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realcube · 4 years ago

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waking up the hq boys at midnight to get ice-cream hcs🍦

characters: tsukishima, tanaka, nishinoya, ushijima, sugawara, oikawa, kageyama

note: yes, this was very much inspired by that one tiktok sound where the girl wakes up her bf to get ice-cream-

also, i use midnight as like..the middle of the night- not actaully 12AM lol

tw// fluff, sangwoo-

Tsukishima Kei

you did not need to wake him up at 1AM to get ice-cream

man was already up, having just came off his phone and laying like this 😐 in bed as he either waited for himself to fall asleep or was thinking about an awkward interaction he had earlier that day

anyway, as soon as you turned to him like ‘tsukki, do you wanna come with me to get ice-cream?’

he was suddenly 😴 fast asleep, fake snores and all

you were stubborn though, so you hopped out of bed up to go get ice-cream by yourself if he was just going to ignore you

although, once you threw your coat on, tsukishima decided to start questioning your unusual behaviour, ‘why do you want ice-cream? it’s night; can’t you just sleep like a normal person and have ice-cream in the morning?’

honestly, tsukishima probably finds your nightly antics more endearing and cute rather than annoying

he’d never admit it though-

if you talk to him after midnight, on the outside he always looks displeased but really, he loves talking to you period

whether it is at 5PM or 1AM

you shrugged, without an explanation for your craving, ‘i don’t need to reason my midnight urges to you.’

with that, you turned on your heels to head out the door with the full intention of going to get ice-cream - this wasn’t a game

tsukishima groaned as he finally deduced that you were being dead serious and not just doing this to irritate him

‘ugh, wait.’ he scoffed, forcing himself out of bed to follow you, ‘we have ice-cream downstairs, dumb-ass. don’t bother going out.’

you didn’t spare him a glance, continuing to venture to the front door, ‘yeah, but we don’t have strawberry.’

tsukishima glared at you, realising that persuasion would not work in this situation so he’d have to resort to brute force and trickery

‘ah, alright.’ he let out a sigh of defeat, ‘at least give us a hug before you go then.’

you paid no mind to how he referred to himself as plural, which is something he only does when he is lying or guilty as he is talking on behalf of his two faces

also, you should’ve realised something was up when he actually asked for a hug instead of just expecting you to give him one

obliging, you wrapped him in a hug; allowing him to scoop you up into his arms, throw you over his shoulder and carry you to the kitchen

‘let me go, you whore!’ you squealed, lightly slapping his back as if that’d make him let you go

tsukishima snickered at how childish you were being, ‘you can’t go out in the middle of the night to get ice-cream. you’ll die.’

‘i won’t die!’

‘you definitely will.’

anyway, he ends up making you both a bowl of ice-cream and eating it with you at the kitchen table while watching Spirited Away

and despite the fact he had some too, he’ll tease you about this for..the rest of your life

like sometimes he’ll just wake you up in the middle of the night (during holidays ofc - he respects your sleep schedule) and whisper in your ear, ‘(y/n), do you wanna come get ice-cream with me?’

Tanaka Ryūnosuke

IORFHIEBGEGBO THIS MAN

ik most ppl would think he’d just go with you without a second thought or that he’d be the one asking you to go out for ice-cream but- no-

well, yes; he wants to

but when you wake him at 1AM

(which he doesn’t mind btw bc sometimes he accidentally wakes you up at like 3AM bc he’s ragin’ on Battlefield oop-)

and you’re all like ‘ryū, wanna go get ice-cream?’ *puppy eyes*

he’s like ‘sure!- but i ain’t got money so- no ❤’

then he goes back to sleep

however, if you say that you’ll pay..he’s already standing with your bags by the door

so you’re definitely gonna have to fork up some cash for that good quality pistachio gelato for him if you want his presence 😌

but tbh, if you said that you were just gonna pay for yourself, he’d come anyway-

Nishinoya Yū

y’all go out at midnight for ice-cream at least once a week-

and it literally began bc you were watching ASMRs and Mukbangs together at 1AM during a sleepover

and one person was having some lemon gelato and it looked 👌✨ immaculate

in that moment, you both looked at each other and neither of you had to utter a single word for you both to know that there was a mutual goal in mind; to get ice-cream, ASAP

so yeah ig you didn’t have to wake him up but you did need to awake the desire for ice-cream inside him

needless to say, y’all ran to the nearest ice-cream place

and you made a race out of it

(you won, ofc)

AND YOU BOTH SHARED A CUP OF GELATO AND IT WAS SO CUTE ! q(≧▽≦q)

and y’know the trope where you have food on the corner of your lip/chin etc and the person kisses you to get rid of it?

yeah he tried to do that with the trope in mind but he deadass LICKED you IWFBVBBFRI

he was like ‘omg (y/n), lemme get that for you’ 😋👅

honestly, ig it depends if you are into that kinda stuff but ik some ppl would leave fast af ( ﾟдﾟ)つ Bye

Ushijima Wakatoshi

sorry i might have a bit of favouritism going on but i feel like ushijima would be a bigger bitch about it than tsukishima (at first)

but it’s like- solely bc you woke him up y’know?

‘ushijima, wanna go get ice-cream?’

he’s just laying there with his bed-head like :/

silently livid bc you messed up his potential 9 hours of sleep

‘no.’

pester all you want but that is the best you’re getting out of him that night

HOWEVER, the following afternoon (after practise ofc), he took you out for ice-cream 😊

and unlike some would believe (by ‘some’, i mean myself 2 secs ago.) i don’t think he’d be all ‘ice-cream is horrible for your health, (y/n)’ or ‘i can’t believe you’re eating that filth. your body is a temple.’

but that rather he’d just happily eat gelato with you; everything in moderation ig :)

OH AND HE’D PURPOSELLY BUY A DIFFERENT FLAVOUR FROM YOU SO HE COULD BE LIKE

‘(y/n), do you want a bite of mine?’ and give you a spoonful to try like the romance king he is

Oikawa Tōru

you wouldn’t wake him up bc mf needs his beauty sleep

plus, it was during a sleepover at your house so ofc you didn’t want to wake up your guest

but he’s a light sleeper so when you’re shuffling through your stuff at 1AM, sneaking around the house to find a jacket (trying to be as quiet as possible so you don’t wake him up); his eyes are open and he’s speculating that sangwoo is near

until he turns around to notice that you’re not laying next to him and he is in fact being spooned by a large pillow (probably a sangwoo body pillow smh)

after that, he hops to his feet and storms through the house in search of you so he can yell at you for ruining his sleep grr

however, once he finds you and realises that you look ready to head out, he feels inclined to firstly ask, ‘where are you going? you know it’s 2AM, right?’

you replied by explaining your plan to sneak out for ice-cream and he just stared at you, absolutely bewildered for a few moments

he stood like a statue with that stupid expression on his face for ages so you asked him if he was alright, to which he responded, ‘that’s such a stupid idea.’

‘so, you’re not coming with?’

‘of course i am.’

so you both ended up sitting with your ice-cream cones, in your pyjamas, on a park bench somewhere, admiring the moonlit sky along with the stars adorning it

oh, and that was actually the first time he said ‘i love you.’

Sugawara Kōshi

if feel like suga would be exactly like the guy in the sound/video: confused, tired and extremely reluctant but ofc inevitably he ends up standing outside of a dessert place, hand-in-hand with you

he’d wake up, weary from fatigue and he barely has the strength to argue with you during the day - so how exactly was he supposed to do it in the middle of the night?

thus, he lugged himself out of bed and threw on a coat but as soon as the cold winter air bit at his nose, he was flooded with the energy and will-power to try convince you stay in with him

(It��s his parental senses)

‘you’ll catch a cold, darling!’ (yes, he does call you that.) ‘and it’s night too, there’s probably a bunch of creeps out and around!’

at that point, it was just a battle of will

bc you both had each other’s wishes at heart

you wanted him to have peace of mind and he wanted you to have ice-cream

(and he was kinda craving some himself tbh)

so you both decided to stay in, tucking into the half-eaten tubs of Ben & Jerry’s in the fridge

and after that, neither of you got any sleep bc you both stayed up watching movies and cuddling 🥺

Kageyama Tobio

he was wide awake at 2AM, laying beside you on the bed, practising sets

so ofc the time wasn’t an issue

but kageyama wasn’t big on sweet treats so when you suggested that y’all should go out for ice-cream, you were shocked - to say the least - when he simply replied

‘sure’

like why would he oppose? he was already awake. plus, he was kinda craving something sweet tbh

also, he could tell it’d make you happy and he’s whipped tbh

so you took advantage of this indifferency by immediately jolting up and dragging him to your favourite dessert place

the whole time, he acted as usual - it was as if he was just on a regular walk to school

when you got there, you both shared a sundae and he paid; what a king (❤´艸｀❤)

(it was bc you had forgotten your wallet/purse at home- but still a kind gesture 💕)

you both just sat in a booth, pecking away at the sundae while talking about anything and everything that came to mind as the low, distant R&B music from the shop’s speakers played in the background

‘it is flat. have you ever been on a plane before, (y/n)? did you see a single curve? no.’

you rolled your eyes, finding it physically painful how stupid kagyeama could be sometimes, ‘it’s science, kags. the earth is round! the curves are just very subtle.’

‘no.’

‘YOU CAN’T SAY NO! IT’S SCIENCE!’

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cosmiclatte28 · 4 years ago

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hii!!👻 I wanted to request lovers with wayv lucas something fluff and maybe suggestive (only if you think it fits 😅) and using number 29, pleaseee 😭💕

I love your writings btw!! 🥰💗

Stop That... Yeah That Smile...

Sure! Lucas is always an interesting character to write. I found the mood to write this and can upload it now. Thank you for loving my works 🥺💖

I tried my best to make this fluff and suggestive. Hope you like this! (✿◕‿◕✿)

29. “Can you stop doing that?” “What?” “That smile... my heart is beating too fast.”

You lie down on the big sofa in the stuffy apartment. Well it was your boyfriend’s fault he carelessly bought the on-sale sofa without much thought of your apartment size. Needless to say, it took the two of you and his whole squad two hours to bring the sofa up the stairs and into the room. However, you love this huge sofa. It was the best thing to lie upon after a tiring long day. You watch the ceiling’s dim light and feel curious about the time. Judging by how there’s no more sun ray in the room, it must be almost dinner time. You flip your body to laying down on your belly, with your elbows you support your body as you unlock your phone and scroll to a number you’ve known by heart. The chat room was still the same, he hasn’t opened your message.

You close the chat and just think maybe he’s busy. Well he is always busy; idols are always busy right? Your man is also one of them, the lucky hard-working man who belongs to the hottest group right now, yes WayV. You choose to take a refreshing shower and blast your favourite song. It’s a nice warm shower and you’re ready to cook dinner. It’s Saturday night and you feel like cooking, because Lucas will go home tonight. Lucas promised you every week end he will stay over. It’s been eight months and he has been sweet and charming and goofy.

“Honey I’m home!” was the first thing this tall man says as he enters graciously in his sweaty after practice outfit. He slumps his bag beside the sofa on the floor and after jumping out of his shoes he runs to hug you and spin you around. You squeal, though he always spins you around when hugging you; you’re always surprised.

“Yak! Put me down.” You giggle when he adds another twist and after your request, he lands you nicely to the ground.

“Sorry, I missed you!” he grins and you turn your body to face the pot again, you were making kimchi jiggae when he surprised you with the hug. You blush when you feel his strong arms circling your waist and he leans in closer; close enough for your body hair to stand up shivering from the slight breath Lucas lets out. You squirm when his chin accidentally touch your shoulder and you elbowed him away, “Careful! It’s hot, I’m cooking now okay.” You bite your lips when you did not feel him moving away.

Well he flinched too after you elbowed him, but he presses his body to yours after it.

“Yak don’t you know Monday to Friday I have to sleep by myself… I’m neomu lonely.” He whines in his baby-ish voice. You can see his pout even when your back is facing him, you don’t buy his aegyo though.

“Em Lucas, can you take a bath first. Then we can quickly eat dinner and then enjoy our night.” You say as you stir the red soup and taste a little bit of it. It tastes good already, you’re glad you learned from Taeyong last summer on how to make a jiggae.

“Fine. Why don’t you join me?” he asks as he strips and walks to the bathroom. You shake your head watching his antiques “I showered already.” He smiles, “Well, next time wait for me, that way we can save water.” He winks and disappears into the bathroom door. You feel your cheeks burning, well Lucas was always like this, sudden flirts and surprises everywhere he goes.

While waiting for the giant baby to finish his shower, you carefully set the plates and cutleries. The pot is starting to boil and you turn the stove off. Right in time, Lucas exited the toilet with a semi wet hair and a comfortable tank.

“Let me bring the hot pot to the table, you just sit down okay.” He quickly slides to the kitchen and takes over the hot pot instead of you. He’s a gentleman as always.

“Thank you Lucas,” you rise to peck his cheek and he can’t hide his smile. The two of you sit down and begin to dig into the dinner you made. He was all smiling and happy because of the simple food.

“This…” he gestures the food on the table, “This is very delicious. My future wife is a good cook eh.” His smile never leaves his face and you’re looking anywhere other than his face. He was not helping either with how his long legs were playing with yours. He can’t hold his long legs in place and instead he sometimes bumps your feet and causes you to give him a death glare.

“What?” he asks with his famous wide innocent eyes and sweet smile. You want to smack him for his innocent looks and super cute smile, but you know it’ll only make him show a wider smile.

“I am eating.” You kick him back, but your feet can’t reach him. He taunts at your failed attempt and kicks your leg once again. You yell from the pain, and grit your teeth at him.

“Wong Yukhei.” You call him with his birth name, and if other people will be scared for their life, Lucas here was not afraid at all. Your boyfriend was even giving you a daring look and a winning smile, “Ne? (y/n), what’s with you calling me in the sweetest way?” he licks his lips and you swore your heart was beating even faster and faster.

He keeps on staring at you with love in his eyes and his cute smile still there. You grip your spoon and face the soup in your bowl, “Can you stop doing that thing?” you avoid seeing his eyes.

Lucas gasps, “Oh you mean kicking your legs? Sorry… I must’ve gotten used to it when I tease Winwin during lunch.” He pulls his long legs back to his place and nonchalantly continues eating the meal.

You feel embarrassed and shy, “No.”

“Then what?” he asks like a lost child.

You inhale a breath and mutter up your courage, “That smile… my heart is beating too fast.” You blurt that so fast like you’re rapping and you hide your red face into your palm of hands.

Across you, Lucas is smiling from ear to ear when he knew what you’re blushing about. He quickly extend his long arms and picks your head up. “Hey my princess, don’t be shy. Isn’t it a good thing I am smiling?” his voice softens and deepens. You can feel it vibrates in your body and oh you’re even more nervous now. Lucas sees your ears and cheeks turning even darker red and with one smirk he leans in and grabs your lips with his. You melt into his touch and your shoulder slump. Lucas stands up from his seat and pulls you up so you stand and with one hand on your neck, the kiss deepens.

He started it and he ended it. With two chest heaving in short breath, you look away and hide a smile creeping up. Lucas caught that but he decided not to tease you any longer.

“Thanks for the dinner and the kiss. May I have my desert now?” He licks his lips and smiles at you with that secret look on his face. Your feet shake and you nod your head, “Dishes can wait, come and get your desert honey.” You wink and in one swift, Lucas has you on his arms and with the rushed hot kiss, he makes it to the bedroom. Night is young and long. You’re glad you met Yukhei and you’re glad he’s home now.

end :)) thank you for requesting. I hope you like this!

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sadwizardgirl · 3 years ago

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My Campaign 2 Thoughts

Alrighty folks. We're here. We made it. I’m running on like, 3 hours of sleep and my coffee hasn't kicked in yet so bear with me if I ramble/don't make sense. I’ll take things by character I think?

Once I finally typed everything I wanted out, I decided to put a keep reading thing. Its a long one I’m so sorry haha. But yeah, click on it if you want to hear someone’s tired ramblings about how much they love the Mighty Nein. Obviously spoilers below... <3

One last thing - I want to say thank you to everyone who I have interacted on here with. I would have never, ever thought that I would live blog Critical Role when I started watching it. And because I have, it makes me happy that I’ve found lots of nice Critters like me to follow, like, reblog, laugh and cry with all at the same time. You guys are really cool, so thanks for letting me be a small part of it all <3

Molly/Kingsley -

I’m honestly not fully shocked that we didn’t get Molly back after all that. I think Tal has said that Molly is gone and will stay gone. Maybe this is how Molly was when he first woke up, but we obviously didn’t see that part, and neither did Yasha. So honestly, the only people to know would be the people down at the circus. I’m personally okay with the differences in Kingsley and Molly but I like that Kingsley wanted to call Molly his brother at least and learn about him later on. Remember when Molly said he didn't want to learn who his previous self/selves were? The pirate life for Kingsley is --- interesting haha. I’m not hating it, I can definitely see a Jack Sparrow kind of vibe. I just didn't think Tal would go for a pirate type life for him. Thats all :)

Cad -

I’m also not surprised at what Cad chose either. It was interesting to see his whole EMPATHY routine with Trent. Thats been a side of Cad no one has seen. I know I’ve seen some people say that they were sad that after all this adventuring, that Cad would just chose to live at the Blooming Grove and never leave again. But didn't Tal say that Cad would take walks out of there and explore for segments of time? Like 6 months, then a year, then a couple years. I could have sworn he said that and that he would go visit his friends in those spans too. But I could have totally imagined it/took it that way.

Veth-

This totally makes sense. I was sad to see her go before the whole Trent thing, I would have loved to see her stand by Calebs side during it but I get it, She missed her family and they would see each other again anyway. I 100% would love if the M9 had a summer camp. Like, I’m just saying. That needs to be a one shot. I don't have much else to say other than I’m glad that this is the ending for Veth and nothing else.

Yasha-

Again, I’m super happy with this one. It makes sense that she would want to go see her wife and the whole Stormlord thing???? Fucking awesome. I’m glad that Yasha has finally found peace and love with someone and is content. Thats all I want for Yasha. I’m glad that Kingsley seeks her out to find out about Molly too.

Beau -

WOW. Okay. So not only does she help take down Trent but also her dad stuff? Fucking great! I’m so glad that Beau has gotten to this point in her life. Not only has she brought down corrupt people, but also learned to love throughout everything she's been through. I’m sorry, I with my tired brain can think of more good things but I’m just super happy about this.

Fjord -

For some reason, Fjord’s ending made me cry. I don't know if its because its been awhile since we’ve gotten true Fjord lore stuff where Travis absolutely NAILS the roleplaying or what. But literally as soon as he raised his hand to say hi to Vandran, I started crying. He’s been looking for answers for so long and he finally got them. I think its very on brand that he just sailed out willy nilly knowing what happens but at least Matt was merciful haha. I think That plus his love for Jester and suggesting they find a place was so very sweet and totally them. I’m sort of glad that he left his ending so vague. Because imagine the sea one shots we can have with Fjord going to Darktow or finding Sabien once and for all etc.

Jester -

I’m --- I’m torn with Jester. I’m glad that Jester wants to travel more and see the world still and thats what she's doing with Fjord. I think I’m more of torn just because I’m so used to Jester being SO over the top with everything she does (in a good way) but then I guess that means she's maturing and growing up. I’m glad that she left her ending vague as well for the same reasons as Fjord. SIDENOTE: It’ll be interesting to see if any of this leads into the VM vs M9 show off and if there's going to be canon involved or what.

Caleb -

I left Caleb for last. Not only because he's been my favorite character all campaign long. But because most of the buzz is coming from his ending. I’ll preface this first --- I’ve never been an outright Essek/Caleb shipper. I’ve loved their moments together and am not against them in any shape or form. I’m just not one of the die hards shippers. Same with Caleb/Astrid/Wulf.

BUT - With that being said, I’m very happy with Calebs ending. I’ve seen some people that are mad that he didn't do what he set out to do - which was take down the corruption. But Liam said that he sees that aspect of his life as a life long endeavor. So just because he takes up the teaching gig - which I’m so happy with btw; more on that in a bit- doesn't mean he stopped. You can root out the corruption from within and I think Caleb started to realize that was going to be the best way. I’m glad he didn't take the place of Trent. I think things could have gone horribly wrong even if he was at the top. Am I thrilled that Astrid is there? Not particularly no but its better than Trent. Caleb being a teacher makes so much sense. At the beginning of the campaign, Nott was always telling people that Caleb was the one teaching her the magic she had, plus the trading notes with Yussa and Essek over the years. It all leads to him teaching. Finally being the teacher --- the right teacher for the future generations of wizards. He was never going to accomplish that in Trents place.

Now --- the elephant in the room, Essek. I’m 100% okay with this part of Caleb’s story. I’m glad that he did go back to Aeor and learn what he could. I think its what Essek said. That he wouldn't change his past because it led him to that moment with Caleb, but then still offered to help Caleb if thats what he wanted to do for himself. I’m happy that Caleb finally let go of the part of his past that kept his guilt so present. He’ll always remember his parents and what he did, but he's allowing himself to walk through that door and to start finally healing. Let me tell you how much I ugly cried when we finally heard what his plan had been all these years AND what that second book was that he never told us about. Liam O’Brien you poetic son of a bitch I love you so much. But damn did I ugly cry literally during that whole time. Okay sorry, now Essek. I think them realizing the age differences, being in the relationship for however long they were but then remained friends is so very much like both of them. They are both logical people. To me this makes so much sense. I think I’m in the minority here but it does. Essek will outlive the rest of the M9 so of course they realized eventually there was going to be this elephant in the room when Caleb grew old. I’d like to think Caleb wouldn't want the extra heartbreak on Essek when Caleb eventually dies, then the rest of Essek’s friends die on top of that. Liam said that this campaign, romance in any shape or form was not a priority and I think also that had a part to do with it. I’m glad Caleb just didn’t be alone for the rest of his life and only teaching. I’m glad he reached out to Essek and did that stuff, and then taught Luc. It’s far from the sad wizard boy who was ready to leave the M9 at a moments notice to be alone.

Sorry for the rambling and VERY LONG post. oh my god I’m so sorry but it just kept coming. haha I’m very sad to see the Mighty Nein go. This campaign was the reason I got into D&D and where I fell in love with it. I fell in love with these nerdy ass voice actors and their characters. BUT it makes me excited for campaign 3 and the future of Critical Role.

SIDENOTE: WHAT THOUGHTS DO YOU GUYS HAVE ON THE PROJECT THEYRE GOING TO ANNOUNCE NEXT WEEK HUH? I’m glad they mentioned that they aren't ready for Campaign 3 just yet, but Marisha made it at least seem that its on the horizon. I’m sure they want to take the break they deserve and have time to transition from their M9 characters to their new ones. so yeah anyway

Thank you, Mighty Nein. Long may you all reign.

#critical role spoilers #critical role #critrole spoilers #cr spoilers

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soyouareandrewdobson · 5 years ago

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Sunny Sundays: Scoob

So as not to be too negative by always focusing on dumb webartists and their lack of taste in certain media or decent opinions, I decided that at least once a week I also want to talk about something more positive on my tumblr. Something about animation to enjoy, instead of using it as a bullet point for a sex fetish disguised as social awareness unlike someone else.

As such, lets talk about a little movie that came out this week on demand about a franchise that had goten rebooted more times than a certain timelord. At least that is what it feels like.

Ladies and Gentlemen: Scoob!

Scoob is the recent major entry into the Scooby Doo franchise and weirdly enough, though there is a ton of animated movies that came out for TV and on DVD, the the first animated feature of the franchise to actually be released in theaters. ... or rather it would be, if we didn’t live in a Stephen King novel, forcing Warner to release it on the internet for demand.

Now the Scooby Doo franchise is as of now pretty damn old. starting back in 1969 and having multiple incarnations of it over the years with the last succesfull one being the highly recommended “Mystery Incorporated”, which featured of all things the group not only dealing with their typical guys in masks each week, but also an ancient conspiracy involving a cosmic terror from another dimension, cameos of other famous Hanna Barbera characters and even good old Harlan Ellison having a cameo to. But some people with no idea how a good story trumps over shipping only know the show as having Velma and a girl that smells of hotdogs being shipped. If you do not belong to that group of people, I highly recommend you to watch it because it is really good. And certainly more entertaining than the shows that followed next, aka “Scooby Doo Go” and “Here is a show all about cameos being more obvious than in the old days”.

Anyway, what I try to say is, Scooby Doo despite being rather old and having been both mocked and appreciated over the years, is still very popular and can with the right amount of care and silly fun be at the very least an entertaining ride. So did this movie deliver on that, or did it become as disappointing as “Return to Zombie Island”?

I will try not to spoil too much in this “overview” about the movie, but here is basically the deal: For starters, it is a Scooby Doo movie that misses one itsy bitsy major thing that actually makes a Scooby Doo story out on average. A mystery.

See, the movie first begins with a semi origin story for Scooby and the gang, which honestly is pretty damn adorable to watch. Shaggy meeting a stray Scooby as a pup, both becoming friends, meeting at Halloween Fred, Daphne and Velma for the first time and actually solving their very first mystery, all in the span of like 10 minutes? It is great and I would love to see an animated series about those alone. You know, a reboot of “A Pup named Scooby Doo”. Unfortunately, that is as far as we get with a “classic” Scooby Doo story as after the introduction, Simon Cowell essentially breaks the group apart and it becomes a Marvel superhero movie inspired flick.

Nope, I am not. Which btw, is actually not meant as a criticism.

Yeah see, Mystery Inc wants to be a more serious enterprise and so Simon Cowell has been brought on board to finance them, but only of Shaggy and Scooby leave. Which they do. After that dated cameo of a celebrity (Which actually feels rather in tone with the legacy of the franchise, if you think about the “good old days”) Shaggy and Scooby find themselves shortly thereafter being hunted by robots, only to be rescued by another famous Hannah Barbara character: The Blue Falcon and his trusty sidekick Dynomutt! Or rather Mark Wahlberg having to learn how to be a decent hero and the second best character in the entire movie.

The original Blue Falcon has retired and this Blue Falcon is the son of the original one who still has to learn how to be a smart hero instead of trying to be an “impressive” hero (in other words, Booster Gold’s showman aspects played up to 11) while Dynomutt has certianly become a bit of a deadpan snarker over the years.

Anywa,y they have come to help Shaggy and Scooby, who are hunted by Dick Dastardly of Wacky Racers fame, who is after Scooby for some nefarious reason, as well as the heads of demon guard dog Cerberus, which if assembled will open the Gates of Hell. As such Shaggy, Scooby and the Blue Falcon group have to stop Dastardly and save the world, while the rest of the team tries to find out what happened to them and in doing so gets involved into the entire adventure too. An adventure field to the brim with references and major on screen cameos by Hanna Barbera characters, to the point the entire thing could also just be called “Hanna Barbera Avengers assemble”.

This movie... it is weird but in some of the best ways possible. To get it out of the way, I do not think it is a very good kids movie storywise. As in, on one hand it does not have any despicable messages to it and there is actually a surprisingly high level of quality to it, on the other hand, it is not as if this movie has become the Hanna Barbera equivalent of Wall-E, Onward, How to train your Dragon or some Miyazaki flick. It is basically a Hanna Barbera crossover fanfiction as an animated feature, that reimagines the characters design wise slightly to look like ore accesable toys for kids to sell nowadays, than the orignal designs from the 70s and 80s. The plot as said abandons the mystery aspect completely for a saving the world from a comic book supervillain story, even with obligatory hole in the sky during the climax (seriously, when does Hollywood realize what kind of clichee it is) , third act break up between Scooby and Shaggy and out of nowhere “sacrifice” at the end. If you want more details on that, I recommend watching the movie or reading up on a 4chan post that goes around the net from a couple of months ago, when someone leaked the movie back then. Turns out that not everything on /co/ is garbage made up by others. Anyway, the plot is just not what you would expect from Scooby Doo. Which says a lot considering their direct to DVD features within the last years included also crossovers with the WWE and KISS. So you would expect it could not get weirder. But this movie kinda does, while also just having storystructure wise clichees to it you have seen a million times already in both better and worse features. And yet, if you like Hanna Barbera cartoons in general, I think you can find something in that movie. Not necessarily a good story from start to end, but just a entertaining Hanna Barbera cartoon, that is not quite as “dumb” as its source material but also does not try to be ultra serious and embraces the sort of humor it came from. If that however is not enough for you, and you want some very very deep story about social issues in animated form... well, I either suggest watching something not done by Disney you animation snob.

From a technical level now, I would say the movie is a bit more complicated to “review”. The voice acting is not horrible, but there are moments where the fact they got not the original cast to do the voices and instead give us celebrities like Zac Efron, is obvious. Some dialogues just don’t work as well as they should, but no one does a completely horrible job. Animation wise...

Well, it is a movie that does actually a good job getting the Hannah Barbera designs into a decent computer animated shape for the 21th century. It really feels like a Hannah Barbara cartoon on the screen. Unfortunately, when it comes to background characters....

...it feels only slightly above Miraculous Ladybug levels in my opinion. The animation is not all over the place, but you can see that it was not Pixar working on it. Which actually sorta brings up another “problem” with the movie. The problem being that as a whole it does not quite feel like it is a movie that belongs on the big screen. It is an entertaining animated movie, don’t get me wrong. But if I may be “snobish” for a moment, I think in terms of presentation and story it just doesn’t quite reach okay movie theater flick level. It is above what we should get from a made for TV or DVD production but just doesn’t reach the next level by a few inches. Which is sad, cause I think there was actually still a lot of effort put into it and a certain love of the source material. Or rather source materials, seeing how it is not just Scooby Doo here. And yet, despite its obvious flaws, including some really dated humor that made my eyes roll but is not breaking the movie for me... I recommend it. If you like Scooby Doo as a whole, I think you may like this one a lot. I just think that 20$ on demand is way too much. An animated serie sin that style however would suffice a lot Hope that piece of an opinion was helpful and that if you decide to watch it, you will have as much fun as I had (or even more) . And please don’t let me be the only one on this planet who thinks that of all the characters in it, Dick Dastardly is actually one, if not the most entertaining one. Cause heck, I liked him. And I never had imagined to see a heartfelt scene with him as a central character.

#scooby doo #scoob movie #scoob spoilers #scoob #adobsonart #adobsonartworks #western animation #animation #hanna barbera #blue falcon #dynomutt #dick dastardly #movie

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927roses-and-stuff · 5 years ago

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Chameleon: Paving the Way to the Truth: Ch 4

Oops, it’s already the start of a new school year and I haven’t updated yet. I’m sorry! However, I hope everyone’s adjusting well to the new school year, especially first years in any new school. Anyways, this will be a direct continuation from Lila’s Interlude but from Marinette’s POV. Btw, do you guys like those? I asked because there’s (spoilers) a similar one coming up for Alya and a few other characters that I had planned (story-relevant, I swear!), and wanted to see the responses to that.XD.

Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to read, comment on, give kudos to, and bookmark this story. It means so much to me that there are people enjoying this story.

As per requested, I’m tagging @ml-cartoons for updates. If you want to be tagged also, just let me know!

Anyways, hope you enjoy reading!

P.S. Bustier’s class is totally that class that goes off topic all the time when unsupervised. Poor Marinette has the task of trying to get everyone organized.

P.P.S. I totally did not plan the Adrien VS Alya thing by the way. It just...ended up happening. Would Adrien even have this conversation in canon? Well, it’s my fic so he totally is.

P.P.P.S. I just gave up on keeping track of Lila’s canon lies and just focused on making her over dramatic and into reverse psychology as possible.

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“You want me to what-?” Marinette asked, flabbergasted. She had arrived just minutes before class started and was immediately bombarded with Rose’s barrage of questions. Marinette glanced at Juleka who nodded and smiled supportively.

“Oh, please, Marinette!” Rose pleaded, leaning closely to her face. “We should have another class event now that Lila’s back!”

Marinette stepped backward awkwardly. Her eyes shifted to Lila at the front who seemed to pop up at the mention of her name.

“Oh, Rose, I already told you. It’s alright. Marinette seems to have a lot on her plate as class president,” she said, pouting slightly. “Though, it would be a lot of fun.” Lila slouched further in her seat, looking to the world like the perfect picture of dejection.

Marinette gulped, unsure of how to respond. She glanced around at all her other classmates whose attentions were now directed at them.

She turned back to Rose. “Well, if it’s on the weekend, I guess we could organize another trip to,” she gulped, the words almost choking her. “welcome Lila back….”

Rose squealed excitedly, and hugged Marinette strongly. “Oh, thank you so much, Marinette! If you need any help, we’re at your service!”

Marinette felt like she couldn’t breathe and only grunted in response.

When Rose finally released her, she managed to wheeze out, “We’ll talk more about it after class.”

Discomfort settled within her chest though, once Rose headed back to her seat with Juleka. Her discomfort increased when Lila smirked as Marinette passed by her desk.

Marinette wasn’t dumb; a class trip sounded innocent enough until she put Lila into the equation. Of course, Rose was friendly and kind enough to suggest such an idea for anyone, but why would Lila want to rely on Marinette, of all people, to plan something she was capable of doing herself? Something wasn’t quite right and her suspicions bothered her throughout the lesson.

There had to be another reason. There had to be something else.

...Right?

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For the first time, classes seemed to move too quickly. By the time her last class -Physics- ended, Marinette was not prepared at all. She felt fortunate enough that she would only be talking to a small portion of the class before making the announcement at a later date. However, she was unprepared for the crowd that showed up when she returned to Mme Bustier’s class.

Everyone was there.

Marinette froze. What were they doing there? How did they even hear about this? Did Rose spread the word that quickly? Or, Marinette glanced quickly at Lila who was innocuously scrolling through her phone. Did she…?

Her questions were soon answered when Rose bounded towards her like an endless ball of energy. “Hi, Marinette! I hope you don’t mind, but I told everyone to come so they can talk about what we should do too!”

Marinette tried giving her a wide smile. “That’s great, Rose…!” She winced at the way her voice cracked.

This was not good. At all. After the Heroes’ Day fiasco, she dreaded being unprepared even more, which she totally was at the moment! She had no plans! She didn’t even care enough about Lila to care about this event in the first place!

Marinette scanned the room, noting her classmate’s curious and expectant faces.

But, right now, she was Marinette, the class president.

And unfortunately, she had a role to play.

She headed to the chalkboard and wrote the words: ‘CLASS TRIP’ in loopy writing. She motioned for Alya to come up to the front with her. Alya obliged.

“Girl, what exactly are you doing? Rose came to us at lunch while you were gone and told us to come here for a trip, to welcome Lila back,” she whispered furiously. “Are you nuts?”

Marinette whispered back, “It’s not exactly my fault! Rose asked and I just couldn’t say no!”

Alya sighed. “Well, I hope you have a plan.”

Marinette gulped. “Not yet, but hopefully one will pop up soon.”

That was all she said before returning to address the class, a sense of déjà-vu overwhelming her.

“Hi, guys!” She greeted. “So, Rose came up with an idea that we should organize a class event to welcome Lila back in the class!”

Marinette forced herself to stay quiet when Lila stood, bowing to the class and exclaiming “Oh, thank you!” and “You shouldn’t have!” in response to the class’ polite applause.

Marinette was inclined to agree. They shouldn’t have. She glanced over to the left side of the room hoping for Chloe to make a scene, but it seemed that her and Sabrina were the only ones who didn’t bother to show up.

Marinette mentally scowled. Great.

Once their attention returned to the front, she continued, “Anyways, we should first plan when everyone will be free to attend. Any ideas?”

Max was the first to speak up. “What about this weekend? According to all the lesson plans that Markov retrieved from the teachers, we should not have a lot of assignments this week, which means we won’t have to stress about it over the weekend.”

Marinette nodded and wrote the date. She turned their attention back to the class. “Any other ideas?”

Her heart picked up when Adrien raised his hand in the air.

“Adrien?”

“Well, I can’t come this weekend because of a shoot, but I was wondering if after school Friday would be an okay date.”

Marinette felt a pang of pity for Adrien. Of course, out of all of them, he would be the busiest. She vaguely remembered that weekends were his usual shoots so it wouldn’t interfere with his schoolwork.

Unfortunately, Lila barged in before she could say anything.

“But, isn’t it a bit unfair that we have to spend less time together if we move it to after school? I mean, of course, we want you to be there, it’s just…,”

As Lila trailed off, Adrien’s shoulders slumped. Their other classmates shifted awkwardly, not really knowing what to say. Adrien’s lack of involvement in the class was normal enough that some of their classmates thought that Adrien missing out would be more normal than not.

Marinette frowned. She knew Lila was going to go after Adrien, but she had half hoped that she would be easier on him. Instead she seemed to have dropped any affection she had for him. She was about to speak on Adrien’s behalf, but Nino interrupted her,

“How can you say that? Adrien should be able to come if he wants to! He’s also our friend.”

Lila blinked in surprise. Marinette rolled her eyes. Did Lila expect their classmates to turn on each other every time, based on her words alone?

“Nino’s right,” Marinette spoke, regaining their attention. “We should make sure that everyone who wants to come is available on the day of the trip. So far, we have this Friday as a potential day. Any other ideas?”

She wrote the date down before anyone could protest. When she turned to the front again, she spotted Adrien’s grateful smile, and sent a small one of her own.

Rose raised her hand. “I really like the idea of having a picnic again!”

“Yeah, that was pretty fun!” Nathaneal added.

Marinette nodded and wrote down ‘Picnic’ under an ‘Events’ column. “Alright, any other ideas?”

“We could go looking for André’s ice cream. ...At least, I’d like to try it…” Juleka said, glancing at the blonde beside her.

Marinette smiled hesitantly, not really wanting to visit André again after the events of Glaciator. She glanced at Alya who perked up at the idea.

“Good idea, Juleka! I’m sure there’s other people in the class who haven’t tried it either!” Alya snatched another piece of chalk and excitedly scribbled down ‘André’s Ice Cream~’ before Marinette could protest.

Alix grumbled loudly. “Do we have to? The last time I went, he only gave me vanilla because he said he couldn’t sense the right match for me yet!”

“Don’t blame André for you loveless life, Alix!” Kim taunted.

Alix stood from her seat and yelled, “YEAH? The only time you get kissed is when footballs get thrown at your face, meathead!”

Kim huffed. “Don’t be jealous that football is my one true love, shortie.”

Alix scoffed. She crossed her arms and glared at KIm. “Seems like your true love isn’t getting you anywhere, considering you suck!”

Kim growled and rose from his seat. “Is that a bet, you pink-haired maniac?”

“You couldn’t beat me if you tried!”

“Please, I can beat you with-!”

“STOP!” Marinette shouted, having walked in between the two as they were arguing. She turned to face Alix who had been storming across to Kim. “If you don’t want Andre’s ice cream, we can always go somewhere else. And you!” She exclaimed, turning to Kim.

“What? I didn’t do anything wrong!” Kim exclaimed and stepped backwards.

Marinette sighed deeply. “Make bets on your own time, Kim. We don’t have a lot of time before Mr. Damocles has to kick us out and we don’t even have enough details yet to start gathering materials or making an actual plan.”

Kim lowered his head. “Sorry, Marinette.”

Marinette smiled softly. “It’s fine. Besides,” she mused, tapping her chin. “A football match sounds fun, right everyone?”

The classmates shared nods of agreement at the thought of a friendly match. Not everyone was athletic, but playing with everyone was bound to be fun, regardless. Alya added ‘Football match’ on the list. Marinette returned to the front and from there, it was smooth sailing with the arrangements. In the end, even Marinette felt excited at the thought of hanging out with her class again. The events column was full of fun events from an informal photoshoot to a boat ride on the Seine to lighting sparklers in the evening. She wasn’t too sure if they would be able to do everything mentioned on the list, but it was worth it to see everyone so excited.

“So,” Marinette clapped her hands together. “We should split what each person is bringing so everyone gets to do their fair share. “

“Well, I’ve heard that your parent’s bakery has really good food,” Lila piped up. “I’m not sure if it can match up to my uncle’s own five-star confectionery in Italy, but I wouldn’t mind giving it a try.”

“Marinette’s parents do make a lot of delicious treats,” Kim trailed.

“Yeah,” Mylène spoke softly. “And they try their best to make them really healthy too.”

“I agree,” Max said. “I remember they gave me freshly baked shortcake that they modified because I was mildly allergic to the cake I wanted to try.”

As her classmates started talking about the quality of her parent’s food, Marinette’s shoulders tightened and her stomach cramped. While it was great that her parents’ food was beloved by her classmates, they did have a business to run, and couldn’t drop everything to prepare food for Marinette’s class every time they needed food. Which meant Marinette would have to prepare everything again, and that already proved a bad idea. But, she couldn’t find it in herself to say no. Why couldn’t she do it? She was a superhero! Not to mention, how good would it feel to prove to Lila that she could take any challenge she threw her way?

While Marinette struggled internally, Alya glanced at her, already knowing that she would volunteer to cater the event, unless someone said something. Remembering her panicked state on Heroes’ Day, Alya decided to step in before things got out of hand and Marinette was drowning in baking responsibilities for the rest of the week.

“Hey, guys!” She shouted. The class silenced quickly and turned towards her, including Marinette who looked shocked. “Of course, we want to eat Tom and Sabine’s food, but we can’t keep relying on only them for food. If everyone wants a picnic, then everyone has to contribute.”

“But couldn’t the best bakery in Paris make accommodations for her daughter’s friends?” Lila asked.

Alya frowned, and glanced at Marinette whose fists were clenched. “That’s not the point, Lila. We shouldn’t take advantage of their kindness like that.”

Lila gasped softly and put her hand over her chest. “Of course, Alya, you’re right. And Marinette, you’re already so busy too. I mean, it’s fine if you and your family are incapable of getting provisions for us. I just got so excited because I was really looking forward to it. Weren’t you telling me how excited you were too, Rose, Juleka?”

Rose looked up nervously and stammered, “Well, if it’s going to bother Marinette, we really shouldn’t-”

“But you were excited, weren’t you?”

“Well, yes, but Marinette, you shouldn’t force yourself to-!”

Juleka merely nodded along with Rose’s statements and muttered an “It’s okay, dude.” Other people in the class like Mylène and Nathaneal began to reassure Marinette that she really didn’t have to do anything, until the class was once again filled with chatter.

Marinette wasn’t patient enough for this. She knew what Lila was doing and Marinette should really restrain herself. It was unreasonable and she knew it was a trap. But she couldn’t stand the thought of disappointing her classmates and the noise was getting to her. She couldn’t think clearly, their apologies clouding her already crowded head, and she couldn’t breathe properly, and before she knew it, words stumbled out of her mouth,

“It’s fine. I’ll do it.”

Before anyone could say anything she had started writing her name besides the words “Snacks.” She could feel Alya’s, Nino’s and Adrien’s stares on her as she tried to level her gaze on her messy handwriting.

The chalk screeched against the chalkboard loudly when Lila piped up,

“Thank you, Marinette! We’re all looking forward to it.”

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“Marinette, are you insane?!” Alya exclaimed as she paced up and down her room.

After the meeting finished, Alya practically dragged Marinette, Nino, and Adrien to Marinette’s house. Alya had been furiously questioning Marinette and her decisions, claiming that she was putting unneeded pressure on herself, and falling into whatever traps Lila laid out for her.

“I know,” Marinette stressed. “It’s just that everyone else wanted it too and I couldn’t say no to all of them.”

Alya stopped pacing and gave her a sympathetic look. “I know, but you’ve got to stop putting yourself in these situations. Do you even have time to prepare all of that?”

Marinette slumped down and placed her head in her hands.

Alya only frowned.

“I mean,” Adrien stood up. “We could always help her out.”

“Adrien, you barely have time for yourself,” Nino pointed out. “How are you planning on doing that?”

Adrien frowned. “Well, what about you two? We all promised to be here for each other, right?”

Alya’s frown deepened. “Of course! But that’s not the problem. Marinette needs to stop trying to please everyone around her.”

“You can’t exactly decide what to do for her,” Adrien said, taking a step towards her.

“And what would you know, Agreste? You guys are the one who told us she has it out for Marinette! Why aren’t you more concerned about what Lila’s planning?”

“Of course, I care! That’s why I’m saying we should help her!”

“And we will, but you can’t deny that Marinette’s trying too hard to reach everyone’s expectations of her- like, like she doesn’t have other stuff to do. This wasn’t even her idea in the first place!”

Nino stood up and put himself in between the two. “Look, you fighting isn’t doing anything. We still haven’t started our plan and Lila’s already causing problems. We should ask Marinette what she thinks we should do.”

The three swirled their heads to look towards her. Marinette stared at them blankly, having just calmed down. What did they expect her to say? The last thing she wanted was them fighting each other because of her decision, but it wasn’t exactly something she could back out of.

She sighed deeply.

“Alya, thanks for looking out for me. But I’ve got to do this; I promised Rose that I would get the class together, and I promised the class to provide food. Though, I would appreciate your help, if you’re willing.” She gave the redhead a tiny smile.

Alya softened and returned her smile. “That’s always been the plan, right?”

“Thank you.” She turned to the two boys beside her. “And you guys?

Nino dipped his cap towards her. “Of course, dude. Besides, cooking with you guys sounds fun.”

Adrien grinned. “You couldn’t get rid of me if you tried.”

Marinette smiled. “See? With you guys around, everything will be fine.”

She stood up and gathered them in a group hug.

However, a part of her dwelled on Alya’s arguments. She knew that she was right about her playing into Lila’s manipulations.

And a part of her already dreaded for what Lila had in plan for her.

#miraculous ladybug #ml fanfic #ml salt #marinette dupain cheng #adrien agreste #lila rossi #lila salt #ml chameleon #ml season 3 #chameleon salt #canon divergence #on AO3 #chameleon:PWT #ml season 2 spoilers #ml spoilers

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wezzaner · 5 years ago

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Evie’s and Doug’s relationship develops the best, Pt. 1

Why do people hate Doug and his relationship with Evie so much?

I honestly don’t get it. Out of all the relationships, that one, hands down, actually develops the best.

Let’s start with the very first Descendants (Please confirm with me, however, that the events of the first movie span ONE month only), the introduction to both as characters and their start as a couple.

Take Evie first…

A vain, flirty, one-track mind wannabe-princess who was bred by her mother to be a spineless trophy wife to a prince. ANY prince. So spineless to the point where she tries to act dumb and highlights her cooking, sewing and cleaning abilities, thinking that this is what a prince could ever want. That there is no other reason anybody would ever want her.

Now Doug...

Insecure, somewhat (but not painfully) shy, scrawny and nerdy sidekick offspring. A commoner that is not even considered “good looking” by Disney’s princes standards. Son of a side kick, and not the smartest one at that, living with the kids of kings, queens, fairies and powerful magic-wielding beings. That must have added to his insecurities, being viewed as “less”. Even if he was friends with them, because he was.

He seemed to be the most welcoming and the least afraid (and reluctant) of all the AKs, except for Ben. But let’s take Ben out of the equation, its his proclamation, his decision and his passion project. But hey, Ben trusted and assigned Doug to be their guide to the school, that counts for them being friends and Doug being trusted by the future king. Friendship points right here.

And Evie… Well, he had his eyes on her from the start, blown away, admittedly, by her beauty and only her beauty at first. And that didn’t change when she introduced herself to be the Evil Queen’s daughter.

Out of all the different couples that Descendants have included (Mal/Ben, Carlos/Jane, Audrey/Jay, Lonnie/Jay), Doug and Evie are the only ones who can be considered direct enemies. He overlooked that, it didn’t even register to him, I guess. Which makes for a lot of very great hypothetical reactions from his parents/family to him possibly having feelings for their enemy’s daughter.

But as shallow as that was in the beginning, it wasn’t her beauty that kept Doug under Evie’s spell. But more about that later on.

Now, one thing I always respect about Doug is his protectiveness over her. He had her back a few times throughout the first movie alone. On introducing Chad jerkface Charming to her, he made a point to point out that while Chad inherited the charm, he didn’t inherit a lot of their there. Which could mean a lot of different things, I’ll give you that. But I’ll narrow it down to two traits, the first is Chad not being… bright. The second, I’d reckon, is Chad not being the nicest guy around, far away from Auradon’s straight and narrow norms.

Then the very next Evie-related scene, Chad is blatantly attempting to take advantage of her and she’s ignorantly letting him. While her ignorance is excused by the upbringing, Chad’s behavior is not. So, technically, Doug was looking out for her.

In correlation with the same two scenes, Doug saw the note Evie received from Chad, asking her to meet him under the bleachers. That visibly left Doug in a sour mood.

His next action was showing up to their meeting point to ask her out. After admitting he was technically stalking her. Sidekick offspring got balls; I’ll give him that.

While his advances were not exactly rejected, they were not welcomed either. Skipping game day, their next interaction takes places at the next Chemistry exam (BTW, what kind of school has an exam the day right after a big game? The announcer said the Auradon Knights were winning back the trophy, this is a final game of some sort.).

So any way, the next two scenes are basically what establish Evie and Doug as a couple, making her see him in a new light, if you will. Sappy as hell, but I loved it.

Yeah, so, Doug stands up for Evie after Chad jerkface Charming steals her magic mirror and turns it in because she was using it to cheat (which she totally was, but that’s not the point).

I hope you are seeing what I am seeing.

Yeah, I do mean Evie’s complete confusion over anyone standing up to defend her. Particularly, an AK, the supposed enemy. Especially Doug, the person she just blew off two days ago. She obviously isn’t used to people sticking up for her, seeing the good in her that she wasn’t even sure was there, acknowledging her intelligence and gambling her entire stay in Auradon on it.

He believed in her so much, so completely, so BLINDLY and in so little time. He believed in her smarts before she, herself, recognized she was all that. When she said that maybe for the first time, she felt she was more than a pretty face, he replied “A shocker, huh?”. He knew. Then she started to trust him and be somewhat affectionate towards him, telling him he was great [in there]. He suggested getting together to study and she almost spoke over him, eager to do so and excited for it. She was genuinely happy and for, maybe, the first time; her happiness was caused by someone outside of her inner circle.

Presumably a few days (weeks? I mean it’s the day right before the coronation) later, the crisis that was family day occurred. Now, let’s break that down.

In the Be Our Guest number, Doug is included. Ben flicks something off his shoulders, Chad grins at them both in idiotic happiness and… Jane is not included in the number. So, Doug is actually in the AKs’ inner circle with the royals while Jane isn’t, opposing several theories that Jane and the rest of the AKs were friends before the VKs came along.

Anyway, the fact that Doug is supposedly close with Chad is important for the very next Evie/Doug interactions.

Now after Queen Leah freaked out, Chad went OFF. He had a few points of course, and Evie retaliated peacefully (well, as peacefully as it can get after Chad’s outburst) with an insult using the mirror, Chad pushed her hand away because he is a jerkface (as previously established), Jay got involved and Evie sprayed him with the sleeping potion meant for the limo driver.

And Chad fell straight into Doug’s arms.

See where I am going with this? Not yet? Okay, no problem, I’ll get to the point. A while later, when Ben is speaking to the VKs, Doug is seen pacing back and forth, visibly conflicted about the entire situation. And rightly so.

He attempts to apologize to Evie, she apologizes back acknowledging that is was indeed her fault, however Chad jerkface Charming interrupts them and peer-pressures Doug back to his side.

Now while that is questionable behavior by Doug, the earlier events have to be taken into consideration. To the AKs and to Doug, while Chad provoked the VKs, Evie had a SLEEPING POTION in her PURSE at a FAMILY EVENT. So, Doug’s actions are completely justified, there is a valid reason for the seed of doubt now to grow. He sits back at the AKs table, glances at Evie then looks away when she is shown to be visibly upset, pushing away her tray of food that she was only picking at anyway.

BUT they obviously made up somewhere between the coronation and the after party. They danced together and after the number they bowed to the king, then skipped into each other’s arms.

Now with these gifs below I rest my case for the first movie…

Bonus gif from rehearsals and I am legit mad this entire sequence got cut:

I also blame everything on Sofia Carson and her ability to be so lovable...

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junjosekaimangalover · 5 years ago

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Tomoe X Reader X Akura-Oh ~ Brothers Can Have It Both Ways.....Can They? - * Not A Request * - Part 2

Kamisama Hajimemashita X Reader ~ * Requests Are Open *

Kamisama Kiss/Kamisama Hajimemashita X Reader

Tomoe X Reader X Akura-Oh ~ Brothers Can Have It Both Ways.....Can They? - * Not A Request * - Part 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't own the Anime series Kamisama Kiss/Kamisama Hajimemashita and I don't own any of the characters from the series. I only own my writing skills and my imagination. Please enjoy~~ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Next Week: Tomoe and Akura-Oh's POV: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's been over a week since we kidnapped the human girl and she was certainly a force to be reckoned with. While during her stay here at our lair, we found some of our servants collapsed on the ground with scars on them. When we asked them what happened, they would always answer:

" That human girl did it! "

We didn't exactly know what she had been cable of. We were very interested in what kind of human she was. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your POV: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was sitting in the couch in my Yokai captors's den, I was writing something on a empty journal I found on the table somewhere. I wrote my feelings down in it's empty blank pages like it was some sort of special diary to me.

I placed my arms on the edge of the couch and laid my legs on the rest of couch and for once in during my stay here I actually feel comfortable. That was, until I heard Tomoe and Akura-Oh coming into the room.

" Ah! You two scared me.... " I said while grabbing my heart and trying to slow it's pace down.

" Good. " Tomoe said.

" Not good. " I replied in annoyance.

" So ( Y/N___ )..... " Akura-Oh came over to me and sat down next to me while crossing his legs together.

" Yes Akura-Oh. " I said back.

" Tomoe and I have been seeing some very interesting things ever since you have become our pet recently. " Akura-Oh grinned and leaned towards me slightly.

" Oh? Like what? " I asked back in return while raising an eyebrow in confusion.

" Oh, like seeing some of our servants injured or possibly dead on the floors of our lair. " He finally said.

" Oh that, that was me yes. " I said while giving those two a mere shrug and going back to journal.

" Well, what gives you the right to attack our servants ( Y/N___ )? " Tomoe asked me.

" What gives you two the right to kidnap me, oh that's right, none. " I said with a fake smile on my face.

" Huh, you're very cheeky for someone who is a pet to the great and dangerous Akura-Oh and Tomoe. " Akura-Oh said to me as he was trying to give me some sort of hint that I should be aware of my position with them.

" I'm not scared of you two, I'm scared of what you two do to others. " I said while reading and writing down more phrases in my journal.

" Yes, you're a very interesting human you are ( Y/N____ ). " Tomoe said.

" Glad I amuse you two. " I said bluntly.

" Us two, so what was your reason for attacking our servants? " Tomoe asked me another question.

" Because they were getting all handsy with me, invading my personal space. They invade my personal space, I invade their fine line between skin and bone. " I answered.

" Wow, so you love to kill too huh? " Akura-Oh asked me.

" No, I can't stand it but I do what it takes to survive because that's the type of world we all live in. A world of survival. You guys just kill for fun not survival. " I responded while turning a page in my journal.

" A complicated individual you are. " Tomoe said.

" Yes I am and a fair warning that if either of you try to get handsy with me without permission then I will not hesitate to strike down either of you, just like the rest. " I said as the tone in my voice deepened.

Tomoe and Akura-Oh looked at each other for a brief moment and then started laughing relentlessly.

" Hahahahaha! A human warning us to stay away from her precious ' Personal space ' and that if we don't she will attack us??? " Akura-Oh said while laughing hysterically and Tomoe joining in with him.

" Yeah and what about this? " Tomoe grabbed the journal from the stand I was writing it on and tried to read it. I didn't let him though.

" Give that back! " I demanded.

" Or What? " Tomoe asked me.

" .....Just give it back to me now, please. " I said one last time in a more serious voice now while reaching my hand out to him so he could give it to me.

" What will you do if I don't? " He asked me again. I then placed my hand back down and decided enough was enough.

' BANG!! '

' CRASH!!! '

' BOOM!!! '

Tomoe then fell on his knees while I held the sword that he had almost been carrying around with him everywhere and pointed it towards his forehead, inches apart barely. Tomoe went all wide eyed on me as he is still processing on what just happened a moment ago and Akura-Oh was staring at me along with him.

" I told you, do not invade my personal space or you will not like what happens next. I will keep myself at bay if you don't let this happen again. Besides that, I have nothing more to say to you two other than you are a foolish fox and a foolish oni Yokai. I really pity the woman who gets stuck with you both, if there even is one for you two. " I said seriously and then dropped the sword next to him and walked out of the room, leaving them speechless.

" Whoa.... " Tomoe thought.

" She is definitely not like any other humans we have ever encountered. I really like her now, I never would've expected that she would've knocked you off your feet Tomoe. " Akura-Oh said while still looking at the doorway.

" She is different, she has a very fiery passion in her to fight and protect things and people in her life. It's actually almost.....desirable to have someone with that much fire. " Tomoe said to himself.

" Agreed. " Akura-Oh said.

" Well there's the problem Tomoe, I like her and apparently so do you. So who gets her? " Tomoe asked Akura-Oh. " Why not share her? " Akura-Oh replied.

" Share her? " Tomoe gave Akura-Oh a very confused look.

" Why not? It'll be fun to see who she favors the most. " Akura-Oh winked at Tomoe.

" I wonder who it'll be then... " Tomoe smiled along with Akura-Oh.

And this is the moment when things started to REALLY change..... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EPIC CLIFFHANGER!!!

I actually made a cliffhanger, I didn't think I could and I'm sorry that part two is so much shorter than my usual long ones but I'm gonna give you all a REAL treat tomorrow in part 3.

That's right, a part 3 is in the making!

If any of you guys suggest that I should turn this into a real story then my mind will literally be blown away from the amazing kindness you guys share with me in the comments section.

But seriously though, let me know if you guys think I should or not.

BTW: The real romance comes tomorrow in part three so be patient. Enjoy~!

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asherlockstudy · 5 years ago

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I get that interview was HBO forced but it sounds insane when last season, he was saying Jaime needed to get away from her for good. I mean no nice post about Gwen after the last ep. I dont believe it was about not wanting to stir the hornet's nest if him and B didnt get together as he posted a huge loving one about Lena and that was a very controversial part of the plot. If hed know posted a gwen one saying"sorry JB didnt get a happy ending but here's me and Gwen in happier times" i dont get it

I think it’s very weird too…Imma analyze it. Not that I’m gonna reach any solid conclusion but I will just lay out all my thoughts.

Whatever the reason Nik doesn’t post or reply publicly to Gwen is, it has nothing to do with his personal preference for Braime or Jaime x Cersei. Even if we make the insane assumption that Nik appreciated that Jaime dumped Brienne to return to murderous Cersei and die with her without serving any purpose in the main plot (what lead actor of 8+ years would ever like being unimportant in the ending plot) and saw “pOeTRy” in it, it still doesn’t explain why he should prefer posting about Lena over Gwen. We would be naive to think he made a post about Lena and not Gwen because he prefers Cersei to Brienne. So, we still have no clear evidence of what Nik’s private thoughts and feelings are for his character after the ending.

Here’s what we have:

We have two interviews: one with HBO rofl and one with that journalist who collaborates with HBO and was an insider (I’m not gonna search his name) in which he stans Jaime’s choices, his love for Cersei and the tragic poetry in it all. Then we have him promoting the episodes and the documentary in his instagram and twitter, however he is entirely emotionally detached from his character and his fate. I would say he lowkey looks entertained in his weird af episode promo videos and secretly amused while filming the “thank you” video after the last episode where he says “Come on, it was great” and suggests a petition for an Arya (huh?) sequel.

We have two videos uploaded on yt with him: one is a video of a stalker in which Nik looks uncomfortable and passes the question to the random guy next to him who apparently happens to be a GOT fan, have an elaborate opinion on the last season, hate D&D and think they threw away Jaime’s beautiful character arc. What are the odds…The second is a skit in Jimmy Kimmel in which Nik drags his own character by making him stupid and clumsy, a sad little being because of his maiming and, most importantly, an unrepentant sister fucker. All of Jaime’s worst qualities displayed for laughs, plus that he’s actually a likeable but very stupid person. The skit ends with a dragon randomly burning him and his family alive and those credits

So, we have straightforward criticism towards D&D by Kimmel and NCW actually participates in it. This is what this skit means - that this level of writing, this kind of lame character and that ludicrous death is something that only Benioff and Weiss would like to produce. And, well, the Olsen sisters (although I think they’re cleverer than that).

So, we have two videos where NCW’s intentions are dubious AT BEST.

Then we have all the promos. When left to speak on his own, Nikolaj would say how the ending was beautiful and made sense and he once mentioned he sent a letter to thank them for this genius plot…Right. But then when asked or caught off guard (1:04):

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Nobody tries to sugarcoat it, look at the title of the video: … NCW is ‘happy’. Then of course we have our Lady and Saviour Gwen who tries not to laugh as Nik struggles to find what to say and not just stand up and flee.

Also, this one. The best one:

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I could make a thousand gifs for this but just watch again the entire video:

0:07 - Gwen’s face when Nik says he thought the script was fantastic

1:13 - “N-no..NO!!!” when asked if he would change something in the ending and Gwen’s reaction to that. Then, our leader Gwen proceeds to mock him: “So, it’s an immaculate- It’s immaculate?” to which Nik impulsively replies: “NO!” and goes on “do you ever read a book and think you want to rewrite this?” which implies, that yes he would want to rewrite it but knows he can’t.

(3:03 - 3:06) - VERY IMPORTANT ONE. When Gwen wondered who was closer to predicting the actual ending, Nik says “I was, yeah” and OMG look at Gwen’s face. It’s very subtle but she’s trying to communicate with her eyes a “WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT” to him without being seen by the interviewer. It’s kind of a wife done with her husband’s shit look tbh, that level of subtlety. And Nik answers back with his eyes in equal subtlety and it’s like he says a “What? I truly was right lol….”. To me, this seems to mean that Nik always knew or feared that D&D would eventually destroy all his work and was eventually proven right. Unless this all is about Dany being killed by Jon but I doubt at this point Nik and Gwen cared enough to go all cryptic and eye communicating for this. No, it was about them.

3:09 - Nik is surprised and then clearly amused at the information by the interviewer that Kit was the one who came closer with his prediction. He can’t hide his smile and says an ironic “good for him” while looking knowingly at Gwen who then says this must be a lie. This shows that it is known amongst the actors that most of them are disappointed and Kit was one of them. Both Nik and Gwen apparently knew Kit hated his ending too and would never expect this to be how the show would wrap up. BTW that writing and that backlash really got to Kit, I hope he recovers soon. But think about this, Kit went into rehab for stress and alcohol, Emilia was devastated and gave a somewhat concerning interview and Nik’s public behaviour regarding GOT is inconsistent and unpredictable. I am thus assuming the writing of the final season and the backlash fucked them up way more than they let on.

This interview is a gem but here’s the most important part, perhaps the core of what baffles us:

1:32 - After all the miserable no-nos poor Nik mumbles, Gwen tells Nik what we all think: “I think it’s just a question, you know? Maybe you want to answer it?”

Of course he’s in a total loss for words. Literally, he doesn’t make any sense. Some incoherent sounds come out of his mouth and that’s it. This can mean two things: either he truly thinks the ending is perfect or the ending made him such a mess that he can’t even process it verbally two years later.

Either Gwen is much braver and Nik is extemely paranoid or Nik actually has many more restrictions in what he is allowed to say. I believe Gwen wanted Nikolaj to be as open as her about it and she still tries to make him open up but he doesn’t. In all the promos without exception, Gwen looks as if she knows Nik is full of shit and secretly agrees with her. If Gwen knows that for a fact, then we can’t argue and it’s actually what makes sense anyway. Nikolaj agrees with Gwen but is not eager to discuss it openly yet, or ever. This could be because he is very professional or because he doesn’t want to get a bad name as a “backstabber” of his projects or it might be a situation of a more sensitive nature.

If those rumours that the S8 script was changed are true, then Nik and Lena might have had a serious breakdown with D&D and a negotiation might have taken place. For instance, Nik and Lena were really unnecessary in E6, Nik’s scene in E1 could have been eliminated as well and Lena does not appear in E3. Yes, they are big actors but paying them 1,2 million for every episode seems a tad excessive when Emilia and Kit are now famous too and have like 300% times more screentime. All this is wild speculation but maybe they stretched their appearance in the episodes as much as possible and gave them a good amount of money to agree on the butchering of their characters and their importance as former lead actors. I mean, especially Lena was downgraded to a secondary character in this season. Lena had to really fight to see her salary rise in the previous seasons. And now it’s a million for every episode? Wow. How many minutes was she staring out of the window in S8? Maybe they were silenced and payed a shitload of money to stop complaining and promote the show and praise the writing as what it was supposed to be. Maybe they payed them in order to promote Peter, Kit and Emilia for the Emmys instead, who knows. When so much money is involved, things can get frustrating in ways we don’t even fathom. This is wild and rough speculation but all I’m saying is there may be reasons Nik avoids talking freely about his character that we can’t know.

Besides, it’s not just a Gwen problem. It is not a Gwen problem. Gwen revealed she sent a “Jaime is a fuckboi” meme to Nik privately and he answered playfully as ever (but again as if he’s in denial). They posted a story together a couple of weeks ago. Nik did not just ignore Gwen’s instagram post. Daniel Portman posted the photo and tagged Nikolaj too. Nik ignored him as well. Bryan Cogman, who Nik and Gwen owe a lot to, commented under the photo in a very sweet and emotional way. Guess what, Nik ignored him too! It’s ridiculous to think Nikolaj has stopped communicating and caring about Gwen AND Daniel AND Bryan just because his character returned to Cersei. Furthermore, the fact that they all keep tagging him shows they don’t think their relationships with him have become tense.

That’s not it. It’s not about Gwen. The only way that Gwen is involved in all this is that she wants Nikolaj to open up so that he would give a little acknowledgement to her character and the relationship with Jaime because she feels very much for Brienne. I’m sad to say, however, that it seems to me that Nik did not take that blow more lightly than Gwen. In fact, his behaviour is more inconsistent and troubling whereas Gwen’s openness about it made her confront that sore subject more healthily after all. I start believing Nik was actually way more devastated than Gwen. At least Brienne remained a decent character, ever faithful to her ideals, ever innerly strong. Jaime was entirely trashed, let alone that he was supposed to be a main character. If Nik can’t even handle a photo that reminds him of his destroyed character arc, I wouldn’t be surprised. Maybe Gwen wants Nik to open up so much for his benefit as well - he keeps it bottled up and she might know first hand how that affects him.

Long story short, the reasons Nik doesn’t post anything about his feelings for Jaime’s character arc, his relationship with Brienne and his collaboration with Gwen probably are both professional, after begrudging deals and agreements and restrictions from HBO, and very personal, inner and private, as he’s still trying to cope with a disappointment that crushed down on him from what used to be his dream job and a role he hoped would be a (or the) peak of his career. I bet all these years Nik was hopeful Jaime would be extremely important and fully redeemed in the end but also extremely scared and anxious that the writers won’t give him what he hoped for and what made sense. Would I exaggerate if I said this should be the biggest professional disappointment he ever experienced, provided that he didn’t like the character’s ending?

From everything Gwen has said about him, I have surmised that Nik is very emotional and anxious but with a very blasé and superficially amiable attitude. He avoids expessing emotion in real life which is why he might be dissociating a lot lately. He tries to distance himself from that part of Jaime’s character that involved Bryan and Gwen because this is the part that he loved and lost. Honestly, I can’t think of any other logical reason he ignored Gwen, Dan and Bryan one after the other and never made a post about his own character specifically or his good times with Gwen. It’s obviously not that he suddenly hates all of them to the point of not even replying. Even if HBO restricts him on what he can say in interviews for a while, there is no other explanation for this other than that D&D’s genius writing fucked him up emotionally as much as Emilia and Kit and he does not want to deal with it even though Gwen probably thinks it would be for the best if he did.

Now after I wrote all this, imagine if Nikolaj actually doesn’t give a shit and is just happy going on with his life while I am here wasting time. But… I don’t think so. I will never not believe Nik didn’t love Jaime to pieces. He had big dreams for this role, I am sure of it.

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kast43 · 5 years ago

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How The Arcana Characters treat a Sick MC

[I kinda got bored and felt like writing some DONT SUE ME...feedback much appreciated btw :D]

+Asra+ -He would be on his way back home from a trip -lets call it...shared empathy 😉 -Asra himself had felt quite sluggish for a few days now, but could not determine what it was. -No fever, no nausea, muscles sore? -He opened the door to the shop, "MC I am home!" He called. -Saw MC about dosed off on the work table when they suddenly shot up. "Oh, welcome back! How was your trip?" MC asked. -Frankly Asra would instantly worry hearing the fatigue in their voice [ya know...does not want a repeat] -Without much words Asra came up to MC and took their face in his hands. -MC was burning up! -"MC, are you feeling well? You have a fever..." Asra slid one hand down to there shoulder. -Asra carefully studied MC...especially their eyes as the responded. -"oh...its nothing. I am just a bit tired is all. We got a little busy while you were away..." -if guilt could stab someone, Asra would have been stabbed in the heart. -"MC, you really should not take on more than you can handle." Asra would then realize why he felt sluggish for days. "...have you gotten any sleep?" -MC just gave a sheepish smile "Yes~" they responded...or lied. -Asra was in the perfect balance of panic, worry, guilt and frustration. -"why did you open the shop? You need to get some rest." Asra stated, now beginning to guide MC up to the bedroom. -"Im fine i swear!" MC began to protest until they suddenly stopped to hold the counter, loosing balance. -"...have you eatten today?" Asra asked knowing the answer already. -Again with the sheepish grin, "i might have forgotten..." -this was the last straw for Asra, how could he allow MC to take such poor care of themselves. -"the shop is going to be closed today. You are going to get some rest. I wont take no for an answer" he stated, almost picking MC up. -if he succeeded then he would feel MC go softly limp in his arms. "I...but...there is still too much to do..." was all the protest MC could muster up. -"it can all wait, your health comes first..." he stated softly as he carried MC to bed. -he offered to make his special sleep aid tea, even went to go get some fresh pumpkin bread to go with it. -as stubborn as MC is, they really could not argue with Asra, just accepted and took on some paperwork when he was not paying attention -Asra knew this...made the tea a bit strong. -in the time that Asra watched MC finish her tea and bread, walk down to lock up the shop and come back, MC had passed out. -Asra took all of the "hidden" paper work and set it to the side, but not his worry. -if available he called Julian. -Julian eased his mind, was not the plague. -MC just worked themselves into severe fatigue. -Asra was so relieved and yet he felt guilty for leaving MC like this. -looks like Julian helped himself to the tea. -Julian is now passed out on the couch, Asra shrugs. It probably was for the better. -when MC finally woke up, Asra had made their favorite meal so they would eat. -MC got a good laugh when seeing Julian on the couch, now sprawled out. -when Asra nursed MC back to health he would promise to never leave them alone again. -if he had to go out, he would take MC with him. Even to the store. -Asra just wants MC to take better care of themselves, and will become fiercely protective of that for the rest of his life.

×Julian× -being a doctor he would have noticed small signs right away. -MC suddenly didn't feel like eating. -strike 1 -it was the night of the week they took a date to the Rowdy Raven. -MC didn't really want to go, felt too tired to go. -strike 2 buddy -however MC was oddly persistent in Julian going...alone. -"you have had a rough week, and you have been looking forward to this" mc said -"darling you have been working hard this week also. If anyone needs a release it would be you" Julian replied. -after much debate Julian said he would go to please MC. -he did go, but after about an hour or so he didn't feel 'it'. -no matter how many salty bitters he drank there was still a chunk of his night missing. -he would staggerly head back home, excited to be reunited with the love of his life. -"DID YOU MISS ME DARLING? I MISSED YOU" he drunkenly declared -odd, MC was not in bed...or in the living room...the hunt begins. -he froze when he heard a familiar sound of vomiting coming from the kitchen. -surely MC didn't ditch him to work more? -he staggered to the kitchen and saw MC hunched over the sink. [Lets say they tried to eat and it suddenly came back up?] -does not matter how many bitters this man had, he sobered up immediately and practically ran to MC. -Julian went to aid the best he could, holding MC's hair, rubbing their back, ect. -MC is mortified, they didn't want to be seen like this, especially in front of Julian. -"my dearest MC I see this all the time. The one who should be ashamed is me for not noticing sooner." -after MC was sure they were finished vomiting, Julian carried [yes, as dramatic as he could be] MC to bed. -Julian would refuse to leave MC's side the entire time they had the flu. -need a bucket? He had one ready. -needed to go to the bathroom? He carried them. -if not for the crow summoning Portia he probably would not eat if MC didn't. -MC would refuse cuddles, sad Julian is sad. -"you are gonna get sick too" -"i happen to know that the only cure for flu is cuddles" -"...not leeches?" -"surprisingly not...didn't work well last time i tried that" -Small conversation cheered MC up. -Portia dragged Julian away while MC slept so he could eat and sleep himself...unwillingly of course -eventually MC would be on the road to recovery -Julian asked for some famous home made soup from Mazelinka...for MC of course. -because of all the rejected cuddles it would not be surprising if Julian ended up with the flu next -that’s when MC repaid all the love and care given to them...minus the cuddle attempts... -Julian would no doubt enjoy cuddles -can you say never ending flu? -Poor Portia taking care of 2 sick idiots forever [jk MC is not that dumb]

=Nadia= -lets be honest, Nadia probably knew MC was sick before they did. -one morning Nadia woke up around the same time she always did. -always before MC, but not like this. -something was off and Nadia knew the moment she sat down for breakfast. -would send Portia to wake MC as usual... -Portia came back with an odd look -"Mistress, I think MC is a bit under the weather..." -"What makes you think that?" Nadia asked...as if she didn't know -"Well, they look...rough. I mean a touch pale...dark circles under their eyes" Portia mimicked as she spoke “When I left the room I heard them coughing too” -Nadia nodded -Big sneeze coming From down the hall -as if on Que, here comes MC, just as described. -"Good morning " MC spoke, voice very nasally. -Sniffles, hard for Nadia to not find it adorable -MC sat down next to Nadia, rubbing her temple -Nadia recognized that gesture -"MC, are you feeling alright?" -"yeah, just didn't sleep well last night" MC tried to lie, Nadia knew better -turns away to cough -"seems more than that" Nadia stated while placing her hand on MC's forehead. -as expected, a fever. -Nadia slid closer to MC "MC dear why don’t you take the day off...get some rest." -we all know that was in fact not a question, nor a suggestion. -"i cant do that, i have to help you with the dinner" -as if by coincidence the both of them had been planning a big family/friends dinner...being held tonight -Nadia felt partly to blame for putting stress on MC, causing this -"do you think anyone wants you to go to dinner if you are sick?" -"well....no..i guess not-" sneeze, sniff "but you don't need to take this on your own. Let me help..." -"you can help me by going back to bed." -"Nadia...its just a cold i have worked through much worse" -this was Nadia's trigger -"what you have done in the past is behind you. You are my partner now...there is absolutely no need for you to be working under stress.." Nadia stood, coming even closer to MC - Nadia's intimidation tactics too strong for the weak and frail MC -"if it will ease your mind..." Nadia took up MC's arm and began to guide MC to her chambers "I will enlist some help." -MC was personally tucked into Nadia's bed, very little protest. -with a kiss to on the forehead MC finally felt relaxed enough to close their eyes

-”If you need help, please come and get me” MC asked

-”That won’t be necessary, love” Nadia responded

-"...don’t stress yourself out either, or you will get sick too" -Nadia felt so warm hearing MC give their blessing. -Summons both Julian and Asra to the palace, between them and Portia they knock out all the preparations needed -Julian would check MC every now and then, Asra also would share tea with them while the day drew long -Not surprisingly MC's most frequent visitor was Nadia. -Nadia would come up for a moments rest, to ask for a small opinions, or just to see them. -Nadia would make MC her first priority, no matter what -eventually the time would come for the dinner, Nadia cleaned herself up and MC wished her luck. -hours later, late into the night Nadia could not go back to her chambers fast enough...MC had not made a request from Nadia or Portia the entire time so she was a bit worried. -Came into the room to see MC had been asleep, tea cup half finished next to them -Nadia spent a moment just watching MC sleep peacefully before finally hopping into bed with them, Nadia got to be the big spoon -MC's fever was bad, but they were so warm...Nadia fell right to sleep after -the next day was defiantly a 'sick day' for the both of them *wink*

<Muriel> -oh boy [this just seems mean 😢] -[i go easy i swear] -Being that living life off the land can be hard at times...MC would often go too hard. -Muriel would see it, but he knew MC was very independent. A quality he admired -until today -he was careful not to wake MC because they had been working so hard -goes out to get fire wood, comes back to see MC woke up -"sorry...did i wake you?" He asked as he went to set the fire wood down...no response -he looked up to MC to see she was still rubbing the sleep out of their eyes but...more than usual. -"no...i just...my eyes feel like they are burning..." continues to itch. -bless this poor boy, scares easily when it comes to things like this -gets up and goes to MC, takes their hands away from their eyes -"let me see..." he already sees their eyes are puffy and swollen. -mc tried to open them...struggle. -a slow panic sets in -Muriel guides MC to a stream to wash their face -when finally able to open their eyes, he panics more -beet red, swollen eyes look back at him -"...whats wrong?" Goes to scratch more -pANIC -quickly picks MC up and runs to the magic shop -shows Asra....PANIC -calls Julian...MC is so confused -"thankfully, not the plague...looks like a standard case of pink eye to me...MC, do you know of anything that might have caused this??" -MC had to think...wait.... -"oh...the other day i did manage to get some dirt caught in my eye...it was after we cleaned out the birds nest from the chimney" -"been itching this whole time?" -".....yes?" -Muriel didn't know who to be upset with more -himself because he let MC get sick -or MC for not being more careful -Asra made some medicine and cream for treatment -Julian put on a thick blindfold to stop itching -at first Muriel didnt want to take MC back, might make it worse -MC insisted on going -ever see a large man hold a small magicians hand to guide them home? -eventually they get back home -Muriel forces MC to stay put in bed until they were better -"MC, you have to stop itching or you won’t heal" -"but it itchessss" -Inanna would lay by MC's side, even if Muriel got upset with her -MC can’t scratch her eyes if they are petting a puppy! -muriel would have to do all of the chores...he didnt mind tho -Made her meals, gave them water when they asked -at nap time, Muriel would catch himself watching MC sleep -if MC caught him, then he turned blush red, stumbled on his words and then go outside... -"MC....I.....think I left the river running, be right back"

-MC could not see so they were just confused -secretly liked taking care of MC for once, would never admit it -eventually MC would get better -Muriel would be more protective of the chores MC does [or even allowed to]

°Portia° -Portia would have known about most things about MC -late night conversations lead to a conversation about allergies -MC had mentioned that they were allergic to some things but never told Portia exactly what -from then on Portia would pay closer attention to what was around MC -she would have never thought about bug bites -Portia was working in the palace, MC was in the garden at the cottage -Portia came back at her usual time after serving Nadia dinner -"I’m home!" Portia announced in her usual bouncy personality -MC was already in the bed, covered from head to toe -"MC? Are you cold?" Portia came up and sat beside them in bed. -"n-not exactly" they managed to pipe out, shivering a bit -Portia was a bit confused, worry edging its way in -"i don’t want to alarm you...but i think I’m having an allergic reaction.." MC came out of their covers to look at Portia -MC was sweating, eyes a bit puffy -Portia's worst fear, she had not prepared anything for this situation -"WHAT?? How? When?" Portia began to nervously pace in front of the bed. -MC laughed a bit weakly, could not help but find her panic cute -this snapped Portia out of her panic, a quick self face slap -"What do i need to do?" She asked going back to MC, determination in her eyes -"back at my shop...i have some medicine...its on the top shelf above the stove. It’s a purple vial..." -"You want me to get it? And leave you alone?" Portia did not like this plan. Why would MC leave such an important thing at home???? -"Im not alone" MC said, just then Faust popped up from her hiding place by MC's neck -"Bite" Faust popped up. -Portia didn't understand, sudden snake? was that Asra's pet or something? -Portia was not sure about this, but no time to hesitate -She ran as fast as she could to the shop. -it was unlocked?? -Thank GOD Asra was home -"MC....reaction....swelling...." she managed to communicate just enough for Asra to react. -grabbed the medicine and they both ran out the door. -by the time they got to the cottage MC was sitting upright against the bed railing -Portia quickly went to check if they were still awake while Asra went to work trying to find the source, peeling blankets back -MC was a bit surprised by the sudden coldness, but looked up with a grin at Portia, then Asra

-”Hello master...” MC sheepishly greeted Asra

-”Hello MC” Asra chuckled a bit as he worked

-”It happened again...”

-”I see that...” -"Here MC, drink this" she slowly fed the medicine to MC. -medicine worked its magic quickly, knocking MC out cold -"there it is..." Asra spoke up, showing a spot on MC's leg -Portia was a bit applauded at the swollen discolored patch on their skin -"what is that???" Portia asked surprised, yet fascinated -Asra took his hands and placed them over the area -"looks like a spider bite" he spoke as magic flowed thru his hands -"MC got bit by a spider???" Scared, she asked "is...is it poison???" -Asra shook his head calmly -"i thought they would have told you, they are allergic to some bug bites...spiders are the worst for them." -Portia was shook -She knew bugs could be poisonous but...just bites alone can take MC out??? -Asra took his hands away, bite area mostly healed, just rash-like -Asra then tucked MC into bed, gave Portia a care plan, then left promising to come back -Portia fell asleep just watching after MC sleeping -Next morning, Portia woke up for work, asked Nadia for the day off -Nadia agreed, understandingly -spent most of the day poking fun at MC -MC would be sore all over, waking up with the worst headache -Portia, as instructed, would have some pain medicine on hand -"Who would have thought that your one weakness was a spider!" she joked as she made breakfast -MC laughed, then moaned out of pain -"Sorry hun" Portia chuckled -MC would not want to eat anything, but Portia would still make sure they were hydrated -Asra would visit to drop off some potions and herbs -Asra also preformed an spell that repelled bugs from ever coming into the garden, same spell he used at the shop [without telling of course]

-Portia would just sit in the bed next to MC, keeping their spirit up with talking and playing games

-MC would let Portia read to them, soothed them into naps -Once MC had made a full recovery Portia would limit their time in the garden....forever

~Lucio~ -[now if you think for one moment that i trust this SOB, not knowing his whole 'route' then you have another thing coming] -[there is not enough evidence to prove to me that he had redeeming qualities, HOWEVER does not mean he is incapable of caring for something other than himself]

-[is he worth redemption? who knows?] -[so....here is a loose def of a head cannon] -in a perfect world, no one around Lucio would ever get sick again -although MC broke that plague curse a while back...does not make them immune to sickness -in that same perfect world, Lucio would know how to take care of something as simple as a cold -this was not that perfect world -Since it is Lucio, he would not notice the signs, only notice MC's absence from his side -"Where is MC?" He would ask[order] a servant. -Lucio didn't get results he wanted, Melchio would trot their way to the breakfast table, nudge Lucio's leg -he would give a loving pet, but where is Mercedes? - Melchio, as if knowing, would get Lucio to follow him up to MC's bedroom -Mercedes would be sitting at the closed door, waiting for MC. -"Has MC not gotten up yet?" Lucio grumpily opened the door, without knocking. -sure enough MC would be sitting on the edge of the bed, head in hands but jumped up when Lucio busted in -"MC? You are late." Lucio announced as the dogs walked in and formed a protective circle around MC -"oh...sorry. i didn't realize the time..." MC weakly spoke, petting the dogs as they stood up -"I would hope that today of all days you would not be late." He spoke up, getting closer -see, today was the start of Masquerade! Lucio, Nadia and MC worked hard to plan this for months. [Imma just make up that Nadia is Countess and she made MC and Lucio nobles *shrug* more a reward for MC and Punishment for Lucio?] -"Right, i know" MC would smile through the fatigue and start for the closet, only to wobble a bit. -Lucio would go to catch/support MC, "What is the matter with you?" He asked in a less grumpy, more concerned tone [really only MC could tell that] -MC was warm....warmer than usual. Like, hot...but in the wrong way. -"Oh...i uh...didn't sleep that well...i think i am coming down with something..." MC didn't want to admit it, but no way for Lucio to know unless outright telling him [a touch dense when it comes to others] -"something....like?" It didn't really occur to Lucio until a thunderous cough came out of MC’s mouth. -it finally clicks, Lucio panics not really knowing how to take care of a sickness [cant blame him, everyone who ever got sick around him he killed or died] -"Lucio? Are you okay?" MC would ask as he pretty much picks them up, throws them on the bed and runs out the door. -NADIA TO THE RESCUE -Normally a plead for help from Lucio would fall on deaf ears...but MC was sick so she let it go. -Nadia would personally visit MC and make sure they got tucked into bed, reassuring MC that they could handle the Masquerade without them -Lucio would follow like a lost puppy -whichever servant was tasked with taking care of MC [hopefully but unluckily its Portia], Lucio would follow them and at least make sure MC was treated like the Angel on Earth they were -"Is that lentil soup?? MC's favorite it tomato bisk!" -"What are you doing? How does that help?" Lucio would come across as annoying or even pressing but he was honestly trying to learn. -at some point he would be the one taking up the food/snack/medicine/drink because the servant would let him, to """ease Lucio's mind""" -He would visit....at least every 5 mins, on another planet of feelings with each visit -Visit 34 "How could you get sick on MY birthday party week??" -Visit 77 "MC listen, as long as you are not dying...then its fine" -Visit 106 "MC YOU WORKED TOO HARD NOW LOOK WHAT YOU DID" -Visit 126 "MC...is....is this my fault?" -MC can't get enough sleep, but is too kind to tell Lucio to stop -THAT IS what Arsa and Julian are for! -They would not have been there if MC was not sick...otherwise avoiding Lucio like....the plague XD [okay, ill go home] -"Lucio, MC needs rest or they wont get any better" Julian face palmed as he scolded Lucio, on his way for the 178th visit -"Don't you literally have ANYTHING better to do than bother MC?" Asra spat when Lucio had his hand on the doorknob.

-To avoid any more nagging he stopped...going into the room at least -Finally it was time to start the Masquerade, so Lucio decided it was time to forget about MC and get ready to party! -Except...he could not forget about MC -From the life of the party->Quiet party goer-> sad puppy -"I wanted MC to see this...." -would eventually just wait outside MC's door most of the night -On the bright side everyone else had a blast without Lucio HAHA -Eventually just sneaks into MC’s room and stayed so no one would catch him. -"I know....I will be quiet..." he whispered to the dogs as he quietly went to the corner and sat in the armchair. -the most quiet anyone has ever seen him -Eventually MC would start to feel better...he would ask if they would go to at least 1 party room before the Masquerade was over -Hand in Hand, Lucio would parade a very tired looking MC to his favorite room -#caught by Asra, MC is taken back to room for more rest -Sad Lucio is sad -After being grounded by Asra and being forced to rest, MC would be feeling better in no time -Lucio would become more protective about what MC when it came to parties because he does not want MC to miss any more of his parties

#thearcana #thearcanagame #thearcanaimagines #asra #juliandevorak #nadia #muriel #portia #countlucio

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team-free-squiggle · 7 years ago

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I Am Not Afraid To Keep On Living

I had no clue that I could write so much Polysanders but hey I ain’t complaining. I hope you all are enjoying reading these as much as I am enjoying writing them.

Oh, and guys - please feel free to request something. Shoot me an ask or something, they’re open. If you want a particular ship, or have an idea, I will gladly write it for you.

As always, feel free to request to be put onto a tag list. Just let me know which one and I’ll get you on there.

Anyway, here we go!

Oh and btw, this is actually hella long. Like, probably the length of a decent sized chapter in a long book.

It was meant to be a one-shot - short but sweet.

I have no clue how this happened, but I like it. So please, read on!

Summary: Virgil is super into My Chemical Romance, so to cheer him up and show him how much they appreciate him, the other Sides come up with the idea (even though they’re not into it nearly as much), to take him to a concert (this is in the mindscape by the way, it’s not a human AU).

This is after the video where Virgil reveals his name, but not too recent, because reasons of Virgil being surprised and not being quite as comfortable with them yet as he would become in the future.

Also, they aren’t dating (yet... you’ll see).

Type: A really long fic that has the possibility of sequels

Characters: Logan Sanders, Roman Sanders, Patton Sanders, Virgil Sanders, Thomas Sanders, and My Chemical Romance

Pairings: Polysanders

Warnings: literally nothing, just the fact that MCR is in this

Roman, Logan, and Patton were plotting. They knew that Virgil had been feeling more anxious than usual, as of late. After the Accepting Anxiety videos and the , Fitting In video, he honestly needed a break.

Virgil wasn’t used to feeling wanted, which the others (especially Patton, bless his heart) felt super bad about. The original three sides honestly cared a lot about their fourth, more than any of them had known, and wanted to make him happy. But how?

This question led them to Thomas. They decided to make a video out of it, but without Anxiety as this was going to be a surprise. Thomas was more than willing to let them help, of course, and he watched as they talked about what to do.

Roman pouted - he was the creative one, and couldn’t come up with any ideas. “C’mon, Princey, think” ended up sort of becoming his catchphrase in this video.

Logan was logic, so he knew they had to do something that Virgil would actually want to do. He said as much, and the others totally agreed. Then came the problem of ‘wait, shit, what does Virgil even actually like??’

Luckily for them, Thomas had been paying attention to that one.

“Well, in the first video he was in, at the very end, Virgil said to Roman something about My Chemical Romance?” Thomas wondered aloud, not fully remembering the details. Roman, however, did remember.

“Yeah, he said I was jealous ‘cause he had just been to a MCR concert. He looked happy about it too, so...” Roman trailed off as Patton jumped into the conversation.

“GUYS, THAT’S WHAT WE CAN DO!” Patton exclaimed, Logan having to remind Patton to breathe as he began to get overexcited. Patton calmed down as much as he could, before answering the others’ unspoken questions.

“We could hold an MCR concert in the mindscape!” Patton clapped, Roman nodding enthusiastically as Logan considered the idea. Thomas smiled, looking at Logan with a raised eyebrow to see if there were actually any disadvantages to their idea. Logan smiled, small but real, telling the others that (logically, of course) it was a brilliant idea.

Thomas had them all sink down, waving goodbye as they left the real world to travel back into their home.

They were quiet, so as not to wake the still sleeping Virgil, and got everything ready that they needed to.

~~ small time skip, to after preparations to where Virgil wakes up ~~

It felt like weeks, but had really only been about 12 hours that Virgil was asleep. That was 12 more hours than he was used to getting, and honestly? It had done him wonders.

Virgil felt well enough to actually try and dress decently today. He put on an MCR shirt - one of his “Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge” t-shirts - his now signature purple hoodie over it, some black ripped jeans, and took a look in the mirror.

Most of the time, Virgil hated his reflection. He always thought he was too skinny, or pale, or something else that he knew wasn’t true but still felt anxious about. Today, though, was different.

He put on black winged eyeliner as well as the deep black (and also somewhat deep purple now) eyeshadow under his eyes. He felt that today, he looked good, and he smiled at himself in the mirror. This jacket, this newfound confidence, it was all proof that he was beginning to be accepted and that maybe someday, he could consider himself loved.

Maybe someday, the others would love him the way Virgil knows that he has a huge crush on all three of them. And sure, that’s high hopes. but Virgil felt hopeful today.

So he walked downstairs, surprisingly not seeing anyone but Patton there. Patton noticed Virgil as he cooked breakfast, smiling and handing the Anxious side some tea he had had the foresight to make.

“Thanks, Pat.” Virgil smiled warmly, making Patton’s heart flutter. Little did Virgil know, but Patton had had a crush on him, Roman, and Logan ]since what felt like forever. This idea of his, Virgil’s surprise, could just be the closest he would ever get to a date with the three people he cared about most in the world.

Roman and Logan came down somewhat soon thereafter, around the same time. They both smiled at Virgil as they sat next to him on either side, Patton sitting opposite Virgil after he finished getting breakfast onto the table.

They ate, Virgil somewhat shy. But the other three did their best to include him in the conversations, specifically trying not to exclude him from anything any more. Virgil noticed this, of course - none of them were exactly subtle -. and he appreciated it enormously.

That’s when they told Virgil that they had a surprise for him. His anxiety kicked in a little, but only to the point of keeping Virgil slightly on his toes. They led him to the imagination, and what Virgil saw nearly had him in tears of amazement and happiness.

The others would never forget just how happy Virgil had looked when he had seen what they had done for him. Gerard Way smiled down at the four, before they all heard the first notes of ‘Welcome to the Black Parade.’

My Chemical Romance played all of Virgil’s favorite songs and then some. It was an amazing day of his life. And then something even better happened.

Gerard Way spoke to the crowd. “I need someone to help me sing this next song.” He was looking over the entire audience, but his gaze landed on Virgil, who was stunned when he smiled and nodded.

Virgil jumped up, really wanting to sing with his favorite band. Despite his social anxiety, it was something he had always dreamed of doing, and so his sheer excitement overruled the nervousness.

“What’s your name?” The band asked, smiling as though they already knew.

Virgil was fanboying at about the same level as when Princey got to be in a Disney show, so it was quite hard to talk. But, he managed it anyway, because hello he was talking to My Chemical Romance.

Oh my god, he was literally talking to My Chemical Romance.

“My name.. it’s Virgil.” He half-whispered, slightly more shy than usual. But he was still excited, and smiling, and honestly couldn’t wait to sing whatever song they had in mind.

Gerard smiled warmly at him. He could sense the excitement, and consulted the other band members on what they would sing. The others agreed with his suggestion that they should let Virgil pick, and told him as much.

Virgil whispered his suggestion, so the crowd (including the other Sides), would all be surprised. MCR nodded, smiling, and Virgil got to stand right next to Gerard freaking Way as he began the song.

“Now I know, that I can’t make you stay. But where’s your heart? But where’s, your...”

Virgil smiled softly at the sounds of Patton cheering softly below him, smiling at his family as he sang one of his (many) favorite MCR songs.

Gerard was singing along with him, of course, but let Virgil take over the lead and joined the backgrounds at the chorus.

“I am not afraid to keep on living, I am not afraid to walk this world alone! Honey, if you stay, I’ll be forgiven! Nothing you can say will stop me going home!”

He sang it as loud as he could, trying to let the sides know. He wanted to be with them, he felt at home when he was with them. And it was okay, if they didn’t want him around. They didn’t ever have to feel guilty, if that was the case. But if they would allow him, he would stay. After all, as Virgil had realized a while ago, he loved them.

Virgil felt some of his anxiety slip away and hope flare within him as he saw Patton, Logan, and Roman staring at him in awe and smiling. On occasion, they would cheer, leaving an even brighter smile on Virgil’s face each time they did.

Then came the part that Virgil really wanted to sing right, really wanted to let them know how he feels.

“I see you lying next to me. With words I thought I’d never speak... awake, and unafraid. Asleep, or dead!”

He sang out his heart, and he swore that even the deaf heard him. He looked down, towards the boys he loved, and saw them gently wiping at their eyes as they all clapped for him.

“I am not afraid to keep on living, I am not afraid to walk this world alone! Honey, if you stay, I’ll be forgiven! Nothing you can say can stop me going home!”

Virgil finished, strong and proud, and got the standing ovation he deserved for it. He made his way back to his seat (albeit after getting to hug the whole band), not daring to even look at the others on the way down for the fear he’d make a huge fool of himself.

Gerard quieted the crowd as best he could, stating that they had had a special request for someone to come up on stage and ask someone else something. After that, they would sing their last song, but not before.

To Virgil’s utter surprise, all three of his crushes got up. They went on stage, all automatically knowing that the audience of the mindscape was super accepting of everything. In other words, no one would hate them for being gay and poly here.

MCR stepped back, letting the Sides take the stage.

“We wanted to ask Virgil, whom you all just saw up here, something important.” Roman was the one who started, smiling at Virgil before nodding to Logan.

“A few facts about us, Virgil, that you may not know; number one, we are all poly.” Logan gestured to himself and the other two on stage. “Number two, the three of us want to date each other.”

Virgil felt disappointed. Of course he was happy that they would always have each other, but... he wished that he, too, could be apart of their family.

“The three of us also want to date you.” They smiled at him, nervous but warm. Virgil was taken aback, worried that this was all going to be a trick and he would wake up sad and angry with himself for going along with it.

Patton, of course, sensed this turmoil, and bounced off the stage. He brought Virgil back onto the stage, holding his hands.

“It’s true, and believe me, I’m the heart. I know how you feel, Verge, and I want you to know that we all feel the same way, kiddo.” Patton smiled. He was rarely entirely serious - I mean, he’s not the one with the necktie - but this was one of those times.

Virgil looked at the three of them surrounding him with hope and happiness and warmth, and love. He was needed, he was wanted. Virgil Sanders was loved by the people he loved.

Once he realized this, all it took was the utterance of a single word.

“Yes.”

Roman cheered, picking Virgil up and spinning him Disney Princess style. Patton fist - pumped the air, smiling widely and hugging the anxious side. Logan kind of held out his arms awkwardly, Virgil smiling and practically running into them.

The entire audience awwed and clapped, MCR doing the same before telling them to let them finish the concert. Everyone laughed, the Sides all blushed, and they held hands the rest of the night.

To be honest, Roman would later think, that MCR concert was the best thing he’s ever done.

Logan would analyze some of the moments where Virgil looked truly happy, to try and find (or make) a suitable collection of My Chemical Romance songs for Virgil that would remind him of the concert. After all, logically, they should all want to remember that night, right?

Logan wasn’t wrong on that.

For days later, Patton would decorate home made sugar cookies with different MCR album logos or symbols, each one getting scarfed down after a huge round of praise for how good they always looked (and afterwards, tasted).

Virgil was just giddy. He had his boyfriends, and had gotten to sing at a concert with one of his favorite bands ever.

The concert had been a really good idea, and the sides were all enjoying life together, as a true family.

But then Virgil had an idea.

What if, say, a concert for Logan’s favorite band was happening soon...?

Wonder if we’ll ever find out.

Tag List:

(Sanders Sides)

@astraastro

@madly-handsome

@amber1594

@lie-lie-birdy

@thebaagelboy

@justanotherpurplebutterfly

@ravenclawunicorn1

@ako1209@funsizedgremlin

@princessbelix

@water13girl

@romanasanders

@deathshadowrules

@virgils-jacket

(All)

@birdybabybird

@awesomelissawho

#sanders sides #lamp #roman sanders #virgil sanders #logan sanders #patton sanders #fluff #oneshot

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sanguinarysanguinity · 7 years ago

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@possibility221 said they would enjoy a commentary on the various ACD canon references in my story A Handsome and Generous People, in which Sherlock Holmes is thrown a few centuries into the future and reads the ACD Holmes stories, looking to see if Watson has any insight on how to get back. There is a fair amount of snarkiness about canon along the way.

Most of the ACD stories referenced in “A Handsome and Generous People” are pretty popular, as I wanted the story to be halfway accessible without knowing a great deal about the canon stories. Thus, if you already know the Sherlock Holmes stories moderately well, this may not be that interesting of a commentary? (Although you may take this as an invitation to argue about canon with me, if you like. Your choice.)

Beneath the cut, spoilers for a goodly number of ACD cases, as well as for “A Handsome and Generous People”...

I had even attempted re-reading A Study in Scarlet... my refreshed memory of what a terrible novel it was.

A Study in Scarlet (STUD), the first of the sixty Sherlock Holmes stories, has a strange narrative structure: right smack in the middle of the novel there is a five-chapter-long flashback to decades earlier on a different continent with characters we’ve never heard of. (The first time I read Scarlet, I thought there had been a printer’s error whereby pages from some random other novel had gotten bound into the middle of the book. It doesn’t help at all that the chapter numbering starts over again with the flashback.) Even worse, that extended flashback is an old-fashioned Western store, and just fyi, whenever Doyle tries to write Americans it gets pretty painful. Fic authors love making fun of STUD for that random gawdawful Mormon section, and I’m no exception.

Wt’sn’s assessment of the novel might be a bit strong -- I personally enjoy the first half of STUD, and STUD was popular enough to get the whole Sherlock Holmes phenomenon started. But it amuses me to imagine that Wt’sn is one of those people who has never managed to make it through the Mormon section of STUD. :-)

The imp in me could not resist: I told him about a place that I had an eye on, one that I thought would suit us right down to the ground.

Wt’sn is quoting Watson and Holmes's first meeting. Watson writes in STUD:

Sherlock Holmes seemed delighted at the idea of sharing his rooms with me. “I have my eye on a suite in Baker Street,” he said, “which would suit us down to the ground.”

“Watson was a terrible liar,” he said. “You’ll be comforted to know I have never once been tempted to poison a fellow lodger.”

In STUD, Stamford introduces Watson to Holmes, but he isn’t prepared to vouch for Holmes’ character. Stamford says:

“I could imagine his [Holmes] giving a friend a little pinch of the latest vegetable alkaloid, not out of malevolence, you understand, but simply out of a spirit of inquiry in order to have an accurate idea of the effects.”

Some authors and adaptations use that line as evidence that Holmes definitely would cold-bloodedly and without consent poison or injure someone for science. For myself, I have never been convinced by that reading, mostly because the convo is raw speculation by a man who admits to not knowing Holmes well. Also, it’s clear over the body of the canon that Watson isn’t above fibbing about Holmes’ character in the early pages of a story for the sake of heightening dramatic tension later.

“You already know Watson was an incorrigible liar. You’ve read the one with the snake, haven’t you?”

In “The Speckled Band” (SPEC), Watson claims that a snake did several things that snakes don’t actually do. (Drink milk, hear a whistle, climb a rope...) The usual theories explaining this is that Watson is a) stupid, b) sloppy, or c) a liar, but there are also a few authors who assert that Holmes messed the case up without realizing it. (I recommend “...Could Fill A Book” by @plaidadder, who sends Holmes back for a second go at SPEC.)

For myself, I generally prefer to presume that Watson was a liar rather than sloppy or stupid, mostly because the narrative possibilities are better in that direction. (Why did he choose to tell that particular lie, and in that particular way?) Whatever the reasons, the impossibilities like that milk-drinking, rope-climbing snake pop up all over canon. The snake is perhaps the most well-known of them, which is why I used it here. “The Creeping Man” is another excellent example of Watson making shit up and attempting to pass it off as truth (albeit a much less well-known example). But we’ll get to Creeping Man soon enough...

“His dates are a disgrace. Always have been.“

You know, I’m not even gonna try to give you a list of all the dates in canon that are out-of-whack. It’s legendary in the fandom, and even Doyle himself admitted that they were a disaster. The man couldn’t even get the internal dates within individual stories right (see the so-called eight weeks between April and October in The Red-Headed League), never mind his failing to cross-reference his dates from one story to the next.

If you spend much time messing around with canon, you either blow off the dating inconsistencies or you build stories around them. I have an unfortunate tendency to roll them into my stories, which is why you occasionally run into a passage like this coming one, sorry. I tried to keep it as brief as I could.

“You fell in 1893?” I asked, consulting my notes... “Dr Watson wrote it was 1891.”

For some unknown reason, Sherlock Holmes in the 23rd Century sets Reichenbach in 1893, whereas “The Final Problem” puts it on May 4, 1891. Yeah, I dunno. But like I said, I tend to roll these things into the story...

“In 1908 Dr Watson published a case of that description including the detail you just gave me, set in March of 1892, titled ‘Wisteria Lodge.’”

According to the two Reichenbach stories, “The Final Problem” and “The Empty House,” Holmes was fake-dead from May 1891 to sometime in 1894. And yet in “Wisteria Lodge,” Holmes and Watson randomly have lunch together in Baker Street in March of 1892. I’m admittedly kind of obsessed with that particular weirdness; more sensible fans shrug and move on.

“The Cox and Company despatch box,” I whispered, reverent.

In the opening lines of “The Problem of Thor Bridge,” Watson writes:

Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox and Co., at Charing Cross, there is a travel-worn and battered tin dispatch box with my name, John H. Watson, M. D., Late Indian Army, painted upon the lid. It is crammed with papers, nearly all of which are records of cases...

People who write case-fic, whether as professionals or amateurs, love to reference that dispatch box. “The box has been found! Here is a case from it!” Even the movies sometimes go there: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes begins with Watson’s heir being called to Cox and Company to witness the unsealing of the fabled dispatch box.

I personally am not a fan of the dispatch box as a narrative device: I know what my folder of unpublished stories looks like, and it’s much closer to the open-ended, low-context mess depicted in Circadienne’s Primary Sources than the complete, polished, and fully-contextualized stories that allegedly keep bursting forth from that legendary dispatch box.

“The Musgrave Ritual.”

“The Musgrave Ritual” (MUSG) is pretty much exactly as I describe it: it’s about a treasure map that most people inexplicably fail to recognize is a treasure map. Usually you just have to roll with things like that while reading the canon stories, but here I decided to add it to the list of lies Watson told.

“The abominable Mrs Ricoletti, for god’s sake!”

Watson loved to tease us with cases that he never mentions again; the abominable Mrs Ricoletti is one that he dangled in front of us in MUSG. Yes, I’m doing here pretty much what Watson did: suggesting there’s a good story behind that, and then refusing to tell you about it. :-P

“You are theorising ahead of the facts,” I said...

Wt’sn is paraphrasing Holmes back at himself:

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence.” (Study in Scarlet)

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.” (Scandal in Bohemia)

“I had,” said he, “come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.” (Speckled Band)

“The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.” (The Valley of Fear)

“Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data.” (Wisteria Lodge)

Wt’sn claims to not have read the stories, but given how often Holmes says this kind of thing in canon, I think we can presume that Holmes has kept right on saying it during his years in the 23rd century.

btw, I wrote this story in four days, start-to-finish, and I had no time to look up the actual canon quotes. I was surprised and a little embarrassed to discover while looking the quotes up just now that Holmes usually says “data” and never “facts.” OH WELL.

It was painful to watch Holmes read ‘The Final Problem,’ but ‘The Empty House’ was worse...

Respectively, the story where Holmes fakes his death, and the story where he reveals to Watson that he was alive all along.

...despite my fears that ‘The Dying Detective’ would reignite charges of Dr Watson’s mendacity, Holmes snickered from one end to the other like a schoolboy.

“The Dying Detective” is the one where Holmes fakes a mortal illness, sends for Watson, refuses to let Watson treat him, holds Watson hostage, makes Watson hide behind his bed and then forgets about him, and is generally a manipulative unfeeling asshole from one end of the story to the other. There are a number of stories in which Holmes lies to manipulate Watson (The Hound of the Baskervilles and “The Retired Colourman” both spring to mind), but Dying Detective is nothing but lies and manipulations, and a particularly cruel instance of it, to boot.

Whether Holmes is giggling because Holmes is just so much of a dick as to pull shit like that and laugh about it later (which is what Watson says he did in the similar part of Retired Colourman), or because Dying Detective references a private joke between him and Watson, is reader’s choice.

“He claimed that he was only— He likened himself to my cocaine!”

In “The Creeping Man” (CREE), Watson writes:

The relations between us in those latter days were peculiar. He [Holmes] was a man of habits, narrow and concentrated habits, and I had become one of them. As an institution I was like the violin, the shag tobacco, the old black pipe, the index books, and others perhaps less excusable. When it was a case of active work and a comrade was needed upon whose nerve he could place some reliance, my role was obvious. But apart from this I had uses. I was a whetstone for his mind. I stimulated him. He liked to think aloud in my presence. His remarks could hardly be said to be made to me -- many of them would have been as appropriately addressed to his bedstead -- but none the less, having formed the habit, it had become in some way helpful that I should register and interject. If I irritated him by a certain methodical slowness in my mentality, that irritation served only to make his own flame-like intuitions and impressions flash up the more vividly and swiftly. Such was my humble role in our alliance.

For many of us who love Watson, that’s a painful passage. I always read “others perhaps less excusable” as a veiled reference to Holmes’ cocaine addiction, and then when Watson goes on to refer to himself as a stimulant and a habit... Well.

“And the ape-man was frankly a disgrace, I might have been reading Shelley or Stoker.”

CREE again! Creeping Man is a blatant genre change from the rest of canon, in that it is Victorian science-fiction/horror. Creepy shit happens until it is eventually revealed that an elderly professor has been injecting himself with monkey-serum Viagra and turning himself into an ape-man every few days. (No joke. That is the actual "solution.” Monkey-serum Viagra. Shape-shifting into an ape-man and back.) CREE unashamedly borrows from Frankenstein, Dracula, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, hence the “Shelley or Stoker” reference.

(ETA: for another view of the monkey-serum thing, see @violsva’s comments here about hormones being a new and exciting thing in 1920s medicine.)

I had enjoyed the jellyfish story, albeit by proxy...

“The Lion’s Mane” (LION) is perhaps the most-reviled story of canon. It’s allegedly written by Holmes (Watson doesn’t appear at all), and Holmes spends the story running around trying to figure out who is murdering swimmers before he belatedly realizes that it’s only a poisonous jellyfish that got itself trapped in the swimming hole. “Behold, the Lion’s Mane!” Holmes shouts, and then crushes the poor thing with a rock.

Yeah, I dunno. The Case-Book is a fucking trip, man. In addition to the jellyfish story, it’s also got the vampire and ape-man stories, both hurt/comfort stories (Watson gets shot in one; Holmes gets the shit beaten out of him in the other), a story in which a lady gets her face eaten off by a circus lion, another with a guy who gets his face melted off with acid... Doyle was fucking tired of writing Sherlock Holmes stories by the time he got to Case-book, and he gave no shits. Also, as Wt’sn suggests in the story, these were all written after WWI, when Doyle was still mourning the horrors of the war, so they run dark.

...the surprisingly racy version of what had happened at ‘Shoscombe Old Place.’

“Shoscombe Old Place” is the second-to-last story in canon. It’s weirdly grotesque in its own right (as is most things in Case-Book), but it has cross-dressing and no murders, which makes it a much better candidate for shenanigans than the horrorshow that is Retired Colourman.

The illustration showed an elderly gentleman clinging by one arm to an ivy-covered wall, three stories above the ground...

From “The Creeping Man”:

The professor was clearly visible crouching at the foot of the ivy-covered wall. As we watched him he suddenly began with incredible agility to ascend it. From branch to branch he sprang, sure of foot and firm of grasp, climbing apparently in mere joy at his own powers, with no definite object in view. With his dressing-gown flapping on each side of him, he looked like some huge bat glued against the side of his own house, a great square dark patch upon the moonlit wall.

Frederic Dorr Steele’s illustration:

“Come, find a pencil, you must help me work out the dates...”

There are a fuckton of dates in CREE, to the point that Leslie Klinger’s Annotated Holmes has to organize them into two tables at the end of the story. As per usual with Doyle, the dates don’t quite make sense. More hilariously, Watson says this at one point during CREE:

“As to your dates, that is the biggest mystification of all."

Watson isn’t actually lampshading the nonsensical dates there; he’s only asking Holmes to explain his deductions. Nevertheless, the fandom loves to quote that line whenever the issue of Doyle’s self-contradictory dates comes up. BECAUSE APPROPRIATE QUOTE IS APPROPRIATE.

And with that, we settled in to making sense of Dr Watson’s dates.

Because it would take Sherlock Holmes to make sense of Watson’s dates. Certainly no one else has ever managed it. :-D

#'handsome and generous people'#acd canon #dvd commentary #things done by me

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yuniesan · 7 years ago

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Rucas Fanfic Week - Day 7 - New Year’s Revisited

Forget-Me-Not plants symbolize true love. The forget-me-not flowers are a medium, “true blue”. And as the name suggests, they are given or used to decorate gifts with the hope the recipient will not forget the giver. It also symbolizes faithful love and memories.

A/N: In my honest opinion... I have no idea what I was writing today.....

BTW this is what happens when you finish a paper in the middle of the night and try to find what you need for the next paper you have to write.

Day 7 - New Year’s Revisited

day 7 // family OR fix-it fic ; two options here for the last official day of the week. you could go for the family angle, whether that means the matthews or the kids of our kids is up to you!! on the other hand, if there was something mj and co. did that really pushed your buttons, this is your chance to fix it!!

(I decided to fix the triangle before it happens, warning angst and Riley standing up for herself coming up)

She had been hiding from her friends, from her family, but mostly from Lucas. When she told him that she saw him as a brother she felt a part of herself die, even though she was too young to have these feelings. She was only in middle school, she wasn’t supposed to feel that way, but she did. Of course the minute she went to her mother to cry about what was happening, her mother handed her off to Maya, which hurt a little and she had to put up the façade that she was alright with her best friend being with the boy she had feelings for. She did everything for Maya, she would give Maya the world, but in the end everything in her world was falling apart and the only person who saw it was Farkle, and she thought Zay saw it as well. But they weren’t really friends… not yet anyway, and his loyalty was towards Lucas, in the way Maya’s loyalty was supposed to be towards her.

Then Riley saw Maya’s face in Texas, and knew that her best friend was harboring feelings for the boy Riley had liked for so long now. It hurt, it hurt because in her mind she thought that friends don’t keep secrets, that friends tell each other everything… but it hurt the most because it was Lucas. So Riley stepped back, and gave them a chance. It shouldn’t have hurt when Maya told her that something happened between them. It shouldn’t have hurt to see them on a date, the same night she went out with Charlie. Nothing should hurt because she put herself in that position.

Everything hurt.

And Farkle noticed.

The secret would come out at midnight on New Year’s if Riley didn’t say anything to Lucas, Farkle swore he would say it. So when school let out for the holiday break, she hid herself away from everyone. She went to the Library, but it had too many memories, she went to the park, but it was too cold, she went to the museum but the paintings reminded her of Maya. She finally found herself inside of Grand Central Station, looking up at the constellations in the ceiling, and matching hers and Lucas’ because she still had hope that her heart would be saved, and that Lucas would notice.

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He stayed away.

It hurt him and he knew that his friends were keeping something from him, but he stayed away from everyone. He didn’t want to go on another so called date with Maya, it didn’t feel right to him to go out with her. He didn’t want another smoothie poured over his head because he can’t have a decent conversation with her without a single snarky comment. He was just tired.

He missed Riley.

Where could he go? He didn’t know, he was about ten seconds away from asking his parents about letting him spend the week in Texas with Pappy Joe, but then he’s reminded that everything happened in Texas… his heart breaks just thinking about it. He couldn’t understand how it happened it how quickly he was being pushed at Maya. Yeah he almost kissed her, and yeah he stopped, why he had done it was because she was pushing his buttons, she was pushing him and he could feel the frayed edges of who he used to be coming out.

When he was in Texas, his darker side would have done it, it would have completely broken everything that he had built with Riley for a moment to forget all of the problems of his life. But when he looked into Maya’s eyes, he realized that it wasn’t Riley. Her chocolate brown eyes, her soft smile, the way she would steal glances at him when she thought he wasn’t looking. Riley who showed him the sun, when all he saw was the dark grey clouds.

Riley.

“I miss you so much,” he said to no one in particular.

So he walked around the city, and he watched the people. He didn’t have a destination, he just kept going in hopes of finding a way out of the problem he now found himself in. All he saw was Riley, he thought he was imagining it but that’s all he saw, the train, the library, even as the snow began to fall he thought of her.

He stood inside Grand Central staring at the constellations wondering why everything was so hard. Even when she felt so close.

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Riley found herself at the bay window watching the snow fall. She had taken the train right as the snow began to fall and went home. She sat in the corner seat, and thought about Lucas. It was their spot, where they met, where they had their first kiss, where everything in her life had changed. It all started because she wanted to be like Maya, but now she just wanted to be that naïve little girl who had hope for everything, including the love of the boy who had burrowed his way into her heart.

So she watch the snow as it blanketed the city, and thought about Lucas.

“Riley,” her mother called out but she ignored it. She didn’t want to talk to anyone, especially when that person wasn’t going to really listen to her. She didn’t want to talk to her father either because he would just turn it into a lesson, and she wasn’t in the mood for everyone to know her life, or her feelings. Sometimes it was a burden to have her father as her teacher.

“Riley I was calling you,” her mother said walking into her room.

“Sorry I didn’t hear you,” she said lying to her mother. “What do you need?”

“Maya’s here,” her mother said.

Riley had pulled up the fire escape ladder, because she didn’t want anyone to come up, but she forgot to ask that she wanted to be alone.

“I’ll send her up,” her mother said without thinking to ask to see if Riley wanted to see anyone. So Riley pulled on her Ugg boots and climbed out her window without a word and climbed down the steps and down to the ground. Only to backtrack and walk in through the front door and climb back up to the roof. Her footsteps showed that she had left, but in reality she just went around so that they wouldn’t know.

She didn’t want to talk to her best friend.

So Riley hid on the roof, the snow settling around her as she watched the city. She didn’t care that it was cold, she didn’t care that everyone would be worried because of course it would cause a big mess since Maya was the one who showed up.

Her phone buzzed, but she turned off the GPS so no one could track her. She had made sure to disable the tracking feature on her phone after Texas, because the internet was an easy way to find information. Tutorials and all.

She wanted to be alone.

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The call came an hour after he had gotten home.

Riley’s missing.

He couldn’t figure out what had happened since the break had only started, but he was afraid that something had happened to her. But as soon as the call came, he received a message from Riley.

I’m sorry Lucas. I didn’t want to be your sister, but I would do anything for Maya, and give her everything. Even if it meant that I would be hurt the most.

He couldn’t understand but when he tried to call the phone went straight to voicemail. The messages never went through. So he cried, because he was hurting for Riley, and he was angry at Maya.

After a few minutes he sent the message along with a long explanation to the one person he thought would help them figure this all out. And then he left.

He needed to find Riley.

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In the end Riley went home, she was freezing but she didn’t care, the cold opened her eyes to the problem at hand. Maya didn’t like Lucas the way she did. For some reason she got this urge to fall for him after the yearbooks, it wasn’t the same. She wasn’t sure about any of it, but in the end Riley was sure of one thing and that was her Uncle Josh.

Josh who has always been the one person Maya was always after, even when he constantly pushed the age difference between them. Josh who was the reason she snuck out to go to a college party just to see him. If Riley held onto the insecurities about her relationship with Lucas than Maya had the same ones for Josh.

When she stepped into her apartment, her parents fawned over her, her brother hugged, her friends just stared as if she had done something that was out of character. The last few months for her was out of character. Then she saw Maya, tear stained and worried, but for some reason Riley knew that she needed to push Maya to admit her own fears, the ones that stemmed from Josh, and herself. Riley was done giving her best friend everything, because she needed her best friend to start fighting for herself.

Her parents lectured her as she stared at her best friend who clung to Lucas, even though he kept trying to pull away. The act alone was startling to Riley, because if he had actually liked Maya he wouldn’t pull away like that.

“Stop,” Riley said after a moment. “No more lectures, I just need a moment.”

Riley walked away, and went to her room, but no one followed her. She changed her clothes and wrapped herself in her comforter and waited. Then Maya walked into the room and sat at the window. Riley joined her and sat down.

“Why do you like Lucas?” Riley asked without waiting to hear Maya’s question. “Maya why Lucas of all people?”

“I just do, is that a problem?” Maya answered giving her a questioning look as if it were Riley’s fault they were in this problem. Of course it was Riley’s fault, but in the end she was going to fix it. No more dates with Charlie Gardner, no more lies between friends, no more hurt feelings.

“Yes,” she said staring at her best friend.

Maya’s eyes widened at the single answer, “Riley you and Lucas are brother and sister…”

“I’m going to stop you right there,” Riley interrupted. “That is a lie, I only said it because you did, I have never indicated that I liked Lucas as a brother and you know it. This is some fantasy you put together to make yourself feel better over ‘falling’ for the boy your best friend has had feelings for.”

“No Riley,” Maya said looking at her as if it would magically put them on equal footing. “When I pretended to be you…”

“You’re not me,” Riley said. “You’re my best friend Maya, almost like a sister, but for some reason you have put this image in your head that you deserve Lucas because Josh won’t return your feelings.”

“You’re insane,” Maya said standing up and walking towards the door. “When you want to go back to normal call me.”

Maya walked out of her room, but Riley already knew that everyone else had heard. This house has no secrets.

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Lucas couldn’t believe what he was hearing, Riley was telling Maya that this was all about Josh, that everything that was happening was because Maya feared rejection from the one guy she truly liked. He didn’t feel guilty now about sending Josh that message, because in the end he knew that there would never be something between him and Maya. Even if Riley didn’t live in New York, and the only people he knew were Maya, Farkle, and Zay.

Josh sent him a message to meet him at Topanga’s but Lucas told him that he needed to be at the Matthews apartment. He told Josh that they needed to fix this because even though Riley was trying to fix everything, Maya needed to face the problem herself. Riley shouldn’t have done so much for her best friend.

“Hey Huckleberry,” Maya said as she sat down next to him. “Wanna go out on another date?”

“No,” he said. He didn’t want another ‘date’ he just wanted them to be friends and that it. “Maya I’m sorry, but I don’t like you like that. I think you know that, but for some reason you keep pushing the issue.”

“Not you too, Lucas, for crying out loud I like you, and I want to get to know you better.”

“Then why did you pour a smoothie over my head when I told you about my biggest dream Maya?”

��Because I get this urge to mess you up, like how little kids usually push each other around because they like one another.”

“That’s not a healthy reason for a relationship Maya.”

He stood up and walked to Riley’s room, he wanted to confront all of this and finally fix the problems they were all having because he knew that if it didn’t change now their friendships wouldn’t survive, and if they somehow did it wouldn’t be the same as it was before.

Riley was sitting on the corner of her bed wrapped in her overly large comforter, he could tell that she couldn’t shake off the cold. Her lips were slightly blue around the edges but her cheeks were pink. When she looked up and met his eyes he knew that she had lied for the last few months, and it had hurt her more than she had let show.

“Why?” was all he asked her.

“Because for some reason I’m the kind of person who gives away everything without the chance of ever getting it back. Because I prioritize my friends over myself, because I’m insecure about everything, but usually only fight the social public battles while I hide away my own pain.”

He sat down next to her and pulled her close, he knew her father would run him out of the room, out of the house just for being so close but he didn’t care. He always liked how well she fit in the crook of his arm, how she smelled like sunshine and flowers even on a gloomy day.

“No more of that,” he said as he kissed the top of her head. “Riley I’ve only ever liked you, I’m sorry that this all happened but it’s always been you since the moment we met.”

“I know, and I also know that I have to fight my best friend for this, because she’s fighting herself right now because she’s scared.”

“So does that mean you’re willing to try with me?”

“Maybe,” she said looking down at the ground. “I wanted to for a while, then the mess with the yearbooks, and the semi-formal happened Texas happened. Everything happened.”

“We need to be more honest about our feelings,” he said. “I don’t care what anyone else thinks, Riley you know me better than anyone else, even Zay who has been my friend since childhood. You’ve given me hope for something more than anger and darkness.”

“You give me hope too,” she said finally looking at him. “Now I have to go fight this out with Maya, so drag her back here will you.”

She kissed him on his cheek and smiled at him. “Okay but we’re not done with this conversation,” he said as he walked out of the room.”

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Uncle Josh climbed into her room through the bay window, but Riley just pushed him into the closet and told him to be quiet. Lucas pushed Maya inside and closed the door.

“What the hell?” Maya said as she stumbled inside.

“Maya it’s time to deal with your insecurities,” Riley said looking her friend in the eye. “No more hiding behind me, or what I like, no more hiding behind my family, or our friends.”

“I’m not insecure about anything Riley, that’s all on you.”

“Josh,” was all Riley said looking at her best friend.

“What about him?”

“He’s the one you like,” Riley said.

“Yeah so what, is it bad to like Lucas too, a girl can have options you know.”

“Yes they can, but not the guy that your best friend has been trying to sort her feelings for, and no don’t bring up that stupid brother argument because you know that it’s a lie, you’re just trying to justify yourself to your own hurt feelings. Even though Josh never said anything about not liking you.”

“Oh please Riley, you don’t know anything.”

“I do know that you’re willing to hurt me, to hurt our friendship because you’re as insecure as the rest of us, because you’re afraid of getting hurt because one person did you wrong, while everyone else is trying to make it better. I get it your dad left, but not every guy out there is like your father so get over yourself.”

“Like you would know you have everything in the world, the perfect family who’s always there for you the perfect room, the perfect life.”

“Yeah except its not perfect, my parents fight like every other couple in the world, I get bullied at school, and my room has been like this since I was a kid, I babysit my brother in order to afford the things I want. I work for what I want. You have a mother who loves you, a place to live, and your grandmother who’s there for you. The only thing you don’t have is your father and honestly he doesn’t deserve you so stop acting like a martyr and figure yourself out.”

Riley did the one thing she could think of and shoved Maya into the closet with Josh before shoving her desk chair under the door knob.

“While you’re at it figure out how you both feel because I’m tired, and I have no strength to continue this.”

Riley walked out of the room and took Lucas’ hand. “I just locked her in the closet with Josh, those two or either coming out of there with the feelings sorted or I’m going to die once they come out. So I might as well live for the moment,” she said and pulled down the green eyed boy before she threw her arms around his shoulders and hugged him close. “I’m sorry for pushing you away.”

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Maya and Josh had gotten out of the closet after two hours, Riley noticed that they were both blushing. Maya would late tell her a quick thank you, and apologize to both her and Lucas for what happened. Josh stayed in the city with them, but the two had decided to play the long game and wait out their relationship, instead they opted for talking and getting to know one another better over forcing the boyfriend/girlfriend issue.

When New Year’s Eve came Riley was standing next to Lucas when midnight came, holding his hand and smiling like the sun had finally come out of the clouds. She was happy Riley once again, and she realized that love, like life was worth fighting for.

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todokori-kun · 7 years ago

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‘I’d even ship him with Shuu’ what have you done now I’m actually shipping that (Shuu trying to be his usual romantic, flirtatious self and then realising Urie either doesn’t get it or doesn’t want to get it)

I KNOW IT’S SO SAD

TG’s quality does seem to be going down a bit these last few chapters (I think the real problem started with the Touken romance. I swear I’m not being salty about a ship I don’t particularly like being canon, I just feel like the pacing was a bit bad…Touka’s ‘are you a virgin’ came completely out of the blue, plus Touken has hardly interacted in Re before the recent chapters. It’s been YEARS since they’ve seen each other, wouldn’t things have changed? Neither of them are teenagers anymore. Both of them have grown and changed, but Touka chose not to stay near Kaneki and watch his growth, while Kaneki had no way to see how Touka’s experiences gradually changed her. But Ishida decided to suddenly make it canon and then start focusing on the Touka-Kaneki-Mutsuki triangle to the point where it feels like he’s abandoning his other plot threads… kind of like what Isayama’s been doing lately.).

However, I believe that Ishida is completely capable of making things better if he wants to (remember, he still has the Hide trump card- bring Hide back in a believable way that nobody has predicted and also adds to the story, and I imagine most of the fandom will forgive everything that’s gone wrong in Re so far) so I’ll stick around. Plus, I’ve just gotten too attached to all the characters ;-;

Ugh, y'know, even if it wouldn’t fit very well with all the implied Mutsurie, I wish Ishida would just pull a plot twist and make Ken/Urie or Urie/Saiko canon.

I think I kinda hate centipedes now.

1: Yeah, I don’t think that’s Mutsuki’s hand either (like you said, it looked pretty 'fresh’. Plus, I have no idea how Mutsuki would have gotten one of the limbs Torso cut off). The only reason I mentioned it was because of the parallel with Torso showing Mutsuki their own hand with a wedding ring on it…Ishida loves his symbolism so I thought this might actually matter to the plot.

2: I think it was probably either a stranger or an acquaintance, since she seems slightly surprised and not exactly 'happy’ to see this person, but not afraid or displeased either. I’m scared…why would Ishida not show us who it was if it wasn’t something important? If things went well Yoriko’s probaby just gained some knowledge about what’s going on (perhaps she’s been told where Touka is and why she can’t come to the wedding?), but if not…perhaps a villain’s blackmailing her…idk :(

3: I want to believe that too, but I’m not sure yet. If there’s a reason for Yoriko looking so serious then that might be connected with the mystery character who greeted her when she was out shopping.

Thank you, that really means a lot to me <3 What I’m really worried about right now is that I go to a piano 'hagwon’ (a cram school of sorts, I guess?) and this year they’re going to do a small concert. Everyone who goes to the hagwon has to play a song and I have no idea how I’m going to do this ;-; just trying to look a person in the eyes when I’m talking to them scares me, how am I supposed to get on the stage in front of a crowd (a small crowd, since everyone there to see the concert will be the parents/family of the kids participating, but seriously). Things are just a bit complicated XD

Adorable Shuu. I guess that would just make me tease him even more LOL I’d probably ruin all his dramatic moments.

(Now that I think about it, though, Shuu and I have similar interests: music, fashion, art, literature…though I guess he’s a lot more interested in food than I am haha)

Oh, I’m so glad you liked them! I tried my best ;)

I actually like doing matchup things so that may be why they’re acceptable…if I ever get a tumblr account I think I’d like to make a scenario/hc/matchup blog.

As for Storm in Lover, yep, that was from your 'the names are weird’ message XD after I decided to add Love Live into the headcanons I ended up going on YT to listen to a few of the songs. They were all really cool, but it just felt like Storm in Lover would be Urie’s guilty pleasure song (or maybe that’s just because I ended up likng SiL way more than I was prepared for?)

BLOW US ALL AWAY QUEEN LUNA

I’M GLAD MY HUMBLE HEADCANONS COULD HELP

I WILL WRITE MORE

AS MANY AS YOU NEED TO GET THROUGH NEXT WEEK

(Seriously tho

-since your hair is either 'too long and in a ponytail’ or 'really short and in a ponytail’, Urie is secretly very, very disappointed when you’re wearing it short. He likes playing with your hair when you’re too busy watching TV or reading to notice he’s being cute ok

-short or long, whenever Urie gets a hold of your hair, he WILL style it. Don’t you dare say no to the Captain of the Q squad. A simple ponytail? Unacceptable.

-Saiko approves of this relationship

-So would Sasaki, if Sasaki still existed

-Shirazu approves from beyond the grave

-Mutsuki doesn’t care)

Thanks! <33 And yeah, I think I’m slowly starting to get the hang of it ^^

I find all of those moments very relatable. Golfishes unite! :D

Burr is one of those weirdly shippable characters that almost every fandom seems to have…

And oh, I see! Honestly Tony is still one of my favorite avengers…RDJ really brings him to life. And if you’ve seen Captain America I definitely recommend The Winter Soldier and Civil War (next movies in the series)! So much Bucky angst ;-; Also the Thor movies, because I have a feeling you might like Loki.

Some of the best Loki quotes:

“Well done, you’ve just decaptitated your grandfather!”

“An ant has no quarrel with a boot.”

“Freedom is life’s great lie.”

“Oh dear, is she dead?”

Btw, do you remember the time I said I’d write a Heathers one-shot on the Yoi blog and never did? I think I’m getting over my writer’s block so maybe I can write that one-shot and submit it here?(And if that’s ok, do you maybe have any suggestions for which character I could use? I was going to write it as a Yuuri/reader but that doesn’t seem to fit so well anymore, so I might go with a TG character…I’d also like to use a character you like, since you’ll probably be the only person reading it ^^;;)

Speaking of Heathers though, when you have the time, is it ok if I try to drag you into that fandom again? Along with Dear Evan(s) Hansen. It’ll hurt you very, very badly but it’ll probably be worth it.

Oh dear, even more rarepairs. And I’m the one who ‘invented’ this one. Well, like I’ve said, as long as Urie is happy, I don’t care about whom he’s with.

ISHIDA IS A GHOUL, ONLY HE DOESN’T LIVE OFF OF DEAD HUMANS, HE LIVES OFF OF PEOPLE’S SUFFERING!!!

Honestly, you’ve voiced my thoughts perfectly. I can’t help but get irritated at all the changes that have been happening. For me, it started around the time we found out about Mutsuki’s past. I mean, can’t we have one character who had a nice childhood and isn’t insane deep inside? At this point, basically everything is overdoing it for me. Let them have a break. A nice moment. A single day without a centipede or someone dying. TG is slowly turning into shoujo manga. A sick, twisted shoujo manga, but a romantic one. That is the one thing I didn’t want from it. It was actually nice to have a manga without pointless crushes which play an important role in the plot, for a change. Guess I was wrong.

Dude, I don’t care who he kills, if Ishida brings Hide back, he is automatically forgiven for everything and anything. Well, I would care if he killed characters like, but other than that, he’s free to kill anyone he wants (like Furuta (or maaaaybe Mutsuki, but I’d like it better if they redeemed themselves (though that might be difficult))).

I just… I want the cookie to be happy. And Mutsuki is definitely not making him happy.

Gaaah, so many questions and symbolisms, it’s making my head hurt. Here’s my theory: This is a huge setup for everyone to be happy. Mutsuki will run away to New Zealand or something and restart their life, Kaneki and Touka will get married (tho I don’t quite ship it, whatever, as long as they’re happy), Urie will realise he’s loved Saiko all along and she’ll be there waiting for him. Kanae is actually alive and so is Hide. Kanae and Shuu get married. Hide finds himself a nice girlfriend (or boyfriend, not gonna discriminate), opens a pet shop and is happy.

Everyone is happy.

Okay, but imagine this au: ghouls don't exist and there's no reason for so much suffering. Kaneki and Touka are two kids who knew each other from school and now run a coffee shop together. The Q squad went ri the same class and Saiko alway loved Urie. He recently realised it. And so on.

Ah, I definitely know how you feel. I went to music school as well, and we had yearly (or half-yearly, depending on how long you’ve played the piano) recitals. My method of calming down was to imagine I was at home, alone and just practicing. There was no one around me, and it didn’t matter if I messed up. I could always start again. Also, the audience was vegetables, as far as my imagination was concerned. It did help.

I know you can do it (๑و•̀ω•́)و You’re a fighter! The great Evans who can always cheer me up when I’m down. If I’m the queen, then you’re the king! All hail king Evans who’ll kick the recital’s butt!

Oh you would ruin all his moments, and it would be the most amazing thing ever. I’d always laugh at it, cause he’d be denied of all his theatrics.

They’re not ‘acceptable’, they’re absolutely perfect. I seriously can’t thank you enough, because they were very nice cheer-up material after a whole morning of cramming my two least favourite subjects. I’m pretty sure you’d do amazing if you got a blog. You do have amazing talent for writing.

Oh my~ Would you mind then if I listed a few more songs, my favourites?

Yozora wa nandemo shitteru no?

Bokutachi wa Hitotsu no Hikari (there’s a bit of talking in this one, it’s hard to find a version that’s not sped up)

Omoi yo hitotsu ni nare

Mijuku dreamer

Guilty Eyes Fever

soldier game

Thrilling・One Way

Ookay, I’m done ^^ I’m telling you, Idol Hell is very subtle. You won’t even realise you’ve been dragged into it huehuehuehuehuehuehue

Aaand there goes my heart, again. I have no words to thank you enough for writing those, since they help me keep my sanity.

however, we know whom we’d like from TG, but what about other fandoms we share? AoT? YoI? Kuroshitsuji?

Yeah, I’ve been told many times that I’d like Loki, but strictly looks-wise, I must admit I prefer his brother, and I prefer him very much. Idk, I just have a thing for guys with slightly longer hair.

All of that sounds suspiciously like something I’d say…

Of course, feel free to submit anything here! As for the musicals, I’d be happy to listen to them, but after this week is over, because exams. Then, I’ll listen to both Heathers and Dear Evan(s) Hansen, despite the feels ^^

#evans #submission

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EPISODE ELEVEN - “ONLY SO LONG BEFORE THE PET SNAKE TAKES A BITE “ - ANDREW

hieeeee. omg okay.. i feel like it's been a hot minute since i made an actual confessional and not just me vs kait and jenn in my host chat. ANYWAY. i won my second immunity basically just my luck sdhg. i just had one person in mind and went down the list each and every time and put there name with who i thought fit best and that really played out for me? NOW. i just won my third immunity and jake literally... went off one. saying fuck me and shit. like bro skldhg. im gonna be at work till 10pm tomorrow and im gonna miss tribal and the whole day. i couldn't risk anything because anything could happen so i had to ensure MY safety. like i love jake but i swear he has one more nasty mesage to send me before i ask him "who do you think ur talking to btw?" can i just say this real quick... allison- started the rally to try to get me out me- lets get allison out. allison- goes home. ryan- was partners with jordan pming everyone trying to get me out. me- lets get ryan out. ryan- goes home. jordan- same as above. was partners with ryan pming everyone trying to rally votes against me the allison week. me- lets get jordan out. jordan- goes home. everyone- lets get andrew out its time! me- lets get jaiden out. jaiden- goes home. https://68.media.tumblr.com/02aa5ec34518a894eef3408820de7bbd/tumblr_ohuo4d0OUh1uxnkpto1_1280.jpg NOW. im not getting jake out. he can have his hissy fit all he wants but i know theres loyalty still down there. but do i want isaac or andrew out now? hmm..

ME: TRIES TO SAVE ANDREW IS SUPER EXCITED WHEN JAIDEN FUCKS HIMSELF OVER SO ANDREW CAN SURVIVE THINKS WE'RE GOING TO WORK TOGETHER ANDREW: I'M GUNNA ELIMINATE SAM FROM THIS CHALLENGE ME: BOY WHAT ARE YOU DOING??? I'M OVER IT!! I'M READY TO KILL ANDREW I've decided I want me, Zack, JC, and Sam B to final 4 because fuck Jake and Andrew for killing me and fuck Isaac because he's guilty by association. Also in all of these receipts of Jaiden trying to try up the votes, ANDREW is the one who suggested me! Jaiden said me or JC and Andrew COULD HAVE SAID JC BUT HE DIDN'T SO BYE ANDREW. AND HE THREW HIS VOTE TO ME WHEN IT COULD HAVE GONE TO SOMEONE ELSE HONESTLY BYE

I'm honestly v upset to see Jaiden go :( I was definitely stressed in those last few confessionals but I really do luv Jaiden so much and actually did see us getting so much further in the game together :/ I don't know why he had to flip and not even tell me about it but idk hopefully I can make the best of this. Like I'm not the reason he got out necessarily and I feel like our relationship was good enough to have an ok chance of getting his vote if I ever make it to FTC, which is highly unlikely idek why I'm thinking about that when it's still like 5 votes away if it is going to be a f2 like I think it is. Then the immunity challenge seemed to go well even though I didn't win. It appears to have raised distrust towards Andrew from Sam which is veryyyy good because I'd love to get Andrew out! I'm not a fan of the comp slayers in the game, even miss Zack and Jakey who are my allies are worrisome because of their challenge abilities. Sky Ferreira is sex btw. Speaking of jakey too I'm not sure where his head is at? Idk I got weird vibes in the challenge, especially since he took me out before comp queen Zack which is...interesting, so it's caused a bit of untrust with jakey and I too. I'm just worried that he's actually going to start picking his game up and start slayin and when he does I wonder if he's going to stick with me or flip and go with other people. So I need to keep an eye out for his ass, and another on the finish line. I'm also going to try for the time being to just continue playing as if I don't have an idol. I feel like idols can impair your judgement abilities and actually be a kind of crux to your gameplay because you can get a bit too assured of yourself, and you can never feel safe in these games. It's worrying now too because I see like one of the main benefits that was around keeping Jaiden was that he was such a big threat, it was just like you could just be like oh yeah let's do Jaiden, and people would be like yeah tru and then of course you could flip it to who you really want later. Now jaidens gone and Isaac asked me who I wanted to vote and it's not like I could be like oh yea we should vote Jaiden hurr hurr. So idk I was just like what about jakey idk and he was like yeah I think jaidens high key annoying and I was just like ok 👀 mama calm down as he continued talking about how jakey a lil trifling hoe, but I mean jakey likes Make Me (Cry) by Noah Cyrus so could he really be that bad? Idk. I should ask what his zodiac sign is before I make any decisions for the vote or ideas of his character.

flkjfdsal I don't remember if I did a confessional but this could be my last one since it's 20 minutes before the vote and I've heard NOTHING from anyone except for JC! so like fuck Andrew and Isaac honestly I REALLY hope me Sam Zack and JC stick together but I don't see it happening. I'm pretty sure I'm getting voted out so like it's been real.

I'm so happy I've made Final 7 but more importantly, I made it passed Jaiden! This vote is messy btw I just woke up from a nap and I have no idea what I'm doing.

So I'm being voted by Sam G, JC, and Zack. I know that for sure. I'm hoping Myself, Isaac, and Sam B all vote together. And just get out JC. I guess Zack is playing a map on me. So he'll see I voted for JC. And they might play an idol on JC and I'll be fucked. I dunno if an idol is being played tonight but hopefully if it is then it's played on Sam G? I really don't wanna die. But id I am then Zack is a snake. Like I knew that asdfghj but. I was hoping maybe he would actually take the secret pair beware thing farther. I guess it was fun while it lasted. Only so long before the pet snake takes a bite. Anyway, I'm probs not surviving tonight. So I hope Isaac or Sam B or Jake wins. But like 98% hope Isaac wins because he fucking deserves it. This will likely be my last confessional so. It's been fun and I'm glad I was able to play a pretty awesome all-star season. Anyway DAN GHEESLING IS MY BROTHER BYE.

I HATE MAKING DECISIONS! I have 5 minutes to decide whether I want to work with Isaac and Andrew or Jc and zack. I'm super nervous because there will be drawbacks for each option I choose. Zack will probably yell at me a LOT if I flip and Isaac will probably be so hurt by me and not want to be friendship anymore. And I want to work with Andrew in PI Allstars so I don't want to betray him here. Ugh this is messy fuck

welp i have 5 minutes so zack fucked me over hard core in immunity this round and all trust i did have in him is lost. this round it would be ideal for JC to leave but idk if sam b. is smart enough to make that move... um!!! yeah im just trying to convince her but i dont rly see it happening. andrew will prob leave or me tbh. i honestly think its me lmao. oh well. fuck zack

WELL, It appears Andrew is voting me again! Vote me once, shame on you; vote me twice, bitch you gotta go! Ugh idk I'm heeeeella nervous that I might be going tonight so I'm definitely keeping my idol close, we might be seeing a play tonight. Maybe even two if Andrew has one. Hm. So, I approached Isaac, told him I wanted to vote Andrew. He claimed he was down to vote Andrew too, but told Sam that he wasn't going to vote me but would vote someone else. Sounds like an idol might be getting played on andrewwww so they're splitting the votes, huh?! How. Fucking. Cute!!! This is disgusting I'll probably have to play my vote negator on whoever Isaac votes and use my idol for everything to work out tonight. UGH! This is so worrisome, idk why Andrew had to vote me tho! Like girl couldn't you vote either Sam instead since everyone else is on your side and Zack is immune. Whyyyyy meeeeeee 😢😢 it's not like I was pushing to vote for Andrew this week and last week also! *sarcasm* but I mean still, come on! It's not like Sam G wasn't pushing for you too, ugh. I don't know this is tough, if anything I'm probably gonna at least reveal to someone that I have an idol tonight or something. I need to find out how this vote is gonna go down...this is gonna be a long bumpy rife

Later...

Oh my fucking God Samantha BUSSY voted me out I can't fucking believe this. I'm honestly shook like I messaged Sam G first asking if she flipped then when she said no I went to Zack when he said no I was like what the fuck, how could it be pure angel Sam Bussy??? I pressed her and eventually she admitted to it. So I went to her and she denied it at first but finally admitted to it later. Then I called her and I think I flipped her. Hopefulfuckingly! I'm trying to flip Isaac as well just in case anything goes wrong and hopefully I can. I really hope I stay my dumbass should've played my idol when my gut told me to, but I simply didn't listen, I'm so stupid! But if I /do/ survive, then this would really be a wild move and I'll definitely be playing shit next week, if not everything smh. I'm puhRAYING that my mist works, because if not I'm going down as a big idiot who went home with their idol, probably the first big idiot who went home with their idol in storybook history! THE BIGGEST IDIOT IN STORYBOOK HISTORY!!! Kms if I go out this game I'm screaming.

#touchofrebellion

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