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Screaming confession- The devil judge + Gahan + number 4

sorry for the long wait! ; w; depression kicked my ass. anywho, i wrote WAY too much for it to be a drabble (because gahan just has that effect on me lmfao) so i posted it on ao3. here's the link!

#gahan #the devil judge #tdj #kim gaon #kang yohan

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Could you write a brotherly hurt/comfort of Han Seok and his brother from Vincenzo?

here you are! thank you for requesting, sweet nonnie! hurt/comfort between the jang brothers is much harder than i thought hehe. hope this works!

Hanseo doesn’t realize how lost he is in his own thoughts until he’s jarred out of them by a clap of thunder. He gasps sharply and his back goes straight, eyes wide, mouth slightly agape. His gaze flickers around him for a moment, before he hones in on the scenery laid out in front of him once more.

The view is beautiful, honestly. Hanseo is standing before of one of the massive windows in his brother’s penthouse, staring out at the weather that ravages the world beyond the glass. With the onset of typhoon season, the wind directs the rain to the ground at a sharp angle and the trees almost appear to be tipping over sideways. The downpour is so fierce that it’s difficult to see beyond that, even with the help of the lightning that dances wildly about every few seconds.

It's that brand of chaos that Hanseo finds cathartic. It’s as unpredictable as his own life, but he finds solace in the fact that he doesn’t have to involve himself in it. He can just watch, as if a movie is playing out before him, and see what cause leads to what effect. Sometimes, it’s easy to get sucked up in that mentality and lose sight of the world around you. Hanseo often dissociates when watching storms…it takes him to a different place, which is…healing.

Once his pulse reaches normal limits again, Hanseo releases a long sigh and leans forward, pressing his forehead against the cool glass. In his hand is an empty whiskey bottle, but he’s not drunk. There was little more than a shot or two left from previous nights spent here. He finds he doesn’t really need the buzz enough to go looking for another bottle, however.

Whenever it is Hanseok decides to come out to the living room, he’ll undoubtedly have another one ready for the both of them, anyway.

For now, Hanseo closes his eyes and attempts to reign himself in yet again. He’s always like this when Hanseok calls him. Not unlike the storm raging outside, Jang Hanseok is impossible to predict. He might come into the room smiling, but that doesn’t mean he’s in a good mood, and it takes very little to make him put his temper on full display. Hanseo, to this day, has no idea what exactly the trigger is that sends his brother over the deep end.

He's exhausted of being involved with it. It’s even harder now that his cover as CEO of Babel has been blown and Hanseok is free to show his face as he pleases. Hanseo has to be more careful—to remind himself that he’s far more disposable now. He may live in a constant state of fear and apprehension, but that doesn’t mean he wants to die. Had he wanted that, he’d have let the drugs take him all those years ago.

On top of that, Hanseo tried to kill him. Hanseok has been…surprisingly forgiving of that. Now that he’s out of the hospital, Hanseo treats every interaction like it’s about to be his final one. Not that he’s ready for it at any given time.

The cold from the glass worms its way beneath the skin of Hanseo’s forehead and creeps down the rest of him, cooling him in rivulets as if the rainwater is seeping through. It feels nice…relaxes his taut nerves. He takes in another deep breath, and releases yet another long sigh.

His eyes pop back open when he hears the sound of liquid pouring into a glass somewhere nearby on his right side. His pulse picks up, and he turns to regard his brother, who is now standing directly next to him. Hanseok, having just gotten out of the shower, is sporting pajama pants and a tee shirt, his wet hair dangling over his face. He looks strangely placid. There’s no towel wrapped around his neck, so Hanseo knows at least one weapon is out of the equation.

“I don’t like storms…do you remember?”

At first, Hanseok’s words shock Hanseo, but just as he’s about to shake his head and answer honestly, his mind surprises him. He briefly finds himself over twenty years in the past, back when he and Hanseok shared a bedroom as children. At the time, it had been a recent development for them, as Hanseo had only been introduced to his half-brother a couple of months prior. With their beds across the room from each other, it had still been a little awkward to suddenly be living with a stranger.

However on that night, Hanseo had awakened to panicked whimpering from across his room. Hanseo himself had never been all that afraid of storms, but he could see the dark outline of his brother quivering in his bed next to the window where the storm had been raging outside. He had simply crawled out of bed and made his way over, questioning if Hanseok was afraid of storms. Hanseok had stammered out for him to shut up, but when Hanseo had gestured over to his own bed with a nod and offered to let Hanseok sleep away from the window, the older brother had practically leapt at the chance.

Hanseo’s last recollection of that night had been taking notice of how Hanseok had been buried under the blankets with his head covered. Looking back, he’s surprised he’d forgotten that memory. Then again, it’s kind of hard to retain the sweeter ones when the more violent ones keep him in a chokehold.

At the same time, it’s memories like that that give Hanseo the ever-present bittersweet feeling that if Hanseok had been given the help he’d needed, maybe he wouldn’t have turned out the way he is today. As a victim himself, Hanseo knows that Hanseok’s actions are his own, but still. Hanseo is probably far too nice for still loving his brother despite everything, but that’s just how it is. Even with a gun pointed at Hanseok, Hanseo had wished their father had been a little less cruel to them and little more of a parent.

That new memory fresh in his mind, however, Hanseo smiles a bit solemnly. “Mm.” His grunt of acknowledgment is followed by a soft nod of the head. “In your defense, hyungnim, you can’t predict what will happen in a storm.”

Hanseok seems eerily calm. Hanseo isn’t sure how to take it. He’s so used to treading on eggshells that he’s ready to jump back any second in response to an outburst. Still, he watches Hanseok raise his glass to his lips and take a big drink. “Seriously…why do you like staring at this shit? What if you got struck by lightning?”

Hanseo gives the question some genuine thought. Raises his hand to the collar of his shirt. Loosens it a bit. “It’s not likely. But if it does, I guess that’s what I get for putting myself in its path.” He can feel his brother’s eyes on him, before the bottle in Hanseok’s other hand slides into his periphery. He takes it in his own free hand and downs a quick swig—whiskey, as expected. Swallows down the burn. Clears his throat. “Is this why you called me?”

“Please.” When Hanseo looks over at Hanseok once more, his brother is scowling out the window. No…it’s not quite scowling. It’s more like…pouting. He knows he’s been called out but he’s not about to admit it. Hanseo isn’t about to push, either. “What am I? Five?”

“You weren’t five back then, either.”

Hanseo tenses when he realizes how easily that little retort slipped from his lips. His eyes go wide as Hanseok’s own bore right into them. He drops his gaze apologetically. “I-I didn’t mean it that way, hyungnim—”

“Could you not get all jumpy right now?” Hanseok questions, his voice irritable, but also still that almost uncomfortable flavor of calm Hanseo isn’t used to. “You make me crazy sometimes when you act like I’m gonna kill you.”

Hanseo bites back the split second of fury that almost escapes his lips. How in the hell is he not supposed to worry that he’s going to be killed? Nevermind the gunshot—Hanseo has been at Hanseok’s mercy for most of his life. Instead, though, he shakes his head and mutters another apology.

Not surprisingly, Hanseok doesn’t look all that impressed by his brother’s gesture. He scoffs and snatches the bottle back, downing more of the booze straight from the mouth of it. Hanseo notices he hasn’t finished off what he poured into his glass, but he either doesn’t notice or simply doesn’t care. When he swallows down the burn, he grunts out, “Just figured a shitty night like this is a perfect one to watch a movie—something funny, yeah?”

Quite frankly, Hanseo isn’t that trusting of his brother, but he can’t bring himself to refuse either. Hanseok is making it more and more obvious by the second that he’s trying to find a way to get his mind off of the tempest raging outside. It’s been years since Hanseo last saw him like this over a storm. He can’t help but wonder what’s got Hanseok acting that way now.

Maybe it’s some weird plan to get Hanseo to relax around him or something so that he can get him back for shooting him, but…Hanseo isn’t so sure. Hanseok really does look uncomfortable…

It’s not like he’d get away with refusing, anyway.

Which is how Hanseo finds himself in Hanseok’s living room with his television blasting some American comedy movie the older brother swears is absolutely hilarious. Hanseok is generous enough to put the subtitles in Hangul so he can at least somewhat understand the humor. But it’s still not all that funny to Hanseo. The general premise is a group of friends getting wasted in Las Vegas and waking up with everything that could have gone wrong going absolutely haywire.

Hanseo, perhaps judging a little too harshly, wonders if this is so entertaining to his brother because of the amount of misfortune the guys in the movie are suffering. He also wonders if that’s the reason he’s not all that crazy about it. Or maybe it’s because for a brief point in Hanseo’s life, he had regularly inebriated himself to the point of blacking out and not remembering any of the previous night.

No…he’s overthinking this. He needs to calm down and enjoy the movie.

Wait…is that a tiger?

And a baby?

Hanseok has laid out a bowl of gummy bears on the table where they can both reach it. Hanseo damn near chokes on one when the character named Alan puts sunglasses on the baby and straps him to his chest. Okay, that’s kind of funny.

Soon enough, Hanseo is laughing right along with his brother. He has relaxed completely, utterly absorbed in the movie, the handful of gummy bears he’s slowly chewing away at, and the whiskey bottle being passed between the two brothers. It feels unlike any experience Hanseo has had with his brother in years. It’s a much-needed breath of fresh air. The ever-cautious Jang Hanseo knows this is likely the calm before the storm—he crossed a line recently, after all—but he’ll take what he can get. And god, he needed the chance to just breathe.

Just as the movie’s characters are about to meet Mike Tyson, lightning flashes so brightly it grabs both their attention. Immediately after, a thunderclap follows so loudly that it rattles the penthouse.

The power flickers and the home goes completely dark.

“Fuck!”

When Hanseo turns toward the armchair where Hanseok is sitting, the older brother is rigid in the chair, sitting bolt upright. The lightning is their only source of illumination now, but it flickers so frequently that Hanseo can see the way his brother looks petrified. This whole situation is so odd, and Hanseo shouldn’t feel the pang of sympathy wrenching in his chest, but he does. He wants to comfort his brother.

So he thinks quickly and scoots away from the arm of the couch, where he pats the spot where he once was. “Hyungnim, come here.”

He fishes his phone out of his pocket and unlocks the screen. Thunder claps again and he literally hears his brother tense from his chair. “Why?”

“Because we’re gonna keep watching.” Hanseo shrugs. He’s not the least bit afraid. Not of the storm, and certainly not of Jang Hanseok in the current moment. He should probably be laughing that his big, scary, murderer brother is afraid of storms, but he wants nothing more than to reassure him that it’s going to be alright.

So it’s a relief when he sees Hanseok concede defeat and climb off of his armchair. He shuffles cautiously to the couch. By the time he’s seated next to Hanseo, he’s managed to find the same movie they’d been watching and skips to the part where they left off. He grabs the bowl of gummy bears and plops them into Hanseok’s lap and then hits play on his phone.

And it surprisingly works. Mike Tyson starts singing, and Hanseok starts chortling again, and Hanseo breathes another sigh of relief. He finds himself absorbed in the movie all over again, and going by the way Hanseok’s only movements are the occasional grab for gummy bears, he must be too. He definitely doesn’t feel as tense as he looked in that armchair a while ago.

Hanseo thinks back to that. To the outline of Hanseok, frozen with fear in the darkness of the storm. To the younger version of him whimpering in his bed all those years ago. Jang Hanseok is reckless and fearless and malevolent. He’s terrifying and brutal and doesn’t really know when to draw the line.

But he’s also, on some level, a human being. Hanseo is probably the only person who has ever taken the time to acknowledge that. Even their father had deemed Hanseok too much of a hassle to find help for him.

Hanseo’s brow furrows. He’s not about to say he regrets pointing that shotgun at Hanseok, but that’s…just the fucked-up nature of their family. There’s no escaping that, and Hanseo hasn’t deluded himself into thinking that things are suddenly going to be different tomorrow. But for now…

“Are you doing okay now, hyungnim?” He dares to ask.

“The hell kind of question is that?” Hanseok grunts, though his tone is bland, clearly too absorbed in the movie. Conveniently enough, it thunders then again and Hanseok jumps visibly.

Hanseo laughs a little, and Hanseok takes the moment to shove a whole handful of gummy bears into his mouth.

“Laugh again and I’ll kill you,” he growls. “You’re supposed to be watching the movie.”

The gummy bear move was a good one, because Hanseo has to spend several movements chewing and rearranging the little treats in his mouth until he can finally swallow them down. By that time, Hanseok has regained his focus on the movie, and Hanseo uses his better judgment this time, choosing not to say anything else.

It’s best to just weather the storm through comedy movies. Apparently, there are two sequels, and so long as they don’t have power in the house, Hanseo has a feeling they’re going to be continuing on.

So be it. Hanseo’s okay with this. If the battery on his phone lasts that long, they’ll be golden. If not…well, he’ll cross that bridge when he gets there. He knows without having to confirm it that Hanseok is seeking comfort and a distraction from the storms he claims to hate. In the moment, he’s not out for blood. In the moment, he needs his dongsaeng.

Hanseo, desperate for some semblance of a normal life, will gladly be Hanseok’s shelter for the night. They almost feel like family right now, after all.

#vincenzo #jang hanseo #jang hanseok

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I'm here to spread my Tankhun is a secret genius agenda. No I haven't read the Kinnporsche books. What do you think?

Also would love your thoughts if you think Kinnporsche was in anyway influenced by TDJ or if the cinematic parallels are just coincidence?

first off, i haven't read the books either, so we're on the same page (hehe) there!

but 10000 percent absolutely agree tankhun is a genius. i know pete told porsche that khun was abducted when he was younger and whatever happened during that time traumatized him and made him who he is today, but trauma definitely didn't make him stupid. he's dramatic and over the top and without a doubt very childish, but he ain't stupid hehe.

i feel like it's good to keep in mind that tankhun was intended to be the heir to the major family before he was kidnapped, so obviously korn knew he could handle it at the time. the responsibility was passed down to kinn, the next in line, once it was made clear khun was too damaged to be able to deal with the strain.

on that same note, i think a lot about the conversation kinn and porsche had when they were out in the wilderness together--kinn mentioned how he wondered if had khun not been abducted, if he would have been able to live more freely. it makes me wonder if that very same mentality is part of the reason khun behaves the way he does.

don't get me wrong, there is definitely trauma there if he was kidnapped. but i wonder if his father was so quick to label him 'broken' rather than trying to understand what all happened to him/how he's processing it, that khun was able to understand the correlation.

there's a looooot going on with the theerapanyakul family, clearly. kinn (and it seems like kim too) has his own baggage going on. they're all very selfish in their own ways. and i wouldn't be surprised if tankhun's selfishness came in the form of the idea that so long as his father saw him as beyond repair, he wouldn't have to head the family.

i absolutely adore childish, loud, melodramatic tankhun so much, but he is most certainly way more intelligent than he's said to be. he's naive and scared of the world around him (trauma), but that doesn't make him dumb. i bet he's going to throw us all off our guards at some point during this show.

as for the tdj question, the simple answer is nah, i don't think kinnporsche was inspired by it. moreso, i think that it uses a lot of the same tropes as tdj does--caring for each other's wounds instead of going to the hospital, fussing over each other's suits, sexual tension during acts of violence (mm the choking scenes in both make me absolutely feral), the list goes on and on.

that being said, and i think i may have mentioned it in one of my earlier posts, the fact that so many kinnporsche scenes parallel the devil judge as closely as they do tells me just how canon gahan really is. these are common bl tropes, and they're being used in a drama that's not actively marketed as a bl, and then a year later they're shown in a drama where most of the characters are canonically lgbtq+, it's really comforting to me.

i'll always love the way tdj ended. i feel like it was a very happy, very realistic ending for everyone. i wouldn't have been mad if they'd kissed or even hugged, but the devil judge at its core was queer-coded rather than explicitly queer. we all knew what was going on to the point that we didn't need to see it to believe it. but kinnporsche said "be gay do crimes" loud and proud and just happens to parallel a lot of scenes from tdj, which is very telling to me of the way the writer for tdj wanted us to think gaon and yohan felt about each other.

it's like...same genre, different means of production. and they're both beautiful for it.

#kinnporsche #the devil judge #thank you for this ask! #gahan #kinn x porsche

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inbox is open if anyone wants to send questions/talk about headcanons or ships/even fic/drabble requests! fandoms are in pinned post!

#the devil judge #strangers from hell #all of us are dead #kinnporsche #semantic error #vincenzo #psychopath diary #d.p. netflix #ocn the guest

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fandom + ship + number? fandoms are in pinned post!

Can you do love confession dialogue? If you could do some where they are screaming at each other would be great!

Hi :)

Sure, here are some prompts for you:

Love confession - screaming at each other

“It’s like you never really see me. I’m standing right in front of you and you don’t see me!”

“Do I really have to spell it out for you? I love you! Are you happy now?”

“I love you, okay? I love you!”

“This is just too much, I can’t act like this anymore, like I don’t love you!”

“I know this is not how we do things, but we can’t ignore our feelings any longer!”

“You never believe me! If I told you right now that I love you, would you even believe me?”

“I didn’t want to tell you like this, but I have no choice.”

“Don’t you see that there are people who care about you? That I care about?”

“I can’t lose you again! Please, don’t make me lose you again.”

“We need to stop dancing around it. All it does, is hurting us both!”

Have fun!

- Jana

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yall i'm so stupid i cannot believe after the 2083409823908 times i've seen tdj that it literally just occurred to me that the reason gaon doesn't like yohan's behavior is because the correlation manipulation has to his parents' death,,, i'm so diddly damned stupid oh my god.

#tdj #the devil judge #kim gaon #kim ga on #i mean i know it also has to do with him being exposed to jungho and soohyun #who were adamant that justice came lawfully #and he was taught in black and white #but h o w did i not make this connection #of course gaon would be so stubbornly against it #my god i'm dense

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Fake Dating Dialogue Prompts

“You don’t have to like me, you just need to pretend you do.”

“I’m easy. Buy me a nice ring and I’ll lie to your parents.”

“I think they bought it. We can leave now.” “No way, this was just 5 minutes and I have a reputation to uphold.”

“Your parents will take one look at me and know it’s fake. I’m just so far out of your league.”

“Are you doubting my acting skills?”

“You know we’re not actually dating, so why did you propose to me in front of my family?” “I’m sorry, I panicked.”

„I know this was all fake but… it felt real to say that I love you.” “And it felt real when I said it back.”

“It’s just going to be for one night and there will be so much food and drinks and it’s all free, you just need to say yes and maybe take my hand a few times that night.”

“There is actually no downside to acting like we would be dating.” “Yes, except the part where people would think I was dating you.”

“If you want this to work out, you eventually have to suck up and hold my hand.”

“Aww, this sounded a lot like you like me.” “I’m just a good actor.”

“What?! No one said anything about consummating the marriage!”

“I only say yes under one condition: I want a public proposal with the potential to be a viral sensation. Go big or go home.”

“I said moaning, not screaming! They’re not going to think we’re having fun, they’ll think I’m murdering you!”

“You’re actually a really good kisser.” “You’re actually very average.”

„I guess we don’t have to pretend any longer.” “Maybe we can just tell the truth from now on.”

“You want to practice kissing to make it believable? How about we practice having an argument and you sleeping on the couch?”

“Not everything was fake… just saying.”

“If you call me one more of those stupid pet names, I will tell everyone the truth!”

“But you have to tell everyone it’s your fault, when we break up. I like your parents and I don’t want them to come chasing after me with pitchforks.”

Fake Dating AUs | Fake Dating Prompts | Fake Dating Royalty Prompts

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Kisses

Showing affections.

goodnight kisses

hand kisses

smiling while kissing

lips barely touching

morning kisses

slow kisses

passionate kisses

kisses on the cheek

first kisses

goodbye kisses

welcome home kisses

kisses on the corner of their mouth

frustrated kisses

kissing each other breathless

soothing kisses

nose kisses

kisses as a promise

short pecks

forehead kisses

kisses on head

“we’ll face this together” kisses

kisses in the rain

life-or-death kisses

kisses for a cover

hard kisses

giggling while kissing

desperate kisses

neck kisses

hushed conversation in-between kisses

eyelid kisses

gentle stroking of cheeks

small kisses

kissing it better

jaw kisses

wake-up kisses

kissing away tears

public kisses

relieved kisses

kisses for comfort

tummy kisses

kisses to shut them up

slowly kissing down the body

“we’ll see each other again” kisses

kissing each finger

sleepy kisses

angry kisses

feather-light kisses

kisses with trembling lips

secret kisses

kisses with their last dying breath

Hugs|Hand-holding|Touching

#sr #i won't spam yall #just giving it one more shot lol

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no thoughts head empty only kang yohan

#tdj #the devil judge #kang yohan #yes i'm still obsessed #no i'm not sorry

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For being so nice🎀 and cute😚, copy this to 10 other bloggers that you think are wonderful. 💗Keep the GAME going and make others feel beautiful❤️

Sending you one because I do think that you are a lovely person. 🧡 Have a great day/night!

omggg alksjdflkajsdlkj thank you so much! ; w; this is so sweet! made my day!

#eeeee i'm emotional #thank you sm!!

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had an angsty kinnporsche au dream last night. in the dream, kinn wasn't the heir of a mafia family--instead, he was a hitman, and porsche worked in some kind of secret service. kinn was hired to infiltrate this secret service and take down porsche for some reason or another (my dream wasn't being hella creative here), so he naturally decided to gain porsche's trust so that he could take him out.

kinn had to pass several tests and undergo training, with porsche overseeing it. he passed with flying colors and completed his training early and they celebrated over drinks. do y'all know the scene in mr and mrs smith where they're in colombia and they're dancing really intimately together? yeah that was basically what happened in this part of my dream. it was hands around waists, backs pressed to chests while hips moved together, near-kisses. the only difference was it didn't end in a kiss like it did in the movie.

after that part they were sent out on several missions together and it was just like they had instant synergy. pete was there on one mission, commenting to someone i didn't recognize in the dream about how they're like the same person because they can practically read each other's minds. it was like a montage of different completed missions and after them there was always a lingering stare or a brief touch on the small of the back or the waist or shoulder that made it obvious they both wanted to jump each other but couldn't.

following that was a really brief part that didn't have any actual dialogue but my mind translated it to be some urgent situation where kinn had to pick up the pace in completing his mission. in the scene he was on the phone but i couldn't hear anything and it was extremely dark, and after hanging up, kinn started freaking out--heavy breathing, pacing, hand on his forehead and just...general realization that he was about to have to make a big decision.

fast-forward to the next mission he has with porsche. he's suddenly really cold toward porsche, which catches everyone off guard and gets in the way of their mission. he's already got some plan in mind for when to do get rid of porsche, but my brain didn't really tell me what the plan was. all i remember is that he was fumbling awkwardly through the next mission because he was grappling with what he was going to have to do.

at one point, porsche pulled kinn aside during their mission (they were in some sort of warehouse) and demanded to know what was wrong with him, which resulted in yet another near-kiss, before pete showed up with a gun trained on kinn and revealed that he'd overheard the phone call from earlier. porsche either already knew or believed pete right away, because he irritably sent pete away to keep the mission going. he promised to catch up, and when pete protested, porsche threatened to shoot him until he finally agreed to be on his way and left to continue the mission.

there was some sort of argument after--again, i didn't actually get to hear what they were saying, but they were shoving and screaming and getting into each other's faces, until they it shifted and they were suddenly kissing. it was really rough, too. at one point, kinn had porsche by the front of his shirt and was slamming him back into a wall, kicking up dust as they made out. there was a lot of hair pulling and pushing and really sloppy kissing...probably some heavy petting too but i digress lmfao.

idk what happened next because my dream skipped scenes like it was on dvd or some shit lol. either way, it went from their like angsty, bitter makeout scene to them on the ground on the first floor of the warehouse, bleeding all over. kinn didn't look good--he was really pallid and shaky, and porsche had his hands on his face, sobbing and clinging to him. kinn was smiling, and then they were kissing again, and then i was awake.

so yeah i think my brain killed my boys and i'm not happy about it. what better way to deal with it than shove it off onto y'all instead?

#kinnporsche #kinn x porsche

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If KinnPorsche, The Devil Judge and Vincenzo existed in the same universe - A)I would combust and B) I think that Yo Han and to a degree, Ga On would be jealous of how physically close KinnPorsche are while KinnPorsche would be jealous of how 'emotionally' close Gahan are. And Vincenzo would be rolling his eyes in the background thinking why did God put me in the middle of these insufferable gays?

okay so a) 10000 percent right there with you anon. i think i smell smoke coming out my ears already just thinking about it hnnnn

and b) i have so many feelings and i'm going to try and condense them down and not give you a whole ass novel like i keep giving people lmfao

so the concept of these three things existing in one universe is actually not??? terribly??? impossible??? vincenzo is literally a part of the italian mafia and just a couple tweaks might put the cassano family after kinn rather than the group we get in the show--just...with less creepy gross comments from old mob bosses please.

there's also the alternative of kinn following his father's orders to work with vincenzo on dealing with yohan. could be they were hired by the chaebols to get the job done--we all know how loaded the lot of them are, and money is one of the fundamentals of the organized crime world. in a dystopia, i imagine the underworld is even more volatile, too.

but i'm not gonna get into all the details because that's a lot more kinks than i care to work out and i just want to talk about the stuff you mentioned for now. if i go off, you'll never get me back lmfaooo.

i think that vincenzo and kinn would get along surprisingly well. on some level, vincenzo would have some respect for kinn's boldness and his tendency to take matters into his own hands while at the same time still trying to operate as a responsible heir to the family. he gives off that same badass energy that vincenzo has too, plus the comedic aspect of being easily caught off guard by extremely simple things (see also: love interests doing ridiculous shit that leaves them flabbergasted).

porsche wouldn't like vincenzo at all. he might fancy him a bit of a badass, but unlike kinn, vincenzo doesn't relax as easily. in canon, vincenzo literally has to be dragged into group settings with everyone before he finally starts to unwind and accept that he's a part of their family. once he does, he's committed to them with his whole heart, but the difference between him and kinn is that kinn has an easier time relaxing even when he should be maintaining an appearance. porsche would not have warmed up to kinn as quickly as he had if not for how chill the guy was, regardless of if there was alcohol or tea involved lmao. but i digress--porsche would probably identify vincenzo as a coldhearted torture machine and be heavily against the operation he's being dragged along with kinn to help out on.

that said, i feel like porsche would be very protective of gaon. he can literally see the same naivete his own brother has in the way gaon views things, as well as the big heart gaon has that reminds him of porchay. if there's drama and second thoughts about how they're going to deal with yohan, it starts because porsche is trying to convince kinn to rethink their plan. if he winds up meeting/learning about elijah some way or another (with how protective yohan is of her, i doubt it), he'll be even more insistent.

and considering kinn is very aware of porsche's feelings about things (the torture scene in ep 3), he would begrudgingly give it some thought. on that same note, i feel like kinn would have some level of respect and admiration for yohan. depending on how deep in the tdj canon we are here and if the live courtroom is still a thing, i feel like kinn would appreciate and respect many of the verdicts yohan has come to in those cases. on top of that, yohan is a man who gets shit done, which is a trait kinn respects about vincenzo too.

on top of that, whether you headcanon yohan bisexual or gay, kinn would appreciate the representation. he seems to have a decently strong gaydar lol.

that said, i do agree with you that there would be some envy from both sides of those ships about the other. gaon and yohan are so very strongly emotionally invested in one another but so busy with what's going on during the course of the drama to actually do anything about it. it's obvious that you could cut the tension with a knife, but who has time for that right??? and kinn and porsche on the other hand have no issue getting handsy, close, talking intimately with one another. however, there are barriers keeping them from getting too emotional about it, and it makes perfect sense that they'd want a little of both worlds. it gets me in my feelings tbh.

and then there's vincenzo lmfao: the poor dude was just trying to do his job when these other people and all their feelings and attachments started happening, and depending on if any of the canon vincenzo storyline has happened, he might be forced to reevaluate things himself because now he too has attachments.

i know for sure he doesn't like porsche. they're probably at each other's throats constantly. and by that, i mean porsche says a little too much and gets incapacitated and kinn has to drag his unconscious ass out of the room and explain to him why he should stop risking his balls to argue with a member of the cassano family.

we already touched up on his opinion on kinn, but i also feel like vincenzo would have some level of respect for yohan. they wouldn't get along because yohan would probably already know he was a target and he simply doesn't trust like that, and vincenzo evaluates him as a target and keeps him at arms' length because he also knows yohan isn't just any old bullseye. there would be a mutual understanding that they're both businessmen and have work to do, but they wouldn't ever cross that line and allow much in the vein of friendship.

especially considering vincenzo likely can't stand gaon. gaon is a liability to yohan, and vincenzo can't for the life of him understand why yohan would keep him around with how reckless his emotions are. unless, of course, he's already gotten feelings for chayoung/hanseo (you decide lmfao) and not unlike kinn, understands the way yohan looks at gaon.

i definitely think that vincenzo would feel like he has his work cut out for him, but i also know they ain't leaving with a dead kang yohan as per their mission. if anything, kinn and porsche would have a greater understanding of what an emotional bond looks like through gaon and yohan and kinn and porsche would have done the drama equivalent of the "now KISS" meme to try and get them to just fuck about it already. while vincenzo tries to figure out what they're going to do about their failed mission when they get home or how they can make it look like they didn't fail.

but let's not talk like he doesn't get something out of all of this either. kinn, porsche, yohan, and gaon all have their redeeming and their frustrating qualities, but they all also have something to offer in terms of learning. vincenzo probably picks up a great deal of experience from the lot of them. as well as an appreciation for just how normal the plaza crew is compared to them lmfao.

i had fun with this. it still turned into a novel, whoops...

#the devil judge #kinnporsche #vincenzo #gahan #kinn x porsche

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All of Us Are Dead x Vincenzo Crossover Au.?

i could so get behind this jkalsjdflkajsdlk

i'll be honest, i'm more thinking of this as a 'how would the cast of vincenzo handle the outbreak' situation rather than including the aouad characters, but that's just because of how big both groups are lmfao. plus getting those two casts of characters to blend together well just...probably ain't happenin'.

BUT THE TYPE OF ZOMBIES IN AOUAD IS PERFECT FOR VINCENZO

i also just think it'd be really cool to think of how the characters would handle an outbreak like that. my first thought is about how vincenzo is used to fighting multiple people at once, but his hand to hand fighting style is so focused on disabling the other party that i wonder if he could handle taking on an enemy that keeps coming at him even after having a limb or two snapped.

i feel like the plaza would make a good hideout. it doesn't get a lot in the vein of human traffic, so zombies wouldn't be all that drawn there. which could make it very much a target of babel and wusang still. it's basically like a residence all on its own and considering the different shops all packed into one building, supplies and food won't be hard to come by at first.

so yeah, the plot shifts from 'take down the corrupt business and its psychopath ceo' to said psychopath ceo and his underlings now want the plaza to build the post-apocalyptic babel tower from, and the fight is on.

one thing i really enjoy about all of us are dead is the fact that drama and comedy can and will coexist in the same space, and vincenzo has that same power. with the plaza residents, vincenzo, and the hongs (dad is still alive fight me) squaring off against the jangs and wusang, there is ample space for comedy and high tensions as well.

give me the same brawl they had in front of the plaza that mirrored that renaissance painting but with hanseok, hanseo, and wusang at the mercy of everyone. give me non-infected biting, hair-pulling, wrestling, comedic screaming...

and then give me hanseo grappling with his crippling fear of his brother and eventually defecting to help vincenzo. maybe he starts out wanting to do so for the sake of having a place to stay in the plaza as well, but he warms up to vincenzo and chayoung and the others. soon enough, he's on team cassano and helping fortify the walls of the plaza.

bonus points if he doesn't die, because hanseo ABSOLUTELY deserves to live.

and my hancenzo shipping heart can't help but fantasize about a scene where hanseo makes vincenzo sneak out of the plaza with him one night and takes him to the hockey rink he's always playing at in canon. vincenzo getting to see how he lights up like a christmas tree playing hockey. vincenzo taking an interest in the sport itself after a while.

on top of that hockey jerseys are hella thick and padded, so they'll bring home a stash of jerseys and sticks and pucks to keep any invaders and zombies at bay.

and dear god, please give me one scene where chayoung gets to beat the everloving shit out of myunghee. where hanseo gets to absolutely wreck hanseok with a hockey stick. where vincenzo and the entirety of the guemga plaza family lives and thrives even amidst the apocalypse with hanseo amidst them. mr. ahn living his best life fighting zombies alongside a mafioso...

and all of this isn't even including the possibility of HAMBIES. oh my god HAMBIES. hanseok would probably be very much like gwinam in that sense--he's crazy enough that i can almost see him being glad he got bitten because now he's stronger and faster than vincenzo and the others. which also leads me to wonder if hanseo did wind up getting 'killed' by hanseok again, would he be a hambie too? waking up and just...fighting his brother off left and right. suddenly strong enough to hold his own against hanseok...ugh, my heart.

another thing i thoroughly enjoyed about all of us are dead is just how inventive the kids were. with the different unique minds of everyone at the plaza, i've no doubt they'd come up with some pretty neat zombie-redirection methods, as well as ways to provide for themselves when it comes to food and warmth and all of that.

i could honestly go on forever about it. i love a zombie story, and i love love love all of us are dead, and the possibilities for an au with the cast of vincenzo are...endless okay?

#all of us are dead #netflix all of us are dead #vincenzo

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Vincenzo -> Han Seo and Han Seok ->Are you afraid to lose me?

decided to make this a continuation of the last hanseo and hanseok ask i had because it fit so well. maybe that was your intent nonnie and if it is, good on you~

Once they're behind closed doors and the man driving them back isn't within earshot, Hanseo feels significantly safer opening his mouth again. He's less likely to incur his brother's wrath if he doesn't put him in a position of embarrassment. Hanseok looks like he needs to talk about it, anyway. He looks something like an actual brother for the first time in a long time.

Hanseo won't count his chickens, but he's also not too jaded to take what he can get.

They're in the living area of Hanseok's widespread penthouse, with Hanseok pacing about. It's very clear he's still quite worked up. He probably will lash out again, but for now, Hanseo feels safe enough. If Hanseok doesn't want him to die, he definitely doesn't want to kill him on his own. That speaks volumes in itself. It may be a bit twisted from an outsider's perspective, but it's the best news Hanseo's heard in years if you ask him.

He waits until Hanseok has cooled off enough to stop pacing before he speaks up, at least. As he watches his older brother from a cautious distance, he clears his throat. Hanseok is in the middle of grabbing a bottle of water from the fridge when Hanseo finally asks his question.

"Are you afraid to lose me?"

Hanseok pauses with his hand atop the door of the refrigerator when those words reach his ears. He's facing away from Hanseo, which makes the younger brother a bit nervous, but soon enough, Hanseok closes the door and turns around, dark eyes honing in on his sibling's. For a very short second, Hanseo thinks he sees some of the faux innocence of his brother's Joonwoo persona, but it dies the instant Hanseok scoffs.

"What the hell kind of question is that?"

Hanseo imagines he should continue to be careful with his words, but he feels an odd amount of reassurance that Hanseok isn't going to snap on him right now. It's not necessarily intuition that tells him, but something else. Hanseok just...isn't dangerous right now. Or at the very least, he's not as dangerous.

"You saved my life," Hanseo answers simply, his tone soft. On pure muscle memory, he searches his brother's face for any hint of a reaction. Hanseok doesn't look patient so much as he looks as if he's humoring Hanseo. It's motivation enough to keep going. "And then you went off on me because I was stupid enough to go out on my own like that."

During the period of silence that follows Hanseo's words, Hanseok's expression does several things. First, it's just a dull stare directed toward Hanseo's eyes. Then, his nose wrinkles and his brow furrows. And then he starts laughing--it's a less aggressive version of the howling, twisted excitement he often laughs with. It's obvious he's trying to ridicule Hanseo for such a question.

"Let me ask you this, dongsaeng," Hanseok starts, pacing toward his younger brother. Hanseo doesn't move. Sometimes, backing away results in a harsher reaction "Who do you think is going to take the fall for me if you're dead and gone?" He cocks his head to the side, smiles, and in English, adds, "it's not that deep."

Hanseo still disagrees. No, actually, he knows better. But this is a discussion he isn't going to win directly, so he decides to let it go and instead folds his hands in front of him and offers an apologetic bow. "Alright, hyungnim, I understand. Sorry for being presumptuous."

Hanseo then moves toward the kitchen to grab himself a bottle of water as well. As he passes by his brother, however, Hanseok catches his wrist and pulls him back. A spark of anticipation shoots up and down Hanseo's spine and he freezes, bracing for impact.

They're standing side by side as Hanseok leans in close, the threat obvious in his next words. "If you go and put yourself in danger like that again, I'll kill you myself."

Don't get Hanseo wrong--he's going to heed that warning, and he believes it with every fiber of his being. He doesn't have the slightest doubt in his heart of hearts that Jang Hanseok will literally tear him limb from limb if he disobeys him.

But he also knows Hanseok was worried. There's truth to his words about how Hanseo can't be his scapegoat if he's dead, but Hanseo also knows that he's right--that his brother was afraid he might lose him today.

It's in the not-quite-certain grip Hanseok has on his wrist, and in how he has yet to throw anything at him or try and throttle him. Hanseok may be acting tough, but Hanseo knows him better than anyone else here. The only person who knows him better than Hanseo is Jang Hanseok, himself.

And maybe he doesn't know this side of himself too well. Hanseo considers it a victory, and when his brother releases his wrist, he smiles to himself and heads for the fridge.

#vincenzo #jang hanseo #jang hanseok

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the more gifsets i see paralleling the devil judge and kinnporsche, the more i understand just how heavily queer-coded the devil judge actually is and how canon gahan really is and nobody will ever understand how happy that makes me

#the devil judge #gahan #kinnporsche #kinn x porsche #see also: a huge thankyou to the content creators doing the lords work making them

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Yohan/Gaon "I have told you all that you need to know"

quick forewarning for au: set in an alternate universe wherein gaon didn't immediately look at the dashcam footage and discover the body planted to frame yohan. i have no idea why this prompt took me in that direction, but i'm not exactly complaining. hope y'all enjoy it!

"I have told you all that you need to know."

Gaon doesn't believe that even for a second. Or rather, he doesn't care. He's at a point where he's beyond frustrated simply because of this lack of information and he's had enough. How is it that Yohan can keep stringing him along and expecting him to follow his orders when he's not going to tell him anything? What they're doing has everything and yet nothing to do with the live courtroom, so doesn't Gaon have a place as Yohan's assitant judge to know more? Isn't his job description enough to warrant his access to that much? Or rather, wasn't it?

Yohan doesn't seem to think so. And now that Soohyun is dead and the Professor all-but revolting against Yohan, Gaon feels entitled to answers. Maybe it isn't so fair of him to come back for them now, and the cold look on Yohan's face tells him that he's stepping a bit out of preferred territory, but he needs to know.

In his own misery, Gaon has sought frantically to follow in Soohyun's footsteps and look into whatever it was she had started digging up on Yohan and the night of the fire. He trusts Yohan on some level, but it's a lot more complicated than that. As of the past several weeks, Gaon has been…stretched very thin. People from all angles have told him to see things one way or the other, to help them or to do this or that. Yohan is no better than the Professor or even Soohyun. Gaon is starting to realize that he hasn't really been given the opportunity to think for himself.

Or rather, he hasn't given himself the chance to do so. Which is partly why he has started looking into whatever Soohyun was digging into. He wants to know why she was targeted, with the Professor's words still ringing heavy in his ears and rife with accusation toward Yohan, Gaon just…isn't certain anymore. He found a man who had spoken to Soohyun before and discovered someone with injuries all over his body. Someone who had claimed that Yohan had sent someone to threaten him with his life over CCTV footage that he had been sworn to protect.

So yeah, Gaon is naturally going to be suspicious of that, and of course he's going to target Yohan for answers. He's well aware of the fact that the last time the two of them spoke, it had been over Gaon's betrayal of him. Gaon truly is sorry for that, but he did what he had to do. Even now, with suspicions high and his hackles standing at full attention, Gaon doesn't want Yohan to turn out to be the monster everyone thinks he is. He doesn't want that. God, he…

Honestly, he's hoping against all hope that whatever truth he uncovers in speaking to Yohan tonight doesn't disappoint him. He wants to believe in Kang Yohan so badly that it makes him emotional.

"You haven't," Gaon responds, his tone unwavering despite the constant state of wavering in his heart. Seeing Yohan does that to him. He should have known he would be uncomfortable from the start, because he knows he wants nothing more than to just…stay here again. He can't, however. So he steels himself and keeps his eyes locked fiercely on Yohan's.

"I have," Yohan answers back. The present scene isn't unfamiliar. Gaon, welcome as always in the Kang household (even after having 'betrayed' Yohan, too), stands before the older man, who is seated at his desk with his nose in yet another book. The study is familiar territory to Gaon. This discussion, however, isn't. He's not accusing Yohan of anything this time--he simply wants answers. Why is it so hard to get those?

"Do you think I'd be here in front of you if I agreed with you?" Gaon questions. He can't hide the elevation in his tone or how angry he sounds. Yohan is the master of drawing that emotion out of him and bringing it to the surface. He talks like he's so smug, but it's the walls he puts up that irritate Gaon more than anything. Why is he so bound and determined to keep everything to himself?

"I'd love to know why you're here," Yohan answers around a sigh. The impatience is there on his face. It usually is. The next step will probably be him abruptly rising from the desk, and then he'll attempt to physically silence Gaon from his persistent questions. For now though, the chief judge doesn't move. His brown eyes stay focused ever-precisely on Gaon's. "Considering the last time you spoke to me, you were convinced it was goodbye."

Gaon can hear it--the betrayal in Yohan's tone. He's composed, however, and it's obvious he's not trying to throw what happened in Gaon's face. He likely is just as curious to know why Gaon is here as Gaon is surprised he's even here.

"It's like you don't see why I did what I did," Gaon responds around a sigh, finally breaking eye contact to look about the study and compose himself for a moment. "Not that it matters right now. What I want to know is why there's a man hiding CCTV footage for you, and why you sent someone after him to threaten him recently."

Those words hit the mark, and Gaon can tell by the way Yohan gives pause. Yohan doesn't often hesitate, so it must be a surprise to him that Gaon even knows about that. He'd worked hard to make sure it was a secret, after all. Hard enough that he had threatened the poor guy with his life. Gaon is angry just seeing the truth in Yohan's eyes.

And even more so when Yohan offers a response.

"Why would I have need for threats?" Gaon thinks he sees concern in Yohan's expression as he questions him, but he also doesn't care at this point. "What happened to him?"

Screw Yohan standing up and attacking first. Gaon wants to lunge across the table at him. For now though, he tries to keep his cool. It's the only way he's getting answers about something Yohan is still trying to conceal from him. He lets his eyes fall shut, scowls, releases a long sigh, and clenches his anger into two fists at either of his sides. "He said it himself, you know. There's no point in playing dumb."

The exasperation on Yohan's face almost--almost--makes Gaon falter. It's the way he looks up at him. How his feelings look hurt, almost as if they were rehashing their discussion from so long ago and he's about to tell Gaon that it hurts his feelings that someone with that face would say something like that to him. Either way, Yohan lowers the book down to the desk. He has yet to lash out. Gaon wonders why he's suddenly so capable of keeping his own outbursts at bay.

"Gaon-ah," Yohan starts, and the emphasis on Gaon's name is wounding. His hands tremble while he waits for Yohan to continue. "When have I ever played dumb with you? I've declined to tell you things, but I've never acted as if I didn't even know about them. Let me ask you again--what happened to this man?"

"You can start with his name," Gaon tells him. "If you're not pretending you don't know anything, what's his name?"

Yohan sighs. "Jung Joseph," he compromises. "He's concealing footage for me--you're correct about that. But I wasn't aware that he did anything that warranted a threat."

Gaon frowns. He can tell Yohan isn't lying to him at this point. He's not going to ignore the burning desire for more information about the footage, but he supposes it's his turn now to uphold his end of the deal. "He said you sent people after him because he copied the footage--that you took it from him."

That's when Yohan gets to his feet, but it isn't in a violent outburst. It's with a shocking sense of urgency. Gaon is genuinely startled by it, and as Yohan speeds around the desk and makes for where he has his coat hung up, Gaon wheels around to watch him.

"Where are you going?"

Yohan shrugs on his coat. "With you. You're going to take me to Jung Joseph."

Gaon doesn't move. "You don't know where he is?"

"I know where he is," Yohan responds curtly. "I need you there to reassure him that I'm not about to kill him. We need to find out who took the footage."

Yohan's movements are nervous and urgent. Gaon has a feeling that if he does ride with Yohan to find Joseph, they're in for one hell of a race the whole way there. But what is it about that footage that has him so on-edge all of a sudden?

As Yohan makes out of the study and down the hallway, Gaon races to catch up. He only barely reaches Yohan at the door in time to stop him, and he does so by catching hold of Yohan's wrist. The speed at which Yohan wheels around and shoots Gaon a sharp glare is as fearsome as it is shocking, and Gaon's grip falters on pure instinct.

"What?" Yohan demands, his expression more fury than impatience. "We have to go."

No. Gaon can't back down now. He's so close to the answers he needs. He's so close to finding out what Soohyun died before she could. He has to do right by her. That in mind, he rights himself and makes his demand perfectly clear. "I'm not going anywhere until you tell me what's on that footage."

"You don't need to know--it has nothing to do with you." Yohan's words are curt and he tries to open the door again, but Gaon stops him once more by his wrist.

"I don't care who it's about," Gaon snaps back. "Why are you so hell-bent on keeping it a secret that you'd threaten a man with his life? You may not have done it this time, but I know for a fact you did before."

"I told you--" Yohan sweeps in closer, eyes wide, obviously trying to threaten Gaon. It's obvious he's lost his patience. "I've given you everything you need to know. The rest is none of your business."

"You're on the verge of being accused of murder--"

"I DON'T CARE!" Yohan's physical reaction comes in time with his verbal one. In seconds, he has Gaon flat on his back against the nearby corridor wall by two fists in the front of his shirt. He pulls him close and then slams him back against it one more. "You'll never see that footage, do you understand?" He takes advantage of Gaon's disorientated state and leans in so close that Gaon can feel his breath on his face. "I don't care how you or anyone else view me, but it isn't me I'm trying to protect right now."

It's in the way the venom dies from Yohan's words there that Gaon knows exactly who it is. Nobody else would understand, but Gaon does. Yohan likely doesn't expect him to--maybe he feels as if he's shared enough to cool Gaon down, but not enough to worry Gaon further. But Yohan's panic suddenly makes so much more sense to him now. He's only ever this frantic when it comes to one person.

"…Elijah," Gaon acknowledges aloud. His lips fall open, and his heart sinks in time with the slumping of his arms and shoulders, fingers loosening away from the sleeves of Yohan's coat. "Yohan…what happened to Elijah?" Suddenly, it's less about getting the truth and more about making sure Elijah is alright. And it also makes even more sense now why Yohan cares so little about being perceived as the devil.

Of course he would be the devil to protect Elijah. Gaon has seen it himself. Yohan loves her so much that it aches to see it in his eyes. And now that Gaon is letting that sink in, he realizes that he's not so sure he wants to know. At the same time, he's so worried that he feels the information is vital.

And Yohan is once again trusting him to help--even after he betrayed him during the most recent court case. Gaon feels guilty and sick to his stomach. His obsession with doing right by Soohyun replaces itself instantly with the understanding that she wouldn't want anything to happen to Elijah, either. If there was anyone other than Gaon who she was trying to protect in all of this, it was most likely Elijah.

Yohan looks visibly devastated. Whatever is going on that has to do with Elijah, he was desperate for Gaon to not find out. Why? It's certainly hard to believe that she could harm anyone with anything other than her words…

Now isn't the time, though. Yohan wants to protect his niece. Gaon wants to protect her. He'll decide how much he wants to know later. For now, he swallows down nervousness and ignores the emotion in his throat as he speaks up. "Joseph and I found dashcam footage from someone parked near his house." He digs into his pocket and extends the little SD card out to Yohan. "Whoever threatened him is probably on this footage. I doubt he'll open the door if you're there, so let's start with this."

Yohan takes the object and nods quickly. He looks as if he might be having some difficulty breathing. He's probably panicking. But he does relent somewhat and reach out to clasp Gaon's shoulder. Gives it a squeeze. Drifts his hand up to cup his cheek. Swallows down a lump of anxiety, and then nods once more. "Elijah first, alright? I'll think about whether you need to know what's on the footage and get back to you later."

Honestly, that's fair. Gaon will take it. He owes Yohan that much after everything that happened. Gaon still doesn't think giving citizens the power to carry out an execution is right, but that isn't the point right now. Despite having felt utterly betrayed by how Gaon handled it--by being publicly exposed as a manipulator--he's still asking for help now. Whatever it is, he's desperate.

And Gaon won't deny that his faith in Yohan is restored just a little by the bit of understanding he's gained today. He'll take what he can get.

He prays to a god he doesn't believe in that Yohan and Elijah come out of all of this alright. When the delicate object keeping everything from going crazy happens to be one piece of video footage, Gaon isn't so sure what the future holds. But he also thinks that if anyone can find a way to keep anything devastating from happening to Elijah, it'll be Kang Yohan.

No matter how angry he might be with Yohan, Gaon realizes that there's always going to be some part of him who has faith in his chief judge.

#the devil judge #tdj #gahan #kim gaon #kang yohan

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All of Us are Dead w/ "your voice sounds like boiling mayonnaise" being dropped. Go wild 😌😘

Being a hambie isn't so bad.

No, that's a lie. That's a blatant, obvious lie. Cheongsan legitimately feels the need to apologize to Namra on a regular basis for how much grief he gave her when he thought she'd become a zombie. But now that he's in the same position as her, he gets why it's so much worse. He also understands why her nature had shifted violently to self-sacrificial. The desire to bite normal humans--especially those Cheongsan is close to--is unreal. Hunger feels downright painful now, and sometimes, he feels as if he's becoming an entirely different being. His hearing and sense of smell is exponentially higher than it used to be, and sometimes, both sensations can be downright incapacitating. It's hell, to say the least.

Cheongsan doesn't know how he survived the explosion, but he did. He came out of the mess with one less eye, but at least he's alive. And from the looks of it, Gwinam wasn't as lucky as he was. Cheongsan has since run into Namra and the two have spent many a night together in the ruins of their school and hometown. Heart-to-hearts have been had, and Cheongsan has apologized countless times for trying to do away with her back in the music room.

She's laughed at him a good several times, which is something he didn't expect to see from her. But in all honesty, Namra can be very entertaining to be around. It's no wonder why Suhyeok had gravitated toward her as heavily as he had. He had seen someone else behind the pretty, quiet class president who hadn't actually wanted to be class president. Cheongsan now gets constant exposure to that. Considering the two of them can't be around the rest of their friends, it helps that they've connected like they have.

And converastion with a fellow hambie can be a breath of fresh air too.

Cheongsan misses the others, though. Every so often, the remaining survivors sneak out of quarantine and meet Cheongsan and Namra on the rooftop of the school. They catch up over campfires, and Onjo and Suhyeok recount stories of various goings-on in the camp. It seems as if life is manageable on that side of the world, but they're still pretty heavily restricted. It's a genuine shock that they haven't been caught sneaking out yet.

But they've done it multiple times now, and Cheongsan will take what he can get. There's no way they can go home with the others, after all, and he and Namra have both been lonely without them.

Plus, it's so good to see everyone looking so happy. Considering the hell they had all endured, it's good that they can still smile. Their group is smaller than it was at the beginning of the outbreak, and they still smile. They are moving on. They are going to live well.

Tonight is one of the nights when they're able to come to the school. Daesu and Hyoryung are bickering animatedly back and forth while Onjo tries to calm them both down. Namra and Suhyeok converse next to one another, and Cheongsan observes the whole thing from his spot on the other side of the fire. Hari and Mijin aren't able to come this time around, but Onjo says they'll be there the next time. Funny, how even with the short time they'd known that group, the two groups had come together so well. It's unfortunate the sacrifices that took place in between all of that, though.

Cheongsan's heart is full, but also heavy. He decides to give himself some space. He stands upright and heads for the other end of the rooftop. On pure gut reaction, he peers over the edge. At one point, Gwinam had managed to climb the wall up to the rooftop, and Cheongsan has never quite come to accept that he's dead. Considering how many times he'd thought they'd done away with the guy, that mentality is pretty justified.

But as per usual, there's no Gwinam in sight. Even with the smell of fresh blood and human flesh filling the air, Gwinam has yet to come running during any of their visits. Cheongsan breathes a sigh of relief and crosses his arms atop the concrete edge of the roof. It's chilly tonight, but not as cold as it has been. The others still seem to find the fire comforting, though. In their defense, lighting a campfire seems to be more of a tradition for them when they're together than anything now. Cheongsan cherishes it.

He misses his mom. He misses Gyeongsu. How interesting nights like these might have been with his mother trying to cook chicken over that fire while they all socialized. He can practically hear the fantasy of everyone's stomach growling at the smell of warm food. They'd all sing together again, and…

"You've really taken to this loner persona well, haven't you?"

Cheongsan doesn't know how long he's been lost in his own thoughts, but when Suhyeok's voice reaches him, he's pulled straight out of them. He turns his head to regard his friend, his eye seeking out the other's gaze. "Loner persona?"

The smile on Suhyeok's face doesn't waver. If anything, it spreads wider. "You're over here sulking by yourself. Please don't tell me that's the only company you give Namra, too."

"Shut up," Cheongsan elbows him--cautiously, because he's still trying to tone down some of his newfound strength. "I'm not sulking. I just decided to come over here for a few minutes."

He expects Suhyeok to keep teasing him, but he doesn't. Instead, his expression softens a few degrees and he moves to lean against the edge of the roof as well. "What's on your mind?"

Cheongsan shakes his head. "A lot of things, I guess." He lets out a sigh and glances over at the rest of the group, who seem to be unaware of their absence. They're no longer arguing at least, according to Cheongsan's keen hearing. "I like it when you guys come to visit, but it reminds me of everything at the same time."

"We're the reminder?" Suhyeok scoffs. Cheongsan wonders briefly if that was offensive to him, but the look on Suhyeok's face tells him otherwise. He seems just as relaxed as ever. His level of calm is a force to be reckoned with sometimes. "You sure it's not the fact that you're a hambie now? Or maybe how you're missing one eye?"

His words are hardly meant to offend, but Cheongsan furrows his brow at them regardless. Of course those are reminders too. It had taken Cheongsan a good deal of time to adapt to only seeing with one eye, and the vicious hunger chewing at his insides as a result of him being a hambie now is almost crippling at times. Still…

Cheongsan turns his gaze over the roof once more. "That's not what I mean. It's good that you guys are here--Namra and I both look forward to it every time--it's just…" Another sigh escapes him, and without looking at Suhyeok, Cheongsan can feel the weight of his stare. He can almost envision the elevated eyebrows and the mild look of concern on his face. He doesn't know why Suhyeok is such a gentle person despite having been such a punk for so long, but it's something that refuses to leave his mind right now. "I can't go back there with you. This is my version of picking up the pieces."

Cheongsan's superhuman hearing picks up every vibration of the sharp inhale that is Suhyeok's acknowledgment of the words. He feels the way his friend nods his head in underestanding. The concrete of the edge of the roof suddenly feels warmer with him too leaning against it. It gives Cheongsan the courage to continue.

"I miss my mom. I miss Onjo and the others." He scrubs at the back of his neck with his hand as he thinks. "I miss you all." He can't bring himself to admit it outright, but he misses Suhyeok, too. With his playful obnoxiousness and his stupidly big heart and his refusal to wear socks. His somewhat uppity form of 'pure' thinking. Cheongsan and Suhyeok have always bounced back and forth pretty well with one another, but during the onset of the outbreak…well, it's complicated. Cheongsan already has enough going on in his head right now. He's not going to try and understand his more difficult feelings.

Suhyeok takes a moment to process those words, and when Cheongsan looks over at him, he can see the thoughtfulness on his friend's face. There's a softness in those eyes that he can't quite figure out how to describe, but on some level, Cheongsan thinks that Suhyeok understands him. Considering how quick he had been to understand Namra, Cheongsan isn't all that surprised. Suhyeok may grate on Cheongsan's nerves a good deal of the time, but he's incredibly compassionate, too.

What Cheongsan isn't ready for, however, is the arm that slides around his shoulders and pulls the two of them closer. Cheongsan tenses visibly, cocking a brow up at Suhyeok. He's not actually all that bothered by it, but he knows he's pulling off a damn good look of annoyance to mask the genuine surprise from the sudden gesture. Suhyeok pays it no mind and squeezes him in a bit closer, in something of a side-hug.

And then he doesn't say anything.

Cheongsan is on the verge of wriggling free from Suhyeok's grasp (he's got enough strength to now, after all), but then his expert hearing catches onto something. He doesn't really have to be this close to hear it, but he's only truly aware of it once he is. It's in the long sigh that Cheongsan literally hears from Suhyeok's lungs all the way to when it leaves his lips, and the way his heart rate picks up. It's surprising, considering the calm on the other's face, but Cheongsan knows Suhyeok is good at playing it cool.

Cheongsan isn't going to say that he's leaning into the hold, but he's also not about to say he's pulling away, either. Something about hearing the way the closeness affects Suhyeok also convinces Cheongsan that this is okay. He's not going to delve into why it feels so natural or how nice it is with the view of the horizon standing before them, but whatever it is, it's nice.

It lasts precisely two minutes and seven seconds (yes, Cheongsan has been counting), up until Suhyeok's grip eases and he allows Cheongsan to stand upright. Once he's balancing on his own, Cheongsan turns to gawk up at his friend. Suhyeok is smiling almost smugly.

"Just confess, already," Suhyeok finally says around a scoff.

Cheongsan's face suddenly feels way too hot. "Excuse me?"

"You heard me," Suhyeok replies. "Or did you get a random case of hambie brain while I was embracing you just now?"

"Embracing?" Cheongsan shoves, perhaps a bit too roughly, considering Suhyeok stumbles backward as a result. He manages to catch himself just barely, and the smile never quite leaves his lips. A laugh follows once he's upright again.

"It's okay," Suhyeok continues, and Cheongsan has difficulty deciphering whether he's being honest or teasing him. "I'm here for it, you know. Even if we don't see each other much right now."

Cheongsan is a pretty collected person. He's been known to have his outbursts, but he's usually more level-headed than the rest of their friend group. However, right now is one of those moments where he thinks he might lose his cool. He knows for sure he's turning redder by the second. "Could you stop being cagey and say what you're trying to say?"

"I'm just waiting for you to give me the green checkmark," Suhyeok continues, as if he didn't hear Cheongsan's request at all. He tucks his hands into the pockets of his pants and backs up toward the fire. "Think about it some more, will you?"

"Stop talking!" Cheongsan retorts, trying to will his temperature back to its lower-than-human state.

Suhyeok points to his temple with one finger. "Hambie brain!"

As Suhyeok turns and starts back toward the rest of the group, Cheongsan can't stop himself. Perhaps a bit too loudly, he opens his mouth and calls out, "Yeah well, your voice sounds like boiling mayonnaise!"

The silence that follows is downright embarrassing. Even the fire seems to have dulled a little in response to the outburst. Cheongsan tries not to acknowledge that the rest of his friends are all now staring at him from over by the fire.

#all of us are dead #netflix all of us are dead #aouad #suhyeok x cheongsan #sorta #not heavily #cheongsan x suhyeok