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🤎 Context/AU (Alternate Universe): Modern AU- You and Sevika are coworkers turned best friends at her mechanic shop. She's having a little trouble telling you...something. She uses her Secret Santa gift to you to tell you.
🤎 soft!mechanic!Sevika x bubbly!mechanic!reader
🤎 CW/TW: lesbians being lesbians, Sevika is Sevika but you make her feel things...she's not sure what to make of that, blossoming relationship, pining, christmas, santa, fluff, pet names, first kiss, mistletoe, suggestive talk (you gotta close your eyes though), no use of y/n, not proofread
🤎 A/N: I know I should be writing part 2 to 'Our Love' but this idea (and Sevika period) is giving me serious brain rot. Enjoy my probably ooc ass version of Sev. This sucks ass, butttt I'll make up for it with a better post later, I promise!!
🤎 Notes: most times, I will be explicitly writing a black reader. this is not one of those times. this is a fully ambiguous reader save for the gender- female. I'm a firm believer in the beauty of Sevika's scars so to keep them in this we'll say she's a surviving burn victim.
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🤎 You were one of the first people to apply for work when Sev first opened her shop
🤎 It was basically run by the two of you the way you became quick friends
🤎 You had come in, already dressed in a worker's jumper, the top half off and wrapped around your waist with a black cami on
🤎 If it weren't for how you were dressed, she wouldn't have even realized you were here about the job posting because she was too busy focusing on how pretty she thought you were
🤎 You started the same day
🤎 It wasn't like you two didn't notice each other, but you both put into your heads that it would be unwise for you to let your attraction go anywhere due to you guys basically running a business together
🤎 So every time you caught yourself drooling over Sev as she worked under the hood of a car, muscles rippling, grease covering her in smudges here and there....whew boy, let's just say you take a lot of....water breaks
🤎 She's no better either
🤎 The way her eyes follow your curves every time you bend over to pick something up
🤎 She stares at your lips whenever the two of you are talking, be it inside or outside of work
🤎 Speaking of which, you guys hang out- a lot
🤎 Within the first month of you working for her, she had already invited you over for dinner- as a friend
🤎 Once you guys become besties, you're over her place more than your own
🤎 You two will talk about any and everything together
🤎 At some point you call yourself trying to ignore your raging crush on your best friend and get a girlfriend
🤎 It ends in you being cheated on serially
🤎 You go to cry at Sev's the night of the breakup
🤎 This is the first time....something happens between you two
🤎 You're both drunk of your asses, you moreso than her
🤎 She's watching you intently as you curse out your ex and ramble on about all the things she wasn't meeting the bare minimum with
🤎 It's not until you've been silent for a while, lips no longer moving, that Sevika looks back up to your eyes, the two of you now dangerously close to one another
🤎 "What's wrong? I was listening I swear," she starts to defend herself
🤎 Your pupils are blown, your eyes glassy and your face flushed- whether from the alcohol, your proximity to Sevika, or a combination of both, you were too inebriated to tell
🤎 You reached up, fingers just barely grazing her jaw as you spoke
🤎 "Your face is so....you're beautiful..." you slurred, fingers ghosting over the scars that were etched into the lower left side of her face, trailing down her neck and disappearing underneath the collar of her t-shirt.
🤎 Her ears burned red hot as she just let you talk
🤎 You continued to slur on, but she chalked it all up to you being drunk until you said some words that made her heart beat faster in her chest
🤎 "'M not....s'posed to....I think....I like you...." you whispered as you leaned against her chest
🤎 Had you been a little more sober, you would've noticed the way her heart started to beat out of her chest at your words.
🤎 Actually, had you been a little more sober...you wouldn't have said that, but shhhh....
🤎 You were out like a light afterward
🤎 It wasn't until that night that Sevika started to get worse with hiding her feelings for you
🤎 She was taking you on more...friend dates
🤎 Buying you flowers because she knew you liked them and "I know you don't have anyone to get them for you right now, so..."
🤎 If you have a hobby like reading or maybe art, she's buying you new sketchbooks and supplies or she's getting you the newest editions of your favorites- all signed because hello??? she's that type of bitch fr
🤎 She gets you guys matching bracelets for your birthday after 2 years of friendship- yes, it's been that long now
🤎 Then comes Christmastime
🤎 You talked her a long time ago into doing Secret Santa with the peeps at the shop
🤎 She doesn't really see the hype, not having much experience with Christmas and it's traditions given her rocky relationship with her father, but she does it (only for you though)
🤎 This is the second annual Secret Santa for the shop
🤎 Just your luck, you don't end up getting Sevika like you wanted
🤎 That's okay though because Sevika got you
🤎 And you know she got you because of how much she's suddenly stressing the secret part of Secret Santa
🤎 Last year, she told you who she had gotten immediately, the two of you picking out your gifts for your respective people together and everything
🤎 Not this year
🤎 This year she doesn't tell anyone, not you, not anybody in the shop- and you know it, you asked around about it
🤎 She racking her brain trying to decide what to get you
🤎 Doesn't help that you're starting to render her useless
🤎 You're catching her spacing out while staring at you more often
🤎 She gets this fuzzy feeling and this misty look in her eyes whenever you're around
🤎 You kinda have an idea that she likes you back, you play into it
🤎 6 months ago, you had started returning her actions- buying her little gifts, making her lunch everyday because she'd forgotten one so many times that now she 'doesn't even have to worry about it', you plan a few friend dates yourself, you cuddle up to her more often whenever you two have your annual movie nights every week
🤎 It's all making her think maybe you know, but...last she checked you kinda liked someone
🤎 You hadn't told her who, even though you knew it was her, but in her mind she was competing with whoever this mystery crush was
🤎 She just wants you to look at her the way she looks at you
🤎 Back to Secret Santa though
🤎 The Christmas party is fast approaching and you still have no clue what the hell you're gonna do to figure out what Sevika's gotten you since you know she's your Santa this year
🤎 You've tried begging, bribing, snooping, everything at this point
🤎 She's keeping her lips locked tighter than a chastity belt at this point
🤎 The party is being hosted at Sevika's penthouse this year
🤎 You aren't allowed to help set up
🤎 You are not happy about that fact
🤎 "Relax, sweets...can't have you snooping in the gifts while we put them under the tree. You might accidentally see whatever your Santa got for you," she teased, running her finger playfully down your cheek
🤎 It was a trick. Your gift is in fact not under the tree
🤎 You decide to play her at her own game
🤎 If she wants to flirt and do all of this stuff for you, you'll do a little something for her as well
🤎 Everybody knows Sevika's got a thing for your body
🤎 You two are best friends
🤎 Best friends.
🤎 You know...those best friends that share a bed like they're a married couple
🤎 The touchy ones that make people question if they're actually secretly in a relationship
🤎 She's never shy about grabbing or smacking your ass- I mean you aren't shy about doing the same to her so it's fair
🤎 The two of you will regularly poke each other’s breasts in passing
🤎 Whenever she’s driving you to you guys’ “friend dates”, she has to hold your thigh- will 100% make up some lie that it’s for your safety (“How does you caressing my thigh make me safer, Sev?” “You’re asking too many questions here, sweets. Do you want me to move it?” “.....no.” “Then let’s ride.”)
🤎 So, with all of that known, you decided to show off said body for the party tonight
🤎 You wore a form fitting dress that was advertised as a sexy Mrs. Claus dress
🤎 The soft fabric clung to your body like it was practically painted on, the cute little fur trimmings not helping cover the fact that the hem stopped right at your mid-thigh
🤎 The spaghetti straps and plunging neckline were hidden underneath your dramatic (faux) fur coat
🤎 You topped it all off with a Santa hat and your matching bracelet Sev had gotten you
🤎 Needless to say she wanted nothing more than to see what you had on under that coat when you were the last to arrive to party- a detail you made sure you kept since she refused to let you come over to help with set up for the party
🤎 Her jaw actually dropped when you finally did take your coat off
🤎 You teasingly closed her mouth, smirking almost knowingly at her, “You’ll catch flies, hotshot.”
🤎 She’s flustered all night
🤎 Not only because you seem to be genuinely flirting with her, but because she knows what she has in store for you
Sevika was a bundle of nerves every time you looked up to catch her staring at you. You were drinking a glass of champagne, talking to...someone...she didn’t know, she was too busy looking at you to figure out which of her employees you were fraternizing with at the moment.
The time to exchange gifts couldn’t come any sooner for her.
She had been trying to work up the courage to just tell you that she’s in love with you for weeks now, and you with your games weren’t making it any easier.
You’d take all her gifts with such a grateful smile, throwing your arms around her neck, pressing a kiss to her cheek, but then the very next day you were talking about your mystery crush again.
You hadn’t said anything to the effect that you didn’t like all the advances she had been making, so she knew you at least felt...something for her...but she needed you to know exactly what she felt for you.
You looked up to catch her looking at you again, throwing her a bright smile before you excused yourself from conversation with Danny and his girlfriend who’s name you forgot the second he’d introduced her, moving across the living room to go talk to her, “Hey you.”
Boy if you could feel the way her heart was pumping and how sweaty her hands were the second you walked up.
It took her a few moments- which you noticed- to find her voice, but she managed to smile back at you, “Hey yourself, Ms. Social butterfly. You’ve talked to everyone already.”
You gave a soft shrug, “I mean, it’s not that hard to talk to them, I do work with them all, save for the people who brought their partners. Besides, I haven’t talked to you yet, hence why I’m over here.”
“Hm, true, true....How come you didn’t bring your little secret crush? Not serious enough for that yet?”
If only you know, huh?
You gave a half-hearted shrug, “It’s...complicated.”
“I see. W-” before she could continue, the alarm on her watch went off, signaling that it was time to exchange gifts.
Seeing as she was hosting this year (you had hosted last year), she was in charge of pulling every gift from under the tree and giving them to whoever’s name was on them, that person then trying to guess who bought their gift.
You didn’t get anything.
There’s no way you couldn’t have been chosen. And no one else had gotten their gift from Sevika.
With everyone else focused on their gifts, she pulled you aside into the kitchen, once again fdgety and nervous, “So...”
“So?”
“About your gift....before I....before I give it to you...I have to say a couple of things....”
“Yeah?”
She looked at you for a few moments, you could see her contemplating in her mind what she wanted to say.
She had spent hours in her mirror rehearsing this moment, yet now that it was here, she couldn’t remember a single word she had wanted to say to you.
She blinked as your hand came up to cup her cheek, “Huh?”
You gave a soft chuckle, stroking your thumb over her skin, “I said what’s wrong? You’ve been acting all weird with me all night. You’re nervous. Just tell me, babes, you know I’ll love whatever it is, especially if it’s from you.”
That did not help her calm down.
She closed her eyes and took a deep breath before looking back to you again, “Okay, so...I know that we’ve been really good friends for....a while now....but lately I’ve been thinking and....I....I like you...you’re nice...and you’ve managed to make 2 years feel more like 20...so...what I’m trying to say is that I....I’m-”
Your lips pressing to her cheek in a fleeting kiss cut her off as she stared at you baffled, sputtering.
You giggled again when she couldn’t come up with something to say, pointing above her head, “Sorry, couldn’t help myself.”
She looked up to find herself standing underneath a sprig of mistletoe. Her cheeks flamed red as she looked away, pulling a small box out of the pocket of her slacks, “Here.”
You eyed her for a few seconds before opening the box, gasping softly at the necklace inside.
You knew that necklace anywhere.
She told you about it the first time you slept over at her place.
She had drawn up the design years ago, saying she was going to get it made when she fell in love with a girl.
You were not emotionally prepared for more than a n ‘i like you’ tonight.
Neither was your makeup when you started crying.
She looked up worriedly, “You don’t like it....” she mumbled under her breath, sounding so unbelievably hurt.
“No, Sev....I love it.....I love you.....”
“You do?”
You chuckled through your tears, “Yes, you idiot. Who’d you think my secret crush was? I thought you would’ve gotten it when I said ‘she brought me flowers yesterday’, but instead you brought me an even bigger bouquet the next day as if you weren’t the only person that had gotten me flowers.”
She rolled her eyes, “Look, I just knew that I really, really liked you, and if I had to compete with someone else to show you how I felt, so be it.”
“You’re cute.”
“And you look like a drowned rat, stop crying sweets and let me put the damned thing on for you.”
You rolled your eyes, turning around anyway as she took the dainty necklace to clasp it around your neck. You punched her in the shoulder, “That’s for saying I look like a drowned rat.”
She took the jab in stride, pulling you closer to her as she lifted your chin with her other hand, “You’re the prettiest little drowned rat I’ve ever seen...”
You bit your lip, looking away, “You’re gay.”
“As are you, your point?”
“My poi-”
“Look at me when you talk, sweets.”
She knew what the fuck she was doing.
Even still, you brought your eyes back to hers, your voice soft as you whispered breathily, “I love you...”
“I love you too....”
“So....”
“So?”
“What now?”
She looked back up to the mistletoe above her head, pulling you forward so that it was over you now, “I show you how to actually kiss under the mistletoe.”
Kissing Sevika was instantly your new favorite thing.
She tastes like bourbon and cigar smoke with a hint of cinnamon.
Her hands went straight to your hips, pulling you flush against her, her lips were surprisingly really soft- you had yourself to thank for that for helping her “discover” lip balm- sucking you in and drawing all the air from your lungs.
You had a giddy almost drunken smile as she smirked down at you, “I think that may be my new favorite tradition.”
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Is Holly still strong even though they are not physically capable of doing much? Like can they crack stone on accident or something breaks in their hand even though it wouldn't break normally?
The infection wounds have left them severely weakened, so no, they're nowhere near as physically strong as they used to. On top of that, their ability to focus soul was also affected, they can heal minor wounds but they wouldn't be able to grow back their arm or fix the lasting damage. I think describing what exactly that looks like could be interesting.
I mentioned the arm so I'll start with that. The missing arm has affected their sense of balance, and while the prosthetic arm helps a bit, they'd still struggle with wielding their nail, and can sometimes appear a bit "wobbly". Their large head, while surprisingly light for its size, makes it even more problematic - it very clearly weighs them down, which is why they look so hunched over; if they take off their prosthesis, they'll often lose balance and trip when standing up, not used to the sudden lack of weight.
In similar vein, their hands are very shaky, indicating some nerve damage to their body. Makes sense, seeing how it was ravaged by the infection to the point of seeping through the cracks. They were able to mostly recover, but some of the damage was permanent. Anxiety makes it even worse, to the point where if they're stressed out, they find it incredibly difficult to hold anything in their hands - even the prosthetic arm, though it's worth mentioning that it's generally a bit more stable than the other.
Their vision is also impaired, their right eye is missing, which means that their depth perception has suffered, and in general they see in washed out colors. Not completely color blind, mind you, and it's still possible that they saw the world like that before due to their void nature, but the infection would certainly make it even worse. They can distinguish between color, but they struggle with more subtle changes in shade or hue - for that reason they prefer to draw in monochrome with pencils or charcoal, though they'll occasionally color their drawings with dyes (or just crayons I suppose, pencils exist in the AU so I don't see why crayons wouldn't). Sometimes they mismatch colors, for example, making the sky a mint green instead of cyan (random thought, but since they presumably live on a different planet, perhaps their sky is in fact a different color due to the atmosphere?). The previously mentioned trembling hands make it a bit difficult, so their drawings have shaky lines, but they don't let that discourage them - besides, it has its charm, as Grimm would tell them, since next to FPK he was one of the main voices encouraging them to pick up drawing as a form of expression.
When it comes to physical strength, they're still what you'd consider pretty strong compared to an average bug. They wouldn't just trip and fall if you slightly pushed them, for example, and they can carry quite a lot of weight. It's very possible that the damage to their body, particularly the nerves, would make it somewhat difficult for them to realize they're perhaps grasping something too tightly, so they could break something fragile without meaning to. But it's a far cry from their physical strength from before the sealing, where they could crack stone and even break bones easily with just their hands. They're strong, but far weaker than before, especially with their disabilities. In some ways, they don't even mind it - they don't really need all that strength, and the last thing they'd want is to scare or intimidate others. It can't be denied that they struggle with their impairments, but with their family there to support them, they don't really complain. They've been through much worse, after all.
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Baby Fever| Gareth Emerson x Fem!Reader |
SUMMARY: Gareth offers to help you babysit and then you realize something. Gareth would make a pretty good Dad.
(note this takes place 2 years after graduation so reader and Gare are 21)
Gareth wasn't sure exactly what he'd gotten himself into. Choosing to help babysit your little brother was a in the moment response. Something he had a bad habit with was telling people — Yes.
Sure he had his own siblings, two girls, but from the horror stories he could only imagine what kind of trouble your brother would cook up. With both of you choosing to stay in Hawkins, until getting accepted into HU - it was only fair that he offered to help. He'd gotten himself into this mess and there was no getting out of it.
Gareth pulled into the driveway his brakes screeching - old and needing to be replaced. Shifting the gear to park and cutting the engine, climbing out with a huff. The neighbors greeting him as he approached the patio. The garden was always so neatly trimmed, rose bushes in full bloom. Grass was much greener on this side of Hawkins and while Gareth lived in the nicer part of town, you were a high class lady, and it shocked him still how he got so lucky with you.
Upon approaching he could hear screaming, more on the border of shrill whining. Awfully loud too. Were you under attack? - No, surely not. Despite the commotion he knocks on the door. Stepping back after to wait, stuffing his hands in the front pockets of his jeans, his shoulders laid back.
"One minute!"
Stumbling over discarded toys, spilt juice, and cheerios - previously served in a bowl, now scattered over the one sparkling floor you reach the door. Looking back over the mess which you'd definitely have to clean that up later. Turning the deadbolt and reaching to unhook the top look you pull the door open. Complete relief washed over you at the familiar blue orbs, freckles, and red flannel.
"Gareth, you made it." You sighed. Gareth returns your greeting with a toothy smile. God, the man was so endlessly beautiful and cute. He was like a golden retriever, always able to be happy around him, it was practically impossible to be unhappy with someone like Gareth around.
"Yeah - You mind if I come in?" He asks arm gesturing past you and he smiles ad the eager nod returned. Stepping aside you allow him to enter, apologizing for the mess, when a scream rocks through the house.
"Sorry, he's been -"
"Misbehaving?" Gareth offers and you nod lacing your fingers with his own.
"Okay, baby, I'll try. Not to sure he'll be as convincible as Hannah and Holly, but we'll see." You sighed in exasperation. Gareth leans down arms stretching to envelop you in a full hug. He was literally the best and always so willing to help. You were going to owe him big time later that much was obvious. Reaching up to fist handfuls of his shirt between your fingers as he embraced you. The delightful scent of cinnamon and honey filled your senses. He always smelled so - sweet.
You could eat him up, breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
When he entered the kitchen your brother was still sat in his high chair, face contorted in anger at your poor attempt to feed him, and nose dripping with snot. "Hey." Gareth cooed stooping down to the child's level. Your brother let out a gargled sob no doubt congested from all the crying.
"Hung-gee." Your brother whined eyes glassy and red.
"I know little guy." Gareth was gentle, patient, much more than you had been. "Why don't you help me and your sister out. Can you tell me what you want?" He sniffled but nodded. You stood in the doorway watching as Gareth went head to head with him.
"Noodles!" He whines reaching out towards Gareth. After a little more sleuthing you figured out he wanted macaroni and all thanks to Gareth. However, it warmed your heart to see him interact in such a way with children, gentle, calculating and forgiving.
When you put him down for a nap he went down easily and all because Gareth had promised him more playtime. With a sigh you join him on the couch crawling into his lap, "He asleep?"
You nodded and leaned up to kiss him on the cheek a pleased hum leaving his lips. "Baby, you know you looked so cute with him today." You mentioned and Gareth chuckled.
"Oh yeah?" You nodded and he smiles. "Guess we are gonna have to make one of those soon." He offers and you blush at the mention. He'd be the perfect father and you'd trust nobody more.
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okay i'll say it again. i'm personally not a very big fan of the theory that Alice Creel and Karen Wheeler are the same person from a personal perspective. However, looking at the show, i think at this point we should consider it as more of an option because aside from the multiple weird instances about it. i think the most notable is that it's one of the most solid explanations for what Nancy saw in her vision.
Vecna specifically threatening Karen, Holly, and Mike. leaving Ted out. is funny to us from an audience perspective because it allows for the assumption that Nancy just doesn't give enough of a shit about Ted for Vecna to use his death as something shocking.
but this makes very little sense in universe and with the way it was shot:
While Nancy is never shown to be close to Ted it's also clear she doesn't hate him. they're very ambivalent to each other, we rarely even see them in the same scenes. from a character perspective, jumping from this to Nancy not caring if something happened to him is very inconsistent character writing. most people would care if someone in their lives died even if they weren't personally very close. for Nancy to really not care if he died they would require a more negatively afflicted relationship. which they don't have.
the moment is also not played like a joke. the entirety of Nancy's vision serves as foreshadowing to the end of s4 and s5. it's all taken very seriously both by the characters and the audience. Nancy leaving Ted out of her vision is subtle and something we only talk about in hindsight because it's weird Vecna left only him out. causing jokes like "even Vecna says fuck Ted Wheeler" to spring up as an explanation. but the scene isn't shot like a joke and the exclusion of him falls flat. it was just subtle enough to be there and pass by ga's prime focus since no character drew attention to it, or asked afterwards "what about your dad?" "what about my dad?" which would have made it an actual joke and given pay off to this weird list. but none of this happens. Ted is just Missing from the vision and we're moving on. it's not played like something funny to notice, Nancy is crying and everyone is serious.
so. why IS Ted missing from the vision? summing up what we know:
it does not come across like a joke at all. without drawing attention to it the GA misses it, causing the joke to not work. and even more attentive audiences who pick up on it, recognize it's not really a funny haha joke. and while we can try and turn it into something jokey and say it's because Ted is stupid and nobody likes him, that explanation makes much less sense for the characters themselves. Nancy and Ted don't have a bad enough relationship as far as we're shown to justify Nancy suddenly not caring if he died. he's still a person she sees every day, even without a parental bond she would at least have an opinion on him dying.
so if this dialogue doesn't serve the purpose of character development/ exposition or comedy, why is it there?
well like the rest of the vision, it's part of the points that pretty straightforwardly tell us what will happen next season. s5 will have a creature with a gaping mouth, monsters all over Hawkins, and the Wheeler family minus Ted in danger.
Mike being in danger here makes sense since he's already hinted at being a central character in s5. both from a "return to s1" perspective, because of the "love triangle" plot and painting plot that include him, AND the fact that him and Will had a whole scene dedicated to planning Vecna's death as a conclusion to the season. Mike and his relationship with Will and the overall story are being highlighted so him subsequently being in danger because of that is a given. (there's also the whole argument to be made of Mike getting targeted Specifically because of Will as a bargaining tool) still, why Holly and Karen would have that same target on their back is a little bit more unclear as of now.
but the Real question is why Vecna doesn't include Ted when he already lists the whole Wheeler family by name. naming three people and then being too lazy for a fourth is... pointed. again i've made it clear i do believe Nancy would be sad if Ted died. there's also the opposite question to be raised: why does Vecna go to Nancy and show her Karen, Holly, and Mike specifically? there's other people Nancy is close to, arguably even closer with than with Mike for example since the two of them Also have a very minimal bond. Vecna showing her Jonathan dead, or any of the kids, Steve, even Robin by this point. it would hurt her just as bad. if not worse. because Nancy is Not a family oriented character. she doesn't value her family over her friends, the whole blood is thicker than water is bullshit to her and her characterization shows that, she's actively afraid of repeating the suburban nuclear family life her mother chose. Nancy is NOT more scared of her family dying than she is of her friends dying.
so this raises even More questions now as if the one we have isn't out there enough already. into the question pile it goes:
why does Vecna only show her her family and no one else when it would arguably be equally as shocking for her, if not more so in some cases? why is only Ted missing? and honestly why does Vecna even show Nancy the vision? (there were 7 people present so it was a 1/7 chance it would be her. why didn't he go for Steve standing right next to her? he had to pick one of them but given he had 7 options and seemingly no bias towards any of them we can question this choice.)
as of now we can't answer any of these questions, we'll need more insight from s5 to understand what Vecna is trying to get at here. however, this is where the theory comes back in because as of now it's one of the only things that actually Could explain it.
if Karen was actually Alice Creel and somehow survived that night. (there's a Lot to say about this but this i'll get into it on another post) it would mean Henry's attempt at familicide went even worse than originally thought. not only did his father survive but his sister would have lived as well and even gone on to have a family of her own after the fact. Victor tells us that he fears the "demon" will return, kill him for good, even Vecna himself tells Nancy he's interested in paying Victor a visit soon, so by that we can assume Henry is finishing his sloppy family murder that really only killed his mom next season. (and in all honesty, i don't see Victor surviving it, he's got death flags all over him)
but this presents a new possibility. Alice, now having children of her own, means that Henry's original family he wanted to kill is now extended by a nephew and two nieces he didn't have before. which raises the question: why wouldn't he want them dead too? Henry's murders were never about the people he Lived with, it was targeted at his family specifically - it was about the ideals he hated so much and what their superficially perfect happy nuclear family embodied despite being "bad people" on the inside, according to Henry's perception.
so when Henry finally goes back on what he announced to Nancy and kills his family for real next time, who would he classify as family? just Victor and Alice? or Alice's children who are his blood relatives as well?
because "Mom, and Holly... Mike" would be the exact list of Henry's living relatives according to this theory. minus of course Victor (locked in Pennhurst) and Nancy herself (the one receiving the threat).
and this would also finally give us an explanation of why Ted wasn't included in the vision. being a random well-earning man Karen married years ago he has no blood relation to the Creel family and therefore no significant role in a potential familicide. giving us the explanation that it's not Nancy who doesn't care about him dying but actually Vecna, since he would really just be a Random Guy to him.
this theory would all in all go to explain why:
the 1/7 chance of having the vision fell on Nancy.
Vecna then went out of his way to give her his whole tragic backstory in an immersive dia show instead of us seeing it through El's NINA memories
AND why Ted Wheeler is weirdly missing from the threats known family killer Henry Creel makes.
again, i'm personally not a die hard believer of this theory myself, but at this point there's a lot that would make infinitely more sense when placed with the backdrop of this theory. for this scene alone it's the only solid explanation as of now to really give us a reason as to what could be going on here. of course we're still missing the facts s5 will give us but with what we're working with right now? this theory is actually a lot less crack-y than i initially believed.
(ngl i was pretty anti this theory at first. again, not the biggest fan of the "and they're related" trope in general so it's not my full jam. but I have to consider it at this point because there's just so much in canon hinting at it. it'll either actually be what canon goes for or it's supposed to be a deliberate audience misguide and fakeout to leave people guessing for s5 because there's Too Much going on here. this scene is just the tip of the iceberg too, i'm genuinely amazed how much there actually is both in the show as well as narrative wise)
#i wanted to make a silly post on this theory a few days ago and now i kind of ended up in a full google doc i'm still writing#i didn't buy into it At All starting and now i'm looking at scenes like bro are you for real what is THIS???#it's not even just this scene#you can go at it from the angle of looking at the Wheeler family but you can also just look at the Creel massacre flashbacks#whatever the actual canon conclusion to this is. SOMETHING is going on with Alice's death#even if she doesn't end up being Karen Wheeler. there's more to her 100%#because looking at the show. even Henry's retelling of his family murder is off#not only is it shot oddly. it also presents us a completely impossible timeline that contradicts itself within seconds of the event#so even if Alice is just RandomGirlTM s4 wasn't the last we saw of her. Henry himself is Absolutely not a reliable narrator either#i'll make a post on that soon i promise i promise. the blatant timeline fuckery of that night genuinely baffles me tbh#no one has their story straight for that murder incident at this point not even you Henry sorry to tell you#stranger things#stranger things theory#st5 theory#st5#karen wheeler#nancy wheeler#mike wheeler#alice creel#henry creel#byler#(I've seen so many of us in the tag talk about this topic we're all insane)#creel/wheeler theory
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Cinderella
Summary: Bella is an orphaned girl who lives with her stepmother and two stepsisters. At the ball in Fittes, she meets her Prince Charming and falls in love.
Chapter 4
*BELLA'S POV*
I called Arif and told him that I wouldn't be in the store for about a week. He understood and gave me the day off. While I was making breakfast, my stepsisters came home, followed by my stepmother. They screamed terribly. I left the kitchen
-What is it about?-
-Are you asking what's going on?Anthony Lockwood announced that a stranger from the ball had lost something. These two bastards wasted their chance-
-I thought she lost her purse - I looked at Tesse
-If you remember, she didn't have a purse. In my opinion it was a riddle so I answered fish - I burst out laughing at Alexa's words. It didn't take long before I was hit in the face. My laughter stopped
-I tolerated you for too long. Reginald raised you to be an ungrateful wench. But I have a plan. The most eligible bachelor in London will become my son-in-law. And you won't spoil it for me, because there always needs to be a pair - she took out my second glove from her pocket. The same one I wore at the ball
-From where...-
-It's not nice to hide such things from mommy. Girls, lock her in the attic. Let him die of hunger - they dragged me there by force. I begged them to leave me, but it was to no avail. They locked me in the attic and all I could do was curl up under the door and cry.
*LUCY'S POV*
Tomorrow is holiday. I'm decorating the tree, George is cooking, and Lockwood is in Rotwell trying to get Bella's address. I hung some baubles when someone came in. That someone was Lockwood
-At last. I thought I would be left alone to decorate the Christmas tree - I turned to see him leaning against the door frame with a letter in his hand
-What is it? -
- Mrs. Renaldi invites me for tea - I went back to decorating the Christmas tree
-Will you go?-
-I don't know. I really have no intention of hanging out with them-
-Then don't go-
-You do not understand. The Renaldi family was friends with my family. I don't remember them well, but I feel like I owe it to them -
-Okay, but we're going with you. I'm not going to stand Tessa or Alexa as Mrs. Lockwood-
-That won't happen, Luce. My priority is Bella. I want her to be the future Mrs. Lockwood-
-Don't you think it's a little early to propose?You barely know her-
-I'm not saying now, but if we survive, I will ask her to marry me someday-
-It's good to know, but we have a problem - we looked at George - Bella took the day off. Arif won't tell me anything. He says that if it's fate, you will meet -
-So we follow destiny. The three of us are going for tea at Mrs. Renaldi's. Let Holly finish decorating the Christmas tree-
-Holly went to visit her family, remember?- -Kipps?-
-He's halfway home- he sighed and rolled up his shirt sleeves
-We should get ready-
-I'll go back to cooking - when George left, I said
-I do not like it-
-I know it's not that pretty, but better than nothing-
-It's not about the Christmas tree. Renaldi invites you right after Bella disappears. Doesn't that seem suspicious to you? -
-What does Bella have to do with her?-
-I don't know and it pisses me off-
-You're oversensitive. Tea in good company will do you good -
-I'd rather kill them than relax-he just laughed.After an hour the Christmas tree was ready so I went to get ready. I put on my blue dress, did my makeup and went downstairs
-The taxi is here, so we should go now. The faster we go, the sooner we leave this place, Lockwood said and left
-What bit him?-George just shrugged and left. After a moment of silence in the taxi, Lockwood said:
-No rummaging around the house, okay? -He looked at me as he said this
-Of course-in a moment we were at the big house. Lockwood rang the bell and the butler answered the door. Mrs. Renaldi appeared behind him
-Lockwood&co, it's nice to see you. Although I was hoping Mr. Lockwood would come alone-
-I couldn't imagine coming alone. This is my family-
-Naturally. Victor will take care of my coat - after giving the coats to the butler, we followed her. Two leeches were already sitting -You probably know my daughters. I'm sure you'll get along. They have an incredible talent for singing -
-Please don't- when I said that, Lockwood looked at me and I fell silent
-Maybe another time, and now for tea - we sat on the sofa and started drinking tea. There was silence for a moment until Mrs. Renaldi spoke
- I heard you were looking for a mysterious stranger -
-Yes-
-I know my daughters wasted their chance, but the stress got the better of them. Tessa, honey, would you like to show Mr. Lockwood something? - I began to watch her carefully. My jaw dropped when I saw the white satin glove. I knew this was suspicious
-Where did you get it?-
-Don't you remember how you danced all night with me? -I knew he wanted to say something, but I interrupted. Time to snoop around this house
-Can I use the bathroom?- Everyone looked at me
-Up the stairs, first door on the right. Victor will take you-
-There's no need to. I'll find it myself - she gave me a fake smile and I left. Time to search this house. I climbed the stairs, looking around the corridor. All I can say is that they are very rich. I entered the first room. It was a room in which the furniture was covered with white cloth. It looked as if no one had been here for ages. I shed one fabric. There were a lot of photos on the dresser, but the woman in one caught my attention. She looked just like Bella and had the same blue eyes. I heard rustling in the corridor. I quickly put the photo away and left
-What are you doing here?- I turned around and saw Victor
-I...I'm just...looking for a bathroom-
-You're looking for Miss Renaldi,right?-
-Miss Renaldi?-
-Only daughter of Reginald Renaldi. Miss Isabella-
-Isabella?Is Bella short for Isabella?-
-Yes-
-Where is she?- he handed me the key
-The stepmother locked her in the attic. Last door at the end of the hall-
-Thank you - I ran as fast as I could and opened the door.The stairs up were endless. I finally arrived. I inserted the key, praying it would fit. I turned it and opened it. She was standing in the middle of the room -Bella. Oh my god it's really you - I hugged her and then let her go - Lockwood will be delighted -
-Wait, are you Lucy?-
-Yes, come on. Your Prince Charming is downstairs-I saw a smile appear on her face -Anthony is here?-
-Yes, come-
-I have to change clothes. I can't show myself to him like this-
-Oh come on. You look lovely in that apron-
-Please give me a moment Lucy-
-Okay - she changed into a blue dress and we went downstairs - Look who I found - everyone looked at me and Bella. Lockwood stood up when he saw her
-It's you-he walked up to her and placed his hand on her cheek. She snuggled into his hand - it's really you -
-You! You're ruining everything! He was supposed to be mine! - Tessa wanted to throw herself at Bella, but she accidentally tripped over my exposed leg
-Oops- she glared at me
-I suggest we get out of here -George was right. We should get out of here
-But why leave? We are a family now - Bella's stepmother stood up and wanted to hug her, but she just moved away
-You're not my mother. You treated me worse than a maid. You locked me in the attic to starve to death. You're cruel. You just wanted my father's money-
-I wanted the best for you-
-What's best? What do you think is good for me? You separated me from the love of my life. But now I'm not afraid of you. Leave me alone-
-You'll come back here when he dumps you. No one will want an orphan-
-Bella won't set foot here again. You are a cruel person who does not see its advantages. There's nothing for us here-Lockwood grabbed her hand and pulled her towards the exit. We followed him. When we left, Lockwood and Bella stopped. I pulled George towards the taxi
-Let's leave them alone-
*BELLA'S POV*
I stood in front of the house and looked into his eyes
-Bella... -his hand rested on my cheek -I love you so much. Come back to Portland Row with me - I didn't say anything, I just pulled him by the tie into a kiss. We stood there until we ran out of air. He rested his forehead against mine
-I love you too, my prince charming. With all my heart-
*5 YEARS LATER*
-London's most sought-after bachelor has officially disappeared from the market. Anthony Lockwood and the beautiful Isabella Renaldi had a fairy-tale wedding surrounded by family and friends. Let's wish the bride and groom all the best on their new path in life - I finished reading and looked at my friends and my new husband
-I'm out of market?-
-Let me remind you that it was you who knelt before me-
-I'm only joking, darling- he took my hand and kissed it
-You make me feel sick-
-You can't complain about them, Holly. We have our own fairy tale. Beautiful Princess Belle saved from the clutches of her mean stepmother and her two wicked daughters by the brave Prince Charming -
-Lucy?Don't you have better things to do?-
-You gave everyone the day off, remember?-
-I can change it soon. No more time off. To work - with a groan, everyone gathered and left. We were left alone in the kitchen
-You know what?Working the day after your own wedding?-
-They wouldn't have left otherwise, and I really wanted to do it - he kissed me hard. When we ran out of air, we broke apart
-I love you Isabella Lockwood-
-I love you too, Anthony Lockwood - we smiled at each other and everyone lived happily ever after.
THE END
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I wish you all a Merry Christmas🎄~Bella
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It's time to address the elephant in the room.
A lot of people have asked over the years; "You like Holli, but you don't like the movie she's from. What about Thumbelina? What do you think about her movie?"
And the truth is... while I definitely like Thumbelina better than Cool World... I'm not a big fan of that one either.
It's fine. I'm pretty neutral on 95% of it. But I also think it's an extremely difficult fairytale to make an hour and a half long movie out of, so what Don Bluth did manage to do with it, I think is pretty impressive.
HOWEVER... there is ONE THING in that movie that will forever have a place in my heart. It's a moment, and a song, that will make me cry within 30 seconds;
When Cornelius comes back and Lina realizes he's alive.
I can't NOT tear up at that, it's impossible, it can't be done. It also helps that I absolutely LOVE the song "Let Me Be Your Wings".
A lot of people compare that song to "A Whole New World" from Aladdin and it's not hard to see why; Boy takes sheltered girl away from her home to show her the big, amazing and slightly scary world outside, promising her adventure and love.
And flying of course. Flying is definitely a key ingredient in both.
However, I 100% prefer LMBYW to AWNW. Why? Well, for one I just simply like the music better, so there's some basic bias there. But I also personally think that LMBYW sounds like wedding vows. You could argue that AWNW could be wedding vows too, but there's something about LMBYW that sounds more romantic to me.
The lyrics sound like a vow to protect and love the other.
Let me be your wings
Let me lift you up high above
Everything we're dreaming of will soon be ours
Anything that you desire, anything at all
Every day I'll take you higher
And I'll never let you fall
THIS is a promise of not just love and adventure, but also protection:
If you choose to love and trust me, I will never let you down and I'll do everything in my power to give you anything you want. AWNW is a promise of love and adventure, but not protection. Not in the same way at least.
This is not my attempt at convincing anyone to prefer one song over the other, I'm just explaining why I prefer this one and why the movie Thumbelina will forever have a place in my heart because of that song. Without it... I would probably have forgotten this movie years ago.
I also really do like the Danish translation of it.
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Mid-Year Book Freak Out 2023
I was tagged by @bookcub and @the-forest-library. Thank you!
1. Best book you’ve read so far this year
Little Thieves by Margaret Owen! It's a retelling of "The Goose Girl" and it was absolutely amazing!
2. Best sequel you’ve read so far this year
The Stolen Heir by Holly Black. It was a great follow-up to The Folk of the Air trilogy, and I can't wait for the next book!
3. New release you haven’t read yet
Painted Devils by Margaret Owen, which is the sequel to Little Thieves. It's on my birthday list with multiple stars next to it so my mom knows I really, REALLY want it.
4. Most anticipated release for the second half of the year
I don't have one. Or at least, I can't think of any.
5. Biggest disappointment
So Happy For You by Celia Laskey. Not because it was bad (which it was--I knew that going into it though) but because the author spent the whole book showing that friendships don't have to (and sometimes shouldn't) last forever only to renege on it at the very end and have the narrator forgive the absolute psycho friend who tried to MURDER HER!
6. Biggest surprise
Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall. I'm generally not super into romance, but I requested from NetGalley on a whim because the cover was pretty and it sounded fun. I ended up giving it 5 stars! I loved the narrative voice and the world Hall created.
7. Favorite new author (debut or new to you)
Katie Lumsden, who is Books and Things over on YouTube. Her debut novel, The Secrets of Hartwood Hall, came out in February and I loved it.
8. Newest fictional crush/newest favorite character
I'd say it's a tie between Vanja from Little Thieves and Cigarette from Under Two Flags by Ouida. Both are absolutely awesome.
9. Book that made you cry
There hasn't been one so far. I think I'm kind of unconsciously avoiding anything that would make me cry.
10. Book that made you happy
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett. It was my first read of the year and was just the perfect book for me. I couldn't stop smiling while reading it.
11. Favorite Adaptation
In a completely unshocking turn of events, Little Thieves. 😆 (I'm counting fairy tale retellings as adaptations here; if we're talking film adaptations, I don't think I've watched any yet. Or if I did they were bad and I've stricken them from my memory.)
12. Prettiest Cover
The UK edition of The Secrets of Hartwood Hall. I waited an extra month to read the book because I needed that edition. It has gorgeous end papers!
13. A book you need to read before the end of the year
Way too many haha. For the sake of brevity, I'll limit myself to three that are for school. Princess Napraxine by Ouida, Aurora Floyd by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and The Athelings by Margaret Oliphant.
I'm not sure who has done this already, but I'll tag @dauen, @lettersfromthelighthouse, and @appleinducedsleep (no pressure)!
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Holly's Ultimate SVT Playlist (+ HHU Content) for Dee!
This took forever, but I finished 🥲 As promised @lonelywhalien22 🤗🥰
Love&Letter Repackage:
First things first: I always recommend people listen to SVT's Love&Letter Repackage (this was the Aju Nice album!) 🥺🥰🤗 I know it's older, some fans don't like music from that era, it's fruity, etc, etc, but I personally think it had some quality songs! I actually liked the ballads on this album a lot lol.
My favorites were Adore U (Vocal team version), Simple (Woozi solo), and Space. A little extra love for Space because is HHU's forgotten child 😭 It features Seokmin and the lyrics were just everything to me!!!
3rd Mini Album 'Going Seventeen':
Fast Pace - this song walked, so Light a Flame could run lolol.
Highlight - You must watch both the PU and OT13 performance - Jeonghan and Jun (kind of) yodel 👏🏻
4th Mini Album 'A|1':
Honestly, if you liked Don't Wanna Cry, would just recommend going through all of it 😂
There are only six songs, but if I really really really have to choose, it'd be HHU's other forgotten child, If I :') (Vernon went viral with this one!!!)
Second Full Album Teen;Age:
Change Up - this was the original leader line debut!
Without You - it connects to DWC!!!
Bring It - Woozi x Hoshi
Trauma - HHU in their angst era~
Pinwheel - Jihoon wrote it based on a dream :')
Flower - I saw recently you were spiraling down a Dino Danceology hole . . . Chan choreographed all of this one!
5th Mini Album 'You Make My Day':
Our Dawn is Hotter than Our Day - this is my comfort song 💙
6th Mini Album 'You Make My Dawn':
This was the start of darkteen LOL
Good to Me
Getting Closer - the choreo was 🔥
An Ode:
This is my favorite album from them, so I would recommend everything honestly, but if I had to choose!
Lie Again
247 - it's similar to I Don't Understand, But I Love U
Second Life
Snapshoot - the MV is a must watch! Mingyu filmed and edited himself :)
(I'll stop here because it seems like you're pretty caught up with everything from Heng:garae era on!)
Other:
Happy Ending - this will forever be my favorite Japanese release LOL
Fallin' Flower - a fan favorite!
SVT Content:
Their variety show, Going Seventeen is a MUST watch! I loved their music before, but this really tipped me over into becoming a carat. Each episode is only ~30 minutes, but just so you get an idea of what it's like, I'll link a few short "summary" fan edits here to my favorite episodes!
Boo's Past Life Destiny - A great intro to each member (unfortunately Cheol was on hiatus).
Haunted House Tag - This was how I heard about GoSe! It blew up on social media because of rumors of Wonwoo seeing a ghost and Minghao hugging a clown. So many memes came out of it - it's not that scary just because the members were so funny and chaotic!
The original Mafia betrayal story - My favorite is from season 2, but you have to understand this one to understand the beef in all the later ones. I've never seen a group play Mafia like them LMAO.
If you want to watch the full episodes, they're on their YT channel :)
SVT plays Superlatives Part 1 + Part 2 - This is really old, but admittedly, this is what made me fall head over heels for Mingyu 🤣😭
Iconic stage stuff: MonstaX-SVT collab at 2015 MAMA, DWC Orchestra version, Run To You w/Jeonghan, Joshua, Hoshi, and Wonwoo's strange love affair (it was just funny sdkfjdskf)
HHU Content:
Okay I'm gonna be honest here, this is mostly Wonwoo and Mingyu stuff because they were both my biases at separate points in time 😅 Vernon and Seungcheol doesn't really do variety things in general as well - and outside of performance things, I don't really watch Vernon stuff either😅
Lotto Remix - PERSONALLY, this is my favorite HHU rap song. It was originally written by Vernon but they changed it to fit the four of them!
Un Haeng Il Chi - I believe this is the fan favorite though.
Like the Beginning - Mingyu unreleased solo :')
Dingo Future Diary ft. SCoups and Wonwoo - I mainly watched this for Wonwoo, but Cheol is in it too! It was just two dorks creating alternate lives for each other.
Actor!Wonwoo - I was Vernon the whole time sdjkdjfkdjfs
Actor!Mingyu . . . but he's kinda cringey LOL
This is just a Mingyu-Wonwoo love triangle VCR from their 2016 Boys Wish concert LOL. It was supposed to be serious, but I just thought their acting was so funny LMFAO
I just liked Mingyu a lot in this Elle interview 💀🥴😆
Bonus! Cosmopolitan interview w/Wonwoo, Mingyu, Seokmin, and Seungkwan
This is not comprehensive at all of SVT and they have so much fun content. This is merely just SVT in my eyes. At the very least, I hope it serves a starting point for you (or anyone really!) who wants to dive deeper into them!
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Lore: Ambush and Rush + Their kids (not including rooms gang)
Rush (Its/Its)
Fluffy RUSH Fluffy RUSH!! Has a big mound off fur that trails around it like fog/smoke.
The silly to Ambush’s serious. That big smile is often genuine.
ITS SMILE IS A FAMILY TRAIT!!! LIKE.. HALF OF ITS KIDS HAVE IT.
Silly Boston accent “Hey!! I’m walkin here!!”
Occasionally needs to be brushed but doesn’t like it. Also all that spare fur goes to Timothy because it knits.
Has cartoony-ish hands.
Impulsive as heck.
Actually pretty good friends w/Seek tbh
Mouth filthier then a gutter.
HATES BUGS HATES HATES HATES THEM once had mites and needed to be shaved.
Frequent napper and sleeper extraordinaire.
Has..memories that it can’t fully recall/ remember, but still experiences hypervigilance + a bit of anxiety from.
Can’t really remember much of its past at all and that’s a great source of frustration for it.
Really likes food and can be swayed with it.
Ask it to find out more stuff i'll update this later.
Happily married to Ambush and parent to Window, Dupe and the rooms gang.
Ambush (It/Its)
Sorta same accent as Rush but Mafia-ish "Ice em boys" kinda vibe.
Less fluffy and more do just h a i r y and wirey static mess that it keeps much more well kept then Rush does.
Steps are murderously silent and loves to sneak up on people.
Out of the two, it’s the more tactical and calculated.
Also pretty messed up by something but refuses to elaborate like Rush.
Definetly more experienced in the hunting field then Rush is and it frequently gets into small competitions with it.
Rue 🤝 Ambush: Parents with chronic pain. Ambush has serious jaw OR back pain that just flares up sometimes and it can leave it pretty cranky.
Is medicated though so it ain’t often.
‘Rush’s kisses are the cure <3’
Has a tail!! It’s sorta siren-like but unlike Depth it’s much more sharp and bladed and has fluffy tips that Rush likes to playfully bite or tug when teasing/flirty.
Ambush’s ancestors come from a reeeeally king lineage of swimming/watery entities.
Siblings with Depth!..oh..she’s missing.
Still has paintings of it..though it’s hesitant to talk to people about it.
Married to Rush and parent of Sally/Window, Dupe + Rooms gang. They’d have more but their energy is depleted-so..
Window/Sally (It/Its)
HOLLY SHIT SALLY GOT A FUR MULLET
Well sorta, it’s like that patch of fur going down it’s body like a little cheetah does.
Femby <3 Rush and Ambush are so proud when it came out!!!
Has two names due to being a femby too. Dupe also wanted two names and that’s how Dupe got its nickname. :)
Impulsive like Rush
Got Rush’s infamous smile like it’s siblings.
Rush’s lil girl fr
Likes to watch people through windows like a lil weirdo.
Also likes to float in the hotel pool and pretend it’s dead. Scares the ‘everloving SHIT’ out of its parents.
Also has a little tail that’s sorta like a stingray’s but no venom yet. (Yet)
Twins with Dupe.
Wants to heal ppl so it hangs around the infirmary. Actually getting really skilled.
Doesn’t hunt yet though and mostly just sticks to warning it’s parents.
(Duplicate) Dupe. (It/Its)
Has soft fur like a little kitty.
L o n g and stretchy like a cat too.
Immense fear of water but ironically probably have fur that if fluffed up will make it float.
Artistic!! Face is covered In paint or slime or blood just there’s something on it’s face always.
Arts and crafts are the way to its heart.
Has lil paw-like gloves that can turn into straight up talons.
Sneaky like Ambush and actually really clever.
Loafs and purrs like Rush.
Also has Rush’s smile :)
When it’s parents are either mad or scared they say it’s full name usually. “DUPLICATE!!!!!” “Uh oh-“
Likes to play pranks a lot.
Has a little crush of Screech???? It’s complicated but they are most just friends 4 today.
Once bit Snare and made it cry and then Snare bit it back and then all their parents came running.
Fun fact, the rooms gang would absolutely deck the everliving shit out of anyone who’d try and harm their siblings.
Rush also had a crush on Ambush they were both kids. <3
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Steph's Crew - New Characters!
So I've shared book 1 with you guys, and I've mentioned that I'm working on two sequels. I'm currently working on book 2 (while also planning out what'll happen in 3), which I'd say is a lot more complex than book 1 was haha. It's a lot of hard work... especially since I've been creating all these new people and relationship dynamics in this sequel!
I love making characters, it's one of my favourite parts of the writing process. I thought I'd share some of the new folks with you guys today! Enjoy!
New People in Unreported Violent Crimes (Book 2):
Connor - technically he's not "new" new... he was a recurring background character in book 1 (remember him? He was in El's History class!), but he gets a whole plotline in book 2 involving a giant crush he develops on a teacher.
Daisy - a Cambridge lecturer, and the object of Connor's affection lol (because he ends up going to Cambridge like El! He was a pretty smart student too).
Aisha - Dylan's new girlfriend. Things between him and Alice don't really end up working out in book 1, and he didn't want to wait around forever, so he decides to move on. And move on he did! Alice struggles a lot with this new development... she's angry and jealous at the start, but then she feels like she shouldn't be (since she was the one who wanted to call things off with Dylan to begin with), so she tries to get over it and move on herself.
Aaliyah - Aisha's sister, who goes to Dylan's university with him. He met his girlfriend through his friendship with her. She's cool - she brings a lot of humour to the story.
Charlie - Charles O'Brien is another Cambridge student (and kind of the "anti-Bret" in a lot of ways lol). He's a bright student and a rich, privileged kid (much like El), who has some pressure from his family to be a certain way, so he has quite a lot in common with her. That being said, they don't start on the best of terms, but they work together and end up becoming really close - Charlie ends up falling for Elise (enemies/academic rivals to lovers vibes haha), but he hesitates on whether he should do anything about it, since he knows that he's her second choice (because El still really loves Bret, even though they aren't actually together anymore for the majority of the sequel). I loved writing this character and by extension, this plotline, especially in comparison to Brelise's dynamic. I'm curious to see which ship people will enjoy more!
I think that's enough for now. There are a couple of others... Holly and Jason make comebacks in book 2, Rachel adopts a little baby girl (writing that storyline made me cry lol), Stephanie gets a stalker, and there's a mysterious news/commentary blogger that knows seemingly everything about... well, everything. But I don't want to get into too much detail here.
Let me know your thoughts on these new OCs! I'll probably go into more detail about them in future...
#rickie-the-storyteller#steph's crew#original content#original characters#enemies to friends#enemies to lovers#love triangle#my ocs my beloved#new characters
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I'll do anything for you-to see you smile
Non-canon/timeline – Lyra&Adam
TW: Female whumpee's, multiple whumpee's, sadistic whumper, creepy whumper, forced to beg, self-sacrifice, implied torture (whipping deluxe)
Word count: 1‘289
Lyra just looked up at Adam in absolute confusion and shock when he walked into the pool hall with a bound, gagged, and blindfolded person. She could not comprehend what was happening.
Adam pushed the girl into the pool and she crash landed on the metal floor. "Hold on to that for me for a second, will you."
A squeezed whimper made its way past the makeshift gag. of the girl. Lyra, who had previously jumped up, instantly bolted towards the girl, only slowing down when she was right in front of her. "Hey, I'm not gonna hurt you, okay, I'm just gonna untie you."
The girl was still squirming and crying while Lyra made quick work at untying her. She first removed the blindfold to give her back her sight and at least some control. The girl's green, terrified eyes met her own brown ones. She was doing her best to hide her own fear from her, giving her a warm half-smile. This is most definitely a trap; you know that. Her brain voice warned. I know, but I won’t leave her like this! Not ever! She thought back. Then she had untied her and carefully helped her up. The girl didn’t look injured, aside from a few cut wounds on her cheek and arms. And Lyra could tell, from knowing Adam, that those were inflicted solely for aesthetic. Rage bubbled up in her but she pushed it down. She helped the girl to the middle of the basin and tried to calm her down. “What’s your name?”
“Holly.”
“Holly, what a pretty name, it’s a beautiful plant!”
“So pointy though.”, she joked nervously.
“True. And still pretty.”, Lyra smiled and gently laid a hand on the girl’s arm.
The girl flinched but then gingerly took a hold of Lyra’s hand and held on to it.
Lyra smiled, she was holding back tears and was hoping so much that Holly wouldn’t notice. “You can squeeze it if you want to.”
“Thank you.”
“Now isn’t this wholesome.”, Adam commented, a sly grin laying on his lips.
The two girls turned around startled, both not letting go of each other. Holly scared and confused and Lyra with a boiling anger hidden away.
“What do you think of your new cellmate Lyra?”
Lyra didn’t want to answer, she didn’t want to engage him and she did not want to talk about Holly when she was right next to her.
“I can’t see how my opinion matters in this, you apparently have already taken a liking to her.”, she diverted.
Adam’s grin doesn’t waver at the coldness Lyra throws at him. He rather finds it amusing. “Well, as a matter of fact I have. Problem is right now she’s pretty…Well she’s a little confused. I think I should teach her some of our rules, hm? Don’t you think?”, Adam elaborated, getting a big pocketknife out of his bag.
Lyra gently freed her hand from Holly’s grip. In one motion she stepped in front of her and lays her arms around her from the front.
“No. You won’t.”
A sadistic grin widened on Adam’s face. “And whyever would I not, Lyra? Hm?”
Lyra shook at the trigger but she pushed it down, she pushed it all down, the fact that she was exactly doing what he wanted her to. But she would not see Holly harmed. Not if she could help it in any way! “I can teach her the rules!”
“You?”, he laughed. “You barely follow any of them!”
“Doesn’t mean I don’t know them.”, she smiled saccharinely. All but rubbing it into his face.
Adam’s face, just for moment, distorted in anger.
Point for me. Lyra thought to herself.
“This is bullshit.”, he spat and jumped into the basin. He started walking towards the two girls. “Lyra move out of the way.”
“No.”, Lyra repeated loud and clear.
“I said move!”
“No!”, Lyra said. She pushed Holly further back-hearing her scared sobs-and walked forth, meeting Adam halfway. Even with the height difference between the two she made herself as big as possible before coming to halt in front of him.
Adam taxed her with a look from head to toe before making eye contact. He flipped open the knife and laid the blade underneath Lyra’s chin tilting it up. “I said”, he says ever so gently, “move. out. of. the. way.”
“No, Adam. I won’t let you hurt her further.”
“You don’t have a choice.”
“Yes. I do. I won't let you hurt her.”
“You wanna take her place?”, Adam threatened, nicking her skin with the knife.
“Lyra’s gaze was unwavering as she held up her arms.
Adam took the scenery in front of him in for a few second before chuckling. His cool demeaner back as if it was never gone. “You’re really ridiculous, you know that, right? She’s not even your friend. And she most definitely isn’t your therapy.”
“I wouldn’t expect you to understand.”, she replied coldly, arms still raised.
“Oh thyma, I don’t have to.” He pocketed the knife and gently took a hold of her chin. “I just have to know enough to manipulate you.”
Lyra shot him a hateful glare but she made no move to shake off his hand.
“You wanna take her place? Show me. Get on your knees.”, Adam demanded. Half gambling because he still wasn’t sure this was going to work on his stubborn victim.
Lyra registered the words, she thought of the sweet girl behind her and much to Adam’s visible surprise she dropped to her knees in an instant.
Adam was shocked for a few seconds before the smuggest grin widened out on his face. He reached down and tiled her head up again. There was still the same fire in her eyes as always but she complied. This was delectable! “Beg for it.”, he ordered. Lyra bent down further, until her face was nearly on the floor-though he assumed that was more to prevent him from seeing her face.
“Please. Torture me instead of her. If she does something wrong punish me not her. Let me protect her. Please Adam.”
Adam set a food on Lyra’s arched back and pressed down, revelling in the feeling this whole scenario gave him, in the power.
“Are you sure? You could gain quite some things from this situation…”
Lyra was silent for a little while before replying: “I am sure.”
“Mmmh I guess that was to be expected. Sit up! Alright, as long as you behave, she stays safe. And who knows maybe you can even earn some scarps for her, hm.”, Adam mused. “Now I shall get Holly then and get her to the locker room, shall I.”
“Wait-Please Adam, can I talk to her for a moment.”, Lyra caught herself.
“Hmm, sure. Since you asked so nicely.”, he said, rubbing it into her face.
“You have one minute.”
Lyra scrambled up on her feet and hurried over to the still crying, wide-eyed girl.
“I’m so sor-sorry. You didn’t have to-you’re gonna get-“
“-Hey, hey, hey-Holly, calm down, look at me. Holly, look at me.”, Lyra tried to calm her down and eventually the girl calmed down enough to really look at her. “I’m gonna be alright, okay? I can handle him.”
“But you didn’t have to-“
“-Ten seconds.”, Adam announced
Lyra gave Holly a kiss on her forehead. “I’ll anything for you to see you smile.”
Then Adam walked in between the two, grabbed Holly and “led” her to her new home.
Before later returning with a bag full of torture utensils no doubt. This was going to suck Lyra knew. Worth it, she thought. Even as the metal-enforced tip of leather whip sneaked itself teasingly over her back.
Taglist: @yourlocalgaefae33, @princessofhe11, @greatkittencloud, @bisexuawolfsalt
Please send me asks about this I want an excuse to ramble more about it!
#jayna's writing#I uhm just sat down#I wanted to write something#I never checked the word count#Until I was done#Holy shish#the one loophole#That could *always*#ruin Lyra#Hence why it‘s non-canon#It‘s too easy#Or maybe not who knows#so much potential#aah#Shoutout to Fae#For giving me the push#to finally write a version of this#I love it#whump#whump writing#creative writing#coping#trauma#Creepy whumper#Intimate whumper#creepy/intimate whumper#defiant whumpee#forced to beg#forced to kneel#humilation whump
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For Nick and June: We manifested a lot and at the end it was for nothing, so so sad.
i'm glad i finally got an ask i feel like i can answer. for the record, i have been keeping up with the spoilers, i know what's up, but i like to keep my tumblr relatively spoiler free, so i make it a point to not publish asks that have big mega spoilers in the asks themselves because i can't hide that under a cut. chances are, if you censor whatever you're trying to say in the ask, i'll understand what you mean and answer under a cut.
so anyway, to this i say- i certainly understand why you feel this way. i also had a spiral on friday night to the point i completely lost my appetite. but i have since surfaced and i'd like to share some thoughts under the cut!
so... ok. does everything seem bad right now? yes. does it seem like we're backtracking in a way that doesn't make sense? yes. but this is how osblaine is, and always has been. i've actually been here before, i had this same level of meltdown when eden was spoiled for me. lost my appetite, cried in the shower, was convinced it was the end of osblaine. and it wasn't. it wasn't anywhere near the end of them, and i think it actually only made them stronger. did it feel like an insurmountable obstacle at that time? yes. but it wasn't.
another thing i'd like to point out is the spoilers are only for the first 8 episodes. lets think back on s4 for just a moment. if we had gotten spoilers in a similar fashion for season 4, i'd imagine this is what it would sound like:
"nick arrests june at the end of ep2 with a unit of guardians. he hands her over to lydia who tortures her, until they decide to send her to a breeding colony. nick has june brought to see him on a bridge and they kiss goodbye. june escapes and makes it to chicago with janine, and nick is ordered to bomb chicago knowing june is there. june gets out of gilead and makes it to canada and reunites with luke and holly."
like... does any of that sound good for osblaine? if we only had spoilers through ep 8 for last season the same as is happening right now, i'd probably have felt pretty hopeless at that point too. hell, after ep 9 spoilers started leaking, there was still a lot of hopelessness. and then look what eps 9 and 10 gave us once we actually saw them.
and this all still actually tracks pretty similarly with s4 in that we will have one osblaine moment (i wish it was in person and not just a phone call, but it will be interesting to see them talk over the phone! they've never done that before) in the first 8 eps before we get to the (hopefully, fingers crossed) epic content at the end of the season.
now as far as the wife and the pregnancy surprise... this is actually what upset me the most. it is the absolute last thing i wanted, it was the thing i was most afraid of happening, and i'm still pretty unhappy about it. but i think there's a LOT more to it than what's being presented at face value. there are a lot of things that could be happening. just off the top of my head - the wife could be a widow and she's pregnant from the previous marriage, she could be making it up (and nick is in on it too) to prevent them from having to have a handmaid. she could just be making it up and nick ISN'T in on it to make him feel like he has to stay (if anyone watched timeless, i'm imagining a situation like what happened with lucy and wyatt when jessica showed back up).
there are many, MANY things that could be going on here and it's not what it seems like right now. of course, i could be wrong and it is also exactly what it seems, and at that point i will go cry in the shower for about three days straight. but i just think, especially knowing bruce and how he likes his twists, there has to be more to it.
anyway, to conclude, i just want to say i absolutely do not think all of our manifesting was for nothing, and we are not at the end of their story yet. we still have another whole season left to go. we just need to keep focusing on manifesting the way we did last season, because look how that turned out for us.
#the handmaid's tale#tht s5 spoilers#spoilers#anon#asks#i've thought about nothing but this for like 3 days now#but i'm surprisingly zen about it now#i just want to see it all myself
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5 for fpk, holly, hornet, Grimm, & lewk
5. Can they cry on command? If so, what do they think about to make it happen?
(fpk)
i believe he could do that, yes. he most certainly has plenty of things he could think about to get himself to that point
the vessels and the fact that he failed the kingdom would be the most obvious (and the most effective) ones. but i think thinking back to his past would also get him teary eyed. he may not remember all the details from his childhood, but the day his mother left is definitely one that still remains in his memory. the unhappy marriage with the white lady is another one of those things, while at the time he thought he could manage it and that any discomfort or stress was worth it to make her happy, looking back he realizes how much she unintentionally hurt him, both mentally and physically (the last one was rare, but without going into detail, i think you can imagine in what sort of situations that usually happened)
and then there's his constant worries, that he's a burden, that he doesn't deserve any love, and that his loved ones may abandon him if he does something wrong. it's very often that he cries because of it, and if he had to cry on command, it would be very effective to think about that. then again, he usually does
(holly)
they can't cry, though i think the idea of the void leaking from their eyes to mimic tears could be pretty interesting. if they could do that, then thinking about the radiance and everything she told them would likely help getting them to that point. i don't think i ever mentioned that dynamic, but i definitely think she kept reminding them that they're a failure and that their father is disappointed in them (she was definitely projecting, she had a similar obsession in making her father proud so she would have all the ammunition needed to break holly's strong will)
now, fpk's return and their subsequent interactions eased that worry, but it still lingers in the back of their mind. i'm not sure how effective that would be in actually getting them to cry. like i said, they don't really cry in the same way others do
(grimm)
i'll mention him here instead of hornet cause, similarly to holly, he can't cry. at all. his eyes are simply not built for that. so naturally he can't cry on command either. but i suppose i can still talk about things that would get him crying if he could
first of all, his loneliness was often overwhelming to him, and he often found himself in situations where normally he'd cry, but instead he just sulked around and stared into the distance. but for more specific thoughts, losing fpk was very hard for him. he had some hope that he would return, but that was squashed after his third or fourth return to hallownest, with fpk nowhere to be seen. if he thought that his loneliness was overwhelming, then the thought that fpk could be dead was devastating to him. and even then, the idea that he might lose him again is something that often keeps him up at night. it almost happened once, after the attempt on fpk's life by a rogue grimmkin, and if he could cry, then the sight of fpk, weakened and scared after that attack, would be enough to get him to tear up
(hornet)
i don't think she can cry on command. she bottles everything in too well, and she sees crying as a weakness. the rare times it happens, she hides from everyone and makes sure they can't see her in that state. so for that reason it's hard to think of anything that could get her to cry on the spot. but there are still things that get her choked up. the day her father disappeared being the biggest one, but the memories of her childhood would also affect her, both the negative and the happy ones. all those years of being alone, she wished she cherished those moments more at the time, she thought she took them for granted, and now she would never experience them again. thankfully, she was wrong. well, somewhat. it's definitely far from her childhood, but at least she has a family again, and slowly but surely she will learn to be more open about how much she appreciates them
(lewk)
similarly, i don't think lewk can cry on command either. i will say that, unlike grimm, he can physically cry. his eyes are built similarly to fpk's, so they also possess the ability to produce tears. but i still don't think he's able to do it on the spot if asked to. he doesn't have the same emotional baggage as the rest of the family, so i doubt there's anything that could even get him to that point, aside from the usual things that make children cry
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Hope you had a Merry Christmas! It's nice to see you be more active here. What have you been reading recently? What are your favorite songs this year?
Thank you, it was a small but lovely Christmas. Much better than the last few years Christmases.
Oh I have been binge reading fics like a madwoman. The Seventeen rot is very real and the Yoongi rot is always real. I'm struggling to find new Baek fics though so I'll happily take recs if anyone has any they'd like to share.
Most recently I've read or re-read:
Hotel California by @mint-yooxgi
And the universe said by @thepixelelf
Push it down (sooner or later it all comes out) by @dontflailmenow
My heart has gone to you by @rubyreduji
Mixtape by @haliiimede
All that holly jolly sh*t by @daechwitatamic
Play along by @xddaengx
Make it make sense by @jihoonsrubylips
Deflowered by @bobohu4eva
Challenge me by @seokgyuu
Horanghae by @horanghaejamjam
Void by @btssavedmylifeblr
There's heaps more but you can check my fic rec blog @xiubaek13ficrecs - I've been reblogging pretty much everything I read there (there are definitely 70 things in my queue so that I don't randomly spam everyone again)
As for favourite songs this year... I've honestly listened to pretty much nothing but Seventeen for the past 8 months but I'll try to mix it up for you.
Off the top of my head:
Seventeen - March (to be hyped up) and Circles (to cry)
Woozi - Ruby
Key - Bound
Ateez - Cyberpunk
Psy feat Suga - That That
Zico feat the Homies - New Things
Xiumin - Brand New
Kep1er - Wa Da Da
Changmin - Devil
Stray Kids - Maniac
Kihyun - Voyager
NCT 127 - Faster
Ten - Birthday
Oneus - Bring it on, Same Scent
my playlist is endless lol
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17 Questions 17 people
For once I am trying to do a tag game because I have way too many or these piled up skddj But thank you @kachulein for tagging me, i swear I'll do the previous ones someday :')))
Nickname: Soph, Soap, I don't rly have that many sjdh
Sign: Pisces Sun, Scorpio Rising, Taurus Moon
Height: Tall 186cm | 6'1 ft
Last thing I Googled: Hades PS4 because I am desperate and I want that game but Oy local gameshop confusing on whether they have the ps4 version or not djdjd
Song stuck in my head: Only Us by Miracle of Sound, reeeeally delicious haunting vibes right there 👌👌✨
# of followers: 370-something I think? I randomly lost like 200 followers earlier this year for some reason lmao
Amount of sleep: Roughly around 6-9 hours I think, depends, I tend to sleep late on weekends unless I have morning shifts
Lucky number: I don't really have one honestly sjdjd but maybe 4, I used to joke that number haunted me at one point 😂
Wearing: Comfy pyjamas because it's sleepy time yet here I am
Dream job: Full time artist/illustrator/graphic designer. Sometimes I still dream of being professional dressage or cross country rider
Movies/books that summarize you: Not sure if this like aesthetics wise or something but uhhh the PotC franchise, Grishaverse series , The Raven Cycle series, Priory of the Orange Tree, Gintama it's an anime but shhhh it shall be counted
Favourite songs: oh god there's so many and they change around often but here's some
I Am the Fire - Temperance
Only Us - Miracle of Sound
Light - Ancient Bards
Hellevator - Stray Kids
Soldier, Poet, King - The Oh Hellos
Say My Name - Ateez
Farewell - d'Artagnan
When I'm Old - Lawson
Diamanti - Temperance
VISION - Dreamcatcher
Fave Instrument: Uhh I guess guitar, flute, violin and piano
Aesthetic: Local mothman lurking in the bushes, sprinkled with goblin and witch vibes, lots of dark colors with shiny gold accents, crystals and other shiny things, mythical creatures, crows and ravens, pretty dice sets, sharp nails on bony hands, bones in general, also comfy, loose clothes and such and any pirate related vibes.
Fave Authors: Leigh Bardugo, Samantha Shannon, Neil Gaiman, Holly Black and uhhh I'm not sure about the rest
Fave Animal noise: I shall agree with Kachu and say the ferocious war cry of that rain frog 😂 it's absolutely golden. Such anger
Random: Okay what can I put here...I love DnD, even though our first campaign ended I still love my bard boyo to death and will forever continue to do so. I also recently found some tips on how to pull together a plot so I may finally have that done for my Moiraverse stuff 👁️👁️ I hope. Speaking of which I have been drawing them too a it more recently so I am happy about that. Idk if this was made for rambling but it shall do sjddj
Tagging: Okay so sadly I can't pull together 17 people but I'll try my best sjdhd
@http-peachie @my-me1ody @chop-chop-im-cookin-up-a-hotpot @procrastinatingdragonfly @imjaebae
#absolutely no obligation to do this but just for fun if you want to sjdj#God i haven't done tag games in so long i missed these honestly sjdj#tagged#mutuals#tag game
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Barrowman 'Verse insanity - #1 World Without End, snippet 3/?
minor one maybe, but why is Rhys always portrayed so jealously? even now? Hollis is gay for crying out loud. and a cook! that sentence is not even a metaphor! also why is he picking her up like this, were they even this close? but i'll try not to nitpick, they're both open and friendly people. i'll allow it. and he is hugging Rhys right after, so i guess hugger is just his character now.
there is however something VERY crucial in this panel that probably almost everyone (including myself on my first read) overlooked:
"Same crew?"
"Mostly."
is the only. i repeat. the ONLY time it is EVER brought up that fucking FIVE out of nine (!!) characters straight up got removed between the book and the comics?? like hewwo??? is there a crack in the universe again or. Cash was Dana's ex-husband / on-off-lover, she'd miss him i'm pretty sure. Hollis and Sam were FwBs (for the lack of a better word), and Vlad and Eva getting together was half a bloody subplot. Finn and Byron weren't dating anyone but come on! how are none of these people missed?? Cash and Sam and Eva and Finn and Byron. say their names John. say their names! and explain to me why they are not there and that isn't even remotely ATTEMPTED to be explained (they're on a different mission, etc. etc.) - no one misses them, heck their respective partners-
i get ahead of myself. you'll see. but seriously..... "mostly" the same crew my ass. more than half of the fucking people are missing.
#Barrowman 'Verse comics#gwen cooper#rhys williams#gwen/rhys#hollis jefferson albert III#(yes that's the poor sod's actual name. ignore it as you (hopefully) normally ignore it when i'm being overly proper in my tagging)#the crew of the ice maiden#my tag for them all#torchwood#i'm!!! so mad!!!!#like you wouldn't BELIEVE#dying mad about this. what the fuck
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