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championashley · 4 months

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Ten, Fourteen, and Fifteen - Romance and Emotional Expression

Ok. I want to talk about something intriguing me for a while. For a long time, I was under the perception that Ten was very romantic and very flirtatious. And I think the reason I had this idea is because out of all of the modern incarnations, he was more often placed in romantic situations. Rose, Madame de Pompadour, Martha had a crush on him, often got flirted with by random people, and even got married to Liz 1. But this perception is ultimately inaccurate because it doesn’t take into account what Ten thinks about these situations: in every single situation there is some level of barrier either naturally there, or one he put up himself.

Despite loving her, The Doctor doesn't share aspects of his life with Rose, like past companions. He balked at saying “I love you” to her on two separate occasions. He cared deeply about her, yet still didn’t feel comfortable sharing all of the heartbreak and pain he’s had to carry.

Having MDP inside his head and hearing River say his name back to him visibly terrified him. Martha was obviously a dud, his proposal to Elizabeth 1 was on suspicion of her being a Zygon (he literally jetted out after marrying her), and the times we do see people flirting with him, he normally either doesn’t react or reacts awkwardly.

"Considering my enemy has such a...handsome shape." "Now, that's one form of magic that's definitely not gonna work on me."

"You should see me in the mornings." "Ok." is visibly stunned at Astrid's implications

This collective amnesia the fandom used to harbor towards this topic is similar to that of the Doctor’s own philosophy about the topic. We see the surface-level attempts that ultimately act as a smokescreen to the truth: that the Doctor’s trauma and PTSD from the Time War prohibit them from being emotionally vulnerable. Donna, who we’ll get to later, nails this on the head: “You talk all the time, but you don’t say anything.” Because to love someone else romantically, even to entertain the idea via flirtation, means accepting the possibility of having someone else seeing you in all of your flattering and unflattering ways. The Doctor wasn’t ready for that yet, still steeped in the guilt of all the things they had to do in the war.

Fast forward thousands of years, 3 regenerations, and things have changed. In an attempt to cope with yet another traumatic event, The Doctor returns to the old face of Ten. But as we see throughout the specials, this attempt to cope (or more accurately avoid their trauma) doesn’t work, because the Doctor is trying to slip back into an identity that they can’t perform anymore. When Fourteen comments on how attractive Isaac Newton is, it surprises him because that action is not something Ten would’ve done. It’s that weird feeling you get when you look at a photograph of yourself when you were younger. The Doctor can’t love someone in the semi-detached way he did with Rose, because Twelve spent 24 years loving River. The Doctor is no longer drowning in the guilt caused by the Time War, a pillar of Ten’s self-perception because they saved it. And in all honesty, The Doctor internally doesn’t even want to do so anymore.

Donna is vital to this contrast between Ten and Fourteen simply down to her relationship with the Doctor: best friends. I made a full explanation about the significance of Donna in my dissertation about The Giggle’s ending here x, but to sum up: Donna is The Doctor’s most important relationship because she truly understands what it means to be The Doctor simply down her ability to empathize and relate to how they feel. However, one aspect of their dynamic that I didn’t go into, and one that has already been pointed out by many people, is that their relationship is inherently non-romantic. Donna and The Doctor are best friends. There’s no possibility of them becoming an item, and this in an oxymoronic way, makes her the perfect companion to cultivate a more romantically open Doctor. Donna acts as a mental safety net for Fourteen, allowing him to feel comfortable openly expressing attraction to other people as the basis of their friendship is based on a deep sense of love and support that isn’t romantic. Fourteen doesn’t feel afraid or scared to express his love because he already has a stable place of love to return to. An idea that Donna correctly points out in The Giggle: “You changed your face. And you found me. Do you know why? [...] To come home.”

This environment of stable love is what led Fourteen to eventually change into Fifteen. But it gets better.

You see, as I was watching Church on Ruby Road, there was something about Fifteen’s entire attitude that felt familiar to me. Specifically the open flirtation with Cherry (a marked contrast from Jackie and Nine). It was only in rewatching Utopia recently that it clicked. it was similar to Jack. See, the way I’ve always read Jack’s style of flirting is in appreciation of beauty as a whole. He flirts with everyone because he sees everyone as beautiful and feels comfortable telling them that. And you know who famously rubbed against that? The Doctor, Nine but also Ten.

The Doctor may have been uncomfortable with Jack’s flirting because he couldn’t possibly imagine being so open with expressing attraction of any kind, due to being so broken and traumatized after the Time War. But now The Doctor has worked through that enough to where they can be more comfortable expressing their emotions and their feelings. This is most perfectly encapsulated with Cherry but also, funnily enough, the moment with the police officer. Fifteen identifies that the officer has a girlfriend, and proceeds to spell out how much the man loves her and how he believes that love will be reciprocated. He makes this complete stranger feel happy and beautiful by reaffirming the love he feels towards his girlfriend. Fifteen wears his two hearts on his sleeve and feels perfectly comfortable making other people feel beautiful in flirtatious and non-flirtatious ways. He is a bonafide romantic in both senses of the word:

1. conductive to or characterized by the expression of love.

2. of, characterized by, or suggestive of an idealized view of reality.

And to wrap all of this up in a neat bow, this wraps all the way back to how each incarnation was initially brought into the world. It’s said in the show that the first relationship a new incarnation has ends up being their most important, the most defining of their existence. Eleven’s was Amy, Twelve’s was Clara.

Ten’s was Rose, in that she was the first person he saw, but also that the reason he existed was to solely save her (Nine taking the Time Vortex out of her with a kiss). Ten was born out of love felt between two people, and as such tied so much of his self-perception to that type of dynamic. Not just in that once Rose was gone, but once he was without any second person in the TARDIS, he started spiraling into madness. Ten existed because of romantic love, but he couldn’t entirely express it due to his trauma, yet without any level of companionship, he deteriorated. A tragic paradox.

Fifteen was born from not only familial/platonic love cultivated by years spent with Donna, Wilf, Mel, Rose, Shaun, and Sylvia, but also love from himself. The Doctor didn’t repeat the (albeit understandable) mistake of taking on an outgrown identity because they finally felt safe enough to make that change. The first face Fifteen saw was Fourteen, The Doctor who looked upon his younger, scared, broken self with glee, empathy, and love. Fifteen’s love knows no restriction, whether that’s self-loathing, or fear of being known by others.

Ten was born from Eros (romantic/sexual love) despite not allowing himself to feel it, Fourteen was supported by Storge (family/friendship love), so Fifteen can embody Agape (love of humanity) sustained by Philautia (self-love).

#doctor who #tenth doctor #fourteenth doctor #fifteenth doctor #donna noble #dw spoilers #dw meta #doctor who meta #meta writing #let this also be my petition for letting fifteen and jack meet somehow #recast barrowman or a comic will do #or make that fanfic ill read it

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oskea93 · 2 years

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Hello! Your writing is amazing❤️

I’d love to put in a request please, ike a first date with jamie bower? Ends with a kiss and maybe smut😈

First Date - JCB x Reader

Warning: Sexual content, cursing

(Requested by Anonymous)

I took a deep breath as the dark SUV pulled up in front of the house.

“You can do this.” I spoke to myself, taking one last look in the full-length mirror. I hadn’t been on a “first date” since freshman year of college – the date ending in complete disaster. I told myself that maybe I wasn’t the dating type. It never seemed to work out and I was tired of wasting my time.

My heels clicked against the concrete walkway as I approached the car. I watched as the driver quickly opened the door, giving me a small greeting as he helped me into the vehicle. This was defiantly a first. I never had a suiter send a car for me, let alone a fancy SUV. Most of the time, I had to drive myself and wait for the guy to show up – which sometimes that wasn’t the case. I guess my friends were tired of me being the only single one in the group. They all had significant others, some even had children. Yet, here was little ol’ me, on my way to being the spinster that imposed on everyone’s dates. I received a text from a random number one day at work, telling me that the sender had received my number from a mutual friend of ours. At first, I ignored it. I wasn’t interested in going on a date, especially with a guy that my friends had picked out. The didn’t exactly have the best track record when it came to dates. He ended up texting me a couple more times throughout the day, finally asking if I wanted him to stop.

His name was Jamie, and he was an actor. I know it's taboo to do but I was curious, and the internet is so handy. He was in some pretty big franchises, even dabbling into the musician roll. He was handsome. His blonde hair and blue eyes being the first things I noticed. I had dated a few guys that were considered actors before, always leaving early due to their extreme egos. When I agreed to go on a date with him, I had already thought of an exit strategy.

The car soon pulled up in front of a small restaurant on the outskirts of town. It looked to be a mom-and-pop type place, only really known to those that were locals. I thanked the driver as he helped me out of the car, directly me to where Jamie would be located. I learned that I was way over dressed for the place, my romper and heels not matching up with the jeans and t-shirts worn by the other patrons. My eyes quickly landed on the man of the hour – his all-black ensemble sticking out from those around him. His blonde hair was pulled back in a tight bun as his shirt showed off the various tattoos on his arms.

“Y/n?” His accent reaching my ears, my internal organs melting in a pile of goo.

“Yes, and you must be Jamie.” I smiled.

“That indeed I am.” His smile bright. “Do you mind if I give you a hug?”

I nodded my head, my heart racing as his arms wrapped around my body. His scent was intoxicating. I was never a fan of dating anyone that smoked but the way the sent mixed in with his cologne drove me close to the cliff. We slowly pulled apart; his smile still present. “Here-“He quickly moved to pull the chair out. “Please, have a seat.”

I followed his lead, thanking him as he walked towards his chair. You could tell he was nervous, but it was a cute nervous. “You look absolutely stunning.” He complemented.

“Oh, thank you.” I gushed. “You look very handsome yourself.”

He made a gesture with is hand, “These old duds-“He laughed. “I wasn’t aware that this was a honky-tonk type of place or else I could have told you that there was a secret dress code.”

I let out a laugh, looking around at all the other people. “It’s okay. Sometimes it’s better not to blend in with everyone else.”

“Indeed.” He smirked.

We spent the next two hours just talking, laughing, and enjoying each other’s company. He talked about his upbringing and how he got into acting. He spoke highly of his parents and his brother, who you could tell he was very fond of. He was an open book, speaking candidly about his battle with addiction and his road to recovery. I found it very honorable of him to speak to a complete stranger about his past struggles. He could have kept everything hidden or lied completely.

When we talked, it was like we had known each other for years. The conversation flowed like a smooth river, no rocks or ridges insight. I was never one to fully open up to someone about my family life but there was something about Jamie that I trusted. The way he looked at you the whole time you spoke, showing that he was invested in what you were saying. He made me feel safe, comfortable.

“Would you like to dance?” The slow country song bringing the other couples onto the floor.

“Sure.” I smiled.

His hand gently held mine as he walked us onto the dance floor, those around us lost in the music as they moved around. Our fingers laced together, bodies flush against one another as we moved to the song. My head rested under his chin as I listened to his heartbeat, my own fluttering with passion. The last time I had danced with someone so intimately was at my senior prom, never really in the mood to do so afterwards. There was just something about Jamie. He possessed something in me that I never felt. I barely knew the guy, but I was smitten.

I lifted my head from his chest, our eyes meeting. “Is it alright if I kiss you?” His voice low.

Without hesitation, I placed my lips on his, our lips moving in a heated synchrony. I had long forgotten about my rule of kissing like this on the first date or having any type of intimacy period. His hands traveled down my hips, resting right above my ass. “You wanna get out of here?” I asked between kisses.

He looked at me, “You sure?”

I nodded my head, “Never been surer about anything else…”

I tiptoed around the room, gathering my things, careful not to wake him as I moved. I was due into the office earlier than normal this morning, not knowing at the time I scheduled myself that I would be hooking up with Jamie the night before. I guess you could say that I could have ended things before they got to this point, but the moment his lips met mine, I was fucking done.

I kept looking towards the darkened partition, worried that the driver could move it down any second. My moans filled the backseat, fingers wrapped in his unkept hair as his tongue caused my demise. “Fuck sake.”

As soon as we entered the car, we couldn’t keep our hands to ourselves. Teeth pulling at skin, leaving marks – our lips swollen from the force. I watched with lust as he slowly unbuttoned my romper, pulling the fabric all the way down, my bare chest on display. My nails dug into the leather seat as his lips trailed down my body, stopping right above the band of my underwear. I wasn’t expecting to have sex tonight, choosing a pair of boy shorts instead of something sexier. His eyes locked with mine, asking for permission before pulling the garment down. With a quick nod, he slowly pulled down the clothing, his lips trailing back up my left leg, my right leg hooking onto his shoulder. With just a flick of the tongue, I was in fucking heaven. I never felt such pleasure in my entire life.

I barely had time to redress by the time the car pulled up to his building. He stuffed my panties into his pants pocket before ushering me out of the vehicle and into the structure. We didn’t even make it his apartment, pressing the emergency stop button on the elevator panel. My bare back slammed against the cool metal, our reflections staring back at me as he drilled into my body. After the first round, he resumed elevator operations, pressing his floor number. From the time the elevator stopped to the time we arrived at his door, I was able to catch my breath and prepare for what was to come (literally). Every inch of his apartment was used – kitchen table, couch, staircase. We finally reached the bedroom, the sex more sensual and not as rushed as before.

Before leaving, I wrote him a little note, thanking him for the wonderful night. I made sure to put it near his phone, knowing he would see it as soon as he woke up. My lips softly touched his cheek, lingering for a moment before pulling away.

The first date that I dreaded the most ended up being the best one of my life.

#jamie campbell bower imagine #jamie bower #jamie campbell bower x reader #jamie campbell bower smut #jamie campbell bower

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hazeellys · 1 year

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I saw a rereading of hoo where Jason only remembered only Nico's name. But I couldn't help but think of the idea of Jason remembering only Nico's appearance, or at least a hint of it. Like some super syrupy shit like the reflection of stars in dark iris, the waves in nico's hair or the curve of his smile...

That would be so nice, because we as readers would also have no idea who this mysterious person that Jason is in love with (even if he doesn't know it yet), but eventually we would find out because the descriptions are getting so close to a character we already like so much

The memory of elegant hands holding a black sword whose blade Jason has almost already felt the cut (not many people can rival Jason in power, besides Jason even remembering the adrenaline of combat does not remember feeling the fear that accompanies a fight

Bros thar spar together (and kiss

Or ordering some very Italian coffee for someone Jason can't even remember

A couple or shit like that and we start thinking the we know this misterios guy (ya bcs Jason think about duds a lot

Jason remembers the relationship at the end of the lost hero or at the beginning of the Mark of Athena 😭but still can't name the face😭. Which is wonderful because in canon they only meet again in the middle/end of the mark of athena

I'm not sure if Piper and Jason mlm would have mlm and flf solidarity or Piper still thinks Jason was in love with Reyna (I'll go second for the ✨️drama✨️

The anguish of their reunion after the jar scene, even better if Jason is still not sure that nico is the mysterious person, but he have that feeling

The cupid scene is bulshit, let's delete it, they find a way to work it out in croatia, still not on the best terms but start spending more time together

Jason still isn't sure of anything because his memories are a MESS the poor, eventually he's starting to fall in love with nico but he continues to thinks about that guy from de past and oh, yeah the girl that he actually dates

blood of olympus, more anguish, Jason tries to talk to Reyna but things are just chaos and she and nico are leaving on the statue's mission

FINALLY the pov of the legends and we managed to get a sense of what happened before the exchange, deep conversations between bbf and nico's vision about the relationship with Jason.

The mission succeeds, they defeated Gaia and it's time for each one to follow their path. Nico decides to go to New Rome with his sisters

I like to think that nico (thinking Jason and Piper are still a couple) would consider the idea of stay with will to get over Jason but he wouldn't let hazel and reyna over a random guy.

In the middle time Jason is finally putting the pieces together and realizing he fell in love with the same person twice

eventually after more angunst nico and Jason finally talk about the elephant in the room and decide to try again. Ignor toa. The end.

#This turned out to be bigger than I imagined and it's a bit of a mess (I don't know if anything makes sense)#but it was something I've had #nico di angelo #percy jackson #jasico #jason grace #pjo #i google translate it bcs i was without patience

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dunnswrld · 2 years

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I don’t know how to make requests but would you do some with Steve-O? They can take any direction, any storyline, I’m just desperate for him and he’s BEAUTIFUL

Dating Steve-o Headcannons!

a/n: here's some Steve-o headcannons for you! :)

prompt: Title!

warnings: Fluff, light smut, Fem!reader, partying

You met Steve-o at a party for sure

He caught your eye when he was doing some dumb party trick.

Probably a shot trick or maybe a backflip

When you told him how sick his random party trick was he got flustered when you complimented him cause he thought you were so pretty

Like why weren't you talking to Bam or Knoxville?!

You two quickly clicked since you both were drunk and had liquid courage

Steve-o even building up the guts to ask you on a date

When you said yes he probably bragged to all the guys

"Dud you won't believe it! That hot girl from the bar said yes to going out with me!"

"What? No way!"

Steve-o freaked out a bit because he didn't realize he didn't really have the money to take you out on a proper date because this was when he first started Jackass and the money wasn't exactly rolling in..

But you didn't mind at all, which made Steve-o only fall for you more

Steve-o ended up taking you out to get ice cream then to the skatepark near a beach where you two just hung out

To this day Steve-o said it's still one of your guys' best dates

The first time Steve-o invited you over to his apartment you were horrified.

Steve-o swears on everything he loves that he cleaned it before you came over

But all the beer cans, dirty clothes, old food, and even bongs (some broken) you couldn't even wrap your head around how on earth this was even clean for him

You two had planned on watching movies all night but that idea was completely thrown out the window

You two cleaned his apartment all night but you two made it fun

You guys probably played music and dancing, ordered pizza, and Steve-o probably chased you with multiple articles of dirty clothing

But the next day when Johnny came over unannounced he was shocked to see Steve-o's apartment actually almost spot less

"Hey Steve- Oh my god! It's clean! The sink hole is really clean!"

But when he saw you sitting on the couch in one of Steve-o's t-shirts and no visible pants he quickly knew what was going on

Johnny was happy that Steve-o was serious about you (unlike his past relationships) because he thought you were a real nice girl

When you met the rest of the guys you clicked well with all of them which is all Steve-o could've asked for

And when Steve-o was on set filming a stunt and you were there he would go all out to try and impress you.

He would always ask if you saw what he did after he finished his stunt

"Yn! Did you see that?"

"Oh no I didn't. Sorry Steve I'll rewatch the footage-"

"No! I'll do it again! Jeff I'm doing it again!"

This made Jeff love having you on set, so much good footage came out of Steve-o when you were there

Steve-o probably isn't big on PDA but he defiantly gives you big kisses on the cheeks and little hugs

But out of public Steve-o loves touching you

His favorite thing is you laying on his chest and he gets to play with your hair

And kisses, no matter where on your body

I feel like Steve-o is protective but not super protective

But if he gets jealous enough he will get violent

It probably had happened at one or two bars where a guy flirts with you and Steve-o has had too many drinks and doesn't use his words and just swings

Chris jumps in for sure

"Chris why the hell did you even jump in?! You made it worse for everyone and we are banned from that bar!"

"Well I saw Steve-o punching and it looked fun."

Steve-o probably apologizes for little things he does because he doesn't want you to be mad with him

It's like his worse fear :(

When you two do fight Steve-o might be intense at first but then once you start crying he gets SO UPSET with himself

Like he is going through the 5 stages of grief over it

Probably will apologize for the next month cause he thinks you hate him

"I'm sorry for being such an asshole a few weeks ago Yn."

"Steve, honey, that was like two months ago I'm over it you don't need to apologize."

I think that if you're feeling insecure one day you better believe Steve-o is praising you so much

"Steve I look so ugly today :("

"What?! Are we looking at the same person you see in the mirror?! You look so good all the time babe!"

He defiantly showers you in compliments 10x more that whole day which makes you feel so much better

"You look so pretty from this angle."

"Your eyes are beautiful."

"How did I get so lucky with such a great girl like you?"

But overall Steve-o treats you like a queen because it's what you deserve

He loves you more than life itself :,)

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discocleric · 2 years

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Thesis: Steve Harrington is a Virgo

🕐 This would put Steve's Birthday at an appropriate place in the timeline.

I feel like I remember production notes or something saying Steve was 17 in Season 1, when he was a Junior at Hawkins High. If this is true, it would make sense for his birthday to be early in the school year, like mid-September.

Also: kids with birthdays early in the school year tend to be more successful in sports and athletics than their peers who have birthdays later in the school year. Sounds to me like Swim Team Captain and Basketball Star Steve Harrington.

♓️ Robin is probably a Pisces, and them being sister signs explains why they are basically (Platonic, with a capital "P") soulmates.

The most canonical birth date we have for Robin is from "Rebel Robin" where she says she's "15 and a half" in early September, 1983. Which would put her birthday in early March.

"Robin's personality in S4 is so different from S3!" That's masking and a mutable water sign for you, babe. My girl is super creative, knows a lot of random information about subjects that have nothing to do with each other, and thinks outside the box. She doesn't do well with social cues, but she does read Steve like a book in her own fantastical, abstract way ("We should combine" "What?").

Also she's the only one Steve opens up to emotionally, while he also brings her down to earth ("Tammy Thompson is a total dud").

This may be the point in the essay where you say "Steve Harrington is not intellectual/analytical/perfectionist enough to be a Virgo!" Let me present evidence about why yes he is.

🔍 Steve is one of the only characters to use reason and attention to detail for almost every decision / problem.

He doesn't argue that he doesn't feel guilty about what happened to Barb or that her parents don't deserve to know, only that they are contractually obligated not to talk about it after they were forced to by very scary people for very good/dangerous reasons.

He always makes sure there is a plan and they stick to it. ("We stay on the bench and wait for the A Team to do their job")

He notices little things other people tend to miss (e.g. the background noise on the Russia tape)

He uses logic whenever he wants to convince someone ('I was swim team captain and a lifeguard, therefore logically I should do the underwater mission', "You know who pauses Fast Times at 53 minutes and 5 seconds?")

Traditionally neat and likes to project a polished image (exactly how many sprays of Farrah Fawcet hairspray??)

Reigning champion of common sense ("Eddie's still a wanted man, we're not gonna go for a hike through the woods.")

Designated Advice Giver / Mom Friend.

Let's talk again about how in-depth he went into analyzing the Vickie thing (the Fast Times tape couldn't have been her boyfriend's doing because he was away at college when she rented it, it doesn't make sense, Robin)

Anyway these are just a few of the examples that led me to believe Steve Harrington is a Virgo.

Thank you for your time.

In my next essay I will discuss why I think Eddie is a-

#stranger things #steve harrington #robin buckley #steddie #do I in astrology?#maybe not #is it one of my favorite lenses for character analysis due to being comprised of distinct and easy to apply personality tropes?#absolutely

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bestpigeon · 2 months

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LUCIFER X ALASTOR

On the vote, Lucifer x Alastor won, so here you go. Please enjoy and feel free to give me any tips or give me so inspo. I wouldn't mind :)

Its about Lucifer and Alastor forced to get along. However they get a little too close. Do you want a part 2??

Warnings: gay shit

Word count: 1642

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- No ones pov -

Both Lucifer and Alastor aren't font of each other. In fact, they're mutual enemies. Alastor always finds a way to make fun of Lucifers height, and Lucifer always states how he's a better father figure to Charlie. Then Alastor will ever be.

Charlie wants them to get close and get along. But unlucky for Charlie, they get too close..

- lucifers' pov -

My daughter was currently giving me and Alastor a therapy session about how we need to get along. I really don't want to, I hate Alastor. He thinks he's better than me and a better father, too. Yeah, right.

"You two just need to get along! Dad, you have to accept that Alastors a great help. And Alastor, stop annoying my dad." Charlie says. I couldn't say no to my sweet girl, so I sighed in frustration before nodding.

"Yeah, anything for you, sweetheart, but don't complain if you don't see Alastor tomorrow." I say. Charlie gives me a death stare but turns her attention to Alastor.

Charlie walks off clearly annoyed by how stubborn me and Alastor are. I don't want to like Alastor. But I don't want to disappoint my daughter again.

I turn to Alastor and cross my arms. "So.." I say awkwardly. I'm not good at this, Charlie knows I tend to just isolate myself from others. So this is not helping that either.

"What do you say, friend, why don't we spend time together? Try to form a bond of sorts?" Alastor says. As much as I hate him, he's right. We need to bond. Otherwise, Charlie will rip my head off. "Okay, fine, for Charlie." I say, making it clear I don't want to bond with Alastor. He's weird.

"Why don't we make a deal, hm? It could make us friends almost instantly.." Alastor whisper in my ear. He'd really think I'd fall for that.

"Yeah yeah, nice try ass hole. It's not going to happen." I say as I cross my arms. He really tried to make a deal with me, the king of hell.

"Let's just.. I don't know walk and talk or something." I say as I start walking away, expecting Alastor to follow, he does luckily.

We walk outside the hotel and just walk around hell. I don't do this much, so people's fees widened when they saw me with the famous radio demon. "So, what are your intentions towards my daughter?" I question as we walk alongside each other.

"I want to help her achieve her dreams. I have no bad intentions, Lucifer." He says. I actually softened up a little when he said that. Charlie's all I have, so I appreciate that slightly. It's not like I'd ever tell him that.

"Good. When I'm not there, make sure you protect her." I say. We were actually somewhat bonding. I would normally make some mean sarcastic comment, but I refrained since this was for Charlie. "Of course, I wouldn't let Charlie get hurt." He says. He's not too bad when you try to get to know him. But I don't want to know him.

- No ones pov -

Alastor and Lucifer walk alongside each other for a while. Mainly talking about Charlie. They both are doing this for Charlie, meaning that they are almost determined to make a connection. Lucifers are actually warming up to Alastor slightly, which is a surprise. Lucifer relaises that Alastor only wants good for Charlie, and he respects him for that.

Alastor, on the other hand, was no different. He still didn't want to get to know Lucifer. He thinks he's a dud, an immature father. But he wouldn't say that.

They soon sit down outside at a table in a restaurant. They don't order anything, and the servers dont question anything since Lucifers the king, and he always gets his way. They talk and talk about random shit for a while. Nothing really interesting. They also decide to get to know each other, too.

- Alastors pov -

Me and Lucifer sat down in a restaurant. They don't do jambalaya here, so I didn't ask for anything. They don't do pancakes either. "So Lucifer, you haven't seem to have.. grown taller the last time I've seen you." I say teasingly as I lean my elbows on the table and lean my head on my palm. He hates it when I tease I'm about his height.

"Oh fuck you Alastor! And for your information, I'm not that short." Lucifer says clearly frustrated at my teasing. I chuckle, and my smile becomes genuine. I love angering the king of hell. For some reason, it just brings me pleasure.

"If you say so, your majesty," i say teasingly once again. Its always fun to play with others like they're a toy. Lucifers' reactions are pleasurable.

- 4 days later, no ones pov -

Alastor and Lucifer have actually gotten quite close in the past few days. They've spent time with each other a lot, and actually are fond of each other now. Which is good. They're surprisingly making progress.

Alastors are getting more touchy, too. He's always been a touchy person, except the fact he doesn't like touch himself. He sneaks in shoulder touched, waist grabbing, hand grabbing and a few other sly ways to get a reaction out of Lucifer.

Lucifer notices this but doesn't do anything to stop it. He doesn't mind. He's actually touch deprived, so he actually enjoys the touch. It's not like Lucifer would ever admit that. They have been quite affectionate to each other, and they've actually become quite good friends, quite quickly too.

Lucifer finds himself going a little red at his touch. Since Lucifer is so short, Alastor bends down and whispers in his ear. They make Lucifer flustered. Alastor enjoys doing this.

Over the past few days, Charlie has noticed how close they've gotten. She told Lucifer that she's proud of him for coming out of his comfort zone and actually socialised with something other than his ducks. Lucifer takes this well. He's thankful Charlie's pushed him to do this since he's actually food friends with Alastor.

It was currently late at night, and Alastor and Lucifer were sat down on the sofa in the lobby of the hotel. They were just having a casual conversation. Alastor was sat quite close to Lucifer, there shoulders touching. Luicfer was just talking about his ducks and how passionate he is about it.

Alastor can't help but think about how attractive Lucifer is. He's been thinking this for a while now. Everyone thinks Alastors an 'ace in the hole', but that's not true. Alastor doesn't even know what that means since he died in the 1900s.

Alastor is a listener, and Lucifer is the opposite. He just talks and talks. Alastor grabbed Lucifers chin and made him look at him before giving Lucifer a little peck on the cheek.

Lucifers eyes widened, and his face went red. Alastkr laughed at this, a smile. He indicated for Lucifer to keep talking.

Lucifer wouldn't admit this? But his heart did flutter when Alastor kissed him. He enjoyed it and didn't mind. He'd never thought he'd treat or think of Alastor this way, but.. he's too long gone now.

While lucifer was speaking, Alastor kissed him again. This was all in his plan to tease Lucifer. Alastkr didn't intend for there to be any feelings behind the kiss, but there clearly was.

Lucifer was just a mess and slowly getting annoyed. So he decided to take it into his own hands. He grabs Alastors collar and pins him to the edge of the sofa, so Lucifer is leaning over him.

"Stop being a fuckin' tease" lucifer says clearly annoyed. Alastor chuckles and also grabs Lucifers collar, pulling him close.

"What you going to do about it, huh? Show me, your majesty. " lucifer told Alastor not to call him that. Lucifer sighed in annoyance before pulling him aggresivly forward. He connects their lips, and they both passionately kiss each other. They kiss for a while, both of them fighting for dominance before Alastor ultimately won.

Charlie then walked through the door.

- lucifers' pov -

Me and Alastor, I have gotten quite close.. I didn't expect this to get this escalated this quickly. But I was hella enjoying it. We were properly getting into the kiss. I was straddled on his lap while making out with Alastor. Until my daughter walked in. I quickly jumped off Alastor and stood up with haste.

"Charlie!- hi! Um..what are you doing here..?" I ask. What a dumb question this is litrally her hotel.

"Dad..this is my hotel? And were you and Alastor-" Charlie wasn't able to finish her sentence before Lucifer ran up to Charlie and grabbed her shoulders.

"Nope! I mean, no. Absolutely not Charlie. There's nothing to worry about!" I say with an awkward smile.

Alastor stood up and walked towards us. He stood beside me. He grabbed my hand and brought it to his face, and kissed it. Like a damn gentlemen. I couldn't help but blush. "Seems like you have two dads now, Charlie. How does that sound?"

My eyes widened, and I turned to Alastor. Charlie almost screemed with excitement before hugging me tightly. I looked down at her, confused.

"Thanks, dad! I've always wanted to dad's!" She says before hugging Alastor and running away, we'll more like skipping. I looked at Alastor. "Really?"

He chuckled at me and smiled he grabbed my hand. "What? You said you're thankful that I protect Charlie. It could hurt to be her father, hm?" I rolled my eyes but smiled.

"Fine, for Charlie." I say as I look away from his eyes with a smile.

Maybe it's not that bad for Charlie to have two dads.. two dads means double the protection.

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Law & Order "Freedom Of Expression" -- Welcome Aboard Reid Scott, The Premiere Episode Itself? An Epic Miss

Spoiler alert, if you haven't seen the 23rd (reboot 3rd) season premiere of Law & Order, do not read anything other than the title if you don't want to be spoiled; otherwise on with the review.

"Freedom of Expression" (writers: Pamela Wechsler (teleplay), Rick Eid, & creator Dick Wolf / directed by: Alexander Hall) leaves a lot to be desired in this 23rd season opener of the Mothership series. The Law & Order franchise's staple since it's inception is taking the stories from current events (AKA episodes being "ripped from the headlines"), however this premiere takes that way too far, even by mother ship standards. I'm going to get into that in a later moment but first, there is some good, or at least it is in my opinion. Click below to read my full review and analysis.

That good is Senior Detective Vincent Reilly, who is portrayed by Reid Scott of Veep fame. It appears that Reilly may have a dark side and just as dark history with NYPD, coming off as literally very trigger happy as early as the opening teaser in the episode. He literally threatened to shoot a suspect who was wielding a knife - which Shaw (Mehcad Brooks) managed to disarm from the suspect, Reilly not being a fan of the way Shaw handled it - and Reilly subsequently shoots and kills another suspect near the episode's end. This is something I'm sure the series will explore later on in the upcoming fourth episode of the season, but this puts an asterisk next to this detective's name.

Meanwhile the series' previous asterisk, Detective Frank Cosgrove (Jeffrey Donovan, who departed during the start of the season's production in November due to creative differences) got a brief mention in the worst way to describe a characters exit. "He got jammed up for being too honest," and it "being a bad time to have an opinion," which is the exchange Shaw and Reilly had about Cosgrove in the squad room. Really? Seriously? THIS is how you have the characters discuss another one's exit? And opinion about what? Knowing Frank Cosgrove, it probably an opinion that was personal to him that should have no reflection on how he should have performed his duty as a police officer. Meanwhile, breaking the 4th wall here, if you will, this could be a hint to how Jeffrey Donovan's random exit came to be... he may have wanted a say on where he wanted something to go and was told that he could go. Honestly, if there wasn't going to be a serious effort in trying to give this character a decent/proper exit, I would have rather they cut it out of the episode like they did with Anthony Anderson's exit back in season 22.

As for Reid Scott? He's meshing good on screen with Mehcad Brooks. They have a pretty chill chemistry going here. The best thing? Scott isn't having to force a Bronx accent like Jeffrey Donovan did for Cosgrove. It feels great to see his lines come out with his natural tone. The entire L&O reboot cast is top notch, the problems continue to lie with the storylines themselves... something that clearly people at Wolf Entertainment and NBC don't seem to care about with this reboot.

Now that is the bad of this entire premiere episode. It's a dud of a story in it's entirety. It's filled with political talking points, mixed with current events that are occurring both domestically and foreign. I felt more like I was watching an op-ed on Nightly News as opposed to a basic Law & Order episode. The cherry of the episode is the still ongoing Israel/Hamas/Palestine conflict that is the base of the entire episode. You can still be against what's going on in the Middle East while championing for Israel, Palestine, and/or Judaism. Innocent life is innocent life, period. But that is not what this discussion is about, this is about the Law & Order episode that reinforces divisiveness. Dixon (Camryn Manheim) yelling about "Israel's war crimes," Price (Hugh Dancy) insisting Maroun (Odelya Halevi) was/should be affected by what's going on overseas and her not wanting to weigh in on it but instead on the defendant being the face of the Left. And to top is all off, "Hang 'Em High" Jack McCoy (Sam Waterston) ], who is barely showcased, is still pushing to make deals on high profile cases? It just all felt off and I can't put it into words.

In summary, I basically give the mothership a barely solid D. It's the 23rd season's premiere, 3rd of the reboot. Rarely do shows get opportunities such as this! This opener should have been an opportunity to showcase our current characters, potentially bringing in an old one and of course our newest arrival in Reilly (Scott). It needed to be about more than just a "compelling case" (that is not very compelling at all). Ripping the headlines is one thing but this episode didn't do any kind of deviation, it was direct. Other than Reilly's two moments with suspects, where was the suspense? The energy? The continuity from the past? The guest stars? The magic?

This reboot is stuck in a boring weekly repetitive creative cycle that revolves around telling the stories with political undertones and stereotypes that the original series was never in, even when it was in the rocky 16-18th seasons when the writing staff was mostly Los Angeles based. I would say I hope the writers/executive producers make a change, but that's basically a waste, as they have yet to do it since this reboot started. And the fact that creator Dick Wolf co-wrote this piece of merda and let it go to air? Just says how he feels about the reboot too.

This episode is not Law & Order... I don't know what show it is. CNN Tonight? Hannity? Newsmax Live? Do better Law & Order. Do better. Be better.

See also: The Daily Beast - It Might Be Time for the ‘Law & Order’ Franchise to Retire

#law & order #dick wolf #hugh dancy #mehcad brooks #reid scott #camryn manheim #sam waterston #rick eid #odelya halevi #nbc

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(thoughts about my previous reblog bc it ended up being too long for tags and I was too shy to make this tangentially-related ramble a reply)

A big part of the issue with criticism of the Modern Backrooms, at least that I've seen, is that there's not often really direct criticism of what's wrong with the newer content beyond just saying "Trying to add more to the concept of the Backrooms makes it less scary" a million different times and ways (I've seen one post talking about a specific article about a sentient rubber duck that really sucked, but that was really it in terms of criticizing specific things about it). It gets to a point where it just feels very "NEW THING BAD" circlejerk-y forever and ever and ever.

I say this as someone who's not even a huge fan of the Backrooms, I've seen some of the found-footage videos and I have some vague ideas about levels and monsters and stuff through seeing people retweet fanart, and millions of posts about how the concept has been ruined.

The friend I reblogged it from made a good point in their tags about how the people complaining about how modern Backrooms sucks could 100% just make their own content that's more to their liking, but they'd rather complain that it's "not good anymore" in vague ways that both don't act as constructive criticism and don't produce better content directly.

The thing is like, if you hate EVERYTHING that's not the original “yellow room with the vague implication of a monster” concept, you can just go back and experience that? Nothing's stopping you from seeing the original 4chan post and the first few found-footage videos that kept strictly to the premise of the original - and if you want more, it quickly runs into the problem of "there's only so much you can do with a giant yellow room and only the vaguest insinuation that there might be a monster in there".

The whole concept of what made the original Backrooms scary, both never getting to see what (if anything) is actually there with you, and being stuck in an endlessly-repeating environment with nothing beyond moldy carpet and fluorescent lights for always and always and always, also makes it extremely difficult to put any interesting spin on without having to add something new.

There's only so many ways you can have a random person glitch into the backrooms, walk around for a while, run away from something, and then either die or glitch back into reality, before it becomes completely dull and uninteresting.

Another thing about the comparison to SCP is that, since a lot of people only came into the fandom after Containment Breach or another fangame, they aren't familiar with the very early history of SCP - while a lot of the early SCPs have some damn good horror, it wasn't ALWAYS like that. Tons and tons of very early SCP content was culled from the wiki for being terrible - self-insert OCs, things meant to pander to the artist's fetish, there was an honest to god "toilet that eats your butt if you sit on it" for a while (and not the Butt Ghost joke SCP, but an actual main-list one that was genuinely meant to be creepy/interesting, not funny).

SCP has some extremely good content - but only because it's had years upon years of bad articles either being entirely scrapped, or rewritten by a completely different author or the original author once they've had time to better hone their skills. And even then there are still some duds that are boring/uninteresting/terrible (Homestuck-obsessed Tumblr user alien satellite cannon that crytypes about how it's a horrible person, anyone? Or pretty much anything I've read that involves Gamers Against Weed/Are We Cool Yet)

The point I'm trying to make is, of course there's some bad content in the modern Backrooms fandom. It's still extremely new, it's popular with mostly kids and teens who are probably still learning how to write, and the concept as a whole is still trying to find out what it wants to be.

I'm just trying to say - if you love the concept of the Backrooms, try to be a positive influence over it instead of instantly going "THIS IS ALL GARBAGE AND CHILDREN RUINED THE CONCEPT THE MOMENT THEY TRIED TO MAKE IT ANYTHING BUT MOLDY CARPET AND YELLOW WALLPAPER, SO STOP HAVING FUN!!!".

Give polite constructive criticism, find things that work (or could work with a little tweaking) and point to them as examples of what you think the Backrooms should be, even write your own content if you think you can do better.

It's not like there's some sort of monolithic Backrooms Foundation that hands down the articles from on high and you never get to question them, suggest improvements, or add to them ever. It's just a loosely-connected web of fans trying to flex their creative muscles and have fun.

I don't know, I don't want to be all "modern internet culture bad", but with the state of things, I wonder if popular older creepypastas like Slenderman could've ever taken off in this kind of climate. I can't help but think that if something like that had started today we'd get millions of angry people on Reddit saying that Slenderman was only good when he was a completely-unexplained creepy guy who showed up in the background of photographs.

I can very easily see an alternate timeline where Marble Hornets was immediately written off as kiddy garbage that doesn't respect the lore and ruined Slenderman because he doesn't act right - "Why isn't he leaving organs in plastic bags? He's only supposed to show up as faceless on cameras and he looks like a normal person to anyone who sees him with their own eyes! WHY AREN'T YOU ADDRESSING HOW HE'S A GERMAN FAIRY???"

I don't really have a concrete resolution to this post or a point at the end of it, idk. Just my two cents on the issue.

#my ramblings

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omg we both have star wars ocs! Isn't that crazy!

...I kinda wanna hear about them if you like sharing haha

I love talking about my OCs! And if you want to talk about yours 👀

Vinir is my favourite by far. He's a sneaky, cranky bitch through and through and I love that for him tbh. Professional killer and mercenary who loves nothing and no one except for his *counts on fingers* five droids. There's a reason I call him Droid Dad. He's aroallo (and if people still do face claims/refs for OCs, his is Sean Baek, specifically in his role as Fancy Lee from Killjoys).

He gets sent to spy on and potentially assassinate a Mand'alor (EXTREMELY long story here, but tldr adult Boba brought Jango back from the dead and Jango's having a grand time fucking with everyone). Problem being that he doesn't yet have orders to kill Jango when someone else tries... so Vinir's gotta save Jango's life to protect his payday.

He gets assigned as Jango's bodyguard after that, because Boba insists Jango needs some protection in light of a very-nearly-successful kill job. Jango's view on this is "I will accept a bodyguard to prove that I am better than him and don't need him."

And then Vinir can keep pace with him and the two of them form a begrudging alliance that develops into a qpr. There is a shitload of drama down the line when Jango finds out why Vinir showed up in the first place, but they settle things eventually. There's stabbing involved but that's practically a love language for these guys. Truly nobody else could ever fucking deal with either of them.

Racer is a close second, though. She's a clone trooper, part of an ARC squad to be specific. She's their demolitions expert and she is wildly irresponsible with this. (If her responsible older brother/squad leader keeps finding dud grenades in his bunk, that's totally not her.) They have a broken microwave that she keeps microwaving random things in to see what happens (they explode, except the space Furby, which starts sparking and gets them all in trouble).

She's a chaos gremlin to the max and loves horrible jokes and puns. If she can find a way to cause trouble and bother her brothers, she will take it and add some glitter. She loves all things fast, and is a part-time underground speeder racer, hence her name. She has plans to make a career of it someday and could probably be pretty good at it!

There is more complicated AU nonsense at play here, like there is for basically all my Star Wars characters. TLDR is her squad, the Aces, get time travelled into the future where they can do whatever they like without the war going on.

Racer promptly starts flirting with a pirate captain, and gets not only a cool new job as a pirate but *counts on fingers again* three cool girlfriends. She heard 'be gay do crimes' and took it to the absolute max. If you know The Orion Experience, that's her vibes, especially All Dolled Up and The Cult of Dionysus. I support her in all she does.

And Cam my beloved <3 He's dating one of Racer's brothers, Ember, and she is constantly at risk of getting Bonked for playing the grindr sound effect whenever she sees them holding hands. And the one time she played the wedding march.

He's a marine biologist with a particular love for the stingray tank. He and Ember have a meetcute where Ember literally trips and falls into Cam, and Cam catches him and takes him to lunch. Ember spends the entire lunch listening to Cam infodump about coral and Cam is ready to propose right then and there.

(Meanwhile there's some minor drama going on in the background, because Ember suddenly disappeared during a family outing and they're all mildly concerned he's been kidnapped or fell into the shark tank or got eaten by a kraken or something. Nope, all he fell into were those big brown eyes.)

His secondary love, besides the ray tank, is the shark tank. Ember's always a little nervous to see him diving in there, but Cam has three different sharks who consider him a friend, and he loves all of them in return. They've never tried biting him and he's good at what he does, so he's pretty confident and calm about swimming with the sharks.

He also knows sign language, which means he can talk with the mermaid performers when they're in the tanks. He's called the mermaid whisperer, and every so often he gets a letter from a kid on a field trip who saw him talking with them, asking how the mermaids are doing. He keeps every letter framed in his office.

#i can ramble about the weird little bitches in my brain forever #there are so many of them but i do have favourites #starry seas speaks

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Scarlet Blaze Liveblog, Chapter 5

It got rid of my extra spaces when I hit post :( Why do we live? Just to suffer?

SPEAKING OF SUFFERING! Holy shit the new Tumblr beta editor REALLY fucking hates formatting. Wouldn’t let me make any of these sections into bullet points. I have been fighting with this thing for weeks now (it also really hates letting me remove large sections of text as well). Had to turn it off to get any semblance of formatting so I hope it looks alright when I hit post

Explore dialogue

Now we have an NPC saying that there SHOULDN’T be fog this time of year. Make up your mind, game.

Linhardt: Aw my lazy days are over :(

Shez: You know some of us never had lazy days

Linhardt: Yeah but weren’t you just doing that because you wanted to?

Uh, no it’s called Shez is a commoner and had to literally become a mercenary to SURVIVE. They mention that numerous times. In another support they talk about how they were happy to eat rats if it meant their belly got filled. jfc, Lin, the privilege just oozing from you…

There’s a random mage lady who asks you if anyone on the opposing side uses dark magic. Agarthan lady, perhaps?

Ferdie stands like someone wearing one of those babydoll skirts from Style Savvy and I love him

Interesting that they explicitly state that Hrym was wiped out for resisting Ionus’s power centralization here. IIRC that was a lot less explicit in 3H

We also have explicit trade with Dagda, Albinea, Brigid and others. So I guess that’s another point against “Rhea doesn’t let Fodlan have contact with outside nations”

Why does Randolph look like he has a tiny blanket on his shoulder lmao

Wait why was Constance hostile to living in the Empire again?

Oof. Between Dimitri and Edelgard, Dimitri definitely got the superior Hapi nickname

Random Tidbits

Lmao. Hubert being like “I don’t even have to try not to kill you” during training and Ferdie being like “uh. Thanks. I think.”

I really wish the game would tell me when a character maxes out support points even if the letter is locked. It’s really annoying building support and then just realizing it’s not going up anymore after you’ve wasted so many training points and whatnot

I’ve decided that I’ve stopped caring if units like the food I’m cooking. Y’all will eat it and y’all will like it. I’m done coddling your asses.

I don’t care if you’re bad at the tasks either. Caspar, Linhardt, I’m sure you’ll do fine at running this street stall.

HUBERT WANTS TO GO ON AN EXPEDITION!!! OH BOY!!!

Hol up lemme drop everything

I hope he takes me somewhere nice to kill me

Good thing I unlocked all these new excursion spots. Gonna drive me crazy tho since I’m pretty sure there’s different dialogue in each one

“The shorter a leash, the better”. Kinky

Let’s go on a nice waterfront murder date

“Once, two souls took a boat out on the water… Only one returned. A fine story, yes?” oh my god he’s actually going to kill me

I have a feeling he wanted me to propose a competition… No wonder Ferdie is his type

“Ask thoughts on their employer” that’s a new one, I don’t remember that question ever popping up before

Unfortunately I don’t get to stare at his face. I was really looking forward to more murder dialogue.

Support Conversations

Shez/Caspar C - Caspar has daddy issues lmao of course he does they all do.

Sorry, having daddy issues won’t save your appeal from that hairstyle

I was about to comment on Caspar being like “I’ve got to build my way up from the bottom” but then he actually addressed what I was going to say by acknowledging that he at least has his name to lean on. So good for you Caspar, I see you retain some semblance of self awareness in this game so far.

Shez/Linhardt C - Shez: Just so we’re clear, whatever Hubert said you were gonna do to me, I’m not into it.

Shez is not kinky confirmed :(

How is Linhardt NOT interested in Shez’s power. She literally fucking shapeshifts and he’s just like “eh, whatever it’s just a sword.”

Like. What. C’mon dude.

Shez/Monica C - Ok Monica I hate you

MANUELA/JERITZA B LET’S GO - GIRL STOP BEING SO THIRSTY

Oh my god do not make Jeritza smile

Manuela: Don’t you want to talk to people?

Jeritza: No.

Stop making Jeritza relatable to me

Lmao Manuela realizing she’s still single because everyone views her as a teacher

Come to me Manuela! I have a teacher kink! We can do both!

Caspar/Dorothea C - Caspar: I’m reading

Dorothea: You can read???

This support is weird. Caspar is like “I wanna study” and Dorothea is like “You need to study!!!! Here let me lecture you on how you need to study!!!!!!!!!!” Caspar: “WOW I NEED TO STUDY!!!!”

Like he was already doing it Dorothea, geez.

Shez/Manuela C - Lmao we stan a messy queen

Y’know Manuela we can smash. I’ll never leave you

Shez/Hubert B - Uh wow weirdly abrupt start. Am I supposed to take this as happening directly after the last one??? They’re standing in the same place and Shez starts like Hubert just said something

Like. Really weird way to do this

“Sever ties” so that’s what the kids are calling it these days

Shez: You have emotions

Hubert: *confused Hubert noises*

Lmao he just had to insult my intelligence there at the end. Never change, Hubert

I know this is a lot of supports but since I’m playing on NG+ I have like 8 activity and 8 training points so it’s stupid easy to get supports. I didn’t even talk about all of them. I imagine future posts will have less as I start hitting time gated supports

Side Battle/Story Content

I’ve been putting this off by playing free mode battles with the renown unlockable characters lol.

Omg Maximum ambulation. Ferdie runs so fast. He’s got the zoomies!!!

Oh no Hubert wants to kill talk to me

Hubert: It’s cute how u thought I would let you live, tho

HI DADDY RODRIGUE

Man first Seteth now Rodrigue? This route really hates DILFs I guess

I mean I’m not surprised. Look at Count Bergliez

RIP Gustave is here too. Guess they’re making him fight in this route

Main Battle/Story Content

Everyone: *whispering*

Ferdie: WHY ARE WE WHISPERING!!!!!!!???? :D

Ferdie you lovable himbo

Ok do we really need three rounds of “why is everyone so quiet” so everyone can get their dialogue about being quiet in?

I wonder if this conversation changes with permadeath. It’s kind of written like it

Maybe I should do an “everyone dies” run in the future just to see how the story changes lol

INGRID!!!!!! MY DARLING!!!!!

Lmao I don’t even like Ingrid that much but I already miss my Lions :(

Oh I guess Jeralt is in the Kingdom now

I mean they’re trying to do the whole “oooooh mystery who could it beeeeeeeee” thing but I know Ling Tong when I hear him

Oh looks like Ashe is a traitor. Can’t say I’m surprised

Honestly fuck Lonato. If you have a problem with sexy dragon lady you have a problem with me

I haven’t talked about this but honestly the colors are fucking me. It’s a good thing Warriors games don’t have friendly fire because I keep running right past all the soldiers in blue to try and kill all the soldiers in red, because like. Fire Emblem do be like that normally

I keep finding big purple circles on the ground. What is that. What does it do. Who is doing that

I actually feel like a bad person for recruiting Ashe here. I mean Lonato is literally willing to kill the poor kid

Edelgard: Family should not fight family

Also Edelgard: Unless it’s Dimitri fuck that guy lmao

Also Also Edelgard: Also Rhea, since she probably banged my great great great great grandaddy a thousand years ago (and maybe is my great great great great grandmommy). Fuck her too

“I could not bear to lose another son” Ok then maybe don’t try killing him, Lonato???? What the fuck?

If saving you weren’t a requirement you would be so dead right now, Lonato

Byleth was kind of a pushover on NG+ lmao

… I’m sorry does Monica have jiggle physics

Ok her boobs don’t have jiggle physics, but her bow does. Which makes it look like she has boob jiggle physics. Why.

JFC Bergliez is so ugly

JUDITH MY BELOVED

She was surprisingly absent from AG I’m glad I get to see more of her

I’m sorry, Bergliez got all the way to Deirdriu????? When???????? When did we do that?????

Damn we killing daddy Gloucester, aren’t we? This is dead Fire Emblem dad dialogue

Oh even this guy gets a first name. Not the moms tho. Fuck the moms I guess :/

I’m surprised Fleche got a name and wasn’t just “Randolph’s sister” for the entirety of 3H

Kinda awkward to hear Petra complimenting the dude that murdered her dad

“The head of House Ordelia is one of the Five Great Lords” am I misremembering? I thought Lysithea’s family gave up their seat at the roundtable to Marriane’s uncle because they knew their house was in decline thanks to Lysithea’s condition

I went looking through her supports to see if I was right and apparently Lysithea/Hilda support confirms homeopathy of all things exists in 3H. No wonder these people still die of the plague.

Ok I couldn’t find anything and I don’t care enough to keep looking, but I got my eye on you, continuity guy

“Consider why we chose not to dismantle House Aegir” goddamn Hubert is just going straight for Ferdie’s throat

Ferdie: Haha I’m in danger

Also RIP Ferdie basically blatantly admitting that he’s only still around because he’s willing to “toe the line” regardless of how he feels about anything. Why am I supposed to be rooting for the Empire again?

I don’t get why people are like “We went to school with these people for 30 seconds maybe they’ll listen to reason” like? Why would they, exactly?

Like it was stupid in 3H but at least they had a whole year in 3H. In this game they were all literally at the academy for like a month

Recruiting Ashe also feels weirdly OOC for him after he spent the entirety of AG’s prologue and parts of part 1 talking about how Lonato would want him to do what he thinks is right and how he believes Lonato has gone off the rails, and while it hurts him, he believes it’s right to stop Lonato. Here he’s just like “Ok fine I don’t want to kill him I guess I’ll join you. Fuck my dreams of being a knight.”

I guess they had to make someone from the BL recruitable and everyone else makes even less sense than Ashe. I mean can you imagine if they let you recruit Ingrid here? Lmao

Anyways wrapping up

Spoilers for recruitables in this route here here.

Can I just say, the spread of recruitable characters, from a gameplay perspective, is kind of weird?

On SB, of the characters you get automatically, half of them are mages (5 of your starting 11 are mages).

Not including the wolves or other characters, you get Ashe, Ignatz, Lorenz, Raphael, Lysithea, Marianne, Mercedes, and Leonie (under special circumstances) in addition to the SB characters. But like. That means on SB you get two axes (Caspar, Edelgard), two swordies (Shez, Petra), three mounted lances (Ferdie, Jeritza, Lorenz), one brawler (Raphael), four archers (Bernie, Ashe, Ignatz, Leonie), and eight magic units (Hubert, Dorothea, Linhardt, Monica, Manuela, Lysithea, Marianne, Mercedes). If you include the wolves you get ten. Ten magic users. What do I need ten of these guys for? What is this game’s obsession with mages (the Lions also had way too many, though it wasn’t this egregious and at least Annette can be a serviceable axe unit once she gets Crusher)?

Made even worse because there’s only two magic master classes, and only one magic master class per gender which means you’re going to be ending up with two dark bishops and eight gremories. You can’t equip tomes as a dark knight or holy knight either, you have to use the lance, which is not optimal for many of these mage units. No idea why they decided to take out Valkyrie and Dark Flier if they were going to create so many damn mages. Basically every other weapon type (aside from archers and brawlers) gets at least two different options for master classes, and there aren’t nearly as many archers and brawlers as there are mages.

I guess I’ll use Constance and Hapi more on GD, since at least they only come with Marianne and Lysithea to start

#SB Liveblogging #Scarlet Blaze Spoilers #FEW3H

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Essential Avengers: West Coast Avengers #33: Tales to ASTONISH Part 1: The MAN in the ANT HILL!

June, 1988

APE ATTACK!

WONDER MAN to the rescue!

Comic book guy with a mullet beating up apes. What more can you want from your comic books?

Plot? Characters?

DOES NOTHING SATISFY YOU?

No but this is an interesting one. Because it’s not actually Wonder Man focused. Like the callback title Tales to ASTONISH Part 1: The MAN in the ANT HILL! suggests, this is a Hank Pym story!

Once again, a lying cover. Although mostly in who it implies the focus is on.

Last time on West Coast Avengers: Mockingbird planned a vacation to the Grand Canyon as cover so she can beat the shit out of Hamilton Slade. Moon Knight covered for her absence by claiming she was stuck under a rock and he saved her. In gratitude, Hawkeye decides Moon Knight’s probationary period is over!

Yay for Moon Knight!

Also, Wasp is hanging out with the team. She claims its because she was worried about how the team was holding up after Iron Man went rogue on his Armor Wars thing.

So the issue picks up with Moon Knight being named a full Avenger with all rights and parking privileges!

Also featuring Tigra mooning over Moon Knight, ha!

Each of the West Coast Avengers offers their two cents on Moon Knight.

Hawkeye reiterates from last issue that Moon Knight rescuing Bobbi from supposedly being trapped under a rock was the final proof he needed.

Tigra... Tigra just likes him. She doesn’t say for make out reasons but she says the rest of the team knows she likes him.

Wonder Man says he had doubts about Moon Knight because of his time as a mercenary but has decided anybody can become a killer if they go too far. “The thing is, we don’t!” Boy is Wonder Man going to become disappointed in the modern age of comics.

Mockingbird just says she’s in favor while thinking to herself that Moon Knight knows her secret about Phantom Rider. Implying that she’s worried he’ll spill the beans if she doesn’t approve him becoming an Avenger!

Dammit, Bobbi!

And Moon Knight adds his own two cents onto Moon Knight, saying that he’ll be a good replacement for Iron Man. A superhero team doesn’t need two strong guys! And he doesn’t say it but they have Hank Pym for science stuff. And Moon Knight adds something the team didn’t have before, a guy with the foot in the mystic and magical nonsense.

Wasp does not have a vote in these proceedings since she’s a special guest star but she says its good to see the Avengers tradition expanding to yet another person.

And Khonshu (in Moon Knight’s head) says something cryptic about how Marc Spector is as ephemeral as Steven Grant or Jack Lockley so “I am here now!”

Does that mean Khonshu is driving Moon Knight until otherwise stated? God only knows.

Him god, him only knows.

The only voice missing is Dr Pym who busts in to make this issue about him.

Before I let him get into it though.

The red jumpsuit is fine. It’s got a lot of pockets for him to keep his bat utility belt esque amount of random tools and gadgets. I kind of miss him dressing like Doctor Who or in random scientist duds, like the scientist equivalent of a trenchcoat hero.

Ah well.

Hank Pym manically explains that he was taking some Hank Pym time, doing some relaxing fun time activities, i.e. hacking a Soviet security network for shits and giggles.

But when he was wrapping up his fun hacking, he noticed a message on the network discussing what to do with Maria Trovaya!

DUN DUN DUNNNN!

The entire West Coast Avengers team: blank expressions

Wasp: “Oh, my god!”

See, Wasp knows her Hank lore.

And it has been decades and Hank doesn’t really talk a lot about his pre-Avengers days.

Maria Trovaya was Hank’s first wife. His supposedly dead first wife. His supposedly dead first wife who didn’t make good life choices.

The comic does a recap so conveniently, I can recap the recap for you.

Hank Pym was an antisocial researcher who spent all his time trying to think of ways to shrink stuff when he met Maria and her father, who was a Hungarian geneticist who had to flee the Eastern bloc because of a bad case of open-mindedness.

Maria was Hank’s manic pixie dreamgirl. Except not very manic pixie but same general idea. She pulled him out of her shell, similar to what Wasp would try to do later to mixed results.

(Later it would turn out that Hank and Maria had a daughter who is named Nadia and she is a delight. Jan basically adopts her. What with Hank being dead by the time Nadia shows up. Dead and stapled to Ultron.)

ANYWAY.

Hank and Maria got married. And bad life choice maker Maria Trovaya decides that they should honeymoon in Hungary despite her being a refugee from that country who had been a political prisoner once upon a time.

Her thought is that they won’t know its her if she goes by Mrs. Henry Pym.

She was wrong.

I don’t want to kick a dead girl while she’s down but she made the wrong call on that one.

Hank tries to get her back through legal channels at the American embassy. The embassy’s inquiries eventually turned up her body. And a note that says “this is what happens to those who attempt to escape the People’s Republic -- !”

Just to pile onto poor Hank, Maria’s dad is also dead. His lab blew up with him in it. Sabotage is suspected. Nothing is ever proven, it seems.

Weird. With a lot of other characters, that kind of thing would be a loose end that someone would pick up on in the decades of publishing Marvel has had. But Hank’s pre-Ant-Man life doesn’t come up a lot.

Anyway, as Hank is wont to do, he goes on a bit of a tear.

Of course, he doesn’t even know where to look for his wife’s abductors and he’s no Liam Neeson with a particular set of skills. So it looks like he mostly just goes and beats up a crowd of policemen.

Good try though!

I guess everyone is trying to avoid a diplomatic incident because Hank is released from custody to the embassy on the promise that he’ll leave the country.

So he goes back to America but he’s not ready to quit trying to avenge his wife. Based on her saying “Go to the ants, thou sluggard!” to him, Hank decides to study ants. Because that will help him find where criminals prowl!

I am reminded back in the early Avengers days, Hank was able to communicate with all ants in the entire world to try to find a missing scientist.

It’s a little sad that with that kind of capability, he never did track down the killers.

He does say that he used every resource he could as an Avenger. Sources with the government, with NATO, with SHIELD and only ever turned up ‘yup your wife is definitely dead, stop asking.’

(Which doesn’t seem like the question he should have been asking anyway? It sounded like his wife’s body was already found. Why are you looking into whether she’s alive?)

So now he’s very twisted up wondering why information is popping up now when he’s put the bad behind him and reinvented himself.

Belatedly, he also apologizes for showing up to Moon Knight’s induction and making it all about himself.

Moon Knight: “No, Dr. Pym! Marc Spector was -- I was -- a mercenary! I have spent much of my life fighting governments! What better way to become an Avenger than battling tyranny to save your wife?!”

You’re a heck of a guy, Moon Knight! ... Or Khonshu? You dammit this is confusing.

Anyway, Moon Knight is the 24th Avenger!

How highly specific.

So that’s Iron Man, Thor, Wasp, Ant-Man Giant-Man Goliath Yellowjacket Dr Pym, Hulk, Captain America, Hawkeye, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Black Panther, the Vision, Black Knight, Swordsman, Mantis, Beast, Moondragon, Hellcat, Wonder Man, Ms Marvel the Carol Danvers version, Falcon, Tigra, She-Hulk, Captain Marvel the Monica Rambeau version, Starfox, Namor McKenzie, Dr Druid, Mockingbird, and now Moon Knight?

That’s 28 people. That’s too many people. Which four don’t count?

Hulk, Mantis, Moondragon, and Hellcat, maybe? Moondragon and Hellcat were only provisional members before Moondragon convinced them both to quit. Hulk had his founders status given to Captain America. And I think Mantis’ membership was honorary and awarded just as she was going on her space tree honeymoon.

And not counting any retroactive continuity like Avenger X.

I think its bunk not to count those four people who maybe don’t count. But whatever. What does this narrator know.

After all the congratulations are done being said, the West Coast Avengers take off in a QUINJET, Hawkeye declaring that this settles the debate whether the West Coast Avengers are supposed to stay on the West Coast.

A debate that nobody but you was having, Clint.

As they go, Mockingbird thinks to herself that she’s glad to get away from Phantom Rider for a while, just for Moon Knight to say to her that he’d bet she’s glad to get away from Phantom Rider for a while.

The look she shoots him. Perfection.

She has no idea what his game is.

And she doesn’t have long to worry over it because Tigra pulls Moon Knight aside to probably make out with.

Since Hank got to have a big flashback, Wasp decides she’ll have one too. A flashback to their shared history! Ha, take that, nerd!

Just like with Maria, Jan was introduced to Hank by her father who was a scientist. Because Hank has one and only one way to meet women.

Dr. van Dyne wanted Hank’s help with a gamma-ray beam meant to communicate with other planets.

Didn’t the Hulk teach people that gamma radiation wasn’t a toy?

Anyway, because Hank wasn’t an omnidisciplinary scientist at this point, he says he can’t help because gamma-ray beams aren’t his field.

But shortly after, Dr. van Dyne is MURDERED and his research destroyed and its Hank who Janet calls in a panic.

Hank being Hank, goes right to 11. He shows up, reveals that he’s Ant-Man, and asks if she wants to be his superhero partner.

This was before decompressed storytelling. Every story began and ended in like twenty pages.

Ant-Man: “Do you see those synthetic cells in the microscopic field? I can implant them below your skin! It will leave no scar, but when you’re reduced in size you’ll grow wings and tiny antennae -- like a human wasp!”

Janet van Dyne: “It sounds so wonderful -- !”

...

On their very second meeting ever, Hank Pym proposes to do mad science to her to give her superpowers and Janet is like hot damn sign me up.

She was made for the superhero life, I swear.

Also, she put together her first (of many) Wasp outfits from a pile of alternate Ant-Man outfits Hank had prepared.

They go, they fight an alien monster, they murder said alien monster, and Janet exuberantly declares she loves Hank.

Hank tells her he never wants to love again because of the tragic loss of his first wife but Jan is sure he’s just pretending not to feel anything for her.

And thus starts an ultimately unhealthy relationship!

Janet’s flashback narration calls the whole thing a fairy tale, her “wildest dreams, all rolled into one” but after she comes out of the flashback she wryly reflects it was a fairy tale after all.

Wasp: “It really was a fairy tale, wasn’t it? Couldn’t last after we woke up! But if there’s even one chance in a hundred that he can get Maria back, I’ll be cheering him on the loudest...!”

Aw.

Anyway, the West Coast Avengers land in Slovakia where they’ve arranged to meet with the American ambassador who has arranged visas for them.

Buuuut, those visas have been revoked. As the arriving People’s Defense Force notify the West Coast Avengers.

Now these are some characters.

I do love other countries having superhero teams of their own, even if they’re antagonist due to global politics.

The leader, Madame X, says that the West Coast Avengers are criminals and enemies of the state. They’re associates of Iron Man who did a diplomatic incident in Russia. Mockingbird is a former agent of SHIELD. And none of these guys like Hank Pym because he’s thwarted all of them.

Yeah, these are a bunch of old Ant-Man enemies! His older rogues gallery doesn’t get a lot of love.

An unnamed member of the Force is one of the Soviet spies Ant-Man thwarted in his first Ant-Man appearance.

El Toro was a super agent from Santo Rico who had rigged an election but was defeated by Giant-Man and the Wasp. He’s got a hat with horns on it. That is his super power.

Madame X was introduced as Comrade X and was disguised as a man. Ant-Man foiled her with ants. She has a gas gun. That is her super power.

Hmm.... starting to see why Hank Pym’s older enemies don’t get a lot of love.

BUT: there’s also the Beasts of Berlin! Gorillas given enhanced intelligence by Soviet scientists. Hank learned about them when he was breaking a friend out of jail, beat them up, and broke the ray gun that made them smrt smart. The group here is apparently a new group. But hey! Comic books are about fighting apes!

Given that the People’s Defense Force is packed full of old foes of his and that they knew he was coming, Hank declares that the whole Maria thing was a trick, a ruuuuuse to lure him into a trap!

The People’s Defense Force has no idea what he’s talking about. But they’re still going to arrest the shit out of the West Coast Avengers.

The West Coast Avengers Assemble to resist arrest and now there’s a fight scene.

I assume Tigra would rather do the designated animal person fight than the designated girl fight because she jumps right at the Beasts of Berlin. But, alas, she’s not watching her six. El Toro headbutts her from behind, poisoning her with the horns on his hat.

Hawkeye and Mockingbird fight Madame X. Since they’re doing it together, it probably doesn’t count as a designated girl fight for Mockingbird.

Wonder Man fights ALL THE BEASTS AT ONCE. Because working together, they’re nearly as strong as he is. That’s what we call a fair fight. Also, c’mon, a super strong dude fighting a bunch of gorillas. Amazing.

Moon Knight (Khonshu?) fights off the regular soldiers that came with the People’s Defense Force, thrilling at his first official battle as an Avenger.

And then he gets headbutted and subsequently poisoned by El Toro.

Wow, not having someone fighting this dude is really headbutting the Avengers in the butt.

Wasp zaps the Beasts of Berlin to save Mockingbird who is getting pummeled. Wonder Man starts fighting the entire ape group again (not sure why he stopped fighting them long enough for them to gang up on Mockingbird...) and Wasp flies off to see how Hank is doing.

Hank is doing good.

He’s still getting a lot of mileage out of his new superpower of infinite inventory space. He pulls out two pistols, claims they’re just toys when the soldiers tell him to stop pulling shit out of his pockets, and then grows them full size to spray the soldiers with rubber bullets.

Wasp shows up just in time to crack a joke that as Giant-Man he was “highpockets”, so now they should call Hank “hugepockets.” Hank adds onto the joke by suggesting “Captain Kangaroo.”

Y’know, despite following a lead on his definitely murdered wife, Hank is in good spirits. It’d be a justification to fall into anger or depression. While he’s clearly driven to find out whether this lead is anything, he’s keeping a good attitude.

Also, he pulls hedgetrimmers out of his infinite pockets and uses them to cut a hole in the fence so he and Wasp can fuck off.

Not ideal for the West Coast Avengers since El Toro has managed to headbutt each one of them and forces Wonder Man to stop spanking the apes if he wants his friends to be saved from the poison.

This dude is alarmingly effective for a guy who - and I repeat myself with some incredulity - has the superpower of wearing a hat with horns on it and he poisoned the horns.

Are the West Coast Avengers just having an off day?

(To be slightly fair, Hawkeye didn’t get headbutt poisoned, he got captured by the normal soldiers.)

The American ambassador assures Hawkeye that the US government will not rest until the team is freed. Hawkeye isn’t optimistic about that.

Madame X alerts all security forces to find Dr Pym and the Wasp. Because they fucked off, remember?

Anyway, they fucked off to a boarded up building. With Wasp as lookout, Hank breaks a board so he can sneak into the abandoned building.

Off the battlefield, Hank is having less of a good time. He tells Wasp she shouldn’t have come because he’s a danger magnet right now and he doesn’t want her to get hurt.

She points out that she’s the actual superhero of the two of them currently to his irritation.

Then they sulk for a panel before Wasp comments that nothing has really changed between them, prompting Hank to burst out laughing because she’s right.

But he insists that they act professionally, not personally right now, and get down to business. Not business of saving the Avengers team they both ditched to get captured. No, no. Hank wants to follow the lead about Maria Trovaya.

Wasp says that’s going to be a difficult task since they don’t have any contacts in the city and also they’re wanted by the law. It’d be easier if Hank was Ant-Man because he could use the power of talking to ants, which is the greatest power.

But Hank isn’t Ant-Man. But she’s and the Wasp. And the Wasp used to have antennae that would pop out when she shrank down and let her communicate with ants.

And here’s where things tie delightfully into the elaboration of Wasp’s powers that happened under Stern as well as Hank’s new powers.

Wasp barely used the antennae. As far as she’s concerned, they died by this point. But Hank claims that the way they were designed, they wouldn’t die as long as Wasp lives. But they’ve clearly atrophied since they don’t pop out anymore.

Its the opposite of how Wasp’s bio-electric sting and wings and shrinking have all gotten stronger since she kept using them. Those are the parts of her power set that she really leaned into. Leveled up. The ant communication power she barely ever used so the antennae are basically vestigial at this point.

BUT: While Hank can’t change his own size, his current powers are all about changing the size of other stuff. So he boops Wasp in the head and grows the antennae back to functioning size.

The signal quality isn’t great - the antennae did atrophy after all - but Wasp is able to use them to contact ants across Budapest.

(Apparently the way that the ant communication power has such a huge range is because the ants themselves act as rebroadcast antenna, passing the message on further afield.)

But anyway. Wasp gets word back from the ant network that Maria’s name was spoken in Bratislava Prison just this morning.

A lead! A good lead!

It takes them awhile to get to Bratislava Prison since Hank has to go slow and avoid the police. But they get there by nightfall.

Wasp flies in through a keyhole and beats up the guard before opening the door for Hank. Various ants guide Wasp through the prison to a high tech cell that’s very locked.

But when Hank opens up the cell, it’s not Maria Trovaya he finds.

HEY VISION AND SCARLET WITCH. ANOTHER CROSSOVER WITH THE WEST COAST AVENGERS, I SEE.

Okay, so what’s this about. The Maria Trovaya lead was clearly a ruse and bait. But who would have beef with Hank, Vision, and Scarlet Witch?

I’d guess Grim Reaper, since he was the guy last time the West Coast Avengers and the happy couple crossed over. But if it was Grim Reaper, you’d think Wonder Man would be more central to this.

Iiiiis it Ultron? I’m pretty sure he double died pretty recently but that means nothing in comics or for Ultron specifically.

Guess I’ll find out in two weeks. Curse you, East Coast Avengers and your alternating weeks!

Follow @essential-avengers because let us unravel this mystery together. Or you could read ahead or check marvel wiki. I can’t stop you. Like and reblog if you liked this post or think other people would like it. Leave a comment, maybe.

#avengers #west coast avengers #essential avengers #People's Defense Force #Madame X #Beasts of Berlin #El Toro #the C-squad of Ant Man enemies #Hawkeye #Mockingbird #Tigra #Wonder Man #Dr Pym #Hank Pym #the Wasp #special surprise guests #can't hate an issue where a man wrestles four gorillas #no clue why Englehart ditched his ongoing Phantom Rider plot to have some fun for a few issues #not complaining either

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[7. Nicknames🔈]

Honestly this one’s kinda a dud…Nicknames we’re kinda hard to figure out😀 somebody give me some ideas and I’ll edit them to this post

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1. Luther Hargreeves

He doesn’t really give nicknames. He did/does call Allison “Alli” do to Klaus calling her that. A lot of the nicknames he receives from the others are jokes.

Space boy

Uno

Monkey man

Space Monkey

Big Bertha (credit to Klaus)

And all that jazz. He’s never really came up with Nicknames for any of them. He’s used them due to everyone else using them.

2. Diego Hargreeves

He does use their numbers as nicknames but in Spanish.

Uno, Dos, Tres, Cuatro, Cinco, Siete, Ocho, Nueva, and Diez.

He doesn’t actually use them as often. But he does use Cinco for Five since his name is Literally Five. He just uses the other numbers as a way to joke around or idk during a fight? “Better watch yourself Uno.” Some weird thing like that 🤷‍♀️

The others have some odd nicknames for him but once again they’re just jokes.

Shit (number 2 HEHEHAHA) “what’s up shit”

Ego my yego and any shorten part of his name. When they were small children Allison couldn’t say the word two for some reason so she just said “ooo”

When they got a little older (12-13) they found out through Pogo and they started jokingly call him “ooo” which shouldn’t have been funny but it was.

He also got/gets called “Diego Marquez” because once they discovered the show “Go Diego Go” they instantly started teasing Diego.

It’s an in going joke that they never stopped until they split up (He thought everyone forgot until Klaus brought up Dora and then remembered Diego is her Cousin. He hated his life after that…he also finds it funny but refuses to admit it.)

The Kraken. That’s what he was called in the media type stuff but his siblings were children and Klaus always laughed at it because it reminded him of “butt crack”

…Yeah-

3. Allison Hargreeves

She always used whatever funny nicknames the others gave but she mainly used cute ones for the others (basically just shortening their names once receiving them.)

Diego: Di (dee)

Luther: Luth

Five: Fi

Young Viktor: Van/Vans

Viktor: Vik/Viky (Thats actually cute)

Klaus: K or KK

Ben: Benny/B

Everyone mostly called her “Alli” but Klaus uses odd nicknames and calls her 100 different things

Little Rumor

Gossip Girl

Talk the talk

And those type of nicknames related to her ability or just random things she’s done that deem funny and deemed something to remember.

So…yeah-

4. Klaus Hargeeves

Well this creature right here is the nickname gallery. They use a lot.

Most of them are literally just random things about them. For some image-

Viktor: Little dude(Mr?) Russian

Five: Oldey but a youngey

Diego: Try hard Emo

Allison: Little miss secret teller

Luther: Number Uno (Idk-)

Ben: Big Ben(benny)/Horror galore

Everyone else just calls him whatever I assume-

5. Five Hargreeves

Doesn’t really give nicknames…they’re just insults😀 he doesn’t stick with one repeatedly but he did call Viktor Van before he transitioned. He does us V or Vik now instead along with the others. He did also use “Alli”, Luth(rarely), but otherwise he never used them much.

But does uses things like “shithead” “asshat” and every insult you could think of.

Everyone else used his name as a nickname.

Cinco (Spanish)

fünf (Russian)

cúig (Irish)

cinque (Italian)

Or whatever language 🤷‍♀️ Klaus also uses Five Guys or Fivey

So yeah-

6. Ben Hargeeves

Honestly don’t see him using nicknames at all? But if I were to say he uses the same nicknames as everyone else but mainly sticks with the cute ones (shorten names)

He does also insult ppl- calls Klaus a Druggy or a Deadbeat before he went clean but it was only really used when they were fighting- calls everyone “dumbasses” since nobody else can hear him-

7. Viktor Hargeeves

I’d say same goes for him with Allison’s way with nicknames.

He loves when people give him nicknames cause it makes him feel loved in his own weird way.

Quite enjoys the nicknames the others give to him even if some are concerning or just insults. He finds them nice in their own way.

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Honestly these sucked-

#i will die for them #the umbrella academy #allison hargeeves #luther hargeeves #diego hargeeves #ben hargeeves #klaus hargeeves #five hargeeves #tua shitpost #tua #headcanons #but really shitty ones

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25. Iron and Phosphorous

Series: Fullmetal Alchemist ( Brotherhood ) Word count: 3,019 Warning: Blood ig?? Authors Note: I really dont like this chapter that much but it was one of those “ this needs to be written this way to make the story progress the way i want it to” and I’m learning that not everything I write is going to be 100% perfect and some chapters are just duds!!! so yeah anyways ( i couldn’t even be bothered to find a preview for this chapter lmfao )

The search had continued, despite the endeavors remaining fruitless. If this had been anyone else, the search would have ended and the persons whereabouts would be dismissed. After all, they weren’t particularly fond of wasting their time on sniveling, pathetic humans.

Yet, Father insisted this one was important, so they remained committed.

The dark barren streets didn’t offer much indication as to where she could’ve gone, and Lust’s charm only took her so far. Often the men would just end up lying, insisting their information was so valuable that Lust should sleep with them in order to get it. This resulted in their skulls being pierced and their bodies dropped off behind a random dumpster to be found in the morning, to which Lust barely batted an eyelash at. Men were below her, and their death was just one of many things that failed to stir any emotion out of the alabaster beauty. Envy returned, flustered and irritated – Kijo had called Leo’s house, but just as they were about to get her location out of her the phone had cut out. Envy had crushed the receiver in a fit of rage, throwing it clear across the room. Thankfully, the old bat was knocked out cold by her medication, and Leo hadn’t been in the house to find Envy throwing their tantrum. Not that they’d cared; if the blond had stumbled in on Envy, the living room would’ve been painted red.

“There was a lot of chatting in the background,” was all they had managed to gather from the phone call, their teeth gritted in obvious fury, “ and she was slurring. She could barely talk.”

“ She’s at a bar,” Lust deduced, tapping her finger to her chin. Yet, at this hour, most bars would be closed. It wasn’t like Dublith had the most exciting night scene. Most of the townsfolk were honest tradesmen and women, waking in the early hours to work.

The night belonged to the criminals anyways, and most law abiding citizens didn’t want to be caught in their affairs.

There was one place where they were all welcome to congregate, well into the morning hours, but none of the homunculi wanted to tread there. Yet, with a certain sense of desperation about them, it seemed likely it would be unavoidable. Lust and Envy clearly shared this thought as their eyes met. Envy sneered,

“ I’m not stepping foot in that rats bar,” they growled, their fists clenching at their side. Lust hummed to herself as she turned away, peering down the street in the direction they were to walk should they decided to investigate the Devil’s Nest.

“ It’s not ideal, I know--”

“ Not ideal? That bastard is a real pain in my ass!” Envy barked. “ I wanna rip his spine straight out of his throat for what he did to me. In fact-- ”

“ I recommend you not let your personal feelings get involved right now,” Lust’s voice was sharp, making Envy stop in the middle of their rant, “ I realize you two have a rather complicated history, but we need to focus on our objective right now.”

Envy opened their mouth to argue but realized she was right. Kijo was the main focus, whether Envy liked to admit it or not, and every minute that went by without them finding her was another minute that further increased Father’s disappointment. And a disappointed Father was a dangerous one. They fell silent.

Shouting drew their attention back towards the end of the street. With a quick, shared glance, the trio began walking along the cobblestone, the shouting getting louder and louder. It was definitely coming from the Devil’s Nest; as they came to a stop at the rise of steps adjacent to the street, the homunculi could see people pouring out of the door, the shouting accompanied by the sounds of physical conflict within the bar. Envy laughed.

“ Hm, it seems we’re missing out on quite the party,” Lust mused, leaning against the railing of the stairs. She moved aside as a pair of humans stumbled passed her, vaguely making out, “ they’re shooting up the place!” in between their panicked slurring. She rolled her eyes.

“ I can smell her.”

Lust and Envy whipped their heads around in Gluttony’s direction, finding the portly man sniffing at the air like a bloodhound. At first, his eyes were closed in focus, his bulbous nose wiggling against his face before he flashed his teeth hungrily and his eyes snapped open. It’d been hard to pick out against the scent of everyone else’s blood, but hers had a distinct, sweet tinge to it that he would never forget.

“ She’s dying! “

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Kijo was reminded of a conversation she’d had with her father when she was younger, back when she was all braids and missing teeth and sassy remarks. Kijo had always been a curious thing – the generational curse, it seemed – and she ruminated over things children probably shouldn’t have been thinking about.

Her father had always been eager to feed her inquisitive mind, so he didn’t bat an eyelash when Kijo had asked what it felt like to be shot.

“ It feels like being punched, very hard. And then, your body will begin burning – it doesn’t feel good.”

What an understatement, Kijo thought as she fell against the door, struggling to catch the breath that’d left her. This was different. Like her entire lower half was contorting and twisting in pain, the muscles in her pelvis were constricting and tightening and she couldn’t will them to move no matter how hard she tried. This wasn’t a burning pain. It was something else entirely, something she failed to have the words for.

Some obscenity flew out of her mouth as she dropped down to the ground but she refused to let the tears brimming her eyes fall. Instead, Kijo barred her teeth and managed to look over her shoulder in Alonzo’s direction.

“Wha--”

The spike was gone, leaving the man standing. Kijo remembered when she’d used her alchemy on Envy that first time, when she’d tried fusing them to the wall, that the alchemy had fallen away due to her lack of experience in proper alchemical structure; Kijo had grown cocky and it came to bite her in the ass. Again. Alonzo was delighted.

“Not so big and tough anymore, are you?” Alonzo managed out. His resolve didn’t last long. His body crumbled beneath the weight of his pain and they both found themselves staring at each other on the floor.

Kijo’s chest heaved; had she ever been in pain like this? Her core ached as she recalled Father’s concrete serpent that had practically chewed her in half and she scoffed, “ I’ve had worse.”

That procured a curious eyebrow raise from Alonzo. Looks could be deceiving, he knew that, but what could be worse than being shot? His curiosity about Kijo only grew stronger.

That’s where the two found themselves. Bleeding all over the storage room floor, adding to the rust colored stains Kijo had noticed earlier when she’d first came darting in. Staring at each other to see who was going to pass out first.

Unfortunately for Alonzo, he was underestimating Kijo once again. This time, in particular, her stubbornness. She fought the tunneling darkness that ate away at her vision and began dragging herself, attempting to get to the side of the door. If she could get to the hallway, maybe, just maybe--

“ You’ll only bleed out faster that way,” Alonzo mumbled. Kijo cursed under her breath and stopped, realizing he was right; she’d left a thick trail of blood as she’d dragged her body. How much blood could the human body lose again? Her tingling fingers told her she was close to the threshold.

“So, what,” Kijo’s body trembled, “ we just gonna sit here and watch each other die? Is that the plan?”

Alonzo chuckled in an attempt to hide his nerves. The blood loss was certainly catching up. His hands and feet had long since grown cold. His heart was pumping hard in his chest, desperate to replace the blood he’d lost, but it was useless. It was simply pouring back out of his wounds. Kijo let her head fall back against the concrete of the wall,

“ You’re such a fucking asshole. Men like you are the fucking worst. You can’t go down without dragging someone else down with you,” Kijo’s words were sharp but they hardly had any affect on Alonzo. In fact, his expression was empty as he listened to her talk, his eyes watching her carefully.

She certainly wasn’t wrong. Alonzo was a man with few principles and morals, and he wasn’t afraid to admit when the shoe fit. The man couldn’t deny that they’d all wound up in a position he hadn’t expected to be in when he woke up that morning, but the payout from a job well done had been extremely appealing. So who was he to turn it down?

Yet, it seemed he’d wind up being the one to pay a heavy price. Even if he survived this, he still had his own boss to answer to. Maybe Alonzo had limited principles, but the man he answered to was much more depraved than he was. He would be killed off for his failure to successfully collect payment from Greed the Avaricious.

Alonzo had been warned, too. He knew who Greed was, obviously – he’d been the one to make the deal with him. It wasn’t Alonzo’s job to collect payment, only to reinforce it, so he hadn’t been expecting much when they’d arrived at The Devil’s Nest and he’d seen Greed proudly displaying this girl like a trophy. That’s why he’d just decided to use her. He figured if this woman was so special to Greed, then it’d make the night go smoothly and he’d be home in no time.

Instead, he was bleeding out on the floor of some storage room with that same girl, both of them feeling abandoned and discarded.

Alonzo adjusted his body, sitting back on his rear.

“ You’re not wrong,” he whispered out. Kijo’s head jerked up curiously in response.

“… Not really the response I was expecting.”

“ What, you want me to point the finger at someone else?” Kijo glanced away for a moment before she shrugged and Alonzo gave a dry laugh, “ I could. I absolutely could. I certainly wasn’t expecting the night to go like this, and if I’d known you would’ve been such a handful, I wouldn’t have dragged you into it at all.”

Kijo clicked her tongue but didn’t bother responding.

“ You’ve lost a lot of blood,” Alonzo eyed the puddle that had formed around Kijo and noted her ashen face, “ most would have passed out by now. You’re a lot tougher than I thought you’d be. You realize that, right?”

“ Thanks, ” Kijo mumbled out. She didn’t feel very tough. In fact, the pain had long since subsided and all she wanted to do in that moment was fall asleep. But sleep was the enemy, because with it came the threat of death. Or worse.

They’ll find me.

Just the thought was enough to make her bare her teeth and begin moving again. Sitting stagnant certainly guaranteed either outcome, so she had no choice but to try moving. The pain ripped through her abdomen and she gasped out. Alonzo shook his head,

“Are you stupid? You’ll die at the rate you’re going--”

“I’ll die if I stay here!” Her voice came out like a snarl and Alonzo wasn’t sure if the goosebumps he got were from her tone or from the blood loss. Nothing was adding up about this person. She had some sort of relationship with Greed, yet she was an Alchemist. But, she was also a fugitive, with a rather generous bounty on her head. An enemy of the state? A former militant? No, she clearly didn’t have much combat training. Her attitude was much larger than her body, too, but that didn’t make her much of a threat on it’s own. There were always conspiracies regarding questionable experiments the government was conducting on innocent civilians and former soldiers. Alonzo recalled one in particular, where a man had supposedly turned his own wife into a chimera – but that was a rumor with no proof to fall back on, so Alonzo wrote it off as mindless gossip. Yet, as he watched Kijo struggle further, he couldn’t help but wonder...

“You’re innocent, aren’t you?”

Kijo froze.

“Whatever it is that they want you arrested for – you didn’t do it, and that’s why you’re running. Because if they catch you, they’ll kill you?”

Kijo actually wasn’t sure, but Father had toyed with her life once before and she didn’t doubt that he’d do it again. All she knew was that if they did catch her, she wasn’t sure what would happen to her, and that uncertainty was enough to get her adrenaline pumping. She couldn’t risk being caught. Because, in her own experience, escape only became harder the second time around.

Alonzo took her silence as a sign that he was right and he sighed, dropping his head. It wasn’t like he cared much about this girl, yet… There was something infectious about her tenacity, and he couldn’t help but at least respect that.

“ Turn right and keep going until you get to a dead end,” Kijo’s head jerked up and she looked back over her shoulder, eyes widened with surprise, “ There will be a door that will take you to a pair of stairs. Follow those stairs and you should find yourself just on the outskirt of town, near the hospital.”

Kijo almost questioned his intentions, but she found it hard to believe he’d lead her astray with no benefit to him. Like he said earlier – none of this was really personal. To him, it was just another day on the job. Hell, she’d hoped he was going to bleed out earlier, and that wasn’t personal either. The two of them were just trying to survive being roped into a situation neither of them wanted to be in to begin with.

Still, it wasn’t enough to garner sympathy from Kijo. He’d shot her, after all. But she took his directions seriously and nodded before she gathered all of her strength and pulled at the cellar door.

It dragged across the concrete heavily, and Kijo thought her abdomen was going to burst from the resistance, but she finally managed to pull it open just enough so she could slide her body through. Alonzo watched on and closed his eyes only when she finally disappeared. He sighed.

“ The Boss is going to kill me. “

–

At least there weren’t any more gunshots, but if any more of Alonzo’s buddies were wandering the hallways, Kijo would be in trouble. She wobbled slowly, propping herself up against the wall as she went.

The only thing on her mind was Alonzo’s instructions and she cursed herself for not being able to move faster. The hallway seemed to drag on forever; was she even sure there would be a door waiting for her at the end?

You can’t exactly turn back.

Oh great. I was wondering when you’d show back up, Kijo bit. Honestly, your timing is just terrible.

There was a laugh. Like bells ringing. Kijo felt her heart skip a beat.

That is not the first time I’ve been told that.

Despite Kijo’s grumbling, she found relief in hearing the voice. What she’d first assumed to be her subconscious conspiring against her had turned into a source of comfort; not that she would admit it, of course.

Just keep going. You’ll be okay when you get to a hospital.

And then what? You said earlier that I need to go back. I’m supposed to go back to Leo, right?

No, there was a pause. You need to go back to Father.

“ Fuck no!”

Kijo’s voice echoed loudly through the hallway. The surprise of the voice’s response had forced her to a halt and her hand had formed into a fist against the wall. It took all of her willpower to not start pounding her knuckles into it.

“Are you fucking kidding me?! If I go back, I’m as good as dead! Or worse! I...”

Envy flashed through her mind. Their mocking tone, their shit eating grin, the way they continuously patronized and belittled her. Her heart pounded, weak but painful, and she was certain her wound was bleeding more in response, but she didn’t care. The voice urged her to calm down.

“ No, I will not calm down! I’m not going back to that – that--….” Kijo’s head spun and she dropped down to her knees, her hand uncurling and dragging pitifully against the wall in an attempt to stop her falling. “ Ehh...”

The voice was still talking but at this rate, Kijo could no longer make sense of what it was saying. Her vision was tunneling. Kijo dropped forward, her eyes leveling with the floor.

“I can’t… I can’t go back...” She mumbled. Desperation was the only thing pulling her body forward at that point, but she knew it was fruitless. She hadn’t even found the stupid fucking door. She was going to die, alone, in that damp hallway, and her final moments were spent entering into some blood loss-induced psychosis where she argued with a voice inside her head. Not much different from how she went out in her world. It seemed the fate had other plans, however, and she heard a voice. Different than the one in her head. Familiar all the same.

“Oh, there you are.”

Kijo managed to lift her chin, narrowing her eyes to focus on the pair of violet orbs that peered down at her. There was a flicker of amusement in them. She felt little comfort.

“ I’ve been looking everywhere for you.”

#fma story #kijos writing #blah blah the next chapter is where it gets good dont worry

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hope you don't mind my (way, way too long) input as a Klaine Fan™️ - you don't have to post/answer if it's too much for you, I just wanted to share my thoughts - but I feel like Klaine was one of the few things that Matthew Hodgson didn't completely fuck up. in almost the eps he's written, the Klaine parts have been relatively okay and even good in some cases.

I know Glee, Actually is a dud for the most part but I really enjoyed the Blaine/Burt/Kurt family dynamic in their portion of the episode. it could've been better, since our fandom was expecting the mature conversation about Blaine's cheating that we were promised in 4x08 instead of that being overshadowed by Burt's cancer diagnosis, but I blame that on Ryan Murphy (since he admitted to including Burt's cancer storyline as a way to cope w/ his own father's death from cancer) and not on Matt Hodgson. for what he was given to work with, the man did a pretty decent job with the Klaine storyline in that ep and I was more or less satisfied with it.

I'd say that Transitioning was even better. IMO it was by far Klaine's best episode in season 6, because it completely did away with so much of what bothered me about their storyline in S6 (namely Sue's interference in their relationship + the way that she was used to mock fans) and instead it went back to the roots of why they loved (and liked) each other in the first place. plus it included a bunch of fun callbacks to the episode in which they had their first kiss, which I really appreciated. somehow it even made me feel okay with Blainofsky, and that breakup scene in 6x07 was what cemented to me that Karofsky really had grown and changed into a better person and that there were zero malicious intentions in his relationship with Blaine. I'm honestly impressed that the same clown who wrote IKAG managed to pull off an episode like that.

it's kind of odd that Matt did such a good job with Klaine in his eps while completely fucking over everyone else in the same episode (see Glee Actually and the Bram wedding 🤮 compared to Klaine's sweet family storyline), and even in IKAG Klaine got a whole-ass duet while Brittany stayed mute and wasn't allowed to talk to her girlfriend. he gave Kurt and Blaine the best in his eps and didn't give that care to anyone else on the show. hmmm...y'know what, I've solved the mystery - maybe Matt is the evil Klaine anon 🤪

(but then again, Puppet Master exists, so maybe everything I've just said is completely invalid and Matt Hodgson is just the worst as a whole...two decent Klaine eps are not enough to make up for all the atrocities he's committed 🥴)

This is much appreciated!

Klaine (+ Burt) are the saving grace of Glee, Actually for sure, and I think Transitioning is okay for what it is. Haven't watched it in a long while but like, it was alright, and I agree that the Klaine parts were good, even. I'm not sure if there's a reason he did a surprisingly good job with Klaine - I forgot to make this point earlier, but I genuinely believe he's just a bad writer. That doesn't mean he doesn't have good moments, but by putting together his portfolio we can see that there's a theme of completely butchering, well, theme lol and characters for the sake of stupid punchlines or just some random ass plotpoint. I think he's the type of writer who's annoying because they think they're being sooo clever and funny.

Anyway, so whatever the reason may be, I agree with you and I appreciate this perspective. I think he can tap into some good stuff, like the NY stuff in Glee, Actually, while also getting carried away with his own BS. I think it could be fun - well, cathartic at least to properly go through his stories and examine why exactly he's a flop. Except for IKAG because, ugh, shuddering at the thought. And you know I do feel like disclaiming that this is all just about his work 😂 He's probably a decent dude, whatever, I've just had anons trying to make things personal with him and I don't believe in that. I'll leave the man's character alone but I will maintain that he's a shit writer with occasional good moments, and credit where credit is due his handling of Klaine was okay and even good in places. Maybe that's because he is EKA 😌

But yeah, Flopson is still a flop but he gets a "not as much of a jerk bad writer as he could have been" badge. Nothing will ever fully redeem him but he didn't completely suck in his handling of Glee lol. And hey, an actual Klaine discussion instead of whatever EKA is, yay 😂

#i didn't know that about rm that's valid i think #makes me wonder why he wasn't the one to write it then but yeah rm can have that one #the matthew hodgson thread #i'll begrudgingly also admit that saturday night glee-ver is also okay #until it isn't because then it becomes AWFUL #but he had an okay 25 minutes or so #glee asks #klaine asks #hopefulobjectmiracle

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