#glee stats

[tuiyla]

So I found someone who counted how much screentime each Glee character had during season 1A and season 4, please take a look: cometsweepandleonidsfly(.)tumblr(.)com/tagged/screen%20time

cometsweepandleonidsfly(.)tumblr(.)com/post/58969910312/screentime-on-glee-in-season-4 (make sure to change showthemwhat to cometsweepandleonidsfly in the episodes' links if you want to see the stats per episode)

Do you have any thoughts on these numbers?

✨Stats time!✨

Thank you so much for bringing this to my attention Anon, and thank you to @cometsweepandleonidsfly. Please read the OG posts for more info on their methodology, limitations and all that. Of course I have thoughts, all of which I will cover but first I'll do what tuiyla does best and take this dataset and turn it into something visual. Or at least try.

So to start us off, main characters' screentime in the OG 13 episodes:

I was surprised to see Will come in with over 40% of screentime and decidedly more than Finn or Rachel. Rachel "only" being third is a surprise in and of itself but the favouring of the three "pillars" is clear. The drop between Rachel and Quinn is not insignificant and it reminds me of how big the difference between singing stats often was. Quinn coming in ahead of Kurt and Puck is somewhat surprising, as is Emma and Sue being so low. But compared to a lot of the ND kids, they had significant roles in their scenes. All in all this deffo confirms my view that there was way too much Will early on and the show was too heavy on its three mains.

Season 4 is looking more evenly distributed even if there's quite the drop between Blaine and Marley. Blaine's lead might seem crazy, but he's in just over 29% of the season compared to Will's well over 40% for the first 13. We have more characters but only three more than what I counted for the previous chart so not too bad distribution wise. What's surprising is the newbies, at least the triangle being so high up and Tina and Artie lagging so far behind Sam. Rachel being in the middle is shocking, of course, but keep in mind she fully missed a few episodes and when she was in a scene chances are it focused solely on her. Kurt being after Kitty is more surprising to me, as is Santana being so far behind. Granted, she missed a lot of episodes but my heart weeps anyway. She's still far ahead of Sue and Emma and I'm once again astonished by the mark Jane Lynch and Jayma Mays leave. I wish we had the numbers for Quinn, Mercedes, Puck and Mike here but oh well.

I love that we have a Lima vs NYC stat because it really puts things into perspective:

Wow. Where's the "too much NYC crowd" now, huh. Of course, this explains why even Rachel is relatively low on the list and how the newbies had so much screentime.

What's interesting is the difference in distribution, i.e. season 4's being imo so much better. In many ways it had to be but still. I tried visualizing it via two pie charts of the percentages but they're not that obvious and so I cba to colour them properly.

Instead, I took those percentages and compared the season 1 characters with the season 4 ones. So the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and etc. characters compared would look like this:

That was a nonsensical sentence but what I mean is, red zone is OG 13 and green season 4. The closer the line is to 50% the more the two seasons are alike in how much they feature characters, and the line generally being over 50% in season 1's favour tells us that the main chs there had more screentime. Again this is partly because season 4 had a bigger cast overall; it featured characters not accounted for within the data. But I'd also argue it distributed the more or less same screentime more equally so that's why Blaine's lead isn't the same as Will's in the OG 13. By the way, ignore the names on the line google sheets just didn't let me delete the redundant labels.

Something hopefully a bit more demonstrative: I divided the OG 13 by, well, 13 and multiplied by 22 to "get a full season" from those stats (notably these are not the full season 1 numbers) and compared those minutes with the season 4 ones. This shows you the difference even better even if we only compare the top 5 characters of each season:

Again ignore the labels, they're the season 1 top 5. Will's screentime projected to 22 episodes is waaaay more than what Blaine got in season 4 and this gap really only starts to balance out once the season 1 drop happens with Quinn and Kurt. Even then, comparatively, they were better featured than their season 4 counterparts, Sam and Ryder. To be fair, I'd much rather watch Quinn and Kurt than Sam and Ryder.

And finally, what I love the most: singing stats and bubble charts! The most I could possibly bring to this conversation is adding singing into the mix and see how that compares to the characters' screentime.

See this reddit post for some background on my singing stats database. What you need to know for this is that I have a system for different types of songs not just the number of songs the given character was featured in, so I give point totals and hope it's a more accurate reflection of how much people sang. And how does that compare to their screentime? Well.

Note that this first chart is a character's OG13 screentime compared to their overall season 1 singing.

Rachel sang the most, unsurprisingly, so her and Finn singing that much more than Will while appearing less created this interesting contrast. All three are waaay ahead in screentime as this perhaps demonstrates better than previous charts, and we see that compared to her screentime Mercedes sang quite a bit. But the difference between our 1%-ers and the proletariat is clear and we see how little Kuinn's screentime mattered, in a sense. Sue and Emma are basically nonexistent on both fronts when compared to others, so much so that even Santana with her back 9 songs almost catches up to the crowd. Make of the rest of this what you will.

Since I realized while writing this that I should have probably looked at how much they sang in the OG 13, here's that chart:

Now this looks quite different and is perhaps the better chart to analyze. Finn is further behind Rachel and her lead in singing is undisputable, whereas Mercedes stays between Finn and Will with singing. Sue didn't get a song in the OG 13 and, sadly, neither did Santana so they're missing entirely. Emma is barely there with her one solo but still ahead of Kurt, who had the screentime but evidently not the songs. His sole entry is the Defying Gravity duet. Quinn had comparatively more in the first 13 and that elevates her above Puck and Tina but I still wouldn't exactly say it's proportionate to her screentime. It's quite all over the place, particularly when compared to season 4:

So season 4 follows more of a trend and what would be expected. Meening, no huuuuge outliers and less of an upper 1% feel, though Blaine is clearly "winning" in terms of both singing and screentime. Marley is second in both regards and we see a more or less clear pattern of singing and screentime collating. Tartie sing somewhat little compared to their screentime but most of it checks out as realistic. How the mighty have fallen with Will being last in terms of singing. But then, of course, we have Pezberry, the only two who I'd say are not following the established trend. Both sing more relative to their screentime than most characters, with Rachel almost being up there with Marley and yet being in the middle with her screentime. This isn't a huge shock or anything. But then we have Santana, who's well behind Will in terms of screentime and yet sings as much as Kurt and is in the same ballpark as the likes of Unique and Tina. This means Santana's time on screen in season 4 was well spent, with the likes of Girl on Fire, Nutbush, Cold Hearted and, of course, Mine. A stark difference to season 1.

Miscellaneous thoughts:

A bit baffled by the decision to include chs like Kent and Brad in the OG 13 post but not the alumni in season 4, but hey I'm not the one doing the research. I ignored non-mains for my OG 13 visualizations.

I would LOVE to see this done for the whole series but obviously it's not like it could ever be truly representative and it would take soooo much effort. I'm grateful for this glimpse at screentime distributions.

I know not all of this was super clear and detailed so please feel free to let me know if I should clarify anything. Like I told another Anon, you will be seeing more stats from me because I do love this sort of stuff and this was really fun to explore. Again much thanks that this dataset exists and I hope I could offer something new and interesting with it.

#glee asks #anon #glee singing statistics #glee screentime statistics #glee stats #this was fun to do i hope it's fun to read too #i need to put more effort into analysing bubble charts they tell SUCH a story

[clubglee]

😴🥱💤

#gleeedit #glee #blaine anderson #tvedit #tvarchive #usercassidy #tusermichi #userlolo #userlix #userlaro #tuserhan #userraffa #userclara #usersavana #usersnat #userashe #tuserlou #* #precious sleepy boy #someone get him aspirin stat sjdjfks

[brittanapolls]

#brittana #glee #brittana polls #brittana headcanons #glee polls #santana lopez #brittany s pierce #brittany pierce #yeastistat #yeast-i-stat

[theworldinclines]

are you disappointed by the end of pit babe as well? i didn't expect much but ugh. charlie's comeback? "you're back? cool haha i didn't spend weeks crying", way d wording 368654 later after tony, no answer about the magic potion from babe's real dad, etc etc. some scenes were pointlessly lengthy.

the only thing i'm happy with is the alan jeff scenes.

how would you imagine the scene if babe was really pregnant? 🤭 -❄️

i think they definitely needed another episode if not 2 to expand more on several points. kenta killed tony and then just disappeared so we never get to see his state in that aftermath (and no peteken resolution😖); like u said babe was never shown upset about charlie faking his death even tho he literally grieved at his GRAVE lmao and in the same way alan was never shown upset about jeff not cluing him in to the plan either even tho a big thing for their arc was supposed to be trust like w charliebabe; north and sonic (and kim🤪) never went canon explicitly. like so much occurred and yet nothing that i felt actually needed to happen happened fjamrmsnfms so it's sort of funny lol as for ur last note i can't even imagine that without my head exploding off my shoulders 💀💀💀💀so let's say it would be heinous wild and slay and leave it at that🫡here's to a special ep that somehow covers everything we missed🙏👏

#they should do a glee style intro for that special ep someone tell pavel STAT #pit babe #pit babe spoilers #answered

[obaewankenope]

The Irish blood in me is crying for me to open the vodka and everything else, mix it all together, grab some whiskey to add some kick, and down it while doing a jig

The chronic pain is saying no and that's very anti-revolution of it

#The Queen #Uk #UK news #Lizzie II is dead #Irish glee #2024 give me reunification stat!! #Let Data be right!

[queerstudiesnatural]

yep, looks about right

#my top 3 artists this year are 100% going to be glee cast hozier and taylor swift #in that order #i think pretty soon glee cast might permanently surpass taylor swift lol #my spotify stats are being messed with by my job though bc i listen to a lot of kids songs so i can teach them to my kids #or songs we dance to so i play them a lot during class #and they end up in my spotify stats even though they're absolutely not songs i listen to for me #anyway #rain.stuff #rain.playlists

[angelhummel]

What’s your top ten most played glee songs?

I wish I could look at the stats for that across all music platforms since I got into the show. Like I KNOW Rose's Turn is still sitting at the top of my most played on itunes lmao. But as for spotify my top ten areee...

It's My Life/Confessions

She's Not There

Jessie's Girl

Scream

Halo/Walking On Sunshine

Say A Little Prayer

Bad Romance

Le Jazz Hot

Thriller/Heads Will Roll

Hot Patootie

Now in fairness this doesn't totally represent me as a gleek bc I've stated before that the majority of my music listening comes from me letting a random playlist play on a loop while I sleep for 10-12 hours sooo I'm sure some of them only get played that much bc of that *coughsayalittleprayercough*

Also wow those top three songs make me look like a Finn stan oops I'm obviously not but it's not my fault the songs slap

Also I'm looking at the thing that shows your 50 top tracks of all time and 35 of those are Glee lmao sorry they make good music. As if it's my fault

#glee #asks #my thoughts #anonymous #ask me again in a year and see how the stats have changed uwu

[youstupidplonk]

go here

I am obsessed with this data about most listened-to songs and artists over different periods but it does remind me I had a glee phase in one of the Covid lockdowns which I'd really like to let die now.....

#spotify #spotify stats #glee #covid lockdowns

[everythingsheneeds]

.....well that was fast

#glee #spotify #spotify stats #idk what happened #i began watching like 2 months ago #IM NOT EVEN DONE WITH THE SHOW

[tuiyla]

do you know if anyone ever calculated how much screentime each Glee character had on the show? I was wondering bc I know you enjoy Glee stats and I've seen other fandoms (MCU, GOT, Friends, WOT, NGE, YJ, etc) do this but couldn't find anything for Glee. I'd be curious to see how much screentime characters like Santana, Quinn, Mercedes, Tina, Brittany and Blaine got in each season as their roles expanded or became smaller.

Oh man, that sounds like a delicious graph. Sadly I barely have the capacity to rewatch the show without paying attention on this level - I infamously watch an episode maybe every 84 years. Maybe @backslashdelta? 👀👀 haha but I think this would be way too big a project for someone to take on alone. I haven't seen anything of the like either.

I have all the singing stats you could need if you questions about that but no screentime, I'm afraid. I did once try to think of a way to quantify and stat-ify episode plots/roles, so for example how many A plots did Rachel have, how many times Tina was in an ep but only got those generic "what do you mean, Mr. Schue" lines. But sometimes the lines between A-B and even C plots are blurry and I'm not sure the numbers would be all that representative.

But interesting idea, I'm pretty sure I remember the Friends one. Oh and when I started rewatching I also measured each Glee ep against the Bechdel test lmao but I think I stopped doing that in season 2 because there was not much point.

#a lot of s1 does not pass the bechdel test btw #brittana becoming actual characters does wonders for the criteria #anon #glee asks #glee stats #no actual stats in here but relating to the topic

[piratefishmama]

Fake It 'till You Make It | Part 1

The phone was ringing. It was eight in the morning, on a Sunday, and the phone was ringing. Eddie rolled over, pushing his face into his pillow in the hopes that maybe, just maybe, he’d suffocate in the sweet embrace of his misshapen, well-loved pillow before whoever dared to call at such an ungodly hour, decided to give up.

No dice. However his uncle did seem to be answering it for him, bless that man, bless each and every one of his gray hairs.

“Eddie, up an at em, son! S’fer you!” Damn him. Damn him and all his gray hairs.

“Nggghhhh!!!!” Was his very coherent response

“It’s one of those kids’a yours!” Kids? He had kids? Oh shit he had kids, right. kids who should know better than to call at EIGHT. AM. AM. THE MORNING.

ON A SUNDAY.

Just inconsiderate really. He’d spent the majority of the previous night convincing the Gillespie’s that maybe their daughter didn’t actually need to get onto the endless carousel that was the dating scene.

Convincing them that maybe the dating pool was so batshit insane that it was for the best that she remain perfectly single for a little while longer. That maybe being single wasn’t nearly as bad as being with whatever the fuck Eddie Munson was.

Eddie had spent the entire evening referring to her father by his first name as it visibly pissed him off, called his daughter ‘sweet cheeks’ and slapped her ass as she left the room one too many times (any time more than zero times was too many times), offered her mother a joint to chill the fuck out, talked about his band incessantly, he’d gone all out on the ‘disrespectful sack of shit’ angle until he’d been forbidden to date their daughter.

Then listened with glee outside the door while they declared she was forbidden from dating for as long as it took to shake her from her ��bad boy’ phase. A job well done, she’d slipped him the fifty bucks she owed for the night through the back window, and he was on his way. Fifty bucks better off!

Megan wasn’t having a bad boy phase. Megan was a lesbian waiting for the perfect opportunity to get the fuck out of Hawkins. She just… couldn’t handle her parents constantly asking about her dating life. Or her lack of a dating life.

She was beautiful, the picture of stereotypical femininity, they had no idea why their daughter wasn’t snagging one of the rich Loch Nora guys like a Harrington, or a Johnson, or even one of the B grade rich guys like Hagan, or Peters.

She was too busy with a Holloway.

Then the following hours before he’d eventually passed out, he’d been slowly working through memorizing the chorus tabs of an Iron Maiden song he’d been meaning to learn for one of the covers used to bulk up Corroded Coffin’s sets. Jeff already had his parts down, Eddie had been lagging.

“M’not here!”

“Says it’s important!”

“Tell em I’m dead!”

There was a pause, and then his bedroom door was opening, and a cushion was thrown at his head, forcing him upright to shout his indignation to the world while his uncle stood there stern and unimpressed “Boy get your backside up an talk to y’damn friends.”

“Nghhh, fine.” He was up anyway. The phone ringing had woken him up. It’d take a miracle to fall back into a full snooze now. He shoved his blankets aside, trudged past his uncle, and snagged the phone from where Wayne had left it on the little table by the window. “Whomever this may be, I’m nuking your stats next session for the unholy crime of waking me up before noon.”

“But I’m calling about a job”

“Ahh, Henderson. Might as well just tear up the sheet for that little gnome now, kid.”

“He’s a dwarf and— ngh whatever, I needed to roll a new character anyway. Listen! I have a job for you, if you want it, one of your weird little rent a guy gigs” not something he was proud to have let slip around the kids. It could get weird if they made assumptions!

But if it got him an extra buck or two without having to do much other than be an over the top version of himself, then what was the harm? It wasn’t like he was selling his body or anything, just his funhouse personality.

“…Go on.”

“Okay so… don’t freak out, but… it’s a guy. He’s cool though!! Like, really cool, super chill, no danger to you what so ever.” That was fine, his ‘dates’ were usually fake but that didn’t erase the very real danger of being perceived by two of an older less cool generation that talked. “He knows it’s all fake so it’s just acting—"

“And this guy’s parents? How cool are they?” It wasn’t just faking a date, it was faking it in front of parents. Parents who usually weren’t about to approve of him when it was a heterosexual relationship. A Homosexual one? He really didn’t want to have to go through the real risks of hate crimes with a teenager, but Dustin clearly wasn’t getting the danger aspect there.

“I don’t know, I don’t really know them, but he says he can explain everything if you give him a chance, he’s free today, he even said he’d buy you breakfast if you meet him early!”

“…And he knows I’m a him, not a her, right?”

“Yeah, I said he was cool! The gay thing isn’t a big deal to him.”

“I’m not—” it was instinctual, Dustin didn’t know what he was, maybe he’d heard rumours, but he didn’t outright know that his dungeon master was a queer. Probably for the best, as lovely as Claudia Henderson was, she was very susceptible to accepting the crowdsourced opinion on things. She didn’t have her sons need to question everything.

She’d probably pull him from every Hellfire meet ever if Dustin let it slip that the guy in charge was queer.

“I know you’re not, but it’s fake right? it’s not like you guys have to do anything other than claim to be dating, right?” True… he never actually did anything with his ‘dates’. Usually just telling the parents they were dating was enough of a shock to the system to hide the lack of proof. The most he’d ever done was slap an ass here and there, maybe wrap an arm around a waist or two.

That was enough for the ‘traditional’ close minded Parents of Hawkins.

“…Fine, I’ll hear the guy out, but I’m only hearing him out alright! I’ll decide on whether or not I wanna take this job only after he explains, got it?”

“Got it!!”

“Alright, tell him to meet me at Benny’s in twenty.” Another quick confirmation and Eddie was hanging up the phone. so much for going back to sleep but at least he’d get a lovely breakfast out of it.

Part 3 

#PirateWrites #Steddie #No Upside Down AU #FakeItTillYouMakeItFiclet

[ladykailitha]

Welcome to this week's edition of what AUs can my brain spit out this time!

This week we have Kas!Eddie and a demodragon (credit to @piratefishmama for that terrify mental image) attacking the Party. Kas has wings but is riding the demodragon into battle against them.

The Party watches in horror as Steve does the most badass, stupid thing imaginable. He runs and leaps feet first into the maw of the demodragon. He's wearing thick boots that protect his feet for the moment. He grabs its mouth with both hands and starts just pulling as hard as he can.

The Party can't do anything because they'll hurt Steve. Kas drives the demodragon higher to try and dislodge their parasite. But Steve keeps tearing at its mouth. The demodragon starts thrashing. Kas realizing that if he goes any higher, he's going to get thrown.

The demodragon starts to plummet as Steve successfully rips its face in two. The beast falls to the ground, its impact throwing Kas and Steve in opposite directions.

Dustin screams "Steve!" and tries to get to the older teen, but he's held back by Robin or Jonathan.

They watching in horror as Kas limps over to Steve. Kas has one wing hanging at an odd angle from when he tried to slow his fall with them but got caught in an updraft and it got wrenched pretty bad. He's dragging one foot behind him and he's clutching his left arm to his chest.

But as he gets closer they can see he's starting to heal. The Upside Down is healing him. By the time he gets to Steve, he's walking almost normally and his wing is upright.

He kneels in front of Steve's prone form.

The Party knows they are too far away to do anything and El is battling with Vecna for Max's life. She can't help. They were supposed to distract Kas until El won.

But now they can only watch in horror, knowing they are too far away to stop Kas from killing Steve if he wanted. And then the strangest thing (heh) happens. Kas screams but not of triumph or glee. But of anguish. Of pain. Of...sorrow?

That can't be right.

Kas flies off with Steve and they can't do anything about it. Kas was tossing them around like ragdolls earlier.

They all stumble to the ground in their grief. Kas who was once Eddie is gone. Steve is most likely dead and if not, will be soon.

El wins with Will's help. They are able to destroy the Upside Down. Everyone makes it out but Eddie and Steve. They can feel the UD collapse beneath their feet. They can feel its demise as all the doorways close all over the world. Its gone.

They are mourning. It's the worst they ever been through. Always at the end they had Steve. Cheering them up, holding their hands, hugging them close.

Two days later. A resurrected Hopper calls a code red, everyone get to his house STAT!

Everyone comes over in a rush thinking that some monster escaped the destruction of the Upside Down.

But once everyone is there, Hop doesn't look worried or upset. He looks happy.

That's when he tells them. Eddie and Steve have been found.

"Their bodies?" Dustin asks.

Hop shakes his head. "They've been found alive both of them."

After he manages to calm the shouts from everyone he explains that they're both pretty bad off. They were found at Skull Rock. Eddie was holding Steve to his chest and there was a burnt out circle around them. It looked like Kas's wings. Eddie has superficial wounds on his head were the horns were, on his back where the wings were, even his hands and feet bare wounds.

Steve's the worst off. He had broken bones, his hands and feet were torn up by the demodragon's mouth. It looks as though Steve tried to break his fall when he hit the ground.

The kids get to the hospital and Eddie's awake. He's handcuffed to the bed and is amused when he's told they're silver plated in case he's still Kas. Dustin even tries to test him by "accidentally" cutting his finger. But no reaction except for Eddie calling for a nurse to bandage him up. He gets a cool Ghostbuster bandaid for his troubles.

The cuffs come off and Eddie explains that when Steve killed the demodragon it broke Vecna's hold on Eddie. And that little distraction is what allowed El and Will to defeat him. But as he was still a vampire the Upside Down was still healing him.

He also explains Steve's sacrifice. Steve rightly guessed that because of their bites they were connected to the Upside Down. Eddie had died and was able to be remade as Kas. But Steve? He had just enough damage to his insides that when it collapsed, their connection would be destroyed too. Most likely killing them both. So Steve wanted to go out in a blaze of glory. Wanting his death to mean something instead of a whimper surrounded by those that would mourn him.

But when Steve killed the demodragon it did something to their connection. Eddie's not 100% sure of the details, but it allowed him to shield the two of them from the destruction with his wings.

Eddie and Steve are put in the same room. Soon Eddie is released and Max is put in Steve's room. Eddie is there at their bedside every day. He has companions of course. Everyone visits. A lot of the time it's Lucas on Max's side and Dustin on Steve's with Eddie reading some book in the middle. It changes. Sometimes it's mysteries for Steve or comic books for Max.

Only now Steve won't wake up.

The doctors are grateful Steve has stayed under for so long, it's allowed his body to heal without interference. Before they weren't sure if he'd be able to walk or use his hands again, but now they are more then optimistic.

Max wakes up and after a couple weeks of intense physical therapy she's set to go home.

Eddie cries. Now, Steve's going to be alone. What happens if he wakes up in the middle of the night and no one is around? He'll be terrified. They can't leave him alone. They can't.

Uncle Wayne comes and leads Dustin out. Promises him an ice cream cone.

Eddie begs for Steve to wake up. Because if he's awake before Max leaves, then he'll know someone will be back.

And by some miracle he does. Steve wakes up. Steve and Eddie talk for a bit, while Eddie mashes the hell out of the call button. Dustin and Wayne are returning to the room when they see three nurses go flying by and into Steve's room. They both sprint to the door only to be greeted by a happy and tearful Eddie.

He's awake.

Once it's been okayed by the doctors Dustin and Wayne go in, only to find Max clinging to Steve as he whispers over and over again that he wouldn't have left her on purpose. Never on purpose. But because he decided to be stupid brave, he managed to save him and Eddie. She scoffs, but he can see the smile on her face.

Dustin is next and Steve gets chewed out "If you die, I die, asshole!" But he's clinging to Steve like a life raft and Steve is more than happy to be alive to be chewed out.

Slowly bit by bit everyone visits him in the hospital, some to chew him out, some for joyful reunions, but always with a grateful, "don't do that again."

Steve gets out and at his coming home party announces that he and Eddie are a couple.

#my writing #stranger things #steddie #vampire eddie munson #kas eddie munson #Steve's the one in the coma #Eddie is at his bedside #ladykailtiha writes

[dungeon-strugglers]

✨New item!✨ Demon Spine  Weapon (whip), very rare (requires attunement)

This long, jagged spine was ripped from the fresh corpse of a demon. The boney discs are eternally slick with crimson ichor, and an abyssal flame flickers from within, where the spinal cord would be. You have a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon, and it deals an extra 1d6 fire damage to any target it hits. The demon spine has 7 charges, and it regains 1d6+1 expended charges after you complete a long rest.

Searing Laceration. When you attack a creature with this whip, you can expend one charge to make it a searing lash. If the attack hits, the creature is then marked with a searing laceration until the start of your next turn. Each time a lacerated creature is hit by an attack, it takes an extra 1d6 fire damage. If the creature is reduced to 0 hit points while it has a searing laceration, it erupts into an explosion of flame. Each creature within 5 feet of the exploding creature must make a DC 16 Dexterity saving throw or take 2d6 fire damage.

Demonic Fortitude. As a bonus action while wielding the demon spine, you can expend two charges to gain resistance to fire and poison damage for 1 minute. Additionally, all poisons affecting you are neutralized when this property is used.

Curse. Each time you expend one or more charges from the whip, you have a 5% chance of becoming possessed by Bilvemoz, the demon whose spine you are wielding. The possession lasts until you complete a long rest. 

If you become possessed, the incorporeal spirit of Bilvemoz will enter your body and compete for control of your impulses. Each time you make a moral decision or roll initiative, you must make a DC 16 Charisma saving throw or do what Bilvemoz desires. Bilvemoz has an Intelligence of 15, a Wisdom of 15, and a Charisma of 15, and perceives through your senses while possessing you. Bilvemoz communicates telepathically with you and can speak, read, and understand Abyssal, Infernal, and Common. Bilvemoz can use your mouth to speak with a deep, vicious snarl. Bilvemoz seeks to corrupt mortals, slay devils, and takes wicked glee in forcing you to enact evil deeds when the opportunity arises, but is bored by anything else.

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[shares-a-vest]

@steddie-week Day Six: True

Call him a snap. A lovesick loser. A nerd. A guy who likes fantasy stories and make-believe a little too much. An idiot who is setting himself up for disappointment and heartbreak.

But Eddie Munson believes in True Love.

He has read the stories and been swept up in the romantic plotlines of his favourites. He creates NPCs for his campaigns with unnecessarily detailed backstories with whole lives set out for them. Then he uses them to write poems and short stories he keeps safe in his notebooks for no one to see, where everyone gets a sweeping grand love story and a 'happily ever after' waiting for them by the end.

He's well aware others catch on, especially after he starts dating Steve. Yeah, an actual real-life love story sweeps him off his feet and he lets his guard down. Dustin and Lucas call him, "a pathetic lameoid". Mike and Will descend into a chorus of gagging noises. Even the guys tease him for writing song lyrics featuring admittedly, very obvious saccharine declarations. George will give a "Yuck", Gareth practically sings out his disgusted "Ew" and Jeff gives perhaps the worst reaction of all...

"Eddie... just. No."

Steve might as well be a Prince. Or a Knight in shining armour. A combination of both, maybe? Mixed in with the weapons and demon-slaying expertise of a high-stats Barbarian who runs around shirtless.

When Steve visited him in the hospital, drugged-up delirium had Eddie's mind drifting to fairytales where he lay in a nightmare-riddled slumber as a blood-stained and beat-up version of Snow White or Sleeping Beauty. Just laying in wait to be fixed by true love's kiss.

Steve calls Eddie his Prince sometimes when he's being all sappy and cute. It makes them both blush and giggle because, while it's romantic, it is also Steve trying desperately to sound impressive.

But Steve really is the Prince. Eddie insists on the matter. Even when he arrives at the trailer from a closing shift at Family Video, visibly tired with dark eyes, hair now flat and unstyled with a pained expression on his face as he blinks at a snail's pace.

"Thank god, I'm home" he sighs, voice cracking a little as he sets his keys down on the shelf near the front light switch.

Eddie snaps his book shut (A collection of Grimm Fairytales, no less), feeling all giddy at the thought Steve considers the place 'home'. But his glee doesn't last long as his homebound Prince barely toes off one of his sneakers before he clambers forward, arms unstretched in the direction of the couch.

Eddie catches him - or more, Steve collapses onto the couch and rolls into him.

"Hey, what's wrong?" he panics, brushing back the mop of hair that has flopped in his face.

"I have a headache," Steve groans, talking into his makeshift pyjama top - an old Hawkins Tigers t-shirt, "Started as I was closing up."

Steve heaves his body against the couch, resting his head on the cushion back and screws his eyes shut. He fumbles with the buttons on his polo, failing to get anywhere near unbuttoning them. So, Eddie does it for him, barely finishing on the last one before Steve pops his shirt off and flings it halfway across the room.

Then Steve starts doing the same with his belt and fly as a wash of sickly paleness drains down his pretty face.

"I'll do it," he grumbles, pushing Steve's mighty paws away.

He helps there too, willing away a blush and a dirty joke as he loosens Steve's obscenely tight jeans. He isn't exactly sure how it works anatomically, but he is growing more certain with every headache that these damn jeans aren't doing him any favours (other than giving him a tight little, very squeezable, butt).

Steve puffs out what is vaguely a laugh before he slurs, "Think this is as far as you gonna get tonight, Eds."

He gestures at his underwear peaking out from his undone jeans.

"You want me to run you a bath? Squish you into the teeny-tiny combo?"

Steve sniffs under his arm and grimaces at himself.

"'Kay," he lolls his head back on the couch.

"Anything else?"

"Can you make me some tea?"

"Tea?" he questions.

He can't help it. Usually, he keeps his queries to a minimum when Steve is like this (which has been all too frequent lately) but this is a new request.

"Wayne made me some last week when I had a migraine."

"This is the first I'm hearing of it," he says, and in lieu of a physical presence, he glares at his uncle's recliner chair.

Steve smiles at the ceiling, his eyelids softening with a light flutter as he hums, presumably thinking about this magic tea Wayne is most definitely being interrogated about first thing in the morning.

"'S'nice," Steve shrugs.

"That old man with his tea collection like he's some old English Granny."

"Stops me from feeling sick."

Eddie leans over and pecks his deceptively-hot cheek. Stinky and on the precipice of a migraine or not, Steve is still his Prince Charming. He pauses there. Steve must feel his breath lingering because his lip quirks, threatening a smile and he opens his eyes.

"What?" he asks, a teasing tone dancing in there somewhere as he blinks slowly.

Eddie takes his hand and squeezes it.

"Let me kiss you."

"Okay," Steve replies and puckers his lips without moving an inch.

"True love's kiss will make you feel better, promise," he whispers as he closes the distance between them and presses a soft kiss to Steve's lips.

Steve squeaks out a noise and Eddie can feel his frown as he murmurs, "You're so silly."

#this is pure self-indulgent sappiness sorry not sorry #steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #steddie ficlet #steddie headcanon #steddieweek2023

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applogies for any incorrect titles (prof/dr./mr.). I also didn’t include chang, duncan, hickey, or any dean because I wanted to focus on minor characters. if I didn’t include your favorite please lmk in the notes I want to See 💯💯💯

#for the record I have a holy trinity of favorites from this list #it’s prof whitman prof cligorus and dr kane #although I do love garrity too #anyway #community #nbc community #community nbc

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fallin' for ya

Crosshair x GN!reader

pre TBB, pre Echo :(

sum: you aren't watching where you're going and crash into a very handsome clone

wc: 1k

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You were rushing down the hall, quickly unclipping your datapad from your belt and checking the chrono on your vambrace. Three minutes. Three minutes to make it halfway across Tipoca city to the debrief room for some last minute meeting that you really shouldn't have to attend. After all, they were only armory stats, which you could send over in 2 seconds flat, but no. The commander insisted you be there. Just in case. 

You were so focused on checking the files you had just uploaded for the meeting that you failed to look up when rounding the corner past the hangar bay, leading you to slam hard into the side of a passerby. The victim of your distraction must have caught their leg on yours, because their weight quickly shifted forward. In a moment of uncharacteristic grace, you managed to swing your arms around to catch their weight, leaning heavily on your left leg, your datapad clattering to the floor.

And then you saw him. He seemed to be a clone, but not like any clone you’d seen before. His hair was a sleek silver, closely cropped, and his gaunt face was marked with a tattoo over his right eye. Your hands wrapped around a rather slender waist as the gravity of your positioning settled in. Whoever this unfortunate clone is, you just dipped him in the middle of the hall; your cheeks started to heat up. At least, you noticed, he had grappled onto you also. One hand gripped at your shoulder, right at the junction of your neck, his thumb grazing your collarbone over your GAR issued uniform, while the other dangled a large rifle just brushing your calf.

But what you really noticed was his eyes. Their chestnut color shone with surprise at the vulnerable tilt he had just been swung into. You vaguely registered his squad standing in your periphery, and, after what felt like minutes but couldn't have been more than a few seconds, pulled him back into an upright position.

Gazing up at him, you also clocked that he was taller than the average clone. He was certainly taller than you, and standing rather close since your hands had yet to leave his waist. Your uniform felt quite tight on your skin. 

“You okay?” you questioned, trying to make some sort of recovery from that embarrassing display, while slowly drawing back your arms from around him. Hopefully he didn't catch the breathless tone of your voice. His shock seemed to have subsided some, and the previous gaping look he held morphed into something closer to a sneer. He opened his mouth to respond, when suddenly your vambrace crackled to life.

“Y/L/N!” You cringe at the tone. The commander was not happy.

“On my way, Sir,” You spare a final glance to the man before scooping up your datapad and skirting around him and the rest of his black and red-clad squad, retreating from the scene you no doubt created, not daring to look back. 

You made it to the durasteel doors without any more incidents, your eyes staying straight ahead to avoid any further collisions. Scanning your badge, you attempted to sneak into the meeting without much fuss. The commander’s bucket snapped to meet you from across the room, and you could feel his glower through the expressionless helm. Quietly sliding to the back of the room, you tried to keep your focus, but your mind kept slipping back to your altercation, the feeling of your hands circling his waist and the grip of his hand on your shoulder. Through the long meeting, your cheeks never quite lost their warmth.

xxx

Crosshair watched their hastily retreating form until they were out of sight before donning his best grimace and shifting to look at his brothers. All of them had barely contained glee at his misfortune. Hunter was obviously biting his cheek to hold in a laugh and maintain some decorum, but his eyes were gleaming with laughter. Tech had a small smirk, sparking a slight twist of fear in his stomach that that whole ordeal may have been recorded. Who was he kidding, Tech was always recording. He was ruined. 

Wrecker, however, did not show restraint, letting out a hearty laugh and clapping Crosshair on the back with a heavy hand. His scowl intensified as he shoved Wrecker’s arm from where it rested and began to stalk back to the barracks. He vaguely registered Hunter, hopefully asking Tech if he was recording, Tech’s short “obviously” sparking further laughter from the bunch he was leaving behind him.

After settling on his buck to begin the process of cleaning his rifle, his mind flickered back to you. The shock on your face, seemingly surprised that you caught him, the way your eyes raked appreciatively across his face, the way your arms settled snugly around him. He adjusted himself on the bunk, unsettled by how quickly you had invaded his thoughts. He added more grease to the rag as your features flashed through his mind. You had looked so pretty above him. That thought had him stopping in his tracks. A light blush settled across his cheekbones and he decided to tuck that mental image away for later, before returning to his work with a new sense of vigor.

After what must have been only a quarter hour, Crosshair heard the swishing sound of the door opening. He had since finished with the barrel and had moved on to inspect his scope when a name flew through the air. He turned his head slightly to see Tech leaning against the doorframe. Tech repeated the name when Cross didn’t respond, elaborating:

“Your hero,” snark dripping from his voice, “A Weapon Systems Repair Officer in the level 3 armory. In case you were wondering.”

“I wasn't,” he hissed, his mind turning the new knowledge over in his head.

“Checks have been completed and Hunter and Wrecker have left for the Mess.”

And then he was gone, leaving Cross alone with his rifle and his thoughts. Very softly, he tested your name out on his tongue. Maker, he was going to regret this.

Though, now that he was really looking at it, his scope did seem a bit off. Perhaps he needed to get it adjusted. Perhaps he knew a very pretty officer who could help him out.

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