#yeah i've decided they need a ship name and that's the best i could come up with so sue me

[tathrin]

What's that, somebody sliding in at the very last minute to post one more entry for whumptober before November begins? Who could that be, not me? Oh surely not! Shhhh.

Anyway: The Last Temptation of Narvi of Khazad-dûm

a.k.a. that "little snippet" I've been working on, wherein Narvi discovers that Annatar is up to something terrible and goes to confront him and maybe just maybe save all of Eregion in the process...provided that Narvi can resist Sauron's honeyed words and stand stalwart in the face of terrible doubts.

So that should be fine I'm sure.

Anyway I figure it's about time for me to finally post something for my favorite-underated-(nonexistant?)-ship that desperately needs more (any) people writing for it, right? So here we go!

(Also I'm really not sure it merits the M rating but that one paragraph felt a little too overtly descriptive to be T? idk, let me know your thoughts, I feel like I'm always bad at judging that stuff.)

[leavingsunsets]

I heard you wanted a request?

So i will request!

Could you write some fluff for ryusui from dr stone please?

Could you please write about ryusui trying to catch an oblivious crush attention?

Thank you!

Yes! Omg I got a request 🥺🥺🥺. I should re edit my acc to be open kehehe. Anyways, since there's no specified gender, it's an automatic gender neutral, okay?

"ᴅᴇꜱɪʀᴇᴅ, ꜱᴘᴇᴄɪᴀʟʟʏ."

(GN! reader x Ryusui Nanami)

Extravagant, bold. Two definitive terms that quite describe the heir of the Nanami conglomerate. He wasn't Ryusui without that, was he?

He does not shy away from stating what he wants, nor does he wither from encouraging anyone from doing the same. A person who knows himself. Direct, precise.

Yet, he somehow starts to doubt those very same facts the moment when it comes to you.

With how much Ryusui talked about desire more than the average person, it was easy to get used to how he worded his wants and his passionate pursuit of it. In fact, you nearly choked when he yelled out what you thought was a confession.

"I desire you!" was what he said, leaving you to awkwardly stand with your hand out to shake his. Luckily, this misunderstanding was quickly cleared, and your hesitance faded out the more time you've grown used to his presence.

And so, it seemed that same desensitization was like a curse for him.

As you were part of the power team, he always made sure to meet with you at the end of the day. Walking with you from the field back to where the others were.

"[name]! Great work today! Any plans for tonight?"

"Mhm! I have to go help out Kaseki. He asked me and Kohaku to help him out in carrying some woodworks after dinner."

Then, the time where you were both on the ship. As you both stood out on the deck, overlooking the sea.

"You know, [name], this view is even more beautiful, now that the person I desire most, is right here with me."

"Haha! I just saw a turtle!"

It was frustrating, but also gave a thrill, to which he didn't mind playing along with. The pursuit of passion, how far would he go, for this? Finally, one a little bolder, when the perfect opportunity comes as you're both one of the last ones by the dining.

Here, you both sit across from each other. The sound of the sea outside are faint, and gives the perfect ambience to the silence.

Swirling the wine in his glass, he takes a small sip. "When it comes to desire, I believe that there is nothing that should be worth stopping you from obtaining it."

You nod along, just as tipsy. The wine in your glass sways along. "So true, king."

He rests his elbow on the table, leaning on his fist. His other hand holding the wine glass, points at you. "Your ignorance may know no bounds, but so does my desire. And I'll let you know, that I've never denied myself of anything I've truly longed for."

Groggily, you nod. "You said a lot of fancy words, but whatever you say, king."

Ryusui watches you blink in a daze. Yeah. He's no quitter. Downing the rest of his glass, he decides to just go for it.

"[name], I desire your heart. I desire you." he goes quiet after this, staring intently. His expression is unreadable, and you would tell if you weren't still a little tipsy.

"I'm afraid I still need it, sorry." Your eyes get droopy, and you put your glass on the table. "Not... not a registered donor." you mumble.

Ryusui sighs, putting down his own glass. Nevermind. "I think it's best you go to bed now." Grabbing your arm, he throws it over your shoulder, hauling you up. Drowsily, you only nod. "Yessir.."

Luckily, you weren't that far gone, and could walk properly. So, it was no problem getting you to your room. But before he could leave you by the doorway, you suddenly reach out, surprising him.

"Hey, Ryu." you mutter, leaning on the door. He looks at you curiously, listening. "Yes?"

"I like you." you sway your head, a little sleepy. "It's fun every time I'm with you."

Ryusui stills for a moment. You yawn, letting go of him. "Well, g'night, Ryu." is the last thing you say before entering, closing the door behind you.

A beat, and one more, before, a tint of pink dusts his cheeks.

It wasn't much, but it was progress. He went straight to bed after that, eyes curving with a little more mirth that night.

[livewireprojects]

Nikki & Reala(Bootleg Sonadow)

I admit my addiction is bad but this isn't the first time I've made shit based on other interests/characters I like. So I decided to make some characters inspired by a ship I like along with AU ideas I saw in the past that I tried messing with before scrapping at one point or another.

This is Reala & Nikki who like the title jokes are inspired by Shadow & Sonic, it might not look like it(not helped by lack of color) especially if you have seen how I draw Shadow & Sonic but when I eventually work on showing their backstories it'll make more sense. Also yeah I named Reala after a certain nightmare clown, I'm not original. These two are also meant to be connected to my OCs Terry & Arthur(Nikki makes that kinda clear) which I'll talk about at another time.

Also these two aren't meant to be in the Sonic universe, they're in their own thing but you can joke that they're alternate Shadow & Sonic if you want cause I find that funny

Reala:

Reala is a bit of a distant person, he seems a lot like a loner with only some people managing to be around him but in reality he's just an introvert that isn't good with people especially given he's lost people he's cared about in the past. Reala was born in a lab on a space station, there were a few people he cared about & was sadly in two incidents that led to the lose of people important to him with one person's existence being erased from records & their partner's info being corrupted so no one could find anything on them. Though grieving the lose of his family/those close to him along with dealing with changes/the new world he now lives in Reala has slowly accepted he's in a better time & takes comfort in Nikki's help/companionship. He's slowly learning to live for himself & get into hobbies he hadn't gotten the chance to try in the past, he's also gotten help from Nikki to learn about the world they live on as Nikki knows more about it than he does.

Nikki:

Nikki is a friendly person that likes to run around & explore, he can often be seen sky gazing at night before bed staring out a the stars. He does his best to keep up with/understand his friends as he doesn't always understand what they're talking about, despite this he does his best to listen cause he knows it's important to have a shoulder to lean on or someone to talk to. Nikki in the past has struggled especially due to being alone for a long time but is slowly coming to terms with having people that care surround him, it also helps that Reala has been growing closer to him as Nikki use to feel like something was missing but now feels like that feeling is gone as if Reala was what was missing. Nikki can often be seen wearing star themed stuff along with his hat & hoodie poncho, he doesn't always but he's usually seen in them. Nikki isn't affected by temperature, he can feel it & can get hurt depending on what's going(like touching a heated stove or something) but it doesn't effect him much all of this is just to say he doesn't really need to wear these warm clothes. Nikki sometimes says that the poncho feels like someone is hugging him which might be due to being alone in the past. His hat & poncho often make it hard to tell what species of animal he is, not helped by Nikki kind of being unsure himself.

Drew this a little after drawing Reala & Nikki, here's Nikki with out his hat/poncho that usually cover him. I think I made a mistake drawing the hat in his hand cause I don't exactly like how it looks like that.

Like I mentioned in the first pic Nikki is often seen wandering around in a hat & poncho that make it hard to tell what species he is & makes it seem like he's not to sure either.(He's mostly hedgehog) Nikki has a few outfits he can put on but he usually is in tanks & sports shorts, he also has sports shoes on & some socks/stockings that are rolled at the ankles, I drew one of them slightly unrolled to show they're longer.(Was tempted to have the unrolled one be above the knee but I dunno what to put so it's just partly unrolled) Nikki has one large glove on & one normal sized glove, for some reason I got inspired by this one red ridding hood design I found once & can't find anymore.(Google Image Search failed) Probably doesn't help that I use to have an obsession with red riding hood themed stuff.

I was almost tempted to draw him without his shoes but meh. He also has a few markings on him like his ears, under his eyes, neck & legs.

[cartoon-buffoon]

Hay I don't share fics from my AO3 here and in fact I actually occasionally post stuff here BEFORE AO3 on several occasions. But because I kinda stopped caring awhile back I advertised some flufftober challenge (which I'm failing horribly at, forgive me) that I'm posting on my AO3. But out of the stories I have written my favorite so far is one with my dumb crackship: SkitWald aka Skitzo the 1920s killer bear X Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Now I could go in depth into the details and headcanons I have on WHY this ship is so good to me but instead I'm gonna post day 5's fic for my flufftober toon collection here, at the very bottom after the story is finished there will be some additional author notes copy and pasted from my AO3 author notes on why this story is kinda my favorite and in general WHY I love SkitWald but the story speaks for itself. (I do not claim this to be a good fic, I claim this to be one of my favorite things I've written, make note of that) Anyways if you wish to waste some time and read, story down below 👇

"This is a load of bull and you know it!" Mickey shouted much to the surprise of all other toons around him "how could you just kick out Ozzie huh!? Not only that yet you take forever to finally get my request in for this town meeting, and once you do you're just gonna end it as quick as it started! Pardon my language but I think you're full of it!"

"Yeah!" Fanny joined in next to the mouse "After all Ozzie has done for us and toon town in general what gives you the right to decide he should be kicked out!? Think about it everyone, when you all needed something done it was always Oswald who advocated for it to get done or heck, he sometimes did it himself!"

Hushed murmurs sprouted up around as the courthouse shook with the talking between various toons as they bore witness to the two pleading for the returnal of one of the eldest residents. The only one who kept his composure was the one the two were arguing with, Wile E. Coyote and the leader of the head council responsible for decision making as well as toon town's judge. The coyote was unamused by the pleas and slammed his gavel down.

"Alright, alright please settle down all" he shushed "We do not need the record keeper to struggle just because you all cannot wait to conversate"

All of the toons glanced over to Pooh Bear who sat behind a typewriter, hastily clacking away at keys.

"Please don't be held up by me, it's such a bother to type with these big mitts for hands yet I'll manage" he remarked.

"Mmm, yes" turning his attention back to the two at the stand, the coyote kept his neutral face as he spoke in his cold and calculated voice "now I will say Oswald is a model citizen and one of the founding fathers of this wonderful city we all call home, I can assure most if not all of us in here would agree he was a delightful friend and family member-"

Fanny slammed her fist down onto the podium and yelled "which is why it's dumb you kicked him out!"

Wile E. snarled and slammed his gavel once more "control yourself Francine! There's no need to get rowdy-"

"NO NEED TO GET ROWDY!?" Mickey repeated back "you kicked my brother out and her best friend! What the heck do ya mean 'no need to get rowdy'! If there ever was a time to get rowdy it's right about now!" Standing up he marched across the room, looking at all the other toons as he continued to plead his case "Ozzie wasn't flawless yet if you think I'm gonna stand here and let you desecrate his name you got another thing pal, if it weren't for him most of us wouldn't even be here! I know I sure wouldn't! Whenever there was a dispute between toons and animators or just between us toons he'd always be the one to give an answer yet still be down to earth enough where it made sense and wasn't nonsensical, come on people! We gotta let him back in!"

Thinking about all the times Oswald has helped them the crowd seemed to agree as they looked amongst themselves. This simultaneous agreement made Wile E. grab onto his forehead and groan in an attempt to control himself. Seeing how the mouse blindly tried to appeal to everyone's emotions rather than logic infuriated him.

"Okay you know what!? I've just about had it!" Steam erupted from his ears and his face turned red as he cracked his gavel on the wood, the small hammer breaking drawing everyone's attention immediately "Let's set the record straight, Micheal, NO ONE kicked Oswald out! It wasn't me, it wasn't a decision by the toon town council, it was HE who kicked himself out! I never wished for him to leave as much as you, for animator's sake he was the only one smart enough to be able to hold a meaningful conversation and in a town full of screwballs and whack jobs he was an outlier as somebody who was equal parts humorous and reasonable! I couldn't possibly FATHOM the idea of ever kicking him out and I'm sure no one else would! Do you think I despise him for something!? I hold no disposition towards Oswald at all and to even assume I am some cruel individual who wanted him gone is moronic and slanderous, it makes me want to damn near detonate the dynamite I placed under this building and blow us all to atoms!"

Fanny tilted her head in disbelief, seemingly being the only one to catch that last comment "you put dynamite where now?"

Wile E. carried on casually, acting as if he didn't just say that "my point being... Oswald was a dear friend to us all, not only that yet he acted as spokesperson with animator's directly and it's clear his exile was nothing short of corruption by that thing he claims is his lover, if he will come to his senses and abandons that beast that calls itself a toon he may return, but until then meeting adjourn-..." The coyote made the motion with his gavel once more only to see it snapped "oh...Roady would you be a dear?"

"Meep Meep!" The RoadRunner beeped as it sped over next to the coyote leaving dust in its wake.

"Thank you, now as I was-" Wile E. grabbed the RoadRunner by his neck and used his beak like a gavel "Meeting adjourned!"

With the slam of the bird's beak Fanny and Mickey looked at each other, all hope they could reason for Oswald to come back slowly, being lost on them. The problem is, Oswald didn't want to come back, at least not by himself. The entire situation and his departure from ToonTown stemmed from a very special and odd toon bear who one day showed up abruptly and made themselves at home. The toon was unlike all others, while even the eldest toons one day got the ability to speak this one was absolutely silent, say for the strange eerie static noises that came out of his maw. Not only that yet unlike most toons who were at their worst annoyances or menaces, this strange bear proved himself downright violent and this violence is what made the other denizens wish for his removal. Unfortunately for them their beloved rabbit Oswald had fallen for this oddity and left with this violent bear.

Oswald was a good few miles away from the civilization he once called home. It had been weeks since he left and he hadn't had a proper shower in so long that tufts of black fur became matted and brown dirt was muddied on his legs and paws. Despite this unkempt state his spirits remained positive as ever as he wasn't alone at all and had the love of his life right next to him, that same strange bear that all others feared. Except for him of course.

"Hhhuuhhhh...." Oswald sighed as he rested his back against a tree, gazing off into the distance as a setting sun painted the landscape in an orangish red "ya know Skitzo... At first I thought this whole exile thing would have been awful and we wouldn't of survived a few days let alone weeks... Guess it goes to show how far the power of love can get you, huh?"

Oswald turned to his lover who sat there munching on a feral squirrel that was in his mouth, the fluffy tail poking out in-between his teeth giving away what he was eating. Skitzo quickly swallowed and gave his usual blank grin and a thumbs up.

Oswald giggled "heh, you find anything I could eat? Perhaps something that wasn't squirming?"

Skitzo nodded and opened his mouth, reaching down in his own throat he rummaged about his insides. What sounded like metal clattered about inside of the bear until Skitzo finally pulled out a carrot and handed it to the buck.

"Thanks honey" Oswald took the carrot and paused upon seeing Skitzo try to gesture to him something "huh?"

Not knowing proper sign language, Skitzo made a rubbing motion with his two hands together as one would do if they were washing them.

"Oh!" The rabbit immediately caught on and looked down at the carrot "ehhh... I ain't walking all the way to the creek to wash one measly carrot" hopping to his feet he gave the bear a kiss on his long muzzle and stepped back and bit into the carrot "your germs are my germs" Oswald remarked with a mouthful of food.

Skitzo stared at the rabbit while a question mark hovered over his head, his diet consisted solely of hunted raw meat—sometimes meat that was already hunted and rotting—he didn't think sharing germs was the best idea but ultimately shrugged. It was the meaning behind the gesture that counted. The love Oswald displayed was more than he could ever hoped for when he first awoke and it was nice that despite all of his... flaws, Oswald still loved him. It's why he soon grabbed the rabbit by the waist and brought him into a hug, returning the kiss with a few of his own as he let out staticy growls to show how much he appreciated it.

"Ah! Bear-bear! Not while I'm eating!" Oswald squeaked out as he giggled, chunks of carrots falling from his mouth "mmm- gimme a sec"

Skitzo relented and let the buck go, not after a few more kisses of course. Eventually he did let him go though and the both sat there in the grass staring out into the setting sun. It was romantic.... At least that's how Oswald always described. Skitzo didn't really understand his feelings nor what romance exactly was, the only thing he did know was that whatever thoughts in his head that told him to rip apart things limb by limb weren't there when he was with the rabbit. He felt calm and at peace with his love, however he was unsure if Oswald felt the same way.

"huh? What're you doing?" Oswald swallowed the rest of his carrot and turned towards the bear who was writing something in the dirt with his claws. The words "do you miss it?" Immediately struck him and his smile faded "oh... You're asking about all the people in ToonTown, aren't you?"

Skitzo nodded, he wasn't sure what exactly Oswald liked so much about that place yet he was aware there were family members of Oswald's there. Family members who didn't care for him.

Oswald was also aware of this fact and sighed, resting his head in his hands he gazed out into the horizon and spoke solemnly "Sometimes yeah... I do kinda miss Mick, Fanny, Donnie, Goofy, Felix, Betty, and all my other friends, I'm sure they'd give me one big ol' hug if I were to show up again..."

Oswald trailed off, memories and the countless years he spent in ToonTown flashing before him. The friends he made, the family he had–more than just Mickey, the toons who were so close to him he considered family. The countless days he spent working with them to build that place from the ground up and all the laughs they shared. All of those wonderful thoughts he saw and what awaited him if he ever returned ran through his mind. Despite this though he turned and looked at Skitzo and remembered the first time he saw the bear. While all the other toons he was with saw some sort of demon who was located underneath the old burnt remains of a theater, Oswald saw someone who made his heart skip a beat.

Those good memories slowly started to fade as he recalled the night that led him to his current predicament.

"Then... Then I remember all the people who shunned you... I think about how much they would probably still hate me for defending you..."

Oswald tightened his fist as he saw all the faces of the people he considered his friends and family, shouting and waving around pitchforks and torches. They were shouting obscenities at the one toon who he felt love for and they all tried to drive him out. Oswald never understood the exact reason, something about Skitzo having some sorta episode and injuring a few, he was positive the bear didn't do it on purpose though. Despite how much he yelled and tried to reason with them though it was only when he put his foot down and jumped in front of the angry mob did they hear him out. Even then after hearing him they unanimously deemed Skitzo a risk, a quote on quote "danger to all toon society", calling him a "freak who isn't even a toon at all". All those hurtful words were thrown and they demanded Skitzo to leave and never come back... they got what they wanted in the end, but not after he took himself with the bear.

With a snarl he spat at the ground "they can all shove it where the sun don't shine that's what I say" Oswald thumped his foot on the ground and pouted "Those newer folk obviously got no respect for me and all I did for them if they couldn't let you off the hook this one time"

Skitzo chuckled, seeing Oswald so worked up was hilarious, the bunny had quite the temper despite being so small. Still, Oswald had failed to answer his question, he kinda just gave a mixed answer and didn't give a proper yes or no. He gestured down at what he wrote in the dirt once more hoping for something solid this time around.

Seeing the bear's gesture Oswald sighed, releasing his anger and speaking less harshly "well... To answer your question uhh, no... No I don't miss it" Oswald walked over to Skitzo and sat in his lap, the bear wasted no time in embracing him and petting him on the head as he continued to go off "if they got the nerve to kick you out then they can get the nerve to come find me and kiss my fluffy tail on my behind if they really want me back–besides, it's not like the entirety of toon town is gonna burn without me! They'll get along just fine"

Skitzo's tail wagged as he imagined the city engulfed in flames. All the screaming and shouting making him giddy, his attention was quickly diverted though once he heard the rabbit in his lap start purring.

Oswald leaned into the touch and nuzzled his head against the bear's hand "Mmm...do you wanna know something, Skitzy?"

Skitzo tilted his head, curious on where this was going.

"I think you're probably the one fella I would consider a true toon" Oswald purred as he closed his eyes in relaxation "toons are meant to make people happy... You do that Skitzo, you make me happy"

Hearts instantly manifested into the sun bear's empty eyes and he held the rabbit close to him. With his tail wagging like an eager puppy he began to drown his love in kisses, placing pecks all over the top of Oswald's head as he couldn't help but see how he struck gold in a partner.

Oswald laughed, feeling how it tickled him and his fur "hahaha! Alright Skitzy, calm down now, hehe"

The two continued their love and affection as the sun finally set over the horizon signifying the end of a day. While Mickey and Fanny would continue to try and get Oswald back, the rabbit truly had no interest in it if Skitzo couldn't come with. The two's love expanded farther than any person could have possibly imagined and without the other life wouldn't be the same. Maybe one day the couple would be allowed back inside Toon Town's walls, perhaps the toons would make a special case for Skitzo and let him back under the pretense of Oswald promising to keep his love on a short leash in order to prevent future mishaps. Perhaps the opposite would happen and the toons would simply do without the buck and bear, going about their days and reminiscing on how Oswald was the perfect toon who left due to a demon who supposedly tainted him. No one knew for certain, not the people who went to bed after that drama filled town meeting and certainly not the couple who would soon fall asleep in others arms. Either way the only thing that was certain was the undying affection between Oswald and Skitzo and how despite being in exile, it wasn't as bad as long as they were with the someone they loved.

Author's notes: ["This, I remember out of all chapters so far THIS was by far the one I took the idea and kinda ran with it. I remember on the flufftober prompts day 5 was something related to like acorns and chestnuts and I remember I didn't know what it meant, neither did my beta reader, so I went and grabbed one of the extra "make it fluffy" prompts to replace day 5's. I had a decent amount of fun with this and this one got me all happy when I finished it because although a COMPLETELY NONSENSICAL CRACKSHIP, I find SkitWald a beautiful ship because for me the entire thing is finding love in unlikely places and sticking beside your partner no matter their flaws, and for the two Oswald has to deal with Skitzo's many, MANY flaws. Anyways I tried to have the ending showcase ya know, perhaps things could be better for the two? but even if they don't they still got each other so even in exile Oswald doesn't want to come back because true love is having the solace of your partner by your side and that's exactly what Oswald has. Oh I also tried to demonstrate that: yeah no... Skitzo is kinda just fucked in the head and doesn't regret his actions but regrets what his actions did to Oswald, he's still objectively a lunatic and only exclusively cares about Ozzie" ]

[mad-c1oud]

Hello o/ I honestly dunno how to begin

You having a Gordon pfp is fitting bc you are FUCKING C O O K I N G

A masterchef

I've never actually shipped Etoiles, and I had no idea Starcicle even existed, so I had your fic "fake it till you make it" sitting in my tabs for quite a while. One day I decided to bite the bullet AND HOLY SHIT OH MY GODS!?!!?!???????

You've written them in such a way that they have INCREDIBLE chemistry, and the whole atmosphere of the fic is so so so cozy I absolutely love it

(And the trespassing kiss scene was something WOWOOWWOWOWOW O.O O.O O.O made me insane)

I'm very excited for "it's making me insane", cause I'm a sucker for Etoiles with vine powers, and your take on it is so cool

(If u don't mind, could u explain it? I don't quite get how it connects to the full moon or not) (unless we learn more in the fic)

PLEASE keep cooking, the kitchen is yours.

Thank you

STOOPPPPPPPPP

I learned to cook from the best o7

Funny thing is I didn’t ship Étoiles with anyone either!! I am a Slimecicle girlie first and foremost so while I was looking for more fics with him, I stumbled across The thing worth doing well done by WheelCoveredInEyes because of the Charlie mention in the summary and then that kind of just… kickstarted my rabbit hole into starcicle. It was a slow burn thing until there wasn’t enough and I just had to throw my hat into the ring with a fic. Look at me now

And yeah!!! I need to give the cucumber and his powers some attention. There’s more in the next chapter but I’ll lay my general thoughts out here for some clarity!

Étoiles, being a veggie, means he’s a plant- I was going to go with the typical plants harness the sun thing but with his star imagery and literal name, I was trying to come up with alternatives. Then I remembered the existence of nightshades, or plants in the solanaceae family. These plants tend to thrive at night and in some cases, can be poisonous! Even if he was a cucumber, I really liked to idea of Étoiles thriving at night, so instead of photosynthesizing under the sun, the moon is his best friend!! The more moon he can feel on his skin the better. Think of it like a solar eclipse, when the sun it technically out but plants can’t get the sweet sweet rays for energy. New moons are bleh for that same reason.

Plus, he seems to stay up late on the server often… That’s why Charlie was so fascinated when Étoiles told him. The fighter is kind of an agricultural anomaly and Charlie, my lil gardener, is curious…

So keep your eyes peeled for mentions of the moon and night!! I dropped some in earlier chapters I believe? I’ll reveal more soon…

Thank you so much for all the sweet words, I keep rereading this ask <33333

Gordon and I will keep cookin’ o777

[weirdthoughtsandideas]

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So you didn't specify, so I'm just gonna answer various for my dcla next gen kids <3

What are their child's/children's name/s?

This far I only have settled names for Leonetta's daughter, Franletta's daughters and Camila's kid. I know I did have some names for Simbar's kids in a oneshot, but I have since that oneshot much more liked them having only daughters (they had a son in that oneshot because I wanted to mix it a bit, but it fits more for them to have only daughters).

Leonetta's daughter is named Isadora. Franletta's daughters are named Elina and Carolina. They also later will have a son, but I have yet to name him. Camila's kid is named Kim. Why did you pick those names/that name?

I have always loved the name Isadora and I have too many OCs named that. It's just consistent with me. It's a name that is not too unusual, yet not as common either, it's like a good balance. I thought it just fitted the personality of their daughter, too.

Elina and Carolina I have no clue - I think that I got it after I drew them for the first time (I have drawn them and you will see that april 30th), and I was like "heh, they look like their names are Elina and Carolina"

So, Camila raises her kid gender neutral - they have an assigned gender at birth ofc, but she has decided to just raise them so that once they're ready to identify what gender they feel like (and of course switch when they feel like it). And Kim felt like a really nice gender neutral name. Are their personality similar to their parents?

Here I'm gonna answer for Leonetta's daughter and also Diecesca's daughter (yes, I have hcs for both canon and non-canons), because it's these two I've thought about more personality wise on.

Isadora is very similar to Violetta personality wise, but she absolutely has Leon's sass shining through her sometimes.

Diecesca's daughter, whom I have not come up with a good name for, has "her mother's looks and her father's charm". Basically, she is as sweet as Fran is but she charms all the ladies like Diego does *eyebrows eyebrows* Having this/these character/s as their parents, how did it affect them?

Here it's gonna be a mix of canon and non-canon ships in all of it's forms.

Kim will grow up with the biggest confidence ever growing up with a mom like Cami. They also are never afraid to speak their mind and knows they're always supported and loved no matter what.

Isadora I think always wanted to have the massive success that her parents have, but Violetta and Leon are very clear with her that they just want her to be happy. It has made Isadora get very musically interested obviously. Also, Violetta does not want to, but she has some of Germán in her, that causes her to start to be overprotective at times. However, she has Leon who can stop her from going too far (and even stop her from doing anything too overprotective at all), which is good, luckily. With that, Violetta also wants Isadora to just be allowed to be free, the way she couldn't as a kid. So now you have a mother who wants her daughter to have the childhood she didn't, but also feels the overprotective need she sadly inherited from her own dad? Yeah... it's gonna be messy! Luckily she has Leon! Germán had no one who could stop him :-)

I also have Luty's daughter here, and she I think always felt like she was the best. You know Ludmila would just always tell her she's a star and then Naty would just happy cry in support if she just did anything at all. This has caused their daughter to just always feel really overconfident in herself, although as she grows up I imagine she feels a bit embarrassed by her moms constant affection and cheer on her. Like, they'd be similar to Rainbow Dash's parents in MLP FiM in that they'd have a whole shrine room with their daughter's accomplishments.

Diecesca's daughter I think looked up to especially Diego so much. Like she's definitely a daddy's girl. It's to the point where she wants to dress like him and takes every advice he gives her to heart (for better or for worse). But then she also has Francesca as her mom, so she definitely knows how to treat people with kindness and loyalty. She cares very deeply about her friends just like Fran does. Fran is often the one who will scold her when she gets in trouble, while Diego is more "ah, leave her be, it's ok". But, Fran and Diego can both be very chaotic when they want to be, and their daughter DEFINITELY inherits that. Imagine someone with the cocky attitude of Diego and the way to get into chaos like Fran. Not to mention this girl is related to Gregorio too. She's a handful.

Now, I wanna go over to Jim and Yam, because I have two daughters for them too. And their daughters are just buckwild. Like growing up with two sarcastic and chaotic people who always got in trouble? Their kids will just be them but more wild. Like I can imagine Jim and Yam trying to have some sort of order with them, and then just giving up and deciding to let them run around as they please. Because they realize, letting them explore and play and mess around, it eventually leads them to doing the right choices. Also, their kids will always be accepted and supported exactly how they are. Also, their moms will defend them for anything. Any planned stories/events with the kids in your head?

I do have some for Franletta's kids, I'm gonna post one later this month, but it won't include their third kid. But I have a story in my head of when they adopt him and bring him home.

I have a story in my head involving Isadora and Diecesca's kid... and some things they get up to. Violetta and Leon are involved too, and Francesca is kind of involved but not as much. It's mostly Leonetta and the two girls.

I have a fun little story for Jam and their daughters involving Ramiro. Basically, Ramiro is convinced they have a son, and Jam decide to never tell him. Gender is a concept anyway, and also they wanna mess with him. Anyway one day he visits and one of the girls just says something and he's like "Wait. You're a girl?" and confronts Jim and Yam about it, who just, in their full trolling voices, "We never said the genders of our kids lol?" - it needs some work on though. Also, I have thought of a babysitting Ramiro story.

[sakuraswordly]

Enkidu: Sonic, do you remember that we used to play together when you were young?

Sonic: You must be.....in my memory....."Enkidu" right?

Enkidu: Uh-huh

Sonic: So that means this place.......

Enkidu: You could say "Dreamworld".

Sonic: I know...because...you had already died...

Enkidu: Why are you so sure that I have died?

Sonic: I don't know.....I just know....

Enkidu: Just know? Do you remember Punch?

Sonic: Yeah...I finally know her....she was the one who saved me...

Enkidu: And unseal your locked memories, that's why you can come to communicate with me.

Sonic: So....I am really...him

Enkidu: Yes. So, do you remember Humbaba?

Sonic: I finally remembered him too. So that was really Humbaba?! But I saw it in my memory...

Enkidu: That jerk Kujaku was reviving Humbaba back to life. That's not Humbaba I know...that Humbaba is not like a zombie now.

Sonic: But.....are you sure about this Enkidu? I mean...Humbaba was your friend once....

Enkidu: You really didn't change, Gil....you are still soft inside even in your judgment. I had already told you, didn't I? Enkidu whom Humbaba knew was already gone and Humbaba I knew was already gone too.

Sonic: I....huh? (Wait....Gil? Never mind...why do I feel so sad like I was with Enkidu for a very long time like a best friend?)

Enkidu: Remember when we once defeated him in the past?

Sonic: We...? Oh! You mean with that golden guy! Yes! I remember when we fought together....Huh?! Not again....my head....

Enkidu: Hehe. Your enthusiasm is the same as Punch I see.

Sonic: Hey! That was not nice Enkidu! Oh...not again...Sorry.

Enkidu: This time use my powers combined with yours to defeat….you already knew how to defeat him right?

Sonic: Are you teasing me again?! C'mon! I knew I was Punch or that golden guy! But still, I am myself! We never defeated Humbaba together but we did play together, okay?!

Enkidu: Hehe. I know.

Sonic: But I remember how my name comes from now...

Enkidu: Pretty cute, right? That's the name that both Punch and Gil decide together.

Sonic: Ugh...what do you mean "cute"?!

Syaoran: Sonic! Can you hear me? Wake up! Wake up!

Sonic: Syaoran?

Enkidu: It's time. You should go, Sonic.

Sonic: We still meet again...right?

Enkidu: We will meet again.*Smile*

*Whoosh*

Sonic: Huh?! I'm wake! I'm Wake!

Amy: Sonic, are you really okay? In the fight, you immediately fell asleep.

Sonic: I know how to defeat that creature!

Syaoran: You are? How could you know--?

Sonic: We were once friends...

Amy: Tails told us that the creature's name was Ḫuwawa. Ḫuwawa is a figure in Mesopotamian mythology.

Espio: The name Ḫuwawa is also an alternative spelling of Huwawa. Ḫuwawa was originally known as Humbaba. Ḫuwawa is depicted as an anthropomorphic figure that is similar to an ogre, giant, or demon.

Sonic: Demon...? That's horrible.....

Espio: Huh?

Amy: How are things now, Espio!?

Espio: Shadow and Velvet can't continue for much longer, I think. Even if we had all chaos emeralds, this creature was older than chaos emeralds....

Sonic: Let me handle this....I knew how to save him...

Amy: But....Sonic...

Sonic: Amy, can you trust me?

Amy: I trust you but I still worry about you! You still hurt inside after saving Chaos that time.

Sonic: This "hurt" now doesn't belong to me....but I need to shoulder this "hurt" with me.

Amy: *Sigh* Alright. Syaoran takes care of him.

After entering a black hole that caused their ship to fall apart and crash land on an alien planet, the Chaotix converted their office into a restaurant in order to earn money for repairs to their ship. But until that creature appears out of nowhere and attacks everyone on the alien planet even Cafe Chaotix.

Sonic: Humbaba......

Ḫuwawa: -----------!!!!!!

Sonic: I'm sorry.

Enkidu gave his chain and axe to Sonic, and Sonic used his and Enkidu's powers to defeat Humbaba with a single blow.

Shadow: (I think I've discovered what the ultimate life form is. Sonic...you really are...)

Once he couldn't move before Shadow and Velvet deal with him.

Ḫuwawa: Before.....I ask....why did you kill me again?

Syaoran: Because you're dangerous and if we don't do that....you will kill everyone you love without knowing.

Ḫuwawa: So my rage made me into a monster wasn't it?

Velvet: We still can save you if you want to.

Sonic: No. He can't be saved anymore.

Velvet: What do you mean, Laphi?

Ḫuwawa: You......

Sonic: You didn't do anything wrong but we had no choice but to kill you...not because of your rage but because darkness corrupted you and changed you into the monster.

Ḫuwawa: .............!!

Sakura: Sonic?

Sonic: Here goes nothing.....*Inhale* We are still friends. Because of that, I was terrified at that time. In fact, I was so afraid that made me want to run away. I never ever want to hurt you at all but Enkidu...told me to defeat you no matter what. Punch also didn't want to lose you as well. None of these should happen. I want to thank you for being friends for many years and for always being a comfort to Enkidu and me.

Ḫuwawa: I know......my king....I'm really glad I will be able to apologize to you one last time.

Sonic: Rest in peace, friend.

*Slash*

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Enkidu: In the past, he earnestly respected the gods, and loved humans with all his heart. Both Punch and Gil...

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Syaoran: That memory… belongs to King Gilgamesh, right?

Sonic: Umm.....Humbaba isn't technically a "bad monster." Like Velvet, he doesn't just hang in the Cedar Forest threatening everybody because he's some kind of selfish ogre who wants the trees all to himself. Basically, his deal is that he was appointed by Enlil, the king of the gods, to be super scary and guard the Cedar Forest. He's just doing his job guarding the trees from humans who would like to cut them down.

Tails: ..............................

Sonic: Humbaba's rage reminds me of when I tried to rip Eggman apart. Even though I am not that golden guy but I know he felt the same way as I do because we're the same I guess.

Tails: But we should thank Humbaba.

Sonic: Why....?

Tails: He did help us take down Metarex and thanks to him no ambush awaits from Metarex and our Typhoon once it takes off safely.

Sonic: Maybe Metarex did capture him and planned to use him as ambush us but in the end, he turned down on them, I see.

Tails: Sonic.....you made your decision already right?

Sonic: That's right...I think it's time. I will confess with Velvet.

Tails: Sonic............(I knew that one day he would go to his own path...even me too)

Sonic: ......................

"The burden is too great. In turning back time, you may be able to change the course of the princess's future. But it would also change the futures of all others involved. Especially…the futures of those who knew of the mark on the princess. And you would bear full responsibility for that."

Later at Cafe Chaotix

Sonic: (Kujaku.....this guy must be dangerous more....I need to....) Hey little buddy.....you still remember what you said in the past.

Tails: I know....when this is all over, I'm going to keep the peace my way.

Sonic: A way only you can.

Tails: Um......

Sonic: You know what I meant right?

Tails: Umm.....but even so...I want to go with you. Amy, Shadow and Cosmo will feel the same way too. For now...this isn't the right time now. We can talk about this later. I know Dr Eggman want to say something before you go too.

Sonic: Thanks......I'm always rooting for you to grow up, buddy....

*thud thud thud*

Sonic: ..........................

*flip book pages through*

Source: Humbaba is the monster who guards the Cedar Forest.

Being a monster and all, he isn't the most complicated character, although he can do a neat trick where he changes his faces, and apparently it is pretty hideous. He is described as having seven layers of mystical armor, though he only wears the full seven layers at certain times of the day.

Why's that? We don't know. But lucky for everyone (except him), he's only wearing one when Gilgamesh and Enkidu attack. Even so, the friends only triumph because the sun god Shamash sends down 13 winds, which strike Humbaba from all directions and immobilize him.

In the heat of the battle, Gilgamesh offers up a desperate prayer to Shamash. Shamash hears him and unleashes thirteen storms against Humbaba. Humbaba staggers and reels under this divine onslaught, and at last Gilgamesh overtakes him. But Humbaba pleads for mercy and says he knows Gilgamesh is Ninsun’s son. He tells Gilgamesh that if he is spared, he will be Gilgamesh’s servant. At first, Gilgamesh considers being compassionate, but Enkidu is pitiless. Enkidu urges Gilgamesh to make a quick end of the monster.

Humbaba chides Enkidu for his cruelty. He suggests that Enkidu is jealous and fearful that Humbaba will supplant him in Gilgamesh’s affections. Humbaba reminds them that he is the servant of Enlil, the god of earth, wind, and air—a greater divinity by far than Shamash. If Gilgamesh kills him, he will surely bring a curse down upon himself. But Enkidu tells Gilgamesh to hurry up and kill the demon before Enlil finds out what they’re up to and tries to stop them. Only by killing Humbaba and stealing his cedars can they guarantee their fame. So Humbaba dies.

*Close the book*

Sonic: (Something wasn't right in there....in my memories...Enkidu didn't want to kill him in the first place......Enkidu wasn't jealous and fearful.....why I felt like.....someone made things up....)

[xoteajays]

That's how I am. I might read some canonical themes from the actual plot, actual themes, but never any canonical relationships though. I'm not sure why. I can never understand why people enjoy those ships... I know everyone has their preferences, but I rarely understand why any canon ships. Canon ships are always the more overrated ships to me.

Like I said.. I prefer original characters over canon characters being in ships with canon characters. And so on. Since I have already said this to you before. I will just be repeating myself if I just keep repeating it.

Possibly those ships as background ships rather than the main ships, but that would also depend on the ships between those characters.

Well.. Yeah. I have types. Many types. But I can say that type of guy is definitely one of my main types now that I think about it. There is just a lot of male characters that I'm attracted who have that personality.

So that's definitely one of many types for me.

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Vincenzo pulled a Carrie stunt. As a first date, or a date, whenever an event like that happens at a date.. That man is husband material. He's definitely husband material for me. And I really do love this man for it.

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Really? You've never watch Hostile? Definitely watch Hostile! The first movie is the best, I thought the second movie was okay (the scene I'd loved the most was when the dogs were eating the man's crotch), but I've never seen the third movie but heard that was the worst movie.

Watch Hostile first. If you do enjoy that movie, then you could be able The Sadness. Maybe. If you wanted to. But watch Hostile first... Since Hostile was the original fucked up movie for me, before The Sadness.

The Raid, Headshot and The Night Comes For Us movies does have a lot of the same actors. But I do recommend those movies. Because.. I can say that these movies are my original Asian action movies, that is why I originally got interested in Asian action. So watch these movies.

I heard Wi Ha-joon's coming back for season two, at least his name is listed for season two of Squid Games. So I don't know if that means a thing to you. Wait.. Did I spoil that for you? That's my fault if I did.

I know about As The God's Will. We talked about this before.. I wanted to watch the movie mainly for Nijiro and Dori (even if they had smaller roles). But I'm also enjoyed some of Takashi Mike's work as a director, since I know he created the movie adaption of the story. Actually... So I have another series for you to watch. Masters Of Horror is the horror series that you might enjoy, each episode is a different story like a lot of anthology themes. The Imprint was Takashi Mike's episode. That is the most fucked up episode, that episode was so graphic that it really was banned from being aired on television. So that is horror series for you, there's only two seasons. If you ever decide to watch the show.

Anyway. What I was gonna say.. I've seen some of Wi Ha-joon's recent pictures when you mentioned it. I don't know if it's because of his hair though, but he vaguely reminds me of Do-hwan Woo (who's Gun-woo in Bloodhounds). But I think Do-hwan's more gorgeous to me though.

Do-hwan Woo's definitely husband material.

Now I can kind of imagine them as brothers in a show, or movie, or something. Something about Wi Ha-joon's appearance is a bit similar him, but that's how I'm see it though. But it could be their hairstyles.

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Exactly! If they killed Smoky medically, that could've been done in the most 'accidental' way to kill someone. To easily cover his death up like that. But instead, apparently they beat him to death. Literally. Like.. It was obvious they wanted him dead. And for murdering children. I can see that. Maybe. The original yakuza gangsters (like Toman) were like, I don't know, antiheroes who protected the underdogs who may have needed help from the strong. But even as the yakuza became corrupt throughout the centuries, they wanted to take from the weak instead, not protect them. Which is what Cobra was mentioning to the boss in the torture scenes. So I may possibly see them killing her in any way.

Nikaido's a bitch for outnumbering Smoky, just to kill him. He's a cunt that way. That's why no one likes him. No one loves him anymore.

Cobra and Rocky are obviously the most helpful. Murayama is helpful in his own way, especially before and after a fight (really like his fights with Hyuga). That's the most helpful Murayama was for the alliances. Maybe I'm just saying that because he fought Hyuga. We should have seen that fight, I'm still bitter that we never saw that fight scene at all.

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Good thing that I did not reply back until after you added more to this message.. Because I don't know if would've seen the other responses.

Anyway.

Someone had similar concepts before. Since you never seen any girls in the Oya school, someone wrote about a sister school to Oya as this all girls school since Oya is an all boys school. And I thought about it.. In concern for Blue. But I felt like that would be even more work that I might have to figure so I scrapped that idea, that's why Blue has gone to the same school as Orange. Think it was less complicated this way.

If you want to you write that for your stories, your characters, you can do that. But that means you're becoming like me... Creating an arrays of original characters for one story. Or just one fandom. Either way.

I'm still curious about the female equivalent to the SWORD gangs.

Exactly. Because that's Rocky for you. Even when they're just capable enough to fight, women and girls should still be protected at all costs though. Because Rocky's always like this with every woman and girls.

Similar situation to the Aya Asahina face claim character.

I remember Shiba (a Strawberry Girl) was listed as part of Oya, but I'd never seen her attend the school. Except the one time she decided to confronted her brother - Shibaman - over Oshiage's crush on Yoshiki.

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That's how it was for me. I was never abused, but disciplined any time I said or did anything out of line according to my family. Honestly.. I'm not one to claim to be without sin. I've done my fair share of things - a lot of bad things, but never on the level that these people have done. I know that I'm hypocritical in saying that. But you listed that discipline too, that same minor disciplinary punishments I went through then.

If I said or did something bad... I was grounded, I had favorite hobbies taken away from me (minus art) when I was younger. Actually. There's a time that I almost lost my concert tickets because I argued with my mother, my grandmother talked her out of that though. But I could've had my toys and technology taken away, I would not be able to spend with friends if I had friends at the time. Every disciplinary situation I'd went through, apparently you went through too. No physical abuses.

I still hate my strict parents for so many reasons. But still. I was raised mostly normal. So there's that. Doesn't change that I hate my family.

And from what my younger cousins have told me, school for younger generations is completely different than when I went to school then... You'd be surprised how many people I went to school with who really, deliberately, tried to get suspended and even expelled from school.

I admit that I'm a spoiled brat. I won't deny that. But their generations are even worse than me. Which is saying a lot. They're whiny cunts.

you’re into romantic pretty dudes and im (apparently) into high energy pretty dudes or laid back quiet pretty boys. i was looking at all the characters i’d made ocs for in the past, and yep. those are the two most common kinds i apparently go for. high energy and a lil dumb or chill and brooding.

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is that the confetti scene? i think i’d seen that clip. with the wine glass held up like he’s gatsby iirc?

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is it hostile or hostel? because i don’t think the hostile movie that comes up when i google it is the movie you’re talking about. i’ve seen hostel though, the first movie at least. because my friend was big into gore horror movies in high school and got me to watch hostel and the saw movies, hostel especially for the achilles cutting scene. i think i said earlier, i’m a bit more psych horror/thriller, but she was gore horror.

i noticed those three had the same actor in them, i just figured he might be one of your guys and you’d watched a bunch of his films ahshdkdl can relate tho

i think i also saw that. and was also hoping for it. he’s my guy!

aa right we did talk about as the god’s will. i’d forgotten oop. i’d planned on watching masters of horror while i still had shudder, but didn’t have the chance before my dad canceled the subscription. it looked very cool though. i don’t watch a lot of documentaries, and the ones i do are usually true crime related and used as background noise while i play games.

they do look a bit alike and yeah i think it’s the hair. the like slightly-off-center middle part and the swoopy bang. some kind-of similar facial features.

i’d like to see em as brothers in an action film or series. since they both do fight scenes very well.

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i think it says something about smokey’s strength that nikaido thought he needed to rain down all those guys on smokey even with as sick as he was. or nikaido’s just a sick freak who wanted to see an ill man (and his previous friend) be beaten to death. since all the other sick nameless citizens were in quarantine, i imagine they’d be given some kind of euthanasia under the guise of ‘helping’.

nikaido sucks. glad we never saw him again after smokey’s death because i do not care about him. get away.

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i. love creating characters. and there’s already so many in h&l that i’m just slotting them in where there’s space. anyway here’s a small-ish info dump that i wrote up because i thought about it all day after making that edit.

small unserious headcanon, but consider: shiba’s trans and she left oya after transitioning because oya’s a ‘boy school’ and she’s not a ‘boy’. also the strawberries don’t get to join the school because idc about them actually.

i’m preferring ojou over oujo for the school name because it’s funny to me for it to be like ‘welcome to our school for fancy young ladies’ and the ‘young ladies’ in question are brawling and the 20-something year old leader of the school is barely over 5’ and has bruised knuckles and just ripped out a chunk of another girl’s hair ahsjdkdsl

ojou kou shows up at one of the sword meetings like ‘why tf are you excluding us? we’re good fighters too!’ and the rest of the sword leaders are all ‘we ….. didn’t even know there was a girls school??’. murayama is being suspiciously quiet because he specifically never mentioned oya’s sister school because he once - very embarrassingly - got his ass beat by the girls’ leader when he didn’t take her seriously as a fighter, pre-being humbled by cobra. he also kicked her in the back of the knees to make her fall over while she was gloating about her win in front of both school’s students and the two never got over it and they’re rivals now. they were both like, 18/19 and very early into their respective leader careers.

murayama is also being betrayed, ryuko thinks the ojou girls are So Cool absjdkdl

i’m thinking mio imada for the overall school leader and cobra ship, who i’ve tentatively named yui. and maybe ayaka miyoshi or saki kamiya (with her buzzcut) or shioli kutsuna for her right hand girl, and possible hiroto ship, (also tentatively) named shizuka.

i was originally thinking tao okamoto as the school’s principal/headmistress, but i’m also considering tamlyn tomita as the principal and tao as her assistant; both don’t care what the girls get up to so long as they pay tuition and the full timers attend their exams and they don’t totally destroy the school. also also, maybe using the babymetal girls as the leading trio of the full-timers because #aesthetic.

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oh i’ve done my fair share of smaller bad things, like stayed out too late without telling my parents or the aforementioned class skipping and probably a handful of other stuff i’m forgetting, but nothing as bad as what these kids are doing now.

my family was more a fan of giving time’s out as opposed to full groundings. i remember swearing once in front of my parents while frustrated at a game and having to hand over my ds and go to my room for the next few hours until dinner. so never actual groundings, but a lot of times out and discussions about doing the wrong things. me and my brother have been screamed at a lot by our parents, but we are kind of difficult and i think they are kind of disappointed in how we turned out. so i kinda understand the stress they’re under. (or my mother at least. my father is just an angry man often).

yea i’ve talked to some younger people too about school. one of the trainee hairdressers at the place i got to is about 18/19 and everything she told me about her high school years was just horrifying. like i haven’t been out of school that long, how did it all fall apart? there’s genuinely horrifying bullying going on, i’ve heard about drug use, there’s been police on school grounds. they initially tried locking up the school gates after classes started, but the school isn’t fully surrounded by fences and there’s still ways out and it’s a bit of a fire hazard to have it all locked up.

it’s all just fucked.

[msnihilist]

God, where do I even START with Ben and Gwen??

For one, yeah, they're born on the same day. The same fucking day!! That's like some "written in the stars" type shit. Absolutely INSANE that the writers did that and then expected me to be normal about it.

I'm so obsessed with how the very first episode has Gwen fighting to protect Ben. She doesn't even like him and that's one of the first things she does as a character — she uses a shovel and attacks a robot that's about to shoot Ben and says, "No flying tree-trimmer is going to hurt my cousin!"

One of the first things that Gwen as a character ever does is protect Ben, and she never stops.

People who only ship Bwen based on how they bickered in the OG are MISSING OUT, that's literally just the tip of the iceberg!!

Time and time again, Gwen puts Ben first. Ahead of her own personal feelings, ahead of other people, ahead of the fucking planet. Gwen will jump alone into an endless pocket dimension to face off two of the most evil people in the galaxy to save her stupid fucking cousin. She'll throw away her normal life to learn magic and fight beside him because this dumbass clearly needs backup.

And Ben does it, too!!! They don't even like each other at this point in the show, and already, Ben is willing to sacrifice himself when Zs'Skayr threatens to drop Gwen off of a roof. He's willing to face his biggest fear to protect her. He has an absolutely world-shattering, self-image destroying break down when he thinks that he lost her.

THEY GET WORSE ABOUT IT AS TEENAGERS!!

As teenagers, Ben and Gwen are each other's best friend. Of course they are — who the hell else could understand what they've been through?

They are shown to be losers. Gwen is smart as hell and incredibly accomplished, and yet, she's only shown in a single episode to have one friend outside of Ben. Ben doesn't even have that much! He's bullied at school, the closest thing he has to a friend is literally his girlfriend. Neither Ben nor Gwen are ever shown to know anyone at all who isn't a) each other, or b) an alien related to their hero work. Not even any off-handed names mentioned to give the illusion of these kids having a social life!

There's even a joke about it:

Kevin: Ben, you sure this is the place?

Ben: That's what the tip said.

Kevin: Yeah, that's what worries me. You don't get tips, I get tips. You got no connections.

Ben: Come on Kevin. I've got connections.

Kevin: Yeah, like who?

Ben: Umm, uhh, like Gwen.

Gwen: It's true, he does know me.

(AF S2E1 'Darkstar Rising')

When Ben is 11, he takes off the Omnitrix. He leaves it off until he's 15, and Grandpa Max goes missing while hunting down some aliens. So Ben puts it back on.

But first he goes to Gwen. He goes to his best friend, the person he trusts more than anyone in the world, and asks her what he should do — if it's worth putting the Omnitrix back on.

"It wasn't the watch that was special, it was you. And you earned the chance to have a normal life," Gwen says. "You put that thing back on, and that's pretty much it for normal."

Nowhere in this scene is Gwen's life discussed. She's attending a prestigious private school. She's top of her jujitsu class. She's going to go to college early. She's got her whole life ahead of her, and she doesn't say anything about it. Ben doesn't ask.

And yet, without communicating it at all, Gwen helps Ben as soon as he decides to be a hero again. She's right there with him. Of course she is. Where else would she be? Gwen and Ben are attached at the hip, always. Where he goes, she follows.

Into space? She's there to watch his back.

(bonus points for pocket dimensions)

If she has to follow him literally inside of the Omnitrix to save his stupid, self-sacrificing life, she will.

In an alternate timeline where all their friends and family are dead or slaves and their enemies have taken over the world, Ben is the only one she cries over.

When their friend (and Gwen's boyfriend) became corrupted by power and turned against them, Gwen was going to stand by and let Ben kill him.

She begged, she pleaded, but she never raised a hand against Ben to stop him. She couldn't bring herself to — Ben even says as much. "You wanna know why you lost? Because you care about not hurting me."

Gwen is willing to sacrifice her humanity for Ben. Her parents, her future plans, her boyfriend — she can and she will throw all of that away to save Ben.

Ben taught her how to drive. Ben chews out her boyfriend when he's not treating Gwen right. Ben will fight until he can't anymore to protect her.

Ben and Gwen are constantly sacrificing themselves for each other, and the real tragedy of it is that it's not even mutual.

Ben will sacrifice himself for the world and for the universe.

Gwen won't. Because Ben is her reason for fighting.

She's not a hero like he is. She's Ben's cousin, first and foremost. He's her best friend. He's her motivation to fight. He can take her life into his hands and turn it upside down whenever he wants and she won't say a word about it.

Ben and Gwen are incredibly codependent — Ben because he's incapable of opening up to new people, and fighting side by side is the only way to get close to him, and Gwen because she decided a long time ago that she's going to be her cousin's weapon.

Gwen lives to watch her cousin's back. If he wants to fight, she will teach herself how to fight. If he needs a pep talk, she'll chase after him into the rain. If he's pinned down, she's watching his back — always.

They were born on the same day. They're so entwined with one another that of course they were. Of course.

No one else in the show means as much to Ben and Gwen as one another does. No one.

the way i get giddy whenever i see Bwen on my dash. "cousins who act like bickery siblings" really sums them up (with a delightful dash of Relationship Writing Fumble) since you didn't watch it as much, a fun fact for you: they were even born on the exact same day. my siblings and i called them "cous-twins" when we were growing up bc of that

HELLO??!?! BORN ON THE SAME DAY!!!!!!! they 100% are cous-twins omg how am i not meant to ship them? even when i was a kid and watched it, at first i assumed they were like bickering childhood friends who would probably be love interests. then i found out they were COUSINS, and my interest did get piqued but sadly not enough to watch it more often than in passing.

i loved that they were cousins but close enough to bicker exactly like siblings because they spent so much time together. they really are so adorable, and their dynamic makes for an amazing relationship, especially when they grow up and mature enough to not bicker as much.

[tathrin]

Oh. well. shit. I guess my "short little snippet" that was supposed to be like. a page at most, with Narvi discovering Sauron's plans and then getting mind-whammied with doubt enough to doom them all has uh...

Has turned into a full-on fic of Annatar endeavouring to seduce Narvi to the Dark Side as a co-conspirator in the whole Evil Rings Scheme he's working on.

So that's um...yeah that's not going to be finished in time for today's whumptober entry then, I guess XD

[simp999]

Do I know you? <3

2012 TMNT x Rise! Reader (old-ish, I've gotten much better at writing. Editing simply isn't enough for this one.)

Pt. 2

Ship: 2012 Donatello x reader + platonic Leo, Raph, Mikey :))

Word count: 3.4k (save me)

A/N: We really need more platonic tmnt content, it's so cute! <3 And happy mutation day to the turtles!

Masterlist

“Donnie? And the rest of the guys?”

It was somewhat dark out, the early winter months rolling around swiftly. The mutant turtles looked at the short figure, surprised that they knew who at least one of them was. Donatello muttered to himself, wondering who this new person was lurking in the same back alleyway as his brothers and him.



He flinched, almost instantly feeling a pair of small hands cup his face. He was about to attempt to sweep your feet from under you with his bo staff, but he hadn’t sensed any danger from you whatsoever.

“You guys all look different.” You seemed even more confused at this point, this was most definitely not your Donnie. Your Don was at least a few inches shorter than this one and would have most likely sent a sarcastic comment your way by now. You glanced to your left to see a much smaller Raphael sending an irritated glare your way. That’s odd, your Raph would have probably asked if you needed any help.

Then, it clicked.

“HE SENT ME TO ANOTHER UNIVERSE?!”

You now appeared to be absolutely insane, and that’s coming from a bunch of mutant turtles. You mutter to yourself about “kicking Donnie's ass” and “this wasn’t the plan!”. Raphael and Leo take a fighting stance, but before they try anything, the new Donnie tries to calm you down and understand what’s going on. You’re still panicking but you try your best to explain how you’re from a different universe and that you got transported here. “-Then Leo from my universe accidentally pushed me into Don’s newest invention- this wasn’t supposed to happen! I was just trying to help out-” You cut yourself off, remembering something. You quickly pull up your left sleeve to see the wristwatch ‘your’ Donatello made for you. You swiftly begin to type on it, trying anything you can to send any messages back to him, your location, anything at all, but nothing works.

The purple masked turtle noticed how advanced your watch is, seeing how a hologram, as well as some sort of keyboard, popped up. He’s never seen anything quite like it.

“Hey, um, do you happen to know what year you're from? We don’t have access to that kind of technology - yet that is.”

Raph and Leo put away their weapons after noticing how calm Donatello was with you, still keeping their guard up. “Oh, yes! The year I was in was 2018. My Donnie made me this trinket for my birthday. It’s pretty useful-” you attempt to send another message, failing once again, “-when it works, of course.”

“So what now? Do we let them hang out with us? I think they seem pretty cool!” Michelangelo butts in, tired of having to act like such an innocent-looking person is a threat.

“Mikey, you idiot, we don’t even know them! How could we possibly-”

“I think we should let them stay with us for the time being, if they have no one else to stay with.” Donatello turns his head to you, “It seems you were quite close with your version of us, right?”

“Yeah! I hung out with them at the lair all the time. Spent most of my time challenging them to super-smash bros or assisting Don in whatever project he was working on.” You were almost excited to give your answer, very much enjoying the time you used to spent with the boys. Then the fear sunk in once again. “He’s probably trying to bring me back, right? I won’t be stuck here forever?” You too a deep breath in. “I already miss them, even if they were loud.”

The turtles from this universe noticed how worried you appeared, being away from your closest friends, and all ultimately deciding to bring you to see master Splinter. On the way, Mikey wouldn’t stop nagging you with all sorts of questions; name, hobbies, favorite food, if you like pizza, anything he could come up with. You answered every one of them enthusiastically, throwing a fond memory in the mix every once in a while.

“So, dude, you said earlier that we look different than your guys, right? What do they look like?”

“Well, Raph and Donnie are taller- oh!” Mikey tilted his head your way at your exclamation, watching you pat yourself down.

“Still got it! I’ve got some pictures of them on my phone!” You didn’t have any connection, but you still had the pictures saved in your gallery. You pulled up one with everyone there. It was a little blurry, but you could still easily make out yourself in the bottom left corner of the photo. Raph was trailing behind Mikey, who was on his flying skateboard in the background. A little closer was Donnie tinkering with some scrap parts with a smirk on his face, and finally, Leo sitting on the back of the couch casually cheering Mikey on.

You began to swipe through pictures of you and the boys individually. Raph training with you - Mikey must have snatched that picture, you thought. A selfie of yourself and Leo, who was covering his face, in front of the scoreboard after challenging him at Mario Kart and winning. Mikey who fell asleep on you, pencil in hand and sketchbook in his lap after one of your regular drawing sessions. Finally, a blurry selfie of you surprise-hugging Donatello from behind, in his lab. You could clearly see his surprised expression along with a smile, a big toothy grin covering your face.

You gave a short backstory on all of them while showing them, proving that you really were close friends.

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Eventually, you met up with Splinter, politely asking questions and answering some. You were much calmer and more respectful than the turtles were expecting, given how excitable and easy-going you seemed. Finally, you left his meditation room, telling the turtles what you assumed would be your plan. “I figure that my Donnie’s probably trying his best to open another portal, but we have no way of communication. It’s basically just a waiting game now. Master Splinter says it’s okay if I chill with you guys, is that alright with you?” Mikey was the first to agree, as long as you got to hang out and draw with him just like the other version of him did. Donnie agreed as well, feeling some sort of connection, almost as if he knew you in a way. He loved the idea of having another nerdy person to help him with his inventions, and especially to spend time with. Leo went along with it, deciding you weren’t a threat. He also felt that you might bring some joy, changing up their routine a bit. Same old same old isn’t always the best. Raph was the last, begrudgingly agreeing, but only because you didn’t seem like “too much of a bother.” He earned himself a whack on the back of his head for that.

Donnie decided to pull you away from the others, saying that you probably have some experience with cool tech and could help him out with some of his inventions. You walked over to Donatello’s lab, still admired by the inventions he had even if they weren’t built with all the new tech you had. No matter what Donnie makes, it’s always pretty cool. That definitely doesn’t change throughout universes. He sat down in his rolling chair while you found a comfortable stool to sit on, bringing it close to his work so you could watch. Every so often you would point out something he could do better, and he’d be amazed by your knowledge. You enjoyed the time you spent with him, swaying your feet on the stool while he hunched over his desk, tightening one of the screws with a screwdriver.

“And done!” He exclaimed, bringing his head up to look at you, not realizing how close your face was from watching him work. You barely got to see Donnie’s face heat up before he turned his head away from you, muttering a small “sorry”. You let out a short giggle, before complimenting his work.

“All right, let’s test this thing out! It better work, let’s hope it doesn’t just look cool for nothing.” You spoke up, not wanting him to feel awkward around you.

After testing it out, Leonardo came in to tell you two that supper was ready. The other two brothers were already on the couch, pizza in hand, watching some show on tv. You joined them on the couch after grabbing your own piece. Raph quietly scooted a little farther away while you dramatically put a hand on your chest, as if insulted by the act alone. Mikey snickered at your small interaction.

“So, you guys have any games?”

Mikey gulped down his last bite of pizza and proceeded to list off a bunch of Wii games they had. You liked the idea of challenging them to Mario kart, so you did just that. Raph refused to admit that he wanted to hang out with the newbie but stuck around close enough to watch you all battle it out.

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A few hours of gaming later, Raph eventually joined, and all of the boys were much more comfortable with you around. Mikey was laying in your lap, Donatello was sitting right next to you, your knees or elbows bumping every so often from the game, and Leo was sitting right in front of you. You were slowly getting tired, so you gave up your remote for the night, opting to watch the brothers duke it out instead. Eventually, soft snores could be heard from Donnie’s shoulder and slightly louder ones from your lap. Leo took notice of this and finally stood up and spoke quietly:

“That’s it for tonight, we can have more fun tomorrow. We should all get some sleep.” He then walked away and Raphael soon followed. ..Leaving Donnie stuck with you sleeping on him, him not wanting to wake you up, of course. He contemplated trying to move you gently, but he didn’t have the heart to move you when you looked so adorably comfortable. He ended up making do with the blankets and pillows he had within reach, following you into dreamland.

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The next day, you awoke with Mikey wrapped up comfortably in your arms, while a cozy pillow was supporting your head. You gently rolled Mikey off of you, trudging towards the smell of pancakes. Plates were being dished out by Donnie. Leo was passing by you, mumbling a short “good morning,” most likely on his way to go get Mikey. Raph was already sitting at the table, letting out a big yawn.

“Mornin’ guys!” Donnie looked up to see you in the doorway, while Raph once again pretended that you didn’t exist.

“Oh! Good morning, y/n,” he places the last plate down on the table, “Is there anything you’d like to drink?” You tell him that a small glass of milk sounds nice, and complements how good the food smells. He thanks you and Mikey and Leo walk into the kitchen together, Mikey looking much more groggy than his brother, rubbing the sleep out of one of his eyes.

Breakfast goes by quickly. You notice that you’re the second one done, Raph being the first. Speaking of him, where is he? You go check the training room, hearing small grunts as you get closer. Eventually, you’re in the doorway, watching Raph send kicks and punches toward a poor punching bag. Once he finally stops for a water break is when he notices you.

“Holy hell dude, when did you get here?” You shrugged and decided to irk him, hoping to get a friendly fight out of him. You walk towards him slowly, ready to dig your own grave.

“I thought you were a ninja, aren’t you supposed to know when people sneak up on you?” He catches a stupid smirk on your face, deciding that he’s had enough with the new person. Raph pretends to send a smile your way, (which he was very bad at), before attacking you with roundhouse kick to the head. Not a hard one of course, just enough to make it so you’d stay clear from his path. Or so he thought.

You quickly block his kick with a middle block, twisting your hand around his leg and grabbing it, holding it in place so you can send a kick back at him with momentum. Before you can land a hit, he breaks his leg free and manages to block just in time. He gives you no time before attempting to attack again, the back-and-forth banter becoming enjoyable. He’s only ever had the same few opponents to practice with, so this felt nice. Instead of using anger to fuel his powerful moves, he was enjoying it. Eventually, you grabbed his hand and bent his finger in a way it wasn’t supposed to, his body not allowing him to go the way he wanted anymore. You followed through and sent him to the ground, hand behind his back, face planted on the ground, you sitting on his shell claiming victory. You stand up, after making sure he knew he lost of course, and offered him a hand. You were definitely expecting another attack, maybe he’d drag you to the ground with him? But instead, you were met with a handshake along with a praise of your skill. Overall, it’s safe to say he doesn’t ignore your presence anymore. He finally sees you as someone near his level, or at least, someone who is worth his time.

Once the sparring session is over, as Raphael walks out, Leonardo walks in. You were beginning some stretches, knowing it’ll save you from being too sore later. Leo comes next to you and asks if he can join in. he begins to lead some cooldowns, you following along for some, and doing your own thing for others.

“I’m surprised you got Raph to like you so quickly, is he and yours alike?” “Honestly, no, not at all. My Raph is very much a big teddy bear. Sure, he enjoys sparring, but he’s always too afraid to hurt me. What a big softie. I usually end up sparring with my Leo instead if it comes to it.” You glance at him, then focus back on your stretching, “You’re much calmer than my Leo. I won’t say he’s energetic, but most definitely more egotistical. You’re almost a nice break from all his chat about being the best, really.”

“Me? Egotistical? I don’t see it.” You quirk a brow up at him, not believing it. He may be from a different universe, but it’s still Leonardo.

“Okay, maybe a little. But it’s much better than not being confident in your moves. Holding back is the worst thing you can do in a fight..” You nod at him, glad he has more common sense than your Leonardo back home. You stand back up from stretching your legs, leaving the dojo right after kindly bidding your goodbye.

You decide to head to Mikey’s room, looking for him, since you haven’t spent much time with him yet. As soon as you open the door, you’re tackled in a hug and spun around.

“You’re here to hang out with me! Finally! Alright, do you wanna draw or play on the Wii?” You figure your heart had raced hard enough today, so you opted to draw. (Mario Kart is difficult against the guys, okay?) It may not be what you expected from Mikey, maybe something more along the lines of playing pranks on his brothers or sneaking out for pizza, but he was just glad to spend some quality time with a cool new person. He quickly gathered some pencils and sketchbooks while you plopped down on his bed. After picking everything up, he lays down on your lap once again, finding a comfortable position for the both of you. Even if you’re doing a quiet activity like drawing, it won’t be quiet for long with Mikey around. A few minutes after drawing he starts shooting questions your way, just about the same scenario as yesterday happening once again. You were glad to answer all of his questions. He was happy to listen to your stories, giddy that he was learning more about you. After a while of chatting and drawing, you finished and wanted to give your neck a break from looking downwards at your paper. You put your pencil down and rested your head on the pillow behind you, absentmindedly toying with the strands of Mikey’s mask; something you did fairly often with your Mikey.

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It’s been nearly two weeks since you first met the turtles and you had gotten to spend a lot of time with them. They helped a ton when you felt lonely or lost without your version of them. Of course, you still missed Raph’s bear hugs, Don’s snarky remarks, Leo’s ego and Mikey’s energy. But the turtles you were with now were still fun to hang out with. Currently, you and the rest of the boys were out on patrol. They had no destination or mission set, it was mostly just to get out of the hideout. Mikey was ahead of the group, balancing on the railing of the building you guys were walking on the roof of. All of a sudden, you hear a familiar voice that immediately brings a wide smile scross your features.

“Y/N?! Are you here?”

You jumped down from the building, hearing the voice coming from the alley below. The turtles were too slow to catch you, but luckily, the owner of the voice was there.

“DONNIE!”

You jumped straight into his arms, making him grunt from the impact, then spinning you around.

“Oh, how I missed my small lab assistant! Now I don’t have to deal with Leo’s antics anymore! He gets so much more annoying when you’re not around,” he carefully put you down and places a hand on his hip, ”Seriously, I had to make my lab portal-proof, just so that he wouldn’t barge-”The next thing Donatello knew, you were you of his reach and holding both of your Mikey’s hands.

“I missed you so much! We need to hang out again! It was so loney without you~” He gave you his best puppy-dog eyes, hoping you’d spend your time with him first. You hugged him tight, promising to hang out and not leave his side. But of course, a mystic portal had opened up underneath you, leading you to fall into your Leo’s arms. “Falling for me?-” he felt a metal staff hit the back of his head, along with an “Absolutely not, ‘Nardo.” from behind him. While he was distracted, your Raph had gently picked you up and put you on his shoulders with a smile on his face, mimicking yours. He was just glad to have you back. Before Your Leo and Donnie could continue bickering, you wanted to introduce your boys to the turtles that you got to hang out with for the past weeks.

With sparkles in your eyes, you introduced them to the other versions of them. Recalling your favorite memories while hanging out, you couldn’t help but keep a smile plastered on your face. Until you remembered something.

“Hey, Don?” The taller boy was about to reply, but was cut off by a ‘hmm?’ From your Donnie.

He felt a slight pain in his chest. This whole time whenever you’d say ‘My boys’ or ‘my Donnie’ he felt.. important to you. Even if you weren’t talking about him. But now he realised that he wasn’t special to you anymore. You guys weren’t really friends, he was just there to try to replicate your Donnie. To make you feel less lonely. Why did he think you really did enjoy his company? Of course you didn’t. He could never dream of you and him-

“Can I come back and see them again? I don’t wanna leave them. I know it would mess up the timeline if I stayed for too long, but- I love hanging out with them. Will the portal allow inter-dimentional travelling more than once?...” Your new friend’s eyes grew wide, brimming with tears. He saw your mouth move, but could no longer hear the words coming from it. You.. enjoyed your time with them? You want to hang out again?

.

.

.

Maybe he did have a chance with you after all.



Sep. 29. 22

[albertasunrise]

Meant to Be

Masterlist

Summary: Frankie was always the one who got away but when you learn that he's retired from the army and has moved back home. Your life falls apart.

Relationships: Reader x Original 'Male' Character, Reader x Frankie Morales

Warnings: Like A03, I chose to give none. 18+

Your husband wasn’t a cruel man. But as time had gone on you'd come to learn he wasn’t a good one either.

Your life revolved around him. His wants and needs and never your own. But he supplied you with a safe, comfortable life and that's all you could have really hoped for. You’d loved him once and you were sure he had to but as the years had passed childlessly, your once blossoming romance had fizzled into something sour. You knew he resented you for not giving him a child. Blamed you for it and you blamed yourself to a degree but as the months blended into years, you found you blamed yourself less and came to terms with the fact that your having kids wasn't meant to be.

You'd imagined your life differently as a younger woman. You'd imagined it with a different man if you were being honest with yourself. You thought you'd met the one as a teenager but, like most childhood sweethearts, he got away. Francisco Morales. The man of your dreams had shipped out to the army as soon as he'd graduated and your relationship had lasted another year after that before you'd called it quits and broken the man's heart. Something you'd regretted to this day and had never imagined you'd see him again. How wrong you'd turn out to be.

"Did you hear the news?" Your best friend Sally asked as the two of you browsed through the sale rail of your favourite clothing store.

Your obvious look of confusion was all the answer she needed to know that you were oblivious to the latest gossip to spread around town.

"Morales moved back." She elaborated and your breath caught in your throat "Retired from the forces and decided to kick out the tenants renting his folk's old place and moved in himself." She finished, shrugging her shoulders as she pulled out a sweater she liked the look of.

"Oh." Was your reply, suddenly completely disinterested in shopping anymore.

"Think you'll see him?" She asked and this grabbed your full attention.

"Why would I see him?" You questioned, eliciting a snigger from your friend.

"We all know you never go over him." She stated and you felt your heart start to race and your cheeks grow hot "Thought you'd be all over, seeing him."

"I'm married, Sally." You warned and she scoffed.

"Yeah to a man that barely looks at you and who's definitely shagging his assistant." She grumbled and you felt a sting at her last statement.

"You don't know that." You choke and her demeanour changed upon hearing the crack in your voice.

"I'm sorry babe." She started as she threw a hand around your shoulder "I shouldn't have said that but you deserve better than the life you have."

"I'm fine." You replied with a shrug "He keeps a roof over my head, clothes on my back and food in my belly. What more can I ask for?"

"Happiness?" She shrieks "Love, passion, excitement... to name a few. He's an asshole and you need to leave him."

"It's not that easy Sally." You snapped "Where would I go? I have no job, no money."

"Your divorce would sort that out."

"Sally-"

"You can't keep living like this." She interrupted, taking your hand in hers and boring into you with her serious gaze "Waiting to die or for him to leave you."

"This is my life now." You said, your tone defeated and your heart heavy "I've made my bed."

Sally decided it was futile to argue any further. You weren't going to accept that you deserved better and she was tired of trying to convince you of the fact. So you finished off your shopping trip and turned down her invites for drinks that evening at your once favourite watering hole.

No way Joe would let you go.

Despite having little interest in sharing any sort of physical relationship with you he hated the idea of you having a social life outside of him. So going out for drinks with your girlfriends was not something you were able to attend anymore. You were limited to shopping trips and coffee. How dull your life had become.

Walking through your front door and placing your sparse shopping bags down on the polished marble floor, you announced your arrival as you toed off your shoes and hung up your coat. Not expecting the arms that wrapped around your middle and or the lips that found your neck.

He did this sometimes. Showed a fleeting interest in you and you took what you could get. For all his faults he wasn't a selfish lover.

He turned you in his arms and dropped to his knees before he pushed your underwear to one side and placed a teasing lick on your clit. You felt a jolt of pleasure surge through you and the moan that slipped past your lips was all the invitation your husband needed to continue. Credit where credit was due, he knew how to fuck with his tongue and it didn't take him long to have you cumming. Your legs then gave out and you were in his arms as he threw you down on the couch and pulled out his throbbing erection for the confines of his slacks. His lips returned to your neck as he lowered himself between your open legs and once again pushed your underwear to the side. Your eyes locked for a moment and you thought you saw a flicker of love in his eyes. Something you'd not seen for what felt like an eternity but then he was pushing inside of you and you weren't able to keep your eyes open then.

Sex with Joe was always good. Whether you wanted to admit it or not your husband could fuck but these sparse sessions only hurt more. You missed the way he used to worship the ground you walked on. How he'd not be able to get enough of you but then again, you were trying to get pregnant back then. This was now him looking for a release and that's all you were to him now.

A release.

He fucked into you expertly and you were cumming again in no time at all, moaning loudly as he continued his assault on that spongy spot inside of you that had your toes curling. He hooked one of your legs around his waist and the new angle started to stir another orgasm down in your loins. It took half a dozen more thrusts for the two of you to cum together and leaving you a sated mess on your couch.

"What was that for?" You asked between laboured breaths and Joe shrugged before slipping out of you and pulling his slacks back up again.

"I've got to go away for work for a few days." He stated simply "Should be back by Wednesday."

"Oh." You replied as you manoeuvred into a sitting position "Short notice."

"Tell me about it." He grumbled before grabbing the suitcase situated by the couch that you'd not noticed before "I'll call you tomorrow." He said, pecking your lips.

"You're leaving now?" You asked as you followed him out to the lobby and watched as he slipped on some shoes and grabbed his keys.

"Need to or I'll miss my flight."

"Well, safe trip." You said, receiving one last kiss before he disappeared out of the door and left you standing in the lobby.

You weren't sure how long passed before you slipped out your phone and dialled the number at the top of your caller list.

"Sally." You said simply as you let out a shaky breath "Count me in for tonight."

...

"I'm so happy you're here." Squealed Sophia as she pulled you into a tight hug "What changed your mind?"

"Husband's fucked off on a work trip." You said as you downed another apple sour shot "So I thought I would spend my evening seeing my girls." You finished as you woo'ed with your friends.

"It's been too long." Said Lacey as she placed a tray of drinks down on the table and handed you your triple gin and tonic.

"That it has." You agreed as you took a sip of your drink.

...

Frankie hadn't been in the mood for drinks but Benny was determined. So that's how he'd found himself sitting in a bar he'd only ever walked past as a teenager. What made the situation worse was that he was designated drive which meant not even the buzz of alcohol was a possible distraction.

His reason for being in such a foul mood was the information he'd learned upon moving back. He'd only been back a few weeks but when at the supermarket the previous afternoon he'd bumped into your school best friend and he'd learned through her that you were married. He wasn't sure why he was upset about it. You'd dumped him at the first sign of trouble but there had been a small part of him that had held out hope that there was still a chance for you both.

"Come on Fish." Ben groaned "You need to cheer the fuck up dude."

"Ben." His older brother warned but Benny waved him off.

"I don't know what's got your knickers all knotted up but we're out dude. We're free from all that shit now."

"I'm fine," Frankie grumbled, his eyes drifting to a rowdy table across the bar.

He realised quickly that he knew the girls, they'd all been in your year at school and he was fairly sure that you were friends with them. Ho noted Sally, the one who'd told him just yesterday about your marital status and Sophia who'd been attached to your hip once. Movement in the corner of his eye then grabbed his attention and that's when he saw you with a tray of drinks in hand. You were just as beautiful as the day he'd kissed you goodbye in the airport when he was 19. More so if that was even possible.

"She's hot." Ben teased, dragging the older man from his thoughts.

"She's my ex." Frankie grumbled, his attention returning to the one beer of the night he was able to drink.

"Shit, really?" Benny exclaimed and Frankie nodded "She's smoking Fish., Is she single?"

"No." He replied simply, his tone grabbing Will's attention "She'd married."

"Sound a little sour about that Catfish?" Will questioned, "Something still there?"

"She broke my heart twenty years ago." He growled, "Nothing there Will."

"Well, you got me convinced." Benny snorted and Frankie felt his temper growing even shorter.

"Believe what you want." He snapped as he pushed himself to his feet "I need a piss."

He stormed off, leaving two amused Miller brothers in his wake. He hated how seeing you had stirred up all those feelings he'd thought he had buried all those years ago. He went to the bathroom, took a breather and left a few minutes later, only to collide with a soft body.

"Shit, I'm sorry I wasn't looking where I was going." He said as shook his head and turned to look at the innocent person he'd just barged into.

"Frankie?" You questioned and his eyes grew wide as your name fell from his lips "Shit." You said as you let out a shocked breath "Wow, how are you? You look... You look good."

"You too." He replied and he swore he saw you blush.

"How are you?" You asked again and he shrugged.

"Good as can be expected." He replied and you nodded.

"I hear you're married." He said and your stomach twisted "Congrats."

"We've been married a few years now." You said, your face dropped "Nothing to congratulate."

"You happy?" He asked and you were rendered speechless.

You'd never been able to lie to this man and twenty years on that was still that case. So all you could do was shrug and Frankie couldn't help but frown at that.

"Looks like my party has made some new friends." You said as your eyes drifted to your table, Frankie's eyes following yours.

"Those would be my friends." He sighed as he scraped a hand over his face.

"Guess we should make sure they're not getting into trouble."

"Sure."

"Chica, look at these two dreamboats we met." Screeched Sally as you made your way over to the table "This is Will and Benny... They're brothers and -"

"Complete trouble." Interrupted Frankie as he came to stop beside you.

"Francisco Morales... Fancy seeing you here." Said Sally as she pulled him into a sideways hug "You know these two."

"Sadly." He replied with a smirk and Benny gave him the finger as your friends chuckled.

You all stayed together then. The girls cooed over the boys and you sat there awkwardly with Frankie as you watched. The conversation got more and more personal as more drink was consumed and you were glad you were drunk when you and Frank became the subject matters'.

"So Francisco." Sally started as she sipped on her cocktail "No wife and kids to speak of?"

"Nope." He replied, popping the 'p' before sipping his soda.

"Don't get him wrong." Benny started and Frankie instantly cringed "This guy is the pussy king!" He gushed and you felt sick.

Of course, there had been others since you. It wasn't like you were it for him and he was to remain alone for the rest of his life but to hear it out loud still stung.

"Shared a bunk with him for years and some of the women he managed to sneak back..."

"How's married life?" Will asked, changing the subject when he noted both yours and Frankie's uncomfortable demeanours "No kids?"

Your shoulders sank and your face dropped. Sally noticed it straight away and went to speak but you beat her to the punch, the alcohol giving you a false sense of confidence.

"We tried." You said with a shrug, your posture changing completely "Never happened for us and now he despises me for it." You finished with a false laugh and the whole table fell silent.

"I'm sorry," Will said after a few tense moments of silence and you shrugged again.

"It wasn't meant to be I guess." You replied with a shrug, noting out of the corner of your eye how Frankie was looking at you with those sad brown eyes. The ones that let you to fall for him in the first place.

Frankie couldn't believe what he was hearing. It explained your reaction earlier when he'd asked if you were happy. He could see it now. How haunted you were and his heart broke for you. He's always hoped that you'd end up happy. Sure he'd prayed it would be with him but as the years had gone on he had come to terms with the fact that it wouldn't be.

A few more drinks were consumed before the night came to an end. Sally left with Will and Sophie with Ben who had left you alone with Frankie and stood on the sidewalk outside the bar in awkward silence.

"How are you getting home?" He asked as you fiddled with your hands.

"Well I have gotten a taxi with Sally but she's gone home with your friend so... I guess I'll get a cab on my own." You chuckled nervously.

"I can give you a ride?" He suggested and you looked up at him with wide eyes "I was designated driver but guess I got ditched too." She chuckled and that made you smile "I don't like the idea of you getting a cab home alone. Please... let me give you a ride."

"Sure." You said after a few moments of silence and Frankie nodded, motioning for you to follow him as he lead you to his truck.

He opened the passenger door for you and helped you inside before closing it and making his way around to the driver's side. Jumping in his was fast to start it up and peel away, driving you home with your quiet directions. It felt like it had all those decades ago. Him driving you somewhere quiet so you could steal perfect moments together before he had to get you home. You couldn't stop yourself from glancing at him every now and then as he drove you in stoic silence.

When he pulled up in front of your large house his eyes grew wide and you smirked at his reaction to your home. You sat there in tense silence for a few moments before you plucked up the courage to speak.

"Do you want to come in?" You asked, eyes hopeful as you looked at him.

"Are you sure?" He asked, smiling at the nervous nod you gave him.

He opened your door for you and followed silently as you led him to the front door, watching as you shakily pushed your key into the lock. Stepping inside he copied you as you toed off your shoes and before he followed you to a large, modern, kitchen that put his to shame.

“Drink?” You asked and he nodded “Just water’s fine.”

“Just water?” You chuckled “I have beer?”

“I shouldn’t.” He replied shyly “Got to drive and all that.”

“Sure… right, of course.” You said, shaking your head and grabbing a glass from the cupboard.

After pouring him the beverage from the fridge, you handed him the glass and went about pouring yourself a glass of wine. The silence that hung over you both then for a short while was suffocating. You'd not thought this far ahead. All you'd thought about was how you didn't want him to leave just yet, you wanted him to stay just a little longer.

"So how long have you been married?" He asked, finally breaking the silence between you.

"6 years this August." You replied, your eyes unconsciously drifting to the silver bands on your left hand.

"He a good guy?" He asked and you sighed, feeling your throat tighten.

"He was amazing at first." You confessed, eyes drifting to the glass in your hands "But when we discovered we couldn't have kids he got sour."

"I'm sorry." He said sadly as his eyes captured yours "You would have been an amazing mum."

You let out a sad chuckle at that. You'd always liked to think you would be but as time had gone on you'd started to wonder how good a parent Joe would have been.

"I guess the universe thought differently." You joked, eliciting a sympathetic smile from him "Just wasn't meant to be I guess."

"You can't seriously believe that?" He asked and you sighed.

"Well I've not been blessed with children so to be the evidence is pretty conclusive." You said with a shrug, trying hard to fight the tears that were threatening to spill.

Silence fell over the two of you again for a while as you sipped at your wine and him, his water. It felt oddly normal to have him there with you yet tense that you were standing in the kitchen of the house you share with your husband, with the man you knew you were still in love with.

"You know I always hoped you'd find happiness." Frankie uttered after a little while "Despite you breaking my heart I always routed for you to have the best life possible."

"I always wanted that for you too." You stated and he scoffed at that "Did you not?"

"I killed people for a living for almost half my life." He replied shortly "What do you think?"

You winced at his reply and he instantly regretted his tone "I had to do a lot of unforgivable things, all in the name of my country." He confessed after a short pause "I don't deserve a good life for what I've done."

"You deserve the best life has to offer Frankie." You said softly "I've always regretted ending things with you." You sobbed "Truth be told you were the one man I could picture spending my life with and I let you go."

"Why did you?" His question took you by surprise but you didn't hesitate to answer it. He deserved the truth.

"Because the thought of losing you was too much to bear." You confessed, "I thought if I broke it off, it would ease the pain of knowing you could die at any point but all it did was break my heart and leave me hollow." You sobbed, not holding back the tears now "You were the love of my life and I lost you."

Frankie could help what he did next. Knowing that you'd regretted breaking things off with him, selfishly, was all he'd ever wanted to hear. Grabbing the back of your head he pulled you into a biting kiss that made your toes curl and your core ache.

Before you knew it your underwear was pushed to one side and he was buried to the hilt, thrusting hard and deep as he swallowed your moans. Your nails dug into the muscles on his back, clinging on for dear life as he tore several orgasms out of you before succumbing to his own release and then he collapsed over you as he caught his breath, practically purring as you run your nails through his hair.

"Shit." He breathed after a short while and you chuckled at his statement "That was..."

"Perfect?" You finished for him as you smiled down at him "We shouldn't have done that but I'm having a hard time regretting it." You confessed after a short pause, moaning when he pulled himself out of your heat and tucked himself into his jeans.

"I'm sorry." He sighed as he scraped a hand over his face and you suddenly panicked at his change of demeanour.

"I should go."

"No, please... Don't-"

"I have to." He interrupted as he grabbed his keys and made his way to the front door, you were hot on his heels "It was nice to see you again." He said without looking at you and then he was out of the door and you were left there to sob over what had been the best thing to happen to you in years.

~

2 Months Later...

Your hands shook as you held that stick of plastic in your hand. You felt sick. How, after all those years of trying, were you now looking at the second positive pregnancy test you'd taken that afternoon.

How was this happening?

You slowly started to panic the longer you stared at it. It was a disaster and you didn't even know where to start in terms of how to deal with it. You knew you had to tell your husband and you knew he was going to be excited but you also had to tell Frankie.

There was a chance it was his too.

Grabbing the tests and shoving them in your pocket you made your way to the front door and grabbed your keys and bag. Slipping your shoes on, you made your way to your car and, after taking a steadying breath you got in. Driving to Frankies, you were relieved to see that his truck was on the drive and after parking up behind it, you hopped out of the car and briskly walked to his front door.

It didn't take him long to answer after you knocked but his shock at seeing you stook there made your stomach twist into painful knots.

"What are you doing here?" He asked and you thought you were going to cry at that alone.

Instead, you let out a steadying breath before you answered him.

"We need to talk." You said firmly "Can I come in?"

He said nothing, just opened the door wider so that you could enter. You looked back when you heard the door slam behind you and then you made your way to his kitchen, sitting at his table, you waited for him to join you.

"What do you want to talk about?" He asked plainly and you felt your nerves come to a head. God, you could be sick.

"Well uh... I need to talk about that night."

"Why?" He groaned "It was a mistake. You're married. We need to move on."

"Yeah well, I wish it were that simple." You snapped and his expression changed.

"Why isn't it?"

"Because I'm pregnant Francisco." You growled, slamming the two positive tests on the table.

That stopped him dead in his tracks. He started at the two tests, both saying 6 - 7 weeks along. He's regretted that night since it happened. Not because of what happened but because you had been drunk and he'd taken advantage of that. So now to see that from that night, he was facing the possibility of being a father, he regretted it even more.

"Is it mine or?..."

"Fifty per cent chance." You confessed "But let's be realistic. I try for five years to get pregnant with my husband and then I fuck you one time and bam... Baby."

"What are you going to do?" He asked and you sighed "Are you..."

"Going to keep it?"

He nodded.

"Yes, I am going to keep it." You scoffed "But I need to tell my husband I am pregnant and there's only a fifty per cent chance it's his."

"Shit." He breathed and you nodded in agreement.

"I only came here to tell you because you have a right to know." You stated plainly "I don't expect anything from you and if turns out to be yours well... You only have to be involved if you want to be."

Frankie nodded. He was numb and completely at a loss for words. It was his lack of reaction that had you scoffing before you scooped up the tests and grabbed your bag, barely saying goodbye before you were out the door and halfway to your car.

When he realised you were gone, he ran out after you. Only to find he was too late and you were gone. He groaned in frustration at his reaction to your news. He's just been so shocked by it. Seeing you at his door, that had not been what he'd expected when you'd said you needed to talk to him.

Now you were gone and he was completely lost.

...

At home, you'd just finished up the dishes when you're husband had called to say he was going to be working late. So you started on dinner for yourself, something that he could reheat when he got home and then sat to watch TV whilst it cooked in the oven. Joe's iPad lighting up a short while later caught your attention. It was unusual for him to leave it laying around and so you couldn't help your curiosity. Noticing it was a text, you tapped on the notification and what you saw made you sick.

'Can't wait for you to breed me later baby'

You read the first message and choked. It was, sure enough, from his secretary. What a fucking cliché.

'Make round with you baby J.'

Popped up another message a short while later.

You'd known deep down he was cheating. It was obvious. The late nights the secrecy. They had all been warning signs but to see it confirmed in writing hurt but that's not what you were most angry about. No, you were angry that he was not fucking his assistant... but that he was trying to get her pregnant in the process. That made your blood boil. You may have slipped up but this was something completely different and you knew you had to leave.

Your bag was packed less than an hour later. You packed what you could into your car and you drove to the first place you could think of. Sally's.

~

1 Month Later...

Frankie had been browsing the cereal aisle when he'd bumped into Sally. He's desperately tried to sneak past but she had the eyes of a hawk and he was soon cornered by the Coco Pops.

"Haven't seen you since that night out what... three months ago?" She asked and Frankie shrugged.

"About that yeah." He confirmed, "How are you?"

"Oh, I'm fine." She replied, "My girl on the other hand is a mess." She stated and Frankie's stomach sank "Girls 3 1/2 months pregnant and in the middle of getting a divorce."

"What?" He exclaimed, the last statement taking him by surprise "Why?"

"Fucker is shagging his assistant." Sally revealed, "What's worse if they're trying for a kid together." She continued "Well they were and then he found out she was pregnant and he's been begging for her to forgive him."

"Shit."

"Turns out though that there's a chance it's not his."

"Really?"

"Yeah." She said with a nod "Had a weak moment a few months back and well... Kid might be the other guys but apparently he doesn't want anything to do with it so-"

"I never said that." Frankie expelled, eyes widening at his sudden confession.

"Wait what?" She practically yelled "She didn't tell me who the other guy was... It's you??"

"We uh... The night we met up, I took her home and we got to talking and one thing led to another-"

A hand impacting his face was not what he'd expected to happen to him whilst doing his weekly shop that day yet here he was, rubbing his cheek as your best friend glowered at him.

"She's in pieces." She scorned "She's all alone, pregnant with a baby that could be yours."

"I've been meaning to talk to her its just... Well, I didn't know what to say."

"Say that you'll support her." She shrieked "You're a better man than Joe, I know that for a fact so step up and take responsibility! It takes two people to make a baby."

"Where's she staying?" He asked, knowing she was right and that he had to make this right.

"Mine." She stated "I'm going to be out this evening if you wanted to talk to her alone.

He nodded and she sighed "Please don't hurt my friend Frankie." She pleaded "She's suffered enough."

...

You hadn't been expecting a knock at the door that night. Sally was out on a double date with Sophia and the Miller brothers. She'd asked if you wanted her to stay but the truth was you just wanted some time alone to grieve. Your life as you knew it was over and you were facing bringing a baby into the world without the love and support of the man you knew was its daddy. Without a shadow of a doubt, you were certain.

You stiffly walked to the front door, not thinking to check who it was before you pulled it open but when you saw it was Frankie standing there your eyes grew to the size of saucers.

"Frank?" You all but whispered, "What are you doing here?"

"I came to talk." He replied, "If that's okay?"

You nodded. Opened the door and motioned for him to come in before closing it behind him. You led him to the lounge, muted the TV and motioned for him to sit as you plonked yourself back on the couch.

"How are you?" He asked although he knew that answer already.

"My life's falling apart." You scoffed "How do you think?"

"I'm sorry." He replied, instantly regretting his question "How's the baby?" He asked after a short pause and you sighed as you rubbed your now slightly swollen belly.

"They're okay. Had my first scan and they were pleased with its progress so that's positive." You replied and he nodded "Why have you come here, Francisco?"

"I want to be a father to this baby." He stated simply "If it's mine and you want that."

"Frankie I-"

"I reacted like a complete idiot when you told me but I was shocked." He confessed "The last thing I'd been expecting you to tell me was that you were pregnant but I saw Sally today and she literally slapped sense into me and I... Well, baby, I love you and I want us to be a family but if just being a father is all you're willing to give me then that's fine."

"And if we are a family and it turns out that it isn't yours?"

"Then I will love it anyway."

That was all you needed to hear. Next thing you knew you were on his lap and kissing him like you needed it to breathe. Finally pulling away to breathe you looked him in the eye and you smiled.

"Take that as a yes then." He stated before you laughed and kissed him again.

It was definitely a yes.

~

6 Months Later...

"Well, shit that's a cute kid." Said Ben as he propped his head on Sally's shoulder.

"He's beautiful." Sally gushed as she looked up at you and Frankie laying on the hospital bed.

"How are you feeling hun?" Ben asked as he came to stand beside you and place a sweet kiss on your brow.

"Exhausted." You confessed and he chuckled "But I wouldn't have been able to do it without Fishcakes here."

"I thought we were past the nicknames." He grumbled and you all chuckled.

"I just pushed your eight-pound baby out my vagina and now have stitches to prove it." You scoffed "I can call you what I like."

"Touchê." He conceded and you chuckled.

"Did you have a paternity test done?" Ben asked and you both nodded

"I mean it's obvious who his father is but Joe was adamant that we get it done. He wasn't a happy bunny when the news was broken." You stated.

"No, he was not." Agreed Frankie as he rubbed his still sore jaw.

"You got a name yet?" Sally asked and you both shared a look before nodding.

"Luka." You said in unison and the others gasped.

"Luka Morales." Ben said, testing the name on his tongue "It suits you, little buddy." He said as Sally handed him the baby.

As watched your best friend and Frankie's coo over your newborn, a sense of peace washed over you. In the months that had followed, you discovered what true happiness felt like. The love and adoration Frank had showered you with had led you to realise that your life with Joe had never been good.

"You okay?" Frankie asked, quiet enough that only you could hear him.

"Yeah." You replied as you rested your head on your shoulder "Tired but so fucking happy."

"Me too." He replied, kissing you sweetly before pulling away to look you in the eyes again "Marry me?" He asked and tears started to form in your tired eyes.

Frank instantly panicked "Or not... It was just an idea but if you don't-"

"Yes." You interrupted and he stopped dead in his tracks, eyes wide and you both stared at each other.

"Yes?"

"Yes Francisco Morales... Love of my life and father of my child." You started, smiling at him sweetly "I will marry you."

He kissed you deeply, stealing the air from your lungs before he broke it and rested his forehead against yours.

"Great." He replied and you chuckled.

"Great."

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[tvfangirladdict]

So Buddie was trending today, again, and I was reading some posts, and a couple stuck out to me. People seem to be realizing that even though we all ship the same couple, there's still sides that have been picked. I've noticed it in most ship couples I follow.

With Buddie, I think the majority of shippers tend to side with Buck. I don't know if it's because people relate to him more, or they just see him as the "all-american", wholesome, sweet, cute, blonde they feel sorry for and want to protect because I've noticed a trend in favoritism shown to similar characters in other shows, but that's just how it is. And so this leads to a majority of fics and posts that put him first. And this makes it feel like Eddie's always painted as the bad guy, Buck's the one who's betrayed and hurt, and Eddie's the one who's forced to grovel and chase Buck.

And this isn't to bash Buck or people who favor him, it's just to express frustration in not seeing the same level of compassion and love for Eddie, for those of us who are on "his side". It can get tiring to see the character you favor always being the one who messes up and acts selfishly and hurting the person they're shipped with.

And it's not always even restricted to issues between the two of them. I saw a few posts where people vented frustration with seeing people putting Eddie down for decisions he's made with Chris's best interests at heart. Like, I'm sorry, but Eddie is his dad, and no matter how good of a guy Buck is, no one loves that kid more than Eddie. So I don't understand why people seem to think Eddie should be putting Buck's feelings ahead of his son's. Like yeah, it'll be tough for Buck, he'll miss his work partner, but Chris is screaming himself awake over his mom and spending Christmas season worrying about his dad dying, his dad who has been shot on multiple occasions, buried alive, walks into fires every day, etc. Like, Chris's fears are valid, and they're logical. Anyone who works in similar fields has to weigh the good they're doing with the possibility of not coming home, and that's a personal decision that I don't think anyone has the right to judge one way or another.

It's bad timing with what Buck's going through, but it doesn't make Eddie a bad person for doing it. Maybe it's true that it won't be the fix or long term solution he's looking for, but neither is it healthy to stay in that situation only to make a friend feel better. He needs to take the time to work on himself and his son first.

One of my favorite parts of being a Destiel shipper is that it seems pretty even. Like the fans love them pretty equally. They don't love just Dean and decide that Cas is good enough for him and write them together or vice versa. They don't pick sides, or at least it seems pretty equal on both sides. There's thoughtfulness and compassion for both sides of the ship from writers. Both characters mess up.

And I think that's where my problem is. Because people's love for the characters can be so blind that they think they could never do anything wrong. I've always been Team Iron Man over Team Cap. Personally, I'm not a fan of Cap. He's too good if that makes sense. Just too squeaky clean and inhuman. And I'm not talking about the super serum. It's like he's some perfect person who always knows what to do and always makes the right decisions and always does good. He never messes up or has thoughts or feelings that aren't 100% good. Tony's flawed and can be selfish and stupid and imperfect. He's human.

I guess I tend to lean towards the characters who are more grey, which makes them more human and relatable to me. They get angry and petty and mean sometimes, but at heart are good people who are doing their best to be good.

I watched the Harry Potter reunion last week and the actor who played Lucious Malfoy (sorry I'll have to look up his name) said something that's really stuck with me. He said that in his opinion, Malfoy was the real hero. Harry wasn't a hero because there was never a question, he was always going to do the right thing, but Draco? Draco was raised to be the worst kind of person, but still found the courage to be good in the end.

I'm as far from perfect as you can get, so I side with the troubled underdogs who try to do good, but still mess up sometimes.

Like with Buddie, I favor the underdog in Sterek too, Derek. I feel like most of the Sterek fics written paint Stiles as some physical badass, but emotionally he's some victim or damsel in distress all the time. Derek's always the one who says or does something stupid and Stiles distances himself to go lick his wounds. He's written like he's infallible and Derek is a monster who feels nothing. Exaggerated a bit maybe, but i swear 80% of Sterek fics are written that way and it's tiring. I get it to a point, I get wanting to give a hurt character you relate to some justice from their relationship partner, but c'mon. Every time? Personally, I think Stiles can be an asshole. That's why we like him. He's not some wilting flower who's going to run and hide when his feeling get hurt. I'm not gonna get into it with Derek because I could write a whole essay on how the writers wronged his character in the name of Scott McCall. Not gonna lie, probably gonna write that next, so if you've made it this far and are interested in some ranting on the behalf of Derek Hale, keep a look out.

But seriously, do you know how hard it is to find a fic where Stiles was the one who screwed up and hurt Derek for a change? And he's the one who has to work to get Derek back? So freaking hard. So if you know of any, seriously, please please please send them! Same goes for hurt!Eddie Buddie stories. Send them all! I could use some Derek or Eddie whump right now.

This started out as another venting about Eddie bashers and kind got off track a bit. But it just sucks when you're on the less popular side of a ship.

And before anyone comes at me and says that people can write whatever Fanfic they want and that writing Buck or Stiles or whoever, that way helps them deal, I'll reiterate. This isn't to say that they're wrong or their characters feelings aren't valid. I'm just venting my frustration that I can't find the same level or amount of writings dedicated to the other half of the ship. It's me trying to accept that I favor the less popular character, so he's gonna be the bad guy in most stories.

Okay, I'm done whining now😅

[euthoriaz]

Cleon in Infinite Darkness Ted-Talk

Don't mind me but I want to let this out to y'all.

I've seen the newest Infinite Darkness trailer 10000000 times ( well, duh, of course. I'm there for Cleon moments ) and yet I've realized these all just now. But y'all gotta bear with me because this post is gonna be looong. Like I mean, LONG.

Can y'all see his little smile when he says "Claire?"🥺

I think that speaks alone of how happy he is when Claire's there out of the blue. It's always nice whenever someone sees a familiar face in their work place. Especially if that familiar face doesn't work in the same place as him and that familiar face is someone he trusts a lot.

I'm sure Leon's expression here means they're comfortable with each other. At least they are. They trust each other and most importantly they support each other. I'm not saying they act like lovers but this could lead to something more than just ordinary friends. Best friend? Could be. Lovers? This also could happen and has lots of potentials since in RE2 REMAKE, he also flirts with her. And it's very obvious that Claire is also into him A LOT ( honestly, who doesn't? ). That fence scene is one helluva big hit, ahem 👀

Anyway, back to Infinite Darkness, I legit screamed that Capcom gives this subtle hint. Maybe I was blinded by my excitement the first time I saw the newest trailer so I didn't realize it. But yeah, homeboy actually smiles genuinely when he calls her name. His expression is like he can't believe she's really there in front of him. NOT TO MENTION HIS HEAD NOD WHEN HE SAYS HER NAME🥺

NGL, I thought I was tripping when I first saw it. I thought I was blinded by my Cleon obsession so my eyes tricked me🤣. I replayed the scene backward again and again and again (I didn't regret it ofc).

But yes, dear God, my eyes didn't trick me and this is real😭😭. I WAS SO FREAKING HAPPY YET I WAS SHOCKED. I had to pause the trailer to find the right moment to screen capture it.

Beside, c'mon y'all. When's the last time Leon smiles genuinely to a woman that's not Claire? Yeah he smiles to lots of women. BUT it's always a smirk or a teasing one. Never once a genuine smile. But not to Claire. He always genuinely smiles at her. In Re2Make, Darkside Chronicles, even in Degeneration.

Hell, Degeneration is full of Cleon moment even though they only share several scenes together. I'll talk about this in different post so keep your eyes on it!

Look at his left hand. LOOK AT IT.

I can assure y'all that this is not because of inertia ( one of physics law which makes our body move because of a sudden stop ). Leon is also not gonna grab the damn document in Claire's hand. That's not a gesture someone would make if that were the case.

I'm not sure but to me it feels like he wants to shake her hand? Or maybe hugging her or grab her shoulder? It looks like it because his arm stops mid-air as if he has another intention to her. Not just because he stops in front of her. It's such an awkward movement if there isn't any reason behind it. So, at least, there must be one. I could be wrong or I probably read it too much tho so I leave it to your own interpretation.

Homeboy wanna say something else

Homeboy with infinite hair wants a conversation 100%. IMO, Leon clearly wants to say something else to Claire but for whatever reason, he chooses not to. Dammit Leon. His body language and the way he doesn't break his eye contact with Claire says it all. There's this moment of silence before he says "don't do anything stupid" to her. And by looking at his expression, it's clear that he has something on his mind but decides to keep it to himself in the end. This is more emphasized by the way his mouth opens a little bit while he slightly leans to Claire. If y'all want more, his face after he tells Claire to not do something reckless clearly states that he actually wants to continue their convo but he has another obligation he needs to fulfill. His smiling face before he goes is like saying "Look, believe me I want to keep talking to you. But you know the drill and how it goes. I'm sorry, Claire. Gotta run. It's great seeing your face tho"

FURTHERMORE, the fact that he says "don't do anything stupid" to her speaks that he actually knows her well and how she is as a person. He knows what lengths Claire is willing to go to prevent another outbreak. He telling her not to be reckless means he cares about her. If he's not, he can just say "gotta go" to her and that's it. But no. He didn't do that even tho it's clear that he's in a rush.

Claire teases him and he smiles back at her

Believe me or not but if y'all see his face closely, he actually does respond to her by smiling before it cuts to "A Netflix Original Anime Series" text. Damn Capcom always gives us the subtle hints. And again, I didn't realize this at the first because it only plays for a brief moment.

Yup. Thank me later because I'm not done yet🤣

THIS

Can we talk that Leon practically jumps and runs on a collapsing bridge? Not to mention, there's a pool of acid below it. Homeboy really gives it all out.

I just love the fact that Capcom highlights this scene before it cuts to Resident Evil Infinite Darkness title text. Like it's something so dramatic.

Want something more?

This

AND FINALLY THIS

THESE SUBTLE HINTS ARE GOING TO SEND ME TO MY DEATH. CAPCOM DON'T FREAKING TEASE US LET THEM BE TOGETHER FOR PETE'S SAKE!

Anyway, reason why I ship both of them together is because their relationship is always based on trust. Leon is always sincere to Claire everytime they meet. And it seems like at the end of the day, Claire will always be the person he trusts no matter what. They have such a natural and healthy relationship. Claire never lies to him and has shown great concern to him several times in RE 2 REMAKE. On the other hand, Leon too has shown his concern of her in Degeneration. But let's continue that in other post.

I know this post is veryyy looooong. Please don't mind me because they're my otp for a very long goddamn time, dammit🤣

I lost count of it.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk✨

[barry-j-blupjeans]

If you are still taking weird au prompts, how about chef/cult with blupjeans and/or taako and lup!

27. Chef / cult

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Being chanced by the apocalypse for the past thirty-six years had really messed up Barry's idea of what was a good plan and what wasn't. Sure, there were still some obviously bad ideas. For example, Magnus's suggestion of breaking in through the skylight and storming the place wasn't very good. There wasn't even a skylight, in the first place. But surely, they could have come up with a better plan than this.

Logically, it was pretty simple. A cult has the Light in their possession + Cult needs catering for their lunch-in = pose as chefs and have someone sneak to get the Light in the meantime. Taako and Lup were obviously the best choice for the chefs, but they can't do both the cooking and the sneaking. Magnus was too loud, Davenport had to stay with the ship, Merle was the opposite of subtle, and Lucretia had pretended to be sick to avoid going.

Which left Barry.

He did not get his rogue levels to do this, but, well, here he was. The Light was in his bag, making it glow ominously. The only thing stopping him was the group that had decided to have their own, separate meeting in the hallway that lead to the kitchen. He had cast Sending earlier to alert Lup of his problem, but it'd been five minutes and he was starting to get anxious that his spell hadn't worked.

"This is really good!" one of them was saying. "What is this?"

Barry was desperately trying to think about how to distract them by himself when, at long last, his savior came through the kitchen doors.

"Hors d'oeurves," Lup's voice said. Barry dared to peek around the corner. She was leaning against the kitchen door.

"Horse divorce," one of the guys said dreamily. "Love it."

"Exactly, perfect pronunciation," Lup said. She took a few steps towards them, drawing their attention away from the door. In her hands, she had another whole tray of hors d'oeurves. "Y'know, I was gonna go put this out for everyone else, but if y'all like it that much..."

"Really?" the biggest one asked.

"We shouldn't," the smallest one said, glancing towards the door. He met eyes with Barry. Barry yanked himself back around the corner and held his breath, but it was too late. "Hey, did you guys see that-"

"Horse divorce, wow, yum," Lup said, butting into the conversation. "Hey, listen- what's your name?"

"Me?" the little one turned back around. "J... Jaren? Jaren. Why?"

"Did you know," Lup started, like a secret, and Barry peaked back around to see her gesturing very subtlety for him to start coming that way. "That people named Jaren are six times more likely to enjoy horse divorce?"

Barry was about halfway down the hall now. There was a very tense moment where Jaren was obviously thinking about the logic of this and Barry had to pause midstep.

"Really?" Jaren asked, Lup's Deception roll passing with flying colors. Barry let out a breath he hadn't realized he had been holding. They were still all looking at Lup. She took a few steps so they were facing the opposite wall, instead of the kitchen doors. Barry gave her a thumbs up.

"Oh, yeah," Lup bluffed. "It's kinda crazy, actually. Every single person I've ever met named Jaren- and there's a lot, babe, don't even question- every single one of them loved this. And funnily enough- what's your name?"

The big guy blinked and said, "Pterry. With a P."

"Every Pterry I've ever had the pleasure of meeting has also enjoyed them," Lup said easily. Barry was sneaking right behind them now, carefully going up the few steps to the kitchen. Taako cracked the door open for him and Barry passed his bag through first. Lup was now saying something about horses and how often they got divorced. Barry slipped inside.

"You enjoy these," she said and he was sure she was handing over the platter now. "Have a good cult meeting."

"Thank you!" the small guy said, sounding way too pleased with his new snacks. "We sure will!"

[rainingongallifrey]

Yeah people get so mad about ship opinions. I could get if you were bashing the ship but I'm not. I mostly meant about Stoncy/Stonathan people who don't ship it see it and since most of this fandom hates Jonathan they're like what do you mean Jonathan made them better people/saved them and then I have to explain the entire plot of S1 and some of S2 to them again and I don't have time for that. No one gives Jonathan any credit for all the good he does.

I think thats what happened with me too. Sonathan and Stonathan its so confusing but foreverautumn spent a long time going through possible ship names for Jonathan x Samantha and that one sounded best and since Sonathan wasn't taken yet it worked best. Which I agree. Sonathan sounds better than Jamantha or anything like that but it still gets confusing.

Yeah Eddie and Argyle are just the sweetest to him and Samantha would be too but we never got an idea of how their relationship would go so its harder to write for them and come up with ideas. We know Eddie and Argyle a lot better. I've always been mad about that. I love Jancy don't get me wrong but ever since he became Nancy's boyfriend, things have gone downhill for Jonathan story wise. He doesn't have his own storyline, he is just an extra in Nancy's storyline, and I wanted a lot more scenes with him and Will having heart to hearts and spending time with the boys and to see how close they all were and see Jonathan grow and overcome his trauma with Lonnie and we get to see Jonathan's life and all of that you know for him to just have his own storyline and be the main character but nope. And Samantha was part of that. I liked that the writers seemed that they were going to avoid being predictable and just placing him with Nancy like the audience expected and were going to have him date Samantha instead but then no they decided they wanted to be predictable. I really wanted to see where his relationship went with Samantha and see him learning to trust and open up with her. we were robbed of that too. And Jonathan got a lot less screentime when he was dating Nancy too or he'd be there just in the background while Nancy talked and did stuff. Although I don't agree with any of the nonsense the others fans say about-Jonathan isn't useless. He's the heart of the show and he does a lot and shows he cares a lot more about others than he does about himself-but we still barely get to see him and have a story of his own when he should have been front and center and one of the main characters.

Exactly if we had an idea of Samantha even a little bit we could build onto it and foreverautumn says they have an idea but its not much and I'm impatient waiting for stuff but I understand they don't have a lot of time to make stuff.

If you find it on tiktok again can you send it to me? I never go on there so I have no idea about anything they talk about that on there and mostly I don't want to just to come across a lot more Jonathan bashing.

The Argyle bashing is ridiculous. And people saying that he was useless too and was a waste of screentime and stuff like tht and I'm like he helped them so much not only with saving El and all that, but how was he wasting screentime when he barely had any-all four of them barely had any, and Argyle's whole purpose was to add to Jonatahn's storyline and show how Jonathan grew that Jonathan doesn't need his camera to connect to people anymore and Jonathan is learning to open up and trust people and Argyle shows him love and appreciation that literally no other character on this show has ever shown to him before. So its bs that people say all this bad stuff about Argyle. And people saying hes ugly? Its like wth are you talking? Hes gorgeous!!!! But it makes me so mad that they say that there was no point to Argyle and he was a waste of space when his whole purpose was to add to Jonathan's storyline and show Jonatahn's character development and all that which we haven't got to see much of in the past few seasons since it became the steve harrington show. So when I see comments like those about Argyle I'm like Yeah how dare they take that few minutes of screentime that the Cali crew got when King steve obviously should have had it right? This fandom drives me insane.

Argyle was an amazing addition to the show. And I'm so sick of Jargle being bashed because the fans think Argyle and Jonathan aren't good enough supposedly and not good looking and all this other bs and a bunch of people have said about how 'they're just friends its ridiculous you see them as a couple' but yet steddie who have said like two lines to each other have some epic unbreakable romance because eddie called him a big boy in a joking comical way. But Jargyle who literally act like an old married couple together and take care of their kids-yeah its ridiculous for us to see them as anything other than friends. What? I don't get it anymore! It's like listenign to Vecna when he explained his obsession with clocks and time-its so insane to me when I listen to these people explain themselves. Actually, Vecna was making more sense than they were.

Yeah, I think Tommy would treat Jonathan better and Tommy was a lesser evil than Steve when it came to Jonathan. Steve was always the one who sought Jonathan out to humiliate and bully him Tommy really just tagged along. And again-obviously I love Stonathan so I'm not bashign Steve or Stonathan here, but it makes me so mad when people give steve all this credit he never earned while also saying that tommy was the more evil one out of the two of them-trying to defend steve while bashign Tommy and saying stupid things like how Steve was better than Tommy and is capable of change but tommy isn't. That Tommy would just abuse Jonathan but Steve would be a saint when it came to Jonathan. It's like these people are delusional. Its like they never watched the show. Tommy wrote that stuffa botu Nancy and Jonathan before the fist fight because Steve told him they were cheating when he knew for a fact that they weren't. He lied to Tommy and Carol. It's still not ok what TOmmy did, but he was doing it because Steve told him Nancy cheated on him with Jonathan. Tommy thought Jonathan and Nancy were the bad guys in this situation because of Steve lying to him. And Tommy tried to stop the fist fight but the fans are like 'oh thats so sweet of steve even at his lowest he wouldn't have let jonathan get ganged up on by him and tommy' NO that wasn't what was happening. Tommy was being the good guy in that situaiton trying to break up the fight, Steve wasn't protecting Jonathan. I never know where they get all this stuff from. Like I said I love Steve/Stonathan, but I need to point out Steve's flaws in order to argue their points on why Jommy is wrong. I hate the people that bash Jommy/Tommy but like Steve/Stonathan and try to make it out like Tommy was worse than Steve in that situaiton. No he wasn't. Steve was the leader he was the bad guy. He was a lot worse than Tommy. Yes Steve changed, but so could Tommy. And its bs that they're like steve can change but tommy can't. And Tommy always treated Carol a lot better than Steve ever treated Nancy so based on that, Tommy would be better to Jonathan than Steve would once Tommy grew up a little bit like Steve did when he fought the demogorgon.

Yeah Billy adds a lot to the plot and always makes the story really interesting. He is wild card so you never know what direction the story will take.

Yeah I should have explained that a little better. Steve and Nancy both definitely take care of Jonathan and show him love I mean even canonly they do they really do mainly rescuing him in the battels with the upside down, but its like Jonathan is taking care of them making them better and then there are times [canonly] there are times where they're just being mean to him and hurting him and yet again have to make up for what they did to him and it kind of shows like they haven't changed [like S3 with nancy and jonathan] or s4 when Steve keeps trying to go after nancy not caring that it will hurt jonathan. One minute Steve and Nancy are all 'Jonathan's happiness is the most important thing to me and I'll give up anything just so he'll be happy' and then the next season they just repeat the cycle and hurt him again and have to make it up to him some way. But with Argyle its different-Argyle wouldn't do that to Jonathan or he wasn't YET anyway and I really don't see him doing it and hurting Jonathan the way that they do. Plus it seems like Argyle just babies him and caters to him and I think Jonathan needs to get babied and just completely taken care of and supported in everything he does. I can't find the right words right now but I hope you get what I mean.

I just think Eddithan and Jargyle are the sweetest ships because there would be little to no drama no fighting with Jonathan all the time like Steve and Nancy do-Eddie and Argyle would just be loving supportive and understanding.

I would apologize for the long messages, but I know you and foreverautumn write really long messages too and I know its all right with both of you lol. But yeah I'm going to have to take a break from here for a while so I can catch up on my stuff too but I'll get back to you when I can. I occasionally come back on here to just find some Jargyle posts or something real quick before work. So if you see I was on and don't respond don't think I'm ignoring you. Sometimes I'm just on briefly before or after work and don't have time to reply.

@lovipop2049 So this is my incoherent, rambling opinion of the Jonathan Ships lol and I decided not to tag the ships because I really hope no one is going to be mad about my opinion. If they do find me please hide me. 🫢 I do love or enjoy all the Jonathan ships so far but I just prefer some dynamics over the others.

I'm so glad you said that! Jargyle is my favorite too. Right exactly they are so perfect and Argyle is so sweet to him and caring and kind its just nice to see Jonathan being treated right for once and be shown so much love and praise and Argyle just babying him and taking care of his kids and showing him nothing but love and support UGGH! It's so adorable. It's the same reason why I love Samantha x Jonathan and Eddithan so much too. But Jargyle is easily my fav.

AHH I figured it out Samantha x Jonathan is SONATHAN. How did I forget that when its spelled so much like Stonathan?

So yeah Sonathan, Eddithan, and Jargyle are my top tier ships. As much as I enjoy Jommy/Stoncy/Stonathan ext, I still favor Jargyle and them.

And seeing someone take care of Jonathan for once instead of him having to take care of them is amazing. He deserves all that love and care and needs it. I can't wait to see Vecna try and come after Jonathan in S5 and Argyle comes in like a handsome prince and saves Jonathan! It better happen. But I guess it doesnt matter cause its already been happening in my head.

Eddithan is my other favorite for the same reason. But Jargyle is still superior imo because its canon I don't have to make up how sweet it is in my imagination-Jargyle was on the show itself while Eddie and Jonathan didn't interact. Not that I'm against non canon ships ofc but I'm sure you know what I mean. Its easier to love a ship where the two are already close and connected to begin with and you don't have to do all the heavy lifting yourself to think of how their relationship is.

I think I got foreverautumn converted finally and supporting Jargyle more than Stonathan. I love Stonathan and that don't get me wrong, but Jargyle is superior and I'm tired of Argyle being overlooked because of Steve supposedly being prettier and better than Argyle and how hes a fan fav.... it makes me mad. Like I'm sorry but thats bs. Argyle deserves Jonathan a lot more than Steve ever has. Argyle has done so much for Jonathan, got him to trust and open up, and Argyle's entire storyline has been about how he supports Jonathan and helps him through everything and makes him happy. I'm tired of people saying Argyle is dumb too when S4 clearly showed how smart he was if it wasn't for him they wouldn't have saved El in the first place and it was his whole idea to go to Surfer Boy so El could piggyback and rescue Max. As much as I love Steve and Stonathan, Jargyle is the superior ship.

I really enjoy Jommy too but I want to see more of us all getting away from it just being the second coming of Stonathan. Because Tommy and Steve may be similar, but Tommy isn't Steve and I'd like to see to see how Tommy treats Jonathan differently and how his relationship with Jonathan goes instead of him just being Steve 2.0. Especially since Tommy treats his S.O. better.

Yeah I want to be clear-No hate to Byergrove or the Byergrove shippers at all. I see the appeal of Byergrove and I love foreverautumn's headcanon of it where Steve and Billy are fighting over Jonathan and how much depth and character development went into that. Billy is so hate-able in that especially because hes trying to break up Steve and Jonathan just so he can have Jonathan, but hes also loveable in that because of how much appreciation he shows to Jonathan and how he keeps bettering himself for Jonathan. I found myself cheering on Billy momentarily because its sweet how he thought Jonathan was worth fighting for and how Billy changed for the better and became a good big brother to Max once Jonathan got ahold of him. There are times I love Byergrove just because its always a really compelling story, but at the same time I wouldn't call myself a Byergrove shipper.

I love Billy I really do I think hes a really interesting and complex character and he really adds to the plot of the headcanons and stories, but I always favored the ships like Jargyle and Eddithan where its someone taking care of Jonathan and showing him love and support instead of the ships where its Jonathan saving them in more ways than one and fixing their lives and helping them and taking care of them and helping them to grow up [like Stonathan/Stoncy/Byergrove/Jommy]. Not that I don't like those stories, I love those stories and those ships and see the appeal cause it shows how special and heroic Jonathan is and puts him in the spotlight and shows off what makes him such an amazing person, but I prefer the ships where the SO takes care of Jonathan instead.

Jonathan doesn't need even more people to baby and take care of he needs to be taken care of and showed a lot of love and support. I guess I favor the 'fluffy' type of relationships too much. Don't get me wrong I love the angst and complexity of ships like Stonathan and that, but I just favor Jargyle and Eddithan because its Jonathan being taken care of and saved and shown so much love. I know I'm rambling and I hope this was coherent.

I was in a rush so I don't know how coherent this was, but hopefully you get what I'm trying to say I love Stonathan/Stoncy and that so much, but Jargyle and Eddithan will always be superior because Jonathan takes care of Eddie and Argyle, but they take care of him even more and help him through his trauma and show him so much love and support and give Jonathan everything he could ever need or want emotionally. All Eddithan and Jargyle is is some big love fest where they just adore Jonathan and praise him and help him and remind him constantly how special he is. Even if Vecna does still brings the drama and angst into their relationship anyway.....