#hush now

[muffinlance]

prompt: Ozai has Azula watch Zuko (his progress or rather lack thereof) from way earlier on, possibly even before Aang gets away from the iceberg in the first place

There it is, written at the bottom of his banishment notice, wobbling in and out of his vision and he’s not sure if it's his eyes—

(Father wouldn’t have meant to blind him. Being blind won't help him catch the Avatar, so he’ll just not go blind.)

It’s either his eyes, or. Or the rage. It has to be the rage.

So Zuko reads the line again, and lets the fire brim up and overflow, until sparks chase the shout from his lips.

“Banishment to be overseen by Crown Princess Azula?”

- - -

“Prince Zuko,” Azula says, standing as tall as an eleven year old can. She’s using his title, so that he’ll use hers. And if he doesn’t then he’s ill-mannered and not fit for his own. 

“Crown Princess Azula,” Zuko grits out.

“I’ll just be inspecting your ship, then. Father’s orders.”

Two men are in shackles by the time she’s done. 

“—Fostering mutiny against your prince,” she is yelling, and somehow her voice is just as high-pitched as his without sounding childish at all. “When our father hears about this—”

- - -

“So you had them executed,” Fire Lord Ozai inquires. Lightly. And from behind his flames.

“Of course, father,” says the kneeling child. “It was an attack on our family.”

Her father doesn’t say anything.

Azula is eleven. Eleven, she had presumed, was old enough to count. 

One, two, three. Four, with Uncle. The royal family.

Her father is silent still.

One. Two.

“Forgive my impertinence, Fire Lord,” she says. “I will bring them to you for judgment next time.”

“Do so,” Fire Lord Ozai says. He does not contest the ‘next time.’

- - -

“Crown Princess Azula,” Zuko says.

“Your bandage is off, brother,” Azula says. “Are you blind?”

“No.”

(The blur of her red robes, the eye-searing glint of sunlight off her headpiece—he’s not blind in that eye. He’s just… still recovering.)

“Lovely,” she says. “Then what’s your excuse for the condition of this ship?”

…He has an increased budget for repairs, by the time she’s done. 

- - -

“Brother,” Azula says, “traditionally knives are to be delivered to the back.”

“I… what?” her brother says, still holding out the inexplicable thing. “No, I bought it at port. For you. See, it matches the one Uncle got me.”

“How original,” she says.

Her brother turns a shade of red that puts his bending to shame. Not that it’s a particularly high bar. “Fine, I’ll just—throw it out.”

“Oh, don’t be so dramatic. At the least, Mai will want it.”

- - -

“Nice knife,” says Mai, looking at the hilt peeking out of Azula’s boot.

“Be silent,” Azula says, thus ending that conversation.

- - -

“Did great-grandfather… did we…” starts her brother, fresh from scurrying about the Eastern Air Temple like some particularly dim-witted pheasant-monkey, the dust not even brushed from his clothes even though he knew her ship was waiting down here. “Azula, there were children—”

“Be silent,” she says.

- - -

“You’re leaving frequently,” comments father, as his knife cuts through the pheasant-monkey, clicking against the plate below. The persimmon-cherry sauce is thick and red and smearing.  

“I find it advantageous to cultivate a working knowledge of our nation’s tactics,” Azula answers. She does not push around her meat like a child, but she does eat only lightly; the dish is more sour than she remembers.

“And your brother?”

“Oh, him,” she says, to which her father smiles.

- - -

“...What?” Zuko asks, blinking down at the scrolls. 

“It’s your birthday,” Azula says. “Apparently, I should have gotten you a calendar.”

“Thank you?”

She sighs.

- - -

“Do we… tell him we can hear him?” asks the assistant cook, as the prince continues monologuing. Dramatically, and loudly. Through the pipe connecting the drain of the kitchen sink to the ones in the shower. 

“Ssh, I think this is one of his new plays.”

- - -

She gets him a calendar for his next birthday. It’s not funny.

- - -

He gets her a doll, for hers. The look on Uncle’s face as she torches it in front of them both is hilarious.

- - -

“Brother,” she says, looking up at the damage to his ship. “This is not the way to requisition additional repair funds.”

“Captain Zhao,” her uncle says in the background, with heights of pleasant antagonism she can only aspire to. As if a general could mistake Zhao’s new insignia. Particularly with all the polishing he does. 

“It’s commander now.”

“How did you manage this?” she asks.

“Uh,” Zuko says. “Can we… speak alone?”

She eyes her brother’s shifting stance. Eyes, too, the way Zhao’s men are already moving to intercept and interrogate his crew. One of the new commander’s more noxious habits is stalking her brother’s every move. 

Well. She’d been meaning to deal with that, anyway.

Azula snaps her fingers at the commander’s guards.

“Detain him,” she says. And for a moment, just a moment, her dear uncle freezes, as if she were talking about someone he actually cared for.

The guards don’t. She’s trained them better than that.

“Princess,” Commander Zhao says, his snarl well hidden behind a smile. “What is the meaning of this?”

“Crown Princess Azula,” she corrects. “Now hush; the adults are talking.”

- - -

They have an Avatar to catch, apparently. Her brother is coming home.

#her brother is coming home #it may be time for some other changes as well #how does the pheasant-monkey taste father? #oh of course I haven’t had any #you know I haven’t liked that since I was a little girl #are you feeling well father? #why don’t you have a little lie down father #oh is your crown uncomfortable? #let me just remove that for you #hush now #sleep #goodnight father #say hello to grandfather for me #avatar the last airbender #atla #Zuko #Azula #ficlets #yep that prompt hit the spot thanks Anon <3

[c-l-nichols]

I hold that anger in my chest. It sleeps at the foot of my bed, rises with me and the sun, and sinks into the cinderblocks dragging behind me. How much of it is mine?

- C L Nichols | I’m supposed to be healing, but I forgot what that feels like

#authors #literature #poem #poetry #spilled thoughts #writing #hush now #writeblr #writblr #anger #mommy issues

[sleepyfluf]

Themb // from: Hush Now

#philza doodle #technoblade doodle #hush now fanart #hush now #philza #technoblade #philza fanart #technoblade fanart #sleepyflufsart

[marvels-obscure-tophat]

Shadow dogs from the latest Hush Now chapter by @corpse-art

#dogs #shadow dog #hush now #low key more sad about the shadow dogs being temporary than that thing at the end of the chapter #hush now fanart #fanart #hush now is so good btw #one of my fav fics

[cillysketches]

A funny little Haha my bestie requested for her FFXIV character and Estinien!

#ffxiv #ffxiv viera #ffxiv oc #ffxiv estinien #hush now

[oatsynalliums]

I've been real pokemon brained lately n thinking bout Val and Kitt more than I thought so if anyone wants to hear the teams I thought out do ask I'm bored

#i nwed to redesign them i know #hush now #silence please

[corpse-art]

new hush chapter in one hour :)

#hush now update #hush now

[spook-202]

Hush Now discduo

#that's all i'll say #photo is from the bank robbery video from the sorry channel #hush now #hush now you were lost but now you're found #corpseart

[ghostiereanimated]

I got some fanart for hush now chapter 41 here. I’ve had this idea since the chapter came out. And I finally finished it Thursday,,, but the power went out so I couldn’t post.

They say it’s self-preservation that makes a dog bare its teeth

He throws his hand up, the water rising too eagerly, lacking control, responding all too willingly to the hunger that isn’t his but creeps beneath his skin, wrapping around his bones like sharp dragging thorns.

“You have nothing better to do?” Tommy snarls back, twisting, arm dragging and water rushing down the streets, bubbling and frothing in its vengeance as it collides against an Enforcer’s body, sending them down, another pulse dragging their floppy half-extended limbs like a bedragged doll to send them colliding hard against the bricks. -@corpse-art

Composition is not my strong suit, but after a few tries I think I finally had this one down. this was a bit of practice for incorporating 3d models into my art, as I want to begin working in a webcomic and have it done by November.

#mcyt fanart #dream smp fanart #digital drawing #tommyinnit #dsmp #dsmp fanart #hush now #the only fanart I seem to make is of Minecraft fanfiction

[medanmor]

Y’all I did it.

My sister does not read Tommy centric fics. It’s like she’s allergic to them it’s insane. But!! I got her to read one!! I told her I wrote a 10000 character comment on this fic, I spent two days reading it nonstop. I hardly slept. I gushed about it for WEEKS.

I did this to two separate fics. Both of them Tommy centric. I’m not gonna tell you the titles of Butterfly Reign and Hush Now bc I don’t want to hurt her honor by telling tumblr she hasn’t read them, a devote Mcyt fic fan as she is.

Third times a charm, they like to say. I don’t like to say it, bc it’s a stupid saying, but I’ll swallow my pride for now.

I read this fic. Nonstop. I gushed about it. For days. I screamed about it. I cried about it. I wrote an overly descriptive comment on it. And I did it-I convinced her.

My sister has read Bones in the Ocean.

Okay, not a Tommy centric fic. Hardly focuses on him at all, actually. But you don’t understand she never reads my fic recommendations and she said to me!!! She said!!!

“I might read those other fics you were talking about now bc this one was so good”

YALL I DID IT

#dsmp #mcytblr #dream smp #mcyt #fanfiction #ao3 #hush now #butterfly reign #bones in the ocean

[c-l-nichols]

I used to dream of a mother that would brush my hair gently, a mother that would hold me while I cried and soothe my worries… I am letting you go. I am letting myself free

- C L Nichols | excerpt from who raised me

#authors #literature #poem #poetry #spilled thoughts #writing #hush now #writeblr #writblr #hell is a teenage girl #creative writing #mommy issues #writing community #I told y’all I’ve been to therapy for this

[raccoonwithacoffeecup]

“And you’re Red Chaos from… from…” He halts, rocking back on black dress shoes where a slip of slime is trailing down like a weeping sock. “I don’t know where you’re from

Little goopy guy from @corpse-art 's fic Hush Now (You Were Lost But Now You're Found) which is. Dsmp fan fiction

As i opened the fic to retrieve the passage for this i realized the 41 chapter was out. I've been reading since chapter 4.

J e e z e this fic has my whole heart ive said before ill say it again

#hush now #dsmp #art #charlie slimesicle fanart #Little goopy guy

[rattrodent]

Fences by the destroy boys always makes me think of the dsmp au hush now by @corpse-art

(This has been in my brain for weeks now)

!Spoiler warning for later chapters!

The lyric that stands out the most to me is

"I'm just a dog with no bite, This is all I've ever known" Tommy only really ever knew how to be a hero and being with dream. Then he's a 'dog with no bite part' is like how he's referred to as a dog throughout the story (of course) but he also can't use his powers(in the beginning) or can't use his powers effectively later on, because of how much he depended on dream. He was all bark and no bite because he had a reputation of being a dangerous opponent but could no longer back it up.

Then the lyrics "You took the sunshine from the days, Now I live in shadows" is like when his kicked out, and forced to hide pretty much. But also I find it fun to think about the sunshine being Wilbur when he's arrested, and Tommy having to work with the syndicate to get him and dream back.

"Cut you up like you did me"

"You did the damage and I feel the

Pain!" These could probably refer to physically and mentally, considering he goes through a lot of both. I tend to lean towards thinking about how Tommy gets the backlash of dreams actions, or lack of actions. Physically would be how he's constantly getting hurt from the people around him.

"I'm gonna forgive you, So I can breathe" I imagine Tommy would be pretty pissed at dream too, and needing to forgive him for ditching him to fend for himself. It could also be interpreted as Tommy not wanting to believe Sam is warden, and possibly wanting to forgive him??

"You've got no shame" Just schlatt.

Then lastly "Can't relax" "Head stuck in the ground. Hidden, will it ever be found?" It's like Tommy being hidden, but also not able to relax. Because hes constantly running from everyone but also needs to get to dream, and later to save Wilbur too. He really gets no breaks.

But yeah that's my rambling about songs and stuff. I would really recommend listening to it, it's a banger song! :D

Link to the song(on YouTube): https://youtu.be/jn8oLdHsb2o

#hush now fanart #i have brain worms #dsmp au #dsmp brainrot #i really like music #hush now

[apnourry]

I wish you post a new selfie.

let's hold hands and listen to céline dion instead

#anon #answered #hush now #i see a light in the sky #see that was from a céline dion song see how i did that #anyway #maybe i'll post a selfie #we shall see #love ya

[dana-chan-the-control-brain]

I'm gonna hope an pray with extreme anxiety that Samantha doesn't end up down in the tunnels because she wanted to help Sun so much.

:3c

The Wolf, the Rabbit, The Moon, The Lonely, The Rulebreaker, The Forgotten.

#hush now #hide all your little ones #rush now #into the middle of nowhere #singing and laughter will die #danachan's replies #lofi capture fic

[braxix]

Elros: *dies*

Fëanor: my grandson!

Elros: Oh, right, you.

#Hey I just want a Fëanor meets his foster grandsons #hush now #lotr #lord of the rings #incorrect lord of the rings quotes #silmarillion #incorrect silmarillion quotes #feanor #fëanor #lotr feanor #elros #elros tar minyatur #lotr elros #incorrect quotes #Fëanor: *sobbing his eyes out at the idea of more grandchildren* #Elros: *had comepletely forgotten that he might have to deal with this insane smith*