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isa-ghost · 23 days

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do u have death family headcanons....

NO FUCKING MAMES I HAD 14 OUT OF 15 DONE FOR THIS ASK AND THEN TUMBLR YEETED THEM. I'M GONNA SCREAM AND COMMIT MURDER, IDR THEM ALL. FUCK.

ANYWAY YOU BET YOUR GAY ASS I HAVE DEATH FAMILY HCS.

qPhil headcanons masterlist

Family walks, Chayanne on Phil's shoulders and Tallulah on Missa's. Or they do that thing where there's one kid between them and they take either hand and lift/swing them together.

Family gardening. Missa using his reaper scythe to harvest things, Chayanne and Tallulah replanting seeds, Phil going full crow brain and hoarding all the harvested crops in crates.

The kids are Phil & Missa's biggest wingmen. Tallulah will lead them somewhere and then be like "Oh. Oh nooo, oh noooo my asthmaaaa" and teleport away. And then suddenly there's Chayanne with a table for 2 and an entire kitchen setup with a dinner in progress.

They'll plot "relaxation" days for Phil and Missa too. It's a toss-up if either of them actually relax though. Missa's better at it than Phil at least.

No one cheered harder about the prison kisses than Chayanne and Tallulah. They wish their dads a very "do it again. Often."

Phil and Missa are constantly conspiring together about cool things to do with/for the kids. Even when they're away from each other they'll write books leaving the other a message like "shhh don't tell the kids :)"

They'll also plan days Just for one of the kids where whatever the family does is centered around their interests. It's nice for them, because although they have mutual interests and are more than willing to do whatever the other wants, they still have unique interests and it can naturally get tiring being a package deal. Especially when so many of the other eggs are only children and get doted on by their parents with undivided attention

They get separation sadness a lot bc reaper duties and Phil's extremely deep sleep/vivid dreams keep them apart so often, but their little system of leaving gifts (Missa his paintings, Phil misc trinkets) for each other works. It's not as good as a hug or quality time though :(

Everyone's passing each other's accents to one another. Missa finds himself slipping up saying "bewk" (book) or some shit, meanwhile Phil keeps saying stuff with a Spanish accent because of Missa and Tallulah and everyone keeps adopting German words into their vocabulary because of Chayanne.

Phil and Missa are both good at pvp, they love sparring with each other and teaching the kids. Chayanne is way more into it than Tallulah, but Tallulah loves to learn regardless, and she loves hearing Phil infodump about strategy and timing and whatnot.

Missa and the kids will team up and get Phil on one of his Philzaing rants. They'll be like "what do you MEAN you couldn't physically carry all three of us on a flight? :(" and there Phil goes, raving about how weight matters with flying and safety and blah blah blah. And he KNOWS they're getting a rise out of him most of the time. Yet he falls for it every time.

One day,, one day we'll get a 4/4 family build project,,, They want to do it do bad,, So far it's just been 3/4 make it and the 4th is delighted to be shown it by the kids whenever they're around again.

Phil and the kids have started half-purposely obtaining as many birds as they have bc it's funny to see Missa come back from reaper duties to MORE birds that he just has to accept live there now.

The kids love Phil's crow murder to death (pun intended) and are used to interacting with them. Missa not so much. Which has made for countless funny moments. He's still bewildered that they're so attuned to throwing something shiny at him and then aggressively cawing. He doesn't understand them like Phil can.

Something something the four of them having a seance together where Tallulah taps into her medium abilities to communicate with Kristin bc Goddess of Death is part of the Death Family. She loves to tease Missa (usually about Phil) and she ADORES the kids.

#qsmp #qsmp philza #philza #q!philza #qsmp missa #q!missa #qsmp tallulah #qsmp chayanne #qphil headcanons #qsmp death family #deathduo #qsmp deathduo #qsmp pissa #pissa

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laura1633 · 21 days

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LMAO GP being max's wingman is so funny and so real...imagine him and Andrea conspiring hahaha

ALSO i could totally imagine max and charles considering talking to rupert about getting carlos involved in one of their adventures...and ofc carlos can't say no to rupert lol

I love some Lestappen wingmen 😂

When you say getting Carlos involved.. do you mean involved involved because I can imagine Rupert's face when Max asks if he can have a quiet word with Carlos and sort things out!

Or perhaps Rupert decided to have a little change of scenery and came to work with Max because he was a little exhausted at playing go-between between Lando and Carlos. One day into his role with Max and he realises he's stumbled into something far worse - being go-between for a lovesick Max and Charles who are too afraid to talk to each other 😂

#Laura1633 asks #Rupert the wingman

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priorysociety · 3 years

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This is my husband Eros. He is my best friend & a very good wingman in the lifestyle. He always has my best interests in mind as we sort & screen couples for potential meet ups. He's a good sport when it comes to participating in group texts or group chats with couples. If you are a couple you need to be good wingmen to each other. The lifestyle gets very fun when you are BOTH conspire to make your experiences the BEST for each other. You'll never "take one for the team!" That's because it is the greatest honor to make sure that your partner always has an amazing time in every scenario. Be more flexible. Accept dates. Meet more couples and singles for drinks. Always have your spouse's best interests in mind ❤ ��️ My name is Isis & my husband is Eros, we're a married couple from Los Angeles. We host a podcast about our adventures in the swinging lifestyle. Our show is called "The Priory Society" & the link is in our bio. If you're curious about open relationships, come take a listen. . . . #Podcasters #SwingerPodcast #OpenMarriage #Polyamory #Poly #YoungSwingers #RedWine #NonMonogamy #PodcastersOfInstagram #VegasVIP #UpsidedownPineapple #SwingersPodcast (at Gallagher's Steakhouse) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUs5bDSvtkB/?utm_medium=tumblr

#podcasters #swingerpodcast #openmarriage #polyamory #poly #youngswingers #redwine #nonmonogamy #podcastersofinstagram #vegasvip #upsidedownpineapple #swingerspodcast

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fallinforaguyfelldownfromthesky · 5 years

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I like to imagine that when (that's a threat) flug and tesoro become friends flug talks about black hat alot. Just casual stuff like mentioning him or if they did something or whatever, but also saying things like he wants to hold his hand but thinks it's weird. So tesoro eventually interacts with demetra while waiting on flug and spills some beans about how filled with love he is, and dem spills about BH and they both immediately become wingmen for them. Probably wont happen but a gay can dream

Oh God the two of them conspiring to make sure this fake dating plot ends with them falling in love. They wouldn't stand a chance.

#fallinforaguyfelldownfromthesky #black hat org. (trademark pending)#tesoro reyes #my oc #Demetra/mencia #fanfiction #paperhat #villainous

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sir-adamus · 6 years

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Concept: Ilia is used to gay pining so she’s going to recognize how Yang and Blake look at each other

Ilia just takes a look at how Yang is looking at Blake and is like “oh. you too, huh?” and outright has to point out to Blake that she’s looking at Yang the same way she used to look at Adam

then she and Weiss conspire together to get them to work things out as the Ultimate Wingmen and end up falling for each other a little bit in the process

#RWBY #RWBY spoilers #sorta #Bumbleby #Prismatic Ponytails #Ilia Amitola #Yang Xiao Long #Blake Belladonna #Weiss Schnee #like a lil bit

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ao3feed-ateez · 4 years

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by soecrates

In a sudden spur of events, Hongjoong finds himself in Seonghwa's car, wet and confused, and expecting to be paid to produce him a song. In the process, Hongjoong does not, in fact, get paid, and instead gets a crush and enough awkwardness to last him a decade.

Seonghwa just wanted to have dinner. Hongjoong just needed a ride. But things happened, and here they were.

(Featuring Song Mingi and Jung Wooyoung as conspirators-slash-wingmen.)

Words: 12636, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: ATEEZ (Band), K-pop

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Kim Hongjoong, Park Seonghwa, Jung Wooyoung, Choi San, Song Mingi, Kang Yeosang, Jeong Yunho, Choi Jongho

Relationships: Kim Hongjoong/Park Seonghwa, Choi San/Jung Wooyoung

Additional Tags: Strangers to Lovers, Shy Park Seonghwa, Awkward Conversations, Awkward Kim Hongjoong, Kim Hongjoong has a crush, Seonghwa too but they're both dumb, Oblivious Kim Hongjoong, producer kim hongjoong, Med Student Park Seonghwa, Minor Choi San/Jung Wooyoung, Song Mingi and Jeong Yunho are Best Friends, I'll update tags as I go, Wooyoung plotted against Seonghwa, Seonghwa sings at cafes, Meet-Cute, ??? - Freeform, kind of, I'm Bad At Tagging, Just read, It's good I promise, Not Beta Read, We Die Like Men

#ateez #ao3feed #Kpop rpf

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dpinoycosmonaut · 4 years

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THE BUBBLE FINALS: AN UNLIKELY MATCHUP

by Reuel Hermoso / 02 October 2020

Two of the best all-around swingmen in the game - Heat star Jimmy Butler and Laker legend LeBron James - square off for all the marbles. (Photo from slamonline.com)

The smoke has cleared from both the Eastern and Western Conferences, and expectedly, the Los Angeles Lakers cinched their conference finals and the first NBA finals berth. But in the Eastern Conference, an unlikely winner emerged – the Miami Heat, who just defeated the fancied Boston Celtics.

Eric Spoelstra’s troops are now marching on to the NBA finals, that glorious Nirvana that they have not been to since 2014 when they had current Lakers superstar LeBron James. They lost that series to the San Antonio Spurs, winning just a game (to the Spurs’ four) in the seven-game series, and James returned to his homestate and its team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, the following year, and even conspired with celebrated backcourt wizard Kyrie Irving to give Cleveland its first NBA championship in 2016. The Heat last won the NBA crown in 2013. That makes for a really hungry team longing to feast on a championship glory.

But if a seven-year fast looks bad, the Lakers are in a worse famine, last appearing – and winning – the NBA finals in 2010, when the late great Kobe Bryant was still their unquestioned leader. Acquiring James’s services after he left the Cavs was a watershed event for the Lakers in their quest to finally end that 10-year title drought. And signing up the highly-prized former New Orleans Pelicans power forward-center Anthony Davis was the last key to unlock the display chest holding the Larry O’Brien trophy for the Lakers to finally take home.

Getting other pieces like former Houston Rockets big man Dwight Howard and young gunners Kentavius Caldwell-Pope and Alex Caruso to pace the backcourt, as well as versatile wingmen like the young Kyle Kuzma and the more experienced Markieff Morris to beef up the frontline, helped to complete this powerful Laker roster. Coach Frank Vogel, acquired just last year, has done some pretty admirable work in that short period, piloting the Lakers to a 52-19 win-loss card in just his first season – the best record in the Western Conference and the third-best in the entire league. This is a team that was put together precisely to restore the Lakers’ lost glory, and with this ticket to the Big Dance, they’re just four wins away from accomplishing that.

The Heat, however, are looking to spoil the Lakers’ date with destiny, believing that they have their own destiny to meet – and have proven they will not be denied that other finals slot. The face of the Heat today, Jimmy Butler, is himself a story that mirrors the struggles of his team to get back its own former glory. Thrown out of the house by his mother at the age of 13, Butler spent the following year hopping from house to house, living with friends who would take him in for a day, a week, or more if he was lucky. Finally, a friend’s family decided to adopt him.

They sent him to school, and later saw him off to college to fulfill his dreams of playing varsity basketball. Initially, he played for Tyler College in his home state of Texas, and was later offered an academic scholarship at Marquette, a perennial March Madness contender in the US NCAA, for which former Heat superstar Dwyane Wade also played. In his junior year, Butler helped the Golden Eagles to an 11-7 win-loss card that season in the NCAA’s Big East Conference and a fifth consecutive March Madness appearance.

In the NBA, Butler became a journeyman of sorts, suiting up for the Chicago Bulls, which drafted him in 2011. Although he played well in his long stint with the Bulls – at one point breaking Michael Jordan’s team record for most points in a half in a game they won against the Toronto Raptors on January 3, 2016 –Butler was plagued by injuries. In 2017, he was traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves, and the following year he was again traded to the Philadelphia 76ers. Finally, in a sign-and-trade deal, the guy famously known as “Jimmy Buckets” “moved (his) talent to South Beach,” in the famous words of James himself when he first left the Cavs in 2010 to join the Heat.

With all this moving and seeming lack of rootedness even from his early adolescence, any lesser man would probably have called it quits. Certainly not Butler though. He couldn’t care less how people felt about him, whether they felt pity on him or hated his guts. As sportswriter Garth Johnson put it in fansided.com: “A lot of guys in the league view basketball as a way to a lifestyle. Jimmy Butler viewed basketball as a way to a life. On his own since 13 in a small Texas town outside Houston, Butler had more to worry about than rubbing some people the wrong way.” Read more about it in https://fansided.com/2020/02/29/jimmy-butler-heat-sledgehammer-greatness/.

To cut to the chase, this Heat squad today is now Butler’s team – his and his alone. Sure, he had his chances to carve out a leadership position with the Bulls, but that wasn’t meant to be. He wasn’t exactly welcomed in Minnesota, and some like Johnson even think Butler broke the Timberwolves apart during his stint there. But even then, as Johnson observes, “in his one season there they made their first playoff appearance in 14 years.” The Timberwolves even had their first winning season in 13 years and had a win-loss card of 38-24 with Butler while going 9-11 without him. They even fell from third in the West when he hurt his knee, to eighth going into the playoffs.

“You don’t have to be a stat geek to see how they are (now) faring without him,” Johnson argues.

More importantly, though, it’s what the Heat braintrust decided to do to get those other pieces they needed to put together a team that’s primed to surprise the NBA by achieving what it has in so short a time. Butler is their crowning recruitment achievement in the offseason, but consider as well coach Spo’s starting five to give you an idea of this team’s ability to continue perplexing the league and its fans.

As civil engineer and casual basketball pundit Ramby Nolido observed, they first cornered Kentucky Wildcat sniper Tyler Herro – who now comes off the bench as a deadly sixth man – ahead of their Eastern Conference finals opponents, the Celtics, who were hoping the Heat would overlook him before making Herro the 13th overall draft pick, depriving the Celtics of a chance to get him in the next draft slot at 14th. Then they acquired former Golden State Warriors small forward Andre Iguodala and two former Celtics – Jae Crowder and Kelly Olynyk – with Crowder playing with an ax to grind against his former team in the just-concluded Eastern Conference finals. Heat management then brought up deadshot Duncan Robinson from their G-League team to light things up from rainbow country.

“That’s four steps in the season that they got things right,” says Nolido. And from their previous roster, they kept Bam Adebayo and Goran Dragic, a deadly frontline-backcourt tandem on both ends of the floor.

The question thus inevitably surfaces: Who will win the NBA title – the first held in a “bubble” in its long history? Who will get to take the Larry O’Brien trophy out of the bubble?

Clearly, the advantage is in LA’s favor. The combined firepower alone of James and Davis in the 2019-20 season is a whopping 51.5 points per game on the average. The supporting cast is just as potent, with inside-outside threats Kuzma and Caruso combining with Davis, who has decent three-point shooting numbers and can take the ball inside with his vaunted size and athleticism. Caldwell-Pope is also another recognized perimeter threat, but is a solid slasher as well. Morris, JaVale McGee, and even Howard are also known to be able to hit it from the perimeter, although that isn’t their strong suit.

What is their strong suit – and that of the rest of the Lakers – is their astounding inside scoring and, on the defensive end, their protection of the shaded lane. Indeed, LA has dominated the paint throughout much of the season, and obviously the Lakers will continue to use their size and length to their fullest advantage. Because despite the timely three-point bombs that guys like Kuzma, Caruso, Caldwell-Pope, and even the superstars James and Davis have unleashed with deadly accuracy during the playoffs, the Lakers are not exactly an outside scoring juggernaut, averaging just 34.9 percent from trifecta range (averaging home and road three-point shooting percentages prior to the lockdown, according to https://www.nba.com/lakers/stats/team). In the bubble, that percentage has dropped even lower to 30.6 percent in July and 30.2 percent in August.

Source: https://www.nba.com/article/2020/09/28/2020-playoffs-numbers-preview-lakers-heat-finals

In contrast, the Lakers own the low post. They are monsters in the restricted area, scoring a gargantuan 88 points underneath the basket compared to the Heat’s 74. Here’s the thing though – elsewhere in the paint, Miami outscores LA but not by much. Total points in the shaded area will expectedly go the way of the Lakers. This accounts for many of their wins, since inside points are higher-percentage shots compared to perimeter attempts.

Still, the numbers for outside points seem to be going the way of the Lakers. Total mid-rangers and three-balls have them up 26 points over the Heat. But where the boys from South Beach have the upper hand scoring-wise is from the free-throw line. There, they outscore the Hollywood boys by a whopping 18 markers. They also run the break better, beating LA in transition by nine points – both crucial advantages in the clutch. Where the Lakers are better off with the game on the line is in second-chance points, where they lord it over the Heat by 20 points.

Indeed, offense and offensive efficiency will spell the difference for both teams, despite their respective claims to being defensive juggernauts. As John Schuhmann of nba.com wrote: “Both teams have had success on both ends of the floor, but offense was the story in the conference finals. The Lakers and Denver Nuggets combined to score 115.3 points per 100 possessions, while the Heat and Boston Celtics combined to score 114.1. Those were the third- and fourth-most efficient series of the 14 we've seen thus far.”

We should thus expect that offense will remain the most compelling reason for their respective coaching staffs to continue as that is what has brought them both this far.

Or is it? Perhaps both teams will be wise to revisit their defensive narrative and give it more of the importance it truly deserves. As University of Alabama legendary football coach Bear Bryant (no relation to Kobe) famously said (and which Ateneo sniper Jai Reyes repeated after his Blue Eagles successfully wrested the UAAP men’s basketball title from the La Salle Green Archers in 2008): “Offense wins games, but defense wins championships!”

The team with the better defensive strategy will take the series – and the championship. As Schuhmann of nba.com correctly observes: “To win their 17th championship, the Lakers will have to keep up with the Heat's ball and player movement. To win their fourth, the Heat will have to protect the rim. In both cases, it's much easier said than done.” (As an aside, as a Celtics fan, I just want to say that this is one reason why I’m rooting for the Heat; it’s not just because of our natural aversion to the Purple-and-Gold but also because Boston diehards want to keep that record of most number of NBA titles ever. Touché!)

Each game, each quarter, maybe even each possession, will boil down to how the individual and roster matchups will fare between these two protagonists. Key here will be the substitution patterns of Messrs. Vogel and Spoelstra, and how they can effectively use the chess pieces they each have.

Coach Vogel has largely stuck with his starting five of James as point forward, Davis at the forward spot, Caldwell-Pope as swingman, JaVale McGee at center, and Danny Green as shooting guard, while coach Spo has from time to time experimented in his backcourt lineup, but with schoolboy charm Duncan Robinson and Dragic in the perimeter, Adebayo at center, and Butler and Dragic in the wings as the mainstays. He has a potent bench, with boy wonder Herro as his sixth man and Crowder at the forward spots (the latter’s versatility allows him to play both the small and power positions), with both players having reliable deep-three shots that can spread the Laker defense to its limits. It is a fast lineup, well, at least faster than that of the Lakers, and should leverage on that speed to run the floor before the Lakers’ transition defense can react.

What’s also interesting and has been fun to watch thus far is the Butler-Adebayo tandem. Schuhmann at nba.com notes that, when the two are on the floor together, the Heat outscore their opponents by 10.6 points more per 100 possessions. But they’ve been outscored by their opponents by 3.0 points per 100 possessions in 103 minutes with just Adebayo without Butler on the floor, and by 14.4 points per 100 possessions in 99 minutes of play with just Butler without Adebayo. It would seem that, if coach Spo had to keep either one on the bench longer, it would have to be Butler.

Indeed, as Schuhmann demonstrates, “the Heat have scored 16.9 more points per 100 possessions with Bam Adebayo on the floor (116.1) than they have with him off the floor (99.2). That's the fourth-biggest on-off offense rating differential among 73 players who've played at least 200 total minutes in the postseason.”

Adebayo clearly has proven himself to have a greater impact on the game for the Heat, and the last game against Boston in the Eastern Conference finals showed the value he brings to the table. Though a center, Adebayo moves like a power forward with the way he screens and passes (especially his interior passing), and even his turnaround jumper in the key is cash. And that's how he could wreak havoc on the Lakers' post defenders like Howard and McGee – maybe even Davis as a rim defender.

On the offensive end, those guys may also have fits trying to score against him in the post, Adebayo being the most athletic big on the Heat roster, with more than ample length and heft. Of course, we can’t forget Iguodala, who brings with him championship experience from Golden State, having been with the Warriors in all their three NBA championships thus far in the 21st century (2015, 2017 and 2018). It will be remembered that in the 2015 title series, Iguodala fashioned a defensive masterpiece on James, limiting the latter to 38.1 percent field-goal shooting compared to 44 percent when Iguodala was on the bench. Both Iguodala and James are in their mid-30s, and have had their fair share of NBA glory. For sure, James will look at settling an old score, while Iguodala will look at putting the cuffs on The King once again via his tried-and-tested lockdown D that made James bleed for every point, giving the Warriors a superior 3-1 finals win-loss card in all their NBA finals showdowns that only saw a failure in 2016.

So who will be the Bubble Champions of the NBA? The numbers coming out of the Las Vegas bookies give the clear advantage to the Lakers, if only for the James-Davis pairing. But as many hoops pundits have seen through decades of watching this game, stranger things have happened in basketball. Just last August, the Milwaukee Bucks were the indubitable favorite to win the NBA crown among the bookies and oddsmakers. Everyone and his mother now know Giannis Antetokounmpo, Khris Middleton, Eric Bledsoe, the Lopez twins and company are now vacationing wherever.

Actually, folks were looking at a Bucks-Lakers finals. And I thought we’d be having a revival of the famous Celtics-Lakers rivalry of the ages.

The bottomline: sit back, relax. Or stand up, and bite your nails. Either way, this will be a great series. James up against his old team. Or Heat president Pat Riley up against the old team that he coached. No plot could have been better contrived.

#nbafinals #NBA Lakers LebronJames Nuggets

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heyitscmei · 7 years

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How Not to Get a Date

Characters: Keith, Shiro Pairing(s): Shiro/Keith Warnings: spoilers for s2 Notes: Sheith Week Unlimited - Day 5: Friends, pining shiro + really bad wingmen everyone else, everyone’s trying their best, earth au

Read on AO3 Summary: “You’re not even trying.”

“What would I even say?”

“I’m not saying any of that!”

“Well you better think of something because he’s coming this way.”

Or, Shiro pines a little and everyone is a really bad wingman.

“You’re staring.” Shiro startles and turns to find Pidge looking up at him. He expected her to maybe look unimpressed, but instead she waggles an eyebrow at him. It reminds him of Matt and he makes a mental note to ask him who’s corrupting the youth now.

“I wasn’t staring,” Shiro says, turning his gaze back to where it had been. Keith is there, but it’s not like Shiro’s intentionally staring. He’s not watching the way Keith makes small hand gestures as he talks, pointing with a small finger gun as he talks to Hunk, Lance and Allura. He’s not paying attention to the furrow of Keith’s eyebrows and how it would feel smooth out the creases with his thumb.

“You’re staring again.” Okay, so maybe he’s staring. He doesn’t mean to, it just kind of happens. Pidge shakes her head. “I don’t understand why you don’t just ask him out already.”

“It’s not that simple.” Shiro sighs as Pidge levels him a look. “He only thinks of me as a friend anyways.”

"His best and closest friend," Pidge reminds, rolling her eyes at him and jabs a finger into his side. He jolts and scowls at her, covering the offended side with a hand. “You’re not even trying.”

“What would I even say?”

“Oh, Keith, I’m so in love with you and I want to touch your butt!” She says, clasping her hands and making a face, lowering her voice. Shiro’s starting to think she might be spending too much time with Lance. He grabs her and presses a fist to the top of her head, playfully giving her a noogie that musses up short, brown hair. “Oh Keith! You’re so dreamy I’m getting lost in your eyes!” she says between gasps.

“I’m not saying any of that!” Shiro says, feeling the embarrassment in the form of too warm cheeks.

“Well you better think of something because he’s coming this way,” Pidge says, ducking out from his grasp. His head snaps up to confirm that she is, in fact, telling the truth and Keith is making his way toward them, looking confused.

“What are you guys doing?” he asks, once he’s close enough.

“Nothing,” Pidge says. “In fact, I was just about to go tell the others something. Keep Shiro company for me, would you?” She pats Keith’s arm and wanders over to the others, winking at Shiro over her shoulder once she’s safely out of Keith’s line of vision.

“Hey,” Shiro says, lacking anything better to say. “Looked like you were having an interesting conversation over there.”

“They asked me what kind of movies I liked,” Keith says by way of response. He scrunches his brows again. “I haven’t watched many movies.” He looks so genuinely put out that Shiro wants to laugh.

“So what brings you over here then?” Shiro asks, smiling instead.

“They wanted to know what you guys were talking about.” Keith shrugs before offering a small smile. “And Lance wouldn’t stop complaining about my ‘lack of culture’.”

Ah. So all his friends are conspiring against him. He peers behind Keith only to find Lance Will-Smith-posing at Keith and waggling his eyebrows. Pidge snickers and mimics him, leveling Shiro a pointed look. He narrows his eyes at them.

Keith seems to notice, leveling him with a confused look before turning around to see what Shiro’s looking at.

Immediately, Lance throws himself into Hunk’s arms, one leg extended dramatically. Pidge whirls to show Allura some new blackmail she’s got on Lance which earns her a “hey!” and long limbs flailing and reaching for her phone. Hunk, for his part, stares back at Shiro and Shiro can only guess that he’s wondering why they’re all so bad at acting naturally. Shiro wonders too.

At least he’s off the hook, for now.

When Shiro finds himself locked in a closet with Keith, he fails to be anything but utterly and completely unsurprised. He’s got a pretty good idea why Lance trapped them in there together, but he can’t say he’s impressed.

Neither is Keith, if the yelling is anything to go by.

A few minutes in, they find themselves on the floor, knees touching as they stare intensely into each other’s eyes.

“You blinked!” Keith shouts and Shiro bites off a groan.

“I don’t understand why you’re so good at this.”

“Maybe you’re just bad at it,” Keith says. Shiro finds himself smiling at the little laugh Keith lets out, letting the sound bounce through the enclosed space.

“You little-”

The door opens just as Shiro’s wrestled Keith into a headlock and they peer up at their saviour, Hunk.

“Let’s keep it pg-13 guys,” Lance says from behind him.

“Sorry about him,” Hunk says genuinely.

Shiro doesn’t hold Keith back when he lunges at Lance.

What cries for help? He doesn’t hear anything.

Shiro isn’t exactly sure what he’s expecting when Allura invites him over for dinner. He’s a little surprised that Keith is there too, though he’s also kind of glad because it’s Keith.

“You’re here!” Allura exclaims as she opens the door. She quickly ushers them inside and into the dining room, seating them across from each other.

Shiro narrows his eyes at the tablecloth and candles.

“What’s this?” he asks. He doesn’t think he really wants to know the answer.

“Just a typical dinner!”

Yeah, right.

“Aren’t you eating with us?” Keith asks. Shiro doesn’t know whether he wants to laugh or cry at Keith’s obliviousness. Mostly, he’s relieved.

“Maybe in a bit,” Allura says, but Shiro knows she has no intentions of doing so.

“This is kind of nice,” Keith says once they’re alone.

“A candlelit dinner?” Keith’s eyes flick up to him and Shiro is somewhat entranced by the barest reflection of the flickering flame in his eyes. Bright bluish-purples lit up strikingly. Keith shrugs.

“Maybe,” Keith shifts awkwardly. Shiro takes note of Keith’s remarks and wonders why he does so, as if he’s ever going to take Keith on a real date.

Then Coran is there, setting plates of food in front of them and telling them to enjoy before disappearing again.

Needless to say, the food is pretty awful, but they choke it down anyways and offer compliments to the elated chef. Allura shoots him a sorry smile when they refill their glasses of water for the third time.

When none of the others show up at the movie theatre like Pidge had proposed, - Hunk “came down with something”, Lance “had to babysit”, Pidge “forgot she had family commitments”, and Allura “has to make sure Coran doesn’t burn the house down” - It’s exactly what Shiro expects.

Now it isn’t as if Shiro’s particularly mad or annoyed by their antics. He will never complain about time spent alone with Keith. He’s just not sure that he could ever bring himself to confess under such circumstances. It’s a matter of preparedness, okay?

Still, he walks towards Keith and asks once he’s close enough, “Did you wait long?”

Keith looks up from his phone and smiles at him, shaking his head. “No, but it looks like we’re on our own today.” He shows Shiro his phone screen where he’s received the same texts Shiro has.

“Looks like it. Hopefully Lance is right about the movie being good. Shall we?”

“Yeah.”

Shiro isn’t sure why anyone thought a rom-com would be a good choice - he can almost hear Lance’s defense of “rom-coms are classic date ideas!” if he were to be called out on it. Nevertheless, halfway through the movie finds Keith asleep in his chair because movie theatres are really just not good places for conversation.

Shiro misses the kiss scene because he’s suddenly too preoccupied by Keith’s head dropping onto his shoulder. He doesn’t stop breathing, not really, but he does feel himself stiffen in an attempt not to jostle Keith. He wills himself to relax and, if his head happens to rest on top of Keith’s head, he tells himself it’s because Keith used him as a pillow first.

He doesn’t commit the image of Keith blearily rubbing sleep from his eyes to memory as they leave the theatre.

“I appreciate what you’re trying to do,” Shiro says, the next time they all get together. “But please stop.”

“We’re sorry,” Pidge says, looking every bit a chastised child.

“At least you didn’t lock them in a closet,” Hunk says, patting her shoulder.

“Hey!”

“We just want you to be honest about your feelings,” Allura says. “Don’t you think you’ve pined for long enough?”

On some level, Shiro knows she’s right. That they’ve all been right about him running away from an answer.

“You better have ice cream ready for when I do it, just in case,” Shiro jokes.

“Any flavour you want,” Hunk says warmly.

“And movies!” Lance pipes up.

“We’re not letting you pick.” Pidge snarks at him.

Just then, Keith arrives, apologizing for making them wait. He had to take care of something last minute. Really, nobody minds, he’s barely five minutes late.

Conversation is easy and his friends aren’t trying to pull anything and Shiro ponders just what he might say to Keith if he ever does confess.

Then everyone’s getting ready to part ways, for now at least, and Keith puts a hand on his shoulder.

“Can we talk?” That doesn’t sound foreboding at all.

“Of course we can.”

“I was thinking,” Keith says once they’re alone, meandering slowly down the sidewalk.

“What about?” Shiro prompts, because he feels like Keith might need the encouragement.

“I really like spending time with you,” he says honestly. Shiro remembers playing dumb games on the closet floor, a bad candlelit dinner and a boring movie. He starts to wonder if those are fond memories for Keith. He knows he’s pretty fond of them himself, in spite of all things.

“I enjoy spending time with you, too,” he replies, just as honestly. Keith goes quiet, seemingly struggling with what to say next and Shiro hopes he’s reading this right. Maybe Keith isn’t as oblivious as he’d thought - or hoped, better put. “Would you want to go watch an actually good movie sometime? Just us two?”

Keith exhales heavily. “Please,” he says. It half sounds like a groan. It causes Shiro to laugh because really, it’s so stupid. He’d worried so much when really, he wouldn’t have had to worry at all if he’d just paid attention. Patience yields focus, right?

“It’s a date,” he promises, reveling in the bright smile Keith shoots his way.

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