jafar raised jay to be slippery and selfish but jay knew there was strength in numbers and decided to trust and love and hope despite everything else. and he protects these people that he finds, the only things his father can’t take from him, his own treasure he guards like the lion’s head at the cave of wonders.
he’s the last one out, there to watch their backs, as close to them all as their own shadows. he’s their third eye, always hyper-vigilant, always on the look out. he knows when to start a fight, and when it’s best to leave it alone. it’s nearly always best to leave it alone. he wrangles them all back in, keeping them safe so they don’t have to worry about injuries or repercussions or consequences. his job is to keep them safe, and keep them alive.
and yet, in auradon, with no brawls or street fights or leering parents or turf wars or rivals or enemies, what is there to protect them from? passive aggressive comments? pastels? afternoon tea? what is a guard dog with nothing to guard? jay has built his entire life, his entire self, around servitude. if it’s not his father, it’s his gang, always the helping hand and the shoulder to cry on (metaphorically, of course) and the reassuring presence. without any of that, he is nothing.
he is the thief that gives. the boy desperate to hold on to his only sense of purpose. it’s all he knows: give enough away and they might let you stick around. chameleonic, knowing exactly who to be where and when. the charmer, the heartthrob, the villain, the protector, the liar, the snake, the attacker. anything you need. he can be anything at all, as effortless as breathing.
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OK, I finally finished The Devil Judge. I already had an ao3 tab open and waiting. I clicked over to it and ... 10? Just 10 fics out of 1,135 are bottom Kang Yo Han? I rarely give a fuck who penetrates who in M/M fics but am I seriously in this kind of a tiny minority when it comes to Kang Yo Han getting railed by the guy with his beloved older brother's face? The older brother he was absolutely obsessed with? It's just me and (counts on fingers) 7 other people who think he wants to hear Kim Ga On whisper in his ear while he's facedownassup "it's ok to call me hyung"????????
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Haruno Sakura & Sasori; Haruno Sakura/Sasori (can be read either way), Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto, Sai, Yamanaka Ino, Hatake Kakashi, Kankurou
blank period | canon divergent | ongoing
It is two years after the Fourth Shinobi War and the world is finally settling down. Sakura’s life has also fallen into a steady routine of hospital shifts and increasing responsibilities, with a stability she hasn’t been afforded since her early genin days.
She should have known better than to think it would last.
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i feel like it's been a hot minute since i've done a proper drawing for nina and it just. turned into her drinking boba for some reason.
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Requests? Are open?
A Pearl of any kind please!
she's so important to me. dl! pearl you will always be famous <3
(requests are open)
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Actually you know what
It's not worth the time or energy to bitch, and I don't need that to sit on my dash and ruin my mood
Last thing I'll actually say is this community can be really nasty and rude despite claiming to want to be open and nice, and it makes me sad because I used to have fun here and now it's just...not.
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give me the strength to go grocery shopping and fold laundry
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Maining Alarion during this expasion has been fascinating, because the more I play and experience the content and the stories through his eyes, the more I realize how incredibly out of place he feels.
Alarion left Outland as a barely adult drake after a series of traumatic events that definitely left lasting marks. In Azeroth, Alarion threw himself at every chance he had to explore and adventure and just not think about what he went through - that meant he's spent much if not all of the past years among mortals, in a mortal body. Something about him that's always been true and that I find fascinating is that he can’t quite blend in with mortals, but there's been many times where he just... forgot he was a dragon.
Now on the Dragon isles, there's no forgetting, and there's no way around it. Alarion is a dragon, surrounded by dragons much older and much more experienced in being a dragon than him, that, unintentionally, remind him of how alien he is compared to both dragons and mortals.
And I'm starting to think that Alarion really... doesn't know what to do with himself here. He feels out of place. He's constantly being reminded that he's different, that's he's alien, that he's the result of a magical mishap, a footnote in the history of the Black Dragonflight. The Netherwing aren't even one of Deathwing's many intentional experiments with dragons, they're an accident; an accidental flight left to fend for themselves on a broken world, and seemingly forgotten.
In conclusion Alarion is very anti social when it comes to other dragons and he's straight up not having a good time rn
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