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[etruatcaelum]

[ @unfcrtunatescn // for salem ]

Perhaps the most irksome consequence of Cinder’s inadequate handling of the operation at Haven Academy is that it’s left the strays she dragged home unmoored and rudderless. Salem cannot fathom why Hazel bothered to bring them back: it isn’t as if he trusts her to treat them well, and it’s not as though she wants them here, particularly.

They’re children.

Under ideal circumstances, she would ignore them entirely until Cinder returned to… deal with them. Present circumstances being decidedly less than ideal, however…

“Mercury,” Salem says, rather dismal, from the entrance to the empty hall the children have taken to sparring in of late. She lifts one eyebrow, sardonic. “I’m sure you do not have anything so important to do that you can’t spare a few minutes of your time.”

Is she asking? No. She turns on her heel.

“Come with me.”

[scareqrowbranwen]

@unfcrtunatescn liked for a Jaune starter!

"Mercury, we have got to stop meeting like this." This being in the middle of a battlefield, surrounded by grimm which were, thankfully, all in the process of disintegrating. For now, anyway.

[littleblackqrow]

@unfcrtunatescn (🪶)

Qrow lightly pushed the boy back into his pillows, and stepped back to pull a chair towards the bedside. Before he sat down, Qrow pulled a pair of reading glasses from his breast pocket.

"Show me where you were on the page," he said as he perched the glasses on his nose. "Then you lay back and close your eyes, and I'll read you your chapter."

[caeloservare]

No.

"Mercury." You better have plot armor, boy.

[courtclover]

d r e a d. 

“... how did he even find that?” 

[unlockthestars]

@unfcrtunatescn to Hazel: "Just because you Koss Watts, doesn't mean we are calling him dad as well,"

unprompted // always accepting

Hazel wasn't often bashful, let alone embarrassed, but there's a definite flush on his cheeks at Mercury's words. He had thought that only Tyrian had been around to witness his goodbye to Arthur, but he never should have underestimated either Emerald or Mercury; of course they'd seen what had happened. They kind of made it their business to know what was going on around the base.

But then something else Mercury said caught his attention.

"Wait a minute--you call me dad?" he asked, raising an eyebrow. While he hadn't really considered having kids (he had…..kind of stopped really living for a while, after Gretchen had died), he honestly didn't mind the idea.

[noirdonna]

A NOVEL I'LL NEVER WRITE

@unfcrtunatescn sent: “My parents weren’t really into all that sentimental ‘loving your child’ shit.”

Mercury didn't bring up the subject of his family often, but on those rare occasions he did Blake's heart bled just a little more for him. Having loving parents of her own, she couldn't imagine the pain of having a father or a mother that hated their child. It was so wrong; disgusting.

Why have children at all?

"I'm sorry you had to go through that," Blake says softly, lifting her hand as if debating whether or not she should wrap her arms around him. She could never be sure with Mercury, and eventually her hand falls back into her lap.

"You didn't deserve it."

[eiiskonigin]

@unfcrtunatescn: 👂 (Curious what Winter thinks about teenage assassin/criminal/Remnants most wanted)

"Look at them. I can't believe-- No, I'm not questioning your ability to do your jobs. I understand that the intel is sound... I just have a difficult time believing that children were able to make such fools out of both us and Beacon."

Yes, that was the concern she had. Not that two of those wanted criminals looked as if they could have been her sister's age. What had happened to them, to make them go to this extreme...?

relationship building

[hxntresses]

@unfcrtunatescn asked:

Want me to tuck you in, too?

Emerald would have rolled her eyes or retorted irritably, but she simply lacked the energy. She hadn't had a decent night's sleep since arriving back at Evernight Castle, whether that was because of the constant snarling and howling of Grimm or her own thoughts varied from night to night. It had been difficult enough before, but now that Cinder was gone, it had gotten even worse.

She instead continues staring out of the window, blanket draped around her shoulders and arms wrapped around her knees. "Shut up..." She mumbles, in a tone weaker than she would have liked. Right now though, she was too exhausted to care. She sighs, gaze shifting slightly to look at him from the corner of her eye. "What do you want?"

[ileaverosepetalsinmywake]

From UnfcrunateScn: “ i’ve got you! “

“What?” She felt the arms around her before she knew what was fully happening. She felt the sting at the corner of her eyes. “Mercury are you okay?” 

[scareqrowbranwen]

@unfcrtunatescn liked for a Jaune starter!

"Don't come any closer," Jaune snapped, holding up his shield and broken sword. He still hadn't bothered to get it fixed or get a replacement for it. Both options seemed equally... he didn't know. It felt like a burden he still needed to carry.

He shook his head, focusing his attention back on the man in front of him. Mercury Black. Someone he once thought maybe he could have called a friend. Those days were long gone now, although if Emerald was working with them...

Well, he'd see what Mercury had to say, first.

"What do you want?"

[littleblackqrow]

@unfcrtunatescn (🍷)

"It's Officer Hot Pants, first off, get it right." Qrow was going to ignore the accusation that he was acting like a teenager. "And second, I'm Qrow Branwen, I don't need to show off.

"I was just feeling a little... spicy this morning. And Clover was pissing me off."

Perhaps it had something to do with how low Qrow's aura was this morning. Perhaps Qrow was out to prove something.

[caeloservare]

@unfcrtunatescn boooy:

"It is a big deal, Mercury." James replied, digging through some box. "'Soon' can unpredictably stretch all the way up to 'too late'. Don't make me put an extra alert on the scroll about your aura level."

He fished out two small rechargeable heat packs and put the box away. He activated both and handed one to Mercury.

"Put this near your hips. Not too close to the connections." It should warm his flesh up, while James knelt on one knee and carefully pressed his left hand to Mercury's knee. He frowned. Cold seeped through the blanket. He put the second heatpack there, hoping that slowly moving it around combined with a layer of blanket will warm the prostheses slowly enough to avoid a temperature shock to the nerves.

"We'll stop by Mantle. I want Pietro to check on your legs before we get back to the Academy."

[courtclover]

@unfcrtunatescn sent: 👀 "You trying to fuck my Qrow Dad?"

Clover nearly chokes.

" no, i... "

oh geez. what is he suppose to say? sure, that's. true. but not entirely. not completely.

" i only want to make him happy, Mercury. "

[unlockthestars]

@unfcrtunatescn liked this post for a starter!

They had to find Oscar and get out of here. This place gave her the creeps, and even though Ren was shielding their presence from the Grimm around them, Yang was pretty sure they only had so long before they were discovered.

So running into Mercury, one of the people who had infiltrated the Vytal Festival, who had helped to cause the fall of Beacon, while not unexpected, was one of the last things she wanted.

It took an immense amount of willpower not to just punch him in the face. But Oscar was with him, something that gave her pause.

"What the hell do you want?" Yang snarled, eyes blazing red, her fists lifting automatically when she sees Mercury. She doesn't trust him as far as she can throw him, and quite frankly, that would probably be pretty far. He was part of the reason she'd lost her arm, and she'd been just itching for a rematch, one that was fair, that didn't end in everyone watching the Vytal Festival thinking that she was someone who would hit an opponent in a sanctioned fight when they were down.

[sustraing]

From UnfcrunateScn: you could have called me!

@unfcrtunatescn

"What good would that have done Mercury?" Emerald snaps back, trying to hide how upset she is.