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warlordfelwinter · 1 year

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Delphi/Crow 26. 👁

26. … when the world was ending

Clouds hung over the city, dark and heavy with the threat of rain. Thunder rumbled through them, but they hadn’t broken yet. They just settled further in, threatening to obscure the Traveler from view.

Delphi stood at a railing, looking out toward it. He watched familiar patterns of light dance across the surface, a slight aura around it keeping the clouds from completely obscuring it for now. Most employees of the Tower had retreated inside, anticipating a storm. Delphi had been standing here since the clouds had started to build, his grip on the railing becoming tighter with each rumble of thunder.

Lightning flashed overhead, striking one of the outcroppings on the Tower designed for that purpose. He flinched and in the second he closed his eyes, he saw the Tower burning. Smoke choked the air, muffling terrified screams, the burning city below casting an orange glow on the Traveler as a cage spidered across it. Delphi sprinted, trying not to look, trying not to think, trying not to feel the Traveler’s unconscious fear—

“Delphi.”

A touch on his shoulder startled him. His heart still pounding with residual fear, he lashed out, striking Crow’s hand away. He stilled almost immediately, confused. The sky above him was still dark, but there was no fire, and the Traveler hung untouched in the sky, awake and free.

Crow looked concerned. “Are you all right?”

“I… Yes. Fine,” Delphi lied. “Sorry. I was just lost in thought and you startled me.” He turned back toward the Traveler, his hands going back to the railing. Thunder sounded overhead again and his grip tightened.

“In my defense, I said your name four times,” Crow said, shifting over to stand next to him. “And you’re lying. What’s wrong?” He followed Delphi’s gaze to the Traveler. “Is… it saying something?”

Delphi blinked, closing his eyes to listen for a moment. Maybe it was saying something. In the dark, he saw Artemis falling to the ground, he felt his Light ripped away, he saw his own hands soaked in blood holding the Speaker’s head up, heard his own voice pleading and sobbing—

He opened his eyes again, trembling. “No,” he said quietly. “No, I just… I just need to make sure…” he faltered, staring at the Traveler. Lightning laced through the clouds around it.

Crow was quiet for a moment, waiting for him to finish the thought.

“You almost look like you’re afraid of the clouds,” he commented eventually. Delphi was usually a fan of dreary weather, he'd never seen him look at the sky like this. Like he was waiting for it to try to kill him.

“Not the clouds,” Delphi said, “what they hide.” He flinched at another rumble of thunder, keeping his gaze firmly on the Traveler. “When a storm isn’t a storm, when it’s the end of the world. I just need to… I just want to keep watching.”

Crow put his hand over one of Delphi’s on the railing, squeezing lightly. “I’ll watch with you, then.”

Delphi didn’t reply, his gaze still fixed resolutely on the Traveler. Crow watched him for a moment, worried. He’d never seen Delphi get quite like this before. He had been through a lot, much of which Crow didn’t know the details of, and the shadows of his past did sometimes sneak up on him. Crow knew enough about how that felt, but whatever it was Delphi was thinking about now seemed different. He was lightly trembling, expression guarded but terrified. When Crow had first come up, he’d been hyperventilating. He was still breathing hard.

He wanted to ask, but he didn’t think he’d get an answer. He didn't want to make it worse.

[ Towerfall. ] Glint supplied, uncertainly.

Oh. The Red War. Crow didn’t know a lot of details about what had happened, just the broad strokes. But it made sense, if Delphi wanted to keep an eye on the Traveler. He’d known, from the stories, that Delphi had been one of the Guardians who had orchestrated the end of the war, the first to get his Light back, but he’d never really consciously connected that person from the stories to the Delphi he knew. He wondered if Delphi had felt it when the Traveler had been caged. He wondered what he had seen.

He leaned his shoulder into Delphi’s slightly. “The world didn’t end,” he said. “The City is still here, the Traveler is still here, you're still here. The world’s still here.”

“For now,” Delphi murmured. One of his hands moved, unconsciously, to the arm he kept covered. Crow knew why, he’d seen the veins of black that marred Delphi’s skin. A consequence of his interactions with the Darkness, though the spread had seemingly stalled. A reminder of what was coming.

"Isn't that enough, for now?" Crow said.

The light under Delphi's skin seemed to glow brighter for a moment, his eyes briefly flooding with it the way they did when the Traveler spoke to him. It passed swiftly and Delphi exhaled, surprised. He refocused on the Traveler, but his gaze was softer now and some of the tension had gone from his shoulders. He leaned against Crow.

Crow looked at the Traveler, silently mouthing the words ‘thank you', suspecting it had taken a moment to reassure its Oracle.

Lightning flashed overhead again and with a crash of thunder the skies opened up in a deluge that instantly soaked both of them.

Delphi gasped at the shock, startled out of his reverie. He looked up at the sky, blinking and squinting against the rain, and then turned away from the Traveler, toward Crow. Crow took his hand and they ran to the nearest overhang.

“There, see?” Crow said, smiling, as Delphi shook water off his sleeves. He pulled Delphi gently into his arms and pushed his drenched hair back away from his face. “Just a normal storm.”

Delphi leaned against him. He took one last look at the Traveler, barely visible now through the sheets of rain. “Just a normal storm,” he agreed. He looked at Crow, gaze clearer. “Thank you. Let’s, uh, go dry off.”

#all right this one got away from me #i started thinking about what's the most world ending thing delphi's been through #and it was definitely the red war which crow wasn't there for #so i compromised #ask games #replies #seventhscorpio #one prompt left atom i promise i haven't forgotten #i'm just being very slow #destiny #fic #oc: delphi #crow/guardian

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dr-awkkward · 2 years

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⚠FIRE TYPE APPRECIATION POST⚠

Easily one of the prettiest types when it comes to its representatives, even if they mostly stick to the same red-orange-yellow color scheme. But hey! That makes the outliers like Reshiram and Blacephalon stand out more!

What's that? There's someone here who doesn't belong? I believe you're mistaken. "Pokemon" is nowhere in the title.

#pokemon #ninetales #volcarona #blacephalon #quilava #litwick #talonflame #delphox #grimmchild #reshiram #victini #i couldn't decide whether to put chandelure in ghost or fire #so i compromised #pokeposting

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batbabydamian · 20 days

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reverse robins of my fav trio!

#stephanie brown #damian wayne #dick grayson #fav trio i say as i draw them not even interacting sdfgh #this was also an excuse to use Dan Mora's Steph Future State hair/scar design as inspo again xD and using Mora's Robin shoes from WF!#Dick was resolute about his Robin uniform so Damian compromised by having him wear elbow/knee pads LOL #tried doing laceup thigh highs for Damian’s batsuit but it looked off 😭 also considered using the Red Hood suit from B&R09 but too silly...#tbh i rarely have interest in reverse robins AUs unless Damian's featured and tries to be a good big bro 😭#batbabyart

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birdmenmanga · 3 months

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I think there's no greater indication that disco elysium is sympathetic towards communism when it literally says "communism is failure" and then the literal gameplay itself rewards trying and failing. The most obvious one being the Shivers check at the FELD mural, which is an Impossible 20 check BUT opens itself up again and again the longer you spend in the world doing things, but even just looking at sheer probabilities, for any given white check, rolling first and THEN putting a point into that skill upon failure is more likely to grant you success than putting a point first and then rolling, but that would require failing first.

Other things too: Precarious world saying you'll 100% fail red checks no matter what (not necessarily a bad thing, btw!! throwing the boule into the sea is a success but like. in some other ways one would want a perfect petanque throw instead. but people wouldn't typically assume that failure is desirable sometimes from the start) persuading you to accept that you'll fail some things that is irrevocable, for a world where everything is just a tiny bit easier.

The faux game over screen when you faint after reading Dora's letter— emulating a sense of failure on the scale of the entire game. When it rolls up most people go "What?? Game over?? No way, what did I do wrong!!" and waking up after that, with no huge or lasting impact on Harry's health or morale really tells the player, "Sometimes things will seem so bad that it all seems like it's coming to an end, but it's not the end, it's really not the end, go drink so water, you can still go on despite this failure"

I'm sure there are other things as well that are eluding me but like. The literal gameplay rewards failing and succeeding far more so than simply succeeding every single time, and I think you get a fuller experience of Elysium that way too

#just thinking thoughts...#disco elysium #idk man when did we get so scared of failing!!#people never want to speak in class because 'what if I'm wrong :((('#well then you are wrong... that is okay... it's normal to fail... sometimes saying the wrong thing is a great way to jumpstart a topic...#'getting a good grade in X is both normal to want and possible to achieve'#okay sure but have you made peace with the fact that getting a BAD grade in X isn't a bad thing?#a bad grade in being friends... okay... so you didn't check up on someone in 3 months... you failed... that's fine...#you can learn from it!! you can learn how to keep in touch with people. how to take care of them when they're sick.#how to resolve a dispute. how to communicate and compromise. these are all things you are not born with #and will fail first before succeeding at #Like yes I get that in the age of surveillance your failures may be recorded and preserved forever and that's not great #but if we don't normalize failure I really think we'll just suffocate and die

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moncuries · 3 months

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the talking fish-bone

#hiccup horrendous haddock iii #hiccup #httyd #fanart #my art #i really like how this came out #drawing animated characters is hard bc i get so tempted to like...go with their animation style #was hard not to give him his giant pretty eyes so we compromised #drew this for no other reason than hes my bf

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toughbunnyforever · 5 months

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more ponyo au!

extra: (they get older and katsuki can't help but bring up the fact deku was a fish. it may or may not be payback for how cute fish-deku was when they were kids)

#i keep doing ghibli studies but i dont wanna just redraw the screencaps so making them bkdk is a good compromise #all of these ghibli aus are just slightly cursed and thats ok #anyways #mha #bnha #bkdk #dkbk #ktdk #bakudeku #izuku midoriya #katsuki bakgou #my art #digital art #sketch dump

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dragon-spaghetti · 15 days

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I'm feelin soft 🥲

(Please click for better quality!!)

#drag's art #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel angel dust #hazbin hotel husk #huskerdust #been a minute since I did a cute doodle of these two so ✨✨#I've done several neatly lined/coloured things in the past couple days #and it's putting me back in the 'everything Must Be Perfect' mode #so I'm forcing my hand into messier doodles again lmao 😭#w the compromise of letting myself colour. cause that's my fave part and I get sad if I can't render things for a while 💀

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myrskytuuli · 3 months

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hnhnhnhnhngghhg I just want Alastor to start being pulled into the Hotel's nonsense more. That stupid attention starved lonely asshole needs to be folded into the cringefail found family against his will.

Alastor being aroace + overpowered + creepy overlord has probably completely solidified in his mind the belief that the only way he can gain human interaction is by being annoying and forcing his presence on other people.

I NEED him to get snapped in half like a twig in some fight and Charlie going nephilim protective mode and bridal carry him back to the hotel like: Oh no our favourite creepy deer boy, we can't have our happy family without our favourite creepy deer! Get loved you idiot.

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel alastor #not a ship this is a platonic bridal carry #alastor getting a family without having to compromise his aceness is actually so important to me #I mean I do like shipping him romantically in some fics but in canon I just really want him to get friends

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wildernessuntothemselves · 19 days

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Class clown

class clown gyu who for some reason has it out for nerd!reader and finally she gets sick of it and puts him in his place. warnings: dom!reader, sub!gyu, handjob, blowjob, dirty talk, pathetic gyu as always

"What is your problem?" You snap at Beomgyu, the class clown and the bane of your existence. He is always on your case, making fun of you in front of everyone. Today you made a mistake answering the proferssor's question and he immediatley jumped on it, humiliating you in front of the entire class. "Why do you have to mess with me?"

"Because you're fun to mess them." He answers simply, a huge infuriating grin on his face. You look really funny when you're angry."

You don't know what came over you, you're not usually a violent person but seeing his stupid cocky face makes you lose it and you shove him against the wall, slamming your hands on either side of his head to trap him in. "Do I look funny now?

But to your chagrin, he keeps grinning, not phased one bit. "Kinda."

You're so frustrated you could cry. There was nothing you have ever thought of or done that got him to leave you alone. He has been doing this to you for years, even back when you were at school. In fact you had been so excited to go to uni just to escape him, only to see his stupid face at your first lecture and your entire dream of escape came crashing down.

"What? The smart mouth finally has got nothing to say?" He goads when you stay quiet too long for his liking.

Your vision turns red. He makes you so frustrated and pent up, you would do anything to shut him up. Maybe that's why you resorted to doing something crazy.

Grabbing his face, you push your lips against his, intending to strong-arm him into silence. After all if his lips are busy, he can't mouth off anymore.

You don't know how you expected him to react to that--freeze in shock? Push you off? Call you crazy? You don't know but you certainly didn't expect him to almost immediately start kissing you back. It threw you off so hard you actually pull away from the kiss yourself.

But as soon as you pull back, he's running his mouth again. "Damn, nerd, looks like your mouth is good for somethjng other than eating the professor's ass."

"You're so fucking.. ugh!" You groan, shutting him up again. But this time you don't just use your mouth, instead you raise his shirt up, feeling up his body to his nipples and grabbing them between your thumbs and index fingers and pulling on them a bit roughly, making him gasp and break away from the kiss with a wet smack.

"Oh god," He groans, eyes fluttering as you roll his nipples between your fingers.

"You like that, brat?" You spit, happy to finally be getting the upper hand for the first time in your years of being tormented by Beomgyu.

"Fuck yeah." He groans and tries to reach out to touch your own tits.

"Don't fucking touch me, brat." You hiss at him, "If you touch me, I stop."

"You're being such a killjoy." He protests but it's hard for him to keep a steady voice when your fingers are playing with his clearly sensitive nipples like that, and even more so when one of your hands slips into his loose pants to palm his already very hard cock.

"You look like you're enjoying it enough." You mutter, twisting your hand up to the head of his cock, making him moan out.

"Fucking hell...Are you gonna fuck me?" He asks bluntly.

"Do you want me to fuck you, Gyu?" You ask, and any hesitency over the unfamiliar nickname vanishes as he shudders under your touch.

"If you're going to be handling my cock like that then I damn well expect to get a fuck out of it." He replies, still insolent despite his whimpering and frankly slutty moans.

"You're such a little bitch." You chastise, focusing your strokes on the head of his cock, aiming for maximum damage. "You think you deserve to get anywhere near my pussy after the shit you've pulled over me for years?"

He shrugs, trying to affect nonchalance but it's hard to but he's panting like a bitch for you. "Maybe if you get fucked good, you'd be a little less uptight.

Uptight! Just because you care about your future, that doesn't make you uptight. God, you hate him... but damn, does he looks fucking hot falling apart in your hands like that.

"And maybe if you were getting any attention on your cock apart from your own hand, you wouldn't be such an attention seeking slut." You jeer, getting down on your knees. "Now shut the fuck up or you won't get to cum at all."

"What--" He doesn't have time to formulate his question before you pull his pants down and wrap your mouth around his cock, sucking any retort right out of him.

"Oh, fuck, that's it." He arches his back, driving his cock further down your throat which you readily take, to his surprise.

"Fuck, where did you learn to suck dick like this?" He asks through his moans but you don't bother to answer him. You don't owe him an answer, you just want to shut the bitch up.

But Beomgyu is incapable of shutting up. "Have you been sucking dick on the down low? I didn't know the nerd is such a big slut. Thought you were a good girl."

You detach from his cock to retort, tearing a whine out of him which the idiot is too stupid to realize he is the cause of. "You're one to talk. Look how loudly you're moaning as soon as you get your dick wet. What? No one wants to fuck such a loudmouth?"

"Fuck you." He mutters, and you laugh. "You wish, baby." You smirk, bobbing your head down his cock again, going ruthlessly fast and getting the brat to writhe under you.

You think that would be the end of it but Beomgyu could die and his mouth would still be running. "Seriously, who are you fucking? Taehyun? Soobin? Don't tell me it's that manwhore Yeonjun?"

You pull off his dick in frustration, using your hand to jerk him off roughly instead. "Why do you fucking care who I fuck?"

"I don't care." He huffs, arching his back to push his cock further into your grip. "I just know they can't be fucking you good if you're still so uptight all the time. If you want a good time, I could give you the time of your life."

You burst out laughing, obviously bruising the boy's ego in the process but you don't care. And you don't even bother hiding your incredulity. "You? Do you even see yourself? I'm barely even moving my hand and you're fucking it like a dog in heat. Your dick is drooling all down my arm. You look like you're a few pumps away from creaming yourself. I don't think you'd even make it one stroke inside my pussy before you pop like a virgin."

"No, I'm not." He denies, trying to keep his hips still, clearly fighting with himself. "I can fuck you so good you'll screaming my name."

"You can? You can take hot, tight pussy until I cum? You can have me clench around your needy cock without emptying your balls inside me?" You reach your other hand out to cup his balls, massaging then gently between your fingers, making him suck in a shuddering breath. "You can hold back your hot cum until I'm ready to milk your cock? You won't just break and spurt your cum inside me as soon as you put it in?"

"Fuck, fuck, slow down." He gasps, trying to squirm away from your touch but you hold him tighter, jerking him off steadily.

"Why? Are you going to cum just from my hands? That's disappointing. I thought you wanted to give me the fuck of my life?" You cock your head to side, staring up at him condescendingly, making him shudder.

"Baby, please, slow down?"

"Baby?" You laugh. "Now I'm baby?"

"I can't take much more." He was jerking uncontrollably in your grip but you never let go, taking the hand on his balls off to press it against his lower tummy to hold him in place as you continue jerking off his now very red and slippery cock.

"Are you gonna cum?" You ask again and he nods, biting onto his lip harshly. "Yes, can I?"

You have to say you were taken aback at him suddenly asking for your permission to cum. You would have thought the brat would just do it with no warning. "Aw, baby is asking for permission to cum? If I knew it was this easy to get you to behave, I would have... well, actually I still wouldn't have touched you any sooner. But it's good to know how pathetic you really are."

"Fuck you." He repeats, voice strained in his effort to still hold back.

"You want me to say you can cum?" You tease, twisting your hand over the length of his cock slowly.

He nods. "Yes. Need it. Need it."

"Are you going to be good to me from now on?" You ask and he shakes his head. "You're too fun to tease."

"You are too." You counter, slowing your hand down, making him thrust his hips to try to get more of your touch so you smack his thigh in punishment. "Down, boy!"

"Baby, please!" He begs so sweetly, pining you with his pretty, brown eyes, his dick drooling in your grip.

"Are you going to be good from now on?" You tighten your grip around him as you deliberately move your hand up the entire length of his cock, feeling his precum dripping down your arm.

"Yes, yes, I'll be good. I'll be so good." He babbles, and you know he is lying his ass off, just wanting to say whatever would get you to let him cum, but even that makes you feel so fucking hot. To have that effect on your tormentor after all these years is a fucking head rush.

"God, you're a mess." You mutter, quickening your pace over his cock, making Beomgyu panic. "Wait, wait, can I cum? Can I cum?"

It's a little precious how much he panics over cumming without your explicit permission, so much so you decide to just give it to him, wanting to see the brat completely lose it in your grip.

"You can cum, brat." As soon as you utter the words--as if he was really waiting for them--he explodes, spurting rope after rope of cum down your arm and onto your chest.

"Thank you. Thank you, baby." He cries, emptying himself for you until he can no longer hold himself up anymore and collapses to the ground by your side.

But to your surprise and mild horror, Beomgyu takes a minute to calm himself down before he grabs his own cock and strokes himself to full hardness again, bearing through the pain of overstimulation for a reason that only becomes apparent to you after you ask, "What the hell are you doing, Beomgyu?"

"I promised I can fuck you good, didn't I?"

He really is insane.

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#txt smut #beomgyu smut #sub!txt #sub!beomgyu #sub!idol #dom!reader #just a small unedited thing cuz I miss writing for gyu 😭#really wanna get out the next yamqn chapter but have no time at all #so take this messy thing as a compromise

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