#verse: lone wolf

[bloodstainedstar]

The shower has been running for a while now; A bit longer than expected, really, but that only confirms some thoughts Khan has been mulling over for the last few minutes. Despite the other taking more time than expected, Khan remains patient and continues leaning against the wall across the other's apartment - from where he can look at that door, still closed, which will probably open soon.

His arms folded in front of his chest, senses sharp, Khan takes in the noises he can pick up - there's many of them, and not all seem to be of innocent kind. No, he's not surprised. Not at all.

A breath is being taken, noticing the scent of body wash, shampoo and moisture, Khan continues to wait in the semi-darkness of the other's home. He blinks, slowly, allows minutes to pass - unmoving.

✮ – How long has this man been staying with him for? Less than 72 hours, perhaps? And even though he had been quite resourceful (he cooked for the both of them as Bucky’s strongest suit wasn’t to be a cook), his personality or what Bucky had seen of it sometimes got on his nerves. And he had deal with other people with similar snarky comments: from a talking raccoon to a wizard without a hat, to even standing people like Sam for long periods of time. But this one…

This one was special.

And Bucky surely had been frustrated, exhausted, absolutely tired because for once he didn’t have night terrors or nightmares, no. On the second night Bucky had a wet dream. About the man out of time who slept on the spare room in his apartment. The same one who played with his cat and had shared a few glasses of whiskey with.

He didn’t remember all of it of course, the details—but what was still in his body, in his brain were the sensations he had experienced in his dream and the memory of waking up with sticky underwear. 

Bucky truly tried to think why now. It had been a long time since he and Steve…

And Steve was long gone.

Perhaps because Khan had been the only person being so close to him physically in the same fucking space for the last three days and he—

He perhaps missed being physical, intimate, close to someone…?

So by the time he turned off the shower, grabbed a towel and patted himself dry, cheeks still flushed red due to the steam of the shower but also due to the activity he just performed in the shower stall, well… He wished he could say he felt more at ease, calmer, but he was still incredibly aroused.

He stared at his own reflection once he rubbed the mirror with the back of his hand and sighed. He had to get it together.

Coming out of the shower once he pushed the door open, Bucky was drying his shoulder length hair with a towel, white tank top on, as well as a pair of stripped sweatpants. He stopped mid-track to the kitchen, noticing Khan was…staring. He left the towel around his shoulders and stared back. 

He…looked okay. Good, even. Too good. Ah, dammit.

Bucky swallowed but said nothing, his eyes couldn’t look away. It was as if Khan had him in a chokehold, a metaphorical one.

[bloodstainedstar]

✮ – He wasn’t avenging. 

He wasn’t avenging.

That was more like…helping. Giving back to the community. Sort of.

Let’s start over: not long ago, Sharon approached him with an idea, helping Bucky set up a program that helped him save criminals who wanted to leave the life of crime. Former HYDRA scientists and specialists (and he was touchy about this) or just other criminals altogether, people who had done really bad things but felt pushed to do it without seeing another way out, people with a family, girlfriends, boyfriends. And he believed in redemption, hell—he had redemption himself all things considered. It was a case by case situation and not all of them avoided jail time. But it was a start.

So instead of ditching the mantle of the Winter Soldier and trying so hard to erase a part of who he had been, Bucky decided to embrace that fully…just adding a bit of a twist. The uniform was rather similar, his silver metal arm full on display, the shinny red start that seemed to have been painted with blood pressed on top of each of the metal plates around his shoulder. He kept the mask, the goggles—he liked that some people could actually recognize him and feared him. Bucky was doing dangerous work, good work, but he wanted these people to truly understand what it meant to get out. That if they tried anything, he would be on their tails.

The Winter Soldier did not forgive even if he wasn’t into killing anymore. Or, rather, he tried really, really hard not to. Sometimes things happened.

You couldn’t save them all.

By the time he climbed into the third floor of an old apartment in Queens, New York City, he wasn’t exactly surprised when the door of the apartment 3B pushed opened suddenly, and a very agitated man in his fifties wearing a suit (that was way too small for him) was coming out of the apartment and gasping in surprise to see Bucky. A sigh of relief followed shortly after.

“Oh my God—thank God, thank you”, the man said, hands on his knees as he crouched slightly to breathe and try to fight the panic attack most likely waiting for him right around the corner, wrapping its sneaky claws around him.

Bucky knew HYDRA’s men would be waiting, and they weren’t stupid to seize the entrance but perhaps they had already figured out a plan was in motion. Their escape route would be compromised soon, and they had to move fast.

“Let’s go, they know I’m here”, the soldier quickly pushed him to move forward, the man carrying a briefcase with him as his only luggage and hurriedly making his way upstairs to reach the emergency exit leading to the rooftop with Bucky in front of him, pistol up as he scanned every corner, every single crevice around them.

Now, Bucky was more of a sniper rifle kind of guy or even a MK47 but he would have less time to use his hands while having to protect his guy should he had to do do some close combat against the men who were after him. It was funny how he didn’t care about bystanders then, and now having someone to protect was turning to be quite the liability.

Carefully opening the door to the rooftop his eyes quickly moved to asses their terrain, noticing HYDRA’s men weren’t…there. 

Except for one.

A man, completely alone, black outfit—was that some type of military gear? 

Could his intel be wrong and HYDRA had decided last minute to send a single assassin to finish Johnson off? Well—

They had done that with him in the past, hadn’t they? This guy had to be good, very good, the super soldier type of good, otherwise HYDRA would be wasting their resources and time. Perhaps they wanted to make him stall to surround him and take him.

No, he couldn’t lose focus and allow the what ifs scenarios to control him right then.

“Take cover, don’t move until I tell you”, he told Johnson, the man quickly hiding behind the wall next to the door of the rooftop, sometimes peeking with curiosity, nervously clutching at his briefcase.

Bucky kept his pistol up and kept his distance. He wasn’t exactly like the old Winter Soldier who would have analyzed quickly and threw himself at an offense to make a kill, no. He was curious, wanting to understand what kind of threat this man posed.

“You with HYDRA?” He asked, loud enough for the mysterious man to hear. His pistol clicked, letting him know he wasn’t joking around. 

closed starter for @bloodstainedstar

Khan's plan to smugge his crew into safety by putting them into the very weapons he had designed had failed on him; Just when he'd thought he could do it, that everything would go according to plan, the promise of a better future so close he could taste it on the tip of his tongue...

...He'd been discovered by one of Marcus men, and that man had managed to notify the Admiral about his intentions before Khan's hands had brought an end to the unfortunate one's life.

The mentioned one is dead now, yes, but security is onto him and Khan has no other choice but to escape alone, without his people, the ones he holds most dear - because if he doesn't, he will end up being stripped and tied to a biobed, turned into a slab of meat that gives all it has for Marcus to use for his own, sick plans to start a Klingon war.

As much as it pains him, the thought of leaving without the men and women he'd promised to protect - he runs, leaves, manages to steal a shuttle and, somehow, ends up in space. Time feels like a bit of a blur, so Khan doesn't recall every single moment that has happened - he's here, and he has to make some new plans---

---But then, something else happens.

Suddenly, the Universe... opens up in front of him. Quite literally so, as if it tears itself apart, causing blue eyes to widen at the foreign sight. Khan has never seen something like this and he's stunned by the sight, lips parting...

That's when everything happens in such a quick succession that it's hard for even his superior brain to keep up; A white light appears, swallows him, his shuttle shakes and a thousand warning alerts pop up, vanish, pop up before all of the systems are failing. Khan blinks and squints, squeezes his eyes shut at a sudden G-force causing bile to rise inside his throat---

---And then, like that, his shuttle is falling toward another planet that looks remarkably similar to Earth.

What...?

Khan, still confused by everything that has just happened, scrambles to try and get the systems back online but to no avail. The continent grows with the seconds that pass and he gets closer, closer, closer; His shuttle is briefly picked up by a current of wind, it seems, allows it to sail a bit but it's still very much about to crash-land in the middle of what seems to be a rather big city - part of him wonders if no one is actually noticing the aircraft falling like this, if, perhaps, he's too fast for any defense system to react.

He does know, though, that he needs to leave this vessel before he'll hit something with it - bright irises scan what he can see from his position and he makes a split-second-decision he isn't too sure about whether he'll regret it or not.

But, he actually opens the door to his right and---

---Jumps.

The shuttle continues to fly without him, lands somewhere a but further away while Khan flies through the air, toward what appears to be a rooftop of a bulding; He curls his body, lands with his shoulder first and rolls himself off this way, but the impact is still quite rough. He rolls and rolls and rolls, the force of his movement pulling him along - and he manages to hold onto the edge of the building at the very last second before he falls, fingers grabbing onto the stone as he dangles off the side.

Blinking, gasping, Khan needs a second to process this, the whole of what has just happened; He groans, then pulls himself up and back on top of the roof, still catching his breath while allowing his gaze to roam as he crouches there...

...Where the fuck is he? It looks like earth from what he can tell. But... This city is unfamiliar to him.

[zelpharofficial]

Diaz Brothers

🐺Diaz Brothers🐺

~ I miss Sean and Daniel 🥹 (I got Blood Brothers ending :3c)

[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

kind of love how in lone wolf Daniel focuses on psychological torture and in blood brothers Daniel focuses on physical violence.

like in lw Daniel is very clearly capable of disposing of all three dickheads in a heartbeat, but he forces the one with the gun to experience the helplessness of losing total control, something lw Daniel knows all too well. and then instead of forcing him to pull the trigger, he does the arguably more ruthless thing of letting the guy live, leaving him with the psychological trauma (something Daniel also knows very well) of almost being forced to fucking kill himself. notable, he also leaves the guy physically capable of getting up and shooting him, showing off his unprotected back--he's arrogant enough to think/know he's untouchable, yes, but he also doesn't seem to care that much if the guy actually manages to turn on him and grab the advantage, or come back later for revenge later on

but in bb it's the exact opposite, Daniel doesn't waste (much) time fucking around with any of the attackers and prefers to physically fuck up the guy's gun arm in a way that looks very painful and quite possibly permanent. he prefers to focus on stopping the bullet when it comes to showing off, rather than employing a more violating body control--it's about proving power, not cruelty. He watches the attackers leave instead of the other way around, maintaining the security of their base. Their base, because Sean is still alive, because Daniel has something to really fight for, which makes him much more effectively brutal than his lw counterpart. his focus is all on maintaining his and Sean's survival and that makes him at once less sadistic and far more physically destructive.

idk, I just love the ways that these endings highlight the different ways low morality Daniel views himself and his power while still proving he's ruthless whether or not Sean lives. he's my fucked up homicidal little baby boy.

[akkivee]

kuko n saru in the same room .what will happen

while kuukou has the ability to mesh with anyone, i still imagine his interactions with saru would go just about as well as terra trying to get saru to do anything lmao

but who knows???? maybe saru’s extreme end tsundere-ness will unlock the evil side of kuukou’s people reading skills and is about to play saru like a fiddle to be his friend LOL

[lebuc]

lone wolf

* growling, howling, deep into the night

moonlight dappled, no one in sight - most times...

eschewing any facile crew or organization to kowtow to

& their sick, self-serving politick -ew!

lone wolf, stalking the dawn seeking sustenance to feed upon

amidst shadows, beyond the shaded windows of the - among us - clueless or jaded & souls & spirits similarly situated, for succor likewise lurking undercover

in their singular, separate hovels.

this tale's not so very novel, is it, now? * 4/24 - lebuc - lone wolf

[deus-ex-mona]

ok but. with meoto aizo’s ✨demon reveal✨ one of his lines in the first verse kinda makes sense now?

i did think that it was kinda weird that he said 「同情もない」 before he and meoto yujiro got married. which y’know, kinda funny choice considering the other time he used 同情 was when he gave mona that umbrella out of pity that day in the rain

but with the reveal, i guess local demon aizo just couldn’t find it in himself to muster up some pity for the poor human sacrifice who was to be wedded to him

and he chose to fall in love with her instead, i guess, so who’s the real winner here?

[chickenbutts-posts]

Spoodermayne

What was my first heartbreak?

Me: "I'm spiderman"

Hater: "No you're not lol".

[starwrittenfates]

@thxwxlf liked this post for a starter!

When the subject about wolves had been brought up in the party, Solas, being the knowledgeable apostate mage he was, had to give his own wisdom on the conversation at hand. "I wouldn't easily dismiss them. I know that they are intelligent, practical creatures that small-minded fools think of as terrible beasts. They can be as loyal and protective as a normal dog, but bear their teeth when the situation calls for it." He paused, glancing at Kekipi. "Would you agree?"

[stormcried]

Good morning babes!! I’m finally awake and I’ll be finishing my drafts in a bit, but I REALLY wanted to knock out some HC’s for drakes main verses that I reallly feel the need to throw down because I really wanted to get across WHY Drake is such an asshole / rude to other people in his Misfits verse because there’s literally a reason why he as an 12 nearly 13 year old is out here disrespecting people and all around has this ‘leave me the fuck alone’ attitude.

[bloodstainedstar]

✮ – Bucky stood there without moving, both hands holding the ends of the towel around his shoulders. For a moment, he felt the other was stripping him with his eyes. He saw the once over he got from him and Bucky had to swallow. He wasn’t intimidated by him, not really…but he felt naked even though he was fully clothed.

He parted his lips, inhaling through his nose and exhaling through his mouth. It was a rather heavy breathing, the kind that would make his own glasses fog if he wore any. He wanted to say something, anything but his throat felt incredibly dry and his brain wasn’t exactly cooperating. He was holding onto that towel so strongly that his knuckles were turning white. His own heart probably beating slightly faster than usual too.

The tension was killing him…

Bucky’s eyes were going everywhere on him: his perfect, silky hair still somewhat humid from having showered not long ago, the almost milky white color and soft texture (he imagined) of his skin, those blue eyes, his lips— Jesus Christ, his lips, and that goddamn smirk. Bucky knew it was gonna be a problem since he saw it on day one. And his arms, legs—just his entire frame was rather well built. He was slender than him but beautifully so.

Bucky moved slightly to face him, no longer staying on his side. He was so tense the muscles on his shoulders and neck were starting to feel sore, so he forced himself to relax and sigh, tilting his head only a little.

Not a word exchanged between them.

And then, almost instinctively, Bucky licked his upper lip as slowly as possible, the tip of his tongue traveling from the top to the corner of his mouth.

James Buchanan Barnes was a hungry man.

And his five star meal was standing right in front of him.

@bloodstainedstar cont. [x]

It doesn't take long - or, perhaps, Khan just doesn't mind waiting, who knows? - until the shower is turned off, noises of movement can be heard; Blue eyes keep looking at the door, taking in the sight of it until it opens, with his host stepping out just mere seconds later, together with a cloud of steam that dissolves into the air of his apartment.

It doesn't need super-human eyes to notice the flush decorating the other's features; Khan spots it immediately, though, simply because his gaze is sharp and his senses very much superior in any shape or form. Granted, the other has just taken a hot shower, cleaned himself from whatever he's done during the day...

But, as much as Khan is aware of so many other things by now, he's also very sure about the fact that said flush does not solely exist because of the man having been exposed to warm water for a prolonged amount of time - something else might be at fault here, something that's slowly making his way through the silence of the air, sliding into a set of flared nostrils where Khan picks it up, takes it in.

His gaze remains firm, lingering on that figure of James Barnes. The one who stares right back at him, as if unsure what to say - or what to do, for the matter.

... And yes, there's a small smirk appearing on a set of full lips after an additional minute has passed, tugging on a sharp cupid's bow, accompanied by the most subtle lift of black brows that vanishes almost immediately, within the blink of an eye that does not follow.

What does, though, is the movement of bright blue irises - they start to trail, slowly making their way along the other's frame, from head to toe and back up, taking their time. Khan is definitely looking for the sake of it, not being subtle about it either, and it takes him a few seconds before his gaze returns to those eyes that have grown familiar to him by now.

... Besides that, however, nothing else happens. Khan just remains standing there, leaning against the wall, arms crossed over his muscular chest. Quiet.

[eltriador]

" so i am shorter than you? finally!"

------" YOU WANT TO find someone whose taller than you ? ain't that hard out here . go to the netherlands . "

[this-world-of-beautiful-monsters]

supernatural (2005) / life is strange 2 (2018)

[geraniumplant]

𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞 𝐀𝐔 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬 ~

- Vash Saverem : Age 20. Plant Engineer & track star. He got a full-ride scholarship along with his brother Nai. Started a band with his friend Wolfwood. (lead singer & bass guitarist) Doesn't have his license because he never passed his driving test. He basically walks everywhere unless he can get a ride from Wolfwood or Meryl. Favorite hang-out spots are the bakery, the coffee shop, & the track.

- Nicholas D. Wolfwood : Age 22. Dropped out of beauty school to help his brother pay for & run their childhood orphanage. Nico washes hair at the salon & is a guitarist in Vash Saverem's band. His main means of transportation is his motorcycle. He's very street-smart & feeds the neighborhood stray cats & dogs.

- Genjo Sanzo : Age 23. A biblical & theology major. He's not too passionate about this choice of study but was inherited the Sanzo title from his late adopted father, so a lot is expected of him. Despite being a trust fund kid he's down to earth but a loner. When he's not on campus he can be found smoking on his apartment porch or browsing the nonfiction section of the local bookstore. (he never buys anything though)

- Vergil Sparda : Age 25. An adjunct professor of Medieval literature. He's considered prissy or stuck-up compared to his carefree twin, but the guy is overworked & lonely. In his spare time, he collects & refurbishes artifacts. He pays child support for his son who was a result of a teen pregnancy. When the mother left Vergil gave his son up for adoption to the Fortuna family, because he believes they provide him a better life.

- Mizu : age 19. An exchange student from Japan who lives with a host family. Mizu is a Sociology major & trained mixed martial artist & boxer. They practice at the dojo regularly & do odd jobs on the side, participating in several boxing matches for money. Can be found around the dojo, the gym, & the coffee shop.

D Dracul : Age 20. A Demonology major that minors in psychology. He wants nothing to do with his rich, high-status father & does many odd jobs to support himself, his education, & his stoner twin. This includes Uber, Door Dash, & picking up shifts at the mom & pop hardware store. D is an all-around friendly guy. Kinda dresses goth/hisper-like & is very quiet.

[sanguinesinners]

|| And give this a lil like if you want something smol from - Marcus Baker

[stillresolved]

the left hand ( meta: yohan. )

okay so this is probably a post i should have made about k when i initially added them to my roster ( summer 2022, wow time flies sdkljfs ), but…let’s just say when it comes to the relationship between yohan and k, i headcanon that k ( ga-ram ) has romantic feelings for yohan, has for a very long time, and still isn’t quite over him.

( spoilers for 'the de*vil jud*ge down below! )

main reason for this is that ga-ram was young and impressionable when they initially met yohan and bc yohan was the only person at the time who could understand & relate to that rage and need for revenge….and ga-ram latched onto yohan HARD. yohan basically taught them how use anger ( aka repression and put into the plan instead ). literally put him up on a pedestal and thought he could do no wrong for a certain period of time. and while in the series it’s shown that yohan is very charismatic and manipulative, i don’t think he meant to have his plan take up at least 10 years of ga-ram’s life.

But also in those ten years ( or more ) before ga-on came into yohan’s life, yohan probably saw ga-ram as much of an anchor as much as ga-ram did…there probably was SOME kind of a romantic relationship or at least a friends-with-benefits dynamic between them…the car ride scene where k gives ga-on the advice about not getting too close to yohan, that’s the advice k would have given their younger self. By the time series starts, i would say k and yohan have like…you know that situation where you're single, but you rebound with your ex bc it’s easier to have a one night stand with someone you already know than go and try to find someone new? Yeah that’s kind of what their relationship was like- by then, k wasn’t passionately in love with yohan, but they did love him, even with knowing all his flaws….which is the reason they still stuck around after chang-hee died. 

this is all to say, in my interpretation of k, when they woke up after the fall, they didn’t take any of it well. Like for one thing, the system they and yohan were trying to change? Didn’t change a bit so that makes ga-ram feel like those last ten years were nothing. But also yohan up and running to switzerland and not even telling anyone where he was hiding for the longest time? Well it’s kinda like the main foundation of k’s life has just crumbled and while k does know yohan meant well, keeping this a secret, they can’t help but feel betrayed…yohan did have like a trust fund set up for ga-ram and technically ga-ram does get money ( a lot too ) from that, but they refuse to touch any of it. They refuse to talk to yohan or about him either.

( i will say, i think yohan probably also didn’t tell k for the longest time bc he knew k would follow after him and in yohan’s eyes, k deserves a chance to live their own life and the life would be healthiest without yohan there. )