#why god created fix-it fanfiction

[a-strange-inkling]

If it were up to you ( one of the best hellcheer fanfiction writer) what would you fix or change about the fight of Icarus?

Aw shux, that’s high praise! I really don’t think I’m worthy of that, but thank you 🤍

Oh God… what a laundry list 😆 read at your own risk below (I think I’ve finally run out of things to say about this book and will be moving on now 😅)

I’m going to be honest, the best way fo fix it would be to not write a book. Point blank. If I was involved with the show at all I would have NEVER written a book about Eddie in any official capacity. I don’t know if the author was aware of just how unhinged certain parts of his fanbase are (I’m sure she is now) but you’re not going to make anyone happy with this. Eddie’s ridiculously popular yes, I get it, but part of his appeal for people was how untouched his background was.

Flight of Icarus is kind of a mess plot wise with pretty weak/poor characterizations. There’s some good elements and scenes in it. It’s not bad, but it’s not great either. It’s pretty mid. I mean books based on tv shows aren’t exactly known for their… luster. It’s obviously going to lack the passion of an unpaid fanfic writer who has spent endless hours watching season 4 and doing in-depth research and analysis for their work… but that’s what we’re all used to. That’s our standard. So it’s kind of already set up for failure.

But, if I was in charge of a book like this, here’s some of the things I would do differently:

I’d have picked ONE main plot to focus on because there is way too much going on in these 280 pages for me to have the time to be invested or care about anything. There’s like three plus storylines going on with Eddie all to push ONE narrative which is basically him choosing between risking everything for a fantasy/dream of fame and money or staying true to himself and what’s real which is the steadfast loyalty of his friends and family. This takes the form of Al vs Wayne, Paige vs Ronnie, LA vs Hawkins, solo career vs band/hellfire, dropping out to try to become a rockstar vs being the first Munson to graduate, who Eddie wants to be vs who he truly is deep down.

It’s just too much.

I’d have taken a little more time making Eddie three dimensional. I know he’s a side character, but a lot of heart and thought went into creating him (at least on Joe’s end). I’d have made more conscious choices for his character, especially if he’s narrating in first person (I would have not used first person). His outer dialog is great (the dialog throughout the whole thing is actually really great, you can tell the author’s a screen writer and it’s one of the stronger elements to the book) but his inner monologue is pretty ooc and at times really off. He lacks a lot of the things that drew people to him in the first place or it’s just not as strongly presented I guess. He doesn’t feel fully formed.

If I was going to give Eddie a love interest (I don’t know why you would do that to yourself at this point, his fanbase is volatile at best and either ships him with Steve, Chrissy, or themselves, no one is going to like it) I’d have given her WAY better writing than an immersive wattpad character with little to no character traits outside of her aesthetic and interests which is an alternative style and liking music. Wow. Groundbreaking. I would have her make decisions based on a fully formed personality verses the convenience of the plot. And if not, if she’s going to be a means to an end, I’d at least go all in and make her wild or evil or a total bitch or conniving or funny or grumpy or goofy or something. She’s not given enough focus or time to be well rounded so I’d just have fun and go batshit crazy with her (don’t worry Paige, you’re mine now and I will give you an actual character and vindication).

Eddie choosing between his dad and Wayne would have probably been the plot I picked to focus on and I would have really dived into that. The good, bad and the ugly of the Munson family. Because Al (that would not be his name btw 🤢) and Wayne reflect the two sides of Eddie’s character. A charming, self serving, cowardly asshole and a good, strong and kind person who protects and looks after others. I like Ronnie a lot and she’s probably the best written character in the book, but Wayne needed to have more spotlight for this.

I’d have definitely made the plot a lot less fantastical and way more of a simple character study. Just Eddie deciding between embracing the infamy of the Munson family or choosing to rise above it. Does he decide to scheme and cheat like his dad to get more out of life or does he do the right thing and stay the course to actually graduate and make something of himself. That’s it. All that’s needed. Eddie getting a shot at being a rockstar at eighteen in Hawkins is already kind of odd, especially when his in is a twenty year old “junior scout”??? Who just happens to be at his dive bar and have the hots for him and fucks him and pretty much offers him a life in LA on a silver platter with no issues other than having to bail on his band and high school club?? It’s… a bit much for our unlucky loser boy we see in the show. Book Eddie is as lucky as they come, but he’s a total dumbass and decides to trust and scheme with his deadbeat father??? Who has always failed him? Why? I get he needs money but his kinda girlfriend’s got a job and he’s pretty much got a record deal. What even is this? That whole storyline would be scrapped to hell. But hey, at least it’s more believable than an actual drug heist and a kingpin and a shoot out. Oh and arson. It’s giving… *shivers* Riverdale and not in a good way.

Lastly, I’d have taken the opportunity to develop characters from the show a little more. Not a ton, but like the author did with Higgins. I really like how he was written in the novel. He had a lot of fire and personality out of nowhere which was kind of hilarious. I probably would have expanded Jason the most actually, I’d have added more to that tense rivalry. And I’d have left Chrissy pretty much out of it. The talent show is best left to the imagination and we already have a delicate narrative between them because of the forest scene. I wouldn’t want to add too much there. But she’d have a cameo for sure. Like brief eye contact or a shared smile or something at the very end of the book. Just a little glimmer of what’s to come. I’m also a Eddie has always had a little bit of a thing for Chrissy truther, so in my bias I might have him quietly admire her from afar or something.

And there you go.

I mean you’re going to get my version of his backstory eventually anyway and bonus he and Chrissy live, get married and have kids. Yay!

#flight of icarus #hellcheer #eddie x chrissy #eddissy #munningham #chrissy x eddie #eddie munson #eddie book

[garden-bug]

Star Wars is a mess guys

Why did Ahsoka feel like a fanfiction?

Also that might have been Grand Admiral Thrawn but it was NOT Mitth’raw’nuruodo. Thrawn is such a fascinating character and this show barely scratched the surface. It didn’t go into his motivation, his people, his background, his friends. It didn’t show why he’s so terrifying because of the loyalty he inspires BECAUSE he of his nature as an anti-villain. It felt cheap.

And where was Luke? This is the problem with it being live action. They can’t tell the story they need to tell simply because of the restrictions placed on them by their chosen medium. The scenes would have been more impactful as animation as well - it would’ve felt more familiar.

I was picturing Ezra’s face at the end, over the actor’s expression.

I think that says it all honestly.

I’m not denying that casting was brilliant and the actors were amazing. But that doesn’t mean this story as a live action will work.

It should’ve been animated or a book.

I’m glad I wrote my own version of Ahsoka and The Mandalorian S3. This just isn’t canon to me.

I don’t think Star Wars works anymore. The franchise is doomed if they continue trying to tell a story that they simply don’t have the parts or skill to tell.

It feels like Filoni is just doing stuff he thinks is cool like he’s writing a self-indulgent fanfiction. Except he’s banned from using certain characters, gay people aren’t allowed either (Star Wars is so, so hindered, limited and held back by how mainstream it is and how much Disney doesn’t want to dip their toe into ‘politics’ but that’s a whole other topic), and he can’t create anything too new or original or Disney gets scared (and so do the fans which is probably part of the problem as well).

God, Star Wars right now is like chewing steak for too long. It’s so dry.

Feel free to comment some links to fix-it or alternate versions of Ahsoka fanfics. I love stuff like that. This is mine:

#Ahsoka #Star Wars #the mandalorian #thrawn #fanficion #ahsoka series #dinluke

[dreamsandstars24]

Lawyered up - Chapter 1

Hiyooo, this is my first try at writing a fanfiction.

Well, writing it here, because in Wattpad I have 7.6k readers. Yes, this is me showing off because even though it's fanfiction, it takes a lot of work.

Sooooo, some inside into this:

It says chapter 1 because I will be posting more, obviously.

My first language is not English, so you'll have to be patient and kindly let me know if there is any mistake so I can fix it.

This is not a Hotch x Female MC. Even though I love daddy Hotch, I just never imagined him as the sexy daddy version, more like the dad-daddy version. Yeah.

I am busy like crazy with University and a job, so posts may be slow.

I really hope you enjoy this.

Anyway, enjoy.

I'm never drinking coffee again.

I'm banning coffee from my life, I will never drink it again and somebody should slap me if I ever drink coffee again. Please and thank you.

And even better, I will never drink coffee again before one of the most important final-stage interviews of my life. That should probably be something they ask at coffee shops, "Do you have any life altering things that will happen today?" and if you say yes, then you are not allowed to buy coffee.

Is not that I have something against coffee, God forbid, but I just get extremely hyper when I have coffee and based on what Professor Sukhan has said, I'm already hyper enough as it is.

So, why did I drink coffee today? Because I thought that staying up until two AM reading the longest, toe curling, smuttiest fanfiction ever was a good way to spend my time. Was it worth it? Yes it was, but that doesn't mean I don't regret it now that I'm shaking like a freaking chihuahua.

"Deep breaths, Liliana. And keep your hands under your legs." Professor Sukhan whispers softly, his eyes on his newspaper but I know he is anxious too. He is risking his professionalism creating this opportunity for me, and I really hope he doesn't regrets it.

It wasn't easy to make it, but I did it. I managed to get into the final stage of interviews in the FBI, and to be more specific, in the BAU.

I studied near death to graduate from law school, and I really really really want to get this job/internship. It took Professor Sukhan months to prove that allowing me to have an internship would be really beneficial for both the bureau and for me, sometimes I feel he sold my abilities for more of what they actually are but I know I will do my best to ensure I surpass expectations.

Hopefully.

"Liliana Madrigal." My eyes shoot up and find the blue eyed man that is staring at me. "We are ready for you." He is white.

Not that him being white is bad, is actually good, unless he is racist which would really hinder my process and my ability to maintain the facade of being a nice, obedient and sweet girl and--

"Liliana, please go and behave." Professor Sukhan mumbles bringing me out of my stupor. This is why he came, because he knew I was going to be so nervous this would be chaotic.

I clear my throat and stand up, nodding to the professor and making my way to the man who is now looking at his phone with a frown. When he realizes that I am standing right in front of him, he turns around and walks me through the doors where my future self may be walking.

I look around when the door closes behind me and barely have time to register the chaos this place is when the blue eye man mumbles "Keep up" and practically sprints down the hallway.

Swallowing down my fear, I run after him.

Freaking tall people think my little legs can keep up with them. I can barely reach the shower head and I'm expected to run after this tall guy and--

"Here. Go inside, sit down, and wait until they come."

I frown while my feet stop. "They who is-?" He ignores me, turns around and leaves.

Well, so much for being nice.

I stare at the black door and decide that they will not bring me to meet a serial killer in my last interview, I think. I hope.

Right?

"Okay Liliana, those who don't risk, don't win." I nod and take a deep breath, "You can do it. Please don't let it be a serial killer and please don't let me do anything stupid, amen." And I open the door.

A normal looking office says hello to me.

My eyes blink rapidly as a relieved laugh escapes my mouth. I don't know what I was expecting but an office that looks like the office of my psychology professor was not it. But this is good, this is nice, this is acceptable-

"Are you going inside or are you coming outside?" The deep voice behind me says and my soul goes to heaven to meet with its creator because I just died. Thank you and goodbye.

I turn around and find two men looking at me. The first man, I immediately recognized like Jason Gideon because he went to my criminology class and his lecture gave me nightmares, but the second man who is staring at me undisturbed has never been seen by my eyes. He is handsome, he is grace, he is mister United States-

"Pardon me?" I mumble because I just saw his lips move but I didn't hear a thing. He blinks.

"I asked if you are the girl I am supposed to be interviewing." He repeats calmly. His voice could narrate an audio book where he tells me how he is going to kill me in the most gruesome way and I would hundred percent say thank you.

"I certainly hope so because I was just dumped here with barely any instruction." Gideon smiles a little at that and a part of my soul rejoices because I just made Jason Gideon smile.

"What's your name?" He asks, and his voice is a soft baritone that has me feeling cozy inside.

"Liliana Madrigal, a pleasure." My hand stretches out; once again, I'm too late to realize my actions because I forgot my hands were shaking which is obvious now. Both men stare at my hand and then Gideon shakes it and lets go.

"I'm Jason Gideon and this is SSA Aaron Hotchner, we are on the behavioral analysis unit and we will be directing your interview." I nod and nod again and both stare at me. Agent Gideon gives me another soft smile. "We should go in the office."

"Oh! Of course, come in. Make yourself at home." I step to the side allowing them both to come in and then I notice the name at the door.

Aaron Hotchner. I just gave him permission to go into his own office. Amazing.

"Miss Madrigal, will you come in and close the door behind you please?" Agent Hotchner asks. I follow the orders and then walk to the chair in front of his desk. He is sitting on the chair while Gideon leans on the wall beside the window.

My hands fidget on my lap and then I remember how I'm supposed to keep them under my legs and take a deep breath. I do that and count to ten while the men look at what I'm assuming is my file.

"Miss Madrigal, your file says that you graduated at fourteen from high school." Agent Hotchner mumbles, scanning the page with his eyes.

"Yes, sir." He looks at me and the way his eyes are so dark make me very nervous.

"Is there any reason as to why that happened? Because your IQ is slightly elevated but not that much." I nod and then consider what to say.

They may notice the confusion on my face because Gideon speaks. "Just tell us the truth without sugar coating it."

Well, if he says so.

"I was bored, sir." They both stare at me.

"Bored?" Agent Hotchner repeats, I nod again. "Could you elaborate?"

I take a deep breath. "I didn't want to spend more time in school than necessary so I forced myself to graduate faster to study what I really wanted to study."

"Which was criminal law," Gideon says, my head shakes.

"No sir, I wanted to become a taxidermist." Both men stare at me and I can tell I managed to surprise them.

"Why didn't you then?" Agent Hotchner asks.

I shrug, "My mother said that if I became a taxidermist, I would sleep with the carcasses and see how that suited me." With secret joy, I notice how the corner of agent Hotchner's mouth twitches upwards.

I MADE HIM SMILE!

"So you didn't become a taxidermist, and decided to study law, correct?"

"With some little disruption to my plans, but yes sir." Agent Hotchner moves his hand in a rolling motion and I understand he is asking me to expand. "After the fiasco with taxidermy, I decided to explore my passions in the business world."

"You studied business, then?" Gideon mumbles, reading through my file.

"No, sir. I became a runner for a local gang in my neighbourhood." I think I actually managed to surprise them this time.

Both look at my file, their silence making me more nervous. Did I just messed up? Did a hot nice cup of coffee messed up the opportunity of a lifetime? Did I just ended my career choice?

"Why not a courthouse? You could have made a fine prosecutor with your grades and the success of your practicum." Gideon points out, I shake my head no.

"I thought about it and did two weeks as an assistant for a prosecutor and I am positive about not choosing prosecution."

"What about defense? You could have been good at that."

"I'm not fond of lying."

"So why the FBI? In this job, you need to keep a lot of secrets and maintain a low profile." I press my lips together considering what I have to say.

Two choices in here: Either lick their boots or be honest.

"As I was looking for career choices, I realized that the BAU gets sued continuously over every procedure that they endure-"

"How did you got that information?" Agent Hotchner asks, serious.

"One of my teachers worked as a legal advisor and one of the people that came to her was a lawyer who was helping someone sue the BAU for incorrect management of a case. Anyway, I kept my ears open and realized that this team is the one that gets sued the most and that caught my attention so I started researching why and I reached a conclusion," My hands intertwine as I smile at them. "And the conclusion was that in order for this team to be getting sued so often, then it may be doing something right."

Agent Hotchner closes my file and leans back in his chair, the look of calm suits him and then he turns to Gideon and a whole conversation takes place without them even talking. This is crazy.

While they have their strange staring contest, I think about the possibility of accepting the CIA offer. It came as a surprise, to be honest, but the terms are good; professor Sukhan would be a little dissapointed because the original plan has alway been the FBI but I don't think he'll mind that much.

I mean, is either CIA or going back to being a Runner and I think which option is better for my criminal record.

"You start on Monday." Agent Hotchner speaks and I nod.

"What time?"

"I need you here at five AM. We'll go over some information and I'll show you your office, if we have the time, I'll introduce you to the team." I nod and get up when he does. His hand stretches towards me and I shake it firmly. "Welcome to the team." I smile at him and then turn to Gideon, we shake hands and I take a deep breath because my hand is shaking more now.

"Welcome, Agent Madrigal." He murmurs warmly, I nod at him.

"Thank you, I will do my best." I walk to the door with them behind me and I know they are walking me to where professor Sukhan is. When we reach the door, I turn to them and smile. "Thank you, again." They both nod and I cross the doors, noticing how professor Sukhan stands up and stares at me.

We both stare at each other and he smiles when tears pool in my eyes.

"You did it." He mumbles coming closer.

"I start on Monday at five AM." He laughs, wrapping me in his arms which makes me sob.

"Are you crying?" He laughs, rocking me back and forth.

"I just don't want to wake up at five AM every morning." I sob in his shoulder. He laughs and pulls me closer.

"You did it," He whispers, patting my head. "I knew you would."

***

Hotch felt himself smile when he realized how the girl he had just hired was crying while holding the Hindi man. He wasn't sure what the relationship was, but he knew that the man had sold the girl at such a high price it tempted the bureau to meet her in person. And he wasn't disappointed.

Even though her psych results tilted her towards OCD regarding her job, and her getting obsessed in some cases, her results were so good he had to double-check every case she had participated in because she was practically a genius when giving criminal charges.

Eighteen charges, she had given eighteen charges to a child abuser and Hotch had been so surprised because he hadn't even thought about those charges. She was a genius, and she was merciless in court. That's why seeing the clumsy girl surprised him because she showed a completely different side of herself.

"Seems like we got another girl to babysit." Morgan rumbled beside him, slurping his coffee while staring at the girl with a smirk. Hotch hummed agreeing. "You think she'll give us a run for our money?"

"She is smart," Gideon mumbled, "she'll be okay."

With a smile, Hotch saw how the girl now had the man in a choke hold while she jumped excited. It was adorable.

"She'll fit right in." He whispered softly.

#criminal minds #Aaron Hotchner #Jason Gideon #derek morgan #criminal minds fanfiction

[assbutt-in-the-garrison]

I have this sorta odd destiel fanfiction in my head that I have actually had dreams about and it involves a bit of memory erasure, time travel, incarnations, and Amara/the Darkness...

Remember when Amara kissed Dean and they both saw some sort of "vision" about their future and how they will always be "bonded"? And in 11x1 Amara said "we will always help each other, no matter where I am, no matter WHO I am, we will always be bound."

What IF. Amara IS Cas? And she doesn't know this at first of course. Like. Idk, I just have this fic idea stuck in my mind where the reason why that particular version of Castiel in that universe, unlike every other version of Cas in other universes, is the "famous spanner in the works" who constantly rebels and has to have their memory erased, the reason why Cas is so bonded to Dean and would do anything for him, is because originally that Cas was the Darkness. When Jack and Amara became balanced, they became aware of the reality of the multiverse and Amara knew she needed to give up her power to Jack and become something else and go back in time to the beginning in order to "fix" the storyline so that Chuck inevitably loses and to make sure Jack is born and Dean and Sam can truly be free. So she gives up her darkness powers to Jack and Jack and her go back in time to the beginning, secretly planting her as Castiel, a being of light now, an angel with no memory of being God's sister. And so THAT Cas always has a rebellious streak in them, defying the "natural order". And throughout all of history, that Cas rebels against unjust orders. When that Cas meets Dean, he can't help but feel completely connected to him profoundly. And no matter how many times his memory is wiped and controlled by Naomi, the bond between them cannot be broken. Then when Cas is brought back from the Empty by Jack, he is given his memory back of being Amara/the Darkness. And this is why Dean and Cas are so profoundly bonded. No matter who Cas is, no matter what body/vessel they're in, they will always love Dean.

The empty won't give up on dragging Cas back though because after all, he made a deal, and as an angel, Cas will always end up in the Empty, and even as the darkness, technically the empty was there first before the Darkness so it's technically stronger. The empty just hates Cas. It will still be summoned every time he experiences true happiness. And will go after Cas and his loved ones at any cost. So in order to protect heaven and his loved ones, including Dean, Jack and Cas decide that Cas's best and only option is to convert his grace into a human soul and be reborn as a human in a different, magicless universe, where the Empty cannot find him and even if it does find him, it's power would be inert in a magicless world. But Cas saves a little bit of his grace, bottling it in a little vial pendant, and tells Jack to give it to Dean to remember him by. When Dean gets to heaven, Jack tells him the truth and gives Dean the vial of grace that Dean wears as a necklace. And Dean is looking for Cas, now, travelling the multiverse in his TARDIS car (which Amara secretly created at some point so Dean would always have his freedom). So Dean is looking for his, now, human angel, stopping sometimes to work a case in some world or universe, save people, enact change in worlds still being wronged by Chuck's storylines. Even meets the Doctor at some point lol. But. He'll know when he's found Cas because the vial of Cas's grace will glow a vibrant purple when Cas is close by. And no matter if Cas is a man or woman, Dean will love them. Because that's the only destiny that Dean DOES believe in.

Anyway, I wish someone would write this lol. Idk how or where to begin lol. It's weird, I know and not everyone will like it but I think it'd make for an epic love story.

#spn #dean winchester #destiel #castiel #Amara #the darkness #destiel ficlet #destiel fan fiction #destiel fanfiction idea #my post

[greenflamedwriter]

HP au

Since a03 is down HERES a little something :D Enjoy.

Harry Potter AU with Binghe/QIngqiu. Its Cang Qiong school [like hogwarts] with the four houses slytherin etc but the ministry of magic is Huan Hua. And Yue Qingyuan is the headmaster. So Shen Qingqiu [slytherin] bullies and abuses Luo Binghe the kid one year younger and then Binghe gets powerful and then takes his revenge by killing and tortuing his childhood bully.

So of course Shen Yuan dies and gets drop kicked into this HP fanfiction ):

Shen Yuan transmigrated into Shen Qingqiu the rival of Luo binghe inthe opposing house of slytherin to his Griffendor. He was doomed! after Binghe’s rise to power he tortures Shen Qingqiu in the worse way making him wish for death. Binghe's use of leglimency destroys Shen Qingqiu’s mind better and leaves him a husk thats only AFTER his limbs had been ripped off. well better than Shang Qingqiu, who ends up chocking himself to death from mobei juns curse.

Already they were in fifth year and after another year Luo binghe will fall into the abyss during the triwizard tournament, it wasn’t the school years that was the worst, it’s what came after at the ministry of Huan hua.

Luo Binghe would become the new chief warlock and minister and to do that needed a lot of votes so he ended up needing most of the seats of the ministry lords and ladies not only becoming powerful and destroying Shen Qingqiu’s reputation he became a powerful dark wizard. And there were so many loose threads of potential! but that hack writer was always inconsistent, creating plot holes and problems then ignoring it! Airplane should spend less time on Twitter and more focused on this mess of a magical fantasy world!

Poly juice potion! Easily made by third years and yet bypasses the ministry of magic when Luo Binghe and Liu Mingyan pretended to be important figure heads and -you guessed it- stole important and classified documents!

Thank god the bank was run by demons! At least their money was safe along with the cursed artefacts it was protected! If cultivators were in charge all of them would be bankrupt! 

And now here he was staring at the small white lotus before him. Luo Binghe was on his hands and knees bullied and humiliated in front of all of his peers. Shen Qingqiu cursed, it was too late he had been abusing Binghe his whole childhood if he acted nice now it would be ooc!

And Binghe’s eyes flashed with hatred as Ming Fan laughed mockingly, Shen Qingqiu grimaced although it looked like a sneer at Binghe but truthfully. Ming fan was in a world of hurt. This was when everything went downhill for Shen Qingqiu when he started getting his karma and Shen Yaun rotted for it. Now that he WAS the character he knew he had to avoid his fate.

“Enough, you’ve tortured the beast enough.” Shen Qingqiu walked away and of course Ming fan would follow now that left it up for one of Binghe’s ladies to find him. 

During his time trying to find a way to FIX this mess he ends up finding airplane who looks pretty bullied by Mobei-jun. Shen Qinqiu pressed him up against the wall of the boys toilets stalls. “You have to get me out of this! It’s your dumbfuck writing that landed me here!”

“Hey I’m in here too! My death is just awful!” Shen Qingqiu scowled then closed his eyes, “If you help me, I’ll keep you away from Mobei-jun and break that curse.” Shang Qinghua looked relieved and decided to tell Shen Qingqiu ‘everything’ about his draft and plot lines and where they were going to go. Turns out airplane had been in this world longer so he figured out early on it would go with his original script and not the one he settled on to pay the bills.

“Why are you avoiding a-Lou?” Ning Yingying asked and Shen qingqiu grimaced turns out he had his own bully qui jianlou who was also nicknamed a-Lou and it triggered Shen Qingqiu of his past.

Also, the reason Shen Qingqiu bullied Binghe was because he had a crush on Ning Yingying although Shen Yuan never saw the appeal and also trying to go after Binghe’s ladies is a no- no!

And he could see he was stressing binghe out not attacking him, the waiting and anticipation probably had his nerves on edge the poor thing.

His response was so crazy it might work hopefully Luo binghe may understand and be disgusted and want to avoid him maybe if Shen Qingqiu plays it up in the torture later on it might make Luo Binghe back off? Who knows it was worth a try.

“I like him.” Shen Qinqiu spoke “An infatuation that I misinterpreted as loathing sometimes you get the two confused.” Ning Yingying blinked “You know pulling pigtails? You tease or bully someone you like?”

She puffed her cheeks “that’s not very nice! And it’s not true you’ve never expressed any interest in a-Lou like that!”

“Well I would never treat someone I love like that but the thing was a-Ning I didn’t know! Now that I understand what those feelings are I’m ashamed, and I do know a lot about Binghe.” He spoke nose in the air. And Ning Yingying placed her hands on her hips eyes narrowed.

“What’s his favourite colour?”

“Red, he wears it in his wardrobe all the time and if not that then Black.” Because of his poor upbringing he couldn't experiment on colours and always settled on black, it was easy to clean as well.

She blinked not expecting that, then began to question Shen Qingqiu on everything he knew about Luo Binghe and he answered every single one. He was a binghe stan and read these books religiously and battled many a troll online he can recite Binghe’s introduction chapter by heart! 

And Ning Yingying watched how he grew more animated and passionate as he listed of each question he knew Binghe’s favourite food [the same one as his mothers meal that he cooked for her and she smiled and complimented him and it was plain congee, which he feeds his ladies with all the time and yet each one never appreciated it or cared to understand the signifigance] his best friends, his favourite subject his least favourite subject.

“It’s charms which makes sense since he’s-“ he cut himself and remembered Luo Binghe would probably see these memories in a pensive, he grimaced when he realised how uch he was geeking out.

Ning Yingying watched how Shen Qingqiu stood up straighter clearing his throat as if he wasn't just waxing poetry about Binghes hair. The thing is the wizarding world was sensitive to certain topics such as dark light and nuetral wizards. Dark wizards were ostricised and looked down on for being evil. And since Shen Qingqiu is from a dark family and an advocate for it is obviously the villain while Binghe is a prophosised chosen one. Luo Binghe had little romps through the castle stealing a pensive and using it. And if it came to light that Luo Binghe was a dark wizard well-

Oh it was a shock to him too airplane called it irony, that Shen Qingqiu the first son of a line of dark witches and wizards had a light core because it was revealed that he was a bastard and would soon be disowned for being a light wizard. Unable to continue that line meanwhile binghe the champion of the light was in fact a dark core wizard because of his father Tianglang-Jun jun who was currently in Azkaban.

 Charms was a light subject while defense or actual dark arts itself was obviously dark. Luo binghe was going against his core and if it goes on for too long may end up destroying it. Hence the abyss he learns that little secret and ends up becoming all powerful and over turning the Huan hua masters and overtaking Cang Qiong school and changing the subjects to be more aligned with the proper cores.

One person had almost destroyed their core by two opposing sides using the wrong magic that rebounded, Liu Qingge. Who was currently in a coma in the medical bay being looked after by their professors. He would’ve been moved the Qian Co peak to be monitored by mediwitches but Mu Qingfan moved into the school personally so to make it easier for school mates and Liu Mingyan to visit her brother since there was nothing they could do for him but wait for him to wake up.

Of course Shen Qingqiu must have murdered Liu qinnge in his sleep and airplane said; “Nope all me, to frame Shen Qingqiu as public enemy number one away from the obviously suspicious me. But this time I won’t do that so Liu Qingge will wake up and tell everyone it was ‘him’ that did a dodgy spell and not you!” 

Yes the reason that Shen Qingqiu wasn’t suspended after their duel was because they couldn't take the other side of the story innocent until proven guilty.

Blame Yue Qingyuan for that, the headmaster of Cang Qiong. Their was a weird relationship between him and Shen Qingqiu and airplane told him it’s better if he didn’t know he’ll tell him depending on if they live or not.

 Which wasn’t reassuring.

“Ming fan stop bullying the beast, it’s just depressing at this point. We’re fifth years it’s time to act our age.” Ming fans face fell “Of course Shen -shixiong.”

How he got followers is beyond him, his Ning Yingying is his friend was also puzzling.

And he could see Luo Binghe’s glower.  _________________________________________________________

“A little birdie told me you had a crush on me.” Shit.

Keeping his expression blank he calmly replied “Yes? What of it?”

“It seems unfair that I was faced with so much abuse over something so trivial, I deserve compensation.” 

Shen Qingqiu sneered “as if, this one can’t take back everything he’s done. So what do you want?”

“Well I was just wondering what if you were lying? Just to avoid all the consequence of bullying me?” Shen Qingqiu Definitely wilted in guilt. “I’m sorry.”

That seemed to shock Luo binghe at the apology but Shen qinqiu meant it. Luo binghe didn’t deserve any of that.

 Also how crappy is this situation? If binghe even believed it or returned his feelings that is borderline abusive and a dash of Stockholm syndrome if Shen qinqiu was reading this he would spit blood!

Although Luo binghe did have some questionable wives who were just as cruel then became his ladies to his lord so maybe binghe would be into it-

He kissed him, Shen Qingqiu made a startled noise at the back of his throat as binghe kissed him and- and- he was good at it! So binghe already had some ladies under his belt, good for him!

And Shen Qingqiu moaned, melting into a puddle like putty in Binghe’s hands, he was really good at this. Shen Qingqiu eyes slid shut deepening the kiss and following Binghe and chasing him when he pulled back until the kiss broke.

Oh he had to prove it. They had to pretend.

“D-don’t mess with my feelings if you don’t mean it.” Shen Qingqiu scowled, face flushed red and he was fighting to calm down and not feel so hot. “Likewise.”

So pretend dating. He could do this, when binghe took his hand as both slytherin and griffendors were paired he stiffened then scowled pulling at Binghe’s hand under the table. Binghe had his other hand in his cheek looking up at Shen Qingqiu, he hadn't had his growth spurt yet and Shen Qingqiu knew when Luo Binghe got bigger and towered over him Shen QIngqiu became more irritated and lashed out more in fear as well as envy.

 “Surely this looks worse, Qingqiu.” 

Huh? He looked at him oddly, how was it worse? He glanced at their shared hands then looked back up “Uh, how is it worse?” he still didn't understand, Binghe looked delighted and leaned close to whisper in his ear “hands under the table to do strange things,” Binghe’s hand moved to Shen Qingqiu’s thigh although they were still holding hands so Shen Qingqiu’s was taken along for the ride and it still didn’t make sense to him.

“Or this,” then Binghe moved their combined hands closer to the inside and Shen Qingqiu snatched his hand back his ears red “Shamless.” He hissed beneith his breath.

Binghe was mocking him but this was fine he could do this. Better than the alternative.

Unaware that binghe had learned. Leglimency early on practising with his ladies and more contact with someone the more he can use it without sharing eye contact and since Shen Yuan was new to the magical world didn’t know when someone’s mind brushed against his and had no defences and was an open book.

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As Luo Binghe is now suspicious of Shen Qingqiu he, with his invisibilty cloak takes Liu Mingyan and Ning Yingyin as they follow Shen Qingqiu as he disapears at odd hours. It's suspicious.

So, As they follow him and Shen Qingqiu is going through secret turns and loops in the castle that even they didn't know about startle to see him going towards the medical ward.

And see him approach Liu Qingge's bed.

Liu Mingyan almost exposed them so Luo Binghe grabbed her arm keeping her still.

Truthfully Liu Mingyan visits her brother all the time and swore to avenge him and expose Shen Qingqiu as a murderur. Yet each time she visits her brother always has fresh flowers, she assumed it was Mu Qingfan or some student who idolised her brother but truthfully he didn't have many friends.

So the three watch in stunned fascination as Shen Qingqiu disposed of the flowers Liu Mingyan almost snarled before freezing when Shen Qingqiu reached into a bag and pulled out a fresh batch of flowers to place beside the bed.

And his face, Shen Qingqiu looked miserable. Alone in the ward he had no need for pretense. And yet he scratched his neck as he gazed down at Liu QIngge.

"You need to wake up you know. And cut down on the beatuy sleep you're already too beautiful." He spoke reaching out and taking Liu Qingge hand. He looked awkward and irritated.

"I still not used to this- and don't laugh at me!" Shen Qingqiu growled out glaring at the sleeping man "Muggle's spoke about talking to comotase patients and that sometimes they can hear them." He rubbed his thumb against a pale calloused hand that barely responded.

Shen Qingqiu sighed closing his eyes "This is stupid."

But he kept talking, about his day, his spells how Liu Qingge should hurry up and wake up.

"They think I'm going to hex them every time I walk past and yet it was you or tried a spell that was not in lign with your core but no your Liu Qingge you don't listen to reason."

Shen Qingqiu waited and only watched the steady rise and fall of the others chest.

"The more you lay asleep on this bed like the useless shidi you are, the worse it'll be." Shen Qingqiu pressed his lips together looking more and more irritated.

"Liu Mingyans in danger." He spoke with a smirk on his face as he leaned closer, "If you don't wake up I'll hurt her. And it'll be your fault because you decided to lie in instead. I'll do it, it'll be so easy. And you will just let it happen."

And the strangest thing happened.

Liu Qingge's hand twitched.

The three watched stunned as Shen Qingqiu gaped then with new vigor leaned closer "I'm going to do it Liu Qingge, you'll wake up and find out your little sister is dead because of me. The scum villain." He spoke energetic "It'll be so easy, I'll just use polyjuice potion and pretend to be someone she knows someone familiar and lead her out to a secluded area I'll even use that persons wand."

His face truly looked monstrous, like a villain and yet it was all said to wake up Liu Qingge. Because he knew his brother would do anything for his sister.

The things he said was in contrast to his actions and instead of exposing or revealing any answers of Shen Qingqiu only raised more questions.

And Liu Mingyan watched as how Liu Qingge brow furrowed and how even Shen Qingqiu held his breath a genuine smile on his face waiting for Liu Qingge to wake up-

But nothing.

Shen Qingqiu slumped in disapointment. Still holding Liu Qingges hand in a vice like grip.

"Maybe you don't care about her, huh?" he tried one more time but nothing.

Shen Qingqiu scrubbed his face then flinched when he felt something behind him.

"You are doing well, Shen Qingqiu. Talking helps the both of you and this master knows Liu Qingge will wake up in his own time."

Shen Qingqiu looked away "But what if he doesn't? this- does it even work?" Shen Qingqiu asked ripping his hand away and looking up at Mu Qingfan.

The Medi-wizard sighed and looked down "Magic is...a delicate thing. And is very unpredictable the only thing we can do is observe and wait."

"Damn this Shidi of mine, casuing everyone grief...he responded a little at one point."

"Oh? What happened?"

Shen Qingqiu turned around leaning his arms over the chair and resting on it "I threatened his sister, I thought he was going to wake up."

The wizard nodded "Maybe that might wake him up, if Liu Qingge could hear and has some awarness it might give him the push to wake up. Liu Mingyan visits but she never speaks if she keeps consistent it might reinforce that something is wrong. It might wake Liu Qingge."

Shen Qingqiu nodded.

"There's only so many times I can threaten Liu Mingyans life..." Shen Qingqiu joked but still looked hopeless.

Luo Binghes hand clenched against the fabric as he gestured for the others to go.

missing the next interaction.

"You will end up like Liu Qingge if you continue on like this."

Shen Qingqiu looked away "This one has no clue on what you are reffering to Mr Mu."

"Liu Qingge has a nuetral core and tried a very powerful light spell. Thats what made him end up in this state. Your home studies and dark arts could land you in the same boat." Shen Qingqiu tensed "This student-"

"You are a light wizard, Shen Qingqiu. Not a dark or even nuetral. A pure light wizard and if you continue to do spells not alligned with your core then being bed ridden may not be the worse of it."

Shen Qingqiu sighed "This one would gladly but- it's impossible. My family are trying to salvage the dark arts- not all of it is evil!" Take a look at Luo Binghe! In his adventures he's always used his powers for good and to protect his wives!

"If it came out that their son is a light wizard- it doesn't matter if I'm related or not they'll spin it that any one can magically change their cores and alligment it'll reflect badly on the community."

Mu Qingfan sighed "I can't force you, but only in lessons but if you can help it never perform any dark art spells. And take this if you're going to damage your body." Shen Qingqiu blinked at the potion.

"Take that twice morning and night. it'll keep you stable." Shen Qingqiu blinked "I- thank you...and thank you for beliving me and letting me visit Liu-shidi."

Mu Qingfan shrugged "I'm a doctor I knew what happened from the lab results, but this one can't reveal the information as its client confidentialty and only Liu Qingge could reveal his core and story if he wants to."

Shen Qingqiu nodded in other words Mu Qingfan would love to put the rumours to rest that Shen Qingqiu was innocent. But with Yue Qingyuan being so biased and if Mu Qingfan showed no evidence then they would assume that Shen Qingqiu was manipulating them to get away with murder!

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In potion lessons, Shen Qingqiu sneers "Honestly? You have been a student this long?" He noticed Luo Binghe stiffen and moved towards the other moved bhind him as he leaned over Binghes shoulder and took his hands and guided them.

He began to cut the ingredients the right way and even the timing on when to place them in "Remember to crush these not to cut them-" He spoke then tsked in Luo Binghes ear as the other was stood frozen.

"You can cook- I fail to understand how you can be this incompetent at potions." Shen Qingqiu bemoaned, this was because of that stupid fake potions book wasn't it!?

As Shen Qingqiu moved to his own cualdron, he let his thoughts run wild and Binghe was listening to everyone of them.

Damn those brats, Binghe had great potential and they sabotaged him. oh look there he goes.

Luo Binghe listened to his guidance and started treating potions like he did cooking ignoring the book and listening to his instincts instead.

look, he's a natural! of course Binghe is the best and could excel at anything he chooses too but people are so jelaous they have to hold him back! Such a waste!

But there are times when Binghe pretends to be stupid! I can see you, y'know that white lotus act doesnt work on me, protagonist!

Shen Qingqiu sounded annoyed and was even taking it out on his potions. He was really passionate about Luo Binghes wasted potential.

He heard Shen Qingqiu sneer "Was it that hard to be competent?" He asked with a raised eyebrow as Luo Binghes potion passed with flying colours for once.

Of course he's competent, Binghe is amazing. If he wanted to could wipe the floor with anyone here including me! Shen Qingqiu thought looking at his cauldron and Binghe felt his ears flush red.

"Beast- why is your face red?" Shen QIngqiu spoke ah I hate calling him that! but he'll find it suspicious if I stop now- and I cant call him Binghe its too shameful! i don't deserve to call him that, after what I did.

"Are you allergic? Do we need to call Qingfan?" He asked his tone was devoid but Binghe could see the worry.

He's not sick is he- is Binghe even allergic to anything? Does he know? Maybe we can get him tested he was muggle-raised he wouldn't have HAD the wizard vaccines for dragon pox and kneazles shit!

Shen QIngqiu was starting to sound more panicked but Luo Binghe watched in slow motion as Shen Qingqiu placed a hand over his forehead "You're not running a fever..."

Luo Binghe took his hand "This one is fine- just..." Binghe looked away.

"Can you stop calling me that?"

"Hmm? Call you what?"

"Beast, I have a name."

He noticed the relief as the other found himself easily agreeing just as uncomfortable with the name as Binghe was and yet...it started to change. Binghe was almost seeing it as a term of endearment and never bothered to correct it.

But it obviously bothered him.

"Call me Binghe. We are together aren't we?" Binghe asked squeezing Shen Qingqiu hand before relaxing. Now it was Shen Qingqiu's turn to flush.

"I-you, shamless!" He ripped his hand away and went back to his cauldron grabbing his book...that was upset down and Shen Qingqiu eyes were laser focused on the writing.

But clearly not reading it.

I cant call him that- too informal! too close I don't deserve it! Shameful! Only his girlfriends call him that! and this- this isn't, he's just testing me because its pretend!

Ah, Luo Binghe leaned closer "Qingqiu." The other stiffened as he spoke in his ear "Your book is upside down." Shen Qingqius face exploded red.

Binghe was disapointed the first time he heard Shen Qingqiu call it pretend he thought it was another form of bullying. Until he heard his thoughts. Shen Qingqiu liked him and that was the truth, and honestly thought Binghe was playing with him.

But the best part was how even Shen Qingqiu thought if he liked guys, hypothetically and dated it would take him months maybe even years to get the courage to hold someones hand. His last girlfriend took ages to kiss and then weeks later they broke up.

Pretending made his Shizun a bit more forward, too thin face. But to not be caught in the 'lie' ended up inniciating a lot more. Luo Binghe sat back down, his palm on his cheek as he watched his flustered shixiong. Luo Binghe was observent and had noticed how other students older and younger would act towards people they liked.

And Binghe was slowly starting to accept the truth that Shen Qingqiu truly had no idea, misplaced loathing for loving. Luo Binghe scowled when he thought of the relationship he had with the headmaster, Shen Qingqiu was just as prissy and even yelled at the teacher in front of others. And yet he saw the two always going to the office or having tea together in the mornings.

Just what was their relationship?

He couldn't read Yue Qingyuans mind, for some reason his mind was very strong and not easy to gain access into, when his eyes locked onto Binghes he immiedtly backed off and never tried again.

Luo Binghe still hadn't forgiven Shen Qingqiu at first but then noticed the other actually stick up for Luo Binghe and even told his followers to back off. For the first time Luo Binghe was able to just...be at Cang Qiong and learn without worrying about someone trying to hurt him and the more time he spent with Shen Qingqiu the less he was bothered.

...it was nice.

He didn't want to forgive Shen Qingqiu but he could see he was trying, and even went out of his way to help Luo Binghe. He even secretly left the castle with Binghe to get him his wand.

Shen Qingqiu told him to shut up as he payed for it, as Luo Binghe could never afford his own wand and had to get it cheap or second hand, of course Shen Qingqius thoughts were crying for Binghe.

No wonder he was behind! Imagine the power he has with an actual wand that works for him!

Something tells Binghe that maybe the reason Shen Qingqiu was frustrated with him, was how weak and pitful he was as a kid but knew he was a strong and powerful wizard. Then once he realised WHY Binghe was doing so poorly went out of his way to fix it and the weirdest part?

Luo Binghe soaked up the praise and actually wanted to TRY and be better, he never cared for school before but now he actually tried.

When he showed his homework to Shen Qingqiu for pointers the other sniffed "Adequete."

Luo Binghe is amazing! Look how much he's improved even his penmenship has gotten better! Thats my Binghe the smartest student in this school!

Luo Binghe, may have became obsessed to the point of even neglecting his girlfriends. He never told Shen Qingqiu and his girls never minded either they were just happy to be a part of his life and didn't mind sharing.

And Ning Yingyin was his first with Liu Mingyan his second then Sha Hualing came after, and the thing was...they reminded him of Shen Qingqiu. His explosive temper could rival the demon saintess, the way he was cold and aloof and barely spoke like Liu Mingyan or when he genuinly cared and only wanted what was best for binghe he was smart Shen Qingqiu but at times came across as naive he had some strengths but understanding people? That was his weakness. Like Ning yingying.

And to think if it wasn't for her, Luo Binghe may have missed this.

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On another adventure to expose Shen Qingqiu, he found out he was having private lessons away from the school in a hidden underground classroom.

Probably indoctirating his followers, even though they were dating and Luo Binghe found himself liking Shen Qingqiu of all people he still didn't trust him.

Luo Binghe was the chosen one he was told that as soon as he entered the wizarding world but at what? He still didn't understand it or what people wanted from him and Shen Qingqiu was his enemy. Almost all the adults around them told them that.

Shen Qingqiu was scum, evil and cruel and Luo Binghe was their saviour.

So when he and Ning Yingying entered the room, both Shen Qingqiu and they were surprised. It was a classroom with Shen Qingqiu teaching spells on a chalkboard.

This couldn't be it...right?

"Ah can I help you?" He seemed flustered a little and Luo Binghe smiled. "Not at all, this one heard you were giving lessons, and both Ning Yingying and I were wondering if we could join your study group."

"Piss off, Griffen, go away." Ming Fan growled but Shen Qingqiu spoke "Theres no need, you can stay. Pull up a chair."

Ming fan do you have a death wish!? and Ning yingying is right there! How are you expected to gain her attention while being a dick to her best friend honestly? Well, I never choose him as a friend for his brains.

"Now, that we've learned about the dangers of polyjuice potion and the petrificus totalus-"

"Is it true that you can use that to...do something to someone?"

"Like sexual assualt? Possibly." "And obliviate could remove such a memory?" The girl asked petrified "Yes, hyopthetically- are you okay?" He asked noticing her pale "How would you know?"

"Check a medi-wizard. They are well equipped with such things." He spoke no nonsense.

Luo Binghe felt Ning Yingying squeeze his hand almost horrified.

Luo Binghe was too, not once had he even considered such a thing...and these were light spells?

"Now onto Cores." Shen Qingqiu waved his wand and three chalkboards appeared with the chalks moving simultainlously to create illustrations, others awed at the talent of such a feat. Even Luo Binghe was watching.

Shen Qingqiu caught his eye then flushed looking away luckily as he was done as some chalk faltered in his hold. This is nothing! Binghe can do that and more!

"Now," he pointed to the middle board that had a venn diagram of Dark, Nuetral, Light with nuetral overlapping with too.

"Every witch or wizard has a core. you are born with such core and cannot change it, thats a myth going directly against your core could damage your meridians."

A hand raised "Whats meridians?"

"Its your magical veins in your body, squibs are usually people born unlucky, most are witches or wizards who have lost their magic and thats what a squib is a mage who has lost their magic."

"Then why aren't we taught this?" "Power in ignorance I imagine. Now Nuetral users can use only basic light or dark magic. Same as how dark and light can use nuetral" he circled an area and Luo Binghe realised it was in layers, like a number system.

Dark being 5, 4 3. Nuetral being 4, 3, 2 and with Light being 3, 2, 1

"So there are spells that all cores share, a 3 type spell such as alohamora. Why is that?"

"It unlocks doors so...an action spell?"

"Yes, spells that have no gain nor energy, even levitation is a 3 spell. But what can you tell me about the patronus charm?" "That its difficult?"

"Exactly its a light charm against dark creatures such as dementors. Now why do you struggle with it?"

"Because we're dark witches." The others stared and realised thats why they've been failing most of their lessons. Shen Qingqiu nodded "Exactly, this school curriculumn in all of china by the laws is only allowed to study light magic only."

"But- it'll make us lose our magic!" One cried and Shen Qingqiu nodded "They won't see the harm. If dark magic dies out only light magic will remain. So much has been lost for these new laws such as the Parcel tongue ability. And parcel tongue was the last of witches talking to creatures there were others who could speak to all manor of animals not just snakes. And now such an ability is gone, others who can shapeshift, veelas who can charm and bewitch so much gone. Because of ignorance."

There it was, the dark magic properganda.

"But I don't struggle?" A hand rose and Shen Qingqiu smiled "Maybe it might be that you are not a dark wizard?"

"No I am! My family is I'm a dark wizard!"

"Its okay, its okay!" Shen Qingqiu panicked at the sight of tears and flipped a board "See- Wei Wuxian is a prime example of why we can't change our cores and his input is important!"

"Wei Wuxian? That traitor? He deviated to the light side!"

Shen Qingqiu shook his head "I have letters," he flicked his wand and a ton of paper appeared and floated towards each student in the class.

"Most stole his work and research or even censcored the tomes he created, he wanted to appeal but they said they wouldn't publish unless these corrections were made. Here is the passages and theories he wanted to write. Currently his husband is fighting the freedom of speech amendment at the Huan Hua palace."

"Who?" "Hanguang-Jun."

There was silence "But hes a LIGHT wizard!" Shen Qingqiu nodded full on beaming "He was seen as a pillar for the rightous and active fighter for the light side, others think he's been bewitched by Wei Wuxian but hes the only one fighting alongside other dark witches and wizards for the right of dark magic being explored."

"But Wei Wuxian says that resentment is pure dark and shouldn't be tampered with."

"Wei Wuxian is a nuetral Core."

He didn't think he could keep shocking them "What he meant was as a nuetral wizard who had already damaged his meridians with pure light magic couldn't contain the dark resentment of the dark and ended up overtaxing his core. He almost died if it wasn't for Lan Wangi, now he's a squib whose lost all magical ability." And to think airplane left this out, if he hadn't listened to the rat and sent out letters inquiring about cores with the great demonic cultivator he wouldn't have found all this out.

"Wei Wuxian was an advocate for the dark side as he was best friends with Lady Wen. A dark witch who speicilised in medicine she almost lost all of her research by light wizards if it wasn't for the Grandmaster of demonic cultivation. Both worked together and he decided to be a test subject to investigate further into core magic. Core's are private there is a law that you can't reveal your core to anyone unless you have explicit permission from that person. Even medical witch and wizards cant tell anyone that a client has damaged their cores thus keeping it more silent from the wizarding world."

A hand raised "How can we check our cores so we don't lose our magic?"

"Well, I have just the thing here." Shen Qingqiu began to put on gloves and went over to retrieve something a crystal ball.

"Now this, is a magic glass that clouds with smoke. Black, grey and white. If you touch it, it'll show you your core."

"Now there is a curtain here if you want to do it privately, or if others don't mind sharing can come up now as I prepare the curtain. Don't all touch it at once or it'll get confused. One at a time."

He moved away to fix the curtain as others stood up walking towards the ball.

"Mines nuetral...but my parents told me I was dark?"

"Even the dark familys will also want their children to be dark they will disown any who have otherwise. They know how the light wizards will spin it that the dark are forcing their children to learn dark arts against their core and may even take them away deeming them unfit." The boy looked horrified as did the others.

Ning Yingying shook her head "They wouldn't!"

"Seen Wei Wuxian? The prodijy? How fast was he cast out when he began demonic cultivation." Ming Fan spoke and she deflated. She placed her hand on the orb and it was pure white. Of course. Ming Fans was grey.

And others began most pitch black but a small few were grey.

"Qingue-shixiong? What spells are grey and what spells are dangerous?"

Shen Qingqiu paused the curtain set up "I-I don't really know, no one has documented them. I could only guess so far."

"Then...then why don't we do it? You have a researcher who can help as well!"

"i don't know- we are not doing wei wuxian is doing we cant damage our bodies for this."

"It's going to happen anyway, in lessons we'll write down which magic was hard to do and which was easier and if anything hurts."

Shen Qingqiu pinched the bridge of his nose "I'll inform Mu Qingfan. Better to have a mediwizard on hand."

Once they were done and all students left Luo Binghe stayed behind.

Shen Qingqiu was avoiding his eyes, "Luo Binghe, can I help you?"

"To think this was where you were sneaking off too..." He raised his wand and Shen Qingqiu stiffened "Binghe?"

Why's he pointing it at me? Is he going to hurt me- why I didn't do anything I thought we were friends-

"Petrificus totallus."

Shen Qingqiu seized and fell backwards unable to even cry out but Luo Binghe caught him before his head could crack against the stone floor like an egg.

"There is something I want to try."

Shen Qingqius eyes followed him, his heartbeat thumping in his ears.

Luo Binghe picked up the glass and paused as it turned Pitch black and hummed "Thats peculiar."

Shen Qingqius eyes widened he wasn't-

no- no he can't find out! its too early! If this secret came out his life would be ruined!

"here, can you hold this," he placed the ball on the ground and raised Shen Qingqius hand, the other kept staring at Binghe Please- please don't-

His hand touched glass and a bright light filled the room.

Shen Qingqiu shut his eyes, and the spell released as he was unfrozen and snatched his hand away and scrambled back.

Luo Binghe was blinded covering his eyes as he looked up and Shen Qingqiu punched him in the face.

"Fuck you, and to think your nothing more than a beast!" He hadn't meant to say that but he was angry even shattered the glass ball of course he directed the glass away from Binghe. He hated him right now but he didn't want him hurt!

He stomped away missing the dazed look on Binghes face as a cupped his cheek.

Luo Binghe may have realised he went too far. But Shen Qingqiu...was a very powerful light wizard...

Shen Qingqiu gets a howler acts calm and collected but then ends up crying in the bathroom.

 Binghe finds him, comforts him but finds himself liking Shen Qingqiu when he’s crying a deep part still hurt by him finding sick delight from all the times Shen Wingqiu bullied him.

 It was poetic karma.

 But Shen Qingqiu didn’t care about his family, he looked at Binghe perplexed and admitted it wasn’t his family- he’s effectively homeless. Someone of high standing having to live off the streets and he only had a few months left of school.

 “I don’t know what the do,” he admitted “I already have a summer job at Knockturn, so at least I have some income and hopefully it’d be enough. Sure I wanted to move out-  but I thought I had time to prepare at least.”

And even so what if that money wasn’t enough?

 He doubted it. He can’t afford a place to stay and eat and the same time not to mention he’d be buying his own school robes or he’d have to rewear these and hope the school doesn’t accidentally change their uniform.

He remembered so many parents buying those stupid pointy hats for first year and they ended up getting rid of them after, how annoying.

 He’d have to do what Luo Binghe did, maybe…

 Shen Qingqiu wiped his eyes with his wrist, and realised the position he was in.

 And Luo Binghe was holding him, and looked up at Shen Qingqiu with a series look on his face.

 “Live with me.”

Shen Qingqiu’s mouth fell open- what!?

 “What but that’s-“

If anyone was going to live with Luo Binghe it’d be one of his girlfriends! They might kill him to find out he was living so close to the modern Adonis!

 Luo Binghe chuckled suddenly looking amused.

 “Please, this Binghe lives alone, and it would help if someone helped share the rent.”

 Shen Qingqiu felt awful, here he was feeling sorry for himself and Luo Binghe was struggling at home.

 From what Shang Qinghua told him, it was the last place Binghe had fond memories of his mother, the only thing he had left was his fake jade pendent, as he had to pawn of her belongings for his school clothes.

Shen Qingqiu’s eyes glanced down feeling something break at Luo Binghe’s threadbare clothes, and how he only asked for food from his girlfriends and they barely noticed anything was wrong, always asking Binghe to buy them gifts. Because it was the boys that had to gift the girls even when they were flat out broke.

 Shen Qingqiu looked away.

“Can I live with you? It wouldn’t be- I would t be imposing?”

“Not at all, Qingqiu.” Luo Binghe spoke cuddling Shen Qingqiu closer, hiding his pleased grin into the crook of his shoulder.

 “This Binghe would be delighted to host you.”

___________

The next year was the tournament, but Shen Qingqiu found himself forgetting about it when he lived with Binghe.

 He ended up taking additional shifts and was exhausted when he returned home.

 Working retail was no joke! 

Lifting heavy boxes when he was t used to that labour was a nightmare!

But worth it for his pay check, he split the bill but ended up paying more than Binghe.

 He was saving up, even when he came home ate food and collapsed in bed, exhausted it didn’t matter!

 Luo Binghe deserved nice things!

 He felt bad though for leaving Binghe with the cooking and cleaning even when Binghe was struggling with his own shifts, so Shen Qingqiu split the rent from a 50/50 ratio and payed more he told Binghe it was the least he could do when the other told him it wasn’t fair.

But to Shen Qingqiu it was, he was pants at doing laundry, although he did try to do the dishes in the morning. He was a good roommate after all. But with the additional laundry and cooking from Binghe it didn’t make sense and so Shen Qingqiu payed more for Binghe’s labour and for the food detergent the extra person needed.

“Take it as extra payment for the food and laundry detergent.” He said.

 A shame they were underage and could t use magic! Ugh!

 Even so- Other than paying rent, Shen Qingqiu wanted to get Binghe a present his birthday was during Christmas and both decided to stay at Cang Qiong over the holidays. So he needed to buy his presents in the summer [before he forgot] and as well as buy Binghe his uniform. Shen Qingqiu’s was still good from the previous year, since his parents bought expensive clothes that tended to last.

 But Binghe on the other hand? It was his sixth year! He had to have good clothes!

 And school supplies! His bag was falling apart and his cauldron wasn’t going to last long now that Binghe was using it more often when he found out he wasn’t as useless at potions as he thought!

Of course while Luo Binghe felt as if he was doing more work, he couldn’t help but find it nice as he had someone else to help lighten the load.

He was exhausted when he came home from working at Potions and pots, now that he could understand it better he was helping the shop owner get more potions out for his clients quicker.

 And when he remembered he had to dry and iron their clothes he felt more tired.

So his surprise to see the basket empty, and saw them all put away instead.

 He came to the living room to see Shen Qingqiu asleep, mouth open with drool down his chin with an open book in his lap.

 Luo Binghe’s chest tightened at the sight. How adorable.

 He moved closer silently and glanced down at the book, and saw it was about demonic beasts and flora.

Huh studying even when school was out. That reminded Luo Bknghe he had homework. But he was finally have a day off to do it, now with the extra help. 

 And to hear his thoughts of buying Binghe’s school uniform as a surprise.

 Maybe because he wouldn’t be caught dead standing with Binghe unless he was dressed the part, but even so-

 Luo Binghe felt touched, not even his girlfriends had been this thoughtful, always demanding presents instead and completely blind to his problems.

Although Luo Binghe was proud and didn’t advertise that he was struggling in a sea of students who looked worse of not for lack of money, but by playing too rough and destroyed their uniform and parents refused to pay for it.

To anyone who didn’t know him, they’d assumed that Luo Binghe was just a bad kid always messing around.

 Not realising he took extra care of the only items he had, one rip and his week was ruined.

 And Shen Qingqiu was saving up to buy him things. He didn’t have to work those extra shifts, or exhaust himself. He did it to surprise Binghe, and to get him his Christmas present.

 Binghe of course was working extra to hopefully bribe his mentor at the Potions and Pots shop for his limited edition Demonology book.

 The man was working with potions and barely opened it! It was gathering dust!

 And when Binghe showed how serious he was the man promised to give it to him if he worked extra shifts.

 Just a few more and it was his.

 He couldn’t wait for the look on his…on Shen Qingqiu’s face.

_______________________________

When they returned to school after summer holidays, Binghe confessed to Shen Qingqiu that he still had to work at the local town outside Cang Qiong [name of the town with the skinner] 

 And told Shen Qingqiu that he worked on weekends when most students had their day off, to send the money back to their flat. Even if they weren’t living in it, he still had to pay the monthly fee.

 Shen Qingqiu’s eyes widened. How long was Binghe working!? Oh no wonder he never did homework!

 “Is their any vacancies?”

“Hmm? Why?”

“I’ll work there too- I’ll check if any of the local shops have openings.”

“Qingqiu- it’s fine! This Binghe is used to it.”

“You need a break! All you’ve done is work.” Shen Qingqiu wouldn’t allow it, Binghe’s grades would suffer more this year if he worked himself with no breaks! Hell Shen Qingqiu was looking at his school days as a vacation! 

 They also had to work in the winter as well now that he thought about it.

 “Okay, if this one worked we both get one weekday off,” 

“Shen Qingqiu it’s fine- it’s my house-“

“But I’m living in it. It’s unfair for Luo Binghe to do all the work.”  

Ah and he was looking forward to his vacation-

“Mister Shen? A word.” Yue Qingyuan appeared out of nowhere.

 And Shen Qingqiu glanced his way “Yes, Head Principal Yue?”

 God he nearly died! Don’t scare him like that!

 “If you’ll follow me.”

Shen Qingqiu blinked then glanced back at Binghe, he noticed all of his girlfriends at the table watching them, then felt awful that he was hogging Binghe all to himself!

 Shen Qingqiu patted his arm “This Qingqiu may be awhile- your girlfriends are waiting for you.”

 Luo Binghe’s face spasmed and Shen Qinqiu wondered what was wrong- until he remembered they were pretend dating at school he wondered if Binghe forgot after all he dropped the charade when they lived together and didn’t touch him as much. Not needing to play it up for others.

“I bet your sick of my face Aha- go say hi to Ning Yingying for me.” He smiled and walked off with the principal before Binghe could say anything.

 Luo Binghe scowled as he walked towards the table with his girlfriends.

 Sha Hualing was sitting in Liu Mingyans lap, Hmm it appears they no longer want his company.

Luo Bknghe found himself relieved by that and of course he slumped into the chair as he leaned his head on Ning Yingyings shoulder, and sighed miserably.

“That bad?” She asked and he hummed, “it sas awful. Both of us had work so I barely had a chance to even-“ 

It was so domestic and wonderful, but they barely had time to sit and talk- and since Shen Qingqiu was always asleep he couldn’t get a read on his thoughts.

 “He still thinks it’s pretend?”

“Hmm-Hmm.”

“You should tell him.”

Luo Binghe blinked wondering why Ning Yingying gave him a hard look “Because it’s not pretend anymore, for both of you.”

Luo Binghe’s gaze narrowed, as he tried to grasp her mind and found the shields up.

 He could rip past them but didn’t to stay polite.

 “You’ve met someone else?”

“Don’t be mad.”

“Why would I be?”

“…it’s Ming Fan.”

“…”

He was judging her hard, “I know he bullied you but he promised he would apologise-“

“That’s not it- Ming Fan!?” He asked sceptical, and Ning Yingying nodded and he turned and almost missed him.

Ming Fan had a glow up.

 He wasn’t as handsome as Shen Qingqiu or himself but defiently upgraded from ‘passable’ to good looking.

 And he watched how even Shen Qingqiu who entered the hall did a double glance and even called his name in shock-

And that work preened under the attention.

Luo Binghe wanted him dead, was Shen Qingqiubeasily swayed?

“It’s hard to grasp his type.” Ning Yingying spoke looking as perplexed as him.

 “First Shang Qinghua, but with you we figured he liked smart handsome men, but it appears even Ming Fan draws his eye.”

So average pathetic people?

Was Binghe too handsome? Was that why Shen Qingqiu thought it was pretend? He assumed it was a joke?

As Shen Qingqiu, he nodded looking proud.

 Ah, he thought just as it should be, Binghe with his future wives they all look good together. I hope I’m invited to the wedding although being best man at Binghe’s wedding may be a dream come true he might ask someone else.

Binghe might ask someone else, because he would be in place of husband, not best man.

Binghe paused as he had that thought.

Marriage? That was a little quick although maybe living together made him feel strange.

“What did he want?”

“Hmm?”

Shen Qingqiu glanced at him while spreading butter on his toast.

 Luo Binghe wished he cooked his school meals for him.

Shen Qingqiu would always enjoy his food, face closed in bliss. Alas he didn’t want others to see Shen Qingqiu looking so spoiled.

 “Oh, we’ll um. Yue Qingyuan was aware of my living situation.” Shen Qingqiu but his lip as he tried to cut his bread into an even triangle.

 But Binghe felt himself grow cold, Shen Qingqiu was leaving him?

 That stupid principal- he saw how he looked at Shen Qingqiu their strange dynamic and rumours circulating that Shen Qingqiu was brutal to the people he liked and the way he was treating Yue Qingyuan meant he was practically fucking him!

 No- no he can’t leave!

“He decided to help me out,” Shen Qingqiu spoke taking a breath “Apparently as the whole world found out about my controversial core, my family kicked me out. Well since I’m a light core it gained a lot of sympathy,” Shen Qingqiu sneered, probably hating to be pitied or looked down upon.

 Of course since I’m the perfect victim the wizarding world would bend over backwards to help but people like Binghe? Or Wei Wuxian? Anyone whose not a light core gets shafted- 

“I’ve been proposed some offers, but since I’m still in school they promised to wait, Yue Qingyuan told me I could start my exams now and graduate early.”

Luo Binghe’s eyes widened “What?”

Shen Qingqiu sat up, eyes alight with excitement “Ues and their high paying jobs too- I showed some interest in working with Hanguang-Jun but he’s a top seater, even though I’m exiled I still have a seat and they want me to fill it now that I’m a light core they think my vote would result in Light magic as the main curriculum and make dark magic illegal.”

Sha Hualing gaped “That’s illegal and what about demons? All our magic is dark!”

“That’s why I need to work for Hanguang-Jun. The quicker I study and apprintence and show my aptitude I may become his secretary.”

“Why him specifically?”

“He’s the only series seat member at Huan Hua, the others who are sympathetic to the cause either have a disreputable past or would be seen as biased.”

“Why? Aren’t we doing okay? Do you want to leave that badly?”

Shen Qingqiu blinked only just remembering Binghe and it hurt more.

“What? No! This is to pay you back! I’ll be earning three times what we’re got now and you can graduate without having to worry about anything.”

Luo Binghe clenched his fists, it felt unfair.

 “I don’t want to be in your debt, and I didn’t offer, to make you indebted to me.”

I didn’t think that, Binghe has suffered so much I just want to help him and make easier for him he deserves a break.

“Please, Binghe. I’m not doing this because I feel obligated to, I just want to, your education shouldn’t suffer anymore.”

“So is that all its for? My education?”

What was Shen Qingqiu pampering Luo Binghe like he was some pedigree dog? Was he going to get some payoff after make sure Binghe was well educated.

Shen Qingqiu frowned, “Binghe,” he sounded lost, unsure why Luo Binghe was upset.

 “Didn’t you…want to be chief warlock?”

Luo Binghe looked perplexed, “Why would I want that? I have enough on my plate being the chosen one. What’s the point in laying roots if I get cut down one day.”

Shen Qingqiu flinched, “I thought,” 

If Binghe didn’t want to be chief warlock- was it just spite? Revenge? 

 Surely that can’t be the only reason. He’d want to change things, make it where people like him in the wizarding world would live better.

Or at least that’s what Shen Qingqiu believed.

 “I don’t believe in wasting my time in things that don’t suit my end goal, and being Chief warlock isn’t my future, and if you don’t understand that then you never knew me at all.”

Oh that hurt.

Sha Hualing cackled “Owch, breaking up on the first day?”

Shen Qingqiu blinked at her, forgetting she was there and Sha Hualing bristled at the look.

Oh, I completely forgot about that.

And Luo Binghe’s face still looked cold so Shen Qingqiu nodded “Ah, of course, Luo Binghe.”

He nodded then stood up to leave, his breakfast lay there untouched.

Luo Binghe stiffened, almost calling out- no Sha Hualing was saying crap, 

“Leave him alone.”

Ning Yingying spoke and he scowled but saw her face as she shook her head,

“Remember when he got that howler? How he looked indifferent? But you found him in the bathroom crying?”

Luo Binghe nodded and Ning Yingying glanced at Shen Qingqiubas he turned the corner and disappeared.

 “He looks the exact same now as he did then-“

Binghe wasted no time dumping Ning Yingying off his lap as he ran to chase Shen Yuan.

“Ning Yingying!” Ming fan cried as he helped her back up.

A/N: 

 Ming Fan Neville longbottomed us lmao.

Luo Binghe finds Shen Qingqiu and explains his reaction and that Shen Qingqiu had a lot of assumptions and expectations and Luo Binghe felt as if he wasn’t meeting them.

And Shen Qingqiu apologised stating that he never meant for binghe to feel like that and asked what his plans were if chief warlock wasn’t in the cards.

Binghe wanted to open a restaurant. And Shen Qingqiu melted and told him how wonderful that was.

Yue Qingyuan looks into Binghe’s accommodations and learns that the ministry was paying for Binghe’s house. So why was Shen Qingqiu and binghe working?

He calls binghe in. And binghe assumes he’s in trouble since he and Yue Qingyuan don’t get along well. And finds that Yue Qingyuan asks him his housing issues then gets it sorted because of that Luo Binghe is then compensated over a grande worth of money. He finally feels as of everything is looking up! Even Shen Qingqiu can’t believe the good news then blows up about that two big realtor that was taking money from the ministry AND binghe and was even blackmailing binghe would lose his home if he missed a payment.

“Once I’m in Hua Huan ministry I’ll hunt that rat down and make him wish for death, I’ll ruin him. Drive his buisness into the ground, make it impossible to find work, and give him a taste of what you went through- Binghe?”

Binghe was in love.

_______________

After the ‘exposing’ his core Luo Binghe was threatened expulsion. And Shen Qingqiu came to his defence.

Shen Qingqiu forgave Luo Binghe. He was still mad but didn’t think Binghe deserved to lose his right to his education over a mistake.

But Yue Qingyuan did not.

 “This is serious, Luo Binghe you are dismissed.”

As Shen Qingqiu was left alone, he felt awkward he and Yue Qingyuan had a history and he knew what that history was even so.

 “Luo Binghe paralysed you and exposed your core. That is a violation of basic wizarding rights, akin to rape. And yet you defend him? Why?”

 “Binghe would’ t do that-“ Shen Qingqiu spoke.

Yue Qingyuans eyes flickered but then returned to Shen Qingqiu as he continued.

“I bullied him, hurt him, and all of a sudden act like I’m in love with him. He was bound to snap, he thought I was pranking him and probably wanted to catch me in the act. He was just trying to protect himself anybody would be wary in their school bully changed and acted out of character.”

Yue Qingyuan looked at him in pity, “You think you deserve it. You think your getting your karma and think that makes it okay for others to hurt you. But Shen Qingqiu with that type of thinking, when do those types of people stop? What happens when you know longer can tell whose the bully and whose the victim? You may have hurt him, but Luo Binghe is old enough to understand his own actions and is aware enough that he is responsible for those actions no matter the reason.”

“Please don’t expel him, he’s good- he’s a really good kid.”

 Yue Qingyuan sighed, “You used to have better judgement than that, but for you Shen Qingqiu the boy won’t be expelled.” Shen Qingqiu relaxed.

“Instead I’ll personally see to his detention myself.”

“Thank you, Headmaster Yue- should I get him?”

“No need. He’s probably went to class you should return yourself.”

Once Shen Qingqiu was gone Yue Qingyuans warm gaze dropped turning cold.

He flicked his wand and the invisibility cloak was ripped from Luo Binghe who was trapped, his face red from anger.

 “To think Shen Qingqiu was defending you and you have the nerve to spit on that kindness.”

How!?

How did that old man know he was here!?

Yue Qingyuan would never reveal that he could sense when someone was trying to read his mind. And Luo Binghe was stunned, he barely saw the sect leader move!

He was strong. Really strong.

As Yue Qingyuan approached, Luo Binghe didn’t feel afraid just humiliated and annoyed.

“Shen Qingqiu may have flaws, but to spit upon his kindness is too far.” 

Yue Qingyuan reached out…and cupped Luo Binghe’s face.

Luo Bonghe felt his head tilted up, feeling his heartbeat quicken- what was he doing?

Yue Qingyuan dazed at him, cold and dismissive. Luo Binghe could feel sweat heading down his neck as he couldn’t move.

 “He felt like this. Trapped unable to move while another could do whatever he pleased.”

 Yue Qingyuans hand lowered and Luo Binghe’s throat bobbed. Yue Qingyuan was powerful, and Luo Binghe was arragont.

 He never understood the vastness of their power until now- he still couldn’t move.

“Shen Qingqiu was powerless, as you did whatever you liked…”

Yue Qingyuan was going to-

His hand squeezed his throat, not enough to hurt but to cut of oxygen, and Luo Binghe breath falterered feeling his heartbeat quicken as Yue Qingyuan gazed at him with indifference.

 “Do you understand now, Mr Luo? Or should I give more demonstrations.”

Uh- more demonstrations.

 Yue Qingyuan may have officially jump started Luo Binghe’s sexual awakening.

 “You can do whatever you like?”

And Yue Qingyuans lip pulled into a sneer, “Mr Luo, Shen Qingqiu may think you hung the stars and the moon but from what I see, is nothing but a self absorbed brat. I can’t find anything to be impressed with.”

 “You should see my dick, then you’d be impressed.”

Yue Qingyuan probably thought he was joking, but the man only tightened his grip, and Luo Binghe was powerless against it feeling a thrill as Yue Qingyuan leaned closer.

 “I prefer someone with more experience than a fumbling teenager who can’t tell when someone is saying no.”

Yue Qingyuan let go and Luo Binghe could finally move and breath while he panted.

 “You’ll be having detention with me. And Binghe, if you don't persuade me that what Shen Qingqiu see’s in you is true, then I will make life very difficult for you.”

Luo Binghe understood the threat. Yue Qingyuan could’ve been the youngest chief warlock by his prowess alone but decided to be a principal and said that it’s be better that someone who was older like the Palace Master should be chief warlock instead. 

 Even so, Luo Binghe shifted grabbing his cloak and sulked out the office.

He already slept with his girlfriends and learned all he could know, but when it came to men he was ignorant.

 He bet that if he played it right Yue Qingyuan would scratch that itch when Shen Qingqiu was being obviously obtuse with his teasing.

“I want to learn how to please men and you should teach me.”

Yue Qingyuan raised an eyebrow, then tensed when Luo Binghe grew bold moving forward groping the principal.

Yue Qingyuans face grew thunderous, “Luo Binghe-“

The boy grew coquettish as he purred “It’s fine isn’t it, this Binghe knows you have fantasies about your precious Shen Qingqiu but you don’t want to ruin your relationship with him pretend I’m Shen Qingqiu take out your frustration-“

 “One more word and I’ll stick it shut.” Yue Qingyuan warned feeling more irritated as Luo Binghe pressed closer, “Hmm, I just want to be more informed on how men have sex I want to be prepared if Shen Qingqiu and I take that next step. I don’t want to hurt him.”

Yue Qingyuan pushed him back turning around to ignore him until-

“Or I could contact the ministry about that full body bind you pulled. All it would take is them seeing a student in that position with the head principal of Cang Qiong and you’d be ruined.”

He was blackmailing him.

Yue Qingyuan glared and Luo Binghe beamed. Jackpot.

…nope he regretted it.

 Yue Qingyuan covered his bases. He actually treat it as a lesson. Making a rebound spell so binghe couldn’t get within a foot of him and actually gave binghe sex education. With the boring diagrams and vague descriptions on sex like it was theory.

 Luo Binghe was so bored and yet it was educational. 

 Even so he decided to back off from teasing Yue Qingyuan because the lesson itself was punishment enough. 

Yue Wingyuan was worried about Luo Bonghe and even though he did not want to touch that stick with a ten foot pole he decided to broach the subject.

“Mr Luo.” 

“Hmm?”

Binghe was copying down lines, about how he will never do something without that persons explicit permission.

And Yue Qingyuan wondered if maybe- 

“We’re you ever…assaulted as a child?” Well assault was a strong word, here Binghe paused as he looked up.

“Huh?”

“Did an adult touch you inappropriately when you were young? Was your boundaries constantly crossed so now you don’t understand what a boundary is?”

Luo Binghe blinked, and almost felt offended.

“No! No one has- why would you think that?”

Yue Qingyuan raised an eyebrow “Well given that you’re making me worried about making a student pregnant with your escapades, or possibly in danger of an std your are more sexually active for a student your age.”

Luo Binghe eyes narrowed “That’s normal.”

“What isn’t normal is to pursue a teacher who is eight years your senior.”

Wow only eight. Luo Binghe thought he was older.

 “To not understand the basic principles of consent.”

 Luo Binghe placed his pen or paper down.

“What? Want to know my history?” Luo Binghe leered and Yue Qingyuan only gazed at him cooly, unaware that it was really doing something for him.

 “No. I’ll just inform Mu Qingfan and set you up to a mediwitch.”

“You want to send me to a shrink?”

Luo Binghe spoke flabbergasted, and Yue Qingyuan nodded “Yes.”

Luo Binghe thought it wouldn’t help but then it turns out the more he talked, the more he was told that his lack of power and control when he was bullied made him react. Having sex and finding out he was good at it gave him confidence not to mention his first time wasn’t really consensual.

Luo Binghe didn’t understand he was raped by a women and thought that was impossible as all men liked it? The mediwitch only gave him a pity look. And told Binghe he was becoming the bully, he had this dynamic where Shen Qingqiu was now the victim. And flipped their dynamic. When it comes to acedemics Shen Qingqiu bullied him, looked down on him and now seeing Shen Qingqiu looking flustered and unsure gave Binghe the confidence and wielded his sexual knowledge as a weapon. And looked down on Shen Qingqiu.

“This isn’t healthy.”

 Luo Binghe pressed his lips together.

 He didn’t understand it before but now…

“The only good thing about your relationship with Shen Qingqiu, is that he respects your boundaries, he only lets you control how far you’ll go.”

“That’s because he’s scared to.”

“Maybe he’s happy just being friends? But he doesn’t discourage any type of act of intamicy. He lets you decide how far you want to go and with that your in control. But that is a lot of trust he is placing in your hands and that’s when you need to start thinking of his needs and when you need to stop.”

 Luo Bonghe blinked, after all…he had already read Shen Qingqiu’s mind, he wasn’t a threat anymore. Playing these mind games was just cruel at this point.

 “You think about that, I’ll see you at your next session.”

When he came back to Yue Qingyuans detention he was more subdued, and less flirty. Yue Qingyuan was almost getting used to it. “What is it?”

“What I did to Shen Qingqiu others can do. Isn’t there a system to stop students from taking advantage of one another? A rebound on wands to the caster gets hit with the spell instead of a victim?”

Yue Qingyuan nodded, “Yes, I have been working on such an array to stop students from hexing and jinxing the others as well as other types of malicious spell casting. I figured what if I only make it where you can only cast spells in a classroom? But that creates a resentment and all students need to do is wait until they graduate before attacking others because they were curious on what would happen if they did.”

“But a rebound to make them experience the spell will make them think twice, it’ll put them in their victims shoes.”

“Maybe an alert so the security would be able to apprehend both parties so no one gets hurt.”

 And Luo Binghe and Yue Qingyuan worked on an array together for their detention.

This ends up saving Shen Qingqiu’s life from a vindictive Qiu Haitang. And Shen Qingqiu feels frustrated when she was ejected from their friend group and yet Shen Qingqiu felt as if he was just filling in for Qui Haitang.

 Shen Qingqiu scowled, even with Luo Binghe’s hand wrapped around his waist but his attention was on Ning Yingying, and Shen Qingqiu felt something sink in the pit of his stomach and felt heavier.

 It wasn’t going to last, he glanced at Luo Binghe who smiled at him, he smiled back.

Soon it’d be me being banished from this group, after all it’s only pretend. After Luo Binghe is satisfied he’ll forget all about me, so what does it matter?

Luo Binghe’s smile faded.

“Hmm? Binghe? Are you all right?” Luo Binghe’s grip on his waist tightened, “Qingqiu, you know I like you right?”

“Yes and I like Binghe.” Obviously.

“And I like Binghe,” Sha Hualing spoke as did Ning Yingying and Liu Mingyan which wasn’t helping his case.

 Luo Binghe opened his mouth then shut it. Shen Qingqiu didn’t care that Luo Binghe exposed his core, which lead to Qui Haitang finding out and blaming to Shen Qingqiu’s parents. He forgave him because he thought it was payback. That it was justified to a bully from a victim.

But from a lover?

Luo Binghe realised that Shen Qingqiu never saw their relationship as official or real only pretend. Because Luo Binghe didn’t treat it as such, he was callous in his feelings and Yue Qingyuan was right, a child acting petty and was awful. 

 Luo Binghe betrayed his trust, Shen Qingqiu wasn’t forgiving but he had pursuade himself that the relationship was pretend to spare his own feelings.

 If Shen Qingqiu didn’t have that thought to call back on, Luo Binghe would have hurt him beyond anything he could fix.

As he went to Yue Qingyuan that night, he felt ashamed of himself. And found his mothers words coming back to him hauntingly.

Remember to be kind.

 She would be disgusted with Binghe.

Yue Qingyuan glanced up, seeing Luo Binghe diligently doing his notes without lip.

…something was wrong.

So Binghe asked if there was a way to rebound the worst curses such as the full body bind or even stupify.

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[darkpoisonouslove]

Marion, Faragonda and the Ancestral Witches for the bingo? 👀

Thanks for the ask!

Marion:

She has had so much happen to her and only about 0.00001% of that has been acknowledged by the franchise. Like, okay then. If you won't do anything with her, why put her in the story in the first place? Oh, that's right. To give Bloom everything she's ever wanted. Honestly, this is pretty much Winx Club's patented process of coming up with brilliant characters and then wasting them.

Anyway, she's a bad bitch, a total queen in every sense of the word and an emotional wreck sidelined by a story that cannot fit this much greatness in it. Case open and the folder is bursting with all the different threads woven into this woman. Definitely needs further investigating and that's my opinion as a professional fangirl.

Faragonda:

I'm not the biggest Faragonda fan. Tbh I am a lot more interested in her dynamics with other characters than in her as a standalone character. But my god, the fandom does not get her, like, at all. If I see one more Shady!gonda post, I swear to god. People need to stop fucking villainizing her for the fact that she's purposefully sidelined by the writers in order to put the spotlight on the Winx and make the plot happen. Get a grip! That's not interesting! Feels like the very same processes behind the "Flora is a drug dealer" take are at play here as well. People just cannot handle kind, (seemingly) non-threatening characters. Everything has to be EdgyTM.

I think the backstory adds a lot to her character (and the rest of the Company of Light). Exploring the ways in which she has healed from her trauma and the ways in which she has suppressed it in order to be at least somewhat functional as a leader is a far more interesting way to engage with her character imo. The fallout with Griffin some time after the final battle on Domino is the prime example of this because think of the trauma of essentially losing another friend after what they all went through that day on Domino and after Hagen left, too. And then trying to balance her non-existent relationship with Griffin, her (now co-dependent, on her end at least) relationship with Saladin and Griffin and Saladin's surviving relationship that she's not privy to. I'd better stop or I'll start writing fanfiction right here in this post.

Ancestral Witches:

They're only interesting conceptually and the concept is... not lacking per se, but very unclear. They mostly exist in backstory and the backstory is a nebulous void basically so... that's not helping them. Honestly, if you really think about it, they're not that threatening. They supposedly served Darkar so they weren't even their own bosses and it took them, like, centuries? iirc to even locate the Dragon Fire and then steal it. The Trix were infinitely more proficient than that, please! They are totally underwhelming in SotLK, too, even when they're onscreen with how illogical their whole plan of action is. Didn't they know that Bloom survived and had the Dragon Fire? Valtor knew that! Yet the movie implies it's news to them. And their plan to get Bloom to destroy the sword is pathetic. They are only truly menacing in Magical Adventure (another proof that it's the superior movie).

I'm going on a slight headcanon tangent here because it explains perfectly what I find to be lacking with them. At least one dub implies that the Shadow Phoenix possessed a person to become Lord Darkar. Seeing that he created the Ancestral Witches, the assumption that they were just like him - incorporeal - fixes literally every problem. Why it took them so long to obtain the Dragon Fire? Because they needed to find bodies first. Why creating Valtor at all if they are more powerful? For the same reason. Having descendants (magically created; PLEASE, the idea that the Trix are somehow biological descendants of the Witches is fucking nightmare fuel and needs to be abolished!)? For the same reason again. Why not just possess the descendants then? Because that would limit the power that the Ancestral Witches can harness through the mortal bodies they've possessed (they'd need someone with strong and compatible powers (aka end of Magical Adventure) or to create their own bodies). It will even mix perfectly with Valtor's mark and what it does to people - it's a downgrade of their ability to possess people. Having them as incorporeal entities makes them more interesting because they have something to overcome too while at the same time it doesn't necessarily make them any less threatening. On the contrary, if played correctly, this could be a trump card. They can be everywhere, unable to directly influence events but lurking into every corner, seeing everything and pulling strings through the puppets they already do have (aka Valtor and their descendants). It would make them more interesting, plus, could kind of be a reason for how unsegregated their personalities are.

Anyway, canon version is cringefail. Not least of all because they got an ember of the Dragon Fire, made a living, breathing creature from it, looked at it and went "Hm, yeah, that's only good enough to be a tool." I'm starting to ask myself if the writers were projecting when they wrote the Ancestral Witches.

#winx club #winx marion #winx faragonda #ancestral witches #character bingo #ask #solisvia

[waeirfaahl]

"Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time" game issue

When the game was announced, I was very skeptical and absolutely unenthusiastic about it, because I hated 5 season. It was just a bad fanfiction, which can not be fixed at all and has no reasons and no possibilities to exist. The only thing the authors can do is to appease shippers by creating the full happy ending, where Ashi is alive and lives with Jack in the past. And exactly that happens. Basically how the show would have ended, if 5 season was made in early 2000s on Cartoon Network. The full happy ending for sobbing shippers is the only reason why the game exists. But in this post I'll mention specific problems of the story in this game and some weird moments, which actually had some potential and interesting ideas, which weren't developed at all, hence their existence makes no sense here.

1. The Between-Time pocket. 5 season itself already added various new abilities to Aku and broke the character, the universe, where he exists, and the story makes no sense because of it. Also, this moment below again shows that Aku had perfect chance finally to kill Jack. Like, pierce or crush him now! Why don't you do this?! And why Jack didn't just cut off his fingers?! Brah!

The game continues this tradition, this path of stupidity. If Aku was able all this time to open the time portal and travel immediately, why he didn't do this in 10 episode of 5 season and didn't kill Jack and Ashi?! Moreover, if Aku himself can travel in time, why he didn't travel to the past and didn't kill both Emperor (during "Birth of Evil" episodes — I don't think that Emperor could defeat the two demons — the newborn one and his experienced and more powerful version from the future) and baby Jack and didn't destory the sword?! Like, there's no time paradoxes for Aku, so he literally could resolve the problem without "help" of any other characters.

Now Aku can create Between-time pockets with perfect replicas of any being or robot or even location from the real world. Yep, for these, I guess, 5 seconds he creates this time pocket (what's a point of conquering the world, if you can create your own world with lots of amazing locations and habitants?! You're already a literal f*cking god!) and traps Jack here instead of killing him. And for some reason Aku doesn't hide those necklaces with own face, he doesn't try to kill Ashi, who's the only one who can free Jack and return to the time tunnel. WHY?!

And here's other questions. If Aku created all this from scratch, then what the f*ck was it to create characters friendly to Jack with useful stuff and to create the enemies that Jack has already defeated and now he has experience in it?! Why not give new enemies, thereby creating more problems and difficulties for Jack and playing on surprise and unpredictability? Why not make friendly allies on the contrary creepy and hostile, if "everything is not what it seems" as Aku claims? In the game Aku again had lots of moments, when he could kill Jack. For example, here he could just either pierce him or crush or tear apart or cut in half.

Or here. Why he didn't kill him?!

And he again ignores Ashi and doesn't try to kill her (the perfect chance!), while she tries to free Jack... somehow... being absolutely unexperienced and without knowing how to use these sudden new abilities especially in these conditions... She is still Mary Sue... even being mostly off-screen in this game...

And WHY didn't Aku just erase this pocket along with Jack?! He created this Between-Time thing, so he easily can destroy everything in this pocket and this pocket itself! He could resolve this problem immediately!

Tartakovsky and the team again turn Aku into irresponsible idiot... How long can they mock this poor character already? They already disgraced him in 5 season, and it was not enough for them, I guess...

Seriously, instead of destroying the human brats, due to which Aku is near death, he just plays with Jack and does everything for him to succeed. Ah, badass Wolf from "Puss in boots 2: The last wish", come to Aku and teach him the one important lesson, please. And kick butts of Tartakovsky and the team also.

2. The plot holes. I realized this moment during the recent last playthrough, when I had already collected all 50 kamons. If we take into account that this pocket Between-Time is completely created by Aku (respectively, everything in it is created by Aku magic — from inhabitants to locations), then… WHAT THE HELL ARE THE LOCATIONS AND ENEMIES OF 5 SEASON DOING THERE (from 1-3 and 8 episodes with local enemies — the seven sisters and Lazarus, for example), if Aku DID NOT KNOW about all this in season 5 at all, because he absolutely ignored Jack at all in 5 season?! WHERE is it from here?! And HOW did he know that Ashi had sisters at all?! Damn...

And since Aku created them for this pocket, why the hell he again got into only Ashi and transformed into a crooked thing only her, and not all seven, so that it would be harder for Jack to fight, and so that he could not know which of them was Ashi, and therefore he'd worried about not hurting her?! Moreover, why he didn't create hundreds of exactly Ashi's replicas to trick and to break Jack morally?! That would make a bit more sense instead of creating plot holes for fan-service.

3. Cheating the emotions with meaningless and unintentionally morbid moments, which repeat the scenes from 5 season, but make them even worse. Sorry, but this plot element, apparently intended to be tragic, actually made me laugh. Like, Jack repeats his lines from 3 episode of 5 season about choosing path and making decisions here, but it makes even less sense. Jack perfectly knows that the Between-Time pocket was created by Aku, hence all inhabitants are not real, but just bland replicas without past and future.

Why he tries to communicate with the seven sisters and especially with this Ashi in attempts to "make them to reject Aku's path and to choose own path of goodness"? In 5 season it was already quite stupid, because he knew nothing about them, they already in 2 episode stated that they'll chase and attack Jack until either he or/and they die, and they can not choose anything else, because they're brainwashed and they carry out the mother's order on pain of death.

Then this moment. You know, that's actually not a bad idea. I mean, possibly that could work. Like, if you do anything right and successfully save all Ashi's sisters, exactly after this the true happy ending will be unblocked or whatever. But it could work only if it was alternative time line or travelling to the past (to the beginning of 5 season) or some kind of deadworld void or whatever, where all souls of deads are. In the setting the game chose it doesn't work. Again, all in the pocket is created by Aku, all these locations and habitants are not real, and they probably can not exist beyond the Between-Time. Jack knows that everything here is not real. Then why he so blindly believed to the voice "Save my sisters!"?! Like, he heard only the voice, he didn't see Ashi! He saw her only in the void, in the crevices between those levels Aku for some reason didn't block or seal! Jack had to realize immediately that it isn't the real Ashi, because the real Ashi tried to save only him, and it's just another Aku's prank!

Then this scene, which copies the scene from 2 episode of 5 season. From one side, again, why he cares about them and their death, if he knows that they're not real? From another side, this scene is cringe, because in 2 episode of 5 season Jack didn't know who are they and that they're humans. Here he knows and was asked to help them instead of killing, but still kinda kills accidentally instead of knocking them out and feels guilt. Why?!

And now this scene... Like, Jack kills the six sisters and for some reason tries to convince this Between-Time Ashi to become his ally. It is amusing, how he kills her sisters and then just tells her how good and pure-hearted she is... And she for some reason starts to hesitate... Again, the fake replica without past and future for some reason somehow has memories about the ladybug (I don't get it, whether he means the ladybug from her childhood or from this island in ocean in 4 episode) and kinda wants to befriend with this random guy who killed her sisters...

Thanks, Aku shares my thoughts and just ends this soap opera...

And Jack, having fast reaction, for some reason didn't lower the sword... Although, Aku just gently pushed her, not with all the force...

I can not for the life of me understand, why he cares about this replica, if he knows that she is not real. Like, I could understand, if Jack saw how Aku captures Ashi (another illusion, made by Aku for prank) and therefore thinks that she is among these six replicas and is under the spell and he has to save her and make her remember about their journey again, but no...

At least, this moment was pretty cool. That is what should be in 9 or 10 episode of 5 season. However, as we can see, Aku is a puppetmaster here, he uses her corpse.

So, again, Jack knows that this "monster-turned" Ashi is not real, that she is dead and that Aku now is inside of her... Why he still refuses to fight and to kill Aku?!

And of course, the real Ashi somehow knows how to use these abilities and how the Between-Time pocket and its portals work, arrives exactly now to burn the fake Ashi and... for some reason is sure that Jack has to move to the final level with Aku's castle instead of trying to expand the portal so that Jack can get to her as soon as possible and successfully.

Why they didn't do this earlier, but only now in the final of the last level?

And Jack again ignores Da Samurai, Rotty, Scotsman and his daughters, while they helped him in both season 5 and the game...

4. Take two, why Aku died?! Here I already discussed that the ending of 5 season makes zero sense in all aspects and that in the past (or even in the future) Aku after defeating had to become imprisoned in the stone tree again instead of death. Simply saying, 5 season again ruins the canon of the classic seasons. But what we see in the game? Well, after fight Aku from the future for some reason dies and fades away in ashes, at the same time claiming that it's not over as if he just returned to the future... WHY?! Like, Jack just hit him with the sword and nothing more! No piercing in the chest, no burning and cutting him, no absorbing him into the sword or whatever! In the classic seasons Aku was hurted and exhausted even more than here, then what a hell?! If they so wanted to kill this character, why not to think the way of his final defeat through?!

Why the Between-Time pocket started to collapse and Aku was surprised by this, if he is the one who created this pocket and has to know everything in it?!

The game itself is pretty nostalgic, but if you start to think and to analyze the story... you'll discover the pure madness and your eyes start to roll and blood to boil. And, as I said earlier, this game was created only for this:

#aku samurai jack #samurai jack #samurai jack 5 season #ashi samurai jack #samurai jack battle through time

[ncardaesthetics]

Shinonome Trivia

All info is pulled directly from the Shinonome idols side stories, home screen dialogue, etc. Not really trivia but more of a collection of little fun facts, hopefully it’ll be helpful to anyone who wants to write fanfiction or make art of the Shinonome idols! Sorted alphabetically by last name, things related to relationships between the idols are at the end!

Note: Some card stories are still missing! This post will be updated if/when I find these.

Christina:

She comes from Trento, Italy.

She prefers to be called Chris.

She appears to be Christian/Catholic, ex. "May the blessing of God reach everyone"

Her hobby is cats cradle.

She mentions having panicked on stage before.

She refers to the sun as "Mr. Sun"

She took up sewing because she wanted to help make outfits.

She writes lyrics for the group sometimes.

Uses "-san" for her friends.

Kasane Hasekura

Her hobby is cosplaying.

She's very proficient at sewing, and often makes her own clothes.

She likes cotton candy.

Kasane made all the costumes herself at first, but learned to let the others help her over time.

She often forgets what she wants to talk about, and has decided to start writing down the conversation topics she thinks of throughout the day.

Kasane insists on taking measurements for the others.

Uses "-chan" for her friends.

Rika Kamiya

She became an idol in order to research how a single stage can move the hearts of so many people.

Refers to others as her "test subjects" sometimes.

She isn't easily scared, as she claims that if you have knowledge, you won't be afraid of many things.

She is very knowledgeable about nature and plant species.

She would like to meet "all the school idols" someday, as she believes all the school idols meeting would result in an amazing chemical reaction.

She doesn't seem very flattered by compliments on her appearance, and instead takes the opportunity to begin researching what exactly "cute" is and how it moves others.

She seems insecure about her performances, saying she knows they're "boring".

She also seems interested in neuroscience, as she's investigating how the brain reacts to performances.

She uses "-kun" for her friends, or at least Kasane.

Mizuki Kikkawa

She enjoys basketball, and wants to participate in the inter-high school tournament.

She decided to become a school idol because she thought it would help her improve in basketball as well, although she realizes this has nothing to do with the sport after joining.

She hates giving up, which is part of why she stuck with being a school idol.

Another game she enjoys is shadow tag.

She gets nervous performing in front of children, or at least when she's acting in a play.

There's another girls' basketball player she's been admiring and watching for years.

She really likes millet dumplings.

People often misread/mispronounce "Kikkawa"

Mizuki doesn't use any honorifics for her friends.

Haruka Konoe

She's her class representative.

At first, she thinks that everyone in the idol club is weird, and states that she has to "fix this".

Haruka is very bad at cooking.

All of Haruka's classmates come to watch her performances.

She uses "-chan" for her friends.

Kanata Konoe

She only became a school idol to help her sister out.

She's a member of the health committee, but she spends most of her time sleeping in the nurse's office.

She's very attached to her pillow, and says nobody else is allowed to use it.

She tries her best because she doesn't want to mess up and make her sister sad.

She brings her pajamas to school.

She's good at cooking, and claims it's the only thing she's good at.

She refers to the infirmary as "the school's paradise."

She refers to her friends with "-chan"

Yuri Mido

She doesn't like frilly/fluttery outfits, and refuses to believe she looks good in them.

It seems like she became an idol because of Coco, and refers to idol club as "weird" at first.

While she had no interest in idols at first, she liked creating her own music and performing with the club.

She seems to like rock music, and thinks it's cool.

She plays guitar, and is apparently really good at it.

She hates being told what to do.

She doesn't think she's cute, and doesn't like being called cute.

She says she doesn't really have likes or dislikes.

Yuri doesn't use any honorifics for her friends.

Coco Miyashita

Her hobby is volunteering.

She became a school idol because she wanted to be of use to more people.

She's a bit embarrassed of her performances at first.

She does a lot of volunteering because she wants to make people happy.

One of the places she volunteers at is a nursing home.

She often goes "hawawa~"

She returns money when she finds it on the ground.

She refers to her friends with "-chan".

Sana Yuki

Her hobby is listed as "none in particular"

She claims that she didn't really want to be a school idol, but she joined because the club wanted her to so badly. She seems to try her best out of spite, at least in the beginning.

She seems to dislike it when others goof off, and claims that she's extremely busy.

She refuses to wear a clown outfit at first, and insist they should be wearing more elegant outfits, but eventually gives in and does her best to wear it properly.

While practicing juggling for the aforementioned outfit, she gets frustrated and throws the balls at the wall, only to have them bounce back and hit her in the face.

She plays tennis as well.

She has a hard time expressing herself, especially when it comes to gratitude, and says that singing helps her say the words she can't usually bring herself to.

She gets embarrassed when she's called cute unexpectedly.

She insists she's amazing at tennis, though when she tries to demonstrate, she accidentally "hits a home run" instead.

She's trying to learn how to sew, but is having a hard time.

She doesn't use any honorifics for her friends.

Relationships:

Christina taught Haruka and Kasane to play cats cradle.

Christina states that Haruka and Kanata treat her well, which makes her want to visit the infirmary more.

Christina volunteered at a community center with Coco.

Kasane has met Koyuki and Himeno, and calls them cute.

Kasane and Mutsuki are the only people that Rika has mentioned, with Kasane being the only one mentioned by name.

Mizuki gets the other girls to play basketball with her during their idol practice breaks.

Mizuki thinks that Yuri is amazing at playing guitar.

Mizuki says that the other girls in her club give her a fuzzy feeling, and she wants to protect them.

According to Mizuki, Coco and Yuri are always together.

Haruka is always cleaning up after Kanata, and says she "has no appeal as a girl". Despite her annoyance with her sometimes, they are very close and have a good relationship.

Haruka and Kanata sometimes wear matching outfits, which makes Haruka extremely happy.

Coco helped Haruka make chocolate for Kanata.

Rika and Kanata get along well, according to Haruka.

Kanata says that Haruka gets angry with her a lot, and wants her to be nicer to her, though this is likely only said because Haruka wakes her up often.

Kanata's pajamas were made by Haruka and Kasane.

Haruka helps Kanata study.

Yuri thinks that Coco is tricking her when she says she looks good in her idol outfits.

Coco and Yuri practice together.

Yuri is somewhat annoyed that Coco prioritized a teacher over her, but knowing that Coco is likely upset about breaking her promise to Yuri, she goes to help her.

Coco was, in fact, very upset about the possibility of not being able to practice with Yuri.

Yuri and Coco go shopping together.

Coco thinks Yuri is both cool and cute, and seems to admire her a lot.

Yuri, Coco, and Kasane make outfits together.

After hearing that Yuri got a love letter in her locker, Coco decides to put one in her locker as well.

Christina and Coco study up on Japan together.

Sana claims she can see right through Rika's insistence that she's simply researching school idols.

Mizuki gets flustered while Kasane is measuring her.

Kanata has prayed with Christina before, but fell asleep.

Yuri buys Coco ice cream for doing a good deed.

Rika met Mutsuki at the beach.

#christina #llsif christina #kasane hasekura #rika kamiya #haruka konoe #kanata konoe #mizuki kikkawa #yuri mido #coco miyashita #sana yuki #trivia #shinonome academy #llsif #love live #love live school idol festival #n girls #n card girls #llsif normals #mod coco

[sanversandfriends]

Sanvers fans know her from her amazing contributions of art and fic to the Big Bang, but @morganastorm24 is also a multi-talented writer and artist for multiple ships in the DC universe. She also has love of everything Lois Lane. In honor of the Planet's star reporter, we've asked her to share a glimpse into her writing process. Thanks, Morgana!

Tell us a little about yourself. How did you get started writing fic? Have you written for other fandoms? What are your favorite tropes?  

I've been writing for as long as I can remember - even longer according to my mum. I've always loved creating stories and would sit with my teddies and toy horses, reading them stories (even before I could read, because that's what pictures are for, right? Telling a thousand words and all that). For my 6th or 7th birthday, I apparently asked for a "really nice writing set and an even nicer book to write in". I was given a ring binder with plastic pockets, a notebook and a pencil case full of stationery. I still have that ring binder to this day, though it's not filled with all my random childish scribbles like it once was. 

I started writing fanfiction not long after Star Wars: Attack of the Clones came out. That's the earliest fanfic I can remember writing, anyway. I wrote Anakin and Padme's adventures after they got married, and then when rumours started flying about what was going to happen in Episode 3, I wrote my very first "fix it fic" by finding a way to keep Padme alive (as I couldn't bear the thought of my favourite character dying). Most of those very early fics never left the pages of the notebooks they were scrawled in and nobody else ever saw them (thank god!), but it wasn't until I started reading fanfiction online that I realised I could actually do that too - share my ideas with the world. I dabbled a little in fanfic for the tv show Casualty (a British medical drama), had more success with Doctor Who, wrote some more Star Wars, then Merlin and eventually (and most recently) Supergirl (with a dash of other DC). 

What were your inspirations for this particular story? What was it about this/these ships that grabbed you?

This fic was born of a single image - namely Chyler first revealing that she was going to wear a black and blue super suit and become Supergirl for one episode. That image alone was enough to get my mind racing with possibilities and ideas of how it might come to pass. I have to be honest and say I stopped watching the show after the Crisis stuff, so I've never actually seen her episode as Supergirl, but maybe that's a good thing? At least this way I know that my version of her is different and unique.

I am and always will be a huge Sanvers stan, but there's something so appealing about AgentCorp as well, and the show really dropped the ball when they wouldn't let Alex and Lena be together. They're an interesting and dynamic pairing - they share interests, are both huge science nerds and yet so completely different that its great fun writing them both together.

As for Lois and Kara - that one literally came out of nowhere and took me by surprise. I'd never intended for it to happen, and yet now that it has, I'm wondering why I never thought of it sooner!

Has the time spent away from your story changed your outlook or approach to any of the storylines or themes? Have you had any new inspirations or breakthroughs/revelations in the meantime? 

Absolutely. I got to a point with the fic where it had grown stale, and I was constantly hitting up against a wall with no idea how to get around it, or to power through it. So, I walked away from the fic and decided to focus on other WIPs and new creations instead. Coming back to it now, I've been able to see everything with fresh eyes, and I can see not only where I was going wrong before, but also a way to fix it. Changing the villain, adding characters, getting rid of redundant plot threads and adding more relevant pieces has really helped to get this work to a place where finally, I can see the finish line and I know I'm going to make it. That's a huge relief, considering where I was 2 years ago when I first started writing it.

Any advice for new or aspiring fic writers?

Never give up. No matter how hard it might be, just put words on a page. It doesn't matter how rubbish they are, as my BFF always says, "You can't edit a blank page." Let yourself suck, let yourself write horrendously. It's all good practice. Even if those words never leave your notebook or the document on your computer, they've taught you something, they've helped you to improve, so be proud of them.

Writing is also a bit like a painting. Not even Da Vinci or Van Gogh sat at his easel and created a masterpiece on his first try. There's the initial sketches to plan out the idea. That's your plot or summary. Then you add basic blocks of colours. That's your first draft. From then on, you work away slowly, adding details, shading, contouring...those are your second, third, fourth drafts. Keep revising and editing as much as you need - there's no right or wrong number of times you should be doing it. Because each time you do, you're adding more detail to your masterpiece. And what you end up with is a work of art.

One final piece of advice... writing is not a solo event. All those times a writer is depicted sitting along, tapping away at a keyboard or scribbling in a notebook, it's so misleading. Get yourself a writing buddy. DKGwrites and I are best friends, we met through fanfiction (and I'm eternally grateful for that everyday). We have regular writing sessions together, and ok it's 90% messing around, distracting one another, talking utter nonsense or throwing random videos and links to each other, but that 10% when we do actually behave and get down to the task at hand, it's so much more fun writing together than it ever is when we try to write alone. Silliness aside, we help one another, bounce ideas off one another, motivate and encourage one another, and it's the best thing ever. So find yourself a writing buddy, and have a blast!

If you were going to promote this fic with a single line, what would it be? 

What if Supergirl was a badass redhead called Alex Danvers?

We'll have more about her artwork in the coming weeks, but in the meantime, check out her work on A03!

#Supergirl #Finish the Fic #AgentCorp #Kaois #Lois Lane

[pretty-weird-ideas]

A tired Black fans opinion on "Blackwashing" being used incorrectly

Day 499 of telling people to stop labeling explicitly racially ambiguous dark skin POC drawn with black features as "blackwashing".

Not only is that term incredibly antiblack and inflammatory. But it's incredibly telling when characters who lack any racialized features outside of their dark skin are labeled as "GOD PLEASE ANYTHING BUT BLACK!" and simply adding a wider nose or kinkier hair has created such insane and intense backlash and hate brigades. It is also present to a lesser degree in fanfiction/HC drabbles where the character is written to have more coding that leans into a reading of said character being black. 

If a character has no human skin tone, they can be black!

If a character is dark-skinned but has no further racialized features, they can be black!

Even if they have those racialized features they can still be

Say it with me now

PART BLACK!

It becomes blatantly clear when the term blackwashing has just meant, "you drew a character I PERSONALLY IMAGINED AS NONBLACK AS BLACK".

This isn't just about the "changing skin tones" of popular characters either. I am talking about fanworks that retain their canon skin tone and features, but due to the scope of their work and art style, must divulge more racialized features. An example is art style from chibi to cartoonish realism, simply adding a nose or detailing a hairstyle due to realism creates racialized features. Another example is having a character use or proclaim black cultural statements to fill in gaps.

I had someone get genuinely mad when I joked about XEHANORT WEARING A DURAG. HE'S BALD.

Not only did the joke go far over their heads, but it spurred them to make incorrect statements about a racially ambiguous dark-skinned character's race.

It is clearly not fair nor is it even proper to proclaim that something is blackwashing when a character is drawn with more black features than a random person is okay with. But it's even more upsetting seeing people genuinely use the term to take canonical or possible representation as a whole away from black people. 

This is one of the many reasons why using the term "blackwashing" was and still is a word used to silence black fans and their allies in fandom for simply having the "gall and hubris" to draw dark skin characters as black without any change to canon features. People arguing that blackwashing debates are simply for "changing canon" or the even more unbelievable defense of "only when they say they're 'fixing them'" is when you look at who is debating and accusing people of blackwashing.

A large portion of "antiblackwashers" are idoidically calling out:

-Art of canonical black characters.

-Cosplays worn by black people.

-Selfinsert art (Drawing cosplayers as the character, “What if I was ___”)

-OC art. (People “swearing” that they remember a completely new character was white in “source material”. They then chose to accuse artist of blackwashing. Said art is the source material.)

-Art of characters with no canon race.

-Art of characters with more realistic ethnic features and cultural clothing. 

-Fully Asian or Indigenous characters drawn with more realistic and accurate features for the art style. (They are accused of being turned black. They simply look less white, and it makes them angry)

-Simply wondering about “what if they added a black character”. (“Elves can’t be black”, “The fictional world doesn’t WANT black people”, “Anime with black people is weird”, etc)

-Never said that a character is “better” or “fixed”. The artist simply drew them with black features. (The people claiming that they only care about “word choice” still attack them).

These are Freudian slips where fans claim that any appearance of blackness, “Isn’t right” or “Must be wrong” as well as immediately associating the existence of blackness with the erasure of other minorities. Even when there were no Asian people to begin with, or the character in question is 100% Asian and the artwork features said character… with only Asian features. I've seen them be accused of “blackwashing” This is due to a colorist reading of Asian people as all being light-skinned. 

People claimed that drawing or casting a classical white character as a black person “erased Asians”. None of the characters in question were Asian. This person just presumed that because a small amount of art where black artists reimagined characters as black would eventually and sometimes include Asian characters (most of them are drawn with both black and Asian features and are labeled as blasian by the artist). 

This is also why fans have constantly seen spamming in comments of depictions of characters reimagined as Blasian that they “ruined Asian representation”. The idea of race mixing is seen as unfathomable and undesirable. Because the true Freudian message is that they think that blackness is bad and undesirable, even when it is a possibility for unspecified POC or when it is mixed into their character by choice. 

This is also why people who claim that they only care about people who say “they fixed the art” have been seen commenting and harassing creators who draw any art of characters with black features. Regardless of what they say, or why they have done so. 

Claiming that the number one people using this hashtag and discussing their annoyance with blackwashing as "people who are looking out for everyone" ignores the constant antiblackness that "antiblackwashing celebrities" like Hero Hei and Tiktok’s internet_downfall have perpetuated with hashtags like "Monkey" and "BLM" right next to each other and statements that call dark skin "ugly" and "wrong". 

There has always been a clear agenda with people mislabeling things as blackwashing, whether purposeful or a Freudian slip. The choice was to paint a false narrative that Black people are inherently selfish and greedy for participating in fandom culture that white fans have participated in for years. That things that most fans consider to be archaic and wrong to do to white fans, is okay and valid to do to black fans. An example of " wrongthink " applies to race headcanons but not headcanons that can apply to other types of marginalization such as sexuality and neurodivergence. That black fans cannot and should not participate in headcanons, whether they go against canon or not. That black people are violent and uncompromising in fandom and are somehow worsening fandom by posting incredibly inconsequential art. It has been used by nonblack fans to proclaim that black fans are ignorant and don’t understand the canon. It has been used to undermine genuine and purposeful representation. 

Because if a word is overused and misunderstood, it’s easy to tweak it to mean anything and everything a group of people wants it to be. It’s why blackwashing as a term came to be. By implying that whitewashing and colorism somehow aren’t a real sociological phenomenon, and are instead petty fanart things that are only constricted to fiction. When you pretend that racism is only in fiction, it is easy to trivialize and minimize whitewashing so that it equals “blackwashing” because a real-life harmful act can become simply “changing skin tone of anything in fiction”. This is not what whitewashing means, and it certainly, as I have shown, isn’t what blackwashing means to those who use it. 

Whitewashing is a real-life sociological phenomenon. It is to make people, characters, and concepts more adjacent to whiteness or associated with light skin to please a mostly white or colorist audience. It includes claiming, fictional or factual, that people of color are white or light-skinned to diminish or bolster the representation and accomplishments of white people. It includes drawing dark skin people with lighter skin, but it certainly isn’t simply a color scheme. It includes things like stripping out cultural elements that represent Black and Asian people with more white adjacent content. As well as implicit bias that presumes that light skin is pure, clean, and pretty than dark skin with no real evidence to back said claims; making people appear white or light-skinned to convey a false narrative. The erasure of Middle Eastern people as unanimously “white”, claiming real dark-skinned historical figures are light-skinned or white, and religious figures such as Jesus and the Christian god as “white” also go into this category. Claiming that box braids and other explicitly black hairstyles and the culture associated with it is invented by or naturally shared by nonblack people is also a form of whitewashing. People still believe that matts are the same as locs, and that the Vikings had dreads. They did not. People still think “Boxer Braids” is a thing. They are not. People don’t know the history of cornrows. People do not know which inventions are made by Black and Asian engineers, some even explicitly believe that they are white. These are all types of whitewashing.

Blackwashing has its origins in taking a well-studied sociological term and botching its meaning. But even claiming that it’s a botching would imply that this was a mistake and not a sadistic butchering made in an attempt to bolster antiblack sentiment within fandom. The term whitewashing is a well-known term within academic and mainstream circles, the term blackwashing is intentionally fanwork specific because it’s the farthest they can reach without making statements so patently false that it becomes a parody of itself.

Because to tell the truth, when blackwashing is actually used to describe the same scale and scope that Whitewashing actually has sociologically it is the Great replace**t theory, it is All Lives Matter. It’s “Reverse racism/colorism”. Things that when looked at by anyone with sense, would worry them entirely. So instead the fearmongers start small with “Black people are taking your characters” and hope that you don’t look into what whitewashing means, nor what proclaiming them being the same truly means for the future.

If I see any more commentary that relies on claiming that a genuinely possibly black character "isn't black", or explicit vitriol towards artists of color for drawing characters with a variety of skin tones I will force said commentator to eat dirt.

#black fandom #xehanort #kingdom hearts #blackwashing #black fanfic writer #blasian #fandom discourse #racism

[hiramaris]

Dusk til Dawn

Part 3

Summary: Following Episode 9. And spoilers for Episode 10. 

Author’s note: As Episode 10 is just released I just want to say heads up for those who are not yet finished. Completing the game without spoilers really made a difference, and as much as possible I want everyone to experience that. And for those finished, I’ll gladly welcome you to my domain where MC took a different route.

Disclaimer:  I do not own Duskwood or any of the related characters. Duskwood is created by and owned by Everbyte Studio. This fanfiction is intended for entertainment only. I am not making any profit from this story. All rights of the original Duskwood story belong to Everbyte Studio.

Warning: Mentions of blood, suicide, violence, pedophiles, drugs, gun, murder, sex offenders, kidnapping

Gif by Dmitriy Zhadlun

It’s been a few minutes since the video call was dropped. You remained vigilant, scanning your surrounding with hawk-like eyes for any signs of Michael’s presence outside, phone ready to signal the others if ever the circumstance arises.

Jessy’s presence inside the room gave you a bit sense of comfort knowing she’s safe with you. She’s still busy going over the files, providing updates on her progress.

With each passing minute, a growing sense of unease settled in you.

It’s not that you wanted him to come, but why would he threaten you guys that he’s coming and then not come? It doesn’t make sense.

Actually, why the hell did he even tell you he was coming? He can catch you all off guard without even realizing it.

You’re not sure if he’s dumb or he’s all bark and no bite, but that couldn’t have been possible, he assaulted both Richy and Jessy and even devised a plan to trap you. So, neither option seemed likely.

The bastard is really unpredictable.

That’s why you should be always a step ahead of him. You can't afford to make mistakes right now.

When your phone rang, you were startled a bit. You sighed in relief as you saw Jake’s call I.D. Jessy perked up on the couch with a questioning look. You told her it was Jake and she only nod in understanding and went back to her files.

“Hello, Y/n,” his voice came through the phone. God, he sounded so tired. “Is everything alright with the others?”

“Well, given the circumstances, everything’s as good as it could get. Though they’re valiant as ever.” You replied with a sigh. “Which is good, right?”

“Hm. No man without a face in sight?”

“So far, he’s not here yet,” you replied, your gaze unwaveringly fixed on the window. He’ll eventually come here, and you know it. 

“Anyhow, please excuse my absence, I have good news.” He announces and that caught your attention. The prospect of good news seems a nice change of pace. “Michael did not just receive a signal when he requested the location. He also made himself visible.”

“Wait, really?” You questioned. That only means one thing. “Does that mean we’re also able to trace his signal?”

“Not quite, but with a little more time, that will hopefully be the case. Currently, it is nothing more than a vague trace, but it would probably be worthwhile to follow it further. I might be able to track his GPS signal.”

“That would be amazing, Jake,” you exhaled, a sense of relief washing over you. That way, you’ll probably be able to tell where he’s headed, meaning, you could probably trace where he kept Hannah. This lead Jake got gave you immense hope.

“Y/n,” Jessy called from the bed, her voice drawing your attention. It seemed like she had found something important in her files. “Can you come over here for a sec?”

“Yeah, sure, Jess.” You took one last look outside before going towards her. “I’ll talk to you later, Jake. Keep me posted, okay?”

“See you later, Y/n.”

You took a seat beside her, “hey, what’s up?”

“I just got done with all the files.” She told you, seemingly a bit frustrated. “There are no records on AMC Gremlin. I really looked through every single one of them, and it’s absolutely impossible I missed one. So, either this car was never at the garage or som—” There was a loud thump below the floor causing you to stand up instinctively. It was as if something had fallen or a door was being forced open. “What’s that?!”

“Wait,” you say, ready to investigate the commotion down there. “I’m gonna go and see what—”

“No,” she said with a firm voice. She tugged you back beside her. “Stay here. I’m gonna ask them.”

Just as you were about to sign off, you caught a glimpse of activity from the spy feature Jake installed on your phone. Seeing as they didn’t know you can also spy in their conversations, and you didn’t want them to be alarmed by that, especially Jessy, you decided it would be best to deal this far with her.

Jessy: What was that?

Dan: Sorry

That was me

Cleo: Did something happen?

Dan: I knocked something over

You: Yeah, we heard

Thought it was Michael

Jessy: What happened?

Dan: I knocked over this dumb clothes stand

You: That was quite a scare, old man

I was ready to fight someone

Dan: Haha save that strength for kicking Hanson’s sorry ass later

Anyway sorry for the scare. Y’know wheelchair and all that

Jessy: Whew 😥

Okay then

See you later

They are already uncomfortable with the notion of Jake having access to their private accounts but they don’t know you have access, too.

Their reaction to that fact is unknown and you wouldn’t want to risk it.

“Hold on, Jess. Can you keep an eye on things for a sec? I just need to look onto something.” 

She smiled and said, “yeah, sure,” without any questions.

One of the many qualities you admired about her was her ability to respect your privacy, not prying or pushing, and patiently waiting for you to address things in your own time.

With an appreciative smile directed at Jessy, you settled comfortably on the couch before whipping out your phone once again.

A conversation thread between Dan and Thomas captured your attention, and you couldn't resist reading along. Even though you tried to maintain a passive expression, you couldn’t help but furrow your eyebrows.

Apparently, Thomas wanted Dan to hand him the weapon, and Dan being Dan, didn’t seem to take him seriously. Thomas argues that if ever things went down, it will be better off in his hands as Dan can’t even move from floor to floor because of his wheelchair.

Either way, you agreed with Dan.

It’s not because Thomas is a wimp, as Dan jokingly referred to him, but you just think he just didn’t have the capacity to use it and pull the trigger if necessary. That weapon is your only chance against Hanson if ever the situation demands it. Besides, being a security guard as per Dan’s story, you knew he at least has experience and knowledge when it comes to using one.

Now, things just escalated as to who brought the gun and Dan is accusing Thomas.

To be honest, you’re not sure who brought it but it’s safe to assume it’s one of the group. It just didn’t make sense if none of them admitted it if its only purpose is to keep you guys protected. But what made you surprised is when Thomas mentioned that the weapon might belong to Hannah’s dad and was supposed to be hidden in the attic. Apparently, he promised Hannah’s mom to get rid of it when Hannah was born but he didn’t. Dan questioned if Thomas was sure if it was the same gun because the idea of the gun making its way from the Donfort’s attic to the cabin seemed impossible.

Which leads to the thought that Lilly might have brought it with her. Dan couldn’t believe it. Actually, neither could you. But you also noticed she didn’t seem to be fazed when Cleo brought it up earlier or you weren’t able to see her reaction because she was behind the phone. 

The two decided to confront Lilly. The gun was left in Dan’s hands and Thomas will be the one to talk to Lilly since he’s the only one who’s supposed to know about her dad’s gun.

And speaking of Dan, he sent you a private chat.

Dan proceeded to tell you about that time when he was thirteen. A guy holding his hat in both of his hands was trying to smile and asked if his mom was home and suddenly turned up at their door. Dan mentioned the guy had a big, white scar on his left hand. He knew him straight away and he didn’t have to introduce himself to Dan. And the huge scar the man got is from the time he got wasted and then slipped with a bottle of beer in his hand. He was aiming that bottle at his mom’s head, fortunately, she was fast enough to avoid it.

Dan: Hey

I wanted to thank you

You: Eh? For what?

Dan: Thanks for taking my side earlier

You calmed the others down

You get brownie points for that

I know I don’t have the best judgment all the time

But you believed in me

And they believe you believing in me

I’ll take that any day

That belief seemed to be the push for them to fight back

And boy

I don’t think I’ve told you already, but we all felt relieved for your ass being here

You: Haha I do have a fine ass

I won’t blame you 😏

But seriously, I feel the same

I want to protect you guys, too y’know?

And we’re gonna kick Hanson’s sorry ass tonight

Dan: Haha we will 💪

Anyway, I’d like to tell you a story

You suddenly realized who Dan was talking about.

His dad.

Dan demanded him to get away from their house and he guarantee nothing if he dare show him his face again and asked for her. But a couple of days later, he came home in the evening, and the guy was on his porch again. This time, his mom is there, covering her face, hiding the black eye he just gave her but not her tears. And Dan being Dan, you knew what he could have done in that situation. That’s the reason his mom has trouble walking which you have been hinted back in his and Cleo’s conversation a while back. His dad pushed her down the stairs just because she put peas in her casserole one evening. 

Damn, you think as you put down your phone.

Dan: Goddamn peas

He never showed up again

And until today, I have no idea if he even knew who I was

And to be honest, I don’t give a shit

You: You really shouldn’t

Guy’s an asshole

Dan: Yeah

The biggest one

To make a long story short

I know what it’s like when you open the door and you’re suddenly faced with a monster

You: I guess you and me both

Dan: Well

I guess we’ll both know how to deal with that kind of monster

Right

I’ve got to go

We don’t want the faceless one to smear his mark on this door too now, do we?

You: Be careful, okay?

Call us when something happens

Dan: Will do

Now you know where he’s coming from. You always believe that everyone has their own reasons why they act the way they do. As a psychologist, you have plenty of cases that you handled and all of your patients there have their own stories to tell.

That’s why you never judge your friends on how they acted. Especially that time when Dan is skeptical about you. You’re a stranger after all, and there’s a risk that you were the kidnapper that time for them, the same goes for Lilly. You were never mad when she released that video. She just reacted like how a normal sister would do, and who are you to be mad about that?

Another notification from your phone attracted your attention.

Now, that made your eyebrow rise. Normally, if he seeks help, he'll direct message you but that's not the case now. He's sent this message to the Group Chat itself. This could be possibly related to what he told you earlier. 

Jake: I need your help.

Cleo: From all of us?

It seems that Jessy is not with her phone you decided to inform her.

Jake: If that is possible, then yes.

Dan: Here we go again

“Jess, I think there’s something we need to deal with in the group chat.”

“Oh,” she took her phone out. “Have any idea what is it for?” 

“Not sure. Anyway, come sit here.” Patting the space beside you on the couch, you added, “I have a feeling we won’t be needing to guard the house for now.”

Though she appeared puzzled, Jessy complied with your request.

You fought back a snort in amusement. 

Jessy: Hey 🙂

You: 👋

Jake: As you all know, Michael Hanson activated location sharing via GPS on Hannah’s phone.

However, that way, he unknowingly revealed a significant weakness to me.

A few minutes ago, I was able to establish a connection with his phone.

Dan: And what does that mean in normal words for us peasants?

"It is now possible for us to access Michael Hanson’s microphone as we wish." Jessy reads aloud from the group chat, her eyes widening in astonishment.

And that made you choke on your own spit. That was possibly the least you expected Jake could have gotten from Hanson’s location. Damn.

Jessy giggles at your reaction but put a soothing hand against your back, patting you softly. With a playful grin, she teased, "Looks like it's safe to say you didn't have a clue about this."

“I only know bits about the shared location. That’s why he called earlier but this is beyond what I expected. Damn, Jake’s good.”

“You’re really excited about this, aren’t you?” Jessy playfully nudged you with her head. At some point during your conversation, you noticed her leaning against your side, her head finding a comfortable spot on your shoulder.  “I have to say, it's kind of adorable. Are you usually like this when you and Jake discover something?” 

Dan: No fucking way

Jessy: 😲

You: Haha vengeance is ours 😈

Dan: Haha you bet it is

Jake: : )

Anyhow, this is not quite what I had hoped for but it should suffice.

You: It’s more than enough. Good job, Jake

Jake: ; )

So.

As soon as I establish the connection, we will be able to hear everything occurring in the vicinity of his cell phone.

Perhaps this way we can outsmart him.

You: Awesome 😁

“I’m just excited. I really try to see everything as an opportunity, and this one is big, Jess.” A wide grin adorned your face.

“Seriously, why does he keep calling me that?” Jessy complains, and you can only laugh at her adorableness. 

Jake: This is where you all come in.

I want all of you to listen and take note of every sound. Both striking and inconspicuous.

Anything could be important.

Any questions?

You: Will we still be able to talk to each other? I mean, in the group chat?

Jake: You can still talk to each other.

I believe conversing among ourselves to be vital.

However, I suggest that you should use only one source of sound for those who are together.

Preferably one phone has its audio muted to avoid any echoes and sound disruption.

This applies to Cleo and Lilly, and Y/n and Jessica.

“Well, it is a pretty name. You can’t blame him.”

“Flirt,” she huffs. It would have been believable if she wasn’t snuggling against you. 

As Jake's chat once again drew your attention, a twinge of guilt nagged at you for being mushy with Jessy when you were supposed to be focusing on the case.

So, you subtly adjusted your seating position, prompting Jessy to do the same. You stretched both of your arms, before grabbing Jessy back to you with your one arm. She let out a surprise “oof,” while your other free hand took hold of your phone.

Now, you can be mushy with her and focus on the task at the same time. You see, multitasking has been one of your vital assets. This way, you don't have to feel guilty anymore.

“We can share, you know?” You whispered against her ear.

Jake: The best-case scenario is that we can find out Michael’s current location.

Any advantage we have over him is unspeakably valuable.

Please increase the volume of your cellular phones.

It would be even better to use headphones, if at all possible.

Jessy: I’m afraid I don’t have mine with me ☹️

You’ve been wearing your wireless earbuds this whole time which is pretty convenient during the ride earlier, plus it’s super stealthy as well since it fits directly into the ear canal. You took off your left earbud and went to proceed to put it on Jessy’s. 

“Why are you getting red? And you’re super warm, too. You, okay?” You ask innocently as you tucked a lock of red hair behind her ear as you put the earbud on her. “Am I making you uncomfortable?” You ask, fearing that your actions might be crossing boundaries. After all, technically, you just met them today, in person that is.

“N-no,” she stammered, her voice betraying a hint of nervousness. "Just... could you please tuck me back in with you? I feel a bit cold."

Your own cheeks flushed in surprise at her unexpected request. "Huh, what?" you managed to utter, caught off guard by her words.

“Omg,” luckily before she noticed, both of your phones glitched in a familiar way like you are being hacked, which makes sense because your phone has been hacked multiple times it doesn’t faze you no more, but you cannot say the same for the others.

Looks like Jake’s ‘Do not be alarmed’ didn’t work. It went like that for a couple of seconds before it went back to the group chat, but the only difference is that there’s some sort of phone icon with a microphone symbol now occupying the upper part of your phone screen, resembling the icon of a voice recorder.

This must be it. 

Truth be told, you saw it’s now starting to connect. Your entire demeanor changed, you need to take this seriously. This could very well be the last lead you’ll eventually have, and this might lead you to Hannah. 

Dan: What the hell?

You: Welcome to my domain 😁

Jake: I will now establish the connection.

“What the fuck...” You whispered, either in amazement or fear, you are not certain. You were about to say something along the lines that you’re sure he’s driving. It’s gonna be either towards here, or to where he hid Hannah. But Jessy went and covered your mouth with her hand and shushed you.

“He might hear us,” she whispered. You wanted to say that’s not how it works but you decided to shut up and listen even more. Jessy began to type something; you guess she’s really afraid that he might notice you guys are eavesdropping on him.

Oh, damn. He went out of the car.

Jessy: What’s that?

What is he doing?

You: He’s in a car definitely

Cleo: You’re right

He’s driving

Dan: I guess we’re his destination.

You wanted to get up and see if he was already here, but you don’t want to miss anything. From the looks of it, it feels like he’s in a somewhat isolated place. His footsteps are very audible, almost like he’s walking on a pile of dried leaves and twigs, you can also hear the howling of the owls and even the crickets. 

He’s definitely not here.

Jake: No traffic.

No people.

You: Damn

Are those chains?

Seems like he’s opening a gate

Your guess is he’s on his way to where he hid Hannah. And based on what you heard earlier, he did keep her in the forest. But where exactly?

“This is so creepy,” Jessy whispered, her voice tinged with a shiver, as she pressed against your side.

You: He went back to his car

Jessy: It looks like he’s getting something out of his car

Pretty sure

You: He might have put something in the car, too

Jessy: You’re right. That’s also a possibility

Dan: He’s in the forest, safe bet

You: Definitely

Seeing Jessy shivering, you instinctively drew her closer to your side. “He can’t do that. Don’t be scared, Jess. I’m here.” You loosened the scarf from around your neck. Gently, you draped it over her shoulders, the fabric serving as a tangible shield against the cold. It doesn’t much compliment your style anyway, and she looks definitely cold. “Warmer?”

Jessy: I’m too scared to even breathe

I’m afraid he might hear me

“Mm-hmm,” she affirmed in appreciation.

Jake: Do not worry. I assure you, he cannot.

“See? He can’t hear you, and he most definitely won’t be able to touch you anymore. I promise.”

“Thank you, Y/n/n,” she sighed. “You always make me feel safe.”

With a small, reassuring smile, you turned your attention back to read the following chats once again. 

There's not much changes to the sound. It still feels like he’s walking on a trail of dried leaves as if—

Dan: So

If I was the killer

Sneaking through the forest in the dead of night

What would I be doing there?

You: Nothing good that’s safe to say

Shit.

Is that what you think it is?

“Oh, my God!” 

What you heard just now...

Dan: What

The

Hell

— is a woman crying. 

Damn. You’re fucking sure that’s...

~~~~~

You: Hannah?!

Thomas: Yes!

That’s Hannah!

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Author’s note: So, yeah, you must have noticed that I turned most chats as verbatim and is used in an actual conversation, and I also left the other chat conversations as is. That’s because, from the first chapter, I made the MC go to Duskwood, which if you already finished the game, is an entirely different route. As I’m still writing this down I am not sure if I’m going to follow the actual ending or not but there’s a chance that I won’t. I also avoided mentioning MC’s gender as I want the readers to feel like it was actually them in the story as much as they are the MC in the game. I also didn’t mention the actual country where MC lives because I want to leave that part out to you. The only thing I probably had control over is MC’s profession which I think I already mentioned a couple of times. 

P.S.: I prioritized this first before my midterms for tomorrow and I haven’t reviewed yet so, I guess farewell for now. 

P.P.S.: All chapters are under beta. That's why you will notice that there are times that there will be some changes in some chapters I already uploaded. Thank you for reading :)

#duskwood #duskwood jake #duskwood jessy #duskwood lilly #duskwood mc #duskwood cleo #duskwood dan #duskwood thomas #duskwood hannah #duskwood richy #duskwood mwaf #duskwood jessy x mc #jessy hawkins #lilly donfort #hannah donfort #thomas miller #dan anderson #richy rogers

[x-atlas-x]

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u've mentioned a mafia au a bunch of times now, and idk if you've talked about it before anywhere?

Is there anything about it that you can/want to share/ramble about?? I'd love to know! ❤️

…God, have I really mentioned it that much? UGH it's a project of mine that pisses me off and I have a love/hate relationship with it. Tsk tsk. If you want me to ramble, this is certainly how. (I'm sensing this is because you also have a mafia AU...)

ALRIGHT. It's a project that I've been working on for about 3 years? The first, original draft of it was unfortunately lost to the incident that was "Atlas's 200k document of Yugioh projects gets deleted and thrown into the abyss" which was not a personal decision. The stupid ass website that I was using for it got some update and I lost all of it plus another project I was working on.

I rewrote it and the first concept of it was not my proudest choice. Basically, Aknamkanon (Atem's father) led the Sennen mafia and Atem would be taking over eventually, while Yugi, on the other hand, was already the leader of the Muto mafia. It didn't really make sense and the ages were a little weird. He owned a club that Atem wandered into and boom, he kidnaps him to make a pact where they bring peace and end the rivalry between the two mafias. I still have the draft of it and I'm just not really happy with it.

As for the second/current concept, it's better? A lot of things stay the same except Solomon (Yugi's grandpa) is the leader of the Muto mafia and Aknamkanon is still the leader of the Sennen mafia and instead of Yugi owning a club, it's Yami (Yugi's cousin) owning a bar. Yugi and Atem are set up in an arranged marriage to create peace between the two mafias, but they're both fucking 16 when it happens. The two of them secretly plan to get a divorce behind everyone's backs when they turn 18. Things go south when Kaiba steps into the picture and- yeah, it turns into a mess after that cause I didn't really think it through. Mafia AUs are hard and you'd think I'd get better at it after writing it as many times as I have.

It's full of humor and pining between these two boys who are clueless about everything and are idiots about their feelings. There's a time skip where after being separated for a long time, they reunite with Atem standing on the other side of Yugi's gun. There's plenty of sexual tension between them, featuring Yami who literally wants to wring them by their necks for being such dumbasses.

I stopped working on it last summer because I ran into a wall and had a hard time figuring out where to go with it. I recently had an idea of where to go, but it's just so messy and I get really insecure about projects that I don't plan very well. Is it well written? Yes, but again, my planning process is to not have a planning process. Hence why I don't have many long projects on my account. I have a 113k fanfic (my longest project so far) with trans Atem, but that's never going to see the light of day because the exact same thing happened and- whoo boy, it's not fun.

I'd love to get it out there, but I'm just not sure if I can handle rewriting it for a 4th time and I'd need to give it a lot of thought in advance. This was also all set before I joined Tumblr or really started interacting with others within the Yugioh community, so my only encouragement/help was shaking my friends by the shoulders who didn't know what I was talking about. (I even have a Spotify playlist for it and everything!) Maybe I'll find the courage to fix it up, but I'm not sure.

But anyways, thanks for asking about it, it's really been a project that I've held close to me over the years and has shown how much I've grown since I started writing Yugioh fanfiction. :)

#atlas answers #ooh i was really not expecting this one- #but really though thanks for asking #my fellow mafia-er #atlas is rambling again

[oblivions-dawn]

🖊 🖊 🖊 🖊 🖊 🖊 🖊

[SLAMS PENS INTO SENU’S HANDS]

[scoops up the pens] The power . . . (◕‿◕) Oh yeah. It's all coming together.

🖊 I definitely DON'T have another Skyrim fanfiction in the works I definitely don't--okay, fine, yes, I do. It's slow going because I HATE my introduction right now aaaaand haven't come up with how to fix it. Shatha is my Argonian Listener and she's GREAT. She's a little crazy and her backstory is . . . sad, I suppose, but she WILL make an appearance in Petrichor. Don't worry everyone EVERYTHING WILL ALL MAKE SENSE YOU JUST HAVE TO BE PATIENT! I'm really excited to write out Vig and Shatha's interactions [again] because they're very, shall I say, different from each other.

🖊 My eventual Harbinger of the Companions is a Khajiit named Do'Shavir and he loves Teldryn. At some point. But he's the sweetest of all of my OCs. He's genuine, honest, loyal, and good at heart. That means he's hurt easily and loves a lot, so I think the Companions questline would be super tough for him to handle due to all the vengeance and death that he faces. He would manage it though! He knows he has to learn and grow in order to become his very best uwu

🖊 I have a Breton Arch Mage [at the moment, I may tweak him in some ways at some point] named Vinsith and he's kiiiiind of evil. He's deep into the Daedric shit and will do anything to achieve his ends. He's also blind but uses 'magic' to see his way around! He's very charismatic towards everyone, so he's a character that has a mask he puts on for the public eye and is a very dark person in private. Let's just say that the Thalmor would be terrified of him.

🖊 My Thieves Guild Master is an Altmer named Aerwynn! I like her backstory that I've created so far but I may tweak it a little. I also have no idea who all I want her to like or romance or whatever as she's just an indecisive as she sounds. Maybe Brynjolf? Maybe Karliah? Maybe someone else entirely?? I don't know. She won't make up her mind. But she's good at being a thief and so that's why she is granted the rank of Master. I'm not sure how intimately involved she would get with Nocturnal, as I had plans to write her story out too [at some point] and certainly saw myself making changes to the questline [as one does when writing fanfiction eh?].

🖊 OH MY GOD I ALMOST FORGOT TO MENTION YOTUL!! As I'm sure everyone that has read up to chapter 5 has noticed, Yotul is not a character in the game! She's my own character, and one that I created to act as an interesting arch-nemesis to Vigdis [and Serana too]. Feran talked a little bit about what he knew of her. She's an Orsimer that's absolutely dedicated to Harkon after he saved her life and will prove to be a tough enemy. She won't play a huge part for the time being, but I do intend on having her cause problems for our favourite hunter and vampire.

🖊 Everyone should be worried about Vigdis because, seriously, I have so much planned for her. Perhaps too much. I know right now she's not really acting as the Dragonborn and is just a boring and sassy vampire hunter, but that will come into play in due time. In fact, if you have sharp eyes, it already has at least once OwO It's the little hints here and there that point to her being the Dragonborn--although they are a bit obscure and are kind of my own headcanons anyway so . . . IT WILL ALL MAKE SENSE SOME DAY AHAHAHAH [coughs] I'm fine

🖊 I also have two fraternal twins--one that's a Bard at the Bard's College and the other that ends up joining The Blades. I forget their names right now and I'm too lazy to pull up the document with all this information, but they're Bosmer! The guy that joins the Blades is a bit of a little bitch, but at least his sister is mellow and nice lsjgkdlgjl

🖊 LOOK! AN EXTRA PEN!! I have a Snow Elf OC whom I've shared photos of here named Helthune. She's been through a lot [I'm sorry for making you suffer--]. At some point I plan for her to end up in Gelebor's care, who becomes her adoptive dad because she DESERVES that, at the very least. Plus he seems like he's great dad material. Don't you think??

Uh oh. It seems I've run out of ink despite having an extra pen. [shoves empty pens into back pocket] Until next time.

#Senu responds #thequeenofthewinter #Skyrim OCs #EEE THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO RAMBLE MY ASS OFF #I have too many characters. Too much time on my hands. #TOO MANY YEARS OBSESSING OVER ONE GAME

[reptileranting]

What this is all about

I found Endtown on tvtropes, binged it and lost it over the pig arc. Still following the comic, more out of morbid curiosity, but also because i want to see how it ends. I don't think it will turn out around but who knows? Regardless, it had some very fascinationg concepts and ideas so i can't stop thinking about it. Finding people on tumblr who knew about it pushed me into creating an account. If you like Endtown, go read Topside Tales, it's good and does what Endtown did at it's beginning while avoiding the pitfalls.

Also a furry and dnd nerd and stuff, but idk how much this'll come up. I am writing my endtown fanfiction, but an alternate continuity. More of a sci-fi inquiry, i guess. "The world's gone bust, you have genocidal humans purge the surface, some sort of unknowable horror god is poaching the survivors for an unkown goal. A trickster with way too much power is meddling around, for a supposed "greater good". The survivors are barely holding onto their sanity. Who could fix this mess? And why and how?" Only thing i know for sure is that it'll involve someone less powerful replacing Marx before the very first arc and trying to push Endtown's government away from race politics ala Jackrabbit and pig arc into something less divise for a society based on different species of funny animals fighting humans. Though my lore is always sketchy so i am first looking and learning around before butchering too much of the established setting.

#Endtown #Topside Tales

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I posted 106 times in 2022

That's 105 more posts than 2021!

54 posts created (51%)

52 posts reblogged (49%)

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I tagged 48 of my posts in 2022

#transmasc - 16 posts

#transgender - 10 posts

#dysphoria - 6 posts

#hannigram - 4 posts

#arataki itto - 3 posts

#nbc hannibal - 3 posts

#murder husbands - 3 posts

#hannibal - 3 posts

#pokemon - 3 posts

#fanfiction - 3 posts

Longest Tag: 123 characters

#deep down i want a part of matt to have absolutely no morals and just start beating the shit out of people because it's fun

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

when you're watching a video about rubiks cubes and OUT OF NOWHERE some shitty ass parent says that their one goal in life is for their autistic son to learn to mask and "be normal" like bitch???? the fuck???? and then they had the audacity to follow it up with thats why we've let him spend time on his special interests, because they make him be with other kids who can teach him to act normal. that is such a fucked up thing for anybody, ESPECIALLY the parent of any neurodivergent kid to say. literally had to stop watching the whole thing and turn on something else because. i just cant even with that bullshit.

32 notes - Posted October 8, 2022

#4

less romantic symbolism and more passionate sex for the heteros in the back please

33 notes - Posted September 4, 2022

#3

hello to all my friends in the general crafting community, i am in dire need of help. i come to you at this time in search of a new activity to busy myself with in a state of anxiety that recent politics have brought upon me. i have already made ventures into each of the following skills:

crochet, knitting, quilting, embroidery, spinning straw into gold, long furby making,

and would appreciate any suggestions of new undertakings.

p.s.

I would rather be burnt at the stake than draw or paint, as they spark a certain frustration inside of me that i cannot even begin to put into words.

108 notes - Posted June 24, 2022

#2

do i have a thing for romance between horrifically fucked up people who, rather than trying to fix each other, accept themselves as they are??? perhaps. that's for me to know and god to wonder, bitch.

164 notes - Posted August 29, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

hannigram may not be the queer representation we needed or deserved, but it is the representation we got, so goddamnit if i see one more of you talking shit i will find you and drink your blood from your body through a damn curly straw

178 notes - Posted September 3, 2022

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[thesaucemanstrikesback]

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I watched some Snoopy clips on Twitter, it's a cheaply veiled PSA for gov't propaganda: Hey kids you want to be a Scientist, they're cool… Snoopy pretends to fly. Point is even if you never watched Snoopy indoctrinate you:

We're all ingrained with the idea this life is the only one we must live for. But if we pay attention we rarely make it to our 100th attempt at any one thing because our soul gets bored with creation [created things], we need our CREATOR to fill us that is fulfillment.

Tim Keller said the problem with modern people is we feel we deserve a good life, meaning we don't deserve bad things. As a result, rather than accept what is, & try to learn what each event is teaching us about ourselves. We instead try to find a way to force reality to fit our desires or perspective.

[Tim Keller: Power for Facing Trouble]

In 1973 Karl Menninger wrote book noting how society replaced morals with medical model: For most of our problems, we use a medical model.

For example: People who are terribly bitter, they will not forgive. But what do they say: They’re hurting, never admit they’re bitter. Hurting—that’s a medical term for a moral problem. You do NOT have a medical problem; you’ve got a moral problem!

Research findings show 90% of Americans believe they show the kind of love in life, that if everybody showed, would make Society all right. Yet Psychologists say no one is ever healed because we are constantly being damaged by others.

Even Brain Surgeons have noted the brain surprisingly does not feel pain & Dr. Wilder Penfield said no matter what he did, he could never cut-out enough of a person's brain to remove their personality. [Michael Egnor: Evidence Against Materialism]

Saying this shows there is something untouchable beyond the physical realm, the thing David Attenborough says is why he remains agnostic because he's seen blind termites incapable of detecting his presence & so he wonders if we have the same lack of sense perception to detect GOD. The Bible says we know GOD exists, & every time we fail in life is one step closer to meeting our MAKER voluntarily or literally.

[YouTube: Off the Kirb Ministries | Sir David Attenborough - Did You Catch It Too?]

Have you ever invited JESUS into your mess?

Listen, man, I don't think Jesus can fix me bro I am a bisexual who writes among us fanfiction and so is like 90% of this website you are not gonna get anywhere with this lmao

#get off anon and fight me coward #i do have bible merch though #t necklace and an NIV 🙏 #and a pin with jesus and garfield on it #i think i'm pretty much saved already #also saying that telling kids that science is cool is a WILD take bro #my man never watched a bill nye episode and it shows