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Say Cheese - A Roman Reigns One-Shot
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A steamy after-work rendezvous with the Tribal Chief and his princess is captured in 4K.
PAIRING: Tribal Chief!Roman Reigns x OC
Warning: SMUT
Word count: 4.9k 
Song Muse: "Sativa" by Jhene Aiko and Rae Sremmurd
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The audible smacking of lips and sliding of tongues was the seductive tune serenading the lovers, seemingly drowning out the actual song blaring from the speakers of the hotel suite. It started out with soft, gentle pecks, but ever so greedy, he’d taken it up a notch, kissing her more hungrily at the same time he lifted her up onto the kitchenette’s counter. That lethal tongue of his consumed the insides of her mouth, earning his deep chuckle at her needy moan as her legs wrapped around his waist to keep him close. 
“We are so bad, we should be at the party,” she giggled against his succulent lips, sneaking her hands behind the nape of his neck to tug his ponytail loose. “People are gonna notice we’re not there. ‘Specially you, Mr. Tribal Chief.”
He pulled away long enough to huff, “Well, that's on you. You’re the one who kept rubbin’ on my dick the entire ride back here, making me so hard everyone woulda seen it.” Picking up the half-drunk bottle of Cristal next to her, he took a large gulp before handing it to her. “Gon’ be boring as shit anyway. Fuck the party,” he added.
“Nah, I’d rather fuck you,” she stated, making her intentions clear, loving the way his eyes blazed at her bold statement. 
“That’s my girl.” He showed his appreciation by tongue-kissing her slowly, coaxing her to follow his lead and match his energy. She wasn’t inexperienced at all, but each time they kissed, she felt like a virgin being taught for the very first time. Emboldened by the alcohol in her system and the passionate moment, her hips rocked back and forth, grinding against his prominent erection pressing between her parted thighs that his big hands caressed so lavishly, all while their mouths sought the depths of each other’s sensual taste. 
It took Cleo Parker-Jones just three months after her main roster call-up to get Roman Reigns in her bed. It probably would have been quicker if it wasn’t for his part-time schedule and her focusing on proving herself on the blue brand. Whenever he did show up to work, they did not get too many moments alone. But each time they did, they made the absolute most of it. Flirty banter. Suggestive winks. Subtle caresses as they grew closer. Soon, she was sneaking into his locker room or his bus for intense make-out sessions that left them both breathless and hungry for more. The sparks flew between them and it was only a matter of when and not if they would seal the deal.
Of course they did, and it was glorious. The man was blessed by the dick fairy and he backed it up with incredible, toe-curling bedroom skills that challenged even her own renowned stamina and athleticism. The not-so-amicable end of her last relationship had left Cleo lonely and horny, and she knew right after having her first taste of the Tribal Chief that she wouldn’t be able to leave him alone. Luckily, the feeling was mutual, as he kept coming back for more…and more…and more…
Fast forward a rollercoaster of a year and she was now Miss Money in the Bank, Smackdown’s fastest rising star at twenty-six years old…and Roman Reigns’ sugar baby. Of course, the perks were perking…Traveling in Business Class or in his own jet, designer outfits and accessories, late-night lobster dinners in restaurants shut down just for them, phone bill and house rent paid up, luxury hotel suites like the one they were currently in, enjoying a little after-party of their own after ghosting the one downstairs. But there was nowhere else she would rather be, especially since he would be gone in the morning while Cleo wrestled around the country, missing him something fierce. She never thought she would be in this kind of relationship, but this fun, adorable, generous, criminally sexy older guy had her wondering why she’d never considered it. He took care of her, pampered her, and satisfied her every need. He made her feel like a princess and that was all she’d ever wanted in a man.
She pushed him firmly to catch her breath, lightheaded from his delicious kisses, and licked her plump and swollen lips while staring up at him. Her fingers found the buttons on his dress shirt, slowly flicking each one open to expose his smooth, bronzed, tattooed chest inch by inch, noting the way he shivered as her short acrylic nails gently scraped his skin. She couldn’t help but grin at the sight of his open shirt and his hair loose and wavy; he strongly resembled those romance novel cover models from back in the day.
“Let me down so I can suck on my favorite lollipop,” she requested.
Without hesitation, Roman picked her up off the counter and brought her down to her feet before him. Lowering down to a squat, she backed him up against the counter and relieved him of his slacks with nimble hands. Her darkened eyes leered at his erection bulging impatiently through his Nike briefs, the front stained with his arousal for her. Her fingers peeled the elastic waistband down his muscled thighs, his long, hefty dick almost slapping her in the face when she set it free.
Roman’s breathing quickened as Cleo curled her fist around the throbbing length, squeezing out the bead of precum that clung to the tip. Their hazy gazes locked as her tongue darted out to catch it, licking the underside of his cock before guiding him between her lips, coaxing a deep sigh out of the Samoan.
“Unnnh, shit, Cleo,” Leaning back against the counter for balance, he nearly knocked over his iPhone in the process. Jerkily groping for the device, he picked it up, glanced between his Home Screen and Cleo’s bobbing head, and a naughty idea came to him. Tapping his thumb on the screen to find the camera, he couldn’t hold back his moan when her image materialized through the lens, making his dick disappear in her hot mouth like a magician.
"Smile for the camera, baby, I wanna remember this..." he said.
Her big brown eyes fluttered in his direction, and he tapped the button, the snap sound capturing the image of her pouty lips sealed tight around his dick forever. He firmly gripped the back of her head, struggling to take the picture three more times as she sucked him deeper and harder.
"You can just record it," she pulled him out to say.
His eyebrows shot up in surprise. “For real?” 
“Yeah. Have something to remember me by when you’re away from me.”
This was new. Sure, they’d exchanged dozens of nude selfies and some raunchy solo videos, but they were yet to put any of their sexscapades on film. His train of thought evaporated when a thick string of spit fell from her lips onto his milky brown length. His vision blurred as she then swallowed him up in one go, her sucking more audible from the gathering saliva, her hands twisting determinedly around his erection. As best as he could, he hurried to select the video setting on his phone and hit Record, his fingers digging into her scalp as the vibrations from her moans almost had his knees buckling. 
“Aw man, that mouth is fuckin' goated, princess,” he encouraged, raising his phone higher to get a better shot of her working him. He loved it when she got into it like this, so nasty and with so much passion and concentration. “This what you been waitin’ for all night, huh? This big dick deep down your throat?” he taunted.
Cleo blinked up at him with her long lashes, her naughty smile stretched by his girth. He looked so hot, bare-chested, staring down at her with his hair falling over his face. She could tell he was close already, the veins in his dick seemed to spring to life and thicken in her hand. With every suck, she made sure to moan around his big beautiful cock and let her tongue slurp all over it for extra stimulation. Her goal was to drain him, to wring him dry and make him lose his sanity. 
But not just yet.
Abruptly, she pulled away, sliding him out of her mouth with an audible pop as she said, “Okay, my feet hurt, I ain’t Megan Thee Stallion.” She raised her arms, gesturing for him to pull her back up.
Roman fought back a whine as his cock twitched pitifully from the sudden absence of her oral attention. Her annoyingly sexy smirk told him she was screwing with him again like she liked to, but he kept it to himself, inwardly promising to get his lick back. With shaking hands, he stopped filming and helped her stand up, watching her wobble a little in her high heels. 
Her lilac-colored nails wrapped around the neck of the Cristal bottle as she picked it up for a sip, and poked out her tongue to let the drink drip from it. It was bait, and Roman seized it with a needy growl, lapping up the alcohol with his tongue and making a messy transfer from her mouth onto his. God, he had the tastiest kisses, even coupled with the bittersweet flavor of champagne. When he pawed at the obscenely low neckline of her dress and his mouth latched on to her hardened, bare nipple, her heart thrummed excitedly in her chest as that familiar feeling of desire bloomed within her. 
“This dress is sexy as fuck, princess, but I want it off,” he demanded.
“You can take it off me, Daddy. Let’s go to the bathroom first. And bring your phone with you.” She took him by the hand and led him like a little boy across the large suite. Roman’s mouth watered as he watched her curvy hips sway from side to side as she walked. The things this girl did to him. It’s been a long time since he felt this way about any woman, since he’d been this happy and excited to be with someone. Initially, he felt like a dirty old man taking advantage of the beautiful, bright-eyed young starlet. But that reasoning was short-lived as Cleopatra proved from the jump to be more mature, more well-rounded and more in control than she liked to let on. He liked that a lot about his princess.
The backlit mirror in the fancy bathroom stretched over two sinks, the perfect backdrop for the sinfulness that was about to transpire. With a sultry smile, Cleo bent over one sink and pulled her dress up to her waist, exposing her black g-string nestled between her bountiful round globes. Using two fingers, she parted her folds and circled them gently over her labia, never taking her eyes off her big bad lover man, his phone recording her every move even though his eyes were glued to her soaking wet folds. With her slippery fingers, she rubbed her pussy before bringing them to her mouth to suck them like a pacifier, her moan low and sultry from her own taste.
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"Mmm. Come closer, Daddy, I want you," she purred.
As he did, she took his phone and propped it up against the mirror in front of her, leaving the video running. His hulking form towered over her, his body molded into hers, his aching erection straining against her backside. His tongue darted out between his lips as his hands roamed her body. His expansive paws caressed her curves and the fleshy mounds of her ass, his thumb brushing over the phoenix tattoo just above her right buttock. Cleo loved that this Adonis of a man never seemed able to keep his hands off of her. Having done some work on her body, naturally and surgically, she hoped the change would take her places. Never did she think that said place would be in the arms of the face of the WWE. Her career progression, along with his constant attention, was validation that her investment was paying off.
"Look at the camera while I eat this pussy, baby," he instructed. He had the bottle of Cristal in his other hand, and he turned it over and poured the liquid all over her ass, drenching her already damp panties. She watched as he disappeared behind her, and a hiss slipped from her lips as she felt his mouth on her ass, kissing and biting softly. The feel of his long fingers squeezing her cheeks as he licked the champagne off her skin was incredible. He rolled her panties down to meet her stilettos and ran his hands up and down her smooth, toned legs, widening them to expose her wet, glistening pussy from behind. Her stomach fluttered and her loins clenched as he left a trail of big, wet kisses on her inner thighs.
"Your pussy is so pretty, baby girl. Just like you."
He started suckling her folds, using that godly tongue of his to split them apart and lap at her opening. The faster and deeper he moved his tongue, the louder Cleo moaned, all while doing her best to focus on the camera like he wanted. Fuck, his lips were so soft, his tongue warm and fat and heavenly as they worked together to devour her aching cunt.
The Tribal Chief reached around her front, slipping one hand between her thighs. Ignoring the throbbing of his cock reacting to her throaty moans, he pushed his middle fingers inside of her and pumped, reveling in the panting, whimpering mess he'd turned her into. She reached behind her to grab the back of his head, only for him to shove her hand away and slap her ass in warning. Cleo groaned loudly as his finger plunged deeper, nudging that sweet little spot that made her eyes roll back as the pressure built and built. She braced her hands on the sink and rode his face and fingers, grinding her hips until she couldn't anymore. She howled her pleasure as the orgasm quickly overtook her and she came in his mouth and all over his thick beard. The sensation so overwhelming that her legs nearly gave out where she stood.
"I need you to come like that on my dick," Roman murmured as he rose to his feet. Ridding himself of the rest of his clothes, he wrapped a steadying arm around her before guiding her face to his. She moaned as she tasted herself on his tongue, swiveling nastily with hers, devouring each other as though only the other could quench their thirst.
"I can't get enough of you, Cleopatra. Every time I think I'm satisfied, the hunger comes back stronger." He burrowed his face in the crook of her neck and inhaled deeply, letting her flowery scent fill his lungs. "Everything about you makes me so hard. I need you, baby girl."
His voice and his words caressed her heated skin with the same devastating effect as his hands on her. Suddenly, her dress was too tight, too constricting, prompting her to pull it over her head with his help and throw it somewhere far away. She gasped as he immediately reached for her breasts, rolling their softness in his callused palms. Her gaze flickered from the mirror to the camera and back, catching his eye as he winked slyly at her.
She yelped a little as he smacked her hard on her behind, once on each cheek. His hand print seemingly seared into her ass, but she didn't dare say a word. As she waited for his next move, he stepped back, though she could still feel the mass of his thighs warming her backside. Suddenly, she heard the frantic, sticky sound of his hand jerking his dick. She almost melted at his expression through the mirror, his eyes clouded over, his beard glistening with her cum, his lips parted as he pleasured himself right in front of her, holding out on her. As "Sativa" played in the background, Cleo began to throb and pulsate, the anticipation getting her wetter by the second. The fact that he was making her wait sent her hormones into overdrive. Her honey dripped, rolling down her thighs.
When he was done, Roman grabbed the phone and held it right above her backside. His free hand rubbed all over her round ass before he grabbed his dick and spanked it on her ass, feeling harder and bigger than before on her skin. Reaching behind her, Cleo pulled her ass cheeks apart to help him sink inside her with one long thrust. He stroked inside her at a moderate pace, relishing in her sweet cream already streaking his dick. The mirror gave them the perfect view and eye contact. They could see each other's faces when their expressions changed, feel the shudder of their bodies when they moved and when they moaned with pleasure. Damn, what a beautiful sight, all captured on camera for their viewing pleasure.
"Ya know what? Throw that ass back for Daddy," Roman spoke roughly, his large hand clutching her waist and slowly rocking her back and forth on his cock, "This fat, sexy chocolate ass...fuck my dick with it..."
Planting her hands on the marble surface to steady herself, Cleo bit down on her lip as pushed back against him, pausing every couple of seconds to grind on him because he liked it when she did that. More heat bloomed within her loins at the satisfied groans falling from his lips, as he brought his hand down on her ass yet again. Moaning softly, she bounced faster against him, her pussy gripping him tight with each slide inside her. He felt so good, made her feel so full and so ready to explode again as her walls massaged his girth.
"Like that, baby? You want it like that, my Tribal Chief?" she spoke breathlessly, "That dick feels so good Daddy...Oooh sh-"
Roman had grabbed her left leg and lifted it onto the sink, opening her pussy up to him. He held her down and pounded her hard from behind with drunken, reckless abandon. It did something to his brain when Cleo idolized him with all these pet names; Daddy, baby, Tribal Chief; it boosted his ego and made his dick harder knowing that he was indeed in God mode. As her reward, he delivered heavy, grinding strokes right up against her g-spot that intensified her cries and had her gripping the marble surface for dear life.
"Talk to me, baby, tell me where I'm at?" he said, angling the camera to view her flushed face.
"In my stomach." She could barely speak or think straight or even stay upright, weakened from the mindblowing pleasure surging through her. She lay slumped on the sink, her eyes closed, her kiss-swollen lips parted as she enjoyed him inside her. He knew he was hitting her spot whenever her long eyelashes fluttered and her heavy breaths actually stopped for a couple of seconds, her mouth open in a silent cry. His hand then wound around her throat, yanking her body up from the sink and against him with her back to his chest. Twisting her chin towards him, he covered her mouth with a hot, sloppy kiss, coaxing her moans out of her throat and into his. Blindly putting the phone back down, his hips accelerated, drilling her pussy with added force, their slapping wet skin reverberating around the bathroom. His fingers slipped south to strum her clit, making her body tremble, on the verge of complete collapse as each wave of ecstasy grew more incredible than the last.
"D-Daddy...Roman, fuuuuck!" she stuttered, clawing helplessly at his arm around her neck, trapped between the hard surface and his hard strong grip, unable to do anything but endure the dizzying tandem offence of his cock and his hand inside her.
"I can feel you, baby, you 'bout to come, ain't cha?" he asked, a husky groan slipping from his lips as her pussy tightened around him. "Unnnh god, you feel so good. Come for me babe, I want your cum all over my dick."
Cleo's moans dissolved into broken whines as he kept pummeling into her, nudging her closer to the edge until there was no room left and she toppled over headfirst. Her body jerked once, freezing and then shaking as liquid gushed out of her and all over his and her thighs. The ecstasy was blinding, numbing with its sheer intensity. "Shiiiit!" she cried out.
"That's what I'm talkin' 'bout," Roman chuckled, letting her leg down and smacking her ass before spinning her around and lifting her to sit on the sink. His burly arms hooked beneath her knees, dragging her to the edge with his pelvis wedged against her clit. "Legs up, baby girl. Take the camera and watch Daddy fuck his pussy," he ordered.
Cleo licked her lips as she grabbed his phone, staring into the camera with unfocused eyes for a moment before directing it downwards to their naked, sweat-slick bodies. The Tribal Chief shuddered at the contrast of her pretty pink pussy against her russet skin. So fucking sexy. He rubbed his dick left and right like a windshield wiper over the fat, puffy pussy lips before patting her clit with it. "I'ma go nice and slow this time so you can feel all of me," he told her, groaning out loud as he slid in.
Chills ran down her spine as his magic dick stroked her right there, that lower sensitive part of her pussy that made potential orgasms creep in faster than usual. Roman knew exactly where that spot was, and he focused the pressure of his dick there, never stopping his onslaught.
"Shit...fuck that pussy, Daddy, fuck me, oooh yeahhh..." Cleo moaned, unable to tear her eyes away from the sight of his dick beating her pussy up, testing the stretch of her walls. It felt so good that her grasp on his phone began to falter. Roman noticed, and he took it from her, extending his arm so that the camera caught the entirety of both their bodies, showing off his messy dick pumping in and out of her creamy pussy.
"Look at us, princess, look how good you take Daddy's big dick. Fuckin' beautiful," he said. She followed his gaze into the camera, honing in on his trademark smoldering lip curl that she always found so hot. Her pussy agreed, leaking just a little bit more for his benefit and hers.
With her arms braced behind her, her legs spread wide and looking right into the camera lens, Cleo watched her lover go to town on her, his dick finding the bottom of her pussy. His strong, toned hips bounced off hers, his increasingly ravenous strokes causing her walls to pulse around his girth. Searching desperately for something else to grab onto, she clutched the back of his neck and pulled his mouth down hard on hers. A clattering noise sounded, and she felt both his hands curl around her throat as he nipped at her lips, his tongue tangling with hers. When he pulled back, the light in his eyes was gone, completely blown with lust and need, and Cleo couldn't help but smile with pride. A warm thrill always rushed through her to see him like this; this huge, powerful, unflappable man losing all composure and control and losing himself in her and in the pleasure she was giving him. It was the biggest ego boost, probably a bigger achievement than anything she'd done in the ring, to know that no one else did this to him or made him feel like this.
Their foreheads pressed together, breathing each other's air while he rocked into her, his dick sliding in deeper with each roll of his hips. His phone lay unattended next to them, having dropped it in the heat of passion. Even as her climax loomed, Cleo still had the wherewithal to prop the phone back up against the wall facing them, not wanting to miss the money shot of their coupling.
"I'm 'bout to come, baby," Roman rasped, his movements intensifying.
"Me too, come in my pussy Daddy, come in me," she whimpered,  her belly warming with the molten heat of an impending explosion.
Her breathless mewls propelled the snapping of his hips, his growls more uninhibited and desperate as he held her legs tighter and fucked her like an animal. Her head banged back against the mirror and her body arched into his with a keening cry, her nails digging into his biceps as her arousal crescendoed and splintered her into a hundred pieces. It felt like the music was playing directly in her brain from how hard she was coming.
"Yeah, come all over me, fuck, Cleo, I love this pussy so much. Daddy 'bout to come so hard for you, ah, mmmhhh..."
The jolt of his big frame and the thick grunt that followed gave him away. His thrusts stopped, and he held himself still inside of her, his head thrown back while he came inside the warm tunnel of her pussy, making the sexiest noises as he lost himself to unbridled pleasure. Cleo moaned with him as her body jerked from the force of his pulsing cock filling her up with his seed. She grinned lazily into the lens knowing that the entire scene was captured perfectly. As he crumpled in her arms, she left a string of kisses along his cheek and his neck, holding him close in a sudden desperate need to crawl into his skin as they descended from the incredible high together.
After the world had quieted and the room had stopped spinning, he straightened his back, kissing her before he pulled his dick out, watching his cum ooze from her pussy. She reached down to spread her pussy lips open while he picked up his phone again to get a closeup of the creampie that he created.
"Feed me our cum, Daddy," Cleo begged with her soft spoken voice. She watched as he swiped two fingers inside her and held up their joined fluids to her lips. Her mouth eagerly weaved around the digits, sucking and licking up their cum juices thoroughly, making him moan at the sexy visual.
"I've trained you well, my baby girl. You like this freaky shit just as much as I do," he teased, kissing her again as his arms wrapped around her waist. This was probably the part Cleo liked the best; the quiet after the storm, the cuddles and sweet butterfly kisses; basking in the afterglow as her love for him continued to blossom and deepen.
"You okay?" he asked, massaging her back in soothing circles as he looked at her.
"Mmm-hmm," she sighed blissfully in response.
"Mmm, that shit was fire, baby. Damn. I know that video is gonna be a masterpiece when we look back at it."
Cleo giggled in agreement, cradling his face in her hands and smoothing her thumbs over his beard, watching him visibly relax from her delicate touch. "Send it to me. I plan on having a lot of fun with it when you're not around."
"Dirty girl," he replied playfully with another sweet kiss, leaning down to help her take off her shoes. "Speaking of, what's TV like for you on Friday? It's the run-in angle from Damage Ctrl, right?"
"Yep. I'm off all through next week to sell the beatdown. Why?"
"Perfect. I'm at my place in Palm Springs for a week. Come meet me there after the show. I'll send you your flight details. Gabriel will take you to the airport and I'll come get you when you touch down. Bring a couple of bikinis and dinner dresses. You need some money for those, babe?"
Shaking her head no, she smiled the sweetest smile and hugged him. He spoiled her so much. She still had to pinch herself sometimes that this was her life. "You take such good care of me, Daddy. I lo-...I appreciate you."
If he caught the near slip-up, he didn't show it. "I appreciate you too. You should know by now that I love spending my money on you and taking care of you. So your fine ass better get used to it if you ain't."
Get used to it. She couldn't help but let her imagination run amuck at those words. Was it possible that he saw something more concrete between them? After all, they pretty much acted like boyfriend and girlfriend and most of the roster knew they were a thing. Deep down she longed for confirmation, but she also didn't want to ruin their great dynamic by overcomplicating it with an "official" label.
"Question. That video is in safe hands, right?" she changed the subject, making Roman snicker at the tinge of trepidation in her voice.
"Relax. The security on my phone is double-cheeked up," he insisted.
"You sure? Cuz I'mma smash your phone to pieces if I have to," she warned. "My folks will kill me if that video ever leaked."
Her cute little threat had him chuckling. She was so adorable. "Easy, tiger. It's safe, for mine and your eyes only. I'd never do anything to embarrass my baby girl." He stroked her chin gently, his eyes soft and filled with a warm, tingling emotion that brewed inside him only for this beautiful, exciting woman and seemed to grow stronger every day. He knew what it was, and he secretly prayed that it was not one-sided.
Their lips met once more in a gentle, sensual kiss that neither of them wanted to end. The disappointment sinking inside Cleo when he pulled away quickly vanished as he picked her up and carried her towards the shower. Again, she let him take her wherever the hell he wanted to. As long as she got to be with her Daddy, it didn't matter where they went. Sooner or later, with the right timing and persuasion, she would finally gather the courage to tell him she was in love with him.
THE END
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Sex In The Pizzaplex
fnaf
chapter ii. - Sun and Moon ⚠︎
CW: DIRTY TALK, SLIGHT DEGRADATION, JOI, OVERSTIMULATION, SEX TOYS, FINGERING
Reader POV
"now, you remember what I said about the daycare attendant?"
Vanessa asks, leading me into the Daycare center.
I was hired as an "after-hours attendant", which is honestly just the nicer version of saying i'm a janitor, but they started me off in the Daycare. Just as Vanessa guessed.
She was currently leading me to the Daycare, and was instructed to be my trainer. But mentioned she would just simply show me where things go and what to use when cleaning instead of being on my back with every move. She trusted i'd be just fine after a thing or two, so there is really no need for "training".
"I do remember, yeah, yeah" I say, rolling my eyes playfully.
She leads me over to these giant wood doors, and stops there.
"this is as far as i'm going, the attendant is your issue now" She says, crossing her arms.
I roll my eyes at her.
"thanks, I appreciate it" I say sarcastically, turning to her.
"is he really that bad?" I ask her, as she turns around and walks to the table behind us.
"yeah, he's odd. id rather not deal with him, it's annoying" She admits, grabbing a bin full of items.
"if you say so. wish me luck then" I say, fixing the strap of my bag on my shoulder and taking the bin from her as she motioned for me to have it.
"in here are all the cleaning supplies. I told you what needs to be cleaned and what to just leave. you'll be okay?" She asks, and I nod.
"okay, good. I'll be patrolling the Atrium and main entrance tonight, so i'm in the building. you know how to reach me if you need" She says, walking off with a smile and a wave.
I smile as I watch her walk off, sighing and turning to the tall doors.
I push them open with my foot and look around, everything so colorful.
To my left was a desk, so I headed over there to place down the bin, along with my bag.
Now, id like to mention, my "jokes" about getting freaky with these animatronics...not really jokes.
Yeah, no, I had something...a few things, in my bag. Just in case of anything. To come prepared.
I mean, it's not like I take those things out of my bag anyway.
But, whether this was robophilia, agalmatophilia, whatever you wanna call it, being attracted to fucking robots...
Working here was my opportunity to figure it out.
I stand up, and go to fix my work shirt, only to then feel something suddenly grab my hand.
I'm forcefully turned, now face to face with someone new as they grab my shoulders.
"hello! are you new?! what's your name?! my name is Sun, can you be my friend? oh, you're pretty!..."
I gasp, finally coming to my senses and getting a good look at this person.
animatronic.
The Daycare attendant.
He had a freakish looking smile, and his head was shaped like a sun. He was wearing an outfit almost similar to a jester, his red and yellow striped pants puffed out at the bottoms. Along his slender arms, he had bells dangling from his wrists, jingling as he held onto me. As odd as his design was, I did like it. But I understood immediately what Vanessa said by annoying.
He wasn't as cute as the other animatronics though, so maybe he could just help me with my chores and i'd be on my way. Probably won't be testing anything tonight.
Although, his mannerisms and slightly flirty compliments might've been...attractive.
"t-thank you...i'm y/n" I introduce, face slightly warm, and he removes his hands from my shoulders.
"oh! what a lovely name!" He compliments, clapping his hands together. I smile at him and walk over to the bin of supplies.
"oh, thank you" I thank him, grabbing a dry rag and an all-purpose cleaner from the bin Vanessa had given me.
"what brings you here after hours, friend?" He asks, skipping next to me, swaying his hips.
I stand up straight and show him my supplies.
"I work here. I just started" I say with a smile, going to walk around him to start cleaning, but he stands in front of me.
"oh, can I help! what do you have to do? let me!" He offers, laying his cold hand on mine, touching the rag I was holding. The physical touch sends a pulse through my body.
I smile, and pull away gently.
"I'll clean behind the desk first, actually, then maybe you can help with the play area. it's a mess" I say, shuffling over to the desk chairs.
"you think so? I try my best to clean up after the kids" He says, walking to the other side of the desk, leaning forward on his elbows and resting his chin on his hands.
"that's good, it leaves a little less work for me" I say with a chuckle, using the spray bottle for the cleaner along the desktop, wiping it down.
"speaking of kids..." He speaks, voice getting only a little lower in tone. But enough for me to halt my cleaning, and look up at him as he leans closer over the counter.
"how old are you? you're not a kid are you? I don't usually see many adults" He comments, and I stand up straight. He climbs on top of the desk, squating as he observed me, up and down. Even if he didn't have pupils to know where he was looking, I could still feel his stare somehow. Like there were a pair behind all of it.
"no, i'm not a kid" I admit to him carefully, as he continues to approach me. He hops over the desk, now on the same side as me. I back up, feeling my heel bump into something. My foot had knocked over my bag, but I was able to catch myself with my other foot before falling. Even so, my bag had toppled over, almost everything inside spilling out. Even it.
He notices this as well, and his head tilts in curiosity.
"what is this thing?" He asks, and my face pulses warmly. But I didn't say anything.
I just watched as he picked it up between his slender fingers, coming back over to me and holding it up.
"is this a toy? i've never seen one before, how do you use it?! it has lots of glitter!" He asks curiously, getting closer to me abruptly as my glittery toy was pushed in my face. Startling me slightly, I step back again into the wall, hearing something click behind me. I must've hit a switch, as the power in the area suddenly goes out.
"oh, damn it-"
"-no! no, no! the lights! they have to stay on! not now!" He startled me as he grunts, hunching forward and groaning in pain.
I watch, confused, even a little worried. I step forward for him to only step back further, bumping into the desk and dropping my toy.
"no, please! fix the lights, hurry!" He pleads, groaning again before toppling over behind one of the desk chairs.
I gasp, wanting to check on him, but frozen in my tracks as I was also still slightly frightened.
"Sun? are you...okay?" I ask, moving just a bit to try and carefully get a view.
But all I heard was silence, and then low growling.
My heart slammed against my chest as I heard this, starting to back up again.
This wasn't Sun anymore.
I watch the chair as it moves to the side, revealing a similar animatronic, but darker, his robotic wires and metal parts clicking as he eyed me from behind the chair.
I could only slightly make out how he looked, his pants now a blue color, scattered with yellow stars.
Definitely hotter.
I watched as he stood up from behind the chair, tilting his head to look at me as he slowed his stride approaching me.
Those red eyes...
As he got closer, I only now had noticed how tall he actually was, as he had to lean down to get in my face.
"you'll be a good girl for me, now, won't you?" He purrs, feeling my face grow hot.
Oh my god.
Everything inside me was internally screaming.
All of the above when it came to kinks was currently screaming.
My legs had almost turned to jelly as his slender fingers touched my neck.
"won't you?" He repeats darkly, and my breath hitches.
"y-yes" I respond quickly, my face burning.
He brought his hand down to my chest, pulling at the buttons on my work shirt. Removing one, then two, then another, enough to reveal my bra.
I swear if he had a tongue, he'd be licking his lips.
He let out a low growl as he moves back slightly, and stops, pointing at the desk chair.
"sit"
He demands, and stepping over to the chair slowly, I could now feel the warmth between my legs.
As I sit down, he bends to pick up my toy again, walking closer to me. He leans down, resting his hand on one of the chair arms to hover over me, his other holding it.
"I don't know how this toy works. why don't you show me?" He purrs, handing it to me.
I hesitate, then grab it shyly, hooking my finger around the band of my dress pants.
"now, now, I know all of us are mostly around children all the time..." He growls, leaning down again with his hands on either side of the chair, looming over me, watching me strip with his red eyes.
"but when we aren't..."
I slip my pants off one leg, and he brings a cold hand to my thigh, forcefully spreading my legs.
"well, we're just like you..."
I gasp as they twitch, and he brings his other hand to trace against my damp panties.
"so wet already...naughty, naughty girl" He hums, pushing harder against the fabric as my legs go to snap closed, fighting against his hand still holding them open.
He pulls his hand away, and stares at me.
"do it" He says, his raspy, growling voice leaking with desire.
I slide my hand down my hip, hooking my thumb around my panties and pulling it off one leg, exposing myself.
He leans against the desk, carefully watching me.
"put it in, slowly" He demands, and I whine, shamelessly feeling myself drip right before his eyes.
I bring the tip to my entrance, moving it up and down to lubricate slightly.
My mouth forms an "O" shape as I moan lightly. The tip enters gently, and my eyelids bat as I make eye contact with him.
"hm, what's the word?...whore?" He growls, questioning himself out loud, knowingly teasing me.
As he says that, I buck my hips, the toy pushing in fully.
I moan as I carefully pull it out, thrusting it in again just the way I liked.
"no, no, did I say to start?" He snarled, inching closer to me.
I stop and buck my hips, trying to tell him I needed to keep going.
"such a needy girl" He said, placing his cold robotic hand on my knee.
"go slow"
I pump my toy in and out, as slow as I could manage, my back arching against the chair.
"please..." I beg, sighing as I felt myself desirably clench around the toy.
"oh, so you want to beg now?" He teased, tilting his head as it clicked mechanically.
"such a desperate whore, now, aren't you?" He growled, bringing his hand down to mine and helping me push the toy in deeply.
My hips jerk forwards, and I whine for him to move.
"you wanted to beg, didn't you?" He teased, pushing harder as the toy brushed against my limit.
"beg"
I squirm under him as my walls closed tightly around the silicone.
"please, I want to keep going..." I whisper, sighing out a moan as my eyelids dropped.
"I want to cum, please, please let me" I continue to beg as he laughs desirably.
"filthy girl..."
He retracts his hand, placing it on my thigh instead.
"faster, now"
I moan loudly, pushing the toy in and out of me at a faster rate, my other hand grabbing at the chair behind me as my hips rolled.
"i'm close, please" I plead, and he growls.
"let me"
He grabs a hold of my hand, forcefully placing his other hand just above my head to tower over me.
The size of him just had my pussy throbbing against the toy as he encased me in the chair.
His mechanical hand paced at an unbelievable speed, my arm beginning to grow tired.
My chest heaved as he pulled it in and out so fast I could barely keep up, my moans turning into breathless whimpers.
"let me cum, please" I cry, my eyebrows knitting, pussy tightening around the toy.
"naughty girls must be punished" He barked, bringing his other hand to attack my clit, overstimulating me as I squirmed out a messy orgasm.
He pulled out the toy abruptly, my squirting finish dripping on the chair, his hand still circling my clit forcefully.
I sob as he watched me come undone, writhing uncomfortably in the seat. Growing severely sensitive, he still didn't seem to stop. No, instead he brought his other hand to my entrance after tossing the toy to the side. He easily has slipped two fingers inside me, curling them instantly as my hips bucked.
"fuck!-" I cry, and he tuts me.
"uh, uh, no naughty language in the Daycare..." He spits, hooking his fingers against my g-spot, his other hand still overstimulating my clit.
"i'm sorry, oh, god, but please-!" I beg, whining as he laughed, knowing he felt me clench around his robotic fingers.
"seeing you come undone is a dream" He admit.
Suddenly, even during all of this, the power comes back on loudly. It had startled me, and before me he had started to twitch, his hat falling behind his head, and Suns rays came through. His eyes glossed over back to white, and his outfit had faded back to its red and yellow. Once turning back, he noticed me and retracted his hand from between my legs, my mess all over his shiny fingers.
"oh, friend! i'm so sorry! did Moon hurt you?!" He cried, stepping back as he was flustered.
I throw my head back on the chair and sigh heavily out of relief, my legs twitching ever so slightly as I tried to rest them.
"oh, Sun, you're back..."
I now had to clean up more than I expected tonight.
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enthyrea · 4 months
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"well, look what we have here. welcome aboard, princess."
a macheresin pirate x prince au that has completely taken over my life. (@salemfrogtrials i blame you)
jake's the captain of the hidden dagger, one of the kingdom's most prolific pirate crews. he's cocky and arrogant and doesn't let anyone get close to him. javy is the crown prince, sheltered from birth and knowing nothing about the world. he runs away one day and gets kidnapped by jake's crew, who are ecstatic to have the prince as ransom. except, they quickly realize that using the prince as a bargaining chip won't work, and javy actually wants to stay.
jake decides to let the prince stay. and of course, they fall in love.
javy learns what it's like to be loved for who you are, not who you're expected to be; jake learns what it's like to be loved despite who you and others think you are.
(natasha is javy's knight who is leading the charge to rescue him. reuben and mickey are part of her crew. the rest of the daggers are a part of jake's crew.)
if you want to hear about the choices behind my designs ↓
jake: long hair and a beard because pirate lol, he's got fancy belts and necklaces and earrings and keeps a sword on him. he's got green on him bc he deviates slightly from your typical pirate color scheme, reflecting how despite his appearance, he is, in fact, a green flag. lol.
javy: his main color is purple because it reflects royalty. on his prince outfit, the orange represents rebellion as its his favorite color and a part of his individuality. he doesn't have his piercings or eyebrow slit before he runs away, but after he joins jake he does (probably a swordfight for the eyebrow). also. he's wearing jake's little belt tassel (the green one) after he becomes a proper pirate and jake gives it to him. he gets jewelry BUT he keeps the purple on his design because he's still a royal after all.
javy’s got white pants and jake has dark pants, and javy’s got a dark top while jake’s is white. it's a representation of their experiences being essentially opposites. HOWEVER they do share the same gold-orange color throughout their design- both on the bottom of their shoes, both on the jewel they wear (javy’s under his collar and jake’s on his belt). jake’s green sashes are closer to yellow on the color wheel which makes it more complementary to javy’s purple. over time, javy slowly gains bits and pieces of jake’s design and vice versa- specifically javy gets jake’s green and jake gets javy’s orange. javy wears dark pants like jake while jake starts wearing dark tops. essentially over time their color choices begin to match each other but they still keep individuality.
okay sorry ramble over. i will be returning to this. please enjoy!
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gavalaa · 7 months
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Sketches of all my redone designs for my Phantom Thieves from my AU, Icarus! Lots of info down below on the cut, so if you want to know more about the details and inspiration, feel free to keep reading!
This includes Akechi’s design for his Princely/Robin Hood attire, BEFORE his Icarus attire you might have seen from my other posts! Check out the Icarus AU tag for more info! Icarus has a main focus on Akechi and his relationship to the thieves, but the AU is actually an entire rewrite with new designs, 3rd semester and epilogue/strikers/tactica stories, hence Zenkichi and Sophia’s inclusion.
Read below for individual info:
I decided to include more motifs towards their persona’s and general vibes; and also just my own personal touches haha.
AKIRA - Not much has changed, I really like his design overall. I raised his boots to be like Arsene’s and changed his neck area.
MORGANA - I hate the OG pill shaped head, his new design is based heavily on the shape of Palico’s from Monster Hunter. Added a little more nod to Zorro/His persona motifs and also just made him cuter! Little hamburger headed cat.
RYUJI - I made him a little bulkier and gave some more weight to his outfit overall. I gave him heavier boots and a slightly buffer build to relate back more to his sporty style.
ANN - honestly was never too big on her latex outfit, I wanted to call back to a personal favorite female lead; Christine Daae, and used one of the versions of her Don Juan costume as inspiration. I remember seeing Phantom live and in many stage versions of her character, the Don Juan scene was a pure moment of female control, and she was truly working the Phantom and controlling every movement on the stage. Her presence is commanding, and I thought it was a very fitting tribute to Ann’s character as feminine strength. (I’m absolutely not referring to the movie iteration of Daae btw.)
YUSUKE - I referred to some historical art and legend of Goemon to add more elements of design to his outfit. When I color them, I want to add some really strong pops of color to his clothing to really drive the aesthetics and artistry home.
MAKOTO - Another totally redid outfit, I opted to give her a design which relates back to Popess Joan, and also Anat. I gave her a clawed hand on her right side and an uncovered hand on her left as both a nod to Anat’s hand raised in iconography of her from art history, but also to show the duality of Anat’s title as both a goddess of war, and of love. It also relates to the mythology of Joan and her nature as both a leader and a martyr. I changed her mask to a Venetian Commedia mask as well.
FUTABA - ok. I’ll be honest. I never liked her skin-tight outfit, it just doesn’t match her personality at all. Also, the high tech Egyptian feel never really sold me. I totally understand the tomb thing, but I truthfully think a dungeon/palace which was more like… tech/nerd themed would have been much more “futaba” the inspiration for this new outfit relates back to her persona, the Necromomicon, as well as her nerdy personality, and her affiliation as Alibaba (Ali Baba.) I wanted to go more lovecraftian, long sleeves and patterning designed to look more like lovecraftian tendrils, and big baggy pants and her classic shoes to match. The patterning on her undershirt will resemble a rib cage, both as a reference to her deathly “tomb” iconography, but also to Lovecraftian and Necronomicon lore. I think she matches the description of a nerdy, techie DND dungeon master more than the initial outfit, so that’s the route I took personally.
HARU - relating back to some fashions from 17th c France, where Milady’s story (the three musketeers) takes place, I kept her design relatively similar. I just gave her a little more iconography relating to the three musketeers and that general timeframe.
AKECHI - in his pre-Icarus outfit, I’ve given him a princely sort of outfit befitting of his two faced nature, and edited it to relate to Robin Hood a little more. I tried to keep it sleek and just generally very concealing and layered.
SUMIRE - i gave her some iconography relating back to one of her personas, who is an inference to Freya. I also included some more nods to classic Cinderella, with fantasy gown elements. Overall, relatively similar.
ZENKICHI - again, relatively similar, I really like his outfit. I just opened up the face some to show more personality and spiced up the outfit generally to keep it matching. honestly, les mis/Valjean was a hard one, but I also think his character could be heavily related back to Edmond Dante (Monte Cristo.) so I gave some nods to that as well.
SOPHIA - I turned her into a FINGIE!!!! I made her whole dress as a nod to her persona/to pandora’s tiles around her/the pillars. I wanted to make her small and almost unnatural since she’s an AI, and I thought having a little guy on the team would add some more variation.
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comparison and analysis on eve and mark's colors
i know this miggght be me overthinking but i really need to get it out of my system ahahajshajsha
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Pink is definitely Eve's signature color, it's the main color of her costume yet somehow you don't see that in her casual attire. As for Mark, no doubt his signature color is blue (even yellow can be included), and that's obvious in both his costume and his casual attire.
this post contains pics from season 1 and the atom eve special, putting a cut here cause this is lowkey long so,,,, oops-
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Eve wore pink a LOT when she was a kid, it's in her every outfit throughout all the time skips in the special. When a character has a signature color, it's something that's reflected in (nearly all of) their outfit/s.
So where did the pink go on Eve's casual attire on season 1? Where did she even got the idea of wearing yellow of all colors when it's so far from her favorite color? There's red that when you mix it with white, it gives you pink. So she could have had a red top and white pants in her current casual attire, but that's not the case.
We got our answer on who she got the idea of wearing yellow from in the Atom Eve special: it was from Betsy.
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There's a key thing that I noticed from the shade of yellow Betsy wore and what Eve is currently wearing. Betsy's yellow seemed happier. It was more vibrant.
Comparing Betsy's yellow to Eve, Eve's yellow is lighter. It's dull. As if it was drained of its vibrancy. And with what we saw of Eve's past in the special, it checks out that she must've have become so, so tired of so many things.
In animated series, yellow is often associated with warm, happy, and energetic characters. But when it comes to cinematography, yellow represents other things. From the link, I think cowardice is the symbolism of Betsy's yellow - due to her fear of Eve not being "normal" and her inability to accept Eve as she is. And @mandareeboo even pointed out Betsy telling Eve to "try harder" which leads to the symbolism of yellow that I associate with Eve: insecurity. There is no bigger source of insecurity than having your own parent say that to you, especially at a young age when a lot of things feel they're scary and overwhelming that you need a parent to guide you through it but instead they just tell you to repress yourself.
It's no wonder that Eve's yellow looked pale in comparison to past Betsy's yellow, pretending for years must have been exhauasting.
(Before anyone comment that Zak could be the reason Eve wore yellow instead of Betsy, I have an explanation I'm going to be giving later so please bear with me on this one hahahsdfjahsfda)
Now on to Mark!!
In the Atom Eve special, Debbie wore no shades of either blue or green. In fact, her top's color leans more to give a nod to Nolan's signature color (red). That, and their family pictures from season 1 showed that aside from Debbie, there was a time that Mark wore red too.
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Compared to Eve and Betsy, I find it so fascinating that the opposite applies for Mark and Debbie.
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We can see that kid Mark's shorts and top are currently the colors of Debbie's top and pants.
It was a nice switch to see the mom's colors reflecting her child. You often see the kid copying the color of their parent/s. This doesn't necessarily mean Debbie copied Mark, as a mom, this is her way of commemorating her son.
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The two stripes on Mark is a brighter shade of aquamarine while Debbie's top is a darker shade of Caribbean green, and both colors are near to each other in the color spectrum. Which is definitely something we can describe their relationship: they are close to each other.
I always thought that the stripes across Mark's chest was sort of a subtle design thing to show that he keeps his mom, who represents his humanity, close to his heart. Seeing that Debbie got her colors from kid Mark adds a whole new layer to it.
This is the part where I compare the then & the now:
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The reason why I mentioned Eve would never have picked up yellow with Zak in mind was that he was just a temporary figure in her life. Eve used to wear pink so much before, it was her favorite - so one can assume that the color itself brought her joy. You see Betsy wearing pink (this is the episode Eve left "home"). So my reasoning for Betsy wearing this color was to appease Eve, while Eve wore yellow to represent her trying to please her mom.
For Debbie and Mark, it was crucial for Debbie to wear the colors Mark wore as a kid. Throughout the series, we see how desperate Mark wanted to be like Nolan, to be good with his powers so he can be a good hero. One would think that Mark would have incorporated red in his outfit, but he didn't. What stood in the place of red in Mark's outfits was yellow, a color that's close to red in the rainbow arrangement. Using the same link for the meanings of the color yellow in cinematography from earlier, Mark's yellow symbolizes two things: naivety and idealization.
See how Mark has a yellow button-up underneath his sweater? It's his naivety about his father, it's not all out there yet it's on all the ends of his sweater as if making sure you know that the yellow is something that should be seen. And Mark's yellow I in his costume? That's idealization. In his eyes, Omni-Man is (probably, I can't speak for Mark 100%) the best hero. He idolizes his dad, there was never a doubt about it. He has put Nolan in such a high standard that there was more yellow in his costume to represent his idealization rather than his own signature blue.
That's why it's so important that Debbie wore his colors from the Atom Eve special in season 1. That Mark sees that on his mom. It was a reminder of kid Mark. That even then, he was just as precious. That he mattered even wayyyy before he had powers. That he mattered because of his humanity.
[inhales deeply to catch my breath] NOW FOR THE FINAL PART!!
i'm sorry this is so long i had so many thoughts about colors, color symbolism in characters is so personal to me.
you guys can skip these pics and list cause this is kinnnnd of a stretch now hahajsdfha - feel free to go straight at the portion after the bullet points end, that's just my final ramblings dedicated for season 2
Back to topic of colors!! It's obvious at this point how relevant both Mark and Eve's moms are when it comes to their colors. So it leaves me with two remaining things about Mark and Eve: (1) the color red on Mark on his casual outfit and (2) the color pink on Eve on her casual outfit
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The only moments we saw red on Mark that isn't blood is when he wore his bag. Now I know this is a pretty small thing but that bag could literally be ANY other color - and it isn't, it's specifically red. It could have been white to match his shoes or black to match his hair but it's neither of that. It's red. It's Nolan.
I think it's really important to know the relevance of that red bag, especially in those two pictures. (1) The moment Todd was harassing Amber and Mark wanted to intervene, it's totally obvious that Mark carries the heavy fact that at the moment, he's powerless unlike his dad. And it sucks. Cause he's his father's son and even though he carries his blood, at the time, he doesn't carry Nolan's powers. It doesn't stop him from defending Amber, but it still hurts bothliterally from Todd's hits and emotionally. Mark's carrying the feeling of inadequacy cause he has no idea how to defend himself in this situation, his dad never taught him how to fight because he didn't have powers.
(2) The second picture was Mark rushing to school because his training with his dad made him late for class. He got powers now, and it's literally dragging him from his education (among other things and that's including his relationship with Amber). His power of flight, no matter how fast it is, doesn't get him to places on time. Even when he got his powers, he still had problems. They actually piled up now.
Now as for Eve, sure her casual attire doesn't have any pink on it but her bags are pink!! (1) The first picture of her was when she and Mark met at school. During my first watch, I found it cute that she held on to the straps cause it's a little habit of mine when I wear backpacks. Then at the (2) other picture where she had her luggage out so she can run away from "home", I noticed they're pink too. And it's a small observation but compared to Mark that just lets his bag hang down, Eve holds on to her bags.
The bags are both pink, and pink is her color. It's not a piece or part of her, it's her. Pink has been something she deprived herself to wear but it's something she still wants to keep, even if it's just with bags. It's the thing she's comfortable to carry, it's something she wants to hold in her hands.
I know bags are a practical item for any student to have and I overthought a lot about their bags' colors but yeah hahasdfjasdfha I'm done with that now
CLOSING WORD TIMEEEE HAHAHADSFAHFAHA
man that was a lot, anywayssss
The season 2 poster showed that Debbie has a new outfit. As for Mark and Eve, they're both wearing their hero costumes.
Slight spoilers from the comics: When Nolan left, there was a time that Mark began to dress himself in a style similar to Nolan (I can't tag op for some reason :(().
I feel there's a big chance Mark and Eve will also have new casual attires this coming second season.
Mark is likely to dress similar to Nolan just like in the comics. He will definitely have questions about his identity now that he knew the truth about Nolan, so I think Mark won't be able to wear his usual colors to show that he's figuring things out.
Mark could also wear that blue and black costume, the one that doesn't have the yellow anymore. Because he won't be idolizing his father's heroic persona anymore.
Mark, of course, misses his dad but he won't be looking up to him anymore after what happened.
As for Eve's season 2 casual look though, now that she has her own treehouse and starting to feel free from her parents, I hope she allows herself to incorporate pink in her clothing. She deserves it <33
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Costume Meta 7x02
We are short on the costumes to look at this week as we continue this multi episode arc, so this meta is going to be a pretty short one! I’ve had a pretty busy weekend, so things have worked out for me and its also the reason why I'm only posting this on a Tuesday evening!!!!
There are a few things to point out before I get to the main costumes - we have more bright pink in play here - on the Mom in the car that got hit by the drunk driver. I still have no idea what its trying to tell us a this point, but I have my eyes peeled for more bright pink to appear in the next couple of episodes and see if I can unravel its use.
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On the non costume front, on the ship - its a yellow cable that leads to the bomb that ensures communication cannot be restored to the ship when nit explodes - the fact the communications engineer also dies, just re-emphaises the point. Communication is a key theme in this episode.
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Back to costumes an in the same vein as the cable, we see Captain O’s deputy in his yellow rain coat when she gives the abandon ship order, and the yellow wire is prominent on the radio when she tells him to do so. He is now the one responsible for communicating her order to the rest of the ship and getting everyone onto the life boats. This is good and effective communication and we see the results of it as we are shown the ship being evacuated. 
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Hen and Karen are the only ones we get in a new costume this week.
Lets start with Karen - its an interesting choice - we have her in this navy blue shirt and trousers combo with a brown belt. the top has blue and green Richelieu (cutwork) design on the sleeves and the trousers are also decorated with Richelieu. There are two things at play with this costume choice - the almost entirely navy outfit places her in the same category as Chim, Buck and Eddie. this is very very intentional - Karen mirroring/paralleling them places her in the same position they hold - Karen is meant to be there to show that Hens thought process is flawed and as an outsider to proceedings thats really important for the audience - we need to see that Hen isn't this flawless captain that we've been shown up to this point. The other thing it's designed to do is maintain Hen as separate from everyone else. This visual device helps the script re-enforce things so that when she is then spurred into trying to get hold of Bobby and Athena we are focused on her because of her 'otherness' visually she stands out and we obviously need her to to help drive the narrative forward.
The other thing with Karens costume is the green and blue Richelieu which creates this visual representation of storm clouds swirling and moving in - a subtle reference, not only to Hen's currently cloudy viewpoint on things, but also to the impending storm brewing out in the ocean around the cruise ship. I really love it when they can drop subtle hints like this in set and costuming!
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THen we have Hen!
Putting her into her white tee, jeans, green sneakers and this printed silk jacket, and not showing her changing out of her uniform into said outfit while the rest of the firearm are still in uniform helps to separate her from the ‘three Judases’ its a really loud and obvious visual way of separating her from the not only the three boys, but also from the firehouse as a whole. The way the scene is set up helps with this as well -she is on the same side of the bench and room as Chim, Buck and Eddie, until they question her version of events (Eddie is the one to actually ask the question and he is the one dressed differently to Chim and Buck - this isn't about putting him in opposition to them, more just visually signalling that he's the one to ask the important question that we as viewers should be ready for) and then she moves away from them and becomes visually in opposition to them. Its the perfect example of costume, set and direction working in perfect harmony to tell the story visually - we don't actually need to hear whats been said, we can tell it all from the way its shown to us visually.
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Hens jacket is a fascinating choice - it plays into a couple of themes we’ve seen in action over the two episodes we’ve had thus far. I did write a little bit about it when we got the first stills of it (which I now cannot find - stupid tumblr search!) but essentially it is a jacket that has various places around California - the golden gate bridge, the redwood trees in Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, etc. as well as the victorian style rose pattern running along the cuffs and edges of the jacket.
The pink roses are a really lovely touch - and one I picked up on specifically because Hen is not a flowery kind of person, so seeing them on her means they are important. Pink roses are generally considered to signify a strong friendship or family bond - something that is ultimately at the heart of matters - the fire family are just that - a family and they might have argument's etc, but they still love each other as a family and will go all out to be there for each other. Its a low key piece of
then we have all that water - do we even need to talk about its meaning?!! Its a literal visual play on the entire them of this arc - water! We all know that water is a really key theme that 911 uses a lot in its storytelling, whether thats big water based events such at the Tsunami or this cruise ship disaster, or smaller low key water theming such as the rain being present at so many of the disasters we see. I'm interested that we now have it appearing on Hen - because it hasn't really been connected to her in many of her personal story arcs (by this I mean arcs such as her deciding and training to be a doctor, Henren's journey through parenthood, the ambulance crash or even Karens lab blowing up last season) so its interesting that we're now seeing her pulled into the water theming in a visual way like this. It is also a play on the two aspects of this episode - there is the loud water theming of the Cruise ship, but there is also the fact Hen has landed in hot water/ deep water.
Hen is also wearing her 'H' necklace, not her 'K' one. This is important because her necklaces tend to be a visual indicator of what her arc is about - the 'H' is worn when it's about her specifically and not her marriage/ family, which is when we tend to see the 'K' heart pendant being worn.
Thats all from me this week! Thank you as always for reading and I hope you enjoyed the shortness of this post - I doubt many of the others will be this short 😂
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blackheart-6 · 14 days
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noelle holiday age progression chart
without height lines
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explanations of designs:
hi yall
so, i actually finished this drawing like a week ago lol. but i didnt want to post a bunch of drawing in a row, and then i got sick, so i havent been able to post it till now!
its my imaginings of what noelle looked like as she grew up, and a potential adult noelle design! ill explain my thought processes about these designs below, if anyones interested 😁
i also plan on doing one of these with dess, but this one was pretty difficult, so it might be awhile before that (unless yalls are interested in seeing it?)
first off, im not 100% sure ill keep using all these designs. some of them im not that happy with (im no good at designing outfits 😔) but i just went with them so i could finish the drawing. so if anyone has any alternative outfit ideas for any of her ages, id be interested in seeing/hearing it!
secondly, something that may stick out to yall for all the designs is how tall she gets. its the same height i normally draw her with, but given how i usually draw her by herself you cant really tell how tall she is! i have 3 main reasons for why i headcanon her as this tall: deer are pretty tall irl, so having her be tall makes sense in my head; i just like the look of her being super tall, it makes me happy lol; and third, i personally also headcanon the holiday family as boss monsters (i think ive explained this headcanon before on here, so i wont explain again, unless someone is interested ^^). so yeah, she ends up being 7 feet tall as an adult, the second tallest in her family!
also, i gave all her children forms stripes in some way, as a reference to when monster kid in undertale says they can tell frisk is a kid because of their stripes!
now onto my explainations for individual drawings!
theres nothing really to say about her baby design. the only thing i did that might be new is give her faun spots! they are most plentiful on her baby form, but they persist until shes in her teens, i would say (on here you cant see them after age 7, but thats just because i imagine they are mostly on her back). and i gave her a cute lil onsie that says a-deer-able! if you guys cant read it ^^
this outfit i made for her toddler design is actually an outfit ive used in the past! i wonder if yall know what drawing it was? its pretty much the same as it was there, i just added a stripe to the shirt. i felt like overalls are so reminiscent of childhood, i had to give at least one of her designs them! i also added a little mistletoe to the front pocket, to make it more christmas-esque. and i gave her some bandaids, just cause.
7 years old is one of the designs i really struggled on, and im still not happy with it. i dunno if ive said this yet, but i headcanon noelle to be trans, so at 7 is when i decided she started realizing it. so here i gave her long sleeves and pants, to show how shes more hidden now because shes unhappy with herself, if that makes any sense? i was also trying to make her look a bit like a nerd, with the button up and khakis, just because its funny. but yeah, ill probably end up changing this design at some point :P
11 years old was one of the easiest to do, considering how ive had her design for this age for awhile lol. one thing i did change was going from 2 red/white stripes to one, but ive done that before, so it wasnt something entirely new. i also gave her a smile and closed eyes, cause shes happy being a girl 🥰. other that that, its the same, so yeah, thats it for this part
okay, this next design is a fairly different looking one than all the rest, but i have my reasons! at this point in noelles live, dess has gone missing, so i wanted to show her being sad and stuff. i also gave her shoes and long sleeves because she probably goes out looking for dess when she can, hoping to find a lead 😭. but outside of in-story stuff, this outfit is based off of an old one i drew, but its fairly edited, so i wouldnt be surprised if no one recognizes it even if they have seen my old stuff. she has straight hair here, to show how unhappy she is (idk what it is about straight hair it just feels sad) and because i wanted to give her different hair varieties on this progression chart. i gave her antlers 2 prongs each at this point, because the way i see deer monsters, their antlers show their growth/aging, so youll see them getting bigger and having more prongs as the chart continues.
this outfit for 15 is another one i dont like. i tried to make it similar to her current outfit, but still pretty different. im not even sure what precisely i dont like about this outfit, it just doesnt feel that good. for this one i gave her leg warmers because i used to (and sometimes still do) draw her normal outfit with them. i gave her the curly hair she has as a callback to when i used to draw her hair like that! but yeah, ill probably end up redoing this one too
for 17, i just gave her the normal outfit, so it was easy ^^. in game i think shes 16, but close to turning 17, so i just went with 17 here to fit the +2 age pattern thing i had going on. i also gave her an extra horn prong than i normally give her, just to show age once again
finally, her adult design! i dont like this one either lol. i spent so long trying to think of what outfit to give her, but i couldnt come up with something i liked >.< so i just gave her something simple. i feel like once noelle graduates high school and probably goes to college she branches out more and tries things her mother never let her do, which is why i gave her an outfit like that, that has a crop top and a shorter skirt. also, yalls might recognize the hair style i gave her, i drew a potential adult noelle before and i gave her the same hair ^^
i think thats all for the post! i probably have more thoughts that im just not thinking of, but its fine for now. i hope yall enjoyed the drawing, and if you have any question or comments or whatever, go ahead and say them!! if youve made it this far, have a cookie, you must be hungry after reading so much ^^ 🍪
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goosewriting · 1 year
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Make me a caf
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summary: Hux seemingly wants to keep you around after you fix his caf machine.
relationship: Armitage Hux x GN reader
warnings: (18+) making out, sexual tension
word count: 7.4k (this one got away from me... i blacked out and woke up to this. i have no other explanation lol)
A/N: 100% self indulgent. partially inspired by @wordborne’s fic Strictly Business, which is a story for inquisitor!Cal. i wonder what it is about redheads in black outfits that’s so appealing to me  lmao
prompt used: they are absolutely losing it, they pin you against the wall, hands on either side of your face, eyes looking down, they say through gritted teeth, "This isn't easy for me. I-I've never--You matter to me. And, You deserve way better than someone like me--" They're cut off when you pull their collar closer, shaking your head, somehow not fazed by his gaze that's ripping you bare. "I deserve you--everything of you, I want it." (source, by @urfriendlywriter)
(english is not my first language. constructive criticism and grammar corrections are very appreciated!)
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Life sure takes interesting turns sometimes. You started out as a mechanic on your home planet, then got drafted by the First Order to work on many projects, the latest being a new base on the planet Ilum, which was a very exclusive and secret project. So not only did you have to relocate for a long time while the base got built, but also in the little leave you got, you weren’t really allowed to talk to anyone.
But you decided a long time ago that’s an okay price to pay for an honestly more than decent pay. You also don’t have to pay for housing or food, you get your own quarters, all your equipment, and even a droid. So, not too shabby.
It’s been a while since you moved to Ilum now, and it’s a morning like any other. You’re the first to arrive at the workshop and your droid beeps at you, telling you that there’s a special request coming in asking for a mechanic. You ask your companion from where it comes and it projects a schematic of the base, with the room in question blinking.
You swallow hard as you realise that’s the part of the base where the captains and generals are housed. But the message was marked as urgent, and you’re the only one here right now, so you take your tools and nod to your droid to follow you.
It takes a while to navigate the labyrinth of hallways; it was pretty rare for the lower deck people to come to these parts. You have to look at your droid’s map a couple of times, but finally you make it to the right wing. Even the design of the walls is different here than it is in the other floors, it’s more sophisticated somehow.
You arrive at the room number indicated on the message and read the name on the plaque next to the door: it’s General Hux’s room. Great.
Luckily you didn’t have to deal with him personally, ever really, but you did hear the rumours, and they weren’t all too… nice. Sure, talks about Kylo Ren and his anger issues sounded worse in a way, but at least he lashed out from time to time. Hux donned you as the kind of person to be so emotionally constipated that he probably didn’t remember how to express anything else on his face except for contempt. In fact you’re pretty sure you’ve never seen the man smile.
Taking a deep breath, you knock on the door, and you’re startled as it opens almost immediately. In front of you towers none other than the General himself, sans his coat, eyeing you and your droid up and down.
“You’re late,” is all he says as he turns on his heel, and you follow him silently, deciding there’s no point in arguing to him about how he summoned you to basically the other side of the base out of the blue. 
You try not to stare too much, but you can’t help taking in his room: it’s spacious, clean and tidy. There’s a main room with a couch, a chair and a caf table, and a small kitchen to the side with a breakfast nook attached to it. An open door leads to a space you can’t see, but you assume it’s a hallway to the bedroom and refresher. For a whole organisation that seems to love their sleek designs in black and red, his quarters sure are light, which in turn makes them seem bigger. The wall in the far back of the living room has a huge window reaching almost from floor to ceiling, letting in plenty of natural light, reflected on the planet’s snowy landscape.
When Hux clears his throat, you rip your eyes off the place and bring them back to him, where he stands in the kitchen with his arms crossed.
“The caf machine is broken,” is all he says, then moves past you in a way that only entitled people do, where they expect the other to move out of their way, and takes a seat on the couch, reading through his datapad.
“Right,” you say through gritted teeth, thinking back to all your diplomas and licences to repair heavy machinery, artillery, spaceships, yet here you are, fixing a caf machine. 
With a sigh you approach the device and get to work. You find the problem quickly, and luckily it’s an easy fix. You stretch out your arm to your droid, asking for a tool which is handed to you with a happy beep, and finish the repair within minutes. 
“All done, Sir,” you call to Hux.
“Test it to make sure,” he orders without looking up.
“...Sir?”
He sighs.
“Make me a caf,” he clarifies. His tone isn’t particularly condescending or mocking though, it’s just flat. 
“Uhm, yes, Sir,” you respond, turn to the machine and all its buttons, then back to him. “How would you like your caf, Sir?”
“Surprise me,” he answers and goes back to scrolling through his datapad. 
You blink a couple of times, turning back to the device. This is one of those higher end machines, you’ve never really operated one. And you don’t even know where he keeps his stuff.
As if he could read your mind at your lack of movement, he says, “Caf is in the pantry, mugs are in the cupboard above.”
You open said cupboard, finding a collection of plain, black mugs, as well as an electric grinder. In the pantry you see not just an overwhelming amount of different caf beans types, but also a whole barista set, with the little press and the whisky thing. You have never used any of these; all you know is that these sets are rather expensive. And this man apparently knows his caf, so why would he ask a random mechanic to prepare it for him?
Wondering how it is you come into ridiculous situations like this alarmingly often, you get to work, grinding the beans (you didn't know a grinder could be this silent), placing everything in the machine and starting it up. In the pantry you also find some other spices and creamer, but you reckon Hux is the kind of man to take his caf black, so you don’t put in any of the latter. Instead you add a little bit of… you don’t even know what kind of spice it is, as the little jar is unlabeled, but it smells good. 
“All done, Sir,” you say as you walk up to him with the steaming mug.
He gestures to the caf table in front of him with his chin, and you’re about to place the mug down, but then see a little basket with coasters donning the First Order symbol. You pick one up and slide it under the mug.
“You can see yourself out,” is all Hux says, without looking at the mug or you.
You hesitate for a moment, not expecting to just be sent off like that. Wasn’t he even gonna try it? Wait… Why were you even waiting for a response? It’s not like you cared.
“Yes, Sir,” you bow lightly and turn on your heels, calling your droid and leaving.
On the whole walk back to your workshop, you wonder what the kriff just happened, and hope that you won’t have to deal with the General for a long time. He’s so weird.
The universe seems to be against you though, because it is only the next day when you arrive at the workshop, but this time you’re not alone. You’re the first mechanic, as for the next couple of rotations you have the early shift, but there’s a Stormtrooper waiting; that can’t mean anything good. 
“Good morning, Trooper,” you greet them with a smile as you approach them. “Anything I can help you with?”
“Grab your tools and follow me,” the modulated voice orders. You pack your little bag while the Trooper just stares, then tell your droid to come, but they lift a hand.
“Leave the droid.”
You couldn’t be more confused, but you comply, telling your droid to stay. It beeps sadly and slowly rolls back around your table, where it will probably stay and wait for you to come back. You feel a little bad, but there’s nothing you can do.
The Trooper doesn’t say anything else as you follow them through the pristine halls, your steps echoing off the walls. Every now and then you have to jog a little to catch up with their hasty pace. Soon enough the route seems oddly familiar and you feel like you’re having a déjà-vu. 
“Where are we going again?” you ask, even though you haven’t been told yet where the Trooper is taking you.
“General Hux called for you,” they explain.
Okay, now you are confused. You fixed his caf machine, even made him a fresh cup of it. What could he possibly still want? 
The rest of the way to the General’s room is silent again, and once you arrive at the door, the Trooper knocks twice, then stands guard next to it. Again, the door opens comically quickly, as if Hux had been behind it waiting the whole time. The thought makes you smile to yourself, and you try to suppress it the best you can.
“Ah, good, you found the mechanic,” Hux says, nodding to the Trooper, who nods back and leaves the way you came from. 
“What can I do for you today, Sir?” you ask as you find yourself walking into his quarters again. 
This time he has you following him through the hallway to the refresher, where he points at a flickering light.
“Fix it,” he orders and leaves.
Is this some sort of twisted game where he would have you do menial tasks every day? Is the First Order targeting you? Just what in the world is going on, you think, dropping your bag of tools onto the floor with more force than necessary. I have more urgent work to do.
Heaving a silent sigh, you inspect the light. Just as you thought, all it needed was to be screwed in tighter into its socket, and the flickering stopped. 
Picking up your bag from the floor, you walk into the hallway. The door to his room is open and you steal a tiny peek inside. His bed is huge! Sure must be comfy…
“All done, Sir,” you report as you come to stand beside him. 
“Excellent. Now,” he says as he leaves his datapad on the couch and stands up, taking a step towards you, towering over you. Instinctively you take a step back, and the tiniest of smiles appears on his freckled face. Huh, you hadn’t noticed before that he has freckles. 
“Make me a caf,” he orders.
“Sir,” you start, averting your gaze from his piercing one. “With all due respect, you have a functioning caf machine right there. I don’t see why my presence is needed.” 
He narrows his eyes at you. 
“How did you prepare the caf yesterday?” he asks.
Oh Maker, he probably hated it, you think as you tighten your grip on the strap of your bag.
“Uhm, I…” you hate yourself for stumbling over your words. You bet he’s getting a kick out of this. “Was it not to your liking Sir? If so, I apologise–”
“That was the best damn caf I’ve had in a long time,” he interrupts you, and you can only look up at him in surprise. “How did you prepare it?”
“I made a… I think it’s called a blend?” you try your darndest to remember just what you did yesterday when you experimented with the ingredients in the pantry. “I used beans from two different packs. They seemed like they would go well together… Sir.”
Why did you even do that? You have no idea. You’re also pretty sure you added one of the spices. 
“Interesting,” Hux remarks, leaning back to stand at his full height. You didn’t even notice he was leaning in so close to you. 
You kinda just stand in place, waiting for further instructions, while his eyes seem to burn through your very soul, his face unreadable. 
“Then, surprise me again, mechanic,” he orders, and walks back to the couch. 
You gulp for what you’re about to say, but you don’t like how he calls you ‘mechanic’ like it’s a derogatory term. 
“Actually, Sir, it’s…” you say and pause, waiting for him to turn to you, and then you tell him your name.
He repeats it, as if testing out how it sounds, and you reprimand yourself internally for the beat your heart just skipped when you heard him say it. 
Hux turns his attention back to the datapad, and you quickly make your way into the kitchen, leaving your bag on one of the stools. 
Once more you find yourself in front of the pantry, and you get to work. You sniff the different caf packets, trying to understand anything from the colourfully worded descriptions on the back. With a shrug, you just follow your nose like you did last time, and grind up two different kinds of beans, this time without any spices, and let the machine do the rest. 
Once it’s ready, you bring it to the caf table, where a coaster is already waiting this time. You place down the mug and bring your hands behind your back, waiting to be dismissed.
But instead, Hux takes the mug into his hand, blowing softly on it, and takes a sip. All without breaking eye contact with you. He waits a couple of seconds and hums. You hope that’s a good thing. 
“Interesting choice,” he remarks, looking into the dark liquid reflecting the room’s lights in ripples. “You’re dismissed.”
“Sir,” you excuse yourself with the same bow as yesterday, grab your bag, and leave his quarters. 
You take a quick look at the time on your datapad and curse under your breath as you’re gonna be late for the second rotation in a row, and speed up your pace.
This whole spiel goes on for almost two weeks: Hux sends someone to retrieve you from the workshop early in the morning, has you do some menial task as an excuse for calling you, then orders you to make him caf. The feedback you get for your results is sparse at best, usually only one or two words. But you did notice that he has a preference for one type of blend mixed with a certain spice. You even went as far as looking up more things to spice caf up with on the holonet, trying to apply it to the ingredients in his pantry.
The more time you spend in his room, the more he opens up little by little as well. At first you’d work in silence. Then he’d sit on the stools by the kitchen instead of the couch, doing some work. Then he’d put down the datapad to watch you work, and it even came as far as doing smalltalk. Once he even asked you for your input regarding a technical matter in his work, where you caught a glimpse of some schematics of something huge. You’d be lying if you said it didn’t make you curious to know what he was working on. 
As ridiculous as this whole situation was, not only did you find yourself looking forward to seeing a Trooper every morning, but you made it your goal to make a caf that would blow Hux’s socks right off.
It’s shortly after the two week mark of this whole thing that you’re on your way to the workshop, expecting to see a Trooper to pick you up, but the place is actually empty, save for your co-worker who’s on the early shift. You greet your droid, who beeps happily at your arrival, and you look around.
“Did anyone come by, buddy?” you ask, and get a negative beep-boop. 
When you ask the other mechanic, she also says it’s been just her until now.
Huh, weird. No, wait, hold on a minute – why are you even expecting to get summoned in the first place? You can finally catch up on all the work you’re behind on because of the little “caf-scapades”, as you’ve been calling them. 
“Alright, let’s get to work,” you tell your droid and pat it a couple of times. “There’s a lot to do.”
The nagging feeling that something is wrong doesn’t leave you though, in fact, the more time passes, the stronger it seems to get. By the end of your shift, you wonder if you should pay the General a visit out of your own volition. But you decide against it, after all he could be on a mission somewhere, or maybe he was busy today. Either way, it’s none of your business. 
You wrap up for the day and finish cleaning your workstation, get your dinner, and not long after, find yourself getting ready for bed. After a quick shower, you change into a tank top and shorts, your go-to sleepwear. You’re glad that despite the harsh outside conditions, the living quarters are well heated.
Just as you’re lifting the blanket to get into your bed, you hear your datapad beep twice: a message. You wonder who it could be this late at night.
With a sigh, you make your way to the table and pick up the device, squinting at the light in your already dark room. You almost drop it to the floor when you see the message: “Come now. Alone.” It’s from an unknown sender, but marked as urgent: it’s gotta be from Hux. You glance at the time and roll your eyes. Of course he would have you on a regular trip to his room every morning for half a month, then suddenly stop, only to call you to his room in the middle of the night. Just what is this guy’s deal?!
You look down at yourself and sigh. This isn’t how you want the General to see you, at least not right now. Not yet. Perhaps. 
You don’t really own any civilian clothes, as you’re always in the base. The only non overall kind of clothing you have is a First Order uniform, but that one is only ever really used for official events or gatherings. Plus it’s rather stiff. 
All your coveralls are currently either covered in grease and/or smell of engine oil. Besides, you don’t wanna wear those over your PJs. So you grab the next best option, which is the summer version of the coveralls you almost never use because they have short sleeves, and it’s mandatory to wear long sleeves and gloves in most of the hangars and workshops. They’re clean at least, so you quickly jump into them, not even bothering to zip it up all the way, slip into your boots and head out. 
Walking down the hallways to the military wing of the base at this time of night is strange; for some reason there’s more Troopers and people out and about than in the early mornings. They give you a strange side-eye when walking past you, but no one seems to question your presence at least.
When you finally make it to Hux’s room, you lift your hand to knock, but hesitate.
Why would he call you out here at this hour anyways? On one side you expect him to tell you that he’s grown tired and bored of you. On the other side you know he wouldn’t do that, not like this at least. 
All day, ever since not being picked up by a Trooper, you’ve been plagued by this little voice in your head. A nagging feeling that was disguised as a strange curiosity to know where the caf-scapades would bring you two in terms of getting to know each other, yet you knew that beneath it was genuine worry for the General. He doesn’t contact you all day, then suddenly messages you (which means he went out of his way to get your contact information, since you hadn’t given it to him), and here you are, running to him the second he calls you. 
You grimace at the thought, or rather the realisation, that you actually came to… like the General. 
He has a weird sense of humour, and isn’t good at expressing how he feels. But if you look closely enough, you can recognise the subtle changes in his face that give away his thoughts. You can’t deny that he is very handsome, but you’re also aware that he can be a dangerous man. You’ve heard enough stories of what he and Ren have done and are capable of. And yet… There's something about his presence, like he’s surrounded by this air full of purpose and confidence, that you can’t help being pulled towards him. 
So yeah, you’re intrigued by him. And you want to see more. 
Taking a deep breath, you knock on the door in the pattern you usually do.
But the door stays closed. 
Suddenly it dawns on you that you didn’t actually know for sure who sent the message. What if it wasn’t Hux, and something happened to him? What if he was hurt and this was all a trap?
You hold your breath, tilting your ear towards the door, trying to hear if there’s anyone at all in there, when you suddenly hear a groan from the other side.
You’re about to call out to Hux but stop yourself. You’re sure it was a groan right, and not a… moan? You feel heat rising to your cheeks at the thought. 
Shaking away the images threatening to flood your brain, you knock again. You really hope you’re not interrupting anything.
This time the groan is louder, clearly pained, and it’s calling your name. 
“Sir?” you ask, now definitely worried for his well-being, all other theories thrown out the window. 
Suddenly, the door whooshes open, but there’s no one in front of it. Instead, you see the remote aimed at the entrance (so that’s how he opened the door so quickly), held by a Hux who’s half hanging from the couch onto the floor.
“General!” you call, close the door behind you and rush to his side.
Hux is only wearing his trousers; his shirt, jacket and belt are strewn on the floor. He probably was trying to get dressed or change, but collapsed. You grab his arms to pull him up, and you get to sit him down properly on the couch. His face is flushed all the way down to his neck, clearly running a fever. Your hand shoots up to touch his forehead and he’s burning. He weakly swats your hand away and winces in pain, his eyes shut tightly, and you feel your own gaze travelling down his jaw to his collarbones, to all the freckles covering his shoulders and pecs.
Forcing yourself to tear away your eyes, you shake his shoulder lightly. 
“Sir, you need to go to bed and rest,” you tell him.
“I- I was… trying,” he huffs between heavy breaths, his eyes meeting your own in what you guess was meant to be a glare, but they lack their usual intensity. 
“Lean onto me,” you instruct, pulling him up by an arm and throwing it over your shoulder. You feel how he’s fighting to slump all of his weight on you, and get moving. 
It takes a while and Hux almost falls to the floor twice, but you make it to his room, where he lets himself fall onto the bed. You rush to the refresher, where you remember seeing a first aid kit, and bring it back to the room. You help him take off his boots and lift the blanket for him to climb into the bed, tucking him in once he’s settled. Then you sit down on the edge of the bed and start unpacking the kit. A cold patch goes to his forehead and you take his temperature, which is way too high.
“I’m gonna give you a stim, okay?” you warn him as you take it out of the kit, pulling the blanket down a little so you can apply it. You stick it below his collarbone in a quick motion, and he hisses.
“There, there,” you coo and can’t help but smile. He grunts as he places his forearm over his face, and you pull the blanket back up properly.
After packing everything into the kit and putting it to the side, you go to the kitchen to get a cup of water. Back in the room, you hand Hux some pills and the cup, and he downs it all without even asking what it is and with no snarky remark, which makes you feel even worse for him; the fever must be really bad.
You’re still sitting at his side, taking in his state and wondering what else you can do, when a question pops into your head.
“Why did you call me, General?” you ask him, and he peeks at you from under his arm. “Shouldn’t you have gotten a nurse or a medical droid?”
“Didn’t get my caf today,” he rasps. 
“Oh, so it’s my fault you came down with a fever?” you retort playfully. He nods, and you can’t help but laugh a little. 
“So now I gotta make up for my mistake?” you add, and he nods again. You exhale through your nose with a smile. “Well, General, I did all I can do for you. I’m gonna go get a medical droid–”
But before you can stand up, his hand shoots up to grab your wrist, yanking you back down. 
“Armitage,” he whispers, blinking a couple of times, trying to focus his eyes on you.
“Sir–” is all you get out, trying to loosen his grip on your wrist.
“Call me Armitage,” he repeats, louder this time, eyes suddenly full of an intensity you didn’t know he had left in his state.
“Sir, I can’t– You’re–” you whimper in pain as his grip tightens around you even more. “You’re hurting me, Armitage.”
Hux looks up at you a moment longer, then down at his hand, and suddenly lets go, as if he only now realised what he was doing.
“I– I didn’t mean to…” he mumbles as his hand hesitantly reaches up to your wrist again, but much gentler this time. His fingers ghost over the irritated skin, taking your hand in his larger one, and bringing it to his mouth to kiss your knuckles.
“Stay the night,” he orders, and you feel like your heart, brain, lungs – everything just stops working altogether. 
“Gener–” you start but his brows furrow in a warning glare, so you correct yourself. “Armitage, I really shouldn’t. I can’t.”
Not when you’re like this, at least, you add in your mind.
“I won’t do anything, I promise,” he assures you, his face softening, but eyes still as intense. “Just stay by my side.”
Your eyes fall to your hand still in his, and you feel him give you a squeeze. After a moment, you return it. You’re aware that this can end in one of two ways: it’s either the start of something very interesting, or the end of your career as you know it. Are you really about to risk it all for some fun? 
“Okay,” you finally give in, and he sighs in relief.
Hux pats the space next to him in his enormous bed, and you walk over to the other side of it, lying down on top of the blanket. He holds your hand again and closes his eyes, starting to drift off. 
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The next morning, Hux wakes up to a dull pang of pain behind his eyes. He squints as he takes in his surroundings. When did he get to bed? Did he forget to close the blinds last night? Sitting up in the bed, he sees the patch from his forehead fall into his lap. Did he get that himself from the refresher? Why can’t he remember anything from last night? 
He throws his legs over the edge of the bed, seeing that he’s still wearing his uniform’s trousers. On the nightstand is a glass of water and some pills which he assumes to be aspirin. He downs it, drinking the whole thing. Why is he so thirsty? 
His eyes travel over the bed when he realises that not only is the other side ruffled, as if someone had slept there, but there’s some mechanic’s overalls neatly folded at the end of the bed too. He freezes, racking his brain for any events of the night prior, but it’s all a blur.
Suddenly he hears some clinking sounds from the kitchen. Sniffing the air he also smells food. Just as he’s about to get up to investigate, you come walking through the door, and his heart skips several beats. You’re only wearing a tank top and shorts, showing much more skin than he’d ever seen from you, and he immediately decides that he likes what he sees. 
“Oh, you’re up,” you say, coming to a halt just as you pass the door, suddenly very self-conscious of how his eyes are essentially eating you up. “I made breakfast, and caf. Are you feeling any better?”
He doesn’t answer, instead looking down at the floor. You being here, dressed like this, does that mean that last night you two…? And if so, why couldn’t he remember any of it?! 
Given his lack of response, you walk around the bed and stand in front of Hux, looking at him with worry.
“Hey, are you okay?” you ask, your hand coming up to his forehead. You sigh in relief when you notice his fever is almost gone, but you don’t miss how he tenses up at your touch. So if he’s back to normal again… “A-Armitage?”
Hux straightens up suddenly at the use of his name, and looks at you with a ferocity you hadn’t seen before. You instinctively take a step back, and immediately regret it when you see the hurt cross his face for a split second. Hux’s eyes fall and go to your hand which had just been on his forehead moments ago. A scowl spreads on his face as he carefully takes your wrist and brings it up to his face to inspect the bruising that spreads from the back of your hand to almost the middle of your forearm.
“Who did this to you?” he asks through gritted teeth, clearly upset. 
“You did,” you answer, and he looks up at you in disbelief. “You don’t… remember anything from last night?”
“I don’t,” he groans, and when he looks back up at you, his ears burn in the cutest shade of pink. “Since I don’t remember, I have to ask… Did we… last night?”
Your cheeks get set ablaze as you shake your head, biting your lip. When he sighs in relief, you feel your heart sink momentarily, but it resumes its erratic beating with his next words. 
“I’d hate myself if something happened and I didn’t remember it the next day,” he’s quick to clarify, still not letting go of your hand. “And about this… I’m sorry.”
You don’t think that apologies are something that comes easy to Hux, so you know you should just take it as such and shut up, but you can’t help your blabbering, trying to make him feel better for some reason.
“Don’t worry about it, I bruise easily,” you say with a sheepish smile. “Besides, I’ve had worse. I’ll survive.”
“Worse?” Hux asks, concerned for you and at the same time enraged at the thought of someone else hurting you. 
“Yeah, look at this,” you reply, removing your hand from his to lift your shirt up a little, while the other pulls down the hem of your shorts ever so slightly, to show him a scar that goes from above your hip bone up and around your ribcage. “This one I got from when an engine fell on me.” 
So you meant work accidents and not someone else laying a hand on you. Hux feels the earlier rage dissipate as he takes in your scar, and the way you so easily bared yourself to him. 
Being pulled towards him by your hips, you watch in complete shock when Hux places the softest of kisses on your scar, then traces it with his fingers. He’s so close, you wonder if he can hear your heart pounding against your ribcage.
“Shall we get breakfast then?” he asks, suddenly very matter-of-factly, and stands up. “Wouldn’t want the caf to get cold after all.”
Hux walks past you to the wardrobe, getting out of your sight as he stands behind the open door. You take a moment to control your breathing and imagination, then walk towards the kitchen. 
When he joins you on the stools, you notice he changed into more comfortable clothes, and you pass him his mug and a plate of eggs and bacon.
“I can also make some porridge if you think you’d stomach that better?” you offer.
“This is perfect,” he retorts, and starts eating. 
You prop your hand on your elbow for a second, just taking in this moment which seems… strangely domestic. And peaceful. It feels like something you could get used to.
Snapping back to reality, you check the time on the microwave, and scramble to your feet.
“Ah, kriff! I’m so late!” you start running back and forth, gathering your things. You quickly slip into your overalls and jump into your boots without even tying them up. You appear once more next to Hux, who’s still calmly enjoying his breakfast.
“You better take the day off. I don’t want to see you around, you hear me?” you tell him, pointing at him with a scolding finger. “Drink plenty of water and stay in bed, okay? Message me if anything comes up.” 
Before you realise what you’re doing, you place a quick kiss to his cheek, say your goodbyes and dash out the door, leaving a very perplexed Hux in the kitchen.
It’s only as you’re rushing down the halls that you realise not only what you’ve done but also how this must look to the passers-by: someone getting out of a high ranking officer’s room with rather dishevelled hair, not having even put on your clothes properly. You swallow your pride though, ignoring all the looks you get, and run as fast as you can to your room to get changed. 
When you finally make it to the workshop, it’s no surprise to see your supervisor there, and he’s fuming. You try to sneak by to your workstation somehow, but he sees you and calls you over to his office, where he gives you an earful about impunctuality and responsibility and yadda yadda yadda. Then he goes on about how highly irregular this behaviour is from you since you’ve always been a diligent worker, and you better think twice before not appearing for work next time. 
You bite your tongue and let it all pass over you. As long as you finish your work within the deadline, there’s no real risk here. 
When your boss finally lets you go, you rush to your droid and get to work immediately. The next couple of rotations you’re immersed in your job, taking shift after shift to catch up on everything you still have to get done. In all this time, there’s no messages from Hux, and you’re glad, because you would probably say things to him that you’d regret later if you saw him right now. Getting so behind schedule in the first place is kind of his fault. Sure, you never told him that you were losing precious hours of work, but you didn’t think it’d get this far. That you would come to enjoy his company and hope he enjoyed yours, to the point where he had asked you to spend the night. 
So, right now, you don’t want to see him, not until after the deadline. But the universe has other plans for you yet again, as it is the day before it that you see Hux again. 
You had told him he should message you. He could have gone and sent a Trooper for you like last time. But no, what does this guy do? Comes to get you personally.
If it wasn’t for your droid, you wouldn’t even have seen him coming because you’re currently head-first inside a cockpit, trying to reach some cables. But its beeps alert you, and you spring up so hastily that you hit your head on the dashboard.
With a hiss and rubbing over the spot you just hit, you get out of the ship, where Hux and two of his Troopers are waiting. 
“General Hux,” you greet with a polite smile, “What can I do for you?”
“Come with me,” he orders, and for a moment you look at him in disbelief. 
Just what is he getting at now? No greeting, no nothing? Just ordering you around again, in front of your crew? Making you lose even more hours of work? Oh, two can play that game.
“No,” you retort after a scoff.
He comes to a halt and turns around slowly, his eyes narrowed at you in a warning glare. 
“I beg your pardon?” he asks, his whole body language telling you to measure your next words very carefully, but instead, you slightly lift your chin in a defiant gesture. 
“Then beg.” 
Hux curls his fists at his side, and the Troopers lift their blasters to aim at you, but he lifts one hand, and they lower their weapons, but not without giving each other a look behind the General. 
At this point the whole workshop is so silent, you’re sure you’d be able to hear a needle drop onto the metallic floor. Even the TIE fighters in the hangars around you seem to roar more silently. 
“I am the General in charge of this base and you will listen to me!” he suddenly yells, and you avert your eyes. You can’t believe he just pulled rank on you. 
Letting the tool you were holding fall into the toolbox with a clank, you walk up to him, still not looking him in the eyes.
He slightly shakes his head at you, then turns on his heels and heads for the hallway, with you in tow and the Troopers at the end. 
Hux takes a different route than expected; instead of taking you to his quarters, which are pretty far away, he heads to the office wing, finding an empty conference room and getting in. He slams the button on the panel for the blinds, and the inner windows dividing the room and the hallway go dark. 
“No interruptions,” he instructs the Troopers through gritted teeth, then closes the door. 
You find yourself in the rather dark room now, alone, with a seemingly very angry General. He suddenly turns around and takes quick steps towards you, pushing you back against the conference table and trapping you between his arms.
“Don’t you dare defy me like that again in front of the others,” he threatens you. 
“Defy you?” you say with a wry smile, crossing your arms in front of your chest. “You don’t get to order me around like your Stormtroopers. You can ask nicely, you know? Or just, I don’t know, like a normal person?” 
He groans, slamming his fist onto the table, which startles you. You don’t like this attitude at all, so you push him back and take a step to the side.
“General– No, Armitage,” you try softening him up by using his name, and it seems to be working. “What even are we?”
He starts walking towards you again, slowly backing you up against the wall this time. 
“If this is just a game to you, then–” you start, your hands on his chest in an attempt to push him off, but you don’t actually put any strength into it because you know what you actually want. So you let yourself be pushed further, your heart pounding with every step backwards you take. “Then let’s just stop right here. But if you’re serious about this, you need to tell me, please…”
By now, Hux is absolutely losing it, and he finally pins you against the wall, hands on either side of your face, eyes looking down into yours.
"This isn't easy for me,” he says through gritted teeth. “I– I've never– You matter to me. And, maybe you deserve better than someone like me–"
He’s cut off when you pull him closer by the collar, shaking your head, somehow not fazed by his gaze that's ripping you bare.
"I deserve you– everything of you, I want it,” you breathe. 
With that, Hux’s last thread of self-control snaps, and he presses his body against yours, smashing his lips on yours. The kiss is heated, sloppy and messy, but you wouldn’t have it any other way. Finally you’re able to show just how much you’ve been longing for each other. 
The General slips his hands under your thighs, pulling you up against the wall. You gasp in surprise and he uses that to press his tongue against yours. You hook your ankles behind him, both your hands roaming each other in desperation. 
When you finally break for air, you’re panting, but Hux attacks your neck next, and he’s relentless. He spends what feels like an eternity and yet nowhere near enough kissing, biting, licking every inch of your skin he can reach. You’re sure the grip of his hands on your legs will leave bruises again, but this time you find yourself looking forward to them. 
Once Hux seems satisfied, he nuzzles his face into the crook of your neck, his shoulders rising and falling quickly with his ragged breathing. 
“When you showed me that scar,” he whispers against your skin. “I thought I was gonna take you then and there.”
He leans his head back only enough to look at you, and the intensity of his eyes sends a shudder to your very bones.
“I’ll map every inch of your skin, every scar, mole and freckle, and mark it up. I want all of you,” he growls, and you’re not sure if it’s supposed to be a threat or a promise; you’re just glad that he’s holding you in place because your knees have long since given out.
You cup his face, and bring him in for another kiss. This time it’s much slower, gentler, but just as deep. 
“I’d like that,” you breathe into his lips, and he smiles. 
When he finally lets you down, you have to hold onto Hux because of how wobbly your legs are. 
“You good?” he asks, his hands on the underside of your arms to hold you.
“Yeah,” you reassure him, and have to choke back a laugh when you look up at him.
“What?” he questions with an amused little smile. 
“Come here, lemme fix your hair. You’re quite a mess,” you say, and he leans down so you can smooth out his hair as best as you can. 
“Well, you should see yourself,” he chuckles as he returns the favour.
Once you’re both more or less presentable, you walk to the door. Before Hux opens it though, he takes your hand one last time in his and brings it to his lips, kissing your knuckles.
“See you tonight?” he asks, hopeful.
“Can’t wait,” you say with a wink.
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Bonus:
When you make it back to your table in the workshop with a dreamy look on your face, your co-worker brings her hand to her mouth with a gasp.
“What?” you ask her, looking around in surprise, trying to find the source of her horror.
“Really? The General?!” she whisper-shouts, gesturing to you to follow her.
She guides you to the little supply closet at the end of the workshop and rummages in a box for a clean rag.
“What do you mean? Was it so obvious?” you ask, your cheeks still ablaze from before.
“Obvious?” she repeats rhetorically, handing you the rag and a little pocket mirror. “Honey, you can see those hickeys all the way from Coruscant.”
“Wait, what?” you blurt out and look into the mirror. Sure enough, the General made sure you won’t be able to walk around the base without a turtleneck for several rotations. He went absolutely ham.
“Gha!” you shriek, tying the rag around your neck like a scarf. “I’m gonna kill him!”
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enavstars · 1 year
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I love the 'eclipse' AU *—* pls tell us more about it :DDD
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First design from a while ago of Akatora (*the mask can't break)
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Outfits ideas for evil kai (left)
Also the difference between "Akatora" and "Eclipse"
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The main villain (There will be no romance whatsoever between her and Kai)
Other details:
Im still working on the corruption itself (because I still have to make a deep analysis of Kai for that) but a personal theory I have is that he's never been truly treated as a fellow human being. As a child Kai had to ask the villagers for help because of the situation he was in, but said help was most of the time denied, which is why he never asks for help in the future, he doesn't know how and fears he will be rejected anyway. So the people in Ignacia subconsciously treated him as less than a person to cope with the guilt.
This leads to Kai having a fragile sense of his own humanity and worth and the au focuses around the idea of "am I truly a human if I'm not treated as such?" and "if no one recognises my existence, do I exist?" (Basically the reasons why Kai is so desperate for attention).
Here's a few things I can say without spoiling everything:
The villain who corrupts Kai, Cyra (she finally has a name now) is a user of dark magic like Clouse.
Cyra always wanted to learn magic to use it to help people so when she had the opportunity to learn dark magic she took it.
She thought the type of magic didn't matter as long as she used it for good, Ninjago citizens thought otherwise. As a result, she was rejected time and time again for her powers.
This went on for a few long years until Cyra decides she had enough, the world wanted to be evil so she was going to be evil.
However, the villagers were right about one thing: the dark magic was dangerous for a reason and contributed to her corruption until her powers fully took over Cyra and her emotions.
Cyra gave up on the world and decided to destroy Ninjago out of pure hatred, and to do so she needed to get rid of the Ninja... and thought it best to fight fire with fire.
There's also going to be a bit of opposite because, based on Kai an Zane's interactions, I think Zane is the person Kai is most comfortable expressing his emotions and he on the other hand feels guilty for not defending Kai when the others mistreated him.
But the season is mostly going to be focused on the rgb siblings (Zane is there to help them because he is more mentally stable) who are in a pretty bad place mentally. Lloyd is devastated because he's been betrayed again by one of the people he loves most and Nya us lost because I think she took Kai for granted after him having supported her for all those years and she doesn't know what to do in this situation.
Main plot of the au in this post.
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the-burd-lord · 2 months
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We interrupt this break and fnaf posting to bring you Hazbin redesigns/rewrites!
Disclaimer: Do not support the show or Viz in any way. I normally don’t recommend this, but if you want to watch it “do what you want cause a pirate is free!” I am simply making these redesign/rewrites for fun and cause this show has made me kinda mad. It’s also so easily addictive to redesign/rewrite em.
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His colors aren’t that bad in the original design. It’s about 5 colors that all pop from the main pallet of hell and main cast. Although they are oversaturated to the point where your eye is mainly drawn to his wings, especially in a full body shot. So I toned down the colors and made the feathers on his head that same blue to make it stand out. Also changed his halo to a nimbus to accentuate his heavily status, and to make sure the eye goes to the face first.
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I added more bird motifs into his design to make him more visually distinct from the traditional demon designs from hell. So he will not only stand out due to the bright yellows and blues in the design, but also in silhouette.
I don’t really understand the point of making him look like a demon. I get that it may be irony? Although, the audience is gonna immediately know that “hey maybe this guy isn’t as angelic as we thought” especially if you show it through actions and use of language. And I don’t mean having him cuss every five seconds. Making him look less demonic also adds to a bit of “temporary deception.”
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Made the rock influences stand out more in the design. On the one hand there’s giving him a full on leather jacket, or giving him 80’s or 90’s punk/hair band outfits. On the other, there’s giving him a leather jacket, wrist spike bracelets, and 80’s hair over his more traditional robes just to show that dissonance. Cause heaven probably wouldn’t like rock in the cliched way, and it’d be funny to show it.
Might just end up giving him two designs.
Bird wants to listen to AC/DC but god says no.
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Then there’s how I would change his character. There wasn’t really a strong enough impression of a character in the show, although to be fair they were juggling way too many ideas and characters and kinda ended up fumbling all of them but I digress.
Here’s a rough idea of how I would change his character- heaven’s idolization and disdain of him leads him to devolve into toxic masculinity. Because of this, he ruins every relationship has and leads to him seeing his own interests as having little value. Despite this he’s just a band nerd deep down.
Essentially just listen to Colossus by Idles, and you’ll get the idea.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
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bluemooniegif · 3 months
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what can Atsushi's outfit tell us about his role, not only in the ADA, but the entire story?
(I'm slowly starting to cross-post everything from my tiktok analyses to tumblr and twitter. I'll link all of the original videos at the end of each post!)
let's first talk about what I think of as the Central Theme™️, something echoed throughout all aspects of BSD: the balance of light and dark. I have an entire tumblr post talking about it which you can read here, but for those of us who need a tldr: every character, organisation and even action is sorted into the category of "dark" (evil; yin; black) or "light" (good; yang; white). the PM is considered the "ruler of darkness," and the ADA the "guardian of the twilight."
when we first meet Atsushi, he is dressed in clothes that are ill-fitting and look very uncomfortable. we very quickly learn that his biggest internal conflict surrounds his lack of self-confidence- he thinks of himself as a nobody who belongs nowhere... and this is echoed in his outfit. in a city divided into black and white, he wears grey. his clothing does not only give us an insight into how we are supposed to see him, but also into how he sees himself!
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this is where I want to bring up a point Asagiri sensei mentioned in an interview once- he chose Atsushi to be his main character because he felt that he could easily change the course of Atsushi's life. the RL Atsushi Nakaijima was not as well-known as the others, leading Asagiri sensei to feel as though he was more malleable than the others.
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(translation via Popopretty1)
anyway, back to the costume design.
some people know this, but others have never heard: the outfit gifted to Atsushi in episode 2 (chapter 2) is comprised of items donated by each member of the Agency.
(I'm sorry for the Tanizakis but this image is just too helpful)
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this outfit indicates a hugely important shift for Atsushi; the difference between being a nobody and becoming a somebody.
he became someone, because the Agency believed in him, far before he believed in himself.
the best part about all of this, to me, is that Atsushi still has a very long way to go! his character development so far has been so incredible, though, and comparing the Atsushi we know now to episode 1 Atsushi genuinely makes me tear up 🥺🥺
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I hope this makes sense!! here's the original video link ~
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Working Title: Chapter 7
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Pairing: Dieter Bravo x OFC Belle
Rating: Mature, 18+, for the love of all things please don’t engage if you are a minor ok? 
Word Count: 6.4k 
Series Masterlist | Main Masterlist | Chapter 7 on AO3
Chapter Summary: We find out what Dieter had planned for the afternoon.
Warnings: This chapter has some swearing. I don’t want to spoil anything, but here’s just a blanket “there could be adult stuff happening” warning. There is also a brief mention of body insecurity and a past toxic relationship. 
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Dieter motions for you to lead the way, his hand again lightly resting on your lower back. You hope he doesn't see the goosebumps that have formed on your arms.
“So, where are we going?” You try and sound nonchalant. “Are you sure I don’t need to change or anything?” motioning to your outfit.
“No, what you’re wearing is fine. I have another idea, but that would require some … changing…maybe next time. You’re good the way you are, more than good.” He looked over to you with a smirk, his eyes giving a hint of something more.
“Oh, so you are assuming there will be a next time?” you tease.
Rubbing the back of his neck, he blushes. “Uh, I- uh, sorry I didn’t me-”
“I’m just messing with you,” you lean into him, your arm brushing against his.
You make it to the front of the resort and see a car pull up. You recognize this as the same one Ari used to pick you up from the airport. The valet parks the car, gets out, and runs around to open the door for you, except Dieter beat him to it. 
“Thanks, man,” he opens his hand to collect the keys from the valet. “Hey, here you go.” He fishes out a few bills from his wallet to hand over.
"Thanks, Mr. Bravo," the kid smiled before hustling off to go retrieve the next car. 
Dieter turns and opens the door up further for you and guides you, closing the door gently. You could probably count the number of times a man has opened a car door for you with one hand. It wasn’t a gesture you expected, but for some reason having Dieter do it made you feel warm.
This feels nice, right? Like he wants to take care of me. Ok, hold on, you're going a bit overboard. He just opened a fucking door.
While you have this inner debate with yourself, Dieter manages to jog around the front of the car, groaning as he gets into the driver's seat. 
“Are you ok?” You ask as he adjusts the seats and the mirrors.
“Nah, yeah it’s just my back, sitting all day isn’t really the best for it.”
“Oh no! Need me to drive? Do you need to get something? Ibuprofen? Icy Hot? A massage?”
Fuuck. I did not mean for that to come out. The intrusive thoughts are really winning right now. Shush. 
He turns his head over to you, lowering his chin and arching his eyebrows. 
“Why, are you offering?” he teases.
Your eyes bug out slightly and you feel your pulse quicken and your face turn red. Frozen, you're unsure what to say next. You want to flirt back so badly, but you feel…silly. Like, how could this absolutely stunning man be showing interest in you? There has to be something you aren't picking up on.
Moving to face forward, he clears his throat and puts the car in drive. You needed something to do with your hands so you pull your hair out of the clip and start fidgeting with it.
“So, uh, Indy said you two used to play volleyball?”
Thankful that he changed the subject, but you're also annoyed at Indy for giving him the visual of you in volleyball shorts.
“Oh yea, we played a lot when we were younger, all the way through high school. Indy wasn’t able to play our senior year because she got the lead in a play and she was too stressed out,” you recall.
Dieter cautiously weaves his way out of the resort and onto the main road as you tell him stories about playing, fondly reminiscing about all the fun you had on and off the court too.
“Once Indy found out I learned how to braid hair, it was game over,” you chuckle. “I became the designated team braider….I guess, that was when I started doing other people’s hair besides hers.” You smile, looking out the window.
"No offense, but aren't you a little short for volleyball?" He wasn't being snarky, he was legitimately asking. This was a common reaction when people found out you used to play. Indy was tall, so it made sense, but you were a good six inches shorter than her.
“I played libero, so you don’t have to be super tall.”
“Do you still play?”
“It’s been a while, but yea.”
“Volleyball players have those uh…short shorts right?” He gives you a quick glance, keeping his eyes forward and both hands firmly on the wheel. 
Are his knuckles turning white?
“Ha yea, well those shorts don’t really fit the way they used to,” you laugh. 
He chuckles. “I’ve been trying to be respectful, but from what I've seen I feel like you could still pull them off,” he winks. 
You feel your face getting hot, unsure how to even respond to that. You look down and fidget with the hair clip in your lap, letting out a nervous laugh.
“I. Uh. I didn’t mean to make you uncomfortable. Sorry, I’m a little rusty with…flirting.” 
“What? No, no. Don’t be sorry!” you reassured him. “Honestly, I am too…rusty. I can’t remember the last time someone flirted with me, so it just threw me off is all.”
“Well, that’s a shame. I figured you got hit on all the time and I was just lame.”
“You? Lame?” you look over and give him a confused look. “You could never be lame.”
He laughs. “Oh I’m a dork, I guess I just hide it well,” he gives a slight wink.
“That’s not a word I would have used for you.”
“What word would you use,” he asks with that low tone he’s used a few times with you.
“Uh. Hmm.” You try and buy yourself some time to try the right word because your mind was going a mile a minute. 
Hot. Handsome. Sexy. 
“Genuine," whispering it to yourself.
He looks taken aback by that. “Genuine?”
“Y- yeah, you have really kind eyes and… I don't know, you seem like a really genuine guy. I’ve always thought that when I’ve watched your movies and interviews and stuff.”
“That’s…that’s really nice, thank you,” he crinkles his nose and smiles at you. 
A silence settles between the two of you. Normally this would make you uncomfortable, wanting to fill in the space with ramblings, but this didn't feel awkward. Swallowing hard, you look over to Dieter who has relaxed his grip on the steering wheel to have just one hand resting at the top. He looks like he's grappling with something.
“For what it’s worth, I … I think you’re pretty genuine too.” He keeps his gaze forward but glances at you every so slightly, the corners of his mouth pulling up.
“Thanks,” you smile. 
The car lurches to a stop at a red light. You’d been stealing glances at each other for the whole drive, but now he was able to look over at you without fear of driving you both off the road. 
He didn’t give you the widest of smiles, it looked like he was thinking of something, but a smile did extend to his eyes. Your heart rate starts to quicken as he moved his right hand, thinking he may be reaching over to grab your hand. But, he just places his hand to rest over the gear shift, his thumb rubbing circles absentmindedly. The move isn't really meant to be suggestive you think, but your mind can't help to wonder how it would feel for him to rub circles on your cl- 
Fuck, don't look at his hands don't look at his hands. Don't go there.
Hearing a honk from behind, he snaps out of it. “Oh shit, it’s green,” he chuckles as you return your gaze forward.
Other than the day you arrived, this was the first time you had been outside of the resort. You take the opportunity to look out the window at the lush landscape. There was a reason this was called the Garden Isle, everywhere you looked it was green. You could feel Dieter glancing over at you.
“Beautiful,” he says softly before clearing his throat. “Uh- it’s beautiful right?” Nodding past you towards the scenery outside of your window.
“Yea, it really is. I’m glad I get to finally see some of it…so … where are we going?”
“Don’t you like surprises?”
“I don’t really get them that often,” you laugh. 
“Well, you got one last night.”
“Ha true. That was honestly so sweet of you.”
“Ah, I see what you did there…”
“Wha- oh,” you bring your palm to your forehead. “Did not mean for the pun. It was very … nice of you. Thoughtful.”
He preens at the praise.
“Well, I’m glad you liked it.”
“So, you’re still not gonna tell me where we’re going? How do you even know where to go by the way? I thought you hadn't been to this island before.”
“Ok detective,” he snorted, a smirk coming across his face. “No, I haven’t been to this island before. There’s only like one highway, so it’s not that hard to navigate. Plus, I'm great with directions.” He looked over at you, swallowing hard. “Uh, we’re probably like five minutes away.”
You thankfully settle into a more relaxed back and forth for the rest of the drive by asking about each other’s days. The car starts to slow down as he turns left onto a red dirt road. There is a building up ahead with a lot of cars in a parking lot and a sign that you can’t quite make out. Dieter looks over to you conspiratorially with an eyebrow raised to see if you have an idea of what he’s up to. You playfully roll your eyes at him and return your gaze forward. As the sign gets closer you recognize the colors and then you start to see the outline of a shape. A coffee cup? Finally, it comes into view. 
“Is this the same coffee we drank this morning?” You perked up realizing it must be some farm or retail space.  
Dieter gives you a big smile. “See … I didn’t want to ruin the surprise. Yea, that coffee is from a local company and this is their farm.”
You shake your head, furrowing your brows as you look down at the hair clip in your hands. You chuckle to yourself. It was as if he was trying to find ways to make you smile. 
Again with something thoughtful. 
“What? Is this lame? Sorry…I thou-” He ruffles his hair and finds a parking spot. Once parked, he turns his body to look at you with his puppy dog eyes.
“Wha- no! Oh my goodness, no!” Wanting to reassure him you lean over and grab his bicep, giving it a slight squeeze. “This … this is so nice! I uh-” 
You feel a wave of simultaneous emotions, it’s overwhelming. On the one hand, you feel giddy. It makes you feel special that he thought of something you might like, something small you both share. And that he made the effort to bring you here. But all of that care and attention made you uncomfortable. These kinds of sweet gestures – from surprise gifts to opening the car door – happened to people like Indy, not you.
Your mind goes to Ryan and the years you spent being a second thought. The time away from him, and your sessions with Carla, made you finally come to grips with how little he valued and cared for you. You had internalized this notion of being unworthy so deep into your being. Unworthy of kindness, unworthy of care…unworthy of love. Even though it had been weeks since you finally ended things, these feelings were still so fresh and right at the surface.
Fidgeting with the hair clip in your hand, you can feel yourself starting to tear up, a common reaction when you feel frustrated or overwhelmed.
“Hey, I- shit. l…" Dieter rubs his hand over his face. "I thought that you liked the coffee so much and since you drink it black you can really taste the flavor and they have a fuck ton of flavors here and maybe we can grab a few bags to take back to the hotel so we can have it in the mornings.” Dieter rambles, trying to search your eyes to see how you’re feeling. You could tell he wanted to reach over and comfort you, but he was trying to give you space.
You chastised yourself as a rogue tear fell down your cheek.
“Shit, I - I didn’t mean to make you cry.” 
Seeing you cry snaps something in him. He leans over to bring his hand to cup the back of your head lightly scratching your scalp, trying to soothe you. Looking up you see his puppy dog eyes working overtime as he looks at you.
“No, shit, I’m sorry” you sniffle and shift more toward him, reluctantly making eye contact. 
He was so desperately trying to search your face for what he did wrong and how to fix it. He moves his other hand to cup your face, wiping the tear that had fallen with his thumb. As if almost by instinct, you lean into his touch. He was calming you down. You both stayed like this for a few moments while you kept your eyes closed, trying to breathe and collect yourself.
“Fuck. I’m really sorry,” you finally muster. Sitting back in your seat, you pull down the sun visor to see how red your face is. “Th- this was so sweet, honestly Dieter, thank you. I still want to go in, if that’s ok?”
Furrowing his brows, he gives your thigh a little squeeze. “Yea, whatever you want to do sweetheart.”
You give him a little smile. “I feel like I should explain or someth-”
“No, you don’t. I mean, if you want to I’m all ears, but don’t feel like you have to explain anything to me. We can sit here for as long as you want, or leave. It’s up to you..” He gives you a lopsided smile. 
You give yourself one last glance in the mirror. “Ok, let’s go.”
“Yea? Are you sure?"
"Yea. Let's do it." You open the door, grab your bag and step out of the car.
You didn't realize that he had taken this time to get out of the car and come over to you, reaching you as you close the door. He's close and his eyes rake over your face. 
"Hey, come here," he opens his arms up for a hug.
You close the distance, reaching your arms around his midsection and flattening your hands on his midback, giving a slight squeeze. 
His arms come around your shoulders before he moves one of his hands up to cup the back of your neck, giving you a quick kiss on the top of your head. You took in what felt like your first deep breath in minutes, relaxing into the embrace.
"Are you sure you're good? We can leave and head back, I won't mind. Whatever you want to do." You can feel his lips on your hair as he speaks. He gives you one last kiss on the head before pulling back to look at you.
"Yeah, I'm sure," you smile.
"Ok sweetheart, let's go," he keeps one arm on your shoulder as he leads the way to the building that you assume is some sort of gift shop.
"Thank you," you look up at him as you walk up the stairs to the entrance.
"For what?"
"Just…just being here." You pull away to face him. He furrows his brows, confused. "I know you said I don't have to explain, and I don't really want to right now," you gesture around. This wasn't a conversation to have in public. "But I do want to … to explain at some point."
"You take whatever time you need, I'm here," he smiles, reaching over to give you a side hug as he opens to door to the gift shop.
You walk into a retail space seeing a bunch of merchandise ranging from T-shirts and coffee mugs to cookbooks. The smell of coffee hits your nostrils as you walk in. When you were younger you hated the smell and taste of coffee, but as an adult, you’ve grown to appreciate it.
"It smells so fucking good in here." Dieter looks around spotting a wall of coffee bags. "Ooo over here." He grabs your hand and leads you over.
You look down, trying to confirm that your hand is actually enveloped in Dieter's. He readjusted so your fingers were intertwined and you feel a warmth cascade over your body. You felt safe.
Snapping out of it, you look at the wall of coffee as you both stop in front of it. He wasn't kidding, there were a ton of flavors. Still holding your hand, he starts to read off the different flavors.
"Hi there, do you want to sample any?" A young man with a name tag comes up.
"Oh, oh yeah. Want to?" Dieter looks over at you.
"Yea, that would be great!"
"Awesome, well we have our tasting bar set up outside. There's also more information about the farm out there too." The young man gestures to another door.
"Cool, thanks." 
Dieter leads the two of you outside.
The next several minutes are spent sampling all of the different coffee flavors. You both come up with a little game where one of you tried a sample and attempted to guess if the other would like it or not.
You realize that while Dieter appreciated the different flavors, he was more of a fan of simple roasts, particularly the dark roasts. You, on the other hand, were reveling in unique flavors like coconut caramel crunch and vanilla macadamia nut.
When you both had your fill of the samples you head back inside to gaze at the coffee bags to choose what would be coming back to the resort. You had been a bit oblivious to this earlier, but as you head inside the gift shop you start to notice eyes on the two of you and people whispering. 
You could count on one hand the number of times you had been out with Indy and she got recognized. But you can't begin to imagine what it must be like for Dieter to go anywhere in public. Looking over at him, he seems unaware of the sudden interest his presence is commanding from the other patrons.
"So, which ones should we get?" He gestures to the wall in front of you.
"Hmm…it's hard to decide, they were all so good. What about this one and that one?" You pointed to two of the varieties Dieter had gushed about outside.
"Ok and what else?"
"What do you mean what else. How much coffee are you trying to get?" You chuckle, looking over at him.
"Well, these two are the ones I liked. What about the ones you liked?" He leans in, smirking as he whispers, "I'm planning on drinking a lot of coffee. And hopefully, most of it is with you."
Your nerves come back again. "I, uh. Well, I'd hate to make you drink something you weren't a big fan of. We can get these bags," pointing to the original two you grabbed.
"Belle," he turns and lightly touched your arm. "Pick what you like. It's not like I was gagging at any of these. Sure there are some I prefer over others, but I'll drink whatever."
"Ok," you concede, grabbing one additional bag. 
He gives you a side eye and tells you to pick another, so you do it. You both head over with your bags in tow to check out.
Dieter sets his bags down and then grabs the two from your hands to place them in front of the cashier, who is eyeing him like they're trying to place him.
"Wha- what're doing? I can buy those."
"No, I brought you here, it's my treat."
“Dieter, you don't have to do that."
He wraps his arm around your shoulders, pulling you towards him whispering in your ear, "I want to. So leave it."
"Well, thank you.*
“You're welcome sweetheart," he moves to give another kiss on the top of your head, looking back at the cashier with a smile. You feel an electric pulse down your spine.
"Hey, aren't you that guy fr-" the cashier starts to ask as Dieter signs the receipt.
"Ha yea, that's me!" 
He spends the next couple of minutes talking with the cashier who was gushing about what a big fan they were. Dieter gives them his full attention and smiles and laughs as they chat. In the end, he asks if they want a picture.
"Oh yes, that would be awesome. Sorry, I didn't want to interrupt your date more than I already have."
"It's ok, here let's take a picture." He releases the arm from around your shoulder and heads around the counter as the cashier grabs their phone and frantically tries to unlock it. You hadn't realized how accustomed you had gotten to feeling Dieter's arm on you or having his body so close. You miss the warmth immediately.
"Thank you," the cashier says after Dieter snaps a couple of selfies, checking to make sure they looked ok before handing the phone back. "Have a great day and come see us again!"
"Thank you!" You both said in unison as you walked out of the shop.
As you make your way back to the car, he reaches for your hand. It feels so instinctive and comfortable like you have been doing this for years with each other. 
He opens the car door for you again, handing you the shopping bag so you can put it on the floor at your feet. Once he gets back in and starts the car he looks over to you. "I know we had a little rough start to the visit, but I hope you had fun?" 
"Wha- Ah I'm … I had fun! This was a great idea Dieter, thank you." You genuinely had fun once you settled in. "This was honestly…between the cookies and this? This was one of the nicest things anyone has ever done for me."
He smiles and reaches for your hand, squeezing it.
"Good, I'm glad." He glanced at the clock. "I know it may be a little early, but are you hungry? Want to grab dinner?"
"Yea, I'd like that."
Dieter had a recommendation from Danny, so he pulled up the address on his phone to navigate there. 
On the way you both settle into conversation, talking about things you want to do and see on the island during your time there. You don't even remember when he did this, but at one point you look down to see his hand resting on your thigh, his thumb drawing small, light circles.
You can tell by the GPS you're close, getting excited as you see him turning toward the ocean.
"Looks like this is it," he gestures to a small hut-like building with an amazing view of the ocean. "According to Danny, this spot has awesome seafood. Shit, do you like seafood? You aren't allergic, are you? I should have asked instead of assum-"
"Hey," you grab the hand resting on your thigh."I love seafood, it's one of my favorites."
"Oh…oh yea, duh…I knew that."
You furrow your brows and look at him. "How? I haven't told you that."
"Oh, ah," he rubs the back of his neck with his left hand. "I, uh, I may have asked Indy what kind of food you liked."
"Aw, that's sweet of you. You could have just asked me, you know," you chuckled.
"I know, but I wanted to … surprise you." He offered with a sheepish grin.
Now it was your turn to give his hand a little squeeze.
You head inside, grabbing a small table outside with an amazing unobstructed view of the ocean.
After you place your orders and the server takes your menus, you prop one elbow on the table and rest your head in your hand, closing your eyes, and taking a deep breath. You smell the ocean and hear the relaxing sound of the waves.
"Are you ok?" Dieter asks with a slight tinge of concern in his voice.
Your eyes blink open. "Oh, yea. I'm just really…content?"
"Is that a question?" He laughs.
"Ha, no. I guess I don't know the word for it. Just happy I suppose," crinkling your nose and looking down at your hands.
"If it helps, I'm very…content too." He puts both forearms on the table, leaning forward slightly. He reaches his hand for yours, his eyes bouncing between your eyes and your joined hands. A small smile comes across his face.
"Excuse me," you hear a Southern drawl snap you out of your little moment. "I am such a big fan, can I get a selfie with you, hun?'
Your turn to see a woman probably your mom's age beaming at Dieter. She was holding out her phone.
Giving a charming smile he says yes, even helping her figure out how to get her camera open before he takes the photo himself.
"You are such a doll, and even more handsome in person. You're a lucky lady," she looked at me with a smirk. 
"I, we're not-"
"I'm the lucky one," he cuts you off, smiling up at her.
"Well, you're both adorable. Thank you, sweetie. Didn't mean to interrupt."
Dieter watches her leave over his shoulder and then looks back at you. You have a quizzical look on your face.
"What?"
"Nothing…" you clear your throat. "Does that ever get annoying?"
"Um, I don't know if annoying is the right word…" he says looking down and fidgeting his hands. "Normally I'm fine with it. Actually, it's pretty cool to have people like my work. And, if I can help make someone's day brighter then that makes me feel good," he steals a glance at you with a smile. "Sometimes in situations like this," he gestures between the two of you, "or when I'm with my family it can get a little tiresome because I'm just trying to exist like a normal person."
You reach over and squeeze his hand.
"Well, you looked really gracious and I'm sure you made her day, hell probably her year with the way she was looking at you," you laugh.
The rest of your dinner goes by without incident, both of you easily talking for what felt like hours. Your inadvertent yawn is what spurns Dieter to ask for the check.
On the way back to the car you complimented the choice of restaurant. "That food was amazing! You'll have to tell Danny it gets five out of five stars in my book."
"Ha, well maybe you can tell him tomorrow yourself. Are you excited to get started with the shoot?"
"Yea. I feel like it's been a lot of set up and I just want to dive in, ya know?"
"Ha, yea."
The drive back was relaxed, both of you quietly thinking to yourselves. Between the food you ate and the gentle rocking of the car, you can feel your eyes getting heavy.
"Belle, hey sweetheart we're here," you hear Dieter say as he rubs your arm.
You aren't sure where you are as you start to blink your eyes open, the first thing you see is Dieter leaning over to you, coaxing you awake.
“Did I fall asleep?” 
He nodded.
You bring your hands to your face, shaking your head. “Oh my gosh, I am so sorry that is so embarrassing.” 
“You don’t need to be embarrassed it was cute. And no, you didn’t snore or anything like that. Even if you did, it would have been ok,” he says with a smile. 
The valet opens your door and you step outside, Dieter meets you around the car and takes the shopping bag from you as you head upstairs.
As the elevator opens to your floor, nerves flood over you. You make it to Dieter's room first and you both stop. He turns to look at you, his eyes bouncing down to your lips and back. His hand rubs down your arm, closing the distance between you.
"Belle, can I-"
You hear the ding of the elevator and pull back from each other.
Indy and Sam spill out of the elevator, clearly in the middle of a heavy make-out session that will inevitably end up in one of their rooms, most likely Sam's since it is closer.
Dieter clears his throat loudly, giving you a side eye and a smirk. Indy and Sam pull away from each other abruptly, not realizing they had an audience.
"Oh…oh hey…Belle…Dieter!" She waves, trying to catch her breath. 
"Hey, Indy! Hi, Sam!" You call back waving, trying to suppress your smirk.
Sam gives a little wave and tries to hide behind Indy, but you already clocked the bulge in his shorts.
Shit, no wonder she is losing her mind over this guy. 
"Don't let us interrupt you, you all have a good night," Dieter calls over to them with a wave.
Sam seems thankful for a way out and turns on his heel to open the door to his room. Indy hurries behind him but gives you a devilish grin.
Looking back at you, Dieter smirks. "Well, I guess we know where they'll be the rest of the night." 
You look from his eyes down to his lips, suddenly feeling nervous again. You want to kiss him, hell you want to do more than that. But your emotions from earlier were still very much at the surface, and it bubbles up other memories you didn't want to deal with right now.
"Belle?" Dieter snaps you back to reality. He's giving you those eyes again. He swallows hard and you can't help but track his Adam's apple as it bobs up and down. "C-can I kiss you?" He said it with such earnestness, but also a darkness behind his eyes.
"Uh, y-yea."
Your mouth moved before your brain could. You felt like you were on a rollercoaster that was reaching its first big drop, scared about what was over the crest, but wanting the thrill.
"Yea?"
You nod and he drops the bag with the coffee to the ground and slowly closes the gap between you. He brings one hand up to cup your face, the other resting on your waist. He angles his head down slightly, as you bring your hands up to rest on his chest as he finally makes contact with your lips. 
His kiss is soft like he's still asking for permission. You kiss him back with a bit more fervor which gives him the cue he needs. His hand snakes its way to the back of your head pulling you in deeper. You slink one of your hands up to the back of his neck, raking the curls at the end of his hair and then lightly scratching his scalp. You can tell he likes that when he gives a small moan into your mouth. 
He walks you back, moving the arm at your waist and extending it so he can feel where the wall is. He has you caged in and is pushing himself closer to you. You can feel him getting hard, which in turn fuels the fire starting to simmer in your core.
He tests his limits with his tongue, trying to gauge your receptiveness as he explores your mouth. You couldn't help the whimper that came out of you, which only made him crash into you harder. 
"I've been dying to hear that sound again baby," he says as he trails kisses down your neck and back up.
You moved your other hand from his chest to cup his face, scratching his stubble and imagining it would feel like on other parts of your body.
You don't know how long you stay making out, content with being close to him. He works his way from your mouth to your jaw and down your neck, giving you little nips before coming back to your mouth. Every once in a while he'd slow down and lightly bite your bottom lip.
His hand moved to trace down your body. His palm splayed out so he lightly touched the outside of your breast as he made his way down and around your waist and cupped your ass, which elicited moans from both of you.
You wanted more, but just not right now. You needed to stop before your head got in the way and ruined things. His hand starts to inch its way up from the bottom hem of your shirt. Suddenly aware that he's getting closer to feeling or seeing more of your body you pull back, catching your breath for the first time since this all started.
He pulls back to see your face, but you cast your eyes downward. The hand that was entwined in your hair makes its way to your chin as he tilts your face upward. You both take each other in before he rests his forehead against yours.
"Was that ok?" He finally breaks the silence. 
Finally getting your breath under control you manage a "yes."
"Yea?"
"Th- that was probably the best first kiss I've ever had. No, it was. That was the best first kiss I've ever had," you looked up at him through your eyelashes, biting your lower lip and nervously giggling at your honest admission.
You hadn't kissed that many people in your life, certainly not as many as Dieter. But even with a smaller pool to compare it to, you just knew that the last several moments had ruined anyone else for you for the rest of your life.
He brings both of his hands to cup your face so you can continue to look at him. "I can, without a doubt, say the same thing." He kisses you on your forehead. "And I'd like to do it again."
You smile. He's shown you nothing but kindness and sincerity, yet you still can't bring yourself to believe him. But, you kiss him back opting for actions over words right now.
"D-do you want to come in?" You feel him smile against your neck.
Pulling back, the nerves start bubbling up. "Uh, I'm uh I…"
"Shh it's ok," he rests his hands along your arm, giving small, comforting circles as you look down. "Hey, sorry. I…uh…I didn't mean to assume. C-can you look at me?" He whispered. 
You look up at him and he's looking down at you with such reverence. 
"Listen, I … I obviously want you," he chuckles, looking down at your body and rubbing his hands up and down your arms. "But I don't want to make you uncomfortable. And if tonight ends right here then I'm more than fine with that. I feel lucky I was able to get a kiss…I've been wanting to kiss you si- … well, for a while. And I'm so fucking happy you let me."
You bring your arms around his neck, and he takes that as an opportunity to wrap his arms around your waist, settling into an embrace.
"Yea? This is ok?"
"Of course, baby," he said with a low voice, kissing you chastely on the lips.
You smile as he brings his forehead to yours, taking time to close your eyes and breathe, staying present in the moment.
"Thank you for today.”
"We should uh- we should find something to do tomorrow."
"We have to work tomorrow," you giggle, pulling back to look at him and bringing your hands down to rest on his chest.
"Ha, right, yes we have work. What time do you have to be there?"
"My call time is 5 a.m. to get everything prepped. When’s yours?"
"Uh, I think it's like 8."
"How many scenes do you have to shoot?"
"Just two I think, so shouldn't be too long of a day. Want to have coffee in the morning before you head down? Danny got me some insulated mugs so you could take one with you."
"What? That would be so early for you."
"Well, for one, I'll most likely already be up," he rubs the back of his neck. "And two, I…I can't think of a better way to start the day." He gives a small lopsided grin, a dimple showing.
You shake your head, eyes cast down. "I'm sure sleeping in is a better way to start your day."
"But I want to see you," his voice is suddenly small, the most vulnerable you've heard it.
"Ok…I'll come over at like…4:30?"
"Yea, that sounds good," he says as he gives you one last kiss which then moves into another and another.
You finally move away from each other, trying to catch your respective breaths. He gathers both of your hands in his, squeezing them before bringing them to his lips for a kiss.
"I…I’ll see you in the morning."
"Yea…sounds good," he smiles.
You make it to your door and steal a glance over before inserting your room key to unlock it. When you look, you realize that Dieter had been watching you, leaning against the wall, waiting for you to get into your room safely.
You give a little wave and head inside. Once the door closes, you lean with your back against it and take in what just happened. 
Holy shit, I just made out with Dieter Bravo in a hotel hallway. After he took me out on a…date? It was a date, right?
It was late, but you needed to try and get some sleep, otherwise, tomorrow was going to be rough. You rush through your night routine not realizing it was done with a smile on your face.
As you settle into bed, you triple-check that all of your alarms are set and you put your phone on the charger. When you're finally settled in bed, your phone dings. You roll over to look, assuming it was Indy telling you not to wait up. You smile when you unlock your phone and see a text from Dieter.
DIETER: Sweet dreams, Belle. I’ll see you soon.
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A/N: This is probably the chapter I tinkered with the most so far, so I hope you like where it landed. Fun fact - the coffee place (and the cookies) are actually real companies. I’m thinking of doing a post at some point showing off all of the little references (once we visit a few more places). 
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So I found this Smiling Critters relationship chart and did it with my OCs because I want to talk about them more
relationship chart template by Valentinbelleyh on twitter
First up is Rozzie Rockoon!
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more detailed explanations of her relationships with the main cast of critters are under the cut!
DogDay:
“DogDay’s awesome! He’s totally lead guitar material.”
“Rozzie’s really fun to hang out with! She’s great at playing music too!”
Rozzie and DogDay are good friends! Rozzie admires DogDay’s leadership skills, and DogDay likes Rozzie’s music. Even though DogDay doesn’t hang out with Rozzie as much as the main critters, they enjoy hanging out together, and he often invites her to hang out when she’s around.
Bobby Bearhug:
“Bobby? She’s nice! She’s just a bit… mushy-gushy? It’s not really my style, y’know?”
“Rozzie’s an amazing musician! And she’s just as good a songwriter! I wonder if she’s working on any of my suggestions…”
Bobby considers Rozzie a good friend (no surprise there), and loves her singing! She often tries to suggest song ideas for Rozzie to write, usually having to do with love or romance. Rozzie thinks Bobby is nice, but is a bit off-put by all her lovey-dovey stuff, mainly because Rozzie hasn’t ever been interested in romantic stuff. She’s tried to make a song with her prompts, but hasn’t gotten very far.
CraftyCorn:
“Crafty’s my art sister from another mister! Love her artwork, dude!”
“Rozzie’s very nice! I love making art with her!”
Crafty is a bit shy around Rozzie at first, but they soon bond over their shared love of the arts! Crafty once designed an outfit for Rozzie’s performances, and in return, Rozzie wrote a song inspired by one of Crafty paintings.
Hoppy Hoppscotch:
“Hoppy’s so much fun! I love her energy! I bet she’d be tons of fun at a concert!”
“Rozzie’s so, so, so cool! …And really understanding, thankfully.”
Hoppy and Rozzie hit it off almost immediately, thanks to their shared tomboyishness. Rozzie tried to teach her to play the drums once. It… didn’t go so well. (Hoppy accidently tore one of the snare drums. Rozzie wasn’t upset, and the drum was easily fixed, but Hoppy decided that playing instruments probably wasn’t her thing.)
Catnap:
“Catnap seems chill! And… a little bit creepy, to be honest.”
“Rozzie’s music is lovely. But her sleep schedule could use some work.”
Rozzie doesn’t dislike CatNap, but she also can’t help but be somewhat unsettled by him. It doesn’t help that CatNap once snuck into Rozzie’s house to put her to sleep when he noticed she was up late working on a song. Catnap either doesn’t notice this, or doesn’t care. He like’s Rozzie’s music, especially her more relaxed songs.
PickyPiggy:
“Picky’s nice! She’s an awesome cook, and she’s got great taste in music!”
“Rozzie’s just peachy keen! And she likes country music, like me!”
Rozzie and Picky don’t immediately hit it off, as they have trouble finding any common ground, but they eventually find a mutual interest in country music! They probably discuss their favorite country musicians over snacks and stuff every so often.
KickinChicken:
“Kickin’s super cool! Dude’s got tons of style!”
“Rozzie rocks! She’s almost as cool as I am!”
Like with Hoppy, Kickin and Rozzie hit it off really quickly. Kickin also plays an instrument (specifically, he plays the bass guitar), so they frequently get together and have jam sessions! Him playing the bass is actually what gave Rozzie the idea to try and teach Hoppy the drums, so they could start a band together! It didn’t end up panning out, though…
Bubba Bubbaphant:
“That Bubba dude is really smart! I wish I was as good at remembering stuff as him.”
“Rozzie’s nice! And surprisingly calm when she’s not playing music.”
Bubba initially finds Rozzie to be a bit intense, but he eventually warms up to her once they interact when she’s not playing music, finding her to be actually pretty mellow and relaxed. Rozzie, on the other hand, took a liking to Bubba pretty quickly, being impressed by his memory and intelligence.
I’ll do Randy and Clever tomorrow probably (or I guess later today cuz it’s 3AM when I’m writing this)
(if catnap were real he’d be so pissed lmao, I gotta sleep)
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ellipsae · 1 year
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Here's the next Post-Epilogue design for Jade! I struggled a lot with this one because a lot of his design has specific purpose so I was weighing function against aesthetic and had to make some trade offs. Anyways, the small satchel and wrist contraption is a prototype for strengthening fonic artes.
More details under the cut. !Lots of Spoilers as well under cut!
-So firstly, I fully believe Jade would return to his research on Fomicry and lead the medical movement for replicas and replica health as he had mentioned in-game. I like to imagine that he goes by Jade Curtiss-Balfour as it's just easier than being called two different Family Names (as he's more well known in the research circles as Balfour).
-In the post-Epilogue world with the Planet Storm stopped, the concentration of fonons have dramatically decreased so I imagine spellcasters like Jade would find their fonic artes significantly weakened and perhaps some higher level artes can no longer be activated in normal circumstances. So to supplement the lack of fonons, the prototype uses concentrated fonic crystals (manufactured by fontech machines) that can be consumed during casting. For most efficient usage, the crystals can be absorbed into the body via contamination so it doesn't dissipate into the atmosphere.
-It's a bit hard to see, but Jade has half-glasses and one eye is darker because he's dispelled the fonic eyes on one of them. My understanding of the fonic artes is that it opens the fon slots in the eyes beyond normal circumstances to absorb more fonons in the air. With the lower concentration of fonons post-Epilogue, I figured that in desperate situations, the fonic eyes might overstrain themselves to try and draw in fonons (which increases the risk of going blind) and it happens to Jade once and he decided to cut his losses by removing it/disabling in one of his eyes and keeping the other one as a last resort (even if it may result in sacrificing sight in one eye)
-His turtleneck sweater is an homage to Professor Nebilim. The quilted coat is partially based on his young design. I had really wanted to keep his military boots in the design in the same colour scheme but having them all blue-teal made it really hard to colour coordinated the rest of his outfit so I changed it to grey. I wanted him to be able to switch between 'Doctor Balfour' and 'Colonel Curtiss' mode very quickly.
-I'm not too familiar with military ranks but I really hope that Jade tried to resign from the military so he could focus on his research (he can't do both jobs full time) but Peony wouldn't let him so he either demoted him or gave him a sideways promotion into a non-commanding officer role. It works out for Jade in the best way because he can take advantage of his military resources and access to help his research.
-His main research base is in Keterburg hence his winter-oriented outfit but he frequently travels to Belkend to collaborate on research and projects. He will sometimes help with theory behind new fontech and also deciphering old Dawn Age technical manuals (which were released in small batches from the forbidden archives in Daath).
-End of the day, Jade becomes super well known because of his knowledge and expertise that eclipses his former research and Necromancer title from his military days which makes him more approachable for marriage meeting requests plus he's more personable now after his travels and friendship with the party
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ranchycowgirllover · 9 months
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Alright so I made a Stella Re-Design, this post ‘ill be kinda long cuz I wanna explain things and such
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My main problems with this design are 1- Details that are unneeded that lead to inconvenience in the animation department (like seriously watch scenes with her and focus on her lashes) 2- This outfit isn’t very regal, I’m guessing the bottom of the dress is supposed to resemble feathers idk it just doesn’t look good.
Alright so we have that out of the way, I have made a few different possible re designs. You’ll see the one I prefer at the end.
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This one I tried to keep more in line with the original pink princess theme. Simplified the dress and hair (I imagine that her hair can fluff up when she’s angry) and I replaced the dark purple with a maroon. I also made her hair white. This way the only purple is her make up which should cause you to look at her face more.
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This one is a more evil Queen inspired Stella, used the purple as a main dress color, I gave her green/blue eyes and grey hair which she had in the pilot. The eyes are help tell her apart from her husband, and the hair change is to make her look older and more regal. I changed the style of dress now she looks less little girl costume princess. (No hate to princess peach)
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This is a younger Stella design that I did. My canon is that she was dressed this way as to appeal more to Stolas.
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Now this is the final design that I chose. The purple is for royalty, I did away with the dark purple as to make her look less threatening. And the dress is rococo era inspired just because I those dresses no real reason
I also did a design for her brother.
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His changes were simplify his outfit, and the other stuff like his hair were changed to match his redesigned sister
Alright so that’s all the art. The rest of the this is just going to be me ranting and raving about her character.
Okay so I think we should acknowledge how fucked Stella’s situation is. She’s in an arranged marriage and her only purpose in hells society was to give birth to an heir.
Stolas and her brother are shown to have magic powers, and Stolas we know he has princely duty’s so we can assume the same for her brother. Stella doesn’t have any of these she was meant to be a baby a maker. Even her name Stella compliments Stolas’s role as star prince or whatever.
Now in the first episode of season 2 we have Stella making fun of her husband how he’s bad in bed and how she’s glad she doesn’t have to fuck him because she’s given birth. I think this is Viv’s attempt at making this situation seem less fucked up.
I don’t even know it just makes me really uncomfortable that this very feminine woman in a shitty situation is being vilified. Like if I was in Stella’s situation I’d probably have anger issues too. I’m just so tired of being told that feminine outrage and displays of anger make us monstrous bitches.
Now obviously Stolas being forced into a loveless marriage also sucks and is an awful situation for him too. But he’s not that much better than Stella. Both are shown to be physically abusive to the castle staff, and Stella for all her faults isn’t black mailing someone into sex.
Now having two shitty people wouldn’t bother me if the narrative didn’t bend over backwards to make Stolas seem like such good guy, just an uwu gay bean. His wife is SO mean she won’t let the gay people be happy 🥺. Also painting abusers as cartoonishly evil monsters does a disservice to people who have been abused is all I’m saying.
Anyways I’ll hopefully have a Stolas Redesign up next
Bye now
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