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theemporium · 1 year

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[1k] weather warnings, snowstorms and spending christmas locked up with your two boys.

“You have got to be shittin’ me.”

“You’re dad-posing again, Harrington.”

You couldn’t help but let a snort escape your lips, leaning further into the couch as you gently knocked your foot against Eddie’s thigh, a hopeless action in chastising him.

“The weather is shit,” Steve said as he stood by the window, focused on glaring at the blizzard buzzing outside instead of the snickering two behind him. “The driveway is gonna be a pain tomorrow.”

“Oh he’s keeping the dad role going,” Eddie murmured.

“Of course he is,” you murmured back when you noticed Steve finally turned around.

“That’s gotta be an amber warning,” Steve stated with a shake of his head. “Gotta be.”

“It’s gotta be,” you repeated with a heavy sigh. “It’s just a lil’ bit of snow, Steve, it’ll be fine.”

It was, in fact, not a little bit of snow. And it was not fine either.

For both of your boyfriends, the holiday season was never one pack full of family time and busy houses. It broke your heart really, coming from such a big and lively family yourself, you were used to the month of December being happily chaotic (even if most people in your family only cared about the food and the gift giving). But neither Steve nor Eddie had ever experienced something like it, not really.

And whilst the unconventional nature of your relationship was still odd and bizarre to most people in the shitty small town you lived in, you were grateful that your family had come from a more understanding place—a place they just wanted to see you happy and taken care of.

So really, there was no doubt or even a moment of hesitance when you invited them both to spend Christmas with you and your family. With Wayne working the overnight shift meaning he would be sleeping all day anyways and Steve’s parents probably deep in the continent of Europe, it seemed like the simplest solution to spend the day with all the people you loved under one roof.

It was Christmas Eve when you made your way to Steve’s house.

The boy was a mess, convinced they were overstepping their boundaries and that your parents would hate them both for this (to which you scoffed and reminded him your family already had their stockings ready by the mantelpiece). Then he started spiralling about what to take in his overnight bag (not that it mattered considering the boys had a drawer in your room with most of the stuff they would need anyways). And then, after a few beers, you had finally calmed him down so the three of you could spend a few silent moments together before you returned to the chaos of your overbearing household.

However, that never quite happened.

It was actually a red weather warning that was instated across Indiana as the blizzard hit far worse than anyone had expected. The snow was packing thick and it was only going to get heavier, the ice was dangerous and invisible to the eye and the temperatures just kept dropping. And there was no way the three of you were getting back to your house across town in this state, not even in Eddie’s van.

You were snowed in with your boyfriends.

“I–”

“So help me god, Harrington, if you say I told you so—”

“But I did tell you so!” Steve huffed out as he slumped onto the couch, nudging you until you shuffled closer to Eddie and gave the boy space to settle on the other side of you. “We’re gonna miss Christmas with your folks now.” He paused for a moment before looking at you with an apologetic smile. “‘m sorry, sweetheart.”

“Don’t be,” you said as you nudged his shoulder with your own. “It’s fine, we can spend it with them when the snow clears up. Just be glad we got stuck in your house instead of the trailer.”

Eddie snorted beside you. “Ouch, doll, hit me where it hurts.”

Your eyes gleamed. “I’ll kiss it better.”

Eddie’s grin only widened in response but he leaned around the back of the couch to jokingly tousle Steve’s hair. “Harrington here is just pissy Santa will forget to bring him his Farah Fawcett spray if he’s in the wrong house for Christmas.”

“Talk as much shit as you like, Munson, but you know you love this hair,” Steve snapped back and Eddie could only shrug in response.

“Second best feature about you, baby,” he grinned back, enjoying the way the blush spread over his cheeks and ears.

“You two are gonna be a handful to deal with,” you muttered, mostly to yourself but the comment was picked up by the other two boys.

“You never had anything against a handful before,” Eddie teased, lightly poking at your ribs because he liked the way you squirmed.

“Or a mouthful,” Steve added which only caused the other boy to break out into laughter.

“Ha ha, hilarious, the two of you,” you deadpanned, feeling your own cheeks burn.

“Want us to rejog your memory?” Eddie asked as he cosied up closer to you, his thigh pressed against your own and his fingers dancing along the back of your neck, teasing and tempting but not touching you yet.

“I mean, we do have time to kill,” Steve spoke up, his eyes fixated on his own hand as he gave your knee a soft squeeze before his hand started to be upwards. “Trapped in this big house…all alone…no one else coming to get us…gives a guy ideas, ya know?”

“Do you have any ideas, doll?” Eddie’s words were whispered against your ear, warm breath tickling your skin. His head tucked down a little, teeth lightly nibbling at your lobe before he dipped down to press a kiss just below your ear—just where he knew you’d let out a gasp.

“What do you say, sweetheart?” Steve murmured as his fingers nimbly undid the button of your jeans. “Think we’ve been good enough to open our Christmas present early this year? We promise we’ll share.”

“We’ll take real good care of her,” Eddie added as he lightly pushed the edge of your sweater off one of your shoulders, his lips already exploring the new skin.

“You two are bad influences,” you breathed out as your head fell against the back of the couch, two pairs of hands working to quickly discard your clothes.

You could feel their smiles against your skin.

“Merry Christmas, boys, show me how nice you can be.”

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temporarypasserby · 10 months

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𝕃𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕤, ℂ𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕣𝕒, & 𝔸𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟

previously

"did you get an offer for the live action of a silent voice?"

"yes but I had to refuse because I had already agreed for doing 'the proposal'."

"really?"

"yes why?"

"..."

"you did the same thing, didn't you?"

"you're gonna be the death of me. didn't we agree on not doing two film together in a row?" you say looking at the man who's still reading. "we'll just have to do three then," he replies not looking up. "stop joking, you ass-" "i'm not joking. we can just say that our companies are entering in a collaboration and chose us to represent it." "but that's fake" "you could ask your manager since clearly you find it a problem," he said and you sighed. you pull out your phone and text your manager.

alhaitham looked outside and saw that the car was nearing his house. "did the driver forget you're here?" he asked and you just smiled at him in response. "[name]. what's going on?" he asked squinting his eyes at you. his phone then vibrates and lights up. he checks the notification and sees a message from his manager. he can feel the color draining from his face as he reads the text.

hello alhaitham,

I've been contacted by one of your co-stars' company after you told them that you'd like to film more movies with [name]. I'm really glad that you're getting along well. we're currently talking about making a collaboration with their company. we will most likely announce it after the filming of your next movie. whole we are discussing the terms, she'll be staying at your house.

"i've got to be dreaming," he said looking at you who was now playing with his cat. "you dream about me being your roommate? I'm flattered," you tease. "i already have one headache called kaveh. I don't need another one." "don't call kaveh a headache. he's a sweet guy unlike you." "of course you'd think that," he rolled his eyes. "meow twice if you want me to live with your dad, alhaitham jr" you say still playing with the cat. he meows twice and alhaitham groans. of course you'd use his own cat against him. the driver parks the limousine and you both get out.

alhaitham didn't have too many people working in his villa and he liked it like that. you take out your suitcase and go inside without waiting for alhaitham. you knew his house by heart since you usually went to visit kaveh. you even had an unofficial room there. "where's kaveh?" you asked alhaitham as he entered inside. "fortunately for me, he's filming abroad," he said. "he's gonna miss on some fun," you mutter and alhaitham looks at skeptically. you shoot him an innocent smile and say, "nothing much since you're such a boring person." he just scoffs and goes to his room.

the next time he comes back out is for dinner. "and here is a rare species called alhaitham in his natural habitat," you say while recording him walking downstairs. "this species is almost extinct because no one wants to be with him," you laugh and he takes your phone away from you as he continues to walk towards the dining room. "hey! give it back!" you shout running after him. "you want it? take it," he says placing it on a very high shelf. "i'll get you back for that," you say trying to find a way to get up. "sure you will," he says amused. you then decide to climb on a chair to get it.

"what's for dinner?" "whatever the cook made." "can't you cook for yourself?" "why do you want to taste food made by me?" "you'd probably poison it." "i would," he said. you both had a quiet dinner. alhaitham thought you were being too quiet. "what are you planning?" he asked. you gasp as if offended, "me? planning something? when do I ever do stuff like that?" you bat your lashes at him and he scoffs. you laugh, "I'm just thinking about the next movie. I'm not up to anything." "that's uncharacteristically responsible of you." "rude. I should hide put traps in your library for that," you joke. he rolls his eyes. "you better not. I'll stop you from seeing my cat if you do." "alright, I promise to not mess with your library," you say. you do end up keeping your promise and messing with him in another way.

#al haitham #alhaitham x you #alhaitham x reader #genshin x reader #genshin impact #genshin x you #al haitham x reader #alhaitham #words of a passerby

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honeyjars-sims · 8 months

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1.11 Self-pity Party

Previous | Beginning of story | Beginning of chapter | Next

Transcript below:

[Bonnie is calling someone]

*phone rings several times* Hey, it's Johnny. Are you really leaving a voicemail? It's not 2003, text me like a normal person.

[Bonnie ends the call]

Ginny: Still nothing?

Bonnie: Nope. I've called or texted him just about everyday, and he still won't respond.

Ginny: You know I love you, Bonnie, but you put that kid through hell. I think it's going to take more than a phone call to get through to him.

Bonnie: Is everyone just gonna remind me over and over about how much I fucked up? I know, I ruined his and everyone else's lives. Maybe I should do everyone a favor and just leave.

Ginny: Stop with the self-pity already! I see you're making an effort to do better, I really do. But if you want to make amends, you have to take responsibility for your actions. That's the only way things are gonna change.

Bonnie: [crying] I'm trying, Mom. I swear to God I'm doing my best. I just want my son back. I don't know what kinds of things he's learning from Solomon and what's his name. At least I can get through to Chantal.

Ginny: His name is David, and you have nothing to worry about. They're good dads. And the twins are doing great. Everything's gonna turn out just fine.

Bonnie: I don't need to be reminded about how good my kids' lives are since they left me. I get it, they wouldn't have amounted to anything if they didn't get away from their awful mother.

Ginny: They didn't leave you, Bonnie. You lost them through your own actions. Remember what I said about taking responsibility--

Bonnie: I don't have to listen to this! [Bonnie storms off]

[Esther enters the room]

Esther: Geez, what’s she so mad about?

Ginny: She still hasn’t heard from Johnny. It’s starting to get to her.

Esther: Well, I understand why he’s hesitant about it, but reconnecting might help him heal.

David and Sol have been worried since he moved out. They’re not there to give him the guidance he needs.

Ginny: I'm sure they're doing better than I ever did with Bonnie. Plus, Chantal and Cece will keep him in line.

Esther: They sure will! Just think, they never would have all come together if we didn't meet here.

Ginny: It's funny how things work out.

#ts4 #sims 4 #the sims #ts4 story #simblr #sims story #story simblr #sims storytelling #one more flashback post on friday #stksafeharbor #sh:chapter1 #sh:bonnie #sh:ginny #sh:esther #safeharborstory

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local-redhead-bookworm · 2 years

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I’m just gonna say this because I’ve been seeing antis all over the Billy tag recently and I’m tired of it.

Don’t say Billy should have turned out more like Will, Jonathan, or El. All of those characters were out of their abusive situations and had people supporting them, while Billy had no one.

“Will went through an extremely traumatic experience with the Upside Down, and he was verbally (and possibly physically) abused by his dad. So if he is still so soft and kind, why isn’t Billy more like him?”

Because he was young and unused to abuse, for one. And that’s good, no one should have to be used to suffering and fear, but especially not someone as young as Will.

Will isn’t constantly stuck in the Upside Down. He’s shaken by it, but it was a one-time thing (at first). Even as things get bad, he still is no longer constantly physically trapped in the Upside Down.

He’s used to relying on others for help. He had Joyce, Jonathan, and Hopper there for him every step of the way. Getting him out of the Upside Down, at his appointments, even burning the Mind Flayer out of him.

“What about Jonathan? He and Billy are treated almost the same, right? We see each boy thrown into the wall by his dad. So shouldn’t they be acting the same?” No.

People are unique, so they’re going to react to the same thing differently.

Jonathan is no longer stuck with his abuser. When Lonnie throws Jonathan into a wall, Jonathan pushes back. Why? Because he knows that his dad has no power over him anymore. His dad isn’t welcome in their home anymore.

Jonathan has Joyce supporting him. Joyce was there to help Jonathan adapt when Lonnie left, and she constantly encourages Jonathan to do what he loves and be true to himself, not to what others expect of him.

“What about El? She’s been through something way worse than what Billy went through. She wasn’t even treated like a person, opened the Gate, even faced demogorgons and Brenner, and she’s still kind.”

No one’s trauma is “worse” than another’s. Similar to point one with Jonathan, everyone reacts to trauma differently. El has known abuse all her life, but trauma isn’t a scale of “mildly traumatizing to severely traumatizing.”

El still reacts violently. Remember how El broke that bully’s arm in S1? And how she was going to use her powers on Angela? And how she threw a skate at Angela’s face? Those aren’t exactly saintly actions. Those kids were all major jerks, and they don’t deserve to get away with it, but El using her powers (which might have killed Angela) isn’t the right way to react.

Again, El has a support system. She has all the kids, Joyce, and Hopper there for her. She’s not trapped with Brenner until S4, and even then Owens is acting as a buffer of sorts, keeping Brenner from fully sinking his claws back into El.

Now take a look at Billy.

Billy has no concept of a life without being abused. Billy has been abused presumably since his mom left when he was what, ten? Eleven? He was young, and it could go back even further than that. Abuse is all he’s ever known, and it’s ongoing. To his knowledge, everyone could be like his dad. We see his dad shoving him into a bookshelf, calling him cruel things, and undermining Billy’s self-esteem, all happening during the story, not just in flashbacks.

When he’s possessed by the Mind Flayer, things just go from bad to worse. He’s trapped in his own body, forced to watch as he plays a part in numerous deaths (which is also true of Will, but no one cares about that). Billy fights off the Mind Flayer for as long as he can, but he has no way out.

He lashes out. I don’t think any of his behavior was right. However, there’s a reason for what he does. He’s expected to be an all-American man by his dad, “respect and responsibility” and all that. He takes out his frustration, his anger, his fear, on anyone who’s weaker than he is. Because he’s been taught that if you’re weak, you suffer for it.

Billy has no support system. Part of this is due to how he treats others, I will admit that. But his toxically masculine upbringing doesn’t allow for him to treat anyone as equals. They’re either stepping stools on his ascent to power, or they’re threats. His mother, the only support he had, left him with a man she knew was abusive. Everyone wants him, but no one wants to help him.

Our knowledge of trauma, especially how abuse affects people, is relatively new. Even Owens makes mention of this in S2, when he says that he’s only seen PTSD in Vietnam veterans at the time. Child abuse was not seen the same way back then as it is now, either. It was perfectly acceptable and even encouraged.

I know this is all a fictional narrative, and you may be wondering why I’ve put so much time into writing this, because “it’s all fiction at the end of the day.” Unfortunately, this treatment of Billy and other characters like him sends exactly one message to abuse victims: if you lash out and hurt others because of your abuse, if you let it make you angry instead of making you soft and quick to tears, you don’t deserve a chance to change and the best thing you can do is die. And that’s an awful message to send, especially to people who see an earlier version of themselves in characters like Billy.

In closing, nothing Billy did was right, but it came from a place of reaction to abuse and twisted intentions. He didn’t react like Will, Jonathan, or El because he wasn’t in the same position as they were. Billy was being actively abused at the time and he had no support system. What fans see in Billy is the potential for growth and change, and a message that you can heal and break the cycle of abuse you were brought up in.

#billy hargrove #stranger things analysis #stranger things meta #tw abuse mention #tw abuse #jonathan byers #will byers #el hopper #stranger things #yes I’m putting this in the main tag #I feel like I’ve poked a nest of hornets but I don’t care #my posts

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veendettas · 2 years

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safety: t. shigaraki

summary: Shigaraki recruits a new LOV member, not realizing just how awfully her parents have treated her. Uses lyrics from Mariana’s Trench’s “Shake Tramp”

YN sighed as she entered into the bar area. She hadn’t been a part of the League for very long, maybe two weeks, when Shigaraki had taken an interest in her specifically. Of course, her being a pretty girl with a regeneration Quirk, that was bound to happen.

As the pair had been spending more time together; YN was letting a little more slip about her upbringing, and why she had chosen to join the League as a whole.

“So they just... They slap you like a bitch, and you take it like a whore.” Tomura said simply. “No matter what you try, that’s the response you get?”

YN nodded, “I’ve never been a favorite in the LN household. They called me crazy. I guess I’m still a little crazy all the time, but I try to hide it. That action is still mine.”

Shigraki nodded, but he didn’t fail to notice the tears that began to pool on her bottom lash line. Nor did he decide to ignore the plan forming in his head.

“What a cheap fuckin’ perfume.” Dabi never was one for pleasentries. Or kindness for that matter.

The two had climbed through the window that had opened into a bedroom. YN’s bedroom, to be exact.

Tomura merely shushed him before returning to snooping in YN’s bedroom. “We’re looking for something.”

Dabi groaned in response before complaining yet again, “I hate this room. It’s so... Empty. Even my dad kept my room intact for at least a few months when I went missing.”

As the other man spoke, Shigaraki began to realize that he was right. Her room was fully empty except for a mattress and a poster on the wall. His usually cold demeanor shifted into one of... sadness? Empathy? He wasn’t sure. However, he was extremely sure that YN’s family would come to regret the way they’d treated her.

After dealing with her ex-family, the two men returned to the compound... after a stop to a shop that carried plushies and soft blankets. Had they paid for said items? No, they had not.

Dabi had excused himself to go hang out with Spinner, and Shigaraki set off to go find YN.

He tried her bedroom at the compound... nothing. Then he tried the common sitting area, the washrooms, the laundry area, the bar, the man had looked everywhere with zero luck. He was growing increasingly frustrated, and to be honest he was ready for a nap.

“Kurogiri, where’s YN?” He asked in a gruff voice.

The aforementioned chuckled slightly, “I don’t think you’re going to particularly like the answer.”

“Tell me. Now.”

There she was. In his bed. Tangled in his sheets. Now she hadn’t planned to fall asleep, nor had she planned to get caught. Tomura’s bed had just smelled like him, and it was a major comfort when he had gone on missions.

He almost hadn’t wanted to wake her. Not when her hair was splayed out behind her like a halo, and her lips were parted ever-so-slightly. Her chest rose and fell with every breath, and he could feel his heart melting at the sight.

A gentle nudge to her shoulder caused her to wake with a start, and seeing the leader of the LOV... who’s bed she was currently in... panic set in.

“OhmygodI’msosorryIdidn’tmean-”

“Shut up. Scooch over.”

She did as she was told, making room for the man on his own bed. He laid his back on the pillows and once comfortable, motioned for her to lay down as well.

“You just gonna sit there or are you gonna c’mere?” His voice was softer, and that alone invited YN to enter his arms. She laid her face against his chest as his arms wrapped around her. He pulled the comforter up over the both of them before looking back down to meet her eyes.

“I really am sorry.” A soft blush danced across her face, causing Tomura to chuckle softly.

He shook his head in reply, “There’s nothing to apologize for. So long as you know that this means you’re mine. There is nobody else. Just me. Just you. Us.”

YN smiled at him before nodding her head enthusiastically.

Maybe he’d wait before telling her what he’d done. At least he knew that they couldn’t hurt her anymore.

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#mha shigaraki #tomura shiragaki #shigaraki x reader #mha #my hero academia #fanfiction #bnha #bnha fanfiction

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aihoshiino · 7 months

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whats your favourite thing about each of the onk characters?

As a person with ADHD I am ontologically incapable of picking Just One Thing but I'll do my best!!

Ai: oh my god she melts my brain too much to pick just one thing!!! If you really put a gun to my head though I would have to say her warm, persistent kindness in the face of a life that has often been abnormally cruel to her. She always goes out of her way to be kind to people even when it has absolutely no benefit to her, just because Ai is a deeply kind person that even abuse and neglect couldn't tarnish. She understands loneliness and abandonment to such a deep degree that even when she can't exactly understand the ins and outs of why or how other people feel the way they feel, when she sees people suffering or in pain, her instinctive response is to reach out to them and try and make sure they feel heard even if she can't actually do anything to ease their pain. For all the BS she says about calling herself cynical, people hating and all the rest of it, Ai is such a deeply and actively kind person to such an incredible degree.

Also her fangies. Can't forget the fangies.

Aqua: Aqua Hoshino Is The Funniest Guy In Oshi No Ko And He Doesn't Even Know It. This sort of falls under the more serious header that is the cavernous gap between Aqua's stated goals and intentions and the reality of his actual feelings that often slips out via his actions but more specifically I'm obsessed with the hysterical comedic gap that is Aqua larping as Light Yagami during season 1 of Love Live. Like ugh yeah I have to kill my dad but what am I gonna do, NOT wear matching TWINS tshirts with my sister? Or shit like him being the one to go and get his copy of Sweet Today and start paging through it while Ruby and Miyako watch it and then immediately tattling to Kana that Ruby talked shit even though he toooootally doesn't care you guys :/// Mfer dressed up like a buff chicken and did a squeaky voice for a week because he can't handle having a crush on Kana!!! HE'S THE FUNNIEST GUY IN THIS WHOLE SHOW AND NOBODY UNDERSTANDS Ruby: The way Ruby's history as Sarina - or I guess more specifically, as a person who grew up both disabled and under a toxic mother - informs her zest and energy is soooooo sweet and tender to me, but especially in the ways in informs her deep, deep love for Ai as her mother. The inheritance of Sarina's despair and its transition into Ruby's joy and empowerment is such an incredible and powerful beat - I watched episode 1 with a friend last night (hi Silvie!) and the scene of Ruby realizing that she no longer lives in a body at risk of betraying her at any moment and that she has a mother who loves her and values her happiness and positive growth over all else is still one of the most powerful scenes in the whole story for me. The way that realization of euphoria and power continues to form the foundations of her arc going forward is a big part of why the first stretch of the manga is still the strongest material to me.

Kana: my little failgirl <3 Kana is another one of those characters where I could say a lot of deep and introspective things about her incredible resilience, her intelligence and determination and the way she continues to try and make herself big in a world that has only ever operated by making her feel small but the truth in my heart is just that I think she is the funniest bitch on the planet. If Aqua did not exist she would take the crown as Funniest Character In Oshi No Ko. The consistency with which she takes Ls and gets fed her own hair emotionally speaking (UH AND LITERALLY I GUESS BECAUSE I WROTE THAT JOKE AND THEN REMEMBERED THAT SCENE WITH THE DIRECTOR) just really gets under my guard and makes me fucking lose it every time it happens. I'm a simple guy, ok? Memcho: Mem being a woman in her early 20s and the perspective and emotional intelligence that comes with that experience, especially when contrasted with the teens, is soooooo fascinating to me. In general it's just really refreshing to see a girlie in her mid 20s in an anime still being portrayed as just as fun and cute and silly and energetic as the teens; anime in general has a really bad habit of having two ages which are Teen and Middle Aged Adult but Mem just feels like an actual person in her mid 20s which is SUCH a nice change. I also just think that, like I said, the way her emotional intelligence contrasts the kids who are still going the fuck through it as teens experiencing huge, fucked up emotions for the first time in their almost-adult lives; Mem's a lot smarter and sharper than folks give her credit for and it's always so interesting to see her snap into 'adult in the room' mode. The fact that this doesn't at all interfere with her friendship with Kana and Ruby is also really sweet - I actually do not remember ever seeing one of these age gap friendships in an anime that didn't come with some weird maternal overtones but the way B-Komachi's friendship kind of supersedes and makes their age gap a non-factor really reminds me of my own friendships like that - both when I was Ruby's age and had older folks looking out for me and now that I'm Mem's age and some of my besties from my real life DND group are babies LMFAO

Akane: The way OnK portrays Akane's acting technique is really fascinating to me! This is maybe a bit of a silly comparison to draw but I find that I weirdly relate to Akane and the way she portrays characters because I've been doing some form of online text roleplay or another since I was licherally 11 years old and the way she talks about like... sewing up internal inconsistencies and reverse engineering a character's thoughts, feelings and general worldview from their portrayed actions, making connections between aspects of their character that may be unstated by the text but make your portrayal cohere and feel richer and more vibrant. This is literally exactly the way I handle writing canon characters right down to the unhinged canon review, to the point that it is a running gag between me and my friends that Akane's serial killer ass Ai research session is Literally Just Me when I'm doing my Oshi no Ko canon review. It's about the weirdest and most unexpected way I have ever felt represented by a piece of media LOL Miyako: The absolute character development W this woman had!!! Admittedly I feel like the glowup is only so strong because Aka clearly had a very different Miyako in his brain when he started writing Oshi no Ko vs the one she actually became but I still absolutely love the ways Miyako grows over the series and how smart, competent and fiercely driven she is when given a reason to motivate herself. I don't have a huge to to say about Miyako just because she so effortlessly speaks for herself but God I Love Her. Ichigo: i just love it when a guy is a faildad to a fucked up teenage girl There we go! Admittedly this wasn't Everyone and I mostly just stuck to the main cast I had strong enough opinions about to voice but! If you're ever curious about what I think about someone in the extended cast, please do feel free to drop me some asks and prod me for my thoughts!

#oshi no ko #oshi no posting #this one has a lot of characters in it so i'll just slap it in the main tag LOL

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auld-a · 2 years

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Let’s talk about Billy

Would like to preface this by saying that this is not my usual TWST content so anyone who is here for that I apologize. I’m currently trying to create a schedule for it so it will be up and running soon

(If you take a shot every time I say “that’s not an excuse” or some variation of it you’d die)

Okay I’m gonna start this post off by saying this is no way written to defend Billy Hargrove’s actions or even get Billy antis or whoever else to like him, it’s simply to clear up a huge miscommunication in the fandom that I’m honestly tired of seeing.

So it’s pretty clear that a lot of ST things fans hate Billy, and honestly? Fair. He’s kind of a piece of shit I won’t even deny that

He’s coded to be racist or at least act out of some sort of prejudice and somewhat of an abuser so if you don’t like him due to this THATS UNDERSTANDABLE. But you also frequently get onto other ST fans who actually do like him.

So I’m here to tell you why you’re wasting your breath and making the ST fandom very irritating to interact with

From the beginning Billy was portrayed as a Top Tier A hole, threatening his little sister for something minor, trying to fucking run over children, beating the shit out of Steve, just overall a dick. And all of that is 100% true and valid reasons to dislike him

But it was also shown that he doesn’t have a good home life with his dad beating his ass for Billy just, existing. NOW BEFORE YOU LEAVE. That. Is not. An excuse. It never has been and it never will be. He should be absolutely held accountable for everything he’s done up until this point because he’s done a lot of inexcusable shit. So you can shit on him for that I don’t really care

But believe it or not there are actually people who were interested in his character writing and chose to look deeper into him and who he is past what they gave us in seasons 2 and 3😐

Speaking from my point of view, I don’t like canon Billy. Like I’ve said several times he sucked a lot. But to be honest I don’t think that’s who the character Billy actually is. I think that all of that is a response from being abandoned as a child and dealing with years of physical abuse. Again, since I don’t want you to misinterpret my words, not an excuse, but it gives us a lot of background.

Season 2 and 3 Billy does a lot of things that could be born from underlying racism, even if it’s not outwardly said it’s there, but I personally do not think that’s because those are things he genuinely believes himself. If his asshole father sees his step-daughter hanging around a person he doesn’t like due to prejudice, did it ever occur to you who would be the one inevitably getting punished for it? Billy would. Not Max, I don’t think Neil has the balls to lay hands on his partner’s kid but he’ll do it to his own since we already know Max’s mom won’t do shit about it. Not wanting to get his ass handed to him for something that’s not his fault he’s obviously gonna try to cut the interaction between Lucas and Max. Not because he dislikes Lucas, not because he’s racist, but because otherwise he’ll get beat half to death

All this to say, I know he can be better. I don’t think all is lost for him. I think there’s more to him than what we see on the surface and if he were to be separated from the negative environment and allowed to experience life for himself instead of clouded by fear be wouldn’t be such a shit head

Trauma is not an excuse for the shit he’s done, but the moment trauma response/survival instinct gets ugly and isn’t just anxiety and flinching when someone raises their hand, you don’t believe they deserve an ounce of sympathy or a chance for redemption

I know he not only has the potential to make amends with those he hurt but completely forget the ignorant sentiments he’s been forced to abide by. That doesn’t mean any character is required to forgive him or you are for that matter but you really need to understand that when people talk about liking him they’re usually separating canon Billy from the Billy we never got the chance to see.

And I know some of y’all cream your pants at the fact that the duffer brothers confirmed Billy to be racist, but to be honest with you I could not give a flying fuck what the Duffer brothers say. They’ve proven more and more with each season that they may know how to write a story but not a character. If it weren’t for the actors pushing for certain scenes or refusing to do others these characters wouldn’t be half as fleshed out as they are. We owe a lot of the character writing to the people that portray them, therefore i hold a lot more weight in what they say than i do the creators. What the Duffer Brothers say is not Gospel to me, and it would be smart of you to not consider it as such either.

You can hate canon Billy all you want, I don’t care, but don’t get pissy at people who choose to look deeper than the surface of who he is and miss what they could’ve had for him because he was just being built up to be a throwaway.

If they support what season 2 or 3 Billy did that’s a different story, definitely not okay, but I’ve yet to see anyone do that all I see is people who don’t feel comfortable watering down his entire character and role in the story to ‘racist’ because at the end of the day, that truly is just an opinion based on how you choose to read into his character

TLDR; don’t put anti billy crap in spaces that like billy just because they wanna appreciate a character that had potential and is more than what most of you want to see

If you don’t take anything away from this, fine, just be respectful in the notes if you choose to interact

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Billy and fucklander had opportunities to change and didn't take them. Ryan will have an opportunity to change and will try to change... only for his deadbeat dad and/or billy to take it from him because billy is at a point of no return and deadbeat is a life ruiner. Will any of this excuse some of Ryan's future involvement/behaviors? No... But it makes him more sympathetic than spermdonor and Billy combined.

goddammit anon. you're killin' me here. seen a couple of these answered by other folks in fandom so i'm guessing you have your thoughts written somewhere and then copy/paste them into people's inboxes?

i mean, i get the havin' thoughts lmao (i do~<3!!) but if you have so much to say/rant on and want specific people to respond, why not make your own posts and tag people about it? don't get me wrong, i don't mind answerin' a ramble or two here and there but sometimes it gets a lil excessive. 6 asks in one go is a lot, *especially* when the topics are *stressful* instead of *fun*.

scratch that, getting *ONE* of these asks can be a lot.

*SIX (6)* at one time is too fucking many, i can be overwhelmed too. i'm not just a place for you to dump these and expect a response, i'm a fucking living breathing entity behind this screen (who instead of being friendly, *can* delete and ignore them, need i remind)

do not abuse my kindness or patience, do not mistake either for weakness.

i'ma need a LONG ass break after this. leik. 666 months long cause holy fuck. gotdamn. gimme a breather. also still queuing shit so asking more shit and or bombarding me with asks *isn't* gonna make it come any faster.

it comes when it comes, i put it in the queue and shuffle.

you know the drill, you don't get 6 separate answers, i'm condensing into one and usin' italics and bold for the asks

anywho~ not true.

yes for billy, he is aware of his actions, his plight, and knows better, but he chooses to do worse. (altho i do recognize first hand how difficult addictions are to deal with, and billy is absolutely an addict.)

literally no for homelander. people who are victims of grooming like homie are kept in a state of childlike dependency/belief so that they *can't* leave their abuser, have no choice or 'oPpOrTuNiTy' to leave them, *OR* will only go from one abuser to the next because they've been *conditioned* to expect the abuse.

i feel like you keep saying that but i'ma be point blank this time. it's ableist, victim blaming, and completely undermines the situation homelander went through/is still going through. repeating it won't make it true, it's wrong, always was and will remain wrong. all you're doing is ignoring what his actual situation is and what has actually happened to make yourself feel better about hating him.

and that's not even to say you can't hate him or that his actions should be excused. literally no one is saying that and i don't think i've ever seen anyone actually say that unironically (not saying it can't happen but i'm guessing it's pretty rare to come across (at least outside of the maga chuds) since most people just hate him) but you should at least be fucking honest/aware about his situation/*NOT DISMISSIVE*.

i'm including another post i added resources to that debunk this gross (and very ignorant) claim. please give legitimate psychology the time of day before you go around repeating ableist/victim blaming talking points.

*even billy* to certain degrees, should get his addiction acknowledged, instead of denied or *enabled*, because addiction in *all forms* is a debilitating, life destroying THING that is fucking difficult to fight. it's like it's own form of battle with an abuser, except the only other person is *you*. becca alone should be example enough that empathy and compassion can *help* in ways people downright *refuse* to give the time of day (even if i do lament billy using her like his 'new' addiction... the cunt--)

seriously. i'm not kidding, take the time to educate yourself instead of just being angry (at fiction i might add) all the time. that stress can't be good for you, *anger is proven to make people dumber*, and otherwise the only response you'll get from me is going to be, 'actually you're wrong, here's why--*linked resources*'.

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"

you repeat ableism and victim blaming? i'm going to call you out on it (if i don't just delete it, bitch i am TIRED--), you will not get a different response from me, i will always try to correct misinformation or disinformation when i can, however that may come.

*you* have a choice, but you keep *choosing* to ignore the resources i provide because they make you confront your own biases, but i ain't playin' on these subjects.

that is a no go in this court.

ryan will need someone to show him he has a choice and that he is worthy of love no matter where he goes or who he's with. again, this goes back to psychology but ryan is still only a child. his brain is literally not developed enough to make these decisions himself/be immune to influence (which just realistically, absolutely no one is regardless of age)

i feel for ryan, i *worry and hope* for him far more, but the trauma faced here is not a contest. please do not do that, that is super fucked. and even if it were--

homelander. homelander would win and take all the fuckin' prizes, there is literally *no one* in this series that has had shit worse than him (he was literally fucking tortured from the second he was created and then fucking groomed leik wut the fuck--)

honestly, it's kind of a fuckin' miracle he didn't turn out *worse*.

*and even then*, what homelander faced would be neither excuse nor reason to dismiss any of the trauma any of the characters have faced, even and especially as a result of him, and vice versa. sympathy overall is subjective. people generally sympathize most with characters they personally relate to.

i tend to sympathize most with the characters who have been through/currently going through the worst of it. (and obviously all the trauma is valid, but my brain tends to prioritize people in immediate crisis dependent on the crisis, which honestly i do feel we should normalize and apply on a global scale just for humanity's sake but i digress, generally this means it depends on the story and where it is in a given moment. but it doesn't mean my sympathy for the other characters has gone away.)

*you* *sypmathize* most with *ryan*, and i get that. that's valid, but it's also personal and subjective, not objective here. it's also subject to change depending on how ryan turns out i'm guessing...

but you're equating people with their actions when--those are two *separate* things.

UGH okay next ask--

That Billy and starlight getting along scene was rushed, like.....there was no build-up to it nor was is a slow burn. Also, starlight and Billy should've started throwing hands at each other or at least curse each other out. Truce my ass, people who hate each other in real life, do not get along all of a sudden, especially if someone they care about is hospitalized. Also, starlight should've chose violence when she and bitchy butcher met a 2nd time. If I saw the person who needlessly, shot my ass again, I would've started to curse their asses out and have them catch these hands.

... what the fuck, first off.

'getting along' is a stretch to describe what happened and this is kinda fucked anon (i will get to that cause you're making me worry)

things *were* tense when they met again, they were literally hurling insults at each other while hughie had to mediate. butcher literally called her 'chum' for shark infested waters, and starlight called him out on his bullshit bigotry with 'i know a guy just like that, he's got a flag for a cape'. hun, where the hell were you when they *were* literally silently seething and fighting *ON SCREEN*???

what *actually* happened was that they took a moment to *set their differences aside* because someone they *both* loved/cared for was in literal danger of *DYING*.

at that point, it didn't matter how *they* felt. hughie was in *crisis* so *HUGHIE*, NOT THEIR FEELINGS, became *priority*.

*after* the crisis was averted, they had a moment of playful banter about the person they just made sure was *safe* and would *survive*. the tension of the crisis was gone, and they could take a breath. that they happened to be around each other was just a fact of the matter. but *hughie* was still their priority and common ground.

so i guess you could say it's rushed, but the situation was rushed over all (of course it was, time crunch with a fuckin' crisis, hellooooo???) but what the hell were you expecting, for them to fight and argue in the *hospital* and potentially kill hughie with their stress and anger instead of letting him rest easy????????

what happened during those scenes is genuinely, a completely normal and very human reaction for people to have. prioritizing *crisis* over animosity. i.e. being normal ass rational people who don't let their hatred/anger take complete control over them.

annie (very obviously) is *not* one of those people and never has been.

for butcher, it *depends* on how he's feeling i guess, but there's clear implication that he leans on people *like hughie* or becca to *pull him back* from that place. in that moment, his worry for hughie outweighed his hate boner for supes. that happens sometimes.

and i gotta gotta gotta be clean with you on this hun, cause jesus fucking christ was this one loaded.

if you *genuinely* feel that *fighting* and *hatred* with someone you dislike should take *priority* over someone you both *love* fucking *DYING* right next to you?

you *NEED* to seek help, *anger management* (if you have the resources and i hope you do, sincerely)

from a *real* therapist, who can *actually* help you. (NOT ME)

or at least, idk, look up a couple videos maybe??

and listen, i'm not saying this to hurt you.

but i am getting strong STRONG bad *BAD* 'billy butcher'/'homelander' levels of toxic masculinity and irrational aggression from you here (not necessarily towards me i mean, just in general, dial it back, hun)

anger does not make you better, right, or stronger. anger *DOES NOT* solve problems.

*anger* makes you *stupid*, and going with the first knee-jerk angry response that pops into your head is a sign of *weakness*. it is an example of the *lack of impulse control* that many can and often do struggle with (society is fuuuuuuuucked...)

there are *healthy* outlets that can help you let off steam and cope productively, and i guarantee you it will lengthen your life and allow you to live happier the quicker it gets addressed!

shit, you can even try out something as simple as playing harvest moon--any of them! my darling friennnnn~<3 suggested it to me and whoopdi-fuckin'-do, it's actually *HELPING* me~!!

you seem to love to hate butcher and homelander (and i'll be fair, i do too! even if i love them just as much lmao) but i'm starting to get the vibe that it's more so because you see some major parts of *yourself* reflected in them.

it is *okay* to have fight in you. it is *okay* to feel angry. that's *natural*.

it is *not* okay to use that anger as a means to *only* be destructive, whether internally or externally. that is the whole point of what makes butcher and homelander wrong, but you are stuck and determined to commit the same error or see it committed by others, like ryan.

it's okay to have spunk and spirit, be a little assertive, live your life, enjoy yourself.

but giving into your anger at the drop of a hat?

i promise you (from fucking experience) it will only *RUIN* YOU and your life.

at the *very least*, learn to recognize the most obvious factor here.

you are not other people.

other people are not you.

just because *you* would have a certain reaction to something (or believe you would because we never really know until it happens to us), *does not* mean *others* would have the *same* reaction to the same thing.

*OTHER PEOPLE* reserve the right to their own thoughts, feelings, experiences and appropriate *reactions* to whatever the situation may be.

**and regardless of what those may be, they are no less or more valid than you or yours for it**

actually, if i'm being completely real here, choosing *violence* over civility is what *should* be frowned upon. but you are *literally* making a complaint about them choosing to be *civil* instead of violent.

what the fuck.

NEXT--

I think had Becca survived season 2 in it's entirety, Ryan would've grew to be a caring and generous person, but comes from a religious family, which might make him unpleasant at times. It's possible he would be raised with the concept of gender roles (I mean, it's possible that Becca didn't get an abortion is because she's religious, why else would that st. Nick necklace would imply that). Though, I could be reaching because we did see her gouge a nazi's eye out

wut?

WUT???

just... honestly wut?? not leik in a bad way. but WUT???

this one is weird. i do think you're reachin' here because *just* because someone is 'religious', doesn't mean they're anal and obnoxious about it.

case in point, *ANNIE*

she's religious (and still religious tho not as strongly/has obviously struggled but accepted the cross from her mom at the end of s2) but she's not a bible-thumper or puritan, and feels uncomfortable about those sects of religion.

you also seem to underestimate the *severe* penchant for violence many *many* religious people have.

do the crusades not ring a bell to you? the nazis cited religion as their justification for their actions more often than not.

but religion itself or being religious is not an inherently bad thing (i'm critical because of how it's used/what i personally went through because of it), overall, it's just a tool that many normal people just use to have hope or make their lives a little easier stomach.

it give the placebo effect, if you will.

it's in the same boat as money. money itself is called the 'root of all evil', but in reality, it's just a tool that holds no moral weight one way or another. (it's the *people* who are moral/immoral or use it in such ways)

morality itself is subjective depending on the time period and the values that society holds at a given time. humankind is still in the process of trying to reconcile and rationalize a globally acceptable form of morality that prioritizes humanity as a whole rather than one specific group, and it's been... not great? very slow going lmao but i digress.

religious *text* is a bit of a different story, most bibles/written stories are fuuuuuuuuuucked one way or the other. but again, then you're looking at who's a bible-thumper and who isn't.

i will say that if becca had survived, things would def probably be a lot better for ryan. but it would be a different tense situation with either them in hiding/trying to find a new safe place (i like to think they'd leave the country) or with her *in* the safe place raising ryan.

and either *begging* billy to come home (cause she always believes in him :((((((((((((((() from his revenge rampage, or billy being there and raising ryan--while seething because 'homelander'...

this is dark, but i get the feeling it would eventually lead to an altercation, either where billy leaves to go after homelander and the above happens, or billy murders the kid in front of becca/finds a way to sell him back to vought (like becca had said he would and both knew he'd try again) to supplement the bottled in rage that had been slowly chipping away at him...

leik. s3 alone gave a perfect example of a seething billy/what his violence withdrawal does to him. and that was with him *still* getting the little bits sprinkled in here and there so--

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...

Ryan's life has consisted of nothing but hardships. He was isolated and sheltered from the outside world, living in a compound for a good majority of his childhood. He lost his rarely saw her real mother, and Grace served as his primary maternal figure afterwards. Got gaslighted by Billy because billy's connection to underages is too damn weak. Homelander, the only biological parent that he has left, sees him as an extension of himself, and treats Ryan more like a pawn than a son. Shitlander is going excessively control Ryan's life, manipulates, and gaslight him constantly when ryan displeases him. Spermdonor won't even view Ryan as his own person - to him, Ryan is a pawn that's his property to use in any way he wants, so he plays with Ryan's emotions to have the upper hand. Even though Spermdonor will treat him like dirt, Ryan will desperately try to please his deadbeat, and garner any sort of attention from him. If Ryan finally escapes the clutches of spermdonor and Billy to find others who will help him rather than hinder him, he'll be content and genuinely happy. Though, I wouldn't be surprised if his happiness is stripped violently from him when Homelander or billy take that away as punishment for ryan "betrayal". I wouldn't be surprised that down the line, Ryan snaps and becomes a hostile, hateful, bloodthirsty, and vengeful supe at the end of the series because Billy didn't bother to ask Marvin for help in terms of handling children and Homelander is a life ruiner.

some incoherency here, but i mean... that is history repeating itself??

baby, this one coulda been your own post. half time i ain't even really sure what you want me to say with these??? sometimes i feel like you're just throwing shit out to see if you can trigger me?? but that's the general paranoia talkin' (or at least i'd like to think i know myself well enough to say that)

but i gotta be honest, sometimes ya say stupid shit--(which fair enough, we all do at one point or another myself included~), but leik...

i hope this isn't too much to ask but...

maybe *think* before you *act*??

a lot of these read like impulse and like they're not thought out very well, but maybe if you took a moment/step back to make your own post/think about the thoughts you put into them, you could idk, make more sense of them i guess?? better organize it??

what do you mean with the first part??

ryan was in a compound, but he wasn't purely isolated/sheltered or in a lab. yeah, still not great (as no interaction with other children/general city life has given him some anxiety and that much is clear). but that can also happen when kids move from rural areas to cities in general. his real mother (becca) was also his *primary* caretaker, almost *always* with him unless she dropped him off at tutors/had to step away for a moment.

leik what's going on here, are you confusing baby homelander with ryan??? cause the baby they showed us in a lab and the kid getting experimented on was *young homelander*, NOT ryan.

but generally speaking, before homelander showed up, that kid was fuckin' happy, just livin' his life? that's what makes homelander's sudden appearance so fucking traumatic. the kid didn't really want or need saving at the time, but now he legit does.

homelander actually... sees ryan as an obligatory way to gain affection/love. you have to understand, homelander functions almost entirely on the belief that he is unloveable/people will abandon him/call him a monster/hate him/etc.

that's why he defaults on instilling fear to make them 'respect' him or *fear leaving his side* no matter how badly he mistreats them, that's clear enough when his relationship with stormfront starts and he threatens her for lying to him.

homelander has never had real family or love and is very desperate for both. he doesn't have a full understanding of it either. but ryan fits with the 'idea' of both. because blood family is 'supposed' to 'love unconditionally' and ryan is 'blood'.

on the flipside, ryan is very intelligent/quickly learning how to use his powers and what he can/can't get away with--due to who his father is. don't underestimate the kid, because homie is so stunted and ryan is still clearly very *special* to homelander (if for the wrong reasons), i think he can and will use that to his advantage.

ryan already hits all the tickers for *being* what homelander *wants* him to be, mostly by existing.

a boy

has powers

aaaaaaaaaaand that's pretty much the end of homie's list lol. and we can see at the end of s3 that *this* alone is *enough* for homelander to *actually* listen to and be manipulated by his son, not the other way around (ryan gets him to leave rather than killing billy)

you're under the impression that homelander will be a controling parent, and i think in some ways, he *could* be. but most of what we *have* seen is implying something *very* different will happen.

apart from the roof scene, he hasn't really mistreated ryan. he actually did really good with ryan's anxiety/has shown general patience but it's clear he's trying to gain ryan's trust/affection so i guess we could technically interpret this as the love bombing phase?? still, most of what we're shown was him mistreating *becca* or others, but not ryan specifically (he def does set some monumentally shitty examples tho)

either way, homelander *still* wants love and approval, *even* if and *especially* if it comes from *family*/his *son*. he's also a victim of grooming that still hasn't grown from the dependency that made him have on his abusers. believe it or not, that actually leaves him open/vulnerable to *ryan* being the one to control and manipulate him. granted ryan is a child. but 'he knows not what he's done/capable of' and all that jazz.

don't get me wrong, i do picture it's gonna be a fucked dynamic and homie will get 'controlling' to a degree. but don't think the kid is so damn helpless there.

we're more likely to see complete minilander spoiled brat ryan and full blast karen 'my kid can do no wrong/*HE* can do whatever the fuck he wants!' homelander than anything else.

ryan *may* try to desperately please homelander, but homelander *will* try to desperately please ryan. it's likely to create a very toxic and enabling 'we only have each other' dynamic because that is the point both have been driven to.

but again, history repeating itself

anywho~<3

The man who threw a can at Ryan back in season 3, is the same reason why people throw shit like rocks or just plainly spit at offsprings of tyrants.

i think it was a cup/soda?? but that's not really the point.

i'll be blunt here.

**the sins of the father are not the sins of the son**

just because people react like animals and blame innocent kids for what their parents do, doesn't make them right. i'd say it makes them dead wrong and very fucking stupid actually, because the kids *have no choice* of the family/blood they are born into, or even what they're initially taught to believe.

that man was a fucking moron. i won't say he deserved to die for something that didn't actually hurt ryan, they could have pressed charges for assault of a child on him and made a public spectacle of him and ruined his life (*that* would be rightly deserved)

but that was a *WILDLY* stupid thing of him to do, *knowing* homelander's powers, supposedly being a starlight supporter (which means he would believe homelander is evil) and *knowing* that this was his fucking *child*.

only the weak, childish, and stupid take aim at the innocent for the actions of a tyrant.

play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Not only Ryan looks the most like spermdonor and is said spermdonor's son, but a painful reminder of what happened to Becca. Billy is going to despise/resent Ryan more nonetheless. No thanks to Billy's weakass connection to kids either. Besides, Billy already started showing signs of deflection after season 3, episode 3.

billy's been a cunt from before the story began, where have you been lmao?

billy already resents ryan more so for what he is (a supe freak), but i would def say who he's related to probably doesn't help. still, despite it, ryan is also the last remnant of becca that he wants any connection to (since he's absolute dogshit to her other family but still mainly for his promise to her).

the thing is, ryan is still a useful tool/something to hold over homelander's head, and that, albeit fucked up, makes him worth something in billy's fucked up head. if he hadn't made the promise to becca, ryan would probably already be dead.

i do think he will look for excuses to give into his urges/hatred and break his promise to becca (as nearly the whole of s3 was~) if not use ryan as his trojan horse and be the first person infected with that virus and send him back to homelander--

ANYWHO--

next time this ask bug bites you, for the love of satan, take a moment to take a step back and gather your thoughts, and maybe make your own post/rant on your own blog for it instead of sending literal barrages of asks to people (idk if you do this to others or how many/often, but if they don't answer 'em there might be a reason for that.)

or at least compile it neatly enough into *ONE* (SINGULAR) minimally semi-coherent ask.

of course i care about the serious stuff and make psas, i don't even mind answering asks, even the crazy ones~ ;))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

but i do actually wanna have *fun* in fandom (leik C'MON i obsess over shitty men fucking/impregnating billy butcher!!), not be stressed out all the time or stuck on the hard topics trying to explain things to someone i don't even know is actually willing to listen.

leik i literally had to keep randomizing my queue because it was filled with so much negative shit at one point and *i* was overloaded just by looking at it.

i especially don't wanna be dealin' with fuckin' ableism and victim blaming in my ask box. that shit is rank, and i'm tired of it

get smart or just stop, my answers on that shit ain't gonna change.

but you can even post it private if you want. just

LET ME HAVE A FUCKIN' BREATHER--

preferably... 666 months~<3

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the-sky-fell-blossoms · 1 year

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Step 3 Derek: Lunch

I didn’t announce it on Tumblr, but I recently fell in love with Our Life: Beginning and Always. Specifically, Derek. So I’m planning a fan story of sorts. I completed this Memory but I want to edit it more and put a sample up while I continue working.

You can imagine whatever you want going in the input spaces, and it would still work with the story.

But know that the characters only have their Base responses right now for the most part. (the part in the game that doesn't change no matter the player Input.) and Some answers are put in for you already so the story can work properly.

But that's all in the way of Disclaimers. Enjoy!

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It was a peaceful day in Sunset Bird. Spent like any other.

With age comes freedom and you would think with owning this freedom for two years now you and Cove would know how to spend it besides walking across the beach.

But your Summer daily tradition has never failed you, and soon a fresh idea on how to spend today will grace you with enough patience.

Or boredom.

Today was no different.

Cove stopped in his tracks with a sigh and checked his watch. Again.

He had been doing that since you found him on your front step just over an hour ago.

Before it was just a Cove Tick and you were sure he'd come clean about whatever was bugging him sometime within this year. But now that he's starting to add on temporary paralysis to the action, it seemed more and more like he was either finally about to crack or this was more serious than you first thought.

Cove sighed like he did each time he opened his phone, but luckily this time you didn't have to wait long until he turned his eyes on you.

He bit his lip and finally you lost the will to be patient.

*** Do You rush or stay Patient***

His will crumbled almost instantly. Cove was always rather open with his thoughts. "My dad invited me for lunch, I was pretty whatever about it until today. He mentioned this morning before I left, it'd be with Mr. Suarez." He explained with a sigh.

You caught on to the trouble immediately and it explained a lot as to why cove seemed in love with his phone more than usual today.

You didn't get much out except for a small "I see", before he continued.

"I wouldn't have agreed if I knew if wasn't going to be just us. Mr. Suarez showing means it's going to be a business lunch. Dad hates them but I'm just supposed to take one for the team because it's a 'family business'" He made air quotes around the statement, and it took a lot for you not to explain that a 'family business' is exactly what it is.

*** You feel...***

You somehow felt now wasn't the time to voice your thoughts on the matter. Supportive or not.

But Cove seemed to run out of steam by then.

***Supportive? Express Jealousy? Quiet***

You watch him and don't do much to hide your feelings from your face as you come up with something to say. "Is it really that bad?"

"Well… no. I've never been forced to go and when I had to it's mostly just eating and listening to My dad speak about work with his partner. I guess hearing about the diving is cool. But it's less cool to hear about numbers and stuff I don't get and watch the world's most boring podcast." He pocketed his phone and started walking again, before continuing. "And being asked 'how is school treating you, Jr?' For the thousandth time is grating…"

"But you're out of school now." You tried your best to be optimistic but all it did was tear the most earnest, guttural groan from Cove's lips you've ever heard.

"You're right. That means whatever questions he asks, I'm gonna be hearing for the rest of my life!"

***Joke or comfort?***

"Well, what about Derek...?" You remember how serious your friend was about the business. How polite he was too. He would never talk to interrupt the adults at the table but that doesn't mean he's mute. Derek is great company to have in this kind of situation.

"Derek?" Cove let out a sigh and you thought the last sound was filled with hopelessness. Apparently Cove has a lot more in his arsenal than he let on. "Derek is always busy. Practice. Watching his brothers. Work. Volunteering. He hasn't shown up to a lunch since our junior year."

You frowned, understanding your Friend's troubles.

***Comfort, Joke, or quiet***

"I'll go with you." It came out before you yourself even realized you felt so generous.

"Really?" He looked at you with excitement and disbelief that you'd offer to do something so torturously boring as sit in on a business lunch when you didn't have to.

You hoped you didn't look just as surprised yourself. Steeling yourself up as you continued.

"Yeah, I mean. Your problem is just that you're stuck between two adults, right? Well, maybe two and a half would help?"

"Yes! I won't forget this! You're the best." Cove said grabbing you by the shoulders.

***accept touch or move away?***

Your eyes softened at your childhood friend. it seems he lost all the tension collecting in his shoulders before becoming serious again. Whatever he says now is life or death serious. It was a bit of a funny look to see on Cove’s face. But you managed to match the mood.

"I'll find a way to repay you."

You almost brush it off before realizing that it's useless when cove makes a promise.

"Okay." You settle on instead and it seems to placate the boy infant of you as he turns on his heels to make his way back down the beach.

After you turn onto your street Cove finally stops in his tracks.

You only notice after you take a few of your own steps forward and don’t hear the echo you’re so used to.

"Cove?"

You know… you don't have to come." He relents although happily accepting the offer just 10mins prior. He was practically jumping for joy.

It's a wonder how quickly you move when you have a plan and direction. You had been wandering the beach for an hour.

You smile at his as he glances away. Perhaps having the time to realize how he might be imposing on you.

***Support or Joke***

"These things can get really boring. So it's okay… if you'd rather not..?" He tries, Hunching in on himself more and more as he speaks. And you quietly wonder how many octaves his voice can raise at this rate.

"I want to go. It could be fun." You end simply.

"Okay but just fake a stomachache or something and I'll get you right out of there."

After exchanging nods to say we understand each other, we continued on to his home.

Cove stepped through the doors of his familiar childhood home with practiced ease.

Or perhaps it's just the ever-unlocked doors. You'd imagine he could easily slam right into it had it been locked from the way he'd been moving. You still couldn’t imagine life without that tiny bit of security of a flimsy lock.

You take in the living room you stepped in countless times growing up. It had the distinct smell of whatever they had for breakfast and seawater. The Holden Men aroma.

***You feel...***

Whatever feelings you might have, it still smells Firstly like your second home.

Mom would say your home right across from home.

"Cove?" You hear a voice break through from further into the house. Mr. Holden making his grand entrance shortly after. "You're in early? That's a-"

He stopped in his tracks as soon as his eyes landing on you. Giving the trademark adult knowing smiles. "Yin. What a surprise. I guess that explain the earlier than expected arrival."

"Dad. I spoke to Them already about the lunch today…"

"Did you?" He asked without much of an actual question behind it. As if trying to gage what Cove was trying to ask for before he did.

"Yeah. Can they come?" He asks straightforwardly and we both watch as Mr. Holden makes a show of considering it.

"Well… you really have great timing for these kinds of questions son…" he glances away before closing his eyes with a sigh. One you couldn't help stealing a glance at Cove for.

They’re almost the same person sometimes. "I'll call Gregario and let him know we'll have a fourth wheel to round us out."

"Thanks dad…" Cove said with an almost apologetic smile, knowing that he made his dad's like just a tiny bit harder today.

"Hey, no problem. I get they're not the most fun in the world, but boring things are helped a lot by having a friend along. Well… most things." His wording there made you realize you actually don't know much about Mr. Holden and who his friends are. Or his family. Other than Cove and his ex-wife.

***assumptions on Cliff's life/ your feelings on Cliff***

You glanced towards Cove as the conversation around you continued wondering if cove has mentioned cousins from his dad. Or friends of his dad out side of your moms. It probably happened in passing while you were too young to really care about adult personal lives.

Cove explains. Mr. Holden Knowing smile.

"Yeah… that's the idea…" Cove said and you wondered if he managed to feel guilty about his dad figuring out he didn't like these lunches and dinners.

Mr. Holden reached over and squeezed his son's shoulder in support "Don't worry about it."

Whatever silent message that sent proofed to reassure Cove just enough to let him meet his dad's eyes with a small nod.

"Alright well I'm going to call Gregario now. You two get ready to head out in about an hour from now. It's nothing too fancy but it's Yin's first day as an honorary businessperson. That's a special occasion," with that he took off, presumably to do exactly what he said he would.

Cove turned to you with a shrug. "None of us really ever 'get dressed' for this. I'm gonna just wear this. But you can if you want" he said.

*** Change?***

You thought about it for a moment before deciding you should at least dine in something other than flip flops. "I'll be right back."

You hear a soft "okay" follow you out as you cut across the street back to your home.

Your Mom looks up from her spot on the couch as you make your way in. A smile gracing her face as soon as her eyes lay on you. "Yin. You're in early. And without Cove?"

You give her a short recap of what happened with Mr. Holden and why you need to change, and she seemed pleased. "I see… well it's great that the possibility of at least putting proper shoes even crossed your mind. I know even Cliff would sooner stay in sandals." You knew your mom was right and maybe even a little proud that she raised you to 'be a pleasant young adult'. She had her proud parent look on and her shoulders even raised slightly in pride and joy.

"Well don't let me stop your business adventure. What are you wearing?"

***Casual or Dress up?***

You responded simply and she nodded at your choice.

"Whatever you put on will look great and be fine."

With that she went back to reading on her tablet. You wondered if it was also work related, but there was no time to start a conversation. You have the Holdens waiting for you just across the street.

You bolted up the steps and into your room, thankfully without much trouble. And looked through your closet for something to wear.

Both of the Holden Men seemed just fine with any decision you made so you didn't need to deliberate over it too much.

***Confirm dress up choice***

It would be the first time you've seen Mr. Suarez since February though. Perhaps it wouldn't be bad to make the effort of looking a bit more adult now that you've graduated.

***Shirt, bottoms, accessories***

You decide on something in the middle. A dress shirt you kept crisp in your closet for special occasions and a decent pair of jeans.

Closing the look out with a few bracelets you bought from your last couple trips to the mall.

***Hair care***

After messing around with your hair several time you finally decided that it looked the perfect amount of 'I didn't really care' chic.

You quietly wondered if there was anything else you need.

***Yes/No***

Luckily you found nothing else. Perfect.

You grabbed your wallet on the way out, making sure never to make that mistake again and went downstairs.

You heard a shutter of a camera flash as your mother stood there with her phone held up to her face.

"My sweet child on their way to their first business meal." You rolled your eyes at her antics "I should put this on the fridge as a souvenir."

***Annoyed/playful***

"Mom! It's not even my business. I'm just going to support Cove." You giggled slightly despite yourself. You wanted to be serious. It's your serious business time. There were no workplace shenanigans to be had here.

"Okay, okay. Don't let me hold you. I'm just going to go print this out."

"Mom!"

She laughed as she made her way past you to go upstairs. Despite being 80% sure your mom was just joking part of you worried she would be willing to commit all that Ink just for a laugh.

No time to test that though, you had Plans with the Holden Men.

When you step out of the house, you’re greeted by just the men you wanted to see. Mr. Holden is the first one to notice you with his usual calm smile. “Welcome back you’re just in time.”

Cove looked over his shoulder just as his father continued. “We were talking about the place we’re going to meet. It’s an All-American Diner. I hope that’s okay.”

“We can grab you something else before we get there if not.” He looked at his watch perhaps clocking out how much time you have for a detour.

***Pitstop?***

“Diners are good.”

“Great. Let’s get this show on the road then.”

It’s not long before you make it to the restaurant. “I don't see their car. I think we beat him today.”

“We did leave early." Cove added on to his father’s finding. You don’t know when they were supposed to show up, but you can understand how 12:30 would count as an early lunch for most people.

Mr.’ holden undid his seatbelt. "Let's find a table, they'll be here soon." He didn’t follow it up with much more as he climbed out of the car and made his way to the entrance. You and Cove followed right in his footsteps. Keeping in time with his long strides. Cove didn’t have much trouble in that being so tall.

You traveled into the diner, it seems they really went as hard as they could on to the old timey feel of the place. They even had the red swingy stools you imagined a place like this needed. Booths in the middle and sides of the restaurant lined up neatly. Overhead lights lined up shielded by textured bumpy glass. You think you even saw a waitress walk past with a traditional milkshake glass.

***Your feelings on places like this***

It was kinda cool, like you were in a movie. You couldn't find a place like this in Sunset Bird at least.

You mention as much to Cove. And he looks around slowly taking in the area again before nodding. His eyes lingering over to the waitress you saw before. Now reaching over to serve a table.

"I can see that. A buddy cop movie." He agrees quietly.

"Which one of you is the loose cannon." Mr. holden nods as you all find a seat at a booth with line of sight to the door. You could only assume that it was to make it easy for Mr. Suarez to tell you were here. Even though, who could miss…

Cove turned to meet your eyes. A silent question of whether to play along shining in his eyes.

***Amused or not***

Cove mercifully decides not to leave the question hanging. "Put your hands up?"

You’ve never felt more threatened ever in your life then when Cove added on a shaky shrug to the request.

Cove’s Dad seems just as ticked by the display, putting his arms up in an impressive show of panic for someone laughing. "Oh god- do what he wants, he's crazy! He'll do it!"

Cove laughed softly "do what?"

Mr. Holden turns to you. Stage whispering to get your attention. "He's asking questions, you won't like him when he's asking questions."

Other tables were starting to look over to see the commotion and some were smiling and laughing at the impromptu show with their lunch.

"Dad…” Cove sank down in his seat. You guess taking notice of the attention placed on him.

“He’s here for two things.”

***Play Along with Mr. Holden?****

“Really?” Cove all but shrieked. “You’re [both?] ridiculous.”

You and Mr. Holden laugh warmly at the antics.

“Seems the party started without us.” All eyes looked up at the interruption. Cove for all his grief about coming, seems relieved when the image of Mr. Gregario Suarez made his way to the table.

"No, the crowd’s just warmed up for you. How are you, Gregario?” Cove’s dad stands holding his hand out for a shake, Mr. Suarez happily returns.

“Simply Grand! What about you, Cove! Yin!” His warm green eyes shine over to his two other business buddies for the night. He reaches over for a handshake from you to cementing the idea. Cove stood as tall as he could trapped by the table. You're sure it would have been done with almost practiced elegance if he wasn’t hunched over and reaching over your head.

This only seemed to amuse Mr. Suarez as he shook firmly. Then those eyes were fully cast on you. He made no moves to shake. You supposed to give you space to choose how to greet him.

***Wave, Shake, Fist bump, smile***

“Yin!?” Derek stepped out from behind his father with wide eyes at you.

You and Cove both look at him with just as much surprise on your faces. You were excited by the idea for seeing Derek before Cove shut the idea down completely. Now your childhood friend was standing in front of you. A complete surprise…

You turn to Mr. Holden wondering if he had anything to do with this.

***Are you upset, disappointed or amused by this surprise?***

“Dad!” It seems cove had a similar feeling about who the culprit was. And didn’t feel very happy about it.

“What?” He seemed surprised to be called before he looked between the 3 very suspicious young adults. “No, this wasn’t me this time…” In his defense Cove’s dad seemed just as bashful about his history of surprises. “I didn’t know Derek was coming. When we were planning this Gregario said he would be going out with Junior…”

“That is what you told me last week…” Cove calmed down almost immediately. His dad was a secret keeper but never an outright liar. Cove trusted that completely.

***Are you as easily convinced?***

There was no immediate proof it was him, yet. All eyes soon fell onto the second father of the evening.

“Oops. well, it seems the cat is out of the bag.” Derek’s father seemed much less apologetic than when Mr. Holden was on the stand. “Well, yes. It was true. My sons did have plans. But when I learned Yin would be coming…” He trailed off. You were unsure if it was because he didn’t have the words or if he felt he said or than enough.

“Seriously, Dad!” It was Derek’s turn to Shriek. He seemed mortified by these events. Embarrassment shown plainly on his face.

***How do you feel about the words?***

“I knew he would regret it if he knew they were coming, and he didn’t. So, I sent Nico out instead. They can use the time to bond.” Mr. Suarez explained to no one in particular. Nodding to his own statement. As if finding his own reasoning logically airtight and sound.

Derek frowned lightly looking at the floor with a more than upset face. You couldn’t tell who it was meant for. “I promised I’d take Jorge out two weeks ago…”

“And you still can. Another time.” He put his arm over his son’s shoulder and said something quietly that you couldn’t make out from the diner’s other conversation. But whatever it was it made Derek recoil from his touch with a blush.

Mr. Suarez gave a boisterous laugh at their seemingly one-sided private joke and released his son. “Well! Let’s not be rude any longer. Come. Sit.”

Mr. Suarez took a seat next to Mr. Holden, and Derek let out a small sigh before looking for a seat to pull from another table. It seems picking a booth wasn’t the best call now that we had an unexpected guest… not that there was much of a choice there were bigger ones to the left of you. And a few tables to be pushed together.

“Yin. You wouldn’t mind moving over, would you?”

You opened your mouth to reply but before you could Derek spoke up.

“No! It’s fine. They don’t have to do that; I’ll just go ask for a seat. They’d get squished anyway.” He seemed uncomfortable with the idea of troubling a table for a chair. You knew he would choose to stand if that wasn’t also seen as equally rude in etiquette.

***Offer the seat,

Offer to move instead, Stay out of it, Thank Derek***

“Are you sure...?”

***Change your mind?***

You nodded and that seemed like enough for him. He glanced to cove who would be pinned against the wall with this decision. Cove only offered a small reassuring nod before turning back to his dad.

Derek moved to sit but then stopped. “Maybe I could take the middle?

***Trade seats, insist, tease***

“Just sit down, Derek.” You say.

Derek smiled before taking his seat. It was slightly unsure, but he seemed to relax a bit once he settled in.

You glance over and can’t help but notice he’s sitting as close to the edge as possible to give you room.

***Nudge playfully, Say nothing, Whisper encouragement***

He quietly scoots closer to you, and he tilts his head away but not enough to hide a bit of the smile he’s biting down.

To Be Continued...

So, the rest of this will assume that you had a crush on Derek in Step 2. And you agreed to marry him in 5yrs. And chose the options from his DLC that he would like the most.

I wanna have versions specifically catering to the Derek lovers who want to just be Friends, like the game. But that will probably take a while. Enjoy this taste for now!

#derek suarez #our life #our life beginnings & always #fanfic #cove holden #Give Derek More Love!!

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invisiblegarters · 1 year

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Never Let Me Go Episode 8

Well would you look at these two just diving into being all cute and domestic instantly. Flirting montage! Man, I often say that I want to do things in montage, but I never mean the fun stuff. I mean things like getting back into exercising regularly and moving.

Hey, is Palm giving Nueng alcohol? I thought he was allergic? Oh screw it let’s just say it's a virgin.

They're still talking around any real feelings, I notice. I don't actually think that they're in deep enough to consider each other life partners or anything like that, but Palm's still doing his careful questioning thing and Nueng is still doing his dancing around giving straight answers. I like it, and I'm gonna pretend that it's down to the time limit they both know they have. This is only while they're on the island and living away from their responsibilities, after all (not that Palm ever really gets to be free of his, considering his responsibility is Nueng).

Man, Palm and Nueng really were going to ditch Palm's mom huh. I find this hilarious for some reason. I still think that she's gonna be the one who leads them to the island. We're establishing that she needs money badly and all the parents in this show suck.

Speaking of sucky parents…Chanon's interrogation is going exactly as we all knew it would. His new BFFs are happily selling him down the river. And ha, Palms mom called the abduction accusations. Is everyone here bad at their jobs? Because honestly, why are the police just taking their word for it? Did I miss something where they had actual evidence or are they just like "yeah, these guys totally seem like straight shooters. They'd never lie to us!"

Chopper is like sixty percent of the reason that I watch this show. I kind of love him for his little sleuth and ambush plan to expose the dude Phum paid to out Ben and Nueng. Cackling at Ben being all reluctant about it. Stop being such a baby, Benny. I don't know why I find Chopper's exasperated reaction to Ben's "I've never used force to hurt anyone" so funny. Poor Chopper, everyone thinks that he's a thug. I don't, though. He just doesn't give me that vibe.

And oooh, was that a flare of awareness I saw from Ben when Chopper got all close and put his hand over his mouth? Because it sure looked like it. Still unsure if he's entirely aware of Chopper's raging crush (personally I think he is either completely aware of it and just pretending it's not true or he only senses it without really knowing for sure - or letting himself know. The one thing I'm sure of is that he's not totally oblivious, even if he isn't consciously aware of it), but this was the first time I've seen anything even sort of similar from Ben.

Pfft at Chopper just nudging this guy's face to look at his video.

Ben: I don't want to use force to hurt anyone.

Also Ben: *tries to clock this guy*

Thank goodness for Chopper honestly.

This dude is pathetic but he and Phum both deserve whatever comes down on their heads, honestly. It's almost like actions have consequences!

Okay, possibly controversial opinion: I'm not actually unsympathetic to Palm's mom. I feel for Palm because no child should have to doubt their parents' love for them, but also there is no guarantee that her staying would have been better. Chances are good that she would have taken her resentment and frustration with being unable to live her life as she wanted out on him. Either way Palm would have been stuck with a mom who loved herself more than him and a dad that was far more devoted to someone else's family than his own.

Yeah, clearly Palm's gonna have to choose between love and duty at some point, and that boy's wired to put duty before all else. I just don't see a happy ending here, folks. Bittersweet, probably, but happy? Forecast is not great.

Aw, it's actually pretty sweet how concerned both of them are about Palm's mom's situation.

Maggie! I missed her face. I don't even care that she's a total flirt and pisses Nueng off. Actually that's a lie. I love that she's a total flirt and pisses Nueng off. She's not being awful about it, and I like that she's one of the people in Palm's life who seems to actually care that he's happy. And has no problem telling him home truths. Honestly Palm needs to hear that what he wants matters more often, so I'm primed to like anyone who does.

Girl is nowhere near as unobservant as it seemed, she just clocked the feelings and got on with things. My god I love her.

Oh shoot. Well the whole gambling depts thing just got a bit more complicated.

Hahaha Nueng was totally stalking them around the island, wasn't he? Yes he was. Honestly could he sound like any more of a brat when he tells Maggie that it's good for Palm to protect someone else for a change? My dude.

Oh wow so it was definitely awareness in the bathroom. Okay, then. Chopper really doesn't have much of a poker face, does he? It's clear he doesn't want his dad's men to find Nueng, and no, I don't actually think that it has anything to do with Ben. I think he's worried for his cousin if Kit finds him. He probably should be.

"Do you still like me?"

Ballsy, Ben. Also, man, you better be curious because it's finally occurred to you that you might have feelings too, because otherwise this is just mean. Chopper isn't here for your personal gratification, Mr. Class President.

Also the answer is clearly yes. Just look at his face.

Wow Ben moves fast. What are you doing, Ben? Are you gonna decide to ditch Chopper the second Nueng comes back? I was warming up to you but now you're messing with my favorite.

Oh now this is interesting. I assumed Palm's mom would screw them over but Nueng having to withdraw money to help her is good too. Guess the island time is all but over now. And this gambler dude is going to be a problem. People like that don't actually go away when you finally pay them off, they just aim for a new way to squeeze you. And now he knows Nueng is rich.

Damn, Nueng has more balls than sense.

I say again, Palm, let Nueng do things himself! Although I do get a kick out of Palm doing the "if I'm your island boyfriend you should let me do things for you" thing. It's blatantly manipulative and both of them know it and are okay with it, lol. You'll never ever convince me that Nueng doesn't want to be Palm's spoiled brat.

Okay, Nueng's jealousy is cute here. And HA, more prodding disguised as teasing.

Oh wow okay so we're doing the love confession thing already. Well that's disappointing. I mean, it's sweet. But I wanted more angst. Boo, I say (oh, not really. It's sweet and I KNOW we'll get some angst soon enough, I'm just feeling a little grumpy because my favorite bit of the bodyguard trope has been done away with in ep 8. They could have stretched that at least until ep 10).

That said, get it, guys! Enjoy this while you have it, which will be all of ten minutes thanks to that earlier fund withdrawal.

#never let me go #episode 8

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allthewritem0ves · 1 year

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Gene Driscoll: A Green Eggs and Ham Story

Chapter Four: Plunderball

Despite the difficulty of the beginning of the mission, all Gene and Pam had to do was return the file to the Dooka for him to take action, or at least his royal law enforcement. For their actions, the two of them were each given a large payment of bruckles.

“Wow! With this much money, I could just retire now!”, Gene joked as he and Pam walked out of the palace. She laughs. But even though she had a sizable pay too, she shook her head.

“Still not enough for the base.”

“Base?”

“This old mountain base Dad and I are trying to refurbish. Can’t say too much about it, I’m afraid.”

“I understand. Now I can get Mellie everything she’s ever wanted.”

“How much could she demand? She’s just a baby”, Pam said, benignly shaking her head.

“Just getting ready. I know she’ll be asking for everything she sees.” He smiles. “Thinking about taking her to Papa Tony’s again. Wanna come with?”

Pam shrugs. “Sure. Don’t really have much else to do tonight.”

——

Meanwhile, at the Meepville prison…

Having been ambushed at the airport by the cops after the report was faxed to the chief, Sylvester McMonkey McBean was tossed into a cell. His anger rose and he resorted to whaling against the cell wall, badly bruising his knuckles.

“That’s not gonna get you anywhere, bud”, the person in the next cell said.

“Oh, I’m sorry. Did all your life’s work get flushed down the crapper in one go? All because some idiot didn’t use my codename!”

“Sucks. But you’re in jail now, so suck it up.”

“If I got my hands on who was responsible…” McBean didn’t finish that statement.

“You know…it doesn’t have to be this way.”

McBean peeked up. “What are you saying, old man?”

“I’m saying I think I know a way for you to get back at the one who wronged you.”

McBean walked to the edge of his cell to get as close to his neighbor as possible. “Tell me! Please!”

The man didn’t say anything. Instead, he reaches as far over as he could with a slip of paper in his hand. “Next time you ask to make a phone call, tell them you need to talk to Twotymer.”

——

That evening, Gene and Pam sat together at a booth, with Melanie in a high chair at the end of the table, eating some more pizzas.

On this outing in particular, Pam was evenly splitting her attention between Gene and his daughter. She stopped eating her own food to assist Melanie with hers, even helping to burp her and wipe food remnants off her lower lip. Gene looked on with a smile.

Afterwards, in the parking lot, Pam used the telephone to call up her father. She came back, crying.

“What happened, Pam?”, Gene asked.

“It’s Daddy, he…” She paused. “He…fell down some stairs and broke his neck. Snalfred picked up the phone when I called.” Using a handkerchief, she wipes her eyes.

“I’m so sorry, Pam”, Gene says in a soft voice. Melanie picks up on Pam’s grief and begins crying too. Gene didn’t really know what to say or do; he couldn’t comfort one without the other feeling envious. Especially not with Melanie in her carrier over his chest.

Instead, he kissed the top of her head and held out a hand to Pam. She takes it. “Everything‘ll be ok.” He knew it was a pathetic attempt at consolation, but it’s not like he knew Pam’s father.

Pam walks closer and embraces Gene. “He didn’t make it”, she says quietly.

“Oh, Pam. I’m sorry.”

They were embracing for so long, other restaurant patrons started staring at them. Gene tried to ignore them as best he could, so he asks Pam, “Why don’t you crash at my house for the night?”

Without really thinking, Pam replies, “Okay.”

——

Back in Meepville…

One of the employees at Zall Street had just gotten done with work for the day when he was suddenly yanked into an alley.

He tried to yell, but was silenced with a slap to the face.

“What’s going on?!”

“Just need to ask you a question and I might let you go.”

“What is that supposed to mean?”

“All I want is the truth. Now, did anyone suspicious recently come here?”

“I-I don’t…recall.” The financier was hyperventilating.

“Anyone snooping around the building lately?”

The man was silent for a long time.

“Fine.” His captor started to unsheathe a paring knife. “You don’t have an answer, I guess I’ll just have to-”

“Wait! Please! I think I recall now!”

“Then tell me.”

The employee panicked as he tried to come up with a memory. “I had to give a tour to some man looking for a job a few days ago. I don’t really remember his name.”

“Well then what did he look like?!”

“He had…periwinkle fur and glasses, I think. That’s all I know, I swear!”

The assailant didn’t even say ‘thank you’ or anything. But he did put his paring knife to good use.

——

Gene offered both the guest room and one of his shirts to Pam for the night. After showering and changing for the evening, she wasn’t quite over the loss of her father. She wept into her pillow.

As he was placing Melanie into her crib for the night, Gene couldn’t help but overhear Pam’s commotion. He gingerly knocked on her door.

“Come in”, he heard her say.

Gene opened the door and found Pam sitting up and drying her eyes. “Is everything all right?”

“As best as I can muster”, she answered.

He walks over and sits beside her. Pam instinctively leans against him. Gene felt a jolt of surprise.

“Look, Pam. I know this…is a little early to say, but I…really-”

He was cut off when Pam put her finger over his lips.

“It’s okay, Gene. I know what you’re gonna say.”

“You do?”

“Uh-huh.” She throws her arms around him. “I feel the same thing too.”

Gene held her too. “I didn’t want to say anything too heavy until we had more time under our belts, but I’m glad it’s there for you as well.”

They continued to embrace in loving silence until Gene said, “Well, I guess we’d better get to bed.”

“I guess you’re right.”

And Gene left Pam’s room before he soiled everything by saying ‘I love you’.

——

Pam woke up the next morning and found that Gene had prepared breakfast. It was a lot more than what he usually made since it was just him and his daughter, who was an infant and didn’t really eat much.

It was Melanie who cried out upon seeing Pam.

“Good morning, Mellie!”, she says to her, taking her out of her high chair so she can hug her.

Gene smiled at the sight before him.

“Morning, Pam.”

“Morning, Gene.”

They stared in loving silence for a good while before it finally dawned on Gene to say, “Oh, I, um, made a mini buffet for you since I didn’t really know what you wanted.”

“That’s very thoughtful of you”, Pam compliments. On her plate, she takes a little bit of everything; that is besides the green eggs and ham.

“Not ready to try those yet?”

“I’ll see if I’m still full.”

And so, they ate and chatted all morning. Turned out Pam was too full afterwards to even take a nibble of green eggs and ham. But Gene didn’t take it too personally.

Afterwards, the three of them watched TV in the living room. It was a program on the children’s block on one of the main news channels (don’t judge; not everyone has cable) and from time to time, Gene and Pam would point to the screen and say to Melanie things like “Do you see that?” and “Where’d they go, Mellie?”

Later, Pam would watch Melanie in the nursery. She would read books to her, stack blocks and play with princess plushies before putting her down for a nap.

As Pam left the room, she ran into Gene, who was watching from the doorway. She gasps in surprise.

“Gene!” She playfully nudges his arm with her fist.

“Didn’t mean to surprise you.”

Then she asks, “Could you follow me to my room?”

Gene shrugs and answers, “Okay.”

Once in there, they sit down on the bed again. They lock eyes with each other.

“You know something, Pam? You done pretty good with Mellie today.”

“Aw, shucks. I never really knew what to do with a kid. It seemed much easier than I thought.”

“I like that you were so good with my little girl.”

“Trust me, it was nothing.”

“No, it was not just ‘nothing’. You’ve got a gift, I-Am.”

Pam blushed and looked at the floor. Gene turned her face back towards his.

They press their foreheads together.

“I don’t want to rush things, but is it okay if I kiss you?”

“Yes.”

And they did. In a rush of emotions, they did a little more than kiss.

#green eggs and ham #fanfic #pam i am #gene driscoll #oc #melanie driscoll #everything changes

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Chapter 3

Well...My brother, our best friend/my crush, and I found a secret hospital within our local hospital and then Kaz kazzed something up and I kai'd something up but, we overcame those challenges and we made some new friends along the way. And this is our story of our waky adventures, how we overcome conflicts, and there will be some new relationships along the way.

< Third POV >

Kaz, Kai, and Oliver were in the domain, hanging out. With Oliver and Kaida playing some demon hunter game, while Kaz is just looking around and fooling around. You know, the usual with these three,

"Man, i'm getting really good at this! I should be a demon hunter in real life. That or a high school teacher" "Yeah, but still with my help because well, you still SUCK"

Kai then says, killing Oliver's character,

"Heehee. By the way, go with demon hunter" "Yeah, they deal with fewer demons."

Kaz said while kai collects both their remotes, Kai giving her brother hers. The two who have a crush on each other then sit down, once they sit, with Kaida cuddling into Oliver after he offered to, Oliver then gets a text,

"*groans* it's my dad. He keeps asking where I go after school every day and i can't tell him about our job"

Oliver said, putting his head down onto Kai's hair, then looks at Kaz, who is now in a mask that kinda looks like Freddy Kruger before he got burnt-,

"Kaz" "What? Do i have something on my face"

Kaz said to his friend and sister, secretly trying to cheer up his friend, didn't exactly work but he did get his twin giggling,

"This is serious. What am I gonna tell my dad" "Just tell your dad you're hanging out here"

Kai said snuggling close to Oliver,

"Darling, he doesn't want me coming here. He thinks all this superhero stuff is a waste of time"

Oliver said, playing with Kaida's pigtails,

"Oh, and like what he does is so important"

The twins say, now getting used to talking a little like Wallace and Clyde,

"Wait, isn't he a brain trauma researcher" "Yes" "Has he ever looked on anything about auditory processing disorder yet?" "uh no but, if you want me to, i can bring up a conversation about it" "That'd be nice, thank you" "Of course"

The two then look at each other smiling, like idiots,

"Just tell your dad you're hanging out at our house- oh wait you guys are having a moment, continue"

Kaz then said, bringing the two out of their trance,

"Dude, i can't. He also doesn't want me hanging out with you guys" "Wait, your dad doesn't like me, why? what'd I do?" "darling you didn't do anything"

Oliver then waits for Kaida to figure it out,

"*gasp* ohhh" "Yeah" "So he thinks both Kaz and I are reckless, out of control, and the fact that Kaz doesn't take responsibility for his own actions? And the fsct that he hates how I write?" "That's it"

Oliver boops Kai's nose, causing it to then scrunch up,

"you know I hate that" "I know i'm sorry, you're just look so adorable when you do that"

Kaz then interrupts the two,

"ok, one time you go home with half your head shaved, you and I-" "and Gus" "And Gus, dye Kai's hair and suddenly we're reckless? *Scoffs* and what has Kaida ever done as reckless or the other things Kai just said about your dad not liking us" " hast du gesehen, wie ich mich kleide?" (I'm related to you, and- I mean, have you seen how I dress?)

Kaida asked her brother, sarcastically in German,

"Hey, at least I take responsibility for my actions" "Are you sure about that?!"

Kai yelled, bringing out her Martin Short impression,

"Hey your getting good at that" "thank you"

Kai said back to Oliver, them both grinning, like idiots, while they were grinning, Kaz then threw the remote controller,

"Wasn't me! he did it!"

Kaz pointed to Oliver.

"There. Brain Matter is good as new" "His head is on backward though"

Kai said to her brother while taking Brain Matter, confused as to why her brother would do that, then changes her face to realization.

"Never mind" "well, then he's better than new" "He now has the power to see his own butt"

The twins say at the same time, then, Gus and Jordan come into the Domain,

"Uncle Kaz, Mom, Dad, help us settle an argument. This snake looks poisonous, right?"

Gus asks the trio as Kaz looks confused,

"does he even know your names anymore" "We kinda gave up after the sixteenth time he had called us mom and dad"

Kai told Kaz, Gus then opens the box and looks at the three in question,

"Gus, sweetie, there's nothing in there"

Kaida responds to Gus when the three of them look at the box,

"This is terrible! Now we'll never be able to settle our argument."

Gus said sadly, looking at Jordan. Kai then gives Gus a hug,

"Gus, we're not having an argument. You're talking to yourself and i'm listening to a book on tape" "oooh can I join" "Of course"

The two girls then go to the couch and continue to listen to whatever Jordan was listening to, Kaz then bolts up and everyone looks at him,

"I wonder why they stopped making Brain Matter comic books and movies. There hasn't been one in years"

Kaz and Kaida then look at each other, Oliver notices,

"Oh, no. I know those looks. you guys are gonna search obsessively for the answer to a totally unimportant question" "Yeah, even if it means abandoning your school work, your friends, and your already shaky commitment to showering"

Jordan listed while looking at Kaz at the last one,

"Okay, 'A', everybody's already trying to answer the important question" "and 'b', I showered on Tuesday. A week ago Tuesday"

The twins say after the other, Jordan just rolls her eyes while Oliver tries to get away from Kaz's stench. Yet again used to it,

"I remember. You smelled beautiful that day"

Oliver then gets another text, Kai notices,

"Excuse us for a moment"

Kai then gets up to join her brother and crush,

"My dad just texted me 'where are you?' Maybe I should come clean and tell him about...*whispers* the thing" "all right. Here's what you do. You make up an after school activity. Something that sounds productive so he'll get off your case," "yet so boring he won't ask for details" "That's actually a good idea, you guys. Where'd you come up with that?"

Oliver questions the twins,

"In alibi club"

the twins respond,

"Yeah, and if anybody asks...that's where we are right now"

Kai said, pointing to herself and Kaz, the three then walk back to Jordan and Gus,

"Help settle another argument. How many times a year does the average person go to the bathroom? I say six"

Oliver then gets close to Kaida,

"why did we adopt him again?" "I guess we'll never know"

Kai then kisses Olivers cheek, both of them blushing mad when they both realize what Kai had done,

"Ugh. Oliver, your backpack stinks" "I know. Stop putting your gym shoes in here"

Oliver tells Kaz, pulling out his best friends gym shoes,

"Where else am I gonna put them, in my backpack? they stink"

Kaz says, bringing his shoes with him to put into his backpack,

"You know what else stinks, by the way?" "mmm...you not confessing to my sister?" "yeah- well other than that, the advice you gave me about my dad" "Oh, why? what happened?"

Kaz asks, forgetting about his sister in an instant,

"Well, he doesn't like the theater so I told him I was in a play" "Ah, what play?" "That's what he said. And since I wasn't prepared for him to ask, I was like, 'um...um...um...' so now he thinks that's the title of the play"

Oliver explains while Kai then walks in with a monster that goes with her outfit, like she always does,

"What would a play called 'um...um...um' possibly be about?"

Kai asked her best friend/crush, taking a sip of her monster while looking through her clipboard,

"Actually i'm gonna let you guys talk, I got an appointment with The Crusher" "ok, have fun with his turtle" "see ya, darling" "Bye, Oli"

Kai kisses Olivers cheek, both blushing yet, the two always do that as their way of saying goodbye. They've been doing that since childhood, they just thought it was a normal thing to do, but they both know it's because they really have an un-dying love for each other. If only they knew what was on the others mind,

"And by the way, that's what he said too..."

As the two best friends talk, Kai goes into the a random hospital room, which is the temporary veterinarian room, and waits for the crusher. three seconds later, the crusher and his turtle walks in,

"Hi doctor Wilde" "Oh, please, call me Kai"

the two shake hands,

"So, what's going on with speed?" "She's been having these problems with her eyes, speed has only been at my place for a little over a month now so...I don't know am I just not giving her-" "sorry to interrupt but her breath is sounding more wheezie. Might I ask, what have you been feeding her exactly?"

She asked as she gives the turtle a piece of peach,

"Uh, isberg lettuce, carrots-" "the first one, yeah no more of that. K?" "Ok, can I ask why?" "Well, Turtles that are fed iceberg lettuce, an all meat diet, or a poor quality commercial diet are prone to develop a vitamin A deficiency since these foods have very low levels of vitamin A"

Crusher looked at her in realization,

"Oh, ok. I'm gonna stop feeding her that now. Is there a medication that I should give her?" "Well, im gonna give her this, which is injectable vitamin A, and after three days you come back for an update. You give her stuff with vitamin A in it. And Speed should be ok in a few months" "oh, wow, it takes that long?"

The crusher questioned,

"Yeah, maybe don't give her that lettuce..." "right. Thank you, dr.- I mean, Kai"

The crusher shook her hand again,

"Of course, and if you need anymore help with anything, i'm just a call or text away" "Will do"

The crusher then walks out with Speed. Kaida puts on her earbuds and walks out of the room and walks to the lobby, where Kaz and Oliver are,

"*humming* Hey guys" "Kai would you like to be in my play?" "I'm sorry, your what now?"

Kai then asks, ripping off her earbuds before the chorus starts,

"well..."

As Oliver explains to his long time crush about the non-existing play, Kaz was just looking at the two and thinks what he always thinks,

"I shall plan their Shrek wedding"

After explaining, Kai then tells oliver,

"Dude, why didn't you just pile an even bigger lie on top of the first lie. Our brother taught us that"

Kai points to her and Kaz,

"The brother who's in Jail?"

Oliver asked,

"well, baby you'll have to be more specific"

Kai replied,

"Darling, you know I hate lying, but I can't tell my dad about mighty med. So I guess i'll have to write and produce an entire school play by Friday, which means I can't work at mighty med so my dad doesn't find out I work at mighty med and- and. Kai I need a hug"

Kaida hugs oliver close,

"You know, it's pretty funny when you think about it."

Kai told Oliver while he hides himself in her hair,

" yeah, I guess it is"

Kaz looks at the two thinking he's going to plan their Shrek wedding and walks away, leaving the two by themselves, hugging each other, never wanting to let go, they eventually did,

"I gotta go meet Skylar and Horace, Skylar wants me there as moral support for how well she's doing"

Kai skips as the two thought,

"i gotta tell her someday" "I gotta tell him someday"

Meanwhile, with Skylar, Horace, and Kaida, skylar is deflecting the beams that are being shot at her,

"*Grunts* Aah"

Skylar shouts out, losing her balance after getting hit by a beam. Horace then turns off the simulator,

"Why am I even bothering at physical therapy? My powers are never coming back" "But you're making tremendous progress" "At what?" "your combat skills...and accepting crushing disappointment..."

Kai then mutters, shakily ginning while Skylar looks like that one meme where you just look done with someone. Kaz then walks in,

"Hey, Horace, I have a question for you" "is it important?"

Horace asked Kaz, as the two girls then sit on the couch, with Kai on Skylars lap,

"Probably not" "then you have my full attention. Hardly anyone is asking te really unimportant questions these days" "I know! Hey, anyway, since comic books based off of real superheroes, I was wondering why there aren't anymore stories about Brain Matter"

*horror movie music plays. Woman screaming*

"I take it that's you new ringtone?" "Yup, you like?" "Hell yeah"

the girls high-five each other,

"Why do you have a phone? you've been on this planet for, like, a week. You don't know anybody." "That's why I got the one friend and no family plan"

Skylar told Kaz, Kaz then looks back at Horace,

"So...what happened to Brain Matter?"

*horror movie music plays*

"You keep looking away every time Kaz says 'Brain Matter', why?"

*Horror movie music plays*

"Oh shit- you're hiding something" "and not very well"

The twins say after the other,

"Stop meddling you two. I have some important work for you to do"

Horace then gives Kaz a list,

"Change light bulbs, clear away cobwebs. This is just busy work"

Kaz says standing up with Kai going next to him, she then reads through the paper,

"No it isn't"

Horace said, walking away,

"What the Honk- Yes it is! The title of the list is 'Busy work for Kaz' numb-nut"

Kaz yelled at the man,

"Something weird is going on here" "Yeah. Weird and scary" "And we're gonna find out what that secret is"

The twins then said at the same time,

"Can I help? I'm going nuts sitting around here waiting for my powers to return. I'm so desperate, i'm willing to voluntarily spend time with you"

Skylar says, looking at Kaz, meanwhile with Jordan and Gus,

"So Jordan, wanna see my umbilical cord? I keep it in my wallet"

Jordan just pushes Gus's hands away from her. Oliver then comes in,

"Jordan, Gus, I need a favor. You have to help me put on a play by tomorrow" "Why?" "So my dad doesn't keep asking me where I go after school every day" "Where do you go after school every day?" "I have got to start preparing for follow up questions"

Oliver tlls himself,

"um, I-I...i'm secretly dating Kai"

Oliver panics. Jordan looks surprised,

"FINALLY!" "Weren't you guys already dating?"

The two say at the same time,

"uhhh yeah- yeah no, um we've been dating for a few weeks now and we've been going on dates for those few weeks so...and my parents aren't exactly cool with the twins already so...yeah"

Oliver looks worried, scared that his friends might not actually believe him,

"Anyway, will you help me put this play or not?" "Of course, anything for you and mom"

Gus responds,

"Yeah, for you and mom, and because i'm sure it'll be terrible and there is nothing more delightful than watching a friend fail"

Jordan said, smiling, for both her friends finally getting together and for chaos,

"Then, why don't you like me more?" "I said watching a friend fail" "Fair enough. Oh and by the way, bring sandwiches, and hold the mayo"

Gus told Oliver when Jordan then walks away,

"Ok?"

Oliver responds, questionably,

"No, seriously. Hold the mayo"

Gus then brings out a GALLON OF FUCKING MAYO- LIKE WHY THE FUC-

"Thank you. This backpack's so much lighter than one gallon of mayo"

FOR REAL WHY THE FUCK DOES HE HAVE TWO FUCKING-NO JUST...WHY just why- anyways, meanwhile with Horace and the rest,

"Now, open up and say 'ah' "

The patient opens his mouth and fire comes out,

"Okay. You're perfectly healthy"

The patient then walks away. The twins and Skylar then come into the rec room,

"Hey! Skylar, Kaz and I have been looking through files for information about Brain Matter and we found this" "Brain Matter checked into the hospital years ago but never checked out"

The twins say after the other. Horace starts walking while looking through the file,

"I don't know what you're talking about" "If you don't tell us what it is Kaz will..." "Start beat boxing right now" "it's true. He's just crazy enough to do it"

Kaz starts to beat box, horribly,

" Okay! Okay, stop! i'll tell you. The tell of Brain Matter is dark and macab...re. Because of him, something monstrous is hidden behind some door in Mighty med. Whatever you do, do not open that door. It is the door of doom! Now, we're having problems with the locks-" "Again?" "Yes again, so I need you guys to open every door in Mighty Med"

Horace then runs out the room before anyone could say anything else,

"what if we find the door of doom?" "Don't worry, I shall protect you guys"

The three then walk out, meanwhile with Oliver, Gus, and Jordan, Oliver walks to the stage with a case full of sandwiches

"I appreciate you guys helping me. Gus, here are the sandwiches you asked for, which were free and not 5.99 each because I work at a sandwich shop"

Oliver said, remembering that one lie he had told Gus when he was about to leave one time to go to mighty med,

"Gross. I don't wan these. There's mayo on them" "What? you carry around gallons of mayo" "not to eat"

Jordan then bolts up off her chair,

"I have a comment about the script. There's a point where watching your friends fail is no longer delightful, and instead becomes just...fantastic! Oh, let me congratulate you on how truly awful this script is" "Wow you are happy that Kai isn't here today,aren't you?" "Sadly, yes"

Jordan shouts happily,

"well, it doesn't have to be good, just has to convince my father it's an actual play. Now, in the first scene I, president Frankenstein, bring Gus, my hideous vice president creature to life. Now, I want the atmosphere to be scary" "You want scary? Two words, use dry ice to make fog" It is scary that you think that was two words. but I would love fog all over the stage" "Done, I know a guy. Let's call him 'Louie, who can get dry ice'-"

Jordan then interrupts Gus,

"Everybody knows a guy who can get dry ice. Anybody can get it" "Nu-uh. I know a guy, let's call him 'Ira, who can't get dry ice' but since we need dry ice, i will not be calling Ira today"

The three then come out the rec room door and look around before actually stepping out,

"I'm so conflicted. I'm dying to find out what happened to Brain Matter, but I don't want to die finding out what happened to Brain Matter"

Kaz said, looking worried.

"What if we open the door of doom?"

Skylar then asks while Kai is just to scared to speak,

"Hey, it'll be ok"

Kaz tells his sister offering his hand. She takes it as a big clattering comes through, putting out the power,

"what the honk"

Kai squeaks out, squeezing her brothers hand,

"god I wish i would have done item one on Horace's list, 'change the light bulbs' "

The three then walk to a door, Kaz opens it and then screams and looks away and runs to his sister. Kai looks at what he was screaming about and calms down a little,

"Oh, calm down. they're just selling super scout cookies. We'll take two boxes of mutant mints, please"

Kaz looks over,

"Those don't have coconut do they, i hate coconut"

The girls hiss at Kaz, he screams again then in an instant, closes the door. The three walk to another door, afraid, Kai was the next one to open the door, still holding her twin's hand. The three then scream at the same time, seeing as it's a naked old guy, and close the door. They then go to the last room,

"It's the door we haven't opened. it's gotta be the door of doom" "Stop being a baby"

Skylar then opens the door,

"*Screams* my eyes"

Skylar then covers her eyes with her hand, seeing as it's Alan cutting his toenails,

"Hey! A little privacy please?"

Alan shuts the door,

"you okay?" "I'mma need a long hug"

The girls then hug each other, with Skylar burring her face into Kaida's hair,

"it'll be ok-" "there was a nail longer than the others"

Skylar shudders, squeezing her best friend, the two then let go of each other. Meanwhile with Oliver, Jordan, and Gus, the play is starting,

"They call me 'mad' when i created a monster who would have tie-breaking vote in the senate. Now, before being one heart beat away from the presidency, I must give it...A heart beat!"

Before he was able to do whatever he was gonna do to 'bring Gus back to life', Gus's dad gives him a text,

"I've gotta go. My father has a meeting and he needs his suit back" "Um, I can't do the play without you. The monster's in every scene" "Try improv, mom does it all the time" "Well i'm not mom- Kai, aren't I?"

Oliver sarcastically asks,

"And I got nothing but this"

Oliver looks at his friend worriedly,

"I gotta go dad!"

Gus yelled, bolting out of the room,

"Um...my monster. I-It's alive! And already knows my name and has to run some errands!"

When the Wilde twins and Skylar got back to the rec room, they were just walking around,

"Well, we opened every door in the hospital. No door of doom and no Brain Matter"

Kaz said, opening the fridge that's in the rec room,

"Maybe Horace was just testing us. Maybe there is no door of doom"

As if on cue, when Kaz opens the freezer part of the fridge, he screams,

"what's wrong, what happened?"

Kai asked, worried for her brother that he had done yet another dumb thing,

"we're out of tofu-pops" "*gasps* no"

Kai squeaked,

"wait that's weird, who put a Brain Matter figurine in the freezer?"

Kai then brings the figurine out of the freezer,

"This thing's pretty heavy"

She says, putting the figurine down, there was then a buzzing sound and Brain Matter's figurine glows,

"Oh, gods it's glowing!"

Kai then jumps onto Skylar with her instantly catching her, the buzzing and glowing continues until the Brain Matter figurine turns into,

"It's the real Brain Matter"

The twins say at the same time,

"What happened to you?"

Kaz asks the superhero that's in a lab coat...OK HOW CAN HE FIGHT CRIME IN THAT- I MEAN WHY WEAR KAKI PANTS WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO DEFEAT A FUCKING VILLAIN-

"The last thing I remember I was conducting an experiment on myself. Something went terribly wrong, but I can't remember what"

Brain Matter then looks like he's getting possessed, turns out he was being possessed...by himself,

"*Deep Voice* Now I remember"

He then roars and growls. Horace and Alan then come in,

"What did you do? I told you not to open the door of doom" "Why didn't you just tell us not to open the freezer?" "Because I know you two. If i said, 'Kaz, Kai, don't open the freezer' the first thing you guys would do, is open the freezer" "He opened it anyway!"

Kaida looks at Horace flaring her arms up and then down. Brain Matter then desecrates a something...because i got no clue wjat the heck that is...WAIT DOES THIS MEAN BRAIN MATTER NOW HAS A BIG DI-

"uh guys, he can pulverize things. What do we do?!"

Kaida screeched like Alan,

"You're starting to sound like Alan, calm down-" "everybody, up here"

Horace then brings the group to the podium thing,

"huddle together! Force field activate"

A force field is now out and Brain Matter can't get in,

"what happened? Brain Matter was a hero. How'd he become this monster?"

The twins say at the same time, the two then look at each other confused,

"You two are like dogs with bones. Just let it go" "All right, if that's the way you want it"

Kaz starts to beat boxe horribly again,

"Okay! Okay, fine. Fine. I'll tell you. Brain Matter was a brilliant scientist and crime fighter who invented his own weapons. Miracles of technology that made him a hero to be reckoned with. But Brain Matter grew envious of superheroes who didn't have rely on weapons. So, he developed a serum that would give him his own superpowers. I had heard the rumors, so I went to investigate. But it was to late-"

Horace gets interrupted by Kaz,

"Wait, wait, wait. This happened in the 1970s?" "No, it was five years ago, I just had a very outdated sense of style. Anyway Brain Matter made a miscalculation with the serum, and turned into a hideous violent beast. With an insatiable appetite for human brains. By freezing the monster, we were able to neutralize and shrink him. We stored him here until we could develop a cure" "And I take it you still haven't"

Kai said, crossing her arms,

"And, by the way, if he is so dangerous, why would you keep him in a regular freezer?" "He was hidden behind the tofu-pops. Who would eat a tofu-pop?" "My brother and I would"

Brain Matter then bangs on the force field harder, getting the group to his attention,

"The force field is stretched too thin trying to protect all of us" "we need to figure out a way to freeze him. Do you have some kind of freezing chamber in this hospital?" "*mocking* Do we have some kind of freezing chamber in this hospital? *not mocking* No. But we have a freezing ray in the E.R" "Ok, lets think. *snaps* we got it. Okay, Horace, let us out and we'll lure him to the freezing ray" "He'll rip you apart. I can't let you do that"

Horace responds to Kaz, Alan then says,

"Let kaz fo it! Let kaz do it!" "are you sure about this?"

Horace asked,

"We've never been sure of anything we do, why would I start now?"

Horace opens a door and both twins get out,

"Wait what are you gonna do?" "When Brain Matter worked in his lab, he always listened to Mozart, and he hated to be disturbed. The one thing that disturbed him most was..."

Kaz replied to Skylar then walks out of the force field,

"Hey, Brain Matter!"

Kaz then beat boxes horribly...again...A-FUCKING-GAIN- anyway, Brain Matter roars at Kaz and Kai angerly, Kaz screams and the two runs all the way to school, literally, yeowza they can survive the zombie apocalypse without a problem. meanwhile with Oliver and Jordan,

"So for my next improve, i'm an astronaut in a sporting goods store acting in the style of Shakespeare. so...yeah"

Oliver said, trying his best not to embarrass himself,

" Me thinks our jogging outfit beith overpriced. Roger that, Houston. *Whispers* Jordan, help me out here" "are you kidding? You're doing horrible. Oh! Tears. Actual tears of joy"

Jordan replied while recording, waiting to send it to Kaida. Gus then comes back to the stage in a woman's suit,

"I had to give my dad his suit back. But I got one from my mother" "At last! My monster has returned"

Kaz then runs in, with Kai by his side,

"what are you doing here- hi dariling, i'm in the middle of my play"

Kaida just waves back, being out of breath, then replys

"Monster. Beat boxing. Mozart" "He already did that improv- oh and by the way, congrats on finally getting together" "HEH?" "What do you mean heh? aren't you and Oliver now dating?"

Kai then shakes her head, looking at Oliver,

"No, we aren't. Oliver do you have some explaining to do?" "ummm...well, *sigh* I lied to our friends about the reason I did the play...but as a forgiveness, i shall give you your favorite monster for a week" "Make it a month and you have a deal"

Kaida and Oliver hug,

"anyway, so Brain Matter, he turned into monster dude five years ago, got frozen, Kaz and I got chased by him and now here we are, possibly hiding from him I don't know"

Kaida said, still out of breath,

Jordan then goes to her backpack and brings out a juice box,

"here"

Jordan runs to Kai, giving her the juice box, when Kaida had the first sip, Monster Brain Matter comes bursting in,

"Aah! Didn't lose him!"

< Kaida POV >

Well... I kazzed things up, but again, we get through it together. we froze Brain Matter again, and Oliver and I almost confessed, again. Sounds like any other normal day-darling, come check out these stars-COMING, hey Kaz, can you finish up for me-sure

Well...actually Kai kind of summed it all up, so, good luck in the world child-

Camera shuts down

#mighty med oc #kaida harmony wilde #mighty med #mighty med kaz #mighty med Oliver #skylar storm

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sunflowersnpearls · 2 months

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Husbands' words are not matching actions and vice versa. Hes been "venting" to "me" in front of our oldest (turning 16 may 10) on our "current" marriage?....problem(s).

I tried my best to keep my mouth shut and one time he asked me to play a song so I for one am so plugged up i cant really hear much, sometimes even music is too loud (sensory processing disorder) and I guess i didnt even hear him say something and the child caught on to what was happening and said "you're ignoring dad again"

So i spoke to her instead of him since she said it, & I said "I didnt ignore him. I didnt hear him. I was hyper focused on the song he requested me to play."

And then he went on just one of many other rants in front of her, asking "you dont think I ever hyper focus on anything? When Im home on my days off, I feel like im your servant" All day anytime I asked for help, to him I was demanding it and not appreciating stuff he did and then he would not stop talking about every single thing he did today around the house and for our children and its like.... ok cool.

And people get paid to do what i do here at home, every single day all day long. Didn't say it would be easy, however I did ask for help. He tried to say he understands im frustrated bcuz im home all day and i guess i interrupted and was rude bcuz i said "Its not THAT, at all" (cuz its...not?) Lastly i stumbled upon his fave song & started playing it & asked him to plz get me my night meds bcuz I am so fucking cold to the touch, esp to others. And moving makes it hurt.:// He said "You can just not play the song now. Thanks." So uhh.. Like all I am learning here is 1) I need to stop asking him to help me w/ literally anything and like he has said in the past which I clearly shouldve listened to: "If you (*me doing this: "cough" "cough") WANT something RIGHT NOW!, I'll have to get up and get it myself or wait until I he is ready to do it." And 2) I've been right all along. I cant count on even my own Husband so like uhh.... okay. And Now to him, I'm just a burden. Let alone ya know, i guess having influenza and not doing shit around the house "today" (literally just today, and actually, i still did some stuff which is better than none lol) and hes acting like he deserves a fucking gold medal. For what? Being a husband a father and taking responsibility of everything whilst your wife is ill? K. Never asking you for shit now. Ill send lists to him at work if the house needs anything. He hasnt had sex from me in a month because for the past 2 months steady, I have been sick with an upper respiratory virus affecting my asthma and everything else and now this so uhh, my bad. Next time I'll just faint (again) & hit my head probably (again) and then maybe, theyll see that hes just gonna send me by myself and come pick me up when Im done being in there because he has to sleep for work tomorrow. Not to ya know, dare mention that if the bulging disc in my spine "RUPTURES", all signs & symptoms of paralysis will hit fast & clearly that would become a huge Emergency Situation... So I was "told to do it anyway" by him even after explaining the deck was covered in thick broken shattered ice chunks and with my slip on shoes that are the only shoes i can wear, I told him "I'm not doing that" and now it's my fault it was left outside until when he came home (3 1/2 hours before home). I feel as if my health is a major burden to him and maybe its time for me to get an inhome nurse... Some people just arent built to take care of anyone else. And maybe idk, maybe he is starting to see that I a really honestly, not in love with him at this point anymore. Maybe tomorrow or next month or next whatever, or maybe never will I be back in love with him.It seemed to me like the exact day that he was hired on as a manager at his workplace, things shifted. He dropped a huge bomb on me. I had to then last night, inform my family that I'm doing gene testing to see if i am a carrier of a breast cancer gene for reasons. They're also testing for thyroid & ovarian seeing as those run heavily. My chances before gene testing was uncomfortable to talk to our 3 kids about but they were as accepting as they can be, as their Mother my main priority should be my health so that Incan get better so that I can continue to do what I freaking LOVE DOING SO MUCH!!!!!! Like I truly do so why continually, continually say outloud in front of the 3 kids that "well I've done all of this and all of this because you asked for help" and it all started over me asking him if he can take lily her cup of water since shes coughing so badly. My flu/asthma/sinus shit is awful and my heart problem make it hard for me to walk sometimes let alone climb stairs.... He's acting like he deserves a gold medal when im always keeping the house up and im not doing that. What im doing is showing him what all i have to do during the day, some updates on what i dod and whatever else i wanna send.

I told him that its unfair to us completely that he doesnt turn off "Manager" when he walks through the door. He had a conversation to me and said hes not gonna be able to shut that off when he comes home and he has to take on so much responsibilities and he feels like he needs to be inside the house alone without myself or the kids or the pets for like half a year to get his straight. Bruh. Like no. Just do better. Idk how many people told me that Id never do this and id never do that and here i am proving them wrong every single day.

But every time he speaks to me like this, I am taken back to a time where I was told "your mother never should've made you." At i think 4-5 years old? I am disabled for many reasons. And I can tell everyone all the time until I'm fucking blue in my own face that, when I say that I cant do something and I ask for help, the help is met with a "your legs work" or "you're capable. You just dont wanna wait" No duh. Thats why i said "now please". Would you rather I give you another reason to hit me 3x flat-cupped handed times on my face again and say that "If I wanted it right now and could have gotten it right now for myself"

Im tired of asking for help and being treated like nothing other than a burden and his biggest fucking problem. How was I supposed to know that I was going to this sick on your 2 days off and that every time I asked for anything, you were upset.

I guess i was right and I'm just a different person now because of trauma processing and healing. But being sick enough to make 4 separate appointments during the 2 month span and if this gets worse, this one too. So I feel like he wants me to say something to him or do something for him, but all Im getting from this is "do not ask me for anything". Isnt your spouse supposed to be the one taking care of you when youre sick? Hes already lost me emotionally. And right before our ten year wedding annivarsary. Cool.

Advice?

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A friend of mine told me about how life was for the Pico family in earlier days and I actually found myself almost - KEYWORD BEING ALMOST - feeling sorry for Matthew. As horrible as he was, you also made it clear that he truly loved his first son Pico and even tried to be a good excellent father for him and Morgana. As horrible as he was to Morgana, he had been kind and loving toward them when they were still a baby. In fact, from how my friend told me about him and the Pico family, I couldn't help but feel that Matthew HAD developed some genuine affection for Morgana despite everything.

I also feel this is why he was able to hide his true colors from both Morgana and Pico for so long. Kids are much sharper than people give them credit for. They might not understand things right away due to their innocence but that doesn't mean they won't eventually take notice of it. However, if the abuser actually happens to have some level of genuine affection and love? Then it's very easy for a child to believe that they're being punished because their parent/guardian has a good reason for it. Plus, if we're being realistic here, Matthew wasn't horrible 24/7. Pico and Morgana wouldn't have adored him so much otherwise.

But anyway, as I said before, I almost feel sorry for Matthew. He honestly reminds me so much of my own dad who admittedly was not exactly the best father to me in my early years, though, unlike Matthew, my dad was genuinely a good person by heart, he just had a LOT of issues that he himself wasn't aware of until my late elementary years. In fact, the way how you describe what Matthew was like when he and Rae were dating and during their first year or two together reminds me so much of my dad - so much that I almost thought things will improve for the better.

Then my friend told me what Matthew was like after Pico's apparent death and how he just got worse and worse. I have always been aware of how horrible he was but hearing some of the bullshit he pulled on poor Morgana and Rae made me realize just HOW terrible he was. It also made me NOT feel sorry for him in the end. Well mostly. A part of me foolishly believed that perhaps he would have got the decency to feel ashamed of himself if he were to meet up with Pico again years later- only for that part of me to be felt greatly disappointed when my friend informed me that Pico had actually gone out to go confront him with Darnell and Nene shortly after reconnecting with his family. I had sorta expected Matthew to not really care too much about Morgana but I had always assumed he, at the very least, would have the decency to remember them AND to feel SOME shame over his actions. But nope. Matthew not only completely forgot about Morgana but actually tried to excuse his actions to Pico???? God. That had pissed me off quite a bit. It's one thing if he at the very least was remorseful and acknowledged he was in the wrong, but no, this asshole's excuses were basically along the lines of "I tried but it was too hard", "I wouldn't have done this if they hadn't done this or that", "I had a bad day and they happen to annoy me", and so on; overall just him constantly making excuses and not taking any responsibility for his actions as well as acting as if he was the one who was wronged and that he had good reasons for it.

Ah anyway sorry for this random rambling here! This had been on my mind ever since my friend told me about Matthew and wanted to share some of my thoughts. Didn't mean to ramble on for so long however zxjkcxjk

If there's any pity or remorse, it's very minimal, cuz at the end of the day, Matthew never wanted Morgana. He was perfectly content with Pico, and Morgana wasn't planned. Just happened. He TRIED to go along with it, since Rae wanted to keep the child, but it just bothered him too much, and that little distaste ends up growing. And then for the favorite child to disappear, being left with the least, who keeps asking when Pico's gonna come back? Endless growing

.... that shit's sad for Morgana--

#I wrote lil bits of it #but it doesn't hit Morgana immediately that Pico is gone #they even went to a funeral but it didn't click #it wasn't until a week or so that they wrote in their diary 'I don't think Pico's coming back'#Morgana's life is fuckin depressing back then

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Being an absent father has its advantages.....lol

So I think everyone has kind of come to the agreement that, while it’s super shitty that Endeavor isn’t there to face his son, it’s also probably for the best.

I’m going to double down on that and say that there is absolutely no better way for this to have gone. Why? Because Endeavor not being there provided an opportunity for something new, something that was never going to happen, had he actually fulfilled his responsibility and shown up.

What is happening this chapter? Well we see Touya saying something really heartbreaking:

And we see Touya identifying with the League, and lumping himself in with them for the first time. And who is this all being directed toward? Shouto. Honestly probably the last person Touya wanted to see here, since he was ready to take on his dad right then and there. But he’s not just ranting AT Shouto, he’s explaining himself. He’s explaining his actions, motives, his feelings. It’s literally the complete opposite of how he explained himself when facing Hawks, when he hid behind Stain’s ideals, and denied having any personal connection to the League:

AND! Not only that, Touya finally titled himself correctly, Shouto’s big brother <3

I don’t know what it is about Shouto, but being there brought out a side of Touya that we haven’t seen. Not only is Touya (accurately) explaining himself, but he’s also answering questions. Shouto asked him something really personal just right off the bat:

Something we’ve all been wondering, something the rest of the Todofam is wondering. Shouto just went in for the kill, and Touya decided to actually answer:

Now seriously, ask yourselves, would ANY of this have been able to happen if Endeavor were there? I’m gonna answer that for you–No. It wouldn’t have.

But everything I listed up top is the obvious. We already knew all of that. What I want to double down on is the fact that Endeavor being absent, yet again, is not a mistake, a blip in the narrative, a glitch in the matrix, or a lapse in Shouto’s judgment.

Shouto isn’t really ever shown to be like Midoriya or Iida or even Touya himself in battle, who charge in senselessly without calculating. Shouto kind of learned his lesson very early on not to hold everything in and only depend on himself. So Shouto choosing to be there without Endeavor? That’s not a hasty decision, not to me at least.

I think Shouto decided that it actually is better to handle this without Endeavor. Maybe not entirely alone, but definitely without Endeavor. Why? Because what was Shouto’s INITIAL reaction as soon as he woke up in the hospital?

Literally the FIRST thing Shouto decided was that HE had to do it. Just him.

But alas, a talk with his hurting, grieving, confused family changed his mind which resulted in him making, what I consider, a miscalculated decision:

I always thought it was a bit odd that Shouto avoided eye contact with his dad when reaching out like this. Like….we all knew when these chapters came out that it just wasn’t going to go as smoothly as the Todofam was hoping. We knew, Shouto knew.

And what happens after Shouto decided to include his dad in what was originally supposed to be his own quest?

Well, we see Endeavor avoiding responsibility by focusing on someone else’s kid. We see Endeavor dodging Shouto’s phone calls because quite frankly, Endeavor knows he is the worst person for this job. We see Shouto confronting his father to “do it together” countless times, only for his requests to be ignored over and over and over again.

And lastly, Shouto going back and forth on how to even address his brother.

Touya? Or Dabi?

Not saying Shouto doesn’t deserve a good internal struggle on the situation. He probably doesn’t know what the hell he’s gonna do or how, just that he has to try. And Touya’s words this chapter definitely fall in line with my belief that Shouto needs to separate himself from his father in his brother’s eyes (more of a deep dive on this here and here). But my point is, Endeavor being involved during the Deku solo arc did nothing but hold Shouto back, probably contributing to Shouto not entirely knowing how to go about the situation (hence going back and forth on Touya/Dabi), and prolonging the process of finding Touya and starting this long overdue conversation.

To me, Shouto choosing to be there without his dad was not a mistake and it’s not something that needs to be fixed or mended, or redone. I think Shouto knew that this was honestly the best way, the only way. Because without Endeavor, Shouto can actually exchange words with his brother. Whereas in the war arc, that just wasn’t an option because the second Endeavor fell unconscious, Touya dipped. And when Endeavor was awake even, Touya wasn’t willing to talk, he just wanted to burn.

At the end of the day, it was always going to be Shouto doing this without Endeavor–AT FIRST. This isn’t me saying Endeavor won’t show up and play his part. He definitely will somehow. He has to. But looking back at the Deku solo arc, Endeavor made absolutely zero progress. He stayed stagnant, and Shouto himself noticed this. And Shouto said it himself, that it was his own choice to be there, not because he was ordered to.

Shouto chose to be there because he knows that he is the only one who can do anything even remotely good for his brother.

#okay i'm done #lol #not to talk about endeavor on main but #god #bnha #boku no hero academia #bnha 349 #todofam #todoroki enji #todoroki shouto #todoroki family #todoroki touya #dabi #bnha meta #mha meta #my hero academia #mha 349

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