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THE TALE OF FOOD
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BEGGAR'S CHICKEN - CAPE OF WORRIES
MASTER : ...Well, it's done, so the rain shouldn't be able to get inside everyone's rooms anymore!
I take a step to the left, but the ladder under my feet suddenly breaks! I miss a step and fall down-
MASTER : !!!
BEGGAR'S CHICKEN : Master!
MASTER : Huff...Good thing you caught me! Otherwise, that would have been a nasty fall!
BEGGAR'S CHICKEN : It looks like that rung has been exposed to the rain and is starting to rot.
MASTER : I thought I had stepped on it too hard and broken it!
MASTER : Ah...Your cloak must have gotten ripped when you caught me just now. Let me sew it up for you.
BEGGAR'S CHICKEN : ...You can even do needlework?
MASTER : Why are you saying that...Why wouldn't I be able to sew something?
MASTER : The cloak...
BEGGAR'S CHICKEN : ...
MASTER : Okay, keep it on. You don't need to take it off. Just stand still, and I'll be done in a second.
BEGGAR'S CHICKEN : Do you find it odd that I never want to take off my cloak?
OPTION 1 : "It's your decision!" BEGGAR'S CHICKEN : ... BEGGAR'S CHICKEN : ...It's rare for someone to say that. Usually, people laugh or try to persuade me to take off my cloak. Only you and an old friend...No, never mind... MASTER : You already said you never want to take off the cloak, and it's not a matter of principle--Don't move. The seam will be crooked...Why would I insist on persuading you? MASTER : So don't worry about it all the time. You're still you whether you have the cloak or not.
BEGGAR'S CHICKEN : ...
BEGGAR'S CHICKEN : Actually, wearing this cloak wasn't my original idea. If it weren't for this annoying mud shell, I definitely wouldn't...
BEGGAR'S CHICKEN : Maybe, one day, I'll be lucky enough to take off this mud shell or get rid of the "mud shell" that covers my heart. Maybe then I'll also give up this heavy cloak...
MASTER : Since you've said so, then I'm looking forward to when that day comes.
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blueiskewl · 1 year
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Jiaohua chicken
Wrap chicken in clay and barbecue.
It looks like dinosaurs eggs!
😋
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tatatatatara · 10 months
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Alright freaks, what are your headcanons for your blorbos' eating habit?
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pixxyofice · 7 months
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'you should work for chick-fil-a' THE COMPANY THAT GAVE MONEY TO BE HOMOPHOBIC AND WANT TO KILL PEOPLE LIKE ME? COME ON.
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duoduotian · 11 months
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mc has such a way with words
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thetaleoffood-archive · 11 months
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lewisvinga · 3 months
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sorry not sorry | daniel ricciardo x fem! reader
summary; daniel and y/n were just friends, that’s it, although everyone else around them wanted for them to be more. but one drunken night lead to y/n posting some questionable things to her story.
fc; christina nadin
warnings; mentions of drinking , suggestive comment
note; requested !
taglist; @namgification
masterlist !
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yourusername: before n after danny said no to chicken tenders
tagged; danielricciardo
danielricciardo: it’s because you need to expand your tastebuds, sunshine
yourusername: i just wanted some chicken tenders, danny☹️☹️
danielricciardo: stop pouting at my from the other side of the room
danielricciardo: fine i’ll get you chicken tenders, sunshine
yourusername: thank u danny 💗💗💗
username: i love them sm
username: they HAVE to be dating
username: LMFAOO
username: i love them so much😭😭
landonorris: you have the tastebuds as a child
yourusername: a lot of talking for a man who gags at sushi and steals my chicken tenders everytime we hang out…
username: i need the grid to try to set them up bc they have to be in love or something
username: ppl when a guy and girl are friends: 🤯
yourusername uploaded to their story!
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[caption 1; party rocking 🤪] [caption 2; i Love danny Sooooolmuch his face is SooO stupidly cute I wanna kiss him] [caption 3; he’s so Sexy i want him to be my boyfriend Now.]
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danielricciardo: my ☀️, now n forever.
tagged; yourusername
yourusername: sorry not sorry 4 posting abt how sexy u are on my story
danielricciardo: but ur sexier
yourusername: have u seen u post workout? that is very sexy 😌
danielricciardo: no but i have seen you in my bed post… and that’s very sexy😉
landonorris: THERE ARE CHILDREN PRESENT
yourusername: love u stupid, 4ever n ever 🥹🥹💗💗
danielricciardo: love u weirdo, n ur weird chicken tender obsession 4ever and ever 😌😌❤️
username: oh OH
username: good morning to y/niel only
username: the way they were absolutely silent for like a month after y/n’s stories just for daniel to randomly hard launch on a tuesday morning
username: they’re so perfect for each other 🥹
username: daniel’s smile w her😩😩🥹🥹🥹
landonorris: why is she eating in almost every picture
yourusername: like you aren’t a beggar who begs for my left overs every time
landonorris: YOU LEAVE LIKE HALF OF THE PLATE BEHIND IT SHOULDNT GO TO WASTE!!!
yourusername: i’m giving yuki my leftover tenders next time
landonorris: NO
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robotpals · 1 year
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jack-o-lanterns, my new earrings, a halloween cake, and two owls that decided to perch in my tree and hoot just in time for trick or treaters
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vegehana-food · 2 years
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✿ 叫化鸡 | Beggar's Chicken ・叫化鶏(きょうかどり、ジアオホワジー)。下処理した鶏を蓮の葉でくるんだのち、さらに土で全体を包み、丸ごと炉で蒸し焼きにする、中国江南地方の料理。別名として乞食鶏(こじきどり)、富貴鶏(ふうきどり)など。 ・明代の末か、清代の初め頃、江蘇省常熟県の虞山の麓あたりで、食べるものに困った乞食が偶然に鶏を手に入れたが、調理の手段を持たなかった。仕方なくそのまま泥で鶏を包み、土中に埋め、その上でたき火をした。その後、鶏を掘り出して食べたところ、柔らかくて大変に美味な上、泥といっしょに羽根もきれいに取ることができた。これがきっかけとなって、改良を加え、「下ごしらえをした鶏を蓮の葉でくるんだのち、粘土で全体を包み、オーブンで蒸し焼きにする」という料理法が生み出され、1882年に常熟市の「山景園菜館」のメニューとなり、蘇州市の「王四酒家」などの名物料理として定着したのだという。 ・中華人民共和国成立後の1950年代になって、この手法に通じた調理人が浙江省杭州市の「天香楼菜館」に移り、「叫化童雞」の名で国内外の賓客をもてなすことが多かったことから、杭州の名物料理としても知られるようになった。その後、四川料理店や広東料理店などでも出すところが現れ、泥の代わりに小麦粉の生地を使ったり、日本料理の塩釜蒸しのように塩を使う例もでている。
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factual-fantasy · 6 months
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23 Asks :)))
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Google says that means Hunger in Spanish soooo
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Eat up my child
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I feel like it would be really hard to mistake Foxy for a dog. "Foxy the pirate Fox" posters are everywhere. Foxy is bright red and has a obviously fox like tail. His name is Foxy.
But there's always bound to be that one parent who doesn't get it, "Sweetie go play with the big dog :}}" But no one would throw a bone at him because they think he's a dog. That wouldn't happen-
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Once I'm free from this big project I would like to draw some digital circus. But who knows, my interest in it could die out before the project is done-
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@professional-idiocy
Uhg. Always super frustrating. Thanks for letting me know. 👍
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Google says that's an economy/nation question. I don't talk bout that stuff here sooo... sorry-
My main headcannon for Sunny is that he is also Moony. He is 1 animatronic with no split personalities. Sunny and Moony are the same animatronic with 1 personality, wearing 2 different costumes.
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I don't think taking inspiration would be much of an issue. Just stay away from straight up taking my idea word for word and doing the exact same thing as me. And don't take my idea word for word, add a bit to it and then call it yours.
And as for the offline stuff. Going against artists wishes is still wrong even if I cant see it.
If people seriously cannot interact with me without going against my wishes. Please block me. Stay as far away from my content as possible. That would be more respectful to me and yourself.
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@mysteriousl0ser
YEEEAAAAHH!! All good characters. I like Caine for his unique design, plus he's really funny. Same with Kinger, I like his design and he's really funny to me XD Perfectly cut screams are my weakness.
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@beryl-shade
Yes! And in the true swap its Bonnie! :}}
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@shawnmlinsitly08
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Thank you so much! I hope you like the rest of the artwork I have to offer! :}}}
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@abaroo
I haven't planned for Seam to get his eye back, no.. <:/
Also-
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WAAAA THANK YOU SO MUCH!! 😭😭😭
I remember reading about that style of line art and how it was "bad". "Chicken scratching" I think its called. And how people said that its not a proper way to draw and makes the art look bad. But it DOESN'T!!
Controlling lines and getting the perfect shapes is so much easier with chicken scratching. And if you know how to control it and clean it up, its not as messing looking as people think!
I've used chicken scratching for line art becuase its much easier and not as messy as people think. I'm so glad you noticed my line art and I'm honored that you would incorporate it into your artwork! I hopes it helps you as much as it helped me! :}}}
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@pinkbomb08
I'm sure Seam and the others would devour anything you gave them. Even if they didn't like the taste. Beggars cant be choosers!
Also thank you so much! I'll do my best! :))
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Maybe.? I could see them applying ointment to rags and carefully slipping them under and at first it feels nice.. But then having to take the rags out to apply more ointment could cause more pain and irratation..
There's also this property to the chains where they can get tighter at times.. maybe they'd have rags under the chains occasionally. But due to the tightening and irritation maybe they can only do it for a short time. As to not cause Seam any more discomfort..
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@chickenmilk120
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I've been hanging in there! :')
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Thank you, and I'll do my best! :}
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Oh yeah, there would definitely be this "cool down time" after every mirror where Jevil is wiped out and needs time to get his strength back. The natures of these mirrors is still a bit unknown, even to Jevil. So the first time he collapsed out of exhaustion must have been pretty scary for Seam.. who knows what was wrong with him..
As for the darkener thing, my AU functions off of my bizarre headcannon.
In my AUs, Darkeners, lighteners, and Undertale Monsters and humans.. are 4 separate beings with different properties.
A Deltarune Human is different from an Undertale Human. And a Undertale Monster is not a darkener, or a lightener. They are their own category. Not saying I believe any of this is canon to the games, its likely not. This is just the structure my AU is built on.
And I had this idea that Deltarune and Undertale stuff.. doesn't really mix. Or at least it rarely does. The idea is that the magic that makes up these 4 beings are all different. They don't mix usually, they just clash together.
Asgore cant heal Spamton becuase his magic is sooo different from the magic in Deltarune. Spamton's body just rejects this magic because of how foreign/different it is. A darkener could maybe heal him. And perhaps a Lightener could heal him.? But no one originating from Undertale can give their magic to him. They are just completely different.
Its the same when it comes to food. Some food is universal. Its so simple that nearly any kind of magic can break it down. But a lot of the times the darkeners bodies just, cant absorb Undertale foods. They're so different..
As for advantages or disadvantages.. maybe? There could be a case where a powerful Undertale monster tries to hurt Jevil. But his magic is just, structured sooo differently its basically ineffective. It could also work the other way. Maybe Seam is trying to step up and protect himself. And he only has to use a tiny amount to blow the Undertale opponent away. Its because his magic is so different it pierced right through his foe. Maybe stuff like that.? :0
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That is an interesting question.. I'd say it kind'a depends on the AU.?
And like, none of my AUs are actually completed. None of them. Things are always changing or I'm always adding more too it and the story never ends. But still I develop them at different speeds depending on the AU..
For example. My Welcome home AU. The structure for that AU and basic plot was thought up in like 3 days. Same thing with my Digital Circus AU actually,
But my FNAF AU? It took WEEKS to sift through all the games and pick everything apart and carefully construct my own timeline and think of a story for every single animatronic and have it all line up and-
Then there's my Deltarune AU. The basic idea of a traveling Jevil was thought up and constructed in like a day. But the rest of the au is weeks in the making. And its constantly changing and I'm always adding stuff and rearranging things GRAHHH!
It really depends <XD
And some ideas do go unwanted/unused overtime. But mostly I overwrite my own ideas with new ones. I think of a cool idea and I push everything in the AU aside to make it work. Even if the structure of my AU suffers a bit. <XD
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Yeah! Its good to see those guys out and about. And hey Green Truck's ok! He just has a strange way of starting up. It means that he's harder to steal now XDD
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@beryl-shade
Yes! Her voice box doesn't work if its not attached to her Jaw. Same with the all the other diner animatronics :0
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I pictured Seam being MUCH younger. I thought of King and Queen being like Asgore and Toriel. Being these powerful boss monsters that live for 100s of years.
So while King and Queen are 100s of years old. Seam is like.. in his 50s or something <XD
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@crimson-thinker
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WAAA THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! THAT MEANS THE WORLD TO ME!!😭😭💗💞😭🍤💕
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Thank you! Also after googling it, I kind'a see the resemblance XD
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ALSKAKD GREG BEAR XDD That's perfect!!
Also thank you so much! Same to you! :D
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@lathan-chillyfilm
I've never played Dr. Mario & Dr. Luigi so any elements from that game were not added to my AU.. :(
But Mario and Luigi bringing foreign bacteria and illnesses could be an issue.. or it might not! :0 After all I don't know if human viruses can be dangerous to fungal people <XD
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THE TALE OF FOOD
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BEGGAR'S CHICKEN - STEADFAST IN ADVERSITY 
BEGGAR'S CHICKEN : Since the two of you have such ambitions, then these properties will be given to you.
??? : Thank you, sir! Thank you, sir! 
BEGGAR'S CHICKEN : No need to thank me. I just hope you don't forget what you said and work hard to make a name for yourself in the future.
MASTER : Eh? What is this? Why are those two thanking him?
YUXIANG PORK : Heheh~ That guy probably thinks he's done some great deeds! The way I see it, though, what he's doing is meaningless~ 
BEGGAR'S CHICKEN : What...Do you mean?
YUXIANG PORK : Oops, looks like he heard me~ Then I'll cut to the chase. I almost laughed out loud, seeing someone fall for such low-level deception. That beggar is limping on his right leg. When he was wandering around here last time, he was limping on his left~
BEGGAR'S CHICKEN : !!!
Beggar's Chicken's face blanches, and his lips tremble--Although he was born a poor beggar, he was strong and broke out of that world. The two beggars' deceit drives him into a fury.
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HARBIN FRIED PORK : Alas, Master. It looks like one of Yuxiang Pork's rare moments of sincerity has hurt an upright and fragile soul...
As soon as Harbin Fried Pork finishes speaking, Beggar's Chicken chases him out like a gust of wind. 
MASTER : I think he's really angry, so quit it with the sarcastic remarks!
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BEGGAR A : Today's a lucky day. I ran into a stupid guy--I just made up some nonsense about how to be a good man, and he paid us these taels of silver!
BEGGAR B : That guy looked very smart. I didn't expect him to be so easy to fool. I guess looks can be deceiving! 
BEGGAR'S CHICKEN : ...Stop right there.
BEGGAR A : B-Benefactor--!?
BEGGAR'S CHICKEN : You put on quite a show.
BEGGAR A : ...
BEGGAR A : Oh? So, you knew all along. Then what did you run over here for? Do you want to get back what you were foolish enough to give away? What a joke!
BEGGAR'S CHICKEN : My kindness--
BEGGAR'S CHICKEN : Is for those who still have hope in their hearts even though they've been left in the dust. It should never be given to you bunch of lazy vermin who betray the trust of others.
BEGGAR'S CHICKEN : In this world, people earn dignity by themselves, and you...Are not worthy! 
BEGGAR A : Hmph, you really are stupid. Now, you're going up against the two of us alone! I can't believe you have the guts to say...We're not worthy? Let's see how soft your mouth is when it meets our fists!
MASTER : He's not alone! 
BEGGAR'S CHICKEN : Master? Why are you--
MASTER : Of course, it's for the love and peace of the world and for inextinguishable justice!!!
MASTER : Ugh, this is more Braised Pork Hock's kind of thing!
BEGGAR'S CHICKEN : ...
MASTER : I was just so fired up by what you said just now, so I started talking nonsense--Anyway, let's go! Let's teach these jerks a lesson!
*FIGHT*
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BEGGAR'S CHICKEN : Master, it seems like you want to say something to me.
BEGGAR'S CHICKEN : Even if you tease me, I'll own up to it. Even though I was excited just now, and I gave those guys a piece of my mind...I...I really can't stand those kinds of...Those kinds of depraved people...
BEGGAR'S CHICKEN : But, this time, I know that I was too naive, and It's clear I don't adequately understand people...
MASTER : I'm not going to make fun of you. I wanted to tell you that you're honest and kind, and you have principles. As for everything else, just live and learn, and things will get better--
MASTER : Heheh, basically, you're a shining diamond and a good comrade that deserves praise!
BEGGAR'S CHICKEN : ...A diamond...
BEGGAR'S CHICKEN : The person you're describing...Sounds more like yourself...
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slexenskee · 20 days
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Don't Forget About Us (MDNSY Oneshot)
Makoto spares him an unimpressed look. “You looked like you were going to cry in front of a KFC of all fucking things a couple hours ago— and now you’re the drunkest I’ve seen you in months and seem determined to somehow sing your way out of a crisis.”
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“Not here,” Satoru says, which draws her up short.
They’ve just finished up a show at a nearby club, and despite the late hour are utterly ravenous. Kenji and Yui begged off for the night, leaving Makoto alone with her lead singer. Makoto has led them to the nearest appropriately greasy and unhealthy restaurant within eyeshot— a KFC. Not her go-to pick as far as fast food or even fried chicken is concerned, but beggars can’t be choosers. 
Except they can, apparently, because Satoru seems pretty staunch in his disapproval. 
Makoto stares at him incredulously. “Don’t tell me you’re on a diet,” she laughs, joking.
Her laughter fades as Satoru’s expression remains unchanged. She doesn’t think she’s ever seen that look on him before. Distant and constellated. Even with his glasses off he’s a bit impossible to read. 
“Seriously?” Her look turns skeptical. 
He’s the size of a waif and eats more sugar than should be statistically possible. And a bit of processed fast food is hardly the worst thing he’s done to himself in the time she’s known him. The cigarette dangling from his lips is a sure sign of that. And since when does he have a problem with fast food after a live show? He lives for this shit. 
“I just don’t like fried chicken,” he returns, which is a blatant lie if she ever knew one. He likes fried chicken just fine; he especially likes it at one in the morning, when he’s starving after a setlist. 
She rolls her eyes. “Oh my god, get something else on the menu then.” She’s starving right now, and the tantalizing scent of fried food is only making it worse.
“Anywhere but here,” he says, and this time, she can hear the threadbare shot of panic in the bottom of his voice. 
Does he… Is he being serious right now? Evidently yes. Taking another look at him, he really does look unwell. 
“Okay,” Makoto says, slowly, taking a step back from the well-lit doorway. “We’ll go somewhere else, then.” 
“Preferably with alcohol involved,” Satoru adds, flippantly, and turns on his heel, as if the sight of a single fast food restaurant sign could do more damage to him than the excessive alcohol he’s about to consume. 
Makoto lets it go, for the time being. This weird but shockingly talented bandmate of hers has the strangest hangups sometimes. She’s just learned to accept them, for the most part. And not ask too many questions— he gets real squirrelly with those. And every time she thinks she’s getting closer to the truth of him, he twists the paradigm around with yet another absurd and/or vaguely horrifying revelation.  
Makoto shoves them into the nearest izakaya she can find— ironically a yakitori joint with ample fried chicken on the menu— and immediately orders them a round of beers that Satoru tacks on with a bottle of sochu. Ah. So it’s going to be one of those nights. They order a responsible amount of food with their drinks for the first few rounds, but eventually it just turns into the two of them getting wildly drunk and staggering out of the place draped over each other in search of the nearest karaoke bar. 
Makoto would have thought the guy would have had enough of singing, what with performing a whole setlist just a few hours ago, but drunk!Ru-kun really only has two modes, slutty stripper Ru-kun or karaoke star Ru-kun, and since he’s still hung up over Hawks these days, it looks like they’re shutting down the karaoke bars tonight. 
Not that Makoto minds, necessarily. It’s been ages since they’ve had a night out like this, and she’s got a whole weekend to be miserable and recover from what’s shaping up to be a raging hangover before she has to drag herself to work again. And for whatever reason, she’s sensing Satoru might be in desperate need of a night out himself. 
The place they stumble into is equal parts nightclub and karaoke bar: a large, darkly lit open interior sprawls before them packed to the gills with dancers; disco lights zip across the crowds and the bottle services girls fighting their way to their tables with sparkling champagne thrust into the air like shooting stars; and at the far end an inebriated girl with cat ears is belting out a fairly decent rendition of Mariah Carey’s Shake it Off as she struts across the bar. In short, this is probably exactly the sort of place they were both looking for. 
Makoto swindles them a free table with a bit of flirting with the hostess, and finds herself holding court among a generous crowd of random inebriated strangers thrilled to get drinks off her tab, while Satoru wanders off to find the mic. She loses track of him for a bit, but is unsurprised when he resurfaces wearing someone else’s blonde wig, up on the bar himself singing Baby One More Time as he fumbles his way through the dance routine with the cat-eared girl in tow. Still in his stage outfit from earlier in the night, he honestly looks like someone paid him to be up there, which is probably why the entire bar is clamoring towards him like he’s a celebrity or something. 
He shows up at her table eventually, sprawling himself over her and the booth with his borrowed blonde wig in tangles across his face. She throws it off him as he makes grabby hands for a bottle of champagne on the table. She should probably cut him off at this point, but she’s wasted herself and doesn’t have enough fucks to care anymore, so she just pours them both another glass and clinks their glasses together. 
She has no idea what time it is when she starts to feel hungry again and orders food. They could have been in this place for hours or days, and she wouldn’t be able to tell; it doesn’t seem to be in danger of closing on them any time soon. The crowds come and go, but the place stays packed and the loud music has yet to bother her, so she doesn’t feel inclined to leave. What would be the point? There’s no food at her apartment, and ever since she broke it off with her last fling, no one waiting for her either. From the way Satoru constantly gets his turn at the mic, she doubts he’s in any rush to leave either. 
So maybe they’re both just eager to run away from things. But for his sake, she should probably get him to talk about it. The last time he was having some kind of internal crisis he was trying to drown out with alcohol, he’d ended up sleeping with a Top Three Hero and catching feelings for him.
“Okay, so what the hell brought this on,” she finally corners him, after he’s done with an obnoxiously impressive cover of Despacito for a guy who speaks absolutely no Spanish, and is once again sprawled in the booth with her.  
“What? Nothing.” She supposes she should at least be happy to see him putting orange juice in his champagne, even if he’s yet to touch any of the food. 
Makoto spares him an unimpressed look. “You looked like you were going to cry in front of a KFC of all fucking things a couple hours ago— and now you’re the drunkest I’ve seen you in months and seem determined to somehow sing your way out of a crisis.”
“It’s not my fault everyone keeps shoving the mic at me and picking great songs,” he retorts, stubbornly. 
This probably means she should drop it and just let him run away from his own problems, but beyond just trying to save himself from the worst of his own vices, at this point she’s also just curious. 
“Fine, drink your way out of a crisis,” she amends, then shoves a plate of dosas at him. “And at least eat something if you’re going to do that. I’m not dragging you home if you’re too drunk to walk.”
Satoru pouts ferociously, but nonetheless reaches for a crepe and tears off a bite. “I’m not having a crisis,” this idiot insists, like the emotionally stunted idiot he is. 
“Really? Let’s go to a KFC then, if you’re not having a crisis about it. We’ll bring the whole band.”
“I’m not having a crisis about fucking fried chicken, okay,” Satoru says, expression turning a bit pinched. “I just— it was bad timing, is all. If I hadn’t just gotten done with playing our last setlist I would have been fine to eat there.”
This draws Makoto up a bit short. Her brow creases. “What does the setlist have to do with it?”
Satoru stares at her for a moment, indecipherable. Then he grabs his champagne and downs the whole thing. He sets the empty glass on the table as he says, “I almost had to kill my best friend in front of a KFC, once.”
It’s so unexpected she nearly drops her own drink. “What?” 
No, seriously. What the fuck? 
“He’d gone off the rails and killed a bunch of people,” Satoru continues, only bewildering her further. “I was supposed to put him down, but at the time I just couldn’t do it. I tracked him down, stood outside the store ready to kill him, and I just… I couldn’t do it.” 
Makoto leans back in her seat, reeling. 
She’d call it some bizarre made up bullshit, but sadly, every facet of Satoru’s life sounds like bizarre made up bullshit, so it’s probably the truth. 
She scrambles for a response. “I— when was this?” 
“A while ago,” he answers, clipped. He reaches for the entire bottle of champagne, and this time doesn’t even bother with the glass. She doesn’t stop him. 
She has no idea what she expected from this mysterious and eccentric bandmate of hers, but admitting to attempted murder was really not in her cards for the guy. Then again, what did she expect? She watches him down the entire bottle as she tries, and fails, to get her thoughts together. There’s just so much to infer from this and she doesn’t even know where to start. Just what kind of guy was his best friend, that he’d gone on a killing spree? And why would it ever be Satoru’s responsibility to execute him for his crimes? And what does that have to do with their setlist? 
She at least gets one of the answers she’s searching for.
Satoru wipes at his mouth, looking out into the strobe lights as he says, “He wasn’t a bad person. He just… wanted more than life could ever grant him.” 
Makoto blinks, realization dawning hard and fast. 
(I wanted more than life could ever grant me)
Satoru never talks about how he writes his music. He swears, in fact, that it doesn’t really mean anything to him at all— that he just makes them up off the top of his head. Makoto had never once believed that, and now she has the proof. She’s heard him sing Today is the Greatest hundreds of times at this point, but she’d always thought it was about himself. The more she learns about him, the more she realizes some of those lines align a little too closely to his own experiences to be anything but personal. But she supposes two things can be true at once; that song can be about him, but still remind him of a friend he’d lost. 
She almost doesn’t want to ask, but… “What happened to him?”
Even the stifling, crowded warmth of the nightclub plunges into ice as he says, without looking at her, “I can only hope he found more peace in death than he did in life.” 
Makoto startles at the implication. 
But at the time, I just couldn’t do it. 
So he managed it, in the end? 
Before she can even fathom up a response, the cat-eared girl is leaping over the booth to wrap her arms around Satoru, begging him to get up and help her duet yet another Mariah Carey song. 
“Make it Don’t Forget About Us and I’ll do it,” he says. 
Without hesitation she agrees, and he grabs his ridiculous wig and jumps over the seat to join her. He’s probably eager to once again run away from his feelings and, this time, she can’t blame him whatsoever. Or on second thought, as they really get into it in the chorus, she has to wonder if this isn’t actually him running from his feelings so much as confronting them head on? "When it’s real, it’s forever" indeed. 
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She learns a hell of a lot about her ridiculous bandmate over the course of the following months, but she never quite gets a straight answer over his former best friend, and possibly first love, and she never directly asks, either. If he wants to tell her, she’ll listen, but otherwise she’ll let him approach it in his own time. 
But she does make sure he knows she’s around if he ever wants to talk about it. 
They’re at that same R&B karaoke joint, this time enjoying their time in a far more sedate and far less exorbitant manner with drinks at the bar. Satoru has long since lost that blonde wig, but the bartenders have clearly never forgotten ‘Karaoke Queen Ruru’ because they shower them with a generous amount of free shots and make pointed questions about the karaoke queue every time. Satoru waves them off with a laugh though, insisting he’s just here for a quiet night out. 
“You’ve gotten boring ever since you got wifed up,” Makoto denounces as he hedges off yet another turn at the mic.
Satoru’s expression turns a bit pinched— and panicked. “I’m not married,” he hisses, furtively. “And don’t say that so loud! I don’t need the rumors to get any worse.” 
“Not married yet,” Makoto revises, rolling her eyes. “For reasons that still allude me. What are you waiting for, exactly? You can’t ask for a more public or dramatic proposal than the one you already got.”
“It’s not that,” he insists, rolling his glass in his hands. 
Makoto blinks at him. “Don’t tell me you’re getting cold feet.”
“I’m not,” Satoru remarks, although he does look a bit shifty-eyed. Makoto squints at him. A bit of dread sinks in her stomach.
“Satoru,” she starts, cautiously. “If you really don’t want this…”
“It’s definitely not that either,” he assures her quickly. His mouth pinches into a tight line. “I know it took me, like, an inconceivably long amount of time to get to the point where I can admit it outside of our various discographies, but I do want Hawks. I don’t have any doubts about it.” 
He stops, the silence holding for a heavy, offbeat moment as he seems to want to say more, but can’t manage to force the words out. Makoto isn’t sure what else to do but wait patiently for him to finish, and when he doesn’t, flag the bartender down for shochu shots. Nothing like a bit of liquid courage to brace yourself for some trauma dumping. 
Satoru huffs out a laugh as she rolls one down the bar towards him, clinking their glasses together. “Thanks,” he says, as they cheers.
“What are friends for?” She counters, tossing the shot back. 
Satoru follows her, then sets the glass back down on the bar as he wipes the salt off his lips. “I don’t have any doubts,” he repeats, after a moment. “I guess I just… need a bit more time to let go.”
Let go? Her brow furrows in confusion. Let go of what? 
Then she remembers the last time they were at this bar. The last time Satoru had run away from his past straight into the arms of excessive alcohol and a cat-eared girl singing R&B classics. Remembers his request for his last song, where he’d stood on top of a filthy bar and belted out, “I’m just speaking from experience, nothing can compare to your first true love” to a packed dance floor all singing along with their hands in the air. 
She sets her own glass down. “Were you and your friend… were you two like that?” She asks, hesitantly. 
Were you lovers, before you killed him? 
She’s a little relieved when he shakes his head. Romantic or not, she’s sure that doesn’t lessen the pain, just makes it a different kind of regret. 
“No. Well— not exactly.” He looks conflicted. “We never… it was never like that. It might have been, but, well…” 
Then he had some kind of psychotic break and turned into a mass murderer, and Satoru had to be the one to put an end to him permanently. Right. What a fucking mess. No wonder this guy has spent most of his life doing his level best to avoid his own past. The more she learns about it, the more depressing it gets. 
She nudges him sympathetically with her knee. “It’s okay to mourn the loss of what could have been,” she says, gently. “It’s not wrong to need time to move on— no matter how much time that is.”
Satoru nods, looking lost in his own thoughts. 
Makoto bites her lip. “... Does Hawks know?” 
He blinks, surfacing from his own head to look at her. “Yeah,” he answers, without hesitation. Then he lets out a sharp, bitter chuckle. “He knows everything, but he sticks around anyway. I don’t really know what I did to deserve him.” 
“And what are the rest of us then, chopped liver?” She kicks him in the shin. “I’m not going anywhere either, you jerk.” 
Satoru’s eyes are very wide as he stares at her. Then he ducks his head, a bit bashful. “Yeah,” he agrees, looking a little wistful. “I got really lucky with all of you, didn’t I?” 
“Damn right you did!” She kicks him again for good measure. “I’m sticking around, no matter how many stupid identity reveals you try to throw at me. You’re not getting rid of me that easily.” 
He barks out a laugh, grinning widely. “Good! Mark your words, I’m holding you to that!” 
(And when he confesses his plans for an anime of all fucking things, and reveals an entire past life’s worth of trauma at them, she screams a lot but she does, indeed, stick around to turn it into the best damn anime ever produced.)
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idk I was listening to a lot of Mariah Carey's 2000's hits and remembered I'd made another Satoru cross-dressing alter-ego specifically to sing R&B karaoke hits so here we are 🤷‍♀️
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royal au with street rat!chuuya
Sreet rat!chuuya who when he first laid eyes on you, you were the only thing he felt like stealing at the time he saw yiu
Street rat!chuuya who threw rocks at your window until you finally answered him with a grumble until he accidentally threw a rock at you
Street rat!chuuya who tried to rizz you up with stolen jewels and animals even though you know it’s a stolen and you scold him for it
Street rat!chuuya who finally gained your trust and you let him in your room by entertaining from your balcony
Street rat!chuuya who started coming every night to your room to continue and try and seduce you
Street rat!chuuya who gets jealous whenever other princes try to court you shoul
Street rat!chuuya who fucks you against the desk while saying how your his how no one can have you and that he practically owns you
-☃️ sorry if the grammar is shit I was writing this while watching duck tales for the 7th time and got distracted multiple times
I'm giggling kicking my feet over this one omggggg!! It got long, under a cut!
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Sheep/street rat Chuuya going scavenging near the castle because he's the strongest of the group and isn't afraid of the guards. Plus the best scraps are obviously where the richer people live, sometimes he can even get some beer from the soldiers or a few bits of cheese. Seeing you through the doors of the castle or when you leave for whatever reason and deciding he's going to try his luck with you. He climbs up onto your balcony and sneaks into your room, throws rocks at the walls outside to get your attention, anything he can. Tries to gain your trust and begs you for a few meals first by putting up a kicked puppy façade then getting angry because you have so much extra, can you really not afford to feed your people? You're impressed by his courage and also the fact that he climbed up the fucking wall, plus he's strangely pretty for a beggar boy. There's fair skin under the mud and sunburn and he has gorgeous hair, even if it's greasy and matted. His eyes are bright and his features are delicate, and he moves with the strength and grace of an assassin. Under the old, baggy clothes Chuuya has thin hips, strong legs, broad shoulders for his stature.
He sits on your balcony during the night and tells you about eating rats and stealing chickens, about his family- all the orphan kids in town that he teams up with, and the vicious turf wars that they fight with the other children. Even though he's old enough to learn a trade nobody takes him in, he can't read or write and he's had no education, none of the guilds in the city want him and to be honest he's tired of trying and has accepted he'll live his life protecting the kids.
You're fascinated by how different his life is to your own and tell him about your education, the balls and uncomfortable clothes, the hours of meetings with allies that you have to sit through because one day all the lands as far as you can see will be your own, and you have to be ready. He laughs at the stupid rules for banquets and gatherings, and that one time you fell off your horse when you were learning to ride. You teach him how to write his name on an old scrap of parchment, and he keeps it in his pocket. The servants bring dinner to your room now and Chuuya always gets a share, but he bundles it up and takes it back to the others instead of eating it himself.
Eventually there's talks about suitors, of course. You complain to Chuuya about overhearing your options, an uncle that's half your age or a second cousin from another country or what have you. People you've never met. Chuuya seethes and you think it's on your behalf, but really there's a strange pit growing in his stomach. Will you still live here? Or will your spouse whisk you away to some faraway city, never to be seen again? Will there be a war triggered by your succession, taking you from him forever? You chatter on about the stable boy that keeps giving you hopeful looks and that one noble that always hangs around with their kid, trying to talk to your parents; and Chuuya sees red. He grabs the food and leaves without a proper goodbye, disappears into the night and leaves you confused and annoyed.
The sheep notice something is off about Chuuya, moreso than usual. They all have bets going on how he's getting so much food consistently, with most of them agreeing it's either prostitution or he's found a really good spot to steal from and hasn't told them. It doesn't help that he's so cagey about the matter, going beet red and dodging their questions. And it's even worse tonight because he comes back angry, and Chuuya never comes back angry. He always seems oddly thoughtful when he splits the food up amongst them, making sure the smaller kids get their share too; but tonight he dumps it on the ground still wrapped in his ratty cloak and leaves again without a word.
They find Chuuya asleep in the grass by the river next morning, one hand pressed to his chest, and he refuses to answer questions. He doesn't go out for food again, begging the merchants and stealing from taverns like the rest of the Sheep do, but never coming back laden with goodies like he'd been doing for the past few months. He's snappy and sullen and doesn't play anymore, doesn't even throw rocks at the rival kids when they have to fight for something. Just sits and thinks and paces around.
You on the other hand grow worried, then annoyed, then worried again. Days turn into a whole week and Chuuya never hops onto your balcony, light and nimble. He doesn't throw rocks at your wall to grab your attention. You always eat by the window, hoping to catch a glimpse of tangled red hair underneath. You leave him food like an offering and pray for him every day, you begin to lose sleep and worry the servants. He doesn't come back. You fear he's angry with you or worse, dead. Gone like so many other beggars before him. You miss him enough that you begin writing him letters he can't read, letters you can't even send, and keeping them in a little box by your bed. Telling him about your days and wishing him well, and imagining his responses. Cynical and brash as they could be, they're comforting to you. And he'd never been unkind.
Chuuya stays in your thoughts even when he shouldn't be, even when it isn't worry you feel. You'd always meant to give him a bath, but had been to embarrassed to say it. Maybe you should have taught him to read more than his and your names. He'd have made such a good knight, or blacksmith, or strategist- he's more logical than half the old idiots arguing around your father's map table. Nobody had ever taught him any manners so he'd never been afraid to speak to you, or to tell you how stupid some of your ideas were. Whenever you meet with a suitor you can't help but compare them to him. Chuuya is prettier, his voice is nicer, he's smarter, he's more honest, he makes better conversation.
You start to wish he'd come back for entirely new reasons. Maybe if you could clean him up, dress him in some of your clothes... it could never happen of course, the kingdom stands to gain nothing from that union, but you can dream. He could maybe learn to wield a sword and do good things, earn a living instead of begging for scraps like a dog. He could be yours, as much as law and custom could allow. If only he'd come back.
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aeshnacyanea2000 · 11 months
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Six Beneficent Winds was Deputy District Administrator for the Langtang district, and good at a job which he rather enjoyed. He was not a wicked man. True, he had the same sense of humour as a chicken casserole. True, he played the accordion for amusement, and disliked cats intensely, and had a habit of dabbing his upper lip with his napkin after his tea ceremony in a way that had made Mrs Beneficent Winds commit murder in her mind on a regular basis over the years. And he kept his money in a small leather shovel purse, and counted it out very thoroughly whenever he made a purchase, especially if there was a queue behind him. But on the other hand, he was kind to animals and made small but regular contributions to charity. He frequently gave moderate sums to beggars in the street, although he made a note of this in the little notebook he always carried to remind him to visit them in his official capacity later on. And he never took away from people more money than they actually had.
-- Terry Pratchett - Interesting Times
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I'm not sure how I'll continue it yet, but this is the infamous pastel grunge punk!Steve I ended up writing instead of tentacles, so enjoy XD
Sparked by this beautiful post
By @discodeviant because while I was reading, Beggar's Song by Matt Maeson started playing in my head.
Steve looked into the backroom bathroom's cracked mirror and fixed his hair for the seventh time in the last thirty minutes. It was practically a ritual at this point when he was nervous. Well, maybe it'd become his lucky thing after tonight.
He brushed the hair away from his face and clicked his tongue ring pensively. From one side, his new haircut still had his usual thick brown voluminous waves with highlights that nearly brushed his shoulder. From the other side, he'd had it trimmed down into a disconnected undercut and dyed baby pink. He'd originally been planning on dying all of his hair pink and getting both sides shaved, but had chickened out. He'd still been thrilled by the outcome though.
Or at least he had loved it just this morning. But would everyone else? Had he made a mistake and fucked up one of the only good things about him-
A fist banged on the door and Robin's voice came through the door. "Come on, dingus, you're already pretty. Stop spiraling and let's go!"
Steve smiled and let her in. "Aw, Buckley, I'm pretty? Even pretty enough for you?"
Robin snorted and wrinkled her nose. "Don't push it. Now get your ass up on stage before it escapes those pants and makes a run for it. You're never going to throw those out, are you?"
Steve looked down at his worn thin jeans and yeah, maybe they were a bit tighter than usual in the ass, but their new apartment had a lot of stairs, okay! Despite it being almost more holes than pants, they were comfortable and definitely something his parents would never have let him wear when he'd still been under his dad's thumb. So of course that made them his favorite.
He turned and washed his hands once more. Robin let out a choking noise and pointed at his ass. "That's a new hole."
For a split second, Steve thought she was talking about something else until she poked at a spot on his ass not covered by the pants. There was a new hole in his jeans that showed off a not small peek of his ass and thigh. But it was low enough that Steve wasn't too worried about it.
"Buy a guy dinner first, jeez." Steve teased her.
She just slapped his ass. "Yeah, sure, I know a great little place on Easy Street called Cafe Puttana."
"Did you just call me a whore in my own mother tongue, Buckley?!" Steve gasped dramatically. "And maybe if you dressed like this more often, you'd stop having to resort to handing out free drinks to get a girl's attention." Steve hip checked her as she giggled at him and opened the door. "Now let's get this show on the road before everyone notices their favorite bartenders are both missing. My public awaits." He adjusted his pink jean vest over his Nirvana t-shirt as he stepped out, still picking, still-
"Your 'public' is a bunch of drunks, punks, burnouts, and half dead partiers." Robin hugged him from behind just before they got to the stage in the bar. "So don't let the nerves get you. Just have fun and sing me a song, piano man."
That got a genuine laugh out of him. "I'm no Billy Joel, but I'll see what I can do, uptown girl."
Robin went up on stage to announce him. She hyped him up as best she could given her audience and got a not too bad round of applause. Steve wasn't expecting much, this was a gig he'd just gotten only because he worked at the bar and the band that had been scheduled to play had canceled. He usually worked as their bartender and he was good at it. He probably wouldn't have gotten either job if Robin hadn't stepped up to bat for him.
Steve practiced his breathing exercises as the players they could find on such short notice got ready. He stepped up on stage, gave a friendly wave to the regulars who recognized and cheered for him.
He took a seat at the piano he'd had to tune himself before the show because it got so little use.
"Hey, you bunch of vagrants and drains on society." His words were met with proud hoots and hollers. "It's me, Steve, your favorite bartender." This was met with a loud boo from the bar, Robin playfully heckling him.
"That bunch of assholes the boss hired canceled, yeah, I know. So you get me instead, aren't you lucky? Usually you have to buy a drink to get to listen to my dulcet tones." Steve grinned as the crowd booed, whistled, and catcalled. "So enjoy the music, I wrote it myself. Yeah, that's right, fuck you, I have layers. Or if you don't like it, just shut the fuck up and enjoy the view you bunch of pervs." More catcalls.
Steve signaled the players and waited a moment, waiting for his cue, as they played the intro. They weren't bad for only two days of practice.
Jesus, come talk to me
I am but a blind mess, I am wild and free
I know that I need us more than I need me
One more whiskey, I am wild and free
Steve started playing as he continued singing.
Oh, but I'm a beat-down, washed-up son of a bitch
I got one more cigarette and all my money is spent
But I'ma be damned if I let it keep me down
Oh yeah, I'm a beat-down, washed-up son of a bitch
I got one more cigarette and all my money is spent
But I'ma be damned if I let it keep me down
Steve didn't hear any hecklers, not that he thought anyone was that willing to get on Robin's Shit List, but he still didn't dare look up.
Oh, my mother Mary, come walk with me
I am on four drugs, I am wild and free
I know that I failed less, the less I knew me
Wander through the darkness, and come walk with me
Steve felt good about the beat and the band seemed to be really getting into it.
Oh 'cause I'm a beat down washed up son of a bitch
I got one more cigarette and all my money is spent
But I'll be damned if I let it keep me down
Ay, yeah
Yeah I'm a beat down washed up son of a bitch
I got one more cigarette and all my money is spent
But I'll be damned if I let it keep me down
Yeah, yeah
He timed his breathing as the band trailed into the chorus.
Oh yeah, I'm a beat-down, washed-up son of a bitch
I got one more cigarette and all my money is spent
But I'ma be damned if I let it keep me down, yeah, yeah
Oh, I'm a beat-down, washed-up son of a bitch
I got one more cigarette and all my money is spent
But I'ma be damned if I let it keep me down, yeah, yeah, yeah
Steve nodded and belted the post chorus.
You know that it's not over
It's okay to let yourself hurt
Swimming in the murky water
Won't you come on out? Yeah, yeah
You know that it's not over
It's okay to let yourself hurt
Swimming in the murky water
Won't you come on out? Yeah, yeah
We sing a beat-down, washed-up beggar's song
And we sing it even louder when the money is gone
Because we'll be damned if we let it keep us down, yeah, yeah
Oh, I'm a beat-down, washed-up son of a bitch
I got one more cigarette and all my money is spent
But I'ma be damned if I let it keep me down, yeah, yeah, yeah
Steve blinked his eyes open when he felt a bit of an echo- no, there were people singing along. He recognized Robin's off key voice and smiled. Steve sang out the lyrics with his whole chest.
You know that it's not over
It's okay to let yourself hurt
Swimming in the murky water
Won't you come on out? Yeah, yeah
You know that it's not over
It's okay to let yourself hurt
Swimming in the murky water
Won't you come on out? Yeah, yeah
He could hear a lot more voices raise with his as he sang the last chorus as the band tapered off. "Come on, beggers!"
We sing a beat-down, washed-up beggar's song
And we sing it even louder when the money is gone
Because we'll be damned if we let it keep us down, yeah, yeah
Oh, I'm a beat-down, washed-up son of a bitch
I got one more cigarette and all my money is spent
But I'ma be damned if I let it keep me down
For an embarrassing moment, Steve thought he might fucking cry at the roars from the bar. Yeah, it was a few dozen regulars, drunkards, and partiers blitzed out of their minds, but it was leagues above his self doubt's worst case scenario. He had to swallow hard more than once before he felt confident enough to talk into the mic again. 
"See, that wasn't so bad, was it, you assholes?" Steve knew he was probably smiling like an idiot, but it was hard to care. "Give a hand to the band, they had like two days to fucking practice my crap, holy shit."
The bar clapped and yelled for them. The band looked pleased with the positive attention and a few waved back. One flipped off the audience much to their delight.
"Now, the rest of the songs are covers, the good shit, I promise." Steve announced. "So spend your fucking money, don't forget to tip, and enjoy."
They ended up playing some Nirvana, a little The Clash of course, Dead Kennedys, Siouxsie and the Banshees, through in a Motley Crüe song, and topped it off with his beloved Queen.
To Steve's honest surprise and giddiness, there was a demand for an encore of Beggar's Song. He led them through it one more time before ending for the night. Closing time was in less than an hour and he wanted to help Robin out with last call.
They got a decent amount of tips that he let the band take the lion's share of, but still got a sweet fifteen bucks on top of the thirty his boss had already paid him. He'd be able to buy some pretty good food for him and Robin this month.
That's all I got for now!
The backstory is Robin and Steve moved together somewhere after Robin got kicked out for coming out to her parents.
Maybe she stayed with Steve until her parents told his parents and they called to tell him to send her home, whatever. Robin and Steve decided to strip whatever they could from the house, sell it, sneak into her room while her parents were gone to pack, and they rode off into the sunset. 
Now they have a shitty apartment, jobs at a shitty bar, and they've never been happier. ❤
I have plans to bring Billy and Eddie into it later.
Two Nights Ago
Robin: I volunteered you for a gig
Steve: I've only sang in front of you!
Robin: it's time to fly, I'm kicking you out of the nest, dingus
Steve: does this make you my mama bird?
-Robin throws a pillow at him-
Steve: how could you do this to your child!
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ystrike1 · 10 months
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I Will Seduce the Male Lead for My Older Brother - By Lunaheng (6.5/10)
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An annoying pink transmigrator from our world has come to save this doomed novel! A loveless but obsessive contract. A secondary male lead who kills himself. The heroine dies too. It's an awful story, and it's up to the secondary male leads little sister to fix it all. Shouldn't be too hard. She's OP.
Rafine was born poor...twice. She was an unwanted kid back in Korea, and now she's a beggar in a fantasy world. A snooty Viscount was keeping her prisoner, but then he kicked her out. She has no clue who she is, and she fights for bread in the gutter with the other peasants.
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The OG novel Heroine, Violet, saves her. Violt is a smart cookie from a powerful family. Raphine has pink hair, which is extremely rare. She's also the right age. The Duchess lost a child in a fire six years ago.
Here's what happened.
Raphine was swapped with another dead body during the blaze. A maid sold her to a Viscount for cash. The Viscount was originally going to use her as a hostage/for her magic but he chickened out and kicked her out. Raphines early childhood was ruined due to political garbage, basically.
Violet takes her home.
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Adrian is Raphines wonderful brother, and he is desperately in love with Violet. He kills himself when she marries the evil prince. Raphine loves Violet. She loves Adrian too. She wants them to be a happy couple. She owes them everything. Viole saved her, and the Ducal family provides a loving home for their lost daughter. Adrian is especially sweet and affectionate.
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Raphine decides to seduce Zerkan, to give her beloved family their happy ending. She is also, however, dumb as a stump. She thinks Zerkan will be distracted by her flirting, and that's all. She intends to set him up with another woman after he returns from the war. She literally intends to friend zone him. That's her whole plan. She wants to distract him until Violet and Adrian marry. They are in mutual love after all. It doesn't take too long. Raphine pushes a random victim into a tea date with Zerkan, and she goes away on a summer trip.
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The plan seems to be going great. Adrian returns from the war in good condition. He proposes to Violet right after. Raphines life is perfect. The Duchess spoils her lost daughter the most. Her siblings aren't even jealous or anything. They all agree that she deserves to be spoiled rotten, because...yeah her childhood was really bad. Also yeah...they were fooled by a fake body and they didn't investigate her death enough. The Duke is willing to give Raphine literally anything, because he feels like he didn’t do enough. Without Violet she'd still be on the street...yeah...
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Raphine grows into an extremely beautiful woman. Also, she has a bunch of powerful pet spirits. I hate them. All of her spirit buddies are annoying. Her magic does make her the perfect royal bride though...but Raphine is dumb so she just enjoys her vacation.
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Zerkan comes to pick her up.
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There is an excuse for her stupidity...I guess? In the original novel Violet never loved Zerkan. She only married him for political reasons. His obsession with her didn’t look very romantic in the book. It was obvious that he was just nuts...and really lonely. Raphine uses her OP cheat codes to make sure his life isn't hell. She thinks he'll grow up normal, but he's a natural yandere.
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....but you have to wait 40 chapters to see any action. The beginning of this story is a reaaaaalllyyy slow childhood/growing up arc. It's boring and stale, and Raphine isn't a very fun protagonist.
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