Here's a prompt for you: write about a mask someone wears. Can be fiction, nonfiction (about yourself, an experience, people in general), maybe a poem. What kind of mask is it? What does it look like? Why are they wearing it?
“You can stop, you know.”
The villain froze for a moment, smile almost slipping, and set down their lunch tray. The hero leaned against the table next to them, knuckles white.
“In case you haven’t noticed,” they gestured to themself. “I’m reformed. I already stopped.”
The hero waived a hand. “Not that. I know that, I’m the one who helped you do it.”
The villain kept smiling, even as the edges began to crack like fine china.
“Hero,” they said as gently as they could. “Are you alright?”
The hero stared at them for a moment, as if they weren’t sure what was happening, as if the villain’s very existence confused them. They blew an angry breath out of their nose.
“I’m fine,” the hero said pointedly. “You aren’t.”
The villain ignored them at that, sitting down to stir their lunch. It was half cold and entirely unappetizing, but happy people ate the compound rations and were happy about it. And the villain was reformed, and good, and happy. So they ate.
Their bowl disappeared from in front of them, and they studied the plastic of the table for a moment. When they looked up, the hero’s eyes burned into them.
“Stop. It.”
This time, the villain was the one who sighed. “Can I have my lunch back please?”
The hero threw the bowl an unimpressed look. “What, this crap? Nobody likes this, and I can especially tell that you don’t. Your face is exactly the same as the first time you met me, and you tried to stab me directly after that. So. Stop.”
“I don’t know what you want from me,” the villain grit out. “I’m smiling, I’m contributing, I’m doing good things. No more murder, no more crimes. That’s what you wanted, right?”
“I wanted you to want that. I wanted you to have that. I never wanted this.”
“This what, hero.”
The hero gestured to their face.
“That. That smile.”
The villain gave them a dry look, even as their smile faded. “What, I can’t smile?”
The hero regarded them, fingers laced together under their chin, food abandoned. The villain picked at a hangnail and tried to look calm. This was why they had been avoiding the hero—the villain could read them like a book, but the hero could read them just as well.
Someone clattered down the hall, laughing, and then it was just the two of them again.
“You don’t have to be happy,” the hero said quietly, “to be good.”
The fine china, the mask, shattered.
The hero sighed, but it wasn’t triumphant. Relief, maybe. Or sadness.
“Why couldn’t you have left it alone,” the villain’s voice wobbled traitorously. The hero smiled, just slightly. A smile for a smile.
“Because you were drowning in there. And you don’t deserve that.”
“I’m trying to be good,” they murmured. The hero reached out and stilled their hands before they could pick them bloody.
“You are good. But you’re also hurting. You can do both. It’s okay.”
The villain shoulders loosened, as if the hero had stolen some huge burden from them.
“Okay?”
“Okay,” the villain agreed.
The hero smiled, a soft thing.
“Only smile when it doesn’t feel like a burden to do so,” the hero stood, leaning over the villain for a moment.
They left the villain in the lunch room, staring down at their hands.
Months later, when the hero told an awful joke, the villain laughed. They smiled at the hero, and it was warm. So warm.
Yay! Just for a reminder we are talking about Oscar (2029), Aurora (2031) and Laura (2032) Perida
Any planned stories/events with the kids in your head?
Obviously, we have the ongoing time travel escapade with Aurora, so lets not talk about that.
I have talked before about the story about Laura getting her first boyfriend at 14, after she meets him at a skating camp. The guy, Alex, is also 14, and a son of a locar firehouse's truck captain and elementary school literature teacher. They're also Spanish (this is important).
Laura's ecstatic, as she is a hopeless romantic and obviously she believes that she has found the "grand love of her life" when again, she's 14, just started high school. Something that Gastón and Nina will have to deal with. Obviously there are gonna be few boundaries and rules in place, like any responsible parents' would do, when their kid is 14 and dating somebody.
Alex's parents, especially his mother, are just a tad bit intimidated by their son's girlfriend turning out to be a daughter of the basically the poster person of Castillo Corporations, a notable and quite acclaimed engineer who is rumoured to be on his way to becoming the next CEO of the company and a successful and accomplished author and literary artist (yes, Gastón and Nina have done quite well for themselves in 20 years, what else were you expecting?). Not to mention the whole granddaughter of millionaires part (Gastón's nt gonna keep his inheritance for himself. Mst of it actually goes to his kids).
Yeah... so, Laura's gonna get her heart broken, because Alex's family moves back to Spain after his Dad's promotion to battalions chief.
She has hard time comprehending the reasons because "they were in love" and that's all that should have mattered to her, ignoring all the real life reasons why a working class immigrant family might wanna return to their country. Again, she is 14.
The heartbreak clouds her judgement, to the point where she gets risky on the skating rink and falls badly.
She ends up in the hospital (yes, again with the hospital) with a pretty messed up leg and a at least a mild concussion.
So, very fun summary...
The Time Travel one, doesn't really highlight anyone in the Roller crew as parents, so this will will definitely focus on that. I mean Nina's gonna get pretty fun trauma response, given the events of my recent fic and now something similar is happening to their duaghter
I have another story kind of planned, focusing on Oscar and kind of finishing the whole arch of Stella having a crush on him... but lets save that for another day.
How are their relationships with other relatives (grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, etc)?
Well, cousins, aunts and uncles are pretty easy. They don't have any, since neither Gastón or Nina don't have siblings.
But, on the other hand, Gastón has nine cousins and Jonathan and April especially are involved with kids' lives. Basically Gastón's cousins are called aunts and uncles. And kids will have several second cousins who they hang out once in a while.
Grandparent wise: Ricardo is the fun and cooky granddad, who maybe not around that much (since he's in Miami) in person but they're in contact and he sends them games to demo and stuff like that. They do see each other too, because they travel and alot and gpt to visit Miami and stuff. I think Ricardo will find a woman or a partner there, but she won't act any sort of grandparent role.
Ana and Mora are quite involved. Ana is Granny and Mora is more often than not called Nana Mora. No one is questioning it, the kids just have three grandmothers.
Same with Gastón parents. Very involved grandparents. I think Gastón and Nina in general are closer to his parent which is actually Nina's choice. They are the go to babysitters, who you can drop the kids and the dog whenever, especially after Gastón manages to convince them to at least retire part time.
Other thing to note about especially Nina's parents is that, like I said above, they are involved with their grandchildren, but she doesn't want Ana and Ricardo to be involved together, because even when they do get along much better as the time goes on and they're aren't in the same continent for the most times. Nina does not wanna risk it. Heaven forbid she ever subjects her own kids to anything close to what she went through.
Ana and Ricardo only like see the kids at the same time during parties like birthdays and graduations. Otherwise Nina does not let them hang out with them together.
came to ask what your favourite music is! genre, band, song, instrument, any and all of the above, whatever you feel like answering! please take this as a free pass to ramble as much as you may like about any of it :)
Im not a big musical person but i really do like this singer called maher zain 😭 he does like songs about Islam and stuff so it's not for everyone but he has some really nice songs. One song I'd recommend from him though is called This worldly life :) but lately I've been listening to like video game music. Especially relaxing zelda songs, i go through phases of wanting to hear words in a song and not. Sometimes it's easier for me to focus when I'm not singing along with the lyrics in my head LOL
Am I the only one who only got into Life With Derek once they were slightly too “old” for it? I hadn’t watched it as a kid, and only saw it for the first time last year.
No, I got into it when I was 18. I only caught one episode of it when i was a kid on TV because i live in the uk and i didn't have cable (at least not at my mums house) I feel life with derek is quite universal -any age can enjoy it.
I promise I’m gonna do the requests/post more soon but I just ended finals week today (thank god) so I have had no time for anything other than studying and crying.
But now I have a month and a half of nothing so I’ll post a lot I promise, so any requests you guys have, send them, I’d love to write them. Tomorrow, though.
Hey, i really like your 2 most rescent stories about Lupa, i literally almost fell asleep midway trough contact heal. Is there any particular place i can go for living plushie stories?
Shoutout to @jades-typurriter for this story!! It was definitely a huge inspiration (just look at that tactile imagery...)
You BECOME a living plushie in this one so I think it counts
though dude I WISH I knew where to find more... If you find any yourself PLEASE let me know! I'm starving!
yes! watched across the spiderverse and it was really amazing, definitely recommend seeing it in theaters if you can. didn't realize going in that it was a 2 parter so I got to the end thinking "wait that was it?" but that was short lived
Thank you for the asks and helping me sort out my inbox 😂😅
2. If you could meet anyone on this earth, who would it be?
-This is such a hard question to answer, I have quite a few people who I admire and would love to be able to talk to. So let's break it down a little more, if you're referring to the deceased I'd have to say Carrie Fisher.
If you're talking alive...this is going to sound so sappy, but the one that got away I guess. I think when people ask this question they want some prolific answer...and I don't honestly have one.
4. What do you think about most?
-In the last year? Death. That's not to sound morbid, it's just been an integral part of my life for the last eight months. I have made plans and put things into motion so if anyone needs to take care of things after I pass, that they won't have to do much. I've learned from my dads passing.
6. Do you sleep with or without clothes on?
-I sleep naked as the day I was born lol
8. Girls...(finish the sentence); Boys...(finish the sentence)
-Girls are what I've always wanted, until recently I didn't have the courage to admit that. Boys are so complicated and messy.
10. When was the last time you played air guitar?
-Its been a while!
12. Ever stuck a foreign object up your nose?
-When was six I stuck the obligatory colorful bead waaaaay up there, and then the doctor had to sedate me to retrieve it. I also had surgery in my early 20s to repair a broken nose and had gauze up there for a week.