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woso-dreamzzz · 4 months
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Bayern Munich
Hardersson x Child!Reader
Part of The Big Adventures Universe
Summary: Your first day at Bayern Munich
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The low rumble of German is soothing in your ears as Momma and Morsa walk into the Bayern Munich training centre.
You still remember all of your German and more because when you moved to England, Momma made sure to get you a German tutor because she was adamant that you would end up back here at some point.
Momma kept a lot of her German too so it's only Morsa that's going to struggle.
Bayern Munich isn't Wolfsburg but it's not Not-Wolfsburg either so you can live with this. It helps that the jersey has red on it like Arsenal does so you like it even more.
You've got your favourite training bag on your back but you know it won't really be used much today.
Some more official looking people greet you all, shaking your Momma and Morsa's hands in greeting and smiling politely at you.
"The rest of the girls are in the gym," One of the official people says," There's cubbies already waiting and labelled for you all in the locker room."
"Thank you," Momma says, taking your hand and walking you all there.
What the man said was true. Momma and Morsa have their own cubbies where their training shirts are already hanging up.
But you've got one too, complete with a tiny little training shirt for you and a new pair of goalkeeper gloves waiting.
You gasp and scurry forward.
"Morsa! Momma! Look, gloves!"
"We can see that," Morsa says as she begins to change," They must have seen how much you love keeping."
"I love keeping," You confirm as Momma helps you change into your new Bayern shirt.
"We know. Come on, princesse. Let's go meet everybody."
Momma and Morsa have been here before without you so they already kind of know their way around. It doesn't take a long time to get there.
You feel a little bit shy as you go in so hide a bit behind Morsa's long legs. Momma and Morsa greet everybody and you stay where you are, your hand holding tight on Morsa's waistband.
"Princesse," Morsa says," Say hello."
"Hallo."
One of the girls - the one with number sixteen on her shirt - laughs. "She speaks German?"
You nod. "Ja."
She laughs in delight and turns to look at Georgia Stanway, who you recognise from the World Cup and vaguely from when she played for Manchester City. "The kid speaks better German than you!"
Georgia rolls her eyes. "Life's too short to learn German." She approaches you with a smile, holding her hand out for a high five. "It's nice to see you again. You look good in a Bayern shirt."
"I like red," You reply with a little smile.
"I know. I heard from Leah that you really like Arsenal too."
"You know Leah?"
"Of course I do! Me and Leah go way back."
"Leah's really cool!"
Georgia laughs and leans forward like she's going to tell you a secret. "I'm cooler."
"Really?"
"So much cooler! Everything at Bayern's cooler! We've got the cooler Sam Kerr too!"
Your crinkle appears between your brows. "But Sam's in England."
"That's the Australian Sam," A new girl says as she approaches," I'm the Scottish Sam Kerr."
"Scottish," You repeat," Like Erin? And Jen? And Kim?"
"Exactly like them," Scottish Sam says.
You nod. "That's cool."
"See?" Georgia says," Everything's cooler here."
"You don't need to get her on your side," Morsa says a bit petulantly," She'd already decided that Bayern ranked above Chelsea the moment she saw the red on the jersey."
You nod. "Bayern is better than Not-Wolfsburg."
Morsa groans and Momma shakes her head fondly at you.
Georgia grins at you. "I think we're going to enjoy having you here."
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seokgyuu · 4 months
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your boyfriend has been telling you he wants to bring someone else into the bedroom for a while. the thought only started to sound good when a certain boyfriend's best friend posts gym pictures on insta.
pairing: sung hanbin x fem!reader x seok matthew
genre: established relationship (hanbin x fem!reader) , smut MDNI!
smut warnings: cuckold, thigh riding, blowjobs, penetrative sex, dirty talk, usage of the words "princess", "baby", unprotected sex, creampie
wordcount: 4.4k
a/n: happy happy birthday @cheolism!!!!! see, i told you i would whip something up!! you probably didn't believe me, did you? ha! got you there. anyway. happiest birthday, my dear! i hope you enjoy this little piece of filth i made in your honour. one turns 22 only once you know!! in german we say: Schnappszahl! i love you loads, babes, have a wonderful day <3 (ps. it's been your birthday in germany for one hour already so theoretically i am not posting early!!)
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“When did Matthew start working out like this?” 
You’re laying on your stomach on Hanbin’s bed, biting down on your thumbnail. 
“Like… a month ago? He’s been going to the gym forever, but only recently going every day.”
You nod. Yeah, he definitely looks like he hits the gym every day. Gosh, you still remember him as a small (he’s still relatively small), lanky pre-teen with braces and glasses that were too big for his face. None of that is left. Glasses are ditched unless he’s at home playing video games for no one to see. Braces have been gone a long time, leaving him with two rows of perfectly straight white teeth. And last but not least the lankiness has turned into buffness you couldn’t stop staring at on your phone.
“Why do you ask?” Hanbin now rolls over with his chair, eyebrows raised as he looks at your phone screen. You’re not quick enough to move, leading Hanbin to snicker as he places his legs on top of his bed, arms crossed.
“I can explain,” you say now, sitting up, but your boyfriend just grins at you.
“Can you now, princess?” He tilts his head and you bite your lip, suddenly forgetting all the explanations you could possibly come up with. You know your boyfriend - he isn’t the jealous type. If anything… he is the opposite. How many nights had he whispered into your ear that he would love to watch you get fucked by someone else, how he got hard just imagining you on someone else’s cock. All you had done when he said that was turn bright red and let him fuck you senseless after - with his own cock, not anyone else’s. 
And now, here you are. Looking at pictures of his best friend (really? out of everyone it had to be Hanbin’s best fucking friend?!) with Hanbin’s eyes sparkling mischievously. It’s obvious what he’s thinking. You clear your throat.
“I don’t- I don’t think you want him to get involved, do you?” You ask carefully and Hanbin leans forward now, smiling.
“Why not? Because he’s been my best friend for years?” He wants to know. When you nod, Hanbin climbs onto the bed, catching you off guard when he wraps his arms around you and brings his lips to your forehead, kissing it softly before looking down at you with yet another one of his beautiful smiles.
“I don’t think there is anyone I’d rather see you getting fucked by, my love.” He says it in such a soft and innocent tone, you can’t help but laugh, burying your head in his chest.
“You’re horrible,” you mumble and Hanbin laughs, bringing one of his hands to the back of your head, patting it lovingly. 
“I love you, you know that right? And if you’re really interested in Matt… I am sure I could arrange something.”
The thing is: you say no. Because why would you want to sleep with someone else when you have your perfect boyfriend right there? Your perfect boyfriend that has always cared more about your pleasure than his? That has made you cum more times than you can count? That perfect boyfriend that has never once let you down. 
You’re in the cafeteria with your bottle of water and a tray full of food but you can’t eat. Your leg is bouncing up and down and your eyes are focused on one of the trash cans at the far end of the room. Not because they are particularly interesting, but because Matthew sat down just a few tables further from you in nothing but a flimsy muscle shirt and ripped jeans and you really, really can’t look at him. So, the trash can it is. 
“Did you see a ghost?” Hao is suddenly next to you, making you flinch and almost knock over the bottle of water.
“Jesus Christ, Hao, next time whistle or something,” you say, frowning at your friend who just shrugs and instead begins eating his food. 
“You didn’t answer my question. Why do you look like you’ve seen a ghost? Is the cafeteria poltergeist back?” 
“What? No. No, I am fine. Totally fine. No ghosts.” You clear your throat and catch yourself sneaking a glance at Matthew after all, regretting it immediately. Because why is he flexing right then and there, laughing his cute laugh after when Gyuvin throws a napkin at him. This is torture. 
“Ah, right. Matthew,” Hao nods and your head swirls around, eyes wide. 
“Matthew, what?” You ask even though you already know. God fucking dammit Sung Hanbin! 
“Bin told me,” Hao confirms and you roll your eyes with a groan, “even though I was kind of offended you didn’t want me to be the first to join you two in the bedroom, Y/N.”
“If I were to ever let that happen I’d be single and you and Hanbin happily married with seven children in no time,” you mumble and Hao chuckles, shaking his head and pulling a hand through his hair.
“At least you’re aware I’m actually his favorite,” he hums at you and the desire to copy Gyuvin and throw a napkin at your friend is extremely tempting. 
“Whatever.” You try to focus back on your food, but your stomach is rumbling and your brain is somewhere totally different, meaning hunger was the last thing on your mind - at least hunger for actual food. 
Hao snickers and watches you, a piece of meat landing on his tongue.
“I think you should do it, Y/N. Hanbin has been dreaming of this moment. Honestly, no idea what he finds so appealing about watching his girlfriend getting fucked by another man, but believe me, you’d make him the happiest man on this earth if you were to bring Matthew into your bedroom.”
The words do more than either of you probably thought. They continue to linger in your mind even hours after Hao had said them, you now being in your dorm with your pen stuck between your teeth, eyes unfocused on the words you’ve been trying to read.
Bring Matthew into your bedroom. Have him be a part of your sex life with Hanbin. Make Hanbin the happiest man on this earth. 
It’s official: You’d be lying if you said the whole thing didn’t turn you on. Imagining Hanbin sitting on the little armchair in his apartment with his cock in his hands as you sat on Matthews stiff length, his strong arms wrapped around you as he thrusted up into your needy pussy…
The pen falls down and you are back in reality, flinching and shaking your head. This is crazy. You couldn’t possibly… a groan escapes you and you let your head fall on top of your desk, slamming your forehead against it a few times, before sitting back up and leaning against your chair, letting your thoughts roam free. Hanbin had literally asked you about this several times. He wanted to bring someone else into the bedroom and he even said that he wouldn’t mind it being Matthew. So, what was stopping you? 
“Fucking hell,” you curse as you pull both hands through your hair and get up, opening the door of your room to walk into the living space, where you are met with none other than Hanbin walking in… Matthew right behind him. You freeze mid step. 
“Hi, I called you, but you didn’t pick up, I hope it’s okay I brought Matt over, we were at the gym and the showers are broken and, well, your apartment is closer.” 
Yes, you can clearly see where those two have been. They are sweaty, hair slightly wet, muscle shirts clinging onto their chests. The tattoo on Matthew’s biceps pops out deliciously when he raises his arm to wave at you. Your eyes wander to your boyfriend, a knowing glint in his eyes. 
“That’s okay,” you croak out, looking back at Matthew and somehow you just cannot stop yourself from checking him out unapologetically. His defined arms, the defined chest, the sweatpants on his strong legs. Your tongue slips out of your mouth and runs over your dried up bottom lip and Matthew can’t help but stare at you, feeling his cheeks heat up at the way you’re looking at him. 
He remembers Hanbin’s words and feels his knees go weak.
“She definitely wants you to fuck her, Matt. She just needs a little… nudge.”
Never had he ever thought his best friend’s girlfriend would ever want him to… do that. He swallows down whatever lump has formed in his throat and looks at Hanbin, unsure. Hanbin, who now walks over to you, his hand softly grabbing your chin, moving your head to look at him.
“I think I should hit the shower first, be a good girl and show Matthew the rest of the apartment, hm?” He kisses your lips softly after that, well aware of what his words just caused. Your eyes flicker up to him, wide and unsure and when he winks at you, squeezing your hand as he slowly makes his way to the door leading into the bathroom, you know that all you can do now is follow your gut. 
There is a certain kind of silence between Matthew and you once the door shuts behind Hanbin, a silence filled with tension so thick it takes your breath away. You watch as Matthew slowly drops his bag onto the floor, his shoes vacant next to it. His legs carry him over to you and with every step he takes, your heart picks up speed while the heat between your legs begins to feel almost unbearable. His eyes say much more than words ever could and when he comes to a stop, he lets them linger on your lips long enough for you to almost lose your mind. 
“So, what’s behind this door?” He asks, nodding in the direction of the bedroom door. The heat is about to make you pass out.
“B-bedroom,” you stutter back. Matthew grins.
“Well, what did Hanbin hyung say? Be a good girl and show me.”
Oh. Oh. A Wave of desire washes over you as you nod, your hand shaking when you push the door open, following Matthew’s hand movement and walking inside, his body right behind yours. He doesn’t close the door behind him, instead he settles on walking through the room, looking around. You try to steady your breathing, failing miserably.
“It’s a nice bedroom,” he says, nodding to himself, “I like the pictures on your wall. Did you take them?” 
When you nod, he smiles at you, obviously impressed.
“You’ve got a good eye.” 
As much as you appreciate the compliment - you can’t really focus on anything else but the way he looks in the dim light coming through the window. His arms, his slowly heaving chest. Your eyes roam over his body and you feel hot all over, wondering what it would feel like to touch him, to feel his muscles tighten around you. 
He notices, of course he does. It’s not hard to miss - the way you eye him up and down, the way your eyes linger a little too long on his chest, his arms. He feels his blood rush down, feels his dick getting hard at the mere idea of you checking him out, wanting him. 
“Maybe,” you begin, not sure where the confidence to speak is coming from but you accept it with open arms, “maybe you should change out of your sweaty clothes.”
His eyebrows shoot up for just a second before they settle back down. He can’t stop the smug smile creeping on his lips, not taking his eyes off you when he starts moving. 
“Yeah? Hm, I think you might be right.” His voice is deep and dripping in cockyness that has your pussy clenching. To make matters worse, he comes to a stop in front of you and immediately moves his hands to the hem of his shirt, pulling it over his head the next second to reveal a perfectly sculpted torso - abs and chest and collarbones that make your fingers itch to touch them. 
“Fuck,” you breathe out, stepping closer to him with your hands stretched out, hands that he now grabs with his, pulling you right into him. While he should smell bad, courtesy of working out, he doesn’t. He looks sweaty, he is sweaty, but he smells heavenly. His cologne mixed with his own scent, musky and sweet at the same time, it lingers in your nose, gets your knees weak and Matt has to wrap an arm around your waist to stop you from actually falling to your knees. The smug smile seems to get even more smug. His eyes are on yours and his arm around you seems to squeeze every ounce of self respect you have left right out of you.
“Careful, darling.” His voice is merely a whisper. His breath hits your face and you can’t stop the whimper escaping your lips now even if you tried. That does it for him. He forgets all about his worries and crashes his lips onto yours, free hand now cupping your cheek, meaning both of your hands were free to find their own place to settle on. 
First, you let your right hand feel up his biceps, a moan slipping between your lips when he flexes his arm underneath your grip. The other hand is on his chest, nails digging into his warm skin, causing him to hiss. His teeth sink into your bottom lip and you feel like you could come undone on the spot. 
Matthew deepens the kiss, tongue now inside your mouth, wet and hot and perfect and you let both arms wrap around his neck now, his strong arm carrying you over to the bed, where he puts you down, his body now on yours, one of his thighs slipping between yours - giving you the friction you so desperately needed. His lips move fast and rough and you feel like your whole body is on fire when you begin to move your core against his thick thigh, embarrassingly already feeling a climax approaching. 
“God, you’re so pretty,” his breathy voice against your ear gets you even closer to the edge. You bite down on your lip, arching your back against him and he begins to kiss your neck, kiss it, lick it, bite down on your sensitive skin, one hand now under your shirt, grabbing your braless tits and squeezing them hard. 
“Fuck, Matthew-,” you cry out, nails back to digging into his skin, this time his shoulders. Your hips move uncontrollably against his hard thigh, his tongue now wandering down and finally flicking against your nipple after shoving your top up far enough. Everything inside of you is burning by now. Your clothes feel too hot and you sit up for a second to get rid of your shirt, the wild look in Matthew’s eyes as he watches you is intoxicating. You are quick to wrap your arms around him again when your upper body is freed and he is quick to kiss you again, just as rough as before. 
In no time you feel your first orgasm rush over you, a series of whimpers and moans landing in his mouth, against his lips, down his throat as he swallows them.
“Yeah, baby, so pretty when you cum for me, fucking hell, I bet you’re so fucking wet.”
The orgasm is mindblowing. It’s hot and feels forbidden even though you know it’s not. You know Hanbin is probably standing under the stream of water having to restrict himself from touching his cock, from getting off to the thought of you and Matthew alone in your bedroom. There is no time for you to come down from your high, not with Matthew parting from you only to shove you further up the bed with your newest obsession in the form of his arms. Your mouth waters and your eyes widen when you see the clear outline of his arousal between his legs and you can’t stop yourself from sitting back up.
“Can I suck you off?” You ask him.
He groans and nods, pulling his sweatpants down, leaving almost nothing to imagination anymore. His gray briefs are tight around his cock, a cock you can’t wait to taste on your lips and feel its weight on your tongue. You get on all fours, looking up at him and seeing his eyebrow twitch, a smile on your lips when you finally reach him, fingers in the waistband of his underwear, dragging it down his legs next, his thick cock springing free and smacking against his stomach, leaving a small stain right there on his skin. Moving forward, you grab his cock and lick over his stomach, the stain gone in no time, Matthew’s eyes wide and his mouth hanging open. 
“Fuck.” He breathes out, one hand now on the back of your head, watching you as you begin to pump his cock with one hand, the other helping you keep steady on the mattress. You eye his cock, tongue soon licking his tip clean and Matthew is sure he is about to pass out. His hips buck and you giggle, opening your mouth fully for him to slip inside, easily taking him down your throat, Matthew’s composure about to break. His hand fists your hair, head thrown back as he continues to fuck your mouth. Spit is dripping down onto the bed, spit mixed with his pre and you press your tongue against his shaft, letting him use your throat as much as he likes. 
“So, so good for me, baby, taking me so well, fuck.” 
His raspy voice has your eyes rolling back and your core starting to throb again. It won’t be long until you need a cock stuffing you full. 
“I see you are already acquainted with my princess’ ability to take a cock down her throat no problem.”
Hanbin entered the room with neither of you taking notice. Your heart does a flip, eyes opening and flicking over to your beautiful boyfriend who stands in the door frame, nothing but a towel around his slim body, the tattoo right underneath his neck as well as his v-line on full display for you to drool on Matt’s cock over. Your boyfriend comes closer to you now, Matthew not even taking real notice, too far into his desire. Hanbin stops next to Matthew, smiling to himself as he watches his most beloved girlfriend getting throat fucked by his best friend. The towel does little to hide how much he enjoys the view. 
“My perfect girl, I bet you’re so wet, aren’t you?” He pats your cheek softly, eyes warm but sharp. You want to tell him to get behind you, to fuck you as Matthew fucks your mouth, but you know that’s not what he wants.
“Matt, I think it’s time for you to give our little baby here what she needs.” Shit. You moan around Matt’s cock, dizzy from the way Hanbin seems to lose himself in authority in the best way. He’s confident and secure and you don’t think he’s ever been sexier to you. Finally, Matt lets his cock drop from your lips and you wipe over your mouth with the back of your hand, looking from Matt to Hanbin.
“You did so well, baby, ‘am so proud of you.” Hanbin leans forward, kissing your lips and then your cheeks and finally your forehead before looking back at Matthew and giving him the go with a nod. 
A few seconds later you’re on your back, Matthew’s cock deep inside you, wrapped in a condom Hanbin had handed him (“The only one cumming inside her is me, sorry bud,” he had said and Matthew had only nodded, too horny to even really care), fucking into you like a madman. Your back was arched and your fingers were wrapped around his biceps that were all nice and hard as he held himself up above you, his hips working at godspeed. 
Watching all of this from your desk chair, Hanbin had discarded the towel on the floor, his hand around his leaking cock, watching his best friend fuck his girlfriend just the way she liked it. His eyes are glued to your face, the way it is contoured in nothing but pleasure - your eyes closed shut and your mouth dropped open, the sounds coming out of it more than just music to his ears. You sound like heaven to him - like something no one could ever compare to. He licks over his lips, stroking his cock a little quicker as he lets his eyes roam over the rest of you; your tits as they bounce up and down, your legs crossed around Matthew’s waist. Everything about you is perfect and he can’t believe he got to finally see your pleasure from this point of view.
“G-gonna cum, fuck, sh-shit,” Matthew feels himself tumbling over the edge, his head dipping down to kiss your neck and lick up to your lips, pulling you into a kiss that takes your already harbored breath away. He moves faster, with less control and finally, when he feels you clench around his cock over and over - hot cum shoots out of his exhausted cock and into the condom, for a split second wishing there wasn’t one. 
He rides out his orgasm, kissing your lips and cheeks and moving down to your neck, your hands in his hair now, enjoying the way he twitches inside of you. When he rolls off your body, he is still trying to catch his breath, even more sweaty than before. With all of the tension and arousal gone, he now starts to feel blood rush to his cheeks, slowly looking over at you only to see you fondly smiling at him.
“Thanks,” you giggle, letting your fingers brush through his wet bangs. He smiles, showing his rows of white teeth.
“Right back at you,” he says, looking at Hanbin then, who has gotten up. He exchanges glances and nods, knowing that this next part is not for his eyes.
“Guess I’ll finally hit the shower then.” Matthew chuckles, getting off the bed and hurrying to the door that he ends up closing this time.
Hanbin is on top of you a second later, his lips devouring yours, hands on your face, cock pressing against the inside of your thigh. You sigh into his mouth, hands on his nape as you kiss him back, butterflies everywhere, your stomach feeling like you’re flying. 
“You did so well, baby, made me so happy, so horny, god, I love you,” he kisses you between every word and you giggle, wrapping your legs around him.
“I love you too, need you, too, please fill me up, Hannie.”
He nods, kissing the corner of your mouth before skillfully turning you around, slipping into your pussy through your legs flat on the mattress. Fuck. You love it when he fucks you like this. His mouth is right by your ear, his cock easily slipping into you, the moan he lets out making your pussy flutter.
“So wet baby, did he fuck you well, hm? Liked his cock in your mouth? Your pussy?” He whispers into your ear, his hips beginning to fuck you into the mattress hard. You cry out, hands gripping the bed sheets.
“Y-Yes! Liked it a lot.”
“Hm, bet you did. Bet you would have loved it if I had fucked you when you had his cock in your mouth, isn’t that right, baby?” His hips are so skilled, know exactly how to move to make you lose your mind, forget all your words. So, all you can do is nod your head yes.
Hanbin chuckles, kissing the back of your neck.
“I am so lucky to have you.” 
His speed triples after this. He ruts into you like it’s his life goal to have you coming undone on his cock, to have his seed spill into you and claim you as his. Your cries of pleasure make him go even harder, the sound of his cock slipping in and out of your wet pussy so lewd it has both of your heads spinning. When you feel your second climax approaching, you clench around him, Hanbin biting into your shoulder as he continues his thrusts. Neither of you will hold out any longer and so, when he gives you permission with a sweet kiss and a “cum for me, princess”, you can’t help yourself. Pleasure runs through every inch of your body, pulsating around Hanbin’s cock and taking him over the edge with you.
“Yeah, baby, that’s it, shit,” Hanbin empties inside you, hot cum filling your spent pussy and you cry out his name over and over again, just as he does yours. All through getting down from his high, he showers your back with kisses, hands caressing your sides. When he slips out of you and helps turn you on your back, you feel his release dripping out too and he is quick to stuff it back in with his slim fingers, your pussy clenching as you whimper in overstimulation.
“Bin!” Your hands both move to his wrist, eyes wide and he grins, the wrinkles under his eyes making you all soft inside. 
“Sorry, baby. Just making sure what’s yours stays in there.” He kisses the top of your nose and you roll your eyes at him, swatting at his shoulder.
“You’ve got a dirty mouth.”
Your boyfriend just laughs, kissing you lovingly, free hand caressing your cheek. 
Someone clearing their throat in the door makes you part again. There stands Matthew, his eyes glued to the both of you with something like uncertainty in his gaze.
“I just- uh, I just wanted to know where, uh, where you kept the towels.”
You can see clearly that he’s been watching you longer than a few seconds. You and Hanbin share a look before you burst out laughing.
“Maybe we should take a shower together. All three of us,” You say, grinning from Hanbin to Matthew. They both are visibly surprised at your proposal, Matthew looking a little unsure when his and Hanbin’s gaze meet. 
“Sounds like a wonderful plan to me, sweetheart. I could definitely use another shower after this.” Hanbin grins happily. And Matthew thinks that maybe he could get used to this. 
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katelynnwrites · 6 months
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Can You Feel This Magic In The Air? (It Must Have Been The Way You Kissed Me) | Lea Schüller
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warnings: none :)
word count: 1422
summary: lea makes your today and every day a fairytale
a/n: yeah i know my writing needs work, it’s not been good recently but i wanted to post something because it’s been 100 days since i watched lea score in person
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It’s exactly six when there is a knock on your door.
You open it immediately, not even bothering to attempt to pretend like you haven’t been nervously waiting for it.
Lea is standing on the other side, a blush already painting her cheeks as she holds out a small bouquet of flowers.
You’re kind of taken aback.
Firstly, she is here at six, precisely the time she promised she would arrive at. None of the people you have previously dated have been that punctual.
Secondly, the flowers. The flowers have your heart beating faster as you gently reach out to take them.
When your hand accidentally brushes against Lea’s, there is a tiny zap of electricity. Not the bad kind but the good kind. The sort that lets you know that your body instinctively reacts to her touch.
The blonde woman must feel it too because she straightens up with a smile.
‘Danke. They’re gorgeous but really, you didn’t have to.’ You murmur gratefully.
‘Well I wanted to. You deserve to be treated like a princess.’ She answers.
You give her the shyest of smiles in response.
Thirdly, as you keep looking at her, appreciating her beauty, Lea takes you by the hand.
The gesture is affectionate and warm, your girlfriend taking a step nearer to you.
‘Can I kiss you?’ The German striker whispers.
It’s the way she asks that has you weak in your knees.
She is hopeful and gentle, her thumbs running back and forth over your palm as she waits for your answer.
You don’t make Lea wait because you are never going to refuse her. Especially if she keeps looking at you like you hung the moon and all the stars in the sky.
So you nod and your girlfriend smiles the loveliest of smiles, right before she presses her lips onto yours.
******
‘You’re so pretty.’ Lea compliments sincerely.
Her crystal blue eyes give you a once over and her hands run briefly down your body before they stop at your waist.
‘I look like a mess.’ You self deprecatingly giggle but Lea isn’t having any of it.
The blonde shakes her head vehemently.
‘You. Are. So. Incredibly. Pretty.’ She insists, punctuating each and every word with a kiss.
Your girlfriend is wearing a dark gray T-shirt and a pair of gym shorts. The clothes she has on accentuates her slim form. She looks stunning and the slightly crumpled dress that you had hurriedly pulled on after your post training session shower pales in comparison.
Lea gives you another kiss and then leans back to tuck a loose curl behind your ear.
Time slows down whenever you’re around the Bayern striker and you are intent on cherishing every moment.
You want to be able to memorise the exact way her eyes shine when you slip your hand into hers.
‘Thank you my love. That’s really kind of you.’
Your girlfriend hums, ‘It’s my pleasure…especially if you keep calling me that.’
******
It’s a light, hurried kiss that Lea presses onto your lips just before she runs off, back towards her seperate training group.
‘See you in a bit meine liebe!’ She rushes out, as she does so.
Forwards have been assigned different drills today so you, as a midfielder, have been forced to leave your girlfriend.
It’s only for a short time but you hate it.
Although the gesture of affection that the blonde has gifted you with has your heart fluttering in adoration as you watch her go.
The sun is shining, the sky is blue, the grass is green and you’re falling even more in love with Lea.
******
The blonde pulls you against her, closing her eyes and leaning her forehead against yours.
It’s only for a short moment because she draws back soon after, placing her hand on your cheek tenderly as she kisses you.
Your heart rate speeds up as your world narrows to just a single point. One Lea Schüller.
When the shared kiss ends out of necessity for air, you breathe heavily, a red flush spreading over your cheeks.
The German woman’s clear blue eyes are wide and she is gazing at you with such contentment and happiness that you wonder if she can feel the magic in the air.
It’s like you are floating because such is the lightness that Lea has instilled in your heart and it must have been from the way she kissed you.
******
Your girlfriend’s smile is beautiful. It is like the sun breaking through the clouds after it rains. Like sunshine reflecting off the ocean on a sunny day.
What you are trying to say is that Lea’s smile lights up your life.
It is doing that now as you turn over to face her.
The blonde has the duvet pulled up right under her chin, a sleepy grin tugging on her lips.
‘Morning.’ You whisper, leaning in to place a chaste kiss on her forehead.
Lea makes a pleased noise, her smile widening as she does so. She looks at ease and that gives you peace.
All you ever want is for her to be happy. You being the reason for her joy is a privilege that you will never take for granted.
Your girlfriend’s got a smile that takes you to another planet. It is out of this world really. The German woman might as well be an angel with how perfect she is.
Every move she makes and everything she says is right.
Over the course of your relationship, she has come to know you as surely as she knows herself so when she presses herself as close as she can to you, before giving you your own good morning kiss, the Bayern Munich forward cherishes the fact that you love her just as much as she loves you.
Lea is never going to doubt the depth of your love for her. Not when you take so much care in showing her, in each and every moment that she is by your side. The blonde considers herself the luckiest woman in the world to call that spot hers.
She hopes that you feel the same way about her. Her love for you is a love she never thought possible. It had been beyond the blonde’s wildest dreams to love someone as much as she loves you.
******
You fall in love with the sight of Lea sitting at your kitchen island, in her pajamas, with her usual morning cup of coffee.
The domesticity of it has found a special place in your heart.
You’re compelled to stand in the doorway, just taking a moment to appreciate it.
Here you are, with the woman who you have given your heart to. She’s simply sitting there and enjoying her morning coffee but it is everything to you.
Lea makes your heart rate speed up with her mere presence. It’s beating fast and hard in your chest and you wonder if she can hear it. It seems overly loud to you.
‘What are you doing over there?’
The sound of her voice snaps you out of it.
‘Just trying to remember the moment.’ You admit, with a blush already forming on your cheeks.
Your girlfriend’s amusement only grows and she leaves her half drunk coffee to walk over to your side.
‘You’re so precious.’ The German woman murmurs, wrapping her arms around your waist and placing tiny, delicate butterfly kisses all over your face.
Laughter fills your apartment, both yours and your girlfriend’s and as she holds you flush against her taller frame, you happen to catch a glimpse of the reflection in a mirror you have hung up on a nearby wall.
Lea’s eyes are fully focused on you and her hands are resting firmly on your waist. The blonde’s hair is loose around her shoulders and she is dressed in one of your old jerseys.
You fall in love with her all over again. It’s like you are going back to the moment she picked you up for your first date together.
You fell in love with her standing there then and you fall in love with her standing there now.
You are probably going to keep doing it over and over again for as long as you’re allowed to call yourself hers.
It’s your biggest and most sincere dream that you are going to be able to do that for the rest of your life because today is a fairytale.
Being Lea’s makes every single day a fairytale and you hope it never ends.
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German Translations:
danke - thank you
meine liebe - my love
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Puppy Love Legacy Challenge - Sims 4
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Description: A ten generation legacy challenge revolving around my interpretation of different dog breeds and their personality trends.
Note: - This is all in my own opinion and is for fun, nothing is meant in offense to any breed, or to be taken literally. The legacy challenge is to commemorate my late Jack Russell Terrier, Princess. I'm unaware of any similar challenges so I decided to create my own!
(This has not yet been tested and is open for suggestions as it is played out! Under traits, I only include traits that must be completed in addition to traits needed for that generations career)
Generation One - Jack Russell Terrier
Traits: Active, hot headed, genius
Skills: mischief max, fitness max, cooking level 6
Career: Fitness, pro athlete branch
Aspiration: Chief of Mischief
Generation notes: Date one sim your entire life and marry them as an adult. Have as many kids as you like. Regularly get into fights with your sims neighbors. Find all the frogs in the frog collection and have a room dedicated to them.
Generation Two - German Shepard
Traits: Perfectionist, adventurous, loves the outdoors
Skills: Selvadoradian culture max, fishing max
Career: Secret Agent, diamond agent branch
Aspiration: Jungle Explorer
Generation notes: Must complete aspiration before having children and must be an adult. Sell relics for money on the sell table while also keeping some to decorate your sims house with. Take a vacation to Selvadora at least three times. Have two fish tanks with fish you catch. Have two children of your own and adopt one. Marriage is optional but not preferred as you’re married to work.
Generation Three - Golden Retriever
Traits: Goofball, clumsy, cheerful
Skills: Charisma max, comedy max
Career: Detective
Aspiration: Neighborhood Confidant
Generation notes: Must have at least three children, preferably with one set of multiples or triplets! Go to the park at least twice a week by yourself or with family. Go jogging every night after work. Own a pool. Donate at least 100k this generation.
Generation Four - Chihuahua
Traits: Evil, perfectionist, kleptomaniac
Skills: Baking max, singing max
Career: Criminal
Aspiration: Villainous Valentine
Generation notes: Have only one child and never marry. Steal constantly from this child's parent to make up for "back child support". Spend your nights after work at karaoke bars. Have music playing loudly in the late and early hours of the night to annoy your neighbors.
Generation Five - Basset Hound
Traits: Lazy, glutton, childish
Skills: cooking max, gourmet cooking max, charisma max
Career: Unemployed/Odd Jobs
Aspiration: Friend of the World
Generation notes: Never have a job while living off your parents money. Do not exercise or go to the gym. Have a friends-with-benefits that you have your children with. Order groceries regularly. Max at least one other skill of your choosing. Have a "sim den" in your home with lots of comfort items. Spend most nights sleeping in there by "accident".
Generation Six - French Bulldog
Traits: Proper, jealous, high maintenance
Skills: at least five skills to level five - players choice
Career: Salaryperson and after that, player choice.
Aspiration: Renaissance Sim
Generation notes: Live in a mansion. Always wear a dress or a suit (formal style). Throw a dinner party once a week. Have a white Persian cat. Always hire nannies to care for your children. Have a "nice" bathroom that you never use.
Generation Seven - Boxer
Traits: Foodie, bro, geek
Skills: research & debate max, logic max
Career: Education, administrator branch
Aspiration: Academic
Generation notes: Marry your college sweetheart but later find them cheating on you. Find love in a co-worker and remarry in your adult years. In your free time, go to Sulani and swim in the ocean. Read one book a day for fun. Never miss new years and always hire a bartender for parties. Have at least three best friends.
Generation Eight - Pomeranian
Traits: Mean, romantic, snob
Skills: violin max, piano max
Career: Business, investor branch
Aspiration: Serial romantic
Generation notes: Have four kids by four different sims. Marry rich, take their money and leave them homeless. Only watch the romance channel on TV. Have movie nights re-watching Simder once a week and order pizza. Be a millionaire by the end of this generation. Buy two of the The Virtuoso Violin and keep one for display on a high shelf.
Generation Nine - Poodle
Traits: Self-absorbed, foodie, self-assured
Skills: flower arranging max, gardening max
Career: Actress
Aspiration: Beach Life
Generation notes: Get one of the most expensive massages a week, minimum. Never repair any household objects yourself, always hire a repair sim. Have a roommate that your sim thinks they’re better than (a sim that doesn't have as nice things or clothes). Have at five outfits for each category to flaunt your wealth. Own beachside property.
Generation Ten - Pitbull
Traits: Loyal, good, family-oriented
Skills: video gaming max, parenting max, rock climbing max
Career: Law, judge branch
Aspiration: Successful Lineage
Generation notes: Have trouble finding a spouse because of being misunderstood. Go through a minimum of four significant others before finding another misunderstood sim (not as preferable traits, unique quirks, different looking). Spend free time rock climbing with family. Never hire a nanny, but kids can go to daycare. Don't hire a maid, have the kids help with household chores to teach life skills. As a judge, always make choice for the greater good.
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Michael Caine wears two watches: an analogue for the time and an Apple for everything else. It even knows his pulse, he says, impressed. Right now, it’s telling him his flat is 26C: warm enough for his wife, Shakira, to pour iced coffee into his flask, but not hot enough for those balcony doors to be open: “It’s blowing a bloody gale in here!”
I slide them shut slightly. Is that OK? A bit more. Enough? Bit more. I close them completely. He’s happy now.
Caine lives in Chelsea Harbour: posh 80s condos and Princess Diana’s gym. He likes the security and tolerates the helicopters. His London penthouse has caramel carpets, 360-degree views, two Oscars and 5,000 photos of his grandchildren.
Below us lies Battersea Bridge, tide low, shore glittering. No, he shudders, he’s never mudlarked. Why not? After all, his first novel, out in November, is about binmen who find uranium down at the dump. “Well,” he says darkly, “other people do things and it goes all right. I do them and bad things happen.”
He looks at me. We’re waiting for his co-star, John Standing, who is stuck in traffic. Caine is a big man with whom to make small talk. It’s not just that your brain short-circuits each time he speaks (Michael Caine?!?!), it’s that at 90, he’s still 6ft 2in, undiminished and simply intimidating.
In 1987, he gave an acting masterclass in which he revealed the secret to being forceful on screen was a) don’t blink and b) mascara. It works face-to-face, too. The first one, anyway.
During the Blitz, says Caine, he watched the city get flattened from his dormer in Camberwell; from here, he’s seen it rise up again. He loves new-build and soft furnishings with the passion of a man raised in an attic with no hot water, one outdoor loo and rickets. Every time a bomb fell, the mattresses doiiinged. “Me and my brother would laugh all through the bleedin’ air raids!”
An update: Standing will be here shortly. I praise the pot-plants and Caine mourns his garden. He was evacuated to Berkshire, where he was fed a tin of pilchards a day and locked in a cupboard for the weekends, and then to rural Norfolk, where he discovered a love of horticulture – later energetically indulged at his own places in Oxfordshire and Surrey.
Less so in Hollywood. He sold up there after someone told him that if he wanted to grow daffodils he’d need to put the bulbs in the fridge for a fortnight. “That was it! Final straw!” But did he do it? “Oh yeah. It worked.”
In comes Standing, 89 but nimble as a debutante, all polish and apologies. They settle down, discuss the weather and a window is discreetly opened. Caine goggles at my iPad, which he mistakes for a phone: “Blimey, that’s a big one!”
The Great Escaper is brilliant, I say. Caine is surprised I’ve seen it, let alone enjoyed it. Didn’t he? “Yeah. But I’ve had films where I liked it but other people didn’t agree with me.”
No wonder it tempted them from retirement: meaty roles dry up as you approach 100. Caine plays Bernard Jordan, a real-life Royal Navy veteran who made headlines in 2014 when he travelled alone from his care home in Hove, East Sussex, to Normandy for the 70th D-day anniversary. The film – flintier than you might think, and very moving – fictionalises a friendship with Arthur, a former RAF pilot (Standing) he meets on the ferry.
Both actors did national service in Berlin after the war; Caine was then drafted to Korea – “a bugger”, he says (his memoir suggests this is understatement). “When we got there they said: the Chinese have just sent a million troops. What? But they were just young kids and old men to take all our ammunition. You shoot at them and then the real fighters come. And that was the Chinese in a nutshell.”
In the film, the pair make a pilgrimage to the war cemetery at Bayeux in Normandy. “What a waste,” cries Bernard as the camera zooms out to show the rows and rows of headstones. Caine doesn’t agree. “You had to have full cemeteries because you’d had to fight the German army, which was not a load of idiots. And the Germans had to be stopped.”
And Korea? Well, communism is “perfectly frightful”, says Standing. Caine nods. “It doesn’t take care of the working class quite the way they say. My father was a fishmonger in Billingsgate, so I knew when I saw the communists, they had no idea what it was all about. Do any working-class people want to live in North Korea?”
They both think national service should be reintroduced. “It gives you a whole new realisation of life,” says Caine. “I notice how different young people are today. They’re so free with everything. Military training makes you think about helping other people. My grandsons – all they do is play football.” (Still, he adds later, they’re also “incredible, unbelievable, and they worry about other people – which is handy”.)
Standing chips in: one of his daughters is “a bit woke” and cautions him about getting cancelled. “It’s horrible! We’re not allowed to say anything. I loathe it. My God, you’re not allowed to have mother-in-law jokes! It’s sort of barking.”
Then again, “things were far less complicated” 70 years ago. He smiles benignly. “Your telephone alone is the most complex thing anybody’s ever dreamed of. You’ve got all the information you ever want. You can chat to Henry VIII. Have you seen the man made of wood and iron playing the most immaculate game of ping-pong and thrashing the ordinary Briton at the other end?”
I haven’t. Caine confesses some concern over robots – that’s partly what his novel, a thriller, is about. “But I’m 90. I don’t worry about the future. I worry if I’m gonna make it to lunch.”
Caine and Standing first met on another hot day, in the summer of 1976, shooting another war movie, The Eagle Has Landed. Caine played a Nazi eager to assassinate Churchill; Standing a rather flaky vicar. Memories of the shoot seem thin on the ground, but they agree moviemaking hasn’t changed much.
“I make my own world,” says Caine. “And if they employ me, they gotta leave me to do it my way. Otherwise I screw it up. And even if I do it my way, I screw it up as well.”
They both chuckle. “Michael, darling!” says Standing.
Have they changed?
Standing sighs. “We’re just so bloody old.”
“And we’re still here,” says Caine.
“Which is incredible! All my mates are brown bread.”
“Oh, mine and all. Sean Connery, Roger Moore. Everybody’s dead. It’s amazing.”
How does that feel?
“Lonely,” says Caine. “I had dinner last night here with eight women. Shakira gets ’em. I don’t get ’em. They’re the wives of my friends. I’m often sitting with a table full of widows.”
Standing empathises. “Hundreds of women round one all the time. And you sit there thinking: give us a break! Ask me something, anything you like!”
Caine nods. “Ask me a question about football! But I’m perfectly happy with all the girls. I love them.”
Again: consult his memoir for more details, but this is putting it mildly. Caine spent the 50s, 60s and early 70s hoovering up hotties across the continents, pausing only for relationships with Natalie Wood and Nancy Sinatra and to refuel on vodka with Terence Stamp and Peter O’Toole.
So when he says he was tired of bachelor life by 1972, you can believe it – he must have been exhausted. He had a night in, saw a Maxwell House ad on telly and resolved to fly to Brazil the next morning to marry the woman with the maracas. No need, said a pal: she was Indian, not Brazilian, and lived on the Fulham Road in west London.
This is one of Caine’s regular chatshow yarns and he duly does it for us today: “I tracked her down! Incredible!” Caine is a bit of an anecdote jukebox – tales triggered by the briefest mention of Cary or Larry or Frank – but with material like his, it’s hard to object. Though charming, he also dominates conversation in general – about which Standing is a gent. Does he miss the 60s? “I don’t miss it, but I love having done it. I used to get into trouble all over the place.”
He and Shakira have been married more than 50 years. Ageing is less awful, he advises, “if you’re married to someone really beautiful who doesn’t grow old. I wake up every morning and there she is!” It’s true: Shakira, 76, does seem preternaturally patient and gorgeous. “What is great about her is that she’s very bright. She was the secretary in the … I forget which country she comes from [Shakira was born in British Guiana, now Guyana], but she was the secretary of the American embassy, so she’s a great secretary for me. She runs everything. It’s unbelievable.”
At the heart of The Great Escaper is another enduring marriage, between Bernie and Irene, played by Glenda Jackson in her final film. She and Caine first worked together 48 years ago. “She was very young and pretty,” he says. “Very attractive. Bloody good actress. But a left-wing socialist and I’m all for making money because I come from a very poor background.” They never talked politics – bit busy making the movies. He saw her five days before she died in June: “She seemed fine.” He’s relieved it was quick.
Bernie and Irene are a devoted couple who, though the film doesn’t discuss it, didn’t have children. Might that have changed their dynamic? “Oh, tremendously,” says Caine. “You don’t have any other separate thing to talk about. You talk about each other. And you don’t have to judge how people feel about someone else. Only you.”
It’s a sharp insight, particularly given that he’s personally “always had children around me like wildfire”. His eldest daughter, Dominique, was born when he was 23, during a brief marriage to the actor Patricia Haines; he and Shakira have another daughter, Natasha. Picking up his eldest grandson from the school is, Shakira tells me later, the highlight of his week. “I love kids,” he says, a bit wistfully.
Standing murmurs agreement. He’s also been married for yonks. The secret, he says, is “laughing with each other”.
Caine is less on-message: “Don’t argue. Don’t try to prove it with arguments or a row. Let ’em do it.”
“Women are No 1 anyway,” says Standing.
“It’s the only place you can get babies,” nods Caine.
“But I gotta say this, Michael: have you seen what women do now?” says Standing. A dramatic pause. He’s a West End veteran, light comedies a specialty. “Cage fighting!” He turns to me. “What possessed your sex to do something like that? For men to cage fight is unthinkable. For women – boom, boom, boom, on each other’s faces! Deranged! But that’s modern life.”
Has Caine seen that? “Oh yeah,” he says blithely. “On television.” And? “I was stunned.” Why? “I wouldn’t do that to anyone. Even if I didn’t like them. I’d just knock ’em out and walk away.”
The real theme of The Great Escaper is – perhaps not one for the poster – that the only escape from old age is death. Yet Caine and Standing continue to produce work that will live on after they’re gone. Caine wrote his first novel bedridden during lockdown, and is now writing a second. Standing is a professional painter. They have six children between them. Are any of these enterprises better or worse as stabs at immortality? There’s only really one, says Caine: “Kindness.” And maybe Alfie. And The Muppet Christmas Carol.
“Michael, darling,” says Standing, “I said to someone the other day: ‘Have you heard of Peter O’Toole?’ She said: ‘Well, I know the name.’ Once you are dead, you are dead. You think of Bogart! But young people only know Goose. What’s he called? Gosling. Big names in the theatre – Gielgud – mean nothing.”
That craft and that class is history, they reckon. When I ask Caine who today’s version of him is, he agrees there isn’t one.
“Because you don’t get young people now who are that far back in society. That had to come forward in great leaps. I think my type of person is extinct. I can’t think of anybody who had a life like mine.”
It wasn’t just the poverty, he says, it was Korea and then, six months later, malaria (he nearly died). “And so it never stopped, you know? Until it did.”
And yet it sort of hasn’t. Caine remains an icon of a time and an energy that feel increasingly exotic. He still calls himself working class and frets over any potential betrayal of his roots. The fate of his brother, Stanley, troubles him. “He just stood there and watched me become a millionaire when he didn’t even have a job. I turned him into someone who couldn’t move. I should have gone and moved him.”
Once, Caine was shopping for a sofa and Stanley – who’d been awol for a while – appeared as part of the team lugging it in from the back. “I grabbed him. I said, ‘You are outta here.’ Oh, it was terrible. I didn’t know where he was.
“He became an alcoholic. So I bought him two houses: one to live in and one to rent so he could have some money to buy some booze.” Caine’s eyes are rheumy. “He’s three years younger than me. And he’s been dead for five years.”
There was an older brother, too, David, born with severe epilepsy and confined to an institution. Caine only found out about him after their mother’s death – though she had visited David secretly each week. Caine then made him as comfortable as possible. His mother spent her final years living in one of the houses he’d bought her with a carer and her two young sons, “who loved my mum like a grandma. I was very happy with that. I did everything for everybody. So that’s it. I’m sitting here, I’ve done it. I can’t do any more.”
The Great Escaper has been widely described as Caine’s final film, just as Harry Brown was in 2009, and then – 24 films later – Best Sellers in 2021. It’s not. He’s shooting another in January: “It’s about someone who is so famous I’d never heard of him. Charles, Charles …”
“ … Darwin,” says Standing.
“Yeah. I play Charles Darwin. And that’ll be it. I won’t do another one after.”
He’s sure?
“No! But the point is, can you do it? Can you remember all the lines? I’ve got used to not working and staying in bed till 11am and staying out late at night. I love it.”
In The Great Escaper, Jackson has a line about life being fun when you’re young, but once you hit her age, “you’re basically buggered”. Present company queers that pitch. “Oh blimey,” says Caine. “I have a great time.” Standing nods. His one concession to old age has been to give up tap-dancing – though you suspect he might oblige in an emergency.
Neither man can think of a single instance in which they’ve been ill-treated because of their age.
“Nobody patronises me,” says Caine.
“We don’t look like we need help,” says Standing.
In Caine’s case, that’s not entirely true. His skin is smooth, his cheeks full – “I’m very lucky the whole face has not collapsed” – and The Great Escaper showcases them with loads of fantastic closeups. Yet he does use a walker and wheelchair. Never had qualms about being seen with them, he says. “Nope. It’s my life and I do what I want.”
“I think you are bloody brave,” says Standing. “Michael, man-to-man, it was an admirable thing to say: ‘Bollocks, I will do the film’, in spite of all those things.’”
I think he’s right. For someone with an image as familiar – and cultivated – as Caine’s, to visibly concede frailty feels courageous. It’s a shame, I say, that “mobility issues” were given as the reason the Queen didn’t attend various events near the end – as if being seen in a wheelchair was inconceivable.
Caine opts not to criticise the Queen. Instead he cues up the story of the first time they met, at a dinner, when she asked him to tell her a joke. He couldn’t think of a clean one. “She pointed to the man on her other side and said: ‘I’m gonna talk to him now. In five minutes I’ll be back and I want a joke.’”
I don’t know what I’d imagined Michael Caine’s Queen impression to sound like, but it’s definitely a lot more mobster. That was quite frightening, I tell him, once he’s finished the joke (long, about a chicken). Does he see any similarities between them?
“I think everyone sees a similarity between themselves and the Queen.”
Even Standing, an actual baronet, demurs at that one. But the fact Caine believes it adds weight to the idea they do share something – the ability, perhaps, to unsettle others through their presence alone. The Great Escaper taps that, too. Bernie prompts in people – Arthur included – profound reckonings, without really trying. Can Caine relate?
“I don’t know,” he says. “A bit, probably, yes. But it could be quite unpleasant. I don’t do things that are unpleasant.”
But you feel you have that power?
“Yeah, oh yeah.”
And what’s that like?
He grins. “Great.”
Our time is up. Caine checks his watch. “28C,” he says, “and that’s with the bloody windows open.”
© 2024 Guardian News, Catherine Shoard
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hi z <333
sorry I was gone for so long but i had school stuff to take care of </3 I was really surprised that people were open to my prompts...it made me very happy
the reason I like bully reader and loser channie is that its rare to be loved unconditionally especially when this person knows of all your flaws
loser channie sees readers "bad side" yet he still loves them and idk....that just seems so nice
this dynamic reminds me of that of san and ashitaka in princess monopole. idk if u ever watched it but it was made in the 90s by studio Ghibli
SPOILER FOR MOVIE san has a knife to ashitakas neck and she's threatening him but he just tells her to keep living and that she's beautiful
another scene she stabs him and he just hugs her
HEAD IN HANDS.....
I also have a song rec for this dynamic ( its German lol ) its called leichter//kälter by Edwin Rosen
basically the song is about how the singers love interest/partner/ex??? says its easier to stand barefoot in the snow than being with him because he is so much colder than the snow
and that made me think.....what if channie is basically at his wits end??and just breaks down and asks reader what he did for her to act so cold towards him ( very angsty im sorry 😔)
now smut maybe I will give it my best 👍
channie and reader watching tiktoks and they come across one with the caption "<<<<<<<when he moans and whimpers" with whatever sound is popular that week and channie looks curiously at reader and asks "are you into that too?? like everyone in the comments???" and they're like "duhhh!!! wait, have you been holding back 🤨🤨🤨" and he admits that yes, he has been holding back because he's embarrassed and scared of readers reaction
so reader starts out by pulling his hand back which makes channie yelp from the sudden pain. reader is grinning now "so that's what it sounds like, huh?" what follows is them groping and pinching channie until he gets hard ( which doesn't take much tbh ) ( Inspo for this is the members groping him on stage during the concert lmao ) maybe they're pinching his nipples and lightly scratching their nails over his arms and torso until they reach his dick. reader then harshly grabs his dick and asks "this is mine, right?" their grip gets tighter the longer he takes to answer. he stammers out "ye-yes, its yours and i-im yours" , "if its mine and you're mine why are you keeping those cute noises to yourself?"
after that channie can't really talk and for the first time he has sex without holding himself back <333 congrats channie on this milestone 🥳🥳🥳
other head canons / scenarios
channie working out more and reader noticing his efforts<33
this strokes his ego on an insane level
will not stop thinking about readers comments even if its smth simple like "you've gotten bigger" or just them feeling him up and staring at him
reader wants to join a session
reader thinks they can get into some gym hijinks and that maybe they can mess with him there ( either touching him or wearing short clothing )
what they do not expect is channie working out topless and lifting so effortlessly
channie seems to come alive in the gym and this new found confidence is simply just magnetic/attractive
he confidently talks to all the guys there and jokes around with them
shows them how to lift
introduces reader as his gf/bf <3333
channie notices them getting flustered and shy but doesn't mention it but makes the effort to invite them more often to the gym
reader def grovels during the post workout meal
reader being the big spoon because they're just more comfy that way
or channie cuddling into readers chest/pecs and being held close by them
reader remembering channies fave breakfast food and making it for him almost every time he stays over ( according to them its because its quick and easy and not because channie likes it even though it creates extra dishes )
reader using their expensive skincare on him and including him in their selfcare days ( think face and hair masks , mani pedis at home and eating expensive snacks )
reader buying channie sunflowers every time they see some because they remind them of him but they don't tell him that
what channie gets to hear is that they "found them on the side of the road", "they were on sale", "the flower shop wanted to throw them away", "my friend had extra" etc. they come up with a new excuse each time, very creative of them 👏👏👏
ANYWAYS...sorry this is so long but my brain was backed up with thoughts
BTW...did u read CB97percents pic of chan !!!!!! its called wolf by the tail i think , I am so deeply in love with simp chan its insane
if there was a tier list of loser chan it would be like this
simp chan
loser chan
crybaby chan
sensitive Yandere chan
ok now fr ,, talk to u soon <3
with love,
your bully anon
BULLY ANON I LOVE YOU. AND HAPPY CHAN DAY!!! welcome back and thank you as always for indulging and bestowing us with your beautiful thoughts
first question: when will you make this a fic. HDJSJD I JUST LOVE THE WAY YOURE GOING ABOUT THIS!!! bully anon youre really creative and your concepts are amusing. if anything id love to write a fic for this but im waiting on YOU!!
second question: may i indulge in some headcanons for this loser boy? i hope your answer was yes, because i present to you a point-per-point series of
— sub ! loser ! chan headcanons 💭
long post, so im continuing under the cut ^_^
— princess mononoke parallels:
I SEE WHAT YOURE TALKING ABT WITH PRINCESS MONONOKE OMG the parallels between san & bully reader + ashitaka & chan :(( after everything they’ve been through together, they still love each other almost unconditionally, much like ashitaka’s drive to protect san even if it isn’t the wisest idea. bully!y/n may not be the kindest to chan and their own feelings, but chan’s confident that they’ll figure their love out: he loves them nonetheless, no matter their state. ;_;
— parallels to leichter//kälter by edwin rosen
while its a banger track, i cant help but feel like the lyrics relate to them a ton. even through translations it’s still easy to read the song as something chan would sing to y/n, asking and telling them at the same time that they’re so cold. there’s a lyric that goes “your lips are purple like the flowers i’ll never buy you” (apologies if that’s mistranslated) and honestly? chan would definitely still buy those flowers for them, but maybe a part of him hesitates still considering y/n’s antics. he doesn’t know if they’ll be extra mean to him about it. your scenario hurts, too: chan would finally muster up the courage to ask them why they treat him this way even if he knows they’re confused with their feelings for him, but…maybe it leads to them opening up to each other, them navigating through their own feelings out of mean sex for once, and ends with a confession from the reader, who knows :D
— a “<<<when he moans and whimpers” tiktok
EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS SCENARIO IS BEAUTIFUL just chan giving up and shamelessly letting y/n do anything to him after they stumble upon the tiktok. yk how in the same concerts, chan just puts his hands up and shuts his eyes as the members go ham on teasing his body? i think he would do the same, whimpering and squirming like a needy puppy, babbling y/n’s name over and over as they tease him. y/n probably even lets chan use his words less, preferring him to be noisy instead, spanking him ever so slightly by his thighs when he dares to bite his lips to hold back the groans again <33 congrats channie indeed!!!
— loser!chan being less of a loser at the gym
this. maybe it’s my gym rat agenda, but gym boy channie has my heart!!! i love the thought of y/n seeing him transition from being the timid boy in class to being a confident muscleman. he acts as if the gym is his second home, giggling when he notices y/n watching him be himself with wide confused eyes. chan only ever gets shy again when y/n does their reps in an undeniably sexy way. it doesn’t matter if their form is perfect, them popping hidden muscles out is making chan go crazy. y/n probably gets him off in the locker rooms when they’re alone; i love to think that y/n praises his body instead of being too mean, and it’s so new for the both of them. reader being Actually Nice about him and his body, worshipping him, teasing him for calling them “his s/o” in front of his gym friends, saying “your s/o definitely loves it when you’re confident, my channie” ^^ it actually makes him smile even if they’re getting him off!! they still call him a pathetic whiny baby in the middle of it, but there’s much more well deserved praising here.
— domesticity with loser!chan
y/n taking care of chan is EVERYTHING. imagine slow mornings with the both of them. let’s face it, they’ve probably have the roughest sex the night prior: while chan loves getting degraded by y/n, he loves it more when they pamper him the day after. y/n never always denies that they’re practically spoiling him at that point, but chan finds it cute when they’re cooing at him and asking him if the spank marks sting as they cuddle. they smear moisturizer all over his face and neck after breakfast and chan notices how delicate their touch is all of a sudden. they run their fingers over the hickeys and love bites on chan’s neck and lips with a featherlike touch. y/n, on the other hand, notices how chan leans into their touch with longing and love in his eyes. they’re so whipped for each other :((
— bully!reader being less of a bully and giving chan flowers
there’s something about this scenario that just clicks: even if there’s literally no special occasion, y/n still leaves him a very specific set of sunflowers that can’t possibly just pop in their hands by coincidence. chan’s favorite excuse is “a suitor gave this to me, but i dumped him because his breath stank, so just have this.” what softens y/n’s heart, though, is when they came over to see chan taking good care of the sunflowers by his apartment’s balcony for the first time. he smiled at them, watering can in hand, excitedly pointing at the flowers. “look! the flowers you gave me last week! they’re staring at the sun.” y/n can’t resist smooching him on the cheek because he shines brighter than the yellow petals.
— general loser!chan thoughts
honestly bully anon? you’ve bumped loser chan to SSS tier on my personal channie au tier list, but i honestly can’t agree more with you! something about this au with him fits him so well. i guess he kind of is a simp and a loser at the same time, at least that’s how i perceive it. the one common thing that i love about these channie aus is that he just has this sort of undying and passionate love that’s almost unconditional. it really suits him considering and it mirrors his dedicated self really well, but these characters taking the persona to these extremes is honestly so amusing. y/n can do anything to him, like be mean or kind, and loser chan would eat it up even if it makes him look pathetic. his unwavering love is just so attractive ^^
thank you as ALWAYS for sending your thoughts in, i love these so much and i’d love to see more from you! and hope others chime in and enjoy this as much as we did <3
p.s. im sorry for responding so late!! there was a lot on my plate but this entire message marinated in my head for the longest time. i cant stress enough how many times ive read this over and over. its just so lovely and im happy to share it right on chans birthday !
p.p.s. OMG YES I HAVE READ WOLF BY THE TAIL (shoutout my favorite minho hunter, ren) im just as obsessed with their simp!chan. ^^
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handsomehasun · 4 days
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BASICS
FULL NAME: YEONG HA-SUN [ 영한순 ]
» MEANING: Yeong [From Sino-Korean 英 (yeong) meaning "flower, petal, brave, hero", as well as other hanja characters that are pronounced similarly. It usually occurs in combination with another character, though it is sometimes used as a stand-alone name. This name was borne by Jang Yeong-sil (where Jang is the surname), a 15th-century Korean scientist and inventor.]; Ha-Sun [derived from the hanja 河 (ha) meaning "river, stream"; As a family name, Seon may be written with either of two hanja, one meaning "to announce" (宣) and the other meaning "first" (先). Hasun is also an Arabic name that has multiple Islamic meaning, including "strong." It could also mean "a good-looking, handsome and pretty man."]
NICKNAME: Sun.
AGE: 35-years old.
DATE OF BIRTH: 1988 April 8th, Friday, Year of The Dragon.
PLACE OF BIRTH: Busan.
OCCUPATION: Chef at Sunwoo Ha-jun's restaurant, GOCHUGARU [고추가]; influencer by accident...
RELIGION: N/A
ORIENTATION: Heterosexual; Heteroromantic.
GENDER: Cisgender Male.
VERSES: The Game.
SPECIES: Human.
POWERS: He's also a badass. And he's very handsome.
PERSONALITY
STRENGTHS: Courageous, Determined, Confident, Honest, Passionate,
WEAKNESSES: Impatient, Moody, Short-tempered, Impulsive, Aggressive.
APPEARANCE
FACE CLAIM: Lee Soo-hyuk.
HEIGHT: 6′0″ [183 cm.]
WEIGHT: 149 lbs. [68 kg.]
BUILD: Athletic. He goes to the gym regularly.
GAIT: Confident.
HAIR COLOR: Dark brown.
EYE COLOR: Dark brown.
BIRTHMARK: Some.
OVERVIEW:
» SCARS: Various.
» TATTOOS: None.
BACKGROUND
HOMETOWN: Seoul, South Korea.
RESIDENCES: Seoul, New York, Philippines.
ETHNICITY: Asian.
FINANCIAL STATUS: Upper class.
EDUCATION LEVEL: University graduate.
DEGREES: Graduated under the Department of Food & Nutrition at Hanyang University. Studied Culinary Arts in France and Italy.
SPOKEN LANGUAGES: Ha-sun is fluent in his native Hangul. He speaks Japanese, Mandarin, English, Italian, some German, Arabic, Spanish, and French.
RELATIONSHIPS
PARENTS: Both alive. TBD.
SIBLINGS: Younger siblings.
CHILDREN: None.
PETS: Cats.
SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIPS: Hasun married into the conglomerate Sunwoo family. He met his late wife, Sunwoo Hye-jin while studying at Hanyang and fell in-love [Ha-jun's first cousin.] They were married for five years before she passed due to complications of severe Covid during the height of the pandemic. Hye-jin was already sickly to begin with but her passing was unexpected and Hasun truly hasn't fully recovered from it.
» Since his wife death, Hasun spent most of his time working. His parents-in-law love him and would like him to re-marry but he is not ready. He also has been spending a lot of time with his parents and younger siblings, helping them a lot and taking care of them.
FAMILY HISTORY: Hasun came from a working class family. His mother is a homemaker and his father is a public servant. Education is important and his parents made sure that he went to the best schools so he could have a good future. His parents are loving and his siblings, a younger brother and a sister, are also loving and supportive.
Although Hasun was married into a rich family, he never relied on them financially although they insisted. He's a very talented chef which Hajun recognized and gave him a chance at one of the man's restaurants. Hasun could've easily opened his own with his wife's money and influence but he chose to work from the bottom up. He has been working at Gochugaru for about seven years and he loves it. Hajun has offered Hasun to be partner and there is talk of opening a new chain focusing on Asian and western fusion as Gochugaru focuses on authentic Korean dishes and also bringing regional dishes into mainstream.
Hasun has been dubbed "Cinderalla" as his story resembled the fairytale princess or so netizens claimed minus the evil step-mother and mean step-sisters.
He has many critics and people that doubt his true intentions and credibility - many said he married for money - but public support outweighed all the trolls' negative comments and drowned the haters' opinions. It helped that he married one of the public's sweethearts.
Hasun also
ROMANTIC HISTORY: Was married for five years. Hasn't dated in the last four years since his wife's death.
PLATONIC RELATIONSHIPS: He is good friends with his wife's cousin, Hajun. He's a good friend of the musician K; he used to cook for the artist. He still does on special occasions. More to be added.
THOUGHTS ON LOVE: Hasun was very much in love with his wife. He's not ready to move on.
HEALTH
PHOBIA(S): None.
HANDICAP(S): None.
MENTAL DISORDER: Depression.
PHYSICAL DISEASE(S): None.
PREDISPOSITION(S): Alcoholism.
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khylamarieren · 1 year
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Extremely specific momentos from my childhood
Peanut butter pancakes
Baskin Robbins mint chocolate chip ice cream
Willow tree rope swing
Green Christmas wrapping paper
Hot chocolate & cookies 
Ski boots 
Casper the ghost
My twin doll
Yellow swing set 
Polly pockets
Barbies
4th of july parade 
Yellow life jacket 
Sand shovel
My secret garden
The phantom of the opera
Picking blueberries with childhood best friend
Strawberry vines at art teachers house
Purple sparkly skirt and top set
2 pigtail braids
Hotel california 
Love shack
Princess and the pea 
Daycare at moms gym
Pirate bag with a compass inside
Mini key I kept in my pocket
Playing school/house with childhood best friend
Black plastic salsa bowls to make soup with dirt
Spy games and vampire games
Apple tree
Playing clue 
Preschool Christmas party ornament making
Noodles in pink army green carton
The sound of music
Dinosaur park
Napkin notes under cereal from dad
Chitty chitty bang bang german castle
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dontbemeanmrbubz · 19 days
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Hello
Disclaimer:
Sometimes I reblog sexual content, very rarely there may perchance even be content featuring violence. I try not to have too much negativity on here, but sometimes the non-fun stuff is important, too. That includes...
Politics:
I don't tolerate bigots and fascists. If you're a TERF, tankie, or suffer from any similar form of brainrot, this specifically includes you. I consider myself sex-positive and anti-purity.
Two lesser-known quotes that have in one way or the other informed my political stances:
When our enemies say: Well, but we granted you freedom of speech – yes, you granted it to us, that’s hardly proof that we should do the same for you! The fact that you did this for us, that's precisely what proves your stupidity!
(Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister)
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
(Anatole France, French writer and journalist)
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If this describes your beliefs (regardless of whether you actually consider yourself a leftist) I tend to think we'll get along well. If it doesn't, I'm going to be sceptical of you because that, to me, indicates a lack of either empathy or reason.
Stuff I like:
Music: Not really limited to any genre or bands in particular, but the ones I have listened to a lot and keep coming back to are Pink Floyd, Depeche Mode, The Decemberists, Unto Others, The Beatles, The Doors and Die Ärzte.
Shows: Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Bojack Horseman, early seasons of GoT and Westworld, Smiling Friends, Rick and Morty (but kind of fell out of love with that one), Arrested Development, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, first season of True Detective and a ton of others.
Films: Currently my favorites are The Shining, Suspiria (1977), Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, and Dune.
Books: I just love books in general, but the ASOIAF ones are probably my favorite books of all time despite it not even being a finished story. Other fantasy books/authors I like are Brandon Sanderson, the Peter Grant/Rivers of London series, LoTR and Skulduggery Pleasant (it did fall off, but the first few books are awesome). Concerning novels, it's impossible to pick a favorite, but The Satanic Verses, Jane Eyre and a bunch of German books like The Perfume, Danton's Death or Homo Faber are in my top 20. Haven't read nearly as much US/UK literature as I would have liked to yet, but am working on that.
Poems: I'm not really much into poetry, but Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening definitely made me feel... something.
Activities: Hated physical exercise when I was younger, nowadays cycling and going to the gym are two of the few things that almost never fail to make me feel good. Constantly neglected hobbies of mine are playing guitar, drawing, and writing, but I feel like my motivation is more "wanting to be good" at those things and less "enjoying the process".
Miscallaneous info about me:
I'm in my twenties
I'm a guy and I like girls - so much so, in fact, that I'm in a relationship with one ;)
I live in Germany
I'm probably not exactly neurotypical. While I hesitate to say stuff like that without a diagnosis, even having a positive/negative diagnosis doesn't really provide much certainty. Both autism and ADHD exist on a spectrum, medical professionals can make mistakes (especially when a diagnosis is at least partially a judgement call), and the way you are tested seems to rely mostly on self-reported criteria. So exclusively based on my subjective experience and what others are saying about me, ADHD seems nearly certain, while autism is more of a maybe.
I came here from r/196
I believe that...
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imagoxenya · 2 years
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Please hug me, I feel...
Пожалуйста обними меня, мне…
1990s
Black clouds against turquoise sky.
A tall gaunt knight, he’s made of hatred, I don't think he was even born. I'm a princess. He’s got white eyes and long white hair like dead lightning.
I sing “you see” in the dusk, among the plastic sheets falling down from the furniture. Like in an MTV music video.
My mother lies on the floor face down, holding it in her hands. Father carries me into another room:”It’s going to be alright.”
Parents discover a lump in my lower abdomen and call an ambulance. I don’t want to be taken away. There’s a Tremors promo showing on TV.
I vividly remember the anesthesia smell. Doctor voices turn robotic before fading out.
I lie on the table, like a frog. I’m almost touching the greenish ceiling. Doctor is pulling the stitches out, thread looks like a micro roller coaster.
Lunch is white mush smeared on a slice of white bread.
Everybody is watching a movie in the corridor. I want to get closer to the TV, but my legs are weak from pain and I lean on the back of an armchair taken up by another boy. Rugged lilac fabric. Or was it the jumper of the boy’s mother, who threatened to beat me up unless I stepped away from the chair? 
For some reason I was always afraid of my taxi driver uncle.
2000s
I picked a glossy cellphone case with a tribal design, pink on black. I identify with lilac, it makes me feel angelic.
Digimon Adventure is showing on a German channel. I want to be Kari and have an older brother like her.
In sparse moments of privacy I tie sheets and clothing into dresses. I become very good at living in between the time.
The swimming pool lessons started. I notice my back has an arch. I try to straighten it.
My teens are an ugly blur.
I badly want to be their friend, I mistake it for a crush.
I nailed my father to the ground, but he wouldn’t stop thrashing and spewing threats. That night I dreamt somebody loved me. Or was it the night before?
The doorways are made of flesh and I’m cutting at the edges with garden shears.
“I respect your power, your intensity.” An older friend is too insistent on kissing me on the lips ”as a sign of respect”. He leads me by the hand to show me something later, but never finds the room.
Dad falls asleep in a sauna.
A guy sits by on the bus, I try to breathe slowly, so that he wouldn't notice.
I started skipping gym classes. One after another.
I’m walking naked through the forest surrounded by fields of phallic mushrooms emerging from green mist. I cover my breasts, I feel vulnerable.
2010
I still feel the saliva on my right ear, I’ll wash it off conspicuously at the gas station stop. Relax, Take it Easy by Mika plays. Sometimes I still can’t shake that feel off.
2011
I’m squeezed between the moving male bodies, metal and greasy aprons. I don’t have time to think or feel. There is no way you can move too fast or shout too loud and clear. The cold room door shuts close, is there a way to open it from the inside?
PIctures overlay, the touch of the fabric causes me panic, I resist the urge to jump out of the uniform and hope no one notices.
2012
“Эй, смотри, какая сука” I hear from two guys passing me by. 
“Да это же пидорас!” I hear from behind. I’m scared.
-
I just shaved my head, but immediately miss the hair. It almost physically hurts, but now I must commit. 
My dad falls ill.
It’s autumn, I fall asleep by the weaving machine in the attic. I am someone’s fever dream.
“Лысая башка, дай пирожка”
My body gives up and I go on punching the table screaming, I feel like a prisoner facing the concrete wall.
I feel my head and find the crevices I never thought existed.
-
He says I look like Grimes. I don’t get such compliments often.
Snow carried in warm air like little lights.
I burrow the nose in my spacious scarf. I am a soft body in a chrysalis. I’m like a child.
The highway noise fades in and out.
I lie in the dark, picturing what I’d look like if I was a daughter. I feel peace.
-
I must go outside, but it’s dark and my memories of being jumped up are still too fresh. An anxiety nap turns into sleep, my body falls ill.
The christmas tree is heavy and bruises my hands, there is no sky and the streets surround me like decorations for a 90s Russian crime series. I’m not here.
-
He meets me at the airport, his face feels tired and annoyed.
I rest my hands on the bag, my nails are longish and gestures feminine. I’m afraid he picks up on that and doesn’t like what he sees.
It’s snowing like in Siberia, it’s Berlin.
We drink wine on an old sofa, there are so many people, I love his warmth by my side. Horizontal movement of the S-bahn, I throw up on Medvedev's portrait.
-
Dog Day Afternoon on a movie night, his leg touches mine.
 “Softer, softer” he teaches me to kiss.
I feel painfully pried open, so we stop. I weave my hands around him as we fall asleep, but he isn’t into that.
-
We watch a movie and smoke on a couch. I recline to blow the smoke out. T-shirt slides off my shoulder, normally I would adjust it, but here I feel safe.
-“Is your mother beautiful?” 
-“I don’t really know, maybe.” 
-“Because you are so beautiful”
-“I never really felt beautiful.”
-“I don’t believe it. You’re also really androgynous.” 
-“I feel like an alien” 
-“Well, aliens are androgynous.”
He’s like a big friend who makes me feel protected. I rest my head on his side and talk about my deceased cat Ksjusha and how I felt her spirit by my side.
We dance away to 80s and 90s hits, there's a spirit of a new era in the air.
2013
I misread the exam task and picked a nonexistent topic, there is silence, I bite chunks from the inside of my lip.
-
I run in a white dress, almost drift in the morning mist. 
A phone call from my taxi driver uncle wakes me up: "Your father is gone, you don't have to visit him anymore."
I’m a funeral spectacle with my shaved eyebrows, an oversized scarf and an overall soft aura. 
An older man paces around. “Hey girl, have you got breasts? Yes, of course. Then why did you leave them at home?”
My friend gets out of the taxi, the driver doesn't take the turn, I silently panic for a few seconds. I never take taxis on my own.
Lying on the floor at the end of a yoga class, letting sounds enter my ears. My body is just a vehicle, I'm simply in it.
2014
We sit by the channel watching the colour of our nails and comparing our arm hair. 
I feel the upper lip stubble as we pull away and go on dancing to Prince. 
An art academy bathroom mirror, we look nothing alike, except for the shape of our eyes.
The smell of warm hair feels intoxicatingly calming in a cold park.
Hands moving in the dark, we weave something invisible together. I feel human.
The other touches feel like surgical metal against a painful tumor. I lie there like an alien on a dissecting table.
-
I hear "junge Frau" before I realise the woman ahead motions me to jump the line. I feel unsafe and respond with "danke schon, aber ich bin keine Frau". It felt nice to be seen in such a way, way too nice, and nice things are overwhelmingly scary.
I wait for him to come and stop the painful ordeal. I am drunk and want to sleep, but I act like I enjoy it. I knew I could say "no" and we wouldn't do it, but I felt my "no's" were limited and I needed somewhere to sleep.
-
I insert a bigger septum, like insect pincers, and shave my eyebrows. It’s a mask and it frees my body language. I hug a pillow and pose in front of the mirror, like the Birth of Venus, my face is still puffy from sleep and it looks so right.
2015
I stood up against rude grownups on a bus and my nervous system is shutting down. I lie down for an anxiety nap. It's cold, but I only have the energy to cover myself with a hoodie.
2017
The space is like a bath, a giant drain with smooth walls and smooth corners. I'm dressed in wrinkly nitrile. I lie down, I want to take all of this room in.
Dissected human bodies integrated as circuits, corpses operating heavy machinery, their rigid thudding steps all over the corridors, 
Hospital floor is a morgue city. The public announcement voice squeezes my brain.
I am a robot made of lard..
Glimpse into a gym with muscle men. The machines are torture racks and the bodies are dissected, I convulse out of sleep.
Distant red lights against deep blue concrete.
2018 
My head is dizzy from cigarettes and walking up and down the stairs.
A friend leans in to ask: “so, are you a boy or a girl?”
“I’d like to avoid categories right now” of course I know the answer, but it’s too overwhelming.
-“But how should I perceive you?”
-
He tells me I really do have huge feet.
He talks about how he’s afraid of emotionally messing me up.
I really don’t care about him and can’t help laughing, it is a new feeling and it’s fun.
2021
It’s February, I’m in a soft spacious hoodie. I carry the box with Misha’s food cradling it in my hands, the edges gently brush against my breast buds. My body doesn’t threaten me anymore.
-
The lights go out and I’m losing breath. I wake up hyperventilating.
-
Butterflies push out of my throat, I’m aching and it’s like a dance.
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woso-dreamzzz · 6 months
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Big Adventures
Hardersson x Child!Reader
Part of The Big Adventures Universe
Summary: You and your Momma finally join your Morsa in England
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It wasn't a long flight from Germany to England but you're still exhausted.
You toddle along next to your Momma, hand firmly in hers as she walks you along to baggage claim before hoisting you up onto her suitcase and rolling you the rest of the way.
You hum, eyes darting around like a baby meerkat, head cocked to the side like an owl.
"Hold on tight," Pernille warns you when she notices you leaning back to watch one of the airport dogs sniff at some man's luggage," We don't want you to fall."
You're only half listening to her. She's been trying to speak more English around you, to make this big move a little easier. In Germany, she spoke exclusively Danish to you at home and on the training ground it was almost always German.
"Hmm," You say back, still not totally listening as she tugs the suitcase along.
"Princesse," Pernille says," Are you listening?"
"No."
It's your favourite word - one of the only you know in English.
Pernille is already tired of hearing it.
She sighs, rolling her eyes before her face lights up in a smile when she sees your Morsa waiting outside.
You notice her too and awkwardly clamber down from your perch. You're a bit unsteady on your legs when you run to her but Magda closes the gap and hoists you up onto her hip, raining soft kisses to the top of your head.
You haven't seen your Morsa in person for a while - almost always over the tiny little screen of your Momma's phone. She flies out sometimes, to Germany, to see you and Momma but nothing beats being cuddled up in her arms and breathing in her soft, comforting smell.
Your eyelids drop.
"We should get going." Morsa is also speaking English. You're not really sure that you like it. "She can't seem to keep her eyes open."
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Your new house is bigger than the old two-bedroom apartment you shared with Momma.
This one is much bigger.
It even has stairs!
You laugh in pure delight as Morsa chases you up them. She grabs you under your arms and swings you around before dumping you on the sofa next to Momma - who jolts slightly in her droopy, half-nap state.
She tucks you into her side much to your annoyance and Magda throws a blanket over the both of you.
"No!" You repeat your favourite English word even as the exhaustion of today's big adventure catches up to you.
"Yes," Magda replies as Pernille holds you a bit closer, a hand reaching up to smooth out the little crinkle in your brow. "It's nap time."
"No," You slur after a big yawn," No nap." You know that word too. Momma likes to use it to make you have a big girl sleep in the middle of her gym time back in Germany. You dislike it almost as much as Momma dislikes hearing you say no.
"Yes, nap," Magda says.
Pernille is already out like a light next to you - exhausted from the early morning flight and in anticipation of practice later today - but you are stubborn in your want to stay up.
You haven't seen your Morsa in so long and now she wants you to sleep.
"It's nap time for little girls."
Your crinkle deepens and Morsa chuckles.
"Am big girl."
You want to protest more but Momma feels warm at your back and this house smells like Morsa and you'd woken up earlier than needed in your excitement.
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This new jersey looks different to your Momma's Wolfsburg one - the one that you wear to all of her games and sometimes to bed.
It's blue instead of green.
(You impressed Morsa by telling as such in English).
It's got Morsa's name on it too - not Momma's like usual.
You had frowned when you woke up from your nap and found Morsa sitting in front of you on the floor with the jersey in her lap. She had plucked you from Momma's grip (who had rolled over on the sofa and murmured about five more minutes) and gotten you changed into it.
She had taken pictures too.
She's strange like that.
Momma never takes pictures of you in her one so it's strange that Morsa is.
You thumb the emblem on your chest as Momma and Morsa walk from the car to the training centre.
"It's Chelsea," Magda says to you with a smile.
"Chelsea," You repeat.
"That's right," Magda says," It's Morsa's Chelsea jersey."
"Not-Not Wolfsburg," You reply, trying to wrap your mind around it.
"Not Wolfsburg," Magda nods," Morsa and Momma play for Chelsea. This one's Morsa's jersey."
You nod, satisfied, before looking around as Morsa walks you to the locker room while Momma peels off to go talk to some people with happy smiles and cameras.
There's people in the locker room and they look up when Morsa enters.
They all look at you.
You feel a bit shy - more than a bit actually but you don't say that - and tuck yourself more firmly into Morsa, head hiding in her neck.
She says her greetings and places you in her cubby, hiding you from her teammates as she strips her shirt off and pulls on a different one. She smiles down at you and clicks her tongue, wiping away a chocolate smudge from your snack in the car.
A head pokes itself around Morsa's body.
You smile when Jonna grins at you.
You know her fairly well. She plays with Morsa for Sweden and she sneaks you sweets at camp when Morsa isn't looking.
"Hey."
You frown. She's speaking English to you. You don't like English.
"It's nice to see that the youngest member of the squad has finally joined us."
"Hi," You parrot back, not fully understanding all her words but she's smiling so it can't be bad.
"That's a pretty looking jersey," Jonna continues," Is it your Morsan's?"
You nod. "Uh-huh." You stand up in Morsa's cubby and turn around - showing off the Eriksson emblazoned on your back.
"It's a good look." Jonna looks at Magda knowingly, a teasing smile on her face. "Would probably be better if it was a Sweden jersey."
Magda laughs. "I have a hard time getting Pernille to acknowledge that I'm Swedish. Let alone letting our daughter wear the national jersey."
Jonna shrugs, slipping a packet of Haribo's into your hand. "Why? It's the jersey she'll wear when she goes professional."
It's bad timing on her part as Pernille comes in - free from media duty. "Don't joke about that," Pernille says as she joins you all," Princesse will be representing Denmark." She runs a hand over your hair and plucks the sweets from your hand. "Don't let them corrupt you."
You frown again. "Don't-Don't know that word."
The three of them laugh as Momma pulls on a similar shirt to Morsa and hoists you onto her hip. "Don't worry about it, Princesse. You have plenty of time to learn."
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My rendition of the 1561 Aerial Battle Over Nuremberg reimagined fan art in front of the Jakobstor entrance to Nuremberg
I used to walk to my Gym from the Südstadt, or south side of town literally on the other side of the tracks. My gym was just within the city walls, adjacent to the redlight district, the quickest way to fitness center is through the red light district, I always thought of that scene from Star Wars on that part of my walk, and the woodcut of Nuremberg from 1561 is a famous depiction of the city, this is my mishmash one-two combo of all those things.
...They say the hardest part of going to the gym is actually going to the gym, I always wondered if someone went broke on  the way to workout. As for me, not enough hand sanitizer in the world.
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LEFT BEHIND - WANDA MAXIMOFF X READER - #02 "R.I.P to My Youth"
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Summary: The one where you lived in the apartment under the Maximoff family in Sokovia, or, your journey as a Sokovian civilian to Avenger.
A/N: So, chapter two is here. Honestly, this story is a mess in my head haha but somehow people are enjoying so i'm sharing. Good reading!
Dictionary for this chapter: dvornyaga - mutt || chuma - plague/brat || Prostite, mem - sorry, ma'm || Vor - thief || printsessa - princess || skuchnyy - annoying ||
Series Warnings: (+16) Violence, fighting, cursing, civil war environments, abuse of power, assault, torture, underage kissing, psychological torture, substance use, mention of assault/fighting of children, smut, kissing, teasing, insinuation of sexual and moral harassment, verbal offenses. Chapter warnings: Underage kissing, violence.
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Chapter Two - R.I.P to My Youth
Sokovia, 7 years ago.
You ducked quickly when you noticed the punch coming toward you.
"Stand still, dvornyaga!" Said the teenager trying to hold you by the shoulders, but you slipped out of his hands, dodging under his arms and starting to run.
The boy rushed to catch up with you, but you were smaller, and fit into places he couldn't get into. Rolling into a crevice in one of the abandoned factories, you laughed as the boy and his friends shouted angrily at you, unable to follow.
Your joy died the second you turned the corner. The nursemaid from the orphanage waiting for you with her arms folded.
"Running away from chores again, chuma?" The woman asked angrily. You ducked your head, walking over to her. As soon as you reached her, she pinned your ear between her fingers, causing you to grumble in pain as you were dragged into the building.
"Prostite, mem." You tried to apologize, but the woman would not listen, and then pushed you inside.
"No dinner for you." She informed you by throwing a broom into your hands. "Get upstairs and go clean the roofs now!
You climbed onto the rooftops with a grimace, softly cursing all the sisters as witches.
When you arrived, you noticed that there were already other orphans there.
"Good afternoon, Vor." Pietro greeted wryly. You approached him to help him carry one of the tiles.
"Stop calling me that." You retorted, but Pietro just laughed, thanking you for your help afterwards. "Why are you here?"
"I broke Nikolai's nose." He told you, and you looked at him reproachfully.
"And you let them catch you?" You asked. "You used to be smarter than that."
"Shut up." He grumbled humorously, waiting for you to finish sweeping the area you were in to return the tile to its place. "And what did you do this time? Are you going to tell me that Madame Pavlova caught you robbing the church again?"
You laughed, finishing sweeping and going back to helping Pietro lift another tile.
"Church money is for the poor." You retort. "I'm poor, how can I steal what's mine?"
"Keep this up and you'll be in jail as soon as you get out of here." A voice spoke behind you, startling you a little.
"You're so nosy aren't you, Wanda?" You teased the girl, and she grimaced at you before looking at her brother.
"What are you doing up here?" Pietro asked before Wanda could speak again. The girl crossed her arms, watching you guys work.
"I brought food for you two. But with this hostility, I think I'll stay downstairs."
You and Pietro exchanged giggles.
"Sorry, Wanda." You asked in unison, making the girl smile. She looked around to check if there were no priests, or nuns, or orphans staring at you from the window pane below before taking some bagels and bread from a wrapper inside her blouse pocket.
"Is there any possibility that you will stop stealing and behave yourselves?" Wanda asked slightly irritated, and you exchanged a look with Pietro.
"Unlikely." You replied, making him laugh. Wanda looked at you reproachfully. "Don't make that face, printsessa. This is stealing too.”
"Don't call me that." Wanda complained between teeth. But you smiled, because you noticed the slight reddening of her cheeks. "And I wouldn't have to steal if you two would stop causing trouble."
"Or maybe you could let us starve next time." Pietro retorted wryly, and ended up getting slapped on the shoulder by his sister, making you laugh. "Sorry, that was stupid."
"You two are so ungrateful." She grumbled turning to leave. You and Pietro exchanged a look, worried that Wanda was angry. But she gave you two one last look before turning away. "Tomorrow, wake up early. I want to show something."
Wanda went down the roof next, and you exchanged a smile with Pietro before turning back to work.
//-//
Wanda poked you in the ribs and you turned your head quickly. You, she and Pietro were ducking behind a car, breaking curfew, and probably some passing law, since you were in an abandoned building.
"They arrived last week." Wanda said to the two of you, looking in the direction of the back door of the building. There were three men in suits talking in the doorway, and casually looking around to see if they were alone. "They stay there all day."
"What's suspicious about that?" Pietro asked.
"Do you guys remember those kids who disappeared last week?" Wanda asked and waited for you and Pietro to confirm before continuing. "I found the orphanage uniform in the dumpster from the building. What if they are picking up the orphans?"
"You said they speak german, right?" You retorted with a question. When Wanda confirmed, you made a thoughtful face. "What if they are Nazi doctors? They could be trying that supremacist shit again."
"I think we should leave." Pietro said next. "Before they see us here."
"Yeah, come on." Wanda agreed before taking one last look at the door meters away from you, the men were entering. Neither you or Pietro notice that one of them looked directly at the girl before closing the door.
//-//
Pietro advanced against you with his fists raised, but you ducked and shoved him in the ribs.
"Well done, Vor!" He spoke contentedly, sounding surprised. He took two more steps toward you, but you dodged, and threw your arms against his waist. You both laughed as you both fell back onto the grass. Pietro rolled you on the ground to get on top. "You can't let them knock you down, little one."
"I'm the one who knocked you down, asshole." You retort humorously, trying to get up. But Pietro is heavy on you.
"I'm letting you win, obviously." The boy says with a smile. You hate that Pietro has grown so big as to win in fights, but at least he helps you learn to fight with the kids on the street. Which was funny, since Wanda always told you to run.
"Oh, really?" You hit back and then raise your knee hard, hitting him in the balls. Pietro lets out an exclamation of pain and falls beside you to the floor, whimpering. You feel bad at the same moment. "Shit, I'm sorry, Piet." You ask, but let out a giggle, watching him gasp in pain.
"What are you two doing here?" A voice suddenly asked, and you looked forward to find the high school monitor looking at you two reproachfully.
"Shit." You grumbled already hurrying to get up and lift Pietro quickly, who seemed to fight the pain to follow you.
"Maximoff! I should know." The woman spoke annoyed, hurrying to cross the railing. You and Pietro were skipping calculus class in the usually empty area behind the gym. But before she finished crossing, you and Pietro were already running away, laughing at the curses the woman yelled at you, and something about detention for a month.
By the time you stopped running, you were in the city, in the alleyways of suburban Sokovia.
Pietro punched you under the shoulder the moment you stopped, and when you grumbled he said it was for the kick.
"Are you hungry?" You asked as you massaged the spot of the punch.
"Yes." He replied looking around. Some people looked curiously at you two, probably because you came to the scene running, but you ignored it.
"I'll get us some food." You let him know and then you are already walking away to the fair area a few meters ahead. Pietro rolls his eyes at the smug expression you cast at him before you put the cap of your jacket over your head.
//-//
"What have you two gotten yourselves into?" Wanda asked angrily, throwing her backpack on top of the torn armchair. You and Pietro took your eyes off the card game to look at her.
The little crib you set up in one of Sokovia's condemned buildings was cold and damp, but it was the closest thing to a home where no one cursed, or order any of you to clean and do any tasks, so it was your favorite place.
Usually the three of you would run away from the orphanage and school as much as possible to stay around here, but then Wanda started actually studying and you and Pietro didn't.
"Sorry, Wands, calculus isn't really our thing." You grumbled to the girl. Wanda approached you with her arms crossed.
"But athletics it is, I believe." She retorted. "If you keep skipping class, you'll get kicked off the team. The guidance counselor told me to warn you two, and she talked for half an hour, so thanks for that." Wanda grumbled ironically, and you kicked Pietro lightly to get him to stop laughing.
You reached out for the paper package you left in the corner of one of the armchairs.
"Maybe this will improve your mood, printsessa." You said as you handed the item to Wanda. She looked tired, and grimaced, grudgingly thanking you. She smiled weakly when she realized it was food. "I saved some bread for you too."
"You two need to stop stealing." She warned, but took a bite of her food. You shrugged, and returned your attention to the game.
"If we had enough food, I wouldn't need to steal anything." You retorted, and Pietro murmured in agreement, while Wanda frowned slightly.
"You could get some work, too." Wanda argues and you laugh, rolling your eyes.
"We've had this conversation a million times, printsessa."
"Stop calling me that." She asks annoyed.
You rolled your eyes again, and made a move. Pietro sighed slightly, since he was losing.
"I can call you skuchnyy, if you prefer." You retort humorously, and Wanda slaps you on the arm, making you and Pietro laugh.
"If you keep stealing, you'll end up in jail! Or worse, killed." She then adds, and you exchange a look with Pietro.
"Only if we get caught." The boy says and you hold back a laugh, seeing Wanda's disapproving look.
She lets out an impatient exclamation, and starts eating in silence. You focus on the game again, knowing that this discussion would happen again. Wanda would always complain that you were stealing, out of pure concern, and you and Pietro would continue to ignore it, out of necessity.
//-//
Sokovia, 6 years ago.
Gasping and out of breath, you kept running.
"I'm going to win." You heard Pietro shout excitedly beside you, running as fast as you.
"Shut up." You shouted back, but Pietro actually reached the finish line first. You laughed, though, trying to normalize your breathing as you sat on the ground.
Coach walked over to the two of you next, past the small crowd of students who were watching the race celebrating Pietro's victory.
"That was excellent, Maximoff." Congratulated the coach with a handshake. Pietro smiled embarrassed, and you laughed at his face.
"Come on, I'll buy you lunch to celebrate." You told the boy as soon as you stood up, and the coach had left. Pietro threw his arm around you, and you pushed him away. "Get off, you're sweaty."
He laughed, and you parted your ways in the locker room. After taking a shower, you found Pietro already wearing his regular clothes instead of his athletic clothes, but he was not alone. There was a man in a suit talking to him.
As you approached, the man looked at you and waved his hat before turning and leaving.
"What was that?" You asked curiously, but Pietro had a grim expression on his face. "Piete, are you okay?"
"Yeah." He says looking away from yours to the paper in your hands. He puts it away in his pocket before you can read it. "I need to talk to Wanda. Rain check on our lunch later."
"Okay." You mumble confusedly, watching Pietro walk away quickly.
//-//
"Pay attention, no one must see you. Go in quietly, place the packages, and leave without being seen." Warned the man in front of you. You swallowed dryly, but nodded in agreement.
You exchanged a glance with Pietro and Wanda before turning to enter through the small gap in the railing, one of the new commercial buildings on the other side.
Now that you were older, the protest groups accepted you at the marches. You and the twins had been participating for a few months now, and they were usually peaceful walks. But then one of the leaders learned that you could fit in small places, and here you were, sneaking into one of the new buildings that took the place of one of the apartment complexes, looking for the exact spot to place the packages that the group handed you.
Even though you were nervous, you made it. And it was only when you were outside that you heard an explosion much bigger than you expected.
When you saw one of the security guards with a bloody head, shouting in Sokovian for the vandals to be stopped while the rest of the protesters shouted and held up their placards, everything seemed to get a little muffled for you, and you could only focus on the powder marks on your fingers. Stumbling away, you ran.
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Sokovia, 5 years ago.
"You two have lost your minds!" You exclaim in surprise and irritation, taking yourself off the wooden bench you were sitting on. Pietro and Wanda look at you with confusion.
"I told you she wouldn't understand." Pietro grumbles and you look at him with indignation.
"Really?" You retort. "Of course I don't understand, Pietro! You've both gone crazy for good!"
"Keep your voice down!" Pietro retorted angrily, getting up as he looked around. No lights had come on downstairs, so no one from the orphanage was awake. "We're doing this for Sokovia."
"Tell me how offering yourself as an experiment for German Nazis helps Sokovia?" You retorted angrily and Pietro sighed impatiently. "I can't believe you two are actually thinking of doing this."
"What do you think will happen next week when we turn eighteen, heh?" Pietro asked aggressively, and you clenched your jaw. "We'll be kicked out of the orphanage, and we'll be on the street. If we didn't have food before, imagine after that!"
"I can get us food!" You exclaim with tear-filled eyes, but Wanda gives a dry laugh.
"You're not going with us." Wanda retorts and you look at her wide-eyed. "You're going to stay here, where you have a roof and a meal, and we're not going to waste the opportunity to change things in Sokovia."
You looked at them incredulously.
"I can't believe you are going to die for your ambition."
Pietro crossed his arms, looking at you seriously. You looked at Wanda, but she looked away to the floor. Shaking your head, you ran your hands through your hair.
"We are doing this for our country." Pietro stated seriously. You disagreed with your head, feeling your throat close up from emotion. But you did not cry. "Some of us are willing to risk whatever it takes."
You give a dry laugh at the provocation. Pietro was only saying that because you stopped participating in the rallies, ever since the protests got more violent and your colleagues started damaging property, stealing, and there were even rumors of fighting that ended in killing.
"Yeah, Piete, you're right." You retorted upset. "You and Wanda want to die in a cell with needles in your arms, lying that this is for Sokovia and not to get revenge for your parents. But don't expect me to stay and watch."
You accuse bitterly before turning and walking off the roof, your tears flowing as you reach the floor below, but you don't stop walking.
//-//
"What are you doing here?" You asked as soon as you raised your head, your gaze shifting from the vegetables at your feet to the girl in front of you. It had been a few days since you had argued with the Maximoffs, and you hadn't spoken to any of them since.
"I came to say goodbye." Wanda said simply, and you rolled your eyes, getting up from the ground and shaking some of the dirt on your fingers.
"When are you two leaving?"
"Now."
Ignoring the feeling that has formed in your stomach, you just grumble in agreement, turning your back on Wanda, because you don't want her to see you cry.
"And what's this now?" You retort as you sit on the edge of the roof, looking out over the city. "Did you come to tell me that you guys are going to remember me or some sentimental shit?"
Wanda laughs softly, and you hear her footsteps approaching, until she is sitting next to you.
"Well, we've been friends for eight years, I thought I should say goodbye." She says looking forward. You want to swallow the urge to cry, because you don't want them to go. But there is nothing you can do.
"Okay, Wanda. Goodbye then." You retort bitterly, looking down at your hands.
"I wanted to give you something before I go." Wanda adds softly, and you turn your head to her to ask what it is, but as soon as you do, Wanda breaks the distance, her lips meeting yours in a sweet kiss.
You sigh in surprise, and Wanda pulls away.
"S-sorry." She says breathlessly. "I shouldn't..."
But you kiss her again. Properly this time. She is grateful that you hold her around the waist, because then she doesn't fall off the roof when she completely melts from the touch of your tongues together.
You pull away to take a breath, leaving your foreheads together. The urge to tell her not to go anywhere is stuck on the tip of your tongue, and before you can let the words escape, someone is clearing their throat behind you.
"I can't believe you kissed my sister." Pietro complains in a mixed tone of teasing and annoyance. But there is no anger in his gaze. You and Wanda move away embarrassed. "We have to go."
Wanda nods in agreement, and looks at you one last time before standing up, walking over to Pietro.
The boy nods to you before leaving. And when the roof is empty, you let the tears stream down your face.
//-//
As soon as the twins left, you joined the protests again. It kept you distracted now that you were alone. And since you hated so much free time without your friends, you ignored the way that you now always ended up with bruised hands and sore throats after every march.
You got some of your fellow protesters to help you keep an eye on the building that Wanda and Pietro were staying in, and when they stopped coming out of there, you knew something was wrong.
Two weeks without hearing about the twins, you could no longer sleep from worry. You imagined that whatever those men were doing to them would take time. But you also didn't expect that your friends would disappear.
So here you were, sneaking around the abandoned floors to find some clue to where the hell they were. You knew you shouldn't be here. It was their choice, and they knew the consequences. But you kept walking.
Hearing a metal noise, you felt your heart race and quickly hid behind a wall. But no other sound came, so you thought it was safe to move.
Another noise, and a sharp pain in your neck a second later. And then you blacked out.
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Uncanny X-Men Abridged: 1982: Fairytales & Nightmares Edition
The X-Men, those fantastical mutants that have sworn to protect a world that hates and fears them, are a cultural juggernaut with a long, tangled history. We’ve been untangling that history for a while, but sometimes, you really want a more in-depth look. Interested? Then read the (un)Abridged X-Men!
(X-Men 153 & 160) - by Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum, Josef Rubinstein, Bob Wiacek, Brent Anderson
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I love how every character gets hit with a good dose of magical fairy dust except for Wolverine and Nightcrawler, who get turned into the Tasmanian Devil and a horny smurf, respectively
1982 is a pretty arc-based year. Most of it is dedicated to space operas, the Brood and Shi’ar politics (yawn), but there are a few outliers. Most notable of these two exceptions are issue 153 - Kitty’s fairytale - and issue 160, the introduction of Limbo. I’ve chosen to highlight these two issues because they are fun, fascinating and, moreover, they are sort of dark mirrors of one another.
Both feature Illyana as a catalyst for the action; both of them feature someone spinning her a little fairytale..
Both feature alternate takes on X-Men: one high fairytale, the other grimdark.
Both are standalone issues that barely feature into the main Shi’ar-plot of 1982 -- seriously, you can take them out without disrupting any narratives -- while still introducing plot points that would become a part of the X-Men mythos. (The Lockheed dragon; the bamf and, most importantly, the introduction of Illyana as Magik.)
It’s funny how the Brood saga takes up almost 80% of the narrative space this year, whereas the whole Limbo/Belasco/Illyana-thing is almost a throwaway plot that is arguably more iconic for the X-Men currently than the Brood are.
Anyway, context. The mansion is in shambles after the attack on the Hellfire Club. Illyana hasn’t returned home after being kidnapped by Arcade -- perhaps to give Colossus a little relief of his homesickness. Illyana then tempts fate:
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Take note of that stuffed Fozzi toy, wocka wocka!
Illyana prefers Kitty to tell the story, and I get it. Colossus is a sweetheart, but the dude’s not exactly light of heart. Piotr would probably tell something dreary and fatalistic about three old sisters in a decaying orchard, while Kitty is a lot more fun.
Claremont shows that he is familiar with the workings of the teenage mind, because when faced with the challenge to tell a story, she does the same thing I did when I was thirteen: she goes for a self insert. And she incidentally writes in the boy she has a crush on as her boyfriend.
Look, all I’m saying, we’ve all been there, right?
Anyway, Kitty’s fairytale. Kitty is a pirate, Peter is her shipmate and they stumble upon a quest when ruffians accost a blind prince -- Scott -- and a wizard on his own personal flying carpet -- Xavier. They help out and get roped into the prince’s quest to save his princess from an evil corrupting influence. Sound familiar?
In true Final Fantasy-fashion, all the other party members are introduced one by one. Kitty calls upon a dragon called Lockheed she befriended while Piotr saves a weather goddess trapped in a bottle by the cursed princess. Best highlights, however, are Kitty’s versions of Kurt and Wolverine.
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Way of X, I love you, but take note. Kurt was never meant to be puritan.
One of the best parts of this issue is the reaction shots of the other X-Men who listen in to Kitty’s tale. Most of their alternative versions fit stock fairytale characters, although Bamf is more a Disney sidekick than anything else. Wolverine is straight up a Looney Tune though:
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At some point, someone looked at this character design and first thought of Sabretooth, right?
The kicker of all of this Kitty wasn´t actually there for the Phoenix Saga: she only met Jean once, briefly, when Jean saved her and the other X-Men from Emma. Kitty never met Dark Phoenix, she only ever heard the details secondhand. Still, she gets it mostly right: prince Scott and princess Jean are star-crossed lovers until Jean is cursed by a corrupting force. As Dark Phoenix, she is hellbent on stopping wizard Xavier and the prince in their tracks, lest they lift the curse by confronting her with her one weakness.
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THE HUMANITY
Xavier uses Jean’s humanity to fight off the dark Phoenix and, in this particular universe, they succeed. Scott and Jean get the happy ending they didn’t get in the actual timeline: Kitty even cures his cursed eyebeams. It’s kind of funny that this is the only happy ending the X-Men will ever get during Claremont’s reign.
Speaking of a lack of happy endings, the dark counterpart of Kitty’s fairytale also starts with someone telling Illyana some sweet little lies:
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I’m assuming that the whole Stranger Danger-campaign only got big after the eighties? Illyana has all the self preservation skills of a lemming.
Kitty notices that Illyana has vanished and is curious, following her. She steps on a strange light disk and vanishes.
As a slightly piquant aside, I was pleasantly surprised when reading this one digitally. I own a copy of this comic in Dutch (straight from the eighties) and apparently, they censored the version for the low lands. In a comic with creepy assaultey Nightcrawler and many, many, many naked Storms and Wolverines, this page was a bridge too far:
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Look, maybe they weren’t entirely wrong. Last time three guys were bouncing around me and I invited them for a shower, I wasn’t entirely innocent either.
I was “also not welcome in that gym again” but that’s besides the point.
Who knows, maybe they just wanted to cut out the clunky exposition of storylines recent. In any case, the X-Men decide to investigate and they are also whisked away: those disks of light are apparently teleportation circles.
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Also, can someone please tell Chris Claremont that German sometimes does have i before e?
They’re pulled into a pocket dimension where time and space are treated as guidelines rather than hard and fast rules. While Belasco taunts Kitty (and pulls her skeleton from her body to keep her from escaping), the other X-Men get separated, wandering about this utterly foreign dimension and encountering future/alternative versions of themselves.
I still love how alien this first version of Limbo is. The comic is titled ‘Shoots & Ladders’ and it’s exactly like that, except in creepy, never-ending tunnels and topsy-turvy, shadowy caverns.
Both Wolverine and Colossus are confronted by their dead selves, killed by S’ym, Belasco’s brutish lackey. The alternative Nightcrawler, meanwhile, has been perverted into a freaky little toady who has no qualms about touching Kitty inappropriately. (He's essentially the creepy, disturbing version of a Bamf.) Storm, meanwhile, is aided by an older, jaded version of herself. She’s also the one in charge of teleportation disks, which she uses to aid the X-Men:
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Kitty’s casually waving skeleton always sends me
Storm is furious with what Belasco has wrought onto Kitty, her Mother Bear Instincts activating. She wants to give chase, but that’s when older!Storm intervenes. She warns Storm that this is a crossroads. In her variant universe, the X-Men chased after Belasco and it went badly for them: Wolverine and Colossus died, Nightcrawler turned evil and Storm became trapped in Limbo.
There’s no word of what happened to their Kitty or Illyana, but I think that’s because Limbo does not play by any of our regular rules. See, if Belasco wanted Illyana, wouldn't he have one now? But he doesn’t. So maybe Limbo is the Schrödinger’s place, where the X-Men both did and didn’t chase Belasco. Because if they didn’t give chase, they wouldn’t have the older Storm to tell them they shouldn’t give chase, which they end up not doing. But if they don't, there wouldn't be a Storm to warn them from not going, so they would. But they wouldn't.
Got that?
Just when older!Storm prepares to send them home, Belasco returns with an army of demons.
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See? I told you that paying attention to that Fozzi-toy would pay off! (Wocka wocka)
And it ends there, with Illyana rescued from her nightmare, but with the promise of more darkness in her future.
I love how Chris Claremont takes a soap opera trope -- aging up a child in the shortest amount of time possible to an age where there’s more to do with them narratively -- and makes it fit into his crazy X-Universe.
And that’s it. Two relatively pared down stories where the normal rules of reality take a backseat: one to lift Illyana’s spirits, one to break her beyond belief. In a year that’s defined by space opera, these two stories have always stuck out to me, simply because of the way they break the mold of the X-Universe. More importantly, they've given us Magik. And Bamf!
Next up: Brood, Brood, Brood, and Shi'ar.
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freifraufischer · 2 years
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There’s something I’ve been wondering about, who decides the narrative for the fluff pieces/ commentary? Do they just pick someone photogenic or with a tragic background? How did the Romanians become underdogs instead of E Germans and why is Nadia a fairy tale? So many questions
It's probably someone in the network research who decides what would make the best story.
I can answer the Romania versus East German question though. East Germany was both the USSR's closest ally and a heavily occupied state throughout the cold war. The Germans were not in a struggle with the Soviets in the sense that they were close allies (though ironically some of the least trusted of those allies).
The Romanian dictatorship was communist in theory but in reality it was a cult of personality and for Nicolae Ceausescu one of the things that defined him was not being a satellite state of the Soviet Union (Tito's Yugoslavia was the same). Nadia was a surrogate for western powers who couldn't beat the Soviets in Gymnastics. There is a moment in the 1976 American Cup where they talk about her having to be more than perfect to beat the soviets and it's a long shot of her in an empty floor area with a giant crowd surrounding her.
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If the US media didn't know much about Romania as a country or if they didn't care I don't know. The Ceausescu Regime was one of the most horrific in Eastern Europe. As an example, his wife Elena Ceausescu was said to be barely literate but was granted a PhD in Chemistry and her name was published on hundreds of books and scientific papers. Some of which are still being cited. Several institutions in the United Kingdom gave her honorary degrees. At the same time she was personally persecuting scientists and academics. The idea of her as one of the world’s great research scientists was good for Nicolae Ceausescu's image to be seen as a leader in modern scientific society and the western powers enabled it because the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
And this isn't academic to Nadia. As the Romanian princess she was forced to be the mistress of Ceausescu's son Nico who viciously beat and tortured her during their relationship. When people try to urge gym fans not to push Nadia to comment about former team mates stories of abuse it's directly because it's very apparent that her response to the unbelievable trauma she lived through in the 1980s was selective amnesia.
The East German state was horrific in entirely different ways. If Romania was an absolute monarchy held by a sadistic narcissist and his family, East Germany was perhaps the ultimate police state. During the Nazi period there was 1 Gestapo officer per 2000 German citizens. In East Germany there was 1 Stasi officer per 166 East German citizens. And that's not counting informants, which was the equivalent of 1 informant per every 6.5 citizens. Simon Wiesenthal the great Nazi hunter called the Stasi more oppressive than the Gestapo.
At the time of the fall of the state there were warehouses of jars of the personal sent of East German citizens in case they ever needed to track them by blood hounds.
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In the wake of the unification of Germany it became legal for anyone to go in and read their stasi file which resulted in many cases of divorce as people found out their spouse had been informing on them to the state.
And again this is not tangential to gymnastics. Most of the most famous East German gymnasts were members of the sports club whose president was the head of the East German state security apparatus. If they talked to a West German athlete while abroad, as Gabriele Fähnrich did when a young West German gymnast offered to fix her broken camera for literally a few minutes at the 1983 Chunichi Cup, they were subject to secret police harassment. There is a moment during the 1985 world championship where the camera catches a West German gymnast coming up to give Dagmar Kersten a hug and congratulate her on what was her likely bronze medal in the all around. Kersten looks to the side sees who it is and ignores the girl exists. Because in that moment there was no one more dangerous to Kersten than that West German gymnast. Here is a great article about the place skating legend Katarina Witt had in East German politics, she was given many things by the state but also the subject of incredible surveillance including have her boyfriend be a stasi informer.
Witt described the experience of reading her file—which totaled more than 3,000 pages—and realizing the extent of the state’s surveillance on her. “I was surprised, and I was disappointed, and I felt betrayed. Because I knew I had to meet them, and I knew I was telling them the truth, and for me then to be watched like this, I felt betrayed in a way, because I told them what they needed to know. But it seems not. They wanted to know more. And they wanted to know everything about my life ... like somebody looking through a keyhole and watching everything you do.”
They were almost polar opposites in terms of horrific regimes to live under and both sets of athletes were tools for those states. The west decided that Nadia was a princess because she was challenging the Soviets, and that the DDR gymnasts were the villains because they were their allies.
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pikaflute · 3 years
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hi, sudafed cleared my sinuses long enough to think so here’s a giant post about most of my charles headcanons
Playlist
OH btw here’s my 4 hour and 23 minute playlist for Charles. Enjoy. Yes I know I’m insane: https://open.spotify.com/user/pikaflute24/playlist/4DBxaaxbqsmJt9Fvl8AgwZ?si=OcXlYCdFRzOhuKa4p_HdUQ
General Headcanons
He was born November 24 1965. He’s currently 56, but I usually write him in his late 40s in most fanfic and content I make. So there’s this middle aged man....
He has hazel eyes. Sometimes they look green, sometimes brown. Sometimes they’ll be white but that’s when he’s using his magic so mind your business
Gear brand over his heart >:)c
:) i think he has piercings and tattoos, a skull (dead man teehee) on his upper arm, a tattoo of a date (the date pickles and him first met TEEHEE) on his left arm also has a tattoo on his arm of the day he “died” on his right. had his ears pierced when he was a teen.
Has a sweet tooth so hard. Smuggles in treats into the drawers of his desk just to snack on during the day and has a mini fridge just filled with ice cream and also sorts of other goodies. He loves brownies and cookies the most
Likes to work out and keep himself in shape. it takes his mind off of stressful things like work and the boys, and just take his morning practice sparring and doing various exercises in the mordhaus gym. 
he’s uh also very flexible so he does yoga a lot when he exercises. don’t. look too deep into that
cannot cook to save his life. he almost burned mordhaus down trying to make himself a sandwich
he can play guitar! he used to play it more often when he was younger but he rarely has the time to play it nowadays. when he does get to play it, it’s usually in private (and mainly songs by dethklok), or it’s to show off to a certain lead guitarist that yes he is playing that solo wrong
he’s ambidextrous but prefers using his right hand. he’ll use his left hand to spar in order to go easy on his opponents because hes a smug cunt
he’s 5′7 but intimidation factor adds a couple inches doesn’t it
has a scorpion named princess as a pet. he lets her sit on his desk sometimes and it scares the shit out of dethklok which makes charles laugh on the inside
hes also a cat person. one time toki brought a cat home and it settled on charles’ lap and he almost cried
loves to be a smug asshole and relishes in it. will not take shit from anyone, especially from some asshole who is trying to pull one over on him
he has no idea how social media works at all. will print memes out to show to dethklok, he’s very fond of cat memes specifically (i can has cheeseburger type beat)
he has no idea what any internet memes means he isn’t going to start learning. he is going to misuse internet phrases. are you boys, ah, finding the imposter? [cue five groans from dethklok]
knows a lot of languages. not a comprehensive list but: french, swedish, norwegian, spanish, italian, japanese, chinese, german, russian and korean
is very competitive. scarily competitive. once he starts losing in smash or mario kart all hell will break lose
very bad at showing emotions or affection, when he gets compliments he gets all red and quiet and mumbles a thank you. 
weird about being touched as well and will usually avoid it unless it’s with someone he trusts
speaking of, his love language is acts of service :)c
hates being called charlie or chuck, unless the right person calls him it ;)
he’s autistic. was nonverbal for most of his life and only talked to certain people, or anyone at all. he stims with his hands and uses his pens to fidget.
has a collection of novelty socks. he likes the ones that have polka dots or stripes
sleeps with a garfield plushie he had since he was younger. it helps him with the nightmares
when any of the boys need help sleeping (usually toki or pickles), he’ll sleep with them in his bed. after dying he had trouble sleeping some nights, so dethklok returned the favor and all piled up in his bed and helped him sleep. he didnt have nightmares after that night
hes nearsighted, and prefers to wear glasses over contacts
lactose intolerant, hes still eating mac n cheese and paying the price
metalhead but pretends to not be just to mess with his boys
crippling addiction to match 3 games. also loves to play minecraft.
overly self sacrificial. puts ones he love needs before his own, results in himself being very isolated and distant from those he cares about because he’s afraid of hurting them
his favorite colors are black and purple
coffee kinda guy. black coffee or bust
has a lot of cute novelty mugs to put his coffee in. he ones from places where dethklok tours, dethklok official ones (the only two that aren’t adorned with spikes), some cat themed ones, a couple that have ties and math references, and one from his boys that says “most brutal manager”. he drinks out of that last one the most
he has a couple of grey hairs and wrinkles, but he keeps them because they remind him that he’s human. also pickles said old men were hot but you didnt hear that from me
likes to play chess but he can never find a good opponent. all the klokateers are too scared if they win and dethklok is too distracted to ever play with him or they end up losing to quickly if charles plays against them
really wants kids. he babies his sister’s sons and daughters a TON (uncle charles always brings the best gifts :) ) and also treats toki like his own son in a way. toki doesnt mind, he really appreciates the love
speaking of, toki does call charles dad once and it makes charles cry for like. a week and a half
his favorite dethklok song is the gears :)
he likes to collect knives as a side hobby, his favorite of his collection is a sleek black one with skulls on the handle
he has a motorcycle and likes to drive it around sometimes to just be alone with himself. it’s all black with a red gear on it
lightweight but only if he drinks the amount dethklok drinks. can hold his alcohol fairly well if he drinks like a sensible human, prefers brandy and wine
he can smoke cigars to be sexy for me and me ONLY
likes to read in his spare time. he likes mystery novels and science fiction
he has soft spot for cheesy sitcoms, they’re his guilty pleasure
his favorite youtuber is lockpickinglawyer. yours should be too
usually sleeps in only his boxers but will wear a shirt if its’s cold. he tends to sleep on his side (also wants to be the little spoon when cuddled but he will never admit that)
takes vacations sometimes away from the boys despite his worry that something will go wrong (it will!). many of his vacations are usually going to visit his family and going to the shore with them, or travelling to somewhere new for a change (cue charles being a yakuza substory on his one vacation per year)
he can sew pretty well. learned from his mom and used to sew the whole his sister use to put through her soccer uniform.
can also do makeup, and usually does it for one of the boys of there’s no one else around to help
bites his lip when he’s nervous. which is a lot
likes chococat and gudetama. he’s a man of tastes
laughs really loud if you catch him off guard. he snorts sometimes too. he’s embarrassed by it, but i think its’ cute
loves law and order obviously 
he likes men
has a lot of pent up rage. very good at compressing it. sometimes
as high priest, he stays up very late trying to decipher the ancient prophecies that dethklok needed to fulfill. he doesnt sleep very much when he starts out because he misses home, so the band makes him come back (or else)
also as high priest he becomes more intune with magic granted to him after he died and he mainly uses his magic to protect his boys when they go back to being a band. also to fuck with them
the band he managed before dethklok was a band named savior who said they were a metal band with a unique sound, but that unique sound was actually just being a christian metal band that were bad at playing music. they also treated charles like shit and blamed him for them doing so poorly with sales and shows. had an unfortunate “accident” with a tour bus after charles had enough of their attitude towards him.  he denies he had anything to do with it (he did.)
Family/Childhood
He’s the baby of the family. Spoiled rotten to the max. He doesn’t admit it though but whenever he comes home you know he abuses the “:)c im the favorite” card
He has 4 older sisters: Caroline who is a high school civics teacher, Cynthia who is a librarian, Callie who is a coach for a soccer team, and Charlotte who is a lawyer/manager who manages Ladyklok, which gets awkward (and funny) when Abigail starts dating the lead singer Natalie
charles is actually one of the tallest in his family. his dad is 6’1 and his older sister Callie is 5’11. cynthia is 5’6, caroline is 5’6, and his mom and charlotte are 5’5.
his mom is a doctor and his dad is an accountant. his mom’s name is giovanna and his dad’s name is elijah
caroline is the oldest sister, followed by cynthia, callie, charlotte then charles.
Charlotte and Charles are sworn enemies since they were born on the same day a year apart and basically have the same job. They do love each other though
His father calls him Charles. Caroline and Cynthia call him Charlie. Callie calls him Chuck. Charlotte calls him Charles (derogatory). His mom calls him a whole slew of nicknames that she made up when he was young (she calls him cheese ball and he turns red)
caroline has a wife (lauren who is a chef) and two kids (evan and shelby)
cynthia is dating a coworker (viola)
callie has a husband (john who is a stay at home dad) and they have three kids (brenda, melissa, and jeff)
charlotte is dating ladyklok (and abigail). this is a weird flex on charles i think.
He had a race car bed when he was like 5
He also was also one of those kids at family game night. He almost killed Cynthia over a game of monopoly
Always got to lick the spoon first after his mom baked brownies
He grew up in North Jersey (derogatory) (also yes im projecting state shot)
He’s also Italian (derogatory)
He got bullied in middle school for a little bit but once his older sisters found out, oh boy did all hell break loose
Was in band in high school. He played flute (DONT TALK TO ME I LIKE PROJECTING), he was of course a soloist and incredibly smug about it
Took gymnastics as a kid. Can do a backflip on command. Also very flexible.
First manager gig was helping his sisters sell girl scout cookies. They raked in a lot of profits when baby bro was behind the scenes. His cut was eating thin mints for free
Loved Star Trek when he was a kid
Was incredibly gifted, and taught himself to read at a young age. didn’t talk that much though
was always sick when he was little. he would always get sinus infections and colds if someone even sneezed weird
was in mock trial in high school. one guy on his team was a jerk to him so charles made it a point to be this poor kid’s nemesis
was on the student council, treasurer of course.
was also in nhs, and he was treasurer there too
was that kid who insisted on doing the group project by himself because he didn’t want to wait on anyone to finish their part
was super rowdy as a kid, always got into trouble but his mom was a little lenient of punishment (hes a mommas boy)
when he was like super young he bit people cause he was just a little monster (charles' sisters: mom charles is biting again. charles, biting one of them: im not :/ sheesh)
wanted to be a lawyer since he was 7
put his own siblings and parents on trial and would win every trial and would always get the last cookie or a higher allowance
he shared his room with his sister Charlotte and they would set up a pillow fort on one of the beds and stay up late reading together 
loved going to the beach as a kid, his mom still has his collection of shells from the beach
on the boardwalk, he would dominate at claw machines anad carnival games. he won a bunch of plushies from himself (and his sisters obviously)
his dad and him have a super close bond. they watched star trek together and also like to watch how the stock market would do. his dad was also sometimes the judge in charles’ mock trials at home
they were very supportive when he came out as gay, he was also the first of his sibilings to come out of the closet
College
Got his masters in business management at rutgers and a JD (law degree) from seton hall law.
Started college when he was 18 (1983) and ended college when he was 26 (1991)
Wasn’t a party guy. Never got invited to many, but he never went unless a certain redhead was in town
Sustained himself off of ramen, coffee, and SSRIs to get his masters (hey man i feel ya)
Did weed like three times. Three of those times were because of, you guessed it, a certain redhead
Speaking of, his first time having sex was in his dorm with Pickles. Pickles also kicked him off of the bed (those beds are fucking tiny) while they slept, and almost burned Charles’ dorm down trying to make toast the next morning
Absolute did not do essays until the night before. Bad habit that made it’s way into Dethklok managing when he’s forced to write a legal brief before 12 am.
Loved calculus 2 for some reason. Nerd
Had a mullet. Pickles thought it was hot (still is) while Charles would rather die than remember anything about that horrid hairdo
Also went through his goth/emo phase while in Law School. He stuck out amongst the sea of sweater vests and polo shirts
Was in a band with his fellow college bandmates. The band was called Habeas Corpses and he was the lead singer who also played guitar. Their sound was kind of similar to TWRP’s first two EPs (The Device and 2nite). they had a grunge aesthetic, and yes charles dyed his mullet black (with a purple streak), for the band.
his bandmates were all fellow law students. dillan was on drums, margaret was their bass guitar, and nick was their keyboardist. all three of them also got tutored by charles while in law school. they are still best friends and write to each other sometimes
Was on the debate team, but uh kicked off due to be very competitive (he threatened to punch the opposing debater)
Was also in the chess club, also kicked off for being too competitive (lunged at a kid for cheating)
After being kicked from the two previous clubs, he joined fencing, his very competitive nature made him the best in the state
nick (the guy in charles’ band) was charles’ roommate the whole time they were in college. they may or may not have had a brief relationship before they realized they would be better as friends
nick also has a nes and charles loved to played zelda and wrote an entire guide for himself because he’s was that into the game (nerd)
occasionally would be found sleeping in the library on campus
wanted to be an RA but the resident association at his schools thought he was a little much. charles took this as a compliment
worked out a lot between studying and classes. a lot of jocks underestimated him because of his size but charles was just :) [casually lifts something heavy]
a lot of fellow classmates thought he was super cool cause of the leather he wore, and how cool and quiet he was, too bad they didnt know he was a huge nerd
tried skateboarding. once.
had a cadillac that barely started and drove like a piece of shit but that was charles’ baby
pickles tried to have sex with charles in said car btw, charles almost killed him for even daring to suggest to tarnish his beautiful baby
has damaged his back permanently because of all the books he used to carry around in his crappy back pack
did some modelling for one of his friends in college. he was very attractive and got some other modelling job through it. he tries to hide that from the boys in the future because he thinks it’s embarrassing
Relationship with Dethklok
Pickles - he’s known the drummer the longest out of any other member, and if you couldn’t tell by now, he had a brief relationship with the drummer back in the 80s (and maybe also still has a crush on him :)). charles respects and admires pickles’ talent as a musician and sometimes they play together when they have time alone. he tries to be there when pickles has a relapse in either emotions with his family or something else, but still tries to maintain a distance because he thinks that pickles doesn’t feel the same as he did in the 80s. (he does btw). nothing could break the bond these two share. not even death
Nathan - understands nathan’s quiet nature (nonverbal kings!) and strive for perfection in everything dethklok creates because he is the same way. their similarities allow them to connect on a level that allows nathan to open up about his feelings that he likes to lock away. nathan also gets charles to open his feelings up and actually care for himself for once in his damn life. charles also helps nathan with the depression he develops after charles dies and how to deal with it despite it being not brutal. nathan wants to give back and he does by becoming one of charles’ closest friends (and maybe even lovers hehehe)
Toki - charles has taken it upon himself to be toki’s father figure after seeing the way toki’s family has left him for essentially dead. ever since toki joined the band, charles has made it a point to be there for him whenever he needed it. even if it meant spending late nights reading to toki or sleeping over in toki’s room to help him sleep, he’ll do it. he blames himself for toki’s disappearance but toki assures him that he did the best he could. toki calls him dad a lot after doomstar. it makes charles cry.
Skwisgaar - unstoppable asshole meets immovable object. skwisgaar sees himself above everyone else like he does with the other dethklok members but with charles, skwisgaar knows that charles isn’t intimidated by him nor will he bow to the guitar god in anyway. this develops a game of cat and mouse between the two, with skwisgaar trying to no subtly push charles’ buttons and to see what makes him ticks, while charles resist him at every turn with a smug ‘:) is that all you got’ and it delights him to finally see the guitarist squirm under pressure.
Murderface - at first the two are very. distant to say the least. murderface used to see charles as unemotional robot and charles was fine with that and accepted the distance. overtime however, and especially after charles died, murderface warmed up to charles confiding in him things he hasn’t told the band, mainly things about his insecurities because charles is ‘fucking smart with crap like this’. and charles helps him and is happy to see him work out his problems and not bottle them anymore like the rest of his bandmates. charles also enjoys murderface’s company as a friend as well. and….he’s gonna help murderface the most with the whole traitor stuff too.
Abigail - mlm and wlw hostility. but seriously they’re good buds. he sympathizes with having to deal the moronic actions of dethklok on a daily basis and also thinks she’s really intelligent and overall fun to hang out with. they take lunch breaks frequently together and like to make fun of people at dethklok dinners together as a fun activity together. abigail will bully his ass once she finds out she’s dating charles’ sister and WILL bring up those baby pictures to get a higher raise thank you very much
Knubbler - can you say coworker besties! like abigail, he gets along because they both have to deal with dethklok being, well dethklok, but with knubbler, charles can relax a little more. the two cause problems on purpose just because they can. the two are also close friends and knubbler tries to get charles to relax for once in his life, and despite charles protests and objections, he sometimes caves and hands out with his friend (maybe boyfriend OOOOO who knows)
Sex Headcanons (IM SORRY)
um maybe he can have a giant dick (10 inches for me), it do be swinging though
daddy kink (everyone stay on this side, ill take care of him….come to daddy ;)c)
likes to do roleplay. he has a lot of costumes prepared for when his partner wants to do a scene with him
likes to bite and be bitten during sex. after a very long night, he’ll be covered in bite marks, it’s kinda hot
no gag reflex ;) he likes to deepthroat but good luck trying to get him to go down on you without him teasing
remember how i said he was flexible like eight times? yeah he uh, uses that a lot to his advantage. likes being fucked in weird positions because of it
the suit stays on during sex
he likes topping because he likes to be in control of everything he does all the time, but really wants to be told what to do sometimes and will let those he trusts do that for him
he has a dick piercing i know it
he's a very busy man, so he relies on his huge collection of toys he keeps in his bedroom and office
really good with his hands. as soon as those hands are on you, its game over
he loves to do it on his desk, makes him feel powerful. when he gets blown under his desk, it really takes all of his willpower to not cum immediately
really sensitive in weird places, specifically his ears
he likes to cuddle after sex, hes the little spoon :)
likes to be tied up, sometimes he’ll get tied up under his suit
mating press and riding are his favorite positions, giving and receiving
size queen, likes large toys and well ;)
has a private room that he sometimes goes to relieve stress, it has a fucking machine that he likes to use often when his job gets too stressful
he’s sucking people off at the klokateer glory hole, he’s uh, very good at what he does
likes to be spanked and like to spank
uses collars and leashes
maybe the klokateers can fuck him, if they’re good ;)
freeballing
likes cum on his face but doesn't seem to realize that means he’ll get cum on his glasses and will need to clean them
he can wear a chastity belt :) for me
likes being came in but will still complain about being gross after
pretty much up for anything, he’s not picky, he just wants to be in control and get off
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