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#But point is she really wants to fucking fight him and Lance is like 'ok how about you just tell him to fuck off instead?' =>
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Like just single dad space cowboy Lance au, that keeps rotating in my head, absolute bullshit but just know it is inspired by Smokin Joe Rudeboy by Tom Cardy
#It is such a funny au (to me) nothing makes sense#Basically it starts with s2 Shiro survives Zarkon dies but Black Lion is also VERY damaged=>#This leads to the war to be in bit of a standstill for few years=>#Keith still does his whole went with BoM missions thing =>#At some point with more years later there is a major fight that breaks up the team =>#Lance runs away and gets stuck in what is essentially the Mid Western Cowboy theme part of the universe =>#(It is a very big part of the universe btw) =>#He lives a few more years as an outlaw travelling from one yeehaw planet to another yeehaw planet =>#And then meets this very feral 11 year old who is on a hunt to fight her shitty ass dead beat dad=>#Lance who hasnt seen any of his friends or family in years is like 'is anyone gonna adopt this child?' and didnt wait for an answer =>#But yeah this girl is familiar and Hang On!! =>#Yeah so her dead beat dad turns out to be Keith. Now she cld be a clone (makes more sense) or result of a one night stand (funnier) =>#But point is she really wants to fucking fight him and Lance is like 'ok how about you just tell him to fuck off instead?' =>#Also Kuron is there. Lance found him and Kuron was like 'Lance you found me! It has been years dont you remember i am Shiro!!'#And Lance who has been ghosting Shiro for years is like 'no you are not?' clone revealations. Not fun. Anyway the au isnt even about that#It is about Keith's pre teen daughter who wants to kick his ass and Lance who is like please calm down kid and Kuron who is just so confuse#and they are all cowboys#lance mcclain#lance voltron#lance serrano#takashi shirogane#keith kogane#keith voltron#kuron#voltron kuron#voltron#voltron legendary defender#empty thoughts
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Let's Rewind! Toast watches Voltron: Defender of The Universe (1984)
Season 1, Episode 8: The Stolen Lion
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Training time for the princess! I'm not sure if it's canon or not, but I feel like Lance is the best flyer out of all of them, so it's nice to see that he's the one training Allura up there
Lance talking smack and still getting proved right when Allura can't hit him Why did a smack to blue's forehead send a jolt of electricity to Allura?? She's free-falling right now and that doesn't make sense
Someone else saved Allura this time! He was pretty snarky about it too when the boys finally got to her in that traction beam
Introducing Prince Bokar, I know his story, but it'll be nice to see how it plays out
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He's looking for a bride and destiny led him to Allura apparently, but she's not buying it Now she does after he says he'd never hurt her
Lance being sassy again and starting his human lie-detector streak THIS MAN IS TRYING TO GET HIS ADRENALINE ANYWHERE, FLIPPING OFF THE TOP OF RED LION LIKE THAT
"You, up there, come down!" "Alright I'm down, your high and mighty majesty" GET HIM LANCE
Nanny said she wished two young men fought over her, this is probably where the Allurance started I'm an allurance shipper but not for this voltron show so right now I'm only reacting to nanny with heavy judgement
Pidge and Hunk being the only real ones who help Lance, but Keith is just staring down Bokar for being a piece of shit LMAO
Lance making good points about Bokar travelling by himself when a prince wouldn't do that, especially if he was in search for a bride
Apparently Lance knows how a space pirate fights, more angst material for meee
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NANNY HAS NO CHILL MY GOD
Pidge learns not to insult the woman that gives him desserts, apparently he likes astrocakes which I like to think are just moonpies with a different name
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R E V E N G E
And the reveal that Bokar really is evil His plan is to kidnap Allura and blue for Zarkon, fun Oh and apparently Koba is still watching on Arus and tormenting the mice while he's at it lol
Lance is still on his rampage about Bokar being evil, he's right of course, but man is he volatile
COBRAS IN THE VENT LANCE WAKE THE FUCK UP SINCE WHEN DID LANCE HAVE A KNIFE UNDER HIS MATTRESS
Lance's room number is R110, Keith's is R112, Hunk and Pidge came out of the same room which I assume would be either R111 or R113 I like to think Pidge and Hunk were having a sleep-over holy shit it keeps switching between r110 and r112 for Lance, jfc why does animation do this
MORE COBRAS suddenly the other boys have daggers, I guess they all have em
mmmm they want prince Bokar to pilot blue, obviously it's still early one as the princess agrees that she shouldn't be in blue unless in emergency but still GROSS they haven't tested his combat flight skills, I'm very much a stickler for the rules
This is where lance's sharp shooting skill probably started, he shot at bokars arm but only to hit the cobra under his sleeve which revealed that bokar was indeed the reason why the cobras were in the castle
I don't like that the princess just faints at the sight of a cobra, I know it's a very real fear for people but still that girl has seen nightmares come alive I think she can handle a danger noodle
Alfor ex machina returns again, is alfor part of voltrons spirit?
bokar tries to threaten her to fly blue but she refuses to but keith makes the weird ass call to follow his commands maybe it's to get them out of the water
AND THEN SHE FAINTS AGAIN WHEN SHE SEES HIS ACTUAL COBRA FORM ok this one i kind of understand but goddamn girl get a GRIP
out the open head hatch he goes apparently he can glide with those cobra wings of his
Voltron when we didn't even wake up Allura? I mean I guess she's awake now but maybe make that obvious to the audience guys
Prince bokar is technically listed as a robeast, but it's just his name, he weighs 3960 short tons in his giant form though
suddenly a real lion fades in and roars as voltron is slicing bokar in half? ok i guess
Lance calling Nanny out for being superficial lmao
Allura makes a weird comment about being watched, so she doesn't get taking in by a pretty face and then almost whispers "Unless I want it to happen" girly pop what uh,,, what are you implying here
Episode end! This was a fun one, it's always interesting when the villains stop trying to be obvious and start being smart by sending in spies to get to the team instead
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Where were we? Ah, in the middle of Tenjin's attack. Our team once again split and once again is in the hall. Nevra and Mathieu have just fought kitsunes. Mathieu was spotted by sentry, and the fight broke started, but boys didnt get hurt. Nevra is mad at Mathieu but generously for me he explained what happened next, so I don't have to:
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Edgar, poor thing, is panicking, he wants to go back though portal.
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no, but he is right. Why they waited till night? Why they leave per pedes, when they have dragon here? I do not believe that even Koori is able to lead them through snow, in darkness. She was a princess, not a scout! They should fly away on Lance's back from the roof of building, anything that would put some distance between them and Tenjin's forces and let them move fast.
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And Mathieu- not that empath Erika- is calming Edgar down. He promised Edgar that everything will be fine. I wonder if it will be mentioned, because you know what happens to Edgar. I wonder if Mathieu will ever mention Edgar in ANE after that episode?
They continue. Remember when we were traveling with Chrome to Kappas' land? They reused same backgrounds, switching them every few lines of dialogue to make it seem like we progress with our journey. Wish Beemoov did same here, because reading whole pages of text with same building on a screen is... not exactly exciting. Erika finally thought about the possibility of Tenjin destroying their ship. I was first, O last of the aengels. I WAS FIRST.
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too-fucking-bad that those spells are not used on people. or during various missions in TO. Wait, maybe they didn't exist before this ep? Come one, they make up rules on the go when writing the scenario.
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So it makes two points for Erika. Still, I WAS FIRST. Erika thinks there is no plan B and they have to succed, and I just. Good people of tumblr. There should be plan C, D and even E. This is an important mission, it could end up catastrophic- breaking all bonds between guard and Genkaku, which, btw, is what happened. HH sent Lance, Nevra, Erika the Saint and Leiftan the Cripple (but it is hush hush), all her strongest men. She kept only Karenn (not strong/good enough to be a Shadow Leader), Jamon and Chrome to protect her people. I will just remind you that we have humans with machine guns walking around Eel. BTW, we are still using same background while game is talking to me about "walking through forests and plateau". Frugal.
The text is really chopped.
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It's chopped like salad.
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Which, btw, should be torn, not chopped...
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...and def. not cut.
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This makes me wanna throw myself from that 90 floor.
CLICK! Those were my teeth, when I facedesked one time too many while reading this chopped sentences they give us.
Anyway, change of background. Yay. Erika admits that it's 10-metres visibility. And they picked mountains route. Good luck.
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Wow, a chance to change my LoM with Leiftan. I have already got 100% with Leiftan, but decided against asking him for help in case it will make him hate me forever. Beemoov taught me well in this case. Erika showed once again that she doesn't know her man: Leiftan would never "freak out" and started screaming at her, or- in this situation- at anybody. He was always portrayed in TO as professional, and he lost his nerve only when facing losing Erika or Erika's love. Erika decides to put on her shield (wasn't it glowing? in the darkness? when there is ambush awaiting for them? without asking her leader if he is ok with it? Go on girl, prove to me that you are indeed the Dumb Sister). Famous last words? here:
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About that part of the road that was very hard for all of the party to pass:
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And Lance transports them above the peak or whatever it was. In small groups, because. Beemoov, a piece of advice: next game let your artists discuss details with writers because IT MAKES NO SENSE. You draw Lance in his dragon form as huge, majestic creature that could take 6 people without a sweat, and yet it is impossible in your story.
Anyway.
The ambush. Shield worked, btw, but still, me thinks that Erika the Dumbass should have discussed things with Nevra. Oh? Nevra mentions that she should tell him. Point for Nevra.
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They are jumping off the cliff. Allow me once again:
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Is it because of Gardienne's shield (so everyone should be close to it) or did HH told Nevra she has some plans for her and needs her to be alive? (still hoping for villain HH).
Kitsunes await us near the boat. The backgrounds in night are marvelous in ANE:
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... and he pulls out the sword. I guess they abandoned any thought on diplomatic mission on those grounds in next century? As @heyseihai mentioned, the Guard in TO wasn't allowed to intervene if not asked. Sure, it could have changed after Crystal BS, but it would be nice and necessary to mention it. Because it changes whole dynamic between Eldarya lands and Eel Guard.
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goddamnit. you have word limits and you waste it on THIS and stappler?
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I know, I know. She has done well with shield, it worked, and it is shame that neither Nevra, Lance nor Mathieu thought about asking her to do it. But still, it's Erika, the weakest link in any chain!
BTW suddenly Nevra asks everyone to protect Edgar. Nice, but I still remember him wanting to leave Edgar behind. Probably bad writing, but with smarter plot it would mean that Nevra realized Edgar was a source of informations about present time Earth. Or a snack to send home to mommy dearest.
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Edgar is not buying this. Same Edgar, same.
Nevra reminds us why we are here (not to fight, but to get to safety of our ship), and I will stop for a moment: why exactly we are here? What was the point of this mission? To take samples of portal? Well, one Shadow stealthy spy could have done it. Why take Koori? Why they didn't fly on Lance to Orodruina Mountain?
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And then Tenjin attacks. Honestly, I do not understand why now and here. Kitsunes should have attacked ouour group during mountains' crossing, grab Koori and run. So far Guardmen didn't break deal with Tenjin (that 24 hours deal), and well, Koori's case should be discussed with HH. If Guard was somewhat competent and strong what he has done should doomed his dynasty and kingdom. Unless the rule of "no intervention unless asked" from TO is still in the air. Then- WOops, HH.
Erika did quite well during fight, Edgar...
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Mah baby!
BTW... To a person who wrote battle scene: stop. Do not drink and write. You try to make a dramatic build up for Edgar to die, to lull us into false belief that the worst is behind us. But for ffs don't do it like this! These are adult plp, how can I treat Erika seriously when she is bragging about defeating three opponents IN THE MIDDLE OF BATTLEFIELD!!? she got a task of protecting Edgar, and yet she wastes time on screaming to him "not bad huh?". Beemoov, she was suposed to be an adult, not a 14 years old teen.
You know what I like? I like that they made Lance being just very powerful. Able to fight many opponents and survive, but not making him superman. HOWEVER, it clashes with what they said so far in TO and ANE. They made dragons being a god-likes, so him almost losing to turkeys is laughable.
Erika tries to intimidate Tenjin, only to be totally ignored. She could have try to put that shield on Koori and Edgar and cry for help? Could work better? It was a bit sad that Tenjin didn't pay any attention to her trying to be girlboss and everything.
Koori uses her powers in the best way: she trapped Erika in an illusion, caused Mathieu to halucinate and wander aimlessly. It worked on some Tenjin's troupes too but at what cost? What a dumb bitch. They really should have left her in Eel or at least discuss what everyone CAN and SHOULD do during emergency.
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^ that's Mathieu's state. He is surrounded by enemies, delirious. Well done, Koori. Anyway, woot woot ANOTHER CHOICE! I screamed for Leiftan's help, Nevra got hurt, Lance saved the Mathieu:
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... and wtf. Koori didn't throw away stones. No one will mention it, right? And she will make huge party next episode, like her decision didn't make this fight more difficult, like Edgar didn't die? OH, but Pretty Princesses cannot do wrong in eldarya (unless they are Miiko, they couldn't be that obvious with Miko's self insert).
Anyway, Tenjin was behind u on a battlefield, but suddenly he is in front of us, standing on our the way to a boat. And then he screams to withdraw, no doubts- into the ocean. I cannot imagine topography of this battlefield. But the deed is done- Edgar is dead, killed by Tenhin who suddenly decided to notice our Erika. Could be nice to have a good healer, right? Or someone with shield (well, years of playing cleric in BG have changed me). BTW, Mathieu DID remember about his promise to Edgar:
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Erika is shocked. She keep on repeating how she promised Edgar that everything will be fine. See, that could and should give us a moment of awareness that Eldarya is NOT a nice world, and that Erika is NOT an important person here, at least not really. That splendor, her own statue and status of semi-goddess means nothing next to corpse of someone whom she failed. Erika had lead a very save and sheltered life on Earth so this could be a moment when she starts missing her previous life, when no one near her died murdered by psychopath. And either she will mourn her "innocence" or try to get stronger for real. Alas, we wont' get this development. On a boat:
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Spoilers: it won't, and what report? All you have are your guesses. You do not have any evidence but samples from one portal. You didn't even manage to bring a witness, who in theory, could have had some infos of what is happening on Earth. You broke and ties with Genkaku, got your leader hurt. You failed on all levels. This mission was a failure.
Also, Beemoov should have made Leiftan fight with weapon only. Nevra would still be mad about him not using powers, but at least that would make sense. FFS, Tenjin almost killed Erika! What was the point of Leiftan going for the mission? How he wanted to protect Erika? He is a warrior, he can fight without his powers! Now, back to horny Erika:
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Wait, did I miss something? I always picked lines that were closest to "I want to be with you", why is Erika so surprised? Did they switched writers again in the middle of... first half of season? Did the writer lose their notes? Why is Erika so shocked that man she was in love with, is still dear to her? Theory that Erika got colonized by Crystal, is no longer a "living" creature and thus human emotions are now quite alien to her- intensifies.
The ending and Erika's thoughts about Leiftan are written by someone who knows TO just from summaries: how is Leiftan gentle? Why is MY Gardienne, who was in an intimate relationship with him for months admits to herself that he is, indeed, quite attractive? WHOLE ANE IS WRITTEN SOLELY FOR NEW PLAYERS. For them was an info about Nevra avoiding fighting, prioritizing stealth. For them Erika has now epiphany about her lover being hot, and forgetting that he was a bloody murderer, who semi-faked his friendly persona. (No wonder he is awkwardly looking into ocean, he hears her thoughts after all. )
Someone in Beemoov at the end of this episode:
quickly, we have to add some SEXXXXX to keep our games "mature", and what is better than making our MC do this
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Yes, that's always the best course when a man dies next to you. I will keep it in mind when I will go back to work.
THE END THANKS THE FUCKS.
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Camlann, except no one is being held back by stupid destinies;
Merlin manages to keep Morgana and Mordred on the side of the light, which has a few rather influential knock-on effects.
Morgause leads her army onto the barren fields of Camlann, her hair and eyes wild, but her sword and focus sharp. Opposite stands her traitor sister’s half brother, the Boy-King of Camelot, surrounded by his precious knights. Today, they would all die, she would make certain of that.
Arthur struggles to keep his hands from trembling, he’s well aware that this battle will likely be his, and subsequently Camelot’s, downfall, but his nerves are settled slightly by Merlin’s comforting presence at his side. Which he feels immensely guilty at. 
He’d done his best to urge Merlin to run, to take Gwen and Gaius and maybe even Morgana, to go to Ealdor to pick up his mother and run even further, just in case. Merlin had refused of course; Gwen and Morgana had squawked at Arthur’s stupid chivalry and planted their feet firmly in the throne room, a symbolic last line of defence, and Gaius rolled his eyes and reaffirmed that he would be in the infirmary tent, as planned. 
He’d given his men his speech and they all seemed content to die for the cause, for one last desperate attempt to keep their home safe, but that didn’t stop the freezing claw of guilt from shredding Arthur’s lungs every time he took a breath. They were just waiting now. For someone to make the first move, for Morgause to get a little closer, for someone to send a messenger. 
Arthur’s broken from his stare when a warm, soft, steady hand takes his gently. His head whips to the side to see Merlin, stood without armour (oh, how The King despaired) staring at him with a slight frown. A frown, Arthur thinks, that should be much deeper, and much more afraid. He’s grateful it isn’t. He’s not sure he could cope with seeing Merlin scared:
“Arthur, if... if I knew a way to win this, once and for all, with not a drop of Camelot blood spilt... would you let me?”
It takes Arthur a few moments to process what Merlin had said, on account of his brain focusing on how grateful he is to hear his voice and feel the warmth of his hand instead of actually listening to him speak, but when he does, he copies his servant’s frown, though his is slightly more confused. He doesn’t let go of Merlin’s hand as he responds, instead tightening his grip:
“What on Earth are you talking about?”
Merlin gulps and looks away briefly, a look of guilt if Arthur ever saw one, but he finds he doesn’t really care. They’re all about to die, he’d forgive Merlin anything:
“If I could win this battle, and the war, right here, right now. Would you let me?-”
At Arthur’s continued perplexed look, Merlin rolls his eyes and huffs, smirking slightly as he adds on:
“-Just humour me.”
Arthur gulps, glancing towards the slowly advancing army before once again squeezing Merlin’s hand and looking back at him:
“It would... depend on the consequences, I suppose. Would you get hurt?”
Merlin shakes his head, then stops, and tilts it sideways as though he’s considering something he’d really rather not think about. He can’t meet Arthur’s gaze as he responds:
“I... might need a few hours to rest, afterwards, but any... long term consequences would depend on your reaction.”
Arthur recoils slightly at that, frown deepening as he shakes his head, completely oblivious to the keen listening ears of his six most loyal knights, and another, hidden towards the back of the group. If he’d turned to see them, Arthur would’ve noticed the blank looks of steely determination on Lancelot and Mordred’s faces:
“Well we would never have to worry about that. I... I could never see you hurt, Merlin.”
The King’s voice cracks as he mentions Merlin getting hurt, and the servant’s gaze softens, knowing that Arthur was thinking of their inevitable demise, creeping closer and closer. He squeezes his hand, giving him a soft smile as his other hand lifts up to rest on his shoulder; his question comes out soft and pleading:
“Do you trust me?”
Arthur has to use all of his self control not to yell his answer across Camlann:
“More than anyone.”
Merlin smiles sadly and steps back, dropping both of his still-steady hands to his sides; Arthur feels the gap between them more heavily than he feels the armour on his back. Merlin goes to turn away without another word, but before he can take even one step, a figure is pushing through to the front, gripping his wrist and pulling him back:
“I’m coming too.”
Arthur’s eyes go comically large as he hears Morgana’s voice come from under the hood. He steps forward to rip it down, and she only spares him an annoyed glance before she’s back to staring purposefully at Merlin. A gasp goes up around the group from all bar two, and Mordred dismounts his horse, walking forward to be in line with Morgana. The three of them entirely ignore Arthur’s outraged words:
“Morgana, what the hell are you doing here? You need to be safe at the castle, you’re meant to take the crown what the hell are you doing here?!”
Merlin meets Morgana’s determined glare with a resigned one of his own:
“No, this is my-”
Mordred interrupts him, his voice strong in a way that Arthur had never heard from the youngest knight before:
“No. No, it’s not. You’re not just fighting for Camelot, Merlin, you’re fighting or us, for our people.”
Merlin looks like he wants to argue, but Morgana crosses her arms and holds her head high as she speaks:
“You’re making a stand and you have no right to stop us from doing the same. This is bigger than you, bigger than all three of us, this is our fight just as much as it is yours.”
Merlin can only hold their stare for so long before he sighs and looks to the floor, entirely oblivious to the knights panicking (bar Lancelot, of course). He looks up with a small, relaxed smile on his face, and if Arthur weren’t so preoccupied with the fact that Morgana was definitely not supposed to be here, he would’ve found Merlin’s almost-nonchalance calming. The servant holds both his hands out:
“Together?”
Mordred grins widely, taking one of Merlin’s wrists as he responds confidently:
“For Camelot.”
Morgana does the same, a sudden wind whipping her hair behind her wildly:
“For our people.”
Without another moment’s of hesitation, Merlin turns and marches towards Morgause and her army. His steps are purposeful and strong, and Arthur can’t bring himself to stop him, no matter how desperately his brain is screaming at him. Morgana turns to him with a not-quite-cruel smirk:
“This has been a long time coming, brother. Enjoy the show.”
Arthur can only blink in surprise as she turns and walks towards Merlin. Mordred looks to him next, though the young knight’s smile is a lot softer, a lot more pitying:
“You should consider yourself lucky, Arthur,-”
Arthur barely registers the use of his first name:
“-my Lord gave up his throne in favour of serving you, buried his crown in favour of polishing yours.”
Arthur shakes his head slightly, his voice quiet and confused and strained as he asks:
“Your Lord?”
Mordred looks to Merlin, still marching across the seemingly never-ending field, with an awed smile; his voice is quiet and holds notes of what almost sound like worship:
“He’s more than you know.”
Before Arthur can respond, Merlin and Morgana stop, turning to look at Mordred expectantly. Merlin stares blankly, his brows slightly furrowed, but Morgana sports a wild grin as she yells back:
“I though you wanted to join in on the fun, Mordred?”
The young knight grins in response, turning to Arthur and giving him one last short bow as he cheerfully says, not a trace of worry in his voice:
“Lady Morgana is right My Lord, enjoy the show.”
He turns away quickly, jogging to catch up with the other two before anyone can say anything. Gwaine is the first to react, jumping off his horse and starting forward, to catch up with them, to pull them back, to ask them what the fuck was going on, but Lance quickly lands behind him, grabbing his shoulder:
“Wait, don’t. You trust them right?-”
He casts his gaze around the others, all looking slightly confused but mostly panicked as they dismount their horses. Mordred, Merlin, and Morgana make their journey to the centre of the field, but Lancelot’s eyes focuses on Arthur:
“-You said you trusted him, so just... this is what he does, Arthur. Please, just trust him, everything’s going to be ok.”
Arthur is desperate to question his knight, to demand that he explain what’s going on and give up anything, everything he knows, but before he can say anything, Elyan gasps and points somewhere beyond their friends. The whole army seems to resume their earlier jitters as Morgause differentiates herself from her soldiers.
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The three magic users spread out slightly as they come to a stop, Mordred on the left, Morgana on the right, and Merlin, of course, in the middle.
A storm seems to be fast approaching and the loud wind makes hearing each other difficult, but they don’t need words to speak, and Mordred’s question echoes in Merlin’s head as all of their gazes focus on Morgause stepping forward:
“Are the other two coming?”
The Warlock nods, tapping his finger to his temple briefly as he replies:
“I called for them hours ago, they’re almost-”
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Arthur is distracted from all that’s in front of him when a desperate and terrified voice screeches out from the back of his army:
“DRAGONS!!”
He, and all the other knights, whip their heads around in panic, only to see exactly what had been yelled about. The Dragon that Arthur had supposedly killed years ago is flying towards them like a hurricane, golden scales shining bright even in the shadows of the approaching storm. Next to him flies a much smaller dragon, pure white and clearly young, unstable in the air but still graceful, still terrifying.
Arthur’s heart sinks even impossibly further as they both fly straight over them, aiming for the other side of the field. If Morgause had two Dragons at her beck and call somehow, there was no hope, no matter what ridiculous plan Merlin had. Arthur felt the tears fill his eyes, but he didn’t let them fall. If this was to end in fire, then he’d sprint to Merlin, just so he could see him, hold his hands, beg him for a smile, one last time.
Lancelot holds him back with a hand on his shoulder and a soft smile:
“I know this doesn’t make sense, but just... trust him.”
He turns back to Merlin just to see the great beasts land in front of them, almost acting as a barrier between the three of them and the opposing army.
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“-Took you long enough.”
Kilgharrah does his best imitation of rolled eyes before dipping his head in a bow:
“Where would you like us, young Warlock?”
Merlin grins, allowing Aithusa to push her head into his hands as he answers:
“I want you somewhere off to the side looking vaguely threatening. Only intervene if you have to, I don’t want the Camelot knights getting twitchy and skewering you, you’re an old man after all, I’m not sure you could take it.-”
Morgana laughs aloud and Mordred snorts behind his hand, but Kilgharrah just rolls his eyes again, giving another bow that this time somehow seems sarcastic before clomping off to the side, prowling up and down the edge of the field and huffing the occasional puffs of smoke in the opposition’s direction. Merlin looks down to Aithusa next, scratching her chin and using a much softer voice:
“Go watch over Arthur, keep him safe but don’t let him or any of the others hurt you, I’m sure Lance will explain. Try to stay out of the fighting and don’t let Morgause get anywhere near Arthur or the knights, you understand?”
The creature purrs and nods, stepping around her master and beginning an impossibly fast sprint towards Arthur.
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Arthur stares with wide eyes at the gathering in the middle of the field, letting out a deep breath when the Great Dragon bows down to Merlin’s confident stance. The smaller creature bounds to him as he... exchanges words with the beasts, and all Arthur can do is stare as his brain argues over which emotion should be at the forefront. Fear? Confusion? Betrayal? Some kind of guilt? Pride, maybe?
Lancelot definitely looks proud, worried, but proud, and Arthur spares him a questioning glance; before he can say anything, Leon lets out a quiet yelp, pointing across the field and drawing his sword on instinct. Arthur whips his head around to see the white Dragon speeding towards them, eyes bright, teeth bared, and sharp claws ripping up the ground with every step.
He draws his own sword, panic clawing at his gut, but before he can step forward in some pointless attempt to protect his men, Lancelot pulls him back again, stepping in between Arthur and the approaching Dragon with a placating hand held out to each of them; his voice comes out quickly and desperate:
“No, no, she’s on our side, don’t hurt her. Merlin sent her here to protect us, don’t hurt her.”
Arthur stares between them with a mix of blood-curdling fear and endless confusion. But he trusts Merlin, and he trusts Lancelot, so much to Leon’s displeasure he lowers his sword, though he doesn’t sheath it, not yet.
The Dragon finally reaches them, coming to a skidding stop a few feet away. Arthur’s fear is overpowered by confusion, and an odd fondness in the back of his mind, when the creature almost topples over in it’s haste. She purrs loudly, and even Leon appears to relax slightly, even more so when she dips her head in what appears to be a bow to Arthur, before turning her attention to Lancelot and pushing her face into his hands.
The other knights all start forward on instinct, but when Lance lets out a low chuckle and begins... scratching the creature’s chin?? They step back again, watching as the Dragon begins purring even louder, almost bowling Lancelot over as it rubs it’s scaled body across his legs. It’s... acting like a cat...
Gwaine coughs very deliberately and Lancelot looks up with a blush, biting his lip before saying, his words awkward and stilted:
“Uh... guys, this is Aithusa, she’s... a Dragon. She can’t speak yet, but-”
Percival makes a confused noise in the back of his throat, shaking his head with wide eyes as he asks incredulously:
“Dragons are meant to be able to speak??”
Lancelot grimaces, but nods, but before he can say anything, Morgause’s crazed voice echoes over the field, and their attention is drawn back to the face off between Merlin, Morgana, Mordred, and the enemy.
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“You can not beat me, not even with your precious pets!!”
The gang can hear Kilgharrah’s low growl at the insult and the sound vibrates across the ground and up into their very bones, even with the distance between them. Aithusa tenses in response, eyes narrowed and teeth bared as she detects the anger and insult swarming in her Kin, but Merlin holds a hand out to the Great Dragon, and both creatures relax as he monotonously responds:
“I’m giving you one chance, Morgause, do not send your followers to a pointless death.”
His tone is even and confident, his back straight, his head held high, and Arthur wonders how he’d never noticed Merlin’s obvious power before. Despite speaking normally, his voice is heard by everyone, even over the howling wind.
The knights can see Morgause’s hands shaking in her rage, her eyes wide and bright golden as she screeches her response, her anger showing through clearly:
“I am no coward!! You are nothing but a servant, a child soldier, and a pampered princess! What hope do you have against me?! I am a High Priestess, you are nothing!!!”
Merlin lowers his head, nodding slightly in resigned sadness. His muttered words, once again, somehow seem to echo across the field, and Arthur recoils at the grief in his tone:
“So be it.”
He slowly lifts his arm, holding it at a forty-five degree angle from the ground, his fingers splayed wide, and Elyan gasps, pointing wordlessly to the lightening dancing between his fingertips. Gwaine lets out a boisterous laugh, grinning as he realises with sudden clarity that Merlin is about to kick ass in a major way.
Arthur just gapes, struggling to process what was happening even as Gwaine whoops and Lancelot smiles proudly. The other knights are also staring, varying levels of confusion, awe, and happiness on their faces. 
From where they’re standing, they can see Mordred and Morgana get into a fighting stance, though neither of them draw the swords they have hanging from their hips. Morgause lets out an ear piercing screech, this one wordless, giving the distinct impression that her mind had snapped under the weight of her fury. Her army begins their march forwards as she hurls a fireball the size of a horse straight for Merlin, but he simply twists his wrist sharply forwards. A bolt of lightening rips down from the sky, intercepting the fireball and forcing it to the ground where it explodes in a miniature storm of silver sparks and golden flames.
Morgause screams again, her and her army speeding up in their approach as Merlin gives some sort of unseen command. All of a sudden, Mordred gives a small leap forward, planting his feet firmly as he thrusts his hands towards the ground before ripping them up again; with the movement, the ground at his feet explodes, vines and rocks and roots bursting from the field in a sharp line heading straight for the army. Morgana, at the same time, swirls her arms gracefully around her head, a few sparks of fire lighting up in the darkness as if from the friction between her hands and the air. She brings her arms down again, completing the elegant flow, stepping forward as she blows harshly into her cupped hands. A great, hot fire bursts forth, huge and angry and writhing as it shoots towards the enemy.
A few feeble counter attacks are thrown from Morgause and the sorcerers she has in her ranks, but ultimately, the army can only look on in horror at their approaching deaths. After a few moments of Merlin staring proudly at Mordred and Morgana’s handy work as it rips apart the first few hundred soldiers, he takes his own step forward, raising his arm to the sky. Lightening dances between just his fingertips at first, then down his arm, then all over his body; he connects to the flashes in the sky, and he glows brighter and brighter until he thrusts both arms forward. A tornado of flashing, crackling light shoots out from his hands, striking down thousands of soldiers. Shards of lightening jump from enemy to enemy, leaving none untouched by magic, each being struck down by Mordred’s earth, Morgana’s fire, or Merlin’s sky.
The Camelot army can only stare on in shock and horror as the enemy is wiped out in minutes, screams of those being buried alive, burned as if on pyres, or fried from the inside out reverberating across the field. Arthur’s mouth hangs open, his eyes wide and frozen on Merlin as he conducts lightening as if it were what he was born to do. Something deep in Arthur’s soul tells him that this is what he was born to do.
Aithusa’s protection isn’t required; none of the enemy soldiers get within ten metres of Merlin and his pupils, let alone Arthur and the other knights, but she patrols the front edge of Camelot’s army regardless, nudging back those that step too far forward (everyone was too focused on The King’s manservant, knight, and half sister being... well... Godlike, to care about the fact that a Dragon was using her snout to gently push people around), always with one eye on Arthur, just like her master had asked.
Within minutes, the field goes almost silent; the only sounds to be heard are the gentle crackling of still-smouldering bodies, and the deep breaths of Morgause, Mordred, Morgana, and Arthur. Merlin seems entirely unbothered, his stance still strong and powerful where Mordred and Morgana sag slightly from the exertion.
Morgause falls to her knees, tears on her cheeks as she finally realises the power that she’s up against; Merlin tilts his head slightly before clicking his fingers. The four of them disappear in clouds of deep black smoke and Arthur struggles to stop himself from yelping and falling back when they reappear in front of him.
Morgause is still kneeling, Merlin in front of her with a blank expression on his face. Morgana stands to the side, her face an odd mix of sorrowfully defeated—Morgause was her sister after all—and vindictively victorious. Mordred stands at her shoulder, looking a lot more tired but still managing to stay upright as he gazes upon the scene with well put together indifference. Aithusa bounds over to be stood at her master’s side, and even Kilgharrah joins them, standing behind Aithusa a way’s off.
Morgause finally speaks through her deep breathing, staring up at Merlin in desperation:
“Who are you?”
Merlin just tilts his head and frowns slightly, crouching down to place a soft hand on her shoulder:
“Who do you think?”
Morgause sags even further, her tears streaming down her face as she almost whispers, her voice cracking:
“Emrys.”
Merlin nods slowly, looking to Arthur for the first time since the whole ordeal started. Arthur is taken aback at the shining gold of his eyes, but holds his gaze, gulping and waiting for his servant (?) to make the first move:
“Your orders, My Lord?”
Arthur takes a deep breath, looking first down at Morgause, who is staring at the floor blankly, then to Mordred and Morgana, who raise eyebrows at him, then Lancelot, who shrugs, and finally the other knights, who stare at him with wide eyes, waiting for his answer just as Merlin is. His hands clench at his side, but he looks back to the dark-haired man, his face determined and his voice strong:
“Your suggestion?”
Lancelot nods approvingly at Arthur’s obvious show of trust; the question is more than just a question, it’s a display that The King is treating Merlin like an advisor, asking for his counsel and trusting his allegiance in front of a crowd. Merlin smiles slightly, tightening his grip on Morgause’s shoulder, not that she notices:
“I’m not overly fond of execution, but we don’t have dungeons strong enough to hold her long term, and too many have suffered at her hand.”
Arthur nods, though he sheathes his sword. He takes a deep breath before his next instruction, knowing that this is... delicate, and important; a turning point in his Kingdom’s history:
“Make it merciful.”
Merlin holds in his proud smile and Morgause only has time to gasp quietly as his hand moves from her shoulder to her forehead. Her eyes roll back and she collapses to the floor, dead before she even hits the ground. 
The Warlock spares the dead witch a quick, pitying glance, and the grief in his eyes, even after all she had done, is endearing, reminding everyone around them of the compassion Merlin is capable of. He stands quickly, but is careful not to make any of his moves too sudden, stepping away from the body and towards Arthur. His stance is strong once again, allowing some before unseen authority, confidence, power to shine through; Mordred and Morgana take their places either side of them, and even Aithusa sits up, tall and proud, as Kilgharrah edges forward slightly.
This is Merlin, showing off his army, presenting it to his King, offering it up for judgment. An army consisting of himself, his two apprentices, and two Dragons; not large, but likely the most powerful the land has ever known, and ever will know.
Arthur gulps, but meets Merlin’s golden gaze. The atmosphere is thick and charged and The King couldn’t pinpoint whether it was from the residual lightening still jumping between Merlin’s fingers, or the sheer power that was just displayed, seemingly effortlessly. He glances over the Warlock’s shoulder at the carnage behind him and can’t help but take a deep, fortifying breath. Merlin tilts his head, glancing at the massacre for just a moment before looking back with an almost repentant smile:
“I apologise for the theatrics,-”
He’s interrupted by Morgana’s whispered murmur of “I don’t, that was brilliant.” but ignores her:
“-but I can... fix that. If you like?”
Arthur frowns slightly, confused and so far out of his comfort zone that he doesn’t even want to hazard a guess at what Merlin might be implying. He feels a mould grow spontaneously in his gut, a horror with spores that spread throughout his bloodstream as he realises that... he doesn’t really know anything about magic, about how it works, about how Merlin is offering to use it. It had yet to occur to him to be afraid of Merlin, but the sudden realisation that he’d been persecuting his servant’s people with no real understanding of his own former hatred was... jarring.
The Warlock sees Arthur’s hesitation, widening his reassuring smile slightly as he repeats an earlier question, from a time that felt as though it had come years before, but was really only minutes. The discrepancy in timelines between Arthur’s head and the real world does not alter the King’s answer
“Do you trust me?”
“More than anyone.”
Merlin closes his eyes, holding his hands out to the side slightly as he lets out a deep breath. The storm, which Arthur and the knights had become entirely oblivious of despite it’s ruinous thunder and blinding flashes of lightening, quickly dissipates; blue sky and bright sun peek through the fading clouds. A gold shimmer ripples out across the ground from Merlin’s feet, spreading backwards like a wave over sand, turning pebbles and leaving the beach clean and fresh in it’s wake. The ground clears, bodies sinking into nothingness and fires being smothered by magic, even Morgause disappears into the dirt. 
Arthur absentmindedly thinks that that could be seen as honorary or disgracing; he supposes it depends on what type of person you were before the end of your life. Merlin would see being entombed within the Earth itself as a blessing, he somehow thinks that Morgause, with her God complex and inflated feelings of infallibility, would find it... demeaning.
Merlin sags his head slightly, and when Arthur’s brain comes back into focus, mostly prompted by the gasping and widespread whispers of the uneasy army behind him, he sees that the barren fields of Camlann, soaked with blood and scorched by lightening, no longer exist. In their place was a vast meadow, bright with the colours of spring and summer; untameable wildflowers stood tall and crimson butterflies were the only reminders of the bloodshed that had watered this paradise before them.
Arthur feels the smile on his face before he had even made the conscious decision to smile, but he decides that today, of all days, he doesn’t mind accidentally wearing his heart on his sleeve. Trust Merlin to do something as unspeakable as rip an army to shreds with lightening, and then apologise for his dramatics by creating heaven on earth.
The King sighs before shaking his head slightly, letting out a short, disbelieving laugh. He can feel the sun on his skin, and his smile grows with the knowledge that the heat warming his cheeks was entirely unnatural for this time of year; Merlin really was pulling out all of the stops.
“You’re a gift to this world, Merlin.”
His voice comes out softly, as if he were afraid of ruining the peace, though he only adds to it; The King finally turns to his Warlock again and almost stumbles back at the immeasurable devotion shining from his now-blue-again eyes. His whispered response carries on the wind as if he were a part of it, and Arthur wonders just how much of this world Merlin has touched, just how much of this universe Merlin has created, extended himself to. Did the wind exist before Merlin? Did the sun? Did butterflies, or lightening, or the colour gold have any space in this universe before Merlin willed it? Gaius’ thick books say they have an answer, but Arthur thinks they might be lying:
“A gift to you, Arthur, only to you.”
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THE END!
I’ve been looking forward to writing this one for a while, so I hope y’all liked it!! I LOVE writing BAMF!Merlin, (and BAMF!Mordred/Morgana as well so) :D
Same as always, you wanna extend it/write it properly/remix it, then that’s fine, but drop me message before hand and credit/tag me!! :)
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szecretary · 3 years
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thoughts on voltron: legendary defender, season one, first five episodes. this will be like witnessing your mom watch a show for the youngins and being confused the entire time. 
warning for spoilers, obviously, but idk what for because i’m later to this show than the alteans were to the war.
i almost closed netflix bc i saw that the first episode is one hour long wh-
this is how shiro is introduced? harsh. but i like that in the first few minutes, the galra are already established as a force to be reckoned with.
first scene with lance, hunk and pidge, already showing their dynamic and their current situation! also, lol, lance getting told "you're only here because the best pilot in your class had a discipline issue" way to create tension between characters, keith isn't even there and we already know lance kind of hates him.
i like hunk he reminds me of po from kung fu panda hehe
what's pidge's thing with the kerberos mission? he seems very very invested in it, even for a character that science oriented.
OH IT'S KEITH. man i'm actually really impressed with the character introductions in this first episode, they're so clever and very effective, they show the most important facts about the person without slowing down.
keith really lived alone in that desert cabin for however long huh
where's the cat going
oh the cat went home, neat.
i love how at this point it seems that only blue chose its paladin, for the rest of them allura did a personality assessment off first impressions and assigned the rest of the lions, she really said "the bond cannont be forced... by anyone except for me" ma'am these are 5 random people from earth.
apart from that, i'm loving how intuitive piloting is with the lions!
lol lance fully killed some people there
listen if pidge doesn't turn out to be related to the people in the kerberos mission... just :( the way he reacted to shiro quoting the commander? there's no way he doesn't know them.
"go. be great." SHUT UP 😭
blue woke up yesterday and she's already getting beat up give it a rest it's been 10.000 years.
FUCK OFF SENDAK. I know of you, you lame ass excuse for an antagonist.
shiro i love you that's all i have to say.
THE COMMANDER IS PIDGE'S FATHER I KNEW IT HHHHH
the mice are so cute i can't believe allura is a fairytale princess with animal sidekicks.
YEAH GIANT HERO ROBOT!
ok second episode let's go:
this druid lady has a very cool character design, not sure what's her point in the story tho
pidge when are you gonna tell us your secret?
third episode!
it's really not fair how cool shiro is, paladin of the black lion, and "the champion"
oh no, shiro was forced to fight for galra entertainment? mmmmm yeah why not i love pain and suffering.
the little people who live on arus are very cute.
i'm sure shiro only attacked pidge's brother to keep him from fighting the gladiator don't be mad pidge :(
oh so the thing was the same gladiator, makes sense.
OH PIDGE'S NAME IS KATIE she's matt's sister this makes so much sense, i'm very sad, i can't wait to know her story.
ok episode four, the iconic failed team cheer i used to see on twitter.
the way lance pronounced varadero beach made me want to cry but at least it's the first mention of anything related to cuba, so i'll take it.
why'd they already beat up lance gdi give the boy a break.
episode five, i'm stressed.
NOT THE FLASHBACKS I CAN'T KEEP IT TOGETHER :(
kerberos mission: takashi shirogane, and samuel and matthew holt :(
pidge you are such a badass you have my heart too, also it's so sweet how rover has like a little personality.
"hasta la later, keith" MAKE IT STOP
(but ok that does sound like something i would say to be annoying)
hunk and bolin from legend of korra would be such good bros you can't change my mind.
ok the galra are the bad guys but they have style, "nothing stops me but triumph, and death" that's cool.
THAT FLYING ROBOT BETTER COME BACK OR ELSE.
damn even the mice have a kill count everyone has a kill count.
love lance waking up only to shoot a bad guy and then dramatically faint again, maybe he has hispanic heritage after all, he has the flare.
"we are a good team" hell yeah you are buddy.
final thought on the first five episodes: honestly? i’m impressed, the pacing is great, the characters are well defined and they all get their little moments to shine. loved the pidge focus on episode five, and i’m very excited too see what happens next. that’ll have to wait because i haven’t slept and now my brain is repeating that voltron forming sequence they play EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
rest of season one liveblog.
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fizzingwizard · 3 years
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OK gang here we go, episode 33!
It was better than last week, which was better than the week before, so... make of that what you will.
Pic of the week!
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A look of steely Dan determination.
More below!
Like I said, this episode is an improvement on the last one, by virtue of plot stuff actually happening, a few big happenings, and references to the other kids that suggest they haven’t been completely forgotten about (only mostly). Don’t get excited though - it still leaves much to be desired. I cry endlessly for the animation budget. But let’s get into it...
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Taichi and friends are still in pursuit of SkullKnightmon and Hikari. We found our for sure last week that the creature in the little crystal is, indeed, Millenniumon, or rather a fragment of him, and his fragments fell all around the Digital World at the end of the great war or whatever it’s called and they’re the source of the miasma and they absorb energy from the human world etc etc...
So we find this big ass crystal which seems to be the central one, I guess? because it’s the biggest? and several creepy looking acolytes (dun dun DUN it’s VADEMON my FAVORITE DIGIMON) surrounding it and chanting...
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Vademon: Find the horcux, kill Harry Potter, find the horcrux, kill Harry Potter,
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In other news, there’s a lot of doom and gloom happening with Jou, who, bereft of his underwear, is forced to censor himself with his partners head. Gomamon you don’t deserve this
Jou: I need to get away from these Nanimon before I go prematurely bald too!!
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Mimi, meanwhile, is Boxing Champion of the World.
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Koushirou is the only one working. He’s on his way to pick up Jou, so I guess that means Yamato will get Mimi? That’ll be fun lol. We saw Yamato for half a second but it was the same frame of him riding Garurumon we’ve seen five times already so why bother capping it.
Koushirou is also keeping an eye on the satellite situation but doesn’t know what to do about it yet. Kabuterimon asks if he shouldn’t take a break about now and Koushirou says “I’m okay, besides, this is the only thing I’m good for” T___T you know this would be heart-breaking if I really believed the writers have ACTUAL PLANS to make good on Koushirou-related character development.... >:[
no this honestly pisses me off so much but I STILL do believe we will get SOMETHING for him and the others and probably not too far in the future... I think... I hope ugh
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Back to Team A, they see lots of Digimon coming at them. Taichi’s like “it’s an attack!” but Sora, whose Fight Mode unlike Taichi’s has an actual Off switch, is about to figure out that they are in fact not interested in the kids at all and are running away from something.
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Taichi: I can’t believe they didn’t want to kill us. Doesn’t everything in this world want to kill us?
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The Digimon are fleeing from a suspicious crater with a familiar stone in the center. SkullKnightmon raises his own crystal fragment into the air and stuff happens.
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By stuff I mean black lightning and purple-blue light which is meant to signify Evil which is mega DUMB because blue and purple are the most awesome color combo EVER I mean it throw some turquoise in there too and I will buy it whatever it is a necklace a shawl a codpiece
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There are eight crystals that rise from the ground surrounding the central crystal and share energy with it. I thought the number eight might be significant you know for obvious reasons but it doesn’t appear to matter in this episode.
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Evil crystals or not, Taichi’s on his way to save Hikari once and for all!
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Hikari: Thanks, but no thanks, oniichan.
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Taichi: H-Hikari! You don’t understand! You’re too young to go off with a strange man!
Hikari: But oniichan I love him
Taichi: Who do you think I am, Tevye!? You’re not marrying him and that’s final!
Hikari: waaah why don’t you understand me!!
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ok back to the story...
Hikari abandons her brother for his muscular studly lover SkullKnightmon.
... >_>
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Using Hikari’s powers, SkullKnightmon evolves to Gundamon DarkKnightmon. Meanwhile there’s lots of chanting and stuff about this being SkullKnightmon’s purpose or some such. I still kinda hope we get a redemption arc for SkullKnightmon or that he has something more to do with the story...
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Agumon stops Taichi from wigging out and they go to save Hikari together, but before they can they are beset from all angles by henchmen.
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Sora: Hey, you take care of Tweedle Dee and I’ll get Tweedle Dum!
Birdramon: *gets punched in the head* I hope you brought enough aspirin...
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Then these guys appear. I’ve forgotten their names but evil as they look they literally just stand there till they get blown up and then more appear... I guess that’s a kind of talent
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Takeru: Leave the small fry to me!
Pegasusmon: Takeru when I said I wanted a Happy Meal this isn’t what I meant
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Hikari begins to be absorbed into a dark pocket dimension of DarkKnightmon’s or something like that. It seems like a very chill experience.
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Taichi: I’ll save you! Take my hand!
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Hikari: O... nii... chan... Fuck you...
ok so here’s my problem here.
This is meant to be all emotional and stuff right?? Hikari’s been blowing off her brother for an unknown reason (we all figured out what it was but look the main characters don’t know and that’s what counts) and he’s finally managed to catch up with her. His hand is inches away from catching hers and pulling her to safety. She’s got creepy glowing eyes. She mouths “o..nii...chan...” with a creepy smile before being pulled into darkness.
I know it’s for kids so it’s not going to be too scary or anything but there ‘just like... no build up here. The storytelling style is too mathematical. “We go from Plot Point A to Plot Boint B via Battles 1 2 and 3...” There’s nothing happening in between to make us feel Taichi’s desperation, or even to know what Hikari’s feeling in this moment. Is she really okay with this? Is she having second thoughts? It doesn’t make any sense for her not to be scared. I fully expected her to go through with it, but she can be scared and still go through with it... come on...
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It’s like that scene from Utena except sapped of any and all emotional impact.
I don’t really remember how Greymon got up there in the first place since he can’t fly but at least we get a scene of him and Taichi plummeting to the earth after failing to save Hikari. The kind of thing that would be dramatic if there were any kind of animation budget at all.
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The one thing the show is sure to do is show us Taichi’s expressions, which I guess is something... It’s just so rushed and the accompanying dialogue leaves something to be desired.
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Greymon: Don’t give up, Taichi... Taichi... um. what are you doing...
Taichi: stop hitting yourself stop hitting yourself stop hitting yourself stop hitting yourself
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Anyway, Taichi is Big Mad. I thought (hoped, to be honest) that we might get a glimpse of him going wild with dark energy like in the Devimon episode again... Or at least a hint that that was a possibility in the heat of the moment before Agumon snapped him out of it. But nope.
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He takes a moment to be upset and then says “There’s no time to worry about what to do” and goes to save Hikari... from inside DarkKnightmon somehow :P
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This does not go well.
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Meanwhile Hikari is surprisingly okay for someone who was just eaten alive by sentient VantaBlack. She discovers a peculiar light inside... DarkKnightmon’s intestine??? Is that where we are now??? lmao
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She recognizes the light as the voice that has been calling her and tries to head towards it, but is blocked by some purple jello.
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There’s a kind of cool thing that happens here... We just had a scene where Taichi desperately tries to grab his sister’s hand and yank her out of the clutches of evil, but fails, mostly because she doesn’t do anything to help him since she is weirdly okay with the situation. Now we get a mirror of that moment with Hikari bursting out of the jello with her arm outstretched to grab what is clearly Tailmon’s paw.
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Only Tailmon does take Hikari’s hand.
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It was really cool to see the brother and sister paralleling each other this much. It shows the ways they’re both courageous and determined and caring.
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Meanwhile Taichi finally whips out WarGreymon. Honestly, I feel like this should have been WarGreymon’s intro episode. This would have been a good time for a new evolution, rather than in a fight with a nobody that I’ve already forgotten. Idk. WarGreymon uses Brave Tornado to knock DarkKnightmon’s lances away and burrow into his armor. So, yeah, Hikari’s in his intestines, lmao.
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Hikari is being chased by a two-headed monster who is in for the migraine of its (their?) life when the tornado crashes into it.
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Hikari: Big brother! You look so cool!
Taichi: Promise me that no matter how many men come into your life, I’ll always be number one.
Hikari: okay that is creepy
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WarGreymon explodes DarkKnightmon from the inside out x’D and Taichi gets a redo of his hand-reaching scene. First he berates Hikari for running off on her own and then smiles.
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Hikari says she always believed he’d rescue her. Aww.
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Sweet sibling love.
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Then there’s this really hilarious sound which turns out to be the Vademon hivemind giving a collective cry of distress x’D it’s lmfao amazing. Then they start chanting “Next time next time next time” just in case you thought Millennium was defeated and we can go home now.
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Taichi: Sora, do you know where I can buy a leash for this kid? I can’t keep chasing her like this. Aren’t kids today supposed to be glued to their phones and never go outside?
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Patamon’s Girlfriend Radar piques at the bundle in Hikari’s arms.
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And it is indeed Tailmon, and she’s been waiting for Hikari all this time.
Tailmon: I am Tailmon, a Holy Digimon.
Patamon: oh my god you can’t just call yourself holy ugh you’re so self-centered
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D’awww.
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They’re both sooooo cute. I’m annoyed they didn’t get a cool ending card like Takeru and Patamon did last week though. But still, this is a sweet moment.
So, there’s not a lot to complain about in this episode, comparatively speaking. I wish we had more dialogue and understood the value of a dramatic pause etc. Also wish Sora and Takeru had more to do than fight the henchmen. Like, if you can just erase an entire part of an episode and it still works fine, you clearly didn’t need that part so why waste time on it.
But at least we do get reactions from Taichi, and at least we got plot development. The Taichi/Hikari parallels were cool. And even though I had other hopes for how this arc would turn out, I’m glad it’s over because maybe we can finally do some other stuff now. Maybe. I want to get back to Koushirou SOOO bad but more than anything I am still gobsmacked by how long it’s been since Yamato’s had anything to do but ride on Garurumon. That is WEIRD. He’s YAMATO.
Next week...
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... Looks like it’ll be a light-hearted undersea episode. I’m cool with that. The preview clips had a “Sebastian’s Calypso” vibe that I dig. It’s still about Taichi’s group but I think that’s to do more actual face time with Tailmon and Hikari. I hope we see the others as well and if not maybe the week after. I will be happy if this episode has some personality to it.
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I had a REALLY intense beatles phase in my late teens and i had the hots for paul mccartney and one time i found this story where this woman said she met paul at a party in 65 and he took her home and they talked until the sun came up and then he got a call telling him to come to the studio and he started to say he had to leave and she was like "not before you fuck me" and he laughed and then he DID and he left her alone in his house after and she stole his underwear (1/2)
(which she kept for decades until her husband threw them into their muddy front yard one day in a fit of jealousy) and a teapot and it always made me absolutely FERAL with jealous horny rage and like?? just this incredulous feeling of How On Earth Did That Really Happen and anyway bill hader’s dumpster mattress one night stand story is my new version of that (2/2)
The fucking journey this just took me on, holy shit. Did she at least get to keep the teapot?
I love that you had an intense teenage horny phase for a Beatle, I had one for Bob Dylan and I remember watching one of his electric era tour documentaries and being HORRIBLY jealous of the 60s girls hanging around outside his hotel... anyway that’s besides the point
I UNDERSTAND!!!!! THE MATTRESS STORY HAUNTS ME.... Bhader knows what he’s doing, he can try to couch it in as much self-deprecating oh-I’m-just-an-awkward-nerd fronting as he likes but he KNOWS what he’s doing and that woman knew it too. You ever notice how it’s the most competent ones who don’t feel the need to loudly prove themselves by being anything other than humble?? What did he SAY in that club! “It was going well,” he says, what does that MEAN, BILL, what did he fuckjfdkjcnnfkcning do that convinced this woman to leave the club, go to her place, lift a bed onto a car, go to HIS place and move furniture when she was literally moving to a new city the next day all so sHE COULD FUCK HIMMMM HOW IS HIS GAME THAT GOOD I FEEL LIKE A CHARACTER IN AN EDGAR ALLEN POE STORY BEING SLOWLY DRIVEN MAD BY THIS UNANSWERED MYSTERY
Ok sorry, I’m back. This is making me want to read a fic where (before they get together) Eddie watches an old interview of Richie telling the mattress story and he’s a seething ball of jealousy too. Then Richie comes out, he and Eddie sort their shit and get together, and one day Eddie laughingly comments that he had no reason to be jealous after all since Richie was obviously making the story up.
Richie looks at him weirdly. “I didn’t make up—that story did actually happen, Eds, I only changed it so people thought I went home with a chick.”
They are lying in bed. Eddie’s eye starts twitching. “Pardon?”
“Yeah?” Richie stretches, draping his right arm over his own head to scratch his left ear. Eddie will not be distracted by his chest right now, what the fuck. Richie squints at the ceiling. “I think his name was... Marco, or something. At least, that’s the name he gave to quote unquote Chris.”
“Marco, okay. Huh.”
“I wanted to be Lance or something cool, but my friend said I inhabited Chris better, I dunno. I didn’t even tell him why I needed a fake name, he was just like, big into method.”
“Yeah, mhmm.” Eddie sits up, nodding. He can’t stop nodding. His head feels like a champagne cork fizzing at the top of his spine. “So you, you uh—you were such a fucking player in your plaid and your baggy jeans that, that, that were the only things you even owned back then, Rich—don’t try to deny, it I’ve seen the pictures—that you convinced some guy who was moving town the next fucking day—”
Richie’s eyebrows shoot upwards. It makes his eyes look rounder, more delighted. “Convinced? Eddie—”
Eddie can’t stop, twisting the sheets in his hands til his knuckles go white. “Yes, convinced, you convinced him to go pick up some dirty mattress right off the street with a complete stranger even though you always make such a big deal about how awkward and nervous and repressed you were, you still, you still—”
“I was probably on molly or something at the time, man.” Richie’s beaming up at him. He pokes Eddie in the arm. Eddie feels how tense the muscle is, and fights to relax. “I’m kidding, at worst it was just a little tipsy driving. A little Wacky Races. Just call me Dick Bastardly.” Richie grins at his own dumbass joke, poking Eddie some more. “And it wasn’t just the mattress by the way, it was the whole bed. That’s a key detail. Headboard and everything.”
“The headboard?!” Eddie tries not to yell, but it comes out louder than he means to anyway. More of a shriek, embarrassingly. He lurches around in place to glare at their own flat bar of wood behind them. He holds onto that thing! It supports him, even when Richie’s fucking him into the wall!
Betrayal is neverending today, apparently. Eddie turns his glare onto Richie, who is laughing. “Stop laughing!”
“Your face,” Richie gasps. He covers his own face, then changes tack and yanks Eddie down over him to cackle into his flaming-hot throat. “What’s the problem! You’re acting like this is the same fucking bed, oh my god, you think I haven’t at least changed my mattress since I lived like a—like a Beavis and Butthead parody in Westwood, fifteen years ago?”
Eddie squirms miserably. Not even Richie’s broad nakedness against his can salvage this, he’s well and truly destroyed their sweet afterglow with his stupid overreaction. Feels like being fifteen again, ruining clubhouse hangouts with his snappy sulking as soon as Richie mentioned some girl at school. “No! No, obviously fucking not, just. I dunno.”
He doesn’t really deserve the gentle tease in Richie’s voice. “What don’t you know?”
“I don’t know!”
And that’s the part he hates most.
“Okay, okay. I think I do. Jesus, you’re actually jealous,” Richie breathes. He bites his lip, the way he does when he’s so happy about something he’s making a real effort not to talk over it. He’s still a little sweaty and pink from their Friday night activities, bedraggled hair and no glasses. The expression always scrunches his left eye into a full squint, something Eddie finds so helplessly appealing he can’t imagine what it’s like to watch that interview and not feel jealous.
Eddie grunts, shrugs as best he can under Richie’s heavy hug. Fucking Marco.
Richie’s hand is firm on the back of his neck. There’s pressure from his thumb at one point of Eddie’s jaw, the soft part between ear and bone that has him gulping open for Richie’s low murmur, “Eddie baby, don’t be jealous.” Their mouths meet and Eddie sighs into the slick warmth of it, feeling grateful and abashed and idiotic all at once.
They separate with a little snick of spit. Richie lids his eyes open just a touch, looking drowsy with affection. Eddie lowers his forehead to Richie’s shoulder and speaks to his collarbone. “I just—I hate it when you act like people are just doing you a favor for, for liking your shit or fucking going home with you when clearly it was—you’re fucking hot, Rich, and, and sexy when you’re not trying to be, and you were hot back then too, but you still act like it was a miracle anyone wanted to even touch you when I—I always would’ve picked the stupid dirty bed up off the street too. For you. And I wouldn’t’ve moved town the day after. So.”
Richie doesn’t speak for a moment. There is a cloud above their shared, clean bed, implicit with shared memory of all the times they dirtied each other’s sheets with grass stains and grubby feet, chip crumbs and even tears, just once, just before Eddie really did move town and forgot all the things he cared about so much more than he ever cared about getting sick.
He would never leave again though, is his point. Richie always seems to know what he means before Eddie does. He tries to think it loud enough, brings his hand up blindly to Richie’s face and strokes back his hair, not because Richie is a mind reader, but because he knows what it means that Eddie has never wanted to touch someone else like this.
Eddie’s spine then, curving under Richie’s knuckles like brushing a shiver along a set of wind chimes. His hand lands on Eddie’s tailbone, an X marks the spot that still throbs with loosened heat and pleasure from his orgasm. Lying on your front is bad for your posture.
I’m not lying on my front, Eddie thinks, with a little of the vicious defiance he doles out to that cloying voice sometimes, the one that tries to ruin quiet moments with its fretting. I’m lying on Richie’s. He’s good for my posture. He’s gonna snap my spine back into place and this time I’ll let him touch me.
Richie presses their temples together, small-voiced. “I guess... I find most of the flattery shit hard to believe. I didn’t like myself or the stuff I was making, so I’d automatically assume they were lying, y’know? If I agree it implies I believe them, which makes me feel like some giant, arrogant dick—don’t say it.” He pats Eddie on the ass. “But, on the other hand, if I think I’m somehow important enough for people to lie to, that’s kind of an arrogant dick move too.”
Eddie pushes up to eyeball him. “Even with sex? That’s so fucking dumb.”
This second ass-pat is harder, more of a stinging smack. Richie’s guarded look coils into a grin again at Eddie’s bared-teeth hiss. “I never said it wasn’t.”
“Well, I mean, what do you think it meant that fucking Marco—” Richie snorts at the projectile venom burning acidic holes through Eddie’s voice, “—was clearly willing to catch fleas or goddamn tetanus just to fuck you? What about me? You think I’m pretending it’s good just to encourage your weird, unnecessary inferiority thing? ”
“No, you’re right,” Richie laughs. His snorts have bubbled into full-blown giggles now as he squints down at the mess between their stomachs. “That’s pretty hard evidence you’re providing there, Eds.”
Getting harder too, rubbed up against the soft crease of Richie’s hip. Eddie can feel the lingering red throb of heat on his ass, like closing his eyes and still catching the gold-coin flash of the sun branded on the inside of his eyelids. Richie digs his blunt nails into the stung tenderness of his skin and gently pulls Eddie’s asscheeks open. He feels Richie’s quickened breathing against his wet mouth, and wonders how to ask for another spank in a way that isn’t gonna make him want to enter witness protection afterwards.
“I can’t believe you were jealous, you’re the last guy in the world who needs to be jealous,” Richie moans. Eddie feels the vibration of it on his tongue, now sucking on the knot of Richie’s adam’s apple. “Wait, can you really get tetanus from abandoned street beds?”
“Ugh!” Eddie bites him there and pulls off slowly, sucking so the stubbled skin of Richie’s strong throat is released from his mouth’s suction with a wet pop. Richie’s hips flex against him. “I almost wish this was the same fucking bed just so I had something to throw out into the yard!”
“O-ooh, how telenovela of you, I like it.”
Oh Christ, Eddie has to put some kinda stop to this before Richie starts speaking Spanish. He needs to last. He needs to beat Marco. “I’ll throw you out with it,” he says, too breathy and honest for anywhere else but here. “Trashmouth. Sweetheart.”
Richie’s face is flushed, eyes dark and desperate. He grips at Eddie’s ribs so hard Eddie feels them bending. “Dumpster diver.”
Eddie rolls his hips down, plants his palms on either side of Richie, shoves them under the pillows. He braces his elbows hard into Richie’s shoulders and grinds their sweaty foreheads together, but whatever aggression there is within him is softened by his catapulting heartbeat, harmonising with his own laughter. With Richie’s, always.
“Nah, ‘fraid the only thing left to remember that half-night stand with Marco is, well.” Richie looks down between them again, eyes almost crossed. “It’s me. My dick, more specifically.”
Eddie can feel as much. Another wave of possessiveness froths through him, crackling in the pockets of his joints, feels like cartoon steam whistling out his ears. “It better not be half-standing because it remembers anything about fucking Marco,” he snarls.
Richie raises his hands in a down boy gesture. It shifts his arms and shoulders in the way that sometimes makes Eddie wish he were a door, just so Richie could ram him open, and so he pins Richie’s wrists to the bed instead.
“Please don’t throw my dick out into the yard, babe,” Richie says.
“Gonna give you something to remember this fucking bed by,” Eddie says, and slides down Richie’s body to do just that.
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jamiedc-they-them · 4 years
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SIBLING DUTY (PART IV) PLATONIC
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Requested Imagine: “Absolutely LOVED reading Sibling Duty part 3! 🙂 Would you mind writing part 4 set in season 5 where Reader and the team find out that Deke gave Daisy to Kasius and Reader attacks Deke in a fit of rage and Deke is confused by her reaction?”
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The lights had only gone out for a moment for you. That was all it was, a moment; three seconds at most. However, when the lights came back on, you were alone. Or, you thought you were, until you met the confused gaze of Fitz.
“Fitz?” You asked, silently communicating your confusion.
“Y/N?” He did the same.
You both, however, didn’t have long to think about it, as army soldiers stormed the place, aiming their guns at you. You both rose your hands, both in instinct and as you knew that there would be no way out of us.
However, as they pulled you away, you only thought one thing: Where the hell was Daisy? Why had she left you behind after going all this way to find you in the framework?
You were sat on a chair, getting looked down upon by two army soldiers; to be honest, you were shocked that Talbot wasn’t there….Oh wait, a Daisy LMD had shot him.
“Where are they?” The female asked you for what seemed to be the hundredth time, you groaned loudly as you through your head back with said groan.
“For the last time, I. Don’t. Fucking. Know.” You said with more and more frustration. They held fear in their eyes for a moment, it was then you realised that your power was taking control of you.
Oh, no; whether it be in the Framework, or here, it seemed you never did fully figure out control over it.
An older woman entered the room, given the look she gave you, it seemed she had experience with Inhumans, “Give us the room, go check on the other prisoner.” She ordered them. The word, “Prisoner.” Struck something in you.
“Wait, “prisoner”? What have you done with him?!” Fitz! Fitz!” You yelled out as they left to go after your friend. You got up, the woman even let you get the door as it closed and then locked, “FUCK!” you cursed as you looked back at her with hurt and teary eyes; she just waited for your move. Finally, you went back to the chair.
“Very good; now, let’s try this again, shall we?” She didn’t wait for an answer as he opened your file, “Y/N Johnson, Daisy Johnson’s sister. The ever famous, Quake. Shame the media never gave you a name, seemed you didn’t do enough for that.” You knew she was trying to goad a reaction from you, you weren’t going to let this bitch have this over you.
“They left you behind, that’s the main theory. The other is being explored by your friend. I mean this when I say this, that I hope we find them.”
“It doesn’t matter if you did, I’m already a monster. I mean, my ability is darkness, kind of on the nose.” You said, bluntly. The woman looked at you with what looked like pity.
“I have a family member that is kind of like you.” She admitted to you; you looked to her as continued, “She thinks she is too. I can’t speak for you, but I know I’d never give up on her, I’d help her. Because I know she isn’t.” She told you. You weren’t sure as to why. But you didn’t answer back.
As you then sat in your cell, you debated a question. That one, single, question; had Daisy given up on you because you were dangerous?
Maybe, was the frightening answer you always landed on every time like an unlucky flip that happened to land on its side every time. No, you weren’t liking that outcome at all. Sadly, though, it was all your brain could think of as you sat alone in your cell.
They were god knows where, as was Fitz, and all you had were your thoughts to keep you company. When you were alone before, you normally had company either next door or next to you (namely Daisy as you would’ve probably just saw a film or a show together).
Now, you had no idea if there even was a person next to you. As far as you were concerned, you were alone, and no one was coming to get you.
You had started making carvings in the wall, marking another day. After a while, it had started to fill up different walls. You had lost track, just another day with nothing but four walls and a boat load of self-hatred and doubt in a bond that may have never existed in the first place. Maybe it was just a grand thing you had managed to fool yourself of; you were good at selling yourself fantasies after all.
It’s what had made you hurt your bond with Daisy that she then tried to save in the Framework, maybe she’d found out that you had that fantasy and now she was breaking it and stamping on it under her feet.
You laughed as your mind joked that she was Quaking it apart.
That was, until you were dragged out of your cell on god knows what day. You were pulled into the room you had been in before. It was the first room you had been in that wasn’t your cell.
However, you weren’t alone in that room. Fitz was there too.
“Y/N?” He asked, taking in your appearance, the longer hair and much, much, less fight in your eyes. If anything, it scared him to see you look so defeated; so drained.
A few moments of silence passed you both as you weren’t sure whether or not this was a dream. When Lance Hunter, an old friend of you both, walked in; it didn’t help things.
He too looked a little taken aback by your looks, but still went ahead with his plan. That plan sent you both to the floor with ringing in your ears. Then outside and into sunlight for the first time; you had almost forgotten what that was like.
As you watched the best flyer that Hunter’s money could buy crash, you couldn’t help but laugh at it all. Now it all really felt like it wasn’t real.
Fitz’s steadying touch to pull along felt real, as did Hunter’s concerned hand on your shoulder as he spoke something to you. But you were just out of it.
“What’s wrong with her?” Hunter asked his friend, looking to him as he asked.
“I don’t know, I don’t think they let her out.” Fitz theorised as you looked around as if you were in a simulation. Although, that thought made him shiver; maybe part of you still thought you were in the Framework, seeing as how wrong things had gone right after they had gotten you back.
 Now, you were in an RV, as Fitz looked for any sign of your family. As he did, himself and Hunter looked at your now sleeping form, the way it shivered and as you muttered inaudible things.
“So, you both were in a simulation, and Daisy and Jemma brought you out?” Hunter asked, wanting to make sure he got this right.
Fitz nodded, “That’s pretty much it.” Fitz said, even if it just made him hate himself more.
“Right, so we need to find where they are and fast.” Hunter said, speaking aloud the thoughts swirling around in Fitz’s mind.
“We do.” The Scotsman agreed.
They had found a way to find everyone, albeit a little sci-fi ish. It involved you and Fitz traveling to the future and finding them and then bringing them back to this spot. You had somewhat found yourself again, less spacey and more unnerved rather than anything. Oh, and one more thing.
As much as it pained the two, you were sure that your dynamic with Daisy was pretty much shattered at this point….again.
He hated to say it, but you were pretty much the platonic (as if it needed to be said) version of what Fitzsimmons had going for them; that they were cursed. Or, so it seemed to be that way, anyway.
So, you looked at the pod you would be traveling in, a small space; but Enoch had promised you that you would be asleep the whole time and it would be like a click of your fingers and you would be there.
“Hey,” You turned to Fitz as he walked over to you after you spoke, “We’re going to find them.” You said, trying to sound optimistic, “You can be with Jemma again.”
“And you can reunite with Daisy.” Your friend told you.
“Yeah, we’ll see how that goes. But I’ll see you on the other side, right?” You asked him; he nodded instantly.
“See you there.” He said.
The next moment, you fell asleep and into the void once again.
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When Daisy had first landed, the first thing she did was look around for you. However, panic soon started to spread as she realised that she couldn’t find you, as you were not there.
She was away from you; she had lost you again just after getting you back.
She started to feel her breath pick up, her heart start to beat faster and faster as she fell back onto the floor. Jemma was by her side the next moment, “Daisy, Daisy, I need you to breath.” Her friend tried to get her to follow, but Daisy was too trapped in the thoughts of what had happened to you.
Jemma then grabbed her best friend’s face, “Daisy, Y/N will be ok. Both her and Fitz are together. If anyone can figure out how to find us, it’s them, alright?” Jemma said, trying hard to believe the words herself.
Daisy let herself nod as her breathing somewhat calmed down.
 In short, the place was like a slave trader’s yet dream, only in the future. Granted, it was filed with more a diverse crowd, sire; but a slave trader was a slave trader either way.
“That is Lady Karaba. She is a demented brute. Her affection a curse to anyone who receives it.” Enoch, the Chronicom who had brought you here, informed you. Another person walked into the room, this time a man who fit the slave trader name to a T, wearing a gold outfit and a smug smile, “And there is Senator Gaius Ponarian….I am repulsed by the sight. Even the man’s closest friends find his temperament to be that of a diseased child monster.” He admitted to you.
“So Kasius has assembled the worst of the worst.” Fitz summed up as you continued on your path through the area, trying to blend in as if one of the locals. TO you, it felt disgusting to have to try and act like such an abhorrent creature.
Then again, with your power, you already were in a way. As your brain “kindly” reminded you as yourself and Fitz continued on your path.
Now, as far as your knew, Enoch wasn’t a Clairvoyant; but, either way, his next words seemed to be spoken as if he knew what your thoughts were telling you, “Do not fear. You are far more reprehensible than any other creature in this room.” He told you, unhelpfully.
“Thanks for that, Enoch.” Turned out Enoch was alright at emotions with his response to Fitz’s sarcastic statement.
“You’re quite welcome.” He said with a sly smile, although maybe that was just you, as it seemed to be a genuine smile and a genuine response, “It was a rather fun pursuit, constructing your alias. No longer are you Leopold Fitz, but instead, Boshtok, a vile space Marauder of unlimited wealth. And you are no longer Y/N Johnson, but Quassatas, his trusty friend and equal in vileness partner.” Enoch told you both, giving you the roles, you now had to play if you wanted to survive.
So, you started to mingle in with the crowd, as much as you hated it; you had to do it to survive here. Fitz, however, kept putting his gaze to Jemma; you nudged him, “Go on, we’ll be fine here.” You assured him, pushing him up to the spot.
“I apologise that we haven’t found Daisy Johnson, yet.” Enoch said to you as you were the only two left standing around. For you, it was just autopilot; the fake smile and pleasantries you gave the other traders as you passed them.
You shrugged, “We’ll find her and the others and get out. Simple as, really.” You said, drinking from the glass you took from the servant.
“You sound as if you don’t want to find her.” He pointed out.
You glared at him, “Of course I want to find her, she’s my sister; these people are our family….It’s just, we went through a rough patch and never really figured it out.” You confessed, finishing the drink.
“Ah, siblings feuds. A tale as old as time.” Enoch said in a somewhat nostalgic tone.
“Not exactly a feud, more as in a fuckup on both sides. Why, you got experience with it?” You asked him.
“Not so much experience, more I’ve seen them on my time here.” You nodded at his answer.
 Fitz had had his talk with Jemma, and had told you that she was being kept in the role she was in as a maid to keep Daisy “motivated”, as you both knew nothing motivated her more than any member of her family being in danger; but especially not a sister like Jemma.
Now you were sat at dinner, trying to avoid the gaze of someone who you used to be the closest with, but now (to you) felt like a cold and distant relationship. You knew she had been taken, but still you knew that your bond had been hurt by a lot of things.
You could feel her gaze on you as she gulped, seeing you here and knowing that you were still in pain, “Someone you know?” Ben asked, despite being able to read her mind and already knowing the answer.
“She’s my sister….It’s complicated.” She settled on, knowing that he probably had the answers he was looking for anyway. Although, she then remembered that he too had an inhibitor on him.
“Sibling stuff is always complicated.” He empathised, “What happened?” He asked.
“We’re both powered, and we did some stupid stuff that accidentally hurt each other rather than helped; I then saved her from….a place, but we haven’t really had time to talk.” Ben nodded.
“But you still love her?”
“Of course, I do, she’s family. Maybe we’ll get to talk soon….Or, I hope we do.” Daisy admitted, showing a moment of vulnerability.
“If it means anything, I hope you do too.” She nodded, not talking, but the nod showed her appreciation for the words.
Still, she watched as you and Fitz staked your claim at the table, playing by your new roles as people who had crossed the line years ago and showed no sign of stopping; for Fitz, it was insulting the food; for you, it was the guests and taunting them.
As Fitz continued to talk about how the leader, Kasius, controlled the humans, you took over for him, “Best way to stop a monster from turning on you? Turn it on another monster or turn it on itself. That way it never points it’s beastly gaze at you,” You pointed to Kasius with a knife as you cut into the snail that was brought to you moments before, “Better to drive away the other monsters with your best one than accept it with the more….civilised of people.”
Daisy knew you and Fitz were both putting on an act; the two of you were being different people to get them back. She knew that, but still, what you both said and how you said it unsettled her a little. Did she had that it had? Of course, she loved you both immensely; still, it had to be said.
As she was hauled off to the arena, she tried once again to meet your gaze; for a moment, she was successful, but it was only a quick moment.
Still, it was nice to know that you were here; in danger, but when weren’t either of you in trouble in some way? At least here, you could finally reunite properly. She knew you had still yet to have a proper talk. Sure, she got you out and you both were elated to see the other; but this was different. Now, she was gone, and you were the one finding her. Only thing was, she could clearly tell that things were different with you; your power was ruling you more on an emotional level. You seemed more cynical and jaded. You had both seen the effects that going overboard for someone had.
Now, she could tell, you feared yourself around them, so you made the power go internal; just like she did with her own gift. Now, it seemed to be your turn for that.
 She was in the arena, fighting Kasius’ right hand woman, Sinara. She was doing an alright job, but Sinara was just about winning. However, you watched with slight fear. As much as you feared yourself and Daisy’s reaction to you, she was still your sister.
So, you watched as she fought, how she relied on her quips and skills that both yourself and May had taught her. You watched as she mixed in her powers with them to gain the upper hand.
You then watched as she lifted herself up with her ability, only to then be sent right back down with the click of a button via Kasius.
However, it was also in that moment where you acted; with Simmons stabbing the man, Fitz shooting a guard and lowering the shield, and you tackling a guard out of the window and onto the hard floor.
Seems you and your sister had that shit luck o not landing on something soft; plus, a reckless streak that you would probably never break.
Still, you landed on the floor, with your opponent landing next to you. You both writhed around on the floor in pain, before you felt your power grow as you were in the darker part of the room. You stood up, sending him flying backwards and skidding on the floor. He did, however, throw an object that you swore miss as you felt nothing from it.
The next moment, he was unconscious with a shot from Fitz’s ICER. You then looked down, finding the blade in your side; you put a hand to it, before pulling the blade out. As if being hunted wouldn’t be bad enough.
You knew that you couldn’t stop the mission because of you, however. You knew that your sister wouldn’t want that, especially in her condition.
Speaking of your sister, you then went over to her as your friends helped her up. Fitz seemed to communicate to Jemma that he could shoulder Daisy for a moment; that moment was then filled with Jemma hugging you.
You returned the hug, genuinely happy to have your friends (or two of them anyway) safe. Still though, as Jemma and Fitz led Daisy out, you trailed behind; telling yourself it was to keep an eye out behind them (part of it was) and not just so you didn’t have to see the fear in Daisy’s eyes at how much the struggle of keeping control of your powers were.
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They led and you followed, having not said a word since you left the arena. You knew that you were being hunted, which was just swell; seemed the only moment you got of peace that lasted was that cell as morbid as it was true.
Still, they led you into a room that you weren’t sure if it was a guard’s room or not. To be honest, you didn’t really care. It was a place to rest for a moment and catch your breath. For yourself as well to rest a little and try and fix your wound on your own.
As you turned from them, you saw a cloth on the table. While probably not the cleanest thing in the world, it would have to do. So, you picked it up and placed it over your wound; despite knowing that it wouldn’t be long until you would end up losing too much blood.
“You’re here, you both are here.” Jemma said to you both in glee; even though you knew she was more talking about her boyfriend than you. You just gave her a smile as you saw her eyes flicker back to Fitz.
You watched as Fitz approached your sister and knelt next to her. It was strange, in a way, with how he used to have a small crush that went away like nothing; now replaced with nothing but familial love for her. His love for Jemma, however, had an almost opposite course; going from friendship to Romantic.
You weren’t really sure as to why your mind took you down that trail of thought; maybe just to distract you from the pain you still felt from your wound and to distract you from Daisy’s gaze. However, you did hear how Fitz pulled her attention back to him as he seemed to know that ever since the prison, you didn’t want to have that conversation with Daisy.
He knew what it was like to still feel guilt from the Framework, go knew he did. He hated himself and he was sure you disliked yourself more than you did. Although, at least then, you had Daisy and the others to rally around. Now, you were trying to not have that.
He saw that when Jemma approached you to ask about you, when you gave her a smile and flinched from her touch. That only rose her concern.
“Y/N….what happened to you?” She was about to press for more information before she cried out in pain and clutched at her ear.
As she did so, you saw a guard about to enter the room. So, you did what you had to do. You had to defend your family, knowing that it would most likely put even more of a strain on their trust of you.
You launched yourself at the guard, knocking him to the floor. You went for his weapon, but a hand grabbed your foot and stopped you. You kicked him in the face and went for the weapon once again. You heard Simmons’ cries as you struggled against the Kree, the rifle that he was pressing down on your neck.
Your eyes went fully dark, and the man flew off of you as a shockwave was sent out; the place rattled at it. The lights even flickered for a moment.
As they pulled out the device in Jemma’s ear that had deafened her, they felt the room shake and saw the lights flicker. As Jemma recovered, Fitz and Daisy shared a look. They knew it wasn’t Daisy as she still had the inhibitor, so there was only one person left.
“Y/N.” Daisy breathed out as she ran out of the room, leaving Fitz to stay with Jemma and help her recover.
 As Daisy ran out, she saw you leaning against the wall and catching your breath. However, she did catch you wiping at your nose, “Hey, hey, hey.” She said, approaching you, reaching a handout to help you stabilize yourself.
“Don’t touch me.” You all but sneered at her; she had to admit, she was taken aback by it.
“What’s wrong?” She asked right after; while not the best question, it was the only one she could think of, “Are you –”
“Just go get Simmons.” You said, moving on to go find your ship. Daisy watched you go with both worry and sadness. She gulped back tears but complied with your order.
 As the other three followed you to find the ship to escape, that soon died out when you all saw the ship explode outside of the window. As it went, you shook for a moment, before you noticed that no one else had shaken at the ship exploding. Luckily for yourself, you were in the back of the four, so no one had seen you lose your footing for a moment and have a ringing sound in your ear that came for a bit before it died down once again.
You continued to follow them, until you came to an elevator. This elevator was meant to get you up to a floor to find your friends. As it started to move, Fitz checked up on Jemma, while Daisy checked on you. Fitz’s’ was done via asking her and physical contact; Daisy’s was done by a look that communicated to you the question of how you were.
She hadn’t seen you stumble, but she had seen that you had become paler since your last appearance. She wasn’t a doctor, not even close, but she knew that you weren’t ok. You weren’t even close to being ok.
Sure, she had brought you back from the Framework, but she could tell the damage that you had suffered before she had met you in there was still holding onto you. She didn’t know what it was, but she wanted to know.
Of course, you had to be alive for that to happen.
The elevator stalled; you were on the floor as of the next moment. Now the ringing was reaching an almost fever pitch.
As Daisy tried the pass on the elevator again, everyone was drawn to you via a vomiting sound. They saw you vomiting on the floor, but it wasn’t just vomit; it was a small bit of blood mixed with some of the energy of your power.
“Y/N.” Fitz said, walking over to you and rubbing your back; he lowered his voice, “Y/N, are you sure you’re ok?” He asked once more.
You met the concerned eyes of your friend, “Yeah, yeah. We’re all good.” You assured him, but now even you weren’t fully believing it.
As Daisy called him over, she kept her eyes on you for a moment longer before asking him for a boost to get to the vent that led to the roof. As she reached the top, she then reached down for Simmons.
Then it was just the two of you left, “Fitz.” You called after your friend; he turned to you, “I need you to do something in case I lose control,” He didn’t like where this was going, “Just, shut up and listen,” He nodded at your demand, “If I lose control, Daisy won’t be able to do it. But I need you to put me down.”
“Just like that?” He eve clicked his fingers at how quickly you were asking him to just kill one of his best friends.
You nodded, “Like a rabid dog.” You confirmed for him. Your breath shook as you justified (or rather, tried to justify) your want of him, “Daisy won’t be able to do it. She’s my sister, I love her. But….I can’t hurt her, not any more than I already have. Or….more than we already have hurt each other,” You sighed, knowing that he’d want to know what you mean by that, “We ended things rough in the framework. When she entered it….it was like an entirely different Daisy interacting with an entirely different me.” Fitz nodded, knowing that he could empathise with that; the struggle between your life in the Framework vs in the real world.
He remembered how dark you were in the Framework.
“Ok.” You could tell he still wasn’t fully on board; but it was a step in the direction you seemed to want. Even if he really, really, didn’t want it to come to that.
 You then ended up in a room with pipes. As Daisy inspected it, she found it to be warm. You were forced to put your hand on it to stabilize yourself. However, it was then that your shirt was stained red.
Daisy put your arm around your shoulder without stopping. You could tell, even as she spoke to Jemma about it being a spa, that she was still worried about you; as her voice shook. Still, she was trying to mask it and stay positive.
“Try the door.” She told you as you both pushed against it, only to no avail. She readjusted her grip on your arm and waist, trying to keep you upright. Trying to keep you conscious.
She then guided you over to where Fitz was; the man was currently staring at a thing he feared, Gravitonium.
“That’s not good.” You said, having to blink to keep yourself from falling asleep. However, you were then awaken by bullets slamming into the wall. One even hitting Fitz.
It was a Kree, and he had a weapon. Fitz was behind cover and bleeding; at least you weren’t the only one now.
Daisy pushed you both down onto the floor as she moved into fight the Kree. You, however, had other plans. As Fitzsimmons started to leave, you threw your hand up as Daisy was pushed back, the bullets hitting the void you had channelled in front of your sister to stop her from being killed.
However, he then turned to you, “NO!” Daisy screamed as he fired a single bullet at you, sending you to the ground.
As your shield dropped, Daisy finished him off with a punch, then ran over to you.
“Y/N? Y/N?! Hey, HEY! I need you to open your eyes! Can you do that for me?” She asked, tapping you on the check to try and goad a reaction for you. However, you didn’t respond the way she wanted, at all.
“Leave me.” She managed to make out as you mumbled a sentence or two out before stopping yourself and your breathing went laboured.
“Hey, what did I tell you in the framework?” She asked you. Again, it did not go her way.
“That I’m a monster that can’t be helped?” You managed to say, bluntly.
Daisy stopped cold in her tracks, “W—Wha….What?” She asked, each one in quick succession of the other. She then put your arm around her shoulder again as she lifted you up.
“It – It was what you said……when you –” You were starting to lose consciousness at this point.
“Hey, no! Y/N, no! You can’t go asleep on me! Stay with me, come on!” She yelled, but it was turning into a cry as she kicked open the door and put you on the floor. Jemma turned to you, and her eyes widened as she saw your figure.
“You….were right.” You were just talking (quietly but talking none the less) to no one in particular in terms of target. But Daisy knew they were meant for herself.
“Right about what?” She asked, holding your hand to try and keep you on this side with them, and not whatever lay beyond that.
“I let it win….I lost, Daisy.” The three friends shared a look.
“She let the darkness in.” It was Fitz who said the conclusion. Daisy looked at her brother figure with a look of tears and rage.
“What do you mean?” She asked, despite knowing the answer.
“That fucking cell.” You said, before coughing. That was then followed by more vomit, this time being just your void energy inside of you.
“What cell?” Jemma asked that one, looking between you both with fear and horror.
“We were locked up Jemma right after you were taken. We were on our own for six months.” She covered her mouth as she felt a pang in her chest the feeling of the two of you being along for so long.
“Y/nn,” Your eyes barely focused on your sister, but you were trying, “That version of me that said that, she’s a bitch, alright? You are not a monster. You are my sister, my best friend. And I need you to make it through this, ok? I need you to let Jemma help you in anyway you can because –” She was cut off by a new intruder in the room entering.
Your world blurred for a moment, but you managed to somewhat feel Jemma applying something to cover your wound.
However, when your hearing allowed you to hear for a moment, all you heard was, “This is the guy who sold me to Kasius!” from Daisy.
You didn’t care who it was, but you felt their presence. That next moment, they were up against the wall, restrained and having a blade up against their throat.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa!” He cried out as it happened to him, “I’m guessing this is the sister you told me – no, more like warned me about?” He asked in fear.
“That’s her.” Daisy answered, wondering if she should just let you do it. However, she then remembered the words you told her that she had given you the last time you had spoken in the framework.
So, leaving him tied up, she approached you and crouched down in front of you and cupped your face in her hands, “Y/N, I need you to listen to me; I know you’re angry, scared and scarred. In your head, it’s beyond repair,” She heard the man (Deke) choke more, “But, you’re not, ok? You’re not broken beyond repair. I’m here; so is Fitzsimmons, Mack, Yoyo, May, and Coulson. We know you, Y/nn. You are not a monster. You’re our friend; you’re our sister and daughter. We’re here to help you every step of the way. But you have to take this first one, ok? You need to let him go, Y/nn.”
It took a moment, as the man cried out as the blade neared him and neared him. However, just as it was about to impale him, it stopped and disappeared, and he was realised from it’s hold.
“Here.” Deke said, holding a syringe out to her as a kind of peace offering, “It’s adrenaline. Should keep her awake a bit longer.” He said as Daisy cautiously took it.
“You’re still on my shit list.” He didn’t seem to mind right now.
“Sure, but I know how important family is.” For a moment, she softened, before she jabbed the needle into your leg.
She then took a breath, “Let’s go.” She said to her other friends, before getting you up one more time, and they were on their way a once again.
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“You ready?” Your sister asked you as she continued to support you as you stood outside the entrance to the room.
“As ready as I can be.” You answered. With that, Daisy knocked, before Coulson opened it and hugged you both, before realising the state you were in.
“Oh god, here, let’s get you sat down.” Coulson said as gently as he could to try and hide his very clear fear.
The others all crowded you and Fitz as you were both put near each other, almost as reassurance that the other was still here.
“Alright, we need to get out of here, they are right behind us.” Daisy said, letting them all know what was at stake here.
As the others got ready to get another Inhuman, you focused on just keeping your eyes open and yourself alive.
“Hey, Y/N.” You opened your eyes to see Coulson crouching in front of you, making sure you were doing just that.
“Doesn’t that hurt your knees or back?” He chuckled a little at your words, before putting a hand on your shoulder.
“Keep fighting, alright? We need our hero to pull through.” He told you; Daisy had clearly told him. Still, you appreciated it.
“Sir, yes sir.” You said, with that, they left.
When they returned, you all realised that you actually had no where to go to. You were stuck. Then the holes started coming through the wall.
You knew it wouldn’t take long for them to get through. Then you looked at your hands, those that wielded the power that was so often terrifying yourself. It still did, but you had a bit more confidence with it now.
“Daisy!” You called; your younger sister was immediately by your side.
“What is it, Y/nn?” She asked, putting both her hands on your knees.
“I need you to help me up, please?” You asked, the last bit a quieter. But she only obliged your request.
“What are you doing?” She asked you; not out of mistrust, but it was just so you were both on the same page.
“They want in. They’d need to go through a layer of void energy.” You said as you shakily held up your hand; you were still weak. However, Jemma realised, and approached you to help you hold your arm up.
Once it was up, you then pulled all the power you could in your state and focused on the growing holes, they were then covered in that void substance.
As you did that, the new kid (Flint) removed the rocks as Deke did another thing to get into your good books; giving you his gravity buckle to go up the shaft to get to the Trawler (your way out).
When it came time for you and Daisy to go up, she guided you over and into the shaft, “Hold on.” She advised you, you did so. You had both hugged before, just never while being lifted into the air. That was new.
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You weren’t out of the woods yet, but you were in a better place. You were on a ship with your family (well, most of it. Mack and Elena had stayed behind) and ready to tackle what was next together.
You didn’t know what would lay down on the earth, you just knew you were ready to take it on. With people who saw you as someone that wasn’t ruled by the monster inside of you; but someone who ruled it.
Someone who they loved and cherished.
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A fave chapter once again 😭. This man's every action is to protect his family and I respect that!!!
I kinda teared up a little bit in the first part because the pain Max is on, and the desperation malec must have felt it's reflected through all of it.
Love Janie. She's the best😍
Alec being a great parent will never not make me cry. The way he's always trying to help and protect his kids and he loves them so goddamn much and it's always there to catch them when they fall😭
The fact that David was even willing to give sole custody to Max and that he rather fight for the kids eventually because he didn't want to take the kids from Max! And also him thinking that Max wouldn't stand to loose them even if he could bear losing David, but Max saying that he loved the kids as a reminder of David because he could never get enough of him. And at the end losing both. Losing everything that reminded him of David.
Also, we're constantly forgetting how unhinged and dangerous David is!! I read somewhere that you aren't really pacific unless you are capable of great violence, or you are just harmless. And I think that describes David so on point. He is dangerously smart. Making everyone believe he went to France. You can understand why no one suspected anything of everything he did. The show, Jaden, the book, even if they found it weird, he wasn't crazy. He was smart.
And I love how in seeing Alec's pov and we can see Alec likes David. He respects him. At some point, he loves him. But he's at the same time, aware of who David is. He is someone you shouldn't fuck with. And that makes him understandably weary.
"He is my son too" THAT DIDN'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE SO HEARTWREAKING
“I don’t care if he hates me,” David echoed his words from before. “I just need Max to survive.”
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“If you are ever in danger, this is what I want you to do.”
“What do want me to do?”
“I want you to survive.”
They just wanted each other to survive so badly and yes I spend 10 minutes looking for that quote 🙂
Ok I'm done analysing I love every interaction between Alec and Lance. Those two have more sass together in a day than anyone else in a lifetime. And Alec wanting to murder him but at the same time being impressed 😂. And yes Lance has criminal mastermind vibes I SAID WHAT I SAID!
He knew Lance was mature for his age. But he was still just a boy.
A boy who saw everything in black and white. Right or wrong.
Alec used to be the same way. But then you grow up.
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The thing is though, the world isn’t divided into good guys and bad guys. We are all both. Sometimes we are neither.
Love me characters who are neither good or bad, but just people who went through a lot and they did what they could with the pieces left🥺 and yes I took that quote from DML lmao
Just one more thing. I love that the way Max reacted reflects how much he has grown over these years, knowing his reaction would have been completely different at the start of this story
I would sell my kidney to go with Alec and Max to piss the fuck out of Asmodeus 😔
Jshsjdjjsksos both Lance and Alec holding Magnus as their blackmail and revenge TOP TIER COMEDY!!
WHAT IS GOING YO HAPPEN IN MEXICO?? OR BEFORE THAT????? I'M SCARED!!!
I LOVED THIS ANALYSIS SO MUCH. THANK YOU.
I particularly loved the note on David's intelligence, because that's something that is often overlooked by the people around him and therefore the readers too.
He is extremely shrewd (oh christ i would love me a villain arc). At a first glance, we often assume Lance takes after Max and AJ after David. But it's actually the opposite.
All of AJ's softness is Max. Because Max although is tough on the outside is extremely soft and vulnerable with his family. AJ sees that, unlike other people. And he reflects it too. David, although is mostly quiet, will do fucking anything to protect his family, and this man is unhinged. Lance sees. Lance knows.
So, thank you for acknowledging that. It's very important to me that we have different types of intelligence portrayed in fiction, not just people who have high general intelligence. But also emotional intelligence and everything else (there are more than seven types oof).
Love you. See you soon 💙
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Let's Rewind! Toast watches Voltron: Defender of The Universe (1984)
Season 1, Episode 6: The Right Arm of Voltron
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The episode title worries me a bit, what the hell did Lance start now
Castle looks super shiny, how many times did it flash the light in someone's eye lol now some of the Arusians have come by to live in the castle
Hunk reduced to a fat joke, as per usual unfortunately Pidge why did you have to flip to reach the button for the door, you could've just walked
Pidge once again being a cutie, his little arm flaps when he's walking through the pantry is adorable
Nothing good ever lasts, another attack on the castle, but now it's worse because people are living in it
Coran said he was activating the robot defenses so I'm sure that the people I saw manning the turrets outside the castle are supposed to be said robots but I think it's cool that the Arusians just arrived at the castle and some are already fighting for Arus again
Ah, that's why Coran said robots, because people literally die There's the princess taking over for the barely dead guy on the floor Now sporting her typical bun!
OH SHIT THEY'RE FORMING VOLTRON BEFORE FIGHTING A ROBEAST?? I mean there is no robeast yet but my point still stands
"Somehow they built a new castle, it's awesome!" I know awesome is an old word, but man is it weird to hear still
Ok so Allura does have some weird clairvoyant powers then, because Haggar mentions that she's the only other one that knows the secret to make Voltron, and it's because she talks to her dead dad
More discrepancies, Zarkon has been saying he wants Allura brought to him, but only now do we get a reason for it, and apparently he thought she was dead after they first attacked Arus
Oh god is this the episode where Haggar actually does something to stop the team? Not good
Planet Doom is apparently 10 mil light years away from Arus, interesting I do have the canon map of the universe, so I'll have to look at it again to actually see the distance
Damn it we're back at the Galaxy Garrison again, at lease the building looks cool IS THAT THE GUY WHO FUCKS OVER THE TEAM?? MOTHERFUCKER
Why does the Garrison believe that Zarkon was defeated, he has a whole kingdom at his disposal and has literally attacked multiple times before even after Voltron formed Oh ok so this was trying to show that the GG does shit even though they're absolutely useless at best and STILL can't do things for the team like giving them an early attack warning Like their frequencies are blocked because of meteor showers which is why they can't, but man was that scene unnecessary
Allura mans a food cart, more at 10
Hunk reduced to a fat joke again Also, a scene is reused where pidge and hunk try to get more Arusians to come by again
Pidge says he's seen Haggar's cat before, but I don't believe it Yeah, this is the episode I thought was playing last time
Aw cute Lance is protecting Pidge, Very much the second parent to Keith's first
Oh shit both Sven AND Lance run after the cat And now Lance is captured ONLY TO BE SAVED WITH SVEN BY A SWORD LETS GOO
Haggar pulls a hydra on Sven, no matter how many times he slices her she just doubles See you later my dude, don't worry it'll get better because you'll become a trophy husband
Man these fight scenes are weird Pidge Hunk and Allura fuck off to the castle
NO SVEN HE GOT FUCKING TAG TEAMED oh shit blood! That's not something you can easily censor
I like the symbolism from golion seeping into voltron, Sven's sword is still standing after being stuck in the ground, but after Sven begs for the hospital it drops Tears and sorrow, Keith and Lance are crying as they hold their close to death friend This makes for REALLY GOOD LANCE ANGST
Now the robeast attack is ACTUALLY happening, that must be horrifying, losing a friend and the ability to protect the planet I'M SORRY SVEN IS VOLTRONS RIGHT ARM?? BITCH I THINK YOU RIGHT LEG
I can't tell if Lance is being self-sacrificing because of his guilt for leaving Sven alone which got him mortally wounded or not He purposefully led the robeast to a lava pit, so the team would push both of them into it, but then red is immune to really high temps
Well they defeated the robeast by melting it in lava, lucky break They're still celebrating though which I think is weird after your friend has to be sent to a far off planet to get decent medical aid
Episode end! I'm excited to watch golion at the end of this entire thing, the themes just come through because of the animation, it'll probably give me more of what I want tbh
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A potential rewrite of “Beauty and the Feasts”
@pumpkinpaperweight mentioned this in her “No Nuance November” hot takes post and it reminded me of how I’ve completely rewritten this in my head. 
 Now, I feel that I have to say that I liked the IDEA of this chapter. That it was supposed to be a calm chapter amid the what the fuckness  that was QFG. A pause in the ever confusing narrative to allow both the readers and characters to catch up on what’s happened so far if you will. However, I hate the execution of it. So much in fact that I have completely forgotten what happens in canon so heres an outline of what I’ve decided happens in my head instead :D
Ok I haTED how Lancelot has just died (in a pretty traumatic way too) and the gangs just kinda move on and forget about him except for that split second scene w. Guinevere - it's a total disservice to his character and the bond he was beginning to build back up with Tedros
SO how bout instead both Lancelot and tedros survive the attack by the snake 
That way we get a scene of happy reunions - Agatha with tedros & Lancelot (of whom she presumably hasn’t seen since the coronation as well) -and so we have a genuinely happy(ish) scene that isn’t punctured by tedros losing another parental figure yet again
They’re all in a good mood and want to celebrate etc
Lancelot and Tedros have this moment where they’re talking about their last fight with the snake 
Lancelot says all this stuff about how proud of Tedros he is (but in his own special, unique Lancelot way which means he never uses those exact words)
Agatha and Lancelot reunion!!! He says how he's missed the lass and makes some kind of joke about tedros being an ass about how he ignored her those 6 months - they laugh. tedros doesn't. He gives her one of his giant bear hugs (lancelot would give great hugs prove me wrong) 
Rhian comes up to Lancelot being all “you’re my hero 😩 ” “ilysm” etc etc
being the the only character with a braincell Lance just kinda stares at him like “uhhh… aight thanks man” - hes a little sus of this weird lil red head but will obviously take the compliment because he deserves it
Lance is then all like “ahh you kids should celebrate this win” or some other bullshit like that and they do
 but before everyone dissolves to get ready tedros and lance share one final moment where they share astrong handshake and lock eyes then hug because fuck it, why not? It would be a quick hug but I want them to hug in their final moment together dammit
Agatha wears that red dress soman wrote in and tedros wears a crisp black shirt with a chest slit ;) - (idk exactly what he wore during this scene but I do remember thinking that it was horribly ugly and that MY tedros would never wear that so here, have this very basic description of mens wear)
Instead of going to beauty and the feasts they go to Maid Marions arrow (because I say so and for reasons I can’t really explain I just hate that gd restaurant) -  (it also just seems like the inside of Somans mind and I think that is a very scary place to be rn)
Anyway, they’re all having a hullabaloo of a time - everyones drinking and celebrating - ofc Lancelot, robin hood and his merry men are all there too 
At one point tedros convinces agatha to dance - she begrudgingly agrees - it’s an unconventional dance with a lot of fast spins and movements - they’re both laughing, she tells him to slow down. he does not. they continue :)
Meanwhile Sophie still offers Rhian to take her on a date they also go to Maid Marions arrow as well because again I say so - they have their date, sophie is smitten, rhians plan is working 
I also hate the idea of dot being drugged (poor babe didn’t deserve that) and so instead they gave lance the keys to the cell seeing as he’s the only reliable adut in a 50mile radius 
Instead Dot is dancing with beatrix, reena and some other evergirls while Hestadil are still having their cute marshmallow moment together outside 
tagatha are still having a great time on their first (???) date - they decide to go back to their private treehouse a bit earlier than everyone else and ill just leave what happens after that to you shall I? ;)
ANYWAYS as they’re leaving robin notes how much they remind him of Arthur and that hot lady who hung out together that night before Arthurs wedding 
Lance is just like “????? tf” because it couldn’t have been Gwen given they were probably together that night - but robin fucks off  before he could press him on it any further so lance just kinda leaves it for the morning… 
He also notices Rhian briefly leave and since he already found the lad to be a bit sus before, he follows him to overhear Rhian speaking to Kei about the plans and is just like SHITE and goes to tell the rest of the gang that Rhian is weird as fuck 
BUT then the snake appears… and lance, kei and snake boy disaper into the forest while rhian heads back to the bar to keep up his facade (i know this bit doesn’t really make sense because how the fuck is the snake there without the key that lance is yet to give them… idk man just humour me ok)
Everyone has a great rest of night and just assume lance went to bed early since hes old… but instead they wake to find Lancelot dead - his throat slashed, blood everywhere and he’s pinned against a tree and its just not a pretty sight 
The snake has written a message on his chest in blood saying “your fault” - obvioulsy for our good ol’ friend teddy 
Meanwhile, Tagatha is just sleeping in bed, when theres a knock - its the coven trying to break the news of Lancelots death 
Tedros freaks the fuck out and runs to cradle Lancelot’s dead body - Agatha's right behind him and ready to cradle tedros while he cries his heart out with everyone standing around watching 
They have a funeral (idk why but I just picture a Viking type one with them sending him off on the lake at sunset - its all very aesthetic dw) 
after that, everyone starts to leave to get shit ready for the journey to Camelot but tedros is left just still sitting there with Agatha for a lil bit longer 
They then very slowly get up and make their way for the boat to head back to Camelot
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Prompt: A fight over a magic artifact goes wrong and Merlin gets knocked out, wakes up in his bed in Camelot - and soon realizes it's years in the past. Except he can’t tell whether the artifact really sent him back in time or if it’s all some illusion designed to trap and keep him out of the way. Angst potential for being torn between wanting it to be real to have the opportunity to fix things to make a better future and needing to ‘wake up’ to get back to reality and protect his real friends!
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(This is #15 on The List)
Ok, WOW. This is so imaginative and interesting. I love it.
I think I’ll go down a very angsty Illusion route? Maybe Merlin tries to get himself back home at first, but even when he eventually recruits this version of Gaius to help him, they can’t figure out how to send him back, or if there’s even anything to send him back to. Eventually he gives in and just... lives his life. 
Most things are the same, though there are a few things that he changes, both big and small. He and Mordred become best buddies, he tracks Morgana down and manages to persuade her to come home before she does too much damage, he saves Tom the Blacksmith and Lancelot and Gwaine and Elyan (in the OG timeline, everything went canon bar Arthur’s marriage to Gwen, and Arthur’s death). Maybe he even tells Arthur about his magic. Everything is going perfectly, at least compared to the first time round, but he still has this thought in the back of his mind that “none of this is real” for decades. Maybe he and Arthur even get their love confession? On most days Merlin can forget that this... isn’t his life, but it’ll occasionally hit him full force .
Then one day, randomly and with no warning, he wakes up under a blanket next to a campfire three decades previously, the night of the fight. He freaks, the knights are terrified because there wasn’t any physical damage to Merlin but... he definitely got hit with something magical and he was unconscious and now he’s panicking and “fuck, Merlin, what’s wrong?”
Merlin has to ask what year it is. He asks where Lance and Gwaine and Elyan and Mordred and Morgana and Aithusa are, and when he gets his answers he just completely breaks down. Because he didn’t get a second chance. Lance is dead and Gwaine is dead and Elyan is dead and "Who the fuck is Aithusa?” and Morgana and Mordred are dead and before that they were evil.
Eventually they get him to calm down, and he’s so out of it and heartbroken that he just... tells the entire truth. How he’s spent the last three decades fixing everything. He kept Morgana and Mordred on the side of the light and he saved everyone and became Court Sorcerer and... (he manages to keep the whole... King Consort thing to himself, but everything else comes out). “Hold up... magic??” But anyway. They try to persuade him that it was just some sort of magical nightmare and that he’ll forget in a few days, but he has to explain that no. He can’t even remember what his current life looks like, he can’t remember anything about anything, because he just lived a full three decades, felt every second, and is still not entirely sure that it was fake.
ANGST, no clue how I’ll end it. I mean... there isn’t really any sort of recovery from that, but the others feel so guilty they get to legalising magic fairly quickly. Maybe Arthur sulks because Merlin got married (the dumbass is jealous of himself). Maybe they almost kiss at some point down the line, and Arthur is all sulky and “Wait, don’t you want to try find your wife again?” and Merlin is all “Wife? Arthur... you’re the wife.”
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I love this thank you anon!!!
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Blood Moon
Chapter 6
Your eyes flew open as you cried out. You could hear Kylo talking to you but the pain was so intense you couldn’t hear what he was saying. You screamed as pain lanced up your body like a wild fire, your back arched and you heard a pop and your shoulder jolted, your arms were trying to bend in ways that weren’t natural, your eyes widened as you stared at them. Suddenly Kylo’s hands were on your face, making you look at him.
‘Listen to me! You’re changing! Don’t fight it, just let it happen, you could hurt yourself otherwise.’ You screamed again as you felt your teeth grow longer and your face changed. Kylo released you as your scream became a howl, the pain intensified and then eased all of a sudden. You panted, you felt tired and groggy. He crouched down in front of you as your claws scrambled on the hard floor. You tried to ask him what the fuck was happening but it came out as a whine. At least the pain was gone.
‘Why isn’t she going crazy like all new wolves?’ Asked Hux. His voice was loud and you shook your head. You could hear so much it felt like you were going crazy.
‘I don’t know.’ Kylo reached for you and you retreated from him. ‘Can you hear me?’ You think you nodded. You looked around, you were in a room you didn’t know, maybe it was Kylo’s. It smelt like him. You sat down, feeling tired. ‘Go and tell Han and Leia what happened, I’ll stay with her.’ Hux nodded and left. You laid down with a sigh. Kylo shuffled up next to you, his face full of wonder. ‘You do look beautiful.’ He murmured. ‘Can I touch you?’ You let out a low moan. He lay a hand on your head, it felt odd but nice at the same time. Your eyes felt heavy and you managed to drift off to sleep.
When you woke the room was dark, you felt warm and cosy. Memories of what happened flooded back to you, the pain. You leapt up off the floor. You looked down and realised you were naked, but someone had draped a blanket over you.
‘What the fuck?’
‘We still, after thousands of years, haven’t managed to keep our clothes on during a transformation.’ Kylo stretched on as he sat up, he went to put his arms around you, but you felt repulsed as memories plagued your mind and you pushed him away. You didn’t want anyone to touch you. Visions of your arms bending, the sound of bones sliding, grinding and breaking turned your stomach and you nearly gagged.
‘What the fuck happened? I dreamt right? That was a dream?’ You asked. He shook his head slowly.
‘Rose bit you.’ You looked down at your hand, you could see the pink outlines of the bite mark.
‘But it was a dog, a big dog....’
‘A wolf?’ He offered.
‘Where are my clothes?’
‘We managed to get some from your flat.’ Kylo pointed to a pile on the bed. ‘You might want to invest in more.’ You shook your head, this wasn’t real. This wasn’t happening. ‘I’ll let you get dressed. If you want to come down we can explain everything.’ You flinched as he kissed you on the forehead. Feelings rose to the surface, anger, hatred, pain, frustration. You felt lost, these people practically kidnapped you and made you into a monster within the day.
‘Sure, I’ll be down once I’m dressed.’ You said shakily. He closed the door softly behind him. You quickly got dressed and grabbed your bag, your phone was still inside, low battery but you could see you had missed calls and texts from Rey. She was no doubt worried about you. You grabbed a jacket and snuck out of the room. You could hear them all in the kitchen, smells assaulted your nose and you tried to breathe through your mouth, but it made no difference. Their voices sounded distorted but you could still hear everything. They were talking about you. What to do with you. You could smell Kylo the most, you were drawn to him, you wanted to feel safe with him, but you didn’t know if you could trust him anymore. You silently opened the front and slipped out, you began to run, as fast as you could. You followed the road and headed back to town.
You banged on Rey’s door until she answered.
‘Bloody hell Y/N where the fuck have you been?’ You barged inside.
‘Lock the door. Don’t let anyone in, I don’t know how much time I have.’
‘What the fuck is going on??’ The greyhound started snarling at you and you snarled right back, making him cower. ‘Oh fuck.’ Rey hung her head. ‘I had my suspicions but this just confirms it.’
‘What?’ Now you were confused, you were supposed to be telling her you were now a monster, yet she acted like she already knew.
‘They turned you. You’re a wolf now. How did you escape? Gods, how did you survive?’
‘I slipped out the front door, wait. You knew? You know?’
‘Girl that is a story for another time. You need to go back to that house, they will come looking for you.’
‘I don’t want to go back. The things, that happened. I can’t go through that again.’ You rubbed your hand over you face, a smell wafted from your sleeve, it smelled like Kylo. You took a deep breath and rubbed it over your face. Your heart ached, you felt like a piece of you was missing when you weren’t with him.
‘What are you doing?’ You opened your eyes and realised how ridiculous you looked.
‘I, actually, don’t know.’ Rey giggled.
‘This is going to get some getting used to.’ She paused. ‘Did Kylo do this to you?’ You shook your head, just the mention of his name sent a pang into your heart.
‘No, but I feel, like I shouldn’t be away from him.’
‘Like a soulmate?’ You shrugged.
‘I have no idea what it feels like to have a soulmate.’ Rey grabbed your arm.
‘This is serious Y/N. You can’t be away from him for too long, if you are.....’ She paused. ‘Did they explain anything to you?’
‘No, I just left.’ You tilted your head. You heard footsteps. ‘Someone’s coming.’ Rey jumped as someone knocked on the door. You hid in the next room.
‘I know she’s here.’ Your heart fluttered at the sound of Kylo’s voice.
‘Is it just you?’ Rey asked.
‘Yeah, it’s just me.’ You heard him enter the kitchen and you peeked round the doorframe. ‘You didn’t have to run. You weren’t in danger.’ He said to you. The greyhound in the corner growled at Kylo, his eyes flashed yellow and he rumbled back. The dog whined and tried to hide in his basket.
‘Alright enough alpha in my kitchen. Goddess save me.’ You stood by the door, you wanted to hug him, run to him feel safe again but something stopped you. ‘Sit, both of you, let’s talk.’ Kylo sat down at the table and Rey joined him. ‘Alright wolf boy start talking.’
‘She’s my soulmate.’ He shrugged his broad shoulders like that explained everything.
‘I know what that means, you know what that means, Y/N does not.’ Rey grabbed your arm and pulled you towards her. ‘Now explain.’ Kylo shifted in his seat, he looked uncomfortable sitting at her tiny kitchen table. He placed his large hands on the table and looked at you.
‘A soulmate is a very serious thing in our world. They are bonded from the moment they meet, it gets stronger everyday and it’s hard to spend time apart. The connection is solidified once the relationship is, er, once the couple are mated.’ He finished quietly.
‘And you think.....we’re soulmates?’ He nodded, his hazel eyes drawing you in. Suddenly you laughed. You couldn’t help it, it erupted out of you. Rey and Kylo stared at you. You couldn’t help yourself. Everything had happened at record speed, it was like your life was rushing somewhere and you were just along for the ride. Your eyes met with Kylo’s and he actually looked offended by your reaction. You tried to stop but the laughs just kept on coming. You didn’t find the situation funny, far from it, you just had no idea what the hell was going on.
‘Just give her minute, I’ve seen this reaction before.’ Said Rey. You clutched your chest trying to draw in breath as you leaned on the back of her chair. You wiped the tears leaking from your eyes.
‘I’m sorry,’ you laughed again, almost like a bark, you shook your head trying to contain yourself. You took a deep shuddery breath in. ‘Ok. I’m good.’ You looked at Kylo. He looked sad, and it hurt you, like someone had run a knife lightly over your chest. ‘What happens now?’
‘You need to return to the house, where we can keep you safe, keep pedestrians safe.’ He replied.
‘You make it sound like I’m dangerous.’ Kylo looked at Rey for help.
‘Listen, we know you’re not dangerous but if a change was to happen and you couldn’t control it, Y/N, you could kill people. You’re a new wolf that’s even more dangerous.’
‘She didn’t act like one after her first change.’ Kylo interjected.
‘Huh,’ Rey studied you. ‘That’s really quite rare.’
‘Possibly a dormant gene.’ Rey nodded in agreement. You pushed her away from you.
‘How do you know all this shit?’ You demanded. ‘I had no idea about any of this, I went into that house you didn’t even warn me.’
‘I am a witch. I could spot wolf boy here off a mile away. I never wanted you to be a part of this world, I always tried to keep it from you. But you just, were different to all the other common people. Now I know why.’ You glared at her. You clutched your head as it felt like it might explode.
‘I think we’ve overwhelmed her enough for today.’ Kylo’s deep voice seemed to calm your rising anxiety. He rose slowly and put a hand on your arm, you instinctively grabbed his forearm, tight. He grunted slightly his eyes widened. ‘You are strong.’ You released him and he pulled you close. His smell was stronger, more intoxicating you buried your face in his shirt almost like you couldn’t get enough of him. Your nostrils flared.
‘Ok that I won’t get used to.’ Exclaimed Rey. ‘Did you guys want to stay here tonight? I can put wards on the doors.’ Kylo nodded.
‘I think that would be best.’
‘Ok I’ll pull out the sofa bed in the living room, help me get the bedding.’ She pulled your arm and you peeled yourself away from Kylo.
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thenixkat · 3 years
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Voltron notes 1 (edited?)
Ep 1
No spoiler opening theme
Those are some skinny ass space suits. Shouldn’t they have like tethers and shit to keep them from accidently floating off?
Harvesting ice cores on Pluto or Kerberos or whatever
They wanna meet aliens
No one notices the ship until its right on top of them. Shiro just assumes its a hostile ship
Bullshit and lazy. Fuckin aliens speaking and understanding English
Also Shiro looks so much better with the darker skin. Like, bring back this look.
This ship is very green and that’s unusual compared to later lighting schemes 
Lance is a dick to his friend
Also, you’d think an air and space program would weed out the folks with motion sickness
Lance is overestimating the abilities of himself, the crew, and the ship
Welp, Hunk fucked up the electronics with the barf. Pidge fell from not using her seatbelt. 
Mutanious comments.  
Lance got the team killed
Iverson called them jackasses
I know I shouldn’t be mentioning stuff that hasent happened yet but like? How the fuck does Iverson not recognise Pidge? She looks just like her brother but tiny and that didn’t raise any alarms? She didn’t even dye her hair or anything? Also is her mom ok with this? Is she skipping out on her classes that she should be having as Katie?
Vomit is not an approved lubricant. Heh 
One of those chicks has green hair
Military exploration school
Pidge doesn’t know how to keep her mouth shut
Lance is a fuckin bro
Why is Iverson chewin out Lance for something Pidge said?
Poor Lance
Lights out by five? And it's already getting dark?
Ok but Lance and Hunk in civilian clothes makes them stand out so much while they’re trying to sneak around. WHy not carry backpacks with their regular clothes in them while they wear the uniforms until they find a safe place to change. 
Lance is that friend who gets everyone into trouble
Have I mentioned that I hate fat jokes?
Also these kids are shit at sneaking. They didn’t even wait a minute to make sure the patrol dude couldn’t just turn his head and see them. They also made a shit ton of noise.
Pidge is bad at sneaking too, didn’t make sure she wasn’t followed and didn’t keep an eye out for anyone who might spot her on the roof.
Hunk is scared of heights
Pidge is bad at lying
Hunk is nosey af
Lance is trying to be a good team leader
Pidge is trying to uncover a government conspiracy and picked up alien radio chatter. 
If a teenager with little funds and homemade equipment can pick up alien radio chatter than the people who listen to the stars for a living sure as shit picked this shit up.
Lance doesn’t believe in aliens.
Hunk is scared of aliens
School is on lock down
Holy crow. Lance is a potty mouth
Hunk didn’t believe in aliens either
Pidge and Lance jump at the chance to go check out a crashed alien ship. Hunk doesn’t like this.
How the fuck did Pidge remotely hack a camera feed?
Ok but like it makes total sense for them to quarantine Shiro. He might have space pox.
Also Shiro’s skintone changes between 2 dif frames
Hunk neither knows nor cares who Shiro is. And is trying to be the voice of reason
I’m taking that as a fat joke. So fuck you show.
Where’d Keith get the hover car?
Where does Keith get all the explosives? Does he make them?
Lance spotted his eternal rival and doesn’t want to be beat in rescuing the hero. Hunk knows who Keith is
Pidge doesn’t know who Keith is
Why’d they choose that ugly ass tone for Shiro there? He looks kinda grey
Lance was not important enough for Keith to remember him
They’re making Keith take them along for the ride. Also that is not a vehicle designed to carry so many people.
Keith’s got snark.
Pidge yer not doing anything else the least you can do is be useful and keep Shiro from falling off the bike.
Hunk can identify every teacher chasing them
Keith is having fun driving while everyone else screams in terror
So Shiro’s just wearing Keith’s dad’s clothes
Convenient amnesia
Also Shiro’s got a generic ass masculine face
Keith can sense energy
So, those markings and paintings had to have been made by some Native Americans. Which group? What’s the timeframe? Those paintings are showing Blue do stuff so how long was her pilot still around and kicking for? Did she have other pilots before going into lockdown and just chose to stay on Earth? How’d she get to Earth in the first place if fish dude probably died in battle with Galra forces?
Lance hesitates b4 shaking the mystery alien cyborg hand
Hunk is nervous that there might be an alien invasion soon.
Hunk is nosey as hell and a bit of a dick
If I point out everything that is or probably is a fat joke I’ll be here forever
Hunk is smart as hell
Matching a wavelength of an element to a terrain carved by erosion? What? That’s not how anything works
Wait, if Keith has pics of the murals why didn’t they start looking there?
Yeah no those kids are hurt, possibly dead from that fall
The Voltron
The eyes have no pupils and the head isn’t moving, how can you tell the eyes are following you?
So did all of the lions pick these kids and college student from seeing them through Blue’s perspective? How does the lion choosing thing work?
Hunk states the obvious
How is Lance supposed to read the screen when the text is constantly changing. That’s not how computer.
Lance takes Blue on a joy ride and even Keith is not having fun
Also Blue is just fucking up the poor desert
Hunk is a little bitch who thinks giving people what they want will stop them
Holy crow. Hunk has a potty mouth.
So there’s just like a Galra ship right at Earth. The Galra know where Earth is and probably invade it. We just gonna forget about that? Like yes that ship is chasing the lion but nothing is stopping more galra going to Earth.
Shiro is the senior officer so Lance defers to him
So the lions can open wormholes on their own.
Hunk vomits inside Blue
Lance why?
How did none of them notice the castle. Like that is a massive ass castle
They just didn’t check to see if the air was human breathable
Pidge, why the fuck would the steps be bigger if the control seat of the lion was human sized?
Alien tech speaks english
Why do they reuse Cree’s voice for so much
Why do aliens from 10000 yrs ago fucking speak english
Also fucking elves
Also fucking Europeans
Rude. Allura’s first response to meeting an alien is insulting his species looks
Quiznak. Coran has a potty mouth
Also how the fuck do you know anything about this alien’s biology? Why the fuck would a sleeper hold fucking work?
SO why didn’t Alfor use the ‘strongest weapon in the universe’ to fight Zarkon? What, did Black not want any other paladin than Zarkon?
Alfor lies to children.
So how did they send away the other 4 lions? Alfor probably got caught and killed but like from that flashback ep the other three og paladins weren’t in their armor nor shown near the lions or anything. Did the lions hide themselves? Did they have other paladins that piloted them away?
King of the Galra? Bitch he was an emperor well before his fall you should know this.
Convenient amnesia.
How long is the average Galra lifespan?
Could Haggar not? Sense the Blue lion on Earth? How?
Also Haggar really went and got herself a whole ass monster husband
Zarkon calls in the squad. Sends Sendak to fuck shit up
Lance is not good with numbers
Sigh
How do yall even know the food in the castle is safe for humans?
Coran how the fuck u know yall the last Alteans left? Did ya fuckin look?
How the fuck did some nasty ass mice get into the fucking cryopod? How did they survive in a cryopod calibrated for an altean? Why are the mice necessary to the story?
How do the alteans recognize a galra battleship after 10000 yrs?
Lance starts a fight with Keith for no reason. Shiro breaks up the fight.
Did I mention that I hate body functions humor? 
Why and how did Alfor connect the lions to Allura’s life force?
Coran just straight up called Pidge a slightly less stupid than average primitive. Racist as fuck.
Lion’s choose their paladin so Allura just fucking assigns lions to aliens she’s known for less than an hour.
How does she know anything about these aliens? Its been less than 5 mins since she met them.
How the fuck does Allura know here all the lions are but the red one?
How do we know Voltron is the most powerful in the universe? They ain’t seen the entire universe
How do the Alteans know how long an earth hour is?
So an altean brought Green to this planet?
What the fuck kinda dumb ass rabbits come out of hiding when they know strange creatures are near?
To be fair, peaceful might mean something else in Altean. They are fucking space Brits
Hunk asks good questions when he’s not stating the obvious
Also that is a barren ass planet. But it was formerly inhabited.
Hunk rewires alien machinery while under heavy fire
Why does it take so long for yellow’s murals to start glowing? Was Yellow thinking about whether or not she wanted Hunk as her Paladin? Yellow really said if you want me you gotta put in effort.
The Galra were this close to getting Yellow too.
Pidge asks questions.
Who built that pyramid for Green and why did they let it get overgrown?
Pidge somehow didn’t break a leg from that jump
So I’m gonna assume that Blue told Yellow what was up
How well can Yellow move through rock?
Green really wanted Pidge. Like she was lighting shit up immediately.
So Blue actually got pretty damaged from regular ship fire and hiding the ground wrong
Hunk would apparently have let Lance die
Pidge and Shiro are some lyin ass bitches
Lord of the Known Universe. Most of the Galra empire is empty space
It took 600 yrs between a grandfather and grandson altean?
Lance and Hunk vote run
Pidge votes stay and fight
Um. Why would the Galra fuck up Arus when yall are the top priority? Like, sure they can come back for it but the lions are a bigger deal and thus they would chase yall over take Arus
Hunk is making very good points
Also Keith, while Sendak could destroy Arus and then come after yall. It’d be a waste of time and resources. 
Keith votes stay and fight
Shiro chooses not to vote
Alfor’s hologram admits he fucked up with sending the lions away
Allura votes stay and fight and I guess Coran isn’t voting like Shiro
Fuck you show. Why did we need eighteen thousand fuckin fat jokes?
Coran is an asshole
Ok but like that doesn’t look like a good chest plate? Like it looks like if they bent over they’d get poked/stabbed by it? And what’s up with the high sides of the belts?
What the fuck Pidge?! That coulda killed Lance or taken him out for a good while?
Wait, if the ship has a thing that can like just fucking make suits? Why can't they just make more bayards? Why wouldn’t Alfor design something to make more bayards?
Why doesn’t the galra ship have rear view cameras?
Wait! How the fuck do you cut a hole in a space ship and that not fuck with pressurization or set off any safety allarms?! The fuck kinda bullshit is that?
Sendak? Why do you expect aliens to know what that beam was for if you didn’t tell them?
~False surrender is a fucking war crime b/c it removed the option of surrendering for real if the need arrives so it leads to more fucking people dying~
No they didn’t Shiro. Battleships are things that get mass produced. If this is the exact same ship u got put in after the green one then that is bullshit on a cosmic scale.
Shiro is ok with letting prisoners die. Pidge is not, granted it's probably b/c she thinks her family might be on there.
Poor Mrs. Holt. She just got fuckin forgotten by everyone.
So Pidge has an outburst and fucking disobeys the mission leader. Shiro decides to help her just b/c he might know one or two of the people he was willing to let die. And they leave Keith with no fucking backup.
Keith would have legit died if the guards remembered that they have fucking guns and can shoot him when he dropped his shield. Which means Keith would have died if not for plot bullshit b/c his teammates don’t particularly care about his health and safety. Pidge and Shiro care more about the male Holts than Keith and all of the other prisoners that might be on the ship.
Wow.
How does Keith not hold this against them?
No the mice were not necessary, not if either of these dunces whent and opened the control panel from the other side.
That sounds like bullshit. 
Ya know I didn’t have any problems with Hunk the engineer being able to operate an alien elevator or drill by hotwiring shit. But I do call bullshit on Pidge reprogramming a sentry pod thing by changing the connection of one wire.
I still call bullshit on aliens speaking english and all atmospheres being 100% agreeable to humans. B/c that is bullshit
And why the fuck would the color of Rover’s lights fucking change?
… they only checked one fucking room for prisoners but that’s  it I guess? The fuck
Why did the Red lion let the Galra take her? Did she consider that one of the galra on the ship might make a good paladin for her?
Keith gets caught b/c his dumb ass starts shouting on a stealth mission
Keith, they already have the lion. Yer the one trying to take it
Like I said previously the guards forget they have guns and thus Keith lives.
So… how did Keith impress the Red lion? He fought people, lost and blew out the airlock. Which is still a loss if the lion didn’t feel like saving him.
Vore
Guards continue to forget they have fucking guns for plot reasons.
Hunk and the gang leave without destroying the enemy ship or making sure that its irreparably damaged
Coran, Lance, and Hunk have foul mouths
And this is why you fucking confirm yer kill
Why isn’t there a combine button?
Heh, Yellow’s face after slamming Red. Also Red looks so offended about being rammed. 
What the cheese
Hunk’s gone into panic mode and Keith has accepted death.
Shiro gives a speech and they form Voltron
Why are the bad guys giving them the time to form voltron?
Why doesn’t Voltron have a tail? Where does Black’s tail go? Voltron should have a tail.
Any other prisoners on that ship are dead as fuck
How did I watch this show  the first time? It's not good. It’s pretty but it is not good.
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Eldarya sims trial run
It started so well guys, so so well...
Immediately the game recognised Erika as the innocent hero personality and I thought wow ok, I must have done something right, also she was instantly attracted to Nevra which makes sense, Nevra is hot. But, instead of flirting with him...
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Not even one minute into the game she starts flirting with Lance.
YOU GO GIRL
And two minutes later
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SUCCESS!
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(Nevra decided it was better to risk suicide in the sun than staying in the house while Erika and Lance were banging)
I was like... am I done already? I was pretty satisfied.
Remember I’m giving no commands, I’m letting them act completely autonomously.
I decided to let things go for a couple of sim-days... just to see what would happen... well...
I should’ve stopped here 😡
This is what happened. The moment Erika and Lance stopped banging, after a bit of flirting post-coitus, they started actually talking and realised... they hate each other. 
From this
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We went to this in a matter of one day
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😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
she’s good and he is mean and they don’t get along
Meanwhile, there was a bigger problem. Six people and one bed.
They started all getting grumpy and super tired, Ezarel hoarded the bed for hours and no one kicked him out.
(Actually, there was even a neighbour who came and started masturbating while looking at Ezarel sleep from outside the window... reminded me of someone 🙄)
I had to add a couple of sofas, this is the only action I personally did, but it wasn’t enough, Erika was too tired and not in the mood to do anything, they were all grumpy and tired, Erika kept getting in and out of the bedroom waiting for Ezarel to wake up.
The only relaxed person was Nevra because he had slept in the afternoon, so this is what happened 😭
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What the heck 😭
In all this, Nevra was very uncomfortable while being brutally dommed, because he hadn’t drank blood from anyone yet and was letting himself starve, so I waited to see what would happen, and after another day 
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he helped himself with Ezarel... it really is true that Nevra prefers drinking from the Absynth guard... of all people that’s who he picked.
But why was Ezarel still in the bedroom? Well... a few hours earlier...
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and right after
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I realised that sims won’t share a bed unless they are intimate, so my theory is that Ezarel banged Leiftan only because he wanted to be able to sleep in the bed 😂 he was the only one always completely rested because he had two good nights of sleep in a row, everyone else was dead tired and this is how Erika ended up
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She really can’t survive on her own, luckily she had already slept with Lance so he probably took pity on her on the third night
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and while these two where finally resting
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Told you that Valkyon was into chocking!
I was about to end it here, but I wasn’t satisfied because the game had started so well, but then Erika hadn’t managed to really sleep in 3 days so she was completely useless and the guys were left to their own devices, because they had nothing else to do they had started banging each other. So I thought to at least wait and see what Erika would do once she was fully rested.
Well, this is what happens the moment she wakes up
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Let me remind you, she and Lance HATE each other at this point, while she spent 3 days where she couldn’t sleep and just talk to people, so now she was sort of in love with Leiftan (relationship status lovebirds)
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The point is... while she loves one and hates the other... she still decided to bang them both?! ERIKA ONE OF US! (the things that happened in that shower........ daemon/dragon sandwich wins)
And the moment they were done, this happened
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Ezarel... 😓 they survived... barely... but that’s when I decided it was over. The kitchen was now useless, the fridge and the toilet both broken, everyone was tired, if I let it go for a couple more days I’m sure they would all ended up dead.
I’d say this experiment also failed, partially, not so much because they were all horny like the Moonlight family, but because they really can’t survive if left alone. The few times they started banging it was because they were bored.
But not Erika. Erika flirted with everyone and then carefully selected her two targets. She’s Queen.
But also very stupid because she was letting herself die of lack of sleep.
What have we learned from all this?
- Leiftan is a sub with everyone, gets sad when he sees other people happy romantically and does small mean acts of evilness as a revenge (he kicked the trash bin and let all its content spill).
- Erika flirts with everyone but Leiftan is her soulmate which is both accurate and strange? Because I gave her the goodness trait and Leiftan the evil trait so they should not get along, and you can see they have some disagreements when they talk but still love each other.
- At the same time Erika is very much attracted to Lance, more than anyone else, but can’t stand talking to him for more than two minutes. They hate fuck and then fight.
- If left alone, Erika gets along with the good guys but always picks team evil.
- Valkyon spent his time exercising and napping, the one time he had sex he was incredibly rough and wild, and into choking.
- Ezarel spent most of his time reading, and was smart enough to always get the bed and be well rested. Also, he was often horny even for the neighbours.
- Nevra didn’t do much, he was almost like a secondary character absent from the game... attractive and flirty but no actions to remember.
That’s it. All in all... I’m shocked by HOW ACCURATE THAT WAS?!?!?!
Ignoring the guys banging each other a few times out of boredom...... Isn’t this exactly Eldarya?
I think that once I give each one their own bed and firm sexual preferences, this may turn out pretty good.
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Remember me pt . 8
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Fandom: My Hero Academia
Summary: Bakugou has to remind his wife why she married him after she loses all her memories of them ever meeting. 
Pairing: Bakugou x OC 
Notes: I was thinking of maybe doing some My Hero Academia requests? Idk life seems to be slowing down a little. 
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“So what’s up with you and metalhead?” Kirishima asked as the heroes slowly rode the bus they had been given back to the large glass building. Bakugou, who had been peacefully resting, peeked an eye open glaring at the redhead who was smiling at him.
“Who?” The blonde knew who he was talking about. But he wasn't about to let Kirishima know he knew.
“The girl with the Gojra shirt.”
“Nothing.” eyes closed, head resting back angst the headrest as if that was the end of the conversation. However, with Kirishima it never was.
“You guys talked, did you get her number?”
That comment didn’t even deserve a response. Or the weird way his stomach clenched when it was asked.“No, why would I?”
“Because you like her” Kirishima poked him in the side or tried too but Bakugou swatted it away never opening his eyes.
“I don…”
“Tell me you at least you got her number.”
“Why do you care?” that one had a bit of a bite to it. A warning to back off.
“You didn’t! Bro…” disappointment lanced in the red head’s voice. As if Bakugou had just told him he was giving up on becoming number one or something. It was just some girl’s number.
“We are only here for a few more weeks--” Bakugou started to reason but was once again cut off.
“Oh look there she is, you can ask her out now.”
Bakuoug’s eyes opened looking out the window to see her talking to a few of her coworkers. Well, he assumed they were coworkers since she regularly talked to them. One of them, a guy, leaned forward annoying close to her to tell her something that made her laugh.
Something inside him made him hot. That same feeling he would get in high school when Deku would steal the spotlight. Would do something that would make everyone think he was better than he was. He wasn’t better. And neither was this guy.
As the bus stopped letting everyone out he walked out and stepped up to the group.
“Hey Olive”
She turned her face breaking into a smile as she saw him. “Hello, Bakugou. Beautiful weather isn’t it?” He knew her overly formal way of speaking was her lack of knowledge in the Japanese language but it still bothering him a little. She was obviously not a very formal person with her coworkers.
“I’m back for the weekend, I’m taking you to dinner.” Right to the point. He had never been one for small talk.  
“I’m free Saturday,”  she didn’t even bother asking where or when
“6 here,” he nodded. With the plans made he walked off not bothering -daring- to look back. However, he was able to catch that annoying guy ask about the interaction.
“What did he say?”
“Nothing important”
“It looked important,” one of the girls said her voice hitching in that weird squeak sound that girl would get when they were telling each other secrets.
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Bakugo was dealing with two issues that were making his life a living hell.
Ok maybe that was a little dramatic but… making his life hard
One was sleeping next to Olive.
Sleeping next to someone you are physically attracted to and have had an intimate relationship with before is normally fine but as the days wear on, your body starts to crave them. It’s as if no matter how much you remind your bain it's your body that you have to fight. It knows that the warm body next to it makes it feel so good. It wants those feelings again.
And it had been a while.
in fact, besides that odd mission that took longer than it should plus healing after this might be the longest they had ever gone without having sex.  
His body burned next to hers and the fact that he couldn't touch her was slowly starting to eat him alive. He kept telling himself he was stronger than this. That he could keep his sexual urges at bay but in the dark of the night where all he could do was feel the warmth of her body surrounded by her scent, it was madding.
One night she had moaned in her sleep and reached out her fingers brushing his torso. So touched starved and horney he was wide awake in seconds and so hard it was almost painful.
He was getting in a lot more late-night workouts.
Which just lead to him being more tired and grumpy. Everything seemed to irritate him now.
Which led to his second problem
Trying to get everyone to show up at the same place at the same time.
Trying to organize his old classmates was like herding cats. Not only did the conversation derail at every glimmer of an opportunity but their lives were so busy just getting that many heroes to have a few hours off was near impossible.  
It could also be partly (mostly) his fault. If he was being REALLY honest with himself. (Self refection seemed to be an ongoing theme since this whole fucking issue had happened.) Bakugou may not have really wanted them to be there. He hated the idea of everyone knowing what was going on in their marriage. Their problem was unique and kind of intimate and he hated the idea that somehow he may have failed Olive.
So he was dragging his feet.
That was until she came back from therapy with puffy red eyes unable to look at him. The moment she walked into the apartment he was instatly clued in knowing something was wrong because she didn’t even greet Dolemite who came crying up to her in excitement at her being home. He could hear her mumbling something and then a soft wet laugh.
Shit.
He was looking over the reports on her case again. Pouring over each detail as if something would pop out at him. There was still nothing -besides the American angle- that seemed to link the two of them. But he couldn’t give up, if he focused harder, kept looking something would popup.
Or that was what he was telling himself until something else demanded his attention. Something much worse walked into the living room. Olive, looking completely defeated.
“Oh shit” she mumbled, catching his gaze a look of surprise on her face, “ you're not at work?”
“No, I only went in for a few hours.” he decided now was not the time to work on her Japanese. The way she looked. It made him sick. He wanted to go right over to that therapist and pound him (or her) into the ground. How dare they make Olive cry like that.
Looking away she coughed, “I’m going to wash up” she mumbled wiping the back of her hand across her face.
“Ok” he watched her go as the door closed behind her he heard her let out a choked sob. It shot through him like a bullet. Worse than any punch he had ever taken. Worse than anything he had ever felt.
He had thought it was getting better.
Apparently not.
He knew he should just leave it. Just let her work out whatever leftover emotions she was dealing with from Therapy. She obviously wanted her privacy closing the door and not making eye contact with him. But he couldn’t help it. Getting up he walked up to the door leaning against it leaning against the door. His back to it trying to see if he could hear anything.
It was muffled but her voice was loud enough fro him to catch a few phrases.  
“I can’t do this Lilly” her voice was soft. “I just want to be happy. I just want to stop missing him.”
“Do you think you were the all sunshine and roses the first time around?” Lilly was obviously on speaker muffled by the door. “You need to stop putting those impossible standards on yourself”
“But I’m not just hurting, I’m hurting him too.”
Him, she meant Bakugou. He frowned, his heart pounding. She was crying because she was hurting him. As if he needed to be protected. It was almost laughable
“He’ll get over it” was Lilly’s soft voice. “He’s a big boy”
Olive let out another sob saying something about unfair and something else he couldn’t make out. Bakugou’s fists clenched angrily, feeling them grow hot small pops erupting in his hands. He didn’t care if it was planned or not, he was going to find that memory querk guy and beat him to a bloody pulp for making Olive feel like this.
His phone vibrated and he looked down to See Kirishima saying he just got off.
Letting out a low growl he shot off a text to the group,
Whoever can make it show up the rest of you losers can just die.
Olive came out 10 mins later. She had washed her face and she looked much cleaner and less, distressed. Finding Bakugou on the couch she smiled waving at him.
“So I was thinking maybe we go out for dinner? Do something fun?” she looked as if she hadn’t just been having a mental breakdown in the bedroom. All smiles and sunshine. That was his girl. A fighter, never settling for anything less than the best. Nothing could keep her down for long.
“Well good because we are meeting some people for dinner and drinks.”
This time her smile reached her face as she lit up. “Really who!?! Is it Kirishima?” she quickly switched to the Japanese trying to get in as much practice as she could.
“ Among a few others yes,”
Letting out a squeal she turned, “What would I wear? Is it a nice dinner?”
“Cute, not fancy.” walking past her he lead her back into thei bedroom. Her bouncing behind him like a puppy into their shared closet all smiles and giggles. Grabbing a black dress that he loved her in he handed it to along with a red leather jacket.
“Thank you Katsuki,” she said looking at the clothes. Nodding he turned to grab his own outfit. He could hear her rushing toward the bathroom to change and probably put some makeup on.
“You have 30 minutes to get ready” he called after her as the phone in his pocket blew up with texts on who was coming and when they would be showing up.
Let’s just get this over with. He thought as he quickly changed going out to the bedroom he jumped onto the bed looking over the texts waiting for Olive to finish up. 45 minutes later Olive appeared. He was about to give her shit for taking so long but when he saw her standing there he just about had a heart attack.
Dressed in that cute little black dress he had forgotten how good it looked on her. Hugging each curve giving just enough cleavage to show off but not enough to be scandalous. The little heeled booties make her legs look amazing.
Oh god.
Her makeup was done all smokey and her hair had a bit of a messy curl in it giving her a bit of a rocker vibe. It took all his will power to not pull her onto the bed and just take her right there.
He wanted to so badly
“Too much? ” she asked fidgetting with the hem of her leather jacket. One he had gotten for her a few months ago after watching her admire it in a shop window.
“ No, ” he said, getting up, “ let’s go. ”
“I’m kind of nervous” she mumbled following him out. Her English words clean and clear giving off her true emotions.
“ You said you wanted this, ” he said looking at her continuing in Japanese so that she could get as much practice in. Their friends English ranged from ok to nonexistent so she needed to be ready, “ And it’s not like they don’t know you.”  
“I just… yeah” she muttered her gaze looking away from him. He instantly regretted teasing her.
“ These are kids from UA, all proheros now. And they like you. ” he paused fighting back a smile at the memories of her meeting them all for the first time, “ Probably more than me. ”
“I doubt that ” was her response as she bit her upper lip.
“ Stop that, ” he said, shoving her slightly with his shoulder. She turned confused. “ Worrying ,” he pointed to his lip to indicate he saw what she was doing.
“ Ok .” she nodded as they walked, their hands kept brushing finally she just reached out grabbing his. He looked down at her fingers wove into this and he felt painfully aware of how it made him feel. How he wanted to just pull her closer to him. Take her away to somewhere quiet, alone. Make her remember him. Remind her body at least of how it loved him. But he didn’t just walking with her. Feeling like they were marching toward their death sentience.
His friends better behave.
To say Bakugou had two problems was putting it lightly
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