Give me widower Mav who has come to terms with his husband’s death and now gets to make jokes and comments about it which makes people uncomfortable while he finds it hilarious pls
As someone who lost their father a long time ago I have reached that point where I can make jokes and comments and like to my close friends it’s funny but to someone I don’t know it’s… strange cause they don’t know how to react and it’s truly a small moment of absolute joy cause they make it weirder than it needs to be
Here is what I mean:
Fanboy: Hi Mav! I like your hoodie!
Mav: thanks, it belonged to my dead husband
Fanboy:
Mav: he’s not gonna use it so
…
Hangman, pointing at the ring on Mav’s dog tags: you’re married?
Mav: I was, but sadly he died on a terrible accident
Hangman: oh I’m sorry—
Mav: I’m kidding, he didn’t die on an accident
Hangman: oh thank god I thought I—
Mav: he died of cancer
…
Mav: my husband used to hate this movie
Phoenix: what made him change his mind?
Mav: oh he didn’t, he just died
…
Mav: I miss my husband
Coyote: why, where is he?
Mav: I want to say heaven but he was a weird man so honestly I don’t know
…
Cyclone: Maverick where is the paperwork I asked for
Mav: oh I’m sorry? I was mourning the death of my husband, in case you hadn’t noticed, the audacity, I cannot believe you would come for a widower like this—
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The little group of citizens looked at the jack-in-a-box with no little apprehension. They were safely huddled up together on the other side of the room, but the box was shaking and groaning. It wouldn’t hold much longer. They all knew that Villain was inside, but their abilities were... unclear. No one wanted to know more. They nervously glanced at the Hero who'd brought them all together.
"What are we doing here ?" someone asked.
Hero gave them all a kind, reassuring smile.
"You know, there's something I believe deeply", she said, her hand on her heart. "I think all of us are heroes inside."
"What does that mean ?"
Hero kept smiling while putting her hand on the door knob:
"That means, dear citizens...that I'm sure you can deal with Villain all by yourselves ! It will be good for you ! Byyyyye !"
The door closed on her, leaving the citizens frozen with surprise. A key turned into the lock. For a moment, all they could hear was her running away.
“It’ll be all right”, said someone to break the terrified silence.
“Really ? How can you tell ?”
“Well, you've heard her ! We’re all heroes, aren’t we ?”
“No we’re bloody not !” yelped the other one. “I am an accountant, and you work at the post office ! It’s not a hero we need, it’s a locksmith ! Is there one in the room ?”
“Yeah”, said a middle-aged woman, “but I don’t have my tools.”
“Then improvise something, lady ! We’re running out of time !”
The locksmith scratched her head and knelt in front of the lock.
“Does someone have a hairpin or a paper clip ?”
“Yes,” answered a nurse who was on her coffee break, “take it”.
“See ?” asked the accountant. “That’s what real heroes look like to me. Doing the real work for us so we can run the hell out of here.”
“It can’t be that bad,” insisted the postman stubbornly. “A real hero wouldn’t have put us in danger. The box is locked, after all. Maybe it's a test. Maybe she went out to find help.”
“For what, burying our bodies ?”
The box exploded. Confetti flied across the room. Slowly, Villain raised from their former trap.
“Muahaha”, they said in a polite effort to keep the conversation alive.
It didn’t quite work, so they added:
“Beware mortals, for I take the shape of your greatest fear !”
“Calm down,” barked the accountant. “We don’t have the key either. We can’t free -”
He stopped, as he suddenly realized that admitting to the villain that they couldn’t run away was probably not the best idea. Meanwhile, the nurse gasped, having made a realization of her own:
“That’s why we’re a group ! You can’t be the fears of everyone at once!”
“True, but I can take the shape of universal fears. It’s your choice, really.”
To prove their abilities, the Villain shaped themself into an abyss of absolute darkness, the grim reaper, and a very expensive medical bill.
“Aaaaah”, howled the whole group, convinced.
The locksmith, who was in tears after seeing the bill, whispered:
“We have no choice. Someone has to face their fears. It’s the only way to win alive.”
“All right, but who goes first ?”
The postman went first. He tried hard. He tried really hard at every step. “After all, we’re all heroes”, he repeated to himself, until Villain transformed into the brother who raised him saying “I’m disappointed in you.”
He collapsed.
The accountant went second. It is a known fact that most accountants are full of repressed rage. This one was very eager to share it with Villain and, if he may be quoted, “to punch their fucking guts out”. He ran and nearly landed a hit, but Villain dodged and showed him his own body with his insides out, in a sea of blood.
He collapsed.
When the nurse went, she was rather sure of herself. She had a fear of blood but with her job she had it under control. Then the Villain showed her all her patients dying, and she realized she couldn’t erase this fear or that would have made her a monster.
So she collapsed.
Villain stepped towards the locksmith, who during all that time was desperately trying to open the door. It wasn’t that the lock was hard, but her fingers were shaking too much, tears blinded her, and she was huddled in a corner, crying her eyes out.
Villain frowned. They transformed again – and again, and again. They screamed in frustration, then in terror. That didn’t help them.
They exploded.
When all the group regained their consciousness, they demanded an explanation. The locksmith squeaked:
“I didn’t know ! Of course I didn’t know ! But...when I think about it...that makes sense.”
“What makes sense ?”
“I think...I forced them to take too many forms at the same time, and at the end they couldn’t cope.”
“How did you do that ?”
“Oh”, said the nurse, who nodded.
“What ? It’s some kind of special ability ?”
“It depends from the point of view, I suppose.”
“Well, what is it called ?”
“Generalized anxiety.”
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