Throwback to the time I gave Spooker a grandma and just made her So weird (and I love her)
Her name is Flammel Nicolette, she is a partially immortal woman from Maryland, and she’s part crab and has beef with Old Bay seasoning. She had what she considers a fling with Darth Calculus (they got married. They’re still technically married. She has no idea they’re still married) and now just minds her own beezwax being a shopkeep in Maryland even though she knows things that could Kill Him and his reputation.
Shes where the family gets the really curly hair and other traits I like to give them. It’s thanks to her own supernatural mortality that Chackalatta’s ghost can do everything a person can do with ease and STILL do ghost things. (I also decided he and slender were half brothers)
Flammel might be weird as fuck but I really wanted her to make sense in the universe so I don’t regret a thing <3
Last month, the Daily Mail reported on the shocking case of 15-year-old Olivia Maunder, who was told by Frimley Park Hospital to try a mindfulness app to deal with her ‘indescribable agony’. It turned out she had a tumour in her pelvis. On one of the many occasions she was taken to A&E, she was told to ‘calm down’. On another, she was told that she was just ‘mirroring [her] mum’s pain as she had had back problems’. She and her mum were told it was all down to stress. By the time the tumour was discovered, it was so extensive that surgery was no longer an option. Olivia now has a few months to live.
I had a personal experience of this some years ago, when a friend lost the use of her legs and was offered mindfulness classes rather than a mobility scooter. No doubt she was expected to use the power of her mind to teleport.
I wonder if men are told to go away and be mindful as much as women are? I very much doubt it. We didn’t need the arrival of terms like ‘cervix-havers’ and ‘menstruators’ – but never ‘prostate-havers’ and ‘ejaculators’ – to know that the medical profession has always treated women differently. Women are 50 per cent less likely to be diagnosed after having a heart attack, are given less CPR than men, and are more likely to be given sedatives – rather than painkillers – for pain than men. While the NHS has been busy erasing such hate-speech terms as ‘mother’ and ‘breastfeeding’ from their public-information bulletins, NHS maternity negligence claims have doubled in the past decade. Last year, it was revealed that more than 200 babies and nine mothers had died due to bad care at the Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust alone.
Sadistic doctors no longer perform lobotomies on women as a cure for promiscuity, or diagnose any female behaviour unpleasing to men as ‘hysteria’, but as Caroline Criado-Perez’s 2019 book, Invisible Women, pointed out, the medical system is ‘from root to tip, systematically discriminating against women, leaving them chronically misunderstood, mistreated and misdiagnosed’. Women are still being told that extreme illnesses are all in their minds. Nicolette Baker, a woman from Cornwall, shrunk to three stone because her doctors insisted that she was anorexic, repeatedly sectioning her. She is dying of Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome. Kirsty Maxwell, from Perthshire, was repeatedly told she had an eating disorder and was given everything from Gaviscon to antidepressants. She had terminal cancer. Doctors certainly seem to know what a woman is when it suits them – someone you tell to ‘calm down, dear’.
This is the most lethal kind of gaslighting. It needs to be tackled, not zhuzhed up with twaddle like mindfulness. It’s thought to be worth around $4 billion, taking in everything from meditation apps to the 60,000 books on Amazon including the word ‘mindfulness’ in their titles, including Mindful Finance, Mindful Leadership and Mindful Dog Owners. This is all despite the increasing evidence that too much navel-gazing can increase depression and decrease your ability to withstand pain – even though dealing with pain is precisely what mindfulness is often prescribed for.
Hola personitas. Venimos con un aporte que nos ha costado un tiempito reunir. Es posible que algunos PB tengan 1 añito más de lo que pone, porque igual cumplieron recién. Esperamos les guste ^^
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Pre-Stone Ocean timeline, Nicolette had just been hired by Pucci to work in the prisons chapel as acting mother, she was also on the hunt for possible stand users for him. One day she was patrolling the halls of the prison and stumbled upon a boy playing ball all by himself. The boy was afraid of the lady with the glowing gold staff( which is apart of her stand), Nicolette noticed his hesitation so she crouches down to be eye level with him and asks with a warm smile “What is your name little guy?” To which he answers “ My name is Emporio..”, her smile gets wider “nice to meet you Emporio, I’m Nicolette”. (AND SHE EATS HIM /j) Emporio then proceeded to ask if he can call her mom because her presence reminded her of his own mother.
I have a headcannon that Emporio calls Nicolette “momma” because she’s been taking care of him ever since they met, so it confused the hell outta Jolyne when she was fighting Nicolette. And in the universe reset he becomes her and Weather’s adoptive son🥹. I did a video to this that got me into bit of a conflict with the Jojo fans on tiktok involving a threat and people mistaking Nicolette to be Pucci ( people can be so unexplainably rude) back in 2022.
Overhaul/Update version for one of my proudest works, a main cover art(?) for my little project call Robotnik AU.
Characters list:
Upper row/section (above Movie Eggman's hands), from left to right:
- Sonic.exe (the utmost terrifying OC/FC from the creepy pasta thingy)
- Queen Boom Boo, Merc version (OC/FC made by Dan-Habiki/@Dan_Daymaker)
- King Boom Boo
- Lah
- Su & Uh
- Shadow the Hedgehog (Team Dark)
- Rouge the Bat (Team Dark)
- E-123 Omega (Team Dark)
- Dr. Eggman Nega
- Doctor Albert W. Wily (Megaman, Archie comics)
- Honey the Cat
- Breezie the Hedgehog
- Bocoe & Decoe + Bokkun
- Dark Oak/Lucas
- Dark Queen/Merlina
- Erazor Dijinn
- Coconuts
- Scratch & Grounders
- General Helmut Von Stryker
- Anton Veruca (Shogakukan magazines)
- Junior Robotnik
- Captain Whiskers & Johnny
- Opal the Jellyfish (Pirates of the Setting Dawn)
- Dive the Lemming (Pirates of the Setting Dawn)
- Blade the Shark (Pirates of the Setting Dawn)
- Captain Shellbreaker (Pirates of the Setting Dawn)
- Mr. Bristles the Yeti Crab (Pirates of the Setting Dawn)
- Mephiles the Dark
- Silver Sonic
- Dark Enerjak (Knuckle)
- Nazo (appeared in Sonic X's last teaser)
- Eggette/Omelette Robotnik (famed OC/FC originally designed by Alpha Gamboa (blackbookalpha))
- Infinite the Jackal
- Solaris
- Black Doom
- Eclipse the Darkling
- Black Death
- Dark Gaia (Perfect form)
- Metal Sonic
- Iron Queen aka Regina Ferrum
- Time Eater
- Mammoth Mogul
- Iron King aka Jun Kun
- Imperator Ix
- Wendy Naugus
- Bearenger the Grizzly (Witchcarters)
- Carrotia the Rabbit (Witchcarters)
- Falke Wulf (Witchcarters)
- Walter Naugus
- Fleetway's Super Sonic
- Shade the Echidna
- Boomer Walrus aka Anti Rotor
- Patch D'Coolette aka Anti Antoine
- Princess Alicia Acorn aka Anti Sally
Middle section (below Eggman's hands), from left to right:
- Speedy (both Pre and Post-Super Genesis Wave versions)
- Sage
- T.W. Barker
- Dave the Intern
- Sleet & Dingo
- A.D.A.M.
- E.V.E.
- Lyric the Last Ancient
- Zor
- Zash (OC/FC made by @saccharinerose)
- Zeena
- Zazz
- Zomom
- Zavok
- Master Zik
- Agent Stone (Sonic movies 2020/2022)
- Orbot & Cubot
- Wes Weasely
- Snively Robotnik
- Dr. Robotnik (Sonic movies 2020/2022)
- Thunderbolt the Chinchilla
- Predator Hawk (Destructix)
- Anti-Miles
- Scourge the Hedgehog
- Storm the Albatross
- Wave the Swallow
- Jet the Hawk
- Rosy the Rascal
- Sleuth "Doggy" Dawg (Destructix)
- Sergeant Simian (Destructix)
- Fiona Fox (Destructix)
- Duck "Bill" Platypus
- Bark the Polar Bear
- Bean the Dynamite
- Drago Wolf (Destructix)
- Nicolette 'Nic' the Weasel
- Razorclaw
- The Foreman (Grandmaster)
- Hugo Brass
- Diesel
- Flying Frog (Destructix)
- Geoffrey St. John
- Hershey the Cat
- Nack the Weasel/Fang the Sniper (Team Hooligan)
- Fleetway's Chaos (Darkon fish form)
Lower section, from left to right:
- Dr. Finitevus
- Grimer Wormtongue
- Dr. Fukurokov
- Dimitri the Echidna
- Maw the Thylacine
- Mecha Sally
- Mecha Sonic
- Mecha knuckle
- Jackal Squad, named by Nibroc-Rock as Uno, Deux, Trois, Quatre, Cinq & Sei (Shadowy figures)
- Kayseri Valaedshkova (OC/FC made by dirtthefox/@Its_Dima_V)
- Strike (OC/FC made by @speedofsoundsketches)
- Surge the Tenrec
- Kit the Fennec
- Sofia the Gorgon (OC/FC made by Sofia-MMD/@GorgonSofia)
- Clutch the Opossum
- Kaibette the Genet (OC/FC made by @kaibette)
- Rough & Tumble the Skunk
- Battle Lord Kukku XV
- ***Mecha Robotnik
- Akhlut the Orca (both Pre and Post-Super Genesis Wave versions)
- Tundra the Walrus
- Mordred Hood (drawn with @adokle's style)
- The Foreman/Tassel boy (Post-Super Genesis Wave)
- Mimic (the Mimic Octopus)
- Byte the Goat (OC/FC made by @bunniibones)
- Lightning Lynx
- Iblis
- Phage
- Conquering Storm (Post-Super Genesis Wave)
- Bride of the Conquering Storm (Pre-Super Genesis Wave)
- Dr. Starline
- Biolizard
- Sigma (Megaman, Archie comics)
- Axel the Water Buffalo
- Abyss the Squid
- Cyani the Cobra (OC/FC made by @bunniibones)
- Cipher the Owl (OC/FC made by @bunniibones)
- Bleak (OC/FC made by HT-Doodles/@HtDoodles)
- Clove the Pronghorn (my top fav among all the characters here)
- Cassia the Pronghorn
- Lien-da
- Chaos
- Tikal the Echidna
- Pachacamac
- Gae-Na
- Kragok
- Thrash the Devil
- Warden Zobotnik & Znively (Zone Cop)
- Belinda & Charlie
- Nephthys the Vulture
- ??? (Behind Nephthys)
- Trevor Burrow the Mole (Desert Raiders)
- Sonar the Fennec (Desert Raiders)
- Spike the Porcupine (Desert Raiders)
- Razor the Shark
- Queen Angelica
- Rusty Rose
- Robo Tails (Brain-washed, based on Sonic Lost World's designs)
- Beauregard Rabbot
- Jack Rabbit
- Matilda the Armadillo
- Zefir (my main OC/FC)
- Gamer Deer (aka 'Aleko' the Northamer Guard or the 'Gamerdeerdude' by @adokle)
- Zonic (Zone Cop)
- Chesah the Tarsier aka No.29 (my OC/FC)
- Sandy the Caterkiller (OC/FC made by @the-hydroxian-artblog)
For the Alt version: FeReinsm on Instagram: “Overhaul/update versions for one of my proudest works, a main cover art(?) for my lil’ project - Robotnik AU. For the 2nd and 4th pics…”
The Queen's Champion tournament of Nicolette Deuville II is this coming weekend (November 11, 2023) and for it, I have created two gifts for my inspirations. First, a belt favor for my wife. Second, a letter of intent for my queen.
This isn't my first time making a belt favor, but it's my first time making a sizeable belt favor for my wife. I made it for the Queen's Champion tournament of Nicolette Deuville II, in hopes that it brings my wife luck and glory. <3
It is embroidered on a leftover piece from my first dress I ever made for reenactment and the first dress I ever wore to an SCA event. The text is based on the Setre comb inscription dating to about 600 AD. The text on the comb appears to read
hal maR
mauna
alunaalunana
Ever since I came across it, I've been entranced by Ottar Grønvik's translation of this inscription:
Stone-maiden
may thrive
achieve everything, enjoy everything
As my wife's SCA name is Halldóra, I've always wanted to interpret this poem into a gift for her. I used a single strand of cotton-wool blend yarn rather than using embroidery floss to call back to the embroidery texture of the Bayeux tapestry. As I did not have any large blocks of space to fill with the Bayeux couched satin stitch, I did this project in split stitch and a single couched line for the center line of the A section of the inscription
For my letter of intent, I wanted to do something that felt more appropriate to the persona of Áshildr Inn Hárfagri, so I decided to try my hand at carving leather. First, to draft and translate my letter itself.
While my letters of intent are usually rather wordy, since I would be trying a new craft for the first time I wanted to keep it short and sweet. I decided upon "My queen, my sword is yours" and began researching an appropriate sign off.
I came across the Einangsteinan inscript on the Einang stone, which is typically interpreted to read "ek (gu)dagastiR runo faihido" or "I Gudgæst wrote these runes." Substituting my own name for Gudgæst's, I now had a signoff of "ek ashildR runo faihido."
I wish past me did a better job of copying notes down somewhere present me would find them with regards to spelling my own name in runes as I've done this before for the Letter of Intent for the QC tournament of Toryn Sevenstitches II.
Make note that the "d" in Áshildr is spelled with a teiwaz rather than a dagaz. I thought that was interesting and not a choice I would have made casually, so I re-researched this difference. The Vatn Runestone, pictured below, appears to read rhoaltR ...something. rhoaltR is commonly interpreted in this case to be Roald, from Hróaldr. With the inverted algiz used as the R following the hard consonant at the end of the name, I consider this sufficient evidence of how to appropriately write a -dR name in runic inscription.
Then came the translation.
My Queen > dróttning mín (first person singular feminine possessive) > drotning min
My sword is yours > sverðsins (singular def. gen declension of sverð) mín er þín (second person gen. posessive) > swerþsins min er þin
I Áshildr carved these runes > ek Áshildr runo faihido > ek ashiltR runo faihido
As my queen's arms include a wolf in chief, I also carved a wolf into the leather. I used a pencil to sketch the runes and wolf onto the leather, then carved with an Xacto knife and a scalpel. I have found I prefer the straighter lines I accomplished with the xacto knife and found the ergonomics superior, but the scalpel produced clearer, easier to read marks against the undyed leather.
While this was meant to reflect the runic inscriptions in stone, this is obviously not stone. I chose to do this in leather rather than on paper or canvas because the three dimensional nature of carving, how runestones such as the Jelling, Einang, and Vatn stones were carved, is better represented in a thick material such as leather rather than painted on to canvas or drawn on paper. Carving these runes and this design gave me a greater appreciation for the straight lines of the Futhark runes and for the artistry, skill, and patience of those long-dead runewrights. Gudgæst, Roald, though long gone from this world, live forever in the carvings they left behind.
"Deyr fę,
deyia frǫndr,
deyr sialfr it sama;
ec veit einn
at aldri deýr:
domr vm dꜹþan hvern."
(NSFW) Ask for VV: Also happy early or late Halloween by the time you get to this ask.
How would the RO React To MC Being A Werewolf.
Like they noticed MC having a needy look all night when they weren't looking and MC was looking at them never taking their eyes of them.
So when they get to MC's apartment MC looks at the window looking at the full moon before transforming right infront of them and stalking them like a hungry predator before noticing the very clear signs of arousal on MC and realise their in heat so,
who would let the beast ravage them and who would ravage the beast.
Thank you 😊 this is coming after Halloween, but I hope you had a great Halloween none the less! 🎃💚
Nicholas/Nicolette
If they're in a relationship with the MC they would ravage them, they can be pretty firm and playful in the bedroom actually 👀
Nicholas/Nicolette smiles sweetly, though their eyes are dark when they meet yours. "You want me?" They ask smoothly, gliding a gentle hand across your cheekbone. Waiting for you to nod in agreement, their eyes droop, now heavy with want...."Good." They reply back softly, suddenly holding your head firmly in place as they capture your lips in a passionate kiss.
Tobias/Tahlia
Neither 😅 Matter of fact, whether you're in a relationship or not. They would literally use their powers to get you away from them, just shy of potentially killing you if you're in a relationship. But will actually put you in the hospital, if you try this on them if not in a relationship 😭
"What the fuck do you think you're doing?" Tobias/Tahlia snarls, Looking down on you in disgust, now that your face is practically kissing the floor. Getting down to your level, they spit out in disgust. "Don't you ever try that sh*t again, you hear me?!"
Elias/Elia
They would definitely let the MC take the reins for a minute, just watching blankly as the MC starts to undress them. Though when things really start to heat up, they'll flip the MC over and get to work 👀 all.night.long 🫣
Elias/Elia raises a brow, after feeling what seems like the twentieth hickey being vigorously sucked onto their fair skin. "Are you done?" They ask non-chalantly, looking down at you, happily placed in-between their sturdy legs.
You raise a brow, trying to hide your nervousness with forced confidence. "Why? Am I doing a poor job at turning you on?"
Elias/Elia blinks back, their expression remains as stone faced as ever. "No..." They reply simply, then moving with the speed of a cobra. They flip you onto your back, and slide your underwear off in one fell swoop. "I just want to get started", they mutter lowly. Before diving their head in-between your legs.
Kacey
If in a relationship, then they would 100% let the MC ravage them 😂
"Wh-what are you doing?!" Kacey stutters out, watching as your hands travel over their body, slowly making their descent to the heavens not above....but down below.
"Making you mine." The MC replies back smoothly, pulling Kacey into a heated kiss. Kacey lets out a shriek, surprised by the sudden motion. Which quickly leaves them melting, practically begging for more.
I know Six largely casts younger performers, which I absolutely think is awesome, great exposure, and just idk makes sense, but I was watching a video where Nicolette Robinson was talking about being the first Jenna at the time to be a mother performing the role in Waitress and the extra weight and meaning that a song like She Used to be Mine had on her.
My question is, has there ever been an Aragon, Boleyn, or Seymour (particularly Seymour what with the gravity of her song, but the three mothers nonetheless) who was a mother themselves? I can't think of any who played those three roles, and the only other two I can think of who were mothers while performing in Six were Alexia McIntosh and Cristina D'Agostino (granted, I try to stay out of Queens' personal lives, so I could be missing glaringly obvious examples).
Idk I'm just imaging the extra weight especially Heart of Stone has to have if you're singing it with an actual child at home. Sorry if this is niche or weird, just a rambling thought I had in my head!
Yes six does cast generally younger performers but there is no solid age range outside of not having anyone that feels out of place when it comes to age which is the most subjective criteria ever. And its definitely not a weird question. A huge part of performing is drawing on life experiences in some way. Considering Seymour's characterization in six puts a lot of emphasis in motherhood and both Aragon and Boleyn mention it multiple times. Being curious what someone who is a mother in real life feels while performing those roles feels natural.
That being said I am all for the policy of not digging into the queen's personal lives beyond what they share in social media. So all I know is from that. There have been a few queens who were mothers during their six runs. You mentioned Lexi and Cristina but there is also Nicole Lewis (2023-24 UKT Aragon) and 김지우 | Kim Ji Woo (SK Boleyn) who have kids and Candace Furbert (Bliss 1.0 Aragon) who was pregnant in the final months of her run.
Again I dont like to dig into personal lives. It is always possible more queens have/had kids and are just very private about it. Also the SK cast is in general older so chances are more of them have kids.
@userphotoshop event 2 | PRIDE
NEIGHBOURS (1985 - 2022) + Current LGBT Main Characters
Matt Wilson as Aaron Brennan (2015 - 2022)
Takaya Honda as David Tanaka (2016 - 2022)
April Rose Pengilly as Chloe Brennan (2018 - 2022)
Georgie Stone as Mackenzie Hargreaves (2019 - 2022)
Charlotte Chimes as Nicolette Stone (2020 - 2022)
Gemma Bird Matheson as Kiri Durant (2022)
Time to go the final fast in this last collage of Sonic the Hedgehog. Now that does not mean I'm done making new illustrations like this, it's just that the collage has gotten far too big. I have 198 faces here, I think it's complete. So thank you all very much for the support and suggestions, it has helped out greatly. See you all around.
list of all the characters, starting from the top left corner, going left to right
Row 1: Rosy the Rascal, Iron Queen, Longclaw, Earthia, Rosie the Woodchuck, Santa Claus, Sonia Acorn, Ari the Ram, Chocola, Fockewulf the Wolf, Black Narcissus, Mina Mongoose, The Enchantress, Bernadette the Hedgehog, Iblis, Remington, Sara
Row 2: Jason, Pale Bayleaf, Coral the Betta, Ifrit, Master Zik, Tumble, Tiara Boobowski, Zazz, Whisper the Wolf, Eggrobo, Lupe the Wolf, Bean the Dynamite, Agent Stone, Tails Doll, Commander, Black Death, Dark Enerjak
Row 3: Mecha Sonic, Galaxina, Tom Wachowski, Mammoth Mogul, Breezie the Hedgehog, Old Owl Man, Professor Gerald Robotnik, Void, Julie-Su, D-Fektx, Dr. Eggman Nega, Nicole the Holo-Lynx, Uncle Chuck, Merlina the Wizard, Mimic, Yellow Zelkova, Princess Undina
Row 4: Sealia the Seal, Omochao, Nigel Acorn, Lyric, Shade the Echidna, Cream the Rabbit, Vector the Crocodile, Emerl, Coconuts, Chip, King Arthur, chaos, E-123 Omega, Shard the Metal Sonic, Froggy, Kragok, Nicolette the Weasel
Row 5: Tommy Turtle, Manik Acorn, Ixis Naugus, Lumina Flowlight, Captain Whisker, Espio the Chameleon, Mighty the Armadillo, Sonic The Hedgehog, Tails, Dr. Eggman, Silver The Hedgehog, Big the Cat, Imperator Ix, Marine the Raccoon, Helen, Dremagen, Pearly the Manta Ray
Row 6: Saffron Bee, Carrotia the Rabbit, Decoe, Storm the Albatross, Tikal, Black Doom, Sally Acorn, Metal Sonic, Manic the Hedgehog, Orbot, Zooey, Captain Metal, G-merl, Monica
Row 7: Razor the Shark, Blackbot the Pirate, Charlie, Professor Pickle, Bunnie Rabbot, Yacker, Blaze the Cat, Rouge the Bat, Snively, Eclipse the Darkling, Dingo, Mark the Tapir, Bearenger the Bear, Lindsey
Row 8: Birdie, Red Pine, SCR-HD, Cosmo, Sticks the Badger, Cheese the Chao, Charmy Bee, Knuckles the Echidna, Shadow the Hedgehog, Amy Rose, Jet The hawk, Infinite, Zavok, Fleetway (Iblis), Bocoe, Jewel the Beetle, Aquarius
Row 9: Topaz, Iron King, Robotnik Jr., Maria Robotnik, Cubot, Antoine D'Coolette, Scourge the Hedgehog, Ray the Flying Squirrel, Rotor the Walrus, Scratch, Sonia the Hedgehog, Grounder, Fang the Sniper, Honey The Cat, Bokkun, Grand Chief Whip, Davy Sprocket
Row 10: Crusher the Chao, Kingape, Dodon Pa, Dr. Starline, Mephiles the Dark, Queen Aleena, Heavy the Robot, Lien-Da, Wave the Swallow, Dark Gaia, Fiona the Fox, Sleet, Bomb, Vanilla Rabbit, Shahra, Nominatus, Melody Prower
Row 11: Perci the Bandicoot, Chuck Thorndyke, Professor Von Schlemmer, Zomom, Erazor Djinn, Metal Knuckles, Chris, Belle the Tinkerer, Bark the Polar Bear, Zor, Rough, Tangle the Lemur, Zeena, Wendy Witchcart, Great Battle Kukku, Heavy King, Doctor Quack
Row 12: Sage, Surge the Tenrec, The President, Lara-Su, Jules Hedgehog, Dulcy the Dragon, Momma Robotnik, Grimer Wormtongue, Dark OaK, Dave the Intern, Time Eater, Ben Muttski, Sir Connery, Pachacamac, Feist, Lord Hood, Frances
[ tears ] your muse wiping away mine’s tears . ( from suma bc wouldn’t that be funny that the crybaby is wiping away nicolette’s tears :’ ) )
NON - SEXUAL ACTS OF DOMINANCE » ACCEPTING
The nights have grown colder this time of year.
With every gentle breeze that blows through the thin fabric of her simple yukata a tremor runs through her body, though she hardly feels it, lost in melancholy as she is. Sitting at the edge of the engawa, Nicolette stares out into the yard with a distant look. Her bare feet nudge at the small stones lining the perimeter of the estate, toes flexing against the pebbles.
She does not hear the door slide open, nor the soft patter of footsteps drawing near, but jolts minutely at Suma's sudden presence by her side. She says nothing at first— neither of them do. Normally talkative, Suma seems to hesitate at whatever expression she finds on her face. Even without words, the slayer can practically feel the other's concern. It's palpable and terrifying, but not entirely unwelcome. Somehow, the addition of a warm, familiar presence at her side makes it impossible to ignore just how cold she'd been before.
❝ Sorry, ❞ Nicolette is the first to speak, voice soft and uncharacteristically timid. Ashamed. ❝ I didn't mean to wake you. ❞
Suma shakes her head, denies the misplaced guilt. Nicolette isn't sure if she's telling the truth or not— even if her exit from the room hadn't awoken her, it's clear that Nicolette's absence had inevitably pulled her from bed. It's a strange feeling, to be both warmed by the knowledge of being missed, and chilled with regret for being an iconvienance.
It's still hard to be cared about. She isn't very good at accepting it sometimes.
❝ Everyone else is still asleep? ❞ She feels foolish for asking, but can't resist. Maybe it's some twisted way to figure out just how much self-inflicted punishment she deserves. Maybe Suma realizes it too, because she nods— assures that she only happened to wake up by chance. It could be true, but it's hard to tell. After another moment of silence, the kunoichi moves closer, sitting right beside slayer, smooth legs tucked under her bottom. Their arms brush with how close they are. It's enough to make Nicolette tense up for half a second before immediately relaxing by a thread.
A soft, sweet voice asks her what's wrong, and she shudders.
❝ I don't know, I— ❞ She stops, breathes in, then out, a trembling sigh. It'd be easy to just make an excuse, to brush it aside. Suma might be stubborn enough to put up a fight at first, but she'd never try and force Nicolette beyond her comfort. Yet... it feels wrong. She's trying to get better at this, at being loved, isn't she? ❝ Sometimes I have these dreams... they're not even nightmares. Not really, at least... not like I'm used to. ❞ Scarred fingers twitch in her lap, moving incessantly as she speaks. Clenching and relaxing. Picking at fabric. ❝ They're just... things I've experienced. Like I'm out on a mission... and there's all this blood. It's mine. I'm hurt real bad, and I'm laying there, all alone... and it's cold. So cold, and quiet. I can't move— I don't know if anyone will get there in time. I might die... I'm a little scared, I guess, but I'm used to it. It happened all the time before, but then I wake up, and I— I feel like I'm not really here... ❞
Like a confession, her voice falls to a trembling whisper. ❝ I wake up, and this is the dream. I'm not hurt, and I'm in bed, and I'm not alone— I'm safe, a-and... and it's not REAL. I want so badly to reach out and touch one of you, t-to just prove that it is, but... I'm so afraid that I'm wrong. That one selfish touch could ruin everything and I'd wake up all alone, covered in my own blood. Or that I might not wake up at all. I figured that it was better... better to never touch any of you again, if I could just stay in a beautiful dream. ❞
She doesn't realize she's shaking until Suma reaches out grab her hands, stopping the way they'd begun to clench so tightly that her nails left bloody, crescent-shaped wounds in her palms. ❝ But the thought of that made me feel so alone... you were all right there, but you couldn't have been further away. It was so confusing and scary. Before I knew it, I was out here... but I still didn't— don't feel like I'm in my own body. ❞ Her voice cracks with rising emotion. A gentle palm moves to cradle her cheek and lifts her head hanging head. It's impossible to hide the expression of acute grief on her face, eyes wide and glistening, lost. Suma doesn't look away, instead cupping both her cheeks, thumbs stroking awake tears— when had she started crying?
Nicolette sniffles and sinks heavily into the other's embrace as if the strings holding her up had been cut. Arms wrap tightly around her body, hands rubbing at her back and brushing through plum hair. She feels a pair of lips pressing into the crown of her hear, murmuring soft assurances and loving praise, and it's enough for the last of the tension to melt away. Wet lashes flutter closed, flushed nose burying against her lover's smooth neck to breathe in her familiar, comforting scent. Suma keeps talking, keeps touching, proving that she's here. That this is real.
The words follow even as exhaustion sets in. Sleep begins to claim her, and Nicolette dreams of nothing but a beautiful warmth surrounding her on all sides.