhad could make out a only figure of an old man beginning to show its way thru the smoke at the front gate, coughing and walking slowly at them.
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5. 9. 12. 47. 48. 53. (Lol) 66. 67. (Me)
Guys my answers are gonna be lame i feel like imma say cudi for most of it smh
5. Latest song that made you smile? I think [Alina Baraz ft Khalid - Electric] did the other day, but im damn sure [Kid Cudi - Flight at first sight/ Advanced] has been one of the latest.
9. Artist/band that saved your life? Most def Kid Cudi, but saved? i wouldnt just say that he saved my life, he gave it more depth, help put life into words, he was there for me at my darkest and brightest times and spoke for me and others like myself, he was like a big bother.
12. Saddest song you know? Kid Cudi - Efflictim and Troubled Boy. TOP - Goner and Truce. Fleurie - Hurts like hell. Theres a bunch but ill just say those few.
47. A song made suddenly painful because of someone special? Damn alot really idk how i would narrow that down, prob most of number 67′s answers just cuz of the fact that they were songs for her and it meant alot for me to play songs for someone and say these are your songs and then to think about them playing those for someone else can really hurt. Also songs that i hear now that i didnt think i would have to relate to.
48. A song that demands lip syncing and a makeshift microphone? Kid Cudi - Erase me, Immortal, and GHOST. idk haha maybe a Weeknd song too.
53. Your 10 song striper playlist? 1) A$AP - L$D. 2) Jhene Aiko - Maniac. 3) Kid Cudi - Balmain jeans. 4) King Chip ft. Cudi - Vortex. 5) Major lazer - Lean on. 6) Ty Dolla ft The Weeknd - Oh Nah. 7) A Purity Ring song idk which one to pick. 8) The Weeknd - Often. 9) Selena Gomez - good for you. 10) The Weeknd - The hills. hmmm i think ill go with those, id have to dig thru more than just what are in my playlists to actually figure out what i would really put in there but those work.
66. A song that makes you want to fall in love? Theres a shit ton smh but idk ill go with something like Kid Cudi - All In, Love Hard, or Intergalactic, Arctic Monkeys - i just wanna be yours, TOP - Tear in my heart or Cant help falling in love cover.
67. A song that makes you think about ‘him/her’? Kid cudi - Teleport 2 me, and alot more cudi songs (distant fantasies lol). Desire - under your spell, Arctic monkeys - do i wanna know? The moon song, city of stars, i hate u i love u, shit i could make a playlist for how many songs there are, which i have and it has close to 530 songs on it… so.. id be here all day.
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