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Ping-Pong The Animation: eps 1-3
So Masaaki Yuasa [AN12, AN28, AN150] can do no wrong, right? OK, well, I'll admit Ride Your Wave was kinda mid, and Devilman Crybaby goes hard as hell at the beginning and end but sorta treads water in the middle, but... generally speaking! No-one does it like Yuasa.
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For reasons I don't really remember, I didn't get very far watching Ping-Pong The Animation some years ago. It should be entirely my shit: Yuasa pulling in a gang of wildly creative animators to put their unique spin on something. However, the first episode didn't entirely hook me, and I never got round to trying the second before something else punted 'watching Ping Pong' out of my brain. ADHD, y'know.
This is a shame because even the very next episode seriously goes, as does the one after that. But also this anime isn't entirely what I was expecting (crazy sakugafest full of Yuasa weirdness). Not to say it doesn't do a lot of really unique stuff with its cinematography and animation, but these first episodes at least are more about like... dissociation! ennui!
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But more on that in a mo. First I wanna continue the thread of 'how do you animate sports'.
So, ping-pong, or table tennis. Not a sport I know much about, I'll be honest. (To be fair I don't know a lot about sports in general outside of some very specific niches. The sports I've pursued so far are rather eclectic: swimming, fencing, tai chi chuan, and roller derby; I never got particularly far in any and it's been years since I've done them.)
I'll inevitably be drawing a lot of comparisons to The First Slam Dunk, the other sports anime I've watched recently. I do think it's a productive comparison though! Both of them bring something of the visual language of manga into their presentation in unique ways. I have not yet read the Ping Pong manga, but it's by Taiyō Matsumoto, otherwise known for scifi manga like Tekkonkinkreet (god tier movie, still need to read the manga) and Number Five. So that's a pretty impressive track record!
If you go take a look at some scans of Ping Pong, what will immediately jump out is the shaky, rough line style and unusual camera angles and compositions.
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The stylisation is also very different from a lot of manga. Noses are fully drawn, eyes are realistically small, and in contrast, lips and mouths tend to get the emphasis - as well as hands.
Knowing this makes a lot of the creative choices in the anime make sense! It also adopts a shaky lineart style, and makes use of heavy line weights and spotting blacks to add definition. It also has a lot of crazy closeups and layouts, and it loves a visual metaphor. But most of all, the most striking element of this anime is how often it loves to split the picture up into little panels...
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...which [eli]'s subs do a really good job of typesetting, incidentally, moving the dialogue to fit naturally into the split composition. And while this shot with 7 smaller shots is perhaps on the extreme end, splits of three or more are pretty frequent. It's a really interesting way to evoke the effect of seeing a whole page of manga
So, as you proooobably know, ping-pong is a game of bouncing balls off a little table and directing them into places the opponent will find it hard to hit them back. From watching this anime I picked up that there are a number of styles of holding the racket (e.g. 'penhold grip' and 'shakehand') and approaches to hitting the ball (e.g. 'chopping'). A lot of this pretty much went over my head, but honestly it didn't matter, since the narrative significance was pretty much always evident.
Compared to basketball, though, ping-pong is a pretty tricky sport to make visually interesting! Sure, you have the players running to and fro, and that can lead to some interesting poses, but how do you get the drama and tension into this?
Ping-pong additionally is all 2D, it doesn't have the sort of resources that Toei could throw at making the best looking 3DCG basketball game ever. It is limited to a TV-feasible drawing count. So it has to make use of clever limited-animation tricks to get the most impact out of fewest drawings.
Let's take an example sequence from episode 3. A minor character is about to get his ass kicked by Tsukimoto. Tsukimoto is something of a pingpong prodigy, and yet he is very emotionally closed-off and even standoffish; he doesn't particularly seem to like the game very much, and doesn't particularly feel inclined to flex on other players and get into the status games. But other players, like Wenge, have heard about him and want to see what he's got.
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First we have the setup. Other characters are observing and discussing the game. Since ping-pong tends to involve very rapid exchanges, it can follow the classic shōnen model where there's a lot of talking, flashy fight sequence, more talking...
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The cut happens in two steps, maintaining the vertical dividing line. This approach to cutting is used a lot in Ping-Pong, and it's quite a creative way to keep visual interest when it's using a lot of largely static shots. The panel on the right is more animated than the panel on the left, a naturalistic depiction of bouncing the ball off the table.
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Things start moving faster here. A rapid pan on the image on the left disguises the fact that this anticipation pose is actually not moving at all. This then goes into a rapid, explosive moment as this guy serves.
The final pose is held for a couple of seconds while the voiceover line discussing his intended move finishes. This sort of elasticity of time is a very Osamu Dezaki type of move - it's something that Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata actually really disliked.
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A sound effect hits as Tsukimoto appears on the right in silhouette, anticipating his reaction, and setting up the next shot which leaves the split picture and hides the background for just a moment, as if to put us in Tsukimoto's shoes: he only sees the ball.
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Tsukimoto follows through and holds this pose - the ball is the only thing moving here. The ball moves mainly on 2s while Tsukimoto moves on 3s and 2s, and he and the ball move on alternating frames. He holds the pose as the ball zips off to the right (bouncing off the corner of the table), with a speed lines-like effect. At the end of the shot, the ball freezes in the air for the moment while the sound echoes.
The actual table-tennis round lasts just seconds, and the drawing count involved is pretty minimal, but it does a lot with those drawings.
We go back to voiceovers and reactions in the next few shots, returning to the split video as Tsukimoto's opponent thinks about how he'd really rather be at the beach...
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Often, these comic-like compositions will change one panel at a time, and while one panel is animated another panel will be still, naturally moving your eyes across the screen. It is an approach similar to some experiments I've seen in 'animated comics' viewed in a web browser, where the panels do not appear all at once, but enter with some animation.
So this is the sort of animation technique that Ping Pong uses. It's effective! Elsewhere the cuts are used in a less direct, continuity-editing way and more in a juxtaposition/montage way. For example, Wenge's desire to return to China is symbolised by match cutting/fading to shots of an aeroplane.
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And there is a recurring image, which I'm sure will be expanded on, of Tsukimoto hiding in a cupboard and wishing for a tokusatsu hero to come save him from his isolation. As Tsukimoto's feelings about himself change, the toku hero is replaced by a robot. At this points it starts to feel like an outright Ikuhara anime.
There is occasionally a little bit of CG, mainly when Tsukimoto uses a different type of racket surface, and the way the ball and racket make contact is the crucial thing that the shot is trying to convey...
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It gets the job done, but I'm glad they stuck with 2D for most of it.
So I went in the first time expecting like, crazy elaborate sakuga - and to be fair, the OP, animated by none other than Shinya Ohira, delivers on that front - but if anything what I've seen so far in Ping-Pong is actually a triumph of storyboarding and limited animation techniques. I think back then I didn't have the eyes to appreciate it in the same way.
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OK, that's the film nerd stuff, but what about the story? Ping Pong follows two school friends, Makoto Tsukimoto aka "Smile" (right), and Yutaka Hoshino aka "Peco" (left). Smile is defined by a flat affect and a standoffish persona. He's just going through the motions. He's very good at ping-pong, but to him it's just a way to pass time, and he's scornful about the idea of caring all that much about it. Much like Shinji with his casette player, Tsukimoto is pretty much always staring at a handheld games console rather than make eye contact with anyone.
Peco on the other hand is the more childish one - playful, kinda arrogant, very much an 'emotions on his sleeve' kinda guy. He sulks when he loses and gloats when he wins, and is constantly seen with bubblegum or other kinds of candy. He provides a lot of our commentary when he chats with the other players.
日本語上手 readers probably noticed the tsuki (moon) vs hoshi (star) symbolism thing they've got going on here!
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High-school table tennis in this story seems to be a rather 'tough love' kinda world. Most of these players tend to look down on those who can't meet their level. Going easy on someone is seen as weakness, or cultivating bad habits, by almost everyone. Tsukimoto doesn't play at his full potential because he isn't as invested in winning as all these weirdos, but it seems that might be starting to change...
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The coach is interesting. He's an old man and fairly disdainful of the club at large, and prone to speaking English randomly with a heavy accent. But he gets excited at the prospect of getting Tsukimoto to unleash his full potential, in terms that are repeatedly metaphorically compared to romance/marriage.
And when Tsukimoto gets sick of it, he challenges him to a game, with the stakes as...
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Cue Makima/Beatrice images here I guess.
Tsukimoto de facto wins when the coach collapses, but this episode marks a change of heart. He starts to think of himself as a robot - the affect of a robot replacing the affect of the toku hero in his fantasy. And in this way he does what people seem to want and plays ping pong with mechanical precision, expressed once again in visual metaphor (shot here from a cool transformation sequence)...
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What if I just dissociate harder? This is gonna end well.
So it really is one of those kind of like 'ennui of being a teenager' kind of stories - c.f. say FLCL. 'Boy with complicated emotional landscape' is Yuasa bread and butter, but the particular variant here seems a little unusual for him - they tend to be a little more earnest. I'm curious to see how Tsukimoto develops.
I am definitely enjoying the arrogant Chinese player Kong Wenge. Dude's got a lot of screen presence, and while I'm sure he'll get shown up sooner or later, he makes for a very fun antagonist of sorts.
In comparison to Slam Dunk... one thing that's significantly different about table tennis is that it's an individual rather than a team sport, which means it's harder to have an ensemble cast all contributing to the protagonists' eventual victory - instead it's about a lot of individual arcs interweaving with each other, individual duels. Besides that, it does seem like it will be following a similar arc of a character in an emotional hole (grief for Ryota, depression for Tsukimoto) finding new meaning and purpose through sports - though I can't be sure how things are gonna go for Tsukimoto here!
The tone however is quite different. Even when it's silly, I feel like Slam Dunk is a very sincere story. There's little detachment or irony, or false consciousness - with perhaps the major exception of Ryota's mother, who lets her own grief and trauma get in the way of understanding her son. But ultimately 'why would you care this much about basketball' is not a question that anyone would ask in Slam Dunk. Even the judo guy in the manga who's trying to recruit Sakuragi is just as hot-blooded about his own sport of choice.
There's a difference in like, general affect about the players as well, which has something to do with the sport itself. Yeah, Sakuragi's superpower is his 'genius' ability to predict rebounds, and there is plenty of strategising in Slam Dunk - but basketball is still a sport that very much emphasises physical power, and as much as Slam Dunk will work hard to sell you on a clever trick pass, the visuals are also emphasising the speed that players are dashing, the height they're jumping, their physique. Table tennis by contrast seems to be a sport that's more about prediction and mind games.
That said it is equally just like Matsumoto's style being different from Inoue's. Now I know it's by the guy who wrote Tekkonkinkreet, a lot about this series falls into place! There's a sense of tension here, of being fundamentally at odds with the world. The autismfeels. This is reflected also in the drawings - the characters don't entirely seem comfortable in their embodiment.
So if that's what I'm getting from just three eps, I'm very excited to see what the remaining 8 have to offer. This series is probably too long to cram into Animation Night format, but we'll see...
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luci-is-a-bitch-x3x · 6 months
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Obey Me! Solomon, Simeon & A Platonic Luke! with a Goth MC! : basically my thoughts on what their reactions would be, how they would handle having a goth partner, ext.
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Welcome! to another part of this adventure! The characters may not be how you imagine! I apologize for any poor jokes, bad spelling, and terrible grammar. Without further ado, please enjoy the content. ♡
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Goth MC! who does the make up, the white foundation the "crazy" eyeliner, the black/grey or dark color eyeshadow and blush. Classic black or red lipstick with matching nail polish on the Mc's fingers. The saggy looking hair that matches the make up, oh so well. Goth MC! Who has the unkept look, but at second glance you can tell their well kept. At least to some extent. The Mc has raggy, ripped looking outfit but upon closer inspection its clear the outfit is perfectly kept up with. Goth MC! Who has an over extent looking outfit, looking like rags on rags, and the Mc has a dead looking apperance appearing to have risen from the grave. Almost the perfect example of a goth baddie. How will they react?
Solomon
When Solomon first meets Goth MC he is intrigued, he'll raise his eyebrows at them and give them a smirk. Solomon knows that Mc is Goth from the second he sees them. He's a human & he's an old ass bitch. He knows a lot dudes. Solomon would hold all his teasing until he was a little closer to Mc. Knowing that Goth Mc may be sensitive to whats said to them, he doesn't want to have them hating him before he even has a chance to know them.
Solomon won't out right say it but he's def into the goth look. Solomon will for sure say something like- "You look perfectly dead today MC." To Goth Mc just to tease them. He really means that Mc looks gorgeous, but don't worry Solomon is sure to say this as well- "You look drop dead gorgeous today Mc." He just finds it so entertaining to poke fun at Goth Mc's gothness while also complimenting them.
Dating Solomon is playful. Solomon is always teasing Goth Mc, whenever he gets the chance. Mc and Solomon are walking around at night and they see a bat flying around? "Look Mc! It's you!! *pointing at the bat with that stupid grin of his*" Now Solomon may tease Mc like crazy, but if he notices someone making MC uncomfortable or notices Mc actually getting upset by someone else's teasing he will gladly step in. He has all kinds of ways to get somebody to leave MC alone. He is the shady wizard after all. But Solomon will let someone tease Mc as long as Mc's cool with it. Solomon may find what the person says to be funny and he may even use it to tease Mc later on.
Solomon will happily indulge in Mc's goth antics. Mc wants to go to a concert but he might not like the music? He can use magic to drown it out, as long as he's with Mc he'll stand there with a smile on his face. Mc wants to go see a scary movie or go to a haunted house? He'll go with them, but if Mc jumps at all, they should prepare for a years worth of teasing from Solomon. Honestly he'll never drop it. "Mc! Do you remember when we went to that haunted house? That ghost on a stick popped out and you jumped like 10ft in the air!! You should have seen you're face!" Old man is cackling. Rolling on the floor cry laughing at the memory.
Receiving gifts from Solomon is always interesting. He either gives something to Goth Mc as a joke, or he'll have a really thought out gift that he gives while teasing them. Gifts from Solomon range in all different ways. Mc misses firework shows in the human world? Solomon just so happens to have a spell that looks very similar to a firework show. Why are the colors dark and fitting to Mc's goth aesthetic? "Everything I do isn't meant to fit you're aesthetic Mc. Its just dark colors, you're such an Edge Lord" don't let the old man fool you, he absolutely did it specifically for you. He just wants to see his adorable apprentice happy. He will gladly theme and make everything dark colors just to see Goth Mc smile.
Simeon
When Simeon first meets Goth Mc he thinks its a facade. Although Simeon thinks Goth looks adorable on Mc, he can tell that under that dark attire is an "angel". Mc can do no wrong in this mans head. Their just a human who needs some guidance. Simeon doesnt find Goth Mc to be scary or offputting. The complete opposite actually, Simeon sees this human who wants others to find them a certain way so that nobody approaches them. But Simeon can see Mc's bright soul, how can he choose to not approach such a lovely person?
Simeon is very intrested to learn about Goth from Mc. He loves to understand more about humans, and talking to Mc is a bonus! Simeon is a charming chill angel, if he doesn't like something that Mc does, Mc would never know. Simeon loves all that Mc does tho, perfect little human in his mind. Simeon is happy to listen to Mc's music choice or "help" Mc find Goth attire in Devildom. Mans just got to the Devildom himself. He doesnt know goth the best, even after Mc explains it to him, so he'll pick some dark colored clothes up and- "Mc is this Goth? Whatever it is to would look good on you!" He's trying his best please be patient he might eventually catch on.
Dating Simeon is like how opposites attract. A Goth Mc who doesnt smile a lot and is usually wearing all black? A perfect fit for the smiling angel who is usually wearing white! Simeon will particapte in Goth Mc's interest but its more of im doing this because the person i care about likes it type of thing. Its not that he dislikes their interest they just aren't his choice of activities. Thats not to say he won't have fun doing these activites with Mc. Seeing Mc's smile makes everything worth it. If Mc and Simeon watch do something that offputs Simeon slightly, he may take a day or two before agreeing to partcipate in the activity again. But he suprisling handles all of the activites well for an angel. He always has that charming smile on his face, for example even while watching a horror movie. Hes just happy to be hanging out with Mc!
Simeon's favorite activitys would be writing short stories with Goth Mc. Yes, Mc's stories are much darker than his. He loves reading their ideas and stories! "Mc this is amazing! I was on the edge of my seat while reading it! You should consider writing a book!" Simeon means it. Write a book Mc, he'll buy all the copies. He also enjoys doing poetry with Mc. Their poetry may be very different but he loves hearing Mc's dark poems. The ones that are dark and sad but still somehow a love poem always make Simeons heart flutter! Simeon also really enjoys doing pumpkin carving with Goth Mc. It doesn't even have to be close to halloween, he just loves the domestic feel it gives. Bonus when Luke joins and it makes him feel like a family carving pumpkins. Simeon can carve pumpkins rather well, but its not the showing off he likes, I just feel like he likes pumpkins. He thinks their cute man, have you ever seen a tiny pumpkin? Adorable.
Simeon is really sweet when it comes to gift giving, but some gifts can seem useless. "Mc! I saw this itty bitty pumpkin! It looked so cute i just had to buy it for you! *holding out a tiny pumpkin with that loveable smile*" Cute Simeon, but the pumpkin will rot unless Mc figures out how to use magic to keep it from going bad. Simeon will get Goth Mc all kinds of gifts. From tiny pumpkins to goth accessories to a random drink because it had a cute ghost on it. Everything makes him think of Mc, and he loves seeing Mc smile, so he doesn't mind buying the gifts! Simeon's also the type to add a little post it note or sonething with a little goth doodle for mc when he gives these gifts. Mc! You better save those! Sometimes its just a little bat doodle other times its a cool but scary looking castle doodle, stuff like that. Little ways to show that he cares and that he's thinking of the goth human.
Luke (platonic)
When Luke first sees Goth Mc, he defiently freaks out. Not in a good way. "What the?!?! I thought Mc was supposed to be a human?!? Did the demons already make Mc a demon??!?" Calm the smol angel down and explain that its just how Mc wants to look. Luke does not understand and will take either a lot of explaining or some time to adjust. Luke probably treats Goth Mc almost similar to how he is with demons at first. Lots of scoldings from Simeon, and Mc standing up for him a few times and the young angel will be besties with Goth Mc!
Now Luke may not understand why Goth Mc dresses the way that they do, Luke will still not tease them for their appearance. He even stands up for Mc when someone else teases them! "Don't talk to Mc like that y-you demon!!" Now Mc has to stand up for Luke and beat up some demons because the demons are calling Luke a Chihuahua. He may be one but leave the poor child alone. Together Mc and Luke will defeat all the bullies! Friendship power! Or something cringe like that.
Being Best Friends with Luke is interesting... lets be honest, Luke can not do scary stuff. But he'll try and be brave and go into the haunted house with Mc. "I'm an angel Mc! I can't just let you go in there alone! I have to protect you!!" Very sweet of him, but Mc will spend most of the time protecting Luke. They hold hands and Luke will cower behind Mc at any jumpscare. Dont point it out or you'll have an angry embarassed puppy. For horror movies, in game Luke always seems to be trying to watch them and then getting scared and having nightmares. So Goth Mc has to choose very light scary movies, the ones that are barely scary. Luke will still get scared, so Mc and him always have a sleepover after watching scary movies. When Luke wakes up in the middle of the night scared from a nightmare, Mc's there to comfort him. Goth Mc will gladly fight ghosts for you Luke!
Luke loves baking or making sweets! So Goth Mc and Luke are the Halloween sweets masters! Sorry Barbs move over, Luke's the baking master now. Luke makes the cutest Halloween sweets! Mc has never seen such a cute cupcake! Luke makes all scary things look cute on his sweets. A zombie? Now its an adorable zombie! Who'd be scared of that? Luke, Luke would. Please refrain from pushing the cupcake towards him and saying "boo!" Luke also loves pumpkin carving. Or making food out of the pumpkins! Luke's carved pumpkin is always adorable, its usually just a silly face but sometimes he goes for a more intricate design! Luke's pumpkin food is the best! And he almost always gives the first taste testing to his best friend, Goth Mc. "Mc! I made this new pumpkin tart! Here!! I wanted you to be the first to try it!! Tell me what you think!" Goth Mc and Luke being besties would be so cute, change my mind.
Receiving gifts from Luke is adorable and sweet. Luke gives Goth Mc all the spooky/Goth sweets he bakes or finds. He'll give Mc goth stuff as long as its cute. Oh a bat plushie on a keychain? "How adorable!! Mc would love this!" He immediately gets two. What? The bats cute! And who doesn't want to match with their best friend?
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Thats all for now babes! Sorry this took so long! I struggled doing Solomon's part, nonetheless I hope you enjoyed!! ♡ This is not proofread. Feel free to comment or reblog any thoughts or any add ons you have! More stuff will be coming soon! So stay tuned! Stay safe! & Stay cool! ‹𝟹
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CAN TOU DO 💔 WITH ACE ? LIKE HOW THE READER ACTS AFTER HIS DEATH OR WHATEVER ? or or or like
Ace and Reader meet in childhood
Reader is a famous pirate or a famous bartender
Reader joins battle at marineford to save their husband
Ace dies protecting them and Luffy
Reader tries to give up their life. While everyone else runs , they sit there holding Ace in their arms while begging for death.
Until Marco or Shanks grabs them and makes them retreat as well.
Now they visit his grave every day and don't eat or sleep because of how much they miss him. They even meet Sabo and mourn with him or with Marco.
Or Shanks talks to them while they sit at his grave , telling them how it's okay to be upset.
So technically hurt no comfort but maybe a bit of comfort. Do whatever ur comfy with :3
It Will Get Easier
hey do you hate me 😃. This was so painful to write <3. It's a little rushed at times I feel cause I was trying to fit a bunch in but I hope you like it anyway. Basically reader is also a Whitebeard pirate and was with Ace in Alabasta so they met Luffy before Marineford. Reader can fight but not crazy well and no df powers. Slight alterations to some marineford scenes/dialogue to fit reader in. Apologies for any inaccuracies its been a little bit since I watched the Marineford arc 😭
Pairing: Portgas D. Ace x gn!reader
WC: 2.1k
CW: canon typical violence, angst obvi, includes Ace's last words (which should be a crime honestly im sorry guys)
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You were late. You knew you were late, despite Marco reminding you that you’d moved as quickly as possible. By the time the Whitebeard pirates’ ships rose, Ace’s secret had already been revealed.
You’d fought with Pops non-stop, begging him to rescue Ace sooner. As it was, you felt that they were cutting it close.
The fighting raged on around you as you gave everything you had to reach your Ace. Every now and then, you'd catch a glimpse of him on the execution platform. He looked exhausted and miserable, so unlike himself.
You fought to get closer to him. Slowly, you made your way to the platform, cutting through Marines as you went. You could feel their blood on you, but you ignored it as you pushed closer and closer to your husband.
Your face lights up as you see Luffy fighting through the Marines as well. He’s almost at the platform. A spark of hope lights in your chest.
You’d met Ace’s little brother only once, in Alabasta while you helped Ace look for Blackbeard. He was a good kid, as strong and sweet as his brother. If anyone could free Ace, it was him.
Minutes or hours pass you by as you keep fighting. Your movements feel heavy and sluggish with exhaustion, but you push the feeling aside. The only thing that matters to you right now is getting to Ace.
A giddy laugh bubbles out of you when you spy Luffy on the platform, standing next to Ace. Your hope grows. Luffy will free Ace, and then you can all leave. Everything will be alright.  
You move faster, so close you can taste victory. The admirals are scattered, so nothing stands between you and the platform.
And he’s free! You laugh again, tears welling in your eyes. The stress of the last few weeks melts away as Ace and Luffy tumble off the execution platform. Because of their devil fruit powers, you know they’ll be okay.
For the first time since arriving, Ace’s eyes meet your own, midfall. You almost sob as his entire face lights up, and he instinctively reaches for you as if he’s not plummeting to the ground.
You shove your way through the last few Marines, dodging their attacks without bothering to fight back. You reach Ace just as he stands up.
He sees you at the same moment and takes off towards you, arms open to welcome you home.
You collide with him at full force. He doesn’t even stagger, using your momentum to pick you up and spin you around. His strong arms squeeze around you as he buries his face in the crook of your neck.
Your shoulders shake as you sob, arms wrapped around his neck. Finally, finally, you have him back where he belongs. In the safety and comfort of your embrace. You tangle a hand in his raven locks, savouring the feel of his hair between your fingers. Gently, you pull his face up.
You rest your forehead against his, taking a moment to just breathe now that you’re reunited. Ace breathes heavily, holding you with all his might.
“You came,” He pants in disbelief.
“Of course I did,” You breathe, cupping his cheeks as you look into his eyes. They twinkle with joy as a smile tugs at the corner of his lips.
You grin softly. The war wages on around you but for just a moment, you two are safe in a cocoon of love.
You two tune back in just in time to spy a Marine coming straight for you. Ace is quick to push you behind him as he quickly disposes of the Marine.
Ace grabs your hand and Luffy’s and takes off toward the rest of the Whitebeard pirates who are fighting some distance away.
Luffy immediately complains as he’s dragged away from the vice admiral he was fighting. His complaints fall on deaf ears as Ace drags the two of you along, grinning at you like he can’t believe his eyes.
You’re almost in the clear when something materializes in front of you. Or rather, someone.
You stagger backwards at the sight of Admiral Akainu standing between you and the ship.
Ace and Luffy both position themselves to fight, and you do the same despite knowing you’re not strong enough to take on an admiral.
You look around desperately, trying to figure some way out of this. There’s no way around Akainu. Everyone is either fighting or dead. Whitebeard is on the verge of death, though he keeps fighting. Marco is struggling to free himself from a pair of sea-prism cuffs.
No other admiral seems set on the three of you, at least for the time being. They all seem otherwise occupied. Small blessings, but still.
Akainu’s eyes dance over the three of you before settling on you, a small smirk curls the corners of his lips.
Faster than you can blink, a mass of man and magma is hurtling towards you. You throw yourself down out of its path, scrambling away. Distantly, you can hear Ace screaming for you. He fires up, ready to fight as he whirls on your attacker.
Luffy throws a punch and misses as Akainu dissolves into magma once more. Luffy runs over to your side as you push yourself to your feet, just as Akainu lunges for you once more.
Faster than you can blink, Akainu makes contact with his target only… it isn’t you. A choked scream tears itself from your lips as your eyes settle on the gaping hole in your husband’s chest, a magma fist tearing through.
Slowly, you drag your eyes up to Ace’s face and see your shock mirrored there. Luffy reaches for Ace just in time, catching him as he drops to his knees after Akainu pulls his fist out of your lover’s body.
Time slows down as you fall too, following the brothers to the ground. Luffy kneels in a daze, rubbery hands pressing desperately against Ace’s wound, trying to hold his life force in.
Your arms reach for Ace, helping Luffy apply pressure to the gaping wound. Sticky wet blood drenches your hands but you don’t care as tears continue spilling down your cheeks. To have come so far, been so close to freedom, only to have it all ripped away now? Akainu might as well have punched you instead.
“Ace,” You whisper, eyes searching his face for any sign of hope. His eyes are glazed over with pain as he leans heavily on Luffy.
“It’s no use… He fried my insides… I can’t be saved,” Ace chokes out, gaze drifting over to meet your own. Where your face holds frantic desperation, his holds only quiet acceptance.
“I have no regrets, about the way that I lived. I’m only sorry I can’t see you two achieve your dreams…”
You grip his hand tightly, lip wobbling as you listen to his last words.
“Please, pass on what I’m about to say,” Ace takes a shaky breath, “Old Man, y/n, everyone, and you, Luffy. Even though I’m so worthless, even though I carry the blood of a demon… Thank you, for loving me!”
You sob as he takes his final breath before falling limp in Luffy’s arms. The younger boy slowly lets Ace slip out of his arms to the ground.
A heart-wrenching scream escapes Luffy as he tips his head up to the sky. You sob harder, tears spilling relentlessly down your cheeks as you dive forward, covering Ace’s body with your own. As if you could protect him from harm. As if that still mattered.
An unknown amount of time passes. You’re unaware of the battle raging on, or Jimbe picking Luffy up and carrying him away, or Shanks arriving and ending the war.
The pain in your chest is insurmountable. The only thought in your mind is “It should have been me.” You pray a stray attack will take you out too and reunite you with him, but no such luck.
Eventually, a hand lays across your back and a man squats down next to you. An unfamiliar voice speaks, but you don’t register it. The hand moves to start to pull you away from Ace, and a frantic shout escapes you as you tighten your hold on him.
Your mind has left you. All that’s left now are your instincts and your pain. And your instincts are telling you never to let go of Ace again.
The voice speaks again, more insistent this time. It starts to cut through the fog of grief that’s settled over your mind.
“… leave Marineford.”
Slowly, you turn your head to peer at the speaking man. You recognize him from his wanted poster. The red hair, three scars over the eye, and missing arm give him away.
“Y/n, we need to leave Marineford. My men will carry Ace and Whitebeard to the ship, but I need you to let them. Can you do that?”
Whitebeard? In a daze, you turn your head in Pops’ direction. Your lip wobbles as more tears threaten to spill out at the sight of his lifeless body. A new wave of grief crashes over you, threatening to pull you back under.
Shanks reaches for your hand and squeezes it, pulling you back to Earth. “Stay with me here. I need you to let go of Ace for long enough for us to bring him aboard the ship. You never have to leave his side.”
You take a shaky breath and slowly nod. Shanks waves two men over and together they pick Ace’s body up, hauling him to the ship. They handle him with great care, but it still hurts to see his lifeless body carried around like a doll.
Shanks guides you up to his ship and away from the carnage. True to his word, you’re allowed at Ace’s side for the entire time.
1 Month Later
You sit cross-legged in the grass in front of your husband’s grave. Your fingers trace the engraved letters of his name over and over again. No thoughts occupy your mind as you stare blankly at his headstone in the same way you’ve done all month.
Every day, you sit in the grass next to Ace. You don’t leave until someone eventually comes to take you away, forcing some food and water into your body and escorting you to bed. You live in a daze, drowning in your grief.
Footsteps sound behind you, but you don’t bother turning around. It doesn’t matter who it is. People come and go from Whitebeard’s grave daily. Not nearly enough show Ace the same respect.
This person does something unusual. He sits down next to you in the grass. You turn your head just enough to recognize that it’s Shanks.
You don’t speak, turning your attention back to Ace’s grave. You hadn’t seen much of Shanks since Marineford. He’d been busy dealing with the aftermath of Whitebeard’s death, you supposed.
“When I first met Ace, I thought he wanted to kill me,” Shanks’ gravelly voice cuts through the silence. “My crew and I were waiting out a snowstorm in a cave and he’d dragged his crew all the way up the mountain through the storm to come meet me. I’d heard about the new Captain Ace, a force to be reckoned with. We all knew he wanted to kill Whitebeard. I figured he’d come to try his hand at killing me first.”
You listen to Shanks speak, tears welling in your eyes as he does. You can picture this scene so clearly. It’s so Ace.
“But no. Ace had no interest in killing me,” Shanks laughs, “He came all that way to thank me for saving his little brother’s life.”
Despite yourself, a soft smile tugs at the corners of your lips. You continue to trace the letters of Ace’s name affectionately. Your poor sweet boy and his big heart were a force to be reckoned with.
Shanks sighs softly, leaning back and propping himself up with his one arm. “It will get better.”
You turn your head slightly, looking at him for the first time since he sat down.
“It will. Over time. The pain will never go away, but it will get easier. You’ll get used to it. It will get easier to think of his memory and smile as you remember the good times. The pain will not haunt you forever.” There’s an uncharacteristic note of seriousness in his tone. Something about it demands your attention, your trust. “It will get better.”
“Promise?” Your voice is hoarse from lack of use.
“I promise.”
For the first time in a month, you feel a glimmer of hope work its way into your heart.
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toyota-supra · 3 months
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My Top 10 Favorite Games I Played In 2023
In chronological order. It's a long one.
Titanfall 2
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I've been told to play this for years now, though for most of those I did not really know why, as it never seemed like my kind of game. But, ever since I started really getting into mecha sometime in 2022, I decided to finally give it a try. I'm very glad I did. Titanfall 2 is a criminally short First Person Shooter with a very fun mech/pilot dynamic, really good mechanics of movement and combat for both, and some of my favorite level design of any game I've played in a long while. The platforming is crazy good! The mechanics are tight as hell! The mech is awesome! I recommend Titanfall 2 for literally anyone reading this.
Mega Man Zero
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The Zero series is the one that most called to me in the Mega Man franchise every time I looked these games over, and I was right in that judgement. While I couldn't say if I was going to appreciate most of the GBA era action platformer difficulty or not, it was clear from Zero's more agile movement and bite-sized missions with very memorization-heavy bosses that I would enjoy it. And I did enjoy it a lot! Most of the bosses kicked my ass but it was an absolute blast to finally learn their patterns enough to defeat them. The problem is, I went out of my way to not get any of the game's health upgrades or energy tanks, making the final boss so hard for me that after days and days of attempts I gave up. Not beating Mega Man Zero is probably my biggest regret of the year lmao
Fate/Stay Night
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Honestly, what do I even say? You can see my Saber icon, right? Fate is a franchise I never bothered to get close to, knowing of its name only through vague images and names of more popular characters (not even from FGO, just in general), and from later on getting to know that Fate/Grand Order was the game it is I felt like it wasn't for me at all and who cares. So when I learned what the original VN was actually about I felt stupid. How could something so fitting to my tastes have gone under my radar for so long...? Despite not being much of a reader in general, F/SN is a very long game that feels like it's just as short as you need it to be. The prose flows so well, every single character is lovable in many ways, and there's so much passion written into them and the situations they're in that it's one of the most smooth-flowing VNs I've read (which granted are not many) even though it's around the high 6 digit wordcounts. I love this game dearly.
Stranger of Paradise - Final Fantasy Origin
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I wanted to play this game since the first few trailers! How cruel was it that, not only did I not have a powerful enough machine at the time, but the game wasn't even on Steam until the year after release? Final Fantasy Origin is the game it presents itself to be. There's something about it that's so special to a certain kind of person (which I happen to be one of) and that falls flat for everyone else. The combat and its many Weapons, Jobs and Skills to use are just fantastic in how nice they feel, and I really do like the type of story Stranger tells. I haven't finished it yet, but I'm close to it. I like to describe Stranger of Paradise as everything good about PS2 and PS3 games in a modern title.
Pseudoregalia
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An old feeling from a new friend. Pseudoregalia is everything I like in 3D Platforming, and a little bit of what I don't. If you've ever looked at a single gif or video of Super Mario 64 and thought, "this looks pretty fun to play," you should be playing Pseudoregalia. If you like goat ladies with big butts, I can't say I understand if that would sell you on a game or not, but it is a feature everyone mentions. I wrote on this game already, so please do check that out and get it. It's one of the three titles of this list that came out this year, and I have not heard enough people talk about it.
Armored Core VI - Fires of Rubicon
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My favorite in this list, which is funny because I don't know what to say about it at all. Armored Core is a series I've been studying up on from the outside for a while, and the announcement for this title was my reason to finally dive in. Unfortunately, I did not get past playing the first mission of AC1 a few times and booting up AC3 once. But I will get to it eventually! Fires of Rubicon is one hell of an action game, that I adored for every single one of my (currently) 67 hours of play. Going through the campaign with builds a little too busted for the AI most of the time was my dishonorable focus of the experience, but there's a lot else to do for every kind of person. The amount of freedom you have for messing with your builds for either single or multiplayer is not to be underestimated. Though it could be better. Here's hoping there will be a game that is.
Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition Remix
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I played this game as a kid so much that the main menu and its theme are scarred into my mind, yet this whole time I had no idea what the game was actually like due to the fact that most of my playtime was doing a few races and just cruising around. Once you dive into trying to finish the story, MC3 is a much different experience. One that frustrated me so much, I got actually ill from the stress. Please take breaks, gamers! Your health is more important than finishing an 18 year old game! Still, I did eventually do it. Midnight Club 3's handling model and gameplay structure are really impressive in comparison to the much more popular Need for Speed series, and I have to admit I did enjoy the game a lot. It's just a lot harder than it ever needed to be. I'll probably never forget this game, and that's not really a good or bad thing. Just, advice from me, if it gets too hard, maybe switch to sports bikes. Buy that Ducati.
Test Drive Unlimited
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Another car game, but this one I have the least to say about of any on this list. I had played TDU on PS2 multiple times before and thought it was awesome. The atmosphere and immersion of this game are unrivaled by any racing game to this day. But playing the PC version with a steering wheel and pedals made everything so much more incredible. I played the Platinum mod, which adds hundreds more cars and fixes a lot of issues with the original game (but not all of them; the game was still really rough and I hate how much the resolution is a pain to change). Overall, one of my favorite experiences with a steering wheel controller so far. Otherwise, a pretty good game if you like driving.
Super Mario Sunshine
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An old friend, and a new feeling. I don't play 3D platformers as much as I wish I did, because they're really not part of my main priorities looking for games lately, but every time I play a Mario game, it's like I found love again. It was not the first time I played Super Mario Sunshine, as I had collected a dozen or so Sprites years before, but playing the whole game in I think two weeks during the latter half of the year was such an incredible experience. Unless for some reason you play it on the Switch, Sunshine is a game that loves you as much as you love it. And you do love it, right? I know I do. I'd love to play this game many other times in the future. Granted, that applies to every game here, I just wanted to say it out loud for this one.
Lethal Company
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A fairly recent release! Having played it with many groups of people by now, both modded and vanilla, I think Lethal Company is probably one of my favorite multiplayer experiences ever. It is scary and hilarious, but also just really really good, to a level that surprised me for my quality standards of co-op (horror) games. Lethal Company turns friends into improvised horror movie actors and it's incredible. I'm almost at 30 hours played and will likely get to 40 at minimum. It's also pretty cheap and likely runs well on all sorts of machines, so consider checking this one out too.
Honorable Mentions
Witch on the Holy Night and Story of Seasons - Friends of Mineral Town are games I am adoring and could definitely go on this list, hadn't I started them both quite late into December. Maybe next year I'll give them a shoutout!
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glostuffbear · 2 months
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Twins -miya osamu x femreader
Idea just came to me. What if Miya Osamu or Miya Atsumu dated someone who had a twin (and didn't know they had a twin lol). One day the twins decide to prank/test them.
"Do you have siblings?"
"Yeah, a sister. But we don't live together anymore since our parents split. I don't see her often."
Fast forward five years later, me and Gin have graduated and moved out of our troublesome family situation. For the first time we've been able to just sit down and catch up with each other. There were tears, there were laughs, there were long stories of what we've been up to.
And then, the big question pops up.
"Do you have a boyfriend?"
I stop drinking the smoothie I had ordered and freeze in my tracks. I look up at my identical twin. She has the same facial features at me. Same eye color, same long lashes, same face shape. We even have the same hair color and over the course of time neither one of us have changed its style since the time we split apart.
She is my identical twin, who I never told Osamu I have.
"Y-yeah."
She must have noticed my frown because she mirrors it and tilts her head.
"What's wrong?"
"I.... never told Osamu I had a twin. I told him I had a sister... But..."
"You never told him we were identical." She finishes. I nod my head.
"We can go to the Onigiri place he owns and introduce you properly. He's a twin himself actually so he'll probably get a kick out of it." I propose.
A sneaky smile spreads across Gin's face as she takes another sip of her own smoothie. It reminds me of all the evil schemes she used to cook up when we were little kids.
"You don't say. Another twin huh? I have an idea."
"Gin..."
"Hear me out...."
"What if we trade clothes and pay your boyfriend a visit? See if we can tell it's not you." She suggests.
"I don't know Gin. Osamu and his twin Atsumu have played the same trick on me over the phone and it doesn't feel great--"
"All the more reason to do it! Come on! Just this once for old times sake. Aren't you curious?" She presses.
In all honesty, I am.
We decide to go visit his shop. Beforehand we exchange clothes and she asks me some general questions to not tip him off.
"What do you call him, dotingly?"
"'Samu."
"What do you usually get?"
"I like the salmon onigiri."
"Where did you guys meet?"
"He was part of the volleyball team in school with his twin. I helped out."
"What's his twin's name?"
"Atsumu."
"Got it. Alright. I'm going in."
She pats down my clothes, which fit her perfectly because we're the same size and height. Even our shoe sizes match.
She smiles reassuringly at me and squeezes my hand before she crosses the street to where the Onigiri shop is.
"Don't worry, I'll stop before anything happens."
"Okay Gin. Good luck."
She crosses the street and enters the shop. I give it a minute before crossing the street as well and looking through one of the windows of the shop.
"Hey 'Samu."
The man turns around, carrying some freshly made tuna in his arms. He offers a warm smile back and takes on of his hands off the white bowl to wave.
"Hey. Take seat I'll be right there, Love."
She goes to the front booth and takes a seat crisscross on the stool. She takes out your phone (yes you two even went as far as to swap phones and passwords to get in). She smiles fondly down at the picture of the two of you.
During movie night one time, Osamu fell asleep with his head on your shoulder. You couldn't help take a picture of the two of you. It became your favorite couple photo. Honestly, you two are really cute together. Gin's happy that you have found someone that makes you happy.
"Hey. What are ya doin' here?"
Gin's head turns a little. Unbeknownst to her, a man that looks crazy similar to your boyfriend has taken seat next to her. Gin immediately deduces it to be the other twin. Confidently she puts up a friendly smile.
"Atsumu. I came to surprise 'Samu. I was around the area." She explains.
Atsumu hums and lifts up a mug he had brought with him. He takes a thoughtful sip and brings the mug down again. It goes unnoticed by Gin that Atsumu stares at her out of the corner of his eye suspiciously.
Osamu returns around the booth and wipes his hands off on a clean towel.
"Hey, Love. What brings ya here?" He asks.
"I came to see you. And to eat some salmon onigiri please." She hums, beaming at him.
"Ya ate salmon onigir yesterday." He chuckles.
"Yeah but I want more today."
"Okay. It's comin' right up. I thought that's what you'd order." He hums back.
"Thanks. You're the best 'Samu."
She reaches out and grabs one of his hands, warmly rubbing over his hand with her thumb. He looks down at their hands and then looks back at her face.
He doesn't say anything, but it's clear that he's thinking. He doesn't pull his hand away though.
"What's wrong? Aren't you happy to see me?" She asks playfully.
He blinks and frowns a little.
"Um.... are you..... feeling okay? Or did 'tsumu trick ya into somethin'?" He asks quizically.
"No."
She glances at Atsumu who has turned in his stool to really look at her. Apparently both sense that something fishy is going on. Not bad.
"No I'm fine. Why do you ask?"
"You're talkin' kinda funny. It's not like you. I don't know.... you just.... feel different today." 'Samu explains. He sounds confused but before he can interrogate her more, a bell in the kitchen dings for him.
Saved by the bell, Osamu goes off and gives her an opportunity to regroup herself.
"So, where is she?"
Gin's head turns slowly towards Atsumu. He's leaning in, elbow on the counter and head in his palm. He's smiling at her, like someone who finally understood a good job.
"Who?"Gin asks, already knowing what he means.
"You know. Your twin. Or should I say, our twin. The one we know." He explains.
Words catch in her throat, she doesn't know what else to say to keep the game going. Atsumu chuckles.
"Come on. Me and 'Samu's played this game before. I know when a twin is trying be their other twin when it happens. You two are tryin' to prank us right?" Atsumu presses.
Well the gig is up. Gin sighs in defeat and rests her hands on the counter.
"I just wanted to test her boyfriend. See if he's worthy of my sister. We haven't spoken in forever and as soon as we moved away from our parent's home, she reached out to me first. She's so kind. All this time she never forgot about me. I want to make sure she's not with some jerk." She explains.
"I get it. Ha. Knew I was right. She's always so meek and shy. She sits in the back because she doesn't wanna distract Osamu. You're too outgoing to be her." Atsumu notes.
"I'll play along with your game for now." He adds.
"Thanks."
"But I ain't letting ya get any farther than hand holding and hugs got it?"
"I wasn't going to go any farther anyways."
Osamu returns from the kitchen with the salmon onigir and presents it in front of Gin with a heart around it. She smiles down at plate and then up at Osamu.
"Thanks 'Samu."
"Sure." He nods. There is still that quizzical expression on his face. He raises an eyebrow at his twin brother, but he only shrugs back in return.
"What did ya do today?" Osamu asks conversationally.
"I went out with an old friend of mine. We haven't each other in a while."
"Oh, cool. Which friend?"
"You wouldn't know her."
He does a double take of her and averts his gaze to lemonade processor. He fills up a lemonade cup and brings it for her.
"Did ya remember to pick up the groceries asked you to get fa' me this morning?" He asks.
Uh-oh. Something about that question sounds like a test. She glances at Atsumu who gives a subtle shake of his head.
"I.... think I forgot. I don't remember you telling me. I had plans already in my head this morning so it must have slipped my mind." She replies. He hums and turns away, busying himself with pulling the new mobile orders on his computer.
"Then, what was my volleyball number in high school?"
She blinks at him.
"Sorry?"
He repeats himself once more and this time side eyes her suspiciously as he does. He was onto her. She glances at Atsumu who lowers his hands to hide them under the counter.
"Don't help her Atsumu." Osamu orders.
She glances back up at him and makes a sad puppy face, hoping for some mercy.
"I-I don't remember Osamu."
"Really?"
He turns back around to them and approaches Gin, eyes squarely on her face.
"You know the second you came in I've been havin' a weird feelin' ya. You don't act right and you can't remember what my jersey number was. You would know that." He accuses.
Gin holds back the urge to smirk.
"I'm just tired today 'Samu--"
"I've figured it out. You're not my girl are ya?"
Her silence is enough for him.
"I remember she told me once in high school that she had a sister. She just never told me her sister was a twin sister. Am I right?"
"About time you figured it out." Atsumu hums.
"Shut up. Were you in on this 'Tsumu?"
"No. I just figured it out a little before you." He teases, sticking his tongue out in victory. Osamu sighs and stares pleasingly at Gin.
"Where's my girl?"
She ends up calling her and admitting that they passed her test. Seconds later she walks through the doors with an apologetic smile.
"I'm sorry Osamu." She apologizes. Osamu meets her half way and hugs her. He can't pin point why, but all of a sudden he really misses her.
"It's fine. I'll consider pay back for when me and Atsumu did it." He accepts.
He kisses her forehead and takes another good look at her.
"You're not a triplet are ya?"
She laughs shakes her head.
"Yeah? What's my--"
You're jersey number is 11. It was a black and golden uniform. You were an awesome wing spiker. You like pudding--"
He interrupts her with a kiss to her lips and turns her face beet red.
"'Samu! We're in public!" She complains.
"Sorry. Just wanted to make sure." He smiles.
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thebubblesareevil · 2 years
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This is a continuation of big brother Danny but I don’t know how to put a link on here so enjoy
But first I just wanted to say I was not expecting so many people to enjoy this and if anyone wants to write an actual fic for this I will love u forever but in the meantime enjoy my brain vomit
When Dick first approached the Fentons it was not long after the death of the Fenton parents and danny was not able to meet with him at first so he first introduced himself to his sister jazz. At first she was suspicious of this kid who wanted to meet with her brother but refused to say why and she knew for a fact he was not a friend because her socially awkward brother only has 2 friends. But while he waited for danny to come home from “visiting family” duck stayed in a hotel in amity with Bruce both of them thought the ghost theme around town was over done but that’s what tourist traps are like they definitely didn’t see any ghost durning their stay. When Danny finally arrived he looked like he went toe to toe with scarecrow he was pale and looked incredibly sick with a young girl trailing behind him. When they all sit down on the couch dick starts to explain who he is and who Bruce is and he tells danny that he his brother. Danny is shocked he knew he was adopted but had no idea that he had a brother. He brightens up significantly and comments that he is officially no longer the youngest sibling. Dick and Bruce can’t stay for much longer because Wayne enterprises can’t go with out its ceo for too long wink wink.
Once they are gone jazz immediately turns to make sure Danny is okay. He says he’s not sure and that after everything that happened with their parents he’s not sure what to think about this but that two things are certain that he wants to get to know his little brother and that until he shows that he can handle the truth dick cannot know about phantom. Jazz asks him what’s going on and how the ghost zone reacted to everything
Danny goes on to explain that based on what happened it is clear that the infinite realms have blessed his reign as king and he was coronated almost immediately after he was done healing in the far frozen and that he has officially named Elle his daughter but to the living she will still be his cousin.
Honestly jazz is trying to keep a level head while she looks at her little brother and her new niece/cousin and pushes down any doubt she has knowing that right now what her brother needs is support and not concern and she jokes how she has no idea how they managed to fit the crown on his big head while giving him a knuckle sandwich and Elle jumps on them both as they all laugh.
It isn’t until about a year later when Danny is graduating that he decides to move to Gotham to be closer to his brother they had been in contact since their first meeting and while he has managed to broker peace with the other ghosts his protective obsession goes crazy every time dick tells him about a villain attack so he decides to apply to Gotham university so at the very least he is able to see that his brother is safe at the end of the day even if he is constantly getting into fights. His friend Wally eats like crazy which is fine because it distracts dick from how much Danny doesn’t eat everything is going great for awhile. Danny is able to spend plenty of time with both his family and his kingdom due to portal time shenanigans and clockwork and it really helped when jazz took that job at Arkham everything is great…
Enjoy!! Might make more im welcome to suggestions
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ghostkinnie · 2 years
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#𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐈𝐓 𝐅𝐈𝐓 !! — SIZE KINK
Pairing: Sett, Darius, Shen, Aatrox and Thresh x reader
warnings → nsfw, size kink, daddy kink, breeding kink, praise kink, degradation kink
a/n: some nsfw from the big guys 🥴
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SETT
Sett is huge, even if you're tall, you can't compare to the wall of muscle he is. So it's obvious he has a size kink and you found that out when you went to bed for the first time.
He tried to be as gentle as possible so as not to hurt you, entering you slowly but it didn't take long for him to lose control when he saw his cock being crushed by your small hole. This man moaned like a beast when he saw your belly rise with the size of his dick. He went insane.
"Fuck doll! You're so small, I'll break you like this"
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DARIUS
It may not seem like it but Darius is a gentleman, he loves to treat you like porcelain in bed and honestly what attracts him the most is how small you are in his arms.
You don't have to try hard because he will do everything. He loves having those big, callused hands by your breasts, sinking those wide fingers into your mouth and making you gasp. But if there's something that makes him going crazy is when he's fucking you and you're begging for his big dick.
"Do you want me to come inside you, baby? I know you want daddy to fill you."
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SHEN
This man loves her small mouth and the way she fits his dick so well. He goes crazy when he sees tears in your eyes as you try to swallow his size with your throat tight, he can spend hours watching this scene.
"Come on, little one, you're perfect like that."
He whispers as he takes your hair in his fingers and makes you hold all his cock in your mouth, moaning at the contact.
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THRESH
Thresh is a sadistic bitch, so it's no surprise that he loves to see you squirming to support his size. He licks his lips and smiles wickedly when you scream with pleasure at being fucked by him.
"So small but so naughty, bunny."
He teases you as he holds your small waist in his hands and sinks deep inside you making you roll your eyes and scream with pleasure. He wants to destroy your cunt.
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AATROX
I hope you don't want to walk in your life anymore because this man has no pity. He'll fuck you like you're a doll and he'll love how you squirm. Aatrox is giant and his dick is as big as he is, so no matter how much you guys have done it you will never will be used to its size.
He will literally destroy you, leave you shaking and sobbing for him, a real mess.
"That's right, cry like a bitch over my dick that's what you're for."
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gin-juice-tonic · 1 year
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Hey Gin this might be a silly thing to ask, but how did you realize you were trans? Cause ever since I saw your trans Stan and Ford I think I had some sort of relivation, it started with just really enjoying the art you drew to me feeling some sort of envy. Either that I want to dress more masculine or that I actually want to be a man, cause honestly when I look at your trans stans I just feel so much gender envy (jealousy?) And on my last period I had a whole crying fit over it starting, which has never happened before. I just don't know if this is actually what I'm feeling or if it isn't. I've had thoughts of telling my mom and fearing the consequence. This is just all so new and I'm honestly scared. I figured I'd ask you since I look up to you and from what I've seen you are quite wise. I don't really know why I have so much self doubt and constantly flip flop over things. It's frustrating, I just wish I could be certain about something for once. Sorry about this, I'm a mess really.
It’s not silly to ask. My answer is unfortunately a little silly, because I’m a goober. I also typed A LOT so its all going under a read more
So, I was 16 and on tumblr even more than I am now, and I was (still am) friends with a trans woman who reblogged a post that was like “Just trans girl things: eating dark chocolate because it has substances similar to estrogen” and I went “Haha i guess I should stop eating it.” followed by “…why do I feel that way” and THAT was followed by quite the crisis.
Trans men weren’t as well known about back then, so I was like “Well, it means nothing, since only women can be trans”. And then I found out men could be trans too and that pushed my crisis further along. And I started to think. About how I liked when people defaulted to male pronouns for me on the internet, or how when i was a kid I would use a crazy amount of shampoo to make my hair look short and flatten my chest in front of the mirror and look at it. Things like that. And I got upset because “no i can’t be trans that’s impossible”. I would google things like “how do you know if you’re trans”, “quiz to see if you’re trans”, ect.
But the idea of being seen as a man was exciting. It was tantalizingly exciting. And I knew it could be possibility for me someday, and I knew that made a part of me happy and I couldn’t un-know it.
Final straw was a nonbinary person I had been following made a post about how they were going to start taking testosterone. And instead of feeling happy for them I just got mad and started sobbing to myself. Because I was so extremely jealous. So jealousy absolutely has its place in figuring things out.
You should think. Think about attaining the things you’re envious about. Does this make you happy? It’s okay if it’s upsetting or scary at the same time. Change often is. But if it makes you happy, excites you, gives you hope for the future, it’s worth thinking more about.
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You don’t have to jump into telling your mom right away (and I wouldn’t really recommend it till you’re a little more sure of yourself). You can go at whatever pace you want to. I didn’t tell my mom (or anyone in my real life at all) till I was like, 20. And I’d known for 4 years at that point. You’ve sent me a tumblr message, so I’m assuming you’ve got an account here. I’d say asking your friends on this website to address you as male would be a good way to ease into things. And you can see if you like that or not.
For how you dress, again, you can ease into it. Personally it made me happy to dress in athletic clothing (especially tank tops- to show off my non existent guns), or to dress like a greaser (Though I preferred a black t shirt to a white one), or a golfer. None of those things particularly scream ‘man’ but they were man enough to me. You can find things man enough for you. If you want to try out a binder and think you can get one without anyone noticing, my first ever one was a Tri-top from Underworks. They’re like $30 or so. I was able to get away with buying it because I was a cosplay nerd so I just said it was for that.
If you’re the type of person who owns makeup- you could try to find some time alone just to have an experiment of mimicking drag king makeup, or makeup for cosplayers doing male characters. I did that once early on, and while it looked admittedly goofy, it made me ecstatic at the time.
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Er sorry for things getting so long. But I just want to say lastly that self doubt is both normal and okay. And thinking far in the future (ie- things like coming out to people or hormones or anything like that) might scare you. But you can take things one step at a time if you want to. Play with just looking at clothes, making outfits on pinterest or whatever, imagining scenarios where people address you as male, thinking of names you might like. See what makes you happy, and expand on the things that do from there.
And regardless of what you discover, in the end you will have learned more about yourself. And that's always a good thing.
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Jungkook x cute pothead/Dealer F. reader
-> smut
-> Age gap,, Huge mention of weed, unprotected sex, [don't do it unless you want to have a child and die.] Cussing, teasing, just sex tbh, domish jk??-
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Jungkook visited your apartment you shared with your friends, you had something you can provide him with. And that thing is weed. Jungkook is 7 years older than you, you're 18 and he's 25. He met you when you were 15 and you were selling weed to him. Jungkook was a casual smoker, he did it for fun. While on the other hand you were a straight addict but for some reason it was hot. Jungkook knew he shouldn't find his crazy teen plug hot but you were.
Jungkook knocks at your door to be greeted by sana, who was the girlfriend of Yoongi who happens to be Jungkooks childhood best friend. She smiles as she pulls jungkook in for a huge, he's like her little brother.
"You looking for __?" Jungkook shyly smiles as he nods his head, he's not a big fan of talking.
" __ JUNGKOOK IS HERE SO GET YOUR ASS DOWN AND GET YOUR BAG, YOU STILL NEED TO PAY THE ELECTRICITY BILL IT'S YOUR TURN THIS MONTH." sana yells, of course she loves being loud and silly.
You come down quickly, in baggy black pajama pants, your short wavyish curly black hair nappy and crazy, your baggy black shirt with some kind of devil ritual lettering and your all black socks with your silly sheep plushie slippers. Jungkook notices your fit and smiles immediately. Of course you're just waking up looking like a cute hobo as if it's not 3:42 pm in the afternoon.
You look up at him, your sleepy face with tiny dark circles under your cute doe eyes. Your face lights up and bit but he can tell you wanna be in your bed slumped right now.
"Hey bro, before you say anything I got your shit ready don't worry. Also you get a little extras for the Halloween special" you smile as you say that. And FUCK jungkook loves the smiley piercing that shows whenever you smile. He's so whipped.
"Yeah thanks __, I appreciate it, also is it fine if I kick it here for a couple hours?" his cheeks blush up a bit, odd..
"Yeah of course fuzzy make yourself at home. Ima get your shit and be right down and get something to eat I'm still high as shit and got the munchies" you smile again and the same smiley piercing welcomes Jungkook even more. The little nickname "fuzzy" you gave him since you were 15 made his heart flutter. You were always a wonderful person to be around especially when he's feeling down.
Jungkook sits down on your couch, the couch where you and him smoked at least 400 blunts over the past year since you moved in, the same couch you told Jungkook you were bisexual, the same couch were you and your ex girlfriend broke up, the same couch you smoked so much you started spitting out all this gross liquid, the same couch were Jungkook realized how much you meant to him. It was just THAT couch.
Jungkook gets comfortable on the couch and it doesn't take you that long to come back with a bag full of goodies.
"Alright here's your stuff, the Halloween bag has a wax pen, 2 blunts and candy" you say while stuffing left over pizza from the crazy night you had last night down your throat, gulping down sprite you just randomly found on the little night stand next to the couch. You then let out a burp, you honestly didn't care who was around if you had to burp you're going to fucking burp. And Jungkook loves that about you. He loves that you just don't care about little things like that. He loves that you're real and don't try to sugarcoat anything and try to get validation from everyone else.
"Guys I'm going out with Yoongi, Soobin is at his mothers house and Chaeyoung and Taehyung went to this thingy since their twins and get to get free stuff if you bring your twin or whatever, so its just going to be you too" sana says as she waves her goodbyes, you guys wave back and nod your heads in confirmation that you got it.
"Wait Jungkook I'm going to go get something in my room I'll be right back" you say and get up to dash to your room, jungkook just nods. It's been a while and you're not back from your room yet, Jungkook gets up to head to your room, he's halfway there and can hear faint screaming. He automatically opens the door to your room, His eyes widen as he sees what's in front of him.
He walked into you changing. You're in nothing but a pair of boxers and a bra. Your tits looks so good, so big. Your ass is begging to be freed from those boxers. Jungkook can feel his cock stiffening in his sweatpants. His eyes meet yours. Your eyes widen a bit by not as much as his are.
"So are you just going to stand there and watch me change or.." you shy away, you look at Jungkook with the cutest eyes. Your eyes trail down his body and you notice the huge bulge in his sweatpants. You're so glad you're not the only one who's experiencing sexual tension.
"__ I uhm I-" he doesn't know what to say, his body is in fire and doesn't even know what to think at this point
"Your dick is up" he looks at his dick the looks at you, he's humiliated that you saw it.
"I'm sorry this isn't me it's just, I'm sorry I'll go now" he says as he's about to leave your room.
"do you want to touch me Jungkook? If so you can." His eyes widen, he looks back at you. And holy hell you're already stripping out of your boxers. You pull down your boxers and all he can see is your squishy thighs and your legs clenched together, covering any sight of your womanhood.
"__, you're not thinking straight, I uhm I think I'm going to just.." he looks back at you, you gave him 'That.' Look. The look that confirms that you both just have to do what you guys have to do.
Jungkook and you end up on your bed, completely naked. Jungkook toys with your pussy gently, dirty talking a bit to get you extra wet for him.
"Fuck your little cunt is so wet and pretty baby" Jungkook licks your skit and rubs his finger on your clit gently, he knows you're a virgin and new to this so he'll treat you with care.
"Mmh, Jungkook just put it in please" high pitched little whimpers escape your mouth as he works on your clit and outside of your pussy, making sure you're nice and wet for him since he is about a good 8.5 inches.
Jungkook hums as he grabs his erected cock and slaps your cute wet cunt with his tip, making you both moan at the feeling. He slides his tip up and down your slit making you whimper, waiting for the right time to enter your virgin hole.
Your face twitches cutely and your body wiggles a bit when you feel the tip of Jungkooks cock enter you, Jungkook feels his cock twitch the second he enters you.
"Fuck baby your greedy chubby little cunt trying to suck me in full, you think you can handle huge cock just yet baby? No, not when this is your first time sweetheart." He groans as he continues to open you up a bit pushing at least half of his cock inside of you.
"You can m-move now kookie" a tear falls from your eyes as he snaps his hips forward, his cock reaching a little too deep for your comfort. He notices and fucks into you ever faster and harder making you scream out his name and tell him to slow down but he just does the opposite.
"Fucking hell __, your pussy is taking me so well baby" he lifts your legs up over his shoulder, your walls clench and you get wetter, his cock fills you up so good. A little too good. The stretch he was giving you and the way his cock started to hit the perfect spots. Feeling nothing but pleasure and no more pain in your lower region.
"F-fuck your dick is so good p-please don't stop kookie!" you feel like you're about to pee but in a pleasurable way. Waves of pleasure hit you when Jungkook reaches for your throat and squeezes it a bit, he notices how your pussy clenches around him and the gush if wetness that he felt in his cock while he was basically ramming into your pussy.
Jungkook doesn't stop moving his hips, the way he groans and moans out your name makes your pussy flutter. The way his hand has a hold of your neck and the way he's pinching and playing with your nipple here and there makes you come to a climax.
"Mm- Fuck! Kookie ima, ima cum" high pitches sounds come out of your mouth, Jungkook goes ever faster and smirks when you scream when he hits that certain spot in your pussy.
"F-fuck cum baby, cum on my cock like the good girl you are" his hands go down to your clit and rubs it to bring you closer to orgasm. As soon as he hears this hot sound come out of your mouth and feels your cunt tighten, you cum hard on his cock. The sight of you cumming so hard for him had him reaching his own orgasm, squirting his release all inside your sensitive cunt.
Heavy breathing was heard all around the room. It took a fat minute to realized you just had sex not just for the first time but with you long time crush Jeon Jungkook. And being honest you can't believe you let him dom you, you have to dom his ass back just to feel the girl queen pussy boss power.
"I can't believe we just had sex oh my God. And don't think you're getting any free weed or anything just cuz I let you hit mister" you say jokingly. You were about to crack another joke but you feel Jungkooks muscular heavy tatted arm wrap about your waist. He pushes you closer to him and gives you a sweet kiss. Your eyes widen but you give into the kiss within a couple of seconds. You can taste a bit of weed and sweet frosting while kissing him, it feels like heaven.
• Let's just say they end up dating and start making a lot of love•
(Sorry for the sudden rush at the end, its my first "long" smut I guess)
Thank you for reading!!
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l0v3lyr0ses · 1 year
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Frisk and Chara general dating hcs
THEY ARE AGED UP TO 17/18 BECAUSE I 43WEIJFWQ2WSXIJK ITS UNCOMFY WRITING CHILDREN IN ROMANTIC SCENARIOS
I love these two<333
god, i look up teen!frisk n nearly all of the artworks r female..
i keep having fnaf n undertale phases the game won't let me leave for good
I hope the fandom has called tf down, i hope my silly headcanon is not what i get cancelled for 💀(some of this may have typos it might be uneditef)
this is entirely gender-neutral both for frisk n chara and the reader! AND AGAIN THEY ARE BOTH AGED UP
characters: Teen!Frisk and teen!Chara
type: Fluff
Frisk
Frisk is a very outdoorsy person in general, so do expect outdoor dates. they can really be as little as a simple picnic in the woods to exploring the mountains
Frisk is very adventurous and would definitely invite you to do crazy outdoorsy shenanigans, like climbing up to the mountain, generally going places that could be dangerous to get to
Frisk does have their less extreme moments too, Frisk honestly feels like anywhere is an exciting adventure if you're by their side.
Frisk calls you every morning, evening, and night to check how your day has been even if it hasn't been exciting they still want to listen to you talk
Frisk likes cavetown and mother mother and y'all dance to that in his room.
on the first date, you went on a picnic just that sans and papyrus was chaperoning because Tori thought it was irresponsible to let two 15-year-olds go on a date unsupervised and she also thought sans andpapyrus was a good fit for the chaperone because she was going out herself
if you have classes together, Frisk will send notes your way during class to simply tell you that you look pretty/handsome or ask you to eat lunch with you.
Frisk loves holding your hand, anytime, anywhere.
often between classes frisk will give you a smooch
when you have your indoor dates with Frisk you dance and make out with Cavetown, the neighborhood, Mother Mother, or any musical in the background
Chara
- when your with someone, it's either you and Chara on a date or it's you, Chara, and Asriel hanging out
Chara is the kind of partner you cannot bring to your parents because he will say some disturbing facts at the dinner table
"The average person walks past 36 murderers in their lifetime"
Chara prefers simple dates, not that they wouldn't have dates outside just not to the extent that Frisk would
Chara is very protective and may or may not be plotting murders if it weren't for you intervening in their state of mind.
Chara listens to MCR, Fall Out Boy, Evanescence, and paramore while studying for tests with you.
hates it when your having a moment and Toriel/Frisk/Asriel walks in on you having that moment and it gets all awkward
Chara likes arguing with people even their own partner, Chara will find anything to argue with you about.
Chara is seeing a therapist, and sometimes talking to Toriel or you about things.
loves watching horror movies with you, Chara does need some sort of adrenaline high.
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Stardew Bachelor/Bachelorette Halloween Costumes!
In celebration of the start of spooky season, I compiled a list of what I think the Stardew bachelors and bachelorettes would wear for their trick or treating! I know they have Spirit's Eve, but I'm yet to see connections to that holiday and costume wearing (if someone does have anything do hit me up).

Bachelors:
Sam
He's either going as a video game character or something classic like a clown. Either way, he looks like he's just come back from a night of killing. Tons, and I mean TONS, of fake blood everywhere. It doesn't even look authentic at that point; it just looks like he's dipped himself in a bucket of red paint. He'd have to have a second costume for when Vincent is around, hence the video game character. He's a whole cupboard full of Prairie King merchandise and costumes.

Elliott
Some infamous historical figure/legend. Think Sweeney Todd. He's always dressed like he came straight from the Victorian era in London, so you best believe he's got some cool costumes he just wears on the regular. Also, the acting is dialed up to 100%. Some townies (mostly Alex) can't even understand what he's saying because he uses a combination of Shakespearian, cockney rhyming slang, and drunken slurs.

Sebastian
Vampire, skeleton, or both. Lots of effort was put into his, so it looks really good. It's mostly made of up cycled old costumes and random merchandise he has. He went to Emily for a lot of help with actually putting it together, and it paid off! He spends most of the night trying to sneak up on Sam and scare him (which he does well). Lots of fun Sebastian times and scared Sam times.

Harvey
His costume is pretty tame. Honestly, he's just a more stereotypical doctor. He's not all too creative with these things. But when the farmer comes along, he tries stepping it up with a pilot outfit! A more historical one, of course. He does not have the money to go out and buy a whole suit for these modern uniforms. Some of the stuff is a bit old, seeing as it was mostly outfits from many years ago, but he still looks cute.

Shane
If it weren't for Jas, he's going as a bedsheet ghost. Not even holes cut out for the eyes, just crudely scribbled on magic marker ink. But Jas wants to be a princess, so he's going to be her knight in shining cardboard armor. Jas and Emily spent hours making it, and for what it's worth with its mounds of silver glitter, it looks pretty good! Shane swapped out his sword for a glorified pool noodle and is hitting whoever annoys him under the excuse 'it fits his character.'

Alex
Gridball player, but zombie. Halfway through makeup with Haley she realised he was using actual paint, not face paint. Cue them both panicking and rushing to get it off his face. A little bit of paint got on her floor and now he's doing all her chores for a week. But for the costume, he took great care not to get paint on his helmet. If he could, he'd wait days until he's certain the paint has dried and most 'damage' it. He's having the time of his life in it, living out his literally dead dream (being a zombie and all).'

Bachelorettes:
Penny
Queen of the Junimos! It's got a very floral design and is pretty light. Bell-shaped skirt and sleeveless top. Lots of green, but also little bits of oranges and yellows to fit the season she'll be wearing it. Haley went crazy when she asked for help with her makeup and spent hours and hours making sure it looked perfect. She looks like she came straight out of a fairy tale.

Leah
Some sort of mythological forest being. Probably some sort of tree person. Either her outfit is lowkey high-key very revealing, or a straight up tree with a hole for her head. That, or something very weird and mixed media. She's trying to get the feel of a personification of her sculptures.

Abigail
Dead Red Riding Hood. Blood everywhere. It looks like someone murdered her violently in her sleep. She also has one of those fake knives that can retract into itself to make it look like she stabbed someone. That, or Sebastian hid some packets of fake blood in his jacket and Abi comes swinging at it with her sword. They both got in massive trouble and nearly killed Harvey, but it was worth it.

Maru
Alien! But hers is actually based off what aliens would look like under different planets with different environments. Each year is something new, and every time she looks amazing. She's even wired some electricity in some of them to make flashing lights or to equip a voice box inside. It's super stuffy though, so she's taking it off after a few hours for a break.

Emily
Her outfit is less of a costume more of her having fun making the most extreme clothing possible. Two-and-a-half rainbows of colours only visible to shrimp. She is the easiest to spot by far, having giant accessories. Each costume is based off a different animal, but her favourite is birds because she gets to use a ton of feathers.

Haley
A ghost! She's dressed in her best clothing; all white and grey. Her makeup took the whole day to do, and it paid off! She is by far the most beautiful townie and looks absolutely ethereal. She and Emily also came up with a fun backstory for her new ghost self, and when drunk Elliott hears it, he loses it entirely (in a good way). Little bits of glitter everywhere so she shines in the moonlight.
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under the cut: undersiders as what plant i think they would main/be in pvz garden warfare 1 (+ dressup)
disclaimer i've literally never touched gw2 so if there's a better fit in that game i wouldn't know it.. just gw1 for now..
Decisions are made based more on gameplay than on physical appearance but I tried to take both into account.. however as a sunflower main maybe I'm biased on some account so fellow garden warfare heads feel free to suggest better fits for them
Reading over all these I'm now realizing I kept mixing up what I think they would main vs what plant they would specifically be, which is a little confusing...
TAYLOR
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A Peashooter variant feels a very obvious choice for her, since she's pretty much always on the frontlines. Its hyper ability would allow her to jump to higher up places to retain the "watching from afar with bugs" thing
I chose Law Pea more for the justice bit in its stickerbook description (where there is injustice you will find it etc etc) and less for the law bit (though she does have a code of law it's incomprehensible to anyone but herself). It felt more fitting for her because well she does try to work for what she feels is the greater good.
For dressup we're pretty limited here, both because there's not many bug themed accessories and also because I just don't have that many accessories :( I gave her the "heart and arrow + Mom" tattoo, and the visors. Fuuuck now i'm realizing i could have given her actual glasses... Wait no nevermind I'm not sure I have plain glasses. Well anyway those are her glasses.
LISA
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She mains boss mode which I feel doesn't require very much explanation
For those unfamiliar: In boss mode you play as Crazy Dave (or Dr. Zomboss), generally out of the heat of the battle but still able to participate with your various abilities. It's mostly a support role, but you can still attack (cherry bomb drops), heal and revive (sunflower + revive drops), and help your team track the locations of the enemy (coconut spotting machine). You aren't invulnerable as the opposing team can shoot down your ship.
For dressup purposes she's the Shadow Flower because of the mask :3 I gave her a razor grin and some purple crystals. Adding a hat felt like too much but maybe I would have gone with the chaffeur hat.
I'm now realizing Shadow Flower would just be a good plant choice for her in general.
Sunflower life bonds are normally reserved for other sunflowers but she can have one with Taylor I think. Well ok not a true life bond because that requires the ability for mutual healing but it's more accurate this way because honestly chasing down someone across the entire map who will easily die if you aren't constantly healing them is just kind of the sunflower experience
BRIAN
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Again, peashooter feels like a given, though unfortunately there's no equivalent ability for his darkness emission...
Plasma Pea because the colors are closest to black out of the peashooters. The Plasma Pea can charge up shots to increase their damage and radius of impact.
I didn't have any skull-based accessories so I just went with what felt cool and what he might use in an actual game of GW1... so basically just the intimidation factor
While we're here though if I was doing zombies he'd 100% be some sort of Foot Soldier. The Zombie Stink Cloud is 1:1 for his darkness ability. I guess since Peashooter and Foot Soldier are kind of parallels in terms of game play this works out well. (Seriously though every Peashooter main I know also mains Foot Soldier. Please I know you are good at video games just stop sniping me from across the map for 10 seconds 😭)
RACHEL
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A chomper is a kind of dogy to be honest <---my logic when I was 10
Went back and forth between normal Chomper, Count Chompula, and Fire Chomper. Settled on fire chomper because I was thinking of that scene where she talks about her power burning away heartworm in her dogs, and also because orange. However I think normal Chomper would fit her just as well.
For dressup I was going more for what I envisioned her dogs looking like while reading worm. Additional chompers are there to represent her many doggies. Tentacle is there to be scary and monster esque. Metal brace jaw is there because honestly I think it looks really cool, plus I already had it equipped anyway
AISHA
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Originally I was going to go with Chomper because ourple, and I still think it would fit her. However Future Cactus is also ourple. And also I think Future Cactus is so cool
My reasoning was that her stealth would translate well into cacti gameplay since with cacti you mostly need to just find a really good vantage point where no one else can see you, allowing you to snipe people well. But I'm now realizing the Future Cactus is like... a lot more visible bc of its chargeup. Oh well
Aw wait I just realized she matches with her brother cause they both have chargeups.. thats adorable i think
Dressup gives her silly googly eyes ("zombie disguise) and purple markings (they're hard to see but they're there
ALEC
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I'm now realizing that in terms of gameplay probably one of the peashooters would have fit him better because well he does play shooter games. And peashooters are The main plant for guys who are so good at shooter games. But we have too many peashooters on this team so Sunflower it is
Originally was going with the Alien Flower because I thought its ornateness might fit him. But I don't have Alien Flower and it's more Aisha styled anyway (ourple and silly) so he gets the Power Flower.
Hey wait I used to main this thing too. Yay <---switched to Fire Flower though. But yeah as a sunflower I don't generally go out into the thick of things unless I have like 3 other guys with me, I mostly just stay behind at the garden and heal whoever needs it (garden ops or gardens and graveyards)
Honestly now I'm thinking I mostly chose this one for the appearance rather than gameplay. Actually wait the electricity theme fits with his tazer. Nevermind!!
The panda face tattoo is there because I thought it looked like his mask. Hat and masquerade mask are there because they're fancy.
Sunflower life bond with Aisha future cactus btw.
Anyway that's my list. If and when in the near future I get better accessories I will do more dressup and also maybe deduce what zombies they main
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ncityavenue · 1 year
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》warnings: smut,some plot mostly sex, anal play,jaehyun being an ass man,and spitting
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"So what do you think?"
You twirled around in the mini skirt that you recently bought when you went shopping with your husband, Jaehyun, you were trying on your clothes and had him rate them well more like check you out.
"That's really nice on you, fits you nice..real nice." Jaehyun trails off, you grinned at him knowing he wasn't really paying attention to the piece of fabric on your body but he was paying attention to the way it fitted you.
"The back is a little risky tho, I might needa wear like tights with this." You suggested, jaehyun spun his index finger in a circle motioning you to turn around.
You did exactly that, "GAH-DAMN!" was all you heard from him you chuckled at the animated expression he had on his face.
"See look I can't even bend all the way, my goods will be on full display." You proceeded to bend over to show him but honestly you were teasing him.
"They sure would..." Jaehyun wasn't even a bit ashamed at him full on eye fucking your ass, he reached an inch to give your ass a smack which made you yelp and giggle.
"I see Mr.Jung is a fan of this skirt huh?" You raised an eyebrow as you climbed on top of him grabbing him by the collar so his face could be barely an inch away from yours, he only bask in the smell of your sweet perfume and the fake innocent look on your face. His face scrunched into a cheek smile revealing his dimples.
"More than a fan honestly." Jaehyun scanned your body for the umpteenth time, a few innocent smooches turned into a make-up session as both of your tongues clashed into each other.
Your hands tangled into jaehyuns hair, you started grinding on his crotch making him lightly grunt into the kiss that forced you to smile. His hand traveled to your ass as he groped it like he owned it,which he did, his lips started sneaking its way to your neck leaving mini love bites.
"Oh shit jae..." You breathed out, jaehyun continued to nit pick at your skin but he eased his way down to your belly smooching the curves and dips in them.
He already had a handful of your ass in his hand so he decided to sneak his finger in between your legs and placed generous circles around your asshole, you sighed in pleasure in this position all you could do is grip at his shoulders and kiss his plush lips.
"Can I?" Jaehyun swiftly asked as he still nipped at your belly, all you did was nodded and all you felt was his slender finger enter your anus. You moan grabbing his hair tighter, he went dangerously slow knowing you guys don't do anal much but today,oh today he felt like it was just right. The way your butt poked out in the skirt drove Jaehyun insane, what drove him even more crazy was how you still had this same affect like the first time even after 3 years of being married and 6 years of being together.
He needed to fill you now but he had remembered how you thought rushing in romance was distasteful and unsatisfying, "get up." He simply said, you obliged as he damn near ripped your panties off your body with how fast he pulled them down.
"I want you to sit on my face and have that pretty big ass on my face" Jaehyun ordered as he began to lay down on the bed, he beckoned you with his hand and happily crawled up on top of him settling your lower half on his face.
His nose grazed your anal entrance which made you jump a bit from the sensitivity, he latched his lips onto your pussy as he started sucking on the bud.
His hands were obviously busy groping and smacking your ass, you realized jaehyun was fully clothed but you could see his dickprint so you took matters into your own hands and pulled his Grey sweatpants down revealing his erection you held his cock in your hand before pumping him at a steady pace.
You tried to keep a frequent pace but jaehyun tongue skills working wonders on your clit kept you from doing that, Jaehyun's mouth was messy, including your juices and his spit. He shook his head in a swift manner which sent shockwaves through your body.
"Oh fuck jae, please–"
"Please what? Tell me what you want." You grabbed his hand and guided them to your asshole, "fuck my asshole please." You whined. He had a grin across his face but did as instructed.
He fucked it,the way you asked, with quick momentum while he ate you out you felt like a double stuffed oreo with your pussy getting annihilated by husband's tongue and his mischievous fingers inside your ass.
His tongue soon matched with the quickness of his fingers , you couldn't really focus on just hand jobbing so you began to bend down and latched your mouth onto his dick.
You bobbed your head up and down, also matching jaehyuns speed well as best you could. His tongue was fully inside of you hitting your g spot ever so generously, your muffled moan sent a vibration through his cock which made him groan causing the same thing for you.
He momentarily suck his fingers that were once inside your ass now shoved in your pussy, he spat on your asshole as now he was sucking your anus.
This sorta behavior must've been pent up over the day of shopping with him, because you didn't just forget the looks he stole of you—those exact mischievous yet seductive looks.
You also continued to jack him off, now you could focus on him the way you wanted to. You helped the hand job by dragging your tongue by the sides and occasionally sucking.
You took your mouth clean off his cock leaving a popping sound once your lips left his tip, his fingers going in and out of you rapidly made a louder squelched sound. You got more wet meaning you were close to your high.
"C'mon baby–fuck–cum for me" Jaehyun breathed out, you didn't need much convincing after all you were getting double penetrated.
You came on his fingers leaving a mini white ring around his fingers, he sucked his fingers dry but continued to lick your ass and give your cheeks little hickeys.
You could now focus on jaehyun the way you wanted to in the first place, you helped the hand job you were giving him by dragging your tongue across his dick and occasionally sucking.
He hissed at the action, he slapped your ass earning a yelp from you. "Baby don't get so bold now."
"I don't know what you're talking about." You lightly smirked before taking him back in your mouth, sucking him faster and relentlessly you moaned a bit from how well he fitted in your mouth.
His breath hitch and his grunts became more prominent you knew he was close so you started stroking him swiftly additionally you bobbed your head.
"Oh fuck! Stay right there." Jaehyun instructed, you paused your previous actions and he started thrusting his hips forward aggressively.
Then you felt a warm liquid fill your mouth all you heard was his pretty moans fill the room, his hips dropped and you slowly took your mouth from around him.
You laid directly next to him resting a leg on his abdomen," I don't think I'm returning this skirt."
"Never. By the way it looks really pretty on you." Jaehyun muttered, you could tell he was getting post orgasm sleepy.
You pat his peck,"I think you showed me enough already."
Jaehyun smiled one last time before dozing off and you followed suite.
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marshallpupfan · 6 months
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You have a massive taste for Marshall Merch, so well: What, in your opinion is the most high quality items you've came across, Plushes, Toys, etc.
A part of me feels like the plush dolls are a bit hard to judge, since their quality can be all over the place. One day, you'll find a doll that looks surprisingly good, and then the next, Marshall looks like one of those knock-off characters sold at a dollar store. Still, I was able to pick out a few that I think represent some high quality, such as...
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...the Build-a-Bear plush, which I think is still one of the finer plush dolls in my collection to this day. It's such a shame they don't sell these in the BAB stores anymore (last I heard, anyway).
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And this plush doll from "GUND". Honestly, they often release high quality products, so I'm not surprised I'm finding myself including their name here. This one in-particular has always stood out to me.
Moving away from plush dolls, I wanted to find some items that I felt here high quality in the sense that A) they represent or look like the character quite well, B) are painted or manufactured carefully, and C) are actually sturdy or seem like they'll last.
This, sadly, leaves out some of the items I purchased recently. For example, that cup topper I got from the AMC Theater; it's nice, but Marshall's outfit on it is all red, despite his actual outfit having more color than that (such as the black on his hind legs). While it's a cool item and I'm happy to have it, that seemed like such a shoulder shrug to the manufacturers, thus I wouldn't deem it "high quality".
In any case...
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One such item that fits this criteria, imo, is this item. It looks surprisingly great, the character looks quite accurate, and it doesn't feel cheap... and it's just a shampoo bottle! Crazy to think a company put this much effort into something that might get thrown away once its empty. This one was never sold in the United States, so I had to import it from the United Kingdom.
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I also feel this bank fits my criteria, too. Funnily enough, this was also imported from the United Kingdom. I'd joke and say all of their products must be high quality, but I also imported a battery-powered bubble blower from them, and that thing feels so cheap and brittle, just staring at it might cause it to break. lol
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The Christmas ornaments... er... hang on. That's not a great pic, huh? My phone can be so inconsistent. Sometimes it looks good, sometimes not. The flash can help, but not always. My TracFone camera is something that's NOT high quality. lol
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Okay, now that I've returned with my mother's camera (after scrounging around for four AA batteries to power the thing)...
The Christmas ornaments can often look weird, hastily painted, and have eyes that appear so... off. But then you'll find ones like this that are surprisingly good. It really stands out, imo. However...
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THIS is easily the best of the bunch. It's made by Hallmark, and the detail is surprisingly so good! My only gripe is the crease around his mouth, but even the Chase ornament (released a year prior) did the same thing, too. Guess it's unavoidable, since they didn't even skimp on giving the inside of his mouth some detail, too. I have to wonder if we'll ever see another Marshall ornament of this quality again? I hope we do... and I'll collect it, of course. :)
(The flash kept making the pic too dark, so this is the best I could do.)
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This item also counts. It looks better than most of the figurines I've collected, and to think, it's just a simple flashlight. I guess it helps that the designs of the pups are quite simple, thus some products can get their likeness down pat so well... which makes it confusing when other manufacturers gets them so wrong. lol
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This snow glove is also really, really good. The pups are a little expressionless, but other than that, it just looks great. I feel like plenty of care went into this one... which is probably why they sold out so quickly when I went looking for one. lol
I could probably find some more items, but I think this will do it for now. However, before closing this out, I would like to state one thing; just because I don't find every item in my collection to be of high quality, that doesn't mean I dislike them or something. Sure, that AMC topper I mentioned earlier might be missing some color and detail I was hoping to see, but I'm not disappointed in it at all. I was still really happy to get one! In fact, outside of a very few items, I've loved collecting everything you see in my collection thus far! Hey, something doesn't have to be perfect to be good. :)
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i-bring-crack · 5 months
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Ashborn in ashes' dynamic to me gives off the vibes of a stray cat. Y'know, he just shows up around Antares whenever he feels like, being all "I'm in the mood for you to love me", letting Antares take care of him and "hissing" at everyone stepping too close in. He hangs out with him for awhile, only to dissappear just as suddenly and return a good time later. And the same goes on and on and on, and Antares... has nothing but to accept it all the way it's given
.its— he is the most cutest stray cat or so Antares thinks 🥺.
Incoming crazy rant below
But yeah he does give off that vibe of always trying to be alone and only showing up whenwver he feels like it, but I do pose it as a little more complex than that. Cuz when he was a ruler I do think he was often used to being so charismatic, beloved by everyone, he was the leader type, the ideal type for a warrior and a king, it's probably why never cared as much about AB's true intentions because to him AB had given him the best life (kinda like, why loose faith in your God when you already have the best and are the best?), and I mean he had to at least a little sociable if he had the strongest army out there (or was he just strong enough himself? Either way we do see even from bellion that he managed to gather himself a group of people who had at most some loyalty towards him).
But then AB dies, your family (?) Betrays and kills you, the only people you can rely are your worst enemies and even they come to betray you at some point. It's crazy, the only people you can trust are all shadows of their former selves that you decided to keep, like a corpse you can talk to but in the end it's not the real thing, and then the one person you love(going by the ashes shipping) could also try to betray you at any point if he wanted to so for Ashborn solitude really was the only thing he could ever have, what everyone backed him towards, from a high king to now someone that is seen as a prey in everyone's eyes.
With so much potential betrayal he would often try to keep his distance because it would keep hurting him in the end—in the LN we know he cares a lot about loyalty which is why even though he went against the architect to protect someone he cared about, he still felt ashamed about it. — so with Antares he would only try to be around him so as to make the others think he was still on the monarchs side, and the moment his emotions are to get the better of him he just flees, too afraid to think what could happen if he becomes loyal to a point of no return.
As for Antares, I think he does see that, and I have yet to grasp what a dragon like him would think. In canon he does only want destruction, as well as a mighty rival, and quite sadly Ashborn is a perfect fit for that. So even if he is still saddened by all the lonelyness he knows that it would be the best for them. And at the same time no matter whenever or not Ashborn is very affectionate with him or so little, he still ends up on the loosing side, either by having his wishing of destroying everything be fulfilled at the cost of his love or by having the love of his life with him forever at the cost of his own wishes to destroy everything..
(But damn, I would get it, he is just chaos incarnate and that's how AB constructed him yet we see he leads an army, he leads his own loyal people and the dragons, at least in slr, have their own culture, their own lives as well as the need to protect themselves and children. So even in both places it doesn't make sense why he wants to kill and destroy everything yet still let's the other monsters and even his own dragons live. Will he plan to kill them afterwards? And what will he gain? Yeah I know he is just pure evil and that jazz but I'm still curious about it, literally cuz the author did not care much about that villain background honestly. Still he is called a monarch instead of being a single entity of chaos, he's got something to lead right? So why does he do it? Just pure destruction again, kinda answering my own question here since it's as simple as that. God I love SLR again cuz at least we can get to learn more of him heck yeah. And if we go by that, (spoilers? Kinda? It's not much) them we do see he just wants to be strong, wants a strong rival and likely the only reason why he became a monarch was purely because he was always too greedy for power. Does it mean that his plan was or wasn't to become a king? Idk but he didn't care a single bit about it afterwards. Who or what became king and to him he didn't care even about his race at all or trying to keep the lineage alive, he is by far the most selfish one out there.
And that's cool fr cuz if putting the shipping lens in, it would mean that he would try so hard into getting all what he wants and yet no matter how hard he tries he has to loose something in the end.
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Just really needed to share it with someone, so my biggest apologies, if I am bothering you, but imagine a BSD au, where Ango is as unhinged and crazy as he was in real life... Asagiri made him boring there Like, too many people don't know what a walking disaster real author was and how it would fit PERFECTLY in the main series
Just a little list of things, that Ango Sakaguchi did:
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I would honestly pay to see the "fight" with Chuuya in the main story 😭
...yeah I really had no idea he was this buck wild irl akdjfksdjfk the curry??? also the mental image of Chuuya punching the air for a while instead of fighting him is priceless—THAT is a lot different from canon for sure(flashing back to Chuuya picking Ango up and throwing him in Dead Apple lol)
It would have been pretty wild if BSD Ango was more like this—though I can see why Asagiri went the way he did, comedy wise, since Ango kind of ended up playing the straight man for Oda and Dazai(the chaos if all three of them were unhinged would have been its own kind of glorious), but man "grand delinquent" Ango is so funny aksdfjksdjflskd
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