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mutable-manifestation · 1 year

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Family at the Core

So I decided to continue the rogues-as-family-with-Danny once they realize he's a baby & flee to the DC universe/Gotham fic.

Parts 1 & 2

Info: AU where you gotta fight ecto with ecto - it’s the only thing that has any effect on them, and it’s part of the reason why the ghosts love Amity so much - aside from the whole “thinking danny was old ghost pretending at being human and openly challenging pretty much everyone by claiming a Living Realm haunt and then opening a stable portal in it” (from their perspective pre-’holy shit he’s baby’ realization) - Danny? Sam & Tucker with ecto weapons? Humans who can and will put up a challenge but won’t try to seriously harm them ala bastards like Pariah & the Guys In White? It’s practically the ideal ghostly vacation spot.

The Fenton fam are the first to discover how to fight ghosts in their dimension, but DC didn’t have blood blossoms and made the deal w/Pariah before they figured out the ecto v ecto option

This is pre-ID reveals among the JL because it’s funnier.

Disclaimer: idk how the police work I’m just rolling with what sounds probably like it’d be right.

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Kitty and Johnny disappear before they can discuss a time for the police sweep, but Kitty <i>had</i> asked for Bruce’s number earlier in the conversation - “To set up that playdate once we’re more settled in” - after Bruce had mentioned the benefits of peer contact for children.

(The complete and utter disconnect from information about humans certainly lent credence to their claim of being ghosts - or at least not humans)

She’d promised to give him a call once they got their phones set up. Hopefully that would be soon - they really needed to talk about the Lazarus Pit in the building before the kid fell in and died - assuming they truly weren’t aware of it prior to selecting the location.

Perhaps Bruce could convince them to block it off? If they truly weren’t after the pit, he could ask about setting them up with a better place; make up some excuse about wanting the building for the company.

He makes contact with them and is left with more questions than answers; at least they know where they are now, despite the in-costume team's inability to track them as they left.

Constantine and Deadman arrive together <i>less</i> than an hour later, managing to arrive at the Batcave at the same time as Bruce’s group.

Constantine twirls an unlit cigarette between his fingers as the footage of the Joker incident plays.

It stops twirling when the lunch lady appears on the screen.

His lips form a grim line as he watches.

“Anyone ever told you you’re the unluckiest bastard this side ‘a the pond?” Constantine asks, turning to Batman once the first video concludes.

“No.” Is Batman’s humorless reply.

“Don’t leave us in suspense here, Conny,” Nightwing slides closer to lightly elbow him in the side. “Is Damian Wayne’s doppelganger the most haunted kid in America or what?”

Robin, for his part, crossed his arms and continued sulking - as he had been since Batman had read them in on the existence of JL Dark and verified that ghosts were indeed real.

“Most haunted kid this damn dimension, Bird boy,” Constantine answered, stowing his cigarette. “Those-” he gestures to the now-blank screen “-are Infinite Realms Ghosts. They aren’t like Deadman here, they’re about a million times worse.”

“Hey!” Deadman protests.

“They come from a place they call ‘The Infinite Realms’ - big shock there. Their kind haven’t been seen in this dimension for tens of thousands of years now; most people just think they’re myths by this point. I only even know about it because my thrice-damned house wouldn’t stop throwing a book on the subject at me until I read it a few years back.”

He puts the cigarette away in favor of crossing his arms.

“The Realms are said to be connected to every dimension there is, and legend has it that way back when we got a lot of visitors from their side. Had a lot of names - the era of chaos, the age of disaster, whatever you wanna call it. They treated this dimension like a plaything, and there was nothing anyone could do to stop them.

Nothing worked - salt, holy symbols, the magics of the time, etc. Supposedly, someone even tried summoning a demon and watched the thing get hunted. Realms ghosts were leagues more powerful than any of the other known beings at the time and no one could find a way to fight them. The only reason they left was because some group made a deal with their king - no details on what the deal involved other than getting them to get lost.”

“So we are simply supposed to hope that their king isn’t too busy dealing with the infinitely many other dimensions they are apparently hooked up to to come get a few strays out of ours?” Robin questions icily.

“It means you’re simply supposed to give me a chance to do some more research - I only skimmed the one book to get the house off my back. What I read wasn’t promising, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t more useful information buried somewhere.” Constantine replies with an eyeroll. “For now, if they want to play house with some poor bastard? Wayne’s got enough kids to know how to give good enough advice they don’t accidentally kill him in the meantime. Infiltrate their playdates if you’re that worried. And look on the bright side! They took care of your clown problem. Now, you said you had two videos?”

“Yes,” Batman answers tightly, bringing up said second video. “We managed to get footage of their meeting with the Waynes.”

The second watching was far less eventful.

Until the very end, when Kitty and Bruce shake hands and Constantine lets loose a stream of curses.

“What? What’s wrong?” Red Robin demands.

“What’s wrong is that Brucie Wayne is dumber than a sack of damn bricks.”

The batclan members make various coughing/strangled noises at this, save for Batman, who remains stoic.

“Who the fuck meets a self-declared non-human entity and shakes on a deal.” Constantine drags an exasperated hand down his face. “Make sure Wayne knows his ass needs to buy them that building asap or Ghost Girl gets to make him dance to whatever tune she wants; break a deal with a dealmaker and they get controlling shares in your soul.”

“I see,” Batman says, “We’ll get in touch with him again after this; we need to discuss the police sweep of the Yuyan building anyway. If direct observation will help, he should be willing to bring you along as a civilian friend.”

Constantine looked at him like he had three heads.

“Not a chance in hell, Bats.”

He backs away from the table toward the cave’s Zeta tube.

“Oh! Oh, me! Pick me! I wanna meet the new ghosts!” Deadman shook his arms wildly, doing loops in the air.

“The visibility spell won’t last that long and we don’t know if their kind of ghost can see you without it. Also, we were in the middle of something. We already detoured. Let’s finish the job and then we can come back and play ghost party 2: yet another pain in my ass edition, yeah?”

“Awwwwww,” Deadman slouched sadly before zipping into the tube with him.

“Great. Have fun, try to get along with the new neighbors, don’t shake any hands, don’t do anything I wouldn’t do, yadda yadda, aaaaaand bye.”

And with that, they were gone.

“Well that’s not ideal,” Nightwing mutters.

The meeting had at least answered one question.

Now for the other two dozen.

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Kitty wants to get this cop sweep over with as soon as possible.

The others are hesitant at first - or territorial, in Walker’s case - but a little fast-talking has him all for the idea.

The chronic rule-follower had only taken to making his own rules because of the zone’s inherent chaos and lack of real, broader government. In Gotham there are rules pre-made to follow, to enforce. He eats it up.

He’ll be obsessed with being law-abiding once he’s done studying up, but Kitty had been headed towards a future in law before her own death. She was well aware that it would take him - even with the aid of an eidetic memory - a minimum of months to read enough to actually start enforcing anything.

And until he’d read it all? Kitty was free to make him paranoid about missing a later subsection to create her own Walker-loopholes.

Once he’s on-side, he practically carries the argument for her. She only pipes up again to mention how “the baby would probably be a lot more comfortable with a stable, uncontested home.”

Walker does his own sweep of the building, opening cabinets and hidden passages and drawing attention to weapons and other hints of crimes-past and Kitty hovers over Technus’ shoulder as they hash out the details of how best to lure in the police.

The Box Ghost leads the others - except Ember, who ‘s on baby-watch at the pool - in packaging up everything they want to keep to be phased into the ground under the building.

Arguing took most of the time and it’s only the work of another two hours to have the entire building ready for the cops to peruse.

In the end, they decide setting off a small bomb by the entrance is the easiest way to draw police attention - they’ll come investigate, when no one responds they’ll have to check it out, they’ll find the weapons and cult-like documents and murder records Walker had located sitting out in the open, et voila: wanted owners and building up for grabs.

They, of course, will be invisibly watching the whole thing.

Danny hasn’t left the pool since their arrival and they don’t want him to, so he stays there with Johnny on watch to make them both invisible if and when anyone enters that room.

It goes off without a hitch, and by 11 o’clock Kitty is flying to a nearby roof to call Bruce and remind him of his end of the bargain.

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@yjfk @fisticuffsatapplebees @little-pondhead @avery-isastupid-name @queenofdiscord @samgirl98 @inkyunicorn @mimilikey @aconitewolfsbane @miraculousandmore @someonebored0100 @wildbacon-blog @fleshybeing @vala-dreams @ironicvixen @blurblurbblurrrr @ectoplasmic-knife

#dpxdc #finding family with the rogues that fought you #dp recovery vacation in Gotham #Bruce slowly loosing his mind #Constantine calls Bruce a dumbass to his face (unaware)#ex-pre-law Kitty #Danny in the background #*is traumatized*#Constantine hates everything that is happening in Gotham #Constantine *hopes the King will show up to get them b4 he has to deal with this bullshit #*#King Baby: *Floating in an ecto-pool under the Yuyan Building & being Part Of John's Headache*

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wonderlandleighleigh · 2 years

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Any tomfoolery from our favourite In-Laws together (Lenny, Mei & Astrid)

He opens the door and silently holds his finger to his lips in a shush moment, even as Astrid gives a soft little squeal directed at the infant sleeping in the crook of Lenny's arm.

Mei snickers quietly as the two women step into the apartment and Lenny leads them into the living room.

"I just got her to sleep, and Midge finally agreed to take a fucking nap," Lenny explains. "The women in this family are not big on sleep."

"You're not kidding," Mei tells him as they all sit down. "Esther is generally up at five in the morning, and she's only six."

"It's not just the women," Astrid interjects. "Noah says there are twenty-one useable hours in every day."

"This is insane, and he is going to drop dead," Mei says.

Astrid's eyes widen in worry.

"Not - literally," Mei assures her. "But he needs to get more god damn sleep."

"We all need more sleep," Lenny commiserates.

"Well, having a newborn will do that to you," Mei tells him. "But you and Midge wanted another."

"I forgot what it's like," Lenny admits. "Kitty was born nearly ten years ago now, and when she was this small, I was very, very high most of the time."

"That's...probably not good," Astrid tells him awkwardly. "Can I hold Lily now? Please?"

Lenny chuckles and nods, shifting the infant over. "Here we go, Lil. Say hello to Auntie Astrid and Auntie Mei."

"Where's Joel?" Astrid asks as she snuggles baby Lily in her arms. "Look at this Shayna Punim."

Mei sighs softly. "Joel didn't want to come."

Lenny nods slowly.

"Well, he is missing out on the most adorable little baby," Astrid coos at a very sleepy Lily. "Aren't you just so cute, little Lily? So cute."

"How's Midge?" Mei asks.

"Seems okay," Lenny shrugs. "Tired, obviously. Ready to starve herself into getting back down to her pre-baby weight, despite my protests."

"It's important to keep your figure," Astrid says primly.

Mei just rolls her eyes at Lenny over Astrid's head. "I'll talk to Midge about less terrible ways to lose the baby weight."

"Thank you," Lenny nods. "So. Joel didn't wanna come, huh?"

"He's feeling very weird about his former wife giving birth to someone else's baby," Mei explains.

"But it was fine when he knocked you up," Lenny comments a little bitterly.

"I never said he was making sense," Mei shrugs. "He never did get over the whole 'my ex married Lenny Bruce' thing."

'We got married two years ago," Lenny reminds her, wrinkling his forehead.

"And it was a beautiful wedding," Astrid comments, looking up from Lily.

"Good cake, too," Mei says.

"It was great cake," Lenny agrees.

Astrid smiles at Mei. "You want to hold her?"

Mei nods and takes Lily from Astrid, cuddling her. "Hi, kid. I'm going to teach you how to be sensible about your health and not drive yourself into an early grave by starving yourself to look pretty for the terrible men who will take advantage of you."

Lenny frowns. "Thank...you?"

"You're welcome," Mei grins.

#fic #au #Astrid Weissman #Mei Lin #Lenny Bruce #tmmm #In-Laws

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cynicalrainbows · 4 years

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Eve’s Curse

Second attempt at writing fluff for @six-gifts-exchanges for @saria-malinas!

Not at all meant as anything other than friendship (because in my own head, Cathy and Kitty have a very adorable, very pure best-friendship thing going on, which very possibly could involve friendship bracelets and- in the fullness of time- a very very Vanilla sort of Burn Book) but you can read it as mild Parrward if you want to, I suppose.

TW: Periods.

She’s halfway to the stairs, empty coffee cup in hand, when she catches the sound of muffled sobbing coming from the bathroom.

She hesitates on the top step- pretend not to have heard and give whoever it is a chance to pull themselves together and pretend All Is Well or interrupt and potentially risk getting herself mixed up in something she isn’t able to handle?

She’s the first to admit it- she’s not the best at giving comfort out of the six of them, no one would ever mistake her for the Mum-Friend.

She’s too awkward, too hesitant.

No, that title- rightfully- belongs to Jane, who not only has apparently found a way to bend the laws of physics in order to fit everything that anyone might conceivably need into her smallish handbag (Cathy has seen her pull out tissues AND aspirin AND water AND plasters AND gum AND a hairbrush AND tampons AND tweezers AND anti-hayfever medication out of her bag at a moments notice, and the mystery is further compounded by the fact that none of the other queens ever have caught Jane actually replenishing her bountiful supplies.)

In addition to being Keeper Of All Things, Jane also seems to have an almost spooky sixth-sense for knowing when she is needed, often just….appearing at the bedroom door of whichever queen is struggling, armed with chocolate and tea and sympathy, whether the issue is a persistent migraine (Aragon), a hangover (Anna) or social-media induced blues (Anne, who isn’t allowed to read their youtube comments anymore).

Jane though is out. Aragon too- who, in Jane’s absence, can usually be relied on to step in with advice and cups of green tea- is not around.

Come to think of it, Anna did say something about going to the gym over breakfast….

That left Anne- who Cathy knows generally prefers to hide her tears behind thumpingly-loud music and/or a shower running on full rather than behind a simple door….and Kitty.

Oh god.

Reluctantly, Cathy finds herself retracing her steps until she’s right in front of the door.

Of course she can’t go back downstairs if it’s Kitty. Not that she’s even fully sure she believes in hell anymore (something she has neglected to mention to Catalina and fully plans to emphatically deny if her godmother ever catches wind of it) but she’s absolutely certain that wilfully leaving Kitty alone and in distress is the sort of thing that would be sure to forever condemn you to the darkest, deepest, scariest level of it.

(Also, the other queens would kill her if they found out: Jane might be first but Anna, she knows, wouldn't be far behind.)

She raises her hand to knock and then pulls it back.

Just do it.

She can’t.

And it’s not that she doesn’t want to help Kitty, it’s not that she doesn’t care- she’s just scared to death.

She knows, after all, how much the youngest queen has been through- out of all of them, only she and Anna were actually there to hear, first-hand, the gossip that set half of London into a flurry of excitement as the other half bit their lips to keep from commenting: the King’s pretty new wife, the ex maid-in-waiting.

Just like that Bullen girl, some said- some doubtfully, others gleefully.

Young though, isn’t she? It was said with a smirk at first, with barely concealed concern later.

She looks like a child beside him-

They say he can’t keep his hands off her-

They say she’s looking ever so pale-

They say the King is angry-

They say she’s been meeting secretly with one of the King's men-

They say she’ll be sent to a nunnery-

They say she was pre-contracted-

And then, suddenly: She’s dead. Beheaded.

And that time, it was not gossip or open to speculation but sad, bleak, unalterable fact.

And still the rumours kept spreading:

They say she cried as she was being led to the scaffold- and They say she begged the King to spare her family- and, more and more often now, so young, so very young.

It makes Cathy afraid to even talk to the girl- she only has to look at her to feel the crushing weight of years of guilt, and even as she reminds herself that she really had no more choice in the marriage than Kitty did herself, it doesn’t help much. She after all survived. That makes a difference.

It’s why she shies away not just from Kitty but from all of them- Anna, she’s sure, must secretly blame her for Kitty’s fate, and if she does, wouldn’t Anne feel the same? Jane, she’s sure, must also find herself looking askance at the woman who came directly after to marry the man who had her now-surrogate-daughter was killed. Even Catalina, who she feels closest to, probably finds it a bit odd that her own goddaughter went on to marry her husband.

The thoughts keep her a little isolated, a little lonely. It’s not awful or anything, just a bit solitary from time to time.

It’s ok though. Last to marry a notorious wife-killer, she’s used to people being uncomfortable around her.

True, Kitty doesn’t seem to hold anything against her.

She’s a little hesitant, a little shy- it took her days to talk around any of them in anything louder than a whisper, over a week before she was able to speak without being spoken to- but she still offers shy smiles across the stage when Cathy catches her eye mid-rehearsal.

She remembers that she likes her coffee with cinnamon instead of sugar, and when it’s Cathy’s turn to wash up, sometimes she’ll look up and find she has a pink-haired shadow, drying the cups and plates and putting them away.

If anything, this makes it worse, the fact that she is confronted every day with this sweet, kind girl and forced to remember the awful things that were done to her.

It’s why she’s stuck outside the bathroom door, not even able to knock- what if she tries to help Kitty and she gets it wrong? What if she somehow makes things worse?

She isn’t sure she’d be able to live with herself.

Then Kitty gives a particularly sad sounding whimper and she realises that she definitely won’t be able to live with herself if she doesn’t do something.

‘Kitty?’

The whimpering chokes off and is replaced by silence.

‘Kitty, are you alright?’

Stupid question Cathy. As if crying in the bathroom has ever been considered a sign of ‘being alright’.

‘I’m- fine.’

Her voice is wavery. Cathy is at a bit of a loss.

‘Can I come in?’

‘No!’ Kitty’s voice is panicked and then hesitant. ‘I mean- yes of course, just…. I mean, not right now...please?’

‘Um….ok’ She feels out of her depth already- she doesn’t know whether to insist or to leave Kitty be like she’s requested.

She tries another tack.

‘Can I get you anything? You don’t have to let me in but if you need anything I could….bring it to you.’ Even her own words sound insubstantial as she trails off- what exactly could Kitty need that she could bring? A book about surviving one's own beheading?

‘N- no. It’s ok. You don’t have to. I didn’t want to bother anyone else-’

‘Are you sure?’ She really really wishes they could be having this conversation face to face and feels a sudden pang of sympathy for Catalina for all the times that she’s surrendered to her own demons and made the woman carry out a mostly-one-sided conversation with a locked door. ‘Honestly, Kitty I just want to help. It’s not a bother at all- I’ll get you anything you need-’

She’s surprised when it actually elicits a response- there’s a scuffle, the door opens a tiny bit and a tear-stained Kitty appears in the crack.

‘Do you-’ She twists her fingers anxiously. ‘Do you…..know how to get blood out of stuff?’

There’s a second where she’s confused by the question, before her mind clears and she realises that by stuff, Kitty probably means clothes.

‘....yes’ She’s trying not to panic- is she hurt? Is something very wrong? Why oh why did Jane and Aragon both have to go out at the same time?- and then she sees Kitty wince and press her hands to her abdomen and her shoulders sink in relief.

‘Oh.’

Kitty doesn’t look anywhere near as relieved- a tear slides down her cheek and Cathy feels her heart squeeze. The poor thing looks so young-

‘Hey-’ She steps forward and gently opens the door wider so that she can wrap an arm around the girls shoulders. She’s practically holding her breath as she does- what if Kitty pushes her away, what if she slams the door on her- but she lets her. Cathy could swear she actually leans into her touch a tiny bit.

‘It’s ok, I know how much they can hurt but it’ll be over soon- I’ll get you a hot water bottle and some painkillers, that’ll help-’

She’s mentally rejoicing over the fact that the gathering of these items is a physical action she can actually do when Kitty’s voice breaks.

‘- I don’t know what I did wrong-’

‘Sorry?’

‘I must have done something and I just-’

‘You haven’t done anything wrong.’ God knows Kitty wouldn’t be the only one to misjudge monthly timings in a way that resulted in unexpected laundry. ‘Sometimes it just takes you by surprise and-’

‘But I was so careful!’ It’s almost a wail and it takes Cathy aback. ‘I didn’t do anything this time round, I was so, so careful… I don’t want it all to happen again Cathy!’

‘Hold on-’ Clearly she has missed a couple of jumps in logic here- she steers Kitty back inside the bathroom, sits her down on the edge of the bathtub and kneels down in front of her while Kitty sniffles. ‘What do you mean by not doing anything? It’s just your period, you can’t control it-’

‘I must have done something to make it come-’ Kitty looks at her with red-rimmed eyes. ‘I know that it was my fault before, I know I shouldn’t have let him….touch me but he was so angry, Cathy! He said he’d be ill if i didn’t, he said I led him on-’ she starts to cry, quietly, hunching forward. ‘And then it came- when my step grandmother saw the blood...she said it showed I was a woman, that I must have been doing things I shouldn’t- I wasn’t a girl anymore- Cathy, I haven’t done anything this time, I swear it, I just….don’t know how it happened-’

Cathy’s mind is reeling and for a moment, all she can do is reach out mutely and pull the weeping girl into her arms. She isn’t quite sure what to say, how to begin- anger and indignation and sadness all battle in her mind- and she’s sure there’s a right thing to say, if only she can think of it.

‘Oh Kitty-’

‘I know- oh Cathy, please don’t tell the others, I don’t want them to know I-’ Her face contorts with a sob. ‘Please don’t tell Jane-’

There’s so much Cathy wants to say- wise, sensible, non-judgemental things, the sort of things that Jane or Catalina would say, but instead what comes out is: ‘Your grandmother told you it was your fault? What an absolute bitch!’

‘Step grandmother-’ Kitty flinches a bit in her arms at her vehemence and Cathy has to reign herself in, gently rubbing small circles over Kitty’s shoulders until she relaxes again.

‘Sorry, just…’ She’s fumbling for the words that will make everything better, when really what she wants to do is scoop this poor girl up into her arms and keep her safe from all of the terrible lies people are clearly so intent on telling her. ‘Kitty, you know you didn’t do anything wrong, right? You didn’t make anything happen?’

Stupid, stupid. Of course, she knows, if Kitty knew that, they wouldn’t be having this conversation.

‘What do you mean? Of course I did. I mean, I know he shouldn’t have either but something had to have triggered it so-’

‘No!’ Cathy finds she’s actually raising her voice a bit. ‘You didn’t do anything, you-’ She forces her voice soft and instinctively takes Kitty’s hands in her own. ‘Kitty, getting your period is nothing to do with what you’ve done or said or- or anything.’

‘But-’

‘Listen to me. It’s nothing to do with anything. Back then- you would have gotten it anyway. And now- honestly, I’m surprised it didn’t come sooner but sometimes stress can-’ She’s getting off topic. ‘Just….it’s nothing to do with doing anything wrong. It’s just biology.’

‘It’s Eve’s curse though, it’s a punishment-?’ She says it as if it’s fact but there’s the hint of a question in it, a tiny spark of raw, naked hope in Kitty’s woebegone face that’s breaking Cathy’s heart.

‘No, Kitty. It’s just how the woman’s body works- trust me, I’ve researched all of it. People today- they know about these things, they know SO much more than we did back then, they know things we didn’t even think to question…’ Whoops. Off topic again.

Hold back the rant Cathy, the poor girl can hear your thoughts on all this at another point. Ideally one where she isn’t in tears and bleeding.

Kitty’s looking at her, half hopeful, half unsure and she realises she’s going to need to explain things a bit better.

‘Ok. What did your step grandmother tell you when you were younger?’

‘That it meant I was becoming a woman- I was opening myself up to Eve’s sin.’

Cathy grits her teeth. ‘What else?’

‘That I could have babies now. And that I’d brought it on myself so I wasn't to go whining about the place looking for sympathy because the pain was punishment.’

She’s never in her life wanted to throttle an old woman more.

‘So- she was sort of right…. Not about the pain bit. Look, you know when women get pregnant, the baby grows in the womb?’

Kitty nods.

Every month, the womb readies itself for a baby. When there isn’t a baby, it sort of….clears itself and begins again. That’s why it hurts- your womb, your uterus is sort of ripping everything out. That’s why you bleed. Not because it’s a punishment.’

‘But….if I did something to trigger it-’

‘Kitty.’ Cathy looks at her unblinkingly, trying to put as much gravity behind her words as she can, praying they’ll sink in. ‘Listen. There is no one single thing you could have done or not done that would have made the slightest bit of difference, ok? Not a thing. It’s the same for all of us- you can ask any of us, it’s always the same. Nothing to do with you. You haven’t done anything wrong now and you didn’t do anything wrong then, ok?’

She watches until Kitty gives a tremulous nod of assent.

‘Good.’

There’s a moment of silence, and then Kitty wearily brushes at her still-teary eyes and sniffles. ‘I feel really stupid. You must think I’m an idiot-’

‘No! It’s not your fault!’ Cathy can’t bear the idea that Kitty is blaming herself again- the poor girl sounds so sad and broken down. ‘How were you meant to know different? I wasn’t telling you to make you feel silly, you know that right? Just...I didn’t want you to feel guilty for something that wasn’t your fault. You don’t deserve that.’

Please, please know I didn’t mean it badly-

Kitty sighs and nods resignedly. She looks suddenly very tired. ‘- thanks.’

‘You’re welcome. Now-’ It occurs to her that while the emotional side of things might be mostly-sorted for now, there’s still some things to take care of. ‘Here’s what we’ll do-’

It’s a shock to hear herself taking charge in such a way- she sounds like Jane, talking one or another of them through a crisis, all soothing and in control. Not her own awkward self at all. ‘I’m going to run you a hot bath- it’ll help with the cramps- and I’ll sort out your clothes and get you some pads-’

‘I don’t have any-’

‘Oh there’s always some in the bathroom cabinet.’ She rummages into its innermost recesses til she finds what she’s looking for. ‘We’ll get you some of your own too, of course. But you can always borrow from any of us in future, if you run out, ok?’

‘....ok.’

She stands Kitty up and starts turning on the taps. ‘Leave your clothes outside the bathroom door, and I’ll bring you some new stuff-’

‘You don’t have to wash my clothes-’

Kitty looks absolutely mortified and Cathy wonders why for a second- of course she’s not going to judge her- before remembering how she herself had fiercely resisted Catalina taking care of her when she’d come down with flu, how Anne had limped miserably on a sprained ankle for a whole rehearsal before admitting it to anyone. It’s not just Kitty- they’re all getting used to being vulnerable with one another.

‘I absolutely don’t mind-’ Then she stops herself. The last thing Kitty needs is another person ignoring what she wants. ‘-but if you’d rather, I could wait and show you how to do it yourself?’

Kitty nods acquiescence, smiling shyly, and Cathy smiles back. She feels a flicker of pride- she might not have reacted exactly as Jane would have (she’s sure Jane’s method wouldn’t have involved calling anyone a bitch)...but she’s managed to make Kitty smile.

That’s enough for now.

‘Then that’s what we’ll do.’

Kitty’s flushed from the heat of the bath when she joins Cathy downstairs, clutching a small bundle, and her eyes are still a bit swollen but she looks more like herself.

She takes the painkillers that Cathy’s laid out for her gratefully, and listens attentively as Cathy explains the science behind cold rather than hot water and how long to let things soak before they can go into the machine.

When she’s finished putting the stained clothes to soak, they both stand awkwardly for a second. Cathy wonders if it’s her cue to leave- should she leave Kitty alone now? Has she had enough of her? Will they both disappear to separate rooms and go back to smiling rather than talking?

The thought makes her feel oddly lonely.

Kitty breaks the silence first.

‘So...I’ve probably taken up enough of your day now-’ She keeps her eyes on her bare feet and so Cathy finds herself looking at the floor too- the pink polish that Cathy remembers Anne applying the week before on the white living room rug has chipped a bit and it’s suddenly much, much more important than looking at Kitty’s face.

‘No-’

‘You’ve probably got things you wanted to do-’

‘Well-’ She’s about to agree and back off like she usually does, letting Kitty be free of her like she probably hopes she will…. But then, she decides to be brave. There’s a chance, after all, that Kitty is only saying that to give Cathy herself an out- She can almost hear Catalina’s voice in her head: You have to give people a chance, mija.

‘I was going to watch tv for a bit…’

Kitty bites her lip. ‘Oh- well, have fun-’

She can’t believe Kitty’s actually making her say it- she wants to complain that it isn’t fair. You can’t have two socially awkward people in one conversation- nothing gets done!

Still- it occurs to her that she’s actually been dealing rather well with things up until now, evidence being that Kitty’s no longer crying and doesn’t seem to be in pain anymore (although she supposes that’s more to the credit of the painkillers than to her).

Still- the point is, she’s done ok. Maybe she can carry on doing ok?

She takes a quick breath, already steeling herself for Kitty to turn her down.

What if she doesn’t actually want to, what if she feels like she has to say yes out of pity?

‘Do you want to watch with me?’

Kitty hesitates.

‘It’s ok if you don’t want to-’

For a second, she can almost hear Kitty doing the same internal pep talk Cathy has just given herself- and then she smiles widely.

‘I’d like to, if you’re sure you don’t mind?’

‘Of course not!’

They’re settling themselves onto the living room sofa (for once, being able to do so without having to negotiate for space with at least two other people as is usually the case) when Kitty’s hand finds Cathy’s and squeezes it.

‘Thank you. For being so nice.’

It’s not exactly poetry, but Cathy can’t stop herself from smiling.

‘Thank you….for letting me help.’

Kitty smiles awkwardly and Cathy grabs the remote from the floor. ‘So. What do you feel like watching?’

They flick through a few channels until Kitty squeaks in excitement at a show which apparently involves cross women choosing wedding dresses.

(Cathy privately thinks this sounds like a stupid idea of a program but decides she’ll go along with it. For Kitty’s sake.)

(An hour later, she realises how hubristically, foolishly wrong she was ever to doubt the genius of such a show and makes a mental note to ask why no one told her that it existed before.)

Beside her, Kitty laughs at her interest and then winces again.

‘You like it! You- ow Ow!’

‘Oh you poor thing- is it bad?’

Kitty whimpers, clutching at the hem of Cathy’s flannel shirt in one hand. ‘I thought it had stopped- the cramps, I mean-’

Cathy shakes her head ruefully. ‘They do trick you like that… it’s a bit too soon for you to take anything else but I have an idea-’

‘Like what?’

She smiles. ‘Wait and see.’

She’s not sure if it’s the hot water bottle or the mug of hot chocolate, topped with a small mountain of whipped cream and studded with chocolate drops, that makes the difference, but after a couple of minutes, Kitty relaxes again and unfolds from the curled up position she’d assumed.

Somehow, her head has ended up in Cathy’s lap, but she doesn’t move.

And Cathy, playing with the bright pink tips of her ponytail, finds she doesn’t mind either (she wonders if one can get the same endorphins from stroking Kitty’s hair as one does from stroking an actual cat.)

‘Better?’

‘Mm-hmm.’

‘Good.’

‘Cathy?’

‘Yes?’

Kitty twists around and sits up a bit.

‘You know….if you ever need anything…?’

‘Yes?’

‘.....you know, you can come to me….right? I’d help, if I could.’

She actually thinks Kitty means it.

‘I know.’

She resumes her petting of Kitty’s hair, who lays her head back down and sighs contentedly.

‘Cathy?’

‘Hmm?’

‘This is really nice.’

‘.....it is.’ It is. It really, really is.

‘Can we...maybe do this again some time? If- if you wanted to?’

Her heart leaps but she keeps it under wraps.

‘Sure Kitty.’

(Still, she can’t stop herself smiling.)

#six #six the musical #six the musical fanfiction #six fanfiction #sixfic

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[lana condor; cisfemale; she/her; bisexual] KATHERINE 'KITTY' TRAN the EIGHTEEN year old FRESHMAN. they have come to allerton to study PRE-LAW AND ENGLISH. they’ve been known to be + STUDIOUS, as well as - HEDONISTIC. things they enjoys are EXHIBITIONISM & SUBMITTING, but dislike VORE & SCAT. [ ellie ] ( gymnastics team , track team )

all american golden girl tbh .

had a pretty positive upbringing in the suburbs with loving parents , three older siblings ( two brothers and one sister ) , and a dog named marshmallow . she named him when she was three because he was white and very fluffy .

had such an all american childhood that by the time she was a teenager , she was feeling extremely stifled . her parents had so many expectations for her and she was scared that she was going to disappoint them .

they wanted her to stay nearby and go to college . but kitty applied for as many colleges that were far away and when she got into allerton , she came through and toured the campus .

once she saw allerton’s campus ( and all of the attractive people roaming around ) , she made the decision to come here . understandably , her parents were furious . because it was far . they didn’t want to let her leave . but eventually she convinced them and so she was allowed to come to allerton .

now that she’s here , kitty is excited . because it’s her chance to be by herself and to not be treated as the baby by her siblings .

pretty naive and sweet . but also has huge potential to be corrupted . so ?? i would love it if somebody would ruin her and teach her about her kinks ( because quite frankly , she doesn’t know about them . )

WANTED CONNECTIONS :

someone who will take advantage of her , an ex girlfriend or boyfriend , a f / f plot based on any of hayley kiyoko’s songs but particularly i wish , a best friend with benefits who teaches her about herself , someone who introduces her to college partying .

the possibilities are endless !

#allerton:intro #allerton:ooc

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˗ˏˋ ✧ park chaeyoung • twenty-two • cisfemale . look ! it’s tessa chu from apartment 2C ! apparently , she moved into moreau apartments six months ago and is a nail tech . rumor has it, they can be quite reticent — good thing they’re also perspicacious , hey ? i hear they’re known as the fallen angel .

cancer and car accident/death tw below the cut!

💕 hi hello! my name is sammie, i’m 25 and i live in the EST timezone! i have a shopping addiction. i read a lot of young adult books (currently in the middle of the wicked king by holly black). i can’t go a day without listening to little mix & blackpink because they are my girls. i have two kitty cats (sirius and lupin) and a pitbull (nox). if you ever wanna see cute pictures hit me up i got so many of my babies. my discord is joe keery is ruining my life#7229and i’m always on so please shoot me a message! this is tessa.

basics!

faceclaim: park chaeyoung.

age: twenty two

sexuality: bisexual.

home town: portland, oregon

birthday: october 29th 1996

favorite color: heather grey.

favorite movie: pride and pride and prejudice.

favorite food: banana cream pie.

aesthetic: THE CLICK OF A CAMERA SHUTTER. BUBBLE GUM. WHITE NAIL POLISH. CHOCOLATE CAKE. LACE CURTAINS. OVER SIZED SWEATERS. WINGED EYELINER. PINK MATTE LIPSTICK. LACE BRALETTES. BUBBLE BATHS. BOOTIES. ROSE COLORED SNEAKERS. CAT EYE SUNGLASSES. HEART LOCKETS. STRAWBERRY MILKSHAKES. HEART EMOJI’S. SUSHI. EMPTY HAIR DYE BOXES. HALF DRUNK CUPS OF COFFEE. YOUNG ADULT ROMANCE NOVELS. ACOUSTIC GUITARS. STAR SHAPED EAR STUDS. TARGET SHOPPING TRIPS. ENAMEL PINS. BIG ROUND GLASSES. ESKIMO KISSES. PINK SATIN SHEETS. ROSE TATTOOS. BEACH BONFIRES.

celebrity crush: charlie hunnam & margot robbie.

biography!

tessa chu was born on october 29th 1996 to jinwoo and helena chu in portland oregon. her parents were decently wealthy, her father having inherited a chain of nail salons in the midwest. her parents ended up taking over the portland location after her grand father passed. tessa grew up in the salon, and regulars could always find her behind the counter coloring.

when tessa was seven, her mother became pregnant with her younger sister, tiffany. tessa had always wanted a sibling. she felt like she was always meant to be an older sister, and she was very protective of her little sister.

growing up tessa’s parents kept putting her in after school activities. rather it was piano, panting or gymnastics she was very active (even if she was horrible at the piano). she was always running around, and gymnastics seemed to be her favorite.

when she turned eight her parents started noticing her lack of appetite and she was always feeling sluggish. when she started to rapidly loosing weight and coming down with a fever often, her parents brought her in to the doctor. after some tests she was diagnosed with lukemia. from that point on, tessa spent a lot of her childhood at the hospital. at the age of ten, she went into remission.

when tessa turned nineteen, well into her remission, she started attending University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. her parents had always wanted her to have a better life, and they were very proud when she took their advice and went for pre law.

during her second year of college, her parents and little sister drove to the campus to attend a football game. after the game, tessa and her family decided to out to dinner. on their way to a restaurant downtown, a car struck her parents car and tessa’s parents and little sister were killed upon impact. tessa was the only survivor.

four months later tessa woke up in a hospital room. when she learned about the accident, she broke down. she quit school, no longer wanting to be a lawyer if her parents weren’t there to be proud of her. she inherited a pretty penny, and quickly sold her childhood home, and left the resturant business to a few of her cousins.

it didn’t take tessa long to want to leave the country. she had no ties there anymore. no friends or family in portland, and even the thought of michigan left her with a pain in her heart that just didn’t seem to ease up.

so she moved to vancouver. for a while she hopped from hotel to hotel, until she started to once again lose weight. she knew deep down what it was. the cancer was back. so she knew she had to settle down.

moreau was a blessing, and with all of her experience with nails, she started to see clients in her apartment. she still has plenty of money from her inheritance, and she’s doing pretty well for herself.

during her most recent relapse, tessa has since decided not to go through chemo for a second time.

personality!

little smarty pants. tessa is extremely smart, but she’s not a dick about it. she doesn’t feel the need to be loud about it. unless you try to make her look stupid. it’s really not a good idea.

she’s! so! sarcastic! oh my god, she always has a sarcastic comment on the tip of her tongue, and sometimes her mouth moves faster then her brain. but i mean, don’t expect her to apologize if you were being a moron.

gurl is perpetually stoned. rather its recreational, or to help with the pain. there is always a steady stream of smoke coming from her apartment, and shes pretty chill when it comes to sharing.

tessa takes loyalty very very seriously. if you gain her trust, and you break it? you’re done. if not? you have a friend for life. tessa is willing to do whatever it takes to protect the ones she loves, because she couldn’t do the same for her parents and sister.

wanted connections!

give this bitch her ride or die! her platonic soulmate! she needs one! someone she can always go to, someone she can share her secrets with. and ya know, someone to hold her hair back when the nausea is really bad.

an ex! female or male. good terms or bad. maybe they still have feeling’s for each other? who knows!

a crush! someone she has a crush on, or someone who has a crush on her!

enemies. oh yeah. bring the drama.

SOMEONE SHE CAN’T STAND BECAUSE THEY PITY HER.

late night confidant. someone she can talk to about everything, even stuff she can’t with her close friends. she knows they will never judge her.

a hook up! or fwb.

an older sibling type relationship. tessa has always been the big sister, but sometimes she needs a big sibling herself.

#moreau.intro #「 * ♡ ˙ . intro. ✧ 」

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Why do you think fans and Jackie forgive Hyde's shitty actions towards Jackie so easily? I love him with all my heart but I find some of his worst actions towards Jackie too wrong to look away from it.

I spent long minutes looking at thisquestion because I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Is it the cheating arcat the end of season 5? His initial assholery and silence during the firstweeks of their relationship in season 5? The oocness of season 7? Season 8? Oris it the pre-relationship assholery? Because I have an answer for each, and itmay not be what you’re expecting.

Be aware of the long ass meta, kids. Herewe go.

Pre-relationship Hyde and Jackie (season2-3)

SHE WAS STALKING HIM. It may hadn’t beenthe best to tell her to get off, but she was pestering him and shoving herselfto him with little respect for his privacy, alone time and space in all kinds.She’s constantly getting him in trouble with his fosters parents, friends andeven the law.

I do believe Jackie’s intentions of tryingsomething with him, her feelings for him, were honests. But he has know her,until now, only as Kelso’s girlfriend and he has seen the kind of not-so-goodperson she can be to her couple. Not to mention he probably feels like she’sonly using him to get back at Kelso or get over him, both options being honestto God ugly.

And he doesn’t know she really wants themto try because she never approaches him like any other normal person would:TALKING. And not yelling or demanding, but talking. Instead, she tries to makehim go with her to places he doesn’t like, she puts him into stuff withoutasking him first and wants him to simply obey her. THAT’S NOT GOOD AT ALL.

I love Jackie with all my heart, but inthis moment of the show, she has little respect for Hyde’s bondaries and itpisses him off. It would freak you out, too, I’m sure. It would piss ME off!And while yes, he was hard to her some times (especially with that ugly asshaiku), you have to take in mind this has been happening for MONTHS and his hashis limits, kind of a temper too, and she doesn’t take no for an answer. WHICHIS WRONG.

So yeah, he was in his right to be an ass.

Newly in a relationship (season 5)

Hyde has never had a relationship beforeand his only good example of one is Red and Kitty, who have already gonethrough the struggles he and Jackie were about to find as they adjusted to theother, which is something normal to every couple.

Examples of him being ‘not so good’ at itaren’t actually that big of a deal, especially because what we saw are thingsthat later in the episode get corrected and that also make Jackie correct herown shitty behavior.

We are at it again with her NOT asking andjust demanding, and him answering pretty hard to her with very harsh words andstaments most times. It did made me angry that he would be so rude, but again,if you take in account this has been happening for far too long and she doesn’tget the damn clue, one can only support so much.

Another one I remember, one that actuallydid pissed me off, was him being such a prick when she assures him she willloyal to him and wants to know if he would do the same for her. I think whatwas wrong in here was the way she approached him, she should had just asked whatshe wanted. Had she done this and he had answered as zen, then I would be evenmore pissed.

Ultimately, we don’t know if she forgiveshim for this? I don’t think it’s a bigger deal since she shows him with his ownwords how he made her feel. Both are being pricks here, and I hate that theshow didn’t talk abot this a little bit more, but well.

Jackie going around saying what he hasconfided her? Shitty of her, man. I’m sorry. I love her as much as Hyde does,but that’s shitty still. Not wanting to call her his girlfriend at first?Understandable, but both deal with that and I don’t think there’s anything toforgive there.

What I can’t fucking stand and I will NEVERbe able to is him shutting her up every time she wants to talk about theirrelationship or compliment him. I know a lot of people find this somehowadorable or cute, or normal, but GIRLS AND BOYS: IF YOUR BOYFRIEND SHUTS YOU UP, IN ANY KIND OF WAY, HE IS WRONG. I REPEAT, HE IS WRONG. Dump the idiot andget some better dick.

I hate that Hyde does that and I hate morethat the show normalized it and saw it as something funny, that Jackie Burkhartaccepted that. “It’s a fling” MY ASS, DON’T HAVE A FLING WITH AN IDIOT THATSHUTS YOU UP. “It’s a joke between them” IT DOESN’T LOOK LIKE THAT. AT ALL. It’sobvious they hadn’t talked about their relationship and feelings by that point,I hate that the writers gave this bit of characterization to Hyde and that theylet him get away with it.

The show let it go because most the writerswere sexist and knew shit about relationships.

The Nurse Arc (season 5)

YIKES. I HATE THIS ARC.

But okay, let me say what awesome peoplelike thestupidhelmet has been saying since the beginning of t70s time: Hyde’scheating comes from hurt, not lust. He doesn’t seek a relationship outside hiswith Jackie, he is seeking getting her out of his system. Hispassive-aggressive way of breaking things up with her it’s ugly and messy, andwrong, but it is what it is.

He didn’t stepped in and asked what thehell was going on in Donna’s couch, his insecurity about Jackie not havingfeelings for Kelso has been teased before with shit like ‘get off myboyfriend’, Kelso’s constant assholery towards him and constant want to gettingback into Jackie’s pants, even when she has shoved him aside time after time,finally until he tells Jackie he doesn’t want her to be with Kelso at all.

Which is pretty un-Hyde thing to do, butagain, this won’t become a rant about how much the writers liked to mess withHyde’s characterization in order to create unecessary conflict for him andJackie instead of giving them real plots.

After he sleeps with this person, hedoesn’t look happy or satisfized with his actions, which is a big kudo to DannyMasterson who always cared enough about Hyde’s love for Jackie (probably morethan the writers themselves lol *cries*). When he learns he has been wrong, thatJackie didn’t do anything bad and was actually searching for him to explainherself and was scared shitless for him thinking she has betrayed his trust, hefeels like crap and understands the magnitude of what he has done.

His better option right now is to say he’ssorry and he does. The show gives it selfish undertones, he makes this allabout him and doesn’t give Jackie space or the respect she deserves, the timeto grief. Because, once more, the person she loved the most has betrayed her,and she thinks it has been the same way her ex-lover did before.

I believe Jackie forgivess him because shesees him giving her the time and space she needs, she sees him being as misarableas she feels without her, he is honest and immediately tells her what he did,he also tells her he does loves her and If the show had treated it better,something better could had come with it. But for that we have those70scomics,am I right?

The end of this shit does pisses me off.Ultimately, Jackie forgives him because she loves him and she knows he lovesher. When he does that ASSHOLE move with Raquel (that kinda counts as cheatingagain, since he accepts Jackie’s kisses and was going to probably make love toher in that damn couch before Raquel appeared. What the fuck was he thinking?Was he going to let Jackie be seen by the girl he was going out with while hefucked her? I will never be tired of saying that I hate the writers’ way of dismissingcertain important parts of Hyde’s characterization), and even before whenhe was acting like if he had been the injured part in the situation (*), I justcouldn’t believe it.

Again, there the only explanation I find isthat she loves him enough and too much, and she really believes they can betogether and have a future together. That’s in canon. In reallity? Because thewriters were sexist pigs.

The I don’t know Arc (season 7)

This one was ridiculous. Both characterswere put in situations they were long over. Hyde refered to him and Jackie astogether in his mind until they were old (and lazy and fat) since season 5. He likedher in a wedding dress, which gave Jackie the sing she was hoppig for thatthey would eventually get married. They’ve been through this mess already andthe writers regressed them to the beginning to create another unnecessarydrama.

Hyde’s way of talking to Jackie when sherealizes he didn’t want to go to her graduation party AND that he had lied toher is totally out of character. He later breaks a promise to her and again,lies to her and he doesn’t care. He acts like if he is the offended part here, too and she is tired, man, she is so tired.

She has right to be in this situation, evenwhen Hyde is so obviously and painfuly out of character. She doesn’t forgivehim this time, because they never talk about it ever again. When they get backtogether it’s also out of character and it makes it look like if it was allabout the sex all this time. Which is not truth and it’s ridiculous.

We never see them talk what drove themapart. Later we discover they did and, because these writers are sexists and itseemed like if they hated Jackie, it turned out that Hyde got her to promise tonever talk about their future again (RED FLAGS, KIDS: WHEN YOUR BOYFRIEND SHUTSYOU UP AND MAKES YOU PROMISE YOU WON’T TALK ABOUT YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM,THE BASTARD IS NOT WORTH YOUR TIME, LET ALONE YOUR HEART). Which means theynever got a resolution, she just agreed because she doesn’t want to lose him.

The real Hyde would had never allowed that.Imagine if Real!Hyde and Winter!Hyde were two different people, and Jackie isdating Winter!Hyde at the moment while still around of Real!Hyde. He sees thishappening and when she agrees to Winter!Hyde she won’t talk about her feelings,their relationship and future, Real!Hyde first reaction would had been to shakeher into reason and make her see that asshole is not worth her time, let laoneher heart.

He would go then punch that asshole. Becausethat’s the asshole that brought season 8 to himself. And the writers did this,they destroyed Hyde’s character and devolpment of seventh entire fucking years justbecause they wanted some unnecessary and cheap drama.

At the end, she never forgives him, onlyagrees to not talk about it because she loves him and she really doesn’t wantto lose him. But then, her future starts moving without him and she wants tokeep him with her, but he reacts like a douchbag and she keeps reacting liketwelve years old, putting ultimatums and hiding from him for the sake of drama.

ONLY THEN, he is right to be pissed.

Season 8

But youknow were he doesn’t? When he believes he has seen her “cheating” on him. It notonly didn’t happen, but he didn’t had a word on it either. He let her go, Erichimself says it and he agrees, “she let you off the hook” which translate to “youtwo are over”. That he didn’t wanted it that way, that’s different. But onceagain he did nothing to talk to her FIRST but to get drunk and then see what hewanted to see.

His passive-agressiveness comes back in theway of going to angry fuck random stripper #4 in Las Vegas for an entire month,while Jackie waited for him at home. She left her job oportunity and put apause to her life for him, and what did he do? He married a stranger that wasonly there to make Jackie’s life miserable and insult her every time she could.And he did nothing.

Jackie doesn’t forgive him for that oneeither, and she shouldn’t, to be honest. But once again, that guy is not Hyde. It’sjust not.

Conclusion.

Hyde, most times, had a reason to be likehe was to Jackie. Her own acts of stupidity and assholery made him react bad,while his made her react as such too. Both are to blame for most of thesethings. And the three bigger offences he did to her (the nurse, winter and thestripper), just one was forgiven for an actual reason and the others were not. Becausethe writers didn’t do their job as well as we could have wished.

Steven Hyde is not a douchbag, the guy thewriters replaced him with, is.

#that 70s show #steven hyde #jackie burkhart #jackie x hyde #jupiterhyde #nini got mail #mine #sorry for the meta #otp: anything for you doll #hj meta #meta #show

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a list of original main characters that are in my head and their stories

100% Original Characters

Taliesin Reid: Young Adult (probably 24?). Music Store Employee. Originally meant to be female but might become male in the rewrites. Lives in a modern urban universe where superpowers are a thing. Can pull crystal and gemstones from the Earth and form things from them. Ends up on the run from the law after accidentally encountering a criminal group meeting under the guise of a superpower support group.

AJ-16-48/AJ/Antoinette: Somewhere in her teens. Raised most of her life to be in her empire's army. After her training camp is attacked she defects and joins the revolution, but she ends up returning to the Empire to try and help destroy it from the inside.

Characters That Could Be Either In Either Original Work Or Fan Fiction

Bethany Mariposa Goodwin: Was originally meant to be the daughter of a Mr. House loyal ex Mojave Chapter Brotherhood of Steel Paladin Courier Six but I'm trying to rewrite it as futuristic mobsters instead. It's not going well.

[First Name TBD] Baker: Went in the opposite direction. Started as an original time travel piece. Couldn't seem to create an original future for her to visit. Got inspired by another fic. May make her girl from our universe sucked into Fallout 4.

Fan Fiction "Original" Characters:

Keturah [Kitty] Hastings: Female Courier Six, slightly AU, becomes Mormon probably.

Arcadia Zuckerberg/Stephen Nathaniel Rogers Junior: Female and Male Sole Survivors. Currently writing their pre-game lives. As soon as I finish the game and dlcs (or watching someone else do it lol), I want to write how each of them would go about living in the Commonwealth

Isaiah Dodge Duncan: Male Lone Wanderer. Eventually replaces Diego as the acolyte of Saint Monica's Church in Rivet City to atone for the sin of blowing up Megaton

Tyler [I forgot the last name]: It's been awhile since I've worked on this one but FTM Lone Wanderer because reasons.

#my writing #my ocs #idk why i wrote this

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Top ten Ethereum dapps | IG Swiss

New Post has been published on https://cryptnus.com/2018/08/top-ten-ethereum-dapps-ig-swiss/

Top ten Ethereum dapps | IG Swiss

With strong competition from other cryptocurrencies, ether’s value will be heavily influenced by the growth of the Ethereum network – something that is likely to depend on the rate at which decentralised applications (‘dapps’) are adopted. We take a look at the state of the dapp scene and list the top ten Ethereum dapps available right now.

What sets it apart from some other decentralised exchanges is that it can process transactions in real time, so users can trade continuously. It is able to do this because it does not wait for the Ethereum network to mine (process) transactions before confirming them. Instead, it uses a smart contract to process and enforce transactions, with the actual transactions taking place on the Ethereum network – in the order they were accepted – after they have been approved here.

ForkDelta dapp

ForkDelta is another decentralised exchange that enables users to exchange ether and Ethereum-based tokens. It claims to have the most ‘ERC20’ listings of any exchange, with ERC20 being a technical standard used for the majority of smart contracts that issue new tokens.

ForkDelta formed in a ‘hard fork’ of EtherDelta – another decentralised exchange – after the latter was sold to new owners. While the newer DEX offers a standalone user interface, it currently still connects to the smart contract that runs EtherDelta (though there are plans to switch to an alternative) and, unlike IDEX, cannot process transactions in real time.

CryptoKitties dapp

CryptoKitties enables users to collect and exchange digital cats via a smart contract, with the Ethereum blockchain used to secure and track ownership of these collectibles. The game includes a ‘genetic algorithm’ so users can breed new kitties – either using the cats in their collection, or by paying another user a ‘siring fee’ to allow their kitty to breed with theirs.

Source: https://www.cryptokitties.co/press

Each kitty has a unique set of ‘cattributes’ – for example red fur, blue eyes and crooked teeth – with some of these attributes being rarer than others. Some are so rare, in fact, that several kitties have been sold for ether worth more than $100,000 (at the time of exchange). The collectable nature of the game, and luck involved in breeding a rare and potentially expensive kitty has contributed to its success. But its growth has not been without issue. In December 2017, the sheer volume of transactions it was processing caused a major slowdown in the Ethereum network, calling into question the latter’s scalability.

LocalEthereum dapp

LocalEthereum operates as a peer-to-peer marketplace for buying and selling ether, although it does not offer other tokens. It connects buyers and sellers through a smart contract to complete trades. Payments can be made using a variety of mainstream methods, including PayPal, with any ether held in escrow until the transaction is confirmed.

LocalEthereum claims that it offers many advantages over centralised cryptocurrency exchanges, as they do not have access to any wallet’s private keys and therefore are immune to the type of hacks that have befallen centralised exchanges such as Mt. Gox in the past (though it should be noted that major smart contracts have been hacked previously as well).

Bancor dapp

Bancor enables users to convert between any two tokens on its network. Its main feature is ‘built-in liquidity’, which means users are able to buy and sell non-mainstream tokens even when supply or demand for these is limited.

It is able to offer this liquidity by placing each token in its own smart contract and linking it to ‘connector tokens’ in the network at a fixed ratio. By becoming a ‘Smart Token’ in this way, a coin can be bought or sold simply by converting between the connector token. Notably, the smart contract exerts some control the supply of each coin, destroying it when it is sold and issued when it is bought, in order to keep exchange rates within the pre-defined ratios as demand shifts.

Kyber Network dapp

While Ethereum has made it (relatively) easy to create new tokens, the Kyber network aims to make them useful and accessible. It enables users and businesses to accept payments in a wide range of tokens – even obscure ones – because it immediately and seamlessly converts the buyer’s chosen token into the seller’s preferred coin.

This has the potential to make it easy for individuals, other dapps, vendors, payment gateways and decentralised funds to accept thousands of different coins, which could help the Ethereum network to grow. Like Bancor, one of Kyber’s key features is ‘instant liquidity’, though it offers this by paying commissions to users who contribute their idle coins to a liquidity pool, rather than by creating ‘Smart Tokens’ that self-regulate.

Decentraland dapp

Decentraland is a virtual reality world that runs on the Ethereum network. Users can buy and sell virtual land with ownership recorded securely on blockchain. Importantly, users can develop their own land and control the content that is displayed there, enabling them to monetise their property however they like. This could be by running a casino, educational workshop or underwater hotel, to give just a few examples.

The game includes a custom ether token called ‘MANA’, which can be used to buy and sell property, and user-generated content. According to Decentraland, the only real limit is the user’s imagination – a claim that is backed by the developer’s roadmap, which indicates it plans to roll out custom items and control over the laws of physics in the near future.

0x dapp

0x (pronounced ‘zero-ex’) is a piece of open-source software – based on smart contracts – that enables users to create their own decentralised exchange. Its intention is to support other dapps and Ethereum projects that could benefit from such a service. It includes an Ethereum token called ZRX, which developers building on top of 0x can charge as a transaction fee for their services.

Transactions are completed ‘off chain’ for the most part, meaning that they are settled by smart contracts and only processed on the Ethereum blockchain when it is time for them to be settled. Much like IDEX, this enables 0x to process transactions more quickly than some other decentralised exchanges.

WINGS DAO

WINGS is a ‘DAO’ or ‘decentralised autonomous organisation’ – essentially an organisation that operates according to a set of fixed rules that are hard-coded via a smart contract. It enables other users to create and crowdfund their own DAOs using a set of standardised smart contracts that have been audited.

DAOs proposed on the WINGS system are first evaluated by the crowd to assess the project’s viability and the amount of funds that could be raised by a crowdfunding round – with users required to deposit some of their WINGS tokens to make such a forecast. If enough users agree that the project is viable, the DAO moves to a funding stage, with users who made accurate forecasts rewarded.

Etheroll dapp

Etheroll is a casino that offers users the opportunity to role a set of virtual dice to win ether. Users stake an amount of their choosing and decide what they want their chances of winning to be, from a range of one to 98%. The casino then adjusts the potential reward in line with the amount of risk being taken. A bet of 2 ETH would earn 196 ETH if the odds of winning were 1% and roughly 0.02041 ETH if the odds of winning were 98%.

The casino is powered by a smart contract that is said to be ‘provably fair’ because users can check the smart contract’s code for themselves. Users can also become a part of the Etheroll ‘house’ by buying its token ‘DICE’. This confers the right to any profit the house makes (off the back of a 1% commission it charges users placing bets), although buyers are also liable for losses if the house does not achieve its expected takings.

The future of ether

Ether’s growth over the next few years is likely to be heavily influenced by the rate at which these dapps and others are adopted. For traders, it will be essential to pay attention to how much activity and press surrounds the network, with ether’s price likely to move in response to any major news – for example, a multinational corporation launching a dapp or a network slowdown.

At the moment however, there is still the issue of scalability, or rather a lack thereof, with questions remaining about how the network will be updated to process more than 20 transactions a second in the future. For this reason, many traders will be paying close attention to announcements surrounding planned Ethereum forks – protocol changes that must be approved by the network – as these could take steps towards meeting the scalability challenge, and help drive mainstream and enterprise adoption of blockchain dapps. Learn more about how to trade on ether.

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