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#i thought about getting into cosplay today but there's a repair guy coming this afternoon and it threw me off
cuteteacakes · 3 years
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SCREW IT I'M GETTING A BOBA
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honeycombstrawberry · 2 years
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Today I kinda drifted away and ended up thinking about how the hell does Adrian get his suit done/fixed? Sometimes it's beyond repair and would need a new one, and a suit like his and for the use he gives it good construction is a must. We don't know if he made it himself, but he could be 3D printing the armor part. As for the suit, maybe he comissions someone and they're like "this dude does cosplay of a wanted murder but he pays good" ? And it gave me an idea: "y/n" is a recently graduated fashion design student whose prices are kinda low cuz they're just starting, one day they find an offer to make a suit and commit to repairs. The dude pays good so why not? He's kinda funny, and talks a lot, they find out they have things in common. They hang out sometimes and get too cozy for a pair of friends. When Adrian comes with a very trashed suit they start to wonder "is this the real Vigilante?" and asks him about it. He denies it at first, "y/n" replies "ah, what a pity, would be hot to do some roleplay before sex. I kinda have a mask kink" 👀
gonna try doing my first headcanon thread here!!
okay so, adrian and his partner-in-crime who makes his costumes headcanons, here i go:
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when adrian first decides he wants to be a "costumed hero" his first thought is of course WHAT sort of costume he is going to wear. he knows he has to look dope as shit and also has to stop himself from dying. and his priorities do go in that order
his first thought is that he'll make it himself but when he puts together stuff he got online and from local stores he realizes he looks like a shitty cosplayer and he's like fuck this never mind i'm not dying look like this
his next thought is to try 3D printing his armor but then he accidentally falls in a river one day and his armor melts down into his clothes and he's like fuck this i'm not built for this shit
he goes on craigslist because he's a nutjob and puts up an unhinged listing like "need full body armor (with cool design) and consistent repairs. serious offers only." and expects lots of people will want to be involved
absolutely nobody wants to be involved with whatever the fuck that is, except one person: you
you have recently graduated from design school and you have absolutely no idea what to do with your degree. you've been thinking about taking an office job just to have steady work and to make ends meet, but you really would like to do something in your field, if you can help it
you're googling for design jobs in the area and you get a hit from a craigslist ad and you figure there's no harm in just looking at the ad. nobody knows if you look at a craigslist ad.
you actually think the offer is-- it's not conventional, obviously, but it's intriguing. and he's actually offering money in the more detailed description below, and he offers to meet in a public place to discuss everything, some local italian place.
you think about it for, like, three days straight, and at the end of the three days, the craigslist ad is still up. so you decide, fuck it. whatever. you don't have a job and this is at least something and if it doesn't work out you can just take an office job then, that's just fine by you. at least you gave this a shot before you went into something else completely
you agree to meet up with this guy in the afternoon at the italian restaurant and you show up there to realize the dude works there. he's a busboy and his name is adrian and he's got these dorky glasses and this big grin that you can't help but be endeared by.
anyway he shows you some relatively shitty drawings of ideas he's got and he basically begs you to turn them into something. when you ask him what it's for he says it's just for a project he's working on
you're like wow this dude is kind of weird. he wants to cosplay as a hero but with like all the real stuff. he must be legit. and he pays fine, and he seems nice, so you agree to at least discuss it. adrian gets up to get you guys drinks, and comes back talking a mile a minute about ideas he has
he talks for at least half an hour before he's told his lunch break is up, and he asks if you think you might be interested, and really, there's no reason to say no-- he's sweet, and he's smart, and he's so interesting, and the two of you do have so much in common. you agree, and he's so excited
you agree that he'll pay a third, you'll come up with the design for his approval and edits, and once you have a final draft, he'll pay another third; then, you'll come up with the costume itself, and when everything was done, he'd pay you the last of it. every time it got busted, he asked, he'd be able to come back and pay you to fix it again, on standing order, and you're delighted by the prospect of an ongoing dynamic with him, even if it's only a business relationship
it quickly becomes More Than A Business Relationship
adrian and you exchange numbers so you can talk about the work, but you start texting about pretty much anything and everything. it's not long before you're sending pictures of your progress, and he starts sending random pictures of things he sees throughout the day, and then you're doing the same, and then-
-and then you have a final draft of your design, and adrian loves it. he asks if he might be able to see you make it, just because he's curious, and you agree. you invite him over with a little thrill, excited to have this man alone in your home with you
you start working at making the suit, but it's not just that-
he comes over all the time
he comes over and makes dinner. he comes over and brings movies to watch. he comes over just to talk with you.
you find yourself putting off finishing the armor suit for him just because you don't want to stop spending time with him. but eventually you have to be done and you present him with the final product but you also ask if maybe he might still want to hang around a little bit sometime
he agrees eagerly and, even though his costume stuff is done, he still keeps coming around. the two of you actually start hanging out so often, it seems like you're spending every weekend together-- then most nights together-- then every other night together-- then it seems like you're spending pretty much all of your free time with him, and him with you
there's a few almosts, you know. a few nights where you stay up late and things get heated and tense and the two of you are drowsy and lax and you almost but then something stops him. something always ends up stopping him and you don't know what it is but you know it's something
then one day adrian brings the suit back in absolute tatters and just asks you sheepishly if you want to try the first repair
you're bewildered but it seems like the suit did its job-- whatever happened to adrian while he was wearing it seemed to shred the suit but leave him intact, so you can't be too upset about what's happened. even though it's kind of obvious now that he's not just using this for cosplaying and what have you
it doesn't take long before you're watching the news and you hear about this new costumed anti-hero-- masked menace-- local weirdo-- vigilante-- and you see a grainy photo of him taken on someone's cell phone and you recognize that armor and you pause the television to stare at it
you eventually take a picture of your tv, send it to adrian, and tell him that he needs to get over there immediately
adrian dawdles a little bit because he's afraid you're pissed and he doesn't want to have to say goodbye to you. but eventually he nuts up and makes himself show up at your place and he's ready to deny it, already saying he has no idea what you mean as if you wouldn't recognize the suit you made
he tells you the photo's shitty, then he tells you he's just cosplaying as that guy, but then you ask why he's lying to you, and his whole face just falls
he weakly denies it, but you see an opening here. this, you realize; this is what's been holding him back. every time the two of you have almost, he stopped himself because you didn't know all of him. but-- now, you do. you know all of him, and you--
you still love him. and that's the first time you realized you love him at all, but you realize you still do, that the feeling hasn't been diminished for finding out what he's been doing in the suit the two of you built together-- the armor you built for him, that keeps him safe and alive
you decide to prod him a little in both regards, and you tell him, "it's too bad you don't know who vigilante really is. because part of the whole reason i took this job in the first place is that i kind of have a thing for guys in masks."
adrian looks at you then and you just know he knows, and you know he knows you know he knows, and he just tells you in a rush, "i'm so sorry, i didn't want you to be mad, or get hurt, or--"
you stop him. you know what he meant here, and you get it, even if you're upset that he didn't tell you sooner. at least now, though, you can be an active part of this. you can find out what materials will be best, lightweight but most durable, best designed to keep him safe; you can really dedicate yourself to making his suit the best that it can be. first of all, you think, you should figure out how to make a prescription visor-- and one with better night vision, since you see him stumble around and bump into things at night
it's hard to reconcile adrian and vigilante, but not impossible, because they are the same, and you realize that with a snap, as if they're coming into focus as one man
when you realize it, adrian's right there, and the two of you finally stop with your almosts and finally kiss and adrian doesn't just bring you the suit when it's in tatters anymore, but he brings it to you when he wants to see you, and when he wants to show you something, and when he wants you to take the suit off of him. it becomes about so much more than that-- it becomes everything-- and you can't stop thinking about adrian out at night, with your armor keeping him safe
okay please tell me if you you liked this or not because i kind of loved doing this format and might want to try some more like this too!!!!!!
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adrian chase taglist:
@violetrainbow412-blog @bigassbisaster @amysuemc @sunflowerfive @papitas-con-sal @saturnngal @neptuneswritingwork @jewishdelis @myguiltypleasures21 @pinkygunslingy @violinchick @r3tr0sp3ct @chaseadrian @breathing-in-waves @rishlurh @x-milf-hunter-x @goblynnrockz @theowritesstuff @jaysfav
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bedlamsbard · 4 years
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I wanted to write today but today started as a bad brain day, and then half an hour ago, just as I started feeling better about it, I looked up and went, “huh, why is there cold air blowing on me?” and...I think the heat, which was just fixed on Tuesday, is broken AGAIN, in a DIFFERENT way (because last time it wasn’t blowing at all).  I want to scream.  I’d have thought that the one thing guaranteed NOT to break immediately was the thing that the HVAC people literally just looked at!!!
A brief summary of things that have happened in this house since last -- oh, last March, I think? Maybe February.
leak in roof (February/March, I can’t remember which)
landlord sold house (April, while I was at SWCC)
new landlord has a parade of people coming in to look at the house, including the mortgage inspector who asked if I was “one of those cosplay girls” and also a furry (April, the day after I got back from SWCC for that one, several other guys came in April and May)
begins to update electrical (June-August, the electrician who asked if I was a kindergarten teacher and also several generally weird race remarks)
handymen begin general maintenance (June)
electrician breaks dryer (June)
handymen break washing machine (June)
handymen replace my deadbolts and remove my front door knob (June)
landlord repairs front door knob (June)
handymen break sump pump (June-August)
handymen paint half the trim on the house (June-July)
handymen remove screen from my porch door (July)
July-August: I literally text my landlord every week updating him on the handymen situation
electrician fixes sump pump, washing machine, screen door (August; I assume he’s also a general handyman)
air conditioner breaks (September)
animal chews through internet fiber cable (September)
pipe beneath sink begins dripping (September)
HVAC guys fix AC, sink pipe, ISP tech fixes cable (September)
HVAC guy and assistant cut down tree in front of my porch (October)
HVAC assistant power-washes my porch and paints the remaining half of trim that the handymen didn’t (October)
refrigerator dies (November, a week before my comprehensive portfolio is due)
refrigerator is replaced (November)
pipe under house starts dripping (November, the same day the refrigerator is replaced; I tell my neighbors and they tell the landlord; he doesn’t do anything at the time so I text him two weeks later and he gets it fixed in a few days)
electrician fixes pipe under house (November; he also makes a weird remark about lesbians)
heat dies, part 1 (January: this was Monday morning)
HVAC guys return, replace thermostat (January: late Tuesday afternoon/evening)
heat dies, part 2 (January: just now, Thursday night)
Add in a couple of other internet scares, the latest one last night, too.
It’s not just me, right? That’s a little extreme?  I’ve experienced more stress about this house than I have about my comprehensives, which, if you know anything about grad school, you know is pretty alarming.  (Also: I went home to my parents’ house in August and the washing machine promptly died, I went home in December and part of the roof fell off.  Just...don’t let me in your house, maybe.)  can you have ptsd from a house because I think we’re getting there; I definitely have hypervigilance issues and paranoia on par with what I had around my ex.  about.  the HOUSE.
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