#to the cause of bringing MC or Noah back to life. and also getting them to date each other

[galpalaven]

AU where Penny is the other romance option in It Lives Within instead of Jocelyn (bc I don't like bully redemption arcs lmao)

#penny fisher #my ocs #it lives within #sort of? #anyway im doing a playthru w/ her to romance lincoln bc Of Course #but she would be bffs with Noah or the ILITW MC and would 100% be dedicated #to the cause of bringing MC or Noah back to life. and also getting them to date each other #and she bullies connor. whether it is affectionately or not is up to yall #lol

[morganmaietto]

WIPs Intro

The Mirror Effect, title could change: Lucille had no idea what she was getting into when she read an old book she found randomly one day. It turns out it was a spellbook, and she was reading out real spells that had accidentally cursed her siblings, Noah and Taelor, turning them into supernatural creatures. Not only does she have to figure out a way to lift their curses, she has mysterious government agents from the agency known as Supernatural Enforcer Agency, or S.E.A for short, looking for her and a dangerous coven called The Cracked Mirror Coven wanting her to join their cause. Needless to say, Lucille has her work cut out for her.

How Jack Met Phoebe, title is going to change: Jack has graduated high school finally and is going to college. He’s looking forward to just going to classes and avoiding people as much as possible. Unfortunately for him, his roommate Liam is a partier, and well brings a lot of girls over. Besides this being a huge nuisance to Jack, he caught the attention of a girl named Phoebe, or rather he realized he had been gazing at her too long and almost embarrassed himself. Phoebe did end up noticing and was curious about Jack a lot more than Liam, so she decided to talk to him the next day. After a while of talking to each other, they begin developing feelings for each other. Jack isn’t sure he’s brave enough to take the dive just yet.

Into The Stars: Callie Ramirty Do’don, a young elf, is on a mission to save her people from an upcoming war. The prophecy says that a human will come forth and stop the war and there will be eternal peace throughout the kingdoms, but with no hope in finding a human to complete the prophecy, Callie decided to take things into her own hands and try to speak with each of the kings and queens personally to sort things out. What she did not expect was to find a lost human on her way to the first kingdom, could this be the human described in the prophecy? If so, Callie thinks they’re all doomed. Now they must work together in order to get what they want.

Only Imaginary 18+: Hannah Johnson has always been able to see spirits and other supernatural creatures that others can’t. Her parents had to take her to the doctors when she was younger because they feared she was sick because of all the gruesome things she told her parents. She’s learned to ignore the spirits and has gotten pretty good at it. But when she meets an astral projecting rooking cop, her ghost free days are over. Now they must work together to get to the bottom of various murders.

You’re Being Hunted 18+, this a also an early idea but has more information: A girl gets transported into her favorite slasher movie and needs to figure out a way to survive. The only problem is the “final girl” is the only one who’s supposed to survive and if she dies in the movie world there’s a chance she dies in real life

Spruce Hollow 18+: Mae has always dreamed of becoming a police officer to follow in her father’s footsteps, but since monsters run governments and other federal agencies they have not allowed humans to gain power again, this has proven to be very difficult. In this world monsters took over after seeing that humans were to blame for killing Earth, and each other, now the world is in harmony. At least that’s what they want to think. Something powerful is coming, and no mere monster can defeat it.

It Started With A Fire 18+: Lucy Brown has a strange gift, when someone touches her, intentionally or not, she can see the way they die.

Untitled 1, still very early, not a lot of writing has gone into this: A red golden circular amulet is in the wrong hands and a girl has to find it and take it back before disaster strikes. MC (can’t think of a good name yet, Zoey Graves maybe) is trying to just figure out life while going through college and now she’s got to somehow find this amulet and save the world

Untitled 2, also a very early idea not much writing either: An abduction leads to a new adventure to different planets.

Untitled 4, another early idea that doesn’t have a lot of information: A group of college students go on an expedition to Antarctica and discover something unexpected

Untitled 5, A couple has recently lost their house and us to travel around to find a new start. This is their adventures along the way.

Untitled 6, A white stag, believed to only be a local legend, is being hunted. A group of people band together to protect it.

Untitled 7, A newlywed couple has just bought their dream home, a beautiful Victorian mansion deep in the woods of Connecticut. While home alone, the woman starts seeing visions of past house owners, many meeting very disturbing fates in the very house they lived in.

Untitled 8, Zombie outbreak: a young couple gets caught up in it. The boyfriend gets bit and the girlfriend is trying to find a cure to save him.

Untitled 9 18+: A worker in a grocery store has to deal with people with superpowers. These people are known for losing their tempers and “accidentally” killing innocent bystanders with their powers when they’re angry.

Untitled 10, A girl gets a job at her mysterious local library

Untitled 11 18+: A large group of zombie apocalypse survivors have found sanctuary. The leader consists of a mom and her two children. She isn’t the best mother and hates her youngest daughter. She would do anything to cast her away. And she was successful in that and her daughter was sent away forever banned from the safety of the sanctuary. The youngest daughter ended up surviving but not without being bitten. Two months later she hasn’t changed into a zombie. She’s somehow immune to the zombie virus, but not entirely human anymore.

Untitled 12: People are trapped on a woody island that has magical animals on it.

Untitled 13 18+: A homeless teen, struggling with addiction, gets a second chance.

Untitled 14: A few students are stuck doing a project together in a haunted school.

Are They Actually Real? (my sister came up with the title for me) : A girl has the power to see her different realities and jump into them if she wants. This is starting to cause problems for her as her family from these realities are beginning to notice her acting different, and she doesn’t know how to get back to her own reality.

Hey, @verba-writing I finished my WIPs Intro list! This is currently all my WIPs, more will be added in the future. I’m sorry for the few information on a lot of the WIPs, I’m trying to focus more on The Mirror Effect because I don’t want to overwhelm myself, and with college it’s hard to even write a chapter.

#own work #current wips #writing wip #my work #my writing #wip intro #fantasy #mystery #horror #romance #scifi

[csmicletters]

Some head cannons + voices in my head theories for LITG.

S1

Everything CHANGED after Cherrygate

It’s so frustrating to think about how they force us to take our partner back after that circus specially when us (ME - in this case, can’t talk for all the players) were not even totally sold on them to begin with. I could not care less that they kissed Cherry but I just didn’t wanna be with them so the aftermath was the perfect opportunity for us to get with who we actually liked without feeling guilty about it.

The scene after the terrace HAD to have a gem (most likely) option for us to be with the person who was comforting us, and should be our choice who that was (personally for me that would be Tim, Rohan or Jake, I would play all routes, but well…)

S2

Sorry to tell ya but I’m convinced Gary was never interested in Lottie

So many glitches in his route drive me crazy to play but his route is still wholesome and I’m sure he was always interested in the MC even with the mess that the actual game is.

Their kiss in the bathroom makes no sense to me in the situation they are in and she is totally platonic.

I sound like a broken record but hear me out: Lottie and Jakub are perfect for each other and I would love to see them as a couple

He needs someone to keep him in line, keep it interesting and to entertain him.

She needs someone to also keep her real, and to give her attention and to dote on her like a queen which I can see him doing 100%.

They would spark in all kinds of right and wrong ways and I feel like they would complement each other SO well.

Lucas: there is NO WAY in hell he would actually bring Blake back if he was with MC and she haven’t cheated or kissed Noah.

not much to build up on that he just wouldn’t, maybe Henrik would I can see that, because I feel like Henrik is more insecure, but Lucas… NEVER.

Lucas would change his mind about kids eventually if he was with the right person.

I feel like he would like to prove to himself and also his father he could be better than he ever was and that he could be successful and be a good father and be loving and have love in his life not just worry about money and work.

I have so many opinions on S2 and different/other characters but I will stop here for today cause I can’t think now.

S3

Seb and Gen would never work in real life.

I feel like they are too different but not in a complimentary sort of way.

I love Nicky and I would love for him to be an LI as much as Seb BUT different than Seb and Genevieve I love the chemistry and vibe between Nicky and Elladine.

Ciaran is a little underrated, he is just very sweet and I really like him as a LI even if I would not replay the S3 even if they paid me to.

I think that’s all for now, and no one asked me anything or any of my opinions but I wanted to write them anyway and would love to hear opinions on my opinions LOL

Me with recent contents of LITG:

#litg #litg headcanons #litg theories #litg s2 #litg s3 #litg s1

[ravenadottir]

Hreyooo, Which route do you think is the most fun? I don't know which one to play and I'm afraid to leave my boy Lucas in the hands of fate, I admit it. 🤠

heyooo! ooh, i love to do this route because of the responses we can get and my favorite is not about an LI but about a conduct (like i mentioned in this post a while ago)

((also if you're interested in which playthrough is the best for each li, IN MY OPINION, i wrote it down here))

hear me out: BURN THE VILLA.

i always start with rocco but kiss and flirt with the others every opportunity i get. after so many playthroughs i felt i deserved a little treat, and this one route i did was honestly the best!

so, let 's begin!

day 1 i choose rocco. truth and dare: noah. kiss rocco after if he's into it. pay the 5 gems to meet the second boy that's gonna chase you. i really don't pick anyone specific and sometimes will close my eyes when tapping the order of the boys on the first pick. i enjoy the surprise lol

every time one of the boys flirt or ask for reassurance, i'm openly flirting. i like hurting rocco and earning his side thing with marisol. besides, my mc doesn't care about it and even calls lottie out when she's angry about it.

slime challenge: i go bananas on everyone, catch every color, really go for it! and when being called out i always shrug and give the "i don't care" type of response.

whenever gary wants a kiss i give it to him. because my mc is living her best life in this one! besides, i side with priya to make lottie mad, mostly because she's being a hypocrite before casa amor.

when lucas and henrik enter the villa i flirt with both. it's simply too fun to not do it! when we go to the firepit i sit in between them and do my best to make them feel welcome. at the date i give everything to both, because there's going to be some angst once one of them leaves. it's just that little *spark* of extra flavor.

the tweet challenge is the perfect opportunity to spite everyone and call them out, especially lottie and hope. no one escapes this route, not even the girls.

when rocco leaves i share the bed with lucas/henrik. usually i let lucas stay in the villa because he's so prone to drama himself.

every time there's an opportunity i call the girls out. it's the pot calling the kettle black and it's fun to see them squirm when they're on their high horse. again, at the beginning, every girl has something going on for them on the side. lottie wants gary, priya wants noah, hope wants lucas and marisol wants rocco, so it's fun to just air the dirty laundry every time i can.

when choosing someone i go for gary. especially after telling lottie i wouldn't. it's her and lucas being extremely disappointed but this is not the time for pity.

operation nope is the apex of the first two weeks and of course i go for it. blatantly flirting with noah before my mc kisses him. again, this is my reward for taking everyone's shit in other playthroughs.

now, because i go for noah, he's gonna choose my mc and i'll definitely kiss him and say this is what i wanted, only to play around and flirt with ALMOST everyone in casa amor. carl is my main guy but i flirt with kassam as well! i just want lottie to regret herself on every gary playthrough *shrugs*

when coming down to the choice i bring carl. not that it matters who comes from casa amor, they all turn into the same person except for a couple of answers on challenges, so... not much loss there.

BUT, when hope asks me who i want to choose me, i say it's bobby. he goes for it because the decision is ours and that's great. we have elisa and jo coming in and i only throw gasoline in the fire when the altercation between shannon and jo happens.

after all that, i continue to give everyone else the time of day. on day 24, when henrik and hannah come back, i tell henrik i'm into him. i don't cheat on bobby though and here's why: if you do you have no other alternative but to stay with henrik, and what i really want is to kill jo's spirit. so i go for ibrahim at the last recoupling, after ending things with bobby after the challenge.

and yes, i do go for both chats on the roofterrace with noah and end up hooking up with him on day 29. it just makes sense ya know? why stopping?

because it doesn't matter what you do you always win, i choose to steal the money but i also don't go for noah either. my mc is alone by the pool at the end of the night, but she was the most popular character in the entire season, cause a stir every time she could and i honestly think she would live her best during those 30 days!

#litg #love island the game #litg s2 #litg season 2 #routes #queue #burn the villa #i didn't proofread this #it was too long #and i probably left some stuff out #that are basically general knowledge about a burn the villa route #but hey #add your wicked touch and let us know if you go through with it

[kidnappedbycartoons]

Thoughts about Bobby

I want to talk about Bobby. I did this with Hannah and now I’m doing the other freckle-faced person in the season. Despite his route being bland, I feel like there is a lot to say about Bobby.

The First Week:

We didn’t know much about Bobby. And from what Rahim/Rocco says during the Mean Tweets challenge, looks like the guys don’t either. He didn’t tell MC a lot about himself during this time. Even during Day Two when MC asks him to tell her something she doesn’t know about him, he jokes about it instead of saying something, unlike the other guys. It makes me wonder what he could be hiding. We know he’s been burned before and wants someone loyal, but why is he so closed off compared to the other guys? I agree with Marisol, he uses humor as a defense mechanism, but why? I’m going to divert away from the player theory and just use what we have in the game.

Operation Nope:

He encourages it. He and Priya use the excuse that Noah and Hope might be faking it and that either her or MC have to try and turn Noah’s head. Ignoring that, the thing that gets me is that if he is coupled up with MC, he even suggests that she could try it because he tries not to be a jealous guy and “For science”. Is he that dumb to not see how weird and offensive that could be? No. A part of me feels like he suggested it to MC to test her loyalty to him. I feel like he was hurt before the villa. Like the person he thought he was going to spend the rest of his life with cheated on him with one of his best friends type hurt. So he’s closed off not only to MC but to the guys because of this. This could also explain why Bobby didn’t care much about encouraging Priya and MC to try and turn Noah’s head. He didn’t really care about the other people in the villa that much. Yeah, he tried to keep the peace a few times, but that could’ve also been for his comfort.

But then he goes on to tell the guys about Operation Nope and why? Priya said that no one should know about it and then he goes and tells not one but a few of the guys about it? And how are we supposed to know he told them about his part in it? Hope seems to be cool with him after it, despite him saying that he told Hope about his role in it. But what did he tell her? I think Bobby tries to avoid being in the middle of the drama. He knows his part in it and knows that if the others knew about it that would put him on a few people’s bad sides. I don’t think Rahim told the others about it and considering that he doesn’t like conflict himself, he probably didn’t tell anyone about Bobby’s role in it either. But I NEED to talk about him and Priya after the operation.

Him and Priya:

Bobby was the only person in the villa Priya considered a friend. He was the only one she opened up with and the main one that she hung out with. But did Bobby consider Priya a friend? Honestly, I don’t think he did. Going off of what I said before about how he didn’t really care about the other people in the villa. After Operation Nope, he let Priya take the fall. Yes, she made the move on Noah, but he did encourage it and kept it a secret from Noah and Hope while telling others about it in the villa. We don’t know if he came clean about his real role in it and from what we see, it’s safe to say he didn’t. 

After Operation Nope, he’s comforting Priya on the roof and when MC comes up, he says that Priya has been through enough already. As if MC is going to curse her out or something. And that makes sense if that’s your kind of MC, but if she isn’t, and especially if he’s coupled up with her, that shouldn’t have come out of his mouth. But why did he say that? I think he said it to let Priya know that he has her back, even in front of the peacemaker of the villa, MC. Something else that catches my attention is when MC says Hope and Noah have been fighting all day and he says “Isn’t it convenient, they can blame it on us” and that just rubbed me the wrong way completely. It’s like he knows Nope is toxic, but before and after the operation, he acts like their biggest shipper. At least to their face. The reason for that is because he doesn’t want to be in the middle of the drama. It’s fake, but that’s that.

Now, we know that Bobby saves Hope over Priya at the dumping. Did he feel bad for Operation Nope? Probably. I think he felt bad for the aftermath of it. Noah was probably a mess during Casa Amor and he had to see that. Priya didn’t appear worried before it. She probably thought Bobby was going to save her just for him not to. Did Bobby tell her he was going to? We don’t know. But after this, we don’t see them interact during her leaving. And he doesn’t speak about her after she leaves despite them supposedly being so close, so I think that their friendship was more just a process of elimination on Priya’s part and Bobby just going with the flow, not caring.

Him and MC:

So, as I said, his route is the blandest out of all the LIs. There’s no drama, so it’s up to the MC to make it more interesting. Forgetting the player theory, I do think that he only thought of MC as a friend at first. A friend he wanted to bang, but still. The way he interacted with her gave me best friends vibes and I think this has to do with both his past experience and his insecurity.

Honestly, I think that a lot of Bobby’s jokes in the villa were just to stand out. On Day Four, he asks MC why she picked him and has she seen the other guys in here. He’s clearly insecure about his looks and when standing next to Noah or Ibrahim who is clearly more muscular than him, he probably knew the other girls wouldn’t go for him. If MC goes for Noah on Day One, Bobby is the last one left and MC ends up coupling with him because Hope steals Noah. You know he noticed that. When doing the Mr. Love Island, if you tell Bobby that you think he’s the fittest guy he gets uncomfortable. Because he thinks it’s a lie? I believe so. Bobby seems to have it in his mind that his jokes are the one thing he has over the other guys, but because of that and his fear of opening up because of his past, it stops him from forming connections with any other girls but MC. 

I know a lot of Bobby stans complain about he treats the other girls better than MC. I see it in two ways. Number one, he doesn’t think she needs it. When I say that, I mean that MC is running around being the peacemaker in the villa, seemingly on good terms with mostly everyone, confident, outgoing, etc. So he doesn’t see why she would need his comfort or reassurance. Number two, distance. Bobby doesn’t want to get too close to MC because he thinks she’s going to hurt him in the future. So he focuses on the other girls to take his mind off of her. 

After Operation Nope, he tries to make it work if you’re coupled up with him and I think the reason why is because he believes that it’s partly his fault for pushing her to do it. At least, he’s hoping it is. Up to this point, I think he’s starting to fall for MC. Even if MC brings a guy back from Casa Amor, he’ll still try to make his move. And I think that’s because he just realized his true feelings for MC during Casa Amor, so he’s trying to push for it. However, when MC cheats on him with R!Lurik, he’ll end it. Because of his past and also because up to this point, it’s been like what? Three weeks? At this point, he’s fully committed and he’s hoping MC is too. So when she isn’t, that’s the final straw. Now I want to play a route where my MC does Operation Nope and brings a guy back from Casa Amor.

Final Thoughts:

Bobby, at least in my opinion, is a more complex character than the shell that Fusebox gave him after Casa Amor. I think he has trust issues that cause him to close himself off from pursuing real and genuine connections with both women and men. Which is why, I say, that he didn’t really care much for the other people in the villa. He couldn’t bring himself to open up to them. He avoids putting himself in the middle of drama by either omitting certain things or by being fraudulent. But he’s also very insecure about his looks and ability to keep someone interested. Especially when put in a dating competition. All in all, I still like the character. And I think I might do another one of this but on Priya.

#litg #love island the game #litg bobby #bobby mckenzie #bobby x mc

[a-day-in-the-afterlife]

The 14th Department (AFTERL!FE) Meets the Demon Brothers and Undateables (Obey Me!)

Lucifer

Noah heard he has a dog.  He is staying far away from the pretentious eldest. 

Oldest big brother?  You better believe Youssef finds a kindred spirit, even if they differ wildly in personalities.  

Louis lives for the almost regal aesthetic Lucifer has got going on.  Lucifer, in turn, lives for the day Louis will stop talking.

Quincy finds this whole trip preposterous (“What the heck is the Devildom?  What happened to the Underworld?”) and does not like Lucifer’s condescending attitude (it conflicts with his own!).  

Ethan doesn’t like Lucifer—proud and arrogant people with no reason to be so are not to be respected.  Lucifer despises Ethan for the same reason.

Day!  Will!  Not!  Go!  Near!  Lucifer!  He’s so scary!  But Cerberus is his best friend now (Nine-Nine who?).

Nine and Theo together find out that the eldest demon is into classical music and spend hours discussing early compositions with him.

Ell cannot be around this demon!  He is a fallen angel!  He tries to be nice (and because Ell is kind, so is Lucifer, even if the sickly sweetness of the angel drives him up the wall), but every good wish is punctuated with a sneeze.

Lucifer is so overworked, so by way of his calm disposition and love for meditation, Jamie helps him find ways to relax.

The eldest demon’s general demeanor astonishes June.  How manly he is!

Likewise, Sian can’t go near Lucifer without feeling nervous.  The man drips dominating energy!

Verine can’t understand the eldest’s love for classical music.  Rock is infinitely better.

Mammon

Um, Mori and him are best friends.  They together cause trouble in the House of Lamentation and in the 14th Department with their many get-rich-quick schemes.

Gaudy and expensive taste?  Sign Louis up.

Ethan says ‘no’ to the demon’s general pomposity (it reeks of low self-esteem) and by God, doesn’t he own anything that depicts an iota of class?

Mammon is one speedy demon—how can Kirr not appreciate his fleetfootedness when it would bring him so much use whilst hunting?  Apart from that, Kirr has no respect for that reprehensible thief, for the very idea of stealing brings back terrible memories.

Always belittled by their peers, Day and Mammon find a kindred spirit in each other, and Day is always reminded of his past life when he sees all the gold that Mammon professes to possess possesses. 

Kati bit him twelve times because no dumb tsundere was going to steal his (cough Aitachi’s) spot as cutest in the Department!

Licht is eclipsed by Mammon’s demon form because how is he able to pull off wearing so little clothing so well?  He must take notes.  When he learns that Mammon is a model, too, he goes berserk with delight.

Cyrille finds the secondborn exceedingly stupid, although he begrudgingly gives him credit for being pretty decent at math.

Sian spots a fellow tsundere and runs away, because oh my God, it’s so obvious that Mammon likes this MC person!

Leviathan

Games?  Social awkwardness?  Extreme interest in things that no one else seems to care for?  Cyrille has found his soulmate!

Aitachi and Kirr cringe at how Leviathan spends his leisure time, but are intrigued because they have never seen such methods of gaming and media consumption before.

Leviathan is forever at Quincy’s mercy, for the fellow demon has no qualms of absolutely crushing Levi’s already non-existent self-esteem. 

Even though he loathes to admit it, Sian really likes the rhythm games Leviathan plays, and the thousands of idol posters in his room make him strangely nostalgic of his past life.

June wonders how Levi can go so long without feeling the overwhelming need to burst into a sprint now and again.

Theo almost kills the thirdborn because how is his room filled with so many Demonrito and Hell Mountain Dew containers?  What filth!

Speaking of filth, Licht finds some of Levi’s dating sims and oh my darling, some of them are quite … lewd.

Ghilley and Leviathan together construct an elaborate Lego model of a castle from the anime My Sister Is A Fairy Princess, And Her Suitor Is Secretly An Ogre From a Land Far Away And Wants to Eat Us All, And It’s Up to Me to Save My Sister’s Kingdom.

Ethan can’t even walk past Leviathan’s room without a disapproving “tut.”  Has the demon no discipline, despite being rumored to be the Grand Admiral of Hell’s Navy?

Kati spends all day poking at the cute monster and waifu figurines situated in Levi’s bedroom.  He thinks Azuki-tan is cute, but not as cute as him, and anyone who says otherwise will get bitten!

Aitachi likes to rifle through Leviathan’s anime sword replica collection and giggle because in combat, they would be of no more use than a toothpick.

Satan 

Finally!  Someone with sense! thinks Ethan.  Boy, do these two get along, right down to their educated and proper mannerisms to their mutual hatred of Lucifer.

Verine can’t go near Satan without coughing violently because the forthborn always has some manner of cat hair on him, no matter how diligently he preens.

Cats are infinitely better than dogs, so Noah sticks close to Satan.

Cyrille thought he had found a friend in Satan, who always has his nose in a book, but it turns out, Satan is more philosophically-and-intellectually-versed, while Cyrille is more scientific.

Nine likes Satan, for he is as calm as himself.  Strangely enough, they both seem to have hidden wrathful feelings and bond over this.

Kitties! :D is all Day can think when he sees the fourthborn.

Youssef enjoys Satan’s company, too, for they both are anthropological in nature—always watching, but never interfering until there is a need.

Blond and princelike are the two of them, but Louis is sorely disappointed when Satan’s royal appearance is merely a façade of darker emotions to come, where Louis enjoys life in its every aspect.  “How disappointing art thou, Satan!”  Louis throws rose petals in distress.

Kirr and Aitachi try to hunt one of Satan’s cats, thinking it was some kind of Devildom’s finest prey.  Satan does not forgive them for the attempt.

Theo sneezes the moment he enters Satan’s room.  Although everything is in its place and not truly messy by any means, he refuses to let the stacks and stacks of books sit idly by when they are begging to be put in shelves!

Quincy and Satan each add to their respective repertoire of curses in their time together.  It does not bode well for anyone in the House of Lamentation or 14th Department.

Asmodeus

They are … essentially the same person, so you can bet your ass that Licht and Asmo absolutely live for each other’s company.  They literally spend hours modeling clothes together, discussing fashion, gossiping about their romantic exploits, and praising their overall appearance.  

Louis joins in too, although he mostly stays for the latter, and the three vanquish away many nights complimenting their own and the others’ looks.

Sometimes Asmo likes to sew patches and sequins onto his clothes and mend them to his own design, and Aitachi, who likes to sew, learns many different ways of stitching from the fifthborn, although he hates the fact that Asmo, like Licht, never shuts up about what an “adorable and cute warrior” he is!

Asmo has to know Kirr’s hair care routine, which Kirr gives in one, succinct sentence: “I wash it.  Sometimes.”

Nine has to constantly flee Asmodeus’ presence because it is in his nature to compliment the Soul Reaper on how absolutely beautiful he looks.

Kati expects makeovers, all of which should emphasize his cuteness, every other day.

Don’t ask how long Mori spent calculating how much money Asmo spends on beauty products, because he wept at the end of it.

Verine refuses to step a foot into Asmodeus’ room because do you know how much his sinuses are going to bother him when he spends even a second into a room so deeply entrenched in the fragrance of flowers and perfume?

Ghilley is used to a personality so akin to his roommate, Licht, so he has no qualms in dealing with Asmo and quite likes the gossip he is quietly able to distill from the fifthborn.

Beelzebub

Brothers in their flaming orange hair, June gloms onto Beel with astounding loyalty (Theo refuses to admit jealousy, but ...), especially when he hears of his dedication to his twin.

Cyrille has to interrogate Beel on the structural integrity of his wings in his demon form because there is no way that such a flimsy apparatus could lift a demon of Beel’s stature even an inch into the air!  Also, how much does Beel exercise if he expects to gain muscle and burn off the infinite calories that he consumes?  It is a scientific mystery.

Day likes snacks, Beel likes snacks!  Everything is right in the world (even if the demon accidentally mistook Day’s hair for a mint ice cream cone).

Jamie is constantly offering fresh fruits and vegetables to the sixthborn, but even though he eats them willingly, Beel much prefers foods that will actually fill him up for a short amount of time.

Again, Ethan is appalled by the lack of discipline Beelzebub shows.  The demon is simply a slave to his appetite and deserves nothing less than scorn.

Theo cannot decide if he likes or hates the fact that Beel leaves a trail of crumbs wherever he goes.  On one hand, he gets to clean, but on the other hand, it’s so messy ... 

Even though he has many misgivings of fallen angels, even Ell cannot help but like Beel!  As long as he is fed, the demon is very sweet and kind.  

Noah likes Beel, too.  Something about his easygoing and generally cheerful personality pleases him to no end. 

Beel tried to eat Kati’s hair, thinking it was a yummy bun.  Sadly, he got bit more times than Mammon.

Youssef is a good cook and is thereby followed by Beel wherever he goes.  The kind Soul Reaper doesn’t mind, though.

Belphegor

Noah likes how Belphie takes things easily and calmly, although it probably wouldn’t hurt for him to get more exercise.

Belphegor is even more of a conundrum to June than Leviathan was.  He decides that next time he goes to the Devildom, he’s going to bring an extra pair of running shoes because the demon most certainly was wanting of physical exertion! 

Kirr is absolutely astonished at the unguarded and completely lax way Belphie sprawls out in the House of Lamentation, sleeping.  If he was an enemy tribesman, he would have no trouble in taking the demon down as he slept.

“This kind of laziness is not fit for a warrior at all!” cries Aitachi any time he seems Belphie dozing off.

Jamie likes Belphegor’s way of thinking.  Sometimes, sitting under an apple tree in the sweltering summer heat after a hard day of work just causes one to be overcome with the desire to take a nap. 

Youssef tries to brew Belphie a cup of espresso, but the caffeine just doesn’t seem to have an effect on the Avatar of Sloth. 

Although he is slightly disheartened by the fact that his quiet footsteps seem to have no effect on the seventhborn, as he is always asleep, Ghilley revels in the prospect of drawing unsavory graffiti on the demon’s face when he slumbers.

Day sometimes tries to rouse Belphie, and Belphie, in turn, tries to kill Day.

Like his observations on his twin, Cyrille cannot fathom how the demon could sleep so much.  How could one body need so much rest?

Simeon

Ell loves him.  How can he not?  He is the perfect angel!  He is also very curious as to how the Celestial Realm of Obey Me!’s world works compared to the one in AFTERL!FE.

His whole aesthetic mesmerizes Louis.  There’s something so tranquil but regal about it.  

Licht wants to know where he can get an exact copy of Simeon’s outfit because darling, it's gorgeous.

Youssef probably spends more time around Simeon than he should, but his calm demeanor is so refreshing compared to the chaos in the 14th Department and the House of Lamentation. 

Kirr and Aitachi together lament with Simeon on the struggles of working with technology.  Why is it so difficult?

Something about the angel’s holy air makes Mori very much not inclined to ask him how much the gold clasp on his cape is worth.

Quincy hates the “pretentious” and “stuck up” angel and bickers with him almost as much as he bickers with Ell.  Simeon never responds to his goading, although ... he does get a bit prickly when Quincy criticizes Luke or the Celestial Realm too harshly.

Encouraged by the prospect that he can actually breathe in the (fresh-smelling) presence of Simeon, Verine enjoys his company, but is perpetually annoyed by the fact that the angel seems to pity him for his condition.

Ethan can’t hate Simeon, either.  He is the sole honorable character he can find in the entire Devildom, even though he has to admit that it seems that the angel is hiding something.

Day really likes Simeon!  He’s so nice and is always ready to play with him.

As a man of science, Cyrille scoffs at Simeon (and Luke’s) unfaltering belief in religion. 

Luke

Kati bites him on sight.  Luke just seems irritating and how dare he think himself cuter than him!

Aitachi sympathizes with Luke, for they both lament on not being taken seriously because of their age.  

Luke reminds him a bit too much of a chihuahua for Noah to be too fond of him, but the little angel means well, so Noah suffers his incessant barking out of (Kind)ness.

Day is a human puppy ... and Luke is an angel chihuahua.  They get along great, although Luke makes it his most important goal to Christianize Day, who seems to believe in other things!

Quincy wonders when Luke will stop talking and is constantly entertaining thoughts of hastening the day when he will.  Likewise, Luke wishes the “horrible demon” would go away forever.

As a fellow angel, Ell finds Luke to be great fun.  It’s strange though, Luke seems to always be expressing the opposite of what he’s feeling in typical tsundere fashion, but he never sneezes.

Sian finds Luke to be of the utmost annoyance.  He’s so short (heh) and yappy and annoying!  

Kirr wonders if the little angel will make a good hunting dog, but after he realizes that Luke has a lot of trouble keeping his mouth closed, he thinks  better of it.

His dealings with Day cause Nine to be an excellent caretaker of Luke when Simeon is away.  You just have to deal with exuberant personalities like his carefully, is all.

Ghilley and Licht give Luke “five stars” in terms of cuteness.  The young angel does not approve!

Theo stays far away from Luke.  Children are walking crumb-and-stain-factories and he is not going to get dirty.

Solomon

Quincy and Solomon exchange many spell incantations and curses and keep the rest of the Soul Reapers, angels, and demons in an uproar with their constant shenanigans. 

When he notices that Solomon has many fortune-telling artifacts in his room, Kati rifles through them all (without permission), much to the sorcerer’s amusement, especially when Kati discovers many supposedly unpleasant things about his future.

Although Quincy and Solomon are the true troublemaking duo in terms of pranks (Satan helps, sometimes), Day and Solomon are almost equal in measure, although much of Day’s rogurey is an accident, and he never means to cause any harm!

Licht is instantly enamored by Solomon’s cape—what style!  You can see the entire Milky Way embroidered on it (Cyrille instantly assures him that that is not actually the case)!

Ghilley can’t help but wonder why anyone thinks Solomon is shady.  He seems to be a pretty upstanding, if chaotic, guy?

Youssef admires the humanity of Solomon.  In a land of angels and demons and even Soul Reapers, it’s good to have someone so normal.

Unlike Ghilley, Ethan definitely notices that something shady is afoot when Solomon is around.  Because of this, he tails the sorcerer wherever he goes, for he’d rather not a ruckus be caused.

Sian has many questions for Solomon on the status of idols in the Human World since he left it.  What are the newest trends?  The most popular groups?  The most admired dance moves?  He wants to know it all.

Barbatos

Cyrille finds the whole time-travel aspect of Barbatos’ powers intriguing and derails the butler from his duties for hours in attempts to understand the nuances of this overpowering concept.

Ethan privately thinks that he looked much better in a butler suit than the demon.  What is even going on with the front of his outfit?  A diligent and uncomplaining demon is Barbatos, and Ethan has to respect him for that, even if he is a position so beneath his own.

He’s so scary! D: thinks Day, even though Barbatos is nothing but kind to him.

Kirr likes the fine fare that Barbatos cooks, although he laments not being able to win “the mind game” against the butler, who he spends many hours staring coolly at.

Theo and Barbatos spend many an evening chatting about the best way to maintain the most perfect state of cleanliness.

The strong smell of detergent follows Barbatos sometimes, and Verine can never bring himself too close to the demon.  However, he has to begrudgingly admit that if it weren’t for the overwhelming stench of chemicals, he would be breathing in a suffocating cloud of dust particles, so he has to thank the butler for that.

Jamie gives Barbatos many good recipes for fruit pies and Youssef can’t wait to try all the (possibly) delicious recipes that Barbatos recites to him.  

Ghilley, unfortunately, finds it very difficult to sneak up on the butler, for Barbatos has seen all Ghilley’s attempts to scare him in all the timelines he has observed. 

Diavolo

This bumbling idiot is the ruler of the Devildom? thinks Ethan with great distaste.  However dignified Diavolo might be, Ethan cannot see past the blindingly cheerful mask he puts on and finds it most undignified.

A fellow royal!  How is Louis supposed to resist striking a long-winded conversation?  Diavolo entertains Louis’ pompous and overbearing self and they find each other most delightful.

Licht positively drools over Diavolo’s demon form outfit.  Just how he is pulling off that much style?

Quincy finds much enjoyment in disrespecting the Prince of the Devildom to no end and is always disappointed when Diavolo responds to his insults with a tolerating smile.

The Prince of Demons and the son of the Demon Lord are titles that are essentially the bane of Ell’s existence, but he manages to be most respectful toward him, even though he is shaking in his shoes and wondering when all their interactions will come to and end.

Day lived like a king in his past life and is not even remotely fazed by the enormous amount of finery found in the Demon Lord’s Castle.  He is, however, enamored with the Little D’s, who, when not insulting him, are great fun!

Diavolo’s lifestyle of luxury is basically Mori’s dream, so he takes every opportunity to make notes of the expensive furniture and ancient pieces.

Noah and Youssef like how down-to-Earth Diavolo is, despite his high position.  They feel as if he has something to hide, but for the most part, he is a jolly fellow and they enjoy his company.

#afterl!fe #obey me #after l!fe #obey me lucifer #obey me luci #obey me mammon #obey me leviathan #obey me levi #obey me satan #obey me asmodeus #obey me asmo #obey me beel #obey me beelzebub #obey me belphie #obey me belphegor #obey me diavolo #obey me simeon #obey me barbatos #obey me luke #obey me solomon #afterlife nhn #afterl!fe nhn #after l!fe nhn #obey me shall we date

[liliplayschoices]

Do you have any headcanons for your ILITW MC?

My giiiiiiiirl 😍

I have a ton of headcanons for her ^^ most of them also include Andy though I gotta be honest so he might pop up a lot here 😂 also this is absolutely ramble-y because I just dumped all my thoughts here so... sorry about that lmao (also im on mobile so I can't use a read more, sorry xD)

Okay so I know in the events of the book, we don't see her interacting with other people at school but I think these weeks aren't representative of what her life looks like normally. I see her as an introvert, she won't enjoy big parties often or anything but she still has a really amiable nature so people tend to be friends with her easily.

I think Devon is a pretty artistic girl. She loves to read fantasy and sci fi, she loves to cosplay, maybe she's a theater kid, too. I think she draws too, but I don't know what kind of art she prefers (as in, digital, street art, painting,.... I don't know haha)

When the story starts she's had a crush on Andy for a little while now. Nothing major, mind you, but yeah, teenage crush, blushing when she sees him, that kinda stuff, you know ^^ so when they start hanging out again it comes naturally between them pretty fast.

When Andy is in the hospital after the events of the book (and after that when he's stuck at home until he gets better), she comes to hang out with him a lot. More often than not, Tom is there too, so the two of them become pretty close, they realize they have a lot in common so they hang out at school too and become close friends (yes I am ignoring the ILB canon that Tom doesn't know her well. I don't care.)

Anyway so the three of them play a toooon of video games during that time which leads to a tradition of game night for the three of them and it gets pretty intense, cause Andy gets super competitive 😂 ( @the-unconquered-queen and I talked about game night a few times and now I can't let go of this HC ^^)

And of course there are also a lot of times when Tom isn't there, so they basically have little date nights together, watching movies and shows. Devon brings junk food to him when he's in the hospital (the nurses know but they let it happen lmao) and she curls up on his bed and they watch movies on her laptop (cause the hospital tv never has anything interesting) and it's soooo cute cause they didnt really... get official at that point you know, but then they just start dating and falling in love and all 😍

Anywayyyyy back to Devon. So I think she never truly heals from what happened. She always felt like Jane's death was her fault, and even if rationally she knows that what Noah did isn't her fault, she can't help but feel guilty over it. So that's why she starts going into the woods again.

I think she never really held Noah responsible for what happened, because of her own guilt. Like, objectively she knows what he did was wrong but she also feels like it's her fault if Jane is dead so that's why she forgives him for his actions pretty quickly

She starts doing a lot of research into how she could help him, and the Power in general. She doesn't go to college after high school, but she starts working at the local library pretty soon and gets a little obsessed. After a while, she does starts college (to study graphic design), but she doesn't seem to be able to move on from Noah and wanting to free him. She doesn't focus much on studies because she can't get rid of her guilt and obsession to make things right.

She ultimately tells the rest of the group and it does not go well. Especially with Andy. They've been dating for years at this point but this is the biggest fight they ever have. I think Andy is the kind of guy who holds a grudge so he would still be pissed at Noah, and there's the added layer of him feeling like Devon didnt trust him and put herself in danger needlessly and he's scared that he might have lost her without knowing it. They do work it out after a while because ultimately they love each other enough to work through it but yeah, that happens and it's a pretty big fight.

I feel like most of the rest of the group are mad but they come around to helping her at some point. Ava is immediately jumping at the chance to help Devon with all the supernatural research and stuff.

Dan has another approach. He can see that what Devon does is pretty unhealthy because of how she's clinging to the past, so he tries to help her work through her guilt and her trauma. It does help, and she becomes less obsessed after a while (she's still hell-bent on freeing Noah's spirit but she also starts moving on in other aspects of her life, paying attention in class, thinking about the future,...)

Oh total change of subject lmao but you know how Andy is in college on a basketball scholarship? Yeah so I think Andy would be a total frat bro 😂 like, he'd go to frat parties and do keg stands and stupid harmless dares and stuff. You know the type of guy. So Devon goes to frat parties because she knows he loves it despite it not reslly being her scene ^^ but she stills ends up having fun and does make friends with Andy's friends too

Also she gets into the habit of stealing and wearing his basketball jacket ( I got @kingkangs on board with this one and i will get the whole fandom to accept Devon wearing Andy's basketball jacket) and he says he minds, but... you know... He really doesn't ;)

To be honest, I feel like Devon would never truly be able to move on while Noah was still trapped, she would still feel obligated to help him. So I imagine that after a long time, they do manage to free his spirit (I don't know how okay I'm not writing IL3 😂 let's just say they do!)

So after that, she starts truly thinking of the future. She starts looking for a long-term job, Andy and her move in together after college.

They still have game nights with Tom on the regular (Harper, my ILB MC, joins them cause her and Tom are dating ^^) and Andy is still super competitive cause that hasn't changed 😂

Devon still loves cosplay so she convinces Andy to go to conventions with her and he's like "....fine I'll do it" begrudgingly but once he's there he's having a blast 😂

Anyway I think that's pretty much it for now! I rambled a lot, sorry... But you did ask! That was super fun so thank youu for your ask!!!

#playchoices #it lives in the woods #andy kang x mc #devon ilitw #feel free to send me other asks about anything really!! #these are obviously open to change if i have other ideas at some point ^^ #also i didn't play the extra scene at the end of ilb #specifically cause i didnt want to get excited for a book 3 we wont get #so that might not be on par with thst part of canon

[luvreyn]

Manhwa List (2019) pt. 2

Here’s the part 2 of what I’ve been reading so farrr. These are all recommended and are reads that cleanse my poor soul 

This Villainess Wants a Divorce!

Summary:

We all hate the greedy villains hell-bent on sabotage. Enter Carnelia Easter, the awful secondary villainess of the romance I’m reading, who trapped the prince in marriage at the behest of the evil empress. I didn’t shed a tear when her head’s lopped off, but now I’m Carnelia! I gotta play this smart and convince him to divorce me instead! Still, between the prince, the empress, the heroine, the second prince, my terrible health... this story’s getting unpredictable. Will I survive after all?

THOUGHTS & WHY READ THIS:

- plot - 4/5 

- battle of power between the first prince and the empress with the mc being in between (the emperor just stays out of it for the most part)

- artstyle = 4/5 

- BLUSHING CEASAR 

- CEASAR IS A POOR INNOCENT BOI 

- SMOL BOII TRAP IN A BIG BODY

- CANA IS PRETTY 

- characters are pleasing to the eyes especially my dear ethan 

- G R A C Y IS A QUEEN (YES GO GET THAT POWER)

- CANA X GRACY 

- CEASAR AND CANA

- noah being a good brother is making me cryy

- NO CANA CEASAR WONT DIVORCE YOU

- “HOW CAN I NOT LIKE YOU WHEN YOU’RE TRYING SO HARD TO HELP ME” OKAY OKAY

- the brother of the empress is also hot

- the butler/attendant/whatever of the empress is mysterious and who doesnt love a little mystery? hehehe

- CEASAR IS A GOOD BOI I SAID WHAT I SAID

- BASICALLY CEASAR BEING A BLUSHING TOMATO IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I’M READING THIS

Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp

Summary:

Dr. Song, the youngest professor at the leading College of Medicine in Korea, was a royal brat of a princess in her previous life. But just as she's about to meet an untimely death over the ocean, she wakes up as Princess Elise once again?! Enlightened with the medical knowledge of a master surgeon, is this her chance to mend her past relationships and heal an ailing empire, or is fate sealed to repeat itself?

THOUGHTS & WHY READ THIS:

- a character who knows their evil doings before and wants to change for the better? check

- redemption story of the mc who did evil things that cost her life before

- beautiful beautiful characters

- E L I S E x L I N D E N

- the brothers of the mc are hot 

- M I C H A E L 

- PLOT = 3.5/5 so many med stuff that i find interesting but also make my head hurts 

- you’ll learn about med here a lot (idk if it’s accurate but maybe??)

- art style = 4/5

- so many cute moments between characters so ready your heart 

- light read if you want to be happy and not stressed over politics and stuff like that

A Talented Maid

Summary:

As Maurina, she's on the run as the last of her kingdom’s royal line. Disguised as Marie, she is just a maid, serving the victorious empire. She’s never been very good at anything, so when she's told to make a wish, she asks for the ability to help others and bring them happiness. Now as visions of brilliant and skilled people fill her dreams, she’s imbued with a bounty of abilities perfectly suited for any dilemma. But will her secrets last as the crown prince seeks out both Maurina and Marie?

THOUGHTS & WHY READ THIS:

- same author as doctor elise

- PLOT = 3/5 (for now cause we’re not in the fun parts yet??)

- art style = 10/5 tbh i love the art style of this compared to the others idk why

- marie is love marie is life 

- R A E L 

see what i mean??!?!

- rael being a fair and just prince is beautiful

- ALL THE CHARACTERS ARE GOOD LOOKING

- marie doing her best to help other ppl 

- rael being ‘aware’ of marie is wonderful

- BASICALLY RAEL AND MARIE MUST BE PROTECTED DO NOT HURT THEM

- light read you’re gonna get stress whether or not she’ll get caught by the prince

Lady Evony 

Summary: 

Accused of being a witch and a murderer, Evony’s imprisoned. For years, she awaits the day of her execution, her back bearing scars from beatings inflicted by the guards who despise her. But one day, she is granted her freedom and placed into the guardianship of Grand Duke Schneider. Warmed by his doting staff and under his admiring tutelage, she regains her strength and becomes the wild card in an intricate game of power. With nothing to lose, will Evony orchestrate a new future for the empire?

THOUGHTS & WHY READ THIS:

- gosh shows how unfair the society is to women

- MY EBONY NEEDS A HUG (lemme hug you)

- S O C I A L R E L E V A N C E

- the employees treating her nicely and like a human being

- shows the unfair justice system

- basically shows how unfair it is for women i already said it but it’s really unfair

- plot = 4/5 (there’s only few chapters but so far so good)

- art style = 3.5/5

- archduke being an open-minded and sympathetic person is everything 

- E B O N Y WILL FIGHT FOR HER RIGHTS JUST SO YOU WAIT YOU UNFAIR SOCIETY

False Confession

Summary:

"I think I’ve fallen for you." With a single drunken confession, Renesha's plans to live a comfortable and uneventful life were shattered. Somehow she confessed her love to the wrong man: the Grim Reaper of the Battlefield, Duke Cavert Willard! It's the worst thing to happen to her since she woke up in this fantasy universe and discovered her divine powers. In the midst of a war with a neighboring country, Renesha must balance her duties as a healer with her feelings for two alluring knights. When romance blooms on the battlefield, who will be victorious in the battle for Renee's heart?

THOUGHTS & WHY READ THIS:

- hilarous start hahaha

- plot is interesting (still has 2 chapters but yeah i can tell it’s good)

- cabel is love

- art style = 6/5 i just love the way they drew these charactersss

- ELVIS???

- C A B E L

- cabel being sly person knowing what he wants

- poor reneshaaaa

#manhwa #canaria x cesar #survive as the hero's wife #cabel x rene #rael x marie #rael x morina #shoujo #manhwa recommendation #princesssehunnalist #Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp #lady evony #This Villainess Wants a Divorce! #a talented maid #reyn.manhwarecs #false confession

[endless-vall]

There’s no other word for it - MTFL fanfic (Noah x MC)

Summary: Charlie finally thinks over her three pursuers from the start of the year. When it comes down to it, there’s only one person she has her eyes for.

Author’s note: This fanfic is about MC/Mason/Ava/Noah with her eventually choosing Noah. Consider yourself warned!

Honestly, by this point i’m so tired 😂 (we all are). But at the same time I don’t think that the writers will handle it well. At this point it’s not like MC can draw names from a hat and be like ‘Yep, I like X’.

Yes, we the reader has made our decisions a while ago, but the MC keeps to actively pursue 2-3 people and ‘needing time’ and this has been going on for too long.

But in the story, the writers probably won’t address the fact MC has, in fact, been leading them on. Or explain the reasons why eventually, she didn’t choose two out of the bunch. 

Idk, this is what makes sense to me, at least, with the direction they’re taking it with.

I definitely want to write at least one more fanfic about MC being all into Noah. (while maybe pursued by Mason/Ava). We’ll see about that.

Charlie was lying on her bed, her head swirling with thoughts.

She was honestly tired and dissapointed. She felt like a bad person. Leading not two but three people who were really important to her this year.

“Are you still beating yourself up about what happened earlier?” Mack popped into her room, leaning against the doorframe.

Yep. There was another fight today.

Nothing got physical, thankfully, but Mason and Noah did clash when trying to decide who should build something with Charlie for Winter Wonderland and went their seprate ways. 

Not only she didn’t get to spend time with either of them, she hated to see them hurt. Especially since she knew she was the one causing their pain. 

Ava was there too. She just rolled her eyes and continued to work on her own project.

Charlie sighed. “That obvious, huh?” She faked a smile, but it didn’t fool Mack.

Mack entered her room.

“I can hit you with some old cliche’s like ‘oh if you love two people always choose the second because if you really loved the first one you wouldn’t have fallen for another one’.” Mack said the entire sentence with a mocking tone.

Choosing the second...? What about the third? Charlie’s head was about to explode. Mack didn’t even know Ava was one of the options, too now.

“You say that with such a mocking tone. Do you think otherwise?” Charlie shook her head and tried to focus. She looked up at her sister.

“Well, the truth is you can crush on muliple people at once, and that’s fine. But at this point... I don’t think you’re crushing anymore. I think you’re just afraid to make a desicion.” Mack explained.

For being her younger sister... Mack did bring a wise take.

“Anyway, gotta bounce.” Mack winked at her and got out of her room, closing the door behind her and leaving Charlie to her thoughts.

... Afraid to make a desicion? What does that even mean?

But the more Charlie thought about it... The more it made sense.

Charlie did feel like if she chose one of them, any of them... She’d lose the other two.

Which was ridiculous, right?

But... Honestly. Not that ridiculous. But if they stop being her friends just because she didn’t choose them... It really says something about them, not her, right?

Charlie gulped. She realized it was the first time she let herself dwell on it.

Up until now, whenever she thought she was ready to make a desicion, she was just acting based on a person’s last actions towards her. She didn’t give it much thought, other than that.

Which was... A jerk move on her part, admittedly. 

But she was so used to pleasing people her whole life. Especially after her mother... Passed away.

Her entire cheerleading career was a great example of that.

But now, when it got down to it, who did Charlie really want...?

She thought about all three of her options. 

Mason, her childhood crush.

She loved him for forever. But when she thought about it right now... Has she really been in love with him? Or did she live in that fantasy world long enough to convince herself she was still in love with him now?

Noah, the bad boy with heart of gold.

Noah was there for her when other people weren’t, despite only getting to know her at the start of this year.

And he just seemed to... Get her.

Ava, her best-friend.

Admittedly, Charlie wasn’t a good friend to Ava lately. She screwed up, big time.

And Ava was still willing to take her! To accept her apology.

Not to mention... Charlie liking girls was... New. She never really felt that way before towards girls. But with Ava it was so easy...

This new year was all about discovring and exploring herself, Charlie realized.

Not only because she realized she also like girls, but because she never really had a boyfriend before, either.

(One that counted, anyway. Bobby from elementry school didn’t count. Yikes.)

Her Freshman year went in a blur. After that, she wasn’t really into someone.

She continued crushing on Mason from afar. 

Now she was wondering whether she never came clean about her feelings towards him back then because she prefered for it to be that great love story she built in her head rather than him being her actual boyfriend.

And Ava... It was new and exciting, but also in the same time when Charlie thought about loving Ava, she realized it was more of a platonic love. Yes she was atrracted to girls and Ava was stunning, but Charlie’s feelings for her didn’t run deeper than that. And that’s definitely not a good enough reason to date her, was it?

The only person Charlie couldn’t find a different word to describe her feelings for was... Noah.

Noah.

She loved Noah.

Oh my god.

Did she really just make her desicion?

She was so terrified to make it earlier but now that it was out in the open (figuratively, obviously) Charlie couldn’t understand how she hadn’t made it sooner.

She felt such a relief.

And joy. Her heart fluttered in her chest just thinking of Noah. He filled her chest with a warm feeling.

Charlie turned to her phone, and took it out of the charger.

She opened one of her chat windows, one she often chatted with.

‘I just realized.... I’m freaking in love with you’ - Charlie typed, but didn’t plan on sending it. It was too direct, too rash. She should tell him she has made her desicion and meet up with him in person, and then confess ---

SHIT. shit shit shit shit. Did she really just accidentally hit ‘send’?

Can the ground swallow her up right now? It would be less embarassing than what just happened and--

New Notification.

Charlie braced herself, the suspence was killing her. She peeped at the message.

‘Took you long enough. Be in your place in fifteen 😉😎🥰’ - Noah

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[moonydaydreams]

𝐣𝐮𝐱𝐭𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮

Fandom: It Lives In the Woods

Pairing: MC x Noah, MC x Connor (past)

Words: 7.363 (holy cow)

Summary: Lightning never strikes the same place twice, but a second chance does. Even for someone like Noah Marshall.

Warnings: SMUT SMUT SMUT, angst 101 and swearing for dummies

Author’s note: This is my first Choices story and, holy cannoli, this is longer than I intended to be. But nonetheless, this an AU of what could have been had neither Noah or MC sacrificed themselves to take Jane’s place (THIS IS, IN ANOTHER WORD, A FORM OF DENIAL, Y'ALL. CAUSE THAT ENDING WRECKED ME) and Noah fled from Westchester. I’m sorry if the characters seem OOC or the story feels meh. So if you’re digging it or simply detest it, let me know, yeah? thanks!

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In a city where the subway stations smell like after-shave and peanut butter and jelly breath smelling college students at nine in the morning, and half of the street names that he still can’t recall to this day, a young man in a beanie, who couldn’t have been more than twenty or twenty-one enters a small 24/7 convenience store with his hands thrust deep inside his coat pockets.

A burly, beer-swilling, 6 feet of a man behind the cashier, elbow-deep in the football magazine in his last season’s Real Madrid jersey, glances up from his reading upon his arrival. His eyebrows narrow.

“Never seen you visiting this late,” Romero comments dryly over the trip-hop music that is playing over the speakers and flicked his eyes back to the magazine. “Did you accidentally shoot your dealer or some shit?“

Romero’s attempt on making small talks with him, albeit as condescending as it sounds, does not fall on deaf ears. But it’s cold outside and he’s hungry and broke, he simply doesn’t have the will to entertain him.

“Shut up. I’m hungry,” replies the young man, stopping by the instant food section. His eyes finding the many varieties of flavors and brands and feels his stomach sick at the amount of artificial food he’s been consuming over the years. It’s like being eight all over again.

“Well, knock yourself out. We just stocked up those crazy spicy Korean ramen you kids can’t seem to stop feeding.” Romero’s face breaks into a mocking grin. “Can’t wait to see you all die from cancer.”

“Instant noodles don’t directly cause cancer on its own, actually.”

Romero burst into laughter. “And how the fuck does a two-bit junkie like you know that, Malcolm?”

The boy’s face involuntarily twitches.

And it isn’t because of how alien the sound when someone addresses him with his fake name or how Romero somehow thinks he has his character all figured out. The thing about living in incognito for years, he’s already become accustomed to those; to prejudices and living up to the persona that people design for him just to inflate their egos and ward them off of his tail in the process. No one wants to affiliate themselves with “the junkie” or “the hot-headed mechanic with suicidal tendencies” and he is more than fine with his solitary.

No. It is the nature of the question that throws him off guard and how his mind all too soon, against his better wishes, refers to her.

Suddenly, he is Noah again. Thirteen years ago at the age of eight, looking out of the window with Jane as they watched a girl about their age in a short tutu dress and combat boots climbing up the oak tree in their backyard to save a distressed kitten.

Their parents saw this, did a double-take, went hysterical and called her parents. He later learned her name was Liz and that she’d just moved into the neighborhood a week ago.

Then he sees Liz again, now a few months after their first encounter, running off to the forest with Jane’s arm linked with hers. He remembers her messy braided hair and freckles multiplied by the sun as they led Noah and the rest of their friends to abandoned ruins they’d somehow stumbled on a week ago. 

His memory of her somehow jumps forward. Now, he sees her in a different light, a different vignette. It is from three years ago this time and she was no longer the Liz all knees, elbows and mud on her shoes young girl from his childhood. She was Liz, on the edge of seventeen, her hair nine shades lighter than when she was a kid (she also had bangs now) with a barbed wire bat in her left hand, and a fire axe in the other, but still the same dark-eyed sprite that made his cold, dead heart skip a beat whenever she looked at his way and smiled that smile of hers; the kind that radiated her cheeks and lit up her eyes. 

The same light that he watched slowly waning from her eyes when she discovered his ulterior plan. 

His heart feels like shattering into smithereens all over again. He doesn’t realize he’s been squeezing on the noodle packet too tight until he hears the contents shatter in his hand. 

“A friend told me,” Noah finds himself saying even before his brain can halt it. Staring blankly at the packet, his mouth dropping into a frown.

He can feel Romero’s gaze on him, curious and confused. Shifting between the packet in his hand and his glazed-over expression. Noah, realizing he’s just projected his emotion right out in the open, huffs and throws the squeezed noodle packet into his shopping basket. 

Romero clears his throat. “Sounds like quite a friend.”

Noah pretends as if the jig isn’t exactly up and decides to actively ignore the older man. He gets the rest of his needs, holding the last of his composure against slipping and brings his groceries to the cashier, looking down at his feet whenever Romero glances at him in genuine concern.

“Catch ya later, Malcolm,” Romero says as he hands Noah the change. “And, uh… stay safe, you hear me?”

Noah, in return, only nods his thanks, probably a little too curt according to the polite society and leaves.

Outside, thunder begins to roll overhead. Noah eyes the sky nervously. It’s going to rain soon. And hard judging from the way the clouds are moving across the black midnight sky.

Noah rifles for his cigarette pack from his pockets, lights one and begins making his way back to his hellhole of an apartment. Treading slowly through the deserted streets, steering clear from alley-ways and suspicious characters until he can see the window of his apartment.

Then, Noah’s feet skid to a hard stop.

His jaw drops, his cigarette falling unheeded to the ground.

Sitting on the front steps of his apartment building is Liz, swathed in an oversized overcoat, her head leaning onto the railings, she seems to be sleeping.

What in the sweet fuck?

For a good minute, Noah stands stock-still. He simply gazes at his former best friend, nonplussed and borderline panicking. A migraine begins to form in his head. He gazes over his shoulder, watching and waiting for anyone to jump at him from the alley or anything, because there is no way in hell this is not a trap. This can’t be. 

He waits and waits, but no one comes out. Confused, Noah looks at her again, his expression inscrutable. If this is not a trap, then this must be a cruel dream the universe pulls on him for all the wrongdoings he has committed in his life. That, or Noah must have tragically died on his way back home and ascended to heaven. 

But then, if this is heaven, why is he here?

Eventually, Noah kneels before her. He reaches his hand out to her, hesitating mid-move and touches her shoulder.

“Liz?” he gives her shoulder a gentle shake. “Liz, wake up.”

She does. Slowly, her eyes flutter open, bleary and brown, and meets his gaze for the first time in three years. Noah feels like his breath stuck in his throat.

“Noah?” Liz blinks sleepily, twice, then yawns into the back of her hand. “What time is it?”

He glances at his phone. “A quarter past two.”

Liz’s brows furrow. “Huh. What were you doing out so late?”

“Had to do a supply run.” Noah gestures to the shopping bag in his hand. Then, “Liz, what are you doing here?” he asks, his voice a broken whisper.

Liz doesn’t answer his question, merely wraps her arms around herself, attempting to keep warm and sighs tiredly.

“Noah, can we go inside?” she pleas, instead. Desperation fuelling her voice. “I’m tired and cold and I…” she trails off.

Consideration flashes in Noah’s eyes for a moment. The logical part of his head insists for him to take her to the nearest train station and send her off back to Westchester. It’s the right thing to do. Considering that he’s been laying low for years now, the last thing he needs to add to his ongoing headache is for the police to suspect that she’s an accomplice.

But he’s never been the wiser one.

So, he takes her gloved hand and helps her to stand and, after giving one last look at their surroundings, of course, ushers her inside the apartment building. 

Neither says anything as they make their way to the staircase, as they venture through the grimy hallway where the dim and shadowed lights overhead following their every step like vultures and past the occupied doors where a loud, sexual moan comes from behind one of them.

She doesn’t make any comment about the awful state of the place he lives in, while he simply doesn’t have the capacity to be embarrassed because everything happens so sudden, Noah himself is still second-guessing if any of this is real. 

Finally, they stop by his door. Noah produces the key from his wallet when he hesitates, remembering the state of the room the last time he left it.

“A bit of warning, though…” He rubs his neck, embarrassed. “it’s pretty messy inside.”

“It’s fine.”

Noah turns the key and eases the door open.

The rain has started to pour. Noah turns the side lamp on and takes off his coat, his groceries on top of the kitchen counter. He watches as Liz, as if in a daze, tosses her coat and gloves to his bed and walks towards the direction of the window. A hand against the windowpane, the flare of the street lamp outside illuminating her features in the dimness, she silently watches as the rain falls on the pavement. Lost somewhere in the tangled cobwebs of her thoughts.

And it occurs to Noah that she is no longer Liz, on the edge of seventeen with a barbed wire bat in her left hand, and a fire axe in the other. She is Liz, older, with circles under her eyes, the world on her shoulders and a few pounds lighter than he remembers, but still the same dark-eyed sprite and with the pale shades of haired girl that he yearns to wrap his arms around and tells her how sorry he is for all those years ago, for leaving without saying a proper goodbye and how all these years it is her that keeps him going through every day and drives him insane at the same time. 

But he can only remain in his place and forces to quell his desire to do the aforementioned. Because Noah’s pretty sure that privilege is long gone the moment his betrayal came to light. Even to be standing in the very room with her is a crime, yet here they are.

Here she is.

“Liz?“ 

“Yeah?”

“Have you, uh,” his gaze finds the ramen packets, suddenly feeling inspired. “Have you eaten anything?”

She is silent for a while. “No.”

“I’m making ramen, you want some?” 

“Okay.” 

With that, Noah rolls up his sleeves, takes two eggs and a few vegetables from the fridge and begins to work. He ditches the salty packet of MSG and makes his own broth while at the same time, mincing the garlic and green onion and grating the ginger. By the time he sautées the aromatics, Liz makes a beeline from the window and hops onto the counter, watching him distractedly as he continues cooking. 

She stays silent and so does he. Despite the lack of words, everything feels strangely… domestic? Under different circumstances, Noah can easily get used to this; him cooking for her, with her becoming his taste tester whenever he’s experimenting with new recipes he finds on the internet and simply impresses her on a daily basis. Yeah, he can definitely get used to that.

Ten minutes passed, Noah then moves the ‘upgraded ramen’ to the bowls and serves one to her. The taste will probably pale in comparison to the one that her mom used to make, yet it earns him her first smile of the night, albeit small and closed-mouthed, it’s still a smile nonetheless. 

He grabs two cans of beer from the fridge and moves onto the couch with her. They finish their meal within minutes, still in silence. For a moment, the only sound that encompasses the room is the rain and his next-door neighbor who has the TV going in full-blast. That asshole.

Noah reaches out for a cigarette pack from the coffee table, dexterously flicks his wrist so a single one pops halfway out of the carton. He casts her a sidelong glance.

“Do you mind if I…?” he trails off, gesturing to the cigarette. 

Liz’s stare zeroes on the cancer stick, scowling, as if she doesn’t approve of this vice of his, but shrugs nonetheless. 

“So, how, uh…” Noah clears his throat, gathering his courage. How does he do this? How do you break the ice with your former best friend who you happen to have a crush on for more than a decade and almost murdered because your dead twin sister compelled you to do so without being awkward? 

“How are you, by the way?“ he manages to ask behind a plume of smoke. 

“I’m doing okay,” she says but in a tone when someone is obviously not okay.

“Just okay?”

“I…” she hesitates. “Yeah, just okay.” Liz lies and manages a weak smile. Noah decides not to press for more information. “Though I’ve been busy these days. I’m trying to finish my dissertation sometime around next year.”

"Already?” And she nods. Noah whistles, obviously impressed. "I’m guessing you did take the English major?”

Liz’s eyes widened slightly. “You remember." 

"Yeah.” Noah looks down. Of course he remembers, not when it’s impossible to forget the very idea of Liz Mortimer. “And your old man doesn’t try to fight you for this?”

“Nope. After Ja–” she clamps her mouth shut. “I graduated, let’s just say he had a hard time saying no to me.” She chuckles, but just for a good three seconds and Noah doesn’t have to ask why to know the reason behind her father’s sudden change of heart.

“How about you?” she asks, then shakes her head. “I mean, how are you?” She amends.

Heaven knows I’m always miserable, Liz. But he doesn’t say that. “I’m okay, too, I guess." 

"Just okay?” Liz parrots his own words at him and he smiles, the left side of his mouth higher than the right. They may still be painfully awkward to one another, but it feels so good to be talking with her again.

“Nothing new under the sun for me, but I’m thriving. And, um, how’s the others?” a.k.a the bunch of group of friends I hurt.

“They’re alright. Lily started her own video game called Pixie Moon, which I have no doubt will take the world by storm the way Candy Crush did; Ava is writing a book about witch trials; Stace is studying journalism and basically kicking ass; Dan is pursuing psychology; His majesty King Kang himself is playing for the Bighorns; and Lucas, as you can expect, is off to save our earth.”

Noah swallows the information one by one. His face an inscrutable blank. All of his friends somehow have found a place on this earth, they all have moved on except for him, again, who’s still scratching around in the same old hole; his future derived, his past an endless pitfall.

“And Connor?” he asks quietly, when in truth he doesn’t give two-shits about the man. But he knows she does, and Noah loves her too much to let his jealousy dictate his behavior. 

Suddenly, her face falls. Teeth chewing nervously on her lower lip. “He's… fine. He’s probably at home now as we speak.“

“And now you’re a long way from home.”

“So are you.”

Noah shakes his head. “Westchester stopped being my home the moment I turned eight.” He sighs forlornly, looks the other way, hands fidgeting. Force of habit. “Liz, as much as I’m glad to see you, but why did you come here?”

“How long have you been staying here?” Liz evades his question as if he never asked it in the first place.

Noah raises an eyebrow, exhales, but decides to play along. “Since August. So that’s two months. Probably, the longest I have ever stayed in one place.”

“Where have you been all this time?”

“Well, there was Utah and Kansas. Then Minnesota for a couple of weeks, but I couldn’t stand the cold and the rest is history,” he keeps his answer as vague as possible, not when he still has no idea the nature of her visit. “Look, why are you here?”

But still, the girl dodges his question. “Why do you–”

Until his patience can’t simply take it anymore. 

Noah is all but scoots over to her position until their knees are touching, the cigarette forgotten on the ashtray, and grips her arms firmly. His eyebrows knitted as he takes in her stunned face. 

“Liz.” There is a twinge of anger, confusion and desperation in the way he says her name this time. “Why are you here? You know you can’t be here. Goddamn it! If the fucking cops find out that you’re here…” Once he realizes what he is doing, he withdraws his hands as if she’s fire and now he’s burning.

“They won’t. I can assure you that." 

"You don’t know that.”

“I know what I’m doing, Noah. Trust me, I wouldn’t have come here if I knew it’s not safe,” Liz replies, her tone doesn’t leave any room for doubts and he knows there is no way to talk his way around it. Not to mention, he trusts her, if there is anyone who can sneak behind authority and get away with it, it has to be her.

Noah shrugs, agreeable, but he isn’t going to let her off so easily. 

“How did you find me, anyway?” he questions, reaching for his cigarette and takes a deep, long drag just to spite his throat. He has a feeling he might be smoking his misery away all night by the time she’s left.

The blonde-haired girl shrugs and absentmindedly leans her back against the couch, one arm wraps around her midsection. “It wasn’t easy, actually. But I made some new friends in Pine Springs and one of them is acquainted with the newly-minted Police Chief. Pulled a few strings and here we are.” 

“Pine Springs? What the heck were you doing there?”

“It's… a long story. But there were people there needing my help, and in exchange, they helped me track you down. An eye for an eye.”

Lightning suddenly jags across the night sky, briefly illuminating the room, pulling him out of his musings. She jumps at the sound, startled, and instinctively reaches for his hand. Noah freezes at the contact, forgetting how her skin feels like on his or a decent human contact in general. It’s been so long. And somehow he loses the ability to speak, to think.

He definitely doesn’t think when Noah moves his hand under hers, intertwining their fingers together.

Noah feels her head moving, her eyes darting from their joined hands and to his face that turns into a parade of expressions– misery, regret and melancholy. The holy trinity of feelings he’s been bearing for the past three years– for the past thirteen years of his life, actually– and feels her hand squeezing back his. 

“Christ, I can’t believe you went all through that shit just to find me,” he croaks, all but on the verge of tears. “And I left you just like that even without saying sorry.”

“Noah…”

“No, let me say it, Liz. I need to say it.” His hands are trembling, his composure this close from crumbling. “What I did was unforgivable. And I know there is nothing in this world that could help me undo the damage I’ve done to you and how I’ll spend the rest of my day regretting it, but regardless, I’m sorry,” he sobs, his whole body is shaking by now. 

“I’m so sorry for the nightmare I put you through. I was so blinded by my own volition and revenge for Jane’s death that I hurt you, all of you in the process without giving a single rat’s ass about it.” Noah pauses, wipes his tears with the back of his hand. “I’m a monster, Liz. A selfish, heartless, miserable monster. God, I should have died that night.”

“Hey, hey, look at me.” She plucks the cigarette from his other hand, discards it on her empty bowl and places her other hand on his shoulder. “Noah, look at me,” she says again, her voice like a caress. He looks up. “Don’t say that. You are not a monster. You’re just a byproduct of the pain from losing your sister, loneliness and bad parenting. That doesn’t make you a monster. That makes you human.”

“A normal human being wouldn’t lure his friends into abandoned ruins in the middle of a fucking forest where his sister died and put their lives hang in the balance.”

“No, they wouldn’t, but if there is anything Dan taught me is that people react to loss in different ways.”

Noah groans and pushing himself to his feet. “No, don’t try to find a way to justify this. Didn’t you forget, I could have killed you that night. You! The- the only one who gives a fuck whether I’m breathing or not.” The only one who matters. “If you hadn’t stopped her… God, I don’t even want to go there.“

She gets up from the couch as well. “I’m not justifying anything. Yes, what you did to us was… It was harrowing, it was despicable but I also knew the extent of your agony that drove you to do it. I understand… and like what I said that night in the cave; it’s not your fault. Not exclusively, at least. And I forgive you for it.”

“Liz–”

“No, listen to me, we all made mistake–”

He snorts. “Not on a grand scale like this, I bet.”

“Maybe not. But the fact that you give a shit and beat yourself up for years for what you did, that already speaks a lot,” she says. “You’ve tormented yourself enough. It’s not going to do you anything good. It’s not going to erase anything. What you need to do now is to close that book. Get a new one, write a new story, move on. I have forgiven you, I’m sure the others have forgotten about what happened until someone mentions it, it’s your turn now.”

Her words hit him like a piledriver and for the first time in probably like forever, he does feel slightly better. Even if only an infinitesimal amount and even he may won’t be forgiving himself anytime soon, but still, hearing those words coming from her mouth mean the whole world to him. 

“Why did you really come here, Liz?” The question is a tad out of place, but it feels like their previous conversations were made entirely to build up for this. 

Her frown melts away, replaced with somewhere between doubt and conflict. He holds her gaze for a minute, undeterred, then she turns her back on him to face the window once more. The suspense gnaws at him, yet still, he bides his time. 

“I have something to tell you,” she finally says, keeping her voice low.

“What is it?” He replies rather impatiently. When she seems to be hesitating, he adds, “And don’t beat around the bush, Liz.”

A deep breath, foot taps, a hand clutching at the hem of a buttoned-up dress and another deep breath. 

“Connor proposed to me.”

A beat. Then,

“Oh,” and it’s barely audible. And Noah feels like his heart has been torn from his chest, thrown into the ground, drags it through the mud then stomps on it for good measure. And that he feels worse and emptier than he was before she came here. “Congratulations.”

The words that come out of his mouth could have been his, because he can barely hear his own voice in this white noise. He always knew Connor and her were smitten with each other the moment she stepped into the hardware store for the first time, but Noah doesn’t expect it all would extend to marriage.

She looks over her shoulder, half-turned, one eye on him. “I wasn’t finished.”

Noah blinks at her, momentarily confused. “What?”

“I…” her voice wavers. When she turns to face him again, she is pinching the bridge of her nose. Her eyes scrunched up. “Ah, fuck this is never going to be easy. Long story short, I freaked out, made a scene at a restaurant, ended our three-year on-and-off relationship and went here.”

“Wait, what?”

Liz shrugs, guiltily, all Atlas-and-the-weight-of-the-world.

“Yeah,” she, much to his surprise (and concern), chokes a laughter, manic and loud. “Yeah, I did it. I fucked up the longest relationship I’ve ever had and broke my best friend’s brother’s heart because I wasn’t ready, because I’m an idiot.” When she does look at him, her eyes are bright. “Because I’m in love with someone else.”

For a brief, candid moment, Noah’s brows furrow as his mind goes to one of his former friends. Is it Dan? Ava? Or could it be Lucas? Because the last time he saw them together, they were pretty inseparable– although their relationship is strictly platonic as far as he’s concerned. Has that dynamic changed after he left? 

Then Noah realizes her eyes are still on him– and quite expectantly, that is, and that’s not… no, that can’t be right, can it? 

His demeanor shifts drastically as he stands there, stunned silence. Disarmed by her confession. 

He tries to speak, but his jaw won’t shut back to its place; his brains short-circuiting.

“Yes, I have loved you ever since I’ve known you, Noah Marshall,” Liz mutters when he remains silent. He can tell this is something she’s been holding in for a long time. “Even though we hadn’t spoken to each other for years after Jane, there hadn’t been a day that I didn’t think of you. When we finally reconnected three years ago, I wanted to say all these things to you, but..” she smiles wistfully. “Well, shit happened.”

“Why?” Of all the people you could have fallen in love with, why me? What he means to ask.

“Because you understand me like no one else; because you climbed up to my window to bring me your homemade grilled cheese sandwich when I was grounded when we were 8; because you actually listened and showed me that my vulnerability doesn’t always have to be my weakness; because I love the way you wear your beanie like 24/7 and the way you shake my hair whenever I say something stupidly amusing to you. Because it’s you!”

“No.” It’s a denial, it’s an attempt to ward her off from someone like him. It’s a lie. “No, no, no, no, no, Liz, you can’t fall in love with someone who’s-who’s mentally unstable or tried to kill you in the past, that’s like…” he gesticulates wildly. “Crazy! You are crazy!”

“I’m sorry, are you any better?”

“Of course not! But to forgive me is one thing, Liz, to love me, that’s a whole different level of insanity.” Noah begins to pace agitatedly around the room back and forth. “Fuck. I can’t hear this. Not from you.”

“Why not?” He sees the hurt expression on her face. Then interrupts just as soon as he opens his mouth. “Noah, I’m not asking for your answer this instance–heck, I’m not even asking you to reciprocate my feelings, but please don’t invalidate my emotions. Not when I waited for years to say it to you.”

“But this fucking complicates everything!” Noah points out.  

“Maybe. Maybe not, but you don’t know that,” she says resolutely, echoing his words from before. 

Noah doesn’t say anything in return.

She steps closer and slowly raises her palm to cup his cheek, an attempt to calm the storm within him. His hand grasps her wrist before she can make contact. 

“Noah–" 

His breathing quickens. Noah swallows and shakes his head.

“Liz, we can’t do this. No matter…” he sighs, his eyes boring into hers. Here he is, again, dangling on the edge of damnation, of what’s right and wrong. It’s wrong, yet he knows that she knows, from the heat and electricity that dance between them, from the pressure of his fingers that tell different stories, that he, too, wants the same thing.

“No matter what, Noah?” She murmurs, staring up at him with hopeful eyes. She really wants him to say it, does she?

He extricates her hand from him, taking steps back, putting as much distance he can from her. “Forget it.”

“Look, Noah, if you feel what I think you’re feeling, then what is it that you’re afraid of?" 

Noah whirls around to face her again. "Everything! Can’t you see that if we do this, the world will turn against us?" 

“Since when do you care about other people’s opinions?”

“I wasn’t worrying about me.”

"Well, I don’t give a fuck what others or this thrice-damned world thinks!” she exclaims mulishly. “After all we’ve been through, is it so wrong to be selfish, to follow your own heart just once– just once? Is it– don’t you care about what you want?”

“I want-” Noah stops. His hands tugging at his red beanie cap. “Never mind what I want.”

Her voice is quieter now. “What do you want, Noah?”

For an interminable moment, heavy with the promise of both release and regret, he only stares at her. Contemplating his options.

Perhaps loving her shouldn’t be the sin he thought it was, especially when she wants the same thing in return. Although he’s more than aware that he’s the last person in this world who deserves her affection, but deep down, Noah knows that he’ll never forgive himself if he didn’t run the risk now and spent the rest of his life wondering what it felt like instead.

“You.” Always you.

She holds his gaze. “Then have me.”

And as if an unknown force was taking over his body, Noah crosses the distance between them, his free hands cradling her face, drawing her close and kisses her.

It’s like a dam breaking, everything floods out. They do not kiss gently, desperation orchestrating their every move that the world around him grows distant and dim.  Twelve years of pining for each other, of secretive glances, of murder attempt and mutual misery and it all leads them to this. His thumb skimming the curve of her throat and feels her pulse leaps. He stops. Worrying if he’s crossed the line.

But Liz grabs the front of his clothes, pulling him even closer– as if they aren’t close enough– and kisses him back with a matching fervor. Her body pressed against his, warm and unfamiliarly familiar, and Noah swears his heart skips when she emits a quiet desperate noise that he happily swallows. 

Suddenly, Noah pulls back. “Liz, I’m sorr–” he says breathlessly.

“No, don’t you dare apologize,” she says firmly, her lips still tinged pink from their kiss. “I… I started this.” Her tongue darted out over her lips. “Are you okay with this?”

“Yeah. Yeah, I want this.” Noah’s hands dropped to her waist, his cheeks burned. He’s inexperienced, yes, and it shows, yes, but this is Liz. The last thing she does is to laugh at his face about it. “You?”

“You have no idea.”

His cheeks grow redder. “I’m, uh… now what?" 

"I think,” she leans in, tiptoeing, her arms wrapped tightly around his shoulders and playfully says, “I want you to kiss me again.”

Noah grins, more relaxed now knowing he has her consent. “I think I can provide that.”

He let her set the pace this time. Kissing him softly and sweetly, but as equally mind-blowing as the first time before the next thing he knows, they are kissing senselessly once more; the next thing he knows, she swipes her tongue on his lower lip. Drawing a surprised groan from him. His lips instinctively open up to her ministrations and he is rendered weak when Noah feels her warm tongue delves into his mouth. He tries to follow her example, but can hardly navigate through his own mind every time.

He can feel her fingers toying and tugging his beanie off, her nails grazing his scalp and his desire rocketed. And this time, Noah isn’t afraid to act, as his hands on her waist slowly glide upward; from her hips to her ribs, stopping just under her breasts which results in Liz’s breath to hitch in his mouth. His mouth travels down her jaw, the length of her neck, her collarbone. 

When he finds himself on the bed, on his back, and Noah has absolutely zero clue how or when he got that way. 

He sits up. Without thinking, grabs her hips to pull her onto his lap, hands rough, settling her against him as he tips her head upward and continues his onslaught on her neck. Her hands on his shoulders, coming up to the strands of his hair. Encouraging him, guiding him lower and lower until his mouth reaches her clothed breast. 

“Oh my god.” Liz’s eyes closed in pure bliss, caught up in the sensation, and ground her hips against him and, fucking hell, the friction feels so good and erotic and sets his entire being alight that Noah isn’t fast enough to stop the low, rumbling moan that comes from his mouth. 

“Fuck,” Noah swears and rolls his hips in response. At this rate, even if he wants to, he can’t hide the evidence of his physical desire, growing hard against her, making her produce these small high-pitched gasps every time his bulge brushes her just right, her pupils blown to hell and fucking fuck.

He is dry humping Liz. Liz. His sister���s best friend. His Achilles’ fricking heel. Good fuck, if Jane was still alive, what would she say about this?

“Noah?” She whispers.

He doesn’t realize he’s been lost in his own thoughts. “Sorry.” Noah mentally clears his head. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to space out on you back there.”

She stares at him, seemingly unconvinced. “Did I go too far?" 

"What? No, no, you are incredible. Don’t worry.” To prove his point, he gives her thigh a distracting squeeze. “Liz, what if I say I want more? What if I say that I want you?”

Liz is quiet for a while. “Are you sure?" 

"Yeah. I know the last time we met I said I wasn’t ready for dating and stuff, but it’s you. And if you’re up for it, I’m game, but if you–” Liz chuckles at his stammering. Whispering “You’re fucking adorable” as Noah groans and hides his face on the crook of her neck. “Liz, you’re fucking driving me out of my mind here.”

“Well, I’m game.” Liz leans in and kisses his temple. Noah can practically hear her smile from here. “You know, for someone who seemed adamant on pushing me away, you’re awfully eager.”

He grins, running his finger down her spine until every hair in her body stood up. “Keep teasing me, and you’ll regret it, Mortimer.”

“Bite me, Marshall.”

Noah does bite, literally, on that delicious spot under her ear before flipping her onto her back on the bed, making her giggle like a drunken schoolgirl; making her dress hike up to her thigh, just enough for him to see her underwear. He settles himself atop her, right between her legs. His hips and an unmistakable hardness press firmly against her soft thighs. 

This is it, then. The wheels are in motion now and Noah can scarcely believe this is happening.

She props up on her elbows and begins undoing the buttons of her dress with great speed, eyes never leaving his until she pulls him for another searing kiss. Then Liz raises her legs, wrapping them around his waist and rolls her hips once more.

She moans softly, as Noah’s mouth trails wet kisses down her throat, nipping and sucking as he goes, until it finds its way to her nipple. He bucks up into her, growling, as he takes her other nipple in his mouth. His shaky hand makes to drop her legs away from his waist, yanks the hem of her dress upward and dips between her legs, slipping past the waistband of her underwear to touch her that she jolts, gasping and moaning loudly altogether. 

Liz writhes, her hands clutching onto his sweatshirt like a lifeline, head tilted back as her hips involuntarily move against his hand, desperate for relief. Noah inserts two fingers, watching with heated gaze for her reaction as he pumps in and out, long and slow, short and fast. Pushes deeper, crooks his fingers a little. The rough pad of his thumb rubbing her clit in fast circles until her moan grows increasingly loud and she comes hard, shattering into Noah’s fingers. 

When it’s over, Liz is a panting, limp noodle.  She lays there, properly spent, smiling contently at the ceiling with heavy, bedroom eyes. Noah hovers above her, kissing her nose with a newfound satisfaction as he watches her trying to even her erratic breaths.

“Whoa.” She breathes out. “I guess I should have known those hands weren’t made only for kitchen knives.” And lazily wraps her arms around his neck. “Jesus, I’m wasted.”

His teeth gently nibbling her earlobe, his hand teasing her nipple again. “I’m nowhere near done with you.” Fingers trailing down to her warm, still over-sensitive slit again that Liz shudders like a flower. “Not even close.”

“I can’t–” And Noah freezes, thinking if he’s gone too far. “No more foreplay. Fuck me, Noah. Now. Please, I want you.”

In an uncontrolled frenzy, Noah pulls away from her, removes his sweatshirt while Liz assists with the buttons of his shirt. He works on his belt, freeing his member from the tight confines of his jeans and pulls her panties over her knees. Not bothering with the rest of her dress.

They kiss again as he repositions himself above her. Liz’s hand reaches down to grab him, guides the head toward her entrance, her legs once again settling around his waist. 

In his head, Noah mentally prepares himself, counts to five, then slides his girth into her. The two groan in unison at the joining.

“Jesus fuck.” Noah’s head flops forward, jaw clenching. He is inside her, and it feels a dizzying kind of spectacular. “Fuck, Liz, you feel so good.”

Below him, a crackling gasp escapes her lips, her mouth drops into a perfect circle as her head falls back to the bed and looking oh so beautiful. Noah begins to rock his hips into her, the strands of his brown hair brushing against her damp forehead, the parts of his brain that enable him to think slowly shut down. His hand wanders to touch every part of her body.

Everything is on fire. Everything feels so fucking good.

“Look at me.” She does, through lidded eyes, lashes heavy with arousal. “Say my name.” Noah never really thought he would be this vocal in bed, but there’s just something about Liz that brings this side of him. “Say it, Liz.”

“Noah,” Liz moans his name, clinging to him like mad, nails raking his back. “Noah, shit. Faster.”

Noah wordlessly obliges, liking the way she thrashes underneath him. Her breaths coming faster, higher so he moves even faster, pounding into her with reckless abandon just to show her how much strength he has. He finds himself growling rather animalistic against her skin, biting her shoulder. Feeling himself drawing closer and closer to the edge. He isn’t going to last any longer.

He puts a hand between them to rub her clit and Liz’s eyes roll back.

“Ooohh, god. N-noah!” she cries out, her words quickly morphed into a desperate wail. "Don’t stop, don’t stop, oh, please!”

Liz is a blubbering mess, screaming against the pillow. It is too much. The combination of his cock fucking her mercilessly and the friction his fingers provided on her sensitive spot is enough to make the girl convulse pathetically on the bed. 

When she comes, he follows not long after. Going rigid and groaning gutturally in her ear, emptying himself inside her.

When the ripples have passed, Noah collapses on top of her. Both panting and sweating from… whatever is it that just happened between them. Liz cradles him against her breasts, peppering tired kisses to his hair that is now sticking out wildly in every direction, locking him in her embrace, their left hands intertwining.

They stay like that for a few minutes, in a very much comfortable silence since she first set her foot here before Noah rolls to the side on the bed.

“Holy shit, we just had sex,” he says when he’s regained the power to speak again.

Liz chuckles and turns to face his side, sticking one of her legs between his while he pulls the covers over their forms. “Yep. Though, honestly, I never would have thought we’d end up having sex when I came here tonight.”

“Liz, I didn’t even know you’d be coming over. I can safely say tonight has been one hell of a surprise after another.”

She doesn’t say anything. At least not for a while.

“I hope you know I meant every word that I say to you,” she says kindly. “You’re not the villain in the story, but neither you are the hero. You are human, with your flaws and all, and I love you despite all of it.”

“Except you. You are an angel, Liz.”

“Noah, I basically turned down Connor’s marriage proposal, broke up with him and went straight into your arms in a matter of days.” She sighs guiltily. “No, we all just wear our demons differently.”

“Maybe. But you said it yourself, we are all just humans with our flaws and all. But you,” Noah turns and cups her cheeks in his hands. “you will always be an angel in my book. You saved me, Liz. When the whole world raised their torches and forks on me, you freaking saved me where you could have fed me to the mob. You’re the reason why I’m still here today and I love you for it, you hear me?” He pulls her into his arms when a tear starts to fall from her eye. 

“I’m so in love with you, Elizabeth Mortimer. Always have and always will.” He kisses her cheek. “You’re the kindest, most beautiful, the brightest human being I’ve ever known. I’m the luckiest person to have you be in love with me and if you’re up for it, I want to build a world around you.” He adds, “Instant noodles included.”

Liz laughs, still teary-eyed, shoves him playfully on the shoulder, feigning a glare. “You jerk. Always have the flair to ruin a moment.”

Noah chuckles. “Technically, you love instant noodles, so it’s only right, don’t you think?” She shoves him again. “And I’m your jerk now.”

“My jerk.” Yet she says it the same way someone says ‘my love’. “I love you too, Noah Marshall. And I want to build that world together with you.”

Noah smiles. Because he loves her and because for the first time in forever, his life makes fucking sense.  

Yes, he doesn’t know whether their relationship will last or will it crash and burn in the future, but at this exact moment, he’s happy and it seems that she does too. And that is all that matters now.

And if there is one thing that he’s sure of is that he knows that he doesn’t ever want to let this go. Not in a million years.

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Unnerving

Author's Note: A rewrite of today's chapter. It’s really long since I missed that Harris guy but it’s okay now since they are okay. There’s also a little intimate part so read responsibly. Thank you for being here!

Pairing: Noah x MC

MC

When she went back to the small igloo, Noah has already left that's why she's running towards the parking lot now, even though she still doesn't know what to say to him if ever he's still there. MC beams as she saw that one particular figure before her, his back facing her but she's positive it is him. She knows by heart it is him. She takes her time slowing her breath before approaching him but as she sees Noah picking up his helmet, she immediately shouts, still quite panting.

Noah

"Noah!" It was her. He would always recognize that voice no matter how loud the world is. Noah faces MC, smiling uncontrollably as she looks at him but that look on his face vanishes as quickly as he realizes that maybe the reason why she's here is not the reason he was hoping for.

"MC? What are you doing here?" MC moves closer to him, steadying herself.

"Noah, I'm sorry. I’m sorry for avoiding you ever since the Homecoming. I want to be with you again, whether be friends with you again, or more, or whatever that was we had, we have." MC says hurriedly as if the clock is ticking.

Noah gives her a confused look. He was pretty sure that if he tells her about his past, he'd lost her completely and he convinced himself to believe that since when he started feeling more for this girl.

MC

"Noah, please say something." MC says nervously as she waited for a response.

Noah looks on the ground before speaking. "Even after everything I just told you?"

"Even after everything. I'm sorry, Noah. I was hurt to see you guys hurting each other but I didn't realize that I'm hurting you also, especially you."

Tears fall down her cheeks as she realizes how much pain she caused him. While she knows that that hurt she felt was valid, she didn't recognize she's transferring that pain to him. MC is the only person Noah let in and the moment one thing went wrong, she left his side.

Noah

Noah cautiously reaches for her hand, holding it firmly as he started talking.

"I was so afraid to tell you the truth, you know? Whenever I catch myself with you, doing our thing, becoming closer each day, I knew I'd have to tell you.” Noah pause, he doesn’t know how to continue on this path.

MC squeezes his hand encouraging him.

“I was ashamed, ashamed of myself for committing a horrible mistake. And mostly, I was afraid, MC. Afraid I'd lose you completely. You have Mason and you're a great person. The moment I lose your attention, other guys would already be waiting for you."

What MC do next surprise him. MC wraps her arms around him and hugs him so tight Noah almost forgot about everything.

"Shh. Deep breaths. I'm here." She rubs his back comfortingly.

Noah rests his head in the crook of her neck. What a great feeling it is to be held by the person you deeply care for. He hugs her back letting her heartbeat guide him.

After a few moments, they separated. MC fixes his hair as he studies her features. He likes it when she takes care of him but he can't say that to her. At least, not yet.

"Noah, I know what I want is not that easy but I meant what I said earlier. I'm going to earn your trust again..."

He cuts her by hugging her again. This time he makes sure she feels it too. He makes sure that through it, she’d feel everything is going to be okay.

"Starting over would demand so much time. Let's just pick up where we left off."

~

Noah

He sees her nervously moving her hands. Noah pokes MC in her side as they stand on the porch.

“Hey, you okay?”

“Are you sure about this?”

“Positive. MC, do you remember the time your dad met me?” he asks her trying to calm her nerves.

“How could I forget? I became an instant tutor.” They both chuckle at the memory.

Noah takes her hand and laces his fingers with hers.

“Relax., Elijah doesn’t live here anymore. Plus, all the important ladies in my life in one place… What’s the worst that could happen?”

MC smiles warmly at him as he opens the door.

~

“Ma? I brought a friend.”

“I see someone’s made up with my son. You must be MC.”

“You must be Ms. Harris. It’s nice to finally meet you.” MC excitedly greets his mother.

MC notices what his mom was doing and offered her some help. Noah smiles appreciating the gesture.

“It’s okay, dear. I’ll manage. You too, though I wish it were under prettier circumstances.”

MC

“I would offer you something to drink but…”

Noah immediately reacts as his mother gestures to the fridge. Ms. Harris let out her frustration as she shares what’s happening. MC can see how embarrassed she is but she doesn’t mind. It’s how the people treat another that would always matter to her, one thing she loves about Noah. Even if everyone around him treats him less, he doesn’t stoop to their level and stays kind at the same time still knowing when to defend himself whenever people become too much.

“You’re worn out, Ma. Go take a nap, I’ll take care of this.”

Noah

Ms. Harris gives MC a polite look but MC just shakes her head.

“I really don’t mind, Ms. Harris. We’ll just wake you up for dinner.” MC smiles genuinely at Ma which she returns.

“I think I’ll take you up on that offer, then. Prepare to be grilled later, MC.”

Noah searches MC’s face and sees a look of shock. He knows that by the look her Ma gives him, she’s already got her approval but teasing her is too fun to pass.

“Sorry, I didn’t mean for this to be the first thing you saw walking in.”

“Hey, it’s okay. I actually like it. I mean, your dynamic with your Ma.”

Noah smiles at her. Every time he thinks he couldn’t fall in love more with this girl, she goes and does something to prove him wrong.

“Where’s your sister by the way?”

The pile of blankets beside them suddenly shakes then a little girl appears.

“Present!”

Noah laughs as he saw that look on MC’s face again.

“MC, meet my sister, Hazel.”

“Hello! Are you Noah’s girlfriend?”

MC eyes search to meet Noah’s eyes. When they locked eyes, he just gives her his signature smirk.

“Well, yeah. I think so. Something like that.”

MC’s face turns slightly red as she avoids Noah’s gaze, knowing he’s looking at her only makes the situation more embarrassing for her.

Your small introduction with the two ladies was interrupted when a loud bang knocks repeatedly at your front door. And you’re very sure this wouldn’t be the last time.

MC

The inconsiderate landlord shouts at the Harris family when they open the door but Noah was able to talk some sense into him. MC watch as Hazel admires his brother take care of his family and she’s not the only one. This is the Noah she wants to get to know. Big brother Noah, son Noah, family’s man Noah. Only a few minutes at their home, and she discovered a side of him that’s making her love him more.

As she watches Noah take care of his family, his reaction earlier when she hugs him finally makes sense. Noah has to grow up quickly to look after his sister. He didn’t get as much time as she gets to enjoy life. Smiling, she made a promise to herself.

As Noah walks back to the living room, MC catches his hands, squeezes it tightly and thought to herself. “I’m here, Noah. You now have someone who will also take care of you.”

Noah

As he closes the door, all he wants for now is to know what MC is thinking. Is she not liking what she has seen so far? But every gear inside his head stops when MC holds his hands. There’s a look on her face he can’t quite comprehend but whatever she is thinking right now, he’s positive it’s not because of what she has seen.

~

Noah

“I can’t wait to test you, MC!”

“Test me?” Noah smirks as MC makes that look again.

“Hazel hates wimpy girls who don’t try at sports.”

I smile as MC takes a deep breath. She really wants to get my family’s approval and that makes me so happy. It makes me feel that she really cares about me.

She stands effortlessly before the lane. Noah’s sensing she’s actually good at bowling and just decided to give Hazel the highlight of the day. She settled in her place, preparing to aim but stands straight again to his surprise.

MC gives Noah a playful look and says “Noah, it’s been forever since I went bowling. I’m not sure I remember how…” she battled her lashes at Noah, who rolled his eyes before going to her side.

“First of all, knock that goofy smirk off your face. Next bring the ball up by your chin, like this.”

The quarterback missed this. Teasing each other, exchanging meaningful glances, basically being them.

After scoring a strike Hazel goes to the bathroom shouting at Noah to wait for her.

MC

MC catches Noah searching the area, as she’s about to ask him why, she felt his breath against her ear.

“I know we just made up but… damn, I wish we could be a little reckless.”

“What were you thinking?” MC says challenging.

“I’d really like to kiss you.” Noah responds, looking her straight in the eyes.

“Really?” MC wraps her hand on his arm, leveling with him.

“I’d kiss you hard, baby.”

“What are you waiting fo…”

Noah

Noah didn’t even wait for her to finish. He holds her hands guiding them to his back, letting her touch him.

He wraps a strong arm around her waist, his other hand holding her neck. Just like he promised, Noah kisses her hard. He smiles as she let out a small moan.

“Shh, we’re in a public place.” Noah says as he softly bites her neck.

Noah smiles as he’s rewarded with another small moan.

MC

“Noah…”

“I’m right here, baby.”

Noah goes back to kissing her lips, sliding his tongue into her seconds after. It’s him who’s making a sound now.

“I’ve missed this, MC.” he says in between kisses.

“Me too, Noah. Me too.”

Noah

The two of them smile at each other as they pant.

“How do I look?” MC asks.

“Radiant. Is this really the time to be fishing for compliments?”

MC playfully jab at his side and he smacked her with that grin.

“I mean do I look normal? Not like I just made out with you?”

Noah smirks and as if nothing happened, they continue with the game.

MC won the game and Hazel love her for it. After earning a stamp from each other, the three of them happily get back home to start cooking dinner.

Noah let Hazel help him and MC prepare dinner after promising she’ll be quiet to not wake up their Ma. Not long after they are all sitting at the dining table talking like one happy family.

MC

As Noah put Hazel into bed, Ms. Harris started talking to MC.

“I like you, MC...” she smiles sincerely at the teenager.

“But I don’t like seeing my son like that.” MC shyly looks on the ground. She’s about to say something but Ms. Harris continues.

“Now, don’t get me wrong, honey. All I’m saying is that the next time you guys go through something, be there for each other. You won’t solve anything by staying away from each other.”

Ms. Harris puts a hand in her shoulder. “I can see you’re a good person and you make my son happy. It’s okay.”

When Ms. Harris smiles warmly at her, MC finally relaxes. She’s definitely not grilling her. She’s just being a mom who’s looking out for her son.

“I hear you, Ms. Harris. Thank you.”

Noah

Noah helps MC removes her helmet. They looked into each other not saying anything, just quietly enjoying each other’s company. Finally, MC speaks.

“Thanks for the ride, Jeff Goldblum.”

“You’re welcome.”

The quarterback watches her as she walks towards the porch. Not being able to stop himself, he catches her hands making her look back to him.

“You forgot something.”

“I did?”

“Yeah, you forgot this.”

Noah holds her chin then kisses her sweetly this time.

“Good night, beautiful.”

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[mazojo]

Noah screenshots? Hcs? Canon facts you like about him? If you guys were to break up, why?

NONNYYYYY

I am sorry for taking a moment there to answer you, I have been trying to write up this answer for a couple days but fumblr here always messes my post up //rip

I am gonna put this all behind a read more cossss I may get ramble and sentimental and people may not like it asdfghj but just know there may be spoilers below and that in this household we are always at all times and every single second, stanning Noah Marshall hours foLKz.

*Cracks knuckles* leTS GeT ThIS BreAD shall we?? ill be dividing it into each part because yo girl just got a chance to cream about her bby boi Noah and she will take iT asdcfvghjk trash

Screenshots

I am not sure what you mean 100% but I am guessing its sharing my fav screenshots while screaming about it and I will 100% do it xDDD

1- I call this one the “Tragic Backstory™ meets sappy”

Okay okay okay i gotta say this whole scene may as well be one of my favorite ones. Not only does it capture them soooo well, but it also made me connect even more to Noah. He lost everything the day he lost his sister. Everything he did was in order to gain everything back, in the hopes of bringing her back to return to how things were and i…..i…..am……weak……

2- This ones called “Everyone @ PB headquarters is a coward for not giving Noah happiness”

Not gonna put the entire scene because its too long buT when I say I would die for Noah Marshalls entire happiness, I mean I would diE FOR NOAH MARSHALL’S ENTIRE HAPPINESS (literally, because, you know, MC kinda dies for him….. ha…..haha….. too soon). thats it, thats the whole message I want ya to get from this post lmaooo.

3- This one goes by the name “Top 10 cursed moments in Choices history”

how he blames himself. “it should have been me….” because his mom blames him. he blames himself. Noah has carried this burden alone for his whole life. he is broken please someone hug him (and that someone is MC obviously pfffff).

4- This one is “I am damaged, gone wrong, got killed (100% real, not clickbait)”

DOnt have to explain how much this scene literally broKE one (1) dumb soul. This whole exchange is so powerful and everytime I re read it I get tears in my eyes because we all deserve better than this ;w;

5- Lastly I call this one “I added one more because all of the ones I choose were depressing and I needed to redeem my rat boi so��

Thats it, thats the screenshot. Please someone who doesnt know Noah Marshall describe him by this one image asdfghjk

Headcanons

ASDFYU OMG THANK YOU NONNY I STAN I STANNN 

Well, I actually made some of my MC x Noah HC because they are s o u l m a t e s and this is the post buuuuut some Noah hc I have are:

- As I mentioned in my other HC list, Noah is insomniac. He is always staying late and avoids sleeping because almost everytime he falls asleep he has nightmares thus he is always anxious when sleeping. Since he began dating MC in this magical AU the nightmares have been more manageable

- Can I reiterate on the fact that he has a beanie collection?? Like, I am talking all colors and sizes, homeboy’s only fashion statement is his beanie and we stan.

- He is terrible at using social media. MC and Stacey had to b e g him to create an Instagram account. To this day he still does not understand why people add hashtags to posts

- His favorite bands are Green Day, Simple Plan, Set it Off and Rex Orange County (see as I self insert myself in Noah LMAOO)

- His favorite Disney movies are treasure planet and Dumbo because he used to watch them as a kid a lot with Jane *crying noises intensify*

- He is actually a pretty decent singer! The one or two times MC catches him whispering some song she makes a huge deal out of it and asks him to sign autographs for her so when he becomes famous she can sell them, causing him to dramatically roll his eyes and blush while looking away.

- Even though he is a good singer, Noah haaaates dancing and he sucks at it. As I mention in the other HC list, he always ends up tumbling over with his own feet and avoids dance floors like the plague, only slightly softening for MC

- He refuses to buy AirPods even tho all the others have them. His most significant character trait is using wired headphones and owning it

- He has MC saved as “Dumbass 🖤”

- The crew has a group chat in which Noah has tried exiting, multiple times, only to be added once again and everyone going in his case for him to stop being emo asdfghjk

- His spirit animal is a wolf according to him, every-time MC remembers his answer to that question she starts quoting the “in all levels except physical I am a wolf” vine and “Noah has exited the chat” once again.

- His proudest achievement is his music library, with his infinite playlists selection.

This are some of the HC I haveee, I dont want to bombard you with them but I actually have a notes thingy with this lmaoooo, I do this with my fav pairings but never end up posting them asdfghj

Canon facts I like

oh boi

everything

asdfghjkl but in all seriousness:

- I mention this in almost all my Noah posts but his love for family is one of the things I like the most about him. How much he grasps into that hope his sister is alive and how much he suffers for it, even willing to sacrifice his soulmate friend for that, which okay, was wrong, but he did it with all the good intentions in the bottom of his heart.

- His humor definitely. asdfghj cynical and dark humor is very uwuwuwuwuwu attractive to me and my dankness so yeeee

- His passion for culinary school is soooo asdfghjk of his part. I personally have absolutely no idea how to boil water, so in the first place I admire anyone who knows how to cook, and just how much it means to him. Culinary school is his dream and he has abandoned it, but in every scene you speak that he brings it up, you can see how happy it makes him and asdfghjk bby boiiii

- His beanies asdfghjkkuytr okay okay I know I make fun of them a lot and stuff but beanies are actually are one of my few weaknesses for guys clothing lmaooo (just right behind glasses 😍)

- Just the whole thing with helping MC out (in my play-through) after getting turned into Redfield. Like, hello? he is literally not giving up until she is back? because he believes in her? eye-

Those are the ones I can think off right now from the top of my head but if I remember more later I will come back at ya with emmmm ^^

If you guys were to break up, why?

Big Ooffff

So I answered an ask from my homegirl Kato a while back answering and analyzing if Noah and I would actually work out in real life and I think in a way, the same answer can answer this question.

We would break up because in some way, we are too similar. In the sense that we are both pretty introverted, kept to ourselves, a bit of bad humor and that would lead us to clash in our own ways. Thats why I believe he needs someone like I HC my MC to be. She is outgoing, helping him get out of his shell, get out and explore, she is like the light and they balance each other out. If I were to date Noah we would just both fall into one side of the balance xDD

That being said I still loVE ma BaBY BOOOiiii nOahhhh but I think he would make a much much muuuuuch better couple with someone like MC :33 as I said, they are soulmatessss 🤧

Bishes be loving Noah. thats me, I am bishes and Anon has just blessed my inbox and we been stanning

#ANON I LUV YOUUU #BLESS YOUR SOULLLL #I dont know if this answered the question correctly but uwuwuwu #thank youuuuuu #ask #anon #noah marshall #noah #ilitw #it lives #it lives in the woods #choices

[ncropndium]

> I’m currently working on some verses for Nocturne right now and I’m like...so what if I made a variation of the True Demon Ending? Includes spoilers, so I’m placing it under a ‘ Read More ‘.

The reason I’m making this ( pun not intended ) is because I see TDE more like an endgame goal for the whole franchise? Or at least for the main SMT series? You know, the part where the MC sides with the forces of Chaos and sets off to fight God and the powers of Law, thus leading to the ultimate showdown in the form of Law vs Chaos.

Also in TDE, you set all demons free but in the process, you’re also destroying a whole-ass omniverse in the name of freedom and stopping the Conception from ever happening again, which is like the White Ending in IV. Meaning that by killing Kagutsuchi, all universes in the entire omniverse are obliterated with no chance of recreation in the slightest of bit. Which, IMO, renders all crossovers done via TDE rather moot if there’s no other universe in the series to visit, no?

There’s also this tidbit from Belial from Devil Survivor, who stated that humans are capable of harnessing demonic power to a frightening degree. As well as Loa, in Nocturne, who stated this gem:

A human’s soul can learn, but his body is mortal A demon is immortal but his soul never changes

And those who played Strange Journey might have found Soil Jimenez ( full demon!Jimenez ) to be easier to deal with in the Law route than Awakened Jimenez ( half demon!Jimenez ) in the Neutral route, probably because of the above-mentioned quotes referencing the potential amount of strength a half-demon would have in comparison to a fully turned demon.

By casting away his humanity, he lost a great amount of potential strength and growth he could have, which is very ironic, since Chaos idolizes strength besides freedom, for its own sake. Lucifer telling the protagonist to cast away his remaining humanity in Nocturne seems a bit counterproductive IMO, mostly because of the above-mentioned quotes. Although, he could also be doing this for another reason, perhaps considering his humanity to be a weakness for where they will be heading ( read: in battle against the angels ) or...to ensure complete obedience from the MC from now on...there could be plenty of reasons he could be doing this though, the game doesn’t address them, though.

Also, Lucifer seems to be a little short-sighted in this game than others, at least in terms of planning...I mean, does he even have a failsafe option in the case his plan fails? His role in Nocturne was the following: enter a world in which the Conception is about to begin, create a new demon, nurture their development and then finally wage war against the forces of Law. IV Apocalypse shows a case where Lucifer kills his champion before he can accomplish his goal ( like with the rest of the protagonists, YHVH had a hand in this ), rendering all of his hard work completely moot as the universe is destroyed at that point of discussion.

Because I’m also watching some of Devil Survivor’s endings, I’m thinking...what if there was an ending similar to the Good Chaos 8th Day, where the MC becomes King of Bel ( in Nocturne’s case, becomes the General in Lucifer’s army ) but without forsaking their own humanity? Sure, that would require the protagonist to talk him into that condition and make him re-evaluate his plan, but it could be beneficial in the long run, huh? Also, I’m thinking of combining it with the Freedom ending, where everything ( save for the protagonist’s powers besides the lack of tattoos and the horn on his nape ) goes back to normal, except that here there are notable changes in the behaviors of some characters, namely the reason makers, but towards the positive. The condition here would be that the protagonist stops the reasons from manifesting in the first place, something you weren’t allowed to do in any version of the game, unfortunately.

To do that, he’d have to:

Convince Isamu that he’s not alone and that he doesn’t have to isolate himself from the world, which would prevent him from killing Hijiri to summon Noah in the first place.

Explain to Chiaki that strength isn’t everything, or that her philosophy would come with some serious drawbacks and consequences, such as increased paranoia and perhaps endless warfare. And do this before she kills Futomimi, ( or proceeds to massacre the Manikins ), if possible.

Snap out Yuko from her passive and delusional thought processing and encourage her to not only be proactive in her decision-making but also see that Aradia will NOT provide her a Reason, but only she can do so. Heck, she would stop Hikawa more actively that way, leading to...

Confront Hikawa by making him see how his nihilistic philosophy benefits absolutely nobody in the long run and ensure he sees the error in his thinking, with Yuko’s help especially, since she helped him kickstart the plot in the first place ( maybe a redemption arc for both is in play???).

This would lead to everyone cooperating in bringing the old world back, but with a change towards the better, even if it means having to fight Kagutsuchi for this to come true. The Freedom ending plays as usual, but with the added character development that is the following:

Isamu gradually becomes less lonely, spoiled and self-absorbed.

Chiaki is kinder, more approachable and less obsessed with social status.

Hikawa engages in causes that benefit everyone, like charities and the ilk.

Yuko is far more confident, proactive and truly independent, taking her life into her own hands.

The protagonist also gets a message from Lucifer telling him that while the world is back to normal, he’s back to his human form ( but hasn’t lost his powers ), but has to prepare himself for the ultimate battle against God and that the door to the Expanse is always open for him to visit and train there ( btw, his lymphs and horn return but only while he’s in the Expanse ), or visit other worlds to recruit more demons ( and people ) and raise an army to overthrow God and lead to the whole endgame scenario described above.

#long post // #✶ — › fresh outta hell — ⌜ ooc ⌟ #nocturne spoilers // #devil survivor spoilers // #not shown: me expending so many braincells on this freaking post #me deviating from canon just to suit my very own needs? very likely #me probably fixing things as I see fit on the way? heck yes #try prying this from my cold unfeeling hands I dare you

[whxskeyneat-blog]

Potential Connections

Adeline : With Adeline being an escort, there's bound to be some scares and medical issues - from pregnancy scares to transmitted diseases to abuse - the possibilities are endless. Adeline could have wound up in the er when Lenna was still a nurse (this could potentially give Adeline a connection with Andrew), working her way up to CEO. Lenna could treat her but keeps her lifestyle on the downlow, eventually even treating her and getting her drugs and such to her own home. The two stay close as thieves, with Adeline promising to always come to her before she trusted someone else.

Arthur : With Arthur being a police detective, he would have been around when Lenna and Andrew had their accident. He would have been the one to investigate and figure out if there was any foul play. With the help of Lenna's family, they covered any loose ends and Arthur has no choice but to deem it what it looked like - simply an accident. But when Andrew comes back to town, he could hire Arthur to look into matters more and Arthur agrees because the whole situation didn't sit right with him to begin with. Arthur could become obsessive on taking down Lenna's family and thus cause angst and issues and a tension filled relationship.

Roxanne Palmer : With Roxanne being a teacher, Lenna could meet her while touring her school for Mia. She knows Chicago is notorious for being a nightmare when it comes to education and being safe. Lenna wants the best for Mia, obviously, and money isn't an issue. Lenna could end up getting lost on the way to the principals office to speak about curriculum and how the grades worked and Rox would find her and show her the way, chit chatting idly. They strike up good conversation and end up meeting again outside of school to grab coffee and go to shelters to volunteer together.

Conrad : With Conrad's drug addiction and his lifestyle at the TCL, it wouldn't be a shock to find Lenna wandering into his workplace. She could've had a horrible day at work, on the edge, clearly shaken up, and decides to drown her sorrows in a full bottle. This can go either way - Conrad could see her struggling, telling the bartender to cut her off when she stood and staggered, before getting her home by herself to keep his image intact. Though she did try to get him home with her. She could find him later on and apologize for her behavior, and the two could hit it off from there. Him even confiding in her about him actually being straight. - Or, Conrad could recognize her from the tabloids about her being CEO, thus equally money. He could use her state of mind and get her strung up on the same poison he is, just so he could pocket both money and drugs from her. Thus starts a toxic but mutually dependent relationship.

Aoife : With Aoife being an author, the two could've met at a coffee shop (maybe even at Accio Cafe where Ella works!) where Lenna is trying to write a book on how she climbed the corporate ladder. She's struggling and Aoife happens to read what she has on the comp idly because she's nosy, and offers to help. The two connect over coffee (ironically) and end up becoming friends outside of book talk. Going to the dog park, Aoife babysitting, the whole nine yards.

Sage : With Sage being the leader of an MC gang, Lenna could pay Sage for personal protection. She doesn't trust the cops, specially with Arthur lurking around her, and needs someone on her side with influence that wasn't the mafia. So Lenna literally pays for a personal escorts to and from work and even more protection when she's traveling with Mia. This supplies the gang with the much needed money they need to keep their noses out of a trouble they can't afford, while making their name known across the city with Lenna's influence and name.

Noah : With Noah's history with his ex, Lenna could resemble her a lot. Noah could accidentally mistake her for his ex while in Chicago (location is negotiable) and it could freak Lenna out at how he approaches her. After fleeing from him, he tracks her down which isn't hard, and explains the situation to her. After confirming she's in fact not his ex, she decided to keep Noah in her back pocket to use him as she needs in the future. This could either cause tension between the two or bring them closer as friends.

Charley : With Charley owning a Wiccan shop, Lenna has always been intrigued. She likes the folklore surrounding the superstition and the fact that maybe there's some merit to it. While on a walk with Mia, she comes across Charley's shop and pops in. Not exactly knowing what she's doing there or what to even look at, she looks to Charley to help her. Getting deeper into things, the two discuss their life and Charley offers to come to her office to try and bring a sense of peace to the place (Will add more with time.)

Corbyn : With Corbyn being a tattoo artist, Lenna gets his recommendation through her husband, Andrew. Lenna doesn't want anything big as it's her first tattoo but also wants to go to someone who is reputable. In comes Corbyn, who's obviously had his fair share of tattoos and really makes the process easy for her. He calms her down and reassures her that it's not as bad as she thinks. (Will add more with time.)

#potential connections

[ravenadottir]

How would the LIs be like in Beach Hut confessions when MC is on their route? Would any of them be gushing about MC? (curious about how their confessions would change from early days to mid and last stretch of the game)

ohhh, this is such a cool question!

‘cause i did write the beach hut confessions, and i did include the mc arc, but she’s not the main point of them... i mostly focused on the villa events, so this is a really cool one! also, i reckon a huge part of why mc wins first place is because the public sees the effect she has on her partners. just a dumb observation that dawned on me! let’s see:

♥ bobby. liked her right away! saw how out there and cute she was. at first he was talking about her in a way that really shows he’s intimidated, possibly laughing nervously every time he was asked about her and the boys that could have their eye on her. cupcake definitely ends up gushing about her, but it takes him a bit longer, mostly because he doesn’t know how to trust, so early on.

♥ carl. absolutely terrified of trying anything. she’s confident, and everyone likes her. it’s hard to make a move, and despite diving deep, carl usually would talk about her as something unreacheable. as days go by, and she shows how much she’s into him, it becomes easier and easier to relax about coupling up. by the end of the show his tone gains more of a tender note than anything else. i think he might even refer to her as a “new beginning”.

♥ gary. definitely referred to her as “the fittest bird in the villa”, which changes after he’s obligated to choose between hannah and marisol. he realizes he’s more connected to her than he thought, and by the time they actually recouple he’s a disarmed. the sneaky kisses were a turning point and he’s all smiles when talking about those, even though he feels guilty about bobby (if he’s the mc’s partner). by the end he probably calls her “my girl” or “my bird”, which i think it’s quite cute for a lad type like him.

♥ henrik. “i reckon she’s really interesting. and i’m really comfortable around her”. coupling up it changes to “ah, mate, she’s cold blooded, but i love that... bring it on!”. switching to blake makes him a little mad at himself, and after she saves him, it’s probably “i can’t believe she really saved me... i just hope i have a chance to prove how much she means to me.”. after the heart rate challenge, i think henrik was planning on telling mc he feel for her. “i don’t know when it happened, but it did. i love her.”

♥ ibrahim. “i don’t know if we’re fit for each other, but i’m curious to find out.” goes to “i’m kinda scared she might too out there for me, but we’ll see”. after recoupling on day 9, rahim might be taken aback by the whole drama, and how mc is always trying to mediate it. that’s probably what made him take a step back, thinking it meant she wanted to stay in the middle of things. bringing shannon back: “i’m not sure how she’s gonna react, but i hope... i’m not sure what to hope here.” having mc into him, even after shannon shocks him to his core! “she... told me she still wants to make things work... and i... i don’t know what to say.” “i don’t know if i ever felt this way, but i’m happy”.

♥ kassam. he was definitely overwhelmed and missing his life on the outside, but i reckon he could’ve said “she makes me forget how much i miss the outside” and “i think there could be something there, and i find her absolute flames”. after the villa, the boy allows himself to see her under a light he couldn’t, while in casa amor. “she’s so chill, and just always surprising me with her chat. i can see things working”. final recoupling, after the “i love you” afternoon, he’s buzzing! maybe for the first time since he entered the show. “i didn’t really believe i would find someone for me, but here we are.”

♥ lucas. i think lucas actually might’ve been a bit conceited at first. “i love a challenge. she’s not gonna know what hit her.” he might’ve been perceived as obnoxious by the public, but each day that image fades because mc gets to know him, and likes what she’s getting from him. “i was really excited to share the bed last night... i hope she felt comfortable, because i certainly did!”. after casa amor, he beats himself a lot for switching, answering the questions in the lowest tone possible. when saved by her, the public can almost see the realization of how much he likes her dawning on him. before the last recoupling he goes to the beach hut, without any texts. “i think i’m gonna tell her i love her.” he probably bit his lip with excitement. 

♥ marisol. the entirety of her beach hut confessions, up until that recoupling, is a constant confusing thread of marisol answering questions and dodging anything remotely connected to mc. the roccogate and the fights with lottie would definitely be the turning point for her, as she starts paying attention to the girl she likes. more than that, i think by the time she gets with graham, she’s already torn and anxious to talk recoupling with us, but she needs to secure her place before anything. i think the most precious moment is probably when she was chosen by the public, to choose first at the recoupling, probably anxiously talking about coupling up with a girl, and even more than that, being genuinely interested in someone for the very first time.

♥ noah. AAAAAAAAAAAAH I HATE THIS! i really, really think he was avoiding talking about her, but it would slip from him when he least expected. i’m working on a villa!noah right now, and i’m suffering so much with his beach hut confessions, because the whole point of them is that he slowly realizes how much he likes her, and every time he talks about her, there’s a smile he tries to conceal. pure torture!

#litg noah #litg lucas #litg carl #litg kassam #litg gary #litg henrik #litg bobby #litg #love island the game #love island the game season 2 #litg s2 #litg season 2 #fusebox #fusebox games #queue #group asks #beach hut confessions #litg marisol

[shreyamistry]

I just went through a terrible break up, so I need some fluff 😩 I'd like to request #36 and #68 for Dan/MC please! Thank you so much!

“You’re making me blush.” “I’m so in love with you.”

Dan x MC

Dan runs his fingers through Devon’s hair, their head laid in his lap. Dan takes notice of the silk-like texture of their hair, his fingers massaging their scalp a soft sigh of relief leaving the tips of Devon’s lips as they look up to meet his gaze.

“Hey beautiful.” Dan smiles, he leans down and presses a soft kiss to their forehead making them giggle softly. “I can’t believe you feel asleep watching a classic like Casablanca.”

“I’m exhausted, college has been so busy.�� Devon shrugged, their hand finding one of Dan’s intertwining their fingers together.

Dan looks down at Devon sympathetically, “it might also help if you actually sleep at night, are you still having nightmares?”

“No-“ Devon tries to protest right away, but falls silent at the intensity of Dan’s gaze, their eyes dropping downwards to be looking at him. “Dan, seriously I’m fine.”

“That’s not what Lily said.” Dan comments, Lily and Devon became college roommates since they were going to the same school and they knew they’d be perfect roommates. “She said when she tried to bring up your night terrors you got defensive and mean.” Dan went quiet for a second, “and to Lily of all people.”

“I was a major dick to Lily, you’re not wrong.” Devon nodded, chewing on the inside of their cheek. “Yeah, I haven’t been sleeping.” They were major fucking up, they were always so testy with everyone, one minute they’re happy and the next their feeling exhausted and tired of everyone and everything.

“Why didn’t you say something sooner?” Dan questions, moving his free hand to rest on their cheek rubbing his thumb back and forth, they lean into Dan’s touch letting their eyes fall close. 

“I didn’t want to bother anyone with my problems, I guess. Everyone’s moving on, even Andy has since moved on from everything. I didn’t want to drag anyone down.” Devon shrugs, giving slightly into the darkness surrounding them wanting to fall asleep, but shooting their eyes open as Noah’s body played in their mind.

“You’re okay.” Dan hummed, rubbing his thumb back and forth against their skin. “I got you, I always will.”

Devon smiled up at him, taking a deep breath and letting it noisily. “I’m sorry I’m such a mess lately Dan. I can only sleep well when I’m with you.”

Dan smiles leaning down pressing a soft kiss to Devon’s lips, now moving his other hand to cup their cheeks as he moving his lips softly against theirs. Devon kisses him back, falling into the motions. Devon breaks the kiss beaming up at Dan, who rubs the back of his neck with a chuckle.

“We have to kiss on the same level more often or I’m going to have persistent neck problems for the rest of our life’s.” Dan laughs.

“I can’t help it you’re a fucking giant, Dan.” Devon laughs, sitting up on the couch folding their legs under them as they turn around to face Dan. “How’s this?” Devon leans in again, meeting Dan for a passionate kiss, their lips moving together perfectly.

“That never gets old.” Dan smirks, tucking a strand of Devon’s hair into place resting his hand on the side of their head, rubbing his thumb back and forth gently. “I never get tired of loving you.”

“Stop, you’re making me blush.” Devon laughs, their head falling down bashfully, causing Dan to laugh lovingly at his partner. “You’re too much.”

“I love seeing you blush.” Dan smirks, pulling Dan onto his lap, his arms wrapping around their torso. “What do you say, tomorrow we look into getting you some sleeping aids?”

“I’m so in love with you, Dan.” Devon murmurs, their hands tangling in Dan’s hair as they lean down their breath on Dan’s lips. “So much.”

“And I’m so in love with you, Dev.” Dan whispers, before crashing his lips against Devon’s roughly his arms tightening around their torso as their lips move perfectly together. 

Prompts found here! Please request one, I love doing these! I’m sorry to hear you broke up, I hope you’re doing well! lots of love and i hope thismakes you feel better!!

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