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offtopicoverload · 3 years

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how would your ideal LI season go?

oooh thank you anon this was really fun and definitely too long and entirely unrealistic because of all the variables but oh well i had fun lmao

Okay I’m just going to start by talking about LIs

I think one of Season 3’s biggest successes was making AJ available from the start, I think that definitely kept those who play for the girls interested

HOWEVER i also think we need one of each: an AJ, a Talia, and a Marisol

Someone you can couple up with right off the bat, someone that takes a bit of time to warm up, maybe around the halfway mark, and someone that isn’t available til the last or second to last recoupling, maybe because they’re only bicurious or its just in their character to take a while to warm up in general, they spent the season in friendship couples or blowing their shot because they didn’t want to move too quick

I know the amount of LIs in Season 2 is a huge attraction, but it obviously wasn’t maintainable, since so many LIs lost their personality after CA

Again, I think Season 3 did great on ideas, but bad execution on drama and actual plot

So I’d probably keep it about 9, maybe 10

And ideally one of them would be trans, probably a trans guy with top surgery scars. Someone makes a joke on the first day and he explains no problem, is open about it and his experiences, maybe he was kicked out as a teenager and is all about positivity and loving people for who they are because of it

I’m all on board for a enby or gnc character or MC, but I honestly think Love Island’s too binary for someone like that to thrive

OH! And an ace LI that’s probably sex neutral and really comfortable with it. They’re up front with their sexuality but have no problem with how sex-focused Love Island is, like they’re fine with the flirting and intimate stuff, they’re just not attracted at the end of the day

Or have this season’s slowburn female LI be demi? I’m not demi, only ace, so I can’t speak on that experience, but I think that might work pretty well, maybe she goes in knowing she’s demisexual and comes out of it knowing she’s demiromantic too? Id love that but idk

I want to touch on customization too, since there’s nowhere near enough

Definitely body types

I forget who said it, but have the typical thin type, a muscular type, and a plus sized

And don’t get me wrong, I know it’s extra work for the artists, but I personally think it’d be worth, but who knows

Make fantasy hair colours possible - blue, green, purple, pink, silver - with the type of variety S3 had, in a style closer to S2

Also tats! And piercings! Just like a septum or some ear piercing, maybe a lip, nothing too difficult

And allow for actually different personalities and careers

I get that most people who apply are going to be outgoing and influencers, but this is all fake anyway so who cares

Have your personality impact LIs, certain LIs are easier to get hearts with with a certain personality, while others have more negative reactions to that personality

Lot of coding but this is just my make believe, what’s the harm

Okay into each day

Id have 20 days, since I agree that that’s a pretty good sweet spot

And Im definitely on board with MC being a bombshell, but instead of introing her on the first day, Id do the second

First half of the episode is spent as a recap of the first day, 5 couples like usual, let’s call the Islanders Bobby, Harry, Camilo, Bill, Rohan, AJ, Talia, Elladine, Miki, and Erikah, I’ll explain later, it’s pretty much for one single reason each

So MC’s first day is the Islander’s second, she shows up like Lucas & Henrik, before all the Islanders are up, and she has an option to say hi to someone early, add a gem to be upfront about being interested or something, during the second half of the first episode

Second episode starts with all the Islanders finding MC and saying hi, whoever you chose to have a chat with’s partner is kinda salty, if you chose a guy

MC ends the day choosing between any of the guys and two of the girls, AJ and Talia

For the guys, like Season 3, three are endgame, ones a red herring like Rohan in Season 1, and one’s up front about it being a friendship couple from the start, since I definitely think we need actual friendship couples - this friendship couple guy is Bobby, but without the pushy crush

Rohan is initially interested, but like in Season 1, he gives it up after a while

AJ is super into it and happy if you pick her and has no problem with it, while Talia has a “no thanks” thing and makes you pick again

Basically, youre not supposed to pick Talia because she’s not open to that yet, and that tosses you off her route or makes it really difficult to fix, maybe only a few dialogue options over the next few days or a specific personality gets her to forgive you. If you don’t pick her, you can couple up later as normal

Day 2 is like it usually is, you’re LIs original partner starts grafting on your LI if you have a male LI, Bobby doesn’t care if you steal AJ, you just have to have a talk with him and he’s fine

You can attempt to reconcile with their original partner, and if you succeed they’ll stop, if not your LI will step in and tell her he’s not interested

Day 3 finds a whole Villa recouping with a dumping. If you have a female LI, then girls are choosing, and AJ will pick you, however there is no dumping for future numbers sake, I know it doesn’t make much sense for the guys to be safe but whatever

If you have a male LI, the boys are choosing. If youre with Bobby, you get stolen and have to help Bobby decide who to dump.

He’ll always choose to dump Miki, regardless of who your LIs ex was or what you say. His reasoning is that she hasn’t made a connection and she was accidentally mean to him once and this Bobby’s hella sensitive

Bobby kinda struggles with it and has a rough few days - You have the option to be sympathetic and keep him available as a friendship couple option, or be a jerk and lose the option to be in a friendship couple

Day 4 is a bit of a filler day, with a fun challenge and some actual conversations.

You learn about your LI and someone else of your choosing, whether that’s a friend, like Ell or Erikah, or another LI youre romancing, like Talia or another of the guys

This is the first time Talia starts to be honest with MC about maybe fancying her and being open to seeing what happens

Day 5 has bombshells: a guy and a girl. The girl is our Marisol of this season, which can also explain away why she’s so slow to open up, she feels like an outcast since she came late and MC can empathise better than anyone which is how they initially bond

The guy is also a LI, but far more bold than Marisol, he has no trouble grafting in front of MC’s LI and trying to steal her or win her over - I’m just going to call him Lucas

Day 6 has another boys’ choice disaster recouping, but with the threat of a dumping on an AJ route

No matter how you reacted to Lucas’ flirting, he picks MC, whether you were going to couple up with him or not, he still steals you from your LI just like Season 2, for simplicity’s sake

The other couples get mixed up, a Nope-adjacent couple are split up, let’s say Erikah and Camilo, but they don’t make it all about them. One of the girls had been pining after a guy but he chooses someone else even though she’s available (Elladine, but Bobby’s oblivious), the girl Bobby was planning to couple up with gets stolen (Talia, but regardless of your route, she doesn’t fancy him), so he couples with Marisol

On a male LI route there is no dumping because the couples are already even

On an AJ route, Rohan is the deciding factor between AJ and Miki. Miki is always dumped because she was barely involved the past few days and Bill isn’t that interested in her even though they were coupled up

Day 7 is the start of Casa Amor, but much shorter this time. Two of the guys are endgame - let’s say Arjun and Carl, two are interested in other girls - let’s say Graham and Nicky, and there’s one you CAN get with, but cheats and gets dumped later on, essentially a Rocco, and one just isn’t interested, another friendship couple opportunity if you don’t want to share with one of the LIs - let’s say Seb

Day 8 is still Casa, you get to know the boys or can crack on with any of the female LIs, though this is still applicable to Day 7

You get a chance to either commit to AJ further or say you want a break to crack on with someone else

If you reassure her, she’ll pie off all the guys and you can stay on the daybed together, essentially ignoring the disaster recoupling and pretending youre still together. But if you dump her, she’ll crack on with Seb if you’re not paired with him, and Arjun if you are, just as a sort of revenge

During CA you can get closer with Talia, cheeky winks in public and getting kinda nasty during a challenge

You get sneaky scenes with Marisol where you learn where her head is at and how she has a hard time opening up and letting people in. You can reassure her and say you’ll be patient or pie her off and she’ll get with the season’s Graham, though they’ll have a different dynamic and ACTUALLY MAKE SENSE AS A COUPLE

Im sorry but boaty mcboat face and MARISOL?? i just dont get it, im sorry

You can graft on Arjun & Carl, tell them where your head is at, and they’re far less pushy

They try to impress but they’re not like poking you until you tell them you’ll take them back to the Villa like in S2

Day 9 is the final day of Casa, with a stick or switch

You can take back Arjun, Carl, Seb, or Rocco, although Seb is a platonic option but you can pair with him the rest of the season as aromantic representation

AJ never switches to save Rohan, and to be loyal if youre on her route

Talia doesn’t switch no matter the route, she spent Casa just hanging out which honestly isn’t the best idea outside of her route

Erikah switches, because like Season 1 Erikah, her head turns quickly, it’s just a matter of time. She switches to Rocco if you’re not on his route, and Arjun if you are. This is going to absolutely blow up in her face

Elladine switches because she gets worried Bobby will, picks Nicky and they actually get on really well

Marisol switches to Graham if youre not on her route to stay safe again, though they dont last anyway, and sticks if you are because she spent Casa with MC instead of the guys

Bobby sticks cuz Bobby

Harry always switches to someone, let’s call her Cherry cuz why not

Camilo sticks to get back with MC or Erikah - Erikah switched, effectively dumping him and really upsetting him

Rohan switches to someone, lets call her Shannon, no matter the route

Bill always sticks

Lucas switches to someone, lets call her Blake, no matter what, just for simplicity’s sake and because I’m already ripping from S2 so who cares

Day 10 is aftermath, much like Season 2

You can talk with your previous LI,

Day 11 has a massive dumping where you vote to save a few people

One of the original Villa boys stays, Camilo is the default but if youre on Harry or Bill’s route, they’ll fill his place

Rohan and Bobby survive

If you brought back a Casa boy, you pick between him and Lucas to be dumped

If you didn’t, Lucas is safe automatically

Rocco/Arjun survive, they’re coupled with Erikah

Either Nicky survives to stay with Elladine or Graham is saved for Marisol if she brought him back, Nicky automatically survives if not

For the girls, Erikah, Elladine, Marisol, and MC are safe

You vote between Cherry, Blake, Shannon on who to save, Shannon is the encouraged option because her and Rohan are actually really cute, but he’ll be nice to any of the girls for the rest of the season

You have to vote between AJ and Talia, sorry queers, i hate it too

Day 12 has a recouping where Talia is finally available if you saved her after everything from Casa Amor

You can reunite with your LI from pre-CA or simply stick to youre CA pick, it’s girls choice, MC is somewhere in the middle

Day 13 has two bombshells - both guys, let’s call them Levi and Tai

Levi grafts hard on MC whereas Tai takes a backseat and MC has to go to him instead if shes interested

Day 14 is a grafting day, you can graft and bond with your LI, Levi, Tai, or Marisol

Day 15 is the second to last recoupling, where you can get with every LI

If youre romancing Marisol, you have a fight in the morning because she still won’t commit and she hasn’t really had an drama on her route yet

Day 16 is an explosion of drama

It’s another Roccogate but on an even bigger scale

If you’re on Rocco’s route, you suffer the backlash, and if you’re not, Erikah does but it still blows back to MC in order to keep her involved

Rocco makes a move on Erikah when MC’s with him, and MC when Erikah is. If he makes a move on MC, she can reciprocate or blatantly shut him down and Erikah will always reciprocate it when he’s coupled with MC because whaddaya know her head can turn at the littlest thing

If he made a move on MC, she can tell her LI who will chew him out privately, or keep it to herself

They basically get caught in the act by Levi, who doesn’t say anything until the afternoon - a lie detector that reveals a bunch of stuff, ill discuss later

He’s asked if he has any drama and he lies, saying no but eventually spills that Rocco made a move on MC/Erikah, and regardless of whether MC reciprocated or not, he says she did

If MC’s with Rocco, she can attack Erikah until someone steps in, maybe Bobby? Or Arjun? and reasons with her. She can get most of the Villa on her side about Rocco being a prick - except for Levi, no matter what, he’ll always side with Rocco and say it’s part of the show

If MC’s not with Rocco and denied him, her LI will accuse her of lying and she’ll have to essentially win them back by the next day or try and get Rocco to clear her name, which she can if they have a high relationship

And if MC didn’t deny him, her LI will dump her on the spot if they have a low relationship, or still win them back if they have a high relationship - but it will still be remembered

Back to the lie detector

There’s the typical S1 questions, cheating is revealed, you can commit to your LI

BUT

If youre on a Marisol route, your LI asks you about her and MC has to confess, which drives a rift between her and Marisol because yeah

y i k e s

Day 17 is the final recoupling

Marisol basically storms into the kitchen when MCs making breakfast and says they’re coupling up and just leaves again. MC has the option to be like “yeah okay, chill” and go back to her breakfast or “what the fuck? no” and chase after her and pie her off

If you don’t pie her off, she chooses MC herself, because that scene in S2 is just really cute and I want another

There’s a double dumping of two boys - Levi and Rocco, and you have no say in it

Erikah, MC, or her LI will essentially turn the Villa against Rocco, while a few of the Islanders resent Levi for his take, mainly the girls

It’s a couple vote, and even if you vote for someone else, they still get dumped because they have the most votes

Day 18 is filler and fluff, meet the parents and final dates, with a surprise dumping where you can get a say and can help them pack, but its a strictly platonic goodbye

There’s so many possibilities and I don’t feel like listing them out right now, but it’s a single couple between three at-risk ones

Day 19 another surprise dumping, why not stick with prom? I just really dig the art, and but maybe make it closer to Season 2? And more personalized speeches!!!

And have a Lottie/Hannah moment!

Idk who all would be here, I don’t feel like listing it out, but I think I have all the dumpings listed below the cut

You can pick between both people dumped who you want to help pack, and can have a moment with either of them, opening a “runaway” option after the finale or reunion

Day 20 is the finale, with the Islanders gossiping and stressing in the morning as some filler content

The afternoon is the announcement, and your placement depends on your couple - If you were loyal the entire time you were with them and have a max relationship you get 1st, if you were loyal but dont have max hearts, you get 2nd, if you weren’t loyal but still have max hearts, you get 3rd, and if you have neither you get 4th

If you win, your LI gets the money no matter what and it’s not based on relationship, it’s based on where in the relationship you are - if MC agreed to be their girlfriend on Day 18, they split the money, and if MC didn’t, then they don’t see a future and keep it

The last episode is the finale party with options to dump your LI for good, make plans to move in, reconcile and explain why MC didn’t say yes on Day 18, or get with someone else entirely

Oh and I want two of the dumped guys to show up together and have started dating outside of the Villa

Cuz I can’t think of another opportunity for mlm in this chaos

This is really messy so I’m going to list out couplings under the cut to try and make sense of this, I think I got everything but probably not its a disaster

LIs

Day 1 - MC or Bobby or Single

Day 3 - MC or Bobby or Bill

Day 6 - Rohan

Day 9 - Rohan

Day 12 - MC or Bobby or Dumped

Day 14 - MC or Bobby or Dumped

Day 17 - MC or Bobby Dumped

Talia

Day 1 - Rohan or Single

Day 3 - Rohan or Bill

Day 6 - Camilo

Day 9 - Camilo

Day 12 - MC or Bobby or Dumped

Day 14 - MC or Bobby or Dumped

Day 17 - MC or Bobby Dumped

Marisol

Day 6 - Bobby

Day 9 - Single or Graham

Day 12 - Graham or Harry/Bill/Camilo

Day 14 - Graham or Harry/Bill/Camilo

Day 17 - MC or Graham or Harry/Bill/Camilo

Harry

Day 1 - MC or Elladine

Day 3 - MC or Elladine

Day 6 - Elladine

Day 9 - Cherry

Day 12 - MC or Elladine/Marisol or Dumped

Day 14 - MC or Elladine/Marisol or Dumped

Day 17 - MC or Elladine/Marisol or Dumped

Camilo

Day 1 - MC or Erikah

Day 3 - MC or Erikah

Day 6 - Talia

Day 9 - Talia

Day 12 - MC or Elladine/Marisol or Dumped

Day 14 - MC or Elladine/Marisol or Dumped

Day 17 - MC or Elladine/Marisol or Dumped

Bill

Day 1 - MC or Miki

Day 3 - MC or Miki or Elladine/Erikah

Day 6 - Erikah

Day 9 - Single

Day 12 - MC or Elladine/Marisol or Dumped

Day 14 - MC or Elladine/Marisol or Dumped

Day 17 - MC or Elladine/Marisol or Dumped

Lucas

Day 6 - MC or Erikah

Day 9 - MC or Blake

Day 12 - Blake

Day 14 - MC or Elladine/Marisol or Dumped

Day 17 - MC or Elladine/Marisol or Erikah or Dumped

Arjun

Day 9 - MC or Erikah or Dumped

Day 12 - MC or Erikah or Dumped

Day 14 - MC or Erikah or Dumped

Day 17 - MC or Erikah or Dumped

Carl

Day 9 - MC or Dumped

Day 12 - MC or Dumped

Day 14 - MC or Dumped

Day 17 - MC or Erikah or Dumped

Tai

Day 14 - MC or Single or Elladine

Day 17 - MC or Erikah

Rocco

Day 9 - MC or Erikah

Day 12 - MC or Erikah

Day 14 - MC or Erikah

Day 17 - Dumped

Levi

Day 14 - MC or Single

Day 17 - Dumped

Other Islanders

Elladine

Day 1 - Harry or Single

Day 3 - Harry or Bill

Day 6 - Harry

Day 9 - Nicky or Harry/Camilo/Bill

Day 12 - Nicky or Harry/Camilo/Bill

Day 14 - Nicky or

Day 17 - Nicky or Tai

Erikah

Day 1 - Camilo* or Single

Day 3 - Camilo* or Bill

Day 6 - Camilo or

Day 9 - Rocco or Arjun

Day 12 - Rocco or Arjun

Day 14 - Rocco or Arjun

Day 17 - Tai or Lucas/Casa

Miki

Day 1 - Bill or Single

Day 3 - Bill or Dumped

Day 6 - Bill or Dumped

Day 9 - Dumped

Day 12 - Dumped

Day 14 - Dumped

Day 17 - Dumped

Shannon

Day 9 - Rohan

Day 12 - Rohan or Dumped

Day 14 - Rohan or Dumped

Day 17 - Rohan or Dumped

Blake

Day 9 - Lucas

Day 12 - Rohan or Dumped

Day 14 - Rohan or Dumped

Day 17 - Rohan or Dumped

Cherry

Day 9 - Harry

Day 12 - Rohan or Dumped

Day 14 - Rohan or Dumped

Day 17 - Rohan Dumped

Bobby

Day 1 - AJ or MC or Single

Day 3 - AJ or MC or

Day 6 - Marisol

Day 9 - Marisol or Single

Day 12 - AJ/Talia or Elladine/Marisol

Day 14 - AJ/Talia or Elladine/Marisol or Single

Day 17 - AJ/Talia or Elladine/Marisol

Rohan

Day 1 - Talia or MC

Day 3 - Talia or MC

Day 6 - AJ

Day 9 - Shannon/Cherry/Blake

Day 12 - Shannon/Cherry/Blake

Day 14 - Shannon/Cherry/Blake

Day 17 - Shannon/Cherry/Blake

Graham

Day 9 - Marisol or Dumped

Day 12 - Marisol or Dumped

Day 14 - Marisol or Dumped

Day 17 - Marisol or Dumped

Seb

Day 9 - MC or Dumped

Day 12 - MC or Elladine/Marisol or Dumped

Day 14 - MC or Elladine/Marisol or Dumped

Day 17 - MC or Elladine/Marisol or Dumped

Nicky

Day 9 - Elladine

Day 12 - Elladine or Dumped

Day 14 - Elladine or Dumped

Day 17 - Elladine or Dumped

#asks #can it kc #also definitely stole this format from bubblybabynailpolish cuz they're hcs are iconic but shush #thank you anon and sorry for whatever this is #litg

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allgreenisgoodgreen · 5 years

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this is an alternate nonbinary flag i made!

(flag by tumblr user @allgreenisgoodgreen aka Ory Smithson)

I noticed a few nonbinary people didn’t like the look of the one commonly used, so here’s my shot at an alternate! I kept the colors and meanings, but added a new stripe and changed the order around. it looks decent to me, and reads fairly well for various colorblindness types!

I made the new green stripe represent some of the more complicated nonbinary identities; Identities that fluctuate or change intensity such as genderfluid and genderflux, and genders with more than one facet, such as demigenders! We all know that gender is nuanced, confusing, and frustrating., often painful to understand, and even more painful to explain. Hopefully with further representation and inclusion, things will get a little easier for us, trans and nonbinary alike! <3

note: i’m not trying to replace or “cancel” the other nb flag!

this was moreso a fun challenge for me than anything else. obviously this flag is free to use, just as much as the normal nb flag! it’s just aesthetic preference really :D

[BEGIN IMAGE ID: three pictures of the alternate nonbinary flag. the flag is five horizontal stripes, evenly spaced apart. from top to bottom, the colors are white, yellow, green, purple, and black.

the first picture is the flag itself, without any text or markings obscuring it.

the second picture has text on the stripes showing the meaning of the colors. white says “identities with many/all genders.” yellow says “identities not connected to the binary.” green says “identities that change or overlap.” purple says “identities including male and/or female.” black says “identities void of, or lacking gender.”

the last picture shows the flag with hex codes for the colors used. white is #ffffff, yellow is #fffc4a, green is #2ad646, purple is #8d4cb3, and black is #000000. END IMAGE ID]

just as a side note, you can use these without credit! make edits, banners, avatars, etc to your heart’s content :3

#greenie made some goods #nonbinary #pride flag #nb pride #pride #this was fun!!!#idk if anyone will like it but! it was interesting to do #happy pride gamers

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mama-m1na · 4 years

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Apocalypse: Chapter 3

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The following morning, Cloud made his way to the young leader's suite once more, the hall still empty.

The door was answered by Rhamina who wore her usual outfit and had her hair up in a twist.

"Morning, Cloud!" she chirped as the male stepped into the room, "Did you eat breakfast already?"

"Yeah, I already ate," the male replied as he noticed the female limping again, but this time he could actually see bruises on her shins and calves.

"So, I have the shit all set to go in my room. Just follow me please," she said, leading the male to her bedroom.

It was around the same size as his and also had a balcony; but unlike his room, hers displayed her personality quite well.

She had a queen sized bed shoved into one corner of the room with purple sheets, two matching pillows and two fox plushies sitting on it.

The wall above her bed was decorated with a blue tapestry depicting two fish, each representing yin or yang.

A few feet away from her bed was a black computer desk that had her laptop and various pieces of stationary organized on it.

Along the adjacent wall was a small altar for what looked to be a pagan practice while wind chimes hung above it.

A few feet from the altar, along the same wall, was a small table with a small TV and game system sitting on it.

One the wall opposite to the bed was her closet with sliding doors and next to it was a vintage styled, floor length mirror with a black cherry wood frame.

The back of her door was filled with pictures taken in the past; some with her family, others with some that he assumed to be friends, and some that Cloud couldn't figure out.

"Here are the contracts you need to sign and the ID forms you have to fill out," Rhamina said as she handed him a generous amount of paper, "They're pretty self explanatory so I'll just leave you to it."

"Let me know if you have any questions," she chirped before flopping onto her bed, allowing the blond to use her desk.

Much to the ravenette's surprise, the male actually made it through the papers quite quickly with little to no questioning and they even had a decent conversation going on about their past battle experiences.

"So how did you manage to hurt yourself yesterday?" the male asked as the two switched spots so the younger one could scan the papers.

"Ah, well you see, when I first got in the plant, I wasn't expecting anything to be on since the outer turrets were inactive," she started with an embarrassed smile as she started up the scanner that was a part of the printer, "When I stepped off my fan, multiple turrets started firing at me, so my first instinct was to get cover and I did, but I fucking tripped on the way over there."

"Man, I was lucky those were stationary turrets and not drones," the teen chuckled, watching as the documents were slowly being uploaded to their systems, "I just basically sprinted through every room to get to the stairs."

"You didn't fight a single one of them before you got to us?" the blond asked from his spot, sitting at the edge of the female's bed as his sword leaned on the wall behind the door.

"Nope, my main focus was getting the door open for you guys and I didn't want to waste any time," the female replied as she began typing, "And being completely honest here, I didn't even realize I was bleeding until I opened the door."

"I probably should be concerned about that fact, but at this point I really don't," she chuckled, placing the papers in a manila envelope, "I'm just so used to getting injured at this point."

"From what I've seen, you have enough skill to avoid those kinds of things," the male replied as the printer started up once more, "Why don't you?"

"It's just how I grew up and how I learned," the female shrugged, "I'll dodge, and I can if I know something will physically incapacitate me, but I've just fought and trained to be tanky. I can handle a lot."

"What else?" the male asked, not missing the mischievous glint in her eyes as she explained her reasoning.

"You're catching on," the ravenette hummed, cracking her neck as she turned her chair to fully face the male.

"Entertainment," she explained simply with a dark smirk, "It's really funny watching an opponent's cocky grin fade to sheer terror as the enemy they thought they had beaten rises from the dead just to whoop their ass."

The eighteen-year-old let out a breathy chuckle before her eyes widened in realization.

"Jesus," she huffed, brushing a few stray hairs from out of her face, "I need a fucking therapist."

"Anyways!" Rhamina sang as she turned back around to pick up a small plastic card from the printer before handing it to Cloud, "This is your ID. Make sure you don't lose it and keep it on you at all times, It will be used for signing up for jobs, getting discounts from our sponsors, and general identification purposes."

"Alright," the blue-eyed male said, stashing the card away on his person before gazing over at the female who was turning off her electronics, "What now?"

"We're going to be going on a little day trip around the city," the teen chirped as she stood up, prompting Cloud to do the same.

Before the pair left the suite, Rhamina grabbed a pair of sunglasses from her desk and a black, cross body purse.

The teen led Cloud to the back of the building and into their parking structure, walking up to the top floor that still had a roof over it.

She led him over to a group of parked motorcycles and held her hands out, saying, "Take your pick!"

"What?" the male asked in slight shock as he blinked at her in confusion.

"Well, since you're going out on jobs you're going to need a vehicle like the rest of us and I noticed you were really good at driving bikes when I saw your memories, so go for it," Rhamina explained with a smile on her face as she nudged the male forward.

"The entire top floor of the lot only has unclaimed vehicles, so anything that catches your eye is yours," she continued as Cloud scanned the various vehicles in front of him.

After a few minutes, the male stopped at a bike with a dark navy blue body, almost black if one were just giving it a passing glance.

It seemed to be in a little better shape than the others and was much cleaner than the biked that surrounded it.

He was brought back out of his little trance by Rhamina dangling a pair of keys in front of him with an almost forced smile on her face.

"Made your choice?" she asked with a wink, jingling the keys once more, "Go on. Take him for a spin."

The male took the keys from the girl before she backed up and started the vehicle, holding his buster sword in his left hand while his right remained on the handle.

He revved the bike up, getting a feel for it before taking off.

The bike felt so easy to use for the trained male as he weaved expertly through the turns within the parking structure.

Five minutes later, the male ended up right in front of the ravenette, saying, "Get on."

"Wait, what?" she uttered with wide eyes as she gripped tightly onto the strap of her purse.

"You said we're still going somewhere, right?" the blond asked as he saw the female merely staring at him, "It'll be easier for us this way."

"Okay," the ravenette muttered, biting her lip and eyeing the vehicle warily before getting on behind the male and wrapping her arms around his waist.

"Is this your first time on a motorcycle?" he asked, looking over his shoulder to see the female avoiding eye contact, but he could feel how tense she was.

"No it's just... been awhile is all," she chuckled nervously, "I'll be fine, just head west on Winchester for now. The place we're going to is on the border of the Abyss and Clean Side."

The male narrowed his eyes in suspicion, but went ahead and followed her directions, not missing the way she pressed herself closer to him as her grip tightened ever so slightly.

It took about fifteen minutes for them to get to their destination, which was a mechanic shop with no sign above the door.

"The owner is one of our sponsors, so have him refine the armor plating and add any other mods that you think would be useful," Rhamina explained as she got off the bike, "I'll pay for everything as a welcome gift."

The unease she had during the ride was completely gone as the pair walked up to the doors of the shop.

"Hi, Anton!" the female chirped as they entered, seeing a male who looked to be around the same age as Cloud sitting at the front counter.

"Sup, Virgin," he greeted bluntly, causing the ravenette to deflate slightly as the two walked up to the desk.

"Do you have to call me that each time we see each other?" she asked with a frown on her face, "You know what my actual name is."

"Yeah well, have you gotten laid yet?" the brunet asked with a smug smirk as the female's face began to heat up.

"Fuck off!" Rhamina huffed as she turned to the side with her arms crossed over her chest.

"You can't expect me to not make fun of you for this," the male reasoned as he leaned forward, "you work in a brothel for fuck's sake."

"As a security guard, Anton!" she snapped, throwing her arms in the air out of pure frustration.

The male raised his brows before pointing right at her and saying, "Your name's on the request list."

That was the last straw for the ravenette as she stormed over to the door before turning to Cloud and saying, "Cloud, you talk to him, I'm going across the street to get food. Meet me there when you're done."

With that female left the ship, leaving Cloud with many questions about the interaction before Anton asked, "I'm guessing you didn't know?"

"What?" the blond replied, now focused on the man behind the counter.

"That she's inexperienced," the brunet clarified with a lazy shrug as if the previous conversation didn't even happen.

"It isn't any of my business," the twenty-one-year-old replied with a frown as he crossed his arms and kept his weight on his right.

"Whatever you say, man, but it's true," he spoke with a chuckled, "Have you ever seen a prostitute that's never had sex?"

"So, what did you want done on the bike?" he asked upon seeing the male's eyes narrow further, "the virgin told me about you guys coming in yesterday."

After specifying what exact modifications he wanted made to the bike, Cloud handed over the keys, only for the mechanic's jaw to drop.

"No fucking way," Anton gasped as he recognized the keys, brushing his hair out of his face.

"What is it now?" Cloud asked as the brunet looked between the ex-SOLDIER and the set of keys a few more times.

"These are Danny Boy's keys," he muttered more to himself than anyone else, "She fucking gave you Danny Boy?!"

The male hopped over the counter and walked out the front door to confirm that the bike in the parking lot was indeed the one he remembered.

"Let me get this straight," Anton said as he walked back inside, "she gave you that bike and you drove here? With her on it?"

"Yes," Cloud replied, starting to get annoyed at how the male was keeping him in the dark, "What's the big deal about it?"

"She must really trust you, fuck!" he said, not answering Cloud's question, "I never thought I'd see that thing again."

"Wait, Danny Boy?" another mechanic asked as he walked out of the back room with a water bottle in hand.

Yeah, that bitch actually gave this dude Danny Boy!" Anton replied as he tossed the keys to the younger male named Kevin.

"Listen, man," Kevin said, addressing Cloud, "We don't have the full story, but we know that Rhamina almost died a really violent death on that bike because of the previous owner. If you want the whole thing, go to white boy Justin and show him the keys. He should be willing to tell you if you ask nicely."

"Thanks," the blond nodded before he started to walk towards the door.

"One more thing," Kevin called, "Don't talk about this with her unless she says something first."

The male nodded as he walked out the door, sighing as he did.

It was a pretty nice day out, the sun shining with a gentle breeze to keep the temperature in a moderate range, unlike the summer seasons in southern California.

When Cloud had reached the only food place across from the shop, he saw the ravenette sitting at the counter by the window.

Her attention was immediately on the male as he walked over and sat to her left, leaving one empty seat in between them.

"I didn't know what you wanted, so I just ordered you chicken katsu as well," she spoke as she turned to face him, "And I'm sorry for storming out like that... If it isn't obvious, I don't like him."

"I don't either," the blue-eyed male huffed, earning a small chuckled from the teenager, "The way he talks is annoying."

"He really doesn't know when to shut his mouth, but I have to admit, he earns the slightest bit of my respect with how good he is at what he does," Rhamina replied as she scrolled on her phone, "He takes care of all the Apocalypse vehicles and, damn, he's good."

At that moment, the worker at the counter called up the ravenette's order number, the teen giving a small smile as she went to pick up their food.

"So," she started as the female passed the blond his food, "I'm guessing they lost their shit when they saw Danny Boy."

"Yeah, I didn't know the bike had such a history with all of you," the male spoke, carefully watching the teen's reactions from out of the corner of his eyes.

"They told you about it?" The female asked sadly as she kept her gaze down on her food, lazily fiddling with her plastic fork.

"They mentioned it," Cloud clarified as the female next to him slowly nodded in understanding.

"Well, I'm sorry to say that I can't bring myself to tell that story just yet, and I know you deserve to know about it since you now own his bike, so just ask around the building when we get back," Rhamina instructed, still not looking in the male's direction, "I'm sure one of the boys will be willing to tell you everything they know about it."

An uncomfortable silence fell over the two as they ate their lunch, with the teenager looking at her phone in between bites of her chicken katsu.

"Anything else planned for today?" the male asked, not used to the lack of conversation with the female who was usually talking at every meal he'd had with her.

"Well, after we eat, I was planning on going to the mall next door to get you a phone," Rhamina spoke with a small smile, "It'll make things a lot easier for you when you go out on jobs and it'll be easier for me to get information to you."

When the two were finished with their meals, the eighteen-year-old led them to the large collection of stores, specifically heading to the electronics store.

"From what you told me, you had phones like this in your world, right?" she asked once they were in a deserted part of the store, showing him the touch screen devices they had.

"Yes," he confirmed as he looked around at the devices, "Although they were just small slabs of glass."

"The thought of just carrying around a lone piece of glass gives me anxiety," the female huffed before calling over one of the employees.

She ended up getting him a similar phone model to her own with a sturdy case that somehow let him use the touch screen even with his thick gloves on.

When they discovered this, Rhamina's jaw dropped as she was utterly shocked into silence.

"I'm just not going to ask," she sighed before the two strolled around the male, waiting for Anton to finish on the bike.

By the time he did call it was already four forty-five in the afternoon, causing the ravenette to cuss under her breath.

"Do you think you could drop me off at Arcaeus?" she asked as they crossed the street, "I'm going to be late for work."

"Yeah, it's fine," Cloud replied as they re-entered the shop, Rhamina paying for all the services while trying not to explode from Anton's taunts on her nonexistent sex life.

"Are you alright?" the blond asked, noticing how apprehensive the teen was when approaching the bike that now had a place for him to store his sword while he drove.

"Yeah, I'm fine," she spoke with a lopsided grin on her face as she got on the back of the bike, keeping a good grip around the male's waist.

The ride back to Rhamina's workplace was quite silent, but this time the male could begin to understand why.

"Thanks, Cloud, I'll see you tomorrow for breakfast," the ravenette said before giving the male a quick hug and disappearing into the building.

The male huffed in surprise, just staring at the door for a few moments before riding back to the Apocalypse building.

As he rode past the front of the fence, many of the older members immediately recognized the bike and began telling others, some even following around to the back of the building.

Upon seeing this, Cloud sighed, parking in an empty spot on the second floor of the lot before descending to see that a small crowd of people were waiting in front of the back entrance to the building.

In front of the group was a young woman with shoulder length hair like fire, a dark expression in her eyes as the male approached.

"So, she gave you Danny Boy?" the female stated as she stood right in the man's path, glaring right into him.

"Yeah, who's asking?" the male scoffed, only for him to get a knife aimed at his throat as hazel eyes bore into him.

"If you even breath in Rhamina's direction in the wrong way, I guarantee I will not be the only one gutting you," the girl growled before storming off into the building as the crowd parted for her.

No one else in the crowd confronted the man, but he could hear their whispers floating about.

As soon as he stepped foot into the lobby, Cloud's phone began buzzing and he pulled it out of his pocket to see that Rhamina was calling.

He answered the call as he stepped further into the lobby, giving her a short greeting as he picked up.

"Cloud, are you okay?" the teen asked from her end, voice full of concern, "I just got a text from one of the kids that said they saw you getting surrounded at the lot."

"Yeah, I'm fine," the blond sighed, still feeling the gaze of others on him, "Someone threatened me, but other than that nothing happened."

The male heard Rhamina sigh before she said, "I'm sorry about that, Cloud. We really have no chill, but you're okay?"

"Yes."

"Well, if you want Danny Boy's backstory, then go to Justin M, the one who drove us yesterday," the ravenette instructed, "He should be in the game room on the first floor... Well, I've gotta go, bye!"

"Bye," he answered before the line went dead, his new objective at the moment to find the game room.

"Hey, Cloud!" a familiar voice called as he turned around to see Juan-Angel with a taller male next to him.

"Heard that Rhamina actually gave you Danny Boy," the taller male spoke, "Never thought she'd let anyone touch that thing."

"You know anything?" the blond asked, only for both boys to head their heads.

"We joined after it happened and it's a really touchy subject for people here," the taller male shrugged, "Anyone who knows about it has practically sworn themselves to secrecy."

"Do you know how to get to the game room, then?" Cloud asked, resisting the urge to roll his eyes.

"Yeah, we were just heading over there," Juan-Angel said, beckoning the twenty-one-year-old to follow them.

The game room was just that; a room with games from poker to darts and even a corner with just video games.

Justin was sitting at the couch playing Mario Kart with some of the other members when his attention was drawn to the new recruit.

"How can I help you?" he asked as Cloud approached him, handing off the controller to someone else.

"What's the deal with the bike?" the blond asked, getting straight to the point as he stood behind the brunet's spot on the couch.

"What bike?"

Cloud handed the younger male the keys to his new vehicle, causing a look of recognition to cross Justin's face.

"Well it started about three years ago when Apocalypse was starting to grow in power," he started, turning slightly to face the blond, "Rhamina, being the empathetic little shit she is, decided to go and save this guy named Ky from a smaller gang that was harassing him."

"He seemed innocent enough and was really useful on that bike of his, so he was recruited into the group," Justin continued, "But after a few months, he started acting hella sketchy."

"He got really close to Rhamina and became really possessive of her; he wouldn't let others get new her that easily and would downright threaten people if they even looked at her," he explained, "but the two faced fuck, managed to slip right under her nose every time, because he would change personas whenever she showed up. Eventually, he ended up drugging her and kidnapping her to attempted to do this dual suicide thing because he believed it would keep their souls together for eternity or some shit."

"This was happening when Rhamina was fifteen, mind you, so when she got back, she locked herself in her room for like two weeks and wouldn't come out for anything unless she was sure no one was around to see her," Justin spoke as others in the room were also listening into the story, "When she did start interacting with people again, it was like nothing had even happened to her, but we could tell that shit fucking traumatized her."

"That's what fucking happened?" the male that was with Juan-Angel asked, "Holy shit, what happened to the guy?"

"She killed him," Justin shrugged.

"Fuck."

"You know, I'm pretty sure Ky is the reason, she taught herself how to get out of handcuffs," the brunet spoke as he handed the man back his keys, "she's really good at it now. "

"And I mean really good," the male emphasized, "I think the fastest she's gotten out of a pair was fifteen seconds."

When Rhamina came home that night she was absolutely exhausted and very irritated as she refrained from slamming the front door behind her.

A group of guys started harassing her girls, which was normal; however, as soon as she went to take care of them, they started making comments about how no one would ever love a girl like her and it absolutely set her off.

"They just had to go and say that," she muttered as she grabbed a can of cream soda from her fridge, "Couldn't have made the usual comments about how I looked, had to hit so close to fucking home."

"As if I don't know that I'm going to die alone," she grumbled once she got in her room, "but at least I'm dragging asses down to hell with me."

After changing into a black camisole and a pair of shorts, the teen walked out onto the balcony to cool off.

Not noticing that she wasn't alone, Rhamina opened her soda and angrily took a sip before slamming her free fist down onto the metal railing.

"God damn it!" she hissed, hunching over to rest her forehead on the railing, the cool metal feeling nice on her heated skin.

"Rough day at work?" a male voice asked, causing the female to jump in surprise before turning to her left, only to see Cloud on his balcony a few feet from hers.

"Yep, shouldn't have been though," she replied with a small chuckle as she gave him a small smile.

"What happened?" Cloud question as he looked over to the young woman who let out a groan.

"Some guys came in and started talking shit and got under my skin," the ravenette sighed as she brushed her hair out of her face, "Don't know why it did though, it's shit I'm used to hearing."

"Then just beat their asses, right?" the male shrugged, earning a small chuckle from the female as she looked out over the land below.

"Please, don't ever change, Cloud," she mused with a bright smile, mood already elevated, "but yes, I did beat their asses and they went down so easy."

"A lot of the thugs that have the gall to violate basic rules of consent are usually all bark and no bite, but it's important that I keep all of my girls safe," Rhamina continued with a small smirk, "They are my main sources of information when it comes to other gang activity."

"What?" the male asked, blinking in confusion as the female looked back at him with a smile.

"See, when I first started working in brothels I noticed something," she explained, "When males are really intoxicated, or uh... horny... or both, they get really chatty and my girls are trained to draw out information."

"Arcaeus is famous for not only being the most luxurious brothel in the county, but my girls who are really experienced in the areas of debauchery," the ravenette continued, pride filling her chest, "we have men from all over the state coming in from other organizations, not knowing the girls are extracting information from them and giving it to me so I can add it to our databases."

"That's how you get your information?" Cloud asked with a raised brow, "and it's reliable?"

"Very," Rhamina chirped in reply, "It's not just about getting a guy drunk, you know? You have to know what subtle cues to drop so he feels like he wants to share instead of you prying for information."

"Psychological tactics," the ex-SOLDIER identified as the female took another sip of her soda.

"Precisely," she confirmed, "A great set of skills I developed and used even before the world went to shit."

"That's dangerous," the male commented as he leaned forward on the railing of the balcony.

"It is, but, if you really think about, I need to be," Rhamina mused before she finished the rest of her drink, "If I weren't dangerous, then people wouldn't take us seriously and they would still be trying to walk all over Apocalypse."

"You gonna start taking on jobs tomorrow?" she asked after a few moments of silence, the slight breeze picking up her hair.

"Yeah, I'd like to get started as soon as possible," the male replied, crossing his arms over his chest.

"Then I'll show you how to navigate the job listings tomorrow," the eighteen-year-old said as she stood up.

"I'm going to head to sleep now," she yawned, walking back to her door before giving one last look to the male, "Goodnight, Cloud."

"Good night."

That night as Cloud laid in his bed, his mind took him back to the void of white he had seen his first night in this world.

"How curious that you've managed to find your way back into my realm without me drawing you here," the figure sitting at the large canopy bed said, still hidden by the sheer drapes around it, "Welcome back, Cloud."

"Mandallyth," he stated, the name feeling very strange on his tongue as he stepped a bit closer to the bed.

"Indeed it is I," the figure chuckled as they crossed on leg over the other," how have you been settling in, Cloud?"

"I've been fine," he replied as he looked down at them from his standing position, "Why do you ask?"

"It seems like you've been getting along well with that girl," they commented as they checked their nails, "I would highly advise against getting any closer to her."

"She's just trying to help me," the male spoke, "she doesn't mean anything to me."

Cloud could see the figure's silhouette shift to face him and he couldn't see them, but he could feel their gaze of complete and utter doubt.

"I'm serious, boy," they spoke with a dark edge in their voice, "That girl is a monster. She's not human."

"And how would you know that?" Cloud asked with narrowed eyes, "What exactly are you anyways?"

"We'll see if you still say the same when the beast reers her true face," the figure huffed, "but for now, you have things to take care of. Until we meet again, Cloud."

Like the first time, the male began falling once more with panic flooding his system before he jolted awake in his bed.

The male let out a huff before he rolled to check the time on the clock that sat on his night stand.

Seven-forty-five, he still had fifteen minutes until he was supposed to meet next door for breakfast, so he just decided to play around on his phone.

The ravenette had added the numbers of all those who were at the weekly meetings for him so he had a group of experienced members to talk to if he needed anything, even thought he was sure that he wouldn't use them unless it was absolutely necessary.

When he came upon the female's contact, Cloud's mind wandered back to what he had learned about her the day before.

The girl was completely betrayed by someone she took in before, but she still found it in herself to say that she trusted the blond, a complete and utter stranger.

About five minutes later, a notification appeared on the screen, saying that the ravenette had texted him,

The text said that she was finished cooking so that he could come over if he was ready, which was what he did.

As Rhamina opened the door to let him in, a sweet scent wafted over to him.

"I made crepes today," the female said as she closed the door behind him, "I hope that's okay with you."

Normally the man wasn't very big on sweets, but he wasn't great in the kitchen and she was offering him free meals so he wasn't going to turn that down.

He took his seat across from the two girls and they all started eating their meals, small topics of chatter popping up as they did.

After breakfast and after Tijarah left for work, Rhamina sat down with Cloud on the couch to show him how to access the Apocalypse programs through apps on his phone.

"So you can sign into each app with a password or your biometrics, then scroll through what jobs are available," Rhamina explained as she helped the male get set up, "They're categorized by difficulty, pay grade, and how recently the request was put in."

"Then once you have a job picked, it'll have you confirm it by scanning your Apocalypse ID," she continued once the male had selected what job he wanted, "It had the meeting address here, so just put it into your GPS and it'll tell you where to go."

"Thank you," the male spoke as he stood up and walked towards the door.

"No problem," the female chirped as she walked him out, "have fun and good skills!"

Throughout the day the male just focused on getting jobs done, mostly killing monsters that had made it into the city.

At around noon, he received a text from the ravenette, reminding him to make sure that he takes a break to eat lunch.

By the end of the day he had managed to complete three jobs and secured himself quite a bit of money.

And thus began the ex-SOLDIER's new life in this new world.

~~~Fin. Chapter 3~~~

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What’s Your LINE-ID?

AU Fanfiction:

Kiryuuin Shou x Kyan Yutaka (Golden Bomber)

Note: So, maybe some of you have already seen the new video Golden Bomber released for their song LINEのBGMにしてるとモテる曲. It’s a parody of western style music videos and Shou looks like Justin Bieber and Yutaka looks like ... I don’t even know, haha. And because that is both awful and funny, I wrote an AU fic where Shou is a solo musician and Yutaka is an actor and they meet at this pool party from the video. I’ll attach the link, in case you have no idea what I’m talking about :D Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4su-0bX-6j4

The water of the pool reflected the bright afternoon sunlight; almost blinding if you looked into it directly.

Yutaka glanced over at the water longingly. It had probably heat up during the day already, though, and wouldn’t bring much relief. The air was hot and humid, but in the light summer clothes he wore, it was still endurable.

Next to him he felt the body heat of another person, as the woman leaned in. She was wearing nothing but a bikini and her skin felt warm and slightly sticky. It was a nice feeling and he did appreciate the curves of her full boobs nearly popping out. The sight was aesthetically pleasing and he had eyes after all. It didn’t get him especially excited, though.

“You are just too gorgeous”, he said and took hold of her hand to bring it to his lips.

Flirting and fooling around like this was part of the business. Yutaka enjoyed the pool and the sun and the buffet and the free drinks under the open sky. He enjoyed the music and the laid-back attitude of everyone involved. There were worse ways of networking. Somewhere around here was that foreign producer who would maybe give him a minor role in his new movie, if they shared a drink tonight. There was another actor, too, with whom Yutaka had worked on another project about a year ago. It would be worth a chat later on, to see if he knew about any upcoming projects.

But the flirting was a problem.

At these parties, there was always a number of young models and actresses, dressed in clothes too revealing to cover much of their body, hoping to draw attention and push their career that way. Some of the women were hired hostesses most likely, too. Most guys in the industry seemed to believe that partying without pretty women was impossible and if you didn’t share that opinion visibly, it would lead to irritation and if the next job offer came in, you weren’t first on the list to be called anymore.

So, Yutaka had learned to play his part and act like every other successful – slightly sexist – but still successful man in the entertainment industry.

The woman next to him giggled and pulled back her hand.

Yutaka had asked for her name earlier, but forgotten it already. At some point, it became all the same to him.

“And you are just too charming”, she said. Her voice wasn’t as high-pitched as he had remembered. He was relieved.

She leaned into him some more as if wanting to tell him a secret. Her smile changed. For a moment it wasn’t cute and alluring, but wide and showing just a little too many teeth. It was an honest smile and Yutaka knew that she had seen him through.

Women seemed to sense it more often than guys. He noticed how they relaxed around him, how flirting with them often came easier to him than it did to most men, because they lowered their guard around him. Intuitively, they seemed to know that he was no predator and that they didn’t have to watch so closely for the fine line of keeping him interested and not giving themselves away completely, because Yutaka wasn’t interested much in what they had to give anyway.

“I’m going to get myself a drink”, she said and got up.

Yutaka wondered what had given him away this time. He had made sure to pay attention to her, to flirt and keep body contact and his eyes had trailed off only a few times towards the shirtless guy, who for some reason had his face painted white. The guy seemed weird of course and Yutaka wasn’t interested in him either, but he would have approved if parties like this had included a set of hardly-dressed man next to the hardly-dressed women. It didn’t matter if the hosts thought looking for male company was a gross abomination of nature or if they just didn’t consider it might be of interest to anyone. Both options only proved their ignorance.

Yutaka stared after the woman, watching her butt move as she walked, in case anyone was paying attention to him right now. Good curves, but again, of not much interest to him.

After a moment, he allowed himself to turn his eyes away from her and check for the other guests. More women in bikinis, bright yellow, leopard print. A dude with long green hair. The host, who had invited Yutaka via Line only this morning. More women in bikinis, blue, orange, red painted lips. A guy in a white shirt with tattoos on both arms and …

Yutaka’s gaze kept lingering.

Now, that guy was handsome. Not exactly tall, Yutaka noticed, but his bare, tattooed arms looked good and strong enough to hold him tightly. His hair was blond, with white streaks on the side. On the other side, his hair was tugged away, exposing his pierced ear. Yutaka wished that he would sit down next to him and lean in until he could sense his body heat like the woman had before. This time, Yutaka would surely get more excited.

The handsome man smiled. His face changed a little when he did. It became less handsome – or rather, less smooth. His features looked more unique that way. He had a nice smile.

Shortly, Yutaka scanned the people he was talking to. If he knew one of them, maybe he would get them to introduce Yutaka to that guy. Not that it would lead to much. But it was always worth a try. He might even get to ask the question that he didn’t care to ask all the women here.

The guy right next to the blonde one was heavy and looked somewhat familiar. A DJ or something, Yutaka recalled. He had seen him at parties a couple of times before, but never talked to him. Maybe the guy was a musician, too. He got the looks. Radio pop, though. Combined with the rebel look, the teenage girls would go crazy.

The third guy in the group had purple hair. Yutaka had never seen him before.

Quietly he sighed. Chances weren’t good they would get to speak to each other. But if he stayed for the night, maybe they would bump into each other by accident eventually.

Yutaka turned his gaze away and stared at the empty glass in his hands instead. Time for another drink, he decided and got up from the bench. He wasn’t here for the company and the career only. Also, for the free alcohol.

Without hurry he strolled over to the provisional bar someone had erected right next to the pool. A guy in a black button-down shirt was handing out drinks. Yutaka felt sorry for him. It was too hot for an outfit like that. No wonder the guy with the weirdly painted face had taken off his shirt.

Yutaka pointed to his glass and turned around while he waited for the waiter to refill it.

Instinctively, Yutaka’s eyes trailed over to the group from earlier. The blonde guy was gone, though.

Yutaka furrowed his brow, checking the area around himself. There he was. Quite close to him, really. Carrying a tablet with prawns in his hand, he put it down on the table in front of a pretty woman in a blue bikini now.

Inwardly, Yutaka rolled his eyes.

Bringing food wasn’t the way to impress such a woman. You brought cocaine or a job offer or at least a charming remark. But not prawns at a party where the food was free.

He watched curiously how it was going, but he didn’t have to watch for long.

For such a handsome guy, blondie was quite awkward. Even from here, Yutaka could tell that he should straighten up more and move his head around less. When he looked that nervous from a distance, he couldn’t imagine what it would be like up close.

After barely a moment, the woman shook her head violently and walked away. Blondie remained there standing, the plate with prawns still next to himself.

Yutaka grabbed his glass, that was full again now, and decided that he didn’t give enough fucks for anyone at the party to not at least try. He had a question, and he was going to ask it.

He walked up from behind on the guy, who was desperately looking out onto the pool, obviously trying to spot a new target to release his awkwardness onto.

Yutaka put his glass on the table and took one of the prawns, cracking it open with his fingers.

“You are doing it wrong”, he said casually, making blondie flinch. Obviously, he hadn’t noticed him up until now.

Slowly he turned around.

Also, up close his face wasn’t bad. Yutaka felt a giddy tingling down in his stomach, that came just from looking at someone handsome. He wondered if the other guys at the party actually felt that way when talking to the female models and actresses around here and if that was the reason they always got invited. He wondered, if blondie felt that way when talking to them.

“What?”, blondie asked. His teeth were weird, Yutaka noticed. Still, it looked cute somehow.

“Picking up women. You shouldn’t let it show how nervous you are.”

Yutaka bit into the prawn instead of pealing it apart with his fingers. He wasn’t one for fancy eating.

“You mean they can sense my fear?”

Yutaka snorted.

“Something like that”, he confirmed.

“Kiryuuin Shou”, the guy said.

It took Yutaka a moment to realize he had just introduced himself.

“Kyan Yutaka”, he replied, extending one of his hands. It was sticky from the prawn.

Shou looked at it without moving for a second.

“Gross”, he said.

Yutaka put down the prawn and wiped his hands against his pants.

“There is no decent way of eating prawns”, he explained. “Don’t bring prawns when trying to hit on a woman.”

“What should I bring then?”, Shou asked. He didn’t seem curious, but rather amused. Yutaka thought he had a nice voice. The voice made his stomach feel tingly, too.

Even if this conversation would lead nowhere and even if Yutaka wouldn’t dare to ask the question, he had approached him for, talking to Shou was nice. Because he was handsome and had a cute smirk on his lips.

“A compliment”, Yutaka said and took up a second prawn.

“I’d prefer food over a compliment, if someone was hitting on me”, Shou mused.

Yutaka pushed the plate towards him.

“Here, have a prawn”, he offered.

Shou tilted back his head and laughed. He had a breathless laughter that sounded surprisingly mean and like he was suffocating at the same time. Yutaka’s chest felt tight and seemed to relax nonetheless. He had made him laugh. He had completely forgotten how exciting flirting could feel, if you actually meant it.

Still shaking his head in amusement, Shou took up one of the prawns. He was fumbling with it awkwardly, instead of just cracking it open. Yutaka threw the remains of his second one back onto the plate.

“It’s easy for you to say it, though. I’m no good with making compliments”, Shou said, looking down onto his hands as if he had to concentrate on what he was doing with them. “You surely don’t have to be nervous when talking to a woman and you know what to say. You are extremely handsome after all.”

Yutaka grinned. He couldn’t help it, although he wasn’t sure if Shou had actually joined in on the game on purpose. He just seemed clumsy and maybe his words were thought through no more than his movements.

“See, and you are not that bad with making compliments”, he teased. “I just got one from you.”

“You also got the prawns from me”, Shou pointed out.

Yutaka laughed. Shou was funny. He was funny in a way that only handsome guys were funny. When talking to them made you feel giddy and excited already, the laughter broke out faster, like a nervous reaction.

“I shared”, Yutaka said and watched Shou still fumbling with his food. He hadn’t taken one bite yet.

He seemed to notice Yutaka’s gaze, because he shrugged apologetic.

“It’s difficult”, he said.

“Just give it to me”, Yutaka sighed and took the prawn from Shou’s hands. Their fingers brushed.

For a moment, Shou watched expectantly as Yutaka cracked the shell open. Then, Yutaka bit into it.

“Oi!”, Shou shouted with laughter and his arm twitched as if he had to suppress the urge to shove Yutaka. Yutaka wouldn’t have minded a casual touch like that. “I thought you were going to open it for me, not eat it!”

“It’s wasted on you”, Yutaka said around the sweet meat in his mouth.

“You can’t just take it back! Then I’m taking back my compliment as well!”

Yutaka swallowed and grinned provokingly.

“So, I’m not extremely handsome anymore?”, he assured.

“Mildly handsome, at most”, Shou said and crossed the arms in front of his chest.

Yutaka had to laugh again and put down the prawn.

He wondered if Shou was actually flirting with him, or if he was just easy to talk to. Maybe he was so easy-going, because like every other guy at this party – he just didn’t consider that Yutaka might not be interested in the current bikini fashion.

There was a simple way of finding out of course, but Yutaka wasn’t quite ready to ask the question yet.

“You are an actor, aren’t you?”, Shou asked rather suddenly. “I think I saw you on tv before.”

Yutaka smirked and took up his drink. The prawns had made him thirsty.

“You are paying close attention to minor roles, if you noticed me”, he said and drank fast and with big gulps.

“Don’t put yourself down. The role I remember had two whole lines!”

“Ah.” Yutaka put down the glass and pushed up the sleeves of his shirt. “So it was that movie you saw. The one where I speak. A lead role, almost.”

Shou snorted. His face turned wrinkly when he grinned like that.

“And you are what? A teenage idol?”

“Yeah”, Shou confirmed. “Thirteen-year-old girls love me. Their mothers, too.”

Yutaka chuckled.

“Maybe you know my most popular song”, Shou continued. “It’s just a typical pop song about how my girlfriend broke up with me, because I cheated on her. And although I know that she will come back to me, because I’m just awesome, I’m still suffering in the meantime, but in a very manly way. The song is called >manly<. That’s how creative my company is.”

“Oh, you wrote that song!”, Yutaka exclaimed. “I’ve been wondering whom to sue for it for ages!”

Shou laughed quietly. Even if his voice was quiet like this, it still sounded like he was running out of breath.

“They just want to create this cool and manly image of me. But I’m neither. I hate singing those kinds of songs. I feel like a fraud. A fraud, who is not even likeable.”

“Would you rather write songs about how uncool you are?”, Yutaka teased.

Shou shrugged. He was grinning.

“It sounds like a niche market, doesn’t it?”

Yutaka laughed. He felt comfortable in Shou’s presence. He wasn’t only the most handsome person at this party, it seemed like he was also the most likeable. If Yutaka would only dare to ask his question, the afternoon would already have proven worth his time.

“We are out of prawns”, he observed, changing the topic abruptly.

Shou looked down on the plate.

“Did you just come over to eat up my flirting device?”, he assured.

Yutaka snorted.

“It sounds just wrong when you put it like that”, he said. “And no, I came over, because I had my eyes on you since you arrived. You look gorgeous.”

He spoke lightly, but he knew that he had given himself away with these words. There was no way Shou could misunderstand them and he wouldn’t be able to play it off as a joke. If Shou was taken aback by Yutaka hitting on him, he could only hope he had the decency to not go around talking about it. Yutaka had the feeling, though, that Shou wouldn’t harm him out of spite. He seemed like a kind person. That didn’t mean he liked men, though. Yutaka was almost holding his breath.

But Shou’s reaction was different from what he had expected altogether.

“See!” Shou threw up his hands in despair. “You can say things like that easily and it doesn’t even sound strange. It sounds charming! If I told a woman >I’ve been watching you for a while now, because you are pretty< people would call the police for sure! I just got that kind of face.”

For a moment, Yutaka just stared at him. He didn’t know if he was supposed to laugh. Maybe Shou was just trying to change the topic, because he had made him feel uncomfortable. But looking at him, Shou only seemed seriously troubled by the issue.

“Ehm”, Yutaka said. “I will try to be less charming, if that makes you feel better.”

“Nah.” Shou made a dismissive gesture. Suddenly, he seemed insecure about what to say.

Yutaka leaned forward, putting his weight onto his arms on the table plate. He stared at Shou, breathing heavily and flaring his nostrils visibly.

“I want to smell your panties”, he said.

Shou burst out laughing. It started as a loud bark, before turning into gasps again.

“Okay, you win”, he said. “Nowhere near charming.”

Yutaka granted him with his widest grin.

Shou turned his head away a little too fast.

Yutaka wondered if he had crossed the line. Maybe he had come on a little too strong and now Shou was scared off. Maybe he wasn’t used to guys flirting with him. Yutaka should have been more careful; he should have asked his question and then he should have kept his distance. He should have taken it slow.

“Shou!”, a voice shouted from somewhere.

Yutaka turned around. It was the dude with the purple hair shouting. He had his arm around a woman with black hair and red lipstick now.

Yutaka turned back to Shou.

He was standing even more hunched over, seemingly trying to make himself as small as possible.

With his thump he pointed over his shoulder.

“I’ll just be over there, hiding like a criminal”, he announced dryly.

“You don’t want to talk to him?”, Yutaka asked and nodded back to the guy with the purple hair.

“No”, Shou said. “He’ll drag me back to the others and they’ll ask why I haven’t found myself a girl yet, hahaha.” He inserted a jovial-straight-white-men laugh. “And all I’ll have to say is: Ehm, ehm, I ran out of prawns.”

Yutaka laughed. He understood Shou all too well, though. There was a lot of pressure to live up to their standards and not stand out.

“Can I join you?”, he asked. “I’m not keen on having to look for female company, either.”

Shou threw him a sly glance, before he turned towards the pool.

“I figured”, he stated with a small smirk.

Yutaka gritted his teeth. He wished Shou would make it a little clearer, if it was his own awkwardness keeping him from chatting up women or if he had similar reasons as Yutaka. He obviously didn’t mind Yutaka’s interest, but it was hard to tell, if he was politely indifferent or hesitantly curious. Yutaka hoped it would be the latter.

They were walking past the pool, towards the white building with luxurious hotel rooms to the right. Empty balconies were looking out onto the pool.

“Here”, Yutaka said and pointed to the balconies.

“We can’t just break in”, Shou protested and watched as Yutaka swung himself across the low barrier of a balcony on the ground floor.

“Sure, we can. No one is there. And we’re not going in.”

Shou hesitated, but finally climbed across the barrier as well. Although it wasn’t even waist-high, he managed to nearly fall over.

Yutaka sat down on the floor, leaning his back against the window pane behind himself. The enclosure of the balcony was made out of white bars and therefore see-through, but he was sure, that they were hidden from view here, if no one looked too closely.

Shou sat down right next to him. Between the bars, he was looking out onto the pool.

Yutaka watched him from the side.

“We should have brought snacks”, he observed.

Shou snorted. His grin went very wide whenever he did. Yutaka could see the teeth with the large gaps between them. It should have made him less attractive, but somehow it didn’t.

“You seem to like eating a lot”, Shou observed.

“Well, I’m certainly not here for the party alone”, Yutaka said.

Shou turned his head, looking at Yutaka directly. He wore blue coloured lenses. Yutaka wondered what his eyes really looked like. He hadn’t been genuinely curious about anyone for a long time already, but suddenly he wanted to know what Shou’s eyes looked like when they were brown and what his hair looked when it was tousled and what his chest looked like when he took off his shirt and if running out of breath during sex sounded a little like his laughter.

“I’m beginning to feel like you only wanted me for my prawns”, Shou joked.

There it was, the little treacherous smirk. He was flirting for sure.

Yutaka cleared his throat.

“Ehm, Shou, I wondered …”, he started and reached out to brush back the white strands of hair from Shou’s face. That was the test. If he allowed Yutaka to touch him, he could ask his question. If Shou wasn’t opposed to it and didn’t pull back, the answer would surely be positive.

Shou reached up as well, taking hold of Yutaka’s hand and putting it against his cheek. His face felt warm. Sitting so close to him, Yutaka noticed that Shou had a tiny mole on the left side of his nose. He noticed that his lips looked soft, too.

As if drawn in by him, he leaned in a little closer.

Shou guided his hand, pushing it down across his neck and holding it in place over his collarbone. If Yutaka paid close attention, he could sense Shou’s heartbeat again his palm faintly. His own heart was racing. He hadn’t wanted to touch anyone so badly in such a long time. He hadn’t wanted it to have meaning so badly, either.

He wanted to lean in more, but Shou was faster. He closed the distance between them, putting his lips against Yutaka’s. His mouth was warm and slightly wet as he parted his lips after a moment. It wasn’t a heated, greedy kiss, but a slow and curious one. After his awkwardness before, Yutaka had not expected Shou to be such a good kisser, but he was firm and gentle and he held Yutaka’s hand against his chest and Yutaka wanted to sink back and pull Shou with him and he wanted to keep kissing him until this stupid party was over and everyone had left and the sun came up again and really just for the rest of his life.

Shou pulled back, letting go of Yutaka’s hand. Yutaka let it slide down Shou’s chest, just feeling the outlines of his body, before pulling it back completely. If he continued touching Shou now, he wouldn’t be able to stop for a long time.

“Did that answer your question?”, Shou asked with a smirk.

Yutaka nodded.

He had forgotten what he had wanted to ask to begin with. His mind was empty and his body filled with nothing but the memory of Shou’s kiss. But at least for a little while, he was convinced, that this kiss had solved whatever he had wondered about – life, the universe and everything. Whatever the question, Shou’s kiss had surely provided the answer to it.

“Yeah”, he mumbled and leaned in again.

Shou chuckled and he seemed slightly embarrassed and very happy. Yutaka was confident he was going to let him kiss those lips again – the only thing he wondered about right now.

“Shou!”, someone shouted. “Shou!?”

Shou groaned and moved away from Yutaka. He made a face, that was all wrinkly and looked like he was in pain.

Whoever had shouted – Yutaka assumed it was the purple haired guy again – he wanted to punch him.

“I think I have to go”, Shou said. He spoke quietly.

“No”, Yutaka said immediately, grabbing for Shou’s hand, trying to hold him back.

“You hear it.” Shou raised his index finger as if wanting to point towards the voice that could still be heard in the background. “Jun sounds like he is about to have a heart-attack, if I don’t show my face around.”

Yutaka wanted to point out, that maybe he was going to have a heart-attack, if Shou left him now, but it sounded too cheesy and they hardly knew each other yet.

“Too bad”, he said.

For the very first time, one of those parties had turned out to not be a waste of time. Shou was handsome and he was funny and best of all, he was down for kissing Yutaka. He would regret it forever, if he let him go now.

Yutaka watched him scramble to his legs. His movements were clumsy and didn’t match with his style at all. His movements seemed to belong to another person, a person who made stupid jokes and who couldn’t chat up women and who wanted to write songs about being uncool. Yutaka liked that person better anyway.

Shou turned to climb across the barrier of the balcony and was close to tripping over again, when Yutaka finally remembered, what it was that he had wanted to ask all along. He felt stupid for almost missing his opportunity.

“Wait”, he called out, fumbling for his mobile in the pocket of his pants.

Shou stopped and turned around to look at him.

He seemed both glad to be held back and somewhat worried, as if he was afraid Yutaka could make leaving more difficult for him. Maybe, just maybe, he would also have preferred to kiss Yutaka again over going back to the pool party.

“Yes?”, he asked warily.

Yutaka granted him with the widest grin he could provide.

There it was, finally, the question that would make the entire day worthwhile. The question that would enable him to meet with Shou again, to find out about the way he gasped when you caressed his body, about what he liked for breakfast, about his sleeping habits and his favourite songs and his hopes and dreams and fears and the things he had never told to anyone yet. The colour of his eyes.

“What’s your Line-ID?”

#Golden Bomber #Kiryuuin Shou #kyan yutaka #fanfiction #fanfic #I posted this on the wrong blog first and nearly had a heart attack #also I don't know what kirisho's haircolour is so I called it blonde

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thisvilleun · 5 years

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[tutorial] How to level-up on Spectrum’s Daum fancafe! (PC version)⚝ (updated)

Spectrum Daum fancafe link:

http://cafe.daum.net/spectrumm/RXgo/26

**Note: This tutorial will focus mainly on how to answer the questions in the level-up application for spectrum’s daum fancafe. If you have any questions how to create a Daum account to login to, please refer to this tutorial or any other tutorial on the internet.

⚝ Logging into your Daum account (through KakaoTalk)

I find that logging into KakaoTalk for creating a Daum account is much easier since there is less stuff to fill-out. If you are looking for a tutorial on how to create a Daum account without Kakaotalk, please refer to the link listed above in the Notes.

1. First, go to Spectrum’s Daum fancafe homepage here: http://cafe.daum.net/spectrumm

2. Click ‘로그인’ which means ‘Login’ to login to your account.

3. Make sure you already have a KakaoTalk account. (If not you can make one here and sign-up!)

4. Fill-in your login information.

5. Check-off both boxes and click ‘Agree’.

6. Once you agree, you will be directed to a page that says something like this:

(considering that you don’t have a Daum account yet, click the box on the right that has an ‘X’)

7. Create and type in your Daum ID and press the blue box.

8. You’ve made your Daum account! Click the blue button to be returned to Spectrum’s fancafe.

⚝ Joining Spectrum’s fancafe

1. Make sure you’re logged into your Daum account. 2. Go to the homepage and click ‘카페 가입하기’ which means ‘join fancafe’.

3. Once you have joined you will be directed to this page:

4. When creating a nickname:

Do not use the members’ names or pretend to be staff.

⋆ ex.Villain(X), 스펙트럼은준(X), WYNNstaff(X)

You can use Korean and English in your nickname. There’s a 7-character limit if using Korean and a 12-character limit if using English.

⋆ ex.스펙타클민재(O), DongGyuluv(O), 재한love(X), 사랑해_화랑(X)

No words associated with your personally identifiable information.

Do not use words related to other entertainers.

Do not use foreign words or profanity.

[⋆] - credit to rules section of the fancafe

5. Submit after you are finished.

6. Done! Now you’ve joined Spectrum’s Daum fancafe!

⚝ Setting up your profile

Find the profile section of the upper left-hand side of the homepage.

Click “내 정보” which means, “my profile”.

Then, click “수정” to edit your profile.

Once you are directed to your profile settings, make sure:

‘아이디(ID)’, ‘성별/나이(gender/age)’, and ‘최종방문일(last visit)’ are all selected as ‘운영진 공개’.

the boxes for ‘전체메일’ and ‘전체쪽지’ are checked-off.

Click “수정” when you are done editing your profile settings.

⚝ Navigating the fancafe menu

Scroll down the homepage and find “SPECTRUM Level Up” in the menu.

“SPECTRUM Level Up” Legend:

📄“등업공지” = Level Up Notice Board

this is the place to find notices concerning leveling-up.

✎“등업신청” = Level Up Application Board

this is place to find the level-up questions, fancafe rules and the place where you can submit your level-up application!

✎“등업완료” = Level Up Complete Board

✎“등업리턴” = Level Up Return Board

if your application is returned here, that means you got one or more question wrong, and you must re-submit it.

Click “등업신청”.

(This is where you will submit your level up form.)

⚝ Sending in your level-up form

(190503 version) Questions for leveling up:

※ This will take place starting from May 6th!

Choose one of the two following methods for level-up!

1st Method | SPECTRUM’S ‘REFRESHING TIME’ Album Purchase Approval:

Make sure you’ve selected '운영진 공개' for all three boxes and have ‘전체 메일’ and ‘전체 쪽지’ both checked-off. (refer to the “⚝ Setting up your profile” section of this tutorial.)

*Note: You don’t have to type-in number one, only just check and make sure you’ve completed those tasks.

name / birthdate YY.MM.DD / fancafe nickname / daum ID / gender

purchased album approval

Purchase SPECTRUM’s ‘REFRESHING TIME’ album and get a paper(post-it) and write the date, your fancafe nickname and the unique number of the album and then stick the post-it next to the unique number of the album.

(Example of an approval photo above)

2nd Method | Questions related to SPECTRUM:

*Note: You don’t have to type-in number one, only just check and make sure you’ve completed those tasks.

name / birthdate YY.MM.DD / fancafe nickname / daum ID / gender

the names of all 7 members in order from oldest to youngest - [ 1)동규/92.11.16 2)민재/94.08.08 3)재한/95.07.01 4)화랑/95.12.05 5)동윤/98.06.03 6)빌런/98.07.17 7)은준/99.08.06 ]

write the symbolic color of each of the members.

민재:ㅇㅇ, 동규:ㅇㅇ, 재한:ㅇㅇ, 화랑:ㅇㅇ, 빌런:ㅇㅇ, 은준:ㅇㅇ

in SPECTRUM’s ‘AFTER PARTY’ Fanchant Guide what is “ㅇㅇㅇ” in the very first part “스펙트럼 ㅇㅇㅇ”? [hint: it’s written at the bottom of the video ]

from [SPECTRUM TV #19]

At the part where Villain’s Knit gets unbuttoned on his arm, which member is it? [hint: member with a white long-sleeve]

Who is the member who drew the drawing that is on the back of every photocard? [hint: the member who represents the color green]

Type your answers in the textbox.

Make sure you click the lock to keep your answers secret!!

Click “등록” to submit your answers!

Note: There’s a 300 character limit, but it shouldn’t take up more than 300 words.

(example image below:)

⚝ Waiting for the results

From my experience it took about 3~5 days for them to return my level-up form. (I submitted mine on 1/7~1/8 and got it returned on 1/10. After I fixed mine up I re-submitted it and got leveled-up within less than a day!)

It will take about a span of 3 days to a week (or more) for your level-up application to be processed.

Once it’s processed you will either have it returned or be leveled-up!

Once you are leveled-up the little guy’s hair in your profile should turn from gray to brown! Your level status should turn from ‘준회원’ to ‘정회원’ as well.

Another way to know you’ve leveled-up is through notification.

One way is: There should be a small text notification in the top left-hand corner of the homepage that says something like this: 축하합니다~ (your nickname)님이 정회원으로 등급 UP 되셨어요! {translation: Congratulations~ (your nickname) has leveled-up!

+ After you’ve been leveled-up now you will be able to have access to posts written by the members in the ‘From. SPECTRUM’ section!☺

⚝ If your application is returned

Check the “Level Up Return Board”.

Look-out for the little orange “new” symbol next to it for new posts! ↓

If your application is returned,

Fix whatever answer(s) to question(s) you got wrong.

Re-submit your level-up application with the correct answers to the “Level Up Application Board”.

⚝ TIPS! Things to consider

I highly suggest you write your answers in Korean. I haven’t tried writing mine in English so, I don’t know how it will work out in that way.

You can use google translate to help write your answers.

I suggest you skip lines in between your answers to stay organized.

Use the little word bank of Korean words I’ve made! (you’re welcome)

Here’s a few Korean words to help you!☺:

For filling-out your birthdate:

YY년MM월DD일

“년” = year

“월” = month

“일” = day

For filling-out your gender:

“여성” = female

“남성” = male

Members’ names:

“동규” = Donggyu

“동윤” = Dongyoon

“은준” = Eunjun

“화랑” = Hwarang

“재한” = Jaehan

“민재” = Minjae

“빌런” = Villain

Colors:

“빨간” = Red

“주황” = Orange

“노란” = Yellow

“초록” = Green

“파란” = Blue

“보라” = Purple

“ ㅇㅇ” means “blank blank” in Korean.

ex. question: villain’s full name in korean is “ㅇㅇㅇ”.

ex. answer: villain’s full name in korean is “이승현”.

I hope this tutorial helped a bunch! :-)

If you have any questions feel free to message me.

(updated as of: 190503)

**This tutorial and all translations were made by @thisvilleun !

※ please do give credit if you use it! thank you! ※

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maealbert · 5 years

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The Liaison // Birth

AU Characters: Team x OC (Lucy De Luca) A/N: Love ya’ll! Hope you enjoy! :) Master List The Liaison

tag list: @idkbutspencer @literallyprentissstwin @remember-me-forever-silent-angel @cynbx @tenaciousarcadeexpert @rawritsmolly @dontshootmespence @princesswagger15 @drspencerreider @illegalcerebral @marvelfanlife @rt8815 @punkpenguin2019 @extremeobsessions101

Today started like any normal day. Alarm clock went off at seven o’clock, everyone took showers and got dressed with either work or school. Spencer packed the lunches for the girls while Lucy got their go bags ready in case another case came through. The sun was just rising as they left the apartment to drop the girls off at school. Kisses goodbye before Julianne walked Vivien to her class and went off to her homeroom. They flashed their badges at the guards who let them into the parking garage. It was a quiet ride up to their floor, Lucy’s head resting on Spencer’s shoulder. Once the elevators came up to their floor, they went their separate ways. Lucy to her office and Spencer to the bullpen.

Everything still seemed normal.

Reaching her desk, she sets her bag down on the floor. She brought it knowing real well that Emily wanted her to stay here in case she went into labor. Right as she sat down, a knock came on her door. Garcia peered her head in. “Hey pretty mama.”

Lucy scoffs rolling her eyes. “I don’t feel so pretty.”

“Do we have a case today?”

“I haven’t finished going through these files yet to determine where we go next.”

“Please somewhere sunny.”

“Sorry boo,” Lucy says shaking her head. “Not this time. We either have Alaska or Connecticut. Not that you would mind either way, you get to stay here in your warm office.”

“True, true. I was just hoping for you guys. Do you need me to get your anything?”

“No, I’m good right now. I’ll probably make Spencer go get food on our lunch break.”

“Well holler if you need anything.” She says before leaving the office.

Still.. Everything was normal.

Finishing her case files, she grabs her phone and shoots a text to the team to be ready in the briefing room. Picking up the stack of files, she leaves her office and heads to the briefing room. She turned on the tv and pulled everything up. Seeing one of the photos come up of a woman, she held her stomach. Taking in a deep breath, she turns away from the screen and starts to place the files around the table at the different spots before taking a seat in her own chair. One by one the team filed into the room and taking their seats at the table.

“Oooo Connecticut.” Rossi says opening his file. “Beautiful place, but not beautiful pictures.”

“So far three women were reported missing since October,” Lucy started to explain the case. “Two turned up dead in different alleyways around the town square. The third, who was the last to go missing in October, turned up alive at the police department. She was bruised pretty badly around her face and she has bruises on her wrists.”

“The same as the first two victims.” Emily pointed out.

“They were pregnant?” Luke says.

Lucy nods her head. “All three were at least seven months pregnant when they went missing.”

“And the babies?” JJ questions. “What happened to them?”

Lucy shrugged her shoulders. “No babies were dropped off at the church, fire department, or the hospital.”

“The unsub could be keeping them,” Spencer speaks up. “It’s kind of like that one case we had years ago when girls were kidnapped, impregnated and killed after giving birth. The boys were kept but the girls were dropped off churches or hospitals.”

“But none showed up at either place,” Lucy says. “I checked with all three places and none reported anyone dropping off newborns.”

“They could have gone out of state.” Matt says. “If they don’t want the child to be found, it’s easier to drop them off over the border than to keep them in town.”

Lucy’s phone vibrated on the table and she lifted it to see a text from the lead Detective on the case from Hartford. “Well.. Another woman went missing. She’s nine months pregnant and due any day. Husband reported her missing when she didn’t come home last night. He said he thought she would be home when he was already asleep but when he woke up this morning, he found the bed empty beside him. No sign of her anywhere in the house, the car was found still at the doctor’s office just like the other three women.”

“Abducting women in broad daylight,” Emily says nodding her head. “That’s very risky.”

“I’m still waiting on the security footage to be pulled from the doctor’s office to see if we can try to identify who abducted killed this women.”

“Good, stay on top of that. When it comes through, I want files sent to both Garcia’s computer and to mine. She narrow down the height to help us narrow down our list and we’ll be able to profile the unsub from Connecticut. When we land, I want JJ, Rossi, and Tara to go speak with the husband of our fourth victim. Reid, you’ll go with Luke to scope out the crime scenes and see what you can gather with location, view of the alleyways from around the town and see if our unsub could have been spotted on traffic cameras of security cameras from other shops. Matt, you’ll be with me setting up at the station and speaking with the Detective. And Lucy--”

“I’m staying here, I know.” Lucy says as she gets up from her chair.

“Yay! You get to hang out with me.” Garcia says as she hugs Lucy.

‘Good luck.’ JJ mouths holding up her thumbs before leaving the briefing room behind the others.

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Lucy turned side to side in one of Garcia’s spinny chairs as she watched Garcia type quickly on her keyboard. Suddenly a video chat popped up revealing the other team members. “Hey all, I was able to figure out the height of our unsub. About five feet, six inches.” She says pulling height measurements.

“We can’t tell if it’s a male or female.” Luke says. “Do either of you see something that we missed?”

Lucy leaned forward in her chair as she looked closer at the security footage. This video was filmed right outside of the doctor’s office. She took the mouse out of Garcia’s hand and pulled up the other footages from various shops that had the alleyways in their view. “I stopped all the videos when our unsub appeared to see if it were the same person, because you know how our luck is….” Her voice trails off as she notices something in all three video feeds. “Wait..”

“What did you find?” Emily asks.

“Either our unsub is a virgin or their married.” Lucy says. “But that’s not all.”

“What else are you finding, Luce?” Spencer says.

“I see hair.” She says. “You can’t see it in the footage from the doctor’s office but you can see enough of it in the others to know it’s a female.”

“Damn she’s good.” Luke says.

“I play a lot of hidden objects games. It’s easy for me to spot things out of the ordinary.” Lucy says. “She must have a purple ombre because you can see some of her black hair underneath her hoodie.” Lucy forward all four videos until she got the unsub’s face shown. “Garcia, do you think you can try to get a photo recognition from these?”

“I can try.”

“Thanks Lucy, Garcia send us what you find.” Emily says before she logs out of the video chat. Leaning back in the chair, Lucy begins rubbing her stomach as she feels a contraction hit. Keeping a straight face she continues rubbing her stomach until the pain subsides.

Back in Washington, Connecticut; the team starts going over all of the information that they had so far. “So we now know we’re looking for a female with a purple ombre,” JJ speaks up. “How easy could that be?”

“Not so easy.” Luke says. “If we go out looking for her, she could just hide.”

“Guys guys guys!” Garcia exclaims as the video chat pops back up.

“That was quick.” Matt says as he turns his attention to the laptop.

“Did you get an ID?” Emily asks.

“And more!” Garcia exclaims again. “Thanks to our keen eye over here,” She says pointing at Lucy. “I ran recognition through every day data base known to man and BINGO! Our unsub pops up. Although the photo that came up is from her time in juvie. But I did some photoshop and changed her hair to what it looks like now and BAM!” She shoots the photo over. “I give you twenty-one year old, Marie Gilmore. Such a sweet girl who got mixed up in the wrong crowd. Drugs, illegal drinking, vandalism, trespassing, and the gig that landed her in juvie is assault and battery. She was in there for two years before being released at eighteen. Still a druggie though.”

“Whoa whoa, bring up the photo of the girl she beat up in high school.” When Garcia pulled up the photo of the girl, Lucy compared the photo to all four women. “Guys, do you see what I see?”

“The patterns are the same.” JJ says.

“Look at their wrists.” Rossi says pointing between all four photos.

“Do you think that she did the same thing to these women like the girl in high school?”

“It’s a possibility,” Emily says. “We can’t rule it out.”

A knock comes on Garcia’s office door. “Come in!” Garcia calls.

“Hey Garcia, I was wondering if you had any--Oh, I didn’t realize you were in the middle of a conversation.” Hotch says.

“No you’re fine! What brings you by?”

“I need tape.” He says.

Lucy chuckles as she rubs her stomach again. “You came all this way for some tape?”

“No, I was already here.” He says as Garcia hands him her tape dispenser.

“Oh yeah! You start today!”

“Wait, what?” Lucy says looking between the two.

“Yeah I’m your fill-in when you go on maternity leave.”

“But I’m not even on maternity leave yet.”

“I know, I’m just helping you with some paperwork right now. Don’t worry, I know you have a system. Emily explained to me how you do it.”

“Well…” Lucy says turning back around. “Good. Because I think I’m in labor.”

“What?!” Garcia and Hotch exclaimed followed by the team over the video chat.

Soon Spencer rushed out of the room. “Spence!” JJ calls running after him.

“My wife is in labor!”

“You forgot the keys!” She says tossing him the car keys to one of the SUVs outside. “Good luck!”

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“No, I can’t do this.” Lucy says shaking her head. Garcia was trying to keep her calm and not to stress herself out. “I need Spencer. Spencer needs to be here. I can’t do this without.”

“Relax, everything is going to be okay.”

“Garcia, he can’t miss the birth of our baby--Oh my gosh, the girls! Someone has to pick them up from school!”

“Don’t worry about them. I sent Hotch to go pick them up.”

A knock comes on the door before a few nurses walk in followed by the doctor. “I’ve been informed that you’re dilated enough to start pushing.”

“No, no, no.” Lucy says shaking her head. “Can’t we wait until my fiance gets here? He can’t miss this.. Please, I need him.” Lucy says, her eyes watering over.

“We can’t wait, Lucy.” The doctor says. “Now when I tell you to, I need you to push.” The doctor says as she positions her on her stool. “And push!” Lucy’s screams filled the room as she gave her all.

Her screams filled the room as pain coursed through her body. Marie hovered over the woman as she kept pushing. “One more!” The doctor says as she looks up at Lucy. “He’s almost here.” Marie says as her smile grows bigger. “He’s here!” The doctor exclaims holding up a baby boy for Lucy see.

“Can I see him?” The woman says as she lifts her head from the pillow. “Can I see my baby?” Marie ignores the woman as she wraps the baby up in a blanket and leaves the room. The woman yelled after her and crying for her baby.

“You did it.” Garcia says as the nurse places the baby boy on Lucy’s chest. “He’s gorgeous.”

Marie heads for the nursery when she hears a click of a gun behind her. Stopping her tracks, she keeps her back faced to JJ. “Slowly turn around.” She growls. JJ wasn’t the type to take kindly to an abductor. Especially ones who kidnapped children. Marie slowly turned on her heels and looked up at JJ. Keeping her gun train on Marie, she loops her other arm around the baby and bringing him into her chest careful not to wake him. Emily walks around them and handcuffs Marie’s hands behind her back.

“Marie Gilmore, you’re under arrest for the four abductions, three murders, and four kidnappings. You have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of law. You have the right to an attorney, if you can’t afford one, one will be appointed to you. Do you understand your rights?”

“Yes..” Marie muttered as she still stared at the baby.

Lucy couldn’t take her eyes off of her son. Though he only had a little bit of dark hair on his head, she had a feeling it would grow out to be like his father’s. A knock came on the door and Hotch peered his head in. “How are you feeling?” He asks walking over to the bed.

“Just really tired,” Lucy says smiling down at her baby. “It happened so quickly.”

“I was surprised.” Hotch says chuckling. “Have you picked out a name yet?”

Lucy nods her head. “Isaiah Derek Reid.”

“Oh Derek is going to love his name.” Garcia says as she snaps a photo of Lucy and Isaiah and sending it to the team. Lucy’s phone buzzed on the table beside the bed.

“Hello?” Lucy answers once Garcia handed her her phone.

“Hey baby, how are you feeling?”

“Tired..”

“I bet. I took a red A and I should be there in about an hour. Get as rest as you can, alright? I love you.”

“I love you too.”

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“How did the case go?” Lucy asks the team.

“Deja vu, I swear.” Rossi says rubbing his forehead. “Kathleen gave birth at the same time you did. A baby boy.”

“And Marie? How did it end for her?”

“I think once she got a look at JJ, she didn’t think twice about wanting to fight her off.” Emily laughs. “If looks could kill…”

JJ rolls her eyes as she smiles. “Don’t mess with her.” Luke jokes playfully pushing JJ.

“Well I’m glad you guys came,” Lucy says. “But I really want to thank Garcia. She is a trooper!” Lucy adds with a laugh.

“I did not pass out,” Garcia says nodding her head. “I am quite proud of myself.”

“I’m sorry, can I hold him again?” Emily asks. “He’s just so darn tiny!”

If you enjoyed this than please be sure to leave it some love!

Btw, did this remind of when JJ went into labor?

#criminal minds #criminal minds au #the liaison #original character #lucy de luca

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So I’m thinking about Borderlands again... Listening to music used in Borderlands... So I thought, why not go for it again? Explain my SI in one, comprehensive post, make another tag-series out of it (to go with my BnHA Edition one), and make it easier on us all, huh?

So here we go! Borderlands, the Self-Insert Edition! Featuring my SI, Rena “Gremlin” Marlow...and co.

Rena Marlow, a daughter of a brilliant scientist of their galaxy and a mother known- if lesser- by her photography of various planets and stars.

Brown hair parted down the middle with strands of brown hair that fall next to her face, in later years; in childhood, she just has fringe. Dark green eyes and wears glasses.

A happy, oblivious kid growing up. Liked to believe in fairytales, love at first sight, superstitions... A whole bunch of things. Very imaginative, in that sense.

Idolized her father. People seemed to adore him and knew him wherever he went. He spent long hours in his lab, making Rena daydream of all the cool things he was inventing back there. She was never allowed back there, usually, so she stuck to waiting around and staring at his lab door.

Eventually, he did invite her in, one day. Wanted help. The idea was so cool! Helping her dad with a project?! Wow!!! What cool thing would she get to work with?

...It wasn’t at all as pleasant as she’d hoped.

What he needed help with is all she’d ever know as “The Machine”. A smooth, pure white, helmet-looking contraption with lots of cords going into it, during the early days of her father hammering out the details of it.

It hurt then, too. Not being fully worked out, it tended to shock her a lot. Strapped down to a chair, she couldn’t go anywhere... Her father would carry her back to her room and- at some point- the process would begin again.

Carried on for a few months until it didn’t hurt anymore; it started...teaching her things. Suddenly, she knew all about oceanic life and could speak of it at a college level. Write her own studies on plant life. Her father was proud of her, The Machine didn’t hurt anymore, and even her often space-case mother praised her. It felt...amazing!!

Eventually the testing stopped, though. Her father brought in a guy to help and Rena was growing up, as the years passed.

In about junior high, she met a guy. Absolutely starstruck by him and settled on them being “soulmates” within a month or two... Not that it was just her saying this, mind you; her boyfriend certainly encouraged it.

Her friends were cautious, but supportive. Be chill, girl. Still a lot more in life, you know? Besides, considering who her dad is...?

Rena didn’t pay it much heed. Instead, more plans for the future! More dreams and secrets and quiet moments...

Well, until another few years later. Wandering the town at night, heading home...and spying that- just down the street- her supposed “boyfriend” was being sweet to some other girl, said he loved her, and kissed her.

It destroyed her. Her home life had never been stellar and she’d been hoping that with him...she’d be able to get out. They’d be a “happily ever after”.....

Rena instead decided to run away. That night. Get as far away from here as possible. Pack her bags, slip as much money and a little more as seemed necessary...and as a final knife to the back, steal The Machine.

It’s no secret it’s been killing other people, anyways. They can’t handle their minds being fed so much information, so it tends to backfire and rapidly destroy their mind... Rena’s never had that issue, though. Likely for growing with it as it evolved...so hers now.

Books it off-planet that night and goes as far as she dares within the next solar cycle or two.

Stays on another planet for a few months. Fakes an ID and goes to a local college... Who calls her out for being a daughter of Dr. Marlow anyways and practically sweeps her in with excitement.

Ends up acing everything far too easily, thanks to The Machine. But it all gives her a good starting point into the world ahead and a fancy piece of paper that basically says, “congrats, you understand what a Science is.”

At this point, understands: biological science (biology, zoology, oceanology), botany, geology, chemistry, ecology, and physics. And she’s just getting started!!!

Keeps running once more ‘til the funds are running low...and that’s when she finds Hyperion.

Initially joins under Tassiter, still recruiting people for Hyperion. He’s...doubtful of her true age, but accepts upon seeing what she can do when he allows her a trial run of things he wants to see done. Fast and experienced despite her face, he lets her join.

Enters R&D from that point on, at first as an on-hand assistant...before rising up to earn her own private lab and assisting with bigger and better projects. Rena proves herself worthy of it, and Hyperion bends a little to allow her, when possible.

It’s around this time, as they move into Helios and continue to set up, that an old crew hunts down Rena. They force her to accept their black-market deals or they report her back to her father... After all, they work for him, too, but are always lookin’ to cut a deal with the better side. Rena gives in.

The events of the Pre-Sequel go down. Rena largely keeps herself locked inside her dark laboratory, hiding away in one of her cabinets. It’s a terrifying, defining moment for her...and one that also helps survive the inevitable Jack takeover.

Honestly, that goes over like day to night for her. One minute, it’s still a “Tassiter” owned company, then before she knows it, Helios is complete and “Handsome Jack” owns the place. Well, okay then. Let her have her coffee as usual, oh Jack sir, and we’re all good.

Honestly, barely leaves her lab. Too much work going on. If not a Hyperion-issued project, then one of her own designs. She’s got a lot of room to work with and she’s gonna make the best of it, dammit!

Still manages to make a friend or two; meets Leah around this time. A very cheerful young woman who’s somehow dug ABBA out of their grave and is fond of “Dancing Queen.” Helps Rena keep in touch with her “feminine side” not that she sees much point to it...

They hang out a bit, anyways. It’s the only time Rena is guaranteed to sleep. Especially in a proper bed.

(Doesn’t sleep in the employee-issued rooms. Gives her paranoia of being alone; she’d rather be close to her work than stuck in a near-permanent panic attack.)

Her first pet project? Lizards. With a whole process of breaking down other key DNA sequences from other species. Why? Lizards....into dragons.

Silverstreak is her “main” partner. Silver dragon, with blue eyes. Incredibly bossy and sassy to the others; easy to assume their leadership position.

Other dragons include:

Apophis: Big male dragon, slightly bigger than Silver. Purple and gold scales, with four eyes total. An absolute jerk who tries to harass Silver, but they have none of it. Would kill a family for a cornchip, probably. And he doesn’t even like them!!

Dymri: Forest green dragon, with brown horns and a streak of fur down his back, with tufts on the bend of his forelegs and hind legs. Is now missing his left wing, due to Apophis ripping it nearly entirely off. (It ended up being amputated.)

Munda: Dymri’s mate. Ended up sprouting a lot more fur than he did, but in a more unusual color: green. Looks like a dappled forest with blue eyes and an attitude.

Poseidon: Blue, serpent dragon. Fairly big, though not as much as Apophis. Likes hanging out in water... That with his scale color, thus, the name.

Firestorm: A red, wyvern dragon. No arms, just wings, only hind legs. Red scales with bright green eyes. Truly a charmer.

Smokey: Firestorm’s mate. Dark scales that give off a black-grey color, which inspired her name. Red eyes. Has a tuft of fur at the end of her tail.

Sugar: Another female dragon named for her brown and cream-colored scales. Also a wyvern, with her hand-wings. Very sweet and friendly to anyone she meets. Small streaks of feathers from head to her tail.

Little Angel: One of the G2 dragons, along with three others of her nest. Has a broken horn on her right side. Black and white-splotched scales. A little trooper and totally not named after a certain siren...

.....Along with many more who are still unnamed to this date. From the first set (G1s) to the babies some pairs have had (G2s).

Cue the events of Borderlands, as Rena continues to raise dragons and serve Hyperion. Depending on who-what-where, this may be where some romances start their growth...but we’ll get to that later.

People continue to bother her. A nickname surfaces... “Gremlin.” Because she’s pretty short (at 5′2″ without her trademark heels), tends to be more active when most people would feel the need to sleep, and creeps around with a hunched back, more often than not. Truly, a gremlin among them.

Nothing really happens in this time period up ‘til BLands 2, in which Rena decides to perfectly time a trip to Pandora with a small group of scientists. Nobody’s really gotten personal with studying the Pandoran landscape, have they? So... Guess Rena will do it, then!

Only to find out why nobody has ever done that; raiders and bandits. Infiltrating the camp barely a week in.

Everyone is murdered. Rena escapes with the briefcase that holds The Machine, but is otherwise alone and stuck on Pandora.

Ends up trying to blend in, after a few weeks. There’s only so much an intelligent woman could do here...but how about one who acts like your typical psycho? Worth the shot, at least.

Slowly, the good scientist slips away into a woman masquerading madness while seeping into it, at the same time.

Pops is one of her first friends on Pandora. Someone she trusts...and a father figure to her. He’s a big man who knows hacking and coding, so she learns a bunch from him. They build robots together! It’s awesome.

From there, she gets introduced to this eye-guy waaaaaaayyyyy across the way over a call from Pops to that other guy. Rena ends up making him “Fly Boy” to do deliveries without leaving home.

Said guy looks out for Rena now, getting her new glasses whenever she breaks hers.

Made a few other bots in her time. One that only screamed “fuck” at the top of their lil’ volume, a fixed Claptrap unit with no sense of direction, and a bot named Sparky. But bandits destroyed him a few days into life. RIP, Sparky....

That nickname Helios gave her? Gremlin? Others call her that, now. All know of Gremlin!! ....Well, not all, but a lot.

Including Pyrotech and Meowzer. They run a small gang of bandits and are probably dating...? Gremlin still doesn’t know, either way, but she survived meeting them, so that’s cool.

Met another person who calls himself Scabbs. Largely because he’s got CIP (can’t feel pain; a marvel that he’s still alive when Pandora is your home planet) and so has a fair amount of scars and scratches... Ever since meeting up with Rena, she’s essentially adopted him and makes sure he’s got no life-threatening injuries.

Which is lowkey hilarious, considering Scabbs has made it 17 years without dying, so he’s not exactly in need of a parent, but... He likes Rena, so it’s cool.

Stocks up on weapons, clothes, and masks. All looted from dead bodies and washed up a little. Rena herself as taken to wearing a black tank top, torn up into a crop-top look, a Marauder jacket, and altered, brown pants. Has boots for shoes. Where she got ‘em, nobody knows.

Is stuck on Pandora all the way ‘til Tales... In which she tends to join up in an attempt to get back to Helios and get all of her shit back.

With that covering the basics... Let’s get down to the AUs, then the shipping verses after that, ey...?

AU 1- AI Rena: There’s two verses for this AU. (As long as this post already is.)

Verse 1: Rena owns the Wildlife Exploration Preserve shortly before the events of Tales. However, she didn’t realize one of her pet projects wasn’t bonding to her properly. While going in for feeding and check-ups, the beast killed her and activated a failsafe that resulted in an AI version of herself being activated.

Rhys, having no concept of safety, jabs a port into his head to try and get information on more pieces for Gortys. Just like a time before with Nakayama, Rhys instead downloads a whole ‘nother AI into his noggin.

Now he’s got an Asshole and a Know-It-All Scientist taking root in his skull. The good news is Rena is much nicer to him than HJack is. The bad news is the two bicker a lot because of it.

Where Jack is blue with yellow eyes, Rena is a green holo with- at first- light, green-yellow eyes. Over time, her eyes shift to yellow, however. Nobody is sure why, but Rhys and Rena agree to blame Jack for it. (Who is proud at her matching him, but less thrilled to be blamed for something he didn’t do... Intentionally.)

Lots of Rena snarking Jack. He can touch her, being another hologram like he is, but he can’t hurt her. Turns out her processing power comes from The Machine itself, so she can easily overpower his cruddy design from Nakayama.

Has a side path where she can enter a basic, non-perfect android body to reboot the systems at the Preserve, but later needs to transfer in another, more humanlike model to function better.

....HJack is not pleased with her upgrades, considering she’s getting the better end of the deal than he’s got. Rhys isn’t impressed with that tone, either. >:/

Verse 2: The Machine takes it’s toll on Rena. Her mind could better withstand it’s power, having being an unwilling subject in the early days of it’s development, but... Even her mind can’t keep this up forever.

It starts with forgetting her name. Won’t answer to Rena, but Gremlin works.

Forgetting her nickname.

Slowly, everything she’s ever learned starts going away. Bit by bit, losing what memories The Machine gave her. Rage sets in around here, recognizing her memory is no longer perfect and putting her into a panic of self-awareness.

Memories of people slip away now. Often cries for her ex or where her parents are.

Eventually is confined to bed, where her brain is failing to the point it can’t remember to continue to make the organs function. It’s around this point that she finally dies.

Her personality and memories were embedded into The Machine; her final goodbyes to friends and loved ones. Her AI keeps people from using it after her and requests that it be destroyed soon.

Just like in the first verse, her eyes start out a yellow-green. Then a yellow... If not destroyed, AI Rena’s eyes will sometimes flicker to red, showing how deeply the corruption has started effecting her.

Either way, The Machine will be unusable. Just as how Rena believed it should’ve been.

Siren AU: An AU in which Rena was instead born a Siren. She sports green tattoos on her right side and often made them glow when she was younger, for her amusement and not understanding who she was...or her powers.

Not that her parents helped any. Her mother was just completely confused and arguments over what to do with her were had a lot. Rena’s mother wanted to get her checked out at a hospital. Her father believed she truly was a Siren and wanted to experiment on her.

The arguments eventually drove Rena away and- living on Elpis at the time- Rena began the first dip into her powers: summoning her Siren wings (in a light green tinge) and flying away...off Elpis! Taking a trip to Pandora in order to hide from her fighting parents.

Phasecommand- Her main Siren ability. When executing, her eyes roll back and it summons Pandoran beasts/animals to her side to control and fight her enemies. However, any creatures that don’t disperse afterwards can be considered enemies to her allies or her, if she accidentally hurts one.

When using Eridium, her tattoos will change into more of a teal color and glow more.

Likes the idea of people, but prefers the animals and Guardians. People are too much for her to handle...

Somehow still summoned little dragons...? Is only ever seen with ones the size of cats or lizards, but it’s presumed that- like her main verse- they’ll one day mutate to full, dragon-of-legend glorious sizing.

Dragon AU: In one of two paths, with either Rena being one of the dragons of Eridian times OR having accidentally turned into one of her own dragons.

Either way, her dragon form typically looks a little something like this.

The first verse has her being more curious and prone to friendliness...but ready to snap if she senses ill intent. Still, tries to be optimistic, at least. Rests within a cave near one of the vaults.

About the size of a two-story home, if not a little bigger.

Rena speaks Eridian, but has the capacity to learn present day English, if given the time to learn.

The runes on her body allow her to safely use Eridium. By using it, her systems can filter it properly into a variety of uses, from specialized fire to shape-shifting!!

Verse two is just...Rena being done with this bullshit. All these years of science, for what? To be stuck as a dragon?!? The only useful thing that comes of this is not only does she now understand the world through a dragon’s eyes, but their language, as well.

Turns out, the language of the dragons is actually original Eridian and not whatever mumbo-jumbo you hear most present day speakers go for. It’s an interesting bit to learn, however it’s debatable if the cost was worth it.

(Will eventually return to normal with an understanding of Eridian, but I like just putting my SIs through nonsense, too.)

otp; Science and Violence (Rena/Jack): As literally pulled out of the RP @punk-opossum and I did a few months ago!! Cause I basically consider that “canon” for this ship, now. (Okay, with a few bits I’ve added in, but LARGELY pulled from our RP.)

They’ve been around each other since the beginning, really. Rena oblivious and never noticing Jack, but he’s seen her around. Quiet, nerdy gal who bothers nobody and does her job. Is kinda cool, but no other opinions.

Then, we truck over to the events during Borderlands 2...and things get tossed around like pizza dough. [Note: Nisha and Angel are dead at this point.]

Starting with Jack bothering her workspace. Shooting her head of department and declaring her in charge of Literally Everything R&D now. Rena is just trying to fucking work, ohhhh my god.

Not only that, but Jack casually shoves the Destroyer project from Nakayama right into her hands, as well. Rena has never been more overwhelmed in her life....!

And that’s BEFORE all of the innuendos and Jack’s husky voice getting way too close to her ears!!

...So yeah, it definitely starts as what should’ve been a fling, but attachments get all sorts of muddled. Rena’s the sort of balance Jack finds himself craving and, well... He’s fucked, but giving her the little things she thought she lost when her ex cheated on her. So maybe...it’s okay?

Lots of Jack being thirsty while Rena’s trying to work. Or him being clingy when she wants to go back to work... Far as Jack’s concerned, his job is full of free time and is so boring without her around. However, Rena can actually prioritize her work and keep this company’s science division flowing, soooo.... Hmm.

Rena has the struggle of a lifetime, but she still ends up getting her trip to Pandora to do on-planet research...much to Jack’s paranoia and displeasure. (Which ends up being right on the money, despite his best efforts.)

Can’t believe Rena would be dead. They can’t find her body either, so like... Far as Jack’s concerned, she isn’t dead. Doesn’t mean he’s any more pleased or sane about the whole situation, though.

Jack goes full-tilt into madness, sending people hunting through Pandora to try and find Rena. Hilariously, they’re always close, but either she just left her camp or they pass right by her hiding spot.

They don’t find each other until a few years later, when Handsome Jack himself is personally tearing a town apart on Pandora, still engulfed in his hatred for the planet and presumably taking Rena from him.

He aims his gun at a kid, but freezes. Something about her little tanned face, dark brown hair, and...hetrochromatic eyes....has him frozen in his tracks. Then her mother comes running up, their eyes meet, and Jack nearly roars in realization.

She’s dirty as hell, hair messed up and toting new scars from Pandoran life, but that’s Rena...!! Who’s... Who’s the kid, though?

He nearly has another freakout at her assurance this little girl- Carina- is his daughter?????

He’d want to not believe it, but Rena consistently swears off having messed around with anyone else. Oh, and the fact Carina happens to have eyes like her papa. (But unlike his heterochromia, hers is central; a different color surrounding the pupil.)

With this, they kicked off most of Jack’s thoughts for the Warrior, instead Jack now focusing a large chunk of time for the fact Rena’s back, not dead, and was badass enough to raise and protect a baby on Pandora. Mother of the Year award?? Y’all know who it’s going to.

Carina ends up being Jack’s lil’ princess. The only reason she’s not a spoiled brat is cause Pandora does shit to ya and also Rena knows the limits of taking care of kids; so really, she’s mothering both Carina and Jack.

THOUGH BEFORE I FORGET!!! There is a subset of this verse where also Angel is alive, didn’t have to keep being treated like she was, and- while it was a bit late- still managed to get a better mother figure. Oh, and Carina still happens later in this same verse, so her mood improves even more to have a little sister.

...Jack is totally a little salty that Rena and Angel get on so well. He’s an ass, but does love his daughter, so he’s like a sulky cat, knocking stuff over and hovering around, hoping for attention and acknowledgement.

Rena keeps Jack in line those days, so...eventually Angel and her father get on a better foot than before and he’s very okay with everything and clingy to his family.

otp; Rulers of Pandora (Jack/Rena/Nisha): In which Jack and Nisha take in one of the local Hyperion nerds to spice things up... Only to decide, “naaahh, she’s a keeper.”

Took her into their fray around the early events of Borderlands. Where things are fun, but could be more fun... You know?

Jack’s seen Rena around before, but never gave her much thought... His mind is simply too here-and-there to keep notice for long when he’s trying to pick at more shallow aspects to bring in.

Nisha catches her eye, though, and decides she’s curious when Rena immediately looks away, blushing up a storm.

Turns out, Rena can’t handle Nisha. At all. Immediately turns into a klutz around her. Nisha finds it fucking hilarious and proceeds to drag her off to show Jack...who also realizes how hilariously awkward Rena is. They’ve taken her in, since.

Primarily still spends a lot of time up on Helios, but on occasion, will go down to Pandora to spend time with Nisha once HJack gives her Lynchwood.

Is definitely the little “pet” of the trio and is mercilessly teased by them for it, but anyone else messes with Rena? You’ve now got two of the six galaxies most lethal minds on your ass. Start running.

Nisha: I don’t like cute things. I kill cute things. Rena: cooing over some baby skag bc she’s an idiot Nisha: .........For fuck’s sake--

In other words, both Nish and Jack both soften up a bit for Rena. Which is a mistake for anyone else to see, cause while they’ll let their favorite nerd frolic in a field of baby animals, they’d still sooner shoot an annoying pest.

Nisha and Rena are the only ones to know about Jack’s true face under the mask. Nisha doesn’t really care, but Rena? Loves it.

Two Murderers and the Embodiment of Sunshine. That’s how you sum them up.

otp; love like fools (Rena/Rhys): I don’t know what Imma do with this anymore, but it exists as a verse, so I’m gonna heckin’ include it.

Met around the events of BLands/BLands 2. Rena had overworked herself on a project and was hiding in a break room. Cup of orange juice in hand and staring at it. Rhys couldn’t sleep, so he came in... They had an awkward conversation, but not much else.

Curious, Rhys starts stopping by the R&D department more and starts realizing the issue: she never takes a break or seems to get much rest. Work, work, work, day and night. Isn’t that exhausting??

So Rhys takes it on himself to get her food and drink. Mostly snacks, but whatever works. He also tries to ask about her projects, but it largely goes over his head when she starts doing her usual round of science talk.

He tries, though. So that’s nice.

His crush is obvious as shit as time keeps going on. Even his friends notice. Leah notices. Rena? Does not. She is oblivious as heck. Rest in pieces, Rhys.

Literally nothing happens there. Just Rhys doing his best to get Rena’s full attention with no luck. Right up to her eventual trip-and-trap to Pandora.

They don’t meet again ‘til the events of Tales! While wandering around the landscape, Rhys bumps into “Gremlin”, realizes she looks familiar and...

Rhys: ...Are you Rena? Dr. Marlow? Gremlin: Who...? WAIT A MINUTE!!! YOU?!? Rhys: Y-YEAH!!! YOU’RE ALIVE?!?

Everyone else is confused, but Rhys and Rena proceed to catch up. Meanwhile, HJack is making comments that are making Rhys’ face pink and trying to mentally shut the AI up before he says something embarrassing to Rena.

Which basically happens anyways, cause he excuses himself to walk away, thud his head into the caravan, then walk back trying to act like nothing happened. Where were we? #Concern from Rena.

She joins the troupe for fun times, being surprisingly okay when Rhys admits that HJack’s AI is like...inside his head. Just chillin’ there. Well, when not being usual Jack, but you know.

(In some variations of this, AI Jack was programmed to know Rena, so he’s twice as insufferable as usual. However, this isn’t often the case.)

It takes Rhys forever and plenty of nagging from HJack before he even tries to smooch Rena. And even when he does, it was still a terrible idea, cause Jack wouldn’t shut up. Thankfully, Rena’s still pretty chill about the whole thing.

Fiona and Sasha warm up to Rena over time, Vaughn’s heard about her from before, so they all pal up while Rhys has a crisis over HJack ruining his romantic life. It’s a nice break from freaking out around other people, at least.

Joins them on the trip to Helios. She needs to check up on her babies... It’s been so long....

An expert at sneak, a duck around cameras and back up to the old employee living quarters... It’s amazing what a brush, hot water, and a change of clothes can do for a person. (Gotta readjust to heels again, though.)

While Rhys and Fiona are taking over Helios to get the next piece for Gortys, Rena makes her way back to her lab. Not everyone is gone, but... A lot of the G1s have passed away and even a few G2s. Silver and Apophis stay strong, but have been slowly getting bigger in Rena’s absence.

Encourage the trope into an old, cleaned out nesting box and start figuring out her escape plan from there, trying to get in contact with Rhys and Fiona. Only for an eerily familiar voice to pour out around Helios...and announce Rhys the new leader of Hyperion?!

Shit. Shit, shit, shitshit- Now what? She didn’t think Rhys was gonna be in cahoots with Jack! I mean, yeah, he idolized the guy.... Jack embarrassed him a lot, but he still seem to think it was pretty neat...... Awh, hell. Still! Gotta get outta here!!

Ends up smoothly making her escape in a ship with some of her more friendly co-workers: Dan [the Man] (a pilot who used to fly HJack’s private ship; trans, demisexual with a preference for men who is a coffee addict) and Leah.

...And then Helios crashes not too long later. Dan is...less than impressed (internally freaking out, however) and Leah is basically having a panic attack.

Rena tries giving them advice for surviving on Pandora, but Dan later finds Atlas (now being rebooted by Rhys) and decides with Leah that they’ll join up.

SURPRISE, SURPRISE, Rhys owns the place. Dan is brought on as his personal pilot (”Sweet. So, where’s the coffee machines around here?”), Leah is hired for PR, Cassie (a blonde lesbian who’s only ever done secretary jobs most of her life) joins later as his secretary...and Rena? .....Shit, Atlas doesn’t really...have an R&D department, do they...?

Rena nervously points out that- if he finds the muscle, they could retake the Wildlife Exploitation Preserve. Take over, do some rebuilding and remodeling... Make it not only into Atlas’ new R&D, but also a way for Rena to continue her penchant of creating dubious creatures. Also because the dragons are only getting bigger as their generations continue.

Pyrotech and Meowzer decide to join in, along with Pops calling in a few favors. Bandits v. bandits to clean out the place and serve as muscle while WEP is getting remodeled. (Also, they’re getting paid, so other bandits looking for a handy buck hop on for the more beneficial side.)

Rena gets a new look to symbolize her Atlas change (a black, long cloak with a hexagon pattern on the inside, black tights, black heels, and an ombre, orange-red-to-yellow, turtleneck dress; hair is also pinned up)! Power couple of Atlas, basically everyone agrees. And kind of like in another verse, Rena keeps him in line....when he’s not having to do the same for her!!

Rhys: I’m not sure....making a monstrous, three-headed dog is a good idea, babe. Rena: I didn’t come here to make wimpy science, Rhys!! I came here to kick ass, take names, and do SCIENCE! But thank you for your opinion~ Rhys: ......oh no.

6-legged to 8-legged cats are realized under Rena’s flourishing arms. A three-headed dog. The dragons prosper and return to Pandora, honoring Rena as their Mother, as Silver- and later Apophis himself!!- have done.

She even creates an android in secret. Names them Aria and they have learning software. Everything about life, they must learn on their own. Starting with the Preserve, and then one day... Leaving home to formulate their own experiences.

Later in life, Rhys and Rena have a daughter, naming her Vela. (A reference to the trio of constellations that Carina is also a part of.)

Has about as much common sense for safety as her mother does. Rhys is terrified for her safety on the daily. Because of their lack of fear, Rhys tries to keep Vela with him at Atlas HQ more than at the preserve with Rena.

otp; nerdperion (Rhys/Rena/Vaughn): ...I mentioned it once. Then the idea snowballed from the initial idea and the “what ifs”.

Look, I can’t deny it. It’s the nerd trio that most only dream of. In their Hyperion days, you had the money man, middle manager, and the top scientist.

By the time of Tales, you have a bandit leader in his own right, an Altas CEO, and woman who is held back by only her set-in-stone morals.

Vaughn and Rena going on raids out on Pandora, protecting people and the Children of Helios. Perhaps even with the dragons as backup...?

Rhys constantly has to worry for these two dorks, but that’s why he has a steady wing in Atlas for healing stuff. A fair bit of research passed on from Rena, to be fair, but still.

Vaughn takes lessons from Rena how to ride beasts. Like dragons! Was it a good idea? Not really. But nobody got hurt, at least!!! And Rena also solidified the saddle designs for them, so that’s pretty cool, too.

Rhys is a little more boring on that side of the coin in the regard he’s mostly just running a company, but still. Vaughn helps out from time to time and Rena’s running the entire R&D division of Atlas, so.....

otp; scientific haikus (Rena/Zer0): In which my first crush from Tales lives on...and it’s a rather unlikely couple, honestly.

Starting right off the bat with the fact she never really knew about them until one of her Pandoran raids? They showed up to kill some people and then just kinda...disappeared.

That first meeting bothered Gremlin for weeks. Who?? Who????

Meeting them again...and again..... Never getting the courage to confront them out of fear. (What if they slice and dice her up, too?? She’s lived too long to get struck down now...) But despite that, she eagerly daydreams about the oddity...

Also, isn’t as sly as she thinks; Zer0′s been knowing, they’ve just been waiting for Gremlin to go first. Though, she hasn’t been...so that’s a bit of an issue.

Eventually, they make sure that their next target will be in an area they know Gremlin frequents. When she shows up...Zer0 finally gets the chance to introduce themselves.

Zer0: Finally, we meet / Finding you was difficult / My name is Zer0; pleased. Gremlin: .....Did... Are you speaking in haiku?! Zer0: :) Gremlin: ...holy shit; nice.

They strike up an odd sort of friendship from there. Meetings become random again, though Zer0 takes time to listen. They actually are able to call her Rena in private which is...nice. Kinda easy to forget that was her name before the whole “stranded on Pandora” bit.

Zer0 ends up enabling her collecting habits, too; brings back not-too-bloody clothes and trinkets they find while out and about on jobs. She gains quite the collection, thanks to that!!

Actually wanted to offer assistance when Zer0 took on the Gortys hunt, but joined up only later on and... HOLY SHIT, HYPERION EMPLOYEES!!!

It’s wild, seeing familiar faces and talking about the past. Zer0 has...some concerns, but otherwise trusts the group with Rena.

This includes their plan to invade Helios, in order to get the final piece Gortys needs to access the Vault of the Traveler. They’re not thrilled about her involvement in the plan, but Rena still knows a lot about Helios and the Hyperion system. Her going with ensures things will go even more smoothly, so... Who are they to deny their crush friend from helping others?

....And then they hear it all went to shit. Though they showed up, trying to find Rena among the wreckage... There was no luck. They get upset over this for quite some time, but without a body... Zer0 keeps a metaphorical ear out. Won’t believe she’s dead yet. Not yet.

Eventually, when Rhys gets in contact with Zer0 for help with the vault, they meet up again. Rena is ecstatic to see him again- having since become the head of Atlas’ R&D and gone hunting to assist with this, too- and Zer0 is just happy to be right; she didn’t die back then after all...

Is surprisingly handsy from there on out, flashing the smile or heart emoticons, a hand on Rena’s waist, etc.

Everyone else catches on to Zer0′s affections far faster than Rena herself does, that’s for sure.

Rena: It’s nice... I’ve never really had a lot of platonic affection, you know? Fiona, sighing: N-No, that’s not... How do you not see what’s going on, here?? Rena: .........what? Everyone: s i g h s Rena: ????????

They do eventually ask her out when nearly everyone on the team has them to spare them the oblivious misery, cause- once again- Rena sure ain’t gonna do it.

Also cause Gortys has been trying to ask about them dating anyways, so-?? Just do it???

Zer0 still takes a while longer to get the right words to say that fit their haiku format, but the actual confession...? Well, at least it feels like the right note to end an adventure on; seeing her eyes light up, smile breaking free, and hugging the other tight around the waist was good. Great, even!

...Though with Fiona and Rhys temporarily disappeared...who runs Atlas?

Thankfully, Rena knows Cassie personally and has her and another person- Dan, a pilot for Rhys’ personal ship (and once worked under Handsome Jack, as well)- back her up on heading Atlas for a temporary period of time.

Zer0 sticks around for a time, just to make sure a mutiny doesn’t rise up and try to take Rena down. They only back off once her guard-friends from R&D make their way over... Again, just in case.

Zer0 goes back to work not long after that, though makes sure to visit more often. It not only makes them anxious to not know how Rena is doing (if she’s still alive), but also because they’ve started getting used to her touch. Touch starved? Zer0? ....A little.

Starts even exposing her face around her, Rena admits. What they look like? Well, pffftt, she’d never tell~!

otp; i ruv you (Rena/Timothy Lawrence): Oh, it started as a joke...then I was in too deep and now it’s never been better~

Thanks to both of them being workers under the Hyperion brand, they end up meeting sooner rather than later.

Much like Jack, Tim noticed Rena around: sitting in the Hub and people-watching, walking by her lab... Things like that. Didn’t pay too much mind, but then...he got hurt. On his face.

Rena, being the oldest lasting employee not killed off yet by Handsome Jack, is given the old papers for the build of Jack doubles and given some people to work with by HJack himself in order to fix up Tim right.

It’s love at first appointment; she’s gentle, knows what she’s doing, and eventually he’s looking back to the usual. The little smile she gives as he left? ...His heart was racing for an hour after, he swears by it.

He starts visiting her more, after that. Whether because he allowed himself to get hurt or it’s after a mission and he’s got some extra free time before his next one... He hurries to that lab of hers in order to chat.

Befriends the dragons she creates happily. Silver doesn’t bond to him in the same way, but they tolerate him and will let Tim hold them. It’s so cool!!!

Then Rena admitted to him one of her other projects...wanting to create multi-legged cats. Tim was thrilled at the trust, nervous over the project, but Rena assured all would be well. The dragons have done wonderfully, so that will go well, too!

He got the chance to kiss her when she was patching him up again. He’d tried to lean forward, but she stopped him a moment to finish up...then, shyly, asked if he wanted to try that again...? He lit up and they both got into a hasty, messy kiss that had them giggling in delight.

...With that, their unofficial dating started! (Which HJack quickly knew about and considered doing something to one of them to end it, but overall decided if any news got out, he’d actually take Rena as his own and make his doppelganger regret getting into a relationship behind Jack’s back; capiche? Tim nervously agreed.)

Still... Her move to Pandora made him nervous. Especially since his next assignment was on Elpis, so if anything happened...!

Rena kissed his cheek and assured him she’d be fine. It would be very in and out; no need for worry!

When even Jack was troubled by the report that came in later, Timothy was up in arms ready to shoot down some psychos.

HJack: Like, nobody reported her body. Which could be a sign she’s not dead? But it’s Pandora; who knows? Tim, sweating and shaking: Please...just fucking shut. Up.

Backtalking the boss is bold, but Tim is all kinds of done with this news and needs to ditch for Pandora in order to find Rena. HJack allows this more out of interest for the “game” than anything else.

Timothy ends up- more or less- a sort of permanent presence on Pandora while trying to find Rena. Doesn’t much notice or care when Jack’s insanity summons the Warrior...or when he’s taken down. Besides, people spook more easily to hear Handsome Jack died, but see his masked face even still on Timothy’s own.

Not getting answers on where Rena is...stresses him out, though. Makes him bitter, that maybe someone did kill her... He expresses his anger in a bit of murder and then sulks more over how this is turning him into a lesser Jack after all... Makes the guy almost sympathetic.

But with a few years passing, Atlas suddenly rises up out of the crashed ashes of Helios...and if Tim has any hope left for the lost Rena, might as well go there, right?

He scares the shit out of Rhys, walking in looking like Handsome Jack in the flesh. (Not even his secretary tried to stop him, looking like he did; dirty and murderous.)

...Though it’s actually just some resting bitch face and determination. Tim ends up explaining everything and Rhys even more hurriedly explains that she’s not dead!!! In fact, he just sent her over with a group of hired bandits to the WEP! She’s going...to be heading his new R&D department, you know...

Tim almost doesn’t want to hope, but he jolts out of there faster than Rhys or Cassie can stop him and is rushing to the Preserve in hopes to catch her there and maybe help out in the firefight.

Ends up finding her in a car just outside, all tanked up and safe as she directs everyone to where they need to go...but oh shit, handle that on your own for a bit; there’s a guy outside the car. She walks a little closer...and screeches, stumbling back.

Tim: No, no!! Rena!!! It’s me, it’s Ti- Jimothy!!!! It’s me, not Jack! Rena: ......Timothy?

She hesitantly lets him in and Tim at least proves that- despite his appearance- he is definitely not Jack by patting her over, realizing she’s alive, and then kissing her breathless.

Rena explains her situation having gone by “Gremlin” up to this point and pretending to be a psycho on occasion in order to live. The new friends she’s made up until that point. Tim tells her about the years he spent trying to find her, hoping she wasn’t dead.

As self-promised, he cuddles her in his lap for a little while longer, then kisses her again and joins the firefight outside to clear out the preserve.

Hyperion’s fallen, Atlas is a rising venture... Why not? Student loans sure don’t matter anymore.

He largely stays with Rena at R&D; her personal bodyguard and more-official-than-in-the-past boyfriend.

She also makes good on the multi-legged cats, as mentioned in the past. Tim decidedly loves them just as much- if not more- as regular cats.

ot3; ??? (Maya/Rena/Krieg): So hear me out... I will never learn. This will be neverending. I’m just as disappointed in me as you are. Also, Tumblr removing line breaks is the bane of my existence. Fuck this website. ANYWAYS!

Rena...met Krieg, first. In passing. He was a part of the slag experiments, Rena works R&D.... You hear about this sort of thing. She did, with her sharp ears and too-caring-attitude, despite working for the most monstrous corporation in the six galaxies.

Still, she was never able to help him or anyone else... Despite desperately wanting to. Despite catching his eyes once, guilt eating her up from the inside. (A pity-look from another one of them, Krieg used to think.)

They didn’t meet again until much later, during the events of Borderlands 2: Gremlin stuck on Pandora while Maya and Krieg were deadset on dethroning Handsome Jack. Y’know. Her old boss?

Krieg almost doesn’t recognize her when he’s out wandering, but it’s seeing her dirty face that strikes a chord in his sensible side. He remembers her! One of Hyperion’s own... What’s she doing out here? Alone and without company...?

Not that Krieg cares; seeing someone who was in any way involved with hurting him sends him into a fit of rage, trying to attack her with all he’s got! Rena dodges, not understanding...until she realizes who this psycho is...

It’s the worst first meeting- putting his first interaction with Maya in the dirt- as she eventually bursts into tears trying to apologize to him. It startles Krieg to stop, listening to her as she’s pitifully curled up in the dirt, hands up in a show of surrender, apologizing to...him.

“I’m sorry! I’m so sorry I couldn’t help you back then!! I wanted to, I really did, but I... I couldn’t! I’m sorry, Krieg, I’m so, so sorry!!!!”

Maya returns to this scene unimpressed, giving a Look to Krieg before helping the still-sobbing Rena. They both take her back to her shambling little base...and Krieg stares at the coat on the wall. The last reminder of who she was...

It occurs to him, then, that they’re in a similar spot. He lost his mind to slag, becoming a psycho, his mind barely together...and Rena is losing her sense of self, too. Going by Gremlin to blend in, faking insanity to blend in...but how long of that before it all becomes too real? Before she changes for good, even without influences like he’d gotten...?

Maya is more than content to help and leave, but Krieg...feels guilty. It’s a rare show of clarity and kindness from the big guy...and that’s when Maya realizes she’s lost the battle before it’s even begun.

They do take down HJack eventually, but frequently stop by to check in on Rena from there on out. Krieg likes poking around and laying on the stolen mattress she has. Maya finds out she’s actually super smart...and it’s fun. It’s nice.

You grow to like- even love- Krieg for his lucid moments. Appreciating his more violent ones for the defense they provide, as well as the enemy-sweeping he can do. Her powers work well with his might.

Add Rena into the mix, it’s brains, balance, and brawn. It works out even better than Maya could’ve predicted....and yeah, she kinda ends up falling for the scientist, too. Would’ve never pegged herself as the polyamrous type, but... She and Krieg share the sentiments.

Rena and Krieg keep each other balanced. Maya doesn’t have time to baby anyone; she keeps going at her own pace. Anyone who wants to keep up has to pull their weight...but Rena is a natural nurturer. When she’s a little loopy, they use a language only they can really understand. (It takes Maya some time to adjust to.) When Krieg gets frustrated, she helps him through it. To get back in touch with his old self. It’s comforting. Very comforting.

Maya and Rena, on the other hand, share a lot of conversation about....anything and everything. Maya talks about her Siren powers and pieces of her life. Rena talks about her own life- a lot more openly- and the science she used to do on Hyperion. How proud she still is of those times. Maya’s endeared to those moments.

It also later comes in handy... When Maya needs to depart from Pandora to go back to Athenas some time later, wanting to further underside her Siren lineage. Pandora only answered so much, after all...

Won’t let Rena or Krieg join, but the two keep each other company in the meantime. Waiting for Maya to come back home.

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jacksaperture · 6 years

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In case you thought "bird lover" was some kind of euphemism

Haven't been around for a while. Liv's been busy, and I've been...what's the polite word for it?

Oh, yeah.

A basket-case.

Oh, I doubt either of those are changing any time soon, but I felt it necessary to come along and post some less-than-stellar pictures I've managed to take on a recent trip to the mountains.

So, without further ado.

Male Black-headed Grosbeak (Pheucticus melanocephalus). Took me four days of waiting by a feeder to finally get this guy. Every time I'd see him, my camera wasn't immediately available.

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Mountain Chickadee (Poecile gambeli). This one was much easier. He was practically posing for the camera!

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Male Purple Finches (Haemorhous purpureus). I wasn't too familiar with these guys. It took some work to positively ID them. They have really heavy wingbeats for such tiny birds.

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Mostly Incense Cedars (Calcedrus decurrens), with some White Fir (Abies concolor) and a few unidentified shrubs. I feel like some rebels and scout troopers are about to fly past me on speeder bikes.

Wrong forest and mountain range for that, though.

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Similar to the last picture, only here we've also got some California Black Oak (Quercus kellogii).

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Here we see my inability to overcome certain equipment limitations.

But, dark, scary, primordial woods aside, a lovely carpet of Bracken Fern (Pteridium aquilinum) is always inviting.

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And now, something sweet. And a little tart. Sierra Gooseberry (Ribes roezlii) with some kind of pine that I couldn't even begin to attempt to ID at this size.

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Well, that's it for this excursion into the Mixed Conifer belt of the Western slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains of California.

At least for now.

I have a lot more pictures that I may post once I get a chance to dig through them, (hopefully) including some female Purple Finches and Black-headed Grosbeaks, some Dark-eyed Juncos, Mountain Quails, Hummingbirds, and (if all goes well) one vibrant and lively little Yellow Warbler.

'Til then.

Please note: Some of these binomials may be out of date. Taxonomy is always updating, and I've been out of the game for a bit. Have mercy.

#photography #california #bird #birding #birdwatching #black-headed grosbeak #mountain chickadee #purple warbler #plants #cedar #fir #oak #mountains #sierra nevadas #my heart my home

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hungarian-words · 6 years

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Hungarian slang & everyday language: #1 general stuff

Most things on this list are slang, but some are just words or expressions used commonly in everyday speech. It includes sample sentences, and, if possible, also the non-slang versions of those.

hali - hi

mizu - mi újság? - what’s up? (nowadays used rarer) Mizu is also a name of a very well-known 2011 song. So well know that my classmate put it on in 2016 and 80% of us sang the first verse without a mistake. That doesn’t mean it’s good, it was popular back then, and it left so many deep scars that ppl still remember this. Here, go watch it: Mizu The lyrics: dalszöveg

mém, mémek - meme szleng - slang

- Te egész nap csak mémeket nézel? - “Are you spending the whole day looking at memes?”

csávó, csávók - guy; non-slang version: fiú, fiúk srác, srácok - guy; non-slang version: fiú, fiúk csaj, csajok - girl, the female version of “guy”; non-slang version: lány, lányok

- Az a csávó tök jól tud táncolni! - “That guy can dance really well!” - A srácokkal itt vagyunk a buszmegállóban, ti hol vagytok? - “We [the guys and me] are here at the bus stop, where are you (plural)?” - Ismered azt a csajt, akinek lila haja van? - “Do you know that girl who has purple hair?”

non-slang versions: - Az a fiú nagyon jól tud táncolni! - A fiúkkal itt vagyunk a buszmegállóban, ti hol vagytok? - Ismered azt a lányt, akinek lila haja van?

nőci, nőcik - woman; non-slang version: nő, nők

pasi, pasik - man; non-slang version: férfi, férfiak OR fiú, fiúk pasi can also be used for teenage boys, BUT it highly depends on how old you are. For example, I think girls started calling teenage boys pasi at around 13 years. They also called them fiú, srác, etc, but the point is: calling teenagers that are approx. the same age as you pasi is fine. Calling a teenager pasi who is very younger than you is just weird.

faszi - guy , but fasz (penis) is a cuss word!, so be cautious when using it (unless you want to be rude, or come off as vulgar); plural form not really used; non-slang version: férfi tag - guy , literally “member” (the club-member kind of meaning); plural form not really used; non-slang version: férfi

- Látod a nőcit, akinek kék táskája van? - “Do you see the woman who has a blue handbag?” - Nem mindegyik pasi szereti a focit. - “Not every guy likes football.” - A faszi azt se tudta, milyen évet írunk. - “The guy didn’t even know what year it was.” - A mikulássapkás tagról beszélek. - “I’m talking about the guy with the Santa hat.”

non-slang versions: - Látod a nőt, akinek kék táskája van? - Nem mindegyik férfi szereti a focit. - A férfi azt se tudta, milyen évet írunk. - A mikulássapkás férfiról beszélek.

tesó, tesók - in this context: bro or dude, otherwise: sibling; tesa, tesák - more vulgar version of bro or dude haver, haverok - male friend; non-slang version: barát, barátok (male/gender-neutral friend) or barátnő, barátnők (female friend) elmenni valahova a haverokkal - to go somewhere with male friends; non-slang version: elmenni valahova a barátokkal (but this one is gender-neutral) haverkodni - to be chummy with someone, to get friendly with someone; non-slang version: barátkozni összehaverkodni valakivel - to pal up with someone; non-slang version: összebarátkozni valakivel bírni valakit - to like someone, can be platonic or romantic; non-slang version: kedvelni valakit (this one leans more towards the romantic feelings tho)

- Tesó, ezt tudnod kéne. - “Dude, you should know this.” - Tesa, ezt te sem gondoltad komolyan! - “Dude, not even you could mean this seriously!” - A haverod szeret olvasni? - “Does your friend like to read?” - Este megyünk Pestre a haverokkal. - “We’re going to go to Pest tonight with the guys.” - Bulikon nem szoktál haverkodni? - “Don’t you get chummy with someone during parties?” - Tegnap haverkodtunk össze. - “We paled up yesterday.” - Nem bírom az ilyen embereket. - “I don’t like people like this.”

non-slang versions: - Ezt tudnod kéne. - Ezt te sem gondoltad komolyan! (side note: without the tesó/tesa address, these two can sound agressive) - A barátod/barátnőd szeret olvasni?* - Este megyünk Pestre a barátokkal. - Bulikon nem szoktál barátkozni? - Tegnap barátkoztunk össze. - Nem kedvelem az ilyen embereket. * barát/barátnő: in Hungarian these are used for both platonic and romantic relationships. if someone says to a guy “barátod” they usually mean “male friend”, if they say to him “barátnőd”, they mean “girlfriend”, and vice versa by girls. people have this “everyone is heterosexual" mindset, so the language is used like that too.

pasizni - to pick up guys csajozni - to pick up girls doesn’t 100% translate to picking up guys/girls, - it’s true that if valaki pasizik/csajozik they want to have a contact, but that’s not always the pick-up way. most of the time, but not always

[- Mit tervezel ma estére? - Megyek a csajokkal pasizni./ Megyek a csajokkal csajozni./ Megyek a haverokkal csajozni./ Megyek a haverokkal pasizni./ “csajokkal” can be replaced with the following: lányokkal "haverokkal” can be replaced with the following: fiúkkal; srácokkal both can be replaced by names too, e.g. csajokkal - Rebekáékkal/Liliékkel/Timiékkel/stb. with Rebeka/Lili/Timi and the others csajokkal - Rebekával, Lilivel és Timivel with Rebeka, Lili and Timi haverokkal - Norbiékkal/Boldiékkal/Laciékkal/stb. with Norbi/Boldi/Laci and the others haverokkal - Norbival, Boldival és Lacival with Norbi, Boldi and Laci “What did you plan for tonight?” “I’m heading out with my female friends to pick up guys.”/ “I’m heading out with my female friends to pick up girls.”/ “I’m heading out with my male friends to pick up girls.”/ “I’m heading out with my male friends to pick up guys.”]

tök - very, a lot; adjective; lit.: pumpkin; non-slang version: nagyon dumálni - to talk; non-slang version: beszélgetni duma - bullshit* *I don’t know how inapproriate English considers bullshit, but duma is actually the nicest way to say it in Hungarian.

- Ez tök jó! - “That’s so good!” - Ezt a számot tökre szeretem. - “I like this song very much.” - Most akkor dumálunk, vagy nem? - “So, are we going to talk or not?” - Srácok, fejezzétek már be a dumálást! - “Guys, stop the talking!” - Ez duma! - “That’s bullshit!”

non-slang versions: - Ez nagyon jó! - Ezt a számot nagyon szeretem. - Most akkor beszélünk, vagy nem? - Fiúk, fejezzétek már be a beszélgetést!

jó fej - lit. “good head”; meaning depends on your own definition of jó fej, it can mean someone is friendly, someone is funny, generally if someone says this about a person it means they like them (in a platonic way) [- Milyen volt Zsófinál? - Nem volt olyan rossz! Kiderült, hogy tök jó fej! “How did you feel at Zsófi’s?” “It wasn’t that bad! It turned out she’s cool!”]

cuki - cute; more commonly used by girls and women, boys and men use it in the same manner rarer (unfortunately they use it more in a mocking tone)

[- Kérsz csokit? Nekem nem kell. - De cuki vagy! Igen, kérek. “Would you like some chocolate? I don’t want it.” “You’re so cute! Yes, I would like some.”] - Tök cuki ez a ruha. - “This dress is very cute. - Hogyhogy nem bírod azt a csajt? Tök cuki. - “How come you don’t like that girl? She’s very cute.” - Az a srác tök cuki! - “That guy is very cute!”

non-slang versions: [- Kérsz csokit? Nekem nem kell. - De aranyos vagy! Igen, kérek.] - Nagyon szép ez a ruha. - “This dress is pretty.” - Hogyhogy nem kedveled azt a lányt? Nagyon kedves. - Az a fiú nagyon jóképű!

gyökér, gyökerek - an adjective that’s a mixture of stupid, insane, and asshole; literally: root; will translate it in sample sentences as stupid for it to be easier to read

- A Meli az gyökér! - “Meli is stupid!” - A Marci? A Marci az teljesen gyökér! - “Marci? Marci is completely stupid!” - Ne legyél már ennyire gyökér! - “Don’t be so stupid!” - De hogy lehet valaki ennyire gyökér? - “But how can someone be this stupid?”

tuti - surely; non-slang version: biztos/biztosan tutira - surely; non-slang version: biztos/biztosan

Used: “tuti, hogy” or “tutira” “biztos, hogy” or “biztosan”

- Tuti, hogy ezt mondta? / - Tutira ezt mondta? - “Is this really what she said?” - Tuti, hogy ide kellett jönni? / - Tutira ide kellett jönni? - “Is this really the place we were supposed to come to?”

non-slang versions: - Biztos, hogy ezt mondta? / - Biztosan ezt mondta? - Biztos, hogy ide kellett jönni? / Biztosan ide kellett jönni?

suli, sulik - school; non-slang version: iskola, iskolák doga, dogák - test; non-slang version: dolgozat, dolgozatok (not adding more school vocab because that’s for a separate post)

- Miért kell suliba járni, mikor konkrétan semmi értelme nincsen? - “Why is it mandatory to go to school when it literally makes no sense?” - Remek, akkor németből is írunk dogát! - “Great, then we’ll have a German test too!”

non-slang versions: - Miért kell iskolába járni, mikor konkrétan semmi értelme nincsen? - Remek, akkor németből is írunk dolgozatot!

zabálni - to eat, vulgar; non-slang version: enni kajálni - to eat; non-slang version: enni vedelni - to drink, vulgar; non-slang version: inni

- Úgy zabál, mintha két napja nem evett volna. - “She’s eating as if she hadn’t eaten in two days.” - Mikor kajálunk? - “When are we eating?” - Nem kell ennyit vedelni! - “It isn’t necessary to drink that much!”

non-slang versions: - Úgy eszik, mintha két napja nem evett volna. - Mikor eszünk? - Nem kell ennyit inni!

séró - hairstyle; non-slang version: frizura/haj

meló - work; non-slang version: munka melózni - to work; non-slang version: dolgozni btw our word meló comes from the Hebrew melacha.

- Jó a séród! - “Your hairstyle is great!”

- Milyen a meló? - “How’s work?” - Bocs, nem érek rá, melóznom kell. - “Sorry, can’t make it, I have to work.”

non-slang versions: - Jó a hajad! / - Jó a frizurád! - Milyen a munka? - Bocs, nem érek rá, dolgoznom kell.

The post was created around late 2017/early 2018. Depending on when you are reading it, it may be outdated.

#hungarian slang #this has been in my drafts since november #it took very long to make this #i kept on adding and adding new stuff to it and it got soo long #i literally changed my bio to say that i wont be making new posts #and then i actually get motivation to edit my drafts #reverse psychology works #original content

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feralhogs · 4 years

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ANSWER 1 THROUGH 65 HO

65 Questions You Aren't Used To

WPOOOOO LETS GO

Y E E T

1. Do you ever doubt the existence of others than you?

nnnnooooooo. its called holding onto my last marble.

2. On a scale of 1-5, how afraid of the dark are you?

1. sometimes i can freak myself out going to the bathroom at night but bro. i take walks at like 11pm or whenever the hell i please. and i LIKE IT.

3. The person you would never want to meet?

i would not care to meet dick face

4. What is your favorite word?

worm

5. If you were a type of tree, what would you be?

well darn i dont really knowwww!!!!!!! the big jungle one from minecraft. but i love weeping willows of course.

6. When you looked in the mirror this morning what was the first thing you thought?

i didnt think

7. What shirt are you wearing?

my pyjama shirt from new vegas. las vegas. oh my god. not that i went there. my friend did. ive been wearing it for 3 days now. because its fine.

8. What do you label yourself as?

androgynouOOUUSSSSSSS i heard it described the most accurately for me as “in between blue and pink, purple is a blend while not being either of them.” yes this SPECIFICALLY. i could never be feminine while female presenting, but now that im usually read as masculine i go around seeming gay as fuck. and even though this sounds like heresy considering how i instinctively want to throat punch people who feminize me, i have comfortably considered myself a woman lately ONLYYYYYYYY BY being as butch as a butch can possibly butch. maybe without the cars. i would NEVER go by she/her NEVER NEVER NEVER. like there literally are butch women who go on T and use he/him pronouns. that brings me euphoria too and i find people reallllyyyyyy get mind-bent at this point. i really also get irritated at the idea that identifying with both lessens one or the other... thats why i like the purple thing so much. like im 100% of the thing. i was watching on queer eye, once, there was this part where all these women met up and one of them who was really masculine was saying how “a woman can look like this too” and i was like “i am probably crying for an important reason right now” and sometimes i feel attraction to women that is nOT of the ManTM just... i can do what i want.

but my point is it’s like im only happy if i have a blend. theres even a particular quality of it i can put my finger on, like a rugged, handsome feel... and then a flamboyant, passionate feel... mix em all up...

9. Bright room or dark room?

BRIGHTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

GUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

10. What were you doing at midnight last night?

transition juice, or fucking around with cs paint with some gentle existential dread

11. Favorite age you’ve been so far?

this one, because my life is not hell, and i know a few basics about adulting now

12. Who told you they loved you last?

the sister. i said it for damage control because she had blown a fuse the other day. i was being very fake on purpose because i’m not being vulnerable with someone who will blow up. when she says it all i feel is pain. like cold paralyzing needles in my soul. i cant say i love you to her and mean it, even if i want to. honestly i wish people would say this to me. the most i love yous i remember are from family members putting band aids on the wreckage of our relationships, so i can feel a little twang of guilt and longing for what could have been and should have been. and feel like i should be doing something more. and feeling awkward because you both know they fucked up and it’s the elephant in the room. and i can feel their confusion and sickness causing them pain, feeling that pain for them.

13. Your worst enemy?

hmmm. anyone who made me feel like less than i am. anyone

14. What is your current desktop picture?

cherry blossoms and a city at night that i stole off the internet

15. Do you like someone?

like like crushes right? i fucking wish. i am so god damn sick of myself. i dont feel fuck or shit for anyone. its a fucking wasteland. yes im on T so i want to fuck anything that moves. and yet? can i please have some feelings? please may i have some feelings? not aesthetic appreciation. not moral, personality appreciation. or even just a deep respect and compassion. these are all fine things of course. but cant someone just drive me crazy? cant i have that extra spice of life? cant i just have a little bit of happy crazy? i will know a perfectly lovely person and ill WANT to have feelings for them. but i FUCKEN DONT. I DONT!!!! SHIT!!!!! WHAT IS THE MEANIGN?!?!??!??!?!1 i have fucking YET to meet anyone im more obsessed with than some really gay ocs. come on universe!!!! bring it!!! poor oscar. poor fucking oscar. whatever wavelength im vibing on man you are not on it. i wish you were on it. i wish you were on it oscar. you are hot you are hot with your bike oscar. and the rose quartz i gave you. the rose quartz you wanted. but i feel no authentic electric connection to you. i feel like all i just see is how your brain works with a coolheaded certainty. all i do is analyze what you are wearing so i can be as hot as you. maybe id like to draw you. and girls from work. you are so beautiful and amazing. i see you in bikinis on instagram. and im like oh beauty standards. look at you go, adhering to them. my heart rate goes right along at the same old pace. dont tell me this is principles. does someone have to smell bad? like edward cullen?? CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE JUST SEDUCE ME?!!!?? ID LOVE SOME EXTRA WILL TO LIVE! THEN MY STORIES WILL BE BETTER!!!! see this is the whole problem

16. The last song you listened to?

what am i to you by finn the human or actually that asgore fight song that i do not know the context of and dont want to until i play the game for myself

17. You can press a button that will make any one person explode. Who would you blow up?

i would save this button for a karen.

18. Who would you really like to just punch in the face?

jk rowling. every time i see her face in a news article about why her bland new transphobia anvil book is pretty bland without addressing the raging transphobia in it and around it, i take a minute and contemplate shoving a pie in her face, and agonizing that i cannot do it from this distance.

19. If anyone could be your slave for a day, who would it be and what would they have to do?

a... slave? is this a kink thing? im fucking laughing this is going to be so honest. probably a toxic person from my past i have unresolved sexual tension with, especially since i was in my abused kid shell and was a huge doormat so now im all vengeful with issues. since this is totally something i am open to considering right now i would like to browse this concept’s menu

20. What is your best physical attribute? (showing said attribute is optional)

yknow what? yknow what? i am just going to say all of me. i am feeling very body positive right now. i often feel isolated as fuck because of trans stuff and male body standards, but thats Also What Makes Me Special :) i like me, i like my face, i think i am very cool and unique, and i can walk fast.

21. If you were the opposite sex for one day, what would you look like and what would you do?

GOD DAMN IT THIS FUCKING QUESTION AGAIN

22. Do you have a secret talent? If yes, what is it?

yes. but it’s a secret.

23. What is one unique thing you’re afraid of?

deep sea creatures. idk. even if its small and not even ugly. i just lose my fucking mind. i jump out of my chair. i get the heebies and the jeebies.

24. You can only have one kind of sandwich. Every sandwich ingredient known to humankind is at your disposal.

okay. chicken. cheese. something spicy so it wont be boring. a fuck ton of veggies so i can be healthy. and some olives, fuck olive haters.

25. You just found $100! How are you going to spend it?

IM GOING TO GIVE IT TO MY LANDLORD <3

26. You just got a free plane ticket to anywhere in the world, but you have to leave immediately. Where are you going to go?

mexico city to see what all my friends are talking about.

27. An angel appears out of Heaven and offers you a lifetime supply of the alcoholic beverage of your choice. “Be brand-specific” it says. Man! What are you gonna say about that? Even if you don’t drink booze there’s something you can figure out… so what’s it gonna be?

............................................................................

w h y

okay. i would go around tasting a bunch of fucking. really fancy old wines. listen i dont really drink okay. but with a very fancy old wine i can go around with a like, glass and look really sophisticated and tell gay things to gay people. hello boys. so id find one that strategically i would like the most for the rest of my life and choose it. and if its expensive i can sell it.

28. You discover a beautiful island upon which you may build your own society. You make the rules. What is the first rule you put into place?

i would stick a bell in the middle of it and all of us have to go there at six o’clock and throw bread at each other and fuck.

29. What is your favorite expletive?

cunt. i dont really use it ever, but boy it can pack a punch!

30. Your house is on fire, holy shit! You have just enough time to run in there and grab ONE inanimate object. Don’t worry, your loved ones and pets have already made it out safely. So what’s the one thing you’re going to save from that blazing inferno?

that means my trees because theyre living things? good. my phone. i need it to function. everything else i have on the clouds and i can just write on a napkin if i really need.

31. You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be?

i wanna say nothing because the good and the bad made me who i am and all that. and they’re learning experiences and healthy stuff. but some of my sisters abuse that has destroyed my psyche, literally just ruined my life, it would make things easier if that hadnt happened.

32. You got kicked out of the country for being a time-traveling heathen who sleeps with celebrities and has super-powers. But check out this cool shit… you can move to anywhere else in the world!

WHAT I WANNA KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS LIFE STOP TELL ME HOW I GET THERE

Okay i’m moving to... greece and i’m going to study ancient greek everything and live right on the edge of the sea where the water’s lapping the doorsteps. and im gonna learn greek by immersion

33. The Celestial Gates Of Beyond have opened, much to your surprise because you didn’t think such a thing existed. Death appears. As it turns out, Death is actually a pretty cool entity, and happens to be in a fantastic mood. Death offers to return the friend/family-member/person/etc. of your choice to the living world. Who will you bring back?

i am not surprised whatsoever death is a cool entity.

probably someone who died really sadly and too soon in my life (no one close to me thank god) but just as a service to society

34. What was your last dream about?

wolves with bombs were chasing me around a giant university. it was all part of the game. i was trying to protect some people... soldiers were chasing me... i was hiding under the floor... hiding from authorities and war are VERY common dreams for me

35. Are you a good….[insert anything you’d like here]?

Writer? Yes. am i saying that to sound full of myself? no. i am fighting very hard to maintain some self-confidence. i have done some writing recently and i am proud as fuck of myself. i caught myself thinking, “now that was banging, i know that was banging.” and so i just admitted it to myself.

36. Have you ever been admitted to the hospital?

nooooot reeeaaaalllyyyyyy. i went in an ambulance for my face swelling up! still dont know if i needed to. still think i was allergic to the person i was talking to at the time. seriously when i stopped talking to them the hives went away. they literally gave me hives sdjfnskjndsjknfkjsfnjskdnfdsjknfjknf

37. Have you ever built a snowman?

yes

38. What is the color of your socks?

they have inuyashas on them

39. What type of music do you like?

dark, longing, aching, angry, raw, disappointed, serious, low songs that get intense as fuck.

40. Do you prefer sunrises or sunsets?

sunrises for the concept, sunsets for the looks

41. What is your favorite milkshake flavor?

you know what? i dont really like milkshakes. they dont feel good in my tummy even if it’s not my stomach having a fucking meltdown.

42. What football team do you support? (I will answer in terms of American football as well as soccer)

the fuck is football

43. Do you have any scars?

yes, most of them are from dermatillomania, two big cool-looking ones on my hands from touching a cookie sheet without an oven mitt and pouring microwaved coffee all over my thumb because literally every inch of the counter had a foot of dishes on it and i didn’t simply heat up the water normally because everything was dirty

44. What do you want to be when you graduate?

i want to be a psychologist and an author

45. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

id like a dong please

46. Are you reliable?

yeeeeeesssssss...... but the adhd wins sometimes

47. If you could ask your future self one question, what would it be?

future self: even if you’re in a worse off place than where i am right now, don’t regret anything, don’t beat yourself up. sometimes it’s realistic to have hope. you don’t have to be hard on yourself all the time just because it’s familiar and natural to you. so stop thinking “if i see a note from my past self ill be filled with rueful self awareness”

48. Do you hold grudges?

yes. i feel like im saving my soul a little and taking some power back when i am able to say “that hurt, that was wrong, and you don’t get access to me anymore, i don’t have to forgive you” it’s admitting that my own pain is real so i can listen to and protect myself. i wish i was more of a forgiving person but i spent too much time trying to forgive unorganically for the sake of being moral that i just can’t, can’t can’t now. it hurts so existentially and i deserve better. time for me to be mean and hold grudges. a little mean is okay.

49. If you could breed two animals together to defy the laws of nature, what new animal would you create?

a DOG CAT????????

50. What is the most unusual conversation you’ve ever had?

“doesn’t having a human-shaped robot with smoke coming out of it in the corner of your shop scare you late at night?”

“yes, sometimes i see it and jump a little”

51. Are you a good liar?

yes, when i’m dedicated. getting my birth certificate back? oscar worthy

52. How long could you go without talking?

i live like this lmao

53. What has been you worst haircut/style?

once upon a time i had bangs. and a bob cut

54. Have you ever baked your own cake?

yes bitch

55. Can you do any accents other than your own?

yes bitch i can do a convincing british accent but i don’t want to broadcast that fact because being british is cringe and plus my name is gordon and im already trans and interested in cooking and my greatest fear is that people think i am trying to become him when i am deeply offended when people assume i make personal decisions for anyone other than myself. no one has ever actually voiced this theory to me but it haunts me late at night. i can honestly probably do any accent if i listen to it for a little bit. i find it very easy to imitate sounds and like individual speaking styles to the point of stealing them even when i dont want to. like actually this is something that just comes to me easily i think.

56. What do you like on your toast?

fuck toast. i make a grill cheese. cheese and garlic.

57. What is the last thing you drew a picture of?

i tried digitally painting a generic girl who ended up looking really simliar to someone i went to school with only i made the eyes way too small and i would show you except it’s too much work

58. What would be you dream car?

vw bug with giant monster wheels, black with flames, big booming stereo. eyelashes in a drag way. ill run pickup trucks off the road

59. Do you sing in the shower? Or do anything unusual in the shower? Explain.

i sang in the shower back when i felt free to annoy everyone in the house. oH WAIT IT DOESNT ANNOY PEOPLE WHO ARE KIND TO ME

...........

they taught me i was annoying. ANYWAY. i am too shy to sing in the shower but id love to. i dont really do anything unusual except that i take really long in there but yknow im not actually doing what people think im doing when i take long. im literally just sitting there decomposing, head empty.

60. Do you believe in aliens?

yes, of course, i have been telling everyone theres water under mars since day one and now look. now look

61. Do you often read your horoscope?

yes. im a sagittarius and clearly it is needed because CLEARLY theres no other fucking sagittariuses

62. What is your favorite letter of the alphabet?

G, because my name starts with that and i’m just great. really, i like... it has a chonk to it. like a reliable chonk to it

63. Which is cooler: dinosaurs or dragons?

YKNOW WHAT? im going with dragons because of the fantasy, fire breathing and so on but yknow for my wip i was going to have both dragons and dinosaurs at a reptile like shelter

64. What do you think about babies?

i think they should be loved and nurtured, but they are too much work for me to want for myself at this point of life, and you should definitely read some manuals before having one if you can because people can and do mess this the fuck up

65. Freebie! Ask anything interesting you can think of.

you didn’t ask anything here so im just going to tell you something. i am going to tell you that i have always been so hell bent on writing even when i hate it because sometimes when things are going well i feel like i am just so in another world and i feel like im doing something im really really supposed to do. it is such a euphoria and it has an effect on my whole aura. i really wish i had never made myself stop but we can’t change the past so i shall just have to never stop again.

THANKS HOOOOO

#chatty #notthecanadianaverage #bug

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shirlleycoyle · 4 years

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Let the ‘OK Boomer’ Girl Live

If you know about Neekolul, you probably already know how you feel about her. Like so many objects of male attention before her, her mere presence as a human being will either cause you to simp or to shun. But she's just followed a formula that's been thrust upon young, attractive women since men have been able to gawk at them.

Neekolul, whose first name is Nicole, rose to popularity through a single TikTok video. In it, she's dancing to a song by YouTuber Senzawa called, "OK, Boomer." She smiles, winks and dances at the camera, lip syncing along, "Whatever you say, Boomer." Her tweet of this video was retweeted 20,000, and has more than 100,000. Wearing a Bernie Sanders shirt she's cut into a crop top, she is at once adorable and a little sleazy. She knows what bag she's chasing—horny lefties—and she is not hiding it. It doesn't seem insincere or anything, just a little craven, in the way that watching anyone try to turn themself into a brand feels craven.

Since Neekolul released this TikTok, I have not known peace. If it isn't straight men getting a little too horny for a girl in her early twenties in public, it's (usually straight) women questioning her motivations. Like a lot of women who try to earn some money by being young and attractive, in Neekolul's videos, she's acting in a way that is immediately recognizable and a little bit annoying. Some of her critics say that by wearing a cosplay school uniform, dancing, and talking like a sexy baby, she is reinforcing negative stereotypes about women and encouraging men attracted to women to indulge in a fetish for seeing them infantilized.

That is a lot to place at the feet of a single 22-year-old girl. If she wants to take money from people with a stupid fetish, I say that a fool and their money are soon parted. Neekolul did not invent the dynamics at play here.

A 1999 Rolling Stone Britney Spears cover story caused a recurrence of the age-old epidemic of being too horny. "Britney Spears extends a honeyed thigh across the length of the sofa, keeping one foot on the floor as she does so," it begins. "Her blond-streaked hair is piled high, exposing two little diamond earrings on each ear lobe; her face is fully made-up, down to carefully applied lip liner. The Baby Phat logo of Spears’ pink T-shirt is distended by her ample chest, and her silky white shorts—with dark blue piping—cling snugly to her hips. She cocks her head and smiles receptively."

At the time, Spears was 18 years old. On the cover of the issue, she's laying on her back on pink satin sheets, her pajama top open, a purple Teletubby plush nestled under her arm. The cover story then states outright the central scandal of the then-teenage Spears: people thought the "Baby One More Time" video was too sexy, that her body is too sexy, that she is too young to be looking like that. Not long after that, the author pointedly mentions that Spears only has an eleventh grade education.

Spears stardom, and her treatment by the press and society at large, followed on a familiar model of female stardom. Before her, Marilyn Monroe was sexualized and infantilized. After Spears, Neekolul has leaned into the schtick.

In John Berger's seminal art history book Ways of Seeing, he dedicates an entire chapter to the presence of women as figures in paintings. He argues that women in art are often also a canvas for the men who paint them to project their feelings about women onto.

"The mirror was often used [in the Renaissance] as a symbol of the vanity of woman. The moralizing, however, was mostly hypocritical," Berger writes. "You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, you put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting

Vanity, thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure. The real function of the mirror was otherwise. It was to make the woman connive in treating herself as, first and foremost, a sight."

There is nothing Spears could have done to stop looking like that, or being looked at like that. The same is true for Neekolul. The same is true for every woman, everywhere. You can't help how men will see you—you just try to figure out how to react to it.

The leering had started too young for me to see it as any more annoying that a fly that's come through the kitchen window.

I remember the first time I realized my body could get me things I wanted. I was 16, secretly smoking cigarettes, and my 18-year-old friends were nowhere to be found. A friend told me that if I wore a low cut shirt to a particular gas station, the guy behind the counter wouldn't ID me. That turned out to be true. I showed up to the gas station, wearing my only low cut top and my only lipstick. "Very sexy," the man behind the counter said as he rang me up. I never wore the top again.

For a while I blamed myself for my own disgust. I invited it, didn't I? I wore a low cut top because I knew it would get me cigarettes. But that doesn't make any sense. Did I make this guy stare down my top, lick his lips, ask me how old I was? No. By simply existing, he saw my body as something to consume.

Later in life I didn't react with such revulsion—it started being funny to me, to see how much I could get from men who were willing to have their entire life structured by their libido. The leering had started too young for me to see it as any more annoying that a fly that's come through the kitchen window. Shoo, you dumbass. Of course I wish it weren't like this, but it is. There is only so much I can do to make it not so, and I'm already doing it. If someone wanted to buy me a drink because he mistakenly thought that he could get some, I truly did not care.

Twitch and YouTube as platforms are already slanted such that it's easier to blame a woman for having breasts and showing cleavage than it is to blame those who are eager to stare at them. The subreddit LivestreamFail collates examples of women who they feel show too much skin; famous YouTubers like PewDiePie call them "Twitch Thots" in their widely circulated videos. Even the rules of Twitch as a platform have stronger guidelines on how much of a boob you can show on air than they do for discrimination and harassment. Female streamers and YouTubers are harassed with the explicit goal of having their channels removed. Women on the internet, and in society at large, face so much resistance when they make themselves seen or heard. It can be even more confusing if you're conventionally attractive. Or if you're willing to play into the societal expectations of women, that they are demure and sexually available. Success in that arena, the one where Neekoul plays, can feel like an insult. You're being rewarded for easily digestible and nice to look at. Blaming Neekolul for the rock and the hard place she's placed between feels myopic.

Making Neekolul responsible for the way that she is looked at misses what makes Neekolul the object of so many people's affection. She's willing to act out the fantasy of a sweet, giggly, girly girl, and considering the attention that her "OK Boomer" video got, she has no reason to stop. If it's upsetting to you that her onscreen personality is a put on, I'm really sorry this was how you had to find out. Sorry Boomer—we live in a world where women are, first and foremost, a sight.

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Book 4 Chapter 2

Kathey typed up Trevor’s information as a test for the student database while Dryber sat inside of the computer in his dragon form, watching her work. The nice thing about Tech Dragons was their ability to go inside the digital world of computers on top of creating their own digital dimension to their preference.

“So it’s pretty straightforward,” Kathey said and Dryber nodded.

“Yes, you just insert the general information, the system creates a student ID number on it’s own and the layout for the card is generated,” Dryber said. Kathey finished the last few things and an ID for Trevor appeared with a photo she had uploaded while working.

“Easier than I thought,” she mused. Dryber smirked.

“I made it simple. Plus with a scanner, orientation for students will be easy to work with. Just give them the sheet to fill out and the scanner can do the rest. Translator works too so those that don’t speak English can fill out the forms in their native language.” Kathey nodded and cleared the demo card for Trevor.

“This’ll really help us out. And the staff forms?” Dryber moved about the screen, pulling up everything that had been scanned in already.

“Everyone sent their replies and are waiting for us to deliver the scrolls with the announcement to arrive for their orientation.”

“Perfect. I want them all to come in next week, show them around the Academy, show them their classrooms, answer questions, all that.” Kathey looked to her cell phone when it rang. She picked it up and answered. “Royals.”

“Kathey, it is Sylark. Is Trevor still at Voutneth?” Sylark asked. Kathey frowned and leaned back in her chair.

“No, he left hours ago. Why?” she asked.

“Brenda came to the dojo looking for him, he is not at home.” Kathey’s eyes went wide.

“Call the team to Voutneth, we need to make sure this isn’t the Council’s work.”

“Why do you think this is the Council?” Sylark questioned. Kathey could hear the uncertain tone in his voice.

“They lost their most powerful member, Agony is locked up in the Underworld and his connection has been cut off from the rest of them. They’re gonna do whatever they can to end us and I’m not risking thinking it’s something else.”

~oOo~

“-up mon...” A voice echoed out. Trevor squeezed his eyes shut tighter, not wanting to wake up. “‘Ey mon, wake up!” Someone kicked him and Trevor’s eyes snapped open. He sat up and found his hands bound behind his back. He looked up at who woke him.

“What the? Jarin’do?” Trevor questioned. The troll nodded and looked Trevor over.

“What happened to ya, mon? She woo ya or bite ya?” Jarin’do asked.

“She who?”

“The Toxic Valentine whore. Purple, red, and pink?”

“Shit...” It all started to come back now. The female dragon in the forest faking injury to get his attention. She had bitten him, and now that Trevor thought about it, he could feel the sting in his neck where the bite mark was. He tilted his head to show Jarin’do the bite.

“She got ya good, mon. Surprised you ain’t dead.” Trevor looked around the room a bit, it was dark with hardly anything in it aside from torches to light the room. The only other thing he could see was Haarvik struggling to get his own binds loose. The Rukmar flexed his muscles, but to no avail.

“Just us, here?” Trevor asked and Jarin’do nodded.

“Ya, mon. Haarvik and I were out for a stroll, then it’s just a blur. Toxic Valentines, they can woo ya with just their voice if ya heart ain’t already taken. If she bit ya, means ya love someone more than just those siblings of yours.” Trevor hummed and nodded.

“Where are we anyway?” Jarin’do shrugged.

“Woke up in here just like ya. No way out unless we wanna get charmed by the Succubi.”

“Succubi?” Trevor maneuvered himself to his feet and approached the only exit, it was a pretty big doorway, no actual door, but a few demon females with reddish-purple skin stood guard in the other room. “Oh great... I might know who is behind this.” Trevor made his way back to Jarin’do and Haarvik.

“Who might that be, boy?” Haarvik questioned. His gruff voice held a Russian accent.

“Lust.”

~oOo~

“Are you kidding me?” Kathey snapped when she looked around at the team that was present. It wasn’t good. Haarvik and Jarin’do were gone along with Trevor.

There wasn’t much of a connection between the three missing members of the team. Their ages were different, they were different races, from different planets. The only connection was they were all male and were currently living at the Academy, but that was a given. The Voutneth Team had a huge target on their backs after reclaiming the Underworld, ending the hunters, and now defeating Agony.

Kathey expected the Council to retaliate, but this? This was beyond stupid. Kidnapping members of the team would just draw more attention to them and bring the team to find them faster.

“What’sss worssse, I couldn’t find any traccce of them when I went ssserching,” Samual hissed. The Serpentine Dragon had amazing tracking skills, the fact he couldn’t find the three missing males was concerning. “It’ss likely they were flown to the location they’re being held at. I can’t exactly track in the air asss well asss I can on the ground.” Kathey shook her head.

“So what now? Any ideas?” she asked. Everyone was quiet until Comeli spoke up.

“We could use more help now. We know of some dragons that could help,” Comeli said. Vatuna looked to the young dragon then snapped her fingers.

“That’s right. A brother sister pair, Galzra and Mitsua. They’re pretty handy in battle and probably have the best relationship ever,” Vatuna explained.

“Alright, where are they at?” Kathey asked. Ractor clicked his tongue and smirked.

“Last we heard, they were heading to Clayton, funny enough,” he replied. Kathey snorted and shrugged.

“Let’s go get them.”

Clayton was a thirty minute flight from Drake, which Anna, Vatuna, and Ractor took to go in search of the Sunscape Twins as they were dubbed. The Exotics didn’t give much insight on them, aside from being battle ready dragons willing to help out as much as possible. The three dragons soared over the buildings of the city, looking around at balconies and rooftops.

“They like to sunbathe when they’re not busy with freelance work,” Vatuna explained. Ractor snorted a bit.

“Not even the cold will stop them. Look.” he pointed out two dragons laying on a rooftop in the snow, wings open and soaking up the afternoon sun. Anna glared slightly as she looked them over.

One of them was light pink and orange while the other was orange and purple. A Sunrise Dragon and a Sunset Dragon in that order. “They’re twins but they’re not the same breed. On top of that breeds that are sworn enemies?” Anna questioned. Vatuna and Ractor smirked at Anna and flew ahead to approach the twins, landing on the roof and walking forward. The Sunset Dragon lifted his head, stern face turning soft when he recognized the Exotics.

“They live!” the Sunset joked and got to his feet.

“Hello, Galzra,” Vatuna greeted. The Sunrise lifted her head and smiled.

“Vatuna! Ractor! You guys are okay?” she asked and Vatuna nodded.

“As are Ferentar and Comeli. All thanks to-”

“No feshing way!” the Sunrise, Mitsua, gasped. Anna had landed a few feet away from them and was spotted. “The Anna Dragon? She saved you?” If Anna was in her human form, she would have blushed.

“Well, they were captured by hunters, I couldn’t just leave them locked in cages,” Anna said. She approached the group and sat down between Vatuna and Ractor. “And now I need your help.” Galzra frowned at the statement.

“What’s the situation?” he questioned.

“Were you here when those Undead soldiers attacked Clayton?” Anna asked and the twins nodded.

“Yeah, we were on the far side of the city, we heard your team was helping out with that situation,” Mitsua replied.

“Agony was behind it.”

“Agony?” the twins asked simultaneously.

“The Council is back. The hunters were working with Agony’s minion, a Shadow Wyvern I fought with years ago called Cenod. I’m not sure who’s doing it yet, but someone is kidnapping members of my team. I need extra help.”

“Of course, Anna, anything to help,” Mitsua said. Galzra nodded in agreement.

“We’ll fly with you to Drake and we’ll figure out what to do from there.” Anna nodded and stood, stepping over to the edge of the building and opening her wings, looking back at the four behind her.

“Let’s go, we have no time to lose.” Anna encouraged and jumped from the roof, her wings caught the air and she drifted higher, heading to Voutneth with her current and new team members behind her.

~oOo~

Trevor jolted awake suddenly when shouting reached his ears. “Let me go! The rest of the Compass Dragons won’t be happy when they find out I’m gone!”

“Malice?” Trevor questioned, spotting the Thunder Dragon in question being dragged into the room by two Succubi. They dropped him next to Trevor and Malic snarled at them as they giggled.

“He’s cute, too bad we can’t play with them,” One Succubus crooned. The second looked at Trevor, smiling.

“This one didn’t fall for Mistress Carmilla’s spell, I wonder who his heart belongs to,” she purred, tilting Trevor’s head up by his chin. He jerked his head out from her touch and growled. “Both of them are rather feisty, Mother will have quite a fun time with them once the Flower Dragon is dealt with.” The first demon smirked.

“Imagine if the Water-Ice was in love with the Flower.”

“Would be a shame, she’s nothing but a whore after all.” The two Succubi laugh as they leave. Trevor shakes his head. Malice raised an eyebrow at Trevor.

“She didn’t charm you?” he wondered and Trevor looked to him, shaking his head.

“No, she bit me.” Trevor tilted his head to show Malice the bite to his neck.

“And you’re not dead, so they must...” Malice started then mumbled to himself, looking around.

Trevor rolled his eyes and looked to Jarin’do and Haarvik talking quietly to each other in a strange language, either in Troll or in Rukmar, he didn’t know. The Succubi weren’t all that smart, fortunately for Trevor. So the Toxic Valentine Dragon was probably named Carmilla. They called somebody “Mother” which had to be Lust. Succubi were demons of seduction, just like Lust is, Trevor was right then, Lust was behind their kidnapping.

“Does the team have a plan or something? We’re gonna end up dead if they can’t find us, Carmilla already told me I wouldn’t live to tell anyone about her.” Malice snorted and struggled with his binds.

“Well, before I was lured away, Anna was going with Vatuna and Ractor to track down some old friends of theirs. Getting more forces together to fight Lust.” Trevor hummed.

The old friends Malice mentioned had to be Mitsua and Galzra, Vatuna and Trevor had been talking a lot more in the past few months, she told him a lot about her life with the Exotics. There wasn’t time to think about it though, considering their current situation.

“They better hurry up, our hearts are gonna be dinner for a dragon if they don’t.”

“Yes that would be a shame, wouldn’t it?” A female voice questioned.

The four males looked up and spotted a woman with pale skin, almost as if absent of blood, short black hair just past her ears, and bright red eyes. She had on black high heeled boots that came to her mid thigh, a very short skirt, a crop top with the chest split open to reveal her very large breasts, and gloves that came to her elbows, accented with what looked like reptilian wings. Her clothing was black and accented with light purple, almost lilac.

“Hello boys,” she greeted with a sultry tone. Malice snarled, his eyes shifting to a dragon’s.

“Lust.”

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