#Roth was her dad lol

[huldrabitch]

Everyone is so in love with Lara (me too)

#Jonah: You got this little bird☺️💗 #And also giving her weapons and holding her and being the first to back her up #Alex: pathetically writing out poetry about how she's so cool and strong and smart and he's nothing #Dying for her and her giving him like. A thank you kiss on the cheek because even she wasn't that oblivious #Sam: bro the whole gameeeee and definetly mutual #Reyes was more mom like but she definetly loves her. Just a little bit of an awkward situation #Roth was her dad lol #Whitman.. liked her too but like. In the grossest way. He obviously cared more for his research and fame and was just using her #But his wife seemed... Jealous? #Maybe just the idea of a younger woman being mentored by him idek #Were ignoring the unnecessary almost rape scene that's stable for ever female action character but yeah random enemies were talking her up #Even when trying to murder her #I haven't finished the game but whoever comes up I'm sure also is in love with her lol. The main cult leader dude kept avoiding killing her #Probably for cheap plot reasons but I'll call that what I want #Tomb raider #Tomb raider 2013

[daradiostarzz]

Who are your fav HN characters?

Ooo okay! I'll give u my top one from all the IP... It'll get long if I list all of them so I'll give the top 9 I have been in this fandom for 8 years help me

Also heavy spoilers for like.... The books... And the first graphic novel....

1. Obvi the main 4 kids from the books (Nick, Enzo, Trinity & Maritza) super super grew fond of them since book 2 and have made them basically my childhood version of a girl group from a cartoon show (think winx club). They really play off each other well, Trinity having this very lawful chaoticness with Maritza (also when Maritza tells Nick "Oh yeah we bribed the teen to like distract Ted for 5 bucks" that shit was SOOO FUNNY) and then ofc there is Enzo... Ough I have alot to say about Enzo, he truly turned me around and made me start loving like "The asshole frenimie" relationship he had with Nick and god does he and Nick steal the whole of book 2 with chapter 7 for me, and also just like the one thing I enjoy out of them is the fact despite how they can be investigating on Ted, they're still children and they're very flawed and likable like you don't have to take my word:

Carly Anne West (The Author) really characterizes them so well and just god I love these four

2. I don't see these two tend to get talked about it's really sad cause like I really love the two, Jen and Allie from the Bosco Bay Graphic Novel HUGE SPOILERS FOR HN BOSCO BAY

Something about the way Zac Gorman writes these two are so infatuating especially cause they were the FIRST to confront Ted about his negligence and willingness to hide about the disappearance of Joe (Jen's brother and Allie's cousin) also just off tell him girl:

3. Minor characters again from the books but in a way really needed uh.... (specifically) Luanne & Jay Roth and Miguel Esposito..... (Yes.... Nick's parents... And Maritza & Enzo's dad in the books their mom fucking oofed) I really love the breath of fresh air that is the adults seriously they are so fun and charming from Jay's sweet tooth that Nick has a whole list of every treat Jay will consume just on a thought, Luanne's literal grief that is her mom despite her anger when she found out her mom left Nick in a storage closet in the fucking SUPERMARKET WHEN HE WAS 4-3??? CHRIST???? Also literally Miguel is everything Theodore wished he was and told Jay off after saying Ted should be in a lawsuit after killing a 7 year old girl with his death machine rollercoasters (also he's a single father I love single fathers 🫶🫶🫶) they also really play off each other so well and honestly idk if I want to call them archetypes for parents who aren't aware of how their child feels cause like... You kinda get why they were so busy but they still care and will protect their respective kids and like ngl it really puts in perspective how Ted is kinda... A bad father in the books....

If I had to categorize then like... Here lol obviously yes Nick really holds a place in my heart (He's the reason I'm trans and I realize my own traumatic experience) but like seriously I LOVE to talk about the parents and Jen and Allie cause I feel I'm the only one who really love them

Sorry if like I'm super uper rambly but it's soo fun to talk about them 😭😭

#hello neighbor #txt post #Ask #enzo esposito #trinity bales #nicky roth #maritza esposito #jay roth #luanne roth #miguel Esposito #Jen #Allie #Hello neighbor secrets of bosco bay

[johnsbleu]

hii someone asked for me for visuals of each character in hmh and tbh some people i know what they look like in my head but can't find an actor/actress that they look like but i do with some people, so here u go lmao

obviously who i picture might not be who you picture and that's totally fine! it's just who i picture in my head! if you picture someone else, let me know! i'd love to hear!

oh and also these are grown people because im a grown ass woman. i'm not gonna be like yeah i totally see sabrina carpenter as reader bc like she's 23 or something lmao i mean if you picture her, then that's cool but i don't lol anyway grown people here!

one more thing: if these people are problematic or something, do not hold it against me. i don't know half these people it's just who i picture lmao the only people i keep up with are keanu and jessica rothe.

all pics are under the cut!

ps. the last one is super controversial :/

for tess is jessica rothe. i've had her in my mind since day one of writing hmh. just everything about her is tess.

her dressed as madonna???? very tess!

jimmy is obviously the guy who plays him in the movie and that's thomas sadoski (fun fact: he's married to amanda seyfried IRL)

even though she's rarely in hmh right now i totally see sonoya mizuno as april (specially her from crazy rich asians) she has that perfect studious and cutesy look i see when i think of april (remember she's the one who researched the ~mysterious~ coin reader found in the beginning of hmh lmao)

(another fun fact her and jessica rothe were in la la land together and i didn't know that until like a year after i started writing hmh)

she's not in hmh much right now but when i think of jen, i think of arielle kebble, specially her with a bob like this. i think she's adorable! i don't know anything about her but i think she's in 911 right now??? idk i know she was in john tucker must die lmao

i see paul reiser and olivia colman (with an american accent lmao) as reader's parents. he's in stranger things and every time he says "kiddo" im like that's reader's dad!

and remember annoying matt? yeah he looks like this in my head. idk anything about this guy but i wanna punch his face lmao when i started writing matt, i knew i needed a guy who didn't look like he was 22 or something. i needed a guy who looked older and that would make john feel threatened because he's not a kid, he's a grown adult.

aurelio is obviously john leguizamo!

as for amanda, aurelio's wife, (whomst i LOVE dearly in hmh) i can't think of who i would pick to play her but i see amanda being pretty short, maybe like 5'0 and being a mid sized girly with shoulder length blonde hair.

grace is a super cutesy ginger and tony is...idk just a white kid? lmao some people i don't really think about what they look like. the people that we spend the most time with in hmh have faces to their names though for sure.

and as for reader, i picture...............no one. she doesn't have a face, which is really weird. i think being the person who writes hmh it's hard for me to picture her. i picture myself sometimes because it makes it easier to describe certain scenarios (i just picture myself doing them and write it lmao) but even then i still don't look like myself (my imagination is very nice to me and it makes me very hot when i do picture myself lmao)

reader has this ability to go from cute girl next door to being super sexy and hot and i can't think of an actress (in my opinion) who really encapsulates that. all i know for reader is that she's about 5'0 tall (only comes up to john's shoulder) and she has brown hair. and clearly because of the 'peach' nickname, she has a very nice ass. probably nice boobs too because i mean who doesn't want nice boobs lmao

i remember scrolling through pinterest one day for pics for ig edits and i came across the cutest little girl and something clicked and i immediately went..."that's ronan." obviously she's going to look different than how you all picture her (and she's still a baby right now) but to me in my mind, this is totally ronan when she's like two

bleu is the most handsomest boy, of course! here he is with chad at a showing of john wick chapter two. his name irl is bubba/burton. they ended up just calling him bubba because keanu couldn't remember the name burton. also keanu hung out with him on set of jw2 to build their bond 😭 look at his fucking pathetic little face he's so cute i love him!!!!!!!!!!!

MOST CONTROVERSIAL ONE OF ALL: JOHN WICK.

you guys might disagree with me but i totally see keanu reeves as john wick. like everything about him is so perfect for john. like his hair, his beard, his intense but soft brown eyes. he's the perfect person for john ;) he has the ability to play super dangerous and scary but also can be very gentle and soft. idk maybe it's just me though??? 🤭

anyways that's just a few people! that was fun lmao

#again everyone is going to picture different people and no one is set in stone except for people who actually play the characters #and tess. #jessica will always be tess.

[the-whumpening]

Son of Bat! [OC Context Post]

Working on more Ash fics, but I need some time before I'm ready to post them, so in the meantime I'll introduce my other OCs!

So uh, technically, these OCs started as part of a Scooby-Doo fan thing. Later in the Hex Girls' career, my spouse and I headcanonned that they would start a record label and help other artists get started. Son of Bat is one of those bands! This later morphed into something else entirely, but technically speaking it exists in the Scooby-Doo universe lol

Son of Bat is a fictional band which I’m slowly working on making into a webcomic or some kind of longer project. The whole project is intended to explore themes like family trauma, identity, and relationships, largely based on my and my partner’s lived experiences, so each character was designed with certain traits in mind to reflect that (well, once it left the Hex Girls spin-off phase lol). There’s so much I want to say about each of them, so it’s really difficult to condense it down into something succinct and readable!

The story takes place in modern day, in a nonspecific US city, though the characters canonically grew up in Florida. The band’s music is a mix of metal, emo/alt rock, prog rock, and a few sprinkles of nu metal and EDM. In short, they aren’t as pressed about genre so much as vibe. The band consists of:

James Snyder: 25, huge af, primary writer and guitarist. James is a perfectionist and workaholic who is not only running a successful band, but also studying for a PhD and working as a personal trainer on the side. Most of his free time is spent in the gym, working out to anime soundtracks and kpop. He grew up in a shitty, abusive household, and he no longer has contact with his family. Around age 14, he got expelled from private school for once again refusing to cut his hair and getting into fights, and his family kicked him out. He became friends with Eddie in public school and was taken in by him and his mom. Vince is James’ older brother, and though they had a rocky relationship for a while, the hurt feelings are mending. James is aroace and in a queerplatonic relationship with Molly. 

Vince Snyder: 29, trans man, bassist and vocalist. Vince has gone through a ton of personal growth—from leaving his abusive family, to struggling with alcoholism, to navigating transition. He’s always loved animals, even the “gross” bugs and reptiles he was told not to play with as a kid. Although his onstage personality is over-the-top and gregarious, he tends to be more reserved and laid-back with his friends. He struggles a lot with imposter syndrome and fears of inadequacy, as well as guilt from his upbringing. At this point in the story, he has married Cassandra Prince, the band’s manager, and is taking time off to be with her and work on a solo album.   

Eddie Glenn: 24, drummer, short king, pansexual. Eddie is the co-founder of the band, along with James. Growing up autistic/adhd, Eddie dealt with a lot of bullying and isolation. But when he met James, they just clicked. When he found out James was functionally homeless, his mom insisted on taking James in. They essentially became brothers overnight, and that bond has remained into adulthood. Personality-wise, Eddie is a goofball and a sweetheart; this works against him sometimes, as people tend to infantilize him. Eddie is also an artist; he makes all the merch and graphics for SoB and is studying to be an art teacher. Because of his autism, Eddie struggles with selective mutism and sometimes uses ASL and AAC. He and Molly briefly dated, but realized they’re better as friends. 

Molly “Moondust” Rivera-Roth: 27, nonbinary/demigirl, keyboard and mixing. Molly Moondust is her DJ name, and how she met Eddie (he was graffitiing the outside of her venue). Molly was adopted as a baby by her two loving dads, one Cuban and one Jewish. Between the two of them and the rotating variety of foster kids in their home, Molly’s childhood was extremely multicultural. She was an awkward, geeky, chubby girl growing up, finding solace in her family and her love of technology and music. As she got older and found the EDM scene, she grew more confident and honed not only her craft, but also her outgoing personality. Molly is loud, affectionate, and a great friend. Being away from her family when she went to college was really tough, and she got caught up in the party scene (and party drugs). James and Eddie’s friendship and concern helped pull her out of the hole, and she and Vince keep each other accountable. Molly loves James and is happy to be in his life however he feels most comfortable; they view each other almost like spouses, at least as far as their level of security and trust. 

Cassandra Prince (name may be changed): 30, band manager/idiot wrangler, engaged to Vince. Cass met the others while working with the performance arts department at their university. James was impressed with her management skills and asked for her help. Cass is physically disabled and uses mobility aids, and she loves cottagecore/pastel goth fashion. Because of growing up disabled, she had to "grow up fast," so she often feels disconnected from her peers and struggles to lighten up. The only person she really loosens up around is Vince, who gets to see the cutesy, babyish side of her. (Cass is a late addition to the canon and isn't fully fleshed out; her details are subject to change.)

Debby Glenn: Eddie’s mom and James’ surrogate mom. Debby was a dental hygienist when Eddie was growing up, but by the time he graduated, she’d become a dentist and opened her own practice. She and Eddie pretty much just had each other since her family wanted nothing to do with her as an unwed mother, and Eddie’s dad was a stalkery asshole. She had to get a restraining order against him and move cities to get him off her back. Debby was a rockstar mom, despite having to work crazy hard to support the two of them as a single mom. She encouraged Eddie's love of percussion from a young age and always did the best she could to accommodate and advocate for Eddie—and, naturally, that translated to James as well. Debby has a big, open heart, and she took James in with barely a second thought; though she loves all the SoB kids like they’re her own, James has a special place in her heart as her second son. 

That's the band! I have a handful of great whumpy scenarios for them, mostly on the milder side compared to Ash's story. I'm hoping to develop this into a full comic or web series over time, but I'm not quite confident enough yet to really give it a go. So in the meantime, I'll post the few fics I have of theirs and maybe post some slice of life stuff on another blog (I'll link it if I do that). Pictures will be added to this post later.

#whump #whump writing #writeblr #my ocs #oc stuff #band ocs #son of bat #i dont think i'll tag scooby doo here lol #whumpblr #rublewriting

[sushigal007]

Let’s head over to the Wish Discount Suburban Goths!

Morty: Wow. I mean, I’m right though. Morty: WOW. I am my own, separate person, with my own hopes and dreams, how very dare you.

Stella: I just wanna be friends with them, they seem really cool.

Xander: Pretty stars.

Hobby Leader: You busy? Xander: Yes. Hobby Leader: How about now?

Sandra: Ahhh glorious swimming pool. Ahhh laundry mod works.

You win some.

You lose some.

Morty: I for one think your costume is marvellous.

Maid: Hi Mr Roth! Not too busy, are you? Just gonna grab your laundry! ALL your laundry!

Rum learns to sit up. Such a smart boy. Much less stressful than his parents.

Sandra: BOW BEFORE ME, LESSER MORTALS.

Laundry mod works a little too well.

Morty: Let’s stink up these clothes too!

A little piano from Stella.

Rob the rich. Morty: ...I’m rich. Yeah, and you don’t want any more competition, right? Morty: Fair point.

And look at that, you ever got some good rep out of it.

Sandra: Your dad’s a general? Think he’d approve of these guns?

Stella: Smoochies! Oh, who’s that? Stella: No idea. Thought you knew.

Sandra’s been letting her grades slip, so I make her spend the evening catching up on that.

Then I let her play with Piper the Fourth. Sandra: Fourth? Oh did I say that haha silly me, I meant the Third, honest.

Sibling bonding. I know they’re not talking, trust me, that’s how siblings bond.

Xander: Fuck! But on the bright side, my ‘stoves get dirty from burned food’ mod works great!

And then it’s time for Sandra to head off to a glitched room in college, good luck, girl!

Stella: Daisies. Alexandra: I don’t think that’s a legal move.

Stella wanted to invite someone over, so I let her call her new best friend, Mortimer, who brought over Dina. Mortimer: Ahh, my not!finace meeting my alt!wife, what could possibly go wrong? Stella could befriend your clone!wife and invite her over too? Happily, she has not done that.

Gabriella: Please fix me. Your household is next, but OK.

Some woohoo.

Dina: Computer’s broke. :D

Hmm, might have to move the ballet barre, not sure the maid can use the secret door to get the laundry, and these slobs certainly aren’t gonna pick it up themselves.

Townie: Come on, hurry up, mama wants nosh. Who even are you?

For some reason, Xander’s feeling super energetic that night, so I sent him out to play. Sahira: Ladybirds! Xander: Uh huh, sure, excuse me, I’ve just seen the most beautiful girl in the world. Sahira: Aww! Xander: Not you.

Do you even know her? Xander: Sure do, that’s the girl of my dreams! Lol, all right then, why not!

And much to my surprise, she actually says yes! Xander: -you should’ve seen how silly her armwarmers looked with the blazer! Lucy: Mean. But you’re kinda cute, so I’ll let it slide.

Meanwhile! Erin: Dance party!

Lucy: Some weather we’re having, right? Erin: It certainly is indeed weather.

First kiss!

Lucy: I love him. I’m about 98% sure you already have a boyfriend. Lucy: I’m about 97& sure he’s already has a girlfriend, so Im keeping my options open.

Xander: Is she looking? Sure.

Weekend! Time for a family visit!

Sandra: Dad’s scarf’s broke. That’s a problem for future Sushi to deal with. Future Sushi: Done. Thanks babe, love ya.

Anyway, here’s why we invited Sandra over, it’s time for Morty’s birthday!

Xander: TOOT TOOT!

Morty: How nice, I grew up into an appropriate outfit. That’ll be the FFS clothing tool. Turns out that feature doesn’t work if you hide it in the foundation.

I moved the ballet barre out of the secret attic and turned Sandra’s old room into a ballet studio instead.

And Lucy very kindly donated a stereo for it. Lucy: Don’t tell my parents I used the rent money for that. It’s our secret. Just you, me, and my 1338 followers.

...Yeah, I really gotta tweak the hygiene settings.

Xander: WELL AT LEAST I’M CLEAN!

He then spent the rest of the morning planting vegetables.

And the round ends with Rum learning to shake. Xander: Good doggo.

Uberhood Index

#sims 2 #premades #roth #Uberhood

[toujoursmiraculous]

Thoughts and Reaction to ROCKETEAR!

It's a long post, but when are these ever really short? xD Seeing Carapace first made me so excited. I've been sad we haven't had much of him in the show. And then I saw that it seemed like Ladynoir was doing pretty good as they only had Carapace helping them this time. More S2 & S3 like. So I was like cool, cool, this is great. But what the heck scientist WHY ARE YOU BRINGING TYRANNOSAURUS REX'S BACK! Obviously she's going to be something big later on, she's too nicely animated not to be back. Not to mention Bob Roth's plans. Anyone else both intrigued but also scared at what that could do later? Big upcoming plot point, I think.

I screamed awwww because this is everything. I've wanted a LB/Carapace and Marinette/Nino friendship bond in this show since season 1. This scene made me incredibly happy! I'm a huge Nino fan, for those that don't know, so you can imagine how much I love this episode. Even though sad Nino.

"Alya, everyone has to believe that you will never use the Miraculous again!" End of episode: So anyway... So what I'm seeing here is, Alya's not fond of the idea of being just a spy, not being in on the action. Even though it's Ladybug's plan. Chat Noir isn't fond of what's going on right now either, where he thinks what's going on is all Ladybug's plans. Alya makes the decision to not do what Ladybug wants and tells Nino she's still Rena Rouge. So what's Chat Noir going to do to go against her? Because that's coming up on the horizon. Despite everything being easier for Marinette since everything's not just on her shoulders now, she's still been unable to play video games with her dad, and we know how much she loves doing that. :c That's really sad she doesn't even have time for her family anymore. DJWifi over here being all adorable. "You don't love me anymore!" Me: *Chat Blanc flashbacks* Alya suggests her new content could be Chat Noir edits and Marinette's like YES DO THOSE. Then those edits helped push Nino into thinking she was into Chat. Big oops. Not gonna lie, the rewind freaked me out for a moment. Last time I saw that was Chat Blanc so I thought something big was up. But nope, it's just like that scene in Puppeteer 2. Ugh poor Nino! He knows something's bothering Alya, but she won't say what it is and her behavior's too off from how she normally is. Poor guy. x.x Grumpy Nino that Carapace doesn't get attention and then they wrote his girlfriend with Chat Noir. I remember when Alya was grumpy for a bit about Rena Rouge not getting a party to celebrate her. Movie Ladybug telling Movie Chat Noir that he's better with Movie Rena Rouge. Is this a reference to the episode in Avatar, The Ember Island Players? Getting strong vibes when Play Aang and Play Katara were like, we're just friends nothing more and it's great! Play Katara was extremely into Play Zuko. I can see why Ladybug dismissed the movie (or was it the previous one since it's been awhile? Maybe?) because Rena Rouge and Chat Noir???? The writers (of the movie) just wanted to be different because everyone can see Ladynoir, unless they're blind. Alya and Nino are Andre's favorite couple. YES THANK YOU. I mean they're not my favorite because Love Square. BUT they're my second favorite next to them. Those kids are super adorable but definitely that kid playing Chat wasn't doing Nino any favors. First picture Alya shows. Chat with a heart tail. Yeah that's not doing her any favors lol. Nino: UGH CHAT NOIR'S COMING IN BETWEEN ME AND MY GIRLFRIEND. I KNOW, I'LL CALL MY BEST FRIEND TO VENT TO ABOUT IT. Best Friend Chat Noir: Best Friend Chat Noir: Welp maybe I should see what's up. Maybe I went a little to hard on the cat charm and she's fallen in love with me. Me: Oh oof here we go. Also can I ask, if anyone knows, who animated this episode? The fluidity is great and it looks really pretty. But it doesn't quite look like SAMG's work either. Whoever did it, I love it. S2 Chat Noir: You're not replacing me with a turtle, are you? :c S4 Nino: Who would want a reckless turtle as a partner? BOYS STOP. But yeah this whole scene had me laughing so hard XD Very dramatic and I love it. Nino's hilarious even when he's worried and sad! I would've absolutely loved to have heard this in English with the old English voice of Nino, but the new one worries me on whether or not he'll do a good job sounding like Nino and less high-pitched and whiny. :/ New York Nino was great but S4 Nino....x.x THE TRANSITION BETWEEN HIS INNER MONOLOGUE AND SPEAKING REGULARLY AGAIN 😂😂😂😂 Brilliant! It doesn't really feel like Miraculous Ladybug this episode, and I love it. Not that I don't love the show as usual but wow this is great. Okay, I want to point out that Chat Noir

probably was more worried about it than he would've been otherwise because of what happened with Marinette in Weredad. It probably made him more cautious about this sort of thing.

LOL Chat's sulking because Alya's laughing at the idea of being interested in him. 😂😂 I know that's a blow to one's ego and all, and he's dealt with this kind of thing a lot so I do feel bad for him, but that is his best friend's girlfriend and he definitely doesn't want her to like him. Alya: With him it's not just ❤️it's *makes massive hand gesture indicating she loves him deeply* SO SO SO CUTE OKAY ALL THIS DJWIFI 😭 Alya: And I don't even know your secret identity! I would never fall in love with someone I don't know. Chat Noir, literally fell in love with Ladybug, whose identity he doesn't know. Well Alya, I wonder if you saying that matters for later somehow.... o.O Nino running away crying is honestly one of the things that hurts me most in the entire show. Ugh. Adrien over here being all, I'm having a good day. I'm happy and smiling and it's great. And then it wasn't. Adrien, if Nino let him and didn't interrupt, would've told him about how Alya really doesn't love Chat Noir, and that would've seriously led up to his identity being exposed since Nino was watching and filmed them. o.o Did you notice how he was going to tell him about it? S4, the basement is where it's at. Adrien: Uhh, when did you arrange all this? Nino: *pounds fist on desk* I ASK THE QUESTIONS! 😂 So like. Why is Nino interrogating Adrien when he's after Chat Noir? He doesn't know they're the same person. XD He's looking at him like Adrien has info he's keeping or something omg.

Also again this animation is so nice. Adrien, feeling uncomfortable and so turns the music off. Nino, wanting his dramatic music on while he interrogates Adrien, turns it back on. Adrien, feeling even more irritated and uncomfortable, wants the music OFF and turns it off. Nino, turns the music back on. This may be a reference to something, I don't know, but lolol it's so funny. This episode is both super hilarious and super angsty! Honestly they've done such a good job in my opinion. Nino: I'm talking about something that I shouldn't tell you! ...but I'm going to tell you anyway! Alya's Rena Rouge and I'm Carapace! Okay but the way Adrien went from shock to utter anger, knocked his chair back and grabbed Nino's shoulders like "Tell me the truth. You two know about each other?" Aw man, my poor sunshine boy. A lot of the stuff bothering Adrien is all circumstantial, none of it is to purposefully keep him in the dark. And yet from his perspective, that's how it looks. "I thought secret identities must be protected at all times! If that was the truth, you would never tell me this!" Alright so three things. If he's referring to him saying that Nino and Alya know about each other, that was situational and important info for him to know now that this is out. It wasn't important to know before this. The time it happened was dire and was really no time to get around it. If he's talking about Nino telling him the secrets, well yeah that's not supposed to happen and Nino broke that trust. But also, I get the feeling pretty strongly at this point Adrien's going to be breaking some rules too and one of which is he's going to tell Nino who he is. Adrien's being too emotional in this scene to not be involved in it all, I'm wondering if that's going to be questioned later by Nino. He's acting like he knows too much to be a random viewer of the heroes like the rest of Paris. Also Adrien's best friend just totally dissed Chat Noir and went off about how he throws himself at Ladybug whenever he sees her with roses and love confessions. 😂😂😂 This is just too funny! "But he's always rejected because Ladybug finds him annoying! And she's completely right!" Omg Nino, that's not the reason anymore, shush! "And then Rena Rouge appears and he goes *tickles under Adrien's chin* hey pretty lady! You look elegant and you have great perfume." OMG does Chat Noir actually say and do stuff like that to Rena Rouge or is he just exaggerating here XD "If I could I would shut his mouth forever!" Yeah Nino, say what you really think about your best friend in the entire world. Yikes poor Adrien though. I never imagined he'd hear all these bad things about himself from his best friend directly like that. :/ That's a major misunderstanding of him. Which kind of pushes me more towards the "he's going to tell Nino" theory. Sad Adrien transformation DDDX Alya: *explained everything about why Chat Noir went over to her house in the middle of the night* Marinette *facepalm* Ugh that Chat Noir... Well at least there will be no misunderstandings there! xD "Chat Noir, you stole Alya from me! I will steal your life from you." Good lord man calm down. You can't just kill a man! Fanon: Chat Noir gets attacked by a guy over Marinette. Canon: Chat Noir gets attacked by a guy over Alya. Time to go back to the basement! lol Nino's music's still playing xD And the video is left with it paused on Chat Noir hugging Alya. Marinette looked a bit sad, but it was probably more about the situation being a mess rather than being sad he'd hug her. Meanwhile, Chat Noir's fighting Nino and would rather get beaten up by him than fight. x.x "I can't believe that I doubted you." "I can't believe I chose to do anything but be with you!" She wiped away akumatized Nino's tear just like how Ladybug wiped away akumatized Chat Noir's. ALL THE PARALLELS 😭😭😭 But that hug is so sweet!! Nino broke off the akumatization just like Alya did :o Dang, I wonder if that means something later too. "Love and secrets do not go well together, Ladybug. And I'm sure you have a lot of

them!" Secrets = from Chat Noir. Love = for Chat Noir. Yeah even Shadow Moth knows at this point. xP Thanks for that foreshadowing. Nino's charm is my favorite charm so far! It's my favorite shade of blue. Chat Noir: Everybody has doubts sometimes...even me." Ladybug: Is everything okay, Chat Noir? Chat: Oh yes...pound it!

So um. The placemet of Adrien's poster in between Chat Noir, Ladybug, and just with this entire situation feels very strange. Very intentional. But no clue exactly what that could mean..... Nino and Alya are happy over there watching those two, like they're waiting for them to figure things out or something. But really, Adrien should've talked to Ladybug when he could still do so calmly and be reasonable. I doubt that's going to be the case later on. And honestly Ladybug doesn't even know what's going on. Every episode we've seen really either has them working together or she's unable to be Ladybug when he's unable to be Chat Noir most of the time. I've said it before but these two really need to communicate. Nino and Alya are like a less adorably romantic version of what they'd be. "But they're a couple and they know their secret identities, so why does that rule exist for us but they can know?" Very simple. Because they were temporary holders and the Miraculous they had, Hawk Moth hasn't made it his life's mission to obtain, unlike them, who are permanent holders and Hawk Moth's been after them fiercely to make a Wish that could destroy everything. But. The fact he's asking this, and Marinette's Chat Blanc nightmare, really points in the direction that he's going to eventually find out that while she's thought about telling him all along, Chat Blanc's kept her from doing so.

Okay, so while it looks like he's staring up at the moon, if you notice, it really is just one of the pink bubbles.

Now, they could be making it seem like it's the moon though to give it a double meaning. But poor Kitty, he's feeling so awful right now over in that dark corner Dx Nino felt bad for only two episodes? and it got resolved, so hopefully this all won't last too much longer for him! Marinette had a few shaky episodes so hopefully he'll have a few before it gets resolved. But somehow I think that may be wishful thinking. This episode was so amazing, honestly. Wonderful writing, made me laugh a lot, aw a lot, and hurt a lot. It focused on the core 4 characters which I've wanted more of for a long time. The animation was beautiful. And it just felt so different in such a good way. Chat Noir's having a hard time right now, and I know there's a lot of anger and hate about it going around. But please, think of this as him hitting a rough spot in the road to a much better and brighter future. He's going to end up okay, he'll understand it all someday. And that day's honestly not that far for him if you think about it.

#ml #miraculous ladybug #ml spoilers #ml season 4 spoilers #chat blanc #rocketear spoilers #ml spoilers season 4 #toujoursmiraculous thoughts and reaction #ladybug #chat noir #carapace #rena rouge #alya cesaire #nino lahiffe #marinette dupain cheng #adrien agreste #miraculous tales of ladybug and cat noir

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“Helpless” *Part 10*

Dammit!! I really wanted a nice and even chapter set, but I couldn’t fit the proper ending in here. So, I guess I’m just gonna have to deal. LoL. 

Side Note: I initially wanted to toss the word ‘helpless’ in there to go with the title, and now it’s just everywhere. So, sorry if it seems cheesy lol. And if you don’t notice that’s a good thing! It just bothers me...lol

Master List

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

Part 9

FINALE!!

Tag List 

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@dumauier

@chasingeverybreakingwave

@word-scribbless

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You were lost in your thoughts when Olivia’s phone rang. 

“...Yeah, uh huh. Alright, thank God. Yeah she’s here,” Olivia glanced at you. “Uh huh...yes we will, Okay thank you,” She hung up the phone and looked at you again. 

“They caught your friends,” she told you.

“Oh they are NOT my friends,” you scoffed.

“I thought you said--” She started.

“Arianna was my best friend, until she got the lo--until she got Rafael shot,” You tripped over your words, not really wanting to get into the ‘love’ debacle with Olivia again.

“I see. Well, apparently they didn’t have the gun they used to shoot Rafael on them, and they’re insisting that you have it,” She stated coldly.

“I...Wha...A-Are you serious?!” You were shocked. “I-I-I-I...I don’t have a gun! I don’t have ANY gun! Y-You saw me!”

“She’s right Liv, we didn’t see a gun on her at the scene,” Rollins pointed out.

“She could have stashed it,” Olivia eyed you?

“A-Are you serious, Detective? Didn’t we just do this? I couldn’t have-- I would NEVER--” 

“Alright, why don’t we just start from the beginning, okay?” Carisi interrupted you, trying to be the mediator. 

“...The beginning of what, exactly?” You asked confused. 

“Of the night,” 

“Well, I mean you were there at the beginning,” you shrugged. 

“Right. So take us after we left you...in the kitchen,” Carisi alluded to when they had caught you making out in Fazzoli’s kitchen like teenagers.

“Right. Um, so Rafael helped me re-do all the prep we knocked over, and then he gave me a ride home, and then we--” You paused, wondering how much detail was really relevant. You decided some things were better left private.

“We said good night, and then I went upstairs and Arianna was packing, and she said we had to leave and I was never gonna see Rafael again, and when I refused she pulled a GUN on me,” You paused again, reliving the night all over again. 

“So I called Rafael because I was scared, but I know I shouldn’t have because I knew he’d want to come and be a hero or something. He wanted to call you, and I said no. Then he said he was going to come himself and I still said no! But then Arianna came in and heard him on the phone so she smashed it, and then--”

“So why exactly, did your friend pull a gun on you?” Fin interrupted you.

“I...um, because I wouldn’t do what she said,” you bit your lip.

“Right. And why did she say you both had to move and ‘never see Rafael again’?” He raised an eyebrow.

“I um-- well she, she thought he was going to come after us. Her, really,” you started to twirl your hair furiously.

“And why would he do that?”

“God..” you didn’t want to do this. You didn’t want to have to explain to actual cops what you did. But you also knew lying would bite you in the ass, so you continued.

“...Because I told him what we do,” you looked down at the floor.

“And what do you do, Y/N?” Olivia aske sternly.

“I...we...we sort of...hustle, people,” you muttered, still looking at the floor.

“You hustle people?” 

“Yeah I have this superpower--” you started, but suddenly realized you sounded like a nut job.

“A superpower,” Fin half laughed.

“Not like laser eyes superpowers. Like a...skill?” you tried finding a better word for what you did.

“A skill?”

“Yeah I can-- um, read people,” you bit your lip again, not really knowing how to explain this.

“Like a psychic?”

“No! Like...body language. Microexpressions,” You didn’t know why they would know what those were, but you really didn’t have another word for them.

“Oh like on that show!!!” Carisi chimed in excitedly, causing the squad to stare at him. “What? I love Tim Roth,”

“So what, you’re just really good at reading body language? How does that help you hustle people?” 

“I mean it’s-- it’s more involved than that,” you replied, a bit offended.

“Yeah Fin, you should see this show man. They’re basically human lie detectors,” Carisi added.

“It’s a TV Show” Fin rolled his eyes.

“But it’s based on real life science! Science I’ve studied my entire life, basically,” you  started kicking yourself, should they really know how good you were?

“...Ok well whatever, so you were scamming Rafael and he found out?”

“NO! Well…” you bit your lip. “Kind of,” 

“Kind of? My best friend could be dying because of you right now, so you better start talking straight to us,” Oliva got in your face.

“I am! Ok look: I really liked Rafael for a really long time, and then Arianna told me his name and so I kinda ‘went for it’ but I really did like him! And then Arianna told me to start ‘using him’ and getting something out of him we could use, so I started to. But when he told me that his dad used to beat the shit out of him I couldn’t--”

“I’m sorry, what?” Olivia interrupted you. 

“...He told you about his dad?” 

“I...um, yeah,” You looked down at the floor again; he probably wouldn’t have wanted you spewing his life long secret out in public like that. The squad all looked at each other in disbelief. 

“....That must be one hell of a superpower,”

“I-I can’t believe he told you-- he’s never even told ME,” Olivia blinked in disbelief. 

“...So you manipulated him into telling you intimate things, and then what? He figured it out?” Rollins persisted.

“Yeah, pretty much. But I sent him away before he told me anything else, and I told him to stay away from us!” you defended yourself. 

“And why’s that?” Fin asked.

“Because Arianna doesn’t give up, that’s why. She would have kept on digging, but I told her that he was onto us so she backed off. And then he just had to come back and talk to me, and-- and talking about ‘saving me’ from Arianna, like he could,” You rolled your eyes, why did you ever let him try?

“He wanted to ‘save’ you? From your best friend?” Rollins now raised her eyebrow.

“She was my ONLY friend. My only family. She kept me to herself, and manipulated me our whole lives,”

“Oh ok so this is all Arianna’s fault, and you’re just the victim, is that right?” Olivia scoffed. 

“NO!!! Look, I told you-- I kept telling him to back off, I even straight up ghosted him after he gave me his number. But then tonight he--”

“Insisted we have dinner at Forlini’s,” Rollins finished, making your face fall. 

You knew it; he was trying to reach you. Maybe if you had just called him back, or texted him ONE TIME, he wouldn’t have brought everybody there tonight. Then Arianna wouldn’t be on to you, and then none of this would’ve happened.

“You HAVE to believe me,” you begged them. “I never intended for Rafael to get mixed into all of this. I tried to stop him, I tried to push him away from me but he just-- wouldn’t,” 

“Mr. Barba’s a fighter, like I said,” Carisi shrugged.

“Liv, I believe her,” Fin looked at her. 

“It does sound like something Barba would do,” Rollins agreed.

“Yeah I...I guess so,” Olivia was still shaken up from the fact that Rafael had shared his deepest secrets with you, who he barely knew,  over her.

“Look Arianna’s going to try and take me down with her, but if you just ask Rafael--” you started, but still Olivia would not let you finish any sentence about her best friend.

“And how are we supposed to do that, Y/N? He’s lying on a surgical table, because for whatever reason he thought he could ‘save you’ from your apparently ‘manipulative’ best friend!” She kept herself from physically shaking you, 

“...I know,” Was all you could say.

“Liv we don’t know anything right now, okay? We still could ask Rafael when he--” Rollins started.

“IF he” Olivia interjected.

“Liv, be positive,” Carisi warned.

“We can still check her story. Meanwhile, she’s still ‘in our custody’,” Rollins finished.

“You’d better--” Olivia started but was interrupted by the doctor returning from the OR. He was covered in blood.

“Oh my god…” you whispered, tears stinging your eyes. 

“He lost a lot of blood,” The doctor explained. “But he made it through surgery...barely,” 

The squad and yourself let out a collective sigh.

“The next 12 hours are crucial,” he went on. “If he makes it through then, he’ll have a fighting chance,” 

“Oh my God…” You put your hands over your head, trying to breathe, but Rafael’s blood on them just made you panic more.

“Can she...do you have anything she could change into?” Fin took pity on you and your blood soaked outfit.

“Yes, yes of course. We have showers and some scrubs you can wear dear,” The surgeon nodded to a nurse.

“We’re gonna need those clothes for evidence,” He told you.

“Right..” you nodded softly.

“Right this way dear,” a nurse gestured to you to follow her. 

As you followed her, you wondered if the squad would update you if something happened with Rafael. And then you thought-- would you really want them to?

On your way to the showers, you saw a team of surgeons rolling Rafael down the hall on a gurney. You couldn’t help yourself, you had to see him. You ducked out of the nurse’s view and chased the gurney down the hallway.

“Wait! Please!” You yelled, they turned and stopped.

“Ma’am you really can’t be back here,” 

“I..I’m with her,” You glanced behind you to see the nurse coming after you. 

“I just-- I needed--” You stared at Rafael, just lying there. Lifeless. Helpless. You felt yourself start to cry for the millionth time tonight. 

“Friend of yours?” the nurse asked. 

“Dude, I think he’s more than her friend,” another one rolled his eyes.

“Can I just--?” You pointed to Rafael.

“Yeah alright, just a SECOND,” He stepped away and looked down the hall, pretending not to see you.

You moved past them and stood right next to Rafael’s head, stroking his hair.

“I love you, Rafael Barba. I am not done loving you yet, do you hear me? You fight. You come back to me,” You ordered the unconscious man, like an idiot. 

“Please,” you whispered, before placing a kiss on his head. You nodded a ‘thank you’ to the team, before they continued down the hall. 

“Sorry,” you apologized to the nurse for ditching her. 

“It’s fine, I’d do the same for my husband,”

“Oh we’re not--”

“Oh, you’re not? So you REALLY can’t be back here, can you?”

“I-I guess not,” 

“Alright...you know what, here,” She pulled out a sticker that said “ALL ACCESS”.

“I could get in trouble for this, but just in case I’m not here when you get all cleaned up, use this to get to his room. It’s family only in ICU,” 

“R-Really? Seriously?” You took the sticker in shock. “You’d do that for me? Why?”

“You looked so helpless, just standing there,”  She turned her head sideways in sympathy. 

“Thank you,” You whispered, and she nodded as you two resumed walking down the hall towards the showers.

Hopefully you could use that sticker SOON.

#rafael barba #rafael barba x you #rafael barba x reader #rafael barba imagine #law and order special victims unit #law and order svu #law and order svu fanfiction #helpless #angst

[moonlit-imagines]

Okay cool, that's what I thought but I thought I'd ask just in case haha.

Meredith • Titans please • extra choice: sibling • Female she/hers • sexuality: straight (kind of ace/demi spectrum?🤷‍♀️but also romantic at heart lol)

-likes: Redemption arcs, nerding out over an interest with someone, animals, disney and disney world, Musical theater (cant sing to save my life tho opps),history and museums(love old artifacts and places, a friendly debate(especially about nerdy things)

-dislikes: initiating the conversation, cocky people, rude people, bugs, when people verbally attack something I love, healthy food lol

-hobbies: dance, Video editing, traveling and going on adventures, watching movies and shows

-extra info about you/any random stuff: Physical touch is my love language, tho often too scared to initiate it. But hugs and cuddling are my fav things ever. Can be super awkward but like I think cute awkward? Super innocent. I'm annoyingly empathetic, often over little things like someone getting their feelings hurt. Extroverted introvert, I like to be included and LOVE adventures but I NEED my alone time to recharge.

Ambitious, super passionate, super sweet. Can always find a positive in any situation. super over sensitive tho and think everyone hates me and that I'm annoying. I can be super intense sometimes and steam roll but it's because I'm super passionate. I get excited about any and everything. Both a kid at heart and an old soul. Dad issues.

Thanks so much girl and congrats again!!!(and sorry if this was too long lol)

thank you mer!!! (and don’t worry about it!! it’s perfect)

s/o: gar logan and you are total nerds together. he’d never gotten to experience anything super fun outside of TV and gaming media considering his previous life, but when the titans were reformed, disneyland wasnt too far away from san diego. you guys may have taken bruce’s cash and had a few dates around there, and who could really blame you? it was an awesome date location. you wanted to show gar everything exceptional in this world.

enemy: jason todd was family, but he annoyed the crap out of you. always cynical, always rude, always moody, always treating everyone like they were doormats. you knew he was dealing with a lot, you went through it too when you worked with bruce, but it was no excuse to treat everyone around him so awful, so you’d attempt to make him back off whenever you could because that just wasn’t right.

best friend: rachel roth just gets you. she always has. the idea of serenity and privacy that you have resonates with her and she’ll give it to you whenever you need, even ward other people off when you need it. and she’ll keep you company in silence while you each do your own thing if you so choose. it’s nice just spending time with her while trying to relax on your own and you know she’d do anything to make you feel comfortable.

sibling: dick grayson and jason todd were both adopted by bruce wayne, so you became one big happy family. not really, though. dick was a brother to you and he was actually pretty protective, too. you two were an amazing team and saw eye to eye for the most part. jason was newer, you tried figuring him out but all you learned is that he was bitter and really needed friends. he didn’t want them, though. you’d work on it, for sure.

#captainshazamerica #ask #shipping event #4k event

[essaysbyciara]

Old Habits Die Hard | Part Seven: Backseat

SYNOPSIS | PART ONE: DAYS BEFORE | PART TWO: JUST BE GOOD TO ME | PART THREE: RECOGNIZE THE BUTTERFLIES | PART FOUR: DOWN THE STAIRS AND TO YOUR LEFT| PART FIVE: JUST KNOW | PART SIX: JUST & RIGHTEOUS

Warnings: Language, mentions of sexual situations

Peace, loves! We’re back. Thank you to all who hit me up about this story. My laptop died back in July so I’ve been trying to write on a tablet which…yeah. A struggle is a nice way to put it lol😔. Go ahead and catch the vibes and thank you for the reads, likes, comments and follows. Y'all are the realest. 

“I thought you didn’t smoke”

“I don’t. Doesn’t mean I haven’t…”

You take a strong pull of Dave’s blunt in conjunction with heavy breathing caused by his right hand causing a madness in the between. The cracked window of your car brings enough of a cool down so that the both of you won’t pass out from the nighttime haze and the heat travelling from your bodies. Finally, after two weeks, Dave understands your love language; he can’t keep his hands off of you even as you try to take a break from him. He lifts up your left leg with ease, draping your thickness over his right toned, tatted up thigh. The madness is now turning into magic.

“Dave…let me ch-chill. Shit.” He immediately relents, pinching your quivering thigh with that same right hand while grabbing his dutch away from you.. As you sit in puddles of sweat and Dave’s ruins, you stare at the stars above you. It’s the clearest night you’ve seen since you arrived in the city. It just so happens to be your last.

Dave catches your gaze at the night sky through the skylight above you. “You good, shorty?”

“Yeah, I just…” a slight chuckle escapes your lips. “…I can’t believe I’m smoking blunts and fucking in a backseat like high school.”

Dave feels the ping of your words. It’s the first time in the two weeks of your summertime escapade that he’s reminded of how different you two are.

He felt the slight of your words. You and his relationship always reminded Dave that he had some growing up to do. Because of his lack of a place – and the privacy that comes along with it – you two got it in whenever and wherever you could; after his brother went to work in the AM hours, when Aunt Jerri left the house for bingo, in the backseat of your car. Your surroundings would never get in the way of what you two were there for.

Just like Dave wouldn’t let anything stop him from getting at you the day you met. It was an unseasonably cool day for a block party. He and his boys were on the stoop, shooting the shit as always, when Dave saw you walk outside of Aunt’s Jerri’s house carrying trays of food. He knew all the girls from the neighborhood but he never laid eyes on you before. Your cut off shorts toed the line between modest and disrespectful. A white crop top tee and Air Max 90s sandwiched your goodness in the booty shorts you bought with the intention of showing off.

You turned around to see this caramel-covered king, 6’5, tatted from root to tip, body sweating through a white tank top inquiring if you needed any help. You froze like the bucket of ice Aunt Jerri laid down in front of you. He caught you by surprise. You didn’t remember boys from this part of town looking this damn fine. Dave was beyond that. The man you were supposed to be in the Bahamas with didn’t look like him either. Suddenly you were happy he bailed on you.

“Oh. My bad. I didn’t see you there…” You acknowledged Dave’s reach around you to grab a bottle of water from the same ice bucket that mimicked your gaze.

“Yeah, you bad…” Your right eyebrow never arched so high. It wasn’t the only body part that moved. You didn’t know how to respond to Dave’s street-laced flirtation, only to let your tongue peek out the side of your mouth, leaving Dave no choice but to stare at your lips. Dave’s stare and loitering in your presence caught the attention of your Uncle Trace. As Trace schemed Dave down to the basement to grab more lawn chairs, Aunt Jerri gleefully tapped you on the shoulder to remind you that what happens in Philly, stays in Philly. Trace told Dave to not let anything happen.

But as you kept talking, Dave slowly fell into your grooves. Dave didn’t know that you fit in so well because of your summers visiting Aunt Jerri, Uncle Terrence and the rest of the characters that made up your Dad’s side of the family. You acclimated to the energy. Half of your DNA was Reed Street, North Philly; the same as Dave. You two fit especially well in the spare rooms, backseats and basement meetups to you hid from Trace and the rest of the world that thought you had no business together.

But after this last backseat episode, you would be going back to the place that made you so different; to your senior grant writing job, your townhouse and your Roth IRA. Dave was just months into an overnight warehouse job that paid just enough to give him some change to save money to move out of the spare bedroom of Pardi’s already packed rowhouse. He was a work in progress while some would look at Dave as a sign of regression.

But for you, in that moment, nothing – and no one – would or could be better than Dave.

Until he disappeared and you met Yahya.

Right now, you hate Yahya’s guts. It’s been weeks since he told you that he’s taking on Dave’s case on a pro bono basis as a favor to Aunt Jerri. Still seething as you tried on wedding dresses, you kept your cool just enough to keep peace between your mother and her arch nemesis. This time you sided with your mother.

Yahya caught the rest of your static. He caught the silent treatment all weekend, the AM news radio station being the only background noise as you and him drove Aunt Jerri to Union Station. Once her and her hot pink suitcase rolled out of view, you went at Yahya’s neck. You never called Yahya so many words for “inconsiderate”, your Masters in Communication coming in way too clutch. But Yahya passed the bar, so his combative energy matched your loquaciousness. Onlookers got a good look at you two spar as he weaved through Beltway traffic.

To say that you were mad that Yahya took a case this close to the wedding would be a lie. You knew him to have a kind and caring heart, a heart that wouldn’t let injustice slip by. If this was anyone else’s plight, you’d be all for Yahya’s gracious spirit. But it was Dave. Dave who ignored you not once but twice. Dave who, in the very backseat of the car you’re yelling at Yahya in, told you to give him a few weeks and he’d be down to see you. The same Dave who defied all of the rules – and Uncle Trace’s threats– to get at you. Only to leave you. Dave needed to reap that.

But the Dave you knew – despite what others thought – wouldn’t hurt anyone. He was just a hair over eighteen when he caught the gun charge that sent him to prison. A gun he carried because he witnessed his brother die in front of him. He kept it on the straight ever since. Dave was saving up money for his own place, you understood the grind. He was a stone-cold sweetheart covered in a North Philly veneer. He didn’t sow a seed worth anything for this to happen.

Despite the battle on the Capitol Beltway, Yahya and you came home to convene the most obnoxious session of make up sex known to man. Damn the celibacy. Y’all needed to be on good terms and he needed to get Dave out of jail.

—

“How it’s going, love?” Your dining room is becoming Yahya’s makeshift work office. You couldn’t help to sneak down at night to read some of what Yahya’s been putting together for the case. Seeing Dave’s name all over his papers remind you of how many times Dave’s name escaped from your lips.

“Man, it’s good. We got enough for this bail hearing. I think we can secure a bail low enough that his family and the local justice coalition can afford.”

“Good. Let’s get him home…”

Yahya smiles at your enthusiasm toward Dave’s case. Despite the ninth-circle-of-Hell type of sex you two had in the aftermath of that fight, Yahya knew you steamed from him taking a case just mere months before the wedding. Yet your insistence to know details – like spotting you reading his notes – remind him of why he wants to marry you in the first place. “What date is the hearing?”

“The sixth of next month. You should come up with me. Watch me in action…”

“I can’t. I can’t be in that courtroom. I’d make you nervous.” And make yourself nervous to see Dave.

“You make me nervous regardless, Y/N. But I was thinking you’d want to see your friend get out of jail…”

Your breath stops dead in its tracks.

“My friend? Dave isn’t my friend.”

“That’s not what Jerri told me…”

Although you support Yahya, you still kept you and Dave’s past relationship a secret. Knowing Aunt Jerri, keeping secrets ain’t in her resume. You grip the kitchen counter to brace yourself for Yahya’s inquisition. He passed the bar on his first try; you got some work to do.

“Yeah, about that, I … didn’t think it was relevant.”

“Of course some puppy love shit ain’t relevant. It’s cute, actually.”

Nothing about what Yahya is saying to you makes sense like it does to him. As Aunt Jerri told Yahya about Dave’s case, she slipped in a farce that you and Dave “dated” when you both were kids, Dave buying you water ices and shrimp egg rolls from the “chinese store” whenever you asked. You two allegedly fell out once puberty hit the both of you like a ton of bricks.

So when Yahya peeped Dave staring at you from across the living room of Aunt Jerri’s house, he knew that as the look of a man who now knew he let something good get away. He knew Dave ventured down to the basement not to grab a bottle for Trace but to rspit game at you. Yahya knew you would turn him down, having seen it before. When Dave grabbed your hand , Yahya wasn’t jealous nor hurt: you were set to be his wife. He won. The baddest girl in the world belonged to him.

You start breathing again as Yahya explains Aunt Jerri’s novella of you and Dave’s teenage love affair. In her own twisted, demented yet genius way, Aunt Jerri covered for you. She knew that if she gave Yahya the honest details, he would – as a man –hesitate to help Dave. Apparently you both thought Yahya wasn’t mature enough to handle the truth.

Aunt Jerri’s lie is broken up by the high pitch screeching of your cell phone. You run to answer.

“You have a collect call from PICC. Do you accept the charges? …”

How many times can you stop breathing in one night?

“Hello?”

“Hey, yo… it’s Dave. I hope ain’t hitting you up at a bad time. Ms. Jerri gave me your number…”

“Oh, no … it-it’s cool. I, uh… how are you holding up?”

Dave couldn’t believe that you asked your fiance to help him get out of jail. At least, that’s the narrative that Aunt Jerri sold Dave on as she and Dave’s mother sat in front of him during their biweekly visits. Dave’s face, once pretty-boy and perfect, carried more wear. His jaw slipped when he talked, causing him a pain sometimes much worse than what happened that night in the store.

“This bail hearing is in two weeks.”

“Yeah, Yahya just tol-” You didn’t want to keep bringing up Yahya’s name. Though that man is Dave’s savior, he’s still the one that’s in the way of a final go around with Dave. “…the 6th, yeah.”

“I want you there.”

“You do?” Your aversion toward sitting in the courtroom subsides as Dave’s voice – sexy as ever, even through a prison phone – calls for you to be there for him.

“Yeah. If I get out, I got a chance. Especially with your dude as my lawyer. Thank you for that, for real. That’s why I’m calling, to be real. And I want you to be one of the first people I see when I get out..”

You wonder what story Aunt Jerri told Dave but you can’t take any more of her creativity. “So you comin’…?”

“…you have less than fifteen seconds left on this call…”

“I’ll…”

“…this call has ended. Goodbye…”

“…be there, Dave.”

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#dave east #yahya abdul mateen ii #yahya abdul-mateen ii #yahya abdul-mateen ii x reader #dave east x reader #old habits die hard

[poorlydrawnsyndicate]

I LOVE YOU ALL

okay so getting this out of the way; max is old. we all know this. he would probably have worked with the twin's dad and mum, which by proxy would lead him to knowing greenie since he trained under pa frye. hence why I included him in the post. I believe being part of the assassins would also install something called a "moral compass". it is wack but at least he wouldn't be as willing to bomb kids on the fly lol <3 I love him but wow your judgement skills king! work on them

he'd probably meet Jacob and Evie same way greenie did; after abandoning their mission and going to London in search of the assassin overseeing the area. they meet greenie first bc he keeps his ears to the streets. Roth pulls funding w his shows, and he'd probably have a gang working for the good guys. but, seeing this young man have the same idea, well, might as well turn over ownership to him! he can handle it. so the crows become the rooks.

Maxie is present during most the sequences and. mm. something something interpersonal cutscene w Evie where he mentions her looking just like her mother. bah I'm a sap anyways back to shitposting

#jacobposting #maxwell roth

[animegenork]

I'm honestly curious for myself, so don't mind me as I randomly keep track of these things.

Akuma Victim - Person Who Caused It (Negative Feelings) - # of Times Akumatized

Aurore Beauréal - Paris plus jealousy of Mireille / Scarlet Moth x2 / Chloé / Gamer 2.0 - 5

Nino Lahiffe - Gabriel Agreste / Scarlet Moth / the class - 3

Jalil Kubdel - M. Kubdel / Scarlet Moth x2 / Gamer 2.0 - 4

Alya Césaire - Chloé Bourgeois / Puppeteer / Scarlet Moth / the class / Félix - 5

Alix Kubdel - Chloé (she's pretty much at fault for the watch) / Scarlet Moth / Gamer 2.0 - 3

Xavier Ramier - Roger Raincomprix / unknown / Gamer 2.0 - 3 (or a bajillion, according to canon [technical total is 26])

Nathaniel Kurtzberg - Chloé / Puppeteer / Gamer 2.0 - 3

Roger Raincomprix - André Bourgeois (Chloé indirectly) / Puppeteer / Scarlet Moth x2 / Gamer 2.0 - 5

Théo Barbot - Cat Noir's idiocy / Gamer 2.0 - 2

Kim Chiến Lê - Chloé / Scarlet Moth / Gamer 2.0 - 3

Mylène Haprèle - Chloé plus insecurity / Scarlet Moth / Gamer 2.0 - 3

Armand D'Argencourt - Press plus André / Scarlet Moth / Gamer 2.0 - 3

Fred Haprèle - Chris / Scarlet Moth x2 / Gamer 2.0 - 4

Wang Cheng - Chloé's Sabotage / Gamer 2.0 - 2

Max Kanté - Marinette Dupain-Cheng / Scarlet Moth / feeling alone because everyone is too busy to try his game (sorry bud D: ) - 3

Otis Césaire* - Kim / Scarlet Moth - 2

Sabrina Raincomprix - Chloé / Scarlet Moth / Chloé lashing out while angry at Ladybug (Hawk Moth’s machinations plus Lila) / Gamer 2.0 - 4

Chloé Bourgeois - Ladybug / Ladybug plus Cat Noir plus Audrey Bourgeois plus the press / Scarlet Moth / Gamer 2.0 / Ladybug (not on purpose) and Hawk Moth’s persuasion - 5

Manon Chamack - Marinette plus Nadja Chamack / feeling ignored by Marinette, Nino, and Alya / Gamer 2.0 - 3

Juleka Couffaine - Chloé plus Sabrina Raincomprix / her own quietness plus Marinette sorta (accidentally) / Gamer 2.0 / Félix / Scarlet Moth - 5

Jagged Stone - XY / Scarlet Moth - 2

Vincent Aza - Jagged Stone plus Penny Rolling / Gamer 2.0 - 2

Rose Lavillant - Chloé / Scarlet Moth x2 / Gamer 2.0 / Félix / Scarlet Moth again - 6

Simon Grimault - Gabriel - 1

Lila Rossi - Ladybug / Gabriel’s machinations plus general hatred toward Ladybug / willingly during Scarlet Moth incident (I assume, considering the previous one) / willingly again while mad at Ladybug and Adrien / Gamer 2.0 - 5

Ivan Bruel - Kim plus Principal Damocles PLUS Mylène (accidentally) / Scarlet Moth / Gamer 2.0 - 4 (2 in the same time period)

Santa Claus - Ladybug plus Gabriel (sorta) / Gamer 2.0 - 2

Gabriel Agreste - Gabriel (sorta Adrien too but not really) - 1

Jean the Butler - Chloé / Scarlet Moth / Gamer 2.0 - 3

Nadja Chamack - TV Studio plus Ladybug and Cat Noir / Scarlet Moth / Gamer 2.0 - 2

Gina Dupain - Marinette / Gamer 2.0 - 2

Kagami Tsurugi - Marinette plus Adrien Agreste (accidentally) / Scarlet Moth x2 / Lila / Gamer 2.0 - 5

Markov (bless his heart) - Ms. Mendeleiev plus Principal Damocles / Gamer 2.0 - 2

August - being a baby / Scarlet Moth / being a baby again lol / Gamer 2.0 - 4

Principal Damocles - Ladybug and Cat Noir (accidentally) / Gamer 2.0 / Scarlet Moth - 3

André Ice Cream Man - Marinette / Scarlet Moth / Gamer 2.0 - 3

Ella and Etta Césaire - misbehaving plus Alya Césaire / Gamer 2.0 - 2

The Gorilla, Adrien’s bodyguard - Adrien sneaking out plus Roger plus Gabriel / Scarlet Moth / Gamer 2.0 - 3

Anarka Couffaine - Roger - 1

Miss Bustier - protecting Marinette [despite targeting Chloé] / Gamer 2.0 / Scarlet Moth - 3

Ondine - Kim (WAY ACCIDENTALLY HE’S JUST SO DENSE) / Scarlet Moth - 2

Clara Nightingale - André and Chloé (mostly Chloé being petty) / Scarlet Moth / Gamer 2.0 - 3

Penny Rolling - Jagged, Marinette, Bob Roth, the camera crew (not intentionally) / Gamer 2.0 - 2

Nora Césaire - Alya, Nino, Marinette (unintentionally) / Gamer 2.0 - 2

Sandboy - horror movies (me too buddy) / Gamer 2.0 - 2

Marc Anciel - Nathaniel plus Marinette (her, very accidentally) - 1

Philippe - André B / Scarlet Moth - 2

Audrey Bourgeois - Gabriel plus Nathalie (mostly her own ego) / Scarlet Moth / Gamer 2.0 / André - 4

André Bourgeois - Chloé and Audrey / Scarlet Moth / Audrey - 3

Nathalie Sancoeur - willingly / willingly again - 2

Marianne - Ladybug (very accidentally) - 1

Tom Dupain - Cat Noir plus Marinette acting heartbroken / Gamer 2.0 - 2

Thomas Astruc (I’m still cackling over this A;SDDLJKFASLDFKJA) - everyone ignoring him and being shitty (I almost WANTED him to win ngl) - 1

Rolland Dupain - his stubbornness plus Marinette / Gamer 2.0 - 2

Luka Couffaine - Bob Roth threatening Marinette (ngl pretty romantic uwu) - 1

Vivica - Jagged / Gamer 2.0 - 2

Claudie Kanté - not Hawk Moth involved, thought she’d failed astronaut exam - 1

Ms. Mendeleiev - nobody believing in Kwamis (mostly Alec the TV host) - 1

Sentimonster Feast - wanting to eat the Miraculous - 1

Tomoe Tsurugi - Kagami disobeying her - 1

Chris Lahiffe - unknown / Marinette (accidentally) via Christmas elf story - 2

Wayhem - accidentally Adrien plus feeling left out (I guess it’s Nino then lol) - 1

Cat Noir [in different/fixed timeline] - Hawk Moth, let’s be real - 1

Villains We Don’t See

Destroyer - 1

Jean Duparc (Magician of Misfortune) - 1

*(YO SINCE WHEN WAS HE ALYA'S DAD)

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Was not expecting Chloé and Lila to have the same tally, but here we are, 3 seasons of speedy rewatching later

#miraculous ladybug #akuma tracking #because i was going crazy otherwise #god the final episodes of season 2 really made this complicated #gamer 2.0 also made this weird A;SDJKFALSDKJF;A

[moral-turpitudes]

Divergent for the fan thingie 😂

The first character I first fell in love with: 

Four/Tobias like how can u not. Also I’m deathly scared of heights and will never get over it 😔🤘🏼

The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: 

Tris, we have lots in common except I’m not like into physically fighting and stuff.

The character everyone else loves that I don’t: 

Caleb, idk he was just kinda useless sometimes lol.

The character I love that everyone else hates: 

Eric, I like men in positions of power there I said it 😗✌🏼also I have a thing for jerks and he was totally a jerk.

The character I used to love but don’t any longer:

Four/Tobias’ mom, she went from cool to not that cool towards the end and I was like damn it noooo.

The character I would totally smooch: 

Four/Tobias

The character I’d want to be like: 

Tris minus the whole dying part. I wanna fight Veronica Roth.

The character I’d slap: 

Peter or Tobias’ dad, I hate him so much I forgot his name lol he’s a sad excuse for a man.

A pairing that I love:

Four and Tris obv, or Tris’ parents 🥺 RIP

A pairing that I despise: 

Tobias’ parents (more so his dad) or just idk Janine Matthews in general. She’s not even a pair but I despise her.

#emotionalsupportshelby #fandom asks

[darling-i-read-it]

City Corner Part 5

Mob/Mafia!AU Series

City Corner Masterlist

Leonardo DiCaprio x reader, Margot Robbie, Jodie Comer, Tim Roth, Colin Firth, Timothee Chalamet, Dacre Montgomrey, Natalia Dyer, Saoirse Ronan, Lana Del Rey, Hugh Grant  are also included

Word Count: 1.6k 

Warnings: Gambling, mentions of addiction, alcohol, insinuations to smut, cuss words, overall mafia themes

Author’s Note: Again, I’ve casted these people as characters and used their names! I’m sorry I haven’t updated in so damn long! I just watched goodfellas and figured I’d put out this part lol. But here it is, only one chapter left! 

Summary: Tim confronts Colin, you and Leo hide out, Saorise and Timothee find out Jake is dead, Dacre and Natalia and Jodie and Tim gear for war. 

Genre: mafia, which is now a genre

(not my gif)

    Tim knew where to find Colin. He knew that his enemy was in the shooting range and he knew exactly where that was. He pretended he didn’t usually but his anger was bubbling.

    Margot was going to be his prodege. He loved Jodie but he made it clear that he loved Margot more. He knew that Colin knew he was coming for him. 

    Tim held his daughter in his hands, looking down at her face as the light left her eyes. There was no way in hell that he was going to watch his little girl die in his arms and not go there himself and Colin Firth knew that.

    Tim stood up, the blood of the gun shot to his daughter still on his hands. He called a car. Everyone was scared at how calm he was. The people who drove him there worried he would snap and kill him. But no, those thoughts were reserved for one man and one man only.

    The shooting range was a fortress but it was empty. He assumed that Colin had sent everyone home in a last-dodge attempt to save his family's skin. 

    When Tim walked in the room it was stoic. The air was dead. Colin sat in a chair, standing just behind the wall where the targets were. Tim walked up to the glass that was partly shattered. He looked down at the man who had been a pain in his ass for as long as he could remember and they didn’t even speak. 

    Tim got out his gun and loaded it right in front of Colin.

    “You aren’t going to try and shoot me?” Tim asked, as though he were asking what they were going to have for lunch. Colin shook his head.

    “What’s the use? If it was Natalia that had been shot you would be sitting here. And I would stop at nothing to kill you.” Colin pulled out the gun on his side as Tim took aim. There was something so nonchalant about the situation that neither of them knew if the other was going to lash out. But they both trusted the fact that one of them was going to die.

    “That girl was my prize. She was my prize.” When Tim said that there was emotion. The only little bit of emotion he dared show, to show Colin how heavy this situation was.

    Colin nodded.

    Tim took a better aim and he pulled the trigger.

    Colin went limp.

---()()()()()()()---

    “Don’t even think about going to Lana right now, come on,” you muttered to Leo. He was following you but you knew that he wouldn’t follow you to the pizzeria. Your mind was going a thousand miles a minute as you thought about what had just happened. Jake was dead. Whoever shot Jake was dead and you would never know the real reason there was a death there at all. 

    “I can’t think about going to Lana but you can’t tell me where you’re taking me?” he yelled. You shook your head and grabbed his hand, stopping only for a minute.

    “Shut up and just follow me hm?” 

    He did as he was told and you ran up the stairs of your building to the place you knew wasn’t your own. You knocked on Hugh’s door and he opened it after a moment of shuffling behind it.

    You pushed past him and Leo followed suit.

    “We have to stay here for a while,” you told him absentmindedly like you hadn’t just barged into his home uninvited. 

    “Who is this guy?” Leo asked.

    “This isn’t the time to be an ass Leo.” You looked out the window and to the street below. You couldn’t really tell what was going on but you did see there were a few people gathered at the door of Jakes. You figured Lana had already made her exit but you knew it wasn’t safe to leave just yet.

    “I’m Hugh.” 

    “The guy from the casino?”

    “You must be Leo.” 

    “Yeah yeah, Leo this is Hugh, Hugh this is Leo.” You were worried and you could feel the adrenaline pumping in your system. 

    “What are you doing here?” Hugh asked, voice harsh. You shrugged, laughing a little bit.   

    “Jake is dead.” 

    There was a beat of silence as all of you realized that was true. You knew there was nothing there that was fake. You knew Jake was dead. He was gone. None of you were going to get him back.

    “Did you ki-”

    “No we didn’t kill him. But we were there and I don’t fancy a talk with the Firths, Roths or the police,” you muttered. 

    “You can’t just barge in here whenever you want,” Hugh called. You turned to him away from the window finally. Leo was just standing there, watching you and your expression to know what he needed to watch out for.

    “You gonna kick me out?” 

    Hugh stuttered for an answer so finally you spoke. 

    “I didn’t think so.” 

---()()()()()()()---

    Saorise had a second sense for when something was going down. She hadn’t been able to find you so she and Timothee hung around the outside of the pizzeria waiting for you when they saw the commotion going down outside Jake’s. 

    Everyone went there so many times that the thought of something going on at the notorious even grounds was amazing. Saoirse knew it was going to happen before it did. Something in her bones said something was wrong and as people rushed out of the bar she was walking toward it.

    Normally Timothee wouldn’t think to go. He was still worried about Natalia and he couldn’t find out where his dad was but he knew that something had gone wrong in every plane. There was a problem at Jakes and if Saorise was going then so was he. 

    They fought their way through the crowd and when they got into the bar it was already mostly empty. 

    Lana was no longer there but they could see that Jake was dead. There was another man on the ground, shot dead but it didn’t tell them much. 

    “Probably some guy he owed money to,” Saoirse whispered. “I just talked to him 

yesterday.” 

    Timothee swallowed hard and nodded.

    “Death is absurdly easy to achieve in this part isn’t it.” 

    “You can say that again.” 

---()()()()()()()---

    Natalia was still shaking as she entered the pizzeria. She could barely register that Jodie was there, especially after what had happened not so long ago. What she had imagined happened.

    Dacre saw Natalia's eyes and knew something had gone wrong. She was crying, her hand on her gun, the other clutching the paper that her father had given her.   

    Jodie moved past her and out of the pizzeria.

    “What is it?” Dacre asked. 

    “Margot is dead. I shot her. Dad..” her voice trailed off and she tensed up a little, unsure of what to say. She wasn’t sure if he was dead but she didn’t want to bring her hopes up. Instead she handed Dacre the paper.

    He knew what it was the second he grabbed it. The deals, everything he would need to take the business and begin to run it. He felt his heart sink to his feet.

    “He’s dead.”

    Natalia swallowed and gave him a tense nod. 

    “I imagine so.” 

    Dacre stood up taller and nodded.

    “Tim’s coming here then.” 

    Natalia nodded again.   

---()()()()()()()---

    Jodie was on cloud nine. After talking to Dacre all night she had hopes that she could see him again. She wanted to see him again. She wanted to be beside him and discuss plans for the future. 

    She wanted things to be peaceful.

    Then she walked in the casino. 

    It wasn’t empty but it was off. Something was wrong. She didn’t see Margot in the slots and she couldn’t think of a reason she wouldn’t be there. 

    Jodie walked up the stairs to the office just as men started to pick up her sister to put her in a body bag.

    Jodie and Margot had never gotten along but they were still sisters. They still loved each other. No matter what it was about.

    Her pristine blonde hair was drenched in her own pool of blood and Jodie's heart sank. Behind her, Tim came into the room.

    “Firth is dead. No need to get angry about it now that you’ve decided to show up.”

    Jodie’s mind was racing. Had Dacre set her up? Was she being played? Was he being genuine? Was Firth really dead?

    “That can’t be,” she whispered.

    “Tonight we wipe out the bloodline. All of them, every last one.”

    “Is that being to irr-”

    “Especially the girl. She shot your sister. By tomorrow the Firth bloodline will be no more.” 

    Jodie gulped. 

Part 6 (FINAL PART)

tags; @1998--js @tealaqunn

#Jodie comer x reader #dacre montgomery x reader #jake gyllenhall x reader #leo DiCaprio x reader #timothee chalamet x reader

[soulcluster-moved]

wishlist for u.ncharted here, or basically like a rundown of my u.ncharted verse for my TR muses in general?? cause it’s been bouncing around my head for a while. roth and sully go way back. after leaving the royal marines, roth entered the treasure business, and that’s where he and grim met sully. they’re basically all a bunch of old codgers in the treasure hunting business. where sully prefers his seaplane, roth and grim prefer the endurance

like nate and sully, lara was partly raised by roth, and I kind of like the idea of roth and sully still being friends during this time. tho idk how active sully was in nate’s life (I guess that’s up to whoever I plot with). lara really hated her dad growing up and would not have given her last name, probably called herself lara roth for a while lol and roth would have respected that. I also cackle at the idea of lara convincing nate to steal things from the croft mansion cause fuck her dad.

and ofc, things still happen as usual. lara meets sam in college they date, dont @ me and then she meets jonah sometimes before they search for yamatai and then shit really starts to happen

#me taking one fandom and wholly tacking it onto another #you bet #sully and roth as friends just feels right #i really wanna write lara with more uncharted muses #and my others #sb: what about the timeline #me putting sunglasses on: i cant read suddenly #lara croft wishlist #conrad roth wishlist #samantha nishimura wishlist #jonah maiava wishlist

[gabriel-agreste-has-no-rights]

Rating: T

Summary: Luka is just minding his own business. XY is just hanging from the side of his boat.  Of course XY isn't going to shut up and leave him alone... but maybe that's not entirely a bad thing.

Word Count: 1843 | Chapter 1/4

Notes: Special thanks to Janai and Maddy for beta reading for me!! And being inspirations bc I wouldn’t ship this otherwise lol.  Luxy rights [dabs]

XXX

“C’mon, man, please!  This place is such an unsexy trash heap, she’ll never think to look for me here!”

Luka blinked down at XY from the Liberty’s deck.  Straight down, because the other boy was currently dangling from the side of the ship.  How had he even gotten there?  Tried to jump?  They had a plank, but he hadn’t bothered to ask Luka to lower it.  Luka probably wouldn’t have known he was there if he hadn’t watched his face smush against his bedroom porthole.

The smart thing might have been to ask “what are you doing here,” or maybe even “what makes you think I’ll do you any favors?”  But XY would probably have an easier time answering questions when he wasn’t hanging on by his manicured fingertips.

“Fine.”  He reached a hand down to haul him up.

“Woah!”  XY exclaimed at being yanked on deck.  Luka didn’t know why he was surprised.  He weighed almost as little as Marinette.

He dusted off his purple jacket with a sneer.  “Gross, I think I touched a barnacle.”

“We don’t have barnacles.”  Only because Officer Roger made them scrape the hull once a month, but still.  “You mind telling me why you’re here?”

“Pshaw, yeah.”  He plopped down in one of the folding chairs and crossed his feet on the table like he owned the place.  Unsurprising, considering his attitude said he owned everything.  Including his music and Marinette’s designs.

Even though they’d appeared on Bob Roth’s show in the end, that sting never entirely went away.  Maybe it was because it was his first (and only) time being akumatized, but the negative emotions still hung in the air like a discordant note.

Or maybe it was because music was meant to come from the heart, and Luka wasn’t convinced XY even had one.

He sighed and shook his head.  It wouldn’t do any good to confront the boy again and risk another akumatization.

He settled down cross-legged in the chair farthest from XY, where he could still keep an eye on him, but not hear his obnoxious humming quite so clearly.  Maybe working on Marinette’s melody would soothe some of his irritation away.

He was only three chords in when XY started talking.

“Do you know that blonde girl from the hotel?  The mayor’s kid?”

Luka blinked blankly.

“Her name’s er—Cole?  Clover?”

“Chloe?  I think Marinette’s talked about her.  Why?”

“Aaaaanyway, that girl’s been on my tail ever since we started staying at the hotel.  She’s probably my biggest fan.”

“Good for you,” he replied in monotone, strumming a few more chords.  Maybe a D minor would work there…

“No!  Awful for me!  She wants to take me out for pasta.  I don’t even like pasta!  Or girls!”

Luka blinked at that last bit.  “Can’t you just tell her that?”

“Ugh, I wish.”  He sighed, flopping his arms over the sides of the chair so they dangled against the deck.  “Dad says I can’t come out because it’ll be bad for my image.  The only thing I’m good for is my pretty face.”  

He said it like it was a fact.  Something about that turned Luka’s stomach.  He couldn’t imagine hiding being bi from his family.  Juleka knew she was lesbian practically since she was born, which made it a bit easier too, and it wasn’t like their mom cared either way.  

“Music should be about who you are on the inside, not just the way you look,” he said.  “Hiding such an important part of who you are must make it difficult to hear the melodies in your heart.”

XY snorted.  “Not sure what kind of hippie crap you’re talking about.”

Why was he even bothering?  They weren’t friends.  But still, this was the longest conversation he’d had with anyone outside of Juleka’s friends in… he couldn’t remember.

“Why did you tell me this, anyway?”  He asked, shaking off the thought.

“You asked why I was here.  Duh.”  XY dug some wax out of his ear and flicked it on the deck.

“But you said—nevermind.”  

Unsure how else to react, Luka readjusted his guitar and tried to pick up Marinette’s melody again.  But his fingers stumbled over the strings, refusing to press the right frets.

What did it mean that XY had come out to him of all people, when he otherwise wasn’t allowed to?  Didn’t he have anyone else to share his struggles with?  Or was he just trying to draw on Luka’s sympathy to keep him from kicking him off the boat?

Probably that last one.  After all, it didn’t seem like XY even knew this was Luka’s house when he showed up.

“I thought you were supposed to be good,” XY scoffed when Luka butchered another chord.

“I’m just playing the song in your heart.  It’s not my fault you’re out of tune.”

The boy blinked, as if no one had called out like that before.  Luka hadn’t even meant to, really—he should’ve just kept his mouth shut and let his music do the talking.

“I think my heart song needs more bass drops.”

“Wh—that’s what you’re concerned with?”

“Uh, yeah?  Your heart might be a boring guitar solo, but I’ve gotta have some kind of beat.”

Luka just sighed and shook his head.  “Play your own heartsong, then.”

If that was supposed to make XY shut up, it failed miserably.

“Huh.  Sounds like your weird hippie stuff again.”

Luka didn’t point out that he had been the one to argue what his heartsong would sound like in the first place.

“Dad wouldn’t want to hear something like that, anyway,” he mumbled.  “Can’t top the charts with mushy junk.”

“Is that all you care about?  Being number one?”

XY looked at him like he was stupid.  “Yeah.  Why else would I make music?”

Something in his gut twisted.  It was just so wrong, to hear someone talk about music like that.  

“Because you enjoy it?  Because it lets you express yourself?”  

XY snorted.  “Maybe that works for you.  I can’t… it just doesn’t work like that.”

“Have you tried?”

“Yeah!”

Luka jumped at the anger in XY’s voice.  It was nothing like the nasally drawl he was used to.  

His blue eyes flashed with regret before he settled back in the chair. “...Sorry.  That wasn’t very cash money of me.”

XY?  Apologizing?  What kind of nerve had he touched?

“...It’s okay, I guess,” Luka mumbled back.

XY scoffed and ran a hand through his gelled mess of hair.  “This was stupid.”

“What?”  This whole situation was stupid, but probably not for the reasons XY thought.

“You’ve just—you’ve got all kinds of ideas.”

“Yeah?  So?”  Not everyone’s head could be as empty as his.

Luka received another of XY’s are you stupid stares, which was pretty ironic considering which one of them had been hanging off the side of the boat a few minutes ago.

“My dad, no matter what he says—he hates ideas.”

Luka shrugged.  “Sounds like he doesn’t know much about music, then.”

“No, he knows everything about music.  What sells, what doesn’t.  So when he said my original music sucked—I knew he was right.”

“That’s…” That’s terrible didn’t cut it, just like it hadn’t cut it earlier.  He shouldn’t care; it wasn’t like he owed XY his sympathy.  Heck, he didn’t even like him.  

But when it came to having your music rejected… he could only imagine what it would be like to have a family member deny such an important part of his soul.

He might have said that out loud, if the moment hadn’t been broken by a voice from the street.

 “XY!  Where are you?  Stop being utterly ridiculous and come back!  You said you were going to show me your new song!”

“I didn’t say that,” XY hissed, pressing himself flat against the chair.

Luka sat up a bit straighter to see the blonde girl searching the street, her ponytail whipping back and forth.

“I’m guessing that’s Chloe,” he said.

XY clasped his hands together and made a face that was probably supposed to be puppy eyes.  It would’ve worked a lot better if he stopped making those duck lips.

“Don’t rat me out, man, please!  I know you don’t like my music, but you wouldn’t make me—”

“Please, just—shut up.”  Luka rubbed his temples.  XY was going to give himself away by talking that loud.

For once, he actually listened.  Chloe’s shouts rang out for a few more seconds before she decided he must not be at the riverside.

XY heaved a giant sigh.  “Pretty cash money of you to hide me.  I’d better get back now.  Got some new holograms to touch up.”

“You make your own holograms?”

“Pshaw, no.  Dad has people for that.  They like seeing my gorgeous face while they’re at it though.”

Yeah, he should’ve seen that coming.  He didn’t know why even now, he kept holding out hope that XY would show some trace of the real music inside his heart.  Maybe he really was just a tinny pop beat—but when he’d spoken about his dad, he almost sounded like he had a soulful rock ballad hiding under the surface.

Probably just wishful thinking.

XY stood up, brushed off his butt as if the Liberty’s “unsexy garbage” clung to him, and looked over the railing.

“So. Uh.  How do I get off?”

Luka rolled his eyes.  At least he hadn’t jumped off into the river.

“Let me get the plank.”

When he got done rolling the walkway over the edge of the boat to the street, he straightened back up and jumped.

“Didn’t anyone teach you about personal space?”  He glared at XY, whose blue eyes were just inches from his.  They might’ve been pretty if they weren’t so close he could barely see.

Then, as if this day couldn’t get any weirder, XY planted a smooch on his cheek.

“What the heck are you doing?”  Luka moved to wipe the spit off his face, but XY grabbed his wrist first.

“I just increased your face’s net worth by like, a billion euros!  As thanks for getting me out of that jam.  If you’re gonna wipe it off, at least sell the rag on ebay or something.”  He winked.

“I should’ve left you on the side of the boat where you were hanging.”

“But you didn’t.”  

XY, being… himself, almost fell into the river while throwing his hand sign from the plank.  

Luka snorted and shook his head.  At least watching him make a fool of himself was entertaining.

“See you next time I need to hide from Cole.  So probably like, tomorrow.”

“I didn’t invite you back.  I didn’t invite you the first time.”

“Like you’d say no to the number one chart topper in Paris.”

“Number two.”

“Still not a no.  See ya, Lucky!”

“It’s Luka!”

“Luke, right!”

Luka groaned.  That boy was the human equivalent of an out-of-tune trumpet.

But his eyes still followed him down the street until he was out of sight.

#luka #xy #luxy #miraculous ladybug #tali writes #fic tag #i didnt expect to write this but here we are #humor

[bluboothalassophile]

Hey I loved you fit with Lian that you did. Could you write some more on Lian and Jason. Like maybe him just being her dad. Or him like telling her that there is nothing wrong with her looks or anything. You know cause he is like the ultimate feminist lol

Hello,

I couldn’t do your request, but instead I decided to give some fun Dad Jay moments that are more in line with current events. 

Bugs & Tickle Monsters...

Jason didn’t know how the hell he had gotten wrangled into this this weekend. Goddamn pandemic had him quarantined, alone, in his warehouse with only Lian, Mar'i and Jake, and Ace; thank God for Ace, and no one else. Roy was locked up in Seattle with the Queens; that was so family therapy he didn’t want to be around for, and heavily pregnant, due any minute Artemis West, née Crock was trapped there. Jason was kind of glad he was quarantined in Gotham because if he had been stuck with Artemis who was due, he’d probably be delivering another baby. Last thing he wanted to do, again, really. The joys of bringing a life into this world didn’t outweigh the mind numbing, scarring affect it had on him.

Mar'i was taking to the quarantine like a tiger being chained up, Jake didn’t know what was going on, and Lian wanted to go to hockey practice. Honestly, Jason was losing his mind.

And not to mention the Flash family was highly affected by said outbreak and were actually quarantined in the Watch Tower, which was why he was on a conference call with Wally right now. Wally West, the man who Jason hated almost as much as he had loathed Dick, was the only living godparent of Mar'i and Jake, but with his own expecting of a family that meant he and Jason were talking seriously about what to do with the kids. Mar'i and Jake were none the wiser, not that it mattered as Jason talked with Wally about what to do if Mar'i or worse, Jake had this alien flu. Fucking Green Lanterns popping on and off earth without a care in the galaxy about the germs they distributed. Okay, that probably wasn’t fair to blame them, but day three of a quarantine and Jason was so ready to leap out a window and into the plague for some peace.

Mar'i, Jake and Lian were driving him up the wall!

“They don’t have symptoms Wally,” Jason said patiently on his call.

“Are you sure, because this thing is dropping aliens and metas like no tomorrow!” Wally said in a panic.

“I’m sure, all I have is two extremely stir crazy girls, and a baby,” he said. “No one has so much as a sniffle in this warehouse,” he promised.

“That’s good, Artemis got tested,” Wally sighed.

“And?”

“She’s clean, so are the kids,” he said.

“That’s a good thing, and no one in the Arrow family has so much as a cough so you should be fine,” he said.

“I worry,” Wally defended.

Jason shrugged. He had spent the last hour talking with Harley and Ivy, they had talked with Rae’s family who had taken to the quarantine too with great reluctance. Granted, Rae’s aunt and uncle did run a potato farm, but they were in quarantine on Long Island, apparently they too were going stir crazy with three magical kids and an old grumpy man who simply refused to be confined because of a quarantine; not that Jason could blame Alan Roth for his reluctance to be confined to a single place for so long but the man was almost a hundred years old!

“Any word from the Bats?” Wally asked.

“Alfred has them in lock down, they’re all about to go insane, I’m the only one not on location, but I’m staying here. If Tim tests negative, he’s going to his penthouse alone, but with Dami and Kon testing positive their keeping him close until they know,” Jason said.

“Good.” Wally took a moment to cough violently.

“We aren’t making decisions about the kids while this is in effect,” Jason said.

“If I survive, we’ll talk.”

“Don’t give me false hopes,” he joked.

“You’re terrible.”

“We all knew this,” he chuckled. “I need to call Roy, keep me apprised though of what I need to watch for,” he said as he ended the call with Wally.

The call with Roy was more of a brief check in with the promise to call back to talk to Lian. Apparently, it was WWIII in the Queen house with Mia deciding to stir up the pot.

Once the calls were over Jason spun in his chair. His leg was throbbing, and his chest was aching, no doubt it had to do with the coming storm, Gotham in quarantine meant the first time ever the rogues had voluntarily locked themselves in Arkham, and not even Bats had a job to do. There was a small sound which had him looking over at Lian who was peeking around the corner of his door to his suite.

“Hey kid, what’s up?” he asked.

“I want daddy,” she said trotting into the room then. Jason didn’t hesitate to hoist her up on his lap, since the Joker attack he had had the kids no longer clambering all over him because they were scared to hurt him, but he didn’t mind or care really.

“I know sweetie,” he said as she hugged her red dinosaur, a long neck by the name of Iroh for her favorite character in Avatar: The Last Airbender. Jason was just miffed she hadn’t gone with Zutara, or that the show hadn’t; and he had watched too many cartoons to be that heavily invested in a couple becoming ‘canon’.

“Why can’t daddy come home?” she whimpered as she now hugged his chest.

“Well, there’s a very bad bug going around, Lian, and a shelter in place means daddy’s not going anywhere for a while, he’s with Grandpa Ollie and Grandma Licity,” he said as he carefully combed his fingers through her hair.

“But why?”

“Just in case he has the bug he doesn’t share, this isn’t a bug we want to share,” he said.

“Oh,” Lian mumbled.

“And your daddy’s going to call us again, and we’ll video chat and he’ll read your bed time story.”

“Can we go see Terry!?” Lian asked.

“No kiddo, we can’t, we’re going to stay here, and we’re going to goof off, watch movies, eat junk food, do school work, we’re not going anywhere,” he said.

“What about patrol!?”

“I’m not even going on patrol,” he promised the kid.

“This must be a bad bug,” she mumbled.

“Very bad bug, especially for people like Mar'i and Jake, so we’re staying here bug free!” he chuckled.

“Okay,” she mumbled.

“I’m gonna tickle you if you don’t stop pouting,” he said levelly.

“No you not!” she squealed.

“Oh yes I am!” he grinned deviously as he caught the girl.

“ACE HELP!” She squealed as he tickle attacked her belly, she was squirming to escape and giggling hysterically when Ace came barreling in excitedly.

“Oh no!” he gasped as he threw the girl over his shoulder, she was roaring with laughter as Mar'i and Jake came running in

“GET HIM!” Lian laughed.

“I’ll never surrender!” he cackled. “I’m the tickle monster and I’m going to get you!”

“RUN!” Mar'i laughed, Jake stood there very confused as his sister ran.

“I’mma gonna getchu!” he chuckled. Jason caught the toddler and blew a raspberry in his stomach which had the baby catching on as he squealed and tried to escape, Ace was excitedly trying to free Lian from his shoulder.

It was still going to be a very long few weeks with this quarantine in place, but this was kind of fun!

#bluboothalassophile #fanfic #one shot #hopes for a bastard universe #hopes for a bastard #jason todd #lian harper #mar'i grayson #jake grayson #ace the bathound #wally west i