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â â đđđđđđđđ. a relaxing day at the beach w/ toji ân little megumi, accompanied by their usual bickering and precious moments
tags. dad!toji x wife!female reader. fluff. honestly just the beach episode toji deserves w his family t_t not proof read!
the beach is a beautiful place to rest after a tough week. toji lays on the towel besides yours, bulky arms resting behind his head as he enjoyed the gentle breeze, the smell of the sea mixed with his wifeâs perfume.
the peace is quickly disturbed when he feels a small fist claw at his mouth.
ââgumi, donât feed papa sand,â your muffled laughter echoes through the busy beach. you watch your husband attempt to fight off megumiâs tiny hands as they pry his lips apart.
toji grunts and moves his head multiple times, but the toddler is determined to get what he wants. âbratââ the dark-haired man scoffs while his hands wrap around megumiâs torso, lifting the little boy in the air as his final resort, âwhatâs this all âbout? wanna kill yâr daddy or sum?â
your son pouts and furrows his brows. âno, i made papa food. burger,â he defends himself and kicks his legs while being held up at arms length. megumiâs tiny fist full of sand manages to reach his fatherâs lips again, ânow papa eat!â
toji lifts megumi up higher, as far away from his face as possible. he takes a second before realising that he indeed had made a request for a burger just moments ago, when his son asked him what he should make out of the sand.
toji totally forgot to play along with megumiâs pretend restaurant game, thinking the boy would halfway forget about it anyway. childrenâs attention spans are short after all.
seems like his kid is an exception.
âi ainât eatinâ shit, boy,â toji grunts and turns megumi away, putting the boy back down in the sand between the two beach towels. youâre about to reprimand your husband for his behaviour before your child interrupts.
âthis not poo poo!â megumi jabs a finger at his fatherâs chest, his voice a bit louder. heâs taken great offence to the comment about his imaginary burger, which was now but a cluster of sand particles.
toji snorts and gently flicks megumiâs hand away, âyeah, it is. bet it tastes like âpoo pooâ too.â
âno! not poo poo!â megumiâs voice rings out before a frustrated whine leaves his lips. his little hands land on tojiâs abs, physically punishing him for saying such mean stuff about his hard handiwork.
your husband sticks his tongue out childishly at his sulking son. ââyes! yes âtis poo poo!â keheh,â toji mocks megumiâs high voice, snorting as he laughs about his own joke afterwards.
the father-son duo bicker for a few more seconds before you sigh and speak up. âcan you two just get along for once now? weâre in public, so behave,â you scold them as their voices seemed to get louder. you then glare at your immature husband. he could be such a man-child when it came to arguing with his son, âand youâ youâre an adult, so act like one.â
the two of them instantly shut up and their heads turn towards you, their hands that were wrestling with each other also stopping mid-air. megumi pouts and stops attacking his father with his tiny fists. the little boy knows better than to not listen to his mother.
in turn, toji huffs and grumbles something under his breath before grabbing his son to make it up to him.
neither does the grown man dare to defy his wifeâs demands.
âyeah, yeah. câmere, son,â toji responds and places the toddler on his chest, letting the kid rest against him. megumi surprisingly doesnât pull away and instead curls up in tojiâs warm embrace. as much as the two love to (playfully) fight, they also get along extremely well.
you smile and relax back on the palms of your hands. âmuch better,â you hum in content. your heart swells with affection for your two favorite people on earth. megumi is a carbon copy of his father and itâs the cutest little thing ever.
they both have that subtle pout on their lips as they accommodate to being close and cozy with each other again.
toji runs his callused fingers through megumiâs hair, sighing as he closes his eyes. he doesnât admit it out loud, but he cares for his kid. if he had to make a choice between either saving his own life or megumiâs, tojiâd instantly draw his last breath.
âheâs still a brat,â your husband grumbles to you, sharp eyes watching the way you coddle and coo over the toddler. megumiâs chubby cheek is smushed against tojiâs chest and it was an adorable sight. you giggle and capture it on your phone.
toji scoffs, but canât help the grin tugging at the corner of his scarred lips. he gently rubs the childâs cheek with his knuckles before continuing, âbut heâs my brat. ainât that right, boy?â
megumi lets out a small, soft grunt at his fatherâs words. the kid is completely silent, content with the way things had played out. perhaps this is what he secretly searched for as wellâ to receive tojiâs attention and a glimpse of his affection.
âaww, how cute!â your smile is beaming as you snap another picture of your family. tojiâs soft look is perfectly captured on your phone, with him gently touching megumiâs chubby cheek as the boy laid on his bare chest. pure domestic bliss.
you sigh and look away for one second to change the lockscreen on your phone. humming, you go to your settings and instantly put the picture of your husband and son as your wallpaper on nearly everything.
you tilt your head back only to find toji grinning from ear to ear now, going from gently rubbing megumiâs cheek to full out squishing them between both his hands, amused at the way the fat moves. âkehehe, look at âem,â he chuckles.
the little toddler eventually gets fed up with it after squirming and grunting. megumi brings his little fist upâthe same one that still had some sand stored from beforeâand lets the content fly all over tojiâs face.
megumi giggles and scrambles off tojiâs lap with a victorious grin. he points at his father whoâs struggling with getting the sand off his face, the man sputtering and grumbling. he sticks his tongue out, âthaâs papaâs burger.â
you watch as your son waddles over to you and hides into your arms, muffled laughter echoing in your ears. seems like megumi won the battle in the end; successfully holding onto the sand he was planning to feed his dad one way or another.
toji spits out a bit of sand that flew into his mouth from the kidâs surprise attack, âyou little shitââ
well, there goes the peace again. you shake your head, but let the two play and fight it out on their own.
. . . just another day in the fushiguro family.
#sttoru writes.#jjk x reader#toji x reader#jjk fluff#toji fluff#toji fushiguro x reader#jjk x you#jjk x y/n#toji x you#toji x y/n#jjk x female reader#toji x female reader
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waking up to you
au!rafe cameron x reader
â in which you wake up in a strange alternate reality that just so happens to be the outer banks universe, and to your disbelief, youâre suddenly in a relationship with the shows most unlikely character, rafe cameron.
warnings: Y/N & RAFE DATE đ teasing, pretty safe chapter
authors note: btw readers only âweirdâ around cynthia bc ngl id act like that if i came across her bc shes so annoying on the show omg. but EEE hi guys. if u still arent part of the tag list, feel free to lmk thru replies, anons, dms, or reblogs !!
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youâre not surprised to wake up in rafeâs bed again. at this point, itâs almost routine, though every time still feels surreal.
youâve gotten used to the soft sheets, the familiar scent of him on the pillows, and the way the morning light filters through the blinds just right, casting a warm glow over his peaceful, sleeping face.
he looks so different like thisâcalm, almost vulnerable. itâs a version of him that no one else really gets to see. and you? you donât mind at all.
you take a quiet breath, just watching him for a moment longer. but then, his eyes flutter open, and you freeze, quickly closing your eyes to pretend like youâre still sleeping. maybe if you play it off well enough, he wonâtâ
a finger pokes at your side, and you canât help the involuntary squirm and groan that escapes you. ârafe,â you mutter, barely opening one eye to glare at him. but he just grins, clearly pleased with himself for catching you.
âthought you were asleep,â he teases, voice rough from sleep, poking your side again until you half-heartedly swat at his hand.
âyouâre so annoying,â you mumble, but the smile tugging at your lips betrays you. âget off of me.â
the morning quickly slips into a blur, and before you know it, you're tagging along with rafe for a ride around the islandâexcept not just any ride. heâs got his dirt bike out, the same one youâd seen on the show.
you were kind of surprised when you first saw it in the garage. in the world you knew, rafe got this bike after the first episode started, but here? no rules seem to apply anymore.
youâre wrapped tightly around his torso, his helmet snug on your head as he drives the bike through town, on the beaches, through quiet streets and long stretches of open road. the wind whips past your face, and you canât help but smile into it, arms locked around him like itâs the most natural thing in the world.
eventually, he pulls up to some kook-itorium, the bike coming to a slow stop. rafe kicks the stand down and hops off first, turning to help you off like he always does. his hands are warm as they slide into yours, and for a second, he just holds them, staring down at you with a grin.
âso, what do you think?â he asks, pulling you a little closer as you hop off the bike. heâs been practically advertising himself on the way over here. âa date? hrm? just you nâ me. anywhere you want.â
you smile up at him. âyeah,â you say softly. âiâd like that.â
he tugs you toward the entrance of the building, still holding onto your hand. âjust donât pick somewhere like the seaview grill orâ god, that lame museum your mom likes.â
when you step inside the building, it takes you a moment to realize where rafe has brought you. the place has that unmistakable country club vibeâpolished, pristine, like every corner of it has been touched by money. but itâs smaller, rounder in shape, and more modern than the main country club building next door. servers move swiftly between tables, balancing trays and drinks. rafe, of course, heads straight past all of this, not even glancing at the downstairs dining area.
you follow him upstairs, past the busy floor where people are eating, drinking, and talking in their quiet, refined way. upstairs, though, itâs a whole different world.
the second floor is open and airy, with barely any walls to box anything in. itâs just the floor, held up by tall pillars that support the roof above, letting the fresh air and views of the island spill right in. the only structure that really stands out is the bar in the middleâa sleek, modern setup that takes up a good portion of the space, all glossy wood and glass shelves stocked with high-end bottles.
the place is filled with kooks, most of them middle-aged. they donât seem to notice you and rafe, or if they do, they donât care. oh right, rafe should be about 22 now, legal to drink here. does that make the others 18 and 19?
anyway, rafe is clearly familiar here. a few nods are thrown his way as he leads you forward, and he nods back, murmuring casual greetings under his breath as you weave between tables. youâre amused, but thereâs a small part of you thatâs bothered.
you thought maybe rafe had brought you here for food downstairs, but itâs pretty clear now that this is just one of his regular stops to get a drinkâprobably whiskey or even scotch, knowing him. but you keep your mouth shut, not wanting to spoil the mood.
he finally lets go of your hand when he reaches the bar, leaning against the counter with crossed arms as he asks for his drink. you linger beside him for a second, glancing around the open space. the view from up here is stunning, with a perfect sightline to the docks and the country clubâs main establishment just next door.
you rub your arm awkwardly, feeling a little out of place among all the well-dressed older folks. after a beat, you step closer to rafe, gently touching his arm to get his attention. âiâm gonna go use the restroom,â you say quietly.
he nods, not taking his eyes off the bartender. but before you can turn to leave, he grabs your arm, tugging you back toward him for a quick kiss. itâs his way of saying 'be safe,' you guess, a small gesture that makes you smile despite the surroundings. you give his arm a gentle squeeze in return, then slip away to head downstairs.
just as youâre descending the steps, though, a familiar voice drifts up toward you. and then you see himâtopper, making his way up the stairs. your heart sinks in the half-second you have to process it.
great. the last time you talked to him was at the party, when he was stumbling over some half-assed apology. and now here he is, about to cross your path.
fantastic. just what you needed.
the moment his eyes land on you, thereâs a flicker of recognition that lights up his face, just for a momentâlike spotting an old acquaintance in a crowd.
ây/n!â he says, his hands coming up as if heâs presenting you to the world. he glances at his mom as if to say, âlook who it isâ. you can feel your heart rate pick up as you pause on the steps, furrowing your brows at them.
they were definitely just talking about you right before this.
you force a smile, but itâs small and tight, barely breaking through your unease. âhi, topper,â you mumble, glancing between him and his mom. thereâs a brief moment of silence as you weigh your optionsâwhether to continue this conversation or slip away.
ultimately, you choose the latter. you take a step forward, moving past them and continuing down the stairs, leaving them behind. as you go, you can feel topperâs eyes on you.
he glances down at his shoes and shifts awkwardly, but then, just as quickly, he looks up again. âcome on, letâs just go upstairs,â he insists to his mom, trying to shake it off as they both start moving again.
itâs not that you wanted to dismiss topper and his mom or anything. really, you just donât see the point in lingering in the middle of a public staircase, one of the only two that connected the floors of the country club. you donât want to be rude, but you also donât want to talk to topperâespecially after your last encounter at the party.
topper and his mom step off the stairs, but the moment topper spots rafe, a grin spreads across his face.
âhey, good seeinâ you back here again,â topper greets, approaching the bar with a friendly demeanor.
rafe daps him up casually. âyou too, man,â rafe replies, genuinely glad to see him.
topper's mom stands just a foot away, carrying her purse and looking utterly uninterested in the interaction, her gaze flicking off to the side as if sheâs assessing the other patrons. sheâs never been a fan of rafe, just barely tolerating him because he comes from a good family, and it shows in the way she avoids direct eye contact.
pulling away from the handshake, toppers eyes glance back toward the staircase as if expecting you to appear at any moment. âsaw you and y/n come in,â he adds, âjust wanted to say hi.â
rafe nods with a smile as he leans back against the bar, one elbow resting casually on the counter. he glances at topperâs mom. âhey, cynthia,â he says, flashing her a grin.
her expression shifts from indifference to surprise, and then it hardens, almost offended by the casual familiarity. sheâs always been the type to keep her distance from him, and rafe knows it. to her, heâs still just another troublemaker, another bad influence.
topper notices the slight tension and looks back to rafe, his brow furrowing slightly. âso, whatâs up with y/n?â he asks, his tone casual but laced with a hint of concern.
rafe squints, his head cocking to the side as he regards topper. âwhat do you mean, âwhatâs upâ?â he replies, his voice subtly defensive and carrying a hint of warning. âis there something wrong with her?â
topper realizes how that might sound and shakes his head quickly. âno, no, man. i just think sheâs, like . . . avoiding me or something,â he clarifies, waving a hand dismissively as if trying to brush off any potential drama.
rafe chuckles, raising his glass up to his lips. âare you surprised?â he asks, raising an eyebrow at topper, the teasing tone evident. he shakes his head, a look of amusement on his face. âgirls, man.â
cynthia catches the comment, her expression shifting to one of disapproval. she mutters a clipped âten minutesâ to her son before leaving without a word, turning on her heel and heading toward the stairs to leaving topper there with him.
topper watches her go, feeling the weight of the awkwardness settle over him. he glances back at rafe, who is now watching the scene unfold with a smirk, clearly amused by the whole thing.
âso, what are you guys up to?â topper asks, trying to steer the conversation back to safer waters.
when you step out of the bathroom, you spot her immediatelyâcynthia, standing at the bottom of the stairs like sheâs waiting for her son. you briefly consider turning around, maybe pretending not to notice, but itâs too late. her sharp gaze finds yours, and thereâs no escaping it now.
this is great.
you adjust your posture, trying to look casual as you make your way toward the stairs, your mind racing for an excuse to cut this conversation short. the last thing you want is to get caught up with cynthiaâif sheâs anything like the way she was on the show, you are not open to a conversation.
but itâs like youâre trapped. her eyes lock on you, and she takes a few steps forward in those polished black heels. ây/n,â she says, and thereâs a hint of something icy behind that tone, even though sheâs putting on a smile.
you stop, eyebrows raising as you stand in place, trying to gauge the situation. her smile is forced, you can tell immediately, but so is yours as you mirror her expression. âcynthia, itâs so . . . nice to see you again,â you say, the words slipping out of your mouth because, well, kooks always know kooks, right? you assume this universeâs y/n has seen her before.
but as soon as the words leave your mouth, cynthiaâs expression shiftsâher lips purse, and her eyes narrow slightly, pulling her head back like youâve just said something ridiculous. yep. that was wrong. completely wrong.
âlast time i saw you, you were just a kid! every time you come over to my home now, itâs like youâre always sneaking around,â she remarks, her voice dripping with that fake kindness, the kind thatâs so transparently bitter it almost stings.
your stomach twists. yeah, this is definitely not the conversation you wanted. âand how are your parents?â cynthia continues, her tone casual but her eyes sharp.
you wave your hand, trying to shrug it off like itâs no big deal. âtheyâre great! in costa rica right now, on vacation,â you respond, trying to keep things light.
but cynthia hums, her expression a little too knowing. âi heard it was a business trip?â she says, tilting her head slightly.
you clear your throat, feeling the tension grow. this woman is the worst. youâre slipping up so bad. âmix of both,â you say, your voice strained as you force another fake smile.
thereâs a brief, uncomfortable silence before the two of you lean forward, laughing in that awkward, forced way where neither of you are actually amused. the laugh dies quickly, and as soon as it does, you drop the pretense, turning on your heel as you head back upstairs, feeling weird about the interaction.
you feel like you were just quizzed. and you failed.
once youâre back upstairs, you immediately catch rafeâs eye as you step into the room. heâs leaning casually against one of the tables, a glint in his eye that matches the small smirk tugging at his lips the second he spots you.
his whole demeanor shifts, but topper, whoâs mid-sentence, doesnât seem to notice right awayâuntil he realizes rafe isnât paying attention. topper twists around to follow his line of sight, spotting you before continuing whatever rant he was on.
rafe briefly glances back at him, half-listening, as you approach the two of them. when you get close enough, you quietly reach for rafeâs glass, bringing it to your nose to smell whateverâs left of his drink. without a word, you tilt your head back and down whatâs left, swallowing with a grimace as you place the empty glass back on the table.
both boys stare at you, each reacting differently. topper furrows his brow, eyes flicking to the glass to see if thereâs anything left. âwhatâs up with you?â he asks, confused, clearly sensing something off.
rafe, on the other hand, is looking at you with a blank expression, though thereâs a hint of amusement tugging at the corner of his mouthâbecause he knows. âshe was definitely just talking to your mom, top,â rafe says with a knowing smile, his tone carrying just the right amount of humor to suggest that, naturally, a conversation with cynthia would drive someone to drink.
topperâs face falls slightly, but he doesnât even argue. he just glances between the two of you in silence because he knows rafeâs probably right. with a quick check of his phone, he pushes away from the table, his energy deflating. âalright, iâve gotta go. see you guys.â
âbye, top,â you murmur, watching as he walks off, leaving just you and rafe standing together. once topperâs out of sight, you tilt your head all the way up, meeting rafeâs gaze with a lazy, playful smile.
âyou decide on where weâre going?â rafe asks, sliding an arm around you, pulling you close as he starts guiding you toward the stairs.
you hum for a long moment, trying to think, before making something up on the spot. âletâs go jet skiing,â you say, half-joking but testing the waters to see what heâd say.
rafe raises his eyebrows, a slight chuckle escaping him. âyou wanna go to montyâs?â he repeats, and you assume it could be some jet ski rental place you must go to. heâs amused but surprisingly open to it. âwe can go to montyâs, darlinâ.â
rafe drives the two of you out to some place a mile or two away, the sign out front reading âmontgomeryâs jet ski rentalsâ in bold blue letters. itâs tucked away along a small marina.
you step out of the car. itâs here that you notice the way rafe movesâa kind of quiet confidence thatâs hard to ignore. he strides toward the dock with his head held high, like heâs done this a hundred times. you canât tell if itâs because you two have apparently been here so often that he just knows his way around or if heâs just naturally this confident.
while rafe chats easily with the staff, laughing and slapping one guy on the back like theyâre old friends, you find yourself preparing for the ride. you slip into a life vest, adjusting the straps so it fits snugly.
then youâre stepping onto the dock, the jet ski bobbing gently in the water. rafe climbs on first, settling into the front seat, and turns back to offer you his hand. you take it, letting him guide you into place behind him, and then you wrap your arms around his waist. it feels natural, like youâre meant to be there, holding onto him like this.
and, god, the thought hits youâthis is probably a dream for hundreds, maybe thousands of people. to be on a jet ski with drew starkey, any version of him, arms wrapped around his waist, close enough to feel the warmth of his back.
itâs a little surreal, and you canât help but feel grateful for this weird fucking alternate universe youâre in. being a kook, being rafe cameronâs girlfriend, living out days like thisâyou could get used to it. you could live like this forever.
rafe glances forward, that cocky smirk barely visible at the corner of his lips. without looking back at you, he mutters, âhold on.â and before you have a chance to reply, he twists the throttle, and the jet ski leaps forward, tearing across the water. your arms instinctively tighten around his waist as the engine roars, and you feel the force of the speed pushing you back slightly.
your eyes widen as youâre propelled across the open water. the jet ski skims over waves. you can barely keep from laughing as the wind whips through your hair. itâs fastâso much faster than you expectedâand your heart is beating more than ever.
rafe steers you two in wide, looping turns and tight figure-eights, shouting the loudest, most carefree âwoo!â that you think youâve ever heard. his voice carries over the hum of the engine and the slap of the waves, his laughter echoing as you cling on, a laughing mess yourself.
as the jet ski finally begins to slow, you let your chin rest on his back, just near his shoulder so you can look out ahead. youâre both breathing heavily from the ride, and heâs still grinning, clearly thrilled by his own reckless route. he isnât heading anywhere specific, just weaving around, but thatâs what makes it even better. thereâs no destinationâjust you, him, and the freedom of open water.
âwanna take over?â rafe calls out, and you laugh, thinking heâs kidding. but when he glances back over his shoulder, you catch his expression and feel your own smile falter, realizing heâs dead serious.
next thing you know, youâre seated in front, fingers gripping the throttle while rafe sits behind you, holding on with that unshakeable grin of his. the jet ski jolts forward as you try to get the hang of the controls, and you immediately feel the panic rise, the machine moving faster than you expected.
ârafe, i donât know what iâm doing!â you shout over your shoulder, but rafeâs only response is laughter.
âjust go easy on the throttle,â he says, half-shouting and half-laughing as you attempt to steer. but the jet ski wobbles, veering off a bit too quickly, and your grip slips.
ârafe!â you yell, barely keeping control as heâs practically doubled over behind you, finding the whole thing hysterical. he tries to guide you through it, but itâs impossible to listen when youâre both shouting and laughing, the jet ski zigzagging across the water.
but it slows. he wants to teach you properly.
you feel rafe's hands slip over yours, his fingers resting gently against yours as he takes control of the throttle from behind. his touch is firm but relaxed, guiding your grip as he leans in close, his breath warm against your ear. âsteady now,â he murmurs. âease it forward like this, yeah?â
you nod. his voice is a steady hum as he talks you through it. âjust a little pressure here,â he says, pressing lightly against the throttle. âsee? easy.â his fingers guide yours over the controls until you can feel how each movement changes the jet skiâs pace.
after a minute or two, he lets you take over, his hands staying in place to catch you if needed, but heâs not pushing or pulling anymore. you start to feel it, understanding the rhythm of the throttle and how to steer, and rafe just chuckles.
âthatâs my girl,â he says, patting his hand on the spot between your thigh and hip, sending a flutter through you as his hand settles back around you.
a grin stretches across your face, and before you know it, youâre letting out a loud scream that echoes across the water as you pick up speed, trusting yourself more with every second. youâre moving faster, the wind whipping past, and for a moment you feel invincible.
when you decide to slow down, you ease off the throttle, leaning back just enough to press into rafeâs chest. you feel his laugh rumble against you. it makes you smile as you let out a breathy laugh of your own. then, youâre off again, speeding forward with rafeâs steadying hands nearby, the two of you gliding over the waves like you were born to do this together.
youâre both sitting across from each other at a little table outside a bayside cafĂŠ. you pick up your sandwich and take a big, satisfying bite, eyes rolling back with a muffled oh my god because it's just that good.
you didnât realize how hungry you were until now. you lean your head back, savoring the taste, a content sigh escaping as you sit up again, still chewing, and glance at rafe across the table.
heâs got his phone out, scrolling with his eyebrows furrowed, the lines on his forehead deepening behind his sunglasses. heâs squinting slightly, or maybe heâs just annoyed by whateverâs on the screen. you pause mid-bite, lowering your sandwich slightly before asking, âyou okay?â
rafe clears his throat, not looking at you just yet, and clicks his phone off. he flips it over on the table, his hand rubbing down the front of his shorts like heâs brushing something off. âyeah, all good,â he says, reaching for his own food, voice casual, but thereâs a tension you can sense from his reaction.
it doesnât add up, but you decide not to push it. youâve learned when to give him space, and right now, youâre way more into this sandwich than trying to open up that conversation.
you take another bite, glancing around at the scene in front of you as you chew. itâs a perfect day, bay glistening in the sunlight, people passing. by with relaxed smiles, stopping in at shops or heading toward the water. montgomeryâs rentals is right across the street, jet skis and kayaks lining the dock.
rafe leans back in his chair, âdadâs finally starting to trust me to, like, step into his position at the company.â he pauses for a beat, the corner of his mouth twitching up. âheâs flying out of state next week, and heâs leavinâ me in charge while heâs gone.â
you just stare at him, a faint smile tugging at your lips without even realizing it. you can feel the pride in your expression as you tell him, ârafe, thatâs really good. iâm proud of you.â
he grins wider, clearly trying to play it cool, and then takes a massive, messy bite of his sandwich. he chews with the gusto of someone who thinks a bite is a whole experience, sauce smearing slightly at the corner of his mouth.
you reach over instinctively, dabbing at the corner of his mouth with a napkin and tossing it back down on the table before going back to your sandwich like itâs second nature.
he swallows and continues, âhe hasnât really told me much, but i figure heâs got some new properties lined up, maybe working out deals or, like, finalizing stuff with investors. you know how he is.â
âyeah, that sounds like ward,â you say, taking another bite, your eyes never leaving him.
âso heâs gonna give me this schedule,â he adds, âa ârun-downâ or whatever, of what iâll need to cover. probably sit at the office, sign some stuff, and meet with clients or partners who canât be pushed off until heâs back.â
âsounds pretty official,â you say, trying to imagine rafe at a desk, talking clients through real estate deals like he was born for it. âdo you know what kind of properties heâs working on?â
he shrugs, a small smirk still lingering as he speaks. âknowing him? probably something bigânew development or another investment property he wants to secure. heâs been hinting at something âgame-changingâ, like some waterfront project.â
you hum thoughtfully. âso youâll be doing the groundwork? like, maybe even closing a deal?â
âyeah, maybe,â he says, sounding a little impressed with himself. âiâll actually get to see if i can handle it.â
it's nice to see rafe so eager to step up, to take on something this big, probably just to prove himself to his dad. he always acts so casual about the family business, but thereâs a spark in his eyes today, and you think . . . he can maybe handle being ward cameron for a week.
you just hope you can stay here long enough to see him prove it.
heâs finishing his sandwich, wiping his mouth with a crumpled napkin, and suddenly heâs looking right at you. âoh, yeahâdid you ever tell me how that call went with your mom?â
it takes you a second. right, that call with your mom. you remember mentioning it to sarah, but rafe? he still doesnât even know you hung out with sarah and the others while he was off fishing with ward.
âoh, yeah,â you say, smiling as if the thought just occurred to you. âit was fine. nice to hear from her, i guess. i miss them.â you shrug, playing it casual. but the truth is, you kind of do.
rafe nods, shifting his empty plate and leaning back in his chair, still watching you as he says, âthatâs good. i mean, you get so wrapped up in life on the island, itâs easy to go a while without catching up.â
he talks on, making small comments about family and how he totally gets it, but as you sit there, nodding occasionally, your mind is somewhere else entirely.
you almost forgot about that call with your âin-this-universe mom.â it seems so strangeâno, itâs stranger that you forgot about it at all. and dad . . . right, your i.t.u. dad was there, too, wasnât he?
wait . . what?
you feel a slight prickle of discomfort, shifting in your seat as you try to catch every third word rafeâs saying, but really, your mind is circling back to that call.
dad. mom. two words, so familiar. but why are they slipping through your fingers, blurring just a bit?
you force yourself to remember something about them, to pull up a memory, clear as day.
oh! like that one time you and mom spent the whole afternoon baking, sugar and flour coating every surface in the kitchen . . . and dad was there, wasnât he? but what did he do? your chest tightens, just slightly, and you fidget with your napkin.
okay, try again.
dad. right. he was . . . wait, no, he was definitely thereâno, he was doing something.
and then, just like that, the memory clicks into place. right, heâd taken one look at the mess you and mom made, then grabbed the dog and headed out, calling back that heâd be home âonce the tornadoâs over,â and you and mom laughed.
you exhale, relief washing over you, but thereâs still a flicker of something unsettling. why couldnât you remember that right away?
you try another memory, to reassure yourself. dad did this, mom did that. youâre sifting through so many small, precious fragments, but thereâs something strange about each one, something hollow.
the parents you rememberâyour parentsâwere so vivid before. but as you replay these memories in your head, they feel softer, blurred at the edges. somehow, they seem more like your parents hereâthe way theyâre talking, laughing, looking at you with the same expressions as your i.t.u. parents.
your stomach twists, realization beginning to dawn, but you canât even hold onto what that realization is. the longer you stay in this world, the harder it seems to be to grasp what was real and what was . . . this.
are you forgetting your memories?
authors note: okay poor execution LMAO but i know if i was y/n, i wouldve wanted to stay in this universe but we cant have that, so essentially the conflict / the thing that makes her work harder to solve all the relationships in this life for obx!y/n is that shes losing her memories from her real life the longer shes there.
does that make sense?? đ like she cant have her cake n eat it too, she can only have one lifetimes memories, her real ones or the ones that belong to the y/n who lives in this universe. makes her work faster to get back to her world so she doesnt feel like she can stay !!
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All they remembered was their propensity for losing their memory occasionally. They upped their count: 351. Though they couldn't remember their name, the feel of 'Vee' was comfortable, leaving them no doubt that they wanted to call themself by it. A click, a rush of air and a swish announced that the door to... wherever they were... was opening. They twisted themself around to face the door, and were stopped short. Not physically, though they were finding it hard to move, but rather, they felt as though their head was pounding and their heart was pounding even harder. The person in the doorway had unbound hair long enough to appear cape-like. Their purple bodysuit was tailored to perfection, and it hugged their natural curves, letting Vee's eyes wander to all the hottest parts.
"Not that I'm not enjoying your delicious eye candy, but," Vee asks, before getting cut off.
"Shut up. What are you planning?" the person demands.
"What?" Vee's nose wrinkles, and they try to search for an answer but come up empty.
"Don't play games with me. I, Roe, know that you never allow anything unless you have it all planned out. So, what are you planning?"
Roe. The name sounded so familiar and yet so foreign at the same time.
"Do I know you?" Vee asks, fully aware that they have amnesia episodes and will certainly remember themself later, but struggling to place the face and name with anyone.
That gave Roe pause. Roe turned to directly face Vee.
"You don't remember anything, do you?" they ask.
Vee shrugs. "No. The only things that I know for sure are 1) I would love to get to know you, and 2) I will eventually remember myself, it just might take a while."
Roe sighs, turning around dramatically, practically stomping out the door, and calling out, "Doctor! What did you do?"
"So is that a yes for a date tonight?"
Prompt #290
Hero has finally managed to take Supervillain into custody, and they are anxious to begin interrogating them, to finally uncover every secret and plan.
Unfortunately, from the moment Supervillain woke up in their cell, they canât remember anything. Not their name, their profession, or their relationship with Hero. All they know is that this beautiful person keeps talking like they know them. And Supervillain really wants to know more about them.
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The Making Of: When I Win the World Ends
(For my previous Making Of post, see The Making Of: Cleveland Quixotic.)
I. 1999
It was the year of the cubicle movie. It was the year of Fight Club, of Office Space, of Being John Malkovich, of Three Kings, of The Matrix, and of American Beauty. It was the year of suburban malaise, of eternal sunshine, of ceaseless normality. A year of United States hegemony; a year whose chief terror was that THIS WAS IT.
Before the millennium turned and the towers fell, there was an initial challenge to this order, a completely inconsequential one made consequential by a newly minted 24/7 news media machine running out of noise to fill dead air now that people were sick to bursting of the Clinton impeachment. This challenge came not through war, revolution, or violence, but through entertainment. Children's entertainment.
And I was a child. Unaware of any cultural context, I knew only one thing: I loved PokĂŠmon. I really, really loved PokĂŠmon.
I owned Red Version, Blue Version, Yellow Version, PokĂŠmon Pinball, PokĂŠmon Stadium, PokĂŠmon Snap, Hey You Pikachu, a PokĂŠmon Tetris sort of puzzle game, even the PokĂŠmon TCG game for Gameboy. I had ten to fifteen strategy guides for the games, an encyclopedia of the 151 PokĂŠmon, a choose your own adventure book, an I Spy-style book. I had PokĂŠmon figurines, PokĂŠmon plushies, toy PokĂŠ Balls, toy PokĂŠdexes. I had PokĂŠmon stamps and PokĂŠmon stickers and a deck of PokĂŠmon cards. Not trading cards, just a standard 52-card deck with PokĂŠmon pictures on it. Of course I also had the trading cards. A complete set of the first three runs, plus a special Mew card you could get from I dunno Toys R Us or something as part of some promotion. I had a guide for the card game that explained which cards were good or bad even though I didn't even play the card game. I had a PokĂŠmon Tamagotchi and PokĂŠmon pencils and PokĂŠmon erasers and Ash Ketchum's hat and I dressed up as Ash Ketchum for Halloween. Of course I watched every episode of the anime, and in notebooks I drew doodles of existing PokĂŠmon and came up with names for new PokĂŠmon. My father had died that year.
My father was a sports fanatic. Traditional sports. He, too, collected. Sports memorabilia, baseball cards, figures of famous stars. When I was an infant, he drove me on a cross country road trip to Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where I became a part owner of the Green Bay Packers. He had always wanted me to grow up and pursue professional sports. When I was born, the doctor apparently said to start looking for football colleges, a quote he saved in a scrapbook of baby photos. He had played sports himself, in college; he was a baseball catcher, until a hitter accidentally struck him in the head with a full force swing.
Almost everything I personally remember about him involves him dying. He was sick for a long time, and I remember hospitals and hospital beds and strange smells and gauze. And then one day my mother told me he died.
He was a charismatic man, very social and very popular. He had many friends and a lot of family, all of whom had constantly been around our house. Once he was gone, they stopped coming around. Then it was just me and my mother, who was not a fanatic for anything, except maybe her job as an elementary school teacher, which consumed her time as she assiduously prepared lesson plans and graded tests until late at night. When my father died, she got into some argument with his side of the family, the details of which I still don't fully understand, and afterward they no longer spoke. Her own family lived far away, out-of-state, seen only at Christmas. The house became quiet.
And I⌠played⌠PokÊmon.
II. The Electric Tale of Pikachu
Toshihiro Ono was a mangaka primarily known for shotacon and futanari hentai. His credits such as Innyou Megami and Anal Justice made him a no-brainer pick for the officially licensed PokĂŠmon manga, Electric Tale of Pikachu, as it too would feature a 10-year-old boy as the protagonist.
This manga would be the foundation for my conception of what PokĂŠmon was, narratively. Though I also had the PokĂŠmon Adventures manga that ran concurrently and which has by now long outlasted it, Electric Tale left a significantly deeper imprint on my memory.
In summary, Electric Tale is a retelling of the first two seasons of the anime. Ash Ketchum is the main character, he's accompanied by Misty and later Brock, his rival is Gary, and Team Rocket harangues him.
What sets Electric Tale apart is its tone, which is far more adult than Adventures and the anime. Obviously, part of this comes from the author's primary area of expertise being hentai. Even in the censored English version, there is a sense of sexual playfulness in how every single female character is an older woman who likes to tease Ash about his romantic interests.
But there are other elements that creep in unrelated to sex, due to the perspective of someone only used to speaking to adults who suddenly has to speak to children. Ono doesn't really get the childish fantasy of leaving at 10 being normal in society, so he introduces an element where Ash can only get a one year deferment from school and will have to return unless he hits it big. Team Rocket are former competitive hopefuls who flamed out and then, with no education or work experience to speak of, had no choice but to turn to crime. The PokĂŠmon are depicted more realistically, often eschewing the toyetic mascot elements of their designs.
And the landscapes are often wistful, even apocalyptic in their presentation:
This more sedate, mature, realistic depiction of PokĂŠmon became what I wanted PokĂŠmon to be, what I projected onto an original Red and Blue version that left everything open to interpretation, and what would increasingly frustrate me with the series as it deviated more toward bombastic villain groups with goofy destroy-the-world plots. (Which was what put me off PokĂŠmon Adventures.)
Amid all this, one panel stuck with me in particular. One panel I would think about ever since I first saw it as a child, that would turn around in my head and keep coming back. That panel would eventuallyâover two decades laterâbecome the basis for When I Win the World Ends, the seed from which an entire story grew:
III. The Unkillable Demon King
But in the interim, the seed remained dormant. 1999 fell away. I grew up. I played later PokĂŠmon games and increasingly lost interest by around Gen 4 and 5. Then I went to college.
That's when I started playing League of Legends.
I was something of a psychopath in college. I operated on a strict schedule and did not deviate. Wake up, read 50 pages of classic literature, write 2,000 words, go to classes, study, and then by about four in the afternoon all my obligations were done and it was League of Legends until midnight.
I wasn't actually interested in the League of Legends esports scene in its infancy. In 2012, I was actually invited to attend its World Championship in Los Angeles and refused. (When I received this invitation, I had just finished reading Homestuck for the first time, and was caught in a month-long haze in which I could do little but bask within what I considered the greatest artistic achievement I'd seen in my life. It was this month that inspired Modern Cannibals.) I only liked playing the game and watching Dunkey videos.
It wasn't until the next year, when a girl I was interested in recommended I watch, that I tuned in to my first professional League of Legends game, at the 2013 World Championship. It was there that I got to watch this new, hyped, upcoming Korean player who had apparently taken the pro scene by storm that season. That player was Faker.
It has seemingly become essential to the narrative of any sport that there is "the man who always wins." American football has Tom Brady, and the moment Brady retired, he was replaced by Patrick Mahomes. Basketball has LeBron James, picking up the mantle from Michael Jordan. It's as if someone being "the best" validates the skill-based promise of the sport, the fundamental top-down fairness of its premise, the idea that the person who wins is the best and deserved it. Faker would become the backbone of League of Legends esports and his ascendance correlated to that of the sport itself, from its humble roots at small-scale tournaments in places like JĂśnkĂśping, Sweden, to max capacity arenas in the biggest cities in the world.
It's surprising, though, how the legend of Faker had already begun even before he won his first World Championship. League of Legends was designed as a clone of Defense of the Ancients (DotA), a popular mod for Warcraft III that emphasized competitive play. In its infancy, the competitive scene was mostly dominated by players who had migrated from DotA to League. They were older, winning thanks to a fundamental conceptual understanding of the game that was superior to everyone else, and frankly not very good in the aggregate. As League of Legends esports exploded in popularity from 2013 to 2015, these old pros would get filtered out swiftly, with even the biggest and most popular names retiring after only a couple of years in the scene.
Even once the new generation of League-grown talent ascended, though, careers were nasty, brutish, and short. The best players only remained on top for a season, as game patches dramatically changed viable strategies. Internationally the sport was dominated by Koreans, with the Korean regional league sometimes being seen as more difficult to win than the World Championship, where Koreans often breezed through uncompetitive Chinese, European, and North American squads.
This possibly affected the demographics of the professional scene. South Korea has mandatory military service, and leaving the pro scene to join the military was basically the end of a Korean player's career. This meant that it was rare to see a Korean player older than 25. Retiring in your early 20s was and remains common. Korean organizations, which had an infrastructural leg up on other regions due to the popularity of StarCraft 2 esports in the country, became adept at scouting promising players at 15 or 16, building them into top level competitive pros, wringing them dry for a few seasons with brutal training regimens, and spitting them out.
Faker was the exception. Though he had been discovered young by SK Telecom, a major Korean telecommunications company that did esports on the side, and gone through the training regimen, he refused to be spit out. He simply didn't stop. He won in 2013, then with a completely new four-man squad around him won again in 2015 and 2016 before narrowly losing the 2017 finals in a nail biter. Given League of Legends esports had only existed since 2011, he basically accounted for half of the championships up until that point. Nobody else, except for his teammates, had won more than once. And it was like it was known he would be this juggernaut the instant he manifested ex nihilo. Like it was known, even in 2013, that he would always win.
Then, Faker stopped winning.
By 2017, League of Legends esports was a titan. Venture capital firms, seeing the millions of eyeballs, thought that this was the next NBA in its infancy, and decided to get in on the ground floor. Multiple millions of dollars were pumped into the scene as even mediocre players in weak regions like North America pulled seven-digit salaries. In China, where League of Legends had become the national pastime, the nation's richest oligarchs ran teams for fun and vanity, outbidding Korean organizations for top Korean players in pursuit of a trophy that had gone to Korea every year since 2013. Riot, the studio developing the game, pumped tons of money into creating a professional sports product, with skilled announcers, dedicated arenas for regional leagues, live performances by musicians like Imagine Dragons and Lil Nas X, and all the other bells and whistles one might expect from a program watched on ESPN.
In this milieu, it seemed like Faker had finally reached his limit. He was still good, but not the best. Even as an individual, while everyone still considered him the "greatest of all time," he was considered outmatched by newer pros like Chovy and ShowMaker. 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 passed with no championships. In 2022, on a team of mostly rookies, he reached the world finals, but was ultimately beaten. Korea's stranglehold over the sport had been shaken by China, which had finally strung together some championships. People wondered if Faker would retire, although he had managed to avoid mandatory military service by representing Korea in the Olympics-esque Asian Games. He'd dealt with wrist injuries and his level of play dropped year over year. He just didn't seem to be that good anymore, potentially holding back his team of talented young players rather than leading them to victory.
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In the end, never count out Touchdown Tom. 11 years of professional play, 5 world championships.
From this longwinded explanation, you might have realized that after watching that game in 2013, I became a League of Legends esports fanatic, fulfilling the prophecy set before me by my father though perhaps in not the way he would have expected.
And the things I become a fanatic about, I want to write a story about.
IV. Modern Cannibals
There's a deleted scene in Modern Cannibals, as Maximillion is driving Z. and her friends through the Utah desert. He starts to talk about PokĂŠmon.
"I bring it up because my university thesis was about Pokemon in particular how Pokemon has basically trained an entire generation of children to think in a completely different way than preceding generations my generation for instance our fad was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles now I don't know how much you know about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but from an educational standpoint we're talking absolute bankrupt complete and utter goose egg but Pokemon now Pokemon you see it's more like there's some substance to it you know that refrain Gotta Catch Em All right?" "..." "Well to most parents it looks like a marketing gimmick you make one hundred fifty-one characters and structure a game around collecting them the merchandising potential is astronomical kids buy one hundred fifty-one trading cards stickers coloring books figurines uh collectable lunchable toys I'm sure you've got some yourself."
He continues:
"But really you look at the game itself before the big toy explosion the game itself the focus is placed less on the collection and more on the catalogue you're given a blank encyclopedia to fill and you fill it by capturing one hundred fifty-one Pokemon but the goal is to create a complete database of each and every one and this is what I argue is the educational core of the Pokemon series." His hands left the wheel to conceive of his idea in the cool air of the car, which remained steady on its ever-forward path. "Our modern era is no longer one of singular isolated knowledge it is one of the catalogue the database which is most clearly personified in the advent of the internet because now all knowledge can be at the fingertips of any one human being all that is needed is someone to go and put the catalogue together and presto whiz bang it's there think about it Z. when you catch a bunch of Pokemon where do you store them?" Z. didn't need to think long to remember the game's mechanics. "In the PC." "Exactly now isn't that odd consider it in real life terms you have real life creatures made assumedly of flesh and bone and yet you store them in a computer how does that make sense you'd expect a farm or a holding pen but no it's the computer and that too prepares the budding portion of the millennial generation to become cognizant of the linkage between the computer the encyclopedia and the database structure of knowledge in a new era." "So," said Z. "So you're saying Pokemon taught kids how to think in the digital age?"
There's also a deleted character in Modern Cannibals. Well, mostly deletedâhe still shows up, unnamed, in a couple of pages. He is Cole Coulter, Z.'s older brother, a popular League of Legends streamer. Before I deleted him, his role was to accompany Mrs. Roddlevan and Frederick in an attempt to bring Z. back home. He had POV scenes that gave insight into the weirdness of his cotravelers, but ultimately, I decided he didn't add anything to the story and removed him almost entirely.
Even then, though, I was already considering the future of Cole Coulter as the protagonist of a story about League of Legends esports. Playing under the ID MadKing, he would be a North American professional top laner, once known for his aggressive duelist style but recently forced into playing boring tanks as the esports metagame became more sophisticated and tactics-based.
The story would be simple, something I envisioned as a "sports story" only about esports instead of regular sports. It would start with Cole's team being relegated from the league, only for Cole to get a last chance signing to a new team with two promising Korean imports. One import, the mid laner, would be a charismatic and eccentric player in the mold of Doinb/Ganked By Mom/Huhi, while the other, an AD carry, would be introverted and pissy and elitist, in the mold of Piglet. The team would initially struggle, cultures would clash, then a mid-season replacement to sign a psychopathic Tyler1/Tarzaned style streamer as jungler would revitalize the team, put them on a major run, and get them to the World Championship. Though they would eventually fall after a miracle run, Cole would get a moment to truly shine on the biggest stage when he won a pivotal game by aggressive split pushing rather than tank play.
Thematically, the story would be about two things. First, a counterpoint to the idea of American exceptionalism, featuring a league where Americans are particularly bad compared to Korean or Chinese players. Second, an exploration of what it means to be exceptional at all. Cole would be an all-around mediocre person. Middling at school, at (real) sports, at the various popularity contests of being a teenager. League of Legends, this niche sub-sport, is the one thing he truly excelled at, the one place where he was good, better than 99.9 percent of all players, and yet even within that statistical greatness he wound up, ultimately, in a professional scene where he was once again mediocre, relegated to "tank duty," to facilitating other players to carry.
What does it mean to be the best? How can someone be so, so good, only to reach a level where they were still nothing special? Is there any way to win if you're not "the man who always wins"?
I remembered that panel from Electric Tale of Pikachu. The last people filtered before the final champion. It's certainly no walk in the zoo!
This idea was pretty detailed for a story I never wound up writing, something I mostly blame on the years 2018 and 2019, when a lot of bad things happened to me and in retrospect I consider it a minor miracle I managed to finish Chicago at all. As a human being, I would be decimated for the next three years, and so a lot of stories I might have written in that time never came to fruition.
Meanwhile, League of Legends esports reached a peak, then the venture capital bubble burst as investors realized there was no monetization scheme in place for any interested party except Riot Games. Money hemorrhaged out, Riot shifted resources to Valorant, and a sport that had been overinflated based on projected exponential growth in perpetuity fell back down to earth.
Also, Players came out.
Players was a 2022 mockumentary about a fictional League of Legends team competing in the North American league. Conceptually, it was doing a lot of what I had planned for my story: following a single team on a rags-to-riches run, focusing on the interpersonal drama of the team members, asking questions about greatness and its pursuit. It's a pretty good show if you're familiar with League of Legends esports at all, with a lot of on-the-ground fidelity that gives it an authentic feel, which is exactly what I had been hoping to use my esports fanaticism to accomplish. It completely took the wind out of my sails; it was like my idea had already been done.
So by 2022, the idea of a League of Legends esports story was dead. But there was still a drive to create something with that spirit, that would delve into those themes.
What remained after all these years of sifting the sieve, letting sand slip through, was that one panel from the manga. The number of people pursuing greatness slowly filtering until only one remained. And if I wasn't going to pursue that idea through League of Legends, maybe I could pursue it through another vehicle. Maybe the vehicle through which the idea had originally been exposed to me. PokĂŠmon. It all came back to PokĂŠmon.
V. Everything Evolving Into Crabs
I knew immediately that if I were to write a PokĂŠmon fic, it would be a tournament arc. This was the natural evolution of my esports story idea. Also, if I were to write PokĂŠmon, I wanted it to be a story about utopia, immersed within PokĂŠmon's near-future ideal world, where everything is clean and healthy, where society is neat and ordered.
This idea caused me to remember the novel Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley, which I had read a few years back. A mostly autobiographical bildungsroman written on the precipice of World War II, the novel ends with the young protagonist on a journey to Central America, where he meets an idealistic doctor who believes sport to be a proper substitution for war. He tells the story of two tribes locked in internecine conflict through generations, able to replace that violence with soccer matches.
And wasn't that what the world of PokĂŠmon was, a utopia revolving around neutralizing weapons of war by using them for competitive sport?
This tournament, I envisioned, would not simply be about deciding who was best, but an ideological battle for the future of the PokĂŠmon world. To that end, I imagined a war between an entrenched trainer class, who competed as philosopher-warriors, intense individuals with deep connections to their PokĂŠmon, and an upstart commercialization that sought to replace the ideological underpinnings that made their society so safe and prosperous with economic accumulation. It was from this kernel that the character who would become Aracely Sosa arose: charismatic, appealing, human-empathic, and propped up by a support staff who did all the hard work of teambuilding for her.
I imagined the story having an ensemble cast, focusing on nearly every competitor equally, with the Aracely character not having any especial focus until her improbable rise to the top. I imagined a final round where she faced off against "the man who always wins," and though she would lose to him, she would seem to have won the ideological battle, altering the course of society as major corporations scrambled to employ her formula for success at a much grander scale. The story would end with this realization of the earth-shattering importance behind her run, only for Aracely to sink in disappointment. Because in the end, all she really wanted was to win.
The more I thought about it, though, the less I liked the idea of an ensemble cast. The ensemble cast element of Chicago hadn't gone over very well (though I like it), and I figured it would wind up inflating the length of the story considerably. I was coming to the end of Cleveland Quixotic, after all, and once more wanted to write something smaller, tighter, and denser.
So I oriented my thinking to instead have the story revolve around Aracely and one major rival, to give an interpersonal mirror to the ideological war being waged. Thus, Toril came about as an antithesis to everything I had imagined Aracely to be: gruff, antisocial, independent. Their rivalry would culminate in a semifinals battle, before Aracely went on to fight "the man who always wins" in the finals.
I forget exactly when the gender theme came into the equation, but it evolved as an outgrowth of (once again) my competitive League of Legends expertise, where women are essentially nonexistent despite there seemingly being no biological blocks against them. This dovetailed nicely with PokĂŠmon, a world where women seemingly could be powerful competitors, but whereâin the anime at leastânone ever are. For instance, look at this chart of every major tournament in the anime:
Every known winner is male. Every known finalist and semifinalist is male. Only a handful of female characters have reached the quarterfinals. What possible in-universe justification could there be for that?
This question was actually far more prominent in early planning and drafting than it wound up being in the final work. Initially, I had Aracely's personal motivation revolve around a drive to be the first female trainer to win; this would increase the ideological conflict between her and Toril, who attempted to ignore that she was female altogether. Over time, this theme would see diminished importance in face of the last piece of the thematic puzzle: cults.
It came from reading Underground by Haruki Murakami, a nonfiction journalistic account of the 1995 Tokyo sarin gas attacks carried out by the cult Aum Shinrikyo under the direction of its leader Shoko Asahara. Japan in the 90s was experiencing its own End of History, one taken literally by those disaffected with modern society's grand narrative. The prophecies of Nostradamus became fashionable among the young, who believed that 1999 would be the final year before the world was destroyed. Murakami interviewed both survivors of the gas attack and members of Aum Shinrikyo, collecting worldviews of people who simply thought they were "different" and who were willing to give everything in their lives to the one place that seemed to accept that difference.
The 1995 attacks were a watershed moment in Japanese culture. In their wake would come pivotal works of Japanese pop media, like the titan of otaku culture, Neon Genesis Evangelion:
(What's scary about Nostradamus' prophecy is that it might not come true. A year whose chief terror was that THIS WAS IT.)
PokĂŠmon, whose first games released in Japan in 1996, also emerged within this post-Aum world where fixation on the minutiae of pop media was becoming a primary pillar of meaning for the youth, and it's hard not to see echoes of cultism in the evil teams that dot the series' landscape. Even Team Rocket, originally more modeled on organized crime than occultism, veers that direction in Gold and Silver, and afterward the organizations and their world-ending plots become increasingly absurd, to the point where it starts to become unclear why anyone would ever follow, say, Lysandre.
As I mentioned earlier, my personal interest in PokĂŠmon was at odds with these clownish, Saturday morning cartoon villain organizations, but Murakami's account of the Aum attacks recontextualized them for me, made them make sense even within the framework of a "realistic" utopian world. The last elements snapped into place, and I knew my main character would be the member of one of these cults. A cult dedicated to, what else? Evolution. A core element of the PokĂŠmon series, a perfect metaphor for the frustrating lack of movement of the End of History 90s. I imagined a cult leader as a surrogate mother figure for Aracely, who would have a strained relationship with both of her own parents, and deciding on that, the idea of making PokĂŠmon's canon evil mother Lusamine the villain was a no-brainer. I imagined a post-SuMo Lusamine, unable to move on from her experience merged with Nihilego, languishing in Kanto after being sent there to consult with Bill, who had his own experience being merged with a PokĂŠmon... It didn't take long to figure out how all these pieces connected.
The full form of the story had taken shape.
VI. Showdown
I knew immediately I would be following Showdown rules for the battles. No alternative even crossed my mind. I had dabbled in Showdown a few times over the years, first in Gen 3 OUs, then later in Gen 7 OUs, and I knew from experience that PokĂŠmon is a monumentally more interesting competitive game when operating at a high level compared to either its depiction in the anime (shounen logic, mid-fight evolutions) or the general playing experience (spam your best move on your overleveled starter). I knew I would use competitive rulesets before I even considered the thematic or worldbuilding aspect I would eventually take in the story itself (i.e., that the specific rulesets prevent battles from becoming bloodsport and enforce order on the world). I simply thought doing battles this way would be far more entertaining.
To prepare, I started playing Gen 9 OUs under the guidance of a few friends who were into the competitive scene. I grinded the ladder for months, eventually getting a good enough grasp on the metagame to reach 1500 Elo on the Showdown ladder, which is not very good but generally higher than someone can reach with dumb luck.
Crafting the tournament format and rulesets used in the story wasn't difficult. I modeled the tournament format on the League of Legends World Championship, with region-based seeds (having been selected due to performance in regional tournaments) competing in four groups before the highest performers advanced to a single elimination bracket. Initially, I envisioned a 32-competitor bracket instead of the 16-competitor bracket that would appear in the final draft, but otherwise the format came quickly and easily.
In terms of the rulesets and available PokĂŠmon, my considerations were made primarily in terms of what would be most entertaining to read. I decided to include Mega Evolutions and not include Z Moves, Dynamax, or Terastallization, because Mega Evolutions are cool and those other gimmicks are not. The bring-9-pick-6 format, while unusual in Showdown rulesets, is similar to the rules in PokĂŠmon Stadium and VGC tournaments, and also adds a level of intrigue to which PokĂŠmon each competitor uses. (It also enabled Red's Zapdos at the climax of the story, which was something I knew I would bring out from very early on.)
With the help of one of my friends who knew competitive PokĂŠmon, I scripted out each battle assiduously before I wrote them. Every battle was tested using Showdown itself, with only a few turns mocked up to account for luck. For instance, in Aracely versus Jinjiao, Slowking is meant to stay asleep for three turns. Rather than rely on luck to ensure Slowking actually slept that long during the test, I could give Slowking a useless move and have him use that instead to simulate being asleep.
The only thing that couldn't be tested in Showdown was the 7 PP Kingambit trick Red uses at the end of the story, because it's impossible to set a PokĂŠmon to have fewer than max PP in Showdown. This led to one of the bigger mistakes of the story, as it turns out that Encore would simply wear off if Kingambit ran out of PP, rather than forcing him to use Struggle like I assumed. Luckily, even if this were the case, it wouldn't change the outcome of the battle, so it's not an error I lose too much sleep over.
Character teams were chosen to thread the needle between a few considerations. The team needed to be competitively viable, reflect the character's personality in some way, and be distinct from other teams for the sake of variety. (Variety is somewhat unrealistic in real top-level competitive PokĂŠmon, where you'll often see many almost identical teams in the top ranks. But that would be boring.) Some lack of optimization was allowed under the conceit that actually training these PokĂŠmon to peak form would take a lot of time in the real world, compared to Showdown were optimization can be determined quickly due to the ability to immediately adjust stats and builds.
I also tried to give some preference for PokĂŠmon that would be more familiar to layman fans, though this was difficult because Gen 8 and 9 have outrageous power creep and many popular early generation PokĂŠmon have been completely phased out. (Using Megas helped with this issue.) It was this consideration that led to Azumarill being Aracely's ace. There was also an innate challenge to imagining what the competitive scene would look like without legendary PokĂŠmon. Zapdos and Landorus-Therian have been inexorable staples of the competitive scene for generations. What happens in a world where they aren't used at all?
In the original 32-person bracket, I imagined Aracely competing against Jinjiao in the first round, then minor characters Adrian da Cunha and Jacq Ray Johnson in the next two rounds, before facing Toril in semifinals. I imagined Adrian da Cunha as a "hometown hero" whose team wasn't great but he was plucky with a lot of grit, and Jacq Ray Johnson as a self-aware heel who liked to use cheesy strategies and gimmicky PokĂŠmon like Smeargle and Ditto. Condensing from 32 to 16 occurred around the same time I had settled on Lusamine as my villain/cult leader, which led to replacing those two with Gladion. I developed full brackets for both the 32-man and 16-man iterations, with character names and regions, just in case I ever needed to mention them.
All that was left to do was write the story.
VII. Unbroken Line of History
I began writing in September 2023 under the tentative title Unbroken Line of History, which I would later change to simply Lines. In the original drafts, I opened the story with a modified version of the panel from Electric Tale of Pikachu detailing how people are filtered over time in their pursuit of being the best, this time starting with all 8 billion people in the world until only one remains. The story then cut to Aracely's perspective in the restroom as she mentally prepared for her final group stage match.
At this point I was more set on Aracely being the clear protagonist of the story, so she had a few facets of her personality designed around that. First, as I mentioned before, there was a feminist angle where she was motivated specifically to be the first female trainer to win the championship. Secondly, I threw in some more generic nervousness/fear of failure. The other major difference is that I did not lead with the cult prophecy of the world ending. I originally envisioned the cult reveal to be a mid-story twist, and only obliquely hinted at it.
The scene still played out with Toril appearing and the two getting off to a bad start. Then, Cely's father tried to talk strategy with her while she ignored him, before the battle transpired in much the same form as it does in the final draft.
I showed this early draft to my friends and most disliked it. My girlfriend at the time told me Cely sounded like an edgy 13-year-old boy, while my neuroscientist friend whose aspirational idol is Bondrewd from Made in Abyss wanted to know more about the oblique hints of a cult, finding everything else boring. Another friend said it was stupid that there were 30 seconds between turns during the battle and that the PokĂŠmon should just go at each other; nobody would actually want to watch a battle that was paced so slowly. (I vehemently disagreed with that take. Basically every popular sport balances between slow-paced moments of strategy and fast-paced moments of action and execution.) Some people I showed it to did enjoy it, though. Gazemaize, the author of Chili and the Chocolate Factory, was especially enamored by the Brittany/Gardevoir reveal and the Bud Light Analyst Desk, and implored me to keep both of those elements at all costs. 7th, one of my friends who helped me with the Showdown stuff, was so into it she drew fan art of all the characters (which I've posted before) and also wrote eight pornographic short stories about them.
I rewrote the same opening scene several times across October and November, though these were minor iterations without significant adjustments. Frustrated with the lack of progress, I decided to take a break from writing to simply think about the story for a few months.
During this time, to fix Aracely's edgy 13-year-old voice, I decided to lean into her being from PokĂŠmon Los Angeles (with her native region, Visia, being a play on "visual" as a reference to Hollywood) and gave her a Valley Girl accent. To prepare for this, I listened to hours and hours of ASMR videos of people speaking like Valley Girls and took notes on their inflection and syntax. It was here where I decided on Aracely's underlining quirk, as a way of capturing the unique style of emphasis Valley Girls used.
This also made me realize I needed to adjust Aracely's personality. Despite the tone of her voice, she was still acting antisocially. She didn't want to talk to her father, she didn't want to talk to Lachlan Nguyen, she didn't even really want to talk to Toril. Toril herself was a lump of coal. My own misanthropy kept leaking into the characters, even when I conceptually didn't want them to have it. I thought back to Cleveland Quixotic, and how what made the Jay and Viviendre romance work was that they actually both liked each other, and figuredâeven though I didn't have explicitly romantic plans for Aracely and Torilâthat I needed to do something similar to make their rivalry truly pop. Rather than avoid people, Aracely would lean into talking to them, even if they were annoying. Although Toril remained frigid, there would be a part of her yearning for emotional contact, a way to coax her out of her shell.
I also thought deeply about the structure of my stories in general, and my inability to come up with good hooks. It was around this time that someone I knew was reading Chicago. They pointed out that the plot of Chicago doesn't really start until Chapter 26; that I was "burying the lede." I considered this. My logic, when writing Chicago, was that the Empire moving to take over Washington would be a twist, something that would shock and excite people and change their perception of the entire story.
But did that make sense, when really the story was "about" that twist? Didn't that just make everything before the twist harder to get into for a reader? Chicago might look radically different if I revealed the Empire's goals immediately, but it would also probably be a more immediately engaging work. I'm a big fan of delayed gratification in storytelling, but had I taken it too far?
This was a major revelation for me, and immediately I understood what I needed to do for my PokĂŠmon story: move up the cult plotline. Place it front and center. Name the whole story after it even. I decided on framing the opening scene from Toril's perspective, depicting Aracely initially more as an alien other, emphasizing the fact that she was in a cult rather than hide it behind foreshadowing. This could also lead to Aracely and Toril having more of a dual protagonist setup, which would make my planned two-half finale (one half where Aracely battled "the man who always wins," one half where Toril got involved in stopping the cult's doomsday plot) work even better.
Confidence resurged. At the end of January 2024, my girlfriend of seven years  and I broke up. A few days later, I started writing the sixthâand ultimately finalâdraft of When I Win the World Ends.
VIII. When I Win the World Ends
Now it's the part of the Making Of where I actually make the thing I'm supposed to be making, but there's a lot less to say about it. Once I have a plan, the actual writing of the story is the easy part, and most of what I wroteâwith a few exceptionsâlooks similar to the story as it exists now.
There were some oddities. I wrote the first seven chapters (everything up to the end of the Jinjiao battle) and then had to take a two week break to write a short piece for a writing contest I had entered in December as part of an effort to stop overthinking WIW. After this interruption, I returned to WIW writing perhaps a bit more perfunctorily than I usually would, leading to an original version of Chapter 8 (the chapter where MOTHER makes her first real appearance) that was short and abbreviated. Later, in editing, I would rewrite most of this chapter.
A few ideas emerged while writing, like the motif of serendipity/Logos, which I felt tied nicely to the ideas of evolution and history. It was also in this draft that I introduced Cely's friends Haydn and Charlie, as a nod to an earlier work of mine also featuring a fashion-obsessed girl from Los Angeles. (Speaking of nods to earlier works, in the original 32-man bracket, Cole Coulter featured as one of the competitors, but he didn't make the 16-man cut.)
The process went smoothly. I finished the draft at the end of May, a little under four months after I started it. I had envisioned the full story as being about 70,000 words, but the draft ended up closer to 115,000. Underestimating story length is just an essential element of the trade, though.
A few days after finishing the draft I went on a four-day Oklahoma Darkness Retreat where I had access to zero electronics. The goal was to think about my story deeply and how it could be improved in the editing process.
In this time chamber, where I did nothing except complete crossword puzzles and read The Recognitions by William Gaddis, I came to a realization. There was one element the story needed that wasn't already there.
That element was Sabrina. In the original draft, Sabrina was not present during the scene where Aracely meets the Old Man. She was mentioned obliquely a couple of times in conjunction with Aracely's "psychic powers," but it never really built to anything. There was still a scene where Aracely was interrogated due to her relationship with MOTHER, but only by nameless goons, and the scene lacked tension as it was clear Aracely could talk circles around them.
When I returned from Oklahoma, I prepared for my conception of Sabrina as a character by writing an 8,000 word short story from her perspective, which hashed out an entire backstory for her. Then, I started editing the draft.
For me, a lot of editing is just polish. Usually, cutting out needless sentences and fixing clunky ones, as well as emphasizing a few of the more understated themes and motifs. For instance, during editing, I made slight additions to emphasize the thematic connection between Aracely's suicide attempt and the global war that almost destroyed the world, as well as the connection between the moon and cyclical insanity (lunacy, etymologically, being related to the moon). I made the Old Man more of a Walt Disney-esque figure (from my notes: "a dying Disney"), rewriting much of his dialogue to either be direct quotes or to evoke his ideals. I also expanded on several of the scenes where Toril and Aracely interact to make their relationship more complex and nuanced. I gave MOTHER some new dialogue, including her speech in Chapter 18 about loving a child for the potential it promises, while also paradoxically wanting it to remain a child forever.
The largest changes were in the three chapters I almost fully rewrote. The first was Chapter 8, which as I mentioned earlier was overly terse. In the original draft, it depicted MOTHER as more pathetic, more dependent on Aracely. I decided to make her a more threatening figure, and incorporated a few references to the Moloch sacrifice scene from Valle Verde to make her seem more like a false idol. Similarly, I rewrote Chapter 12, which was originally a very short chapter that focused solely on a conversation between MOTHER and Nilufer that ended with the order to kidnap Aracely. In rewriting the chapter to include Fiorella, I gave myself more opportunity to flesh out the respective philosophies of her and MOTHER (including some of the story's most salient discussions about why cults exist), as well as give more of an insight into the inner workings of RISE as an organization. And lastly, I fully rewrote Chapter 19 to include Sabrina.
The last changes I made in editing were to the final chapter. When I finished the final draft of the story, I sent it to several readers, many of whom had looked at the original drafts of the first chapter, as well as julirites, the author of a Fargo fan fiction called London. There was an immediate and minor backlash to the final chapter, which was originally much more pessimistic, from most people who read it. In the original version, Aracely and Toril were not still in communication. (Fiorella was also dying of cancer instead of jockeying to replace the Old Man.) The finale had a much more somber, sedate, tragic note. Juli and 7th disliked this sad ending, while Gazemaize wanted me to cut the final chapter altogether. I felt confident that the final chapter was necessary, though, and revised it to its current version, which was much better liked.
And then... the story was finished, near the end of July. I crunched the numbers and realized that if I posted two chapters to start and then did a twice-weekly posting schedule, I could end the story serendipitously on October 12. So I did.
IX. Names and Special Thanks
In my Making Of post for Cleveland Quixotic, I had a fairly extensive list of where I got all the character and place names from. The list is a lot less extensive here; most names I constructed for the purpose of sounding evocative, rather than taking them from someplace specific. For instance, I chose the name Aracely Sosa because it sounds like whistling with its repeated S sounds, compared to Toril Lund which is a lot harsher with its consonants. You can see a similar rationale behind names like Fiorella Fiorina, Yui Matsui, and even some of the background characters, like Jacq Ray Johnson, Jr., where there is a lot of emphasis on alliteration and rhyme.
There are a couple of exceptions. Jinjiao is the in-game ID of a longtime Chinese League of Legends pro of middling notability. He picked the name (which means "Golden Horn") as a reference to the Golden Horned King, a villain from Journey to the West.
Lutz, Fiorella's cameraman, was named after an extremely minor character from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, who is not playable and only appears in a singular cutscene before being killed. They are so irrelevant that despite naming a character after them, I actually forgot their name, which is Lotz, not Lutz.
Haydn is named after the famous classical composer.
Special thanks to 7th and Elick320 for helping me with the teams and battles. Thanks to Gazemaize and julirites, among others unnamed, for reading and providing feedback. And thank you all for enjoying the story.
#when i win the world ends#wiw#bavitz#the making of#writing#pokemon#fanfic#fan fiction#league of legends#faker#the electric tale of pikachu#Youtube
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Wild Kratts - Bumblezzzz - Thoughts
This episode airs on TV tomorrow, but was released online in the PBS Kids Video App. So if you're planning on watching it on television, or unable to access the videp app, you may want to scroll off for spoilers
I was aware some bees come in blue (hi Martin). But GREEN???? The fuck?
The epitome of "waking up and choosing chaos."
I envy Chris's organized manner.
Bros went from Salamander Streaming to a Salamander Snack â ď¸
This raises - so many questions and thoughts.
Apparently there is a "Villain Weekly" magazine that is sold in copies? I mean there's a Finding Your Inner Villain Seminar so I guess that tracks but... just how many people are stanning, supporting, and funding these villains who, I should specify, NEARLY FLATTENED THE AMAZON. You can't just... walk backwards from that without a serious career-and-possibly-life-ending PR disaster.
(Actually I just remembered that Elon Musk exists and has his share of supporters despite how awful he is to the point where it borders on cartoonish, which I guess kinda tracks here)
2. The magazine has a picture of Donita on it, which implies that it's about her. Why would Donita have a COPY of a magazine featuring her? Why would she have to buy it. Do I not know enough about advertisements in the magazine industry?
3. Why would Donita trust Zach with anything? ANYTHING? He regularly gets his inventory mangled by the enemy every week as a result of his own ineptitude and often steals whenever said inventory is too shitty for his own good. She really shouldn't be surprised that he forgot to give it back.
4. Donita canonically lives in New Hampshire. Zach lives in Massachusets. That is an hour and a half away just by driving. Even if Zach isn't by his mansion, still he could've just flown his plane over to Donita's mansion. Or if he was too lazy, he could've hired his bots to do so. Inversely, Donita could've just come and have the manequins collect.
5. DONITA THREATENING ZACH WITH MOB VIOLENCE BY SICCING DABIO ON HIM IF HE DOESN'T RETURN THE BOOK WHAT THE HELL???
I feel like I shouldn't be surprised. I mean, this is the same person who quite possibly forced Martin to undress and into new clothing whilst he was in suspended animation in her debut appearance (and also sicced Dabio onto him when he resisted), nearly drove lemurs to extinction all over a dress in the Season 3 finale, attempted to skin salamanders alive for a fire-proof suit in S5, and oh yeah, was instrumental in the attempted destruction of the Amazon Rainforest. But still, this was so out of nowhere, and the fact that Dabio smiles; (and remember, according to Season 3, his ancestors have been working with the Donatas for generations, so this shit was a family business) This one scene, if all others haven't, single handedly manage to show Donita and Dabio as arguably the most brutal, nasty, and vile villains. It's just one scene, but I see these guys in a pretty different light now.
Also, I mentioned this before. If she's willing to do all that previous stuff mentioned above for her own gain, if she's willing to do this to Zach over a petty book loan, what the heck is she gonna do to Paisley when she finds out about her betrayal? What's she gonna do to Rex if he eventually redeems himself?
As someone who has made it my legal obligation to analyze the timeline in Wild Kratts, I will definitely say that this episode takes place on June 20th, the first day of the summer season. That means absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things.
I don't even think I should explain how terrible of an idea this is.
This is plain biology and a fact of life, but since they missed the opportunity to make a Bee Movie reference, I will take this as such as compensation.
Because I didn't say it earlier, I'll say it now: Bumblebees are so. Fucking. Cute.
AAAAAH!!!!!!!!!
Not enough screengrabs to convey this but the brothers are obviously trolling Zach here and I love it.
For all of you angst writers, here's some new ammo. Because I'm fairly certain that this can unoequivically KILL a human being if bumblebees were as big as us. In fact between this episode, and the next episode, Chimpanzee and Me, I'm convinced that the only reason Zach's robots are henchmen is so that the brothers can get away with being as violent as fuck towards them in so many beautifully creative ways without any actual bloodshed.
The fuck even is this episode đđ
CONCLUSION:
PROS:
The humor, once again, is amazing. It didn't get in as much laughs as the previous one, but still.
The Bumblebee Suit. It's such a breath of fresh air from the more uncanny looking Creature Power Suits in the modern seasons
Bumblebees are indeed highly endangered. It's good that this episode brings light on that and how important it is to protect them
CONS:
This entire episode's plot goes by... way too damn fast. Seeing the bros immediately get themselves into the jam, and then also immediately seeing Zach, and even the brothers quickly explaining bee features to Aviva. It all feels like this episode is just on fast-forward, even though it's a regular-length episode. It really could've been paced better.
Zach's motivations are stupid as ever, and he is at his peak bitchiness here. But again, the fact that such cartoonishly bullshit evil like this happens in the real world (which WK cleverly delivers a giant middle finger towards), and the fact that Zach gets his ass kicked for his genuinely awful plan mitigates a LOT of damage.
Final Ranking: 7/10. Still pretty good. I've been anticipating a Bumblebee episode for the past year after seeing leaks of a magazine featuring the Creature Power Suit, and it did not disappoint.
#wild kratts#pbs kids#kratt brothers#martin kratt#chris kratt#pbs kids go#2d kratt brothers#2d martin kratt#2d chris kratt#zach varmitech#donita donata#dabio#aviva corcovado#jimmy z#koki
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That one ask/reply shitting on THK and GMMTV in general is really.... something. đ I think you and @invisiblegarters already expressed most of my thoughts on that but I just want to add that based on every Jojo interview I've ever watched (and I've watched a lot of them during Only Friends), I never once got the impression that he's being forced to worked with branded pairs and, as you pointed out, it's actually kind of insulting to suggest he's having these pairs forced onto him and has to write stories he actually doesnât want to tell just to suit those pairs. During OF I saw a lot of talk (from the same circle of people who are now criticising THK before a single episode has even aired) about this too (about Jojo probably being forced to keep SandRay and TopMew together just because the actors are branded pairs) but everything always pointed to the opposite being true: Jojo (along with the other OF writers) wrote a script where 2 of the couples are together at the end and one is not. And he chose the actors according to that story, NOT the other way around (he chose branded pairs to play those 2 couples because he always planned on them to be together and therefore felt branded pairs would fit that kind of a story/ending).
Not to mention I thought Jojo being a simp for Khao was common knowledge, but I guess not? But yeah, uh, anyone that has ever watched any of the Soonvijarn videos knows this. It was only a matter of time before Jojo got to work with Khaotung tbh (and clearly wants to keep working him and First, given he chose to work with FK immediately after he already worked with them). Directors have faves and it's very clear Khao is one of Jojo's.
The only thing I will agree with that original post on is the fact that it'd be nice to see some of these branded pairs act in projects solo or with a different partner. However, that doesn't have to mean they should stop working with their branded pair altogether. I don't see why they couldn't do both. Though honestly, for me the main determining factor is what the actors themselves feel happiest doing. There are certain actors who definitely do not/did not enjoy being stick in a branded pair and that was visible from the moom. I'm glad for those of them who are no longer in branded pairs, since that's obviously not something they wanted. However, FK are not one of those pairs. From everything I see of them right now, they both feel happy and fulfilled working with each other. The moment they stop feeling that way, I will stop wanting to see them act in shows together as a couple. People seriously need to stop being so vehemently against branded pairs as a whole. (There's also a lot of hipocrisy going around: Branded pairs are totally fine if it means these people will get to see a pair like MaxTul play a couple in multiple series, but as soon as a GMMTV branded pair acts in several BLs together, branded pairs are suddenly bad and are holding the actors back. Double standards much?)
[This ask was sent in response to this post, but I would just skip down to @invisiblegarters addition because it's the only part worth reading]
Yeah, thereâs an anti-GMMTV branded pair movement going on here on Tumblr and I donât understand where it came from or what its purpose is considering early GMMTV pairs such as OffGun and TayNew are exempt from criticism.Â
It seems to come down to just a fundamental misunderstanding of the genre. In romances, the two main characters end up together. If they do not end up together, itâs not a romance. It does not matter if the two main characters are played by a branded pair or not. This is just how romances work.Â
Not to mention that these shows are conceptualized way before they are ever cast and are oftentimes based on novels, so the casting has literally no bearing on the story at all. In the case of THK specifically, Jojo has been working on that script for at least two years. FK werenât even a branded pair back then!
To suggest that queer characters are only getting happy endings because a company is trying to sell fan meets is incredibly insulting to not only the queer creators who make these works, but also the queer viewers who want to see a happy ending for themselves on screen.
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8.06 coda (pre episode airing)
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âEvan?â Tommy said standing at his kitchen island. His nerves were building with each passing second his boyfriend wasnât responding. His nerves had began their dancing when heâd opened his mail after getting home from his shift and seeing the letter from the Oregon Fire Department recruitment department.
âCan you say something please?â
What could Buck say? There was nothing to say. Tommy was leaving. That was that. Why prolong his torture with a conversation about the ins and outs.
âWhen do you leave?â He said plainly.
âIâm not leaving. At least not- itâs just an offer for an interview. I havenât accepted itâI wanted to have a conversation about with you first.â
âThereâs no conversation to have. You want the job and I know itâs your dream job and I think theyâd be lucky to have you.â He finally looked at Tommy and smiled. At least he tried to smile but his eyes gave away how false it was.
âEvan, I-â
âItâs okay, really. Listen, I have to go Iâm meeting Maddie for lunch.â He stepped forward and kissed Tommy on the cheek before walking out of Tommyâs kitchen toward the front door. **
âBuck, what are you doing here?â Maddie asked as Buck approached her and Josh in the dispatch break room. âEverything okay? You look like youâve been cursed?â
Buck glared at her as she tried to stifle a laugh.
âToo soon?â She asked. When Buck just stared at her instead of laughing along she knew that something was wrong. âOkay, spill. Whatâs going on?â
âTommyâs leaving.â He said.
âWhat?â
âHeâs got a job interview in Oregon.â
âWait, what?â She asked again.
âYeah. Applied to be on this waitlist thing apparently a month before we met and they sent him a letter today offering him an interview .â
Maddie always tried to be patient and attentive with her brother but sometimes he was very trying.
âOkay.â She took a deep breath. âDoes he have an interview for the job or does he already have the job?â She asked.
âDoes it matter?â He asked.
âUh, yeah, Buck.â She said firmly.
âAn interview.â He said with a sigh.
âRight, so heâs not actually leaving. At least not now, right?â
âWell he will if he gets the job.â
âOkay, Buck, sit down and Josh will make you tea. Wonât you Josh?â She looked at him with a smile.
âUh, I thought I was the underboss around here? Iâm supposed to be ordering you around.â He argued and Maddie just smiled at them. âUrgh, fine! But youâre buying coffee from the cart next time.â
âDeal .â She said then turned back to Buck. âOkay, so start from the beginning.â
âOkay, so Tommy got a letter in the mail today offering him an interview for a Captains position in Oregon. Apparently heâd applied the month before he met me.â Maddie nodded, listening intently and Josh placed a mug of tea in front of him. âThanks. So apparently heâd forgotten all about it until he got the letter.â
âOkay...â Maddie waited for her brother to continue but he didnât. He did that annoying heâd done since he was kid where he knew what the point he was making was and just expected her to know.
âAm I going to get the point via telepathy, or..?â
Buck rolled his eyes. âThe point is that heâs going to leave me.â
âYou donât know that.â Josh said trying to reassure him.
âYes, I do.â He said confidently. âHeâs incredible at his jobâthereâs no way he wouldnât nail the interview. So, heâll pass that, theyâll offer him the job and either he goes there and we do long distance or he breaks up with me. Either way heâs still going to leave.â The me at the end of the sentence was left unsaid but Maddie and Josh picked up on it.
âAnd he told you this?â She asked.
âWell, no but-â
Maddie sighed. âWhat exactly did he say?â
âHe said he wanted to have a conversation with me first.â
âOkay. And how did that conversation go?â
âUh, it didnât.â He admitted.
âAnd why not?â She asked; annoyance at the edge of her tone.
âBecause itâs pointless. Heâs leaving.â
Maddie sighed hard and pinched the bridge of her nose.
âBuck, I love you but oh my god youâre an idiot.â
âOh, thanks. Kick a man while heâs down.â He complained.
âBuck, how many times will you jump to a conclusion in a relationship and be proved wrong before you start to believe that youâre going about things the wrong way?â
âHow is there a wrong way here?â He protested.
âAll he said was he was offered an interview for a job he applied for before he met you and he wanted to talk to you about it. That is not the same as getting the job, let alone moving away from here.â
âIt sounds like Tommy thinks youâre important enough to have a discussion about it before he makes any decision. Thatâs not a bad thing, Buck.â Josh added.
Buck sighed. He knew Josh was right but he was scared of that that conversation with Tommy would look like; how it would end.
âI know Iâm important to himâheâs important to me too. One of the most important people and-â
âDo you love him?â Maddie asked out of the blue.
âWhat?â Buck replied taken aback.
âItâs a simple question, Buck. Are you in love with Tommy?â
He looked at her for a second and sighed.
âMore than I know what to do with.â He admitted. Mostly to Maddie (and Josh) and also in part to himself.
âThen the answer is simple.â She looked back at him.
âAm I the one getting the point from telepathy, now?â
Maddie rolled her eyes âYou fight for him.â She told him. âLook, when I was sick and went to Boston, Chimney drove halfway around the country trying to find me. Because he loved me and couldnât imagine giving me up without a fight.â
âMaddies right.â Josh added. âYouâve got a hot boyfriend who adores youâand even if it doesnât work out and he still leaves or you break up because of it-â
âJosh!â Maddie chastised.
âHey!â Josh said. âIâm not saying theyâre gonna break up, Iâm just saying that if that were to happen because of this potential move, at least youâll know that you did everything you could.â
âHe has a point.â Maddie said patting Josh on the upper arm.
âPlease put that in writing, thank you.â Josh said causing Maddie to playfully roll her eyes.
âSeriously, Buck. You know the answer to this: you need to talk to himâhear him out and only react or respond to what he actually says, not what youâre brain is telling you heâs said.â
âYeah.â He sighed, nodding his head. âI-I can do that.â Again, it wasnât just Maddie and Josh he was trying to convince.
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Buck arrived back at his apartment and paced the kitchen whilst he waited for Tommy to arrive. Heâd texted him before he left dispatch and asked him to meet him at the apartment.
In what felt like hours, but really less than 30 minutes, there was a knock at the door and Buck was letting Tommy in.
âThanks for coming.â
âOf course. Listen Ev-â
âNo.â Buck interrupted lifting his hand up. âIf you donât mind I would like to say something first.â
Tommy nodded and sat down at the island. âOkay.â
Buck stood at the opposite side of the island and took a couple of breaths.
âIâve had so many people in my life leave, and Iâve spent so much time resenting them for abandoning me that itâs hard to not think itâs inevitable in any relationship Iâve had. But, the thing is, Iâve realised that it wasnât entirely their fault. Not really.
When Abby went to Europe I could have begged her to stay, or gone with her or-or when she wasnât sure when she was coming back I could have hopped on a flight to Ireland or Spain or Morocco or wherever she was and just been there with her. But I didnât. When Ali said she couldnât handle me being in a dangerous job I could have reassured her more or promised her Iâd be okay, but I didnât.
When Taylor did that story, even though I was right to be angry, I could have talked more to her about and try to fix the issue, but I didnâtâI just asked her to move out. And Natalia? That one would never have worked out anyway.
My point is that I didnât fight. I didnât fight for them or our relationshipsâI just accepted that our relationship was done and let them leave. I deserve my share of the fault too.â
He took another deep, now slightly shaking, breath and continued.
âWhen you told me about the Oregon interview I freaked out because all of a sudden all I saw was another person I care about leaving me. I canât deny that you potentially leaving sucks, but hereâs the the thing:
If our relationship isnât going to work out, then Iâll be damned if itâs because I didnât fight for it. So here I am, Tommy. Fighting for it. Fighting for y-you.â His voice cracked.â Because Tommy, I.. Iâm in love with you.â
Bucks heart was thundering violently in his chest as he waited for Tommy to say something. Anything.
Tommy stared in shock at Buck for a moment, before eventuallyâfinallyâhis face morphed into that beautiful smiling one with the lines decorating his eyes. He got up from the chair and walked across to Buck, sliding his hands around his waist.
âIâm in love with you, too.â
As sad as Buck was at the prospect of his boyfriend leaving couldnât help but smile.
âAnd Iâm not going to the interview.â He added to Bucks complete surprise.
âWha-what?â
âEvan, when I applied for that job I was alone. I had nobody around that would really miss me all that much. And that was okayâI was used to being alone. But then I met you and everything changed. Suddenly I had someone who wanted to hear about my day. Someone who would drive all the way over to my place the other side of town just to spend an hour with me before his own shift. Someone who makes me feel like Iâm something precious and someone important.â
Buck was trying really hard to keep the tears from falling but it was getting hard.
âBut itâs an amazing job opportunity, Tommy.â
âAnd there will be other ones. But thereâs only one you, Evan. And thereâs nothing so important in my life that it will take me away from you.â
He took Bucks face gently in his and pressed a long kiss onto his lips.
Bucks resolve fell away and the tears fell down his cheeks. They were happy tears and relieved tears. Tears that his boyfriend whom he loved, loved him too. Tears that he finally had a partner who made him feel so valued and loved and wanted that he didnât know what to do with it half the time.
Tears that Tommy Kinard was his.
Tears that he was Tommy Kinardâs.
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Do you think we could get a Buck feelings realization this episode??? I always thought we wouldn't, it's too early, but the fact that Eddie was haunting the narrative for BT getting together makes me think he kind of has to haunt the break up as well. And this would be Buck's confession, if that's the theme of the episode. I don't actually believe this is happening, but I think maybe it IS a possibility? I'm curious to hear your thoughts!
I don't think so, mostly because I don't think the show is ready to tell us with all the words that Eddie is queer and I strongly believe that the show wouldn't let Buck pine for straight Eddie. I think the audience needs to know Eddie is queer before Buck realizes he's in love with Eddie. In my head the timeline that makes the most sense is Buck queer awakening -> Eddie queer awakening (or acknowledgment because I will never let go of the idea that Eddie already knows) -> Eddie feeling realization -> Buck feeling realization. I think Eddie would instantly reevaluate his relationship with Buck the second he realizes men are an option so his queer arc is more attached to accepting he can love Buck not just the general realizing he's into men the way Buck's is, especially since Buck is already out. Then Buck figures it out and we have them dancing around it for a little bit, maybe because Eddie doesn't want to force that on Buck and because Buck thinks Eddie's straight, until something happens and forces Buck to start the conversation. So unless Eddie confesses, literally, that he has feelings for Buck, I don't see Buck having a full-blown feeling realization yet. I do think we could get something that points to the idea that they are almost there. We got the whole misplaced feelings thing going with Buck and his relationship with Tommy and Eddie and the whole thing with Kim, so we could have both of them reaching similar conclusions, maybe about what they want from life and a partner (I am eyeing the similar outfits very hard) and then the episode could end with both of them in the quiet scene in some understanding moment that is obvious for us, since we have all the info from both sides, but will still be on the air for both of them.
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tged webtoon ep 166 spoilers and thoughts that are late again sorry about that it's starting to get really cold and my hands are freezing but it's fine below cut
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ALICIA AT THE END OF THIS EP SHES SO. PRETTY SO SO PRETTY HELP OH MY GOD IM . HEL P . HELPPPP YUOR MAJESTY UR TOO GORGOEUS
committing to the fake dating / fake engagement bit is CRAZY HELP ?? ??? HJELP ???? ? ??? WHAT IS HAPPENING
back to the top of the insanity
genuinely i am so glad that we r getting snippets of javier and alicia interacting i know its really brief but this episode rlly cemented in my mind that they're besties . they talk shit and poke fun at lloyd but also they both rlly just want him to fucking live . the besties ever
they're gonna beat the SHIT out of lloyd with so much love and faith and care and genuine hope for him and they're both gonna team up for it and lloyd cannot escape. JAVIER AND ALICIA TEAM UP IS CRAZY. I LOVE IT
also speaking of lloyd HES GOING. THRU IT GOD FUCKING DAMMIT WAAAHHHHH
losing my mind at the untouched food bc i figure he's absolutely taking it just to ease the minds of his family/friends who are bringing the food to him but he cant even bring himself to actually eat it to sustain himself this fucking hruts to look at . even when he's at his lowest he doesnt want to worry people (which kind of failed but damn did he try) IM GONNA EAT MY HAND
it was really REALLY sweet to see his summons and the system message box trying to get him to get up, to live again,,, is today's ep the like tagteam episode or smth they keep teaming up on lloyd . good i need that mf to LIVE
also sorry saying again but gghghh this moment too where even when lloyd doesnt feel like eating or living, he'll do whatever he can to make those around him happy . he keeps doing that, the things he chooses to do always end up being for somebody else, not just him. it's never just for him. he doesn't really admit or realize that though god he's the most selfless bastard ive seen in my fucking life I WANT YOU TO WANT TO LIVE
AND THEN THE FUCKING. COUNT AND COUNTESS ADMITTING THAT THEY KNEW JAVIER WAS LYING GOD FUCKING DAMMIT I SHOULDVE KNOWN JAVIER REALLY IS A TERRIBLE LIAR OF COURSE THEYD FUCKING NOTICE
and at that we FINALLY see a panel of lloyd that shows at least one eye . now he knows that they know,,,,,,,
i really really like whenever the illustrator pulls stuff off like this, where we dont really See them until really hardhitting moments . for the entire time before this panel it was as if lloyd was just,,, shut down. barely even there. not being able to see his face cemented that, and then lloyd hearing the count and countess talk,,, it's like a flip of a switch, both for him and for the reader, and i really REALLY like that. god my HEARTTT GHHH
especially when the count n countess choose to believe in him anyway. to wait for the truth ghghalsdkjflahsdf their patience and their willingness to . listen for the truth my heart my heart i cant .
AND LLOYDS REACTION TO THAT I . GOD THERE HE GOES AGAIN LIVING FOR OTHERS JESUS CHRIST LLOYD GOD FUCK. EITHER WAY HE'S GOING TO LIVE HE'S GONNA LIVE HE WANTS TO LIVE HE WANTS TO LIVE AAAAAAAAAAH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
i need u guys to understand i started fucking shaking when i saw this
the difference in lighting and framing in these panels compared two the other shots we've had of him i feel INSANEEE WWWHWHHHH
like the one on the left god it's so SO bright now . the fact that the count and countess are waiting for him, are being so patient with him, they want the truth from him so he needs to live to give them the truth and that's just like a window being open to let the stale air out and new fresh life fresh air inside im gonna . feel sick
and the panel on the right he still looks a bit worse for wear but theres that determined look in his eyes again, they're solid and bright and warm and they're not shaking or blank and i feel so so fucking happy HES GONNA LIVE EVERYBODY HES WANTS TO LIVE HE WANTS TO LIVE
taking things one step at a time, ,,,, even when its hard he's so fucking determined god ohhhhghhh my heart you can do it lloyd u can beat it!!! the summons are so sweet too they look just as determined to help him get to his feet again i feel so sick
OVERCOME!!! OVERCOME!!!! OVERCOME!!!! LLOYD!!!!!!
AND THEN WHEN. ALICIA ARRIVES. ALL OF THEIR REACTIONS HONESTLY ME FUCKING TOO I WAS SO FUCKING SHOCKED
im so so happy though im so glad things are looking up and the sillies are back lloyd lloyd lloyd you can do this alicia and javier will help you!!!! the count and countess will help you!!!!!!
step one lloyd back to himself, step two beat the shit out of fate, step three ??????, step four PROFIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IM SO EXCITED TO SEE WHERE THEY GO WITH THIS IM SO EXCITED javier what do u have to say for urself. alicia u too. whose idea was this
anyway that's all from me rn i think if i get more brainworms ill add onto this post lol, sorry its not a lot! ill see yall next week (aka tmrw) (this is late lol)
#tged#the greatest estate developer#tged spoilers#lynn misc#the greatest estate designer#tged lloyd#alicia magentano#lloyd frontera#my brains been running ragged so if i say smth repetitive / silly thats probably why#a LOT has happened this week!!! trying to keep cool about it!!!#i will continue posting abt tged episodes tho dw#even if theyre. like. a week late. sorry again#okays i think thats it
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The war within
#tokyo mew mew#masaya aoyama#tmm deep blue#i am so not ready for season 2 to end#wanted to get this up before the episode aired#hoping We get at least one unhinged deep blue expression tomorrow#i originally had deep blue making a crazy smile in this pic but after season 2 ep 11 I switched it to a frown#Thought it suited his personality better based on what weâve seen#my dumb art
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I got to say I really liked the episode (despite only having watched exu calamity of the exu series) and I think maybe Matt needed a breather after so many fast paced, lore filled episodes.
however, I am kinda bummed that the fcg processing has been put on hold for (at least) two weeks now and that means that, despite them being great actors that truly merge with their characters at the table, their reactions will be much less raw and thereâs a chance some of them will forget tidbits of information, emotions they felt when it happened because they (as role players) will have had time to process it out of the game and it might create a dissonance in the game. tbf I kind of felt the difference even between the end of ep 91 and the beginning of 92 but it made sense because technically they were still running and couldnât afford to process. idk. I have hope that weâll still see that raw emotion, but I fear it wonât be as impactful as it couldâve been, especially if theyâll have to put the âreporting for dutyâ hat on immediately when they get to the camp
I think being a little bummed about the sort of unexpected hiatus on the Bell's Hells/Post F.C.G processing is super understandable! As someone who also really did enjoy the Crownskeepers return (hello im still yelling about Opal internally), I'm kind of in the same camp of being kind of thrown/disappointed about not getting to really dig into/sit with the Bell's Hells post-F.C.G loss. Like, LOVED the Crownkeepers, fascinating second half, kind of meh on the specific timing.
I'm holding my reservations about whether they're going to have to keep running/moving once we return to their portion of the story, since hey, until it happens (or doesn't!), we don't know, so I don't feel like getting too in my head about it until then.
That said! I do think that in general the cast puts characterization and staying true to the emotions of the character/story as a very high priority within the campaign. I think you're right that it won't be the exact same as if they had done a big emotional blowup/goodbye/processing scene in the same ep where they lost F.C.G, or immediately after. I don't think that means it has to be less impactful, just that- yeah, they'll have had more time to actually think/process it.
But they're also all professional voice actors who have, IMO, thus far shown how much they think about the inner lives of their characters and enjoy really digging deep into the emotional/interpersonal aspects of roleplay.
My assumption (my hope?) is that with additional time to think about + process a devastating/deeply emotional loss for their character(s), they'd choose to lean into that more, and not less. It wont be the same as the immediate raw reactions, thats true! But i dont think that means it has to be less impactful, even if they (as people) have had more time to process, and will be choosing how their characters, fresh off the loss, react. I dont think thats a guarantee it will be less impactful/emotional (maybe the additional thinking would actually enhance the reactions being true/insightful to the characters vs gut reactions from cast), but it will be different.
But if the cast chooses to lean into the heartbreak/emotions, and the circumstances of the BH in the upcoming ep enable it, I'm sure they can still kick my ass (emotionally), timeskip or not.
In general, I'm cautiously optimistic about what could happen next! Even if I don't love the timing thus far. I think there's still plenty of ways for me to get what I'm hoping for wrt F.C.G/BH. :] There are plenty of ways for me to get let down too, probably, but until it happens, or doesn't, I'm opting to not get too doomery about it. We'll see.
I uh. Hope that helps? A bit? Being bummed about specific things you were hoping for being off the table is totally reasonable. just hoping to lend an alternate way of viewing it, if desired.
(i wrote the sentence: "don't be lamenting your chickens before they hatch" and then went "what the fuck" out loud. i spent 4 hours at work today just doing systems diagramming and my brain is fried. clearly. keeping this here for my own entertainment.)
#im kind of tired im sorry if this makes no sense lmao. i appreciate the ask! sorry if my answer comes off as flippant. i do get where you're#coming from and wanted to share how im personally choosing to approsch it haha#critical role#cr spoilers#c3e92#bell's hells#spar speaks#ask away!#speculation#fcg#imo its like how we probably wont be getting situations like marisha shellshocked live tweeting after jester saved beau with a cupcake#but we get the cast doing sneaky little tweets before the episode airs but after theyve already experienced it#different for sure. doesnt have to be worse. thats more up to personal opinion i think#i fully wrote that chicken thing and went. thats the idiom right. and then stared at it and went. ... no. its not.#should i have waited to answer this ask? maybe. but oh well.#i should probably get some sleep though
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you know what, i am right and im tired of pretending i am not
#i literally only just recently binged SU#and it was because the fandom was so toxic back when it was on the air that I avoided getting into the show#I didnât have irl friends to watch it with and I didnât want to watch it and not be able to engage with the fandom#so I didnât watch it til my new roommate suggested we all watch it a few months ago#weâve finished the show and the movie and just have the Future episodes left#every criticism I remember people having about the show? gets addressed in the show!#steven has a crisis when he finds out his mom might have shattered someone and it gets brought back up multiple times#and every time stevenâs entire point is shattering someone is never okay! why would he shatter the diamonds when he was losing his shit#over the thought that his mom might have shattered one herself before#no one hates AtLA for not having Aang kill Ozai#and Ozai was shown doing a lot worse shit#White brainwashes some people for a few minutes on screen#Ozai starts setting the whole world on fire#fuck the fandom for making me avoid this show for so long itâs so good#steven universe
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Like 22 episodes a seasons are its own kind of actual insanity. And shorter seasons felt really refreshing some years ago. But now that they are more or less gone..... come back 22 episodes. I did not mean do say those things about you. You are long and in 42 minutes pieces. We miss you. Save us 22 episodes a seasons. Come back on our televisions.
#*me to my maybe children in the future* âwhen we where young there where magnificent beasts that lived with us. they where 22 episodes long#then they where gone.#like i am no expert but the 22eps seasons where largely a american network tv thing and mostly the goal where to get to 100eps so they#could sell it for syndication to other tvchannels the way i understand/remember it#like besides soap operas who have like 1000+ episodes its more common to have like. 8 per season#and also it is crazy to think about much work goes into it. like labour laws are probabably a reason why they are not more common#but i really do hope they come back they are so perfect for this age like come on. i really miss it when riverd*ale and legends where#airing and they where released on whatever day they released on and i could just watch them whenever#perfect if i come home from nightshifts and wanted to watch a little televison before bed#perfect for when i woke up#for a bref time the ideal television lived. and then it was executed in the street
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â I CAN FEEL IT, CAN YOU FEEL IT, THERE MUST BE SOMETHING IN THE AIR â â rafe cameron.
MINORS DNI 18+ áśť đ đ° .á NOTES: kinktober; takes place in obx s4 e1 but thereâs a slight change; also happy birthday @princessbrunette :) i wrote this for you in mind; and based off of the scene in f&f where dom picks letty up calling her his trophy. WARNINGS: spoiler warning for obx season 4 episode 1 ă non canon compliant: i made rafe win the race ă size difference ă established relationship ă objectification ă impact play: ass smack ă mild exhibitionism bcos of pda ă praise ă sexual content: p in v stuff ă dirty talk.
Your feet sink into the sand as you traipse alongside RAFE CAMERON to his station in the race. His large hand envelopes yours, keeping you balanced as he leads you to his bike. The roar of revving fills your ears, loud enough for your boyfriend to have to lean down to your level to speak to you, walking you through the process and your role here. Youâve never been a flag girl before, but he told you she needs to be a âhot piece of assâ and he wants these boys heads still spinning when he wins the race. As a distraction, you were the only girl he wanted for the job.
â⌠and all you gotta do, baby, is make sure those guys are lookinâ at you. Show off a little somethingâjust this once, I donât care.â he explains, and you nod your head while brushing your hair out of your face from the wind. The two of you stand aside his bike and he mounts it, swinging a long leg over it. It creaks from his weight, and you roll your tongue between your lips. Without sunglasses, his gaze is narrowed, meeting yours in the light as he tugs you closer to him. âYou look good. Prettiest girl on Figure Eight.â he assures you, the corner of his lips quirked as he checks you out. The tiniest booty shorts you could find and a stringy bikini top, you looked good enough to eat. If Rafe wasnât so concerned with crossing the finish line while these cucks were still drooling over you, heâd be a little jealous they get such a treat. âMan, you are eye candy. Give me a twirl, câmon.â
It eases your nerves, grinning bashfully to yourself as he raises your hand over your head, twisting on your toes to show him your outfit. He bites his lower lip hard at the sight of the underside of your ass hanging out of your shorts, and he canât help but give you a tap. You whirl around from the swat, and catch his eyes flash up.
âMm, baby.â he exclaims, talking about you like youâre dessert and heâs got a sweet tooth. He doesnât give you a chance to scold him for smacking your ass around all these people, âCâmere,â he murmurs, yanking you to him until your body is draped over him on his bike. Your manicured nails brace on his chest while he steals a kiss, humming in surprise at him when he tilts his head to deepen it. Takes advantage of your parted lips to slide his tongue along yours in a proper good-luck-kiss, which only makes for a string of spit to connect the two of you when you part. You breathe hard, chest rising and falling from thrill as you search his expression. Thereâs a glow of love-sickness in his eyes.
You try to milk more attention. âI donât know if I canâŚâ you begin, alluding to how shy youâre gonna be in front of all these people.
âOh, donât start that shit, youâre gonna be fine.â he dismisses, seeing right through you and shrugging you off him so you get itâs time to stop being clingy. âGo get âem, tiger.â He plucks his helmet up, and rounds his body to place it on his head while you reluctantly leave him.
When itâs time to start the race, you hold up two bandanasâdonated by some guys trying to buy you drinksâand Rafe scoffs to himself, patting himself on the back for being such a genius. âWho wouldnât be lookinâ at you?â he thinks, while he revs his bike. You even give the crowd a little shake, your girls strapped in your bikini top swinging teasingly right before you set them off with the bow of your bandanas and the low dip of your arch. Rafe couldâve sworn one guy glanced over his shoulder to check out your ass bent over because he lost control of his steering for a second after. The race was on, and you did your job exactly how your boyfriend wanted you to.
Some kook with too much time on his hands made his way through the crowd to invite himself into your atmosphere, watching you as you eagerly await Rafeâs return and your signal to drop the flags for the winner.
A voice too close to your ear alerts you, resulting in a minute jolt of your body when he speaks. âWhat are you doing after this?â
Brows furrow as you glance over your shoulder at him, âOh, uh, I dunno right now.â you reply, but youâre not showing interest. It would depend on Rafeâs victory. You refocus, keeping an eye on the horizon and the roaring metal of competitive bikes. Rejoining the crowdâs enthusiasm, you react with them when someone wipes out.
âMe and the boys were gonna head to a kegger in the boneyard. You should come.â he tells you. Again, too close for your liking. Heâs not particularly bad-looking, or grabby, but you donât like how heâs standing right next to you and stooping to speak in your ear.
You face him again to respond, but the race takes your attention away, shutting your mouth to whirl around just in time to see Rafe drive back into view, sand kicking up behind his wheel.
After a close call, he wins, and when itâs safe, the adoring crowd cheers as it floods the scene to congratulate the riders. Youâre one of them, beelining to Rafe without a second thought. Heâs discarded his helmet, tossing it haphazardly to the sand as he meets you.
âAh, thereâs my trophy.â he says, hands clamping onto your waist to lift you from the ground. You squeal with delight, bracing on his shoulders and kicking your feet up. Slowly he lowers you until you can wrap your arms around his neck. Heâs hot and sweaty, and smells like it too, inhaling his scent deeply as you embrace him and he spins you around. Youâve completely forgotten about that kook you left behind.
âDid so good, precious, did exactly what I told you to.â Rafe murmurs against your lips, whipping his bike jacket off behind him while you lead him by his jaw deeper into his place.
âMhm, had to give them a show. Like you said.â you exhale, nodding fervently as you press yourself to him, desperate for some friction.
âDidnât I say youâd be fine? Huh? Whatâd I say?â he goads, and stoops, signaling you to jump into his arms. He catches your legs, securing them around his waist before his hand cups your backside and his other pins you to him by the back of your neck.
âI did so good!â you reply, a little perkier than youâd meant to. It breaks him out into a grin against you, and he snickers through his nose. Bringing you to his bedroom, he settles your back onto the bed.
Lips locked, and bodies tangling together, he struggles to find a spare second to keep talking, âGonna give me my prize? You gonna put out for the winner?â His hips surge, and a familiar hard outline sweeps across the crotch of your denim.
You nod, poking your tongue out in concentration as you help him to undress fully, and you wiggle out of your booty shorts. The peek of your tongue doesnât go unnoticed, and Rafeâs lips overlays yours, sucking on the pink tip there toyingly. You relax into it, untensing them to melt into a real kiss as the tip of something else nudges against your sex. Already wet and aching from all the teasing today, you go limp at the promise of whatâs to come. Bulging mushroom head lazily thumbing in and out of your slit makes your head throw back and jerk. âRafeâŚâ you whine. Sodden lips mouth at your cheek and jaw, working their way down to make out with your neck as his hips shallowly rut.
Ringed fingers clutch your face, tucking your chin in the web of his index and thumb. It faces you to him, and you look up at him with doe eyes and pretty brows in an upturn. He wants to watch your reactions as he pushes in deeper and deeper, finally sheathing as you cry out. Itâs a stingy stretch, and he can see your want for it in the roll of your eyes and the flinch of your delicate expression. âYeah, baby, gimme that trophy. Thatâs right.â
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ŕł spoiled. ( part one )
đđŻď¸đ âËâšâĄ â baby , can you call me back ? i miss you ⌠itâs so lonely in my mansion ⌠â đ§¸đŞ˝đŹ
pairing: ellie williams x rich fem!reader
synopsis: the mansion you live in is getting too cold , the silence is way too silent , and not even reruns of sex & the city can help ⌠long story short , youâre feeling lonely . wonder if you can think of someone in your contacts that can help and warm you up , a certain classmate perhaps ?
warnings: girly reader , kind of desperate loser ellie , bratty spoiled rich reader so don't read if that annoys you , allusion to smut , actual smut will be in the second chapter , this is dirty so mdni as usual !
an: i wrote this such a long time ago and it wasn't supposed to be two parts but well now it is !! i will start writing the second part if u guys want to so don't be shy in my inbox. not proofread unfortunately âĄ
A perfectly manicured hand rests on the fluffy white and silky smooth duvet. the Egyptian cotton, to be exact, is nothing but lavish, a sanctuary of indulgence in the realm of your own private luxury. Then, you tap your nails atop it, and the fabric crinkles. You gently sigh, but it's more so a grumble, and reach over for the âDunkinâ cup standing on your wooden bedside table. It perfectly matches every single one of the furniture in your extravaganza of a walk in closet, and the bed-frame as well. You take a slow, indulgent sip out of the icy cold drink, take an ice cube out with a straw, and gently suckle on it. You place the drink back on the table, shifting your gaze back over to the flat screen television.
Carrie forgave Mr. Big again, and now sheâs seen frantically pacing around the streets of New York City in her shiny Manolo Blahniks. You arch your brows, humming in high pitched amusement. you have the exact same pair!
Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda always seem to bring you a sense of comfort. Usually, your bed brings you a sense of comfort as well, and so does an icy drink with specifically eight cubes of ice. Your room smells like French vanilla, a tinge of cinnamon, and the sweetest pie youâve never learned how to bake. Most of the time, youâd bask in the scent and feel nice, and cosy, and your nose would scrunch and your nostrils would flare out, then youâd open your favorite food delivery app and order a nice olâ package of nine chocolate chip cookies. Then, youâd pop open a bottle of champagne and indulge yourself in the sweets deliciousness.
But your appetite is less existent than snow in the middle of August.
Youâre also freezing cold, fuzzy socks and all â goosebumps rising on your skin and feeling sharp like Japanese knives.
Your best friend of a white home cat, Toodle, elegantly extends his supple frame, his lithe form gracefully ascending to nestle within the cradle of your neck. His bell gently dingles, he yawns and mellifluously meows. Right now, it sounds more like an old mans groan.
âI know, Toots⌠mâbored too. And cold, JesusâŚâ you mutter towards Toodles, who, in his usual aloof manner, closes his eyes and surrenders to the soothing hum of his purring. You puff some air out of your mouth, brain wheels turning as to find out whatâs the cause of this blue mood. The air conditioning is completely turned off, youâre sure of it, and the fireplace crackles with warmth. Your entire moisturized body is covered up by a ridiculously expensive thick blanket, and itâs not the short VS nightie that makes you feel freezing, youâre convinced of that. For some reason, the frosty sensation persists. You smack your lip-glossed lips before bumping your head against your mountain of pillows, emitting a low grunt of exasperation.
You donât know the reason for your boredom, or for this bum mood, because albeit youâve seen this episode about a gazillion times, it never fails to entertain the shit out of your brain.
Maybe itâs due to the fact that youâre entirely alone (except for Toddles, of course, can't forget him) in a 10,000 square feet mansion. or perhaps itâs because the only lit room inside the mansion is your own.
But then you roll your eyes, because your parents are always away (at St. Tropez this time), so feeling alone isnât a new and strange concept.
Alas, being alone isnât the same as being lonely.
Your face twists at the depressing thought, ew. Youâre not lonely, just⌠bored, and unamused, and the icy drink isnât sweet enough and Carrieâs getting on your last nerve, and the 1,000 dollar blanket is starting to itch the hell out of your hyper-sensitive skin.
Which is why you get up from the bed in a moment of eureka, landing your feet against the fuzzy carpet and slide them into your Uggâs. âUh huh!â you chirp, you finally got it.
Youâre experiencing an old friend of a feeling called (drumrollâŚ) â anxiety, over your unfinished chem project! It must have masked itself in the form of frigidness and discomfort and loneliness.
But the project isnât even due till next week, and you rarely get stressed over college stuff unless theyâre due the next day and youâre sitting, staring down at your laptop screen, trying to communicate with it through telepathy or something of that sort.
Somaybeitâsnotanxiety and maybeyouârejustloney.
You shake away that uneasy and irritating thought, and sit your pretty butt down on the rolling chair. You click your shiny glittery pen (that always sheds some glitter onto your hand) and open up the thick as brick textbook.
You read the first question out loud.
The correct formula for aluminum nitrate isâŚ
Valentinoâs Lòco Toile Iconographe shoulder bag in hot pink?
Nope.
You shake your head, you have got to focus. You place your chin atop your palm and click the pen once more.
Al(NO2)3? or maybe itâs Al(NO3)3âŚ
or maybe youâre so far off you need to close the book shut and throw it out of the window. Youâve always sucked at chemistry.
Which is why you were assigned to be tutored by that auburn haired, green eyed, slightly sullen, tatted up girl who went by "Ellie" â or "El", but you didn't know her like that.
Ellie, is the one who stuttered out your name as she realized you werenât paying attention to her tutoring, as you had your gaze fixated on the black ink etched on her forearm, a half-covered flannel and a canvas of delicate veins. A bug, adorned with intricate botanical details, unfurled its wings across her skin.
âSâuh⌠A moth, with ferns around it nâstuff. Itâs kind of faded now thoughâ
Her voice was raspy and husky, and she stuttered out your name. Usually, youâd hate it when people got nervous around you. It made you feel odd, ostracized, and you always insisted â you were so damn sweet, thereâs nothing to be nervous about. You wore sweet perfume, sweet as goddamn cherries and cupcakes, and your voice was soft and you always smiled brightly, and so what if your purse cost more than a college tuition?
But her nerves didnât annoy you. In fact, you found them charming, and you found her sweet. You found that all of her âUhhhâ âs, and her âMhhmâ âs, all of her stammering and her lack of ability to keep eye contact with you to be⌠infatuating.
Then there was that rich voice, and those eyes, that smile, those hands, those damn toned arms, those biceps and the haircut, the way two short strands of hair always framed her face perfectly and her scent â that you could tell was just a cheap cologne, but mixed with her unique fragrance, proved nothing short of intoxicating.
It was also the fact that she seemed to damn know everything â and that she was always ahead of you, and that her face always bore that coy little smirk when you got a question wrong (which you seemed to get more often than not), and that she would grab your Swarovski pen out of your hand and scribble down the answer for you, just to explain it in detail later.
The way she licked over her bottom lip and bit as wrote down.
With her long fingers and all.
When she spoke, her breath smelled of mint and the faintest tinge of weed, which made you think of how lovely it must be to be able to transform into a damn joint just so she could place you in her mouth and suck â
now youâre sticky, and god now you really are distracted, and not by a cute purse or the sound of rain pouring down on your window. Toodles stretches his tiny limbs and you hear his bell faintly dingle again. He climbs down from your princess bed and jumps up to sit at your lap. You caress down his white fur and he purrs.
You wonder if Ellie likes cats.
You know she likes pussy.
You have got to get a grip.
You massage your temples, attempting to focus on the written down questions again, but the words and the numbers seem to mix into a cacophony of odd symbols and letters, and youâre still so goddamn cold.
Albeit your eyelids droop down slowly, eyes spazzing out of focus, the assignment must be done today.
âJust, finish the damn work and go to sleep. Yup.â You mumble to yourself, a habit you picked up as a result of being alone for most of your childhood, and having to opt for the help of imaginary friends to keep you comfort. Alas, youâre older now and only have yourself to talk to.
You try and follow your command.
The problem is, you donât know jack shit.
You wish Ellie was here, with her hair sticking to her forehead and your pen in her hand and her old chuckâs glued to her feet, as she sits down on the spare chair aside you with her jaw resting on her knees.
You wish you could hear her faint chuckle as you get another question wrong.
As a tutor, of course.
Not even as a friend, because sheâs not.
Definitely not as a lover, obviously, because that would truly be so far fetched from reality â although⌠right now, you canât help but think of the way her eyes fall down to your chest as a crimson blush creeps up her cheeks.
And you keep thinking about the time you purposely let your bra strap cascade down your shoulder, just because you wondered how sheâd react â Which was with averting her gaze to the side and clearing her throat. Now you think of the time you wore an extra short mini skirt, not that different from the rest of them although a bit tinier, and how you kept rubbing your thighs together just to see whether sheâd notice or not, which she didâŚ
You groan and slap your palm against your forehead.
Then, you stare at another question and then at your phone. Toodles chimes in with a high-pitched meow.
âOh my gosh Toots, so true! I should text her the questions, duhâ
Youâre not delusional at all, by the way.
So you send her your address.
In the meantime, you make sure your studying environment and your room are as tidy as possible. You grab your sparkly pink pen and place it near the textbook, and you grab a matte black pen for Ellie as well, a thoughtful gesture.
You also apply some strawberry scented moisturizer on your body, and spray your sickly sweet perfume on your pule points.
You slip your feet out of your slippers, and you wear your favorite heels. However, you keep your little nightie on. Youâre supposed to feel comfortable, this is your house after all, and the heels â are just a courtesy, you are expecting company, and opening the front door with house slippers is entirely rude, and the silky robe⌠Itâs long enough and proper. Ish.
You stare at your reflection down the mirror, and for some reason, you feel utterly nervous. Youâre all dolled up for a person who isnât a stranger, but who also isnât a friend. When you coat your lips with some minty gloss, Toodles stretches his tail upwards and meows.
âPsh. Do not judge me, Toots. This is normal, I do this all the timeâ
Which again is a total and complete white lie, because if it was a regular friend coming over, you wouldnât have even bothered to fix up your makeup, and youâd barely even get up from the comfort of your own bed.
As a matter of fact, not many people come by your house at all. You have your fair share of friends, but youâd much rather hang out by the mall or at one of their mansions, yours always feels just, utterly suffocating â as giant and spacey as it might be. And sure, youâve had hook ups before, but you always went rigid when they tried to slip past your panties, and you were always⌠dry, as an autumn leaf.
Ellie makes you feel anything but dry.
Physically â you shake your head and try getting rid of the thought by giving yourself some good old whiplash.
You find yourself pacing around your room, until you manage to cascade downstairs as soon as you hear the bell ring. With each step you take, your heel taps the lavish ceramic pavement.
âStayâ, you gesture towards your fluffy feline companion, who responds with a squinting of his eyes. âDonât freak out our companyâ
You look at Ellieâs face from the intercomâs shiny screen. You look at it so hard you nearly forget to press on the button thatâs purpose is to let your tutor-guest in. A couple of strands of her auburn bangs stick to her forehead. Ellie scratches her eyes with the back of her hands and she straightens up her spine. As she waits for the gate to open, she puffs some air from her cheeks. She attempts to fix her eyebrows with the tips of her fingers, and seems to be murmuring something underneath her breath.
Youâre not the best at lip reading, but your gut tells you she just whispered a âHiâ, and added your name, then â âHeyâ adding your name once more.
Itâs absolutely impossible for her to not be aware of how stupidly and irritatingly cute she is.
You press on the button and clear your throat. Youâd be lying if you said you didnât practice your greeting in front of a mirror as well. Your robe cascades down your shoulder, you fixate on it and contemplate pulling up the fabric.
Toodles meows once more.
Yup. You should keep it down.
It takes Ellie a good five minutes to walk the full distance from the front gate to your huge white door.
Then she knocks three times on the wood, and you squeak like a mouse although you really were fully prepared.
Your tutor wears a blue flannel with a white undershirt tucked beneath. The first button is opened, revealing a tiny piece of her pale skin. Below, her legs are covered with tight skinny jeans with a tear on the knee (youâre not sure if she fell or if itâs done purposely so), and to your surprise â no Chuckâs, but Doc Martens.
Noted. She has more than one pair of shoes.
When you greet Ellie with a cheerful â yet ever so relieved and breathy âHiâ, you kiss her on the cheek like you do all of your friends, and you can smell that cheap cologne again.
Amber, citrus, musk, lavender.
Thereâs a hint of actual Ellie in the mix as well â smoke, herbs, sweat⌠did she run here?
When you hug Ellie you focus on her scent.
When you hug Ellie she focuses on absofuckinglutely nothing â Her body goes rigid and stiff and she doesnât hug you back until two way too long seconds pass, and she finally manages to place her hand on your waist.
But she doesnât hug or squeeze, she rests it there.
Then she coughs.
âHeyâ
You take a step back and you can tell sheâs a bit flushed, or flustered â but you take it as her just running. You lean your hand against one of the thick pillars. Her orbs travel frantically from your eyes down to your⌠legs, that are completely bare and smooth and shiny, then they run down to your feet, which are covered with heelsâŚ
You think she might say something about it, about you, how ridiculous you look, so youâre washed up with self consciousness and shyness which is something you rarely get to feel, unless youâre with that damn girl for some reason.
Then her eyes hyper-focus on⌠the ceiling?
You grant Ellie a half smile and you really yearn to break the silence â but sheâs ahead of you. Again.
âItâs⌠you have a really high ceilingâ she says, then immediately glues her eyes on to the floor.
âUh, shiny floorâŚâ she chuckles so freaking awkwardly, grazing the bottom of her left legs docâs on the floor so it squeaks. Immediately, Ellie apologizes.
âShit, sorry, my shoes fuckinâ muddy. I uh, ran hereâ
You gingerly smile and furrow your brows. You theory has been proven correct. âYou ran?â
âWalked, like, not ran ranâ
Thereâs the tiniest droplet of sweat on Ellieâs forehead, which she wipeâs swiftly and clumsily with the back of her hand when she notices your eyes scan it. Oh, she ran ran alright. You do feel a little bad, picturing Ellieâs shoes hitting below her ass as she runs through the streets of your city, with a packed and awfully heavy mauve backpack â smacking against her back with every step she takes. You almost pout, youâre still leaning against the pillar and you smack your lips together â gloss and all, out of habit.
âCouldâa given you a ride, yâknowâ you light sweetly. Ellieâs scarred eyebrow arches up in response. âYou have a license?â
You so want to shove her shoulder playfully, but youâre convinced itâll make her go absolutely rigid again. Physical contact bricks her up â noted.
âWhy is that such a surprise?â you flash her a teasing smile. She smiles back at you.
âSâjust, thought youâd have a personal driver. Canât really imagine you driving that monster of a Rover back there ââ
You nod in complete amusement. âOh?â
âYeah,â Ellie teases, followed by a throaty chuckle. âPlus, took you more of a passenger princess type of girlâ
And that sentence shouldnât make you stutter the way you do next. It shouldnât, but it does. You back away slowly and Ellie follows your footsteps.
âT-thatâs, awfully presumptuousâ you chirp. Her boots stomp on the floor and your heels click clack. âPlus, I donât drive that Rover. My carâs in the garage with the rest of âemâ you say matter-of-factly.
Ellie scoffs impishly behind you. You walk up the stairs and she follows suit. Sheâs confident when she teases, you think, which is a tad different than her usual awkward self, but if only you knew she nearly slipped down one of the steps as she noticed the tiniest, delicious, most precious piece of your flesh that was just exposed behind you as a result of your incredibly short nightie.
âPsh, so presumptuousâ
As you walk towards your room, Ellie walks behind you although she has more than enough space to walk besides you. You get the feeling that she's nervous, even after her teasing and all, and you don't have to wonder why too much. Your house is huge, intimidating, filled with strange sculptures and paintings by obscure artists regular people have never even heard of. You don't have just one living room, you have three, and in each and every one of them stands a different technology piece of some sort. Also, your heels cost more than her outfit, could be more worth than the entirety of her damn closet, and most importantly â you're walking with a pink robe and some heels on.
When you reach your room, Ellie awkwardly smiles and straightens her muscular back. Then, she holds on to the straps of her backpack.
"First of all" you sigh, and now it's your turn to feel coy. "Thank you for coming over so late. I know it's like, absolutely ridiculous, and you know, you don't get paid for this so...", you flash Ellie an endearing smile, the apples of your cheeks rising sweetly as a humble thank you. "And, second of all... jus'... brace yourself?"
Ellie's brows arch up, but before she has time to ask â oh.
You both step into your lit room. Toodles follows by closely, entering the room as well, whilst rubbing his furry back against Ellie's calves.
"Yup..."
Ellie's fingers instinctively clasp onto the straps of her backpack once more, her eyes widening ever so slightly, but she fights to seem as unsurprised as she can â she fails miserably, because she gasps a little.
Your room is nothing but a... cotton candy dream world. A wall that's painted in pretty dusty pink, a princess bed that's nothing but a regal centerpiece. Above the bed, a canopy of gossamer silk drapes from a custom-crafted wrought iron frame, And the final sophisticated touch, a grand crystal chandelier, suspended from the ceiling. There are also clothes everywhere, empty water bottles, used sheet masks, a stack of books â some half-read, others forgotten, teetered precariously on a random corner. Ellie sticks out like a sore thumb. She stands out like a neon sign in a library, a skateboard at a black-tie gala.
You like it.
She clears her throat, stepping further into your room. "I take it black is your favorite color?" she titters sarcastically.
You giggle.
"Mhm, also I'm clearly very organized, and I hate clothes" you murmur and point out the pile of dresses haphazardly bunched in the corner of your room.
She should feel out of place. She should probably laugh, even sneak a pic â tell all her "cool" friends about how mindblowingly ridiculous the prissy rich girls room is. Instead, she thinks about how cute you must look cuddled up in a bed this big, how adorable it'd be to see your bed-head poking through the sheets at 8am, how sweet it must be to watch you skip around your room, trying on your shitload of clothes, throwing them in the air and huffing like a medieval brat of a princess. She wants to place a fucking tiara on your head. She sees your sticker collection from the corner of her eye, your vinyls, your candles, your crystals and Toodles' sofa.
And she likes it.
You take a deep breath. You shouldn't even care if she likes it or not, you shouldn't be bothered by it at all â you rarely are, but something inside of you yearns for... something.
"It suits you" she murmurs.
And that's certainly good enough, because it does.
You gesture Ellie to sit on the rolling chair next to yours, and her eyes still roam over the space of your room. âMy room looks exactly the same, by the way⌠same uh, size too⌠nâstuffed animals⌠Shit, I like the elephant oneâ, she sarcastically remarks as she sits on the chair and hunches down, manspreading as she often does. Your eyes canât help but roam down, because her damn thighs flexed under those jorts and you heard her, but you also kind of didnât.
Ellie clears her throat and narrows her eyes. Jheez, she thinks, you must be absolutely exhausted since your eyes donât seem to be able to focus.
âHuh?â you say, startled. Youâre still standing up on those heels. Ellie sniffles and chuckles and her voice goes all quiet.
âSaid pink nauseates me, that I hate those stuffed animals and that your elephant dollâs ugly as shitâ
You roll your eyes and your tongue swipes over your glossy bottom lip. You bite it and you sit down on the chair. Ellieâs eyes scan over your chest and she averts her gaze like a deer caught in headlights.
âHate you, chem tutorâ you huff, resting your head on the palm of your hand. Ellie doesnât maintain a second of eye contact but she chuckles and itâs cocky.
âYou need me, and you need an A in chemistryâ
You like that side of her.
You let your eyes blink lazily at her, a cheeky little smirk forming on your lips. When you open your mouth again, just to smack it on your glossy lips, you brush your leg âaccidentallyâ against hers, and rigid she goes. âMhm, I definitely need you, EllieâŚâ
The apples of Ellieâs cheek shine in bright crimson and her hand flexes. She grabs her pen and clicks on it once. You didnât mean it like that, she so obviously knows or believes, but it matters nonetheless. You like that side of her so much more.
You cross your pretty legs and let the tip of your heel graze her chair. âSo, you want a drink before we start studying?â, youâre way too damn close, she nods â but she doesnât need a âdrinkâ she needs a damn water fountain that directly flows onto her mouth and satisfies that damn drench. Is it possible for her damn knee to feel hot? Why is her knee feeling hot?
âAnything specific?â
âJusâ waters fineâ Ellie manages to murmur, lips forming a teeny tiny, shy, crescent smile.
âI was thinking more⌠like, wine? I have a wine cooler nâmy room⌠if you wanted water iâd have to like, go downstairs and⌠Itâs so lonely in thereâ your voice is saccharine, delicate, and it and coaxes Ellieâs mind.
âWineâs perfect, I love wineâ says Ellie.
She hates wine.
âMhm, red or white?â â Your question comes when you lift your butt off the chair and walk slowly towards the cooler.
âUh, r-red. Sâmuch⌠richerâ Ellie falters, remembering vaguely the time Joel had mentioned white wineâs for pussies. When she tried a red one, she gagged.
âImpressiveâ you note.
Ellie rolls the chair with the help of her heavy Doc's, and watches as you pour the red liquid into two delicate glasses. Your leg, she notices, is clad with a shiny, delicate golden piece of jewelry. Her eyes scan upwards, towards your bare thighs â the flesh is glistening, almost appearing as if it's covered with oil. Her mind drifts elsewhere, to a world in which your nightie is nothing but nonexistent, and those thighs...
Her stomach grumbles, she firmly holds onto it. Why NOW.
"Hungry?" you place the glass on the table, slightly nudging it towards Ellie.
She's starving.
you flash her a devilish smirk, cocking your head to the side.
"Oh, uhh... nope"
Famished.
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Three's a Crowd (But Four...) - G.S.
Synopsis. âSo, are they like holograms? Or can you really touch them?â âWhy? Trynna cop a feel, sweetheart?â In which you and your boyfriend find very unconventional uses for his powers.
Pairing. Gojo Satoru x Reader
Content. MDNI, fem! reader, established relationship, foursome (but theyâre all Satoru + you LMFAO), NSFW, unprotected sex, double penetration, spit-roasting, face-sitting, doggy, missionary, anal, pet names (sweetheart, pretty, babe), oral sex (male + female receiving), overstimulation (female), swearing, slight breeding kink, cum (like lots).
Word count. 3.0kÂ
A/N. A lil' sum while I get on with a 10k arranged marriage fic. H O R N Y >>> actual JJK technicalities.Â
Jokes, but idc what that technique was, I took that one chapter and ran with it. Art by @_3aem on X.
Cross-posted on AO3
âThey just nerfed Naruto in Boruto cuz they knew heâd be too DILF-y.â
âAmen.âÂ
Sprawled out on Satoruâs couch, both of you were fixated on the Naruto episode playing on-screen. It wasnât anything new for a Friday night. His soft hairs tickling your chin, and legs dangling off the other end of the couch as he lay atop, cuddling you like a 6â3 housecat.Â
Times like this, itâs easy to forget that your boyfriend constantly bears the burden of being âthe strongestâ. That is- until Satoru, eyes still locked onto the screen, speaks up âI can do that too, yâknow.â
You turn to look at Satoru, âDo what?â
He nods his head towards the screen - now showing young Naruto mastering his iconic technique. âYou could call it Shadow Clone Jutsu.â he hums.
Raising a brow, âSo you could make tens of thousands of Satoru clones? The world may never know rest.â
Eyes brimming with smugness, he grins âSomething like that.â
You cock your head, wanting to know more, âSo, are they like holograms? Or can you really touch them?â
âWhy? Trynna cop a feel, sweetheart?â he wiggles his brows in a way that would definitely be creepy if it was anyone but Satoru.
âYou wish.â
Satoru huffs out a laugh, before going back to using your breasts as his personal cushions. âNot quite clones or holograms, theyâre still me. But also not really, yâknow?â he murmurs.
âAhh. No.â
The conversation dwindles into a comfortable silence.
Or so youâd think. But the air was charged with something, and - knowing Satoru - you had an inkling it didnât bode well for you down there.
As quickly as you suspected, he turns the TV off and turns to you with twinkling eyes.
âToru...â you reproach.
He whines dramatically, âCome onnnn. Donât they say the best way to learn is hands-on experience?â
âYou just have ulterior motives, Toru.âÂ
âHell yeah, I do.â he mutters into the valley of your breasts. Satoru peeks at you through his thick lashes, eyes bright with mischief.Â
How could you say no to those eyes? And, well, youâd be lying if you said that the idea of multiple Satorus didnât make your pussy clench in excitement.
Thatâs how you found yourself here.
Shirts thrown across the room and splayed out on Satoruâs overpriced silk bed sheets. You gasp in pleasure as he leaves hot, open-mouthed kisses on your neck.
Wrapping your legs around his waist, he rocks into you, pushing you deeper into the plush bed. Your pussy drips with anticipation as you feel the outline of his rock-hard cock straining against his sweatpants.
Hooking two fingers under your waistband, he swiftly pulls off your panties along with your shorts. âAlready so wet and ready fâmeâŚâ he groans out. Quickly shuffling your bodies around, âCâmon sweetheart.âÂ
Now, Satoru knows he has a pretty face - too well, in fact, he uses it to his advantage to get his way with you too much. And he thinks thereâs nothing that makes his face prettier than you on it.
Itâs why he has you bent over and straddling his head. The tighter you squeeze him, the better.
One arm holds you in place while the other spreads your folds. Satoru teases your entrance with a finger, gathering your wetness before popping it into his mouth. He groans sinfully as he tastes you. âFuck- always so good for me.â
You slowly put your weight onto him, failing against the strong arm that pulls you to sit on him properly.Â
Satoru moans around your cunt as he finally dives nose-deep into it. Languidly, he licks long stripes against your folds, purposefully catching your clit in the process. âHah- Fuck. Toru, more!â
Satisfied with your whines, he finally slides his tongue inside your dripping pussy, fucking you with his mouth till his cock twitches for friction.
You notice, and urgently shuffle his sweatpants down. Satoruâs cock stands achingly hard, precum dripping enticingly along the vein on the side of it. You lean down to kiss the shaft, delighting in his noises that send vibrations down to your clit.Â
As you take his blushing red head into your mouth, Satoru increases his abuse on your cunt.
You arch your back further into his face - moaning around his thick cock. He starts fucking into your mouth steadily, forcing you to take more and more of his length. Drool drips down the corners of your mouth, âMmm Toru- Feels so good.â
If one Satoru makes you feel this goodâŚwhat would two feel like?
As if reading your mind - you wouldnât be surprised if he actually could - Satoru pulls away slightly, ropes of spit still connecting him to you.
âReady, sweetheart?â he murmurs lowly, hot breath making your cunt quiver.
And before you can respond, the hairs on your body raise as the air stills with the crackle of jujutsu. You remove yourself from Satoruâs cock with a wet pop! Looking up to seeâŚthose cerulean eyes.Â
Another set.
âToruâŚâ you drone out, turning behind to glare at Satoru - who was now placing innocent kisses to your dripping pussy. His eyes peek out with visible amusement, âJusâ say the word and Iâll stop.â
Satoru knew he had you cornered. Heâd fully felt the way your walls clenched around his tongue once you saw the other version of him. This was going to be fun.
Harshly rolling his tongue against your clit, he lightly smacks your ass - signaling you to pay attention to the other Satoru in front of you now.Â
So you do.
It was quite surreal seeing an exact copy of your boyfriend grinning down devilishly at you. He cups the back of your head, bringing you closer to him. âDonât be scared, pretty. Itâs jusâ me.âÂ
At first, you were unsure of what to do, the only thing you know being that - clone or not - this one was just as well-endowed as your boyfriend.
Experimentally, you press soft kisses to his hot tip, relishing in his drawn-out groan. You take him in deeper, tonguing the slit in the way you knew your boyfriend liked. âYeah- Jusâ like that.â
He tightens his grip on your head. Pumping your Satoru with one hand, you use the other to steady yourself as your mouth gets used as the otherâs own personal fucktoy.Â
Shit. This was heaven.
Eyes rolling to the back of your head, you pull away, âHngh- Toru, feels so fucking good.â Mewling at the stimulation on your cunt as well as the depravity of the act, you grind your hips deeper into Satoruâs mouth - searching for your high.Â
Soon, you feel that familiar snap in your stomach. Satoru uses his fingers to spread your lips as you cum all over his tongue. He laps up your juices with lewd squelching sounds as his clone fucks your face deeper. Nose meeting his snowy white pubes and balls hitting your chin, you choke from both the position and Satoruâs relentless tongue.Â
âYeah, cum all over my tongue, sweetheart.â
You ride out your high on Satoruâs pretty face, slick spreading all over his mouth and nose. With a final kiss to your cunt, he shifts your legs and moves to tower over from behind.Â
Removing yourself from the otherâs cock, you look over your shoulder to see your boyfriend sensually pumping himself, readying to enter your eager pussy.
âHey now, eyes on me, pretty.â A long finger moves your chin so that you face the Satoru in front of you. Seems that no matter what, every Satoru was a little possessive over you.
He rubs his dripping tip on your face, smearing his precum as a gloss before fucking into your mouth once more.Â
Almost at the same time, Satoru fully rams his cock inside your pussy without any warning, tip kissing your cervix.
 âShit. Always taking me in so good, sweetheart.â he huffs out as your walls flutter around his length.
You groan loudly around the cock in your mouth, partly from the pain of being unprepared and partly from the pleasure of getting what you wanted the most - both ends filled by your loving boyfriend.
Your eyes were dazed as you stare doe-eyed up at the Satoru that was plunging into your mouth mercilessly - the other fucking your hole at a similar pace. Strangled yelps leave your mouth as his balls sinfully slap against your clit.Â
The room fills with loud, wet noises, and the slapping of skin. Both Satorus hunch over you in pleasure, muscles rippling. Your cunt quivers in an almost-animalistic way at the small grunts falling from their pretty lips.
You whine as he finds that one spot inside you which makes you see stars every time his hips meet yours. One hand - you were too far gone to recognize whose - reaches under you to draw harsh circles on your clit.
Tears spring to your eyes at the sheer overstimulation, and you rock your hips to meet his powerful cadence. One of your hands reaches for the otherâs hip for stability, nose meeting his pelvis nails dragging along the soft skin. He grips your hair tighter, lips bitten and swollen at the stimulation.
From the way your pussy was clenching, you knew it wouldnât be long before you were cumming again.
Now, throughout his life, Satoru has been called crazy many times. Crazy powerful, crazy handsome (in front of the mirror), and just downright mad. But itâs right about now - watching as you choke and cry around his own dick as he plows into you from behind - that he truly thinks he just might actually be a little crazy.
Slowing to shallow rocks, he focuses on his technique.Â
Satoru basks in amusement when your whines of disappointment at his slowing pace die down as you register the tugging and sucking on your nipples from below.
You gasp as you break away from the Satoru in front of you and look down, breath catching in your chest as you realize that your boyfriend has conjured up another clone of himself.Â
He was going to be the death of you.
âPay attention, sweetheart.â you hear from behind you as Satoru starts up his relentless rhythm once more, hand now moving to squeeze and spread your ass.Â
You knew where this was going, and you didnât mind it one bit.
The stretch of your cunt as it adapted to Satoruâs length burned almost as much as your nipples as his clone continued to bite and tease them. âFeels good, babe?â he sighs around your breasts. Yet your whines of pleasure are quickly muffled by the flushed tip kissing your lips once more.Â
âHope you didnât forget about me, pretty.âÂ
âMore- Hngh, Toru!â you whine, not sure which Satoru you were addressing anymore . All three of them speed up their motions, the pleasure from all points pushing you over the edge.
You as you cum fast and hard.Â
But your Satoru(s) donât let you have a momentâs rest as your orgasm is quickly overshadowed by your boyfriendâs hands on your ass. Teasingly drawing circles around the rim. You shiver, hole quivering at the cold feeling of his saliva hitting you.Â
His cock still ramming into your abused cunt, Satoru enters a finger into your ass. Using his spit and your slick from before to stretch you out till heâs satisfied. âFuck- Taking me so good, sweetheart.â he moans out at the sight of you being stretched out from all ends by him and only him.
You continue mewling as the pleasure overtakes you. He was going to ruin you.
Half-delirious from all the stimulation, you barely hear the lowly âReady, babe?â from below you before Satoru pulls out and suddenly youâre flipped. Easily manhandled by your boyfriend, your head lolls against his replicaâs strong shoulder as youâre caressed from three sides once more.
âFeeling alright, sweetheart?â your boyfriend rasps from above. Now hot and bothered once more from how your loving boyfriend was using you like a ragdoll, you gasp out âYeah, Toru. Need you so bad.â
âOh yeah?â he grins, lining himself up with your pulsing pussy. âTell me how badly you want me in all your tight lilâ holes.â
You choke out a sob at the way your Satoru was teasing your folds with his thick cock. âSo bad- Need you so bad Toru. Want you to fill me up everywhere.âÂ
Arching your back, you grind your ass against the furiously hard cock prodding at your asshole. Hearing choked gasps from below you, your pussy clenches in anticipation around nothing. To Satoru, your arousal is almost palpable - as strong as the cursed technique in the air surrounding you two.
And that seems to be what finally makes Satoru snap before he sheathes himself entirely in your dripping cunt. Your strangled moans are cut off by the other Satoru slowly bullying himself into your other hole.
âAh- Ah!â you yelp in both pain and pleasure as youâre stretched to your limits. You feel full. So full. You were going to snap - like a rubber band - and your boyfriend was going to be reveling in his success. The man in question furrows his brows, groaning at the sweet feeling of his pretty lilâ girlfriend being so tight.
A single tear streaming down your face is gently brushed away as a pair of muscular thighs come to rest beside your face. âShhh, pretty. You can take it.â Â
Both of them start moving carefully.
Satoru would never admit it, but feeling his own dick stretch you out twofold has been a little fantasy tucked in a deep, dark corner of his mind ever since he realized the nefarious purposes his technique could be used for.
He could feel his other version pumping into you from behind as he ruts into your cunt mindlessly. The friction mixed with the gummy wetness of your pussy was mind-blowing - fuck, he really should have watched Naruto with you sooner.
Satoru gazes at you through half-lidded eyes as you press kittenish pecks to his cloneâs cock above you. You stare right into your boyfriendâs eyes as you take the length into your mouth once more, inch by inch. Nose meeting his pelvis.
Shit. Satoru feels like he could pass out - whether from seeing the sinful image of all your holes filled by him or from the excessive use of his cursed technique, he doesnât question. Your walls flutter, struggling to take him both.
Fuck, he really feels like heâs gonna explode.
Satoru pulls out fully before harshly thrusting into you once more, keeping up a pace that has his abs burning and you struggling for air. He sees another tear fall delicately down your cheek.
âMy girl takes me so well, huh? Fuck. Made jusâ for me, sweetheart.â
The air was stagnant with the smell of sex and jujutsu.Â
All three Satorus thrust into you fiercely, the bed creaking furiously. Satoru has half a mind to worry about whether it would break down in the middle of all this. How inconvenient that would be, heâs so close.Â
It was animalistic, the way you could just sit there and take it as your boyfriend used you in all sorts of ways you never deemed possible.Â
Youâre pretty sure your body is completely bruised and raw at this point. Eyes fluttering shut, tears cling to your lashes as youâre filled up. Your brain, as well as your holes, were overwhelmed with only Satoru Satoru Satoru. If your mouth wasnât suckling on his length, youâre sure youâd be screaming loud enough for Satoruâs neighborâs to file a noise complaint.
Good. So good.
Feeling that sharp tug on your stomach again, your legs flail as you steadily reach your climax. Held down by three sets of large hands - all caressing you relentlessly in various ways - you finally cum with an exhausted whimper.
Brain foggy and eyes unfocused, you barely feel the twitch of Satoruâs cock.Â
With a throaty moan, all three versions of your boyfriend cum - not one pulling out. Your senses are overtaken as Satoru doesnât relent his pace, fucking his cum deeper and deeper into your abused pussy.
Ah- He felt he was gonna fuck another Gojo into you. Carry on his legacy. Shut those old cows up about a Gojo heir.
Youâd look so round and beautiful with his kids.Â
âOnly I get to cum in this pussy.â he drawls out as he keeps rutting his sensitive cock into you. Low whines get stuck in his throat as he loses himself in the feeling of your tight walls coated in his semen. His other versions were also at their limit, shooting out thick streams of cum to paint your face and ass.Â
You were so beautiful like this. Fucked out and covered in his seed.Â
His and only his.
As you slowly come to your senses, the first thing you feel is wet. Not from your own slick, but from Satoruâs thick cum - it was everywhere, decorating your lips, your tits, all the way down to your holes below.Â
The second thing you feel is raw. You werenât too sure anymore that youâd be able to make it to that family dinner tomorrow, Satoru had absolutely gone all out tonight.Â
Laying there, willing yourself to move, you flinch as something soft and wet touches your legs. âShhhâŚeasy there, sweetheart. Get some rest, Iâll take care of it.â you hear the soothing whisper of your one and only boyfriend.Â
You muster up the strength to look up and see his gentle smile. âRest.â he breathes out as he continues to wipe you down. In the back of your mind you register the distinct lack of the other presences of your boyfriend.
âT-Toru...â you were too fucked up to formulate proper sentences.
âShhh itâs okay.â
At his tender whispers, you easily drift into a fatigued sleep. You dream of shadow clones and blue, blue skies.Â
Waking up after your brief nap, you find yourself dressed and cuddled by Satoru on a fresh set of sheets. âYou okay?â he mutters in-between innocent pecks to your bruised lips.
At your affirmative nod, he probes further âLearn anything about my technique?â
âAbsolutely not.â you sigh, pulling him in closer. As you snuggle into the crook of his neck, you almost miss the devious grin spreading across his face.
âThenâŚwanna try six next time?â
A/N. No Part 2 till I figure out better ways to differentiate these bitches LMAO.
Plagiarism not authorized.
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