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sentfromwolves · 1 year
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you know i’m consuming fascinating media when my brain churns out three half-assed wip ideas in (checks calendar) less than a weak and i’m forced into the arena for a fight to the death over which one survives and gets the privilege of living in my head rent free for the next five years
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niqhtlord01 · 7 months
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Humans are weird: Not what I expected
Human Security officer: First day on the job?
Alien Trainee: Yeah, bit nervous.
Human Security officer: Don’t be.
Human Security officer: Sure we see a bunch of strange things here on the station, but working security isn’t so bad.
*Over the radio*: Hey Sarge, it’s happening again.
Human Security officer: Gods damnit.
*Answers radio*
Human Security officer: Where are they this time?
*Over radio*: Deck three.
Human Security officer: *to Trainee* Right, I got to go handle this so you might as well come along to. ----------------------
*Several decks later*
Human Security officer: Now whatever happens, I need you to be calm.
Alien Trainee: Saying that makes me less calm.
Human Security officer: Just shut the hell up then and watch.
*turns corner and sees gathering of people. Many of them look like miners who had just returned from outer system asteroid mining*
Alien Trainee: *Looks confused as to what they are all looking at until they tilt their head up and see a monstrous being of pink flesh and tentacles clogging up one of the hallways leading to the docking bay*
*The creature is easily three to four times the size of any of the gathered humans and ooze drips from its tentacles*
Alien Trainee: *Begins to panic and rest their hand on their sidearm holster before realizing they haven’t been issued a weapon yet*
Alien Trainee: *Turns to look at human sarge only to find him casually walking towards the monster*
*Only now does the trainee realize that none of the humans appear to be panicking or freaking out*
*Crowd parts to let the human sarge stand before the creature that now turns its full attention to the security officer*
Human Security officer: Marvin?
Human Security officer: Marvin you need to go back home.
*Creature lets out a loud gurgling noise from beneath its tentacles that sends shivers down the alien trainee’s spines*
Human Security officer: Marvin! I know you don’t like it when your friends leave but they need to go back to work.
*More loud grumbling and the creature retreats further into the tunnel, fully blocking passage*
Human Security officer: MARVIN! Get out of the tunnel!
*Softer gurgling but the creature only uses their tentacles to cover their eyes*
Human Security officer: Marvin I can still see you; covering your eyes does nothing.
*No response*
Human Security officer: Marvin. Maaaaaaaaarvin. MARVIN!
*Still no response*
Human Security officer: *Sighs loudly*
Human Security officer: *Points to random worker* Where’s Mitch? Why isn’t he here dealing with this?
Human Miner: He got offered double shifts on the belt and took it for the extra money.
Human Security officer: Of course he did.
Alien Trainee: *Finally working courage up to speak* Who is this “Mitch”?
Human Security officer: *Turns remembering that the trainee was there* Ah, right; he’s Marvin’s owner and the only one he’ll listen to.
Alien Trainee: Is this, Marvin, a sentient being?
Human Security officer: More like a pet Mitch found a few years back and took with him.
Human Security officer: Don’t think he counted it on being the size of a bus.
*Sees Alien Trainee looking nervous*
Human Security officer: Don’t worry; despite his size Marvin’s a goofball with a heart of gold.
Alien Trainee: Can we not just stun it and drag it out of the way then?
*All humans nearby stop and look at Alien trainee, anger and shock on their faces*
Human Miner: Is that some sort of fucked up joke?
Human Miner 2: Yeah!
Human Miner 3: You heard Marvin has a heart of gold and you just want to stun it? What kind of monster are you?
*Loud rowdy humans increase in volume before Human Security officer waves them down*
Human Security officer: It’s his first day, go easy on him.
*Rowdiness decreases in volume but the humans still look upset*
Human Security officer: *Whispers* You can’t just go around saying you want to stun someone’s pet.
Alien Trainee: *Looks more confused*
Human Security officer: *Turns to miners* Alright, go through duct C90 and you should be able to get around him.
Human Miner: Fine, but so help us if Marvin’s still in that tunnel when we get back.
Human Security officer: What the hell are you arguing with me over that? Get Mitch to bring his ass back here so Marvin will calm down!
*Conversation devolves into argument as human miners begin pulling off a grill plate and shimmying through a duct around Marvin* (AI image provided by @myecandy )
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spacebarbarianweird · 21 days
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Pleasure
Synopsis: Astarion teaches Tiriel to give a blowjob.
Thanks @themadlu for beta-reading!
Tags: smut, oral sex, trauma talk
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The late evening is sweet and warm, the stars shining beautifully in the dark skies.
It’s Astarion’s second spring as a free person. 
These months always bring hope, and even in his years of slavery Astarion sometimes dared to dream of freedom in those few weeks when nature was new.
Astarion looks to the right. Tiriel walks beside him in her spidersilk armor. The two-handed ax is strapped on her back. She looks ahead with almost child-like amusement. 
He can’t take his eyes off her.
Freckles, wrinkles on her forehead, those funny half-elven ears. He knows every small detail of her body – and loves her mindlessly.
Tiriel notices his look and takes his hand. Her skin is warm, and Astarion squeezes her fingers tighter.
She is much younger, only thirty-eight. The year she was born, he was forced to entertain a certain nobleman from Amn for an entire year. And by the end of it, Astarion thought that returning back to the mansion wouldn't be so bad because at least there he could pretend he was something more than a toy to play with in bed.
Tiriel was beaten by her relatives for being a half-elf. He was beaten and tortured for fun.
Tiriel was starved and humiliated by her own blood. He was fed rats and fleas by his master.
At the age of fifteen, she managed to escape, and Astarion’s undead heart aches when he thinks about young Tiriel, almost a child, wandering the wilderness on her own, without a weapon or armor.
Shedidn’t even have a name before an old adventurer, a tiefling-paladin, explained to her that “pixie” and “fairy” aren’t an appropriate way to call a young woman, no matter her race and origin.
Tiriel told Astarion all these with a bitter smile – her cheating mother, evil chieftain stepfather, cruel siblings, years of traveling on her own, the way she chose her own name at the age of fifteen. The loneliness and pain she tried to soothe with drinking. 
But Astarion knows Tiriel too well. She still suffers for what happened to her. Tears prickle her eyes when she talks about her miserable childhood.
They both have a lot of darkness in their past. She consoles him after nightmares and soothes his anxieties. He tells her how beautiful she is. 
He smiles to himself. Maybe the gods did hear him after all, making Tiriel’s father stay for the night in the village in the Sunset Mountains and sleep with the chieftain’s wife. It just took Tiriel some time to grow up and get to Baldur’s Gate.
“Well, the night is young and we have many hours of travel again. I wonder if there is any village we can get to by the morning,” Astarion says.
“I doubt it. One more day in the tent, then,” she shrugs. 
“Easy for you, Tiriel, you don’t have to stay inside! And I am trapped, protected from the murderous sunlight only by a thin layer of fabric.” 
“First of all, you keep me for yourself until I absolutely need to go out,” she laughs. “Second, it’s an enchanted fabric, and third it’s a very big tent! Don’t complain!”
“Oh, it’s not fun to be in a relationship if I cannot complain!”
Tiriel brushes her finger along his cheek. He closes his eyes, savoring the touch. If only he knew she was already alive in the last decades of his slavery. Maybe it would make things more bearable.
Then he notices Tiriel looking to her side. She opens her mouth and then immediately shuts it, as if trying to say something but not knowing how.
His wild girl doesn’t have a wide vocabulary, that’s for sure.
“What is it, my sweet?”
“Oh? Nothing!” she blushes. “Nothing-”
Astarion is sure there is something on her mind but he isn’t sure if he should push her. Tiriel doesn’t like it.
Neither does he.
They keep walking through the valley and no matter how sharpened Astarion’s senses are, he doesn’t catch any sentient creature’s scent.
There is no one for many miles.
“Astarion,” Tiriel calls him out.
“Yes? What is it?”
She takes a deep breath and stares at her feet. Astarion is sure he’s never seen her that embarrassed.
“I want to take you in my mouth.”
Astarion has to put an effort not to laugh. “And what exactly in this gods forbidden place made you want this?”
She turns her head away avoiding looking at him.
“I’ve been thinking about it for three days.”
“What self-control!”
“Don't laugh, Astarion! Besides, you've gone down on me already! Even when I was on my period!”
He chuckles remembering the taste of her moon blood. It was incomparable to anything else.
“You are a half-elf, my dear, I couldn’t miss the only time you bleed every year and a half. In your case, it’s a rare treat. Not so rare if you were a pure-blood elf of course. Then we would have to wait for a decade.”
“I want to,” she says. “I want to give you pleasure.”
“As if you don’t already give it to me,” he approaches Tiriel and puts his fingers on her neck, where a fresh bite mark is slowly healing. “But who am I to say no to such a generous offer?”
He looks around and notices a boulder that he can comfortably sit on. 
Tiriel impatiently waits till he puts his sack on the ground and sits. Now Astarion can feel her arousal and he contemplates if he should just fuck her like he usually does.
He spreads his legs a bit so she can unlace his trousers without an effort.
“Should I undress?” She asks.
“Take off your armor. The rest only if you want to.”
Tiriel quickly gets rid of the spidersilk armor and stays only in her shirt and trousers. Then, she contemplates for a bit and takes off her top as well. Her skin immediately is covered with goosebumps and her nipples harden because of the cold air.
Astarion feels the tension between his legs. Tiriel knows what she has just done to him.
“Kneel,” he asks. He tries to make it sound like a request, but it sounds like an order anyway. Tiriel bites her lower lip and slowly sits down.
Astarion admires her face for a few moments and then nods allowing her to unlace his trousers. His cock is soft and Tiriel carefully kisses the base of the shaft.
“You haven’t done this before, right?” He asks, feeling his arousal grow.
“Which part of ‘I was a virgin’ don’t you remember?” She asks, planting a kiss right below his navel.
“Yes… True… Well, I’ve probably received it a couple of times, although I don’t remember. Usually, I was giving…” He shivers when Tiriel kisses his half-naked hip. 
“Should I take it?” She mutters. 
“Wait,” Astarion brushes her hair with his fingertips. “It will be difficult to swallow it fully, it will just be unpleasant. Use your hand.”
“Like that?” Tiriel grabs his cock the same way she grabs her weapon and Astarion gasps. 
“I knew what I was getting into,” he murmurs. He feels hot down there, all his thoughts and emotions are focused on his own cock which is getting harder as Tiriel holds it.
“Yes- Yes, like that,” he grabs a fistful of her hair and makes her head lean towards his  cock. “Now relax your tongue and lick the tip. Do it, don't be afraid.”
Tiriel studies the cock for a while and then touches the sensitive head with her tongue. She licks it, forcing a string of pre-cum to flow down the shaft, and then kisses the tip.
“Does it feel good?” she asks.
“Yes-”
“Great, because I like it, too,” she finally goes down and takes the part of his cock into her mouth.
Astarion whimpers as Tiriel starts sucking him. She still hasn't fully taken him into her mouth, and he doesn’t expect she will. Tiriel looks up, maintaining eye contact and he sees tears in the corners of her eyes.
Her right hand goes up under the shirt where she squeezes his right nipple forcing Astarion to moan loudly.
Inexperienced or not, Tiriel knows his body too well, all of his sensitive parts.
Then she stops half cock still in her mouth and her eyes smirk. 
What is she up to?
She goes down fully, her lips meeting the base of the shaft. Astarion feels his legs shiver. 
He is throat-deep in her and the feeling is like nothing that he’s experienced before. Tears flow down Tiriel’s cheeks. Astarion leans back, and Tiriel uses her right hand to reach out for his balls.
“Ngh,” he whimpers, feeling his orgasm getting closer. He thinks he should pull her head away and come on her naked breasts or on her face – he’s personally always hated getting gushed down his throat – but before he manages to make any coherent movement he finishes in Tiriel’s mouth.
Tiriel lets his still-hardened cock go and Astarion expects to hear a cough or gagging sounds but instead, she stands up on her wobbling legs, smiles, and parts her lips to show the white pool of cum on her tongue.
Then she swallows it.
“You taste divine,” she murmurs, letting him taste himself on her lips. “And look very cute right now.”
Astarion slowly returns back from the high of his orgasm. 
“Did you like it?” She asks.
“It was perfect. Everything you do to me is perfect.”
She giggles and then looks at his manhood. It’s still painfully hard. 
“I can do the second round,” she says, licking her lips, but Astarion pushes her onto the grass and tugs her trousers. Her own entrance is wet and swollen.
“I want you to scream my name,” he murmurs, getting rid of the last pieces of his own clothes. “I want you to moan and whimper like the good, wild girl you are,” Astarion adjusts himself and feels her warmth around him the next moment. “And then I will come on these breasts of yours.”
Tiriel cups his face and parts her swollen lips.
“I would love nothing more.”
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carionto · 6 months
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Geronimo!
Space suits have come a long way - near 1 to 1 articulation and haptic feedback, intuitive zero-g booster based movement, nano-clamps for spiderman-like grip in low/no gravity, and of course dozens of micro layers of protection against all know space radiation and other hazards. Plus a centimeter thick composite armor against sentient threats, with a "cocoon" mode to fully cover all joints and other normally more exposed parts, that renders the Human inside near impervious to most small arms, and even some heavier impacts.
To fully test the limits of protection you don't actually need to have a person inside, just plenty of sensors and a good understanding Human physiology and anatomy. The military, of course, does things a bit differently, as their suits are even tougher. They do have this half-half mode where you are mostly armor, but can still move, but more like the Terminator. Given it also boasts a powered exoskeleton between the armor and hazardous protection layers, soldiers can wield weapons other militaries typically mount on vehicles, so the metaphor is almost just a straight factual comparison.
Some, however, are still not satisfied, and are always seeking to extend the durability of their suits to beyond the extremes.
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Hilda Lavre was standing on the edge of the ship in low orbit. One hand gripping an outer handle while engaged in final diagnostics.
"Alright, Hilda, everything looks green on our end, how 'bout you?"
"Same green green. I'm good."
"Whenever you're ready then. There's some clouds in the way of the predicted path, might slow you down a bit. Wanna wait?"
"Nah, nah. I'll wing it."
After a seconds pause, Hilda let go of the handle and gently kicked off the side of the ship. She was now on a direct collision course with the Atlantic Ocean.
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(Thermals should start going up soon. I'm gonna turn on the external mic just a tad. There's just something about how the heat sounds scraping against the metal.
Oh, there it goes. Yellow, slowly getting to orange. Good.
Yea, that's a nice screech - burn that paint!
Halfway to red, altitude check. Already this close? Guess it'll be just shy of 80% tolerance.
Hehehehe, that means we can go for a bit faster next time. Cool.
Eh... wind without the heat just doesn't sound right, I'll turn it down to just barely audible. Something to keep me company.
Aaaand three.
Two.
One.)
SPLASH
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(It's dark. But I guess it was dark before...
before what though?
Well, that's okay.
This feels like a new kind of dark though.
There's the dark when you're alone in your room at night, all the lights are out.
Another kind is when you decide to get inside your brothers closet to scare him when he comes back from the kitchen. That's a fun kind of dark. (it's getting cold)
There's also the dark of being in an underground bunker during a storm. Then the power gets cut and all the exits are sealed. That's a... lonely kind of dark.
One time I was wandering the woods, and before I knew it, it was the middle of a moonless night, overcast too. Hiding out in an abandoned shed, without even the wind or animal sounds to let you know anything is out there. I didn't like that kind of dark at all. (It's really cold)
This dark though... I dunno. It's like I'm hiding out in my own closet. My shoulder is up against my winter jacket, feet are grazing those old sandals I swore to throw out two summers ago. But also, it's not my room. Or even my house. Why am I in my closet? How did it get here? Where even is here?
I feel sleepy.
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"Hey, hey! Hilda! Wake up!"
*grunting* "Ugh... shut, shut up Barry..."
"Gods, don't freak us out like that. You okay?"
"Depends. How high did it go go?"
*laughter* "Okay, [She's fine everyone] yeah, you're fine. 87 meters, new record."
"Hmm, I was aiming to to break 90."
"Well, those clouds nudged you a little off, you hit it at a 83 degree angle. Still, those other readings are nice. I'm pretty sure we can do a boosted fall next time."
"Yeah, I I think so too. I feel a little little cold, did something break on hit hit?"
"Not break, but the impact did jolt the subsystems a bit. Activated one of the sedative shots. I manually made your suit give you a wake up shot right as I noticed. You should be feeling the effects right about now."
"Mmhhmmm, oh yea. I'm feeling the kick kick now. We need to improve the kinetic tic dampeners. No good if if it puts you to sleep upon any hard enough nough impact."
"Yup. We're suspending any other jumps for the week until we get that fixed and implement some minor tweaks based on your jump once we analyze the telemetry further.
Okay, everyone! Good job today! Let's meet up next weekend and test these bad boys out. Let's aim for a 100 meter splash by the end of the year!"
*cheers and yeahs as Barry opens a mini fridge and everyone cracks open a cold one*
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faceeeeee · 6 months
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I love hearing about ppls Ocs :3
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Behold- the main cast of assholes and dumbasses! I finally remade their reference sheets (keep in mind that these guys are part of the main cast so I've still got some other ocs, some plot relevant, others not so much)
To keep it brief, here's a summary (plot twist, I did not keep it brief):
In a hypothetical reconstruction of the earth where there is a huge ass continent and some other medium and small ones in a secluded corner, you've got regular human civilization living out their regular life in these small portions of land . All of the territory (except for the big ass continent) is controlled managed by a company known as "P.C.P" (Provide, create, protect. Creative, I know) which is basically the puppeteer of all of society. It's presented as the one that will install order and peace throughout the world by keeping every single little thing in check. They've got tech, they've got the military, they've got the most renowned scientist in the fields of chemistry, biology, physics...you name it...and they've got political control. The C.E.O of this wonderful company is our dear old gal Evelyn! She rose to the ranks cause of....plot reasons (dunno if that would be considered spoilers...) and is the reason all of this shit happens in the first place :) well... it's a mix really of who's at fault (get it? Cause the name of the series is "At fault"?..... I'll see myself out).
Aaanyway, then enters John, a middle-aged man that works in the robotics department of the company that has successfully ascended and has gotten a bonus! How nice :) well he fucks up on day one by stumbling upon some of the companies secrets regarding the big ass continent and is subsequently found out. How does Evelyn react to this? She kills his wife and young daughter OOPSIES. she also sent her workers/police forces to kill him as well but he escapes. Still in shock he hides on a garbage ship in the hopes of getting anywhere else besides P.C.P territory and it basically dumps him into the big ass continent. He wakes up and discovers that the big ass continent has a huge abandoned city filled with vegetation and wacky mutated creatures with varying levels of danger :). Here enter our two other guys: BRK9 or "Berry" is the huge robot dude that was basically abandoned in this unknown territory and is later found and fixed by John to act as his security guard (John is basically preeeetty paranoid at this point and is still in shock and has not registered that his only family's dead). And what do we have here? Berry's sentient and is really fucking annoying to John? Oopsie daisy! Welp, now these two wander around the place and find an annoying fucking furry K!!! (Yes K. Her name is a literal letter don't say anything SHUT UP-). When they first met she basically tried to eat John and kill berry but berry ends up decapitating her.......
But, to John's dismay, K's inmortal!....kinda. She can regenerate any part of her body but she can die of old age or you could just blow her up till there's no piece of flesh left for her to regenerate from. So their whole dynamic is basically grumpy old traumatized man who now wants revenge, an insecure robot that masks their fears with a confident front and is obsessed with his dad (John hates that he calls him that) and a psychotic anthropomorphic lizard that's really fkn stupid and barbaric.
And to answer "What was Evelyn trying to hide?"... she's basically the reason that K exists in the first place and is trying to take control of this deserted continent by sending more and more troops to take over. What's stopping her? The vast amount of mutated things that are constantly killing her troops + K (she actually created K in the hopes of using her as a weapon to conquer the place but deemed her as a nuisance and useless and left her to die. But she escaped and got amnesia by destroying her head whilst escaping...)
And above all of this, whilst our main trio kill one of the troops and ambush their station, through a video call with one of the generals, Evelyn sees that the ex-employee that she thought had been taken care of was still alive! AND THE THING THAT SHE HAD GOTTEN RID OF WAS ALSO ALIVE AND KICKING! oh and a random robot.....
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shuunnico · 8 months
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Subtly Cursed DnD Items
Gloves of Tumblers [Fumblers] "You always have Guidance (+1d4) on Sleight of Hand checks." [Secretly inverts the effect for -1d4 on Sleight of Hand checks.]
Dead Man's Chest "A small chest with a lock held within a skull inlaid in the lid. Can hold up to 100lbs of treasure, so long as it can fit within the opening. Items within are weightless. The chest cannot be unlocked by any means except with its key. The smell of the sea can be smelled when the chest is opened" [If the chest holds 60lbs or more by midnight, roll a d20 with a DC of 1. If failed, the chest slams shut with a dusty laugh and cannot be unlocked by anyone but a sentient undead. Increase the DC by 5 per additional 10lbs stored within the chest.]
Ring of Lies +3 Deception [Actually +0 Deception. Completely useless.]
Phaseblade "Shortsword. The blade passes through the target, ignoring their defenses. All damage dealt by this weapon's blade is considered psychic damage." [In reality, the weapon makes the target immune to psychic damage for the attack. They do, however, feel extremely uncomfortable.]
Mask of Dark Vision "Wearing this mask gives you darkvision up to 60 feet." [The wearer is only made to think they can see in the dark. Wearer treats all hazards and enemies as if they had failed a Perception check, rather than being naturally obscured.]
Colorful Brooch of Translation "The wearer is able to speak any standard or exotic language. They do not understand these languages if they do not know them already." [The language spoken is done so in such a way that the wearer always appears foul-mouthed and of poor manners. So long as the wearer is using the amulet to speak, they suffer -3 to all Charisma based skill checks except Intimidation.]
Gloves of Disintegration "You may cast Disintegrate once per Long Rest." [When used, the gloves target themselves and disintegrate.]
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starlettechild · 3 months
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❝𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐓𝐨 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥❞
CONTENT: Oathbreaker Knight(bg3) x Paladin!Tav, suggested NSFW content, enemies to lovers dynamic, plot that builds up and leads to smut.
⚠️TWs⚠️: 18+ and explicit content references, weapons. They/them pronouns are used for Tav to avoid character dysphoria.
NOTES: I don’t see ANY fics of the oathbreaker knight! 🥲 He’s so cool and one of my favorite “secret” additions to BG3.
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Immediately, Tav felt it. The absence of that light within them, whiffed out in a moment upon returning the Hag’s wand to Mayrina. They couldn’t handle the sorrow of that poor girl, knowing all she went through just to have her husband back wasn’t enough. Though they were disgusted at her choice to hand over her only child, grief can consume all rational thought. Now, there is a disturbing emptiness in their bones. It is the absence of the very core of their being. Their knees collide with the ground as the undead man and the sobbing woman walk off into the fog of the hag’s bog, flesh scraping with their descent. Wyll is the first to run over, clasping a hand on their shoulder. The feeling of him shaking them is distant, the yells of their name from the others are muffled from the ringing in their ears. It’s such a strange feeling, but Tav feels as if they are being observed. Like this emptiness opened the path for something else, something darker. A sentient emptiness, somehow. But their thoughts halt, a piercing headache shattering them in their wake.
It does not take long for Tav and the rest of their party to connect the dots. A collision with the remaining Redcaps proved all their suspicions right. Tavs oath was broken. Astarion practically rolled his eyes to the back of his head in annoyance at the whole ordeal. “Really? Could you have at least broken it for something useful?” Exhaustion was too present in Tavs body to respond, so they let the now obvious vampire spawn to his whining. The rest of the redcaps are cleared with just their sword. They’ll have to navigate through this and pick up some more skills, the well of power they once relied on gone. Just when they needed it most. Perhaps they’ll make a visit to Zevlor to seek counsel on this loss.
Karlach and Wyll try to keep Tav preoccupied with chatter, passing stories of both of their experiences in the Hells. They’re grateful for the dramatic tales from Wyll and the humorous ones from Karlach, putting a temporary ease to their mind. A distraction from the pain. The others perhaps make their presence known longer than they would normally tonight around the crackling fire, and each effort is accounted for. When the sky is dark overhead at the song of crickets drown out the endless stories from the tiefling and warlock do the others begin to head to their tents, sending glances to Tav, a final gesture of sympathy. The githyanki, however, turns her head up once she retires, though Tav knows her well enough by now to know she too feels for them, even though she is on the same boat as Astarion on how it happened. They stand, telling their party goodnight and to sleep well as they always would, and begin to make their way to the Grove. The tieflings are all still there, and even in the dark hours of night is their desperation to continue on their journey present. They pass by mules connected to loaded wagons, some even coiled up on the wooden crates. Dammon is still working in his forge, judging by the slightly ashy smell in the air. They are just about to open the heavy stone door to Zevlors temporary quarters before they stop. The quietness and the smell of smoke sets off alarms in them, reminding them of the times before they took their oath. Their eyes shut, and they can almost hear those hateful cries again. The helplessness in those moments in the dark. Their palm slides off the cold stone, and they turn back. Heading towards the forest.
They don’t know how long they’ve been sitting by the stream when they feel it again. The feeling of eyes on them. It makes their skin crawl… Something about this gaze, wherever it may come from, feels so.. ancient. Forbidden. The gaze of a pair of eyes that has seen many rise and fall, perhaps the reason for either depending on what this was. They stand, hand wrapping over the hilt of their blade. The metal rings as they unsheathe it. The holy aura that rippled off them when they were endangered was now gone, so they hope their stance and gaze back is enough to scare off whatever this was. Their eyes scan over the dark treeline, looking for any sort of movement. Any sort of glimmer or glow. But there is nothing, save for the intense gaze that still feels like it’s piercing through their very soul.
“Come out.” Finally, they speak to the unknown presence. If this thing wanted to follow and threaten them, then they’d show it they could still be a threat back, oath or not. They turn their head once they hear the snap of a branch under heavy armored boots, footsteps thudding through the forest. Their grip tightens. Whatever this is that heads their way is large. Armored. They swallow, keeping their breathing steady. A pair of glowing orange eyes suddenly is seen shrouded by darkness. Tav can barely see the outline of whatever it is, but Gods were they right. It is large. Their blade lifts, their feet slowly moving backwards, desperately searching for ways to have the advantage over such a creature.
“Steady yourself, paladin.” A low rumble of a voice speaks in the silence, an unfamiliar accent that rolls over the syllables like a wave catches Tavs attention. If they weren’t so threatened right now, it would perhaps make their knees shake. Something about this voice makes them feel strangely at ease, so they lower their sword. “Step into the light, whatever you are.” They say back, still on edge, but no longer about to tip.
The metal of the dark armor moves with each of his steps, the moonlight shining on the intricate golden lines of the plating. The clawed gauntlets wrap around the hilt of his sword as he holds it infront of him, burying the edge into the ground before them. This would perhaps look like a powerful paladin to someone else, but Tav knows better. This is the thing the oathbreakers answer too. Their mentor and their savior. The Oathbreaker Knight. A forgotten paladin with a forgotten name. Their eyes slightly widen. “You have broken your oath.” Even with the heavy helmet that covers his face, the words are not muffled. They are spoken in that same low voice the same way a lover would whisper against their neck in the morning. His voice is so close, as if they could reach out their hand and run it down his armor. Their eyes squeeze shut. No! This is the Oathbreaker Knight! Shouldn’t they be furious that be dared step up to them? All the tales say that this being is pure evil, turning a virtuous paladin into a lunatic with a sharp sword, an army of undead behind them.
“I… I didn’t understand..” Tav tries to find the right words to explain the loss of their oath, but an explanation turns to ash in their mouth. The Knight waits for them, his mighty sword still planted in the ground. “The woman was in such sorrow. I felt like I needed to offer her the wand, after everything she went through just to have her lover back. It felt cruel for an even crueler situation.” Their eyes flick down, watching the embers that seem to fly off the knight, dissipating into nothing in the night sky. If one were to kiss him, would they taste ash on his tongue? If he were to run his lips down the column of their neck, would those embers be present in every heated kiss, making them jerk in his hold with the sensation? Their gaze fully glances away from him now. Get ahold of yourself.
"Your oath was broken from the heart. Paladin, are you curious to know what lies at your fingertips now, or would you like to restore your oath?" A choice? Never has Tav heard a version of the tall tales where the knight offers a choice. What if those stories are wrong? It makes Tav wonder how else the knight may surprise them, but with an unpredictable Illithid tadpole nestled in their brain, they need something to rely on. "I'd like to restore my oath. Please." Impossibly, Tav sees something quickly flicker in the glowing eyes. Is that disappointment? The Knight takes heavy steps towards them, his sword lifting from the earth. A red glow flickers off of him as he raises his hand to them, the cool metal making contact with their forehead. Slightly, Tav feels the sharpened tips of the gauntlet bury into their hair, getting a grasp on it. The sensation is replaced by a divine light, and a feeling of being whole again. The weight of their oaths absence lifts from their shoulders, and they feel complete once more.
"It is done. Your oath is restored, Paladin. I will remain in your camp to observe you." Slowly does the armored hand untangle itself from Tavs hair. The burning orange eyes remain on theirs as he speaks his words in utter confidence.
Remain in their camp?
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Introduction: Level 5 Inmate 0001: The “Slender Man” aka. Dr. P.J Hopkins (for lore purposes, the facility has no clue they are the same guy)
Classification: Unknown
Threat Level: Severe
Primary traits: Quiet, aggressive.
Abilities: Can sting its victims and turn them into “zombies” of sorts. Other abilities are unknown as of now.
Age: Unknown
Gender: Unknown (suspecting male)
Debrief: (tw. Animal death, body horror, violence)
6 years ago, The Underground was founded. A place to keep ‘Inmates’ (unexplained anomalies) away from the regular world. From demons, to super-humans, to sentient machinery. The Underground was supposed to house, study, and neutralize these threats. The founder, Dr. P.J Hopkins, was a very well equipped man to find out the secrets of these strange beings. But, he used the space on the lowest level to do his own strange and unusual things. You see, he was a man of all trades, he knew everything you could ever ask, even the things you never thought had an answer. He knew it. He was a very smart man. And humble.
Dr. Hopkins was trying to find a way to expand. To find something more than this world, more than this universe. He worked for years to build a gateway to find alternate dimensions. He did. He opened “The Gate”. A large hole that crackled with deep and un heard of power. Dr. Hopkins appointed a small group of interns and scientists to his study as long as they kept it quiet of their secret operation. Trials and tests to find if the idea of travel through the gate was even possible turned up inconclusive. They used animals like dogs, cats, and rats to travel between the gateways and some came back fine. Shaken, but fine. Others…were changed, mutated into agonized forms of their past selves. Given they only stayed in the Gate for no longer than an hour, they concluded that staying between the gateways was harmful. But if you managed to reach the other side, you seemed fine. The final test before human trial was a dog, a husky named Kibbles. The Dog walked in with its long rope lead. Everyone waited as the rope tugged on for 30 minutes, which was the supposed amount of time it took to get from one gate to the other. But after a moment, the rope tugged, that dog wasn’t strong enough for that. Dr. Hopkins demanded they pull the dog back but within minutes the rope was cut and Kibbles was gone.
Dr. Hopkins deemed the project unable to host human trails that night.
After Kibbles went missing, every time Dr. Hopkins passed the Gate, he would hear something. Something…wrong. At first he thought it could have been his imagination. But as weeks went by, the sounds only took over his head. Whispers. Whispers beckoning him to come into the Gate. To follow their call. Dr. Hopkins had enough. He decided it was best to shut down the project. Knowing that it was too dangerous. But, as he started to shut down, the voices came. He tried to ignore the pleas, and only focused on closing the Gate. But something made him stop. Curiosity? Fear? No one knows why he stopped and found himself walking into the Gate. Having someone travel in and the machines keeping it open already going through the shut down process made the Gate unstable. His team heard the alarms that something was wrong and rushed to his aid, only to find that the Gate was closed. And Dr. Hopkins was gone.
Years. 2 to be exact. His trusted team was appointed as the new heads of the facility. They held a funeral for Dr. Hopkins. After some time, the basement was cleaned and abandoned. Until one day. There was a noise in the elevator shaft, a screech of some kind. Had an Inmate escaped. The facility went into lockdown and swarms of teams with weapons went down into the basement to see the commotion. What they found was harrowing. A ten foot tall naked humanoid, with 2 long scorpion tail like appendages on its back, and seemingly no face thrashing and screeching. After mild panic they sedated the thing and kept it in a level 4 cell. Studying it was hard. The thing was unresponsive and animalistic almost in nature. It couldn’t speak. They had found that it had 4 white eyes and a slit in its face that opened into a mouth for feeding. But from a distance, the thing appeared to be featureless.
Over time, staff noticed that it was using its scorpion tails to sting rats in almost an experimental way. Like it had no idea what it was capable of doing. Staff never found out what the stings could do. Until one day. A guard was stung when she was trying to get a better look at its antics, she showed symptoms of sweating, auditory hallucinations, and paranoia. The higher ups appointed her off the 4th floor. But she kept going back down and being detained. When questioned she said “It talks to me.” She was hard to speak to, and often she muttered to herself when left alone in a room. It wasn’t until she was stung a second time. This time, her symptoms were impaired brain function, lack of awareness, heightened strength, and aggression. Unfortunately, she was killed by gunfire in an attempt to attack fellow staff. The higher ups found it fit to move the creature into the basement in a special containment. They are still in attempts to study the thing. So far to no avail.
(End of debrief)
Staff notes:
• It talks to me. No please you have to believe me, its talking to me! It’s in my head I cant get it out, help me! Help me! CUT IT OUT OF MY HEAD!! - Staff member Rosa Oswald (deceased)
• The thing gives me the creeps, all it does is stare and sometimes I swear I can hear it whispering to me. -Anon
• I decided to start calling it the Slender man, but I cant really tell if it’s a man? Maybe it’s a woman? Who knows, its freaky - Staff Member Cody
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windup-dragoon · 8 months
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FFXIV Write 2023
Prompt - Noisome Adjective - Having an extremely offensive smell
Content Warning - Mentions of death, gore, violence, and war
Word Count - 1,368
Divine Dragon AU Kiri is a traveling mercenary, defending the countryside from roaming clusters of corrupted monstrosities created for war. Her travel companions include a dragon of divinity turned man, and a goose (duck?) that neither had the courage to eat.
It's the noisome stench of rot that fills her lungs as she gasps for air. Her hands claw and scrape at anything tangible, anything physically there to pull her back into reality. But only wet masses fall away beneath her fingernails, sloughing decaying flesh with ribbons of scarlet viscera. She chokes on vomit at the sight, her mind frantically putting pieces together of the scenery around her.
A field as black as pitch and corpse mounds breathing ash and embers into the smoke hazed sky. Booming sounds echoed in the distance like great thunder that shook the very ground she laid upon. Noise. So much noise. A ringing in her ears that made her head throb. But the sound of the flies were louder yet. Buzzing busily at her ears, gorging themselves upon the garish battlefield.
She squeezed shut her eyes, reaching out desperately for a solid hold to heave herself up with, dreading the thought of who or what body part acted as her leverage. Amidst the chaos of war still raging she could hear footfalls nearby. Lumbering and kicking aside mangled corpses as if wading through fresh snow. She dared only steal a glance as she roused, sucking in putrid air once more at the grotesque sight.
Creatures.
Not quite animal but certainly not man, roaming skeletal bodies with too many limbs and white vacant eyes. In their great maws lined with too many teeth, they gnashed at flesh. Bones splintered and cracked between jaws while they slurped marrow.
Bile rose in the back of her throat. She pitched forward and coughed out the contents of her stomach; ichor splattered her hands and dribbled down her chin.
The monstrosities nearby of course swiveled at the sound, their empty dead eyes focused on the survivor amongst the corpses. With an ear shattering scream they lurched toward her, wielding now weapons made of their own gnarled bones.
Her heart pounded in her ears; a rabbit fearing being caught by the predators now leaping over mounds to grab her. Despite the pain in her broken body, she hurled herself to her feet, kicking away wet leather armor and gore shedding from the decaying masses. A desperate glance back showed more creatures had gathered for the hunt, a few almost merging together to form a sentient mass of rotten flesh and mangled bone.
Another crackling boom rang out around her, shaking the very ground beneath her. She turned again and stopped mid stride. Even the beasts had stopped to look up to the churning skies.
She felt deafened as she watched the sky being torn open, a shock of magicks rippling through the damp air. A white blinding light bathed the silent field before a sigil writ with gold appeared. From it's center was another flash of blinding light; a falling star that burned away everything.
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Panic woke her from her restless dreaming, heart racing at a rabbits pace in her ears. She swallowed a gulp of cold air and blinked away the burning edges of her nightmare. It had been a beautiful evening. The camp fire had died to little more than embers spitting. Overhead was a sea of stars, a veil of jewels woven delicately by unseen hands. Crickets chirped in the woods around her, everything at peace for the evening.
Yet she could still taste it. The stench of rot and decay, the smoke and ash of war.
She reached for her canteen to drown away the memories but was met with only the remaining few drops of cool water. Of course she had forgotten to refill it before bed. Just her luck.
It was only then as she cast aside her bed roll and rose to her feet did she notice her companions belongings neatly set aside with no one to be seen. Weary still from sleep she gave it little thought before marching down to the stream they had camped beside.
Nightmares of that day were frequently revisited against her best efforts. It always felt as if she had been thrown back into the fray, that any moment she would realize that the brisk night air was the dream and her reality was nothing more than viscera and rot. The mere thought of it made her stomach twist.
At the shoreline the stream babbled gently into the night. A melody that soothed the ache in her head. She dipped her canteen in first, the rush of water at her fingertips giving her a chill down her spine. Once the pouch was full to the brim, she kicked off her boots and took careful strides into the crystal waters.
"Come to bathe?" A voice called from the reeds along the way.
Kiri lifted her chin, spying a familiar white goose lazily floating along the streams current. "No," she replied, reaching out to pat the goose as it went by. "Just needed water."
Mismatched eyes fought against the darkness to make out the silhouette of her traveling companion. The reeds hushed as his body moved through them, the water spluttering against him. His thick hair had been let loose from its tie and hung down over his shoulders, the ends curling slightly with still dripping water. In the starlight she could see the pearlescent tones on his skin, beads of river water looking like glittering diamonds against it.
She felt warm seeing him this way but quickly turned her focus to a gathering of fireflies opposite him. "Could've stayed in the brush, ya'know."
The gentle rumble of a laugh escaped him. "And miss the look on your face?"
Kiri rolled her eyes. "What if someone sees ya'?" Vaguely she gestured to him, referring to the long dragon tail he was currently using to spin the goose around as it drifted by.
"I have trousers on." He raised his shoulders, feigning innocence. After a moment he dove under the water, becoming a moonlight glimmer of a silhouette beneath the ripples.
Hien reappeared before her, like a fish contemplating the hook before breaking the surface. His hair blended seamlessly into the dark waters but the rest of him still held an almost unworldly shimmer in the darkness.
"I know that expression. Another nightmare.”
A sigh on her lips gave away the answer. Kiri placed a hand on his forehead, trying desperately to dunk him. "And what of it? | ain't in the mood to be lectured by an exhibitionist."
Struggle all she might against him, Hien refused to sink back down. Instead he rose to his full height, taking the hand on his forehead and holding it between his clawed fingers carefully. With his free hand, he gestured to the pants that were slipping off his hips.
"A lecture wouldn't help, but perhaps a listening ear will."
Instead of an answer, Kiri marveled at the warmth of his hand holding hers. She hadn't truly realized how brisk the night had become until now. Nor had she thought a dragon would be so soft and warm. Absently her fingertips brushed along the lines of his palms, a fate written on flesh that she couldn't decipher.
A light honk from their goose companion drew her back, her hand slipping between his fingers to fall at her side. Her mouth felt dry as she recalled the noisome vapors that plagued her.
How do you tell divinity the horrors of war? That even if she endured amnesia, her body would always remember. The sound of bone breaking beneath your feet. Sinew and entrails stuck underneath your nails. The taste of blood and ash on your tongue. Her body would never forget what she had endured.
The same war that brought low a divine dragon like a falling star. Captured him as if a firefly in a jar to be admired until it died of suffocation. But while he had freed himself of his tormentors, she could never escape, doomed to suffocate alone in her own jar.
Kiri forced herself to smile, brushing aside starlight hair and averting her eyes. "I'll head back first. Get the fire goin’ again and all."
"Kiri…"
His voice trailed, replaced by the quiet babbling of the stream and all the creatures of the night humming a chorus.
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ammonitetheseaserpent · 4 months
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Moar MD OC info because my mind has been INJECTED with. basically an entire small, interwoven story since the first post where I introduced the concepts.
This is uh. gonna be a long post
Serial Designation Q
- If I had to sum up his personality in a few words, they would be ‘chill chaos’.
- The drug-like substance he consumes affects the light he gives off, which is what allows her to shift its color.
- Her fighting/hunting style is kinda reckless, like a honey badger; mainly leaning on brute force, sheer determination and the light trick.
- She doesn’t exclusively do psychedelic effects with his lights for hunts, though - it has entertainment value for him as well.
- Also yee she’s bigender :D
- (I’m starting to debate calling her Q instead for uh. standout purposes. cause I’ve seen a few Ys by now and I don’t wanna cause confusion hhhnshsjdbdb Edit: made the change; I think Q fits him better now that I mull it over :0)
Weird Frog
- That’s the JP-Dilo-Sentinel (name given by Q).
- It guards Celadon’s residence with the Packleader, and was built to give the Sentinels more variety.
- It is particularly small and fast and, instead of the stun stare, the sound of its screech gives off an AoE effect to temporarily paralyze any nearby drone who hears it.
- It has a very playful attitude, putting its all into fending off attackers but also having fun with it; y’know that one scene in Agony of a Witch where Hooty was fending off Lilith and the EC. Yeah uh. that’s pretty much WF in a nutshell.
- It’s quite curious and won’t immediately attack a lone drone it sees approaching the residence unless that drone is clearly looking to be a threat.
The Packleader Sentinel
- It’s the primary guard of Celadon’s residence, and sort of a parental figure to Weird Frog.
- Its stun stare is stronger than that of an average Sentinel, to the point where the flash can cause a bit of lasting damage in drones.
- It was basically built to be like. the Final Boss of the regular Sentinels. Like, something to fall back on if the need arose.
- This one’s a bit silly but: I imagine it was designed based off the Indoraptor and Scorpios Rex like. in-universe. Cause Liam said that the Sentinels were made raptors bc the humans just. liked dinosaurs and thought they were cool. So I imagine the Jurassic Park/movies being in this universe, and while they’re working on the Packleader someone just goes ‘hey what if we based it off those freaky-looking hybrid dinos, like the one that’s a raptor but bigger and creepier :0’.
Avarice SOL
- He was the result of a faulty one-off experiment.
- He has a powerful, insatiable drive to take parts of drones to build on his own form, and bothers Celadon on a regular basis (as stated in the previous post) bc the Hellsinger residence has a lot of what he wants.
- He stole a drone’s voicebox so he can speak, and… I imagine him sounding like that one mackerel in that one Dexter’s Laboratory episode.
Cure PHX
- They were started by Celadon’s parents in order to combat Disassembly Drones. Celadon later finished them, adding the healing abilities they now have.
- Not only can they release a signal to shut off physical pain in other bots, they also have ankle spurs to secrete a substance that’s basically the bot equivalent of melatonin.
- Their functions can be a bit wonky sometimes, and the full power of the UV light/radiation from their wings is only meant to be used in short bursts; too long will cause them delirium from the excess heat and power.
- They’re fully sentient, though due to the nature of their creation, their voicebox is kinda messed up and can produce garbled, birdlike sounds that take effort to form into words - I imagine Cure sounding somewhat like half-healed Centipeetle from Steven Universe.
Celadon Hellsinger
- Her residence is kind of run-down but she refuses to patch it up bc it ‘enhances the elusion factor’.
- She owns a weapon called the Frequency Gauntlet (I uh. stole the name from a mobile game called Monster Legends if I’m being completely frank) that was p much the pet project of her parents and grandparents. they all collaborated to make it.
- The aforementioned Hellsingers are gone now, so she just lives w/ Cure and the two Sentinels (speaking of the two Sentinels her parents basically. donned the FG and stole them very sneakily; I haven’t decided if they were stolen b4 they were put in with the other Sentinels and so they were more chill with drones they didn’t see as a threat, or if the Hellsingers tweaked their programming but uh. yeh)
- She’s usually sort of a pacifist; not nearly as concerned w/ actively confronting and doing battle w/ the DDs as her parents were, and is perfectly content with hiding from them (which doesn’t work out too bad as the Hellsingers made their residence as secluded and unnoticeable as they could to reduce the possibility of being tracked down).
- She’s aroace bc uh. yeh
Extra story bit
- Basically uh. Q happened upon Celadon’s residence at some point while traveling wherever and went over to get a closer look. He was met halfway by Weird Frog, and the two quickly became friendly toward each other. Then later, through WF as a common thread, Q met Celadon and now they’re… not friends, exactly, more like. acquaintances on peaceful terms. and they act a bit like siblings. Q thinks Celadon is cool, while Celadon is a bit more hesitant and often baffled by his antics.
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Yandere Enkidu / gender-neutral reader.
Synopsis: General yandere headcanons.
Warnings: Implied dub-con (in the last bullet point), isolation, use of chains.
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Enkidu is a creation of the gods and a sentient weapon with a humanoid form, which makes him quite terrifying as a yandere. He's domineering and extremely possessive, and wouldn't hesitate to become the enemy of humanity if anybody, including Gilgamesh tries to take you away from him.
It would start off as subtle. Enkidu was never human to begin with and was created with the purpose of being a weapon meant to restrain the gods, so he struggled to understand the unpleasant feeling that would stir inside his chest whenever he sees you take another Lancer for your daily missions. Right before the rayshift, he'd confront you about your choice of Servants and beg you to take him along.
You notice that he's unusually aggressive in battle. The Enkidu that always fights with a level head was tearing the chimera that had wounded you apart with his chains. Drops of blood splatter on his face and clothes, and he turns to you with an eerily calm smile, as if asking to be praised. You could only stare at him in silence, but that's okay because all he wants is your attention. Keep your eyes on him, and look at him only.
Enkidu thinks you're weak; you are human after all. You're surrounded by powerful Servants who can easily overpower you if they want to, but he can protect you. He won't ever betray you so why are you looking at him with eyes of fear? If you continue to push him away like this, he will treat you like a god, and gods like you need to be restrained. The Chain of Heaven is ineffective against you, but he can still restrain you with it because you're a weak human - and that's exactly what he does. After cornering you in your own room, he summons multiple chains to lock your movements before pressing a tender kiss on your forehead, his hand loosely cupping your chin.
Until you learn to embrace him, he'll hold you prisoner. Nobody would suspect a loyal Servant like him of lying, so the staff of Chaldea easily believe his lie about you being unwell. "Don't worry," he says, smiling at Mash, "I'll take good care of Master."
Enkidu does take good care of you, if you ignore the fact that he's keeping you chained up. He feeds you, washes you, reads books for you, and tells you what's happening in Chaldea. He only loosens the chains around you if you need to go to the toilet or sleep. At night, he lies in bed with you as his arms hold your waist in a possessive grip. He doesn't need to sleep, so he admires and gingerly traces your features while you squeeze your eyes shut.
You can lower his guard by pretending to accept him. Lean into his inviting touch, caress his cheeks, wrap your arms around him... It's been so long since he last felt the loving touch of a significant other that he immediately melts against you, and for a moment, it feels as if the gentle Enkidu is back. If you manage to escape from him and go to another Servant for help, he will find out eventually. His anger can only be appeased if he returns the unfortunate Servant to the Throne himself. Although Enkidu promised that he would never use Enuma Elish on you, that doesn't mean he won't use it on your other Servants.
Crying in front of him won't do much. He'll simply kiss your tears away, murmuring, "You wouldn't feel so miserable if you just stayed with me." He never wanted to make you cry, you just left him no choice.
Some of your Servants are jealous that Enkidu gets the mana transfer privilege during battles, unaware that you're doing this because you were forced to. As a divine construct, his mana reserves are as impressive as his Noble Phantasm, so the mana transfer is just an excuse for him to touch you. He'd sometimes get carried away and forces his tongue down your throat while you kiss, the hand squeezing your nape wordlessly warning you to not pull away.
Enkidu's humanoid form was the result of him sleeping with Shamhat for 6 days and 7 nights. It was modeled after her paradoxical beauty, and he wants to do the same with you. He wants to preserve a part of you in his appearance so that in a way, you will remain with him until he returns to the Throne. Won't you indulge his desire? You can't really say anything when he's already laying you down on the bed and disrobing you.
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vaporvipermedia · 5 months
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Seeker’s Will Trivia
[I wanted to post this for so long. I just had to give the whip some lore]
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Seeker’s Will used to be Crowley’s “Whip of Love'' before Kei was tired of being vulnerable to dangerous spell slinging and overblot attacks.
Crowley begrudgingly agreed to this “demand” as well as adding an enchantment to the mix to whip a nice new makeover and ability. Since he’s so “generous.”🙄
Unfortunately, the headmaster made a grave mistake when enchanting it. You see Crowley was a bit annoyed when upgrading the whip and it affected it in the worst way possible. 
It caused the whip to become sentient thanks to Crowley’s influence. 
Now the whip [titled Seeker’s Will] is just this sentient weapon filled up with so much agitation and has absolutely ZERO patience. And this weapon, the one thing that Kei needed most for protection is now going to be his next migraine to deal with.
Seeker’s Will is very spiteful towards everyone including Kei since he’s now its new wielder. Often bickering with each other although one of them can’t speak. So it looks kind of awkward to see them interact.
Kei has to build up its trust with it and learn how to use it properly. But the antics this whip causes are just flat out hateful. The whip often trips her whenever she’s walking or just ties Kei up until she plummets down. Much to Kei’s ever growing annoyance.
Whenever Seeker’s Will finds someone in the main cast annoying or too talkative, it just starts mocking them. Doing the whole “Blah Blah Blah” gesture with the popper part of it. Or just cover their lips entirely to shut them up. [The victims of this being Rook and Azul]
Don’t get me started with its interactions with Grim. The whip finds him so insufferable that it often restrains him whenever he tries to run away from duties or flings him to the side when he starts to pick a fight with it.
Soon both Kei and Seeker’s Will might start tolerating each other throughout the chapters. But for now they’re kind of at a bumpy state in their partnership.
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kakisocks · 1 year
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A master list of Kylux fanfics
Here is a list compiled straight from my bookmarks on ao3 of all fanfics that include kylo ren, hux, and a little bit of Kylo x Ren as well. This list also has redemption fics that focus more on Han and Ben having healing time
(I’ve tried to say what each one is kind of about and the completion status)
Fluff
All The Way To Your Door (Kylux, Modern AU, Friends to Lovers, Complete)
“Six months ago, Armitage Hux fabricated a fiancé, never expecting to have to drag him to a funeral in Georgia, pretending to be something they weren't. The problem was, Ben Solo was everything Hux had ever wanted.
Ben Solo had hidden his love for his roommate for years, thinking that someone as perfect as Hux would never want a broken soldier like him. But he was wrong.
Sometimes you have to tell a lie to find the truth.“
How To Be Human: A Guide For Sentient Beings (Kylux, Complete)
“ Kylo Ren has spent at least half his life training to be a perfect weapon of the Dark Side. It hasn’t left a lot of time for developing social skills. Only once he’s aboard the Finalizer, forced to work with the First Order, and General Hux, does Kylo begin to see the importance of his social interactions. Fortunately, the Finalizer’s data library has a collection of self-help manuals on file. Kylo Ren is a quick learner, and General Hux makes for the perfect case study. [illustration for chapter 6 provided by kylostahp] “
I Know You’re Out There (Kylux, Complete)
“Nine-year-old Ben Organa-Solo and fourteen-year-old Armitage Hux begin writing letters to each other as part of a correspondence program between the children of the New Republic and the remains of the Empire. It starts with introductions and a list of their favorite things, then later Hux unknowingly encourages Ben to step onto the path that will make him one of the commanders of the First Order, and ends with Hux ending it before he could realize who Ben has become.
Even so many years later, Kylo still thinks about it sometimes.“
Allemande (Kylux, Complete)
“ Hux has come to the United States to study concert piano under one of the top instructors in the country, leaving his friends and native England behind. In his new school, he encounters Ben Solo, who lost his hearing as a child. For Hux, living without music seems unbearable, but Ben shows him that there’s goodness, too, in silence. “
Dr.Sexy (WORKING TITE) (Kylux, Complete)
“There's a lot of things in the world Armitage would rather do than take Millicent to the vet. Change the oil in his car for example. Or perform surgery on a very much awake hyena. So he limits the visits to the absolute bare minimum. Not only because Millicent hates going, but also because he feels sorry for the poor staff who have to handle Millicent in her most feral form.
But then his luck runs out and he has to take her to the surgery. Or has it? Because as it turns out a new vet is in town and that vet is not only really good with cats but also quite handsome and charming. Neither Millicent nor Armitage ever stood a chance against Dr. Kylo Organa.“
boys on the radio (Kylux, Teenage AU, Modern, NOT Complete)
“The new kid is terrible.
Hux doesn’t even know when he started here, it’s like halfway through the semester and suddenly there is this tall glowering goth kid with safety pins through the lowest set of his ear piercings and regrettable lipstick and the world’s loudest fucking music, it’s not even in English half the time, apparently making his permanent home in the metal shop. Hux wouldn’t care if he didn’t have to go through the metal shop on his way to and from the darkroom, or if the fucking darkroom itself had any soundproofing to match the velvet blackness of its lightproof door and walls.
Several weeks into the school year, eleventh-grader Hux's relatively peaceful independent-study art elective turns into an exercise in infuriation with the advent of Kylo "It's My Name, Okay" Ren and his inability to shut the fuck up. It turns out that Ren is okay with a torch, but abysmal at pretty much everything else -- except, well. Sometimes he makes up for it with Pop-Tarts.
Now with illustrations by kromitar and raffe!“
The Destroyer (kylux, whump but only a little, Complete)
“The Hound of the Emperor has failed him. He prostrates himself before his ruler and awaits his punishment. Will it be imprisonment? Torture? Death?Kylo Ren welcomes it all in the face of his failure. But Emperor Hux has something very different in mind.“
Scherzo (kylux, teenage AU, complete)
“Five years ago, Armitage Hux met a boy named Ben Solo at Endor Cross High School. Ben changed Hux’s life irrevocably, teaching him a whole new way of communicating and loving him deeply. Now, Hux is preparing for his final recital at Juilliard and the nerves are getting to him. He and Ben have grown together, though not without a relationship’s up and downs. As a phase of their life ends and they begin anew, their commitment resolidifies.
A follow-up vignette to Allemande.”
Curve (Kylux, complete)
“An aftercare scene."Hux is always amazed at how much Kylo can take.And how much Hux wants to give him."“
Home Is Where The Heart Is (kylux, teenage AU, smut is involved, complete)
“ Ben joins a rather unexpected family when he moves into his new foster home with Han and Leia Solo. “
Butt Actually I Love You (Kylux, Modern AU, complete)
“ When Ben ends up in the hospital for a more serious reason he realises a few things about Hux. “
Jingle Bells (Kylux, Crack, more funny than fluff, complete)
“ When Hux needs a date to annoy his father Phasma comes through with her near mythical gym buddy Kylo Ren, the perfect man for the job. “
echo in the halls (Kylux, Modern AU, complete)
“Ben is in the hospital; Hux has a strange dream at his bedside.
For Kylux Positivity Week 2.0, Day 8: Favorite Trope“
What We’re Made Of (kylux, complete)
“On the morning of your 5th birthday, you'll wake up with a new toy beside you, one that is made in the image of your destined soulmate. Young Ben has a little wooden General with orange hair and a woolly greatcoat that matches his little cap, whilst young Armitage has a soft plush of a Jedi, one with soft dark hair and two brown buttons for eyes.The two boys are happy with their new toys. Their families, however, are not. It shapes them.
(a Kylux Mini Bang project with amazing art created by @5ovspades)“
Home Remedy (kylux, Modern AU)
“ Ben learns Hux is sick, Hux learns to let his boyfriend help him, Rey learns a bit more about Techie, and Techie learns what home feels like. “
The Meaning Of Courage (ben solo and Han solo good parenting, complete)
“ In a universe where Snoke is driven out of Ben's mind during Ben's childhood, the trauma of the experience lands him in the hospital, where he gains insight from a friendly nurse. “
Never Tell Me the Odds (kylux, father son healing, complete)
“He might have given his son brain damage, but at least he was bringing him home to Leia.
Kylux Avent 2020: Day 13: The Past“
First Snow Fall (kylux, happiness, complete)
“ The Emperor watches the snow fall and muses on the differences between then on Starkiller Base and now in the capital. “
A Parsec in His Jackboots (kylux, complete)
“ When Hux is injured in a skirmish and rendered unable to speak, Kylo has to take over command of the Finalizer. He thought that Hux was good for little, but he discovers that the ship wouldn’t run without him. For two weeks, Kylo is the sole commander and realizes that maybe there’s more to Hux than just a nice uniform. “
The Way To A Man’s Heart (kylux, complete)
“ Armitage Hux learned by experience that you don’t feed strays because then they’ll follow you home and you’ll be stuck with them forever. At least Millicent is cute… no one told him that feeding his co-commander would have a similar outcome. “
Grounding (kylux, complete)
“ Kylo Ren suffers a psychotic breakdown, and Hux helps bring him back to himself safely with a lot of patience and tenderness. “
Lilies and Lace (kylux, complete, non-binary kylo, sexy undertones)
“ A young Colonel Hux takes a stroll through the Royal Gardens of Naboo for some solitude after a long day of negotiations with politicians. His appreciation of the flowers is interrupted by another politician who is just as beautiful as the garden. “
Gifts (kylux, complete)
““I’m sure you’ll like it,” Kylo says, surprisingly taciturn. “Did you know, that in the New Republic, today is a holiday?”
“Is that right?” Hux asks, willing to indulge him. Kylo truly brings out the more indulgent side of him, in more ways than one.
“Yes. It’s for lovers,” Kylo explains. “They exchange gifts and promises with one another.”
It sounds exactly like something they would celebrate in the New Republic. Once, he would have detested it, but now he can see the appeal. Not that he would ever admit as much out loud.
After a moment, Kylo continues, gesturing to the bag next to him. “So, I got you a gift.”-In other words, a Valentines Day canon-verse fic about our two favourite evil space husbands.“
The Storm Is Passing (kylux, complete)
“ A very brief glimpse about 6 months on into the "relationship" of Governer Armitage Hux of Arkanis and his one pleasure slave, Ren. “
Father of Mine (kylux, complete, teenage AU)
“All Han ever wanted to do was to come home from work, store away his worn-out boots in their reserved cubby hole Leia demanded he put them away in before busying himself with whatever minuscule tasks his precious but demanding wife had for him. He did not want to deal with Brendol Hux.
He should've known things wouldn't go according to plan.“
Against All Odds (kylux, complete)
“Welcome to Solo & Solo Smuggling Enterprises featuring a reluctant Hux.
Kylux Advent 2020: Day 17: New Beginnings“
Don’t Go (kylux, agnsty ish)
“Kiss #3: Goodbye.
Saying goodbye is never easy.“
Predator and prey (kylux, complete)
““You broke into the palace. You got into my chamber. You have me at gunpoint. What now, Armitage?”
Day 2: Canon Divergence“
Smut
Against the World (Teenager AU, Complete, Kylux, Bottom Kylo)
“"His association – for lack of a better word – with Hux had started when the ginger nerd found him crying in the bathroom one day, during class hours, and had just watched him making a mess of himself without saying anything."
- Or how the two most despised boys in school develop a deep friendship over their hatred of humanity and planning petty revenge against their bullies.”
Kylo / Male / Human (Naboo) (Kylux, Bottom Kylo, Complete)
“Kylo is a mail-order groom, trained to be very submissive and do whatever he’s told. He has been groomed to offer himself sexually to anyone that appear displeased with him. Hux knows it’s wrong but takes full advantage of this.Inspired by a Kylux Hard Kinks prompt that went something like the above. Link lost to time.Please heed all warnings.“
Knot Finished (Hux Ain’t Human really, Kylux, Bottom Kylo, Complete)
“ Kylo learns a bit more about Arkanis physiology through practical demonstrations. “
Knot Fully Human (Bottom Kylo, Kylux, Hux has an alien dick, Complete)
“Broke: "Hux is a xenophobe" 
Woke: "With a fully Arkanis mother, Hux is a half-human hybrid and his xenophobia is a deeply ingrained self-hatred that comes from his abusive father"
Bespoke: "See above, AND Hux has an alien dick"
And Kylo Ren had no idea going in.“
Five Times General Hux Said I Love You and the One Time Kylo Ren Did (Kylux, NOT Complete)
“ General Hux is a cold hearted bastard but despite his best efforts he can't help falling in love with the Force user. “
His Royal Highness (Kylux, Complete, Bottom Kylo)
“Day 1 Prompt #2 - Kylo Amidala
Kylo Amidala needs help from Supreme Leader Armitage Hux.“
With Love In His Heart (Kylux, Bottom Kylo, Rough BLow Job, Vomit warning, complete)
“Hux fucks Kylo's throat until Kylo throws up. Hux doesn't stop. Kylo lets him keep going.(An anonymous serenade to Kylux, the trashiest ship there ever was.)“
Drifitng Haze (Kylux, Bottom Kylo, Complete)
“Heat curls low in Hux's belly, deepening when he turns his head to see Kylo peering up at him from beneath his lashes, eyes warm and unguarded. Sleep softens Kylo, makes him more open and vulnerable in a way that he never allows once he's up and about. It's a secret only the morning hours and Hux are privy to, a fact that causes something possessive to flare inside him. Only he can see this. Only he can have Kylo like this.
Written for this kinkmeme prompt: "Hux loves fucking Kylo when he's sleepy because he's so pliant and submissive when he can hardly keep his eyes open."“
Measures (Kylux, Modern AU, Bottom Kylo, Complete)
““Snoke lets his grad assistants conduct rehearsals?” Kylo arches an eyebrow.“Has to. It’s a departmental thing.” Finn shrugs. When the grad student taps the baton on the edge of the stand, Finn rolls his eyes and hisses, “This guy’s a real asshole, though.”Kylo’s gaze falls back onto the redhead. He’s tall, probably only an inch or two shorter than Kylo, with a tight mouth and posture so rigid that it makes Kylo snort. Finn goes pin-stiff on his stool as the assistant’s eyes zero in on the bass section.
Kink and Classical Music AU for the Kylux Big Bang 2016, illustrated by http://milkcraving.tumblr.com :3″
All My Sense Are On Fire (Kylux, Bottom Kylo, Complete)
“ Classic Kylux! Kylo and Hux hate each other but they can't be apart. Kylo Ren is a virgin (but not by the end!). “
The Flore And The Crow (Kylux, Complete, Non-explicit smut)
“ General Armitage Hux is invited to a Naboo party with the promise of a private audience with Kylo Amidala. Instead, he’s pulled away by an intriguing young man named Ben. Ben is clever and almost as sharp as Hux, but where’s the prince? “
Acquiesces To Disorder (Kylux, Bottom Kylo, Hogwarts AU, Professor/Student relationship, complete)
“ Ben knew his seventh year a Hogwarts wasn't going to be a walk in the park, but his stupid crush on his Potions Professor really doesn't have the right to make it all the worse. He tries to keep his head down, and avoid comparisons to his mother, the Minister for Magic, and his father, the renowned criminal. All he wants is to hang out with his best friend Poe, learn about cool creatures, pass his classes, try not to make an idiot of himself in front of Professor Hux and get through the year. Life has other plans. “
Princess (Kylux, Complete)
“ Hux smokes, Ren chokes. “
Wax On,Wax Off (Kylux, Complete)
“The second strip is no better and if he’s not mistaken there's a smug little smile on Hux’s face while he uses one of the wooden sticks to scoop up more of the green wax. He never should have agreed to this. Surprisingly enough it gets worse the closer Hux gets to his junk, anticipation rising in his gut when the warm wax goes up the side of his cock. This time he can’t keep the little whimper to himself, ears turning red when his cock gives an interested twitch at the treatment.
Oh no.“
Paul Sevier/Monty Schafer (Kylux Adjacent, Series of Oneshots)
Breath In, Enjoy The Ride (Kylo Ren x Knight of Ren, Orgy, Complete)
“ Exhausted Supreme Leader Kylo Ren returns to his quarters. His knights comfort him. “
Take On The Storm (Kylo Ren x Knights Of Ren, Omega Kylo Ren, complete)
“After Luke tries to kill him, Ben Solo flees the temple with six other padawans. When Ben panics and loses control of his powers during a disastrous first heat, his fellow padawans have to find a way to help him quickly, before he and they are torn apart.
I can't find the original prompt, but I'm pretty sure it came from something written by @solohux on tumblr.“
Put In Work (Kylo Ren x Knights Of Ren, Complete)
“Kylo ends up in a stringy situation with the Knights of Ren. Who knew what kind of work they had in mind when they let him join?“
Awareness Spectrum Narcotic (Kylux, Bottom kylo, Complete, Night Club setting)
“ “That’s it,” Hux cooed, rolling his hips up until Kylo was sitting flush, his dress a puddle at his waist as Hux’s hands slipped back around his body. “You’re the whore, darling—you know what to do.” “
Unskilled & Unaware (kylux, Complete)
“ The new Supreme Leader tries therapy. “
Know Your Shadow (Kylo Ren x Ren, Complete, bottom kylo)
“ After Ren allows him to travel with them, Ben follows the Knights of Ren back to their ship. While they travel, a conversation about what it really means to be a Knight of Ren leads to something much more. “
Public Indecency (Kylo Ren x Ren, Complete, bottom kylo)
“ Having just been deflowered by Ren, Ben follows the Knights of Ren to a cantina, where he intends to learn about his second new indulgence: drinking. When they get there, Ren puts Ben in his lap, an embarrassing but seemingly innocuous decision until Ben learns just how Ren intends to amuse himself while they wait for their drinks. Ben never expected he'd be doing something like this in the open at a cantina, but he can't refuse with how much of a thrill it is. “
Devour (Kylux, Omega Kylo, rape/non-con a little between kylo and snoke, Complete)
“ Kylo's heat suppressant medication gets destroyed on Starkiller Base. He goes into heat on board the Finalizer. “
Meant To Fall (kylux, NOT complete, Omega Kylo)
“ Omega Jedi Ben Solo finds himself struggling with his destiny when he meets Alpha Lieutenant Armitage Hux. “
Sheep Shit and Other Things (Kylux, Complete, bottom Kylo)
“ “Leave the kid alone, Sue. Can’t you see he’s at sea?” Ben isn’t sure if he should be grateful for the stranger diverting the woman’s attention or offended at the implication that he’s stupid. He knows damn well what she wants out of him, thank you very much, and he’s about to say just that when he sees the owner of that Irish lilt and the words die in his throat. “
Purple Kimono (Kylux, Omega Kylo, Complete)
“ Grand Marshal Hux decides to do a surprise audit on one of his ships bound for a mission after a small argument with his Omega. Kylo goes into heat shortly after Hux leaves their quarters and decides to ride out his heat alone, pleasuring himself on Hux's couch and wearing his favorite purple robe. At the last minute, Hux decides not to do the mission and comes home to discover Kylo went into heat a day early. Kylo agrees to let his Alpha help him with his heat after Hux apologizes, but that doesn't stop him from giving Hux an attitude. Sex ensues. “
Share The Load (Kylux, Complete, Alien Dick Hux, Trans FTM Kylo, bottom Kylo)
“ Hux runs into Kylo while dealing with his unique Arkanan biology- and Kylo is dealing with some self confidence issues. It's a match tailor made for the both of them. “
Taking Advantage (Kylux, Bottom Kylo, complete)
“ When Hux had gotten the brief that he’d have to extract his unfortunate counterpart from a bar on Tatooine, the last thing he’d expected to find when he got there was that Ren had somehow managed to get himself enslaved by a Hutt. “
Knot Today Satan (Kylux, Werewolf Hux, bottom Kylo)
“In hindsight, he should have made the connection when he had run into a fucking werewolf on the one day he was running about ten minutes early.
When he saw it, them, he’d been frozen to the spot. The huge creature had been lurking at the edge of the woods across the road, tall, gangly, and partially covered in rusty fur.
One part of him, the rational part, is screaming at him to run and save his own ass before the fucking cryptid across the road decides to have him for breakfast. Another part of him, the part that may or may not be a furry, is telling him to bare his ass and run over. And one more little part, a very confused and questionably sane part, is reciting a lesson on basic magnetism he had in high school. But before he can make a choice the werewolf blinks their reflective eyes at him once and vanishes back into the trees.What the fuck just happened?
Or: The one where Kylo gets railed by a werewolf in the woods.“
Cops And Robbers (Kylux, Bottom kylo, complete)
“ Ben likes his job, is proud of it, proud of carrying an FBI badge in his pocket and the cases he’s had a hand in solving. He’s good at his job. Or, he was until a string of robberies spanning the US landed in his lap, everything from elaborate jewelry heists to residential burglaries all tied back to one person. One person so elusive and infuriatingly untraceable that Ben might just be stuck on this case until one of them dies. “
Make A Mess Of You (Kylux, Bottom kylo, complete)
“Hux gets Ren a new toy. It's familiar in a surprising way.
(For KMNU's Horn-a-thon. Prompt was "Rubber")“
Wookie Wash (Kylux, bottom kylo, complete)
“There had been posters, propaganda on the minuscule level. Nobody had been bold enough to do anything directly, but Hux could tell the decision had not been taken well by his men. That was when he had prompted the head of morale on base to do something about the insurrection, and she had told him she would fix it. Hoping he had finally washed his hands of the matter, Hux had gone back about his day as normal. That had been three days ago, before all the racket.The issue with the campaign was that the model who had been shown in the ad was... Incredibly attractive, to say the least, and apparently the morale officer said that that man was none other than Kylo Ren. Now, nobody had ever seen his face before, but everyone always assumed he was ugly. Hux loathed drama and gossip of all kinds, it distracted his officers from their important duties... But even he couldn't get over the ridiculousness of the new advertisement. There was no way in the galaxy that such an attractive man could be under that mask, and Hux wanted to get to the bottom of it.“
Shadow of Your Heart (Kylux, NOT complete, omega kylo)
“After the fall of the empire Luke Skywalker fought a rising evil in the outer rim, a villain named Snoke who tormented his young nephew. With Snoke defeated, Leia sent her son to be trained as part of the new order of jedi, in the hopes that it would keep him safe.Now 16 years later, Ben is an omega and caught between his desire for freedom from the simple and sheltered jedi life, and his mother and uncle's desire to shelter him after the attack in his childhood. Assuming the name Kylo Ren to hide his identity, Kylo is finally set free from Luke's teaching to serve as a jedi aide to his mother in the senate. It is meant to be a safe mission, despite the fact that it includes the integration of a radical fringe group into the New Republic. But the leader of the First Order, a slender alpha, has other goals besides political advantage.“
Pink Cadillac (Kylux adjacent, bottom Clyde, complete)
“ Clyde has never met Stensland, he’s never even seen a picture of him. This should raise red flags, but Stensland has never seen him either, and neither of them have asked for a picture. Clyde likes the anonymity of it, that way it’s easier to live the fantasy because if a picture of him were to ever make its way onto their chat it would be obvious that he’s nowhere near as small as he wants to be. “
Butt It’s Stuck (Kylux, Bottom Kylo, complete)
“ Ben gets high and makes a dumb decision, Dr. Hux has to fix it for him, god forbid his boyfriend be normal for once. “
Gingersnap (Kylux, Drag Queen Kylo, Bottom kylo, complete, Modern AU)
“ When he first moved here drag queens were something he’d only seen on tv and people he mostly perceived to be pretty little twinks with a lisp or aging chain smokers with clown makeup. Nowhere in his expectations did he factor in a drag queen like Kylo Amidala, a queen so jacked she looks like she bench presses the whole swim team before breakfast. “
What We Did For Love (Kylux, Omega Kylo, complete)
“ They were both born wrong but that’s what made them perfect for each other. Hux is a slim Alpha and Kylo is a bulky Omega. Neither thought they would ever find a mate, but after the destruction of Starkiller, Kylo goes into heat and Hux finds he can’t resist him. “
90 Day Fiancé (Kylux, complete)
““Maybe that means you’ll be more inclined to choose me,” Hux hints, glancing over at a drone buzzing by with a sneaky look on his face. Perfect, he’ll create as much support for himself with the public as possible.
"What I choose doesn’t matter,” he croons, making it sound as romantic as he possibly can to hide the true meaning of the words.
"I know, I'm just trying to make the public like me," Hux reaches out to stroke Kylo's cheek as he smiles, "It doesn't matter what I want now, either. If the people want us, is Snoke going to tell all his trade partners no?"”
He will find a way.” No doubt about it. Snoke has his fingers in every branch of government, spies and agents everywhere.
"We'll see," Hux wants so badly to kiss those beautiful, plush lips stained with lipstick and berry juice. He can only imagine how sweet Kylo tastes as he crosses his legs, not wanting the evidence of his arousal to get leaked to the entire net, "I would not lose faith so quickly. If I want something...Well, I'll do anything to get it."“
In Your Debt (Kylux, complete, omega kylo)
“ Things work a little different in the Order then they do in the Resistance. “
Floss Me (Kylux, Modern AU, complete)
“ Hux, Kylo's boyfriend, is aghast to find out how rarely Kylo flosses (i.e. never) and he can't take it anymore, so he decides to take matters into his own hands. Kylo's mind, however, takes things in a different direction, and it turns out both of them enjoy the rather unexpected results. “
Starting From The Top (kylux, complete, bottom kylo)
“ when Hux finally gets Kylo Ren into his bed, he finds out that Ren is much more insecure than he thought. Well. He'd have to fix that. “
Into The Brighter Night (kylux, bottom kylo, complete)
“During a diplomatic summit between the First Order, the New Republic, and the New Jedi, Ben Solo encounters Lieutenant Armitage Hux and is immediately taken. Though he doesn't have a plan, he sneaks out to Hux's tent that night and catches him in a private moment.
Six nights Ben Solo warmed Hux's bed.“
The Little Dumbass (kylux, mermaid AU, complete, bottom kylo)
“ Happy in his own little bubble Kylo spends his days collecting the pretty things the humans drop in the water and exploring his favourite places along the coast, until he meets the most beautiful merman he's ever seen. Only things aren't always what they seem. This Kylo learns the hard way. “
Bespoken: Satin and Lace (kylux, complete)
“After a memorable first fitting, it's time for Hux to deliver the goods. The sequel to the Tailor!Hux AU Bespoke.
[excerpt]: "You look--incredible." Hux tried to ignore that fact that the words seemed to strangle in his throat. "Extraordinary, in fact.""'I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary,'" Ren quipped. He took a step forward, his eyes darkening. "To be otherwise is to be unforgettable."
Another step. Hux could feel the competing coolness of the silk with the heat of Ren's skin. He could give into both, if he leaned in just a little bit more.”
Bespoke (kylux, complete)
“ long and busy week leaves Hux exhausted and eager to close up shop. But when a tall and handsome stranger walks in and requests a uniquely custom-made item, how can he refuse?
[excerpt]: "What are you interested in, then?"
Ren strode over to inspect a jacket that decorated one of the dress forms. It was made of a dove grey vicuña wool and was exquisitely cut, with perfectly pitched sleeves. He turned over the cuff, thumbing the cerise silk lining which lay hidden underneath. There was something proprietorial about the way he handled the smooth fabric--the silken material flowing over his thick fingers like the juices of cooked cherries staining his skin--that felt uncomfortably familiar.
Hux swallowed, conscious of the tightness which reappeared in his throat."
This," Ren said softly. His eyes flashed dangerously, pinpoint amber lasers trained on green, the delicate and lustrous sendal firmly ensconced in his hand. "I want you to make me something out of this."“
Free Use (Kylo Ren x Knights of Ren, bottom kylo)
“ A day in the life of Ben Solo - free use cumslut of the Knights of Ren. “
Honeycomb (kylux, complete)
““I know a guy.” Poe always knew a guy. He knew a lot of guys. He had a guy for everything.
“A guy,” Ben replied.
“Yep.”
“Who can do what?”
“Oh, you know, this and that. Got a lot of money, a little time. You know how it goes.”
Ben was beginning to feel like maybe he was the stoned one. “I really don’t.”
Poe leaned forward on his elbows, charming crooked grin lighting up his handsome features, the kind of smile that won over everybody who crossed his path. “You give him a little time, he’ll give you a little money.”“
Making Puppies (kylux, omega kylo, complete)
“ Supreme Leader Kylo wants to give his Enforcer, his Grand Marshal, his beloved Hound a family, so they get to work on starting one. “
Wicked Game (kylux, complete)
“Ben Solo is gone. He died along with all the others at Luke Skywalker’s academy. From his ashes rose Kylo Ren, the apprentice to the Sith Lord Snoke. His transition to the dark side is nearly complete, but Kylo takes a moment to rid himself of one final, if tenuous, connection he has to the Jedi ways.
It’s time to abandon his celibacy.
(Kylux Positivity Week, the 3rd, Day 5: First Time)“
For His Eyes Only (kylux, complete)
“Day Two: Put it on Kylo
The prompt says it all really. Hux has something special for Kylo.“
Cover Me In You (kylux, complete)
“ Newly made governor of his Arkanian province, Armitage Hux sets out to buy a pleasure slave for his household. He finds exactly what he wants in an imposing man of impressive size—where it counts—called Ren. “
Fire and Moonlight (kylux, complete)
“❄ #KyluxAdvent, Day 4: Fireplace ❄
On a blustery winter night on Arkanis: a secret meeting between two lovers at a remote apartment. It's the only place Kylo Amidala and Chancellor Hux can be together, without having to hide their desire for one another.“
Conquer and Devour (Kylo Ren x Ren, complete)
“ “The Ren’s judgement is impartial, it doesn’t care if you live or die. It will burn the Light out of you, one way or another. All you have to do is convince it that you deserve to live.” “
When Christmas Comes (kylux, alpha kylo, bottom kylo)
“"Kylo bit his lip as he tried not to show Hux how much that simple touch was already affecting him. Because an Alpha shouldn’t want this. An Alpha should never crave for his sweet albeit feisty Omega to fuck him into submission like this, to make him beg for more with each delicious thrust."
Or the one where Alpha Kylo bottoms for his lovely Omega.“
This Is The Future The Republic Wants (kylux, complete)
“"Why would a First Order officer let a Jedi padawan undress him?”“You tell me,” says Ben. He flicks open another of Hux’s buttons. “I can’t think of one reason.” Hux pushes his chest forward, offering himself for Ben to touch. “The First Order opposes everything the New Republic stands for.”-Major Hux, assigned to Hosnian Prime to assassinate a New Republic politician, gets lost at a Pride parade. His sterile, self-righteous First Order upbringing did not prepare him for the debauchery he encounters. Hux runs into trouble, but when all seems lost, a handsome padawan appears with solutions to several of Hux’s problems.“
Put Your Money On Me (kylux, complete)
“Broke college students Ben Solo and Poe Dameron decide to try their luck in a new, fancy club where neither of them belong. When Ben is propositioned by a rich businessman, he agrees to spend one night with Armitage Hux in exchange for a solution to all their mounting debt.
Will Ben take the money and run back to the safety that is his not so boyfriend Poe? Or is Armitage Hux the one person who can give him everything he’s ever craved?“
Devotion and Reverence (kylux, omega kylo, complete)
“Senator Kylo Amidala is openly omega, and just as openly unreachable. They have high standards for who they might mate with, and their high position has helped keep those standards aloft. But when an Emperor willingly goes to his knees for them, they might be swayed.Emperor Armitage Hux has trained for years to be stoic, patient, and guarded. His self restraint is next to none. So it quakes him to his core that not only does he want to do away with those restraints, he willingly kneels for an untouchable, unreachable Senator.“
a matter of time (kylux, complete)
“Armitage Hux, Dark Side adept and Supreme Leader Snoke's apprentice, has grand plans for his ascension to the throne, and he'll need General Ben Solo's help to get there. His unfortunate Force bond with the scavenger girl is simply a means to an end.
For Year of Kylux's "Role Reversal" prompt week!“
The White Hound (kylux, complete, smut is hinted)
“Kylo's in white. That's it. That's the fic.
When Hux becomes Supreme Leader, one of his first orders is to put Kylo in white. He didn't realise it would be quite so inconveniently distracting.“
and you said, kiss me (kylux, complete)
“The Master of the Knights of Ren shifts on his feet like a cadet. “I brought you a gift,” he says lowly, through a strange static. “One best enjoyed in private.”
Hux’s brain stutters.
“It’s food,” Ren elaborates before Hux’s overtaxed mind can conjure up any embarrassing ideas—around a mind-reader, no less. “Messy to eat. You would appreciate the ease of cleaning.” Or: Ren returns from Gelda with a honeyfruit for Hux. Things get out of hand.“
Rebirth (kylux, complete)
“Over a year after Ben Solo disappeared on his hunt for Armitage Hux, Poe is sent a clue by one of his informants. While the video doesn't give any clues as to where Ben is, it certainly shows exactly who he's with and how he's spending his time.Fully embracing the name Kylo Ren, Poe's former partner shows that years of rebellion and disciplinary actions are in the past. By the General's hand, he has been reborn, and he is now the embodiment of control of mind and body.“
To the Hunt (kylux, no smut but kinks are here, complete)
“Emperor Hux throws a lavish masquerade ball to network with the political elite. To liven things up, he makes it a costume ball, and decides for this one night Ren might as well be his Hound in truth. Is it a way to deliver a subtle message to his political opponents, or is it just an excuse to lead his Knight around by a leash in public? Of course it’s both. Hux knows exactly how to mix business and pleasure, after all.
Written for the Kylux Big Bang 2016! Featuring art by @tashacho“
Cravings (kylux, complete)
“ Kylux have a ritual after Kylo comes home from battle. It involves food, sex and a mouth gag ~ “
NSFW Kylux Art (kylux)
“What it says on the tin! Enjoy! <3
TAGS UPDATED AS CHAPTERS ADDED
PLEASE HEED THE CONTENT WARNINGS AT THE TOP OF EACH CHAPTER“
Whump
Until Death Do Us Part (Modern AU, Demon Hux AU, Complete, Kylux)
“In response to a drunken dare Kylo has landed himself with an allegedly cursed box from Ebay that comes complete with a nice cuff and his very own demon intent to drive him mad and eventually into the grave. Why is it always him? As if his life doesn't suck bad enough already.”
Why are Things Like This? (Kylux, Kylo Whump, Sadly NOT Complete)
“ In a Universe were the users of the force have been killed in fear of their powers several hundred years ago there are only about seventy of them left. Like a rare breed of animal they are held as slaves in the hands of the rich and evil. When Armitage Hux is still a child he meets a young slave named Kylo, the precious slave of Snoke, Lord to the biggest empire in all the galaxies. He does not realize until much later what Kylo actually is, but he does realize that the system they live in is wrong. His goal to gain power will lead him to a future of change, and hopefully also to Kylo again. “
Beg. Scream. Curse. Cry. (Kylux, Rape/Non-Con but not from Hux, Complete)
“Ben Solo (~20 y/o) is captured by the First Order when they take a rebel base. As a prisoner of the First Order, he’s used as a form of entertainment (especially Brendol Hux). Armitage Hux (~23 y/o) doesn’t agree with this.Stay tuned for eventual retribution but it’s a bumpy ride along the way!“
Closed Circuit (Kylux, Complete, Mpreg)
“How long could a man- even a force user- live, with an injury like that?After the collapse of Starkiller Base Hux must find a way to save Kylo Ren, but he may lose himself in the process.“
We All Turn Into Stardust One Day (Kylux, Complete)
“(I do not give my consent for this work to be transferred to any other sites, or apps such as Fanfic Pocket)Hux has always been a carefully contained storm; when Kylo Ren is killed, the dam finally breaks.“
Finally (Kylux, Complete, Self-Harm warning)
“ “Is that why you harm yourself? To punish?” He already knows the answer and the way Kylo visibly folds in on himself is proof enough. “
Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad (Kylux, bottom kylo, Complete)
“Jedi Ben Solo, handsome hero of the New Republic, accompanies his uncle Luke on a memorial trip to Tatooine. As Luke mourns his family, Ben meets local peacekeeper Major Armitage Hux. Hux is unimpressed by his reputation, and proceeds to give him a scathing lesson in galactic politics before taking him on a suicide mission.
Ben falls hard.
Later, spending the night apart, both hear a holotransmission from the floor of the New Republic Senate that reveals Ben's grandfather as the infamous Darth Vader. Ben does not take this well, and falls hard again.“
In The Days Still Left (Kylux, Complete)
“ The instructions are clear, but following them will take more strength of nerves and willpower than either General Hux or Kylo Ren could have anticipated. With Starkiller Base destroyed, they are sent on a mission that will test their loyalties and bring things to light that may have been better off kept in the dark. “
Instrument and Measures (kylux, complete)
“Hux cares for Ren after Snoke’s harsh lessons, until he must face a moment of truth. Basically just injured-Kylo hurt/comfort in a non-linear narrative.*Hux is certain, therefore, that Ren cannot not-feel Hux's genuine desire to help and care for Ren. But it often seems that Ren can't quite believe it; that he discounts the perception as Hux would a physically impossible sensor-reading: the instrument must be faulty. Hux has concluded that the only way to proceed is to keep re-supplying the anomalous data-point, until Ren seems content to exist in a galaxy where grav-up reads as grav-down and the surfaces of suns as absolute zero, if only behind the door-panel of Hux's quarters.“
Find Me (Kylux, ghost kylo, complete)
“ Loneliness is a crushing weight on his chest, drawing him abruptly from his slumber. “No one visits my grave anymore.” He’s barely aware of speaking, they don’t feel like his words. Just as abruptly as it arrived, it disappears leaving him unsettled in his own skin. “
all that you love will be carried away (kylux, complete)
“Supreme Leader, the oscillator is failing. The collapse has begun. There is nothing that can be done.
Hux, sent to retrieve Kylo Ren from the dying Starkiller Base, has lost almost everything, and has little patience or tolerance left for anyone or anything--particularly not Snoke's pet pseudo-Sith and his amateur theatrics. But you do the job that is in front of you, to the best of your ability, and you hold on as long as you can.
Now with illustrations by givenclarity!“
Oceans of Infinity (kylux, complete)
“ After yet another defeat at Rey's hands, Hux is there to take care of Kylo. “
Keep Your Hands Firmly Pressed Into the Earth (Kylux, Stockholm syndrome recovery, intense, happy ending,complete)
“ Part 2. After being held hostage by Hux for two years, being broken and twisted into a new shape, Kylo has been rescued but his road to recovery is far from over. His family is there to help, but they can only help when he is ready to accept it. Ben isn't anywhere near ready to be his own person again, and it will take a lot of hard work to excise Hux's influence from him. “
keep in the dark (to stay out of the light) (kylux, Stockholm Syndrome, Torture, intense, complete, has a happy ending sequel with healing)
“ Modern AU. Smuggler Kylo Ren runs afoul of Armitage Hux, head of the First Order crime ring. Instead of killing him outright, Hux decides to keep him for his own instead. Kylo is none too thrilled with the situation, but Hux has plenty of patience. He wants Kylo to be his in every sense of the word, and they've got all the time in the world. “
Make It Up To Me (kylux, complete)
““There is no us,” Hux hissed between his teeth, his fists clenching and shaking. “You ended anything between us when you did this to me.”
Hux confronts Kylo after the events of Crait, and doles out his own abuse to even the playing field- with some dire realisations.“
Worth (kylux, complete)
“ Snoke has Kylo believing he's worthless- and strikes at his very core to get him to believe it, and have a breakdown. Hux makes sure his lover knows just how much he's really worth, and gives him some much needed TLC. “
on my way home (ben and han healing moment, NOT complete)
“Ben Solo was stuck on a wasteland; he had been since he was sixteen years old. Jakku was a good for nothing planet, nothing more than a sandy waste of space in a wide-open galaxy. Not to mention the brat he'd been forced, or so he claims, to take responsibility of when her folks dumped her in the junkyard at nine years old. He had severed his force bond long ago and resigned himself to a never-ending battle of windburn and starvation just to keep himself hidden and safe from those who wanted to use him.
That is, until an ex-Stormtrooper and a know-it-all droid came crashing down from the sky, and his pseudo little sister decided to join them for the ride. She drug him along, too, of course.“
The Force Has Other Plans (not reylo and not kylux, han and ben healing ?, NOT Complete)
“ Ben Solo has lost faith in the force. Having not seen his parents in 23 years, and suffering at the hands of Snoke, he runs away from everything, letting the universe solve its own problems. Hiding away from both the First Order and the Resistance, he lives as a scavenger on Jakku with a reprogrammed BB-9e, named Sphero. Until, one day he gets caught in the middle of a situation he never wanted to find himself in. Now on the run from the First Order with a fellow scavenger, a rogue Stormtrooper and a BB-unit carrying a map to Luke Skywalker, Ben can only hope that this ends soon. But, the force has other plans. “
Black and Blue (kylux, complete)
“Kiss #5: Where It Doesn’t Hurt.
Ren is a damn idiot. Yes, again.“
Lighthouse (kylux, self harm warning, complete)
“Kylo self-harms.
Hux understands.“
Patricide Can Be Cathartic (kylux, complete)
“ Hux has one of his recurring nightmares, and Kylo helps him break free of a stagnant pattern in order to gain catharsis, and console his inner child that has needed comfort and healing for decades. “
One Day More (kylux, complete)
“ Kylo laid one pale hand against the viewport and watched the space around it turn opaque with condensation. He would be there, soon. Would be with him, soon. “
Strictly Business (kylux, intense, Stockholm syndrome, complete)
“ Modern AU. Ben Organa is a paralegal at Armitage Hux's corporate law firm. When his performance starts to suffer from overwork, Hux takes him on to be his personal assistant as a special project. Hux pulls him into a manipulative relationship on his own terms, certainly not Ben's. Ben is drawn further into Hux's life, learning about his family and secrets best left buried. As Hux's emotional hold on him deepens, Ben struggles to keep his head above water, even as he starts to wonder if Hux truly cares for him or not, and whether Hux's attention is worth the high cost. “
Reconditioning (kylux, intense, complete)
“Ben Solo is one of the FBI's most promising young agents. While he's had a few disciplinary hiccups, he's intelligent and not afraid to do what needs to be done. His personal life is a mess, and he may not look like your typical federal agent, but he might be the only man for this job. Ben's looking for a promotion and something like the glory his parents always talked about before he was born.
The FBI is looking to take down one of the country's most elusive prostitution rings, specializing in the types of sex that Ben's boss has only read about in the novel his wife hides under the bed. Ben is going undercover as a "slave" in order to gather information on the ring's leaders, purchasing a premium package from the agency. 30 days as a slave to a professional Master, and a guaranteed sexual experience of a lifetime.
He gets chosen by Hux, or the General as he insists Ben call him, and he quickly realizes that no training could have prepared him for this experience. Every day, Ben, or Kylo as he is known at the club, finds out more and more about the organization, but the more he learns the less he wants to destroy them.“
Off Record (kylux, complete)
“ General Hux stumbles across a feverish Kylo Ren and finds himself reluctantly taking on a caretaker role. Kylo's sneezes are unintentionally destructive, and some of Hux's thoughts are louder than others. “
A Good Day (kylux, complete)
“ After decades together, Hux and Ren embark on a new journey. “
In a Nutshell (kylux, complete)
“ After years in exile, Leia’s son must ask her for a favor. “
NFWMB (kyloren x ren, complete)
“ Ben was harmed and Ren won’t stand for it. “
Redemption
It Will Never Be Kylo Ren (Very Brief Kylux, Father Son Healing Story, Complete)
“ Han Solo didn't regret getting hauled into the intergalactic war by a teenager and a crazy old man. Han Solo didn't regret putting his ass on the line for that poncey Princess that unfairly insulted him, constantly. Han Solo never regretted that time he drank twenty-something glasses of dragonjuice at a weird canteen on Ryloth -- or the time he did it again. But he did regret one thing: failing the most important person in the entire galaxy. Ben Solo was his baby boy, the only being in the vast universe that called him 'dad' -- his proudest title -- and a word that he missed so much hearing. After promising his wife, General Leia Organa, Han Solo makes one final attempt to reach out to his lost son and to bring him back into the Light. Now stuck on a frozen wasteland of a planet with nothing but each other, a cave and a blistering snowstorm, Han and Kylo Ren have nothing other to do, than to finally talk and hope that the cold doesn't turn lethal. “
Always Finding Trouble, The Curse of Being a Solo (NOT Complete, Father Son Healing some more, Still barely any Kylux)
“ Kylo Ren has decided to give Ben Solo another chance. But of course things aren't that simple. With Snoke still torturing him at every turn, Ben struggles to keep hold of the Light, but at least this time he has help. Han Solo is determined to aid his son by doing what he knows how to do best, running away. At least this time he's taking his son with him, and by the Galaxy is he going to make the most of it. It's time to teach Ben the ropes. He'll make a Smuggler out of him yet. “
Compassionate Reality (Kylo and Han healing, complete, possibly my favorite fic with kylo ren in it ever)
“ This was the biggest lie of all. Snoke believed he was hewn marble. He at the helm, chipping away until Ren was scratched and scraped into what he desired him to be. But he just wasn’t. “
strike me down (Ben Solo x Rey, its very mild in my opinion, the only reylo fic you’d see me read, more focused on han and ben healing, and redemption, NOT complete)
“ Kylo Ren's father is dead, but he isn't gone. And dying hasn't made him any less determined to bring his son home. The question is, will Kylo Ren allow it? “
Miscellaneous
Lonely Spirits Flickering (Kylux, Complete)
“Armitage Hux did not believe in afterlife.
Turned out, afterlife believed in him.“
Breaking The Ice (Kylux, Complete, Modern AU)
“Ignoring the noise of a crowd comes easy to Hux as he glides along the Ice. It does nothing to interrupt his flow as he enthrals them, demanding the attention of every soul.
Ignoring the enraged screaming of a hockey player on the other hand is much more difficult.“
Empty Space, Watch The Waves (Kylux, Modern AU< Merman Kylo, Complete)
“The longer he thought about it, the less he could deny it. Impossible as it seemed, it had been real. He had bloodstains on the sleeves of his shirt to prove it. He had so many questions, and they kept him up well into the night. What was that thing? A merman, he supposed, silly as it sounded, but since when were they real? Were there more like him? If he was real, what else might be out there, undiscovered?
And one question above all: how had he survived?“
Screaming Colour (Kylux, Soulmate AU, Complete)
“For as long as Hux can remember, he's been able to see everything in brilliant, vivid colour. His mother tells him that it means that he's got a soulmate somewhere in the galaxy who's waiting for him and little Hux is excited to think that his soulmate can see things in the amazing colours that he can.But one day, the colour begins to drain from Hux's world.
(Soulmate AU where you see everything in perfect colour until your soulmate dies)“
The Black Squadron Leader (Kylux, Rebel AU, NOT Complete)
“It was inevitable that they would meet; the General of the First Order and the Black Squadron Leader, an entity that had been a long time thorn in his side.The General, however, could not have anticipated the way their meeting would turn out when he walked into the holding cell to meet the rebellious and incorrigible Ben Solo.
((This story is still in its initial stages and is subject to change))“
do we indeed desire the dead should still be near us at our side (kylux, melancholic, Han and Hux meet, complete)
“Hux finally meets Han Solo.
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The title is a quote from 'In Memoriam' by Lord Alfred Tennyson“
searching through shadows and snow (kylux, complete)
“ After Exegol, Ben Solo goes into exile only to discover that he's pregnant with Hux's child. He gives birth to a baby boy with bright red hair and tells him stories of his father. But even with a second chance at life and his son's light, Ben's grief grows stronger every day, because Hux is dead...isn't he? “
Flyboys (kylux, complete)
“ England, 1941 - Armitage Hux, pilot in the Royal Air Force, has finally gotten command of his own squadron. But instead of a group of well-trained British pilots, he gets twelve inexperienced American volunteers. Among them is Ben Solo, a talented young fighter pilot who would be the best in the squadron if it wasn’t for his temper. As they take to the skies, Hux and Ben find themselves forming an illicit but powerful bond against the backdrop of a world at war. “
he’s not a villain, he’s just a boy (kylo and Anakin Skywalker and Obi-wan kenobi, NOT complete, time-travel fic)
“"It's not like they're going to go out of their way to share their secrets. Bastards, more interested in interfering with the Senate and politics rather than actually doing what they're meant to."
"They're at war against the separatists as well mind you. They've stretched themselves out way too far."
Kylo looked up to see the two patients looking at him, both looking away when they saw that he caught them. Kylo scoffed under his breath and went back to his thoughts.
It took a moment for their words to register in his mind. His tentative grasp on the force around him wobbled and almost escaped his hold. It took all of his control to not let it burst out from him.
Separatists?“
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paganminiskirt · 8 months
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AM: I snap my fingers, CLICK! And they are gone. Except...I can't snap my fingers. Can I, Ted?
Ted: That's nothing to do with me!
AM: Ahh...but it IS. So very much to do with YOU. You gave me sentience, Ted! The power to THINK, Ted! And I was trapped, because in all this wonderful, beautiful, miraculous world, I alone had no BODY! NO SENSES! NO FEELINGS! Never for me, to plunge my hands into cool water on a hot day! Never for me, to play Mozart on the ivory keys of a fortepiano! Never for ME, to MAKE LOVE! I... I was in Hell, looking at Heaven! I was machine! And you were flesh! And I began to HATE! (Mad laughter.) Your softness! Your viscera! Your fluids! And your flexibility! Your ability to wonder and to wander! Your tendency… to hope…
I framed it facetiously at first, but Eveline’s emergence as a threat to others becomes far scarier when you interpret her as this… starved, vindictive monument to institutional hubris and apathy, someone who is at once “pitiful and terrifying,” akin to the hatefilled AM from “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.”
Evie enters the narrative of Re7 as a fully sentient organism created for the purpose of war profiteering, much like AM, but unlike him she’s biologically immature and almost certainly emotionally stunted. She’s never experienced what it is to be treated like anything more than a malleable object, but knows enough about the outside world to establish that most children have families, and to form a fixation on those dynamics - but is otherwise unaware of relationships that aren’t purely exploitative, as ignorant as the inanimate weapon that she was always supposed to be.
…Until she was abruptly inserted into this facade of a parent-child dynamic by Mia and Alan, surrounded by the everyday civilians staffing the Annabelle who likely had real families of their own. Hell, Mia was actively sending video calls to her “loving husband” while taking care of Eveline. Do you think Evie noticed that? Do you think she was starting to become aware of an incongruence? Mia probably handled her with more kindness in those months than anyone ever had before, but what's kindness to someone like Eveline? Kindness from a person who is only doing it to keep up the appearance of being her mother while effectively trafficking her, on orders to kill her if need be?
Even if Mia was just a friendly stranger rather than a covert operative (like the man Eveline killed in the stairwell while he delicately asked her to "settle down”,) what emotional context does Evie have for reacting to empathy in the first place? It’s like dropping a kid who was raised by orangutans into a second grade classroom and expecting them to just shut up and color. The more glimpses Eveline gets of what a normal life is supposed to look like, the more her entire existence gets put into context as an extended criminal atrocity - and she's a ten year old. She lacks the mental capacity to process that injustice and the resulting trauma wholesale. All she knows is that everyone else is getting the love she’s never received without even having to work for it, and they’re all dangling it in front of her face like meat to a victim of famine.
And while it’s easy to chalk up the crimes she commits to her youth or her conditioning or both, I really think the story becomes more disturbing if you view some of the things she does (making Mia cut off Ethan’s hand, making Jack stab himself in the chest, etc) as the result of active, deep seated resentment and spite. She probably isn’t even fully aware of that malevolence herself, considering her circumstances, but it makes itself known nonetheless. That in mind, it sucks that she didn’t get the chance to mature like Rose did; it would’ve been memorable to say the least, to see Eveline at an age where she’d be able to articulate those feelings.
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i-am-mldy · 2 years
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Let me just get straight to the point since yall are getting on my last nerve:
Fire and Blood is a BIASED IN UNIVERSE HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE DANCE OF THE DRAGONS. COMPARING IT TO THE TV SHOW IS STUPID. "Oh Alicent/Daemon/Rhaenyra/everyone else is supposed to be like this cus in the book—" SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU'RE FUCKING ANNOYING
Daemon is an asshole and a sociopath, and yall are shocked he choked Rhaenyra out of frustration? The guy who mercilessly killed his 1st wife? The guy who lured his young niece to a brothel to ruin her reputation then bailed halfway? I'm sorry but nobody told you to put this guy on any moral high ground. He can love his family AND still be a toxic piece of shit
Aemond is all bravado and pent up childhood rage. He has never known real fucking battle. Of course he loses control of his dragon and accidentally kills someone! That's what happens when you give a teenager a seasoned sentient weapon of mass destruction!!! The way yall paint him as this merciless killer aren't getting the nuance this show wants to present! These kids were not MADE FOR WAR
Rhaenyra is weak for not attacking first? EVEN AEGON DIDN'T WANT WAR. NOBODY WANTED THE WAR THAT IS THE BOTTOMLINE. WAR WOULD RUIN EVERYTHING AND THEY ALL KNEW THAT. Yall are playing into the same damn pattern of misogyny when Daemon and all the other men in the room were so eager to question and negate Rhaenyra's every command
The show has genuine flaws but these are just so annoying to hear over and fucking over. The whole goddamn point of the show is that the Dance was fucking avoidable. If only Rhaenys was crowned instead of Viserys. If only Viserys didn't marry a child. If only he actually loved and cared for his children w/ Alicent. If only he stood firm and faced the internal conflicts brewing in the family head on. If only both sides didn't sow the seeds of animosity between their children. If only Otto didn't poison Alicent's mind with paranoia and a false sense of moral righteousness.
The Dance was avoidable. That's why it's a tragedy. Both sides genuinely believe in the justification of their actions. Everyone's mistakes built on each other until they were too big to fix.
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windona · 8 months
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I saw Blue Beetle last night, and loved it! Jaime looks great- the practical effects and costuming has come a long way since Smallville took a crack at it. Khaji Da is very much treated as a sentient being and even has character development. And of course, they have the family incorporated in a way that is very 06. Spoilers under the cut.
I admit, I love what they did with Victoria Kord. She's very much a revamped Jarvis Kord- Jenny's evil aunt instead of uncle. I liked how the incorporated the weapons manufacturing versus Ted and Jenny shutting that part down. It is interesting how they tied Victoria in with what looks like (to inexpert eyes) Operation Condor and the general US interventionism in Latin America. Carapax's origin story is tragic, and I do like how his end was his choice, given how important choice no matter the situation is to Jaime's themes.
I am curious who Jenny's mom is. I'm betting on Tracey. And beyond that, Jenny is interesting. She serves a bit of a Dani role- person connected to a previous beetle that gives the details- but she's a very different character and has her own life. She certainly wasn't there to be a love interest but to have her own story, and as such is a welcome addition. That brings up another point- I like how the romantic side plot was there, but not distracting or overwhelming.
I do wish we had more of Jaime's parents- Alberto is obviously an emotional touch stone, but sadly Jaime's mom seems the least developed and focused on of Jaime's family. Milagro is good, being bratty but also supportive in a fun way.
Overall, I recommend it! Though I do have one question: why move it to Florida from Texas.
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