The Gossip in Xianle must have been so wild and so juicy literally every character that we know that came from Xianle is full of judgement, side eyes and highly fluent sarcasm I know the Xianle Court must have been like an episode of desperate housewives.
&&* Lesson One
&&* Sauce With The Boss
&&* Top!Reader x Sub!Boyfriend
&&* NSFW Headcanons
💭 ۫⠀BORIS PAVLIKOVSKY.⠀୨୧⠀· ˚
&&* Foreplay Headcanons
&&* Riding A Foreign
&&* Sauce With The Boss
&&* NSFW Headcanons
💭 ۫⠀FINN WOLFHARD.⠀୨୧⠀· ˚
&&* Hopelessly Pinning
&&* Sauce With The Boss
&&* Hot, Heavy, and Handsome
&&* Yandere!Finn Alphabet
&&* "Method" Acting
&&* Pussy Eater
&&* Worship & Praise
💭 ۫⠀RICHIE TOZIER.⠀୨୧⠀· ˚
&&* Digits
&&* Bottom!Richie x Top!Reader
&&* Richie Taking Shy!Reader's Virginity
&&* Richie Fingering Shy!Reader
&&* Sauce With The Boss
&&* How Long Has it Been Since You've Eaten?
💭 ۫⠀ZIGGY KATZ.⠀୨୧⠀· ˚
&&* Sauce With The Boss
&&* Gettin' Jiggy With Ziggy
💭 ۫⠀MIKE WHEELER.⠀୨୧⠀· ˚
&&* Sauce With The Boss
&&* I'm Sorry The World Is Failing You
&&* Digits
💭 ۫⠀SAL FISHER.⠀୨୧⠀· ˚
&&* Softie Toppy
&&* Top!Reader x Sub!Boyfriend
&&* Sal x Injured!Reader
&&* Sal With A Hard To Please SO
&&* Is That My Shirt Babe?
Hia! We are not going to do it? No. I want you to be more conscious. I want you to be aware of my hugs, my kisses, and everything I do to you. So you'll remember it.
Cause he’s my best friend, he’s my pal. He’s my home-boy, my rotten soldier. He’s my sweet cheese, my good-time boyeh. My husband my love, my everything my sweet syrup pie.
You must be Az, Right? I'm Rupert and my associate over here is Antony. That prism guy sent us here to Introduce ourselves and talk about specifics, what gear to bring, etc.
Oh, uhm.. yeah! That's me, hah..
Nice to meet you two, come inside — don't mind the other two, they're no harm. Not a bother at all, trust me! I've got all the time in the world, so..
His dad didn’t check in with Sprite a single time this entire episode. Didn’t ask how he was holding up. Didn’t ask if this was becoming too much. Didn’t ask if he thought he could keep going. All he kept asking about was Zee. How is Zee doing? How bad are his injuries? How are you doing with HIS volleyball practices?
Sprite may have volunteered to do it, but that doesn’t mean his own parents can go without checking in on him. Yet they don’t, and Sprite doesn’t even think about asking for it anymore. He doesn’t complain about the toll it’s taking on his body. Having to do both sports. He only complains that he isn’t good at volleyball like Zee is so he caused the team to loss. It’s ironic that Salmon is the only one to ask about this because she isn’t even Sprite’s friend, she’s Zee’s girlfriend. Sprite probably thinks she’s only doing it because she is concerned about Zee’s place on the team, not about Sprite and how soon his body is going to give out from under him.
To watch the hope and light die just a little bit more in Sprite’s eyes each passing day is hard. All anyone cares about is Zee. Zee is the one in the hospital. Zee is the one their mother pours all of her effort into. (I honestly have so much to say about their mother and none of it good). Zee is the golden child that their parents immediately go too when he’s sick or injured.
Zee is the one both of them finally listen to when he tells them to leave his hospital room. Neither can even show the maturity necessarily to hold back arguing about Zee as if he isn’t even there. And if Zee isn’t even there, where exactly is Sprite?
Both of their parents seem to only think about their children in terms of what they can do for them. Zee’s talent in volleyball out weigh Sprite’s talent in jiujitsu to them. Zee is the quiet one who did as they said without comment. Zee is the good child who suffers in silence and does not make trouble, whereas Sprite causes nothing but trouble.
It’s honestly no wonder Zee finally can’t take it anymore. His anger at Sprite might be misplaced, but I get where it is coming from. He can’t suffer in silence anymore. He can’t take the weigh of his mother’s disproportionate expectations and his father’s distance. He can’t take that his brother seems to have a carefree life, void of the constraints of the world. It’s no wonder he wants what Sprite has.
It’s also no wonder why Sprite does what he does. He mouths off to his teammates, not knowing or realizing that they are capable of such extremes (who on earth would want to believe that) and causes Zee’s hospitalization. He wants to do everything he can to get his mother to pay attention to him because for all that he might have come to terms with it, he is still a little boy desperate for his mother’s love and affection, even if it comes with strings as thick as rope for him to dangle himself over the precipitous. Even if in the end, she still won’t give it to him. He still want to make things better for the brother who hates him for something that isn’t even his fault.
Sprite has only been shown time and time again that his parents may take care of him, but they do it because they have too. They do it because he was the plus one to Zee’s birth. They might love him because he is their son, but they do not care about him.
So Sprite tries with the team. Tries to get on their good side and make friends and build something with them because he wants them to like his brother (always his brother, never him). Only to be forced back into the corner and belittled and ignored because he isn’t his brother. He doesn’t have the skills necessary to play like his brother does because it’s impossible to build those skills in only a few short weeks when Zee’s been doing it for years. And he can’t even tell them why he can’t play as well as Zee can because if he does that and one of them tells the coach then the whole team is screwed.
Sprite is walking a dangerously tight rope and he is going to fall one day. He is going to fall and he needs to learn about to catch himself because he knows in his heart he has no safety net. He has no one save a single friend who only knows half the story, who only knows what Sprite tells him. He doesn’t believe he has his family to fall back on. He knows he doesn’t have the team to fall back on. He only has himself because it’s been proven to him time and time again. So he tries his damnest to make sure nothing effects him. He tries so hard to get better at volleyball, to make his parents proud, to make sure he does his best for his teammate, to make sure that his brother has a life and a sport to come back too. He tries so hard NOT to think about the fact that his father doesn’t check in with him when he finally comes clean.