#CHECK OUT HOSHIS SCAR!!!!

[savventeen]

places we've been torn (i'm always, always yours)

pairing: soonyoung x gn!reader rating: T wc: ~1k summary: you and soonyoung have been lying together for who-knows how long now, going back and forth asking each other about the various scars you both have. the stories have been mostly silly or stupid (or both), but it's as the night is winding down that soonyoung asks about the one scar with a story you're not sure you're ready to share. warnings: scars, mentions of suicide, past near-attempted suicide (reader) tags: fluff and angst, angsty fluff, reader is in a good place now but there was a time when they weren't, and soonyoung has to take some time to process that fact, i think this is still very soft??? despite the subject matter, but please please please be careful friends a/n: this is for @diamondyjh as part of my emergency commissions and she requested angst to fluff (tho this turned into more angsty fluff than angst to fluff, but i hope you still like it) and the title is from always by switchfoot

You're not sure the last time you felt so content.

At the moment, you and Soonyoung are curled up on his bed over the covers, feet tangled together and heads sharing the same pillow. The past few hours you've spent just laying there and talking, mostly asking about each other's scars but drifting off to other topics as well. For the past ten minutes or so, it's been quiet, the two of you simply enjoying each other's company.

Everything about this moment is warm — from the way his hands hold one of yours and press a kiss to your palm to the way your heart feels like it's melting in your chest and spreading all the way to the tips of your toes.

"What about this one," he murmurs into the silence, rubbing his thumb slowly over the soft skin of your wrist. "It's so tiny; I never noticed it before."

And the scar in question is tiny, smaller than a grain of rice, nestled right in the center of your wrist.

The story behind it, though, is so much bigger.

For the first time all night, your first instinct is to lie — to make something up and brush it off and clutch at the secret you've kept tucked away in your chest for so, so long. Excuses like oh, it's no big deal - it's nothing - I don't even remember all sit ready on the tip of your tongue. But you bite them back.

You stare at Soonyoung, marveling at how soft he looks in the warm lamplight — trusting the small but fervent corner of your quickly-beating heart begging you to be completely honest for once in your life, whispering that you can trust him with this.

He keeps tracing his thumb in gentle arcs across your skin, and you breathe in — slow — breathe out — steady.

“It’s from a knife,” you say at last, calm, and not at all like this is the first time in the ten years since it happened that you’ve told anyone. A buzzing has started under your skin, anxiety humming through your veins at a frequency you’re sure Soonyoung must be able to hear.

But he just wrinkles his brow in adorable confusion, lower lip jutting out just enough to form a soft, worried pout. “A knife?”

“Yeah.”

You can trust him with this.

You gulp and bite the bullet. “I was sixteen and... and I came really close to killing myself.”

A beat, and the world stops.

Your breath feels trapped in your lungs as you watch him blink, his thumb freezing as he processes your words. And for a moment, his face is blank.

But Soonyoung has always worn his heart on his sleeve, and you can easily read the emotions that start flashing across his face. First, a silent shock that bleeds into disbelief. His eyes find yours, searching, searching, yearning to find a falsehood somewhere in your words — a soft kind of horror dawning like a rain-soaked morning as realization sets in.

His grip on your wrist tightens, fear and worry evident in the way he takes a deep, steadying breath, and he pulls your hand to his chest and clutches it there, almost desperately. His other hand reaches out to cradle your face, stroking reverently, even as his exhale is shaky. It doesn't seem to be enough, though, because a moment later, he's scooting forward the foot of space between you and bringing your forehead to his. You lay like that for a moment, two, and then he's pulling you closer still, tucking your face into the crook of his neck and shoulder so that he can wrap his arms around you and squeeze.

You squeeze back, telling him with everything but your words that I'm not gone, I'm still here. I'm here, I'm here, I'm here. You let yourselves have this moment, burying yourself into his embrace as he holds you like you'll disappear if he lets go.

"I'm okay, Youngie," you murmur eventually.

His fingers curl into the back of your shirt. "But you weren't." His voice is a whisper, thick with the threat of tears. "You weren't okay."

You sigh, bringing one hand up to cradle the back of his head and gently scratch at his scalp. "No. No, I wasn't then. But that was a long time ago, now."

Between one blink and the next, he's pulling out of the embrace just enough to be able to cradle your face between his palms. He's staring at you with red-rimmed eyes, and you feel something crack in your chest.

"You'll tell me, right?" he asks. "If you're ever not okay again? You'll tell me, or someone, or—" He huffs a frustrated breath before pressing a gentle kiss against your forehead. For a moment that feels like your own eternity, he lingers there, lips against your skin — an invisible tattoo pressed into every thought floating around in your head. "Please promise me you'll tell someone, jagi."

"I will." You seal your vow with a kiss of your own pressed to his lips. "I promise."

And he must hear the truth of your words because you can feel the tension bleed out of him like he's a deflating balloon, and you deflate right along with him. You press another kiss to his lips, soft and chaste and full of all the reassurance you have.

"Hey, Youngie." You wait until he's looking at you, and then you let all of the warm, gooey feelings of hope and love and life bubble over into a beaming grin. "I love you, and I'm so happy that I'm here with you."

The smile he gives back could rival the sun's, you think.

~~~

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#soonyoung x you #soonyoung x reader #hoshi x you #hoshi x reader #soonyoung angst #hoshi angst #svt #svt writing #svt fic #seventeen fic #savv fics #savv writes #emergency commisions #commission fic #cw: scars #cw: suicide #okay i think i got all the necessary tags #but yeah i hope u all enjoy :') #if i missed any tags/warnings please let me know #also if you're able PLEASE consider checking out my emergency commission post #even if all u can do is reblog it would mean so so much <3

[trigunbookclub]

i'm a little late to join the party, so i'm doing my best to catch up! but i was taking a look at the schedule, and i see that it's sepearated into volumes. would you happen to know the schedule by chapters?

Hello! Not too late at all--anyone's welcome to join at any time! I had to dig a bit, but they have the chapters listed on Wikipedia! I'll copy and paste here in case it helps someone navigate it easier, but I'm throwing it under a cut because it'll be long. I also recommend checking out @trigun-manga-overhaul for the most accurate translations, and it's all separated by volume there :D (I've been reading their browser version since it's easiest for me to take screenshots) Okay, chapter masterlist:

Trigun 1

00.High Noon

01.The $$60 Billion Double Dollar Man

02.Looney Tunes

03.Hard Puncher

04.Popo

05.Assault

06.Die Hards

07.Rem

08.Duelist

09.Then, Between The Wasteland and Sky

10.Little Arcadia

11.Son

12.River of Life

Trigun 2

13.Blood and Thunder

14.Diablo

15.Fragile

16.Scars

17.Slaughter Cafe

18.Gathering of the Devils

19.Eye of Invisibility

20.Fifth Moon

Extra: Day In Day Out

Extra: Trigun Pilot

Trimax 1

01. "Hero Reborn"

02. "Lina" (リィナ, Rina)

03. "Bravo, Girls!" (ガールズ・ブ��ボー！, Gāruzu Burabō)

04. "Hero Returns"

05. "Dancing Revolver"

06. "Sin" (罪, Tsumi)

Trimax 2

07. "Return of the Blue Wing of Death" (死を運ぶ 蒼き風 再び, Shi o Hakobu Aokikaze Futatabi)

08. "Resume our Business"

09. "Samurai Showdown" (サムライショウダウン, Samurai Shoudaun)

10. "Wolfwood" (ウルフウッド, Urufuddo)

11. "Desperado"

12. "Home Sweet Home" (ホーム・スィート・ホーム, Hōmu Su~īto Hōmu)

13. "Darkness" (暗闇, Kurayami)

Trimax 3

14. "Reservoir Dogs" (レザボア・ドッグス, Rezaboa Doggusu)

15. "Cement" (セメント, Semento)

16. "No Escape"

17. "Emilio the Player" (エミリオ・ザ・プレイヤー, Emiro za Pureiyā)

18. "Long Goodbye"

19. "Families" (ファミリーズ)

20. "His Life as a..."

Trimax 4

21. "Countdown"

22. "Bluesy Killer Horn" (ブルージィ キラー ホーン, Burūji~i Kirā Hōn)

23. "Bottom of the Dark"

24. "Den of Thieves" (魔窟, Makutsu)

25. "Crying Wild Bullet" (クライング ウイルド ブリッド, Kuraingu Uirudo Buriddo)

26. "Those Who Stood Idly By" (かたわらに たたずむ ものたち, Katawarani Tatazumu Monotachi)

27. "Doomed Sinner" (絶望の罪人, Zetsubou no Zainin)

Trimax 5

28. "The City And Then The Banquet of Dogs" (街 そして犬共の宴, Machi Soshite Inudomo no Utage)

29. "Breakout" (ブレイクアウト, Bureikuauto)

30. "Loss" (喪失, Sōshitsu)

31. "Villain" (凶人, Kyoujin)

32. "Death Deal" (デス ディール, Desu Dīru)

33. "Let Us Walk the Path to Redemption" (せめて歩ませよ我が購いの道を, Semete Ayumaseyo Waga Aganai no Michi o)

Trimax 6

34. "The Gunslinger" (ザ·ガンスリンガー, Za Gansuringā)

35. "double team"

36. "Cross X Assassins" (クロスXアサシンズ, Kurosu X Asashinzu)

37. "Death Omen" (死兆, Shichō)

38. "Colorless Expression" (色無き相貌, Ironaki Sōbō)

39. "Seeds Voyaging to the Stars, A World Inside a Pod" (星を往く種子 莢の中の世界, Hoshi o Yuku Shushi Saya no Naka no Sekai)

Trimax 7

40. "happy days."

41. "Separate Ways" (セパレイトウェイズ, Separeito Uizu)

42. "The King of Loneliness" (孤独の王, Kodoku no Ō)

43. "Good For Nothing and the Blues" (ろくでなしとブルース, Rokudenashi to Burūsu)

44. "When They Arrived, It Was Already the Beginning of the End" (辿り着けばそこはすでに終わりの始まり, Tadoritsukeba Sokowa Sudeni Owari no Hajimari)

45. "Conflict" (コンフリクト, Konfurikuto)

Trimax 8

46. "Invasion" (侵攻, Shinkou)

47. Silent Ruin

48. "Counter-Attack!! (カウンターアタック！！, Kauntā Atakku)

49. "Escape (脱出, Dasshutsu)

50. "Separate Paths (それぞれの道, Sorezore no Michi)

51. Wolfwood Spin Off - Freed Bird ([外伝] FREED BIRD, [Gaiden] Freed Bird)

Trimax 9

52. Home

53. Gale

54. LR

55. Battle to the Death

56. Prostrate Demon

57. Fortitude

Trimax 10

58. Reckless Conduct

59. Sworn Friend

60. Sudden Change

61. Death Omen

62. Final Battle

63. Homecoming

64. Wolfwood

65. Final Farewell

Trimax 11

66. Zero Hour

67. Slap Sticks Days

68. Thunderstruck

69. Return of the Wicked

70. Get Ready, Get Set

71. Someone to Defend

Trimax 12

72. The Journey Ends - But Heavy Breathing Still Echoes

73. Corrosive Thunder

74. The Interceptor

75. The Gunslinger

76. + - 0

77. resonance

78. Run Livio Run

79. Lantern

80. Their Own World

Trimax 13

81. False Doppleganger

82. Double Duel

83. Demon Fire

84. Black

85. Battle of the Mystics

86. Tag in a Person

87. catch-as-catch-can

88. Apex Wings (尖翼)

89. VS

Trimax 14

90. When Conflict Comes to An End (相克果つる刻, Sōkoku hatsuru toki)

91. overkill

92. Side by Side (サイド・バイ・サイド)

93. Never give up! Never surrender!

94. Ticket to the Future (未来への切符, Mirai e no kippu)

95. Mind Games

96. Double Wings (双翼, Sōyoku)

97. Never Ending Song

#Trigun #TrigunBookclub #That took longer than I expected lol #But there! :D #Ask

[j-axis-oc-dumping]

list of ocs whos rambles will be linked as i go

standard ocs: 

domino (white demon/vamp bomb)

obi (pink angel bomb)

ignis (fallen angel bomb)

cyclone (cyclops dream wolf)

giovanni (aqua bomb)

lapis (dragon bomb)

arbor (purple/yellow angel bomb)

violoh (gray/purple creature bomb)

derek (tattoo artist tea mug)

alex junior (axolotl)

katy klarissa (purple/green cat bomb)

atlas (bluish/pink bunny robot)

mason, alex, & drake (hydra candy machine)

eric (skulldog)

jasper (gray/orange/green cat)

rivet (grayish/purple half shark)

avry (night pony)

don (tiny assassin cat)

diablo (rainbow dj/gang member cat)

hoshi-zora (cream and brown cat)

wilson (guy who really likes fall)

marcy-lyra (god killing cat)

crow (black were-cat)

undertale (yellow)/deltarune ocs:

luckheart (bandit clover monster)

evangeline (tropical fish monster)

dinamite (cowboy clover monster)

solis (sun monster)

zenni (weird swatch darkner)

lokki (deformed goat darkner)

robinne (mp3 player darkner)

hagley (brown cat monster)

morrin (black and white cat monster)

claire (yellow cd monster with gold flowers)

katarina (catnip monster)

fnf ocs:

wir (yellow wit knockoff)

vexi / project xml (assassin hybrid bomb)

dex (hex in nitty gritty style)

amari (au fanchild)

tcom ocs:

allister (blue eyed bomb)

astral (werecat with blue fur)

ragazzo (yellow and black ick monster)

ragazza (white and green ick monster)

angel (peacock lady)

luna (orange half cat)

pokemon ocs:

tukui (shiny ninetails cosplayer)

slash (doublade with blind eyes)

blade (bisharp with bandana scar and bonding issue)

deity ocs:

noah (centipede anti angel)

kristien (horse star deity)

callisto (noodle dragon moon deity)

somerset (wolf sun deity)

wren (bird life deity)

just shapes and beats ocs:

vibe (triangle with mouth only)

tags : fall rambles about his ocs, fall writes things, fall be quiet challenge

ftu character bio template

main @j-axis

not gonna tag all these fuckin fandoms cuz fuck that

also dividers by @ v6que go check them out they have banger graphics n bio temps

#fall be quiet challenge #fall rambles about his ocs

[jonnnysuh]

would seventeen share the spooky chain email?

A/N: Happy spooky season y’all 🎃 !! Do you guys remember growing up and receiving these chain emails and wanting to poop your pants? I remember I was being nosy and saw this in my big sister’s email and I CRIEDDDDD,,, from that moment forward I knew I had to mind my business.

THE CHAIN EMAIL: My name is Summer and I am 15 years old. I have blonde hair and blue eyes. I have no nose or ears. My body is covered with scars. I’m dead. A murderer killed me with a kitchen knife in the year 2001. If you do not send this link to your friends, I will appear tonight by your bed with the kitchen knife that murdered me, and I will kill you. No matter how old you are, I WILL murder you. It’s up to you if you re-post this or not, but this is no lie. This is FOR REAL! Your time is running out. Hurry.

Tag list (lmk if u wanna be added!): @bomggyu

Series Masterlist

—S COUPS doesn’t share it. Finds the email of the original poster and shames them for trying to scare people on the internet

—JEONGHAN dresses up as Summer and shows up to the doors of those who believe

—JOSHUA doesn’t share it. Emails them back asking “are you okay? I’m here for you if you need someone to talk to <3”

—JUN shares it. Doesn’t believe it but sends it out of respect for Summer. May she Rest In Peace 🪦

—HOSHI shares it. He doesn’t want to admit that he’s scared but he has to sleep in the same bed as The8 tonight.

—WONWOO doesn’t share it. Stays up until 2am waiting in his bed bc he wants to know if you can get murdered by a ghost

—WOOZI doesn’t share it. Does a quick google search and finds out it’s a hoax smh

—DK doesn’t know what to do. Gathers all the boys into the room and makes them each read the email. Is biting around the edge of his thumb. Will not stop asking them “IS IT REAL? IS IT REAL?”

—MINGYU shares it. Vows to never use his laptop or check his email again. Is trembling in bed that night and makes everyone announce their name before entering his room.

—THE8 doesn’t share it. Wakes up in the middle of the night to a face looming above him,,, he shuts his eyes and goes right back to sleep.

—SEUNGKWAN doesn’t share it. Creates a new email account while cryingggg. Considers changing his identity. He really, really, really doesn’t want Summer to visit him tonight 😭 Has a snot bubble

—VERNON doesn’t share it. The next day everyone receives a chain email with Vernon’s name in it but nobody knows where he is

—DINO is the one who sent it to the rest of the boys. It’s honestly what they deserve 😗

#scoups #jeonghan #Joshua hong #junhui #hoshi #Wonwoo #Woozi #The8 #mingyu #Seungkwan #dokyeom #dk #Vernon #Dino #Vernon chwe #svt #seventeen #kpop writing #kpop drabbles #kpop imagines #seventeen head canons #I feel like I always do Seungkwan so dirty #if Seungkwan ever saw these he’d want to fight me #that’s ok #also this one's dedicated to rougered99 #i can't tag her bc she's fake smh but just know <3 #bc we randomly brought up chain emails and love bullying bee together

[bubblemiya]

Ace of Spades ~ Natsuo Todoroki x Reader

Chapter 1 : First day disaster

Next | Masterlist

Warnings: blood mention, abduction mention

word count: 2.2k

A/N: This is my first fic on my new blog and I am so excited about it! I hope you enjoy

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You knew hero work wasn't going to be easy but there was still a tiny part of you that thought you'd be snatched up by a top agency right away with your flashy suit and unique quirk. That wasn't quite the case. 

In fact the opposite happened, your strong quirk had very little drawbacks and many people saw it as dangerous, the nature of your quirk drew villain organisations to you. You defeated them, reported, even 'disposed' of some of them but there was one organisation you couldn't quite shake.

It was your loyalty to the side of heroes and your impressive skill set showcased in your fights that caught the eye of the Endeavour agency. Today was your first day at the agency, it had been a full year since your graduation from shiketsu, and it hadn't properly sank in yet until you were pulling on your hero suit in the women's changing room and a fiery haired sidekick basically pounced on you.

"Aren't you the new girl? I'm Moe Kamiji, my hero name is Burnin'" 

She was beautiful, her hair was unique and her loud personality made you envy her. Her inquisitive staring distracted you and you almost tripped pulling up your body suit. She chuckled and helped steady you before offering to help you zip up.

"I'm y/n l/n, my hero name is Phantom Light"

"from what I've seen of your quirk, you're like a ghost type pokemon! that's so cool"

If she sensed your nervousness or felt the heat rising in your face, she didn't mention it. She instead just waited for you to tug on your boots and rambled about how much she loves working at the agency. Her bright attitude was nowhere near what you expected walking into a workplace run by the most intimidating man you've ever seen. She had a natural warmth to her that seemed to calm your fears. You guessed that they sic her on all the newbies at the agency because of that. 

"well I'll show you around, newbie"

She looked confident and comfortable as she showed you around the main floors and you only hoped to feel the same way soon. You had already seen the reception and social media/pr team offices as they were on the way to the changing room but Moe had shown you the gyms with in-house saunas, break rooms, conferences rooms, and investigation rooms. The place was huge and despite being full of people, felt empty. It was terrifying, but still exactly what you expected from the new number one. Moe's phone beeped as you passed into another hallway and she pulled it from her bra to check.

"I regret not asking for pockets on this thing" she growled "shit, I'm being called to a villain attack not far from here, you're on your own for now, newbie." she turned to run down the hallway.

"Thank you Kami-"

"Call me Moe!" and before you could even respond she was gone. Your nerves suddenly came flooding back without your new friend there to ease them. With your 'almost fall' in the changing room and Moe leaving when you needed her most, it seemed lady luck was not on your side today. Right as you turned the corner you smacked right into someone exiting an office and they spilled their coffee down your shirt.

“Oh i’m so sorry!” 

“It's ok, my hero suit is quite thick so it's not that bad” you attempted to laugh it off but paused as you finally looked up. Your blood ran cold as you realised who you bumped into. The six foot five figure of your boss loomed over you. On your first day you just so happened to bump into Endeavour's son and cause a coffee spill right in front of the man himself. “I-it was my fault any-”

“You just started today and you’re already causing problems, we scouted you because of your impressive skill set but -”

“Shut up, old man” Endeavour's face immediately twitched in anger but he listened to his son, not wanting to cause a scene with him. “It was an accident and it was both of our faults” Endeavour looked embarrassed but grunted something inaudible under his breath. “I'm Natsuo, I'm sorry about your suit, take this” he held his jacket out to you.  

 “Its ok, it's just a stain”

“Please I insist”

You took it, not wanting him to be offended, and you got a chance to get a proper look at him. He awkwardly scratched his neck as you put on the jacket. There was a brief moment of awkward silence before Endeavour pushed Natsuo past you and carried on walking down the hall. You shook your head to try and rid you of your shame, you hoped you had not just ruined your big shot in the hero world. You walked back down to the offices, keeping your head down as you passed Endeavour and Natsuo to avoid the awkward eye contact. Endeavour was immensely intimidating so you wanted to avoid getting further onto his bad side as much as possible. You filled out the last of your paperwork and set out on your daily patrol.

You kept the jacket on during your patrol and kept in mind that you should take it off to fight but hoped that wouldn't be necessary. You wandered your designated streets, taking in the general hustle and bustle of the town. Bike bells and shop doors opening were sounds you considered comforting. You nodded at people as you passed them, even stopping to say hi to some kids, and stopped at a cafe for a drink. You walked with your drink, hoping for a peaceful end to your work day, until the bird chirping and happy kids turned to screams for help. Your feet, as if on autopilot, followed the sounds until you turned a corner and came face to face with a guy harassing a group of high school girls. You recognised his face from the news, he was a low level villain who had abducted some high school students over the last 3 weeks. He didn't have any strong quirk that you knew of so you went straight in with a strong punch. However, in your haste, you failed to notice the knife he had concealed until he swung it in your direction and he caught your stomach. It wasn't so deep that it needed immediate attention so you continued to fight him off. you had shouted at the girls to leave the alley but they were frozen in place. Fear sometimes acts as an invisible paralytic, 

one that we can't or struggle to fight against.

He had gotten in a couple of good swings but once you knocked the knife out of his hand he was pretty much useless. You gave him a harsh elbow to the nose that definitely broke it, a noise that you didn't wanna admit made you feel good and all but knocked him out with the hardest punch you could throw. While he was incapacitated you leaned down to slip him under your control into his body to possess him to make him easier to carry. Your quirk was called 'ghost' which not only gave you the ghostly ability to walk through walls but also to possess people and communicate with the dead. Your possession ability works like a telepathically controlled puppet instead of a typical spirit possession. Once you had his unconscious form up and ready to walk himself to the nearby police you made an attempt to calm the girls and make sure they followed you to the police so police could do safety checks and collect statements. You found it was easy to keep them distracted from their feelings by talking to them and answering questions they might have. You learned one of the girls, a short girl with black hair and black bunny ears, was named Hoshi.

"Are you a pro hero?"

"yup! I started at the Endeavour agency today!"

"Saturday is a weird day to start a new job"  

"There's no such thing as weekends when you're a hero" you chuckled at the way she rolled her eyes.

"Don't I know it. My dad is a pro too" 

"oh really?"

"yeah but he's away visiting my stepdad"

Your conversation abruptly stopped when police arrived on the scene and took both the unconscious villain and Hoshi away from your custody. The only thing left to do now was find where you had left Natsuo's jacket and head back to the agency to get stitched up. You ran back to a bench you passed to luckily find Natsuo's jacket still there. you didn't wanna get blood on it so you carried it back to the agency instead.

When you walked back in the agency building, Endeavour was standing in the office, handing paperwork to the receptionist, and he noticed you almost immediately.

"Phantom Light, what happened?"

"I got that guy who was abducting high school kids, the one that's been all over local news" Your chest felt heavy as you struggled to pant out your sentence. You were holding your free hand over the wound, putting as much pressure as possible on it to reduce bleeding.

"You're gonna need stitches, I'll take you to our in house doctor" He seemed a lot less tense than he did earlier and Natsuo was nowhere to be seen. You muttered a thank you and slowly walked behind him. He led you to a white door with a black metal name plate on it reading 'Dr.Kita'. You thanked Endeavour again and wandered into the room.

"Good work today, Phantom Light'' was the last thing he said before he shut the door behind you. He was being a lot nicer and even attempting to be encouraging which you figured was his own way of apologising for yelling at you earlier. 

The doctor was a tall guy around forty with yellow eyes and brunette hair that was already starting to grey. He welcomed you and got you to lie down on the bench so that he could stitch you back up. He was very talkative, as most doctors are as a way to distract from pain, and he asked about a couple other visible scars to focus your mind elsewhere. 

"I got the skin graft about a year ago, I got in a fight with some villain who had a fire quirk. I wasn't even at an agency yet, I was still looking to get scouted, but I walked past him harassing this man for money and I couldn't just walk past it" The doctor nodded as you told the story of the man with white hair and some nasty facial scars who burned you last year. You hissed as the final stitch went through and the doctor clasped his hands together.

"that's you all fixed up, now you just need to change and go home" he said, helping you off the bench and shaking your hand.

You walked back to the changing room and shoved your coffee and blood stained clothes in a bag and changed into your normal clothes. On your way out the building you passed Moe who all but begged for your phone number before you left.

The walk home was quiet and peaceful, The sunset was pretty and nice to watch as you made your way to the train station. The subway ride home had very few people and it was nice to have some time to yourself. You almost missed your stop though because your mind kept drifting back to white fluffy hair and pretty grey eyes. Natsuo was all you could think about. It didn't help that you had his jacket wrapped around you. The smell of an expensive cologne lingered around the collar, it was faint and softer than the cologne you expected him to wear. It was nice and comforting, a smell you could get used to.

Once you got back to your house you used your quirk to pass through the door - which is always locked because you used your quirk and had no reason to open it unless you were expecting food delivery. When you turned around to kick off your shoes you noticed the chain lock had been busted open. You quickly looked around the entrance to your house to check if anything was missing but everything was exactly as you left it in the morning. You dumped your duffle bag full of dirty clothes on the floor and went to check around the rest of the house. You upturned cushions, sifted through cupboards and looked underneath your copious number of house plants but everything seemed normal and in its right place. The only place left to check was your bedroom. Your hand shook as you grasped the door handle nervous to see if anything had been taken but when you walked in you couldn't see anything out of place until you turned your head to the dresser and there it was. Tucked into the frame of a photo of you and your brother sat a playing card, the ace of spades to be exact, with a time written on it.

"2:30 pm"

#bubble.natsuo #bubble.aceofspades #bubble.fic #natsuo todoroki x reader #natsuo x reader #natsuo todoroki #todoroki x reader #todoroki #bnha x reader #mha x reader #bnha #mha #bnha angst #bnha fluff #x reader #bnha fic #natsuo #my hero academia

[svtshine]

Bandages

pairing: Soonyoung x reader

genre: Soulmate!au, fluff

type: oneshot

ability: you can feel and experience the same pain as your soulmate. When you meet each other for the first time, your wounds would start to heal

Extra: Requests are welcomed guys ^^

It started when you were young. You didn’t exactly remember what happened but the aches, bruises just started forming for no reason. As a child, you took a liking to music and different instruments such as the Violin and the Piano. The most “pain” you felt from playing them constantly were aching in the fingers. You didn’t understand why there were bruises that formed on different parts of your body. You’d frequently wake up to the sight of a new bruise forming on your torso or your arm.

After your consulting your parents, you’ve concluded that you had a unique connection with your soulmate. One that included feeling the same pain that they had to endure and vice versa. You had speculations in the beginning, was your soulmate being bullied? or maybe..abused? it was a possibility. However your parents comforted you and tried reasoning that your soulmate might’ve been taking Taekwondo or a sport where he might have to endure certain bruises.

You still feared the worst. Since then, you became more careful. You’d avoid sports and tried to prevent situations where you might get hurt. It was tedious at certain times, but if it made sure that your soulmate wouldn’t have to endure extra pain from your side, you made sure to become more paranoid.

The bruises never really stopped. It became more frequent you noted, but they were a different type of bruising. More like sores and muscle aches everywhere especially your legs. It was like your soulmate was always moving. You found some cuts as well which probably meant your soulmate cut himself accidentally but a bandage would work fine.

It went on for years and it’s still happening now.

Sometimes you were just, afraid. You’d literally be able to feel the pain that your soulmate goes through. It seems like it’s a lot.

You sighed out into the night sky. It was about 8 pm and you had just finished your shift at your job. The sun had set hours ago and now a shimmery majestic blue painted the sky. The stars that were visible, were so beautiful. It was a little chilly that night as the days came close to winter. You headed towards your apartment in small steps, wanting to take in the relaxing cool night.

You checked your watch for the time, and the pastel purple flower bandage on your pinkie caught your eye and reminded you to change all the bandages again, including the one on your nose. You’d woken up feeling a slight sting on your nose on the previous day and wondered what the hell, how did my soulmate actually cut himself there of all places

You checked your bandage through the reflection on your phone and didn’t notice a step. You stumbled and fell, conveniently spraining your ankle while doing so. You wrapped your hands around your ankle as bit your lip to prevent yourself from crying out loud.

“Gosh are you okay?” A man in a mask and hat called out to you as he exited the building just ahead of you. He looked and sound pretty friendly, the pain that were shooting up from your ankles also told you not to care about it and focus on your ankle first. You shook your head, “n-no it hurts really really badly, could you please, please get me a cab or something? Sorry for b-bothering you.” You replied hastily, wanting to get treatment as soon as possible.

Darn you were so looking forward to taking a warm bath and relaxing on your bed. Heels be damned

The stranger nodded, “give me a second i have some people in the building who can help. Just wait here, i’ll go get help. I’m Seungkwan by the way.” You continuedhokding onto your ankle, the other hand clenching to distract yourself from the pain. “Nice to meet you Seungkwan but i don’t think i can go anywhere either” You snorted back

Seungkwan laughed awkwardly and mumbled a “oops” before rushing into the building.

Hoshi’s leg gave out in the middle of practicing. He didn’t know what happened but one minute he was focusing on the choreography and the next minute he was in the ground, cursing and grabbing his leg in pain. The members panicked and tried asking him what was wrong.

Hoshi didn’t know either to be very honest. He, as well as the members knew of his unique connection with his dear soulmate. However, most of the times, he also noticed that his soulmate went out of the way to take care of themself to prevent any major injuries. Hoshi sworn the most “major” injury he’d gotten from his soulmate was his fingers being sore. He’d guessed that they played instruments though.

It was rare to feel physical hurt that Hoshi didn’t inflict on himself. “this freaking hurts” Hoshi groaned as Seungkwan dashed into the building and trying to find someone who could help.

“coups hyung, there’s a girl who twisted her ankle really bad. Help me call a cab to the hospital.” Seungkwan rushed out. He then noticed, Hoshi lying on the floor and holding on to the exact same leg.

Hoshi’s eyes widened. Was it you? his soulmate? Hoshi instantly forgot about the pain emitting from his ankle and rushed down.

He’s been waiting for this moment ever since he was young. Hoshi knew that his sore fingers weren’t because of his taekwondo or dance training. But he knew the sores and aches and frequent bruising he got from trainings had taken a toll on him, and you too.

Hoshi noticed that he never really felt other types of pain other than his sore fingers and blisters. and the time you sprained your wrist when you were younger. He was thankful to you. It definitely helped him through training, knowing you were safe and in turn keeping him safe as well.

You were still holding onto your ankle, biting harder into your lips as you tried to stretch your leg out for a moment. That guy, Seungkwan went inside for a really long time.

You puff out in frustration. This was not what you expected at all.

You heard footsteps and thumps coming from behind you and another came rushing out of the building. His eyes landed on you and at that moment, all the pain that were making your eyes water vanished. You looked down at your ankle and look back up to maintain eye contact with the stranger, who also had a cute yellow bandage on his nose similar to yours.

Hoshi burst out of the building to see you sitting down on the pavement. Your eyes watered as you held on to your leg until you looked down at your own ankle and then at him. his breath was stolen. You weren’t dressed for anything, but you still looked so beautiful. The plaster that you pasted on your nose made you cuter as well.

Hoshi started walking closer to you. Your eyes still focused on him because of how mesmerising he looked. He was one handsome stranger.

Hoshi couldn’t help it but rush to you, sliding onto the ground and capturing you in his arms. You were shocked for a moment, and that was when you realised. He was your soulmate. This man, right infront of you, was your soulmate.

The pain clouded your thinking for just a moment. Tears sprung to your eyes as you held onto him tightly. Hoshi pulled away from you to look at your face and holding your face with his hand. He loved the way you nuzzled into his hand and the way you looked so happy to have finally found him.

“i-i found you” Hoshi whispered, placing his forehead on yours. “finally” he kissed your nose where the bandage lay.

You couldn’t trust your voice so you nodded in response. Hoshi stood up and offered you his hand,

“i believe i would like to know you better soulmate, if you’ll let me” he said, gesturing to the building. You didn’t mind, not at all. With your permission, he would carry you up like a baby before heading into one of the empty, smaller studios to hang out with you.

There he would shower you with love. Even though you had just met him, the connection with him felt stronger than ever. He apologised profusely for injuring himself accidentally all the time and about his taekwondo and dance trainings. He would also try to explain his idol situation as well to clear things up

Hoshi would definitely baby you, immediately calling you his baby and kissing the spots where some of the bandages were still visible. He’d help you remove them knowing all of them were healed by the soulmate bond.

“i’m so sorry for putting you through so much y/n, but now i can kiss all your boo boos away whenever you get hurt” he would say and flash you a cute close eyed smile.

After spending some time together and exchanging contact details, Hoshi would offer to send you home. He would walk you to your apartment and kiss you goodnight on the forehead.

You entered and watched Hoshi walk out of the building, punching the air and jumping around like a little kid. You knew what he was feeling, it was indescribable. You couldn’t help but miss that cute hamster already.

You took your time to wash up and check all your previous small injuries, happy that they were gone without leaving scars.

As you snuggled into bed that night, watching your soulmate’s performances, a small ‘ding’ made you open up your phone,

Now this was a perfect end to the day.

Masterlist

#hoshi #Hoshi #Soonyoung #soulmate!au #hoshi x reader #seventeen #svt #Soonyoung x reader #hoshi fluff

[resbangmod]

Resbang 2015 Throwbacks, Week 5, Part 8

Time to get hype for this year’s Resbang, and what better way to do so than to check out the ghosts of Resbangs Past!

Come say hi to this year’s participants and mods on Discord!

This year’s schedule can be found here: beep

[M] The Dire Circus 2 [Soul/Maka, Black Star/Tsubaki]

Four months after the events of the first Dire Circus, Maka’s still on the road with her motley new family, her nights full of performances– or hunting. She and Soul are about to be tested beyond anything they’ve faced so far, though, when the darkest parts of Soul’s past show up again. As if that’s not enough, strange new enemies are waiting just around the corner, and soon Maka’s world is upside down all over again.

Warnings: Smut, violence/fighting, blood, mention of scars, general scariness

by author: Rainingdownhearts @raining-down-hearts

with artist: Eisschirmchen @eisschirmchen

Read it here: [ff.net]

View it here: [tumblr]

LATE ENTRIES: for those stories that required additional time for completion during the event

T] Contents Under Pressure [Soul/Maka, background Stein/Marie]

Being expelled from Juilliard tilts Soul Evans’ world off its axis, and he finds himself in the unlikely position of landing a modeling contract at Mjlinor Strikes when Wes comes into contact with an old friend. After hitting rock bottom and having nothing to lose but money to gain, he accepts. His decision brings him to one Maka Albarn, a perky stylist who aspires to surpass her mother’s legacy as a fashion designer, and captures Soul’s attention with her tireless ambition and infectious smile. Their partnership forms over silent understandings and good natured teasing, but will it survive the pressure of Soul’s overnight celebrity status, Maka’s perfectionist tendencies, and malicious paparazzi?

Warnings: swearing, mentions of depression, some violence

by author: Redphlox @redphlox

with artist: Ifeanart @ifeanart

and artist: Uminokaze, possibly dead link

Read it here: [ff.net]

View it here: [Ifeanart: tumblr] [Uminokaze: [tumblr, dead link][8tracks]

[T] Baseball Pants and Knee-High Socks [Soul/Maka, minor Tsubaki/Black Star]

From the Little League World Series to regular games on Junior Varsity and Varsity high school teams to benchwarming college games, Maka Albarn and Soul Evans have taken baseball, themselves, and winning as seriously as Gordon Ramsey takes cooking. They’ve grudgingly recognized one another as an incredible athlete, have yelled and screamed over a play that they should’ve made, that they would’ve made if not for that person – and they’ve harbored a little whisper in their hearts, a voice that questions: What would happen if he were to catch my pitches, if she were the one I was calling signs for?

And, of course, the admiration that will never be voiced. Baseball pants do wonders for the butt.

Warnings: language & game/winning related stress; family situations similar to canon; race-bent? B*S & Akane Hoshi are Latino, Soul is mixed-race.

by author: Saxy Lady, dead link

with artist: Ash @ahshesgone

and artist: Makthemeister @mrsashketchum

Read it here: [ff.net][ao3]

View it here: [ahshesgone: [tumblr]][Makthemeister: [tumblr]]

[M] My Fair Meister [Soul/Maka, Wes/Death the Kid, implied Jackie/Kim]

My Fair Lady AU. “Posing as Soul Evans’ newest conquest was her only chance at securing her father’s freedom and her future– and she could not fail.” Penniless housemaid Maka finds herself involved in a complicated scheme to pose as a Duchess, and make a wealthy heiress jealous enough to marry Soul Evans. But what happens when Soul and Maka begin to fall for each other instead?

Warnings: strong sensuality, mild sexual harassment references, brief language.

by author: BendandCurl @bendandcurl

with artist: Ilarual @ilarual

Read it here: [ff.net][tumblr]

View (and taste!) it here: [tumblr][adagio]

ARTIST SECTION: for those artists who still wanted to participate despite their authors being unable to complete their stories during the event

Devil in the Wishing Well

[Scarlethousecarl & Professor Maka: [tumblr][8tracks 1, 2] @professor-maka​

Bare Feet and Cowboy Boots

[Eisschirmchen: [tumblr] @eisschirmchen

In The Dark We Have No Name

[Rogha: [pdf] @rogha

Jurassic Soul

[Feather97: [tumblr]] @feather97​

Pyrrhic Victory

[Flurrin: [dA]]

#soul eater #ResBang #Resbang 2020 #resbang throwbacks #long post

[blackmaylovesfries]

“SAY THE NAME” - Family Complete

Asked: No

Words: 1701

Sinopse: Seventeen Hybrid AU - Finally everyone is together in your house! Here is your first dinner with everyone present. And a surprise at the end.

Notices: Not so good English. This is the last chapter for Introduction! From now on I’ll be doing the main OT13 x Reader SAY THE NAME. Italic is English.

BIRTHDAY POLL ♬ (Please, answer the solo ones!!)  Solo stories’ destiny

Masterpost

Previous / SAY THE NAME

After you left the oldest trio to help The8 to accommodate himself, you went to the pool, talk with the other hybrids. At the way you could only think about the lecture everyone at the center would give you as soon as they heard about the total of 13 hybrids you just adopted. Oh gods, even the government representatives would certainly come to nag you…

Well… At least all of them came wanting to stay, even The8, so it’s not like they can be taken from you at this point… Praying so nothing bad happen with your new big family, you arrived at the pool, where 9 of your 13 worries were. You smiled at them while approaching with some towels they left on the chairs around the water.

“Oh, hi, Y/n!” Wonwoo came walking at you when the hybrids noticed your arrival. He wasn’t in the water, so he was dry. “Is Minghao at his room now?” He held your free hand. You just nodded, making he smile. “Great! So now we can start to prepare for dinner!” The feline screamed for the others at the end.

“Eh? I think it’s better if I go shower then. I’ll welcome him in our room.” Vernon got out of the pool, grabbing one towel from you, kissing your cheek and running inside.

“Yah! Don’t run!” You and Jihoon, who had just arrived at your side, screamed to the canine that was already long gone. You sighed while Jihoon started to direct the others, deciding who should go immediately to shower and who could wait or start doing things. You gave the towels to Mingyu, Seokmin, Seungkwan and Junhui.

As the bathrooms were all occupied now, since they didn’t liked to use yours, the dry ones, Wonwoo and Jihoon, started to get the Welcome barbecue ready to Mingyu and the others who really knew how to do it. The wet hybrids, Soonyoung and Chan, filled some balls to decorate the pool and you started to arrange the tables and utensils.

It took for the first boys to come back almost 30 minutes. You could tell that everyone was at the best clothes you had given them. When Junhui, Mingyu and Seungkwan came, they told you that the 95’line were taking a shower and Vernon was waiting for The8. They also told Hoshi to go take a bath since Dokyeom were almost finished too.

Chan stayed, waiting for one more bathroom to be free. The shark hybrid dried himself with a towel and started to make the playlist of the night. As Mingyu and Jihoon started with the barbecue, you also went to take your bath and groom yourself for the occasion. It didn’t took long as you didn’t really wanted to use a lot of stuff.

You went back outside with your hair up and a summer dress. When you arrived, all the boys were there already. The lights were already on and the music the maknae, who had also taken a quick shower, had chosen was already playing. You looked around and saw the boys had finished decorating the area. You couldn’t avoid a smile.

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“Y/n!” A voice in the table’s direction called the human. She looked over and saw that sitting there were Seungcheol, who called, Joshua, Woozi, The8 and Wonwoo. The girl smiled at them and examined the other groups formed at the area. Jun, Seungkwan, Chan and Vernon were fooling around, dancing to the music and laughing. Mingyu, Jeonghan, Dokyeom and Hoshi were cooking and taking care of the barbecue.

The human girl couldn’t stop smiling. She absorbed the harmonious environment, finally understanding why she always felt that all these hybrids were destinate to find her… Her recent dreams made sense to her now as she looked at the boys… They were definitely stars, she could see how they were glowing already and all that potencial they had.

“Hey, guys!” Y/n screamed, taking her phone out and grabbing everyone’s attention. “How about our first photo before really getting to the food and all the dancing?” She smiled to the hybrids. Most of them got close to her quite fast, not hesitating for even a second. Others… Well, everyone had their own pace. But even The8 or the reserved older felines didn’t stay frozen for long.

“Ready?” The girl arranged the camera so everyone was in the frame. For that she had to be a little far from them, so her height didn’t interfere much on the photo. “1… 2… 3!” She smiled, as did most of the hybrids. Minghao didn’t but it did not ruined the picture. As soon as the human putted down the phone, several of the hybrids went to check on it.

“Oh! I look good!” Junhui laughed before handing the phone for others and going to play again.

“Dokyeom’s face!” The gag trio and Vernon laughed hard zooming in the puppy’s face. After everyone was satisfied with the picture, all the presents went back to their first completed family dinner. The group did this for all the hybrids that came before, as long as the human got time to do it. That’s why this barbecue was for the last quartet to join the house.

Everyone enjoyed the dinner very much. The first hybrids Y/n adopted made sure that no one was left alone for even a single moment, the younger ones were doing gags and entertaining everyone and the older ones were making sure that everyone’s plate were always full of food. All the group laughed and had fun until late at night. Even The most recluse ones gave some smiles and some laughters through the night.

The human didn’t have the stamina to stay too long with the hybrids, so near midnight, she went to sleep, letting the boys alone. That made hybrids that weren’t used to you yet relax and the group grew louder and wilder. No one was hurt and nothing was broken but… the boys all slept in the living room at the end and you just found out about it the next day, when you woke up early to prepare their surprise.

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“Morning, morning!” You entered the house with a big package in your hands. You put your shoes in place and arrived at the living room with the package. The boys that were scattered around there greeted you. “Did you guys ate yet?” You smiled at them as you cleaned the coffee table to lay your package there.

“Jeonghan-hyung and Mingyu are finishing it now.” Junhui pulled you to his side, hugging you. “What is that, Y/n?” You rolled your eyes for his actions and laughed.

“Let’s eat first. Then I explain.” You could feel the curiosity on every hybrid’s eyes. But none of them asked again about the thing you brought. You all ate breakfast made by the cooking duo of the day and went back to the living room. You sat on the floor, in front of the square package and opened it.

“Wow!” You could hear several of them being impressed by what you revealed to them. It was a picture! The picture you had taken the day before actually. You had made it bigger and framed it. Smiling, you told them your idea.

“So… As this is the first picture of all of us, what do you guys think about signing your names and your aspirations? We will hang it somewhere where we can see it everyday and do our best to achieve it. What do you guys think?” You knew that it was a romantic idea but it was a great chance for you to know how to help each hybrid better.

The boys looked around to each other for a minute before Jun came to you and took the metallic pen you were offering him. He found a place near the frame and started to write. Soon all the others followed him, you being the last. You smiled as you wrote your message and Seungcheol helped you to hang it on the entrance hall. Now your family was truly completed.

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The signs and messages:

JUNHUI - “I hope to help my new family to grow and to be happier. I hope me or anyone won’t ever need to leave our home.”

SOONYOUNG - “I will do my best so this house and everyone in it doesn’t suffer or feel down. I wish this happiness lasts forever.”

WONWOO - “I know I’m not the best but I promise to protect every single member of family with my life if needed!”

JIHOON - “I don’t understand why we’re doing this. But I understand that everyone here is important, so I’ll do my best to be nicer with them.”

SEOKMIN - “I want to show the gratitude I feel towards this new family. So my goal is to make everyone as happy as they can be.”

MINGYU - “I’ll do chores and do my best! My goal is to not break anything and to do my part in this house so life here becomes better and better!”

SEUNGKWAN - “As someone with less scars than the others, I’ll do what I can to help the heal… As long as they don’t piss me off :)”

VERNON - “I’ll do my best to not get in the way and to support everyone. That’s the only way I’ll can show them how I care.”

CHAN - “I’ll find a way to perform and help hybrids in need! For my and my new family’s pride!”

SEUNGCHEOL - “As the oldest… I strive to become someone the youngers can rely on and can be proud of. Fighting!”

JEONGHAN - “As I said before coming here: I ultimate goal is to protect my new cuties from any external harm.”

JISOO/JOSHUA - “I’m still figuring out myself. But I’ll do my best to not let my biggest fear separate me from the children.”

MINGHAO (Keep calling me The8, human) - “I’m here to help the biggest number of hybrids abused by humans possible. I’m not a house hybrid, but I don’t hate the new brothers.”

Y/N - “Besides doing my best in work, my goal for these boys is to give to them all the love and care they deserve.”

Tag: @hopsiclesposts​​​ ; @woohoney​​​ ; @warm-smiles-and-blue-skies​​ ; @childfmoonn​​ ; @moonmin-miya​​ ;  @mimisxs​​​​ ; @yamashiro888​​​​ ; @littleheartsays​​ ; @naminalati​

#Seventeen #seventeen scenarios #seventeen imagines #seventeen x reader #seventeen hybrid au #kpop #kpop hybrid au #kpop au #kpop imagines #kpop x reader #hybrid au #imagine #s.coups #jeonghan #joshua #Jun #hoshi #woozi #wonwoo #mingyu #dk #the8 #seungkwan #vernon #dino

[craby-bouquet]

잠자리 - 2.4 : Roscid

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.— Lady Gaga

~ Part 3 ~

Kwon Soonyoung x Female reader

Fantasy!AU, Romantic Comedy, Royal!AU

11k words

Warning: slight torture

Masterlist | Seventeen masterlist  |  잠자리 masterlist

1.1 | 1.2 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 3.1

As you sprinted down the hallway, the thought occurred to you that you had no clue where you were supposed to go. Where on earth could you find Robin Goodfellow? And you had never been to Oberon’s personal room. It was quite late, too, meaning most of the staff was probably back in their quarters. There were night guards, of course, but way less. Where on earth were you supposed to go?

Meanwhile, your head was filled with thoughts of Soonyoung. He seemed… scared… in a strange way. And now he was going after the rat all by himself, you couldn’t help thinking about that going wrong. You couldn’t see how, however. It was simply a rat, what could be so serious about that? Yet the way he had spoken to you alerted you.

You had landed in one of the bigger halls. You didn’t know the castle very well, but you knew that you had to follow the carpet to end up in the main hall. You figured that was you best bet. 

As you ran down the hall, and almost fell off a staircase, you heard someone behind you.

“Princess!?” 

You turned around to find Robin behind you, running at you worriedly. You had never imagined you could be so happy to see the red haired man approach.

“Puck!” You called as you ran to him, too “I need... to speak... Oberon!” you were so out of breath from all the running, you could hardly make coherent sentences. 

Puck frowned “Oberon? Why? He’s probably fast asleep now.” 

You took a hold of his shoulders “It’s important. Something with a rat, or something… Anyway, Soonyoung send me.”

Like Soonyoung, Robin’s face turned pale “Rat?”

You nodded hurriedly, letting go of his shoulders again as his sudden change of face scared you a bit “There was a rat under my bed, and Soonyoung kind of freaked out about it.” 

Puck grabbed you hand and pulled you through the hall “We do have to get to Oberon, and quick.” 

You just let him guide you, getting more and more confused with every step you took.

Puck didn’t hesitate to knock on the big, wooden doors as soon as you stood before them. 

“In.” Said a stern woman’s voice from inside. 

Puck opened the door and pulled you inside with him. Titania immediately got up from the seat she was sitting in, her expression visibly changing. Even in her nightgown, with her hair braided, she looked stunningly beautiful. 

“To what do I owe the pleasure of your visit, darling?” She sang with open arms, as she came up to you to embrace you, completely ignoring Puck’s presence.

“Excuse us, highness.” Puck bowed, “But we urgently have to speak with Oberon.”

Titania’s face seemed to turn annoyed the moment she realised you weren’t here for her “He’s in his study. Working late, I presume. He’s been very busy.” 

Puck bowed once again as he stumbled back out of the room “Thank you, and once again apologies for the intrusion.”

Without saying anything else Puck and you ran across the halls to Oberon’s study, luckily this wasn’t far away. On the way there, however, you ran into a man, seemingly a guard. He had fluffy ears on top of his head, a fluffy tail, and some dog like features in his face. Puck was very clearly relieved to bump into this strange man.

“Baxter! Thank god!” 

The man stiffend and bowed to Puck as a soldier would to his admiral “Robin Goodfellow, young highness, good evening.” 

Puck waved his words away “Baxter, I need you to gather all the other dog soldiers and go to the princess’ room. There is a rat in the castle, the highness’ personal guard is trying to catch it as we speak.”

Baxter didn’t question it, and immediately ran off.

“Robin, can you please tell me what on earth is going on?” You asked as you started running to oberon’s office again.

“Later, highness. I promise.” He didn’t even knock on Oberon’s door before barging in.

“What is the meaning of this!?” Oberon yelled with a deep voice, as he rose from his chair.

Puck bowed “My apologies highness, but I’m afraid this is urgent.” 

He explained about the rat in your room, and like all the others, Oberon’s face, too, turned pale. Then, he joined the two of you in running back to your room. You just kind of ran behind them. 

“I already sent the dog soldiers, as they are the strongest this year. I assume they must be there already. And Soonyoung was trying to capture it before he sent the princess to find us.”

“Clever boy, he will be a marvelous guard when he grows up. Where was the rat located?” Oberon asked.

“Under her bed, highness.” 

“Where exactly?” Oberon asked you over his shoulder.

“Eh, kind of close to my bedside table, I guess.” You explained quietly, “It was looking at me.” 

Oberon nodded “Of course it was. He can not get back to Winter, you hear me Goodfellow? I need you to go and send guards to guard every exit, every window and every little creek a rat could escape through. His king must not find out about her.” 

Puck nodded before running into a different direction. 

“Oberon, can you please tell me what’s going on?” You were getting tired of everyone stressing out and you just being an ignorant bystander.

“Later.” Was his only answer.

Not much later you arrived at your room. As Puck had predicted, a bunch of soldiers were gathered there. Your room door was wide open and there were dog like soldiers everywhere.

Oberon turned around and placed his hands on your shoulders, looking you in your eyes urgently “You need to stay here, y’hear?”

“Outside? No way! I want to see if Soonyoung is okay.” you protested, much to the king’s dismay.

“You can’t. It might be too dangerous for you. I promise Soonyoung is fine, just stay here.”

You angrily stared back at him “It’s my room.”

“Please.” Oberon’s voice cracked in the middle of that little word, it took you by surprise. Was this really that dangerous? Seeing his scared expression, you couldn’t help but agree to stay outside.

As Oberon went inside, you stood as close to the door as you could manage, hoping you could listen along to whatever was happening.

“...got him, highness.” You heard one of the guards tell Oberon.

“Good job Soonyoung. You handled it well.” The king said.

Soonyoung didn’t respond for a little while “How is she? Is she here?” 

His voice was tired, exhausted even.

“I told her to wait outside, in case it wasn’t safe for her yet. But I see you captured the little rodent well. Did someone send for the nurse yet?”

The nurse? For whom? Did someone get hurt? Soonyoung..? 

“Yes. But I’m fine really…” Soonyoung’s exhausted voice said, before moaning in pain.

“You should still get checked out.” 

It was as if you lost control over your legs. You hurried into your room to find Soonyoung laying on one of the couches, clutching his arm, claw marks on his cheek. You gasped at the sight of him, he smiled when he saw you.

“Hey princess, I heard you did well.” 

You ran over to him and fell on your knees beside him, tears in your eyes “Oh my god…” you said without sound, it was as if your vocal cords just gave in, “Are you okay..?” 

He chuckled, his hand softly stroking your cheek “I’m great. Not a scratch.” 

“Liar.”

He smiled nonetheless, making you worry a little less.

It was then that your realized you were still holding onto to Soonyoung’s plushy, Hoshi. So you held it up and laid it down upon Soonyoung’s chest. 

“My hero,” you gestured to Hoshi, “Without Hoshi, who knows where I would have been.”

Soonyoung frowned, glaring at Hoshi “I knew he would one day steal my spotlight.”

Not long after that the nurse showed up, treating Soonyoung’s wounds carefully. She said his face would heal well, especially with the special medicine she had for it, and would leave little to no scarring. His arm was way worse, however. Ripped up a lot more. It would take a while to heal, and would for sure leave some nasty scars. Soonyoung just seemed to shrug those facts off though.

He fell asleep, his wounds treated as best as possible, quite quickly after that. The rat was locked up so it couldn’t escape at all, and would be left this way during the night. Guards were ordered to keep eyes out for more of them, and everyone else just decided it would be best to get some rest for the night. 

But right before Oberon could leave your room, you stopped him.

“Wait. You told me you would explain what happened tonight later, it’s later now.” you weren’t going to let anyone dismiss you again, and the tone of your voice made that very clear.

Oberon shook his head and laughed, “Just like your mother…” you heard him say softly, you decided to pretend like you hadn’t heard that, “Come on then.” 

You walked through the halls with him, one of the dog soldiers following you two closely. 

“We shouldn’t discuss it in a room someone is sleeping in, so let's go somewhere more quiet, and comfortable.” 

You nodded. You didn’t care, as long as he would explain what was going on.

you ended up in the lounge you and Oberon had your first conversation in when you just arrived, with the pretty couches and high ceilings. You both sat down in the seats you sat in back then, too. This time, however, Soonyoung wasn't standing behind you. The guard was standing at the door you entered trough, and was looking anywhere but at the two of you.

Oberon crossed his legs “Where to start…” he mumbled, “I think beginning at the very start is the best.”

You leaned back in your seat, knowing this would be a long story by the way the king addressed it. You wanted to be as comfortable as possible.

“It is said that, long ago, one of our royal ancestors wanted twelve elite guards to protect him.” He started, articulating well, and clearly thinking about the best way to tell this tale, “So he set up a race from the village, which now is a thriving city, to a magical gate up a steep hill. All the animals in the world were challenged and, though some declined the moment they heard about it, others wanted to get those divine powers the twelve winners were promised. As you can imagine, the day before the race was hectic, and the morning it started was even more chaotic.

Every animal that won in the end, had their own unique way of getting to the portal. The animals that turned into the powerful guards were the ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, pig and… the rat. To this day, these animals are still considered our best warriors. They are born with divine powers and therefore are easy to train.

A few hundred years ago, the rats formed a rebellion against me. All those years ago the rat, through cheating, was the first to win the race, and these rats were angry because they weren’t special enough. They were just as powerful as all the other divine guards and felt like this was unfair. they wanted to be all powerful, and figured dethroning me and becoming ruler themselves, would be the best way to do just that.

They failed, obviously, and instead decided to make their own kingdom. In the land of winter, on the other side of the lost forest. It’s still Tír na nÓg, so technically I rule over those parts too, but they don’t care and claim it to belong to them. 

The rat calling himself their king, still plans on defeating me and taking over. But, the only way to do that is… difficult for him to get. He will do anything to get it though.

The rat found in your room, was surely his spy. I don’t have a clue as to how it got in, but had it been able to get back to the rat king and tell him about you, the rats would definitely set their sights upon you. They wouldn’t rest until they’d get you, to exchange you for that what they need to defeat me.”

You took a moment to let that all sink in before you started asking questions, “What does the rat king need to defeat you?”

Oberon smiled, “The staff of seasons, a powerful artifact one can use to control the seasons. As the king, I get to use it to change the seasons in the world you grew up in, but if it would fall into the wrong hands… let’s just say it could do a lot of damage to both our world, as yours. But don’t worry, it’s locked away safely.”

You nodded understandingly, “...Sonyoung is a snake right? Is he one of those… divine ones?”

The king nodded, “He is indeed. These guards are born and raised to protect us royals, it is their duty. Soonyoung has been protecting you for a very long time.”

Which caused him to leave everyone and everything he knew behind… It didn’t seem fair.

“Are these rats a big problem..?” 

“They’ve been quite quiet lately, but as you noticed tonight they can be quite the nuisance.” He winked.

You nodded understandingly, “Good thing Soonyoung was there.” 

You looked at the sleeping Soonyoung on your bed, all spread out leaving barely any room for you. You didn’t mind at all. All you could think about was your guilt. How this beautiful, loving, guy had to leave everything behind for you. His family, his friends, his world. For you. It must have been horrible for him, he didn’t even get to choose, was practically born to protect you. And now he got hurt, all because of you. You looked at his arm, bound in bandaged. Gosh you felt guilty.

He deserved a good night sleep, and so you decided to sleep on one of the couches. This way you wouldn’t accidentally wake him. It didn’t take long for you to fall asleep, the last thing on your mind being the thought of how much safer your room felt. The weird feeling was gone.

The knock on the door woke you up, you fell off the couch in surprise, not expecting to wake up in a whole different part of the room. You forgot you had fallen asleep on the couch.

“Come in!” you said to the door, right before the maid came in.

You quickly stood up from the ground, your eyes shifting to Soonyoung immediately. His position had changed, he wasn’t all over the bed anymore, instead lay on his side, cuddling the blanket. You smiled seeing his sleeping face.

“Your, and master Soonyoung’s, breakfast, your highness.” The maid curtsied, trying to hide the surprise in her eyes. She was probably wondering what you were doing on this side of the room.

“Thank you.” 

She curtsied again before walking out.

Soonyoung was still sleeping, and for a moment you wondered whether you should just let him sleep or not. You decided the latter, softly walking up to the bed to sit beside him. 

You lovingly pet his soft hair “Soonyoung...”

He didn’t respond to your whisper.

You smiled as you bend forward a little, “Good morning, my knight in shining armour.”

He moved his head as he made a tired sound.

“I will tickle you awake if you don’t wake up now, snake boy.” You laughed, still petting his hair.

You saw him try to hide his smile, but you very well knew he was awake. You bend closer to him, right next to his face, and licked his cheek playfully, laughing as his eyes opened immediately after that.

"Ew!" He laughed as he rubbed his cheek with his good arm.

"Breakfast is here."

"I was waiting for the beautiful princess to kiss the sleeping beauty, me, awake." He pouted.

Your heart skipped a beat, you knew he was probably joking but…

 "Well, I did, didn't I?" You shrugged.

He laughed "No! You licked me!"

You poked his side "When a dog licks you he's giving kisses, so why isn't me licking you seen as a kiss?"

"It's gross."

You raised an eyebrow and leaned forward again, very close to his face "I could still kiss you, if that's what you want?"

You saw his eyes grow wider, before he turned his face away "Nope. I'm good. I'm fine. I'm awake. What's for breakfast?" 

Even though he tried to hide it, you could clearly see him blush. You laughed as you got up and walked to the tray. You took his in your hands, and carried it to the bed. He looked at you wide eyed. 

"What?" You asked curiously, not sure why he would have a reaction like this.

"Nothing. It's just… very weird to see you carry a tray to me, you are a princess and stuff so…"

You rolled your eyes and placed the tray on the bed before him " It wasn't weird a few weeks ago, when I wasn't a princess. So I don't see why it would be now."

He laughed at how annoyed you seemed "It was weird then, too. You just didn't know it." He looked down at his breakfast and his mouth fell open "It's all Lance Lovebird?"

You smiled and sat down close to him "Yes. Last night I asked the kitchen if they could make this as your breakfast."

"I was never supposed to have this! You don't know how many times I begged the kitchen for this, but they always refused!"

You laughed at how happy it made him, exactly what you wanted.

“But… why? You went all the way down to the kitchen?” He frowned, still clearly happy, just confused.

You shrugged it off like it was nothing, even though it was “Just a thank you for saving me last night.”

He laughed loudly “All this for just doing my job? What a perfect life to live.”

You looked at his injured arm and the scratches on his cheek with a guilty expression. You wished there was more you could do for him.

He noticed the strange look on your face “You shouldn’t feel guilty.” he said, clear and powerful, not turning around the point.

“I don’t.” You looked away and stood up to get your own breakfast.

He scoffed “Right. Highness, I know you well enough to read your mind by just seeing your face. You feel guilty.”

You slammed your tray on the bed in anger “Of course I feel guilty! I should feel guilty! You’re hurt because of me!” 

“I’m hurt because of a rat. You didn’t scratch me, did you? You just licked my face, which was just as disgusting.” He smiled sweetly, trying to lighten the mood.

You fell down on the bed and sighed, tears of frustration in the corners of your eyes “It’s not just that. It’s the whole thing. Yesterday I learned you were born with the purpose to protect to royal family, you don’t have a choice. From birth people have decided who you were supposed to be. It just seems unfair! What if you don’t want to be a guard? What if you want to be a lawyer? Or a farmer? Or a doctor? But you don’t get that chance.” 

He let you talk, even though it was clear he had a lot to say. He looked serious, a face you rarely saw.

“And… because of me, you were taken away from everything you knew at such a young age. Your parents, your friends, your world. Just to babysit me! It’s unfair, and I feel guilty of being the reason why you have to miss all of them. And I should.”

He sat patiently, waiting for you to finish talking, before sighing. He seemed to think about how to respond for a little bit, and then started laughing. It was clear he didn’t mean to, though, “I’m sorry, I just… Have you been worried about this all night? Is that why you slept on the couch?” 

You looked at him with your eyebrows almost touching in annoyance. But didn’t respond.

“I’m really sorry, it’s not funny at all I know, and it’s really sweet you worry about me like that. But now it’s just so clear how much you don’t know about us and this world.” He gently tucked a stray hair behind your ear, “Let’s start at the beginning, okay? What did you say again..? The whole born with a purpose thing. I was born a snake, and yes we’re sort of born to be guards, and most of us do become guards. But there are snakes, and other zodiacs, who decide to be something completely different. Not a lot, most of us do want to protect the royals, but we had a baker on our street whom was a pig. Ah… and he made the most delicious things. He had Lance Lovebird, of course, and this delicious cake he created himself and it was so delicious! I wish I could get it somewhere else. We used to get all our bread there and-…” he realised he was getting distracted, shook his head, and got back to the point, “Anyway. We have a choice, for sure, we’re just really good in combat. But, even in your world people often turn out to do the jobs they're good at, right? If you have a certain talent, your more prone to like doing it. Someone who has a talent for drawing, probably loves drawing. Someone who’s a talented cook, will probably like cooking. And if they have the chance, they will end up doing what they love as they’re job. In your world, it’s seen as lucky. If you can earn money doing what you love, you’ve had luck. Here it’s… quite normal to end up doing what you like and what you’re good at, because you’re born with the ‘purpose’ of doing it… So for most of us zodiacs, becoming a guard isn’t just what we’re supposed to do, it’s what we want to do.

Now about the whole ‘because of you I got taken away from everything’ stuff, stop thinking that! Get that crazy thought out of your beautiful head.” He gently knocked on your head with his knuckles, a contagious smile on his face, “Do you really think I would have gotten this job if I hadn't wanted it? Back in the day, when we were in combat training, we got told the best of us could become the personal guard of an important royal. Which meant that I, just like everyone else, had to prove myself. I worked myself to the bone to get this position. I wouldn’t have gotten it if I hadn’t proven myself to be the best for the job, I wouldn’t have been able to prove myself if I hadn’t worked as hard as I did, and I wouldn’t have worked as hard if I didn’t want this. Which also clearly means I love being a guard. I love being your guard…” he took both your hands in his and looked you in the eyes, his were determined, honest, “Yes, I miss my family, but my time with you has been… the best time of my life. I didn’t really have friends back in the day because I always

 was too busy proving myself, but you gave me my best friend in the whole world, and I would give up everything ever, if it means I get to spend more time with you. 

This was entirely my decision, so please, I beg of you, stop feeling guilty, stop feeling like you took everything away from me, because you did the opposite of that. Remember that and stop shutting me out because of it.”

You smiled, hearing him say all those sweet things, and that he chose for this himself, made you feel so much better already. You were glad you’d brought it up, and talked about it. Everything just seemed clear now.

“So you want to be a guard? One hundred percent?”

He shook his head excitedly, taking a bit of his Lance Lovebird.

“And you want to be my guard..?” 

He cupped one of your cheeks in his hand, “Yep. Don’t you ever think you can lose me, because you’re stuck with me forever.”

You laughed, a great feeling after such an anxious night and morning, “What a great person to be stuck with.”

Oberon, once again, looked surprised to see you walk into the hallway. He probably hadn’t wanted you here, but he didn’t bring it up. He just greeted both you and Soonyoung, made a little small talk about how you slept, and the weather, and then turned to Soonyoung’s arm.

“I’m glad you seem to be doing well.” 

Soonyoung flexed his good arm “Can’t keep this one lonely for too long.”

Oberon laughed, “You are completely right.”

A man who looked like one of those old time judges, came walking towards all of you. He had the upper body of a man, but the bottom of a songbird, complete with wings. The man bowed deeply to Oberon, and bopped his head to you and Soonyoung in greeting. Clearly not aware of who you were, how refreshing.

“Judge Leucos, thank you for coming in such a short time.” 

“For you always, your highness.” His voice was gorgeous, enchanting “Thank you for entrusting me with such a high level job.”

“I couldn’t think of a more trustworthy man.” Oberon smiled, before turning to you and Soonyoung, “This is my daughter, and this is her guard. She found the rat, and he caught it, so they will be joining us today.”

Leucos looked at you wide eyed, and then bowed deeply to you as well, “It truly is an honor to meet you, your highness.” 

You smiled awkwardly, still not sure how to respond to people talking to you like that. Like you were a subject of worship.

Oberon gestured to the door you were standing in front of, “Shall we go in?”

Soonyoung opened the door, let Oberon and the jude walk though, and then waited for you to go in, only to look up and see you frown.

“What seems to be troubling you, princess?” 

“Well,” you sighed, “I thought I was supposed to be a secret? To everyone who doesn’t work in the palace, I mean.”

Soonyoung nodded, “Yeah.”

“But… if Oberon keeps telling people who I am, I won’t stay a secret for very long time.”

That clearly amused him, he took your hand and walked you inside, “He doesn’t tell everyone. I just think he was annoyed that the judge didn’t greet you properly. King Oberon might look calm and collected at all times, but he gets worked up quite easily.”

“Well, he should work on his temper or the whole kingdom will know I exist in no time.” 

You walked into a room with bars, it kind of looked like a jail. Maybe it was a jail. There was a tiny cage in the middle of the room, it stood on the dirty ground and the rat inside made it shake quite furiously. You recognised it as the rat under your bed just the night before.

Oberon made a few hand gestures, and the guards in the room, including Soonyoung, stood defensively, two big man who reminded you of horses blocked the door you came through, and Soonyoung stood in front of you. You sighed and bend in a way you could still look at what was happening to the cage. 

“Oscail Dom.” Oberon said to slowly opened the cage, a spell, you gathered. A dragon like man carefully stuck his hand in to grab the rat. The rat started furiously biting the gloved hand, but the guard didn’t seem to care. He took the rat out and looked at Oberon for further instructions. 

Oberon confidently walked over, head held high, as he took a little bottle from his sleeve. The rat started gnawing at him, but Oberon bend down to be on eye level, and smiled as he held up the tiny tube.

“I you don’t transform, we will pour this in your little mouth.” 

You frowned, he was talking to the rat like he was stupid.

“I don’t know if you know what this is,” Oberon chuckled, “but it’s a quite painful liquid that will force you to transform back into your human self. So, if I were you, I would transform painlessly by yourself.” 

The rat had stopped gnawing, instead it growled and turned it’s head away.

“Oh? You think I’m bluffing.” The king turned his head to the dragon, “Avuno, if you please.” 

The man’s other gloved hand got to the rat, to the mouth, and pried it open. The rat clearly started panicking the moment Oberon started to open the bottle, a smile on his face. But before Oberon could do anything, the rat transformed into a woman. She looked like… a teenager, had short black hair and a pointed face. She fell on the ground, and before you could even see it stood up and started running towards you. Soonyoung stopped her though, and in no time three guards took her arms and set her in a chair behind the cage. 

She kicked the cage away while the guards were tying her up, chuckling insanely.

“I’m glad you decided to cooperate.” Oberon put the bottle back in his sleeve.

“I’m not cooperating, old fool.” 

Some of the guards in the room gasped at her words.

“Well, that is a shame. For you.” Oberon turned around, not seeming to care at all, “Judge, she is all yours.” 

Judge Leucos stepped closer, the woman’s eyes grew a little wider, but she tried to look indifferent. 

“Hello, I’m Leucos,” the judge introduced himself, “Might I ask for your name?” 

She scoffed “Why.”

Leucos smiled patiently “Well, I don’t like to interrogate people of whom I don’t know their name.” 

She was quiet for a while, and then shrugged before beckoning him closer. He bend his head closer to her, probably thinking she would whisper it in his ear, everyone thought so. But once he got close enough, she spit on his cheek.

For a second, he was visibly annoyed, but he smiled when he took the napkin one of the guards offered.

“Very charming indeed. At least you’re making my job easier.” the moment he snapped his fingers, a person you hadn’t noticed before, clearly not a guard judging from his styleful attire, came walking towards him, a tray filled with weird instruments on it rolling before him. They looked like medical tools but you had never seen any of them before. 

“Do you know what these are?” the judge smiled, “Do you know what I am?”

The woman didn’t respond, she held her chin up high.

“So you do. Good, then I don’t have to go over it all. You see, this is what I do, what I live for. I feel whether you’re lying or not, I know how to get to you, how to get you to talk, and it will not be pretty. So why don’t you make it yourself easy, and cooperate with us.” 

She scoffed again, louder this time “Never. I’m no traitor.” 

The judge shrugged “Your choice. Let’s get started.” He looked around the room, “If everyone would close their ears…” 

Soonyoung turned around, took your hands and put them on your ears, after that he covered his own ears. He kept looking at you, as if he was making sure you would keep your hands there, and he blocked your view, as if he didn’t want you to see what the judge was doing. With your hands over your ears, you could only hear the muffled sound of judge Leucos singing a beautiful tune. Even now, you were enchanted, all you could think about was telling him all your secrets, he could ask you anything and you would answer happily. What a gorgeous sound.

Soonyoung saw you get enchanted, your hands almost falling off your ears, and pressed against the hands on your ears with his elbows, looking at you with a very serious expression. 

The singing stopped, and you followed Soonyoung’s example in taking your hands from your ears. You felt kind of dizzy, to the point where Soonyoung had to hold you so you wouldn’t fall.

The rat woman looked even dizzier and confused than you, she hadn’t been able to cover her ears and got the full effect. what kind of creature was this man, to be so powerful and paralyze its victims with just his voice?

“So, I’ll ask again: What is your name?”

“Mabel.” You could see that she didn’t mean to tell him, but couldn’t help herself.

“Very good.” The judge smiled gladly, “And where are you from, Mabel?”

You were flabbergasted, she insisted on not even telling er name just a few minutes ago, and now she cooperated with no struggle at all. She clearly didn’t look like herself, but she didn’t resist at all.

The judge was happily choosing which torture instrument to use next, while waiting for her to answer his question.

“...Winter…” Her voice now sounded like she was trying to resist but couldn’t, “the land of winter.”

Leucos held up his stick like tool and looked at it interestedly, “That’s quite far, isn’t it? Why did you come all the way here?”

She suddenly turned her head and looked you dead in the eye, her eyes looked lifeless, they scared you. You could see the pain, the struggle.

“Her.”

Judge leucos didn’t have to look at you to know whom she was talking about, but the rest of the room suddenly all looked at you “Did the rat king send you, by yourself, to get her?” his voice had a mocking tone.

This is when she really started struggling, you could see her bite her lip to keep herself from saying things, she started moving weirdly, and at some point she screamed, but despite all that “I wasn’t… gonna… take her. I just- had to confirm…” she said through her teeth.

“Confirm her existence..? I see. So the rat king knew already, Oberon.” Judge Leucos turned to the king.

Oberon frowned “I never told anyone… Aside from Puck, my wife, and everyone protecting her in Daoine Dúr…” 

The judge turned back to Mabel, “How did the rat king know about her?”

the woman shook her head, biting her bottom lip so hard you saw tears in the corners of her eyes. She really seemed determined not to say anything anymore.

the judge nodded before hitting her in the back of her head, really hard. You turned your head away immediately, closing your eyes. You hadn’t expected that.

“I’m not telling!”

“How? How did he know!?” He hit her again, you weren’t looking but you heard the stick hit her head and cringed.

She didn’t say anything, you heard her moan she wasn’t saying any more. And then you heard the stick hit her again, and again. You heard her yell, cry, as the judge proceeded asking her questions, her proceeding to cry out she wouldn’t say anything.

Then the hitting stopped, and you made the foolish decision to turn your head to look. The first thing you noticed was that Soonyoung turned his head away from the scene too, but no one else had. Secondly, you saw her sitting in the chair, her head hanging, a drop of blood running from her mouth. 

The judge pulled her hair to make her look up at him, with his face close to hers, he spit on her, probably as revenge “I could very well change my torture method, you know. Something more painful, more permanently damaging. Unless you cooperate.” 

You really hadn’t expected her to be able to say anything, you thought he knocked her out, but suddenly she turned her head a little more, “I’m not telling you anything anymore.”

The judge shrugged, “As you wish.”, He put away the stick, and grabbed something that looked way more painful. He held it up to her eye and brought it closer, while repeating his question, “How did he know?”

He got closer and closer, and though you wanted to look away, you simply couldn’t. And then you panicked, your legs took over as you ran to the judge, pushed away his arm, and shielded her with your body.

“What do you think you’re doing?” the judge asked, clearly insulted.

“You’re hurting her!” you yelled.

The judge threw the torture device on the tray, “Yes. I am. That’s the point, isn’t it?” he was very annoyed with you. Clearly. And you didn’t blame him, you didn’t know what came over you.

“We…” You looked around the room, hesitant, finding Soonyoung’s encouraging face, “We shouldn’t hurt her.” you lifted your chin, and tried to sound like a decent princess, even though you had no idea what that sounded like.

Oberon sighed, “Darling, I…”

“No,” you shut him down, to his surprise, “if we hurt her this bad, and all of you are just here for the pleasure of watching her,” you looked to the many guards in the cell, “it makes us no better than the rats.”

The judge sighed and let his hands fall to his hips “Alright, then what do you suggest we do, highness?” it was clear he didn’t mean to sound nice and interested, but you ignored his annoyed tone.

“First of all I suggest most of the people in this room leave. We don’t need all of you, so go.” 

Everyone looked at Oberon, and Oberon, though hesitant, gestured them to go away with his hand. The only people remaining; the king, judge Leucos, Soonyoung, two other guards, you, and the rat woman. She looked up at you with eyes full confusion, seemingly having trouble to keep her head up high. 

You turned to kneel right before her, put one of your hands on hers, though her was bound to the chair, and looked into her eyes caringly. Exactly as your mother used to do to you when you were acting up.

"I'm sorry for them…" you started, not sure what to say, "That they hurt you, I mean. You don't deserve that."

She frowned "I hurt your little boyfriend, don't you think I should get punished for that?"

You wanted to tell her he wasn't your boyfriend, but sighed and decided that didn't matter "Yeah, you should get punished. But punishment comes in many forms, and you don't deserve to get tortured."

"Well I'm not talking." She turned her head away, clearly in pain.

The judge opened his mouth to go in on you, but you lifted your hand to stop him.

"You've been through enough." You shrugged.

It got her interest, she turned her eyes to you, curious as to what you meant. But she didn't say anything.

"Well, I just can't imagine your life to be easy, up till now. Living in the place you grew up… I don’t know much about the rat king, but he doesn’t seem like the nicest person.” She looked pissed, offended, but she didn’t respond.

You bit your lip, looking for something else that could piss her off just enough to get her to talk. You tried to find something to use in her eyes, something to work from. 

“Judging from all the other rats we have in our dungeons, he really doesn’t care about any of you, huh? Just sending you here for bate.” You kept looking in her eyes, reading what she thought from them.

She looked like she wanted to talk back, she wanted to correct you, and it took her an awful lot of willpower to keep her mouth shut. The rest of the room stayed quiet, but it was clear everyone had something to say.

“Or maybe he told you he loved you, and that’s why he send you here…” You knew you were right, judging from the look she gave you, “He told you you were his best soldier, and he only trusted you to do this, right?” 

“Our king is kind and loving, unlike him,” she glared at Oberon, “he loves all of us individually and unconditionally.”

You nodded, “And that’s why our entire dungeon is filled with rats.” 

“They were weak, the strongest come back.” 

“But you just said he loved everyone. And he didn’t come to safe any of them. Did he not love the ones he send here? And what does that say about what he thought of you?”

“He said he loved me!”

“He knew there was a big chance you wouldn’t come back-” 

“He knew I could! He trusted me to come back.” 

“But you didn’t…”

She looked at you, speechless, not sure what to say and clearly upset, “I would get back, this time was different…” she whispered, “He promised…” 

“How was this time different? You come here, try to sneak in, you succeeded which, I must admit, is new,” you had no idea if others sneaked in or not, you were kind of making things up, “you got to location, got discovered and now you’re here. Like all the others before you. The king send you here knowing you wouldn’t come back.” 

She shook her head “No! No… He knew I would come back. He, he knew. This time was different and-” 

“How? How was it different?” You kept looking into her desperate eyes, they found yours.

“He… Because… Because of the insider. They were gonna let us in, and out again, and… and…”

Insider? You turned your head to Oberon, you saw him think about it and the judge clearly had something to say too, but he kept his mouth shut. Good.

You decided to start with another thing that stood out to you, “Us? You weren’t alone?” 

The tears rolled down her face at this point, and she just seemed like she completely gave up not saying anything.

“Yes. We came here together and the plan was to leave at different times.” 

“Where is the other now?” you asked, hoping Oberon would send someone to whatever room the other one was in.

She shrugged “Back home I reckon, he left two nights ago. Which means the king will know for sure by now. That you exist I mean.”

You decided to ignore that part, you kind of didn’t want to think about what that meant, what the rat king could do, “And the insider? Do you know who it is?”

She shook her low-hanging head, “Nobody knows who it is except for the king and the person taking the messages from them.” 

“But the opened a door or something for you? how did you not see them?” Soonyoung asked. He was the only one you would accept questions from. You father, and the judge especially, had no right to talk after agreeing to torture this fearful girl.

She shrugged and looked up at him “They were wearing a mask with the rat symbol and didn’t say anything. They just walked us to the room we had to be in, and then we waited under the bed for you to arrive. I didn’t see their face and didn’t hear their voice. I don’t know anything.”

You frowned, disappointed you didn’t get a name, or a face. But at least she talked and gave you all the information you needed.

“Anything else, Oberon?” You asked him, just to be sure.

He shook his head “I think that’s all.” 

You caringly stroked her knee and looked her in her eyes “Thank you.” 

She looked away.

You shot the judge a final glare, making sure your eyes made sure to tell him you handled this way better than he did, before walking out the door. Soonyoung followed. You heard Oberon give the guard the order to bring her to her cell, and that’s the last you heard of it.

Of course, later that day, you were summoned to the king his office.

You knocked hesitantly. 

“Yes.” you heard a tired voice say from the other side.

You opened the door and the moment Oberon saw it was you, he stood up. He looked like he was hiding how exhausted he was. 

“Hello your highness…”

“Do you have any idea what you’ve done?” He asked. He didn’t sound necessarily angry, but he didn’t seem happy either.

You looked at your feet.

“Because you couldn't handle the way we’ve been doing things for centuries, judge Leucos now decided to leave us. He’s furious and told me not to call him for a while. Who knows how long.” he clearly saw you roll your eyes at that, “Why are you rolling your eyes?”

You sighed “I just... think he’s being a little dramatic. That’s all.” 

Oberon, to your surprise, started chuckling, and that turned into laugher, “He is, isn’t he?”

You didn’t really know how to respond, so you just started awkwardly laughing with him.

“No, I should be telling you it was wrong what you did, but you got us everything we wanted, and like, ten times as fast! Leucos would have taken all day.” he kept on laughing, you hadn’t heard the sound of his laughter before. It was pure and contagious. 

“Did you see his face? When I was done and walked away?” you tried pitching in, thankfully making him laugh even more.

“Yes! You looked at him like,” he made a face, “and he was all like.” he made another face, before bursting into laughter again, “And that calls himself a grown man.” 

Both of you laughed a little bit longer before Oberon gestured you to sit.

“In all seriousness, however. How? How did you do it? It was like you could read her mind.” he frowned.

You thought and shrugged, “I don’t know. I just did what my mother always said she did whenever she knew I lied. She read my eyes.”

Oberon’s frown got even deeper, “Read your eyes? You read her eyes..?” he seemed to think for a while, “Leitheoir anam…” 

Now it was your turn to frown, “What?”

He looked you in the eye “Nothing. Nevermind. Thank you for your help this morning.”

“I think it’s better if I go alone from here.” You turned to Soonyoung, to show him you were serious.

“Are you sure? What if you need me?” 

“Then I’ll call for you. But she’s locked right? I’m sure I can handle that much.”

He hesitated “Okay. But promise me you’ll call me when you need me.” 

You nodded, before walking down the hall by yourself. There were a bunch of cells with mainly rats in them, and a few guards walking around, nodding their head at you as you walked by. You stopped at the cell she was in. There were currently no guards in this part of the hall.

And there she was, sitting on the ground, her knees pulled up to her chin. She looked away the moment she realised you were there.

“What are you doing here? Go away.”

You didn’t go away, instead, you sat down on the ground as well, “Hi, Mabel.” You greeted her.

She scoffed.

“Look, you don’t have to talk to me. I just wanted to apologize.” 

She turned around to frown at you, “Why? You saved me from torture. You have nothing to apologize for.”

You were glad she looked at it that way, but you still felt guilty, “For emotionally draining you like that. It can’t have been easy to suddenly realize the person you thought loved you, doesn’t really love you at all…”

She shrugged “Shouldn’t I be thankful for that though? You helped me realize I was living a lie. Yes, it sucks, but I feel like it’s better for me to know than go back there as soon as I manage to escape, thinking he’ll be happy to see me. If I ever do manage to go back, I’ll get killed before I can even greet him.” she whispered the last part.

You decided to change the subject so she wouldn’t look so sad anymore, “So, you plan on escaping then?”

She laughed “Like I would discuss that with you.” 

“What? You totally can. I would love for you to escape.”

“You’re insane.” 

You shrugged, “I don’t think you should be locked up.”

She turned her head away again “There’s not really anywhere I can go. So escaping would be foolish.”

“What? Why?” 

She clicked her tongue, clearly annoyed you didn't get it, “I can’t go back to the land of winter, I’ll get killed there for treason. But I also can’t really live anywhere else, considering everyone else hates rats. I’d be found by Oberon in no time. And who knows what happens to me then. My best option is to stay here, I get fed 3 times a day, I have a roof above my head-” 

“But you’re not free.” You interrupted her, “Don’t you want to be free?”

She sighed “Of course I’d like to be free, but there’s nowhere for me to go.” 

That wasn’t true, you knew of a place she could go. But could you tell her? Could you trust her? Did you believe she wasn’t evil? You looked in her eyes. She was so young. You knew she probably already lived longer than you, but she looked like she could be sixteen.

“That’s… not entirely true,” you started carefully, in the middle of your sentence still contemplating if you should say anything at all, “You see, where I come from, where humans live. Well, you could always go there?” 

“To the land of the humans?” it was clear she looked down on humans in general, “Daoine Dúr. I can’t imagine that being so amazing for me.”

“Why not? People there accept everyone, pretty much. You would have to get used to it, and that will probably take a while, but I’m sure you’ll be fine there.”

She frowned, sceptical of what you said, but she was clearly interested, “Really?” 

You nodded “Yes! Soonyoung lived there for a super long time, and I know of others from here that live there and are just fine! I think that, if you ever do escape, I suggest you go there. And if you don’t like it, just find me and I’ll make sure you’ll get thrown back into jail.” 

She laughed “Will do.” 

The atmosphere hanging over you two changed from pretty tense, to really chill, in no time. It was like she wasn’t in jail at all and you two were just hanging out somewhere.

“Why are you so nice to me?” she suddenly asked.

You shrugged “Why not?”

“I attacked your boyfriend, didn’t I?” 

“He’s not my boyfriend, he’s my guard. And I don’t think you are evil, but the circumstances you grew up in caused you to have different norms and values. And bad ones, at that. So you aren’t evil, your standards are because of your upbringing.” you shrugged.

She nodded understandingly “Are you sure?”

You frowned “About what..? You not being bad? well-”

“No. Are you sure he isn’t your boyfriend?” 

You mouth fell open. About all the things you just said, that’s what she wants to go in on.

“Because you two seem extremely close. Way too close to just be a princess and her guard, you know?” she shrugged.

You laughed “We’re friends!” 

“Just friends? Really?” 

“Yes!” 

She started to laugh with you.

A guard tapped on your shoulder “Excuse me miss, is everything alright here?”

You waved him away with your hand “Yes, yes. We’re good, don’t worry.” 

“Oh, I wasn’t worried ma’am, the snake at the beginning of the hall asked me to make sure.” 

You saw Mabel raise an eyebrow at you “Just friends, huh?” she whispered mockingly, making it difficult for you to hold your laughter.

“Tell him I’m fine, please.” 

The guard nodded and walked away.

‘just friends’ Mabel mouthed at you. 

“Stop it,” you laughed, “We are!” 

After the both of you finished laughing, she quickly seemed bored again. Looking down at the ground, her hand painting in the little bit of sand laying there.

“So, do you have any plan on how you’re gonna escape..?” you asked carefully.

“Oh, don’t worry,” she chuckled sadly, “that’s just a pretty dream... It’s impossible to escape these cells.” 

You stood up to inspect the locks “Why?” 

How strange, you couldn’t really find a lock.

“It’s locked with magic.” 

Oh, you didn’t know any magic. For a brief second, your human brain scoffed at that thought: magic, ridiculous. But you knew it was true.

“And it’s quite difficult for us guards to learn magic. That and, magic from the inside won’t work… Long story short, I’ll be stuck here for a very long time.”

Then you suddenly remembered something. That one spell Oberon said to open the little cell she was in before the questioning, oh, what was it that he said..?

“But don’t worry, I’ll be okay here.”

You closed your eyes, as if that would make you think better. Come on, you could remember things for school, you should remember this. 

“Princess, what’s wrong? Are you okay?” Mabel asked slowly. 

And there it was, you remembered. You looked around to make sure no guards were around. 

Your heart beat in your throat, were you really doing this?

“Eh,” You hesitantly started, “Oscail…”

“What are you doing?” Mabel whispered urgently, jumping to her feet.

“Oscail Dom.” You said. For a brief moment it seemed like nothing was happening. You hadn’t learned magic before, maybe you did it wrong. Maybe just saying it wasn’t enough, maybe there was something else you had to do simultaneously.

But then it happened. Suddenly, slowly, the cell door opened.

Mabel frowned at you, not walking out but staying right where she was “What? Why?”

You were sure your heart was gonna burst out of your chest any moment with how insanely fast it was currently beating. What had come over you to open it? Were you stupid? Could you trust her to be free?

“Just go. To the human world I mean.”

Mabel carefully and hesitantly set a foot outside the door, she smiled, and then turned her head to you, clearly thinking about something.

You smiled back at her, but then before you could do anything, she jumped you. 

You fell on your back, on the cold floor. She hung over you and you were sure you made a huge mistake. She was gonna kill you, hold you hostage so she could escape.

But strangely, her eyes didn’t scare you, you didn’t scream, you weren’t scared.

She smiled at you “Thank you. Now please scream.” and then she ran away.

You did as she said, started screaming for help, and before you knew it not only Soonyoung, but a bunch of other guards were standing near you. Soonyoung immediately rushed beside you.

“What happened? Are you okay? I knew I shouldn’t have left your side, look at you.”  He held onto you tightly.

“Soonyoung, I’m fine. Don’t worry.” you groaned, the back of your head hurt, but you were glad you were a good distraction so she could get away.

Another guard checked the cell door “She’s out... She got away. What happened?” he turned to you.

You shrugged “It must have been open the whole time-”

“Nonsense,” another guard said while he walked up to the cell door, “When I closed it I made extremely sure it was locked.” 

Soonyoung pitched in for you “Maybe the rat king’s mole managed to open it for her.” 

“If that’s the case, she’ll be at his place in no time.” 

“I still don’t understand how it happened though,” another guard said, turning to you, “just moments ago you were sitting here talking to her, how did she suddenly burst out?” 

“Well…” you pouted, “It’s as you say. We were talking, and all of a sudden she bursts out and jumped me.” 

Soonyoung lifted up your head so he could look at the back of it, “Ooh, I think we’re  going to need the nurse for this.” 

He picked you up, making you grab his shoulders and throwing your arms around his neck panicking “Soonyoung, I think I can walk by myself.” 

He smiled devilishly, before clearly looking fake worried “We shouldn’t take any chances, your highness. What if it’s serious and you could faint any moment?” he turned to the guards inspecting the cell, “Gentlemen, make sure Oberon gets here, and tell him what happened.”

He started walking to the end of the long hall. The moment you walked up the stairs and left the basement, the worried look disappeared from his face. Instead he looked serious.

“Soonyoung, I really don’t think I need the nurse. I didn’t hit my head that hard and-” 

“I’m not bringing you to the nurse.” he said in a monotone voice, “You don’t need a nurse. I just had to get you out of there before they started to suspect you.” 

He clearly knew that it was you who let her out. But just in case...

“Why would they suspect me..?” you tried to sound as innocent as you possibly could.

He looked at you skeptical “Let’s not talk about that in the middle of the castle. Let’s discuss it in your room.”

The moment you arrived back at your room, he put you down on the ground. You must admit, you were a little dizzy from the fall you made.

“What were you thinking?” Soonyoung asked disappointedly.

You tried to casually lean against the closed standing beside you “About what?”

“Oh come on,” he walked around the bed to close his suitcase, “You and I both know you let her out.”

Oh. You weren’t sure whether he was bluffing and tried to get the truth out of you this way, or if he actually knew. But you decided not to take any chances.

“Me? I can’t believe you are accusing me of something so serious.” you crossed your arms to look be a little more dramatic.

He raised an angry eyebrow at you “Don’t pretend. I know you did.”

“Why would you think that?” you asked, trying to not look suspicious.

“Because it’s so you. You’re way too kind for your own good, and now you let out a criminal because you felt bad for her being punished.” 

“Okay, first of all, Mabel is not a criminal!” You tried to keep your head cool, but he was getting on your nerves a little. Even Though he was right, it was mean to just assume those things of you, “And I’m not too nice for my own good, I’m just nice. Something people here clearly have never heard of. Here you’re clearly either ‘too kind’ or a torturing, murdering, judgy person!” you fell down with your butt on your suitcase, to close it.

He seemed to be taken aback by that, “For the record: I didn’t mean that in a bad way. I like that you’re so nice. And I’m trying to snitch you or anything, I’m trying to help you not getting caught. but for me to do that you have to be honest with me. This is a criminal defense. And not only here, even in the human world jails aren’t to escape from, they’re to be stuck in. You just helped a criminal escape. What if she goes back to the rats? She knows so much, we’d be screwed.” 

You looked at your feet, still struggling to close your suitcase “She’s not a criminal… I know she made some wrong decisions, but she just grew up with the wrong crowd, she didn’t know any better. But she changed, she found out the rat king is an a-hole, and is now trying to find out who she is and what she wants. Secondly, She won’t go back to the rat king.”

Soonyoung frowned again “What? How do you know?”

You shrugged “She told me herself that if she goes back the rat king would have her killed, so she knew she couldn’t go back. She also obviously cannot stay here, because you all hate rats. So I told her-” 

Nope, you should not tell him that. He was already kind of angry, and this would make him furious.

“What? You told her what?”

You pressed your lips together and shrugged.

Then he realized it. He closed his eyes in disappointment, and hung back his head “No, no, no. Don’t tell me… You actually told her to go the the human world?” 

“How can you read my mind?” 

“I already told you I know you way too well. But come on! Sending her to the world you live most of the time? Do you want to be killed?”

You clicked your tongue “If she planned on killing me, she would have done so the moment she jumped me. Anyway!” you yelled that word to shut him up, he had already opened his mouth to interrupt you, “I told her that everyone gets accepted there, and that she can start building a wonderful life for herself, free from judgement and people telling her what to do.”

He shook his head as he took another one of his bags, but didn’t respond to that. He zipped that bag before walking to you. 

He got very close, bending over you, his face mere inches from yours. Your heart was in your throat. What was he doing? He looked you in your eyes as he zipped the suitcase you had been struggling with this entire conversation, before walking off to get yet another one of your bags to close.

"On another note," he started as you were trying to catch your breath after holding it while he got so very close, "how did you get her out?"

You looked at the floor "What do you mean?" You knew exactly what he meant.

"Well, every cell is closed with a different spell and there for each needs a different spell to open. How did you know hers? And better yet: when and where did you learn to use magic?"

You bit your lip and shrugged.

"Princess…" he said threateningly, demanding an answer.

"Fine. This morning Oberon opened the cage Mabel was in as a rat, you know. And then he said, eh…" you thought, what was it again? “Oscail Dom.”

The suitcase Soonyoung just closed for you opened abruptly, startling you, “Eh… Whoops?” 

He looked even more confused than before, “And that… worked?”

You shrugged “I mean, she got out, didn’t she?”

In his visible confusion, Soonyoung walked over to your suitcase again to close it, “That shouldn’t have worked, that can’t have been the lock to her cell…” he mumbled to himself, his back turned to you.

“Especially considering you haven’t learned anything about magic yet.”

You crossed your arms “Well it worked, that’s what I said and that is what did it.” 

He turned around to look at you again “Then you must have insanely powerful magic.” He shrugged, “Not that that’s surprising, of course. You are a royal after all.”

You frowned “So royals are more powerful?” 

He nodded “And maybe, because you’re a halfling, you’re even more powerful and that’s why it opened.”

“That doesn’t make any sense.” 

He smiled cheeky “I know. But many things don’t make sense in this world.”

Your room door slammed open and Oberon ran in, his hands were on your shoulders before you could realize it.

"How are you? Are you hurt?"

You gently pushed his hands away "I'm fine."

His eyes shifted to Soonyoung "Is she?"

You rolled your eyes. 

"She is, highness." Soonyoung had a hard time keeping in his laugh, "She fell on her head, but that looks fine. Other than that she might be a bit shaken up. But nothing too serious."

Oberon nodded once and then turned back to you, his hands back on your shoulders, "We're looking into what happened. We'll catch her, and the person who let her out. Did you see anyone?"

You shook your head "No, no one."

"Must have been the insider. I must apologize for everything that happened in your stay here. It's usually not this chaotic."

You smiled "Don't worry, it's fine. Over really enjoyed my stay."

Weirdly enough, that seemed to make him feel awkward. He removed his hands from you shoulders, and took a step back "I'm glad. We're having you leave early, with everything that is happening, but I hope to see you again soon."

"Of course." You nodded. You wanted to get to know him and this world.

"Someone will come for you and your guard soon, please make sure you two are ready when he arrives." He stood around a little, not sure what to do next, "Well," he said, clearly wondering if he had to give you a hand, or a hug, but in the end settling on a slight bow, "Until next time."

You curtsied "Until then."

He walked away, closing the door behind him.

You stood there in silence for a while, before turning around to see if there was another bag to close.

"Well… That was awkward." Soonyoung said, trying to cut the tension.

You shrugged pretending you had no clue what he was talking about "What was?"

He scoffed "That."

Someone knocked on your door.

"Come in." You said.

And there was batman, here to pick you up and bring you home. And wow, you were so ready to go back home.

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Cross Road

Title- Cross road (one Shot)

Genre- Demon Au & Best friends to lovers

Pairing- Demon best friend Hoshi x human reader

words- 6600+

warnings- Lots of talk about sex and baby making, virgin sacrifice, hoshi being the best, and yah

Plot- You and Soonyoung have been best friends since you were kids. You thought you knew everything there was to know about him,but little did you know your childhood crush had a surprising secret.

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Kwon Soonyoung. 

He’s a sweet man, a funny man, and even a smart man. Well… is man really the right word? Sort of. You wouldn’t really know how to describe him. Other than being the best person you know and love. 

He’s special to say the least. 

But to tell that story we have to go back. 

Way back.

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You were sitting on the playground during recess. It was the first day of kindergarten and kids ran around, already making new friends as the day progressed. You didn’t really pay much attention to it at the time, you just sat there. Not that you were shy or anything, but no one really came to you. You sit with your legs dangling off the edge of the playground watching other kids play tag. The boys provoke the girls to chase them around with the risk of getting cooties. As you watch , a finger taps your shoulder lightly. 

“Hey you look like a sad lonely person.” You turned your head around to see a boy. He had chubby cheeks and a bright welcoming smile. You mean to say something back but you didn’t really know how to take being called a sad lonely person. “Hello? Anyone in there?” He questions and knocks his knuckles against the side of your head playfully. 

“Huh?” Was your only response. The boy nudged himself next to you. 

“I’ll make sure you’re not sad and lonely anymore.” He stated as he dragged you towards the slide. He ushered you to sit down first then excitedly sat behind you. After giving a count off, he pushes you both. The weight of two kids proved to be a little much and caused you to go past the end of the slide. Both of your butts land with a thump onto the sand. Rubbing his behind, The boy helps you up before you both burst into a fit of giggles.

“My name is kwon soonyoung.” He holds out his chubby hand. You return the gesture with a high five after not really knowing that he was asking for a hand shake. 

“I’m ___”

-

Middle school came around quickly and Again you found yourself sitting by yourself. It’s lunchtime and you sit patiently, sipping on your water bottle. Middle school was a weird time in your life, usually with growing up... comes changes. Whether that be physically or mentally. But one thing for sure that hasn’t changed is...

“Why do you look like a sad loner?” A smile made its way on your face and you turned to see your best friend already by your side. He settles in the seat next to yours at the long table. 

“Can’t I be a loner for 5 minutes Soonyoung? You’re by my side all the time.” You tease. He puts his hand on his heart dramatically and pretends to be hurt. He wrapped his arms around you playfully as he fake sniffled. 

“I thought you loved me!” He yells and catches the attention of the other students. You didn’t pay much attention to them because being friends with Soonyoung comes with the attention that he gets. 

 He’s loud to say the least. Not to mention a little heart throb to all the hormonal preteens. 

“I do love you.” He grins and hops off of you and begins to dig into his lunch.  As he’s turned away you couldn’t help yourself but be giddy. It’s true, you do love Soonyoung...well love but not love- love. Not yet at least. But you definitely did like-like him. He’s your best friend so you thought that he really wouldn’t like you back. Not to mention with all the attention he gets from other girls you decided it would be best to be friends. 

But When you realized you had a crush on soonyoung, you never looked at him the same. 

And when you both sat through sex Ed that day…

“Oh my god…” you both say I’m unison after watching the very in depth documentary on puberty.When you found out where babies come from. You were scarred enough to not even want to look at Soonyoung for a few weeks. 

-

High school came along and this was the time when everything really changed.

Well, only because during this time is when you knew you love-loved Soonyoung. Still, you both were close and even added a few new friends to your bunch. Jun,Chan and Minghao are a few guys that wiggled into your close circle. Soonyoung met Jun and Minghao in dance class his freshman year and Chan a year later when he entered high school. They were like brothers ever since. And they definitely knew about your giant crush on Soonyoung. 

“I swear she was like the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen! It’s like every girl is nothing but a sack of potatoes compared to her. ” Jun says excitedly with a bite of his sandwich still in his mouth, causing chunks of food to fly towards the other Chinese boy. Minghao blocks his face with his hand and nudges his friend harshly, glancing over to you. Jun clears his throat. “Except for ___ of course!” He explains and swallows his food,you just roll your eyes and continue to eat your slice of pizza.

“But we met at a party last night and to say we hit it off is an understatement.” He wiggles his eyebrows at the rest of the group. 

“Really? She slept with you? No way.” Chan argues as he takes a bite of his apple. 

“I swear! And when I say she has a nice-“

“Ok ok no need to go into details.” You cut him off. Minghao just huffs at your response. 

“Really? You can’t handle this? Your best friend has the highest sex drive in the entire school.” Minghao states while shoving a napkin towards Jun’s face. He’s right, this kind of talk was normal between guys and you just so happen to be the only girl here. But Soonyoung has no shame whatsoever when I comes to talking about sex.

“Hey, we cant talk about that in front of her. She probably can stand the fact that the love her life sleeps around like it’s his job.” Jun says and results in another nudge from Minghao. “Hey you brought it up first!” Jun hisses at Minghao. 

“I get your concern boys but Soonyoung can do whatever he wants. If he wants to sleep around then that’s something I have to deal with in a one sided love story. Plus, I’m his best friend, I have to handle it.” You sulk a little. The boys catch on and comfort you.

“Listen. He might be a horn dog but he still has never been in a relationship. Those girls mean nothing to him.” Chan wraps his arm around my shoulder and rubs the side of my arms.

“Ya, all those girls have is being hot. You’re nothing like that” Jun blurts and it results in you and the two others looking up at him with furrowed brows. He’s quick to put his hands up. “I mean you are hot! Wait I mean pretty? You're just not their kind of hot. You’re one of the guys-“

“Shut up.” Minghao now has his palm slapped on to Jun’s mouth. “Ignore Jun. In Soonyoung’s defense,he only sleeps around with girls he doesn’t give a shit about. Those girls mean nothin.” Minghao says and jerks his hand away from Jun as jun licks his hand. “Sicko” he hisses. 

“It’s ok you guys, no need to put other girls down just because you guys have a bias towards me. Who knows, maybe they’re cool..” you suggest.

“Or Maybe he just takes a while to notice what he has in front of him. I mean, he doesn’t have a father figure around to teach him this stuff. His dad lives on the other side of the world from what we know. He needs to learn things himself.” Chan reassures. You just shrug and shovel in the salad you have on your tray. 

“I see what you’re saying and I really appreciate it. But it’s ok if he doesn’t like me. I’m still his best friend and always be around. Just as long as I have him in my life I don’t care what we are.” The rest of the table is quiet and continues eating in silence until a loud slap on the table is heard. You flinch your head up and see the devil himself, Soonyoung. 

“Sorry I’m late guys. I had a dentist appointment and just barely got to school for the rest of the day. I had a test I couldn’t miss.Hope you didn’t miss me too much.” He says and pinches your cheek. While he’s doing that you notice his long sweater sleeve glide down his arm a bit. Smeared black lines run up the rest of his arm. Before you could ask about it, Jun goes on to tell his story about the girl he met at the party. while he tells the story again you notice that a Smokey scent emerges. 

“Do you guys smell that?” You ask, cutting off Jun. 

“Smell what?” Soonyoung says warily. 

“It smells like something burnt, like ash or something.” You state and sniff around some more. Even sniffing Chan’s shirt. You were about to sniff Soonyoung but he shot up from his seat before you could get a whiff. 

“I mean we are in the lunchroom. They probably burnt something in the kitchen. But I’m gonna go get a soda, I’ll be back.” He rushes. Thinking that he was acting weird, you chose to go check on him.

Soonyoung rushes to the vending machine outside of the cafeteria. He lifts up the neck of his shirt and gives a good sniff. He goes to lift up his arms to smell his armpits but you come out from the side of the vending machine taking him by surprise in his mid sniff.

“What are you doing?” You ask and he pretends to stretch his limbs.

“Stretching. Sitting in the dentist chair did a number on my back. You seem a little tense, maybe you should do it too.” He tries evade but you see right through him unfortunately. Lifting up his sweater you see something you didn’t really expect. 

Black ink runs up all the way up to his shoulders. Symbols and pictures drawn all over his arms, a lot of them smeared away. Some parts of his arms were covered in black powder, almost like charcoal. 

“Have a little art project?” You ask suspiciously and let his shirt fall down. “What is this.” You question pointing to his arm. 

“It’s nothing really. Just like you said, an art project I did for fun when I was bored last night.” He says a little unnerved. “Nothing to hide.”

“Then why were you hiding it? You didn’t even think to shower?” Soonyoung seems a little stumped at the questions. So you decide to back down at his discomfort. “Never mind. I should expect weird stuff from you. Never a dull day with my Soonyoung.” You tease and walk away from the scene. 

Soonyoung lets out a harsh breath and pulls out his dollar before putting it into the vending machine. Looking up at your figure walking away he smiles to himself. 

“My Soonyoung?” He whispers to himself gently. “I think I like the sound of that.”

You unfortunately decided to let his strange behavior go that day, and you soon regretted it. 

Ever since that day you haven’t seen Soonyoung. It’s been two weeks and not a word from him. No phone call, no texts, not even an email. It’s like he jumped off the face of the earth. Even the boys couldn’t get any word from him. You started getting worried because this had been the longest you have gone without seeing him. Not to mention you don’t know if he’s ok or not. 

Something just felt wrong.

“I’m going crazy.” You say and grip your hair harshly. Letting the frustration take over. 

“We get it. This is the longest you’ve gone without your boyfriend.” Minghao sasses slightly and scrolls through his messages just in case any message would appear. You almost react to his sass but you just sit back on the bench.Since you guys have been so worried you all decided to head out to the park to ease our minds. But it’s been everything but easy. You couldn’t blame Minghao for being harsh because he was going through the same thing. You were all scared. 

“Im sorry,but I can’t really help but feel this horrible feeling, Hao.” He just pushed his head back and slouched on the park bench.

“Join the club sister. We all have a bad feeling. I mean we all haven’t heard from him in weeks. You think this could feel anything other than bad?” He growls. You decide to not say anything back in consideration of how he’s feeling. You knew he didn’t mean to bite like that. 

The two other boys walked back from the convenient store that was a short distance away, and heard what Minghao had said. 

“Easy Minghao. We’re all anxious but let’s not take it out on each other. ___ has a right to speak about how she feels, I mean, she has known Soonyoung the longest.” Chan hands you a Popsicle and sits next to you and Minghao. 

“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to take it out on you. I know you're worried, I shouldn’t have been rude.” Minghao apologies and brings you into a side hug. You let your head rest on his shoulder as he rugs the side of your shoulder. 

“It’s ok. I know you didn’t mean it. All we can do now is try our best in this situation.” You say and hug minghao tighter. 

“Well, there’s not much we can do. We’ve gone to his house everyday but no answer every time. Not even his mom answered. We call and message him every hour of the day and nothing. It’s like they dropped off the face of the earth.” Jun plops down on the sidewalk in front of the bench. 

“Do you think he moved?” 

“No way. He would have told us. Unless...”

“That could explain why he was acting so strange.”

You just sat and listened to the boys sit and squabble. You knew that something wasn’t right. He wouldn’t  hide like this, it’s not like him. 

“While you guys sit and argue, I’m going to go check his house again.” You gather your things and stand from the bench. Giving Chan the half eaten Popsicle. 

“Wait what? It’s getting late.” Chan says. “We know you’re worried. We all are. But maybe you should just go home and rest, it’s been stressful for you.” He argues.

“I just… I just want to check again. I have to. I care about him too much to just rest, it’s worth a shot.” The boys kept trying to get you home but you were persistent.

“Chan is right. It’s getting late. Let us walk you home.” Jun offers again but they all know it’s no use. 

“Love you guys. I’ll see you later.” Those words were your goodbye as you walked towards Soonyoung’s house. Leaving the boys as they shook their heads.

The Kwon’s house was an easy house to remember. The house sat at a crossroads with no other houses around it. No one really built any houses there because of the tales of old crossroads and their associations with demons and such. There were many stories of deals being made at that very crossroad. Even a story about a woman who fell in love with a demon there. You never really believed in stuff like that anyway. Soonyoung would often tell you those crazy stories and you just chose to listen. 

As you got closer to the house a chill ran up your spine. A chill strong enough to go from your head straight to your toes. Although, you never thought to be scared of his house before, today seemed a little more ominous. Various street lights towards your friends house flickered and even went out completely as you made your way down the street. The wind felt especially strong as it felt like it was almost pushing you in the opposite direction. 

Determined to find your best friend, you went against your gut.

Finally, you made it to Soonyoung's house. The wood flooring on his doorstep creaked way more than usual. The porch light was on but no bugs surrounded it and the porch light barely lit the area with a faded yellow light. Almost hesitant, I knocked on the door, no answer. You knock one more time, still no answer. 

“Soonyoung. It’s me ___. I came to check on you… we’re worried. Me and the boys. We’re all worried and I just thought it wasn’t like you to just leave. Please…” I rest my forehead on his front door.

“I just really want to see you.”

Then it was like the temperature in your body shot down to zero degrees. The shiver up your spine was almost painful as the hairs on the back of your  neck rise. Your heart nearly drops as the porch light shatters into a million pieces. Bringing the front door to complete darkness. You turn around to see that all of the lights in the neighborhood flicker off, all except one. The one street light only lights up the crossroad in front of his house. you rest your back against his door and try to calm your breathing. 

The door your resting on starts to open slowly with an ear splitting creak. Opening the door to a black hole of an entrance. Thinking this was too creepy to stick around you go to rush home but something grabs onto your wrist. A large hand holds firmly on your arm. 

“Where do you think you’re going?” They whisper and drag you into the house. Feet skidding on the smooth hard floor as you try to scream but nothing comes out. Your throat felt dry and your body felt ice cold. You couldn’t see anything but pitch darkness. But soon candle light comes to you when you’re thrown on the floor. The floor from what you assumed is the living room was lit by multiple candles in a circle. The candles surrounded a giant drawing carved into the hardwood flooring. The symbols resemble some of the symbols on Soonyoung’s arm you saw before. 

“I can sense a very innocent energy from you.” The voice from earlier surrounds the room. Stepping out from the darkness is a tall figure. His robe is long and dragged on the floor as he walked. He steps into the circle but not with feet but with hooves of a goat. Raising his arms, the baggy fabric of his robe falls down his forearms, exposing the scales running up his arms to his hands. His face is covered by a hood but sticking out are two long horns covered in rings of gold. “A good virgin energy.” He praises. 

“W-what?” And like a ghost, he’s in front of you before you could blink. Kneeling down to where you are on the floor. 

“My son. My offspring has brought me the final step of becoming what he truly is. He was hesitant at first but now since you’re here, in front of me, I know he’s ready.” He explains. 

“Where’s Soonyoung?” You ask hesitantly. The creature just gives a low chuckle.

“He’ll come. And when he does and finally makes his sacrifice, he’ll be the new king of the underworld like he's supposed to!” He chants. “After all these years of collecting virgin energy and gathering up enough power to be able to withstand the demon power, I will finally be able to spend time with my love.”The demon declared, and It’s like all the air was taken out of your lungs.

Soonyoung. Your Soonyoung. Some kind of demon prince? He would never do this to you, would he? All these years, were they nothing but a trick to use you someday? No. This can’t be true. 

“This can’t be true…” the tears run down your cheeks as his father's hands rests on your face gently.

“It’ll be over soon.” He says gently and gets up to walk in the center of the circle.

“I summon you, my son.” He puts his hands together and the carving lights up a bright red. Gusts of wind push out from the floorboards and blow out the candles around. “Come to me…” he chants in this demonic language as the light grows brighter and brighter. The wind is strong enough to lift the creature's robes and your hair to fly up. Loud booms sound across the room like thunder as the furniture moves with the current from the wind.

A cloud of black smoke rises from the symbols and gathers up In the middle. A twirl of black slowly taking form, making the shape of a body. Red lines and symbols traced up the figure, they shined as bright as the floor. Soon, the smoke disappears and what’s left is the boy you knew.

Soonyoung stands in the middle of the circle in front of his father. “Why did you call?” His voice was deep and Demonic. Almost like it was put through a voice modifier. He’s wearing something similar to his father and like him, he has the long horns sticking through his hair. 

“You have proved to me that you are ready my son.” His father states proudly. “The virgin has been offered.” Soonyoung looks behind him. You nearly passed out as his pitch black eyes landed on you. Soonyoung’s heart stops.

“___?” He whispered surprised. Taking a step towards you, he nearly stumbles. You push yourself back in response. This wasn’t what he wanted, this was what he was trying to hide this whole time. Turning back towards his father he steps away from the circle. 

“How many times do I have to tell you? I’m not going through with your stupid ritual. I couldn't care less about taking over the throne. She isn’t the virgin sacrifice, she’s my friend!” Soonyoung hisses. You glance up at him, relieved at what you just heard.

“Friend?” His father questions. But when he’s about to say something the light to the living room turns on. Soonyoung’s mother by the light switch in her bathrobe looks at the scene before her.

“Honey? What’s going on here?” She questions the demon and runs over to you. “___, I’m so sorry this happened! Please come sit down, let me get you some water.” She rambles. You did nothing but nod and accept the help from Soonyoung and his mother at the table. 

“___? Oh! I’ve heard so much about you!” The demon says joyfully. You're surprised at the change of demeanor. “I’m sorry. I’m nothing without my glasses.” he explains while taking off his hood to reveal a human-like face. With the exception of scales in certain patches of his face and the horns. He had Hints of Soonyoung indeed. 

“Here, my love” Soonyoung's mother hands him his glasses. He looks in your direction, his serpent like pupils focus on you. 

“Oh well, would you look at that. You really are ___. My apologies.” He apologizes with a short bow. Heading over to his wife he takes a seat at the table and props his hooves up. You couldn’t make out words, just strings of mumbles. A ding from across the kitchen makes you flinch. Soonyoung’s father gleefully got up and towards the oven. “Well would you look at that! My Blood butter cookies are done.” He bubbles and pulls out the tray with his bare hands. You couldn’t comprehend this situation even if you tried. 

“Ughh…” you try to speak but nothing.A pair of hands rest On your shoulders. Soonyoung grabs your attention.

“Come with me upstairs. We’ll talk in my room.” You just go along with it and head upstairs with Soonyoung and away from what you hope Is a fever dream. 

You enter his room, it looks like a normal and definitely not like a hell hole.

 He gently closes the door behind you. “I know you have a lot of questions.” He starts, petting the horn on his head nervously. “I’m sorry about my dad… I told him I wouldn’t sacrifice a virgin any time soon, so I guess he jumped to conclusions when he saw you.” He tried to explain. But you stand there as you try to comprehend but all that’s in your brain is white noise.

“I’m sorry I left… I just didn’t know how to deal with this whole thing. My father just shows up out of nowhere expecting me to become this prince of the underworld. I didn’t know how to break it to you that I’m a half demon spawn of the underworld. I thought you would think I’m some kind of weirdo-“

“That’s why you didn’t tell me?” You bring up. It catches him by surprise. 

“Huh?”

“You didn’t tell me because you thought I would think you're weird?” You say dumbfounded.

“Ya, why else?”

“I dunno, from all the movies I’ve seen, it’s because demons are this dangerous thing, then people go out of their way to protect people from demons.” You try to explain but he just looks confused.

“Protect you? Why? I would never hurt you nor did I think I would. The underworld isn’t that crazy. I mean did you see my dad? He isn’t really the most fearsome creature. And he needs new prescription glasses.”  

“He was telling me you need a sacrifice, Soonyoung!” 

“Well I didn’t say all of the underworld wasn’t that crazy. Plus, did you really think I would sacrifice you? You’re my best friend.” Your shoulders slouch a bit. Feeling bad about your accusations and thoughts about him. Of course he wouldn’t. 

Soonyoung notices your change in demeanor and pats the bed, signaling for you to sit down next to him. You plop yourself on his bed. “ I’m sorry. I was just surprised. I didn’t mean to think of you that way.”

“Hey. I don’t blame you. You're doing pretty well for someone who thought they were gonna be a virgin sacrifice to a demon king.” He laughs and brings you into a side hug. 

“The visual effects didn’t seem to help either. You emerging from the ground was a sight to see. Must be from all the virgin energy you’ve gathered.” You tease lightly and a blush makes its way into his pale face. 

“Thanks? I’ve been practicing my summoning, I was playing video games when he called me..” he explains  “And He Had to tell you about virgin energy?” He sighs. 

“Well I didn’t fuck anybody for energy, that’s for sure. I just so happen to gain energy from virgins. It’s a weird demon thing.” He mumbles at the end even having pink tint on his cheeks. “But there’s no need to talk about that..”

“Why you so shy to talk about sex now? Didn’t have a problem before.” You state blatantly. He seems to have caught it because he looks at you Nervously.

“You ok? If I offended you, I’m sorry. Who cares if you’re a virgin-“

“It’s not that..” You say with slight frustration. “It’s the fact that you sleep… with girls.” You struggle to get the last part out. 

“Would you rather I slept with women?” He asks, even more confused than he was before. “ I mean, it’s a little illegal since we’re still in high school-“

“No! That’s not what I meant!” You groan and flop the rest of your body on the bed. “That’s not what I meant…” Soonyoung gently lays down beside you. 

“What do you mean? Tell me.” He takes your hand into his. Red markings cover every finger. 

“I… I “ 

“You what?” He pushes.

“I...like you, Soonyoung. I like you a lot. No, I’ve been in love with you for years. And I’ve always been afraid to tell you-“ you’re sentence is cut off by Soonyoung's lips on yours. Your eyes widen but you kiss back anyway. Fluttering your eyes closed at what felt like pure bliss. He ends the kiss and pushes your hair out of your face.

“And why would you ever be afraid to tell me that?” He smirks. “ I fell in love with you the moment I saw you on the playground being a sad lonely person.” He confesses. 

“ I just thought because you never showed any signs of liking me. And you had all these beautiful girls to be with and I was just the friend…” 

“Never showed any signs?” He Scoffs. “How about wanting to be with you everyday?Wanting to have you talk to me? Wanting to have you be a part of my life forever? Are those not signs?” He asks. 

“I’m sorry I never noticed…” you say shyly with a slight smile of embarrassment. He just playfully nods and brings me close. 

“Also, all those girls. Sure, I fucked around. But I’ve never wanted a relationship with any of those people, and ya, they were pretty. But they weren’t you. That’s because you’re the most beautiful girl I’ve laid my eyes on, and I mean to sound cheesy.” You couldn't help but throw yourself on top of your best friend. Landing in his stomach he lets out a small “oof”. 

“Although cheesy, I love it.” You confess. 

“You wanna be my girlfriend? I promise you won’t regret it.” He tried to persuade but you just pretend to think for a bit before answering.

“Fine, since you asked-“ 

“Great! Now that you’re my girlfriend, you wanna make out?” He eagerly brings your face closer to his. You just chuckle and brush your hands through his hair slowly.

“ How about after I formally meet your dad. I don’t think we got off on the right foot- or hoof, earlier.” You say shyly. Soonyoung gets off the bed and pulls you up.

“Ya, the hooves are a shocker to everyone. I guess my mom likes them freaky. But luckily you don’t have to worry about hooves. Only the horns, but you probably dig them anyway- ouch!” He rubs his shoulder after a rough smack from you. 

“Maybe a little.” You giggle. “But that was for leaving me for two weeks.” Soonyoung feels guilty but you send away that feeling with a quick kiss. “And that was for being with me for this long. I love you, Soonyoung.” You confess again. 

“No, thank you for being in my life and accepting me. I love you too.”

“Good, now let's go try those cookies.”

-

Things did get better after that. Soonyoung officially introduced you to his father, he’s a very nice demon when he’s not trying to have you as a human sacrifice. Though he is bummed that he’ll have to stay in the underworld for a little longer until someone could take his place as king. But luckily Soonyoung’s mom finally agreed to going down with her husband finally now that their son is 18. 

Soonyoung decided to finally go back to school after he learned to hide his horns and markings. So he graduated with you and the rest of the boys. Except Chan who’s a year younger.

Let’s just say the graduation party with the 5 of you ended with Soonyoung getting drunk enough to where he exposed himself to the rest of the group.

Welp, nothing else to hide.

But as the year went on, you decided to stay and study in your home town. While Soonyoung and the rest of the boys decided to open a dance studio, called Dancing with Demons. Which would become the best in the city. If only people knew they were dancing with an actual demon. Still a cute name though.

Now that you’ve graduated and have a path, you decided to move in together for college,Along with the three other boys, thinking that it was better for your college budgets. You spent even more time with your best friends and the love of your life. 

And the rest is history

—————

“And the rest is history…” you whisper to yourself as you look over at your now sleeping husband of 3 years, 5 years in overall relationship. Sleeping on his stomach and his arms under the pillow propping his face up slightly. His big horns prevent him from sleeping on his side comfortably. 

Often you would wake up in the mornings just to think about what happened 5 years ago. You would just sit and remember all the beautiful moments that lead to this. This perfect person who you plan to spend your whole life with. 

“What are you thinking about?” A soft voice takes you by surprise. Your husband pats the spot next him, you scoot closer to his side and run your hand down his back. The red marking showing perfectly due to him not wearing a shirt.

“Just thinking about how I was able to get a life like this.” Soonyoung pops his head up. 

“Well it only took a whole childhood and a false virgin sacrifice…” he states blatantly. “But I wouldn’t have it any other way. I still got you in the end anyway.” He kisses the side of your head. 

“Well at least I don’t have to deal with the potential of being a virgin sacrifice anymore.” You laugh. Soonyoung rests his chin on his arms and gives a low hum.

“Ya, got that situated only a few months after we got together. Now you just have to deal with the thought of having a demon baby.” He says smugly. “Which if you asked, I wouldn’t have any hesitation of giving you one.” He winks. You just slap his chest gently and rise to get out of bed.

“Five years and you think you're ready to have my baby, huh?” You tease as you step out of bed and ease your way out of your pajamas. You couldn’t even get your top off before you’re squished between the wall and the demon. Your front is pressed on to the cold wall as Soonyoung’s warm chest pushes on your back. Craning his head between your neck he kisses slowly on your skin. 

“Excited isn’t enough to describe, baby. If you give me the green light I would gladly give you a baby,right here, right now.” He whispers as he lifts his head to press a kiss to the side of your head. “You know how much I love you. But if you forgot then I can spend all morning showing you how much I would want to start a family with you. Hell, I could spend days showing you how much I love you.” At this point he knows he had you almost convinced to let him have you, but as much as you love the thought of entering the baby making factory, there are other plans to attend to. 

You grip his hands gently as you peel them off your body they were just roaming. Having the most effort to remove the one on your butt. “As much as I would love to let you give me a family, we have plans today. We have lunch with your parents in the underworld today…” Soonyoung groans and practically throws himself back in the bed. Having a child-like tantrum as he huffed and puffed. 

“Are you kidding me. Cock blocked by my own parents. Don’t they know I’m a busy demon?” He complains as he gets up and strips his clothing with a pout. “And for what reason? Because my dad made his famous demon lasagna?!” He blurts and grabs his towel, almost stomping towards the shower. You just laugh to yourself and shortly join him in the shower. 

Stepping onto the steaming water, you hug his back tightly as he lets the water fall on his head. He turns around only to press you against his chest, pulling you closer so the water runs down both of your bodies. Though showering together seemed like a sexy scenario, you showered together often, sexy or not. You found it a relaxing time to spend together. 

Soonyoung gently grabs your chin, bringing your lips to his. The kiss is soft, no urgency. As you both part your husband peers down at you with a loving gaze. Taking the shampoo you begin to wash his hair, going around his long horns as you do so. Soonyoung hums softly at your touch. 

“You’re not mad at me are you?” You ask teasingly. The demon pouts and leans into your touch. Rinsing out his hair you let him scrub your hair and let him wash your back to his request. 

“I don’t know. I haven’t decided yet. You still choosing my dad's underworld lasagna over me Making love to you all day, and a whole bunch of cuddles and kisses?” You couldn’t help but burst out laughing, he joins along and rinses you both off. Ending the shower, he wraps you up in a towel before him. As he’s drying your hair with a towel, you take this as a chance to capture his lips in a sweet kiss. 

“How about a deal?” You waver. This catches the demon's attention. 

“You’re making a deal with a demon? Aren’t you ballsy.” He smirks. “What are you offering?” He asks. You take a moment to look like you’re pondering. 

“I was just suggesting that if you make it through a whole day of being with your parents, then I would reward you.” You slide your hands up his torso, making sure to travel along his markings, making your arms wrap around his neck at the end.

“Keep talking.”  With that, You just realized that you have this demon of the underworld wrapped around your finger. 

“If you make it through today without complaining and have a good time, then I’ll let you do whatever you want with me. Maybe even try for a baby-“ you couldn’t even finish your sentence before you’re pushed roughly against the wall. Your legs instinctively wrap around his hips as he kisses you passionately. Gripping your face roughly as he kisses you. You grip his hair and his horns roughly as his kisses don’t let up. After what seems like forever, he finally lets you go. Your feet come back to the wet floor but he still holds you. Having a sinister smile etched into his face. 

“You seal a deal with a kiss baby. Thanks for doing business.” He plants one more kiss on your lips and walks out the bathroom as if nothing happened. You would be lying if you said you weren’t disappointed being left alone after that, but you know he was ready to give you what you wanted in due time. But for now, you can’t just think about how you couldn’t stop falling more in love with this man. Just thinking about a family with him makes you almost teary eyed. You didn’t want a family with anyone else. You’re set for life with Soonyoung. 

“___! Hurry up! My parents are just getting older. We can’t keep them waiting. Or take your time, because I found a site of baby names that I can comfortably read as you get ready!” He beams from the other room. 

Yup, you fell in love with a demon from the underworld. 

But, you wouldn’t have it any other way. 

A/N - Hope you enjoyed!

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[citrussdance]

SONG TRANSLATION

100万回のアイ・ラヴ・ユー  (hyakuman-kai no “I LOVE YOU”; a million “i love you”s) by BURNOUT SYNDROMES

KANJI

100万回のアイ・ラヴ・ユーでその胸に 火を灯せ 100万回のアイ・ラヴ・ユーでその明日を 照らし出せ

ブレーカーの落ちたような暗闇で君は 傷を見せないように いつも怯えていた 愛されないように愛さないように 愛想笑いしてきた 本当は寂しいのに

さあおはようを始めよう 燃えるようなキスをしよう 手探りの明日も 二人なら愛せるさ

100万回のアイ・ラヴ・ユーでその胸に 火を灯せ 暗闇に放て それはいつか星になり 君の「闇」を「夜空」にする

怖がらないでさあ愛の欠片に手を伸ばせ キラキラと光る それはずっと待っている 君の掌の柔らかさを 待っている

氷点下絶対零度君がそっと閉めた 自己嫌悪のカーテンの 隙間から目があった 人間の視線ってこんなにあったかいんだよ そうやって逃げたって凍えてゆくだけ

君の体温を知りたい この情熱を愛と呼ぼう 凍りついたカーテンを いっせーのーせで開けるよ

100万回のアイ・ラヴ・ユーでその胸に 火を灯せ 100万回のアイ・ラヴ・ユーでその憂鬱を 焼き尽くせ

100万回のアイ・ラヴ・ユーでその胸に 火を灯せ 暗闇に放て それは退屈を焼き尽くし 「平熱」を「情熱」にする

100万回のアイ・ラヴ・ユーで今君が吐い アイ・ヘイト・ミーを打ち砕く 僕は今日を生きていく 君の掌の温かさで 僕の体温を確かめて

100万回のアイ・ラヴ・ユーでその胸に 今日を生きていく 火を灯せ whoa 100万回のアイ・ラヴ・ユーでその胸に そうだ 火を灯せ whoa

いつも一歩踏み出せぬ両足に 掴み損ねてきた両手に 昨日ばかり映す瞳に ただ黙々と脈打つ胸に

100万回のアイ・ラヴ・ユーで火を灯せ

ROMAJI

CAPS: english words written in phonetic japanese script. (parentheses): chorus/ensemble lines.

hyakumankai no "I LOVE YOU" de sono mune ni hi wo tomose hyakumankai no "I LOVE YOU" de sono ashita wo terashidase

BREAKER no ochita youna kurayami de kimi wa kizu wo misenai you ni itsumo obieteita aisarenai you ni, aisanai you ni aisou warai shite kita hontou wa sabishii no ni

saa ohayou wo hajimeyou moeru youna KISS wo shiyou tesaguri no ashita mo futari nara aiserusa

hyakumankai no "I LOVE YOU" de sono mune ni hi wo tomose kurayami ni hanate sore wa itsuka hoshi ni nari kimi no “yami” wo “yozora” ni suru

kowagaranaide saa  ai no kakera ni te wo nobase kirakira to hikaru sore wa zutto matteiru kimi no tenohira no yawarakasa wo matteiru

hyoutenka zettai reido kimi ga sotto shimeta jikoken-o no CURTAIN no  sukima kara me ga atta ningen no shisentte konna ni attakaindayo sou yatte nigetatte kogoete yuku dake

kimi no taion wo shiritai kono jounetsu wo ai to yobou kogoritsuita CURTAIN wo isse-no-se de akeru yo

hyakumankai no "I LOVE YOU" de sono mune ni hi wo tomose hyakumankai no"I LOVE YOU"de sono yuuutsu wo yakitsukuse

hyakumankai no "I LOVE YOU" de sono mune ni hi wo tomose kurayami ni hanate sore wa taikutsu wo yakitsukushi “heinetsu” wo “jounetsu” ni suru

hyakumankai no"I LOVE YOU" de ima kimi ga haita “I HATE ME” wo uchikudaku boku wa kyou wo ikite yuku kimi no tenohira no atatakasa de boku no taion wo tashikamete

(hyakumankai no “I LOVE YOU” de sono mune ni) kyou wo ikite yuku hi wo tomose WHOA (hyakumankai no “I LOVE YOU” de sono mune ni) souda hi wo tomose WHOA

itsumo ippo fumidasenu ryouashi ni tsukami sokonetekita ryoute ni kinou bakari utsusu hitomi ni tada mokumoku to myaku wo utsu mune ni

hyakumankai no “I LOVE YOU” de hi wo tomose

ENGLISH

(parentheses): chorus/ensemble lines. note: the grammar for this one is particularly. . . creative, as i try to keep the order of the words the same as in japanese. 

with a million  “i love you”s, in your chest light the fire with a million “i love you”s, your future illuminate it

in a darkness as if the breaker is broken, you were always frightened of showing your scars as if you can’t love, as if you don’t and won’t love you came to laugh at friendliness even though really, you’re lonely

come on, let’s begin the “good morning!” let’s have a kiss that feels like burning the fumbling tomorrow- if it’s us, we can love it

with a million “i love you”s, in your chest light the fire free yourself from the darkness that will someday become a star and turn your “darkness” into a “night sky”

don’t be afraid, come on reach for the shards of love they sparkle and shine i’ll be forever waiting for that- the softness of your palm i’m waiting for it

below freezing- absolute zero- you softly closed it the curtain of self-loathing from the gap, there was an eye humans’ gazes are this warm, you know like that, running away, you only become frozen

i want to know your body temperature let’s call this passion love the frozen curtain- on the count of three, we’ll open it

with a million “i love you”s, in your chest light the fire with 100 “i love you”s, that depression- burn it to nothing

with a million “i love you”s, in your chest light the fire free yourself from the darkness that will burn away the tediousness and turn your “normal temperature” to “passion”

with a million “i love you”s, what you just spit out- “i hate me”- smash it to pieces i will keep on living through today and with the warmth of your palm check my own body temperature

(with one million “i love you”s, in your chest) keep on living through today light the fire, whoa (with one million “i love you”s, in your chest) that’s right light the fire, whoa

to both legs that couldn’t go a step further to both hands that failed to grasp it to the eyes that only reflect yesterday to the chest that beats only silently

with one million “i love you”s, light the fire

#burnout syndromes #hyakumankai no i love you #japanese #translation #jrock #jpop #english translation #bungakushoujo

[headspacedad]

Let Me Take Care of You

honestly I can’t imagine anyone not wanting to scoop up all those clones and take them home.  Canon Keith what the hell was wrong with you (oh, right)?  But here Writer Nonnie has them (maybe the first batch of them) coming home with Shiro at the head, as it should be

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((More of the boys! They’re on their way home! It’s like they’re a bunch of chibis in a ‘free to good home’ box and Shiro took one look at them and picked up the whole box. Anyways, enjoy!))

~~~

One final search was made for any rogue clones. Three teams, three directions, three pairs of eyes each, though in the case of Odin’s group, two pairs plus one. Not to mention Odin’s birds going the fourth dimension.

No luck.

Wherever the missing clones had gone, they were hiding their tracks well. Shiro thought he almost saw one in the woods, it was the only way to explain the eerie feeling of being watched despite not seeing anyone nearby.

On the way back, after figuring out a seating arrangement to fit Odin’s birds, the cryopod, and Hoshi’s intense claustrophobia, the first 'night’ so to speak was surprisingly quiet. Every one, even the rowdy Jack, was asleep. It had been a long day and now it was taking the toll. Shiro kept the ship on course, taking a scenic route to a recently claimed Coalition outpost nearby.

Though Shiro heard shuffling in the back. He let autopilot go for a second as he glanced back there, seeing Doc checking up on everyone.

“You should be getting rest.” Shiro said softly, startling Doc. “We have a while before we get to Earth.”

“You aren’t using the teladuv?” Doc asked, his voice also low. “Or the Castle for that matter?”

“Not yet.” Shiro nodded to the controls. “I’m a little surprised you know what that is.”

“We have your memories.” Doc replied. “Vague ones, but it’s mostly basic knowledge, like the Galaxy Garrison and Voltron.”

“Makes sense.” Shiro looked at the sleeping Jiro. “Though I was more worried you’d have the mental level of a newborn or a child.”

“Before being reprogrammed?” Doc added, a bit bitter.

“Y-yeah.” Shiro sighed. “So-” he looked at the others, noting Yama and Kai’s respective injuries. “I noticed you guys had quite the interesting names.”

“Hm?” Doc looked at Yama and Kai as well. “Ah. Well, it’s quite the story. Me, Jack, and Odin woke up at the factory. Jack tried to fight one of Haggar’s goons, and got hit right in the face.”

“That explains the eyes.” Shiro saw faint scarring around Jack’s eyes, much like someone being hit by lightning, which fits with the abilities Haggar and the Druids had. “And Odin?”

“Tried to open a pod, he said it exploded in his face.” Doc explained. “I saw him stumbling around, right as Jack got hit and bumped into us. Odin managed to drag us away and into a ship. We crashed and by dumb luck I only got away with bumps and bruises. And this,” he pointed to his split eyebrow. “I took care of them for a while, making do with what I could find on the ship.”

“You’re a real trooper Doc.” Shiro smiled tiredly, trying not to think of the implications. “And the others?”

“We found Yama’s foot first.” Doc laughed a little. “We followed the blood trail and there he was, using a branch as a walking stick. Kai, who we found by the ocean, swears he lost his hand trying to fight a shark, which is freaking awesome. And Hoshi-” Doc paused, looking at Hoshi’s sleeping form.

“Hoshi,” Shiro looked over to the skittish clone that twitched and whined in his sleep. “Fell?”

“I guess during the purge you mentioned.” Doc looked at the cryopod. “We were setting up for the night and suddenly a light came down, crashing nearby.” Doc winced as Hoshi whined a little louder. “I’m not gonna lie, the screaming kept me up at for a few nights. Still does.”

Shiro sighed and looked back at the controls, noticing they were close to the outpost. “Got an idea for the one on ice?” He nodded over to the clone in the pod.

Doc thought for a second. “Sora.”

That brought a small smile to Shiro’s face. “That sounds nice.”

A small silence fell.

“Do you really think we can find a place on Earth?” Doc asked, looking at Shiro.

“Why not?” Shiro shrugged. “It’s home.”

“Your home.” Doc tensed up. “We may have memories of it but we’ve never set foot there.”

“Doc.” Shiro leaned and put a hand on Doc’s shoulder. “It’s gonna be okay. You can rest. Let me take care of you guys.”

That clicked with something in Doc’s mind and he sighed. “Okay.” Doc leaned on Jack’s shoulder and closed his eyes.

After a few moments, Shiro stopped the ship, letting it float for a while. He wiped his hands down his face and let out a heavy sigh.

“You got us covered,” Odin’s signature lower voice surprised Shiro. “But who’s gonna cover you?”

Shiro looked over, seeing Odin was in fact awake, his birds, one laying across his shoulders, the other in his arms, were sound asleep. “Well,” he looked over to Ryou and Jiro. “I got all my brothers.”

Odin smiled and huffed. “Indeed you do.”

“I’ll look into some getting new prosthetics for Yama and Kai.” Shiro began to rattle off future plans. “And I can ask Allura to see if something magical is up with Jack’s vision. Hoshi might need therapy, and some treatment for the burns. The cryopod should take care of Sora’s injuries, but the mental shock is another story.”

Odin began laughing again, lowly, trying to keep his voice down.

“What?” Shiro looked at him confused.

“Nothing.” Odin smiled warmly. “It’s nice to know we’re being taken care of.” Odin looked at the others before looking back to Shiro. “Don’t overwork yourself like Doc does.”

“I’ll try.” Shiro smiled back. “Get some rest. We’ll be on home soon.”

“Home, huh?” Odin closed his eyes. “Sounds nice.”

Silence again, and Shiro made sure everyone was asleep. He looked to the controls, seeing that someone was trying to contact the ship.

“This is Outpost Thraz Beta. Identify yourself.” The voice on the other end said.

“Shiro, Paladin of Voltron.” Shiro did as told.

“Do you require assistance?” The voice asked.

“No need.” Shiro answered. “Just need a place to stop and rest.”

“We’d be happy to provide board for a Paladin.” The voice sounded a bit giddy.

“That’d be greatly appreciated.” Shiro replied. “Permission to land?”

“Permission granted.”

Shiro restarted the ship and began piloting it towards the outpost. Explaining all of his passengers wasn’t that fun, but he did convince the aliens at the outpost that they weren’t a danger to anyone, and that was the end of that. He restocked provisions, made a call to Earth to let Allura know when to fire up the teladuv and how many new permanent guests would be arriving.

Taking a seat, Shiro sighed and wiped his face.

“Morning.” Ryou’s voice didn’t surprise Shiro but it did leave him even more tired.

“Hey.” Shiro looked at Ryou, who was squished under Jiro. “You awake too now?”

“I guess.” Ryou shrugged. “Lots of paperwork to get through now huh?

Shiro groaned and buried his face in his hands. "Oh my god the paperwork.”

Ryou laughed a little. “Don’t worry, I’ll make sure you don’t lose your mind.” He reached his hand out, placing it on Shiro’s.

“Why does everyone want to take care of me?” Shiro groaned a bit with a smile.

“Because we love you Taka.” Ryou peeked over Jiro’s head with a stern but loving glare.“Get some sleep, I’ll watch over the babies.” Ryou looked over to Hoshi, who was whining again.

“Alright alright.” Shiro waved and got comfy. “Wake me up in an hour.”

“Right.” Ryou raised his hand and smiled. “Don’t worry about it.”

Despite being a seemingly bad idea, Shiro let Ryou take watch and let himself fall asleep.

To no surprise, he woke up to lots of noise.

Namely a crash.

“What was that?” Alert, he looked around, seeing they were at the hangar on Earth. “Ryou?” The ship was empty, even the cryopod had been moved. The clones seemed to have been lined up outside, though by the way Jack and Yama seemed to be antagonizing each other, that didn’t last long.

“You mind repeating that Peggy?” Jack growled, getting in Yama’s face as Doc tried to pull him away.

“The name’s Yama you damn barbarian!” Yama growled back, much to Odin’s amusement judging by how he shook his head with a smile.

Shiro sighed and hopped out the ship. “I close my eyes for five minutes,” he muttered as he shot a glare at Ryou, who only shrugged in response.

#submission queue #submission #vld #voltron #shirotember #cloneganes #twinganes #shiro #ryou shirogane #jiro #operation kuron #takashi shirogane #fic rec #not mine #writer nonnie writes #okay to reblog

[neko-kaiyo]

Snowgirl (Newsies OC Week 2019 #1)

Ummm, okay so I don’t actually write a whole lot, but yeah anyways, I’m using my OC Yoko, originally she a mistwolf and usually magical, but that does not apply and Kitsune was her sister, they come from a family of assassins who immigrated from Japan to New York, they were called the Hoshi Clan, and they were found out and any and all children or ones who were considered children were thrown into the refuge and treated horribly. Kitsune caught the flu and never recovered, she died in Yoko’s arms. Yoko was released a few days later. So that’s some background. Anyway, enjoy my shitty angst.

(also italics are character thoughts~)

Snowgirl

TW; Near Death, Hypothermia, Cursing(?) Mentioned Death of a Sibling, Someone gets punched in the face (non-graphic), some slightly suicidal thoughts (implied and vaguely said)

Yoko’s first winter since being released from the refuge wasn’t pleasant.

Everything ached, her bones, her head and her heart. Not only would this be her first winter out of the refuge, but this would also be her first winter without her sister, Kitsune. 

She had spent nearly her entire life in the refuge for something her family did, she had nowhere to go since everyone she loved was now in the dirt. Yoko shivered as the bitter wind slashed through her threadbare clothes, she was wandering the streets aimlessly. Eventually, she drifted into an alleyway, seeking shelter from the angry wind biting at her.

Maybe… she thought If I have no one… will it be okay if I go? Yoko looked up to the stars for an answer, finding them half-hidden by the evening light.

Her feet carried her down the alley and back finding the darkness in the shadows all too familiar and entrapping. Her heart was a weight in her chest, hopelessness fogged her soul.

She wandered. And wandered.

And finally… she gave up.

The snow was almost plush but still stiff and sharp under her collapsed body. Yoko knew she most likely was developing hypothermia and must’ve had frostbite on every bit of herself. Well, it was a little more than likely, the tips of her fingers were both white and blue, she figured the rest of her hand and arm was the same. And yet she still couldn’t muster up the determination or will to live. The strength to stand and move. Soon enough the ability to stay awake would be taken from her as well. 

The realization hit her that tonight she may die, but maybe she’d see Kitsune. Right, Stars? I know I came from somewhere bad, but I’ll still be able to see her once more…? The tears slipped past from her eyes, she thought her tear ducts would be too frozen to do that, but warm salty tears trailed down her face and she cried, not for the life she’d be losing but for the unknown. Crying made her tired, despite the creeping frost.

Soon… just a little bit longer before I can sleep...

At least… that’s what she thought.

Once again Jack had to go out and drag Race back into the warmth of the lodging house before he decided to take a hike over to Brooklyn. “It’s poker night!” or “I gotta bet on the races while I still can!” would be the idiot’s excuse, when everyone knew he wanted to see his lover, the one and only king of Brooklyn, Spot Conlon. 

“Racetrack Higgins, you’ve reached a peak of stupidity!” Jack exclaimed, nearly facepalming.

Said blond protested indignantly (even though Jack was somewhat correct). “Me? Noooo.” Race drawled sarcastically, then added in a deadpan. “Besides, wanting to see my boyfriend is stupid?” 

“No, hiking across the bridge from Manhattan to Brooklyn in several feet of snow is.” 

Race nodded slowly to Jack’s point. “Fair enough.”

Just as Jack was about to launch into something that may have been grumbling about the cold (and Race’s idiocy) he paused hearing something.

“Lose brain function?” Race asked. Jack sent him an unamused glare and shushed him.

He could hear labored, uneven breathing and crying. From his experience, that was never good. Jack glanced at Race momentarily before they set off toward the sound.

What they found was, to say the least; Frightening.

A young girl was lying half-buried in the snow, the light fall of snowflakes making piles as she made no move to brush them away. Her wild mess of golden curls was splayed out around her head like a halo framing her icy blue skin. She had the most vivid viridian green eyes that would sparkle in sunlight but were dull behind her fluttering eyelids.

“Dio mio.. (oh my god)” Race breathed, concerned for the snowgirl.

“Jesus, she’s gonna freeze! We’ve gotta get her to the Lodge!” Jack yelled, already pulling off his rather sad excuse for a jacket and scooping the girl into his arms, cradling her close to his chest, hopefully providing some form of heat. He used the jacket to shield her from the wind and onslaught of snow. 

Race ran ahead of Jack to give Mush a heads up that they practically had a human icicle. Meanwhile, the girl had started to murmur incoherently and was teetering on the edge of consciousness, Jack had heard that you needed people like this to stay awake, so he talked to her, telling, almost pleading for her to stay awake. So many kids would freeze to death on the streets, just falling asleep in an alley or on a doorstep and just never waking up again. And this girl wouldn’t be one of those kids if Jack had any say in it.

The minute Jack entered the lodge, girl in his arms, she was placed on a bunk and wrapped with as many blankets as they could spare (Jack was unwillingly trapped in the blanket burrito, but skin to skin contact would help so he dealt with it). Mush rubbed warmth back into the girl’s arms and neck and chest.

Little by little the color returned to the girl, a slight blush filled her cheeks from either the cold or heat and there was no purple in her lips anymore, only a soft pink. But… The girl didn’t wake up that night.

No one knew who she was but Jack and Race and others who had done time in that prison mislabeled “The Refuge”, saw the signs.

A group of newsies had convened in a conversation about “snowgirl” as Race and Romeo had dubbed her since no one knew her name. 

“Maybe she came from the refuge?” Jack wondered aloud.

Racer nodded grimly. “She got the scars for it..”

“That terrible..” Elmer murmured, looking back sadly at snowgirl (the nickname caught on). Crutchie nodded in agreement.

Romeo copied Elmer. “She’s pretty.”

“Romeo!” several of them groaned or chided, slapping him with their caps.

Eventually, they dispersed into their own bunks to settle in for the night. Mush and Jack took the responsibility of checking her throughout the night. There wasn’t much of a change other than a steady rise in her temperature.

Snowgirl was still unconscious by the time the morning bell rang and everyone started their day and got ready to carry the banner. Jack, being the leader and “responsible one” (for the most part) stayed back to look after her in case she woke up.

A few hours of the day passed. Jack came and went to check up on her, and at some point settled at her bedside to draw (Sante Fe and Crutchie). Movement startled him back to the real world and he saw the most vivid shade of green. Viridian.

The waking up and coming too was a bit chaotic, nothing that Jack couldn’t handle (he had no handle on the situation but somehow he made it through with only one punch in the face from a terrified girl).

Thankfully he got her to talk a bit. She told her story in bits and pieces, Jack understood that she’d need time to trust, but he welcomed her to a place where lost people could find a loving home with some minorly crazy brothers and sisters. 

As it turned out snowgirl had a name. Her name was Yoko. She was strange and it took a long time for her to open up, but she grew to love everyone, she was happier than she could ever believe. Some days she wished to meet Kitsune again, but that could wait, she hoped Kitsune wouldn’t mind waiting. Yoko talked to the stars every chance she got, she thanked them for looking after her sister and thanked them for leading her to the newsies. 

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can think of anyone else who would be interested cause it ne my first time doing this so uhhh

@tea-and-theater

#should be asleep #But instead I'm writing this #and posting at the last possible minute #oc #yoko #newsies #writing #my shitty writing #newsies oc week 2019

[summersrxx]

KENN / 月灯りの狂詩曲 (Tsukiakari no Rhapsodia)  lyrics translation  checked and corrected by @kirisame-tl (as usual, thank you very much for your time.) 

REQUESTS ARE OPEN! 

This is the opening song for this season’s anime “Meiji Tokyo Renka”; it’s being adapted from an otome game, and I personally find it very interesting. Especially, it’s always been nice in these years to hear KENN sing for this series. I’m thinking about translating the second track of this cd.  Anyway, I hope you can enjoy this song as much as I do. 

KANJI

ゆらゆらと溶ける 紅い月の宴 唇を寄せた 妖しき音色

迷い子の瞳 傷跡はまだ深く 宵闇の奇術で 消せるだろうか

指でなぞる　ミステリアス こころを繋いだら 惑わせないで　囚われないで 朧に綴った　君は何処へ行く

唄は儚く　狂詩曲の夜 幾つもの描写　重ねたら 「月の灯りで　この恋を染めて」 君の言葉を最後に添えた キネマの続きは きっとひとりきりじゃ演じきれない

だからどうか傍にいてほしい

だけど君はまだ 物憂げな微笑み 薄化粧を纏って 戸惑う少女

ひとかけらの　追想が 水面で揺らめいた 溺れるように　途切れるように まばらな息遣い　ただ感じていた

星が瞬く　叙情な戯曲 すれ違うほどに　惹かれてく 頬を伝って　流れた光が 足りない台詞を滲ませてた 沈黙のままじゃ きっと夜明けなんて見つけられない

だからどうか囁いておくれ

夜空は紅く　想い出は遠く 彼はあの日　恋をしていた 眩暈のあとに　「さよなら」を聞けば モノローグの景色が浮かぶ

唄は儚く　狂詩曲の夜 幾つもの描写　重ねたら 「月の灯りで　この恋を染めて」 君の言葉を最後に添えた キネマの続きは ずっとふたりだけで夢を見よう

二度と君を離しはしない

ROMAJI

yurayura to tokeru akai tsuki no utage kuchibiru wo yoseta ayashiki neiro mayoigo no hitomi kizuato wa mada fukaku yoiyami no kijutsu de keseru darou ka

yubi de nazoru misuteriasu kokoro o tsunaidara madowasenaide torawarenaide oboro ni tsuzutta kimi wa doko e yuku

uta wa hakanaku rhapsodia no yoru ikutsu mo no byōsha kasanetara "tsuki no akari de kono koi o somete" kimi no kotoba wo saigo ni soeta kinema no tsuzuki wa kitto hitori kiri ja enjikirenai dakara dōka soba ni ite hoshii

dakedo kimi wa mada monouge na hohoemi usugeshō wo matotte tomadou shōjo hito kakera no tsuisō ga minamo de yurameita oboreru yōni togireru yōni mabarana ikizukai tada kanjiteita

hoshi ga matataku LYRIC na gikyoku surechigau hodo ni hikareteku hōko tsutatte nagareta hikari ga tarinai serifu wo nijimaseteta chinmoku no mama ja kitto yoake nante mitsukerarenai dakara dōka sasayaite okure

yozora wa akaku omoide wa tōku kare wa ano hi koi wo shiteita memai no ato ni" sayonara" o kikeba monoro-gu no keshiki ga ukabu

uta wa hakanaku rhapsodia no yoru ikutsu mo no byōsha kasanetara " tsuki no akari de kono koi o somete" kimi no kotoba o saigo ni soeta kinema no tsuzuki wa zutto futari dake de yume o miyou nidoto kimi o hanashi wa shinai

ENGLISH

wavering and melting,  at the red moon's banquet  lips are drawn closer with a charming tune

with the eyes of a lost kid, scars are still running deep with twilight's illusion could they be erased?

mysteriously tracing them with your finger once your heart is connected don't be lead astray, don’t get caught words spelled faintly: where are you headed?

the song is fleeting in this night's rhapsody if you go through many descriptions repeatedly, "dye this love with the moonlight" accompanied by your words until the end Surely I can’t perform the kinema’s sequel all on my own

so i want you by my side.

however you're still giving a gloomy smile wearing light make-up a perplexing girl  deceiving

a piece of recollection makes the water's surface waver as if drowning, like breaking off i simply felt my sparse breathing

the stars are twinkling, a play of lyrics just passing by you, i'm​ charmed the light that flowed down your cheek, i let out useless words a silence just like that, surely i can't find that kind of dawn

so please whisper for me.

the night sky is red, memories are distant he fell in love that day in the dizziness, he heard a 'goodbye' the monologue's scenery is floating

the song is fleeting in this night's rhapsody if you go through many descriptions repeatedly, "dye this love with the moonlight" the kinema's sequel is accompanied by your words until the end, eternally, let's see a dream just the two of us

i'm never letting you go again.

#meiji tokyo renka #meikoi #kenn #tsukiakari no rhapsodia #lyrics #kenn lyrics #song translations #mytranslation #otome game #translations #otomegame

[ryouverua]

Trial 6 - Retrial (1)

...... Alright, let’s do this.

Speculation post with theories are here.

It’s so... blue....?

i’m not saying this shade of blue makes me think of anyone in particular but I’M TOTALLY SAYING IT MAKES ME THING OF SOMEONE IN PARTICULAR -

Is that a ‘the results will speak for themselves’ thing or literally ‘someone else will choose’ thing??? We’ve had to deal with ‘an outside force is actually a part of this’ thing, but last time that was a force for good and they were pretty much rendered helpless. What are the chances that’s the same this time...

Probably because he and the mastermind being threatened with exposure are two different entities??? It sounds like he doesn’t have anything on the line this time!

MONOKUMA DO YOU REALLY HATE US THAT MUCH

LMAO

Damn you Monokuma you really can make me laugh sometimes when I’m not ready for it.

“’They’ being ‘me’, in case I didn’t make that clear.”

And then, after setting up for the trial and a long pan around the remaining participants, we land on....

.... one Very Tired Detective.

There’s one pretty glaring reason to have a class trial even if there hasn’t been a murder; someone incredibly significant still left to identify....

.... I-I guess this is the way we’re doing it though! Okay! We’re going to straight-up retry it!

I guess this is as good of a way to do it as any! This all pretty much revolves around the events of that night in the end!

“Incredibly ironic, considering the circumstances.”

lmao I swear I mentioned the Ultimate Mastermind as a joke possibility at one point whoops

I do like how we have Himiko to confirm it for us. Actually, that works out perfectly - we have a classmate almost every step of the way to confirm most of the evidence, except... I guess in the case of the flashback light room, right? Which is, y’know, good, considering we’re probably going to be accusing one of them within the hour... 8′D

And he wanted a second. Most people don’t want to go back in for seconds. Here’s a question though - did he remember the last killing game in the prologue? Is that why he recognized Monokuma? But.... why wasn’t he freaking out at that point? Or maybe that’s just because of his apparent ability to keep calm under pressure...

HE GOT FUCKING PLAYED

This speaks to the hidden trap that’s always existed in Shuichi’s own mind - that he often assumes that anything he can do, such as notice the hidden door, other people can do just as easily. Because ‘if someone like me can do it, who only became the Ultimate Detective by accident, then surely it would be presumptuous to think that no one else could make the same observations as me’. N-Not that I understand those feelings on a personal level or anything.............

Out of pure curiosity, I wonder if he was given the Monopad specifically by Monokuma or if he just woke up with the second one? Or maybe it was left for him in his room? He had to have reviewed it at some point in isolation, because he was clearly shaken up by it. For that matter, when did he see it? Just after we first originally met up in the gym, post-talent acquisition? Or later than that? I wonder if it’s possible to pinpoint before and after him going through the Survivor’s Perk based on his reactions? I do remember he was checking out the library during one of Kaede’s FTEs when we approached him, but I can’t quite remember when that was...

Wait, are you telling me the video itself was on his Survivor’s Perk? I thought it was just in that safe - then why was there a copy of it on a USB in his lab??? Was it to paint him as suspicious if we got that far? A bonus prize for someone if they were able to figure out the clues?? Hell, was it a ‘motive’ to paint a target on Rantaro’s back the same way the flashback light targeted Kokichi in Chapter 5, in case he made it that far? WHY WAS THE DECK SO STACKED AGAINST THIS POOR BASTARD

“He just had an incredibly scary face while coming to that conclusion, so naturally it was very suspicious at the time.”

.... Man, what’s with all these people with our best interests at heart having such terrifying sprites? Rantaro, Kokichi, Gonta, Ryoma, and I’d argue Angie in her own strange way - all of these guys had some of the creepiest reactions in the game. the lesson is it’s the plain cute ones you gotta watch all the pun intended -

don’t be rude Himiko

“If only I’d had the protagonist power at the time - I could have wooed him. I could have wooed him!”

This is pretty damn sad, though. I wonder if there was anyone he was considering reaching out to? There’s at least one person that comes to mind immediately and I 100% guarantee it’s not who you think it would be:

.....

Ready? No, it’s not Kokichi.

It’s Ryoma Hoshi.

No, seriously! Ryoma literally made it clear that he was willing to give up his own life to end the game. He showed the resolve to help someone get out of there in order to rescue the rest of them. Rantaro literally had to argue him down from doing that. I know at that point it was the day of the deadline, but... man. What if Rantaro had come clean with Ryoma about what he knew? Could something have changed?

Behold: Rantaro Amami, the Ultimate Cryptic.

How heavy was this burden on his shoulders...

I know it’s not relevant to the flashback but SHOW HIS SCARY SPRITE YOU COWARDS

RANTARO WE WILL MAKE UP FOR THIS IN THE BONUS SALMON MODE, I SWEAR IT TO YOU RIGHT NOW -

Behold: Rantaro Amami, the Ultimate Sacrifice -

if there aren’t what-if AUs out there about potential scenarios where Rantaro opens up to someone I will riot.

I-I mean, we weren’t going to explicitly say that but -

“.... Patience, Shuichi. Their time will come. And they won’t know what hit them.”

I see you, sneakily trying to sneak that truth and lie theme back into the trial, and I wholeheartedly approve ~

Are you just saying that...? You were there, right? You saw that we found the Survivor’s Perk. You know we found the lab, so why are you not trying to redirect us? Will you try to do that in the debates or -

oH -

SHE DOESN’T KNOW WE FOUND THE HIDDEN PASSAGE FROM THE BATHROOMS

SHE DOESN’T REALIZE WE CAN PIN HER DOWN WITH THIS

LET’S DO IT!!!!!

Well THIS explains why the Monokubs are participating in the trial. 8′D

E N O U G H

We can match it... aaah, we can match it to the picture that shows him holding it! And it wasn’t there with the body, but in the mastermind’s room!!! Man I’m so pumped up!

I love how Shuichi’s shutting down the Monokids lmao - I’ve never seen him act so aggressively in a Rebuttal Showdown before. 8′D

Man that’s a lot of blood to have landed that way, but who am I to argue about blunt trauma blood physics. THE POINT IS WE HAVE PROOF, BABY! CONFIRMED SECOND PERSON IN THE ROOM!

oh right also this happened:

So we’re just gonna lose them one-by-one during the trial, huh? I’m okay with that.

can you let it slip again

pretty sure you’re thinking of Scar and Simba was Mufasa’s cub -

THAT TOO

DO MONOKUMA AND TSUM - THE MASTERMIND HAVE BEEF OR SOMETHING DEAR LORD

“And it’s totally not someone in this room.” awkwardly attempts to not make eye contact with a certain plain girl -

In those brief few precious seconds...

Cutting all the fluff out, but all you need to know is that all the Monokubs are absolutely useless and don’t know anything except for Monodam because of course.

T... The interval timers. We’ve talked about this already. It was a big thing in the last trial - literally why Shuichi was suspected for a while, and how it got narrowed down to her and Kaede.

It’s always her. It’s always her.

TSUMUGI IS LITERALLY ‘CASUALLY’ TEAMING WITH MONODAM TO DISPROVE SHUICHI I CANNOT BELIEVE HOW BALLSY SHE’S GETTING

Didn’t the mastermind have the advantage of Rantaro triggering the camera both times and setting the ‘30 second’ clock between intervals? Just sayin’ ~

I’m so glad and not surprised that K1-b0 is the one remembering Miu’s contribution. look I have room for kiiruma in my heart too okay

with that said I love the ‘so done’ look he has while he’s next to her in this picture

30 seconds sounds like a short amount of time, and it is. but it can also be surprisingly long. She would have to be quick and deliberate... but she could do it. Dart out, grab it and go. And she’d probably be watching the live feed so she would know exactly when to do it! Between the flash and the ball dropping on him, she has two cues to work with!

I see you too debate online.

this is the ‘take a minute to appreciate the text and graphic design’ minute, don’t mind me - I just really l ike how they have such different styles denoting who’s speaking. Man I can’t get over how well designed it is.

....

Wait, we really have to bring up the idea that they have surveillance cameras? When one of the biggest sticking points of the last trial was that Monokuma didn’t know who the victim was because Kokichi interfered? YOU THOUGHT WE WOULD GET THROWN OFF BY THAT POINT -

This is K1-b0′s big win, so I’m glad he’s the one sassing them and presenting the sixth cub ~

this better be the last damn time we ever agree on anything EVER

I mean, I guess we had to clarify that for the sake of being able to move on but... eh.

OH

Though! Though it does help us confirm that the mastermind had to have been in the room and not one of the people who were known to be downstairs, so that is good! I mean, we honestly pretty much knew that already, but it definitely doesn’t hurt. Gotta tighten that trap after all!

I DUNNO TSUMUGI, WHY WOULD THEY?

“The mastermind is a punk bitch -”

“O-Okay, we plain get it, that’s enough -”

“No. No, I think I need to elaborate on what a scaredy-cat coward the mastermind is -”

LMAO HE’S REALLY INTERRUPTING SWEETCHEEKS ON THIS

..... What a weird point to be hung up on. And the way you’re talking, like you are the mastermind rather than an independent AI, is definitely different than before.

i-i mean look what just happened with kokichi and maki but okay, yeah, we’d totally work together and not have a random student try to make a stand on their own or, hell, have a flashback light designed to instigate chaos and confusion -

Yes............. but. Uh, I’m going to bring this to the point below actually - *

HA

okay blow up a Monokub now

....

damn it

Oh damn, I didn’t think that rule would ever actually come up in a trial. Cool.

LA LA LA LA I CAN’T HEAR YOU -

YOU LITERALLY SET HIM UP YOURSELF!!!

.... Or, the mastermind did. One of you did. I don’t know - I know in my head that I should probably be treating them as one and the same - but they just feel like different entities to me. And if I’m going to humour that idea, that means there is the very real question of ‘who decided to set him up with that message’, ‘who decided they had to steal the Survivor’s Perk back’ and for that matter, ‘were these decisions made independently of each other or was the idea to take back the Perk back conceived the moment the Perk itself was created?’

* To pick up where I left off earlier -

It sounds like discrediting the idea of the mastermind would all be much more important to said mastermind moreso than Monokuma... right? Because Monokuma seems convinced that everything will be fine (the game will continue) even if they find the mastermind, right...??? So I don’t know if the reason was to keep the killing game going, because she clearly showed she is able to create a motive even when the students are banded together against a single person, and she can even misdirect them - I think it’s more to protect herself, because she never wanted that to happen in the first place. Iunno. It just feels a bit different to me than how Shuichi put it.

Oh....?

B-BUT, LIKE, WE CAN STILL FIGURE OUT WHO IT IS FROM THAT... >:( let me accuse my cosplay girlfriend you monojerk

So, erm. Right.

At this point, if you weren’t seeing my little spur-of-the-moment text reactions, you wouldn’t know that I did a double-take when I saw this happen live. Because, well... I’d figured out the whodunnit, the whydunnit, the when, the how - but apparently I’d managed to miss the fact that there was a ‘what’ to resolve. So I figured out the culprit.... but didn’t realize that we weren’t just investigating a theft, but the actual murder again.

With that in mind -

[funky murder mystery jazz music stops]

IT’S    A    W H A T ? ! ? ! ? !

TSUMU - I-I MEAN -

MISS MASTERMIND, WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU DONE?!?!

#Ryou plays drv3 #Shuichi Saihara #Tsumugi Shirogane #Maki Harukawa #Himiko Yumeno #spoilers #drv3 spoilers #Monokuma #Kiibo #Keebo #K1-b0

[schnees]

NDRV3 as Major Arcana

Looooonngggg post.

I’m no Card Interpretation Pro(tm) (and some choices are just ‘hmm who’s left’) so this isn’t perfect but I will try.

Idea is from @dangan-kin-aid (bless you)

Cards that may contain spoilers will be bolded. Certain spoiler-y phrases in such descriptions will be in italics.

The Fool - Kaito Momota: One is tempted to make the protagonist The Fool, what fools they are (also v3 protags aren’t your average protags). Kaito has the natural free-spirit of The Fool, and tries his best to look up and on the brighter side of things. He often tries to be the ‘hero’ that fights through any trouble. He’s also kinda an airhead.

The Magician - Himiko Yumeno

Aside from the obvious, this fits very well. While The Magician does show the power of ‘magic’, they also show willpower. Following chapter 3, Himiko goes through great strides on her own to change. She wants to let the lessons she was taught by her friends live on, even if they are dead.

The High Priestess - Angie Yonaga

The High Priestess is known for her connection to the unconscious. What better description for her connection to ‘Atua’. She is seen many times trying to open up the eyes of others to what she knows that they do not.

The Empress - Kirumi Tojo

The Empress is the Mom Card(tm). She provides to other with kindness and sincerity. A very fitting description for the selfless maid that is Kirumi.

The Emperor - Monokuma

The Emperor is not only seen as the fatherly figure (such as Monokuma is to the Monocubs), he also exercises authority and wisdom from his many years. V3 isn’t Monokuma’s first rodeo (rodeo meaning killing game), and we know he has no hesitation in exercising his authority and enforcing the rules onto others.

The Hierophant - Monodam

This card is known for sticking to tradition, and keeping others in this check. Monodam’s whole gimmick is to ‘LET-EVER-GET-ALONG’ and will punish those who fight with each other. So that’s what influenced this choice.

The Lovers - Monophanie

Despite Monodam’s best efforts, Monophanie is the most loved and approachable of the cubs. She alone carries many of the attributes of The Lovers.

The Chariot - Iruma Miu

The Chariot is very in-control of their life and I mean that in a bold and powerful way. Iruma does not take any modesty in talking about her talent and accomplishments and is very direct in that she thinks.

Strength - Tenko Chabashira

Yes, Tenko is very strong with her Neo-Aikido, but that talent is not only sheer force. By using her skills she can feel the troubles of others and help them (even if she isn’t an advice pro). She is very dedicated to her work and when facing danger, while she is scared, she is fully willing to use herself to protect others.

The Hermit - Kiibo

This is going to go right into spoilers. The Hermit is known for their isolation, but that it not the end of their tale. After reflecting in solitude, they emerge with an ultimate truth that could only be found after blocking out the demands of outer forces. This is literally chapter 6 wtf.

The Wheel of Fortune - Monosuke

Monosuke was indeed very focused on money and power, however The Wheel of Fortune tells that there are things outside of our control that govern us. This rings true to Monosuke’s fate.

Justice - Korekiyo Shinguuji

The card of cause and effect, Justice. Truly after Kiyo’s supposed near 100-killing-spree, what card determines his fate more?

Hanged Man - Kaede Akamatsu

I know what you’re going to say. Dark humor aside, The Hanged Man, while hung, seems at peace with their self and the world. It is the card of a martyr. Kaede’s sacrifice and the significance of it is a recurring topic throughout the whole game, and is used as a motivating force so that her life was not wasted on despair, but rather opened a door to hope.

Death - Harukawa Maki

Himiko was also a close choice for this. The Death card shows the end of a cycle, a new beginning, only brought about by a great loss. Maki losing Kaito was a big moment for her, and soon afterwards she is set out into an unfamiliar world. With such a big scar on her soul, she heads out into the new world with hope in her heart.

Temperance - Monotaro

The Temperance card symbolizes balance and a middle path. I gave Monotaro this one because he is the solid middle ground among the Monocubs. He is playful but not foolish like Monokid and Monosuke. He is also not overcome with emotions like Monopanie and Monodam. He is a solid center.

The Devil - Monokid

Ouma was a close choice for this due to his playfulness (but then I’d have no card for Monokid). The Devil is very tied to human desire and materialism. He is destructive and plays around. Very fitting for a misfit like Monokid.

The Tower - Tsumugi Shirogane

Spoilers beware. The Tower is marked by pride, and it suddenly comes crumbling down. With the fall of the tower, we learn about out faults. To have Danganronpa destroyed before her eyes in a perfect parallel to this. Know that after the tower falls, it is rebuilt with greater insight.

The Star - Shuichi Saihara

The Hope Card(tm). The Star is what is seen after the tower falls. It is an opportunity, a possibility, at a brighter future. The Star shows hope not only in itself, but in the world around it. Pretty solid to what Shuichi was saying before he headed out with the survivors.

The Moon - Hoshi Ryoma

The Moon brings with it the dark, and many times we fall into darkness when clouded by negative illusions. Ryoma fell victim to the illusion that no one cared about him and that he was truly alone, but his death was mourned by many of his fellow classmates, meaning that his existence did leave a mark on the hearts of others.

The Sun - Gonta Gokuhara

The Sun symbolizes success, but not your ordinary accomplishment. The Sun is the success of the conscious mind by learning through the unconscious. In chapter 4 when Gonta felt what he was doing was right because of ‘The Truth of the Outside World’ he was happy and sure that it would help everyone.

Judgement - Rantaro Amami

Judgement symbolizes reflection, looking at your past self and awaken from within. When Rantaro is reminded of his relation to killing games past, he becomes a participant different from his peers. He cannot forget what he once knew and has to blend in with those that did not experience what he has gone through.

The World - Kokichi Ouma

He was the only one I had left but it works? The World symbolizes completion, accomplishment, harmony. Kokichi’s plan to stop the mastermind was cunning, tactful, and almost perfect. The accomplishment must come from both inside and outside forces, so not only did Kokichi have to be willing to die, he also needed somebody to carry out the rest of his plan. While his plan did not end the killing game, there were no more murders insinuated by the mastermind following Kokichi and Kaito’s acts in chapter 5.

Bonus: Pentacles=monocoins, Swords=spears, Wands=Usami’s wands, Cups=Hinata’s glasses of oj

If you actually read all this: wow omg thank you I haven’t typed this much in ages.

#ndrv3 #long post