#we get to see riz with his friends and know that they truly love and respect him. she doesn't get to see that

[ur-stepdad]

sklonda wants riz to be a freaking TURNCOAT?!

[lightningidle]

I am once again emotional about Riz Gukgak, this time because he is (as far as we know) the only Bad Kid actively thinking about the group's future together. The entire plot of The Seven was the Seven Maidens fighting tooth and nail to all graduate together and remain an adventuring party, but as Junior Year kicks off, Riz is the only one we see trying to chart a course for the whole group.

This doesn't mean the other Bad Kids don't care! Of course they do!! All of them have big things to deal with, be it breakups or a lack of parental figures or a lack of direction or a lack of money, the list goes on. But as the future looms ever nearer, Riz is the only one we've seen thus far thinking about everyone's future together, not just his own.

"The years will go by, and everyone will find someone that matters more to them than you."

It can be hard to be the friend that always makes the plans. It can be hard to be the friend who's constantly reaching out first, who's always the one facilitating hangouts, who's always taking charge because (especially as you get older and your time becomes less structured) without someone taking the wheel, the gang won't be getting together for weeks at a time, if at all. None of this means the gang doesn't want to spend time together, just that as you age, it takes more effort to make happen. and more often than not, it tends to fall on one person to see that through.

And even though you love your friends, even though you know the work is worth it, even though the work itself is your love language, it can sometimes feel like none of them care as much as you do. Whether or not it's true, sometimes it feels like, if you just stopped trying, no one else would pick up the slack, because it doesn't matter to them the way it matters to you.

"Why do you think your friends keep you around, Riz Gukgak? If it had not been for detention on your first day of school, and for you to solve this little mystery, do you think they'd look at you as someone they can truly understand? Or are you just a funny little thing that finds the clues?"

At the end of the day, the Bad Kids love each other. These friendships are meaningful and important, and they all put effort into taking care of each other. Riz is the little shrimp (honorific)(affectionate) of his crew because he belongs, not because he's simply tolerated.

But like he told his mom before Boys Night, he has a hard time relating to them when there's not a problem to solve. As he told his dad, he feels the distance between himself and the group as someone who doesn't get the hype around getting their kisses in. Work is his love language. And if he can do this— lay out the pieces, solve the puzzle, do the work to make sure that there's a future for all of them as a team— then he can prove he's worth keeping around.

Right?

[gods-favorite-autistic]

No because the way love ties into this season is so good especially during the last three episodes

Like we start off with all the Bad Kids going through it love-wise, Gorgugs just recently broke up with his girlfriend, Adaine had to leave her sister right after she reconnected with her only to find out that she moved out while she was away, Fabian is doing what Fabian is doing with Ecaf, Fig gets back to find out that her girlfriend will be going on a trip and she won’t be able to see her all year, Kristen is also going through her breakup with Tracker, Riz is still struggling with his sexuality and aromanticism, it’s a lot.

Then you have their individual b-plots with Fabian being left alone at home for a whole year right when he gets back (hoping to reconnect with his mom since he hasn’t been able to really do that for the first 16 years of his life) leaving him with no one to care for him so he tries to fill his home with so much noise that he can drown out the parent shaped hole in his heart, Fig taking on Gilears curse not through blood but through the sheer love that this man has for his child, Adaine not having the resources she needs but not wanting to burden Jawbone with that because that’s how she was conditioned to feel for her entire life, Riz struggling with the idea of losing the only friends (besides Penny) he’s ever had but knowing he’ll need to work himself to the bone to have even a chance of staying with them throughout college

And then you look at the entire Mordred Manor fight, Baron, Riz’s literal manifestation of all of his fears of being aroace coming to life, who has been here this whole time following Riz in his briefcase, a gift from his best friend who has denied time and time again of them being best friends but who gave him that gift out of love, using twisted manifestations of the loving, caring people of Mordred to attack the Bad Kids and even possessing and controlling to them to try and attack each other but they make it out and they break Gilears curse and they can leave Baron behind for now

AND THE LAST STAND dont even get me started on the Last Stand like they’re in mortal danger and yet Fabian is still teasing Adaine for her horrible joke like the siblings they are, Adaine helping Fig with her smite, Fabian calling out for Adaine the second he gets trapped because she’s Adaine, she’ll know what to do, the power of friendship getting them an extra spell slot, Kipperlilly slitting Buddys throat because she never truly cared for him as her party member, he was just an expendable pawn, Kristen trying to revive him despite how she might feel about him, it’s all love now, GOD

I could talk about other fights but I think this post is already very very long

AND there’s all the outside of combat moments that I love, like Riz’s mom trying to make sure he’s okay and he’s not being taken advantage of, the entire party trying to help Adaine with her crush, Fabian originally going after Ivy over Mazey because he’s better equipped to deal with someone mean and who doesn’t truly care about him over someone kind and good and who is concerned about him in a genuine way, Sandra Lynn still being unable to parent Fig in the way she deserves but she’s getting better, Fabian trying his damndest to reach out to his father, AYDAS MESSAGES, even beyond the party, Ankarna being corrupted by her followers but absolutely refusing to harm her ex wife and her sister, Zara Sool getting her powers from her beloved AUGH

THE LAST TWO FIGHTS THOUGH, Figs armor of Ayda, remember when we died, Oisins betrayal, Fabian’s speech to Ivy, Gorgug being driven by his love for his friends and refusing to turn to the rage of Porter, Adaines detect thoughts that ends up saving them coming from a gift from Fabian, Fabian being the one to do the divine intervention and Ankarna destroying Porter after seeing the pure love Fabian and Mazey have and refusing to let the injustice that would be them dying happen, Fabian’s talk with his dad, I don’t need justice against these people, Cassandra and Ankarna being reunited, AGJRJJESN

anyways. Fantasy High Junior Year. Rahhhh 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

[thespoonisvictory]

Okay, I need to know what your thoughts are on whether the Ratgrinders (and which members if it's not all of them) will be redeemed or not.

***** pre warning that brennan has bamboozled me thoroughly and I have few coherent thoughts on the mystery at hand other than looking at theories and going "well that's dumb" which I recognize is unhelpful.

I think the Ratgrinders have a large sympathetic element to them as a group that is yet to be revealed. That could be a lot of things, but starting first with the fact that we don't have a clear motivation for why exactly they were xp grinders rather than truly adventuring, what's up with that? To me, it doesn't read as a malicious act against rats, lol. To me, it reads as the 11 year olds afraid to play Minecraft off of peaceful mode, OR the people who think that highschoolers risking their lives to get grades is unfair and scary, OR maybe people who just want to game the system to prove it's unbalanced. Either way, that feels to me like a pretty big piece of the puzzle we're missing, and would give us a better idea of the group.

Additionally, I think the Rat Grinders are, or at least were, friends the way the Bad Kids are, which is another big sympathetic element. Kipperlily points out that they are a parallel to them in the way that they are/were six very different people who found their way to each other. I think their friendship is going to be revealed to be in many ways Exactly like the Bad Kids, closeness and loyalty and all. Maybe Kipperlily isn't a part of that, or she's deceiving them, but how far would the Bad Kids let Riz go down a crazy plan? How much trouble would they have put up with from Kristen if she kept going down the path she was at the start of the year? How much would they do for each other?

All this to say, I don't think we've seen a full view of what the Rat Grinders look like yet. If Lucy was friends with them for almost two years after all, surely there's something more there. That makes all of them to me, again with the arguable exception of Kipperlily, plausible to be redeemed, or revealed to have had decent intentions and turning out to be an ally.

As for more specific, kind of meta-gamey guesses (minimal evidence just vibes):

Oisin feels like a potential good guy or absolutely irredeemable, leaning towards the former. Either he's a Hans, or he doesn't know quite what's going on as exemplified by Kipperlily keeping him out of the loop on the materials smuggling w Aewlyn. I just doubt Brennan would dangle a love interest like that as a villain for Adaine, when her character has had very little romance thus far. It feels both like he knew Siobhan was too smart of a player to take that as bait, and wouldn't want to punish socially anxious Adaine opening up to someone outside of the group. OR he's evil idk this most recent ep was pretty damning.

We've barely seen any of Ivy, but she gives me big "pulling away emotionally from the disaster that is this friend group and bracing for impact" energy. wild shot is that I bet she was one of the closer people to Lucy, and is detached from everything after her death, maybe just going along with KL's plans for the hell of it. Will maybe slink away unscathed but unredeemed.

Ruben is interesting, and I think after KL one of the more involved people in the plot given his involvement in the festival. Could see him being redeemed, think it's more likely he'll go out in a Wanda Childa themed blaze of glory.

Mary Ann I think just loves her friends and is loyal to them. Whether that means she's being manipulated or doesn't even need to be, unclear.

Buddy o7

Kipperlily? No fucking clue. I think we're missing a big piece of her and doubt that Brennan would this simply villify a 16 year old girl with so many clear issues. What we're missing? Simply not a clue. She's crazy to me and I love her

[atiyasnake]

Fantasy High: Sophomore year

Alright, I I know I'm def late to the game but last night I just finished the last episode of Sophmore year and oh my fucking God.

Saint Kristen Fuckin Applebees, Brennan's reaction to when they rolled a fucking Nat 20 and just basically being like, yeah let me reshape this new powerful divinity and call them Cassandra (I really love the name and description of this divinity omg). Like dude, it was fucking iconic

Riz is so fucking cool AFTER FUCKING DYING, I was freaking out this last episode. There were so many times when the whole party could have gotten killed. I was so worried that we would lose one of the npcs that I have come to really love.

Like Figs Dad, Ragh. Ayda, Tracker, the Hangman, the Hangvan etc, I've gotten attached to them. They are all such distinctive characters that I really want them to survive.

Gorgug, you truly are one of the greatest wizards. Like I know his character has low intelligence but he brought so many pieces together. He reminded the party of such important details that would have gone unnoticed by him. And he DOES IT SO WELL. I think he might be my favorite character. He cares so much about his friends and tries so hard in his own way and I think it's beautiful.

Fabian with the sheet. I really love how his character has went from punching Gorgug in the face to 'let me reach out with all that I can to catch my friend, The Ball and swandle him like a dam baby with my fire elemental elven sheet'. Like that's beautiful

Adaine joining the club of killing your Dad, iconic. HER AND JAWBONE BEING A FATHER DAUGHTER DUO, IM CRYING. I'm so happy that she gets the support. That she has made a new friend in Adya and they are so supportive for each other. Like she's still an anxious person but she's honest and so supportive if her friends so intelligent and BADASS, love she got Adaine's Furious Fists.

Fig, saved her fucking dad with her new Girlfriend!!! fucking revived Riz with a sickass baseline. Her use of illusions in this Nightmare King Forest was so freaking creative and I loved seeing everyone else's reactions to it.

Brennan, dude, was so cool at describing the setting and actions of the characters and bringing them to life. I'm a reader at heart, but I had no issue with listening to any of the players and DM and actually being able to see the story play out in my mind like when I read. It was so fun to hear their voices, seeing their facial reactions. REAL TEARS WERE BROUGHT TO MY EYES. I CACKLED AT the turn of visceral fear to 'shit in my mouth' of Chugledown Bim.

I just really enjoyed it, I'm so happy to have been able to watch it all and I'm excited about seeing how Junior year went too.

[strugglingatart]

Jr Year ep 1

This is me live blogging bc I need to get thoughts out also would love fandom friends full spoilers bellow the cut just so no one accidentally reads anything they don't want to this will be long

Immediate chaos with unexplicable bits and Emily's insane bevarage choices WE ARE BACK BABY (also the holding hands bc the table is smaller was TOO cute)

My dad got a job in Cleavland lmao Lou... but also I wonder why they moved Fabian dear are you ok (emotionally I mean) also what do you mean you don't know... as usual I would like to see behind the scenes and know everything please

I know we technically saw them in the trailer but THE PROJECTIONSSSS

I expected the night yorb to be resolved quickly but a full battle scene w/ minis? shook and the hangvan is precious tbh and two minis omg

Gorgug is more artificer him being more tinkery is so huge to me idk why I just love my soft boi and his tools

Ally is me and I am Ally when the see the boggy mini

oh we "missed" a lot, I wonder how much talking about the 4 months they did or if a session 0 was part of that downtime decisions but lmao to Fabian fully flirting w/ the mirror

I'm sure all their knew stuff is like class features and mechanics but I know nothing about DnD so I'm just here on the vibes

I wish my sadness and life crisises got me jacked like Kristen, truly nothing would make me happier but I am too lazy alas

yes Riz, I love a good gadget

Not Fabian straight up failing and an acrobatica check as well? oh the irony (also Ally's face is ME, and Siobhan w/ perfect commentary, and the indignation at the die)

I truly hope they had more time and/or more people in the art team than usual bc so many minis!

Murph and Emily w/ silvery barbs is so cutee

was Kristen's dex not a -3? how did it get WORSE??? i don't know this game (also like Kristen baby pls most ppl get more dex by working out)

why was the whole squeem bit both peak comedy and drama at the same time

When they said silly they MEANT it

also gotta love Murph being teachers pet

the yorbie dying on his turn and Brenan just monotoning it was peak everything also the npc stuff happens i guess

getting an email from school and instantly going oh I hate everything cannot deal is relatable as hell into university tbh

Kristen please Cassandra is actually a cool god

The box of doom and murph's little beans!

Was this an unwinable fight??? IS THE NIGHT YORB HERE FOR THE WHOLE THING? Legit never thought that was gonna be the thing.... oh THIS is what EMily talked about, this deal with whoever is why we still have Fig I can't believe we have to wait a week to get to know moreeee, watching live is a torture

[ruby-red-inky-blue]

Carrie watches: Not All Who Wanda Are Lost

gonna keep a running list of episode highlights again because nobody i know irl watches Fantasy High ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

Riz and his folders :( he made one for Adaine for fun! That just says Hey Adaine! And Adaine is so delighted with the organisation <3

Murph getting a 30 trying to put his character's friends through school is so incredibly on brand

that school for lone adventurers did break my heart a little actually (as per the AP that one's on Murph and I am the opposite of surprised)

but their one-man bloodrush team was a hilarious bit

Ally going "no she can try to persuade me and in fact I will give her the help action because Kristen actually does know she should go to class" is incredible and speaks to me so deeply rn

"fluffier than my shirt?!"

Brennan immediately improvising a pseudo-deep health podcast when Kristen plugs the AUX in

Gorgug's humunculus. Just. Zac. It's molting because he ran out of time to add feathers?? and then it has the stupidest name?? and it's both impressive and also probably not as smart as it could be? and it can fly but like. barely? and it has super sharp claws but tries to sit on his head??

I went to school with some rich-ish boys and them nearly starving in front of a fully stocked kitchen is a joke I've made about them so many times, Fabian is On Brand as hell

the manic glint in Murph's eyes when Riz and Adaine start aggressively reverse-psychology-ing Fig out of her self-sabotage makes me wonder if that's not an approach he has at least considered many a time irl

(In response to the name Kipperlilly Copperkettle) "What are you, like, four different dogs? Just a white family's fleet of dogs?" SAVAGE. no survivors.

Riz noticing and cringing at people hyping up Gilear as a bit instead of out of genuine affection is so tragic and also so tragically what high school is *like* for people like him (cf: me).

obsessed with the whole student government storyline, they were MADE for this

the Axmurph household solidarity between Fig supporting Riz in his hyper cringe attempt to rebrand the Bad Kids to the PhotosyntheKids and Riz getting immediately so offended on Fig's behalf because another bard at school got famous for their music. Like. You know. That thing bards do.

Ah Brennan, I see what you're doing with Gorgug. It hurts me but I get it. Poor kid.

That whole interaction between Riz and Jawbone. Incredible. "I wouldn't." "Okay, I put it back."

"do we maybe see something of ourselves and don't like it or...?"

Brennan just metaphorically grabbing both Riz and Murph by the shoulders and shaking them. Hey buddy. Can we think about this. And Riz and Murph so deliberately going. No. No we can't. Because everything is truly so fine. Stress is good and we're doing so good thank you byeee! And Emily cackling in the background.

Riz as Kristen's campaign manager?? yes please and thank you

Kristen and her family. EEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Oh no. Oh no no no.

"We tried to tell the postman to bring your mail to Mordred Manor, 'cause you don't live here no more, and he told us we were bigots and fascists and that our reign would crumble so I don't know what that meant -" gotta love Bud Cubby. A real one.

Kristen doing something so out of pocket that Brennan imposes disadvantage on insight for her parents permanently, incredible

Adaine... no no nooo too real too real this is so sad. My poor girl :(

"No I guess I just... Wanda'd in" yeah this is a solid part two to Hilda Hilda. Brownie points for the weirdly aggro secret service agent with the missing persons case from 22 Hilda Blvd. (I do so love it when you can *hear* the DM yelling ENDING THE BIT THIS IS THE END OF THE BIT without actually saying that, it's so funny everytime)

The combined exasperation from Ally and Murph at Fig's school skipping antics is so funny. Like Siobhan is invested in this as Adaine, but Ally and Murph seem so personally invested, it's hilarious.

Incredible pull on the title pun by Zac as always, I can't believe this didn't get Brennan more.

The reactions around the table to Kristen awkwardly describing Tracker are impeccable.

oooh. oooh the bitch is back. I love that actually.

[housesunstone]

the bad kids 🏳️‍🌈😇

I'm gonna get eaten alive lol

🏳️‍🌈 A sexuality headcanon

Lets start off easy

Riz - as Murph has alluded to many times, I read Riz as Aro/Ace. I think that Riz would also try going on dates later in life and try it out. I think he would be the person to not realize he is confusing Platonic and Aesthetic attraction for love and use the identity of Demiromantic before realizing that he is aro/ace. I do think that somewhere in the future he will find a QPP and I don't think it will be with one of the badkids

Fig - Fig is not one to try to micro-label herself down. She has many different types of attraction and thus just labels herself as Queer.

Kristen - Lesbian. I do, however, headcanon that she realizes that she and Tracker are better off apart, and she goes back and has an actual conversation with Gertie and talks about how it was wrong to kiss her and use her and that if Gertie had her, she would like to start over again and go on an actual date. This, of course, is after a battle where both are bloody and are caring for each other's wounds.

Adaine - I think it takes Adaine the longest to explore her own sexuality, not in the fact she feels uncomfortable to do so but in the fact that she doesn't feel like she is ready to. It takes a long while after her parents and being adopted that she truly feels comfortable with herself. It doesn't help that Oisin, her first crush that we know about, hurt her too. From how much she has been in her own head about herself, I feel it's college where she experiments and gets a little reckless. She serial dates, hookups, and just lets go. After getting all of that out of her system, when she realizes what her best and worst relationships are, I think she realizes she is Demiromantic, Bisexual.

Fabian - He is the hardest. There is part of me that's like Fabian is so straight it hurts, but there is the part of me that's a Ragh Fabian shipper. I'd like to introduce you to Fabian, his girlfriend Mazey, and his boyfriend, Ragh. How does their relationship work you ask idk no one knows no one questions it. But they seem very happy Mazey and Ragh are besties.

Gorgug - This motherfucker is like, "Ah no, I don't want to see my swinger parents and their swinger friends" Anyways, Gorgug also doesn't really define his sexuality. He says it's "there" and is also a swinger like his parents. He is a construct fucker and a barbarian fucker I will not be taking notes

Headcanon asks

[recycledraccoon]

I think a really, really funny absolute CRACK au for Fantasy High, would be some sort of time travel or divination scrying on the past or whatever, for the Junior Year Rat Grinders. I know they've been aware of the Bad Kids since freshman, but how well did they REALLY know the kids? Or what they did, prior to them going to jail or the whole prompocalypse?

I want The Rat Grinders, fresh from Junior Year and The Bad Kids who were maximum legends, to see what an absolute batshit feral mess The Bad Kids were. Riz, diving up a corn cuties ass. Fabian falling off tables, Kristen and Gorgug dying, Adaine absolutely braining the lunch lady with her own soup ladle in the head twice, so hard she dies and Adaine immediately has a panic attack about it. It is the first day of school.

Catching whiff's of suspicious things and tracking it down with wild abandon. Stealing a car leading to a high speed chase, killing truly so many people. Sneaking into a bar, almost dying, but ALSO sending Jawbone to the school.

SEXY RAT

Beefing with middleschoolers and summoning a demon who is also Fig's dad.

Fighting ANOTHER faculty member, killing the coach after making him shit himself. Another student also dies. They revive him, intimidate/black mail him while making him think HE had shit himself and they just switched his and the coach's pants. They then change his entire life by talking to him, helping him reach emotional catharsis and help him realize he's gay.

Beating up Adaine's sister at a party and revoking her diplomatic immunity.

Riz threatening to shoot Biz's brains out, counting rapidly down from 5 and blowing a finger off.

Then doing it again and shooting another. Gives one more chance, before he's going to blow the kids brains full out. Then Fig burning their classmates crotch with fire and Gorgug looming with an axe ready to cut his head off, before Riz even starts counting against. Full on they are ready to murder this teenager they had been friends with up until 10 minutes prior, and are actively committing probable war crimes on him. Fabian is idly commenting on "man we became bullies real fast" in the background.

They go to jail. They get out via a friend they made when they stole a car and burn down a police precinct in the process. Fabian goes into his house, comes out with an eye patch, and immediately goes to prom on his motorcycle.

They kill two older students,fight a dragon and take a full 8-hr long rest in the middle using a time watch. Riz and his mom eat the former vice principal.

The school year isn't even over yet.

At this point in time the High Five Heroes were spending hours a day killing rats, and all the whole The Bad Kids were unhinged, insane maniacs almost dying practically every time they ran off.

I love the Rat Grinders. I think they're evil little assholes (who were manipulated and taken advantage of yes, but still little shits) who I want to get murdered before The Bad Kids pull a Ragh on all their asses, revive them and change their lives. And then I want the Rat Grinders to understand.

[starry-slithers]

since @ravenwind-75 agreed that a royalty AU would be good, here it is!

Her Sworn Protector, Part 1:

Summary: Princess Cariad and Sir Ekrizdis are in love. Their friends from other kingdoms come ❤️

Warnings: none ig. I’ve kept it pretty pg so far, good for me

Note: no beta.

Part 1:

“Princess-…” Chuckled Riz softly as she tried to adjust the flower crown on his head. They were in the palace gardens, the one place both could truly relax. Cariad had her tongue poking out as she tried to get the flimsy crown to stop sliding off his head. When she finally managed it, she lit up and grinned. 

“Perfect. A crown fit for a king!” She said proudly, stroking his jaw. He leaned into her touch and placed a gloved hand on top of hers. A cursed knight, they called him around the castle. They found it…abnormal that he couldn’t feel pain nor temperature. But Cariad had never minded. She was fascinated by it. Occasionally, she would hold his hands close and blow on them in an attempt to warm them up. His hands were rarely ungloved- to minimise scratches and injuries. But whenever they were, they would be covered in Cariad’s lipstick. 

Riz sighed contently, laying his head in her lap as she carded her fingers through his raven hair. His crimson eyes fluttered shut as he hummed in mild amusement. 

“My princess~” he purred. He honestly had more romance than half the princes who attempted to win her hand. 

“My knight.” She teased back, brushing his hair back to kiss his forehead. His hand immediately went to the back of her neck to gently tug her down for a proper one. She giggled against his lips and kissed back, smiling.

“Mmmm…I love you, my brave vampire knight.” She tended to call him ‘vampire’ or ‘Ghostie’ because he was so pale. He laughed, a deep rumble in his chest which Cariad adored. He grabbed her waist to pull her to lay on top  of him, her head on his chest and his hand cradling the back of her head, stroking her blonde hair. 

He never thought he’d be here. Laying in a field of flowers with the princess. Princess Cariad, to be precise. 

“Your flower crown is ruined.” She pointed out.

“We can fix it later darling. Don’t you have a ball to get ready for?” He teased. Cariad laughed and pushed him away playfully before Riz pulled her back.

“Hey, c’mere.” He laughed.

They heard the familiar sound of servants bustling past. One of them was coming their way so they scrambled apart. It wasn’t like people didn’t know they were in love. Just a glance at them could tell you that. They just didn’t want to be caught in such an intimate position- knowing the press would love a scandal. 

It was Cariad’s handmaiden, Mildred, who curtseyed to the pair. 

“Princess Cariad, my lady, Sir Mors. Princess Sylvia, Prince Sylvan, lady Poppy and Avania the knight have arrived safely and shall be present at the ball this evening.”

Cariad let out a very un-princess like squeal of excitement. She relished every time she got to see her friends from other kingdoms. “And shall you be attending Mildred? Perhaps with Ominis? We do so love your company. It’ll be dull without you.”

Mildred smiled. “Perhaps, your highness.” She squeezed Cariad’s hand and gave another small bow before leaving to finish helping with ball preparations. 

“Well. Looks like we have to go and get ready my dear.” Riz smiled, scooping Cariad into a bridal carry. She was so used to it by now that she just laughed and cuddled into him as he carried her to her chambers. 

Cariad had to come in to help him with his hair, but it ended up with her hand exploring under his shirt, and lipstick all over the top half of his chest. He gave her a quick, firm kiss before telling her to finish getting ready, seeing as she was only in her petticoat, corset and corset cover. 

She looked radiant, as always, when she descended the stairs. He reached his hand out to her and she gladly took it. He pulled her closer and kissed her hand.

“Such a gentleman.” She teased, loving how traditional and distinguished he was.

“Only for you, my love. Everyone else can kiss my ass.” He smirked, pressing his face into her hair and inhaling deeply before kissing it and guiding her to the ballroom. She was about to get dragged away for formal duties but before, she held out two ribbons. The usual light green ones she wore with her pigtails. She tied one around his wrist.

“It’s so those other princesses know that Sir Ekrizdis Mors, the kingdoms hottest knight, isn’t up for grabs.” She said, when she noticed his confused, yet amused look. 

As her appointed knight, it was his job to watch her, and he watched like a hawk as she mingled and made small talk, entertaining the people trying to suck up to her and form and alliance. 

That’s when she saw her friends. She immediately rushed over and suddenly she wasn’t a princess anymore. She was just a young woman who was excited to see her friends. Riz shook his head lightly and smiled fondly before going to join her as she gushed to her friends. Avania and Sylvia had been hanging on the sidelines, not the best in big social situations, whereas Poppy and Sylvan were dancing enthusiastically and getting pointed looks from the stuck up nobles. Mildred and Ominis were at the drinks table socialising. And all the while Riz had his hand casually on Cariad’s hip, rubbing the bone with his thumb.

She noticed Avania and Sylvia and gently took their hands, leading them to the balcony where they could breathe and get some air while also enjoying the music. Cariad then went and got some drinks for everyone and the whole squad later went to the balcony. Cariad knew better than to drink at a royal event so she was sipping on some pineapple juice whereas the others had alcoholic beverages, mainly a simple wine or a gin and tonic. 

She was sat pretty on Riz’s lap, facing her friends as she gushed about recent events, working hard to ignore her boyfriends- was he really her boyfriend? The word seemed too small for what they were…- large hands rubbing her stomach and his breath on her neck. 

“Sylvia came to watch me jousting the other day…” Avania mused. She was the best female night across the land, as well as Sylvia’s girlfriend. 

“Did you win?” Asked Sylvan. Avania shot him a look that said ‘what do you think?’

“Of course I did.” 

“Cocky.”

“Yeah, yeah.” She scoffed, rolling her eyes. Poppy, Mildred and Ominis seemed to be deep in discussion. Which was no surprise seeing as Ominis was Cariad’s advisor and Poppy was environmental representative as well as Sylvan’s wife. They were probably discussing world matters and how to implement certain bans. Mildred was chipping in with her own ideas often. As Cariad’s handmaiden, she was also her closest confident, so Mildred knew a lot about the kingdoms court. 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thats all I had motivation for tonight. As always, Riz, Sylvan, Sylvia and Mildred belong to the wonderful @rene-hl-trashcan

The urge to write a CaRiz royalty AU:

(riz belongs to @rene-hl-trashcan)

[utilitycaster]

001: TAZ (Specifically interested TAZ Balance takes but if you wanna mix in Amnesty or the mini arcs between the two go for it!)

002: Percy/Vex (I'm sure you've talked about about them a ton, but as a bit of a new follower I'd love to hear your opinions) 003: Fig Faeth (or if you haven't seen Fantasy High, your pick of Dimension 20 characters)

below a cut simply bc this shall be long as fuck

TAZ Balance

Favorite character: Lucretia

Least Favorite character: none really;

5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon): I feel there were not really five ships in this but like, naturally, Lup/Barry and Taako/Kravitz were both a delight

Character I find most attractive: I mean, probably Magnus.

Character I would be best friends with: I want to hang out with Carey and Killian

An unpopular opinion: I think TAZ Balance is very good and I love the graphic novels and all that but I do still think that Amnesty was stronger and deserves more accolades.

Most Badass Character: Lup, this is not a question

Most Epic Villain: I guess John? The main antagonist is like,

Favourite Friendship: the Taco Twins

Character I most identify with: Lucretia, for better or for worse. I do not think I am a well-intentioned extremist irl but I think in a D&D story I could absolutely fall into that.

Character I wish I could be: Davenport but after his memory is restored and he's just a sea captain

Percy/Vex

When I started shipping them: hard to say in that I went into C1 knowing how the general ships shook out. I do remember loving their interaction when Percy first tells VM about the Briarwoods and Vex immediately is like "oh this is 100% our problem now too",

What makes me happy about them: everything. My ideal for fictional romances is truly "we are flawed in the same way, but through each other we can see how we are worthy of love despite that" so like, this is my fucking jam.

What makes me sad about them: not much, honestly! lifespan angst was made up by mediocre fanfic writers to sell more mediocre fanfic.

Things done in fanfic that annoys me: nothing specific to them; in general I am a very "he would not fucking say that" person when it comes to fanfic so getting the voices right is crucial, but that's always true for any ship.

Things I look for in fanfic: see above; get the voices right.

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: I mean, they are perfect for each other and no other ships for either of them compare, but I would not be mad at Percy/Tary or Vex/Zahra.

My happily ever after for them: they've got it! Percy just wants to do weird science in a workshop while a competent partner does all the political work; Vex wants the security that power grants her after a childhood and young adulthood of profound instability and emotional abuse, and both want someone who loves even their more vengeful and complicated side, and that's what they're doing!

Fig Faeth

How I feel about this character: She is great. Love how Emily leaned into Angry Teen in a way that felt real and understandable.

Any/all the people I ship romantically with this character: Ayda

My favorite non-romantic relationship for this character: I mean, all the bad kids, but Riz and Kristen are some of my favorites. Also her relationship with Gilear is wonderful.

My unpopular opinion about this character: None really?

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: Nothing specific other than "please give us a third season one day, please d20 cast, please"

Favorite friendship for this character: Probably Riz; Emily and Murph as players are hilarious in that they NEVER explore romantic chemistry despite being irl married, but their characters almost always end up really good friends.

[undercoverangell]

Riz was canonically like picked on in middle school and i dont think we talk about that enough.

riz is so opposed to making friends at first/seeing them as something only for clues because he hasnt had friends before. thats why sklonda is so happy when he makes friends who honestly truly care about him. He wants to make friends but he has never made one before, so he just hands out business cards instead of talking. it seems easier to him than the humiliation of being rejected. just hand them a business card and go.

his dad died when he was 9, two years later he starts getting bullied in middle school and getting called "the briefcase kid" (when he clearly thinks briefcases are cool and they clearly mean a lot to him) and his mom is too busy to be there for him most days bc its heavily implied shes out working a lot, and shes also grieving the loss of her husband. Riz rides the bus alone. Riz asks to do group projects alone. hes seen as weird by all his peers. he comes home to an empty apartment so he just solves mysteries. does his homework and solves mysteries. There's nothing else to do and he can focus on stuff other than whats going on.

Also consider that he grows up w Pok and Sklonda as his parents, people who seem to just never have issues with confidence or self esteem and yet he does. in the nightmare forest he literally sees his two parents and Baron tells him he is most unlike his own parents, who in that moment are described as confident, suave, and poised.

thats why he embraces the nickname "the ball". its not condescending. its not mocking. his friends made a name created by a bully into a fully fledged title. he mustve been so overjoyed hearing all his friends shout "THE BALL!!" whenever he did something cool. He has real friends, who love him more than he knows and think hes cool as hell! He's not just some weirdo with a briefcase, hes THEIR weirdo with a briefcase who helps them out so many times! The bad kids wouldn't be the same without him, and they wouldn't have their lil dude any other way.

[gilears]

I've never understood the whole "if Riz never gets partnered he will be doomed to sadness and loneliness" idea people have with him being aroace. Cause like did they not see the nightmare forest? That was literally what he over came is that fear and realizing he doesnt have to conform to what society and media says about relationships and his friends still love him. Also like they don't need to be partnered to have Bad Kids house where they all look out and care for each other as friends.

oh my god i forgot to answer this i am SO sorry anon

YEAH!!! LITERALLY!! we have covered this. we have covered this! not sure how anyone could see the conclusion of that arc and still be like, "oh well hes gonna be lonely and sad if he doesnt get his kisses in!" like yeah hes still sorting out his feelings and coming to terms with his identity clearly but. he does NOT want to get his kisses in, and he loves his friends and his friends love him!!! for who he is!!!!!

i have a really hard time figuring out how to articulate this so i dont talk about it much outside of the dms of beloved friends who i know Get It but like. sooooo much of ppl ignoring riz's identity to ship him with fabian is insidious to me. kristen is canonically a lesbian, if a bunch of people decided they wanted to ignore that to ship her with like gorgug, there would be a RECKONING. why is it suddenly fine if we're ignoring that riz canonically isnt sexually or romantically attracted to anyone (and has EXPLICITLY said he does not WANT to take part in these things), so we can ship him with someone (regardless of the gender of that partner!) ?????

if we were at a lack of canon queer relationships, i might be able to see why people would feel the need. but we ARENT! literally TWO of the pcs are in canon queer relationships!! now, the widespread blatant ignorance of those canon wlw relationships over a hypothetical one that is mlm.... smells like misogyny! smells like lesbophobia! on that note how come there are DOUBLE the amount of f*briz fics on ao3 versus kristen/tracker AND fig/ayda?

moving beyond that: if we were at a lack of queer canon characters, i might be able to see why people would feel the need. but again, WE ARE NOT!! countless npcs are queer (like truly so fucking many we are so blessed thanks brennan) and again, two of the pcs, NOW THREE BECAUSE RIZ IS CONFIRMED TO BE CANONICALLY ASEXUAL, are queer! the only conclusion i can draw is that these people dont see aro/ace people as queer or even queer "enough" which is 1) bullshit, 2) fucked up and untrue, and 3) tbh very hurtful to me as an ace person!!! i am tired of seeing it!!!

queer friendship is beautiful and revolutionary and lifesaving (especially when we're talking about riz "dont have a lot of friends even though im very social" "i love my friends and they love me" gukgak) and it feels weird that a large amount of people consistently like. shirk that profound thing for like... really weird and deeply out of character headcanons/fic/etc? im just like okay? so untrue worstie. and its not like everyone who ships it is evil and actively hates aroace people. the vast vast majority probably arent and probably dont! but like... idk. use your critical thinking skills babes.

anyway sorry for going off. mandatory i know these are fictional dnd characters and its literally not that deep (except for when it is and we are being aphobic actually). i have many thoughts and feelings! im going to stop talking now 💜

[celestial-sadgirl]

Spoilers for Fantasy High Junior Year Ep. 1 Below The Cut

As well as my mostly nonsense commentary

Songs a banger. We knew this.

The new dome set is so cool. Rick Perry. Legend.

If we let Brennan snack then we should let Emily French Press

HOOT GROWL!

BOX OUT

Holding hands cause the smaller table 😫

NEW MAP NEW MAP NEW MAP

OMG THE NEW DOME PROJECTIONS

I never thought about it but for some reason the Night Yorb being manta-ray shaped makes SO much sense

Yorbies

Hangvan leveled up

TWO MINIS?!?!

Skater and Non-Skater Fig. I’m obsessed

Feel like Gorgus is going through a “car guy” arc with the hangvan

Ok I feel terrible cause I’ve watched all of Fantasy High and FHSY and all the one shots, but I have no memory of Squeem. I LOVE HIM THOUGH

Adaine being able to call herself a cool kid means the world to me

DONT GIVE BRENNAN ANOTHER DOG TO KILL

Moggy The Doggy I love you

Ok same as Squeem, who is Gorgus Homunculus?

BABY!

Love that he serves no purpose other than to be annoying.

Fabian being stuck in the van with baby is so funny

I need to know how Brennan statted the battle sheet

Seated minis?!

Rick, you are incredible.

Ecaf?!??

Who are all these new companions? I feel like I’m going crazy

Since when does Fabian have a mirror he flirts with???

What did I miss??????????

Jacked Kristen Applebees

Also I haven’t seen anyone mention that Kristen is fully wearing the Kill Bill tracksuit

I’m still not over how I feel about Riz’s new art

Ring Guy Riz Gukgak

Good to know even with Riz’s glow up he’s still a fucking dork

Immediately bullying Riz’s mini for not having rings. I’ve missed the intrepid heroes so much

Sleven

Opening the season with a battle already halfway through is such a cool concept and such an incredible way to get us into season 3

Obsessed with Riz over justifying all his fashion choices

Hot inspector gadget. Yep.

Ok seriously who is this horny ass mirror

Aww comparing their first table jumping failed combat to halving half of them just chilling on top of a moving van

Not bad kids related but I absolutely love Lou’s orange mushroom shirt

LOU WILSON GET NEW DIE

wtf Fabian’s first roll is fucking Nat1

Straight Facts Siobhan. Teenage boys are so fucking reckless and dumb

The rest of the intrepid heroes need to just kidnap Lou’s dice at this point

Fabian getting stuck in the grate. Who else do we know who once got stuck under then Hangvan

Ok I’m gonna need close up pictures up every single mini

Silvery Barbs is such a good spell.

Emily and Muprh flirting by giving eachother advantage on their Silver Barbs.

Of fucking course Ally rolls a Nat20 immediately

A lot of their new gear seems to be specifically for defeating the Night Yorb. I wonder what else we’ll see the Solar Lasso do

I wanna inhale the night

I’m ready for the well-rolling murph era

First weird drink reference from Ally Beardsley: Yerba Mate

Why is Kristen being so rude to Cassandra?

(I know why. Babe, stop creating deities and then ghosting em)

Hot Take, I think it’d be cool if Kristen switched classes. I mean idk if being a cleric is working out for her.

Hey it’s ok Zac, you don’t have to trade your dice. Don’t succumb to peer pressure.

Emily gleefully yelling “40 Damage!” over the sound of everyone bullying Zac

WHO IS SQUEEM?!!

Why does it have kissable lips?👄

Wait it’s an eye?

Omg the pins on Adaine’s jean jacket! So cool

Brennan changing his voice based on what element his npc is made out of. Truly built in a lab to be a GM behaviour

God the bad kids are treating gorgus van so bad and that is so real for teens

I knew guys who jumped on the hood of their friends car while borrowing it. And it 100% broke it. The guy was without his car for almost a year, and idk if they dudes who broke the car even paid him for it.

I hate(love) Brennan’s stupid face when he’s shaking a shit load of die menacingly and just waiting for his players to notice. Bad Guy Shit

Siobhan’s PC dying in the first combat of the season will never get old.

Ally reading their spell cards is coming to wreck Brennans shit up

Siobhan simultaneously roasting Lou and Murph when she’s the one rolling like shit is incredible

Wait so Kristen is getting her spells from getting swole?

I hope if we see the dust mephits again they name them Eugene, Zack, and Keith. The Dry guys

Murph dropping the pop culture reference for once with “Speed” and Ally immediately hopping on is so funny and cute

Balthazar and Duggan McCann

Ok I know I’m not going crazy, this is some weird bit. Introducing all these new NPCs as if they are beloved favourites.

Having the huge parts of the season just be one big offscreen inside joke is both infuriating and hilarious

Is this a dream battle or smth. It feels like one long drug induced dream combat

The Vulture Returns!

One of these days Brennan will make a vulture important just to fuck with the Intrepid Hero’s

Just to be clear I do love all the new characters, Balthazar seems dope. I just am very confused

So much to say about Fabian and Ecaf, cont write it all here rn. Will have to make separate post

RIP Balthazar, we hardly knew ya. Good luck to your 6 month old parrots

Mid combat emailing is no longer just for Ally

It’s so cute whenever Murph backs Brennan up as a GM when the cast starts to tease him for shit like Yathmags. And Brennan always appreciates the empathy of a fellow GM.

Yathmags being called Yas Queens = Corn Gremlings being called Corn Cuties

Poor Cassandra

Come on Balthazar your Parrots need you

The Beans are back!

First Panic Attack. I love this mechanic so much

Hey no! Brennan, stop giving fig an existential crisis. It’s not time for them to drift apart yet! It’s only ep 1

Oooh what secret magic does Fig have?

Arch devil shit?

Wait what is this

Fig getting tired of adventure noooo

WAIT WHAT NO. BRENNAN.

Also this was kinda short.

God that was good

Ok so I might make a few more posts expanding on some of the thoughts here. I doubt anyone read this the whole way through lmao.

So fucking excited for the rest of the season. Im gonna try and do this for every episode

Instead of live blogging I’m just gonna write all my thoughts about the Fantasy High Junior Year Premier down and then post them all at once as soon as the episode ends

[jq37]

The Report Card – Fantasy High: The Seven Ep 5

Through a Glass, Darkly

Welcome back to the Temple of the Earth Defiant where the girls and their magical horses (and one pony!) have found refuge from the strange, twisted, fae creatures that have been chasing them. The statue of Asha Hammerheart that Ost animated last episode is still alive and wrecking house on the remaining harpies and beasts that are foolish enough to keep fighting and the rest soon get the hint and flee. 

Ost does some healing (boosted by the ambient Hallow effect of the temple which gives everyone a short rest) and then, seeing the damage to the temple caused by erosion, starts using Mending to fix things up. Her friends help out too with Sam and Yelle being most effective--Sam by repairing water damage and Yelle by creating tree cover and other druid-y tricks. But of course, we can’t overlook Katja’s crucial addition of carving “A Horse is a Home” into one of the walls of this sacred temple. 

Anyway, the girls are nesting super hard, the horses are having their scrapbooking reviewing club (an insane thing that was established last episode) and then Sam asks a question. Did y’all mention something about a photo of me going viral? Everyone’s like yeah, but don’t worry, you looked super hot. That’s not the part Sam was worried about. What she’s worried about and what all the girls except Zelda don’t really seem to know is that Sam doesn’t really have a social media presence. So like, 180k and climbing views (as decided by a dice roll) isn’t really what she wants. She scrolls through the comments really quick and sees that they’re not awful but one person is like, “Hey that girl looks a lot like that character from that old show”. Which Sam doesn’t love. She says that she’s fine but also that, even without an Insight check, she’s obviously not. 

Sam kind of looks to Zelda to bail her out and Zelda is like, “Hey, I’m gonna delete this video.” The other girls follow suit, even though they don’t quite know what’s happening. When they have to split up to investigate, Sam has Zelda kind of bail her out again and they split up to go check a nest outside--Zelda waving off Danielle when she wants to go with. Ant and Yelle decide to check out a cache of some treasure they saw earlier and Ost and Katja stay with the horses to keep fixing the temple up. Penny initially goes with Ant and Yelle but rushes back to be with Ost and Kat when Ost discovers a hidden lock while she’s fixing a wall.

So, the girls are split up, let’s run all these scenes.

Antiope and Yelle

Ant and Yelle go see the pile of treasure (near the statue of dwarven paladin Yvonna) which they learn is like a “take a penny leave a penny” situation for weapons and items. They were left by adventures who were similarly chased here and you can take what you need as long as you leave something to help others. Like, “Oh no I only have an ice sword and I need flaming arrows.” It doesn’t have to be equivalent exchange, you just need to leave something useful.

In this space, Yelle feels a weird melancholy and like they’re within the watch of something vast and powerful. She tries to check for TK’s presence but rolls low. Antiope leaves her Kalvaxus killing shortsword and takes some really nice, white feather fledged arrows with mirror tips and an ax Kat wants as a present for her dad. Danielle takes a bandolier of potions (3 healing and 2 mystery I believe) and leaves a bunch of mushrooms. Some of them are psychedelic and Ant takes one because this is probably a good time to be high, right?

It’s not messing with her competence obviously though because she rolls a 25 on Primeval Awareness and gets a weird sense, like something is closing in on this place. And like something very powerful is bleeding, which combined with the chaos of the mountains might explain the weird harpies and the cat/dogs. But she’s high so she explains this is a very spacey, stoner way. Probably a good thing she’s with Yelle.

Sam and Zelda

Sam can fly and Zelda can basically walk vertically with her goat legs so they check out the nest. Well, ostensibly that’s what they’re doing. Really they’re just having a heart to heart. Sam thanks Zelda for saving her ass and apologizes profusely for being so short with her. Zelda gives her a huge mid-air hug and says it’s not a big deal because she knows Sam is just lashing out because she’s hurting but Sam says it’s not a good enough excuse and she’s truly sorry. It’s been her coping mechanism for so long but she doesn’t want to be that way. She tells Zelda that the Everpetals are divorcing and that she’s living alone and Zelda says that any one of the girls would be happy to have her stay with them. Sam further explains that this is a big part of the reason she’s been so broken up about the possibility of their group splitting up and Zelda immediately takes out her crystal and texts her “I’m in” in the thread, breaking Sam again. 

Since they’re in heart to heart mode, Sam tells her that she talked to her bio-mom and an agent and she’s not sure what to do. Zelda says that she’s gonna be spectacular no matter what she does and she doesn’t have to do any of them but it’s cool doors are opening for her but also Antiope and Penny are gonna be PISSED that she’s out here making side plans after she gave them so much shit for theirs. Lol, well it’s a nice moment in the meantime and we cut to…

Penny, Ost, and Katja 

While Penny is lockpicking (and also trying to teach one of the horses to lockpick because sure) Katja and Ost go talk to the statue of Asha Hammerheart. It seems to be animated with at least some level of her true consciousness from beyond the grave and that she can kind of woge into her statue when she wants, which is cool. She’s been there for like 250 years so that’s a lot of history to see. 

Ost is maybe the most polite we’ve ever seen her talking to Asha (at least to begin with lol) and they ask her about TK. Asha says she saw TK show up 12 years ago but she never left, at least not through the front door. And then about 2 years ago (right around when they were in the crystals) that’s when the harpy queen showed up. At first they were normal and then they started mutating. Also, recently, Korra (one of the other statues/heroes) saw a woman in the mountains--not TK. 

Ost then takes a page from the book of one St. Kristen Applebees and asks, “Hey. What’s the deal with our god? He never talks to us, does he just suck?” Asha--who has never talked to him even though she’s a martyred hero and literally in dwarf heaven makes some excuses for the guy but Katja scoffs at them. “If people wanna take care of you, they do.” Ost then straight up asks if Logran Soulforger is even real which sets Asha off but Ost isn’t mad AT her, she’s mad FOR her. You go and do all this cool shit to the point where you have this cool ass statue, you fully DIE for him and he doesn’t even say hi? With a 21 Persuasion check, Asha admits that yeah, she would have liked some recognition. She decides she’s gonna go do some talking to some people and leaves after getting Ost’s number but before they can ask more about the woman Korra saw (who they think is Charity). 

OK, that’s all the small group stuff! Everyone comes back as Penny finishes up with the lock and they go down into this room that’s full of polished, precious stones. This is probably where people who were upkeeping the temple stayed. While everyone else is going down, Sam feels some powerful magical pull--much like her episode 1 Lightning Lure--calling her from the top of the stairs so she goes back up. We’ll get back to her in a bit. 

Penny rolls a high check to clock what’s going on down here. First off, she finds flintlock bullets and airship uniform scraps which makes it seem like there was a battle here involving some airship guys from the Baronies. Which is not just the place of origin of Riz’s imaginary Romance Partner. It’s a cluster of nations known for high rates of monarchical turnover and renaissance style intrigue. I’m picturing just a nation of [REDACTED]s from Crown of Candy. 

With all of this stuff, Penny finds an emblem of a billionaire airship mogul named Lord Talcidimir Tallbreeze who is a friend of her dad’s. Yelle is immediately like FUCK billionaires which isn’t plot relevant but it’s nice to know she’s always on brand. 

Oh also, Penny just casually finds the Legendarium so that’s neat. 

To be safe, Ost casts Protection from Energy on Ant (who is the one who knows how to use it) and brings out her Spirit Guardian (who is a combo of her mom, nona, and Asha, with her dad’s rings). Ant checks it out and sees that there are currently no A, B, or C quests in all of Spyre. While Penny cross references the bylaws to see if there’s a way to get around this, Yelle does some druid BS that I still do not understand to use the crystals in the cave to jailbreak this super powerful magical Artifact so they can just have copies on their crystals. While that’s happening, let’s check on Sam. 

Sam goes back up the staircase where she sees Ending who doesn’t look menacing at all, just extremely sad. She’s looking out the mouth of the cave and, when she turns, Sam can see she’s crying blood. 

“What’s wrong?” asks Sam, the acid-tongued but good-hearted. “Can I help you?”

With a 25 Persuasion check to get her to talk, Ending apologizes for scaring her and her friends before. She didn’t mean to. She sometimes forgets that her very nature can be frightening and dangerous to others. She says that when she escaped, she tried to rejoin her sisters but found their mirrors shattered and them gone. Sam thought they escaped but that doesn’t make sense to Ending. If they had, why wouldn’t they have freed her as well?

Sam asks who her sisters were and we finally get true names for Ending and her sisters:

Chrona, Terra, Pyrria, Nira, Zefira, Anima, and herself, Talura (which is what I’ll be calling her now that we know). Talura is the baby, the youngest. Sam realizes she’s talking about the Eidolons and Talura seems surprised and a bit pleased that Sam recognizes them. 

Sam asks if she can hug her and Talura hugs her tightly in a very cold embrace that doesn’t hurt. Downstairs, she hears her friends (Penny specifically) freaking about about the lack of quests but she doesn’t break the hug. 

“My own sisters are struggling right now but I’m gonna stay with you because you don’t know where yours are. But maybe we can find them.”

Talura clocks that the way that Sam is being is her true nature, not the bitchiness she often uses as a shield. Then she starts to talk about her history. That she and her sisters were sealed away when the gods were done with them (Sam can relate to being used and set aside) and the only way out was death. Talura has been crying and looking for her sisters to no avail. Her tears of blood leaking seems to be what caused the monsters to mutate which is in line with what Yelle and Ant were sensing. 

Talura doesn’t think anything could have destroyed her sisters so she’s very confused. Sam offers Talura her Mirror of the Past because it almost knocked out Sam to get god-tier information but Talura presumably won’t have that problem. Talura offers her a boon in exchange for this great kindness but Sam says she doesn’t need any quid pro quo. “This is just because you’re hurting.”

Talura is supremely touched and still wants to do something for her new...friend? Sam accepts the title and says that what she needs is some help on her GED quest. Once she explains what she means, Talura again recognizes Aguefort and is like, Oh, you need a quest? I can totally help with that! As we learned earlier, these guys are kinda genie connected so it’s not super surprising when Talura very happily goes full your wish is my command.

Downstairs, a Class A quest suddenly appears in Spyre on the screen. 

Back upstairs, Talura says that it’s been too long since she got to grant a wish and seems really happy about it. Sam gives her the mirror so she can check what happened to her sisters but when she does, she totally flips out and gets super angry--not at Sam, just at whatever she’s looking at. She can hardly believe it. Sam tries to figure out what’s wrong but she just gets super big and then disappears into a puff of smoke, leaving Sam's mirror on the ground, covered in frost. 

Downstairs, the Class A quest expands across the entire globe and then the Legendarium cracks. Ost’s spirit guardian disappears because of alarm bells ringing in the afterlife. And the girls learn that a Class A quest is a quest that affects the whole MULTIVERSE. Yikes!

So anyway, they girls go upstairs to check on Sam (on a bear that Penny makes because sure) and they see that something clearly just happened with Sam. Yelle asks if she’s good and Sam is like yeahhhh I don’t think ANYONE is good right now. Sam seems like she’s about to cry and Antiope instantly forgets all the petty bullshit going on between them and rushes to make sure she’s not hurt. 

Sam gives the girls a rundown of what happened and Yelle concretely puts together what I said earlier about Talura’s tears messing with nature. 

Sam wants to check her mirror to see what Talura saw and Brennan says she can do it the safe way with risk of failure of the surefire way with risk of personal harm. She, of course, picks door 2 and rolls a 13 on her con save which means she rises into the air like Storm from X-Men, eyes wide, and then instantly passes out and goes into shock. Antiope is there to catch her as she does. 

Also, she looks SUPER hot while falling on a 31. Honestly, it’s a shame she doesn’t allow herself a social media presence. 

Anyway, we’ll get to what she sees in a bit. Yelle and Ant make sure she’s OK (she is, but the has to be knocked out for this or she won’t be able to handle it). 

Penny tells them what she knows about each Eidolon from her earlier research which is what element each goes with:

Chrona: Time (Related to astral and elemental planes) 

Terra: Earth

Pyrria: Fire

Nira: Water

Zefira: Air

Anima: Life

Talura: Death 

They also talk about TK never leaving via the front door and all this airship stuff being around. Maybe she left out the top of the mountain on an airship? Katja has the hookup with this Tal guy (she’s met him when she was younger) so they decide they need to check it out once Sam is good. 

The girls fix the Legendarium and Ost, when she goes to pray for her spells for the night, doesn’t pray to her usual god. She prays to Asha. And not only does she get her spells, she also gets a new one--Commune. 

And now let’s get to what Sam is seeing in her Vision Coma. 

She was told by Talura that the only way out of the mirrors given to them by the gods was death. And what Talura saw that drove her to do whatever multiverse threatening thing that she did was every one of her sisters walking out of their mirrors and choosing death. I will specifically highlight that the oldest sister leaves almost immediately with a small, “Oh,” of realization and Anima, the closest sister to her seems terrified before coming to a joyful realization and leaving.

And that’s the end of the episode! Join us next week when apparently there is talk of a masquerade ball?????? Brennan, you shouldn’t have!   

Superlatives 

Sam: Most Likely to Accidently Snag a Brand Deal

Did you guys ever read the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche? Where Psyche was born so hot that it was basically a curse and she was miserable because she was so hot that Aphrodite hated her? That’s Sam. She is incapable of almost dying in a non-aesthetic way. It’s like a Pantene commercial every time. This is my favorite running gag.

Random Thoughts

Man, I have so many feelings about Sam. She’s such a BITCH in so many ways but it’s so obvious that she has a good heart. Every time she has an opportunity to be nice with no gain--helping Lola find her dog, magically turning the pages for the horses during book club, fully refusing a boon from Talura--she does. And I’m glad she gave Zelda such a sincere apology and didn’t let the extenuating circumstances absolve her because she said some pretty uncalled for things. But at her core she’s so kind and I want only good things for her. 

Also those of you who know me from my FH recaps know I’m a messy bitch for sister stuff so Talura and Sam both referring to the other maidens as her sister had me dead. You can tell when something in this show is f’ing me up when I just start directly quoting instead of paraphrasing. 

Katja being richer than Helio but having no idea what any of the brands Ost is mentioning are is peak comedy.  

As is Ant’s response to the take and penny leave a penny translation from Ost, “No, Penny didn’t come with us.”

Ost: I get service in the afterlife.

You could really tell which of the players watched Sophomore Year because the Baronies came up and all of them went into fight or flight immediately. 

Very Elsa vibes from Sam during the top of the scene with Talura. (Sam is, of course, a better sister but we simply do not have time to get into my feelings on Frozen 2 right now).

I was wondering why this season was called just “The Seven” when it dropped initially. Like, was it snappier? Did they not want to use the word “maiden”? But they still call themselves the Seven Maidens in the show so it’s probably not that. Now I’m wondering if it’s just to parallel the 7 of them w/ the 7 Eidolons. 

So it seems clear based on the reactions of the first and sixth sisters that they didn’t just “go gently into that good night” as Ant would say and ditch Talura. It seems like they figured something out. Also Brennan isn’t really a “and then they all died, the end” kind of DM, you know? Credit to my friend @camwritery for getting here before I did but the gods said the only way out was death and she is death so you know? Those def seem like puzzle pieces that go together. 

The only crit rolled this episode is a 1 by Penny which she gets to reroll as a halfling. 

[justa-starrynite]

Lake (Angel Reyes)

A/N: Hello everyone! It’s Bea! I’m kicking off our Fall prompts with a lovely cabin getaway with Angel. Hope you all like this first installment! You are all amazing! I also decided to combine a request I received months ago. 

(I know, I suck, I’m really trying to get through the requests, I promise)

Anyways, enjoy this cabin getaway with Angel!

154 “there’s only one bed” 184 “can I touch you?” 186 “no strings attached”

Request by anon

Warnings: Smut, a smidge of angst and fluff

CREDITS TO THE ORIGINAL GIF CREATOR!

You looked over at Angel who was driving your car up the mountain headed to Big Bear. Your best friend, Amaya, was Coco’s girlfriend and she insisted that for her birthday, the club should rent a cabin at Big Bear and spend it together. Especially with all the craziness the year has brought, they all needed a break from Santo Padre.

You and Angel were friends who had palpable sexual tension between you two.

You two flirt all the time and there was no mistaking that you two were attracted to one another. But you two chose to remain friends since there was no reason to ruin such a good thing. If you two never crossed the line, you never had to worry about ruining your friendship.

Though watching the other be entertained by another person was no fun whatsoever.

You knew it was only a matter of time before the tension would break. In the last few months, you and Angel have been playing the one up game, seeing who would break first. During the last club party, Angel almost broke, but he decided to walk away, which surprised every one.

For a moment, you thought that this thing between you two would fade especially when he met the charamstic rebel leader Adelita, but Angel seemed to always drift back to you. A line was never crossed, but with each day that passed you found yourself falling for the eldest Reyes no matter how hard you tried to fight it.

You’ve been the best of friends since you came to Santo Padre at twenty-two years old, getting ready to embark on your new journey for nursing school.

You two met through Coco, who was your brother’s friend from the army. From there, you and Angel truly hit it off and quickly became friends.

Your attraction was always there, you two just never made a move to go further.

Since your arrival, you’ve been Angel’s constant and he was afraid to fuck it up.

But this last year, it’s been hard to ignore how he felt about you.

Especially since you let your Roger in your life.

Angel despised the guy, but for some fucking reason, everyone thought he was a cool dude.

He was lame.

He was an asshole.

He was an egotistical prick.

And if everyone’s words were true, he was just like Angel.

Which was more of a reason why he fucking hated him.

And he had you.

You two were the last ones up the mountain since you had a late shift and Angel insisted on waiting for you. Thankfully, you wouldn’t miss sunset and that’s all you cared about. The California Fall weather was always a mix of scalding hot and freezing weather, or freezing by California standards. But in Big Bear, there were seasons and it was the definition of fall weather.

“Thanks for waiting for me.” You were asleep most of the four hour trip since you worked the night shift and all you wanted to do was sleep. Angel didn’t mind since he saw how tired you were. He loved watching you sleep since it was one of the times you were without worry and looked at peace.

“Of course, I wouldn’t have gone otherwise.” Angel smirked. “Had to make sure you didn’t bail since you’ve been doing that more often lately.”

You heard that bitterness in his voice, something you’ve grown accustomed to as of late. You didn’t mean to bail on Angel, it just happened, especially since Roger would message you and you would flake on plans you already made.

You were never that person, but you and Amaya had talked. The only way you could fully let go of your feelings for Angel was either fuck him to get it out of your system or focus your attention elsewhere so you could keep the friendship.

Fucking him was out of the options, so focusing your attention won.

Though you realized that it was causing a strain between you and Angel that you never wanted to have.

“I’m sorry,” you frowned. “I don’t mean to bail on you.”

“I’m more a man of action, your apologies don’t mean anything if you keep doing it over and over again.”

“Angel, I told you, I bail on you cause of work, he just happens to be there.” Which was true, you bailed on him mostly when it was connected to work. You both worked in the hospital. Roger was a respiratory technician, while you were a nurse. You two worked side by side. And maybe the few times you did bail on Angel, you went to sleep with Roger, but you had needs and Angel frustrated you.

Sometimes masturbating didn’t get the job done.

“Right, so the one time I caught you two at your apartment you were working?” Angel gripped the steering wheel with his right hand while his left hand were hanging out of the window.

“Listen, I thought I had to come in but I looked at the schedule wrong. I already told you that.”

“So why were you with him? We had plans to celebrate that night.” It was the time Angel got his secretary patch a few months ago. You two had planned on cooking dinner and having a movie marathon, but you bailed last minute.

But you did come back to the clubhouse that night, and you saw that girl who was patching his patch in a few nights ago situated on his lap. Choosing not to stay around for that, you called Roger who brought you some food.

Unbeknownst to you, Coco had seen you, who had to tell his hermano that you saw him fuck up. Angel went to your place and found you and Roger meeting outside of your door. And the silent treatment was handed to you for two weeks before Angel broke since it was your birthday and he wasn’t going to let Roger get under your skin.

You didn’t know why Angel came that night knowing you’re supposed to be at the hospital, but you never told him that you were sent home since they didn’t need you that night.

To top it off, like how you and Angel always dealt with anything that involved your feeling, you swept in under the rug.

“I came back that night since they told me they didn’t need me. I saw you were already occupied by the blonde so I chose not to bother you.”

Angel scoffed. “Yeah, I fucking know, why’d you think I came to your place?”

“It’s fine, I get it, El Secretario needed to get his dick wet.” You smirked, but you weren’t exactly amused. You hated that blonde. After she sewed on Angel’s patch she thought she was Angel’s girl or some shit.

“You jealous baby? You know I wouldn’t mind if you wet my dick.”

“Fuck you Angel.”

“That’s the fucking idea.”

Now, you hated being alone in the car with him. But you figured this was a conversation you two were bound to have.

You were in a conundrum. You welcomed Roger’s distraction, but not at the expense of losing your friendship with Angel.

Maybe you should just fuck him, just to get it out of your system.

Years of sexual tension building and it was overflowing now.

Amaya was always in favor of you just fucking Angel.

And if what she had planned worked this weekend, it would change your relationship.

You two arrived at the cabin and were assigned the only room on the first floor that had a queen sized bed. Amaya excused that you two were the last ones up and they saved the bed for you two. You narrowed your eyes at your best friend and she merely smiled innocently.

“You did this on purpose.” You accused her as you opened your luggage.

“Me? Absolutely not. It was the only room left, there’s four bedrooms upstairs and a loft. You’re lucky you two have your own room.” Amaya smirked. “And if something happens, so be it.”

“I thought you liked Roger.”

“I sure do, but not for you. You obviously have to get Angel out of your system first. Roger deserves more than to be some rebound.”

“He’s not a rebound, if he’s a rebound it would constitute that Angel and I were dating, but we never were.” You took out a hoodie and slipped it on.

The plan was to have a barbecue and sit around the bonfire afterwards. You were excited for this.

Fall was your favorite season.

With dinner done, you all sat around the fire, exchanging funny stories and happenings over the past few years. You were sitting in between Riz and Gilly, Angel across from you. After your discussion earlier, Angel hasn’t said much to you. He made you a plate for dinner, but otherwise he didn’t say much to you.

You knew you would wave the white flag soon, but you didn’t do anything wrong. You wanted to give Roger a chance. Crossing the line wasn’t an option as far as you know and the last thing you wanted to do was change things between you two.

Angel was the only family you had besides your brother. The last thing you wanted to do was lose him.

You listened to Creeper as he animatedly spoke about some customer that was weirder that was hitting on Chucky. Chucky was seated beside him, laughing as he recalled the story.

Your eyes met Angel’s over the fire and he drank his beer, holding your gaze.

He smirked when Taza placed his hand on his arm, laughing at Creeper’s story. He had this black beanie with a black hoodie to match, grey sweatpants on his lower half. You had to refrain yourself from continuously checking him out since Angel’s dick was basically imprinted on that sinful pair of sweats. He’s worn it a handful of times around you and each time, your resolve was thinning out.

You watched as Angel threw his head back laughing at whatever Creeper was saying, his muscles flexing under the black sweatshirt. Angel has been working out as of late and he was looking damn good. Whenever you would watch him workout, since you joined him from time to time, all you could think of was how amazing would it feel to have Angel’s arms wrapped around you.

Especially with this chilly weather, his warmth would be welcomed.

Gilly watched as your eyes stayed on Angel, chuckling at your unbashful resolve at just keeping your eyes on him.

“You have plenty of pictures of Angel, just look at that so it’s less obvious.” Gilly teased you.

You narrowed your eyes at him, hitting his arm. “You’re an idiot.”

“Maybe, but not like you and that prick over there.” He nodded his head at Angel. “How many more years are you two going to dance around one another?”

“Gilly, we’re not dancing. Angel and I are just friends.”

“Right, that’s why he dislikes Roger so much.”

“Angel is allowed to not like people that has no correlation to my relationship with them.”

“But there is no reason for him to dislike Roger besides the fact he’s dating you.”

“I’m not dating Roger.”

“So what are you and Roger?” Riz interjected in the conversation, which brought everyone’s attention to you.

You looked around, not wanting to meet Angel’s gaze. “He’s just my co-worker, who I enjoy going out with.”

“We’re fucking adults sweetheart, you don’t need to spare our feelings.” Bishop looked over at Angel, a smirk spreading across El Jefe’s face as he watched Angel frown, shaking his head.

“Alright, he’s my fuck buddy, everyone has needs.” You took a swig of your Smirnoff Ice. “Besides, I don’t have time for a relationship.”

“Hmm, for someone you don’t plan on keeping around, you sure put some importance on him since you’ve been flaking on us lately.” Great, the conversation in the car was obviously not forgotten.

“I don’t know if you’re aware, but my world doesn’t revolve around you Ignacio.”

“From what you’re telling us, it doesn’t revolve around that prick either. So why don’t you just drop him and stop wasting your time.”

“Again, it’s nice to have a warm body next to you at night from time to time, you should know, how’s that new girl at Vicki’s?” The new girl was a battle between you and Angel. Everyone just watched as you two hatched it out, months of annoyance and frustration that was waiting to be unleashed has finally come to a head.

“She’s alright, but you know she fails in comparison to you.” He winked at you, earning ‘ooh’s’ from you two’s unconventional family.

“Wish I can say the same about Roger.” The ‘ooh’s’ was louder this time as Angel’s look darkened.

You two were sharing a bed and it seemed that Angel has finally reached his breaking point.

After a few more drinks, you decided to go by the lake shore since the cabin Amaya rented was by the lake. It was beautiful out and without the bustling city lights, the stars shined brighter along with the moon. Shoving your hands in the one pocket of your hoodie, you looked up, enjoying the crisp air. You heard footsteps behind you and hope it was anyone but Angel. The way he looked at you for the rest the night, it was almost predatory.

Your comment about Roger not failing in comparison to him seemed to push Angel over the edge. You took your camera out, taking pictures of the moon and stars’ reflection on the calm lake waters.

You felt arms wrapped from behind you and you knew it was Angel.

No one else would touch you within the Mayans.

Not even Coco, at least not this intimate.

“You look beautiful.” He whispered into your ear, the goosebumps that ran through your body was indescribable. Angel’s voice always did things to you, and feeling his arms wrapped around you, his smell invading your space, this was going to be a long night.

You were determined to not cross that line with Angel.

Incredibly determined.

“So do you, Ignacio.” You smirked.

“There’s only one bed.” Angel didn’t bring his stuff in till after you. As soon as you two arrived he grabbed a beer and went outside to join Coco and Gilly.

“I’m well aware. It’s big enough for the both of us, not the first time we shared a bed.” You tried to play it cool, you had to.

“Yeah? It’s not big enough for you to run away baby girl.” Angel teased.

“Why would I need to run?” You turned towards Angel, moving away from his warmth which you immediately missed.

Angel was smirking and all you wanted to do was wipe it off his face. “Don’t play stupid Y/N, this shit between us? It’s been present for years. Time for us to stop worrying about what it would do to our friendship and start thinking about what it would do if we don’t address it soon.” Angel was done playing this tip toe bullshit between you two. He wanted you and he knew you wanted him. “You’re a smart girl, you know I’ve wanted you for years and I know you want me to. Let’s stop the games, fuck Ralph, fuck that blonde, I want you. One night with me and you won’t even think of another pendejo again, you’d be begging for my dick.”

“You’re a little too confident in yourself.” You knew you wanted to cross that line, but you couldn’t lose Angel if this didn’t work out. “I can’t lose you Angel, things will change and I don’t think I can handle that.” You confessed.

Angel stepped closer to you, pulling you against him. He cupped your face, softly stroking your cheek between moving his thumb across your lower lips. “You wouldn’t lose me. No strings attached, no pressure. I’ve always wondered how good you tasted.” His lips hovered over yours.

You looked up at him then to his lips. You’ve always wondered how Angel’s lips felt against yours. Whenever he bit his lips, it drove you fucking crazy.

He bit his lip, making you groan and close the distance between you two. You wrapped your arms around Angel’s neck, pulling him closer. Angel slipped his tongue in your mouth when you let out a moan when he grabbed your breast.

Before he could go any further, you pulled away, shaking your head.

“Sorry, I can’t, you mean far too much to me for me to ruin our friendship.”

You walked away from Angel and you couldn’t ignore how your heart rate picked up, and how good his lips felt against yours. Angel watched you, still confident that you would be his by the end of the night.

You two were adults, he’s played this game for years and had the same worries as you. But he knew that once you two were together, that was it for him and he was confident on keeping you by his side for the rest of his life.

You stayed up till two in the morning with Amaya, hoping by the time you go to your room, Angel would be asleep. You ended up falling asleep on the couch, the cough was far too comfy along with the warmth of the fireplace. You were only in your shorts and shirt since you couldn’t exactly sleep with sweats, it wasn’t that cold. When you woke up around four in the morning to use the bathroom, which your room conveniently had, you realized you were in your room. Angel was laying on his side of the bed.

When you did your business and brushed your teeth, you slid back under the covers, however you were more cautious now.

Things shifted between you two after that kiss and you weren’t sure where to place yourself. Cuddling was never an issue and you wouldn’t mind being wrapped in his arms, but again, things were different. That kiss was far too good and your desire for Angel grew tenfold.

This desire you wouldn’t be appeased by having sex, nope, you knew it wouldn’t.

It would make it worse.

It would have you longing for Angel.

You couldn’t stand by while he fucked around with other women.

It was better for you two to not cross the line.

Angel’s warm hand slipping under your shirt broke you from your thoughts.

“I know you felt it too.” You heard Angel say, his warm breath tickling your skin. “You can’t ignore the fact your lips perfectly fit into mine, how good it made you feel. Bet it made you fucking wet cause it made me hard as fuck baby. Even without that kiss, every time I lay my eyes on you, my pants fucking tighten cause all I can think about how good you would look under me.”

You rubbed your thighs together, his voice was already sinful, but pair that with his dirty mouth, fucking forget about it.

Whatever your stance was, it was changing, especially with how good his ringed fingers felt running your stomach, teasing the skin beneath your breast. He nipped at your ear, placing a kiss just right about it.

“I want to hear you moan my name while I stretch that tight little pussy with my dick.” You moaned, Angel’s fingers drifted down to the top of your shorts, teasing, tempting your resolve. “Can I touch you mi dulce?”

You wanted to say no, you almost fucking did, but when you turned your head to face Angel’s, seeing how beautiful he looked under the moonlight that came from the slits of the window blinds. How much he looked at you with such adoration, who gave a fuck about the line?

“Yes,” you breathed out.

Angel slid his hand inside your shorts, your legs widening immediately. You anticipated his touch, looking down at his hand. His finger ran up and down your slit, you bit back a moan.

“Fuck baby, you’re wet.” He rubbed your clit with his fingers, causing you to bite your lip. “Let me hear you, I want to know how good I’m making you feel.”

Your hand grabbed his shirt, clutching it was Angel slipped a finger inside of you. You threw your head back, Angel slipped a second finger in. He watched you with wonder in his eyes, elated that he could finally see you in this scenario. You felt yourself get wetter as Angel moved his fingers in and out of you. He turned your head with his other hand, and he kissed you. Your hips moved to meet his fingers. Pulling away slightly, your lips were close to one another, Angel smirking as he felt your walls clench his fingers.

“You close querida?”

“Angel, fuck,” you groaned as he removed his fingers. He moved the blankets so he could kneel in front of you. He took off your shorts and panties, sucking in the fingers that were inside you.

“I knew you would fucking taste amazing baby.” Angel parted your lips which you had closed, hoping the friction could help you get your high. “Look at this pussy, I’ve been fucking dreaming of this moment.” He leaned down, parting your lips with his fingers. He groaned before he began to lap at your pussy, causing your back to arch. Angel ate you like a starved man who hadn’t eaten for years. He flicked his tongue at your clit, his two fingers entering you again. “You’re already clenching me baby, you ready to cum.”

You’ve been ready to cum.

“Yes, Angel, keep going.” You pleaded as you could feel that familiar feeling at the pit of your stomach.

You came, Angel’s fingers and mouth never ceasing, and another orgasm followed close behind. Angel kneeled once again, watching as your legs shook at the aftermath of your orgasm. You took a deep breath, looking at Angel who was still clothed.

He took off his shirts, sweats and boxers. He spat on his hand, stroking his cock. You looked down at him and groaned at seeing Angel’s size.

“Of course you would be fucking big.” You always wondered about Angel's size and with the way the girls at the clubhouse boasted about him, how good he was, you weren’t even surprised.

Angel just chuckled, rubbing the head of his cock on your wet pussy. You groaned, biting your lip, trying not to be loud since you did come with the club.

“Naw, fuck that, you’re gonna be screaming my name so those mother fuckers know who you belong to.” Angel tapped his cock against your clit, making you moan out his name. He slowly slid in you, watching as his length disappeared inside of you. That stretch made you whimper, it was slightly uncomfortable due to Angel’s size. You’ve never been with anyone this well endowed, but you weren’t going to tell this egotistical prick that. “You okay? Too big for you?”

You couldn’t even respond, you just whimpered and nodded your head.

“Which one baby? You doing okay? Or am I too big for you?” He remained stationary, waiting for some confirmation. He wanted to move, your walls were clenching him and he knew he wasn’t going to last long. But that was fine, this wouldn’t be the last time.

“Angel, just please move.” You groaned. “Fuck, you’re so fucking big.”

Angel chuckled. “Ronnie isn’t big, baby? Ima tear this pussy up.” Angel was petty as fuck and would get his name wrong on purpose. Any guy you were involved with was called dick, prick or some version of their name. “You ain’t never gonna want another dick besides mine.”

You hated how much Angel was turning you on with all the talk he was doing. You’ve had one guy who was like this, but it didn’t feel like this. Also may contribute to the fact that Angel is fucking thick.

“You’re almost as big as Roger.” You knew you were being a brat, but fuck it, this was most likely a one off and you wouldn’t mind the rough sex with Angel. You wanted his hands everywhere, his marks and everything.

“Almost as big?” Angel was offended. “That’s not what your reaction tells me baby. You wanna talk shit?” He pulled out till it was only his tip that was inside before slamming back in, moving you forward. You whimpered, letting out a ‘fuck’ like a mantra as he continually pounded into you, his pace unrelenting and unforgiving. You wanted to be a brat and talk shit? Then you could take his dick like the brat that you were. “When I’m done with you, you’re going to be begging for my dick.”

And you knew he was right.

He slowed down when he felt your walls tightening up. If you wanted to be a brat, he could edge you all night.

“Angel,” you whined out his name, annoyed that he would slow down.

“What’s wrong mi dulce? You want to talk shit? Better be able to take it.” Angel increased his pace again, your walls tightening again, but he slowed down, stilling completely. “I’ve always wondered how well you would take my dick, how fucking tight you are.” He whispered into your ears, peppering you with kisses. His voice, the lower timbre that it went to, you were going insane. “You feel perfect hermosa.”

“Then are you gonna fuck me good or you’re just gonna keep teasing me?”

Angel chuckled. “You better not try and run away.” He pushed your legs back against your chest, pulling out.

He rubbed your clit, keeping your legs wide opened for him. You felt that familiar feeling at the pit of your stomach, you came, crying out in pleasure as Angel sucked your clit into his mouth. You moved away, closing your legs making Angel laugh. Your arousal was evident on his beard, he licked his lips.

He took a hold of your ankle, pulling you back towards him.

“What’s wrong baby girl? Too much for you? What I say? Not to run away right?” He was so smug. You wanted to deflate his ego, but you’ve been testing him too much.

“You’re just fucking big, this is crazy.” You let out a small laugh. He slipped inside you again, appreciating your words. “Fuck daddy, you’re stretching out my pussy again.” You’re not even sure where that came from, but you could tell Angel was a fan.

“Yeah, you like how daddy stretches his pussy baby. You ain’t never seeing Reno again, this pussy is mine, isn’t it baby girl?” Angel pounded into you, wetting his fingers as he rubbed your clit.

You gripped the sheets, meeting his hips. Angel continually praised you, his fingers unrelenting as it circled your clit. You came, eyes rolling to the back of your head, shuddering beneath Angel. This had to be the best fucking orgasm you’ve ever had and Angel had yet to come. He watched you, a moaning, panting mess as you came down from your high.

He was screwed since he would never tire of that sight. He wanted to see it over and over again. His dick was throbbing within you as your walls continued to clench around him.

“Fuck, you haven’t even cum yet.” You commented once you caught your breath.

Angel laughed. “Why is Rufus a minute man?”

“I’ve never fucked Roger.” Your admission makes the laughter emitting from Angel’s lips cease.

“What?”

“I’ve never fucked Roger. I mean, we went on like a date, but I’ve never fucked him.” You admitted, his stare was far too intimate for you.

“You interested in Riley?” It always amazed you how Angel could think of endless names for Roger and never repeat a name.

“No,” you bit your lower lip, moving away from Angel, sighing when his length slid out of you. Looking at his dick, you saw your wetness coating him.

“Wanna taste yourself?”

You turned around, getting on your knees instead. “Another time. Please put your dick back in me daddy.” You moved your ass, your chest on the mattress, exposing you to Angel.

“You’re such a good girl, even though you were acting like a fucking brat earlier.” He smacked your ass, causing you to yelp. He did it again, a moan eliciting from your lips. “Damn baby, you like being spanked.”

“Just by you.” And you didn’t usually enjoy it, but this felt different with Angel and you welcomed it. “Daddy please,” you begged.

Angel bent down, his body over yours as he whispered into your ear. “I told you, you’d be begging for my dick.” He entered you with no warning, you moaned into the mattress, gripping the sheets. Angel’s hands laid above yours, intertwining it so you both were gripping the sheets.

“You’re deeper this way.” You were going crazy. The sound of his skin slapping against yours, you were gone. “Faster daddy, please.”

“Naw baby, you were talking too much shit earlier, you’re gonna take what I give you.” He slightly increased his pace. “Whose pussy is this?”

“Yours daddy.”

“That’s right, it’s all mine, ain’t no other motherfucker is ever going to have this tight little pussy.” His hand squeezed yours. “Fuck, I’m close.” He stood straight, his thrust was quicker and you definitely appreciated it. You felt your climax coming again, impressed by how Angel knew how to make your body sing.

After a few more thrust, Angel came, grunting your name out. You came right after him, his name coming out as a cry of absolute pleasure from your lips. Angel pulled out, his cum coming out of your pussy, but he pushed it back inside. You moaned, as his fingers entered you, your walls were still pulsating from the aftershock of another orgasm.

“Daddy’s gonna keep you cumming this weekend preciosa.”

You and Angel cleaned up, throwing the blanket to the floor and replacing it with a blanket you had brought with you. Angel pulled you in his arms, playing with the strings of your shorts.

“No strings attached?” You broke the silence between you two.

“Whatever you want baby.” Angel knew that you were his and nothing would change that. You gave yourself to him and that was that.

But you knew no strings attached wouldn’t last, Angel didn’t think so either.

As far as you were both concerned, it was only you two in this relationship, even though you just haven’t verbalized that.

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