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#— to yearn : saltburn
glitterslag · 4 months
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Also. All these bitches on tiktok who hyped it up to be the most shocking film ever seen are weak as fuck. Getting naked in the pouring rain and fucking the fresh grave of your deceased best friend/homoerotic idol is the tumblr girl's bread and butter
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bottomless-brainrot · 3 months
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One thing i will never get over with Saltburn is the little details.
Oliver going through the house naked following the same route that Felix guided him through when he first visited…
The camera work with that scene for Felix panning to the right constantly as he explains the different ‘landmarks’ for Oliver to remember his way around the house… but with Oliver’s scene the camera is constantly going to the left as it follows him dancing through the halls.
How quickly the camera follows Felix in the moment, almost too eager to keep him in the line of sight… but for Oliver its slower and uncaring that it lags behind him or that it gets Ollie out of frame from time to time.
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the writer in me has two things in mind:
it could be the house itself, reluctant to become a home for this new invader but cannot ignore him.
or its Felix’s ghost. His soul having not passed on just stalks the halls trying to make Oliver uneasy and afraid just as he felt the night he died, but Oliver kinda just revels in the attention like a freak.
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coolburgerphone · 2 months
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“I loved him” broke me a little…
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the-toulouser · 29 days
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the way oliver looks when he’s about to kill elspeth… like fuuuuck, dude. you don’t need to put me under comatose, my guy, you can kill me here and now <3
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wormswurld · 4 months
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SOMEONE PLZ MAKE A CATTONQUICK EDIT TO ONE OF YOUR GIRLS BY TROYE SAVIN PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
‼️UPDATE: shoutout to @whatifiexploded for helping me find an edit to this song! it’s by @clearedits18 on tiktok 😭‼️
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howlsconstantyearning · 4 months
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It’s insane knowing just how little of my day is spent NOT thinking of you, and figuring how little of your day is spent thinking about me..
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I will never trust anything tiktok say ever again. I was promised a hell den of sin depravity and things that would traumatise me. what I got was new kinks and gay yearning.
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mollymmusing · 4 months
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just !!!!!! thinking about lover, you should've come over
so I'll wait for you, and I'll burn
I know that my brain is fucked all the way up and I just can't stop thinking about felix and oliver but jeff buckley was RIGHT
it IS never over !!!!!
the ultimate song of yearning, of wanting, of fucking pining
depraved and desperate and so deeply, disgustingly full of love like that is ! !! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ooooh baby
anyways
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ffb6c1lover · 4 months
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her: you better not be crushing on your straight friend when I come back
my dumb ass:
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emojackolantern · 2 months
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adding dan and phil's album to my cattonquick playlist, not bc it fits the vibe, but bc i think they'd laugh if they saw it
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carolinemathildes · 3 months
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I saw Saltburn again tonight (it’s still playing in one cinema here, for one screening this week) and there were more people there tonight than when I saw it opening night in November. the people can’t get enough of it.
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30 minutes in to Saltburn and I'm clawing at the bars of my enclosure
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bottomless-brainrot · 5 months
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SALTBURN AS PORTALS ( melanie martinez ) SONGS
a/n | just a fun little rant and analysis of how specific songs on the album represent a character, their actions or emotions that I believe fit how I saw them within the movie. also i've never done a character analysis before so i will try to make my ideas clear for those of you who would like to read them.
a/n | also sorry if i repeat my points lol.
saltburn spoilers below
CHARACTERS
Oliver Quick - Tunnel Vison
yeah, you can look, but you can’t touch / i’m not just anybody
not the first thing i want to get into but i will be going through the songs line by line so here goes…
to start is the obvious ‘hands off’ rule that we find out is bestowed upon all of Felix’s ‘toys’ that he has brought out to Saltburn. Vague mentions of previous friends from Venetia, the hovering eyes of Farleigh for Oliver’s next slip-up and the instant anger Felix gets at Oliver for not understanding that he wasn’t for the other and just supposed to entertain him.
it was clear that the family seemed to be fascinated with him the same way people would at a zoo or an art museum, staring at the priceless treasures from a distance and never to get as close to them as a handler would
eyes on the prize,…that’s your demise, yeah, you hold me like you’re rushing to my thighs
Oliver’s weird sexual tension with Felix throughout the movie due to that white savior complex
his way in right from the start was Felix’s need to fix him; that power in knowing that he could make him happier than whatever Oliver had now.
honeysuckle and fresh meat / but i’m more than that
the Cattons never saw Oliver to be on their level. Oliver was always told who he was and how to act from the family so much so that they believed his innocent act up until their final moments. he easily weaved himself into a core front of the family in a matter of days really showing that he wasn’t to be underestimated…
playing house to distract me / but you’re no good at acting
thinking back to the scene where Felix is talking to Oliver and Oli mentions that his family has problems and Felix instant shift of posture and interest is such a dead give away
i mean it took Oliver one bat of an eye lash and a smile to find out each individual family member’s deepest darkest secrets and twist them into a control point for his own game.
seeing that at it’s core, the Cattons weren’t anything but forced smiles and money bags of a picture perfect family. such an old money move.
i make them tumble down the hill they climbed / i don’t regret it
using the family to slowly climb up the ranks and then getting rid of them one by one just so he could have it all to himself.
king of the hill moment
show me how far obsession goes / could have been more now we’ll never know
in the end, i am a firm believer that if Felix listened and forgave him then Oliver wouldn’t have given him the poisoned glass.
if he had mentioned that they were still friends but he needed some time to think, Oli would have definitely poured out the glass and un-pretend to be wasted out if his mind to have a better conversation and 'fix' things.
but anyway, Oliver spilling his guts to Felix and still not having that wholehearted love reciprocated really did a number on him which led to the killing no doubt. what they could have had together in the end was only left for one.
i saw a post on here earlier might link if i find it but it was something like “oliver having sex above his grave because he couldn’t ever do anything with Felix unless there was a distance between them” and i couldn’t agree more!
Felix Catton - Spider Web
flexing like pricks with their stolen power / they're just who the spider will eat
not that Felix was flaunting his wealth or his social status, but that was what made him a target to Oliver as well as his desperate need to 'help' him get away from what he thought was his hectic lifestyle
he was gullible enough to believe everything he was told over his own family countless times, and even after finding out the lies he still chose to hide the truth because he didn't want to be seen in a different light to his family.
thinking about that line "you’re kind about everyone, you can't be trusted." so heavily right now.
didn't ask for this dangerous visibility / i'm feeling too scared to sleep
the moment when Oliver spills his guts and tells Felix he did it all just for him. made himself into this character just so that he could get close to him and secure his spot within his life as a friend.
it left Felix visibly staggered as he thinks about everyone else who could have done the same; everyone else he's left high and dry for his attention and the possible lengths they went through to try and get it back in his past.
better off dead than stuck in a maze / the center may seem like a gift
Felix having sex in the maze believing no one would find him there because its a place he knows like the back of his own hand. however, Oliver's interruption makes it known that he is more exposed than he thought.
also to me his death being at the center of the maze and him being the dead center of the family as they all mourn him with such vigor and slowly lose their minds really gets to me.
up all night, bound to their addiction to it / lifeless eyes, they die in the pit of the spider web
Felix's premature death being the root to how Oliver get his 'in'. he was the hub of the web and after his death is when everything truly spiraled into chaos and one by one his family followed him to the grave.
Elspeth Catton - Leeches
leeches surrounded, conscience is throbbing
Elspeth my love you dissevered only happiness.
i think we could all agree that the wealth came from her as well as the family’s popularity due to her younger years in life with her career
Elspeth, as we come to find out, has met many influential individuals throughout her life as well as the free loaders.
we hear about the numerous people that have come to Elspeth for favors and help in their troubled time, that really only used her kindness to get into a life of luxury. ( not including pamela )
although it is draining for her, she never openly complains about how helping is a bother for her building up the exhaustion until someone else brings it up.
let all their friends in, the enemy's present
Felix gets his kindness from his mother’s side obviously, thats clear in how she is so inviting with Pamela and Oliver regardless of their circumstances.
i cannot stress enough how i feel like she would have ket Pamela at Saltburn if nothing was whispered to her about how ‘awful’ Pamela was.
she was drawn into the direction of who was the problem in the eyes of others but never her own. thinking about the dinner table scene after finding Felix’s dead body n how Farleigh called out to her to save him instead of pleading his case. he knows she would have saved him like she has before.
how much blood can you draw / with your claws from a flesh that's not yours? / my hands aren't yours, and / gnaw on my bones, no marrow left
honestly hate how Oliver played the long game with her
he found out her routine after Sir James’ death, stalked her, gave her a false sense of home after losing her entire family by his hands and then killed her off and stole all her wealth.
i believe she had the most tragic death and if you want to debate on the argument of ‘innocence,’ she really displayed no evils.
Venetia - Womb
oh the rant im about to do
a seed in mother and I chose that space for me / little does she know it's free, ooh, yeah
the moment i saw her on screen i just knew she had some sort of issue with her mother and boy was i so on the spot
its vague when Elspeth mentions it so i could be completely wrong but i believe Venetia ( and Felix ) was raised by her grandparent ( “my mother always said born masochist” )
i felt that Venetia has wanted to get a rise out of her mother with her sexual activities because she was never given that parental figure she wanted. never been disciplined the way she should’ve as a child or told good from bad.
how Elspeth just dumps out all Venetia’s dirty laundry the moment she meets Oliver and doesn’t seem to care that she’s flaunting herself to a complete stranger. almost encourages it!
its no wonder she’s so close with her brother because he’s shown true spine with her
and I know my brother / he'll make the journey later on / conversations in the cosmos, yeah
if you didnt pick up on the incestuous relationship between Felix n Venetia i don’t believe we watched the same movie.
a lot of what im saying is up for debate but i know that their parents took trips frequently. the casual mention of going to London for Pamela’s funeral was all by chance and if Elspeth hadn't said anything they would have left without a word, and seeing how okay with it Venetia and Felix were gave me so many thought on them.
just being stuck in all of Saltburn by themselves just free to do with the wealth and the space as they please alone together
for years it must have always been them, maybe Farleigh was there on occasion but most of the time its been them.
and i can see with Felix it’s beyond protective brother. no he’s made claim to Venetia the same way he’s done for Oliver and all his past friends.
“i’m used to it, honestly. he never liked sharing his toys. even the ones he doesn’t want to play with anymore.” oh im so sick
at first i had thought Oliver was replaced again but she was referring to herself in this moment and that did it for me.
Felix claiming his own sister for himself, she doesn’t need another males approval because Felix is all she has depended on for her every need why should she stop now even if he doesn't think of her in that way anymore?
why should she go for another when he’s still here? why go through that pain when he’s only ever showed her real happiness?
no one could ever be as impactful as him in her life and whenever someone gets close he cuts them off. i’m gonna climb the walls
feeling alive, the closer that I get to my life / i’m pushing out the center, the core / i’m sweating through the flower no more, no more
Venetia finding her control and power through the means of her own body is sickening to me.
like openly saying how she got molested and her own mother making a joke out of it and offering her to a stranger im so sick and furious right now.
sex being the only way she’s noticed, the only way people will listen to her the way she wants instead of being seen like some fragile beauty like her mother
all of the planning, yet I still feel unprepared / kick and screaming 'cause I'm scared, ooh, yeah
sorry to bring it back to the incest but my god you cannot tell me she doesn’t get at all Felix’s closet friends for the giggles
Venetia is sickeningly scared of losing the one person in the house she’s emotional intertwined to so of course she interjects herself into his relationships the only way she knows how — and it works every time.
getting with all of Felix's best friends to spend more time with Felix as the lover of his closest friends this girl was obsessed
she knows he’ll get mad and she knows she’ll get that parental chiding from Felix but he will never cut her off the way he does his friends because they only have each other in end.
the intimacy between them tells a story only woven by having to embrace one another on a different level then just siblings. they were naked in front of each other sunbathing unabashed like a regular tuesday for fucks sake.
and I know she suffers contractions of hell and death / eyes are bloody screaming out, ooh, yeah
thinking about her final moments with this
bathing in Felix’s bath tub, soaking in his soap, smelling his aftershave on Oliver’s face like second nature, seeing his clothes on another man and feeling so disgusted and yet its so inviting.
she kisses Oliver in the heat of the moment not because its him but because if she closes her eyes and forget for just a moment it would have been Felix.
but of course its not enough and its not the same as having him there alive so she chooses.
a life on earth that's a living hell without the man that makes her whole or to be reunited with him in death. she chose the latter.
Farleigh - Void
it's tastin' kinda lonely / and my mind wants to control me
the self-preserving outcast of the Cattons.
its clear in the script and Archie did such a wonderful portrayal of his emotions because that boy Farleigh was really there for himself.
he had his own back from the get go
he’d be present within all conversation but at the same time watching everyone, pinpoint each and every shift in the pecking order and making sure he doesn’t leave his place in the middle of it all.
no one here but me to judge me
whether it ever was a race thing or if it was just a status thing, Farleigh knew of his own worth and because of it he knew the other couldn’t ever understand him no matter how much explaining would need to be done
then comes in Oliver, the outcast with a need for a approval that he knows will overshadow his own
honestly i never thought he hated him per se, but he knew of his intentions from the start he just underestimated how low Oliver would go to maintain his own position
i’m tryin' to find the doorway / my eyes are starin' at me / and they seem so damn unhappy
his family struggles and pride being his greatest turmoil of all in the movie
seeing how easily the Cattons give away their wealth to complete strangers over their own bloodline must not have been easy, especially having to go and beg for it.
i believe he wanted a way out of it, to find some way to rely on himself to support his side of the family but that wasn’t something be could have easily obtained so the Cattons were his only real option.
pipe down with the noise, i cannot bear my sorrow
Farleigh being the first to notice Oliver for who he is the night of the death and the morning following hurt me so much
if he had more of a backbone to press into Felix and the rest of the family that this nobody can’t get close to them i feel like things would have been so different.
Felix was a family matter, Oliver’s presences wasn’t a needed one especially only having known him for a single term. it was just invading
in that moment of sadness is when it clicked for Farleigh, if not that Oli was the root of the problems at Slatburn he had to be a factor in them
but do to his own emotions he couldn’t find the right way to expose it.
look at the mess i've done, there is nowhere to run, yeah / holdin' a loaded gun, the void
Oliver outing Farleigh in the end to ensure that he was dealt with in his plan. i’m furious
not that anything he was doing the night of the party was right but he wasn’t the only one
the maids scrubbing cocaine from the toilets and tables highlights that plus Venetia and Felix were there too but Farleigh was only trying to fit in and keep his place in the close circle so he joins them. if he were reluctant to or chicken out then he wouldn’t be a toy anymore and that looming pressure of loosing his funding was already enough to keep him chained to them.
but it was never something he could have denied or challenged especially with his history so he had no choice but to leave all his life and behind and get replaced by a nobody.
Sir James - Battle of the Larynx
explained within duo expression.
Pamela - The Contortionist
twisted all my limbs for you / two of them in knots and two of them in loops
poor dear Pamela
she was the only normal person in the entire film with no grudge on anyone or ill intent. literally just need a place to stay to get back on her feet and that is what the Cattons offered but because she wasn't interesting enough to entertain them they tossed her away.
asking her to fetch a made as soon as Oliver enters as an excuse to get her to leave so the conversation could shift onto her
you can tell 'em what you wanted to
Pamela didn't live a life of lavish obviously by her proper nature ( the same persona Oliver pretended to play except you know a genuine one ) so of course the others treated her as entertainment.
Farleigh and Elspeth saying her looks were her only point just a dull flower in bloom
also Elspeth's comment about how she dropping so many hints before it goes so far really bugged me
like the only time they pressed for her to leave was at the dinner when she brought up having found a place and even then it was a half assed 'oh we'll miss you so much'
twisting all my bones like screws / stretching my self-worth, just like you usually do
i think Pamela thought of Elspeth as a friend helping out
then she's suddenly thrusted out of the house without notice, bags already packed and cab fare paid as if her new arrangements had been already settled.
i cannot begin to understand how hurt she might have been in that moment and what could have been the core drive for her suicide but her death really hurt me the most.
DUO EXSPRESSIONS
Oliver & Ventia / Elspeth - Faerie Soiree
mushrooms everywhere i'm turning / laced with love, intensive grooving / they said, they sail / i know how to make you go crazy every day
the spell he casted on both Elspeth and Venetia
had both woman hooked on him trying to draw that hidden side he only expressed to them in secret.
the Oliver that got Venetia to eat again. the Oliver that had Elsepth stunned at his forwardness and thinking of him even after the incident. the Oliver that would have had Farleigh under his thumb if he hadn't went for the kill so soon.
led me astray to the faerie soirée / alone, alone / now i wanna ride with the magic / lose sight of the gravity of home
he was a welcomed distraction to both of them. a change that they hadn't thought would be influential as he was.
given them both an individual false hope - for Venetia it was a man who showed initiative if only for a moment that could toy with her instead of the other way around; for Elspeth it was familiarity he would give her some sort of normal in the now hollow halls of Saltburn.
it is such a shame both couldn't see past the fantasy until it was too late.
Oliver & Ventia - Moon Cycle
...do I really need to explain?
But in all seriousness,
he bit the cherry down, he's delirious / seeing red figures in his mirrors and / acting like a real tough, furious
giving her a outlet for her parental issues
the first man in a while that showed her dominance in a way that had her changing her whole routine
he says he doesn't care, that he's into this / it happens every time the new season hits
Venetia thought Oliver would be different than Felix's other toys that come to Saltburn, but was disappointed once again.
now he kissing on the ground that i walk on / tryna get another taste, but I'm all cramped up
her dumping him right after Felix found out ( thinking Felix had a private conversation with her ) he was eager to fic things but she wasn't going to play a game with another coward of a man.
juice melting like raspberry pomegranate / it's so scary
" no, i wanted to look at the moon. it's nearly full. do you know what that means? " | " we're all about to lose our minds. "
oh the foreshadowing. Venetia you are too powerful
seeing that version of Oliver ( the one who had her delirious ) the day of the incident. piecing together everything in the end ( you disgusting little nobody. oh my god. you ate him right up. and licked the fucking plate. ) leaving her shocked and broken over what she's done. how close she got close to the cause of it all. frightened by everything
Sir James & Elspeth - Battle of the Larynx
i speak in cursive, i'm poignant, assertive / there's musical chairs in my teeth
Sir ' what i say must be the truth always ' James
thinking about how nothing happens unless he approves. how every order and command that was ever given had went through him first if it wasn't his command to begin with
deciding that Pamela needed to leave, lowering the amount Farleigh's mom gets, cutting Farleigh off after finding out about the drugs, bribing Oliver because he needed normalcy again
and it was all enforced with such urgency too, no question to any of it like he was a general to his soldiers
don't you battle with my larynx tonight / i'll wreck you if you chase me / but i'll be silent 'til you cross the line
Sir James had minimal lines within the movie but whenever he did it held authority.
when something wasn't going the right way he'll interject ( insisting to Pamela at the dinner table that her time was due ) other than that he was silent until called upon
and they talk without thinking / they bark while they're shaking / with teeth that are round and dull
he was the controlling factor within the family and to Elspeth
he knew what was best for her all the time, he knew what she needed all the time, he knew just what to say to get her to listen all the time
i will die on this hill. Elspeth would have let Pamela stay longer if he hadn't said anything to her and she probably would have overlooked Farleigh doing drugs the day of the party if Sir James didn't fight it.
but anyway, James wasn't someone that Oliver could have manipulated, not like the rest of the family so he had to buy time until his death which he got lucky for.
Saltburn would have been unattainable if Sir James hadn't passed really.
Farleigh & Oliver - EVIL
and it felt like bliss, used to miss your kiss / now i'm hop-skip jumpin' over narcissists / ... / now the role is reversed and told you i'ma switch / how you like my spit?
they should have fucked on screen at least four more times your honor
their back and forth. cat and mouse. push and pull. the tension of fighting for the center spot of attention for the family and fucking for dominance would have done it for me
but Oliver had to fuck that up with the email. he could have really controlled Farleigh, lulled him into thinking they should work together for what they want and then hung him out to dry but no Oliver was greedy
the panic in Oliver's eyes though when Farleigh admits to being invited to the party after he thought he got rid of him was priceless
just one foiled seduction after another with him
everything i expressed, i professed / it never quite made it through / ... / no, i won't defend you to all my friends / this time, i refuse
the quips at Oliver's pride. the mentions of getting bored and tossed aside. stating his claim on Saltburn and rubbing it in his face on his birthday. Farleigh played the game well even if he lost it in the end.
if you bite my hand again / i will never feed you, you can call me evil / take it to the grave if you wanna play pretend / i won't be mistreated, please call me conceited
Oliver finding out about Farleigh's private life and family issues and Farleigh's retaliation at karaoke with "rent".
Oliver pointing out their in the same boat offering the mic and how easily Farleigh accepts the mic just like how easily he accepts his role.
shows their difference in it really; Farleigh takes it as it is, he knows what his life has become and what could happen if it ends. and yet Oliver still saw himself as something more to the Cattons and especially Felix.
Farleigh & Ventia - Powder
don't wanna know where you go when you aren't around / i'd rather stay naive, too much to believe
it's past point of no return, when will we learn? / alert me when this shit is over
the acceptance they both have to face in the end. Farleigh in knowing he's been bested and that all his wealth is gone. Venetia seeing how Oliver got to consume her own brother's identity whole and take what was most precious to her.
show me a picture you paint of someone else / lived a double life, wish i was surprised
eyes rollin' back to your head, and i'm wonderin' how / i recognize your face, put it all to waste
will never be the same again knowing that these two died seeing the truth. all the fight was stripped from them piece and left vulnerable to the emotional pain Oliver put them through.
THE CAUSE AND EFFECT
Felix to Everyone - Nymphology
call me your nymph / praise me for martyr, praise me for sin / call me your muse / a sprite or an elf you cry to, then use
Felix was everything to everyone. he could do no wrong as he was the pinnacle; forced on a pedestal he never fought for or against.
everyone wanted Felix. be it to brag about the sex, to have the money or to just let it be known that they were in his circle.
and he lived it up.
he knew the power he had on people and used it how he pleased. ditching his hookups when he got bored, cutting ties with friends that weren't of interest to his close circle anymore.
he knew of the people's infatuation, but no one ever dared to over step a boundary in fear of angering their chosen so he lived like he was untouchable. believed he was on another level to all and got so full of himself he couldn't see the signs of wandering hands getting closer and closer to the unattainable.
i'm not crazy, i'm not wild, you're just stupid, little child / get your image off my back, i'll give you a heart attack
Oliver wanted Felix in both body and mind. the devotion he forced onto Felix, begging and pleading to be his henchman again after being found out.
Felix wanted none of it, the first time ever seeing someone want him on a level of desperate he's never seen and feeling revolted
but Oliver tells it to him the way no one else could, because that is his life. people treat him like a king on his throne and approach in a line offering whatever they can to get his approval. locked in the maze with no guards he was left to see it all as it is.
Oliver to Felix - Pluto / Light Shower but will not elaborate
I think that it's finally time pluto, destroy me / kill me off slowly / i'll bathe in my ashes / rise like a phoenix / show me who I am becoming
Felix bringing Oliver to the point of no return.
cutting him off with dignity for the sake of the family not knowing he made a mistake in judgement.
Oliver not being able to handle being seen, cannot cope with knowing that his infatuation sees his true colors
pluto, transform me / turn off my lonely / i'll sit with my silence / fix all my conflict / show me the demons I'm hiding
yet at the same time, he's free.
he has had his fill of Felix - his fill of the Cattons - whether he wanted to believe it or not.
he had gotten closer than his plan had assigned, so close he's hurt by his own action. crying and fucking his grave as one last show of his 'love' left soaking in the muck.
moving on with no regrets to the next phase of the plan.
Oliver to the Cattons - Milk of the Siren
strangle the fear of deciding / which one's deserving to drown
the montage at the end
Oliver's plan unfolding the moment he laid eyes on Felix. how he watched and waited, studied what would have made him noticeable. Found out his class schedule and he sabotaged his bike, weaved a lie so great that when it was found out he had to die.
tired of silence and being polite / your legs turn to shimmering scales in the night
Oliver hunting the Cattons in the evening. whispers to Elsepth, the peeping tom moments with Felix, following Venetia, fucking Farleigh.
all of it under the moons watchful eye.
don't feel bad when these fuckers all drown / let them drown / let them drown / let them drown
" and you made it so easy. spoiled dogs sleeping belly-up." | " no natural predators. " | " well... almost none. "
nothing wrong with a little havoc (drink from the leche of sirens) / it's fun when shit hits the fan
all the side notes in the script. ( he looks up to see Duncan’s silhouette staring down at him from the hill above. he can deal with that later. )
he had fun toying with them all and becoming the new king. putting all their wealth to a better use than he thought they could.
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remuslovebot · 4 months
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Oooo for the Felix drabbles could you do something along the lines like it’s the readers and Felix’s first time together?👀
omg this is so sweet! sorry it’s so late, i got carried away <3
i hope you enjoy it xx
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pairing: felix catton x fem!reader
warnings: smut! minors dni 💋 — loss of virginity, use of y/n, language, tooth rotting fluff, p in v sex, unprotected sex, praise kink, innocence kink.
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Felix and you had been dating the last weeks of school. For the summer, he’d invited you over to his house. At first it felt like an imposition and too soon to see his family. But as charming as Felix was, he convinced you.
So here you were taking a tour of Saltburn, Felix showing you his home. “This is my room,” he said walking into a lavish room with books and papers everywhere.
“Through here is the bathroom and your room is right next door,” he smiled, walking into an empty guest bedroom.
Felix’s house was a bit overwhelming and you sat down on the bed. “This is wonderful Felix, thank you,” you smiled at him.
He sat down next you to and placed a hand on your knee. You blushed turning your head to face his. Felix admired your beautiful face, looking down to your lips and then into your eyes.
“I’ve set out a dress for you, for dinner tonight. I forgot to mention that we dress for dinner,” Felix informed you.
“It’s okay, it sounds like fun,” you said. Felix smiled softly, moving his face closer to yours. You placed a kiss on his lips, savoring his touch.
Felix kissed you back, a hand moving to your jaw softly. “I know, I know we haven’t yet. But I’d like to, if you want to,” he said softly, a look of yearning in his eyes.
When Felix first got involved with you, he knew you were innocent and a virgin. It’s what drew you to him. But whenever things got heated, he couldn’t bring himself to corrupt you just yet.
You nodded, your face incredibly close to his. “I want to. But maybe we should wait…until tonight?” You said. You felt inexperienced and vulnerable, especially under Felix’s touch.
He winked at you, pulling away. “We’ll see darling. Can’t wait to see you all dressed up.” Felix said, then exiting the room.
You felt all fuzzy inside and your stomach felt heavy. You pushed your thighs together.
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Later that night, you were dressed in a long black silhouette dress. You put up your hair in a messy bun and put on light makeup. Walking down to the dining room, you weren’t expecting to see Felix at the end of the hall.
“Hello,” you smiled innocently at him. Felix was dressed in a black suit and tie. He looked as handsome as ever.
When he saw you however, all he wanted to do was rip your dress right off you. Felix’s breath caught in his throat, you were beautiful.
“You look…amazing,” Felix said, blushing softly. He wrapped a hand around your waist lightly, to guide you to the dining room.
You sat down at the table, Elsbeth complimenting your dress. She sat you right next to Felix and he wouldn’t stop teasing you throughout dinner.
During the main course, his hand was on your thigh. His thumb rubbing soft circles. It made your stomach jolt and you could feel something fuzzy between your legs. You clenched around nothing.
Felix couldn’t have eaten fast enough, he wanted to finish dinner, take you upstairs and have you all to himself. You were looking so innocent in your dress it made him hard.
Finally dinner ended and Felix excused you both, saying you were tired after your long trip.
You walked up the stairs with him and in hushed tones you turned to him. “Felix, that was rude. We should have stayed,” you said, a small laugh escaping your lips.
He grabbed your waist softly and pinned you up against a bookcase. Looking down at you with his charismatic grin. “I can’t help it. I need you,” Felix said, almost close to a whine.
“You need me?” You asked softly, bucking your hips into his already visible erection.
Felix groaned, his head falling to your neck. “Yes, let me destroy you and make you mine, please.”
You nodded, a small and quiet “yes” echoing through Felix’s ears.
With one swoop, Felix lifted you up. You laughed a little too loudly and covered your mouth.
“It’s alright, darling. No one can hear us from this side of the house. You’ll be able to be as loud as you want,” Felix said playfully, sloppily kissing your cheeks and neck.
He carried you into his room and gently placed you down on the bed.
“Are you sure?” Felix asked, wanting to have your full and verbal consent before corrupting your innocence
“Yes, I’m sure,” you said, knowing in your heart that you wanted Felix badly.
He nodded, hovering over you and sliding a hand down your side. “I’m going to rip this dress off you,” Felix said.
You giggled, “But you’ll destroy it and I’ll have nothing to wear for dinner.”
“I’ll buy you a hundred dresses then, even more than that if you need,” Felix said, loving the thought of spoiling you.
You playfully rolled your eyes and connected your lips with his. Your arms grabbing his shoulders and pulling him on top of you. Felix sunk into your touch and melted. His hands tugged at the delicate fabric of the dress.
Felix broke the kiss and began to plant kisses down your neck, to your collarbone and then to your now unclothed breast.
Your nipples hardened under the chill in the room. A moan escaped your lips at Felix’s touch.
“Yes, darling. Make those pretty noises,” he praised and encouraged.
Soon your dress was off and most of Felix’s suit was on the side of his bed. He was laying on top of you, needing your left breast with one hand and moving his other hand to your panties.
“Felix, don’t tease,” you said, your arousal already getting the best of you. Felix hummed, slowly removing your panties and placing a finger through your wet folds.
“Such a good girl for me, already wet for me,” he praised. “You’re so innocent, bet you’ve never been touched like this,” Felix said.
You moaned under his touch, melting like butter on a hot pan. He moved his thumb to your clit, rubbing in slow circles. The knot in your stomach was tightening.
“I’m not going to have you cum yet, alright. I need to get you ready for my cock first,” Felix said, removing his thumb from your clit. The lewd words making you more aroused.
Felix gently slipped a finger into your heat, moving it in and out slowly. He then added a second finger stretching you out some more.
You moaned and after a minute he knew you were ready. Felix maneuvered you closer to him, ready to use you like his favorite toy.
“Ya ready love?” He asked, removing his boxers and his cock sprung free.
“Yes, please I need you inside me,” you begged, clenching around nothing.
Felix smirked, running a hand down your thigh. “It’s going to hurt for one second and then it will feel amazing, I promise,” Felix cooed, looking deep into your eyes.
You nodded, as Felix fit himself into your entrance. A groan fell from his lips and he stayed there. You clenched around him and grabbed his shoulders, waiting for the pain of your virginity to disappear.
“That’s my good girl,” Felix praised, beginning to slowly move in and out of you.
You both were a pile of pants and moans, feeling eachother and moving as one. Felix was soft and rough, your hands stayed on his chest.
The knot in your stomach tightened and you couldn’t hold in it any longer. “Felix, I’m gonna cum, I can’t—,” you moaned, eyes shutting in pleasure.
“That’s okay, lovely. Let go, cum for me,” Felix whimpered, getting close to his orgasm aswell.
You came, bucking your hips into Felix as you rode out your high.
Not long after Felix came, groans falling from his lips and into your eardrums.
It was so surreal and your sweaty body was tired. Felix collapsed next you and pulled your body into his. You were exhausted, the pain and pleasure overstimulating you. You fell asleep in Felix’s arms.
When you awoke, sun was streaming through the window. Felix and you hadn’t moved throughout the night. He was asleep beside you, your naked body covered by the softest sheets you’ve ever felt.
You mildly stretched, not wanting to wake the angel beside you. But it was no use, Felix’s eyes fluttered open and a soft grin appeared on his face when he saw you.
“Hello,” Felix giggled softly, nudging his head into your neck.
“Hi,” you replied, turning your sore body towards him.
“You’re glowing,” He said, looking down at your lips and then to your eyes. Felix leaned into kiss you and you felt like you were in heaven.
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head, heart, hand. {Felix Catton/Reader/Oliver Quick}
Part 1.
Summary: It had been a long time since your world has revolved around anyone but Felix Catton. He was like that; undeniably, unassumingly magnetic. You'd watched countless fawning, fairweather friends drawn into his orbit, only to be cast out when he eventually got bored of them, but not you, never you. Maybe you were a toy in the beginning, the thing they'd all called you when they were feeling especially petty, but it became clear that Felix has wanted to keep you around. You weren't a toy, you weren't family, you were a sharp and beautiful tool, too good, too useful to be put down. Your loyalty was rewarded with a life in his shape. Felix was like the sun, and you lived your life enjoying his warmth, and wanting to keep him shining.
{ masterpost }
Need to Know: They/Them. Explicitly NB Reader. FWB!Reader with Felix, Venetia, and implied Farleigh in this chapter. Reader is from a well off family but has pretty much been adopted by the Cattons.
Warnings: Smut (M & F Receiving (not reader)), discussions of gender set in 2003 (no slurs tho). Degrading language (reader is referred to as as dog)
A/N: 3698 words. HELLO EVERYONE AND WELCOME!! Im so excited for this, this first chapter is essentially setting up the reader's life and dynamic with Felix and the Cattons. There's some Venetia/Reader and implied Farleigh/Reader but its the casual kind of sexuality they all share in the movie, yanno? Please let me know what you think, i LOve feedback!
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You can't quite remember a time where your world didn't revolve around Felix Catton. He's rather like that; magnetic. His very aura is intoxicating, suffocating, until they're breathless and all but gasping his praises. You've seen it happen countless times since you'd first met him all those years ago.
Felix is affectionate and tactile, always yearning for contact with those around him like he has no idea how it looks from the outside. His hand around your shoulders, your waist, a kiss on your cheek, offering you a bump of coke from the back of his hand - you'd been too young when it has started for anything to seem too far when you're older. It felt only natural that you'd learned in due course the sensation of his mouth and hands on every inch of your body, just as you could name every part of him from the touch of your lips alone. Or Farleigh. Or Venetia. It was one of the many things that seemed far too normal growing up in such an insular, secluded environment. But everyone knew you were Felix's, even if he decided to share you on occasion.
Summers by the lake and Winters by the fire, Saltburn was where you found yourself when you found Felix to be your home. Months long sleepovers, and of all one hundred and seventy nine rooms, you share a bed with Felix most nights. Innocent children huddled for comfort, sharing dreams and laughter and hope for the future; adolescents turn to teenagers, and though the bed sharing continues, it does not remain so innocent.
And you are the only one to taste his hesitation the first time he ever kisses you, the only one to hear him breathless with surprised delight the first time you take his cock in your mouth since he's bored and wonders what everyone's going on about.
"What if I'm shit at it?"
"Do you want practice?"
The script is more of a formality when you're a few years into high school and both expecting to start screwing around.
Nervous, inexperienced touches easily became familiar, intimate gestures.
Its not something you talk about at school or in public, the people in your lives know you're close, but couldn't reasonably gauge the full extent beyond some schoolyard rumours... Which are technically true. But you both downplay it to most of the world. Perhaps it's about keeping up the appearance of availability; less chances to hook up with other people if they all assume you're taken.
A lot of your school life is about keeping up appearances, but that comes with the territory of being a well-to-do child of a wealthy family. At least you don't have to weather it alone.
With the amount of money your families are throwing at the schools you attend, of course you've forgotten more love showings of Shakespeare's comedies and dramas and tragedies than most students around the nation have even heard of, good only for how Felix's friend group - and you always amongst them - make fun of some of the truly awful lines.
Still, there are moments when the pretense drops. You catch each other holding reverence for the way the world speaks about love -
"You do impeach your modesty too much -" Felix is ahead of you in the maze, looking for a break from his family after Elspeth had insisted upon you all taking a trip to see A Midsummer Night's Dream in the city.
"What?" You laughed; it was getting dark, the solar fairy lights were beginning to glow amongst the imposing walls of leaves. Felix grins over his shoulder at you.
"Like in the play, remember? Near the start, Demetrius and one of the girls; you do impeach your modesty too much to leave the city and commit yourself into the hands of one that loves you not."
"Yeah but you love me, though," you laugh, and quicken your pace to catch his hand. You find yourself remembering the scene with a smile, but as the maze opens up ahead to the centre clearing, Felix slows. Pulling you close, he walks you to the wall of the maze, the strong branches and glossy leaves against your back.
"To trust the opportunity of the night, and the- the," his expression is playfully annoyed as he searches for the line.
"Something about it being deserted?" You supplied with little more than a murmur, thrill running down your spine as his body is warm, pressed against yours.
"Fuck, thanks, yeah," he breaks character for a moment with a huff of laughter, warm affection in his eyes, before that hungry, wanting look passes over him again, "to trust the opportunity of the night, and the ill counsel of a desert place with the rich worth of your virginity."
"The rich worth of my virginity?" You can't help but giggle, and Felix again breaks, if only to roll his eyes. As he pulls back, however, you wrap an arm around him, softly apologising, promising to play along. Again, he feeds you the line, and this time you lean into it, into the moment, into the intensity in his eyes. There's so much barely concealed want in his gaze, it overwhelms you, all you can think to do is kiss him.
"Your virtue is my privilege," you gasp amidst frantic kisses, wrapping your arms around him, trying desperately to remember the rest of the lines you know that you'd also been taken with in the theatre. Pulling back for just a second, you see him grinning when you take his face in your hands, "it is not night when I do see your face, therefore - something something - not night." The two of you erupt back into laughter before his mouth finds yours again, and the two of you are wrapped up in each other, blindly stumbling towards the solid statue you both know is there.
"Nor doth this wood," you find your voice again when Felix is leaning against the statue and you're making quick work of his undoing belt, "lack worlds of company, for you -" and with his belt undone, the two of you pause, taking stock of the moment. Both breathing heavily, you lean in and give him a languid kiss, your fingers looped into the waistband of his nice trousers, "for you," you murmur with a grin, lips inches from his, "in my respect, are all the world."
These are the lines that you knew without hesitation, the lines burned into your heart as you'd heard them uttered, and felt them resonate even back in the theatre. You grin, wondering if he'd wanted to hear them more than you'd longed to say them. As you kiss down his jaw, lips on his throat with intent to leave a bruising hickey, you free his cock, working your hand up and down his length.
"The how can it be said that I am alone," you kiss the hickey as it begins to bloom dark against his perfect throat, and sink to your knees before him, heart practically bursting to see the way he looks at you in this moment, all love and lust and appreciation for what you're about to do, "when all the world is here to look upon me?"
You watch others come and go from his life, watch him fuck around with other pretty elites, and had your fair share of flings too. The two of you gossip and brag to one another about your conquests, tease each other about terrible lays, or who the other has their eyes on next. There's never jealousy; as long as the other is happy, neither of you is concerned. After all, in the end, you always come back to one another.
Naturally Felix who you come out to first, the two of you sharing a smoke while playing cards by the window of his high school dorm room. Its after midnight, you should definitely be back in your own room, but the two of you have never really adhered to those rules, and the heads of your respective dorms stopped caring years ago. At the time you don't exactly have the right words to explain, but you ask him -
"Hey, you know you're a guy, right?"
He doesn't frown, but his nose gives this little scrunch as he's considering your words and his cards.
"Haven't put much thought into it, but yeah," he rearranges his cards for a moment before looking up at you with those gorgeous, brown eyes full of curiosity, "why?"
"I dunno," you shrugged briefly, as if you hadn't been struggling with for what's felt like months, "remember all those bars in France last summer?"
"Flashes of it," Felix smirks momentarily, "I'm still not sure if I believe Farleigh that he won our bet, but I suppose I'll have to trust him."
"With the amount of free drinks he was getting I'm surprised he even remembers properly," you can't help but laugh, though the moment is short-lived.
"What about it?" Felix finally prompts. For a long moment you're quiet, and the two of you finish up the round of cards.
"You know how we kept going to those underground gay bars because they didn't ask us for ID?"
"Again, vaguely."
"Some of them had these pictures on the walls of like, gays, and lesbians, and ladies with cocks, and men with tits, or big scars on their chests and bushes, and they all... They all looked really happy in those photos," as you spoke, unable to look at him, only watching his hands as he shuffled the deck. You know he's frowning, trying to follow along, but he's also not interrupting you, giving you space in what feels like an important moment, "I think I'm kind of like that."
A moment passes between you two.
"I know," Felix finally says, and you look up, surprised.
"You know?"
"We're all like that, aren't we? You, me, Farleigh, Venetia - mum keeps reminding us that she was a lesbian whenever it's even slightly relevant -" he begins to smile fondly but your surprise turns back to concern as you begin to shake your head.
"No, not like that, Fi," you sigh, and reach for the cigarette box as he begins to deal, "I don't think I fit the boy-girl thing." Once again the quiet lapses out as the lighter sparks to life. You inhale a lung full of smoke, looking out of the window to the star-filled sky, "I'm not a guy with a bush or a girl with a dick, I'm not..." You shrugged, looking at him, "I dunno what I am."
Once the cards are dealt, he finally looks at you, tips his head in that way he does when he's trying to figure something out.
"You're my best mate." He says it so simply, the faintest smile beginning to grace his lips, "you don't have to be anything if you don't want to be."
You don't realise how anxious you were about this moment until your breath comes out as a stuttering exhalation.
"Yeah?" You swallow hard, voice surprisingly weak and hopeful in the same moment, "you don't mind?"
"Kind of seems like a shit thing for me to have any strong feelings about."
"But you've known me as I am for so long -"
"Exactly; I love you, guy-girl or anything, doesn't change you," this is the moment, you realise, that you'd do absolutely anything for the boy in front of you.
"I love you too, Fi."
As he reaches across the small space for the cigarette, you lean in and kiss him before you hand it over; he's grinning as he kisses you.
It only takes a week for you to tell him about the name you'd settled on.
"I think I'm going to start going by Y/N," in the library, you, Felix, and Farleigh are getting very little work done when you bring it up.
"Changing your name?" Farleigh asks, eyebrows raised as he looks up from the same page of Heart of Darkness that he'd been reading for half an hour. You glance to Felix briefly, but he simply gives an encouraging nod to his cousin, and you, once more with your heartbeat racing, explain your relatively new identity change.
"So do we use he-she when we talk about you now?" Farleigh asks, voice genuinely confused rather than malicious. At this you give pause, you hadn't much thought about it; of course people gossiped about you, but you hadn't realised that if you were to be going forth with your new identity, you'd have to ask people to change the very language they used about you.
"I don't think so; I'm not he or she, and he-she is a bit much," you ponder, "I guess just them?"
"Hey did you hear about Y/N?" Felix stage-whispered to Farleigh, grinning. His cousin leaned in, keeping up with the bit and testing out your new name and pronouns seamlessly.
"No, what did they do?" He gasped. All you could do was chuckle, ducking your head to hide how wide you were smiling at how right it all sounded, how right it all felt to hear about yourself. With a firm nod, Farleigh sits back up, "okay, yeah, I can get with it. Y/N," he says decisively.
"Y/N does rather suit you," Felix agreed.
As you begin to come out to the rest of your friends and the school as a whole, you're surprised at how smoothly the transition occurs. You expected more resistance, more name calling, more bullying of any kind; of course there's the occasional bit of harrassment, and several people in the halls turn an unkind eye upon you, but it's been far easier than you'd expected.
Its only when you find Farleigh with a black eye that you learn that he and Felix have been getting into fights with people who've been talking shit behind your back. Of course you beg them to stop, insist they shouldn't be getting hurt on your behalf, least of all about this, but Felix smiles with a split lip.
"As if I'm going to let them get away with it."
Historically, Felix's girlfriends never seem to like you at first. Which they definitely shouldn't; it took him a few girls to remember that he shouldn't let them see him touching you so casually the way he does, more intimate with you without even thinking about it than he often was with them. It moves on, he gives them a warm smile and a teasing tone as he tells them not to be jealous-
"They're not -" a threat, you wonder as he gestures to you with a wide, open hand and smile to match, and proceeds to surprise you both, "a girl." The girl on his arm seems shocked for a minute, but everything about her eases. Your best friend, despite what people may think, is neither a liar nor an idiot. He knows what people think of him, what people assume about him and about you when they assume things one way or there other about him. The girls who he traditionally picked up liked to put him in little pigeon hole of heterosexuality, and though it wasn't true, the to correct them in instances such as that would probably harm the poor, pretty girls. Or at the very least, do nothing to quell their pretty rightful paranoia.
Because when the girl leaves his dorm before curfew that night, you slink up to his door and lean against it with the most pleased and endeared smile. As you always do.
"What?" Every time he's bashful, as if he has no idea what he's doing.
"Just love you is all, man," you tell him, grinning from ear to ear as you close the door behind you.
"Love you too, you know that," he tries to play it off, but is obviously hiding his ever-growing smile.
As you descend upon him, sitting cross legged on the bed - "I love you, I love you, I love you, Fi," peppering his face with kisses as he actually giggles and laughs and pulls you close - you wonder if you shouldn't be doing this since he has a new girlfriend. Except if he wanted you to stop, you knew he had no qualms asking you to.
He's always been the best about your identity, so you're not sure why it always hits you with a rush of euphoria when you hear him talk about you like that. Maybe it's the way confirms exactly what you're not to the world, while knowing that everything you are to him is a secret he holds precious and close to his heart.
When you get to Saltburn for the Winter, as you had for any major breaks from school as your parents were thrilled to be seeing as little of you as necessary, Duncan greets you at the door as he always does -
"Captain Y/N."
And Felix comes bounding down the red stairs, having overheard, and asking if Captain was alright, while you were overwhelmed with love at the gesture. Apparently Duncan's only reservation about the title was that it was usually reserved for military personnel, and he was something of a stickler for the rules. Still, when you thank him for referring to you as such, he grants you one of his rare smiles.
Everyone has accepted the change before you'd even arrived, and though his mother and father did occasionally slip up, they caught themselves before even yourself or Felix had a chance to correct them. Elspeth always made a show of apologising and correcting herself. After one such instance, all of you wine-drunk after dinner and squashed on several sofas together to watch some rom-com, Venetia whispers to you where she's in your lap that Felix had spent several phone calls over the past semester explaining the situation to the family, even making sure to remind everyone in the days before you'd arrives.
"He really does love you," she murmurs, "doesn't he?" The glow of the television haloed her recently bleached hair in light as her face hovered inches for yours. Out of the corner of your eye you see Felix wearing an amused smile and pointedly not looking at you. When Venetia leans in, giggling with her pupils blown wide, you kiss her back, and feel Felix put a hand on your thigh.
"Not during the movie," Elspeth says briskly. Farleigh snorts with amusement from her other side and Venetia breaks the kiss with a sharp little laugh. Still, she curls up against you now, with your arm around her, and Felix rubs circles against your thigh, hand not moving for the remainder of the film.
At Saltburn, your room was often more of a formality; the one attached to Felix's, divided only by a bathroom. Most nights were shared in another's bed, even if nothing sexual happened. Venetia especially liked these sleepover, liked how you'd be at her door if she merely implied she wanted your company. She'd invite you into her bathroom to simply talk while she bathed, neither of you bothered by the casual nudity. She'd put on a CD and sometimes a robe, and you'd brush and braid her hair; she'd talk and you'd listen, until she fell asleep in your arms. Venetia craved connection, and like with Felix, you were happy to oblige her.
"You're a good dog," she'd once murmured, your head between her thighs, "that's why he lets you fuck me." When you look up at her through your lashes, mouth still on her cunt, tounge going still on her clit, she's looking back, devilish smile on her face, "do you think about him when you fuck me?"
You lean back just a little, and carefully slide two fingers into her; Venetia's head falls back as she sighs gently.
"He doesn't have a cunt, Ven," you tell her bluntly, which of course makes her laugh until she's moaning with your fingers curling inside of her.
"Good dog," she stutters out.
"He wants you to be happy, and I can do that."
"My brother doesn't like sharing his toys," she whimpers faintly.
"I'm not a toy."
"Suppose I'll just - ah~" your thumb finds her clit, and you gently bite at her thigh, "have to enjoy you while he lets me, then."
In these quiet, intimate moments, sexual or not, Farleigh and Venetia both take to calling you 'good dog' as a term of endearment. Anyone else would probably be put off by it, but it begins to warm something in your chest; loyal and loving, the kind of creature you keep around. Felix, however, scowls when he learns about it.
"It's mean."
"I think it's sweet," you tell him with a smile, curling up against him on a sofa on one of the many balconies. Felix had been reading while you'd been napping against him when Venetia had appeared and cooed at the sight.
"They think it's sweet!" Venetia echoed with a pleased grin, sitting on the lounge chair across from you both.
"They're not a dog, they're my friend -" Felix had tried to argue.
"Man's best friend," Venetia had nodded.
"Oh piss off, Ven," Felix had huffed. Venetia had obligingly swanned back into the house while you stifled your laughter against his chest. When it's just the two of you, his voice turns soft, "you know I don't think of you like that."
"It's nothing, Fi, everyone knows you're my favourite is all."
"But you're not a dog."
You look up at him in all his glory, golden in the sunset and looking like a dream. You want to smooth the concern, the righteous anger from his brow, kiss the faint downturned edge of his perfect lips, do everything in your power to make sure he never worries again. No matter who or what you are, you are his. His best friend, his confidant, his shoulder to cry on, his partner in crime, his right hand, his, his, his.
All you can give him in this moment is your gentle voice full of absolute love;
"What do you want me to be, Fi?"
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