#happily-ever-after

[aki-chan2014]

Signal-a small bunch of happily-ever-after headcanons

In lieu of an actual second season for the original version of Signal (at least, that's the case at the time of writing this) and a lacklustre movie follow-up in the Japanese remake I have been thinking about what I imagine would happen next. TBH I finished watching Signal a little while ago, it's just taken me this long to actually make a headcanon post. I'd vaguely been thinking of writing fic, but couldn't quite pull the ideas into fic form so decided a headcanon list was the best way to go. That, and I recently finished a different k-drama and immediately thought I wanted to do some happily-ever-after headcanons for that, too. So that'll be next, eventually.

But anyway, here are all my happy ending ideas, under the cut because spoilers: (as a side note, I might still try and turn this ideas into fic in the future. I just don't know when)

There's no real way around it, in all timelines Jae-han does go missing. But, in the final fixed timeline, it's only a few years.

Most importantly, he's found alive. Injured, most likely, but alive. And he's cleared of murdering Kim Bum-joo and whatever else was pinned on him when he disappeared. The corruption in the police force and government is also exposed and there's a lot to sort out there, but steps are made to sort it.

Jae-han goes back to working as a homicide detective once he's recovered and the stuff directly tied to him is cleared, and builds a proper connection with Soo-hyun. They do start dating, but it's a very slow process. Slow, but steady. They are happy.

They do get married, eventually. They're low-key about this, but they do have a wedding to make their parents happy (esp Soo-hyun's mum, who 100% relishes getting to help her daughter pick the prettiest wedding dress). They do not have biological children, but are foster parents for a while and eventually adopt an older child. Most likely, this child is someone they meet from one of their cases, maybe a dependent of a victim or culprit who has nobody else to take him or her in. They will also probably end up having to occasionally babysit Soo-hyun's chaotic nephews, though they are less chaotic as they grow up, thankfully

Hae-young also gets married, probably either to a journalist or someone who works with children in some capacity. They have two, maybe three children together. Their names aren't directly honour names (from what I understand that isn't really a thing in Korean naming tradtions? Might be wrong?) but one kid's name will probably share a syllable with the names of Hae-young's brother and the other a syllable with girl who'd died in the bridge accident that Jae-han had known. I'm not sure who'd be a good pick for name-syllable-sharing for a third kid, so maybe just two.

Soo-hyun does end up a team leader, and of the Cold Case Team. In this timeline, it's formed in response to a completely different case but seen as a much more positive thing. There are still some snags, a few people who feel it highlights police failures to have such a team. But on the whole, the team is made with an expectation it will last-there are a whole lot of unsolved cases out there, after all.

As for Hae-young, the difficulties in his homelife didn't disappear once his brother was posthumously exonerated. His parents did get back together, and tried their best, but they had their own grief and trauma to unpack and that took a while. So he still needed to be fed by the porkhouse lady, and once Jae-han reappeared he continued to watch over Hae-young. Time would go by, and he'd decide to be a policeman just like the detective who cleared Sun-woo, not yet aware that that same detective was still looking after him.

They would eventually catch glimpses of each other during Hae-young's training. But the first time Jae-han and Hae-young properly meet is when Hae-young graduates his training.

With his memories of past timelines and all he learnt as a profiler there, Hae-young quickly garners a reputation for being 'clever' and 'well-read', 'insightful' and someone who has 'interesting ideas'. Various ways of explaining how he has knowledge someone his age shouldn't have, basically.

Jae-han introduces him to Soo-hyun socially (their first meal as a trio is omurice, which becomes a tradition, though they'll eat other things together on different occasions) she then takes an interest in him professionally and has him work with the Cold Case Team to see how he fits. She then gets the higher ups to send him on profiling courses, so he eventually becomes a profiler.

And after that, the Cold Case Team is a lot like it was throughout the series once the camaderie had been established. [side note: I loved the Cold Case Team dynamics so much they are a GREAT team]

Soo-hyun mentors Hae-young the way Jae-han mentored her. Hae-young gets called '0.25' by most of his close colleagues as a result (after all, Soo-hyun is the only '0.5' they can have).

All three of them garner reputations to be dedicated, hard-working and particularly brilliant in their departments in different ways. As mentioned above Hae-young is known for being clever, while Jae-han is known for persistence/earnestness and Soo-hyun compassion and composure in equal measures. They're all very committed to stamping out corruption and looking out for the underdog.

The walkie-talkie continues to be a lucky charm for Jae-han. It doesn't ever work again...well, not for most of their life. It only works right at the very end of Jae-han's life (illness related, when he's very elderly, so while it is obviously tragic it's more expected and natural, just as it should have been). He gets to say a proper goodbye to both Soo-hyun and Hae-young this way.

But with the goodbye for Hae-young, it happens while he's helping Soo-hyun and their adoptive child (plus one of Hae-young's children, plus possibly grandchildren of both) clear Jae-han's things after the funeral. They had shared the stories of the walkie-talkie but of course weren't really believed. Not that any of the three of them really expected them to believe it (well, maybe Jae-han did want them to, a little), because they told the stories as if they were an unusual kind of myth or something. But they hear the walkie-talkie, and talk to Jae-han one more time, and they realise it is real.

Of course, the walkie-talkie doesn't go off again after that. But it continues to be passed down between their families, and the stories shared too.

There will also be plenty of photographs, because one thing Soo-hyun becomes quite fixated on is having 'proper photographs' of all the people she cares for. It gets to the point that people assume she has a hobby of photography and start buying her cameras and camera equipment for birthday presents and things. She still keeps that silly photograph of her and Jae-han posing, but doesn't hide it behind the batman. Instead, it sits in a seperate frame next to it on her desk.

#Signal #Signal kdrama #Signal k-drama #headcanons #happily-ever-after #Lee Jae-han (character) #Cha Soo-hyun (character) #Park Hae-young (character) #fanon #k-drama #if anyone is wondering the other k-drama I wanna list headcanons for is Awaken

[aishitara]

PB 100 Prompt Fill - Lick

They sit on a bench, knees touching in the humid July air, the sounds and smells and flashing lights of a pop-up summer carnival careening around them, the hub of a multi-colored carousel.

Castiel has never had funnel cake before. When Dean discovers this scandalous information, he drags Castiel to the nearest cart, fragrant with the sticky-sweet smell of frying oil and hot sugar.

“’S a fuckin’ crime,” Dean mutters to himself. Castiel watches Dean’s tongue peek out to lick powdered sugar from his lower lip and thinks, Yes, it really is.

“Deplorable.”

He leans in to take a taste.

#PB100 #prompts #profoundnet #profoundnet prompt fill #prompt fill #fic #fanfic #writing #my writing #mine #deancas #destiel #otp #drabble #drabbles #100 words exactly #canonverse #HEA #happily-ever-after #happily ever after #funnel cake #post-series #finale what finale #FWF? #fuck canon #it sucks XD

[soup-du-silence]

"In Jamil's dream, Kalim won't exist. "In Jamil's dream, HE'LL be housewarden and Kalim will be his servant." Actually I think he's too codependent for all that, maybe he just wants a break and a fruity drink and then he'll be right back on his grind. That's my theory, anyway.

#twisted wonderland #jamil viper #silver nolastname #sebek zigvolt #jp book seven spoilers except not cus its delusional conjecture #yall idk i just think it'd be funny if dreaming jamil was still just on top of shit #his happily ever after isnt absent of kalim its just #he has a better work-life balance instead #art tag

[thelvadams]

THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR (2013) THE GIGGLE (2023)

Or perhaps it doesn't matter either way.

#dw spoilers #doctor who #dwedit #dwgifs #timelordgifs #david tennant #ncuti gatwa #tom baker #fourteenth doctor #fifteenth doctor #the curator #the giggle #vindicia #thelvadams.gifs #14 lives happily ever after and retires as the curator #you can't tell me it doesn't work it's perfect

[yabakuboi]

Steve watched Eddie's van turn the corner and shut the front door, closing himself away from the outside world so none of his neighbors could see him as he rested his forehead against the painted wood.

"I'm not going to cry," he told himself.

He said it even as his eyes began to burn and his face began to twist, teeth grinding and throat closing. He wiped quickly at his face, again and again, as he stumbled to the couch to sit, drying each tear as it rolled down his cheeks, clinging to his jaw.

"I'm not going to fucking cry," Steve choked, and then doubled over into himself, arms around his thighs, and he began to sob.

So what if he was twenty-two, living in his parent's house alone, working the same dead-end job with a sixteen year old manager. So what if all his friends and family were in college, spread out from New York to Chicago to Los Angeles. So what if his boyfriend was moving to Seattle for his band and they broke up, because Steve was never going to be his parents, resenting and being resented for keeping his partner from his dreams. So what if he was too scared to ask Eddie to stay, to ask Eddie if Steve could go with him. So what if everyone moved on and Steve couldn't?

Steve grew up lonely. He could get used to it again.

He didn't realize how hard he was crying until the front door burst back open and Eddie hurled himself at Steve's feet, long limbed and clumsy and babbling.

"Baby, oh fuck, I'm sorry," he said, already untangling Steve from himself, tying all his loose ends back up together with his until they were a knot of their own. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Stevie. I never should have— I wanted to—"

"I'm sorry," Steve sobbed back. He gasped and swallowed it all back down. Eddie had already gotten them raveled up again, it would take forever to pick it back apart. Steve knew it would hurt worse this time. "Fuck, Ed, you didn't have to— I'll be okay, I don't want to hold you back—"

"Come with me," Eddie burst.

And Steve couldn't help himself, and began to sob again.

"Please," Eddie begged over Steve's crying, his voice shaking and his face wet enough to match Steve's. "Please, sweetheart, honey, please just come with me?"

Steve took a shaky breath, embarrassed and now too full of hope and fear. "You sure?" he whispered. He pressed his face into Eddie's neck, breathing him in again for what might be the last time, again. "Eddie, don't—"

"I'm so sure," Eddie said. "I'm so fucking sure, Steve, please."

"Okay," Steve breathed. Eddie had always been the braver of the two of them, especially when it counted. Steve leaned back so he could look at him, red faced and watery eyes. He tried to give Eddie a smile, but he knew it was wobbly and weak. "Okay."

All of Steve's fears meant nothing as he watched the happiness break like dawn over Eddie's face.

#steddie #my fic #shush mal #something something once again about eddie being the bravest when it comes to love something something #anyways they pack steve's shit that night and leave early the next morning to make up for eddie's lost time to get to wherever he's going #and they live happily ever after amen #my steddies

[gleafer]

To make up for the possibly trauma I have caused with the ANGSTAGEDDON comic.

And They Lived Happily Ever After.

#true love #to BLAVE #illustrator #illustration #digital artist #artist on tumblr #crowley #good omens #good omens art #aziraphale #good omens aziraphale #gleafer #mawwiage #married life #marital bliss #love conquers all #love is love #south downs cottage #gleafer art #happily ever after

[cssandraa]

comfort

#undertale yellow fanart #undertale yellow #undertale #undertale yellow ceroba #undertale yellow starlo #undertale yellow dalv #undertale yellow clover #undertale yellow martlet #ceroba #starlo #dalv #clover #martlet #uty #digital painting #digital art #they lived happily ever after smiley emoji

[nipuni]

So I watched Good Omens 😊 It is very cute, I really enjoyed the character design!

#good omens #good omens 2 #aziraphale #crowley #I love their consistent aesthetics through time and their contrasting silhouettes they are very fun to draw #I haven't watched any modern series in years I'm trying to catch up with the times!! it was a very wholesome short story #I'm looking forward to their happily ever after 😊 #my art

[ah-jiing]

A big fat Dekarios wedding. That’s what I want Larian.

#my art #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #baldurs gate tav #gale x tav #I want my happily ever after dammit! #I wanna see my tower in Waterdeep as lady Dekarios!

[podcastwizard]

one of these octobers i want to have two boyfriends who will dress up as the phantom and raoul and i will be christine and we absolute Dazzle a mid-sized halloween party with our costumes and charm before retreating to a guest room to have a threesome that violates the geneva convention and then never speak again. is that too much to ask.

#and then i run off with a girl dressed as meg and we live happily ever after #this is all i want

[phykoha]

Angelo's the one with dimension space-time portal powers, it had to be his fault-

Learn more about HEA!

@tmntbestsibscompetiton

#tellos just chillin fhdsjfds #phy's sketchbook #sibling comp #hea au #art #tmnt #rottmnt #happily ever after au #rottmnthea #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise of the tmnt #future leo #future raph #future donnie #future mikey

[valiantvillain]

You can't convince me Gale wasn't totally advertising himself as marriage material throughout the entirety of his romance. He's got a tower. It's got a great kitchen and a wine cellar. He can cook. He'll formally introduce you to Tara over a nice dinner. His mother will love you. And after so many years of the bar being in the pits of hell for irl men I fell for that shit hook, line, and sinker. Feel his shirt that smells like a library. It's husband material.

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #apparently i'm a bitch who wants commitment from my pixel men #your honor i love him #give me that happily ever after bullshit #i'll take that Waterdeep view thank you very much #a man who cooks and likes doing it? consider me wed

[lesbianshadowheart]

dont get me wrong cuz I DO appreciate Larian continuing to work on the game and trying to fix issues etc but like. mr Larian PLEASE stop responding to fan feedback. Theres like 2 million people playing this game ofc some of them will say character x should be nicer or cuter or do a little dance but that doesnt mean u gotta do it. you dont gotta call neil newbon or whoever up like come to the studio we need to rerecord everything bc a person on reddit said theyd like it better. You’ve worked on these characters for over 4 years and you are allowed to stand by your creation. None of what I said applies to Wyll’s underdevelopment btw but you all know that

#that post abt halsins #traumatic experience really portrayed this well for me #i wanted to say its fine to add things just dont replace them but #if im being honest even the epilogue felt too fanservicey for me #oh they all had a good ending and lived happily ever after #and had babies w each other and named them gortash cazador potter or whatever #like leave ittt just leaveee ittttt #bg3

[writingcooperative]

Written by Addey Vaters

#writing #writing-romance #writing-tips #romance-writer #happily-ever-after #The Writing Cooperative #Medium #Link

[tumbke]

ADAM MUTO SAID THAT ALL FANFICS ARE VALID AUS DONT LET CANON HINDER YOU

Part 2

#tumbke #adventure time #art #at #digital art #ice king #simon petrikov #artph #betty grof #petrigrof #magic betty #simon #betty #golbetty #FALSEKNEES #ngl they would probs always fall for each other in all universes but I said nothing about living a happily ever after ;;;u;; #they’re the perfect lovers but theyre way too obssessed and it caused their downfall ༼;´༎ຶ ۝༎ຶ`༽ #i fucking love tragedies tho and in all universes betty is gonna leave him not bc she fell out of love but just bc fate wont let them be :c

[immagods]

Sometimes I sit down and realise how little we actually know about the clones in Canon and how much we just made up and decided was cannon.

Like the clone have never actually spoke Mando'a, Fives and Echo aren't really twins, Torrent never officially adopted Ahsoka into their aliit, Kote isn't really Cody's name, we know next to nothing about Fox and the Corries. I mean there isn't even a command batch, we don't actually know if Ponds, Cody, Wolffe, Bly and Fox were batchers that adopted Rex on Komino to save him from the long necks and Alpha-17 just had to live with it.

It's wild how much of what most people consider cannon was made up by fans, and it's amazing.

#like what do you mean Fives died and they didnt all live happily ever after #what do you mean the Fox didnt get to shoot Palps in the face #and got a massive group hug from his batch #star wars #ahsoka #the clone wars #star wars clones #clone wars #the clones #captain rex #commander wolffe #commander fox #commander cody #codywan #coruscant guard #clone trooper echo #clone trooper fives #echo and fives