Tumgik
#mcgraw byrne
aces-and-angels · 4 months
Text
Tumblr media
mcgraw byrne- ad meliora
art cred: @oh-so-youre-a-nerd
39 notes · View notes
macapacaalpaca · 2 years
Text
Okay, can someone do the maths with me and help me figure out how old Gabe (second best choices LI imo) is in LOA.
So obviously it would’ve taken years of law school (it’s about 5/6 years here for us, I’m not sure if it’s much different in the US) he worked as a public defender and then arrived at McGraw Byrne, as far as we know he’s been there a long time.
I’m assuming he’s somewhere in his mid-late 30s. Can someone confirm or deny? 😅
14 notes · View notes
queeniemayjan · 1 year
Text
Tumblr media
I like him. He seems like a good guy but he just vanished from Book 2 after we leave MB. I was hoping we’d get to poach him but it doesn’t look like we’ll see Ryan again.
2 notes · View notes
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
There was literally no theatrics, Aislinn and MC calmly turned in their resignations because there was no point in staying. MC and Aislinn worked their asses off and saved the firm but Martin got the senior partner position. And it’s Martin that keeps setting us up to fail and we take the blame for it. There’s no reason we don’t deserve a good letter of recommendation besides them just being ugly and trying to cowed and bully mc and Aislinn into staying and being their punching bag.
68 notes · View notes
europeanguy · 1 year
Text
playing loa2 without LIs is weird because gabe is SO FORCED (even more than ethan ramsey iirc) bc why is he so flirty and suggesting hookups when i have chosen ZERO romance options for him ever. Aislinn is at least a little better because she can just come off as having an awkward crush on mc. I haven't seen much of joaquin but when he whispered in MC's ear at the bar my head wanted to retract into my body 😿
1 note · View note
Text
CFWC F/AotW - Dec 31-Jan 6, 2024
Tumblr media
✒️= Fanfic | 📱= Text Fics/Edits | 🎨= Fanart Ⓜ️ = Mature Content 18+ | 🔥 = Explicit/NSFW 18+ 🏳️‍🌈 = LGBTQIA | 🌟= Holidays 2023
ACROSS THE VOID
Sol x MC Fanart 🎨🏳️‍🌈 by @oh-so-youre-a-nerd
AMERICAS MOST ELIGIBLE
I Wasn't Built for Iceland ✒️| Carson Stewart x MC - @peonyblossom
BLADES OF LIGHT AND SHADOW
Complete BOLAS List - Week of Dec. 31-Jan. 6
BLOODBOUND
Kamilah Sayeed x F!MC Fanart 🎨🌟 by @bayleedraws-sometimesx
Think of how easy it would be … 🎨| Adrian Raines, Gaius Augustine - @oh-so-youre-a-nerd
CRIMES OF PASSION
Complete CoP List - Week of Dec. 31 -Jan. 6
THE CURSED HEART
Jack Fanart 🎨| by @chersonesse
THE ELEMENTALISTS
Elementalists MC Fanart 🎨by @artbyalz
Shreya Mistry Fanart 🎨by @ayayapap
IMMORTAL DESIRES
Breakfast Roast ✒️🏳️‍🌈| m!Cas x m!Gabriel x NB!MC - @aria-ashryver
Immortal Desires Fanart ✒️🏳️‍🌈 | m!Cas x m!Gabriel x NB!MC - @aria-ashryver
IT LIVES SERIES
Noah Marshall x M!MC Fanart 🎨🏳️‍🌈by @errajay
Parker Shaw x MC Fanart 🎨by @oh-so-youre-a-nerd for @aallotarenunelma
Snowed in at the Cabin ✒️🏳️‍🌈🌟| Lincoln McQuoid x NB!MC - @aallotarenunelma
LAWS OF ATTRACTION
Happy New Year from McGraw Byrne 🎨🌟| Gabe Ricci, Aislinn Tanaka, MC, etc. by @oh-so-youre-a-nerd
NIGHTBOUND
NB F!MC Fanart 🎨by @lilyoffandoms for @ladylamrian
What Comes After ✒️| Nik Ryder x F!MC - @infactnoimmasitinthemiddle
OPEN HEART
Complete Open Heart List - Week of Dec. 31 - Jan. 6
RED CARPET DIARIES
Happy New Year! ✒️🎨| Thomas Hunt x F!OC art by @/artbyainna (IG) fic by @theartoflovingthomashunt
THE ROYAL ROMANCE
The Best Mistake He Never Had (Series) ✒️| Drake Walker x MC - @camillemontespan Part Four
Traditions ✒️🌟| Liam Rys x MC - @bebepac
Unexpected (Series) ✒️Ⓜ️ | Liam Rys x MC, Maxwell Beaumont x MC - @angelasscribbles Chapter 10: The Truth Comes Out Chapter 11: Let's Be Happy
What's Already Mine ✒️| Liam Rys x MC - @ao719
CROSSOVERS
Bloodbound / Immortal Desires
Adrian Raines, Gabriela Adalhard Fan Art 🎨 by @hydn-jpg (C: @gaiuskamilah)
Multiple PB Choices Stories
Twin Heist ✒️Ⓜ️| Multiple Characters - @whatinthehale17
25 notes · View notes
saibug1022 · 8 months
Text
Choices Masterlist
This is my masterlist for my choices fics. Also just to clarify, most of my ILITW fics also take place in the same universe as ILW because I've accepted it into my personal canon for my It Lives MCs. ALSO also, all of these are of my MCs, the character profiles for everyone are at the bottom
Blades of Light and Shadow
Walls of Regret
Tyril Starfury x MC, Mal Volari x MC, hints of Tyril x Mal
Hurt/No Comfort
Summary: During an encounter with Valax in the Shadow Realm, Asterin, Mal, and Tyril learn that Asterin's missing year was worse than any of them could have possibly imagined.
The Last Time
Aerin Valleros x MC
Hurt/Comfort, Angst
Summary: After getting injured by Valax in a fight Asterin awakens to find himself being cared for by Aerin and he can't help but think about the night they shared...and how Aerin left.
Funeral of Faith
Aerin Valleros x MC, referenced Tyril x MC and Mal x MC
Angst, Hurt/No Comfort, Evil MC
Summary: The Shadow Realm has a new Prince.
My Heart Won't Start Anymore
Tyril Starfury x MC x Mal Volari, references of Aerin x MC and Valax x MC
Hurt/Comfort
Summary: Finally, Asterin breaks. But this time he doesn't do it alone.
Love, I See You Now
Aerin Valleros x MC, reference Tyril x MC and Mal x MC
Angst
Summary: When Asterin gets hurt in the Battle for the Whitetower Rift, the Shadow Aerin thought he got rid of comes back in a burst of rage and fear. But it may not be enough.
It Lives In The Woods
Val's Resurrection Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Lucas Thomas x MC, hints of Noah Marshall x MC
Hurt/Comfort
Summary: After years, finally, finally, Valen Ebony is saved.
It Lives Within
The Morning After
Abel Flint x MC
Fluff
Summary: A sweet little morning scene after the scene in Ch 14.
The Sun's Final Breath
Lincoln McQuoid and MC, Abel Flint x MC (background)
Angst
Summary: Castor Athantis is dead, and something is glowing in Lincoln's pocket.
Revelations
Abel Flint x MC, General
Angst
Summary: "I'm not Castor Athantis...I'm not even human."
Two Birds on a Wire
Lincoln Aquino & ILITW MC, Lincoln Aquino x ILW MC (background), Lucas Thomas x ILITW MC (background)
Fluff
Summary: After weeks of dancing around the reveal that Matthias is Val's real father, Lincoln and Val finally are forced to talk about it.
Nightbound
The Wrong Engagement
Nik Ryder x MC
Angst
Summary: Just one more morning. Alex just needed one more morning with the love of his life. One more morning before he married someone else.
Into the Wind-Verse
Link to full universe masterlist
A New Start
Magnus Bishop & Wind Velez
Summary: The story of Magnus getting recruited from unemployment in Ohio after being fired from his firm, to McGraw-Byrne.
Bad Liar
Magnus Bishop (MC) & Wind Velez
Summary: Magnus Bishop, just trying to do his work. Enter Wind Velez, here to remind Magnus he scared the shit out of his boyfriend, hadn't slept in three days, and needs some goddamn friends.
Come Morning Light
Magnus Bishop/Marcus Sharpe
Summary: Magnus is awoken when his boyfriend stirs in the night. He may not be the most adept at empathy or comforting people but for Marcus? He'll try.
Feeding Schedule
Wind Velez/Martin Vanderweil
Summary: Magnus is secretly a walking talking disaster. Wind knows this. Now he needs his boyfriend's help for a unique request.
The Breach
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Magnus Bishop/Marcus Sharpe
Summary: In an attempt to finally put his past to bed, Magnus returns to Westchester one last time to visit the strange forcing lurking in the woods he grew up in. But little does he know, nothing with the Power is ever that simple.
Choices Sequels We Deserved
Elementalists 3
Nightbound 2
My MCs
Blades of Light and Shadow - Asterin Nightbloom
Crimes of Passion - August Rose
Murder at Homecoming - Valentine Damian Stone
It Lives In The Woods - Valen Ebony/Aquino
It Lives Beneath - Leon Vance
It Lives Within - Castor Athantis
It Lives Within - Julian Athantis
Hero - Callum Wyland
Endless Summer - Taylor Vaanu/McKenzie
The Elementalists - Apollo Solaris
The Elementalists - Lance Hartley (OC)
Immortal Desires - Eros Blackwell
Bloodbound - Mattheo Lazarin
Laws of Attraction - Magnus Bishop
Emrys - The Cursed Heart
26 notes · View notes
sporticus1234 · 2 years
Note
They quit the firm and now we'll never kno why Martin hates Aislinn so much. My poor bby didn't deserve that.
Just looking at the first book, Martin always thought of himself as the best of the best. He went to fancy Ivy League schools, clerked for a federal judge, etc. etc. Even in the first book, he mocks the MC for not being well-versed in the law with the whole tree law thing.
But what made me realize his whole method of operation was when he said the best strategy to help Marcus's criminal case was to ruin Aliana's image. And that made me realize that Martin is someone who desperately wants to be viewed as good and even the best. Even though he's not.
The judge he did a federal clerkship for didn't even know who the hell he was when they met at that conference, even though Martin clerked for him for 2 years, which tells me he wasn't outstanding in any way, shape, or form. He never won anything major at McGraw Byrne that warranted any type of attention from Gabe or the other senior partners.
Yet here comes the MC from a small town that basically blows him out of the water. And Martin hated that. But, because he had no way of going toe-to-toe with the MC on a legal battle, he's focused more on destroying the MC's image and reputation so that he in turn looks better. And because he can't project a good image with his own skills and knowledge, he has to knock everyone else down so he looks better by a default comparison.
The same goes for Aislinn. Aislinn was better than him and already had a good image in the eye of the senior partners since she already worked there previously. She was probably the second best behind the MC, and obviously when the MC and Aislinn teamed up, they were unbeatable. She was close to the MC, and because of all that, Martin had to make sure her image was ruined too so that he looked better.
But Martin's plan is going to backfire tremendously. The journalist interview is proof of what will happen. He's probably thrilled that the MC looked like an idiot, but what he failed to realize was people pulled out of the firm and their reputation started to flounder. If you have no clients, you have no way to keep a firm running. Like I said earlier, McGraw Byrne is going to have its reputation tanked because Martin was too dense to realize his crusade against the MC is going to ruin him and the firm.
And I honestly can't wait to see it.
82 notes · View notes
gutsfics · 9 months
Text
i kinda wanna make a swap au where Reigan is a doctor at Edenbrook and Baxter is a lawyer with McGraw Byrne
Reigan would absolutely throw hands w Landry. like full on he's getting punched
12 notes · View notes
Text
now that beau is alone @ mcgraw byrne with only martin and joaquin to work with do you think he and joaquin are exploring each others bodies or
46 notes · View notes
aces-and-angels · 15 days
Text
it's enid's bday so here's the windverse as cakes: mcgraw byrne edition
eli byrne:
Tumblr media
linda phillips:
Tumblr media
gabe ricci:
Tumblr media
martin vanderweil:
Tumblr media
reggie whitman:
Tumblr media
magnus bishop:
Tumblr media
joaquin morales:
Tumblr media
aislinn tanaka:
Tumblr media
beau mcgraw:
Tumblr media
gigi sinclair:
Tumblr media
wind velez:
Tumblr media
ryan cortazar/amalia de león:
Tumblr media
12 notes · View notes
choicesmc · 2 months
Note
hitting you with all the questions lol: 6, 12, 20, 40, and B for fiona
Haha, i deserve it for all the questions I toss into everyone else’s inboxes xD Thank you for stopping by!!
6. Do they consider laws flexible, or immovable?
Definitely on the flexible side. Fiona buys more into the spirit of the law more than its reality. He firmly believes the law exists to ensure justice rather than to be followed –that’s why it can be changed. That’s why it has human hands carry out its words. The law is meant to used to protect rather than to punish and so it has to be flexible in order to achieve that. If a law can’t be bent to protect someone outside its ever-expanding eyes, then is it a law worth upholding? 
12. How do they deal with an itch found in a place they can’t quite reach?
If Gabe’s around, ask him to lol. If not, then try to reach it himself before getting up and getting something long to do it for him. If at work, ignore it till it goes away. There’s no way he’s going to let someone catch him scratching his back through the glass windows McGraw Byrne has for walls. He’d be mortified, slain, embarrassed, gone. It’d kill him 😖
20. If they were asked to explain the difference between romantic and platonic or familial love, how would they do so?
Familial would be defined by protection for him. Either the way a parent protects their child or the way siblings stick up for each other. For Fiona, family protects each other and so does familial love. Or at least should. His family didn’t lol. 
Platonic and romantic would be so hard for him 😭 Like, yes, he understands logically that there is a line but that line is so blurred to him? Very much there is a different^(TM) but the difference is not determinable to him. You can kiss friends, you can comfort friends, you can be closer to your friends than you are your partner but what makes a partner a romantic partner rather than a platonic one is lost on him. His advice would be to figure out what you’d do with a partner that you wouldn’t with a friend and try to figure it out for yourself. Fiona cannot help you here ✌
40. How sensitive are they to their own flaws?
Very. Both real and perceived. His parents were critical of him. Out of love, of course. But Fiona hasn’t spent enough time to realize which are real flaws and which are things his parents just didn’t like so… he ignores anything he perceives as wrong with him until someone else he trusts points it out to him. Then it is a Problem and has to be fixed. But like they have to be clear about it. Dancing around the bush about a problem makes Fiona ignore it more. Like an icky bug that won’t go away and you’ve just learned to live with it. Reliable method ✅ No its not do not do this irl please the communication skills of your friends are not how you should evaluate yourself please
B) What inspired you to create them?
In the first chapter of Book 1 when Ryan says: “...self-deprecation isn’t going to win you any points. Or cases.” 
At that exact moment, Fiona just introduced himself and never left. He was sauve, clear about his intentions with Gabe, but played the field while Gabe was flip-flopping about. He was sharp, got most things right first try, had enough confidence to build a skyscraper.
Then I started to toss a little contradiction in the mix. I love a powerhouse, for sure, but Ryan’s line made me add a lil’ something to him and boom! Fiona Lightwood: bold, bright, beautiful, and unloving towards himself. 
3 notes · View notes
zhoras-bitch · 1 year
Text
My Playchoices MCs #5
Tumblr media
This one was challenging but fun. I wasn’t sure how to make her profile look lawyer-y, but I’m really happy with how it turned out. Stole her an outfit from Open Heart cause it's perfect for her. Notes below.
First | Previous | Next | All
Not many people know that, but Roxanne was quite a rebel back in her school days (the painting graffiti, hanging out at abandoned buildings and dying her hair green kind). 
Still loves street art and punk music. If you want to know more about New York’s art scene, she’s the one to ask. 
Her relationship with her parents is strained, to say the least. They were pretty close-minded and controlling, and never approved of her life choices. Nowadays, then don’t really talk, save for the obligatory holiday greetings.
Roxanne also has an older brother and two younger sisters. They text sometimes, but she wishes they were closer.
She moved in with her boyfriend at the time first thing after turning 18, mostly because she was desperate to get away from her parents. It went as well as you’d expect.
As a result of her history, Roxanne has huge trust issues. She keeps people at arms length, and prefers something casual over long-term committed relationships.
When she started at McGraw Byrne, she grew close with Beau. They became friends, and there was a lot of yearning involved, but when she was almost ready to give dating him a chance, he kinda freaking ruined it. It opened up some deep old wounds. 
Her relationship with Joaquin was the opposite. It was casual, and the whole time she was expecting the inevitable betrayal... which never came. Turns out, he was just genuine and had no ulterior motive, and it kind of broke her a little on the inside? But like, in a good way?
Roxanne likes to pretend that she doesn’t care, but really, she cares a lot.
She is her biggest critic. 
Her feelings don’t change fast. It takes time for her to warm up to people, but once you’ve earned her affection, she’s gonna carry it for years. On the flip side, if people wrong her once, she definitely remembers.
Roxanne has a very sharp tongue, which got her into a lot of trouble before she learned to be equally as good at flattery as she was at insults.
She likes fancy things, like personally tailored clothes and expensive wine and sushi. She worked hard to get where she is, might as well enjoy it.
16 notes · View notes
sciralta · 1 year
Note
I REALLY HOPE THE LAST SLOT IS FOR BEAU,PLS PB PLSSSSSSS I WANT HIMMMM
Somebody said the lasts slot’s probably for Joaquin and… besties I honestly think there’s a good chance that’s the case. Character-wise, Joaquin is a wildcard in that he pretty much always does what’s best for himself, but what he considers best for himself isn’t always the most direct and straightforward thing that other characters would think of; to the point that he helps MC sabotage the same firm he works at. He strikes me as person who’d have a handful of options at the ready, so if McGraw-Byrne tanks, he wouldn’t necessarily have to look to finding a position at Ricci & Associates, because he’d already have one ready somewhere that has him at a level or even better-off position than he was before.
However, we’ve had sex with him.
PB obviously wrote him on purpose to serve as a foil to MC, and people like the trope of the MC and foil having chemistry and fucking/flirting. I’d argue PB really wants to keep him around, both as that foil but also to squeeze more diamond sex scenes out of people. And what’s the laziest easiest way to keep him close to the MC? Have him work at the same place as them.
Adding to that, I honestly don’t know if PB ever intended/intends to have one of those scenes with Beau. We’ve never been able to flirt with him. I don’t know if PB knows about the Beau thirst or they just don’t see it for him. In their mind they might be saying “why would we give that position to him when we could give it to Joaquin?”
18 notes · View notes
queeniemayjan · 1 year
Text
Joaquin Morales. Do we trust him? I’m trying to think why we should. He pretends not to know who you are at the bar, even though he does, as it’s revealed later. Then, if you hook up with him he takes you to a boat to do the deed, knowing you’ll assume he’d take you to his place and not some stranger’s, until security comes and you find out it’s not his boat. Then he starts helping you to undermine Martin, who clearly trusts Joaquin.
His very first encounter with you is duplicitous. He seems to want to help you take Martin down so he can get a job at Ricci & Associates. Why not just apply on the up and up? Why all the cloak and dagger maneuvers that hurt someone who trusts him? If he’s doing this to Martin, why trust him not to do it to Ricci & Associates later? Personally, I haven’t liked him since the boat hookup. That was enough to tell me he’s not worthy of my MC’s trust. Is Joaquin a double agent for Martin? Likely. Or did something happen between him and Martin in the past and he’s here for revenge? Regardless, he’s out for himself, as MC says.
Beau McGraw. Do we trust him? I’ve considered Beau to be a traitor to MC for a couple of reasons, and it started with the stunt he pulls in Book 1, where he takes credit for MC’s idea that scored him big with Sadie and Rothswell (they made peace but it speaks to McGraw family character). It’s the MC taking down his aunt that makes me not trust him. His auntie, Sadie McGraw, founded McGraw Byrne. She’s the woman who raised him after his mother died. She’s like a mom to Beau. Did her betrayal to the company hurt? Yes, but she’s still family. Blood. MC and Gabe (with Gabe being Sadie’s closest ally) not only ruined her career, but they left the firm in Martin’s hands and he’s destroying it. The firm is falling apart all around Beau and he’s powerless to save it.
This is his aunt’s legacy. Her good name is being tarnished, and McGraw Byrne doesn’t have long before it crashes and burns after R & A take Martin and Eli down for the bogus conservatorship ring Colby is running. It’s not right to blame anyone but Sadie for this, but I can see how Beau would need someone to blame. I can see how he’d become bitter and want to seek revenge on Gabe and MC. Especially MC. She’s/He’s the final push Gabe needed to bounce. She’s/He’s the one who discovered Sadie’s back room deals with Koenig. Now he wants to join R&A? IDK man. Beau has proven he’ll be dishonest, like his aunt, but to the same degree? I don’t wanna believe it, but I can see it. Or, Beau might be the good guy he appears to be. Boring, but I’ve never seen PB not be this predictable.
I feel that both Gabe and MC, indeed all of Ricci & Associates, would be wary of Joaquin, but they would trust Beau. A betrayal from him would blindside them and be the perfect setup for a third book, I think. In the end, if I had to put my money on someone for my trust, I think it would be Joaquin over Beau.
14 notes · View notes
Text
CFWC Holidays 2023 - Week 7
Tumblr media
✒️= Fanfic | 📱= Text Fics/Edits | 🎨= Fanart Ⓜ️ = Mature Content 18+ | 🔥 = Explicit/NSFW 18+ 🏳️‍🌈 = LGBTQIA
BLADES OF LIGHT AND SHADOW
Happy New Year🎨🌟| Tyril Starfury, Nia Ellarious - @artbyalz
BLOODBOUND
Kamilah Sayeed x F!MC Fanart 🎨🌟 by @bayleedraws-sometimesx
CRIMES OF PASSION
Have We Met Before? ✒️🌟| Trystan Thorne x F!MC - @inlocusmads
Peppermint Kisses ✒️🌟| Trystan Thorne x F!MC - @peonierose
The Second Meeting ✒️🌟| Trystan Thorne x F!MC - @trappedinfanfiction
The Wayward Prince (Series) 📱🌟| Trysatn Thorne x MC - @jerzwriter Trysatn's 2023 Holiday Recap
IT LIVES
Snowed in at the Cabin ✒️🏳️‍🌈🌟| Lincoln McQuoid x NB!MC - @aallotarenunelma
LAWS OF ATTRACTION
Happy New Year from McGraw Byrne 🎨🌟| Gabe Ricci, Aislinn Tanaka, MC, etc. by @oh-so-youre-a-nerd
OPEN HEART
Best Friends 🌟| Bryce Lahela x F!MC - @hannabanana-6
Countdown to 2024 🎨🏳️‍🌈🌟| OH F!MC, OH F!OC, OH F!MC2 art by @/artbyainna (IG) (C: @lilyoffandoms for @storyofmychoices @jerzwriter)
Miles ✒️🌟| Ethan Ramsey x F!MC - @tveitertotwrites
Never Been Kissed ✒️🌟| Ethan Ramsey x F!MC - @cariantha
New Perspective ✒️🌟| Tobias Carrick x F!MC - @jerzwriter
New Year Wishes ✒️🌟| Ethan Ramsey x F!MC - @liaromancewriter
THE ROYAL ROMANCE
Traditions ✒️🌟| Liam Rys x MC - @bebepac
9 notes · View notes