#and their mom didnt want to deal with him by herself so it was arranged for himbto come over

[who-is-shades]

raz dnd 32

basil wants the rest of us to wait outside so they can talk to parsley. parsley doesnt want us waiting in the hallway but basil wont drop it. parsley just sighs and drags basil out lol. as soon as the door closes teya starts snooping around the room xD

basil is fucking pissed at parsley for leaving without even a goodbye. things got really bad after he left. moms a dickhead. basil says the worst part was thinking parsley wasnt coming back but he only came back for his wings. 'your silence speaks enough.' JESUS. they still missed him and turns away. moms not gonna just let him leave. dont even leave a note if you get out.

parsley grabs their wrist and says theres no excuse but he is sorry and missed them. he admits he might not come back and hes awful and they deserve better. he says hes a coward. basil calls him an idiot xD basil warns him cause mom has something planned to force him to stay. parsley asks if basil wants to meet his friends. 'sure lets meet the replacements.'

senna is dusting the room its fucking dirty. teya is snooping and looking at the old drawings of parsley. wheatley takes a picture of each photo. teya finds a violin! wheatley somehow sneezes off dust. teya also finds handwritten sheetmusic. teya finds fancy clothing in a wardrobe. senna is also examining the clothes so fancy!

senna starts reading the sheet music. wheatley goes onto the balcony and shakes the dust off lol. teya uses sending! zen flops on the bed and releases a bunch of dust pissing senna off xD android suddenly stands up and says "do you think he had a diary?" blackmail! zen mumbles that its not nice to do that but teya reminds him he stole a picture from her house. wheatley joins the team!

senna puts the violin and sheetmusic in her token for safety. everyone yells at her wtf. android finds a dagger under the bed xD wheatley examines the dagger and puts it back under the bed. senna presti's wheatley and android for redusting the damn room. android and teya are sniping again.

senna checks the pillows quick for the diary. wheatley flops down next to zen lol. zens getting a weird feeling again. he says it would be hard for god to remove us from the feywilds easily. android goes and stands on the balcony to scout the area. teya reads her brothers book and senna pulls the violin/sheetmusic out and keeps reading that.

one of the songs on the sheetmusic is fairy fountain from zelda xD senna hums it to herself. zen wonders where us organics will sleep. senna says she can meditate on the floor, teya can sleep on her lap if she doesnt wanna sleep on parsleys bed. zen naturally offers himself.

parsley and basil arrive! senna asks if parsley wrote the sheet music. basil asks parsley where he got wheatley since his kind has been showing up in the woods, rude. they also say they hasnt seen many firbolgs lately. 'whats the timeframe on lately?' basil comments not to say thank you cause thats bad xD

'he left and didnt tell us why and he doesnt even know.' 'story time i guess!' parsley left cause of an arranged marriage! 'she gonna resume the arrangement?' 'maybe she'll try for an even worse marriage?' wheatley starts pulling out his gun xD parsley shakes his head and he puts the gun away. basil says the marriage thing has gone and passed. called off. only mother 'knew' he would come back. 'she said that when i left actually.' even if basil knew what she was up to they arent allowed to talk about it.

senna comments about the archfey making an impossible deal to force him to stay here. parsley rubs his face tiredly. basil says they have to go or mother will be pissy. nice to meetcha. 'dont get too attached to parsley he'll abandon you too.' teya overhears basil mention something about firbolgs as they leave hmmm.

time to rest since ya know nothing else to do. senna does her dragon training. zen is taking up the entire bed goddamn. parsley reads his music notes. wheatley whines for parsley to get into bed xD hes also holding teya tightly lol. SP is just doing donut in the middle of the room. senna and the dragon are just. stuck in a standstill. not getting better but also not worse. she wakes up after shooting the dragon in the eye with an ice shard cause it shot back with a fireball to the face now she has a headache. she goes to stand on the balcony for a while with android.

theres no nighttime here just like an eclipse somehow. SP rolled over to wheatley for uppies onto the bed. teya gets up to grab parsley cause their gonna make a deal oooo. pinky promise! defeat zorbolt or die trying. as they let go a spark appears and disappears. deal dealed! parsley drops that he is 'technically' an archfey lol. teya asks for warlock powers xD.

parsley doesnt wanna sleep in a pile boo. zen tricks parsley into getting into bed when they get off, then they pile on him xD teya still takes the chair. android looks back and laughs. 'wanna join u-' 'no.' teya writes in her journel. wheatley gets up and sits on teya. its chaos hour wtf xD zen sighs sadly and lets parsley go and getting off the bed. wheatley gets off teya and sits on the floor by zen.

zen says tomorrow is gonna be busy, like some outside force? hmmm. parsley leaves to get food and some guards follow him. he sees rosemary at the table! shes not very talkative hmm. teya steals parsleys bed xD

sennas arm itches and it has more scales, sigh. she can see the land itself moving around, neat. android comments his god doesnt know much about the feywilds. senna says she was told it was made of primordial chaos. like spingledorfs orb maybe. this land existed before Gaia. who the fuck knows xD dont try to solve the feywilds.

android asks what will we do if it comes to a fight. 'kill her!' thanks wheatley. senna comments about the silver box and her jewerly. android says if we would leave him here. prepare for the worst case. yeah were fighting for parsley we cant leave him here. loyalty!

archfey bullshit. 'we WERE told you need all 4 of us to beat zorbolt.' parsley did his best to help teya, gotta repay the favor. were not leaving him here android.

rosemary says parsley shouldnt have come back and leaves. parsley returns to the room and sighs and flops on the bed. he calls over wheatley lol. as we go to sleep parsley dreams himself in the woods. fiddlefink is pissed lol. his sleep paralysis demon xD good morning!

#senna #dnd #dnd adventures

[ranhaitanisgf]

BUT ANYWAYDHDJDJ

yessss! esp. with everyone's obvious or not-so-obvious-but-implied less than ideal background (home life, family life, or lack thereofdhsjdjs). or even if they have a kinda?? happy home life? circumstances always happen. like. the sanos? or the kurokawas before izana goes to an institution. like. shinichiro literally became a leader of gang and introduced mikey to that life eventually leading to kisaki meet mikey and turn toman rotten in all the timelines. and izana fjsjdjd and emma's mom turning to gambling and (implied?? look at her makeup and the way shes dressed mmm queen! she can step on me) prostitution. heck! izana's father's affair???

and yesss! do not get me started on takeomi. omgg i say senju's only family member in her life was her brother, omi, but. hmm. def. not the best role model! like. wtf???? it was him who was pushing senju to make that prostitution deal with those guys fjsjdjd all for his own twisted ambitions. vomits.

YESSSS!!!! QUEENS FR! I LOVE ALL MY GIRLS. akane too! i see such hate on akane esp. with the release of the third season djsjdjd like. ??? SHES A TEENAGE GIRL? WHOSE LITTLE BROTHER'S BEST FRIEJD HAS A CRUSH ON? a little gross. but akane is such a sweetheart! a smart kid with a dreamy, light, "appreciate the small things," mature aura. maybe??? she just said that to koko so as not to break his heart later? (there was no later but shh) she still thought of and cared about koko to thebpoint of not wanting to hurt him and shatter his little world. fjsjdj yeah, she perhaps (and again,,,, choices and final decisions here!!!!) went about it the wrong way; didnt put a stop to koko's crush sooner; didnt make her platonic feelings for him known. perhaps she saw him as her other little brother alongside seishu. maybe ahe saw some of herself in him? saw how smart he was like her? saw the little romantic in him? like. theres no way she isnt that maturedjdje like a female, "from a happier home than ran" haitani ran. (idkdjsjs) caring for seishu by herself while her parents go to work and then along comes koko who is always hanging around seishu rather than at home. yeah we dont know the kokonui home/family life outside of akane. but i refuse to believe it wasnt the best. maybe not toxic or abusive like tora's. but maybe a bit neglectful? busy, working parents? no way koko's that mature at such a young age djdjdj

but yeah yeahhhhh!!!!! OMG YUZUHA SPIN-OFF! FR?! add that to the list of potential spin-offs alongside a bonten spin-off fr. aaaaa i wanna know about this fanclub yuzuha has at school. those girls are so real for making one for miss queen! let me join!!!! i want in! actually,, i want more hina-yuzu interactionsdjdjd HINA INTRODUCING HER TO EMMA ??? and them arranging girls nights and sleepovers?? djdjdj YESS!! YUZU'S FIGHTING STYLE TOO?! THAT KICK?! SO BOSS OF HERRRR!!!! WHAT WAS TUAT?! AND THE WAY SHE TOLD BD TO LAY OFF HAKKAI AND HER DJSJD PLS AAA WHAT WHAT WHAT?! SO HOT! AAAA WOAH WOAU WOAH! i also want a final timeline spin-off with emma and hina and yuzu and akane ?? maybe? and senju forming a sukēban (or jp girl gang)!! like. 1) mikey letting in senju as a girl?? like? as cool as the idea is fjsjdjd male gangs never let girls into their gangs and 2) EMMA ALSO TOOK MARTIAL ARTS FROM GRANDPA SANO! DONT FORGET THAY, YOKYOREV FANDOM! i am sure she knows a few moves herself. hm maybe the spin-off could be about the girls helping out their brothers and bf and making some kind of alliance with toman? gathering info? bc who the hell looks at a girl and thinks twice about her being a snitch for another gang. AND AGAIN!! AKANE IS SMART AF! and hina fr her sukēban's heart and soul and charisma like takemichi, akane is her sukēban's brain the way kisaki was toman's brain, while the rest of the queens are the muscle! aaaa

. i . i thought about all this way too muchdjsjsj i sent so much in this one. oh god help me!

UR SO RIGHT W TAKEOMI !! like honestly i just feel that the whole akashi family could have had a lot better circumstances and lives if he had actually stepped up more and good decisions for both his younger siblings (esppp haruchiyo like i felt so bad for him !!) + he was encouraging some not so good stuff w/ brahman when he knew that senju didn't want that kind of image for the gang !! like ugh i just ... dont like him ....

WITH THE WHOLE AKANE THING i think a lot of people r quick to hate bc of what she said to koko abt "oh ill wait for you " or smth which i can kind of understand because there honestly wasnt a whole lot of detail/scenes w her to rlly know their dynamic, yk? i mean on a surface level it definitely comes off as creepy, but honestly like you said, what was she supposed to do in that situation ? sure, she didnt rlly handle it correctly, but shes kind of sweet girl that would feel terrible about breaking kokos heart !! i feel like to truly get a good sense of what happened and to really 'pass judgement' (that sounds so cringe ) on her, we would rlly need to see more of their interactions !! but i really don't think that she was exactly encouraging kokos feelings and was actually serious about 'waiting for him', she probably just said that to not hurt his feelings !! wish we saw more of the seishu/koko/akane backstory tbh <//3

tokyo revengers girls sukeban WOULD LITERALLY END EVERYTHING BC OF HOW GOOD IT WOULD BE !!!! honestly though theres sooo many spin offs we need, like the current one w baji and chifuyu is so amazing and i want all of these little prequel moments and stories bc i want to see more of everyone !! & wakui pls give all the girls interactions tgt bc i know they would be bsfs !! AHHHH we just need more of the tok rev girls in general, but I WOULD KILL FOR THEM TO BE IN A GANG TGT OR SMTH !! yuzuha and emma would fs be the main fighting force, emma literally did training w mikey & baji who r both super strong ??? like ???? i refuse to believe that shes not strong af !! AHHHH !! & if in the final timeline what if taiju teaches yuzuha how to fight that would literally be so badass ??? like THERES SO MANY POSSIBILITIES !!!

[pocket-gyu]

Arranged Marriage - Hoshi (Part 1)

⚠️angst + future smut⚠️

Arranged Marriage - Hoshi 

Summary: college student!y/n is being forced to marry the son of the horangi mafia group, how bad could it be.

Warnings: cold hearted!hoshi, angst, cursing, hurt, smut (in future)

Word count: 600

y/n slowly walks down the stairs into the front foyer of her fathers house. normally she would be at her own apartment 2 hours away but her father made her return to town because of some business deal that apparently the whole family has to attend. as she approaches the entry way to the living room she hears the door bell ring. y/n, knowing that all of the maids are doing important stuff for the meeting, makes way to the front door to open it for whoever is standing outside.

opening the door y/n finds a family of three standing there staring at her, dressed in suits and dresses. all of a sudden y/n feels very under dressed in her black jeans and tshirt. she didnt even bother to put on any makeup other than some quick mascara.

"hello! you must be one of the maids here! my name is mr.kwon, this is my wife and son. we are here for a meeting with mr.l/n." the older looking man says to y/n who almost feels like laughing at the fact that they think she is a maid. none the less, she opens the door wider and spreads her arm out in a beckoning wave to come inside. she says nothing as she takes their coats from them and hangs them on the coat rack next to the door.

"the sitting room is this way mr.kwon and mrs.park." y/n leads them to the living room where they take a seat on the couch that faces the window to the front lawn. y/n bows before leaving, but not without noticing that the younger man is staring at her with harsh eyes. she stares back at him for a short moment before walking toward the kitchen, making them believe that she is actually a maid.

when she enters the kitchen she spots her favorite maid, ms.hayoon, standing at the counter polishing the nights silverware. y/n slowly tiptoes behind her and places her hand on her shoulder. ms.hayoon jumps and drops her polish rag on the floor. a small yelp leaves her mouth as she whips around to look at the person who is behind her.

"jesus y/n you scared me!" y/n grins very big and hugs her fast. she hasn't seen her since she first moved out 2 years ago. ms.hayoon is the one that basically raised her, considering that her mom died when she was born and her dad was an absent father that really didnt care for anyhting but his job.

"sorry ms.ha, i missed you so much though! its so weird to live alone without you." y/n says with a frown on her face. she really is lonely in her apartment, especially because she isn't allowed to have any pets. even if she wanted one she would have to buy it herself, and her dream dog can get kind of expensive, mainly because they dont really have them in korea.

"enough about that! do you know why your father made you come back?" y/n shakes her head quickly at her. "y/n... he's making you get married to the son of the horangi group. the family that runs that gang thing from that really tall skyscraper." its like y/n's world pauses.

married?

#seventeen #seventeen angst #seventeen hoshi #hoshi #horangi #angst #kpop angst #seventeen x reader #hoshi x reader #mafia au #mafia romance #mafia angst

[kawaiiunderachiever]

Friends Hug

This was my reaction to getting a hug rejected by Cove in Our Life 1 🥲

Cove and MC in step 1 are not friends at first, to MC it was an odd arrangement by Coves dad. MC for awhile didn't know what to think of Cove when they met, just that he was a sad and lonely kid, if not a little bit of grumpy pants. She was nice and considerate to him regardless, that was how Mommy raised her.

It was till one day MC decided that if they were going to be actually friends, then she must tell Cove the truth. Cuz friends dont keep secrets from each other she told him.

It hurt Cove to know that his dad paid MC to be his friend and cried. Hard.

MC didnt know what to do except hug him, but he shoved her away. He probably didnt mean to hurt her, but rejecting her hug like that did something to MC that would affect her relationship with Cove.

MC loves hugs! Adores them. She hugs her moms and sister all the time as a kid, and she loves recieving and giving them to her friends too. She never had someone reject her hug like that before, and it hurt even when she knew he didn't mean it. So she didn't initiate hugs anymore with Cove in fear of that rejection again.

When Cove and her became real friends after a yr or 2, he noticed how she much she liked hugs and tried to give her one. She hesitated and gave him a shoulder pat instead. He didnt know why she did that, but he shrugged it off. Maybe she didnt feel like hugging. But after several attempts on his end, she would avoid his hug in one way or another. The closest thing to a hug he had gotten was a brief side hug, which was more like a back pat.

Cove was certain something was up, especially when he sees her hug everyone carefreely but not him. So one day, he asked her after trying again but failed. "Why don't you hug me like you hug everyone else?"

MC was taken back and tried to reassure him. "I've hugged you before Cove!"

"Then hug me now." He opens his arms to her expectantly. "Ehh.." she approaches him hesitantly and then swiftly slides into a quick side hug with him like usual.

"See? I hugged you just now."

"You don't hug everyone else like that! You bear hug them and squeeze them to death. You even bear hug Shiloh!"

"Cove, I don't see what the problem is." MC stands her ground, but Cove insisted. "You didn't hug me like you mean it."

She sighed and crossed her arms. This was one of the few times Cove felt MC distance herself from him as she stares at him with an indifferent and cold expression. "I don't know whats wrong with the way I hug you now."

"MC, the last time you gave me a genuine hug was when you told me about my dad paying you to be my friend."

"...I don't remember that."

"'Friends don't keep secrets from each other.' You told me that that day, MC. I know you remember, please dont lie to me."

"..."

"MC, I'm sorry I pushed you away that day--"

"You already apologized, it's fine. It's not a big deal."

"It is to me! I know I shouldn't have done that, I was very emotional that day and I ended up hurting you. I saw the look on your face when I shoved you, but I didn't care at the time. I care now, and I'm sorry."

"...it's fine, don't worry about it."

"It's not fine, MC. You're still hurt by it and I want to make it right."

"What does that mean?"

"I want a real hug."

"I just hugged you, Cove."

"MC, you look like you need a hug."

"I'm fine. You don't have to."

"MC...please don't push me away. I won't reject your hugs ever again." He walks up to her and slowly engulfs her in his arms in a firm hug. She didn't dodge it this time and was tearing up when his warmth enveloped her.

"...You promise?"

"Of course! You're my friend MC, I would never hurt you again. Ever."

MC ends up crying in his arms and bear hugging him for dear life. A little while after that, she would surprise hug him whenever she gets the chance. Which involved piggyback rides in step 3.

Game made by @gb-patch

#cove holden #our life: beginnings & always #fanfic #hugs #this almost made me cry #love hugs 🫂

[kawaiianimeredhead]

Screams

#my mom is being such a fucking brat #i hung out wuth her last saturday and saw her for lunch with dad on thursday snd some in the morning friday #and i told her i Might come over yesterday but wasnt sure because nicks brother was going to be over and i wanted to see him #and i kept telling her maybe but probably not #and then ended up jot soecifically telling her yesterday i wasnt coming over #which was My Bad but shoudlnt have been something that was a surprise #so i told her id come over today and maybe eat dinner or something if they had any planned #and i called this morning and not only did she kinda brushed me off a bit during that phone convo #she texted me a bit later telling me to have a good day and maybe hang out with nicks family some more #and that at least shed see me when we fly to CT on the 19th #what a fucking asshole that is so fucking dumb as hell #im assuming part of the family comment was also because nicks other brother came over this week to stay for a bit while the rest of his fam #was doing things and also we had lunch with his mom the day before i had lunchdinner with my parents #but besides then i hsrdly ever see his family and besides his mom i really care about them #and i really Really never get to see his younger older brother because he keeps getting into trouble and him coming over is seen as #a 'reward' so unless i go up there for whatever reason hes never over and he wasnt even over yesterday to hang out anyways #i didnt learn til he got there that he was over because the rest if the house besides their mom and youngest brother were out of town #and their mom didnt want to deal with him by herself so it was arranged for himbto come over #nick walked in with him and told me to pick out a book for him to read and that he wasnt allowed to have fun #so he sat at the dining table almost the whole time andbread then nick made him soup and them plus Kenz went for a walk #and then he read some more on the couch where he at some point after me slept there with nick sleeping in the chair to make sure he didnt #get into anything #andbso yeah i vould have bailed when i realized we werent doing anythi g hut mom doesnt know that and also i didnt really want to #i was tired andbin general wanted to just he around just in case #ughhhh #tag rambles #dont mind me

[perenlop]

decided to doodle castor’s parents real quick to give my brain a breather from this paper. divorcees

so this us more “trivia” than actual lore or anything but basically bruno is a wild pokemon from the great marsh, but hes not literally a king, thats a title he got from the people running the place. hes more well respected than anything, since it’s rare for skorupi to evolve in the wild. but he’s also feared due to drapion’s reputation as territorial monsters. bruno however, is a big ol softie. he literally only evolved on accident. he just kinda wants to vibe, and he’s honestly lonely and wants to set the record straight. pokemon don’t really listen to him though, so a lot of the time, he’s respected but alone.

dusk is like. im gonna be real, shes most likely never actually showing up anywhere in canon? i have like a few au ideas for her which is why she has a design at all. but anyways, she’s a wild type. she has a trainer, but she tends to wander off and do her own thing. she’s more the adventurous “in the moment” type, likes to put herself out there, doesnt really like commitment.

basically on one of her trips, dusk falls into the great marsh and meets bruno. they surprisingly hit it off and have a “love at first sight in the moment” romance. bruno is happy to have a companion and dusk is loving the adventures bruno can give her in the marsh.

soon though, she gets castors egg and she’s like “oh okay im done now” bc like hell is she gonna take care of a kid. her trainer tries to arrange for a daycare couple to take it, but dusk figures bruno would be better. so she gives him the egg and ghosts him basically. bruno is heartbroken, but he ends up loving his child more than anything…

idk this is more of an explanation of why castor’s mom isnt in the picture really since i didnt wanna pull “dead mom” on castor. castor IS affected by this, but uh. he has a lot of problems to deal with lmao so add on to the pile

#echoed voice #oc talk #long post #sorry im on mobile so no readmore #good ol drama for tonight right

[startwithbrooklyn]

THE GREAT ND REWATCH OF 2021 / SEPTEMBER 28-29, 2019 // the bonny scot

posting this a day later than normal because this is one of the rare episodes that shows a passage of time from one day to the next yayy love that for them

-wonder what filming these beginning sexy scenes is like for them in real life

-sooooo can lucy see nancys sexy dream? is she judging? does this mean she likes nancy with owen or nick more? or is she trying to tell nancy that her sex dreams are irrelevant to the mystery at hand and she needs to focus?

-seeing people in the ✨prison chair✨: gomber, carson, karen (voting for josh s3 just saying)

-completely ignores carson's question about herself typical nance

-"or maybe i did stumble across a knife" its like hes trying to make the case against him look plausible while attempting to maintain innocence. this is a slippery slope for carson to try and encourage her to keep her pacified + hide the truth while also trying to keep her from getting involved bc hudsons

-"genetics gets you in the door" aaaaand then she walks in to everetts office to meet him and crashes their family dinner

-ok who tf is dawn and why is she in charge here

-this guidance counselor of nicks is my favorite person

-"i admire your allergy to pleasantries" bess and nancy both have reveals to big families but nancy does not have the graceful, accepting reveal to her rich family like bess does at this lunch. nancys reveal is messy, cold, bloodstained and sticky-fingered, not nice in any way whatsoever. and this little chat with everett (bit of a parallel to lucy's) just highlights how nancy is always bad at bargaining with her grandparents*- always trying to fight on their level but giving up her equal hand bc she doesnt know how to hide it when they bring up something she doesnt know. like confronting celia at the masque: she was so confident with her theory and what she knew, but then we got a "what does that mean?" like. the instant you say that, you lose. and she walked right into the "yes i do have someone, hes in jail" 🤦🏼‍♀️ even in the car with ryan at the end of s1, he literally just fucking leaves her there. like 🤷🏼‍♀️ what did u think was gonna happen sis?? for all she can predict how past things lead to present circumstances shes fucking awful at seeing the direct future *(grandparents except for patrice bc her dementia makes her inaccessable)

-lmaooooo this awko ass portrait...i get the empty space is for nance but who on earth thought this was a good pic??

-LISBETH 🥺💙

-"will u help the claw for me?" george struggles financially to keep her livelihood while nancy is somehow shown as being taken care of even when her parent is incarcerated; both nancy and george live in single parent homes now with mention of both medical debt and george being breadwinner yet nancy has no struggles while george does. (i wonder if ryan had been able to help george here how the story would have changed)

-"when it comes to following people around without their knowledge or consent i am somewhat of a repeat offender" 😂😂😂

-"he wasnt endgame after all" BESS lmaoooo

-"...okay." lmaoooo i fuckin love owen

-i was hoping the girls' faces would be more shocked like with a glance to owen but they just....werent

-"we're the good guys" <---- this statement is soooo interesting in terms of how they structure the show and how the characters see themselves (its an interesting contrast with the more definitive good vs evil with things that are both clearly good and clearly evil but theres also a lot of moral grey area here, the show is kinda swamped in it. are nancy and crew the good guys? are they the bad guys in someone else's story? concerns.)

-"i'd call it more than just stuff" like why did u concede that??? and then the shit about oof that didnt sound like a compliment lmaoooooo why does she suck at arguing?? she and owen wouldnt work long term bc theyre so similar (as mentioned later on)

-i LOVE george slowly falling in love with nick here- hence how upset she gets when nick bails on her for nancy later (which is totally justified!!!)

-i am LIVING for the little nod this driver guy gives bess when she turns back around all nervous 😂

-"i do like buying things" i would so say that too tbh

-"you'd have plenty to talk about" LMFAOOOOOOO SHE KNOWS "marvins dont marry drivers" so diana is totally fine with the gay its just the poor she has a problem with 😂💙fuckin love that

-love how nancy just casually ruins everything for nick/george lmaooo

-"i have seen you at your best, nancy, and there is nothing like it." 🥴😳 i love this still-in-love look nancy gives him thats so strong he had to change the subject

-so is haunting time 11 pm? from that clock of bashiir's?

-how do NO neighbors notice this fucking water and shit

-these are TOTALLY AWFUL fake screams from the bonny scot crew 😭

-"i know well enough not to get involved when he's in play" both carson and ryan avoid engaging with everett even though nancy is willing to do so armed with less info and more balls/ but "could i trust him" and ryan says yes lmaooooo NO honey + that makes ryan 0/2 for helping the girls when they ask this ep

-"find a project of your own" and he does, with his youth center 🙏🏻💙 what s2 foreshadowing!

-"god i wish i still drank" 😂😂😂

-"she is darling." 💙👌🏻

-okay wtf is mirror bay??

-i really wonder about the extent of celia x sebastians relationship here. did she truly care about him or was it just secret and exciting sex? also would love more hints of diana vs celia moments like these. celia doesnt even look upset. i mean shes had time to deal but like wtf. and who exactly is sebastian to diana? not her husband? like damn what if he was. somehow i doubt she'd talk about him diddling celia if diana was disrespected also

-i wonder if celia being so invested in dna testing nancy was bc everrett dna tested ryan to make sure he was his bc of sebastian / other men (which would be totally valid on his part!! but wouldnt it be funny as fuck if ryan wasnt his 😂)

-what a neat hiding place in this frame lmaooo who put that in for them tho? like how do u go about ordering that

-"you certainly are your fathers daughter" this quote is doubly ironic and foreshadowy bc theyre referencing carson here as being a useful hudson attaché but nancy is playing everett just like ryan played celia about putting his house up (but TRIPLY ironic bc carson pulls off the long con of hiding nancy from the hudsons right under their noses this whole time!) the one time nancy is successful against them

-that bess/lisbeth look while lisbeth does something badass (+diana reassessing now that lisbeth has been revealed to be useful)

-"almost as fun as a real fight" why do i believe him? lmaoooo a bit weird that he would enjoy a fight w a partner, but i also think this is an acknowledgement of nancy being an "opponent" who exists at his level. but i also love the "let me take you out" as a direct mirror of her relationship with nick, where she avoids the public acknowledgment/"going out" but prefers the more subtle/hidden arrangements of staying in. but as shown with later eps, owen is way more capable of meeting nancy where shes at, which is so important to her + the only way of getting close to nancy. (the only foil is ace who somehow is able to do both)

-"not always about a guy" <---- this could have been such a powerful statement if the show had thought having nancy end up alone/choose herself instead of pitting her between love interests (nick, owen, gil, even potentially ace, in only 2 seasons) was a more worthy stance to take ; as an aro/ace person i cant tell you how much i would kill to see just one female protag choose herself over a man. and its more realistic to end up alone than have a happy ending anyway, for all that these shows try to be as "real" and gritty grimdark as possible

-"is that what you want?" this is an interesting question to his mother- like maybe he senses her unhappiness? combined with his issues with his father- still trying to look out for his mom? either way it's sweet. (it could also potentially work as foreshadowing of something happening to her, but i think that was played with but then diverted when it was revealed who really killed her) "i think its time i steer this ship" still kind of patriarchal tho. i get that its him coming into his own as a dad technically but still. i also like how he calls her "mother" and not mom

-love that old white people thumbs up at george asking about his clams 👍🏻

-okay fuck dawn tho lmfaoooo

-"stressful dinner huh?" 😂 i fucking love lisbeth so much why didnt they bring her back (wouldnt it be Fucking Hilarious if they brought lisbeth back to bounce bess on her expired visa since the marvins kicked her out and didnt fix it lmaoooooo)

-BESS IS A TOP lmaooooooo i fuckin knew it

-nick says "you can pay me back" wonder if thats gonna come back in s3 considering their "marital problems" (also, those bonds are sosus lmfaoooo if any single person cashing those was looked at sideways they'd confess in 2 seconds that some random guy is handing out bearer bonds they dont even make anymore with absolutely zero proof as to how he got them)

-"you wanna finish what you started?" 👀 (dont mind if i do)

-"i need my dad back" parallels s2 when she asks him to come home

-parent politics: "you are taking your life in your hands / no, i'm putting it in yours" vs "i know well enough not to get involved when hes in play" both carson and ryan try to dissuade nancy from pursuing her pulling this con on everett but go about it different ways: carson is wildly concerned with nancys physical wellbeing but ryan appears to be leaning more towards weighing the odds for her/ like a "you cant win so cut your losses/dont try" scenario which interestingly might have more weight with nancy; its easy for her to brush aside carson's worrying like second nature but nancy has been established to be a determined winner, and ryan speaks to her here like shes a beginners luck prodigy at a blackjack table by encouraging her to keep her record clean by not dealing in this next round. of course she herself admits shes incapable of not dealing in ie "you know me better than that" but i have lots more thoughts on how effective ryans approaches to nancy can be sometimes (saving for the reveal ep 🙏🏻)

-wonder what all carson knows about the hudsons? + that look on his face when he hangs up... wonder if he was just lying to her about knowing anything or just ashamed at having to admit bad things hes done for them

-love nick & bashiir waiting together 🙏🏻💙+ nicks very strong and pointed "good night" as a means of ending his convo w nancy on his terms (gotta reinforce those boundaries man!)

and lastly

-celia + that gossip girl moment when she just throws the whole phone away 😂(wonder if she was just talking to "gus" or whoever that guy was. keep forgetting the bobbseys' dad is in prison too, wonder if he'll feature in s3)

#brooklyn's ND primer #nancy drew cw #the Great Rewatch of 2021 #you best start believing in ghost stories miss drew - you're in one

[gaycharr]

some tweaks / recapping of Marina’s backstory now that I’ve developed her a bit more:

-im thinking the Renworth name probably is more business than political. think old money and a bunch of old traditional humans. have lots of business connections everywhere and an influential name. your average “rich corporate family who really only care about profit at this point” types

-noble father, i think marina’s mother probably wasn’t a noble though. her mother was her dad’s second wife. family didn’t really like her mom much either, for various reasons (most of which could be chalked up to the family being assholes and pissed off that the dad didn’t marry another noble to further strengthen the name / bloodline)

-older half sister, diff mothers. sister’s mom was a full noble (i think her and the dad had an arranged marriage, but they really did care for each other greatly), but she passed away when Marina’s sister was pretty young (probably 3-5). 

-I think she’s probably about 6-7 years older than Marina? so she might have been off doing school and various other things a lot when Marina was really young, but even so the two are very close and Marina’s sister never hesitates to stand up for her. she kind of relishes arguing with her family. fuck them.

-family favored her sister more and she was the ‘golden child’, but her sister also renounced the family name when Marina was prob about 15 or so and left to go do her own thing and join the Seraphs and stuff b/c she hates the noble culture and tradition of her family. Marina’s sister was always very vocally opinionated and not afraid to argue, but up until then the family had just brushed it off and let themselves believe it was something that she’d grow out of, preferably just in time to settle down and marry.

-they also kind of judge Marina b/c her dad met her mom shortly after his first wife passed away so there was low key lots of rumors and venom about how he MUST have been cheating and what not (the reality is just that shit happens. his wife died and then he met marina’s mom while away on a business thing a few months-a year later and fell in love hard)

-a very smart child. also oddly naive and innocent (its the adhd). when she got old enough to realize that people might perceive her in a negative way it really changed her worldview in a shocking way. before about 8 or so she’d p much always approached everyone openly and happily, ready to bond or talk with anyone. Suddenly aware of the disapproval of others, she becomes really quiet and withdrawn after this and a bit of a people pleaser.

-Marina and her parents actually had a really good relationship. Her mother passed away when she was a young teen I think though? It really affected her, because her and her mother were both one of the few ‘commoners’ to enter into the family and her mom often protected her from family criticism and was basically one of Marina’s best friends. (not that the family is very kind to one another to begin w/ but still)

- ^^ that being said, her father is also v supportive but he’s the oldest son of the current family head so esp after his second wife died and his family started putting more pressure on him following, he wasn’t around very much at all after that (often away on business and what not). like he’s there for his daughters but he’s not there. He’s trying to appease his family and live up to / off his own guilts and shames

-Marina always had a great interest in magic (something her family considers frivolous and unimportant at best and dangerous / evil at worst). When her mom was alive it wasn’t so much an issue, her mom probably argued for her behind the scenes (as well as her sister), and so the worst Marina experienced was probably scoffs and remarks about how it was something she’d move on from. but after her mom passed away the pressure from her family for Marina to take up more ‘useful’ interests / hobbies only increased as time went on. 

-Since her family wasn’t that supportive though she never really got proper schooling on magic at this point, though she did have open access to all kinds of resources, so she was able to do quite a bit of self teaching. didnt often focus on one kind of magic, instead her interest kind of jumps from type to type. consumes information and books at a scary rate

-didn’t have really any friends her age. she was kind of a socially awkward person at this point, so she wasn’t very good at reaching out to her peers. the most peer interaction she probably had was being tutored in the same classes as other noble children. her being a ‘weird’ noble child who sometimes talked too loud or was too eager and had weird interests in magic didn’t make her very popular to begin with as well.

-For a while Marina DID try to be the ideal noble heir for her family after her mother passed. With her dad being the next head of the business, and her oldest sister having revoked the name already, she did have quite a bit of weight on her irt her family now placing their expectations on her shoulder’s instead of her sister’s. They were harder for her to please though because again, they had  favored her sister and already didn’t agree w/ her interests (and after her sister left, they REALLY started being vocal about how anything but doing what the family expects is bad)

-Eventually though, with help from her sister and undercover assistance from her dad (him squirreling away money for her, helping her invest and get her own revenue coming in . . .just in case she upset the family too much or broke away like her sister), she ended up seeking to join the priory even though it angered her family (they didnt agree / understand why she wanted to go research impossible magical things when there was the option to go to a nice business school instead. or maybe even arrange a political business marriage)

-I think she had already had an instant interest in necromancy. Not for any specifically deep reason (though perhaps the early death of her mother contributed subconsciously to her being more into it later on ?). I think she just happened upon a book about it when she was reading random magic tomes as a kid and was just immediately into it. the intricacies and uses are just appealing to her, its  a lot you can puzzle out and work with. 

-Perhaps a part of her was also drawn to it simply because she knew that of all the magic to REALLY take up, necromancy would probably displease her family the most. like adhd rsd is a bitch especially when you’re younger and don’t realize that’s what it is, so she REALLY hated disappointing anyone, especially authority / familial figures. but even so that didn’t stop her from realizing that they were kind of jackass hypocrites and wanting to rebel and do her own thing

-anyways she joins the priory probably when she’s like ? maybe 17-18? at this point she’s probably managed to get some official magical schooling by herself but nothing that deep. Her family name helps her get the attention of the Priory, and a quick proving of her intelligence / aptitude for magic, PLUS the fact she was mostly self taught till now, means she joins rather easily.

-probably a novice in the priory for about a year or two? then she becomes a magister. at this point, with actual teachers and proper resources (not to mention hands on experience), she’s become REALLY good at magic. She’s excelled at necromancy, able to use it with the comfort and ease that belies a lot of study and practice. She’s also well versed in p much all the other schools of magic, at least in theory. Even if she doesn’t know how to actually USE it herself, she has a fair bit of  knowledge on p much all subjects and is always open to learning more about anything.

-her and Sieran were probably bff’s and often got in trouble together. maybe they kissed once ? idk. i need to learn more about Sieran tbh pfff.

-being in the priory and surrounded by others who shared her interest though really helped her bloom from that socially awkward girl who never talked to anyone out of anxiety to a socially awkward girl who loves to socialize anyways and tries not to worry about being a little loud and rambly at times. Even though she doubts herself she really starts to cultivate this natural charisma that just draws other towards her. There’s just something about talking to someone who is as open as Marina is, who isn’t worried about being a little awkward and doesn’t mind some word fumbling from the person she’s talking too, that can really put one at ease.

-she is still connected to her family and still has to deal with them. not sure why she hasn’t left yet, but i think she’s often pondered the idea of taking over her family’s business and turning it into something Good. Either way, i think it’s understandable that even considering it all she’s hesitant to break from her family as her sister did. she still tries to please them, but only enough so that they don’t outright hate her and try to disown her (though it would be hard since her father is the head of the business now and certainly wouldn’t allow that)

#c: marina #long post #sorry i got kinda carried away i was just typing #anyways this is all her backstory development for now #your sister in game is named Debbie right ? i still havent decided if that's canon or not for marina's sister hm.

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Daughters (A Stranger Things Drabble)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Fandom: Stranger Things Words: 1855

One of my few non-terato related stories, about a year and a half old. This is a stand alone fic about Hopper showing Eleven the birth certificate from Dr. Owens and explaining what it means. Hopper opens up about his lost daughter, Sara. Feedback is appreciated.

Eleven sat on the couch covered in a thick blanket, watching a particularly old western that made very little sense to her, when she heard the special knock on the door.

Without taking her eyes off of the T.V., she reached out mentally and snapped open the four slide locks and the deadbolt with little effort. She heard Hopper enter the cabin, tap his boots against the door frame, and shut the door, though she didn’t turn to look at him. He had gone on his off-day without telling her why, and that, in her experience, was never a good thing. She was a little apprehensive to learn what exactly he’d been up to while he was away.

He stepped around the couch to turn the T.V. off and then sat down beside her, laying two envelopes on the coffee table. One was slim and white, and the second was big, brown, and overflowing.

“What’s that?” Eleven asked, nodding her head at them.

He didn’t answer right away. He sat hunched forward with his elbows on his knees, rubbing his mustache with his right hand, looking down at the brown envelope.

“I went to see Dr. Owens today,” Hopper mumbled from behind his hand.

Eleven’s heart rate accelerated in alarm.

“Bad man,” Eleven said in a nervous whisper.

“Nah, he ain’t all bad,” Hopper said. “He had something for me. Well, it’s for both of us, actually.” He reached for the white envelope and handed it to her. She took it gingerly.

Opening it, she pulled out a blue paper with writing she didn’t understand. “‘Cert…certificate of birth?’ What does that mean?”

“It’s a paper the parents get when a baby is born. Then when that baby gets old enough, they keep it. It’s proof.”

“Proof of what?”

“Life. Existence.” Hopper turned to her. “It shows who your parents are, where you came from.“ He pointed. “It’s also got a social security number.”

“What’s that for?”

“In American, you have to have a social security number to do just about anything. Go to school, get a job, etc. That number is your whole life.”

She frowned at the digits on the page, then the ones on her arm. “Another number.”

“Yeah,” Hopper laughed. “We all got ‘em, kid. I guess most of us are lucky that it’s not our name, too.” He jerked his chin at the paper. “Keep reading.”

“‘This certifies that in the state of Indiana, Jane Hop…’” She looked up at him. “Hopper?”

He nodded solemnly.

“‘Was born in Hawkins, child of Teresa Ives, Mother, and James Hopper… Father.” She looked back at him and lowered the paper, though still clutched it in her fingers. “I don’t understand. What does this mean?”

“Means it’s official,” Hopper said. “We’re family. You’re kinda stuck with me now. Sorry ‘bout that.”

She shook her head, but didn’t say anything. She was feeling a lot of things she hadn’t experienced before and couldn’t properly name, and was having difficulty sorting through them. She stared hard at the paper for a few minutes. Hopper watched her quietly; he seemed to be giving her space to process all this and room to react. Perhaps preparing for a storm, if she wasn’t happy about the arrangement.

After a few minutes, she folded the paper again and gave it back, which he placed on the table next to the large brown envelope.

“What is that?” She asked.

Again, he didn’t answer immediately, and when he did, it was with a very heavy sigh.

“Well... since we’re family now, I figured I should introduce you two.”

He reached into the brown envelope and pulling out everything that was inside it. There were drawings, old elementary work sheets, coloring pages, but most of it was pictures. Sifting through, he extracted a photograph of a small, blonde-haired, blue-eyed child, wearing a frilly blue dress, smiling widely. Her curly hair was pulled up into two pigtails with aqua blue bands.

“Is that Sara?” Eleven asked tentatively.

Hopper nodded. “This was her first grade class photo. Just a month or two before everything went to shit.” He found another photo, in this one, Hopper was sitting with Sara and a blonde haired, blue-eyed woman who strongly resembled Sara. Hopper was clean-shaven in the picture, and they were all smiling.

Eleven pointed to the woman.

“That’s Diane,” Hopper said. “We were married. Then Sara died. Then we weren’t married anymore.”

“Why?”

“My fault mostly,” Hopper said, staring at the picture. “She wanted to move on, try and get her life back, but I couldn’t let go. I started drinkin’, lost my job because I stopped showing up, all kinds of things that she quite understandably didn’t want to deal with. I wouldn’t have wanted to deal with me, either.”

“Where is she?”

“Philadelphia. She got remarried a few years ago, had herself a new little baby boy. She’s doing good. She’s happy.”

He reached into the pile of papers and drew out another certificate, like the one Hopper got from Owens, but from a different state. The name on the top line was “Sara.”

“She’d be your sister,” He said, staring at the type font as though he couldn’t see anything else. “She’d have loved a sister.”

The emotions that had been swirling in Eleven’s body had settled, and of the remaining ones, the most prominent was sorrow. “What was she like?”

Hopper’s chin shook, and she thought he might not be able to talk about it, but he said, “She was so smart. Smarter than me. Got it from her mom, I guess. She’s so interested in science and space and all that stuff.” He plucked at the aqua blue bracelet around his wrist. A tear fell from his eye and disappeared into his beard.

“She was gonna grow up to be a paleontologist and also an astronaut doctor. Not an astronaut that was also a doctor, a doctor that only treated astronauts.“ He smiled. “She was gonna have thirty kids, but she wasn’t gonna get married cause boys were gross. She was going to do so many things.” More tears fell, and he wiped his nose on his sleeve. “She never got the chance to do anything.”

Emotions can be infectious, especially when the person exhibiting them was so stoic and self-contained ordinarily. Eleven could feel tears on her own cheeks as Hopper spoke.

“Her birthday was April 17th,” He said. “She would have been seven if she had made it that long. She nearly made it.” The tears were falling freely now. He didn’t even attempt to wipe them away. Eleven wondered if he had ever said these things to anyone. She knew vaguely that most people in town didn’t even know he had had a daughter.

“A few months after, I came home and Diane was packing up Sara’s room. Just pulling down everything and stuffing it into boxes. I asked what she was doing… and she said she was donating it. That she couldn’t stand looking at it all every day. And I got so… angry. It was like she was just throwing her away and I couldn’t believe she could do that. I over-did it a little; I yelled a lot, started throwing things. That’s when she kicked me out for the last time. That,” He pointed to the pile. “Was all I managed to save. That’s all that’s left of Sara.

“Well,” He said, “That and this.” He pulled the bracelet off of his wrist and toyed with it a little. ”She used to wear these stretchy blue hair bands, like, every day. She had all kinds of different bows and hair things she could’ve worn, but she always wanted these.

“One day, while she was on chemo, she pulled them out so she could take a bath, and all her hair came with them. After that, she couldn’t wear them anymore. I was going to throw them away, but she made them into a little bracelet and had me wear it. She said she wanted to save them for when her hair grew back.”

His face crumpled. Holding the little blue bracelet in both hands, he pressed it against his forehead and wept.

Eleven pulled herself up to her knees and hugged Hopper around the shoulders, crying into his neck. They stayed that way for some time.

When Eleven drew back, inexplicably, the blue bracelet was now circling her wrist. She looked at Hopper questioningly as she reached to pull it off.

He stopped her. “No, you should have it,” He said. “She’d want you to have it. I want you to have it, too. We’re family now.”

She smiled and her lip quivered. She nodded and looked at the bracelet. A tenuous connection to a sister she’d never meet. She looked at the two certificated on the table.

“Sara was your daughter,” Eleven said slowly, carefully. “Does this mean that I am, too?”

“Yeah,” He said, regaining composure. “That’s exactly what that paper means. You’re my daughter. I’m your dad. Officially.”

“Just officially?” Eleven said.

Hopper shook his head. “No, not just officially. If you want, it could be for real.”

“For real,” Eleven repeated. “Not like Papa.”

“No, not like Papa,” Hopper said seriously. “I know he wanted you to call him that, but was there ever a time when he called you his daughter? Treated you like a dad is supposed to?”

Eleven shook her head emphatically.

“No, because he doesn’t even know what it means. I doubt he’s ever really loved anything. Certainly not you.” Hopper looked down at the two certificates. “I loved Sara. And I love you, too, kid.”

Eleven had never once in her entire life heard those words. The swirl of emotions was back, but this time, the most out-standing one was joy. Incapable of speech, all she could do was smile and cry.

Hopper reached out an arm and Eleven hugged him around the middle, resting her head on his chest. He squeezed her tight with both arms and planted a peck on the top of her head. After some time had passed, they let go of each other, but she took his hand and held it. They both needed the comfort of touch right then.

Eleven dared to picked up a drawing and asked Hopper what it meant. He told her it was supposed to be a dog-velociraptor, laughing. It went on like this for several hours: Eleven would choose something from the pile, and Hopper would explain what it was; tell little, loving stories about Sara’s brief life, and then he would put it back into the envelope.

When they had gone through the entirety of the pictures and papers, all that was left were the two certificates sitting side by side on the table. The only thing they had in common was the line, “James Hopper: Father.” He folded them and put them both in the brown envelope and sealed it. This wasn’t just old memories anymore. It was proof, just like Hopper had said. The love of a man for his daughters.

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Ok but let's think about the direction asp probably meant to take gilmore girls. Really think about it. She has said she wanted to go for 9 or so seasons. So consider where we left them and where we find the girls in AYITL.

We left Rory telling Logan goodbye as he accepted his fate at his father's company in a London position. She's sad. She's confused. She doesn't want to let him go. She just figured everything out and has pulled herself together and now he's leaving. Still, he leaves. And realistically, they don't see each other much if at all. He's busy. He's schmoozing all the big businessmen and using his effortless talent and charm to fit right in. He's not distracted by his college buddies or Rory and he is out from under his father's constant watchful eye because of the distance between them even though he's still at his company technically. He does so well.

One thing I think is important that the 7th season did well is that Logan and Rory never did talk much about how they would handle their long distance relationship. But instead of her pining for him, I think she would immerse herself in the stress of her senior year. Without the distraction of Logan or his friends' antics and knowing that he's doing well, she is able to crush it as editor again and she succeeds in school as always. She stays in Logan's apartment for a while. Maybe she takes on an internship (or she keeps at it with her job at the SEG). Over time, as graduation pulls closer, she finds herself missing Logan less and less when they are apart but still feels crazy for him when they are together. She feels the same complacency in Logan. Her graduation comes even closer. Logan's lease will end soon. Both of them avoid this fact. Then she breaks down and asks her mom. What should she do? Lorelai does her usual hey kid it's your life I don't want to push you thing and Rory prompts her to give her opinion. She agrees. You're living in his apartment and working for his dad's paper. You have always been strong enough to stand on your own. Maybe giving up that comfort to find your own way would be worth a shot. The struggling times in Lorelai and Rory's life together were always their most fondly remembered. So Rory has Logan end his lease after she graduates. She finds a few paid internships throughout the country. She decides to travel and write wherever she finds a story. She has some money saved from her graduation and the few paychecks she's scraped together from working the past year. It's enough to give her a cheap year of traveling before she finds a permanent job.

Logan receives a promotion. Not a major one but one that means he will be locked into London for a little while longer. Although Rory wants to feel disappointed, she can't help but encourage him to stay. It's a great position and he has no real reason to return, being that she'll be traveling and he has no other interest in the US.

They continue to be together but evetually the hard talk has to come. Logan flies Rory out for an extended weekend and they discuss her plans. That's when she plucks up the courage to tell him how distant she's been feeling and how guilty she feels because of it. He tells her not to be silly, he's been busy too and it doesn't mean they don't care about each other, just that they have tons of other exciting things going on at hand. That's when he tells her hey, don't stress out, let's just say that when we're together we are together and when we're not... We're not. No hard feelings about missed calls or going off the radar. Rory agrees, somewhat reluctantly but mostly relieved.

I'll come back to them later. Let's start with Lorelai.

So she wakes up at Christopher's house, horrified with herself and gutted about all of the events the night before. She leaves without saying much. Her first instinct is to go to Luke's for his rejuvenating coffee. Then she remembers. So instead she goes home and drinks her own, less helpful coffee. Luke tries a few times to call her. She only answers once to tell him not to come to her house.. Eventually he calls in reinforcement and Sookie comes in to find Lorelai sitting in her kitchen. She asks what she's doing sitting there and lorelai explains that it seemed easier after the first couple of coffee and pop tart trips from upstairs to just stay on the ground and save time. She let's Sookie help her up and she tells her. I slept with Chris. Luke is never going to marry me. I was crazy for thinking he would. Sookie stares for a minute, unsure of how to help her. Then, she grabs the nearly empty box of pop tarts and sits on the floor, motioning for Lorelai to do the same. She lays her head in her best friend's lap and that's all we see of her until we see her post meltdown. She marches across town and casually strolls into her usual spot weeks later. A backwards baseball cap seems surprised at first. Lorelai asks if she can have some coffee. Luke obliges. They silently size each other up before also silently agreeing to this new arrangement. Every day, she comes in and gets her coffee. They don't speak much, if at all, but it works.

She hasn't answered any of Chris's calls. One night Lorelai feels particularly gutsy and decides to eat dinner at Luke's. She slowly eats her burger. It's the best she's had in a couple of months. People begin to filter out until it's just the pair of them. They get into apologies. Not reconciliation necessarily, but more hey look I'm sorry i couldn't run away with you no no I'm so sorry I pressured you that was wrong.. Well I guess we just needed different things. It happens. Eventually Luke gets it out of her. She went to Chris that night. He isn't angry though. He understands, although the hurt is still plastered on his face. He asks if it's still going on. She furiously shakes her head. No way. It was just a stupid mistake. It was never him, it was always Luke. He sighs. She can't say stuff like that anymore. Finally he makes a new agreement. Lorelai, you can come in here and eat whenever you want. Order your usual garbage. I'll deliver. But you need to get him out of your system. It hasn't always been Luke. It's always been Chris. Even if she can't admit it yet, he has always been a backup plan to her and she will never make it work with anyone until she gives Chris her all and really tries. So she does. She dates Chris. They click as usual. Things get serious over months of being together. They have a cushy life together. They're happy. They even talk about getting married. Rory's graduation begins pulling closer. One night Rory asks her mom what to do about her choice between staying in her comfortable spot in easy bliss or chasing the unknown. Lorelai tells her she should chase her own dreams and worry about comfort when she is picking a retirement home. After Rory leaves, Lorelai considers her own advice. She needs to be uncomfortable again, to feel something again, to be challenged as passionately as she is loved. So she ends things with Chris. Both of them are heartbroken but at the same time, relieved. They really tried this time. And now they will always know. It just didnt fit. Rory's graduation comes and Lorelai asks Luke to come at Rory's request. He helped raise her, after all. No matter their past he deserved to be there. He comes. So does Chris. It's awkward but fine overall.

As Rory plans her time away, Lorelai becomes more enamored with the idea. She takes a month of leave from the inn, entrusting Michel to help Sookie take care of things. The girls go off exploring the U.S., Lorelai dragging Rory to the most odd attractions, all of which give Rory amazing stories to submit to local and national papers. A few actually get accepted. After helping Rory find her footing, lorelai returns home. She needed that breath. It had been such a tough time lately and she needed to be with her kid. The first stop she makes when she gets home is Luke's. It's a struggle to get to his diner because Taylor's Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer festival seems to have blocked Luke's off from town access. She finds a way, though, and finds an angry Luke ranting on the phone in an empty diner about the booths that completely block his diner from public view. He must have been hung up on because he slams the phone back on its hook and turns angrily WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT oh hey Lorelai. You're back. She is. They lock eyes across the empty room. She sits down and asks for a donut and some coffee. He quickly provides both. They talk about her adventures that summer. Over the next few weeks they rekindle their friendship. Then one day, they find themselves alone again. This time it's planned. She asks him to come over and help fix some household annoyance. Admittedly, being that he hadn't done her household honey do list for her birthday the previous year, there is a number of repairs to choose from. That night they reunite for real this time.

Also, Sookie decides she too needs some time for herself and goes on a short sabbatical. Running gag about how she keeps pushing back her return.

Back to Rory. After their talk (which I would assume is likely after the first of the year) Rory decides she is bored with her nomad lifestyle, especially since her mother left a few months back. She moves to Brooklyn and manages to continue to get her pieces picked up by smaller papers here and there. In the meantime, she gets by by working at a bookstore. She calls Paris one day in the summer and she tells her that she and Doyle have decided to get married. It makes since for their taxes and she is pregnant. At the sound of Rory's concern she assures her this is a logical decision and will not slow down her progress at all in med school. Doyle will take care of the kid at home just as soon as her body heals. No need to go all after school special. It's no big deal.

Paris and Doyle's big step, as casual as it had been described, still makes Rory crave the reliability of an unwavering partner. It's been months of seeing Logan sparingly and she knows he has been on dates. So she decides to do the same. A frequent customer of her store is a dark haired guy who has similar taste in books and is always polite. He comes in to the bookstore every Wednesday, the restocking day, from 11:15-11:45. Like clockwork. One day Rory asks if he would like to get coffee. He doesn't drink coffee but he knows about a great Asian inspired restaurant with genuine tea from Korea. She agrees to give it a shot. They have a lot in common and he is sweet. She feels incredibly safe. They begin to date. She still sees Logan but more sparingly. He has met someone too, although neither will admit it out loud. When they are together, they're together. When they're not, they're not. Rory eventually quits her job at the bookstore because she spends so much time going between London with Logan, Hartford with her grandparents, and Stars Hollow with her mom and Luke. Plus her submissions have been doing so well with the interviews she has been able to snag while in London that she doesnt need the money as seriously.

At Christmastime Rory brings Paul to meet her mom. It's been 6 months since their first date and she guessed it's time for them to meet. Lorelai forgets she's bringing him and forgets he's there half the time. Luke keeps calling him Pete. Rory indignantly insists he isn't that bad and begs them to make more of an effort. Luke agrees to take him fishing when it warms up. LorelaI invites him to breakfast at Luke's. He doesn't understand why they would go across town for food cooked by the man already in the house. Luke warns him to leave it.

So then jump to Valentine's day. Paul is away for work and Rory realizes she has enough flier miles saved up to surprise Logan. She goes to London and calls him. He answers and tells her he will try to get away for lunch the next day. She pressed him for why he can't meet before realizing. She's in town. His girlfriend. Logan puts Rory up in a hotel for the night and they meet at lunch. Then the truth comes out. He's engaged. Rory is extremely upset but holds back. This wasn't part of their deal.....or....was it? She gets a call from her mom. Hesitantly, (because overseas calls are expensive) she answers because she's upset and even though her mom doesn't know about Logan yet. Lorelai is distressed. Richard is in the hospital. She goes home, forgetting all about Logan's engagement.

Richard is sick for a while. He dies a few weeks later in March. I say keep everything else about his funeral, Emily's breakdown, and her growth.

Rory moves into her old room and ditches her Brooklyn apartment. She picks up the Gazette and settles back into the town.

Meanwhile Lorelai and Luke know they are in this for the long haul but they don't know if they want to go through the wedding planning again. They talk about kids again. Lorelai knows that being over 40 hurts their chances so they visit Paris at her residency-as an ob-gyn intern. She's not the best at bedside manners but she does have a way of scaring people into pushing hard enough during birth so it works. She connects them to the top fertility specialist in her floor. The doc helps them through options like IVF. Luke is too hesitant and ultimately refuses. Lorelai is understandably upset.

As much as I didn't care for the LDB sequence, I'd keep the sentiment. Rory cuts things off, Logan surprises her and gives her a long adventure filled night, and they hookup.

Somewhere in this mess Jess fixes her problems by suggesting the book but Lorelai agrees this time.

Rory works on the book, visits Chris, etc.

Jess comes in town to help Rory with her book.

Lorelai asks Luke to elope one night. Rory is home and Jess is in town. There's no better time. He doesn't hesitate this time. They get married that night. The next morning Rory and Lorelai drink coffee on the gazebo and talk about everything going on. Rory tells her about Logan. Lorelai is sympathetic which gives Rory the courage to say,

"I'm pregnant."

And for Lorelai to respond,

"Me too..."

Cut to black.

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AAAAARRRRGH tfw u somehow sabotage your own idea by getting a new idea thats too good ???????????????????????? God, I had an idea for a villain for a thing and then I ended up reinterpreting a what if that character was actually a troubled misunderstood normal person who’s just like a red herring for the real villain EXCPET NOW I HAVE NO CLUE WHO THE REAL VILLAIN IS goddammit my undeveloped plotline just got even more undeveloped

long talks & stuff below th cut:

Okay, so this is kinda for that vague idea I had of the ‘spider legman story’, as its ended up being codenamed thanks to a friend XD

A sort of mystery dating sim thingie where u play as A Grody Farmin’ Man Who Luv Growin Dem Onions, and you have your best friend PTSD Sufferer Knight Bishie Man whom u Kinda Have A Larj Crush On and generally just relateable anxiety characters hav cyoot smoochies BUT THEN mr love interest man mysteriously vanishes one day assumed dead, with nobody giving a shit except you, cos he was a social pariah and you end up in an arranged marriage to a woman you don’t love and even worse you now have to deal with what may or may not be his ghost hauntin u or may be one of the demons from the forest masquerading using his face or even both or hey! maybe he’s just! totally fine! and alive! Ha.. ha.. ha..

So yeah you would be romancing or not romancing mr possibly an evil ghost and it may or may not go well and you might instead come to terms with his death and move on to dating another one of various love interests, which are not very developed yet only idea i have so far is a johnny bravo esque doofus travelling merchant guy who ended up kinda being a pure force of all that is good in the world one of his endings I’ve planned out would have him sacrificing his life to ressurect main love interest guy, even though it means losing you. and, well, losing his life. but you’re the more important part and you should be happy with ghost husbandu! that would be like the bad ending if you have equal relationship bars with both characters. everyone else gets some sort of regular cheating scene and he gets IMMA GONNA THROW MYSELF INTO THE CAULDRON OF THE DEAD TO PAY THE TOLL I dont have him very developed though except that he’s gonna be Very Buff and he’s kinda the only character who’s an outsider to the complex dark dynamics of this village, and kinda represents protagonist’s hopes of someday seeing the world and also he’d be a bff wingman character on everyone else’s route if you dont return his crush. he is just a very pure and kind man! who crushes logs with his bare hands!

ANYWAY THATS NOT THE CHARACTER I WAS STRUGGLING WITH, LOL

the big problem I had is that the original villain for this thing back when I dreamed it up three years ago was gonna be the lady in the arranged marriage like she’s basically gaston and she killed off your rival love interest so she could force you into this loveless marriage blablabla and he came back as a demon ghost thing to save you cos she was gonna kill you too after the marriage to steal ur inheritance and stuff

BUT BUT BUTBUTBUT then I ended up thinking about how the character could be way less boring and awful if it was Moral Complexity Instead

so she’s developed into like... She’s still kind of an egotistical rich jerkass princess who bullied mr love interest guy and wants you to marry her even though she knows you dont love her BUT she’s also suffering just as much as you are I just had the really depressing mental image of her staring at her reflection in the river and contemplating suicide. thinking about how everyone treats her as if she only has any value if she’s beautiful, and she’s looked at her reflection a million times trying to see what they seem to see. everyone thinks she gets more beautiful with every part of herself she sacrifices to please them, but its like she can see herself rotting away and everyone tells her it isnt there.. She’s only so determined to get you to marry her because she’s being treated by her family like her entire purpose for being born was to marry a stranger she hates and bring them money and status. And she feels like she’s a failure because she cant force you to love her, and she can’t force herself to love you either, but she still HAS to find ANY way to make you do it anyway because everyone is acting like she’s run out of time already... So all her egotistical mannerisms are just her trying to hide that she hates herself, and she’s just as terrified of this marriage as you are. She’s just like a future image of what you’d become if you also gave up on escaping your parents’s expectations...

also I think it’d be an extra level of sad nuance if she actually used to be one of your childhood friends, alongside main love interest ghost guy and then suddenly she wasnt allowed to talk to you anymore, and her parents started pushing her even more into the perfect wife role and you two never knew about any of this, and you just ended up resenting her for suddenly breaking friends with you, and its all hella complicated and confusing so her route would be like the one non-romantic one in the game you just rekindle your friendship with her and help her find a reason to live again, and manage to escape the arranged marriage that’s ruined both of your lives

and possibly there’d be at least one optional scene where she could end up meeting the ghost and getting to say goodbye to him in a super teary way cos like, you spend a lot of the game assuming that she was the one who assassinated him, and that she hated him for being your love rival when really she was never able to love you at all, she just felt she was forced to conjure feelings out of thin air and doom the both of you to an unhappy marriage ‘for the sake of the lineage’ and deep down she still saw her ‘rival’ as the friend she once had, and felt awful about having to be a jackass to him so her parents wouldnt punish her for consorting with commoners so she was crying just as much as you when he dissappeared, and realising he might be dead is what causes her suicide attempt (especially cos she also finds out that you loved him all along...) so there needs to be a lil addendum to this ending that even though you didnt go thru his route and you didnt romance anyone, ghosty guy still passes on peacefully after getting to see you reconcile with your former best friend or maybe if the game could not follow the typical route structure, then it could be possible to befriend a character and romance someone else during the same playthru? golden ending where the trio is reunited again! even if the inevitability of death must still cast them asunder once more! (tho I do have ideas for one super super super tricky ultimate ending for ghost guy where you’re somehow able to stay together. beyond just the bad ending route where you die, lol)

ANYWAY so now i have no clue who actually killed ghost guy I feel it’d probably be too predictable to make it one of the evil parents or something Unless like.. change the framing and have them be presented as benevolebt npcs throughtout the whole game? like, cos the protagonist is friggin brainwashed and depressed and going along with this awful arranged marriage plan, he sees them as if this is what normal loving parents are meant to be like. so they’re still here being horrible and controlling but the game never gives you any choices to disobey them until the very end, when all their secret crimes are revealed! maybe even have the mom or something be like the tutorial npc and she’s always giving really bad advice that sends you down the bad routes. TRUST NO-ONE. NEGGING IS A VIABLE STRATEGY. EXPRESSING YOUR PERSONALITY IS WASTING TIME U CAN USE 2 PREPARE FOR THE MARRIAGE.

lots of thoughts! very few answers! alas!

#spider smoochies game #so basically she's like renge

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Engagement Party | Royals

Dimitri was relaxed. Actually, he surprised himself with how relaxed he was. But honestly, Dimitri felt good in terms of where he stood with Celeste. Their night away had certainly done them good and honestly, he felt closer to her. It certainly made things easier knowing they wouldn't have to deal with the tension that often consumed them. That didn't mean Dimitri was eager about this party, though. He always hated these functions. He might have been royalty but he always couldn't help but feel out of place. So there he was, sat at a piano he'd found as his fingers seemingly danced over the keys easily. He was well aware of where he was supposed to be, but he never really listened anyways.

The ring felt heavy on her finger, despite the fact that she had picked it herself with Dimitri's help. They had to act in love, look in love, but most of all, follow the rules society had placed on engagements. So there was Celeste, talking to some other friends, doing what she had to do, when her eyes fell on Dimitri across the room, sitting on the piano. She excused herself and smiled a little as she walked over to him. "You're gonna show off your piano skills now?" She asked playfully, leaning against the piano as she did so.

Dimitri looked up from the piano upon hearing Celeste's words, although his fingers didn't stop moving on the keys. Instead, he played softer. A chuckle left his lips at her question, nodding slowly. "What better time than now, darling?" Dimitri asked with as a smirk came across his lips.

Celeste giggled a little, taking a seat next tohim and watching his fingers move around the piano. "You're just trying to hide from fiance duty." She murmured playfully, shaking her head a little and then sighing. "There's musiplaying already though."

Dimitri laughed softly at her words, shaking his head a little. "Me? Hide? You must have me mistaken," he replied playfully. He then stopped playing, turning to look over at her. "You see, I was trying to start a Scott Pilgrim type thing. Battling it out, yanno?"

"Right. My bad, how could I ever do that?" Celeste murmured playfully, arching an eyebrow and then laughing. "What is Scott Pilgrim?" She asked curiously.

Dimitri almost giggled at her words, shaking his head a little at himself. He laced his fingers together as he rested his hands in his lap, looking at her intently. His eyes then widened at her question. "You've never seen Scott Pilgrim vs. The World?!"

Celeste shook her head slowly, not even knowing what he was talking about. "No? First time I have heard of it, actually." She admitted with a small laugh, reaching over to yake his hand as she did so. They weren't really together, but at least they were in this together.

"Oh, Celeste," Dimitri breathed out with a shake of the head, not being able to help but grin over at her. "Where have you been, hm?" He asked playfully before lacing his fingers with hers to give them a gentle squeeze.

"In Brazil and LA." Celeste said with a small laugh, grinning a little and then looking around herself to see everyone around them. "Do you think we're believable? I don't know what to do to make it feel more real, you know?"

Dimitri laughed at her words, shaking his head a little at her as she did so. Dimitri's features then softened at her questions, his dark eyes moving around to look at everyone slowly before his eyes landed on hers. "Uh, I'd like to think so, yeah." He breathed out gently. "I just...I don't wanna make you uncomfortable, yanno?"

"Yeah, me too." Celeste murmured softly, resing her head on his shoulder and looking back down at the piano and then frowning a little. "What do you mean?"

Dimitri rested his head against hers, sighing softly upon hearing her question. He closed his eyes for a moment, shaking his head a bit. "Just like, being affectionate and stuff, I guess."

"No, I get that. It's fine. I just...I don't want people to judge us and make us look terrible, you know? We are lying, but no one has to know that." Celeste murmured with a small laugh, giving his hand a gentle squeeze.

Dimitri's lifted his head to look down at her intently, his eyes scanning over her face slowly. "I think we'll be fine, Celeste. Really. I mean, my parents don't even seem like they're in love. It's not like the bar is set very high, you know?" He mused gently.

Celeste actually managed a small chuckle at his words, sighing a little. "Right. But do you want to be like every other married couple here? I don't know, maybe all the royals we know have an arranged marriage too. Which is crazy."

Dimitri shook his head a little at the thought of her words, taking a deep breath as he gave her hand a squeeze. "Look," he began softly, his eyes moving to hers, "we'll do us and they'll do them. Okay?"

"Okay." Celeste nodded easily, lifting her head up to look back at him only to be interrupted by a waiter, offering drinks for the toast. "The queen is about to make a toast, you two. She requested you to come with her to the front."

Celeste smiled softly, lacing their fingers together to begin walking to the front of the room. "This is gonna be awesome." She murmured sarcastically, sighing a little.

Dimitri smirked as he heard Celeste's words, moving to slip his arm around her lower back. "It will be awesome. We have each other," he assured her gently as he guided her to the front, his eyes never moving from her.

Celeste smiled widely at his words but didn't say anything else, honestly just wanting to get over this. Tonight had been long so she was glad that this was almost over. Once they were at the front, she stood next to Dimitri, leaning against him a little and wearing her best smile as her mother hit the cup carefully, earning their attention.

Dimitri stood alongside Celeste, keeping his arm wrapped around her as his eyes shifted over to her mother. He put on a smile, hoping it would be convincing enough for everyone in attendance. He gave Celeste's side a gentle squeeze, a reminder that he was right there with her.

"Evening, everyone. This has been a lonely night, and as it comes to a close, I wanted to make a toast for the young couple that we are celebrating tonight. I am beyond happy that Dimitri and Celeste chose each other to spend the rest of their lives with, joining our families and countries forever." The queen said eagerly, smiling widely as she looked around. "So I just want to thank you for being a part of this and that I hope you are as excited as everyone else is about this marriage." She murmured gently, turning to gesture to them so that everyone would clap and cheer for them.

Dimitri's eyes fixated on Celeste's mother as she spoke. He tried to keep the smile on his lips but honestly, it was easier said than done. This whole thing was insane. Absolutely insane no matter how you looked at it. He swallowed hard and exhaled slowly, nodding a little as everyone clapped for them. Dimitri's eyes then fixated on Celeste, arching an eyebrow at her. "Wanna dance?" He asked her gently.

Celeste managed a smile as her mother did her speech, not really knowing whatelse to do and then ultimately sighing softly. Once Dimitri talked to her though and as she saw people begin to leave, Celeste shook her head a little. "Hm? Actually, can we just get out of this room? Walk out in the gardens or something?"

Dimitri arched an eyebrow as soon as he heard her request but nonetheless nodded. "Yeah, yeah. Of course." He replied softly, setting his now empty glass down to lead her outside. Once they were there, he looked at her intently. "You okay?"

Celeste followed him out, shrugging a little at his words. "Yeah. I just didn't want to stay there, you know? Sometimes I remember everything that is happening to us and that there's no way out of it, you know? It's hard." She admitted softly as she led him around the gardens.

Dimitri let go of her now that it was just the two of them, looking at her intently as his hands moved into his pockets. He nodded his head slowly in understanding, trailing slowly behind her. "No, I get it, Celeste. Really." He assured her gently. "You don't have to explain anything to me, you know?"

Celeste sighed loudly, nodding. "And honestly, I'm really sorry that my mother got you into this. She was looking for someone to marry me and somehow she found you. I dont know whats in it for your mom or your country, but from where I stand, this is all her fault. I just...I'm about to get married and my father doesnt even know it. It's all a lie and sometimes it's hard to get past it."

Dimitri was definitely surprised by her words. Sure, they were certainly more open than they'd previously been but this was a whole new level for the both of them. Dimitri shook his head a little at it all, catching up with her and moving to stand in front of her. "Hey, don't be sorry. It's out of your hands. I'm sure your mother isn't the only one at fault. I promise you that much. We don't...This doesn't have to be forever, okay? We can find a way out, Celeste."

Celeste looked up at him as he spoke up, biting down on her bottom lip and swallowing hard. "You think so? Becauae in less than two months...I'll be the Queen of Brazil, Dimitri. I will have to remain here." She explained softly, shrugging a little as she looked up at him. Maybe the fact that she was being so honest was the two glasses of champagne she had had eaelier that night, or maybe she just wanted to talk to someone for real. She didnt know, but she knew he was right person to talk to about this.

Dimitri shook his head a little. He had tinge honest with her. Now more than ever. "Celeste, the future is uncertain. It's uncertain as ever. But once you're queen, who's going to tell you otherwise? You'll be free to make your own decisions," he told her gently, his dark eyes scanning all over her face quickly.

"Literally anyone could tell me otherwise, D." Celeste admitted with a small shrug, sighing softly and then looking around the garden, wanting to just get away for a little while. She had no idea of how she was supposd to deal with all of this. With her new title, with the wedding, with Dimitri. It was just a lot.

Dimitri frowned at her words, taking a few steps away from her until he found himself before a small pond. He shook his head a little at it all, exhaling slowly. "I'm not sure what to say, Celeste," he breathed out honestly. And he didn't. He didn't know how to make her feel better. They were in the same boat.

"You don't have to say anything. Seriously. I just...I wanted to get out. We don't have to talk either. If you want to go back inside, please do it. I just need some fresh air and to calm down." Celeste admitted softly, nodding a little as she looked ahead at nothing in particular.

Dimitri shook his head, dark irises fixated on the water before him. He exhaled slowly, then looking over his shoulder to look over at her with a small smile. "You're not supposed to figure everything out now, Celeste. Just take it day by day. It's what I do. Focus on today and let tomorrow remain a mystery." He murmured, looking ahead again.

Celeste lookd back at him as he spoke up once again, managing a small smile. "Because you are a free soul. Me? Not so much. I never stop thinking." She admitted softly, moving to sit on a swinging chair that was close to the pond and shrugging a little. "Lately, all I do is think."

"No, not because I'm a free soul. Because I live in the moment, Celeste. You gotta stop thinking about everything so much. Before you know it you'll be all old and realize that life just passed you by," Dimitri elaborated gently, moving to sit on the chair next to her and exhaling slowly as he rested his arms on the back of it.

Celeste stayed quiet for a little bit afte rhis words, nodding a little. She knew that he was absolutely right. But lately, there were so many things going on around her that she just didmt know how to handle it. "Yeah, you're right." She said gently, sighing a little. "I really get what you meant that night we went out about us not being the same in the castle now."

Dimitri nodded a little at her response, definitely content to hear that she agreed with him. It was a first, not that it was necessarily a bad thing that they disagreed from time to time. To an extent, Dimitri liked that about her. How she always stood her ground regardless. He arched an eyebrow before they furrowed at her words. "Yeah?"

"Yeah." Celeste admitted, shrugging a little. There was so much pressure on them that things just didn't flow as well as they should have. A part of her was so attracted to Dimitri, a huge one, but for some reason, she hadn't been able to be as close to him as they were that night. "I feel like...we hold back a lot."

Dimitri's features softened at her words and he nonetheless nodded. "I do too," he replied gently. How could they not? When it wasn't just them, eyes were on them at all times. They were doing their best to strive for perfection when it came to their parents, how could they possibly act the way they did when they were alone? "We're always being watched when we're in there, you know?"

"Yeah, I guess that is it. We aren't ourselves." Celeste mumbled gently, sighing a little and leaning back against the seat as much as she could. "Dont you wish that things coukd be just like how we met?"

Dimitri nodded gently in agreement. There was no denying that much. At all. He exhaled slowly and let his head fall back, looking up at the sky although he listened intently to her when she spoke up. "Of course I do. I wish for that all the time.

Celeste reached over to run a hand through his hair carefully as she looked over at him. "The one thing that makes me feel better about this is that, at least, you're with me on this."

Dimitri let his eyes fall shut as she ran a hand through his hair, humming softly in content. "I'm always with you, Celeste." He reminded her gently.

Celeste's eyes softened as she heard his words, moving closer to him. "You say things like that and I don't even know what to say." She said eith a small smile.

Dimitri grinned widely at her words, letting a soft laugh emit from his lips. He lifted his head to look down at her, brushing her hair from her face gently. "Say what you're thinking," he urged softly.

Celeste lookd back at him intently and bit down on her bottom lip. "I dont even know what I'm thinking." She admitted softly, licking her lips as she looked up at him. "What are you thinking?"

Dimitri arched an eyebrow at her response, shaking his head a little. "That sounds like a problem, Celeste," he replied playfully, shaking his head a little at her. "About you, actually."

Celeste smiled a little at his words, furrowing her eyebrows together. "I know." She wasn't really sure of what person she was when she was with Dimitri because she felt like herself but she also felt different and she didnt know how to explain that. "What about me?"

Dimitri let his head fall back against the chair once again, humming softly in content before shrugging his shoulders a little. "I'm glad it's you, is all." He replied honestly.

"Yeah, me too." Celeste said slowly, nodding a little with a small smile and letting go of him to look ahead once again. "You know, we should try to schedule a flight to India soon if you want me to meet everyone before the avtual wedding, right?"

A smile came across Dimitri's lips at her words and he let his head fall to the side to look over at her intently. "Hm, yeah. I miss home," Dimitri admitted. He missed it more than anything, actually. He appreciated everyone making him feel so welcome, but nothing compared to being home.

"Then we should really go soon." Celeste said easily, reaching up to cup the side of his face with her hand carefully as he tilted it to the side, smiling. "We could use a break from here."

Dimitri lifted his head, tilting it to lean into her touch as she cupped the side of his face. "You think your mom will really let you go?" He asked gently, raising an eyebrow at her.

Celeste shrugged a little, grinning over at him. "Maybe we just should call up our pilot and get in our jet, by the time she finds out I'm not in Brazil I'll be out." She said playfully, though she meant it. A part of her also didnt think it would be a problem anyway since it could be considered business.

Dimitri almost giggled at her words, shaking his head a little. "Hm, and have your mother think I kidnapped you? Yeah, I don't think so." He replied playfully. Honestly, running away in any sense was appealing. But he didnt want to get Celeste in any trouble. Things were difficult enough for her as it was.

Celeste laughed a little at his words, leaning over to rest her head on his shoulder once again as she did so. "I really don't think she will mind that. She eill robably think it's business, honestly."

Dimitri shook his head a little at her words, exhaling slowly. "That really irritates me, you know?" He mused gently. "Like, you're her daughter yet it's always business when it comes to her. You're not property."

Celeste didn't move away, instead wrapped her arms around him because she needed that comfort. Just someone there for her. "Yeah...I don't know, it's not always been like that. I used to have an easier life but ever since she messed up...it's been so stressful and different." She murmured softly, shrugging as much as she could.

Dimitri wrapped an arm around her shoulders to hold her close as her arms wrapped around him. He shook his head a little at her words. He could definitely see that much. "It's her fault, though. You had nothing to do with it yet you're facing the consequences. She should be kissing the ground you walk on for saving her ass, you know?" Dimitri couldn't help but be frustrated regarding this whole thing. Celeste deserved better.

"Yeah. I just...I don't think of it like that, you know? This isn't just ablut me. If my family can't have the power, someone wih bad intentions will get it. Brazil and its people are everyhing to me, Dimitri." Celeste murmured gently, nuzzling her fslace into his neck and then lifting her hand to play with his hair a little.

Dimitri listened intently to her although he couldn't help but close his eyes as she played with his hair. "It's good that you care so much about them," Dimitri began slowly, "they'll be lucky to have you as their queen, Celeste."

Celeste laughed a little at his honesty, leaning in closer and bit down on her bottom lip. "I was thinking about you when you asked me...I was just thinking that I don't know what to do about you is all."

Dimitri looked at her intently as she leaned in closer to him, his eyebrows furrowing in confusion. He shook his head lightly, not following her. "What do you mean?" He asked gently.

"Like, I don't know...we have this sort of unspoken thing between us and I've been holding back on saying anything or doing anything because I don't want to mess it up." Celeste mumbled slowly, biting down on her bottom lip.

Dimitri looked at her intently as she spoke, shaking his head slowly as he did so. "You can't mess anything up, Celeste," he assured her gently, his eyes scanning over her face slowly as he brushed some hair from it.

Dimitri rested his hand on the side of her face gently, shaking his head a little at her words as a smile graced his lips. "Well, because we're kinda stuck with each other either way," he assured her playfully, running his thumb along her cheek gently.

Celeste laughed a little, nodding. "Wow, that sounds so romantic." She teased lightly, grinning a little at him and then finally pulling him closer to her to lean her head against his.

Dimitri chuckled softly at her response, shaking his head a little as he did so. He leaned forward to rest his head against hers, humming thoughtfully. "No, but really. I think too highly of you to mess anything up, I mean it."

Celeste stared uo at him as she studied his face, knowing that he really meant it but also a little scared of what this would mean until finally she just leaned in to press her lips to his.

Dimitri would be lying if he said he wasn't surprised as Celeste leaned into him to press her lips to his for a gentle kiss. God, he was attracted to her but never would have guessed she felt the same way about him. He didn't think that highly of himself. Dimitri gave the kiss right back, though, more than eager to do so. His hand moved through her hair until it gently rested on the back of her head. And immediately, he relaxed completely.

Celeste leaned into him as soon as she felt his lips against hers, her armd wrappong around his neck as she moved her lips slowly against his. It was so clear from day one that they were attracted to each other and a part of her hadn't done anything about it because he hadn't and because of he situation that they were in but she remembered that she was going to do this her way, so from now on, she would.

Dimitri moved his lips slowly against hers, really taking his time with the kiss as if to cherish every second of it. Dimitri's other hand moved to wrap around her gently, pulling her closer to him. For once, it felt normal. Like two young adults who were acting on the fact that they had feelings for each other. And Dimitri felt as though he was on top of the world. He finally pulled back after a moment, looking over her carefully as a smile came across his lips. "Well, if that's what you've been referring to this whole time you should have done that a long time ago." He teased her gently.

Celeste was beyond happy. Since all of this had began, the one thing she was happy about was that at least it was Dimitri. Domeone that she coukd see herself with and that seemed to, at least, genuinely interested in who she was. As they pulled back, Celeste giggled at his words and then pecked his lips. "Well, not that whole time. Don't be cocky now."

Dimitri kissed her back quickly, moving his hand from the back of her head to rest on the side of her neck gently. His smile only grew upon hearing her words and he shook his head a little. "I'm not! Just saying, really," he replied through his laughter.

"You better." Celeste said gently, leaning into his touch and taking a deep breath as she rested her head on his shoulder again. "Hm. I just didn't want ot be confused."

Dimitri leaned over to kiss the top of her head gently as she rested her head against his shoulder, giving her side a gentle squeeze. "Well, did that clear some confusion up for you?"

Celeste smiled a little, not moving from her position but lifting her hand to hold her thumb and index finger close together. "Yeah, but only a little bit."

Dimitri laughed once again at her response, looking at her intently as he arched a brow. "How can I make things crystal clear for you, hm?"

Celeste closed her eyes as she shrugged, laughing a little. "I don't know. Talk to me?"

Dimitri's eyebrows furrowed at her response and he leaned back against the chair once more, closing his eyes for a moment. "Uh, let's see. I mean, I think you're really incredible, Celeste. I've been attracted to you since day one. It's just...the situation we're in is so shitty. So fucking shitty, pardon my French. I wish we could just be like this. All the time."

Celeste lifted her head to look back at him definitely wanting to know how he felt about all of this and why he hadn't acted on his own feelings before that. "Yeah...I get it. I do too. I wish it were just us. But it isn't, D. I just...at least we know that this bis real, you know? I meam, getting married in like a month isn't ideal, but at least...I do like you." She murmured gently.

Dimitri nodded his head gently at her words, taking a deep breath. He nodded gently in agreement, leaning over to kiss her temple before pulling her against him. "Day by day, remember?" He murmured gently, then resting his head against hers. "We'll figure it out."

"Yeah." Celeste nodded, smiling as he brought her closer and she slipped her arms around him carefully, sighing in content.

Dimitri kissed the top of her head, sighing softly as he did so. "Wanna head back inside? Not to the party, but like, upstairs?" He asked her gently.

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