#v; the banshee

[secondhandmckie]

"Hey-wait! Whoa!" Molly's hands shoot up by her head immediately, the bag she had been carrying landing at her feet with a thud. With every other possibility she'd taken into her calculations (which was being very kind, considering she hadn't thought much on it at all), she hadn't considered that Page might already be awake. That also meant she hadn't expected the gun to be aimed for her the second she'd opened the door.

"It's just me! Well, me and the produce, but still!"

@sevenbulletsavior | (starter)

[secondhandmckie]

A gloved hand rubs at her nose--the mask had been one of the first things taken before she'd entered the room, and Molly's starting to actually miss it, here. At least then she'd still feel like they were on some kind of even ground.

Karen moved from her seat, and Molly forced herself to sit back in her own...to take on a detached air, when all she really wanted to do was hop out one of the expansive windows and take her chances trying to get to the roof. Those gloves fold over her belly as she watches Karen move, glancing between the blonde's features and the glass in her hand.

"Ah, see, I can't help you there. I'm not a woman." She shrugged. "I'm more of an idea. A concept, if you will. A fever dream, for a few very unlucky guys in the Bronx."

Then, because she can't seem to help herself, "I'm flattered by the offer, but I don't think you're my type. Not nearly enough leather."

Karen listened as the doors were shut behind them, as muffled voices barked orders for the men who had previously been stationed outside of the door to take up post elsewhere. She knew Benjamin and Billy would stay outside of her door, waiting patiently but on alert in case they needed to intervene. Loyal, stalwart, but she also never put her full trust in either man.

That was why she had brought Molly in. She trusted no one in her circle implicitly: they were either previously under the bidding of Fisk (and had attempted to murder her before) or they were at odds with the man whom she loved (but that would never be uttered aloud). Bringing in an outsider was necessary for Karen to keep herself actually safe.

Would anyone turn on her? Probably not.

Benjamin had already executed two men who had tried to sell her out to the Russians, but there was always a possibility someone else was feeling foolish.

When Molly finally sat, Karen arose, moving over to the unmanned bar. "I do have liquor if you would like something else besides tea." It was a little rib, leaning in to her remark, and Karen turned on the electric kettle to heat up water for her own tea. "I brought you in because I wanted to talk, face to face, woman to woman." The blonde turned to meet Molly's gaze.

"I have an offer for you."

[romance-incubomp3]

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[dreamsofalife]

((I keep drawing this ridiculous beeyoch in her ridiculous villain costume and being a ridiculous little gremlin. I've been trying to draw with more details and while it's not perfect, it's definitely something and I had fun!

Fun facts about Banshee's costume;

It was gonna be white, but she couldn't keep up with the cost of dry cleaning a white costume, especially when it got repeatedly covered in dirt and blood.

Her boots are steel toed and have little hearts on the bottom, so when she curb stomps a person, it leaves a heart shaped imprint.

The black feather look was inspired by the fact that banshee are commonly associated with crows, as both are said to hang around scenes of bloody battles, albeit for different reasons. Her whole outfit was very heavily influenced by Stevie Nicks, especially because her song Rhiannon was Shy's gateway drug to celtic, especially Welsh mythology.

Her glasses are specially made to be shatterproof, because she literally can't see without them. Her eyesight is horrible.))

[britishassistant]

The Crewel siblings are as different as black and white, but that doesn’t mean they don’t share traits. One of the villains had the unfortunate experience of being targeted by Yuu’s mom’s ire. She was just trying to check on her baby after news came back about a particularly nasty villain encounter. But someone just had to break through the wall of Yuu’s apartment at the time. Anita was trying to be a good hostage like her brother taught to, but this gentleman was starting to. Get. On. Her. Nerves. I personally enjoy the idea of her dragging the villain out the apartment by the ear, whispering in gene/mother given wrath that Yuu needs a break and to tell all the others of that too. Slamming the door in the probably sorely confused Baddy’s face and just returning to Yuu saying “We’ll just go out for tea, you said there was this family run bakery you haven’t had the money to try?” Yuu knows at this point it’s better to just smile and nod.

Thank you for the ask, dear anon!

Yuu’s not sure who’s rapping at the door this early. Is it early? It feels that way, like they only closed their eyes half a minute ago, returned from yet another kidnapping turned Prefect intervention to perform a quick and dirty patch up and topple face first into bed.

They barely have the wherewithal to pull on the shirt they somehow shrugged off during sleep, stumbling towards the door on shaky, coltish legs, hissing at the cold.

“Love the knocking on doors, guys,” They grumble as they undo their locks and latches. “Real improvement on breaking it down, but what could you need this—?”

“Good morning!” Their mother chirps on the other side of the door. “Goodness, I didn’t wake you up, did I?”

“…Mom?” It takes a moment of them blinking in stupefaction to realize yes, their mother is here, standing in the doorway. “Mom! I, ah, come in, come in, how, what…?”

“I hope now isn’t a bad time.” Mom says, stepping through the door with all her usual grace. “You did tell your father and I that you had today off, and while he’s got to take care of the puppies, I thought I could come down and check on how you were doing after what happened. You sounded a bit shaken up.”

“Mom, I’m fine, I promise. Heck, I end up tied to the tops of buildings so often now I’m used to it.” Yuu tries to smile unconvincingly, before darting a look around at the interior of their small apartment. “Uh…Sorry about the mess.”

“Oh, don’t be silly!” Their mother exclaims. “I didn’t come here to see your flat—I came here to see you, sweetheart. Anyway, it’s hardly as bad as your room when you were younger—remember when you were twelve and you’d just leave your worn-out slippers just lying around every time you got a new pair? And the pups would steal them for toys and we’d have to wrestle them back to throw away?”

“Mom.” Yuu groans, covering their face with their hands. “That was ages ago, and it wasn’t that bad! At least I’m better than Dad!!”

Their mother laughs and holds her arms out.

When Yuu goes in to hug her, she squeezes just tightly enough and whispers, “I’ve missed you so much, Yuu.”

Wrapped up in the warm embrace, they can feel tears begin to prick at their eyes, like they’re small and have just had their scraped knees bandaged and kissed.

“….missed you too, Mom.” They whisper, squeezing back fiercely.

Eventually, Mom pulls back, giving their shoulders a little squeeze. “Now, how about you go wash up and get dressed, and I’ll take you out for the day? I remember the pictures you sent over of those cute little tarts—”

Which is when the door explodes.

Yuu is momentarily thankful for the reaction instincts their time as the Prefect has made them develop, as they curl over their mother and twist her away to take the brunt of the wood shrapnel.

There’s a shadowy figure standing in what used to be the doorway.

“HUMAN!!” Banshee screeches. “MY LIEGE HAS GIVEN YOU THE HONOR OF REQUESTING YOUR PRESENCE!! COME!!”

Yuu groans as they straighten, trying to keep their mother behind them. “And you couldn’t knock?”

Sebek strides in, ignoring their question.

Silver Knight follows, but pauses when he catches sight of Yuu’s mom. “Ah. You have a guest.”

“HUMAN!” Sebek yells. “WE ARE KIDNAPPING THE REPORTER FOR THE MOST HONORABLE, MOST TERRIBLE SUPERVILLAIN OF ALL TIME, THE MIGHTY TSUNOTARO! DO NOT ATTEMPT TO WAYLAY US UNLESS YOU WISH TO INCUR THE WRATH OF HIS FINEST BODYGUARDS!!”

Silver shrugs in apology but grabs one of Yuu’s arms anyway.

“Ah, so you two work for one of the newer supervillains Divvy was telling me about!” Mom exclaims, ever the optimist. “I’m Anita Radcliffe, Yuu’s mother. It’s lovely to meet the two of you.”

Silver blinks at her, wide-eyed and attempts to bow back while not letting go of his stranglehold on Yuu’s arm. He’s worryingly good at it. “Nice to meet you. I’m Silver, ah. Silver Knight, henchman to Tsunotaro.”

“This one is known as Banshee! Bodyguard to the glorious Malleus-sama, the secret identity of the most noble and terrible Tsunotaro!!” Sebek proclaims. “Be awed, human!!”

“If it’s meant to be secret, why are you outing it at the first opportunity…” Yuu mutters to themself, trying to covertly shake splinters out of their hair.

“Ah, be careful sweetheart!” Their mother says, though she doesn’t come towards them like she obviously wants to, heeding Uncle Divvy’s Hostage 101 lectures. “You’ll get something in your eye by doing that—would you gentlemen mind if they cleaned themself up a bit? Made them more presentable for your…employer?”

Yuu is uncomfortably concious of the way every eye in the room rakes over their comfy, ratty, covered in debris, pajamas.

“…As expected of the one who raised the reporter.” Sebek chuckles. “Naturally, human, you must dress in your finest garments for a meeting with my liege! Nothing less will do!!”

They pointedly do not remark that Tsunotaro has seen them in far worse attire than this.

Silver huffs a laugh suddenly, shaking his head.

“Sorry, it’s just,” He chuckles again. “Just remembered something Fa—Batman said, about how Tsunotaro would like to have a view when…”

He seems to remember himself as he trails off, pale cheeks blazing red. For their part, Yuu can feel blood rushing to their own face at the implication.

“SILVER!!” Sebek yells. “For once you’ve had a good idea!”

What.

“What?” Silver says, confused.

“What??” Yuu asks, desperately hoping they’ve misunderstood.

“Human!” Banshee proclaims. “You will bathe yourself, and I shall take pictures of you for Malleus-sama!”

Silver stares, mouth open in shock.

Yuu can feel their eyelid developing a twitch.

There’s a small snapping noise.

One of the shards of wood in their mom’s hands has been snapped in half.

Yuu knows that look on her face. It’s one they learned to dread growing up, heralding disappointment and scoldings and stories about clowns stealing their teeth.

“…Right.” Mom says. “Right. Yuu, you go get cleaned up. These gentlemen and I,” She seizes Silver with one hand and Sebek with the other, manages to prize their grips off of Yuu almost effortlessly. “Need to have a little chat about something private.”

“Uh—” Silver hesitates.

“HUMAN! UNHAND ME AT ONCE!” Sebek blusters.

“Mom—” Yuu starts forward, worried for their mom’s safety.

“That’s enough.” Yuu’s mother commands, then smiles sweetly at them. “Yuu, dear, be careful when washing things out—don’t get any splinters in your face. I’ll see you once you’re dressed, alright? We’ll pop down to that sweet family bakery for breakfast after I’m finished.”

Yuu hasn’t come this far in life by not listening to their mom when she tells them what to do in that tone of voice.

They turn around and walk through the bathroom door, shutting it behind them.

[secondhandmckie]

"I thought I'd borrow some from you, since you have a never-ending supply. Maybe you buy in bulk, from Amazon. Or Costco." Returning the snark is the only way Molly is certain she won't immediately try to smack him. The thought is still tempting, and the fantasy satisfying.

"You got any more zingers, or can we move on?"

@secondhandmckie asked ❛ where do you purchase your audacity from? ❜ -

"my mom does all our grocery shopping," roy answers, pretending to be confused. "why? are you all out of audacity?"

[winterwolf0120]

Ask Leon, Jada, and friends

Chapter 6: The Welcome Home crew

Main characters:

Leon S. Kennedy 💙

Jada 🩵

N 💛

Kings Island Resistance:

Bendy 🖤

Uzi Doorman 💜

Tommyinnit ❤️

Loona ❤️

V 💛

Freddy Fazbear 🧡

Kings Island roller coasters:

Orion (Leon's roller coaster) 🩵💙🌌👑

Diamondback (Bendy's roller coaster) ❤️🖤🐍

Banshee (Loona's roller coaster) 💜❤️👻

Mystic Timbers (N's roller coaster) 💚💛🌲

The Beast (Freddy's roller coaster) 🧡🧡🐻

Welcome Home crew:

Jasmine 🩷

Wally Darling ❤️

Barnaby B. Beagle 💙

Julie Joyful 🩷

Howdy Pillar 🩵💚

Poppy Partridge 💚

Frank Frankly 💛

Eddie Dearing 💜

Home 🖤

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[kaminokilljoy]

ok honestly i have called myself emo before and get called emo a lot but when i think abt it the only emo band i rly got into was michael romance and green day/evanescence if they count, i feel like im much more into whatever side of alt culture metalcore is (motionless, bmth, spiritbox, sleeptoken, bad omens, sysc...) what does that make me? 😭

[secondhandmckie]

@penniesxdimes | (continued from x)

Frank’s eyes bolted open, the light almost like daggers in his brain. Concussion…great. He glanced around the room before he registered anything else to assess where he had been dragged off. It looked like…a modest apartment if he was honest with himself. A little chaotic, but all the essentials were there. Once his eyes fell across the figure knelt down beside him he let out a pained groan. “Who the fuck -”

"Probably better to stay still, bud." A gloved hand gestures to her masked head. "You got knocked around pretty good. Your noodle's probably all sorts of scrambled, huh? I'd feel worse if you hadn't have swung at me." Had it been in the heat of the moment? A guy half-out of it, just trying to stay alive? Of course, and she got that.

She was just a little salty about it, still. "Would've put you on the couch if you weren't a goddamn tank." The Banshee stood finally, moving toward the table. When she returned, she offered a bottle of water. "What do you remember?"

[schn33wi11ch3n]

is the vaporwave community still here? lmao

as someone who knows tomb raider too well i did a while ago try to figure out wich specific face model of lara was used on this blank banshee cover and its the one from tomb raider legend, i once wrongly assumed its from AOD but the hair model is VERY different and matches with legend so there ya have it

[eternvlsound]

[dreamsofalife]

((I was also thinking about a villain au today, because I make au's of au's? And I have an idea.

Shy goes by Banshee, due to her love of folklore and her known mental instability; she's given to fits of hysterical laughter and crying, and when you hear her doing either? It's not going to be good.

It follows the same story beats of her thinking she's a monster and being generally beaten down by life and just. Never found a reason to recover. She broke and that rage festered over time and caused her to become the very thing she was desperate not to be. If they want a monster, if they see and condemn her as one, she'll be one.

In folklore, the Banshee is said to foretell death with its wailing cries. Hers foretell someone's getting messed with big time.))

[secondhandmckie]

talesofluke​:

@secondhandmckie said: “❝ i didn’t realize how late it was. ❞

Luke’s brows shoved together momentarily as he heard the words; as if the time was what had him taken aback. The cut up lip, bloodied knuckles- the general disheveledness of her person was what had had him frozen momentarily in his tracks. "That doesn’t matter.” He assured her, keeping his voice low. “So… What, you.. went after some assholes who.. What, again?” He questioned her as he made his way to the first aid kit. “I’m a little rusty with this stuff,” He admitted. Since his mom had been committed, he hadn’t had much of a need to clean up wounds. It wasn’t really something you forgot though. “But I should get you cleaned up.”

He didn’t shut the door in her face, so that was something. Not that she assumed Luke might--he just had his own shit to deal with, didn’t he? And here she was, because she didn’t want to drag Dylan in again. Not that she knew she could; he was more or less wrapped around Alan’s little finger these days, wasn’t he?

Molly’s steps were measured as she shut the door behind herself, carefully shedding her jacket. “Rusty with bandaids or rusty with, y’know, having a wannabe caped crusader for a sister?” She asked, attempting levity. “I didn’t know you had a habit of collecting vigilantes.”

“Y’know that one group that’s like...targeting kids? Drugs, trafficking, all the above. Real heavy shit. But they didn’t do this--didn’t get a chance, man. I’mma let you guess, first.”

@secondhandmckie said: "❝ i didn’t realize how late it was. ❞

Luke's brows shoved together momentarily as he heard the words; as if the time was what had him taken aback. The cut up lip, bloodied knuckles- the general disheveledness of her person was what had had him frozen momentarily in his tracks. "That doesn't matter." He assured her, keeping his voice low. "So... What, you.. went after some assholes who.. What, again?" He questioned her as he made his way to the first aid kit. "I'm a little rusty with this stuff," He admitted. Since his mom had been committed, he hadn't had much of a need to clean up wounds. It wasn't really something you forgot though. "But I should get you cleaned up."

[bxdassbanshee]

@themythscometolife​​​ liked for an adult lydia starter

Lydia may have pulled him a little too close but she need to feel something solid - and Jordan is definitely solid. “I am glad to see you,” she mumbles, not pulling away. Seriously, she is not letting Jordan go. 

[donnatroyprincessofthemyscira]

Art Credit to Peter V Nguyen

[winterwolf0120]

Ask Leon, Jada, and friends

Chapter 4: Boris and the Jurassic Freedom

Main characters:

Leon S. Kennedy 💙

Jada 🩵

N 💛

Kings Island Resistance:

Tommyinnit ❤️

Bendy 🖤

Uzi Doorman 💜

Loona ❤️

V 💛

Kings Island roller coaster:

Orion (Leon's roller coaster) 🩵💙🌌👑

Diamondback (Bendy's roller coaster) ❤️🖤🐍

Banshee (Loona's roller coaster) 💜❤️👻

Mystic Timbers (N's roller coaster) 💚💛🌲

Jurassic Freedom:

Boris the Wolf 🖤

Kenji Kon 💙

Darius Bowman 💛

Brooklynn 🩷

Ben Pincus 💚

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Yaz Fadoula 💜