from the prompt meme (if you're still doing it ofc) “i’m not wearing any underwear. thought you’d like to know." w Reyes 😈
Gabriel’s back from god-knows-where for god-also-only-knows-how-long, a pause in his suffocating schedule allowing him to spend a few luxurious days at home, so you can live like all the couples around you do. High on your priority list is doing all the laundry your washing machine can handle, catching up on all your favourite shows you swore you wouldn’t watch while he was away, and making dinner together.
At some point in this unadorned normality, you’ve also got to go grocery shopping, and while it’s not the most riveting of things you can do together, it’s significantly less of a chore with him there. It takes inordinate amounts of fuel to keep him running; SEP created a super soldier with a super appetite. So, with Gabriel home and the fridge pitifully empty, it’s a non-negotiable addition to your day.
But what a joy it is to feel halfway ordinary, defaulting to your routine that gets interrupted every other week when he becomes a mere voice over the phone or a few lines of text in a written message.
When he’s home, you live slowly—one day at a time.
Out of necessity, Gabriel’s efficiency is unparalleled. It doesn’t matter how organized you are when he is a master at packing and planning. It’s thanks to him that you’ve never set foot into a store without your reusable bags, and it is also thanks to him that unloading the groceries from the car to the kitchen takes a single trip.
Is any sight more touchingly domestic than him hauling several massive blue IKEA bags as though they’re precious cargo?
Going down the list that he remembered to bring—even though you wrote it, you’d forgotten about it—Gabriel ensures you’ve got all your essentials but can’t find the last ingredient you need. You know it’s crucial that when you have the chance to cook together, there’s no deviation from the recipe, no disrupting the ritual. When he suggests the pair of you should make a stop at another store, it’s not a compromise that you’re unwilling to make, but you’d much rather get back home and have him all to yourself again.
“Maybe we have some left from last time,” you say, trailing out as you scour the shelf for the third time, making a showy pretence of it.
“We don’t,” he informs with a discontented shake of his head, “I checked.”
The addendum to the shopping list was his doing, penned in at the bottom.
“Can we do without it?”
“We probably could, but do we want to? This is the question we have to ask ourselves. You know it’s not going to taste the same.”
He’s too determined for his own good sometimes.
It’s not that you want to rush him; it’s just that you know what traffic is like and how a little detour could throw the rest of your afternoon off. If you weren’t constantly picturing time dripping through the narrowest point of an hourglass, maybe you would have a single chill.
But you don’t, and Gabriel is already wise to some version of that.
Naturally, you think of a way to suggest he shuffle his priorities around and get you home without asking him to blatantly give up—because he won’t.
Beckoning him to lend you an ear with a finger, he leans down so you can whisper: “I’m not wearing any underwear. Thought you’d like to know.”
Something passes over him as he returns to his full height. Once you think he’s past replying, he speaks into a closed fist, “Holy shit.”
“You good?” A bad question, knowing full well you’ve quietly obliterated him.
He clears his throat and assures, “Never better.”
“You sure?”
“Yeah, I was just thinking about how we need to home before the ice cream melts.”
“What ice cream?”
Gabriel steps away, opens the closest freezer, grabs a pint of ice cream, and adds it onto the heap in your cart. “That one.”
Then he slips behind you and helps you steer towards the checkout, whispering in your ear about how he still can’t believe the things that come out of your mouth sometimes.
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Considering the sort of vibe you went for with Traitors never win, would it be too delulu to hope you’ll bless us with Gwynriel’s DRTD for gwynriel week? 🥺👉👈
Ps. Sending you love and a fat box of red bulls mwah
I'm scared to do Gwynriel for DRTD because there is a small group of (cowards) people on this app that think its cute to harass people if they don't conform to their very narrow, very uninspired vision for Gwyn.
I have a draft of it written that I've never uploaded because I actually do not enjoy having to turn my askbox off at night so I can sleep without panicking people are sending me fucked up shit. The worst my askbox has ever been has never been because of the ship wars, but people who ship the same thing as me.
It's good, too which I think is what sucks. I subverted my trope a little and had Gwyn kidnap Azriel who is able to slip his restraints in the first 10 minutes but decides to hang out and see what happens.
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I want to crawl into the margins of the time gap of chapter 225.
Let's lay out what we know:
Kdj passes out for a week
Yjh survives with the help of a constellation
Uriel immediately heads towards the Asgard nebula when she returns, and "Star That Likes To Change Genders" was laughing and clearly knew something
We also know the conditions of the constellation's assistance was that once a day, yjh "disappears" for 10 minutes
Later, yjh also demonstrates an ability to change his gender while visiting Breaking the Sky Sword Saint, as it is a martial style meant to be learned by women
The "punisher" - a mysterious woman in black who exhibits intense hatred for kdj and refuses to talk to him - appeared 4 or 5 days before kdj woke up
Yjh says he arrived 2 days ago
To me, this means that:
1) One week prior to kdj waking up, Loki helped yjh, on the condition he turned into a woman for 10 minutes a day. Exactly what other parameters exist, I am uncertain. I feel there was likely at least one more stipulation.
2) Yjh arrived at Syswitz Complex (aka Yoo Junghyuk Complex) a couple days later, but laid low except for when he was the "punisher," his woman self. I base this off of the fact that Jang Hayoung is excited about the "punisher," knew the "punisher" started acting up 4-5 days ago, but seemed indifferent to even suspicious of yjh. This makes me think that the stipulation for his transformation included some kind of secondary requirement, because otherwise I don't know why he would act out only while in woman form. Making him act as an agent of justice while a woman seems odd, but maybe?
3) Since yjh spent a couple days just getting to the complex (arriving "4-5 days ago"), we still have 2-3 days before he shows up at Aileen's place. Knowing yjh's normal modus operandi, he likely would have sought someone he could beat up for information - but there were no slimeballs that had that information. Only good people/allies probably knew by then where kdj was, so he was just running around for a couple days being frustrated until he SOMEHOW managed to get someone to trust him enough to show him the way, or at least believe him when he said he was the real Yoo Joonhyuk. No lie, knowing there was a brigade of people all using yjh's name, and knowing no one knew kdj's name, I can imagine his clown-car level of frustration trying to find kdj and it cracks me up. God I wish I could see that.
4) I am BURNING with curiosity over just what kind of face he made and what was running through his mind when he finally went into Aileen's side room and saw kdj.
5) I'd also really love to know just what the other revolutionary members told him about kdj and his actions. Or at least, specifically, what Aileen said about his condition because I bet she would be frank about just how much of a mess he is lmao
Gaps like this, particularly with yjh, drive me insaaannneeee
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