#Modern assassin verse

[mettleborn]

Mr & Mrs Smith - closed starter for @xgoldxnhour

The questions asked aren’t extremely intrusive but they are strangely specific; ranging from favourite foods, books, films and clothing brands, to more personal themes of sexual attraction and previous failed relationships. Throughout it all Samuel answers honestly, eyes fixed on the blinking red light ahead, the only indication that the computer system in front of him is observing and most likely monitoring the quality of both his answers and his physical reactions. It’s a surreal process, devoid of any human interaction and in truth, it is only when the machine through which his potential employer is communicating, asks if he is willing to relocate, that Sam is forced to pause. Admittedly he likes living in Seattle and can’t imagine living anywhere else, but if he is going to make the most of this opportunity, he knows he needs to be flexible. Living elsewhere at least avoids the complexity of bumping into family or friends and being forced to lie about his work, his life and his new wife - that is the only part of this process which he is confident about from his texts with the organisation; he won’t be working alone. From what he understands, if selected, he’ll be in deep cover with a partner, one he hopes has a decent kill count and sense enough to keep them both from getting in over their heads.

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It is less than a week later that he arrives in front of a large town house in Manhattan. It’s a big place, clearly expensive, most likely a family home – certainly a significant departure from his average rent bachelor pad in Seattle. Entering with the key that was couriered to him, Sam finds himself creeping slowly inside despite the fact it is obvious no one else is here. Carefully placing his bags down onto the freshly polished wooden floors, he takes the opportunity to have a quick look around. For a new home, the place feels strangely lived in – the bookshelves are filled with some of his favourite authors and the fridge is stocked with many of his favourite foods and soda. Noticing a case of his preferred brand of beer, Sam makes a mental note to return for one after he’s finished unpacking.

Walking through from the kitchen to the large living area, which looks ideal for entertaining company, he notices another set of bags set down beside the sofa, left stranded similarly to his own. Hearing a small scuffle Samuel turns swiftly to see a small ginger cat begin to rub its face against the side of the sofa before moving towards him, clearly seeking some attention. Bending, Sam rubs his palm along the length of its back, watching as it arches in response, the action causing a soft smile; weird, it must have come with the house.

Moving through the rooms, Sam discovers a door with a discreet fingerprint locking mechanism, pressing his thumb to it expectantly, it immediately opens, allowing him access. Upon entering, he finds himself face to face with a stranger, presumably his new housemate, or should he say wife. Oh, she’s pretty, the kind of pretty that looks like butter wouldn’t melt in fact, certainly not the kind of woman who looks like she is an accomplished assassin or mercenary of some kind; that is a strength of course; to disguise her threat so naturally - no one would see her coming, not even Sam himself.

“Hi, I’m…” Pausing for a second, Sam suddenly realises that to use his real name in a situation like this would probably be foolhardy. “I’m John, John Smith…and you must be…Jane.”

#[samuel silas] blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice #Mr & Mrs Smith verse #xgoldxnhour #Eloise #Closed Starter #((This was a great idea! Hope this starter works for you!)) #Modern assassin verse

[yanlei-a]

base verse zed is kayn's dad for all intents and purposes even if they don't call each other that but modern verse zed is his actual dad officially the boy was adopted and i also think modern verse zed is a lot better at that and communicating and making sure kayn knows he's loved and that his dad is proud of him and having fun together and grounding him sometimes when he's being a pest but you know a lot more openly affectionate than base verse i think

#not just with kayn but all his kids #'all' but i think i'm settling for 2 #kayn always being non negotiable #plus the shadow assassin bc i just really like her lmao #one of her dying lines is 'master...' and zed interacts with her she is his daughter idc #anyway. zed went to parents and teachers meetings and everything kasdnfaksdfn #he loves his kids #sure he taught them how to fight and kill but that's. also because he loves them #better they know and can defend themselves you know #especially considering that even before they got involved on the criminal business their dad would be #and he's not about to let his family be endagered and incapable of defending themselves #» out of character — ⌜main sup irl.⌟ #» verse — ⌜modern.⌟

[axolotlart]

I wanted to draw a picture with Miguel O'Hara and well, I imagined a scene where Kaniehtí:io finds him and since she thinks he's an intruder, I think he hits him with a broom (the anatomy is from the ass)

#assassin's creed #assassins creed iii #kaniehtí:io #ziio #miguel o'hara #spiderverse fanart #spider man: across the spider verse #alternative universe #modern au

[sasorikigai]

Have y’all watched the new John Wick trailer OMG. I’m dying over this look, and I really think his character is gonna die after fighting Wick.

#✗ the ineffable testimony of spawned hellfire (scorpion) #✗ ugly syllables of conjured vindictive crimson (modern au) #✗ undaunted intensity of solar flare (old guard au) #✗ there is a bullet for everyone (assassin/hitman verse) #(john wick 4) #(this is such a look)

[khronoes]

thinking of princess malini who was almost burned at the pyre by her brother, deciding to overthrow him and become empress herself and killing his own men by setting them on fire with flaming arrows. what a woman !!!

#i will not stop talking about her even with zero context for anyone else who hasn't read AHSUFJKA #mother malini and elder priya just mean...... so much to me ...... #her brother is just such a slimy man.....ican't believe #malini's modern verse would be similar except he'd probably be the heir to a family fortune or something #and tried to have her assassinated #and now she's coming! for his throat! #i'll drop little blurbs for my niche muses one day #today is not that day

[decaeysa]

i realise i’ve never actually written up my modern akali verse anywhere (aside from the one carrd i had that i accidentally deleted that one time /screaming and crying) so i’m gonna work on that tonight

#* MISC : OUT OF CHARACTER. #the non-kda modern verse #which is more centred around assassin / yakuza stuff

[tempesttragedya]

@athousandmilesandcounting​ liked for Celia

“Do I know you?” she eyes him somewhat suspiciously, uncertain as to why the stranger seemed so familiar. arms cross as she regards the stranger for a long moment, frowning. “You don’t have a price on your head, do you?” 

#ic: Celia Clarke: Modern #it's bc Laura is a fan and they're friends #but sure Celia #jump right to that #monster hunter / assassin #/ mercenary #she does what she gotta do #athousandmilesandcounting #athousandmilesandcounting & Celia 01 #verse: Modern Fantasy

[gcdisms]

BORNCHAOS.         MY GIRL'S READY TO TAKE CONTROL, SHE JUST BLOWS MY MIND.   she only listens to the radio to see who's alive, she wakes up scared of getting old, she don't feel no shame , she knows so many pretty boys and they are all the same, they said   " hey there girl, tell me what do you do ? "  she said,     " um, nothing but i'm damn sure it's more than you "     THAT GIRL'S A GENIUS ! ©

#if the promo ain't broke i dont have to fix it <3 #but im in the mist of rewriting verses so just bare with me i have a lot to say SDIOFHOFIHSDOF #the walking dead rp #twd rp #apocalypse rp #modern rp #assassin's creed rp #tftbl rp #oc rp #watchdogs rp #wd rp #ubisoft rp #watch dogs rp #bro idk how to tag this #like 12 years roleplaying i still dont know how promos work #SHDOFIHSDIOFHSDF

[mettleborn]

@wrathfulmercy

#((I'm terrible at these but I wanted to put something together XD)) #Rick x Sam - would you die for me? #[samuel silas / guise] gunsmoke mingling its acrid blue with the brown haze of corral dust #[samuel silas / aesthetic] that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom #Rick Grimes #wrathfulmercy #Modern assassin verse

[lamnta-arc]

@thebestplayer​          |          ONE - LINER  STARTER  CALL .

❝    a  word  of  advice    —    keep  your  head  down.    this  isn’t  a  place  to  attract  unwanted  attention .    ❞

#thebestplayer #( modern assassin verse tbt . ) #ok this one can be for james #but it's also very vague so i invite u to choose who u would like <33

[kitxkatrp]

Tag Dump 15

#{ Xerxes Break: Give Me Some Sugar Genderbent AU } #{ Jack Vessalius: Mask After Mask Canon-ish Verse } #{ Jack Vessalius: Hero of the Tragedy AU } #{ Jack Vessalius: Info-Broker Yakuza AU } #{ Alice Baskerville: Born into the Yakuza Modern Verse } #{ Gilbert Nightray: Assassin for the Yakuza AU } #{ Gilbert Nightray: Your Servant Forever Canon-ish Verse } #{ Gilbert Nightray: Fugitive AU } #{ Oz: Become B-Rabbit Alternate AU } #{ Oz the B-Rabbit: Bloody Hands Canon-ish Verse }

[sasorikigai]

❝  so much to do today: kill memory, kill pain, turn heart into a stone, and yet prepare to live again.  ❞ ( Assassin!Ryou preparing to fullfill the contract like)

misc poetry sentence starters || @sonxflight || accepting 

💥 || Everything Hanzo Hasashi does right now could potentially ripple outward and affect not only Ryou Sakai, but of their shared world and beyond. His posture can shine his heart or transmit anxiety, which became long naught after perpetual wrath and vengeance settled into his bones. His breath can radiate intense, vigorous love or muddy the room in brooding melancholy. His glance can awaken joy, or ominous frigidness of death’s cruelty. Perhaps their hearts were not connected through harmony alone; they are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. For their mercilessness had not originated without a ravaging cry of grief. There must be no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss, and no silence without dismantling themselves asunder in an all-consuming surge of depression and despair. 

Perhaps in a way dawn turns to dusk, everything that they are were meant to dissolve into a dark abyss; for they are everything and nothing at all once. Hanzo knows, he could be an unyielding, strong current and then he still could be a dried up creek that was once a babbling brook. His existence was smashed into a million tiny pieces while he pretended to exist as a whole heart rather than the tiny pieces shattered all around. In the cold empty pressurized air of the firearm, they call to violence. 

“Isn’t this how we become undone? Leading us to calamities beyond our most horrible nightmares, but also euphoria that only gods have tasted? What we wouldn’t do for this power, to right the past wrongs, to rekindle old flames or to escape the nightmares of our own creation. Nothing can be undone, so we must move forward and find our continued path towards tomorrow by being caught in this ouroboros.” It is a soliloquy meant to be heard only by his beloved; for Ryou has seen what Hanzo has seen, and tasted the bitter, humiliating saltiness of his tears. As he continues to sink into the perilousness and obscurity of his profession’s attire and accoutrements, the erupting blaze of his eyes seem to paint the viscerality of what is about to enfold. Beneath their entropy of time and history, they will continue to trudge and wade through the labyrinth of paths untraveled. 

And then he closes his eyes, and everything starts to fade to a shaded of black, bended with the lingering sun’s orange light penetrating his eyelids; Light in his life still exists, and so does Hanzo Hasashi. He can still hope for that precise moment when he opens his eyes, he can truly enjoy the light. But for now, he will watch it and bask beneath the diminishing luminescence behind his closed eyes. “Were we even born pure, for we endured so much in the company of cruelty and evil? For us to grow pure, I would gladly become the evil, by vanquishing every evil that threatens our world.” 

So Hanzo will continue to brush with death like a lover and in turn, deliver death to the others. For she smiles coyly at him; smoky eyes turned down at him with hunger and pity. Sometimes, vertigo consumes his senses, for she beckons him to stay. The sickened temptation may be there, for her presence makes dread tie into knots in his chest. So he retaliates and reciprocates such promise of looming oblivion as freedom from reality’s ennui and damnation, akin to freeing of his own soul from entangled subconscious. Death will continue to be his muse and his keeper in void, and he will return to her ad infinitum through his own will or otherwise. 💥 ||

Death is simultaneously his and his victim’s reward. 

#✗ the ineffable testimony of spawned hellfire (scorpion) #✗ ugly syllables of conjured vindictive crimson (modern au) #✗ there is a bullet for everyone (assassin/hitman verse) #✗ epitome of sunlight (ryou sakai || sonxflight) #(hanryou) #sonxflight

[starlsssankt]

you promised you wouldn’t do this anymore.  ❜- your choice of verse!

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐃 𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐑𝐓, never enough to hide away, no matter how his jacket covered some of it. She'd found him, blade in one hand and gun in the other, in his office.

He'd thought she wasn't home. His mistake.

❝ Alina-- ❞ Aleksander started to say, moving around the desk and dropping the weapons on its surface as he did so. His hand was still spotted with blood, and he only realized it as he reached for her.

❝ I'm-- ❞ He shook his head, sighed. ❝ It had to be done; there was no other choice. ❞ No other way; no other out.

And then again, maybe he hadn't wanted one, despite his promise to her.

❝ This is my life. This is who I am. What I am. And if you can't handle it-- ❞

He doesn't say the rest. If you can't handle it, then leave. Mainly because he doesn't want her to ever, ever leave.

mention // @sankta-alina-s

#asks / aleksander says… #sanktaalinas #verse / charismatic & lethal ;; modern au #verse / these bloodied hands are lethal ;; assassin au

[nyalternatehellkitten]

“I really appreciate the amount of work that Nyalter and Tomoko put into helping me raise my kids. It’s nice to have friends, isn’t it?”

((Some headcanons about Seiko’s kids and how Nyalter interacts with them. Largely done in a loose format because I’m too busy having fun with big dumb mutons.))

Seiko has two kids, both of whom are still in primary school. The older one is a boy, Kaoru, and the younger one is a girl, Mizuki. Both of them get along quite well with her and with Nyalter and Tomoko. Although she tries not to, Seiko often ends up spoiling them and giving in to their demands. The fact that Nyalter and Tomoko can cover for her sometimes in terms of funds doesn’t help...

Because Kaoru still remembers his father’s death fairly well, he’s still processing and getting over it. A lot of people told him that now that his father is dead, it’s up to him to be the man of the household. Seiko thinks he’s way too young for it, but he still tries. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) for him, Nyalter and Tomoko seem to manage that role a little better than he does. Kaoru is easily influenced by his peers, so he’ll often end up picking up on fads and trends at school.  Nyalter is extra careful around him since she doesn’t want to end up becoming his first crush, she’s aware that he’s starting to get close to puberty. Because he likes to play cool and Tomoko is quite stoic and deadpan about a lot of things, Kaoru used to think that she’s some sort of superhero in disguise. While he ‘officially’ accepts that she’s just his mother’s coworker and childhood best friend, he still can’t help but wonder if she’s various ‘cool’ things. Lately, because of a manga he’s been interested in, he likes to imagine that Tomoko is secretly some sharpshooting assassin who’s a normal person by day but fights secret alien invaders by night.

Mizuki is a little too young to remember her father well, but she’s still sad that he’s gone. She’s old enough to remember that someone who was always doting on her and always a steady presence in her life suddenly vanished, and she was old enough to understand the concept of death at the time. Mizuki takes a lot of interest in her mother’s cosmetics, so Nyalter and Tomoko also spend time teaching her about them. Despite her youth and inexperience, she’s been a fast learner in that area. In fact, she’s quite good at picking up new skills, and does well in school. Mizuki seems to believe that Tomoko and Nyalter are her mother’s relatives, and she calls them both ‘aunty’, much to their bemusement. Unfortunately, thanks to Nyalter, Mizuki has picked up quite a sweet tooth, and she often ends up asking her mother for sweet foods. She’s the main reason they usually end up having unhealthy sweet cereal for breakfast... along with the fact that Seiko doesn’t always have time to make breakfast.

Both Nyalter and Tomoko find themselves spending no small amount of time with Seiko’s kids. She trusts them enough to let them take charge sometimes; occasionally, she’ll get one of them to mind her house while she’s at work, if her schedule isn’t too convenient. Tomoko tends to leave it to Nyalter; she thinks that Nyalter’s more suited to looking after kids, and can project the right degree of warmth mixed with sternness. Whenever she is put in charge, she handles it in her usual phlegmatic and measured way. She can be firm sometimes, so the kids know not to push their luck with her... but she’s fair most of the time and will prefer to calmly analyse a situation before assigning blame and a scolding.

By comparison, although she rarely shows it, Nyalter often panics a lot when dealing with Seiko’s kids. She’s a fairly carefree and lazy person, so having to be a responsible adult and do responsible adult things is difficult for her. She cares a lot of about children in general, so there’s lots of internal pressure for her to do her best. However, despite her general slovenly attitude towards a lot of things, she’s surprisingly good at cooking (or at least, as good as she can be with a prosthetic) and her housekeeping skills, while often unused, are pretty good. She’s good at minding the kids. She’s also pretty athletic for someone who’s main hobby consists of slouching in front of a computer and eating snacks, so she’s always ready to tussle and roll around in the grass at the park.

Out of the two, Nyalter’s more likely to readily volunteer for it, and will often end up staying over at Seiko’s house afterwards. However, since she can drive and owns a car, Tomoko is able to show up faster at moment’s notice. Sometimes she’ll prefer to just drop Nyalter off at Seiko’s house instead and go home or go do something else, however.

“Well... what do you expect? I hardly have the most open welcoming personality. Or at least... not anymore. Nyalter’s more suited to this sort of thing, especially since sometimes watching Seiko’s kids amounts to sitting there and catching up on her stream VODs while making sure they don’t do anything stupid.”

#headcanon #verse: Casino Catgirl #guest muse(s): Modern Nyalter's coworkers #((assassin bit a reference to my XCom 2 playthrough)) #((where Tomoko was consistently the best sharpshooter in my entire team for the whole game)) #((coincidentally Seiko died quite early-))

[xenovair]

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#・★ *｡:- VERSE / XENOVAIR ══ ❝ all that you are is all that you were never meant to be ❞ #・★ *｡:- VERSE / MODERN ══ ❝ home is a bitter memory whispering blame to the stars ❞ #・★ *｡:- VERSE / NORSE ══ ❝ even golden skies fall down ❞ #・★ *｡:- VERSE / ETERNALS ══ ❝ the beginning is where it ends ❞ #・★ *｡:- VERSE / OVERWATCH ══ ❝ your resting state is war. it is your nature ❞ #・★ *｡:- VERSE / PACIFIC RIM ══ ❝ the earth below my feet is still falling down ❞ #・★ *｡:- VERSE / KINGDOM HEARTS ══ ❝ rage against the dying of the light ❞ #・★ *｡:- VERSE / LANTERN ══ ❝ the scorching light of life at your fingertips ❞ #・★ *｡:- VERSE / FFXV ══ ❝ there’s something painfully familiar in the art of disappearing ❞ #・★ *｡:- VERSE / ASSASSIN ══ ❝ you don’t die and you don’t die until you’re the only thing not dying ❞ #・★ *｡:- VERSE / STAR WARS ══ ❝ peace has always depended on all the ashes in my wake ❞ #・★ *｡:- VERSE / MERLIN ══ ❝ galaxies in her blood & legends in their skeletons ❞ #・★ *｡:- VERSE / ROYALTY ══ ❝ a thorn among the roses or a diamond in the rough? ❞ #・★ *｡:- VERSE / PILOT ══ ❝ fight like you’ll die trying ; win because you don’t know how to lose ❞

[softpeachydarling]

Non stereotypical Yuri recs:

Her Tale of Shim Chong - probably my favorite modern GL, a fairly dark take on a Korean folktale

Sadistic Beauty Side Story A - shockingly good spin off of a het femdom series. Romantic comedy between two college students with strong personalities. Great balance between smut and romance. Includes BDSM but nothing particularly intense

Renai Idenshi XX - set in a magic academy in an omega-verse like world where men are extinct. All the main characters wear suits iirc and it's arguably butchxbutch which is nice to see.

Your Scent is a Little Sweet - actual lesbian omegaverse, only 20-ish chapters translated so far but it looks promising

Run Away With Me Girl - a woman reconnects with her highschool girlfriend 10 years later and finds out she's engaged to a man, angsty but with a touching payoff at the end

My Princess Charming - very cliche fake dating to real romance story but with lesbians, pretty cute

Best Served Cold - a lonely housewife develops a crush on her hot new neighbor, but is unaware that every move the neighbor makes is part of a careful plan to ruin her and her husband's lives. Toxic, dramatic and soapy.

On a Leash - toxic relationship between two military officers that transform into animals.

Kill Me Now - a girl becomes attracted to the assassin that killed her parents that is also her foster mother

Yuki and the Authoress - cute romance in 1920s Japan, really pretty art

What Does the Fox Say - dramatic love triangle between three women, modern setting, smut with great art

Love Thy Neighbor - modern psychological drama. One of the leads is in her 20s and the other is a much older butch.

Goodbye My Rose garden - bittersweet historical romance between a lady and her maid, set in Victorian England

Black and White (Sal Jiang) - office comedy, enemies to enemies that have sex

I may add more to this list later, this is just whatever stood out to me based on what I've read in the last few years. I tried to pick stories with very different vibes and tropes from each other, and all of these are about adult women except for Renai Idenshi. Thanks to @magnetictapedatastorage for inspiring me to type this up!

#yuri manga #yuri #girls love