what's really cool about fantasy high is that you can tell the intrepid heroes are actually shocked and confused and betrayed by stuff. like, it would be easy for them to sort of pretend to not know things in order to keep the pace and brennan's planned battles and whatever but with the way he honors when they actually figure things out just makes me trust that it's genuine. his "no rolls necessary, you just said the exact thing" help to prove it's all real mystery solving. and especially the very end of the episode storm reveal like. it's not as if they were lazy or weren't paying attention, adaine has been receiving visions of fabian's birthday the whole time, she thought to text aelwyn to ward the house, they were told that the cloud-rider could lift the hangman earlier that episode! the clues were there. they just truly honestly didn't put them together until the last possible moment as riz figured it out. idk what I'm trying to say I just think brennan crafts incredibly clever mysteries and you can feel the investment in the players when they theorize and the genuine shock when things are revealed. I'm just really glad it feels real.
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Lookism with Reader: Subway Stumble
Jake, Gun, Goo. G/N. Super short and a lil fluffy.
With a screech of the subway's brakes, you stumble off balance, face planting straight into the chest of your companion. For most, it might have been a soft landing, except the wall of hard muscle makes it anything but. You look into his face-
Jake Kim chuckles, and you immediately scrunch your nose.
"Don't-" you warn, but it's too late.
"Falling for me?" He grins, toothy and pleased, chuckling at his own cheesy line and you roll your eyes, giving him a gentle elbow in the stomach.
"Shut-"
Your retort is cut off when you stumble again at the train lurching forward. Jake's hand darts out, cobra quick, steadying you, pulling you closer, and resting on your waist.
He leans down, voice low, tone amused, breath hot in your ear. "Careful, Y/N."
Gun Park raises an eyebrow, smirk on his lips.
Lauding his own superior balance over you. His body completely still, feet planted firmly, unaffected by the swaying of the train.
You throw him a withering glare, which you thought worked well... until you trip once more into him.
"Stop that," he snaps, exasperated at your poor form. His hand whips out, grabs on to yours. "Hold on-"
You blink a couple times at your hand in his.
"And stay still."
"Watch the suit!" Goo Kim grumbles, having to hold himself back from shoving you off him.
A designer suit is a designer suit, can't have it all wrinkled by (Goo's own face wrinkles at this)- public transport.
"Your suit looks ridiculous," you spit back, eyeing up his ostentatious two piece with distaste.
"You would think so,"
"Whatever-" The train lurches and you stagger forward, unable to stop the momentum, preparing to hit the floor with a thud-
Until you feel a tug on the back of your clothes, and you're yanked sharply back and upright.
"Careful, cupcake." Your blonde companion smirks, not foregoing his leash on you.
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honestly every time i remember buck is canonically bi and is dating a man now i get so 😳😳😳 about it. like in our fandom sphere it's easy to say he's been bi-coded for years and joke with all the "wbk"s but i genuinely think people are missing what a gamble it was for ABC to pick up a show from another network and go this route with a main character that the majority of the audiences wasn't as percipient about.
buck's case is so singular imo because there are still certain - silent - rules to queer rep in mainstream media. the audiences are almost always clued-in on a character being queer early, for example. it's either shown immediately or mentioned in conversation in those first few scenes/eps the characters are established. if a character is not out, then they are not out to the rest of the characters, not the audience. if a character doesn't know they're queer yet - or ready to accept it - again, the audience knows, the story/foreshadowing is clear about it.
i can't think of a single other example where a main character - who's been nominally straight for multiple seasons - realizes they're queer later in life like this. where it wasn't planned beforehand, wasn't an explicitly or intentionally threaded storyline, wasn't just a one-liner saying "oh yeah ofc he kissed men before" ofc i didn't watch all television ever created in the history of television but i genuinely think this was such a pioneering writing choice mainstream tv hasn't done before. i wish we could all have been more happy with it instead of *gestures* all this.
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