pairing: big brother's bestfriend!Wanderer x gn!reader
genre: modern au, fluff
content: he's your big brother's best friend who you may or may not have a crush on, but it seems like he only views you as a little kid...
word count: 512
a/n: based on the CN Drama "Hidden Love" episode 15. there's also an animation for this! and... maybe there's a surprise underneath as well ;) also i know Wanderer is inazuman so let's pretend the reader is of Li Yue descent, okay? 😁
"[Y/N], here for you. Make sure you study hard for your exams, alright?"
"Mm... okay 哥哥."
Wanderer is your older brother's best friend, who you refer as 哥哥(older brother). Over the years, you've grown attached to him, harbouring an innocent crush on the man who has a 5 year gap with you. You did everything you could to get his attention and stay close to him, even planning to enroll in a college in his hometown. Although, as time went on, it seemed that Wanderer only viewed you as a little kid, occasionally calling you 小朋友(kiddo), and nothing more.
With that in mind, you decided to move on from him, doing all you could to avoid any interaction with him. It became all the more easier to avoid him when he graduated and moved back to his home town.
Although fate had a different plan in mind.
You still enrolled in the college in his hometown though to your luck, you never did once met him. Until one day, as you were out partying with your friends, you stumbled upon your darling 哥哥. As if nothing had changed between you both, he teased you asking why you had been ignoring all his text and has never even once called him. You only gave an excuse of being busy as your answer, which he didn't really take. Even so, Wanderer lets that slide.
He was actually really glad to see a familiar face in his hometown. Unbeknowst to you, he actually didn't have anybody there and is oblidged to stay to settle a certain debt. From then on, he continued to pester and tease you, and looking out for you like he always does.
As the days go by, even though you initially wanted to move on from him, it was getting harder to do so as you both constantly meet up. Little by little, your feelings for him resurface. Though it seemed like he still treats you like a little kid, even when you're a legal adult attending college.
Who knew that after one eventful day, he suddenly grew feelings for you, his best friend's younger sibling.
On the day of your birthday, Wanderer had invited you to his home, celebrating your special day on the rooftop together. As you both enjoyed the city night lights, a gentle breeze blew as he asked you a question.
"You always call me 哥哥 (older brother). Do you really view me as your brother?"
You were a bit taken aback by the sudden question. Avoiding his gaze, you fiddled with the fork in hand. All these years, even though you've sworn to forget about your innocent crush towards him, all the repressed feelings came back full force. Despite that, it wasn't like you were going to confess that you have feelings for him...
"Of course, I do consider you my brother."
Silence then enveloped you both, only the sound of running cars in the distance accompanied in the background. Before you could get another word out, Wanderer then exhales softly, before saying...
I can finally post this here as well. What if Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous team could go watch a movie (maybe Areelu has a collection in her lab somewhere, who knows; or maybe in a modern AU).
Smol snippet of Jon Hamm reading the Good Omens excerpt at the The Art of Elysium’s 2024 Heaven Gala, 6.1.2024 :) ❤ (I hope we will get it all one day! :) <3)
Jon: From a little story called Good Omens, The Nice and Accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, by Terry Pratchett and our own Neil Gaiman.
The angel waved a hand expansively, if a little unsteadily. "Loads of buggerall, dear boy."
"But it gets there anyway," Crowley persevered.
"How?"
"It doesn't matter!"
"It could use a space ship," said the angel.
Crowley subsided a bit. "Yeah," he said. "If you like. Anyway, this bird—"
"Only it is the end of the universe we're talking about," said Aziraphale. "So it'd have to be one of those space ships where your descendants are the ones who get out at the other end. You have to tell your descendants, you say, When you get to the Mountain, you've got to—" He hesitated.
1. Duke taking Damian to get a sweet treat after an altercation at school
2. Talking shit at a Gala
3. Falling asleep on Brucie after shit talking (a sketch because the art block hit full force in that one. 😭)
Also they’re wearing matching earrings because I said so. I also think Dick would also have a matching set with them. I feel they all would share jewelry their mothers passed down to them.
what was supposed to just be pavitr and meera jain spiralled into a LOT of spiders in formalwear/red carpet outfits.... most of them referenced off met gala outfits and then adjusted to suit my own tastes LOL
@jesterjamz was chosen to request a ToS2 role on anon, and so I now deliver one Shroud, as a treat. I couldn't decide whether I liked colors or not on this so I have uploaded both.
Neil Gaiman at The Art of Elysium's 2024 Heaven Gala by wetalkduringmovies, 6.1.2024 :) (x)
Neil: I'm writing the script right now.
Q: Really? For the show?
Neil: For the show.
Q: Wow, that's really exciting. Hi. Me and Sasha are on the red carpet for Art of Elysium Neil Gaiman's Heaven Gala. I was wondering, when it comes to adaptation, whether it's adapting something like Christian text into something like Good Omens or adapting the book into a TV show, how do you approach that process?
Neil: A lot of the time, you try and figure out what it is that you responded to and why the new medium... what the new medium can bring to it. So with Good Omens, for example, adapting that, I had to go, okay, well, I've got this big, sprawling book with an awful lot of characters in it, and I'm going to have to make that into a show. And Crowley and Aziraphale are going to be my stars, so I need them in it more, and I need to give them a story, and I need to hang it and shape it around them. And once I had that idea, then adapting it was relatively easy.
Q: Okay, that's amazing. And congrats on Season Three.