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obsessedwithegos · 1 year

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How It All Began

CWs: Unnamed vampire whumper, Human turned vampire whumpee, Lady werewolf caretaker (kinda), Whumpee believes they’re going to die, Whumpee being turned into a vampire, Vague/implied improper medical care, Whumpee fearing ridicule and abandonment

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Emil lets out a sigh as he walks under a street light. His back was sore and he was tired from staying late to help clean up and repair a few things at the church.

He was looking forward to getting home, making himself a late dinner, and then going to bed. Thankfully tomorrow was a day off, meaning he could sleep in late and then spend time with his friends.

His thoughts and pace pause as he hears rustling coming from an alleyway that he was passing by. That sounds like it’d be too much for something like a cat to be causing.

“Hello? Is there someone there?” He calls out as he pulls his phone out to use the flashlight on it.

“..... Help..” The voice was weak and raspy, but undeniably a person.

Emil walks into the alleyway, eyebrows furrowed. “Do you need me to call an ambulance?” He asked, moving his phone around to scan the alleyway with the flashlight to try to spot the person.

The voice mutters something that he can’t quite make out.

The alleyway had a turn to it, maybe they were past that turn? “I’m sorry I didn’t catch that.”

He shines the light around the corner and the sight startled him, he expected to see someone injured.

Instead the person seemed unharmed, but their eyes were latched onto him and their eyes reflected the light. The look in their eyes matched the one word they growled. “Hungry.”

Fear struck his heart as every part yelled “Run! RUN! RUN!!” His body moved on its own to do just that.

The vampire gave chase with a loud snarl.

Emil stood no chance as the vampire slams into his back to tackle him, the impact forcing a yell out of him as his phone and glasses go flying somewhere ahead of him.

His heart pounds in his chest as the vampire turns him to face them so they could get a better angle at his neck. He couldn’t move, he couldn’t think, he was frozen.

He couldn’t hold back his scream as fangs bury themselves into his throat, sobs wrack through him.

He was going to die here, wasn’t he? He was terrified, and each small movement of the vampire swallowing and drinking hurt more and more. His throat felt like it was on fire and it felt like the seer of the fire was slowly spreading.

As the vampire adjusted themself in an attempt to be able to bite down harder for more blood, Emil found his body moving by itself once again.

There was just enough to put his knee against the vampire’s stomach and his hands on their chest. With all of his strength he pushed to try to get them off of him.

The pain of the fangs being ripped out of his throat was the only sign he needed that the vampire was off of him before he quickly got himself up and started to run again, trying his damnedest to not trip over his own feet.

One hand goes to his throat to try to slow the bleeding, the sound of glass crunching under his foot is lost to the sound of his own labored breathing and heart pounding in his ears as he just ran.

He didn’t know if the vampire would follow him, he didn’t know if they were following him, so he just went to the closest safe place that he knew; Mabel’s house.

When he reached her house he banged on the door, only still standing thanks to the adrenaline flooding through his system along with his veins feeling like they were on fire.

“Hello- OH HEAVENS!” Mabel cried as she opened the door and Emil stumbled in.

“Emil, what happened?!” She catches him so he wouldn’t hit the floor.

“I don’t- Vampire- Help- Hot-” He struggled to get any coherent words out as the world started to spin around him.

“Emil! Hey! Stay with me!” Her words quickly faded away as darkness overtook his vision.

~~~ Everything hurt but his throat hurt the most as Emil slowly started to wake up.

“Emil?” Mabel’s voice sounded distant.

His hand reaches up to touch his throat but she grabs it to stop him.

“Don’t touch your throat. It looked like the vampire managed to miss the important stuff. I did everything I could but we still need to get you to the hospital, okay?” She asked, needing confirmation because of their agreement.

He nodded. “Okay..” He managed to get out. “How long was I out?”

She carefully gets him up onto his feet and helps him towards the door. “A few hours? The sun is coming up. Come on, let's get you to the car.”

She uses a free hand to open the door, as the morning sunlight entered the house it’d gradually shine onto Emil before the door was fully open.

Emil yells as he stumbles back to try to get away from the sunlight as it felt like someone was shoving red hot metal through his skin.

Mabel’s eyes widen as she quickly slams the door shut. “Shit- Okay-” She looked to his hand, feeling her stomach drop as it was now bright red.

“Emil.. Did you feel hot after you were bitten?” Wariness was clear in her voice.

“Yeah?” He answers through gritted teeth.

She gives him a nervous smile. “So good news, you’ll probably be alright! Maybe! We’ll still find a way to get you to the hospital. Bad news, I think you might be a vampire now.”

He pauses for a moment. “What?”

“Well it’d make sense why you’re even able to stand right now and didn’t bleed out during the night, and explain why it looks like the sunlight has burned you.” She explained.

However, he wasn’t hearing a single word she was saying because of his shock.

This wasn’t good, how would the church goers react if they found out? Ehver is well known to not be a fan of vampires as a result of often needing to hurt someone to even survive. Is Ehver going to cut off communications with him?

“Mabel?” He finally speaks, looking up at her.

“Yeah?” She could see that he was shaken, which made her worried after his moment of silence.

“Promise me you aren’t going to tell anyone.”

She pauses. “...What?”

Emil started to tremble as tears built in his eyes. “Please, promise me you aren’t going to tell anyone I’m a vampire.”

Mabel’s expression softened. “Okay. I promise I won’t tell anyone."

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#whump #whump tag #emil tag #mabel tag #emil writing tag #(mabel isn't getting a writing tag bc she's a minor character)#vampire whumper #vampire whumpee #lady caretaker #(kinda. She's just trying to help her friend with the medical knowledge she has)#improper medical care #surprise!!!! Emil wanting to hide his vampirism is a result of fear of how the church goers that he preaches for will react along with #Ehver!! :D #ehver/evher tag #also bc of how he was turned being deeply upsetting! He would've technically died if the vampirism set in a few minutes later! But it did #save him from bleeding out!#ask to tag #owe writing

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lesbyers · 6 months

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going to have to go through the rollercoaster of emotions that is ofmd 2x06-7 again tonight when i watch it with my parents. AAAAAAHHH

#going crazy i cant stop thinking abt them ngl #my dad is gonna laugh at them fucking and at izzy singing in drag i just know it 😭😭#my mum is gonna hate the torture stuff and be upset when they break up again SCREAM #it is so insane watching it w them bc i want to explode into explaining every thought and analysis i have #and last time i did (eps 1-3) i was so intense my mum asked me to pls start taking my adhd meds again AH #ofmd #ofmd spoilers #mabel post

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rosie-darling-archive · 2 years

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Tbh Dipper is just as selfish as Mabel but she gets more shit

#its the misogyny #dipper literally created a time loop to try and stop a girl from going out with another guy #and when Mabel gets upset bc he made her loose her pig #suddenly SHES the bad guy?#like they both make mistakes theyre both selfish kids #theyre TWELVE #tired of this bad take #rosie speaks #gravity falls #salt #mabel pinea #dipper pines

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popeye1357 · 2 years

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Punk Mabel Podcast

#mabel podcast #they're all gay and punk #canon #mabel is virtually unchanged from how i usually draw them #anna got some dark eye make up and a choker and mabel cut her hair #initially she was surprised when she saw the hair cut mabel gave her #mabel was afraid that anna was upset but anna was like NO BABE ITS GOOD I LOVE IT I WAS JUST SURPRISED #veraluna #vera buzzed her hair and is growing it out rn #mabel podcast is already punk but yk #also im realizing the only thing added to veraluna is their nail polish...#honestly theyre poseurs anyway dont worry #theyre there for the aesthetic first #i mean okay they believe in punk shit ofc #but also they want it to be publicly known how Cool they are

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thefunniestguy · 2 years

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Sister having a crisis over Stranger Things while I have a crisis over Gravity Falls , this is what siblings is all about /j

#we're both suffering on the couch LOL #for context im on s2 ep18 (the v beginning) and mabel messed up and i KNOW my darling girl is gonna feel guilty #and ?? spoilers for stranger things #sister is upset bc ? billy dies ? (idk who billy is but she likes him)#this is chaos

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professionalowl · 2 years

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(in a devastated tone) dipper and mabel vs the future

#it's such a good episode but it's so fucking upsetting #the exploration of what the town has come to mean to the twins #and the ways in which it's allowed them to grow and change and come into their own as people #contrasted with the ways in which it allows them to live in their own idealised but flawed versions of reality #and the way both of them really are reflected in ford - most obviously dipper but on a deeper level really more mabel tbh #and how that fits into the wider themes about ephemeral childhood and trust and individuality is (chef's kiss) but it's also DEVASTATING #idk. incoherence i was on my feet at Hashtag Pride all day but damvtf is making me see shrimp colours again <3 #i've definitely come to appreciate it more as i get older + also improve in media literacy

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rbdbrainworms · 1 year

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not diego looking actually kinda sad that roberta is gone

#like ik its also the whole failing to Prove It to his dad and all #but his face :(#rbd blogging #the existential horror of diego bustamante #ep 32 #the blackmail lunch debacle #and he looks so upset whenever leon mistreats mabel

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shysquidd · 2 years

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#death in tags tw #but i think my hamster is dying #and im so sad #shes been more agitated lately and has been biting me #something she literally never does #and she was acting so strange today #shes an old hamster #a little over 2 years which is like. miraculous tbh #but im still so upset idk what to do #i love mabel so much i wanna comfort her but she doesnt let me hold her or feed her treats

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thepancakewitch · 2 years

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im finally facing real discrimination

i cant find any gay pole dancing classes for my wife and I u__u

update, found one... :)

#i joke but it legit upsets me #Mabel Talks #I AM JUST TRYING TO DO SOMETHING FUN!!!!!

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inamindfarfaraway · 6 months

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The Morality of Mabel and Dipper Pines

Warning: Dipper Levels of Overanalysis Ahead

I’d like to make it clear at the start that I love both of these characters equally and they’re both good people, just in different ways. But I’ve seen a lot of criticism of Mabel’s flaws and less of Dipper’s, so I’d like to contribute to the discussion of their respective characters by exploring a divide between them I haven’t seen talked about much.

Mabel really wants to be a moral person. She places a lot of intrinsic worth in the concepts of ethics, like kindness and fairness and the wellbeing of others. Being a bad person could be considered her worst fear. It’s definitely up there with her other greatest fears of losing her relationship with Dipper and the inevitability of change, and those fears developed later largely in response to Ford and the baggage he brought with him.

Dipper just doesn’t care about that as much. That isn’t to say he’s a bad person! He's compassionate, selfless, brave and unquestionably heroic by the end of the show. They both are. But it sticks out to me how differently they think about ethics. For example, Dipper literally kills Wax Sherlock Holmes, while Mabel is so averse to hurting someone’s feelings that she can’t bear to break out of a false, one-sided relationship with Gideon until Dipper's life is at stake. You see what I’m getting at here? But I have more evidence! Buckle up, this is gonna get long.

Compare how they treat their rivals, Pacifica and Robbie. These are ordinary humans with no real authority over them who, age and class gaps aside, they're basically on even footing with in confrontations, so this is a good metric for how aggressive they are when upset and how much they hold grudges in mundane situations.

In “Irrational Treasure”, Mabel is deeply hurt by Pacifica’s mockery to the point of giving up her silly identity, and sets out to prove her wrong that she can be competent. But at the end, when presented with the opportunity to destroy the Northwest family’s fake prestigious legacy that they use to justify putting others down, she declares, “I’ve got nothing to prove” and lets it go. She’s secure in herself. Her motivation is satisfied. Why bother putting more pain and strife into the world? It’s Dipper, who has been only been hurt by proximity to Mabel, who insists on exposing the truth specifically to spite Pacifica and takes away that “Man, revenge is underrated. That felt awesome!” Revenge is arguably a form of justice, especially in this sense of revealing an unfair lie, but still, he takes great pleasure in bringing an enemy down for the sake of it, not to fix the damage they did.

In “Fight Fighters”, Dipper’s vindictive streak returns. He manipulates the ridiculously powerful Rumble McSkirmish into brutally beating up Robbie on the fraudulent charge of murder, threatening Robbie’s life. He didn’t realize Rumble would try to kill Robbie, but he was fine with him severely injuring him. Rumble is a fighting game character, a superpowered master martial artist. Robbie is a normal fifteen-year-old. This is not a sportsmanlike matchup. By the end Dipper learns his lesson and takes responsibility, but so does Mabel about hurting people to try to have a perfect life and people still complain about that!

In “The Golf War”, Mabel is again the twin with a bone to pick with Pacifica, but Dipper takes her rivalry more seriously than her and is more willing to be mean about it. He encourages her to cheat when she doesn’t want to, justifying it because Pacifica is “cheating at life”. Understandable, but still underhanded. While Mabel bonds and buries the hatchet with her rival by the end, outright declaring their rivalry to be stupid, Dipper holds onto it, refusing to forgive Pacifica at all and disapproving of Mabel's offer to give her a ride home afterward despite the pouring rain and her absent parents. He still wholeheartedly considers her “the worst” (and tells her so to her face) at the beginning of “Northwest Mansion Mystery”, even though he saw her and Mabel help and protect each other in their fight against the Lilliputtians and Pacifica thank Mabel and accept her apology.

In “The Love God”, Mabel’s compassion is on full display. She makes it apparent that she wants everyone she knows to be happy, to the point of making a chart to show her friends’ feelings with stickers, and goes out of her way to help Robbie just because she doesn’t think any human being should be so lonely and sad. Dipper initially has no sympathy for Robbie’s misery and sees the twins and his old friends leaving him to rot as a good thing.

Dipper just invests more emotionally into hating people and is more willing to play dirty. Mabel prefers to see the best in people, forgive, deescalate conflict and turn enemies into friends whenever possible, and has more respect for honour and sportsmanship.

Compare the insecurities they highlight in "Society of the Blind Eye". These could have been their last words spoken with their memories of the summer, so they are fully candid and vulnerable.

Mabel confesses, “I only love some of my stuffed animals and the guilt is killing me!” She reprimands herself for not having sincere affection for all the people in her life… who are inanimate objects, hence this being a joke about how immature and overly sentimental she is. But she’s telling the truth! Not being honest about your feelings toward someone who loves you (as toys are assumed to love their kids) is wrong. It’s something a bad, or at least flawed, person would do. We also know that it’s something Mabel can do with real consequences - she loves Dipper unconditionally, but her frequent teasing of him instead of letting this on damages his self-esteem more than she intends and often realizes - and when she does realize as in “Little Dipper”, she’s ashamed of herself. Her guilt is that she’s failing morally, that she hurts the people around her despite her good intentions.

Dipper admits, “Sometimes I use big words and don’t actually know what they mean. I mean, I’m supposed to be the smart guy! If I’m not the smart guy, then who am I?” He primarily thinks of his worth in terms of competence. Dipper is generally not that confident, at this point in time. He has an intense drive to prove his worth. He is acutely aware of his physical and social shortcomings. But the one thing he knows that he does well is analytical, deductive and strategic thinking, and so to always have value he’s built his entire identity around being particularly intelligent. He’s the planner, the mastermind, the guy with the specialized knowledge and important big words who people have no choice but to respect and listen to, because a lifetime of loneliness besides Mabel has taught him that given a choice, they probably won’t. Except just like Mabel’s all-loving attitude, there’s an element of performance. He doesn’t know everything; he’s inherently irrational to a degree like everyone else. So he tries to seem smarter than he is. His guilt is that he’s failing intellectually and practically, that he isn’t contributing enough to be worth something.

This is where Dipper diverges. He wants to be ethically good less than he wants to be good AT things, and respected for it. But they both beat themselves up when they don’t live up to their self-assigned archetypes of All-Loving Hero and The Smart Guy, when they aren’t good enough by their own unreasonably high standards.

"The Last Mabelcorn" deconstructs Mabel’s fixation on her moral perfection. Celestabellabethabelle, who I will henceforth call C-Beth for short, manipulates it to keep her out of the unicorns’ way. She makes manifest Mabel’s fear that she isn’t good enough no matter what she does. We see Mabel push herself further and further to try to prove herself, much like Dipper in episodes like “Dipper vs Manliness”, and emotionally unravel until she’s miserable, self-loathing and openly listing her vices in a way never seen before. But this isn’t productive! Wallowing in shame doesn’t motivate her to be better! She needs to learn that although she isn’t perfect, the virtues she has are good enough to work with to both get out and kick C-Beth out of her head. She decides to stop worrying about meeting an impossible ideal of goodness and just focus on doing good, by using efficient (if violent, and therefore immoral under certain paradigms) methods to protect her family. Her plot in this episode has its detractors and I understand the criticisms that the message wasn’t handled as well as it could have been. But I think it does okay. Mabel definitely reevaluates her need to feel like a good person here. She switches from prioritizing what’s important to her, the validation of being "pure of heart", to what’s important to others and in the bigger picture, simply getting the unicorn hair to keep Bill out of the Mystery Shack.

Finally, compare the twins’ disastrous errors in judgement in “Scary-Oke” and “Dipper and Mabel vs the Future”, when they both accidentally unleash terrible forces of evil upon the town and set in motion a local apocalypse.

Dipper recites an incantation from Journal 3 that causes the dead to rise as bloodthirsty zombies, desperate to prove to the government agents before they leave that the supernatural is real and warrants their help investigating, driven by both his desire for knowledge (his tool to feel secure in himself) and more immediately his fear of being dismissed as unworthy. He is emotionally vulnerable, but still creates the dangerous situation on his own initiative. Since he doesn’t need a blacklight to read the spell and the beginning of the episode established that he’s already familiar with all Journal 3’s visible entries, he knows what the spell would do. He doesn’t realize how many zombies will appear and how dangerous they’ll be. But he is aware that there are risks. Plus, the Shack is hosting a party full of innocent civilians and Mabel has explicitly asked him not to interfere with weirdness. The one thing she told him not to do that night was raise the dead! And what does he do? Raises the dead.

Mabel is actively deceived and manipulated into giving who she believes to be Blendin Blandin, an expert in time-altering technology, what she believes to be an item of such technology, with the intention of warping time to extend the summer for the town. This is a selfish choice. But on top of how emotionally compromised she is, sobbing in despair after “the worst day of [her] life”, consider her internal logic: the end of summer is going to mean the trials and tribulations of growing up for both her and Dipper, and they won’t even have each other if he gets his way; Wendy is already going through that and has told her how awful high school is; she overheard at least some of the Stans’ conversation at the end of “A Tale of Two Stans”, meaning she might know that Stan will have to give up his home and business once the summer is over; and she and Dipper both have true friends here who they will miss and be missed by, as opposed to their memories of Piedmont where we only see them supporting and comforting each other and never hear of any friends. And it isn’t like she’s the only one having fun! Stan is happier than ever, Ford is back home, Dipper’s come into his own more than she could ever have anticipated. He’ll still get to delve into the mysteries of this town that he loves so much. But she’ll be there too. If you want more Gravity Falls, you can see where she’s coming from. She genuinely thinks that “just a little more summer” would be a positive experience for everyone, with plenty of good reason. Yes, she’s recklessly messing with powerful forces that she doesn’t understand. Yes, she isn’t nearly as suspicious of this sudden miracle solution as she should be. But she has no evidence that this would harm anyone.

Their responses after making their mistake are also noteworthy. They’re both horrified and remorseful. But Dipper expresses no concern for the agents for the rest of the episode when it looks like they’ve been killed due to his actions. He even nonchalantly remarks that he thought they were dead when he sees them again. Mabel, however, reaches to stop Bill and begs him to “wait” before he knocks her unconscious. Then she’s imprisoned in Mabelland, which is designed to make her never want to leave and based on how it only occurs to her after she renounces it that the neon colours and repetitive background music are too much even for her, may additionally have a direct, if subtle, influence on her mind. So she’s a little distracted from her guilt. But by risking her life to fix the repercussions of her actions and save the town, she shows much more responsibility for the townspeople’s lives than Dipper showed for the agents he’d tried so hard to impress. He just happily went about his business for weeks believing he had two people’s deaths on his conscience. Never even looked into whether they survived.

These differences in their personal moral philosophies add another layer to the parallels between the two generations of Pines twins. Typically, Dipper parallels Ford and Mabel parallels Stan. But less so here! Like Mabel, Ford very staunchly believes in abstract moral theory, namely that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. He holds a grudge for weeks against Stan saving him from being lost in the dimensions through the portal, because it endangered the rest of the world by creating the Rift. It was a good deed with good intentions… but it didn’t only make life better for everyone. To Ford, that means it isn’t good enough. Hmm, which younger twin has a problem with judging anything short of ‘pure good’ to not be worthwhile? Also like Mabel, Ford’s self-righteousness is often hypocritical, considering his pride, selfishness and willingness to disregard the possible negative consequences of his actions, e.g. trusting Bill and building the portal in the first place.

Like Dipper, Stan is willing and ready to use underhanded methods to win against his enemies, to lie, cheat, steal and leverage assets he doesn’t really have the right to. He’s more inclined to be aggressive, spiteful and smug. As for holding grudges, even to an unreasonable extent, he personally despised a nine-year-old child even before he knew that the child was a bad person. He would absolutely summon Rumble McSkirmish to attack a rival for him. He prides himself on his cunning, another form of intelligence, and prioritises being good at what he does best over holding the moral high ground. He is shown to have lifelong insecurities about Ford being better than him in other fields (and thus explicitly valued more by their father); so his pragmatism is his way of trying to always be useful to the people he loves, and indeed a key way he shows them his love.

#gravity falls #mabel pines #dipper pines #pines twins #gravity falls analysis

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luveline · 2 years

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shy reader who starts working with rockstar!remus and thinks he’s super grumpy and mean, but eventually he reveals that he’s a huge softie and is really sweet to her. maybe she gets the impression bc she sees him arguing with someone or gets told something. thanks so much for all your amazing writing!

tw implied slut shaming ♡ rockstar!remus x shy!fem!reader | 1k words

Remus is technically your boss. You don't expect him to treat you any differently than that – a boss employee relationship suits you fine. It actually suits you perfectly. If he'd been chatty like James or overly flirtatious like Sirius you may not have survived this long on tour, but you have.

Sirius' assistant Mabel had told you on your first day that Remus can be quite short with others. And over time you've found she's right. He doesn't say more than he needs to, he doesn't adopt any beguiling tones. Short, though, might be the wrong word for it. He's quiet.

You try not to label him too harshly. After all, you barely talk. If people were calling you grumpy because of that alone you'd feel a great sense of injustice.

You wipe your damp cheeks. Maybe being called grumpy might be kinder. Grumpy you can own. Grumpy is something you can actively change.

"Are you okay?" Remus asks, shocking you out of your thoughts.

You sniff and stand as quickly as you can, stiff from sitting outside in the cold for so long. You don't look at him as you say, "I'm okay."

"Are you sure?"

You chance a glance at his face, unreadable as always. "Yeah."

"What's upset you?" he asks seriously.

The wind whips at your clothes and bites at your fingers. You tense them up into balls. With no jacket to hide them in they might as well be made of ice.

Remus is similarly underdressed for the weather. Different cities, different climates. You miss the South American half of the tour dearly.

"We should go inside," he says into the silence.

You don't want to go in yet. "I'm gonna stay out here."

"It's too cold."

You nibble the inside of your bottom lip and try to fight another embarrassing wave of tears. "I don't want to go back to my bus, yet."

He nods, eyes very obviously on the tear dribbling weakly down your cheek. "Okay. Okay, but we can't stay out here. Come on."

He nods his head towards the right where the band's bus, bigger and shinier than anyone else's, sits parked. You follow him up the steps and into the small front where there's a sort of L-shaped sofa around a square table covered in laptops and paper and drinks. You've been in here before, though usually there's another Marauder causing havoc. Remus opens his arm toward the table and you take it as a cue to sit as he disappears into the bedroom area down the way. He returns with a thin quilt and passes it over. Obviously his, it smells exactly like him, woodsmoke and sandalwood and that hint of fruity jasmine.

You try not to breathe it in too deeply as you pull it over your lap, frigid hands hiding beneath it. "Thank you."

"If somebody's done something to you, you can tell me."

"Maybe I'm homesick," you try.

"Are you homesick?"

"...No."

He sits beside you. Not close but closer than you thought he would've. If he wanted to, he could wrap his arm around your shoulder.

"Are you feeling warmer?" he asks after a minute.

"Yeah. Thank you. You didn't have to-"

"Of course I did. You're my favourite assistant."

You laugh, startled. "I bet you say that to all of your assistants." And he must have a few. You only handle his on tour expenses and comfort. He barely ever needs you.

"Only the very pretty ones." He tilts his head to the side. "Are you okay?"

His caring tone is sobering. You nod slowly and then with more enthusiasm. "Yeah, I-" You shock yourself when you realise how much you want to just tell him what had happened, and when he smiles at you to keep going, you do. "One of the, uh, one of the tech guys. I got in the way and he- he asked me why I couldn't be more useful. 'N obviously uh, I'm your- I'm usually with you, and it looks… well, they think we're sleeping together. And one of the girls said I have plenty use." Your voice wobbles.

"One of the girls on your bus, you mean?" he asks gently.

"Yeah. That's why I didn't want to go in."

"You don't have to go in. I can't get them to put you on a different bus, if you like."

You shake your head. It's a silly thing to be upset about. So what if everyone things you're having sex with a rockstar, right? And you don't really care about that. Sex is sex. But, the animosity that she'd said it with.

"I guess- I mean, I thought she liked me," you say weakly.

"More fool her if she doesn't. You're lovely."

You laugh wetly. "What?"

"I said you're lovely. You're sweet. You've never heard that?" he asks.

You turn your face to him and smile shyly. "No, I've never heard that."

He raises his eyebrows and rolls his eyes before huffing a breath out of the corner of his mouth. "Well, that's a crime."

You don't know what to say. You think maybe he's knocked himself unsteady as well, because he reaches over your lap to grab a heavy looking laptop and pull it open in front of you. "I got that movie you like. The one about the aliens."

"A Dark Line?"

"Yeah."

"I didn't know you liked-"

"I don't. Or, I mean, I didn't. But you were so excited to see it when we were in Brazil, I thought it must be worth watching."

The DVD he got is dubbed in Portuguese. You have to sit very close to read the subtitles, and his arm is a heat against yours. When he laughs you can feel it in your chest.

You sneak a glance at him out of the corner of your eye. His smile is the farthest thing from grumpy, at least in your opinion.

#remus lupin x reader #remus lupin x you #remus lupin x y/n #remus lupin #marauders era #marauders #remus lupin imagine #remus lupin drabble #rockstar!au #marauder x reader

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ystrike1 · 8 months

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Grand Duke, I Can't Do It Because It's Too Cold in The North - By Lemonwatermelon (7/10)

A regular woman reincarnates as the catalyst character in this one. The original woman that drove the yanderes to insanity, so later on be they could be healed by the pure true protagonist. She doesn't leave this time, so a huge conflict arises for her love.

Aisha.

Don't hate the original Aisha please.

She was a tragic and desperate women, who did not believe in love. Her father gambled, and two men were obsessed with her because she was beautiful/pathetic. She knew that their competitive obsession wasn't real love.

When she married the wealthy Duke of the North, Mikhail, she was miserable. Empty. She devised a plot to use the other Duke who loved her. All to get away from her loving husband. She stole his money too.

She told the Duke of the South, Daven, that she would return to him after her divorce. So he forced the divorce papers through for her.

In the end she left them both behind. She got money from the Duke of the North, and the freedom to live as a single lady from the Duke of the South. Then she left the country without a hint of regret.

She's not a bad person, but both dukes fell for a lie. They thought their beautiful lady needed saving, when really...she wanted her independence.

This is the world of the novel "Grand Dukes, Please Leave Me Alone!". It's about two incorrigible, competitive, romantic dukes who fight over one woman.

That woman is NOT Aisha.

Aisha was their first. The one who tricked them, used them, dumped them and left.

The real heroine is Mabel. Mabel is the luckiest girl in the story. She was a commoner, but she was elevated all the way up to princess...just because she looked like a beloved dead woman the royal family adored.

The Dukes fight over her because she's weak. She cries. She's what Aisha was pretending to be, before she showed her fangs.

New Aisha thinks she has to run, because the Dukes are destined to Duke it out (violently) over Mabel as soon as she is crowned.

She doesn't know that neither of them will bat an eye at Mabel, as long as she is present.

The Dukes never find out about Aisha's lies in this timeline...so...right now she really is a clueless lovely lady in need of saving.

Just their type!!!

Aisha does want to leave...because she's married to the Northern Duke...and it's cold...and he's scary.

Mikhail is devastated at first. He paid off her family gambling debt and he's been lavishing money on her. He thought she hated him. When she admits she's just cold he uses his $$$ for things she will actually enjoy. Like extra fire places. Soft furs. Blankets etc. He's very pleased that she's finally being honest.

He's a very awkward and sweet yandere. He always threatens people, especially her personal doctor, but he does mean well. When Aisha tries to escape its just a joke. The North has the best army. She joke is she always gets caught within two panels....which leads to her talking about her feelings more.

Mikhail quickly becomes calmer, because his beautiful bride is surprisingly easy to please.

Daven is the toxic yandere. He loves it when Aisha relies on him. He was one of her only friends while she was stuck in her abusive household. He brought her bread. He kind of developed a savior complex because of her.

Aisha accepted Mikhail's proposal because she smelled money, and Daven has been bitter ever since.

He's got the divorce by force papers ready.

Aisha just has to give them to Mikhail...but she refuses.

The North is cold, but Mikhail is kind.

She wants to give him a chance.

They get along well, but trouble brews around Aisha. Daven is rather upset about being left behind. Mikhail is still a little suspicious of his bride too. He likes her more now. She has changed and become warmer. Happier. He loves it. They're an alright pair.

Mikhail knows about Daven's feelings though.

He is no fool.

He also knows Daven and Aisha are childhood friends.

Daven will not give up, especially now that Aisha is so much brighter.

There's going to be some fighting, while everybody ignores Mabel....but this is a comedy. Don't expect too much.

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