"My little idiot" (in the most affectionate voice imaginable) to non league au Shigaraki<3
Tenko growled at you and dodged the hand you were using to try and pinch his cheek.
“Fuck off.”
“Aww, I’m sorry, darling,” you cooed, unable to hide your grin. “I’m only teasing.”
He huffed, turning his back on you. You tried to wrap your hands around his waist, but he shook you off. It was only then that you noticed how tense he was.
“Tenko?” you asked, dropping the teasing from your voice, fearing you had gone too far. “You okay? I was only joking, it was an easy mistake to make.”
The mistake in question was the pan of pasta that was sitting innocently in the sink, burnt beyond belief because Tenko hadn’t been aware that you had to add water to cook it.
“Fuck off,” he said again, voice thick. You felt so guilty for not picking up on his embarrassment and teasing him anyway, because it was clear he was actually upset.
“Listen, this is the first time we’ve lived together properly like this, there’s bound to be mistakes as we figure it out,” you said, voice soft. You hesitantly placed your hands back on his waist and this time he didn’t shake you off. “Remember just the other day, I didn’t know how to get the stains out of the tea towels and you showed me? There’s nothing wrong with making a mistake, especially when you learn how to avoid making them again.”
Tenko turned around and put his head on your shoulder, allowing you to wrap your arms around him properly.
“I’m not doing that again,” he mumbled into your shirt.
“Then there’s no harm done,” you said with finality in your voice. “No harm done at all.”
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I want to see characters being taken care of in an explicit and worshipful way. Home-cooked meals. Hair brushed and braided by gentle hands. Little gifts just because.
I want to read about characters who are not used to kindness being bombarded by acts of service. This trope works romantically and platonically. Give me found family and acts of service - all the ways a character is wrapped up in wordless, explicit care after years of cruelty and having no idea how to handle. I need it.
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Penny stardewvalley makes me so sad because she's SO sensitive to, like, basically everything you tell her (telling her that you can't stand children while two children are nearby is a pretty lousy move but -1500 friendship?? being a jerk to other characters' faces typically loses you about 50 points, and if you choose the option labeled "creepy" and ask Leah for a kiss in her 2 heart event she physically hits you and kicks you out of her house but that's only -100 friendship…) and so if you want to befriend her it's a whole lot of lying and tiptoeing around her feelings (2 hearts: George was right but saying that makes her feel bad. 6 hearts: her food sucks but even if you try to be polite about it she feels like a failure; only a bald-faced lie pleases her. 8 hearts: saying you don't want to be tied down with a family loses you a little bit of friendship and she's only happy if you say you want kids) and I can't help but think she's a product of her environment. She lives in a trailer with only her mother, who gets drunk every night and has something of a temper. Penny's like a skittish rescue animal who won’t even come out from hiding under something unless you leave her lots of treats
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I don’t like minimizing the importance and gravity of Laios and Toshiro’s fight into just being a childish squabble, even if to a degree it is framed that way, because to both of them it has a lot of personal significance and emotional weight and runs very deep to their characters… The fight isn’t nothing it’s a LOT, they made up but it’s not something easy to express and to get over for either of them which makes it all the more meaningful! I’m on both sides but there very much are sides, there’s no "they’re both having a ball, Toshiro and Laios hand in hand yay" side to the fight, that comes after
The fight with Toshiro WAS very scary to Laios, almost existentially so, but it’s moreso the "I thought I’d made a friend!!" bit and my god. My god actually
Like it’s not "just" about oh his friend liking him less than he thought, THAT IS SO MUCH. It’s a bond he thought he had being a lie it’s all the time and moments spent together either being a lie from his perspective or marred now looking back. It’s not only being upset at Toshiro for lying but upset at himself that he’s so easy to fool, it’s being upset that there’s something so wrong with you that you can’t even tell if your "close buddy" even actually likes you or not, it’s like. Holding my head. He can’t trust his own vision of events that happened do you see. There’s always this film of distrust that it could be a lie that should be there when he interacts with people there’s always this sense of cloak and dagger to expect backstabs out of nowhere because you CAN’T see it coming you CAN’T you CAN’T there’s something about you which makes it impossible so you CAN’T-
He’s so scared of not being able to read people. He knows it’s a weak spot he has, he’s always known. All of these bits are centered around social expectations and betrayals, the assumption that he doesn’t belong either in society or with other humans.
And Laios’ level of awareness is actually sort of complex to analyze, but it’s there, there’s how out of him and Falin he was the one sensitive to the ~aura of hatred~ he felt from the townspeople, there’s of course his nightmares whispering to him about the mocking looks, and how yeah actually he realizes that his gold stripper coworker was taking advantage of him. There’s of course the Winged Lion speech about his trauma and how he fundamentally mistrusts/dislikes humans to some deep seated degree, this distrust that he still keeps under control always. There’s how pre-canon he often wanted to suggest eating monsters but never worked up the courage to bring it up with the others. There’s how he gets across as stoic when he isn’t being enthusiastic…… We don’t know how aware and wary he is exactly in the moment but we do know he has some anxiety around social stuff, and looking back he does notice and aughh augh, the sense you have to hide yourself to not get hurt and be on your guard and shit and.
When you don’t know what to look out for and when to look out for it, the general ‘common sense’ of not always trusting people or noticing when someone’s messing with you becomes hypervigilance in social settings
"Man they really know what you hate huh". Being socially unaware literally plagues him, he knows, he knows it so well.
It’s so quick that it’s almost hard to digest how literal and blatant Laios summoning his monster to crush all the people who’ve hurt him is. His literal go-to coping mechanism for comfort in his literal monster-induced emotionally intense nightmares, saving him by taking away the upsetting element (the humans)
"Monsters are his coping fantasy, where they can whisk him away from humanity, all the hurt it’s caused him and its arbitrary rules" with the subtlety of a brick. Monsters are his comfort safe zone "because they kill humans" yes but no it’s because he pits them as the guardians against humans who to him are in the role of the agressors. To him they represent freedom from the shackles of what it means to be part of humanity, a fundamentally social species
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like we were so fucking robbed of seeing perez in the wake of saw vs events I want to see her getting out of the hospital and flipping tables and pointing a gun in ericksons face after being told that strahm is the lead suspect. I want to see her having a breakdown after strahms fingerprints come back dead. I want to see her hand twitching over her gun everytime she sees hoffman. I want to see her fucking losing it and desperate to avenge her friend and partner and to clear his name. I want to see the thought process that lead to her inviting known serial killer mark hoffman to the basement lab just so she could torture him psychologically before she had a legitimate excuse to shoot him. I want to see more of her and I want to see how strahms death impacted her the way the reverse impacted him.
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slay
admittedly, i've been depressed these past couple months so it's been really hard picking up the pen and actually drawing. there was a lot more i wanted to draw, but i at least have something
veronaville and tanmeric are the only things keeping me sane anymore.........
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one of my favourite frames from the comics i drew
everytime i see it i can't help laughing bc look at this range of emotions
1. tighnari absolutely refusing to react to cyno's jokes in any way
2. collei dying of cringe shinji style
3. albedo's just :D "i think i found the gold i've been looking for"
4. paimon's still processing what the hell was the joke even about
5. lumine is done with this shit, she had enough in the desert
6. sucrose is discovering new sides of albedo and questioning her admiration for her mentor
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Kakashi.
"You know that I dont care what's beneath the mask. You could have dog teeth and I still would find you attractive."
Kakashi huffed a laugh from behind his Icha Icha book.
"It's true!" you said passionately, shuffling further up the sofa and towards him.
"And if the dog teeth came with dog breath?" he asked, voice teasing.
"Even then," you insisted. "There isn't anything that would make me think you weren't hot as fuck. Even if your face was actually a bunch of live cobras or something."
"Right," Kakashi drawled in the way he always did when you said something he thought was stupid.
"I stand by that! You will always be my Kakashi, no matter what's under the mask."
The mood in the room changed suddenly. Kakashi lowered the book and slipped it into his pocket.
"I know," he said quietly. "Someday."
You grinned at him.
"Whenever you're ready, Kakashi. I promise nothing will change when you do take it off. You're still my 'kashi, mask or no mask."
If his chest felt suspiciously warm at your words, he ignored it. He must had eaten too quickly.
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