LMAO tumblrs “more posts like this” and it’s just the 47 other times i’ve posted the fingers in his mouth sunday gifset. and then one anon thanking me for my crucial services
So I wrote a tiny buddy daddies ficlet so maybe I’ll post that this week? It was inspired by the newest official art and how soft I am for Rei disabling himself for his family ….
It’s only 4 sentences bc the ficlet is very short, but I hope you enjoy.
Rei didn’t regret it.
Pressing the barrel of his gun to his right arm and pulling the trigger without a second of hesitation.
Permanently disabling himself.
It had saved his family, had saved him, and that was more important than the use of his dominant hand.
I was wondering if you saw that ask about Steve's character analysis from @steveharrington and how he's abandoned by the narrative, written very 2 dimensionally and never gets a follow up for his physical/ emotional/ mental trauma while all the other characters do.
Lil fic idea where Steve and Eddie don't really know each other yet. It's maybe right before vecna, where the party somehow ends up at Steve's place for Hellfire where the older Hellfire members are still snide and bitter towards him, and something happens where Steve has to take of his shirt or something, and it's the first time everyone (maybe besides Robin) actually sees how physically scarred Steve is, and that maybe he really isn't emotionally okay either.
(bc I am Sure that boy has SCARS even before the bats with everything he's been through)
I have seen it! It’s an incredible commentary that is far more coherent than I could ever hope to be, op explains their thoughts so well and really is a wonderful post (thank you op)
I’m firmly of the belief that Steve has capital s Scars. And the thought of the impact on him is heart shattering. Steve sitting at home on his own, getting changed in the dark but can feel the scarred skin under his fingers tips. His thoughts spiral. He’s been commodified his whole life, packaged up to be an ‘ideal’ and now he sees these imperfections and he’s scared. He’s terrified. What value does he hold now? Why would anyone bother with him now that he’s visually damaged and belongs at the back of the shelf. He cries. Cries so hard his head hurts and he can’t make it stop, travels down his head to his neck and shoulders as he sobs. Body wracked with it. After the first night he pushes it down, refuses to acknowledge it again, wants to pretend that things are okay when his thoughts lurk in the dark telling him he’s worthless.
So he puts on a face, and carries on. Avoids showing skin successfully for a good few months. Until there’s a Christmas party for everyone but the adults at Steve’s place and it’s fun and loud until Mike bumps into Erika who knocks into dustin who trips into Steve. Steve who was holding a mug of hot chocolate that is now covering him head to toe. It’s not even that hot but before he knows what’s happening Robin is whipping his jumper off ‘it might scald Steve! We need to check!’
He fights her but his reaction is delayed after the shock of the liquid hitting his skin. And that’s when everyone sees it, sees him. And the silence is deafening but he can’t stop them from seeing. Can’t stop them from knowing that he’s ruined and good for nothing and a disappointment so he tries to walk off, fighting the hot and angry tears threatening to spill. He won’t cry, he can’t, not again. He manages to take a step away but then Robin is hugging him, Dustin too. He drags air into his lungs. Not sure if what to do next but then he hears the party slowly start back up and he’s thankful, thinking he’ll get out of this one alive.
But the head always finds a chink to peer through in the space where her fears lie. It’s as though no matter how hard she tries, happiness can only last for a span of time, the thing inside of her coming alive to eat her, creeping in the corners of her mind as the present fades away.
Or: on the ups and downs of navigating a relationship after a traumatic experience.
A Shiho and Shinichi’s relationship study after the Organization takedown.