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Men in Black (1997)
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Men in Black (1997) Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
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The men in black
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Un lobo en el rebaño
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Back in Time P.1 ⏳| Agent K/MIB Imagine
An AU of MiB—takes place during MIB3
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Part 2 | my masterlists
Characters & Pairings: Agent K x MiB agent!reader (romantic)
Content warnings: fluff, profanity, angst, mentions of death, violence, age gape (read the note below), cannon divergence, suggestive themes, shitty realities women & queer had to go through in the 60s, friends/strangers-to-lovers | female!reader (she/her) | wc 9.3k
Premise: The universe was full of secrets. Y/I learned that in 1997 when she signed her name on the dotted line, swearing her life to MiB with the promise to protect all life: humans and visitors alike. But her world flips upside down in 2012, when the secrets her longtime partner K come knocking at their door. Leading Agent Y/I to go on a wild goose chase to 1969 and employ a young K to stop a madman from killing him...but he doesn't know that just yet.
Note: disclaimer I do not own MiB or the characters mentioned, This is fanfic for fun and while most of the scenes are from the MiB movies I did change most of the dialogue for Y/I. ALSO here is the whole age-gap thing: K was born in 1940, reader born in 1964--24 yr age gap (I know I said I’d never do large age gaps more than 10+ years but this is one exception.) In 1997 K is 57, reader is 33. In 2002 K is 62, reader is 38. In 2012 K is 72, reader is 48. In 1969 K is 29, reader is 48, young reader is 5. Your Initial = Y/I, Y/h/c = your hair color, y/e/c = your eye color. In the movie Boris killed on July 15th, 1969, changed this to July 11th 1969.
Y/I = Your First Initial. Y/h/c = Your Hair Color
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2012
The last thing Y/I expected when she woke up that morning and headed into HQ was she’d be the only one to remember her grumpy, always serious, and sometimes melodramatic partner, Agent K. The man who showed her there was more than what meets the eyes in the stars of the night sky. A shooting star? More like the source of a new arrival. As humans were not the only ones to call Earth their home.
Aliens walked among them.
Y/I remembered it like it was yesterday. One minute she’s chasing a culprit in New York as Detective Y/n L/n of the NYPD, the next she’s being fitted in a black suit, identity wiped across all government systems, donning only her initial, Y/I. From there her life turned a complete 180.
Over the course of their 15-year partnership there was never a dull moment. Well 10 years actually when you count the fact the first five years of Y/I career was without K. They’d safely captured the galaxy and disposed of the bug in 1997, her first job after K recruited her. Then he goes saying he wants to retire and orders Y/I to nueralize him. The next five years Y/I went through partners like clockwork. Unable to connect to one like K and neuralzing them left and right.
It just wasn’t the right fit. Which confused the woman greatly because they had literally been partners for a week. Surely anyone else could fit the role. But for some reason Y/I butted heads with everyone Zed set her up with.
Then in 2002 all leads at finding the Light of Zartha points back to K, causing Y/I to recruit him back to MIB and remind him of the life he once had. Of course the task was better said than done. K was as stubborn and cynical even without his MIB persona, believing to have been in a coma for 35 years.
Y/I wanted to strangle him the second he got his memory back. Furious to discover the bastard had neuralized himself so he’d forget where he put the Light of Zartha. “You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me.”
Of course K had a plan. He always did. Which was annoying for the young agent since he hardly ran his ideas past her before going through with them. Honestly Y/I believed K was betting on luck half the time.
But who was she to complain when it always worked in their favor.
The most downright awkward moment between the two happened during their high speed chase trying to get Serleena off their trail. K, forgetting he’d been away from MIB for five years and that the cars were newly modeled, pressed the red button causing them to go into hypersonic mode. And Laura, who Y/I had been casually seeing over the course of the investigation and had grown rather affectionate of the beautiful woman, got to witness it all from the backseat.
“Okay here we go automatic pilot,” K fiddled with the controller resembling one that belonged to a playstation before pressing a button, prompting a decoy to pop out in front of K. Unfortunately, a decoy was all it was. Not taking control of the ship at all causing K to lean over with annoyance plastered on his face. “It is not automatic pilot.”
“He doesn’t operate at hyperspeed,” Y/n’s gave an ‘I told you so,’ face.
“I could really use a steering wheel!”
“Tough luck we don’t have a steering wheel! This is what we got,” her hand gestured to control, reaching over to press the button removing the decoy. K threw his hands up in defeat. Y/I huffed, “didn’t your mother ever get you a GameBoy?”
“What is a GameBoy?!”
Sweet Jesus she couldn’t believe it. What’s a GameBoy? Did this man live under a rock? She was going to have to change that. Bringing her finger up in a stern point, Y/I ordered the man, “You know what, move.” K’s jaw dropped in a ‘O’. “Move!”
And before either had the time to process, Y/I lifted herself off the seat, swung her leg over and straddled K. His eyes practically bulged out of his head, hands going to her hips. The action made her jolt forward, yelping as her thighs pressed against his and feeling something brush against her groin. They both froze, eyes locking as Y/I heard K gulp.
Oh. Fire ignited in the agent. Migrating all the way to her face she prayed didn’t show. K was packing.
Instantly she leaned against the door, pushing the man to get the hint and he quickly ushered himself over the middle console. Face red like a tomato. When they both got situated the car was completely silent. K adjusting his tie while Y/I took hold of the joystick and cleared her throat.
“Alright then.”
Luckily, for her sanity, everything worked out. Serleena indisposed, New York saved once again from a homicidal maniac, and Y/I got her partner back. Only downside was having to say goodbye to Laura, who’d been revealed to be the long lost princess and, quite literally, the Light of Zartha. K was kind enough to give Y/I and Laura a moment to say goodbye. And when a lone tear fell from Y/I’s eyes watching the spaceship ascend to the skies, K was there with a tissue and comforting hand.
They never talked about that moment in the car. And frankly Y/I wanted to erase the memory of her mounting K while at Hyperspeed from her mind. Even half tempted to neuralize herself. But as much as it mortified her, Y/I felt a bit giddy. A bit of her ego boosted at making K speechless….and a bit more.
Her mind quickly shot that down. Remembering this man was her partner--who she went to extreme lengths for to get back--her superior once K got settled back at MIB, and the tiny fact he was a whole generation older than her. Literally. When she did the math it was almost 25 years between them.
Now Y/I had nothing against older men. She loved a silver fox as much as any other, and honestly preferred them to guys younger than her. At the bars she drew them in like wildfire. Never having to pay for her drinks. Then when she was 25 still a detective Y/I had a two year relationship with a man 12 years her senior.
But this was K. They’d really only known each other for maybe a week during that whole bug debacle before the shit with Serleena. It would be highly unprofessional.
Though she can’t lie. The man looked good in his 60s.
Ten years later the two were MIB’s best duo when it came to handling extraterrestrial business and keeping the world safe from unwanted visitors. Y/I with her charm and K with his quick wit, they were unstoppable.
“Don’t worry, K, you can sit this one out,” she’d tease, adjusting the cuffs of her suit with a confident smile. “I got this.”
He’d match her grin, “sure you do, slick.” Then he’d start walking and get right to work leaving her behind.
“Are you ever going to let me drive?”
“Maybe next year.”
“You said that last year, K.”
“I did?” his feigned confusion with a shrug, “Hmm don’t recall.” Like always, he was met with her groan, hearing her head fall back against the seat in defeat.
“I’ll have you know I’m an excellent driver, K.”
He chuckled under his breath, casting a brief glance, “Don’t doubt it, sweetheart, now call Zed and let him know we’re on the way back.”
What could go wrong? Apparently everything.
They’d been on a job the previous night. Investigating Wu’s following suspicious activity and K wasn’t acting like his usual self. On edge, behaving in ways Y/I kept wondering what had crawled up his ass.Then all hell broke loose causing them to lose each other at one point. When Y/I finally made it to the roof, out of breath and in desperate need of a drink, she discovered K wasn’t alone. Greeted with an alien named Boris the Animal.
And he was not the happy camper. In fact, he broke out of prison just to hunt K down.
Later on K vaguely explained the history between him and Boris. “I should’ve killed him,” were his exact words, surprising the agent. She’d always known K to be the man to see all life as precious. He’d take the risk in apprehending a suspect rather than putting them down. Boris, however, did not fall under that.
The night ended with K pulling a play out of left field by suspending Y/I for four weeks when she refused to let go of not pursuing Boris. Who’s arrival shook K to his core. Quite literally. And when he called her that night to say, “you know what the most destructive force in the universe is?”
“Sugar,” Y/I sarcastically replied, not really in the mood.
“Regret.”
She went silent for a moment, “You don’t have to wait. Just talk.”
“I promised you the secrets of the universe nothing more,” K reminded her, making the woman roll her eyes in frustration.
“So what, K? There’s secrets out there the universe doesn’t know about? How can we be partners if you can’t even trust me?” When he didn’t answer, Y/I had enough and hung up. Unaware the man on the other end was holding himself together. So desperately wishing he could tell her the truth. The whole truth.
Falling asleep not long later, Y/n woke the next morning like any other day. Completed her morning routine, whipped up some breakfast and nursed a cup of chocolate milk. Something she hadn’t had since grade school but got the sudden crave for. Slicked back her mix match hair into a tidy bun, gave one last look in the mirror to make sure her suit was nice and tidy before heading out the door.
The entire journey to headquarters felt weird. Unexplainable really. A dreaded feeling in Y/I’s chest on the verge of making her physically sick. But what was it?
When she arrived at HQ Y/I was greeted in the elevator by a man she didn’t recognize, but somehow knew her. Saying he was Agent AA and they’d been partners for a while sending Y/I into a frenzy, “I have no idea who you are, and we are certainly not partners. Where’s K?”
“Who’s K?”
“Who’s K?” she repeated, making him flinch by her sudden shout. “You know who I’m talking about. K! Agent K--the best MIB has ever seen. He’s my partner--My K!” Y/I pushed based AA to frantically search for K. Anxiety rose each time she asked a passing agent where he was and they said they had no clue who she was talking about. “K!” she kept calling for him, saying how it wasn’t funny to be playing a prank on her after their argument last night. But with each second Y/I was becoming scared. Circling in the middle of HQ until she finally broke with a pained scream that echoed through the building, “Kaaayy!!!”
It was then O dragged Y/I to her office, stating she was in charge of MIB….and that Agent K had been dead since 1969.
“Okay, you’ve got it all wrong,” Y/I chuckled to avoid having a mental breakdown right there. She was beginning to hyperventilate, struggling to process the buffoonery. There’s no way in hell K was dead. And that he had been for 40+ years. “K is not---what-whatever joke this is needs to stop--.”
“This isn’t a joke, Agent Y/I--.”
“K can’t be dead! That is impossible--I-I just did a job with him last night. We were on the phone before I went to bed. This is insane!! I am not crazy!!” Y/I leaned back in her chair, apologizing for the outburst when she saw how O was staring at her. “I’m sorry, O. That was out of line. But, O please,” she stood up, pleading with her eyes. “You have to understand that this--.” she gestured to the vicinity, “was not my reality yesterday. Something happened to K in the last twelve hours and we need to get to the bottom of it.”
There were a lot of things Y/I accepted in life. Her father left when she was five. Her family kicked her out at 18 when they caught her with a girl. Ex boyfriend cheating on her because her detective job had her working long night shifts. Blockbuster closing down. The Mets losing the World Series year after year. Pepsi replacing Coca-Cola in the MIB vending machines.
But a world without K? Y/I refused to accept it.
So that’s how she found herself at the top of a skyscraper about to make a time jump into 1969. Jeffrey, the store clerk she tracked down who gave Boris the means to travel back in time, followed behind her.
“Okay, you know the rules of time jumps, right?”
Y/I wobbled on her heels, doing her best to not look down. The wind blew in her face, “give me the short version.”
“Okay. You want to save your partner, word of advice: stay away from him.”
“Yeah got it,” Y/I nodded, making a motion with her hand. “Stay away from K just kill Boris.”
“Now,” Jeffrey handed her a pair of goggles. “Take these because it gets pretty windy on the way down.” Y/I spluttered a sound.
“The way down?!”
Jeffrey either doesn’t register the dumbfounded expression plastered on her or chooses to ignore it. “With your eyes tearing up it’s hard to read the time dial plus,” he offers a smile, “it helps you look like a real time traveler. Which is cool.” Her face never changed.
“There’s no way in hell I am jumping off of this building!”
“Time. Jump,” his face reads, ‘what did you think it meant?’ Y/I just gulps, peering out into the distance. Contemplating her life choices. Meanwhile Jeffrey pulls out the time dial, “Okay now I gotta set this thing to the 11th. Uhhh,” his fingers work over the device. Setting it to July 11th, 1969. “That seems right….ish.”
Y/I lifted her head to stare at him, “I’m gonna need that to be on the money, Jeffrey. Time is at stake here. Literally.”
“Now, all you gotta do…is jump,” passing the dial, he gives her a light push on the back, making her stumble and go, “hey-hey, stop. I don’t need to fall to my death before you finish telling me what I’m supposed to be doing.” Slowly itching herself to the edge, Jeffrey explained the final steps.
“Now as soon as you’re moving fast enough that circle is going to fill up with some sort of green time travel liquid or some such and it’s going to glow really bright--” Y/I cursed when she nearly slipped, catching her hand on the smooth surface. ‘God, I shouldn't have chosen today to wear my heels.’
“As soon as that happens you need to break that blue laser line with your thumb to complete the circuit,” Jeffrey scans their view. “At this height that should be uhhh…let’s see massive Earth and 30 something feet per minute uh--.”
The fear of jumping off a building combined with the stress of failing to save K, Y/I felt the pressure break. “It’s 32 feet per second per second.”
“That sounds right--ish,” Y/I mentally groaned at his lack of confidence. “So that would be, I guess uh, about two feet off the ground.”
“Then I break the laser line?”
“No, don't break it!”
“I mean when I’m fast enough,” Y/I reiterates and receives a thumbs up.
“Sounds good.” Well that didn't help her at all.
“So do I break the laser line or do I not break the laser line?”
“Do not lose that time device,” Jeffrey warns, making the woman sigh and accept she’s going to have to wing it and pray she lives to tell. “Or you will be stuck in 1969.” He didn’t have to say anything else for Y/I to understand. She was going to be a fish out of water.
Was it too late to change her clothes and dye her hair?
“How will I know if it works?” She asked, stomach dropping at the sight of spaceships entering the atmosphere. The Boglodite invasion had begun.
“You’ll either know…or you won’t.”
“Fucking A,” Y/I pulled the goggles over her head. They were tight against her skin, but she was able to at least breathe.
Before he left, Jeffrey had one last thing to say. And it really put into perspective how important K was to Y/I. “You must really love this guy to do this.”
“Yeah,” she muttered under her breath, tightness in her chest while heat flooded her veins. “I guess I do.” She brushed the intense feeling as platonic love for K. Their partnership had lasted 10 years. He was more than just a colleague, he was her best friend. Turning back to Jeffrey before he could leave, she yelled, “Wait! How come I remember K but nobody else does?”
“Woah!” Jeffrey exclaimed, looking as if she just unlocked the key to immortality. “Woah! That means you were there.”
“I was where?” She didn’t understand. Yeah she was alive in 1969, five years old in fact. But what the hell does he mean by she was there?
“If you survive you gotta come back and tell me everything, okay!”
“What are you talking about? Where was I?!” she was interrupted by a ship attacking a nearby building. Jeffrey ushering her off.
“You gotta go! Go! Go! Go!,” he fled to safety, leaving Y/I alone on the rooftop. More ships attacked, sending an alarm across the city for residents to seek shelter. Below Y/I made out their screams.
Time dial in hand, Y/I said a mental prayer, “I’m coming for ya, K,” and leaped to her destiny.
1969
Once Y/I settled her heart rate and mentally cheered in victory she didn’t die, her feet carried her off the rooftop and down the elevator. Had her mind not been preoccupied, she would’ve found humor in the man who looked rather scared out of his wits when she entered the elevator. Clutching the paper close to his chest while giving her an odd once over.
“What’s today?” Y/I picked up on his adversary, not meeting her eye at all.
“Tuesday,” he said shortly.
“The date,” she corrected with a sigh.
“The 11th.”
“Of?”
“July?”
“My man, what’s the year?”
“Nine-nineteen sixty-nine.”
“Thank you,” she threw a hand up, startling him more. “God, and I thought people sucked at answering simple questions where I’m from.” She left the elevator in a haste once it hit the lobby floor, rushing out the doors to a 60s New York.
After stealing a rich man’s car, neuralizing two cops and knicking a bottle of coca-cola from a vendor to quench her time travel thirst, Y/I finally made it to Coney Island. Approaching any and everyone to see if they’d seen Boris.
“He’s about six foot, gnarly beard and looks like he could use some screen,” the young couple hippy kept eyeing her up and down, expressions mixed with weariness and awe. It’s not everyday a woman in a dressy suit approaches to ask you questions. Y/I huffed, pinching the bridge of her nose, “I take that as a no?”
It was like this all morning and Y/I was starting to lose hope. But she had to stay. It said in the records Boris murders an alien on July 11th at Coney Island. Maybe if she could find him she’d save another life.
A scream filled her ears, Y/I running in the direction of the ferris wheel. Breaking through a curtain with her gun raised where she found a body laying on the ground. “Shit,” she muttered, head raising a second later to thumping.
There, leaping across the panels of the ferris wheel, was Boris. Y/I trained her blaster up, eyes following Boris’ until she could get a clear shot. She predicted he’d jump to the large billboard, so she focused her aim to await him.
But fate had other plans.
As soon as she lined up the shot Y/I felt cold pressure against her temple. Blood rushed as she mentally cursed herself. Then a familiar southern drawl filled her ears.
“We’ll take it from here.”
“K?” she gasped, eyes wide as saucers. Smiling as she turned to see him, young and alive, “K!”. ‘Damn K was a stud.’ However the happy reunion was cut short when the agent remembered this was a young K. His face visibly surprised at the mention of his name. Y/I once again cursed at herself.
He didn’t know who the fuck she was.
His defensive demeanor showed that. “I’m afraid I’m going to need you to lower your weapon and come with me, ma’am.” Had this been her K she would’ve teased the fact that even so young authority seeped off him. Carrying himself in a way Y/I was sure he had gals falling to his feet left and right.
But she couldn’t tease him. This wasn’t her K. And this K looked like he was about five seconds from losing his patience.
“Sorry, pretty boy,” she found her voice, his face shifting at the nickname. “Can’t let that happen.” Before K could blink, Y/I shot her arm up to push his blaster away, kneeing his stomach causing K to grunt and bend over, before kicking his legs. She made a mental note to apologize to future K once she returns home.
If she manages to pull this off.
Once K was down, Y/I took her chance to run. Unfortunately she didn’t get far. Heading in the direction Boris fled, Y/I got caught in a maze of tents, unable to find her way out. She stomped her foot, “Dammit.” It was there K found her, tackling the agent from behind, “Ooof--!” They rolled on the harsh ground, scuffling their suits and shoes before coming to a stop. K kicked Y/I’s blaster away, annoying her greatly, “Rude.”
They engaged in a small brawl. Which was pretty much Y/n doing all she could to escape and K attempting to get the upper hand but falling short. It was a new thing for K. Having an opponent on his level. He’d never had his work cut out for him until now. This woman was something else. She intrigued him.
After two whole minutes of fighting, they were becoming tired and frustrated. K took a blow to his rib, Y/I’s hair now loose from the hair tie snapping. It came to a climatic end when they fell back onto a curtain and tumbled onto a table full of orange crates. Moaning as they made impact with the ground. Y/I pushed herself up only to yelp in pain and fall back as electricity filled her veins.
The bastard tased her.
Breathing heavily, K wiped the sweat from his forehead. Leaning back on his knees as he observed the unconscious woman in front of him. Now that he got a better look, K assessed her to be in her mid to late 30s. Striking features with signs of aging, some wrinkles by her eyes and smile lines, but breathtakingly beautiful. Hair styled in an unusual fashion. Two toned in a way K couldn’t tell if it was natural on the sides framing her face or if they were purposely dyed a stunning white/gray. The top of her head was layered in y/h/c. Her makeup relatively simple with the exception of bold red painting her lips.
The most interesting detail of the gorgeous woman was she adored a black suit just like him. She stuck out like a sore thumb when all the women wore dresses and skirts. Yes, some wore pants, but a woman in a sleek black suit and tie? Unheard of. Not to mention her suit was made in a different fashion than his own. More tight on her figure, thinner tie, not as boxy on the shoulders.
K’s suspicion rose when he found fancy gadgets in the pockets of her blazer. He’d made sure to disarm her in the event she woke before they arrived at HQ. Besides her gun, he discovered a pen-like tool, and a circular device reading the current date. ‘What the hell?’ he thought to himself, examining the tools closely before pocketing them. Brows raised to his hairline when he found her badge, the MIB logo in bold printed above her identity.
Agent Y/I.
“Huh,” K hummed in wonder, “Well I’ll be damned.” He glanced down at the fallen agent, lingering on her features, “Now that’s something you don’t see everyday.” Badge in hand, K gently lifting the woman in his arms to take to his car. But not before neuralizing the crowd that had gathered around them.
Whoever she was, K was going to find out.
Y/I awoke with a groan. Feeling tension in her neck and back and throat dry as a desert. Bright lights filled her vision, causing her to blink rapidly until the blurriness became clear. Making her brows furrow at the sight of a very different MIB headquarters she was used to. For starters this one had color. Burnt orange furniture and bulky furniture to fit the times. It was buzzing with MIB agents and travelers from other worlds. Y/I heard one alien on the phone with his dad begging to bail him out.
Good luck with that buddy.
Still feeling the numbness from the voltage, Y/I massaged her jaw with her hand, groaning lightly as she turned her head to scan the rest of HQ. A sudden gasp leaving her as she found K staring at her, making her jolt in her seat.
“Christ, K,” a groan left her throat, eyes narrowed at the man--who again observed her with skepticism. “Would it kill a girl to ask you to turn the electricity down on that thing? I can barely feel my tongue.” He cut right to the chase.
“How do you know my name?”
‘Fuck,’ Y/I gritted her teeth. Pissed at herself for making a simple mistake. Now she had to improvise. Something K always clowned her for. “What? Cause I called you ‘K’?” She could tell he wanted to smirk at her nervous chuckle. “No, I call everybody K. It’s my thing really--What up, K?” the person passing the two gave a look, and the agent continued the ruse much to K’s displeasure. “Kaaaaayyyyy, pasa. Yeah, you know how it is.”
God this was embarrassing. But she was too deep now.
K turned in his chair around to grab something off the desk, “Now that I know what you look like when you’re lying.” Placing the items in front of Y/I, she mentally cursed. It was her neuralizer, gun, badge and time travel device. “Won’t you show me what you look like when you’re telling the truth?”
Oh boy. She hadn’t thought of him confiscating the stuff she had. Super important stuff. How was she going to get out of this? K was the smartest man alive. He’ll know she’s lying no matter how much she tries to deceive him. Time was running out and she needed to get away fast.
Putting on a convincing smile, Y/I leans her elbow on the corner of K’s desk. “I won those at Coney Island on the ring toss,” the lie was met with a gesture of her hand, like she actually was tossing a ring.
“I won a stuffed bear once, but never one of these,” he shakes his head, giving that damn smile where he knows she’s lying. Of course he fucking knew. “Must be good, slick.” God there was the nickname. The one that in the beginning Y/I hated but learned to love as it was only reserved for her. Hearing the younger K say it brought comfort to the agent, reminding her why she was in 1969 in the first place.
“All right, sir,” she pulled herself together, becoming serious which surprised him a bit. “I was minding my own business. I was out there waiting for my girl, who, by the way, is probably worried sick looking for me right now. So I-I just need my things and I need to get back to her.”
“What’s ya gal’s name?”
“Huh?”
“Your gal,” K repeated with a smirk, “what’s her name?” The question threw her off, but then Y/I she did, in fact, say she was waiting for a girl and not a guy. Forgetting she was in 1969 where lgbtq+ unfortunately dealt with prominent homophobia and persecution. ‘Fuck’ she thought again, hoping young K was just as accepting as his older self. Who, when Y/I told him she was bisexual his reply was, “I know, slick.”
By some God awful reason, Y/I’s brain melted at having to come up with a fake girlfriend name, “Schtaron” saying it aloud even made her cringe.
K even looked surprised, eyebrows raising as though he misheard her. “Schtaron?” Well she couldn’t take it back now. So Y/I did the only thing she could do: nod, accepting her fate. K’s mouth opened slightly, processing the information. “I bet Schtaron likes that suit of yours. Hm?”
Y/I peered down at her outfit where K was looking. Crisp black suit matching his only a tad different in style. She raised a brow in defiance, “What, it’s a crime to wear a black suit?”
K shrugged, finger brushing his bottom lip, “Not a crime, but it makes you stick out compared to the other pretty ladies wearing pencil dresses and skirts.”
“Yeah well,” Y/I scoffed with a roll of the eyes. “You men haven’t realized yet that women can rock a three-piece suit and tie better than y’all.” As though confirming her words, Y/I heats up when K gives another glance over her suit. From the tie around her neck to the red bottom heels on her feet.
Obviously he didn’t recognize the shoes since Louboutins didn’t release until the 90s, but K was still impressed nonetheless she’d be brave to wear such footwear in that line of work.
He leaned back in his chair, turning away when he was caught staring, red creeping up his neck and hand raising to adjust his tie. Y/I smirked, pleased with his reaction, while battling the warmth feeling in her chest. Part of her wanted to poke fun at him like she usually did, but there was a job to do.
“All right, listen, pretty boy,” she gets his attention back, visibly reacting to the nickname, “I haven’t done anything wrong except be in the wrong place at the wrong time. And I need to get out of here,” she slaps a hand down on the stack of files in front of her, “I cannot be here with you.” They’re suddenly interrupted by the arrival of a beautiful blonde.
“Terribly sorry,” she apologizes to Y/I before turning to K. “X is frightfully upset about the whole Coney Island incident.” K moves to grab his cup of coffee, meanwhile Y/I could not contain herself and was openly checking the blonde out. Which K caught and had to do a double take.
“Alright thanks for the heads up,” he takes a sip, wincing at the bitter taste, “Oh, man, this coffee tastes like dirt.” Y/I snapped her head to him in shock before turning back to the woman, ‘no fucking way,’ her suspicions were confirmed seconds later.
“What do you expect? It was--.”
“Just ground this morning,” Y/I finishes the saying, eyes wide and grin threatening to expand. “O?” ‘Damn O has always been fine.’
Both faced her, expressions of bewilderment. Especially O who had yet to know who Y/I was. It was further proof to younger K Y/I was hiding something big.
Realizing her mistake Y/I attempted to do damage control. “No, I call ladies ‘O’,” her hand waves. Feeling small under K’s hard stare. “To me, O is feminine, K is masculine.” What the actual hell was coming out of her mouth? She didn’t know and couldn’t stop, “You know, I see a couple, I’m like, “O-K.” Before anyone had the chance to react to the utter bullshit she spewed, X was rounding the corner. K dropping a large booklet on top of Y/I’s stuff.
“What a mess,” X exclaimed, standing beside O. “Any casualties?”
“Yes, Roman the Fabulist.”
O appeared devastated by this news. Almost like she could cry whereas X just rephrased the question to specify, “Any human casualties.” Y/I narrowed her brows slightly, offended by the audacity of X which didn’t go unnoticed by K. He matched her expression. To him, all life was precious. Humans and aliens alike.
“No, sir,” Y/I picked up on his strained tone. It was then X turned his attention to the woman seated in front of him with a piercing glare, “Who the hell is this?” He was put off not just by her scowl, but the fact she wore a suit and had mixed-match hair.
“Look, I was…” K interrupted before she could make a fool of herself.
“Stray human caught in the net.”
“Code 43 her and throw her back,” X ordered. O, sensing there was more to the story, diverted X away from the desk, “Sir, you’re gonna be late for a meeting with the Viagrans. They have a revolutionary new pill.” Y/I tilted her head at O’s words, ‘What the hell? Viagrans? New Pill? Oh my….’ She wanted to laugh at the irony, but K was back in front of her, serious as ever.
“Okay, slick,” he leaned on his elbows, waiting for the woman to come clean. Y/I kept her guard up, shaking her head furiously and sticking with the stupid story, “I was waiting for my girl.”
“Schtaron.”
“Yes,” Y/I wanted to crawl under the desk and hide, “she’s….Greek. It’s a family name--very unique.”
A moment of silence passes and K finally gives up. Accepting he was going to have to use unorthodox methods to get answers. “Okay. Just one last thing…..an eye exam.”
Oh no.
Any attempt Y/I made to escape was to no avail. They caught and strapped her to a stretcher like contraption, after she put down three men and managed to disarm K again, making his jaw drop. They wheeled her to a room, her eyes landing on a large machine resembling a device she was all too familiar with. “That’s not an eye exam, K,” she shouted appalled, “That’s a big ass neuralizer!”
“You sure have a lot of information for a gal who doesn’t know anything,” he approached the control machine.
“I see what you’re saying. Woah--!” They spun upside down. “You know what, K, we need to hold up a second. K!” Her y/h/c and white hair fell over her face, Y/I blowing air to get it out of the way. Necklaces smacking her cheek.
A man in a lab coat and white suit approached her. Leaning down with an object in his hand. “Let’s just get this bite guard in here.” Y/I clacked her teeth in an attempt to bite him.
“Hey. Back up,” she did it again, causing him to draw back. “Back the fuck up. I’m not afraid to bite you.” The stretcher jolted up, making it to where she was level with the machine. “K, listen,” she pleaded with a chuckle, “I think we got off on the wrong foot, all right? So let’s stop this show and talk for a second. Don’t put me in this thing, K!”
K thought about it for a moment before replying, “Too late, lass,” and pressed a button. Y/I groaned, stretcher moving to enter the vessel.
“K, no, you have to listen to me. I can help you with this case!” her pleas went ignored, K focusing on the dial. “K!” She makes a face, “I’m doing the truth face--you’re missing it!”
“Ah, I’ll just use my imagination.”
Buzzing filled the room. The neuralizer was closed and locked, beginning to spin in a circle as it lit up. Y/I started feeling nauseous, struggling against the holds. “K, I’m after the same killer you’re looking for. He’s a Boglodite named Boris.”
“Ship has sailed, amiga.”
The dizziness was becoming intense, Y/I blinked her eyes, “K, if we don’t get him now we’ll have to deal with two of them. Two!” K adjusts his headset.
“You had my undivided attention.”
“One will have one arm, and one will have two,” she informs, neuralizer speeding up. Now her heart was about to burst from her chest, desperation consuming her. “K! Listen to me, please!” the stretcher set in place as it locked in. “If you erase me you’ll be erasing the whole world!”
“Fifteen seconds to neuralyzation. Fourteen.”
“Fuck-fuck-fuck,” Y/I mumbled, the fear now setting in. The last time she felt terrified--besides that morning--was after getting poisoned by an alien stinger while on a job in 2003. Never had she seen K so scared. Cursing at everyone and breaking every traffic law to get back to HQ. So frighteningly angry he nearly threw hands with Zed while O had to step in to calm him down.
“Thirteen. Twelve. Eleven.” her thoughts became fuzzy. Neurons pulling apart and pushing together. The area of the brain dedicated to memory being targeted causing her mind to spin. “Ten. Nine. Eight.” The least she could do before her brain was scrambled was warn K one last time. “When you see Boris tomorrow, K, kill him. Do not arrest him, you have to kill him!”
“Six. Five. Four.”
Y/I’s eyes closed, steadying her breathing to calm herself and not allow the fear to take over. Memories started to play like a film. From her childhood, to adolescence. High school and police academy. Her time as a detective to the moment she met K. Discovering the world beyond Earth. Every mission, every job. Every precious moment she took for granted.
Outside, K kept replaying her words. Warnings. Whoever she was, she knew too much. Between the technology, the suit, knowing his name as well as O’s, this woman had a past. A past with the same man he needed to find.
For God’s sake she had an MIB badge. She was one of them.
‘Fucking hell.’ “Three. Two. On--.” K stood abruptly and smacked his hand down on the button to shut it down before it could reach one.
Y/I let out a breath of relief, feeling the contraption slow down until it came to a stop. Lights shutting off. “Is this thing off, K? Hey, I don’t think it’s off all the way--can you check real quick?” Cranking her neck as best she could, Y/I desperately needed an Advil. “It’s still whirring and buzzing. I don’t know if I don’t know nothing.” Now she was being dramatic. But who could really blame her after nearly getting her memory erased.
The stretcher exited the machine, pulling Y/I upright causing her hair to become a wild mess. K approached, headset off, and watched her carefully. “I knew Roman. His wife cooked me dinner once and while it was not pleasant, he was my friend.” The men unlatched the metal straps holding Y/I in place, K stepping forward to extend a hand so she’d safely step off while saying, “Last chance, who are you and what do you know?” She took his hand, both flinching at the tiny shock that occurred and Y/I stumbled back once on her feet so they had a bit of distance, but still close. Inhaling, Y/I spilled all K needed to know in one breath.
“I’m an agent at Men in Black, but I’m from the future--we’re partners, ok? Twenty-five years from now you’re going to recruit me in New York, and fourteen years after that, the guy you didn’t let me kill today at Coney Island, he escapes from prison, and jumps back into the past and unleashes a full scale invasion of Earth,” Y/I checks her watch briefly, “we’ve got approximately four days and ten hours to catch him and kill him. So really, we need to go right now because he can be anywhere!” She let out a small groan, letting the air catch up. Nerves arose at K’s blank stare. Y/I unable to tell what he was thinking and that brought great annoyance.
They stayed like that for a moment. Staring at each other in silence. Y/I allowed her shoulders to drop, sighing in the process.
Finally, after what seemed like forever, K turned on his heel toward the door, “Alright.” Puzzled, Y/I blinked rapidly in question, but followed after the man.
“So that’s the story you believe.”
“That one was the truth,” K pointed out. “Wasn’t the whole truth, but I guess it’ll do for now.” Y/I looked at him offended.
“What the hell do you mean? Of course it’s the whole truth!” Liar. “I told you everything.” ‘No I didn’t, but what you don’t know won’t hurt ya.’ They entered the elevator, “The problem with a lie, K, is once you start lying you put yourself….” she trails off when he turns to her with a look of, ‘Don’t even try,’ Sighing again, Y/I licked her lips while placing her hands in her pockets, staring ahead rather than at K.
“Agent K,” a voice called from below as the elevator rose. They turned to find X and O. “What’s she still doing here?”
“Oh I might have cooked her for too long. Thought I’d better walk her out.” Catching on, Y/I said the first thing that came to her mind.
“I put my pants on.” K rolled his eyes, lifting his hand as if to say, ‘See what I mean?’ Once X looked satisfied and took his leave, K gently placed a hand on her shoulder to turn her back around. His touch sent another wave of heat. She straightened her posture, looking ahead.
Y/I jaw hurt from how hard she was holding her laugh. Squeezing her eyes shut, but she still felt K’s gaze, damn well knowing she’d break if she made eye contact. “Please stop looking at me before I lose it.”
“How’d you know--.”
The elevator jolted a stop, Y/I exiting first before K took the lead. She quickened her pace so they were next to each other. Outside K led her to his car, Y/I’s unable to contain her reaction at the sight of his car. A 1964 Ford Galaxy 500. She whistled as got into the car, missing how K was biting back a smirk.
The driver’s door slammed shut behind him, “Okay future-gal, where to?” Y/I’s brow raised, hands making a motion. She didn't have a damn clue at what to do next. Now that her original plan blew to shit.
“I don’t know.”
“What do you mean you don’t know?” K parroted, just as confused and she made a face.
“I don’t know. Uh…go wherever you went last time.”
Did she forget she traveled back in time? “I haven’t been here last time. I didn’t tell you where I went?” She had to choose her next words carefully to not let anything slip. Nonetheless she let out a light chuckle.
“No, we don’t really talk.”
K huffed, adjusting himself in the seat, “What kind of partners sit in a car all day every day for 14 years and don’t talk?”
“Exactly,” her smile is tight, proving her point. She points a finger between the both of them, “and this is the type of problem it causes. It’s dysfunctional and annoying if I’m being quite honest. And technically we’ve been partners for ten years but that’s a long story and one for another day.” She didn’t miss the curious look that came over him, but it was quickly replaced with frustration.
“Alright, sweetheart,” he put one hand on the wheel while his arm laid across the headrest of the seats, face serious. “You better get useful real quick, or you’re going back to room 43.”
Y/I muttered something he couldn’t hear, turning away to gaze out the windshield. Brows furrowed deep in thought as she picked through her brain for any information.
“Okay, uh,” she bit her lip, “the file--the file I read about Boris before coming here said something about a factory,” she looked back at K, “something happened at a factory on the 13th.” She heard him sigh, and Y/I held back her own. “Look, pretty boy, I’m giving you all I got. You can stare at me with your jedi knight--,” she forgot Star Wars had yet to be released for another seven years. “Looking eyes, but that’s all--we’ve got two days to find out where he’s going.”
To her surprise, K started the car. She tilted her head, “oh, did that spark something for you, cowboy?”
“Roman had this on his person when he was murdered,” In his hand was a matchbook, Y/I reached to take it. On both sides read ‘Cosmo Lanes,’ the letters encased in bowling pins.
“It’s a matchbox.”
“No, it’s a clue,” K corrected, making her look at him puzzled. Then he answered her unspoken question, “He didn’t smoke.” They were off with the roar of the engine trailing behind. Off to Cosmo Lanes with their lead.
The entire drive Y/I kept stealing glances at K. Not hiding her intrigue at all or how she admired his features. Jet black hair, shiny and sleek. Smile lines--which she always found adorable. Brown eyes that twinkled whenever he smirked or gave a genuine smile.
She must’ve been staring because K snapped her out of it as he said, “You lose something over here, darlin’?”
Instead of becoming embarrassed and flinging herself out of the car, Y/I held her chin high, feeding off the confidence she usually carried herself with. Lip curling, as she tipped a brow up, “Say, K, I’m curious. How old are you?”
It took a moment for him to answer, “twenty-nine.”
“Wow,” Y/I hummed, making K give her a, ‘What is that supposed to mean?’ Her grin widened, tone taking a teasing nature, “Just that you got some city miles on ya.”
Now it was K’s turn to smirk, “You know I’m starting to understand why we don’t talk.” Y/I chuckled, facing forward in the seat. K turned down the music lightly, “Exactly what year in the future are you from?”
“Twenty-Twelve,” she heard him make a sound, like he was calculating his age in 2012. “Don’t worry, you're still a stud even in your old age. Silver hair suits you.”
“Glad to hear,” Y/I heard his smile, matching her own. “What you said earlier, about us being partners for ten years, what’d you mean by that?” She hadn’t expected that question, tightening her lips as she debated on opening that can of worms.
“Like I said, it's a long and complicated story.”
K’s eyes flickered to her, “we got time.”
She snorted, “Should I really be telling you? I’m not an expert in time travel, but what if telling you about what happens in the future inevitably dooms it?” All she received was a shrug, making her head fall back against the seat.
“Well,” she breathed through her nose, clicking her teeth. “As I mentioned--after you nearly fried my brain--you recruited me in ‘97, but after the first job you decided to retire and had me neuarlize you,” She briefly glanced to find K raising his brows, visibly surprised. “Then five years later in ‘02, you held the key to stopping a homicidal maniac so I had to drag you back to MiB. Once that was over, you just stayed,” leaning her head to look at K, Y/I smirked, “And we’ve been going now ten years strong. My longest relationship really--you should be honored.” She couldn’t help but tease, watching the man flush red.
Even as a young stallion K was easy to fluster.
“I love that,” she giggled lightly, looking away when he turned his head.
“What?”
“Oh nothing,” she jutted, but then came clean, unable to contain her laugh. “Just that you’re still easy to tickle.” Y/I didn’t see it, but K’s gaze lingered on her. Fondness peaking through as a million questions racked his brain but he refused to ask--the leading being just who was she to him? Yeah they were work partners, but call it intuition, K felt there was something more to Y/I and what she meant to him.
Whatever it was now was not the time to drown himself in theories. Gathering his priorities, K kept only two things in mind: 1) they had a job to do and 2) this woman was from his future. They needed to find Boris, stop him from changing the future, and get her back home.
They pulled up to the bowling alley, K shutting off the engine after putting the car in park. Y/I leaned forward to get a better look. “How well do you know this place?”
“I know its reputation.”
“I don’t like it,” she shook her head, finding it sketchy. “I hate going in blind. I’m gonna need my gun back.”
“Sure thing, slick,” a handcuff clasped on Y/I wrist, a gasp leaving her as he cuffed her to the steering wheel while she gaped at him like he lost his damn mind.
“K! What the hell?!” she fought against his grip, “I need to go in there with you!”
“You just sit tight. I’ll be fine.” K was out the door and entering the establishment. Leaving Y/I shouting after him, “Stop--K! You can’t go in by yourself. When I get back to the future I’m going to have serious words for you!” She puffed out a breath as his suit clad figure disappeared. Her hands searched around the car, ‘I wonder…’ reaching for the ashtray, Y/I made a ‘ah-ha!’ sound as she found the spare key underneath.
“Same old K,” the smirk stayed on her lips, freeing herself from the cuffs and racing out the car. Going quiet as she accessed the center to take in the scene. K had his gun on a man, who in turn had four guns pointed at him. Grabbing the first thing, a bowling pin, Y/I inched her way until she was bringing down the pin on the alien’s head. Promptly knocking him out.
“See you still keep the key under the ashtray,” she saw the flicker of what looked like astonishment.
“Lucky guess,” he played it off, facing the man who was not passed out on the floor. “Now, where were we?”
After landing a spare on the lanes, finding the owner’s dead body, and a call to O for information, the two tracked down where Boris was heading next. From what K said, it was the factory.
Now they had two days to spare until then. And frankly, Y/I was beat like a tennis ball after Wimbledon. She needed a hot shower, food, and at least ten hours of sleep. It was pushing close to 6pm and Y/I was about two seconds away from making a bed out of K's backseat.
“Where are we?” a yawn escaped her when the car came to a halt. Squinting at the unknown building they were in front of.
“My place,” K casually replied, exiting the car as if it were nothing while Y/I choked on her saliva.
“Your what?” The wind hit her as she climbed out, gawking at the man. People passing by gave them looks which they ignored. “Why are we at your place, K?”
His brow tipped up, “You’re exhausted. So we’ll pick things back up tomorrow.”
“Okay….” she agreed, but her tone was still confused. “That still doesn’t explain why we’re at your place.” Then it hit Y/I, heat filling her veins and she began to splutter. “K, If you’re insinuating what I think you are, I can go get a hotel.”
“Oh really and how are you gonna do that?” K countered, hands going in his pockets. “You don’t have any money on ya, sweetheart.” Y/I tilted her head in surprise.
“And just how do you know that?” She could’ve sworn she had her credit cards on her. Learning not to carry cash on her at times now that most places were switching to cards only or never had change in the registers.
Fuck K didn’t think about how that would sound. Face redding as he adjusted his jacked, “Um,” his throat cleared, “I confiscated everything on ya at HQ and there was no wallet. Just assumed you weren’t carrying any.”
Instantly Y/I fished for her MiB badge, where she hid her Capital One credit card. Flashing it to him, “I have this.”
“What is it?” He snatched it to get a better look. Reading the print of a name he assumed was her alias, several numbers in a line and expiration date. Not recognizing the company labeled at the top.
“My credit card,” she said as if it were obvious, forgetting where she was. K’s face was questioning, making Y/I go, “What?”
“This won’t work at a hotel, slick,” he passed the card back, but not before reading it one more time. Before she could ask why K gave the answer. “For starters Capital One doesn’t exist yet. And the expiration date will have everyone turning heads,” his face turned serious, “but the main thing, if you attempt to pay with that, the authorities are going to have a field day wondering how you managed to forge a credit account.”
Y/I’s jaw dropped, absolutely floored. Forge an account? Yeah the name on the card wasn’t her real name but it was the MiB issued credit card and worked perfectly fine. And she was certain she hadn’t maxed it out yet. It’d just been used on her daily bodega order that morning.
“This isn’t fake! I get it’s not my real name, but thanks to MiB it hasn’t let me down yet. How will it--,” she cut herself on as it crossed her mind. What he was trying to tell her without really saying it. Y/I brought a hand to her nose, scrunching it. Feeling stupid she hadn’t realized it sooner as a sigh left her, “I’m not supposed to have a credit card.”
In fact, no woman was supposed to have one. They wouldn’t get the right to open their own credit accounts until 1974. Where they’d be free without having a husband, father, or brother cosign on one.
Gotta love the 60s…..
“What’s it gonna be, slick?” K voice brought her back to reality. Lifting her eyes from the pavement to meet his. Air caught in her throat suddenly, ‘Wow K has beautiful eyes.’
“I’m taking the bed,” Y/I gave in, lighting a cigarette she stole from a pack in K’s car before heading into the building with one thing on her mind: sleep. “I deserve it after jumping off a damn building and almost having my brain cooked.”
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uchidachi · 3 months
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Watching Men In Black for the first time in a long time and i don’t think I ever realized that it takes place in an fascist authoritarian dystopia before…
Aside from the fact that the MIB flashy-thing humans constantly, they keep all resident aliens under video surveillance at all times, are allowed to just show up in their places of business to start interrogating them at any time, confiscate whatever they want from arrivals, they restrict aliens’ ability to leave the planet when they want, and they can kill & maim aliens with impunity.
Also there’s Zed’s creepy voiceover during the “suiting up” montage: “You don't exist; you were never even born. Anonymity is your name. Silence your native tongue. You're no longer part of the System. You're above the System. Over it. Beyond it. We're "them." We're "they." We are the Men in Black.”
Will Smith’s charisma 100% is the only thing keeping this movie from being a grimdark horror
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okami-zero · 6 months
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OC Name Meanings
I appreciate the tag, @kittynomsdeplume! xD
Rules: Google and post the meaning of your OC’s name (if you made their name up or they go by a nickname, post an explanation of how it came to you)! bonus if you can find something for their last name too.
I believe I shall tag... @elveny, @vasheden, @greyias, @traveleorzea, @autumnslance, @kunstpause, @sasslett, @clockworkdragonffxiv, @karoiseka, @yzeltia and anyone else who see this and wants to join in!
Okay, so one thing to note about most of my OCs, is their names generally just pop out of the random mess of alphabet soup constantly simmering in some corner of my brain. Not ALL of them (for example, Akagi's family name), but most. Or are inspired/pulled from other places. I will go with my big three main MMO fellas, and my two 100% original OCs. Also, have a cut cause I, uh, got carried away. ^_^; (And I am sorry this took so long. >.<)
Zedd Overkill/Zed'rika Ov'redis- Okay, this guy. My half-echani smuggler in SWTOR, who is based on the original I made ages ago (and who is the descendant of the SWTOR one, after some revisions/additions/etc.) The OG is Zedd Overkill, inspired by my favorite Power Rangers villain (Lord Zedd), the head agent from MiB (Zed, as in the letter) and with inspiration from Hackers (Crash Override), a dash (heh, pun) of Dash Rendar from Shadows of the Empire and a maybe just a hint of Han solo. The name popped into my head after watching Hackers and was trying to think up a cool email during computer class (back when Hotmail was still Hotmail xD). The name was repurposed with a smuggler character I made with a friend when we were just making up neat Star Wars OCs for a maybe story we were writing. Story never got finished, but Zedd stuck around. "Overkill" is more a nickname now, as his preferred method of rapid problem-solving involves liberal applications of thermal detonators. x3 Rav Masahiro & Marshall O'Donnell - These two are my second oldest persistent OCs after good ol' Zedd. There is technically one that is older (in fact, old enough that he used Zedd's moniker for a while, back when folding an OC to fit any AU was my MO), but he's kind of only half-baked, for the most part. Rav and Marshall are next in line, and are, by and large much more polished. The story they were to be set in was very grand in scale and scope, considering it was kind of a series of AUs where things in various realities were being fucked with, and they are two of a team of six who are sent out to deal with such things. If this sounds like a certain popular video game franchise from a prominent Japanese publisher, you'd be right in there being some similarities, I guess, but they predate it by about a year. Well, technically Rav predates it, Marshall didn't crystallize until about a year or so later. Powersets are very shounen-ish, I guess? Little bit of henshin and other stuff thrown in for flavor (and things have been tweaked and appended over time). Anyway, Rav's name comes from a reworking of my own name, as he is kind of my self-insert-ish guy. His last name comes from my at-the-time rampant obsession with Japanese culture (yes, yes, I'll say it, I was a weeb. The interest remains, though tempered by time, experience and education). I thought his last name meant something else, as Googling in those early days was... a crap shoot. And the fact that Masahiro is a given name in Japanese hasn't deterred me, as embarrassing as it might be, it just... is a thing now. xD (The other half-baked OC I mentioned has a similar nomenclature goof). Marshall's name kind of just, popped out of the ether, but it flows well and it fits. She does let people close to her shorten it to "Shall" (sounds like shawl). Do NOT call her "Marsh", "Marshie" or "Marsha" or she'll deck you. Like, lay you out flat with one punch. Moving on!
Xanotos Delkai - My Warrior tank in WoW. Another lad who went through some changes. xD So my first character in WoW was a human hunter back in the...alpha or beta, whenever it was they were originally playable before getting nixed. His name was Thanatos, inspired by the character of the same name from a Sega CD fighting game Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side. He was a typical Grim Reaper-y Death (as Thanatos was the personification of death in Greek mythology, and a psychopomp, I believe). I liked the name. However, the character was nuked after the alpha or beta or whatnot. So, when I remade the character for the full version, I rolled up a Warrior and named him Xanatos/Xanotos (depending on the server), or Xano. Now, I have remade and moved this character many times over the years. Delkai became his surname at some point, and when worgen came out, he was race-changed to worgen, and his backstory was shifted and fleshed out further. Fun fact: the Gargoyles TV series was the farthest thing from my mind when I made this toon, and was for many years. It wasn't until... just before or around Legion, I think? that I realized I had named him the same (if spelled differently) as Evil 90s Will Riker. xD
Akagi Obinata - And now we get to my most recent and most prevalent MMO OC, Akagi. Paladin, Tankfriend, tol dragon/lizard man. So, sadly, this boy is the third I have given a Japanese-style name to, and borked the order of, because Akagi is a freaking surname. >.< Now, I am aware that Hingashi (he was born and raised in/around Kugane) is only kind of Etheirys-Japan, but... I am just...moving on! The inspiration for his given name is one Akagi Shunsuke (or Shunsuke Akagi, in Western fashion) from the anime Dai-Guard. It is an absolutely insane super robot show and I love it, and I see a lot of myself in one of the protagonists (the aforementioned Akagi Shunsuke). So, in honor of a favorite character, I chose that. Forgetting, or blindly ignoring the fact that just because everyone in the show (save for his one relative we see) refers to him as Akagi because it is a cultural thing, and not because it is his given name. >.< What's done is done, however. His surname, thankfully, is one from a list of suggested surnames from the raen au ra lore I could find. It means "blades on waist", and I figured that there were samurai in his family line far enough back that that was the name they took. Akagi, by the way, is if I am not mistaken, "red castle", and well, he IS red. And the Paladin LB3 is a freaking castle WALL, so... it fits in a retroactive kind of way. xD (I was not thinking of his coloring, nor was I aware of what the LB3 looked like when I made him. ^_^; )
And that is it! Do I have more OCs? Yes! But they are all kind of self-contained to different things, and their names are more of a kind of mental slot machine than these goobers (plus the one xD). Hopefully I didn't ramble TOO too much, but I get excited about my homemade blorbos, y'know how it is. Thanks for reading!
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andavs · 1 year
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9-1-1 based Men in Black AU?
My first thought is that Buck and Eddie are going to be known as Agents “BnE” which is hilarious.
My second thought is that MIB agents don’t technically exist, and I made myself sad thinking about how Chris factors into that. Obviously Eddie is the one doing the whole K thing and checking up on his son through satellites and desperately wishing he could be there with him. But how did they become separated and why does Eddie stay away? 
Maybe he and Chris got caught up as innocent bystanders in a MIB/alien mess. They aren’t injured but plenty of people are, so Eddie with his military medic training and stellar record tries to help the situation. He helps an injured alien, not realizing they aren’t human until he’s keeping them from bleeding out blue goo and he has no idea what’s going on but he’s not going to let them die if he can help.
The alien dies, but gives Eddie something important right before. Maybe something that locks onto him so only he can use it and he can’t hand it off to the MIB and walk away. It’s the key to saving the world, because of course it is.
And to be extra angsty, MIB neuralyzes everyone on the scene so as far as anyone's concerned, Eddie was killed in a big mass casualty accident, so Chris is living with Eddie’s parents and it kills him every day that he can’t be with him yet. Because either he saves the world, or the world ends and then it doesn’t really matter anyway. (In his more pessimistic moments, he wants to say fuck it and go find Chris anyway, because the world is going to end either way and he should at least be with his son when it happens.)
So MIB recruits him to save the world and he gets paired up with Buck. I feel like Buck should be the alien tech guy who’s trying to figure out this thing the alien gave Eddie and how it works exactly. First he tries to disconnect it from Eddie so he can forget everything and go home, but then they accept that they’re both going to have to see this thing through and work together. Buck’s the one who first shows Eddie how to check on Chris from afar, because he also keeps tabs on Maddie.
Hen and Chim (H and C) are obviously partners and a legendary team. Athena (A or maybe Alpha to be cool like Zed) is in charge of the LA office, and Bobby (R) is the one who actually manages the agents, sending out teams.
Meanwhile in Texas, Chris runs away from home to find his dad because he wasn’t totally neuralyzed and remembers seeing his dad alive and helping people. He remembers seeing something not quite human, and the therapists keep saying it’s a way for him to process his grief but he knows. And he knows that his dad needs help because his dad said he’d never leave him again, and his dad never lies.
And then it turns out the gadget isn’t directly tied to only Eddie, but it also works for Chris, and Chris is the one who saves the world in the end. And then Eddie and Chris hug and cry under a clear, starry night sky in the California desert, and Buck realizes he’s kind of in love with this tiny family and wants to stay with them forever.
The only problem is that Eddie and Chris need to leave MIB and then they won't remember him anymore. And maybe Buck could ask for a new life close to them after being neuralyzed, but MIB is all Buck has and leaving and starting all over again alone is a terrifying thought.
But! After they save the world and while Eddie and Chris are finishing up at the MIB office, getting ready to leave for the last time, Buck checks in on Maddie. Just to make sure she’s alright because it was a close one, and he finds that she’s no longer in Boston with Doug. She’s right there in LA, looking for her little brother whose postcards abruptly stopped coming and she’s determined to find him.
And then maybe the whole gang decides to retire together because Bobby and Athena have been doing this job for way too long but they’ve had this office romance that they don’t want to lose.
Chim meets Maddie after she finds Buck and they’re immediately smitten with each other.
Turns out Eddie's pretty into Buck too, and Chris thinks he's the coolest person ever. Maddie's finally back in his life and she doesn't plan on leaving ever again. He's not really starting over alone like he thought he would be, and suddenly leaving the MIB doesn't seem quite so scary.
And then Hen’s got a big ole crush on the rocket scientist who got caught up in this end of the world nonsense.
A big neuralyzer flash, and they’re all first responders, totally oblivious to the extraterrestrial chaos going on around them. But late at night when Buck and Eddie are asleep, Chris likes to sneak out into the yard and look up at the stars and wave to the MIB agents keeping an eye on them. (Back at MIB headquarters, Ravi always waves back.)
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Men In Black 2 (2002)
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AKA MIIB AKA Men In In Black. I think this was a date with F. and we enjoyed it as silly fun. I was very taken by my first glimpse of Rosario Dawson and I loved the pull back at the end to show how insignificant we all are like that old Louis Armstrong Guinness advert in reverse 
Big Willy Smith’s obligatory single stands out as the only thing not by Danny Elfman in the soundtrack. Perhaps there’s a neuralyzer solo at the end as it’s almost instantly forgettable. Shame about the lacklustre music considering two notable cameo appearances* from talented musicians no longer with us. The first being Biz Markie as a beatboxing alien. He appeared in one more film (again with Will Smith) before his untimely death in 2021 as an uncredited funeral guest. Perhaps more notably, this film also marked the last movie appearance of Michael Jackson, playing a keen MIB applicant who’s given the runaround by Rip Torn’s Zed. 
At the other end of the spectrum, Johnny Knoxville had his first movie role (aside from a few seconds of drooling in a bar in Coyote Ugly), which I liked in principle but I don’t know if his acting was quite there yet. He played both heads of a two-headed alien but he only got paid once. The thing I really wanted to see him star in wouldn’t come out until October though… 
They showed a teaser trailer for The Two Towers, which was the most excited I’d been for a new film since, well, probably Spider-Man earlier that year. While on comics, I recently read the first issue of the series Men In Black was based on and they take out a cult on a mad new drug; no aliens. Apparently they don’t exclusively deal with extraterrestrials; more generic paranormal stuff. And drugs. Oh and they just kill witnesses instead of wiping memories. 
*Or are they bit parts? I thought that a cameo was when an actor plays themselves but wikipedia says otherwise. Named after a carving that stands out of a gemstone, apparently a cameo is by a recognisable person who usually doesn’t speak, and a bit part has direct interaction with a principal actor and no more than 5 lines of dialogue. There you go.
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deerfests · 3 years
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The Virtual Crossfire Syndrome
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Men in Black
I wonder what these guys’ stories are?
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Officer James Darrell Edwards III, NYPD, (seen here in red) was recruited to the Men in Black Agency after running down a cepholopoid on foot and being able to identify an alien weapon (a reverberating carbonizer, with mutate capacity) after having only seen it for a split second.  In Zed’s selection training, he is the only candidate who had the lateral thinking skills necessary to pull a table over to him so he could comfortably finish his aptitude test.  In the shooting gallery, he was further able to identify innocent civilians from a disguised alien threat where all the other candidates shot the non-humans on sight; only Edwards managed to zero in on Lil Tiffany, picking up on the clues that she was not what she seemed.  Zed had some concerns; Edwards had a problem with authority, a trait he had shown even while in the NYPD, talking back to his superior officer and acting out (this is not ideal behavior for a law enforcement officer), but Agent Kay saw in him potential, taking him under his wing to train him to become the best agent in the history of the Men in Black.
There were six other recruits that day, presumably having proved themselves worthy of joining the Agency in similar fashion to Edwards.  They all must have encountered aliens of their own and shown their respective skills to be recruited, which means there are six other stories we haven’t seen.  The cepholopoid Edwards ran down turned out to be an assassin sent by the Bug to kill the disguised Arcquillian Prince and steal the Galaxy, setting off the events of the movie, but what did 2nd Lieutenant Jake Jensen, West Point, graduate with honors, do?  What alien did he stop?  What did Kay or some other active Agent decide was so special about him that he was added to the candidate selection pool?
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He and all the other candidates failed Zed’s tests, he even negs them, “congratulations, you’re everything we’ve come to expect from years of government training,” meaning they just blindly follow orders and have little regard for non-human life.  Only Edwards had foresight enough to ask “why are we here?” while all the other candidates just accepted it because they are cogs in the machine, stay in line, do as you’re told, don’t ask questions.
The Agency is more than just law enforcement, it’s more than just immigration, it’s about safeguarding the people of this planet and others from threats they cannot protect themselves from.  It’s about providing asylum to interstellar refugees, it’s about neutrality, it’s about recognizing that everything you think you know about how the world works is wrong and that there are things beyond your comprehension that make all our petty Earthling squabbles seem pointless in the grand scheme of things.
Only Edwards had the right mentality to become an Agent.
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MiB AU sketchdump with a little Lovecraft thrown in bc did I not say I was gonna heckin’ do it? Made a couple agents, too. The chick doesn’t have a name as of yet but the guy is “New” Dee and he is extremely accident prone.
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JJK Men in Black AU.
Ok I needed this out of my system. I rewatched MiB the past week and after harassing my friends with this sick au, I’ll share you some HC because I couldn’t work on my art anymore without finishing these first. I don’t know if you’re all familiar with the movies but here I go, I’ll try to be brief under the cut.
Gojo and Geto are the best agents. Gojo is a bit unhinged but Geto keeps him balanced, they fight to protect the Earth from alien invasions and control that those who live on the planet don’t cause further trouble. This until they encounter Rogue Agent Toji, alien ally, who blows a fatal strike on them, both morally and physically. Gojo does his best to become the most reliable and strongest, but Geto lets the loneliness and harshness of his choice of life get to him. So he defects MiB and decides to side with aliens, fighting for coexistence on Earth, to be seen and validated. Gojo pushes his unavoidable ordeal until he can but he will have to neuralyze his best friend. Delete his memories of himself and the Agency from Geto’s brain. He’ll let him go and let him live his life as normal human being, follow him from time to time just to look at him from afar, with a broken heart. One day though, alien Kenjaku lands on Earth and finds out that Geto’s brain could still recover all the precious information about MiB so he will take control of him. We know how things go from here. Do you think Geto will get back in control of his own brain and eradicate Kenjaku? I do hope so. Nanami as Agent Zed seemed a mandatory addition. Thanks to my gf who asked for him.
Enjoy this au you didn’t know you needed! I’ll be happy to read your take on this if you have any ❤️
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ok, hear me out
in one of the episodes dani says something about how people have seen men in black and started getting weird ideas about aliens, but what if taz amnesty and men in black existed in the same universe?
when mama first discovered the gate back in 1988 she killed off a couple of abominations and made contact with sylvain before mib found her. kay was impressed enough that he recommended recruiting mama instead of neuralyzing her and zed agreed. a year later she recruited thacker. their task was to manage the abominations and find out what’s the deal with the gate while the rest of mib was busy with rapid increase of aliens moving in to new york.
leo never officially joined mib. when they found him fighting the abominations in new york back in the 70s, they tried to wipe his memories out but it turns out that one of the perks of being chosen is that neuralyzers don’t work on you. and so leo kept doing his thing as an mib consultant. he met mama and thacker after he moved to kepler and has been helping out the pine guard from time to time.
after dealing with reconciliation the pine guard and joseph became mib consultants. barclay (who like any other alien had to register with mib) and minerva (who, while invisible to everyone else, accompanied leo on his tour) have already seen the mib headquarters so they’re just content watching their boyfriends’ reactions.
and, because it’s an au and i can do whatever i want, ned’s life gets saved by mib’s med team.
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K²💍| Agent K Headcanon
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There is basically NOTHING for my man 😭(I'm on a MiB fix & can't get enough of K & J) so I have begun making works for them--part 2 to my K imagine should be up by the day | Masterlist
Being married to K & an MiB Agent would look like (set during MIB 1):
Well for starters it was not K who recruited you to MiB in the first place. Having been a mechanical engineer for a number of years, your inventions caught the attention of Zed in 1978. "I gotta job for you I think you'd be an excellent candidate for. We could use your skills and ideas over at MiB, what do you say?" Well of course you accepted...you'd be stupid not too. Honestly, it didn't take much convincing once Zed revealed your boss had actually been an alien.
You'd been at MiB a couple years before finally crossing paths with K--the man in need of new equipment after most were destroyed during a job. And you'd be lying if you said he didn't make you weak in the knees that first meeting. Behind his stoic demeanor K was charming, handsome man with a kick for sarcasm. You were intimidated at first, considering K was the best agent MiB had and carried himself with an aura of authority. Plus he had some years on ya. It was compelling, and you were smitten to say the least
Little did you know, K felt the same. It'd been ages since he felt instant attraction for someone, and you were the glowing sun in solar system. Making his usual serious nature falter. Plaguing his mind and heart with butterflies. Not only could you carry a conversation but could make him genuinely laugh and take a break from the outside world. It was a nice feeling.
Of course, your relationship with K was strictly professional in the beginning. He'd come to you when his equipment needed fixing or improvements. Sometimes observing in case he'd ever have to do it himself if you weren't available. You'd give him reports each time you run a test on a new model with all the necessary information. "Supersonic? You're telling me this car will travel at supersonic speed, Y/I?" "If you press the red button. It's the way of the future, K. What happens if you need to get across the city in a short amount of time?" "It's not me I'm worried about--I can already see agents using this for reasons other than responsible ones."
It wasn't long before you two considered yourself friends. It naturally fell that way where you began having conversations not involving work. K learned where you were originally from before moving to New York, what college you went to and what made you pursue engineering. You discovered K was part of the first group to make contact with aliens in 1961, his life before MiB, and some cool cases he'd been on before you joined.
This progressed into you learning of your shared interests with each other. Music, film, books, etc. You both preferred staying in to cook rather than going out. Coffee over tea and a good ole' NYC hot dog to pizza. Before long K was brining you coffee on his way into the agency, and you were leaving snacks on his desk to make sure he ate. He'd walk you to your car if you were both working late, you'd lend him a CD of a musician you think he'd like.
Zed caught on quick and immediately played wingman. Pushing you two to reveal your feelings because the tension was suffocating whenever he'd be stuck with y'all. Whether that'd be talking in the middle of HQ or he and K were in your workshop to see what you were cooking up. Zed obviously knew the reason you two were hesitant to confess was due to the rule at MiB about agents fraternizing. But Zed didn't give a shit and knew you'd guys were the type to keep business and pleasure separate. So one day, the man bluntly shouted in the middle of your workshop, "Will you two stop running circles around each other and admit you fancy the other? I feel like I'm watching a soap opera. You won't be punished--just don't cause trouble here and you're good!"
So that's how you and K finally got together after years of pinning and constant looks when no one's watching. Lingering touches and seeking the other out. You two were free to explore the love begging to release and form a relationship outside of MiB. Still, you two remained professional at the agency and only acted on affection behind clothes doors. Although....K is the type to visit you to sneak a quick kiss before going on a job. And you still leave food on his desk, only this time they are accompanied by cute notes.
K does feel more pressure as an agent. His main priority when working was to keep you safe and not let any harm come to the agency for fear you'll be caught in the crossfire. Never do you join him on patrol if Zed gives you the day off. You don't mind though; it gives you time to catch up on sleep and surprise K with a home cooked meal when he returns.
When you two get married after a few years, just before the end of the decade, the ceremony is held at MiB with only a few collogues, including Zed & O, as your witnesses. Since both your families were unable able to attend due to them being under the impression you guys fell off the face of the Earth. Despite this, you were in bliss. K had become the most important person in your life, and you were the gravity that kept him grounded.
Your marriage to K was relatively easy, even with the constant shit you guys had to put up with. K never lied to you, always honest with what went on with his cases and you appreciated that. You had your concerns and worries, typical when the love of your life was facing intergalactic threats on the daily, but you were confident in K. He was the best MiB ever had and that showed each time he closed a case without any causalities. He'd hold you at night, letting you nuzzle into his warmth while sighing in content, "I was worried about you today, mister." "My apologies, darlin'. I would've stopped by, but Zed caught me first and by the time we finished you were already back here." He was met with a kiss, your eyes still closed as sleep began to consume you, "You're forgiven."
On the rare times you and K both have the day off, it's mostly spent in bed. The week of exhaustion catching up to you both will have you waking up at nine--which is sleeping in since the typical morning is waking up at the ass crack of dawn. It's those days where you really fall into domestic life. K cooking breakfast, you putting aside your blueprints to do some cleaning. Sitting on the balcony to enjoy your coffee while soft music played from the radio.
By 1997 when J joined the agency you were head of the engineering department and hardly ever came out of basement--which became your workshop/office as it grew beyond what you originally had. K always got first dips at any new gadget you created--as being your husband had its advantages. That's really how you met J, the duo coming to you during their issue with the bug where the rookie agent was flabbergasted seeing his mentor openly flirt with you--not expecting him to be the type at all.
"And what exactly brings you gentlemen to my quarters this fine evening?" "Oh you know, just seeing if you got any new toys you can spare--help us get the job done quicker." "Flattery will get you nowhere, Agent K. But...I guess I can make an exception for MiB's best." J's jaw went slack as K leaned down to kiss the corner of your mouth, "A token of my appreciation."
Obviously right then and there K told J who you were to him. Stunning the rookie even more as J couldn't believe his superior was married and to MiB's lead engineer, nonetheless. But J had to admit...K got game. Finding out you two were a thing only brought another category to J teasing K and getting under the older man's skin. "Say, K, think you can teach me some pointers? The gal at public relations has been giving me eyes and I think--." "You know the rules, slick, no fraternizing between agents." "No fraternizing?! You're married to Y/I! Y'all skipped fraternizing and went straight to --." "Not another word."
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07/11/19 #morningwarmupsketch Today’s sketch is in memoriam of actor Rip Torn who passed away at age 88 on 7/9/19. He was best know for his roles in Dodgeball, Down Periscope, Wonder Boys, and as Zed in The Men In Black series. He will be missed. #riptorn #dodgeball #downperiscope #wonderboys #meninblack #mib #z #zed https://www.instagram.com/p/BzzPOD6jHj3/?igshid=w7390ghkk1au
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academicgangster · 7 years
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New header and icon because I really wanted to use this picture of Sam!
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