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hoshipills · 1 year

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Double-crosser - Part 1

The Black room

" I wish we never met. "

Pairing: Mafialeader!mingyu x fem!reader

Synopsis: The sudden news of information leak of a secret mission leaves all the members of mafia perplexed. They closed their eyes and the next second, their leader was arrested. Someone betrayed and the taste of betrayal wasn't sweet.

Warnings: mentions of weapons , blood, reader is an orphan, mentions of dark room, hard hitting betrayal so prepare yourselves, cursing, deaths, mention if more.

Genre: Mafia, angst

Word count: 2.1 k

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" The information about the secret mission got leaked."

Jihoon's voice echoed in the room.

" That means , we have to withdraw this mission. " He continued.

When Jihoon said he wanted to say something important, the members didn't expect this. They couldn't believe their ears. Who could if someone told them that information about a billion worth secret mission was leaked and it is no longer going to be implemented ? No one in the room , no one in the 13 members would betray. It was someone else . And anyone in their right senses would know this wouldn't just stop with a spread of info. If that someone knows about a extremely confidential mission, they would easily know about other minor but useful things about them.

" Who could it be ? ", Seokmin spoke first, breaking the tension.

" I think this has to do something with ICS or the Agent Moon." , Vernon said.

All the eyes in the room fell on him.

Of course, ICS( Investigation centre of South korea ) had to be mentioned. We can't forget the nasty little agent they have- Agent Moon. The only Agent who can disrupt things in the underground world. The number of missions that Agent messed is uncountable. Thank the lord, all of them weren't as important. But this one. This would get them billions of money. That was the reason it was kept a secret in the first place, not even a single fly outside of these 13 people knew about this mission, and yet it was known to the law authorities.

If Jihoon didn't find out, all of them would've been caught by the police the next day, the grand day when the mission was supposed to be executed.

" We planned this for 2 years.", Jeonghan said through his teeth.

" Forget about the plan. Right now, the mission is not the problem." , Seungcheol said with a sharp voice. It was true. All people suddenly forgot about the mission. Their mind occupied with only a single thing - who had the guts to mess with the underground business? Like Vernon said, Agent Moon made the most sense. They didn't even see Agent moon, not even aware of the gender identity. Though they act like they don't care about Agent Moon, Everyone had a unsaid grudge towards them. No matter what, it's obvious that the leader wouldn't let this slide easily.

Mingyu tapped the table in front of him slightly , drawing the attention to him.

" We need to leave this place." , He said , very well knowing that there are chances of authorities knowing about this place. " We'll discuss things further in the godown. That's the best option" , he said calmly, his tone complete contrast to his burning eyes.

The godown was definitely better. Only few people know about it's location and was easier for them to figure out the situation. The meeting went almost all day. Everyone gave their suggestions and currently guessing how else ICS could get them.

" Now that they know, there are chances for them to go for our weakness." , said Seungkwan. Everyone knew what he meant, including the leader. The only weakness they ever have is their families, now that the family is not in the picture anymore, it's definitely Y/n.

Mingyu's face dropped down to a emotionless stare. He would kill anyone who laid their fingers on her, it was a sure thing.

His hands tensed up as he pulled out his phone to call Y/ n. He must keep her safe.

" She's not answering. " , He said quietly. She must be asleep, he thought. He couldn't shrug it away that easily as he started calling all the bodyguards around the house. He didn't get response from any of them.

Shit.

Mingyu got up from the chair, hurriedly checking the time.

7: 34 P.M

The day passed like a second and he totally forgot he left Y/n in the house. No response from Y/n or the body gaurds called for an emergency. He looked at the members one last time before rushing out, some security following him along the way.

The drive to the house was fast. He could care the least about getting into an accident or hitting other vehicles. His current worry was Y/n.

On reaching the house, his figure was greeted by unconscious guards outside. " Fucking useless. " , He whispered before barging into the house. " Y/n ", he called out, hoping for her to respond. He called out a couple more times but he was only left with nothing.

He wasn't sure what he was even expecting after seeing the knocked out guards. It obviously meant something he wouldn't want to know happened.

He closed his eyes.

Is she already taken by ICS ? Is she feeling scared? Is she thinking of him, wondering if he would save her like a hero in the books? What would they do to her?

His thoughts were interrupted by a feeling of cold metal on the back of his head.

His eyes flew open.

His muscles tightened after realising what it was.

It was a gun.

He looked over his shoulder, trying to catch a glance of the intruder. All he could see was the hand that wasn't holding the gun. The hand which was wearing a ring. The same ring on Mingyu's ring finger. The couple rings he bought together with Y/n about a month ago.

No fucking way. It couldn't be.

Gunshots were heard. The noises were muffled in his head as he tried to process the situation. He closed his eyes, hoping that it was a dream and when he opens his eyes , he hoped he would be in bed, Y/n beside him. Mingyu was hit with the harsh reality when he felt her nudge him with the gun.

The woman he loved was holding a gun against him and would probably blow off his head anytime soon.

Before he could realise, police entered the scene.

Mingyu fell on his knees, his hands raised in the air. He shifted his gaze downwards and left a unbelievable scoff.

Fighting back now would be a dumb decision.

" Thank you for your help, Agent Moon. ", The head officer said as he made his way towards Mingyu. The cuffs were locked on his arms as he finally looked at her face.

It was indeed Y/n.

The information of the leader getting arrested was fast to spread.It reached Wonwoo, the head of security team, in few minutes.

" Everyone", Wonwoo said. All heads turned to him, suprised by his unusual loud tone. " Mingyu." , He said. There was an unnecessary long pause. " Mingyu got arrested."

" How could that be possible?" , Jun said with a scoff, still not believing his words.

" Y/n is Agent Moon. She got him.", Wonwoo said shortly .

Wonderful, things got more complicated.

Seungcheol, who was stalking the length of the room stopped abruptly. " She knows about the godown, they could be here anytime soon. " , He voiced. " 12 of us can't runaway without getting noticed , some of us should surrender and put our trust on the remaining to save us." , He continued.

" Chan and Hansol are needed for hacking the security system of ICS. " , Jisoo said. " Wonwoo for some power and execution, Minghao and Jeonghan for the planning. These can stay", Jihoon spoke fast as he got up. " You should stay as well ,Jihoon.", Seokmin suggested. Everyone nodded thier heads, quickly understanding the plan.

Any few of the team could stay , they would still come up with an idea to save them, but Seokmin, Soonyoung, Seungcheol, Seungkwan, Jisoo and Junhui are the assasins, better fit to get arrested. They knew the tricks to survive better.

In a matter of a second, The 6 selected ones escaped through the back door while the others stayed in the room, waiting for the worst to happen.

The godown was under the control of police few minutes later. Officers entered the large place, the things messily spread down and 6 of the seventeen members stiff in their positions.

" Arrested " , one of the men said through a microphone.

Mingyu's back was against the wall and his knees were folded up his chest by the time the members were bought to the prison. The room was dark, the only object being the table in the centre.

It was the Black room prison.

Every criminal's nightmare.

Usually a single person was kept in a single room, the door locked and all they could do was lay in the dark. Neither could move or talk. Death was a better option.

They were greeted by a Man who came into the room with some guards behind him. The door opening let some light into the room. They could see that guy in the dim light. His hair was dyed blonde and he looked too young and innocent to be a Agent. There was a chair bought and the guy sat in it as his hands rested on his sides. " Hello, my dear criminals! ", He said enthusiastically, pissing off the guys.

" Agent Moon got you good, didn't she?", He said with the smug smile on his face. " Oh" , he said as if he realised something. " I didn't introduce myself.", He straightened his back.

" I'm Yangyang, You might know me as Agent Siren.", He ended it with a sigh.

Agent siren, the members recalled. He was involved in their business long ago, almost 3 years in the past. It had been a long time since they heard of him. Nonetheless,it was hard to forgot him.

The room was greeted with another familiar person. It took them time to realise it was Y/n. She wasn't the Y/n they knew. She wasn't wearing her signature smile which was comforting. They saw the Agent moon in her. Y/n looked at Yangyang as he got up and signalled her to sit. " Long time no see, L/n Y/n ", Yangyang greeted her as she threw him a glare before sitting on the chair.

" 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 7" , she counted the people slowly. " Where are the other 6 of your buddies? ", She questioned.

Her walk, her voice, her posture, everything screamed confidence. It was so unlike Y/n they saw before.

Y/n squinted her eyes as she recieved no answer. " Open your damn mouths." , She demanded.

" What's the use? We aren't going to give you any useful answer. ", Junhui said.

Y/n suddenly smiled. " I like the answer.", She said before getting up. "Don't worry, I'll make sure to reunite all the 13 of you." , She left the room as Yangyang followed her, waving them a goodbye.

" you did great, honey. " ,Yangyang said after they made their way out. She looked at him with disgust. " Ew, don't call me that."

Yangyang and her practically grew up together. They were orphans when ICS adopted them to train them at a very young age.

They were inseparable.

Unfortunately, they had to spend 2 years away from each other due to the mission. She wasn't allowed to contact him or any other person from the ICS during the mission. So naturally, she was quite happy to finally meet him.

They reached the head of ICS after few hours.

" Finally after 20 years. " , Their boss said with a wave of relief spreading in him. " I thought this was impossible Y/n , you proved me wrong. I'm so glad you did. " , He said as he grinned widely. Y/n smiled slightly before saying, " My pleasure, sir. "

Both of them exited the room shortly after. " I still can't believe you accomplished something so big. " , Yangyang said proudly. " Everything I do is for Agent sky, Yang. " , She replied him calmly.

Yangyang knew how much she admired Agent sky. Agent sky was known for doing the missions which were considered too risky and impossible. He was a great man. He still remembered how devasted Y/n was when the news of Agent sky's death came. It happened when they were still young, training to be Agents. After his death, both of them promised each other that they would work harder to help the country for him.

His thoughts faded as he saw her fastening her pace, going way ahead of him. " Wait for me, Y/n. "

Mingyu stared into nothing, his eyes moist and his head throbbing . All the other members were spread into different rooms. He was now all alone.

It took one day for the empire their fathers built to collapse, just because he trusted a girl. His head flew back, resting on the wall. He couldn't help but go back to the time when he met her, when it all started, to the beginning of the story.

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#mingyu #kim mingyu #seventeen #seventeen mafia au #seventeen x reader #seventeen x y/n #seventeen angst #mingyu x reader

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morally-grey-girlbosses · 9 months

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The top two characters will be eligible to proceed into the bracket!

Propaganda under the cut.

Dahlia Hawthorne:

did a lot of murders and poisonings but they deserved it imo so she’s ok

She has committed so many crimes. And in an outfit that wouldn’t look out of place on Barbie at that. She’s the DEFINITION of girlboss, and she can poison me any time.

Aura Blackquill:

her brother got framed for the murder of her wife and she became bitter and evil because of it. this led to her holding an entire space center full of people hostage to get him a retrial

So she may have a robot army to take a couple people hostage, and blamed an 11 year old child for killing their own mom (who was her work partner and maybe sort of girlfriend), but in her defense her brother was about to be executed for a murder he did not commit and there was definitely some evidence that pointed towards the 11 year old being the culprit. So what else was she supposed to do? Just sit by while another important person to her is taken away and the real killer gets to go free? She tried to do things right and go through the police but that didn't work, and sometimes when you run out of options and run out of time you have to use unconventional methods. And in the end it worked and the execution was cancelled and the real killer was found (it wasn't actually the 11 year old child, now 18, but that's beside the point), so in the end things were ultimately better as a result of her actions so you can't exactly say she shouldn't have done it. So she did some things wrong but they are also understandable. I don't think she's a bad person deep down, she just got screwed over by the broken justice system.

Kidnapped a bunch of people but it was like. So the courts would do a retrial for her brother because she believed he was innocent (he was) a day before his execution, and so who she believed the true killer was (she wasn't) would take his place (she didn't) Also a lesbian <3

Franziska von Karma was submitted without propaganda, but I know AA well enough to attempt to write my own. She is obsessed with the idea of crafting the "perfect case" and goes so far as to hide evidence, manipulate witnesses, and also physically assault everyone with a whip in order to achieve it. However she was only doing it to avenge her adopted brother and at the end of the game she comes around and ends up delivering the crucial piece of evidence to save the protagonist's assistant from being killed by an assassin.

Dee Vasquez was submitted without propaganda. My attempt: She has ties to the yakuza and blackmailed one of the actors at her studio into basically being a slave to her. When he gets fed up and ends up trying to kill her she kills him in self-defense, making her one of the few "true culprits" in the series who would actually be found not guilty in an IRL court of law.

Ini/Mimi Miney was submitted without propaganda. My attempt: She was overworked to the point that she accidentally killed about a dozen people by switching their meds while sleep-deprived, then felt so bad about it that she got into a car crash, stole her sister's identity, and pretended she was dead for years. Then she killed a guy because she was worried about him revealing her secret.

Jezaille Brett / Assa Shinn:

prime example of god forbid women do anything. like cmon she just killed a bunch of people and left no trail behind so masterfully she up and haunted the entire goddamn narrative. her name is mentioned in secret messages in streets in papers in fear in mystery and we don't know her motivations still; why does she do what she does we do not know, and will never find out. fucking girlboss she's there for one case then the next we see her she's dead. what is up with this woman and why is she so important despite not seeming so ever.

Olive Green:

She qualifies as after her fiancé died from gas inhalation, she had questions about his death and suspected one of his fellow tenants to have murdered him rather than it being an accident. She consequently attempted to murder him. She rocks because we have to stan a vengeful woman!!!!!

Iris Hawthorne / Sister Iris Hazakurain / Sister Iris of Hazakura Temple:

well she’s more morally ambiguous than her sister!!!! she covered up a lot of crimes and lied about her identity to her (long series of hand gestures to indicate how complicated the boyfriend status is) Sorta Boyfriend for. like nine months i think. and she would have gotten away with it too if not for her co-conspirators fucking everything up

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strawberry022 · 1 year

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•I have to be honest with this:

It makes me laugh that someone always tries to keep Asa away from Denji and vice versa.

And he casual way he says goodbye is so weird... Like he wants to get out of there as fast as possible and stay away from Asa. So sorry but this guy makes me laugh a lot. I love you so much Yoshida lol

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•Anyway... In previous chapters we saw that Nayuta drives Denji away from Mitaka.

And in today's chapter (121) Yoshida does the same. He warns or threatens Asa telling to stay away from Denji (he thought she was a normal girl before, but now he thinks otherwise about Asa, maybe…)

It's funny because Hirofumi was the one who introduced them (chapter 104). It is very likely that he is now suspicious of Asa and will think that she is dangerous. And his job is to continue to protect Denji, either so that he does not reveal his secret identity (Chainsaw Man) and keep him away from all danger.

It's real, it's just like a novel lol What kind of Romeo and Juliet are they?

Where the protagonists suffer for not being able to be together. And the funny thing about all this is that while the others try to keep them apart, in one way or another, they will try to be together.

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•Denji's path to happiness is to be accepted and loved by others. He spent a lot of his life being alone, so, it is normal for him to want acceptance from other people.

Does Denji want the love of the fans or a more intimate love? You know what I mean.

Also not to be forgotten is his monologue when he talked about Denji's heart. "Everyone wants the chainsaw heart, but what about Denji's heart? Nobody wants it, huh?!"

And remember in part one, he wanted a lot of girlfriends, but that can change now if he gets true love. We don't know if he will be with Asa or someone else.

Maybe, at some point, Denji will have to choose if he wants the love he gets for being Chainsaw Man or if he wants the love for being himself. Fame or real love, take your pick.

And in Asa's case, somehow, she has to learn to accept and love herself as she is in order to achieve her own happiness. How could she love other people if she doesn't love herself first, Mmmm?

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•They are lonely teenagers looking for love and both are looking for some kind of connection with another person, be it friendship or romantic love. Strong and real relationships, not fake.

Yes, the love of family and friends is important, but romantic love is different in many ways. That special connection that you can have with another person makes it unique. And it's possible that both Denji and Asa need to feel that true feeling, you know?

Did you realize that these brotherly relationships are almost always obstacles to reaching the long-awaited romantic love? I mean, if it's not the family, it's the enemies that stand between the romance.

Having family, friends and a partner would be very greedy for them, right? So they have to choose because they can't have everything. Either it's family/friends or it's romance

And here comes the great dilemma they have because they both have secret identities. Because how could they have a real relationship if they hide their identities? Denji being the chainsaw. Yoru desperately seeking to create a weapon to kill Chainsaw Man, and Asa witnessing all this trouble.

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•But it's a matter of time before they're together again. Will they fight together? I don't think they'll find out their identities yet.

#denji #chainsaw man denji #asa x denji #csm asa mitaka #asaden #asa mikata #asa denji #yoshida hirofumi #chainsaw man manga #chainsaw man part 2 #chainsaw man #chainsaw man spoilers #nayuta csm #csm yoru

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mermaidsirennikita · 16 days

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ARC REVIEW: Unladylike Rules of Attraction by Amita Murray

4/5. Releases 5/14/24.

Vibes: "must marry or else", vaaaaague guardian/ward sorta kinda?, two people living on the edge of English society, light mystery

Heat Index: 6/10

Court sitar player Anya doesn't expect to inherit much, if anything, when her client dies. But the Dowager Countess Budleigh has left Anya half her fortune--with one condition. She must marry by her twenty-fifth birthday... which is four months away. Otherwise? The money will go to Lord Damian Ashton, the family outsider and now trustee. (Oh--and they think he killed his way to the title.) As Anya begins looking for a husband, Damian is there, initially to irritate and then, when she's accused of murder by the Budleighs, to help. The question is--if they make it out of this, can he bear to see her with someone else?

The second in Amita Murray's Marleigh Sisters series, I found Unladylike Rules of Attraction faster-paced and more exciting than the first installment, which is always lovely. The chemistry between Anya and Damian had me immediately--and though the relationship unfurled a bit more rapidly than I expected, their back and forth remained a treat. As did the very true reality of them both living on the edges of English society, seen as oddities or fetishized due to their races (Anya had a white father and an Indian mother, and Damian's grandmother was a Jamaican Black woman).

So while I do have nitpicks here and there, I have to say that this was an engaging romp with serious insights.

Quick Takes:

--If you enjoy romantic leads that snark, you'll be into this. Damian and Anya are kind of at each other's throats from the jump, but in, like, a fun way. They both find each other annoying, mostly because they want to bone, and I support that. I also really love the marriage plot setup: she's supposed to marry, or he gets everything, so maybe the best thing would be for them to marry each other...? But NO, God NO, that would be AWFUL.

Damian also has a lovely younger brother who enters the scene as a supporting character. He initially thinks that his brother is making a play for Anya, and the "I am quietly seething from across a ballroom" content was great.

--But, as I mentioned earlier, there's a lot of quiet understanding these two have for each other. Anya is seen as an exotic marvel at Queen Charlotte's court... to an extent. There isn't much actual real respect there, because women hate her (and let's be real, are often jealous of her) for who she is and men want to fuck her without offering any legitimacy or respect.

Although Damian didn't have an identical experience to Anya, he's also very much an outsider. I mean, people just assume this guy murdered someone to get a title... basically, let's be real, because he's of Jamaican descent. The novel is covering, basically, a lot of nasty, racist shit. However, it maintains an optimistic, if realistic attitude, and understanding reality doesn't mean that Murray is going to keep her leads from falling in love. It's a tough balancing act, and I think she executed it well.

--That said, these two do move pretty fast. And I'm not someone who loves a slow burn, right? I enjoy reading sex on the page early. It's not that the sex happens so EARLY in this book. It's more that I don't think there was quite enough build up between Damian and Anya. The chemistry was there, but when it began I was pretty surprised.

It's not a huge issue, but if I had to give a critique, that would be my main one.

--One thing I really appreciated was the way Murray dealt with Anya's trauma surrounding her separation from her sisters. She knows where they are, she loves them--but she can't really bring herself to be close to them because of this chasm of years apart. She wants to be! She feels guilty! But that doesn't make her reluctance built on years of separation go away.

--The mystery and murder stuff here is pretty light; there's nothing that's too much to bear here. But I found it entertaining, and I can be a hard sell with mystery, so that's a good sign.

The Sex:

This is an open door romance. It's not super explicit, it's not over the top. There are a few scenes, nothing super wild, and I do think Murray could go into a bit more detail with it. But as it is: if you enjoy a Lorraine Heath level of heat (and I do too, I could always appreciate more though), you'll enjoy these.

Moving along at a clip, Unladylike Rules of Attraction is both romantic and astute. I see it being compared to Bridgerton, and while I get that on paper... First off, this is a lot smarter in general than that show. Second, it's certainly more attentive to the issues of race. If you want something fun and different and very much its own thing, check this out.

Thanks to NetGalley and Avon for providing me with a copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

#romance novel blogging #arc reviews #netgalley #book reviews #book recs #books #romance novels

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eletricheart · 1 year

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Karma is a relaxing thought

(Mira Kano x Reader)

*image creds to owner

ps: I tried to make this most dialogue but that is my weakness, sorry😭

Word count: 647

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An expiring visa was the only thing that could get in the way of your relationship with Mira.

While it took her days to admit her feelings, once she did you were always together. Mira knew the games, and being beside you made her feel more in control, as if she could protect you forever.

However, the beach was having a problem with the noise of shooting practice, therefore the executives were busy coming up with a solution. Mira wanted to leave with you, especially not knowing what you were playing, but you insisted that she stayed, asking her to make sure a war doesn't start while you're gone.

It was a relatively quick spades game, you were supposed to leave unharmed but this new player mistook you for a threat and threw you off the stairs.

He panicked once realizing the damage but your friends found you in time and took you back to the beach.

Mira was furious once she saw your injuries, you were barely able to stay conscious through the whole trip. Other than you and Mira, Ann and Chishiya were the only one allowed in the room, helping with bandaging and accessing your condition.

You woke up a few hours later to a worried Mira sitting beside you on the bed and waiting.

She noticed your movement right away, smiling at you once your eyes opened. "Hi there, you okay?"

"Yeah, just feeling like I fell down the stairs. Curious, right?" You answered not only attempting a joke but also coughing when trying to laugh.

The woman gave you a glass of water as your breathing went back to normal. "I told you to let me come, now you're hurt and I had to stay here dealing with these…people." She said, pouting.

You smiled and held her hand. "I know, my love, but it would've hurt more to see you in this bed. Besides, it was all an honest mistake, the boy already apologized."

She furrowed her eyebrows at this, not being aware that your accident wasn't that much related to the game itself. "What do you mean by a mistake?"

Your eyes widened at this and a nervous laugh got out. "Mistake? I didn't say that, in fact I'm suddenly very sleepy."

She narrowed her eyes at you. "Who did this to you?"

You closed your eyes and sighed. "He is just a kid, Mira. He didn't mean it."

"Who?"

You pulled her closer to you. "I didn't catch his name, he is new here. I think he was speaking to me on the way back but I'm not sure if it was an hallucination."

She nodded and gently hugged you, positioning her head on your chest.

She kept a close look on you, always ready for anything you needed, but also searching for the boy's identity. Your proximity wasn't new but her anxiety skyrocketed during your bed rest days, making her even more attached than usual, and you didn't mind, finding it all lovely.

A few days later, the boy died in a hearts game, Mira's satisfied smirk didn't come unnoticed but neither did yours.

You looked at her after receiving the news. "Funny how he died and no one else did."

She turned to you with a smile. "I suppose it is."

"Will you tell me how you did it?"

She faked a gasp. "How rude of you to assume I did this."

"Mira, you threatened him at least ten times a day, and you almost killed the kid when he brought flowers."

She rolled her eyes. "That doesn't mean I would do this, threatening is very different from murder. It was all just an unlucky game, it happens all the time. Does it not?"

You laughed and turned to hug her. "I can't wait to hear the true story."

She chuckled and hugged you back with a smile.

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#aib fluff #aib imagines #aib x reader #aib #aib mira #alice in borderland #mira kano x reader #mira kano #non canon

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overlyimmersed · 9 months

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Maybe this one's dumb, but...

There's something that just...bugs me. I think about it way too much.

Why exactly did Harlequin kill Helbram? The first time I mean.

That was his best friend for centuries, maybe their whole lives, and he...did even try to help him... He didn't try to talk him down, he didn't do anything. He didn't say anything. He just listened to Helbram scream for like a minute and then chose...violence... He didn't even seem to hesitate.

Something was seriously wrong with a very important person to him, something that made no sense, and he barely even asked for an explanation! I just...

I don't get it...

I don't get how he had the heart to act like that. I don't get why he didn't even try... I don't get it. And it bothers me deeply...

All the times I've seen that episode, all the times I've tried to reconcile the facts and I just... come up empty... Harlequin's choices that entire day make no sense to me.

He did the same thing to Diane right after. Not the same degree obviously, but he just chose to erase himself from her life on impulse. And he clearly didn't actually grasp the consequences of that decision either, all it really did was confuse her. She remembered everything that mattered, all he managed to erase was his identity in her memory, not the occurrences themselves.

Why was he so impulsive with the lives of the people who meant most to him? Why didn't he stop to think about what was actually best for either of them? Why...didn't he even try to come up with literally anything else?

He came upon situations he didn't know how to handle and his only answer was simply to make them disappear...

We're never really going to have answers to these questions. And I don't know how much I actually care to have answers, really. Like I don't think knowing why will make me feel any better about any of it. And, sure, there are plenty of ways we can try to defend him or at least be sympathetic. Give him the benefit of the doubt, or simply try to explain these things for the sake of peace of mind... But I don't think there's any true justification.

And sure, maybe there was no way to save Helbram. Maybe they would always have ended up in an altercation, maybe there really was no way around that conclusion. That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is simply that it was Harlequin's first answer. His best. friend. and he didn't even try anything else before going nuclear. If he has tried to talk Helbram out of his rampage, if he'd tried to actually help, I'd feel differently. I just... can't sit with amicicide being the go-to.

#seven deadly sins #nanatsu no taizai #7ds #nnt #7ds king #nnt king #7ds harlequin #nnt harlequin #fairy king harlequin #7ds Helbram #nnt Helbram #7ds discussion #I guess...#I don't know #it's messed up man #forgive me for taking cartoons too seriously but...#it just...makes me uncomfy inside... I don't know...

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The Blacklist rewatch, Tom's death and bad motherhood representation

I don't care that most Blacklist fans didn't like Tom, that they hated that Liz took him back instead of dating boring Ressler or old Reddington, I'll always be thankful that he stayed for 4 seasons and a half, and very bitter that he was killed off while he was with Reddington the only true GREY characters of the show, and actually brought something.

I saw someone say the show really turned bad after he died and I'm not far from agreeing.

And I for one think he got a redemption too easily, and that Liz looked very naive believing him after he lied to her about his true identity and his presence in her life since the beginning...

But at the end of the day, there was something very... irresistible.... about this man who was 200% dedicated to this woman and his child, who genuinely wanted to lead a peaceful life with them and who became feral if anyone touched Liz.

And I hadn't realized before, but in the car that brought him and Liz at the hospital, Liz thought that Tom would make it and she would die.... and he just begged her to stay with him, because he couldn't live without her. And then she closed her eyes and he thought her dead. That's when he lost the will to live and died at the hospital, while HE WAS SUPPOSED TO MAKE IT! And I'm supposed to be ok? Duh.

What I can't, WON'T accept is that Liz just abandoned her daughter for months to live alone in the woods and mourn Tom there. I'm sorry but no mother in her right mind would leave a one year old baby she couldn't t see for 10 months under the care of a woman who's..... A fucking criminal no less?! Tom's mother, who wasn't even his mom for 30 years and who had never seen the baby before! Only a man could have put this shit out of his ass. At least she could have asked Harold Cooper, who she said was the closest to a father she ever had...

Or no, she should just have never abandoned her daughter at all. The excuses "I'm too angry", it's bs. What's sadder is that it's only the first of a long list of bad choices that Liz did with her daughter. And just like Liz was better off without her deadbeat mother Katarina, Agnes was way safer without Liz. I just can't understand how the writers thought it was a good idea to write Liz this way...

In my opinion, Agnes was a mistake. A BIG one. Once she was born it was clear that the writers had no idea what to do with this baby, and as a result she was basically absent all the time because her parents were too busy doing.... anything else than parents are supposed to be doing! It's a really shame that they gave this "bad mother" angle to Liz, because without that, I LOVED "Darth Lizzie". I loved that she turned dark at last, that she stopped being always nice and pretty and boring, with her weird mood regarding Reddington that changed all the time, and made her very inconsistent as a character.

I was like, "let her do bad things, yeah!! but... the kid?"

#The blacklist #tom keen #liz keen #keen2 #dark liz

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Accidental Siblings AU Headcanon #7

[Ramblings related to my fic, Accidental Siblings.]

Still working on the next installment of drawing baby Bokushi in cute clothes so while that's in the midst of getting completed, lemme drop another headcanon for y'all rq. This time, I'm gonna talk about skinship dynamics between Bokushi and his family/friends.

CONTENT WARNING: BRIEF SPOILERS. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Seijuro - he is obviously the person Bokushi feels comfortable with the most. I've already touched on it in headcanon #2, but Bokushi is comfortable with pretty much all types of skinship with Seijuro short of kisses. It's baby-talking he despises because he still has the mental age of 16. But he is actually fine with and sometimes even seeks out physical affection with Seijuro because Bokushi is so used to sharing a mind with him that it feels weird to be separated from Seijuro for extended periods of time. Not much else I can say on this that I haven't said already.

Mibuchi - Since Bokushi was used to being fawned over by Mibuchi long before he was ever reborn outside of Seijuro's body, Bokushi is also comfortable being on the receiving end of skinship with him. But he doesn't initiate anything with Mibuchi the way he does with Seijuro. However, Mibuchi does have free range to squeeze hug him and give him head pats, and he also gets kissing rights (nee-san privileges). Around Mibuchi, Bokushi frequently receives forehead kisses. Mibuchi claims he can't resist because Bokushi is too adorable. Seijuro doesn't blame him one bit.

Hayama - I would say for him since he's the playful type, his type of skinship with Bokushi would probably involve a lot of head ruffles and arms around the shoulder. On occasion, if he and Bokushi are doing something together, he could get Bokushi to sit between his legs. But that would be about it.

Nebuya - I think he would be similar to Hayama in terms of skinship. I'm sure at some point he tried to incorporate friendly claps on the back the way he tries to do with the rest of his teammates but he ends up doing it too hard and Bokushi's back feels like it's on fire afterward. So, after getting scolded by Seijuro and Mibuchi for almost killing Bokushi, Nebuya now tries to be very gentle with his touches. And it does work!

Mayuzumi - He... is an interesting one. At the current point in the story (chapter 20), he still doesn't know Bokushi's true identity. So, if Mayuzumi was assuming he was a regular kid, I don't think he would really bother with any type of skinship aside from the obligatory ("hold my hand so you don't wander off, kid.) But when there comes a point in time where he figures out Bokushi's identity, the skinship would probably decrease even more than that, LMFAO. He's a tsundere by nature, what more can I say?

Teiko gang - I don't think Bokushi would initiate/receive any extra skinship from the Teiko gang, though. In Rakuzan, he's the youngest of the group, so even before being reborn as a 5 y/o, Akashi was getting babied by his team anyway. But the Teiko gang are his friends and Bokushi doesn't feel compelled to seek out any physical contact from them apart from what he's used to already, which is high fives, fist bumps, and the occasional arm around the shoulder. The only thing that would change is that Bokushi would probably let Murasakibara put him on his shoulders. Bokushi always wondered what the view was like up there.

Miyoko - she is the most liberal with her affection because she's a child, so she's always holding Bokushi's hand and hugging him. Bokushi is fine with her doing that and eventually gets to a point where he's comfortable reciprocating, but until then, the most he'd do is hold her hand and also give her head pats when trying to comfort her (because that's what Seijuro does for Bokushi when he's being comforted). However, Bokushi does fuss over her a lot the way he would fuss over his teammates back in Teiko because he can't help but mother hen those he cares about.

Masaomi - at the moment, Bokushi and Masaomi's dynamic in terms of skinship is giving "go girl give us nothing" vibes. But I would like to think that as they slowly warm up to each other and heal from their past, Bokushi might be more comfortable around him and would maybe get to a point where he would allow skinship. But you'll just have to see about that, won't you? 😏

Anyway, I just wanted an excuse to make a cute post, so I hope you enjoyed that.

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Was Cap the one who popularize that odious take about the Slithers being the good guys? Cause I cannot imagine what mental gymnastics one has to take to believe that a group of terrorists who kidnap and kill people and assume their identities, conduct blood experiments indiscriminately and burns villages down, turn innocent people into demonic beasts, assassinate political figures, have nukes of mass destruction, calls everyone a "beast" , speak and have dialogue like saturday morning cartoon villains (seriously listen to Solon and Thales' banter), and of course being racist and have committed genocide are the good guys.

I don't know if he popularized it, and to be completely fair he doesn't say TWS are the good guys... just that the Nabateans are basically just as bad as them. Which might actually be worse than saying TWS are good arguably.

If I were to take a shot as to why either of these takes have gotten so much traction, my guess would be that it's all (predictably) to make Edelgard look better. While she does play lip-service to the idea of taking out TWS, and "would have stopped them" from do certain things (such as her saying she would have stopped Remire had she known it would happen), the truth is that a lot of that... isn't true. Like, some of it is straight up lies - she literally did know Remire was going to happen and did nothing to stop it, directly against what she tells Jeralt and Byleth. She only ever takes down TWS after her war - after she's wrung all the use out of them.

The truth is that Edelgard does nothing against them unless forced to by others - she doesn't try to stop Remire, she doesn't rat out Kronya or Solon when they pose as Monica and Tomas, and she flat out helps Thales get his hands on Flayn and literally doesn't try to help get Flayn back afterwards. In fact, that last thing has her outright help TWS get Flayn by directly helping the Death Knight if 25 turns pass.

It's very clear that Edelgard is fine enough working with TWS that she will directly help them achieve their goals in exchange for them helping her achieve her goals. But that clashes with the idea that Edelgard is the nicest bestest sweetest kindest caringest person in the whole wide world who's only ever forced to do mean things because the world and every single person in it hates her and the shoes she walked in with. So instead of actually acknowledging what Edelgard is doing, and acknowledging her villainous tendencies as her villainous tendencies, they just make the targets she personally hates the most - the Nabateans - out to be the real bad guys, in an attempt to justify Edelgard's actions as "necessary."

Now, in this hypothetical, since the Nabateans are "just as bad" as the Agarthans, Edelgard has "no choice" but to side with some form of evil for the greater good. Now she's "brave" for trying to finish a genocide, because those genocide survivors are just as bad as (if not arguably worse than) their genociders. TWS' proclivity for torture, murder, kidnapping, and human experimentation is fine for Edelgard to either ignore or directly help in doing, because siding with the Nabateans would've been no better.

Edelgard can't help but do and be evil, her hands are forced to grab hold of a weapon and do violence. She wants to do good, but she is helpless to do anything but bad, because the world and everyone in it hates her and forces her to do bad. That is how, if no one else, Cap'n genuinely sees Edelgard: a helpless victim of fate who makes zero active choices, who physically can't make choices to do and be good without Byleth coming around to save her. Because viewing her in that way absolves her of all accountability for what she's done to countless people, and the only way to do that is to make her victims deserving of what she does to them so that she stays completely in the right. And the result of that is, well, about as bad as you can imagine

#ask #anon #o captain my captain #which makes the general Edelstan reaction to Lobotogard kinda funny ngl lmao #like THEY'RE the ones that made her out to be a helpless victim of Thales with no control or say in literally anything at all #but then they get mad at Hopes for making her just that #but anyway yeah that's my guess as to why this shitty as hell take has gotten any steam; just another way to make Edelgard look better #We Been Know that they don't like the Nabateans so it's not a real wonder they'd outright demonize them to make the waifu shine brighter

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Professor Jonathan Moore. That's his new path, his new identity. Joe Goldberg had to turn the pages of his past to start a new journey.

I thought I could enjoy my European journey in absolute serenity. Thing is I was wrong. Being a professor in London had proved me that I couldn't escape my past. Heartbreak is the catalyst for a new path. That's what I needed, I needed to find the old me, maybe...Maybe avoiding any sort of attachment this time? Relationships aren't really my thing. We know that, right? We know how it ended last time. It usually ends in blood, heartbreak, people die, I shouldn't get involved.

Jonathan has been teaching during mornings what he loved the best. Literature. Books were his life and he feels in his environment while he was talking to his student. Students had their eyes on him, of course Joe was still very appealing and good looking.

I said this before I am not interested into getting involved. Nope. No more. I have promised myself to avoid these irrelevant attentions.

Joe may have promised himself to stop getting himself sentimental involved but whenever he looks at his weeding ring, there was only one thought. He missed having someone in his life, he literally missed everything. Especially these days. Let's be honest. A wolf can't lose his vices.

Bad habits. I am a new man, a loved professor at the academy. I have changed after Love, after Beck and some other one night stand encounters. You can't affect me anymore, you cannot do anything to me.

Often Joe was lost in his head and while he was thinking of all his bad habits, he was in his flat after a long day at work. He was looking at the window spying on his neighbour.

Oh, hello there you. I know what you are doing. You are thinking that someone is watching you from the other side while you are enjoying your evening. I know, I have been saying that I would have stopped but I miss having someone in my life. Maybe I miss that special someone that would change my life completely. A soul mate. I miss it. I miss the thrill, the craving, the yearning, the kissing, the passion. I could stare at the window and slowly who I was watching was someone else...

Joe has been staring outside the window but the woman that was staring at in his mind was Love. As a twisted memory she was touching her body, dancing slowly with music on, naked while her gaze stared back Joe from the other side of the window inviting him to come in. Joe was pierced while his hand had went down to himself unable to stop himself from doing so.

No, no no. I am not doing this. Not anymore. No! Stop it!* He shook his head noticing that the woman wasn't Love but just his neighbour. *It was just a bad dream. You are dead. Dead. That's it. I won't let ruin my life like this from you.

As much as he hated it, his words aren't matching his body, his eyes and his red cheek. He turned just away, closing the curtains. No more You.

I won't let it happen again. I am not a murderer... I just did some mistakes but I want to fix it. Many times my vain attempts to show love have ended in blood. Nothing is wrong with me. Some poets said that some men have different ways to love. You don't need to be afraid of me. Maybe this year something will change.

The saddest true of all. I am completely alone. I have always been alone ever since I was a kid. That's the true. The saddest true of all. I have come to the conclusion that I am the real problem, I'm the real monster. I hadn't anybody in my life who really loved me, completely, hopelessly just the way I did love them. I just wanted to make this world a better place and since I couldn't do with people I wanted to clean up these scumbags, these spoiled cunts. I did this...I am the maker of my own downfall. Perhaps I should just do it. Kill myself. That's the only option.

Joe was still trying to figure out what the hell happened in the past few months ever since he killed Love, he abandoned his kid and got heartbroken with Marienne. He did this, all of this just to justify, just to not feel alone. Loneliness is worse than depression it has been said.

Slowly but gradually he found out that he had a Rhys' towel with. He wanted to smell his scent, as much as that was a sweaty scent, he wanted to feel.. Something. Someone. He missed having someone. The invention of his own loneliness. A figment of what he might want. What he really wanted after all. Joe wanted to be that man, the man who claimed that is possible to change. Joe picked yo one of his pictures. This morning he found a gun. He thought that Love could even make him pancakes for him but instead in the fridge there weren't pancakes but just a gun. You should just kill yourself you stupid idiot.

Joe shook his head. Instead, he decided to check on Rhys' profile. He wanted to find the real him, the man which Joe got obsessed over the past few months, well more than an year back in France when he found his book. That's where all started, all his obsession.

Someone it playing tricks with me again. I just want to get back to my European holiday that's all. I just want to find peace for once. Still it seems that a mystery is waiting for me to be solved. Dammit, it really feels like to be in a Agatha Christie book right now. All these years I have been the obsessive lover, the obsessive man but right now I feel like I am the prey. Someone very close to this group of people knows who I am. Shit shit.

Joe has been staring at the wall where he saw all the pages, the journals. Beck, Love, Madre linda, Peach. He saw all his life on the wall. Was someone interested in him? Someone who wanted to expose him? If it is that so then why he/she made him take care of Malcom's body.

Such neat, well, neat... Whatever this is, it was his job done. One of these rich douchebags was trying to frame me, making me look like a trouble. The new American man, aka me is trying to be framed. I hated Malcom myself but who could hate him more than I did? Phoebe? Kate Galvil, the unsatisfied girlfriend or Adam the guy who likes having golden showers? This is a maze. Maybe I have been brought here for a reason. Someone dragged me in this place to make me appear as the bad guy of the situation. Quinn's family is still in my life. I allowed this to happen to me... My student was right, usually is the second suspect seems to be the second victim and that's why all happened to Simon Soo. I have missed it. In this circle of sickos, only Rhyn seems to be the man who even understands me. Even him could be considered a suspect? I don't know, but I will find out. Soon.

#joe goldberg #penn badgley #you #you netflix #roleplay #writers on tumblr #writings

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Liù'ěr Míhóu joins the jttw gang, or: How to redeem an all-hearing celestial monkey with a superiority complex and a seriously bad attitude

Chapter ten: A revelation, pt. 02

“You better have good reason to wake us before even the sun is up!”, grumbled Zhū Bājiè, as he rubbed the sleep out of his eyes.

Sūn Wùkōng rolled his eyes: “Oh, don't start whining! You sleep too much anyway, lazybone!”

Shā Wùjìng was more concerned than grumpy. “What happened, Eldest Brother?”, he asked. “You said it was an emergency, but Master is here and safe.”

Tripitaka just let out an unintelligible grumble.

Bái Lóng Mă and Liù'ěr Míhóu looked drained. No wonder, after all the latter had been crying all night and the former had comforted him all the while.

“It's a different kind of emergency, Old Shā”, Wùkōng explained. “Liù'ěr Míhóu here-”

“Sūn Wùhuàn”, corrected Tripitaka (oh, he was finally awake enough to talk!).

Wùkōng rolled his eyes again. “Whatever. Anyway, he has something to say.”

“He?”, echoed Tripitaka.

Liù'ěr Míhóu had paled and was staring at Wùkōng in horror. “You-”

“Yeah, yeah, I was awake. Now spill!”

The Macaque looked like he wanted to sink into the ground, but Bái Lóng Mă gave him an encouraging nudge and he took a deep breath.

“I …” Hesitation and another deep breath. “… I'm not … I'm not a female.”

Tripitaka was visibly nonplussed, Bājiè looked like he didn't give a fuck and Shā tilted his head in curiosity.

“My body and voice are feminine”, Liù'ěr Míhóu continued. “But I'm not … I'm not a She. I'm a He.”

An icy silence fell over them.

For a few moments the six of them sat like that, five of them staring at the Six-Eared Macaque, whose ears and tail twitched with anxiety.

In the end the silence was broken by Bājiè: “Okay.”

Liù'ěr Míhóu gawked at the pig demon: “What? 'Okay'?! No mockery? No telling me that no, I'm a female? No telling me, that I'm sick, confused or a freak? No disregarding my identity? Because that's what they all do!”

“Bullshit!”, snapped Wùkōng. “And another thing: you have some explaining to do, Mister! Why did you never tell us you're actually a guy?! You never corrected us, when we used the wrong pronouns and got your temperament¹ wrong! Why?!”

“Would it have made a difference?!”, spat the Macaque. “Would any of you have accepted my gender and taken me seriously, or would you have continued treating me as a woman, like literally everyone else does?! Except for two creatures in all of China, no one has ever accepted me for who I was! Why would you be different?! We don't even like each other! What makes you think I'd trust you with my true self, when I can't even be certain, that you won't kill me in my sleep?!” He sniffled. “Fuck this! What's even the point of telling you all that? To you I'm just an impersonator and a robber, am I not? The only beings in creation who care are Bái Lóng Mă and a female crow demon² I haven't seen in decades!”

He sniffled again, but didn't break into tears.

Now Shā stood up, came over and sat near the six-eared monkey.

“Six-Eared Macaque?”

The white monkey glared up at the river demon.

“Please don't make assumptions about us, Youngest Brother.” Shā's voice was gentle, but firm. “We're not so shallow as to reduce people to what they look like. Just take a look at us and tell me, if we'd have much ground to stand on, if we did.”

“…”

“What I mean is, we accept you. And if you need time to believe that, that's okay. Just don't tell us what we think and what we don't. If I understand you right, you thought that if you told us about your true temperament, we'd believe it to be just another lie. But don't worry, Youngest Brother. If you say you're a man, then that's what you are. Eldest Brother is just grumpy, because he has been wrong about you the whole time and didn't realise.”

Wùkōng held back a smile; dear, understanding and sensible Shā!

“What about slaphead?”, Liù'ěr Míhóu asked and pointed at Tripitaka.

The monk was still staring at him, like he had grown another head.

Zhū Bājiè scooted over and waved a hand in front of Tripitaka's face. “Master? Can you hear me? Helloooo? Wood Mother³ to Scripture Pilgrim? Are you in there?”

No response.

The Pig Demon sighed. He looked completely done, as he turned to the rest of them.

“Guys … I think we broke our master.”

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Tripitaka.exe has stopped functioning. Please reboot your Scripture Pilgrim.

1) The Chinese word for temperament (xing) can also mean gender (the characters are different, but pronounced the same way). I actually learned that from a post from this account: https://www.tumblr.com/antidotefortheawkward (I swear, the things I learn from hellsite ...) 2) The female crow demon is an OC that will appear in later chapters. ^^ 3) Wood Mother: one of Bajie's many nicknames in the novel.

#journey to the west #sun wukong #tripitaka #liu er mihou #bai longma #zhu bajie #sha wujing

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Darling, I am a Nightmare Dressed Like A Daydream

The Corinthian x Journalist!Reader

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Fandom: The Sandman

Plot: You are a Journalist writing about the recent murders committed by the Corinthian. While at a diner a well dressed man with sunglasses interrupts. He tells you that he has information on The Corinthian and you agree to go on a walk You realize too little too late who he is.

Warnings: This does not have a happy ending.

A/N: Just felt like writing some genuine angst

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You sit in the little diner typing away on your laptop. You're focused, you have a deadline you have too meet. The waitress stops by interrupting your thought.

"You would like refill y/n?" she asks. You don't look away from your screen when you answer.

"Yes that would be wonderful." you reply. She tops your cup off before heading over to the next customer. You pick up the mug blowing off the steam before taking a sip. You'd been publishing articles and updating your blog about the most recent Corinthian killings.

There were so many theories out there. So many blogs, podcasts and articles. It was something the true crime community had never seen before a serial killer who hadn't been caught. Who was more than one person, and those people had kept the same consistency throughout all these years that it was almost like it was the same person. He was like Jack the Ripper. No one knew his identity.

Ding

The little bell on the front door rings out. Alerting everyone to the presence of a new comer. You don't bother looking, it's probably one of the regulars. You put your earbuds back in pressing play on the podcast you are listening to.

You are using it as a source for your article.

One of the things about you is that you don't like to be perceived. So you are very aware when someone is watching you. You glance over to the man walking up to your table.

He is well dressed and wearing dark circular sunglasses. He leans down looking at you. You pause the podcast and take your earbuds out.

"Can I help you?" you ask.

"I believe you can," he smiles. You can't quite place his accent. It's southern you know that. But you aren't sure where in the south he's from.

"I am busy." you say

"You're y/n right?" he asks. "I have read your articles, and I follow your blog."

"So you are a fan?" you ask. There are a few people who actually know that you are the mastermind behind the famous blog 'Live or Die', so it was rather odd to run into someone who actually knew your face.

"You could say that." he says. "I actually have some information on The Corinthian if you would like to hear it." he says.

"I am listening."

"I would prefer if we talked somewhere else." he says.

"You don't want to be seen with me?"

"More like I don't want anyone eavesdropping. I have information that no one else has. And since you are my favorite journalist. I want to give you the first take."

Your interest is peaked down. What does this man have that no one else does?

"Why me?"

"The way that you paint The Corinthian with your words. It's the best I have ever read. And I have read them all."

"Sounds like you are trying to inflate my ego."

"Little flattery never hurt anyone."

"Alright." you say. You make sure your document is saved before putting your laptop away. "I will hear you out."

"Thank you." he says. You leave some money on the table for the coffee before getting up and leaving the diner with him. You walk with him.

"So tell me then. What information do you have?"

"Why the eyes. Its what you want to know. Isn't it?"

"More so I want to know why he does with them. I know why."

"Do you?" he says "Tell me why?"

"He doesn't feel seen." you say. "That's actually what I am writing my article about."

"Is it?" he sits down on a bench. He gestures for you to sit down. You do.

"Yes. I mean why else would he go for the eyes?" you ask. "He doesn't feel seen. And this is his way of saying so. I mean at least for the current corinthian. I can't really speak for the others."

"Current Corinthian," he chuckles shaking his head. "Why does everyone assume its different people."

"Humans don't live for that long..." you say. You are suddenly very aware that the two of you are alone. "I mean some people think its the same person. They can't really explain you know how. But anything is possible if you think about that weird sleeping sickness that happened in the early 1900s"

"Yeah." he puts his arm around you. "I must confess I have ulterior motives for bring you out here." he smiles.

"Oh?" that smile of his. "Really?"

"Let me let you in on a little secret. I don't take the eyes because I don't feel seen. I take the eyes because I find that they hold all of someone's humanity." he smiles. You didn't know why you didn't see it before. "You have really beautiful eyes." he tilts your chin towards him.

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A woman dressed all in black walks up to you. She gives you a soft smile. She has an ank around her necklace.

"Hello," she says.

"Oh." you say. "Fuck."

"Come on." she extends her hand out to you. She gives The Corinthian a disappointed look.

He just gives her a smile as he cleans off his blade. You take her hand and leave.

#the corinthian x reader #the corinthian #the sandman series #sandman x reader #no happy ending

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I’m seeing comparisons between camie and toga and bro, camie doesn’t do shit without consent 🤨 Why does no one talk about toga’s victims and how her “way” violates them because she’s taking pleasure from their body even if it’s not sexual.

I don't remember a lot of scenes with Camine so I can't say for sure that she didn't flirt or make sex comments that didn't make people uncomfortable. But even if she did, she's not like Toga.

At worst Camie, verbally, sexually harasses people. That's not good either, and I think it says something about Hori (and men's writing in general) that flirty/sexy girls are portrayed as hyper sexual and fine with making people uncomfortable. Midnight was very much in the same vein as Camie. They are the 'sexy' archetype, so of course they flirt and make innuendos constantly because male authors don't know any other way to write characters like this. But that's a discussion for a different time.

While Camie might make some people uncomfortable with her language, Toga is far worse. It's like comparing a coworker who says some inappropriate things occasionally with Ted Bundy. They're not comparable. The coworker sucks and should be reprimanded or fired, but they're not nearly on the level as a sexual serial killer.

The writing for Toga baffles me because she could have worked but Hori just didn't pull it off. Her entire issue is that people don't accept her--that they rejected her, but form what we've seen that just isn't true. She had friends in school and they liked her just fine. Her parents were put off by her Quirk, but so far they don't seem to have been physically abusive like Kotaro was with Tenko or as neglectful as Enji was to Touya.

I'm sure she felt bad having to hide such an important part of her character from people, but it's hard to feel bad for her when that hidden part is getting off to sucking someones body dry of blood and wearing their identity as a second skin. This isn't the same as someone feeling shitty because they want to come out as gay but due to social pressures they can't. It's someone having a kink and being frustrated that they can't just blab that to everyone they meet without putting a lot of people off (or just preform their kink on anyone they want at any time).

We're not even totally sure whether or not her high-school friends knew what her Quirk was or not. For all we know, they did know her Quirk was blood drinking mixed with shapeshifting and were fine with it until she jumped a boy at school and sucked his blood by sticking a straw into his throat and draining him like a juice box. Which would off put almost anyone.

So it's hard to feel bad for her when she's rejected because she's being rejected for very valid reasons. Especially when Toga herself doesn't admit or even persevere she might be part of the problem. It's everyone else that's wrong and mean. Ochako should just be fine with her constantly straying to stab her. Izuku should accept her offer to date despite them having said maybe ten sentences to each other and her asking right as she and her pals are set to kill millions of people and try taking over the world.

So, yeah, Toga and Camie are nothing a like. Camie is a worst kind of a creep. Toga is a sexually driven serial killer with no understanding that the people around her liked her just fine until she started murdering people.

#ask #thanks for the ask!#Toga needs to learn that sometimes you need to keep ur kink to yourself

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sopebubbles · 2 years

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Friendly Fighter Fodder (vol. 1)

Please grab a warm beverage of your choice and gather round! Maddie and I want to share some of our thoughts on the ongoing BTS series, "Fighter." If this isn't your thing or you rather make up your own opinions or wait until the end to read this kind of thing, no worries! This is all just for fun because creating complex characters is one of our favorite parts of writing!

It's also important to note that there will be no spoilers here. Anything discussed will be based on information already available through the story. And with that being said...

It's time for some armchair psychoanalysis 🥳🥳🥳

Ready Jungkook?

He's ready.

So it's pretty safe to say that Y/n and Taehyung did not have a healthy relationship. They were both lying to each other. Y/n didn't even give her real name. And at this time, still doesn't use her real name. When discussing the break-up, Maddie brought up a great point... "Their relationship was unhealthy, so why would their breakup be healthier? Like, did Val explain things clearly to him? No, not at all! But is her mind in a normal place at all? Is her mind even capable of working 'normally' after so much trauma? No. She's legitimately thinking: the person I am, the real me now is such a fucked up person that Taehyung cannot possibly ever love me and I won't sit around and beg him to because I don't deserve that [love]."

Personally, I feel really bad for Y/n. Outside of everything else she's been through, she never let herself grieve the relationship she had with Taehyung. She did genuinely care about him, she even says that she loved him, but rather than accepting that which she doesn't feel she deserves, it's easier to tell herself it's all a lie. Neither of them were truthful, but it doesn't change that they had something real. Yeah. But I also think her love of him was love for the version of herself that she was with him. So mourning for their relationship is a lot about mourning the life she can't have too.

Think about it this way, between 15-20 her life wasn't her own at all. This is the time when we do so much discovery about who we are and Y/n was literally just trying to survive. Now for the last two years, she's had "freedom" and she let herself believe her life could be "normal" only to find out what she's known deep inside all along...that it was only a facade. And now she's dealing with that realization while hiding in a home with people she doesn't know and whose profession she hates and has severe trauma-associated with. Yes, exactly and it isn't as if she's consciously dealing with all that. No, she's worried about killing Joaquin because she thinks that will magically make all her problems disappear. Right. And I think there are a lot of people believe that trauma recovery always makes a person behave in sympathetic ways when that's simply not true.

I think a really important point is that her mind is a real mess and she has coping mechanisms for quieting that. Mainly through exercise. Which is why she craves it. Her sense of self is a mess. But at the point in life where most people are trying to find that sense of self and being able to try new things and meet new people to form those pieces of identity, she was a prisoner, fighting for her life. So, if her personality appears a little erratic, well, of course it does. I think on some level she's trying to figure out what the best personality is to survive and get what she needs at any given moment, but she has no flipping idea what it is. What I find really interesting is that when she justifies her feelings against Taehyung, she says that she was lying about her past and he was lying about his present, which is why he was worse than her. But in a lot of ways, Taehyung is actually the same guy she dated. He just also happens to be a gangster. Meanwhile, Val is a persona in her mind that she created because she thinks "good things" happen to girls named "Val." So yeah, Taehyung is being a massive dick in a lot of ways and he is not respecting Y/n's space, but he's just acting how he's always acted. I mentioned it in comments before, but I'll say it here again. Y/n expressed her insecurity at being left. Y/n expressed her insecurity about Taehyung not wanting to have sex with her. Y/n feels really insecure about who she is and what she looks like and whether or not Taehyung will accept her as she is. So him being possessive was a way to reassure her. He was trying to do the right thing.

Even if his behavior mirrored Joaquin's in a lot of ways, I don't think Y/n consciously recognized that. Or at least not at first. She hasn't made relationships or gotten to know people on her own before, and here she is falling for this guy who treats her like a possession and no, it's not healthy but it's what she's used to.

Y/n isn't any less toxic than Taehyung is in this situation, and she doesn't know how to be.

I think, and I wanted to illustrate this with that discussion of dreams in today's chapter, that she still really only thinks of safety, not even necessarily of happiness. She hopes that maybe, when she's safe, then happiness will find a way. That something will be clear then. She just literally doesn't know what that could even look like.

Oof. I think we'll stop there for now. Please look at this cozy picture of Tae as a token of my gratitude. Thank you for tuning in! We love interaction, so stop by any time!

#beastie 🐾#Friendly Fighter Fodder #don't worry #no spoilers #thank you for being here and indulging us

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marshmallow-bg3 · 2 days

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Past Life Dark Urge Asks - 4th Edition

by @daemon-in-my-head

Selective answers because I can't for the love of Bhaal do some of them to save my life. 3. What was your Durges dream before everything happened? What did they want to become? Did they want to stay with their family or did they strive to go adventuring? Somehow Roux was always part of someone else's dreams and plans. As a kid, he listened to his adoptive siblings - mainly his older sister Arlais - talk about their dream adventures. She and their big brother Dom would be Paladins and they would save the world from a terrible horrible villain - their younger sister Oriana (who was always the main troublemaker and that says something given she was sharing a roof with an actual Bhaalspawn). And Roux would also be there, their bard, their treasured sidekick. Secretly he wished to be the main character, too, but didn't dare argue, he was just happy they included him at all. As he grew older and his urges manifested more often he knew he would have to leave. As much as he wanted to stay in the safety of the family home he understood he himself was the main source of danger. He always assumed he was going to become a travelling bard.

4. Did your Durge ever fulfil that dream or did the temple and cult get in the way? Did they simply discard it? Why? Well, in a strange twist of his bloody fate, yes! In the end he became the villain, the savior, the main character and eventually just a travelling bard. 5. What does Durge think of family? Describe it with one word. Lost.

6. Sarevok, what was his relationship with your Durge like? Did they like each other? Was it complicated? There was no relationship. They'd met face to face a handful of times and barely said a couple of words to each other. Sarevok avoided the Temple and acted mainly through Orin while Roux was there. They had nothing to talk about, nothing to discuss. Roux vaguely understood he should challenge and kill Sarevok, but it never felt urgent.

7. Does your Durge know of Sarevoks past? What do they think about it? He didn't care.

8. Education in the temple, what did it look like? Did they enjoy it? Dreadfully boring. Mainly it was history: Bhaal's ascension to godhood, his spawn and their exploits and failures, foes and… more foes. What Orin learned from tales and bedtime stories since she was a toddler, Roux had to catch up on learning from books and scrolls. He always had trouble reading. Sceleritas would read it to him, constantly commenting on how someone of Roux's exceptional breed would never have fallen to the same follies as the Bhaalspawn of the past. Roux couldn't care less about any of that, it was torture.

9. Did your Durge ever attend a gathering of High Society with Gortash? Did they fit in, did they charm their way into the upper echelons heart or were they despised? Yes and he enjoyed it immensely. He was generally considered quite charming, if superficially so, but that was enough for most of those people. The majority of them had no idea who he was, to them Roux was just Gortash's favorite boytoy and they were either condescendingly pleasant or flatteringly so depending on whether they needed to get something out of his partner that night or not. To the small circle of those who knew his true identity - either through Gortash or their own involvement with the Cult of Bhaal - he was a thrilling presence, a promise of bloody entertainment (they only hoped they weren't his mark). Roux played along skillfully feigning insignificance much to Gortash's amusement. He would smile and joke, and flirt, and dance, and demonstrate impeccable table manners and pick the right fork for oysters out of 13 served, only to murder someone with it later in a dark hallway. Roux had the time of his life at those parties.

#baldur's gate 3 #the dark urge #roux the murderbard #precious little bhaal-babe #ask game

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