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ddejavvu · 8 months

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Can‘t stop thinking about the usually so confident hotch getting yk kinda shy and clumsy all of a sudden, everyones just so confused as to why he‘s getting a bit quieter or redder in the face with seemingly no reason

But when in a case meeting they notice Hotch gripping the sides of his chair, biting his nails (nervous tick), making himself small in his chair and his leg shaking so much that they can feel it in through the floor

And you just standing behind him, one hand on the back of his chair not even really touching his shoulder with your fingertips and listening to whatever Garcia has to say with your full attention that they realize how Hotch has it bad BAD for you

You don't make it into the round table room until after everyone else is already seated, and unfortunately for you, that means you're out of a chair. Your typical seat is filled by Strauss, who looks less-than-pleased at your late entry, but holds her tongue.

"I'm sorry for being late, everyone," You linger behind the seat facing the screen that Garcia has prepared, your hands resting on the back of Hotch's chair, "There was an accident right in front of me, and I had to give a witness statement. Have we started yet?"

The team is used to Aaron leading conversation, but it's not necessarily weird that he doesn't, and Derek shakes his head.

"All good- uh, Y/L/N." He seems to have been going for a nickname that Strauss would not be amused with, and wisely reels himself in, "We barely got halfway through."

"I'll-" You lean down over the back of Hotch's chair, and it creaks as he shifts in it. You peer down at the case file that's open in front of him, and his eyes are glued to the word victim as you scan the details over his shoulder. He can't move them, he can't act natural, he's stiff as a board and tense in his seat.

"Oh," Your nose wrinkles at the word enucleator, "Gross. Okay, well- uh, go ahead, Garcia. I think I'm caught up."

"Okay. So victim number three was just last night, in this parking garage," She grimaces as the image on the screen, "And wow, that's nasty. But- um, Houston PD has asked for your help, and I really don't want to look at this anymore, so I'm gonna go, and- and let you take over. Do your- profiler genius thing," She stammers, gaze averted from the screen as she rushes out, emphasizing her command with a wave of her hands, "Be gone!"

Reid gets right into things by rattling off statistics on enucleators. They're fascinating, really, but not entirely helpful, and you lean down once more to inspect the case file.

"Sorry," You murmur beside Hotch's ear when your fingertips brush against his shoulder, "My seat was taken."

He doesn't answer, can't afford to open his mouth and hear his voice waver. All he does is nod, once, stiffly, and it casts an uncomfortable ache over your chest. Is he angry with you?

He could be annoyed, perhaps. That you were late in front of Strauss. But he's never been afraid to chew out an agent in front of an audience if it's what they truly deserve, and if he had a problem with your tardiness you're sure he would let it be known.

"Are you okay?" You ask him in that same low murmur, one that sends shivers down his spine to a place he can't think about with you hovering above him. He nods, vigorously so, and his tie moves with the gesture. You decide that he's just uncharacteristically nervous about Strauss's presence, perhaps she's threatening once more to demote him or fire him altogether.

You reach down to place your hands on his shoulders in what's supposed to be a supportive gesture. You squeeze gently at them, feeling his muscles impossibly tense, and the room falls silent as Reid's ramble ends.

"Okay, so these victims aren't connected," Morgan reads off of his case file, "Different genders, different races, different tax brackets, nothing in here that suggests there's a common thread. Opportunity, then?"

"It looks like it." JJ agrees, "I mean, a parking lot at night? That's high-risk. I'm willing to bet this guy just stumbled upon his first chance and took it, then couldn't stop."

There's a quiet round of agreement, some 'yeah's and a thoughtful nods, and the room falls silent. This is Hotch's moment, his time to share his conclusions, his thoughts, his doubts, his orders,, but he can't bring himself to do any of that. Not when your thumbs are gently rubbing out the kinks in his muscles, hidden from view like a comfort you're sharing with him in secret. He can't bring his mind to generate any adequate responses, so he pretends to busy himself with the file in front of him to avoid the probing gazes of his coworkers.

They're smirking. They know what's going on, they see the pink tinge on Hotch's face, they hear his foot tapping the floor beneath the table, they know he's fumbling for words like a lovesick teen.

Strauss is not as amused.

"Agent Hotchner, might I remind you that you're the chief of this team? They are awaiting your instruction."

You press your hands harder into his shoulders, thumbs digging further into his tense muscles to soothe him through his nerves. He feels your hands hold him tighter, feels that staticky feeling threaten to envelop the last part of his brain that had remained clear, and speaks before it can overtake him.

"Wheels up in thirty." He snaps, voice forcibly firm, "Dismissed."

Strauss seems rather displeased with his mediocre orders, but she doesn't say it. She lets Dave herd her out the door with the promise of freshly brewed coffee in the kitchen, and Aaron pointedly ignores the thumbs-up that the older man shoots behind his back as he leads her away.

"She's gone," You breathe, patting Hotch's shoulders as you release your grip on him, "God, she's scary."

"Derek," Emily calls sweetly, "Can you come with me to my desk? I had a newspaper clipping I wanted to show you."

Your nose wrinkles, newspaper clipping? Emily doesn't read the newspaper.

"I'd like to see it too," Reid rushes to follow them, "Uh- JJ, come on, Garcia said she wanted to see you before we took off. She wanted to give you that- uh, thing."

"That thing!" JJ repeats, grinning madly at you as she tails Reid out of the door, "See you on the jet!"

"That thing," You echo in a scoff, "Hotch, did you ever follow through with that drug test on Garcia? I think they might both be on it. Whatever it is."

Hotch manages a weak chuckle, and it brings a frown back to your face.

"Hotch, come on." You plead, "Are you really worried about Strauss?"

No. He's not. He always is, a little bit, but that's not what has his attention. He can't shake the feeling of your hands on his shoulders, rubbing out the knots in his muscles and pressing flush to his form. He wants to feel your hands over him again, in the same places and in others, but there's a bozo running around Texas removing people's eyes, and he can't afford to focus on that now.

"She's got nothing on you," You take his silence for an answer, smiling sympathetically at him, "Come on, Hotch, just forget about her, and lead like you normally would. That's enough to impress her, I guarantee it. You can do this, Hotch."

Looking at your earnest smile, standing only feet away from you when you reach out to grab hold of his hand and squeeze sympathetically, Aaron is certain of only one thing: He cannot do this.

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cookiescribble · 9 months

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Don’t Let Yourself Fade Away (Spencer Reid x GN!Reader)

A/N: Hello there! This one’s a little sad, but it was healing to write. Seeing Spence get shut down sometimes when he gets so animated and excited about the most random topics breaks my neurodivergent heart, so here’s to not only him, but anyone else who feels shut out when they talk about their true passions in life <3 - Mod Ghost

p.s. thank you to everyone 🥺❤️

“The average lifespan of a human is about 73.5 years, and your ears never truly stop growing in that time so if you think about it…” Spence trailed off, just as he was about to finish his sentence.

“...What were you about to say, sweetheart?” I ask, having been quiet up until now as I listened to him speak. I could tell just by looking at him that he’d gone somewhere deep in that big head of his, and I have no idea what caused it. He suddenly had this glazed over look to his eye and it hurt my heart to look at it. Whatever it was, I wanted to gently pull him back to me.

“Hmm? Oh, nothing, it’s uh, not important. Are you hungry?” He asked as he started to stand off the couch in his apartment where we were both sitting, but stopped when I grabbed his wrist so he could look back at me with those big eyes that looked like they belonged on a puppy and not my boyfriend.

“It’s not nothing, Spence, why’d you stop talking?” I gently tugged on his arm, trying to get him to sit back down with me.

Spencer looked confused, as if it somehow made less sense for me to ask why he stopped talking than for him to go quiet mid thought. He stood there silently for a moment before sitting back next to me, sheepishly piping up again, “I’ve calculated the amount of time it takes for others to either become disinterested in what I have to say and stop listening or cut me off completely, which is about anywhere from 25 seconds to a minute, so I decided that instead of letting that happen, I would cut myself off at a somewhat natural point in that time frame so that I wouldn’t have to worry about it anymore…Neither would anyone else, so there’s statistically at least one ‘plus side’ to it..” He looked away from me halfway through the sentence, like he was suddenly scared of making eye contact with me.

The more he spoke, I felt an ache growing in my chest until the entirety of my core was filled with a raw and harrowing anguish. Who on Earth could look at him and ever tell him that he wasn’t interesting or that they didn’t want to hear what he had to say? I always look forward to talking to him, no matter what he says. The sound of his voice is so comforting to me and one of my worst fears is never hearing it again.

“Oh, Spencer…I…I don’t even know what to say…who made you think like that?” I brush his hair back behind his ear as I speak, moving closer to him so our knees are brushing together.

“Well, at work, sometimes…sometimes, I can get a bit too carried away and I end up just rambling while everyone’s trying to catch the unsub…but even on the jet, if I get too caught up in a topic, I end up blabbering and then whoever I’m talking to loudly says ‘WOW, that’s interesting!’ and walks away, or it’s ‘I’m so glad I asked!’ before the same outcome occurs. Or the worst one is when they just walk away without saying anything,” he momentarily stops, staring off into space as if recalling a memory. “That one hurts the most.”

My brow furrows and I feel tears leak from my own eyes as I see some streaking their way down his face, pulling him toward me until he starts to fold himself into my arms and lets me rub his back gently.

“I don’t care who says or does those things to you…no matter what, I’m always going to want to listen to you speak. I’ll hang on to every one of your words as I wait for the next, because everything you say is always so interesting to me. I love watching your eyes crinkle up when you smile, and hearing how fast you talk when you get really excited. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to get enough of your voice, so don’t let yourself fade away because some of the people in your life don’t appreciate you the same way that I do.” I whisper close to his ear, brushing his hair away from his face with my hand that wasn’t rubbing his back.

He woefully nodded, sniffling pitifully and slowly breaking down as I held him. It was as if something deep inside of his soul broke loose, and he was finally setting it free. He was letting himself feel it, and hopefully start to heal from it at the very least. I’ve been in a similar position to him before, and I would never want to make him feel that way if I could help it. Spence continued to cry for a while longer, and I held him until he sat up enough to look at me.

“Did you really mean what you said…? About my voice and my smile…?” His voice cracked as he spoke, and I smiled reassuringly as I leaned forward to press a kiss to his temple.

“Every last word,” I murmured close to his ear, running my hand through his hair again as he closed his eyes.

He sat still and quietly for a moment, as if he were soaking in everything that we’d said. The only noise in the room was the sound of our breathing until he broke the silence with a soft mutter of “thank you.”

“What are you thanking me for? Telling the truth?”

Spence only laughed, rolling his eyes at me as if I was telling a joke.

It was nice to see him smile, though, so I let it go.

“Now, about that food…” he changed the subject, and for whatever reason, I let him. I think I just wanted to let him be himself, even if it was just for a little while.

“You asked if I was hungry because you were hungry??” I asked with a dramatic gasp, standing up and pulling him to stand with me. “I never knew you were the type of man to have ulterior motives.” I teased, walking with him to the kitchen.

“I don’t think that’s usually used in the context of food, my love.” he let out a giggle, a goofy smile spreading across his face as we looked through his fridge together.

Just hearing him laugh was like music to my ears, and I would give anything in the world to keep hearing it for every day of my life.

#criminal minds #fanfiction #spencer reid #spencer reid fanfiction #spencer reid x reader #spencer reid x gn!reader #comforting the boy #criminal minds fanfiction #mod ghost #ghosty

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st4r-bby · 11 months

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hi!! this is my first req but i was wondering if you could write something about jack champion having feelings for actress!reader who plays as his love interest on scream? like everyone knows he likes her but her and he doesnt know what to do because they are best friends? just lots of fluff

AMAZING IDEA ANON!

movie : none really but they both play in scream 6 together

character / person : jack champion

pairing : !shy-ish jack x !actress reader

contains : fluff, lots of fluff, fluff that rots your teeth, jack being head over heels for the reader, reader being oblivious.

both y/n and jack were actors in the new scream movie, jack played ethan landry and y/n played (whatever name) as his love interest. one of the scenes in the movie is when y/n has to kiss jack. jack tells mason and now they're yelling at each other in jacks trailer.

"but mason!" jack squeaks, "i don't wanna hear it. it's just a peck anyways." mason says, "but it's y/n! i'm her best friend, she's mine, i have a crush on her, she doesn't have one on me! it's going to crush me when we kiss!" jack starts whining. mason rolls his eyes, "come on, it's not that big of a deal." jack clears his throat dramatically, "yes it is! and you do not tell jenna about this or i'll stab you in real life too."

mason gives him a confused look. "i read the whole script." mason rolls his eyes again. "jenna already knows you like y/n, everyone does!" jacks eyes widen and he yells, "WHAT?!" mason covers his ears slightly, "yeah!" jacks jaw drops, he looks flabbergasted. "EVEN Y/N??" mason laughs, "everyone expect y/n. somehow." jack lets out a huff of relief. "good, i don't want y/n to know.." they hear the door to jacks trailer open and shut. "you don't want me to know what?" y/n says, confused while carrying a box of dunkin donuts.

"oh and i brought dunkin." she opens the box showing all kinds of donuts. while jack is sitting there shocked at her timing, mason runs to the box and grabs a chocolate one, praising y/n for it. y/n smiles at mason then looks at jack, waiting for an answer she tilts her head. any other person would've moved on, but jack, jack thinks that was one of the cutest things she's ever done.

"oh.. uhm.. well.. you.." jack rambles, not finding the right words to say. y/n laughs, making his heart skip a beat. she grabs his favorite kind of donut, walks up to him, and shoves some into his mouth to shut him up. "okay, okay pretty boy. i get it, you don't want me to know. just eat the donut." after she calls him that, he feels blood rushing up to his face already. he eats the donut she shoved into his mouth and she smiles. "good boy!" she pats his head.

mason looks at them both and smirks, he grabs two more donuts and leaves the trailer silently. y/n sits down on a chair and messes with things in his trailer. "interesting trailer, j." she spins around. "you know why i'm here right?" he shakes his head, not being able to speak after those names she called him. "we have to rehearse the kiss scene remember? the directors changed it up a little and said it shouldn't be a peck and it should just be a longer kiss." he curses at the directors in his head but just nods.

she gets up and walks up to him, "so it goes a bit like this.." she grabs his hands and puts them on her waist then she takes her own hands and puts them on his cheeks. "and then we kiss for like five seconds." she smiles. jacks heart skips a bit and he thought he stopped breathing for a while but they both pulled in and they kiss.

y/n would consider it amazing, jack considered it being on cloud 9. they pull away after five whole seconds and she smiles at him. "wow jack, i didn't expect that to be as great as that was." somehow jack gained the confidence to speak again, "can we.. do it again?" he gets embarrassed and y/n realizes what's going on. "jack.. if you want to kiss me as y/n and not (characters name) you could've just said so." she smiles and they pull in for another kiss, and many more after that.

okay i admit this was kinda good- BUT THE BEST IDEA CONGRATS ANON

#jack champion fluff #ethan landry fluff #scream fanfic #scream 2023 #ethan landry fanfiction #ethan landry x you #ethan landry oneshot #ethan landry imagine #jack champion x reader #jack champion

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thebisexualdogdad · 4 months

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Hello my good sir/person! I was wondering if you wrote for Transmasc!Readers? I kinda got my idea based on your One Piece characters reacting to Reader changing so. If you do write for Transmasc!Readers then could I possibly request a Zoro x Transmasc!Reader where he walks in on Reader changing and he's either wearing a binder or has top surgery scars (whatever you're comfy with), Reader freaks out a bit about Zoro seeing him this way but Zoro reassures him that it's okay?

Idk it sounded kinda cute 👉👈

Feel free to ignore if it's not your jam, I won't take it personally.

Have a good day/night!

Roronoa Zoro x trans male!reader

Standing in front of the full body mirror propped between yours and Zoro's bunks, you remove your shirt to inspect yourself after a fight against some pirates on the island you were docked at.

You fought alongside Zoro and your crewmates, successfully dodging their swords and bullets but you did find a bruise blooming on your ribs where one of them had sucker punched you.

Raising one arm in the air you examine the bruise, running two fingers along it making you wince but then the scars on your chest catch your attention and your fingers trace over them as well.

You were going to have to tell your friends the truth about yourself eventually but you had only joined the strawhats two months ago and weren't quite sure how they would react.

This wasn't exactly something openly talked about in the East Blue afterall.

You're lost in your train of thought and taken aback by the sound of Zoro’s voice behind you, “damn man what happened to you?”

You instantly knew he wasn't talking about the bruise.

You had gotten quite close to Zoro over the last two months but you hadn't yet found the courage to tell even him.

Despite sharing a room you always made sure to be clothed when he was nearby only changing with the door locked or in the ship's bathroom.

Turning around your hands instinctively cover your chest and you sputter out, “it's-it's nothing.”

“Did someone do that to you?” Zoro questions stepping closer to you.

“No I… I did this to myself… well I mean I choose to do this,” you ramble nervously.

“What are you talking about Y/N?” He says confused.

“Zoro I- I need to tell you something,” you say, removing your hands and exposing your scars, “I'm a man but… I was born a woman.”

He stands there staring at you for a moment before it finally sinks in, “oh… so your chest… those scars-”

“I found a doctor last year in a village known for their practices in experimental medicine, he performed the surgery and made my chest look more like a mans,” you explain.

“Wow… that's actually pretty cool,” he says.

“You think it's cool?” You say surprised, “you don't care that I wasn't born a man.”

“I believe people should be free to live their most fulfilling lives regardless of gender, if you say you are a man then in my eyes you are one and it has been an honor to fight by your side the last few months and I know everyone on the crew would say the same,” he states.

You gulp, holding back the tears welling, “thank you Zoro.”

“And don't worry, I won't tell any of the others but I promise whenever you’re ready they are going to be just as proud of you as I am,” he continues.

“You don't know how much that means to me,” you tell him.

It's quiet for a second before he chuckles, “anyways, Sanji sent me in here to tell you dinner is ready.”

“Right, let me get dressed, I'll be out in a minute,” you smile.

Zoro leaves you alone and you look at your scars in the mirror again, this time feeling like a weight has been lifted off your shoulders.

Very few people in your life knew about your secret but you were glad Zoro was now one of them.

#one piece imagine #roronoa zoro imagine #roronoa zoro x reader #x trans male reader #fic

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an-evergreen-rose · 2 years

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When Worlds Collide

Kate Bishop x Female Spiderwoman reader (basically has Miles powers; invisibility, electric webs)

Summary: One minute you’re swinging around new york and the next you’re swinging into a different universe where you run into a very confused archer.

Warnings: Some swearing

A/N: sorry this is mainly dialogue but I just needed to get it out the way. I am planning on making this a mini-series so I need you guys to bully me into staying motivated:)))))))))))

PART TWO

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If someone were to tell you that when you climbed out your window today, you would swing - quite literally - into another universe, well… You’re not sure what you would have said, maybe something along the lines of ‘you’re crazy' I guess. But they would have been correct, which is kinda crazy.

It would have been cool if someone did tell you that, though, cause then they would be this inter-dimensional psychic or whatever (not too sure on the correct term but you know what I mean). But they didn't, and you swung right into the streets of New York, and not the one you were used to. You would like to say it was graceful, however, You’re not too sure your screaming and a rather painful belly flop onto some bins in an alleyway wouldn’t have scored that high if it was out of 10.

And that's how you landed in this situation, sitting in bin juice, with a bow and arrow pointed at your head.

“Where the hell did you come from?” A woman asked with a perplexed tone, her dark hair in a ponytail and her face covered by her weapon.

“Uh, not too sure.”

“Like you literally just appeared out of nowhere,” She stated, my eyes adjusting allowing me to see her purple suit.

“Yeah… I guess I did… Can you maybe not shoot me, please? I’m kinda confused as to what just happened and the possibility of getting an arrow in my head is not helping with this situation.”

The woman lowered her weapon slightly and looked at you with a curious gaze, “What's with the spider-man suit? You a fan?”

“Spider-man? Spider-man? Are you serious?” What the hell is this girl on about.

She raised her eyebrows in response, “Yeah, spider-man, You know, got bit by a spider and now can climb up walls and shoot webs. He’s actually really nice, I’ve met him a few times at the avengers compound when Hawkeye took me, that was a really fun day. I also met The Hulk, and Falcon and-”

“What the fuck are the avengers?” You interrupted the woman's rambling, “Is that like a band or something? Are they all different bands?”

“Wait - bands?”

“Yeah, are you in a band? Why do you have a bow and arrow if you’re in a band?”

There was a small pause of silence between us until she spoke. “No.”

“So your not in a band or they aren't in a band? I'm confused.”

“No one is in a band, they’re superheroes. I’m a superhero… kinda,” she replied lowering her weapon to her side. “What are you from another universe or something, how do you not know who the avengers are-”

“Hey! She’s over here!” A loud voice shouted from the end of the alleyway, followed by an army of footsteps.

“Oh shit.” the woman said as you quickly webbed yourself to the wall behind her and then landed beside her on the ground, “Hey, how did you-?

“No time for questions!” You replied quickly, gabbing her waist as you turned invisible, your touch also making her disappear from the guy's eyes who were wearing tracksuits? Odd.

With your free hand, you released a web, allowing you to swing out of the alleyway a couple of blocks down with numerous Oh my God's and Holy shit’s in your ear, before landing (much more gracefully) on top of a building, placing the dark-haired woman next to you, turning off your invisibility.

“Wow, you are way cooler than Spiderman,” she said, a little out of breath from the adrenaline. “And totally not a man.” She added, being able to look at your body properly now that it wasn't covered in bin bags. You wore a dark green skin-tight suit (which looked almost black due to the time of day, or should I say night, it was), with black webbing covering it with a black widow-like spider on the front and back, and the signature white eyelets.

You couldn't help but let out a small laugh, thankful that your mask hid your crimson cheeks from her comment, “Good observation skills, archer.” you said, still not knowing the woman's name.

“So who are you exactly? And you never answered my question about where you came from.”

“I’m Arachne.”

(A-rack-knee is basically how you pronounce it if anyone was having trouble)

“Like the girl who got turned into a spider-”

“-By Athena, yes! Except I’m not actually a giant spider, I just have spider-like tendencies I guess.” You interrupted, a bit too excited that she knew where your name was from as you were a bit of a history geek.

“What with webs and stuff…” She added.

“Yep.” you said, giving a very awkward thumbs up in return. “So what's your hero name then archer?”

“Uh, I haven’t really worked out the whole superhero name just yet, but you can call me Kate.”

You furrowed your eyebrows in response, but Kate could only see the eyes of your suit go smaller, “Isn’t like the first rule of being a superhero is to not tell people your real name.”

“Shit. Yeah.”

“Promise I won't tell.”

“Appreciate it.”

“And about where I came from, I think another universe may be a good guess.” You joked, But when you saw the look on Kate’s face, she looked like she knew more than you.

“I think I know who can help.”

After helping Kate climb down the building, she lead you to an apartment complex a few blocks from where you landed in some bins. Again, not your finest moment. You watched in amusement as she pressed every single buzzer to get inside the building.

“I thought this was your place?” you asked when you guys were finally let in after a lame pizza excuse Kate gave one of the residents.

“Oh right, my place burnt down like 2 months ago, so I’m crashing at my aunt's place for now. Still haven't gotten round to getting a key cut yet,” She shrugged as I followed her up a tedious amount of stairs. Once the door was opened and you two were inside, you could immediately sense another heartbeat in the apartment. Just as your body tensed up, you heard the friendly sound of paws pattering across the wooden floor, calming your nerves. “This is Lucky, a.k.a Pizza Dog, a.k.a my best friend.” Kate introduced you as she knelt down to pat the dog. “That sounded less… sad in my head,” she muttered afterwards.

After confirming that no one else was there, you reached for the back of your mask, pulling it off, deciding that it would be kinda weird to leave it on any longer. With a quick breath, you blew the hair out of your face, finding the archer looking at you with a small blush on her cheeks, “definitely not a man,” she whispered to the dog.

“So… this person who you think can help… I’m guessing it's not the dog?” you joked, loosely pointing to the golden fluff ball on the floor. You managed to get a small chuckle from the raven-haired girl, and you couldn’t help but smile when you saw hers.

“No, unfortunately not. They’re over at the avengers compound.”

“Right,” you nodded, “The band.”

“Yeah, the band. But I don’t think they will like me very much if I turn up at 2 am with someone who I found in the bins.” She finished, smiling to herself at your little banter. “Especially since I don’t even know your name…”

“Ah,” you breathed out, looking down at your feet as you felt slightly embarrassed by the statement. After all, you had helped her with the tracksuits, she was helping you find out what happened to you, let you into her home (or at least her aunts'), and she introduced you to her dog. She was long overdue for a proper introduction.

“Hi,” Kate had stood up now, moving to stand in front of you with a warm smile.

“Hi,” you replied, unsure of where this was going.

“I’m Kate, it's nice to meet you,” She placed her hand in the space between you two, offering a friendly re-introduction. You took her hand in yours, giving her a shy smile.

“I’m Y/N, it’s nice to meet you too.”

#kate bishop x reader #kate bishop #kate bishop x female reader #kate bishop x you #kate bishop imagine #marvel x female reader #marvel imagine #mcu imagine #spiderman #spider girl #kate bishop x spider girl #gxg #wlw

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gren-arlio · 3 months

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You guys voted Something Random, I love and hate you at the same time.

In that case...Y'all know about JUMP HERO? Welcome to...well, rambles about some random things.

(Da Satan Plant. As of writing this I just hit 51 followers. Wow.)

Hey all, Gren here. I know its been a bit since I've properly posted, and frankly, you're not wrong at all. Life's been busy, and with the rate I'm going at (going to college and whatnot, middle of the school year shenanigans,) there's no way in hell I'll be able to keep the once-a-week posting that I've done. Maybe for summer, but I dunno yet.

Also, life's been hitting me HELLA hard recently, so motivation is also not there. If YKYK.

Which leads to an announcement that I made before: I won't exactly be posting weekly anymore. I'll just... post whenever I feel like it nowadays. Adds a lot less stress for me, and I'll be able to send dumb shit about Puyo and Madou here. Ya know, like a normal blog. You might get 3 posts in a week for all you know.

But enough on that. I'm here to ramble. This won't be a Waku Puyo Extras thing or whatever, literally just things I wanna show and explain some nonsense. There's no formula. Enjoy.

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I've been working on this stuff since April of last year, and it's been going decently well, people partially know my works. Now, what in the world do I want to show y'all this time around, since I got free will?

Well for one, I'd you've been following my work for a bit, you'd know about the pain that was finding Madou Sugoroku content, that game was so elusive to me that I was convinced it wasn't real for a period of time.

Uh, yeah. It's real. Very, very much real. And man do I love the style of the game. It's so dang pretty. I'll mention gameplay some other time, I'll cover it another time, but today's not that day.

Also. Arle's fit.

It's basically Schezo's clothes but it looks so damn good. No complaints here. Though I do wonder how she got it.

I do want to mention the Pairs though. Arle/Satan is fine, Witch/Draco have been paired since like Saturn, Schezo/Incubus at least have Waku Puyo, Minotauros/Rulue is obligatory, but what the FUCK is going on with the pairing of Sasori Man/Zoh Daimoh? The fact they got two word names?

I do wish that Draco just had a little bit more than what she has currently. I love her, she's a funny person and whatnot, I just wish there was...more, you know?

She's been a character I've been wanting to cover for god knows how long, it's just I've never had enough unique things to talk about with her. Lotta the stuff is things we do know, or Puyo Puyo Tetris [2] sorta just making her beauty obsessed.

Least in Waku Puyo, she has some comedic scenes, canonically being able to make 5 chains and confusing Schezo at least 3 times. And in the manga, she bounces off Rulue and Minotauros decently, her fight was fun to read.

(Don't ask how Rulue learned Shadow Clone Jutsu)

And for a second, let me say that the designs in this manga are top-notch. Witch's redesign is nice, Rulue's looks really good, Draco's design is great, Schezo consistently has the best clothes, and Lagnus... somehow looks even better.

Oh yea, speaking of Draco, let's look at someone who sorta kinda maybe perchance looks like her but is actually from JUMP HERO.

... I'm awful with transitions. We're talking about the series. Sorta.

So, JUMP HERO. Series made by Compile, unknown to a lot of us.

(Nexus image)

Frankly, I want to cover this game sometime. It seems so...interesting. The characters, the gameplay, the story, it all seems so interesting to me.

People like Billie Be Babine, Margarita Linda, (the black and red folks in the front), Sugar & Oligo, they all seem so damn cool. Oh, and that Penguin is some fella named Ivan. He has a reeeeeally long last name.

Oh and that robot guy is like 2 years old canonically. Needed to mention that.

This is Sugar and Oligo btw. They seem fun to talk about sometime.

(Nexus image)

The game feels so heavily unexplored. I want to see it sometime. When? Whole other story.

But with that, I think this'll end my small ramble about nothing. Thanks for reading.

Adios.

#madou monogatari #puyo puyo #schezo puyo puyo #sega #waku waku puyo puyo dungeon #rulue puyo puyo #arle puyo puyo #draco puyo puyo #local boy rambles about nothing

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I think it’s pretty well established in many Team ICO fan circles, and there’s even a great post about it here on Tumblr by @frabjousvonniche, but for those unaware, the NTSC-U copy of ICO for the PS2 is a little undercooked. It was released in September of 2001 as the result of a shipping deadline that Ueda’s team couldn’t afford to miss. But frankly, ICO was not finished by that time and would not be sold to the Japanese market until December of that year.

For this reason, one can consider the NTSC-U copy to be a beta version of the title. But what it lacks in polish, it makes up for by providing insights. Rare is the opportunity for fans to have easy access to a completed game at different phases of development. And seeing the differences between these versions can show a lot about both the design process and what order the game may have been coded in.

But the strangest and smallest detail of differences, which really freaks me out on some level, becomes apparent when Yorda is taken into the void by Shadows. In the final game, Shadow Creatures are eliminated all at once by the same magic wave that turns you to stone and initiates the Game Over. This is already a little unsettling as a form of their dismissal, but they disappear like smoke, like you would expect of them.

This is not quite the case in the US version. When Shadows are eliminated by this magic wave, their disappearance is marked by a sudden, blurry red particle effect.

And this only occurs in this one specific scenario. No other means of defeating the Shadows can reproduce this.

I have a clip from ICO Speedrunner, Sanchopanda, to help demonstrate. It probably won’t work in the Tumblr ask format, but having the link should be enough. It occurs around 22 seconds in:

I’m all for interpreting this red particle effect in whatever way you want, but I can’t really shake from my mind the potential that it’s blood. And even further, I can’t shake questions of why that would only appear in this instance, and for what reason.

Maybe the confusion of the matter is the very reason this didn’t make it to the final release but it was clearly intentional and meant to signify something that at least one dev had in mind.

It’s intriguing, to say the least.

Tumblr ate your link but I went for a dive and I think this might be the clip you're talking about! The little red particles are visible and they do look like blood! Funny that when you defeat the armored soldiers in The Last Guardian, you can also observe a similar thing if you knock them down and rip off their helmets (which we can observe in this clip, for example). For both types of enemies, the sight of it is a bit bizarre, because they're supposed to be almost intangible little creatures, but that makes it feel like you actually hurt them.

It feels strange, almost like when you defeat the shadow kids that were sacrificed before Ico. I wonder if every shadow in the games is sentient or if there's some sort of robot/zombie like quality for the enemies where they just follow orders and don't feel any real pain.

Speaking of things that ended up being undercooked on the NTSC-U version due to the deadline... we also have the infamous Ico North American cover art. The one we all know and love was hand painted by Ueda himself, based on a Giorgio de Chirico piece titled "The Nostalgia of the Infinite". Much like the game, it wasn't ready when it came out in the US, so they were stuck with this eye sore that's odd enough to make you question whether you just picked up a bootleg copy. Who the heck is that kid?

The team actually talked about this in the bonus interview for the Ico/SOTC PS3 remaster and it made for a pretty funny moment which you can watch here.

(also... the Megaman cover they talk about is WAY worse. At least Ico's doesn't look like nightmare fuel and wow, how did I end up rambling this much? I'm gonna shut up now hahaha)

#ico #trivia #answered

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cutiecorner · 2 years

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Holy wow, I hit 900+ followers :D! I'm so happy I can bring y'all a little joy, thank you so much for listening to my rambles! I want to do a big post and I'm super into the animated JL show right now, so here's a spotlight for every original leaguer!! This is gonna be a really long one so join see you under the cut!

🏰 It's my headcanons so I get to choose the setup 🏰

Everybody regresses at wayne manor :) big house with lots of toys and access to care! Plus, Bruce was the first to learn about regression and the first to suggest it (much to everyone's surprise).

Bruce discovered regression after a particularly rough assignment that left him away from home/off planet for a few months. It was wildly taxing physically and especially emotionally, and upon the (telepathically extracted) realization that his homesickness was what was effecting him so bad, he was told to take a week leave at least.

He got home and broke down the second he saw Alfred

As it turns out the mission wasn't the sole purpose for this massive breakdown, it was really the stress of the league over the past few years in general. Between gotham villains and intergalactic/world ending threats Bruce was always batman, practically 24/7. He hadn't even stepped foot in the manor proper in god knows how long. He was always in save the world mode, and as cliche as it sounds, that whole time he was refusing to be saved himself. He had had no access - or refused access - to actually nourishing care for years at this point, and eventually his brain just gave out and launched him directly into regression.

After he recovered from the initial confusion of regressing and learned what had happened, the cogs started turning in his little bat-brain

He concluded that time off for mental health is a must for the league, and must be mandatory because otherwise none of them would do it

The "everybody regress" thing was not actually the initial idea. Bruce had just planned to make them all take a few weeks off, but when someone asked what brought him to this conclusion he explained what had happened. After everyone recovered from the shock he explained how leaning into it and letting himself be cared for actually helped a lot, and was in a way like super-charged-mental-recovery. The latter bit was most intriguing to the league, given it would make recovery faster, so they all agreed to at least hang out at Wayne Manor for a bit and see what happend.

Turns out being cared for and provided whatever you want while surrounded by your closest friends can bring out your inner child. Who knew.

They all get their own room in the manor for when they stay over! They can decorated it with whatever they want, and they're all in a long hall so they can visit each other easily :)

🦇 Bruce/Bats 🦇

As I mentioned, first to regress!

The smallest for sure, pure babyspace, 2 at the very oldest. He's usually under a year.

ALWAYS on someones hip, this baby bat's feet have not once touched the ground.

Initially glued to Alfred, but quickly warmed up to all the leaguers to watch him. Especially J'onn, if Bruce isn't with Alfred he's probably with J'onn. Or he's playing with Clark and Diana, who love to tote him around like a ragdoll.

Doesn't talk while regressed, but loves to listen! He finds it rude to not be included in the conversation (listened to when he does little babbles). J'onn is a master at this, he can hold whole conversations with baby Bruce despite Bruce just kind of making noises.

While alone he likes to watch movies or TV, but with his friends around he likes to watch them! He's very happy to sit in someone's lap while they do whatever, he just wants to be apart of it

❤️ Clark/Supes ❤️

Was tentative at first, but picked up on it very quickly. It is not difficult to get Clark to act like a kid lol

Come on he's just excited to be included! Once Diana asked him to show her what "hopscotch" was it was all over for him.

Regresses to about 5/6! What can I say he's just a kindergarten kid

He always wanted to play games as a kid but couldn't because of his powers! Now that he's got super powered playmates, he can just let loose and be a kid

That being said he is still very much a gentle giant. He's the kind of kid who asks for permission before doing anything, he's very good with his manners, and he's very good at listening to directions. He can be a little anxious but his friends and carers are quick to reassure him!!

Him, Diana and Bruce are a golden trio. Diana has all the fun ideas and gets the boys out of their shells while the boys keep her from breaking too many things lol

🌈 Diana/Wonder Woman 🌈

Absolute feral middle child energy. She's down to play with Wally and also bug John until he let's her try his videogame.

That being said, she regresses to around 7! A teeny bit older than Clark but still younger than John and Shay.

Very energetic, she love love LOVES to play! She loves to go outside, if she's not monitored for 6 seconds she has climbed the nearest tree and dragged Clark up with her.

Clark is her biggest playmate! Them being the around the same age, they work really well together. Diana still usually takes charge and leads whatever they're doing

She's very excited about worldly games and activities! She had games on Themyscira (which she's happy to explain and make the others play) but they weren't really made for kids, because she was the only one around. Playground games like freeze tag and hopscotch are the most fun ever to her!

Crazy good at jumprope, she does it idly a lot just to keep her body moving. The magic lasso MUST be hidden from her, she can't be trusted with it.

🎮 John/GL 🎮

Initially brushed the idea of regression off, but was entrapped by Alfred with comic books and immediately tumbled into it

Huge nerd, a little bit older for that reason. The happiest part of his childhood was right around 12, when he was really into comics and video games and wasn't embarrassed about it yet.

Wears his reading glasses all the time, he just needs them more when he's doing fun stuff (plus they're nostalgic for him)

LOVES the Detroit Redwings! He knows everything about every player, and can go on about hockey in general for hours. He's the kind of guy to record every game in case they win and watch those in the off season. When he has a turn with the TV he's always watching them, and explaining the what's going on repeatedly because no one else knows how hockey works

Loooooves video games, especially retro ones. He's one of those kids who read all the magazines with the cheats and shows them off whenever he can, usually to Shayera.

Him and Shayera are attached at the hip, they love playing against each other at fighting games, and John loves showing Shay all the cool stuff he knows or explaining his comic storylines to her. Sometimes they make comics together!

🐣 Shayera/Hawkgirl 🐣

Took a bit of coaxing to buy into the whole thing, but once John was on board so was she.

She actually follows John's lead in like, everything, only by virtue that she regresses a tiny bit younger (9/10) and she doesn't know that much about earth childhood. Like I mentioned before, her and John are a package deal. You know those best friends on the playground who essentially counted as one person? Yeah that's them

In that vein a lot of her regression is discovering new things! She likes to read comic books, watch cartoons (stuff like 80s she-ra/thundercats and stuff of that general vibe, anything with an action figure), learn new games, even just learn about earth stuff! She's very curious and wants to do all the things right now

She's also one of the usual suspects for breaking things in the house. She's much more of an active/ playmate than the others (she's the only one who is can go toe to toe with Wally) plus no matter how many times she's told not to fly inside it has never stuck for more than an hour

If left alone in a room together her and Diana WILL be roughhousing. The collateral damage is legendary but they have so much fun

When she's on her own she's much more low-key. She enjoys being read to and just kind of hanging out, she really loves to hang out with Alfred every once in a while. She's thinks he's the best.

Sometimes Alfred and J'onn call her fledgling and it makes her melt inside every time <3

🌠 J'onn/Martian 🌠

The oldest for sure, given his age scale is so much longer than a humans

He acts around 14-16, but not in a moody teenager way, more of a CG jr way

His regression revolves around babysitting! Even when he's relaxing he's wrangling the others lol, he can't help it he's a carer through and through. He likes keeping that aspect because it's obviously way more low stakes than usual, and there's always Alfred to handle more difficult stuff

He always loves to learn more about earth and ask questions he'd be embarrassed to ask otherwise. Despite being in the teen range he's definitely a "why?" kid, he can go down that rabbit hole with Alfred for hours

He loves to read!! Both fiction and nonfiction. He has stacks upon stacks of those fact books/believe it or nots, and he loves to share that knowledge with the other leaguers (who are totally amazed). He almost always has a book under his arm.

Surprisingly cuddly! Given his standoffish nature he doesnt seem like the physically affectionate type, but at heart he really is. For one, he's almost always the one holding Bruce, who also has Repressed Cuddler energy, so he's always carrying him close. Plus, being the biggest member of the league physically, he can actually fit the others in his lap! They're all just. So jazzed about this. Hes also pretty strong, so the others just tend to climb/lounge on him like a jungle gym. He loves it.

⚡️Wally/Flash ⚡️

Little and small guy, the toddlerest toddler to ever toddle.

He is,,, so hyper. So many safety precautions need to be made to Wally-proof the house. If sugar is within a 20 foot radius of him while small it's just all over. He can TASTE the speedforce and it's just red Kool-aid

Yes he has a toddler leash. It's a precaution everyone just kind of understands, even Wally. There was a fair amount of engineering that went into it honestly

Wally isn't really glued to another person like the others tend to be, he's happy to bounce around between leaguers. Each of them are a special type of fun!!

John 1000% has done the classic big brother trick of just giving Wally an unplugged controller when they play video games. It works every time

He LOVES to find out who's the best at something, which usually ends up with Shayera and Diana 80 rounds deep in some ridiculous competition. Hey, but who can balance the most chairs on their nose while standing on one foot? The world just had to know.

WOOO that was a lot of headcanons!!! If you wanna hear more about a specific leaguer or team up, please please please lmk!!! They are all I think about lmao. I hope y'all enjoy, thanks again for all your support ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

#little league #agere #fandom agere #agere fandom #dc agere #agere headcanons #superhero agere #justice league agere #im. not gonna tag them all rn lol #also WOOHOO i can finally post this ive been working on it forever #glad i got it out cuz its kinda the setup for all my other little league stuff

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im decently sure you're about ready to put me in the trash bin but you said you wanted to hear about ocs and you're the only one i can ramble to so

more fun times between your ocs and my ocs:

in a misguided attempt at "friendship" Selga once brought Sarabi a rabbit he hunted. just kinda came up to him, covered in blood with the rabbit in his mouth and dropped it in front of Sarabi like "here, is for you". Simba and Nala were the unfortunate witnesses to Selgas insane finger strength as they watched him climb up a tree by digging his fingers into the bark to pull himself up. when they first met Selga DID NOT want to be around Stone he thought Stone was too large and his glare wasn't helping so Selga was hissing a lot (everytime Stone talked to a memeber of the group Selga was in the background giving him laser eyes)

while everyone was climbing into the back of a truck (the open back kind) one of the lions was struggling to get in(for whatever reason) so Hazzard grabs them by the scruff and lifts them into the truck because he would do that for the members of his group, mainly Void. The lions get to witness Void being thrown by everyone because he's very light and everyone thinks it's fun to throw him and it's fun for him to be thrown. (Void gets tossed around like a ball)

Vaccine and Dartboard terrorise Kali by coming up behind him and blowing into his ears then running away laughing

Stone and Hazzard become semi friends but they mostly just sit beside one another in silence

Lader(pls correct me if i spelled that wrong), a confident queen, teaches Diana, a not confident queen, how to be more confident

now for the menace. this is how i imagine a meeting between experiment Stone and Johan would go (Stone can't run away he has to face the menace):

*Johan sees experiment Stone* oh wow look at you :) aren't you an interesting find? :) a mix of human and tiger DNA.... fascinating :) tell me. how does that impact your daily life? *pets Stones ear gently* is your hearing sensitive? :) do you have a prey drive? what about water? are you a good swimmer? :) do you get an urge to pounce on people? *Johan dodges a swipe from Stone when he tries to pet Stones tail* do you get... seasons? :) i know it's rather inappropriate to ask but it's quite interesting to find out about how animal DNA could impact a humans inner workings including reproduction :) :) :) :) :)

(Johan keeps questioning Stone until Hazzard comes to drag him off and save poor Stone from the torment)

Sarabi would gladly accept the rabbit Selga offered to him. How very kind of him to find Sarabi food.

Nala and Simba are impressed that Selga can just climb a tree by digging his fingers into the bark. Would he be willing to teach them how to do that too?

Stone is watching Selga hiss at him every time he's near one of the team members and he's just confused. Will he reach out to Selga? Probably not, considering he just doesn't want to push Selga into liking him.

Hazzard definitely has to help Nala get into the vehicle, because while he is tall (he's 6ft), he's not really as fast as the others because his legs are just a bit shorter. So yeah, Hazzard, just throw him into the back of the vehicle when you're all trying to escape quickly. Also, I think Kali would join in carrying Void around (he wouldn't throw him because that's too bold for him to do so).

Kali is shocked when Vaccine and Dartboard are messing with him, because usually he's the menace. So it's time for him to join in on the fun, prank the twins.

Sitting beside someone silently and just enjoying their presence is such a Stone thing to do. He loves just sitting with Hazzard.

Ladder when she notices Diana being not so confident: I'll help you. You're so beautiful and you deserve to feel like you know it.

Experiment!Stone is wondering if he could eat Johan before Johan can poke and prod him. He's already had scientists poke and prod him, hence what got him in this mess in the first place. I don't know if Johan or Experiment!Stone is the more lucky one when Hazzard comes to drag Johan away.

#tyler's asks #tyler's inbox #tyler answers asks #answering asks #asks #other ocs #oc talk #:)

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um, hi Emma. I've got a question. How do u understand a character, what's your method what do u do to get into their psyche and mannerisms and how they talk and also do u keep a doc of all the headcanons and idk what I'm trying to say it's just that I'm struggling with the characterization. I love that character but writing is pretty daunting.

hi friend! wow, what a question! i think i went overboard here, so sorry in advance for a whole lot of rambling.

characterization is one of my favorite parts of writing. i think it's why i write fanfiction in the first place -- i want to see just how well i know a character, how much i know about the source material, how much i can bend the story without breaking it. i guess my goal when writing fanfiction is that i want you to feel like you're reading the story. i guess that's kind of simple, but it's often what i strive for! i want the character to be so vivid for you that you slip into the plot seamlessly. and i think it can take time. you have to try things out before you hit your stride!

anyway. my approach to characterization is basically one core question: what would it take to get them to x. to do something, to say something, to think something, to be something, etc etc etc. i'm always seeing how i can push and pull what canon gives me and how far i can take it. and to do that successfully it's all about feeling confident in my knowledge of/understanding of/opinions about the source material.

so like, take steve harrington, the first character i wrote for on this blog. to feel like i knew him and could be inside his head i basically thought about the core moments of his character. when do we see him sad? when do we see him happy? what got him to those places? and then i just sort of build the image of him in my head that i want to work with out from there. what does he wear when? what does he look like when he's sorry? how does he tell jokes? what confuses him?

or let's talk about joel. joel is different because we have two versions of him, right? game!joel and hbo!joel. so there, i sort of think about who joel is to me (which is, ultimately, like 85% game and 10% show and 5% my own opinions). when i want to hear him in my head i usually play the game a little bit. maybe i read some fanfics i think really nail him. i think i know him pretty well but there are still things i don't know -- like if i want to write about how he'd decorate his house while living with someone in jackson, i'd look at picture of his house from the game and see what i can fill in the blanks with. not a ton of clothes -- would share his closet, obviously. he's little wooden animals on his coat rack and ellie's art on his mantle so maybe he'd be happy to have a partner display trinkets of theirs. small shit like that, right? i see how he interacts with the world around him in canon and i apply it to my story.

i don't know if any of this is making sense. another thing i do is talk about The Character with other people! Yes, we all have our own version of them in our heads who suits our desires and the stories we want to tell. But it's fun to do that -- like, if someone ordered Joel a martini, would he drink it? If Steve got the flu would he be a baby about it? This is the kind of shit i love to talk about with friends.

okay, and lastly. i want to say something about like, doing a "correct" characterization or whatever. i think that it's up to you what that means. i prefer to write as close to canon as possible and if i cant figure out a way to get a character to do something, i won't have them do it -- and i'm sure there are folks who think the way i write characters is totally off-base and not for them! and that's fine!! they don't have to read wat i do.

but at the same time, it's whatever you want it to be. i love this post about that -- like, do whatever you want!! in the end i think you should feel good about what you've written and that's what matters to me. you don't need to keep a doc or a notebook, they can be ever-evolving in your brain. it's supposed to be fun!

okay. TL;DR

-feel comfortable with the source material/whatever you want to start with regarding knowing the character -believe that you know them! you do! -talk to other people who love The Character bc its fun and useful -make sure you are enjoying it and writing for you!

i hope that made sense and im so sorry its so long. i love you! you can do it! if you ever want to talk more shop i'm around <3

#ily!#i believe in you #emma's asks #anon ask #writing advice #??? can i even tag thi that #its just rambling

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ROTTMNT FanFic

Lost and Found by Bug and Queenie

Warning for dark scenes and language.

"Guys, are you seeing this?" She called out pointing to the direction not far from them causing everyone to turn towards where April was pointing at eyes and just slightly lightning with her same expression. It was a building but what was it doing all the way out here? Are there goes getting closer and naming their lights the notice the building was crumbled up a bit but still in good condition with some areas being made of strong breaking concrete but one had a really huge hole in it like something exploded it from the inside creating an opening there for something to get in or get out it was barely noticeable due to the fun and foliage covering it with old vines, moss and weeds growing all over the place even a treat found halfway inside whatever happened it must have been abandoned a decade ago or more so. “Wow, I never knew buildings could be built all the way out here?" Mikey awed but it still kind of gave him the creeps like one of those old scary places that you don't want to go to yet curiosity gets you kind of thing where you do it's something scary is there. "I highly find it impossible Mikey but based on its former structure I believe construction was set up to suit the environmental area." Donnie replied his curiosity rising on this mysterious building “Well let’s stop standing around it and just figure out what’s inside!” Leo hopped out of the boat and onto the ground to enter the building. “Leo wait! We don’t know what’s in there!” Raph called out and immediately followed after Leo. The building did look pretty suspicious and Raph wants everyone to stay close.

Quickly fell carefully stepping on a boat onto the opening of the building while April set off the engine and tossed the anchor in "hey guys wait for us" jumping in after them the 9 passengers eyes widened in curiosity and confusion as they got a good look inside everything looks like it was crumbled like something bad happened inside there was computers everywhere research lab areas for many corner many books doors that have led to halls and areas lot of papers everywhere burn marks looking like a fire happened a long time ago plants were breaking across in the areas within the rebel "come on let's have a look around!" Leo continued as he started to look all over the place the other turtles cautiously Donnie was curious about some of the old files and books lying about as he looked through them he noticed that some of the files contained biographies and biology of some of the native species of the area along with some different species from across the world, there was even some full ones about different turtle species. Some he recognized that they were. from species of red-eared slider, snapping turtle, soft shell and box turtle even some exotic species from Indian peacock, spotted pond, yellow spotting and Japanese pond, he also knew the small notes they were a bit faint to see but he could make out along the lines of 'breeding'….blank….. 'Experimental mix'…. blank ..and…look for possible crossbreed possible repopulation'..blank..subject..TM04? “Guys come look!” Donnie called out to them. “What is it, Donnie?” Raph asked as he approached behind Donnie. “All these species listed here… are our species!” Donnie said with fear and shock in his voice, he felt a chill go down his spine. “See?! Look! Snapping turtle that’s you, Raphael! A-and soft shell is me! And you Mikey and you too Leo! It’s all on here!” Donnie stuttered and rambled. “WHAT?!” All three of them looked at the papers along with Donnie. Donnie was still able to comprehend what was going on. “This doesn’t any make sense…” Donnie said to himself as he paced around the room, thinking hard and talking out loud to himself.

Continuing to look through the boys continue to explore as they reach the end of the hall Mikey noticed something in one of the old rooms nearest to them something stood off about that room he didn't know but.. but it felt like there was some big secret that room slowly pushing it back the door in erie creek as he made a peek suddenly his eyes widen and I confusion as he whispered "ohmegosh! Hey bros think you really need to see this.." he called quietly but loud enough to get their attention "hey what's up Mike you look a little spooked." Raph asked curious about what caught Mikey's attention "Yeah little bro you look a little pale and green" commented Leo any noticed the look in Mikey's eye showing that he looked a little worried "Mike.. what is it..?" Slowly to show his point Mikey gently pushed the door open as the eerie creaking of the door widened as did the boy's eyes what they saw before them behind that door laid a haunting image for within it was an extremely large filled with torn and empty cages and tanks all around but what troubled them was how the way they looked they were all damaged as if something horrible happened cages looks like they were torn open from the inside Glass broken everywhere pieces of metal burnt wood rubble all over the place and what looks to be like paw and claw marks that looked to be years old scratched on the walls and old dark stains that they hope didn't look like blood?

Now this place was really starting to give them the creeps find them they could hear April walking up to them when she let out a gasp "Oh my gosh what happened in here? It's like some kind of destruction occurred maybe some kind of big fight happened to cause all this?" There were old aquariums and tanks shattered broken with glass and strange stains on the ground everywhere that looked like… She wasn't sure how to say it… But for some odd reason, they almost looked like footprints and handprints but they weren't human. The adults shortly followed after the kids and saw the catastrophe that swept this room. For some strange reason, this all looked very familiar to Drax then he finally remembered and his face grew pale. He looked extremely guilty right now as if he was there or was the one who caused it. “Hey, Drax? Why does your face look so extremely pale and guilty?” Leo asked. Drax kept quiet, he didn’t wanna tell them. They just NOW finally started accepting him and Drax didn’t want them to hate him again or even more than they already do. “You know something, don’t you?!” Donnie asked. Everyone turned back to Draxum to face him; he had the dance floor now but didn’t want to dance.

"uh, I'm fine no need to worry Leo I'm just a little disturbed by the aura of this place." He replied hoping to find a way to change the subject in this haunting place that seems so familiar to him. Thankfully the subject did change Mikey called out "Hey everyone me and Don found something on one of the computers that seems to be still working!" He pointed over where some of the computers were "Indeed Michael and I found what seem to be piles and according to the database we're around 16-17 years ago." Curious they watched just Donny open the first file revealing a video diary to a Dr. Augustus J.Aelia zoologist and biologist of B.R.I.D.E Breeding and Resource Intelligence of Defense Environment.

Everyone gathered around to see what was playing on the computer and watched the video diary. ‘Oh no! I hope this doesn’t give away too much information!’ Draxum thought to himself as he watched the video in fear.

The sound of the recording could be heard showing a middle-aged man of South Asian descent.

1st Video 11:58 AM

"Ello? Testing, testing 1 2 3 diary entry 1 greetings I am Dr. Aelia one of the head scientists of B.R.I.D.E and today we are searching for breeding programs to help restore species of environmental danger and involve the research of their intelligence and genetics. With some of our four main subjects (suddenly a video came up revealing the doctor) TM01 (showing an alligator) TM02 (Puma) TM03(a raccoon dog?) and at last (he whispers) my favorite TM04 (turning to the camera to reveal a small lovely aquarium revealing a very unusual little turtle she had a soft shell soft green tone with little speckles, red markings against her eyes) the doctor returned the camera looking at him smiling proudly "isn't she beautiful TM04 is quite a rare gem in this lab she was born with four traits of different species of Testudines, well except the snapping turtle species which I can't seem to find any trace of even though it's in her dna (he chuckles) anyway it's going to be quite an adventure with these four with the rest of the animals in our research facility." Ended the first video making everyone curious.

2nd video

Another video shows up "Greetings this Dr. Aelia research seems to be going very well all of the subjects are in good health and the small exercises we give them have improved and have shown surprise intelligence from time to time from their reaction to their dietary in foods, temperature changes and reactions to certain sounds as if their senses have risen to make them aware." "subject TM04 or Leonora as I have given the name to her after one of my favorite artists, has shown quite unusual but fascinating behavior than a turtle is usually used to acting it's as if she could understand whatever I'm talking about the subject that they will be testing today I checked her fertility levels and it shows that she has reached the right age maturity and could be ready to go into breeding soon we will be assigning her to the first male tomorrow and we'll see how it all goes well."

3rd video "oh dear goodness oh dear goodness I shouldn't have left her alone in that tank oh dear we brought subject TM04 to the breeding tank in a separate area until a male was chosen to mate with when me and the other scientist left to assemble and check on the other subjects we didn't expect the other males to break throughout the other barriers and oh dear (the sound of sadness in his voice) we didn't expect them to act so aggressive this was so unusual behavior and to..oh dear..gang up on her." Guilt be seen in his eyes " thankfully one of the scientists was able to find them just in time the hours she must have been in that situation this is unusual turtle behavior the poor girl she had a few cuts and bruises but thankfully we were able to patch her up and get her back to her tank and get her the medicine she needs to heal dear I cannot believe this happend to a sweet little turtle like her for now we are sending the males away finding them too dangerous for TM04 just don't get why they became so aggressive like that? It doesn't make any sense? How awful it is and now TM04 had hidden herself in her burrow and hidden herself within her shell refusing to come out. the experience must've terrified the poor thing (the camera pointed to the tank where a log burrow showed the same turtle hiding within her shell and by noticing very closely as if it was shaking) the doctor let a sigh "Hopefully subject TM04 will be all right all I could do now is pray that she'll be able to be recover."

4th video "This is Dr.Aelia I have good news TM04 seems to have recovered from the 'accident' and is slowly coming out of her burrow more it's truly wonderful as a special treat we gave her, her favorites and looks to be eating and drinking well I'm so happy she's feeling better we're going to have a couple of more checkups on her from time to time just to make sure she is doing well and continue observing her behavior.

5th video "All is well for all the subjects they have been behaving very well with the experiments and test all are healthy it seems to show our behavior from time to time whenever we're around working in the lab all their eyes seem full of curiosity and emotion? As if they are showing interest in what we do they seem to like to listen whenever we read through our files and papers and then occasional book experiment with this further whenever we have to leave the lab we'd sometimes turn on the television as a form of entertainment for them and it seems that they find it fascinating I'm liking certain channels showing interesting subjects in the human world we even caught signs of them looking at each other from different cages and as if they seem to be having a conversation with one another silently whenever something interesting appears on the TV it makes me wonder what they would say if they could talk?"

The 6th and 7th videos discuss the same processes of the subjects of the experiments and how they are each doing very well the strange curiosities appearing more often than in the 8th video came with unexpected surprise news from the Dr. "splendid news oh such splendid news we were giving TM04 a daily week checkup and the most amazing discovery has happened oh joy it seems to appear that TM04 is expecting! About maybe from what we estimate two to three weeks? They aren't sure how many she is carrying but it's going to be such a splendid event to come we'll have to observe her more often during her condition as we are unsure how long this will take as she is a mix of different species who knows how long it could take until she gives birth. It could be many weeks or even a year or two until then we will continue to observe till the day comes."

The 9th 10th 11th and 12th videos discuss the same processes of the subjects of the experiments and how strange TM04's pregnancy is seemingly taking longer than a normal turtle pregnancy observing her diet and habits.

13th video "good news TM04 had given birth after a couple of months of constant observation and careful testing she had finally given birth to a single egg and goodness it's quite a big little one if I do say so myself it must have happened during the night while we all slept we could tell that she was showing signs of giving birth any day now we didn't expect it would happen last night and the sweet girl looked pretty tired it still fascinates me how long her pregnancy took to accomplish this almost complete 9 months like a human mother would do when growing a child and shows unusual behavior for a turtle having to seem to stay by her egg most of the time we even found a nest she must've built on her own to keep her egg safe fascinating but unusual behavior?"

14th video "unexpected news TM04 she's showing signs of pregnancy again! And after some testing, it's assumed that she's carrying two this time! First egg hasn't hatched yet but still waiting and observing!" 15th video "It has happened again she has given birth this time it happened early this morning just as we were waking up to a pair of two eggs the poor thing looks so tired again but seems to be all right who knew carrying twins could take a toll in the little lady like her but a job well done!" 16th video “The eggs seem to be in good health we will be color coding to determine their date of birth and age. For the first, we marked it with red the 2nd and 3rd blue and purple we expect her to be caring again will we be ready to mark."

17th video "Another baby is on the way many blessings for this little turtle for this was quite a surprise the eggs are doing well and she is doing well all is well in the lab." 18th video “We got quite a little scared today TM04's egg came early unexpectedly because it looks like she had a bit of a difficult birth it seems to be all right we took her out for a checkup and all is well she's just a bit tired and from what we examined it looks like this will be her last egg, for now, we have carefully marked the littlest one orange and together with the other three eggs all in good health.

19th video “TM04 is doing so well these past few days even happier it's the way I can explain it as we observe her behavior towards her hatchlings watching over them and caring for them in this unusual way but I can't help but see how precious it is seeing the proud mother she has become, how she gently places leaves over them sleeps by them during the night and just looks at them all the time and making sounds as if she were talking to them it's so fascinating makes me wonder on the days that they'll finally hatch and what new beginnings will bring to this research.? This is Dr. Aelia turning in for the night will record if anything happens in due time.

20th Video "This is Dr.Aelia I'm afraid there's been some concerning news lately the animals have been at unease lately and so have the other researchers we don't know but I'm afraid something bad is going to happen I don't know why but I hope this feeling passes over I don't know what we do something happened to the animals and one of my researchers have been acting strange lately during this time as if they are hiding something they know something about this weird behavior lately I might have to investigate and question his behavior.."

21th Video "oh dear lord…how could you do this.. how can you do this to all our animals all our research?… How long has he been hiding this from us..? How can he inject that stuff into them without our knowledge..? Is… That's the reason for their odd behavior and signs of higher intelligence I do not know but we are going to demand more answers from him what he did was cross the line! And the possible risk that I could affect everyone! the animals! him! including myself! I do know he is hiding more than he seems we will further investigate this oh dear I may fear that we are all in danger for what he has done….!" 22nd video “We are all in danger! I'm afraid and we must evacuate the lab get all our subjects out of here for something happens we will get everything settled tonight I sent most of the scientists and researchers away except for a few and the one who caused all of this to repent for his misdeeds and hopefully make up for what he has done but right now we're running out of time now we need to act…we… Wait.. something's happening I don't know.. whatever it is it's not good… There's a commotion going on outside… Oh dear they're forcing their way inside..dear Lord…oh no!.."

Everyone watched in shock as they watched all of the videos simultaneously. The ones who were most shocked were the turtles; Raphael, Donatello, Leonardo, and Raphael. Everything the doctor has said and shown sounds too much like them. To the eggs, the species name, the features; it was too close to them. What shocked them the most was that they had a mother and that they were born in this place! Where is their mother now? Nobody knows not even them! Hopefully, they will find more answers as they keep watching.

23rd Video "…….cough…cough… This is..is..Dr…Dr… Augustus..J…Aelia..(the sound of painful groaning could be heard).. and I'm afraid this is the last video ever recorded..I..cough.. everything is.. cough..gone.. they came out of nowhere.. they looked furious.. whatever creatures they are… (More coughing and painful groaning).. their leader looks the most furious… I have no idea what they are or where they came from…(sound of tears can be heard).. but they were after the scientist who started all of this and what's the cause… Of the destruction.. it seemed that he stole something from these creatures… And was using it to experiment on our subjects… As he tried to run with it… Away from them but the leader… cough sniffles.. look the term they get to him fired at him with this strange magic best way to get to describe it.. making the strange dark plants reach to grab them but in the process, it caused to explode on the building.. when it missed him oh dear Lord it hurts… The animals were in danger.. we were able to get some of them out of the cages but the others were stuck ..and.. during the commotion the leader of the creatures.. he killed the one he was after.. not before the strange containment he was holding.. this.. strange green liquid.. exploded on the impact covering everything including all the animals it..it I still can't believe it.. it started to change them in a rapid rate causing them to grow…(crying could be heard as the doctor tried to put himself together to continue).. becoming more mutant more human… It was like an amazing event happening.. the fire the fire it was going to kill them and the destruction of the building… I couldn't let them die!.. in an effort I grabbed one of the weapons that those creatures must have dropped and used it to break a wall out of the building to free them.. out into the depths of the swamps and forest.. so they could be free and let it decide their fate… They were all running for freedom.. all except for one TM04.. Leonora… Her aquarium fell to the ground she was changing but she wasn't fleeing… She was.. she was trying to save her eggs.. trying to save her children as any mother would do.. she was trying to drag them out from what was left of her nest.. everything was in slow motion.. the pain.. the worry.. the desperate in her eyes…

“What happens next?! WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?!” Mikey aggressively shook the computer while tearing up, he was dying to know what happened, and he demanded ANSWERS! “MIKEY!! Stop SHAKING IT!! You might break it!!” Donnie shouted as he pulled Mikey away from the computer. “There might be something else! Let’s keep watching.” Donnie added while holding Mikey back. (The doctor’s crying could be heard he sounded so heartbroken trying to continue the story)

“.. but she was running out of time it was too late.. she didn't know the part building was about to collapse.. it was going to kill her or the fire…cough… If she didn't get her eggs in herself out of there I couldn't help her I was trapped in the commotion(heavy painful coughing could be heard now).. she was going to die… There was nothing I could do.. but she was saved… She was saved by Iggy… He grabbed her… With his hands… Leonora… The look on her face when she was pulled away… She was trying to reach back to them…she was reaching… Reaching out toward her eggs… Trying to go back but it was too late… The debris collapsed… It blocked her from reaching them… The fires were getting bigger… They couldn't stay… I witnessed their escape… I witness them disappearing into the night… And… I witness.. I witness hearing her first words… The first words she screamed into the night… The desperate screams of a mother's tears!… In one of the cameras that were salvaged, I managed to find.. it was able to catch those words… For evidence, I will show you to hear.. as living proof before I am gone… For whoever finds this… Please let them know… At these creatures have living souls and are the most incredible miracles I saw… May God be with them out in that endless dark swamp plains.. hiding and may never be forgotten…" Static could be heard throughout the video as it was showing the sounds recorded the moment the animals were escaping a sound of fire and explosion and horrible sounds nobody should hear but near the end of that recording two words could be heard that brought silence to everyone in that dark room a sound they never thought they would hear in their lifetime in a blurring sound they could hear clear words in the distance of a distressed female voice screaming!

"MMMMYYYY BAaaaaBbbbbiiiieeeessss!!!!!!"

The old computer started to glitch causing the recorded words to scream and repeat as the four Brothers repeatedly heard the cry of someone they never knew would exist in their lives! Making them question who she was? was..was this turtle..their mother..? Everyone who was watching was tearing up, the boys, Splinter, April, and even Gargoyles teared up. Everyone except Draxum, shut his eyes tight and looked away in shame. hearing her cry once again was just as painful as the first time. To think that was the first time they ever heard their mother and the last…

The constant repeating screams of his mother rang in Raph’s ears, he couldn’t take it anymore! He screams out loud and smashes the computer out of frustration. It was all… too much for him. He panted heavily and his palms shook and then looked at his palms crying. This was all too, too much to take in. "Guys…was..that ?" Mikey whispered tears slowly falling from his eyes, Donnie felt tears from his eyes without realizing it Leo was trying not to shed his.. they were all shocked by this revelation "wa..she.." Mikey tried to continue… But it was hard.

April hugs Mikey to comfort him, she knows this was extremely hard for him, for ALL of them. “It’s ok… you don’t have to force it out.” She said as she held Mikey close as she petted him on the head. Mikey cried into her shoulder. Everyone was speechless even Draxum but he knew he couldn’t keep his mouth shut forever. He had to eventually tell them the truth.

“Yes, she was your mother…” Draxum finally speaks. Everyone looked back at him. “I would know… because I was there.”

He has to tell them the truth, even though they might hate him for it. "Barry what are you saying..?" April questioned as did the others the Gargoyles realized what their boss was saying and they knew now coming back in their memories that this was the place where he found the turtles so long ago but it was lost in memory over the years long forgotten and that the reason was due to Draxum was tracking down a thief who stole some of his research and mutagen from him remembering how their boss was furious that day and spent months to almost years tracking that scientists down to retrieve what was his! Looking at each other they knew that they better help their boss explain all of this even if they knew it could ruin the turtle's relationship with the Yokai as he sadly explains the events that took place all those years ago "about 16-17 years ago a human thief broken into my lab stealing my research..and in my fury towards humans I was on the hunt for blood…"

As he carefully explained every word to the turtles that he was unaware of the lab scientist was hiding mostly remembering going to take back what was his unaware of the other scientists and the animals within with how the mutagen exploding in the chaos it would bring and… How he found the turtles still hatchlings unaware their mother's fate but he heard that scream within the chaos unknown that it would come back to haunt him… This was hurting him so much on the inside trying to explain all of this… “YOU BASTARD!! YOU THE ONE WHO TOOK MOM FROM US!!” Raph shouted as he punched Draxum in the stomach tears streamed down his face. “HOW COULD YOU DRAXUM?!” Mikey cried. He looked so hurt by saying those words. The turtles were visibly upset and heartbroken. They had a mom this whole time and Draxum kept quiet about it. For YEARS they thought they had no origin and that they came out of nothing but knowing they had a mother who cared for them and loved them hurts them so much. What hurt even more was now she was gone and it was all Draxum’s fault.

Draxum couldn't help but let them take their anger out on him knowing and feeling he deserved it. He winced slightly when Raph punched him in the jaw hard! Barry hissed in slight pain gently touching his face he found blood dripping out knowing it was going to leave a pretty nasty bruise on him later "You have a right to be angry with me and I couldn't be more ashamed of myself than I am now it gives me no excuse for what I was done all those years ago I was blinded with my fury for humans that I became unaware that I would take away from a person you never got to meet I'm so sorry boys…" Shadows cover his face showing the guilt in his eyes.

Sorry wasn’t enough. Cause of him they will never know who she truly was. She could be missing or dead! But they will never know and they never had the chance to say goodbye. “Don’t EVER fucking talk to us again!” Leo said in between his clenched teeth. Angry tears streamed down his face and all of their faces. They had nothing else to say so they walked out of the room with April. The only ones who stayed were the gargoyles and Splinter. “And to think there was redemption in you… Tch! Turns out I was wrong.” He clicked his tongue and then looked away. Splinter may forgive him for turning him to a rat and giving him his boys but he could not forgive him for ripping them out of a mother’s arms. Splinter left too now only the gargoyles remained. The gargoyles looked extremely guilty as well for they were right there at that moment on their shoulders. They didn’t commit the crime but they felt like they did. “You ok boss?” One of the gargoyles asked as he touched Draxum’s arm.

Their boss remained silent there was nothing he could say after what they had said to him how hurt they were when they found the truth. especially Michelangelo whom he was unknowingly slowly growing to see as a son "No I'm afraid not.." he whispered softly the hurt in his voice. Slowly turning he was about to leave the haunted room when he noticed something at the corner of his eye slightly curious he reached down for it removing the debris and rock from it and brushing the dust he realized it was a photo from one of those old-fashioned cameras that humans would use to take pictures with and his eyes widen at the image of the same female turtle that was described in the videos a tank next to her was a little nest laying within for four little eggs marked by four similar colors. It was a picture of their mother. And from what form he could tell she looked to be smiling proudly of her hatchlings. Draxum wanted to show the boys this badly but he knew that the anger and resentment were still fresh he believed it was best to give them space for now until things cooled off and maybe one day he could find a way into their hearts of hoping for forgiveness even if he believes he doesn't deserve it. In the meantime he carefully tucked the picture safely into his yukata before making his way where the others went careful to keep his distance for now when he made his way to the entrance of the building they entered his sense is suddenly caught something taking a sniff he realized something was off? Carefully looking at the entrance he could see out into the darkness of the swamp that sent his instincts on alert they were being watched. So he quickly and quietly went to find the others!

“I wanna go home….” Mikey whined as he hugged himself while looking down. “This trip is no longer fun anymore.” He felt like he was betrayed and got stabbed in the heart a million times, everyone else felt too. Everyone was silent and the mood was definitely killed. Pretty sure they don’t wanna go camping anymore after finding out about all of this. “H-hey! Let’s head back to the boat eh? This place is like… SUPER depressing anyway!” April tried to lighten up the mood by saying that; she could tell the boys really needed a pick-me-up right about now. When she was about to head out to the boat she felt herself stop by her arm looking to see it was Draxum a stern look on his face "Barry what are you..? But he quietly just her as did the Gargoyles quietly whispered "We are not alone some eyes are watching us." Carefully pointing to the entrance of the building "Beyond the trees there are four of them."

Everyone slowly turned to see in his direction and in need not far from where the boat was 8 pairs of glowing eyes watching them.

The boys and Splinter quickly caught on to. They were def being watched. Damn! If only they bought their weapons along the trip but they left them behind. Still, they put their dukes up ready to fight. They are not completely helpless without their weapons they can just fight fine by themselves! Carefully they made their way closer to the entrance and nearer to the mysterious eyes that's so far didn't seem to make any moves only blinking from time to time as Leo called out to them "Hey whoever you are you better show yourselves right now or there's going to be trouble! Hoping for their answer the pair of eyes looked around as if they were looking at one another then looked back at the group the looking eyes as if they were confused yet curious suddenly the flick of a match was lit by one of them and they could see that they replacing what looked like to be an Old fashioned lamp? "What are they doing?" April asked worryingly as she consciously back next to Draxum unsure of what these mysterious strangers were doing they finished lighting their lamps bringing them up to reveal their faces completely flabbergasted as the light revealed four humanoid animal faces of a raccoon girl, a fox boy and two lizard boys expressing the same look as the others as the raccoon girl holding the lamp cautiously step forward and spoke in a Creole accent "kiyes ou ye?"(who are you?)

End of Chapter:3

stay tuned for Chapter:4 Truth in the dark leads from a lantern light.

credit to the beautiful Queenie aka https://www.tumblr.com/celestialcreativity for being a part of this Fanfic

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Trust (Steve x Reader)

The sound of the toilet flushing filled the room as you leaned against the bathroom stall, Robin next to you in a separate stall, along with Steve in his own as the poor bastard threw up yet again. The worst part of this evening was not the part where strange men screamed at you in a language you barely understood. It wasn't even the drugs they gave the three of you. It was the fact that through all of this, you were still in that stupid ass sailor outfit.

"Tell me, why didn't we just settle for a normal summer? Maybe go to some parties, deal with a standard hangover and not the aftermath of whatever drugs Russian spies gave us." You said. "I think I'd rather be here than at some party." Robin said, you chuckled. "You hate social interaction that much?" Steve asked. "Yes. Well, and I actually think this might be the best summer I've ever had." Robin said.

"Robin, did you just admit that you liked hanging out with us?" Steve asked. "Maybe I did, dingus." Robin said. "You are so totally high." You snorted. "I am not!" Robin said, nudging you with her foot underneath the stall making you laugh. Steve smiled to himself as he head that giggle of yours.

"I think I'm coming down from it." Steve said after you recovered from your laughing fit. Robin slid into your stall, sitting next to you. "I'm good." Robin said. "I don't believe that." you said. "Oh yeah? Ask me something. Interrogate me." Robin said, mimicking a Russian accent. "When's the last time you pissed yourself?" You asked immediately making her laugh to a point where her face was turning red. You could hear Steve laughing with her.

"I tell you to ask me a question, and that's your first?" Robin wheezed. "You never answered, Buckley" Steve laughed. "Today" Robin said. "What? When?" You asked, wiping your eyes from laughing to the point of tears. "When the doctor pulled out the bone saw. I peed." She said making you and Steve laugh again. She laughed with you. "It was just a little bit" She added, making a small gesture with her fingers.

You giggled, Steve smiling to himself. He loved hearing your laugh. Honestly, the best part of his summer was meeting you. He had gotten the job at Scoops Ahoy and there was obvious chemistry between the two of you.

"Alright, alright. Someone ask a serious question." Robin said. "hmm" You pondered. "First kiss?" You asked. "Robert Lambert. 0/10. Would never recommend." Robin said, making you snort. "Yeah, I bet. He was my first kiss too." You said making her laugh. "What about you Dingus?" Robin asked. "Taylor Bennington." Steve said. "Wow, Taylor? Really?" You asked. "It was a dare." Steve shrugged.

"Okay, okay, my turn." Robin said, you chuckling. "First love?" Robin asked. "Oh, Nancy Wheeler." Steve said. "Wheeler?" You breathed out, your voice lowering slightly. Robin noticed that change. That slightly pained expression. You had that thought, haunting your mind. "How do I compete with that?" Robin felt guilty as she realized how you felt about Steve. She should've known.

"Yeah, why?" Steve asked. "No reason it's just.." Robin rose brow, curious to know if you'd say something. "She's such a priss." You coughed out, looking at the ground. "Yeah, turns out, not really." Steve shrugged. "Are you... Still in love with Nancy?" You asked. "No." Steve answered rather quickly than what Robin would've expected. "Why not?" Robin found herself asking. "I think it's because I found someone a little better for me." He said. Robin rose a brow, looking over at you.

You had a confused expression on your face. "Who?" You asked. "It's crazy really." Steve said, almost as if he were ignoring the question at hand. "Ever since Dustin got home, he's been saying, you know 'you gotta find your Suzie.'" He rambled. "Wait, who's Suzie?" Robin asked. "It's some girl from camp, I guess it's his girlfriend. To be honest with you, I'm not 100% she's real... But that's not really the point. That doesn't matter." Steve said. You opened your mouth to repeat the question but Steve kept talking.

"The point is, this girl; y'know, the one that I like.. It's somebody I didn't even talk to in school. And I don't even know why." He said. You and Robin exchanged a look, you being confused. Was this little monologue about Robin?

To Robin though, it was obvious. After all, how could Steve not like that. That smile, that laugh. Your thoughtfulness. Your wittiness. How could he not fall in love with that? After all... Robin did.

"Maybe 'cause Tommy H. would've made fun of me or I wouldn't be prom king. It's stupid. I mean, Dustin's right, it's all just a bunch of bullshit anyways. " Steve kept talking, despite your silent confusion. "Because, when I think about it, I should've been hanging out with this girl the whole time. First of all, she's hilarious. She's so funny, I feel like this summer, I have laughed harder than I have laughed in a really long time. And she's smart. Way smarter than me. Y'know, she can uh... She can crack Russian codes and then conversate about philosophy and Quantum Theory like it's normal to know those kinds of things. And you know? She's honestly unlike anyone I've ever even met before." He spoke.

Realization hit you as soon as he mentioned quantum theory. You were shocked, sitting there with your lips parted. Robin rested her chin on her knees, looking at you quietly. "Y/n?" Steve gently tapped the stall wall. "Y/n, did you just OD in there?" He asked. "n-no. Still alive Harrington." You breathed.

You all sat in silence before Steve slid underneath the stall, sitting across from you and Robin. "The floor's disgusting." Robin said, you still reeling from the shock. "Yeah, well, I have a bunch of blood and puke on my shirt so..." Steve said making you chuckle. He looked at you, strands of your ponytail coming loose.

"What do you think?" Steve asked, his voice soft. "about?" You asked quietly. "This girl?" he said. "She sounds like a pain in the ass." You said making both of them chuckle. "She's awesome. But... what about the guy?" Steve asked. You looked at him, various memories from the summer flooding your thoughts.

"I think he's on drugs and not thinking straight." You said. "Really? Cause, I think he's thinking a lot more clearer than usual. " Steve said. Your mind wasn't accepting this. "He's not." You halted. Robin looked at you slightly shocked. She could tell you liked him. So what in the hell were you doing?

"he doesn't really know this girl. And if he knew her. Like, really knew her... She'd drive him away." You said. "No. That's not true. No way that is true." Steve said, leaning up. "Steve I-" Your voice broke. "There is no way I live up to what you paint me as. I'm not a genius. I-I'm not this, awesome badass. I'm just me. I'm not... Nancy... I can't... I-I'm not..." Robin leaned off her legs looking at you.

"You're right. You're not Nancy." Robin said. "Which is why I like you." Steve said. You looked at both of them. "Do you remember what I said about Click's class? About me being jealous and like, obsessed?" Robin asked. Both you and Steve nodded, confused on what this had to do with the topic at hand.

"It isn't because I had a crush on Steve. It's because she wouldn't stop staring at him." Robin said. Immediately you caught on, your eyes widening. "Mrs. Click?" Steve asked. Robin let out a nervous chuckle. "Tammy Thompson. I wanted her to look at me. But, she couldn't pull her eyes away from Steve and his stupid hair. And I didn't understand, because he would get bagel crumbs all over the floor. And he asked dumb questions. And you know what, Harrington, you were a douchebag." Robin explained. Steve looked confused but you understood what she was saying. "And Steve didn't even like her! and I would go home and just scream into my pillow." Robin breathed.

"But Tammy Thompson's a girl." Steve said. You weren't looking away from Robin's eyes. She looked like she was on the brink of tears. "And over the summer... I had to watch the same thing happen again." She said. Steve finally understood it.

He wasn't the only one with the crush on you. Robin liked you too. "You're right, Y/n. You're not Nancy Wheeler. Because to both of us, you're so much better." She said, a tear falling down her cheek. You let out a small laugh, crying also. "So here's what's going to happen. Steve, when all of this is over, is going to take you out on a the best fucking date imaginable. And I will become that crazed girl you guys knew for one summer." Robin said.

You looked at Steve, him smiling slightly at you. You put your hand on his knee, looking at him. "There's just one problem Robin." You said. "What?" She asked. "I want you in my life too. I need a best friend who keeps this dork in line." you said. She smiled and you pulled both of them into a hug. "I love you guys." You said. "We love you." Robin said. You wiped your eyes as you pulled away.

Steve smiled at Robin and she nudged him with a smile, nodding to you. He looked at you. "So what do you think? About a date?" Steve asked. "I'm there." You said with a smile. You all let out small chuckles, Steve's hand holding yours.

Steve looked at Robin. She was nervously fidgeting with her hair. "Steve? You OD over there?" Robin asked. "No, I was uh... Just thinking." Steve said. "About?" Robin asked, the nervousness creeping into her tone. "Tammy Thompson. I mean, she's nice and all, but I mean, she's a total dud." He declared. You blinked. "She is not." Robin said defensively. "Yes, she is! She wants to be like a singer! She wants to move to like, Nashville and shit!" He argued. "She has dreams" Robin defended. "She can't even hold a tune!" Steve said. Robin opened her mouth. "I mean... He's not wrong." You agreed.

"See!? She's practically tone deaf. Have you heard her?" Steve asked, Robin and you smiling. "All the time." Robin nodded. Steve started singing in a shitty voice "You see me now tonight" "Shut up" Robin laughed. "You see me now-" "She does not sound like that" Robin laughed. "She sounds exactly- That's a great impersonation of her." Steve said making you giggle. "You sound like a muppet!" You laughed. "She sounds like a muppet! She sounds like a muppet giving birth!" Steve said making you and Robin laugh harder.

Steve then mimicked Kermit "And if you could hold me tight" The three of you all started singing in the goofy voice. "We'll be holding on forever" You all laughed, the door to the bathroom slinging open to Erica and Dustin.

"Okay, what the hell!?" Dustin asked. You all stared at the kid before laughing harder, Steve sliding further onto the ground making you wheeze.

As Dustin warned you three to move your asses, you all moved to the sinks, washing out your mouths. Robin patted you on the back as she left to the small hall that separated the bathrooms. You washed your hands looking over at Steve. "Did you really mean what you said?" You asked. Steve looked over. "Every word." He nodded. You smiled at him slightly and he turned off the sink, facing you. "Dinner. After all of this. What do you say?" Steve asked. You nodded with a smile. "Hell yes Harrington." You said. He smiled, you chuckling.

"Kinda wish you didn't have a busted lip right now." You said. Despite that fact you mentioned, he leaned down, pulling you into a kiss. You tried to be as careful as possible, but any pain Steve might've been experiencing didn't seem to matter. He pulled away after a moment, you smiling back at him. "We should go" You whispered. He nodded, following you out.

As the two of you came out of the bathroom, you fell to the back of the group. There was one thing Dustin noticed though.

Steve was holding your hand.

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