#and I didn't intend for him to die

[cipher-zoo]

Buggy takes a hit for Shanks while fighting marines and ends up unconscious for a few days.

I have been hurt by asks for too long! It is time to hurt back: Also, I went a little off script, so please continue with caution, and please mind the tags!

Buggy's hair is blue. Not light blue like the water that surrounds the reefs that line islands shores with all their colors and shapes. Not gray blue, like the waves that ripple in the wind of a foreboding storm. Not dark blue, like the ocean at night, more black than anything else, reflecting the pale light of the moon above it. No, Buggy's hair is blue, just blue. Like the middle of the ocean on a clear day, where everything seems far away and yet so near at the same time. It is currently turning dark, as blood seeps into the long strands sprawled on the floor. He's not crying anymore. He just lies on the damn floor and stares at the ceiling, his lips pale. It almost looks like he is already dead. But then his eyes start to drift shut and Shanks has to yell at him from where he is chained to the wall, to "Stay awake! Please, you can't fall asleep!" Until he opens them again and resumes his wordless staring. Shanks' wrists are sore, rubbed bloody from the way he strains against the shackles. By the time he gets out, they will be stained red by his blood. But that is okay. Red had always been his color. He'd gladly be covered in it, if only he doesn't have to see it seep out of the bullet wound in his friend's shoulder. Buggy is not shackled or bound in any way. The marines don't think that he will make it out of this cell. And they don't care. Why don't they care? They are pirates, sure, but they are still people! Don't these marines feel any remorse to let a kid bleed out on their dirty cell floor?

But Shanks knows that this is not about them. This is about the fact that they are sailing under Gol D. Roger. They are punishing their captain, and they don't care who gets hurt in the process. Shanks cares! Because it is Buggy. Because the bullet was meant for Shanks. Because Buggy pushed him aside. Because they wouldn't have been there if Shanks hadn't dared Buggy to steal away from the Oro Jackson for just one night. Because because because because. Shanks wants to scream, he wants to cry. But he can't, not yet. Not as long as they are not safe. First, he needs to make sure that Buggy is alright. He needs his hair to be blue again, not dark blue, just blue.

Buggy's eyes drift shut again and Shanks continues his pleads for him to open them. But he doesn't. Air gets stuck in Shanks' lung. He can't breathe, he can't think. He needs to get to Buggy. But he can't. Even when he strains against the shackles, even when the metal, warmed by his own blood, rubs against his sore wrists, even when one of his shoulders pops and strains against its socket. He can't reach Buggy. Pain dances around his eyes, it tinges the edges of his vision black. Before he passes out, a scream rips from his throat and a thought dances around his mind. It is not fair. Buggy is right there! He is so near and yet so far. Like shapes in blue water, not gray blue, just blue.

Years later, there is an ocean of flowers that spans the little hilltop, where Shanks buried his best friend. There are balloon flowers, and edging lobelias, and geraniums, and cornflowers, and they are all blue. Not light blue, just blue.

#cipher answers #thanks for the ask 💙 #I don't know if this was intended as a prompt but I took it as one #my writing #major character death #buggy the clown #red haired shanks #roger pirates #one piece #okay seriously though I love everything you send me #and I didn't intend for him to die #that just felt like a good end to this #sorry

[sysig]

You’re gonna die if you keep that up (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #Helix #ZEX #Kayako #And Teisel's there technically #*Die again - he's sticking with his track record lol at least he's consistent #Ghost/Curse GF arc!! I enjoy seeing ZEX happy but I am Concerned for him lol #ZEX be attracted to something/one that won't brutally murder him challenge - difficulty impossible #His affection for the grotesque and monstrous - I mean while it's admirable he does regularly put himself in dangerous situations! #Runs solely on the Suspension Bridge Effect lol - attraction and fear so conflated in his mind <3 #I keep thinking of his human instincts as specifically Max's instincts since it's his body - Max's self-preservation and fear and hunger #Which ZEX dutifully ignores lol Max's body tells him to bolt and privately replies like ''Yes yes in a moment'' haha #His fascination wins out! To his own detriment haha #Although I say all that as though I don't relate in my own way - I have maybe just a few too many notes relating to ZEX lol #It's always been hard for me to get into horror in the way it's intended to spook and scare because I tend to get sad :') #So many monsters and ghosts and creatures are victims of circumstance! Like Kayako! As she is here she's not even malicious just dangerous #I've never seen the Grudge so it's only speculation but it seems very sad that she was tethered as a Curse rather than a malignant spirit #Like a battery moreso than an individual - what a terrible after-existence! It makes me sad to consider! #ZEX reaching out to her in his own way is very sweet <3 He's so biased towards his darlings hehe #In a way being human does suit him - we'll packbond with anything that Might have even the slightest inclination to not maim us lol #And the way he personifies her! (VUXonifies her?) Reading intention or emotion into her actions with no proof and no understanding! #The way he ''tries to read her face'' as if he hasn't been struggling with that this entire time - with other humans who can tell him so ♪ #His pride is so delicious <3 He is so easily blinded to his own shortcomings in the face of pleasure and the potential for connection! #It's no wonder DAX worries about him so much hehe ♥ #It also always makes me so happy to have something fit together so perfectly like those last two hehe <3 #That vine didn't exist when this happened! But there it is!! I love newer memes on older media hehehe ♪♫

[papakhan]

honestly though reading the tags on that post is soo eye-opening about how people really feel about the Powder Gangers because you get a post that's basically like "hey what if the powder gangers were portrayed more sympathetically and humanised in Nipton instead of played as a joke" and then you get half a dozen people saying "Swanick serves a good purpose because he proves that the Legion were right to destroy Nipton because it was probably filled with CRAZY PSYCHOS like him so killing him as he runs away is SOOO FUNNY!!!" And the rest of the people in the tags are like "Um Actually having a #Joker Moment is exactly how traumatised people work??? you're misunderstanding the text there's nothing wrong with his portrayal" as if thousands of fallout fans don't just shoot him for the way he acts and the fact that he's an escaped prisoner

#txt #hi my name is paint and i stan the factions everyone else hates #swanick is absolutely being played for laughs tho. yeah sure a lot of people read him as being ''mentally broken'' after the trauma he's #experienced #but there no getting away from the fact that the writers either wanted you to be creeped out by him or think he's funny #and even people who Do like him only do because they think he's goofy #so how is that? a good portrayal of someone having a trauma response #there are so many GOOD examples of trauma in fallout new vegas why would you die on the hill of OLIVER SWANICK? #like if you see yourself in him fine but you cant not see the why that hundreds of thousands of people view him and not question the writer #intent #they intend for you to hate the powder gangers #they could have very easily written him as well as boone or chance or betsy but they didn't

[oldtvandcomics]

So, a somewhat random thing I have been thinking about for quite a while now and gonna ask as long as it’s relevant: Do you think that Sherlock Holmes is queer coded enough for The Final Problem to count as a “queer character dies” story?

(I have this unwritten essay in my head about Bury Your Gays and how WE NEED MORE NUANCE, because “too many queer characters die” is a statistic, and people generalize it as “don’t kill your queer characters ever”, while there is a very big thing about WHY they died, also if there is a resurrection how long it takes for that to happen. And who is driving the narrative. So Sara Lance getting shot at the end of an episode because she was a minor character at a time and we needed something for her straight friends to do, Carmilla dying because she is a villain, Brokeback Mountain making A Point about homophobia, and that lesbian who died in the Doctor Who cold open because someone ALWAYS dies during a Doctor Who cold open and she just happened to be also gay are some VERY different things and maybe it would be better if we started to see them as separate.... Anyway, Holmes would be a fun example for a heroic death done well, that didn’t stick because of annoying fans. IF he is queercoded enough.)

#hope this makes sense #bury your gays #tropes #storytelling #Sherlock Holmes #The Final Problem #Letters From Watson #I tend to think that The Final Problem counts #because Doyle really was intending for him to die #and every other version of the story does not #because at that point it was clear that he didn't #but I always try to be somewhat cautious before calling characters queer #or queercoded #because otherwise you start mixing headcanon and canon and that's how all the drama and analysis errors happen #see a certain BBC adaptation of a certain detective story and whatever the fans were doing

[didsomeonesayventus]

god do i think so much about how alear got the worst parent wombo combo in the god damn world where one of them established unreasonable expectations on themselves + made them a people pleasing sort, then other unfortunately deeply reinforced it

#katie rambles #fe17 #alear #fe17 spoilers #engage spoilers #spoilers #like not to get TOO into it but #sombron essentially laid the groundwork by forcing alear to please him to survive #and then while lumera didn't INTEND to die so soon #it really just. left too little time. for her to distinguish the difference between his responsibilities as divine dragon #versus setting himself up for unreasonable goals + failure #and not even outright failure but constantly feeling like he's not doing enough #or constantly feeling he can do better or needs to do something 'responsible' #and not the failure of being unable to do his task but the much more insidious dissatisfaction with everything he does #and like what is different between sombron's looming threat #and the world turning to him for answers and solace? #that one is better??? is it REALLY better???? #alear u have so much to fucking unpack and I know u will ur a good DD Monarch #but also please fucking find a therapist

[angievores]

PIT BABE, The hot mess.

I feel like the story was just adapted from novel on surface level and they didn't really creat much changes except giving some screentime to side characters. Way was the same friend as novel but they write flashbacks so people would feel little sympathetic about his death. But things got turned how they turned because Nut acted too fabulously out of his character. His eyes always expressed a sadness that it created a past story which wasn't written in script and made people feel for him more.

On the other hand ( don't hate me for this) ,Charlie actor didn't delivered his character on the same level. And so in the end people end up sympathizing with Way more. Like whenever Way looks at Babe, anyone can believe this man is sadly pining after his 10 year one sided love. Whenever Babe looks at Charlie, love droops from his face and it's in his sparkling eyes that says Charlie means world to him. Whereas, Charlie most of times he appears as.... yk reading the script.( swallow the bitter pill) . Even in supposedly emotionally charged scenes like in ep 7 confrontation or in ep 9 him saving Babe, his expression just doesn't appear as much compelling or convincing. At most he was just a prop while Pavel carried their whole love arc emotions. ( It might be different for novel readers as they had context but I as just series watcher felt so. Tbh, I see more chemistry in PavelPooh bts scenes or events and interviews than on screen. Their visual slays. ). That might be why I couldn't get into main cp scenes and was about to drop at ep 3, but then restaurant scene of Way and Babe in ep 4 caught my interest and the chemistry ( even as friends) was spotted there and I continued to see more of how Way character or his dynamic with Babe is gonna turn out. ( And AlanJeff happened and so saved the show for me. Sorry not sorry. )

But actors acting skills doesn't really make that much difference as most of the times script compensates for it by NOT writing any chemistrying scenes with any other character.

So, I don't understand where the directors were going with when they gave so many emotionally charged scenes to Babe and Way. These two were fabulous prettiest criers as ice on cake. And their toxic codependent homosexual friendship/relationship was very well fleshed out. Babe got a new boy, and we saw all of Way jealousy, pining, manipulation, loneliness. Babe going to him after Way is upset, their fight, his constant ' you're my best friend, I love u. ' Their slow falling apart, ugly betrayal, past betrayal relationship and apologies and end death.

Like after finale there might be something we felt we didn't got from fixed pairs , whether BabeCharlie, AlanJeff, NorthSonic. But there isn't anything that could be felt lacking from Babe Way relationship ( whatever more than friends less than lovers, toxic but wanting, torturous/ codependent / possesive friendship not friendship their relationship was ) . This relationship arc was fully delivered in all of it's gloriously doomed tragedy.

So it kinda felt like Way and Babe were main characters and their tragic story was main focus. But since tragedies doesn't attract people, they pretended Babe and his love for Charlie was main focus. ( yes, Change lied till the end).

Yeah, i also don't wanna believe this, but there wasn't any step we didn't see of their relationship. Way pinning after his friend for a decade, doing everything to separate him from other lovers but never confessing himself. Taking care of him, by his side always, waiting , snapping when finding himself at the edge and with one decision ruining everything, ignoring the love of another men, then dying saving his only love.. Like can you see MY LOVE MIGHT BE TOXIC BUT IT WAS TRUTH AND MAYBE WAS TOO MUCH FOR YOU And Babe crying, forgiving other of everything in instant, , saying I won't be angry at you anymore. Crying I love u three times at the end when Way was taking his last breadths, if that was what all Way wanted to hear Babe would say it, in desperation for other to not leave him anyhow. Even after receiving worst and most hurtful betrayal of his life, still not letting go of other. Wishing to meet in next life. Can you see this MY LOVE MAYBE WAS NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU BUT IT WAS TOO DEEP FOR ME AND TRUE TO ITS ENDS.

Did you see it? THE CINEMA. 💀

I mean i also get that sloppy writing mess, illogical death instead of good redemption arc, undigestable instant forgiveness from Babe, pointless Pete Kenta triangle. But if we take what show delivered, that's what ( Way Babe) they served us on gold platter. We just ignoring it bcz our fave ships. Trust me I was also too immersed in pete way myself but you see when Way got shot Pete didn't come running to him and was holding Charlie while Tony delivered that monologue. Pete ( the man who is supposed to have good body balance and never missing his targets) couldn't shoot Tony and was listening the blabbering while Way was bleeding on floor. Like 🙃💀 I'm sorry, His death scene was written so bad. 😭. They all cried but no one pressed on his wounds, neither anyone called ambulance. He was alive for like ten minutes to talk to Babe. Atleast they should have given him a good death scene 😭. Way deserved that much atleast.

#Pit babe fucking delivered fully on their toxic codependent manipulative possessive homesexual tragic love. #Even though most probably they didn't intended too ) #but Pavel and Nut just took their roles too seriously #Lmao and the tragedy created itself #Change please let them meet in next life ( next series) #On a side note I want Supanut to choose a next role where he doesn't die #That's all I want from him #Like come on that man is too pretty to die twice #pit babe the series #babeway #pit babe #way pit babe #Ok except Way death I actually enjoyed this show a lot #It was a good trashy watch which never bored me and I enjoyed the bondings between other characters #This show was never meant for something deep so it delivered

[rubys-domain]

i might be terrible for feeling like this. but the sheer amount of schadenfreude i have after finding out that freminet is likely going to be a shit unit is through the roof lmao

#⇢₊˚⊹ 🩷∥ruby∥yo，ide yo !! #> from watching the zajef prerelease video on him #so i main chongyun right? that means (despite me trying to minmax even though i know my f2p damage will never measure up to spenders) #i generally don't care if the numbers are bad if a unit feels fun to play #hell even if the character is op i would be 90% less likely to use them if i didn't have fun using them (looking at you kuki) #but his kit looks like i'm not gonna enjoy it too #which leaves me with zero motivation to pull on the childe/zhongli banner now #now to watch zajef's lyney video and see if i get tempted to pull for him or if my primos will be safely stashed away for future banners #yknow. i kinda wish i mained a meta dps. or was inclined to main any of the meta dps's #quite frankly all the meta dps's gameplay bore me to death #i'm not saying this because i'm starting to dislike chongyun #i fully intend to be the most obsessive whale solely to optimize this exorcist boy far beyond the boundaries of reason #(that day is not coming anytime soon but you get the picture right? i'm still very much a ride or die for this lil guy) #i'm just tired of people calling him a shit unit. even on r/popsiclemains ppl call him suboptimal or subpar #i know all of those things are true #but it's not surprising that hearing it basically every single time he's mentioned is going to take its toll eventually either，is it? #this is why i just don't bother trying to be part of any community. with any kind of media，i'm someone whom ppl would say has “bad taste” #i just wish chongyun had a niche but still decent playstyle that he's unarguably the best at #being the best shatter dps is not it since shatter's numbers are basically terrible no matter what you do #if they somehow buff shatter in fontaine (since freminet's kit wants to shatter) then maybe i'll make it my main playstyle. but yeah... #the only times i bring out my shatter team are when fighting against pyro/electro enemies，or farming mushrooms #i guess it'd be nice to have zhongli since layla does disrupt reactions that i want chong to be the one proccing #but i just don't feel like breaking my back for yet another 5 star after how long it took to get kokomi #and he's basically guaranteed a rerun in natlan anyway so yeah... #i'm gonna be honest. now that i have kokomi，my motivation to pull for anyone else is almost nonexistent #maybe nilou so i can use kokomi as a driver. but other than her... unless natlan characters are really fucking cool #besides albedo and venti，i don't think i'll ever pull for a new 5 star ever again #after those three i'd only be pulling for vertical investment #or begrudgingly pulling for utility like zhongli

[shouldprobablybereading]

When talking about kelsiers morality and murders I’m surprised attempting to kill elend at the end of woa/mid secret history doesn’t come up

like killing nobles who have oppressed you is kinda hard to argue against, but casually stabbing your son in law so that your daughter will be so heartbroken and devastated to from her perspective condemn the world is a little fucked up

#like he didn't technically intend for him to die #and the motive was saving the world #just saying #it's probably not his best parenting moment #cosmere #mistborn #at least he felt bad about it #for vins sake #'don't worry about the scar on his stomach. It'll make him look more rugged. Mists know the little bookworker could use some toughening up' #I don't like the obvious crossovers but rereading is making me wanna see more kelsier in sa5 he's hilarious

[sir-snow]

I don't believe in therapy.

Let's just read Neitzsche and do kinky stuff together.

That'll be healthy, right?

#my thoughts on therapy are much more complex than that #I just know that 90% of people in every occupation just plain shouldn't be there #And I really don't feel like window shopping through a bunch of peusdo intellectuals #When all I'm trying to do is better comprehend my reality and my role in it #And the major-majority of therapists #That I've had personal or professional interactions with #Either just plain don't care #Are giving you that look like #“Oh god is this going to be the person that beats me to death with my own clip-board” #Or are just waiting for you to say something incriminating so they can involve the police #There was one older lady in particular I talked too #Not even realizing she was a therapist until she started asking me a bunch of personal questions #And the subject of careers got brought up #And this gal was genuinely shell-shocked when I gave minor details about one of my verbally abusive father figures #It was as if she'd only heard about cases like that in books or on TV #And my reaction to her newfound curiosity was sort of blasé #Like yeah #Have you literally never interacted with a lower to middle class drunk or any of their kids before? #Granted I only said 90% earlier #Because there's one dude in particular I wouldn't mind buying a beer for #Now that I think about it #There's also a nurse I wish I could apologize too #Even if she was being holier than thou with her Bible pushing #But some people don't seem to realise that bastards are naturally predispositioned to being atheists #I just can't seem to fathom why a boy who grew up without his biological father #Doesn't like to hear about a guy who's father created him just so he can die for the sins of others #And that it would make much more sense for her to put her efforts into preventing some other kid's life from being more fucked up #Than it already is #Rather than trying to unravel the issues of a young man whom they just met with a pre-printed out sheet of paper #Wow I really didn't intend to write this much

[anothermonikan]

Guys not to be judgemental but like. does Saw get good again. genuinely.

#I just finished 4 and hm....I thought 3 was pretty meh #4 is maybe slightly less meh but still pretty meh #I liked 1 and 2 a lot! #but idk. I think John is bad actually and he doesn't actually care about giving meaning to people's lives or whatever #It was kind of believable up until like. the reveal that he was testing Amanda #Because like. oh no you tried to kill a cop who planted evidence on you and ruined your life :(( that's so bad that makes u a murderer!!! #meanwhile there's this other guy fighting for his fucking life because the grief he felt over his son dying in his arms to a drunk driver- #-was a little too violent :((( and he needs to learn to forgive people :(( like what. #Dude didn't even actually hurt anyone either he was just griefstrucken. what #I really hope that's the intended reading. the reason why 4 was a little less meh is because it lent towards that more #Like. very hypocritical of him to be like 'You need to forgive!!' to a guy who lost his son to a drunk driver #When he himself started this thing because his wife's unborn child was accidentally killed by someone. what #Only you can be upset about losing your (unborn mind you) child??? what??? #I feel like most of the deaths and stuff in saw 3 where like. the victims were way more like. complicated. #so a lot of them just felt like really unjustified. which is kind of the point I get that Amanda was just killing people. #But it was still a weird shift aha... the only person who deserved to die in saw 3 really was the cop #In saw 4 I was like. Yeah kill them! for more of the deaths . but then it was also complicated because it was a cop doing it. #And also that trap with the wife and husband like. like Oh yeah your husband beat you and your child #But you really gotta appreciate your freedom! so you're impaled with the same spikes your husband is and you gotta pull them out! #like. what. they treat Jill so bad as well it was kind of annoying. but I'm pretty sure that was on purpose #asdfhsdhsdhds #sorry I should like. finish the series before posting about it #Android.txt

[aleatoryw]

I'm reading master and apprentice and it's really interesting to see how rael and qui-gon talk about dooku as a master compared to how we see him treat asajj in the clone wars. the dark side does that to a person I guess.

#the dooku and asajj relationship is interesting bc while he pushes back he does abandon her to die when sideous orders it #did he intend to overthrow sideous and make asajj a proper sith? or did he believe she didn't have the capacity as he later expressed? #did he dispose of her because it was easier to agree with sideous than try to explain that she was just an assassin and always would be? #she believed that he cared about her the way a Jedi master cares for their apprentice but i highly doubt that #but like. he seems to have been a good master. rael and qui-gon remember him fondly. he wasn't cruel or demanding. #star wars

[holytrickster]

dante forgot to add one more circle of hell for people who make up clickbait about a firefly reboot I KEEP FUCKING SEEING THESE ARTICLES and I just sit there like. who in their right mind would go "let's make firefly 2"

#i guess serenity is sort of firefly 2 but whatever you get my point #like idc. just bc the mouse supposedly has the rights that doesn't mean they'll do it #also so much of it would not fly (no pun intended). hell there's stuff that didn't fly in 2005 thats still in it #like every time i rewatch it i don't understand how people can like mal so much when he's such an asshat to inara every five minutes #and yet the parts where hes likeable im like aw fuck i dont want to like this guy #for instance every time i see the bit in e1 where book doesnt get the 'joke' and mal just goes “sHeS a wHoRe” i die on the inside #i dont understand how people ship them did we watch the same show #i guess the idea is maybe “oh hes jealous shes not sleeping with *him* instead and thats why he acts like that” but thats not cute #thats just gross #this isnt even the biggest issue likely but its the one that makes me wanna scream

[writingouthere]

singlemom!reader x neighbor!sukuna. you miss having a baby and Sukuna is dying from a combination of your sexual tension, his lowkey(highkey) baby fever and the drudgery of attending a child's birthday party

cw: Sukuna's breeding kink, red flags are present and accounted for, no one gets laid tho so sad face. this actually ended up being way more sincere and heartfelt than I intended but honestly very typical of me

"Oh we're not together, Sukuna's just been letting me and Bug crash while we look for an apartment."

"Oh he's not my boyfriend, we're just friends!"

"He's actually not Bug's dad. No, no. But, they get along really well. She enjoys having someone else to hang out with aside from me, I think."

Your laughter after the last one plays on repeat as he goes to grab the two of you some refreshments. Sukuna feels like he's living the world's worst version of groundhog day, except instead of being some sad loser who relives the same day over and over, he's apparently a sad loser who is going to live the same conversation over and over again.

"Fuck this shit."

"Um, excuse me but could you watch your language. This is a kid's birthday party." Sukuna wants to ask the bitch who is correcting a grown man's language if he would mind watching his own fucking business but you seem to care about what these losers think and he won't make life difficult for you.

If he happens to step on the guy's foot as he leaves with two cups and a juice box caught in his elbow, well, his steel toed boots need the exercise.

Sukuna knew that if any of his acquaintances, he didn't have friends after all, could see him now, they would die laughing. Die ,because he would kill them for laughing, but fuck he couldn't even really blame them, even in his hypothetical.

Once upon a time, Sukuna was a feared criminal. People pissed themselves when he cornered them in a dark alley. Other bad guys would look at him and say, "wow that guy's a real piece of shit" and now look at him. Stuck at some three year old's birthday party. One more kidzpop butchering of an already shitty song away from committing another felony.

Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if he knew he was at least getting some pussy out of it, but he had just spent the past two hours hearing you deny him to anyone who asked and it was really starting to get to him.

He knew he was being a little bitch about it, and he wasn't upset just because you weren't fucking him. He was upset that all the things you were telling people, they were technically true. He was just letting you and your daughter crash. He was just your friend, not your boyfriend. Even the comments about him not being Bug's dad, but him being positioned as some kind of really invested babysitter, those might have stung more than the ones about your relationship but you thought that was true too.

Thinking about the kid made him look for her, not that Sukuna ever wasn't aware of where you and your daughter were. It had become instinct before he was even aware of it.

Bug was laughing with some kids he recognized from daycare and others from their regular trips to the park. Her happiness was contagious and Sukuna found his lips twitching up at the ends despite his shitty mood.

Your daughter's eyes found him from across the playground. "kuna!" she called, waving her little hand at him. He waved back with his available hand and made his way towards her. She met him halfway, her little legs unsteady on the wood chips but she didn't seem to notice. She was always like that when she saw him, she ran fearlessly. Maybe she just trusted he'd catch her.

Was it so wrong of him that he didn't like the reminders she wasn't his. That it stung, not just because of his feelings but because it just couldn't be true. He might not have fathered her, but fuck anyone who said this little girl wasn't his.

"I got you a juice, you've been running around so much you gotta be thirsty."

"Not thirsty," Bug argued leaning into him. He held up his hands that were holding the grown up drinks for the two of you, and moved the package still lodged in the crease of his elbow towards the petulant toddler. "Take it, or I'll drink it."

Bug stuck her tongue out at him and grabbed it. She struggled to get the wrapping off the straw and Sukuna didn't even notice what he was doing until she had the straw stretched out towards him and he was pulling the wrapper off with his teeth. He spit it out on the ground as your daughter gave him a polite thank-you and then walked away, sipping her juice as she went to catch up with her friends.

What had become of him?

"Need a hand?" You smile at him and Sukuna hands over your cup before taking a sip of his own. There was unfortunately no alcohol in it but drinking it occupied his mouth before he acted like a pussy and asked you, "what are we?" or "should we get married?" or something equally as pathetic.

"God, I want a baby."

Sukuna almost spit out his drink but he manages to tone it down to just a little cough before turning to look at you. You don't even seem a little embarrassed which is just infuriating. Sukuna's about to make a suggestion on how he can help with that when you sigh and point to where some loser is holding their ugly baby.

"Aren't babies just the cutest, I miss when Bug was that age."

Oh, so this was just you looking at other people's red-faced brats and feeling nostalgic and was not in fact a call to action. Sukuna rolled his eyes and leaned back on the hand closest to you so he didn't touch you as he was so tempted to do these days.

"That baby, like all babies, is hideous. All they do is cry, shit themselves and vomit and I'm not even sure Bug is the exception to that and she's the best kid there is."

You look touched at his affection for your daughter but also fired up on behalf of babies everywhere.

"You can't just say a baby is hideous, Sukuna. Those are the Zenin's. Bug is friends with some of them."

"Well are the older ones cuter, because that baby looks like someone fucked one of those hairless cats."

"Sukuna!" you hiss but he sees you smile, despite yourself. "Okay, maybe that baby isn't like the cutest baby-"

"Hideous."

You continue after smacking his arm. "But Bug was cute, okay. And I'm not just saying that because I'm her mom." You take out your phone and quickly swipe until you get to what you're looking for. "See, cute baby."

Sukuna grabs your phone and looks. It's not the first picture he's seen of a young Bug and he's taken his share of photos of her himself, but he finds himself taken in by it anyway.

It has to be a picture from when Bug was really young, she still had the scrunched up, red face that he associates with newborns. But he thinks you're right, she's still cute. He doesn't know if it's because he knows that baby will grow up to be your daughter, but he finds his thumb caressing her little baby cheeks, the wisps of hair he can see peaking out from where she's wrapped in a baby blanket. It's then he sees she's not alone in the picture and there's a different version of you holding her.

The thing that stands out to him is how tired you look. He thinks this couldn't have been too long after you gave birth but still, he wondered if you'd gotten any rest those first few months. You still didn't like talking about your ex, or the circumstances that had led you to his apartment, but Sukuna knew that chances are you were taking care of Bug single handedly and that couldn't have been easy, cutest kid or not.

"She was beautiful, she still is." He reluctantly hands the phone back to you and you look at the picture again, tears building up in your eyes.

"She is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I-I wish that the circumstances were different in how I got her. Sometimes, I wonder how I'll explain everything to her when she's older. She just deserves so much better than him, you know?"

"You both do." Sukuna reaches over and brushes away one of the tears that had managed to fall down your cheek. He leaves his hand there a moment, holding your cheek in his palm, just appreciating the warmth.

"Do you want any?"

"What?" Sukuna isn't sure what you're talking about anymore. He can only see your lips right in front of him, the way that your eyelashes brush against your cheek as you blink faster and faster.

"Babies, do you want any?"

Something short circuits in Sukuna's brain and he wants to say, fuck yes.

He wants to tell you that he thinks about it every day. Every time you put Bug on your hip or send him youtube videos of hairstyles you want to try on her. Whenever it's late at night, and little feet pad out of your room and Bug asks him in the loudest whisper he's ever heard, if he can get her some water because she's so thirsty.

He thinks about it when the sun streams through the curtains of his apartment in the morning and it lights up your hair as you move throughout the kitchen, a force of nature, a creature from somewhere far too good to have ended up here with him.

He thinks about it when the three of you go out and people just assume you're a family, because of course you're a family. When you and Bug play some made up game, or Bug gets tired even though she denies it and he carries her sleeping form against his chest. When he holds her in his lap on the subway and you lean to rest your head on his shoulder and he feels like this, this is what he's always wanted.

He's not all pure and good though, because he thinks about it late at night in his bedroom too. After a day of your smiles, of seeing your thighs stretch out of those sleep shorts you started wearing when the weather warmed up, whenever he remembers the feel and smell of your panties when he's lucky enough to find a pair in the laundry basket, he thinks about how the two of you would make some really cute fucking babies.

He's imagined it a million ways. He's imagined you telling him you've gone off your birth control and you need him now after he takes you out on an anniversary dinner. Or him crowding you up against the kitchen counter and you begging him to put a baby in you.

His favorite fantasy is currently one where you get so carried away when you finally finally fuck that you don't ask him to wear a condom and he spends the whole night making sure you're nice and good and full of him and when you tell him a few weeks later you missed your period, he'll let you freak out. But then he'll tell you that he'll take good care of you, and Bug, and your soon to be little one and he'll finally have you, all of you and once you have your second, he'll knock you up again, as many times as he can because there could never be too many mini-you's running around.

At this point, Sukuna remembers he's talking to you, the real you and he swallows a few times before he speaks.

"I do," he says simply but something must show on his face because you're looking at him in a way you never have before. He hears your breath hitch and he leans in to kiss you, and you smell so good and his thoughts are consumed by the little family he just knows you're going to have when suddenly he's pelted by a variety of sharp, little objects.

Sukuna immediately holds up his arm to shield you from what he now sees is a barrage of wood chips which are being thrown at you by an army of toddlers, including your daughter.

You immediately get up and start talking to the kids about the danger of throwing what are basically large future splinters at people's faces and Sukuna is contemplating the murder of every child that isn't his own when you turn to look at him.

You're not just looking at him, you're seeing him and oh. Maybe he would be getting laid tonight, after all.

The slow burn is almost done folks.

thank you to the amazing reception to this series and the one-shot I posted(which there will be a prequel of soon!). it's literally so insane. Masterlist will be up tomorrow which I hope helps with accessibility!

edit: masterlist is up!

#jjk sukuna #jjk x reader #jujutsu kaisen sukuna #ryomen sukuna #sukuna ryomen #sukuna x reader #sukuna x y/n #sukuna x you #sukuna x singlemomreader #sukuna ryomen smut

[im-fuck3d-90]

Okay, so, I think my anxiety saved my life???

TW: Anxiety, misgendering, potential attempted SA??? potential attempted kidnapping???

Okay, so, I go on a daily walk around dinner time. I usually go about 4 times around my neighborhood, but if I hear someone behind me, it'll end on that lap. So, like, I'm not even one lap in and I'm listening to music (Heathens by ToP if you're wondering). I see some guy working on his truck in one of the parking lots for the townhouses and I just barely make out him saying, "Hey, girl!" which.. I'm not a girl, and that means I'm not passing so it's definitely NOT safe for me to go outside now. I already knew it wasn't really safe for me to go out in public since I got misgendered at PetSmart on Sunday, but now it's like,, I can't even go out in my own neighborhood!

Anyway, over the music I hear him call, "Hey girl!" and I speed up a bit bc "Oh Fuck. Someone is Talking To Me! GET OUT!!! HAVE ANXIETY ATTACK!!!" I sped up a bit, and he says something else then cuts off abruptly. Later, when I was in the shower, I realized, he said something like, "Can you help me with--" or "Will you help me--" Either way, I could process "help". Now, I live in Fl unfortunately (I'm trying to move up north), and being in am*rica and having some random guy say, "Hey girl, can you help me--?" ESPECIALLY with his TRUCK is a MAJOR red flag! My anxiety of "Do not engage with anyone ever! If someone talks to you when you have headphones in, You Did Not Hear Them, ESPECIALLY if you can manage, 'I didn't see you,' as well!" So, like, I think I just avoided getting kidnapped by ignoring him???

#tw anxiety #tw misgendering #tw attempted kidnapping #tw attempted sa #I think??? #Any guy who asks someone who he thinks is a girl to help with his TRUCK is automatically sus bc that's what murderers do #tw attempted murder???? #Did I almost die??? #Did my anxiety actually WORK as intended this time???? #No I didn't get his license plate #That would require looking behind me #Towards him! #And then he'd get my attention by being visible! #I would be dead then!

[llycaons]

sorry but the argument that jc is a good leader because his disciples do what he says and people are scared of him is absolutely bullshit imo, didn't we just watch a show where a ton of people in positions of power abuse the people working under them because sect leaders have essentially no check on their power?

#jc is canonically extremely petty and violent and easily angered and emotionally immature and runs primarily on personal feelings #he uses his status and knowledge of wwx to torture and humiliate wwx more than once #I'd be more surprised if he DIDN'T mistreat at least some of his disciples at some point #even if he didn't intend to #we know he yelled at that new kid and probably gave him nightmares #all the most positive readings of jc feel like fanon ngl. sorry to jc fans reading this this is just how I see him act in canon #this isn't including the 'abducting and torturing demonic cultivators' since idk if I believe that in cql canon #but if you do I dont blame you #I like him as a character I do I feel for him but MAN that doesn't mean he can't take responsibility for his actions #this goes for everyone too I don't like how lwj uses the silencing spell on kids and he never apologizes for anything onscreen #and I also think he's a probably a bad leader and def a terrible politician #wwx is genuinely really mean to kids in a lot of his scenes and I don't like how he treated wen ning in the flahsback #but I don't think either of them abuse their power in ways that we know jc does #and they both undergo character development for some of their flaws #if not all of them #like I see ppl talking about jc being a great politician bc he knows how reputation and mob mentality works #but he doesn't actually DO anything helpful with that knowledge he just gives an ultimatum and expects wwx to acquiesce #when has wx even done such a thing? of course he wouldn't drop everything to return when all the wens would die #cql txp

[woncoyo]

☁️⠀࣭⠀𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗋𝖾'𝗌 𝗈𝗇𝗅𝗒 𝗈𝗇𝖾 𝖻𝖾𝖽?!

pairing: hyung line + gn!reader genres: fluff, fluff, fluff warnings: none word count: 531 the one where there's only one bed.

author's note: i wrote this based on these prompts (click here)

( heeseung ) you grumbled like a baby at the mere thought of sharing the bed with heeseung, but then, in the dead of night, he felt his arm grow numb from an odd weight, only to realize it was your slumbering body completely intertwined with his. the fortress of pillows you'd erected between you two lies in ruins, and you were sleeping so peacefully that he couldn't bring himself to disturb you. "and you said you'd rather die than sleep in the same bed as me," he whispered into your hair, stifling a chuckle.

( jongseong )  he slept on the floor and woke up to some noises coming from the bed where you lay. moans escaped your mouth as you drifted off, and jay intended to laugh or even record it if it weren't for the tears falling from the corners of your eyes. a concerned look took over him, and he gently grasped your shoulders, squeezing them until you woke up. your red-rimmed eyes and quivering lips left him puzzled, while it took you a moment to grasp your surroundings and his presence. "it was just a bad dream..." he murmured, his fingers trailing through your hair. you steadied your breath, feeling embarrassed by your vulnerable state, even though jay wasn't teasing you as usual. then, without a hint of shame, before jay could return to the floor, you grabbed him by the hem of his shirt. "could you, please, sleep here with me?"

( jaeyun ) you and jake had a heated argument after discovering you had to share the bed, simply because you both thought you were too large to fit together in such a small space. however, no one anticipated a cold draft sweeping through the night, causing you and jake to wake up the next day glued to each other: your face buried in his chest while jake hugged you as if you were a plush toy. "promise not to tell anyone about this?" you asked, too embarrassed to look him in the eye. — "tell what? that you couldn't keep your hands off me?" he teased. — "you were the one clinging to me like a monkey!"

( sunghoon ) the idea of sharing the bed with you didn't faze him in the slightest. however, you were adamant about maintaining a generous distance between the two of you to avoid any unintentional touches. yet, in the middle of the night, like two magnets drawn together, your bodies converged. you woke up to the sensation of gentle strokes in your hair, your face nestled against a sturdy surface. by the time you realize you were lying on sunghoon's chest, he was already quipping, "are you comfortable, hm?” too embarrassed to move away, you tried to stay still. "i know you're awake, sweetheart. you stopped snoring."

© woncoyo.

#enhypen drabbles #enhypen headcanons #enhypen fluff #enhypen fanfic #enhypen x reader #sunghoon x reader #heeseung x reader #jay x reader #jake x reader #jay fluff #jake fluff #heeseung fluff #sunghoon fluff #enha soft hours #enha scenarios #enhypen imagines #enhypen fanfiction #enhypen reactions #enha