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#i know two of these are anime BUT they aired on TV so it counts
mrsbarnesblog · 6 months
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I trust you
masterlist ko-fi ao3
Summary: when Bucky comes back from a mission with a knife wound there is only one person who can convince him to get help.
Words count: 3.5k
Warnings: angst and fluff, injury, wounds, low self-esteem, bucky has trust issues and needs a hug, touch starved bucky,
Author’s note: ugh just let me hold my baby and kiss his cute sad face omggg... anyways, idk why I rarely write angsty things, I really wanna do something new, so if you have any ideas let me know! 💘
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It was almost eight o'clock in the evening when FRIDAY reported that the guys' quinjet should arrive at the compound within an hour.
Steve, Sam, and Bucky went on another mission to destroy HYDRA almost two weeks ago. As usual, none of you could get any news from them because they couldn't risk giving away their whereabouts.
It was foolish to assume that you weren't worried about them. Especially for one person. Bucky.
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You and the former Winter Soldier met about six months ago when Steve and Sam first brought him to the tower. Steve was really worried about his old best friend, so before bringing Bucky to the tower, he talked with the team and asked all of you to give Bucky space.
Of course, you knew who he was from the day Steve found out that Bucky was alive. You have seen hundreds of reports and photographs on TV and on the Internet about The Winter Soldier, a ruthless killer who was always invisible but too damn good at his missions. He is the man who was turned into a weapon against his will.
When Steve introduced him, the whole team just nodded and shared awkward smiles, and Bucky himself kept his eyes on the ground. The whole situation was too intense, and no one, not even the funny and sarcastic Tony Stark, knew what to do or say. You actually thought that it might be rude to just stand there and look at him, as if he was a wild animal. Looking at this shy and uncomfortable-looking man before you, you knew that the smallest thing you could get him was to show that he was welcomed in this tower and that everyone was on his side. So, pushing away your own shyness and nerves, you stepped forward, holding out your right hand.
"Hi, my name is Y/N.  It's nice to meet you. I hope you’ll feel comfortable around here." You offered your warmest and most sincere smile, trying not to show nervousness.
Bucky slowly raised his head, genuinely surprised that anyone else had actually spoken to him besides Steve. It's nice to meet you. When had he heard those words for the last time?
Your eyes met, and you could have sworn all the air was out of your lungs. His eyes were even more beautiful than in those rare, high-quality photographs. He looked truly beautiful, with long hair and blue eyes, even though you could see that he was tired—physically and even more emotionally. You stood for what seemed like an eternity, looking at each other's faces, until Bucky got a little nudge from Steve on the arm.
Only then did his gaze move to your still outstretched arm. He hesitated a bit, unsure if he wanted to be touched or feel someone’s warm skin. It’s been too long since another person wanted to touch him without causing any harm. Even Steve gave him minimal physical contact. Always through the gloves or thick jacket, and Bucky didn’t know the true reason for this—whether it was because Steve cared about his feelings or he just didn't want to do that. But then Bucky looked at you again, and he already knew that you would be his death.
You were so beautiful. Probably the most attractive person he has ever seen. It was still morning, and he assumed that you planned to have a day for yourself because you had no makeup, your hair was a little bit messy, and you looked really comfy in a big sweater and a pair of black leggings. Oh, and he definitely noticed your cute, fluffy pink socks. Your eyes were full of friendliness and comfort, so it made him want to trust you. Your lips curled into a warm smile, and he had no doubt that you wanted to make him feel comfortable on the team.
Bucky lifted the corners of his lips slightly, meeting your eyes again, and held out his right hand to you, still feeling awkward. Especially when the whole team around you watches your interaction too closely.
 "Hi."
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When the Quinjet landed on the territory, you couldn't calm your pounding heart. Natasha, who was standing a couple of steps away from you, of course, noticed your condition but didn’t say anything and just sent you a reassuring smile. She knew you'd calm down when Bucky was by your side.
Sam got out first. He looked tired, had a couple of scratches and bruises, but was generally fine.
"Sam!  God, I'm glad you're okay." You said, running closer to him. "How is Bucky? And Steve? Are they okay?" Your worried eyes ran across his face, trying to find answers, but he only pursed his lips and lowered his eyes to the ground.
"Steve’s fine, and Bucky, um... I think you should see it yourself. And I think you need to have a serious talk with this idiot because he doesn't listen to us." Your brows furrowed, but before you could ask anything else, footsteps and stifled moans were heard behind Sam.
It felt like your heart stopped as soon as you saw him. Blood flowed from his temple and lip, and an already darkening bruise adorned his right cheekbone. Your eyes rushed down, trying to find all the damage, and then you saw it. Bucky kept his right hand on his left side. His entire palm was scarlet red as the blood passed through his thick suit and soaked through his fingers. Your mouth opened involuntarily, and your eyes instantly filled with tears.
Of course, this was not his first mission, but he always returned almost without any injuries or with something that quickly healed because of his supersoldier serum. It has never been so bad.
Before you knew it, you were already standing next to him. Tears flowed freely down your face, and you raised your hands up, wanting to touch him, but they froze in the air.
 "Bucky…" You sobbed, looking straight into his eyes.
 "Hello, doll" He smiled reassuringly at you, but you saw how he pressed his teeth together to ease the pain. He didn’t want to scare you.
"Bucky, God, wh-what happened? You need to go to the hospital wing. You’re losing a lot of blood!" You gently took his metal hand, but before you could lead him away, he removed it and moved away a little.
"It's all right, doll.  Nothing that I can't handle on my own. Trust me, I’ve experienced worse."
"Buck, Y/N is right." You notice Steve for the first time because all your attention has been focused on Bucky since he appeared. "That punk cut you pretty deep; it needs to be stitched up."
"You know, I never go to the hospital wing." He purses his lips awkwardly, looking down.
Of course. Of course you knew it. Everyone in the tower knew that the Winter Soldier didn't like being touched or visiting doctors, and he had never asked for any kind of help. He always limited himself to a short handshake or a pat on the back from his best friend.
But you also knew that Bucky couldn't take off his clothes in front of anyone. Too many scars from bullets, knives, and other things that HYDRA used to torture him He confessed this to you one evening when you were sitting in the dark in the common room after his nightmare.
In those six months, you got close enough to him that he trusted you to sit with him in the stillness of the night and share his fears. But he still avoided touching and, of course, did not want to show his body to anyone. Even you. Especially to you.
You were one of the few good things in his life. Someone who genuinely wanted to spend time with him, who wasn’t afraid of him, and who was always kind and supportive. Bucky didn't want to lose you. And he knew that if you ever saw him with those ugly marks all over his body, you would run away without looking back. Because who would like it?
The hand that took hundreds of lives. The hand that was forever connected to his body left a big reminder that he was, in fact, just an experiment that went too well. He often looked at his shoulder in the mirror with anger and despair, wanting to get rid of this mixture of scars and torn skin. Obviously, when HYDRA put that prosthetic on him, they didn't care much about looks or pain, so they just hooked it on the way they did.
"Bucky, please listen to me." You sobbed, moving closer to him again. "I know you're afraid to go there, but please, you have to do it, otherwise, you'll lose too much blood or just get an infection." You hugged yourself with your hands as your body began to tremble with concern for the person in front of you. "It can leave a big scar." You whispered and saw that Bucky’s jaw clenched again. You didn’t want him to think that there was something wrong with having scars, but you knew that it was emotionally too hard for him to deal with them.
"I'm sorry, doll, but I can't," he pursed his lips, shaking his head, "you know I can't do it."
"Bucky…" you whispered as more tears started flooding your face. You were so focused on Bucky that you didn't even pay attention to your friends, who stood aside and pretended not to eavesdrop on your conversation.
"Don't cry because of me, doll, please, you don't have to cry." Bucky's voice lowered to a whisper as he worked up the courage to use his thumb to wipe a tear from your right cheek with a metal finger.
You took advantage of the opportunity, grabbing his metal wrist and pressing his hand closer against your cheek.
 "Please, Bucky. Then let's go to your room. I can help you if you don't want to undress there.
"I don't think it's a good idea either, doll.  You don't need to see it."
"James," you focused on his eyes, rubbing small circles with your thumb into his wrist, "it'll be alright, I promise. I'm not afraid of you. I won’t leave. I'll take care of you. Please do it for me."
You were hurt by his gaze. You've seen a thousand thoughts go through that head. Doubt, fear, uncertainty, and pain. He couldn't lose you. Couldn't lose what you had. Even if he wanted so much more, he was content just being around you. He couldn't lose you to a damn ugly piece of metal attached to him.
But you looked at him like your life depended on it. Tears were still running down your cheeks. You were hurt because of him. But you refused to give up and let his self-doubt win this fight. You continued to gently massage his metal wrist as you placed a light kiss on it. And he could no longer resist you.
"Fine."
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"It's better if we do this in the bathroom," you said as you closed the door to Bucky's room behind you. You quickly walked past him, going into the bathroom and pulling out the first aid kit you knew was in the bottom drawer. You felt comfortable being a little bit bossy here, and Bucky didn’t mind it.
He quietly followed you, watching you with an unsure face. His blood was still soaking through his arm, but that didn't bother him as much as the fact that he'd have to undress in front of you and that at some point you would touch him.
Once all the necessary things were ready, you turned to face Bucky, already preparing to help him out. But as soon as your hands went up to help him unbuckle his suit, he staggered back, and you froze with your hands in the air. For a few seconds, you silently looked into each other's eyes, then you moved, trying to understand his reaction, and what you saw made your heart ache.
His brows were slightly furrowed, and the corners of his lips were turned down. His eyes always told you everything that he tried to hide, and right now they told you how scared and insecure Bucky actually was.
"I don't think I can do it." Bucky whispered softly, casting his eyes down in shame.
"Hey James, look at me," you said, taking his face in your hands. "I'm your friend, you know? I won't hurt you. I won’t judge you. I won't do anything against your will. But I need to help you because I can see how much pain you're in," you sighed, running your fingers over his cheekbones. "I know it's hard. And I know you're scared or shy, but I'm here for you. None of this scares me, and I'll be as gentle with you as I can, okay? You can tell me if it becomes too much, and I'll stop. I promise."  You could see the tears forming in his eyes, and you couldn't help feeling the pain that this beautiful man in front of you had been without care and affection for so long.
Bucky nodded slightly, giving you permission to continue.
"I’ll clean up your wound on the ribs, and then we can take care of your face." You carefully removed your hands from his, now placing them on the clasps of his suit. You opened them one by one, and when you finally got to the last one, you helped Bucky carefully remove that piece of clothing. Next on the way was a stretchy long-sleeve shirt, and by glancing at the wound, you could see that all the tissue around it was completely covered in blood.
"So, now I'm going to carefully lift up the shirt so you can take it off and not bother your wound too much, okay?" you asked, running your eyes over Bucky's face to understand his emotions. He took a deep breath, as if preparing for the worst, but nodded anyway.
You started to slowly lift up his shirt, helping Bucky pull his hands out one by one, and then tossed that no longer needed rag into the bathtub.
"Oh god," you muttered softly, looking at the wound that seemed to be even bigger now.
Bucky thought that you said it about his appearance in general, so he lifted his head up to the ceiling to stop angry tears from falling.
Come on, Buck, we need to sew this up so it doesn't leave a scar. Do you think you can sit on the counter next to the sink?" You looked at Bucky, but you couldn't meet his eyes. You knew that he was at the edge, his body trembled a little bit, but he still listened to you and silently jumped up on the free space near the sink.
"Bucky," you said quietly, trying to be as gentle as you could. "I see you right now, and I’m not going anywhere, you hear me?" You put your hand back on his face, making him meet your eyes. Before you could think, you placed your right hand on his chest, causing his eyes to instantly widen in surprise. His skin was very warm and silky, even though there were a lot of scars from different conditions. You gently moved your hand, showing Bucky that you’re not afraid, that you’re not a threat, and that he can trust you. "You're doing well, it’s okay," you said as you started rubbing soothing circles on his shoulder.
You backed off a little, finally picking up all the necessary things, and began to sanitize and then stitch up the wound. Every time you needed to put your hand on your skin, you felt Bucky instantly tense under your touch, but you tried to send him quiet words of encouragement and praise. Bucky was very quiet, not making a sound even when the needle pierced his skin. His face wasn’t in bad condition, and Super Soldier serum almost healed them, so you decided to only sanitize and clean his skin.
"Well, you did a great job, James. I'm proud of you." About twenty minutes later, you finally tied the bandage and began to put everything back in the drawer, but then felt a touch on your arm.
You looked back at Bucky, only to meet tear-filled eyes.
"No one has ever taken care of me in a long time, Y/N." You stepped closer to Bucky again, unconsciously placing your hands on his shoulders. "I feel ashamed of my body. Of that arm. I didn't want you to see those ugly scars. God, this is so pathetic—"
"Don't say that," you interrupted him. "That's not pathetic. I understand how you feel. That you have so many negative thoughts about yourself. But Bucky… God, I don't know how to properly say it." You paused for a moment, considering the words. "You're one of the most amazing people I know. And even if many people in the tower are scared or intimidated by you, for me, you are the sweetest, most caring, and most generous person. You remember every little thing I say, make me coffee and food when I'm too busy, pretend to like those shitty movies that I make you watch with me. I'm so sorry that so many bad things happened to such a good person that you feel unworthy of good things."
Suddenly, strong arms surrounded you, and you realized that Bucky was hugging you with arms wrapping around your waist. He nuzzled up to your neck, and you could feel light sobs. Gently, you entangled your fingers in his hair, massaging the scalp with calming movements.
"I don't deserve you, doll." Bucky pulled back a little, still keeping his hands on your waist. "I wish I could be normal for you. Be who I was back in the 40s. I would’ve asked you out and given you everything that you deserved. But that person is not here any more, and I'm not worthy of you."
He wanted to ask you out on a date?  Your heart stopped as soon as the words left his mouth, and you stared at Bucky in surprise. "Bucky—"
"I know…fuck—I shouldn't have said that. Fuck, fuck, fuck. I'm sorry, doll. I didn't mean to mess anything up between us, I promise. I know you don't feel the same— it's okay, really. Just forget about—"
You didn't let Bucky finish by leaning forward and brushing your lips against his. His flesh automatically tangled in the hair at the back of your neck as the metal one tightened his grip on your waist. For the first few seconds, Bucky was in shock, not kissing you back, but just as you wanted to pull away, his lips began to move, taking over you immediately.
It was the best kiss you ever had. He was gentle yet so passionate. There were a lot of unsaid feelings that Bucky kept to himself for too long. All thoughts seemed to have left your head as the feeling of him filled your whole body.
When there was not enough air, you moved away from each other, touching your foreheads with your eyes closed.
"Fuck" was the first thing he said.
"Yeah," you laughed, finally meeting Bucky's eyes. He looked at you with such adoration that you felt butterflies in your stomach. You just noticed how much skin-to-skin contact you had. "Are you okay with that? Doesn't that make you uncomfortable?" You tilted your head as your hands squeezed his shoulders.
"That's... that's weird. I'm not used to that kind of contact," Bucky said, studying your face. "But I trust you, doll. You are the only person I trust completely." You felt him begin to gently run his hand along your back. "I'd like to ask you out on a date. I mean, if you want to. If not, I totally understand—"
You interrupted him again, leaving a quick kiss on his lips. "I'd like to go on a date with you, James. You know, you’re so cute when you’re shy?"
You've never seen his face so lit up with happiness, with a little bit of pink on his cheeks. Butterflies began to beat in your stomach again, and you realized that it was you who made him feel that way.
"Do you want to go to bed, put on some shitty comedy, and grab some food? I still have to watch over your injury."
"Sounds like a perfect plan, doll." Bucky kissed you on the forehead, interlacing his fingers with you, and led you to his room.
Even if it still required a lot of work, cuddling with Bucky, you knew it was the best place you could be.
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What're friends for?
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AN: As a fellow weeb, bringing up Soobin and hentai was only a matter of time. This is just crack tbh. Also, this is just me once again pushing the Boobs enthusiast! Soobin and Sub! Soobin agendas. (Also also, I was tipsy while editing this so, hopefully it's some level of coherent 💀)
Synopsis: A night that was supposed to be spent watching anime with your best friend takes a sharp turn when he accidentally forgets to close his hentai tab.
Heads up: Choi Soobin x Fem! Reader, mostly pwp, friends to friends who fuck, crack, mentions of hentai, Dom! Reader, Sub! Soobin, dirty talk, Reader thinks Soobin is cute and calls him cute a lot, handjob, oral sex (m. receiving), Reader has boobs big enough to give Soobin a titjob, titjob and Soobin cums on Reader's face and tiddies.
Word count: 2353
I will block you if you are a minor and/or have no easily visible indication of your age on your blog if you interact with me in any way.
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"Hurry up!" you yell, making yourself comfortable on Soobin's bed as you wait for him to return from the kitchen with drinks.
"I'm coming, I'm coming. It's not like My Hero is going to go anywhere," he retorts when he finally returns with two glasses and a bottle of soda, shutting the door behind him.
"Yeah but, we barely get to spend time together in person and I don't want to waste it," you respond, moving over a little so he can comfortably settle beside you.
"True but, you don't need to yell," he says, rolling his eyes at you and grabbing his remote to switch on his TV.
Any response you have dies on your tongue when loud moans assault your ears. You're startled when you turn to see hentai playing on Soobin's screen. A pretty graphic scene of the male protagonist getting a titfuck from a woman with a...generous bust plays out on the screen, obscene sounds emitting from both of them.
Soobin fumbles with the remote, rushing to turn the TV off as quickly as he can. Silence rings out throughout his bedroom.
"Don't," is all he manages to choke out, his face speedrunning its way into scarlet territory.
"Hey, you have nothing to be embarrassed about. A lot of people watch porn," you say sincerely.
Soobin makes a noise that's a combination of embarrassment, frustration and distress. He refuses to look in your direction, choosing instead to stare holes into his bedroom door. Looking for all the world that he hopes the earth underneath him would open and swallow him whole.
"Seems like I was right about you being a boob guy atleast," you say jokingly, trying to ease the tension in the air.
He turns to face you so fast you're half surprised he doesn't snap his neck. "Who- how- why are you talking about what I prefer?" He asks, and his voice cracks halfway through.
"Soobin, relax, none of this is that big of a deal," you shrug, "You're not exactly... subtle when you take peaks at my boobs. Also, I just think you have boob guy energy. Can't really explain it beyond that."
You've never seen Soobin look like he's wished for death more than right now.
"I'm sorry for staring at your- um- it's inappropriate and really disrespectful-"
"Don't worry about it. I'm not offended. I'm pretty flattered, actually," you respond with a wave of your hand.
He looks stunned then, "Wha-what? You're not offended? Wait, you're flattered? Why?"
"Who doesn't feel flattered when someone thinks they're attractive?" You ask with a laugh, "Really, this doesn't have to be a big deal, Soobin."
"You're not the one whose porn habit was just exposed," he fires back but, it's difficult to take him seriously with that cute flush still colouring his cheeks.
"I don't mind sharing if you're really that curious,"
"You're really annoying, you know that?"
"Yet you think I'm attractive so, what does that say about you?"
Soobin looks like he's 5 seconds away from yelling.
"Okay, okay, I'm sorry," you soothe with minimal laughter this time around. Giving his arm a comforting squeeze. He says nothing after that, and the two of settle into a tense silence. However, you've always been too curious and talkative for your own good.
"Have you ever tried it?"
"Tried what?" He asks with his face scrunched up cutely in confusion.
"What they were doing in the hentai. Have you ever gotten a titjob?" You ask, genuinely curious.
The strangled noise he let's out starts to make you consider that maybe you are taking this a little too far.
"No," he mumbles out, dragging his hand across his face and pointedly looking at anything in his room that isn't you.
"Would you like to?"
"What?" Soobin's wide, startled eyes meeting yours. As though he's not entirely sure he heard you correctly.
"Would you like one? I wouldn't mind," you say sincerely. You've always thought your best friend was attractive and, clearly, he thinks you're attractive too. The circumstances couldn't be more perfect if you tried.
Soobin just stares at you for a long minute. His lips parted, and eyes wide.
"Are you... serious?"
"Yeah. I know I tease and joke a lot but, I wouldn't have offered if I wasn't serious,"
"You don't have to do this out of some misplaced sense of pity or whatever. I'll survive being embarrassed,"
"I'm not. I really want to. You can obviously say no. I'd never hold it against you, but I'm not offering out of pity. Not in the slightest,"
Soobin seems to still not believe this is all real, but he doesn't look quite as skeptical, and he's looking at you now, so that's a start.
"Okay," he says so softly that you almost miss it. Anticipation courses through you when his words do finally register. You shuffle closer to him then. Feeling a bit of pride when his blush darkens and his hands nervously toy with his sheets.
"Is it okay if I kiss you?"
"Yes," the already breathy quality of his voice makes your insides squirm. It's cute how he jumps slightly when your hand rests dangerously high on his thigh. You don't give him much time to think about it, though, because soon your lips are against his.
The moan he let's out goes straight to pussy. A dull ache already settling in as you try your best not to push him down and straddle his lap. You can't help the uptick of your lips when you feel him shudder as your tongue teases his mouth. He's just so fucking cute.
"You can touch me, you know," you tell him when you trail kisses along his jaw. Your hand moving further up his thigh as you shift closer to him.
"I did-didn't want to ma-make you uncomfortable," he stutters out, hands hovering nervously over you. "Soobin, you're going to be fucking my tits. It's completely fine to touch me," and to prove your point, you grab one of his gigantic hands and press it to one of your breasts.
Choosing not to wear a bra today definitely worked out for you. He seems to take initiative from there. Tentatively squeezing and letting a breathless 'fuck' as he takes in how soft you are.
Before you can utter more teasing remarks, his other hands weaves its way into your hair, and he meets your lips in a frenzied kiss. You moan against his pillowy lips when his thumb brushes over your nipple through your shirt. That just seems to egg him on more. Groaning into you when he gives you a particularly harsh squeeze.
For your part, your hands toy with the waistband of his sweats. Smiling when you feel his abdomen tense and jump with ever brush of your fingertips.
"Y/n," he whines, hips jerking towards you. "Yes?" You pull back and ask coyly, the ache between your thighs worsening as you take in how dishevelled he already looks.
"You're playing with me," he says with a pout and god, you want to ruin him. However, you push down the thought. You don't want to scare him off so soon.
"Playing with you? How?" You ask, titling your head in faux confusion.
"You're teas-teasing me. I want you t-to touch me," he rushes out so quickly you nearly miss his words. When you register what he says, your walls clench hard. You're a little surprised he said it so directly. Maybe he's becoming desperate. Cute.
"I am touching you, Soobin," you don't fail to notice the way he shudders when you say his name.
"You know what I mean,"
"I don't. You have to be specific,"
For a brief moment, you think he isn't going to respond. Maybe too embarrassed to tell you what he wants exactly.
"I want you to touch my cock," he whispers and, you pounce.
You don't give him a moment to comprehend what's happening. Kissing him fiercely as your hand snakes its way down his sweats and boxers. You both moan into each other at the contact. Fuck, he's much bigger than you fantasised about. Hot and incredibly hard in your palm.
"You're already so hard," you tease as you dot kisses along his jaw and, barely stroke him. The copious amounts of the pre-cum he's leaked out making for an easy glide nonetheless. Briefly, you wonder if he'd let you sit on it and ride him to your heart's content. Another time maybe.
"Yeah, for you," he moans, eyes fluttering shut and hips jolting against your hand to get as much friction as he can. It's not fair in the slightest how good he looks like this. His words certainly don't help either.
Impatiently, you tug his boxers and sweats down, and the sight of him flushed an appealing red makes you clench hard.
"Is it okay if I suck you off? Going in dry wouldn't be...pleasant," you ask, watching him for any signs of hesitance. However, you're met with the opposite. A throaty groan falling from his plush lips and his cock twitching against his stomach. This man really might just be the death of you.
"Yeah, it's okay," he mumbles, avoiding your gaze as the blush in his cheeks darken.
"You're so fucking cute," you breathe, kissing his neck and stroking him less leisurely this time around. His moans and the jerky, shallow thrusts of his hips into your hand make you grin against his skin and, your insides squirm.
"Shut up," he retorts but, it's severely undercut by how fucked out he already sounds. His hands gripping the sheets harshly.
"Oh?" You ask with faux innocence, stilling your hand around the base of his cock. Biting back a giggle when he whines and tries to fuck your hand for any sort of friction.
"Fu-fuck, fine. I'm so-sorry. I'm sorry, okay?" He grits out.
"Good boy," you say with a grin that's likely a tad too smug. Giving his jaw one more kiss, you ease yourself onto his floor. Honestly, you're impressed you're being so composed about all of this. Your breath stuttering in your lungs when you're eye level with his ridiculously appealing cock.
Soobin feels himself throb when your soft breaths hit him. It's made worse when he sees your tongue lick your lips and the look in your eyes. You look like you want to devour him.
The sharp gasp he let's out when you take your first lick of him goes straight to your clit. Ruined panties sticking to you uncomfortably as you familiarise yourself with the slightly salty taste that is all Soobin. His hips instinctively buck into you when you finally decide to stop toying with the poor man and, see how far you can take him.
"Fuc-fuck, sorry," he groans, eyes shut tightly as he tries his best to reign in his reactions. Such a cutie. You'd tell him so if your mouth wasn't filled with his dick. A mixture of your saliva and his pre-cum slipping past your lips and down your chin. Your hand stroking what you can't fit in your mouth and making sure he's thoroughly coated.
However, as much as you'd happily make him cum down your throat and keep sucking him off until he cries, tonight isn't about that.
His eyes are frantic and glassy when they meet yours. He looks so genuinely offended that you stop sucking him off that it almost makes you laugh. "Why?" Is all his foggy brain can seem to supply and you really want to kiss him.
Instead of answering him with words, you tug off your shirt and Soobin doesn't seem so upset anymore. Fiery eyes take in your breasts and committing them to memory. You don't fail to notice his cock twitching against his stomach, a fresh drop of pre-cum leaking out of him. God, he's just so easy.
"Still complaining?" You can't help but, tease. However, any response he would've given you dies on his tongue when you cup your breasts and envelope his slick cock in them.
The moan that flies from his lips is so wanton and broken that you can practically feel yourself soaking through your shorts. His eyes are shut as he tries his best not to fuck up into your ridiculously soft tits. Such a good boy.
You notice his large hands grip his sheets even more fiercely than before when you start to move. Allowing him to get accustomed to the glide of his cock between the valley of your breasts.
"Fe-Feels so good," he stutters out, weakly bucking into your touch. You've never felt more aroused in your entire life. He's so sensitive and responsive. You're sure you could have him cumming within minutes.
You bite back a grin when he gasps as you lick and suck at the head of his cock that pokes out. Looking up at him through fluttering lashes with his tip in your mouth and the rest of him nestled comfortably between your unfairly soft tits. His pre-cum and your saliva smearing your breasts.
You knew it wouldn't take much but, it still startles you when Soobin cums. He babbles out apologies as his hips jolt against you. His warm, thick cum landing on your tongue, face and breasts before you can even fully comprehend what just happened.
His cum isn't unpleasant. A little salty and you swallow it as he cock begins to soften between your breasts. You give him an apologetic look when he shudders as you slowly remove him from between your breasts. Looking around for anything to clean yourself up with.
"Fuck, again I'm so sorry," he apologises reaching into his bedside table for a few tissues, "here you go. I didn't mean to...make a mess."
Those words really shouldn't affect you as much as they do. At this point, you're sure even your shorts are ruined.
"It's okay. Honestly, it was really hot seeing you fall apart like that,"
The embarrassed, strained groan he gives you makes you smile harder than perhaps strictly necessary. He really is just so easy.
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inmyicyworld · 10 months
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I trust you
Summary: when Bucky comes back from a mission with a knife wound there is one person who can convince him to get help.
Words count: 3.4k
Warnings: language, blood, injury, self-hate talk from Bucky, he's an insecure baby, reader takes care of him, fluff
Author’s note: hey guys! hope you all have a great day or night. wanted to say thank you to everyone who liked my first work. It means a lot to me, I really didn't expect to get more than 200 notes that fast. (I was hoping for at least 10💀). And special thanks to the anonymous person who told me about the “read more” feature. i’m still trying to figure out how everything works here lmao. anyway, hope you'll like this one too🩷
*English is not my first language. Sorry if you find any mistakes*
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It was almost eight o'clock in the evening when FRIDAY reported that the guys' quinjet should arrive at the compound within an hour.
Steve, Sam, and Bucky went on another mission to destroy HYDRA almost two weeks ago. As usual, none of you could get any news from them because they couldn't risk giving away their whereabouts.
It was foolish to assume that you weren't worried about them. Especially for one person. Bucky.
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You and the former Winter Soldier met about six months ago when Steve and Sam first brought him to the tower. Steve was really worried about his old best friend, so before bringing Bucky to the tower, he talked with the team and asked all of you to give Bucky space.
Of course, you knew who he was from the day Steve found out that Bucky was alive. You have seen hundreds of reports and photographs on TV and on the Internet about The Winter Soldier, a ruthless killer who was always invisible but too damn good at his missions. He is the man who was turned into a weapon against his will.
When Steve introduced him, the whole team just nodded and shared awkward smiles, and Bucky himself kept his eyes on the ground. The whole situation was too intense, and no one, not even the loathsome and sarcastic Tony Stark, knew what to do or say. You actually thought that it might be rude to just stand there and look at him, as if he was a wild animal. Looking at this shy and uncomfortable-looking man before you, you know that the smallest thing you can get him is to show that he is welcomed in this tower and that everyone is on his side. So, pushing away your own shyness and nerves, you stepped forward, holding out your right hand.
"Hi, my name is Y/N.  It's nice to meet you. I hope you’ll feel comfortable around here." You offered your warmest and most sincere smile, trying not to show nervousness.
Bucky slowly raised his head, genuinely surprised that anyone else had actually spoken to him besides Steve. It's nice to meet you. When had he heard those words for the last time?
Your eyes met, and you could have sworn all the air was out of your lungs. His eyes were even more beautiful than in those rare, high-quality photographs. He looked truly beautiful, with long hair and blue eyes, even though you could see that he was tired—physically and even more emotionally. You stood for what seemed like an eternity, looking at each other's faces, until Bucky got a little nudge from Steve on the arm.
Only then did his gaze move to your still outstretched arm. He hesitated a bit, unsure if he wanted to be touched or feel someone’s warm skin. It’s been too long since another person wanted to touch him without causing any harm. Even Steve gave him minimal physical contact. Always through the gloves or thick jacket, and Bucky didn’t know the true reason for this—whether it was because Steve cared about his feelings or he just didn't want to do that. But then Bucky looked at you again, and he already knew that you would be his death.
You were so beautiful. Probably the most attractive person he has ever seen. It was still morning, and he assumed that you planned to have a day for yourself because you had no makeup, your hair was a little bit messy, and you looked really comfy in a big sweater and a pair of black leggings. Oh, and he definitely noticed your cute, fluffy pink socks. Your eyes were full of friendliness and comfort, so it made him want to trust you. Your lips curled into a warm smile, and he had no doubt that you wanted to make him feel comfortable on the team.
Bucky lifted the corners of his lips slightly, meeting your eyes again, and held out his right hand to you, still feeling awkward. Especially when the whole team around you watches your interaction too closely.
 "Hi."
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When the Quinjet landed on the territory, you couldn't calm your pounding heart. Natasha, who was standing a couple of steps away from you, of course, noticed your condition but didn’t say anything and just sent you a reassuring smile. She knew you'd calm down when Bucky was by your side.
Sam got out first. He looked tired, had a couple of scratches and bruises, but was generally fine.
"Sam!  God, I'm glad you're okay." You said, running closer to him. "How is Bucky? And Steve? Are they okay?" Your worried eyes ran across his face, trying to find answers, but he only pursed his lips and lowered his eyes to the ground.
"Steve’s fine, and Bucky, um... I think you should see it yourself. And I think you need to have a serious talk with this idiot because he doesn't listen to us." Your brows furrowed, but before you could ask anything else, footsteps and stifled moans were heard behind Sam.
It felt like your heart stopped as soon as you saw him. Blood flowed from his temple and lip, and an already darkening bruise adorned his right cheekbone. Your eyes rushed down, trying to find all the damage, and then you saw it. Bucky kept his right hand on his left side. His entire palm was scarlet red as the blood passed through his thick suit and soaked through his fingers. Your mouth opened involuntarily, and your eyes instantly filled with tears.
Of course, this was not his first mission, but he always returned almost without any injuries or with something that quickly healed because of his supersoldier serum. It has never been so bad.
Before you knew it, you were already standing next to him. Tears flowed freely down your face, and you raised your hands up, wanting to touch him, but they froze in the air.
 "Bucky…" You sobbed, looking straight into his eyes.
 "Hello, doll" He smiled reassuringly at you, but you saw how he pressed his teeth together to ease the pain. He didn’t want to scare you.
"Bucky, God, wh-what happened? You need to go to the hospital wing. You’re losing a lot of blood!" You gently took his metal hand, but before you could lead him away, he removed it and moved away a little.
"It's all right, doll.  Nothing that I can't handle on my own. Trust me, I’ve experienced worse."
"Buck, Y/N is right." You notice Steve for the first time because all your attention has been focused on Bucky since he appeared. "That punk cut you pretty deep; it needs to be stitched up."
"You know, I never go to the hospital wing." He purses his lips awkwardly, looking down.
Of course. Of course you knew it. Everyone in the tower knew that the Winter Soldier didn't like being touched or visiting doctors, and he had never asked for any kind of help. He always limited himself to a short handshake or a pat on the back from his best friend.
But you also knew that Bucky couldn't take off his clothes in front of anyone. Too many scars from bullets, knives, and other things that HYDRA used to torture him He confessed this to you one evening when you were sitting in the dark in the common room after his nightmare.
In those six months, you got close enough to him that he trusted you to sit with him in the stillness of the night and share his fears. But he still avoided touching and, of course, did not want to show his body to anyone. Even you. Especially to you.
You were one of the few good things in his life. Someone who genuinely wanted to spend time with him, who wasn’t afraid of him, and who was always kind and supportive. Bucky didn't want to lose you. And he knew that if you ever saw him with those ugly marks all over his body, you would run away without looking back. Because who would like it?
The hand that took hundreds of lives. The hand that was forever connected to his body left a big reminder that he was, in fact, just an experiment that went too well. He often looked at his shoulder in the mirror with anger and despair, wanting to get rid of this mixture of scars and torn skin. Obviously, when HYDRA put that prosthetic on him, they didn't care much about looks or pain, so they just hooked it on the way they did.
"Bucky, please listen to me." You sobbed, moving closer to him again. "I know you're afraid to go there, but please, you have to do it, otherwise, you'll lose too much blood or just get an infection." You hugged yourself with your hands as your body began to tremble with concern for the person in front of you. "It can leave a big scar." You whispered and saw that Bucky’s jaw clenched again. You didn’t want him to think that there was something wrong with having scars, but you knew that it was emotionally too hard for him to deal with them.
"I'm sorry, doll, but I can't," he pursed his lips, shaking his head, "you know I can't do it."
"Bucky…" you whispered as more tears started flooding your face. You were so focused on Bucky that you didn't even pay attention to your friends, who stood aside and pretended not to eavesdrop on your conversation.
"Don't cry because of me, doll, please, you don't have to cry." Bucky's voice lowered to a whisper as he worked up the courage to use his thumb to wipe a tear from your right cheek with a metal finger.
You took advantage of the opportunity, grabbing his metal wrist and pressing his hand closer against your cheek.
 "Please, Bucky. Then let's go to your room. I can help you if you don't want to undress there.
"I don't think it's a good idea either, doll.  You don't need to see it."
"James," you focused on his eyes, rubbing small circles with your thumb into his wrist, "it'll be alright, I promise. I'm not afraid of you. I won’t leave. I'll take care of you. Please do it for me."
You were hurt by his gaze. You've seen a thousand thoughts go through that head. Doubt, fear, uncertainty, and pain. He couldn't lose you. Couldn't lose what you had. Even if he wanted so much more, he was content just being around you. He couldn't lose you to a damn ugly piece of metal attached to him.
But you looked at him like your life depended on it. Tears were still running down your cheeks. You were hurt because of him. But you refused to give up and let his self-doubt win this fight. You continued to gently massage his metal wrist as you placed a light kiss on it. And he could no longer resist you.
"Fine."
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"It's better if we do this in the bathroom," you said as you closed the door to Bucky's room behind you. You quickly walked past him, going into the bathroom and pulling out the first aid kit you knew was in the bottom drawer. You felt comfortable being a little bit bossy here, and Bucky didn’t mind it.
He quietly followed you, watching you with an unsure face. His blood was still soaking through his arm, but that didn't bother him as much as the fact that he'd have to undress in front of you and that at some point you would touch him.
Once all the necessary things were ready, you turned to face Bucky, already preparing to help him out. But as soon as your hands went up to help him unbuckle his suit, he staggered back, and you froze with your hands in the air. For a few seconds, you silently looked into each other's eyes, then you moved, trying to understand his reaction, and what you saw made your heart ache.
His brows were slightly furrowed, and the corners of his lips were turned down. His eyes always told you everything that he tried to hide, and right now they told you how scared and insecure Bucky actually was.
"I don't think I can do it." Bucky whispered softly, casting his eyes down in shame.
"Hey James, look at me," you said, taking his face in your hands. "I'm your friend, you know? I won't hurt you. I won’t judge you. I won't do anything against your will. But I need to help you because I can see how much pain you're in," you sighed, running your fingers over his cheekbones. "I know it's hard. And I know you're scared or shy, but I'm here for you. None of this scares me, and I'll be as gentle with you as I can, okay? You can tell me if it becomes too much, and I'll stop. I promise."  You could see the tears forming in his eyes, and you couldn't help feeling the pain that this beautiful man in front of you had been without care and affection for so long.
Bucky nodded slightly, giving you permission to continue.
"I’ll clean up your wound on the ribs, and then we can take care of your face." You carefully removed your hands from his, now placing them on the clasps of his suit. You opened them one by one, and when you finally got to the last one, you helped Bucky carefully remove that piece of clothing. Next on the way was a stretchy long-sleeve shirt, and by glancing at the wound, you could see that all the tissue around it was completely covered in blood.
"So, now I'm going to carefully lift up the shirt so you can take it off and not bother your wound too much, okay?" you asked, running your eyes over Bucky's face to understand his emotions. He took a deep breath, as if preparing for the worst, but nodded anyway.
You started to slowly lift up his shirt, helping Bucky pull his hands out one by one, and then tossed that no longer needed rag into the bathtub.
"Oh god," you muttered softly, looking at the wound that seemed to be even bigger now.
Bucky thought that you said it about his appearance in general, so he lifted his head up to the ceiling to stop angry tears from falling.
Come on, Buck, we need to sew this up so it doesn't leave a scar. Do you think you can sit on the counter next to the sink?" You looked at Bucky, but you couldn't meet his eyes. You knew that he was at the edge, his body trembled a little bit, but he still listened to you and silently jumped up on the free space near the sink.
"Bucky," you said quietly, trying to be as gentle as you could. "I see you right now, and I’m not going anywhere, you hear me?" You put your hand back on his face, making him meet your eyes. Before you could think, you placed your right hand on his chest, causing his eyes to instantly widen in surprise. His skin was very warm and silky, even though there were a lot of scars from different conditions. You gently moved your hand, showing Bucky that you’re not afraid, that you’re not a threat, and that he can trust you. "You're doing well, it’s okay," you said as you started rubbing soothing circles on his shoulder.
You backed off a little, finally picking up all the necessary things, and began to sanitize and then stitch up the wound. Every time you needed to put your hand on his skin, you felt Bucky instantly tense under your touch, but you tried to send him quiet words of encouragement and praise. Bucky was very quiet, not making a sound even when the needle pierced his skin. His face wasn’t in bad condition, and Super Soldier serum almost healed them, so you decided to only sanitize and clean his skin.
"Well, you did a great job, James. I'm proud of you." About twenty minutes later, you finally tied the bandage and began to put everything back in the drawer, but then felt a touch on your arm.
You looked back at Bucky, only to meet tear-filled eyes.
"No one has ever taken care of me in a long time, Y/N." You stepped closer to Bucky again, unconsciously placing your hands on his shoulders. "I feel ashamed of my body. Of that arm. I didn't want you to see those ugly scars. God, this is so pathetic—"
"Don't say that," you interrupted him. "That's not pathetic. I understand how you feel. That you have so many negative thoughts about yourself. But Bucky… God, I don't know how to properly say it." You paused for a moment, considering the words. "You're one of the most amazing people I know. And even if many people in the tower are scared or intimidated by you, for me, you are the sweetest, most caring, and most generous person. You remember every little thing I say, make me coffee and food when I'm too busy, pretend to like those shitty movies that I make you watch with me. I'm so sorry that so many bad things happened to such a good person that you feel unworthy of good things."
Suddenly, strong arms surrounded you, and you realized that Bucky was hugging you with arms wrapped around your waist. He nuzzled up to your neck, and you could feel light sobs. Gently, you entangled your fingers in his hair, massaging the scalp with calming movements.
"I don't deserve you, doll." Bucky pulled back a little, still keeping his hands on your waist. "I wish I could be normal for you. Be who I was back in the 40s. I would’ve asked you out and given you everything that you deserved. But that person is not here any more, and I'm not worthy of you."
He wanted to ask you out on a date?  Your heart stopped as soon as the words left his mouth, and you stared at Bucky in surprise. "Bucky—"
"I know…fuck—I shouldn't have said that. Fuck, fuck, fuck. I'm sorry, doll. I didn't mean to mess anything up between us, I promise. I know you don't feel the same— it's okay, really. Just forget about—"
You didn't let Bucky finish by leaning forward and brushing your lips against his. His flesh hand automatically tangled in the hair at the back of your neck as the metal one tightened his grip on your waist. For the first few seconds, Bucky was in shock, not kissing you back, but just as you wanted to pull away, his lips began to move, taking over you immediately.
It was the best kiss you’ve ever had. He was gentle yet so passionate. There were a lot of unsaid feelings that Bucky kept to himself for too long. All thoughts seemed to have left your head as the feeling of him filled your whole body.
When there was not enough air, you moved away from each other, touching your foreheads with your eyes closed.
"Fuck" was the first thing he said.
"Yeah," you laughed, finally meeting Bucky's eyes. He looked at you with such adoration that you felt butterflies in your stomach. You just noticed how much skin-to-skin contact you had. "Are you okay with that? Doesn't that make you uncomfortable?" You tilted your head as your hands squeezed his shoulders.
"That's... that's weird. I'm not used to that kind of contact," Bucky said, studying your face. "But I trust you, doll. You are the only person I trust completely." You felt him begin to gently run his hand along your back. "I'd like to ask you out on a date. I mean, if you want to. If not, I totally understand—"
You interrupted him again, leaving a quick kiss on his lips. "I'd like to go on a date with you, James. You know, you’re so cute when you’re shy?"
You've never seen his face so lit up with happiness, with a little bit of pink on his cheeks. Butterflies began to beat in your stomach again, and you realized that it was you who made him feel that way.
"Do you want to go to bed, put on some shitty comedy, and grab some food? I still have to watch over your injury."
"Sounds like a perfect plan, doll." Bucky kissed you on the forehead, interlacing his fingers with you, and led you to his room.
Even if it still required a lot of work, cuddling with Bucky, you knew it was the best place you could be.
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ihavethedreamies · 25 days
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Grape | Renjun
Hwang Renjun - NCT Dream
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Rating: M (18+) MDNI
Word Count: ~1.5k
Pairing: Renjun x AFAB!Reader
Genre: Reader-Insert, Smut, Established Relationship, Porn without Plot
!!This is smut…if that much isn't clear you should probably leave now!! MDNI!
Warnings: She/Her Pronouns used, Swearing, Kissing, Soft Dom! Renjun (Barely there), Oral (M! Receiving), Couch Sex, Unprotected Sex (Don’t!!)
Summary: You have an…intriguing way of eating grapes…
Author's Note: This series was supposed to be of drabbles, and this is the shortest one…sorry.
This is only vaguely based off of Smoothie…I say this because I got the idea for a fruit theme, but past that its unrelated.
🍉 Mark 🍉
🍌 Jeno 🍌
🍒 Haechan 🍒
🍑 Jaemin 🍑
🍓 Chenle 🍓
🍍 Jisung 🍍
I am cross-posting this on Archive. Please reblog! If you know anyone that would like this or future fics but they aren't on here my name and icon are exactly the same on the other site. Happy reading!
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You loved grapes but were extremely picky with them. They had to be hard and crunchy, if they were even slightly squishy, you wouldn't eat it. This was annoying for your boyfriend because he could get them for you and then you might reject them due to improper firmness. This was mostly before you two were dating, and he could pick them out good after nearly two months of getting it wrong. He had learned. The only problem? You ate them way too fast. Not that you got a stomach ache, it’s just you could down a whole bag of them in like two days if he didn't make you pace it out. It was a warm spring day, around 3pm, you had the windows open to air the apartment out after cleaning. He came home to you sitting on the couch in just a tank top, panties, and sneakers. That's how he knew you had cleaned. You were flipping through YouTube on the TV, an empty box of cheese whales laying on the couch cushion next to you.
"You hungry, pretty girl?" Renjun smiled, placing the grocery bags on the counter. You made a general positive grunt, and he pulled the grapes out of a bag and your face lit up.
"Help me put these away first." He chuckled when you groaned but got up to do so. You were normally a stickler for no shoes in the apartment, but your feet hurt without shoes when you cleaned, so you had a pair just for that exact task. Renjun had a hard time not watching your cute little butt, covered only by purple panties, jogging around the kitchen as you put groceries away. Your tank top was tight, making it obvious you weren't in a bra, and he had to force his gaze away from you. Even the way the end of your hair, up in a high ponytail, dangled over your shoulders was distracting him. You were none the wiser. Once everything else was put away, he led you back to the couch, holding the bag up for you to follow like you were some kind of animal…it worked though. Your boyfriend was not exactly tall for a man, especially compared to his friends, but he was still almost half a foot taller than you. Because of this, when he held the bag of grapes above his head as high as possible, you couldn't reach them.
"Renjun!" you scolded, and he laughed, relenting when he felt your breasts squish against his chest as you tried to reach your snack. You were about to become a snack, if you didn't stop tempting him. Not that you were trying. You shoved the empty box of cheese crackers out of the way, the blue box flying pitifully off the couch and onto the floor. Renjun sighed, too lazy to deal with it right then, so he rested back onto the couch with you. You had slipped your sneakers off, socked feet resting on the edge of the cushion, knees to your chest. He tried not to straight out stare at you as you popped the green little orbs into your mouth, one by one. You were so cute when your cheeks were puffed up, staring enthralled at the video you had pulled up. He barely was even paying attention to the man in the video, making an instrument out of a squash to play a song with it.
"Ah, fuck." You clicked your tongue. You had gotten ambitious and tried to put too many grapes in your mouth, one of them slipping past your lips, tumbling to fall right between your tits. Renjun was quicker than either of you thought possible. Before you could pick the fruit up off your skin, he had leaned forward, wrapping his lips around the grape, barely grazing your skin and he pulled back up like what he just did was normal. You blinked at him, and he was fighting back a laugh, trying to stay cool and confident. When your brain registered what he did, you sneered.
"Grape stealer…" You grumbled and this made him laugh, nearly choking on the grape he was still chewing. Rolling your eyes, you went back to the video, your attention getting caught as his hand reached to pluck a grape from the vine. Your bewildered stare followed his hand and he smirked, holding the little green ball between his teeth. Sucking it in, he just held it in his cheek.
"Bitch-" You started, and he huffed.
"Come and get it then~" Renjun laughed when you shoved the bag away, to the other end of the couch, climbing onto him. You straddled your lap and at first you were going to pry his mouth open like he was a puppy chewing on a rock, but his hands came to your hips, pulling you down against him. You froze, feeling his half-hard cock straining against his jeans, rubbing against your barely covered cunt. That changed your entire approach. Sniffing, trying to appear unaffected, you instead leaned down, sealing your lips over his. He immediately let your tongue enter and you reached in to try and find the fruit. Your tongue hit it, wrapping around it as well as his tongue so you could pull it back into your mouth. Once you had retrieved your bounty, you pulled away, saliva dripped from your lips and you chewed on the grape, sitting smugly on his lap. Instantly, pretty, sweet Renjun was gone, a harder look crossing his face. Your core clenched at the demeanor shift, your smug look disappearing, body deflating a bit. Your fingers messed with the end of his sweat shirt as he nuzzled your neck, starting to kiss and suck there. You shivered with a mewl, fingers dancing down to the zipper of his pants.
"You thirsty now, pretty?"
"Hm." You hummed sheepishly and he leaned back into the couch, his hands leaving you. You took the signal and scrambled off his lap to kneel on the floor before him, eagerly unzipping his jeans to grab his fully hard cock. Your mouth watered, craving him way more than you ever would the grapes. When your lips wrapped around the head of his cock, starting to take him into your mouth, he realized why you eating the grapes got to him so much. You sucked them into your mouth just like you were sucking his dick. He licked his lips, a slight bit of the juice still lingering.
"Good girl~" He praised as the head of his cock hit the back of your throat and you moaned in reply. Renjun rested his hand on your head as it bobbed, your hands wrapping around what didn't fit in your mouth. Your mouth had been watering already since the grapes were a bit sour, like you liked them, and so you were slathering him and your face with drool. You were a mess, and it was one of the hottest things he had ever seen.
"Okay, up." He grew impatient and led you to get up off the floor.
"But!" You tried to protest, but with a great deal more strength than you knew he had, he hauled you up by the elbow and your back hit the couch. Renjun was too eager to even bother taking your tank off, so he just shoved it up and over your breasts, so they were revealed to him. Seeing you half-clothed like that normally didn't do anything for him since it was your cleaning clothes, but you were driving him crazy. Your hands scrambled at his shoulders, desperately gripping the fabric of his sweatshirt and he huffed before yanking it off. He didn't know why you cared so much, it’s not liked he looked like Jeno or Jaemin. You let out a long whine as your hands skated over his smooth skin and he was tired of waiting. Your boyfriend simply pulled your panties to the side, he was not strong enough to rip them off, and you would kill him for doing that anyway. Your breath left you in a loud gasp as he buried his cock inside you all at once. Your cunt burned pleasantly at the rapid stretch, your legs shivering at Renjun's sides. He watched you, licking his lips, as your tits bounced with each hard thrust he delivered. Your head was thrown back, hair spread over the couch cushion, hands rested on his torso at his ribs.
"R-Ren~!" You cried in delight as he hauled your legs up and over his elbows and rolled his hips even harder. He loved the gasping moans he was forcing out of you. As he felt himself getting closer to the edge, his thumb landed on your clit, and he felt your cunt clench his cock harder.
"-j-jun!" Your voice was getting hoarse, not holding any noises back.
"Cum, pretty." He pressed his thumb harder, and you fell over the edge, your pulsing walls milking his cock as he fucked his cum into you. When he finally stilled, you mewled with each panting breath.
"Gotta get you grapes more often~" Renjun chuckled, and you huffed.
"Rather have you instead."
🍉 Mark 🍉
🍌 Jeno 🍌
🍒 Haechan 🍒
🍑 Jaemin 🍑
🍓 Chenle 🍓
🍍 Jisung 🍍
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moni-logues · 8 months
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Germs
Pairing: Hoseok x reader (gn)
Genre: comfort, sick fic, established relationship
Word count: 1.4k
Summary: When you come down with the flu, the last thing you expect is your germophobic boyfriend to come to your aid. But Hoseok is full of surprises.
Content: I mean, honestly, nothing, reader is ill.
A/N: I'm feeling rusty and tired so the aim is to get out some short little drabbly bits! this is one of them! I have just written it in the last hour; it is unbeta'd and honestly, not thought through at all and not edited lmao but it's Hobi and it's cute so.
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You took a stuttering breath in and then let out an unexpectedly forceful sneeze. Hoseok’s head immediately appeared around the kitchen door where he was cleaning up dinner. 
“Was that a sneeze?” he asked, narrowing his eyes at you. 
“... No?”  
There was absolutely no denying but Hoseok had been telling you for two days now that you looked like you were coming down with something and you didn’t want him to be right. 
“Don’t lie to me,” he said, coming out of the kitchen fully. 
He threw a box of tissues at you and continued on to the bathroom, via the kitchen. When he came back, he sprayed the air in front of you with an antibacterial aerosol, he took out wipes for the TV control, your phone, the coffee table, the snacks on the table you had yet to open. He placed a glass of orange juice in your hand with vitamin C tablets and echinacea. He pressed a hand against your forehead and peered at you closely, looking for a glassy eye or unusual flush. He did all of this whilst wearing a mask.  
You had long given up trying to stop him—it was futile, which is why you had been so keen to deny the sneeze.  
When he was satisfied that you had taken the tablets and drunk your juice, he put a mask on you, too. 
“No taking chances, treasure. You are getting ill and I won’t have it.”  
You didn’t protest. You didn’t argue. Once he hit this point, there was no going back. You'd be sleeping in your own apartments for the next week at least. You also didn’t have the energy. Because you were pretty sure, too, that you were getting ill... If you were being honest.  
The next morning hit you over the head with a sledgehammer. Your body was lead. Your head was an anvil. Even the blood in your veins felt sluggish. You were sweating under the bed covers, stifled. You used all your energy to smack your alarm clock into silence and pick up your phone. You sent a message to your boss to let them know you would not be coming into work. Then you let your phone drop somewhere in the bed and tried to go back to sleep. 
But sleep wouldn’t come. You tossed and turned but every position made you ache. You were too hot and too cold. Your head felt thick and muggy but you felt too alert to sleep. Everything was wrong.  
You wanted a cool flannel on your forehead and some hot, healing broth. You wanted a blanket and a blast of fresh air. You wanted a cold shower and a nice, hot bath.  
You wanted a cuddle. You accepted that this would not be coming from your germophobic boyfriend, but a stuffed animal really wasn’t cutting it. You sent him a plaintive text and received a string of exclamation marks and emojis in return. He promised to send you soup but you wouldn’t have been able to get out of bed to receive it. He promised to send you medicine, but same deal.  
You knew it wouldn’t actually make the illness leave you any faster or make any physical difference to your body; you just wanted him close to you. His heart-shaped lips on your forehead, his long arms around your waist, his clean, musky smell. The comfort you felt in his arms, the security, the safety, the softness. You knew he wouldn’t come. He was an angel in all ways but his penchant for cleanliness. You knew his care-taking could not extend to comforting you while you were ill. It was just his thing. He had never said as much but you watched him clean feverishly; you had to listen to his chastising of you whenever you didn’t clean something the right way or enough or just let him do it. He was a perfectionist and it extended into every area of his life. Including germs. And you were riddled with them.  
You left your phone ignored and sank back into the damp, sweaty sheets and tried again to find sleep. 
It did, eventually, find you and you woke, hours later, to the echoing sound of knocking and a buzzing sensation somewhere near your legs. You flung your arm around beneath the duvet to find your ringing phone and answered it, speaking your very first words of the day. 
“Hello?”  
You sounded even worse than you thought you would. 
“Ohh, my girl, you sound so bad.” Hoseok sounded genuinely sympathetic. “Come and let me in, will you? I’ve been knocking at your door for ages.” 
It must have been a fever dream. Hoseok at your door? Hoseok entering the sick bay? Surely not. But the knocking came again from the other side of your apartment and his voice rang through the phone, asking to be let in.  
“Ok, hold on,” you wheezed into the phone before hanging up. 
With tremendous effort, you pulled your leaden body into a sitting position and gave yourself a few seconds to balance yourself. Then you stood carefully and shuffled to the front door. You had to pause, holding yourself up on the door frame, exhausted from the short walk there. You weren’t entirely sure you were not about to pass out and if that was going to happen, you really had to open the door before it. So you took a deep breath and pulled it open. 
Hoseok gasped and immediately put his arm around your waist, taking your weight on him as you stepped backwards and let him into the apartment. You let him lead you back into the bedroom but he took one look at the bed and steered you out again, setting you down gently on the sofa. He was still wearing a mask and you saw him click open a small bottle of hand sanitiser from the bag he’d brought with him.  
“Have some water,” he said gently, placing a bottle on the coffee table in front of you, alongside some painkillers and yet more vitamin C.  
Then he disappeared and you heard him fussing in the bedroom. He came out with an armful of laundry and put it in the washing machine. He walked back into the bedroom where he fussed some more. He took several trips back and forth between the supplies he had brought with him and your bedroom. He checked in on you to make sure you were drinking the water he’d brought. He made you a cup of herbal tea. You heard the fridge open and shut but couldn’t see what he’d been putting in or taking out.  
At some point, you nodded off again, this time sweating into the sofa cushions and shivering with no blanket. When you woke up, you had been transported.  
The room was bathed in a soft, warm glow; the sheets you were lying on were crisp and clean and smelt fresh like detergent; the air smelt fresh, too, clean, not too strong. You were too warm, again, but it wasn’t just your body this time. It was the body of the man pressed against you, his arms around you, his head resting against yours. 
“Hobi?” you asked, your voice not quite yet woken from your sleep. You cleared your throat and tried again.  
He pulled back to look at you. 
“Hey, treasure, are you feeling any better?” His voice was soft and quiet, as if being too loud might hurt you.  
His fingers were light as they brushed against your cheek. His lips were as soft as you wanted when he pressed them to your forehead. 
“What are you doing here?” you asked.  
“What do you mean? I’m here to take care of you! Of course I am!” 
You couldn’t work out if it was your flu-riddled brain that was making you stupid or that Hoseok really wasn’t making sense. 
“Why would you take care of me? I’m ill.” 
“Yes, that’s why you need taking care of. Has the fever fried your brain that badly?” 
You used what little strength you possessed to push back from him. You looked up at him with a deep frown and his pretty, open face looked back, his lips lifted at the corners in a gentle smile, his eyes sparkling, his hair falling slightly into his eyes.  
“But I have germs. You hate germs.” 
He chuckled and pulled you back into him, pressing a kiss into your hair. 
“I hate germs,” he conceded. “But I love you.” 
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loserlvrss · 4 months
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꒰ 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘 𝐎𝐍𝐄 ꒱ 김규빈
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summary : spending quality time with your boyfriend, gyuvin
genre : fluff, established relationship, gyuvin x gn!reader tws : language, pet names, cheating jokes author notes : always in my gyuvin era tbh ♡ word count : 1k
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the twinkling of the fairy lights reflected on the sliding glass door out to your balcony. the gentle orange hue contrasted against the cold, mid-winter, night sky. you huffed out a satisfied laugh, touching one of the bulbs lightly to fix its position. you wanted everything to be perfect, and if you do say so yourself, it’s pretty damn near.
you turned around taking in the scenery of your living room. you had put down a couple cozy blankets, taking the fluffy pillows from your bed and lining them against the lower couch cushions. however, you didn’t imagine just stoping at a cute bed for you and your boyfriend to watch movies together on, you went all out and made a full-on fort out of some more extra blankets (which you had no lack of because of your niche obsession), bar stools and cream-colored ribbons. you even went as far as putting battery powered fairy lights (much like the ones lining the walls) inside the structure. oddly, it put you at ease, reminding you of your childhood. you had a bowl of snacks by the foot of the blankets, drinks resting against the plastic. your tv was turned on, the animated fireplace adding to the relaxed aura.
you texted gyuvin almost an hour ago, knowing that he was at dance practice with his members. you told him you had a surprise, knowing that he would be tired — especially with his comeback on its way. he replied excitedly, asking no short of questions back at you, to which you just ignored or told him he’d have to wait and see for himself. you weren't much of a romanticist, but gyuvin brought out sides of you, you truthfully didn't know existed somewhere inside. you guessed that's just what happens when you love someone; and that you really did.
you huffed, giving yourself a mental pat on the back. your attention was grabbed with a gentle ring of the doorbell echoing. your heart picked up pace in excitement, a smile plastering your face. you practically ran to the front door, turning off the lights in the process — so he could get the full experience right off the bat.
you swung the door inwards, your tall boyfriend staring down at you with an equally wide smile. you looked him over, hair still wet as if he got out of the shower put his shoes on and came to see you.
you playfully rolled your eyes, "you're going to get sick, love."
he pulled you into his chest, embracing you tightly, "not even a hello? i'll just go home and dry it then."
"hey, hey, i just spent an hour and a half setting your surprise up, so i'll just dry it."
little did you know, that's exactly what he wanted; he wasn't actually going to leave you over some stupid wet hair. he'd rather himself get sick.
you let him inside your house, waiting for him to tell you how much he liked what you've done with it. and once he did, you skipped off to the bathroom to find your hair dryer.
you came back out to your puppy-mannered boyfriend sitting in the fort, a bag of chips already in his hands. your smile borderlined dorky — painfully so — as you went and joined him.
"how was practice?" you asked, plugging the dryer into the nearest outlet (thanking whoever was out there that it was long enough to reach the two of you), "any cool new moves?"
"well, hanbin is good at tutting, so we added a little bit of that into the pre-chorus choreography." he explained, you sitting on your knees to be at a better height to dry his hair. you ran your hand through it, attempting to detangle it if needed. gyuvin practically melted into the touch. "otherwise, it was standard. tough, but we made it through."
the hum of the warm air filled the room, you making sure it was just right before putting it to his head. "well, you know i'm proud of you nine. your biggest supporter right here!" you boasted, "you know i'll always love you guys."
he turned abruptly, a chip between his lips, "but me more, right?"
the palm of your hand, playfully, pushed his head back to his original position, "obviously, you big baby."
"what did you do? miss me?"
"not even a little bit," you lied, "i watched some TV, did homework and then set up a pillow fort for my boyfriend. he should be here any second, you might want to hide."
you turned the dryer off, done with it, and set it aside. gyuvin spun around, his hands settling on your legs. "he sounds terrifying."
"oh, hardly." you laughed, "actually, the exact opposite to be honest."
he pouted, eyes staring directly into yours adoringly, "wow, i can't believe you'd make me your pretend side piece."
you ruffled his hair, "gotta keep my options open, baby."
"shut up," he said before pressing kisses to your face, and lastly your lips. you giggled, falling into him. "you know i'm your only one."
he embraced you, wrapping his long limbs around you like you were trapped. it was his way of showing you that you couldn't even imagine being without him now, and you never wanted to.
you turned to face him, hand coming up to his cheek. you kissed his nose gently, heart swollen with only love for him. he smiled, eyes closing at the contact. if this was just you being a couple of kids, you never wanted to grow up. he was everything to you, and you've pretended to love a lot of people before — this time it being more than real.
he snuggled in closer, pushing his head into the crook of your neck and tracing shapes on the skin of your side. you played with his hair until you heard the soft breaths taken against you; he had fallen asleep peacefully, with your heart pressed against him.
and you decided a long time ago that you'd always be by his side.
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iwantanywayyy · 1 month
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dad and i are sitting on the couch together watching tv. it's Friday night so neither of us should be worried about getting up early tomorrow. i honestly always feel on edge when i have to stay at dad's for the weekends. he watches me do things i know dads shouldnt but he says it's because he loves me and wants to make sure im healthy and safe.
as we're watching the movie he keeps hinting i should go to bed because it's late. every time he talks he presses his toes up against me...i shudder every time and cant help clinging onto the side of the couch. i swear sometimes i see him smirk. he seems annoyed every time i tell him i want to stay up and shakes his foot against my pajama shorts before slightly relieving pressure.
after the fourth time hinting he got up and started muttering to himself as he walked to the kitchen.
i quickly shoved my hands under my panties and checked and oh gosh im so wet why am i wet?! im scared because i know dad does bad things but i can never remember anything i feel crazy and if im wet does that mean i like it? does he know i like it? i hear his footsteps coming back and i quickly squirm back into the position i was in before he left trying to make my face cool down.
he has a cup of water in each hand and i smile in appreciation as he gives me one. taking a few sips i go to put it down but dad tells me to keep drinking because it will make me go to bed quicker. he says he's tired and will do the same but he cant sleep until i do so he counts us down and we both finish our waters before he puts his arm around me and lets me cuddle against him. honestly it made me kind of uncomfortable but dad is so big and he was so warm and made me feel safe at the same time.
as the movie goes on i feel my eyes starting to get hazy. i didnt think the water trick was gonna work that quickly (i didnt think it would work at all honestly but dad's old and maybe it works for him) i mutter out to him im sleepy and try to stand up to bring myself to my bedroom but in my efforts dad firmly grabs my thigh and plops me back down next to him. i dont know why but this made me giggly  so i tried standing up again just so he'd do it and i stumbled back on the couch letting myself fall all the way back.
my eyes were closed for i dont know how long and i felt so sleepy but dad woke me up when i felt his teeth biting into my neck making my eyes flutter open and i couldnt help but cry out i didnt know what was happening i looked down and my tits were pulled out of my top and dad has two fingers trying to shove their way into my little pussy as i squirm against him starting to cry pleading with him over and over to stop but he just hushes me and grabs my neck pulling me up with one hand and pushing me flat against the couch as he strips my pajama shorts off my flailing legs as he tried to force them apart but i fight against him which i shouldn't have because he took his second hand and brought it up to my neck choking me so hard i thought i was going to die!
when he let go i gasped for air and laid there as he easily picked up my legs and placed himself between them. i started crying when i looked down and saw his face pressed against my pussy and felt his tongue drilling my little hole.
"mmmmm little girl stop crying this little pussy is so wet for your daddy isnt it? ive tasted this cute little cunt before you know that sweetheart?"
he shoved a finger inside me making me cry out and beg him to stop i couldnt think at all i felt so weak what was he doing and why didnt i want him to actually stop?!
"you've got no fight left babygirl? you want daddy to breed that tight little teen pussy?"
i laid on the couch exposed and dripping, crying, feeling defeated as my dad pushed my thighs against my chest and lined his big cock against his daughters pussy that he just ran his tongue all over like an animal not caring what im feeling just taking what he wants.
"I'm a filthy fucking man baby im gonna rape my seed into your little teen cunt do you know what that means sweetie?"
i stopped writing there dangit i wanted to know what happened next :/
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k-evans-reads · 1 year
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In Living Color
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Chapter 1
Summary: When Natalie Marton, lead character designer for Buzz Lightyear, meets the voice of Buzz, Chris Evans, the sparks are undeniable. But when their work pushes them away from each other, both physically and emotionally, will the sheer differences between their worlds be enough to force them apart?
Pairing: Chris Evans x Pixar Animator OFC Natalie Marton
Word Count: 6,098
By: @k-evans-writes and @ourfinest-hour
We do NOT give permission for our works to be reuploaded, translated, or reposted on any other site. Our work is our own.
Warnings: None.
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Main Masterlist | In Living Color Masterlist
February 2021
The loud slapping of the white thick soled sneakers echoed against the tile floor as Nat rushed into the Pixar building. There wasn’t one person who was surprised to see the flash of the curly headed woman running by, making them all laugh as she kept running while attempting to keep her brown leather tote bag on her shoulder. Nat could see the elevator doors opening, making her yell from across the lobby of the building, “Hold that door!” as she picked up her pace, throwing out a hurried, “Hi Brenda!” to the receptionist on her way by. 
Nat was thankful for someone holding the door open for her as she rushed inside like a tornado, happy to have a moment to catch her breath. But the moment that those doors opened, she was once again on the run down the long hallway to head toward the conference room. Of course out of all the days that she was late, it had to be today. Now that everyone was back after an extended period of working from home thanks to COVID, she had begun to get into a routine yet again, but apparently two weeks hadn’t quite been enough. She could see through the glass doors at the end of the hallway that her co-workers were already seated at the table for their first official daily meeting in person on the Lightyear film they were working on. 
She tried to run even faster, getting to the conference room and trying to rush into the open doorway but quickly found out… the glass door wasn’t open. She felt like a bug on a windshield when she crashed right into it, the door rattling loudly to make sure everybody turned to look at her and wildly laugh as they saw her stumble backwards from the force. An unamused look appeared on her comically expressive face as she yanked open the door and came into the room where she flopped her bag down on the table and practically fell into her chair. 
“Well now we all are well aware that Nat’s here,” she heard Angus, the director, chuckle from where he sat at the head of the table, near the large TV screen. She rolled her eyes playfully as she dug around in her brown leather tote, reaching for her laptop, water bottle, and notepad. 
But next to her, Jamie laughed, leaning back in his seat and responding, “Yeah and so does that door with the imprint of her face on it.” 
“Well someone has to be the fun one around here,” she shrugged, a smirk on her face as she moved her tote bag to the ground ungracefully, and Nat found herself thankful that she had the forethought to actually use her laptop case this morning for its intended purpose, instead of just shoving it into her bag like usual. 
Mark, from where he was sitting across from her, his broad frame outlined by the bright morning light shining in through the floor to ceiling windows. “I didn’t realize that smashing your face into a glass door was fun,” he pointed out unhelpfully.
“How would you know? Have you tried it?” 
Jamie huffed out a laugh, his eyes moving between the two until he finally asked her, “So what’s going to be the convoluted story as to why you’re late?” 
“Oh this is a good one, you guys will like this.” 
“Wait before you get into this, Nat, I want you to meet Chris Evans who’s going to be voicing Buzz for us,” Angus interrupted, his hand moving in the air between Chris and Nat. She hadn’t even realized there was someone else in the room, certainly not an A-list celebrity, practical Disney legend, and a handsome one at that, which most of America would be able to recognize in two seconds flat. “And Chris, this is Natalie Marton, our lead character designer for Buzz.” 
He gave her a kind smile, hands fidgeting in his lap restlessly. “It’s nice to meet you Natalie, your work is incredible,” he greeted, the compliment coming as a surprise to her.
“Thank you, it’s nice to meet you too,” she replied, shooting him a quick smile before she turned back to Mark, James, and Angus – this time also including Chris – with an excited look on her face. “But you might want to buckle up because I’m about to explain why I was late and can’t tell a short story.” 
“Are we going to roll our eyes at the end of this story, Nat?” Mark muttered playfully, earning a soft kick to his shin from Nat.
“Probably, but it actually makes sense when you think about it,” she nearly snorted, straightening up in her seat, her arms waving in the air as she spoke. “So I went outside this morning to grab a package in front of the door but I got locked out of my apartment when I did. My purse, phone and everything else still was inside and so I was trying to figure out what to do. Then I remembered I left the window on the second floor open but I couldn’t reach it so then I saw my neighbors had their patio furniture–”
“Oh no, I already know this is going to end badly,” Jamie groaned, the rest of the group laughing at his words knowingly.
“You don’t know that!” 
Angus chuckled, unable to help himself as he chimed in, “I’m pretty sure we all do but you might as well finish at this point.” 
“Okay so anyway I drug the patio furniture over, climbed up on it and hoisted myself up through the window and I was in. Then I changed my clothes, grabbed my keys and got here,” she told them, smirking as she pulled her water bottle, notebook, and computer out of her bag. “All things considered, I think I made pretty good time.” 
They all couldn’t help but snicker, not even being phased by another story from Nat to start their day before the group began shifting gears to begin the meeting, each employee pulling up their notes and sketches as Angus prepared to start on their agenda. But Nat was a little surprised when a deep voice spoke up from the corner, Chris’ face a bit hesitant as he asked, “I do have a question about this story.” 
But before he could ask, Jamie looked at Chris with a smirk, informing him, “Obviously you’re new here because with Nat, you’ll learn never to ask questions, just go with it and pretend that it’s normal.” 
“Well you already started asking so you might as well finish,” Nat encouraged, waving a hand in the air before she reached back, tucking a few stray curls back behind her ear.
“Okay, so why didn’t you just go ask your landlord to unlock your door for you?” 
“....Oh… I guess that would have been easier, yeah,” she trailed off, a frown on her face before she let out a short laugh, realizing how much easier her day would have started had she just thought that far before springing into action.
“And that’s why we don’t ask questions because what’s logical in our brains is pretty much the opposite for Nat,” Mark chimed in, earning nods from Jamie and Angus, and a look of understanding – and amusement – from Chris. 
“Speaking of Nat’s ideas though, Nat why don’t you show Chris your sketches of the character studies of Buzz? I’d like to get his opinion,” Angus offered, looking at Nat expectantly. 
“Yeah, I think I have them with me actually,” she began, pausing as she dug in her tote bag. She could feel everyone’s eyes on her, suddenly aware of the piercing gaze of Chris’ eyes watching her every move as she rifled through empty gum wrappers, various mascaras, too many pairs of sunglasses, and no less than three different wallets before she found the folder containing the sketches. “Oh yeah, here they are.” 
She stood up, shuffling over to Angus to hand over the stack of sketches. She turned quickly, heading back to her seat just as he handed a few over to Chris. It didn’t matter that she’d been in this business for eleven years, handing over a piece of her work that she poured her heart and soul into to be critiqued never seemed to get any easier, especially when she was handing it over to someone who wasn’t even trained in illustration. She knew her sketches were good, she’d been in this role for years and had learned everything she knew from the best in the business, but she was still nervous for his critiques. Chris was a huge part of this movie’s production, and had been since day one. He was the only pick they made for the role of Buzz, Angus and the others unable to see anyone else in the role but Chris. It all revolved around him, and she knew that his voice carried weight, knowing that his critiques would be something she’d have to fully absorb. 
He stared at each page for a long time, his blue eyes wide with something she couldn’t quite name yet. But when he looked up, meeting her eyes, she recognized the shock – and awe – in them. “Wow, these are… incredible,” he breathed, eyes flitting back down to stare at the sketches again. “Just seeing these makes me so excited for this movie. ” 
“Do you think this has enough resemblance to the toy?” She asked curiously, shifting nervously. “We want to make it feel different but still have that same feel.” 
He gave a sheepish look, his cheeks pink as he admitted, “Oh uh, I don’t know that I’m qualified for that. You guys are the experts, not me.” 
The honesty in his eyes as he looked at her made Nat realize that he wasn’t just another one of the celebrities who would make a guest appearance in a meeting, take a short tour, and then be gone by lunchtime never to be seen again. He was obviously engaged in the project, truly valuing their skill and even seeming to be a little bit in awe of it which warmed Nat’s heart. Part of her had been dreading Chris becoming more involved now that they all were back in-person, but all of that seemed laid to rest as she realized that he would be a true creative partner and only make the film better. 
“But just as a consumer, what do you think?” She prodded, tilting her head as she looked at him. 
“Honestly? I think they’re incredible,” he admitted with a shrug, the action unintentionally taking a weight off of Nat’s shoulders. “I also just realized that we’ve never seen the hair before.” 
Angus, Mark, and Jamie all smiled and chuckled at the words, relieved looks on everyone’s faces. Angus cleared his throat, mentioning, “That was what Nat pointed out when we started this too. Nat, you should tell Chris what you said about the hair.” 
“Well I just felt that in this movie we need to see things about Buzz that we didn’t see in Toy Story because this is the real person, not the toy and one of those was his hair. I also felt like it helped to humanize him more,” she recalled, shrugging a bit with a small grin as she watched Chris stare down at the pages, unable to take his eyes off of the sketches – the sketches that she did.
“I love that, it’s such a smart way to help people connect,” Chris praised. “You guys are seriously amazing in what you do. This is all just so incredible to me and I feel so lucky to be part of it.” 
She laughed through the rest of the meeting, unable to help herself from making a few quips in between jotting down some notes of things to change or do later. As the meeting came to a close, Angus told her, “Nat, I’m going to be going over a few things with Chris and then he’s going to start reading some test lines in the booth so you can go with him to work on expression.” 
“Alright, just let me know when you’re ready,” she told the pair before she gathered her belongings and quickly left the room, heading down the hallway to her office. 
It’d been nearly a year since she spent more than a quick few minutes in her office, most of her time since being back in person being spent in meetings or working collectively in the wide spaces throughout the building. But as she looked around her office, she saw the tiny bits and pieces of how life was like prior to the shutdown, from the neatly folded blanket – one she loved – on top of the long couch against the wall, to the now old pictures of her nieces and nephew from years prior, to the picture that surprised her, sitting next to her computer. She’d forgotten entirely about it, and in the midst of the chaos of 2020, had never had the time to switch it out until now. But here she was, a year later, staring as her own face smiled up at her from next to her now ex-fiance, Shane, standing in front of the Seahawks Stadium in Seattle together back in 2018, cheeks red from the winter chill. 
She’d have never known then, three years ago, that it’d all come crashing down on them just as the world began to fall apart. That she’d glance down at her hand, sometimes half-expecting to still see the band around her finger, then suddenly remember that he’d decided to throw it all away. 
With a shake of her head, she flipped the picture frame over, pulling out the years-old, sun-faded picture of them and shoving it, along with the frame, in a random drawer of her desk. She had just closed the drawer when Angus knocked on her open door. He was smiling at her, and just over his shoulder was Chris, standing with his hands in his pockets looking around curiously before he looked at Nat, a sheepish look on his face as he realized she’d been watching him. Once she looked back at Angus, he asked her, “You ready Nat?” 
“Yeah, let me just grab my stuff, hold on,” she told them, spinning around in her chair as she began grabbing various things – a few snacks, her notebook, sketchpad, pencil set, various colored pens, her iPad, water bottle, her work ID, and her wallet, just in case she stopped by the commissary after the session for some lunch.
“Nat, we’re just going to the sound booth, you don’t need to pack for a month in Europe,” Angus muttered playfully as he watched Nat flitter around her desk, piling anything she could in her arms before she tucked the water bottle between her arm and her side. 
“But what if I need something that I forgot? I might as well just bring it now!” 
Angus shook his head, holding the door open as he waited for her. Chris peered around him, his voice quiet but he generously asked, “Can I help carry anything, Natalie?” 
“Are you trying to say it looks like I’m going to drop something?” Nat asked sarcastically as she made her way over to the door, pausing as Chris nodded with a smirk. “Because I definitely am, so if you could grab my water bottle, that’d be great. It’s starting to slip. Oh and that cardigan on the chair right there maybe.” 
“Sure,” Chris answered, grabbing the bottle and gently pulling the cardigan off the chair. “Anything else?” 
“I think I’ve got the rest, but thank you,” she told him sincerely, slowly making her way into the hallway as they headed down the hall. 
“So Chris we’ll just go over to the sound booth and you can practice some lines and listen to them back and Nat will just sketch while you’re doing that and get down some of your facial expressions,” Angus explained to both of them. “I think- oh sorry, hold on.” 
They continued heading towards the elevators as Angus pulled out his ringing phone, glancing at the name and grimacing slightly. 
“Is it important?” Nat asked as they paused in front of the elevators.
“Yeah, I do need to take this call,” Angus sighed apologetically. He glanced between the pair, asking, “Why don’t you two head over to the booth and I’ll meet you over there in just a few minutes?” 
They both easily agreed, stepping into the waiting elevator together and leaving Angus to his phone call. As the elevator began heading towards the ground floor, she glanced at Chris, asking, “So Chris, I’m interested to know what made you want to do Lightyear?” 
“Honestly? Everything,” he chuckled, a wide grin on his face. “I’m a huge Disney and Pixar nerd-” 
“Are you really?” 
“Oh yeah, my family always went to Walt Disney World growing up and still do to be honest, but I just grew up on Disney. I actually wanted to be an animator when I grew up.” 
“Sounds like you might just be trying to brown nose me with that comment,” she laughed, Chris joining in. 
“It might be a little more dignified if I was, but no I seriously wanted to be an animator but turns out I’m shit at drawing so that didn’t go well,” he laughed again, the grimace on his face cluing Nat into his skill level.  “But yeah, I just love everything Disney and I adore all the Toy Story films. My team was so excited to tell me about this opportunity because they knew I’d just be over the moon.” 
“I’m glad you got an opportunity to get to do something like this,” she told him, “Because obviously being Captain America for a decade wasn’t enough.” 
“Honestly I was way more excited for this than I ever was for Cap when I started,” he admitted as they stepped out of the elevator, heading outside to walk across the campus. “I feel like a kid in a candy store here.” 
She couldn’t help herself once they stepped out the front doors, nodding her head towards the building housing the coffee shop, cafeteria, and other amenities for the employees, informing Chris, “Well lucky for you there is a candy store in the commissary.” 
He laughed loudly at her answer, the sound sharp in comparison to the birds chirping around them. “So Natalie, what about you? How long have you been with Pixar?”  He finally asked, looking at her curiously. 
“This is my eleventh year here,” she supplied, meeting his eyes with a smile. “And you can also call me Nat, everyone does.” 
“That’s incredible. How did you ever get started here? I’ve always wondered how people get to this level.” 
“I’ve just always loved art and wanted to do something artistic. I’m kind of the black sheep of my family in that way and my dad was always a dreamer who just encouraged me to follow my heart. He put me in art classes and then I went to art school for college,” she rambled with a shrug. “One of my professors there had a connection to Pixar and got me some interviews and sure enough, I ended up here and have been here ever since.” 
He nodded, listening along enthusiastically and keeping up with her rambles. “I can’t imagine how amazing it must be to come here every day for work,” he said once she’d finally shut up, Nat smiling wistfully at his simple confession. 
“It really is. I feel so lucky to be doing this,” she agreed. Every day of work on these movies felt like a dream, something that could be taken away in a blink of an eye, as if she finally woke up. It’d been over a decade, but that feeling still remained day in and day out. “I basically draw characters for a living and that’s something eight year old Nat wouldn’t believe.” 
“I understand that,” he nodded, truly knowing what that was like with his profession. “So what are some of the other Pixar movies you’ve worked on?” 
“Before Lightyear I worked a little bit on Soul and then before that I was the lead designer for Disgust on Inside Out-” 
“NO!” He interrupted, his voice loud as she led him to the front doors of the recording building. “That’s one of my favorite movies! Disgust is my favorite character, hands down.” 
She laughed, swiping her ID and unlocking the doors. “Well all I can say is you’re welcome,” she told him, just before she thanked him as he opened the door for her and followed her inside.
“Seriously though, my nephews, niece and I watch that together so much. It’s so deep and teaches a lot, but still just has that Disney magic. Disgust is the show stealer though. My niece one day wore a little scarf like Disgust has and called it her sassy scarf.” 
Nat huffed out a laugh, waving to the guards sitting at the desk before she led Chris down a hall, her voice dropping to an appropriate level in the quiet building as she said, “Well you can thank my overstuffed closet for that because I just looked through all my clothes and thought, what would Disgust pick and my brain told me it was that.” 
“I’m glad it did because Disgust is the best character in that movie,” Chris replied, his head practically on a swivel as he looked around the new building while he tried to keep up with her, both verbally and physically.
“Okay now I know you’re trying to brown nose me,” she chuckled quietly, just before she nudged open a door, smiling as she saw Rob inside, sitting at the desk ready for them. 
With an encouraging nod and smile to Chris, Nat headed to sit at the long desk in the middle of the room facing the glass window of the booth. As she began arranging her supplies, thanking Chris as he handed her the water bottle and cardigan, she saw a flash of nervousness cross his face just before he stepped into the booth. He was staring down the microphone, nodding as he listened to Rob’s simple instructions. The man was standing in the doorway to the booth, telling Chris to slip the headphones on before he shut the heavy door.
Rob shot her a slight grimace, the pair knowing the first few run throughs would likely be rough, before he plopped into the chair, waiting as Chris got himself situated and took a sip from the water bottle that was in the booth. Nat pulled out her charcoal pencil, flipping open her sketchbook and started dragging the pencil across the paper, blocking out the shape of his face before the slight squeak of the pencil on the paper echoed as she kept adding in the finer details of his expression and face. 
Chris shook his limbs out slightly before he began speaking, his voice stronger than what she’d come to expect after the last hour they’d spent together. She noted the way he moved his eyebrows as he read the lines on the paper in front of him. He read the iconic “To infinity….” line, then paused as he cringed slightly and looked up, finding Nat’s eyes watching him and asking, “Was that as terrible as I think it was?” 
Rob turned on their microphone inside, allowing Nat to ask, “....How terrible do you think it was?” while biting her lip to hide an amused smile. 
“I think that answers my question.” 
Rob laughed, interrupting their shared smirks as he instructed, “Just do it as many times as you want, Chris. I’ll just record it all and then you can come listen to it.” 
She tilted her head back down, propping her chin up with her hand while she kept working on sketching from observation, studying his face as she drew and Nat couldn’t help but admire what a beautiful face it was. She’d buried herself in her work ever since the break up with Shane a year ago, distracting herself with the piles of drawings to complete before moving onto the next round of edits, and while it served its purpose, she was all too aware of what she didn’t have. And it was all because of her. The few fleeting chances she’d had with anyone since Shane had fizzled out before they moved beyond texting, the guys all uninterested in putting up with her ways. Shane dealt with her in the same way everyone before him had, by smiling and nodding when she needed it and sympathizing on a surface level when it was required, but never truly understanding her. Nat knew she was a lot to handle, not necessarily being the most low-key girl, and she’s long given up on the notion that someone would appreciate her, but at thirty-three years old she became more and more aware that the notion of someone being in love with her was just as unattainable. 
But now she was alone, having fucked up every chance she’d held in the palm of her hand, ruining them one after the other. Her destiny seemed to be set on the loner artist type, despite how much she craved more in life, and who was she to mess with that? She figured it was about time to just make peace with it, instead focusing all her efforts into the wonderful friendships and her family, and Nat knew that she could be okay with that. 
Just because she knew a relationship wasn’t in the cards for her though doesn’t mean she didn’t notice what was around her, and it was pretty impossible not to notice the gorgeous man who stood only a few feet away from her in the sound booth… she was thirty-three, not dead. But Nat chose in her mind to leave it at that, knowing that they’d be working together quite a bit more, and instead redirected her brain to the work in front of her as she kept sketching. 
She sat in that same chair, diligently working for the rest of the morning as she listened to Chris running over the lines time and time again, Angus giving pointers along the way before he was eventually let out of the padded booth. Nat just kept to herself as they went over notes from the session, just letting her charcoal pencil keep scraping across the fibers of the paper until she heard her voice being called. 
“Nat, are you ready to go?” 
“Hmm?” She hummed, looking up to find Angus and Chris staring at her expectantly. “Oh yeah, let me just grab my stuff,” she hurriedly replied, a slight blush warming her cheeks as she shoved her things together, hastily standing up.
Once Nat had begun gathering her things, Angus turned to Chris and asked, “So Chris, you’re planning on coming to the dailies right?” 
“Yeah, I have a few weeks before I have to do anything for The Gray Man, that Russo Brothers movie I was telling you about, so I’m planning on coming until then,” she heard Chris’ booming voice answer, a smile evidently on his face as he paused and chuckled. “I’m pretty sure this is going to be my favorite project ever.” 
“Well we’ll be glad to have you anytime that you can come.” 
“I’ll plan on seeing you tomorrow,” Chris told him, and he turned to look at Nat with a small smirk once she was finished collecting her things, his expression amused as she came to a stop in front of the men. “And Nat, it was very nice to meet you. You certainly know how to make a first impression.” 
“Oh crashing into the door? Honestly you’re not even the only person I’ve met that way,” she laughed back, rolling her eyes playfully as she shifted the heavy load in her arms. 
His shoulders slouched and a small frown settled on his lips, Chris’ eyes bright as he sighed, “Damn, I thought I was a little bit special.” 
“Just wait until she spills something on you or breaks something of yours, then you’ll be in the special circle,” Angus laughed as he squeezed Chris’ shoulder gently and began leading the pair towards the door.
They parted ways at the front door of the recording building, Chris heading towards the parking structures to leave, Angus leaving to go to a meeting elsewhere on campus, while Nat headed back to her office. Her walk back was much lonelier than the walk to the studio with Chris had been, but soon she was thrown into a flurry of work, keeping her mind distracted for the rest of the day.
She’d just left work, merging onto the 405 to head back to her apartment in San Fernando, just as a call from her older sister, Alex, came through on her Bluetooth. With a sigh as she rolled to a stop as she hit the sea of bumper-to-bumper traffic, Nat answered the call. 
Alex didn’t even let Nat get in a greeting before she asked her younger sister, “Hey, do you have a minute?” 
“Yeah I’m just leaving work and traffic fucking sucks so I’ve got nothing to do,” she laughed, only slightly bitterly. But she straightened up, remembering that today had been momentous for Alex and her family back home in Kirkland and belatedly asked, “How was Carson’s first day of preschool?” 
“Oh he loved it, I swear he didn’t want to come home, I’ll send you some pictures later,” her sister chuckled, the sound comforting to Nat as she slowly rolled the car forwards before coming to a complete stop again. “I actually had another reason for calling though.” 
She smirked, leaning back in her seat comfortably as she got settled for a long drive home. “Because you love me?” Nat asked her sister sarcastically.
“Obviously that’s not the reason,” Alex laughed back. “Okay seriously though, I had to call you because Zach just showed me on his instagram that Shane posted that he got engaged.” 
“Engaged?” Nat asked, her brows furrowed as she paused, her brain practically short-circuiting. “Wait, Shane got engaged? Like, today?” 
“Apparently,” Alex answered, and Nat’s heart dropped at the confirmation. It didn't hurt any less that she was – essentially – the one who’d broken up with him, but regardless, she’d lost a relationship she valued, and the man she’d thought was it for her. “I guess it’s some European girl he met over there.” 
“Well he certainly didn’t waste any time moving on,” Nat muttered. As much as it hurt, she almost wasn’t surprised. She knew that Shane would move on, easily finding someone else he’d commit to in a way he never would with her, but it only reinforced in her mind that she was the problem in relationships. 
“I know, I couldn’t believe it. I wish I hadn’t already blocked him so that I could block him again.” She could hear the annoyance in her sister’s voice. 
“Yeah.” 
“Nattie, are you okay?” Nat sighed, her lip jutting out as she moved the car forwards a bit. She hated how Alex could always read her feelings so easily. “I didn’t mean to upset you by telling you this, but I felt like you needed to know.” 
“No, I’m glad you told me,” she said, her voice even in an attempt to display faux-casualness. “I guess it just hurts that we were together for five years and he wouldn’t even talk about getting married, but then he meets some girl and in less than a year he’s engaged. I always thought he just didn’t want to get married, but I guess he just didn’t want to get married to me,” she shrugged, her voice quiet. And it was just another case of proof that, no matter how much time she spent with someone, it’d all be for nothing. Someone else would eventually come along, someone they’d realize was far better and easier to put up with than herself, and she’d be left alone, just like how she’d been left every time. 
“Oh Nattie, no. Don’t go down that road. Shane and you just didn’t work out and that’s fine. You can officially wash your hands of him and be done with that,” she heard Alex’s firm voice, trying to prevent her little sister from spiraling down an emotional hole. 
“Yeah, you’re right,” Nat was glad that nobody could see the way she was rubbing her hands over her face before staring mindlessly at the miles of traffic in front of her. 
She was hoping that Alex would change the subject, just letting the subject that was full of sadness drop, but Nat wasn’t in the mood for her next question, “Have you been able to meet anyone lately?” 
“Honestly Alex, I don’t know if I will,” she surprised herself by the even tone in her voice, knowing that this was a sore subject for her but something she was beginning to make peace with. “I’m not trying to be dramatic or whatever, I just don’t think that’s really in the cards for me and I’m okay with that.” 
“You never know what might happen, Nat. Something may pop up when you least expect it,” Alex tried to encourage her, but it fell on deaf ears. 
“We’ll see,” Nat muttered, before changing the subject, not wanting to linger on the subject any further and instead asking, “So how is everyone? How’s dad?” 
“Dad’s been obsessed with those two chickens he got last week. You know how many pictures he’s sent in the group text? Well at least you only get that, he printed us out pictures and gave them to us,” Alex muttered with a laugh in her voice, Nat being able to picture the way she was rolling her eyes right about now. For their entire life, Nat had a special bond, the two of them being more of a creative and dreamer personality which had provided some interesting decisions in the eyes of the other two Marton daughters, the most recent being their dad’s obsession with his new chickens. 
“Well Matilda and Erwin are part of the family now, you can’t exclude them!” The joyful tone that was normally found in Nat’s voice appeared once again as she argued. 
“I should have known you’d be on dad’s side,” her sister muttered playfully but then told Nat that, “He’s really excited to come see you soon. He printed out his plane ticket and keeps it on the fridge so he can see it everyday.” 
“I can’t wait to see him,” a wistfulness was in her voice, wanting nothing more than a hug from her family right now. “I really miss you guys.” 
“We miss you too Nattie, but we’ll see you when you facetime in for our monopoly game tomorrow,” she tried to cheer her up before telling Nat that, “I need to go pick up Carson from preschool but I’ll talk to you later. Love you.” 
“Love you too.” 
Once the call had ended, Nat adjusted her body in the seat of her car, inching along the road through the traffic feeling a heavy weight on her. She knew that her and Shane were long over, but hearing how quickly he had moved on told her that it wasn’t that he didn’t want to commit, he just didn’t want to commit to her. The pain of that reinforced the realization she’d recently had that she just wasn’t the type of girl to be in a relationship. 
Before she could think any farther, a ding interrupted her thoughts, making her reach over and grab her phone off of the passenger seat. Once she came to a stop in the traffic again, she looked at the screen to see a text from Angus reading, ‘Chris texted me and wanted to pass along another thank you for all your help today, and for making him feel so welcome. He really appreciated it.’ She blushed at the text, straightening up as she realized how much not only Chris, but Mark, Jamie, Angus, and every other person working on this project valued her. And she realized that as long as her coworkers were in her corner, supporting her through each and every day, she’d have a place she belonged, a safe place to come back to. She may not have her person, but she had her people.
A/N: WE could not WAIT to share Nat with you guys! We've been working on her for a little over two months now and have really enjoyed getting to take our time and make sure the chapters are great.... and you guys, they're so good. We really could not be happier with how things have shaken out and cannot wait for the NEXT chapter on 12/1!
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๑ Strong Wine
Pair: Chuuya Nakahara x Male reader
NSFW-SFW
Warnings: cream pie, noncon
You're laying in bed while watching news about you and chuuya's recent mission, it was a disaster.
You decide to turn off the tv and sleep early until you hear your apartment bell rings along with some notifications in your phone.
Ignoring the spam notifications in your phone, you decide to see who disturb you this late. you see through the peep hole and see your partner standing there.
Feeling confused, you open the door and smells a very strong alcohol towards Chuuya. He always drinking wine but not until he's drunk like this.
He looks at you for a moment, "I need to use the bathroom"
"Okay.. let me lead you to the bathroom" Chuuya take a step inside and you close the door slowly, guiding him to the bathroom.
The two of you enter the bathroom with silence, until he turn around and close the door leaving you surprised and confused.
"C-Chuuya..? do i really need to accompany you?" even though he's shorter than you, you have an uneasy feelings about drunk Chuuya.
Without any warning, Chuuya manipulate the gravity making your toiletries flying and throw it at you. you fell on your back on the bathroom floor.
"Chuuya?! what the–" before you complete your sentence he chuckle and get on top of you, whispering in your right ear.
"You know, (name). i am very pissed today because a loser name Dazai decide to make fun of me after we just got back from that stupid mission, then a powerful family decide to visit the port mafia to tell the boss they'll be an ally if i want to marry their brat daughter. what am i? a doll?! i storm out and decided to go to a bar with Akutagawa. after a few sip, my brain always thinking about you... i want to fuck you so bad"
You were surprised, eyes widened hearing him say that. You struggle, tried to hit and kick him but no avail. chuuya put his hands on your knees to limit your movements.
"I was gonna ask if you want it gentle or hard but seeing the fear in your eyes makes me very horny, fuck.. i want to make you cry and scream in pleasure" he growls then smirked as if he's sober and never been drunk while he kiss your lips harshly.
Chuuya really enjoyed his action which made you look at him angrily with your body squirming to escape from Chuuya's grip.
Slowly your strength weakens because you move too much but you still try, you have to try.
"Mhmm– let go!" You shake your head to the right and left to get a breath of air until your head feels dizzy.
After seeing you helpless, Chuuya turned your body and lowered your head to the floor.
Your head is still spinning, you don't realize what's going on. Chuuya took the opportunity to make your ass rise, cold air blowing past your ass.
you're on the verge of crying "let go of me! I don't want thi-GYAHH!!"
Before you could finish your words, the sounds that came out of your mouth turned into screams and sobs that filled the bathroom.
Chuuya forcefully shoved his cock into your tight hole, thrusting his cock inside you like an animal in heat.
"nghh.. You take my cock really well, pretty boy"
Chuuya grinned at the sight of your tears coming out, not stopping or slowing down his thrusts. he lowered his head to bite your shoulder and felt your chest then pinched both of your nipples under the t-shirt you're wearing.
"Cry for me, (name)!" different from you who are in pain, Chuuya continues to growl in pleasure when his cock is squeezed tightly by your hole.
All you can do is cry and endure the pain and the feeling of being split in two in your ass
After lots of loud thrusting, Chuuya finally cum inside of you and stayed inside for a while.
Taking his cock out of your hole, he takes a gouged of his cum from your hole and puts his finger in your mouth.
"Swallow it"
.·͙*̩̩͙˚̩̥̩̥*̩̩̥͙ THE END  *̩̩̥͙˚̩̥̩̥*̩̩͙‧͙ .
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fun fact:
the notifications are from Akutagawa trying to warn you from drunk Chuuya ;)
I just let my hands write the reason why Chuuya is mad, I don't use my brain 💀
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charlieconwayy · 7 months
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Top 5 Freela moments?
this is truly like choosing a favorite child
i HAVE to go with the ending of TWOF, but rly did you expect anything less? just the most satisfying moment i have ever experienced in my tv viewing experience. the set up, the execution - fry literally walking into the frame and leela's face when he hands her the flower. aside from it being their first legit kiss (that i count anyway), it's SO important to their development. leela realizing that success/status/someone looking great on paper does not make someone the ideal partner, but what does is the feeling of relief you get when you see them and the way they make you feel special. i love how fry doesn't even remember nibbler saying he'll help him out w leela, so this was truly just a genuine moment of him being thoughtful. also fry's "yes!" when they fade to black is so sweet
okay i thought for a while about the number two slot and i think i have to pick "no matter what happens, you'll always be leela, the woman i love." fry was so frickin immature and lowkey sexist at the start of the series, which we see a ton of in i was a crustacean in love specifically or even in amazon women in the mood ("is she hot?" "she is all knowing" "in other words, no") and we've gradually seen him mature (my fav "zapp's not the only one becoming marriage material" "you're getting there" <3). leela's biggest fear w fry has always been his commitment issues and him getting bored of her. we've also seen her insecurities ab the way she looks throughout the show, so for him to confirm to her (when she's like entirely squid, mind you) that no matter how she looks, he will always love her is so special. it was the culmination of 7 seasons of development for both fry and their relationship, and i love leela's reaction (and her tentacles doing the princess diaries foot pop when they kiss lol).
i could just put moments from s4 on here and this entire list would be complete tbh....the best season, nothing is ever topping it. the sting is just a special moment and i can't even imagine watching it when it first aired. while we'd gotten little hints here and there that leela had feelings for fry, this episode just confirms the extent of those feelings. we know fry would rather die than be without leela, but this ep confirms that leela would rather die than be without fry. the whole ending segment is great, w leela trying to unalive herself so that she can "feel alright with him" and fry talking her out of it (first real "i love you" :') ) but GOD the feeling when they show the hospital room. the details that we see from all the things fry said to leela in her dream. amy's "they said you'd never wake up, fry never left your side for a second." leela holding her heart when she realizes that him talking to her is what inspired her to wake up!! the hug <3 it's so crazy to me that an animated show can show the intimacy and physicality between them so perfectly.
"dear fry, our time together was short but it was the best time of my life. - leela." for similar reasons to the one above, i love an ep that does a deep dive into leela's love for fry. this one, man. this one. leela marrying CUBERT just bc he resembles fry says it all. "i used to think there was someone for me." just her rage at fry and heartbreak that she will never see him again, while managing to create the successful future she had always wanted but ultimately realizing it's pointless without someone to share it with. that video card hits me so deeply when he says i love you the look on her face actually destroys me.....but what gets me most out of everything is the cavern on the green. leela has no idea where fry is. he could be in the past for all that she knows. but leela knows in her heart that if she leaves a message, somehow, somewhere, fry will see it and he will know how she feels. and he does. that to me is so beautiful, their love is fated no matter what universe or timeline that they're in.
this is a relatively new fav scene for me but "you're lonely and i'm lonely, but together, we're lonely together." freela had kind of just been bickering besties up until this episode, but this was the first time we'd really seen them connect on an intimate level since 102. fry is upset ab spending xmas alone for the first time, leela is upset ab spending her life alone. he's alone in the year 3000 and leela has spent a lifetime alone. we see fry so upset that he hurt leela, that he goes out of his way to buy her a gift and apologize (massive development in fry's emotional intelligence, esp if you compare this to 103 w bender) but leela ends up being okay. she holds his hand and tells him that they can be lonely together and it's such a gamechanging moment, you can just see the chemistry and the connection between the two of them.
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lizardaggro · 6 months
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student 21's villain academia, pt 1
so. not twst bully!au part 4. it's not canceled don't worry; i'm just having a couple health issues at the moment and this one was closer to being done. i've literally been working on it for 5 days, so... it was time.
this one is a bit slow to get started, as in it still hasn't kicked into action yet, but by part 3 or so you'll see my vision. this is an x gn!reader, so anyone can read it, and no, aizawa is NOT one of the love interests. i'd rather die than ship him with a student. i have no idea if this au has been done before; you don't have all the information yet so don't jump to conclusions about me copying so-and-so. this idea has been rattling around in my brain for like a year so i'm super excited to finally get it out! genre: gn!reader, fluff, found family, romance coming eventually, canon-typical angst trigger warnings: reader has a panic attack word count: 2004
You didn’t really consider yourself one of those ‘crazy anime fans.’ No, you were more subdued in your interests. You didn’t own hundreds of dollars’ worth of merchandise, nor did you insist on watching the latest episodes right when they aired. And above all, you would never try to force your passion onto others.
Lately you’d been really into a rather popular action anime by the name of Boku no Hero Academia, or My Hero Academia in English. It wasn’t perfect, but something about the characters just sucked you in. They were just kids, only fifteen years old, and suddenly they were faced with enemies backed by a villain even the strongest hero struggled against. Thus, you couldn’t help but feel little ashamed of yourself as you fell asleep to the ending song of the latest episode.
When you woke up, it was very abrupt. You were certain you’d been asleep on your couch, but suddenly you were standing in the middle of a busy street. Not wanting to be stuck there when the light turned green, you hurried to the other side. Was this a lucid dream? You’d never had one of those before, but there wasn’t another plausible explanation.
Taking in your surroundings, all the signs definitely weren’t in English, but somehow you could understand them. Was that Japanese? Huh, all that anime must be rubbing off on your subconscious. You caught sight of a TV inside an electronics store displaying the news. You didn’t know where you were supposed to be, so maybe that could give you a clue.
“Hinata here, reporting in from Musutafu News,” a young woman announced, “just this morning, up and coming villain Bakugou Katsuki wreaked havoc on a suburban neighborhood, completely destroying 8 homes. Can you believe he’s only 15?! Goodness, what has society come to? Fortunately, there were no casualties, but our experts believe it’s only a matter of time. And now, for the weather forecast…”
You tuned out the rest, in a complete state of shock. Bakugou is a villain? What sort of dream is this? Sure, he’s loud and violent and tells people to die on the regular, but he’s not a criminal! Is this some sort of joke? Is your subconscious playing some kind of trick on you? There’s some sort of nagging feeling in the back of your mind, like you should know something about this situation, but you just can’t recall.
You decide to keep walking, instead of staring blankly at the television like an idiot. Maybe you’ll find someone or something that can explain what’s going on. With luck, it’ll be one of the main characters. If you’re really unfortunate, you’ll find someone from the League. But who knows, maybe they’re the good guys here.
After about 10 minutes, it hits you. This is one of those alternate universe thingies! Your cousin, who’s far more invested in the fandom than you are, was trying to explain them to you at a family gathering, but you were only half listening. Now that was a mistake. Even worse, she seemed convinced that some people actually got transported into the worlds of anime! No wonder you weren’t paying attention. Clearly she had a screw or two loose. Yeah, there was simply no way something like that had happened to you. This was a dream, plain and simple.
But then the building right next to you caught fire. You were sure there was nothing before, but there was a fire and it was very, very big and very, very hot. Suddenly this all felt too terribly real. Was it a villain attack? Oh no, you were doomed. You were going to die- you’d only just gotten here and you were already going to die-
“It’s going to be okay,” you heard a gruff voice say.  It was probably Japanese, but you could understand it all the same. “Take deep breaths, one at a time. The heroes are already here, they’re apprehending the villain right now,” you heard him say softly. You did your best to follow his advice. In, pause, out, pause. In, pause, out, pause. After a while, it wasn’t so hot, and you could turn to look at the person who had calmed you down. You weren’t one to judge, but he looked like he needed some help- holy cow that’s Aizawa!!
Okay, you were not expecting that. Sure, you were hoping you’d run into a friendly canon character, but you didn’t think it’d happen that easily! You knew you needed to say something though, or this would be painfully awkward. “I, um,” you spluttered, “I’m a huge fan, Eraserhead. Can I get an autograph?”
“A fan, really? I don’t have too many of those.” He looked pleased, but also a bit confused. That was to be expected, considering he’s an underground hero. “Sure, do you have any paper on you?”
Ah. That was a bit of a problem. You searched your pockets, turning up absolutely nothing, not even your phone. “Nope. Nothing. Guess I won’t be getting that autograph, huh?” You were disappointed, of course, but it wasn’t the end of the world. As messed up as this world seemed to be, you were probably better off not meeting any more canon characters unless they were saving your life. This was just a lucky chance.
“Ah, well, that’s too bad. Hey, kid, you don’t seem like you’re from around here. Are you lost?” Aizawa asked. You did a double take, wondering if it was really that obvious. Kid, though? How old were you?
“Um, yeah, I’m pretty lost, I think. I’m not really from around here,” you vaguely expressed. Even you weren’t sure where here was. You were beginning to fear that this might just be your new reality, but naturally you couldn’t just accept that out of the blue. A large part of you was holding out hope that this was just a crazy dream. Because if Bakugou was a villain in this world, then what did that mean for the rest of the characters?
“You think? Did you hit your head or something? I can take you to the hospital to get it looked at,” he offered. You were pretty sure a concussion was the least of your worries, but sticking with Aizawa seemed safer than being alone in a strange place, at least. He did appear a little suspicious of your condition, but you were only telling the truth. You had no idea what was going on either.
“That might be a good idea. Thank you,” you agreed with a nod. While the doctor wasn’t likely to find any brain damage, you could at least see if you had the quirk factor gene thing or not. The odds were next to zero, but if this was a dream, you might just turn out to be super overpowered!
Yeah, right. Even if you did suddenly find yourself being up to par with some of the main characters, there wasn’t much you could do with it. Public quirk usage was illegal, and it’s not like you’d end up in a hero school with zero documents to prove you actually existed.
You and Aizawa walked in silence, presumably to the nearest hospital. You really hoped he wasn’t also a villain in this world. But if he was, then why would he have helped to calm you down? So, you were probably safe. For now, at least. You couldn’t cling to him forever.
When you reached the hospital, Aizawa took you to the emergency room. You didn’t think you were that much of an emergency, but you couldn’t provide much of a counterargument without revealing too much. What were you supposed to say, anyway? “Oh, hey, by the way, you’re just a character from an anime I watched back home, except for some reason the timeline got really messed up and now Bakugou’s a villain?” As if! He’d think you were crazy!
So instead, you went along with it as you were brought back almost immediately. You weren’t sure if it was because they thought you had a head injury, or because you were with a pro hero. Either way, it wasn’t fair to the other people waiting, those who actually needed help. But again, there was nothing you could do.
Several annoying and probably unnecessary tests later, a doctor came back to your room to speak with you. “Well,” she began, sitting down on a stool, “I have good news and bad news. The good news is that all the tests came back normal. The bad news is, well, none of our staff could find any information on you. Are you sure your name is in our system correctly?”
You knew this would happen, unless the universe magically decided to cover for you. “Yes, they’re correct. I just, I don’t really remember anything else. I know that and some basic information but that’s about it. I don’t even know where I come from, just that it’s not here,” you told her, trying to be as calm as possible. You’d had plenty of time to think about what to do while you were waiting on the results, and you figured amnesia was the best option.
It was true, in a sense, that you didn’t know where you came from. You were beginning to be convinced that this was reality, but you didn’t know how. Was this some sort of parallel universe? You didn’t know how all that physics stuff worked, but that sounded the most likely.
The good news about the timeline being messed up was that you didn’t have to worry about your presence messing things up. You were basically free to do whatever you wanted. You were, however, severely limited by the fact that according to the government, you weren’t a real person.
The doctor and Aizawa shared a look. “Well, I’m going to step out and have a chat with the doctor here about what to do next,” Aizawa said in a tone that didn’t betray anything. That made you nervous. Were you in trouble because you’d said you were his fan? Were you going to be interrogated, or worse, sent off to Tartarus, never to see the light of day again?
No, you’d be fine. Everything would be fine. You just had to focus on your breathing, and try not to think about everything that could go wrong. From what you knew about him, Aizawa wouldn’t turn on you so quickly. You hadn’t done anything wrong.
After a surprisingly brief amount of time, Aizawa re-entered the room alone. The doctor must’ve left to go see other patients. “Hey kid, it sounds like you’ve been through a lot. So until we figure out what to do with you, you’re welcome to crash at my place. I’m guessing you don’t have any school to attend?”
“I don’t know, Mr. Aizawa,” you mumbled. What else were you supposed to say, anyway? Who knows, maybe you could go for a career in acting after all this was over. You’d have plenty of practice by then, that’s for sure. You felt guilty for lying to him, of course, but what choice did you have?
“I figured as much. I’ll talk to the principal at the school I teach at and see if we can’t get you enrolled when the new school year starts two weeks from now,” he supplied. You tried not to let your surprise show on your face. You were going to go to UA?! Nezu would still have to agree, but this was beginning to sound like a classic main character development. You didn’t want this hero academia; especially not when everything could be messed up!
“In the meantime, I’m sure you must be exhausted. Come on, let’s go home,” Aizawa said. Home. That was a nice sentiment. Here you were, in a new world all by yourself, unsure of what was the same and what had changed. But at least you had a place to rest your head.
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EPISODE 01 - INTRODUCTIONS
Part 1 of Keeping up with the Avengers
Loki x reader, Avengers x reader (platonic), Sam Wilson x Bucky Barnes
Warnings: none
Word Count: 1k
SERIES MASTERLIST | MAIN MASTERLIST
*The confessions are in bold*
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“I don’t get why we need to do this,” Tony complained, 
“The Avengers have a bad image,” Pepper said with an annoyed sigh,
“I’m a billionaire, if The Avengers look bad, I can just donate to some charity for puppies or something,” Tony continued to whine,
“Hey, I’m Tony Stark, I’m sure you know who I am,” he said to the camera,
“Tell us a little bit about yourself.” a distant voice behind the camera said, causing the billionaire to roll his eyes,
“Well, I’m a Genius, Billionaire, Playboy, Philanthropist, I’m also Iron Man, in case you didn’t know,” Tony said,
“Yeah, I hate to agree with Stark, but if there’s an issue with publicity, I highly doubt the solution is a reality show,” Natasha said, walking in and adjusting her widow bites on her wrists.
“Hey, I’m Natalie Rushman,” Natasha said, picking at her nails,
“People already know your real name,” someone behind the camera reminded her,
“Fine, my name is Natasha Romanoff and I’m Black Widow,” Natasha said, not giving any more information about herself, “What? There’s nothing more to say,”
“I think it’s a good idea to show people that The Avengers are still just human,” Pepper said,
“Isn’t this team made up of a bunch of superhumans? Aren’t there only, like, four people in this team who are “just” human? And even so, one’s a genius and two are highly trained assassins? If you think about it, Sam is the only one who’s “just” human,” Bucky said, walking in with Steve.
“Hey!” Sam protested, looking up from the couch, “you’re lucky I love you,”
Bucky rolled his eyes, but smiled nonetheless.
“Hey, I’m James Barnes, yeah, that James Barnes,” Bucky said, 
“I’m Sam Wilson, former U.S Air Force parachute jumper, I’m also the falcon,” Sam said,
“We actually got a TV show?” Y/N asked, walking in with Loki by her side,
“Hey, I’m Y/N Y/L/N, aka The Monarch, so I guess you could add me to the list of superheroes based on insects or arachnids,” Y/N said, “I have pyrokinesis, telekinesis and telepathy, kind like Wanda,”
Then the camera zoomed into her face.
“Also, Sam, If you’re watching this, I know you took the last red, white and blue donut so run because so help me god I will hunt you down,” she added, 
“I have to say, having a TV show for ourselves sounds interesting, almost like our own play, except I won’t have to impersonate someone else this time,” Loki said, 
“You what?” Tony asked,
“Hello mortals, I am Loki, son of Odin, prince of Asgard, god of mischief,” Loki said, “I don’t have much to say about myself,”
“How about you tell us a little bit about yourself, what do you like?” someone off screen said,
“I wouldn’t know what to say,” Loki replied, “However, Y/N might,”
cut
“Oh, I definitely know,” Y/N said,
“He likes the colour green and gold, he likes reading, pranks, stabbing Thor, his daggers, animals, - especially cats - the rain, ‘cause he’s dramatic like that, shakespeare,” she said, before pondering for a moment, an small smile appearing on her face, “he also likes me,”
“I’ve remembered I wanted to be an actress when I was younger,” Wanda said, following behind with Vision.
“I don’t think this is what young you had in mind, dear,” Vision commented, “However, the sentiment is still very nice,” 
“Hi, I’m Wanda and this is Vision,” Wanda said pointing to the android next to her,
“We decided to do the interview as I am technically not a human,” Vision said,
“I should probably tell you a little bit about myself,” Wanda said, “I love baking and sitcoms like ‘Full House’,” 
“I don’t really have interests, though I do like watching sitcoms with Wanda, no matter how absurd some of them are,”
“Has anyone seen Banner,” Natasha asked, “I needed help with my Widow bites,”
“You needed help with something with the weapons that I created and you decided to go to Jolly Green instead of me,” Tony said,
“Yeah, because Banner doesn’t change and add something completely unnecessary to it,” Natasha said,
“Wha- I don’t do that,” Tony protested,
Natasha raised an eyebrow.
“He has a problem,” Natasha said, ““I was on a mission in Moscow where I tried to work my Widow Bites and silly string came out,”
“It wasn’t that serious,” Tony waved off,
“It would’ve sabotaged the mission if Y/N wasn’t there,” Natasha deadpanned,
“You call it unnecessary, I call it genius,” Tony said,
“Did someone call me?” Bruce asked, entering the room with Steve, 
“Hi, I’m Bruce, umm, Bruce Banner,” Bruce said with an awkward smile, 
The camera zoomed in.
“I-I don’t know what else to say,” he said,
“You know, if this was an early 2000s disney channel show, people would be clapping at that entrance,” Y/N commented,
“Why do you know that?” 
“What’s that?”
Natasha and Steve said respectively.
“The spider kid made me watch some,” Y/N said, shrugging it off.
“He said I needed to read the ‘classics’, we spent a whole day watching Hannah Montana, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Wizard of Waverly Place and Lizzie Mcguire,” Y/N said, “I will never be the same,”
“What are the camera’s for, by the way,” Steve asked, gesturing to the production team,
“Oh, it’s for a reality show,” Natasha replied,
“Hi, I’m Steve Rogers,” Steve said, “Captain America by the way,”
“Have you seen Clint?” Steve asked,
“No, I haven’t seen him all day,” Y/N said, 
Loki snickered.
“Lokes, have you seen him?” Y/N asked,
Loki used his magic to open the overhead vents.
Clint fell out flat on his face.
“Barton! What the hell!” Y/N said, jumping away,
“Heyyy,” he groaned, 
“Okay, I’m getting you to medical,” Natasha said, 
Cut
“What’s it like being in a relationship with Y/N?” someone off camera asked,
Loki’s eyes lit up slightly.
“Well, I’m incredibly lucky, she’s honestly amazing and much too good for me, I don’t know what I did to deserve her,” Loki said,
“One time, she was mad at me and I asked her for a glass of water so she gave me a glass of ice and asked me to wait,” Loki said, “I love her,”
“Are the cameras just going to be following us around like this?” Y/N asked,
“Mhm,” Tony replied nonchalantly,
“Why do I feel like he’s used to this?” Y/N asked,
“It’s not all bad,” Wanda said, “Maybe we can make money off of this,”
Y/N’s eyes widened.
“We can?” Y/N asked, “Sam, come over and cry,”
“Why?” Sam asked,
“Good thumbnail,” Y/N said,
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tsunamibuckley · 2 years
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BUDDIE
everything (nothing) has changed by @zeppazariel | 48.5k words
After Eddie gets shot, Buck confesses his love. From there, things get a little out of hand.
Tags: Love Confessions, Angst, Coming Out, Jealous Eddie Diaz, Character Injury, Happy Ending.
Rating: Explicit.
there's frost in the air (but there's home in your eyes) by @rogerzsteven | 3.7k words
Buck and Eddie are trapped in a train crash.
Bad Things Happen Bingo: vomiting
Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Hurt Evan "Buck" Buckley, Evan "Buck" Buckley Whump, Major Character Injury, Blood and Injury, Vomiting, Eddie Diaz Takes Care of Evan "Buck" Buckley, Angst with a Happy Ending.
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences.
baby, let the games begin by @swiftiediaz | 3.3k words
There's a baseball game, Eddie pines and Hen is so done with these two idiots.
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Season/Series 05, Jealous Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 TV), Pining Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 TV), Mutual Pining, First Kiss, Getting Together.
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
surrounded by the warmth of the one i love by @jobairdxx | 4.5k words
Five times Eddie wears Buck's hoodies, and the one time Buck tells Eddie how that makes him feel.
Tags: Sharing Clothes, Misunderstandings, Fluff, Explicit Sexual Content, Frottage, Hurt/Comfort.
Rating: Explicit
hey now, hey now by @fallingthorns | 10.4k words
After returning to the 118, Eddie becomes a full-time paramedic and Ravi becomes Buck's partner. Eddie absolutely doesn't feel anything about that, not at all.
Tags: Jealous Eddie Diaz, Fluff, Pining, Humor, Getting Together.
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
blue eyes with a glass of merlot by @princessfbi | 6.1k words
“Do you know that guy?” Eddie heard Stuart ask before Eddie threw himself to the neglected other end of the bar.
A sparkly manicured hand latched onto his wrist and all the bachelorette girls in various states of drunkenness were staring at him.
“Don’t worry, honey,” the one with the bride sash said with a nod in Buck’s direction. “He won’t be leaving with him tonight.”
God, Eddie hoped not.
Tags: Different First Meeting, Bartender Eddie Diaz, Jealous Eddie Diaz, First Dates, Bad First Dates, Attempted Not Consensual Drug Use, First Kiss.
Rating: General Audiences
paw prints on your heart by elless | 5.9k words
Buck runs a cat shelter, where he gets to save animals and make sure they go to loving homes. One day, an adorable little boy joins his volunteer team and changes Buck's life.
Tags: Different First Meeting, Fluff, Light Angst.
Rating: General Audiences
I can count on you after all that we’ve been through by youdrewstarsaroundmyscars118 | 5.8k words
Buck meets an old friend on a call, and she has a lot of stories in storage for the 118.
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
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member: woozi genre: say it with me: domestic! fluff! word count: 864 content warning: one (1) rude thing is said without meaning it! it does not bring major consequences! also allusion to potential sexual intercourse at the very end note: this blurb is both prep for the 31 degree (90°F) weekend coming up and my trauma healing for that summer i spent in korea six years ago in 47 degrees (120°F) “It’s so hot.... Jihoon....” Lying on the floor under the old and inefficient air conditioner, limbs stretched out, your speech slurs in the sticky, impossible heat of summertime. Now that temperatures had reached their peak as they do in the early hours of the afternoon, there was nothing to do but wait it out. You feel around for your boyfriend’s arm, grab his wrist and shake it lazily.
“What do you want me to do about it? Don’t touch me!” He jerks out of your grip, both of you groaning. The heatwave was supposed to last a week, but it’s day ten of this madness and everyone, but especially one person, is done with it. Jihoon was already rather averse to too much touching, so the constant weight of the humid air on his skin has him on the brink of a meltdown. Emotionally, it makes sense to you, but rationally, everyone is over the heat; it's not an excuse to be so sensitive. You’re not there to manage Jihoon’s little temper tantrums.
“Quit whining and help me up!” The sound of hot skin sticking to slippery floor made you both grimace. With a groan and a mumble, Jihoon slowly turns to face you. “Why should I help you up. What will I gain from this effort. What are you trying to do.” His voice is monotone in a way that probably takes more effort than it would to speak normally. You can’t contain your laughter, making him frown. 
“Gonna turn on Free! so we can think of being in a pool...” Speech and motion sync at such a speed, you might not make it up nor finish your sentence before sundown. When you finally reach a sitting position, you turn to the man staring at you in undeserved exasperation and go “ha!”, and Jihoon’s mouth opens and immediately closes. He does not even have the energy to tease you today, though he can’t suppress a snort of amusement when you decide to stay on all fours, crawling to turn on the TV and starting the show. You crawl back to him then, mischievous smirk across your face, and he realises too late.
“Noooo nonononono NO!” Your laughter drowns out his protests as you let yourself fall head first on his chest, arms wrapping around his waist, slipping a little bit as two sweaty bodies come together in the least sensual way. “You’re disgusting,” Jihoon struggles to push you off him and only succeeds when you let go in fake hurt at his words. He is lucky you can tell the difference between general annoyance and sincerity. Still, he could be more careful, you think. He won’t take it back though; you know he’s stubborn and too hot right now to be bigger than his bad temper. He will find a subtle (he thinks) way to make up for his hasty choice of words, you will gracefully pretend it has nothing to do with it, he will know that you know why he is doing whatever he will choose to do, and the case will be closed. It’s a matter of time. So you just settle on the cold-ish floor, back against the couch, and focus on your anime. 
It’s only when you feel a warmth that isn’t the humid air weighing you down that you realise your eyes are closed, the television is off; you must have fallen asleep. You peek through barely open lids to see Jihoon staring at you with his neutral-good look. It’s that look he wears when he is acting normal, but you can read his good mood through the poker face. It takes months and years of practice to get it right between neutral-good and neutral-could-turn-murderous. The memories could make you shudder. 
“Awake?” Jihoon is still saving energy on speech. You sit up and rub your eyes, adjusting to the new light bathing the room in orange hues. How long were you out? You don’t have time to ask before your boyfriend hands you a tall glass of water with half-melted ice cubes at the bottom. “Drink. Been asleep for five hours, dehydrated.” You take the glass and sip on the fresh water without saying thank you. This is the official procedure for communicating to him that you know he is doing this for forgiveness. Jihoon scoots closer to you then, resting his arm on the couch to comfortably play with the hair sticking to your neck, hesitantly pressing his lips to your bare shoulder. You set the glass down next to you, careful to keep it far enough to prevent any broad movement from spilling its content. Turning to him, you look into his eyes and suppress a smile. “I was disgusting a while ago, but now the temperatures have come down we’re trying to get it on?” He pauses for a second before rolling his eyes, standing up and lovingly throwing a “shut up” your way, but you caught that smirk on his lips and the glint in his eye. And you definitely saw him look over his shoulder and motioning for you to follow him to the bedroom.
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weirdstuffthathappens · 6 months
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Space Ghost vs Pizza
Today was supposed to just be some math I did for nerd reasons that figured it would make a decent daily article, but I got into it and it was too long, so this can be a whole article.
As Cal has probably already mentioned, they have gotten me into Space Ghost Coast to Coast, so I've been watching and thinking about it a lot recently.
For anyone who doesn't know, Space Ghost Coast to Coast is the first or second Cartoon Network original series (depending on how you count The Moxy Show) to be made, in which the 1960s Hanna-Barbera superhero Space Ghost is repurposed as the host of an animated late-night talk show who interviews live-action celebrities in a space monitor from a soundstage on Ghost Planet. It should be noted Space Ghost acts exactly how you think a talk show host suffering from space madness and using their own face as a logo would—cartoonishly self-absorbed and loony . He is assisted by a few of the space alien supervillains from his original cartoon, namely the cantankerous mantis man Zorak—who is now the leader of the house band—and Moltar, a molten lava alien in a hazard suit who directs and produces the show from within a magma cave. They both enjoy causing problems for Space Ghost while still doing their jobs on the show, I'd say each week but the series had an irregular air schedule. To say shenanigans ensue is an understatement—it absolutely gets surreal.
I must say I enjoyed it a lot more than I was anticipating, but I will admit I was expecting something a lot raunchier and less sincere than what I got. The show is delightfully bizarre in a way that I adore and I was particularly wowed by the strong and consistent refurbishing of characters that otherwise could have been forgotten to the cartoon archives for good.
Moltar is probably the biggest example of this in the show, and I think he ended up my favorite character because of it. Unlike Zorak and Brak, who were notable villains that got respectively compounded and contrasted from their personalities in the original series, Moltar didn't have much to go on. He was probably the least interesting member of the Space Ghost rogue gallery supergroup "The Council of Doom", appearing in only two episodes at the very end of the series. Then, by the end of Coast to Coast, Moltar is developed into a gruff nerd who is polite despite a bloodlust begrudgingly satisfied with violent Earth television when unable to target people, and who ends up the straight man on principle whenever Space Ghost is acting completely bonkers—something that becomes more common as the seasons go on.
Probably the most interesting thing to me after watching Coast to Coast is learning that Moltar wasn't actually a lava alien specifically in the original series, just a masked humanoid alien who really liked lava. Anything that comes up about Moltar’s bizarre alien biology in the show is “whole cloth” from the Coast to Coast writers—that is to say, pretty much completely fabricated. Probably the coolest aspect of Moltar in my book is the fact that when he is sans helmet, all that is visible is a lens flare, not unlike what happens when you try to film bright molten matter. I love details like that where you can tell that somebody put thought into it.
Anyway, this is all just a "need to get it out of my system" prelude and context for the actual point of the article, which is a joke in the episode "Hungry". Now to preface further, “Hungry” is one of the most episodes of any TV show I've seen. This won't even spoil anything, but one of the 5 to 8 plotlines going on in this 15 minute episode is Space Ghost trying to order a pizza because everyone is hungry, but there's problems with the pizzeria. At one point Moltar starts arguing with the pizza man, claiming that he can cook a pizza in 30 seconds, something the pizza man scoffs at.
Now the math here is pretty simple. How hot is Molten Lava vs a pizza cooking calculator? In the 1998 episode "Intense Patriotism", Moltar's "face" is shown as a light blur that's white to yellow to a little orange in color. The European Geosciences Union states that molten lava has to be at least 1150°C (2102°F) to be visibly white. Omnicalculator says that at 2102°F, a pizza would be done in 27 seconds. This means if you apply real numbers to absurdist cartoons, it is probable Moltar could cook a pizza in 30 seconds, assuming he doesn't burn it.
Well, you should go watch “Hungry” while it's still free on the Adult Swim website. It's a really good episode to start the series on.
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PGSM (2003) Is a Story About Human Beings, and I LOVE It
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Years ago, I attempted to watch the live-action Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon show, or PGSM for short. And I quit because it looked so silly I couldn't maintain my sense of disbelief.
I've learned not to judge a show by its looks since then. So, when I stumbled across a 20-second PGSM clip two weeks ago, I thought, "Shouldn't I give that another chance?" I'd heard a few interesting things about it, so I decided the answer was yes.
It took me a little while to adjust, sure. Some things still looked ridiculous to me. And yet, with every episode I became more and more emotionally invested. I started to see PGSM for what it truly was: an intricate tapestry of character-driven storytelling.
If you've read my other posts, you know I love characters more than anything. What I also love is an emphasis on narrative consequence and a willingness to explore new and/or interesting ideas, particularly when it's a new entry in an already-established franchise. And it just so happens that PGSM ticks all of these boxes!
In short, this show was made for me.
I'm not going to write about all of the clever things this show does because that would take far too many words. Here's my quick two cents: I think PGSM is excellent. It has flaws, and I think it only appeals to a certain type of viewer. But if you are that type of viewer, like I am, you're likely to be swept off your feet!
So yeah, I never thought I'd say this, but I love this show. It's by far the most fun I've ever had with Sailor Moon. And as is standard by now, I'm going to tell you why I feel that way under the cut.
First, I'll go over how PGSM manages to work at all. Then, I'll outline the theme; the central questions at the heart of the story. Finally, I'm going to illustrate just how well this show pulls off its primary goals---by examining the character arc of a certain old favourite of mine.
[FULL spoiler warning!]
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Ever since its inception, Sailor Moon has been an enduring presence in Japanese media and merchandising. Its presence has waxed and waned over the past decades, but it has nevertheless managed to remain incredibly successful. The original 90s manga spawned a concurrently running anime series, musicals, the Crystal anime series in the 2010s, and much more.
The fun effect of all these different versions is that each is its own thing. Even Crystal, which adheres much more closely to the manga than the 90s anime, is still different; a story can't be told the same way in every medium. This is why adaptations are difficult to do and are likely to piss off someone, regardless of intent or execution.
Smack-dab between the original and recent versions, a bold little beast emerged.
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon aired from October 2003 to September 2004. Unlike the versions before and since, it's a live-action tokusatsu superhero TV series, like Super Sentai--a show the manga also drew inspiration from. This again marks a significant change when it comes to storytelling possibilities.
PGSM faces several challenges on top of that. It only exists because the musicals were so successful, yet it has a shoestring-looking budget that makes some aspects of the show look underwhelming. The lead actors were young and inexperienced, so it can take a bit for everything to click performance-wise. Lastly, the characters tend to have their faces in full view during action scenes, rendering the use of stunt doubles difficult and therefore limiting choreographic possibilities.
And yet, under the stewardship of writer Kobayashi Yasuko and a ton of passionate and experienced staff, this show found a way to stand shoulder to shoulder with beloved works of the franchise.
Let's examine how.
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If I'd given you a rundown of the obstacles PGSM faced without my glowing praise attached, you'd probably think this show was sent out to die. Maybe it was, I don't know. Perhaps someone at Toei thought it would hoover up some merchandise sales before it fell off a cliff to its pyrotechnic death!
The amazing thing about PGSM is that it takes these challenges and turns them into its greatest strengths. This is a show that understands the constraints it has to operate within. It can't compete on action and special effects, so it hones in on something it can execute well and bring a unique twist to: characters and story.
Its best claim to fame, at least in the little discussion I saw of it, is how it reworks its characters to serve a brand-new spin on a familiar narrative. But I believe this description to be...insufficient. The changes made here go beyond adjusting and emphasising personality traits. This is a paradigm shift; a top-to-bottom overhaul and a tribute to Sailor Moon all at once.
While there's still an overarching story that involves protecting the world from evil and salvaging a doomed romance from a previous life, the real meat of PGSM lies in the rich inner lives of its cast. This shifts the genre to character-driven drama with a dash of soap opera.
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As a result, those aforementioned inner lives are established, built upon, and allowed to emerge and clash naturally. All the while, the characters contend with a turbulent new reality which further affects their interpersonal relationships. That in turn shifts the theme to something much more personal: past life versus current life.
What does it mean for your identity to be reborn with memories from a past life? What do you do when that past life has a stranglehold on your current one? Are you doomed to repeat the mistakes of ages past?
And what effect do these challenges have on a person's psyche?
PGSM spends its 49-episode runtime exploring these questions to the fullest. I consider it a true ensemble work, as every major character is relevant to the story and drives it forward at some point. And because each of them is unique, we're shown a full spectrum of viewpoints that are informed by personality traits and emotional baggage.
So, yeah, it's really good. Really damn good.
In fact, to demonstrate just how in-depth and detailed the characterisation is, I'm going to spend the rest of this post analysing my favourite example of a PGSM character arc: the understated and expertly-paced struggles of one Kino Makoto.
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Wood and Thunder
A core part of Makoto in every version is her dual nature--possessing both traditionally masculine and feminine characteristics--and how this clashes with societal expectations. With her curly hair and long skirt, she comes across like a typical sukeban (a delinquent girl) of the time. Her imposing height, incredible strength and fighting skills confirm that image.
In truth, the sukeban resemblance is exactly that and nothing more; her hair is naturally curly and her new school doesn't have a uniform in her size. She only uses her strength to protect others. Notably, she has a romantic heart and yearns for a place to belong, perhaps even a person she can belong with.
Absolutely none of that matters to society. Through no fault of her own, people only see one side to her and assume the other doesn't exist. Prejudice and ostracisation follow.
You might think this would cause Makoto to be ashamed of her more masculine traits, but that's not the case. She might feel embarrassed by them at times, or attempt to play up her feminine side to compensate, sure. But in the end, she embraces all of these characteristics and doesn't think it's wrong to be this way. People just refuse to see the feminine side that's openly on display.
So, here we have a character with a compelling set of characteristics that can be utilised in different ways. The approach taken is something that differs per version. But like all things Sailor Moon, Makoto is a product of her time; the sukeban aspect is particularly dated.
As an early 2000s show, PGSM had a chance at a fresh start with this concept. Suffice it to say I was very interested to see how it would update Makoto to a new millennium and modify her without erasing her core traits. What I got was far more than I bargained for.
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Makoto's PGSM debut gives us an effective overview of her as a person that hits many familiar beats. She protects Usagi, returns Usagi's friendliness with her own, develops a crush on a guy, and kicks ass both in and out of Senshi guise. She had her heart broken by her senpai at her previous school, but she also felt like something was urging her to come here. Now she knows why: she had comrades to meet.
This looks like a mix of Makoto's introduction in the manga and 90s anime, adapted to modern times. But all that familiarity is distracting you from something. There's actually a big deviation here, and you can see that before she even does anything.
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Take a good look at this picture. Obviously the sukeban influence was removed from her design, but that's not the most important detail here. Hopefully you'll notice what I didn't:
There are no rose earrings.
Everything spirals out from there. The Makoto from the 90s was open about her femininity, but the Makoto we meet in PGSM barely shows her feminine side at all. In fact, she takes great pains to hide it.
This affects her character on a fundamental level. When she first appears, she comes across as unusually withdrawn and stoic. As is typical of the character, she swiftly opens up to Usagi and that seems to be the end of aloof Makoto. But that feminine side doesn't surface. She still dresses in unisex clothes that lean more toward masculine than feminine.
Likewise, her flat may have a few plants and a neat kitchen, but they don't take centre stage. There's a skateboard and a hat collection (my beloved!) that are displayed at the entrance. A logical location, but that also means it's the first thing you see when you enter.
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So, what gives? Here's the thing: the characters in PGSM are emotionally complex. Much work and care went into characterising all of them. Because of this, the characters feel like real people. They argue, make mistakes, agonise over things... Not to say this isn't the case in other versions, but PGSM takes it further and really emphasises how vulnerable--how tragically human--these characters can be.
That's what is being tied into here. Being mistaken for a tomboy, despite being openly feminine, is an external issue. But for PGSM's Makoto, the conflict is internal. She doesn't want to be seen as feminine. When exposed or questioned, she denies it despite being a terrible liar. If the questioning continues, she actually uses her tomboy image to refute it.
She does this because her feminine side makes her vulnerable. This Makoto has been burned so many times that she's developed abandonment issues. She's one bad experience away from yet another cocktail of intense sadness and deep-seated anger. Sometimes a mere reminder is enough to get her down, too.
No one wants to feel like that. She's learned the hard way that opening herself up to others puts her at risk. That's why she prefers to play these darker feelings close to her chest.
To demonstrate all of this, her debut episode shows us exactly how bad it can get. It puts her through an especially cruel combination of deception, humiliation and rejection, no punches pulled.
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It's at this moment that Makoto has had enough. Taking this risk was a mistake and it should never be repeated. She slams the gate to her wounded heart shut and locks it tight. The walls of her inner fortress become that much higher.
Learning to lower those walls and make another try for happiness is Makoto's character arc in PGSM.
This is why she was shifted so much toward the tomboy archetype. By giving Makoto an emotional incentive to deny a part of herself, PGSM gives her a believable, deeply personal obstacle that can take her the entire show to overcome. She now has to engage with her abandonment issues in order to become the more balanced person we know she can be.
Her powers as Sailor Jupiter also connect to this: there's the explosive power of lightning on one end and the soothing aura of nature on the other. Two distinct halves that each bring their own benefits. But Makoto's starting point is pure lightning.
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Multiple times throughout the show, we're shown that nature is trying to communicate with her. But because she starts out as a lightning bolt, she doesn't understand it at all. This is another avenue for self-improvement, and PGSM understands that too; it explicitly ties the awakening of a Senshi's full powers to overcoming a core character flaw.
So, given all of that, how does PGSM build on the devastation she suffered during her debut episode and the emotional consequences left in its wake?
I'm happy to report it does nothing for 24 episodes. Yes, really.
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For half of the runtime, Makoto acts as the support of the group; often present, but never centre stage. Sure, she develops a dynamic with each of her new friends, and she even begins to show some of her feminine aspects as that trust grows. The more she does this, the more her affinity with nature subtly increases; she begins to use non-lightning attacks and comes ever so slightly closer to understanding what the wind and trees attempt to tell her.
But when it comes to the story, Makoto doesn't drive most of the events that occur at this point. She becomes involved, or agrees to go along with something, but rare is the instance where something happens directly because of her actions. She contributes, but she's never in the driver's seat. She's the one who helps others become better versions of themselves.
She develops, but she doesn't grow.
This delay is 100% intentional. A Makoto who's only giving, only protecting, is completely fine. There are no lingering issues she needs to deal with because they've been swept under the rug, tucked away behind the walls of her fortress. For all she reveals of herself during this time, her abandonment issues might as well not exist.
This is PGSM's devotion to character-driven storytelling and narrative consequence on full display. As Makoto ignores her emotional baggage, PGSM is likewise content to misdirect you away from it.
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Cycle of Fear
It's not until episode 31 that Motoki--the most endearing turtle nerd to have ever lived--unwittingly pokes at Makoto's defences. Up until that moment, she'd first considered him an acquaintance and later a supportive friend. In other words: a safe coexistence.
The moment she realises he has a crush on her, that safety disappears and all her thoroughly-buried insecurities rush to the forefront. Her old stoicism slams into place as the mask we now know it to be and she does her best to avoid eye contact. As brash as she usually is, she now struggles with all her might to seem detached and logical. She has to; the alternative is revealing how anxious this situation makes her. Although Usagi, Ami and Rei have earned her trust, showing that most vulnerable side of herself is still a bridge too far.
She drags herself to the date (probably because Usagi wouldn't let her worm her way out of it) and spends the entire time being awkward in spite of Motoki's oblivious excitement. It's clear that her heart isn't in it, but in typical Makoto fashion, she places the needs of the kind, sensitive Motoki above her own and does her best to let the date die a natural death.
Then, a sudden connection!
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Makoto is stunned at first. No one has ever said that to her. As Motoki continues to extol her virtues--half of which are about how incredibly nice she is--she lights up! Aww!
...Only for her insecurities to take over again after an offhand mention of parents by Motoki, because PGSM is a story about fallible human beings. She immediately attempts to leave and is only stopped by a nosey Luna. It's impossible for Motoki not to notice something's off at this point. Keen for clarity, he decides to confess his feelings when they're not surrounded by other people. Makoto rejects him--by denying her femininity.
This is a direct result of Makoto's actions in the first half of the show. When she started to open up to her friends, she could've taken it further and started to navigate her issues. Her friends could've helped her. Instead, she chose to pretend that there was nothing to fix.
Now here she is. Avoidance--her first line of defence--has failed. Her second wall, rationalisation, has also been bypassed. Emotionally cornered, she falls back on the same defence mechanism she used at the start: denial wrapped up in irrational beliefs and low self-esteem.
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"I'm really strong and get into fights. People are scared of me. That means I'm actually not feminine at all and what you saw was an anomaly. And because I'm not feminine, I'm not dating material."
By maintaining her tomboy image and denying her feminine attributes, this reasoning allows her to pre-emptively sabotage any blossoming relationship for herself. While this might bring relief in the short term, it's also the very thing that keeps her from happiness. Makoto is the Senshi of courage, but here she demonstrates how afraid she truly is.
Motoki seems to recognise this on some level. To him, Makoto is a strong, confident person. But she's also reserved in a way, and now that the emotional mess underneath is being dragged into the light, it's clear she's like that for a reason. He sees her for who she truly is and he likes what he sees, but she's not in a good enough place, mentally, to see that too. So he does the only thing he can do: he gives her space. He reassures her that she is feminine and then leaves her be.
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"Why?"
This is the question that has plagued her for years. Uttered by a young Makoto and echoed by her present self, this representation of her thoughts comes up whenever loss or rejection hits. What matters here is the context: for once, it's Makoto who did the rejecting. She's in control.
So then, why does this still happen?
This is one of the uncommon moments where PGSM engages in subtlety. We don't get a definitive answer here. Makoto asks, "Why?" but we don't know what that refers to in this moment. We have to infer that ourselves.
My reading is as follows: "I rejected him before he could reject me. I removed him from my life before I could lose him. So why does it hurt? Why do I feel sad?"
During the subsequent fight against a powerful Youma, the other Senshi are held up and she ends up cornered and alone. It's an all too familiar scenario. She flashes back to all of the people she's lost.
Motoki shows up too, but he's almost impossible to make out.
At that very moment, the wind picks up around her. She lets out a breath in awe, gazing up at the swaying branches as the wind seems to communicate something. And then she awakens. Although she still summons a lightning attack, it's now taken on a green colour, signifying a new equilibrium.
When the others ask her what triggered it, Makoto naturally tells them the lesson of this episode: that she had to acknowledge her feminine side and truly open herself up to being loved--
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--Wha...?
Yeah, you're seeing that right. Makoto just learned the wrong lesson.
Needless to say, I was flabbergasted by this outcome. Deep down, as much as she wants to refute it, Makoto needs companionship, people to belong with. It's a core aspect of her character! It makes no sense for her to gain power from solitude.
However... If you think about it, why wouldn't this be her takeaway? She was alone and she made sure to sabotage her relationship with Motoki before it could go anywhere, so this is the only logical explanation, right? Her powers awakened, so the narrative is proving her correct as well.
Except no, the narrative is simply adhering to the consequences of her actions. By coming to the wrong conclusion, Makoto has once again delayed her growth.
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For the next 13 (!) episodes, Makoto seems to be okay again. She easily slips back into her role of casual, friendly and supportive friend. But something's changed: Usagi, Ami and Rei have glimpsed Makoto's scars, and they're not content to let her ignore them.
They attempt to challenge her new outlook, but Makoto's resolve is ironclad. Even when she's forced to reveal her secret identity to Motoki, she still reiterates her rejection of him. What's worse, she now she has an extra defence: her duties as a Senshi. Although Motoki still carries a torch for her, he resigns himself to supporting her as best he can.
Still, despite her determination in this matter, Makoto herself has changed as well. There's conflict and pain present whenever she's forced to acknowledge her decisions. And ever since the start of episode 31, she can't help but look sombre whenever something reminds her of her parents. Somehow, despite her best efforts to repair the holes in her walls, some cracks have remained.
All of this comes to a head when Makoto's character arc collides with Minako's.
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Diminishing The Self
Ever since the girls found out they were reborn after their past lives ended in disaster, they've been grappling with PGSM's theme more and more. With their past swiftly squeezing the life out of their present, each of them is forced to form an opinion: How much do their past lives affect their present lives? How much should it affect them in the first place? And what do you do?
Here's our spectrum: On one extreme we have Rei, who's become resentful of her past life and rejects it completely. She asserts that she is her own person and that her past life shouldn't dictate who she is and how she acts now. Makoto's stance is adding fuel to that fire. When Minako counters her coup with one of her own, Rei is kicked out and decides to fight on separately.
At the other extreme stands Minako. Diagnosed with a terminal illness that she has almost no hope of curing, she's completely rejected her present life and is devoted to completing the mission from her past life. She won't be around for much longer and she's determined to save the world as much as possible before she dies. She asserts authority over the Senshi for the sake of the mission.
Usagi and Ami fall between these two polar opposites. Usagi is the reincarnation of the Moon Princess and is literally anchored to the past life through her Silver Crystal. She can't deny that her current existence has been heavily shaped by the past. But she's also determined to prevent a repeat of the past, even if it's the hardest thing she's ever done. She works hard at controlling her emotions and is convinced she and Mamoru will succeed.
Ami's current circumstances don't seem to be shaped as much by her past life, so she's the most neutral out of all of them. But as someone who was turned to evil and emerged a changed person, it's hard to deny: Their lives have been affected by the past and it's necessary to acknowledge that. What to do with that information is something she doesn't have the answer to. She fights alongside Minako and Makoto, but stays in touch with Rei.
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Makoto has been firmly in the 'this mission is paramount' camp from the start, but not to the extreme that Minako is. You see, Minako almost always chooses to refer to them by their Senshi monikers. Makoto doesn't; she and her three friends always refer to each other by their present life names, even during battle. This is a conscious change that establishes their current identities as distinct from their past selves.
But remember, Makoto came here because she was meant to. She was meant to meet her comrades. She was destined to be alone, so she could listen to nature and let it lead her to her true purpose in life.
So when Minako tells her she's so devoted to the mission that she will cast aside her life to complete it, Makoto can't help but be stirred. Finally, with Minako's help, she realises that the truth is even simpler than she thought: She's always been alone because her current life isn't what truly matters. She exists to carry out her duties, regardless of the personal cost.
This is the final piece of the puzzle for both her and us. Her shift to a tomboy archetype, her character arc and the theme of the show all combine here.
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For years, Makoto has been haunted by something: "Why?" Why was she left to suffer all alone? Why was she abandoned over and over?
Then this Senshi business comes along, and with it comes a duty and moniker from a past life. For Usagi, this upheaval of her identity is upsetting. But for Makoto, it's a comfort. Being a Senshi gives her purpose, stability and even friends. For someone who's sorely lacked all of that for years, this development is nothing short of a godsend.
And so, from the very beginning, she took this newfound 'destiny' and ran with it. This was the best thing that had ever happened to her and she crafted her entire outlook around that. Heartbroken and expelled from school? That was just another way to get her to where she needed to be. Her powers awaken while she's dwelling on how she always ends up alone? Obviously that isolation was also intended.
From there, it's a hop, skip and a jump to what she's doing in this scene: discarding her current identity in favour of her past one. She perfectly expresses this by (in the next episode) copying Minako's statement: she might die, but "Jupiter won't disappear". Kino Makoto is a shell to house Sailor Jupiter, and shells are expendable.
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This is Makoto at her most extreme. She's always downplayed her own importance and achievements, and now here she is, downplaying her very existence. No individual, only the greater good.
It doesn't even matter that Minako lied to them about her identity, illness and powers. Makoto understands by this point that a secret can be kept for good reasons; she's done it herself. If anything, Minako's deception and her ensuing burdens feed Makoto's view of her as a martyr and a leader.
By choosing to follow that example, Makoto joins Minako on the very extreme of the thematic (past life versus current life) spectrum. In turn, Minako gains the staunchest of allies--but she fails to realise how thoroughly Makoto has just been primed for the pinnacle of martyrdom.
A powerful Youma attacks. When Makoto, Ami and Luna wound it, Metalia possesses it, scaling its power beyond that of the Senshi to overcome. Minako can't transform. Ami and Luna have been knocked out of their Senshi forms and can't fight anymore.
Metalia is about to win. They're going to fail.
Makoto decides to fulfil her purpose. She grabs hold of the Youma and overloads herself with lightning, creating an explosion that annihilates them both.
Minako calls out to the person--not the Senshi--in front of her.
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True Courage
Makoto wakes up in a hotel room, wounded but alive, watched over by Minako. The Youma threw her off at the last second, saving both of their lives. Makoto only laments her failure; she doesn't even seem to care that she almost died. In fact, she outright states that she was meant to be alone so that her possible death wouldn't make anyone sad.
Minako has been horrified by this entire ordeal and that feeling only grows with every sentence Makoto utters. When Makoto explains she was fulfilling her past life's mission, it hits Minako like a ton of bricks: this is her doing. By influencing Makoto in this direction, she almost had Makoto's blood on her hands.
She tries to sway Makoto from a repeat attempt, but is taken aback when Makoto unintentionally throws every single one of her own arguments back in her face. When she claims that her own situation is different, Makoto looks her squarely in the eyes and says, "A life's a life. They're all the same."
Minako doesn't deny it. She can't. How could anyone refuse such a simple, factual statement when it comes from someone as forthright as Makoto?
It proves impossible to change Makoto's mind, so she changes tactics. Rather than challenge Makoto's standpoint directly, she questions one of its cornerstones instead. She does so by revealing that Makoto had muttered Motoki's name in her sleep. Perhaps, she posits, Makoto is more tied to the present than she believes herself to be.
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This succeeds in shaking Makoto's beliefs. Minako leaves her to her thoughts, victorious in a way, but her own conviction was caught in the crossfire. While Rei's insistence opened the way, she was also easy to dig in her heels against. Makoto, on the other hand, has fundamentally disproven Minako's views by agreeing with her. In that suicide attack, she saw first-hand the logical endpoint of her own ideology. She's more than a little disturbed.
It's the opening Artemis needs, even though he doesn't know it's there. When he subsequently shows her how much joy and comfort her songs bring to others, she finally realises what she's been missing in herself. Her current life does have value, her achievements do matter, and she shouldn't dismiss them so flippantly. She should love herself, love the person she is now.
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In the following battle, she awakens her full powers and transforms. The Senshi are finally united for good.
Now that Minako has admitted to herself that she also resents the past life for what it's done to her, Makoto has become the new extreme on the thematic spectrum. However, Minako's revelation is forcing her to reconcile conflicting truths. She awakened because she was alone. But if Motoki's still on her mind like that, if he's still part of her life like that, then she's not alone. If she's not alone, then her reasoning is intrinsically flawed.
When she sees Motoki in a Youma-induced coma, the question of "Why?" returns for the final time. And then she sees him, clearly this time.
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In that moment, she realises all of her beliefs were wrong. She didn't reject Motoki, she lost him through self-sabotage. Foiling a possible relationship didn't work; he'd cracked her armour before then. Their connection was gradually built up over the entire show and came cocooned in comfortable friendship, the only type of connection she did allow.
When that connection touched her heart and stirred something more, that was when she unlocked her full potential. He cares about her, the real her, not the skewed facade she puts on. She's not alone anymore. When she told herself that she was alone and always had been, and the wind rustled the leaves, that was nature calling her out on her self-deception.
But why did that self-deception even occur? She didn't need to draw this conclusion from the start, did she? Unfortunately, she did. That's the final, heartbreaking part: Being a Senshi was the ultimate coping mechanism.
There's a reason this shot is repeated multiple times:
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Makoto was constantly looking back at the past, looking for answers. Because her abandonment issues went unresolved, that question of "Why?" was burning a hole in her. She was desperate for a reason, any reason, so she could understand. If her hardship and loneliness were predetermined and in service to this all-important duty, then being a Senshi justified her suffering. She craved that more than anything. No wonder she transformed without even questioning it.
And hey, if that duty meant she had to avoid the type of relationship that terrified her most of all, well... That was a happy coincidence, wasn't it?
Fortunately, for all the trouble her uncompromising, black-and-white outlook has brought her, that same determination also allows her to accept this new truth in an instant. She screwed up big-time, but as long as she lives and breathes, she can work to set things right.
She strokes Motoki's hand and runs off to join the fray--not to throw herself at the enemy through all her lifetimes, but to protect those who are dear to her now. After the fight, she looks at the turtle-shaped charm Motoki bought her and smiles, allowing herself to dream of the future for the first time.
Minako passes away the next episode, but she does so with no regrets. Although grief follows, that final unifying moment, jump-started by Makoto, was enough. Ami, Rei and Makoto head off to the finale together, as a true team, never losing sight of what's important to them.
PGSM is exceedingly compelling to me, and the structure of this character arc exemplifies why. Makoto learns the wrong lesson three times: when she first becomes Sailor Jupiter, when she awakens her full power, and when she embraces Minako's ideology to an unhealthy degree.
Not only does PGSM allow her to miss the mark so spectacularly, it also gives her the time to deny and then address her irrational beliefs in a plausible manner. Moreover, because she and Minako drive each other to unlearn their internalised misconceptions, Makoto gives both Minako and the story one of the last pushes they need.
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The last we see of Makoto's new and improved self, in relation to romance, is her final encounter with Motoki in the show. She shows him she's attached his cute turtle charm to her wallet, out there for everyone to see. Motoki treats it with cautious optimism, then relief. It's a deliberate signal: Makoto is open to new possibilities now. Maybe they can try again. They laugh a little, sharing their first comfortable moment together in this context.
Sadly, likely due to a few cut episodes, this is the last we see of them. Makoto's character arc is definitely complete, but because the ending shows the Senshi alone before they meet up with Usagi again, her relationship status with Motoki is left ambiguous.
But not to worry! Due to the success of the show's DVD sales during its runtime, both a special prequel and sequel act were produced! The sequel act is a 1-hour movie that shows us where everyone ended up four years later.
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In that time, Makoto has undergone a significant transformation. In the show, her dreams for the future were never even mentioned. But here, we find out she's studying floral design, something that she's obviously passionate about. Reaching for happiness indeed.
On the wardrobe side, she still owns unisex clothes (you see this when she charges off to the action portion of the movie), but otherwise her femininity is on full display. A blouse, an embroidered shirt, even a bright yellow skirt, it's all there. Not to mention the stunning dress she wears at Usagi's wedding. And to symbolise how full-circle we've come, she's even wearing earrings!
Her flat has likewise seen major changes. The skateboard and my beloved hats have been moved to make way for what appears to be storage (a fulfilling life can result in extra possessions!) and a picture of something nature-y on the wall. And the room is now filled with plants!
All of these differences stack up. The flat looks...filled, for lack of a better term. It started out rather sparse in her debut episode, but back then she'd just moved in and probably hadn't finished unpacking yet. However, even after she gained more possessions, there were parts that felt like they had just a little bit of empty space to them. Now the entire space is lavishly furnished!
Speaking of which, there's a large stuffed turtle on her sofa, indicating she and Motoki have pursued their relationship and now live together. This is later confirmed when she takes Motoki's car--which she had the keys for--to save Usagi and Mamoru.
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At the very end of the epilogue, Motoki clumsily but earnestly asks Makoto for her hand in marriage. And Makoto, overwhelmed and overjoyed, accepts. She's the only version of the character to have achieved this.
It's immensely satisfying seeing a character brought so low, only for them to soar higher than ever before. This Makoto has undergone an immense personal journey. There's no telling what kinds of challenges she might need to overcome in the years to come, but she's already climbed this mountain. Perhaps there's nothing she can't do. And no matter what, she'll always have someone at her side. She'll never be alone again.
I love it. I love all of it. In fact, I'd go so far as to say this is my favourite take on Makoto in the franchise. She's the best, and PGSM is the best for treating her with the nuance and maturity she deserves! Bravo!
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That's the end of this post! It was meant to be way shorter, but I suppose that was an exercise in futility. If you made it all the way here, thank you very much!
I know I just said PGSM was the best. This is a subjective statement. PGSM is far and away my favourite incarnation of Sailor Moon, but I hold to what I said at the start: Every version is different, and I think that's great. We all enjoy media differently; the more people that can find a version of Sailor Moon befitting their preferences, the better.
It just so happens that PGSM was made for me! And hey, if you've never watched it before, or you dropped it like I first did, maybe it's worth another try. You never know, it might just be your thing too.
Like a certain person once sang:
~Just like predictable movies and books are boring When life is a little bit off, it might be more fun~
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