#lucy gray vanishes/dies and snow wins

[lazyspeedy]

tbosas has left a feeling of emptiness inside of me that previously was caused by watching the virgin suicides for the first time this year in may and then rewatching in sept

#like not to be dramatic lmaooo #but like #u can’t avoid the ending 😭🥲 #the lisbon sisters die #lucy gray vanishes/dies and snow wins #and he continues to win for another 65 years #omg the fact that the games were also a drunk joke proposal that HIS father made come true #dude 🧍 #ive read that #even if lucy gray and her spirit lived and helped the revolution #like her actually story the proof that she existed died with snow bc he made it so everyone forgot abt her 😭 #like lucy gray was kinda avenged but also not all the way if that makes sense 😭 #and also it’s sad bc #imo he did love her SOMEwhat #but he turned on her and then ends up the way he does #like honestly i feel just a bunch of pity like damn pathetic way #but it’s sad bc he could’ve chosen goodness #but no he did not #WILL say #funny enough #this book proves that we are not like bad ppl it’s actually stands against doomerist ideology #but man u have to really fight against that feeling of helplessness 🥲 #🎟️

[dr4wingfranciss]

Lucy Gray used Snow, and even if she felt a little bit of "love" towards him, it quickly vanished when she met him again in 12.

AND THAT'S COMPLETELY FINE

When they first meet, she's literally lecturing him and giving him passive-aggressive comments over his "good will of meeting her and helping her as her designated mentor in the Games". She knows he's doing it for something else, but can't quite figure out what it is. So, she doesn't trust him, not even when he offers her a rose and tells her all those explanations that were basically useless for her. And her way to show her distrust is with sarcastic and mocking comments against him and his attitude. Because he's just a Capitol guy who showed up to the train station to "help her", when she just arrived to the place where she's going to probably die. She's stressed, affraid, tired and done with everybody's shit, plus, the fact of Snow showing up and trying to impress her just adds more stress, and she immediately catalogues him as useless.

However, when Snow gets into the truck with the rest of the tributes, she realizes he's being deadly serious about him "wanting to help her", or at least wants to convince her. That gives him off. And that gives her the idea of her life: using him to win. Because, in the end, he's literally doing the same. He's using her and her 'marketable appearance' to win whatever he wants to win. That is useful for her, so she decides to take the opportunity. She defends him from the other tributes, and allows him to present her to the journalist at the zoo. Along with that, she plays her role as a 'pretty and charming district girl' to win the crowd. Because she knows that's also going to help. She grows closer and closer to Snow because she wants him to trust her. She still doesn't trust him completely, but trusts him enough to cooperate at the tribute-mentor interviews. And she tells him very clearly what's the price for her to continue with the marketable appearance show: a guitar. She's going to use all his influence and power in the Capitol to her convenience, mainly due to the fact that he's decided to make her win.

At the Arena bombing, she saves his life. She does this because she's not a monster. She values his life. She thinks and knows he 'deserves' to live, and she needs him. Without him, she's screwed. When the interviews the night before the Games happen, she sings a song after realizing that the Capitol loves a show. The Hunger Games are a show, and she's just another performer in them. Besides, she likes to sing and express her feelings and thoughts through music (it's what she had been doing her whole life) and she perfectly knows how to move a crowd with words. Her song is not just a message for Billy Taupe, but also for the Capitol people. What are they going to do when their beloved songbird dies in the arena? What is him going to do about it? She knows he has grown attached to her, and she had done it as well. Maybe a little less intense, but she appreciates how hard he works "for her". Also, she knows he has a plan, and that he's going to do anything in order for her to go home. Back to 12. Back to the Covey.

During the Games, she watches Jessup die, and knows that Lysistrata and her own mentor have something to do with it. And then the snakes arrive. She knows she can't fight them, but remembers what used to happen with the snakes in 12: they calm down when she sings to them. So she sings, hoping the Capitol snakes would do the same. And they do the same. But then the snakes keep calm and don't attack her, even if she stopped singing. She realizes Snow actually did an enormous thing to help her survive them. He saved her life, even if that meant risking the Plinth Prize and probably his own life as well. By that action, she notes that he is actually devoted to do whatever he needs if it means keeping her safe. She has him eating from the palm of her hand. And so she kills Treech with the snakes. She waits for Reaper to also fall, and when he does, she realizes she's finally free.

She won the Tenth Hunger Games...

But she cheated. She drowns in the guilt as she's taken out of the Arena, and when the Dean Highbottom goes to meet her at the train station and explains her the whole deal with Coriolanus, she feels relieved. She can get rid of him. She doesn't need him anymore, and he doesn't need her. She can go back to her normal life, even with the survivor's guilt living inside her forever. Because she survived and can be free like she always wanted to.

And then, Coriolanus Snow shows up at Twelve.

He came to reunite with her. She's not free from him and his obssesive love. But, she tries to love him back. She tries to push all the manipulation aside and tries to love him the same way he seems to love her. It doesn't work. She can feel something weird with him, deep down. And the first time she witnesses a glimpse of that disturbing thing is when he shoots Mayfair. He killed her. He tells her that he did it because she was going to call them out, but it still upsets her a lot. First, he kills Bobbin, and now Mayfair, the girl who got her reaped. Even after that, she wants to trust him, so she slightly believes it. She takes her precautions though, since she knows that the peacekeepers and the Major are going to think that she killed Mayfair. She has to scape, and she wants him to come with her, because he's also going to be hunted down. And because he's very capable of saying that she was responsible for that murder if it means that he would be safe. So she takes him with her. Few moments after their scape, she realizes what's wrong with him.

He betrayed his 'best friend'. He revealed his intentions of rebelling against the Capitol and the Games. Of course that's the third person he killed. So the small glimpse of trust that started to appear in her quickly vanishes. Because, if he betrayed Sejanus, the person he "trusted the most", what stops him from betraying or even killing her? She needs to run away from him now. Not just from the Capitol, but from him as well. She makes him think that he fooled her, but in reality she's planning what to do. Where to go. The manipulation technic comes back, and she shows as sweet and calm as possible when going to pick katniss, but she's actually running away.

Lucy Gray never fully trusted Coriolanus Snow, not even in the end, when she needed someone to trust the most. She used him once, and did it again because she wanted to live. She wanted to survive and he was the only way she had to do so.

She took her chance and never let go off it.

#lucy gray baird #coriolanus snow #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #does this count as a character study? #frann rants abt stuff

[clown-bait]

Monster Christmas PT2 (Monster Roommate AU)

Ice skating Penny! I’ve been so excited to post this guys you have no idea. He’s basically Bambi during that winter scene but a giant killer monster trying to hunt. Its so pure. Also two monsters having a bloodly snow ball fight and making horrible macabre jokes like two giant NERDS. I love them they’re OTP. 

Monster Christmas Part 2 

Pennywise the Figure Skating Clown

“Oh there you two are I was about to come look for you but I got caught up having a lovely conversation with your Uncle Bob! He's going to show me around town tomorrow so you two can go to work!” Leech’s mom smiled happily at them. She really was the cutest mom.

“Yeah we ran into him on the way back from our um… smoke break…” Leech pulled at the bottom of her dress.

“Ugh Lucy darling you know I detest that habit of yours.”

“Its a hard habit to quit.” Robert gave her a wicked grin and she elbowed him hard.

“‘I’m calling a cab. Well drop you off at the hotel mom we’re uh we’re going to…”

“Grab a drink?”

“Oh look at you two! Finishing each others sentences! So adorable!”

The two monsters both blushed. “Mom! D-dont”

“Well you have to come up to my room I brought my home made lemon cookies the ones you loved when you were a kid!”

Leech whined realizing she cant indulge in her favorite treat. “We’ll take them to go.” Gray smiled

———

“Wull eh offishully loff your mofer” Robert popped the last of an entire box of cookies into his mouth.

“You're just saying that because she fed you”

“You never feed me!”

“I bring you snacks all the time”

“Yeah as bribes!! And then its “Penny don't eat Randy he tips well. Pen will you help me make food I can’t even eat for some dumb holiday that worships a bird. Oh Penny never mind eat Randy for me he's tipping Sandy more. You were perfectly capable of eating Randy yourself you know!”

“The “Randy incident” does not need to be brought back up” she growled shuffling her feet in the snow.

“Do you know what he was afraid of?!”

“Are we really doing this?”

“VAMPIRES LEECH! I literally just turned into you!”

She paused and turned to him.

“Wait why me specifically?”

“I don’t know….. maybe I like the way you look when you get, as you say, hangry”

“Aww really?!” her face lit up like a christmas tree.

“Yeah yeah enjoy the compliment……lazy bloodsucker…”

“Awwww Penny” she stopped and hugged him tight. Robert rolled his eyes and pulled her into him.

“Don’t let it go to your head.” he smiled into her wig

———-

He brought her to the town square and paused to look at the giant tree in the center. They saw other couples drifting around the ice rink together, blissfully unaware of the monsters watching them.

“You know, I bet you'd be killer at ice skating.” Leech gave him a sly grin

“Why’s that?”

“Its like dancing but on blades.”

“Go on…”

“Not the kind you're thinking of….. but I suppose you could kill someone with them if you got creative…”

“Hmmm… we should try it.”

“Ice skating or murder with ice skates?”

“Both!”

“Yeah because that would go over so well.”

“Fine! We’ll just do the boring part” he grabbed her hand and rushed to get in line.

—————-

“Ok so I haven't actually done this in years. Last time I did was with Adam and I nearly broke my leg…”

Robert growled at the mention of her ex. Leech gave his arm a shove “Oh stop you got to rip him apart be happy. If it makes you feel any better I'm already having a way… better.. time….” they both paused to watch a beautiful young girl drift by with hunger.

“Dibs! I call dibs!” she elbowed him.

“You already ate tonight!” he hissed “You know I’ll just take it from you anyway.”

“That’s not how dibs works”

“As if I care. Alright lets make it a game then, who ever lures her first wins.”

“You are so on.” the nosferatu licked her lips and grinned.

“Um sir I don’t think we carry your size skate…” the attendant pointed at the disguised clowns massive feet. Leech snorted and Robert gave her a shove.

“Its ok I brought my own” he smiled

“Hey! Hey Rob! Robert! Brobert!” she elbowed him over and over till he turned to look at her.

“What!?”

“You wanna know why people are terrified of clowns?”

“I’m going to regret this aren't I?” he sighed “Fine, why?”

“The bigger the feet, the bigger the dick!” she snorted again and banged on the railing.

“Did you- did you just compliment my dick size?” his face became slightly pink

Leech wheezed at her own terrible dick joke. “Hey, I aint wrong big boy!” she gave him a flirty wink Robert turned bright red in embarrassment. “I cant take you anywhere.” he grumbled.

They sat down and Gray materialized skates onto his feet. Leech snickered as she laced hers up.

“What?” he glared.

“You're so going to fall on your ass.”

“Am not!”

“Have you ever skated before?”

“How hard can it be” she saw him put weight on the blades under his feet and watched as his knee wiggled off balance.

“I'm going to totally win”

Robert stood up attempting to intimidate her only to wobble and catch himself on a ledge. Leech snorted with laughter.

“D-dont laugh at me!”

“Oh my god you're like a baby deer trying to stand!”

“S-stop I am the alpha predator! AAHH” he fell to the side and opened his legs wide to stabilize himself.

“This is golden and we’re not even on the ice yet!”

She left him to go skate around on her own. He sneered and giggled when Leech wobbled a bit as well but as soon as she got the hang of it she was gliding around with ease. “You coming Bambi?”

“Why are you calling me that? Don't call me that.”

“Because I know you’re going to spend half the time trying to stand the fuck back up.”

He growled and attempted to enter the ice rink watching the girl they were both competing to lure. He instantly slid sideways and latched onto the wall in embarrassment hearing an all too familiar cackle from behind him. “How are you so good at standing on ice! Tell me!” he snarled

“Good? me? Pleeeaase they always picked me last for hockey when I was a kid.” she frowned at the memory and sighed. “Come here ruffles I’ll help you.” The vampire drifted over to the wall and hoisted him to his feet. “Hang on to the ledge for a bit and watch my feet.” she showed him the way to push forward and he watched her movements. “Go slow. I know how you like to rush things” Robert nodded and copied her with eyes trained on those pretty little legs. She turned around so she was skating backwards and started showing off “Not too bad! Still awkward as hell though!” Leech teased, suddenly she fell back when she hit the wall and Gray unable to stop crashed on top of her. They both looked at the compromising position they were in and Leech let a slight blush creep onto her face before they both burst out laughing. “Oh god we’re terrible at this!” she wheezed “I bet that chick is laughing her ass off at us” Gray’s laughter died down and he lovingly placed his hand on her rib cage. The young vampire’s lips parted and her breathing deepened. Everything around them seemed to just melt away.

“It seems like I'm ill equipped to hunt in winter.” he chuckled. “I’ll need to practice”

“You accidentally caught me though, that good enough?” she gripped his coat and pulled him closer.

“Mmm I’d say its better” his eyes changed color as he leaned into her, his cold hand cupping her cheek. Leech closed her eyes and craned her neck to meet him their lips inches away from one another until they were interrupted by an angry female voice. “Hey Romeo and Juliet! Get up or get a room I'm working on my routine here” they both turned to find the girl they were trying to hunt standing over them with her hands on her hips. Robert gave Leech a sly grin. “Time for you to lose little hunter!” he hissed “How rude of us to get in your way miss! My apologies!” he turned and attempted to hoist himself up the girls eyes grew wide when she saw the handsome man before her leaning on the wall for support. “Say I'm quite bad at this and you seem to have great skill care to help?” his eyes flashed hungry yellow. “Wh-what about your girlfriend?”

“What girlfriend?” he grinned making the memory of Leech and him disappear from the girls mind. His victim smiled and beckoned him to follow her.

“Oh you dick!” Leech growled “PLAY FAIR ASSHOLE”

“Like you were ever going to play fair in the first place darling.” he smirked awkwardly pushing himself along the wall away with her target.

“Ok you may have a point…but still!” she snarled and stood up fine if he wanted to play dirty she’d be more than happy to get dirty. Leech buttoned her coat up tighter and scraped the ice with the blade of her skates making a pile of white powder. She grinned and looked over at Robert who was leading the girl to an exit his eyes glowing bright like candles. The vampire stood up and skated over to him as fast as she could manage she skidded her skates so a spray of powder hit him on the back. She heard the disguised clown snarl and turn, thats when Leech nailed him with a ball of ice on the side of the head. “YOU LITTLE BRAT!” he roared and the vampire howled with laughter. Robert scooped up some of the ice shavings around him and lobbed a giant ice ball at Leech’s face. He grinned triumphantly while the vampire shook the ice out of her wig.

“Um hello?” the girl asked as the two disguised monsters glared at each other.

“Not now Ashley” Gray snarled preparing to wipe the sly smirk off his lovers face.

“H-how did you know my name?”

He paused and looked over to his victim. “You must of mentioned it on the way over here or something.”

Robert turned back to Leech but she was gone, vanished into the other skaters.

He grumbled something to himself and pushed his victim away from the crowd “Hey careful! I’m a finalist in the skating competition!”

“You think I care?” Robert arched his brow and pulled her behind a store where he backed her into a corner.

“Oh mister you’re too rough~”

“You have no idea” his eyes began to shine.

“I bet you like it rough too.” the girl grabbed at his belt buckle. Robert raised his brow unamused. He was about to mock her when he heard a familiar hissing from above him, his golden eyes trailed up long black gnarled claws till they locked onto two terrifying orbs of moonlight. They watched each other with intensity as the girl fumbled with his belt. He knew she was getting jealous and seeing his vampire get so worked up made his eyes shine even more. Robert gave Leech a victory smirk and a white gloved hand grabbed the girl by the throat. He began to squeeze the life out of the poor girl while practically eye fucking the vampire watching from above. Ashley screamed and his other hand covered her mouth. “That wont do you any good little miss Muffet. No one can hear you right now” his disguise melted away into the clown she screamed again “That was your favorite rhyme when you were little wasn't it? Little miss Muffet sat on her tuffet, eating her curds and way! hahahahaha!” he sang in a demented voice as horrible black claws creeped down the side of the building and a low churr filled the air. The clown removed his gloved hand from her mouth Ashley was hyperventilating now and tears streamed down her face. A new sickening voice whispered in her ear dripping with venom “then along came a spider who sat down beside her” The poor girl turned and was met with the face of skeletal bat like creature. The beast opened her fang filed mouth to let a long raspberry colored tongue drag along the girls face. Pennywise purred with delight. “And frightened miss Muffet away.” He sang his is mouth opened up and thousands of black spiders poured out of it onto his victims face and chest. The girl let out a primal screech of sheer terror.

The spiders on her vanished into shadowy smoke. Pennywise charged forward and ripped at the girls body creating a hole so big it nearly tore her in half. Leech sat on her wall and watched the life fade from her eyes as blood fell turning the white snow beneath them red.

“Sometimes I forget how dangerous you can be” she mused while she observed him rip the body into pieces tossing some in a pile to save for later. Penny looked up from his meal and grunted in approval. The vampire crawled off the wall and sneered at the corpse.

“You got jealous didn't you” the clown grinned face covered in gore.

“Shut up you won the game don't rub it in.”

“Aww my little hunter is a sore loser!”

“I just didn't like the way she touched you” Leech grumbled.

Pennywise chuckled a bit digging in the torso of his victim till he found what he was looking for. “I got something that will make you feel better!”

“What?”

He held out the humans heart in one large gloved hand dramatically dropping on one knee mocking a human proposal “Take my heart love!” he let out a burst of laughter at his macabre joke. Leech snorted and put her hands on her knees gasping for air while the two of them had a giggle fit over the warm mangled corpse. “You fucking nerd” she scooped up some blood stained snow and threw it at him. It hit Penny in the chest and the clown growled. “Oh naughty naughty little hunter! Now you've really done it!” he grabbed a much bigger snow ball and lobbed it at her laughing when the force of it nearly knocked her down. The vampire hissed and threw one of her own hitting the clown between the eyes. He shook the snow off his face while his ruffles jingled like sleigh bells in the night.

Leech walked over to him and picked up a strip of meat from the carcass. “May I?”

“Hmm you may. You might be earning it in a bit though.” Pennywise grinned wickedly.

“Thats a win-win for me.” the vampire rolled out her tongue and sucked the flesh, making sure the clown could see. he huffed “Dirty little thing, trying to tease Ol’ Pennywise”

“You already teased me plenty in that other alleyway.” she said mouth full of meat.

“I never planned on stopping.” he grumbled, turning to the corpse

She finished her last bite and silently stalked over to him her footsteps light and soundless like an owl’s wings. She tried to creep behind him but the clowns eyes were already shining gold in the night. When her arms snaked around his torso he switched their locations suddenly they were in the sewer and Leech had fallen off of him with a thud the corpse from their dessert landing next to her.

“Ow hey Pen!”

“Look who's falling on their ass now!” he laughed at her. “Shoulda known better than to sneak up on the likes of me little hunter.”

“There a reason you brought me here? Or are we just going to chit chat all night”

“So eager I love it!” he chuckled reaching out and pulling her into him. “don't worry little one you'll get me soon, I want to have some more fun first.” Leech smirked at him and snaked her hand up his chest.

“Such as?”

“How about a little role play hmm?” he leaned down to meet her gaze and smell her arousal.

“Oh you kinky bastard~” Leech snickered as he nipped the top side of her face.

“You be the fox little hunter and I’ll be the hound.” he chuckled darkly “If I catch you I get to tear you apart”

“And if I get away?” she nipped at his nose

“You’re not going to love” he growled. “I always catch my prey.”

Leech kissed him with a snarl “Come and get me then.” she whispered against his lips.

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LOOK AT THESE TWO CUTE ASS DORKS! They're having such a good time being fluffy af and dismembering people! Also people tend to forget that Pennywise tore Betty Ripsom in half, he didnt just bite her once he probably ripped her apart while she was still alive man. The clown is fucking brutal. I want to explore that a bit more since Leech is a lot more like a paper shredder that will strike up a casual convo while torturing you (she’ll be breaking an arm and go “Oh hey thats a cool shirt what size are you? I think I’m going to keep that when I’m done!”) while Penny’s more like a grizzly bear wood chipper that will dismember you alive while giggling to himself. They both get off on it though, its their shared hobby. 

#pennywise #pennywise fanfiction #pennywise x oc #pennywise x reader #it fanfiction #monster roommate au