#maybes its the anatomy part thats difficult?
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I have no idea why this gargoyle sex scene is so hard to write but I will prevail ☝🏿☝🏿☝🏿☝🏿!!
#maybes its the anatomy part thats difficult?#or maybe im jus not in a sexy mood???#i feel like ripping my hair out!#nsfwish?#summi rambles#a trial of horror#atoh#if wip#twine game
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I fucking adore your sin art it makes me so happy and gives me inspiration for my gg oc
Wanted to ask how you learned to draw anatomy so well and how you fucking nail proportions (Sorry if this is an annoying question I understand if it bugs you I’m an artist as well and I get the struggle but I’m very curious)
Aaa thank you so much!!! I‘m glad to hear it!
Well tbh i am not really sure either. It kinda just clicked?? I’m sorry I am really bad at explaining things. All I did was stare at pictures of people and copy it as best as can. Trying to understand the different shapes that make up the body is really important to understanding anatomy. At least for me it is HSHSHSH
Try to simplify the things you see as best as you can. Grab multiple reference pictures, trace over it. See what stays consistent between all of them. Our bodies may be different but there are still things that stay consistent between all of them. What sometimes helps me is posing myself and use my hands to feel parts of the pose that are difficult to draw for me. Yk how blind people use their sense of touch to „see“ what is around them? Its exactly like that. I build my own 3d reference in my brain with this KHSGKHSGHS I know it sounds ridiculous but maybe you can try it sometime!
Repetitiveness helps too. Drawing the same thing over and over again is a great way for your brain to remember it. You can also use the old drawings for comparison to see how much you improved. (Never discard your own drawings. It may not feel like it but you are improving everyday and these drawings are the only proof you have)
I think thats all I have. I hope it helps! I‘m sorry once again if it‘s not understandable. I am not the greatest at explaining :‘)
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Software Pūmanawa Object Creation
In this post I will illustrate my process of creating an object in Adobe illustrator 2024 using the skills I have learnt over the past week. I've got to admit this was not a simple process, and I probably did not choose the best object- or animal. In whch i chose to create a cat.
First things first I set up my workspace, bringing out the swatches, gradient and layers tool. I also toggled the control bar at the top of the screen. For my file settings I had it set to pixels and RGB.
Then I begun laying down simple shapes, trying to get a rough understanding of where I wanted to place parts of the cat. I started by using the ellipse tool, creating a circular shape for the head. Next I used the rectangle tool and adjusted the shapes to my liking.
The next thing I did was place additional points on the circle using the + key. I used these points to drag out fur and a muzzle for the cat. I used rougly 3-4 different points around the head for this process.
My next stage was to begin shaping the body and tail of the cat, I rounded it out and created a tail that curves around the body. I did this by using the pen tool and creating some anchor points.
The next step was to try and make some sort of front legs, this, as you can see, did not go very well. it was incredibly difficult and it was very very fustrating. However, I still had to persavere. I created this first front leg using the pen tool.
The next thing I had to do, was create a second front leg. I did this by duplicating the first let and deleting the segments that werent visible from the perspective.
My next two steps were the creation of the Eyes and nose, and the hind leg. The hind leg was the difficult part, trying to get it to sit correctly. The easy part was the eye, I used the ellipse tool once more and then used the gradient tool selecting the second gradient option and then dragging the green up from the swatches. The nose I later changed but it was also fairly simple, just using the pen tool.
A quick short step was just adding the white shine to the eye, all that was nessacary was using the Ellipse tool again but having the stroke and fill set to white. This however is where it went down hill.
You might look at this and go 'hey! thats not the same cat!' its because it isnt, excluding the head. I ran into an issue where when i went to fill the body there was a giant invisible white square, I tried for ages to fix this but only ran into more issues. One of the ways I tried to fix the problem was entirely redoing the body, which is why the shape changed so drastically. After googling and searching for solutions and finding naught I decided on just making the cat white, which wasnt my plan but it was the only thing I could think of.
As for the coloring I added an inner ear and redid the nose, setting the stroke and line to two diffrent pinks, one dark and one slightly lighter.
My last and final step was adding some sort of shadow, as the body is nearly fully incolorable I went for adding a shadow to the bottom of the cat and the front leg. You can actually see a bit of the problem square on the front leg shadow. It is incredibly fustrating.
This above is the final version of my design. Though not entirely happy with the outcome ( because of the coloring issues ) Its cute enough and i think it demonstrates my learning. I also seperated what I could into layers.
Overall, the most difficult and slowest part was definitly the coloring process I chose the cat because I like cats and know their general anatomy, but I think id choose maybe a building or something next time. I definitly need more practice with the pen tool as its still a bit difficult to wrap my head around.
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Hold it (JJK x Reader) 👽💜☁️🔞
💚 Pairing: Jeon Jungkook x Reader
💚 Genre: Alien AU!, friends to lovers, fluff, angst (!), smut
💚 Warnings: (oh boy) soft boi kook, sex talk, angst, miscommunication, small argument, mentions of an animal attack, mentions of blood and a bite wound, aggressive Kookie, you all finally get your nasty time, soft sex, soft!dom Kookster, size kink, strength kink, marking, biting, bruising, manhandling, mentions of attempted masturbation, big dick kook, kook basically has an alien dick what y’all want from me, you wanted this don’t ever forget that, knotting(in a sense, like his dick inflates when he cums lol), lots of cum, transluscent tentacle action, squirting, soft confession, unprotected sex because they can’t reproduce, this is an alien Au pls use condoms in real life thank you, mildly possessive kook, aftercare, messy sex
💚 Summary: The world is literally ending. In a last effort to save earth, the race of Alcor demands humanities planet to be given into their care, as humans have been slowly killing the planet for way too long. But it’s humanity we’re talking about; they never give up without a fight. Even if they should.
Part of the Alien!JK series!
Catch it | Hold it | Keep it | Save it | ???
Jungkook's and your relationship slowly became.. more and more intimate you could say.
He'd openly talked about his romantic interest in you several times before, and you've grown quite fond of him as well over the course of time. You've learned that Alcorians had no understanding of sarcasm whatsoever, and typically spoke quite bluntly and openly about what they thought. It was seen as charming if you were able to speak without holding back anything, and it was something your shy self had to get used to first. Jungkook however had studied quite a lot about humans however, so by now, he was a self-proclaimed expert in human behavior. You had to admit though, he did do his homework.
Whenever Namjoon was over to check up on you, (something he had to, since it was a rule made by the alcorian government to check up on humans every month to make sure they're treated well) Jungkook proudly explained to him what he'd learned about your kind, almost like a kid showing a new drawing. He even went out to find cookbooks that described human desserts and treats just to learn how to make some of your favorite thing. It was endearing, really.
You also found out more layers of his personality.
He was incredibly sensitive to smells and fabrics, all of his blankets having a specific soft but not too soft feeling to them. He liked sweet and gentle smells, and always told you that your 'main smell' as he called it, was absolutely his favorite. Alcorians had heightened senses Namjoon had explained to you, which was why Jungkook easily picked up on things that you stayed oblivious to.
He loved if you wore his jackets or sweaters, and he most recently bought you a delicate locket bracelet with his information on it. It was beautifully made and looked great- but you still wore the collar he'd give you most of the time. When he'd asked you once you had explained to him that it was a comfort thing for you- other alcorians could easily spot that you were claimed, and wouldn't look at you funny. He'd smiled at that, and had also made sure to hug you a lot that night.
It took him a while to grow confident enough in his own ability to restrain himself during the night to let you sleep in the same bed as him. He'd been absolutely scared shitless that he'd roll you over in his sleep, but you'd assured him that he didn't move that much, so it would be fine. What he was still completely terrified of, it seemed like, was intimacy.
Now, you both had been getting as far as kissing. He loved the gesture, and loved to kiss you randomly during the day- that wasn't the issue. But whenever you tried to get him to do something more- he found some reason to simply book it before he could let himself be swept away.
And you were growing frustrated.
It wasn't that you couldn't wait for it, or that you were desperate- you could definitely give him time, if he'd finally tell you clearly if he even wanted that with you. If you thought about it, you didn't even know if Alcorians had sex like humans. Maybe they didn't do it like that, maybe they had some odd form of ritual or whatever- you had no idea, and you refused to talk to namjoon about it of all people. You knew that he would probably explain it to you, in quite detail since alcorians were like that, but you somehow wanted Jungkook to explain it to you instead. Yeah, maybe you should ask him about it- or maybe you could be difficult.
So as you laid on the bed that was way too big for you, you simply let your mind wander, having a bit of time for yourself. And as any sex-deprived human being, you decided to let your fantasies take over your mind, uncaring about Jungkook- since he'd been out for a bit, meeting up with a friend he'd said.
You wondered what he'd look like. In a lot of ways, alcorians were very similar to humans- but you somehow had a feeling that there had to be something different about their anatomy if you couldn't reproduce like Namjoon had once mentioned. Judging from his accidental boner a few days ago, you had quite the suspicion that he was.. well packaged, to say the least. He'd been a bit embarrassed about it when you'd shyly pointed it out, and ever since then, he'd made sure to get up earlier than you to avoid you seeing his morning wood, something that you'd told him was completely normal, and not at all something to be ashamed of. He seemed a bit nervous every time you brought that topic up, however, which did make you wonder.
Maybe he just wasn't into you like that? Or maybe he was a rough person in bed. The thought of that made your spine shudder, a spark igniting inside you as your mind came up with images of his hands holding your wrists above your head, those sweet lips of his tracing your skin and leaving prints of invisible fire behind. Your hand slowly wandered lower, fingers pushing against your clothed core as you practically heard him purr into your ear how good you were being for him. Was he possessive? Was he dominant? Or was he gentle and sweet? You couldn't know.
"Y/N I-" He suddenly stood in the door, making you yelp as you quickly pulled the covers over you. A useless action really, since you didn't even get to undress yourself- thankfully. If he would've arrived any later, it would've been so much more awkward. "Are you okay?" He asked, genuine and almost innocent concern in his voice as he looked at you.
This was so fucking awkward.
You could practically feel your cheeks heat up as the embarrassment hit you, realization that you almost masturbated in his bed of all places taking over your mind as you tried to come up with something to talk yourself out of it. "Yeah, yeah! Nothing wrong just eh.. tired." You said, not meeting his gaze as his brows furrowed, now fully taking you in.
You were shy about something, that much he knew. He'd studied your body language by now to a point were he knew that you were okay, but uncomfortable. Your cheeks were tinted a flushed pink, eyes not meeting his as you squeezed the sheets in your hands, legs underneath the covers moving restlessly. His eyes widened as he finally took in every aspect of the situation. Your breath was still a bit quicker than usual, the shyness, and the smell that hung in the air.
"Were you.. pleasuring yourself?" He asked, pupils dilated now that he had connected the dots. You'd been touching yourself in his bedroom, on his bed, while he hadn't been there. Why would you do that? Did you not want him like that? Did he make you uncomfortable?
"I uh.. Oh god this is so awkward." You said, dropping your face into your hands as Jungkook stepped closer, before sitting on the bed, across from you.
"Namjoon had explained to me that humans do that to feel good." He said, gaze never wavering from you as he continued. "But he also said that you only do that when you don't have a partner." He continued, now leaning forwards a bit, voice a bit whiny as he seemed confused. "You have me though? Why would you do that alone if you have me?" He asked, and you just wanted to disappear as you bit your lip, trying to explain it to him without making it sound awkward.
"Jungkook we.. we do that to mainly feel close to, you know, romantic partners." You explained, making his brows furrow even further. "Humans don't, you know, always need to go the full way." You said, as he intently listened. "Touching each other is also a way to feel close." You said, and he suddenly seemed hurt.
"So you don't see me as a romantic partner, is that it?" He said, and you could've sworn, if he had dog ears they would hang low right now with the look he has on his face. "You don't like me enough." He finalized, as you shook your head frantically.
"No Jungkook, I do like you, more than anybody just-" You tried, as his eyes got a bit more hopeful. "Its just hard to explain-" You started, as he cut you off.
"Teach me then. Show me." He said. "I want to know the human way." He almost pleaded, as you sighed.
"Jungkook, its not like I don't want to teach you.." You started, as you looked down. "We humans get uhm.. attached really quickly if we do that with a person. It's like giving away a part of yourself, you know?" You said, and he suddenly grew gentle, now fully realizing what you were on about.
"I-" He began, as he suddenly almost looked shy. "We couldn't do that anyways." He confessed, as you looked at him in question. "I'd hurt you. Thats why I want to, you know, touch you." He explained to you, a finger hesitantly running over the skin on the back of your hand. "I want to be as close to you as I can without having to worry about hurting you.." He murmured, as you took his hand in yours.
"You'd never hurt me Jungkook. I trust you-" You began, but he suddenly shook his head, serious expression on his face as he avoided your gaze.
"No." He said, slowly getting up. "Let's forget this conversation happened, okay?" He said, and you watched helplessly as he left the room. "I'll uhm.. go start dinner." He threw your way before leaving you alone with your thoughts.
Things were tense between you and jungkook these days.
So tense in fact, that Namjoon noticed it.
"So, I'd say you're quite healthy. Jungkook takes really good care of you I see." He said with a gentle smile, making you reciprocate it in good manner. "However, I kind of have to address the elephant in the room here, as humans would say." He said, and Jungkook furrowed his brows.
"Who or what is an elephant?" He asked, and you giggled at that.
"Doesn't matter. What does however is, that I sense something wrong between you two." Namjoon said, as Jungkook suddenly got very defensive. In all honesty, it shocked you a bit, since you've never seen him like that before.
"That doesn't concern you at all Namjoon." He said, as the elder one suddenly shook his head.
"It does if it affects Y/N's mental health, which it could, in the long run." He stated, making Jungkooks eyes widen.
"Namjoon- I'm fine-" You tried, a hand reaching out for his shoulder as Jungkook dashed forwards, prohibiting you from touching him as he held your hand, a bit too tightly as you whinced, making him snap out of whatever daze he seemed to be in. He however, seemed surprised as well at his outburst.
"That's what I mean." Namjoon said, putting his equipment away. "Have you two had intercourse yet?" He bluntly asked, and you looked at him scandalized, as if he'd just told you your mom was fat. Jungkooks pupils contracted again at that, ready to bark back an angry comment, as Namjoon pushed against the youngers chest. "I assume you didn't, judging by that reaction." He commented, making you want to hide. Why were alcorians so.. blunt. "Jungkook, you either have to find yourself a partner, or I'll have to take her out of your care soon." He stated, and you almost gasped as Jungkook suddenly grew tense as well.
"W-why, you just said I take good care of her-!" He argued, making Namjoon nod.
"You do, but at the same time-" He said, gaze pointing at your now red wrist hidden with your other hand. "-but you're also a danger to her as long as you are as frustrated as you are now." He explained, making jungkook grow serious. "I can't help you with that decision. However, please keep in mind that you're not the only ones that have this form of romantic involvement. What keeps you from involving yourself Jungkook?" He asked the younger, who didn't dare look at you in that moment.
"I'll hurt her Namjoon-" He said, frustrated. "And I honestly really don't want to talk about my sexual involvement with her, thank you very much." He grumbled out between gritted teeth, eyes holding an almost aggressive stare as he looked at the elder one.
"You mean your lack thereof." Namjoon dared to say with a raised eyebrow, as Jungkook suddenly jumped up, grabbing the older one's bag and walking towards the door as he opened it with force, face clearly showing that he'd just crossed a line for him.
"I mean that it's time for you to go, Namjoon." He pressed out, as Namjoon sighed, getting up to walk out, getting no time to say goodbye.
It was probably better that way anyways.
Things did not get better after this.
Just like Namjoon had worried about, Jungkook slowly became more and more jumpy around you, leaving you alone more and more, as if he needed to distance himself from you. Did he finally grow tired of you? Did he really suffer? Maybe you should just leave him alone for a bit you decided, walking out of the apartment and down the busy streets of the town, aimlessly walking around as you watched other alcorians go after their day. You saw couples, alcorian and mixed, walking hand in hand or simply side by side, an elderly pair watching some young kids running around with a balloon like toy, and a group of friends it seemed, happily chatting away. You spotted some streetfood, sighing internally at forgetting your tiny wallet Jungkook had given you, always containing a bit of money so you could buy yourself a snack whenever you went out. You watched as some uniformed teenagers ran towards the train station- or something that looked quite similar. It worked a bit differently, but Jungkook had once explained that alcorians had been monitoring human inventions for centuries now, taking a lot of inspiration from them.
It all felt a bit sad to you now.
Maybe you were finally growing homesick after your months of living here, or maybe it was the added fuel of Jungkooks slow but steady detachment from you that simply hurt you. But it made you feel almost hollow, and you decided you hated that feeling.
All of this felt so surreal to you.
First you loose your home, then your entire planet, and now you were close to being alone again. Why did that make you so upset though? You'd been living on your own for years now, only having fleeting friendships and a single puppy love back in school. You had no intentions of growing attached to someone, you'd sworn yourself to be independent when your mom had thrown you out years ago- but here you were, almost crying over an alien boy who'd took you in simply because he'd taken pity on you. It all felt like a sick joke.
Something in your pocked buzzed, making you snap out of your thoughts as you fished for the device, Jungkooks face smiling at you as it showed him calling. You wanted to accept the call as if out of habit, but you resisted. Maybe it was better not to.
You put it away again, getting up from the bench you'd been sitting on as you continued walking towards nowhere, suns slowly dipping low as the skies became purple and fiery red, signaling the return of night. You should turn around by now, you knew this. Alcorian nights were not only chilly but downright icy- way too cold for your fragile body, as Jungkook always said before wrapping one of his scarfs around you.
The steady buzz in your pocket was getting annoying, as you took it out, only to see that he didn't call. In fact, he'd been writing messages? Jungkook never texted.
'Where are you little one?'
'Are you mad at me?'
'Did I do something wrong? I swear I didn't mean to!'
'Please, its getting dark, where are you? Are you wearing your coat at least?'
'I'm sorry, whatever I did, please. I'm worried little one!'
You looked at the messaged with increasing guilt as another one rolled in.
'Please come home.'
You sighed, dialing his number as you wrapped your unoccupied arm around yourself, the chill now seeping into your bones slowly. Jungkook almost immediately picked up, voice breathless as if he'd run a marathon. You could faintly hear people talking in the background, and his boots on the ground as he.. ran?
"Finally! Please, where are you, I'm so worried-" He said, and you slowly felt your teeth clatter against each other as you shivered.
"I uh.. I don't know, honestly." You admitted, and Jungkook seemed to stop in his tracks.
"What do you see around you?" He asked, voice serious as you looked around.
"I- a small store, but it seems closed. There's like, a road and uhm.. a lot of plants. Looks like a forest?" You said, before something caught your eye. "There's uhm.. Something looking at me?" You said, and Jungkooks inner alarm bells were immediately ringing.
"Is there a sign that says 'Malvor' on it?" He asked, and you confirmed with a worried voice.
"Yeah uhm and- there's a dog-like thing now walking towards me?" You said, and Jungkook answered instantly.
"Dog..? Dog-! Y/N, get away from it, but dont run." He said seriously, making you swallow as you watched the creature with huge ears stalk towards you, visibly interested. It didn't seem all that harmful. "Little one, answer me. Did you get what I said?" He asked, and you answered.
"Yeah yeah I got it eh.. I'm.." You started, as suddenly, the.. dog? Whatever it was, jumped forwards, making you drop your phone as its teeth latched onto your shirt, quickly loosing interest in the fabric as it decided to take your arm instead- spiky teeth immediately breaking skin as you yelped out, trying to open its mouth with your unoccupied hand. The commotion was loud enough to lure out an alcorian man nearby, who gruffly threw stray pebbles at the animal, scaring it off after a moment.
"Fuck- are you okay?" The stranger asked, bright cateyes looking down at you as he turned around. "Joon! Come down!" He yelled, as you looked into the direction with teary eyes, spotting- Namjoon?
"Oh Y/N- what happened?" He asked, suddenly visibly worried as he looked at you, immediately helping you up and leading you inside the house nearby that seemed to be his apartment. He looked different, now that he didn't wear his work attire. He almost looked domestic. "Set her down there, I'll go get a first aid kit." He said, before you were led to sit on a couch, the person that threw pebbles before sitting down next to you.
"I'm Jin. We'll fix you right up, okay?" He softly said, voice gentle and reminding you of the store owner down on earth who always let you roam around inside the store during winter. "Don't cry, it's gonna be okay. Encounters with Velvens can be scary yeah?" He consoled you, hands holding your arm gently as he waited for Namjoon to get everything he needed. You sniffled, trying not to cry, but it got harder the more you tried not to look down. As soon as you did, you began to feel nauseous as Jin pulled at your chin. "No no no don't look sweetheart." He said, before Namjoon came downstairs.
"These things are getting progressively more daring these days." He mumbled as he took out scissors to cut the sleeve of your shirt. "I tell you, it's because that damn lady feeding those goddamn things!" He complained, as Jin sighed. You looked at him for a second, taking in his appearance. He had broad shoulders, and an absolutely charming face- his bright eyes contrasting his dark hair as he held a gentle smile on his plush lips, trying to calm you down it seemed. "I'll give you a tiny injection okay? Its to numb your arm, or otherwise it'll hurt too bad." Namjoon explained, and you nodded, even though you were internally terrified. "one two- there we go!" He hummed out, Jin steadily running his hand over your back as he watched you.
"You're so brave young lady." He complimented, velvet voice helping a bit to ease your worry. It wasn't just your encounter with whatever that thing was, but also the fact that for the first time, you were somewhere without Jungkook- and it made you extremely anxious to say the least. Thats when you remembered your phone.
"My phone-" You began, before someone knocked at the door- or more like, tried to kick it in, it seemed. The voice that rang through the room through the door however, was familiar to your ears.
"Y/N! Namjoon, Jin, have you seen her?! There's- oh god there's blood out here-" He said worried, as Jin slowly stood up, opening the door as he simply pointed towards your form, sitting on the couch as Namjoon cleaned the bite wound. At the sight of him, all worried and out of breath, the guilt suddenly flooded your mind as you teared up, finally cracking up as the tears ran down your cheek, a sob escaping you as you began to cry. "Oh little one-" He immediately said, running towards you.
Jin looked from you to Jungkook worried. "Why is she crying now? Is she scared?" He asked confused, as the second oldest in the room shook his head.
"Probably the shock. It's normal for humans, they're a bit more sensitive to these things, remember?" He said softly, as Jin nodded.
Jungkook didn't seem to care about what was said as he squatted down next to Namjoon, hand running over your head before it cupped your cheek, his eyes blown wide open as he looked at you, then at the wound. "She's gonna be okay right?" He asked, and Namjoon nodded.
"It pulled a bit on her arm, which did a good amount of damage, but its only a surface wound, surprisingly." He explained. "I'll stitch the biggest spots, and bandage it." He said, and Jungkook nodded. "You'll be able to do it afterwards if you watch me do it, right?" He asked, and Jungkook nodded, serious, as he held your other hand. He sat down, close to you, as he now took over Jins earlier part of rubbing your back. "And there we go." Namjoon said, as he finished it. "I'd give you pain medicine but I don't have anything for humans. I'll give you some kids medication instead. That should be fine." He explained, as he gave Jungkook a small package. "Please keep an eye on her from now on. She's gotten away this time, and I wont ask why she was so far away from you in the first place. But the next time this happens, I will have to report it Jungkook." He said, making Jungkook lower his head as he nodded.
He took off his jacket as he threw it over your shoulders, picking you up as he said his goodbyes to Jin and Namjoon, walking out with you in his arms.
"Jungkook?" You carefully asked one night, making him humm as he confirmed that he was listening. "I.. want to know." You said, and it took him a moment until he turned on the light beside the bed, leaning on his arm as he looked at you questioningly. "You said, you're sure you'd hurt me. I wanna know why." You said, and he sighed, before he sat up.
"I uhm.." He started, as he scratched the back of his neck. "I'ts just, not gonna fit." He explained, as you tried to push your shyness to the side.
"But you know.. we haven't tried yet-" You began, as he shook his head.
"I said no." He sternly said, making you visibly deflate as he sighed again.
"I.. we could still, you know.." He began, and you looked at him, as he seemed to struggle a bit with his words. "I know you want to be close to me, and I want that too." He said, and you sat up now as well, looking at him.
"It's okay if you want to be with someone else-" You began, but he groaned, as if he was frustrated.
"No! Now I get why you left that day.." He held your head in his hands as he looked at you with gentle eyes. "I don't want anyone else that's not you little one." He confessed, and you just stared, as he leaned in, connecting his lips with yours.
Usually, his kisses were more like little pecks, small gestures of affection, never to lead to anything else. But this time, he asked for it. It was as if he'd let himself loose, kissing you fully for the first time, not backing away like typically when you leaned in with need. He parted your lips with his tongue, hands lowering themselves as they moved over your arms, resting on your thighs as he closed his eyes, loosing himself in the feeling of you. He finally moved around a bit, laying you down on your back as he towered over you, body shielding you away from the world as his hands finally explored your bare skin underneath the small layer of clothing you wore, chuckling as you whined when his hand softly squeezed one of your breasts, loving the soft feeling of it. "You're so cute." He whispered, making you squirm underneath him as his breathing quickened, holding himself back from absolutely ruining you.
He suddenly took off his shirt, helping you out of yours as he growled at the fact that you didn't wear a bra at all to sleep. It didn't really bug him usually, but now, he wondered how he managed to contain himself next to you for all these nights next to you, the only thing between his and your skin a mere piece of fabric. Your skin was pure sin underneath his fingertips as he felt himself twitch inside his sweats. He needed to get out of them.
He helped you out of your shorts, taking your underwear with them as his gaze got stuck on the small strand of glistening wetness clinging to the fabric of your panties. It was a clear sign how aroused you were, and it was an absolute compliment towards him in his own eyes- the fact that he could rile you up like this so quickly made him feel proud in a way. He growled almost at the sight, hand immediately finding its way downwards as his fingers teasingly running over your folds, his face showing how mesmerized he was by your body's reaction to him.
There was a reason alcorian woman were envious of human ones- and Jungkook finally found some reasoning behind the 'human-kink' going on with the arrival of your race on his homeplanet. Your body just screamed fertility at him, and it made him desperate as he finally got rid of the last pieces of clothing.
You didn't quite know what you were expecting, but your mind was empty as you made eye contact with his painfully erect length.
He was practically oozing precum at this stage, standing proudly as you somehow understood now where his worries came from. To be quite blunt about it, he looked quite normal, a little bigger even for his own body height, apart from the soft looking growth on the base of himself. "It looks odd to you, doesn't it?" He saig as he chuckled a bit hesitantly, having watched your reaction to him. You shook your head however, smiling as you reached for his shoulders, pulling him down again as you kissed his lips. He smiled into it, hands never leaving your skin as you felt him against your inner thigh, growing uneasy that he was so close- but still too far away.
"Hm I told you no little one.." He hummed against your neck as he left open mouthed kisses there, teasingly biting the skin there from time to time as you whined. "But there's other things we can do, don't worry.." He whispered, as he suddenly moved you a bit, careful not to be too rough as he lined your wet center up, the back of your thighs leaning on top of his as he sat on his knees, his cock resting between your lower lips. He almost let out a whine at the feeling of your warmth just underneath him as he simply let his length move over your core as you mewled at the feeling of him rubbing over your clit. He squeezed his eyes shut, summoning all his self control as he dropped down, hands gripping your thighs, yet gentle enough not to seriously hurt you.
He suddenly shifted again, leaning down with his chest first onto the mattress first as he threw your legs over his shoulders, leaking core exposed to him as he licked a stripe up your folds, teasing you as you tried to keep your legs apart. He hummed against you, making you whine out pleadingly as he entered a finger of his, groaning at the feeling of you already clenching around him. "You're so soft little one.." He praised, adding another finger as he began to stretch you out, making you grasp the sheets below you in desperate fists. Digit after digit he tested the waters, stretching you out more and more as you became restless, suddenly tensing up as you felt yourself close. "My little human gonna cum?" He questioned, leaning his head on the inside of your upper thigh as he began to stimulate your most sensitive bundle of nerves, watching in absolute adoration as you suddenly mewled out, core clenching around nothing as he slowed down his movements, letting you ride it out. He smiled down at you as he gently placed your legs back down, giving you a moment to breathe as you looked at him, or his still very uncomfortable looking errection between his legs.
"Please koo.. lets just try-" You began, as he furrowed his brows, gasping as your fingers reached down, barely reaching the sensitive head of his member as he tried to deny your request.
He couldn't.
"I'll.. You have to tell me when its too much, please-" He pleaded, and you nodded frantically, happy to finally have him give you everything you wanted. "Okay, okay.." He chanted, as if to calm himself down, his tensed up thighs a clear sign of his own frustration. He slowly aligned himself with your core, gently pressing his head into your patiently waiting hole, as you closed your eyes, trying to not concentrate on the sting. "Shh.. please relax little one-" He chanted as he took it as slow as possible. "Please relax, I won't get it in if you're too tense baby.." He said, the petname making you melt under his gaze as you took a deep breath, slowly loosening up for him as he was slowly able to push himself inside more and more, watching as he could see himself slightly move inside you just underneath your lower belly.
He didn't know why exactly, but he loved the sight of it.
You looked to absolutely adorable in a way, speared on his length as he rubbed his thumbs over your hipbones, careful as ever not to make it too painful for you. "You're taking me so well, you're so perfect for me.." He hummed out, as you suddenly twitched underneath him when his weird small growth touched your sensitive clit, making him chuckle. "You know.." He suddenly said, voice deep and dark as you felt yourself shiver. "They say human females can cum multiple times.." He explained, making you open your eyes a bit in question. "I wonder if that's just a rumor?" He mused, watching you as you looked a bit confused. "Alcorian girls rarely ever cum.." He explained, as you slowly connected the pieces, somehow understanding what he was saying. You'd heard that before as well, that Alcorians had a hard time really getting pregnant and since woman rarely ever orgasmed, men had to step up their game evolution wise Namjoon had said, but you hadn't really asked what he meant by that. But now that you've noticed it, it did make sense; the weird stimulating.. whatever that was, the amount of precum that seemed almost ridiculous for human standards- it made you wonder what else he was hiding.
"There we go.." He finally said, not fully inside, but knowing that this was as far as he could go with you. There was no way he could fit himself inside you fully, and he knew that. He simply let yourself adjust for a moment, before he moves, a moan leaving him as he bit his lip, trying to keep his pace slow and steady for you as you arched your back enticingly, making him grab at your chest. "You're so- enchanting-" He gasped out between breaths, an almost sobbing sound escaping him without tears as he finally realized how close he was with you. He was connected in the most intimate of ways, and he could finally see why humans found pleasure in an act as basic as this.
You felt like home, warm and comforting.
You became a bit jumpy as something foreign seemed to touch you- warm and gentle, but you couldn't quite make out it's shape or form. It was blurred, as if summer heat was distorting the scene for you, and you wondered immediately if this was just your imagination. But Jungkook noticed your confusion immediately it seemed, smiling a bit shyly at you. "They're uhm.." He tried to think of a good way to explain it while having foggy thoughts, still buried so deep inside you. "we call them ferons.." He hummed, and you reached out, fingers immediately retracting at the weird feeling of them. "They're usually.. not visible-" He gasped out, chuckling at the way you seemed so interested in them. "They're ah-.. they're a remnant of when we uh.. had to survive on our own." He explained, as one of them gently moved over your ribs, a touch similar to warm water- just without the wet feeling. It was more like a red warming lamp shining on your skin. "They must be weird to you, hm?" He asked, head dipping down as you smiled, hand finding its way into his hair as you closed your eyes again, letting yourself go into his care without worry.
"Nothing about you is weird to me, Jungkook." You hummed out, and he kissed your skin in exchange.
As if to thank you silently for accepting him.
His lips parted, face dipped down to mouth at your neck, as he breathlessly pleaded. "Can I mark you?" He chanted, as if he was in a trance. "Please let me mark you.. please little one, let me make you mine.." He said, and you nodded, unknowing to what exactly you'd just agreed to.
You found out quite quickly, as he suddenly took a small bit of skin between his teeth, now biting with much more force until he tasted a slight taste of iron on his tongue, leaving marks all along your neck and collarbone, bruises already blooming to blossom into beautiful shades of purples and greens, his mark staying behind for a long time. He smiled as if he was high, loosing himself in the feeling of your body underneath him as you suddenly quivered, whining out as you pushed your head into the mattress below you, making your back arch as he continued at his pace, going a bit faster as something moved over your clit, something holding your hips in place as you suddenly snapped, orgasm rushing through you as you finally flew over the edge, your thighs trembling as you felt wetness escape you, making him release a sound that sounded awfully like a growl.
Suddenly he came- and you felt like you were splitting into two.
Something was happening inside you, growing in size, as he was suddenly locked in place it seemed, hands carefully running over your head as he started to frantically console you. "It's okay, its okay.." He repeated in a soothing way as you felt him spill inside you to no end it seemed, feeling how he stretched you even more inside. You felt like you'd burst any second. "Ngh.. you're taking it so well, so good, so perfect.." He exhaled, letting his forehead fall against your shoulder as he breathed heavily. "You're okay, you're fine.." He hummed as he slowly felt you calm down as he stayed still, waiting for his cock to soften up again and deflate, as he kissed your cheeks, your nose, your lips in absolute adoration, warm ferons warming up your still shivering legs. "My god you're so sweet-" He murmured. "So absolutely perfect-" He continued. "And mine.. only mine.. my little human.." He sang almost as he kissed the marks he'd left behind.
It felt odd as he finally softened up, cum instantly seeping out of you as he was able to comfortably slip out of you. You whined at the empty feeling and he cooed at you. "I'm so sorry- I originally was planning on pulling out before that happened, but then you... did that and-" He chuckled, as he kissed your nose again, making you giggle. "I love you." He confessed, and you opened your eyes, gaze locking with his.
"I love you too."
"You could've warned me of your.. weird invisible tentacles and all that-" You started randomly as he threw his head back, cheeks dursted pink as he held his hands over his face in embarrassment.
"Stop-!" He whined, as you laughed your heart out.
"I thought you alcorians didn't feel shame all that much about this stuff?" You teased, as he looked at you, playfully angry stare sent your way, before he got up from his spot, throwing you over his shoulder.
"Oh I'm gonna show you how unashamed we are."
#bts imagine#bts#bts fanfic#bts fic#bts smut#jungkook imagine#bts jungkook#jeon jungkook#jungkook#bts reactions#Alcoria AU
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Dishonored and/or bioshock!!! Whichever you like best!!
AAAAAA im going with dishonored bc its the original game that had me on a death grip, still does!!!
Favorite character:
CORVO my blorbina....also Daud my soaping wet meow meow, Samuel too bc go grandpa!!! Delilah, Billie and Liz also go here, other too
Least favourite character:
Trevor, i wish i could trip him while he walks by. Also havelock bc hes a militar.
5 favorite ships (canon or non canon):
Corvo/Daud, Corvo/Jess, whatever piero and sokolov have going on i guess ajdhkfkd but im not much for shipping except those i think
Character i find most attractive:
Jessamine and Delilah are soooo pretty!! Lady Boyle and the Moth lady at the party are also beautiful. As for the men they are all a lil ugly :/ except corvo my man youre absolutely delicious. I FORGOT DAUD hes a little bit yknow 😳
Characters I would marry:
Corvo 😊
Character i would be best friends with:
Samuel, Cecelia, Lydia and some of the whalers.
A random thought:
I used to overanalyse the whale's anatomy and evolution progress. The fact that they have scars and teeth leads me to think they are carnivorous and can possibly be even bigger than the ones they catch. Do they have biologists at the academy? Sokolov you old hag let me in-
An unpopular opinion:
I cant remember where i read this part but i like the idea that the outsider is perpetually stuck in his teens, since he was 15 more or less when he became the outsider. Which might explain a bit his fascination, curiosity and overall snooping and weird antics, hes a weird teen.
Also lady boyles non lethal option 😐 whaddahell
My canon otp:
Jessamine/corvo i guess, theres not many canon ships nice enough to ship
My non-canon otp:
Corvo/daud bc i think long suffering old dilfs with difficult emotions should kiss and stab a little
Most badass character:
Corvo, Daud, Lizzy, Billie aaand im probably missing someone FUCKING AJFHJS SAMUEL WHO DRIVES US EVERYWHERE NO MATTER WHAT
Most epic villain:
Delilah she served cunt and could have almost gotten away with everything without corvo knowing
Pairing im not a fan of:
Any pairing with the outsider or teague, also daud/billie or the whalers....
Character i feel the writers screwed up:
Lady Boyle probably? Thats the only one i can think of bc everyone else was written well enough that i cant complain about screw ups
Favourite friendship:
Samuel and corvo is so nice when its low chaos...samuel is a ray of hope and hes always encouraging corvo, i appreciate those moments.
Character i most identify with:
Oof i dont think i can identify with anyone...cecelia could be the closest or samuel maybe
Character i wish i could be:
Corvo bc he gets to have a mask and powers but at what cost man....
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can’t remember if you’ve been asked this before, but do you have any advice for how to improve with drawing anatomy? what’s helped you improve the most?
Howdy! Well, I mean Im still figuring out my workflow, but here's some tips ive picked up over the years I guess!
Id say the most important thing is gesture drawing! I know a LOT of artists reccomend it but it really does help. Pause movies! Pause videos! Draw the poses in about 30 seconds, and then move on. I tend to get hung up on one drawing, so just scrapping the drawing all together when youre done is helpful (dont waste paper tho dhshdhd I know its expensive so just do that if youre drawing digital).
Second most important, understand why things are the way they are. If you drawing arms for example, draw the muscles and label them. Draw the bones. That way, youve know where things are and know the limits of what they can do. Don't get hung up on shading or whatnot; move quickly enough to gain memory of strokes.
And remember, theres only so much you can learn in a day. Spend maybe 10-30 minutes a day studying anatomy, and you'll impove MUCH faster than when you spend hours a day on only a few drawings.
I tend to draw very quickly because I have very little patience NDJSJJD but honestly, it'll all about finding rhythm?? I guess???
Also!! Take references of yourself!! Or ask someone else who is with you to pose for you. Its fun, and it'll provide good references for a very specific pose.
Also I suggest gesture drawing the head! Faces are the hardest part for me, but just allowing myself to make scribbly, ugly expressions on paper is funny and freeing.
ALSO I dont find it helpful to draw the model exactly how I see them. Use WIDE strokes and a very loose hand. Otherwise, i find it difficult to draw from imagination later
One last thing, I find it helpful to draw silhouettes in thick marker! It really helps with composition.
But yea, overall, just have fun! You learn faster by allowing mistakes!! Took me a VERY long time to realize that. So yea, thats it I kinda gotta say on basic tips for that
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AAAAAAAAAAA I CANT WAIT FOR “THY CREATURE”!! (it reminds me to continue play mazm: jnh but thats for another time).
so in anticipation i will share my thoughts and my speculations on thy creature and some little things i noticed in the trailer and other materials mazm released. note: i havent played mazm much but however i am just so stoked about a frankenstein game sooooo
ready?
HERE WE GOOOOOO
My Dumbass Thoughts on Thy Creature I Will Regret Posting (as of March 2021)
(SIDE NOTE: I will use he/him pronouns for the creature as the book uses this pronoun for him and in the MazM caption of the post, the pronouns were not explicitly stated or implied)
THE DESIGN OF CREATURE
Honestly? Very good and yet somewhat accurate to the book. As I, vaguely, recollect his description includes “yellowish skin; scars, stitches, long, dark hair; yellowish eyes, 8ft.”
In the MazM ver,
he has lots of scars and stitches
no yellow skin but his current skin is very becoming of the overall aesthetic
long hair but not dark
has a yellow eye
i am not so sure about his height but i conjecture it would be similar to the book
has some cool looking horns!! there is a mysterious, alluded, character whose presence is set up as this big mystery that is continuously hinted at. maybe symbolic of his past or his conflict with himself?
imo, the creature looks very innocent and not as horrid as he was described in the book :> (such a cutie!)
holding a white flower. symbolizing innocence, maybe?
shows some flesh.
GAME MECHANICS
A very fun impression though I might feel very frustrated because of the maze lol (im bad at mazes, i just panic). Not much to comment on
So as we can see, it plays out like a typical mazm game with the whole “approaching other people, seeing their well-designed sprites and reading their dialogue”.
but it introduces unique gameplay
other than what i previously mentioned, we can dodge certain attacks as we travel through a maze
and in some instances (the non maze part), we a little logo of sorts with “x75” beside to it.
maybe that is the number of lives we have
75 is quite the large number, exceedingly odd!
the game might be very difficult or something like that or maybe we only have to complete the game in a single attempt before retrying. idk much about game design lol
its on pc so maybe we will use wasd or the arrow keys to move
TRAILERS, TEASERS AND DETAILS
This is the part where I point out small details and seeing what they could mean and stuff.
Teaser:
at the start of a teaser posted on MazM’s instagram two days ago (Mar. 22), the narrator says “many unbelievable things happen in the world” and we see a fluffy white creature with horns similar to the creature’s and that one mysterious character. as what i have mentioned in the design portion, the creature has a white flower which could mean innocence. the small animal (?) seems to resemble a lamb, a known symbol of innocence. It seems like the theme of innocence will be a recurring theme.
we then see the creature and start the gameplay.
slides of text reads “struggle all you want before i am fair to everyone”... does it mean that the creature will treat everyone else poorly because of his mistreatment by the humans? i am not sure
In the gameplay segment, two black figures, whose silhouettes remind me of a wedding dress, express their concerns over someone (likely male because of the “he/him” pronouns). They say “Poor thing.” and “He needs his mother’s care”. hmmm mother’s care?
also the figures seem to be identical to eachother
after the segment, we see an old man with a scarred eye (maybe de lacey???) and a woman beside him (if the old man is de lacey, maybe agatha is the one beside him).
If my guesses are correct and they are the De Laceys, could they be allies of TC (the creature)?
After the scene w the duo, we see creature and the quote of “Why does she hate me?” Who is she? An OC? heck, maybe fem!Victor? that could be linked with “he needs his mother’s care” (if the quote is referring to tc) but the fem!Victor thing seems QUITE farfetched imo because i am just shooting in the dark w no braincells recovered from school. some of these are just probably from the mazm ver of the creature’s past
also ooo a book at the right-bottom portion and the screen and a counter for how many of those lamb-like creatures (chimeras? parallels to creature? idk)
after they show us a bit of the maze gameplay again, a book which is similar to the book i mentioned, is on the floor.
Maybe the book is actually Victor’s journal which you can collect to know some of the lore
TC approaches the old man and says “I came to help you, why are you frowning at me like that?” It is likely that the old man isnt de lacy because the old man is probably not (fully) blind upon perceiving him. if he is de lacey, theyre taking some “creative liberties” by not rendering him fully blind. grrr i wish i had more context >:((((
then after TC interacts with a book which contains a letter from Ingolstadt. Most likely written to Victor and it speaks of overdue books on human anatomy, etc.
Then some speedy text!! I am not able to procure all of them but I got “I am” and “everyone”.
By 1:01, we see the same mysterious entity with horns similar to the creature (except the horns are even).
There is a family portrait of (possibly) the Frankensteins to the right. I conjecture the woman is Caroline and the boy beside her is victor himself! :D
Anyway, my eyes feel a bit droopy and there is still a trailer but yknow i gtg. so see ya and thank you for enduring my dumb thoughts for this long. youre pretty cool <333
#victor frankenstein#frankenstein#mazm frankenstein#mary shelly's frankenstein#im sorry for this post
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hi amab nb here to answer your questions about amab anatomy o7
like i know its basically a sponge filled with blood so its like..... not *rigid* in the strict sense of the word and is sort of springy but like whats it actually *feel* like
uuh yes and no re: hard? when you get really turned on, it can actually feel hard. Though you could still snap it if you wanted to (and can cause damage doing so). It's not rigid like a metal rod obviously, you can still bend it but not too much before you can actually feel resistance, but it depends on how turned on someone is.
When it's reallly hard I'd compare it to maybe... a finger-sized wooden stick when it comes to hardness?? it gives a lil but Please Don't Keep Trying That. it is more springy at the base still, though. also very warm when hard, because blood. Also, being hard feels a lil bit like tension there? like when you flex a muscle.
also the consistency of balls like..... on a scale of boba pearls to those plastic bouncy balls to like... a metal marble where are they supposed to fall????? like??? or they squishy or????
okay if you're not squeamish look up "testes" online for a graph, though I will warn you that you'll see some actual real testicles, outside of the human body. Anyway, for a description, you got the scrotum, which is the sack, if you will, containing the two testicles inside.
as for how it feels, the scrotum is... very much a bag of flesh filled with fluid? and you have probably seen that the amount of... fullness varies! When you're cold or aroused, they pull closer to the body, making them feem more full and round, while when it's hot or you're relaxed, it is more of a... mostly empty bag with two lumps resting at the bottom dkfhskdgf
So, normally, the scrotum is super soft, it's just a very thin layer of skin. rub a finger over your knuckles and feel the bone beneath, that's comparably thin. so very squishy and zero resistance there. And then you got the testicles which are elongated... orbs inside. They're the sensitive part and a little bit squishy. I do not know why the fuck I'd pick that comparison, but I think of the consistency of a lychee?? which is.. pretty bouncy. I havent had boba in a long time so I can't compare on that scale with confidence but that could come close?? they're not like... bone hard if that's what you mean.
and if you think "fluid-filled sac sounds gross", well! it.. kinda is ngl. like sometimes you can hold them in your palm and you can see the skin.. shift from the fluid? it freaked me out so much as a young teen ngl
this is actually super helpful thank you!! you gave really good examples fihiugh i appreciate it!
my only like...... prior knowledge in regards to testicles was like, rocky mountain oysters and other examples of people actually eating like, cooked animal genitalia (kind of an odd trend if you ask me regardless, especially since it seems to be kind of difficult to prepare in any real appealing way?)
i know ive been posting a bit about like my personal curiosities here but people have been really nice and provided me with good answers so i wanna thank yall for that
your patience with my questions about shit astounds me, yall are wonderful <3
human bodies are weird and i think thats beautiful
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The Fun Part (Tma Analysis)
Heyo! Here's the part two to This, using the data from Here.
Now in part one I give some of my rationalisation as to why certain Entities show up in statements less often than others.
In this one I’ll just be pointing out some interesting things in what the numbers say and/or some rationalization for weird numbers or sometimes just making up a in universe reason for some of Jonny’s writing quirks (Like how if you look at the numbers Jonny just finds ideas for Hunt episodes harder to think of)
Im gonna be breaking this down into seasons
Season 1
In Season 1 the most frequent entities are The Corruption and The Stranger (8 episodes each).
Both of these make sense. The main antagonist of Season 1 is Jane Prentis and having looked at all the Stranger episodes* it is quite clear that it is Jonny setting up for future arcs and plotlines. But that's the boring reason. The fun reason is that The Corruption is ready to perform its ritual and The Stranger is busy setting up for their own ritual and as a result there are plenty of statements within easy reach of Jonathan Sims for these two entities in particular, with two to four times the number of statements of the other entities.
Other notable entities are The Spiral and The Flesh.
Mostly just because they each get a couple more entities than is the usual as ten of the fifteen entities have between two to four episodes. The Spiral gets a bit of a boost from Micheal popping up every now and then and that works for me. The Flesh is a bit weirder I can't really think of a writing reason for it all I can say is that they tend to be quite striking and it's quite clear Jonny had a lot of fun with them and honestly that's fair. But again, boring. One reason could be that as mentioned in the other post there is a bit of a requirement for a statement giver notably they need to be desperate enough and you know still alive to go to the Archives, and these statements** are quite obvious as The Flesh has no patience for subtlety, but still enjoys the act of delaying the suffering.
And the final segment “What's the Eye Doing?”
The reason i'm including this is because Ive noticed that the Eye is strange in that it is the most popular entity over all of the show but is not the most frequent in most of the seasons. So Im just gonna keep an eye on it.
The Eye shows up in three episodes: 12 First Aid, 23 Schwartzwald and 40 Human Remains, and of these only really the Mag 23 is the only real statement about it I just find this interesting no real notes about it though.
*1 Angler Fish, 2 Do Not Open, 3 Across The Street, 24 Strange Music, 28 Skin Tight, 34 Anatomy Class, 39 Infestation, 40 Human Remains
** 5 Thrown away, 14 Piecemeal, 17 The Boneturner's Tale, 18 The Man Upstairs, 20 Desecrated host, 30 Killing Floor
Season 2
Now sure this season has three entities (The Stranger, The Buried and The Spiral) that have more episodes than the others and I will talk about them but what stands out more than anything else is just how spread out it is. I mean with the exception of those three and the Extinction the rest have between two to four with half of them having four and Hell even The Extincion gets one. This is by far the most fair the spread ever gets. Here’s the spread:
6: Stranger, Buried, Spiral
4: Desolation, Dark, End, Web, Eye
3: Vast, Flesh, Corruption
2: Hunt, Slaughter, Lonely
1: Extinction
So Why the Stranger, Buried and Spiral
Again the Stranger is being set up for season three and are working on their ritual, not to mention the presence of NotSasha gives a sizable boost. The Spiral is a bit stranger but at this point Micheal is still running around and this gives it the needed boost. The Buried is the only one that is not immediately obvious, after looking through the episodes* it still baffles me, as far as I can tell it's due to the focus on the Tunnels. It could be that Jonathan in an attempt to understand the Tunnels tried to find similar statements and as a result the trend developed.
The Extinction?
So season 2 has the first mention of number 15, well maybe it does. See the thing with most of the Extinction’s manifestations is that it could maybe be something else entirely. The Extinction episode of the season is 65 Binary and might be the Spiral instead but the focus on a new type of life and technology means that it is very difficult to say really.
What's the Eye Doing?
The Eye falls right into the average place in the hierarchy for the season with four episodes. Those being: 53 Crusader, 60 Observer Effect, 62 First Edition and 79 Hide and Seek. These seem to work to expand what exactly the Eye is. As I said, season 1 kind of lacks this and here Mag 53, 62 and 79 bring up the weirdness of the archivist, whereas Mag 60 explores how the Eye can manifest. But the Eye isn't special every single entity gets fleshed out in season 2.
*41 Too Deep, 50 Foundations, 51 High Definition, 61 Hard Shoulder, 66 Held in Customs, 71 Underground
Season 3
This is the run away season. This one is similar to the previous one but it does skew quite wildly at its end to favour the Stranger, for entirely understandable reasons. But ultimately is still quite fair with only The Eye and The Extinction fall outside the three to five range.
So the Stranger
The Stranger has ten episodes this season and why is quite obvious as the climax of the season revolves around the Stranger. Not much to say here.
Again the Extinction
Now my notes had 114 Cracked Foundation as one of the Extinction episodes but for some reason I can no longer find any mention of it on the Wiki so I have no Idea what happened here. My guess is that in the wake of Mag 196 and 197 this particular entry got a lot of attention and the link with the Extinction removed.
What's the Eye doing?
This is the first season in which the Eye starts to take up the main spotlight with seven episodes. However looking through the statements* and it does not really appear in the statements but rather in the pre and post statement drama, as Jonathan and Elias use their abilities. So as a result the Eye ends up feeling very different compared to the other entities and we don't see the ‘Horror’ of it for a lot of the podcast.
* 82 The Eyewitnesses, 92 Nothing Beside Remains, 105 Total War, 106 A Matter Of Perspective, 117 Testament, 118 The Masquerade, 119 Stranger and Stranger
Season 4
So season four is very, very weird in that the Extinction is the most frequent entity (tied with the Eye). It does make sense as Jonny needs to catch the audience up on what exactly it is as it does not have the breath of work that the other entities have, so as a result Lucas spends his Time telling Martin about it.
Other notable Entities
The Lonely is also quite popular this season with five episodes but that also makes sense due to not only the presence of Lucas but also Martin’s fall into the Lonely. Other than that The Hunt only has one statement* that has to do with it’s ritual. The combination of this and the Extinction’s frequency in this season and the hunts underperformance in other seasons (4 in season 1, 2 from season 2, 3 from season 3 and 1 in this season) means that it has just slightly one more episode than the Extinction. I do cover my rationalisation for this in the other post (Here)
What’s the Eye Doing?
Leading the pack that's what. This season also has what other seasons lack statements that the Eye features in. Now this is probably Jonny finally having the chance to explore the concept properly as it is a bit harder to really understand, but in world it could be due to a combination of Elias trying to keep Jonathan blind and Jonathan trying to explore his new identity as a ful blown avatar and going about it like a baby gay, consuming all media surrounding the topic.
*133 Dead Horse
Season 5
I debated not including this section but hell I'll just add on any updates if it's necessary.
So in this one to (to no one's surprise) the Eye is the golden child in this season after a brief jaunt into a domain for each fear the focus becomes almost entirely Eye focused, and if you want to be technical you can just add the Eye to every single episode but I did not.
The runner up
The Web is definitely making up good numbers especially with how the finally is turning out.
Other notables
The Lonely, Buried and Spiral all get a little above average. Why? Well Martin has to deal with some baggage from Season 4 and Gaslight Girlboss is still running around but the Buried is a bit weird. Again I think jonny just finds it easy to write claustrophobic horror, but again thats boring. So lets have a look* and when I did I noticed that all three of these (and the Eye and Web) all are in 167 Curiosity so that adds a bit to the count. But other than that its clear that it’s easy to add the Buried on top of another entity so its clear that the Eye simply likes how the Buried spices up the other flavours of fear. And then finally the Extinction and Slaughter only get one each (163 In The Trenches and 175 Epoch) and they are the compulsory exploration episodes and unless the finale really is a complete curveball this probably won't change.
What’s the Eye Doing?
Having the time of its god damn life.
*166 The Worms, 167 Curiosity, 184 Like Ants, 185 Locked In, 195 Adrift
#I have too much time#like hell#whose gonna read this#its good I promise#tma#the magnus archives#the magpod#magpod#tma analysis#the eye#the web#the end#the lonely#the buried#the spiral#the desolation#the stranger#the flesh#the corruption#the dark#the hunt#the vast#the slaughter#the extinction
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Neptune
Pairing: Mermaid!Taehyung x Space explorer/Scientist!Reader
Genre: Smut, Angst, Fluff
A/N: I really have nothing to say other than I took this way too far lol I hope you all enjoy it! The ending might be confusing lol send asks if you want to know anything and id love to hear what you thought!
Word count: 16k (yeah that happened)
Warnings: Oral male and female receiving, descriptions of fainting, drowning and death, guns, swearing, (I think thats it, let me know if i missed anything)
Tagging a few of you who seemed excited for this! :) @mischiefmakerliesmith5 @yeontanismypresident @oh-worm-yee-haw @kpopgirlbtssvt @zombiewerewolfqueen
Summary:
No one with legs lived on the surface of Neptune, walkers such as yourself lived on the moons. The spacecrafts that you traveled in constantly moved to and from all of the different moons, but no one ever went down to the surface. That's where the swimmers lived. You’d heard tales of the fishtailed people that swam in the great sea below the moons, some called them mermaids. But no one had ever actually seen one before, well, until now. You and the scientific research team that you had gathered together had built the first spaceship in your people’s history that could go into the waters below. You’d figured you’d snap a few pictures and return within the month, but things didn’t go as planned. Your ship was captured by the swimmers and they seemed just as in awe at you and your team as you were with them. They decided to let you go but only on the condition that you to bring their leading scientist back up to the moons with you, so you could learn from each other. You learn quite a bit from Taehyung, in particular, your anatomy seemed to be his favorite subject…
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Triton was a gloomy and desolate place, but the moons of Neptune were all your people had known. There were a few large cities on each moon, each looking identical to the others, all of the buildings were tall and gray and matched the one sitting next to it. Each neighborhood’s houses looked no different from the one on either side. Original thought and creativity seemed to be scarce in your society.
Even the clothes sold in stores seemed to fall into a range of plain styles and blacks and grays.
Ships flew back and forth between the moon’s daily exchanging supplies. Some citizens worked on other moons during the week and would return to their home moon for the weekends. You were lucky to not have to travel far for your work, in fact, you lived right on the same plot of land in dorms with all the other scientists at your facility.
You were the lead researcher and developer on a new type of shuttle that could fly through space, and also dive into water. You didn’t know too much about the engineering of it all, your studies had all mostly leaned to biology and astronomy and you had dabbled in geology and physics. But, your team had been from all different sciences and studies, so, together you had found many ways to overcome the struggles of its creation.
It was a particularly difficult task, considering Triton didn’t have many places for you to test out the ship you were developing. There were no lakes or big bodies of water.
Your life’s goal, from when you were a small child had always been the same. You’d stare out your window at the giant blue planet that hung in the sky, and you’d dream of what life would be like down there.
You’d heard stories, but everyone said they were nothing but fairy tales. Your science driven brain couldn’t quite escape the idea that you wanted to prove that they were real, and figure out the mysteries of the swimmers from the stories yourself.
You knew that it could possibly all be fake, maybe the planet wasn’t even made of water and just looked like it.
Those were the types of unanswered questions that motivated you to wake up every morning and continue your work.
You had been working on the ship with your team for about 3 years, and the day had finally come to put together the finishing touches and head out on your exploration.
You weren’t surprised that it had made the news, headlines read ‘Hopeful Scientist and Her Team will Attempt to Uncover the Mysteries Bellow.’ and unfortunately prompted some like
‘Chasing Fairy Tales? The Scientist who believes in Mermaids’ that one you weren’t quite fond of. The majority of people thought it was a ridiculous idea, but you never let it crush your spirits and excitement.
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It was going to take about 2 days to get down to Neptune, nothing compared to a lifetime of curiosity, work and waiting.
A large crowd of excited citizens and media came to see you and your team off. You smiled and waved out one of the windows before strapping yourself into your seat. You had traveled by shuttle many times before, though the design of your shuttle was different than most of the other looked, you were used to this part of space travel.
Yet, you still felt your stomach turning into knots.
There were so many things that could go wrong once you got down to the surface of neptune. One tiny leak could risk the safety of your whole group. Or a mistake in the system that was supposed to balance the pressure within your ship when you’d dive down into the depths could cause you all to perish almost instantly.
The team that was coming with you consisted of four others besides yourself.
A photographer named Jungkook that you insisted must be included to capture all of your findings.
The aerospace engineer that did most of the designing and tests on the shuttle, Namjoon, also joined your team. Most of those who actually had worked with you up until now had been too terrified to see this through all the way, but Namjoon had been so excited to see for himself, what he considered his greatest creation, put into action.
The government who had funded your project through the grants that you had basically had to sell your soul for, insisted on your bringing a military general with your team for protection. You had argued that you couldn’t imagine what kind of help he would be underwater in a small ship. Yet Jin was forced onto your team. You didn’t quite like him, or any of the vibes he gave off, but he had actually volunteered for this. Part of you thinks there must’ve been some good pay in it for him.
The final member was the pilot/mechanic named Hoseok, he would fly the ship and be tasked with quick fixes and repairs of the ship if anything were to go wrong.
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Everything had gone smoothly on the take off. Next was just time to wait and prepare yourselves for what you may discover.
You and Jin had gotten off to a rocky start when it came time for dinner the first day.
He’d mostly been silent and kept to himself but when you handed him his packaged space meal, he had scoffed and waved his hand away at it.
“This is literally what you’ll be eating for the next month we are here, I’d get used to it if I were you.” You snapped at him.
He grumbled something under his breath as he caved in and took it.
“I’m sorry what was that?” You raised your eyebrows.
“I said what idiot decided to go for the bland vitamin protein packs. You know they had ones with actual food right?”
You glared down at the black haired man. He was wearing the same uniform as the rest of your team, silver sweatpants, and a black t-shirt with a silver jacket with a blue stripe up the side. His nametag on his jacket read, General of Space Military Kim Seokjin.
“Well Mr. Kim Seokjin. I’m the one who purchased it. It saved us money, we didn’t have a big budget for food here. Probably so we could pay your enormous salary for your unnecessary presence here.” you growled back.
Namjoon had stepped in as he saw Jin’s face growing red.
“It’s only the first day guys, let's keep things civil okay?” he said putting his arms up between the two of you.
You sighed and nodded. “Sorry for being unprofessional. I’m on edge today.”
Jin sulked away to eat his meal in his room.
You stayed in the small dining area with Namjoon.
“I’m just so nervous this was all for nothing. What if we get there and It's literally just empty water.” You frowned.
Namjoon put a hand on your shoulder and gave you a comforting look.
“I know, but we’ve come this far. We should stay positive, I want this to go well too”
You nodded and wrapped him into hug, “Thanks Joon”
That was the other thing about Namjoon. He was your best friend. You had met in college and realized that he shared your curiosity for the life that may be on Neptune. He’s the one who encouraged you to go for it and offered his help in constructing the ship that would take you to your dream.
You’d hooked up with him once or twice, he was actually the man you’d lose your virginity to. But, it's always remained unromantic, purely a friends with benefits deal. You never wanted a relationship to get in the way of your dream research project.
The photographer Jungkook entered the room for a moment, noticing the two of you embraced.
“Oh sorry-” he stuttered thinking he walked in on a personal moment.
“No it’s fine,” you pulled away from Namjoon and smiled. “How’s it going?”
Jungkook settler down into a chair on the other side of the small chrome dining table.
“I’m pretty excited” Jungkook spoke “Tired of black and white. Ready for some blue” he chuckled.
The reason that you had picked Jungkook’s portfolio out of the many submissions of photographers to join the expedition was for that exact reason.
Everything on Triton and the other moons were so plain and colorless. Everyone’s submissions contained basically the same types of photographs. A grey building, the grey empty landscape of Triton or Neso. Even the wildlife back on the moons were colorless. Being adapted to blend into their environment, most every animal was some shade of pale gray. One person even just had an entire portfolio of the same photographed rock. They were well done, and artistic, but nothing stood out to you.
Jungkook on the other hand, when you were presented with his portfolio, your eyes lit up, it was a series of beautiful shots of objects sitting in front of the big blue planet of neptune in the sky. It was extremely creative, and you could tell his love for the blue glow of your destination planet.
Hoseok slept in the pilot's seat with the shuttle on the autopilot course most of the next two days, only coming out of the room for meal times and to do a routine check of all of the parts of the ship he was in charge of maintaining.
You passed the time double checking the inventory of equipment you’d brought, and playing cards with Namjoon and Jungkook.
The blue planet now took up almost the entire view from the windows of your shuttle. It was magnificent and you felt every part of your body tingling with excitement.
You were set to land in a few hours, your dream was coming true.
Everyone was rushing around getting prepared. Namjoon had come up with a suggestion a few months ago to design an underwater suit, similar to what the astronauts used to be able to breathe in space, but for underwater. Though none of you planned on leaving the ship, you all would wear them while the ship was first underwater just encase something malfunctioned.
You were getting changed and geared up in your room, when your door swung open on you still half naked.
Namjoon walked in chuckling at the way you scurried to cover yourself up.
“Just me” he spoke
“Fuck that scared me” you laughed.
He walked over to you and rubbed your shoulder up and down. “You ready? I can’t believe it's finally happening. I feel like I’m going crazy with anticipation.”
“Same here. We’ve waited for this moment for longer than I can even remember.”
Hoseok’s voice rang out from over the speakers “Landing in 30 minutes. Everyone gets in their seats and buckle up”
Namjoon gave you a quick smile and a thumbs up and left you to finish getting ready.
You shakily got the rest of your suit ready, lastly putting on the helmet and making sure it was secured to the oxygen source.
As you walked out to the seats, you noticed Jin was now equipped with a gun on his hip.
“And how the fuck do you plan on using that? I will literally kill you if you shoot any holes in my ship.” You hissed at him as you sat and started to buckle up.
He rolled his eyes. “Its for if we have to go outside of the ship obviously. Its made for underwater use”
“Well here’s to hoping nothing comes to that.” you sighed.
None of you knew what you were entering into. If there were any creatures living in the water, how large were they? How dangerous were they?
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The ship shook and rattled as it entered Neptune’s atmosphere, the deep blue water below looked so close that you could just reach your hand out and touch it.
You have to force yourself to keep your eyes open, not wanting to miss a moment of it.
With a giant thud that jolted all of you hard into the back of your chairs, the shuttle hit the surface of the water.
It was the smoothest landing that you could have hoped for, the ship was built for the impact.
Your shuttle now floated on top of the surface of the waters. You let out a sigh of relief, though the mission had only began, this was one of the moments you were most worried about. It was over and had been a success.
Your team cheered and clapped their hands for Hoseok and his successful piloting as you all un buckled and got out of your seats.
Hoseok turned around and smiled bowing like a performer on a stage.
Then looked to you,
“Alright boss. What now?” He asked.
You thought for a moment, you’d had a set schedule and plan, but you couldn’t help but want to take a moment to just let this sight set in.
The blue water was making your ship sway to and fro in soothing movements.
“Lets have Jungkook take some pictures” you decided. That would give all of you some time to adjust and observe as well.
Jungkook nodded excitedly and went to his trunk that stored his camera equipment, rifling through to find the best lense.
Your group now took off their helmets, feeling comfortable that nothing was going to go wrong at this point, but keeping them close on your hips just in case.
You walked over to the giant glass window that took up almost the entirety of one of the room’s walls, staring out in awe.
The sun made the water sparkle and glisten, it was the most beautiful thing you’d ever seen. You heart was jumping for joy, you felt it might just jump all the way out of your chest and dive right into the water.
Namjoon walked up and stood beside you. He opened his mouth to speak but then shook his head and just looked out the window with you.
You were speechless as well. You were the first people to have ever observed this sight, it was an honor and was almost a spiritual experience.
Jungkook now stood on the other side of you, snapping pictures with a giant grin on his face. He paused and turned to you.
“Oh my god, I never want to go back” He chuckled.
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After about a couple hours and all of you eating your lunch in front of the window, you decided it was time to begin your descent.
Hoseok got back in the pilot's seat, you could see him growing slightly nervous, so you walked to his side with a curious expression on your face.
“Everything okay?”
He sighed and nodded, fidgeting with some of the controls, “Yeah, I’ve done this in the simulator so many times. But, that was just a guess. I’m about to be the first pilot to shuttle underwater...Just...taking it all in”
“You’ll be famous for this” you smiled, putting a hand on his shoulder to reassure him.
He grinned widely “Yeah, We all will be huh? Thanks y/n.”
“Do we have to buckle up for this?” Jungkook asked
You shake your head “No it should be smooth and slow as we dive.”
“Awesome” he clapped his hands together “I’m gonna sit by the window and take a video of us diving then”
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Slowly your shuttle dove down until you were surrounded by water. So far there were no signs of life anywhere, you were starting to get a little discouraged until you heard Jungkook squeal loudly.
“Hoseok stall the descent!” you shouted. Hoseok listened and the ship stilled. Your group ran over to the window where Jungkook sat with his face pressed against the window.
A small creature no bigger than your hand was slowly moving along the window. It was yellow and round, and had a large fin that wiggled back and forth as it moved.
“Jungkook pictures!” you spoke quickly. He scurried to capture the creature.
It was so strange and new.
“Hoseok how many meters down are we?” you asked
Hoseok checked a screen near his pilot’s seat. “About 30”
“Hoseok I’m a scientist...can we not do ‘about’…” you chuckled
“29.8” he replied
You quickly jotted it down into your log of events that you’d been keeping.
When you lifted your head up from your writing you let out a large gasp.
A larger creature now swam past. It seemed to be a meter long and was snake like, it was bright red with black stripes around it.
Your team pouted slightly when the creatures disappeared from view. But you were still completely giddy over the excitement of having discovered new life.
“Let's go down further” you told Hoseok and he nodded and returned to his seat.
For the next few hours you ventured further down into Neptunes depths. Your team had discovered at least 30 unique creatures that Jungkook had been able to take pictures of. You documented the depth and time at which you’d seen each of them with a quick summary of their behaviors.
“I think we should go back to the surface for a while” Hoseok suggested. “It’ll be getting dark soon and we should surface for the night”
You were slightly disappointed about that “Are you sure? Can’t we just go a little deeper?”
“Honestly, pressure wise, this is as deep as we are going to be able to go. The pressure room that the ship was tested in wasn’t capable of testing pressures any more than what we are currently at. The ship might still handle it, but we don’t know for sure. For our safety I’m going to advise against it…”
“10 more meters?” You pleaded batting your eyelashes.
“Y/n. If he says it's not safe I’m not going to allow it.” Jin hissed.
“Allow it?” you spun to face him with your jaw dropping. “I’m sorry, I thought I was in charge not you?”
“I’d think that the guy with the gun in really in charge” he smirked, putting his hand to his hip.
So that's really why he wanted the gun on him. It wasn’t just for safety from the creatures of the waters. It was to make sure that he remained in a position of authority over the rest of the crew.
You shake your head.
“You wouldn’t do that in here. Hoseok. 10 more meters” you ordered sternly.
Jin slowly stepped so that his body was almost touching your own, he stared down at you angrily.
“I said no. I’m not dying over this stupid mission”
You gulped.
“I think if we do 10 more meters I can ascend fast enough that it wouldn’t be a problem. Any malfunctions would be solvable.” Hoseok spoke calmly, wanting to relieve some of the tension and calm down the man with the gun.
Jin’s eyes narrowed “Fine. But if anything happens. I’m calling this mission and we return immediately”
“You don’t have that authority!” you yelled out.
“Actually I do.” he pulled out a government note from his pocket and shoved it in front of your face.
“You really think the government was going to just let something like this happen without being in control of it?”
The sheet read that Jin was capable of overriding any decisions you’d make. Shit.
You groaned and hit the paper away from your face.
“Fine. But I don't think anything will go wrong”
Almost like you had jinxed it, the ship lunged to the side, rolling onto an angle that caused everything not secured to slide to one side of the room and your whole team to fall over.
“Fuck!” you heard Hoseok yell out as he tried to maintain balance while messing with the controls “I can’t do anything. Our systems aren’t working”
You felt your heart rate quicken, you tried to pull yourself back up as you stared wide eyed at Namjoon who had the same look of fear and surprise on his face.
Almost as soon as your team had regained their footing, it happened a second time.
This was not good…
“What the fuck is happening!” you screeched, pulling yourself over to the windows and looking around, not seeing anything but the darkening waters.
Your ship seemed to be...moving?
“Y/n...we have a big problem here” Hoseok’s voice trembled “We’re descending...fast…”
You felt yourself growing faint, had you just doomed every soul on this shuttle with your grand dreams and ideas?
Your eyes were fluttering shut as you fell to the side, you could hear Jungkook crying. And you swore you heard Namjoon throw up right before your consciousness slipped away from you.
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When your eyes started to open, you expected nothingness. Maybe you were still dreaming, because everything was bright. A warm yellow glow touched everything in the room. The room was a mess, Jungkook’s camera equipment scattered across the floor along with all of the notebooks and papers you’d been writing in. A coffee cup had spilled over and a giant puddle was surrounding the floor next to Hoseok who was lying unconscious.
Jungkook who was lying flat on his back had also not yet come to. Namjoon who was next to you seemed to be just waking up same as you. And Jin was nowhere in sight.
Your gaze followed the light up to the windows, it seemed you were still underwater, yet this looked like...a city? It was colorful and magnificent with sea life floating around everywhere. Your ship appeared to be landed on the steps of a very tall and heavily decorated stone building that had large colorful shells all around it.
What the hell?
You gasped and stood too quickly almost falling back over.
Have you found them?
You almost screamed out when a figure appeared in front of the window.
It looked like an adult man, in your human years he’d probably be in his 20’s, he was shirtless so you could see how muscular he was. He was the most beautiful thing you’d ever seen in your life. His skin seemed to have an iridescent glow glossed over every inch of himself.
Your eyes trailed down and you now noticed that his lower half, was definitely not human. Just below his waist, his skin stopped, and a navy blue scaling that you’d seen on some of the sea creatures you’d observed was on him. It bound his legs together into one long form, and where feet would usually be on a person was a translucent, large, tail that also had similarities to some of the smaller sea creatures you’d seen.
He had long flowing blue hair that floated in the water as he moved along the glass, peering in at you.
You really had found them, they were real.
As terrified as you were, you couldn’t help but feel a little excited too.
You’d been laughed at for wanting to install an underwater speaker system to your ship, but you now thanked yourself for that.
You shakily made your way to the control panel and picked up the corded microphone, holding down the button and pausing a moment to debate on what your first words should be?
‘We come in peace?’ ‘Hi?’ Shit. You’d always thought about what you’d say to a mermaid if you’d ever met one, but all of that seemed to have been lost to the nervousness that you felt.
The fish man saw that you had noticed him and was now floating right in your line of view, cocking his head to the side while he looked you over.
You cleared your throat and spoke into the microphone
“We are friends. Explorers” You spoke slowly, pointing to the others on your ship. Not even knowing if he’d understand you. He mouthed something back, you realize that he must be speaking. Shit, you’d forgotten to turn the receiving microphone on.
Your fingers fumbled over the control panel and you found the red button, pressing it so it now glowed ‘on’
“Sorry, what did you say?” you spoke into your mic, still not sure whether anything you were saying was getting across.
“I spoke, we are no friends. Your warrior injure one citizens. We have now”
You gasped. He spoke your language! Not perfectly but it was more than enough to have a conversation with him. How that was possible was a discussion for another time. As you realize now, that he was referring to the missing Jin. He must’ve left the ship to investigate and shot at one of them.
“I apologize for our…” you thought over if you should just use the word he used and decided that was best, “For our warrior. I’m sure he was just scared. Is your citizen going to be okay?”
The merman pressed his forehead to the glass looking around the room you were in.
“Will be okay. Getting medical care now they are. You have more weapon?” The merman suddenly seemed to get spooked and quickly turned around and swam a few feet from the ship, still looking in at you but hovering further back.
You realized Namjoon had just walked over to your side.
“W-what…” Namjoon gasped out “They are real? Oh my god they are real!” he grinned.
“They are real, and Jin shot one of them” you whispered in a hiss “They captured him. And us.”
Namjoon looked around the room realizing Jin was indeed missing.
“That idiot” he shook his head.
“Another friend” you spoke into the mic at the merman “No weapons. Our warrior had the only weapon”
The merman swam back over to the glass and looked unconvinced. “Don’t trust…” he muttered.
“Why here?” he spoke louder now
“We came to see you. To learn. Not to hurt. I’m very sorry about that. He isn’t a friend” you decided to just throw Jin under the bus with that, in hopes that the man would trust you better.
“Not friend?” he thought a moment. “Learn…”
“Yes, we came from the moons” you pointed up “We came to learn about this planet”
“We learn too” the man nodded “We like learn. We want learn”
“Awesome, well maybe we can learn some things from each other for a while before we leave” you threw in “We do need our warrior back, or we will be in trouble with our government”
“You said not friend?” He looked confused.
“Right, but we still can’t return without him” You told him.
“You don’t return” the merman crossed his muscular tan arms over his chest. “We don’t let return” he sternly spoke.
“Woah” a voice came from behind you. You realized Jungkook was now awake and approaching the glass with his camera in hand held up towards the merman
“Jungkook wait” you spoke to late.
“Weapon!” the merman yelled and hissed, pulling himself back from the glass, his hair now stood straight up as he bared his teeth growling animalistically at Jungkook. You noticed he had pointed teeth, every one of them sharp.
“Wait wait!” you waved your hands “It’s not a weapon, see”
You stood in front of Jungkook’s camera. “Take a picture of me Kook” you whispered.
Jungkook was now shaky after the behavior of the merman, but he nodded and held up his camera.
The merman got close to the glass again pressing his face against it with wide eyes as Jungkook took a picture of you.
“Can I?” you held your hand out to Jungkook asking for the camera. He shrugged and handed it over to you.
You pulled up the picture that was taken and brought the camera to the glass to show the merman.
“Picture” you told him “See. That's what he was doing.” you smiled, trying to show the merman you were being friendly.
He nodded slowly and repeated “Picture..”
Suddenly he was pulling himself away from the glass and swimming away quickly. He was gone.
Hoseok was now standing up and holding his head that had a slight bump on it.
“What the hell is going on” he groaned.
You filled him in on everything that had occurred.
“For real?” he gasped out. “But, they won’t let us leave...What are we going to do? We will definitely run out of breathable air if we don't recharge at the surface in about a day and a half…” he said looking at some of the gauges on the control panel.
You sighed. “Yeah, we need to figure out how to convince them to let us leave. Is there any contact to Triton available right now?” you asked.
Hoseok tried the radio then shook his head.
A knocking noise against the glass made you jump. You turned to see the merman was back, his mouth turned up in a smile.
“Hello” he spoke
“Welcome back” you chuckled, growing quite fond of his cute smile.
“Make deal.”
“You want to make a deal? To let us leave?”
“Yes. Deal.” he nodded.
“Okay…” you looked to Namjoon who shrugged “What’s the deal?”
“We keep warrior. For learn” the merman spoke
You shake your head “You can’t keep him...He’ll die soon if you don’t let him come with us. He can’t breathe down here, there isn’t enough air in his tank to last him. You won't be able to learn much from him dead.” You informed him.
The merman looked upset. “No deal?” he seemed to be pouting, which you shouldn’t be finding so cute considering it seemed this was the creature that held your fate in his hands currently.
“I make new deal. Must ask first.” he then turned and swam away like he did before.
“I say just leave the asshole.” Namjoon laughed.
“This isn’t funny!” Hoseok snapped. “But, yeah, why didn’t we just leave him”
“First of all, I don’t want that on my conscience for the rest of my life. And secondly, do you really think we won’t be in huge trouble if we return without him. He works for the governent”
“True” Namjoon sighed, “But if it comes to all of us dying...don’t you think that…”
The merman was now knocking at the glass again, snapping the attention of the four of you back to the window.
“New deal” The merman looked even more excited. “We give back. You take”
You didn’t quite understand what he was saying, he seemed to notice your confused expression.
“You take” he repeated pointing to himself.
“Take you with us?” you gasped. He wanted to come back to Triton with you?
“For learn. Want learn. You take. Me learn, you learn. Deal?”
“Deal!” you exclaimed instantly, realizing you should probably discuss it with your teammates but the idea of being able to take this merman back to Triton with you, and being able to learn everything about him and his kind seemed even more like a dream come true than anything that had happened so far.
“Right?” you turned to the rest of your crew
They all shrugged and nodded
“I don’t see why not” Namjoon spoke, but there was a hint of something uneasy in his voice.
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A few more mer-people swam over to your ship after the merman you’d been speaking with went and told them that the deal was on. Two of them had Jin in their arms who seemed to be squirming around and resisting until he realized he was being brought back to his ship.
There was a small metal room in the back of the ship meant for coming and going that drained the water once Jin was inside.
Hoseok went to grab him and brought him to his room. Yelling at him for being stupid the whole way there.
The merman you’d spoken to was now in front of the glass again.
“Gave back. You take now?” he pointed to himself.
“Yes. But, how are you going to breathe? We don’t have anything water here for you.”
He thought for a moment, putting his hand to his chin.
“One night. I return” he swam away, and the other mer-people followed.
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You spent the rest of the night discussing with the rest of your crew how you’d handle bringing the merman back with you to triton.
You’d all settled on keeping it a secret.
You knew Jin would have a hard time not telling his boss’s in the government so you’d brought him out to have a little talk.
He was still quite shaken up from the days events when hoseok dragged him from his room to the main room where you all had gathered.
“The merman is coming with us back home. I want to learn from him, but I don’t think it’s best if the media knows he’s there. everyone would want pictures and interviews and it’d all get in the way of our research. Can you keep it a secret?” You asked Jin
“And why would I protect any of them? Do you even know what they did to me in there?” He growled
“You did shoot one of their people…” Jungkook spoke hesitantly
“Well she snuck up on me. And what was I supposed to do?” Jin scowled down towards the floor.
“Please Jin. I’m begging you. You can report it to your supervisors only or whatever after we’ve taken him back here” you begged. You knew that if it was found out your team had brought a real mermaid back with them the media would swarm. You also were scared of what the government would ask to be done with him, they could easily take him from your team and give him to a different scientist for who knows what…
“I don’t want to lie about this…” Jin grumbled.
“We could’ve just left you there with them man. That was the original deal, and she turned it down.” Namjoon snapped at Jin, narrowing his eyes and clenching his fists at the man’s stubbornness to get on board with your plan.
Jin sighed and rubbed his temples.
“Fine.” he whispered “I won’t tell…”
You hoped that he was telling the truth.
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The next morning you were awakened to a tapping on the window. You had slept in the control room where you had seen the merman before so that you wouldn’t miss his return.
You lifted your head sleepily and looked to the noise, smiling widely upon seeing that the merman had his face pressed to the glass looking in at you.
You quickly stood and fumbled around to grab the microphone and turn on the receiving one for the outside.
“Hey, welcome back!” you chimed excitedly.
You noticed the merman seemed just as excited as yourself. His long blue hair floating just as beautifully in the water as you had remembered it. His skin was shimmering in the light, with that shiny iridescent glow covering his gorgeous caramel skin.
Your breathing quickened at the sight of him, it was almost like looking at a statue of an ancient god. You felt slightly unworthy in his presence, yet he looked more excited to see you than anyone ever had in your whole life.
“I come back. Go with you now. Made way to travel with.” he spoke. And as he said that, a group of four other merpeople swam up carrying a large glass tank that looked plenty big enough for the merman to comfortably fit into.
“That's perfect!” you clapped your hands together. “So what you’ll want to do is be in the tank when you get into the room. The room will drain out the rest of the water, but the water in your tank will stay and we can carry you in”
He nodded. You saw an older couple, a merman and merwoman approach him and hugged him tightly.
“Careful you” The woman said kissing him on the forehead.
You assumed those must be his parents. Their family dynamics seemed to be similar to your people. Those were the types of things you couldn’t wait to learn about, you had so many questions.
You pressed the button to open the door to the chamber Taehyung would enter from. He swam into his tank and you watched the merpeople swim it over and place it inside.
“All good?” you said over the microphone to the outside of the ship.
“Good. Ready” A voice called back to you
You took a deep breath. Nervously you pressed the button to close the doors and drain the water from the room.
You then called over the announcement speaker system, realizing you should’ve probably done this first,
“Everyone, I’m gonna need your help carrying him in. He’s here”
You made your way to the room, Namjoon had joined up with you and you saw a sleepy Hoseok and Jungkook following close behind.
“Jin’s not up?” you raised an eyebrow to Namjoon.
He shrugged and you sighed. Oh well, the four of you could probably do this on your own.
You felt your skin tingling with the excitement of what lay behind the door you now stood in front of.
Your childhood dreams and fantasies within your reach.
You shakily placed your hand on the door and turned the handle to open it.
When you entered the room the merman was sitting with his head, arms and shoulders all out of the tank. His head resting cutely on his hands at the edge of his tank.
“Hello” he spoke. His voice sounded a bit different when not distorted by the water. It was deep and soothing and made you just want to melt on the spot.
“Hello” you returned. “This is Namjoon, Jungkook, and Hoseok. And I’m y/n” you pointed to them respectively.
“Taehyung” he pointed to himself.
“Nice to meet you Taehyung” you approached him holding your hand out to shake his hand. He looked curiously at you and you realized that was probably not a gesture that he understood.
“Oh. Sorry. It’s what humans do to greet each other. We shake hands”
“Shake hands to greet.” He nodded like he was making a mental note of it.
“So we’re going to carry you out of here now, I’ve made space in my room to put your tank and secure it so it doesn’t slide around the ship when we take off.” You did now notice that the tank didn’t have a lid, you hoped that the trip back to Triton wouldn’t make the water spill out, you’d have to come up with something for that…
The four of you picked up the tank, noticing that it had handles to carry it, you were extremely thankful for that convenience. It was quite heavy, about four feet high, and six feet in length. You wondered if he’d start to miss swimming in the open waters. You’d have to build a bigger tank for him back at your lab.
“We make last night” Taehyung proudly tapped the glass on his tank as you carried him.
“You made this in a night? It’s nice, the handles helped” You complimented him sweetly.
So they have the means to make things like this. And very quickly. You were going to have to ask more about that.
Once he was set down and secured in your room, you let out a small chuckle at the way he looked around wide eyed at all of your things.
Hoseok and Jungkook had decided to go get something to eat.
“Want me to stay?” Namjoon asked “For safety?” he whispered the last part in your ear. Not being able to tear his eyes from the sharp teeth showing as Taehyung smiled.
“He seems gentle, you can go eat. I want to just take some notes and talk with him for a while”
Namjoon nodded and left the two of you alone in the room.
You sat down on your bed, which was only a few feet from where his tank sat.
He rested his chin on his arms at the top of the glass, looking at you with a cute and curious stare.
“I have so many questions I don’t even know where to start” you chuckled, feeling slightly shy now that you were alone with him.
“I have question too. Many” he laughed lightly, he didn’t seem to be nervous about this at all. If he was he was doing a good job not showing it.
Your mind raced through all of your questions, wondering what to ask first as you pulled out a pen and your research notebook. Writing at the top
‘Taehyung, Mermaid Research Notes’
“So, did you know that we existed?” You asked him
Taehyung thought for a moment. “Little know.” he answered “See your ships move in sky? Not know what look like. Or why ships”
You wrote down his answer in your notes. So they could see your ships going from moon to moon.
“So you go to the surface of the water, you can breath like we do it seems. Like right now you’re out of the water and seem to be fine?”
He nodded “Breath is both. Tail need water or maybe die. Have question? You say two, not fair, take turn” he winked at you in what almost seemed like a flirtatious gesture, your cheeks grew hot and you wanted to cover your face in embarrassment.
“Sorry. We’ll take turns” you smiled nervously at him.
“Good. I ask, You say warrior would die under water. Not breath underwater?” He furrowed his brow as he asked.
“No, we have to hold our breath if we go underwater, and that can only last for like a minute or two.”
“Oh. Interesting” Taehyung’s eyes widened as he nodded again. “I ask again?” he cocked his head to the side.
You chuckled at his gesture “Yeah, I got two so you should get two”
“We speak same. You know Why?”
“Actually I was wondering that too!” You put a hand to your face as you thought “ I really have no idea though. It seems you speak our language, just in a more…” you didn’t want to offend him so you tried to think of a way to phrase your thoughts. “With less words?”
“Less words. Yes. You speak extra words”
Extra words, you found that an amusing way to put it.
“Maybe at one point in life, a long time ago our people lived together somehow.” you guessed “I don’t know for sure, but we had heard of you. It was all supposed to be just a story that you’d tell children, and no one really believed it. But I actually had hoped it was true, and that’s the main reason that we came to your planet. I wanted to find out if you were real” you told him.
“Maybe.” he nodded as he agreed with your guess, yet something strange flickered over his dark eyes. He suddenly dunked his head under the water and surfaced again. It seemed random, you wondered if he was just missing the feeling.
“Don’t like dry hair. Feeling weird” he told you, as if he knew what you were thinking.
“Oh okay” you nodded. “Um...so my turn?” you still were feeling shy and awkward around him. His beauty was enough to make you nervous alone, let alone the fact that he was the embodiment of a life long dream achieved. You wanted to make every second with him count.
The door to your room swung open, causing Taehyung to jump slightly and splash a bit in the water.
“Hey. Just brought you some food and wanted to check in” Namjoon spoke, handing you one of the protein packs and looking Taehyung over skeptically.
“Thanks Joon. We’re doing well. Just talking” you smiled at him
“Okay, just radio me if you need anything.” his eyes not leaving the merman in the room “Hoseok is going to start the ascent to the surface soon” he let you know.
You gave him a quick smile and a wave as he left the room. You had expected him to be far more excited about all of this, it was his dream as well, yet something seemed to be bothering him.
“Not like me” Taehyung said after Namjoon had shut the door. He said it as if it was a fact and not a question.
“I’m sure that's not true. He’s wanted to meet your people too. He might just be nervous”
You were almost trying to convince yourself that was the case.
You felt the ship jolt forward a little bit, a small creaking sound rang out as the ship complained from having been still for so long. Taehyung's water shook slightly in his tank and he looked scared.
“It’s just the ship moving up to the surface” You told him “Its safe”
He smiled slightly “Okay. Safe” he nodded “Trust”
The two of you exchanged questions back and forth the whole way to the surface. You found out that he was also a scientist, that they seemed to have most of the same careers that your society had. Doctors, teachers, store owners, construction. Even one job that was basically a veterinarian, they liked to keep some types of fish and aquatic animals as pets.
Once you reached the surface of the water and it was time to take back off into space, you had to say goodbye to Taehyung and go sit buckled into your seat. You had made a makeshift lid, hoping it was enough to keep him safe and his water in the tank.
Right before you put it on, he could see your worried expression and he reached out his hand to you, taking your hand in his own. He brushed his thumb along your palm, sending a shudder throughout your body.
“Safe. Trust” He spoke, his dark eyes sparkling as they met yours.
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When your shuttle arived back to Triton, your crew was met with cheers and camera crews everywhere. The large crowd gathered at the station were excited that you had all returned safely, and you were sure they were dying to hear all about it.
Your team went out to the steps where you could address the crowd. You told them that your team would be releasing the pictures and notes that you’d taken on your trip within the week. That seemed to satisfy their hunger for curiosity.
Really all you could think about though, was getting Taehyung safely into your lab without him being seen.
You had discussed with Hoseok plans to dock the ship in the back entrance after waving away the crowd, so now it was time to do just that.
Jin had left to go update his higher ups on what had happened on the trip. You nervously hoped he’d keep his word about what had really happened down on neptune.
Hoseok, Namjoon and Jungkook helped you carry Taeyhung’s tank from where the ship was now discreetly docked in the lab.
You were happy to see that he was already from the landing.
“Nice see you again y/n” he purred out as he saw you. Namjoon rolled his eyes and sighed, you still didn’t quite understand what had him so upset about this whole thing.
Once Taehyung was brought to one of the rooms in the lab that only you and Namjoon had access to you thanked Hoseok and Jungkook and told them they could go.
“That was a hell of a trip boss” Jungkook grinned at you “These pictures we took really are going to make me the top photographer on all of the moons.”
“Just remember not to publish any of the ones of Taehyung or the other merpeople. Also the ones I selected to be exclusively for my research papers I will be posting”
“Right” he nodded giving you a small wave as he left the room.
Hoseok then stepped forward towards you.
“Hey let me know when you need me for the return alright? You have my number” he put a hand on your shoulder.
“Will do, seriously thank you for everything. I couldn’t have done this without you”
“I know” he winked and gave you finger guns as he walked backwards out of the room.
Taehyung had been watching you say your goodbyes silently under water, tiny bubbles ascending to the surface of the tank. He seemed to be anxious to get your attention back over to him again.
You gave him a small smile and put your finger up to say ‘just wait one second’
You still had to say goodbye to Namjoon, who stood scowling at Taehyung.
You realized you needed to have this conversation in private and motioned for Namjoon to join you right outside the door to Taehyung's room.
“So what’s going on with you? I thought you’d be excited that we finally found merpeople? This was our dream remember?” You narrowed your eyes at him, biting on your lower lip.
Namjoon crossed his arms across his broad chest.
“Yeah, this was our dream. Our, dream. But you seem to want to do this all on your own.” He glared at you
“On my own? I’m sorry but you were right there with me? You came on this trip too, I didn’t leave you out of anything” you hissed in a whisper
“Yeah. Okay. Well have fun with your new best friend. And your research papers. Don’t bother putting my name on them. If you even planned on it” he growled and stomped away from you.
“Namjoon wait!” You yelled after him. “What the hell” you mutter to yourself shaking your head angrily as you walked back into the room where Taehyung was waiting for you.
He had an expression of confusion laid on his features.
He was poking only the top of his head out of the water, just his eyes peeking above.
“Sorry about that. I really don’t know why he thinks-“ you stopped yourself, not wanting to rant about your problems to this man you’d just met. “Never mind” you sighed.
Taehyung cocked his head to the side. “Okay?” he pointed to you.
“Yeah I’m okay” you faked a smile.
“Lie” he shook his head, “Alright, don’t tell.” he seemed to pout slightly.
“It’s nothing really. Namjoon is upset, but he’ll get over it”
Taheyung pulled himself up to rest his arms on the top of the tank. “Hope.” he nodded slowly “Don’t like you sad” he frowned and reached a hand out to you.
You purse your lips, debating whether to step into his touch. Deciding that it couldn’t hurt.
You reached your hand out to him as you walked forward. He took your hand gently in both of his and turned it over, brushing fingers lightly over your palm and staring at it inquisitively, his gaze flickering from your hand to your confused face every once in a while. His hands were cold, and seemed to glitter in the light, they were so beautiful, wet and soft as they touched you. You shuddered slightly.
After what felt like hours of him doing this he gave you your hand back.
His eyes were locked on to yours and you awkwardly wiped your hand on your pants.
“So I still have so much more I want to know about you” You spoke
“Same” he nodded “Many question”
“I’ll start?” you chuckled as you pulled up a chrome metal chair to the side of his tank, taking out your notebook.
“So,” you cleared your throat “What are relationships like there?”
“Relationship?” Taehyung furrowed his brow.
“Yeah, like do you get married?”
“Not married” He spoke slowly pointing to himself “But, yes married happens.”
“Oh, okay so you aren’t, but that's a normal thing”
He nodded. “You?”
You chuckled “No, I’m not, but we do here too”
He seemed relieved at your answer.
“Turn?” he pointed to himself.
“Yeah, go ahead”
“How do…” he smirked slightly, his tail flicking some water up in the air that fell right back down into the tank. “How do you, create new people”
You choked on air at his question. As a scientist you shouldn’t feel uncomfortable talking about these things, but for some reason discussing sex with him seemed more intimate than it should.
“Oh, I-” you shook your head, trying to shake away the embarassement, “Sex is, um. Men have an…” you wanted to try and say this like a mature professional as best you could “an appendage, their genitalia, and they enter the woman’s, entrance...that fits the man’s appendage inside and releases sperm that combines with an egg to create a baby” you coughed, still feeling uncomfortable and shy.
He nodded understandingly. “Us different. Not enter. Female release, then male release, combines outside in water to an egg where young grows”
“Oh!” you found that interesting and quickly jotted it down in your notes.
You talked back and forth a bit more with him explaining further and asking more questions as well.
“I did have one more question before I turn in for the night…”
Taehyung smiled at you, nodding for you to go ahead.
“You said that you can’t leave the water or you’ll dry up. Has that happened before?”
Taheyung thought hard for a moment “Only told. Only a story. No dry to test theory. Only water at home. Wanted to create raft to test theory, no one willing. Much risk.” he seemed to be thinking hard on this thought. “Always wondered…”
You wrote down a few more notes on your paper, then flipped your notebook shut.
“I think that’ll be it for the night” You smiled at him “I’m going to look into getting you a bigger tank, will you be fine sleeping here for the night?” you asked
“Yes, fine. Sleep good” he smiled, holding his hand out again to you. You put your hand into his and he gave you a quick squeeze “Will miss…” he murmured almost inaudibly.
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The rest of the night you tossed and turned in the sheets. Taehyung was on your mind the whole time.
When you finally drifted off to sleep, the world you were sent to was familiar but not your own.
You felt yourself falling down slowly through dark water, a small light in the distance was getting closer and closer as you sank.
You didn’t feel like you were drowning, you felt serene and weightless. The light was now almost to you, nothing else was visible in the pitch black water, and you were starting to make out the object giving off the warm yellow glow.
It was a lamp, somehow still lit underwater, and a hand was holding tightly to it.
Soon you recognized the face that owned that hand. It was Taehyung. His tanned skin glowing against
You smiled and opened your mouth to greet him, when suddenly his face was mere inches from your own.
His razor sharp teeth were bared and your blood froze. You felt your entire body start to clench up with fear, a shock running down your spine at the monstrous sight of this man.
His hand shot out and gripped you around your throat. He screamed something but for some reason you couldn’t make out the words, maybe it was a different language?
Your eyes shot open and you were sitting straight up in bed, gasping and sweating. What the hell was that dream about?
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After eating breakfast, showering and getting dressed for the day, you made your way over to your lab. Excited to see Taehyung again despite the dream still slightly haunting your mind.
As you opened the door, starting to step into his room, you called out for him in a singsong voice “I’m baaaack”
Only to drop everything you are holding in your hands in shock. Your heart seemed to sink all the way to your feet and fall to the floor with your notebook and coffee that now was spilling across the tile on the ground.
He was...gone. He just wasn’t there.
No, this isn’t possible! Who got to him? Did Jin lie? Did he tell his supervisors and they came and took him to a different lab so they could steal away your credit and research?
Catching you completely off guard and making you almost jump straight out of your skin, a hand touched your shoulder from behind.
You almost turned around to punch the attached person in the face, when he spoke.
“No! Sorry. Accident scare”
You knew that voice.
You whipped yourself around to see that standing behind you was a completely naked Taehyung. Standing. Behind you. On LEGS.
Your eyes scanned over him, his tail gone and his lower half of his body now matching the humanness of his upper half. You also took note of the fact that the iridescent glow that usually blanketed over every inch of his skin was also gone. He looked completely human.
“W-what…” you stammered out, your eyes flickering up and down his body.
“Y/n. Experiment, success!” He clapped his hands together and motioned to himself up and down, as if you weren’t already looking him over obsessively.
“Tried out of water. Thought you save if went wrong” he shrugged “Look! Like you now. Strange.” he grinned excitedly.
“Taehyung. I don’t understand...I thought you were sure you’d die out of the water”
“Scientist?” he pointed to himself “Never sure without facts. Want see for self. Much surprise” he chuckled. You now noticed he was absentmindedly playing with the new body part he had discovered between his legs.
Your breath caught in your throat and you quickly pulled your eyes away from what he was doing. Your eyes had lingered a bit too long already. Enough that you’d realized how impressive his cock was.
“I-I, need to get you some clothes” you muttered, now facing away from him.
“Oh” he spoke quietly “Yes, you people clothes here” he laughed lightly.
You hurried out of the room and grabbed a spare lab coat, then went to Namjoon’s locker in the breakroom to find that he thankfully had some spare basketball shorts left there.
You brought them back to Taehyung and turned your back to him while he dressed.
“Feel weird” Taehyung muttered. “Don’t like dry”
You spun back around to face him. It wasn’t the most stylish attire but at least he was covered now and you could speak to him without feeling a warmth building between your legs at the mouth watering sight of his naked form.
“I don’t understand how this happened” you whispered.
“Same” he took a seat in one of the metal chairs in the room, lifting his legs up and down and kicking them around, rolling his ankles while he stared at his feet.
“Toes?” he asked cocking his head to the side as he wiggled his newfound appengages.
“Yeah” you giggled “How’d you know what they were called?”
Taehyung stood up and walked over to the desk in the corner of the room where you now saw a bunch of opened books laying out. One being an anatomy book.
“Oh, woah you’ve had a long night huh?”
Taehyung smiled and nodded.
“I learned much”
Suddenly he was walking over to you, you felt your breathing break it’s steady pace as he reached his hand out to rest on your shoulder.
“Haven’t learned enough...explain? Something wrong happening” his expressed was shifting into one of confusion and worry.
“I-I don’t quite understand what you mean?” you stammered out, hoping that he doesn’t realize how much his closeness was making you nervous. The way his eyes trailed over you was sinful and you were trying to convince yourself that it wasn’t what you thought it was. But, his eyes seemed to be hungrily taking you in, and now his hand was sliding down from your shoulder, fingers trailing lightly down your arm as he did. It slightly tickled and made you shudder, which he definitely noticed. Yet he still seemed concerned about something.
Once his hand reached your own he took it and slowly guided you forward. He placed your hand over his crotch, which you felt harden even more than it most likely already was under your touch. It was his turn to shudder.
“Why is this?” he muttered.
“Um…” you tried to speak but your mind was taken over by the fact that he was holding your hand to his dick currently. You didn’t want to feel as turned on as you did, you wanted to keep this professional. But you felt yourself growing warm and wet between your legs.
“It's what happens when men are turned on” you murmured
“What turned on?” he was still confused.
“It’s nothing bad. It means…” you wanted to find the right words to communicate this. He seemed to understand most things you said even if he didn’t know the words, why couldn’t he get this one, you groaned silently in your mind.
“It means you want to mate?” you tried.
“Mate?” He suddenly smiled, “Ah yes. Understand now. Yes want that.” he nodded, your heart skipping a beat as his lustful gaze was now admitted to be something real and not an idea you were creating just to flatter yourself.
“Taehyung you know we shouldn’t right? We are just here to learn-”
Taehyung cut you off with his other hand bringing a finger to your lips. He brushed over your bottom lip delicately, his eyes staring into your own so intensely that you swore he was staring into your soul.
“Want to learn human body, help?” his voice was innocent but his expression and body language was anything but. He was still holding your hand to his clothed cock over Namjoon’s basketball shorts and he was starting to move your hand slightly up and down his shaft that you could feel so distinctly through the loose fabric.
“Mmmm” he moaned out lowly, his deep voice so erotic and inticing.
“For learning?” you whispered, hesitantly moving your face towards his.
He broke into a boxy smile that made you want to melt.
“Show me” he spoke softly, his hand now tugging at the button on your jeans.
He pressed his forehead against your own, biting down on his lower lip.
“Please” he breathed out.
At this point you were too far gone to think clearly. He was begging, and he was too tempting to deny.
You nodded your head slightly, closing your eyes as you felt him now undoing your button and unzipping your jeans. So slowly it was almost as if he was teasing you.
He dropped to his knees as he pulled down your pants and panties all in one swift motion. His tongue darted out and he wet his lips quickly as his eyes widened at the sight of your lower half naked in front of him.
“Never...Never done...never seen” he muttered, his eyes flicked up to meet yours.
“I’ll teach you”
“Please” he groaned, bringing his attention back to your pussy that was eye level with him.
His forefinger trailed across your outer folds ever so lightly. You felt a chill of pleasure and want run over your skin, giving you goosebumps all over.
“Show me” he repeated his request from earlier.
You decided to step back from him to go lay on the desk, so you could spread your legs and give him a better view. He pouted until he realized what you were doing. Now he was walking towards you and dropping to his knees again, returning to face your dripping center at eye level.
“Wow” he whispered, he was so close that you could feel his breath against you.
“You...can touch me. Explore around I guess” you chuckled nervously, not sure if you were excited or scared to be in this position with him. You felt like if any of your crew found out what you were doing they’d be upset, especially Namjoon.
You closed your eyes tightly, breathing quickly anticipating the likely touch that was soon to come.
Taehyung stared into your center in awe, he didn’t quite know why he was so attracted to this part of you that he’d never seen on anyone before. Mermaids didn’t actually have sex. It wasn’t about pleasure or getting off, it was purely for creating children, you never even had to touch the other during the act. It wasn’t intimate, it wasn’t this…
The urges that he was having were so foriegn to him, he knew it was coming from the new body part he’d found dangling between his legs that seemed to somehow be growing even harder as he stared at your nakedness laid out in front of him.
You were becoming wet, Taehyung liked the wet, it was so inviting, he wanted to feel it on his fingers.
You shuddered as he started to feel around, brushing against your clit every so often, never entering you.
You realized he might not understand that he could. One of your hands crept down to join his, he almost jumped back in surprise, he had been so entranced in touching you he’d almost forgotten anything else in the world existed. When your hand reached down he snapped back to reality a bit. You started to press a finger into your dripping hole. Moaning as you brought the finger in and out. Taehyung felt his cock twitch at the sound of your pleasure, he realized he wanted to do whatever he could to be the one making you create those beautiful noises. He didn’t understand why, but the thought of pleasuring you made him more excited than he’d ever been in his life.
“You can do this to me” you told him, “Try”
Taehyung nodded and brought his finger to replace yours that had just retracted itself from your hole.
Without even realizing why he did this, his other hand snapped up and grabbed your wrist before you could pull your hand away. He brought his lips to the finger you’d had inside of you and pulled it into his mouth, carefully avoiding touching you to his sharp teeth, sucking and licking, growling in satisfaction at how unexpectedly pleasent the taste was.
“Wow” he whispered as he released your hand from his grip.
He then returned his focus to his other hand.
“Another?” he asked as he started to tease your entrance with two fingers.
“Yes. I can probably only take two though” you moaned,
Taehyung chuckled, and decided he was going to try a third after he played around with two fingers. The scientist in him needed to test that theory that you could only take two.
The louder your moans got, the more Taehyung felt this urge for you to be touching him back. When your hand was on him over his clothes earlier it was all he could think about, and he needed you to touch him again.
He started to push into you with a third finger.
“Fuck, Taehyung, Thats too” you gasped out in high pitched moans.
Taehyung smirked as he continued, “Shh, Will be okay” he muttered. You were so tight but adjusting to him. He started to move his fingers around, and then remembered that you had shuddered and moaned every time that he had brushed against the nub that rested right above where his fingers were going in and out of you. And the way you had tasted when he licked your wetness off of your fingers still lingered on his tongue, he needed another taste, Maybe he should be giving some attention there too…
He brought his mouth to your clit and started to give small licks, you responded more than he’d anticipated, bucking your hips up into his mouth, it makes Taehyung swell with pride that he’d figured out how to make you feel even better.
“Taehyung I’m g-gonna cum soon, I’m getting so close” you gasped out.
Suddenly his head snapped away from you, you whimpered at the loss of him.
“Cum?” he looked up at you in confusion.
“Um yeah, like have an orgasm” You explained.
“Hmmm” he hadn’t fully realized he was working towards a finish here, he had just been having fun. But now that he knew there was an end purpose to his actions it only motivated him to work harder. His tongue dove back into you, flicking and licking faster than before. He had to hold your squirming hips down with his free hand so he could keep his pace.
“Fuck!” you screamed out loudly “Taehyung don't stop! I’m cumming”
Taehyung smiled widely against you as he continued his surprisingly skilled tongue work, lapping up every bit of the wetness that you were giving to him as you came. He felt the walls around his fingers pulsing and tightening around him as you rode out your high.
He didn’t stop for a moment after you had came. You were giggling as you tried to wiggle away from him.
“Ah, Taehyung, Ahh, Stop. It’s too sensitive now!” you squealed.
He chuckled and continued for a few seconds more before pulling himself away from you. Wiping your juices from the corner of his mouth.
“That was the best orgasm I’ve ever had.” You put an arm over your forehead, your chest heaving up and down heavily. “Are you sure you’ve never done that before?”
Taehyung felt so proud of himself. “No never...Really good?”
“So good” you smiled at him, sitting up now. “Want me to return the favor?”
Taehyung nodded slowly, “Meaning...Touch me?” he asked, his hand now palming his hard and aching cock over his short.
“Yes, I want to touch you” you smiled sliding yourself off the table and getting down on your knees in front of him. He cocked an eyebrow up, curious at what you are doing now. Your fingers hooked around the hem of the shorts and pulled them down to his ankles. His cock sprung free now, so hard and needy, a small bead of precum already forming on his tip. You licked your lips and brought a hand up to grip the base of his cock.
“Oh” he whimpered as he threw his head back and shut his eyes tightly.
You then brought your lips to wrap around him, not fully taking him in, but enough that he could now feel your tongue laying flat against the underside of his tip. His hand reflexively snapped to the back of your head, wanting to push himself into you all the way, but not wanting to hurt you. You started to bob your head as your lips moved up and down his shaft. Taehyung's other hand now held the back of your head as well, gently moving with you as you moved on him.
Your tongue flicked over him in a way that felt like heaven, and he, without meaning to jerked his hips forward, causing you to take him in all the way. You quickly pulled away from him coughing and giggling.
“Sorry” Taehyung gasped, “Hurt?” he felt awful for his unintentional action that seemed to have caused you discomfort. Here you were making him feel so good and he was getting overly greedy.
“No, you’re fine. I get it” you chuckled “Let me adjust and you can do that more if you want”
Taehyung’s eyes widened dramatically as you now started to take him in fully, your lips now all the way at the base of his cock, your nose brushing against his abdomen.
“Do your thing now, I’ll tap your thigh hard three times if it’s too much for me okay? Then you have to stop, but unless I do that you can use my mouth however you want” you smirked up at him.
Taehyung nodded, and for a brief second a thought floated through the front of his mind. He was in love…
Taehyung’s hands returned to the back of your head, he started out slowly, moving his hips forward into your mouth as he gripped you tightly, pushing himself into your mouth all the way, and back out again. A loud grunt that surprised even him escaped his lips as he sped up.
Your eyes were watering as you choked a bit around him, but you didn’t want it to stop, you wanted him to cum. This beautiful godlike man was using your mouth so perfectly.
Taehyung felt himself tightening as the pleasure was building, was this his orgasm? He was slightly nervous for the feeling, when you came it seemed to be quite an intense thing. He didn’t quite know what to expect but if it felt anything like what he did right now he didn’t want to stop chasing it.
Suddenly you hummed around him, a low moan that sent vibrations through his cock. The feeling was overwhelmingly pleasurable. It was happening.
“Cumming” he whispered, his eyes rolling back as he shakily fucked himself into your mouth. The sensation that flooded over him as he poured his hot cum into your mouth couldn’t even be compared to anything he’d ever felt in his life. His cock twitched wildy inside your mouth and you moaned around him a few more times, swallowing every drop that he gave you.
He pulled away once it became too sensitive for him to continue.
It was your turn to wipe the corners of your mouth.
Taehyung cocked his head to the side as he stared down at you with a fucked outlook.
“Good.” he whispered through deep breaths, extending out his hand and brushing a thumb over your cheek and then your lower lip. You gently grabbed his wrist and kissed the palm of his hand.
“Very good”
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The next few weeks you and Taehyung continued to learn from each other, in every way possible. Learning about each other's societies and cultures. And continuing extensive first hand anatomy lessons.
Taehyung had been falling more and more in love with you.
Now that he had legs you were able to take him out into the towns, showing him all of your favorite spots and places to go.
Everytime you grabbed his hand and pulled him over to something that excites you, that warm feeling of love and joy filled him up to the point that he felt he might explode.
Your happiness was irresistible, all of you was irresistible to him.
You were feeling similar, yet that dream you had weeks ago hasn't stopped appearing. Almost every night you dreamed of Taehyung’s hand around your throat as he dragged you down into the dark water, the dream had actually continued even longer than the first time. In the most recent dream everything was the same, expect that you could feel the water filling your lungs, you could feel yourself drowning. You woke up choking and grabbing at your throat. You hated yourself for somehow having this subconscious fear of Taehyung due to these dreams. Yet you’d still flinch away from in the morning’s where the dream had visited you during the night. You’d shudder slightly when you caught a glimpse of his teeth.
Namjoon had avoided you ever since your fight. He had turned in a resignation notice and that was the last you’d heard of him. It hurt that he felt like you were trying to steal all of the credit, you really weren’t. You would’ve put his name right next to yours on every research paper. You had cried when you saw Namjoon’s notice that he was leaving, Taehyung held you and kissed you on the cheek, telling you everything would be okay. You did feel some comfort in that, you’d lost your best friend...but gained a new one.
Then many things happened. All too fast and none of them good. About a week ago your office was broken into and you found all of your research had been stolen. You hated that you suspected Namjoon, but who else could it have been. Who else had access?
You suspected that he was going to publish the papers with just his name on them, same as he thought you were going to do to him.
You had tried calling him only to find that your number had been blocked.
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You and Taehyung were cuddling in your bed, enjoying a day off from work and just hanging around your house.
Your head was on his chest and your arms wrapped tightly around him. You felt him sigh heavily.
“Hey what's wrong” you wondered.
He simply sighed again.
“Tell me or I’ll tickle you” you chuckled.
Taehyung avoided meeting your eyes as he spoke, a small frown on his lips. “Miss home”
“Oh” you frowned
“Love here with you. But, Miss home. Miss water.” he sighed again.
You didn’t know what to say, and simply nuzzled your head against him. He brought an arm around your shoulders pulling you in tightly and kissing you on the top of your head.
Suddenly your phone was beeping wildey. You groaned and rolled over to your nightstand table picking it up.
Text from Jungkook: Call me.
Text from Jungkook: Y/n????
Test from Jungkook: Y/N CALL NOW
You were completely confused at what might be so urgent. You clicked the button to return his many calls that he’d also tried.
“Y/n oh my god” Jungkook was frantically gasping.
“What the hell Kook are you okay?”
“Have you seen the news?”
Your body froze and you got extremely nervous. What news? What could possibly have happened.
“Y/n everyone been lying to us. Jin lied to us, The government lied to us. Taehyung has been lying to you” Jungkook was shakily gasping out.
You spun around to Taehyung who was glaring at your phone, he seemed to have overheard that last part and his jaw was clenched tightly.
“W-what do you mean?” You stammered.
“Y/n, Off phone now.” Taehyung growled. “Please”
Your eyes widened at how aggressive Taehyung seemed to be getting.
“Jungkook just tell me what happened!”
Taehyung lunged forward and grabbed your phone out of your hand, breaking it in half with ease and tossing it across the room.
“No.” he spoke with a grim quietness.
You scrambled out of bed running to the other side of the room away from Taehyung, your heart beating fast and your stomach filling with a sickening feeling.
“Taehyung what the hell!” you yelled “What did Jungkook mean?”
Taehyung was shaking his head and running his fingers through his hair.
“Y/n. Not what it seems. Please. Didn’t want wrong idea. Please” he was starting to tear up. “Hear from me not from him” his voice shook as he spoke.
“Hear what from you!” you spoke through gritted teeth.
“y/n…” he whispered,
Suddenly there was a loud crash, and you heard the door to your house being opened and footsteps running towards your room. The door flung open wide and a frantic Namjoon stood in the entrance now.
“Y/n! Thank god you’re okay. I thought maybe he’d already taken you to the ship.” he was gasping.
“What the actual fuck is happening?” you screamed.
Taehyung was now standing and walking towards Namjoon, his body shaking with rage.
“Step back!” Namjoon screamed holding an arm out to Taehyung, your stomach dropped when you saw what was clutched in his hand. A gun, just like the one that Jin had on the ship.
Taehyung snarled and hissed animalistically at Namjoon, but backed up a few steps. His eyes flicking over to you.
“Y/n please. Love you y/n. Promise” Taehyung was whimpering. “Trust.”
“We have to go y/n” Namjoon spoke urgently pulling on your arm, still holding the gun out in warning at Taehyung.
You didn’t want to leave him though, you wanted to hear Taehyung explain himself. You wanted him to make this awful sinking feeling go away. You needed the man you loved…
Yet Namjoon was pulling you away from him and out of the house, then into his car. Speeding away from your house, you could see Taehyung running out of your home, his gaze following the car as you drove away, your eyes meeting. You could see him screaming something out at you.
The sight outside was shocking, you now realize why Jungkook was asking you if you’d seen the news.
The sky was scattered with ships that looked so familiar...they all looked identical to your one of a kind shuttle you’d taken to Neptune!
“Namjoon, what is happening?”
Namjoon didn’t tear his eyes away from the road, but he answered you in a very serious tone.
“Taehyung. This whole time he’s been playing you. His people wanted the plans on how you’d built the ship they’d seen and that's why they sent him with us. I’m assuming, once he’d tested out his theory that he could become just like us out of water he radioed that down to all of them too. Now they are here. And they aren’t being friendly.”
Your jaw dropped, you didn’t understand. Taehyung had been stealing your plans for the ship the whole time? And how did Namjoon know all of this? Was it Taehyung that had broken into your lab?
“And Taehyung isn’t the only one that’s been playing you. Our own fucking government was. They knew that they existed. It was never a question. They just hid it from the rest of society. It turns out each of our ruling powers had a similar idea. Neptune has been wanting to colonize on our moons, take them over. And our government wanted you to go down there and scope it out because they were thinking the same thing. Thats why Jin was there. And that's probably why he left the ship right away when we had arrived at their city. That's how my suspicions started, why would the government send a man with a gun like that unless they already had an idea. And the way Taehyung was so willing to be handed over and didn’t even seem to be worried. I just couldn’t get it off my mind that something was up.” He shook his head.
“B-but...Taehyung loves me” you stuttered
“Y/n I’m sorry, but he doesn’t love you. Hes been faking everything just to steal your research. They are literally here to wipe us all out and we need to get the fuck off of this planet before that happens” His hands shook on the steering wheel.
“I can’t...I don’t want to leave him. He may not love me. But...I love him” You started to sob uncontrollably.
“You’ll get over it” Namjoon scoffed, pulling into the hanger where your ship that you had taken to Neptune still sat.
“I got Hoseok and Jungkook here since they are familiar with this ship, and I made the government promise to get our families on the evacuation ships”
This was all happening so fast. Did Triton really not stand a chance against Taehyung’s people? Your mind flashed to the dream you’d been having and you felt that you might throw up. Your mind had been trying to tell you something was off this whole time. You were too infatuated with the hypnotizingly handsome merman you’d now fallen in love with to see the truth, you’d fed him enough information to destroy your entire civilization.
You quickly boarded your ship. Hoseok and Jungkook were already inside as Namjoon had mentioned.
You sat in silence, still in shock over everything that was happening as the ship took off.
“So where are we going” you muttered, turning to Namjoon.
“I know this sounds bad, but we are actually going down to Neptune...It’s big enough that we can hide out in this ship for now until the president issues out a notice that our people have found another planet or place to live... all the ships going out are scattering.” He sighed
“I-I’m so sorry Namjoon. Why didn’t you tell me sooner that you thought something was up. I could’ve stopped telling him things. Been more careful around him” you frowned “Not fallen in love with him” you spoke in a whisper.
“I’m sorry y/n. It wasn’t the right call. I just felt like it was safer if I didn’t say anything. But I was wrong” he shook his head.
In a few days your ship was nearing Neptune, the four of you had mostly slept the entire trip, trying to not look out and back on your moons. You’d caught a glimpse of what was happening and you couldn’t help but scream out as you saw the once gray surface of your home lit up red with explosions and flames. You hoped and prayed that your family and everyone else who had lived there had been fast enough to the evacuation ships.
“Landing! Get buckled” Hoseok yelled out over the intercom. You did as you were told shakily buckling yourself into your seat.
Once you hit the water, you just stayed still for a while. You all did. Probably sharing the same silent thought. What now?
Your questions were answered when suddenly a door that led to a storage room creaked open.
“Put your fucking hands in the air and don’t come any closer!” Namjoon shouted out. His gun he had brought with him now raised for a second time.
Your breath caught in your throat. And you knew you shouldn’t feel any happiness at the sight of this stow away. But you couldn’t help it.
“Tae-Taehyung” you whimpered.
Taehyung looked like he hadn’t slept in days, his blue hair messy and bags under his eyes.
“Please. Want explain” He choked out, stepping forward towards you.
“I said don’t move!” Namjoon boomed narrowing in on Taehyung with his gun.
“No! Please!” you ran directly in front of the gun with your hands out.
Namjoon let out a frustrated growl “Y/n…”
“I want to hear what he has to say…” you cried.
The room fell silent, and all eyes locked on to Taehyung. Namjoon nodded reluctantly for Taehyung to explain himself, lowering his gun, but staying on alert.
“Your people. Government. The date was set. Destroy date. I Hacked files and saw. You came and took pictures. The last pictures of my people. Government wanted kill us all. Date was set” he muttered looking down at the floor. “I wanted...save my people….I wanted also save you” he looked to you with sad eyes “Wouldn’t have let you hurt. Would’ve got you away!”
You wanted to believe him so badly. You wanted to hug him and kiss him, and share more cuddles on your bed at home like you had gotten so used to. But now you had no home, and it was because of him. Yet, if what he said was true, his people were only returning the favor in advance for what was about to happen on their planet.
“Y/n. Something about four…” He pointed to you, then to Namjoon, Hoseok and Jungkook, “You dream of water all your life. Want to see Neptune. Want to explore.” Taehyung turned to Jungkook “Pictures of Neptune so beautiful. And You” he pointed to Hoseok, “Knew the water well, fly ship in water, no one has ever done yes?”
Hoseok nodded, none of you understanding where he was going with this. Taehyung turned to Namjoon.
“Why Neptune? Why here now? Whole galaxy. Yet here.” he asked as if he already knew the answer. Then Taehyung turned to you.
“Trust?” he muttered, holding out his arms wide.
You had no idea why, but you did trust him. His dark eyes had done nothing but lie to you, yet all you wanted to do was keep believing in them.
You nodded and ran to his arms. He embraced you in a giant bear hug, twirling you around.
You smiled as he kissed you on your head.
“Go water now” He whispered in your ear.
“You’re leaving?”
“No. Two” he pointed to you and then to him.
“I can’t, remember, we can’t breath under water”
“Theory.” he stated.
“Fact?” you raised an eyebrow. “Humans die underwater if they don’t get enough air.”
Taehyung groaned “Trust,” he grumbled.
Despite the rest of your crew pleading for you to stop, you followed Taehyung out a hatch that led to the roof of the ship. You now stood on top, sunlight shining down on Taehyung’s glowing skin. He grinned at you as the two of you looked over the vast un ending water laid out in front of you.
“Jump?” Taehyung asked, holding out his hand to you.
You sighed, feeling slightly uneasy about whatever this was. But, still, you put your hand in his and let him hold on tight to you.
“Trust…” you muttered under your breath, taking a deep breath in as the two of you did a running jump off of the top of your ship and into the water.
Taehyung instantly changed back into his iridescent mermaid form, his tail flowing elegantly in the water. You pointed for him to swim with you back up to the surface, you already felt yourself craving a breath.
He smirked and shook his head. You did not like where this was going.
Instantly after you had a thought of swimming back to the surface even though he’d said no, he was holding you tightly, and dragging you down, down, down.
Everything was so dark, and your lungs felt like they might explode. Your dream came into your mind again. Though this time his hands weren’t on your throat they were holding you around your waist, holding you under. You beat him with your fists hoping to free yourself from him. But you knew, even if you were to be released, he’d dragged you too far down for you to make it up in time.
This was it.
It was over.
Your fight or flight instinct failing, as there was no way to save yourself anymore. You gave up.
Taehyung pulled back from you as you started to go dizzy and limp. He spoke something you couldn’t hear...as if it were another language...Like in your dream.
He planted a soft kiss on your lips. Far too loving and delicate for someone that was murdering you.
Yet somehow, you were glad.
You had loved him so much.
You were only sad that now you’d never see him again.
As everything faded away and your eyes closed, you felt your body try to take in a breath. Only to have your lungs fill with water.
Then complete darkness, complete nothingness.
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Namjoon, Hoseok and Jungkook ran to the top of the ship. Looking down into the water.
“She hasn’t come back up yet...it’s been 10 minutes” Jungkook cried out.
Namjoon shook his head, tears burning his eyes as he clenched his fists.
“I shouldn’t have let her go with him. I can’t believe I let him…” his voice cracked.
Suddenly the water broke. A wet mess of blue hair was popping up from the water.
Taehyung….
As soon as he was within earshot Namjoon screamed out.
“Where is she!?”
“Come see” Taehyung grinned with a sing song voice. “Take you to her...Follow?” he said cutely.
“Fuck.” Hoseok whispered. “This is bad. She's not with him. He killed her” he growled.
Jungkook shook his head “No, no NO! This can’t be happening. Y/n…” he cried.
Namjoon glared down at the man who was at the edge of the ship now, smiling up at the three of them, his blue tail peaking out ever so slightly from the water.
“Why shouldn’t I just shoot you right now” he pulled the gun up and aimed it directly to the forehead of the blue haired merman who seemed unphased by the threat.
“Want see her yes?” he asked cheerfully. “Trust” he smiled mischievously, motioning for Namjoon to come into the water with him. Namjoon was sure it was a lie, it was a trick. But, he even if it was in death, he wanted to see y/n again.
“I’m sorry guys.” Namjoon whispered, tossing the gun aside on the top of the ship and diving down into the water next to the grinning merman.
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Your eyes fluttered open, there was a weird feeling of weightlessness around you. Everything surrounding you was colorful, you definitely weren’t back on Triton. Which means there's no way all of this had just been a dream.
You were laying on a stone bed in an odd room, the walls were decorated with shimmering shells and glass.
In your confusion you went to stand up and go investigate your surroundings. Yet something stopped you.
You couldn’t move your feet.
Well, something moved. But it wasn’t feet. You looked down and screamed out loudly.
Where legs used to be was now a glittering silver scaled tail, resembling the one that Taehyung had, only differing in color.
At your screams Taehyung quickly swam into the room.
“Y/n. Awake!” his eyes widened.
You jumped and backed away from him, closer to the wall.
“Taehyung what the fuck is happening. I-I thought…” you thought he had killed you. It was the last thing that you can remember.
“Never.” he shook his head. “Y/n. Never hurt you” he held out his hand to you. “Learn? Swim?”
You nervously swam towards him, it wasn’t elegant and graceful like how he always swam, but you got to him.
He pulled you into a loving embrace, petting the top of your head as he held you to his soft and warm chest.
“y/n is awake?” A voice rang out.
You broke yourself away from Taehyung's arms to find where that familiar voice was coming from.
Namjoon swam over to you. Like you, he was missing legs, and his were replaced by a long green tail.
“This is crazy isn’t it?” his eyes widened. “I still can’t quite believe it. But I’m loving it” he swam up and did a backwards flip. “It’s kinda like flying. Hoseok And Jungkook are somewhere around here ” he looked around searching for your other companions.
Taehyung chuckled putting an arm around your shoulders.
“What is going on here?”
Namjoon swam to face you and Taehyung.
“Y/n. The reason Mermaids speak our language. The reason both our people knew about each other” he paused collecting his excitement. “They all just explained this to me, so Taehyung, let me know if I’m leaving anything out. Everyone up on the moons was originally from here on Neptune. A long long time ago, the mer people learned that they could walk on dry land, but there was no dry land, so they set out to see if there was any where that they could. They had made it to the moons but a cruel leader at the time destroyed all of the ships and all records of how to get back home. The knowledge of the merpeople was passed down through stories, until a journal was found not too long ago of a scientist that had built the ships that could go back and forth between the worlds. It was turned into the government and that’s when they started plotting to wipe them out, and figure out a way to colonize. I had no idea but It was actually one of the books that were given to me by the government for research help while I was building the ship. They were going to use us and our research to kill everyone here” he finally stopped for a moment after his long speech “did I get everything?” He turned to Taehyung, who nodded.
“Not all moon people can turn back. But, More than realize though. Can tell” he pointed to himself “always drawn to water. Always need learn, explore, color, need more…” he informed you.
So he knew, he knew the whole time what all of you were.
“And we can stay here with you?” You whispered, it all still felt like a dream.
Taehyung smiles and kissed your cheek.
“Yes” he whispered “please stay”
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heyo! it's padawin (or wan??) anon again!! thank you for your very kind words ;////; huu, who knows, maybe you'll be able to see them one day! but for now i have another question ~as usual i am dum~ i recently got csp and i have 0 idea how to work it? not asking for a whole tutorial just a basic review on why it's so good since i won't lie i almost deleted it and had a heart attack o(-( thank you! hope ur having a good day!
AH! hello young padawan!
This is ganna be long so I’ll put this under a readmore!
thats great news! honestly from experience once you’ve learnt how to use CSP you can master pretty much adobe (Photoshop and illustrator) The program can be really intimidating at first thats for sure take it easy and stick to the basics and once you’re comfortable with that
Once you’ve opened the program you’d want to work on an illustration so click on the top bar file > new. You’ll see something like this-
The Illustration one is for drawing and is overall best and easy! The comic ones are little more over whelming with shapes and layout hh and animation is more so timeline (little like flash animation and photoshop sorta)
This tool bar here is mainly useful for layers hhh
I don’t really touch much from there hhh, I only use expression colour to really look at the work in grayscale!
The three most important tools that’ll help give your work dimensions!
1) These are the tools for drawing, Each tool here represents the mediums they look like/ named after. Listed in order!
The pen - Thick lines, different options mess around to see which one suits you, I mainly use this for lineart or bulky shape work
Chalk - in the name! I use this tool for sketches!
Paint brush - This one is best for colour and for defined work! this is biased but the best is the oil paint brush, it just HMMM it just GLides from One colour to another and helps me create this effect -
The spray - Similar to the chalk but is more so identical to the mspaint spray one hhh from experience so I dont really USe THAT one
Stars - these are shapes! If you’ve used gimp you’d know how this one works! your brush turns into the pattern and shapes you chose like so -
Eraser - Self explanatory!
Blend tool - alot of people like this hhh but I’d recommend the oil painbrush over this but this basically makes blending alot more smoother and easier!
2) this is more so layout, some of these activate a new layer (like text)
fill bucket - my lazy butts fav tool, It fills in the pixilated or selected area, be careful tho if the colour is weak it’ll leak out and fill other areas!
Gradient - This… I dont use this at all hhh
Contour Line paint - This tool I dont use either hh, it basically bucket fills and area that is similar to the line around that area
TYPEEE!! - this is where you add text! the text on this program is kinda annoying but hey you can rotate it! how you rotate it, after you’ve chosen what type face (font) you want and size and colour COLLAPSE IT to a EMPTY LAYER!!! then use the selection tool and rotate it! (I will discuss the rotation took in part three!)
NO idEa WHat THIS tOOL IS IF IM HONEST
3) This is basically cropping and editing!
Zoom - This will help you zoom in and out!
Rotation - helps you turn your canvas around, upside down and so on to make difficult angles easy to reach!
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Movement - helps you move selected layer around! can be a pain if done by accident but hey what is ctrl + z for!
Selection/ lasso! - THIS TOOL wILL bE yoUR SAVOIR! I use to to fix layout as well as anatomy and perspective. When you select an area this will pop up!. The first one on the left is to cancel selection, 7th from the left is the one where you can move, resize! Those are really the important ones hh
Wand - The iconic select took, that selects an area you click and the same options from the selection/ lasso will pop up!
eyedropper - this tool will basically copy a colour on any canvas that is advisable, helps to reuse a colour! it auto works if you just right click on your mouse or pen so you dont have to keep changing from your pen,painbrush or bucket tool!
I think thats the basics? now I’ll talk about all the aspects CSP has to offer in Edit that makes life a blessing such as colour corrector, change line of drawing and change canvas size (which is a million times easier than photoshop, which makes you use math and NUmBERS)
Tonal correction is what I use to basically fix the colours of my artworks, Its easier than redrawing the entire piece hhh, sometimes we all draw a little off colour pallette! so when you click that you’ll get -
Brightness and contrasts - brightness really just makes its more white and black but contrast makes the colour more vibrant and pop, its a scale option so its really fiddling around with the two bars until what you see is something you’re happy with!
Hue, saturation hhhh - This will help you change YOUR ENTIRE hue aka the CMY (the primary colours, magenta cyan yellow) and the saturation tones the contrast making it easier on the eyes! same as the last one it’ll be sliders! so really mess with it and pick which one is pleasing to you!
the rest i dont use hhh but
Colour BALANCE - this helps me hhh basically you change the entire colour layout beyond CMY, it has three effects, the highlight, shadow and halftone! same as before sliders! mess around with until youre happy with how it looks! (It’ll auto preview)
I think that’s really it? any more questions please shoot me up!
OH! CSP is known to crash, its the only downside tbh, it also auto saves alot, so save alot! SAVE ALOT!! i’ve lost whole works like 6 hours from csp crashing as it was overwhelmed from my layers hh
here is how you can look for backup files incase it does crash! -
My documents -> CELSYS -> Clip studio PAINT DATA-> -Document BackUp or -Initial Backup.
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The Ties That Bind
Thanks for all your feedback on the first chapter. I loved reading it all! I hope you enjoy the second chapter.
Once again thanks to @mo-nighean-rouge for the beta
Chapter 2 : A Recreational Activity (well, a few)
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only. -Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Jamie groaned and hoped that the banging inside his head would stop soon. This was the problem with drinking wine. Generally Jamie tried to steer clear of ‘grape’ and stick to ‘grain’. However, last night, he had supped copious quantities of both and now was suffering the consequences. He stretched his hand out hoping to find a glass of water and possibly even two aspirins left on the bedside table by his more responsible alter ego yesterday. There they were. Gratefully, he sank back onto the pillows and waited for them to do their work.
Parts of his alcohol-induced dreams came back to him… miles and miles of hotel corridors and he was chasing, chasing... a woman with the most gorgeous legs he had ever seen. He kept chasing her, but she wouldn’t stop and she wouldn’t turn round. A flash of wild dark curls and…
The banging in his head seemed to be louder now. “Unca,” a cross little voice added to the general cacophony. “Unca, get up now. Mam says now. ‘Tis beckfast and then ‘wimmin’. Mam says.”
Jamie forced himself out of bed. Fastening the towelling bath robe, he opened his door. His little nephew rushed past him and started jumping on the bed. Jenny stood in the doorway, her eyes darting all round the room.
“I go ‘wimmin’ with ye, Unca, wiv Spideyman shorts. What ye shorts, Unca?”
Jamie sighed and looked at his sister. “She’s no’ here. She didna stay. Nothing happened.” He grabbed Wee Jamie round his middle, lifting him high up in the air. “And who said I would take ye swimmin’, ye wee fishie?”
“Mam said so, she did.”
Jamie gently set his nephew on his feet. “Aye, well, yer mam makes an awfa’ lot o’ decisions fer the men in this family. But I guess I canna refuse, no’ if I ken what’s good fer me.”
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Claire lay on one of the day beds next to the swimming pool and wiggled her toes, admiring the newly applied scarlet polish. She set aside the copy of Hello! she had been skimming through and turned to Geillis.
“This was such a good idea of yours, G. Total battery recharge today… and we’ve even had the whole pool to ourselves. I don’t reckon we’ll be seeing any of that wedding party any time soon. Not if last night was anything to go by.”
“I am rather full of brilliant ideas,” Geillis agreed. “Although I feel we may have missed an opportunity last night. So many men...”
“... And no doubt so many wives and girlfriends!” Claire interrupted.
“Och, well,” Geillis dismissed Claire’s interruption. “Guess we’ll never know.”
“Anyway, so I’ve a body wrap, then hot stone massage in twenty minutes. I’m going to head into the sauna for ten minutes first. You coming?”
“Aye, may as weel. I don’t reckon there’ll be anything worth hangin’ round here fer today.” Geillis gathered up her belongings and followed Claire into the sauna.
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Jamie sat in the male changing room, blowing up his nephew’s armbands (Spider-Man, obviously a theme here) while Wee Jamie hopped excitedly from foot to foot.
“Now, afore we go in the pool, are ye sure you dinna need a wee? Ye ken what I told ye, as how if ye wee in the pool, the water turns bright blue?”
“Nah, Unca, c’mon now. Wanna go ‘wimmin’.” The little lad pulled his armbands up, grabbed Jamie’s hand and headed for the door. “C’mon, c’mon.” He paused and stared intently at his uncle. “Ye no Spideyman shorts?”
Jamie looked down at his blue checked board shorts and tried to look sad about this. “Sorry lad, I’m too big fer such a fine pair.”
As they entered the pool area together, Jamie looked around. It was totally deserted, which, Jamie thought, was hardly surprising based on the amount of alcohol that had been consumed the day before. An abandoned magazine lay on one of the day beds.
Wee Jamie pointed to a small passage way on the other side of the pool. “What’s ‘at?”
“Ah, nothing for ye. Just the sauna... it’s awfa hot and no’ fer children and the girls’ changing room is down there too. That’s definitely no’ fer us lads, eh?”
Following Jenny’s instructions to “wear the lad out, we want him tae sleep in the car going home,” Jamie stayed in the pool, playing with his nephew until he noticed the lad’s eyelids start to droop. He scooped him up and carried him back to the changing room, intending to just wrap him in a towel and leave the tricky drying and dressing to Jenny.
Wee Jamie held tightly to his uncle’s neck. “You fib, Unca. Ye did. I wee’d and I wee’d but no blue.”
Jamie chuckled. God, he loved this little lad something fierce and maybe someday, God willing...
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Claire picked up the two whiskies from the bar and made her way to the table where Geillis was sitting. The pub was quite empty at the moment, just a handful of people, like them, having a quick drink after work before heading home.
Geillis looked Claire up and down appraisingly. “Ye ken I love ye, Claire, but could you no’ wear something a bit, weel, more alluring when we’re out?”
Claire gazed down at her old jeans and plain black tee shirt. “G, I’ve been on my feet in theatre for the past 8 hours. I’m so knackered, you’re lucky I managed to change out of my scrubs and into this! Besides, however can I compete with your alllllluuure?” She drawled the last word out jokingly. “Maybe you have the allure for both of us? I can be your duff.”
Geillis raised a quizzical eyebrow.
“Designated ugly fat friend.” Claire explained with a smile. “According to the movie, every friendship group has one. You and me, we’re a friendship group, ergo, I must be it.”
“Claire, ye may be many things but fat or ugly never.” Geillis said, “Yer hair’s a wee bit wild, mind. Do ye no’ fancy a Brazilian blow dry?” She ran her fingers over her sleek strawberry blonde locks.
“And here’s me thinking a ‘brazilian’ was about a different part of my anatomy altogether!”
Geillis smiled, then a serious expression crept over her face. “But, Claire, ye dinna think ye’re fat or ugly really, do ye?”
Claire stared at the beer mat on the table, her fingers picking at it, ripping it into tiny shreds of paper. She really thought she’d outgrown that nervous habit.
“Well, no, but, it’s difficult to explain. Frank...” She could hear Geillis tutting at the mention of his name. “Frank had certain… er, expectations of how I should be. How I should behave, how I should look. The disapproval on his face if I took an extra roast potato, ordered dessert, poured myself another glass of wine. There was always someone younger, more self-controlled, thinner. So, for a while I tried to become the person he wanted me to be. I tried to see myself through his eyes and I saw the fat arse, the lack of control, the not-really good enough...”
Geillis leaned closer and gently placed her hand on Claire’s. “Thank God ye got out of there. That wasna a healthy place tae be, Claire. Ye know ye’re worth a lot more than that.”
“I know. And I am joking about that duff business but occasionally, old habits are hard to break. That’s why I’m not after a serious relationship. I’m not sure I’m ready to let someone see me as I really am.”
“But a fling will do ye no harm at all. It will do ye the world of good, let ye see how another man treats ye. In fact, we need a list. A checklist. When ye’re in theatre, ye dinna start cuttin’ till ye know everything is in place, all the boxes are ticked. So we make a list of what ye want and ye dinna start, er, flingin’ till a man ticks all the boxes.”
Claire finally put the mangled beer mat down. “A list, really?”
“Aye, it’s scientific, ye ken.” Geillis picked up her bag and rooted around for a piece of paper. Finding an unused paper napkin, she smoothed it flat on the table, extracted a pen from the depths of her bag and sat poised ready to write. “Ok. Point one…” She scribbled something down quickly.
“Come on, Let me read it.” Claire laughed, turning the napkin round. “Must look good in, and out of, a kilt. G, you have a one-track mind.”
“Och, it’s a fling we’re talking about, ye only need one track, I reckon. So, what about point two?”
“Well, I may as well play along. Point two must be no complications.”
Geillis obligingly wrote that down. “Next point. Enjoys a drink. Likes to let his hair down.”
Claire took the pen from her friend and added another line. Geillis read it upside down. “Really, it’s a fling ye’re after. Ye’re tellin’ me if they dinna like the X-Files, that’s it? Is that a deal breaker?”
“What can I say? The heart wants what the heart wants.”
“Fine, but I’m adding this one then. Fancies ye as ye are. No changing ye.”
The pub was starting to fill up. Most commuters had already made their way home, to be replaced by those heading out for the evening, coming into the pub for a quick drink before their evening plans properly began. Even on a drizzly Thursday evening, it was getting to be standing room only. Claire noticed several people eyeing their table enviously. She drained her whisky glass and stood up.
“I think that’s me done for this evening. Any more and I’ll have to be put to bed right here. I’ll just pop to the loo and meet you outside, G.”
As Claire crossed the room to the toilets, Geillis started to gather her stuff together to leave.
Immediately a woman rushed to the table, plonked herself in one chair, and stuffed her bag on the other chair. She eyed Geillis, willing her to hurry up and be on her way. Geillis ignored her and continued rifling through her bag, her movements deliberately slowing. Eventually, Geillis decided she’d had enough of the game, turned away and walked to the exit.
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Geneva caught Jamie’s eye as he moved away from the bar, drinks in hand, and pointed to the seats she had found for them. He sat down, taking a deep slug of his whisky as he put Geneva’s vodka, lime and soda on the table next to a tatty old napkin.
“Someone’s shopping list, no doubt.” Geneva dismissed it with a wave of her hand as Jamie picked it up and carried on telling Jamie about the difficulties in trying to find the correct colour for a new bedroom throw. “...Not really a teal, but not quite a cerulean colour either…”
Jamie knew his role in this. It was just to nod and murmur appreciatively at appropriate points in the story. That gave him time to think… unfortunately. Thinking made him realise that Jenny had been right three weeks ago at the wedding. Geneva was not the one, he didn’t need to try again just to see. And she did talk utter shite.
He groaned, which Geneva seemed to take as indication of his deep interest in her tale of home furnishing trials and tribulations. He should never have slept with her. He hadn’t intended to but last night, as the blood left his brain and migrated south, he had lost the capacity for rational, coherent thought and had followed his baser instincts. Which had been a very bad idea.
Jamie glanced at the napkin he was still holding. Straightening it between his fingers, he began to read. A woman with long strawberry blonde locks suddenly leaned over and gently took the napkin from his fingers.
“Thanks, it’s fer scientific research, ye ken.”
He watched as she walked to the door, to her waiting friend. Her friend with the long shapely denim clad legs and mad curly hair and her face, so full of life with sparkling eyes he longed to dive right into.
“What an odd thing to want.” Geneva interrupted his contemplation. “That couldn’t have been scientific research. On a used napkin. Some people are just strange.”
Jamie felt his breath catch in his throat. Jenny had been right - he recognised it. What to do now?
#outlander fanfic#outlander fan fiction#modern AU#Jamie Fraser#claire beauchamp#the ties that bind#chapter 2#fluff#bit of angst#first time writing#sorry i dont know how to add links to previous chapter here
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Hey I sent that anon and surprise, im a female with actual pcos, body& facial hair, and a bigger clit than average. My fucking bones still look like females because its not a condition that affects your bone growth! So nice try but maybe pull that on someone who doesnt have the condition you're trying to co-opt. Its common for men who cant cope with transness to pretend they're intersex. And highly regarded physical anthropology is nazi shit now? Contact Tulane University to shut down asap then!
wh… yes it is? androgens in early puberty will absolutely affect your bone structure. Hormones are a massive determiner on how your bones develop during puberty. And PCOS gave me higher levels of androgens?? and even if i didnt have PCOS, you know like. afab people have different proportions naturally? People have distinctive bones. Furthermore I have a trans masc friend who went on T (like I am now) and had their rib cage and shoulders literally expand. Not the bones getting longer, but the cartilage and tendons between shifting and stretching to take on a build more typical of that hormone pattern.
The study of bones to identify body type isn’t nazi shit. You cherry picking that science to try to claim a living person you havent seen irl, covered in skin muscle and fat is “100% not afab” is so stupid and superstitious, it might as well be someone trying to feel the bumps in my skull to determine if im a criminal.
And also, that whole identifying genitalia via bones thing isn’t as clear cut as you want to make it sound. Have you not seen reports about recent historical updates based on genetic tests replacing incorrect determinations of sex/race based on biased or incorrect bone analysis?? Studying skull structure to determine gender ISN’T an exact science.
You can read a study about it here in fact! (URL: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/janthro/2015/908535/ ) It’s a study exclusively looking at the reliability of sexing a skeleton. And it says up front that skeletons vary wildly between populations and are very difficult to analyse reliably without thorough analysis that doesn’t rely simply on size and proportion; in fact, that method specifically (the metric method) is massively unreliable in sexing skeletons.
If you wanted to truly guess my junk based on my skeleton, what you’d need to do is rip my pelvic bones out of me and run them through a morphometric analysis. Because that’s pretty much the best teller in terms of someone’s junk; those bones were grown to fit to a certain gonadal configuration, and they are the biggest difference between amab and afab skeletons, and even those aren’t always easy to tell apart. (I know this because i studied anatomy extensively as part of my artistic practice and during my course.) But you haven’t seen my pelvis. You havent even seen a clear picture of my hips. So you trying to assert you’re sure im amab based on my skulls bone structure makes you look like a fucking idiot.
Listen mate. I dont want to prove my birth sex to you because it’s important to me - im dysphoric in that i WANT a dick and to get top surgery. I’m intensely dysphoric about that, I just dont talk about it on this blog because I have a nsfw blog and thats where I talk about shit like that. I don’t want the afab body i have.
But i do want to prove my birth sex to you so hopefully you realise how sexist, transphobic and backward it is for you to look at the selfies of an afab person, determine they’re too masculine in their bone structure to be afab (or in your mind, a “real woman”), and send them messages like these.
If you think this is you being “real” about biology, or being a feminist, or being rational - wherever this is coming from - i want you to realise you’re not. And you’re just making yourself look ignorant. Massively, willingly ignorant. It’s not a good look.
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Hnghhh why does it require e f f o r t and p a t i e n c e and p r a c t i c e to get good at art????? I need to be good immediately and things i want to see appear at a snap of my fingers.......
Read more for what became an accidental full rant about why ive yet to post anything besides that one thing idkkkk
Aka im TRYING to be good and practice little by little but its BORING and difficult to not get immediate reward.... Also because for whatever reason i really dont wanna watch tutorials so im tryna be all self taught kinda and im OBVIOUSLY making a lot of mistakes like its part of the process but its FRUSTRATING
Basically im on my 6th??? Idk restart attempt at the same fennec portrait and its. Okay. Its at a point where im like nice as long as i suffer over the details here itll be decent ish. Probably.
But its not REWARDING.....
I know i want to do screencaps and character and face studies to get to the point of good art i wish i could be but .... I also just wanna draw like fun fic scenes and silly doodles of characters like some of the cool artists i follow do but i CANT because im not GOOD ENOUGH yet. ;(((((((
Yea i could post sketches or whatver i manage in a night but like who the fuck wants to follow that? Nah... I just idk. I DONT KNOW i dont know what my art goals are (i do, but DO I??)
My brain also obviously doesnt work very well visually which is GREAT so like, any original work its a lot like 'i'll know its right when i see it' but getting next to no other direction and you just gotta be like right. Okay uhhh my anatomy skills are stunted from when i was like 16?? Perspective?? Detail?? WHATS THE COLOR SCHEME
Never mind that i just... Dont understand the program or brushes that well idk why. Krita should be good and im too stressed to experiment different softwares.... BLEGH
i just. Part of me aches to go back to traditional for a bit but i just, dont have the means to make the scale of work i want ro produce with traditional materials yknow?? Maybe i should try just sketching scanning and then lining on computer again idk. At least for some of these face things.
Ok so my GOAL is to always have a very recognizable face. Like. I guess i cant hold myself to photorealism standards because hahahhah id die! But like, i want the face to be looked at and go ah yes! Its that guy! That actress! My friend! Me! Whoever! But like, recognizable. Because i know i CAN thats what i do! Thats all ive been good at !!!!
And like yeah i could hone that, yknow? Work on face studies and mini portraits of all my favourite actors and scenes and shit. Cool right?? Yeahh that could be sickaroni macaroni. People like faces they can recognize and good refined work. I can do that
But i want to be MORE
Id love love love to make like. Scenic paintings. Concept art level atmosphere and color and light and presence and as tory telling yknow?? Id like to substitute the literally colorless fog inside my head into vivid scenes. Id like to try and take the fics that in my head are set in ??? Space with some movement here and there and just idk emotions? Into fleshed out SCENES with backdrops and accurate anatomy and WEIGHT and like, everything incredible that i admire in true art.
But thats hard, yknow? I havent really ever done backgrounds and what i have have been so flat. I dont KNOW how to do that (here i would be willing to have a teacher i think but. Im tired. I cant even seek out a short term therapist for myself how am i gonna find the kind of teacher i want?? Because of course i want them to teach me how to achieve whata inside my dreams and not what they know how to do ykno)
Yeah so i want to try and paint screencaps in the meantime. See if i cant struggle my way to fit this putty of skill into a square box. Like i think i can paint. Digitally? Somewhat idk?? Maybe if i just. Keep trying itll work out?? Start with simpler ones and build up to complexity??
But also. If im juat trying to get myself to love art again, why am i trying to throw myself in the deep end of struggling with something im not good at?? Shouldnt i be just refining what i already know? Like. A character! Standing. Maybe in a cooler pose if going crazy. Refining basic anatomy. How does fabric work? How does hair work? Can i make expressions seem realistic?
Next step, could i make a picture of someone without direct reference?? Like. Could i draw maybe a wee dinluke holding eachother or whatever and like. Just. Do it?? Without doing a version of photoshopping two pics of the actors through art together. Idk.
Also NONE of this makes sense to anyone outside my head and im SORRY
Like i dont even have a resolution at the end here!!! Im just FRUSTRATED!!!
I wanna draw, i wanna have results and success and rewarding experiences. But i also want ro challenge myself and do super complex shit and like really push myself to learn impressive difficult shit and be proud of down the line.
Im so tired. I cant even feel ok drawing without having someone on call with me to alleviate the immense pressure of frustration and anxiety and stress and struggle!!
I just. Wanna enjoy it
Okay fine i need to find a show or smth to 'watch'
And tomorrow? I might whip out a sketchbook thats been last used 8 years ago and. Ignore everything in it hahhaha its bad
But no im gonna. Im gonna draw scenes. With minimal reference
I might make a face collage i definitely wanna for pascal and mar camel
But im gonna put PENCIL to PAPER and get to the roots of MY HAND CAN DRAW just give her a chance, and get your brain outta the game.
Ok so fuck me this rant has to end here or ill never stop
If you read this (i dont expect ANYONE to have) send me like a message or whatever lol imma need to ask if youre ok <3
#art woes#ended up being way too long OOPS#im just really TIRED and FRUSTRATED#take a peek in my brain#bless this mess or whatever
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hi i just discovered your webcomic !! i very much love it a lot and i was wondering if yo could maybe clear up the worm's anatomy ? cuz like, one minute they have boobs except its referred to as a he and then it has a dick but its still a queen ? don't get me wrong its insanely cool but if you would be so kind as to enlighten me on the subject it would be very much appreciated !! keep up the good work !!
I’ve been getting a lot of new readers and I think its been a while since i’ve gotten questions about this, so I suppose I don’t mind recirculating some information again. Hopefully i can cover a little bit more of the deeper nuances about worms and their relationship to gender/sex/pronouns that i haven’t talked about before. Its best to keep in mind that pronouns and also body parts (genitals/breasts, ect) arent always indicative of gender or sex. I think this is safe to say this is true for.. even outside of my story.
**SOME SPOILERS BELOW IF YOU HAVENT READ THE ENTIRE COMIC... SORRY I RAMBLED***
Anyway-- In the case of hydragora worms (which ill focus on as they are the ones with the king/queens classifications), their pronouns are not even exactly related to their genders or sex at all! but rather the type of ‘class’ of worm they are. Technically, all worms are able to lay eggs and also fertilize them. there are no “girl” or “boy” worm. Sometimes their rituals with how this process happens are different depending on what kind of worm they are, but they are all able to shape-shift their bodies to look how they want-- well, based on what they eat-- so body parts like boobs and genitals are really just accessories. For some worms, they’re important parts of their body that help make them comfortable, for others they couldnt give a fuck about what is swinging around. it really depends on the individual. Worms can mate without even having any visible genitals just as long as they squirm around in the necessary fun fluids with some sort of .. open.. orifice to absorb it with.... worm sex can be real damn freaky i wont get into it rn.
Back to the pronouns though. What does it mean??? Well, Kings do not actually mean male and Queens do not mean female..Even though we humans generally associate these pronouns/words with male and female! To make it as simple as i can, I try to explain or ask others to think of it like..Kings (he/him) - Typical characteristics: Lazy, Important, Need to be worshipped and protected. Very sexually appealing. Also have mysterious powers. Often have little weird crowns.Queens (she/her) - Characteristics: generally very large, can regenerate, specifically hunt down kings to kill them. Super strong. Generally have cool looking tails for some reason. Very colorful because that is useful for intimidation and showing off how strong they are.Regular worms: want to worship kings + protect them, also desire to become knights. technically speaking-- i would say that the lack of pronouns is the most ‘suitable’ pronoun to describe them. some even casually adopt he/she/they pronouns but usually in the space of interacting with other species. anyway, they’re loyal and subservient. knight worms: the special king-appointed upgrade of regular worms, they often adopt he/him pronouns through this process but it is reflective of their close bond with their king. (the very simple format is thinking the three basic worm genders as LAZY, MURDER and WORSHIP.)
*ok more specific character spoilrs below YOUUUVE BEEN WARNNNED IM WARNING YOOOU ok done warning**
Some worms break from this system and try to reinvent or reinterpret pronouns for their own while still interacting with worm culture/society. A couple examples of worms that do this are Agent Paper and Nail. (although really, its hard to think what worm character in ffak does not do this lol) Paper is a woman wishes to be viewed/treated as a woman by ANY species she interacts with. But! this doesnt mean she identifies as being a queen worm however- even tho she uses she/her pronouns. She just is a female worm. That identity is important to her even if, for a worm, it is far more ‘binary’ way of thinking than worms typically exhibit. Other worms will probably view her as a wanna-be-human or close minded. But just because the majority of worms are very fluid in many aspects of their gender/bodies/identity/sexuality doesn’t mean paper has to conform to this fluidity as well. The idea of a ‘Binary Gender’ for worms is typically very confusing (or an example of someone who is misinformed) to those who understand that worms generally do not adhere to a binary system. Especially for a worm who is NOT trying to disguise themselves as a human and integrate with human society (Aka, like Dylan who mostly interacts with humans and generally tries to remove herself from worm culture/society completely. Dylan does not even WANT to be considered a worm while paper still LOVES being a worm and associating herself with worms. shes just a woman worm. dylan is a woman. just not a worm woman. she will begrudgingly accept she is still technically a worm, but the identity of woman is less important to her and is more just the default of being viewed as a cis lady by humans and dylan is like ‘yeah whatevs’.)Nail is a queen worm, which typically have she/her pronouns, but he goes by he/him pronouns and also is fairly assertive of that. However, this doesnt mean he is a man or wishes to be viewed a ‘Man’ or ‘Male' (specifically) or even as a “King.” its more like... his own interpretation of what he/him means, which is about authority, dominance and most importantly: power. If he would pick a ‘binary gender sort of thing’ (while rolling his eyes bc he thinks its stupid while also thinking its important enough to get annoyed at when people dont respect his pronouns) he would pick being a man and would vehemently reject being viewed as a woman, but in a more deeper level that is not actually how he sees his he/him pronouns as a man thing. (even between being NB/male/female he would still pick man because that just seems ‘direct to the point.’ and satisfying) He also generally rejects the label of Queen worm too, but will begrudgingly or unenthusiastically accept that he is one. He is also considered an ‘odd’ queen because he is very small in stature and generally has muted colors of browns/tans instead of flashy ones. He has been teased at this too that he wasnt QUEEN enough by being so small and puny lmao.
To backtrack a little, As worms integrate with human society, or even hekatons (which that species also mimics a lot of human society), they will often adopt the ideology and system of how pronouns are used. Or at least, will be forced to process how other species will view them based on the shared language of using the same words, despite it meaning many different things... to not only groups of people but also on the individual level. I think thats an important thing to consider that there are many different dynamics, interpretations and journeys interacting all at once and influencing each other and are constantly evolving and branching out. Even the lines between what is a king/queen/other worms really ARE is blurry because its all on a spectrum of.. various physical characteristics and behaviors.
And to go into EVOLUTION and BLURRY LINES... As we can see with a worm like, Jacket for example... while he is specifically NOT a king, he is also more like a unique blend of features from queens/regular worms and also knights. because he WANTS to be a knight he already uses he/him pronouns despite not actually having a king already and hasnt even gone through the specific knighting process. Jacket sees He/him as words that mean total loyalty to the king. Whoever the king is. And if someone were to try to put him in a specific box of queen/king/knight/regular worm they would be unable to place him b/c he is something else unique entirely. and while jacket uses he/him pronouns i think at the core of it he literally does not give a fuck about language at all, or genders, or labels. those are all nonsense things. he relies only on instinct and desire.
Phew. ok I could ramble on and describe every one of my worm characters, but I’ll leave it at there for now. Crimson is even more confusing bc she is a fucking hybrid human/mandragora worm, using a goddamn hydragora body, and has like 2 other clone heart selves and all this other fucking bullshit. i have been writing this for like an hour. lmao
I hope some of this is communicates at least, its a little difficult to orchestrate and articulate all the levels operating here at once in a simple-to-digest manner. the fun thing about ffak at least is that if you dont want to think about this stuff you dont really have to--although id think it enriches the experience a bit.
#ffak faq#ffak#feast for a king#paper#dylan#nail#jacket#hydragora worm#this is long as fuck#tethys-dimensional
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i meant to write something earlier but i’ve been very busy with school (btw i love mhcc!!! my classes are difficult but very fun so far! i’ve got my first exam in anatomy on tuesday but i actually feel pretty good about it! i like the school better than pcc)
anyway this is about the da4 ‘leaks’
the ‘da4′ leaks are so likely fake imo WHICH I KNOW many people have pointed out but there are a few things on there that i just really can’t see happening.
One being the ‘human only’ protag. I personally adore DA2 but I know people HATED having to play as a human. I mean...I recall when DA:I was first being hinted at (when it was just da3 to fans lol), there was that ‘human only protag’ rumor flying around and look at what we got. FOUR playable races. I am 100% certain that is a response to backlash, and I can not for the life of me imagine why Bioware would go back to human only--especially since another common criticism of DA:I is how human-tailored it feels.
I know the leaks says its for story purposes, but tbh, i can not imagine why Bioware would go human only in an environment that is just brimming with potential unique content for every playable race we had in da:i. i can’t imagine bioware being so unaware of what fans like that they think people wouldn’t want unique content for the character they build.
im not saying they won’t do it, but it seems really unlikely that bioware would walk head first into that kind of backlash again.
another iffy spot: the cc option to decide your character’s sexuality. That sounds very fake. Veeery fake. I can’t see any purpose in it, for one thing. I think someone mentioned ‘well it could make unique dialogue options!’ ok thats still weird, because unless everyone in Thedas has a perfectly functioning gaydar, then how will they know lol. Plus that just doesn’t sit with me right, having everyone instantly figure it out, especially given that da4 will likely take place in Tevinter :/
Now, i’m not saying I wouldn’t mind dialogue options about sexuality in-game? like...i can only think of one or two instances in all of dragon age where your character can express interest in the same sex OUTSIDE of actual ‘flirt’ options. but i want it to be from my character’s mouth when i decide it, not through a filter in cc.
those are the two big ones that were big red flags for me, but a lot of the other stuff was kinda ‘ehhh’. Like the mention of Dorian having only a cameo, and the Inquisitor only being mentioned. Both of those, while not impossible, seem kinda unlikely to me. I expect Dorian to actually have a fairly big role in da4. The epilogue of Trespasser makes it clear he returns to Tevinter to help reform it a bit with Maevaris. Trespasser also gives Dorian a very easy way to contact the Inquisitor. Maybe the Inquisitor won’t make an appearance, but it feels very weird to only have them be MENTIONED if in fact Solas plays a crucial part, because regardless of your Inquisitor’s relationship with him, its still pretty obvious that its an important one. be it friends or lovers or enemies or whatever.
I can still see them maybe pushing the Inquisitor aside, but I am pretty certain Dorian will do more than make a cameo.
for all i know the leaks are true, however i hope that the game isn’t so far in its development that bioware can’t change some of these things then. because i am nearly certain all the devs were contacted on twitter about this stuff by multiple people lol. maybe its kind of concerning they haven’t waved it off as true or untrue, but at the very least, if its true, i hope there is time to change it. not just because i personally dislike some things, but from my understanding is that MOST people wouldn’t be happy being forced to play as a human. thats one of my biggest issues tbh. i think having multiple races gives more replay value imo. like i do prefer da2 actually but i’ve probably played da:o and da:i more since i can create more unique variables and shit.
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