[WVW Exchange Event 2023!]
"The kisses on your lash, your ears, on the nose that keeps scrunching. The kisses on your hand, on your cheeks, and the exchanging soft words waiting for the break of day."
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A total of 6 pages of comics, starting with a close up shots of vash kissing sleeping wolfwood's nose, eyes, lashes, and he furrows them a bit. an overhead shot of the two of them in a motel room, on the bed with vash leaning over wolfwood from the left, laying soft kisses on him. their legs tangled. their normal outfits are thrown haphazardly on the floor, instead donning comfortable clothes. on the outside, the very first ray of lights are yet to shine.
"what a face you're making pfft" - vash says as he grabs both of wolfwood's cheeks, squeezing them a bit. wolfwood mumbles, "There's something that keeps landing on my face, it tickles." he grabs the hand that is on his right cheek. "Well you're letting it happens anyways right?" Vash muses, bringing the hand up to kiss on its knuckles. "Good morning Wolfwood. It's almost dawn"
"… Isn't it way too soon?" - wolfwood asks, but keeps to himself the prayers he's sending to god because the the boy on top of him was such a sight to behold. Vash flops down onto him, leaving the hand hanging and lace his own hand into Wolfwood's hair, peppering kisses to the side of his face. "Yep" - he answers - "But you woke up on your own tho" - facetiously. He giggles, saying that it was a joke after a beat of silence. A sigh, "don't make me upside you first thing in the morning." Wolfwood closes his eyes, hand combing through golden strands. "Heh, how merciful~" "We have a meet up with Milly and Meryl today, remember?" Vash reminds him, which does raise some vague memory. wolfwood hums, the other hand reaching around vash's torso, hugging him. " So, the sooner we arrive, the less likely she'll chew through my head." - Vash adds. "riiiight. And you were SO urgent in waking me up." in wolfwood's hold, both of them slowly turn to the right, towards the edge of the bed.
Well, you were just soooo cute, I couldn't help it! didn't thinkk you'll actually wakE UAA-!"
the bed creaks under the sudden shift in weight as wolfwood tosses vash over and under him, arms firmly hugging him, one at his back and one at his head, hungrily dives down to kiss. "!! Wolf-! Wait-!" Vash yelps, leg instinctively curls around the other's man hip to hang on, trying his damnest to grip on his shirt as HE is now half airborne, barely has any contact with the bed on his upper body. However, wolfwood seems to have another idea as he keeps deepening the kiss, pointedly holding Vash close, hands spread guarding the back of his head as both of them are sliding off the soft fabric.
"THUD!" a resounding fall, possibly enough to wake the room downstairs, followed shortly by laboured breaths amist wet smacks of lips. Heaves and huffs of air exchanging between the two bodies when the need to breath made itself necessary. They press close, cradling each other, and are lost to their own world.
After a while they had to part. Metal arm shifts through black locks, caressing down to his nape and they hold eye contacts there, with lidded eyes, strands of saliva thins then breaks.
Wolfwood pushes up on his arms, looking smugly down at his now disheveled partner: "Now this is how it's done, Needlenoggin." he remarks. Vash tries to wrangle his thoughts back in order, but strings of Wolfwood's name and a wonderous question keeps filling his mind, of whether he should risk it all and have fun for a bit more. Regardless, snapping out of his trance, Vash sourly asks, with a wry smile and an aching head: "But did you really need to roll off the bed?"
"Wrong side, whoops" - Wolfwood anwers unseriously, laughing as he finds the situation quite amusing.
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Fucks me up to think about how Legato's legacy in-universe after his death in Trimax (and presumably Tristamp) is probably gonna be how much he sucked and nothing else....
Like, nobody will like Knives but Vash will be long-lived enough to be able to eventually talk about his good qualities from when he was a child and his quasi-redemption in his last days. But who remembers Legato? Livio and Vash are the only living people with any extended memory of him and neither of them would have anything nice to say (and rightfully so). Neither of them probably knew he was a slave, either—as far as Vash can tell this dude showed up one day and hated his guts, for all he knows he's just another survivor from July! Outside of Knives, Elendira, Legato, and maybe Conrad, I don't think any other character knows his actual life story.
And to add on to that, there's no way of looking up that past either—he had no name or personhood before he was effectively rescued, so who could investigators or reporters or archivists track down for information? The human being that was Legato only existed for as long as he knew Knives, before that he was something to be kept and abused as an object. There's presumably no surviving family they can reliably contact, nobody to really say "yes I knew him, here's what his life was like, here's how we can prevent something like this from happening again".
His entire existence will be reduced down to "a human weapon that was freakishly loyal to public enemy #1" without any reflection on the mechanisms that made him the way he was because there's just no actual knowledge of his life.
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[id: 10 gifs from season 3, episode 20 “improbable cause” from the tv series “star trek: deep space nine”, the gifs show benjamin sisko, odo, jadzia dax, miles o'brien around a table with garak elim standing far from them in the wardroom.
1st gif: sisko is sitting at the head of the table, he rotates his chair to face garak and tells him. "all right, mr. garak. do you know why the romulans might hire someone to kill you?" garak answers his question with, "i have no idea." he is not looking at any of the room occupants.
2nd gif & 3rd gif: the camera focuses on sisko as he stands up from his chair from the frustration and anger. he tells garak, "i'm getting tired of hearing you say that. how long do you expect us to believe…" odo cuts him off to say, "he's telling the truth, commander."
4th gif: the camera switches to show odo, who continues, "he doesn't know why the romulans would try to kill him."
5th gif: the camera switches to garak, who turns to look back at odo and sisko in surprise. garak looks at them from the side, almost like he is staring at the camera. off camera, sisko asks odo, "what makes you so sure?!
6th gif: the camera is back on odo, it follows odo as he makes his way from the table to stand next to sisko. "because if he did know, he'd already be spinning out an elaborate web of lies to cover up the truth."
7th gif: the camera cuts to garak, who for the first time is looking straight ahead at odo and sisko, "well, the truth is usually just an excuse for lack of imagination." odo remarks, "is it?"
8th gif: garak smiles as he informs them "if you want to know what the romulans have against me, you'll have to ask them."
9th gif: the camera cuts to sisko, he tells garak, "i intend to, but i don't expect them to be entirely forthcoming."
10th gif: garak answer to sisko's statement is to smile. /end id]
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finn said mike was trying to be “normal.” we know this normalcy hes trying to obtain isnt in relation to dnd— hes very open about playing it and suppressing his nerdy side isnt part of his arc, but instead lucas’. him trying to be normal has nothing to do with the upside down shit either. were shown nothing the whole season that explicitly has to do with him trying to ignore the upside down or suppressing trauma or anything (hell, his storyline the whole season is completely disconnected from the supernatural plot, hence him never showing up in episode seven). hes just being the same kid he always is. that is, until he shows up in california
from the second he walks through the airport terminal were shown something is weird with his whole getup. he acts weird the whole day, his behavior feels forced, and to top it all off, he cant tell his girlfriend he loves her. he gets defensive over it. and this behavior just… doesnt line up with the explanation we were given
if he did love her, he had nothing to be so paranoid about. being scared to say you love your girlfriend because you think shell leave you one day doesnt result in whatever the hell mike was doing, especially in tv shows. and getting defensive over the prospect of not loving her puts him under even more scrutiny. in media were actively meant to see deflection of blame and defensiveness as a confirmation of guilt, so why would they have him act that way if he wasnt guilty? for drama? to throw us off the scent? fuck no, thats just shitty writing with no rhyme or reason
mike would not act that way if he was actually in love with her.
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