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Ok Lo 🥹 with teary eyes I am here to discuss Vincenzo.
But I wanna read your thots first!
VINCENZO!!! yes let’s discuss!!! but first and foremost THANK YOU for recommending it. seriously i had given up mid-way thru the first ep a few months ago but no one can deny you have the best taste 😘😘
I LOVED IT!!! it’s actually now in my top 5 of all time. i binged the hell out of it, it was that good. (i even stayed up nights watching 😭)
(the rest under the cut with spoilers)
i think the standout for me was song joongki, mostly bc of how adorable he is 🥺 i wanted to squish his cheeks (and other things 🥴) and him and hanseo???! the softness! the lil face slaps! him finding hanseo cute! 🥺 and kwak dongyeon was perfection. i cant remember the last time i saw a redemption arc that massive 😳 oh, actually the only one i can think of to compare it to is steve from stranger things. he went from being kinda annoying to one of my absolute favourite characters. the fact that he tried to fit in with the trio was so adorable, i couldn’t stop saying ‘cute, aww cute’ pretty much everytime he came on screen after he switched to vincenzo’s side. remember when they quizzed him 🥺 he studied. he actually studied. pls he just wanted a head pat and someone to tell him he was doing a good job :((( he was actually such a sweetie pie, imagine if he didnt have the devil incarnate as a brother, he would have turned out so well. vincenzo was the brother he deserved 💔 and i just, i can’t get over how things ended for him (wait no they didn’t end, he’s definitely coming back in season 2!!) tbh i was actually pretty mad at vincenzo for not stepping in and doing something, anything, to stop what happened. to save him. 💔 he’s such a skilled fighter, i feel like he could have jumped in and maybe avoided… i can’t even say it 😭
ok, but on a happier note, vincenzo’s relationship with chayoung was also super adorable, that slow burn was everything! EVERYTHING!! their 10 second hug? her smacking him? 🤣
(he’s so attractive 😭😭)
and chayoung was such a badass character, i wish i could be that brave and assertive. and man oh man, she is so strong! the way things ended with her dad, that scene was heartbreaking :(((
ok switching back to happy, can we talk about the male on male affection in this show?? i never get to see it and it’s just so disappointing bc yes! pls hug each other! kiss each other! tell each other you admire the other! it’s healthy! it’s freeing! i’m such a sucker for tiny displays of affection, and his interactions with everyone had me clutching my blanket on the verge of tears. ugh every single person in this kdrama was adorable. the intelligence agent especially, his awestruck admiration for vincenzo had me both soft and cackling 🤣
(pls he’s so funny 🤣 also, perfect timing??)
but all the geumga plaza ppl were surprisingly cute with really interesting back stories. it’s funny, i was thinking to myself how weird it was that all of them had some special talent and then they said the same thing seconds later 🤣
the estranged mother side story was also heartbreaking. i wish they had more time together and that he could have called her mom, but i understand him and why he couldn’t say anything. at least they both knew it before she died, and i’m so grateful chayoung was there to bring them together 🥺💕 the scene where she hugged him, i bawled. and when she was talking about him as he was bawling. and then again when he read her letter 😭
ok last but not least, taecyeon!! i can’t believe i didn’t recognize him??! but he did such an amazing job. and the plot twist was perfection, i was in shock and that hardly ever happens for me (my stupid brain always anticipates plotlines 😭😭) i went from finding him adorable to being in love to hating him resolutely to feeling really sorry for him all in the span of a few eps. although i can never forgive him for how he treated hanseo 😔
but he is an incredible actor! and the writers are also amazing. choi myunghee also did a fantastic job! i hated her but i guess i was supposed to 🤣 oh! that scene when vincenzo came to their hq and shot his mother’s killer gave me goosebumps, it was so well done 👏
i rambled on here oops… but there was sooo much to talk about! there’s a lot more but i should stop here haha. who were your favourite characters?! favourite moments?!
#i could seriously go on and on 😂#this show had everything!#it was just perfect without being overdone#i usually dislike law shows bc the inaccuracies annoy me but they did a pretty good job - even if the retrial was too much of a reach)#ok i’ll stop now 😩#but tell me everything! i want to hear it all!#kie <3#my favourite doom#vincenzo
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Bad Day - Vinny Request
“Mom, this is not coming out how I want it too, something doesn’t quite taste right. What am I missing? I have put in…. (Random stuff from your favorite meal).” Vinny asks his mother as he tries to save the dinner he is cooking for you.
“Oh, you are forgetting…. (Random thing). Why are you trying to make it yourself, I could just do it for you if you came over this weekend or something,” she asks, giggling while he runs around the kitchen trying to finish everything.
“y/n is having a really bad day today and this is her favorite meal. She called me on her break earlier crying so I canceled my planned stream to cook for her and spend time with her to try and make her feel better. I was just going to order us dinner but decided that it would be better to try and make this for her instead,” he says, taking a second to look at his phone screen where his mother was, smiling at her.
“You are a good man Vincenzo, your dad and I did well. Do you need anything else? I can let you go so you can focus on what you are doing,” he mother offers, happy to see how much he cares about his girlfriend.
“Is that okay, I love you mom,” he says, looking at the stove again.
“I love you too Vin, good luck,” she says before hanging up the facetime call.
1 Hour Later
You pull up to Vin’s house, letting out a sigh before you slowly get out of your car. Walking into the house you hear music coming from the kitchen and follow it, smiling slightly to yourself when you see Vinny standing at the kitchen sink working on dishes.
You wrap your arms around him from behind, lying your head on his back as you take a second to just enjoy being with him. He shuts the water off, turning around to face you before he picks you up, moving to set you on the kitchen counter so that he could stand between your legs, giving you a soft kiss before wrapping arms around you and pulling you to his chest.
He doesn’t say a word rather just holds you tight, knowing that right now you don’t need to talk, you just need to let it all out. And that is what you do, finally letting the building tears fall from your eyes as he holds you, not judging you or making you feel weak, just letting you get everything out that you had to hold in at work all morning.
Unfortunately he had to pull away from you a couple minutes later because the timer on the oven went off and he had to pull dinner out of the oven quick. But as soon as he finishes he is back to you, this time he grabs your chin to make you look at him so that he can wipe the tears that linger away with his thumbs before he leans down and gives you another gentle kiss, hoping that you feel a little better now.
“Thank you for making my favorite meal Vin, I appreciate you so much,” you say softly, glancing away from him.
“Of course, I love you. I have a couple other things planned for us to do after we eat, but for now why don’t you go sit on the couch and I will bring you dinner and some wine in just a second,” he responds, helping you back off your place on the counter.
You quietly make your way to the living room so that you can sit, him following behind shortly after to bring you your plate, both of you soon starting to eat quietly as he puts your favorite tv show on in the background.
You notice the time when you finish eating and glance over at him. “Don’t you need to go stream? I know you had one planned tonight,” you ask him softly.
“Not anymore, I canceled it because you need me more than any of them do tonight,” he says with a smile towards you. “I can do it another day.”
“Thank you,” you hum softly, moving your plate to the coffee table so that you can move to sit on his lap, facing him as you wrap your arms around him and bury your face in his neck, just sitting there quietly as he comforts you. One arm holds you close while the other moves to rub soothing circles on your back, wanting you to feel relaxed after your rough day.
“I’m sorry I am in such a mood tonight Vin, I don’t mean to ruin your night just because I had a rough day. Today was so bad that I walked out but somehow my boss talked me into coming back into the building. I just finally had enough of our office manager being a total bitch and don’t know how much longer I can take it before I snap. Maybe I need to finally just snap and put her back in her place. Even the newer girls have noticed that she treats me like shit compared to everyone else,” you vent, letting everything that happened today out as he sits there, listening.
“Do you think she treats you like shit because she knows that you are friends with your boss and it bothers her?” Vinny asks you softly, he has been thinking this for awhile but hasn’t said it because he knows that it would bother you if he did, but he figures you already are in a shit mood.
“I’m starting to think so, but it's not my fault her and I went to school together and were close. It shouldn’t matter because I still do my job and I do it well. I don’t know I guess, I think I am going to begin job hunting this weekend so I can get out before I finally break down,” you mumble softly, still cuddling yourself up to him. The two of you don’t get to have many moments like these together so when you do you absolutely take advantage of it.
“I can help you look if you want, honestly we’ve been talking about getting a PA for tour to help us with food runs, laundry, pretty much all the shit we can’t do anymore if you want me to mention to Chris that you are interested, it would be nice to have you on tour with us.” He says, hoping that you would be interested but knowing you might not be.
“I can’t take a pay cut and afford my rent and everything Vin, so that wouldn’t work out when you aren’t touring. And don’t say move in with you again, you know I don’t want to depend on you for things like that.” you grumble, annoyed he brought it up right now.
“And that’s fine, I was just throwing it out there. You still should move in but we can find you another full time job around here, I will help you do it and get you out of there, promise.” he says softly, not wanting to push it too hard and upset you more. “Let’s go upstairs, why don’t you take a nice hot bath to soothe your nerves and relax. I picked up one of those bath bombs that you like while I was at the store.”
“Will you take one with me? Or at least sit with me please?” You ask softly, a little embarrassed but you don’t want to be alone, you want him to stay with you. Even when the two of you don’t talk just having him around you makes you happy.
“Of course, lets go,” he says softly.
You stand up and wait for him to start making his way upstairs, following him up the stairs. He starts running the water and then turns to glance at you, moving to give you a quick kiss before he helps you slip out of your own clothing before he removes his and gets in the tub, then opening his arms so you can get in as well and lean back into him, relaxing into his touch as you sit, both of you quietly.
One of his hands lightly rubs your arm gently as you both sit there, enjoying the closeness and the light touches, every so often you turn your head so that you can give him a soft kiss.
“You know, I think I needed this just as much as you did. It’s been too long since we have had a moment like this together,” Vin says softly, letting you thread your fingers together when his hand comes to rest on your belly.
“It has, hey Vin, thank you for everything tonight. I appreciate you and everything you have done for me tonight. I love you,” you turn your head so you can look at him, taking in his closed eyes and soft features on his relaxed face.
These are the moments that make you want to agree to move in with him, the two of you practically live together when he isn’t touring anyways so would it be that different? You mind is running and you don’t notice that he started talking until he moves, you now blushing.
“Where did you go y/n? You are blanking out on me,” he teases, laughing when he realized you were blushing and now avoiding his eyes.
“I was just thinking, considering your offer of finally moving in…” you trail off, knowing that it would make him happy if you did agree, but also worried about what would happen if you two don’t work out.
“I know that you keep saying no because you are worried about us breaking up, but we aren’t going to so that shouldn’t even be a thought for you. Let’s not think about that right now, it is not important. How about we get out now that the water is getting cold and then we can go do whatever you want to do for the rest of the night.” He offers, you relieved that he isn’t dwelling on the subject. “We can even try one of your puzzle games again, even if I can’t ever solve any of the puzzles before you do.”
The thought makes you giggle softly to yourself, you love watching him trying to play them with you because he is really cute when he is focused and thinking.
“Can we just curl up in bed and watch a movie? I don’t care what I just want to be with you tonight for a while.” You respond softly as you both step out of the bathtub, drying off and slipping into pajamas.
“Absolutely, let's go,” he says, both of you making your way to his bed and laying down when you start a random netflix movie.
Vinny looks down at you where your head is laying on his chest and chuckles, it was only about 20 minutes in and you had already fallen asleep. He shifts so he can pull a blanket up around the two of you and just shuts the movie off, deciding that he isn’t against going to bed early tonight with you.
#motionless in white#motionless in white imagine#vinny mauro#fanfiction#bree sucks at fanfiction#vinny mauro fanfiction#vinny mauro fanfic#vinny mauro x reader#Vinny mauro fluff#vinny mauro X fem reader
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10 Fandoms, 10 Characters
Thank you for the tag @morby
No rules attached to this one so I guess, just go for my faves (Without duplicating a fandom)... I feel like this is going to highlight at least one of my "types" but I guess I've outed myself on that front before rofl.
Tagging forward, with no pressure, to; @faelanvance, @cwritesfiction, @theunboundwriter, @arigalefantasynovels, @acertainmoshke, @avrablake, @ashen-crest, @sleepyowlwrites, @tisiphonewolfe, and anyone else who wants to play! <3
So, without further ado, my Favorite Characters in some of my favourite fandoms, in NO SPECIFIC ORDER...
One
Fandom; Doctor Who.
Character; Doctor Who, Tenth Incarnation
David Tennant's run as The Doctor was my favourite. It was a magical combination of a phenomenal actor, a brilliant "companion", and A+ writing team, but it made me fall in love with the character as a whole. Smart, Intellligent, Alien, but also Vulnerable, and ineffably Human.
Two
Fandom; Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Character; Tony Stark
And I do mean "Tony Stark", not "Iron Man". Don't get me wrong, Iron Man is cool, and is definitely my favourite Avenger, but it's because it's Tony Stark inside the suit. It's the intelligence of the character that, again, captivates me and as a writer I see so much potential there. If I wasn't so busy with my own writing projects I'd be very tempted to jump back into fandom again just to have a play with Tony Stark's possibilities.
Three
Fandom; Sherlock Holmes.
Character; Sherlock
This one had to make the list considering my pen name! I've loved many of the Holmes adaptions, and but there's something specifically about Benedict Cumberbatch's Holmes where you can just see that brilliant mind ticking away behind his eyes.
Four
Fandom; The Mentalist
Character; Patrick Jane
I thought the whole Mentalist story was phenomenal, and the backstory for the character of Patrick Jane, genuis. I also love how much Jane is aware that usually he's the smartest person in the room, but is also painfully aware when he's not.
Five
Fandom; Vincenzo
Character; Vincenzo Cassano aka Park Joo-hyung
This is a newer addition to my list, and I've only seen the series once so my memory may be a little shaky, but this was another highly intelligent character. A little vicious, a little violent, but at heart also a good person, and I fell a little in love with the character every episode.
And now, let me pivot into my second "type"...
Six
Fandom; Lord of the Rings
Character; Strider aka Aragorn son of Arathorn
The OG Fandom Fave, Lord of the Rings got me into fanfiction. I began my online writing career by writing a "10th Walker" fanfiction that never saw the light of day, because I've always found Arwen's character very frustrating. Then the films were released, and the rest is history. But give me Strider over the polished King Aragorn any day!
Seven
Fandom; Shadow and Bone (Netflix)
Character; General Aleksander Kirigan aka The Darkling aka Aleksander Morozova
This one is a little more specific because I haven't read the books, so I have ZERO idea how accurate the series is to the original material, but Ben Barnes, specifically, as the Darkling is all my favourite things mixed up into one character. Smart, Intelligent, Damaged, Rough around the edges, In dire need of saving from himself. He's got it all.
Eight
Fandom; The 100
Character; Prince Roan of Azgeda
Another character that I feel had wasted potential! I think they could have done so much MORE with this character but, much like Shadow and Bone, I've not read the books! So it's possible Prince Roan had a bigger, better, for fulfilling part there than the TV Series.
Nine
Fandom; The Witcher
Character; Geralt of Rivia
Look. I've loved Geralt forever. I loved him in the CDProjecktRed games. I bought the books, and loved him there, and then Henry Cavill went and made the 100% hands down perfect Geralt on screen. What more can I say?
Ten
Fandom; The Vampire Diaries/The Originals
Character; Klaus Mikaelson
Is there a better example of a morally grey character? Not one I've found, to be honest. Klaus has a freaking tragic backstory, and it's completely twisted his worldview. Does he need a good smack upside he head to teach him that his methods are fucked? Absolutely. Does that make me love him any less? Absolutely not!
#10 Characters#10 Fandoms#Tag Game#Writeblr#Writeblr Community#Writing#Writing Community#Doctor Who#Tony Stark#MCU#Sherlock Holmes#Patrick Jane#The Mentalist#Vincenzo#Vincenzo Cassano#Park Joo-hyung#Strider#Aragorn#Lord of the Rings#The Darkling#Aleksander Kirigan#Aleksander Morozova#Shadow and Bone#The 100#Prince Roan of Azgeda#Geralt of Rivia#The Witcher#The Vampire Diaries#The Originals#Klaus Mikaelson
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Vincenzo drabble about wanting... posted here because I need to get off Twitter once and for all
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He wants his mother.
He's four years old, and the sudden sound of thunder scares him.
And, just like that, before he even has to call for her, she's come and holds him close, drawing her fingers back and forth across his back and saying his name into his hair, and the fear is gone and he wants to stay awake a little longer so he can just feel it all.
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He wants his mother.
Calls and calls and calls for her.
Cries.
She doesn't come.
He doesn't know these people. He just wants her.
Wants her, and she doesn't come.
--
He wants to fit in.
To speak the language in a way that doesn't make his classmates snigger or ask him a sarcastic che.
To master this.
To be good.
--
He wants to tell his Mamma he loves her.
Because he does.
Only every time he tries, he thinks of Eomma. And all the reasons he cannot.
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He wants revenge. And nothing more.
--
He wants power.
Fabio's seen something in him that no one before ascribed any value to. He taught him how to harness and hone his rage into something useful. Something punishing.
And he wants unfettered access to those who deserve to feel it.
--
He wants to feel something again. Anything.
He's tried everything he can think to to make it happen - fighting, alcohol, cocaine, women, men. Nothing registers.
But the want doesn't go away.
So he keeps trying.
What does it matter, after all, if he destroys himself in the process?
--
He wants - no, needs - to stop feeling.
After the little girl clinging to the teddy bear, he can't turn any of it off.
--
He wants to help Fabio.
He knows the man is dying. Has a legacy to consider. A family that will live on beyond him.
But.
He also wants out. Forever.
Nearly every conversation they have becomes a lie he hates telling.
--
He wants to thank Paolo for the first time in his life. For giving him an escape. An excuse.
--
He wants his fucking gold. And nothing more. He hates this country.
--
He wants to see his mother wearing prison clothes.
Wants to see the look on her face when she finally remembers him.
When it's his turn to leave her behind with strangers who don't care.
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He wants her - the attorney's daughter.
He shouldn't.
He won't do anything about it, of course. He doesn't need complications.
--
He wants to kill the people who ordered the hit. For the first time since the little girl, he wants - craves - revenge.
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He wants her not to care so much about him. He's trying very, very hard to do the same.
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He wants to kiss away the worried wrinkle between her eyebrows. And a cleaner hand to touch her with than the one that disobeys him and makes its way to her shoulder.
--
He wants to find a way out of doing this; he wants her never to know how much he wants to kiss her.
But when he turns, she pulls him close. And presses her lips to his.
--
He wants to kiss her again. He will not.
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He wants to thank a bird for saving his life.
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He wants her to hate him. It's the only good he can hope give her.
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He wants to stop himself from making the promise he does about returning to her. He also wants to refuse her nothing.
The latter wins easily, the way it always does.
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For the first time in nearly thirty years, he wants his mother.
Wants to eat bunggeopang together and call her Eomma again.
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He wants the people who took his last chance away from him to suffer.
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He's buried his mother a second time and wants to cry. She sits beside him and lets him, her arm around him, fingers lightly stroking along his back.
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He wants her to know she's only one he'd ever fall to his knees for. Curses the way she turns around and does the same for him moments later.
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He just wants to sit beside her a little bit longer.
Listen to her breathing.
Keep his stupid mouth from saying everything else he wants to say.
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He wants her to know Jan Han Seok didn't go comfortably. But she told him to go - to leave without making further contact, and, as usual, what she wants wins out.
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He wants to forget the way the moonlight reflects the the tears in her eyes.
He wants her to forget him.
But never to forget her.
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He wants to think that Fabio would forgive him for killing his flesh and blood.
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He wants his men safe.
--
He has all the power he's ever wanted now.
He hates the way Fabio was right about the way it solves nothing.
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He wants his family to be different than it was.
All men.
Few who looked like him.
So many other things that simply weren't allowed.
Luca reminds him he needs only say the word to make it so.
So he does.
And they shift focus.
--
He wants an island.
So he buys one.
--
He wants to get word to her that he's alive.
He chooses a postcard so he doesn't say anything he shouldn't.
Worries she'll hear it anyway.
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He wants to send a second one - for her to understand that this is his way of telling her to let him go. To live her life. To forget him.
--
He wants to think there's no harm in sending another.
And another after that.
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He wants to drink the wine he discovered that she's named after him.
Instead, he imagines tasting it on her lips.
Wants not to, but cannot stop himself.
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He wants to see her win. And watches for it from afar.
Wants to thank her for clearing his mother's name.
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He wants to stop having the same irritating conversation every few days - for Luca to shut up and understand why it won't work.
To leave him to his misery in fucking peace.
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He wants to see her one more time.
Only so life doesn't make a liar of him.
He'll use it say goodbye to her. Give her closure so she can move on. If she hasn't already.
He wants to be the kind of man who hopes she has.
He is not.
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He wants their kiss to never stop.
--
He wants to punch the smug smile off Luca's fucking face.
But it's infectious, the bastard, and he catches it and just pours them both another drink while slurring something sarcastic in the direction of the sunset about his right hand man needing a new goddamned hobby.
--
He wants her here right now. It's been two goddamned weeks since Seoul, and he doesn't want to wait another two.
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He wants to exercise patience enough to wait, at least, until she's settled in and rested.
Or, even, perhaps, simply past the goddamned dock.
--
He wants her a second time - before his heart's even slowed back down again from their first.
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He wants to make this thing between them work.
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He wants to thank a God he hasn't spoken to in years for the way it does, all on its own.
For the way he gets something good that he's never deserved.
--
He's three weeks past forty now, and the sudden and distant roll of thunder has him looking up from the work spread across his desk.
The aquamarine water is darker without the sun shining down upon it, and it meets an uncommon roiling and inky blue sky at the horizon.
A hand comes to rest upon his shoulder, and he leans into the touch. He wonders a moment whether she knows he's always been afraid of storms.
She cuts off the thought by talking, telling him a story she says her father always told her - a legend about a bird who lived in the heavens and had the power to punish evil by dropping lightning bolts onto his enemies on the ground.
He looks up in time to see her smiling fondly, recalling the way Hong Yu Chan chuckled and then scolded her for saying she wanted to be that bird when she grew up someday.
She sees him looking and smiles back down at him. Says storms always remind her of him, of them, now.
Laughs out loud when she adds, "And Inzaghi, too, of course."
It's then that he realizes that life has led him, inexplicably and undeservingly, to a place where he wants for nothing he doesn't already have.
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The Killer and the Saviour
Summary: “Both hands on the wheel, Tom,” Sam says softly, and Tommy wants to say Sam doesn’t have to remind him, but he’s honestly not sure of that.
Characters: Tommy Angelo, Sam Trapani; mentions of Johnny, the Priest, Don Salieri, Paulie Lombardo, Vincenzo Ricci, Ralph, Frank Colletti, Sarah Marino.
Pairing: Tommy Angelo/Sam Trapani.
Warnings: near-death experience, character in shock; mentions of firearm usage, blood, canon character death, rape, vomit, period-typical homophobia, sex.
Notes: Takes place during The Saint and the Sinner. I’ve had a certain scene from this fic in my head for ages, and I guess my brain decided that we’re gonna crank out a one-shot based on it in the span of a couple hours, so…here’s this lmao.
All material belongs to Hangar 13.
Fic available on AO3.
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The police sirens have faded, they’re in the clear, and yet Tommy’s heart is still beating hard in his chest. Has been since he’d faced the barrel of a gun, watched Johnny step out of the shadows when the priest had distracted him, looked eye-to-eye with the killer in his would-be murderer’s hand - and then jumped out of his skin when a shot went off and Johnny had lurched with the familiar look of a gun’s new victim, blood spraying from his head.
Sam had come marching up the aisle, looking plenty pissed, arm extended, killer-turned-saviour in his own hand (but it isn’t the gun that Tommy will thank later); Tommy adores Sam - loves him, has for years now, feels like he always has - but he has never been happier to see his partner than that moment. If shock hadn’t rattled him, if a priest hadn’t been present, if there wasn’t still work to do, if the fucking cops weren’t waiting outside for them, Tommy thinks he would’ve collapsed in Sam’s arms.
Classy fucker that Sam is, in the presence of a witness and with time running out, he’d turned to Tom and asked if that made them even.
“Sure. For now,” Tommy had said, some weak, numb snark that hadn’t sounded like snark at all. Out of body experience.
He’s got to hand it to the police for once: they’d provided a fine distraction from his fear of what had just happened, giving him something else to focus on. Admittedly, there’d still been that fear for his own safety, but that just comes with the territory; mostly, he focused on getting Sam out alive, and not just out of thanks for the recent save. It was better for him to focus on someone else in a moment like that.
The hearse makes for a silly escape vehicle - potentially disrespectful, now that Tommy thinks about it - but like Sam had said, “It’s got wheels, don’t it?!” and so it works for ‘em.
On the way to it, Tommy had doubled over to make himself a smaller target for the cops, hand pressed to Sam’s back to force him into the same position (as if Sam needed telling), and he’d fired shots at the boys in blue across the road, the ones who could potentially shoot through the window and take Sam out while he was clambering into the passenger’s seat. Tommy had been so focused on doing that, that he hadn’t thought to climb into the hearse himself until he heard Sam shouting his name and felt a tug at his coat.
It takes longer than he’d like to lose the cops, but they do it, and the distraction is gone, and the gun is back in Tommy’s mind’s eye.
Christ knows, this job is dangerous - fuck, just earlier he’d been in a shootout in a gentlemen’s club and had to jump from its window to the next building’s rooftop before he got caught up in the blast of the bomb he’d planted - but he doesn’t think he’s ever come that close to biting it before (at least, that he’s aware of).
And not just that - it’s not just how close he’d come to dying, but it’s…he’d stared his killer in the eye. Not the fucker holding the gun who’d thought he’d be doing some divine retribution, but the gun itself. Looked down at it the moment before Sam had turned up. It’d stared at him and he’d stared at it, right in its single, black eye.
And - fuck, fuck, fuck, it’s not just that either, it’s…
…He would’ve been alone.
On his other jobs, the ones just as dangerous as this, he was with someone, so if he kicked the bucket, at least he would die with the comfort that somebody he cared for was there. He doesn’t fault Sam in the slightest for not being with him in the church until the moment that he was - the situation was out of both their hands - and he doesn’t doubt that the priest would’ve have fallen to his knees and prayed for Tommy’s soul, just as he’d done for Johnny’s, but -
He would’ve been alone. Nobody who actually knew him and cared about him would’ve been there. Not his mama or his siblings, not Paulie, Vinny, Ralph, the boss, Frank, Sarah, Sam - they wouldn’t have been there for him in his last moments. Just some fucking rape-happy punk and a priest who cared only because God told him to - he would’ve been alone.
And that scares him more than anything. More than even the black eye of that gun.
If they weren’t in a hurry to get home (the cops are gone, but a hearse still kinda sticks out), Tommy would pull over so he could vomit into a drain. For now, he makes do with clenching his jaw shut and wiping a hand down the lower half of his face whenever he gets a chance and ignoring the way his stomach churns.
It’s quiet between he and Sam save for some conversation about recent events that Tommy has to wrench out from between his gritted teeth. He thinks he does well at sounding more casual than his mood will properly allow.
Still, though - his ears allow him to hear the rumbling of the car and the public outside his window and Sam, but his eyes still hold the gun’s. He sees it when he blinks. He sees it in the windows and the alleyways that they pass, in the mirrors of the hearse.
His heart won’t stop hitting his ribs. His blood is still cold yet electrified. His limbs still feel numb, even as he drives as smoothly as he ever does. Robotic.
Later, when they’re alone and away from prying, prejudiced eyes (fuck), he’ll be able to kiss the hell out of Sam like he wants to, the classic ‘thank fuck we’re alive to do this’ kind of kiss that they’ve had before, and indulge in ‘thank fuck we’re alive to do this’ sex, which, again, they aren’t strangers to, but for now, he’ll take what he can get, and what he can get is -
Once they’re at a red light, Tommy - without looking, without speaking, without really thinking, just seeking the greatest comfort he knows - reaches out and grabs Sam’s hand.
He catches, out of the corner of his eye, the way Sam flinches in surprise, since he’d been staring absentmindedly out his own window. He sees the way Sam turns his head toward him, sees the way his chin dips as he looks down at how Tommy is holding the hand he’d been resting on his own thigh, palm-up and fingers once laxed but now forcibly flared around Tommy’s palm. He can’t see the way Sam looks at him, but he can feel it, and Tommy’s a little embarrassed by himself for doing this, but fuck, fuck, he needs this.
And like always, better than anyone else Tommy’s ever known that ain’t blood-related, Sam understands him. He wraps his fingers around Tommy’s hand, holds it in turn. There’s a tiny jolt upwards of their joined hands - Sam had gone to kiss Tommy’s knuckles, only to remember where they were, which is funny, cause usually it’s Tommy doing that kind of thing; Sam’s always real good at playing the facade.
Sam squeezes his hand, holds it in a comfortably tight grip, and Tommy breathes out through his nose. Tries to make it seem like a normal breath, but the volume and the weight of it are too telling.
(He will kiss the hell out of this man later. Kiss him and make love to him.)
The light turns green and Tommy drives one-handed. How unwise that is doesn’t register to him in the slightest - not just because he’s driven like that before, but because he doesn’t want to let go of his anchor, lest he float away again.
It’s Sam who puts a stop to it: Tommy feels more than sees Sam pull his hand from Tommy’s grasp, then he’s using it to take hold of Tommy’s wrist and he guides his hand back to the steering wheel, lays it there, and Tommy automatically grips it again.
“Both hands on the wheel, Tom,” Sam says softly, and Tommy wants to say Sam doesn’t have to remind him, but he’s honestly not sure of that.
He can feel himself drifting, mind going back to that church, when Sam puts his hand on Tommy’s thigh, just under the knee. Grips it like he had done with Tommy’s palm, a handful of Tommy’s flesh in a comfortable tightness. Massages the muscle lightly. Strokes with his thumb. Every gesture that could tell Tommy I know, Tom. I know. Alright? But it’s over now. An’ you’re okay.
Tommy breathes out through his nose again and is chained to his seat.
(He’ll kiss the hell out of him and make love to him.)
Tommy’s better by the time they get back to the bar, feels less like he needs to cling to Sam until he aches, and he tells Sam that it was only how close he came to biting it that bothered him. None of the other stuff, in order to save face.
But he gets the feeling Sam knows cause, hell - Sam always knows.
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Han Joo Won: the 'I don't like touching people' boy and his manhandling victim.
Hi! I am here once again to give you a Beyond Evil analysis/meta-commentary. This time we are discussing Joo Won's whole touch deal... (and briefly discussing Dong Sik's, as well).
This show has a very big thing about hands and touching (women's fingertips are literally cut off) and they decided to have one of its main characters are issues with touch and chooses to avoid it. Who then proceeds to... well... we all know.
This is an excerpt from the essay I mentioned in this post. So, if it reads as being a bit little unfinished that's because it is meant to be a part of a larger piece.
I will also prefix that this post doesn't really delve into Joo Won's mental health or family history. It's just a commentary on how he treats Dong Sik differently from other people.
[I advise not taking shots every time you read the word "touch"... you'll end up in hospital]
[29/06/22 Note: This post has been edited and improved.]
[A continuation from a separate paragraph.]
As physical touch is something that can be taken away, for a character like Joo Won who struggles with giving and receiving it, it is important that there are only two characters that Joo Won will actively choose to touch throughout the show; as in, he chooses to touch them more than once.
Those two characters are Kwon Hyuk and Lee Dong Sik.
Joo Won touches Dong Sik (in the beginning) due to surges of uncontrollable anger, feelings of upset, or frustration. Other people have the capacity to upset, frustrate, and anger Joo Won but he doesn’t get physical with them in the same way. Almost like he doesn’t want to be in their personal space.
This is deemed as an unusual characteristic, considering Joo Won's preference for avoidance. The show's creators highlight that this is not a signifier of Joo Won being a hypocrite or a liar, but instead, it portrays that Joo Won either cannot control his emotions and/or actions around Dong Sik, or he doesn't want to.
Joo Won treats Dong Sik (physically) from everyone else in his life. We are given a direct comparison to show us the difference in which Joo Won treats Dong Sik. That is shown through Joo Won's relationship with Kwon Hyuk. Dong Sik and Hyuk are the only people (that I remember) receiving physical contact from Joo Won that was affectionate.
However, the intensity with which he touches them is the main difference. For Hyuk, Joo Won would pat his shoulder quickly to show his thanks and appreciation. It is friendly, platonic, emotionally stunted and a little sterile but affectionate, nonetheless.
(It took me so long to find that gif)
Compared to Dong Sik, well… In the most simplistic terms, Joo Won manhandles Dong Sik.
Within South Korean media, it is not uncommon for male characters to display their frustration by manhandling another male.
Stranger
Vincenzo
Welcome 2 Life
Are some examples. However, the frequency in which Joo Won does this is what makes him stand out.
Dong Sik also manhandles male characters when he has lost his temper (Club man, Han Joo Won, the guy he may have killed). For a character as multi-faceted as Dong Sik, it would have been easy for the show to make Dong Sik a touchy-feely man, as it would have fitted within his archetype: bouncy, loud, maybe the village gay, vibrant... tactile. But they didn't; Dong Sik isn't very physical at all. There are three occasions (or reasons) in which Dong Sik is tactile:
Moments of extreme anger: always toward men and always because the male is acting in an unacceptable way (The club man, punching Joo Won in the face, maybe killing that other guy)
Moment of extreme stress: trying to save Sang Yeob's life
Moments of affection: offering comfort to his mother and Joo Won.
Unlike, the two times he reacted negatively to Joo Won touching him (the first time Joo Won touched him and when Joo Won handcuffed them together), Dong Sik tends to not have that much of a reaction to being touched. Having said that, there is one time I can think of when Dong Sik is touched by another male and he has an immediate negative reaction. In episode 3, Jung Je pulls on Dong Sik's arm to stop him from walking and Dong Sik (notably angry) yanks his arm away.
So, despite the fact that Dong Sik's characterisation could have easily made him a tactile person, they chose not to do that. I believe they did this to show that despite how (initially) antagonistic Joo Won was, Dong Sik never had that much of an issue with the younger man touching him. If he did, he would do more about it, as proven by the scene with Jung Je.
[Side note: Dong Sik was beaten up by the police when he was twenty. So, I do think there is something to say about how he reacts to Joo Won being aggressive with him. Dong Sik has a side of him that can be aggressive and when pushed, he can become physically violent (beating up the man he might have killed and choking Lee Chang Jin are two examples), which suggests that Dong Sik is not a passive man. However, those instances were when he was the aggressor. When he is on the receiving end of aggression, especially if it is Joo Won as the aggressor, he becomes placid and almost like a rag-doll. Due to his history, it would suggest that this is a trauma response, his way of trying to keep Joo Won from actually hitting him. BUT, but, but, but that doesn't explain this-
The amounts of times Dong Sik does shit like this ^
Despite his history of being assaulted and Joo Won's continual aggressive behaviour, Dong Sik sure doesn't have a problem being in Joo Won's personal space. He might not actively choose to touch Joo Won but he does get in his personal space. I think it's partially because he wants to intimidate and aggravate him with his ambiguous sexuality and because he enjoys it. His way of dealing with Joo Won's aggression is kind of like: what?? are you going to punch me or kiss me? make your mind up, I'm waiting... He's an interesting, complicated, slutty man... ]
But like many other characters within South Korean media, especially in the crime genre, Dong Sik's acts of physically touching other characters are sporadical. He'll do it once (perhaps twice to a certain character) and that’ll be it. [from my personal knowledge] Han Joo Won is not like other mainstream male characters in South Korean media (within the crime genre), he’s (despite his mysophobia/mental health) a very tactile person and will go out of his way to be physical with Dong Sik.
Joo Won is the (one of two) main character in a show that is within the crime/murder/mystery genres. He is not a love interest in an obvious romance show. He is not showing his anger for reasons of jealousy, protection, or peacocking and yet, he still finds a way to physically touch Dong Sik. The older man is not his rival in his romantic life or at work, he is his suspect turned ally. He is a man Joo Won (at one point in time) seems to loathe... and yet, from the beginning, he finds any excuse to be in his personal space. Joo Won doesn't do this with any other character.
What is telling about Joo Won’s interest in only touching Dong Sik, is that as their relationship develops, his touches diversify:
Grabbing Dong Sik’s clothes: to prevent him from moving (episode 3-16)
Grabbing Dong Sik’s clothes: to pull him closer/emphasise his point or his feelings (episode 3-16)
Holding onto Dong Sik even when Dong Sik is doing something else (checking his phone: episode 6)
4 specific examples that stand out to me:
Cradling Dong Sik’s crying body whilst holding hands with him (episode 10)
Angrily holding onto Dong Sik’s clothes, pulling him closer and looking at his lips (episode 14??)
A soft (absent-minded) brush of his hand (episode 15)
Clutching Dong Sik’s hands and crying into them (episode 16)
(This show has a lot of hands in it and that’s so beautiful)
Here's a quick visual example/summary of the progression:
The first time Joo Won touches Dong Sik [Disclaimer: I'm discounting the ep1 hand pat because ep3 was the first time he is the initiatator]
The last
Joo Won's tactile nature with Hyuk displays his philia/storge* love for him. Whereas, the way Joo Won touches Dong Sik shows his eros/ludus "love"/interest/repressed feelings for the older man. It is passionate, angry, confused, uncontrollable, desperate, and lustful. But then it becomes: repressed, affectionate, desperate, passionate, lustful, caring, absent-minded, and natural.
One display is relaxed, not easily given and platonic (Hyuk). The other is intense and is not platonic in the slightest (Dong Sik). Further proving how differently Joo Won views and treats Dong Sik.
*the seven kinds of love defined by the Ancient Greeks.
Joo Won is… hilarious and so obvious.
In the beginning, he thinks that Dong Sik is either a serial killer or at least complicit in multiple women’s brutal murders and yet, he’s popping around his house, whispering in his ear, getting in his personal space- he doesn’t fear Dong Sik.
Dong Sik’s person doesn’t set off his mysophobia, he does, however, cause Joo Won to have anxiety responses to their interactions. (This is also triggered because of other things going on with Joo Won’s mental health/ the stressful nature of the situation.)
A quick summary of the different ways Joo Won's able to touch others:
Moments of stress or extreme anger: always toward men and always because the male is acting in an unacceptable way (Dong Sik, the group he beats up in ep5//kind of, Kang Jin Mook)
Moment of extreme stress: trying to save Nam Sang Bae's life
Moments of affection: Dong Sik (I don't need to elaborate).
For work: Joo Won is capable of touching people for work. As shown by his interactions with those who are mentally unwell: Bang Ho Cheol, the boy from episode 2, Jung Je.
If it's for work, he can do it. But does he want to? No. This further proves that there are only two people he actually wants to touch: Hyuk and Dong Sik.
Notably, he never touches any of the female characters, either.
What I’m trying to say is: that Dong Sik from the get-go is a special case in Joo Won’s life and I think that further supports Joo Won’s queer coding.
(^ what they said)
So, as we have established how Joo Won treats Dong Sik differently, we now must ask: why?
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Anyway, thank you for reading this short excerpt from that essay I mentioned. I had a whole bit analysing Joo Won's mysophobia and his potential OCD/ASD and how that affects his actions. But I've decided not to include it because it lacks direction and doesn't do his character justice. Not to say that this entry does, but it has something to say, even if it the obvious and only small.
I hope this was entertaining to read. It's a mess but... yeah... I'm not going to do anything about that.
Once again, if you want to add to the conversation/share your own thoughts in any way, please feel free to do so. I love talking about this show and its layers, and would be more than happy to do so with you lovely lot!
Bye!
#beyond evil#jtbc beyond evil#beyond evil analysis#han juwon#han joo won#lee dongsik#jwds#beyond evil meta commentary
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hello!
first: a hanseo edit I made that I’m pretty proud of :3
for my intro: welcome ^__^ I specifically talk about the kdrama vincenzo (but I’ll also talk about other shows if I feel like it) !! my hyperfixation on Vincenzo is solely jang brothers focused so I’ll probably almost exclusively talk about / analyse them, but I also make fanart and will do a whole lot of other things here !!!!
• main blog: @littlerockeatingfriend
• bts blog: @hyyhjimin
• AO3: autistichanseo
• I don’t like good brother au hanseok but u can still interact if u write / like it as long as it’s because you just want hanseo to be happy. I might still follow you if you do make good brother au hanseok but I won’t interact with anything related to that on ur page :D
• jang brothers shippers stay 50 feet away from me thanks!!!!! this includes ppl who support jangcest and even those who are neutral to it <333 I will just block u if i find out ur a jangcest shipper im so serious ab this Thanks
also dont repost my art anywhere even with credit (reblogs ofc ok) though you can use it in non weird shit like pfps etc if you credit me
(hyperfixation list and watch lists under cutoff):
hyperfixation list:
bts
skz
mitski
jang brothers from vincenzo (+ hanseok and hanseo seperately)
tale of the nine tailed (lee rang specifically, possibly one on lee rang + yuri & lee brothers)
strangers from hell kdrama (mjjw specifically but strangers from hell as a whole)
bad and crazy (su yeol & su yeol + k.)
mouse (bareum & general show as a whole)
fashion
have seen somewhat recently:
SOTUS
tale of the nine tailed s1 + 1938
my demon
strangers from hell
unlocked
mouse
bad and crazy
b99 (all seasons)
currently watching:
suits (s1 ep 6)
planning to / might (re)watch:
might rewatch the untamed
might rewatch 2gether
might rewatch the good place
sotus S
love in the moonlight
save me
shadow and bone
a shop for killers
evillive
kinnporshe
#tvn vincenzo#vincenzo#jang han seo#jang jun woo#the jang bros#jang han seok#fanart#how do i tag lmao#vincenzo cassano#myedits
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ok HAI
no hate to the anon BUT I SWEAR im like the only person that hated nevertheless like!! the characters except potato boy irritated me sooooooooo much.
i am also gonna put my recs too!!
interstellar
get out
king the land which is coming out at the moment
vincenzo
save me -THIS IS SO GOOD one of best k dramas tbh
silver linings playbook
you probs have seen most of these but i am gonna send anyway :)
as a media student, i shouldve watched interstellar and inception BUT those two are just, god i just cant find the time for those jaisufdh AND omg get out ( hi, im a huge peele fan, so im up to date with all his movies djaisuf ) AND lemme add those to my kdrama list which i really hope to start on soon !! ( im still stuck on the 9th episode of strangers from hell and the 7th episode of all of us are dead WHY ) but thank you omg i shall watch theseee !!!
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Gush About Your OC
Thank you for tagging me @maimaiapologist ❤️ It was cool to read more about Sal ❤️
📚 Rules:
💛 Post 5 Facts about your
💛Open the latest section of #cyberpunk 2077 tag and reblog 5 posts of people you don’t follow, giving them nice tags.
💛 Tag 5 People to spread the game. Tagging: @arasakas-ronin @scuttlebuttin @scumpatrol @abysswaatchers @kohnnor
Why not, I decided I will give some spotlight to my guilty pleasure baby - Himiko 💛
💛 First of all she technically doesn’t exist lol. Let me explain: Himiko started as an April Fool’s joke baby of my Vincent and Hanako at the old server I was in, 2 years ago. She’s not part of my “official headcanons” but she’s my guilty pleasure headcanon I run for comfort when I want to be mushy and cute and have happy vibes thinking that despite everything my otp got together for so long and they’re somehow happy. So technically, she’s in additional AU to my Blaze of Glory AU where Hanako never went nomad with Vincent cuz instead of leaving with Aldecaldos after the Devil Ending, he decided to do the gig from Mr. Blue-Eyes gaining worldwide fame as the most dangerous man alive. I hope that means sense.
💛 Himiko is lab-made baby! I can imagine that since Hanako is chromed she’s already infertile in 2077, but after all she is the Arasaka so I bet her eggs were stored for the sake of Arasakas future. So Himiko was made in-vitro, in womb like enviroment in the most top secret Arasaka Labs in Tokyo.
💛 Her existence is kept secret from the world, kind of. In 2081 a year after her “birth” Saburo informed the public that he was blessed with new member of Arasaka family - a child of his beloved daughter Hanako, and her husband Vincenzo Giovanna. However, it was everything the public knew for decades to come. Instead Himiko was given a secret surname as Himiko Ikeda (hehe in my nomad ff Hanako is undercover as Asami Ikeda), and had pretty much what would seem a normal kid experience growing up in Kyoto, going to school like any other kid. In reality it was really stresfull situation where she developed a fear towards other peers, being scared of befriending anyone, afraid they will realize who she is and her life would be ruined. However that did not stopped her from being the leader among others as she even was the Head of the Student’s Council in her High School.
💛 In her childhood, when her father’s cat who was her bestest friend - Nibbles - died due to old age, her grandfather used this as opportunity to play on little Himiko. Instead of “another stray cat” in the family, Saburo gifted Himiko a baby of the last living lions that she named Kumo (meaning: cloud). Of course her parents were outraged by this, as it was super dangerous, and they needed to keep Lion Trainers around. Years later due to Kumo being an offspring of already struggling animals, he turned out to have a lot of health problems that slowly became uncurable. When Kumo started getting his first cybernetic parts Himiko swore she herself will find a way to save his life, therefore she pursued her interest in cybernetics and ended up designing life-saving parts that she asked her mother to make the software for. At the end Himiko and Hanako saved Kumo, and he lived many more years with her. Thanks to behavioral chip that Hanako wrote, Kumo was unable to cause harm to Himiko or the family, so the trainers and precautions weren’t needed anymore.
💛 Those who knew of her existence had mixed opinions. She was either loved, or shamed for variety of reasons. The most prominient one was Saburo’s own way of thinking that Vincent’s genes disgrace purity of Arasaka bloodline.
P.S. I have to make future appearances for Hanako and Vincent just to take pics with her 😭
#cyberpunk 2077#more like#cyberpunk 2100#C: Himiko#Himiko Arasaka#荒坂 日美子#cyberpunk 2077 tag game#tag game#oc tag game#cyberpunk oc
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God you're far more patient than me, Ash. Like...are anon messages to a Tayley stan blog the best place for discourse, maybe yes maybe no, it's a good conversation to me have but jeeeeez. Always jarring seeing people find ways to excuse and justify themselves not condemning little war crimes lmao.
So, to mix it up a little, please feel free to answer all or some (or simply none of the following haha if you've answered them before or just don't want to):
🪄
1) When did you first become aware of Paramore?
2) When did you first see Paramore live/how many times have you?
3) What other artists/bands do you listen to a lot? Maybe...top 5 (no particular order)
4) Do you have any pets? Talk about them (if you want)
5) What was the last new-to-you film, TV show and book you watched/read?
6) What was your favourite moment from running this blog before their relationship was official? I wasn't here then but reading Kels' archive makes me so jealous of how fun and mad it all seemed whenever a new scrap of content arrived haha.
7) If you woke up tomorrow looking like Hayley and couldn't dye your hair (except to refresh it), which hair era would you want?
8) If you had half an hour with Hayley, what would you want to talk about?
That's all I can think of but hopefully it'll give you SOMETHING different to talk/think about!! 🫡🌻
i was saving this so now i shall answer :) the questions were very fun to answer i loved this so much, thank you!! 🖤
1) 2007! that is how long i have been a fan too :)
2) 27th september 2013. overall i have seen them live 4 times! i also saw halfnoise in 2017 and met zac
3) seventeen, jungkook, iu, eminem, billie eilish. honourable mention to taeyeon tho!
4) i don't have any pets. i had a dog (german shepherd) called sam, we had him before i was born so when i came along he was super protective, when i was baby he was always by my crib and stuff and as i was growing up if i needed help when walking or walking down the stairs at our back door (they had no railing) he'd always stand by my side so i could hold him, and then as i grew up too he always slept in my room or on my bed. he passed though in 2005 or 2006? so sad i miss him he was the best. i had another dog after that (yorkshire terrier) and i called him marmite but he was too hyperactive and aggressive so we ended up having to give him to a friend.
5) um..... i don't know. i watched barbie but that was new to everyone. vincenzo (kdrama) is the only thing that comes to mind since i only got into kdramas last year and it came out in 2021. some other things, not new to me but hey i wanna share, little women (kdrama), extraordinary attorney woo (kdrama) and a business proposal (kdrama), the first two were so incredible, the last one was silly but it was a fun time.
6) my fave moment.... the date at the gallery in oct 2018. also LA nov 2018. it was a party over here it was so fun each time. obvs they were dating then but majority of the fanbase still hating tayley shippers and that's what tayley were up to..... incredible time.
7) self titled. granted her personal life was a mess but she went thru 2726267227 hair styles and colours and i think it would be fun
8) hm.... well id like to tell her about finding paramore in 2007 during the literal worst year is my whole life and how it really helped me as a 10 year have something to turn to when i was going through something very traumatic. id also like to pick her brain over some lyrics on ffv so i can understand them properly finally, and hm..... idk what else
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K-Drama recs?
Reply 1988- family, friends, extremely funny, heartwarming, drama, potpourri of emotions.
Vincenzo - funny, revenges, action, FUNNYYYYY, Crack disguised at mafia au.
Hospital Playlist - heartwarming, friends, music, same creators as that of Reply series (crossovers happens)
Little Women - Drama, magic realism, beautiful aesthetics, gripping story, investigative journalism, politics, art, socio economic commentary, ✨women✨
Extraordinary Attorney Woo - austic lawyer, greenest flag male lead, cutest bff, cutest love story, empathetic storyline, Female lead has all my heart, interesting
Mr. Queen - underrated, extremely funny, a male chef goes back into time as a Joseon era queen, ✨Gender and sexuality are a spectrum✨
Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo- tooth rotting romance, college, sports, female friendship shenanigans, subtle education on body dysphoria.
18 Again - mature relationship, family, healing (single handedly cured my daddy issues)
Itaewon Class - fast pace, entrepreneurship, FOOD, interesting, female lead is 🔥, 10/10
It's Okay to Not be Okay - mental health, every episode is loosely based on one of the many Korean bed time classics for kids, serious drama but there are funny scenes, heartwarming
A Love so beautiful - a light, short episode, coming of age episode school romance, easy watch
Crash Landing On You - A peep into North Korean traditional households. I watched it out of curiosity.
A Business Proposal - Light entertaining watch. Second leads are awesome ✨
Welcome - Cat hybrid male lead au. Short episodes. I lived it because ✨cat✨ Hehe
Note: DO NOT watch Goblin. If you don't want to drown in your own tears and die, do not watch Goblin. (I loved Goblin, its so good 🤌 but my therapist was expensive 😭😭😭)
I wanted to throw myself out of the window.
Hoooooooly heck!!🥺💕 this is an amazing comprehensive list, babe. Thank you so much and I’m gonna go through all of these to save. Mr. Queen sounds super cool👀
Also I’ve heard that about Goblin and the OST already gets me so🧍♀️maybe I’ll save that for an extra rainy day lmao
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Cho Youngwoon (Vincenzo) Headcanon | When He Gets Jealous
Pairing: Cho Youngwoon x Fem!Reader
Requested by anon: Hii!! Can you please write jealousy and boyfriend headcanons for Jang Han Seo,Jang Han Seo and Youngwoon from Vincenzo? Thank you in advance 💝
Genre: angst
A/n: i believe in the show Mr. Cho (as he's referred to) is married, so we're going to act under the guise that reader is either his girlfriend/future wife in this headcanon or he's not married in the time of the shows events
Tunes: i'm now watching Bungo Stray Dogs. i needed this crackhead energy after the Jeffrey Epstein BS i decided to watch (god i hate when shit like that happens) in addition to the depressing animes in my repertoire
I find Youngwoon to be quite mature and level-headed
In the present timeline
Despite the whole undercover situation going on in the show
I think he’s pretty loyal and not one to feel as though he’s in danger of being pushed out of your life
He doesn’t get jealous easily or often
But when he does
He shuts down
He’ll go quiet and quite literally just sit there and think about how to approach the issue
He doesn’t want you to think he’s possessive or like you can’t have other guys around you
But he also wants you to know how he feels about the whole issue
I’ll be honest
This mainly applies one Vincenzo enters the picture since you take a liking to him
Especially under the circumstance that the three of you are acquainted
(Vincenzo saved Youngwoon’s life for those who don’t know)
Youngwoon knows Vincenzo would never try anything with you
But he can’t help but think that you might see just how much more the Corn Salad Consigliere can offer you
He doesn’t know that the two of you could be broke and homeless and you would never
Not once in a million years
Trade him for anyone else
#kdrama#kdrama masterlist#vincenzo#vincenzo masterlist#vincenzo headcanons#vincenzo cho youngwoon#cho youngwoon#cho youngwoon headcanons
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That time Shakespeare met the neapolitan playwright Eduardo de Filippo
We all know Shakespeare and the greatness of his plays, which are still relevant today. As we all know Shakespeare’s last play was The Tempest, of which there are numerous versions and adaptations.
One of the certainly lesser-known adaptations outside Italy is the Neapolitan version by the Neapolitan playwright and actor Eduardo de Filippo.
Eduardo de Filippo and siblings Titina and Peppino were the natural children of Luisa de Filippo and Eduardo Scarpetta, who, however, was married to an aunt of Luisa’s by whom she had other children.
The three siblings grew up in the Neapolitan theatrical milieu while also working with their half-brother Vincenzo Scarpetta. Eduardo wrote his first play in 1920 and founded his own company in 1931. During his very long career, Eduardo wrote and brought more than forty comedies to the theater and cinema. In 1983, at the request of the publishing house Einaudi, his rewrite of Shakesspeare’s The Tempest came out. It is Eduardo himself who explains the reason for choosing this work
“The tolerance, the benevolence that pervades the whole story. Although he has been treated unworthily by his brother, the king of Naples and Sebastian, Prospero does not seek revenge but rather their repentance. What more timely teaching could an artist have given to the man of today, who in the name of a religion or an ideal kills and commits unheard-of cruelties, in an escalation that who knows where it will take him?”
Eduardo tried to rewrite the Shakespearean text while maintaining fidelity to the original text. The originality of Eduardo’s rewriting of The Tempest lies in the language, in the rendering of language that. in the Neapolitan style, maintains the same sense of expressions and personalities as forged by the English playwright.
The Neapolitan language used by Eduardo almost faithfully brings back not only expressions, and words, but also all the musicality of the original text. While remaining faithful in terms of plot and characters, however, Eduardo’s Tempest presents itself as a new creature, a child yes of its 600s counterpart, but above all it remains the theatrical testament of the Neapolitan playwright in which he leaves all his poetics.
At first, Eduardo uses the Italian translations of Salvatore Quasimodo and Cesare Vico Lodovici, but the differences existing between the two versions lead him to choose the English text as a starting point. The choice is dictated by a desire to approach Shakespeare and The Tempest in an unmediated way. Eduardo decides to render in Neapolitan a version entirely in verse, while the English original often alternates between blank verse and prose. The Neapolitan chosen by Eduardo is not that of his century but that of the seventeenth century, but he contaminates it with linguistic expressions from the seventeenth century reach to the end of the twentieth century, to the point of including Italian vocabulary. Language is the area in which Eduardo’s dramatic invention is tested. If in substance Eduardo’s The Tempest remains faithful to Shakespeare’s masterpiece in theme and setting, the form with which the work is clothed shows a new nature: the use of such a structured dialect as well as the introduction of phrases, allusions, and gestures, drawn from the culture that to that linguistic code they belong to, give the work an otherness that goes far beyond the idiomatic datum, an austere and essential Neapolitaness on the theatrical level. It is not surprising, then, that Ariele leaves Ferdinand in a space described almost as the blue grotto of Capri, that the malignant witch Sicorace is referred to as originating in Benevento, or that Gonzalo thanks San Gennaro for finding himself safe and sound on the island. There are also proverbial expressions, slang, gastronomic references, and allusions to Neapolitan songs in the text, so that the general sense of Shakespeare’s lines is saved in substance, but culturally transcended in verbal expression.
The idea that takes shape is far from Eduardo’s theater, and its cultural tradition, but it manages to enthuse the artist to the point that he decides to play all the characters in The Tempest by himself. The only exception is Miranda, the only female presence. The project is completed with the inclusion of a musical part.
The performance of The Tempest is thus the third stage of the process completed by Shakespeare after the translation of the text and its recording. On stage are more than 150 puppets about five feet in
height, many more than the characters envisaged in the Shakespearean text. The fusion of the different languages deployed takes into account their specific registers and creates a unique and unrepeatable result, in which the dominant aspect is still Eduardo’s voice and presence.
Source: Dalla scena elisabettiana al teatro di figura: La tempesta di Shakespeare nella traduzione di Eduardo De Filippo di Annamaria Sapienza.
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if you were forced to always include a specific trope in every fic you write, which one would it be?
The answer is what Luca is doing probably
Hmmmm...
Well, first, thanks for your question, anonymous person!
Second, I'm not sure if it's 'would include because I like it best' or 'would include because it's easiest to write'. I've found those things are oppositional because life is that way - e.g., I will always drop everything to read a fake dating scenario but I cannot write that and keep people in character to save my life. That seems to hold true with my very favorite tropes.
But maybe I should go with my original answer but unflippantly - I think if I had to always have one trope in something, it would be the "some third party sees and knows them better than they are willing to admit to themselves." Luca's a handy blank slate because he and Vincenzo are close-seeming and have a backstory we know nothing about. Mr. Cho is also fertile ground for the same reason (and is criminally underexplored). Vincenzo's birth mother is, too (plus, my God, the angst potential).
On Cha Young's side, I'm always an absolute sucker for her or Vincenzo (or, better still, them together) being observed through her dad's eyes. (Stop right now and go reread rosetintednerdglasses' Wingman for a pitch-perfect example of this.)
Also, Jun Woo/Han Seok watching them is fantastic stuff, especially because he's so either evil or split personality or insane or some combination of all of these, plus obviously both interested in Cha Young and jealous of Vincenzo (both because of and separate from Cha Young's interest in him). There's not much of that out there either.
Thank you for the question - I'm not sure I answered it well, but it was fun to think about.
And, if you care to, what are your favorite tropes to see?
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hello TTji 🥰 hru?? did you have a good halloween? <333 im writing to ask if you're gonna watch reborn rich? since i know you love vincenzo! personally, i am very excited for it ~ hope you're having a great day btw ! THANK YOU X
Hi friendddddd,
I'm gooooooooood, hbu?! I'm not a big Halloween person, coz every day since adulthood has struck has been pretty goddamn scary to me 😫😮😥 (the fuck is a pension?!?!?!?! I was hoping to drop dead waaaaaaaaaaay before I needed the use of one?!?!!!!??? What do you meannnnnnnn I should have been saving since I started my first job eons ago???? I spent all my money on stickers and pink/blue hair dye. 😭😭😭)
You betcha cute little butttttt imma watch Reborn Rich - or as I call it, Return of (Joongki as) Revenge Daddy. I think my name is better than the one they've finally settled on. 😅😅😅
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Here are my Han-seo headcanons (thanks @dongyeonsimp for starting this):
Han-seo's father was aware of his existence since birth but didn’t do more than provide support for them financially until Han-seo’s mother was diagnosed with a terminal illness and she insisted he take over custody
Han-seo was very excited to meet his older brother and Han-seok was the perfect sibling for 1 to 2 weeks before he dropped the facade
Han-seo used to be very social and popular as a kid before his father took over custody and made him transfer to another school
As a young adult, he "developed violent tendencies" and got into many bar fights to let his frustrations out on others
Abstract, theoretical subjects don't come easily to him but he's very good at things he can "touch" and where he can do something with his hands like repairing things or cooking
He's also good at planning meetings and presentations but usually finds it boring
He loved ice hockey since before Han-seok and nothing, not even his brother ordering him to kill Vincenzo with a hockey stick can sully the bond he has with ice hockey
He got the 80s Korea town outfit from a second hand shop he used to go to with his mom:')
He started studying Italian after Vincenzo agreed to team up with him
Han-seo uses gifts to "bribe" people into liking him because that's the language he grew up with, and that Geumga Plaza keeps rejecting his gifts confuses him
the pawn shop lady was the first from Geumga Plaza to warm up to him after she learned Han-seo was the one who saved them from being blown up
Han-seo is a little bit snobby to Toto because he saw Vincenzo bully him over his Italian food
the Geumga Nutria tries to take him under his wing (since they are "kindred spirits" for having worked for Babel before "turning their backs on the dark side") but Han-seo just isn't as impressed by him as he is by Vincenzo
once Cha-young warms up to him, they become an absolute chaos duo who drive Vincenzo insane
#i gotta stop here or i'll go on forever lol#vincenzo#jang han seo#headcanons#the lil crumbs we got on his childhood drive me insane#like what do u mean 'ur mom told me to look after u even if i don't give u anything'#when did she SAY that and why#😩
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