#you know. the one that haven’t had their creator abandon them.

[neckromantics]

Love Bites.

Astarion Ancunín-

He could just eat. you. right. up.

SFW. (Mostly)

(Go reblog this gif bc i said please and we like to support creators ily)

Okay, it's not a revolutionary idea or anything, but Astarion is SUCH a biter.

Like, yeah, duh, it kind of comes with the territory of him being a vampire and everything, BUT he's also just.... like that.

Once he begins to grow more comfortable with you and with showing affection in his own ways, it becomes pretty apparent. Secretly, you wonder to yourself if it was something he did before his turning as well, because it's such a common occurrence. You're convinced you could locate the cure for vampirism tomorrow and you'd still find yourself sporting teeth marks all the same.

The first time it happens, you're on a rant.

You’d been out all day on your own, doing some trading around the nearest town while the rest of the gang took a (very rare) day of rest. They could hear your frustrated stomping long before they could see you, but you didn’t even spare them a glance- just flung your dirty boots off to the side before you flung yourself into your vampiric lover's tent with reckless abandon.

He’s busy repairing a seam on one of his shirts-- a couple of pins held between his pursed lips as he focuses on getting the stitches just right-- when you fall down cross-legged onto one of the cushions nearest him, not giving so much as a hello before you start to go on and on about what absolute bullshit your day had been.

Imagine yourself, mad as shit, steam practically coming out of your ears as you recall the way some imbecile in Rivington shorted you a large portion of gold, which resulted in you becoming so distracted that some other imbecile swooped in and stole your backpack of priceless scrolls right off your person. The lengths of which you had to go to get it all back were absolutely ridiculous. Mind numbing, even.

(The next time something like this happens to you when you're alone, magic-user or not, you are going to use the last of your brain cells to summon the power of the weave, and you're going to use it to blow yourself up. Gale-style.)

You’re about to swear that you’re never leaving camp without him again when you finally glance his way, and you aren't expecting to catch him looking right at you.

Carmine eyes examine you with such fondness– such adoration– that you almost forget what you’re angry about when they meet your own. It knocks the wind from your lungs. Shuts you up, that’s for sure.

It’s only then that you realize you haven’t even said hello to him. Gods, you didn’t even ask if you could come in. You just inserted yourself into his space like it was your own and made a fool of yourself.

Oddly enough, he doesn't seem to mind.

At some point in your story-telling, he’d finished his little project and settled in to listen, clearly amused at just how angry you are as you gesture about with bloodied hands, childish insults flying past your lips with such earnestness that he has to bite back a laugh. You truly are so adorable when you’re angry, so much so that he doesn’t know what to do with himself other than…. well.

Your breath gets caught in your throat as he leans in close, and before you can question him he’s digging his teeth into your clothed shoulder with such force that you’re amazed he doesn’t break the skin.

Something about the way his nose scrunches up when he does it makes your heart do disgusting, lovesick cartwheels in your chest.

The next time you're doing laundry, you find the two, twin sized holes that his fangs left behind in your tunic, and it makes you smile like an idiot for the next hour.

You get used to being on the receiving end of his affectionate bites pretty quickly. It's honestly become one of your (many) favorite things about him.

He doesn't really do it in front of other people, which is understandable. But, he does click his teeth at you when you're being especially, delectably sweet to him. Just a click click of bared fangs as a warning so you know to stop being so damn nice to him all of the time.

As if.

How you reach up to swipe away some blood from his face when no one is looking, and he pulls one of the tips of your fingers into his mouth for a little appreciative nibble.

The way he smirks at you when you pull your hand away with a small huff of a laugh, your own face a little warmer beneath the pad of his thumb as he returns the favor.

When you're alone in his tent late at night, and he tells a joke that has you laughing so hard your face hurts. He'll press his teeth to the apple of your cheek, flushed and rounded by how hard you're grinning.

He could just eat. you. right. up.

The abuse your bottom lip receives when you’re sharing a particularly passionate kiss. How the point of a fang sometimes nicks the plush skin if he’s not careful enough. The happy little noise he makes when the taste of your blood hits his tongue leaves you far too breathless to even consider complaining.

Sometimes, it's just how he greets you.

You'll literally be sitting down, doing absolutely nothing but minding your own business, and he'll come over and chomp down on whatever part of you he can reach like he's kissing you hello.

Likes hearing the way your heart-rate picks up whenever he comes up from behind while you’re especially distracted. He gets you by the waist, pulls you off balance to get a better angle and bites down on your neck in the most theatric, Dracula-esque fashion.

Complete with a rabid growl that tickles your skin and has you shaking with laughter.

He's learned not to startle you too much, though. After all, given everything that's happened, you're more of a "stab first, wonder who it is later" type of person, and he'd rather not get shivved with whatever sharp object is nearest you at the time.

He soothes whatever small pain he might have caused in his dramatics with a soft kiss. A dozen or so more, wet and wanting, trailing from beneath your ear to the place where your pulse pounds away for him. That lovely pulse of yours, growing ever faster with each lingering press of his mouth.

And if you shiver and oh-so casually bring up how you'll let him feed from you tonight if he'd like? That's your own business.

[sergeantbarnessdoll]

Hii!! Can I please request a Stucky x fem!reader fic? So you know how in Civil War, right before Bucky and Steve fight with Tony, the three of them find the other super soldiers that Zemo killed? Imagine that Zemo had missed one, one that was more recently abducted by Hydra to be experimented on with the super serum (so she wasn’t in cryo when Hydra abandoned the facility, she was in her cell). Instead of super strength though, she can control the elements. While she had figured out how to get out of her cell, she was too scared to actually leave the facility. The three of them hear soft cries from behind one of one of the cryo containers (she hid there after Zemo left) and find a very terrified woman who hiding her face in her knees and shaking. Steve would be so gentle and soft when talking to her and get down to her level and Bucky would understand completely what she is going through. Tony would probably be a little more on the defense. Anyways, she won’t speak at first, but Steve gets her calm enough to answer questions and she explains what Zemo did and how she hid, also she probably overheard him talking about his plan to break up the avengers and his plan to show Tony the tape of the winter soldier killing his parents because he knows it’ll start a fight. And maybe this is enough to stop their fight from happening because they know it’d just feed into Zemo’s plan?

Anyways, they bring the shaking girl back to Avengers HQ with them and they take care of her? She won’t speak to anyone else but Bucky and Steve, and she feels most comfortable cuddled between them🥹 (Avengers get back together)

Only Comfortable With Them » Stucky

Pairings: Stucky x Enhanced!Female Reader with the Avengers

Summary: You explains to Steve and Bucky what Zemo’s intentions are and you only feel comfortable with them after they save you from the HYDRA facility.

Warnings: Fluff, Angst (not Bucky and Steve), language, HYDRA, crying, nightmares, kissing, pet names

A/N: Thank you for the beautifully descriptive request @kpopgirlbtssvt 🩵

Written on my phone. My apologies for any mistakes.

Header made by @buck-star

GIF IS NOT MINE! Gif credit goes to the creator.

You heard unfamiliar footsteps walking in the now abandoned HYDRA facility. It didn’t sound like the boot HYDRA agents wore. You got off the bed in the cell you’re in and cautiously approached the door. You stood on your tippy toes to look out of the small window on the door. You seen a man. You couldn’t make out who he is. He was facing the other way. You could tell he was in the cryogenic chamber room. Your cell isn’t too far from there. He pulled a gun out of his coat pocket and pointed it at the cryogenic chambers the five Super Soldiers are in. He pointed it at the cryogenic chambers and shot each Super Soldier in them. He was talking to himself as he was setting up some kind of monitor and put a tape in it before leaving.

You had a feeling the man was going to come back and find you in a cell. You knew that you needed to get out of the cell, but you didn’t have a key or tools to unlock the door. You almost forgot that you have powers where you can control elements. You haven’t used them in a while. You figured if it focus on the door hard enough, it’ll open or somehow come off the hinges. You took a deep breath before focusing on the door. After a short moment you were going to give up, but then you heard the door rattling. You focused harder and soon enough, the door fell off the hinges.

You then cautiously walked out of the cell, walking toward the cryogenic chamber room. You seen bullet holes in the foreheads of the five Super Soldiers in the cryos. You were going to leave the facility, but then you heard three more unfamiliar footsteps, two pairs of boots and metal feet against the concrete. You quickly hid behind one of the cryos. You pulled your legs up to your chest and wrapped your arms around them tightly. You were scared that whoever is now in the facility is there to abduct you or hurt you. You were so scared that you started crying. Steve, Bucky, and Tony seen the Super Soldiers in the cryos had bullet holes in their foreheads. That’s when they heard the sound of your crying.

“Do you guys hear that?” Steve asks.

“Yes.” Bucky and Tony say in unison.

They followed the sound of your crying and whimpering, finding you behind one of the cryos.

“Ma’am?” You heard an unfamiliar voice.

You looked up to see three unfamiliar men. You scooted away from them.

“Pl-Please don’t hurt me!” You pleaded.

“We’re not going to hurt you.” He assures.

Steve hands Bucky his shield so he looks less intimidating.

“May I approach you?” He asks.

You stared at him for a few seconds before nodding your head yes. Steve carefully and cautiously approached you and crouched down in front of you.

“I’m Steve and these two guys are my friends Bucky and Tony.” Steve introduces them. “What’s your name?” He asks softly.

“Y/N.” You say quietly in a shaky voice.

“Can you tell us why you’re here?” He says.

“HYDRA kidnapped me and experimented on me. They hurt me. I didn’t like it.” You tell them.

Bucky carefully and cautiously approached you and crouched down in front of you.

“They hurt me too.” Bucky says.

“With needles?” You asked.

He nodded. You stared at the two men in front of you. Something about them is telling you that you can trust them and you felt comfortable with them.

“Sweet talking isn’t going to get us anywhere.” Tony says.

Bucky and Steve waved him off.

“Can you tell us about Zemo?” Steve asks.

“Zemo?” You asked, furrowing your eyebrows in confusion.

“The man who was here before us.” Bucky says.

“He had a gun and shot the Super Soldiers in the cryos. Then he started talking to himself about how the Avengers did something in Sokovia and wanted to break them up. He also put a tape in that monitor.” You explained the best you could.

“What’s on the tape?” Steve asks.

“I think he said it was a mission the Winter Soldier did.” You say.

Steve and Bucky exchanged looks, knowing exactly what mission it is.

“You’re safe now.” Steve says softly.

Steve and Bucky stood up. Both of them held their hands out for you. You stared at their hands for a few seconds before putting your hands in theirs. They helped you up from the floor.

“Wait a second. She’s coming with us?” Tony says.

“Yes.” Bucky says.

“How do we know she’s not part of that Zemo guy’s plan?” He says.

“She’s not, Tony. Look at her. She’s terrified.” Steve says.

Tony narrowed his eyes at you. You felt yourself becoming smaller under his gaze. Steve and Bucky wrapped their arms around you, guiding you to the quinjet. Steve flew the quinjet while Bucky stayed with you. Tony continued to keep his eyes on you, making sure you didn’t try anything, even though you weren’t going to do anything.

“What’s this?” Bucky asks, pointing at an IV needle still in your hand.

“It’s what HYDRA used to experimented on me.” You tell him.

Bucky found a first aid kit and opened it.

“May I?” He asks.

You nodded and extended your hand towards him. Bucky slowly and carefully took the IV out of your hand and put a bandaid on your hand. He brought your hand up to his lips and kissed it over the bandaid. You couldn’t help but blush when he did that.

“How long did HYDRA keep you there?” Bucky asks.

“About a year.” You tell him.

You glanced over at Tony. He was still looking at you. He was still on the defense about you. You looked away and leaned your head against Bucky’s shoulder, hiding your face against his shoulder.

“You’re making her uncomfortable, Stark.” Bucky says.

Tony rolls his eyes at Bucky and turned his gaze away from you. Bucky wrapped his arms around you, making you feel more comfortable.

“Where are we going?” You asked, looking from Bucky to Steve.

“Avengers compound.” Steve says.

“Is it safe?” You asked.

“More than safe.” He says softly.

You smiled at his words. You laid your head back on Bucky’s shoulder. You played with Bucky’s metal fingers as you started to doze off.

When you guys got to the Avengers compound, Bucky and Steve put your sleeping body in their bed and gave you time to rest. You clutched the blankets in your hands as you tossed and turned in bed, due to a nightmare you’re currently having. Your breathing was uneven. Bucky and Steve walked in the bedroom to check on you.

“Doll, wake up. You’re having a nightmare.” Bucky says softly as him and Steve gently shook you awake.

You gasped and scrambled to sit up, breathing heavily and your face wet with tears. Your mind was all over the place.

“Where-Where am I?” You asked frantically.

“Avengers compound. You’re safe, sweetheart” Steve says.

Steve handed you a glass of water. You stared at it before taking it from his hand and took a sip of it.

“Do you want to tell us about it?” Steve asks.

“Needles.” You mumbled. “So many needles. I didn’t like it.” You mumbled again.

“I get it.” Bucky put a comforting hand on your knee. “I didn’t like the needles either.” He says softly in an understanding voice.

“Scary and so much pain.” You mumbled.

Bucky nods, understanding what you endured with HYDRA.

“You’re safe now. You’re with us.” Steve says softly, putting a comforting hand on your other knee.

“Does that mean I can stay here with you guys?” You asked, looking from Steve to Bucky.

“Of course you can, doll!” Bucky smiles, patting your knee gently.

You smiled and stood up on your knees so you could hug them. Out of excitement, you gave them a soft peck on their lips without realizing it.

“Sorry.” You muttered, sitting back on your heels. “I didn’t mean to do that.” You say, fiddling with your fingers.

“It’s ok, sweetheart. I don’t mind.” Steve says.

“I don’t mind either.” Bucky says.

Over the next few weeks, you quickly adjusted to living in the Avengers compound with Steve’s and Bucky’s help. You only feel comfortable around them. The Avengers know that too, which they completely understand. They’re sure that you’ll warm up to them. You’re ok with the rest of the Avengers, but you’re not at the point where you’re ready to start talking to them, which they completely understand. You wave at them and smile when they say hi or good morning to you. When they talk to you, you listen and nod. They don’t expect you to say anything back, which they’re ok with.

You were wandering around the hallways of the compound bored and looking for Bucky and Steve. You assumed they were in the gym so that’s where you went. They were sparring so you sat down on the floor and leaned your back against the wall, patiently waiting for them to finish up.

“Hey, doll.” Bucky smiles as him and Steve walk over to you. “You ok?” He asks.

“Yes. I was bored and I want cuddles.” You say, looking up at the two Super Soldiers.

“We can do that right now.” Steve says with a smile.

You smiled and stood up. You stood on your tippy toes and kissed their lips, not caring that they’re sweaty. You went back up to the bedroom you share with Steve and Bucky, patiently waiting for them. You turned the TV on and flipped through the channels while you waited for them to clean up.

“Ready for cuddles?” Steve asks as he got on the bed.

You nodded your head eagerly and put the remote on the nightstand. Steve laid down next to you and you laid down next to him, laying your head on his chest. Bucky laid down behind you, wrapped his arms around your waist.

“What are we watching?” Bucky asks.

“I don’t know. I couldn’t find anything so I just put this movie on.” You say.

You guys weren’t really interested in the movie. You guys were more interested in cuddling.

“Hold me tighter please.” You say softly.

Steve and Bucky did just that. You smiled and sighed in satisfaction.

“Thank you.” You say quietly.

“For what, darling?” Steve asks.

“For saving me.” You say, looking from Steve to Bucky.

“You don’t have to thank us, doll. We’re just happy you’re safe now.” Bucky says.

“I love you guys.” You say, kissing them.

“We love you too, doll.” They say softly in unison, kissing you back.

🩵💙🩵💙🩵💙🩵💙🩵💙🩵💙🩵💙🩵💙🩵

-Bucky’s Doll

[defnotririi]

Chapter 1.

One year since the apocalypse started, one year since everything had fallen apart. Y/N was barely surviving all alone, her crew leaving her to die. But something happened, something she never thought would happen. A group of seven boys found her. Saving her life.

Word count: 7k

Pairing: enemy!Ni-ki x Y/N

Genre: dystopian, apocalypse, survival, horror if you use a magnifying glass, enemies to lovers, ANGST

Status: on going/12-02-25

Warnings: Everything that comes with an apocalypse. (Do let me know if there's anything else tho <3)

Disclaimer: this is a fanfic based on imagination, nothing of this is real. If you feel uncomfortable with reading something like that, please leave. If any part of the stories is similar to a book, then it's either inspired (in which, credits will be given) or just coincidence since there's no much things to write about an apocalypse.

Author's note: this is my first ever long fanfic, so please be patient with me 😭🙏

Credits: There's a fanfic in Tumblr that's called Safe and Sound, mine wasn't inspired by this one, it was inspired by a wattpad story! But since the two stories are almost the same the credits go the the creator of Safe and sound! <3

The world had ended long before Y/N realized she was truly alone. The apocalypse had turned friends into enemies, trust into a liability, and survival into a constant battle. Betrayal had left her with nothing but wounds—both the kind that bled and the kind that didn’t.

She had been part of a group once. She fought alongside them, protected them, and believed they would do the same. But when supplies ran low and desperation grew thick in the air, they turned on her.

"You're slowing us down," they had said, as if her exhaustion, her injuries, her loyalty meant nothing. They left her behind, bleeding and defenseless against the hordes of undead roaming the streets.

For days, Y/N barely survived, her body pushed beyond its limits. Infection threatened to take hold of her untreated wounds, and hunger gnawed at her insides like a beast. She had accepted that this might be the end.

Then they found her.

A group of seven boys. Armed, well-fed, wary.

And they hated her.

Jungwon stood at the front of the group, his dark eyes filled with calculation as he stared down at the half-conscious girl on the pavement.

"She’s injured," Jake observed, crouching beside her to check her wounds.

"And she’s a liability," Ni-ki snapped, gripping his knife tightly. His jaw was clenched in irritation. "We don’t need dead weight."

"She’s barely alive," Heeseung muttered, arms crossed. "She won’t last long anyway."

"Should we just leave her?" Sunghoon asked, though there was no sympathy in his tone—just a practical coldness that had been necessary for survival.

Y/N forced her eyes open. "P-Please..." Her voice was weak, hoarse from days of dehydration. "I can... I can help..."

Jay scoffed, gripping his rifle. "Help? You can’t even stand."

"You should be grateful we haven’t shot you yet," Sunoo muttered, sharp-eyed as he studied her. He was the smart one, always thinking ahead. "For all we know, you could be working for another group. You could turn on us."

The words struck deeper than any wound. She had already been betrayed—how could they think she would do the same?

But they didn’t trust her. And why should they?

Jungwon sighed. "Jake, can you patch her up enough so she doesn’t die in the next hour?"

Jake hesitated before nodding. "I’ll do what I can."

Ni-ki let out an annoyed sigh. "Fine. But the second she becomes a problem, I’m ending this."

Staying with the boys was no easy task. They were cold, distant, and saw her as nothing more than a burden.

Ni-ki, especially, made it known that he didn’t want her around.

"You should just leave," he told her one night as they rested in an abandoned gas station. "We don’t need you slowing us down."

She didn’t argue. She was too exhausted.

But she wasn’t weak.

She forced herself to heal. She learned to keep up with them. She fought, scavenged, and proved she wasn’t just some helpless girl.

Yet, they still treated her like an outsider.

Jungwon never let her make decisions. Heeseung ignored her input on routes. Jay barely spoke to her unless it was about weapons. Sunghoon was indifferent. Sunoo was suspicious. Jake was the only one who treated her with some decency.

And Ni-ki? He openly despised her.

"Why do you even bother?" he sneered one morning as she sharpened a knife. "No matter how much you try, you’ll never really be part of us."

Y/N met his glare with tired eyes. "I don’t need to be part of you. I just need to survive."

He scoffed. "Good luck with that."

Everything changed the night the horde came.

They had set up camp in an abandoned school, thinking they were safe. They weren’t.

The moans of the undead filled the air, the sound of shuffling bodies growing closer.

"We need to move—now!" Jungwon ordered, grabbing his weapon.

The group scrambled, fighting off the zombies that broke through the windows. Y/N didn’t hesitate—she grabbed her knife and fought alongside them.

Jay fired shot after shot, Sunghoon took down the infected with brutal efficiency, and Heeseung led them through the chaos.

Then Y/N saw it.

A zombie lunging at Ni-ki from behind.

Without thinking, she threw herself forward, tackling it to the ground before it could sink its teeth into him. The creature snarled beneath her, snapping its rotten jaws, but she plunged her knife into its skull.

Silence.

Ni-ki stared at her, eyes wide, breath uneven.

She had saved him.

After that night, things changed.

Ni-ki avoided her—but not out of hatred. He didn’t know how to look at her anymore.

Jake started talking to her more. "That was impressive," he admitted as he cleaned a wound on her arm. "Not many people would’ve done that."

"She still could’ve let him die," Jay muttered, but there was less bite in his words.

Y/N just shrugged. "I don’t leave people behind."

The words hit deeper than she intended.

Jungwon, ever the leader, nodded. "Maybe we misjudged you."

Maybe. But trust was hard-earned.

Over time, the tension faded.

Heeseung started asking for her input on maps. Sunoo actually smiled at her once. Sunghoon trained with her. Jay let her handle a gun.

And Ni-ki?

He still avoided her sometimes, but he no longer looked at her with pure hatred. One night, as they sat by the fire, he finally spoke.

"You’re not as useless as I thought," he muttered.

Y/N smirked. "Coming from you, I’ll take that as a compliment."

He rolled his eyes but didn’t argue.

They still had a long way to go. The world was still broken, and danger lurked in every shadow.

But for the first time in a long time, Y/N wasn’t alone.

And maybe—just maybe—she had found a place to belong.

Hunting had become easier now that the group had started trusting Y/N—at least, most of them. She was walking beside Heeseung, scanning the abandoned city outskirts for any movement. They needed food, and after days of barely scraping by, they couldn’t afford to come back empty-handed.

"You’re quieter than usual," Heeseung noted, adjusting the strap of his rifle.

Y/N shrugged. "Just thinking."

"About?"

She hesitated. "Ni-ki. He still doesn’t trust me, does he?"

Heeseung exhaled through his nose, glancing at her. "It’s not about you."

Y/N frowned. "Then what is it?"

For a while, he didn’t answer. The only sound was the wind moving through the abandoned streets, the distant echoes of the dead somewhere far off. Then, in a quiet voice, Heeseung finally said, "A few months ago, we found someone. A guy. He was injured, desperate—just like you."

Y/N’s stomach tightened. "What happened?"

Heeseung’s grip on his gun tightened. "We took him in. Ni-ki didn’t trust him from the start, but the rest of us thought he deserved a chance." He sighed, his expression dark. "He proved Ni-ki right."

Y/N swallowed.

"He killed someone we loved," Heeseung continued, his voice heavy with something deeper than anger—grief. "Ni-ki’s best friend. The one person he trusted most in this world. He used her as a threat, he wanted our supplies but even when we gave him what he wanted... He killed her Infront of us."

Y/N’s breath hitched. No wonder Ni-ki looked at her like she was a threat. No wonder he flinched whenever she got too close.

"I’m not him," she whispered.

"I know," Heeseung said, looking at her. "But Ni-ki doesn’t. Not yet."

Y/N didn’t say anything else. She just looked ahead, gripping the knife at her side a little tighter.

That night, as Y/N stood outside on watch duty, she heard a voice.

"Well, well. Didn’t expect to see a new face here."

She turned sharply, hand flying to her knife. A man stood near the trees, partially hidden in the shadows. He was grinning.

"Who are you?" Y/N demanded.

The man tilted his head. "No one important. But I was once." His smirk widened. "You’re in their little group now, huh? Let me guess—Ni-ki hates you?"

Her blood ran cold.

He chuckled. "Figures. He never did trust easy. But you? You remind me of myself."

"I’m nothing like you."

He raised his hands. "Sure, sure. Whatever helps you sleep at night." His eyes darkened. "Tell them I said hello."

Then he disappeared into the woods.

Y/N stood frozen, heart pounding.

A twig snapped behind her. She turned—Ni-ki stood there, eyes wild with panic. He had heard everything.

"Ni-ki—"

But before she could say anything, he bolted.

By the time they realized Ni-ki was gone, it was too late.

"He went after him," Jay growled, gripping his gun.

"Alone?" Jungwon’s expression was hard, unreadable. "Damn it."

"We need to go," Jake said. "Now."

They ran. Through the woods, past the old buildings, tracking Ni-ki’s footprints in the dirt.

Then they found it.

A body—no, a man. Crawling. His leg was covered in blood, a bullet wound in his thigh. He was screaming, trying to drag himself away.

And behind him, the dead were coming.

Ni-ki stood there, watching, gun lowered.

"He’s done," he muttered.

They should have left him.

They didn’t.

Jungwon fired a shot, killing a zombie before it could reach the injured man. He looked at Ni-ki, furious. "We don’t leave people to be eaten alive."

"He deserved it," Ni-ki spat.

"That’s not the point!"

But the damage was done. The man lived. Barely. And vengeance never dies.

Days passed. They thought it was over. That they were safe.

Then the attack came.

The man had returned—with people. Armed. Dangerous.

Gunshots rang out in the night.

"They found us!" Sunghoon shouted, grabbing his knife.

"Move!" Jungwon ordered. "We have to leave—now!"

The camp burned. Supplies were lost. But they had no choice.

They ran.

And as Y/N looked back one last time, she saw him. The man Ni-ki had left to die.

Grinning.

Because this wasn’t over.

The sun hung low in the sky, casting long shadows over the abandoned city as Y/N and Ni-ki walked in silence. The others had sent them out to hunt, but the air between them was thick with unspoken tension.

Ni-ki hadn’t spoken much since the night he had confronted the person responsible for his best friend’s fate. He had thought that justice would bring closure—but instead, it left an emptiness inside him, one that gnawed at his chest like the dangers lurking in the ruins.

"You’re quiet," Y/N finally said, breaking the silence.

"So are you," he muttered, kicking a stray rock.

She hesitated before speaking again. "You did what you had to do."

Ni-ki’s jaw tightened. "I left them to their fate."

"They deserved worse," Y/N said without hesitation.

His head snapped toward her, surprise flashing in his dark eyes.

"If it were me," she continued, gripping her knife tighter, "I would’ve done the same. No—worse."

Ni-ki stared at her, searching her face for any sign of doubt. But there was none.

For so long, he had felt alone in his anger, in his need for justice. But now? Someone understood.

And for the first time, guilt twisted inside him.

"You’re not like me," he said quietly.

"Maybe I am," Y/N replied, meeting his gaze. "And maybe that’s not a bad thing."

Ni-ki looked away. He didn’t know if he should feel relieved or afraid.

By the time they returned to camp, something was wrong.

The fire was still burning. Their supplies were scattered. But the air was too still.

"Where are they?" Y/N whispered, reaching for her knife.

A rustle. A footstep.

Then—

A hand grabbed Ni-ki from behind, shoving him to the ground. Another wrapped around Y/N’s arm, forcing her back.

Strangers. Armed. Dangerous.

"Well, well," a gruff voice sneered. "The last two left."

Y/N’s heart pounded as she struggled. She could see them now—the others. Jungwon, Jay, Heeseung, Sunghoon, Sunoo, and Jake. Tied up, bruised.

Trapped.

"Let them go," Ni-ki growled, struggling against his captor.

The man holding Y/N chuckled. "Oh, you’re not in a position to make demands, kid." He pressed a weapon against her ribs. "But since you’re here, we’ve got a better deal. How about this?"

He looked at the rest of the group.

"One of you doesn’t make it. The rest get to leave."

Silence.

Y/N’s stomach twisted. She could see it—the way Jungwon was already calculating, the way Jake’s hands clenched, the way Sunghoon was shifting on his feet, ready to fight.

Then she made her choice.

"Take me," Y/N said.

Ni-ki’s head snapped toward her. "What?"

"You want someone gone, right?" she said to the man, voice steady despite the fear clawing at her throat. "Then take me."

The man grinned. "Brave. But foolish."

He pulled the trigger.

A shot rang out.

But Y/N never felt it.

Because Ni-ki had stepped in front of her.

The bullet tore through him, his body jerking as he collapsed to the ground.

"Ni-ki!" Y/N screamed, catching him before he hit the dirt.

The world blurred. The shouting. The chaos.

She didn’t care.

All she could see was Ni-ki, his face pale, his breath shaky.

"You idiot," she choked, pressing her hands to the wound.

He gritted his teeth, his grip on her tightening. "Told you... you’re not like me."

Then his eyes fluttered closed.

And the fight wasn’t over.

It had only just begun.

[the-chosen-fanfiction]

Jesus | How To Comfort The Creator? | Platonic

After a painful encounter with Judas, the Messiah knows what is to come. When you come to find Him, you realise that words bring little solace in this situation, no matter how little you understand.

Requested by Mari

A sense of peace and quiet settles over you a little after Jesus went into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey, the sound of cheering and singing still ringing in your ears, bringing you a wonderful afterglow as you sit with your brothers James and John in one of Jerusalem’s streets, enjoying the business around you as the scent of something important lingers in the air; you cannot put a finger on it, but you know that something big is about to happen soon. 

Taking a break from your preparations for Pesach, you rest your feet as you lean back against a small wall. “Man, things have been going crazy lately, haven’t they?” John comments as he kicks away a pebble. Both you and your siblings watch how it rolls away and lands underneath an abandoned cart. “I mean, I’m hardly comprehending what is going on anymore. And Jesus’ words have been worrying me recently.” 

“That makes two of us,” James mutters.

“Three,” you conclude, and you pick at a loose thread on your tunic, “As has Judas’ behaviour.” 

The older Thunder frowns a bit. “Judas?” 

“Yeah, I’ve been noticing it as well. But I know that he’s going to speak to Him about—” 

John cuts himself off and tenses up. Something is on his mind, as if he had been about to tell you something that he wasn’t supposed to mention. 

“Spill it, John,” you urge him instantly, “I know that look.” 

He blinks in puzzlement as he looks at you, his gaze alternating between you and Big James, who is also interested in what he has to say. “What?” 

“Does it have something to do with Judas?” 

John lets out a small sigh of defeat and shrugs. “I… I promised to not tell anyone.” 

“Tell us what? What’s going on? Is something wrong with Judas?” 

“No— I don’t know, I just… Never mind.” 

You stand up, a deep feeling of concern suddenly overwhelming you. “Don’t ‘never mind’ me, John. You know how tense things have been around Jesus, and I know that Judas is getting increasingly impatient with Him. I need to make sure that things are alright. Where is He?” 

Your brother gives you a look, his face twisted into sorrow. “Please, (Y/n), don’t. This is something between them. I’m serious, don’t get involved. It’s not our place.” 

“But it concerns us, too. It should. You know how emotional things have been lately, and how Jesus has been hinting at things that… Well, that terrify me at least. Say something, James!” 

Your oldest brother lets his shoulders slump. “Look, maybe we should just let it rest and let things play out as they should? It is obvious that Jesus has a plan, that something is going to happen soon. We need to focus on Passover first, and maybe then we could see how we could talk some sense into Judas again? He seems to be out of the loop, but we’ve got enough on our plate right now to get involved in this.” 

Looking from one Thunder Brother to the other, you let out a frustrated noise. “Fine, you do whatever you think is right. I’m going to make sure that Jesus is okay.” 

“(Y/n)—” John calls after you, but it is in vain. You’re done letting your brothers decide what you should or shouldn’t do. Even though you don’t directly think about it, you have been on edge as well lately. The past months have been hectic and full of grief and joy at the same time. And then there is the way Jesus has been speaking about His death… You don’t really know what to do with these thoughts, and perhaps that if you find the Messiah, you could discuss these feelings with Him. 

You know the general direction where Jesus has gone to and enter the building, trying to find the room He is in. The main area seems like the right place to start, but when you find the door opened slightly and are about to walk in, you hear a conversation already taking place, between Jesus and Judas. 

Well aware that it is not polite to eavesdrop, you are about to turn away, but curiosity gets the better of you. The Messiah and the keeper of the purse sit across from one another with a table in between them.

“…So, we’ve arrived at a critical moment.” Judas speaks up, a slight waver of nervousness in his voice. 

Jesus hums. “There have been so many,” He reminds the man from Kerioth. A brief silence befalls the two and you consider just walking away, leaving them to their privacy. However, part of you feels like you should remain right where you are, your eyes fixed on the back of Judas’ head. 

“All of Israel has gathered in one place… Ready to crown You King.” 

Jesus chuckles softly at that idea. You cannot deny that it makes your heart swell with something as well, but aren’t sure what to make of it. “Your popularity amongst them has never been greater. And Rome is sitting on its hands, hoping this will all blow over.” 

The Messiah lets out another sound of acknowledgement. 

“…And they may even be delighted by what You said about taxes.”

Jesus folds His hands over each other on the table. “I see.” 

“But… It’s going to be easy for Your adversaries at the Temple to weaponise what You said about the taxes, and spread ill will amongst the people, like a disease. Everything will deteriorate rapidly.”

There is anxiety in the voice of the man from Kerioth. “Our window of opportunity is closing, even as we speak.”

Jesus shrugs lightly. “Sounds like you have some ideas.” 

“You called each of us for a reason... I’ve been… A successful businessman in the past, and I have experience with human persuasion, so I can tell when a deal is on the verge of closing or losing big. It is a knife’s edge.”

Weighing the words, Jesus allows them to digest, slowly nodding before exhaling. “And so, to adopt your language for a moment… What is the deal you’re proposing I’d close?”  

“Reclaim Your birthright,” Judas announces, “You are the Messiah, the Son of David. And the people are so convinced, they are singing songs in Your Name!” Your heart leaps happily at the memory of that moment. It had been enchanting to see it unfold in front of you. 

“It’s time,” Judas presses on.

Jesus inhales when something visibly flashes in His dark brown eyes. “And if I don’t do whatever big thing you’ve imagined I should do at this time… Will you still believe?” 

It is a question that even takes you aback, let alone the keeper of the purse, the person it is directed at. You can tell by the way his shoulders tense that it is something he hadn’t expected Jesus to ask. 

“Of course I will,” Judas proclaims after a beat. 

“Then why are you suggesting that you know better than I do, what should be the next best course of action?”

“Look, I trust You. Do You trust me?” 

There is part of you that wants to gasp out of offence, but at the same time, you can understand Judas’ frustration; the man from Kerioth has yet to come to terms that Jesus is not the military leader he had always imagined.

“What sort of question is that—”

“You do believe I have something to offer to this group, yes?”

“I do.”

“Then why won’t You take my advice? Am I not here to help You?!” 

Jesus attempts to calm down the agitation within Judas. “I’ve never asked you for your advice.”

“Then what am I here for?!” 

There is a sliver of something you cannot quite place that travels through Jesus’ expression, but it isn’t something good. Something akin to heartbreak. 

“If I am no use to Your Kingdom, then I am nothing.” Judas admits with defeat in his voice. 

“You have a choice to make, Judas.” Jesus speaks.

Judas Iscariot leans a little closer.

“I’m listening.” 

“Whom you belong to. Who has your heart.” Within the words sits both a plea and a warning. A call for a thorough search of the soul, whilst also full of welcoming love. “I want it, and I’ve had it before. You followed Me willingly.” 

“I—I want to continue,” Judas breathes, desperation in his voice. “There is nothing more that I want than that.” His hands are spread open in front of the Messiah.

You can tell it is indeed like the edge of a knife, but it has nothing to do with Jesus forging political bonds with the local authorities nor to be crowned as King of Israel. No, in the way Jesus is looking at Judas right now, you can tell that this is a pivotal point in the relationship between Him and the keeper of the purse. 

Gently, Jesus puts His hand into Judas’ waiting palm. “Then I will pray for you.” He allows a few moments of intense silence to pass as you watch them with bated breath. Part of you feels like you imposed on a crucial and intimate moment, but you are also convinced that you were meant to see this. 

“But for now… Please leave Me in peace.” 

You can imagine the way it must sting to be told to leave Him alone, and Judas instantly protests. 

“But Rabbi, I—” 

“—Please.”

Judas straightens out and slowly stands. “Thank You for Your time, Rabbi.” There is a sudden chill in his tone that sends an unpleasant shiver up your spine. He begins to walk off, approaching your direction, and you can see Jesus attempting to keep it together right before you quickly rush away from the door, hiding in a small alcove to let Judas pass by without him spotting you.

For a few long beats, you watch him leg away, purpose behind his steps. It is clear that he is enraged, frustrated, thoroughly disappointed. When you hear sobbing come from the other room, you snap out of it and hurry towards it, where you see Jesus with His face in His hands, shoulders quaking. 

You rush over to embrace Him, and as if He knew that you had been listening in on their conversation, He opens his arms and allows the comfort. 

There are no words that you consider to be sufficient; not when it comes to this, when the One Who made the heavens and the Earth is so overtaken by sadness that He cannot do anything else but pour out the sorrows of His heart. Jesus holds you, His face in your neck as He sniffles. There is a certain sacredness to His tears, that the Son of God is acquainted with this, too; grief and broken friendships. 

“I wish there was something I could say,” you whisper in His ear once the shaking in His shoulders subdues, and Jesus pulls away to look you in the eye. Gently, a hand comes up to cradle your face. Your tunic is a shade darker due to the Messiah’s tears. “Anything to comfort You, Lord.” 

A wry smile tugs at Jesus’ lips. “These are important times, (Y/n),” He confides in you, “And there are moments that just being there without saying a single thing means more than a thousand comforting but empty words that mean little in the face of everything. Judas won’t come around; not this time.” 

Confusion finds purchase on your face as you shake your head. “Master, please, do not say things like that. I know that Judas loves You.” 

“He used to, yes. But his heart has changed. Do not misunderstand; these things have to happen for the sake of the world.” 

“I… Don’t understand. What do You mean?” 

Jesus gives you a small smile before He pulls you back into an embrace. “In due time, you will get it. Right now, thank you for coming here to see Me, even though you think you do not know the words. I do not require much; just your heart, and it delights Me to know that I have yours.” 

You embrace Him again, allowing Him to mourn the loss of the dear friend which He had already foreseen. Although you do not comprehend it fully, you have seen enough to know that Jesus knows what He is talking about. 

Trusting Him, you find, is especially important in times like these, where vulnerability and heartbreak are so visible within the One you are looking up to for guidance.

There is little you can do, when He sees the big picture and you see only your own shallow perspective. But the words are clear; He wants your heart, and He holds it. It is all He needs from you in this moment. 

So, you sit, and hold him fast.

[devillime]

Okay I need to know why solmare is making some “choices” that aren’t good? But also a redo of an old post

Like first off.

Luke

Why the hell does my little boy have a body pillow like my wife?

Solmare themselves had came out and said he’s TEN yet do shit like this it’s not even funny it’s fucking disgusting that these are OFFICIAL MERCH FROM THEM

Like they could have been creative and made him something different like this

It’s not hard just give him a chihuahua pillow with a removable hat it’s not that hard

Secondly

THIS

I understand if new players haven’t played the original game but why put this here? Not to mention people can have their mcs act different in NB vs SWD like think of it like this let’s say mc forgot all their memories with the brothers completely but as they get closer to them it shows flashbacks from events that happened in the old game that way this wouldn’t be needed

And thirdly

The empty world building

Like don’t get me wrong we know a shit ton of things from devildom yet why have the world be so damn empty?? Like come on

Twisted Wonderland came out in 2020 now sure you can say that “it’s Disney they’ll have more people to help out” then what about arcana twilight?

That game out in 2023 and yes i seen a LOT of similarities between arcana twilight and obey me but they changed it mid way through the game i understand if people were upset about it but why harass them when they don’t sexualize a child as what Solmare is doing to Luke

I get not wanting to your favorite game get plagiarize but it’s just dumb especially when arcana twilight does what obey me is doing with their mc in that

Both mcs don’t have a body sprite

Your mc can be any way you want it to be

Both are non binary

Both have actual ties to the characters that beyond just romantic relationships

I get not wanting a game that is just a copy of another game but once you get deeper into arcana twilight and get closer to floor 13 it’s get better and more interesting but well never know that since the creators pretty much abandoned the game due to the harassment hell judging from my research arcana twilight is the only game were they have were the mc is non binary

Hell Storytaco has a game just like obey me with demons and all but it’s pay to play while arcana twilight isn’t as bad with getting gems

Now

THESE THREE

Now as of right now we all tomorrow at 6pm pdt for when season three of Nightbringer starts

HOWEVER

These three need to show up more than just one time then dip yes they are in events but why have them only show up in events and not the main story

Raphael in Nightbringer is a different story since he’s in the celestial realm but thirteen and Mephistopheles? There’s no excuse like come both of them are in devildom we can met with them and see them more why have it where they pop up once then fall of the face of the earth?

Why show three new characters if your not gonna give us anything much less have us interact with them less and less yes I get that obey me is center about the brothers but also us as the mc

Our interaction with the characters and our relationship with them while i can’t come up with something for thirteen but with Mephistopheles and Raphael there things there that need to be addressed

How does Raphael feel about knowing Simeon is no longer gonna be an angel like him?

His relationship with Michael after the brothers had fallen?

Is Raphael afraid to scared to get close to us because of Simeon and is he afraid that Luke will have to wake two people he cherish them most slowly die in front of him as he gets older?

What’s his opinion on diavolo?

These have been what circulating in my head. Now on to Mephistopheles oh boy I love Lucifer but not delusional enough to ignore what his prescience in devildom had done to Mephistopheles livelihood

How did his family react when they found out that Diavolo chose Lucifer over him?

Does diavolo know the pain he have caused choosing Lucifer?

What is life plan now knowing what he was raised to do was tossed out the window?

Is diavolo ever gonna address that issue and try and resolve it peacefully or is he gonna keep things how it is even if it could cause problems later on?

Will we ever know how Diavolo sees things with Mephistopheles and how he’s going to deal with that?

Do the brothers know why Mephistopheles is rightfully upset with Lucifer?

Are they never going get this resolved with these characters? Like it same with the other side characters we have so much insight about how they are and what they went through but at the same time we don’t it’s really jarring.

[velvet4510]

Possible Explanations for the Continuity Errors of X-Men: First Class and the Original Trilogy

I know some people just write off X-Men: First Class as a separate timeline from the OG trilogy, given that it was originally intended as a reboot anyway, and there are several continuity errors.

But I think it’s extremely important from a narrative perspective that they happen in the same timeline that results in the Sentinel future and the events of Days of Future Past.

It is the events of the OG trilogy that shape Logan into becoming the only person who can possibly save mutantkind, not just with his healing factor that enables him to safely time travel, but also with the growth and perspective that he’s gained, which enables him to successfully guide Charles in the past just as Charles once guided him. Plus Logan’s memories that Charles sees further indicate this is the same Logan.

DOFP is the culmination of Logan’s character arc across the series. He goes from dismissing the X-Men in the beginning to literally traveling time and space to save them. In the process, he manages to save Jean and Scott while finally letting go of Jean and intentionally telling young Charles to recruit Scott as well, ensuring that Jean and Scott will still be together and giving up on trying to have her for himself.

DOFP is also the culmination of Charles and Erik’s arcs as they seek a second chance at the life they could’ve had together, finally seeing how their rivalry throughout the OG trilogy was never worth it, and trying to, as Erik says, have a precious few of those lost years back. (And if you don’t see how unbelievably romantic that is, well, you have no media literacy. But I digress.)

Furthermore, DOFP closes the arcs of the younger team members, like Rogue, Iceman, and Kitty Pryde, all of whom start off new and inexperienced when we first meet them in the OG trilogy, and ultimately play crucial and indispensable roles in saving the world. (Big reason why the Rogue Cut is the superior version.)

So, with all that significance established, how can we smooth over the bumps in continuity between FC and the OG trilogy? Well, let’s take them one at a time.

Charles and Raven’s relationship. It’s totally understandable that Charles never mentions Raven is his sister in the OG trilogy. Raven abandoned him on the beach and showed no interest in reconciling with him, especially after the experiments done on her when she killed Trask - it seems that the trauma of that experience broke her and turned her into the colder and more ruthless Mystique of the trilogy. There’s no point in bringing up their past together when it’s not relevant to any of the main events. Plus it probably pains Charles to remember Raven in that way, considering that she left him and has made no effort to get back in touch with him. They haven’t truly been siblings for 40 years by then. Also, in what scene could he have mentioned it, anyway? The two of them never directly interact in the OG trilogy, and the only time Mystique is discussed in front of Charles is when Hank reveals she’s been apprehended, and even then you can briefly see a moment of tension in Charles’ face before the subject is changed. So it is hinted at, even if it wasn’t intended at the time the OG films were made. (This also explains why Hank has little reaction to seeing Mystique in The Last Stand; they broke up when she left the beach 40 years ago, and so they’ve both moved on.)

The creator of Cerebro. The OG trilogy establishes Charles and Erik built Cerebro, whereas FC shows Hank building it. However, this issue has an easy explanation. Hank built the very first version of Cerebro at the CIA facility. In both the OG trilogy and DOFP, we see another Cerebro built inside the mansion. Naturally Charles and Erik helped Hank create the new Cerebro for the mansion during their training there.

Charles saying he met Erik when he was 17. This can be written off as Charles making a joke and trying to make himself seem younger than he is in front of a stranger. Or an exaggeration like when we say “i met him a hundred years ago.” So much has happened since he first met Erik, and he’s matured so much since then, that he probably in retrospect believes he may as well have been a teen in 1962. Not the smoothest explanation, yes, but an explanation nevertheless. Again keeping in mind that he just met Logan and has no way of knowing how close they will become, so he lets himself be a slightly unreliable narrator to a stranger with regard to his own age, as many people do. Another possibility is that Charles and Erik - soulmates that they are - did briefly and unknowingly encounter each other, or at least pass each other by, in their teens, but didn’t realize it until years later.

Charles’ awareness of Erik’s helmet. In FC, Charles knows his telepathy is blocked by Erik’s helmet, whereas in X1, he is confused as to why he can’t find Erik in Cerebro. However, Erik’s helmet in the OG trilogy is clearly not the same helmet as his helmet in First Class; the design is very different. Considering that he was always imprisoned for JFK’s death in every timeline (the DOFP change meant he escaped earlier than before), this means the old helmet was taken away from him when he was locked up. So this explains why Charles is confused as to why he can’t sense Erik in X1; he knows Erik’s old helmet was lost, and Erik hasn’t needed s helmet for years. He doesn’t realize until then that Erik has now obtained/created a new helmet, knowing that the anti-mutant legislation proposal is the start of the war.

Charles walking in the 80s. This one seems irreconcilable, but it does have two possible explanations. Either 1) Hank created an updated serum that enabled Charles to walk and use his powers, that only worked for a while and then failed again so Charles just committed himself to the wheelchair during the OG trilogy to avoid any more fuss. Or 2) Charles may have created a telepathic projection of himself walking as a way of showcasing his powers to the mutants he recruited. Furthermore, I theorize that perhaps the opening scene of TLS isn’t real at all, but rather Charles’ own La La Land what-if fantasy - in his grief for Jean’s apparent death and Erik’s Alkali Lake betrayal, he imagines his ideal version of events where instead of recruiting young Jean alone in his wheelchair, the Cuba accident never happened and thus he and Erik never parted ways and recruited Jean together. Obviously Charles’ walking appearance in X-Men Origins: Wolverine can’t be explained as a fantasy, but I honestly don’t care about that movie and I know hardly anyone else does either.

Moira MacTaggert’s lack of aging. This also has a few explanations. It could be that TLS shows a completely different woman from FC who happens to have the same name, and that is quite possible since CIA agent and doctor are two very different professions. Perhaps the doctor is a relative of Moira’s, i.e. her daughter or niece who was named after her - which I think is the most likely explanation. Another possibility is that Moira actually is a mutant who doesn’t age, and not a human. IIRC, there was a recent twist in the comics that revealed she is actually a mutant who doesn’t age. So that also could be the case. But fact that Charles erased Moira’s memories at the end of FC means that even if it is the same woman somehow, via either mutant longevity or massive amounts of de-aging cream & hair dye, she has no mental connection with what came before, so she in a sense is a different woman in TLS, no matter how you slice it.

Kitty Pryde’s powers. We never see Kitty use her powers for time travel before DOFP because there’s no need for it. Plus she’s quite young in TLS and so she probably didn’t even know yet that her abilities could phase through time as well as space.

Sabretooth & Wolverine, and Wolverine’s broken adamantium claws. I don’t care for either XMO:W or The Wolverine and just disregard them altogether. But if one must count them, then maybe after all those years Sabretooth just doesn’t care about his brother anymore and feels no need to mention their relationship when he’s devoted to Erik’s cause and Logan is in the way. (Similar to Charles and Mystique.) Also when it comes to Logan’s broken claws post-Wolverine, Erik’s very presence explains it; the threat of the Sentinels made it a necessity for Logan to have his adamantium claws back for self-defense, so Erik used his powers to put the adamantium, or something similar, back into the claws.

I’ll end with this note. Remember Erik & Rogue’s powers and Charles’ resurrection between TLS and the future of DOFP. Honestly, the fact that TLS essentially reverses two of its most major plot developments in the final moments, with Erik moving the chess piece and Charles waking up in his twin’s body, is proof enough that all the “continuity errors” do not actually make it impossible for these films to be happening in the same timeline. The “cure” wears off and Erik & Rogue are at full power again during the Sentinel war, and Charles is able to use his twin’s body to continue living and looking the same. So if there can be canon explanations as crazy as those, then there’s no way any of the explanations I just suggested for the other discrepancies can be completely impossible.

[pakunod-a]

Abstained.

A/N: a repost from my old blog (@ayayabaroque) with a few tiny revisions, based on Kung 'Di Rin Lang Ikaw and Sa Ngalan Ng Pag-Ibig, both by December Avenue <3 Warnings: Sumeru Archon Quest spoilers, (Use of Scaramouche's real/given name) horrible English </3

If you aren’t the reason to love, would I stop my heart from getting hurt?

Kunikuzushi was beyond saving, he was impossible to love. His own creator abandoned him, his only friends left him, and being faced with his own immortality, he knows that you’ll leave him too.

You believe that though your flaws of mortality remain, you would do your best to stay by his side for eternity.

But as he drifts of into the company of another, a scholar by the name of Haypasia, you question if he is worth the trouble of loving.

“Scaramouche, it’s been only 2 days after your most recent visit to Haypasia, would it be possible to ask you of one thing?”

He merely scoffs, dismissing the idea of resting, if it meant showing affection to his most devoted follower.

It is a true wonder you haven’t left him yet, despite how inconsiderate he is towards your personal feelings.

If it isn’t you, then it won’t be at all, I won’t hope for us anymore.

The Doctor offered you revenge, wealth, and power, all you had to do was to betray Kunikuzushi.

But you couldn’t bring yourself to put him in a much more dire situation, thus you decline.

Yet do you truly feel this way about him?

“You never truly cared for me, Haypasia has been showing her dedication and devotion to me ever since she made contact with her new-found God.” 

Scaramouche seethes, venom spilling from his mouth

“If I were you, I’d do exactly as Haypasia, in hopes to win over my companion again.”

I’m shivering and I can’t move, my heart can’t force myself to love you anymore.

It proves true that the snow-ridden land of Snezhnaya is not suit to your tastes,

but if it means staying as far away as humanly possible from Scaramouche, you’d go through whatever length to ensure his happiness.

For Haypasia's happiness too, yet not yours.

If the frostbite and cold doesn’t take you, then may the fake god abrew in Sumeru take your life.

You once believed that you would take any step toward a brighter future for you and Kunikuzushi, but it seems near impossible to achieve that, if he is in the glory of another.

Do you truly love him now?

If it won’t be us in the end, I’ll stop myself from loving someone else.

“I vow to stay by your side for eternity, let the damned wake, and let the souls who mourn, do so with agony. I will shield you from the world and all it’s cruelty.” —yet you, who makes such sacrilegious promises, only to succumb to sheer cold, and a slight pang of jealousy toward his “first” follower.

If you couldn’t love another, you might as well die with the vows you’ve made to each other.

That way, when he succeeds in entering godhood, he won’t remember you anymore.

But if I don’t remember who we were, who’ll cry in the morn for us?

Before setting foot into Sumeru, you haven’t even heard of Irminsul.

Much less known that Irminsul contains the memories of everyone, which holds little to no regard from Scaramouche, until he caught wind of what recently happened after his downfall.

“They have been pronounced dead. I believe you have no use for them anyway, since Haypasia is your one and only follower, am I correct?”

Il Dottore, 2nd of the Harbingers, announcing your death to the former Harbinger has his mouth agape and speechless.

He descended into madness, believing that it was all his fault, his status, his arrogance, and his vile nature that caused your death.

Shortly after his defeat, he was assigned to carry out a task for Lesser Lord Kusanali and the Traveler.

Enter Irminsul and attempt to find more information on the Descenders of Teyvat. In his subconscious, his new-found information on the erasure of existence from the Traveler has his full attention. Perhaps, if he never met you, if he never tainted his self-image, you could live happily together with him in his next life. With the knowledge of Irminsul, he begins infiltrating its memories in hopes to have his soul reborn into your arms again. I’m letting go, since I can’t move anymore. But would I stop your heart to yearn for another? He succeeded in erasing The Balladeer’s existence of this world, but it was in vain. You couldn’t hang on to the tiny bit of life you have anymore, and withered away from his grasp. In all the years of his life, he has never experienced such grief in his life. His mind, though hazy, tries to cling on to what little memory he has of you in the back of his mind. Kunikuzushi was impressed to say the least, you really did love him, even if he wouldn’t love you anymore. At the cost of the recognition as a God, the price would be his only source of hope and warmth. “Until the end of our time,  until our hearts feel nothing anymore, even if forever ends, I’ll wait for you in the name of love.” - A/N: i wish that i too, can be erased by irminsul. that sucks. Stay safe, keep yourself hydrated, and continue on treading your path in life, with hopes of success. Believe in yourself, and stay positive. <3 -1, Yuan

[randomgods]

--downpour spoilers for anyone reading! i know you have a tag but just to be safe :3!! but you mentioned in your favs post that the only thing you'd change about saint's campaign was the ascension dialogue between moon and pebbles at the end and i think i do agree with you but i can't quite put my finger on what bothered me about it. i'd be curious to hear what fell flat for you and how you would change it if you had ideas? ps. ily and so good to rain rot concurrently with you

I have much to say about this!! Big spoilers for the ending of The Saint Campaign!!

Ok this may come off as a bit harsh but it’s only because I’m so passionate about these two and their story.

I think the reason why the dialogue in rubicon between Pebbles and Moon fell so flat is that it is so impersonal! I recognize that this is the moment that Pebbles and Moon both realize the solution to their entire purpose has been found, and thus it makes sense that they would be focused on it. But JEEZ! Are they not shocked to see each other in the same physical space for the first time? Are they not relieved that they’ve both been freed from the immense amount of physical and mental pain they’ve been in for millennia, eons even? Due to both of their states they haven’t even been able to contact each other in who knows how long. Where’s the EMOTION!

So much time and so much strife has passed through their lives that at this point in the story they’ve moved on from simply being computing machines. The iterators have full, human emotions. The tragedy of Rain World comes from how individual and human every iterator is. They are sentient beings trapped and tormented by their physical limits and their great task burdened to them by a society who abandoned them long ago. In this hardship they grew to know and love each other like real family. How could you not display that in the final moments of their existence? I find it so reductive of their characters to just make them soullessly monologue about the solution of ascension. It would mean so much more for their characters if they thought of each other first rather than focusing on the task their apathetic creators forced upon them. All their character development and agency is just gone in this scene.

There is also no distinction between Moon and Pebbles. We get none of their character. They’re just waxing poetic about the solution of ascension and the state of The Saint’s fate. It reads as if one monologue was written with no voice in mind and it was just broken up between the two.

I would have to think a while on how I would rewrite this part, maybe one day I will! Of course I would have them address that the solution to ascension has been found, but only after they actually emote over what’s happening to them. I would have them reconnect, celebrate, and grieve over all they’ve been through together.

Lol thats a lot, I am just so passionate about this story. The rest of Saint’s campaign really hit hard for me though. Especially finding Pebbles in the state he’s in.

[starwizard57]

FUN FACTS OF ASTRA AND NORTHERN KNIGHT CAUSE IM BORED👍😀

ASTRA facts(fun!)

She can speak Japanese! She would usually use that language so she can curse in that language so shiny doesn’t know what she says(unfortunately, she forgets that Thunder can just translate it)

She lives in a cave(which is the one with those glowing “shrooms”) she would try to avoid touching them. Reasoning: she has Nyctophobia from her trauma of being in dark places such as caves with no light source in it but it’s mostly from her being in space floating around alone

The most silly thing is when she was took to the kalaxian Obliterator, instead of getting punished with pain, she just gets time-out in a corner because of her young appearance( but she still obeys since her brother was there).

She would use her companion fairy/creature(starbie) as a stress toy.

She’s able to shape shift to anything and anybody, such as Shiny, Thunder, some kaijus, but she’s still practicing how to change size just so she can disguise as other human. Astra doesn’t do the way agent x(Vanessa) do, killing and taking their skin, but she actually uses her staff to cast a spell on her in order to transform. She will look exactly as the person she’s shape shifted as but you may expect a different that makes her look a little more vibrant, but actually the color looks a bit dull and the pupils may look dilated or constricted, but she managed to make people believe her with vision manipulation.

She would cling onto Northern knights backs to ride on

It’s turns out, she has to become a protector like how Starbie had to be a protector to Astra

NORTHERN KNIGHT facts(fun!)

Northern knight secretly cradles Astra to sleep if she’s in distress

He has wings that takes the form of dragon wings under his cape(but their scratch/teared up)

He has claws that are strong enough for him able to climb on cliffs

Him and Astra were actually found and kept by another base which looks like a different version of the EDF (possibly the creator of their base was inspired by the EDF) but were also kept as secrets to anywhere else because of a possible chance of them getting caught and killed by the bro’s.

From being abandoned, he developed autophobia(fear of being abandoned/alone). But later on finds out that Astra is also on earth with him(they just haven’t reunited yet) he doesn’t feel anymore since Astra has been the only one who always with him

WELP THATS ALL THE FACTS I HAVE BYE

*Gets slingshot like in angry birds*

[vodkassassin]

I just read your "stop commenting like the author is dead post" and I completely agree with you. May I ask if there is anything one can say to an author (other than thanking them for their work and complimenting the fic) if they have suddenly stopped posting out of nowhere? There are some authors who posted regularly and just completely stopped and I'm tempted to add something like "I hope you are doing well and that everything is okay" but I don't want to make them feel bad or that they have to justify their decisions. How would you feel to get such a comment? My intention is not to guilt them into updating but good intentions can still make people feel bad

I have had comments where people say exactly that (the “hope you’re doing well and that everything is ok”) and I’ll say that this is the angelic other side of the coin of the “update now!” devil side.

Saying “i noticed you haven’t updated as you usually do, I hope everything is ok.” (Oftentimes this comment type continues on to specify that they are not asking after an update but instead are asking after the well-being of the author, such as “no pressure or anything! Just hope that you’re doing well”) this comment highlights the fact that the commentor is only asking because they noticed that the trends of the author’s posting have changed suddenly without warning and it’s made them concerned for the author. The commentor in this case is asking if the author is alright and letting them know that the commentor is hoping for their well-being. It’s coming from a kind place, a human place. It lets the author know that the commentor acknowledges that they are a person, too.

That’s completely different from comments that just say “noticed this hasn’t updated in a long time. Are you still working on this?/Why is it always the good stories that get abandoned?” Because THIS comment communicates to the author that the commentor does not care about the author themself, only the content that the author provides for them. Chapter updates are only a transaction in the eyes of the commentor, one that they feel entitled to despite not paying for them, and they’re annoyed that they have not received their product as per usual. They are commenting on the change in the quality of service and wish to voice their complaints to the provider for slacking. It lets the author know that the commentor does not see them as a person, but as a source of media.

So while the two comments above are similar aside from how they’re worded, they communicate two different mindsets. One is someone asking after another person’s wellbeing and wishing them well, and the second is someone annoyed that the content creator they feel entitled to the content of hasn’t been ‘doing their job’ despite not being paid for it at all.

Hopefully this helps clarify why we authors find it so offensive and insulting to receive the second type of comments.

But rest assured, we (or at least I personally) actually find the first type of comment as something nice to receive bc it means you care.

[dragonflight203]

Mass Effect 2 replay, part two of Tali’s loyalty mission:

-I think Tali has the densest loyalty mission. Mordin comes close, but all the extra conversations makes Tali the winner.

-Why are the living quarters at the entrance of the Alarei?

That must be awful. Every time someones comes or leaves, they pass by you while you sleep. And the kitchen is in the middle of the bunks. You never have any peace.

-I’m just casually looting everything in the sight.

The quarians can consider this repayment for making me stress over a trial instead of just sending a damn email for help.

-Quarian log: Rael’Zorah ordered us to bypass standard safeties. Following standard protocols will take too long.

And shockingly, this ends with everyone dead. It’s almost like there’s a reason for regulations and protocols.

For a game that decries red tape, Mass Effect repeatedly proves its importance over and over. There’s some impressive cognitive dissonance there.

-Tali says the only species that salvages more than them are the vorcha.

I doubt the vorcha are better at it. They’re just more desperate.

-Tali’s turmoil through this mission is clear. She doesn’t know what’s worse: This being her fault or her father’s.

This is a good example of how her mission is better written than Jacob’s. Neither Tali nor Jacob wanted to believe their father capable of the crimes they committed, but Tali’s feelings are discussed in more depth and more personally.

Jacob’s are glossed over and impersonal. Jacob would not want to believe anyone capable of doing what his father did; Ronald could easily have been substituted with an old friend or commander and the mission would play out the same. His outrage against Ronald actions was a general anger against the crew’s mistreatment, not a personal betrayal.

The relationship – or more accurately, lack there of – between Tali and her father is centered in this mission, however. Tali’s actions are driven partly to live up to his ideals and partly because of her anger at him.

Rael did it all for Tali and she never wanted him to; Ronald had put his relationship with Jacob behind him and willingly abandoned him for a decade. Tali’s willing to take the fall for Rael in the end; Jacob only considered how to punish Ronald.

It’s the personal touches in Tali’s mission that make hers more powerful. Jacob’s distance from Ronald distances the player as well.

-One of the quarian logs says that Rael deliberately had the geth network together.

-How does weapons being offline or navigation being locked protect the fleet? Can’t the geth just hack their way past that?

-This must be absolute hell for the geth.

They wake up. They don’t know where they are except captured by their creators, who they do know are hell bent on the geth’s extinction.

They’re tortured. They can tell there are other geth around them also being tortured.

They finally manage to get free and make the torture stop, but they’re still trapped on this ship. Navigation is locked and the weapons are offline. It’s surrounded by the creators. They know it’s only a matter of time before the creators blow the ship up.

They probably just want to go home.

I actually feel pretty bad about killing the geth. Killing people torturing you is a reasonable response. I wish there was an option to negotiate with them.

-And on that note, why are the geth still on the ship? Why haven’t they uploaded themselves to servers?

I suppose we can assume they’re out of range or there’s some kind of shield around the ship to prevent that.

-Rael was looking for a way to overcome geth resistance to reprogramming.

So putting it another way, he wanted to indoctrinate them.

Charming.

-Tali insists that even assembled geth are not sapient. Rael was not performing tests on prisoners.

And how can you test reprogramming if the subjects aren’t sapient…?

Her denial is understandable, but the evidence is increasingly damning.

-If you go renegade and tell Tali the quarians to reclaim the homeworld, she expresses doubts.

They’d have to rebuild it and readapt to it. They’re culture would completely change. She’s not sure it’s worth it.

-But if you go paragon and tell her to not give involved in an unnecessary war, she bites your head off and tell you that you don’t know what it’s like to live in a home one hull breach from destruction. They’re trapped in their suits.

Tali, Shepard got spaced. They have some knowledge of the dangers of living on ships.

I’ll give her the suits, however.

-Regardless, the contrast is interesting. Tali’s conflicted on reclaiming the homeworld; she loves the Migrant Fleet as it is, but is also well aware of its dangers and downsides.

-She says the pilgrimage teaches them all they’ve lost being trapped in their suits.

Without it, she’d never know what she doesn’t have.

-The quarians haven’t colonized another world because it would take them a long time to readapt to it. The homeworld would take 60 years; another world would take 600.

I’ll put out there they could have colonized another world back when they first fled the homeworld and before the suits became necessary, but I suppose at the time it was considered a temporary measure. They never thought they would lose Rannoch for so long.

-If you skip hugging Tali, she has strong words about her father.

Her anger shines through here – she wanted her father to spend time with her.

Instead, he focused on his work to provide the best possible life for her.

It’s the continuing theme for Tali: People love Tali enough do what they believe is best for her, but don’t respect her enough to listen to what she wants.

-Quarians need to take sick leave so they can see each other’s faces.

Damn, that’s tragic.

-And once more with feeling: Rael brought the geth online and performed tests on them for Tali’s sake.

She’s pissed about it and being left to clean up his mess.

He loved her, but he didn’t respect her.

-At least he was emphatic that he did not want Tali to be caught in any potential blowback.

She was anyway, but kudos for trying.

-If you go renegade, Tali says that what Rael did violates quarians laws that predate leaving Rannoch.

I am genuinely impressed that the quarians consider experimenting on live geth over the line. I thought they would only be upset at the danger Rael put everyone in, not the ethics.

-You can also choose to care about Tali more than you respect her by showing evidence at the trial.

She’s understandably upset – she’s going to die on the suicide mission anyway, so what does it matter if she’s exiled?

-If you show no evidence, Tali is surprisingly chill. Not happy at being exiled, but at peace. Again, she’s most likely going to die soon anyway.

-Tali, about the potential war with the geth if she’s exiled: If they get themselves killed through their own stupidity, my conscience is clean.

Bravado probably created by adrenaline. Tali, uh, does not handle it well no matter what if the quarians die fighting the geth.

-Blue paragon and Rally the Crowd play out very similarly. The dialogue choices with Tali afterwards are even the same.

I actually prefer Rally the Crowd – having Veetor and Kal’Reegar come to Tali’s defense is moving.

Blue paragon relies on Shepard being Just That Charismatic again.

-Also, it’s rare for neutral to be so different from paragon or neutral. Usually it’s the same without the flavoring the others come with.

-Kal’Reegar says he’ll be escorting techs around researching for dark energy build up.

The foreshadowing is so obvious. When Bioware abandoned the dark energy idea, they really hurt the series’ continuity.

-He also says the best way to get the homeworld back is to find another means that does not involve fighting the geth.

I think this was intended to foreshadow an option to make peace between the geth and quarians without them ever fighting.

Obviously that idea was dropped.

-Shala’Raan has blinders when it comes to Rael. She always wants to believe the best of him.

Unless you state otherwise, she assumes Rael told Tali in his last message to her that he loves her.

And if you do, she insists he was showing his love the best he could.

-Interesting that when Gerrel asks about the evidence you found, deferring to Tali is neutral. Telling him is paragon.

With how the mission has played so far, I’d say that deferring to Tali should be the paragon choice. Let her make the choices about her life.

Normandy

-According to the Geth Shield Technology, geth technology is completely incompatible with Alliance technology.

Huh. How incompatible is Alliance technology with quarian technology?

The geth must have diverged quite a bit if they’re completely divergent from the quarians. They both built on the same foundation, and they’ve been monitoring organic communications.

-Tali says a few people have suggested her as an admiral candidate.

Foreshadowing! And Shepard may have made their case a little too convincingly.

-Tali: My father would be honored I chose to mourn him by blowing up a lot of geth.

Good line.

[anqelblccm]

⊹˳⁺ ⠀⠀⠀ YOU’RE  WATCHING  :  WHO  IS  HERO?  THE  STORY  OF  BETRAYAL,  FEATURING  THE  CULPRIT  :  PDX101  ! 

ib.  :  midnight  theories  on  yt  ! 

final  word  count  :  1.4k

warning(s)  :  none  as  far  as  i  know,  but  do  lmk  if  you  find  some  ! 

𓂃 ⠀⠀⠀ INTRO  ! 

❝  everyone  remembers  the  trainwreck  of  a  survival  show,  aka  the  fourth  and  last  season  of  the  franchise,  PRODUCE  X  101.  and  just  like  that,  everyone  should  know  the  story  about  the  fan’s  favourite,  HERO,  who  reached  far  in  the  show  and  continues  to  do  so  as  a  re-branded  soloist.  you  better  buckle  up  and  grab  the  popcorn  because  this  will  be  a  long  story.  ❞

𓂃 ⠀⠀⠀ THE  HISTORY  OF  PRODUCE  101  ! 

❝  for  those  kpop  fans  that  haven’t  heard  about  the  PRODUCE  101  franchise  (  which  i’m  still  wondering  because  everyone  knows  about  it  at  this  point  ),  the  franchise  started  back  in  2016  as  a  female  survival  show,  where  one  hundred  and  one  female  trainees  (  hence  the  “one-oh-one”  in  the  show’s  name  )  battled  against  each  other  for  one  of  the  eleven  available  spots  in  a  girl  group  that  would  debut  following  the  last  episode  of  the  show.  the  trainees  would  do  challenges  in  each  episode,  showcasing  their  talents  and  abilities.  by  the  end  of  each  episode,  a  certain  amount  of  trainees  would  pass  into  the  next  round,  while  others  would  simply  be  kicked  out.  terrible  to  be  in  that  position  of  each  episode,  i  know,  but  something  about  this  show  intrigued  people.  oh,  and  before  i  forget,  the  viewers  get  to  decide  which  of  the  trainees  would  go  forward  in  the  show,  despite  it  having  judges  for  each  aspect  (  singing,  rapping  and  dancing  ),  but  before  you  gasp,  remember  that  fact  for  later. 

as  the  years  went  by,  so  did  the  show's  seasons,  up  until  2019,  when  this  video’s  point  begins  too.  for  some  reason,  the  fourth  season  was  named  PRODUCE  X  101,  and  it  was  for  the  male  trainees  to  compete  against  each  other  while  the  creators  of  it  could  sit  back  and  watch  it  all  go  down.  the  show  has  many  controversies,  but  for  now,  we’ll  focus  on  only  one,  or  at  least  try  to. 

the  produce  franchise  was  notorious  for  debuting  strong  project  groups  like  I.O.I,  WANNA  ONE  and  IZ*ONE,  so  people  expected  the  same  for  fourth  season  winners  X1,  only  in  their  case,  everything  ended  in  shambles  only  a  couple  of  months  later.  X1  was  supposed  to  promote  as  a  group  for  two  and  a  half  years  just  like  the  other  three  groups,  yet  they  only  managed  to  release  one  album  (  the  debut  album  )  called  EMERGENCY:  QUANTUM  LEAP.  debuting  in  august  2019,  the  group  promoted  the  title  track  FLASH  as  much  as  possible,  but  with  the  allegations  their  creator  show  received,  they  disbanded  the  following  year  in  january.  what  a  kick  to  2020,  am  i  right?  now  i’m  not  saying  it’s  mnet’s  fault,  but  i  am  one  hundred  per  cent  saying  precisely  that  because  in  july  of  2019  (  before  x1  even  had  a  chance  to  breathe  as  a  group  ),  an  investigation  started  due  to  suspicion  of  voting  manipulations.  ❞

𓂃 ⠀⠀⠀ THE  VOTING  MANIPULATION  SCANDAL(?)  ! 

❝  remember  when  i  said  that  you  need  to  recall  that  everything  was  decided  by  the  public?  well,  here’s  where  it  all  comes  together.  as  mnet  explained  in  the  first  season,  everything  was  selected  by  the  fans,  from  the  ranks  to  the  final  lineup  that  would  happily  debut.  turns  out  that  mnet  lied  and  wanted  to  change  the  trainees’  positions  as  they  wished  to,  which  was  quite  dumb  of  them  because  they  couldn’t  hide  it  well  enough  and  outed  themselves.  of  course,  the  culprits  were  arrested,  but  too  late,  in  my  opinion.  after  the  scandal  broke  out,  X1  could  do  nothing  but  (  not  so  )  silently  disband,  which  angered  fans  because,  unlike  them,  IZ*ONE  continued  promotions  as  if  nothing  had  happened.  if  you  asked  me  personally,  it  was  fucked  up  from  the  company’s  side  to  abandon  X1  and  only  focus  on  their  sister  group,  but  that’s  another  story  we’re  not  concentrating  on  right  now. 

i  think  i  speak  for  everyone  when  i  say  that  the  fourth  season  was  the  last  straw  because  it’s  when  the  manipulated  ranks  started  to  show.  just  by  releasing  the  total  number  of  votes  following  the  end  of  the  final  episode  of  PRODUCE  X  101,  fans  began  noticing  inconsistencies  for  each  trainee  featured.  every  contestant's  final  vote  was  a  multiple  of  7,494.442,  which,  if  divided  by  the  remaining  trainees,  is  impossible  because  of  how  similar  the  number  was,  and  it  didn’t  mathematically  vary  from  each  contestant.  it  was  on  december  5th  when  it  was  confirmed  that  the  votes  for  IZ*ONE  and  X1  (  and  possibly  I.O.I  and  WANNA  ONE  )  were  manipulated,  making  this  worse  for  the  fans  supporting  them  from  the  start.

to  make  things  worse,  november  18,  2020,  was  when  the  court  released  a  list  of  trainees  that  were  fucked  up  by  the  manipulations,  our  dear  HERO  being  one  of  them.  ❞

𓂃 ⠀⠀⠀ WHO  IS  HERO  AND  WHY  IS  HE  IMPORTANT  ? 

❝  so,  after  all,  everyone  must  wonder  WHO  THE  FUCK  IS  HERO,  why  and  how  is  he  included  in  this  video.  well,  you  will  know  if  you  wait  just  a  few  seconds.

HERO,  full  name  KWON  EUIWOONG,  was  one  of  the  most  known  contestants  of  the  PRODUCE  101  franchise.  not  much  is  known  about  his  past;  he  did  mention  that  he  didn’t  plan  on  becoming  an  idol  at  first  but  was  later  encouraged  by  his  friend  to  try.  his  final  rank  was  SEVEN  in  the  last  episode,  and  throughout  the  show,  his  levels  were  consistently  high  and  never  got  under  fifth  place.  need  i  remind  you  that  EUIWOONG  has  been  the  fans’  favourite  from  the  start  due  to  his  calm  nature  and  talent  in  singing  and  dancing  (  i  would  say  in  rapping,  too,  but  he  admitted  he  felt  insecure  in  that  aspect  back  then  ).  so  imagine,  to  fans’  shock,  when  he  was  called  onto  the  podium  as  the  group's  SEVENTH  member  instead  of  a  higher  number.

despite  that,  fans  supported  him  along  with  the  group,  which  some  would  say  was  a  mistake  due  to  the  d-word  (  disbandment  )  of  X1.  like  avatar  aang,  he  vanished  from  the  public  and  left  everyone  in  shambles.  he  successfully  avoided  cameras  and  dispatch  for  a  year  and  a  few  months,  which  didn’t  go  well  on  social  media.  back  then,  when  his  fans  were  unnamed  (  now  called  ODDITIES  ),  they  would  boycott  the  company  and  demand  to  know  what  was  going  on  with  their  idol.  and  as  usual,  boycotts  never  worked  for  companies  like  MIGHTY  DEVIL  and  GLASSHOUSE;  it  went  nowhere,  and  their  questions  weren’t  answered.  twitter  almost  went  up  in  flames,  and  everyone  was  seen  posting  the  same  sentence  over  and  over  again:  WHO  KNEW  THIS  WOULD  BE  THE  LAST  TIME  WE  HEAR  OF  X1  AND  HERO  FOR  A  WHILE  (  spoiler  alert:  everyone  knew,  they  just  didn’t  want  to  admit  it  ).

when  the  list  came  out,  fans  could  see  KWON  EUIWOONG  being  mentioned  in  it,  showing  that  he  was  initially  supposed  to  be  in  SECOND  place  and  not  SEVENTH  like  it  was  established  in  the  end.  pissed  and  thirsty  for  revenge,  his  fans  refused  to  support  their  sister  group,  IZ*ONE  and  flooded  the  mnet’s  comment  section  with  negative  words  and  threats.  this,  of  course,  went  almost  unnoticed  by  other  fandoms,  but  it  was  mentioned  a  couple  of  times  when  talking  about  the  whole  shitshow. 

i’m  mentioning  only  HERO  in  this  video  because,  unlike  other  trainees  whose  ranks  went  from  low  to  high,  EUIWOONG’s  went  the  other  way  around,  which  is  the  first  time  that  happened,  from  my  knowledge.  not  only  that,  but  everyone  knew  he  was  too  good  for  SEVENTH  place,  with  his  talents  and  being  named  the  ACE  OF  X1,  but  no  one  had  proof  of  it  until  the  ranks  were  released.  ❞

𓂃 ⠀⠀⠀ WHERE  IS  HERO  AND  WHAT  IS  HE  DOING  NOW  ? 

❝  the  hiatus  and  disappearance  of  HERO  was  hurtful  to  his  fans  and  other  idols.  his  previous  members  would  say  they  missed  him  and  wish  to  see  him  perform  again,  indicating  he  wasn’t  interacting  with  them  in  private.  for  some  time,  i  thought  that  was  it  for  EUIWOONG’s  career  and  was  ready  to  give  up  when  all  of  a  sudden,  it  was  like  a  blessing  from  the  angels.  the  july  of  2021  started  terrifically  for  us  because  MIGHTY  DEVIL  finally  had  the  balls  to  release  the  news  about  HERO. 

you  might  be  wondering  how  did  the  company  announce  his  return?  well,  they  technically  didn’t;  they  released  his  debut  single  one  day  and  went,  ‘oh,  here  he  is  lol’.  it’s  badass,  in  my  opinion,  because  there  wasn’t  any  pity  shown,  just  a  short  and  straightforward  debut  single  (  which  received  high  praises  and  30m  views  in  the  first  twenty-four  hours,  might  i  add  ),  bringing  attention  to  him  and  waking  up  his  old  fans.

i  know  that  he  just  debuted  (  again  ),  and  i’m  posting  this  way  too  early  (  and  on  his  birthday,  happy  birthday,  hero!  ),  but  i  am  sure  that  he  will  be  okay  and  be  able  to  showcase  his  abilities  as  best  as  he  can.  he’s  still  the  ace,  but  this  time  not  only  of  X1  but  the  whole  industry,  and  he  can  only  go  up  from  here.

interested  in  his  debut  single?  check  it  out  in  the  description,  and  don’t  forget  to  stream,  support  and  love  our  hero  as  much  as  possible.  ❞

[battlemaiden13]

akameloooooo: My God, I can’t believe the gem I just found, simply perfect!

(I don’t know if the creator is he or she, but I’ll address her as she.)

I caught a cold this week and stayed home resting with a sick note. With nothing to do, I decided to revisit my old hobby of reading Mafiafell fanfics and found this wonderful writing.

I confess that when I started reading, I didn’t pay much attention. I thought it would be bad or boring because it’s a multiverse and very long. But, my God, as I read, I became obsessed and couldn’t stop until I finished.

I usually don’t like long stories, but this one won my heart. I fell in love, simply perfect. I can’t express how euphoric I am about this reading.

I think I started last Saturday and finished last night.

It’s simply perfect. Congratulations to whoever wrote it. The writing is good, the story is immersive, and all the characters have distinct personalities. Not to mention the coordination in writing about so many characters at the same time, giving them hobbies, dreams, and desires in a fluid manner. Congratulations.

When I saw it was from 2017, I was sad because I thought the author had abandoned it. But I jumped out of my chair when I saw she released a new chapter today. I couldn’t believe she’s still writing. Congratulations. I haven’t read chapter 179 yet; I’m writing this before going to read it. I’ve never written anything on the internet; this is the first time I’m commenting somewhere random. I don’t even know if I’m writing in the right place. I didn’t even have an account for this; I just created this one to congratulate the perfect author. She knows how to write very well and makes the story engaging. I hope she achieves everything she wishes for. Congratulations once again. Perfect.

It’s a pity I return to my activities tomorrow, but I’m happy with the idea that I can continue my routine while waiting for more of this beauty. I had never participated in a vote before; I already took the opportunity and voted for mine, lol.

My eternal love since I was little is Sans, but she made me fall in love with many from the House Mutt, Coffe, Orange. I hope there are more hot moments. I’m embarrassed, lol.

13: Hi Akame! I’m battlemaiden and yes I’m the author of House Next Door. 

I hope my interpretation of Mafiafell was up to your standards since that’s how you found my story.

I’m so glad you enjoyed my writing after giving it a shot. I understand completely it is very very long. I’ve very much accepted then any new readers I’ll get will be ones who have skipped over HND heaps of times because of it’s lenght and then one day they just say fuck it XD Which I’m fine with, it’s just such a shame I don’t think those first like 20 chapters are great hooks XD. HND is defiantly a story that gets better the more you read. 

Thank you for your kind words. My character writing is something I’m very proud of and I’m glad I can write them well enough for others to enjoy (I think it’s far from perfect though)

Yep, House next door started in 2017 and is very much still updating. I almost do once a week at this point. there was a time I was updating everyday, I miss those days. I want to write a real book one day, not just fanfics and I’ve got an idea for one I just don’t have time to start a draft. 

It’s wild that you made an account just to talk to me. thank you, your welcome to chat any time. give suggestions or ideas or just talk :3

Ah almost all of the Chaos Quartet have your heart XD. I am very much a papyrus varient girly (with a few acceptions) so I will gladly convert you XD

Thank you so much for taking the time to write me so many sweet things and helping my head grow even bigger /jk. I really appreciate it and I hope you have a wonderful day!!

[pr0blematic-h0unds]

I am just again glad that I didn’t accidentally offend you— I’m like fairly certain I accidentally either offended/overshared on anon not once but TWICE to my favorite author in a previous fandom when I was TRYING to be complimentary/silly and I will just never be the same—

Are these long asks okay though?? I don’t mind if the responses take a while ya’know take ur time no pressure, but do I need to stop replying period after this?? Or am I fine??

I found FTFO a couple of months or so before I joined Tumblr, so I just found it through scrolling Ao3 filters, and I was SO CLOSE to passing it up bc the previous fic I tried to read that was Ink-centric was not appealing to me at all— But I clicked on it anyway AND I WAS SO GLAD I DID LIKE— OBSESSED— like yeah seriously it WAS intense that hold it had on me was crazy

I don’t know if this would match up with the ways you like to see Ink portrayed or not but like— if I personally was writing a ‘villain’ Ink, one of the ways I’d wanna do it is make him attached to something/someone that he’s ‘not supposed’ to favor above all else since he’s ‘meant’ to love/protect everything in the multiverse equally. And I’d wanna see this attachment come at the expense of these au’s he’s starting to see as lesser instead of equal—more expendable than HIS thing—due to this attachment. He’s becoming more and more willing to ignore other aus as they burn as to divert the fire from this ONE thing. Like a ‘selfish’ fall from his once ‘benevolent and shielding’ grace. So yes, he’s the ‘villain’ now, in the public’s eyes. He’s hated. He used to protect everything, whereas now he only defends this one, but is Ink really that bad now? He wouldn’t think so. He’s aware of the harm he’s letting befall the multiverse, but how could that possibly cancel out the centuries of protection he’s provided them with up until this point? They’ll survive, always have, always will. The multiverse is resilient. He deserves to be selfish, to take a break, to enjoy the things he never properly is ‘allowed’ to, he thinks. If that enjoyment is at the expense of others’, well, they’ve come to owe him a lot over the centuries, haven’t they? If they repay his labor in death, so be it.

Idk lmao, there’s a million ways to do villain Ink, and that’d be moreso him kinda abandoning the whole creator/protector thing than using it as his reasoning behind being a ‘villain,’ but that’s my personal take no clue if you’ll like that interpretation tho—

I still don’t have EVERYTHING figured out but— I can ramble about some half fleshed-out lore sections if it’s cool that I keep responding? I personally thought I had really cool ideas for what I’m doing with the whole parasite lore/designs things— But idk ┐(´ー｀)┌

Canon is simply a bucket in the sandbox to shape the foundation of the castle. The bucket has done its job. Very pretty nice good foundation you have made there bucket. MY TURN TO BE THE BUCKET AND MESS THIS CASTLE UP. /silly

What does /nn mean— I’m sorry but google won’t tell me—

—Icebreaker Anon

Its okay I get it! Trust me I've done the same thing so many times and it has absolutely crushed me 💔💔💔

Also yeah these ling asks are okay! Perfectly fine actually, I like answering them. It just takes me awhile bc I have a procrastination addiction and am usually too tired to type a lot and think abt what I say 💔💔 (aka what I'm saying is you're 100% okay to continue with the long asks idm!)

I found FTFO by tumblr fanart and stuff and It seemed so cool from the fanart and how people would excitedly talk abt it in a way that fascinated me. When I latched onto FTFO I BINGE read that stuff, like in just a two in a half weeks I sped through it and died when it was over.

ALSO OH MY GOD?? Dude, I fucking love how you wrote that, holy shit. If that was an actual fanfic or smth of the lines I would absolutely be invested bc that seems so cool and honestly I'd love to see smth like it.

Also also, I'd love to hear you ramble!!! I love listening / watching ppl ramble, it brings me so much joy to see people get excited over smth. So please by all means ramble!!! I love the bucket thingy :3 very lovely mold indeed bucket but unfortunately you must shoo shoo a bit for my sillies to interact properly in the way my brain demands 💔💔

/nn means not negative!!! (It took me so long to find what it ment out too dw)

[delumineight]

dark (2017-2020) — martha and jonas as ariadne and theseus

obviously spoiler warning if you’re currently watching/haven’t watched or plan to

no i don’t care that she’s his aunt. everyone in that damn show is related anyway!

EVERYONE seems to make the adam and eve connection, of course, because that is what they go by in their +66 year versions of themselves. it makes perfect sense too, considering they are the creators of the time loop. the creators of their entire bloodline, their child (unnamed/origin) is the father of tronte nielsen in both universes.

however, the ariadne and theseus connection is also canon. the very first scene in which we meet martha she is reading her lines for the play ariadne where she plays the lead. the next episode jonas enters the theater during rehearsal, where she’s giving the big monologue.

“the spinning wheel turns, round and round in a circle. one fate tied to the next. a thread, red like blood, that cleaves together all our deeds. one cannot unravel the knots. but they can be severed. he severed ours, with the sharpest blade. yet something remains that cannot be severed. an invisible bond.”

then immediately after this they share their first kiss unless you’re counting the couple in 206 when jonas goes back in time and kisses her. when jonas enters the bunker for the first time he finds a red (like blood) thread tied in a knot.

and then during the actual play she breaks into tears on the stage when katharina has to run out and rush her off stage. this is also the night that jonas time travels for the first time.

greek mythology:

ariadne is the daughter of king minos of crete. minos has a deal with athenians to send 7 boys and 7 girls annually to dedalus’s labyrinth as to sacrifice them to the minotaur. soon minos put ariadne is charge of the labyrinth. one year the sacrificial group included the athenian king’s son, theseus. he immediately volunteers to kill the minotaur instead of being eaten by it. ariadne falls in love with him for his bravery. before he traveled into the labyrinth, she gave him a sword and a red ball of yarn so that he would be able to leave it in his path and know his way out. after this they eloped and went to the naxos island where theseus ended up abandoning her. when he had realized what he had done, it was too late for him to come back and save her.

dark

obviously, this is all season 1+2. the volunteering of theseus can only be mirrored with jonas’s willingness to go into the caves after the disappearance of mikkel. we later find out in 206 that martha had a crush on jonas (and it was reciprocated) before micheal committed suicide and jonas finds his body, leading to his mental hospitalization.

with the red string and sword though, it can get a bit muddy in terms of comparing these two to the myth as +33yrs jonas gives him the map of the caves, the flashlight, and tells him to follow the string. however the string is very obviously red and it’s shown as jonas and others use it to guide them through the cave. the abandonment would come in with jonas being trapped in time. when he finally comes back, he reunites with her for minutes before adam comes in and kills her.

furthermore ariadne dies in childbirth. which doesn’t happen to martha, but she is pregnant when she… dies? or bursts into dust? whatever happened there, we know that she was carrying the origin and that his birth would trigger the loop to happen all over again.

and the play itself and red string isn’t the only thing that implies this connection. when they have sex in the third season, when they conceive their origin, the song playing the background is the labyrinth song by asaf avidan.

“oh, ariadne, i am coming, i just need to work this maze inside my heart — i was blind, i thought you’d bind me, but you offered me a chart — oh, ariadne, i am coming, i just need to work this maze inside my heart — if i’d known that you could guide me, i’d have listened from the start — … — oh, ariadne, i was coming, but i failed you in this labyrinth of my past — oh, ariadne, let me sing you, and we’ll make each other last.”

another detail we know about original martha is that she’s big into theater. on her bedroom walls she has posters for ariadne, macbeth, and romeo and juliet. i believe each of these have a connection with the story, ariadne being the biggest connection.

macbeth: a story of a married couple killing everyone so that macbeth can become king. an endless slaughter. much like what adam and sic mundus attempt to by trying to find a paradise.

romeo and juliet: though martha and jonas aren’t technically from two different households, they are raised as such. martha’s father ulrich and jonas’s mother hannah are, well, constantly fucking. katharina finds this out pretty early in the series. when she meets +33yrs jonas with martha she threatens him and when she travels back to 1986 she threatens a teenage hannah. there’s also a line in 206 where ulrich teases the ongoing crushes that martha and jonas have on each other by calling jonas “romeo.”

god, has anyone else here even watched this show? i doubt it. i highly suggest it and it is very binge-able. if you have seen it please let me know if you want to hear me talk about it more. i’ve only watched it through once and im so engaged by the lore and theory and the issues of it all.

[nightlilly0110]

Controversial take but I don’t think you should comment anything along the lines of “so sad to see this has been abandoned” on any sort of fan works. I think this also includes for any sort of serialized work that hasn’t updated in a while (webcomics, for instance).

If it’s not abandoned, then you’re making the artist/writer/creator feel guilty for not updating something that they most likely do for free, in their spare time.

If it is abandoned, why wouldn’t you comment earlier? Why wouldn’t you drop a like or a reblog or whatever when it was still active? It’s one thing if you found it after it had been abandoned/cancelled but if you were with it from the beginning and you didn’t engage with it until afterwards, only to express that you didn’t get what you wanted, you’re an ass. That artist/writer/whoever was probably waiting for comments, waiting for people to like what they made, and then the one time you choose to comment is to indirectly demand more of them?

Don’t fucking do this. Comment that you enjoyed the parts available. Make speculation about what the ending could have been. Comment like you would on an active fic, just don’t draw attention to the fact that it’s unfinished and/or abandoned.

Even on active fics, I really hate “update soon” comments. At least phrase it nicer. “Can’t wait to see where this goes” sounds more genuine than “update soon.” “Update soon” sounds demanding.

I know I’m slow at updating my fics. I haven’t updated some of them in literal years, even though I want to and I want to see all of my published stuff through to the end. I wonder if people are still interested in them beyond the one or two occasional kudos I get. I’m happy if I just get a single comment on something in a month or two. If I open that one comment and all I see is some variation of “update soon” it makes me not want to write. You read something I put my heart and soul into and all you can say to me is that you want more? Not even that you liked it, or what you liked about it? Just that you want more?

I do this for me and I already feel bad that I’m not able to meet my standards. I don’t need other people setting standards for me. Literally a comment with an emoji heart would make me feel better than “update soon.” A key smash would make me feel better. I’m sorry if this sounds whiny but again, we do fan content in our spare time. Our time. Not yours. You can wait a little longer.