#(he will understand. he encouraged me to pursue this dude anyways)

[hornedcraft]

nvrmnd i got bored and updated my card list anyways

#my bigger post project isnt done yet so i couldn't do big fancy write ups for EVERYTHING #but i updated everything up until the tattoo tarot #after that it's still barebones #i got an hour and a half before i gotta go to work so i don't wanna get invested into big readings #but god. do i ever just wanna do a bajillion readings #boy is probably coming over tonight so i wont have time after work either lol aaaa #i need some boy attention time fr. sorry cernunnos. #(he will understand. he encouraged me to pursue this dude anyways)

[callsign-bunnie]

Hi! For the Stalker! Ghost x Soap Au: Maybe some of soaps friends catch on that he has a stalker and Try to get ghost arrested, or soap or ghost cross a line with each other and there is angst! Or maybe Johnny stops replying to ghost and ghost shows up at his classes and causes a scene? Idk just some ideas cause I’m absolutely loving this AU!!

This is going to offer some exposition as to why Soap is like that.

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Soap had tried to hide his relationship with Ghost from his friends. As a relationship, it'd moved rather fast. Soap had given up his dorm and now lived at Ghost's house. And... a lot of things made sense. For one, Ghost had a decent amount of money. More than he knew how to spend, apparently. Soap was constantly being given random gifts.

He knew Rodolfo and Gaz wouldn't understand. Even if Rodolfo was... look, there was something missing. Gaz would definitely under no circumstances understand.

So, Soap had tried to hide it. And thankfully, Ghost didn't seem to mind. Quite the opposite, in fact, he encouraged it.

Even still, Soap felt kind of lonely. He wanted to be able to talk to his friends about his boyfriend, tell them about all of the stuff they did. But... how could he? He couldn't even talk about how they'd met.

Then, of course, through shitty luck, they ended up finding out, anyway.

Gaz plopped down beside him in their science class, which they all shared. "Rudy! Did you know Soap has been hiding a secret boyfriend from us??"

Rodolfo immediately jerked his head to look at Soap. "What?? You didn't fucking tell us??"

Soap's eyes went wide and he turned to Gaz. "How did you know??"

"I saw you in the bookshop with that dude. He had his hood up. Rudy, he was giant. Twice the size of you, at least!" Gaz teased and Rodolfo shook his head.

"Soap, you asshole, why didn't you tell us??" Rodolfo frowned.

Soap cringed. "Because..." Well, he had to tell them now. "We have a weird relationship. We live together and stuff."

"A weird relationship?? And how long have you guys been together if you live together, now?" Gaz frowned, deeply.

"Three weeks..." Soap admitted, cringing. "Um... 4 months if you count the time he was pursuing me."

"Pursuing you?" Rodolfo was clearly not buying it.

"Stalking." Soap corrected.

Both immediately looked at him in alarm and he shrank back. "Look, he's really sweet and he just didn't know how to talk to me." Soap tried to explain to them. "He takes care of me."

"He's a stalker." Rodolfo looked incredulous. "Was this the guy you were having a problem with that kept breaking into your dorm??"

Oh, fuck. Soap forgot he had told him about that, once. "Yeah, but I was wrong about him. He really is super sweet and he's a really good guy."

Both boys stared at him. Rodolfo looked like he was losing his mind. "Soap! He's crazy! Clearly!"

"Crazy for me." Soap shrugged and then huffed. "You're one to talk, Rudy. You practically stalked your best friend."

Rodolfo went quiet and looked away. "That's different. Don't talk about him. He's still missing." He looked so upset and Soap genuinely felt bad. It'd been nearly three weeks since Alejandro disappeared and it was probably so hard for Rodolfo.

Gaz pat Rodolfo in sympathy and then turned back to Soap. "Soap... come on, this cannot be a healthy relationship."

"Mhm, just like you and Alex, right? It's been.. what, two months and you're already engaged??" Soap huffed, defensive. "What are you both gay mormons?? Hmm??"

Gaz winced. "That's... different. Alex didn't stalk me for three months before hand!"

"Practically." Soap muttered and looked away. "I don't expect either of you to understand. But... he's a good guy. He makes me happy."

Both seemed to go quiet and then shared a look. "If he makes you happy... but are you sure it's not just... stockholm syndrome?" Gaz asked, gently.

"No, I don't think it is." Soap snapped. He shook his head. "Man, fuck you both." He gathered his stuff and stood, storming out of class.

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Ghost frowned as he listened to Soap vent. "I just... I know they want only the best for me but... man. They tried to say this was Stockholm syndrome."

Ghost shook his head. "I don't think it was." He was going to have to get rid of them. They might potentially make Soap leave Ghost and he wasn't going to lose Soap. He pulled Soap closer, lifting his mask to kiss his temple.

"Exactly!" Soap curled up and huffed, clearly irritated. Ghost didn't like when he was upset. He was much better happy.

"I could talk to them?" He offered. "Show them I don't want to harm you..."

"You'd think either of them would get it!" Soap huffed, clearly ignoring Ghost's suggestion before sighing and slumping. "No... I can't expect that from Rodolfo. He's really going through it right now. His best friend went missing. He was practically in love with him and I'm sure it's been awful."

Ghost frowned. "Oh." He was still going to get rid of him, but he'd feel slightly more bad about it, now.

"But Gaz... He and Alex have only been together for two months and they're already engaged! He's barely 20! The wedding is next fucking month!"

Okay, Ghost would maybe spare Gaz. He didn't need some heartbroken fiance coming after him.

However, one influence on Soap would be easier to combat. Two? No, that was too much. He'd have to get rid of Rodolfo.

Soap sighed and quieted. "I guess we do have a pretty... unconventional relationship..." Soap cringed. Ghost could see that he was conflicted and that made Ghost panic.

"Maybe..." Ghost offered. He needed to turn Soap back to him. "I love you."

Soap seemed to just melt and smiled, looking up at him. "I love you, too." Ghost relaxed, immediately, and pulled Soap close, kissing him deeply.

He was definitely fucking getting rid of one of them.

-

Ghost broke into Rodolfo's apartment, easily. He was actually grateful he lived off campus, since it'd be easier to just kill him and get out. For someone as well known for being psychotic as Rodolfo, he certainly did not care that much about security.

Ghost slid through the window and quietly closed it. He looked around the living room, taken back by how neat it was. Fuck. Everything was perfectly clean. The baseboards... even the inside of the windowsill.

Not a speck of dust, not a crumb on the floor. Everything was perfectly and... psychotically clean. Ghost narrowed his eyes, looking around.

He tensed, hearing noise in another room. He got out his knife and started to inch towards the room, before immediately stopping and pressing against the wall as he heard the door open.

Ghost held his breath, waiting for Rodolfo to come out, before immediately pinning him up against the wall. Rodolfo's eyes widened and he tensed, immediately. Ghost pressed the knife to Rodolfo's throat. "Rodolfo, right?"

Rodolfo quickly nodded before he was looking at Ghost, oddly. Recognition filled his eyes and he relaxed, immediately. Ghost blinked at the change. Rodolfo leaned his head back against the wall. "I see. He told you I didn't approve of your relationship and now you're here to kill me?" His voice was dead neutral. Nothing was there.

Ghost glared at him. "I'm not having you convince him to leave." He decided not to question how Rodolfo knew who he was.

Rodolfo shook his head, clearly amused. "Imagine how Soap is gonna feel when he finds his best friend dead? Of course, who would kill his best friend? The man who was stalking him, maybe? So soon after he complained, too..." He mocked.

Ghost growled a little, because he was right. "Fuck." He looked into Rodolfo's eyes, almost startled to see they were as empty as his tone. Dead.

"Get the fuck out of my apartment."

"Back the fuck off." Ghost glared at him. "Soap is mine. I'm not having you convince him away from me."

Rodolfo looked like he was about to retort but both stopped when another noise came from the bedroom. "Rudy?" A man's voice called.

Ghost saw the change, immediately. Fear. Pure fear. Ghost narrowed his eyes at Rodolfo and let him go, immediately turning to the bedroom door and pushing it in.

Rodolfo got in front of him. "Leave-"

"Fuck off." Ghost shoved him to the side. He went into the bedroom and was... shocked to see Alejandro Vargas, he recognized him from the missing posters, was sitting in the bed, one of his wrists attached to the bedpost.

Ghost had to admit, he was kind of amused. So that whole psychotic thing had credence. Alejandro looked... well, embarrassed, for one. Ghost turned to Rodolfo, who was staring at him again, clearly gauging his reaction.

Ghost snorted, closing the door behind him as he exited the room. "Talk."

Rodolfo looked, for a moment, like he was going to refuse but then he sighed and slumped his shoulders. He took a shaky breath. "I... went to his apartment one morning. I had my mind up to confess that I was in love with him. I... couldn't take it anymore. And when I got there... he was in bed with some guy. I don't even remember his name I just... I remember getting so angry. So fucking mad."

He looked at his hands and his expression hardened. "I'd been there for him for so long... And he just did that to me..." He covered his face.

Ghost had to admit, the crazy in his voice was... frightening. Well, it would have been. To anyone but Ghost. He could appreciate it, though.

"So I killed him." Rodolfo's voice was dead again and he was looking through his fingers at Ghost. His knuckles were white and he dragged his hands down his face, leaving trails of white. "I got a knife and I blacked out. There was so much blood... Alejandro was in shock but I knocked him out rather easily and brought him here."

"You're a psychopath." Ghost laughed. "Fuck." Another timeline, this may have been arousing. No, he had a love. He didn't need another.

Rodolfo looked at him. "No, I still feel empathy, too much." He shook his head, almost sounding matter of fact. "I had a fucked up childhood. Knocked a few things loose."

Ghost held out a fist and Rodolfo hesitated before fistbumping him. "So. Here's what's gonna happen. You're not going to fucking tell Soap to leave me. You're going to fully support our relationship, or... I'm gonna make an anonymous tip to the police about where they can find Alejandro Vargas."

Rodolfo narrowed his eyes at Ghost and his face hardened. He glared at him for a while before he cursed and relented. "Fine."

"Good." Ghost took a deep breath. "Allies?"

Rodolfo looked Ghost up and down. "What about you? Why did you become a stalker?"

Ghost still didn't like that word. "Same as you."

"Allies." Rodolfo immediately agreed. "I'll... encourage Soap."

"And I'll be your alibi." Ghost nodded. "I can get a security system on the windows so he can't escape. If... you apologize to Soap for judging our relationship."

Rodolfo didn't even hesitate. "Done."

"I think this is going to be the start of a beautiful alliance." Ghost chuckled.

-

Look, if I'm going to keep writing this universe, I'm adding worldbuilding and a plot.

#Johnny Soap Mactavish #Simon Ghost Riley #Soap Cod #Ghost COD #Soapghost #Ghostsoap #Soap x Ghost #Ghost x Soap #Macriley #Call of Duty #Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 #Alejandro Vargas #Rodolfo Parra #Alejandro x Rodolfo #Aledolfo #Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare II #stalker ghost

[waheelawhisperer]

What little in & out-of-action dynamic we see with the teams' respective blondes really ain't bad for what it seems to be onscreen. That noted, hard pass on the *fanon* tropes where Puke Lad acquires Standard Issue Studly Leading Dude/Fan Projection Avatar Protagonist Mojo, and a 'fucking seriously?' side-eye at whichever unknown pinhead(s) came up with/popularized that ship name. 'Blondeception', 'Goldplated', something actually amusing *please.*

No no no, Dragonslayer is a fantastic name because if you capitalize the right letter, you can turn it into a sex joke, hence why Pussy Magnet is the best ship name ever.

Anyway, yeah, I was actually pretty ambivalent toward Dragonslayer prior to Volume 8, like I always felt it was a decent ship but not really one I preferred for either Jaune or Yang, but then we got their interactions in Volume 8 and Dragonslayer established itself pretty firmly as my #3 Yang ship and probably my #3-4 Jaune ship.

One of the reasons that I like it so much is that Yang has been genuinely supportive of Jaune basically since at least Volume 2, encouraging him to keep pursuing Weiss, gently teasing him in Volume 5, reassuring him after Ren lashes out in Volume 8, etc, which is pretty impressive when you recall that her introduction to him involved him puking on her boots. It would have been very easy for her to dismiss him after that, but I honestly can't think of an instance where she's genuinely rude or mean to him, when even his own teammates have hurt his feelings, either intentionally or unintentionally (as an aside, this is one of the reasons the "Yang hates men" take I occasionally see making the rounds on this site baffles me. Undertones of misandry aside, she has plenty of positive interactions with men and the negative ones don't seem to me to be spurred by gender). Jaune, for his part, has been about as nice and respectful toward Yang as he is toward everyone else, but he's generally been characterized as caring and supportive when he's not caught up in the ideas of toxic masculinity he's spent much of the series actively trying to unlearn.

I fucking hate the Gigachad Jaune bullshit though, I think it actively harms what is otherwise a genuinely good ship with actual chemistry in canon, especially since it's basically the opposite of how Jaune is actually portrayed in the show. Can't really say I'm a fan of how Gigachad Harem Protagonist Jaune content oversexualizes Yang even more than it does the rest of the girls (which is already a lot) for some reason ("for some reason", it's because she's blonde and fun and has big boobs and serves as the team's designated fanservice/sex appeal character and is designed in a way that makes her really easy for straight guys to waifu her, just ask Monty "liked to animate her late at night" Oum). Like come on y'all, she's not a brainless meat puppet that lives solely for dick.

Like don't get me wrong, I understand the appeal of projection and wish fulfillment, I've written crappy self-insert fanfiction myself (and it will never see the light of day), but like... just come up with an OC or something, no need to mangle Jaune's character for it. I'm not gonna say no one can enjoy this type of self-indulgent content, but don't make poor Jaune collateral damage.

Also fun fact about Dragonslayer: Yang definitely wears the pants in that relationship, and Jaune definitely gets pegged at one point or another.

#rwby #yang xiao long #jaune arc #dragonslayer

[taeyamayang]

i'm late but congrats on graduating and hitting 1k followers!! i'm so proud to see how far you've grown ^^ there is nowhere else to look but up now, all the best for your future endeavours ヽ(＾Д＾)ﾉ

idk why it is, but this semester has been having my brain running on fuel 25/8 . i suppose it's due to the increase of projects compared to last sem, but boy do they suck the life out of you. 😓 these last few weeks/month have been me running on autopilot trying to catch up to deadlines and constantly trying to not cause an argument with my groupmates every minute (whoever said that engineering guys are green flags need to change their opinion stat.). thank heavens that my sem break is soon because i can't stand being around them for any longer 😫(these are the same people i have to put up with until i finish my final year project, can you believe it? 🥲).

as i'm writing this, i have an exam i need to sit for in t minus 10 hours so wish me luck 🥲

anyways, now that you've graduated, are there any big plans that you are excited for? maybe a trip you've always wanted to go to or something you wanted to do but couldn't because you were still studying, let me know!

as always, stay safe and hydrated, remember to not skip meals, and never let someone affect your worth. ♡

🌻

AHHHHH MY RESPONSE IS LATE :(

agh i understand how you feel although we may not have gone through the same circumstances. days are dragging and all you want to do is to get everything done to the point that your mind is wired to getting tasks done over getting enough rest but i do hope you find time to take a break and breathe since a human's brain can not function to its optimum when you're tired and because you deserve it. engineering is never easy and i'm proud of you for pursuing it!! heckk you even do your best at every project. i salute you 😭 DUDE ABOUT ENGINEERING MEN AND GREEN FLAGS I-

story time! i was in a band in uni and our lead guitarist was an engineering student. he was nice and all that but boy he was flirty. he charms a lot and he does it through music or during practice sessions (since i hold the rhythm electric guitar and was the vocalist we practiced together a lot) that's when i thought engineering men are not green flags lol.

since i replied to your ask very late... is it your semester break? i could have wished you luck on your test on the day you sent this BUT LETS JUST SAY I DID IT UNCONSCIOUSLY 😭 i hope your test went well!

plans? hm, i'm still studying as of the moment lol. studying. never. ends. i'm telling you. i have a licensure exam next year and it's a countrywide exam for psychometricians. though i can go straight to work with my degree, the license adds credibility to my name so i'm working on that. and i'm planning on studying... again, told you it never ends, a graduate degree on clinical psychology since i aim to become a therapist soon but ya know with all the relatives, friends, and even neighbors knowing i finished a pre medicine course they're all encouraging me to continue med school. one of my friends in high school brought up (recently) how i initially had plans on pursuing medicine (gave up on that dream ages ago. figured it isnt for me lol) and told me that we should take the "entrance" test for med school together and i'm just gsndhsjs even the neighbors were surprised i graduated as a full scholar in my 4 year degree and told me i should definitely pursue medicine since i have a chance to continue med school with a scholarship again and that it's an opportunity not everyone has. it's kinda guilt tripping me in a way. med school is not easy. ALL THIS IS JUST MAKING ME- ugh

i just want kageyama bro

lol

but yeah, i'm taking one day at a time. for now, i'm studying and vibing. hopefully i get to visit a place outside of my country tho i went on a trip to beach with my family recently (helped with relaxing) if you missed the photos i posted i'll attach them here so you can feel the relaxing vibes of the sea. hopefully this helps you ease your mind of stress.

i'm happy to hear from you! missed you here :)

#anon.🌻 #pea.asks

[helpforihavefallen]

Not surprising but Aaron T stole my mf heart and left no crumbs, tho he shared it with the rest of the 4town. Damned be them anyway-

Random headcanons of T because i said so :)

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• Mamas boy. Let’s start with the strong one. He definitely is not the only child but is the oldest.

• He had to babysit a lot his younger siblings when they were growing up which kinda took away his freedom to goof around and actually bring his playful nature in the air.

• So now that he is with the group where he isn’t in charge anymore, he feels more free than ever before to do whatever he likes, try different hobbies and just nap whenever the hell he wants to.

• Dont get me wrong he loves his family but holy he’s happier now that he’s away from them to pursue his own life and goals.

• So T rarely gets serious. Like ever. Obviously it’s fun and all but he lacks the understanding of certain situations where he should stay quiet instead of cracking jokes which actually sometimes makes the things even worse between the guys.

• That being said he really gives full 100% from the moment his eyes open in the morning to the moment he goes to sleep.

• I’m just kidding he is a BEAST if you wake him up early in the morning on their day off.

• Likes to come up with nicknames for everyone which more or less for their liking, will be stuck with them until the day they die.

• He LOVES hugs, highfives, whatever physical touch there is. He loves being close to people and feeling like there’s some special bond between him and them so you can bet your heart that whenever he receives a first highfive, fistbump, hug (you get the idea) he will be grinning the rest of the day happily.

• Obviously he’s SO ENCOURAGING LIKE??? You passed the test? AMAZING. You survived the day? SUPERB. You just tried your best? HE IS SO PROUD OF YOU.

• Bit of a scatterbrain though let’s be honest.

• Has a dad sneeze. I know y’all know what i’m talking about. The whole house will shake under him when he sneezes.

• Plays videogames with Taeyoung whenever they are free. The thing is though, he is a sore loser and Taeyoung is unbeatable.

• He’s really good with kids! They looooove him and he loves playing with them.

• He absolutely dares the other members of 4town to do stupid crap with him or just in general.

• That being said he dared Taeyoung to zip himself inside a suitcase and he got stuck. Thats why Tae now refuses to go into small spaces.

• His hair is so soft oh my god-

• He also ALWAYS has a bed hair which looks????amazing????? Jesse is the most bitter about this as his bed hair looks horrid.

• Nothing makes him happier than seeing people smile and having fun. He’ll do anything to keep them smiling which sometimes can go a bit far but Robaire keeps him in the ground as he’s a bit more serious.

• He and Aaron Z has a secret handshake they do whenever they nail something and the others are extremely bitter about it since they want to learn it too.

• He rarely argues with anyone, but if arguments happen he will shut down. He hates it and can’t physically nor mentally handle it.

• But he also gets dared by Aaron Z and Taeyoung especially, which ended up him drinking a ketchup bottle (he was sick for the rest of the day)

• ”It was basically a smoothie bro.”

• Loses his things on daily basis.

• Oh also T cries very easily when watching a sad movie. He watched Lion King once and he hasn’t been the same since.

• He is your go to guy if you want to distract yourself from the problems as he isn’t that great at listening tbh. HE STILL TRIES HIS BEST OKAY.

• He is actually really smart even though he is a scatterbrain. He just chooses to do the dumb things as they seem to make people smile more.

• That being said...he is a bit insecure now that he’s known as the ”haha funny man” dude he feels like if he gets serious people might lose interest in him.

• Plays his insecurities off with jokes :)

• He has a bad habit of biting his nails which is most upsetting to Taeyoung as he can’t paint his nails now.

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I have so much more i want to write down but AAAAA

#turningred #4town #4town aaron t #4town headcanons #turning red headcanons #turning red 4town #turning red #aaron t turning red #headcanons #general headcanons

[ghostdrew22]

hi ok sooooo i have asked numerous writers for this request because i thrive on angst and fluff 👁👄👁 so here goes: a love triangle between draco, harry, and a ravenclaw reader. the reader’s been known to be head over heels in love with draco and giving him origami hearts everyday for a year or two, which he only throws in his trash bin. he usually just ignores her and finds her gestures annoying and laughable. one day, he goes too far with his rebuttals. the reader, heartbroken and realizing she had no chance at all, stopped pursuing him altogether. for the next few weeks, he found himself weirded out that he hadn’t received any origami hearts. while emptying his trashbin, he discovers that when you unfold the hearts, there were little notes of encouragement and sweet letters. just as he was about to confront her, he notices the reader folding something on her table during class and thinking it was finally another origami heart for him. however, it was a butterfly, and she handed it to harry instead. Jajdjeioa PLS MAKE IT ANGSTY AND FLUFFY IT’S UP TO U ON HOW IT WILL END BUT WOULD BE CUTE IF HARRY MADE THE PAPER BUTTERFLY FLAP ITS WINGS THO

Ok sorry for the cliche and long request, take your time and stay safe. I enjoy your writing sm 🥺

Butterflies and Paper Hearts || D.M, H.P

Requested: Yes Pairing: Draco Malfoy x fem!reader , a bit of Harry Potter x reader but not really Warnings: ANGST, swearing, Summary: Draco doesn’t like you and tries to let you down multiple times, when it finally does work he feels regret wash over him.

WORDS : 3864

First of all, I’m so sorry for taking so long to get to this. I read the request when it first came in and I loved it but I’ve been struggling to conceptualize it, and then I fell into a bit of a sad spiral because of all the other stuff that’s been going on in my life, which is why I took me so long to complete it. Second of all, I had to amend the idea a bit to make it work for me, e.g I wrote this in an AU where Voldemort doesn’t exist because I hate mr. no-nose, and I didn’t make the hearts go on for years. Third of all, thank you so much for this request! It’s a lovely concept and I really enjoyed writing it <3

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Butterflies.

Flying. Soaring. Alive.

The first time that Draco had ever noticed you was in your fourth year. You were sat at the Ravenclaw table and immersed in a discussion with Padma Patil, one that had you laughing so hard that you were throwing your head back and wiping tears from your eyes. The sight had knocked the wind out of his lungs, like someone had just punched him in the stomach, and he felt the weirdest sensation in his gut.

It was butterflies erupting.

~~~

The first time that you noticed Draco was in your fifth year. Ravenclaws and Slytherins were in Charms together, as usual, and you’d accidentally sat next to him instead of Padma.

“Dude, you’ll never guess what happened this morn-“ You stop speaking the second you notice that the person beside you is, in fact, not your best friend but rather a scowling Slytherin. “You’re not Padma.” You frown.

“No shit.” He rolls his eyes, “What gave it away? The green robes or the blond hair?”

“The snarky attitude.” You instantly reply and he looks taken aback for a second, “Who are you anyway?”

If you’d thought he looked shocked before, you were wrong. “Excuse me?”

“Who are you? What was so confusing about that sentence?” You raise your eyebrows, “Clearly not a Ravenclaw.”

He scoffs at your remark but answers anyway, “I’m Draco? Draco Malfoy?” He asks, a pretentious tone lacing his voice. “We’ve shared this lesson together since you got here last year?”

“Stalker much?” You ask with a smile and he rolls his eyes. “Anyway, nice to meet you Draco, I’m Y/N.”

“I know.” He replies simply as he takes the hand that you’d outstretched. “Some of us pay attention.”

“Mhmm.”

“So what happened this morning?”

“What?” You furrow your eyebrows in confusion.

“You were about to tell me about what happened this morning.”

“Oh.” You respond in embarrassment and watch as his smirk grows.

“What? Am I not worthy of your great story?”

“It’s not that, I just don’t think it’ll interest you.”

“Try me.”

“Right, what’s all this then?” Padma asks as she stops in front of the desk with a confused expression.

You giggle at her obvious confusion, “I accidentally sat here instead of by our normal spot. Do you know this miserable boy?”

“Better than I’d like to admit.” She responds sourly before turning a harsh gaze toward Draco, “Daddy’s boy.”

“Wench.” He responds and she rolls her eyes.

“Are you coming to sit with me?” Padma asks as she turns back to you and you shake your head.

“Maybe tomorrow, I’d like to sit here and annoy him today.”

“I cannot possibly stand in the way of that, you’re doing the whole grade a great service.” Padma replies with a laugh as she goes to sit a few desks away from you.

~~~

Day 1 - 1 Heart

Hearts.

Fragile things.

It’s the next Monday when you have Charms again, and you decide to sit by Draco’s desk in hopes of him coming to sit beside you.

“What on earth are you doing?” Draco asks as he peers over your shoulder before sitting in the chair beside you.

“Origami.” You respond with a smile and he raises an eyebrow toward you. “That thing where you fold pieces of paper into shapes?” You ask and he nods in understanding.

He takes his seat with a sigh, “Sounds boring.”

“Everything sounds boring to you.” You roll your eyes before finishing up the origami heart.

“True.”

You give it a once over and smile in satisfaction before turning to Draco and handing it out him. “Here.”

Hearts. Absurdly fragile things, Draco thinks as he feels his own heart begin to race. Here you are, nonchalantly handing him a piece of paper, and he feels like his entire world is collapsing in on itself at the gesture. Y/N, giving me a heart.

He rolls his eyes and takes the object from you with a scowl, “Why are you giving this to me?”

You shrug, “You’re not completely intolerable, you’ve earned it.”

He smirks, “Careful, people might start to think that you like me.”

You smile, “Maybe I do.”

Your smile reminds him of butterflies- bright, fluttering, inviting, warm, beautiful.

He rolls his eyes and makes a big show of tossing the origami heart into a nearby bin, and you fight to hide the hurt hidden behind your eyes. But what you don’t know is that at the end of the Charms lesson, once everyone else has left, Draco goes into that very same bin and pulls out the heart.

Day 20 - 20 Hearts

“Are you still doing this?” He asks in annoyance as you hand him another origami heart, the same way you have, every morning, for the last twenty days.

“Yup. I’ve got no reason to stop.” You shrug with a small smile.

“How about the fact that I think they’re stupid and I don’t like them?”

“You’re under the misconception that I care about your feelings.”

He chuckles and brings his face down to yours till you’re inches apart. “I think you care a lot more about my feelings than you’d like to admit.”

You swallow and look away from him, trying to avoid the warm feeling that’s creeping up your neck and settling into your skin. “You wish blondie.”

“Mhmm.” He replies absent-mindedly as he turns into the classroom, drops the heart into the nearest bin, and sits in his seat.

You try to look unbothered as you go to sit beside him, ignoring the disappointment that’s churning your insides.

Day 35 - 35 Hearts

You watch as Draco inspects the origami heart from the Slytherin table, hoping that he might open it this time.

“He’s going to break your heart, Y/N.” Padma whispers from her seat beside you in the Great Hall.

You shake your head and let your eyes drift away from the blond at the Slytherin table. “He wouldn’t do that, he’s a lot better than you think he is.”

“Y/N, I’ve known him a lot longer than you have and I know that this isn’t going to end well.”

“And why not?” You ask defensively.

Because you’re a muggle-born, Padma wants to say, but she knows that it isn’t her place to crush your dreams so harshly. She shakes her head instead and smiles sympathetically, “Nevermind, I’m sorry for overstepping.”

You don’t notice, too busy talking to Padma, that Draco tucks the little piece of paper into his robe with a small smile.

Day 50 - 50 Hearts

You don’t exactly know when you caught feelings for Draco, it’s like all the small moments just bunched up together, but you know that it wasn’t your intention. The hearts, the sitting together in charms, it had all just started as friendly gestures in an attempt to get the scowling boy to befriend you, but somewhere along the line things just got too messy.

And now, you’re utterly infatuated with him.

You take a deep breath as you pull out the small box from your bag containing Draco’s Christmas present. The train comes to a half at platform 9 and 3/4, and you quickly grab your belongings before rushing out of the train in order to catch the blond before he goes home for the holidays.

You catch him by the door and you smile at him. “I’ve got something for you.”

“Another paper heart?” He raises his eyebrows with a smirk and you shake your head.

“No, it’s something else actually.” You hand the box to him, wrapped in a mix of dark green and navy blue paper, and he accepts it with a skeptical glance.

“What is it?”

“A Christmas present.” You laugh and he nods sheepishly in acknowledgement.

“Oh.” He rubs the back of his neck, “I didn’t get you anything…”

“I didn’t want anything.” You smile again, “That’s not why I got you a gift.”

You watch as he nods again and looks out the window. “Then why did you get me the gift?”

“Cause we’re friends.” You shrug and he swallows.

If he were any other person then the erupting butterflies in his stomach would be an obvious sign to pull you closer and hug you till both your arms hurt. If you weren’t a muggle-born witch, and his parents weren’t watching him intently from outside the train, then this would be the moment that he seized to let your friendship blossom into more.

“We’re not friends.” He spits out coldly, and you’re taken aback by the sudden harsh tone.

“Okay…” You reply quietly, “Acquaintances?”

“For fuck sake…” He mumbles with a sigh, “Y/N, I don’t like you, at all. You’re annoying, you’re pushy, and worst of all, you’re a mudblood.”

Harsh words, words that taste of venomous denial, are running out of his mouth before he can stop them. The look of astonishment and sadness on your face has regret dancing on his tastebuds like the taste of tar, and he struggles to push that feeling down.

“You don’t mean that…” 

“I meant every word, and I can repeat it if that empty skull of yours didn’t catch it.”

You shake your head and look down at the ground, trying to blink away tears, and he nods as he turns to finally leave the train.

“Draco.” You choke out and he whips his head back angrily.

“What?”

“I forgot to give you this today.” You whisper as you hand him his origami heart and push your way past him toward the platform.

You feel sick, you feel sad, you feel disappointed. There’s a twisting and churning that’s going on in your stomach but it’s not like normal, it’s the opposite of what you’ve felt every time before.

It’s butterflies dying.

He watches you walk away as a lump forms in his throat.

Day 65 - 0 Hearts

Draco walks into charms half-expecting you to be sitting somewhere else, and half-hoping that you’re sitting in your usual seat beside him. He didn’t open the Christmas present, too much guilt weighing him down, and he hopes that you don’t give him any more paper hearts.

He feels an odd combination of anguish and comfort when he sees that you haven’t moved, and goes to sit beside you in silence. You turn to him and smile but say nothing to him, not then and not for the rest of the lesson. When you get up to leave he half-expects you to drop an origami heart on his books, and disappointment consumes when you don’t.

Day 75 - 0 Hearts

“Morning.” He mumbles as he finds a spot beside you, as usual.

“Morning.” You respond.

That’s all the conversation that you two have now. A part of you misses the way the two of you had been before, easy-going, sarcastic, in-sync, but an even bigger part of you understands why that had to be over. He could never allow himself to love someone like you without resentful undertones of disgust and shame, and you could never settle for someone who doesn’t love you regardless of your blood purity.

“Y/N…” Someone whines from ahead and you look up from your desk to find Harry stood in front of you.

You laugh at his childish behaviour, “Yes Harry?”

“Please help me with this assignment?”

“No.” You respond bluntly, just to mess with him, and he pouts at you.

“Please?” You shake your head, “Please?” You shake your head again and he pouts at you hopelessly, “Pleaseeee?” He begs once more and drags out his plea.

You laugh once again and nod, “Okay fine.”

“Thank you so much!” He exclaims excitedly and leans over the desk to hug you. You shake your head and giggle in his arms, and Draco has to look away to ignore the looming feeling of jealousy consuming him.

Day 103 - 1 Heart

“So, I know that we’re not friends or anything…” You start as you turn to Draco, “But Valentine’s Day is tomorrow and I can’t resist the urge to give you one more.”

He furrows his eyebrows in confusion but feels realisation wash over him as you hand him an origami heart, one that’s bigger than all the rest you’ve given him in the past. He nods and takes it from you, trying to pretend as though his heart isn’t swelling at the gesture. “Thank you.” He responds curtly before the two of you revert back to silence.

It’s only when he’s alone in his dorm room that night that he actually looks at the origami heart. It’s red, and you’ve written his name across it in cursive. He runs his fingers along it and allows himself to unfurl it, feeling shocked to find words written inside it.

I know you never read these, so I’m probably wasting my time, but I wanted to say that I miss you.

Ridiculous right? I even feel stupid writing it. But it’s the truth, I do. I miss your smile, and your laugh. I miss the way you would scribble nonsense in my book to distract me from the lesson, and I miss the way you’d get so frustrated when I did the same. I miss the way you’d make fun of me for being a nerd, and try not to look proud when you outdid me in tests.

I miss your jokes too, even though they weren’t really funny, and the way you’d always forget your textbook so we were forced to share and we had an excuse to talk. I miss you a bunch, even though I know that you don’t miss me nearly as much.

Happy Valentine’s Day pretty boy,

I wish you could’ve loved me the way that I love you.

He quickly jumps off his bed and walks toward his trunk. He pulls out the Christmas gift that he never opened and another small box that he’d used to store all of your origami hearts, and begins to go through them all.

Note 1 - You’re weird but I like you. Very defensive, I hope that I can knock down those barriers. Note 2 - Your hair looked really nice today, made you look like a famous movie star who pays people to do it for him. Do you secretly have a hairdresser in your room? Note 3 - Your eyes are a strange colour, a cross between blue and grey, it reminds me of the sky before a really pretty rainstorm.

He opens every heart, from the first to the last, processing every last compliment that you’d ever written. With every word he reads, he feels a mixture of love and guilt wash over him simultaneously. Love for you- because you’re kind, and funny, and beautiful, and way too good for him- and guilt- for treating you so horribly because he was scared, when all he had wanted to do was kiss you, and hold your hand.

9 - I’m oddly very proud of you for beating me in the latest Charms assignment, you might actually be the bigger nerd between us both. 20 - I know you hate that I call you pretty boy but that’s what you are, you’re unnecessarily pretty! 26 - You’re very funny when you’re not trying to be. Your jokes are horrendous, but your impersonations and quips can be quite amusing. 35 - I’m starting to think that you don’t read these. No, I’m sure that you’re not reading these. Doesn’t matter though, there’s so many things that I love about you and I think I’ll explode if I don’t put them down somewhere. 47 - I’ve fallen very hard for you, it might be your dumb laugh or the way you tickle me whenever you walk into class, but I didn’t know that you could feel this much for a person. Damn you pretty boy. 50 - Padma thinks you’re no good for me, I agree, but I don’t care. I love you too much to give you up.

The last of the collection is the Christmas gift that you gave him. He’d refrained from opening it out of shame, feeling unworthy of a gift from you after being so cold to you that day on the train. He unwraps it and finds another paper heart, with a silver engraved ring above it. The words, ‘pretty boy’  are inscribed into the ring and he smiles at the sight, a few tears sliding down his face.

Pretty boys like you deserve a little more than paper hearts, I hope you like it.

He slips the ring on before getting off his bed, walking to his desk, and pulling out a piece of paper.

Day 104 - 1 Heart.

It’s Valentine’s Day and his palms are sweaty, for the first time in his life Draco has sweaty palms because of a girl.

You’re in your usual seat and you’re folding another piece of paper. His heart soars at the sight of you so focused, that goofy smile you always have whenever something demands a lot of your attention, and your hands working delicately against the edges of the paper. He stops in front of you.

He clears his throat and you look up at him, startled by the sudden interruption. “Oh, Draco, morning.” You respond with a small smile, obviously still apprehensive about him.

“Happy Valentine’s Day Y/N.” He smiles back and slides an origami heart onto the desk, beside the butterfly that you seem to have been folding.

“What’s this?” You ask in confusion as you pick it up and inspect it.

“You’ve made enough to be able to tell by now.” He deadpans and you laugh softly with a nod.

“It’s a paper heart.” You smile up at him, “Did you make this for me?”

“Maybe.” He responds curtly as he slides into his chair beside you, but you catch the shy smile he’s harboring.

“Thank you.” He nods, “I could’ve done better though.”

He scoffs, “That’s not a fair comparison.”

“And why not?” You raise your eyebrows and he chuckles as he rolls his eyes.

“Read the note inside and you’ll know why.”

“There’s a note inside?” You exclaim excitedly as you start to unfold the heart and he yanks it out of your hands.

“No! Read it later when I’m, like, far away from you.” He says defensively and you furrow your eyebrows but nod in agreement.

“Alright, I’ll read it after school.” You take it back from him and put it in your robe. You resume folding the butterfly and smile when you see that it’s done.

Draco watches intently as you finish it, expecting you to hand it to him once it’s finished, and furrows his eyebrows in confusion when you set it down and scan the classroom.

“Harry!” You exclaim as you watch him walk from the door and toward you with a bright smile.

“Y/N.” He responds once he’s standing in front of you. “Is this for me?” He asks once he sees the butterfly on your desk, and Draco is about to scoff at the question but you nod your head eagerly.

“Of course!” You pick it up and give it to Harry, watching excitedly as he opens it up and reads the note inside.

Draco watches in silent envy as Harry laughs, at whatever you’ve written in the note, and brings his lips down to your forehead. “Thank you so much butterfly, I love it.”

You smile proudly and your eyes light up as you watch Harry cast a charm to make the butterfly flap it’s wings and fly down to his desk. “When are you going to teach me that? I’ve been asking for weeks now!”

“If I taught you then I wouldn’t have anything to impress you with.” He smirks as he leaves to his desk and you shake your head with a laugh.

“You two seem to be quite friendly now…” Draco mumbles, trying to hide the jealousy in his voice. The butterflies that had been erupting in his stomach earlier that morning being trampled to death by Harry.

“Yeah, we’ve been-“ You cut yourself off with a gasp as you catch a glimpse of the ring that you bought Draco, “You’re wearing it!”

He smiles at your excitement, thinking about how such simple expressions from you leave butterflies fluttering in his stomach. “Yes.” He chuckles and you smile.

“I thought you didn’t like it.” You respond softly and he feels his heart break.

“No, not at all. I just didn’t want other people getting jealous.”

He smiles at you and you feel that familiar bubbling in your stomach, like rosh bushes blooming at the sight of the sun, but you can’t exactly pinpoint the feeling.

Later that day when you’re sat beneath a tree and reading Draco’s letter, you know exactly what that feeling is.

~~~

Y/N.

Beautiful, funny, kind, observant, utterly perfect Y/N.

I’ve spent the last three hours trying to come up with a reason for you to forgive me, I couldn’t come up with one. I also tried to find an excuse, any really, that could justify my horrid actions over the last few weeks, and I couldn’t find one. So instead, I settled on just telling you the truth.

I’m a coward.

You’re probably laughing right now and thinking, “He’s only realising this now?”, and the answer is yes. I’m not sure if you’ve noticed but you’re the brighter one between us two. It took me 103 more days than you, to realise what you knew the first day you made me a paper heart; the two of us are meant to be.

That sounds a bit cheesy doesn’t it? Doesn’t matter anyway, because in note 12 you said that you enjoy my cheesy anecdotes. I’m not sure why though, I’m not particularly sure why you love anything about me when you’re you, but I guess some mysteries can never be solved.

I’m sorry for those words I said that day on the train, I didn’t mean them. I was scared of what my parents would think if I fell for a muggle-born witch, but I forgot one important thing; it doesn’t matter. All that matters is the fact that I’ve never been as happy as when I’m with you. If I could spend the rest of my life getting these perfect little paper hearts from you, listening to your sweet laugh, bothering you when you’re trying to get work done and buying you rings that match the ones on my hands, then I’d be over the moon.

I’m sorry for taking so long to tell you this; I love you Y/N. I know that I haven’t earned a second chance but if by some miracle you decide to grant me one then I promise to make it worth your while.

I would pick the stars out of the sky for you Y/N, if only you asked me to.

Happy Valentine’s Day from your pretty boy.

You look up from the letter and wipe the tears that had managed to escape, before getting off the grass and running back into the castle. When you find Draco eating dinner in the Great Hall, and see him flash you a shy smile, you instantly know what that feeling from earlier was.

It was butterflies reviving.

~~~

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I’m pretty sure I completely deviated from what you wanted, I’m so sorry if it’s not satisfactory :( It’s so cheesy and I feel like I messed it up at a few points but either way I liked writing it, it made me very happy to finally write some Draco fluff again.

anyway, love you all,

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[loquaciousquark]

Talks Machina Highlights - Critical Role C2E116-119 (Dec. 15, 2020)

Hi! I missed the first three minutes or so and opened the stream to Brian giving an absolutely incoherent ...ad? for some jewel game? Six thousand jewels just for logging in? Some app in the app store and he’s literally been talking about this now for six minutes and I don’t know what he’s talking about. He finally wraps up, Laura brings the show to a close, and we’re all a little worse than we were before.

Ashley tries to get us back on track and Henry bays over her. Brian tries to ask the first question and breaks off into feigned sobs halfway through. This is chaos incarnate.

Tonight’s guests: Laura Bailey & Ashley Johnson.

How’s Yasha feeling right now about Molly? She and Jester both are desperately curious about whether there’s a spark of Molly left in Lucien that can be brought back. It’s not the same as when Yasha was controlled by Obann; this seems more like just the way this is now. They’d settle for even finding the good in him, like they did with Essek. Brian jokes that they can monitor his mental state if Matt’s Irish accent starts to slip a little bit.

Jester is a little wary about scrying on Lucien now since he’s able to see her back.  She’s interested to try again now that Fjord’s given her the necklace.

Ashley has to run and grab a replacement set of headphones from Brian after hers get “crunchy.” It’s pretty cute seeing them run around and smooch on another screen. Brian teases that he doesn’t have any more questions for Jester since Caduceus has been doing all the healing lately. Laura tells us indignantly that she had Heal prepared for Caduceus in that last big fight, but Fjord got to Cad first. Brian explains how this is the same as all the good jokes he always lines up for Talks but never tells. Ashley’s crunchiness continues and we go briefly to a technical difficulties screen while Brian hops up to fix it.

Dani pips in to get this show back on track. Save us, Dani!

Ashley hadn’t thought about the aspect of Lucien controlling his friends’ minds, but finds it really creepy. It’s a cool game dynamic, and it’s a little different because they’re there willingly, but it’s really weird.

Jester thinks that “the tarot cards know all. She wants to buy into it real hard.” If it doesn’t make sense now, it will later. Laura has an Idiot’s Guide to Tarot Reading.

They’re super interested in why Aeor is like it is. Were they more advanced than us? Did they evolve along a different line? Ashley loves sci-fi and is all about this, especially since she wasn’t there for Happy Fun Ball time & hasn’t been able to get caught up on some of the things she missed in between, so she’s using this as an erstwhile replacement. She can already tell there are some things from this campaign that will bother her the way the unopened box did from C1. She and Laura both seethe at the camera about having to leave the spider behind.

Cosplay of the Week! Harland3r on instagram with a gorgeous winged Pike with a shield & mace. It’s an incredible photo and the wings look great.

Travis distracts Laura by dancing like a Trex offscreen. That seems right for this episode.

Jester’s encouragement of Yasha pursuing Beau was important in a lot of ways, not least because Ashley considered herself as uninterested in D&D romance as Travis & was a little unsure of activating a romance among her friends. However, it felt really natural within the game and it was really helpful to have Jester’s in-game encouragement. Yasha’s grown a lot and is in a much more positive place and is ready to find out what’s possible. Laura: “Jester from the get-go has seen Yasha as this wonderful soul from the beginning, and has seen how sad Yasha’s been through everything, and to see the difference that she exhibits when talking about Beau is drastic and wonderful. Jester’s joy in life is helping others find joy.”

Ashley points out it’s also so fun to “yes-and” with Laura because you’re like a little kid being dragged along by the hand - you don’t know where it’s going, but you know it’s going to be fun along the way.

Ashley does have a sense of “thank goodness Marisha isn’t jumping right into this” so she can coax herself into it, but when she tried to figure out the poem she had a lot of drafts that didn’t survive. She intentionally crafted the letter to give Beau an out if she didn’t feel the same way. There’s a lot going on with Lucien right now and there’s constantly a running thought in the back of her head about “maybe Beau is not into this.” Even the last couple episodes with Jester & Fjord have had Ashley finally understand shipping.

Brian brings us to the moment “almost as romantic as the pre-season finale of the Bachelorette.” Jester was “goo” afterwards. Early on in the campaign, Jester was very forward with her flirtations with Fjord & he shut her down. And then he kissed her underwater and immediately went and slept with Avantika, and Jester automatically shut herself down, because she thought she was misunderstanding & would only be hurt by those emotions. She deliberately focused on just being there with her friends, making everyone healthy and happy. These last few episodes where Fjord was flirting back felt like “my teenage heart again, my first kiss, the boy I like actually likes me back!” and she was able to open back up.

Yasha definitely has some instrument plans for those bones. She doesn’t know if she’s going to add to her harp or create a new one.

Ashley and Laura cheer about Travis stepping out his comfort zone. Laura thinks it was really good that he was doing it with her, his real-life wife, to see if he likes that sort of stuff in his D&D campaign. “It was just so sweet. It was just so sweet.” Brian says he’s actually a really romantic dude & Dani is so glad he asked before the kiss. Brian: “It’s going to be so sad when he breaks your heart and goes back to the corpse of Avantika.” Laura: “It’s fine, Jester will be long dead by then anyway.”

Jester does believe the four-year time trade was worth it, but that the city leaves “a mark on your brain,” especially as in-depth as she saw it. “Jester’s always been reticent to talk about her age because she’s aware she’s perceived in a juvenile way by a lot of people, and she’s insecure about that. She grew up by herself without a lot of social interactions and is experienced in a lot of ways now and naive in others; she’s very aware of human emotion around her, but chooses to see it in a certain way.” Losing the time makes her wonder if she needs to grow up & become an adult about certain things now. Laura: “I think actually she’s closer to Fjord’s age now. Actually, I’m not sure about his age. I don’t know how old he is - I’ve never even asked Travis!” Brian: “I think he’s definitely fifteen.” Laura: “Travis, how old is Fjord?” Travis, off-screen: “Sixty-five,” but he’s had the Mask of Many Faces up this whole time. Later, he adds that he’s in his early 30s.

Ashley has really enjoyed digging into Yasha’s more humorous side lately. It’s how she gets comfortable as a player, making it fun and light in a way that this year needs. “It’s also really funny to think that Yasha doesn’t know how Message works.”

Brian congratulates Laura & Ashley both on their game awards nominations. Brian vamps trying to get himself in as the presenter, but incidentally refers to Laura as his sister in the conversation and it’s super cute. “I would like to be the one to give the award to either my fiancee, or my sister!”

Fanart of the Week: @ethanmaldridge with an illustrated page from the Katzenprinz book. It’s just beautiful.

Jester’s polymorph gambit was terrifying, but the stakes got even higher when everyone else got stunned. She does lament choosing a bunny at the start. “Frickin’ Fjord’s armor!”

Yasha loves being polymorphed lately. She thinks it’s kinda funny, especially given her rigid upbringing with such defined roles.

Laura feels like Jester and Vex are weirdly two halves of herself. Brian: “You see the very bargainy, I’m gonna use my wit & smarts to negotiate situations. But at the same time, you’re very open to what people are thinking & feeling and navigating that. What you end up putting out (though it comes across as innocent and naive) is something pure because she truly believes it.” Laura thinks Yasha and Pike are the same way for Ashley, though Ashley feels a little closer to Yasha right now. Sometimes you just feel really exposed. Laura compares how much idealism she put into Jester to her character from Fruits Basket.

Since Yasha didn’t belong to either side in the war, she’s not hugely concerned by the fallout; she more wants to make sure her found family are okay and safe. Jester is the same way, Laura tells us. Jester doesn’t have any greater vision of the Empire & Dynasty interacting; she cares about the people, and it hasn’t been until the vision with the city that she kind of woke up and realized they have to really stop this now. It feels bigger than the Dynasty/Empire. Ashley: “It seems more of a thing for Beau and Caleb to care about.”

Really, up to now Jester was mostly concerned about getting Molly back, but now the stakes seem much higher. “We have to do this. We have to complete this, to beat them, to keep them from doing this.” Yasha is just going with the flow for now. There’s a lot coming at them and they are ready to find out what’s next.

And that’s that for tonight! Brian thanks the crew especially for working incredibly hard on switching everything to home-based streaming. He then gets stuck halfway spinning around in his chair and the last thing we hear is him idly wondering “What’s Fjord taste like?” which seems pretty on brand for tonight’s show. Is it Thursday yet?

#critical role #critical role spoilers #talks machina #talks machina spoilers #long post for ts

[yandere-mha]

Hello love, I just stumbled across your account and imma stalk it soon hehehe 🥺👉👈 do u wrote for yandere mr. Compress. If u do then how would he be with his darling? Nsfw and sfw if u don’t mind.

But if u don’t write for him then just ignore this and I’ll cry myself to sleep. Thank you 🖤

Don’t cry please you’ll make me cry too 😭

And yes I will write for any character as long as they’re 18 years or older in canon. To be completely honest with you though I don’t feel like I have the greatest in-depth understanding of his character as opposed to many other very talented people so I hope that you enjoy anyway!

STALKING, KIDNAPPING, AND ABUSE TW.

READ AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION.

Mr. Compress:

Just as he likes to put on a show for everyone else, he will put on a show for you to impress you when he first takes notice of you.

The moment he finds you in a public area with your friends, he seizes his chance and approaches you, shooting you a cocky grin and making sure you can see his (stolen) diamond watch peeking out of his (also stolen) designer coat.

He sees thievery as an honorable art which he would not normally partake in for selfish reasons, but he loses all self control around you. He wants to seem as suave and desirable as possible to just get you to look at him. 

The reason that he particularly wanted to approach you in front of friends was because he knew that they were the type of people to encourage you to pursue a gorgeous stranger. Little do they know that he’s been following you since before you left the house. Around your friends, you felt confident and secure enough to let him slyly wrap an arm around your shoulders. This whole night has been scripted and you’re playing your part perfectly.

You’re having such a good time you don’t notice his steely gaze that lands on your face for just a little too long. 

He's so charismatic he slips himself right into your friend group without them even noticing.

The moment you separate from the group, he’s caught you in his web and he can’t help but gaze at you in the palm of his hand. You make such a beautiful marble he’s almost tempted to keep you that way. What’s the fun in that though?

You wake up in his bed with his arms wrapped around you and his nose inhaling the scent of your hair in deep breaths.

Every once in a while he feels a rising guilt over stealing you but it’s for your own protection. You were naive enough to fall into his trap, so what makes you think you can survive the real world? Not even heroes will protect you - he’s the only one who can.

This dude is so annoying. If you start to get depressed and unresponsive, he will do anything just to piss you off and he’ll think it’s funny. However, this is his own twisted way of getting any sort of attention from you. That’s all he wants.

He really is a broken man who is desperate for love, but he refuses to let you see any vulnerable side to himself, so you never feel like you actually know anything about him. He wants you to love his true self but he doesn’t even know who his true self is. This frustrates him to no end but he would never let you see that. He keeps his act up.

He had a rush from stealing you, but after a while that rush begins to wear off and he wants some genuine connection with you. 

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[sunmoontruth-stiles]

Ok this is gonna be long. I’ve literally been slowly working on this for… too long. I’m just in a mood to have a long discussion about ships. I’ll be looking at canon and not, so bare with me. I don’t ship all of these personally. I’m mostly just picking the most popular ones. I chose to leave out a few that I just don’t want to talk about. I tried to keep this loosely chronological, but that quickly went to hell. None of this is meant to be hate towards anyone’s ship, just my personal opinions on each of them.

Canon:

Scott x Allison: True Classic

Scallison is so sweet as it is truly the epitome of young love. Romeo and Juliet, except Romeo is even more of an idiot and Juliet is a badass who dies for a cause. They’re moral and ethical codes are both highly valued by themselves, even if they don’t align with others very often. They loved with everything they had. They were beautiful. We’re they soulmates in the end, or just the first love who will always hold a special place in your heart? Who knows, but I’ll always love these immature kids who thought their love could change everything.

Stiles x Lydia: The Long Awaited

Stydia is as slow burn as you can get. Unfortunately their actual getting together was slightly rushed in my opinion. They didn’t have time to find their own as a couple because Stiles just wasn’t in the show enough at that point. I know the reasons behind it, but it did leave this couple at an awkward stage of official-but-not-shown. The idea that Stiles loved her as a kid, immature and infatuated, and he saw her for who she really was, will always be cute. Then they grew, changed, became friends, and found other people. Them finding each other later on, having real love that’s developed slowly, is a wonderful arc. Though, a part of me will always believe they should have pursued other story lines in the wake of Stiles’ absence from the plot. They’re finally together! …but we don’t get to see it.

Jackson x Lydia: The Image

Oh Jackson and Lydia. Honestly, I love them. Their connection at a time in their lives when they couldn’t open up to anyone else, just hits me right in the feels. I mean, god that HUG. You know the one. Always brings me to tears. I’m so sad their relationship was almost entirely depicted during Jackson’s kanima time when he couldn’t think nor truly act for himself. Those small moments of scared vulnerability when he wanted to protect her from himself… I’ll miss these two. They deserved to find other people and remain life-long friends. I loved their moment in the last episode. I wish they’d gotten to see each other grow. Also they had such bixbi solidarity vibes, and I’ll die on that hill.

Scott x Lydia: Leaders

Ok, I’m gonna be honest here. I ship it. The power couple they would have been?? Also them coming together after they lost Allison would have actually made sense. A part of me kinda wishes the writers had moved on from Stydia as a romantic relationship and leaned into them growing as friends and Stiles moving on from his childhood crush. Scott and Lydia actually would have had good chemistry. They were both very headstrong heroic types, but Lydia would have balanced Scott out well intellectually. They had the history, and I think it could had worked if they wrote it right. Plus, Scott and Lydia would have been a better endgame that Scalia.

Scott x Kira: New Beginnings

These two were adorable. Kira was a badass, don’t get me wrong, but she let herself be soft in a way Allison was always afraid to. This couple was truly Baby. Absolute dorks. I can definitely see the lasting quality between the two of them. They saw things very similarly, and had a ton in common. I do think Kira deserves more characterization outside of their relationship, like more of her friendship with Malia. Overall, her departure from the show will always be sad to me. It was bad writing. Scott was over her far too quickly.

Aiden x Lydia: Pretty People Herd

I honestly didn’t see much between these two other than mutual attraction. The best thing to come out of this relationship was Lydia’s line, “You’re not just a bad boy, Aiden. You’re a bad guy. And I don’t want to be with the bad guys.” Good character development moment.

Ethan x Danny: Step to Redemption

Danny really was the thing that made Ethan look outside of the pack for what he really wanted out of life. They had a few cute scenes. Gotta love Danny’s final remarks, “Dude, it’s Beacon Hills.”

Allison x Isaac: Unexpected Rebound

Ok, I like these two. Isaac could match Allison’s snark in a way Scott couldn’t. They both fought the progression of the relationship slightly. They didn’t expect to fall for each other. They were less willing to let someone in close. I’d love to have seen more… but unfortunately their time was limited. On a side note, sometimes their relationship did feel like ‘we both are in love with the same guy, let’s cope with each other’, but I find that completely valid. I’ll talk about Scallisaac later though.

Stiles x Malia: Anchors

Ok but, them <3 I love what they did for each other. Stiles was able to help Malia connect to her humanity and other people. He never tried to isolate her in their relationship and encouraged her growth. Malia offered Stiles the emotional support he never asked for. She defended him, fought for him, and loved him fiercely. Stiles needed that so much after season 3. I think they were a love that wasn’t meant to last, but the impact of it was forever. I wish we’d gotten to see a real end for them where they agreed that they needed to grow as individuals but would always still care.

Liam x Hayden: Three’s a Pattern

These two’s characterization stopped whenever they had storylines together. Their relationship was built on Scallison references. Hayden’s character could have been interesting, but they never really gave her a moment to shine. Liam has the worst plots when they revolved around her. Cute couple, poor writing.

Derek x Braeden: Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girl Boss

Derek deserves to be happy so much. Kate and Jennifer were just... jeez. Him and Braeden were cute and deserved more screen time. I think her intensity allowed for Derek to let go of control a bit more comfortably. Let Derek Be Soft. Anyway, love them.

Corey x Mason: Gotta Have That Rep TM

These two could have been cute if they were shown for more than two seconds at a time. I highkey forget Corey even existed all the time. Kinda just felt like a relationship to fill TW’s gay quota.

Jackson x Ethan: The Callback

Honestly? Loved them. Loved the chemistry. Loved the dynamic. Best twist. I know it was probably written in like that because Colton came out during his time away from the show, but it absolutely fit his character. Jethan is top tier.

Melissa x Chris: BAMF Parent Duo

Ok, so like, Melissa deserved this plot. She deserved someone to care about her. However... what the hell? Chris? In canon, his wife died like 2-ish years prior? His daughter died 1 year prior?? Is Chris really in a position to pursue a new relationship?? Also, like, Scott and Allison dated and loved each other up to her death. Kinda weird to have their parents hook up. I don’t hate it, but I don’t ship it…?

Scott x Malia: Lead up? What’s lead up?

These two came out of nowhere I stg. Like, 6B really tried to tell us this was something that had been slowly developing in the background? Also, I understand that they are their own people, adults, and completely in charge of their own romantic pursuits: but did Scott seriously never call Stiles? Like, Malia wasn’t just his first girlfriend. She was his first. Like, dude that’s your best friend?? Not even a head’s up? No, ‘hey would this bother you?’ Oof. Plus Malia was way too chaotic for Scott. She existed in gray morality that always prioritized her immediate circle, and Scott was a very black/white type of heroism. I just didn’t feel like they fit.

Non-Canon:

Scott x Stiles: Childhood Best Friends

Ya, sorry, I don’t ship Sciles at all. I get it. Like, I totally understand the ship, and I mean no judgment at all. I just see them as friends. I really value good male friendships in media because I feel like we don’t get enough, and I always liked these two.

Stiles x Derek: Enemies to Lovers. 100k. Angst. Hurt/Comfort.

God these two really are what fanfiction was made for. I could write a much longer discussion about Sterek, and I probably will eventually. I’ll try to keep this brief. These two weren’t always on the same side, but their approach was the same. They were very similar at their core. Plus, wow the chemistry. This should have been canon. Jeff’s a coward.

Allison x Lydia: Powerful.

This ship is so great. They really had a great dynamic, and a romantic plot would have easily fit the established narrative. Lydia’s confidence in herself and Allison’s confidence in her own abilities crossing over to each other because that’s what the other lacked? Iconic.

Danny x Jackson: He Gets Him

Danny really saw Jackson for everything he was and still cared. I wished we’d gotten to see more of them. I  want more background with Jackson’s eventual coming out and his friendship with Danny. Like, they ended up dating the same guy. What did Ethan have to say about that??

Stiles x Jackson: Bastards

Ok these two had a super fun dynamic. The asshole-energy between them was, great. The snark was always so entertaining.

Melissa x Noah: Family

How were these two not endgame? Their sons were practically brothers already. They had amazing chemistry. The flirting? Not to mention, their timeline would have made way more sense. Missed opportunity.

Chris x Peter: The Opposite of Love is Indifference, Not Hate

Ok so like, this was definitely one of those ships that I had absolutely no knowledge of before I was pretty into the fandom. Like, this was not something I would have guessed just after watching the show. That being said; my god the chaos alone…

Scott x Isaac: The Disaster Duo

Okay ya I love these two. Two dumb asses who act like idiot puppies. Such a fun dynamic. Plus?? Chemistry??? Hellooo

Scott x Allison x Isaac: Three Heads Are Better Than One

This ship is definitely one of my personal favorites. I very rarely poly-ship. I just feel like most of them are just love triangles with an ‘easy solution’, when two of them have no real connection. That is so not the case here. I feel like all of them have such great chemistry with each other. They also have a great dynamic as a group. Season 3A was really just Scallisaac rights.

Stiles x Isaac: I Hate You, jk…Not Really

Ok I loved their banter, but I really just don’t see this ship. Idk, I don’t personally ship it. Would have loved to see their friendship develop more tho.

Erica x Allison: Duo that would stab you with a stiletto

I don’t ship it, but I do wish we’d seen them become friends. I feel like they had a very artificial ‘girls fighting over a boy’ dynamic? They could have been such a badass duo.

Stiles x Erica: Batman x Catwoman

Ok I’m not sure exactly how to express my feelings for these two so bare with me. OMG I love their dynamic so much, and they are sooo cute. Their energy? Amazing. Chemistry? Great. History? It’s there and has so much potential. 10/10. Love them. But, no, I don’t ship it lol. Just really love their friendship, but with the underlying history of crushes.

Boyd x Erica: Was This Not Canon?

How can anyone not love Berica? Ugh they are adorable. These two deserved so much better.

Boyd x Cora: Survivors

Honestly I don’t really see it? Like they definitely had a connection, but it never felt romantic. I really feel like they just had to lean on each other and bond to make it through captivity, and it just lasted.

Boyd x Erica x Cora: The Pack

I literally learned this was a ship a couple days ago. Similar feelings towards this as Bora, but with the added hesitancy of we never actually saw Erica and Cora interact.

Cora x Stiles: Slow Build Up

These two were clearing being lined up to be a thing before Cora ended up leaving. I can’t say I’m disappointed they never happened. Kinda felt like they just wanted to straight-code Sterek.

Cora x Lydia: Mean Lesbians

Not much interaction to actually go off of, but yes I 100% support. They have very different approaches to problems, which is fun. Very ‘opposites attract’.

Malia x Kira: “Maybe you could date the coyote?”

Another one of my favorites!! They really complimented each other. Also, how full circle would they have been? They were introduced in back-to-back episodes. Malia stalking her as a coyote? The line from Kira’s dad about dating it? It would have been so funny if that ended up happening.

Malia x Lydia: Beauty and the Beast, but make it wlw

These two were fun. I liked their friendship, but I don’t really ship it. Though, rip Stiles that would have been hilarious.

Parrish x Lydia: The Cop and The Minor

Must I say more? Like, Parrish’s character, so sweet and big rule follower, did not make sense for what went down with Lydia. I love Parrish, but the dynamic just felt off. It didn’t feel consistent with the rest of his characterization.

Parrish x Stiles: The Cop and The Minor, but gay?

Ok, same reasoning as above, but also they had absolutely no connection romantically.

Scott x Theo / Stiles x Theo: Sometimes The Villain is Hot

Ok I’ve put these together because I have the same opinion for both. I don’t ship it. Neither had any rebuilding of trust, and Theo really hurt both of them. I just don’t really think they work.

Mason x Liam: Sciles Puppy Pack Edition

Similar to my feeling about Sciles, I just don’t ship these two. They had a good friendship, from the little we saw of it.

Theo x Liam: Anchors 2: Electric Boogaloo

Another personal favorite! I really don’t even understand why this didn’t go canon?? The elevator scene was just, so intense. They helped each other grow in 6B, and I really loved their dynamic. They should have hooked up.

Honorable Mention?: 

Parrish x Laura: What’s canon?

I’ve seen this in fanfic a lot, and I actually really like it lol. I thought I’d add it in here because I do love the creativity of fandoms.

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[shirtlesssammy]

8x06: Southern Comfort

Then:

Garth

Now:

Kearney, Missouri

A husband --possibly in the dog house?- gets run over by his very angry wife, and the audience gets to see the defacement of set dressing I have no desire to see in the first place.

Our boys are STILL fighting about Sam’s year of psychosis and Dean’s year of pining and romantic (and sexual?) frustration. Dean tells Sam he’s ready to talk about Benny whenever. Sam’s so pissed about Benny, but, like, grr, I firmly hold to the fact that Ameila was a figment of Sam’s psychosis because she’s not even close in comparison to their respective distractions to the job. Benny meant more somehow. Sam “Let’s Give the Monsters a Chance” Winchester just wants Dean to kill Benny ---and I haven’t read enough meta to understand why. Dean’s answer, and the only one that matters: “He’s my friend, Sam.” 

I get that this entire scene sets up the episode, but I’m still grrr about it. 

Anyway, the boys head off to their case, and find Garth!

He’s posing as a Texas Ranger. 

Garth is working cases, and he’s the new Bobby. Dean, bby, it’s okay. They go and interview the son of the victim/assailant. He tells them that his parents had a good marriage, and they were high school sweethearts. It makes no sense. His mom is at the hospital -and remembers nothing of the event. 

Assessing the crime scene, Garth finds ectoplasm. It’s green --not black. And Garth tastes it. Dean is not amused. Garth also gets a call from the coroner. The dead guy had the word ‘Alcott’ carved into his chest. 

They interview the wife. She doesn’t remember much --just a LOT of anger. Garth asks about ‘Alcott’ and she talks about her husband going to a dance with Sara Alcott in high school. Sara Alcott’s still alive --so this is a weird ghost possession. 

They head for food. Once at the bar, Garth asks Dean where he was the past year (Sam being locked away in a cabin hallucinating and recovering from his satan delusions.)  He tells Garth that his was in the non-Miami Purgatory. “Man, that’s balls.” Oh, GARTH. 

Dean asks about the confederate bullshit on the walls, and Garth fills them in on the fact that Missouri was a border state. He then reveals the genesis of his current job. He went to college and dental school. His first job was ganking the tooth fairy. 

Scott, the victim’s son, is about to head into a general store when he gets a call from his wife. He sees someone that he’s clearly trying to avoid, and then takes a hit from his asthma inhaler. Grabbing some money, and getting some black goo to ooze out of his ear, he heads inside. 

He’s pouring himself a hot cup of coffee when the dude he clearly didn’t want to see before confronts him. Scott throws the cup of coffee in his face and proceeds to take a shovel to the dude. LIKE WOW. 

But watching a security mirror reveals that he’s really an angry confederate soldier. Of course. 

Later at the scene, Sam, Dean, and Garth learn that Scott didn’t remember anything, felt a whole lot of anger, and the word ‘Sussex’ is scrawled in blood on the cooler door. Also, Garth is wearing Bobby’s hat. 

Oof.

Dean is not amused. 

Sam heads off to interview Sara Alcott Brown. She tells him of her youth. Nothing out of the ordinary, but it’s clear the wife never forgot what happened. Sam flashes to a post-coiltal Sam and Amelia. Amelia confesses she once had a husband. He died in Afghanistan. 

She ran away from her life, and met Sam. 

The team realizes that the dead and the killers all had long held resentments with each other. Garth uncovers some lore from Bobby’s journal: they’re looking for a spectre or an “avenging ghost” that forces you to act on long-held resentments. They discover a nearby grave desecration - it’s the Confederate tomb of the unknown soldier. That night they break into the tomb to burn the bones. Dean delivers a fitting eulogy: “We won.” 

At the jail, the shovel-bashing son from earlier begs for his inhaler. When a deputy fishes it out of evidence, he suddenly goes vengeful and shoots his boss.

At the station, they speculate that the burn job didn’t take because there’s a haunted object being passed from person to person. Sam interviews another officer, who reveals that a deputy with murder in his eyes is on his way to the hospital. Dean pursues. 

Sam and Garth follow up on another lead, and Garth encourages Sam to talk about his feelings. LOL, good luck, buddy! Sam has….ANOTHER FLASHBACK. This time, Amelia tells Sam that she vomited out too many feelings the night before, and she’s gotta go. Sam puppy dog eyes her, but she leaves anyway. (Boris maintains that Amelia was a hallucination, but Natasha now believes that Amelia is the blurry wife in the cursed finale. This...somehow makes the finale worse, for her.)

Sam and Garth talk to a hot librarian about the history of the unknown soldier. Dean, meanwhile, confronts the ghost-mad deputy who’s confronting a nurse or doctor....over a past bad call as a recreational league UMPIRE. smh

Garth and Sam learn that the rumored resident of the unknown soldier’s tomb is one of two estranged brothers. One brother fought for the confederacy and the other for the union. (LOOKS DIRECTLY INTO THE CAMERA.) Sam notices a penny necklace in the portrait of the soldier. 

For Hot Librarian Science:

At the hospital, the ghost sniffs Dean and finds him delicious….ly full of anger and betrayal. He jams the penny into Dean’s hand. Sam calls Dean and lets him know about the penny. Too little, too late. Dean’s waiting for them at the motel room and immediately points a gun at Sam. “You shoulda looked for me when I was in Purgatory.” 

Flashback to three days ago which is...a bit jarring. Careless teens play with the items in the soldier’s tomb. One of them pockets the coin, which they use to pay for snacks at a store. Later, the woman from the cold open gets the coin back in change. We get the full chain of custody of the coin - I suppose to show us that it’s super duper hard to shake off that darn ghost. I recall 15x19 and grind my teeth.

Cut back to Dean, who is still ready for MURDER. Dean rattles off a list of grievances from the prior seasons. 

Sam tries to wrest the gun from Dean’s hands and gets knocked across the room for his trouble. Garth intervenes, using himself as a shield, and tries to de-escalate the situation. Sam fails to READ THE ROOM and brings up Benny again. Smh

When Dean lunges for Sam, Garth knocks him one right in the kisser and when Dean reels back the coin drops. Dean’s abruptly himself again.

Garth reaches for the coin to Sam and Dean’s concern. But as we all know, Garth is a PURE SOUL and is therefore immune to vengeful spectres. 

After Garth destroys the coin, he sternly tells Dean to “stop being an idjit” and get along with Sam! They hug, and Dean gives Garth Bobby’s hat back. HEARTS

Alas, the episode doesn’t end on a high note. Sam has one more flashback to his time with - DEEP SIGH - Amelia. Sam comes crawling back to Amelia and finally reveals his sob story about losing his brother. She lets him into her room and they reconcile.

Flash forward in time again. Sam tells Dean Amelia’s full name as though he’s actually dropping her life story. He continues to harangue Dean about keeping Benny a secret. He threatens to kill Benny the next time he sees him and on that positive note, the episode ends. 

Natasha’s takeaway: There are WAY too many confederate flags in this episode with WAY too little judgment about them

I’ll QUOTE Benny the Next Time I See Him!

“Like Purgatory purgatory?” “No. The one in Miami.”

You ganked the tooth fairy? 

You can’t change the past, amigo

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[runawayballista]

here it is. here’s a post about all* the robin & lon’qu (& morgan) stuff from wawa au. there’s a lot of it because i have been coping with work stress by thinking about it incessantly. i wrote this post in a draft over the course of like a week

some of this like lots of other parts of this id like to write fic of. little vignettes or sketches. this au is just very good & funny

*this turned out to be a lie. sorry

ok so. LON’QU has more or less the same backstory deal as canon with ke’ri except that it wasn’t “bandits” it was cops. lon’qu seems like an acab kind of guy. you can take your pick on where in the northeast US this happened because despite the very specific regional jokes the locations are all vague because i have commitment problems. anyway he was a Troubled Youth with no family and a rap sheet and when basilio met lon’qu he was like hey. you should come work for me. so he did for a while and basilio helped him get his shit together but he ultimately had a hard time remaining in the city he grew up in and left to go somewhere no one knows him and wound up on the southwest. lon’qu’s hobbies are working out and woodworking

enter robin!! who is working on her phd in game theory. once the grima cult was established and validar was high on “well no ones stopped me YET” juice, he decided it would be a good idea to groom his only child into his protege. not to take over the “family business”, but someone he can send out into the world as a means to exert influence outside the cult. that’s right he wanted robin to go into POLITICS. unfortunately robin has lived in the cult her entire life and is pretty firmly under validar’s control, and part of the reason the conditioning works so well on her is because he’s very good at convincing her of the illusion that she has agency. validar is smart enough to know that his kid is too smart to be psychologically browbeaten into doing his bidding. he understands that loyalty and trust and the absolute, be-all and end-all value of Family are the most effective tools to control robin. he even convinces her that it’s her idea to double major in economics and political science, because why not encourage the development of that big brain! of course she went to a state college, it’s not as though she wanted to go far from home, right :)

it actually is robin’s idea to go to grad school, because her big brain got really into game theory, and validar wasn’t going to discourage her from pursuing it, even if it means going to a university in the next state over, because hey, a puppet with a doctorate? that could be incredibly useful. why would he stifle that kind of intellectual growth! robin is still well under his thumb and she's going to come back home when she's done with her phd and then validar can unleash her on the world :)

and then robin starts going to the froyo joint where lon'qu works. it is the place where she & her grad school cohort go to study/write, bc hello! have u seen the new cashier there! dude works out! dude is also relentlessly surly and does not smile in response to a single thing robin ever says, so she starts getting increasingly absurd flavor and topping froyo combinations in the hopes of getting SOME kind of response from him. the peanut butter froyo/peach sorbet with the gummy bears and butterscotch sauce does NOTHING. challenge accepted, says robin, in her mind

she is now on a mission to get this guy to just like, crack a smile. just once. she starts flinging bits of fruit topping at him with her spoon from across the store, with increasingly devastating accuracy. robin's grad school friends are like oh my god, stop?? you are going to get us kicked out?? just ask for his number like a normal person!! and robin is like oh hahaha you think i'm hitting on him? no i just refuse to let him win

lon'qu Will Not approach their table to confront them but he WILL glare at them from across the store. eventually robin's study buddies are like ok. you have ruined the hot guy froyo joint. we are going to study elsewhere. robin keeps going to the froyo place but she is spending increasingly less time actually working on her thesis. eventually lon'qu gets tired of picking maraschino cherries out of his hair and marches over to robin's table and is like okay WHAT do you WANT

robin does not have a prepared response for this scenario so her brain shorts out and she goes uhh... your number?? and lon'qu BOLTS

he quits his job at the froyo place the next day. however it turns out… they go to the same gym? ahh? oh??? she actually isn’t stalking you lon’qu she swears she just also goes to this planet fitness. although now that we’re both here,

there is no escape for lon’qu. robin appoints herself as his weight lifting spotter even though he insists he DOES NOT need one. (he does.) he contemplates quitting the gym also but working out is one of his two (2) hobbies and this is the cheapest gym in town. unfortunately robin’s relentless friendship assault strategy does work and over time they become gym buddies. sometimes robin brings him a protein bar or gives him a ride home. she does not throw fruit at him anymore (he has explicitly asked her not to) but she doesn’t need to! now they’re friends. like, very casual friends and lon’qu still has the largest personal space bubble radius of any man robin has ever met, but still, “i’ve got your number in case you forgot something in my car” friends. lon’qu is Fine with this. he’s kind of getting used to robin? it’s fine, they’re just doing gym stuff together, anyway ,

one day lon’qu gets an actual phone call from robin and she’s like uhh haha hey i’ve asked literally EVERYONE i know already but my apartment is flooded and i cannot sleep here can i PLEASE crash on your couch, i have a friend who’ll let me stay with her for a while but she’s out of town and won’t be back until tomorrow!! and when lon’qu’s initial reaction is unsurprisingly enthusiastic robin is like you know what? you're right, that is WAY too big an ask from your gym buddy, i’m just gonna get a hotel. and lon’qu (not yet aware that her dad is a loaded cult leader) is like hhhgghhhhhhh wait…… you can stay. his apartment is tiny but he has a couch and he can stay in his room with plenty of space because it’s Just One Night! this is fine.

the next day it turns out robin's friend's flight was cancelled and it’s going to be another day before she is back in town :’) lon’qu wants his personal space back but he is not completely heartless. robin can stay another night it’s fine. he has work all day so it’s not like they have to hang out. and robin has tons of work to keep her occupied and she’s got her laptop, she’s good. that night lon’qu comes home to a stack of pizza boxes on the stove and a robin who looks like she has not moved from the spot on the couch she was in when he left. turns out his apartment is really quiet, her neighbors at home are super noisy, and she gets a ton done here? lon’qu fully intends to escape to his bedroom but robin is like WOW i’m beat from all that writing, wanna watch some tv or something? lon’qu fully intends to say no but somehow winds up watching tv with robin anyway. there’s an emotional beat drop in here for lon’qu where he starts getting the Feelings wow you know what this has gotten SO long and i didn’t even get to the part where they commit perjury so lon’qu can get access to a workshop with a saw. wow. ok. wow. i'm glad i have this au to fill my brain with during these trying times. more on this later

#fembles #fe13 #fire emblem awawakening #i had to get the fruit throwing in there somewhere. its the most important thing about robin/lon'qu #まとめ

[candied-peach]

ao3: “i will not break” rating: T warnings: self deprecation, touch starvation, sympathetic deceit, sympathetic remus, platonic DRLAMP genre: hurt/comfort description: Roman’s touch starved. (for anon prompt:  "anyways, could i request some angst with all the other sides finding out roman touch starved and him getting a big ole hug? i know youve already done some fics with touch starved roman but as i roman stan i constantly crave more 😂")

Roman sits on the floor of his bedroom, surrounded by crumpled up balls of paper. His hands knot uselessly in his hair, tugging so hard bright divots of pain erupt all over his scalp, but he ignores it, trying desperately to force the tears threatening to fall in retreat.

Thomas is going to be so angry, he thinks dismally, curling tighter into a defensive ball. He hasn't come up with a good idea in nearly a week. He doesn't know why. Probably because he's a fraud. A bitter laugh escapes before he can stifle it. It sounds more like a sob.

The others have left him alone. He knows rationally that they're busy, too. That they probably think leaving him to his own devices is good, that he wants to be left alone to commune with his creative muse.

He wants nothing more than to be surrounded by them. Even his brother. He knows that this is going to start affecting Remus if he doesn't get his act together, and the thought terrifies him. He doesn't know if he can bear it if Remus knows that something is wrong. No one's supposed to know that Thomas's ego is so...well, bruised. Insufficient. Like a rotten apple core, mushy and disintegrating into the leafy detritus of a forest floor.

Think, he tells himself, finally uncurling enough to pull a notepad and fresh pencil toward himself. He prays for divine inspiration, for something to trickle in, no matter how infinitesimal. Nothing. The blank page glares up at him, mocking him with its pristine state. He drops the pencil on the carpet before he can succumb to the urge to stab his fingers on it. It won't help.

Worthless excuse of a prince, Roman berates himself, wrapping his arms around bent knees. He's touch starved as well. He knows that. He watches the others interact, brushing shoulders in the hallway, sidelong hugs in the kitchen. But he's too loud, too bombastic, too much, and oh, how he wishes he knew how to turn it off.

A knock on the door makes him freeze, looking around with hopeless eyes. His room is a mess and he knows he doesn't look much better. He locked himself into his room last night and if the clock on the wall is right, it's nearly dinner. He's missed breakfast and lunch.

"Roman?" Virgil calls through the door. His voice is raspy with worry, and Roman feels a shard of guilt lodge itself in his stomach. Virgil shouldn't have to worry about him. He's the one who's supposed to keep it all together. His throat tightens and he forces the tears back even harsher. "Roman, open the door," Virgil demands. Tempest Tongue shades his words and Roman winces. It's enough to shove him upward though, and he shambles toward the door on unsteady feet, finally unlocking it and pulling it open a crack. Virgil recoils before he collects himself and Roman tries to let the hurt roll off, like water down the back of the proverbial duck. It doesn't work.

"Ro, you look like shit," Virgil says bluntly. "Everyone's worried about you. You didn't come down for breakfast or lunch-"

"Merely pursuing the creative dream," Roman assures him breezily. "I lost track of time, I'm afraid."

"You look like you haven't slept in a week," Virgil points out. "And I promise you, you aren't hiding as much about your room as you think you are. You aren't that big, dude." Roman blanches as Virgil sighs.

"Please, Ro?"  He asks.

"I-" Roman swallows thickly. His vision blurs and he scrubs at his eyes roughly with one hand. "I'm sorry."

"What for?" Virgil asks in confusion. Behind him, Roman can see the others, all drawn by the sound of their confrontation. Even his brother leans against the wall, shooting him a concerned look.

"I'm a fraud," Roman whispers. "I- I haven't thought of any new ideas in a week. Thomas needs me and all I'm doing- all I ever do- is letting him down."

"You are not," Virgil says sharply. "Thomas will understand, Ro. Sometimes the creative juices just aren't flowing." He shrugs. "It happens."

"Yes, but not to me," Roman snaps, running a hand through already rumpled hair. "I'm sorry," he says, an abashed moment later. "I didn't mean it like that."

"I know," Virgil says steadily.

"Cognitive distortions," Logan says in a quiet voice. "Based on prior difficulties with each of us, you can predict that Thomas will not react poorly to the news that you are suffering from creative block, Roman. It happens to everyone sooner or later."

"Even me," Remus pipes up. Roman looks surprised at him.

"It's true," Deceit confirms. "You aren't the only one, Roman."

"I-" Roman's eyes fill with tears again.

"You can cry, Ro," Patton encourages. "It's okay to cry."

"I just-" Roman stops, taking a deep breath.

"Take your time," Logan says. "What do you need, Roman?" Roman looks up at all of them, standing crowded in the hallway, and laughs a little shakily.

"A hug?" He says in a tiny voice. "Is that- is that okay?"

Patton surges forward, flinging his arms around Roman's waist.

"Always," he says firmly. Roman melts into the hug, even as Logan's arms come stiffly around him, followed by multiple pairs of Deceit's arms, Virgil's awkward side hug, and Remus's octopus tentacles dripping green ooze down his white shirt. He can't make himself care as tears spill down his cheeks.

"How do you feel about movie night?" Patton asks, his voice muffled by Roman's shirt. "Blanket fort in the living room, and all the cuddles you could ever ask for." A tremulous smile creeps across Roman's face.

"I'd love that," he says.

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[luuxxart]

THIS IS ME ASKING FOR YOUR FERDITHEABERT HEADCANONS I didn't even know how badly I needed this ot3!!

THABK YOU FOR ENABLIGN ME

SO MUCH under the cut

I’m gonna go with individual ships first and then branch into ferditheabert that way it’s easier to sort of chronicle ???

Also someone remind me to write a fic one day im literally going to go through an entire plotline over here sndmdkdkdkd

Pre-Timeskip Ferdithea

I think this one would be the one that would happen first

I’m a whore for canon so everything definitely happens according to the supports imo

Ferdinand sort of just goes with the flow and is nice to everyone but anyone with eyes can see he’s madly in love with Dorothea

Just absolutely head over heels like

“If you asked me to jump off a bridge right now I would go do it” kind of head over heels madly in love

Dorothea is aware but is trying very hard not to be

She doesn’t really get it because she’s still under the impression he was gawking at her in the fountain and suddenly feels guilty about it now that they’re pretty much on the same pedestal

And as Dorothea navigates how she feels about Ferdinand and his adoration of her, she turns to Hubert’s relationship with Edelgard

Pre-Timeskip Huberthea

Dorothea pesters Hubert endlessly about his feelings for Edelgard

Knowing that his feelings for her aren’t romantic is relieving, but she’s not sure why

Especially because this now makes Ferdinand’s doting on her even more confusing

So she hangs around Hubert, much to his annoyance, to see what fuels his drive for Edelgard

She ends up doing a few tasks with him like buying some Bergamot, polishing axes, and eventually uh

They touch hands

While harvesting some Noa Fruit

And the ensuing weekend dinner with the Professor becomes all the more awkward because of course the Professor is playing matchmaker after noticing the time they’ve been spending together

Then one day Dorothea notices Hubert drinking coffee and is like

Holy shit that stuff we used to drink to stay up for five fucking acts of an opera how do you drink that

But he makes a bombass brew and suddenly the caffeine addiction is back

They don’t really talk about the almost-touches and the wistful talks about romance that don’t really go anywhere

But Dorothea manages to convince Hubert to do some things for himself (like planting coffee beans in the greenhouse and like vent)

And Hubert’s errands for Edelgard takes Dorothea’s mind off the stress of finding a suitor

Because devotion to someone or something is ,,, honestly a lot more important than money

And holy shit maybe there’s something to Ferdinand’s actions?????

Oh well better ignore it for now

Pre-Timeskip Ferdibert

But this is where it gets cOMPLICATED folks

Hubert is VERY aware that what he has with Dorothea is bordering romantic but he’s trying to push that down a because he feels like he doesn’t deserve someone who could be as devoted to him as he is to them

He’s ALSO trying to push down his feelings for Ferdinand mostly because he knows that Ferdinand is currently pursuing Dorothea

So Hubert is caught in the middle between the two

If at all, he tries to focus a little more on his attraction to Ferdinand because he understands that Dorothea is currently not interested in either one of them

(or else she would’ve said something, right????)

Also, due to Ferdinand being heir apparent to the prime ministry, Hubert has an excuse to keep watch over him

I mean

What can I say except Hubert is morosexual

He wants someone to fix/take care of and currently Dorothea is not exhibiting that need

Ferdinand tho? dude would literally lose his head if it weren’t attached to his neck

Eventually Hubert draws up a proposal to have a double prime ministry so that he can overlook Ferdinand’s actions in the future

He ends up tucking the draft into a drawer, but the idea tends to sit at the tip of his tongue every time he sees Ferdinand

He’s afraid Ferdinand will see it for what it is

A proposal proposal

And that’s exactly what it is

And he (no thoughts) talks to Dorothea about it and she (head empty) encourages him to propose it at the dance

Pre-Timeskip Goddess Tower

so after presumably edelethy actions have happened and the goddess tower becomes unoccupied,

Hubert asks Ferdinand to accompany him up to the tower for the government proposal™️

Ferdinand doesn’t suspect anything

But then they get up there and Dorothea is there, waiting to pour her heart out to Hubert because she realizes if she doesn’t nip it in the bud, she’ll never have a devoted suitor (and also she still doesn’t realize that this is a proposal proposal)

So then it basically becomes that spiderman meme with all the spidermen pointing at each other because they all have dumb stupid crushes on each other

Problem is they’re all young and dumb and they don’t know how to sort it out so they just don’t and leave

Post-Timeskip Ferdithea

So war happens and everyone’s pretty distant from each other

Then the Professor comes back and is extremely upset to see all the rifts between everyone

So everyone kind of tries

But that’s hard because it’s been five years and the rifts are now pretty much ravines

Ferdinand finally gets the nerve up to talk to Dorothea again because he’s at his breaking point

He can’t stand not talking to either of them and Dorothea’s more open to talking

Their A support happens and Dorothea finally understands why Ferdinand did the things he did

ONLY PROBLEM IS

NOW HUBERT/EDELGARD IS VERY CONFUSING AGAIN

Post-Timeskip Huberthea

So Dorothea finally confronts Hubert again and asks him again if he truly loves Edelgard

He decidedly does not

He also decidedly does not want to speak to Dorothea after the Goddess Tower Incident

Dorothea begs him to at least speak to Ferdinand

Hubert considers this

Post-Timeskip Ferdibert

Meanwhile, Ferdinand is mending the bridge between himself and Hubert

They have their A+ Support

They start doing missions together

And after Hubert protects Ferdinand from a close call with a Faerghus fusillade, Ferdinand starts to see what Dorothea saw in Hubert

Uh the devotion that is

Now Ferdiberthea :)

So have i said devotion enough yet? Because that’s the name of the game

And Dorothea fuckiNg misses Hubert

and Ferdinand is pretty much spending all his time with Hubert so Dorothea ends up missing him a lot too

(Also at this point both Ferdithea/ferdibert have become an unspoken thing around Garreg Mach and everyone is VERY confused)

(Except the Professor who is watching their matchmaking attempts come to fruition)

So anyway Dorothea has Edelgard arrange for her to go on the next mission with Hubert and Ferdinand

And OOPS ITS WINTER AND THEY ALL GET STRANDED IN A SMALL TOWN WITH ONLY A ONE BED ROOM OPEN AT AN INN

it’s a king size don’t worry

They just have to get used to each other’s company for a long Pegasus Moon

Ferdinand catches onto the coldness between Hubert and Dorothea so he tries to find situations to get them alone together

So after a couple of those moments, Hubert and Dorothea have a colder version of their A support out in the small town market

There’s some crying, some consoling, and a passionate makeout back at the inn followed by Ferdinand reaping the spoils by joining in

When they get back to Garreg Mach, they become an impervious wall of magic and equestrian fighting

They also become an impervious wall of love and devotion

Miscellaneous headcanons

Ferdinand always sleeps in the middle just because Hubert and Dorothea can be all over each other one minute, and suddenly need space the next

It’s not that they don’t like each other, they’re just both A LOT sometimes

Dorothea and Hubert often stay up longer than Ferdinand because they are very avid coffee drinkers

They double team carrying him back to the bedroom if he ends up nodding off at a late night war meeting

One thing to keep in mind is that I also headcanon Hubert as trans

And so he has met Dorothea at an opera in person before Garreg Mach, she just doesn’t recognize him, and he’s gonna let it stay that way

But it was with her that he was introduced to coffee, which sort of helped him through Edelgard’s disappearance (if you count staying up until the crack of dawn to plan ways to rescue her as “help”)

Hubert will never admit that he’s sick because he is devoted to his royal duties

so Dorothea and Ferdinand take turns staying with him to make sure he doesn’t move and fulfilling his duties in his absence

Ferdinand is still very fuCking reckless and hes even more reckless in war so it takes both dark knight!Hubert and gremory!Dorothea (riding on Hubert’s horse usually) to keep great knight!Ferdinand in check

Were you also disappointed that Dorothea wasn’t a theater/opera kid meme? Me too.

Anyway she is. And so is Ferdinand. So they convert Hubert into operakidism and then proceed to annoy the rest of the black eagles endlessly with opera songs and dance numbers

Listen, if u haven’t seen the Manuela/Ferdinand supports,,, like

Manuela is an enabler of the opera kids just saying

also it is no secret that Ferdinand is a horse girl and he ends up turning the other two into horse girls as well and eventually the rest of the black eagles have to ban horses from conversation entirely

Pegasi were already banned from conversation because of Hubert

Eventually the three get married and have a couple kids by mage

They take an annual winter vacation in a small town to rekindle any sparks they might lose in the stress of governance

#IF YOU PUT A DIME IN YOU GET THE WHOLE SONG BUDDY #the A supports i mentioned can be found on the fire emblem wiki but i want ot show up in the tags so i cant link them here :( #fe3h #ferdithea #huberthea #ferditheabert #i am tagging all of them bc honestly you can probably take some choice headcanons out of here and not have them apply to the OT3 #also im petty haha #anyway trans!hubert rise #fe3h headcanons #text #ask

[thistangledbrain]

Autism Awareness/Acceptance Month

Day 5!

“Special Interests”

Have a quiet Autie in your life? That won’t last long if you tap into their special interest. We can’t shut UP when we find someone who’s genuinely curious about what lights us up.

Every older Autie I know has at least one special interest, sometimes several.

Mine? Dogs. Primarily.

And I mean EVERYTHING dog, but starting with behavior. Then in no particular order, health/genetics, various breeds and their traits, training....literally everything. Even the genes that define coat color & pattern, and what physical genetics are tied to behavior (if you’re curious about that, start with the Russian studies about domesticated foxes and what happened to their red coats, the more tame they became). It was horses when I was younger, but I soon moved to dogs when getting into my late teens (more affordable and accessible I guess lol). And if I don’t know the answer to your questions, we find out together, because I *need* to know, too. 😉 I can talk dogs with you literally all day and never get bored...which helps socially, too (I’ve mentioned that most of my closest friends are dog people) - I have a larger network of friends than most other auties I know, and it’s because of a shared passion for all things dog. 
Then there’s the sciences, but particularly quantum & theoretical physics. I. Fucking. Love. Physics. LOVE IT. Unfortunately, my brain hits a wall with more advanced mathematics, so I can’t “do” physics on the level I want to. Luckily for me, my oldest son is also pretty obsessed with it, and he is now pursuing a degree in physics....so when he comes home, we sit down with his notes and he breaks it down for me (the language behind the experiment or action). I have pictures of his notes saved on my phone, for simply the silly reason that I like the patterns of the math (it’s the “universal language”, if you didn’t know), and like to daydream about understanding it. (He struggles with the math as well...we are both HEAVILY right brained...but he manages.) If there’s a documentary out there about physics (plus many lectures), I’ve probably seen it multiple times. Idk why quantum physics in particular interests me...maybe because it’s almost like magic. ☺️ Quantum entanglement fascinates me, and the theory that things aren’t what they are unless/until you observe them...I can get stuck absolutely obsessing over these things.

Nature/animals are the big background special interest that the specifics tie into, though (and this ranges from astrophysics to the life cycle and structure of an ant colony - and even human psychology). Concerning observable animal/plant nature though (and this is a big one for me), Sir David Attenborough is my hero lol- no one else answers the questions I have, and opens up the natural world for me, like that dude. It was Mutual of Omaha’s nature shows when I was a kid, now it’s him. Sorry not sorry, but a doc on the secret life of plants is *fucking riveting* to me. Science is my JAM! 😆 I am happy to recommend any docs to any other fellow science nerds (Through the Wormhole, The Elegant Universe, and Cosmos are all MUST SEE - if you’re a nature nerd, of course Blue Planet, Our Planet, Life...gosh. So many great series). When I get on a science kick, I get the same feelings I get when I’ve tapped into a difficult dog’s psyche, and we start to figure things out. It’s an absolute thrilling obsession, and I am very restless until all my “why/how” is answered. It’s never enough - I never know enough, and I never will.

It’s also an area where my perpetual 2-3 year old is consistently mostly satisfied. I mean that’s the whole scientific community in a nutshell LOL! “WHY?” “HOW?!” When I was a kid, I’d have to write down all my questions that weren’t answered by our Encyclopedias, and wait till the weekly library trip to find the answers I sought. Now, I have a smartphone and Google LOL....and I cannot even begin to describe how consciously thankful I am for that quick access to answers!! Questions will *eat me alive* sometimes, so answering them in a timely fashion is sooooo satisfying 😆

I guess I’m a bit of an artist/creative personality. I’m unhappy when I don’t have space to create....but that space is pretty damn large, because I’m into almost all of it (you can’t exactly fit a miter and bandsaw into your apartment studio, so I’m very grateful I have the space for the power tools LOL...)

From building things to fabric crafts, I love it all. I get way burned out if one of those things become a “job”, though (ehh except being paid as a regular employee of a historic renovation construction firm LOL) - something I HAVE to do. Then it’s not enjoyable anymore. I had started down a path of marketable creations, and they were in high demand...but then it became something I HAD to do for money, instead of wanting to do for enjoyment - and I haven’t touched that particular craft in 8 years or more now (which frustrates people, because I was good at it). 🤷🏻‍♀️ That’s one of those things I really can’t help. My oldest son seems to be sort of similar....he’s commissioned several pieces (and secured his first few at a VERY young age), but he also tends to get a little frustrated when he’s expected to create something, instead of the urge naturally striking him. The whole beauty and satisfaction from art - for me anyway - stems from pure imagination without constraints. When you’re doing something to please someone, it ceases being art, and turns into just...a skilled task you completed. That’s how I look at it, anyway. So even though I could actually make my art into a career (at least supplementary income), it ceases to be enjoyable for me *at all*, unless I’m creating something for someone who means a lot to me. That, and I really just prefer to give my stuff as gifts. It makes me feel good to see people light up with joy over what I’ve made for them, whatever it was. (I also do a shitload of remote training with people and their dogs, for free. I point folks towards the trainers I respect if they need extensive in person work, but lots of folks don’t have several hundred bucks to sink into understanding their dogs better...so...I just help where I can, now. I think it *used to* frustrate my husband, but he absolutely understands now & is cool with it.)

Oh. And rocks and minerals. I’m an obsessive rockhound LOL - and a cousin is a geologist, so he can break down how and why each is so unique, how it formed & why, etc. I’m actually currently converting a large yard sale antique wardrobe into a piece that can showcase Sir Tommy on one side, and my extensive rock and mineral collection on the other (waaaay not extensive enough, but you might be surprised how expensive quality specimens are. Take moldavite for example...fascinating thing...little chip of it about the size of your pinky nail will run you $20 +, because it’s rare. And yes I am fascinated by the metaphysical value attached to these minerals, and why that’s even a thing.) The way minerals form - let’s cite Aragonite as an example - just captivates me.

So I guess those are my main special interests! If you have a *young* Autie in your life, try to expose them to various things. To find a “special interest” is to find a way to ground ourselves. Special interests are a bit different than...well, I’m not sure what words work for stim interests that you can escape into for NT’s, but it’s less of an interest, and more of an obsession for us. It consumes us.

So anyway, EVERY Autie has a special interest. It could be science, it could be gaming (that’s a big one with lots of males, and not a small one for Autie women either, because it’s an escape you actually have to engage your brain in) or computers; it could be mathematics or art. It could be animals and nature. But eventually (for those of you with wee Auties), Your Pet Autie ™️ will find something that they absolutely obsess over & gets them excited to share their knowledge or creations with you. I encourage parents of auties to help them explore the world and find their niche. It helps us navigate your world, and find a way to be at home in it. It also gives us something to fixate on other than our bumbling attempts at fitting in to a world not built for us.

Circling back - if you know an autistic in your life that you want an “in” to get to know, start with their special interest. (Of course we recognize when you’re doing it just for the merits, versus when you actually want to learn something from us, but we appreciate both, really. It gives us a chance to ...idk. Feel important, maybe. At least that’s what it is to me, and my boys. We love to feel needed for our knowledge!)

Special interests are truly your “in” to an Autie, regardless of what their subject is.

So that’s MY take on the special interests. What lights your beloved Autie up?

#asd #autism #autistic #acceptance

[shortnotsweet]

Hello, your fiveya pride and prejuice had me on my knees. Everything you have writing for the umbrella academy is so nice, this fandom should be thankfull you are here making gold content. I'm not very creative and I still dont know which kind of prompts you would like, but the last au gave me some Elizabeth Swan vibes, so maybe you could do a Fiveya Pirates of the Caribbean Au? Whatever you make I'm sure will be wonderfull :)

It’s 1732, and Governor Reginald Hargreeves and his two adopted daughters, accompanied by the family butler, Pogo, are sailing to Port Royal aboard HMS Crown when they come across a shipwreck. The lone survivor of the tragedy is a young boy, shaking and shell-shocked. A sympathetic Pogo begs Reginald to allow him to take him in - Pogo himself will rear and provide for the child out of his own wages.

Vanya clutches the railing and looks out into the wreckage, into jagged mountains of burning wood obscured by ink black plumes of smoke that cast a ghostly silhouette against the dreary sky and the great gray sea, and can’t take her eyes off of it. It’s a tragedy, with glowing embers peeking through the remains of the ship, keeping it alive and drowning in the water, and Vanya is fascinated.

I do not want to know what transpired here, she thinks. She doesn’t need to know, anyway - it looks like a wasteland, like something writhing and nearly dead, and then her father takes her by the shoulders and pulls her away.

The boy is raised in a fine household, alongside Reginald’s two young daughters, both of whom are handsome, intelligent, and composed. His truest and most constant friend, though, is Vanya.

The Boy starts out as a Will Turner of sorts, only more confident and living in relative comfort, except with the knowledge that he is an outsider even among orphans, and a survivor of something terrible. He longs to go back.

By 1742, the boy is merely fifteen and already deemed an academic prodigy in a vast array of scientific, mathematical, mechanical and historical studies.

By the end of 1742, he’s gone, vanished into the night and headed for the sea. Vanya, not for the first time in her life, is alone.

Years later, she’s grown into a beautiful yet confined woman. During a botched proposal, Vanya faints, due to a combination of heat, anxiety, and a too-tight corset, plummeting into the harbor below, only to be rescued by a mysterious man

Surprise y’all guess who it is

Five and his crew are under a curse that renders them undead corpses under the moonlight, burdened with immortality. Idk why he’s cursed, ig he just got up to a lot of pirate shit lmao. The gold of his father’s pocket watch is key to breaking this curse, and he’s returned to Port Royal after all these years to retrieve it, after he gave it to Vanya for safekeeping the day before he abandoned the Hargreeves household to rejoin the life of piracy

She agrees, of course, but he is soon confronted by both Reginald and Leonard, backed by the Navy, on account of 1) being a pirate and 2) trespassing and in order to safely escape he takes Vanya hostage

In his time away, Five has become captain of the dreaded Academy, the ship that his own father used to command before the wreck. Vanya initially disapproves of his life choices because he may be older now and like damn ok, but 1) hygiene 2) the ethical ambiguity of piracy and 3) you left me dude without warning ,, tf is up with that?

Cue childhood friends reconnecting in really awkward circumstances + maybe Stockholm syndrome

Luther, Ben, Klaus, and Diego are members of his crew. While Diego is a fantastic swordsman, Ben has a connection with sea monsters that allows him to dissuade nearby creatures from bothering their ship. Klaus is a mystic they picked up along the coast who can communicate with the dead - it’s through him that they learn the specifics of the curse.

Five glances down at her, sleeves rolled above his forearms, his hair dripping saltwater over his brow. “The Romans did it, didn’t they?” Honor among thieves is how the saying goes. “They encouraged it, actually, especially in children. Stealing. Steal from your enemies, steal from your neighbors, steal from your friends.”

At this, Vanya’s eyes narrow. “I wouldn’t steal from my friends.”

Five shrugs.

“It builds character,” he says, “and it builds world skills. If you’re a thief, then you’re fast, resourceful, and, most importantly, you’re still alive. That’s helpful. It can be a good thing, to be a thief.”

“The greatest empire of all time, after Britain, just a whole lot of thieves?”

“That’s Rome, then, a bunch of thieves. The empire essentially stole its own foundation from other civilizations, you know? Arches and aqueducts and art - even the Republic was based on direct democracy.” He leans back and looks at her from under his lids. The floor below them shifts and sways along with the rhythm of the sea, and Vanya leans against the mast to keep her horizon line steady.

“So you’re a history buff now?”

“I always have been,” Five says defensively. “Math is just more exciting. You don’t need to get caught up with the Romans anyway,” Five laughs. “We’re pirates.”

“I suppose I need to find a way to make myself useful, then?” Vanya crosses her arms, squinting under the white hot sun. “Be helpful.” Do as the Romans do.

“No, of course not,” Five says quickly, uneasy, bitter. “You didn’t join the crew, remember? You were kidnapped.”

Days into her kidnapping on the high seas, Vanya ditched her heavy ass dress for a practical pair of trousers and tied her hair up. The sun smiles down on them in a thousand yard stare, reflecting white off the crests of the waves that jostle the ship further away from land, and her white skin has already shown signs of browning. She can breathe, though, better and easier than she’s ever breathed in her entire life

The ocean never ends, but Vanya can see something flickering on the horizon, something that looms across the skyline and drags the sky down to meet it. It feels like hope, like dreams once dashed in her girlhood, and now that it has come out of hiding, unclothed and unabashed under an impossible white sun, Vanya can’t stop looking.

The Academy is still being pursued by the Royal Navy, and Five can’t just return Vanya bc they're not only on the run but they’ve got shit to do, aka curse-breaking shit. Plus, he really, really doesn’t want to

And deep down he can tell that she doesn’t want to either

“But you like it here, don’t you,” he accuses her, hard and fast because he knows she’ll be honest, and the strategist in him wants to size the queen, wants to take her home. “You were miserable back there,” Five reminds her, his own eagerness a tangible thing to his ears. “Reginald made you miserable. Jenkins made you miserable, hell, even Allison made you miserable.” Vanya’s gaze remains unblinking, but the corner of her mouth twitches ever so slightly, her lower lip dragging it down. The sight of it gives him pause, and he wants to stop for a moment, wants to apologize for it, but the conqueror in him leers in approval and he’s plowed too forward, too far already. “You wanted to leave, every second of every day. That’s what you told me,” Five reaches forward to take her by the shoulders, gently crowding her against the railing, and she looks up and into his face, dwarfed by his height. “You’re free now, you’re here. Reginald can’t get to you. Why would you want to go back?”

You’re free now. There’s nothing for you there, he tries to say, and she must get this, because her eyes go alight, just for a second, and her lip curls into a snarl.

The thing is, she’s much happier here, with Five and his crew and a great, endless sea, but she remembers Allison all too vividly, remembers that she left her alone without warning. Vanya knows that it’s like to be left behind, and the thought of Allison alone with only their father for company strikes something hollow and sinking into her chest, something like dread

“I don’t want to go back,” she snaps, harsher than he expected, and he lets go of her. “Of course I don’t.”

You think I want to go back to corsets and Reginald’s voice in every hallway of that old, evil house, and Leonard crowding me everywhere, acting like I’ve already said yes, and this stench of absence that follows me wherever I go.

Oh, she realizes, of course he doesn’t.

“Then don’t.”

Vanya glares at him, hard and herself, and he can see the betrayal sink into her face and settle like silt at the bottom of a glass.

“It’s because we’re family,” she says, and the fifteen-year-old in Five finds himself enraged because Vanya’s family is supposed to be here, with him.

“I need to see her again,” Vanya enunciates carefully, forming every word with a nervous kind of fear, like she thinks he won’t understand, and Five’s anger dissipates almost as quickly as it had risen.

They’re going to break that curse, and Five will be a real boy (man) again. Allison won’t be alone, because her sister will come back for her (just as Five came back for Vanya). They’ll all have real, red, beating hearts, and Five will have Vanya for himself and Vanya will have one thing all her own - she has an entire ocean to conquer and no regrets

For once, Vanya has a choice, and it’s a pirate's life for her

#fiveya #the umbrella academy #five hargreeves #vanya hargreeves #ask me anons #mini fic #i havent seen this movie since fourth grade and know shit about pirates smh #and this is not my best writing plus i wrote it at like 1 in the morning #but i do love the concept of a pirate Five and a Vanya just looking for agency in her life #thank you so much btw and if you have any other prompts hit me with them as hard as you can #pirates of the caribbean au

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Fred Jones Defence Squad

OK people here are only accepting 2002 movie Fred as canon and completely ignoring every other incarnation of him and to this I say NAE! That’s not my Fred. My Fred is Mystery Inc Fred. My Fred

adored his friends and loved reminding everyone that he just found it so awesome they were friends

blamed himself for something he had no control over because it got someone he cared about hurt

constantly went out of his way to try and impress his father even though his father barely noticed and was a pretty shitty parent

encouraged his friends to do things he thought would make them happy

accidentally flirted with every other person because he was just so darn nice

completely freaked out and blamed himself for Daphne being kidnapped by the Man-Crab even though it wasn’t his fault

chose Daphne’s happiness over going to the prom with a date because he cared so much about their friendship

decided that if it was a choice between being manly or having feelings then he would choose feelings

respected Daphne when he thought she might not share his feelings and told her that even though he wouldn’t stop her from moving on, he wasn’t going to deny that he had feelings for her

admittedly had quite a dumb plan to try and solve his friends’ argument but still tried

gave Shaggy love advice despite having no idea how relationships work but just really wanted to cheer up his friend

got involved with a frat he had no interest in because he wanted to impress his father

did get jealous when Daphne chose to hang out with some other guys but in the end realised and admitted that it was her choice and not his business

got ridiculously happy when she chose him over Odnarb and freaking shouted about how happy and excited he was in a very echoey canyon

“I don’t need Aphrodite’s spell to care about you Daph” um reassuring his girl in the sweetest way possible that his feelings remained true even when he was under a love spell???

had the choice between escaping a deadly trap and living or waiting to die with Daphne who couldn’t escape and chose to free himself and then go back for her because there was no way he was letting Danny Darrow kill one of his friends just to make a point

repeatedly cared more about his friends than his own safety

was so darn excited to meet his hero, this boy is too precious

made a deal with his father that he would give up mystery solving if he couldn’t catch the ‘ghost’ haunting their house

OK the schedule he made Daphne was a bit obsessive but he stopped as soon as she told him that she felt he was being too controlling and also immediately apologised

got invested in planning their engagement party (breaking the male stereotype!!!)

and that was just season 1!!! In season 2

he had so much faith that Daphne would show up to help them that his trap failed

“How long have you guys been standing there?” “Don’t try that. You know the concept of time confuses me.” JESUS CHILD

he attempted to be romantic and attentive because he thought it would make Daphne happy

decided to get therapy. It was his idea. Like, he was living alone with no parents and his friends had their own problems so it was probably his own idea.

continued to treat his friend with respect even after she rejected him because their friendship was more important to him than a romantic relationship (low bar but a lot of guys fail to reach this one even in fiction)

stopped pursuing a relationship with her when she firmly told him no and decided to be content with their friendship (he doesn’t ever bring it up again until she hints that she wants a relationship too)

wanted to give his parents the benefit of the doubt even while planning to double-cross them - right to the end he kept hoping they wouldn’t double-cross him even though he knew it would happen, and kept hoping he wouldn’t have to double-cross them himself

anyone else remember that time he tried to give Sheriff love advice? it was hilarious

but no he actually gave good love advice to Rick Spartan. it was such a sweet moment.

“Doctor Spartan? Call Marian. Call your wife and tell her you love her. And if she feels the same way, do everything in your power to keep her.”

That was such a sweet moment

Also when he got back together with Daphne? literally such a fan fiction moment, the kind of thing you guys go nuts for

“Fred Jones, are you feeling OK?” “Not yet.” *takes her hand* “There. I feel better now.”

He forgave his fake father for all the shit he pulled. Fred Jones Sr probably didn’t deserve forgiveness, but Fred decided he forgave him because in spite of his failings, the Mayor was still the only real father he’d ever known. And since we know that in the time we’ve been with the gang, the Mayor was a pretty shit father, it’s really tragic when you realise that either Fred’s sense of what a good parent is is skewed because at least Mayor Jones never tried to kill him, or Jones really was a good dad at the beginning but became cold and distant as he slowly got more corrupted by the curse.

Also his friendship with Velma is hilarious throughout the whole series. She makes sarcastic comments and he doesn’t understand them. But they’re bros.

“Something’s wrong with my dad. Every day for two weeks now he runs screaming down the hall and ends up sleeping in the yard. Is that normal?” “For your dad? Probably.”

“Nice fur-bib.” “Wait. Rye sense of humour, tinged with a hint of disdain and superiority... Velma?!”

“What is that weirdo doing with her hands?!” “He’s holding them, Fred. It’s what boyfriends do with girlfriends.”

Anyway, during the finale? he offered to go down to give Pericles the fourth key so his friends wouldn’t get hurt.

like, Pericles had his Nazi robots down there. The danger was very very real. It wasn’t just a dude in a mask. Going down there alone meant he would probably be killed as soon as Pericles had the key.

But the gang ultimately realised they were most powerful when they stuck together. They all just love and care about each other so freaking much.

Anyway I’m willing to fight to the death to defend Freddie. Because he’s a precious boy who just wants to build traps to catch criminals with his friends.

#fred jones #fred jones defence squad #coco speaks #scooby doo: mystery incorporated #Scooby-Doo #fraphne