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tblsomedoodles · 6 months
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Me playing Rimworld like a scifi family simulator? never.
anyways, i've been playing far too much Rimworld so have some little doodles of my main couple's four kinda creepy kids lol. I will admit, "Feral" is technically his nickname, but i can't remember what they actually named him and i don't feel like booting up my game just to check.
Sandy and Feral are very close in age. Timothy is pretty close behind them, and Alice only just hit toddler stage recently. I was sooo worried about Timothy when he was tiny. B/c he was born sick, recovered from that only to catch malaria. Recovered from that and immediately caught the plague. he's alright now.
Sandy and Feral will sit on their dad's research desk to watch him work in game, and i think that's just the cutest thing, so i doodled that too.
fun fact! According to Alice's genetics, she's supposed to have purple hair, but she, instead, matches Timothy with his grey/white hair.
there's a lot of other kids running around my colony too, but they belong to others (one being just a clone lol). no joke, i think i have 5-6 adults and about 8 kids running around the place. it's chaos. i love it lol : )
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moider-time · 1 year
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AU where Bruce Wayne is a voice actor.
He always had an interest in acting and would've tried it but his anxiety always stopped him from getting into the game. Even trying out for the school play would get him stammering and unable to read his lines. To this day, he mourns the fact that he never got to play Benvolio.
He had given up on his dream years before he heard that there was going to be a reboot of his favourite childhood cartoon, The Gray Ghost (all of Gotham probably heard the scream he let out when he heard the news)
Sadly some of the original cast had passed away before the reboot so they couldn't reprise their roles, and this includes the original Gray Ghost. So you have Bruce hoping like any other fan that they get a good replacement. He talks about it so much that Alfred jokingly says "well Master Bruce if you're so worried about it, you should audition"
And Bruce laughs but he can't stop thinking about it. He twists and turns in bed because the idea of playing The Gray Ghost, of being to kids what the original voice actor was to him as a child, he can't say it's not appealing. He dwells on it for the next few days and while he doesn't know if his inability to perform will extend to voice acting, he wants to try.
On his way down to auditions, he is sweating. He has to have Alfred drop him cause his hands won't stop shaking. Seeing all the people in the waiting room almost makes him turn back around but Alfred talks him back into it.
(I'd like to think that everyone else there either didn't recognise him because he barely leaves the manor or they recognised him and realised that this man is chock full of anxiety so it's better to not bother him)
So he gets into the booth and once he's started reading his lines, he really gets into it. It's so much easier for him to get into character when there aren't dozens of eyes on him. He finishes, thanks them for the opportunity, goes back to the manor, grabs his stuffies and screams into his pillow.
It's weeks later when he gets a call saying that they want him as the new Gray Ghost. He absolutely does not cry into his biggest teddy bear, what are you talking about? He does hug the crap out of Alfred though. They have cookies to celebrate.
Before you know it, everyone is in love with the new voice of The Gray Ghost. Both new and old fans agree that Bruce was a great choice. I can see Bruce using a pseudonym though. Bruce Wayne is a name that has a lot of weight behind it, weight that he doesn't want to feel when he's voice acting. So he asks them to credit him as Bruce Pennyworth or smth. Alfred is sobbing.
He requests to record his lines at home because he isn't always up for leaving the manor and he doesn't want to slow down production. He'd totally have a professional ass set up cause when he's interested in something, he goes in.
Bruce Pennyworth gets offered more voice acting roles whether it's for cartoons, movies, anime dubs or ads. Harvey and Clark both wondering why the voice over in an ad for toothpaste is about to make them act up. Every single one of the batkids went through the "OH MY GOD, YOU'RE BRUCE PENNYWORTH?!?" phase.
( @bruciemilf come get your juice)
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kit-kat-katie · 7 months
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Moonlight Sunrise
A/N: I'm trying to aim for a fic a month for the months that I am in school, and I know I am cutting it close to the deadline, but I made it! I hope you enjoy this third part - it doesn't flow as smoothly as other parts since it was written in three disjointed writing sessions, but I like the final product. See you all in October or whenever I can write next. :)
TW: Canon-typical violence, small bit of bodily gore and blood, brief torture mention, reader throws knives
Pairing: Finnick x GN! Reader (romantic)
Summary: The next day of the 75th Hunger Games brings new allies, new feeling, new foes, new adventure, and new tragedy in your life. Contemplation is not an option - one must act with haste and caution if they want to keep their home safe.
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You and Finnick both watch Katniss and Peeta say a final goodbye to the female morphling who has died. The cannon is a bleak reminder of all that you’ve lost, and Finnick gives a quick look back to ensure that the mutts have not followed you on to the beach.
The trident finds its way into Finnick’s grasp as he scouts the perimeter. You walk a step closer to Katniss and Peeta as an airship comes from the sky to retrieve the body.
“She sacrificed herself for me and I don’t even know her name.” Peeta looks down, and you can’t help but feel bad.
You take a few steps back to let them talk for a moment as the sunrise distracts you from what’s going on.
It’s a beautiful day, and it’ll be even more beautiful when I’m out of here. The sunrise always looked beautiful from the beaches in District Four.
Finnick finds himself fishing, a comfort for the both of you, and his trident lands a catch. You weren’t sure if District 12 kids were used to having fish for breakfast, but they would make do.
You all would because that’s the only choice you have.
Adapt or die.
~
Katniss devours the fish in front of her as you and Finnick take small bites of the fish. You finish yours, and Finnick adds another piece of meat to your hands before you can object.
Peeta opens a clam with his knife, and he takes the pearl of the clam to give to Katniss. You nudge Finnick, who rolls his eyes at the gesture, with your elbow. You bite down on your lip to suppress your laugh as Katniss observes the pearl in her hand.
A scream from a forest pulls everyone’s attention to the other side of the arena. You all quickly stand up as you watch the wave crash into one sector of the Cornucopia, and as it crashes over the center, it spreads to the other parts of the Cornucopia in smaller waves. The water comes crashing close to all of you, and your legs are soaked by the waves. It’s refreshing to you, but the dull reminder of a cannon and an airship brings you back to reality.
It all could be gone, just like that.
“Someone’s here.” Katniss grabs an arrow as Peeta ducks. Finnick’s stray hand covers your abdomen as his hand tightly grips his trident. 
Make it more obvious, Finnick.
Finnick peeks from the bushes for a moment as you hide behind them
“Johanna.” He softly says before moving towards the water again.
Your eyes widen as you immediately follow behind Finnick.
“Johanna!” Finnick waves his hand as you look back and gesture for Peeta and Katniss to follow.
“They’re friends,” You say as you navigate the rocky beach, “and I’m friends with Johanna too. You’ll be fine with us.”
They both, reluctantly, follow behind you as you approach the three people in the distance.
~
“We were all the way deep in the jungle, where I thought it was safe,” Johanna, covered in blood, holds her axe to the side, “I thought it was water. Turned out to be blood. Hot, thick blood that was coming down-“
“Tick-tok, tick-tok.” Wiress approaches Johanna, who pushes her away immediately.
“-and it was choking us. We were stumbling around, gagging on it, blind. That’s when Blight hit the forcefield.” Johanna takes a quick moment to compose herself. “He wasn’t much, but he was from home.”
“Tick-tok, tick-tok.” Wiress grabs Johanna’s shoulder, and Johanna shoots you and Finnick a knowing glare.
“What’s wrong with her?” Katniss asks as Wiress continues repeating the same phrase over and over.
“She’s in shock,” Beetee explains as he finishes washing the rest of the blood off of him, “Dehydration isn’t helping. You have fresh water?”
You watch Wiress continue to hang onto Johanna, and you step past Finnick to intervene before Johanna does something she’ll regret.
“We can get some-“
“Tick-tok, tick-tok-“
Wiress clings to Johanna, but you place a hand on Wiress’s shoulder. She immediately places her hands on your shoulders as she continues to talk.
“I know, I know-“ You nod at Wiress, but Johanna’s reached her limit.
“Just- just shut up!” She screams at Wiress, and you lightly push Wiress behind you as Johanna charges at her.
“Hey, lay off her!” Katniss yells before intervening herself.
This can’t possibly end well.
Katniss charges at Johanna and tries to get her hands on her, but Johanna pushes her back. Finnick is quick to push himself between the two of them. You want to help, but Johanna’s stronger than you are, pissed-off or not, and you’re not wanting to test her as is. Finnick pulls Johanna further into the water as Peeta holds Katniss back.
“I got them out for you,” Johanna yells at Katniss before directing her anger to Finnick, “let me go!”
Johanna continues to struggle against Finnick’s grip, but the situation is diffused, for now, so your attention turns back to Wiress.
“I’m sorry, Wiress.” You look at the blood on your hands from Wiress along with the blood on Wiress herself. “C’mon, let’s get you cleaned up.”
You gently lead Wiress into the water as she continues to tell you ‘tick-tok’.
What are you trying to tell me?
You’re too tired and stressed about every little thing to try and figure it out, but you notice that Wiress is focused on Katniss. Katniss’ eyes meet yours, and you happily wave her over to help you clean her off.
It’ll help keep Katniss focused on something besides trying to hurt Johanna.
“I got this.” Katniss says as you gently pour some water onto Wiress’ clothes. 
The murderous intent has left Katniss’ eyes, so you switch spots with her before heading over to Johanna and Finnick.
“Finnick, you’re lucky I didn’t kill her-“
You giggle under your breath after splashing a moderate amount of water onto Johanna and Finnick.
“-Perhaps you could save the murder for after lunch?”
Finnick heartily laughs as Johanna sends you a deadly glare.
“You look like shit. Did you tumble down a mountainside?”
“I did, actually,” A light smirk plays on your face as the next comment flies out of your mouth, “but I think you looked better with blood than without it-“
You choke on the large splash of water that Johanna sends your way. You wipe the water out of your face as you stand there, aghast. Finnick throws his head back and laughs as Johanna manages to crack a smile.
“I missed you too, Johanna,” You roll your eyes before washing the blood off of your hands, “and I wouldn’t laugh, Finnick.”
You lightly flick some water onto Finnick, and his warm smile sends butterflies into your stomach as Johanna carefully observes the both of you. 
The playfulness in his eyes sends you retreating back to the shore, but he manages to grab your arm and pull you under water.
You quickly remerge from the water as Finnick pulls you towards him. You both laugh as you place your hands on his chest.
Finnick takes one of your hands and pulls you towards the shore as you try to shake off any previous shyness or embarrassment. You look back at Johanna, who quirks an eyebrow at you.
Don’t mess that up, she mouths to you as you wink at her.
I wasn’t planning on it.
~
The cool water feels refreshing against your skin. District 4 had taught you to find comfort in water, and your first round of the Hunger Games taught you how much of a luxury water truly was.
Dehydration was a major player in your Hunger Games as the main careers were the only ones with access to water with their strong set of sponsor. You were, in all senses, a fish out of water. Dead bodies by berry bushes taught you how to forge, but you would have been dead without a few sponsors of your own. The first canister of water came from your mentors, and you showed your gratefulness through a warm smile and a small ‘thank you’.
That moment was played over and over across Panem. Hubris flowed and weaved through most of the tributes, but not you, apparently. Finnick would laugh and tell you that you learned that from your favorite mentor. You wanted to tease him back, to say that you didn’t learn anything from him, but you did learn how humble and kind he truly was.
Instead, you told him that Mags was your favorite mentor, and he didn’t talk to you for three whole hours.
Your eyes fall to Finnick’s form next to you. He was attractive, with plenty of golden boy looks and charms to spare. You’d never live it down if you told him that, but you weren’t sure if you’d live at this moment, so maybe another moment to see his smile would be worth the temporary embarrassment.
“Are you watching me?” A sly smile rests on his face as he stands next to you on the shoreline.
“In your dreams, pretty boy.”
His trident sinks into the sand as his head leans toward you.
“I like when you call me those names, sweetheart.”
His hot breath on your neck sends a wave of shivers down your spine, and you raise an eyebrow at him before turning to face him. His lips are inches away from yours, but you want to tease him before he gets what he wants.
“Oh, and what else would you like me to call you? Handsome, perhaps?” A coy smile, matched with wide eyes, causes Finnick to laugh for a moment before responding.
“Anything would be good, as long as it came from your lips.”
“Finnick!” You lightly push him away before nervously looking around you.
“You’re nervous about one of them seeing you after you kissed me in front of the whole Capitol?”
“That was different,” You slightly whine as Finnick looks at you with amusement, “I wanted to make sure that you knew how I felt in case something happened to me.”
His mood darkens for a moment.
“No one’s going to hurt you, not on my watch,” His eyes light up again, “but it’s sweet to know that you think of me from time to time.”
“Of course I do,” Mischief finds a way to lace itself back into your voice, “you’re my dearest mentor.”
“Not your favorite?” His puppy dog eyes don’t convince you one bit.
“Still Mags,” You laugh after he sighs in defeat, “but you’re my favorite person, if that’s any consolation prize.”
“I still want to be your favorite mentor.” He grumbles as you continue to merrily laugh.
I wish we could spend every day like this on the coastline at home. Life has a different plan, it always does.
~
“This entire arena seems to be laid out like a clock,” Katniss explains as your group walks toward the Cornucopia, “with a new threat every hour, but they stay only within their wedge. It all starts with the lightning, then the blood rain, fog, monkeys… that’s the first four hours. At ten, that big wave hits over there.”
You admire her deducing skills as she points out each sector. You do your best to memorize them - it could help save your life.
“Wiress, you’re a genius.” Finnick softly compliments her as you approach the weapon rack. 
You grab as many throwing knives as possible along with a small satchel to store them in. Being defenseless wasn’t really your style, and you had to prove yourself in some way.
The group discusses the lightning occurrence, and the chatter doesn’t catch your ear as you focus on your surroundings. You’re out in the open, vulnerable on most sides, and someone would get killed if they strayed-
“Relax, you’re tensing up.” Finnick places his hand on your back for a moment before retrieving another small knife from the group.
“I’m just worried,” You say as Finnick offers you the knife, “but thanks-“
He pulls the knife back for a moment with a wicked smile as you dramatically roll your eyes and sigh.
“What do you want me to do, say please?”
“I was going for a kiss, but please will work for me.” He tosses the knife in the air, and you snatch it before he can grab onto it.
“Perhaps you’ll get what you want when there’s less people around,” You tease before you hear the group gathering nearby. “and when there’s less people trying to murder us.”
Wiress sings a childhood lullaby on a rock near the water as Peeta draws a circle on the ground. Finnick moves his hand from your back to his side, but you’re quick grab his hand with yours.
“From twelve to one, there’s lightning, and from one to two, there’s blood,” Peeta divides the circle into even parts as he deciphers the arena, “then fog, then monkeys.”
“Ten to eleven, the wave. What about everything else? Did you guys see anything?”
I think I would remember seeing something bad from this hellhole.
You shake your head as Johanna answers.
“Nothing but blood.”
“It doesn’t matter, as long as you stay clear of whichever sectors active, you’ll be safe.” Peeta counters.
“Yeah, relatively speaking-“ Finnick pauses, as do the rest of you, when you hear a soft gasp from the same spot that Wiress was sitting at.
With a knife in her back from Gloss, Wiress was lifeless in his arms. Your survival instincts kick in as you pull a knife to throw, but Katniss beats you to it with an arrow to his chest. The cannon booms twice in a row as your suspicions are proven right: you’re a target, right where the hunters want you.
Your eyes spot a blob of blonde moving in the distance, so you push Johanna towards it as you look for the other two careers. She can handle herself, along with Katniss. You’re worried about Beetee and Peeta because Finnick cannot protect both of them with an attack on all fronts. You let go of his hand as you prepare yourself to fight like hell for yourself, Finnick, and your friends.
A canon booms as Brutus throws something sharp at the four of you. You duck and pull Beetee down with you as the rest avoid the projectile with ease. You immediately get back up as Brutus charges at Finnick while Enobaria approaches from behind. With a knife in hand, you throw it her way to pull her attention from Finnick. The knife scraps her cheek and leaves a small, bleeding cut where it had once touched her skin.
Enobaria looks at you for a moment, a small bit of fear in her eyes, before baring her teeth at you. With a small glance to Brutus and her fallen allies, she runs to take cover along with Brutus. 
Finnick pushes a charging Peeta back as Katniss and Johanna chase after them. You barely have time to think before the center of the Cornucopia starts to spin rapidly. You fall to your knees but are able to grab onto a rock before you fall into the water. Peeta grabs onto one near you, but you can’t tell if any of the others have fallen in to the spinning death trap or if you all are hanging on by a mere thread. 
Your eyes catch the sight of the shiny weapons above you that rattle rapidly with the movement of the Cornucopia. You curse under your breath as they start to fall off, but you’re able to navigate your body around them with little to no issue. Peeta struggles a bit more, but your focus lands on his hands. He won’t be able to hold on much longer since he’s not used to the waves constantly crashing into his body.
The last of the weapons and crates fly past you as the Cornucopia slows down and eventually stills. You crawl up to level ground before taking a deep breath.
That was… an experience.
Peeta quickly gets off the ground as you hear Katniss coughing in the distance. Johanna and Peeta run to aid her as you simple bask in the warm glow of the sun. The water was cold and unfamiliar against your skin - a feeling that you hated with every iota of your body.
You pull yourself up before Finnick and Beetee approach you.
“You okay?” Finnick asks as Beetee tries to wipe off his glasses.
How did he manage to keep those things on?
“I’ll survive.” You shake off his concern with a light smile.
Concern still rests in Finnick’s irises, but he lets the question rest for now.
“Let’s just get what we need and get off the bloody island.” Johanna convincingly says, and you nod in agreeance.
I knew this wouldn’t be a good idea, and here we are. Another person who is a needless causality.
~
You stare out at the ocean, reflecting on the events that have just occurred. This activity used to bring you comfort, a moment of relief from the ever-chaotic life of a Victor, but waves of sadness crashed against your heart just as the waves of water splashed your feet.
A couple of tears fall from your eyes as you replay the fight at the Cornucopia again and again. If you had been with Wiress, you could’ve saved her. If you had been more aware and less of a romantic idiot, then one less person’s blood would be on your hands. 
You couldn’t listen to the five of them discuss who was alive, and the next plan. Not so soon after Wiress’ death, after someone you cared about was ripped from your life without any hesitation.
You wipe the tears from your eyes as you imagine the Capitol citizens cheering at your display of affection. You had always had a soft heart for the tributes you trained and your fellow victors, so a moment like this was not uncommon.
You remember how you bawled after the first set of tributes from District 4 died under your mentorship and guidance. You had locked yourself in your room, and Mags was the first one to come knocking on the door.
“Mags, I can’t do this!” You cry out from under the sheets.
She gently knocks, twice, against the door.
“They were counting on me…” You mumble under your breath as another wave of tears fell from your eyes.
She stayed out there all night until you came out for breakfast the next day. You had never felt such strong affection from someone until that moment, when she hugged you as she wiped your tears. Mags always knew what to do. 
What would she do now?
She’d smile and stroke your face with a loving look in her eyes before nodding in front of you. With a small hug, she would send you back in to face whatever had been bothering you.
Mags was your favorite mentor because she understood you like no one else would. She knew who you were under the sunshine, and she still accepted you for it. That, however, didn’t stop Finnick from creeping into your heart.
Maybe Finnick wasn’t your favorite mentor, but rather, your favorite person. You’d have to tell him that sometime, if you got the chance.
Unfortunately, your introspective thoughts had to be put aside as someone stood up from behind you.
“Prim!” Katniss screams before running into the forest.
Your eyes widen as you realize what’s pulling her to the forest.
Mockingjays.
~
Mockingjays were your least favorite flying creatures by far. Many other tributes would regard them as an annoyance, but you had watched one tear your District 4 tribute, the one from your first set of Hunger Games, away from you. The birds sung praises of loved ones, and promises of safety and familial love. You knew better, but they didn’t. 
That damned bird was harnessed by the career pack, and they murdered your district partner in cold blood as you watched from the shadows. After they left, you made a small bouquet of flowers and laid it on your ally’s chest. Soon after, you received a parachute from your second sponsor - a set of knives to bring harm to those who had taken your last piece of home away from you.
Here you were, again, watching as your mentor sat silently in the field after being trapped with the mockingjays for an hour. Katniss had Peeta to tell her that everything was okay, but what could you say to Finnick that he didn’t already know? Annie and Mags were safe, for now, and you were here beside him. You were physically here, but your mind kept replaying the image of your fellow tribute bleeding to death on the ground.
The man in front of you started to resemble the kid who was slain in the games, and as soon as a grotesque image of Finnick’s lifeless body entered your mind, you quickly stood up and brushed past a ranting Johanna.
“What are they-“
“Don’t, just don’t.” Johanna quickly defends you from any questioning as you make your way back to the beach, to your safe place.
You sit on the sand, waiting for some answer to rise out of the water. The waves had always calmed your mind, but between Wiress’ death and the Mockingjays, you couldn’t find anything relaxing about the water. Everything felt suffocating, like you were drowning in a tide pool of your thoughts and emotions.
You sit down on the sand and let everything crash over you. There are no more tears, no more sadness… just an empty, horrible feeling at the bottom of your stomach.
“Mind if I join you?” Finnick’s voice floats to your ears, but you can’t find the energy to respond to him.
You’re drained, tired, and ready to go back to District 4, but there was no going back from what was already planned out.
Finnick chooses to take your silence as an answer as he slowly sits next to you. You think about how odd you look, tribute and mentor, side-by-side. You’re not a teenager any more - neither is he - but you feel childish, refusing to talk to him after he went through something as horrible as those Mockingjays.
“I’m sorry.” You bluntly say while cutting out any mental excuses that your brain is making up.
Finnick doesn’t respond, and you don’t have the courage to look at him. You, subconsciously, place your hand to the side in an attempt to ground yourself in the moment. You needed to be here, now, in the moment-
His hand, ever-so-gently, is placed on top of yours.
Everything has felt so fucked-up as of late.
But this? Being close to Finnick - getting all of his touch, his teasing,  his kindness, his everything - it was everything to you.
For the first time since you entered the arena, you felt at home.
~
A familiar tune plays as your group stops to look at those who have been killed today. Familiar faces appear in the sky, both ones you love and hate, but there is no time for any regret to be spared. There is a plan - one that is highly dangerous and highly unlikely to work - but you have no time. The clock ticks in your head, in your heart, in your body, until midnight.
You’ll be dead, a slave to the Capitol, or on your way to an uncertain future.
What great options.
You approach the tree right behind everyone else as Beetee begins to work. You back away and let him do the rest as midnight ticks closer with every waking breath.
~
Beetee hands Katniss the rest of the electrical wire, and instructs you, Katniss, and Johanna on what to do and where to meet. Like any decision made so far, someone has to disagree with the plan that was crafted beyond their awareness.
“I’ll go with them as a guard.” Peeta says, but Beete quickly disagrees.
“No, no, you’re staying here to protect me… and the tree.”
The suspicions quickly clouds around Katniss and Peeta as you exhale deeply.
Why does every decision have to start and end with an argument? 
“No, I need to go with her.” Peeta harshly says.
“There are two careers out there, and I need two guards.” Beetee matches Peeta’s intensity as you glance over at Finnick.
Do something, you mouth at him before he turns back towards everyone else.
“Finnick and Johanna can protect you just fine.” Peeta tries to reason with him, and Katniss, as always, jumps in with her own opinion on the matter.
“Yeah, why can’t Finnick and Johanna stay with you while Peeta, Sunny, and I take the coil?”
Your ears perk at the second mention of your name as you turn to look at Katniss, but she’s staring holes into Beetee.
“You all agreed to keep me alive until midnight, correct?” Beetee approaches Katniss, who stays silent.
“It’s his plan,” Johanna chimes in, “we all agreed to it.”
“Is there a problem?” Finnick, finally, decides to speak up as you cross your arms.
“Excellent question. Is there a problem?” Beetee matches Katniss’ glare, and you watch her back down.
“No, there’s no problem.”
You would’ve stepped in, but the hostility that Katniss has displayed in the current moments has made you question that action. You’d like to walk out of here with as few arrows in your body as possible.
Peeta and Katniss share a parting kiss as you glance over at Finnick again.
Be careful, he mouths to you as you prepare to take your leave.
I always am, you silently say back before you depart with Katniss and Johanna towards the water.
~
Your mind is in a state of complete disarray as you make your way towards the beach. Katniss makes a point to hand you her bow instead of Johanna, but she’s quick to snatch it back as soon as she can.
I don’t blame her for being on edge. I am too.
Regret is the ugly feeling consuming you - regret for not telling Finnick something in that last moment, the last moment you might ever see him again.
Don’t say that, don’t think that. You will find your way back to home, you always do.
Thoughts of home kept you safe, calm, and sane in your first Hunger Game. Home, then, was your family home with all of your loved ones inside. Home was the beach where you and your school friends would play after lessons were through. Home was the smell of freshly cooked fish in the air that mingled with the sea salt smell of the water. Home was everything that District Four was.
Thinking about home, now, lead you back to the same person again and again. His golden locks that you spent far too long admiring, his sugary smile that melted your heart at the mere mention of it, and his sweet gestures and sly words that had you both toeing the line between fellow mentors and something more.
You wondered if you would get another chance to kiss him, to tell him every emotion that he inspired in you. If you didn’t, wherever you ended up, you would tell them about Finnick: the man he was, is, and always will be.
“C’mon, I want to put as much distance between us and this beach as possible,” Johanna sternly tells Katniss as she brings the wire behind the three of you, “frying is not the way I want to go.”
“There’s something…” Katniss trails off as she tugs on the wire behind her.
A few more tugs from Katniss, and the wire comes free. The knife naturally comes to the front of your hand as Brutus approaches from the distance.
A quick look from Johanna causes you to throw said knife at him. He dodges it before stopping, but the sickening smile on his face sends shivers down your spine. You hear Johanna hit Katniss on the back of the head as you grab another knife. 
So it begins.
You throw another knife at Brutus, and his dodging skills worsen as the knife cuts open part of his uniform and stomach. The cut isn’t too deep, not enough to kill, but it gives enough of a distraction for Johanna to cut the tracker out of Katniss’ arm.
Enobaria appears next to him, and your eyes widen as Johanna tells Katniss to stay down. You ready another knife, but Johanna shoves you to her right.
“Go,” She say before preparing to strike with her axe, “and don’t look back. Haymitch isn’t the only person I made a promise to.”
Finnick-
You nod in solemn agreement before taking off back towards the tree. 
After a minute of running, you hide among the bushes for the moment as you hear footsteps approach.
“Johanna, Sunny, where are you?” Finnick calls out before stopping not too far from you.
Every cell inside you is reaching out to say something, to call out to him, but you can’t.
You tear off a small part of your tribute outfit before preparing to plunge your knife into your left arm.
The tracker has to go out one way or another.
Katniss was ready to go, and with a clean knife cut, yours was out too. The pain was immeasurable, but you quickly stop the bleeding with your makeshift bandaid. You throw the tracker towards the beach as you hear Finnick walk away from Katniss and yourself.
You can hear Katniss struggling to stand, so you quietly approach her while cutting off another part of your shirt. Once you emerge from the bushes, an arrow is pointed at your chest, but Katniss doesn’t put her bow down.
“You have to trust me, just for a while longer.” You toss her the strip of clothing, and she puts her bow down to tie up her arm before heading back to the tree. 
You quietly trail behind her, nerves on edge, as you hold your knife in anticipation for an attacker. Katniss holds the wire in her hand as she looks at the tree curiously.
Sparks by the left side of the tree send Beetee flying as you quickly pass Katniss to check on Beetee.
He’s twitching and non-response, but breathing.
“Beetee-“
You pause as Katniss spots a makeshift spear nearby. Your eyes widen as you look at the tree in front of you - a ticking death machine as far as you were concerned.
You pull Beetee as far away from the tree as you can manage before another cannon fires.
“Peeta!” Katniss screams as her anger flares towards you.
The arrow is lined straight at your heart - if she releases it, you’re dead.
But you don’t fear death, not for a moment. If your death saves her and everyone else, then it would be a worthy sacrifice.
A tear falls, but not of fear or sadness, but pity. Pity for the poor girl in front of you who only knows how to solve violence with more violence.
You could only hope that Peeta was alive out there, and that Brutus or Enobaria were the one dead. 
Rummaging through the nearby bushes causes her to misfire, as the arrow makes it mark into your knee. You crumble to the ground in horrendous pain as you only hope that this all will work out. You wonder if you will be able to walk again - your mentors had warned that injuries to the lower-half of your body would wound you for life if it didn’t cause your death in the arena.
You can only be a spectator as Katniss prepares another arrow, one to fire at the person who’s headed this way.
“Katniss, where are you?” Finnick cries out as Katniss prepares to fire her arrow at her.
You can only writhe in pain and be a spectator as Finnick notices Katniss. Pain constricts your throat, so you can’t tell him that you’re out of the way, that you’re safe, but he’s not.
You can’t watch someone else, someone from your home, die right in front of your. You were a helpless kid then as you watched someone die, but now, you were an adult.
Hell will have frozen over if you don’t do something about it.
You try to move your injured leg after a little pain subsides, but a shooting pain in your knee keeps you from moving your legs anymore than you have to.
“Katniss, remember who the real enemy is.” Finnick warns her as she continues to stay on-guard with her arrow pointed at his chest.
You look over at Beetee as guilt washes over you. You won’t let anyone else you care about die, not even the girl who shot you in the damn knee. With one hand in front of the other, you pull yourself out of the shadows and towards the two of them. Pain shoots through your body, but the adrenaline pumping through your veins counteracts it.
You try to stay as far away from the tree as possible as Katniss decides what to do next. She lowers her bow for a moment as thunder starts to collect around the tree of you. A bush blocks your view for a moment as you continue to crawl, but you hear Finnick warn Katniss to stay away from the tree. The last thing you remember was Finnick charging forward and Katniss releasing an arrow towards the lightning strikes before sparks clouded your vision until it faded completely black.
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White.
The only color you see around you is white. Your arms are restricted by some sort of holding device behind you. You struggle against them, but your effortless are completely and utterly useless.
“We had a deal, Sunny.” 
Shivers run up your spine as a clean set of black boots approach you. You know that voice, you’ve heard it all over speakers and right in front of you, and you hate its smugness. Its owner, however, is objectively the worst part.
Your eyes glance up to meet his as Snow cruelly smiles at you.
“And here I was, thinking that you would be something so much greater than yourself,” He chides you before pulling something out from behind his back, “what a fool I was.”
“I think, Sunny,” He continues as the weapon in his land comes to life with electric sparks, “that you and I need to become reacquainted with one another. Who, truly, is the real Sunny?”
Your screams aren’t heard from the soundproof rooms, and he doesn’t stop after you feel yourself fade away to nothingness.
~
The gently rocking of a carrier ship disturbs your unpeaceful rest. An oxygen mask helps you calm your breath as you open your eyes. The lights blind your vision, and for a moment, you’re scared that your nightmare was about to come true.
“Well, that went about as well as possible.” Haymitch mumbles before setting Katniss down next to you. Your eyes dart to the other side, where Beetee gently rests next to you.
“She needs time to adjust,” Another man, one that you don’t quite recognize, says before his eyes meet yours, “but they look less violent.”
Haymitch turns to you as he lets out a deep sigh.
“Sorry about your knee, and sorry about the shit job I did wrapping it up. Finnick re-wrapped it, by the way-“
You immediately sit up as Haymitch gently grabs your shoulder.
“Yes, yes, your lover boy is okay, calm down. You’re not going anywhere fast for a long time.” You look at your knee with Haymitch as you see the wound bleeding through the bandaging. It’s carefully wrapped, not too tight, just like Finnick did whenever you got cuts on your hands from the rocks back at home.
“Sunny?” 
You push Haymitch away with the strength of a toddler as Finnick approaches this part of the plane.
“Okay, I got it, you two need some alone time.” Haymitch stands up before heading to the front of the plane. “Plutarch-“
“You did good, protecting the Mockingjay. If you feel like fighting again, we could always use someone like you.” Plutarch says before following Haymitch to the front of the carrier ship.
Finnick quickly passes both of them as the door closes behind him. Once he reaches your side, he pulls the oxygen mask off your face and lightly caresses your cheek with the pad of his thumb. You, in response, raise a hand towards the bruises on his face.
“Your cheek-“ You croak out as Finnick shakes his head.
“Don’t worry about me, I’m fine. How’s your knee?”
“Hurts.” You mumble softly.
His eyes never leave yours, and the adoration in his eyes melts your core. You two stay in a comfortable silence as you place your hand on his chest.
“I won’t let anything else hurt you, I promise. We’ll be safe in District 13, I-“
You cut him off with a sweet kiss to the lips.
“I love you,” You lovingly whisper after your lips leave his, “now and forever.”
“Even with everything we’ve been through?” He quietly says as you reassure him.
“Especially considering everything we’ve been through.”
This time, his lips meet yours as you melt into Finnick’s chest, and, for now, this feels enough like home.
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Lay All Your Love On Me
Chapter 2- Watch Party
Josh Kiszka x Reader
Word Count: 3,106 
AN: Hi everyone! Here is the second chapter of Lay All Your Love On Me from me and @mar-rein12! Thank you so much for all the support on our last chapter, as they go on they are getting longer and longer. We hope you enjoy chapter 2, Watch Party.
Next chapter coming next week!
Warnings: 18+, Angst, Flirting, Cuddling (if you squint), Making out, Hickeys, Grinding, Slight pain, Tit sucking/fondling, Cursing, Degrading.
The morning was slow and productive. You cleaned up your room, did laundry, and washed the dishes from breakfast to distract yourself from the nerves that were building up inside you. You would be alone with Josh all night, with no idea of what it would entail. 
Sure, you were gonna watch the movie and talk about what needs to be worked on, but is that all that would happen? There’s something in the back of your mind telling you that he wants something more from you. 
Although you weren’t sure of what would happen, an everything shower was needed just in case. 
You shaved your body, washed your hair with your coconut shampoo and conditioner, and scrubbed your body down with your vanilla sugar body wash.
You feel silly preparing for something that probably won't even happen, but you will not be left feeling vulnerable to Josh. 
You get out and moisturize your body with your coconut cream pie lotion and blow dry your hair. You didn’t want to try too hard, so you opted to clip it back.
While looking through your closet you connect your phone to your speaker to play some music and absentmindedly play whatever song was last on. 
…the bar when your glass is empty
You thinking that this songs coming on to tempt me
I need to be alone like the way you left me
You start calling, you start crying
I come over, I'm inside you
I can't find you
The girl that I once had
But the sex…
You rapidly skip the song and let another play, Girls by The Dare begins to play. Even though some would say it's a violating song, you liked it. Most people probably wouldn't expect it from you seeing that you were a theater kid but you had a very expansive music taste.
You loved Noah Kahan, Tyler the Creator, Lana Del Rey and many more artists. You loved music and it was one of the things that got you into theater. Your Dad would always play music and sing with you in the mornings before school. It was one of the things that got you and your dad through the divorce, with your mom. When you started getting older he would take you to plays and you fell in love with the art. You began taking singing lessons and perfected your voice, which transitioned into acting lessons. All of which led to your audition at the University of Michigan. To your surprise, you were accepted and have been living your best life since. But now you're hit with a roadblock, and that roadblock is Josh Kiszka.
But this role meant a lot to you. You were so happy that Coleman took a chance on you. She had always said that you had so much potential and that with hard work you’d get to be where you want to one day, and now you are. You couldn’t disappoint her now, so if hanging with Josh for a few hours is what you had to do, you’d do it. 
After browsing for a while in your closet, your eye lands upon your blue, Detroit Lions crewneck that you got for your birthday from your dad. You slip that over your body, without even realizing you hadn’t put on a bra. You start digging through your drawers for bottoms. The temperature was a little warmer than usual, a cool 54 degrees which is pretty nice considering how cold it has been.  You find your white Lululemon shorts, and pull them over your hips patting them down to make sure everything looks okay.
You make your way over to your vanity and apply a thin coat of mascara and a few dots of cream blush, then slip on your socks and New Balances. Finishing it all off you spray on some deodorant and your Sol De Janeiro 62 perfume. The nerves in your body were covering up any bit of excitement you had, which is probably why you got ready so early. 
You head into your living area and turn on Victorious which is you and your roommates current binge watch. Without a doubt, Charlotte hears the intro and runs into the living room. 
“You're supposed to tell me when you're gonna watch it y/n!”
“Sorry, I just had some time to spare before I have to go out.”
“Where are you going, over to Andrew's apartment from last week?” She says with a devious grin.
“No. As tempting as that is, I have to go to Josh’s tonight.”  You space out for a moment thinking about Andrew. “...He did have some good dick though.” You laugh simultaneously.
“Didn’t need to know that y/n. SO what are you going to do with Josh?”
“I don't know? Watch the movie probably and figure out how we're going to keep the peace during practice.”
“Makes sense. I wish you were free, I'm going to the mall with Lindsey and Rebecca. I have a vision.”
You knew whatever she was going to say would be interesting. She always has so many crazy ideas and is always looking for something new in her life.
“Okay so, imagine, bubblegum pink sweatpants for the sorority thing were hosting next week. With a cute loose white shirt. Gold chunky hoops and my tasmans. What do we think?”
“Very cute Char.” You would offer for her to borrow yours but you’d probably never see them again. “I’ve been thinking about getting platform mini uggs, but it’s starting to get a little warmer out so I’m not too sure.” 
“Stopppp those are so cute, they would look amazing on you. What if you also got some….”
As the conversation is flowing just like it always does, you didn’t even notice the 4 hours and something minutes had slipped by while having Victorious play in the back before you hear a buzz from your phone.
8:13pm Josh: Sooo do you not want your role orrrr?
Shit. You had completely forgotten about your hangout with Josh.
8:13pm y/n: Fuck, sorry got lost in time. I'm on my way.
You quickly grab your cross body and phone and are on your way.
As you hastily walk towards the apartment you think about what you're going to have to deal with now that he's been waiting for you. 
You decide to take the stairs, sprinting up them due to already being late. When you get to the third floor you knock on the door, 322.
You were expecting an angry Josh, but were met with the sweeter looking version of him.
“Hello?” Jake answers.
His roommate, and brother Jake, looks you up and down before turning away from the door.
“JOSHHH, she's here.” Before you could say anything else he grabs his guitar case and lets you in.
“See you y/n.” He shoots you a wink, causing blood to rush to your cheeks, painting them a flushed shade of red. 
“Bye Jake.” As he leaves, you turn the corner and you’re met with the less enjoyable version of the two.
“Why are you late?” He harshly questions.
You stare at him with a confused look on your face. “I was hanging out with someone before this. I got held up.”
“Who was it?”
“I don't see why that's any of your business. Plus why do you care?” You spat at him.
“I just want to know who you're hoeing around with when you're not with me.” Instead of telling the truth you decide to play into it, make him jealous.
“You calling me a hoe doesn't hurt my feelings, Josh. Just because you don't get any doesn't mean you have to be jealous of the guys I get with.”
“Who says I’m jealous?”
“Oh please, it's written all over you.” 
He scoffs, “Let's just get this done so we can part ways and say we worked on it.”
You roll your eyes and follow him into the dark room, lit by a small lamp that's in the corner. Mamma Mia is already queued up on the TV. You let Josh pick where he’s going to sit, so you can pick the farthest seat from him. 
As he sits on the left end of the couch, you sit your stuff on the end table near the right end of the couch and take a seat. Leaving a spot in between the two of you. You slip off your shoes and criss cross your legs on the couch. 
“Do you need anything to drink?” Josh asks clearly, feeling obligated to.
“Um, I’ll just have some water. Thanks.” You fidget with the necklace hanging around your neck, in a nervous manner. 
He nods and walks away leaving you alone in the living room. As you look around the room, you take in the atmosphere. It’s very different from what you would have thought. It's a very nice apartment for a junior to be living in, but wasn’t too out there considering the wealth of the family. When you walked in you were met with the living room on the right, a very small kitchen on the left, and a bathroom straight down the hall. You would have to assume that he and his brother's bedrooms were also down the hall. You wondered what Josh’s was like?
The living room was cozy but sleek. You sat on a cold black leather couch with a white faux fur blanket draped along the back. A flat screen TV takes up most of the wall, with a table beneath it with a PS5 on top. A small leather chair and music stand sat in the corner of the room, which you assumed was Jake’s.
Midway during your observation Josh had come back with your glass of iced water. 
“Here,” he puts down a coaster on the glass coffee table, sitting it right in front of you. 
“Thanks Josh!” You pick up the glass taking a large gulp of the icy water.
“Mhm,” he says with a slight nod.
“Sooo…do you like Mamma Mia?” You question him.
“Phhh, no. I’m just doing this for the part, I don’t really care about all that stuff. And for them to not even get married at the end was fucking stupid.”
“Then maybe you shouldn’t play the part if you have such strong feelings about it.” You give him a fake, condescending smile.
“Did you come over to work or to just attack me all night?”
“Maybe both.” You say half joking and half not. 
He rolls his eyes and grabs the remote to the tv and starts up the movie. When he has the movie up and running he leans back, placing one foot on the coffee table and his arms draping across the back of the couch, accidentally brushing your neck sending shivers down your spine. 
I wonder what his hands would feel like wrapped around it.
Ew. You shake the image out of your head. You should not be thinking about those kinds of things. He is a peer, nothing else. 
As your eyes fixate on the screen you feel a soft hand graze your neck, this time with a purpose.
“This is a nice necklace.” Josh states while playing with it gently, occasionally brushing against your skin. 
Wow Josh Kiszka being nice, something you would have never expected.
“Did you get this from one of your 12 boyfriends?”
“Funny Josh, My parents actually got this for me before they got divorced but thanks for making this awkward now.” You say with a fake grin.
You could seem him shut down a moment, realizing he hit a nerve. 
“Ohhh, it’s okay Josh! Being a dickhead is just in your nature, I totally get it!” You shoot him down with your sarcasm. 
He grins for a moment, making him feel better that he didn’t absolutely ruin the night. 
As you get through the first couple scenes you begin to get uncomfortable in your seat. You look over to Josh noticing he's still paying his attention to the screen, making disgusted faces every once and a while at the acting. 
You decide to stretch your legs out a bit, turning your body parallel with the couch, facing towards Josh. He doesn’t seem to mind but glances over when he feels movement on the couch. A few moments pass and you feel a hand placed on your ankle. You glance over and see his hand resting upon it, rubbing light circles.
You hate to admit it, but you kind of like it. 
As the scenes went on Josh had scooched much closer to the point where your legs were bunched up in front of you. Josh noticed and gently pulled your legs so they were stretched out across his lap, giving him more leg to rub. His hand traveled higher and higher to the point where it was resting just under the thin fabric of your shorts. Your heart was beating rapidly, and the only thing that could have made it worse was the Lay All Your Love On Me scene. The scene that you and Josh both despised, but there was a different feeling this time. 
Your core heats up and you feel a wetness forming between your legs. Your eyes travel down to where his hand rests, then you look back up and make direct eye contact with him. Your eyes begin to wander down the rest of his body and they stop right below his waist. His gray sweatpants weren’t good at hiding much because you could see the imprint of his dick fighting against the fabric.
You smirk a little, realizing that he is looking right at you.
“What?” Josh raises his eyebrow at you.
“Oh nothing, you're just not very good at hiding how you feel.” You smile smugly at him. 
He begins to look down and tries to readjust himself to conceal his erection.
“It's okay, I’m flattered Josh.” You begin to push off the couch to stand in front of him waiting for him to communicate what the next move was.
He gives a slow look up and down your body before smirking at you. Without knowing, you are being pulled down onto him. You straddle him, your legs resting on either side of his legs. As your hands drape around his , you feel two hands forcefully grab your ass. He begins to grind you back and forth on his hardened length. Your lips connect and tongues fight for dominance. 
Josh separates. “How does that feel mama? You like that?” He whispers seductively in your ear.
Your head is thrown back with a moan, leaving your neck completely exposed to him. His lips attach themselves to your neck, leaving wet, sloppy kisses. Followed by some hard sucking and biting, soothing the area with his tongue after.
What the fuck is going on. Why was this happening? Yesterday you would have thrown up at the idea of this ever happening, and now you never want it to end. 
As he stops attacking on your neck you decide it is your turn. Your lips forcefully attach to his neck giving him no time to react. You suck hard on the tender skin, as a whimper slides past his lips.
“You like that Josh? What's making you feel this way? Me grinding on your cock, the sucking on your neck, or my tits rubbing on your chest? What is it, baby?”
“Fuck y/n. You’re so fucking sexy… god.” He praises you.
“So desperate for me Josh.”
Josh’s hands release from your ass and drag up your back slowly leading them up to your chest. He grabs your tits through your thick crewneck, but that doesn’t stop him from realizing the lack of bra you have on.
“No bra, y/n? Were you expecting something to happen tonight, like the little slut you are?” 
He leans into your ear, “You tell me if you don’t want it, understand?”
You nod in agreement. 
“Words mama come on.” Josh pleads with you.
“Yes, Josh.”
He smirks, “Good girl.” His hands begin to travel down and go beneath your sweatshirt, going right back up to where they had been. He starts off by slowly massaging them in his palms and switches to a painful pinch of your nipples, eliciting a moan. ”You feel so nice baby. Your tits are fucking perfect. Let me see them.” 
Your hand finds the hem of your crew neck and lifts it up just enough to reveal yourself to him.
“Fuckkk y/n.” He looks so turned on right now and you find it slightly amusing. 
He leans his face down to your tits and begins to leave kisses all around them and ends it with a hard suck right on top of your tit, leaving a huge purple mark.
“You look so sexy sucking on my tit, Joshy.” You speak as you continue grinding down on him, supplying yourself with the smallest amount of friction. 
He goes down and circling your nipple with his tongue. He felt so good, it made you wonder what else that tongue could do.
“Want more of a taste?” You tease. His eyes lead down to your core that has been rocking back and forth on his cock all night.
He smirks, and lifts you up while standing up, laying you down on the couch.
He leaves a few kisses down your body before reaching your shorts. His fingers hook onto the waistband about to pull them down before you hear the door creak open. 
You immediately pull your shirt down and sit up to see who it is.
It is Jake coming in with his guitar case. He was supposed to be gone all night?
“Oh shit!” Jake says before shielding his eyes and turning away.
“What the fuck Jake! What are you doing here?”
“Practice got done early.” He says still facing the opposite way, eyes covered. 
“Anddddddd… You're supposed to be somewhere else right now though.”
Jake’s eyes widened. “Yeah yeah I know… I just was dropping this off before heading over to Bens.”  
He quickly throws his guitar down and runs out the door.
You begin to stand up and grab your stuff. “I thought he was going to Scotts?”
“Just got the names mixed up I guess.” He was smooth with his response, but knowing deep down it was a line of shit.
You place your bag around over your shoulder. “Goodnight Josh. Doesn’t seem like you should have any problems on Monday.” You smirk, leaving him there with only the empty thoughts of you. 
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Pt 1, Pt 2 , Pt 3
Summary: In the Diner, Michael managed to beat your high score. But what he doesn't know is that you were watching the whole time. You catch his eye and he makes it his mission to annoy you.
Paring: Michael Afton x you
Warnings: small enemies to friends to lovers, Use of Y/N,
WC: 4K
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I rubbed my temple, sitting across Henry in his office. It is twelve in the afternoon. All these taxes, calls from our partnered companies to get products, paying the staff, and getting the hardware parts for the repairs is tiring me out but this is my job. It keeps the diner running.
"We'll need to get more meat from the meat market for the burgers and club sandwiches. The employee's pay is coming up about next week too so we should pull out our savings to do that and-" Henry got cut off on his next sentence. The creek of the door opened.
"Am I interrupting?" It was (Y/n) standing at the door holding a paper bag and a vibrant plastic cup. Putting the bag on the table.
"You're not interrupting anything." Henry said, I got up from my seat and pulled a spare chair from the corner to the endside of the desk. Leaving some space for her to sit down. (Y/n) took a seat. I pushed her seat then returned to my own.
"Thank you for the meal, love." I said. It was her normal nickname for me. I always used it for her. It gained a sort of closeness the more I used it till it was permanently engraved into her identity in my mind.
"Thank you (Y/n) I'll pay you back." Henry said, pulling out his wallet.
"Oh no no no no, honestly I should be thanking you guys. You called me just in time. I had to deal with these disturbing kids that knew me back in high school. I wanted to get out of that so bad that Henry called just in time." (Y/n) asked leaning further into the desk with her cheek on her hand and the other sipping her drink.
"Aw I'm sorry to hear that (Y/n) but at least I got you just in time, didn't I? Whenever you don't want to be somewhere you know you could call me." Henry said happily, putting down his food.
"Such disgusting people." I said with a scoff. Americans had no manners. The two of them laughed with me.
"Yeah but anyways, what have you guys been working on?" (Y/n) asked, fiddling the straw in circles.
"Just the boring stuff lately.  We're trying to get big companies to work with us. We need the computer parts for working devices and then repairs for the animatronics. Since Spring Bonnie needs some torso repairs and Fredbear needs a jaw repair. The computer parts are for-" I said till I looked up and saw Henry stuffing his face.
Sauce at the corners of his mouth and licking his fingers. Chewing obnoxiously everytime he took a bite. My nose wrinkled up in disgust, my brows furrowing. Right when I'm talking too. How disgusting. Little snickers were muffled at the end of the table. Henry looked confused but smiled slightly at her giddiness. He tried to lick the corners of his mouth, rancid. (Y/n)'s little snickers became louder till she fully laughed out. Uplifting my bitter mood. A smile spreads out. Henry looked up confused with sauce dripping down the corners, raising his brow, looking back at her then me. (Y/n) grabbed a napkin and handed it to him. He took it and wiped his mouth.
"Anyway, business is constant, we just need to upgrade the restaurant's basic things. The animatronics and shows have our business growing in exposure and wealth." I explained resting my elbows on the table and interlocking my fingers together. Now all we needed to do after this was figure out our next move.
"We'll get more sponsors to get our name out there and we'll take some of the savings money for the company. Let's start with RadioShack since we need to get more parts." Henry explained.
I unwrapped my lunch carefully and took a bite. (Y/n) slurped the straw loudly finishing the last of her drink. She got up from her seat, throwing Henry and her scraps into the trash. I looked at her hands, her nails were painted rosso corsa red. It suited her so well, but purple suited duchess more. Henry stood up and walked to the other side of the desk grabbing the phone from the desk and punching in the number. 
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A brunette boy with a group of guys surrounding him played an arcade game. Getting a higher and higher score each level. The group was cheering him on. Sweat dripped down his temples. His hands jagged the joycons. The group of boys yelled "Go Michael!" (Y/n) leaned against the wall of the pizzeria. Henry dragged her down to the diner again so he could show her the latest designs he's been working on. (Y/n) smile melted watching the boys. She remembered getting the highest score on that arcade machine. It took her blood, sweat, and tears. Coming in everyday to try over and over again the high score. The day (Y/n) got it, she freaked. It wasn't real! No way she got it! Was this really happening! (Y/n) ran straight to Henry about her winning.  Henry ended up giving a big bear hug and spinning her around. It was the best day of her life. And there were some boys a little younger than her, about to beat her score.
"Oh my god... Yeah! I did it!" Michael cheered, throwing his arms up.
"Hell yeah Michael!"
"Sweet dude!"
"Who did you pass?"
They all looked at the name under his goofy username. ☆Lucky(N/n)☆ - 7495. Foxybro - 7500. Only by a little bit did he beat her score. Her giggling made their heads turn. There the boys flabbergasted at her. A tall, beautiful, (Y/n) (L/n).
"Hey! Good job there on the high score! That was a good play." (Y/n) complements, gently clapping her hands together. Admittly it was impressive. That is a tricky game to beat.
The two boys, one in the leather jacket with other with piercings stared at her lovingly over her immediately. Michael grabbed the joystick. It broke off from under him. His eyes widened he quickly hid it behind his back and leaned against the arcade machine. Trying to look intimidating. The one with the dark brown hair that almost covered his eyes  chucked at his stupidness and punched his shoulder.
"Yeah it was nothing," Michael scoffed, brushing the top of his hair back. The joystick coming out from behind his back, he quickly threw it behind him and kicked it behind the machine.
"Is that true? Cause the one under your score is mine." (Y/n) grinned pointing her thumb to her chest. Michael glared at her and rolled his eyes. The other guys were laughing at him and punching his shoulder. Being humliated by a really pretty lady is the same thing as a love hate relationship.
"Say what's your name, Dollface?" One of the goo goo eyed guys asked. Going weak in the knees and leaning to the side.
"(Y/n) (L/n). What about you guys?" She said lifting herself up off of the wall. Introducing themselves one by one in their own little special ways. Michael, the one who beat her high score. Alejandro, the guy in the leather jacket. Simon, the one with a lot of piercings. Jeremy, the guy who has a bunch of dark brown fluffy hair in green.
I'll be seeing you guys around."  She saluted them with two fingers. She walked away back to find Henry. Simon sunk down lovingly on the arcade machine, Jeremy waved goodbye with a smile, Michael and Alejandro standing there looking at the joystick in his hands trying to shove it back into the machine.
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Father brought me back to the pizzeria again, I don't know why I need to be here with him. Elizabeth and Chris are at home with mom. I would rather be at home in my room with my baby, my electric guitar. Ugh I miss her. I was learning Back in Black from AC/DC. though my fingers are all calloused I still want to play. I groaned, tapping my foot on the floor and rolling my eyes, I crossed my arms. Father made me sit in his office with him. It was getting boring! I can usually go play the arcade games like I was doing or go eat greasy junk food till my stomach hates me. I feel my brain melting! I need to do something!
"Stop your fidgeting, boy." Father said not looking up from his paperwork. it's not like he cares. he doesn't care about anything when it comes to me. It's always about his work.
"Sod off." I spat looking away from him. I dont want to be around him. He gets on my nerves. Putting me in his office. Who does he think he is? I can go out and do the things I want. he only cares when his reputation is in danger.
"That's no way to speak to me, Michael. I don't want you in this room any more than you want to be in here. Frankly, you're a distraction. You remember what happened last time don't you?" Father scolded me with a slight insult. I'm only here because I was picking on little kids and telling them scary stories of the animatronics. Parents complained to Henry and father about it. Now I'm being forced to stay on a leash like I'm some kind of animal. There was a familiar knock on the door.
"William! I need you for some early designs!" Henry called from the otherside of the door. Father groaned and got up from the seat pinching the bridge of his nose.
"I'll be right there, Henry! Don't go anywhere." Father said at the door. He left to go deal with Henry and more work. Yeah... I'm not going to stay here. Their footsteps disappeared and a door clicked. I opened the door, peaking my head out, looking through the halls. Coast is clear. Quickly I lightly stepped through the halls and pushed open the employee's only door. Everything got so noisy after that. Damn kids were screaming their heads off.
What to do first, oh what to do first? I can't scare the kids again or father will notice I'm out. Still doesn't mean I can't have fun. Sneaking into the kitchen I grabbed a slice of a pizza and birthday cake. In the corner hallway where the bathrooms were I ate. The kid having the birthday party looked like he was about to cry at the missing pieces, the mom forced the chiefs back into the kitchen to make another. I hid the spare emergency pizza they have in a locked cabinet under the counter. Licking my lips of the chocolate from the cake. I got up from the floor leaving my trash there.
Huh, the backroom's door is open? No one goes in there if they want to get killed, I've seen it in horror movies all the time. What dumb kid is back there? I could be smart and leave it alone or go in and get killed. I'm going in! Walking up to the slightly open door. I walked inside, the door automatically closing behind me. I jumped and cursed under my breath. A bright light shined in my eyes. I covered them slightly with my hand.
"Hey! You aren't supposed to be back here!"
"Turn off that light! I want to keep my vision, you know!" I said grabbing the end of the light and pointing my light down. What the fuck? The girl from earlier, (Y/n) I think her name was? Was shining a flashlight in my eyes. She was wearing a dark blue jumpsuit with a hefty toolbelt. A yellow name tag on her chest and blocky doc martens. I just know those shoes are making the back of her feet hurt. All the blisters. Her hair was put up into a loose bun and there is construction googles on the top of her head.
"Michael? What are you doing? You're not supposed to be in here!" (Y/n) gasped out through her teeth harshly. She was leaning forwards towards me and looking around. She's trying to find where I am from. Ew, this is her room. This room is made for the head mechanic. Which means she's a fuckin' nerd.
"My father is the boss here, dumbass." I hissed walking past her and looking around. There's so much shiny shit in here. The power tools look sharp and pointy. I went over to them and poked the needle tips.
"But Henry was twins, he would've told me about you... wait... Your Will's kid?! No wonder why you look just like him." (Y/n) said putting her flashlight away and going over to the desk. Those words burned through me and I felt my stomach drop. I wish I didn't.
"Don't you ever say I look like my father! I'm nothing like him!" I yelled, slamming my hand on the table behind her. (Y/n) flinched and kept her mouth shut. I walked away from her grumbling. There goes my fun.
The backrooms held the two animatronics, Fredbear and Springbonnie. There were mechanic tools on the shelfs and spare parts in the other corner. Early designs of the characters hung up on the walls. Tool desks and two small lamp lights hanging from the ceiling. It was hard to see from how dim it was. Checkered flooring like the rest of the restaurant.  I went back over to (Y/n) and looked over her shoulder at the blueprints. It was a pirate fox. It was an early design. I snatched the paper away from her.
"Hey! Give it!" She shouted, holding her hand out. What am I, a dog? No way. This little fox guy is cool. His hook is so badass, what adventures does he go on? Are there more designs? Is she going to make him? I want to know everything about him. Enough with the soft shit, he looks so awesome. I bet he goes arghh!!
"Why should I? This fucker looks creepy you really think kids would like this? This makes it easier for me to scare them. Seriously the fuck is wrong with your head. What? Lost a couple screws?" I made fun of the drawings. She puffed her chest and pouted trying to take it out of my hands. Instead I pulled her with the blueprints. Making her mad is giving me pride. I like pushing her buttons. She gets so worked up.
"Drop it! I need to give it to Henry and Will later." (Y/n) jabbed my side. I flinched taking the moment she grabbed it out of my hands. Sneaky little- god she's so annoying. She put it away in a folder with some other drawings. Hmm, what if I steal that later? There might be more of that fox guy.
"Only little shits would like that crap." I blew a raspberry at her. I know that's a fat lie but the reaction she is giving me is so fun. He had striped pirate pants, a hook, a captain's hat with a feather, a leather vest, and an eye patch. I shouldn't have said that he looked really cool. I should draw him!
(Y/n) was repairing the animatronics, fixing their insides. There was an unfinished big metal root in the corner. I looked back at (Y/n) who was still working. Slowly I grabbed one of the wires. The robot's eyes moved from side to side. Woah! How the hell did it do that? I smiled and pulled another wire. It blinked this time while its eyes moved. It's being controlled somewhere, just where? There was this keypad on the chest. I pressed one of the buttons and its head moved back and forth blockly.
"Don't touch that!" (Y/n) yelled jogging up to me and grabbing my shoulder leading me away from the robot. Fixing it's wires and putting them inside of their metal bodies. Sighing out of relief. What does it look like to be inside of the robot?
"You just love making my job harder, don't you? Don't touch the endoskeleton unless you want to lose an arm." (Y/n) said holding me away from the robot err is it called endoskeleton? it's like the bones of robot. A skull doesn't have eyes though. I want to touch it again so bad.
"You touch it though! How come you haven't lost an arm yet?" I teased. She pushed me out of the backrooms and locked the door behind her. Damn it... Just when I was starting to have fun.
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My dad needed me to send out a letter to my aunt, so I had to be the delivery girl who goes to the post office and sends it. I didn't want to do it. I was out in the backyard playing with my dog in a kiddie pool which he couldn't fit in. My saint Bernard named Cujo after my favorite horror story. I read it in English class in Junior High and it stuck with me ever since then. He was splashing me in water, dirt, and dog hair. I put the pool out so Cujo could cool down from the heat.
I can't believe that was interrupted for me. I took my car and drove to the post office turning up the song they played over the radio, you really got me going. Nodding my head to the beat of it. I turned off of the street and into the small shopping center parking lot. The post office was right next to the corner drug store so many high school kids or ex popular dickwads like to hang out. As long as I don't talk to them I should be fine. I grabbed the letter from the passenger seat. My dad couldn't call my aunt because she was in another country, Canada. The phone lines don't reach out of the country, they can go from state to state if you're lucky. They work better in neighborhoods. I got out of the car and locked it behind me with my key.
Shit... No one told me that Michael was going to be here. Ugh if I can't see him he can't see me. I brought up my autumn brown colored flannel to cover up my face, my dog tag chain clanked around my neck. He was there with some greasers and one of the boys I met at the pizzeria. Alejandro? Yeah Alejandro Gon... Gonzales! He was sitting on top of his motorbike with his helmet in hand. He smiled with those pearly whites and waved to me. I waved to him, tucking a strand of hair behind ear. That was embarrassing... I went inside the post office. There was barely a line since it was nighttime. The letter was to be mailed and I can go home! I left the post station, the greasers still standing there. Michael looked back at me whispering something to his friends. They all laughed at what he had to say. I have a feeling that thing is about me.
"Hey (Y/n)!" Michael yelled, waving at me. I rolled my eyes and kept walking. The guys laughed at his mockery, except Alejandro. He gave me a guitly smile and told the other guys off. He was a gentleman unlike Afton. I got into my car slamming the door and speeding out of there. I don't care if I get a ticket. I want to go home. Pulling into the side of my house after a tiring drive. I got out and locked the car behind me with a key.
Unlocking the front door, the house was quiet. Mom and dad must be sleeping already. Daniel was sleeping on the couch with a blanket and Cujo on him. The TV playing Looney Tunes. I sighed, the clock read 12:35. Cujo hopped off of Daniel coming up to me and nudging my hand. I pet his head scratching his ears and swishing his jaw around, Cujo panted with his tail wagging. I turned off the Tv and picked up Daniel sloppily. The blanket was dragging off of his body. I limped walking up the stairs trying not to drop his body. When did this kid get so big? Jesus Chirst he's heavy I feel my arms falling off. The stairs were the hardest part, I opened the door and gently put him down on his bed. I rolled him up in the blanket like a caterpillar. Cujo was standing next to me, I guess he followed me to get the boy and dragged my little brother up the stairs.
Daniel (L/n) my little brother. Ever since I graduated High school he only got bigger. He got out of 7th grade a year after I graduated. He's an 8th grader now. I still miss him when he was younger, not that he isn't young! Just when Daniel was he was so much cuter. He'll always be my baby brother in my eyes. The kid is 13 years old, he already tries to act like he's older. I don't think I'll ever say it out loud, but I love this kid. He's a nerdy boy who loves things like Starwars and Superhero comics. He is a brave kid with a spunk. He's optimistic about the things he does even if he hasn't done them before. He's really protective over me when any boy comes over. Let me tell you now, Daniels has always been a mama's boy. He's really clever but he uses it for evil! To be fair he got it from me. Cujo whined at me. I patted the boy's head and got up from his bed. Leaving the room now quietly shutting the door.
"Come on Cujo, it's late." I said waving my hand  towards the Saint Bernard then towards me. He followed me to my room. Getting dressed into pj shorts and a tank top that matched it. Grabbing the green Floral loose robe off of my hanger. Next to the bedside was a telephone. I punched Cheryl's number and brought it to my ear, laying on my bed. Cujo jumped on my bed next to me and laid on his side. I swear he acts like a human sometimes.
"...Hello?" Cheryl sounded tired, there was shifting on the other side in only what I assumed were blankets. It was her sleepy voice. Raspy and deeper than her normal pitch.
"Did I wake you up?" I asked picking at my fingernails.
"Maybe baby, it's 12:38 at night (Y/n) what is it?" Cheryl said grumpily. She's not a morning person; she always mentions how she needs her beauty sleep. Seriously she has a whole skin care routine before she goes to bed.
"I have stuff going on for once to tell you." I asked, looking at the green phone and twirling the cord.
"Finally! Oh my god! Nothing ever happens in your life!" Cheryl said I heard her get up from the other side. That definitely woke her up. I can picture her already with curlers in her hair and her pastel pink bed sheets with darker polka dots. She probably lifted her sleep mask too. The one with the white ruffles and the creepy eyes with the poorly drawn on eyelashes. I chuckled under my breath.
"Wow, okay rude. Anyway, the diner there was this group of boys playing in the mini arcade section and one of them was trying to beat my high score on one of the games. It was like any kind of group of boys full of sweat and hormones, you know? But he actually beat my high score." I was cut off by girlish squeals. Ow, my ears. She's going to make me deaf one of these days.
"What did you do? Oh did you tell him off! Did you talk to him? No way you, the quiet little good girl, would talk to a group of bad boys." Cheryl teased in sultry tone. I can hear the smile on her face.
"Actually I did talk to them. I congratulated them for beating my high score. You should've seen the look on their faces! Two of them were lover boys. I swear one of them called me Dollface. The one who did beat my high score ended up breaking the joystick when he saw me." I explained biting down on my lip with a grin. It was ridiculously cute. Makes no sense since Michael is a pain in my ass.
"Ahh~!! Are they cute? Please tell me there cute and not some weird guys that look like they belong on the street. You have a type." Cheryl squealed. She knows me all too well, but really none of them are my type. Actually now that I think about it Jeremy might be. He's a sweetheart.
"Hey! My type is cute! Whatever, they're like that group of bad boys but different types. They're not like greasers or gangs. Just some punk ass teenage boys. The one who beat my high score is a jerk face." I groaned remembering this evening and plenty other times. It's been a month now of him torturing me. It's always while I'm on the job. Henry's been worried about me lately cause of it.
"Aww~ what makes you say that?" Cheryl said, adjusting the phone to her other ear. there were sounds of moving and muffled tones.
"He's a dickwad. Those guys keep coming to the diner everyday now to see me, they even scheduled my breaks and day offs which is kinda cute. But like that one guy knows how to tick me off! Okay okay, he's William's son." I said, Cujo curled into my side and put his arm around me. I huffed from the sudden weight but put my arm around him. He was big, furry and warm. Like a big ole heater.
"William has a son?! How am I just now hearing about this (Y/n)? So he's a sexy dad, I get it." Cheryl said huskily. I cringed at first. My nose scrunched up in digust. I don't think about him as this smokin' boss that will flirt with me in his office. I know him as the guy who yells at me when I make his tea in the microwave. Though Cheryl did have a point, though William is intimidating he has a charm. A lot of people talk about him in and out of the pizzeria. Admittedly he is handsome.
"Eww!! Cheryl! He has a wife! Anyway yeah, his name is Michael. He gets on my nerves. He messes me up when I'm working and touches everything, he trips me when I'm skateboarding, he points me out and draws attention to me in public, he's always around me that I get pissed whenever I see him, don't even get me started on the things he says to me! I never wanted to beat a guy's ass more." I gritted my teeth together remembering everything. There were too many times to count and it would take too long but knowing Cheryl she'd like to hear everything.
"It's small things right? Do you ever think (Y/n) he might be getting under your skin because he doesn't know how to talk to you and this is his way of talking to you?" Cheryl asked, she sounded more genuine and serious. I never thought of that.
He must get it from William. When I first started working with Will he was an utter dick to me. Avoiding me and insulting me, till he saw what I could do to the animatronics as an engineer. Will still didn't talk to me after that, but what did happen was I would get little notes saying about how I was doing a good job or how I looked pretty today. They weren't ever signed. Same with little presents that would be my workshop. There would be a bouquet of wildflowers on my tools shelf. Next it would be sunflowers, then it got bigger. I never knew where it came from. It did make my day better though, I would always look forward to going to work. I started talking to William after awhile, turns out he was the one doing all of that. I talked to him about it but to this day he denies that he ever did so.
"Wow, I never thought about that. Boys are confusing. I guess that could be happening? I don't know. I'll keep it in the back of my mind but I'm still pissed at him." I said tapping my chin with the arm I had around Cujo.
"You don't have to be happy that he does it, you can be mad. You have the right to be. Just consider why he's doing it. I'm sure it will all work out!" Cheryl said happily. I hate that she's always right.
"I'll consider it Cher, it's late, it's about to be one in the morning. I woke you up and now you need your beauty sleep. Night Cher, sweet dreams." I said smiling softly. I heard her little 'good night' and a cute yawn from the other side. I put the phone back on the stand. Hanging up on her.
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A/N: The moment we've been waiting for! I hope everyone is as happy with this ending as I am. Thanks to everyone who has read and supported this story. It's been a lot of work, but the end result is something I am proud of. They say to write the story you want to read, and I'm definitely looking forward to reading this all the way through now that it's finally finished. I hope everyone who reads it enjoys it as much as I do! Let me know what you think!
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Ages 24 and 25 August 2004
“That’s… You… I’m…” Dean trailed off, unable to complete a thought. His eyes kept darting back and forth between my eyes and his name. He took a deep, calming breath. “Really?” He questioned like he couldn’t quite believe it. Like he thought he read it wrong or I’d drawn his name on myself in sharpie or something.
 I dropped my shirt and shrugged, not entirely sure how to interpret his reaction. Was showing him a mistake after all?
“Why didn’t you say anything?” He asked.
“What, you mean like ‘Hey, Dean. As you know, I turned 16 today, and guess who’s name showed up? Yours! I hope that’s not weird since you turned 16 over a year ago and haven’t said anything to me, so even though you’re my soulmate, I must not be yours?’”
“What? You think-” Dean sat on the bed and began unlacing his left boot. I watched, confused.
“What are you doing?” I asked him. He yanked his boot off, pushed his sock down and pulled the leg of his jeans up a little.
“You thought this was one sided?” He asked incredulously. He lifted his foot onto the bed, showing me his ankle. 
My breath caught when I saw my name there. This was real, then. I really did belong to him the way he belonged to me. He didn’t have a different soulmate and my gut feeling that we were meant to be together was right, not just the product of longing for someone I could never have. 
“You really thought that there was a possibility I could ever have anyone other than you as my soulmate?”
“Well, to be honest I kind of assumed you knew. Maybe not about the soulmate part,” I clarified when he scoffed and raised his eyebrows. “But at least how much I like you.”
He was still staring at me with a mixture of shock and exasperation, so I nervously barreled on.
“I mean, it seems like everywhere we go people immediately pick up on it. And I tried to hide it, but apparently I haven’t done a very good job. So I figured you must know and were just being nice enough not to say anything about it. Besides, you never looked twice at me. What was I supposed to think?”
“Are you kidding? You’re the only one I ever looked at.”
“Tell that to all the girls you’ve been with,” I countered. “And look, I realize we weren’t together so you had the right to be with anyone you wanted. But don’t tell me you only had eyes for me.”
“It’s true,” he argued. I scoffed and he clenched his jaw. “The only reason I ever paid any attention to any of them is because I didn’t think I could have you, the one person I really wanted. And I seem to recall you going on a few dates yourself,” he answered.
“You might also remember that I only went on dates when friends set me up. I usually wasn’t thrilled about it and it never went past the first date. And that’s not even the point.”
“Then what is?”
“Why didn’t you tell me?” I asked. “You knew for a year and a half longer than I did. Why didn’t you say something?” Dean sighed.
“You know, when we were growing up, everywhere we went people knew how I felt about you. At every school the guys would tell me how whipped I was and the girls were always asking if we were dating. It shocked me how I was apparently so obvious and yet you could still be so clueless about it. I mean, you know me better than anyone. How could you of all people not see it? Even now you look surprised to hear it.”
I realized that while I was listening to Dean talk, my eyebrows had wrinkled together. 
“Yeah, well. You were protective I guess. But that’s just who you are. It doesn’t mean anything.”
“I know you think so,” Dean said. “But everyone else saw it for what it really meant.”
“This doesn’t really answer why-”
“Because,” he interrupted. “I’ve always known I’m not good enough for you, and I didn’t want you to feel obligated to be with me because of the soulmate thing. And when you turned 16 and never said anything to me… I figured you just weren’t interested.”
“Wow,” I said. “I don’t even know where to start. Uh…” I said, sorting through all the things I wanted to say to pick the most important. “Ok. So what you’re telling me is you knew we were soulmates the whole time?”
“Yeah. Do you know how rare it is for soulmates not to match up? Honestly, I kind of think it’s impossible. I think when that happens it’s just people falling in love with someone with the right name, but it’s the wrong person. It never even crossed my mind that your soulmate could be someone else,” he said.
“Then why did you seem so shocked when you saw my tattoo?” I asked pointedly.  
“Oh, right,” Dean said, reminded of how this whole conversation had started. He grabbed the discarded med kit and gestured for me to lift my shirt.
“Dean.” I wasn’t in the mood for him to try avoiding things. We needed to talk about this.
“I’m not ignoring you. I really need to get you fixed up.” I looked at him doubtfully. “I am capable of talking at the same time,” he said.
I looked at him for a few more seconds, weighing the honesty behind the words. I decided he was just as eager to have this discussion as I was. I walked over to stand beside where he was sitting on the bed and lifted my shirt for him. 
“So?” I asked. “Why did you seem surprised?”
Dean gently rubbed his thumb over the letters of his name, his eyes soft and a small smile on his lips. I shivered at the contact. Then he got to work on cleaning and stitching my side.
“I wasn’t surprised, exactly,” he told me as he worked. “Although I suppose it was a bit of a shock, seeing it for the first time. Knowing in your mind that something must be true and actually seeing it are two different things.”
“Yeah, I guess,” I agreed, wincing at the first poke of the needle. At least this conversation was as good of a distraction as I could ask for.
 “And I just figured if we’ve gone this long without ever seeing or talking about our tattoos, you letting me see it now must mean something.”
“It’s kind of hard to hide it right now,” I pointed out.
“You could’ve kept it hidden if you wanted to. It really wouldn’t have been difficult. Which is why I knew you wanted me to see it. And I know you well enough to know you wouldn’t want me to see it if you weren’t interested.”
I asked my next question. “You honestly thought I wasn’t interested in you?”
“After you turned 16 you never treated me any different,” he shrugged. “I figured there must be a reason for that.”
“There was,” I told him through gritted teeth. I really hated getting stitches. “It was because I was already so in love with you that finding out you were my soulmate didn’t really change things for me.”
He paused his work and looked up at me. 
“You’re serious,” he said. “Really? That long?”
“Is that so hard to believe?” I smiled.
He looked away and continued stitching. He was almost done now.
“Why show me now?” He asked.
“Honestly? I was still nervous about it. If I was right about you having a different soulmate, I didn’t want things to be weird between us,” I told him.
“What changed your mind all of a sudden then?”
“What you said. About why you kissed me. It sounded so much like what I would have said if the situations were reversed that for the first time I let myself really consider the possibility that I was your soulmate too.”
I reached out with my right hand and threaded my fingers through his hair. I loved the feel of it. I loved how soft it was and that I was able to touch him like this. 
“I don’t know when it happened. I don’t even know when I realized it. I just know I can’t remember a time that I wasn’t in love with you,” I told him. It felt kind of weird to admit it out loud, but also really nice. There was no point in hiding it now anyway. Might as well get it all out.
Dean finished with my side and I dropped my shirt as he stood up, forcing my other hand to fall from his hair. He was a full head taller than me and we were standing so close that I had to crane my neck to look at him.
“I guess that’s a good thing,” he said, putting a hand on my cheek. “It makes me feel better about the fact that I can’t remember ever not being in love with you.” Then he leaned down and kissed me.
This time I was a lot more prepared. This time I wasn’t so overwhelmed that I couldn’t even enjoy it. This time I felt everything. I felt how soft his lips were. I felt the way they moved with mine. I felt when his hand moved from my cheek to my neck and his other hand found its way to my back. I felt it when he leaned a little closer and deepened the kiss.
I lifted my arms up to wrap around his neck and winced at the slight pain it caused in my left side. I was fully prepared to ignore it, too caught up in the whole experience to care, but Dean noticed and immediately started to pull away.
“It’s fine,” I told him. I used my hands around his neck to keep him close and try to reconnect our lips.
“Jenna,” he warned gently. Our foreheads were pressed together and I could feel his warm breath brush over my face. “If you want me to keep kissing you, you’re going to have to keep that arm down.”
I just tried to catch his lips again.
“I’m serious,” he said. “You being in pain is a pretty big turn off.”
“You worry too much,” I huffed. But I obediently and dramatically removed my left arm from his neck. “Happy?”
“Smartass,” he said fondly. He slowly leaned in again. Very slowly. My heart raced in anticipation. Just before his lips touched mine, he pulled back.
“Dean,” I whined. He smiled and finally kissed me. 
He moved the hand that had been around my neck to join the other at my back. I moved my left arm to his bicep, loving the strength I could feel there. We found a rhythm quickly, our mouths moving in sync. It was so easy to lose myself in him. In his kiss, in his touch, in the warmth of his body. I would gladly stay here forever.
The kiss was starting to get a little more heated, tongues brushing and Dean lightly nipping at my lower lip once, when his phone rang. He pulled back just the slightest bit, our lips nearly touching. He hesitated for a second, deciding whether or not to answer the phone I guessed. He gave me one last, quick kiss before letting go of me and pulling his phone out of his pocket. He flipped it open and briefly glanced at the screen before answering.
“Hey, Bobby,” he greeted.
Disappointed about the interruption and slightly out of breath, I sat on the bed, leaning against the wall and listening to Dean’s side of the conversation. He filled Bobby in on everything that had happened. Well. Not everything. But everything regarding finishing the case.
“Alright, Bobby. Yeah, we’ll stop by next time we’re headed your way,” Dean said before hanging up the phone. He sat beside me on the bed. “Well that was good timing,” he grumbled.
“You didn’t have to answer it,” I pointed out. I decided it was probably a good thing we’d been interrupted anyway. We still had a lot to talk about.
“What if someone was dying?” He asked, half joking, half serious. 
“Then they should have called an ambulance. You’re not exactly a doctor,” I said.
“Hey, I managed to stitch you up just fine.” 
“That wasn’t life or death. You’re good for patching up, but you can’t do everything, Superman.”
“Next time I’ll just let it ring, then.” He held his arm up for me. I accepted the invitation and leaned into his side. His arm settled around me and I let out a content sigh.
“You know it’s been almost a decade since the last time we did this,” I said.
“Did what?” Dean was resting his chin on top of my head. My ear was pressed against his chest and I could feel its slight vibration when he spoke.
“Sat together like this.” I thought back to those days I’d been sick and how much I’d enjoyed being so close to him. Then I remembered what he said about that time during the dumb favorite memory game. “Did you mean what you said? At the hotel?” I turned my face up to look at him.
“Which part?” He asked, looking back at me. I gently elbowed him in the side. He knew what I was asking about.
“Ow!” He protested despite the fact that I definitely hadn’t hurt him. I gave him a look and he chuckled.
“I meant it. I think about it a lot. How good it felt to be able to hold you like that. Like this,” he said, briefly squeezing his arm tighter around me for emphasis. “How right it felt to have you in my arms. It’s the best thing I’ve ever felt. Well,” he smiled mischievously, “it was. I’ve recently come to the conclusion that kissing you is even better.”
“I won’t disagree with that,” I grinned. My neck was getting tired from the angle I was turned at to see Dean, so I looked away and rested my head back against his chest. I reverted back to an old habit, absentmindedly twisting the bracelet on my wrist as I thought through everything.
“What are you thinking?” Dean asked.
 “I’m having a hard time believing this is real. I’m kind of still wrapping my head around that first kiss. Not to mention everything else,” I admitted.
“You know, the way you froze up at the hotel when I kissed you… I thought I might have just made the biggest mistake of my life. I was worried you were pissed at me for crossing that line and that you might want to leave when we finished the hunt,” he told me.
“More like it happened so quickly and took me so much by surprise that my brain stopped working.”
“Freezing up isn’t really a quality you want in a hunting partner. Maybe I should ditch you,” he teased.
“Maybe you should,” I agreed. “But good luck explaining to Bobby how you left me in Idaho to fend for myself. With an injury.”
“Mm, good point. Guess that means I’m stuck with you.”
“Guess so,” I smiled.
We talked for a couple of hours. Up until our stomachs were grumbling and we couldn’t ignore the need for food anymore. We went out to eat and when we got back we curled up together again and stayed up well into the night, mostly talking, but trading a few kisses as well. When I fell asleep that night, I knew I could never be happier than I was at that moment. I finally had everything I’d ever wanted, and it was even better than I could have imagined.
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A couple days later we drove out to Bobby’s house. We decided to make a trip out there to see him like Dean had promised before we started looking for a new case. We wanted a few days off to just enjoy our new relationship before we got back into things and we only planned to stay at Bobby’s for the day.
We made it to his house just after noon. The old hunter was happy to see us of course. He hugged us both and then invited us in. 
“I’m afraid I don’t have much around for food. I’ve been meaning to make a run to the store,” he said apologetically.
“No problem,” I said, holding up a grocery bag. “We came prepared.” 
Bobby wasn’t exactly known for having a well stocked fridge. We knew it was possible he wouldn’t have much around, and we didn’t want to drop in without warning and just expect him to feed us.
“Of course you did. I guess I should expect that from you by now, shouldn’t I?” Bobby said to me. 
“C’mon Bobby,” I teased as I headed for the kitchen. “You live in the midwest. You know you can’t just show up to someone’s house at meal time without bringing food.”
“Well, c’mon now,” Bobby said, shooing me out of the way. “You’re the guest and you brought the food. The least I can do is get it ready.”
He unpacked the buns, hamburger, sloppy joe sauce, macaroni salad, and potato chips we’d stopped to buy on our way into town. The three of us chatted while Bobby made the hamburger, just catching up on things since the last time we saw each other. 
Over lunch Dean and I told Bobby about some of the more interesting cases we’d been on recently. Bobby told us about the research he was doing for another hunter and about how some guy named Rufus was harassing him to help him on a hunt.
We finished lunch and were heading out to the porch to enjoy some beers when Bobby’s phone rang. 
“You two go on and I’ll join you when I’m done,” Bobby instructed. 
Dean carried the cooler out and I opened the screen door for him. Bobby had left the main door open to let in some fresh air. It was a beautiful day. The temperature was sitting in the mid 60s, the sun was shining and there was nothing more than a light breeze occasionally drifting through the air. 
Dean and I sat together on the rickety old porch swing, leaving the chair for Bobby. Dean put his arm around my shoulder and I leaned into his side, enjoying the weather and the gentle rocking of the swing.
“Do you remember the summer our dads dropped us off here for a month?” Dean asked after a couple minutes of peaceful quiet.
“Yeah. Sam was obsessed with magic and spent most of his time trying to learn new tricks,” I recalled. “And you basically spent the whole month elbows deep in whatever car you could get your hands on.”
“And you,” he said accusingly, “did not make it easy for me to concentrate.”
“What?” I asked, pulling away from his side so I could look at him. “What did I do?”
“Nothing in particular. You didn’t have to. It was just the way you would sit close by and watch me work while you sang along to the radio. Or I’d look up and see you sitting right here,” he said, patting the swing, “reading a book. It didn’t matter what you were doing. I just remember thinking how beautiful and distracting you were.”
I blushed a little at the words and wondered how long it would take for that to stop.
“And all I really wanted to do,” he said, pressing his forehead to mine. “Was this.”
He leaned in and caught my lips in a sweet kiss. I smiled into it.
“Well it’s about damn time,” Bobby drawled from the doorway. Dean and I jerked apart, startled by his sudden appearance. “A man could grow old and die waiting for you two idjits to get it together,” he said as he opened the screen door and stepped outside. His voice was as gruff as usual, but there was a twinkle in his eye and a small smile on his mouth.
“Wait, you knew?” I asked. My heart was still racing.
“‘Course I did. I don’t think there’s anybody that’s seen the two of you together and doesn’t know.”
I wanted to object, but then I thought back on all the times people had picked up on my feelings for Dean. And how he had apparently experienced the same thing. 
“So I guess we were just the last ones to know,” Dean said a little frustratedly.
“Looks like it,” Bobby smiled. “Congratulations you two. I’m happy for you,” he said.
“Thanks Bobby,” I answered.
He reached into the cooler and pulled out three beers, popping the caps off and handing us each one.
“Here’s to the happy couple,” Bobby said, clinking his bottle against both of ours.
I smiled and took a sip along with the two men.
Here’s to a long and happy life with the man I’m lucky enough to call my soulmate, I thought.
Ages 24 and 25 October 18, 2004
“Do you remember the day we met?” Dean asked one afternoon. We were driving down an empty highway, two hours into a five hour trip.
“Of course,” I answered. I’d been 9 years old. Dean was 11. Dad and John were planning on finishing their hunt that day. They’d already had a little bit of trouble with the police and they wanted us in the same place so they could make a quick getaway when they were done if necessary. “Why do you ask?”
“I’ve just been thinking about it,” he shrugged. Then, after a second he smiled. “You were so nervous.”
“Yeah, well my dad had never just randomly dropped me off with strangers before. I wasn’t sure what was going on,” I defended.
“I remember seeing you just standing there all shy, staring at your feet. And I thought, ‘Who is this girl? Why is Dad leaving her with us? She’s just another person for me to have to protect if something finds us.’”
I felt a mix of pride and sorrow rush through me at this new piece of information. At the insight it gave into the man Dean was, and really, had always been. Even at such a young age, his first thought was about protecting others. 
“But then we played a few rounds of slap jack and I realized how competitive you are. And I figured there must be more to you than the defenseless girl I thought you were.”
I laughed, remembering exactly how that had gone. Dean had started out going easy. I could tell he was trying to make me more comfortable, but I wasn’t having it. If I was going to win the game, it was going to be because I’d actually earned it. So when the next jack was laid down and Dean waited a second before going for it, I waited with him. The second I saw his hand start to move, not quite as fast as he could’ve, I moved too.
As I took the pile of cards I looked up into his wide eyes and smiled. “If you’re just going to let me win, don’t bother playing.”
“Then I saw how sweet you were with Sam,” Dean continued. “And I found out you knew about hunting which is something I could never talk about since Sam didn’t know yet. It was nice to have someone else around who knew.”
He was quiet for a minute, but I could tell he wasn’t done talking yet. I waited for him to sort his thoughts.
“I’ve been trying to figure out when I realized. And I think it was then. The day that I met you, I knew what you were to me,” he said. “Not consciously, of course. But there was a part of me that knew. It’s why I felt so protective of you so quickly. And why I was excited the next time we saw each other. Even though I barely knew you.”
I smiled at him, my heart feeling full enough to burst. 
“I love you,” I told him.
“What?” He asked.
“I love you,” I repeated, amused at the surprise in his voice. Not at the words, but that that had been my reply.
“What makes you say that?”
“What makes you say any of the things you just did?” I answered.
“I don’t know. I was just thinking about it and I wanted you to know,” he said.
“And I just wanted you to know,” I said. “I spent a lot of time not able to say it. Now that I can… well. Why wouldn’t I?”
Dean glanced at me, eyes soft and smile bright. He held his arm out in invitation. I scooted to the middle seat and leaned into his side as he put his arm around my shoulder. 
“Jenna,” he said. I turned my face in his direction and he leaned in for a short kiss. “I love you too.”
Epilogue
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coral-melon · 6 months
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Ohh could i get an obey me matchup if u have time? :D
Appearance: i’m afab, tall but skinny like a noodle, still have curves tho. i have light brown hair and dull blue eyes i’m pale af and have a slightly larger than average number of moles. i have had purple under-eyes since i was 12 they are never going away
Personality: professionally i’m doing well but every other area of my life is in shambles lmfao. still live with my parents can’t drive depressed as hell and barely any relationship experience💀i hate responsibility but i’m still responsible because i hate letting people down. i make a conscious effort to always meet deadlines and show up to meetings on time and it bothers me when other people don’t. but still i’m pretty lenient with others and give them the benefit of the doubt. i am fairly whimsical and quite unbothered by everything. not afraid to push boundaries and attempt things no one has done before, when ppl tell me my goals sound unrealistic it just motivates me more
Strengths/weaknesses: good at drawing and school, graduated college with a 4.0 gpa and a bunch of honors and stuff, and i am the creator of several viral posts and quizzes. good at taking advantage of opportunities that come my way. and i can see humor in everything i love to laugh. i’m kinda irony poisoned and struggle with sincerity, but i’m also an open book i don’t rly have anything to hide. i always talk pretty casually with people no matter who they are but i get away with it cuz i’m smart and good at my job or something. i may come across as impulsive but i do think through everything i do and say, i’m just a fast thinker. i’ve been told i’m too trusting but i haven’t been hurt yet sooo idc ^_^
Likes/dislikes: i am fan of any kind of creative hobby. i like being in nature and interacting with animals but i’m also a pwetty pwincess who hates getting dirty. i hate doing chores and paying for stuff too 💅🏻 i avoid drama and conflict like the plague, though i enjoy it as a spectator. and i hate office jobs, specifically because i work very efficiently then have to pretend to be productive for my dumbass boss when i finish everything early. i love to hang out with people even if it’s something boring like running errands. for some reason people think i don’t like hugs or texting but i do :( i constantly crave novelty i love new experiences
Other: when i really like someone i’ll take an interest in their interests and memorize every little thing i learn about them to the point where i gotta play dumb sometimes so i don’t sound overly invested. we would probably have to have a strong friendship as a foundation cuz u gotta be patient with my repressed ass. i don’t have a lot of preferences for dates so i’d be happy doing whatever they want, i’m v indecisive so it would be good for both of us if they like taking the lead
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Hello -🦝! Thank you for taking the time to introduce yourself, it a pleasure to meet you! ^^
This felt really fun for me bc I already had a few silly hc in mind for you, so I hope you enjoy!
I match you with…~
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꩜ Never a dull moment when your around him.
꩜ The two of you are a funny duo, to say the least. If it were possible, it would be like you taking care of a leash kid.
꩜ Not to worry, with this jackass over by your side, he will make you forget about your depression with his bullshit and shenanigans! That’s right, The Great Mammon himself! >;D👍✨ ((plz don’t take this too seriously..))
꩜ When it comes to you, he might as well not have any experience either. When others look at you, sometimes they think you’re the one who knows the ropes even if that’s not the case at all.
꩜ He’s supposed to keep an eye on you, but the fact of the matter is that it got twisted real quick and you ended up responsible for him instead. You keep him in check when it comes to his studies and duties he must finish. Oh what’s that? Sike! Even if you didn’t want to, he’ll beg you to help him out before Lucifer catches a whiff that he failed a test for the 1738929th time.
꩜ You’re motivated to want to improve yourself, so why would t you want the same for those you care about? No matter how hopeless someone is, surely there’s always a way!
꩜ Doesn’t matter how much he tries to hide something he did wrong though, Lucifer knows way before he himself does. So you’ll often see him upside down hanging from a ceiling. He temps you first before resorting to begging you to help him out again.
“Are ya takin’ me seriously, human?!”
— “Pfft- Yea yea of course!👌” nah, not really
꩜ As time passes by though, he starts catching your drift slowly without being told what to do. Simply wanting to get your attention and praise is enough to have him determined to want to do better. So in a way, both of you help each other out to get yourselves organized; May it be your actions or mental state. Thriving forward because of it.
꩜ He appreciates you never me giving up on him, thinking about it makes him soft and weak.. He’ll never admit it though! Not the Great Mammon himself! Not in a million years! Pretty obvious tho..
꩜ He, too, is an open book; not on purpose though. He tries to hide it but ultimately just reveals even more.
꩜ But It’s funny watching you two play dumb with each other when it comes to the other’s interests. He is just as invested in what you like — or perhaps even more — like you are with his.
“Oh, you like -insert hobby-? Ha, lame!” *Proceeds to look up everything there is to know about it*
꩜ Lovely to know you like to hang out, cuz best believe this guy is stuck to you like glue. He might try to come up with an excuse as to why he just barged into your room or sent you some random message, but it’s all bs. He just wants to be with you even if there’s no reason. He just really enjoys your company.
꩜ On days he gets paid, He’ll say he’s feeling generous and willing to spoil indulge you a bit. You better be grateful to the Great Mammon! Whenever you go shopping, he’ll keep an eye out for anything you might glance at, even if it was just for a brief moment.
꩜ And even if it’s rare coming from you, he’ll immediately sense if there’s greed coming from you. So he’ll buy you whatever it is that you want so badly! *cough* you just glanced at it.. *cough*
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I hope I was able to make you smile
Take care -🦝!✨
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Magic Lantern - Mysterious: Chapter 3
Location: Yumenosaki Secret Room Characters: Sora & Natsume
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Natsume: WeLL, putting that asiDE. Majority of the Yumenosaki students can have a proper successful experience under the protection of the powerful and nobLE “Knights”.
The harder they work, the more they’ll be rewardED and they can have a taste of victory and succeSS.
The system where you’ll definitely be rewarded if you do your work properly as an idol also applies to ES.
NO. That’s probably why ES exists – it’s because it’s A “utopia for idols”.
Things like the unit system, L$ and all those other things are there to make their ideals a realiTY.
Now that ES is side-by-side with Yumenosaki, it’s the saME. If you do what you’re told, you can automatically succeED – That kind of easy path has been prepared for uS.
“Graduate from a good school, get into a good company and you’ll be hapPY.” That sort of story has been lost alongside the bubble econoMY.
It simply means someone has made a similar sort of stoRY – an idol version of iT.
But, of course, there are people who cannot adapt to such a mainstream stoRY.
Those people are cynical people who don’t want to sit on the factory conveyor belt and be a mass-producED “finished product”.
“Switch” will pick up the weirdos and failurES. It’s our mission to gather those who have been left out and to put them on a paTH, after all.
But just picking them up won’t change anythiNG – No one will save you just because you’re weAK… I know that far too weLL and it has only proved that to be truer than ever, after seeing tHE “Bon Festival”.
As a result of the “Bon Festival”, most of the other idols other than “ALKALOID” leFT ES. They could have been savED and we even reached our hands out to thEM.
But in the end, what exactly could we have done for thEM? Gave them a “final chance to make memoriES”?
Sora: …………
Natsume: Of course, we made preparations for those idols who were let go in the summER, so that they could make a comeback at the special music waRD.
But doing that is just better than doing nothing in the current circumstances, isn’t iT?
We didn’t even need to use the last safety net – we should’ve given them a proper chance to be hapPY.
But we’re weak and we’re losing the very things we picked uP.
No one will save you if you’re weAK – having ideals and dreams alone won’t fill your stomaCH. That’s why we needed a more realistic sort of powER.
We can’t always be little kids who have dreams but live on miserably while someone protects uS.
At the very least, I need strength that allows me to protect someoNE – like my nii-saNS.
…That’s what I decided and I did a lot of different thinGS. I colluded with “Knights” and the Student Council and pretended to be the mastermind behind the story that was being written within YumenosaKI.
I also created an environment where the cynical and hopeless kids who couldn’t become the mainstream would experience success and victoRY.
I reformed the dreamfest system within the school and set up a category where the ignoble kids could wIN…
I set up a system where the kids who had no choice but to end up in the minority could have an equal chance at being hapPY.
I know it’s useless if I’m just being lazy and opening my mouth, of courSE. But in order for them to be able to reach a utopia no matter what path they chooSE…
I suppose I did all that I couLD. I don’t know if it was the “correct” answer – I’m a fortune teller but I can’t foresee the futuRE.
But I will no longer choose to “do nothiNG”.
Sora: ~......♪
Natsume: ? Sora, what have you been doing all this tiME?
Sora: Right! Sora was listening to Master~ talk!
Natsume: I sEE… I’m sorry for rambling on and on about something that doesn’t really have anything to do with yOU.
Maybe I’m starting to feel anxioUS – Maybe I want someone to tell me that what I’m doing isn’t wroNG.
That’s why I’m frantically rambling – I wanted to prove that I’m correCT.
Sora: HiHi~♪ Ever since Sora first met Master~, Master~ has never been wrong! Sora respects Master~!
Natsume: You’ve always been like thAT – You’ve always been fully supportive of us even though we’re hopeleSS. We depended on you and caused you to be sad since we left you alone for a long tiME.
I came to understand that during “Next Door” and I thought I had reflected long and hard on iT. I wonder if we’re making the same mistakes all over agaIN.
Sora: It’s okay! Sora came up with a way to battle loneliness! 
Look, these are the dolls that Senpai made for Sora~♪ Even if Sora still can’t talk with Master~ and Senpai from now on, Sora can have fun chatting with these two and Sora will be happy!
Natsume: …………
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Sora: “Sora-kun! You look very happy today!” “Did something good happEN, Sora?”
Natsume: …………
Sora: “HiHi~♪ Yes! Sora doesn’t really understand difficult things, but it looks like Master~ and Senpai’s hard work is going to pay off very soon!”
“That makes Sora very, very, very happy!”
“Is that so? If Sora-kun is happy then that makes me happy too!” “Me tOO~!”
Natsume: ………!
ᴉ’ᴍ ᵴᴏ ᵴᴏᴙᴙ𐰛! ᵴᴏᴙᴀ…! 𐰛ᴏᴜ ᴆᴏᴎ’ᴛ ⲏᴀᴠᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴄᴏᴎᵴᴏᴌᴇ 𐰛ᴏᴜᴙᵴᴇᴌꜰ ⱳᴉᴛⲏ ᴛⲏᴏᵴᴇ ᴆᴏᴌᴌᵴ!
ᴉ’ᴌᴌ ꞡᴉᴠᴇ 𐰛ᴏᴜ ᴀᵴ ᴍᴀᴎ𐰛 ⲏᴜꞡᵴ ᴀᵴ 𐰛ᴏᴜ ⱳᴀᴎᴛ! ᴆᴏᴎ’ᴛ ᴆᴏ ᵴᴏᴍᴇᴛⲏᴉᴎꞡ ᵴᴏ ᵴᴀᴆ…!
Sora: Huh? Uh, well, like Sora said, Sora is fine~...?
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ohdudedhesflirting · 11 months
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The problem is this society is that it a capitalist one. Productivity is more important then well being and that is something which I deplore immensely
Agree. Though I hate it more when companies say they have a good work life balance and care about their employees when they don’t really. Some are better for sure. But I guess no one would want to somewhere that’s like “we don’t really care about you…” idk idk maybe I just like complaining
Omg wow so you are aged then ? That’s so impressive ! Congratulations for going to the next door I am very proud of you darling. And yes do take some time off to focus on work 💛
I'm assuming you meant "round" instead of "door" 😬
I’ll still be on Tumblr to talk to my moots when I’m taking a break from being an adult (but I’ll try to make my convos short because sometimes when I intend to talk to people for like 10 to 20 minutes, it becomes like an hour instead whoops lol) so I can get motivated to go to work. 
Oooh so you are writerrrr I hope I read some of your work !
I’m an illiterate writer but that is a writer lmao.
A job in the public industry might be good because I think you will a job that is safe and well paid ! I believe in you for those interviews you are going to be amazing !
THANK YOU 🫶 Regardless of the result, it’ll be good practice at least.  In my field and country, the pay is a lot lower but at least it's secure and has a good pension apparently?? Less stressful for sure.
I love that IU song I think it’s one of her best one ! I don’t know most of those lol but I’m gonna take a listen to them and see if I like them as well <3 I recognize some the title but I’m not sure I actually know them and I don’t like that le serafim song it somehow gets in my nerves ? Like I’m a mess mess mess part makes my blood BOIL
Which IU song? I think I listed like three? 😝
OOOO..can you tell me why you don’t like that leserrafim song? I want to know (and I’ll try to recommend songs away from that for you). I personally didn’t like it at first but it’s grown to me. 
I’ve actually listened to all songs before except the first one (L’enfer by Stromae) so I'll listen to it today. I really like STAYC for their vocals. I’m okay with Enhyphen lol. xikers has potential. And speaking of xikers, I’m thinking of going to KCON LA this year (most likely for the Saturday concert and if I can get meet and greet tickets. Some sources say its random while some say you can pic. Its kind of a mess but it’ll likely be the only chance I get ZB1 because I’m too scared to go to concerts in South Korea and Japan).
🤙 anon
For me when a company, a school, or a university say they are a family it’s when it’s the worst... Will from my experience that’s when it was worse ! They are no good companies that actually care ? They pretend to but they actually don’t. But at least when they are pretending it’s a little bit better ? Idk how to explain
I did meant round I am sorry. Time managing is hard and I am proud of you for tying ! I’m sure it will work towards the way you want it to ! i’m cheering for you 💛
You are not an illiterate writer. For me there is no such thing as that and get ready for a sappy moment but writing is hard, very hard and having people read it is hard as well. Taking the courage of writing is something and many people get stuck. So don’t you are illiterate. I am sure you are brilliant.
If you allow let me tell you a bit about my story with writing. (You don’t have to read it if you don’t want to). I always write stuff, when I was a kid and I didn’t like the ending of a good I would take a pen and scribble over it. I was writing little stories as well. I started to write seriously when I was 13 yo. And I started writing 2 books at that moment (never finished them). I had some MAJOR health problems when I was 13-14-15 and I was doing very bad. Writing and reading helped me a lot. When I was around 17 I had ideas for a new book, I planned it and I wrote it. A whole book of more than 300 pages. My bay. I was 19 at that point and friends and my mom read it and loved it. I send it off to house of editions, and I was rejected. I think I must be at 7-10 rejections now ? Since then I feel sick whenever I try to write, what was once my comfort became something that me sick. Now I’m trying to get back to writing with those fanfic but the nauseous feeling is still there. (Lord I made myself sad lol)
Which is why I admire writers, writers that don’t give up, that kept on trying. So don’t say you are illiterate, i believe in you and I support you.
Job security is the real deal lemme tell you. And you are still young you can still have promotions !
It was the first IU song that was in the list. I have a terrible memory I am sorry.
For the lesserafim song it’s just aphas something in the melody that itches my brain the wrong way ? It’s the same for aespa songs actually every time I try to listen to one it make my brain itch in a bad way ? I guess it must be something in the melodies or the way the voices are arranged ?
Stromae is a Belgium singer/composer and he is amazing and the lyrics are always very deep ! Stayc vocals truly are amazing and I also think xikers have a lot of potential ! And I love enha I have two of their albums lol
First of all you are American ?? I feel like going to kcon would be an amazing experience and from what I remember the lineup is crazy ! If you feel like it’s your only chance to see them try and go for it ! That would be awesome memories ! (I totally get that going to Korea/ Japan is scary and could be very overwhelming!
Hydrate yourself a lot, eat a lot, take care I love you 💛
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ququb444hm · 11 months
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𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐭, 𝐜𝐮𝐩𝐢𝐝
part 14 / deja vu ☆
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warning(s): possible typos, mentions of drug n alcohol uhh it really is js abt keishin’s nightclub so 😭😭
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“how long have you had your club open for?” yn asked, putting her phone down once she finished texting the volleyball team.
keishin shrugged, “bout’ four-five years. opened it after i found out they were selling the place for a pretty good price, so y’know it’s been a while. you drink?”
yn laughed at the question, waving it away like it was a cloud of smoke, “have you ever drank with tetsu?”
“ahhh. i see,” keishin couldn’t help but laugh alongside yn, thinking back to when the boy’s volleyball team won their tornament last year and decided to party right after. tetsurou being a co-captain, ukai kept pouring him a drink to congratulate his hard work. it wasn’t long until he began to understand that shit, this kid is already drunk? “so you’re a lightweight too huh. what’re you even doing here anyway? it’s like a two hour train ride from home.”
“oh! i ran out of some art supplies so i was just restocking. the art stores here have better quality products so i always come here if i need anything.”
“ahh, i see i see,” thinking to himself, since he was really only in the downtown area for no reason in particular, and his club wasn’t too far down the road, “are you gonna go somehwere after or are you done here?”
“yeah, i only came here for the supplies. how come?”
“do you wanna check out my club? isn’t too far from here, could give you a small tour and you could bring your friends and the team over someday.”
yn grinned at the suggestion, loving to check out new places, especially if they were owned by people she personally knew. “hell yeah. are we walking or?”
“nah, i got a ride,” keishin gathered his things and stood up from the table the two were currently sitting at, yn following in suit, “parked outside. let’s go kuroo, field trip time.”
making sure yn was buckled up and ready to go, keishin drove off to the club which was currently closed. once there, he parked the car, helped yn out and stood proudly in front of his own place, “nice right? it’s prettier at night with all the lights on and all that.”
the nightclub had its own little area, close to the shopping plaza the two were just at but it was far enough to where it wasn’t being crowded by other buildings. especially with the outside decor and the archetecture of the building itself, it was more than just nice. when the two entered the building, the first thing yn noticed was the circular stage right in the middle of the room. “that is a big ass stage.”
“you are very straightforward huh,” keishin laughed at the girl’s comment, walking over to the platform. “i let some bands perform here from time to time. good way for beginning bands to get that exposure y’know. other times- er most times i just use the stage for karaoke or other acts, whatever people want.”
“what the hell, that’s so like considerate of you, coach-”
“yeah i know, i’m a great guy.”
yn nodded, walking around the stage and aweing at everything in the building. “oh hey! you should totally let kozu and his band play sometime, they’re really good!” she skipped over to keishin, pulling up a few videos she had of the band playing for the school or just during the practices she tagged along to on her phone.
humming along to the beat of the music, keishin seemed to really enjoy the band. “if i see them play in person, i’ll definately get goosbumps thats for sure. i never knew kozume was in a band, you should let me know if they’re ever interested in performing here.”
“well maybe you should have cute little bonding moments with the team more often so you can socialize with them,” yn grinned, bouncing on her feet at the invitation to play. “but yeah i’ll let them know.”
“yeah, yeah that’d be sick.” contiuing the tour, keishin took yn around the establishment, watching as she got distracted by the cieling lights or the paintings on the walls which she began to beg for but was declined because, “i don’t want boring walls. i need something on these bad boys.”
“trustt, just let me paint something for you. i got a few pieces at home i can trade you for.”
“how persuasive, i’ll have to see your work.”
after the walk-around and side convos, the two got back in the car. it was then that keishin suddenly remembered an opportunity for the band, “oh yn, about kozume’s band playing here, i got a few friends from high school actually visiting me next month. it’d be cool if the band played a little something for them y’know? also be cool to show off my own place and the kids i coach for. so just let me know what they say alright?”
yn nodded profusely, excitement for her friends rushing all throughout her body. “i definitely will!!”
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My Cousin Izzy
I’m not sure how to tell this story.
I thought the first story I should tell should probably be somewhat lighthearted. This is lighthearted to me, because it in no way – shape or form – caused me (personally) any sort of pain. If you’re reading this, when you’re finished you might think to yourself, “That wasn’t funny at all. In fact it’s horrible and tragic.” Well…There’s a reason this is being shared this way. It’s easier to be transparent.
I have this cousin who is several years older than me. Twelve or thirteen probably. She was very close with my eldest sister, who is very much my senior because my parents had a nice southern teen pregnancy followed by a shotgun wedding. I’m not sure if my cousin is the product of that, but she is the product of my uncle who has always been a bit unstable (my mother thinks he has a tumor) and his first wife, who lives in a commune and enjoys the recreational use of drugs that are less than harmless. Their divorce wasn’t very amicable. My uncle’s ex claimed he ran her and her mother over with a car. Is this true? I wouldn’t know, but it sounds like both he and her were telling their own lies.
This cousin (I’ll refer to as Izzy) has by no means had an easy life and I won’t pretend that’s funny. It’s kind of tragic, but I’m thinking a lot of us in the town I grew up in didn’t have super easy lives. It’s a poor town, in parts, if you ask me, but middle class has sprouted up through the years. Mostly due to racism, because the rich people don’t want their kids going to school in the big-town because there are black people there. So they come to our town’s school that is primarily white but chances are, it’s far stupider.
Anyway, (this post isn’t for exposing the racism in our town but that’ll come eventually) this cousin would spend nearly every weekend with my eldest sister, my mom, and my father since she and my sister were so close (this was way I was born). Until my sister kept getting lice and my mother eventually deduced it was Izzy who was bringing it around. The ‘commune’ she was growing up in was known for their neglect towards their children. Not to say your kid getting lice is neglectful, but I’m guessing if your child has it weekly, that’s a little suspect. And if there’s anything my mom hates, it’s treating kids for lice. So then every weekend that my cousin would come over, before my mom would let her do anything, my mom would treat Izzy’s hair and wash all the clothes she had packed for the weekend.
All this just to give you a slight idea of how my cousin grew up. Maybe it shaped her into who she is today and maybe it didn’t. Who’s to know. But she was definitely shaped into an interesting character, nonetheless.
In her early 20s, Izzy married a pretty wealthy guy from big-town. His family owned some kind of business, but being that I was probably about 10 at her wedding, I couldn’t tell you anything about him. The two of them moved into a house on my grandparents’ property, and now I kind of question why ol’ boy couldn’t use some of that cash to get them a place of their own. I don’t know, maybe they wanted to make their own way without his parents’ money. Not something I would do, but eh, to each his own.
It was a shotgun wedding, because Izzy was already pregnant with their kid. As Katara would say “They all lived together in harmony”…Until, her family got wind that she had a place of her own and the commune pretty much became squatters in their house. Izzy’s husband didn’t like that and packed his bag, and eventually my grandparents evicted Izzy because her commune was trashing the place. I’ll never forget spending that summer helping my grandma clean up that house. It was pretty appalling, but I’ll never forget her purposely writing on the walls in marker, insults towards my grandparents for kicking her out.
This was probably around the time that the hard drug use started. Because I remember the next time I saw her, she had forgiven my grandparents I guess and came to some holiday. She was missing some of her front teeth, and I don’t really care if this makes me an awful kid, but that lisp was funny.
She officially divorced the rich guy and he sued for full custody of their kid and he got it. Probably deserved, because it was clear Izzy was going off the deep end. Maybe she needed help, or support, or something but drug addiction wasn’t exactly new to my family. In other stories I’ll talk all about how drugs have run rampant in both my extended and immediate family. I guess there’s just nothing else to do in small towns.
Izzy got pregnant again. It was the big talk of our little town because *gasp* the supposed father was a black man. I told you, my town has never been covert in their racism. And they weren’t in this situation either. But by this point I had a facebook, and I was friends with her so I kept up with how excited her and the father were. They looked pretty happy to me, though she still looked like she was losing more teeth by the day.
Soon she gave birth and in an unfortunate twist, that baby came out blond headed and blue eyed. And I know what you’re thinking. Mixed kids sometimes are blond too! But rightfully, her man was a little suspect and they got a DNA test done. Turned out, it wasn’t his baby. I feel bad for the guy, he had his whole family up at the hospital waiting for this baby to be born and that was a whole white man’s baby right there.
So, who was the father? Turned out to be my other cousin’s best friend’s baby. Dude was in jail, and I think he still is. From what I understand, he sold a guy drugs and the guy had a heart attack and died.
Izzy ended up having two more kids. Her third actually was mixed, and I have a feeling she’s one of those weird white people who fetishizes about having mixed children because she apparently tried really hard to get someone to get her pregnant with one.
She had a fourth kid, who I never met. At that point, she had moved to big-town and didn’t come to holidays anymore. From what I understand, she never saw her eldest son anymore since his father had full custody and they moved to a different state with their business. I wonder if she even cared sometimes. She probably did, and it’s hateful of me to assume she didn’t.
It was only a few years later that the three remaining kids were taken by CPS. I don’t know what led up to this, but supposedly she was living in a crack house with them or a car or something. It’s weird, because our family was never asked to house them or anything. They kind of just disappeared straight into the system. I’m thinking my uncle might have been asked to care of them, but there is no way in hades he’d ever say yes.
As for Izzy…Her facebook posts are the only glimpse into her life I get.
Apparently she is “right with God” and no one else can judge her. I think this is a typical facebook post we see from people who have made some bad decisions. Not to put all the blame on her though, no one really saved her from the upbringing she had, my other family members included. No one seemed to care about her and it was weird, because my grandparents invested a lot of energy into protecting my aunt’s children (my aunt had a drug problem too) but they never paid much mind to Izzy or the fact that my uncle was crazy as well as her mom.
Hindsight. I know I said this was a funnier or lighter story. In some ways it is and isn’t. It’s pretty tragic, but I think it’s something I’ve become desensitized to and the only reason I even know it’s a “tragic” thing is from reading the perspectives of people who grew up outside of this sort of thing. Some of my family members still laugh about her getting her kids taken – and isn’t that horrible? Isn’t it sick? And still, I never say anything. Still, even I catch myself laughing at her nonsensical facebook rants because it feels funny when I don’t think it should.
I read once our initial thought it what we were taught to think, and our second thought is what we’re learning to think. What I’m learning is that it’s not funny the way Izzy’s life turned out. It’s not all her fault, but it’s not all everyone else’s fault either. I think it just sucks and no one did anything.
Hope you guys enjoyed my first real entry here. I plan to share more. And hey, if you’ve got stuff to share with me go ahead, I know I can’t be the only one who grew up like this.
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2022-06-15 “#Musical Crossroad between matinée and soirée” Hayakawa Seira blog [ENG]
Everyone, good evening.
 I’m 21 year old Hayakawa Seira from Osaka. It’s a pleasure to make your acquaintance☺︎
 Our musical “CROSS ROAD Paganini the Devil’s violinist” is getting rave reviews.
We’re currently in the middle of our matinée and soirée
Ayseha-chan. Today I’m the cat backstage 🐈
 Today is different than usual, there are a lot of school kids that have come to watch, I’m so happy ^ ^ I hope they enjoyed the performance
I’m thrilled that there have been so many people that have come watch our performances. Thank you all so much for coming!
 Being surrounded by such a wonderful company of people, I’ve been overjoyed that I’ve been able to work with such people.
 Outside of the group this has been my first musical experience, there was a lot that I didn’t know and couldn’t do. I was inexperienced and was lacking in many things, this was something I came to realize every day.
 There were times when I would feel down, but I was still able to move forward thanks to the cast members, the production of Fujiwara-san, the many members of the staff and of course the messages of support from the fans. Thank you so much everyone.
 Until the very last performances I want to play my role sincerely and continue to look forward! I’m learning new things every day.
 Yesterday my dear grandmother came from Kyoto to watch me perform. There is a distance between the stage and the seats but I was still able to see and meet her. Seeing her smiling face made me so happy ☺︎
 At noon was Baccini-san, night is Mizzinini-san. Yamamando-san.
Double cast, no matter who is playing them they’re amazing, I want to watch them all…!
After it’s finished my hair always curls.
 The Theatre Create performance will be until June 30th in Hibiya. Please come check it out.
Don’t hesitate to come spend an evening with us! We’ll be waiting for you☺︎
 
https://www.tohostage.com/crossroad/
 ↑you can buy tickets here.
 The outfit is super adorable.
I’m going to do my best at the soirée
 ☀︎☀︎☀︎☀︎announcements☀︎☀︎☀︎☀︎
☀︎N46MODE vol.2
On sale now
 Behind the scenes picture.
  I’m not going to do a Q&A today. I apologize.
Thank you for all the comments and messages! I see each and every one of them ☺︎
Thank you for coming to our previously postponed album special event! It was a lot of fun, I was so glad to see al my lovely and wonderful fans. Let’s meet again soon.
 Thank you for reading until the very end.
See you soon!
 2020.6.15 Serra
 https://www.nogizaka46.com/s/n46/diary/detail/100353?ima=2619
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[ meet your match_peter parker ]
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warnings_fluff, peter being very dramatic about assembling furniture, possibly some typos and grammatical errors
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"so you can save the world on multiple different occasions, but you can't put together a simple yngvar?"
"wow. you two on a first name basis now? is that how it is?” peter glares at the unassembled pieces of furniture with resentment before bringing the crinkled, abused manual up to eye level. strained eyes try to make out the pronunciation of the bold letters printed across the front page with the taunting imagery of the final product.
“i looked up the pronunciation earlier just to spite you like this.”
“the lengths you go to make fun of me,” he huffs, flipping through the pages again.
“well it’s about time you noticed,” you coo. he shakes his head in disdain, but the smile on his lips tell you otherwise.
peter parker - the shy, brilliant kid at school, the beloved spider man - has never looked so helpless and defeated as he does right now. he sits across the small living room in the 1-bedroom you two had moved into a little over a week ago, his gaze boring into the pieces of anthracite-stained plastic and metal bolts littered around the carpeted floor in front of him. his eyebrows are tightly knit together in a mixture of concentration and perplexity, and the sight alone makes you want to go over to him and pepper little kisses across his face until they unwound again. but for now, he looks back at the cover of the instruction pamphlet pensively. he can't comprehend for the life of him how all that was supposed to turn into this.
the college dorm life for the past couple years had graciously allowed your boyfriend to stay as far away as possible from his personal nightmare: assembling ikea furniture. it was always the plan for the two of you to find a separate student residence somewhere between your college and mit and to live together for the final two years. but like any good, formidable enemy, the time had come, the battle couldn’t be avoided, and it was peter parker’s turn to step up.
or try to, at least.
“seriously y/n, this is so unnecessarily difficult,” he whines. “why do all the furniture pieces have names? who named them?? why are they so difficult to pronounce? and how come none of the bolts even fit in these holes??"
"pete, i've literally put together an entire table and sofa by myself in the time you origami-ed the manual a million different ways. this isn’t an impossible task.”
“that’s because i let you take the easier ones."
"denial isn’t a pretty color on you, baby,” you chuckle as you look across the room at him; but he’s too preoccupied with deciphering the task in front of him.
"i don’t care. i give up! i’ve been at this for hours now, i can't go any longer or my brain is literally going to start to cramp." he groans in defeat, falling back on the floor to stretch his limbs.
“you know what i don’t understand, is how the hell you built that self-sustaining robot for one of your electives last month. or any of your robots, actually.” you crane your neck to check under the coffee table you’d just built, making sure everything was in the right place. “that’s hard to do. that is not something you can mass produce and sell in giant warehouses for other people to put together.”
"what, you mean jar jar? he was easy," he shrugs, as though he’d just told you he went across the street to buy a pint of ice cream. "i finished that project with ned in like, three days. ‘cus it was fun, you know? it made sense. but this... this ikea stuff is inhumane. it's setting you up for failure."
“how’s this different from your little lego projects?”
“that’s completely different. not to mention, lego does a much better job with the instructions. it’s so much more detailed and colorful and step by step. but ikea… i’m either missing pages or i got a defect manual because there’s no way step 5 is what comes after step 4,” he explains.
“well, last time i checked, 5 does come after 4…”
“you know what i mean.”
with a sigh, you stand up to trudge over to your despondent boyfriend. placing your feet on either side of him you look down, arms crossed in front of your chest. "has anyone ever told you that you're kinda dramatic?"
he hums as though seriously mulling over the question. "only my girlfriend. like every other day." his hands reach up, beckoning you to take them in yours.
"sounds like a very lovely person." you chuckle, uncrossing your arms to grab his hands and take a seat on his lap.
"she is. she keeps me humble. never let's the whole 'i'm-an-avenger' thing get too in my head."
you cup his face in your hands and lean forward to kiss the little wrinkle that’s been etched into his forehead. “good. someone’s got to.”
“guess so.”
you don't miss the way a little smirk begins to tug up a corner of his lips as he eyes you above him for a few seconds. he nuzzles into your touch, and turns his head to kiss the palm of your hand. "she also happens to be very kind, patient, selfless, crazy smart, generous, beautiful -"
“what are you trying to get at, parker?" you cut him off.
“nothing. absolutely nothing. why can’t i just take a moment to admire my selfless, generous, talented girlfriend?” he mumbles. the texture of his chapped lips tickles your skin.
“i don’t like how you keep repeating ‘selfless’,” you mumble, eyes narrowing in suspicion. “and i have a feeling i know what you’re about to ask me.”
a boyish grin blooms on his face, chestnut brown eyes twinkling with hope. “baby, would you please, please, please with a cherry on top, help me put together these stupid, evil little chairs?"
“no.”
“oh, come on!”
“nope. i said no.” you pull back, crossing your arms over your chest again.
“i swear i’ll actually help!”
“you’re about as helpful as one of these instruction manuals and you know it.”
he gasps, his hand grasping at his sweater-clad chest. “that’s the meanest thing you’ve ever said to me.”
“you’ll live.”
“will i, though? i wouldn’t be so sure.”
“is ‘chest pains caused by verbal teasing’ not part of your super-spidey insurance package?”
“no...” and his hands shift from his chest to the bottom of your thighs, slowly traveling up. “i have a separate insurance plan for things in that department.”
“what does that even mean?”
“i dunno, you started this whole insurance analogy.” he shakes his head as though to dismiss the subject. “’point is, i love you too, and i’ll take your half of dish-washing duties for the next two weeks?” and that grin you love so much paints across his lips once more.
hm. tempting. very tempting.
you pause, milking the silence just to make him squirm a little longer in anticipation. but you both knew he had offered you something you couldn’t resist. he wiggles his eyebrows as though that would somehow entice you, and you roll your eyes and slap his hands away from your legs.
“take my share of trash duties too and you have a deal.”
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filthforfriends · 2 years
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The Spark
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CW: morally grey age gap
Icarus was cursed with having Damiano David as a father. He was active in his kids live’s, and welcoming, so her friends tended to run into him a lot. Really as much as they could manage, and that was the primary downside. Obviously he's outrageously gorgeous. Icarus and you became close starting freshman year of high school because you have the good sense not to tell her that you want to fuck her dad. Secretly though, when you hear other people talk about it, you think you might desire Damiano more than anyone.
You and Icarus are really different in some ways. She's an artist and you're a robotics nerd. Icarus has learned how to handle herself, but loves a party, hallucinogens, and socializing until 4 a.m. That's how you were alone with Damiano for the first time, bringing her home. You’d interrupted a fight between him and his wife Chiara. He grimaced while Chiara blamed Icarus' behavior on Damiano's "rocker lifestyle '' until she saw you had helped Icarus walk to the door. After that she stormed out of the living room.
It's not like you hadn't noticed the animosity between them. That's part of being quieter. In all that silence you have plenty of time to observe people, to figure out what they're saying when they don't speak. During these big Italian dinner parties Damiano loved to throw, his smile always faltered when Chiara was in the kitchen with him. They stopped using nicknames, turned their back to each other when they spoke. Avoided occupying the same spaces in the house. When they stopped expressing physical affection altogether you could hear the funeral march for their marriage.
"I'm really sorry about the yelling," he apologies, closing Icarus' bedroom door behind him. "Neither of you should have to hear that." He lets out a sigh like he wants to say something more, but doesn't have the words. You'd never wish martial problems on anyone, it was excruciating to endure.
"Hey, it's okay! It doesn't bother me anymore. My dad's been married four times, so an angry wife is just ambient background noise for me."
"Ambient background noise?"
"Yeah! Like how some people listen to whale calls to sleep." He huffs in amusement, and suddenly all you want to do is make him laugh.
"Jesus Christ that's morbid." He rubs his face, looking haggard. "Has it really been four?"
"I think he's trying to build a harem, but can't keep any of them long enough." Looking at your sideways, he gives half a smile.
"You know a harem includes unwed female family members..."
"Which is why my older sister moved out," you finished. He chuckles, but his energy is still heavy. "Which is why I'm moving out next year, but it's not like I was house wife material anyways."
"And thank fuck for that." You were surprised at Damiano's sudden response, and there was a flicker of panic in his eyes when he realized he'd have to explain. "I just mean that you've grown into an incredible young woman. And its commendable that you've done it mostly on your own. A true testament to your character." You were floored. Being showered with compliments from Damiano was your favorite thing probably ever. All you wanted was for him to keep talking.
"I - thank you so much. That's...it's one of the nicest things anyone's ever said." This seemed to concern Dami and you felt yourself blush. To divert attention elsewhere you started to play with your keychain, but ended up dropping the whole thing on the floor and cringing at the noise. You immediately dove down to grab your keys from the floor, but Damiano was faster. You were so close that you could smell his hair, your nose almost touching it. He hadn't washing it in a couple days, it smelled slightly of sweat. In fact, Damiano who usually had a hint of hair product and cologne on him was bare of scents altogether. The moment passed when you had to move your face to avoid being concussed as he straightened up.
"Here," he murmured.
"Shit, I'm so fucking sorry. I hope I didn't wake Chiara."
"I think I heard her get in the shower." When he handed you the keys, your hands brushed, and maybe it only felt a moment longer than necessarily because you wanted it to be so. His hands were smooth and warm, the smattering of hair ending just below his watch. Something unmistakably masculine and adult. Under his veins, you could see the way his tendons flexed. His olive skin seemed too smooth, and you wanted to brush your lips across it so make sure, wanted to trace each view with the tip of your tongue. Damiano was looking at the bathroom door, then down at himself.
"Oh shit, I haven't showered since I went on a run." He wrinkled his nose in disgust. "Sorry about that." He finally turned back and you were still standing too close. You could smell his body odor and liked it too much, taking deep greedy breaths, trying not to be obvious. Boys at school were hormonal and repulsive after P.E. but Damiano smelled like a grown man. His shining confidence, raw sex appeal, experience, and steadiness were somehow all wrapped up in pheromones.
"You still smell good," you blurt. In your head, you justified it as a nicety. However, Damiano's gaze held your's, like a hand in a vice grip. He knew. Whatever was unnamed and festering inside you. Damiano saw it, identified it, and held it in contempt, or at least tried to. But there were a few seconds, where you maintained eye contact and saw him fighting to condemn whatever he was feeling.
You wanted to kiss him, and were so close anyways. It was only a few inches, but there was also an insurmountable barrier. The air held suffocating heat, and was charged with electricity, like a lightning storm. For those few moments there was a force field between your two bodies. Chemistry, that's what this was. Different from attraction, because this necessitated that the experience was mutual. You'd felt it a fraction of it a couple times, with strangers at kickbacks after smoking too much weed. Never anything close to what it was now. He glanced slightly down for a moment, then ripped his gaze away, breaking the tether. It was somehow akin to losing your virginity.
"You should head home, your dad will be wondering where you are." He said it with total flat affect that stung after the accidental intimacy. You'd realize months later, that he was trying to hide that panic you merely glimpsed. You knew why, it was a totally inappropriate context to feel animalistic attraction, but you weren't the only one with a secret you couldn't hide. While driving home, you realized that Damiano had been looking at your lips. He'd wanted to kiss you too.
Notes: Tying to get back into writing after being traumatized on Christmas. I'm gonna do a series of imagines on starts with a D. and ends in I.L.F. Damiano. My last post didn't show up in the tags, so please tell me if this one is!
Notice: tags aren’t consistently working so I’d really appreciate reblogs!
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swtki · 3 years
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Dancing Days - Edward Cullen x Reader Smut
Anonymous said: 19&24 on edward smut? love ur writing!
A/N: Thank you so much :) also I’m so happy everyone is h*rny for Eddy. I decided I want to explore more period times with Edward, changing his persona in a certain decade, but still ultimately being in the same universe as cannon. This will play into the readers character a tad bit.
WARNINGS: 18+ CONTENT, SWEARING, S*X, VAMPIRES, ORAL SEX (MALE RECIEVING), VIRGIN! EDWARD, NON VIRGIN READER, GENDER NEUTURAL READER, MENTIONS OF WAR AND DEATH. 
19: “Fuck me like you want people to know”.
24. “Thing is, I’m a virgin”. 
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I brushed my hair into its usual part, making sure I looked flawless. The year was 1976, I was a senior in Highschool. It was a wonderful time to be a teenager, no longer afraid that my friends would die in Vietnam. Even in my dinky little Washington town, the culture was becoming our own. 
The Led Zeppelin record playing on my record player stopped suddenly, alerting me that I was no longer alone in my room. I turned, my expression soft as I saw my boyfriend, Edward.
“Whats up with you and this album? Everytime I come in, its always House of Th Holy on repeat.” I rolled my eyes, lifted the record in question off of the tray, and put it back snuggly in its case. 
“I can’t help it, Ed. Robert just speaks to me. I’m sure you’re like that with Louis Armstrong.” I waved my hand, walking back to my mirror to finish getting ready. 
“Maybe, but the music you listen to it’s...” Edward paused for a moment, sitting on my bed. “It’s suggestive, Y/N.” I turned to him, my eyebrow raised.
“Suggestive? What’s that supposed to mean?” I placed my hands on my hips, and waited for him to explain.
“Well, for one that one song says ‘Sipping booze’, I quite think that is blatant alcohol reference.” I looked at him, dumbfounded. Then, I started to laugh, and I walked over to him. Instinctually, he pushed his head into my chest, enjoying the comfort it brought him. 
“I love you, but god are we from two different Mars.” He chuckled, sending a rumble through my chest.
At school, I was an average kid. Fair grades, many friends, many ex friends. When Edward was paired up with me in math, I got through his cold, stone skin. At first, he was annoyed when I would fuck off, leaving him to do the work himself. Understandable, and once I realized how rude I was, I stopped. I talked to him, prodded him truthfully. I would ask him once we started dating if he had noticed me previously, because I had never noticed him. 
“Yes, I noticed that you were the only one who didn’t acknowledge me. Ironic I guess.” 
A year into our relationship, I would never let him go unnoticed. We walked the halls, hand in hand. Our outlooks were so different when it came to life. He was modest, I was free spirited. Edward was different from my boyfriends previously, I didn’t want to fuck things up, and I refused to even risk it. 
School went slowly that day, possibly because my head was focused on what I would ask Edward, my boyfriend of one year, about sex. About us and sex. 
I hadn’t told him that I wasn’t a virgin, I was worried he would only want a virgin girl, after all they can never look at you disappointed and say “I’ve had better.” A definite plus. Many a nights I tried to imagine him, moaning completely under my control. I wanted him, but I didn’t know if he wanted me. Surely in 50 years he had found a good fuck. I worried that he would be into someone else, forever tied to a vampiress. 
The end of the school day couldn’t have come sooner, my anxiety rising as I got into Edwards car, starting a long silent car ride. I tried to keep my mind off of it, an attempt to avoid the conversation until we were at my house. I kept my mind busy with the lush scenery outside of the passenger side window. 
“So... I know you want to ask me, and I know the answers to what I would ask you.” He said blatantly, putting the car in park outside my front lawn. 
“I don’t wanna talk out here Ed, lets go inside.” I swung my bag onto my shoulder. Thats the thing with Edward, I never have to say anything, just as long as I think it. 
My house was empty, making it easy for Edward to follow me upstairs to my room. I shut my door behind us, then turned to him. Unsure of what to say, I breathed in deeply.
“How long have you known that I wasn’t...you know?” He smiled, sitting on my plush navy sheets. 
“Y/N, I knew before I met you what I was getting into. Your ex had a lot of thoughts about that one night where you guys-” 
“Oh my god okay ew.” A blush rose upon my face, and I saw Edward laugh as he watched my body fill with embarassment. “Well why didn’t you say something?” I asked.
“I figured if it needed to be brought up, it would be. You and I aren’t exactly a physical couple so I didn’t worry too much.” I walked over to my bed, taking a seat next to him.
“I see...I mean it wouldn’t be a big deal for me so if you want to...” I bit my lip at him, his gaze turned to the other direction.
“Thing is, I’m a virgin.” My expression went from a seductive look, to a puzzled one. I wondered if I had heard him correctly. “I’m old school, Y/N. It wasn’t like how it is now when I was human. People didn’t just have sex in highschool, unless they were married because the man was off to war. So, it hasn’t been on the menu for me. You’re the first girl I’ve dated in fifty years, you know. And no, there was no vampiress or anything.” I smiled.
“Well, I don’t wanna scare you or push it or anything. It’s just you know-” 
“You want to touch me, to be touched by me.” his eyes trailed back to mine, looking deep into my soul.
“Yes, I want you, Edward.” I pressed my lips to his, pulling away jut as it got intense. I could feel his disappointment. “I want to...but I can’t let you down. Tomorrow night. I’ll call you and we can talk about everything we want out of it, I’ll give you a fucking fairytale, my love” I chuckled.
I called him that night as I had said I would. We talked about my first time, and everything I liked, followed by what he had seen on video, what he wanted to try, and his fears.
“I don’t want to kill you, darling.” He said.
“Then don’t. I won’t let you.” He laughed at me, enjoying my lack of seriousness.
The next night rolled along with a quick pace. I looked at the clock and saw that it was time for me to start getting ready. 
I made myself look simple, a small bit of makeup and hair product, but otherwise just a tank top and jeans. Sometimes, dating an old fashioned guy was a pain in the ass. Always complaining about suggestive behavior. But other times, my shoulders counted as being half nude.
“You look stunning, as per usual.” Edward said, stepping into my room. He was tense and barely moved. “I don’t know what to do..what usually happens with it if I’m not the one doing everything.”
If he had any blood flow, he would have been blushing right about then.
“We don’t have to do anything you know. We can just lay down and watch a movie if you want to, I just want to make you happy, Edward.” I walked over to him and put a strand of his messy auburn hair behind his ear. Without hesitation, he pressed his forehead to mine.
“I want to, thats the part that’s been eating me away ever since I met you. I want to make you feel good, I just don’t know if I’ll lose it and-“ I cut him off with a kiss.
“Even if you break my pelvis into pieces, I’ll still be happy. I’m always happy when I’m with you.” we both smiled, and suddenly the thick tension that once filled the room vanished. “I’ll take care of you tonight, just as long as you’re doing it for you. I just need to know you’re doing this for you, and you need to be sure you wont roll over afterwards and hate me.” I said, my hand clasped in his marble one.
“I want you, Y/N. I have no doubts that I’ll want you afterwards, too.”
I pushed his head down, level to my own. Our kiss was deep, filled with a years worth of hunger. My hands tugged on his hair, making him whimper. Suddenly, I felt my feet lift off the ground as Edward carried me to my bed. With a soft thump, the plush sheets surrounded my body. It was a contrast of warmth on my back, and Edwards cool body on my top.
His hands were balled into fists, clutching my duvet as if his life depended on it. I pulled away, panting for air.
“Sorry, I forget you need air.” He smirked. I rolled my eyes in response.
“Well, its a shame you don’t. Because I intend on taking your breath away.” we both made small laughs at my remark.
“What now?” He looked at me for guidance.
“Get on your back.” I said.
We switched positions, he was now on the bottom. My legs straddled his torso, I sight he visably enjoyed. I slithered my hands up to his head, cupping his face as I kissed him again. My left hand left its post, reaching down to the buttons on his shirt.
I paused, looking up at him once I got to the last button.
“Does it...work like normal or...” He threw his head back and laughed.
“It doesn’t have spikes, I can assure you its just like a humans. But Emmet did tell me to pull out so...I’m kind of worried about the implications of that but-“ I leaned down to shut him up with a kiss.
His hands were still at his side, resting on the bed. I picked up his wrists, and placed them on the side of my thighs. He squeezed them lightly.
My hands roamed over his bare chest, cool to the touch. I lached my lips onto his neck, causing his back to arch below me. I could feel his excitement beneath me, it gave me a big self esteem boost. His hand reached along my waist, tugging at my shirt. His eyes lit up at the sight of my bare chest. He reached for me but I pulled away to slide down onto my knees.
He looked confused, like I had left him high and dry.
“Sit on the edge.” I said softly, my knees burning slightly due to the rough carpet underneath them.
He rid himself of the unbottoned shirt, slidding over to me once finished. My hands slowly stroked his thighs, he was desperate for some type of touch.
I smiled, tugging on his belt until it came undone. He stayed silent, looking at me like I was the only thing in the world. I unbottoned the trousers, tugging on them. He kicked them off and was left in his breifs.
“Is it okay if I..” I looked up at him and he nodded frantically. I palmed him over his underwear, feeling how hard he had gotten from kissing. My fingers latched onto the waist band, pulling them down to reveal a pale yet pink cock. It wasn’t too big, but deffinitley satisfactory. I ran my finger over the tip, earning a small groan from the vampire. My eyes trailed up to him, so I could see him when I took him in my mouth.
He let out a breathy moan, eyes focused on my mouth. His lips were parted ever so slightly. I bobbed my head, and grotesquely sexual sounds arose from my throat. I felt Edward move a strant of hair out of my face, he looked at me like I was a god.
“Fuck..Y/N if you keep doing that there wont be anything for you, dear” He said in a breathy moan. I pulled back, my mouth feeling sore and tired. “Do you still want to?” He asked, grasping his hands on my waist.
“Yes, I fucking need you.” I threw off my jeans, I would worry about finding them later, I needed him. He layed back down, propping his head up on my pillows. Our lips collided in another kiss as I leveled myself with him.
“Are you sure?” I ask him, stroking his hard member.
“I’m sure.” He pecked my lips again as I got ontop of his lean figure. I spat in my hand, lubing up my needy hole.
“How do you want me to do this? I mean like slow? What do-“ He said with genuine worry.
“Fuck me like you want people to know” I whispered, “ Fuck me like you want the entire neighborhood to know that I’m yours and yours only.”
“I can make that happen, love.” He flipped me over, now being back to where we first started. He lined up his cock with my hole, running it around the tight area. I put my fingers in his hair, making a slight tug as he pushed into my body.
Pleasure filled my body as he filled me up, his cock stretched my insides in the right ways. Without pausing, he started to push his hips into mine, making sure not to hurt me.
He reached down to suck on my neck, adding to the pornagraphic moans in the room. My hands travled to his back, scratching my nails down the cold stone like skin. His moans echoed in my ear.
“Y/N, I can’t be on top I’m going to crush you” I laughed at him, tapping his side so he fell onto the bed. I swung my legs over him, sitting on his perfect cock.
“Perfect, fucking amazing.” He said as I steady myself onto him. His face was in a euphoric expression, the most relaxed I had ever seen him.
I began to rock my hips, sliding him in and out of me. His hands grabbed onto my hips, guiding me. Everything was a euphoric experience. My gut filled with that wonderful sensation.
“Edward I’m gonna cum, oh my god” I moaned out, picking up my pace.
Suddenly, the world went still. My eyes went black and I saw stars as my orgasm washed over me. My moans echoed in the room as my body twitched. A few thrusts up into my body and Edward pulled out of me, rubbing his cum out onto his hand.
I layed there panting while he sped to the bathroom, and came back with a clean cloth, wiping down my body. He put the cloth down, pulling up his underwear and handing me mine. I slipped the fabric on, slipping under the covers.
“Get in here, I wanna kiss you”
He laughed, obeying and slipping beside me. Our lips reunited in a soft clash.
“I love you so much, dear.”
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Do time or the other links smoke? Or drink? Or do some kind of drugs? I mean when your out heroing you're going to get alot of traum
Something they all at least somewhat have to try and take the edg off or do they have other ways of coping? I am sorry if this sounds like an ask,i was more along the lines trying to get your speculation on the matter
Masterlist
I see what you're saying and I do think that some of them would have had bad habits in the past but yeah-
They do need some time to take the edge off and refocus themselves in the present, but how do they do that in a healthy and safe way?
Let's talk about that.
I don't think I have all the necessary tags so go forth at your own discretion.
Time
Time would have definitely had a drinking problem that would have started in his Termina days.
He's never really felt the need to drink though- he only found that it would have kept him from going crazy.
But as he got out of there and talked more to Malon (and have his supply cut off- (just because he knew where to get it in Termina doesn't mean he knows where to get it in Hyrule, (nor would they give it to him, even if he did))), I like to think that he would have had to find other ways to calm himself down and think rationally through his thoughts and desires.
It happens by accident.
He was working at Lon Lon Ranch when he needed to go chop some wood and he found the repetitive and strenuous work, soothing.
He felt good. Accomplished even.
And a little disappointed when he was finished.
But he started doing that whenever he could and it became his main way to not only blow off some steam but to also calm himself down.
It helps with his anxiety and his need to help feel useful even when nothing is really happening that would require his assistance.
Twilight
Twilight finds that manual labor actually makes his anxiety worse.
He can't really find it within himself to get lost in it because he's already programmed for that to be a part of his day to day life anyway. So his brain can still go on and on even as he gets his chores done.
Twilight finds that a secluded spot with little distraction works best.
He's never really dabbled in other ways to deal with it nor has it come to his mind.
All he knew one say was that everything was too much and that he needed to be in a different area entirely.
No people, no noise.
He likes to hang out by small creeks or by the lake and fish if he really needs an excuse to do something.
Bonus points if he can rest with one of his favorite goats nearby, but that's few and far in between.
It's less meditation and more taking in the moment and letting time slip by for a change.
No to do lists, no action, no survival, no need to be on the run.
Just breath.
Warrior
Warrior would have smoked during the war but I don’t think he’d actually tolerate it all that well. I feel like he’d be more inclined to drink away his problems but with shortages left and right, and all efforts going into the war, there just wouldn’t be enough to go around.
So he’d smoke and hate it.
But it worked in a pinch.
Afterwards, whether through Mask’s and Wind’s influence or the end of the war, he’d want to find a way to quit.
It wasn’t easy but I feel like Warrior would attempt to quit cold turkey. Just drop the habit completely and what does he do when he feels the need arise again?
It’s actually little said than done, but he paints.
It’s less with ink and paint and more so, just moving his hands and a brush around.
If he happens to have a canvas it’s better but again, not easy to come around.
So what Warrior ends up doing most of the time, is taking a brush and some homemade ink from berries and brushing it over his scars. His favorite spot is the massive burn covering his left arm left behind as a gift from the Dragon Knight.
It feels tingly and electric, static follows the brush and the muscles clench with energy from the contact but while it’s uncomfortable for a while, it’s also not entirely unpleasant and it’s soothing to watch and feel. And it grounds Warrior in the moment until he no longer feels the urge.
When the urge is gone, he still does it when he feel anxious and concerned. Late at night is typical time for him to do this, where no one would see him or his scars and judge him for it.
Sky
Sky in the beginning would have slept more than he did before.
He was already inclined to fall asleep easily before all of his trauma, but afterwards he seemed to lose motivation to continue with the idea that things would go back to normal. There was still a lot of expectation placed on his shoulders and it was frankly not something he wanted to deal with.
So he sleeps.
Now this turns into more of a problem with being able to stay awake and to stay concentrated. It’s hard for him to pay attention to anything beyond him and that won’t do, considering me still has to finish his schooling.
What Sky does more often than not to keep him tethered to the present moment is work with his hands. He’s already had the tools for wood whittling but he was never allowed to use them in class and it ends being a bigger mess sometimes than he’s willing to deal with in general.
Sky also has some small pockets of clay that he fidgets with to keep his hands moving and he can keep it under his desk so that it’s not that distracting in class.
It helps him focus and when he thinks about what he’s been through and what he plans to do next, it keeps him from getting overwhelmed.
Wild
I think Wild would have just gone silent and unmoving when he’s having a bad day.
Kind of similar to how he gets when’s trapped in a memory but for longer and he doesn’t eat or sleep. It could last days at a time. He doesn’t even move unless he’s prompted or dragged to the spot.
The lights are on but no one’s home you know.
There’s not a lot he can do when it happens. Everyone just has to wait for it to pass and hope that it passes quickly.
But Wild gets better with time to know the signs when of one of those days is coming.
It’s not much, but Wild like to hop on the back of his horse and just take off.
Feel the rushing wind on his face and through his hair. He’s a full gallop for a while until the poor horse gets tired. At that point he just goes to the nearest stable and exchanges horses to do the whole thing over again.
Sometimes, when that’s not enough, he’ll go base jumping from as high as he can get even using Revali’s Gale to get higher and free fall. Wild is pretty good at catching himself with his paraglider at the last moment and he likes to see all of Hyrule when as he reaches the ground again.
It reminds him that he’s done a lot of good, that he’s capable of doing more good and that life isn’t over just one ended.
Four
Unsurprisingly, sometimes Four gets too lost in his own for his own good.
He’s got a lot to think about and very little way to get it out.
Four would actually throw himself into his work to try and distract himself from the memories, the anxiety, and the guilt of not being enough time and time again even if he saved the day in the end.
This doesn’t help.
He gets so lost into it, in his attempt to stop thinking all together that he completely goes into autopilot and over works himself. Not in the sense that he pulls a muscle and has to take it easy  or end up sore and tired and regrets it. No, no. What I mean is that he’ll keep working for days on end.
No sleep.
No food.
Little water.
No fresh air.
It ends up being a hard habit for him to break. Especially since he finds himself continuously trying to fall into a blank mindset even while he actually works to get commissions done.
So what Four has to do is find something else to do. Four more or less always has to have his hands moving, so it’s hard for him to put something down and not working on it.
He likes jigsaw puzzles, he likes to read, but he also likes to make stuff.
So in the end, when Four feel a little overwhelmed and feels himself slip into a self deprivational state, he’ll stop and goes inside his house to do a smaller project.
So he bakes, he knits, he does his puzzels. It’s enough for him to feel productive still but quick enough for him to stay present and make sure he’s still taking care of himself until the restlessness passes.
Wind
Wind doesn’t really have bad habits. He’s still young and processing his adventures. 
I’m sure there’s alcohol on the pirate ship because pirates. But I don’t think he’d like it as much as some people want to write him.
Like, sure, a cup or two ain’t bad but I just can’t see Wind having a drinking problem. At least not now as everything stands.
In a few years it’s might be something he would need to be on the look out for if he’s aware enough but he was quite grasped the full implications of his position and trauma yet.
Because he’s just a kid.
He won’t know how twisted what happened to him was until he gets older and can he the age outside of his own mindset.
Wind has nightmares though and they’re ties when he gets memories that he doesn’t want to deal with at the moment- or ever again.
In the moment he thinks of his home, his grandma and his sister instead.
He thinks of his friends, both old and new.
The chain help with distracting him and he’s not above using them for the distraction when he feels that he needs one.
Wind also stretches a lot. 
When he was with Warrior, he got into some of the drills they were teaching the soldiers and for some of the nimble ones, they had to start with stretches and he likes it.
So when it gets particularly bad, he throws himself through the motions and holds the poses for a bit longer than necessary.
So yoga. He does yoga.
And it centers him, it clears his head and he feels better after.
Legend
Legend screams.
Legend cries.
Legend will go on a rampage and destroy a whole forest if he’s having a particularly hard day.
Sometimes he’ll go find something big and scary just to fight it. 
Blacksmithing is more a hobby for him at this point because it’s not something he can actually see himself doing in the future. It’s just to pass the time and help the day’s go by a little faster.
Legend likes to draw and when he’s tired after throwing whatever tantrum has taken over him, he’d go to a quiet spot and draw whatever he sees.
Sometimes, when he’s paying more attention to himself and he can feel himself getting frustrated and anxious, he takes a few days off.
He leaves his house and his items and goes up a mountain to think with some food, a notebook and some pencils.
He takes up map making.
Legend doesn’t think he’s any good at it, but with al the places he’s been, he tries to make a map for them by memory incase anyone he knows or will meet decides to visit.
His most carefully crafted map is of Koholint for... reasons.
It’s takes him an age and a half and he’s still not done with it, trying to get as much of it onto the paper as he can remember before he grows old and loses them entirely within his memory.
It’s a calming project he finds. He doesn’t feel sad when he does this for Marin for the people and their memory. It keeps them alive in his heart and sometimes he draws something on the map that doesn’t quite fit into his memory about the island but something tells him to keep it because it was there. Because he was only a visitor to their home.
The locals would know.
He feels good keeping them alive in some way.
It’s what she they would have wanted. 
It’s what she they deserve.
She They always wanted to travel and it’s better to have a map to do so.
He takes up map making.
Hyrule
I don’t think Hyrule’s... Hyrule has a lot of these methods to go around. He wouldn’t have been exposed to drugs or alcohol simply because there’s too little people for him to interact with.
And if he was, I don’t think he’s use them as a coping mechanism simply because they would be too difficult obtain and gather to be sufficient.
I think that Hyrule would actually hang out with a Great Fairies by her pool when times got particularly rough.
There’s something about the place that resonates with him and feels calming, safe and relaxing to him.
As a bonus he’s always welcomed so he can pop in and stay for days at a time if he ever needed to.
He does not stay there for days.
But he appreciates the offer.
Hyrule doesn’t stay for more than few hours at a time because he doesn’t want to attract any monsters to his safe spots but even if the fairies don’t use any magic on him, he’s always rejuvenated afterwards and he feel like he can take on anything.
And given the world he comes from- it’s needed.
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