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mostlysignssomeportents · 2 years

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$100 billion later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck

Autonomous vehicles were always a shell-game. The last time I wrote about them was a year ago, when Uber declared massive losses. Uber’s profitability story was always, “Sure, we’re losing money now, but once we create self-driving cars, we can fire our drivers and make a bundle.”

https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/30/death-to-all-monopoly/#pogo-stick-problem

But Uber never came close to building an AV. After blowing $2.5b, the company invented a car whose mean-distance-to-fatal-crash was half a mile. Uber had to pay another company — $400 million! — to take the self-driving unit off its hands.

It’s tempting to say that Uber just deluded itself into thinking that AVs were a viable, near-term technology. But $2.5b was a bargain, because it allowed the company’s original investors (notably the Saudi royals) to offload their Uber shares on credulous suckers when the company IPOed.

Likewise Tesla, a company that has promised fully self-driving autonomous vehicles “within two years” for more than a decade. The story that Teslas will someday drive themselves is key to attracting retail investors to the company.

Tesla’s overvaluation isn’t solely a product of the cult of personality around Musk, nor is it just that its investors can’t read a balance-sheet and so miss the fact that the company is reliant upon selling the carbon-credits that allow gas-guzzling SUVs to fill America’s streets.

Key to Tesla’s claims to eventual profitability was that AVs would overcome geometry itself, and end the Red Queen’s Race whereby adding more cars to the road means you need more roads, which means everything gets farther apart, which means you need more cars — lather, rinse, repeat.

Geometry hates cars, but Elon Musk hates public transit (he says you might end up seated next to “a serial killer”). So Musk spun this story where tightly orchestrated AVs would best geometry and create big cities served speedy, individualized private vehicles. You could even make passive income from your Tesla, turning it over to drive strangers (including, presumably, serial killers?) around as a taxicab.

But Teslas are no closer to full self-driving than Ubers. In fact, no one has come close to making an AV. In a characteristically brilliant and scorching article for Bloomberg, Max Chafkin takes stock of the failed AV project:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-10-06/even-after-100-billion-self-driving-cars-are-going-nowhere

Chafkin calculates that the global R&D budget for AVs has now exceeded $100 billion, and demonstrates that we have next to nothing to show for it, and that whatever you think you know about AV success is just spin, hype and bullshit.

Take the much-vaunted terribleness of human drivers, which the AV industry likes to tout. It’s true that the other dumdums on the road cutting you off and changing lanes without their turn-signals are pretty bad drivers, but actual, professional drivers are amazing. The average school-bus driver clocks up 500 million miles without a fatal crash (but of course, bus drivers are part of the public transit system).

Even dopes like you and me are better than you may think — while cars do kill the shit out of Americans, it’s because Americans drive so goddamned much. US traffic deaths are a mere one per 100 million miles driven, and most of those deaths are due to recklessness, not inability. Drunks, speeders, texters and sleepy drivers cause traffic fatalities — they may be skilled drivers, but they are also reckless.

But even the most reckless driver is safer than a driverless car, which “lasts a few seconds before crapping out.” The best robot drivers are Waymos, which mostly operate in the sunbelt, “because they still can’t handle weather patterns trickier than Partly Cloudy.”

Waymo claims to have driven 20m miles — that is, 4% of the distance we’d expect a human school-bus driver to go before having a fatal wreck. Tesla, meanwhile, has stopped even reporting how many miles its autopilot has mananged on public roads. The last time it disclosed, in 2019, the total was zero.

Using “deep learning” to solve the problems of self-driving cars is a dead-end. As NYU psych prof Gary Marcus told Chafkin, “deep learning is something similar to memorization…It only works if the situations are sufficiently akin.”

Which is why self-driving cars are so useless when they come up against something unexpected — human drivers weaving through traffic, cyclists, an eagle, a drone, a low-flying plane, a deer, even some pigeons on the road.

Self-driving car huxters call this “the pogo-stick problem” — as in “you never can tell when someone will try to cross the road on a pogo-stick.” They propose coming up with strict rules for humans to make life easier for robots.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/3/17530232/self-driving-ai-winter-full-autonomy-waymo-tesla-uber

But as stupid as this is, it’s even stupider than it appears at first blush. It’s not that AVs are confused by pogo sticks — they’re confused by shadowsand clouds and squirrels. They’re confused by left turns that are a little different than the last left turn they tried.

If you’ve been thinking that AVs were right around the corner, don’t feel too foolish. The AV companies have certainly acted like they believed their own bullshit. Chafkin reminds us of the high-stakes litigation when AV engineer Anthony Levandowski left Google for Uber and was sued for stealing trade secrets.

The result was millions in fines (Levandowski declared bankruptcy) and even a prison sentence for Levandowski (Trump pardoned him, seemingly at the behest of Peter Thiel and other Trumpist tech cronies). Why would companies go to all that trouble if they weren’t serious about their own claims?

It’s possible that they are, but that doesn’t mean we have to take those claims at face-value ourselves. Companies often get high on their own supplies. The litigation over Levandowski can be thought of as a species of criti-hype, Lee Vinsel’s extraordinarily useful term for criticism that serves to bolster the claims of its target:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/02/euthanize-rentiers/#dont-believe-the-hype

Another example of criti-hype: the claims about the risks of ubiquitous drone delivery — which, like AVs, is half-bullshit, half self-delusion:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/05/comprehensive-sex-ed/#droned

Today, Levandowski has scaled back his plans to build autonomous vehicles. Instead, he’s built autonomous dump-trucks that never leave a literal sandbox, and trundle back and forth on the same road all day, moving rocks from a pit to a crusher.

$100 billion later, that’s what the AV market has produced.

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[Image ID: A chart illustrating the Gartner hype-cycle; racing down the slope from the 'peak of inflated expectations' to the 'trough of disillusionment' is the staring eye of HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, chased by speed-lines.]

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wen-kexing-apologist · 7 months

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Can I ask, why do you love BL romance better than het romance? What makes them better? I did not mean anything negative, and I know everyone have their own like and dislike but I want to know your thoughts....

Also what do you think that made Asian MLM (BL manga/manhwa/manhua/tv series/movies) romances better than western MLM romances?

Hello! Yes you are more than welcome to ask :) I truly, truly love getting asks in my inbox and have been having so much fun with the fact I’ve actually been getting some recently! Warning this is long (but i have TL;DRs for everything)

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I think the fastest answer for me is that I am queer, and therefore I find I have a lot more enjoyment and interest in watching queer stories compared to heterosexual ones.

Also, I find a lot of heterosexual romances to be steeped in misogyny, and have low-key or high-key abusive dynamics. And again, do not get me wrong, there are plenty of queer shows where there are abusive dynamics in play, but it is much harder for misogyny to be committed between two men than it is for misogyny to be placed on a male/female pairing. (I love GLs cause, you know…women, but there are a lot more complex dynamics going in to stories written about two women and those can get much trickier for me, and unfortunately many narratives love punishing lesbains with death so.... Anyway, I’m trying to stick mostly to BLs since that is primarily what this ask is about.)

Additionally, I love BLs more than heterosexual romances because of how BLs treat men. Men in heterosexual romances, especially in the West are extremely masculine, often unable to be in touch with their emotions, jaded, misogynistic, they have to be extremely muscular, and we almost never see femme boys or men.

BLs have such a vast range of men, they have twinks, they have femmes, they have gym bros. They have the clowns, and the super masculine boys. There are shows that let boys be boys, be stupid, and stinky, and fucking gross (hey Pat from Bad Buddy), they let boys be angry and aggressive and express their emotions that way (Sean and Yok’s fight in Not Me, Han Baram and Im Hantae’s conversation in the boxing ring in Sing My Crush, Lom and Nuea in The Wedding Plan, Patts in La Pluie), they let boys fight and wrestle and play (Bad Buddy, My School President, Moonlight Chicken, Only Friends). I love queer stories that let men be gay and ensure through the story that that never undermines their masculinity. I love that there are shows that focus on the progress older men can make in their relationships (What Did You Eat Yesterday?) THEY ARE ALSO ALLOWED TO CRY!!!!

And though it is still kind of rare, Asian BLs actually do have femme boys, and while I am sure femme boys exist in Western shows, I think Pose and fucking Glee are like…the only two shows with queer people that I have seen in the last decade that have an femme boy representation at all. On the flip side, I love how often GMMTV puts their boys in drag and that doesn’t even have to be in a queer show. I also generally love the fact that most of the male actors in Asian BLs, and again, especially in Thailand embrace their femme sides in photoshoots and whatnot, that they wear earrings, and jewelry, and makeup and they look hot as fuck, because it helps me with my own gender identity. I feel and see myself much more masculine (and have less dysphoria) when I have an earring or a necklace or makeup on, now that I have seen so many boys do the same.

TL;DR: I am queer, and heterosexual romances are frequently misogynistic, and men are extremely masculine and rarely allowed to be soft. Asian BLs give us a very broad range of masculinity, but often let boys be boys while also kissing boys. And actors embracing their femme sides helps me feel more masculine when I lean in to my femme side.

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As for Asian MLM romances compared to Western MLM romances, obviously this is not a cut and dry thing, not all Asian BLs are going to be better than Western BLs but I find I have a tendency to enjoy Asian BLs/queer media more for a few reasons, generally in order of most to least important for me:

Reason One- Family

This may seem somewhat surprising because the first, and honestly biggest reason I tend to like Asian BLs more than Western BLs has much less to do with the queer aspect. It's actually the family dynamics. I think Western media very frequently has a tendency to be very binary in their portrayal of family dynamics, if family is at all included in Western narratives the relationships that characters have to their family is either almost wholly good, or almost wholly bad. You either have a very abusive household that a character is trying to avoid or flee, or you have a traditional, happy, nuclear family, and when characters have a strained relationship to their family, I have noticed a lot more narrative support for leaving that family behind. But for the most part, family does not play a huge role in most Western shows (and, wild concept to me, it’s part of why I think shows like Succession are so successful, because that is all about complex, fucked up, and loving relationships within a family).

Whereas, in Asian media, far more frequently family and family dynamics play a huge role in the character’s lives, behaviors, and can influence the story. And because filial piety is such an important aspect to many Asian cultures, you get a lot more interesting parent/child relationships out of Asian media than you do with Western content. And I am a white Westerner, but I am fundamentally, culturally a Southerner and despite no longer being a woman, I will never shed the mantle of Eldest Daughter. And that has resulted in a sense of family responsibility and piety that ends up making it very very easy for me to understand the motivations of the characters that remain loyal to their family even when their family is asking for things from them that run counter to their own desires or happiness (I’ve actually had this conversation a lot with @waitmyturtles about the intersections of Southern culture and Asian culture).

And similarly, I find that a lot of Western media with queer characters at least in the time frame that I have been able to find content with queer characters is either wholly homophobic, or wholly accepting. And do not get me wrong, we get family dynamics like that in Asian BLs too, but we also get parents who are upset about their child’s queerness, and will voice that, and yet who still take care of their children. I’m thinking of the film I watched just the other day called Margarita with a Straw where the main character’s mother can barely look or talk to her daughter when she comes out, but because she is disabled, her mother is still there preparing food for her, bathing her, etc. because even if she is upset about her child’s queerness she can’t stop taking care of her. And those aren’t dynamics I often see in Western media.

I don’t see relationships like Sawismol and Wang in Western media, where a mother can look at her child and say, out loud that she is disappointed, and to be upset, and to still, despite everything, be the person that her son goes to for comfort when he is absolutely devastated, and I don’t see Western parents sitting there and performing that comfort even when they are disappointed in their children’s queerness.

TL;DR: Family dynamics feel a lot more built out, realistic, and complex in many Asian BLs/media that I’ve seen, than they do in many Western shows. Until I started watching Asian media, I had not seen the dynamics I have with my mother or my father played out on screen.

Reason Two- Casual Trans Inclusion

And, as a trans person myself, part of what makes Asian BL shows, Thai shows much more specifically, so important, interesting, and influential to me when compared to Western BLs is the casual inclusion of trans people. Like, that is just something Western media is barely ready for. It’s not non-existent. We have and have had shows like The Fosters, Sense8, Pose, The Owl House, and Heartstopper that have some trans rep. But a lot of those shows have a hefty component to them that shows the struggles of being trans.

In The Fosters we have to watch Cole nearly die trying to get his hands on testosterone, in Sense8 we have to watch Nomi be kept as a medical prisoner and stripped of her autonomy and almost lobotomized, in Pose we are constantly exposed to the very real dangers that trans women of color experience including murder, in Heartstopper we are spared from having to witness the transphobia Elle went through, but it is mentioned. I think the only one of these shows that doesn’t have some element of struggle because a character is trans is The Owl House and let us not forget that Raine Whispers goes through fucking hell in that show. And these conversations, and the demonstrations of struggle to just survive and thrive despite that is vitally important in a society that is pushing closer and closer towards genocide against trans people. Stories that show the struggles of trans people exist for the sake of realism but also serve as an attempt to try to garner empathy towards trans people by cisgender viewers.

Thailand does have stories where a trans character experiences transphobia (3 Will Be Free, The Warp Effect, Secret Crush on You), but they also have so many stories where trans people are literally just vibing. Do you know how revolutionary it was for me when I watched KinnPorsche and saw Yok, and she was happy, and beautiful, and fun, and her entire plot centered around her running that bar, flirting with boys, and playing surrogate mother to Porsche? Or just to see trans women existing, who aren’t even central to the plot, but are just there? (Payu’s secretary at the auto shop is a trans woman, Golf Tanwarin was at the inclusive cafe in The Eclipse, Golf Kittipat had an illustrious career as a music producer in My School President). Like that shit is SO important to me, and I never, never see it in Western media.

TL;DR: There are many Thai shows especially where trans people just exist, and they have plots that aren’t always centered around them being trans. Which is revolutionary, coming in as a trans Western viewer where the majority of trans rep in Western shows makes me eventually have to watch trans people suffer.

Reason Three- Passion Projects

The film industry is huge and pervasive in Western culture, and in the US especially, and with that comes big budget projects that stretch out as long as they can squeeze a cent out of a fan base. As a result you get shows that are too long, you get shows that ruin their premise in the last season after five to fifteen years of dragging the shambling corpse of a story along. And again, do not get me wrong, there are plenty plenty of Asian BLs that are cash grabs, that are terrible, where the actors aren’t really in it. But, most BLs in Asia are one season, they get in, they get out, and you forget it if it’s bad, or you hate it forever if it’s objectively bigoted. But the time commitment to terrible pieces is a lot shorter.

That said, when you have a low budget, and a story you want to tell, it makes my love so much more. Because it means the crew, the writers, the director, and often time the actors are there because they want to be there, because they like the story they are telling, because they have a story they want to tell. It’s part of why I love shows like The Eclipse so much, because that show was made with a budget mainly comprised of pocket lint and hope, because Golf Tanwarin had something they wanted to say. Most if not all of Aof Nopparnach’s shows give genuinely, inherently queer stories that speak to queer people. Jojo Tichakorn makes pieces that are so full of queer lenses you could never deny the inherent queerness in his shows, even if the story is primarily focused on a straight person/relationship (Mama Gogo). There are so many shows in the Asian BL world where you can just tell that everyone is having fun. LIsten, Fish Upon the Sky is an extremely problematic show, but for me it felt like everyone had a great time goofing off on that set. You can tell EV-ER-Y-BOD-Y in the cast of Mama Gogo was having the time of their motherfucking lives.

I also think the West is very self-congratulatory and tends to hold themselves as the standard of televisions and acting, when I am over here watching Asian BLs with some of the strongest acting from young people I have ever seen, and having it be written off because its a) low budget b) gay and c) in another language. Like, when I try to get people in to BL I start with shows like KinnPorsche (which I know drives @bnegiyo mad) cause it has a much higher production value than many other Asian BLs without being prestige and therefore can’t radically alter the perception of what BL is (hello ITSAY/IPYTM and 180 Degrees), Thai BLs especially. And I figure that is the only way to show someone the level of absurdity and camp that comes from a lot of BLs, while also maintaining their interest because it has a higher production value, so that if they end up enjoying that they are more willing to watch the low budget shows.

TL;DR: Many Asian BLs are pretty low budget, compared to like any Western show, which I find to mean we have more stories in Asian BL that people actually want to tell. (there are still very many shows that people seem to just kinda show up for, or get bored with partway through [looking at you Tee] but.)

Reason Four- Abundance

There are

Many

Asian

BLs

Here's a fraction of my watch list

I have watched 81 in roughly the last year, and there are so many more on my Plan to Watch list, and there are more coming out all the time. The West has given me like…two, maybe three. And when we do get good queer shows in the West, they are frequently canceled before completion. Especially if they are on Netflix.

We lost Sense8, fans had to fight for Out Flag Means Death to get renewed, The Owl House got cancelled by Disney after giving their main character a girlfriend, ND Stevenson had to write two ending to She-Ra and fought tooth and fucking nail to get the gay one, Legend of Korra had to save the gay kiss until the end just like She-Ra had to. If you want to get depressed here is a link to an article ‘50 TV shows with Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer characters cancelled after one season’. Because most Asian BLs are meant to be only one season, we actually get complete stories, rather than ending with unresolved tension, or cliffhangers.

TL;DR: there is a metric fuck ton of Asian BLs

Reason Five- Sex

The West, especially the US, tends to have a very puritanical view of sex (which makes sense because the Puritans were some of the first colonizers…I mean colonials…to murder everyone and occupy…uh, I mean settle the United States (I would also like to place blame on the Italians and Spanish [hey Columbus] and their Catholicism AND PROTESTANT CALVINISM that also influenced the pervasive societal views of sex and especially gay sex in the United States).

With ever increasing homophobia and transphobia, so many shows are trying, in my own personal opinion, to garner empathy, sympathy, and acceptance for queer characters by cisgender and/or heterosexual viewers by making their queer characters flat, two-dimensional, virginal, perfect people. But homophobes and transphobes consider holding hands to be just as grotesque and inappropriate as full on porn. With Western, and especially US based, views of sex, many queer characters are sanitized, sex scenes are rare, and if they do exist at all they are usually in shows that have mature ratings.

That is not the case with Asian BLs. Like, do not get me wrong, there are plenty of pure, virginal, don’t kiss, barely touch BLs out there, but because there are so many BLs, there are also plenty of shows with lots of physical intimacy and multiple make out scenes that aren’t maturely rated, as well as plenty of maturely rated shows that have multiple sex scenes AND CAN INCLUDE KINK WHICH LIKE!!!!! I rarely see in the Western media I’ve watched. Hell, Sense8 is a sexual liberation show that includes multiple orgies, but there is not even a hint of any other kink (besides whatever Dani, Lito, and Hernando have going on).

gif by @radishayuan

Meanwhile, The Warp Effect has fucking puppy play, Bed Friend has pet play, Laws of Attraction which has a couple pretty chaste kisses shows handcuffs to at least imply kink, there’s a ball gag and a fucking leash in Big Dragon, I haven’t seen it but Unforgotten Night has a lot of BDSM themes in it, Rain and Payu have a dom/sub dynamic going on, we have daddy kinks abound, I also haven’t seen this one but I know there is some belt bondage in War of Y. And even if it isn’t shown, kink and bondage specifically are often referenced in passing in shows with sex.

Also, there are very very very few Western shows I have seen that treat sex workers kindly, and Jojo Tichakorn is right there giving us sex workers as main characters multiple times in a row. Taiwan has great physical chemistry, the very few things I have seen from the Phillipines are so fucking queer, Japan even when they aren’t including sex at all have some extremely queer narratives, and when they are including sex? Holy fuck. South Korea is developing, but I have liked what I’ve seen so far, and it’s been fun seeing very rapid progressions in the level of physical intimacy characters are allowed to have, Thailand has been making a name for itself.

TL;DR: There is a very broad range of physical intimacy in Asian BLs from no sex to lots of sex, but the abundance of content means I am seeing more shows with gay sex in them in like…a month or two, than shows I have seen in the West with gay characters at all in like…the past year. (This is of course, subjective, don’t ask me for real numbers).

And, you know, in case this response wasn’t long enough, the amount of queer content, the types of stories being told, the rapid and continued development of BL is super interesting to observe in its own right. Sure, it may be driven by marketability and sales, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some truly important, realistic, vital, and beautiful pieces of queer media being created and shared with the world, a lot of which is much more accessible to audiences than Western media. I go heavy on the Thai shows in part because they are available for free on YouTube.

I also think the West seems to think that having gay marriage is the be all, end all of queer inclusivity, and that they do not realize that countries without gay marriage are creating some of the most realistic queer content out there right now. The West has a lot it can learn from Asian BLs, but in my opinion, we’ve got our heads too far up our asses to be following their lead.

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hugmekenobi · 11 months

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Goes Both Ways

A Bad Batch Series interlude oneshot

Gif by @transkestis

(no, the S2 fits aren’t here yet, this gif just worked the best)

Hunter x femaleJedi!reader

Summary: You and Hunter both realise there are trickier feelings that need navigating in a relationship but the two of you manage to work with them.

Warnings: Swearing, possessiveness/jealousy, reader doesn’t really stick the Jedi teachings (but we knew this anyway lol), pet name (sweetheart), Gregor being what I need in the form of a flirtatious plot device, Force communication working how I say it does, brief mention of death, no y/n, PDA in the form of making out, affectionate biting/marking, spicy and suggestive language and touches, awkwardness, getting caught/interrupted

Masterlist for S1 chapters

Word Count: 3.4K

Rating: 18+

Author’s notes: I can’t justify the main trope here, my brain just went into this headspace and took it and ran lol. Things get a bit spicier, but I appreciate this sorta thing isn’t for everyone but to those who do read, hope you enjoy :)

The three of them watched from the bar at the scene unfolding in front of them. They weren’t sure how exactly you would react once you came back from putting Omega in Cid’s room, but one thing was certain, you weren’t going to be very happy.

“Hey guys, what are we looking-” You stopped as you saw what it what they were staring at, or rather who they were staring at. “Who the fuck’s that?” You asked, attempting levity but it wasn’t very convincing.

“We don’t know. She appeared once you left.” Tech answered.

“Did she now?” You replied, your voice tense. The feelings bubbling within you were unfamiliar and you were still getting used to the whole relationship thing, but you could already tell you weren’t a fan of what was happening in front of you.

You continued to stare at the young woman currently standing by Hunter at the other end of the bar counter. She was being a little too touchy-feely for your liking, her hands kept wandering to Hunter’s chest and hands. Hunter, to his credit, kept inching away every time she did that, but she was not for dissuading.

“Are you alright?” Echo asked.

“Uh huh.” You replied stiffly.

“You sure?” Wrecker asked as he saw the way your jaw clenched.

You sucked air through your teeth. “Yup.”

“You know he’s not going to do anything.” Tech added.

“It’s not him I’m worried about.”

“Are you sure you-”

“Relax Echo, I’m not going to cause a scene.” You said calmy as you watched them.

You understood to a degree, hell if you were in her position you’d probably try too, but he was taken now.

Now he was yours.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, where the fuck did that line of thought come from? You thought to yourself, shocked that you’d even gone down that road so quickly. That jealousy and possessiveness was something you’d been taught for years was a very bad thing, yet you jumped to it immediately. You took a deep breath. “It’s fine, I’m fine. He’ll come back over once he's done talking.”

The three of them regarded you suspiciously.

“Chill with the fourth degree. I’m okay.” You reiterated as you felt their eyes on you.

“You’ve still not looked away.” Tech pointed out.

“And that bar stool leg wasn’t bent like that before.” Echo said, indicating to the chair you were closest to.

You glanced down and sure enough, the leg has curved slightly. Clearly you weren’t as fine as you were trying to make yourself out to be. “Wrecker, stand in front of me.”

Wrecker did as you asked. “That better?”

You took another deep breath. “Yeah. Just gotta wait until they’re done.” You stole a swig from Echo’s drink and willed the streak of possessiveness that was residing with in you to go away.

“Okay, how long has it been? Seriously, what could she be saying that’s so interesting?” You asked irritably. “Also, Hunter isn’t exactly a conversationalist, what could she be so captivated by?

The others shared a smirk. It had been five minutes and you’d only lasted two before you’d moved past Wrecker to watch them again.

“I don’t think it’s his conversation skills she’s interested in.” Tech said simply as if he was answering a question about the weather.

You shot him a glare as Wrecker and Echo both shook their heads at him. “Sometimes Tech, I forget you’re the smartest one here. I know what she’s interested in but how many times does he need to back away for her to get the hint? Or better yet, why doesn’t he leave?”

“Maybe he’s just being polite?” Wrecker offered.

“Or they’re genuinely having a conversation?” Echo suggested.

You hid your head in your hands, but you couldn’t help but laugh. “Sometimes I really can’t talk to you boys.”

“Although I doubt a genuine conversation would involve that.” Tech said indicating over to them.

You lifted your head and that possessiveness you had been attempting to quash came to a head as you saw the way she looped an arm around the back of his neck and drew her closer to him. “Oh, for fucks sake.” You muttered. The Jedi were dead, and they weren’t perfect anyway, so you didn’t have to be. You downed the rest of your drink and began to walk over to him.

“I have 5 credits on her bumping into her and making her spill her drink.” Wrecker said as he watched you go.

“Nah, she’ll use her Jedi abilities for that.” Echo countered. “Tech?”

“I think she’ll rise above and merely ask her to leave.”

Echo and Wrecker just stared at him; eyebrows raised.

Tech sighed, “Fine. She’s using the Force.”

Hunter had been itching to leave for the past ten minutes but this woman was not getting the message. He had just taken her hands off him for what felt like the one hundredth time when he felt you next to him as you wrapped an arm around his waist.

He glanced at you and saw a hint of darkness in your eyes as well as something he couldn’t quite place. “Hey, how are-” Your lips on his abruptly cut him off and it was a kiss that was definitely not meant for a public space. It was deep and intense, and he was sure it had something to do with whatever it was that was lurking behind your eyes. After what was probably too long for a casual expression of affection, you pulled away and he found that all words had left his brain.

“You were stolen away from me. I had to come check on you.” You said sweetly as you gazed at him, pleased with the slightly dazed look on his face. Keeping your hand wrapped around him, you faced the woman, and you felt a hint of smugness as you saw the flash of irritation on her face. “I see you’ve met my Hunter.”

Your Hunter? He regarded you curiously, but your eyes were focused on the woman in front of you.

“Yeah, we just got chatting.” She said innocently.

“Oh, chatting, was it? Looked to me like you were hitting on him.” You said with fake politeness.

Oh, that’s what this was, Hunter realised. You were jealous. He worried for the woman across from him since he’d never seen you like this, so he didn’t know what to expect. “Sweetheart, I wasn’t-”

“Oh, don’t worry, I trust you.” You said, leaning up to plant a kiss on his neck and you smirked to yourself as you saw her frown out of the corner of your eye.

You faced her again. “Honey, you should really look for men that are interested in you. You’re not going to get what you’re looking for here, I can tell you that.”

“Oh, I’d never-” She began, placing her hand over her heart as if she was shocked by such an insinuation.

“No?” You asked as if you were willing to believe her.

“It’s just he never mentioned you, so I assumed-”

You could tell she was lying and that was confirmed by the way Hunter stiffened next to you. “See, I think he did, and you just don’t know when to quit.”

“Well, I didn’t think sewer rats were his type.” She sneered.

You were glad you could be done with the fake niceties. You placed a hand on Hunter’s chest as you sensed him getting ready to speak. “I think you better be going now.” You said coolly and with a subtle flick of your finger, her drink spilt on her lap.

She shouted in annoyance at the red puddle that was now forming on her lap.

“Oh, now that’s unfortunate. You better get outta here and sort that cause white and red? That’s a bitch to clean and I wouldn’t want your lovely dress to get ruined.” You said with a cat-like grin.

She glowered at you and walked out of the bar.

“That wasn’t very nice.” Hunter kidded into your hair as he kissed your temple.

You looked back at him and looped your arms around his neck.

Hunter’s hands found your waist and as he stared into your eyes, he saw that that hint of possessiveness hadn’t left yet, and he realised it wasn’t necessarily just the woman he had to worry about.

“She was trying to take something that wasn’t hers.” You said as your hands threaded themselves in his hair. You pulled on it and brought his lips down, so they were mere inches from yours.

Hunter had to bite back the groan that threatened to leave his mouth and instead he tightened his hold on your waist. “We can’t… not here.” He managed to rasp out.

“See, I think it should be here. How else are people going to know that you’re mine?” You purred as you moved your lips to his ear before you bit down on his neck, using your tongue to sooth the sting of it.

“Fuck.” Hunter hissed out and he had to grab the counter so as to stay upright.

“Did you like talking to her?” You continued to whisper as you kissed along his jaw.

“No.” He replied hoarsely. His brain was having to work overtime to form even the simplest of words.

“You didn’t leave.” You murmured as you traced your lips over his. You took them away as you saw him go to make something more of it. “Why didn’t you leave?” You asked again, your hand trailing up and down his chest- thankful that they’d all decided they could take a break tonight since his armour would’ve made this difficult- whilst you sucked a mark on his pulse point.

Hunter’s head fell back, and it took all the willpower he possessed not to let out a moan. “Didn’t- Maker- didn’t want to be- Fucking hell- rude.” He ground out as your lips and tongue continued to do things to his neck that left him unable to think straight.

“If there’s a next time, Sergeant…” You crooned, bringing his head back up. “Be rude.” You whispered before kissing him once more, gently biting his lip and relishing in the way he couldn’t keep it together anymore as you heard him groan and hold you tightly to him.

“Oi, you two! This is a public space. Do that in your own place!”

Hunter snapped back to the current moment. He broke away and he saw Cid standing behind you.

You didn’t seem bothered at all. “We will.” You said simply as you took Hunter’s hand and led him out the bar.

All Hunter could do was follow you, too hooked on whatever it was you were acting like to argue or even really think.

The others had turned away from the moment that was unfolding between the two of you now, but Wrecker handed the credits over to Echo and Tech.

Echo heard Cid shout and risked a glance over his shoulder and as he saw you lead Hunter out, he guessed they’d be banned from the Marauder for a while. He sighed.

Tech and Wrecker stopped their conversation and followed Echo’s gaze.

“Ah.” Tech said plainly.

“Guess we’re going to be here a while.” Wrecker grumbled.

Hunter watched as you laughed at whatever it was Gregor had said. He wasn’t that funny. His jaw went tight as he saw the way Gregor placed a quick hand on your back. He felt that cold stab of jealousy, something he thought he’d risen above since he knew that it was really nothing more than friendly banter between the two of you, you’d told him as much and he trusted you. Plus, Gregor was a brother, and he was doing what brothers do which was very successfully winding him up and Hunter knew he should’ve been better at ignoring it. But seeing the flirtatious repartee come so easily to Gregor and watching him lean in closer to you was doing enough so that the primal feeling of possessiveness was able to take over his brain.

He got up as he saw you pass the table and followed you as you headed into Cid’s office.

Echo, Tech, and Wrecker watched from another table as you picked up your communicator and gently nudged Gregor out of your path, making your way out of the bar. Their eyes then fell to Hunter, who stood upon seeing you leave and followed you out of the room. The scene was all too familiar, and they all shared a knowing look as the deja vu settled over them.

“Who knew he could get jealous too.” Wrecker said. “I figured he’d be better than that.”

“Not with her, he’s always had an issue with Gregor. He flirts with her. It’s innocent enough but it gets to him.” Echo said.

“Yeah. Remember when Gregor brought her those flowers? Hunter didn’t leave her side the entire day.” Tech reminded Wrecker.

Wrecker nodded his head in agreement as he remembered.

“Hey fellas.” Gregor said as he sat down next to Wrecker. “Where’s the Sergeant?”

“No idea.” They all said together, and they were thankful that Omega was out running errands with Cid.

You finished finding those datapads Cid had asked you to bring to her but just as you were turning to leave, you felt Hunter’s presence but before you could say anything, he’d whirled you around and brought his lips to yours. It was the kind of kiss that took your breath away and left your head spinning as he pulled away. Gathering yourself, you put the datapads down and stared at him as he kept a firm grip of your waist. “What was that for?”

Hunter didn’t answer. He just kissed you again and tangled his fingers in your hair.

You felt it then. You felt the possessiveness that was flowing through him, and this kiss definitely had that in it. It was rough but it felt really fucking good. You just didn’t know what had set this off. What’s going on? You managed to send as you kissed him back just as eagerly.

“I never like it when he flirts with you.” Hunter muttered as he followed your jawline with his lips.

Letting out a happy sigh, you tilted your head back and let him explore your neck. “Who? Gregor?” You watched as his gaze met yours and you nearly let out a groan at the sight. His eyes were dark, and he was breathing heavily. “He’s harmless.” You managed to say, though it was a struggle.

“He wants you and I don’t like what that does to me.” Hunter growled as he kissed you again and pressed himself tighter to you.

“What if I like what it does to you?” You whispered breathlessly as you broke away, a coy smile on your lips as you leaned forward.

No. He wasn’t going to let you turn this one around. It was his turn now. “I don’t like people coming for what’s mine.”

The guttural way he said that had tingles running down your spine and your toes curled as he made his own mark on you. You’re lucky I love you, had that come from anyone else, I’d have kicked their ass.

“I must not be doing a very good job if you’re still able to find a way to speak.” With that, he kissed you again and he tugged on your lip, delighting in the way your breathing hitched as he did that. He grabbed the backs of your thighs and picked you up and carried you over to the edge of Cid’s desk.

You were grateful that the mission you’d been on had been tamer and involved blending in because if he was wearing his armour right now, you wouldn’t have been able to grab fistfuls of his shirt to hold him close to you.

Hunter brought his lips back to your neck. “Do you like it when he flirts with you?” He rumbled against your skin whilst his hand began to steadily trail a path along the inside of your thigh.

You couldn’t help the moan that left your mouth, but you stopped his hand from going any higher. “Someone could-” You broke off with another groan as he bit the sensitive spot just behind your ear before he cooled the sting of it with his tongue. “Walk in.” You said, your voice hoarse with effort.

“Maybe that’s what I want.” Hunter crooned. “Maybe Gregor should see who you’re with so he could get the message that you’re mine.” He kissed you again before he repeated his question, “Do you like it when he flirts with you?” He needed you as speechless as he was when you were this way, so he made another mark on the junction where your neck and shoulder met.

“Fuck!” You couldn’t help but shout and you removed your grip on his wrist since you needed both hands to keep yourself upright.

“Answer me.” Hunter ordered as he slowly continued to move his hand upwards.

Right. Words. Come on. “I-um- shit-” His teasing touches were killing you. “No. I’m just being nice.” You managed gasp out as your head fell back.

“Hmm.” Hunter stopped just before he reached where he knew you were wanting him. He grabbed the back of your neck so that you were forced to look at him.

You could barely keep your breathing under control. You’d never seen him like this, and you were scared by how much you were loving it. You found the edges of his shirt and found that all worries of being discovered were rapidly leaving you.

“If I went higher, what I would find there, would that be because of me or because of Gregor?” He hummed against your lips as he moved his fingers in small circles at the juncture of your thigh.

You could only moan in reply and your head fell into the crook of his neck.

Hunter paused what he was doing, pleased that you were as wrecked as you’d made him.

“You.” You croaked out as you felt him stop. “Please, Hunter.” He’d reduced you to a begging mess, but you were too far gone to care. “It’s only you. I’m just being nice. I’m yours. Please just-”

Your words sent him over the edge, and he kissed you hungrily.

You were about to lift his shirt over his head when the office door opened.

“Kriffing hell! Not my office!”

You pushed Hunter away and jumped down from Cid’s desk and you wanted to curl up on the floor and die but Hunter… he looked cool as can be.

“You two, out!” Cid yelled, shooing you out the door.

“The datapads are there.” You said sheepishly as you pointed to the small pile on the end of her desk.

“Well, now I know why you never brought them to me.” Cid snapped. “What if it was the kid instead of me?”

“It wasn’t.” Hunter replied breezily as he re-entered the bar.

You glanced at him, confused as to how he could answer so casually, but then you saw the look on his face, and you could feel that he wasn’t done with you yet and the thought sent a thrill through your veins.

Hunter snaked an arm around your waist and began to hurry you out the parlour.

“Ready to hear the rest?”

You stopped and turned to face Gregor. Hunter’s arm had wrapped itself around your front and he was pressed into your back. “Not right now but yeah, Gregor, you can finish that story later tonight.” You let out a small yelp as you felt Hunter nip the back of your neck. “Tomorrow. Can talk tomorrow.” You corrected quickly and you let Hunter push you out the parlour.

Neither of you had noticed Omega squashed between Wrecker and Gregor.

“Um…” Wrecker said.

“I know, I know. ‘We’ll tell you when you’re older.’” Omega said grumpily as she crossed her arms and slouched.

“Just don’t go to the ship tonight. I think we gotta crash here.” Echo said.

“Those two…” Cid came in shaking her head.

“Hey, we gotta live with them.” Wrecker pointed out.

“So long as we don’t get our timings mixed up, we should be fine.” Tech said.

“We can only hope.” Echo muttered.

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Unpopular opinion

Ron and/or Hermione should have died in the deathly hallows. And I say this as someone who loves these characters (probably Hermione more than Ron), but here me out

Now let's be fucking real, I really like ron, but he really wasn't skilled or prepared enough to fight in a war against voldemort, be it magically or mentally. And that's ok! He's still 17, he's not meant to be fighting a war. And to some degree he probably knew that the chances of him actually making it were pretty slim too. But he still stuck with Harry anyways coz there's no way he was going to let his best friend go through with this alone. Because that's who ron is, he'd rather die fighting beside his best friend, for his family, his muggleborn gf and for the cause than play it safe and hide.

Now coming to Hermione, things get a tad trickier here. Yes, she is very skilled and powerful and quick on her feet. But is she powerful enough to take on an army of adult DEs who've trained for years and have experience from the first wizarding war? To win against the darkest wizard who ever lived, who's said to be worse than Grindelwald, who's the most powerful wizard in the whole world after Dumbledore? No, I'd say she isn't. Because she's also fucking 17, she's not even done with school yet. But I think she'd live longer than Ron, or that there's a better chance of her making it out alive. But if she did die it would be extra heartbreaking coz a) Harry (and the readers) just lost 2 of the people who had been there from the very beginning, b) Hermione's parents would live on in Australia, not remembering that they had a daughter, not knowing that their daughter gave her life in hopes of saving her friend and creating a better world.

I majorly have 2 specific reasons for being this sadistic. The first one is the fact that the plot dumbs down it's main villain and his followers just to make the kids win. Voldemort (during Harry's time) is probably the dumbest villain ever written, he doesn't live up to his hype. People have already discussed how stupid his gof plan was. In ootp, during the DoM fight Lucius says that voldemort can't come get the prophecy himself coz the ministry is filled with ppl and he would risk revealing himself. But it's possible for 6 mostly dumb teenagers and an army of DEs, (who hv just escaped azkaban and are sought after by the ministry) to enter in undetected? Doesn't 👏 make 👏 any 👏 sense. The supposedly feared DEs who were trained by voldemort himself can't win against a group of teenagers. It's surprising how long it takes them to take the kids down in the DoM battle. The thing is though, this is out of character for ALL of them. It seems like they were dumbed down just so the MCs could make it out alive. Voldemort during the first WW started out as absolutely no one to having the highest class of the wizarding society obeying his every command. The whole wizarding world was so afraid of him that they wouldn't even say his name. The DEs picked out member after member of the original ootp, mostly coz they were outnumbered but also coz they're fucking death eaters. And ur telling me these guys can't fight kids? Pathetic. Also it doesn't make sense that most of the adults from the first war are dead but all the kids live. Like did the war become safer or sm shit? Instead i would have loved it if the trio got away with things in the first few books, but then realised what a war against voldemort actually means later on. But they won't back down, and they'll still stick with their friend and fight for each other and the cause anyways, and that vil have real, legitimate consequences

Now, the second reason is that it would have been an amazing but heartbreaking callback to book 1. Ron sacrifices himself in a game of chess and Hermione says that there are more important things than books and cleverness, like friendship and bravery. Ron's line of "It's you who has to go on Harry, I know it! Not me, not Hermione, you!" would have also come full circle. Back then they were still 11, so they could still get their happy ending. Now they're in a real war and the stakes are higher, but they'll stick to what they started anyways. Ron sacrifices himself so the other 2 can move forwards, Hermione's intelligence gets her further but she still needs to part with Harry. Harry needs to leave them behind and face voldemort alone because that's how it was always meant to be

And finally, it would have given us a more bittersweet ending to the series instead of that vanilla 'all is well' epilogue. Harry has lost almost every one he loved. But there's still life, there's still hope, and he lives by cherishing their memories and making their sacrifice have meaning. Kinda like the ending of the hunger games. Ik this is a kids book, but Harry Potter as a series is incredibly deep and deals with a lot of fucked up shit, so I think it could handle it if it was written well.

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A Good Day for Death (Book 1) Chapter Three

Wednesday Addams x Reaper! Reader

Chapter Three: A Good Day for Festivals

(Y/N) stood next to Enid and Wednesday at the fairground. Enid wore her signature bright pinks, and Wednesday had her usual black-and-white attire. For their part, (Y/N) had a large black sweater with skulls across it overtop black pants.

“Are you sure you can trust that normie?” Enid eyed Tyler distrustfully.

“I trust that I can handle myself,” said Wednesday.

“Well.” Enid turned to Wednesday. “Good luck and safe travels.” She extended her arms for a hug, but Wednesday stepped back. “Still not a hugger. Got it.” Enid gave a final smile and left.

“I know an Addams doesn’t need luck, but all the same,” said (Y/N), smiling.

“I do need help with one thing,” admitted Wednesday. She glanced at a bench where Principal Weems was watching her carefully.

“Ah. Your shadow,” said (Y/N). They smiled. “How can I help?”

Wednesday turned and walked towards a game booth, still in Weems’s sight. (Y/N) followed and watched as Wednesday picked up darts and easily threw them into all of the balloons lined up on the wall.

“Wow. Nice throws,” said (Y/N) appreciatively.

Wednesday glanced at (Y/N) before continuing to throw the darts. “My father taught me to fence; my mother taught me daggers.”

“My mom taught me how to read causes of death,” said (Y/N) cheerfully. “She’s a mortician.”

“Jeez, get any better at this, and you’ll be taking home a whole pack,” said Xavier, appearing behind them and gesturing to the panda stuffed animals.

Wednesday didn’t spare him a glance. “Pandas don’t travel in packs. They prefer solitude.”

“All right. Subtle hint taken,” said Xavier, chuckling sarcastically. He glanced at (Y/N). He wasn’t quite sure why he was getting the cold shoulder and they weren’t.

They saw him looking at them and frowned. Uh, can I get a hello first?

“You should know (Y/N) is helping me and I’m waiting for someone,” said Wednesday.

“Oh, yeah? Who’s the lucky person?” asked Xavier.

“What does it matter to you?” asked Wednesday.

“Uh. Didn’t mean to interrupt,” said Tyler, walking up behind them. He glanced between Wednesday and Xavier, who just looked at him, and (Y/N), who lifted their hand in a wave.

“You’re not,” said Xavier coldly. He walked past them, leaving the group in the dust.

“So…this is gonna be trickier than I thought,” said Tyler. “Dad hit me with a curfew. We need to go if I’m gonna make it back in time.”

“I take it it’s my turn to distract Weems, then?” said (Y/N), looking at Wednesday.

“Correct.” Wednesday nodded. “Tyler, meet me behind the parking lot when the fireworks start.” He nodded and walked off.

Wednesday turned and took her giant panda stuffed animal prize. She extended it towards (Y/N). “Block her line of sight.”

“Got it,” said (Y/N). They smiled. “Have fun getting out of here. I’ll watch your back as you make your getaway.” They took the panda and walked over to Weems. “Hello, Principal!” They stood right in front of her.

Weems strained to look around them. “Oh, uh, hello, (Y/N).”

“Here!” they said brightly, giving the panda to Weems. They turned and left, leaving Weems to watch them in confusion before looking back to where Wednesday had disappeared into the crowd.

(Y/N) walked quickly through the festival grounds in case Weems followed them. They arrived near the parking lot and, spotting Wednesday, walked over.

“It’s done,” said (Y/N).

“Who’s trying to make a getaway?” sneered a new voice.

(Y/N), Tyler, and Wednesday turned to find three normie boys with metal baseball bats in their hands. Wednesday was tempted to fight them, but (Y/N) was quick to shake their head.

“Wednesday, we can lose them in the crowd,” they said urgently.

Wednesday turned and bolted for the fairgrounds. Tyler and (Y/N) were right on her heels. As they ran, Wednesday bumped into Rowan. She threw her head back and went limp. (Y/N)’s eyes widened, and they caught Wednesday on instinct. They carefully lowered her to the ground before removing their hands for fear of draining any of Wednesday’s energy.

Before (Y/N) or Tyler could call for any help, Wednesday jerked up. She turned and watched as Rowan walked into the woods. (Y/N) followed her gaze and frowned. Wednesday never looked disturbed at all, and yet, there was something in her gaze that suggested trouble. It put (Y/N) on edge.

“Wednesday, we need to go,” urged Tyler. He grabbed her sleeve when she didn’t respond. “Wednesday, come on!”

“Wednesday,” said (Y/N), looking at her intently. “What’s wrong?”

“Rowan,” she breathed. She ripped her sleeve from Tyler’s grip. “Rowan, come back!” she shouted, taking off into the woods.

Tyler watched in confusion, and further inside the fairground, Xavier looked on in puzzlement. (Y/N), however, did not hesitate and ran after Wednesday. Something about the situation worried them, especially since Wednesday seemed so offput, and they were determined to do something.

Rowan slowed to a brisk walk, and Wednesday caught up with him quickly.

“Rowan, wait,” she demanded.

“What do you want? Why are you following me?” questioned Rowan.

“I don’t have time to explain, but you’re in danger,” said Wednesday.

As (Y/N) caught up, Rowan chuckled darkly, and it put (Y/N) further on edge.

“I think you’ve got it backwards,” he said, smirking. He threw up a hand, and Wednesday was thrown into a tree with telekinesis.

“Wednesday!” cried (Y/N), moving to help her. Rowan just lifted his other hand and threw them into a tree trunk. Their head hit the wood, and they groaned, thoroughly disorientated.

“You’re the one who’s in danger,” said Rowan darkly.

“What are you doing?” asked Wednesday.

“Saving everyone from you,” said Rowan fiercely. He looked at (Y/N). “And them.” He tensed with the effort of continuing to use his telekinesis. “I have to kill you.”

Wednesday’s eyes widened. “The gargoyle? That was you?”

“Oh, great,” muttered (Y/N), wincing as their head throbbed.

Rowan nodded. “Yeah.”

“It’s always the quiet ones,” muttered Wednesday.

With his telekinesis, Rowan lifted a page from an old book up them. It depicted a drawing of a girl in all black with braided hair. Near her, a scythe poked out from the other half of the page. In the background, what looked like part of Nevermore was on fire, creating a dark atmosphere.

“Girl in the picture. That’s you,” said Rowan. “And the scythe? (Y/N), child of Death.”

“You want to kill us because of some picture?” asked Wednesday incredulously.

“That’s definitely not crazy,” muttered (Y/N).

“My mother drew that picture twenty-five years ago when she was a student at Nevermore,” said Rowan. “She was a powerful seer. Told me about it before she died.”

“Look, my dad knows Apollo, and even his visions can be misconstrued,” said (Y/N), trying to calm Rowan down. “Let us down, and we can figure this out.”

“No! My mother said it was my destiny to stop this girl if she ever came to Nevermore with a reaper,” cried Rowan. “Because they will destroy the school and everything in it.” He tightened his fist, and the pressure around (Y/N) and Wednesday’s throats increased.

“Rowan,” choaked out Wednesday, her eyes wide with legitimate worry for her and (Y/N)’s life. “Rowan!”

A sudden roar echoed through the forest, and a creature jumped out of the shadows. Wednesday and (Y/N) watched in shock as it snarled and grabbed Rowan. It slammed him down upon the ground. Wednesday and (Y/N) fell to the ground as Rowan’s telekinesis was disrupted. Rowan screamed as the beast tore into him with its claws. Wednesday and (Y/N) watched in horror as Rowan was killed before their very eyes. Wednesday was especially shocked since she had seen Rowan’s pain-filled face in her vision at the fair.

The beast looked back at them, and the pair froze. The creature snarled, but instead of attacking, it ran off into the forest. As soon as it was gone, Wednesday and (Y/N) ran to Rowan’s side. Wednesday looked at (Y/N) to see their reaction.

(Y/N) shook their head. “He’s dead. I don’t think it takes a reaper to know that.”

“No. It does not,” said Wednesday.

As they stared at Rowan’s body in silence, the book page floated down to rest on his chest. Wednesday picked it up and stared at it.

“Do you think what he said was true?” asked (Y/N).

“Even raving madmen have logic in their madness,” responded Wednesday. She looked up and made eye-contact with (Y/N). “So we’ll have to figure out what his was.”

(Y/N) swallowed. “Something tells me it can’t be anything good.” They stood. “I’ll find the sheriff.”

Wednesday nodded. “Right.”

“What do you mean, there was no body?” asked (Y/N).

It was the next day, and apparently, the sheriff and his men had spent the whole night searching for Rowan’s body, yet there was no evidence it had ever been in the forest, bloodied and dead. (Y/N) and Wednesday were frustrated because Galpin clearly didn’t believe them, and Weems was trying to corral them in her office to keep the situation under control.

“How could you miss it?” questioned Wednesday.

“Because it wasn’t there,” said Sheriff Galpin. “No footprints, no blood, no sign of struggle. Nothing, nada. My search party looked all night.”

“Well, your search party must have left their seeing-eye dogs at home,” said Wednesday.

“We saw that beast kill Rowan right in front of us. I of all people know death, and he was dead,” said (Y/N).

“Get a good luck at this monster thing?” asked Galpin.

“It didn’t stick around for a chat,” said Wednesday.

“Maybe it was one of your classmates,” said Galpin.

“Sheriff, I find that question offensive,” said Weems sharply.

“I don’t ‘cause I got three other dead bodies in the morgue,” said Galpin. “Hikers just ripped apart in the woods.”

“The mayor said those were bear attacks,” said Weems in confusion.

“Well, the mayor and I disagree on that,” said Galpin.

“So you automatically assume a Nevermore student is the murderer, even though there’s no evidence a crime was committed,” said Weems imperiously.

“I’m sorry. I forgot, you only teach the good outcasts here, right?” shot back Galpin.

Weems sighed in annoyance before opening her office door and leading them in. “My guess is Rowan ran away. State troopers have put out an alert, and I’ve contacted his family, but they haven’t heard from him either.”

“Dead people are notoriously bad at returning calls,” said Wednesday.

“What were you doing out in the woods with him, Miss Addams, Mx. (L/N)?” questioned Galpin.

“I heard a noise in the forest and went to go investigate,” said Wednesday. “(Y/N) followed me in concern since I went into the woods alone at night.”

“Yeah, and that’s when we found the attack,” said (Y/N). “Rowan was dead.” Seriously, I’m the child of Thanatos, the God of Death. I know when someone is dead. You’d think these people would believe me.

“Then what happened?” prompted Galpin.

“Then (Y/N) went and got help, as you know,” said Wednesday. “We were ushered back to Nevermore, and now we’re giving our statement.”

“And just to be clear, this monster wasn’t a bear or some other wild animal?” questioned Galpin.

“I’ve hibernated with grizzlies. I know the difference,” said Wednesday.

“And I know the difference between being alive and being dead. Rowan was dead, even if you refuse to listen to me,” said (Y/N).

Weems stood from behind her desk. “Thank you, Sheriff. I think Miss Addams and Mx. (L/N) are done now.”

“Actually, I would like to speak to Sheriff Galpin,” said Wednesday. “Alone.”

“I’m not sure I can allow that,” said Weems.

“I’m sure I could take them to the station to get a formal statement,” said Galpin. He was playing with Weems’s desire to keep Nevermore’s good image. Having students be taken to the police station would not look good for her or the academy.

“Fine,” said Weems sharply. “You have five minutes, and everything is off the record.” She looked down at Galpin. “Play nice…or I will call the sheriff.” She exited the office with a final warning look at all present.

“Someone is trying to cover up Rowan’s murder,” said Wednesday to Galpin. “That’s the only reason to scrub the crime scene.”

“Is that your professional opinion as the daughter of a murderer?” questioned Galpin.

(Y/N) furrowed their brow at the remark but cut in, “I mean, there was a body there. We both saw it and have no reason to lie, so someone must have removed it from the woods.”

“It’s been a long night. I’m tired of your games,” said Galpin.

“We’re not playing games,” said Wednesday sharply. “We’re telling the truth. You want to reject our claims, but you can’t.”

“Why is that?” asked Galpin.

“Because we all know there’s a monster out there,” said Wednesday.

“And Rowan is the latest victim,” said (Y/N).

“Sheriff?” A deputy opened the office door and peered in. “You’re gonna want to see this.” She pushed the other door open to reveal Rowan standing in the entrance.

Wednesday and (Y/N)’s eyes widened. No way, thought (Y/N). Rowan was absolutely dead. So what the hell is this?

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Mpreg Akiren/Joker during Strikers/Scramble

SPOILERS FOR P5 STRIKERS, BELOW, SKIP IF YOU HAVE NOT PLAYED

Okay, but I really like the "Akiren/Joker being pregnant during P5 Strikers" concept.

Especially since the birthday I picked out for Komari (If you haven't seen the past name voting poll, that's the name that won) is August 8th 2017, which is in the middle of Strikers right when they arrive at Sapporo. That could lead to interesting drama where maybe during the Natsume Boss fight, Joker gets hit hard enough where it causes his water to break early

(for context on how bad this is, Baby's due date is October 26th, (originally was November 2nd according to Time and Dates website, but when playing around with a pregnancy conception date calculator, Due Date came out as October 26th, so I'm trusting that source)

I had the idea that for this scenario Joker intentionally hasn't told his friends about his pregnancy and especially doesn't want to tell them once they regain access to the Metaverse and have to go on a roadtrip to infiltrate Jails, because of the automatic obligation to be the Leader and being vital to the team, he worries they'll treat him cautiously or make him sit out battle altogether for the fetus's sake, which---while he too is also worried about his unborn child's safety, he feels he doesn't have much of a choice. He can't just take a break and opt out of the party, what if the others get overpowered by a shadow or Monarch and die in battle because he wasn't there to protect them?!

And he especially doesn't want to drop the pregnancy news and explanation as to why and who the baby daddy is in front of Futaba and Haru because "Earlier this year in February me and Akechi who was resurrected by Maruki, uhhh----engaged in passionate---*ahem* a "Bedroom Duel" before taking Maruki's treasure the following day. I was born with a uterus that didn't shrivel up like it's supposed to when an embryo develops biological male organs and genitalia. I still Identify and consider myself a guy though. I didn't realize my uterus was even functional, but against all logic, it is, and I'm pregnant with mine and Akechi's baby, and yes I intend to keep it." might be awkward for them since Akechi caused the death of both their parents.

But "Hide the pregnancy" plan becomes much trickier when your in early labor, and despite Akiren's stubborn insistence that 'he's fine' as he physically struggles for his life to act like he's not having painful contractions, the rest of the group is clearly seeing through his BS and that something way more than just having low HP and SP is going on.

Or-----

If Joker's unborn child has their own Persona that triggers whenever Joker enters battle or is in trouble, and said Persona emanates from his belly.

"So----are you going to explain why a translucent unfamiliar persona just holographed from your abdomen and cast an almighty attack that insta killed that group of shadows we were just fighting, or----?"

How would he get out of that one? There's not many answers he could come up with that would probably convince them, his friends aren't stupid after all.

So Akiren would have to reveal the truth "Yeah, it's not my Persona, it's my unborn child's. Too be fair, I didn't know fetuses could have a Persona up until now, I'm just as bewildered as the rest of you! But yes, I'm----pregnant."

Just the idea of Fetus Komari having a persona with inherited abilities of both her parents ultimate Personas, thus having scarily strong abilities, and popping in mid battle to wipe the enemies away is hilarious to me.

Joker just handles it by making a joke that "Oh, I guess my child inherited Akechi's bloodlust in battle, haha."

Cut to the rest of the Thieves standing there in a mix of awe and horror. "Why the hell did you say that so calmly, you think that's a good thing?!"

#persona 5 royal #akiren #ren amamiya #akira kusuru #akeshu #shuake #ren x akechi #phantom thieves #persona 5 strikers #persona 5 strikers spoilers #akeshu child #mpreg #mpreg fic #humor

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What do you think the sisters would be like if vi was the one who got left behind and powder/Jinx didn't? Basically what if they swapped places and vi got the role as silco's daughter.

Hi. Ok, so this is a lot. A bit of a challenge of an ask cos obvs there’s a lot of hoops to jump for this scenario to happen. Like how would Vi even end up with Silco while Powder ended up in prison? why would Silco bond with Vi if she wasn’t betrayed by a sibling? what would make Vi want to stay with Silco and not want to murder him after everything he did to her?

The possibilities are endless and would require massive changes to the story so I’m gonna try to mainly approach this from the angle of how would this change affect personalities and relationships based on what makes sense for the characters.

I’d assume Powder wouldn’t survive prison or it’d break her, where she’d become even more shy and low on self-esteem or she’d learn from others how to survive in the harsh environment, and that’d make her cruel kinda like her current self but no bombs cos she has no means to learn how to make them. If we want a narrative for acts II and III then lets say we can’t have this dead/dead in spirit version of Jinx so lets go with the other scenario. In that case I’d essentially imagine her how I think young Silco was. Wearing rags, a very bright person but very weak physically, doesn’t know how to fight ‘properly’, probs very agile and likes using a weapon like a makeshift knife. She spends her days convinced Vi knows exactly where she is and just continuously chooses to abandon her.

Now Vi is way trickier to do, but lets say for some reason she learns Silco’s side of the story about Vander and it’s convincing to her. It still wouldn’t make sense for her to bond with Silco over her sibling trauma or being mad at her sibling cos she’s not mad at Powder. Maybe she thinks Powder is dead and shows huge regret and that convinces Silco that she’s a redeemed/better version of Vander who would never betray a family member. Vi could be taken aback by Vander’s sins like trying to kill Silco and refusing to join Silco in fighting. She never wanted to abandon/lead to the death of her sister but in this scenario she also knows that Vander actively tried to kill his brother and she could see the side of herself that she hates in Vander and grow to hate him through projection. Upon learning that all Silco wanted to do was revolt she’d have no ideological differences with him.

There’s still a lot of problems like what about Ekko? why would Vi still be ok with Silco if he lead to the death of all of her family? even if she let that go why choose to live with him, she’s not 10? what about her good heart and Silco’s methods and cruelty? Well, maybe let’s lean on Silco as a corrupting influence as an answer to these questions. He could view her as a better Vander, as a Vander replacement maybe, and that’s how he can start bonding with her. He went in hoping Vander would join him and he gets a mini Vander to join him instead. He highlights to Vi the importance of family and loyalty to your family, how she’s the better Vander, she’d never intentionally abandon her sister and hence she’d never abandon him. Maybe Vi wants to make up for Vander’s wrongs to prove to herself that she’s not like him (and on some level to improve his legacy/memories she has of him) so she does get invested in the idea of Silco being her family. Maybe she uses Silco as a Powder replacement and tries to make it up to Powder by making it up to him. She likely also wants to fight even more now as a part of fixing Vander’s wrongs. Maybe she is consumed by the want for setting things right and revenge and respect and so slowly over time she becomes willing to do anything for the cause. I’d imagine that as essentially a mini Sevika she’d be way more useful than Jinx was.

I think Silco would probs be soft on her like he is with Jinx and Vi’d likely try to recreate her relationship with Vander somewhat, not looking for someone to dote on her and favor her like Powder did, but still wanting an adult’s/parent’s approval and support of her decisions like she wanted Vander’s approval and support when it came to her going on missions and fighting Piltover. And just like with Jinx Silco would be bad at real parenting but the perfect wish-fulfillment cool dad who let’s her do whatever and thinks she can do no wrong. He’s probs not as obsessed with her tho cos she’s not very much like him and has different life experiences and trauma. The love is way more like that towards the firstborn son, as in it’s conditional on her constantly proving that she’s worthy, that she’s not like Vander.

It's interesting to think how in this scenario the sisters reconciling is way more likely to happen cos Silco is not in the way and if anything he’d be all for taking Jinx in as well.

But like I already mentioned this is all highly speculative cos to truly make this work the story would need a rewrite from the ground up. That’s why I tend to like the idea of an au where Silco gets involved in Vander’s family by reconciling with him in act I or before (like maybe the betrayal never happened and him and Vander never split paths). That way the characters get to remain way more in-character while still getting a happy ending.

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metatronhateblog · 6 months

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The Opening Credits Pt.1 Jimbriel

Okay so as I'm sitting down to take a crack at ciphering the angelic language on the show, I've come tot the conclusion that I have so many clues and other things I found, that it's time for me to start slowly dropping these out because boy oh boy have I been collecting clues and theories like a dragon hoards golds. I've also added another member to this blog who will be posting theories and clues as well.

That being said, welcome to the Sequence of Opening Credits Post Part 1, or the I sat down and played the opening credits at .25 speed and took screen grabs of everything weird I found. (Which, brief disclaimer, my eyes are not perfect and I'm bound to miss things, even my glasses don't 100% correct my vision. There's bound to be things I miss and if you happen to find them feel free to add in your finds!)

Today I'm starting off with Jim/Gabriel. Since it was said recently in a panel he's in every scene of the opening, and I knew that cause I've found him...at least I think I found all his appearances... I'm going to start this series of posts off by sharing them with you.

Right off the bat, we have him in the scene directly after Crowley lights a match in a cave.

He's there, nice and clear and noticeable. Keep that in mind because I think that's the most openly we see him in the opening credits.

The next scene after the goats his the graveyard scene. He's already a little trickier to find.

And for those who don't see him in that picture, here's a closer look.

Next seen they enter the mausoleum and you see Gabriel as they decline

(I'm realizing now that if I use too many images there might be a parts 1.1 lol) Any ways after hiding behind that tombstone shaped similarly to (but not quite) the one that says 'Here lies the former shell of Beelzebub) we see him (or at least me, I'll be honest I don't see him when they're walking over the lake of fire) Is in London??? Getting bombed.

Now is you don't see him here that's okay, I told you it gets harder.

He's standing here in this window, even more interesting to me, once the plane drops the bomb that explodes into rabbits...

He's hiding his head in the box lol.

Moving on, I ALMOST didn't see him in the next scene (walking through West End) because I shit you not, he's tucked away in a little nook.)

He is actually hidden (paint me like one of your French girls style) IN THE FRONT of the scene. Makes me wonder if that's where he might be when they cross the lake of fire.

Moving on. Next time we seem him is in space, while Crowley and Aziraphale are doing an interesting little 'swapping sides dance.' Our mans is clinging for dear life lol

In the next scene is where I get confused. Crowley and Aziraphale are sitting on the roof aaaaand...

Jimbriel is standing above 'Give Me Coffee or Give Me Death?' Why not about the bookshop??

In his next appearance....he actually has wings? Which is sus to me again but what isn't sus about this show lol. Jimbriel is in an elevator, riding down as the line of people making their slow death march pass.

Using all my will power to acknowledge the blatantly weird things in this screen grab alone, I move on.

In this one, I will momentarily ignore our boys kissing in the opera box and instead show you, Jimbriel. ALSO in an opera box.

Now I'm not sure Jim is in the direct next scene cause no one is, but there is a falling apart? statue of Gabriel in front of Mount Zion.

Aaaaand finally we have him walking along with everyone else, preparing to seal his fate. I won't do a close up of this one because he's right there.

And that concludes The Opening Credits Pt.1. I would say something more, make a little theory or something, but I don't think there's much to say on Jim giving someone (whose name currently escapes me) said in an interview Jim is in every scene. So anyways. Here's this for you to hold as reference, or just look at, or ignore cause I'm not sure myself how important it is. (Yay me for fitting this all in one post!)

Anyways I'm going to get started on cracking this Angelic language. Stay tuned for more Opening Credits posts because believe me. I have more.

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David and Madeleine

Okay let's talk about these two.

What I am about to say, I'm 90 per cent sure I'll regret it. But Max is a hero. He doesn't just pretend to be a hero. He is a hero. In both timelines. I think David had said something in IALS that went like: Max is like a candle. He will burn himself up to give others light. And that's very accurate. To his core, he is a selfless person. Just like the rest of his family. Magnus, Alec, Rafael. They are all heroes. They would sacrifice everything to save the world. Here is the tricky part. David is... not a hero? I'm clarifying this right now he is not a villain. But neither is Madeleine.

Kyle was a villain. (The fact that I can say was, the relief).Madeleine wasn't. She is not racist, she is not sexist, she doesn't believe people are superior based on their blood. Kyle was a bad person. To his core. The Devlins, they wanted to cause destruction unprovoked. They didn't care about the life of others. They were just, bad people as you've said. David and Madeleine are not.

But here is where it gets trickier. They're not... heroes either. A hero puts the world above everything. David and Madeleine don't. And in all honesty, the defying difference between them is Madeleine's cruelty. She lashes out. She blames someone that wasn't really at fault. She created a belief in her mind that Lance was at fault, that he, a 3 days old baby, had the conscious to murder her husband. That the prophecy was the way to warn them that Lance was a curse. Not because she genuinely believed it but because it got her husband killed.

David. David doesn't punish other people. He punishes himself. He didn't try to torture anyone. When he threatened a life, he threatened his own. Someone could say, he got Older Max arrested didn't he? But for crimes he had committed. So, he hasn't been cruel yet has he? There is also the part where he apparently was okay with the universe unraveling as long as they all died together. But, that wasn't him directly hurting someone correct? The difference between the trolley problem and the transplant trolley problem. In the trolley problem you have to choose between letting 5 people die or changing the course of the train to let one person die.But in the transplant one they have to kill one healthy person to give his organs to 5 patients in need. David doesn't actively hurt anyone while Madeleine does.

And like the difference between those two problems, the act to choose to kill instead of letting someone die is different. David will change a canon event. He will not live to see the consequences of his actions. Madeleine wants to see them. She kept stabbing Lance, she thrives on the pain she causes to David's family. She thrives on someone's pain. David doesn't, no matter what he goes through or who he loses. He doesn't like inflicting pain.

Which creates another difference. Madeleine has no reason to believe that killing Lance will bring Joseph back. She she's not doing all of this to save her love. She is doing it for revenge. She trying to hurt because she was hurt. But she will gain absolutely nothing from Lance's demise. Her husband won't come back. Her son won't forgive her. Her daughter won't suddenly become closer to her.

But David will get his som back. If he changed a canon event, he would get his son back. He had everything to gain from it. Everything he lost he could get back. It wasn't about revenge for David. It was about claiming what he's lost.

But let's not forget FMF. He did brutally murder Lucifer for experimenting and murdering Nico. But did he enjoy it? I don't think he did. Did Madeleine enjoy stabbing Lnace to death? I think she did. I think it gave her a twisted sense of satisfaction.

So in my conclusion: The Devlins, Kyle. They were bad people. They will be bad people no matter the circumstances.

Madeleine wasn't a bad person. She became a bad person. She was transformed into a bad person by grief and pain. She is a circumstantial bad person. If Joseph hadn't die, if she doesn't lose her rock, she isn't very likely to kill.

David? David is not a bad person. He is a good person that is forced to do bad things(f.e. FMF). But he doesn't enjoy doing it. Or hurting. Which is a huge difference between bad and good people. But he is not a hero either. Not in the traditional sense. He would pick his kids over the universe any day. Not himself. He would sacrifice himself. But his loved ones? No.

This is huge and I have more to analyse. I again am so sorry for bombarding you, but they just flow from me.

Ah. I could write an essay about these two - and I will hehe. I will add another layer of analysis to your beautiful work :) (thank u sooo much for this btw!!!)

First things first (and I think you know this already but i’m flagging it for others) these archetypes of hero, villain, whatever don’t exist in a vacuum. It’s more of a spectrum where you go from one to another through the course of your life.

Some people though, in a bad way, stay stuck in the same thing. Like Kyle. When I was doing Kyle and Victoria’s characterization, a big difference I noticed between them was that I could see that Victoria would be willing to change. I think when ‘bad’ people, at least some of them, are given the right opportunities, resources and lots of love, they can be and do better. I see Victoria as one of those people. Not that it justifies her actions, but she’s had bad role models her entire life, but if it wasn’t for her kindness to Kincaid, (and his exposure to Arthur at a young age ofc) Kinny could’ve grown up to be a real cunt too.

Victoria was an asshole from the start. I feel for people like that, some of them at least, there is an opportunity for redemption. Because you see they’ve never known love - not really. They don’t know what it’s like to have support systems or affirming friends/family. Victoria didn’t choose to be cruel. She was raised to be cruel.

But Madeleine. Oof. Madeleine is good. She was good. She knows right from wrong. She knows how to be kind. But she chose the darkness. She chooses to be cruel. I think people like this, people who were good and later embrace the dark side, are much harder to change. Because they made a conscious choice - whatever the circumstances.

A lot of Victoria and Madeleine’s characterisation were developed parallely so excuse this lil analysis.

Now David…David is truly a good example of ‘i am what you make me’ - that is people moving around the moral spectrum because they need to do what they have to do to survive.

About the hero discussion between Madeleine and David. I think another interesting thing here is that Madeline actually considers herself a hero. She definitely has a ‘holier than thou’ personality (but not in an obvious way) and this was there from the start. It’s the same thing Alec and Rafael have (but not Magnus as we saw) where they think they know what is best for other people and therefore want to help them. This is why they want to be leaders. But Madeleine has kind of lost the plot and is now literally taking advantage of her leadership/hero status. She is using her influence to get people to do what she wants (the thing Rafael refuses to do even if he has the power to do the same - i love him btw). She is therefore a corrupted hero. A hero who forgot why they became a hero in the first place. A hero who is only a hero so they can get what they want.

David on the other hand is not a hero in any sense - for one simple reason. He doesn’t want to be one. The whole thing about 'david always gets what he wants' IS because he is willing to play dirty and do whatever it takes. I mean if you think about it (Really think about it) the first time we meet David is when he literally gets his father arrested. HE GOT HIS DAD ARRESTED LMAO. THIS BOY WAS NOT FUCKING AROUND.

He's just so used to (and perhaps tired of) fighting for himself and that he wants someone else to do it for him *enter Max LB*

He will ALWAYS do whatever it takes to protect himself and his love and that’s who he is and this boy has known it from the beginning (we love a self-aware king)

From LBAF 2:

But David didn’t want to be a hero.

He had never wanted to be one – much to his father’s disappointment.

He wanted to be the person the hero fights for. He wanted to be the person the hero saved. He wanted to be the person they climbed mountains for and crossed oceans for.

He looked at Alec Lightwood – and remembered how the other man had gone to Edom to save his love.

He wanted to be the person the hero went to hell for.

David didn’t want to be a hero. He didn’t want to fight dragons and slay demons.

He didn’t want to fight at all. He just wanted to be loved.

Note: “He just wanted to be loved” is one of my favourite lines because the name David literally means ‘be loved’.

David isn’t a hero. David is a survivor. And survivors don’t fall between ‘good or bad’. They fall between ‘dead or alive’. David knows what he wants to be (and we see him choose death a couple of times) and he’s just going to do what it takes to keep him that way. And very importantly - he can’t do no wrong :)

PS - I found these little notes I wrote for the LBAF gang in LBAF 3 and Max’s one is making me soooo emo because it made me think of Other Max.

PPS - Please know I love you loads. Okay bye.

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thelemoncoffee · 5 months

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i've been playing SAR alot lately (cause i really want a specific cosmetic i have to complete a season pass to get) and i've been having brain worms for Saiouma playing it together.

please, allow me to brainrot for a post.

for ye who are unaware SAR (Super Animal Royale) is a top down battle royale with genetically engineered chibi furries in it called Super Animals. i don't normally like battle royales but this one is pretty nice with a good community, lore, and very rarely makes items unobtainable. its a good one for people who are looking for a chill battle royale, 10/10 would recommend

anywho saiouma playing SAR. i have so many brainworms- mostly to do with how they'd play the game, cosmetics they'd choose, and what game modes they'd prefer.

i can see Kokichi having been the one to have found the game, or was introduced to it by someone else, and then dragged Shuichi into it cause he wanted someone to share it with. he'd defiantly into the classic royale modes (solo, duos, squads), and use to really love Mystery Mode before it was removed from the mode list (there's always mummers of it coming back, but it hasn't. he misses it so)

Shuichi on the other hand prefers the extra modes (SAW vs Rebellion, Bawking Dead) over the actual Royale, mostly cause the larger teams makes it less likely for him to die instantaneously, and in both cases death doesn't mean you are out of the game. in SVR your teams respawn but have a limited respawn count pool that's connected to how many points your team has left and the first team to 0 points loses, and in BD when you die you become a chicken zombie and get to be part of the respawning hoard attacking the remaining survivors. he doesn't like the stress being against 90% of the lobby right off the bat creates, so these two modes are all he ever plays unless Kokichi begs him to join him for a round of Duos.

weapons wise it's a bit trickier cause i'm not too familiar with all the weapons stats- hell i don't know the stats for the weapons i prefer- but fear not! i can uses the wiki to scrounge up stats and strategy information.

for these i'm formatting this a bit different cause there's two gun slots, a melee, a throwable weapon, and one power-up, so i'm going to do this but listing off the choices and explanations bullet point style. i won't list the melee options cause they are purely cosmetic, they all have the exact same stats and all choices are really just skins so it's pointless to list those off

Kokichi- Main gun: Hunting Rifle. Kokichi loves to makes this game hard on himself, so why not give him a really difficult gun to use, hell even the wiki is saying this gun is for experienced users. this thing needs to be reloaded ever shot, the reload takes longer than most guns, and it slows player movement the most out of any gun in the game (it's tied with the BCG in player speed but still). HOWEVER! despite this absolute bullshit, it's great gun in his hands cause if you know how to shoot it right you can break any level of armor in one shot and do critical damage to someone who's unarmored. Secondary gun: Thomas Gun. to combat his stubborn ass difficult main gun habits, this is his favorite late game gun. it's not too easy to find so when he can't find it he settles for anything he can get his hands on- but it's his favorite automatic cause it's great at destroying armor, doesn't slow his movements, and is designed for his preferred close range combat style. it's really good for when he get into the final 10 range and needs a quicker gun to wipe out his opponents in their now insanely smaller arena that is still rapidly closing in on them, threatening to suffocate them to death if they can't kill one another fast enough Powerup: Skunk Gas Snorkel. so the arena gets smaller via a ring of green gas called Super Skunk Gas that slowly suffocates you- there are also skunk bombs that people can throw to make smaller temporary clouds of it. this items allows you to take less damage while in the gas, and Kokichi, who loves to play games the hard way, would purposefully like to play chicken with the skunk gas and uses this to keep himself just a little safer Throwable: Banana. it's literally just a banana, you can use them to slip anyone both enemy and teammate and stun them for a few seconds. he uses these exclusively on his teammates to annoy the shit out of them.

Shuichi- Main gun: AK. imma be real i'm giving him my main guns cause i genuinely feel like my play style suits him. the AK is an automatic he picked up cause it's an automatic and that means he doesn't have to spam click, but kept it cause it works well with his tunnel vision game play style. it is one of the guns that slows you down the most when holding, and isn't the best for close combat, but put him in a small corridor with people running at him and he can plow them down with it while standing still (aha, i do that) Secondary gun: SMG. this is a lighter automatic gun that's bullet spread is pretty wide, so he uses it mostly when on the move and in wide open spaces as he moves from one cubbyhole of the map to the next. they also shoot a bit faster than the AK but that means nothing to him when half the bullets miss the target by the nature of the gun's balancing. Powerup: Ninja booties. these reduce the amount of noice your character makes while moving and increases your speed just a hair, they also hide your footprints that zombies in BD can normally see and follow. they don't actually help him out too much given he doesn't know how to stealth play to save his life, but they give him a sense of comfort to some degree and that's what matters Throwable: zipline. Shuichi- like most SAR players- cannot resist the sweet lure of a zipline to be mindlessly played on for way too long in the middle of a match, so why not be the one to deploy them and trigger the collective braincell? besides, he forgets he has the other throwables when they're needed in combat

okay, now i got that done, i know i made a post once where i assigned the V3 cast super animal skins, but that was based on which i think they'd be as characters, not as actual preferred skins. so now i present to you what i think Saiouma's main three skin choices would be

Kokichi- -his is pretty difficult for me to pick with cause there's a good few i think he'd really love. but my faves for him are the Alebrije variants of various animals due to how neon they are. there's six of them but the one i think he'd like the most is the tiger variant -for something less eyestrain tho, i also thin he'd like the pig on the principle of i hc that's his fave animal. i picked the Lunar Pig cause it's red and i also hc that's his fave color. he literally would use this just because it's two fave things in one -he'd also really like the dragons because dragons are fucking sick as hell, any skin would do but i think he'd get the Ice Wyvern first just because it's the hardest to get

Shuichi- -similar to why i picked the lunar pig, Shuichi's main is the Yellow Bearded Dragon because i hc he likes yellow and reptiles. his favorite Reptile is snakes, but there's no snakes in SAR so he went with the cutest reptile option they had instead - i cannot be convinced Shuichi didn't see the Tibetan Fox, wheeze laugh at it's stupid face for far too long, then decide to get him simply for his own amusement -the Goth Possum is his second favorite skin in the whole game honestly, he likes how it looks like it has eyebags, and it's gothic

okay i'm done now- i'd add weapon skins too but this post it too long as is, feel free to send me asks if you wanna know about those tho

#danganronpa #ndrv3 #danganronpa v3 #kokichi ouma #shuichi saihara #saiouma #headcanons #super animal royale #sar #this post is late cause i literally just finished typing it-#i took two hours to write this

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gorbalsvampire · 1 month

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Essentials 2, 3 and 7 for Penelope, and Life 2, 3 and 8 for Sorcha? 😁

The Essential Penelope

What year were they born (or how old would they be in life), and what age do they appear? What age do they feel?

Penny was born in 1909, ghouled in 1948, and Embraced in 1959, just shy of her birthday. She looks late thirties - it's hard to imagine her not looking late thirties, in theory she must have been a child at some point, but she gives the impression that she plopped into the world at Cambridge aged twenty-two and nothing that came before particularly mattered.

She feels no age at all. Penelope is Penelope. Her sense of self is a bit ragged, underneath the iron confidence she projects, and she could be ninety or nine hundred: it wouldn't matter. She'd still be her. Whatever that means.

Which Clan do they belong to? How do they feel about their Clan?

Lasombra. Nominally, Lasombra antitribu, but which sense of the word is... up for debate. In the Sabbat, she was very much a "pack first, sect second, clan third" thinker - as far as she's concerned, all True Sabbat are antitribu and should be working on transcending the limitations of their bloodline, and the Panders who rise from mass Embraces are lucky to have a head start.

But... she still has a chip on her shoulder about it. She is of the bloodline of Montano, and she's been thoroughly taught what that means. An outcast's outcast, choosing the high and noble road, and she can't have that without being Lasombra, and she can't really dine out on it in the Sabbat either.

Which Disciplines do they possess, and which do they favor using?

Oblivion 3, Dominate 2, Celerity 1, and if I re-use her as an antagonist for another story, she'll have picked up some Potence and Animalism to go (and probably a bit more Oblivion). In her role as priestess and interrogator, she finds the applied theatricality of Oblivion suits her down to the ground, but in the field, she's more reliant on her Celerity and talent for stealth.

Getting a Life with Sorcha

Do they still have mortal family or friends, or descendants of those people? Who were they closest to during life, and is there anyone they’ve contacted after their Embrace?

Hell yes she does - she's a Dunsirn, she still lived with her folks for the first six months after she died. Besides her vampire da, Sorcha is still in touch with her mother in Venice, and most of the cousins she grew up with are at least on Instagram-commenting terms. Schoolfriends are fewer and further between - she's sold drugs to a lot of them but that doesn't mean they're friends. She has stayed in touch with Wee Tam, her tenant and bestie and Touchstone, and she rooms with a little gang of medical students who know her as their weird RA who lives in the cellar and can't go to lectures 'cause she's got Schere's Disease. On top of that, she has a lot of acquaintances - she's distinctive, she's out on the town at least three nights a week, and she's got the good molly.

What were their hobbies, skills, and interests?

Hmm, this is trickier - Sorcha tends to monetise anything she's good at - but she never figured out how to make money out of dance, or gymnastics. Her form's not great, but she's surprisingly bendy and she has a good time with it.

Her school reports indicated she had a prodigious knack for chemistry and design - the subjects she ended up taking to Bacc. level and walking out with a Distinction, thank you kindly.

She likes karaoke, but she has an awful singing voice, and has been gently dissuaded from participating.

When they were Embraced, what was the aftermath like? Did they fake their death, do their loved ones think they went missing, etc.?

Oh, Christ. Sorcha's Embrace was one of the events that kicked off a whole chronicle. She bled out on her junkie "boyfriend's" mattress, and was rescued by her dad, and she doesn't know which of them Embraced her or why she came out thinblood. All she knows is, Jimmy's very dead (he copped a hatchet to the back of the head two nights after she died), and to all intents and purposes she is Alistair's childe.

Her family knew, of course they knew - Hecata, remember? Most of her casual acquaintances have heard that she OD'd, and suspect that her dad had something to do with what happened to Jimmy, and that's another reason people from school don't stay too close to her - nobody wants to be next. She was back on the dancefloor by the end of the month though, bragging about her results and dancing her ass off... and then she really disappeared, leaving Glasgow for the best part of three years.

Her social media was deleted and remade a couple of times in there, she was posting from LA (except when she wasn't) and she went very #desertaesthetic for a while, then off the grid completely, but she seems to have come out swinging in the last eighteen months.

The thing is, people who know Sorcha know she's a freak, and a dealer, and that her dad's some sort of gangster. They're kinda used to weird shit happening around her. It's a big part of how she gets away with being like she is.

#oc: sorcha dunsirn #thanks for asking!

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jeannereames · 5 months

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Happy Halloween! 🎃👻🎃👻🎃

I have a question on the potential of assassination, specifically of Hephaestion? Was there anyone close to him that would have the means or motive to kill him? Or anyone who gained greatly from his death?

(I believe I read you say that his death was caused by eating too soon after being incredibly sick, but ignoring him not being killed!)

Sorry for any bad English, I'm sick in bed avoiding school work 🤒🤧🤒🤧🤒 📝📖😱

No, I don’t think Hephaistion was deliberately poisoned. I wrote about it in prior post, HERE.

Another, a little more cheeky, HERE.

Like Alexander, Hephaistion would have had (and did have) plenty of enemies. Ancient Greek and Macedonian society was honor-based, and could be violent at the drop of a hat: witness the crossing of swords between Hephaistion and Krateros in India.

That said, poison was widely regarded as a woman’s weapon, one beneath honorable men. Hence the Successor Era (and almost certainly untrue) accusations that Antipatros conspired with others to poison Alexander had the additional insulting overtones that he couldn’t come after Alexander “like a man,” and was, thus, unfit to be regent for the kings Philip III Arrhidaios and Alexander IV.

That doesn’t mean nobody might have wanted to eliminate Hephaistion, or Alexander, but I wanted to underscore the cultural baggage of a poisoning accusation.

For me, the main reason I don’t think he was murdered (by poison) is simply that Alexander himself didn’t seem to think he had been. Alexander blamed (and executed) the doctor for malpractice—not murder. Given how anxious the king had become, I consider that the best evidence that Hephaistion’s death didn’t seem especially suspicious. He apparently died of natural causes.

What those natural causes were…that’s trickier. We have two basic accounts. In one, he died of a flare up in the fever disease he’d contracted, although he had seemed to be getting better. In the other, he more or less caused his own death by ignoring doctor’s orders and eating food (and drinking a LOT of wine) when he shouldn’t have.

Now, which of those you believe probably says a lot about your prior opinion of Hephaistion. 😉 Is the former whitewashing? Or is the latter intentional slander against his memory?

I’m more inclined to the latter, in part because it seems to have come from a hostile pamphlet that circulated after Hephaistion’s and Alexander’s deaths by one Ephippos of Olympus, On the Death (or Funeral) of Alexander and Hephaestion. The original is lost, so it’s only speculation what was in it, but the vulgate, and Plutarch used it, while Arrian did not. Arrian’s account is missing any hint of boiled chickens and a gallon of wine. Of course, one could also say that Arrian concealed the truth to rehab Hephaistion’s memory.

So make of it all what you will, but I do think it important to note that these are two accounts that we shouldn’t try to reconcile. It’s possible that the hostile account exaggerated a real event in which he ate solid food against doctor’s orders, and died of a perforated intestine, internal bleeding, and sepsis. But if so, the death was unduly rapid. More likely, that particular version was an example of what Thomas Africa considered a “moralizing” death rather than an actual (or accurate) account of what happened (or his symptoms).

To me, it seems more likely that he died of typhoid or malaria. His doctor thought he was recovering, but he suffered an unexpected relapse and died quickly. Alexander’s rage stemmed from being led to believe he was getting better when he wasn’t.

#classics #asks #Hephaistion #Hephaestion #Alexander the Great #death of Hephaistion #death of Hephaestion #Ephippos of Olynthos #manner of death as moral commentary #poisoning of Alexander the Great

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kaminocasey · 2 years

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A Glimpse of Us Part 3C

Summary: What if you didn't have to choose between Hunter and Rex?

Pairing: Rex x Reader x Hunter

WC: 2.6K

Warnings: 18+ MINORS DNI; SMUT, Threesome, p in v, oral (both receiving)

A/N: LAST PART, let's go. Sorry it took me so damn long.

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3A Part 3B Part 3C

Rex, Hunter, Echo, and Wrecker wait around while they wait for Tech to wake up from the inhibitor chip removal. They’d all successfully gotten their inhibitor chips out so Tech was the last one up. Rex and Hunter are topside, getting some much needed air while Echo and Wrecker wait with Tech. They clearly had things to talk about. Things that the other guys didn’t need to hear, necessarily.

“So you two are…” Rex sighs.

Rex didn’t expect you to wait around forever. If Hunter could be there for you, then that’s good. He hated that he caused you any pain in the first place. It’s been the biggest downside to faking his death. The moment that he and Ahsoka were safe, he wanted to run to you, to make sure you were alright. He knew he needed to help as many of his brothers as he could first, though. Not to mention, he didn’t know how to find you, so when you were described by the Martez sisters, he tried to get to Ord Mantell as fast as he could.

“Yeah, we kind of just happened a couple weeks ago.” Hunter tells him, honestly.

“Well, I hope you make her happy.” Rex tells him, placing a hand on his shoulder.

“She still loves you, Rex.” Hunter tells him. “She doesn’t know she does it, but she mumbles your name in her sleep most nights.”

“Oh.” Rex tries to hide the fact that his heart soars.

It’s quiet for a moment.

“Do you love her?” Rex asks him.

“More than anything. She’s been a real light in these dark times.” Hunter answers, looking out at the sea of old rusty ships. “To the whole team. Not just me. She and Omega have this amazing bond. She and Echo talk about their days with the 501st and it really brings a smile to Echo’s face. Tech just started teaching her how to fly. And Wrecker just taught her how to defuse a bomb.”

Talking about you makes him really miss you. He can’t imagine how Rex feels right now, being away from you for so long. He knows if he had to be away from you as long as Rex has been away from you, he’d be miserable.

“Look, Rex. I really like you. That’s why I’m going to tell you if you want me to back off, I will… but I think she should decide.” Hunter tells him.

“As long as she’s happy, that’s all that matters to me.” Rex smiles, sadly at the thought of you rejecting him, but happy that you found a family within the Batch.

It was a possibility that you no longer wanted the life you once imagined together. He still wants to marry you, to have a family with you, and to give you the life you deserve. Sure, it’d be a little trickier now with the empire in almost every crevice of the galaxy, but he knows some places the Empire has no idea about and never will.

You and Omega are playing Dejarik while you wait for the guys to arrive. They’re supposed to be back today. It’s been almost four days since they’d gone to get their inhibitor chips out with Rex on Bracca.

Omega’s head suddenly perks up and she spins away from the table to look toward the stairs.

“What is it?” You ask her, following the gaze.

“They’re back.” She tells you, still watching.

You didn’t even hear anything.

“How do-” You start to ask but you’re cut off by Wrecker barging down the stairs, swooping Omega up in his arms in a greeting.

It’s almost scary how little Omega is wrong. You greet all of them, not seeing Rex and Hunter until they walk down the steps next, talking and smiling. Odd, but alright, you think to yourself.

“Mesh’la.” Hunter pulls you into his arms, kissing you on the head.

“Hey. I’m so glad you guys are all okay.” You tell them, pulling up Hunter’s bandana, inspecting his patch covering the incision.

“No problems at all.” Hunter smiles.

“I wouldn’t say that.” Tech holds his finger up, matter-of-factly.

“Crosshair showed up.” Echo explains.

You look at Hunter, wide-eyed.

“Along with a bounty hunter looking for the kid.” Wrecker chimes in.

“A bounty hunter?” Omega asks, confused.

“Don’t worry about it. We took care of it all.” Hunter holds your face gently.

You look over at Rex for confirmation, which he knows, because of course he does, and he nods at you that everything is alright. Hunter notices and lets go of your face.

“Hunter-” You start but he gives you a reassuring smile that he’s not upset.

You let out a sigh of relief. You’re not sure how to navigate these feelings about the love of your life and your current partner who you’ve really come to care for and can’t imagine being without. Is that love? Can you love two people? Is that possible? You’ve had four days to argue with yourself. You should know right now. But the real answer is that you want both. Is that selfish? Probably.

Later that night, you’re in your room above Cid’s when there’s a knock on the door. You get up off your bed to go answer it, expecting Hunter to come tell you goodnight, or Rex coming to talk to you.

You answer the door and are met with both Hunter and Rex. You should have been expecting it, honestly.

“Hunter. Rex.” You smile softly, gesturing for them to come in. You let the door slide shut behind them.

They stand in the middle of the room and you look at them, nerves starting to make themselves known.

“It’s alright, mesh’la.” Hunter senses your nervousness immediately and acts like he wants to reach out but thinks twice, maybe out of respect for Rex.

“It is?” You ask.

“Of course.” Rex smiles, softly.

You missed that smile more than anything in the galaxy.

“We want you to know that whoever you pick, we won’t be upset. If that’s what you’re worried about.” Hunter smiles, sympathetically.

“That’s the thing.” You shake your head as you cross your arms while a lump starts forming in your throat. “I can’t pick…”

“You don’t have to.” Rex speaks up.

Hunter looks at him, curiously.

“Do you… want both of us?” Rex asks you.

You nod. “I know it’s selfish, though.”

“It’s not.” Hunter looks at you, coming to take your hand. “We both love you, we just want you to be happy, cyare.”

He kisses your hand and you let out a breath you didn’t even realize you’d been holding in.

“You love me?” You ask him.

He’d never said it before.

He smiles. “I do.”

You smile softly, looking up at him, cupping his face with your hand that he’s not holding. He kisses your forehead and you look over at Rex.

“Go on.” Hunter murmurs.

You kiss him on the cheek and walk to Rex. Rex pulls you into his arms, crushing his lips to yours. He kisses you like it’s been killing him to not be able to do this sooner. Every memory you have with this man starts coming back and you’re instantly overwhelmed with love for this man. You don’t even realize you have tears slipping until he’s swiping them away with his thumbs and you’re looking up at him, blurry-eyed.

“Sorry.” You chuckle, awkwardly, trying to dry your eyes.

“Don’t be.” He murmurs, kissing you on the head as you look over at Hunter.

“I can have both of you?” You ask them, softly. “You’re sure?”

“As long as you’re happy, we’re happy.” Rex answers.

You smile up at him and then hold your hand out for Hunter. He crosses the few steps between you and kisses you again. You start to realize how obvious it is that this man is in love with you. From the way that he kisses you, to the way he just looks at you and touches you. He’s looked at you like that since the day that he’s met you and your heart speeds up at the thought. “I know, mesh’la. Me too.” Hunter murmurs against your lips, understanding you like always.

That’s one of the things you love about him. He reads you and he just understands.

As you turn to Rex to kiss him again, you feel Hunter’s lips on your shoulder and his hands on your waist.

You sigh against Rex’s lips and he starts to smile into the kiss. Trailing your hand down his chest to his length which is already starting to struggle against his pants, you start to get even more worked up. He moves your hands away for a moment, breaking the kiss.

“You’re sure?” He checks.

You smile at him and then Hunter. “I’m sure. It’s been way too long.”

Hunter and Rex glance at each other and nod. Rex returns his lips to yours as Hunter starts to take your shirt off and drop it. Rex unbuttons your pants and you let them fall to the floor, kicking them off. Both men’s hands and lips are all over you immediately. Hunter unsnaps your bra off and Rex pulls away to look at you.

“I’ve missed you so much.” Rex whispers.

“I’ve missed you- ah.” You’re cut off as he takes your nipple in his mouth, between his teeth.

Hunter slips his hand down your panties, cupping your warmth, sliding his hand back and forth, teasing you as he sucks a mark into your shoulder, making you whimper.

Rex groans at the sound you make and squeezes your other breast. You tilt your head back against Hunter’s chest and his other hand squeezes your breast just under where Rex’s mouth is sucking.

“Should we move her to the bed, Captain?” Hunter smirks.

“I think we should, Sergeant.” Rex smirks back.

Both of the men quickly undress before going any further. You can’t help but look at them with intense desire you’ve never experienced.

Hunter pulls you to the bed, starting to kneel down in front of you, and Rex lays next to you, kissing you again. You get lost in the way that their lips start to explore you in different ways. Rex’s lips are so sure against yours, so confident. Hunter’s lips are sensual and sweet. You’ve made the right call by choosing both of them.

“I really missed you.” You whisper against Rex’s lips.

“I really missed you too, cyare. Don’t worry. We’ve got you.” He assures you.

Hunter’s mouth is on your pussy before you can say anything else and you can’t help but gasp against Rex’s lips. Hunter’s always so giving in the way that he eats you out. It’s addicting how good his tongue feels in you.

“Does that feel good?” Rex hums.

You nod and look down at Hunter, running your fingers through his longer hair. It’s different from Rex’s buzzed blond hair. In a good way, of course.

Hunter’s tongue flicks over your clit so perfectly, you let out a moan and Rex catches it with his lips again, smirking. You know right then that you’re in for a long night and you can’t wait.

“Hey Cap, feel how soaked she is.” Hunter smirks up at you.

Rex runs his hand down your body until he reaches your dripping cunt, and you both groan when he gently pushes his fingers into you to feel how soaked you are for them.

“Maker, I’ve missed this pussy.” He rests his forehead against yours.

“I’ve missed your fingers.” You chuckle, breathlessly.

“Why don’t you take over, Rex.” Hunter offers.

“Is that alright with you?” Rex asks you.

“Please.” You smile.

Hunter and Rex switch places quickly, Rex pulling you to the edge of the bed a little more so he can settle between your legs, running his hands up and down your thighs. Hunter kisses you softly. You smile at him when he pulls away, letting him know you’re beyond happy right now.

“I want to devour this pussy later but right now, I just need to be inside you. Is that okay?” Rex asks you.

You spread your legs wider for him as an answer.

“That’s my girl.” He praises you as he starts to slip his length inside of you.

You let out a whimper as he starts to fill you perfectly. It’s been way too long. You wrap your legs around his waist and pull him closer so that he falls into you. You both laugh softly. You take Hunter’s hand and snake it down to your clit and then take his length with your hand. He lets out a soft sigh at the feel of your hand around him as he starts to rub your clit with his finger, gently. Rex starts to thrust perfectly into you and you start to feel your orgasm approaching way too quickly.

“So fucking pretty.” Hunter kisses you.

“The prettiest.” Rex agrees.

As they start to praise you more, your orgasm hits you like a train and you cum for both of them, moaning both of their names.

“Good girl.” Hunter whispers.

“Turn over, cyare. Hunter, go sit against the wall.” Rex commands them.

You do as you’re told as Rex pulls out of you so you can turn over on your front and settle in between Hunter’s legs, his cock standing straight at attention.

“Do you want it?” Hunter asks you, watching you practically drool over him.

You nod, desperately. “Yes, sarg.”

Hunter looks up at Rex, perhaps for permission and when he gets it, he guides your head over his length so you can start to take him in your mouth. You’ll never get over how good Hunter tastes. How he fills your mouth and throat perfectly.

Rex pushes into you with a little more force just as you get to the base of Hunter’s cock. You moan loudly around him, instantly sending vibrations throughout his body. Knowing he feels it much more deeply than others do, you look up at him and his eyes are screwed shut and his fists are clenched at his sides. You tap his leg to make sure he’s okay. He nods as he opens his eyes, breathing deeply.

“That feels… too good.” He chuckles. “Keep going. Make her do it again, Rex.”

You start to bob your head up and down on his cock and Rex pushes into you again, roughly and you moan around Hunter again. Hunter’s hand finds your hair and starts to bob you up and down quicker, making you gag and choke on him. Hunter lets out deep moans that you’ve never heard before. This was new to both of you.

As Rex picks up his pace, slamming into your dripping pussy, you’re met with another orgasm, unable to hold it back. Moan so perfectly around Hunter’s cock, he starts to cum down your throat without warning. Normally, he’d apologize but he’s so lost in his pleasure that you can’t help but swallow every last drop he gives you.

He looks godlike above you with a sharp grip in your hair. You know you definitely want to do this again. Thinking about it makes you clench tightly around Rex.

“Oh fu-” Rex starts to let out a string of curses as he starts to fill your pussy up with his cum, gripping your ass so tightly you know you’re bound to be bruised shortly. You can feel both of your messes dripping down your thighs and onto the bed.

“We are definitely not done with you.” Rex warns you, kissing your back before you sit up to rest in Hunter’s arms.

“That better be a promise.” You smirk as Rex leans in to kiss you, long and hard.

As you reach up to kiss Hunter’s jaw, he meets you with his lips instead. You can’t help but smile as you think about the future that you get with the batch and Rex. How could life be this good? There must be a catch, right? Whatever it is, you know it’s worth it.

TAGS: @grievouus @twistedstitcher27 @madameminor @dumfanting @rain-on-kamino @misogirl828 @rexandechosandwich @corona-one @tecker @ladykatakuri @the-sith-in-the-sky-with-diamond @zoeykallus @maulslittlemeowmeow @littlemousedroid @rexxdjarin

#tbb #hunter x you x rex #rex x you x hunter #tcw #the clone wars #the bad batch

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min-pathologica · 29 days

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🍉 rant

wow i’m pissed as fuckkkkkk. i’m sick of people saying the “israel-hamas conflict” (genocide of palestinians) is a ‘complex multifaceted issue!’ and ‘neither side is right!’ like okay. go sprout flowers with your pure mind and adjust your scale of holy fairness why don’t you. cause ‘there should be a balance’ and you ‘don’t take sides’ and you’re ‘so neutral’? just ignore a literal genocide cause you can only look at it from your western lens of religion, american politics, and years of being taught from a covertly islamophobic and white supremacist curriculum? you can’t look at the death tolls and tell me who’s dying and who’s not? you can’t read one history book and tell me who took whose land? you jumped to defend ukraine and ‘do everything you could to help’, but when it comes to palestine it’s a ‘complex issue’ and there’s ‘not much you can do ‘cause they’re across the world’. i heard some classmate say this stuff, thinking she was better for it. do the children being killed not count because they’re middle eastern? do you believe the israeli propaganda of the ‘savage hamas terrorist’ because you only grew up learning about how middle easterns are terrorists? you never questioned it? that bias just stuck, and when those people get brutally mass murdered you turn a blind eye?

is that the issue, or are you just ignorant because israel was your ‘status quo’? you never knew about any conflict that wasn’t america, britain, france some decades ago, so you assumed everything was fine everywhere else so long as no headlines were made? you thought the ‘war’ started october 7th when hamas attacked israel? and that israel was ‘defending itself’ from hamas? when this has been happening for 75 years? you never knew, but when you learn, you think again that this is a ‘complex issue’ somehow.

or do you still think the conflict has anything to do with western politics? that palestine equals hamas, judaism equals zionism, anti-zionism equals antisemitism, etc., really, that anything has much to do with jewish people? no, the problem is with zionism, a problematic political belief, which can exist separately from judaism, a valid religion like any other. zionism being the support of israel as a ‘jewish homeland’, which is occupied palestinian land. a quick skim through history shows this. zionism believes that they need more, so it wants to eliminate palestine and its people. hence, violence. it kind of resembles the ww2 german concept of ‘lebensraum’ (‘living space’). but see how it can be separate from judaism? which means the inverses are separate as well. but in western politics, concepts like these are merged, and once again the mass killings of children is turned into a political conundrum because it’s apparently anti-semitic to want israel to not commit a genocide. even calling their actions a genocide is considered very political for the same reason, when it should be a basic application of the u.n. genocide convention’s definition - “a crime committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, in whole or in part”. the same convention lists the criteria for a genocide as “killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group”. it’s pretty clear that, as stated by several first-party accounts, israel intends to wipe out palestinians. zionism also applies for reasons i described earlier. as for the five criteria - a quick look at any source ever shows israel is killing palestinians, this isn’t disputable. the second criteria, serious bodily or mental harm, can be checked off for the same reason. same with the third. the fourth is trickier, but like. newborn babies are killed, hospital bombings, everyone’s seen a few baby corpses by now. the fifth point can mean different things - it can mean stealing children and forcibly assimilating them, or experimenting on them, which was frequent during ww2. in this case, it would be applied with the child hostages. and the stuff that happens to those hostages. and generally, a lot of children are being killed. israel’s actions can easily be applied to the criteria for a genocide, but for whatever reason it’s “too complicated”. it’s ‘a conflict’. and there’s the point of euphemisms and distant language in media coverage. the thing of ‘minors vs children’, ‘dead vs killed’ that is everywhere on this topic. it’s not that complicated, and staying neutral is just as bad as supporting israel. see ‘first they came’ by martin niemöller, or ‘terrible things’ by eve bunting. see also the ten stages of genocide.

i would elaborate but honestly i’ve had a bad headache the whole time writing this so ahhh. night

#minxiety #tw rant

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