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The premium version of human is here to wreak house, mfs.

[Twst x Obey Me!AFAB!reader]

CHP. 4

PREVIOUS CHP.: PROLOGUE 3

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Also, to the people who became my followers, I'll be forever grateful for that😊

CW: When MC gets mistaken as a guy, they get referred to as he/him, but the problem is that there's too many males around the MC.

So, I've decided to color the pronouns blue when it's MC that's being addressed. Just to avoid confusion.

CLARIFICATION: The headmaster, and MC knows that Yuu is from another world, so MC decided to play along and pretend that they're from the same world as Yuu. (The human world where MC came from is mostly similar to the human world that Yuu describes. i.e. landmarks, cultural, knowledge, current trends, anime and manga are all mostly the same.)

REMEMBER: Read this before the chapter.

Experience changes people.

If you see MC doing something you think you won't do and you decide to complain about it, remember this:

• You act the way you do because of the things that you've gone through in your life.

• MC is the same.

• They experienced a lot of traumatic events and almost lost their lives a fuck-ton of times.

• Because of that, they've changed. They've diverged from being you into the MC that they are now.

• The life you're living now shall be treated as the MC's canonical past.

• Also, because The Obey Me!cast feels bad from all the times you suffered and almost died because of them, they tend to overcompensate you.

• You get dressed in the finest of fabrics, most luxurious jewels, as well as housed and fed with the best things that the three realms have to offer.

• You don't take them for granted, but years of living with that lifestyle had raised your standards to new heights and changed the way that you act towards certain things.

• You're free to make up your own head canons if you don't like mine, also y'all can give me feedback if you want so I can improve my work.

• This story will be set a few years after the canon of the Obey Me games.

• • • • •

Who would've thought that it would be a bad idea to try to trick someone who literally reeks of luxury to live in an old, bout-to-fall-apart dormitory?

Well, certainly not Crowley.

That fact became known when 'The shady looking dorm leader™' and also, the tablet decided to tag along with you, Yuu and Crowley, but then had to help Yuu in holding you back so that you wouldn't beat the ever living crap out of the headmaster the moment he dared to bring y'all in front of this rustic establishment and say "It had charm". (Too many You's)

Oh really? really?? Oh you'll see real charm when I beat you straight into the afterlife you greasy son of a bitc–

*Ehem*

It did not end well.

So instead of that, the headmaster had to temporarily put you and your fellow stranded-in-dis-school-human into the infirmary as your temporary abode and promised to fix the shoddy dorm so that it can safely house people in it. (Grim will appear in the future, dw)

*Que Azul tryna make you stay in Octavinelle and you vehemently declining that offer.*

Also, you're starting to get creeped-out by the floating tablet that keeps following you around and won't stop with taking pictures. there's also the small maniacal giggles coming out of the device.

• • • • • •

So there you two are, two people that've been kidnapped by this school's fuckin carriage are now bonding in the infirmary and distracting each other by venting about problems back home. (You two are too wary to be able to sleep properly.)

Like, yes Yuu, I'm in a polyamorous with more than a dozen problematic individuals.

Yes, it works out. somehow

Damn, three assignments due tomorrow all from the same subject? Have you ever tried cheating off of your classmates?

Oh— wait what?! a classmate from biology was caught fucking with a professor in a classroom!? Seriously??

No, I unfortunately no longer have a grasp on the concept of private space and poverty.

Yes, maintaining a relationship with a lot of people at the same time can be hard.

A lot of them are rich.

Wait, a seatmate of yours really gave two free expensive sketch pads just because you asked?? Where can I find that person??

Yes they all act like my sugar daddies and my man-children in one way or another.

No, don't you dare pimp yourself out, okay? There may be a lot of people in my life but the important thing is that we all love each other.

We support, comfort, protect, and guide each other to the best we can.

No— that didn't happen in a day, I had to bend over backwards and almost die a shit-ton of times before I managed to wiggle myself firmly into the hearts of those fuckers.

...Q- Questions about our sex life will be automatically ignored.

Just.. be nice to others, even if it's seemingly stupid.

Unless they are absolute scum then just maintain distance.

You just gotta eyeball it to figure out when to stop being nice to someone.

Never and I mean NEVER treat anyone badly unless they did something unforgivable to you.

Don't call me kind. It's easier to have a grasp on other people if you're nice.

Pft— You once saw a book called "How to be a sugar baby 101" in the school library?! And you saw your principal reading it?!

Sure-sure, I'll help you with your math homework— wait a second.. Seriously?? We've been kidnapped, I ain't allowing you to do math. Where the hell did you even hide that thick-as-fuck test sheet anyways?? Up your ass?!

• • • •

You sigh for the third time this hour, looking at Yuu who's making a "Mom.. I threw up in the carpet... I'm sowwy🥺" expression as they stand beside your bed.

"What happened?"

Yuu winced, feeling embarrassed as they hear you talk to them like a disappointed parent, they had failed to appeal to Crowley about becoming a temporary student of this school and now had to be a janitor/errand kid.

"The headmaster said that I'll be the handy-man of the campus while he searches for a way to get us home..."

You feel a vein in your head throb and your eye start to twitch by of the sheer audacity being shown in front of your face.

You are now feeling the immense urge to hex that bird-bitch.

Satan sat straight in his seat, speaking out to the others in the meeting table.

"I can feel irritation and the urge to curse someone again." He said.

It would've been funny if this was another situation.

"That's definitely from MC, isn't it? You mentioned being half-asleep and feeling MC get agitated through your pact mark, right?" Diavolo asked.

"Yes, at least our pacts are still intact..." Satan nodded.

"Great, we can use this to monitor MC even if they're far away." Lucifer stated.

Countless search-parties and interrogations have already been conducted, but they're still clueless on where you can be or who could've taken you.

Even Barbatos couldn't see what had happened.

They're starting to get agitated, MC..

• • • • •

Jade watched as Azul frantically drafts and redrafts a new plan of his.

It seems that something caught the eye of their housewarden in the ceremony today.

"What could be so eye-catching that you're in such a hurry to obtain it, Azul?" Jade couldn't contain his curiosity and asked.

"It's a new student, Jade." Azul started.

"He possesses such a large amount of magical artifacts in his hands, It's unbelievable! They were all high quality too!"

Jade blinks.

"Don't you have enough magical artifacts around?"

Jade is confusion.

"You don't know it because you weren't there." Azul narrowed his eyes at Jade.

"I first thought those jewelry of his were similar to the ones that you can buy with enough money in annual auctions, but then I realized that it's very likely that those jewelry are customized."

"...How so?"

"So I decided to try and take a closer look, but when I actually got closer and almost touched one of them, I felt a strong thrum of magic that I haven't felt before!"

Oh?

Now that got Jade's attention.

Azul has been exposed to a lot of strong, powerful people and magical artifacts over the years that he and his twin were following this dormleader of theirs and yet there was actually an artifact so strong that he can feel strong waves of magic by just almost touching it?

How curious..... If the magic of the artifact was so strong, why didn't Azul sense it up until he literally almost held it in his hands?

Seems like this year won't be boring, after all..

• • • • •

BONUS: Someone has a crush.

"Brother, Your package has arrived— What are you... Are you making fan art of Mr. [L/n]...?"

Idia screams like a dumb girl in a horror movie as he tries to block the screen with his body.

"O-ORTHO?! WH-WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT KNOCKING FIRST??!"

"And... what's with the pose?"

Ortho tilts head innocently, confused on why his brother is drawing a new student in a pose that can often be seen on videos that are called "Thirst traps". he's still confused about why they're called that way.

Idia: "O- ORTHO THIS ISN'T ANYTHING BAD I SWEARAHGJSI—"

*Starts to fuckin steam*

"brOTHER YOU'RE BURNING THE CHAIR!"

"AH CRAP!"

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zionworkzs · 8 months

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I feel like we talk about Crowley not feeling worthy, but can we talk about Aziraphale too? Like, this poor angel has felt out of place since the dawn of creation. He gave away his flaming sword! The one thing he was tasked with keeping safe (and humanity but ehh, who cares). And ever since then, he's questioned if he is deserving of his angelic status. He defines himself based on Heaven's perception of what is Good and Right. But Heaven's perspective of Good isn't one that he holds all the time. And so he feels like every time he does something Heaven wouldn't consider Good or Right, even if it's just morally gray, he feels like he is failing. He is failing the one thing he feels he was literally created for.

And so to overcompensate, he forces things to fit into his version of Good and Right, even if they don't belong there. Because he thinks, he truly thinks that if he can do enough things Right, then it will prove that he isn't a mistake. That there isn't something broken in him.

#and yeah religious trauma #that goes without saying #his whole character hinges on the fact that he is worthy not in spite of but BECAUSE OF the fact that he is able to create his own moral co #good omens #aziraphale

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angelsdean · 1 year

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Another thing I'd wonder about is how often dean actually makes fun of Sam for being "girly" I feel like that's another thing exaggerated by fanon. Like I know he never actually calls Sam Samantha even though it's in a bunch of fics (I think only crowley does that). The only instance I can think of off the top of my head is calling him gay for knowing about Cinderella which is obviously very ridiculous but also Sam does it to dean too at least twice (once with doctor sexy and I'd also say the "strictly into dick now" is in the same kind of category).

god yea those moments def get over-exaggerated in fanon too. Though from a dean studies perspective I don't mind them as much. Like yeah these moments are also indicative of the writers views etc, but like, I *do* think a Dean who grew up in the times that he did would tease his little brother like that. And like you said, Sam does it too. And then when you add the whole lens of "dean overcompensating and performing masculinity" it's like, yeah it makes sense that he'd tease his brother for his long hair and liking "soft" or traditionally feminine things because he's trying to keep up a persona of masculinity. And also hide the fact that he himself likes "girly" things from panties to cooking. And I've said it before jokingly but I'd argue Dean spends more time on his hair, getting it all gelled up and spikey than Sam does, so when Dean says stuff like that to Sam I'm just like, uh-huh ok mr. overcompensating boy. Also the way he projects these things onto Sam like that one time Sam wasn't paying attention and Dean started saying random things and he said "I'm Sam and I wear women's underwear" or whatever. Like yea, the writers intended that to be one of those 2000s ha-ha moments. But then.......seasons later Dean admits to wearing panties and liking it. And that just recasts his previous comment to Sam as like, this projection of his own truth. Like personally I have a lot of dean + gender headcanons, and he's not all that comfortable in his masculinity and has a lot of curiosity toward traditionally feminine things and those feelings cause a lot of inner turmoil and tension for him.

Anyways, it's all just so fascinating and this is why I love studying Dean bc he's just layers and layers and layers. Like, how many layers does it take to get to the center of Dean Winchester? Let's find out......

#ppl know the mr owl tootsie pop reference right? speaking in reference...my deancoding is showing lol #replies #dean studies #dean and gender #mymeta

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crowsultations · 2 years

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As much as we all love roasting Crowley for being a cheapskate, BUT IS HE REALLY?

Listen. Crowley may not give Yuu that unlimited post paid plan for their smartphone or raise the funding for Ramshackle, but that doesn't mean that he's cheap. On the contrary, the Headmage actually tends to splurge a little on a very specific circumstance.

IF and WHEN there is a chance to bolster Night Raven College's reputation, Crowley tends to spend generously for that. A good example for this is in Book 5 when he sponsored NRC Tribe's outfit for the VDC. Something that he sees as an investment is worth shelling out a good amount of Madol for. And he takes into consideration the duration of these things, I feel. Of course, when it comes to big events like the VDC where there's reporters, the events are televised and broadcasted, everything has to be perfect. Since these types of festivities are short lived but impactful, he has to go all out. After all, he's doing this for the school's reputation, there's no cutting corners when it comes to promoting their excellence and prestige.

Speaking of duration, let's talk about long term investments... like Yuu and Ramshackle. To be honest, Crowley didn't need to provide Yuu with lodging or a means of earning Madol in order to survive within Twisted Wonderland and at NRC in general. HOWEVER, because he is such a generous soul, who is the paragon of kindness, he offered these things to both this otherworldly, "accidental" enrollee, and beast. Seeing that they will be useful to him-- ahem, seeing that Yuu was wrongly summoned to this world, he simply couldn't allow them to be homeless. Besides, if it were ever to get out that NRC kicked someone out because they were magicless and shouldn't even be there, that'd be a blow to the school's reputation. Crowley can't be having that sort of bad publicity looming over his beloved institution now, can he? So along with shelter, he also offers Yuu and Grim a job. A fair trade, one might say, considering that it solves problems regarding living conditions for the pair. Not to mention, this simulates the real world setting that Crowley often talks about during the Culinary Crucible, and along with that, this is also part of the Headmage's education style of letting students fix their own problems. That being the case, he makes sure to give them just what they need. He doesn't overcompensate them because rewards are meant to be earned. He gives them reasonable deals that's compensated properly without it being excessive... because this is a long term arrangement. It may not look like much, but Crowley's spending on Ramshackle is in increments. So if you stack that up, he's actually spending quite a lot on them without it being too apparent.

See?

At the end of the day, he is really quite magnanimous, wouldn't you agree?

#⪩ Headcanons ⪨#Dire Crowley #THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO MY TED TALK

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pinkpruneclodwolf · 2 years

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Why You Should Fear the Common Man— Trey. C Is Meaner Than We Give Him Credit For.

I stole this off of Trey's groovy gallery in the Twst wiki

You know those pictures of a white men who commit murder(s) and instead of a mugshot its them with their family or hiking some shit like that— that's exactly why I chose his birthday photo.

This isn't a character analysis, deconstruction— NUNADET

This man has fooled yall into thinking he's some malewife sent from the heavens above—AND HE'S NOT!

I see yall playing in my face about this boy like he didn't admit to feeding the Heartslabyul members inedible food whenever he fucked up on the kitchen— Princess Peach at least had the decency to tell Mario that she made an absolute dogshit cake (iykyk)—but this man—

This man right here?! He just Doodle Suit that shit and called it a day—

Keep that man away from me! Yep, thats not a boy anymore that is a full blown man now, he's too much of a hazard to be considered less.

Like I swear I'm not trying to be antagonistic, in fact I do like the lil hidden sides that we see— but I am sitting on information that could lead to his arrest. Actually, multiple arrests because the whole cast is sick

Exhibit A: Heart Got Teeth— Trey's Relationship with Riddle.

There's a saying, I don't know if yall know it but I've heard my mother say it and I think about it whenever I think of the twst cast particularly characters like Trey.

"The devil appears before you with a smile on his face and hell under your feet."

Of course this is a very loaded quote for some dude who just lies point blank, this would be something reserved for Sam, Crowley, or Lilia but they don't intentionally lead you on the way Trey does, they're too seasoned for that.

Let's review a few things first:

Trey is the Vice Dormleader of Heartslabyul dorm, the "good" cop to Riddle's "bad" cop.

Calm, collected, and laid back, considered to be the "protector" of the Heartslabyul dorm.

"Friendly" and "willing" to help others, including his underclassmen if they have trouble with anything (not without an exchange, which is par for the course).

Unique Magic can overwrite anything "with what one imagines" color, size, shape, taste, smell, etc... can be overwritten.

Called Sea Turtle by Floyd.

Called Chavelier by Rook Hunt.

Card suit: Clover/Club.

Card Number: 3.

Yall probably looking at this lil bulletin funny, but I swear this ties into the topic because his brand of evil is insanely covert, don't take this man at face value is all I'm saying.

"Clubs: The summer season is represented by the club. The club meaning in cards is the indication of the stage of “youth” when one places a focus on education, recklessness, and so forth. A club symbol meaning is the pinnacle of an earth element." Adda52 Blog on "Card Suits and Symbolism."

"Clubs representing both the peasantry and achievement through work; diamonds, the merchant class and the excitement of wealth creation; hearts, the clergy and the struggle to achieve inner joy; spades, the warrior class institutionalised into the nobility and the fractious problems of life." Theguardian on "The Four Suits of a Pack of Cards."

Now, I will address Riddle and Trey's relationship.

We already know they were childhood friends for a short while before the tart incident which tore them apart which led to Trey overcompensating the lost time by silently watching Riddle become exactly like his mom instead of speaking up like a true friend would.

That's exactly where my lil theory comes in; Trey is 3 of clubs— 3 means faith in card suit language, so while Trey might not've enjoyed Riddle's troublesome development he remained at his side like the faithful knight he is, simply mitigating the fall out and calling it a day.

But faith can also be blind—we see this when Riddle goes on a beheading spree, Trey doesn't express any other emotion except exasperation at best and vexation at best—

However this response isn't for others, but rather himself. He gets uncomfy when the Heartslabyul mob come to him expressing how tired they are of Riddle and (also notice how he doesn't defend him either) all he can say is "I'll talk to him".

Which he doesn't btw.

Which ties into the whole Clubs being peasants and Hearts being the clergy especially if we look at this from a European sense; peasants go to church, no?

Warriors protect the land (clubs being the 'pinnacle of earth' mean they represent agriculture) and diamonds keep the economy flowing with money and such.

Of course the peasants can always overthrow the clergy by applying for their place, but why would they?

"...Good, now I can make sweets with all the spices I wanted to try."

"Eh..? Trey-kun, did you just straight-faced grant your own wish?!"

"I did pray to get my hands on a high-end food processor with my "Wishing star"."

Doodle Suit literally trumped OB!Riddle's magic and yet he doesn't even try to attempt Riddle's position?

We've seen him run laps around Riddle in his Starry Robes personal story where he tricks Riddle into buying a 100k madol food processor under the guise of making it easier for the Heartslabyul students to get around the kitchen.

So why doesn't he just,,,, attempt the position??

Because he's faithful.

Because he's an 'average guy'

Let's reflect on that:

Exhibit B: Do We Know the Muffin Man?— Trey C's Secrets Are in the Pudding, but He'll Never Tell.

Translation by Raven

"The more I look at it... You do look more powerful than usual. It's kind of menacing."

"I see, if you say so, maybe I'll keep wearing glasses then."

This is some substantial evidence right here, boys.

There's no need for a quote when we have a picture of this criminal glaring at us. Y'see what he really looks like under those lil glasses now? "My eyesight's bad so I'm always glaring"— go directly to hell, we got magic stop lying to these people.

Now this comes from the Scary Dress personal story where he and Azul discuss eyewear— idek how to explain just how insane that is— this is Azul we're talking about, yeah he mellowed out after his OB, but that doesn't mitigate the danger that comes with speaking to him.

If anything, he's gotten more shifty, meaning we don't know if dude was trying to strike a deal with Trey or not.

You know how Jamil likes to downplay his abilities alot? Trey also does that so as not to draw attention to himself, I mean look at his UM, he can overwrite anything (limited time ofc) if the wrong person got their hands on that they'd be unstoppable— I'll get right into that soon.

Call me paranoid but being wary if the OB boys can never be too much—

But this isn't what I'm here to talk about, I'm here to talk about his home life and how that makes him who he his.

We oft times hear him talk about his family, and you wouldn't be wrong to think that he uses that as a sort of shield to make him look average or to boast about his prowess with baking (not cooking two different ballparks).

We know that he's the oldest of two siblings and often cooks for the family whenever his baking parents are busy—I remember one of the characters calling his family mildly famous in the Rose Kingdom— and that he often has to make sure his brother brushes his teeth to the point that he's developed a sort of "oral fixation", Ace even calls him a toothbrushing maniac.

Quaint innit?

Compared to the other characters his life is very cozy and hunkydory, not a hair out of place. His life is pretty much set.

He seems... Boring. He "helps" others in need, even going out of his way to learn how to teach the Heartslabyul students to cook so that they won't depend on him.

He's the protector of the Heartslabyul dorm, the big brother, the "good" guy, the person you run to when Riddle is being a lil piss baby.

And yet...

"There's the impression of "villain in movies", they said."

"In the end I stopped wearing over-rim glasses because I didn't want to be misunderstood by my mother and sister."

...

"In this school it's very easy to lock eyes and end up in a fight because 'he glared at me', right?"

"I don't want to deal with any trouble. So, I just try to look as gentle as possible."

Hmm.

I'm tryna figure out how some average guy manages to get into a school like NRC, where the general population is chock-full of people that hide their intentions under a thick veil and not end up at the bottom of the food chain.

His proximity to Riddle doesn't have anything to do with it either.

If anything, I don't think Trey cares for Riddle in the way that we think he does.

Here's why:

"Hehe… I think you are plenty passionate about researching strawberries. Roi des Roses… so Riddle was your motivation. Having such a deep loyalty is très bien! As expected of the Chevalier, Trey!"

"Deep loyalty… Don’t exaggerate. Riddle is my childhood friend, so I just know what he likes. That’s all."

"Is that so? My eyes reflect a much deeper bond between you two! But yes… a flower will wither if you give it too much water. It’s fine to hold back so you won’t break his heart."

What do you mean by that, Rook? Break Riddle's heart how?

What is Trey hiding from Riddle that would break his heart?

Could it be...

His true feelings mayhap?

Like I said, I don't think Trey likes Riddle in the way that we thought and the quote says it all.

Trey's not only growing strawberries because Riddle likes them but because he can use them for his own pastries as well—

"But you started cultivating strawberries because Riddle loves strawberry tarts, didn’t you?"

"I guess so. While Riddle tends to fuss about the taste, his tastebuds are actually not that refined. If he knows it’s from a famous store, he’ll be happy. And I won’t have to make it by hand."

If Riddle liked blueberries, Trey'd grow blueberries is what I'm saying.

He's not doing it just for Riddle, he's doing it because its beneficial and lands him in his good graces while also being susceptible to his bold faced lies— this ties back to how Trey lied to grant his wish.

Speaking of lies....

Exhibit B: Teeth, Tongue, and the Bold Faced Lie—Trey C's Unique Magic.

I raise you this:

Why would you need a UM that overwrites anything within a time limit?

Now anyone would reason this by saying that his UM reflects how Riddle's mother overwritten his personality due to the rules she enforced.

But I raise you this:

Trey's hobby: Toothbrushing.

"The mouth often reflects the health of the body."

This is a saying that was drilled into me when I got my first cavity as a child, since then I graduated from the mere cavity to a full root canal.

But this isn't about me.

This is about Trey.

As we know, testimonials from both Ace and Deuce say that he has a toothbrushing obsession.

Now you might be raising your brow at this, thinking: "How exactly is that relevant to his UM?" And that's exactly where my theory lies in:

Cleanliness.

We often associate teeth with being pearly white, because its an external sign of health and in some cases sexual vitality— the word toothsome describes food that is delicious and someone whose sexually attractive, no?

I've seen yall lil thirst posts about Trey, don't lie to me.

Trey's intentions aren't always pure— you see this when he helps Cater and the Heartslabyul members when they mess up in the kitchen in his Starry Night personal story— all he needed to do was tell Trey why they were baking and it just leads up to him and the Heartslabyul members inadvertently granting Trey's wish after making a case on getting a food processor.

And that is exactly why I kept emphasizing Trey's "help" —He's not helping because he's a good person, he's helping because it usually leads to him getting what he wants—Jade also does this, but people at least know exactly what they're getting into, by the time Trey helps you and get what he wants it's already too late.

"There is a Smile of Love

And there is a Smile of Deceit

And there is a Smile of Smiles

In which these two Smiles meet."

Smile by William Blake.

Trey likes brushing his teeth not because he's hygienic, but because he wants to project the idea that his intentions are "pure", as teeth are the representatives of our personality.

"Your teeth can reflect your personal hygiene and habits, but they can also provide an idea about your personality. For example, people who are anxious or competitive often grind or clench their teeth and have fractured molars. Curved, less pointy canine teeth indicate a more passive personality, while sharper canines give the impression of more aggressive tendencies. Those who tend to be the life of the party usually have teeth that show results of excessive drinking and smoking as well as frequent consumption of carbonated drinks.

It can be easy to forget how much people assume about you based on the appearance of your teeth."

Miller and Wolf Family Dentistry on "4 Things Your Teeth Say About You."

"Okay, but, how does this tie into his UM?"

It ties in the fact that while his "teeth" are "pure" his intentions are not, his birthday personal story is rife with how he tells lies (read: build up plaque) and plays them off as a joke (read: brush his teeth).

Lemme ask you this:

Do you realize the scope of Trey's power?

He never uses in the context of threatening and always downplays it in favor of pretending he's an average guy.

However, don't let his lil modest act fool you; he was able to overwrite Riddle's UM while he was Overblotting, something that increases a magicians power exponentially in exchange for their life and sanity— why do you think S.T.Y.X exists?

What do you think Trey would've been able to do while Leona was Overblotting? Or even Vil? Yeah Leona destroyed Riddle's UM due to how calamitous his power and how tangible the collar is, but what about Trey?

You can't deflect something you can't see coming, no?

Of course, with Trey wanting to be more covert he'd never use his UM because he'd never find himself in these type of situations. He's too low-key for that.

He's an average guy.

Until he isn't.

Exhibit C: The Lies You Tell— Trey C. Is a Dirty Bastard.

"I'm good at making sweets but I'm always messing up other dishes."

"But even when I finish something and think: 'Man, this isn't edible in the slightest' the other students in the dorm eat it anyway."

"Heh... Don't you remember what my unique magic does?"

"...You really use magic to change the taste?"

"I was just kidding. I don't do that."

"...Usually."

THIS SON OF A BITCH

THIS SON OF A BITCH IS EVIL AS HELL

THIS IS EXACTLY WHY I STARTED THIS WHOLe FUCKING THING THAT RAT BASTARD

OH GOD OH MAN

I can't believe yall sat in my face, sat in my face and just made these lil thirst blogs about this baking bastard like he isn't the type to make you a pie out of horseshit and Doodle Suit that into a apple pie.

I sat hear and watched fanfics be written about how much of a doting boyfriend he'd be to Riddle, Jade, or Mc/Yuu only to discover that this bitch—

We have got to get Ace and Deuce outta there.

NO BECAUSE I SAT HERE WRITING THREE DIFFERENT REASONS AS TO WHY TREY WAS SO HORRENDOUS TO ME OVER A PERSONAL STORY THE ONES FOLLOWING

This man can and will sit in your face and lie straight up—he did it with that oyster sauce in the tart thing and he does it with the cooking.

For three years these Heartslabyul students have been eating full on health hazards—

I think I'm gonna be sick—

Like yeah we could talk about how Alchemy is his highest scoring subject or the fact that he's adamant on being normal guy bu—

No, I've foreplayed my disgust for too long—too long I say!

This dude shares a club with a boy whose family makes it their mission to terrorize Beastmen and Merfolk in the name of "learning".

Jade Leech fucks with him because they're so similar—

Like all signs point to him being evil— SO WHY IS THS

"Uwu, average boy, baker who loves his s/o" SHIT SO PREVALENT? WTAF HE'S INSANE

NO KEEP HIM AND ROOK AND JADE THE HELL AWAY FROM ME—

But that's just a theory.

Twst Theory.

#twst #twisted wonderland #twst theory #trey clover #long post #trey clover analysis #keep him away from me and my family #hes a sick individual #i have elaborated enough #i am no longer hiding my fear of trey #i am actually terrified

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hereticpridevinyl · 3 years

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Ok I finished your gay!dean manifesto and SCREEEEEEEEEEEEE!! I am incabible of putting words together and sounding coherent cause my brain is melting from my ears and psalms 40:2 has gone and replaced it. Gonna think about it for life but honestly it’s made me such a gay!dean stan now! Can I hear more of your thoughts on it and just why cause it’s so big-brained snd there but I feel like my head has been caved in by the concept cause how tf am i only seeing this NOW???

first of all, i'm so glad you enjoyed my fic! thanks for reading :)

as for the gay dean brainrot... WELCOME BESTIE, JOIN US! gonna preface this all by saying that i adore every sexuality headcanon for dean (except straight—vile energy. evil, even, and wrong) and as a bi person i would be remiss if i didn't acknowledge how wonderful bi dean is. however. HOWEVER.

(under the cut because this got away from me enormously)

i've talked about this a lot on twitter, and i know a lot of people have said this more eloquently than i, but i'll try to sum up my thoughts here.

the way dean is into women is so incredibly performative that often it can't help but be read as an act. there's almost a routine to it: dean meets Beautiful Woman, dean flirts with Beautiful Woman, dean (sometimes, but not always) sleeps with Beautiful Woman, dean pats himself on the back for fulfilling his role of Most Hetero Man In America. it's as if being into women is another aspect of his job, another skill he was taught and forced to utilize, much the same way he was taught to hunt. in early seasons, dean's interactions with woman quickly gain a stale, rote sort of taste. we as the audience expect dean will hit on any attractive woman he sees; dean as a character seems to expect it of himself. there's no anticipation behind these interactions. they're predictable and often lead nowhere—especially if dean thinks the woman is unattainable. dean's hot-blooded all-american cishet lady's man persona is just that—a persona.

we see the cracks in this persona most often during moments that are ostensibly played for laughs. haha, dean likes a show about a sexy male doctor! he gets flustered when he's around the lead haha! he's so masculine and straight and tough but he falls apart when his favorite wrestler shakes his hand and winks at him! he can't form a coherent sentence when he thinks this man is flirting with him, and he's so flustered that he doesn't try to stop it haha! he's psyching himself up for this hookup with a woman because it's funny if he's not confident! look, he likes wearing panties and his comfy bed and cooking for his family and dressing up like a cowboy but those are all things he does in private because he's actually very straight and manly! see? in an effort to make dean seem incontrovertibly heterosexual, his character becomes a parody of himself. these brief moments that we're supposed to laugh at become tragic; watching dean winchester perform his compulsory heterosexuality becomes a waiting game, seeking out those flashes of his true self, his most genuine self, from-moment-to moment.

and then something insane happens: post-season 12, dean stops hooking up with women at all.

his hookups had been waning in the two or three seasons leading up to this point, but after s12 he stops trying completely. it's as if that aggressive need to perform this learned role eventually died out. he just... stops. late seasons dean is a man who would rather stay home and watch lost boys with his husband and his brother and their son for the millionth time than have sex with a woman he's never going to see again. this is who he becomes—and the show forgets to make us laugh this time.

and we all know that supernatural has a disease that almost always keeps them from writing women well—all marginalized groups, actually, but that's a topic for another rambling post—which could be a significant factor as to why dean's most compelling romance-coded relationships are with men, but it can't be the only reason. sam's relationships with women are frequently interesting to watch, and if not groundbreaking, they seem natural. there isn't anything forced or performative about sam being into a woman. obviously the brothers are very different people and cannot be compared one-to-one, but there's definitely something to be said about sam's lack of go crazy go stupid hot girl summer star-crossed lovers cas-benny-crowley situation that dean's got going on at all times.

in my opinion, the best chemistry dean has with a woman is charlie—and while that's very strictly platonic seeing as she's a whole lesbian and probably wouldn't go for dean even if she wasn't, it's undeniable that there's just something intoxicating about watching them on screen together. while i might be biased with this analysis, i think it's worth pointing out: it's like dean's letting out a breath he's been holding his whole life when he's with her. because he knows she's unavailable, he knows there's no world in which she'd be into him, and therefore he doesn't have to bother putting on his macho straight dude persona. he doesn't have to go through the motions of hitting on her, or sleeping with her, because it's out of the question. he can be himself. turns out, "himself" is a huge fucking nerd who likes to pretend he's someone he isn't and hang out with a woman because he loves being her friend and not any other reason. the axe of heterosexuality is no longer hanging over his head.

there's a throwaway interaction way back in s2e11 that sums this up more succinctly than i can:

DEAN: of course, the most troubling question is why do these people assume we're gay?

SAM: well, you are kinda butch. probably think you're overcompensating.

DEAN: (pause) right.

we've got some splendid jacting here where dean gets control of the vessel for a moment and sort of nervously smiles at sam, a sad kind of scoff that just gets me. here's another moment where we're supposed to laugh, but there's nothing funny about the way dean reacts to sam's words. there's no overblown anger, there's no begrudging laugh, he doesn't roll his eyes. he just smiles. looks down. doesn't argue.

#i am SO SORRY at how long this is aslkdfj #i'm just extremely passionate #gay dean #dean winchester #spn #passionfruixts #ask box

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lotstradamus · 3 years

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Top 5 supernatural episodes to rewatch

YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO SUPERNATURAL NOSTALGIA.MEME

5.04 The End: for starters, this was the first episode of Supernatural I watched as it aired. imagine. for seconds, THIS. EPISODE. HAS. EVERYTHING. hippie Cas with his thigh holster and his orgies, 2009 Dean yelling at 2014 Dean and vice versa, LUCIFER!SAM. “you’ve changed” bro I watched Lucifer wearing Sam wearing that white suit in the rose garden... honestly it’s just a real all-rounder: angel nonsense, time travel, Croatoan throwback, major character death, tie-in to the major arc. not to mention it spawned s e v e r a l subgenres of fic -- 2009 Dean/2014 Cas, 2009 Dean/2014 Dean, 2014 Cas/Dean Smith (see #4 for full details) -- and that’s what you really want from an episode.

4.14 Sex and Violence: YYYOOOOO. I will always love this episode. a siren is morphing itself into dudes’ dream women, dosing them with Obey The Siren juice via saliva, fucking their brains out, and then getting them to kill their closest loved one... and Dean’s siren is a dude. I have seen people be-heeennd over backwards to somehow make that Not A Gay Thing, but listen: HIS SIREN IS A DUDE. HEWWO? HEWWO???

4.01 Lazarus Rising: [clutches chest] [eyes fill with tears] I’m the one who gripped you tight and raised you from perdition. kadsjlsdkjfjg

4.17 It’s A Terrible Life: this episode is amazing for so many reasons and it’s got LAYERS. LAYERS AND LAYERS. the whole ‘this is who you would be if you weren’t a hunter, Dean!’ thing encompasses a multitude, MAINLY that Dean blink-and-you’ll-miss-it mentions that his parents names are Bobby and Ellen, so it’s actually a This Is Who You Would Be If You Weren’t Raised By John Winchester, Dean thing. AND LOOK AT HIM. LOOK AT HIM! snappily dressed, eats healthy, doesn’t drink beer, drives a regular company car, watches Project Runway, implies that he hooks up with dudes at the health club... it doesn’t take a lot for me to be like Actually, this is a nod to how being brought up by a stereotypically masculine father caused Dean to overcompensate and repress major parts of himself! but actually this is a nod to how being brought up by a stereotypically masculine father caused Dean to overcompensate and repress major parts of himself.

6.20 The Man Who Would Be King: I’m a s1-s5 purist, but Ben Edlund always gets a pass. and this episode... phew. everyone’s talking about how Castiel being in love with Dean has JUST been made canon but honestly we been knew. a lot -- A LOT -- happens in this episode, Crowley cracks some excellent gay jokes, Dean’s voice breaks when he says “you gotta look at me, man” (sob), but the REAL kicker is that you find out that while Dean was like ‘we stopped the apocalypse, Sam is dead, Cas is gone, and I am living a normal man life’ Castiel was standing invisibly in Lisa’s garden, wistfully watching Dean rake leaves. HE WATCHED DEAN RAKE LEAVES. WHO DOES THAT? [TWO MEN IN LOVE BY THE IRREPRESSIBLES PLAYING SOFTLY IN THE DISTANCE]

the worst thing about this is that I didn’t have to look up a single episode number or title :( lmao :(

#shoutout to 4.20 The Rapture which narrowly missed being on here #one of my favs #I always cry when Cas possesses Claire and speaks to Jimmy. ALWAYS #Of course we keep our promises. Of course you have our gratitude. You served us well. Your work is done.#It's time to go home now. Your real home.#You'll rest forever in the fields of the Lord.#me: UUWWAAAAAHHHHHH #answered #TOP 5 MEME #Supernatural #lollllllll :(

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i think Netflix have seen that zukka has sort of overtaken zutara in terms of online popularity so I honestly think queerbaiting zukka will be the only saving grace for the atla live action

here's the thing abt zukka. they don't really get any time together until the western air temple. the middle of book 3 is a LONG time to wait to see how a dynamic is going to work. so i think unless they lean very heavily on queercoding characters like jet or haru earlier in the series, it's really unlikely that theyll have the space to establish same gender attraction for zuko and sokka in order to make a zukka plotline believable with 70% of the series over by the time they're in a position to develop feelings for each other. like,, if you look at supernatural there's PLENTY of evidence for dean being bisexual before cas even joins the show ("you are kind of butch, maybe they think you're overcompensating"), and plenty thereafter with other characters (crowley, benny, aaron, maybe garth a little, lamp). which is not even to mention the fact that queerbaiting zukka, again if we're going by the supernatural model, would likely result in characters like mai and suki being sidelined and minimised in importance. i want to see zuko and sokka be weird and homoerotic but not at the expense of the women i love. if they make THEM gay too though i probably wont mind

it's like. as much as i would LOVE to be hatecrimed again, i really think the zutara/kataang debate would be so much easier for them to generate drama and conflict with, both within the show and among viewers. it already exists among fans of the show and is far more deeply rooted than zukka shippers, so capitalising off the back of Who Will Katara Choose, while entirely sexist, is easy easy easy money.

THAT SAID, if netflix is listening: i'm ready to be hurt again. please make boiling rock with as many lingering shots of hands and tense eye contact as you can. i am ASKING. please give me comically wide eyes and nervous gulping when sokka sees zuko's breath of fire. give me incredibly dramatic musical cues on the gondola. give me sokka and zuko standing way too close together and everyone around them giving them sam winchester uncomfortable third wheel face. i am asking respectfully. please

#anonymous #asks #netflix live action #atla #zukka #mine

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barryallenisravenclaw · 3 years

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Every time I bring up popular mlm ships in our shared fandoms, my dad says the same thing

"I know it's important to have gay characters and I support that, but that doesn't mean every male friendship is gay. Men can be friends."

And I understand what he's saying. He's right, it's rare that television portrays a close male friendship properly and that only makes homophobia and hyper masculinity worse and more prevalent in society.

But, I finally realized why he has such a hard time conceptualizing the argument for ships like destiel and spirk.

1) my dad is cishet and was born in the 60s, so he does what a lot of the world does and assumes characters are straight until proven queer. This isn't a dig at him, it's just how he works. I realized in conjunction that as an enby bi who was born in 2001, I assume queer until proven straight.

But here's the thing.

With queer characters that aren't confirmed queer until partway into the show (or at the end like Castiel) and aren't butch or flamboyant, it takes him completely by surprise. For me, I'm always on the lookout, but I'm also still half expecting the character I think is queer to be straight because that's what a majority of society identifies as.

Now we get to 2) a lot of the characters hes surprised by in mlm ships are macho-ish himbos. My dad sees a character like Dean, Kirk, Hal Jordan, Johnny Storm, Bobby Drake, (classic skirt chasers) and he sees them fucking women everywhere they go (or appearing to as with Kirk) and he thinks "well that guy is straight" whereas I think "well that guy is overcompensating".

I think that my train of thought is primarily based off of the fact that *I* am a flagrant bisexual himbo.

Getting back to my dads thing about friendships 3) speaking from personal experience as an excessively sexual being, I immediately consider the hotness of all of my friends upon meeting them. If they're not attracted to my physical situation or our personalities don't immediately mesh, I put them out of my head as romance, keep them as friends, and focus romantic intent on the remaining friends. I don't know if other bi himbos do this, but that's me.

I think Dean and Kirk do this.

If we take it as given that Dean is bi, as is evident given context, we can see him doing that exact thought process (or thot process) every time he meets a new character. Overtly, he scopes out the women he finds attractive because that is socially acceptable. More subtly, he does the same with men. He does double takes when men are paying extra attention to him, he throws out vaguely flirtatious lines to gauge interest, he basically acts like any other mlm who is used to society refusing him.

More to the point- he does this with friends

Deans friends include Sam (brother), Charlie (gay), Jo (hot and appears het but too young and becomes a little sister figure), Benny (they flirt, when Benny gets back to his wife that's it), Crowley for a time (gay, apparently into Dean but not Dean's type(?) either way it's short lived because of), Cas (we all know what happened here) and the list goes on in such a fashion.

Straight women who become mother figures or who he dates and then leaves for various reasons. Lesbians. Straight men. Queer men who he determines the compatibility of and works from there.

Cas.

This is what I see in Dean when I watch supernatural: my thought process on determining friendships vs romantic relationships.

Others, like my dad who is also a guy (as Dean and I are), see their own thought processes reflected. I can't fault him for that, only when he's pointed out to be wrong in canon can I say so out loud (destiel) and when it's officially merely fanon, I keep my mouth shut (spirk).

Thoughts and comments welcome, I'd love to learn how people with other identities view the same types of characters who are fanon mlm

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Dean always knew there was something special about Cas. He might have fallen for him when he said "We make it up as we go", but by then Cas was already 'his' Cas. Before he rebelled, he actually tried to help only once and then just make things less awful few times before. He turned his back on Dean way more times then supported him, and yet, Dean never stopped trying to get through to him. Never stopped asking for help, truly believing that Cas might say "I'll help you" this time around. <333

Yes but I think it’s a little more complicated than that? Essentially, that angel that said ‘the moment Castiel laid a hand on you in hell he was lost’ got it right - what he did, saving a soul from hell, created a bond and started changing him so deeply that even he didn’t understand it at first, right? In seasons 6-7a he literally has a phase where he rebels against everything like there is some kind of riot going on inside him and the only way to let it out is to go on a murder spree and do everything, even teaming up with a demon to gain so much strength that would allow him to become the New God.

It’s like. I don’t know. Like he was trying, unconsciously, to overcompensate for all the years he was under someone else’s control? To break free? And he decides that to be truly free from Heaven, God - he has to become God. Something about regaining control over his own life that resulted in him gaining control over the whole world. Something about wanting to take his life into his own hands so badly that the means completely justified the ends in his mind. Teaming up with Crowley? Sucking up all the souls from purgatory? Risking letting out the Leviathans? Cas said: yeah screw it, no one is going to be above me ever again, even if it was unconsciously - he was like: you need the new god, i am going to rule now, i am the boss; while this is what he really meant: i need a new god and it’s gonna be me, i am going to be my own god now, i am going to be the one in charge (of my life).

I think why he did what he did is because he still didn’t know how to be selfish and was starting to discover himself so he did what he understood. To paraphrase: he draped himself in the flag of heaven when ultimately it was about freeing himself, even if he wasn’t able to admit it to himself (not even out of pride, I actually think he might have not been able to understand why exactly is he doing what he is doing. I mean we have therapists for that and we’re humans, imagine breaking free and beginning to having a sense of self after thousands of years spent on believing that ‘I am just a tool, I am a soldier, I was made to serve’). Castiel’s waking conscious said: if I destroy this whole world while freeing myself, so be it, because freedom is everything. And this blew up right into his face of course but this whole arc was important because when he comes back later in 7x17 he is changed. Something is deeply, deeply changed. That wrath is no longer in him, even when he regains his memory.

Because when he does he is suddenly a pacifist. I don’t fight anymore. I observe. I don’t want to fight. No. Like all he has done while on this furious crusade is catching up to him. And he is suddenly on the very other side of the spectrum than before. There is fear (of himself, of freedom) and guilt; that guilt later leads up to him deciding he’d rather stay in purgatory. I think I am putting this into words the wrong way and there is some amazing meta writer out there who could explain what I mean way better. But that is what I think. Not to be a bitter Cas stan on main but um, I think, that reducing his journey only to Dean is... Maybe not wrong. But it’s incorrect.

So was that really turning his back on Dean? In The Man Who Would Be KIng (*chief’s kiss*) we get fantastic insight into Cas’ mind - how the only thing that kept him conflicted about all that he was doing, was Dean. But for the first time ever he chose himself and he was going to do it ‘go big or go home’ way. He was freeing himself, no way he is going to let that small human get in the way. No, nope, couldn’t be me. So he pushed himself harder. He cut Dean off. And he felt bad about it but he was fighting for himself, with himself and within himself.

And when that fight ended, when he once again freed himself from Naomi in s8 he ultimately decided that he is, in fact, going to devote himself again. Because that is what he was made to choose to do. He chose to devote himself to Dean, who became his anchor throughout the years.

And Dean, oblivious to all that, knew that he wanted this ‘dorky guy’ to be around him and that he felt more himself than ever with him and that he made him happy. So he kept ‘needing him’ but that is something for another post.

#ok that turned out long i am so very sorry #ask #anon #cas feels #i just didn't like the phrase 'he turned his back on dean' because it felt inaccurate #Anonymous

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Merry Christmas @boysinperil!!! I’m Your Secret Santa! Who’s also hoping you live west of the Greenwich Mean Time Line, because if not you will be getting this on Boxing Day!!! Ho Ho Ho, I guess XD

Now, I hear someone’s a good lass and they like some Angst with a Happy Ending?

Here it is my friend, happy Christmas.

It was an accident. Crowley had only meant to shake a leaf out of Aziraphale’s hair while he was distracted and fiddling with the keys to the bookshop. Crowley raised his hand at the same time Aziraphale took the last step, and his hand had ended up cupping Aziraphale’s cheek instead. Then a miracle happened and Aziraphale leaned into it, almost imperceptibly, but a second later he froze. He looked up at Crowley with a mixture of embarrassment and fear. Aziraphale moved a centimeter back and looked away for a moment. He stammered a bit, trying to get himself to say something, anything.

His fluttering hands saved him when they dropped the keys. Aziraphale felt the clatter at his feet like a jarring gong.

“Oops, silly me,” He said, bending over to pick the keys up and praying with all his might that Crowley would let the moment go. He should have known that one would fall on deaf ears.

“Angel, what-?”

“So, what do you say to a nightcap, dear boy?” (Didn’t matter that they were coming back from lunch.) His embarrassment was replaced with anxious energy in the blink of an eye and he gave up on the keys to simply snap the door open. He trudged in before Crowley could even think to try and ask again. “I have a wonderful scotch that will be just the thing! It’s tickety boo!”

For his part Crowley stood in the doorway, looking at Aziraphale with a raised eyebrow and wondering what that had been all about. It was not everyday that Aziraphale let his tight self-control slip like that. No matter, Crowley had all the time in the world to find out what was going on.

That night moonlight found Aziraphale sitting alone in the back room, in the dark. Aziraphale was looking into the middle distance, thoughts focused on trying to understand what precisely he had hoped to achieve by leaning into Crowley’s hand. It was true that Heaven was rather cold and the angels didn’t have many physical interactions. Add to that the fact that Aziraphale was the only angel permanently stationed on earth, and it was as if every time he stepped on heaven the others wouldn’t touch him for fear of getting something akin to earth cooties. Or maybe just Aziraphale cooties.

He hadn’t even done it on purpose. Crowley’s hand had touched him so suddenly that he had been pulled in by the warmth of the gesture. Fortunately he noticed before he could do something really embarrassing, like actually nuzzling into Crowley’s palm. No matter, he’d just have to be more careful from now on.

He didn’t expect himself to overcompensate.

The next time they were walking home, Crowley’s hand brushed his by accident and Aziraphale shot himself into the wall of the bakery they were passing by.

“What the hell, Aziraphale?” Crowley’s eyebrows had almost reached his hairline.

“Nothing, dear boy, just spiffy. Have you seen these- these-” Aziraphale looked into the shop at the confections trying to find one that could save his sorry arse from another interrogation. “Macarons! Yes! Have you seen them? They look scrumptious.” He let out a small nervous laugh and escaped into the shop.

Crowley sighed and followed Aziraphale.

It went like that for a bit with Aziraphale jumping every time Crowley so much as touched him by accident. In the park while they were feeding the ducks and they’d both reached into the pea bag at the same time. In the bookshop, when their fingers brushed while passing a glass of wine. One time in which Crowley had stopped Aziraphale from crossing in the path of a cyclist, and the Angel had made a noise like a boiling kettle and gone cherry red.

And Crowley tried to give Aziraphale his time, he really did try. He was convinced Aziraphale would come out with it sooner or later. At first, Crowley theorized that perhaps his touch could harm Aziraphale, that they had become anathema to each other as a last punishment from heaven and hell. But he managed to touch Aziraphale once, without him noticing, and there was absolutely no reaction. He didn’t like it, but he didn’t want to push Aziraphale. Then the sunglasses happened.

They were at the bookshop, sipping Irish cocoa and reminiscing on old times. Crowley, half drunk on his Angel’s presence and emboldened by the liquor, placed his hand on top of Aziraphale’s. Aziraphale scrambled to get away with enough strength and flailing limbs that he hit Crowley in the chest in his hasty retreat. The sound of broken glass rung like a gunshot in the silence of the shop.

Well, that was fucking enough.

“Angel, what’s wrong?” Crowley looked one-third exasperated, one-third concerned, and one-third pissed off.

“Why must there be something wrong, Crowley?” Aziraphale lifted his chin, going on the defensive. “Can’t we just enjoy our cocoa in peace?”

“No, Aziraphale we can’t enjoy our cocoa in peace when you nearly jump out of your skin as soon as I come close to you.”

“It’s not your fault, Crowley” Aziraphale tried to reassure.

“Well now I’m even more worried because something’s happened to you and you just won’t tell me what. I can help, we’re on our own side!”

“You didn’t sign up for this,”

“I signed up for you, Angel. Come now. Spit it”, Crowley had the look in his eyes like he’d drive the Bentley through a wall of Hellfire to get to whatever was happening with Aziraphale.

Aziraphale sighed and covered his face with his hands. Crowley relaxed, trying to give Aziraphale a moment to gather himself. He felt it like a punch to the gut when he heard Aziraphale sob.

“Angel?” Crowley held out his hand, wondering if trying to comfort Aziraphale through touch would do more harm than good. Instinct won over when he saw Aziraphale start trembling, he put his hand on his angel’s back. When no rejection came he started to move it. Aziraphale’s hitched breath had Crowley pulling back.

“No-”

“No?”

“Please, Crowley,” Aziraphale begged, and Crowley didn’t like it one bit. But he didn’t know what to do.

“Please what, Angel? I need you to tell me. I’m not being thick on purpose. I don’t know, I really don’t know,”

“Please, touch me for God’s sake,”

Crowley furrowed his brow and slowly placed his hand on Aziraphale’s cheek. Aziraphale nuzzled into the contact and started crying harder, as if a dam had been broken. He cupped Crowley’s hand with his own and held onto it for dear life. If that was what he could get before completely losing Crowley to his folly, he was going to take his chance. Before he could stop his mouth, he begged again, “Don’t go. Please don’t go.”

Gently, very gently, so that Aziraphale wouldn’t notice. Crowley started pulling closer, gathering Aziraphale into his arms. When he had him nested into his chest, Crowley started running his fingers through Aziraphale’s hair. Breathing him in.

“I’m so sorry,”

“Sorry for what, Angel? You’ve done nothing wrong.”

“I shouldn’t need this so much,” Aziraphale sobbed again, “I didn’t even know there was this… hole inside me and then you touched me the other day and it felt like, like sunlight, and warmth, and I didn’t know what to do with it. And you shouldn’t have to deal with this. I’m so sorry, dear boy.”

“Hey, hey, hey. I’m gonna stop you right there. I want to do this angel. I want this so much,”

“You can’t be serious,” Aziraphale whispered in disbelief.

“Hush now,” Crowley squeezed Aziraphale lightly, lest he overwhelm him, “And let go. Maybe sleep. We’ll talk about this in the morning.”

Crowley resumed petting Aziraphale’s hair. Enjoying the feeling of his angel’s body relaxing against his chest. When he was sure Aziraphale was asleep he allowed himself a faint kiss to blond curls. A promise, to himself and to his angel, of more to come.

#good omens #good omens fanfiction #goodomenssecretsanta2020

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july-19th-club · 5 years

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weve talked a LOT about how genius crowley-as-aziraphale is but can we get into aziraphale-as-crowley? it’s almost blatant how aziraphale he is, even from the get-go, and yet if you weren’t looking for a swap you’d never see it coming. but there are all these little clues:

he’s not swaggering when he comes into the scene, which should be a dead giveway honestly he’s just sort of walking like a normal person which we’ve literally never seen him do

he says “guys” and “dude” like three times a sentence, which does come across a lot like aziraphale, who does not talk with much slang (at least, currently-in-use slang) at all, overcompensating in order to achieve what, to him, is what crowley actually sounds like

the way he speaks is different, just a bit - quieter, less with the dramatic differences in inflection from moment to moment and more sort of unconsciously manners-y. you can hear the fussiness

that’s not to say he’s doing a bad impression of crowley. he’s doing a pretty damn decent one, after all, he’s listened to him talk for thousands of years, he knows what he’s like

it’s just that he can’t help but be himself, he is remembering to react to the big things in Very Crowley Ways, but the little things escape his notice, and so that’s also why he overcompensates a bit

also of course it’s to telegraph to the audience that Something Is Different (just not enough to give it away too soon)

anyway big thanks to david for putting in his A game once again

FURTHERMORE:

crowley-as-aziraphale getting back into the bookshop Does The Walk

just barely

but he’s doing it to the best of his ability in that short-legged lil body

thank u also mr sheen

#i cant get over how good the clues are on the second (or third) time around #what you got here. is. TALENT #good omens

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shirtlesssammy · 4 years

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15x05: Proverbs 17:3

Then:

I’m not crying, you’re crying!

Now:

(weeping in corner ---this is Steve Yockey’s last episode)

Black Forest, Colorado

Three young women on a Pinterest inspired LL Bean photoshoot getaway, toast to friendship and good times. Now that they’re done with college, two of them have found jobs and are on their way to subverting the new world order of underemployment. Ashley, the other friend, will be driving for Uber.

They all hear a noise outside the tent. Julie goes for more rum and gets yanked. The other one tries closing the tent but is also yanked. Cue Ashley’s screams!

At the bunker, Sam checks his messages to Cas. He’s been texting and texting but hasn’t heard anything back. I am emotional. Dean is going to bury that shit and not even tell his brother what happened? ARGH. Sam hides his phone pretty quick so it’s obvious that he knows something isn’t right --and he doesn’t needle his brother about it so he knows something REALLY isn’t right.

Dean’s back from a supply run and is back on his overcompensating with food bullshit. He eats a ghost pepper jerky bite and instantly regrets it. On the plus side, we get this:

Anyway, they’ve got a case.

*Dream Vision Alert*

Lucifer!Sam sits at a table in the bunker. Dean approaches from behind, draws the Colt, asks for forgiveness, and shoots Sam in the back of the head. Lucifer!Sam doesn’t die though. The wound heals and his eyes glow red. Lucifer!Sam scoffs at the idea that the Colt would kill him, adding, “we both knew it had to end this way.” Then fire consumes Dean.

Sam wakes in the Impala. Dean wants to know what’s up but Sam will only admit to a bad dream.

They reach Colorado and instead of their usual routine, Dean pulls out some old school tricks: Fish and Wildlife agents. They were babies! (But this is also just such a nice way to show HOW MUCH Sam and Dean have changed over the years. The story Chuck was telling in season one has changed so much --they are not the same anymore. And while Dean continues to repress his current issues (ala Cas), it’s clear that he’s not the same.)

They go in and talk with the sheriff.

(Also, this is yet another week using an actor that has been in a previous episode of Supernatural. I realize this does happen, but this actress played Tara, the hunter that helped Dean and Crowley find Cain and the First Blade--and the Mark of Cain.)

The sheriff doesn’t think these attacks are animal in nature. There’s one witness they can talk to. They head to the hospital to talk with her. They ask what she remembers. She flashes back to the forest. She’s running and a man/monster is chasing her. She’s reluctant to talk, but Dean assures her that they’ve heard it all. The man that killed her friends had claws and fangs. A werewolf. Dean tells the poor girl that monsters and werewolves are all real.

Dean gets a name. Sam points out that it wasn’t a full moon the night Ashley was attacked (Dean suggests pureblood), and Sam sets off to find an address.

They head to a cabin in the woods where Andy, the werewolf, lives with his brother, Josh. They’re isolated, reluctant to have visitors, don’t have a phone. Just as God intended. Sam and Dean leave.

Josh yells at Andy for not killing Ashley. I’m just loling all over the place. This melodramatic crazy is TOO much. Family of werewolves that hunt people. Their dad’s dead but it’s the family business. Reluctant younger brother...

The brothers check in at the Sleepy Bear Inn. (Have we mentioned HOW MUCH WE LOVE JERRY WANEK? It’s true!)

They’ve got Ashley under their protection. They need to go take care of “the lumberjack twins.” Sam wonders why this whole case seems too easy. Lololol. Ashley asks the brothers to stay with her until she falls asleep. Meanwhile, Andy and Josh are outside the motel ready to kill her.

Dean and Ashley talk about hunting. Dean says he likes his job --helping people. She asks if he ever wanted to be anything else: Jimi Hendrix. He says that so quickly. It breaks me a bit. But then he toes the company line. Ashley wondering how great life would be if it was all planned out. That makes Dean turn a little green. Poor bby.

Sam wakes Sleeping Beauty - I mean, Dean. He zonked out while Sam headed out to get food and while he was sleeping, Ashley disappeared.

Cut to Ashley who is astonishingly NOT DEAD YET. She’s tied up in a bloody slaughter room, though. The two werewolf bros burst in, mid argument. “This isn’t who we are,” Andy protests, his pure white, tucked-in sweater standing out sharply against the ACTUAL BLOOD SPATTERED WALL. (Like, seriously, guys. Get a cleaning service, at least. That can’t be sanitary.)

“This is exactly who we are,” Josh growls. Hoooo-boy.

Dean and Sam race back to the cabin and quickly follow Ashley’s screams to the slaughter room. Their approach causes the werewolves to scamper, but not very far. As they attempt to escape, the Winchesters and Ashley get ambushed in the main room. The two werewolves get the upper hand on Dean and Sam, and the werewolf with a taste for human flesh closes in on Dean, snarling. Andy picks up Dean’s dropped gun and points it at Sam. He stares between Sam and Josh in agony.

Andy shoots and kills his brother. “He turned into a monster,” Andy explains tearfully. “And I’m a monster too.” He turns the gun on himself, killing himself with one quick shot to the heart. (Jeez, always the heart in this season. It’s almost like it’s an important metaphor or something.)

“That was weird,” Dean says which is like a total UNDERSTATEMENT… But that doesn’t even come close to what happens next. Dean tries to comfort Ashley, who pushes away and…

…trips and falls right onto the antlers. BOOM. Ashley’s dead. Sam, Dean, and pretty much every single one of us viewers stares at Ashley’s body in shock and confusion. That’s…not…normal. Also, this episode is only half over. WTF?

“Well, this is a bitch,” Ashley grumbles, opening her eyes and standing up, still impaled. She cheerfully flashes her eyes white at Sam. She’s LILITH, baby!

Lilith has clearly never made friends with the phrase “Loose lips sink ships” because she spills E V E R Y T H I N G. Chuck pulled her out of the Empty (where she was dead as a demon doornail), gave her instructions to seduce Dean post-rescue, told her to show Sam and Dean the werewolf murder/sacrifice mirror, and sent her to retrieve the magic gun: Ye Olde Equalizer.

The Winchesters try to fight Lilith, but she blasts them into the walls, knocking Sam out. Dean promises Lilith the gun as long as Sam’s okay. Same old song and dance, my friends. But now we get the feeling that Dean’s SEEING THE SCRIPT even while he’s still feeling utterly trapped by it.

Sam has another vision while he’s power healing through his latest concussion. This time, Dean’s out to kill a human Sam. Dean, under the influence of the Mark of Cain, murders his brother with the first blade. When Sam wakes, the cabin is empty.

In the Impala, Lilith is sitting about two feet away from the equalizer gun - still hidden in the glove box- and amusedly answers Dean’s questions. She’s massively irked that she’s back on Earth as part of Chuck’s latest story…when the story she THOUGHT her death was integral to was foiled by the Winchesters. It’s adding insult to injury, man. “Wouldn’t it be great if everything was just planned out for you?” she repeats and then laughs right in Dean’s face. Chuck fed her that line directly.

Lilith chirpily comments on Chuck’s storytelling propensity and his hamfisted werewolf brother foreshadowing. “It always ends the same,” she tells Dean. “One brother killing the other.”

Back at the motel, I am still UTTERLY DAMN CHARMED at the Wanek crew’s amazing work on this room.

For Please Come Decorate My House Science:

Dean tells Lilith that she’ll NEVER get the gun and she starts to slice him bit by bit. It’s the death of a thousand cuts!

Sam breaks in and shoots Lilith in the forehead without another word. He traps her in place with a devil’s trap bullet. “I’ve got you now, my pretty!” Sam should have shouted (but didn’t). What he does do is threaten to kill her. Lilith gets pissed at this. Like, EXCUSE HER VERY MUCH, but she’s a total badass who LET Sam kill her back in season four. Don’t mess with her!

The Winchesters flee but don’t even make it past the parking lot. Lilith zaps out to meet them. Where’s the gun??? She reasons it out, and concludes that the gun is clearly in the Impala. (Clears throat… The most important car in the universe!?) Lilith finds the equalizer pretty much right away and laughs at how damn easy it was. Which...yeah.

“We’ll get it back,” Sam snarls and without further ado, Lilith melts the heck out of the gun. Now it’s just a cooling black pool against the asphalt. Oooooookay. Plan...X?

Back at the bunker, the boys fortify themselves with liquor. Sam leaves ANOTHER voicemail for Cas. (Pardon me while I take a short break to weep and rend my clothing.) “We gave him the head’s up on Chuck and Lilith,” Dean says. “What else are we supposed to do?” Oh, I don’t know. Probably apologize? Tell him you love him and value him as a person. That sort of thing.

Dean’s pretty shattered at the revelation that Chuck’s still pulling their strings. Thanks to Lilith, he understands that Chuck wants an ending where one of them kills the other. Sam immediately ties this into the dreams he’s been having. “You’re just telling me this, NOW?” Dean asks. And…I think that reaction is justified. Sam speculates that his equalizer wound is showing him Chuck’s endings and MAYBE a slice of Chuck’s mind.

“This was supposed to be over,” Dean says in response. “Are we just gonna keep running in this friggin’ hamster wheel until we die? Or we get boring and he ends us?” I’m laughing at the direct commentary on how TV shows live and die but also...DEAN BBY.

Sam thinks they can fight. Dean wants to know how the hell they’re supposed to FIGHT GOD.

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Goldilocks and the Three Quotes:

Poor, faithful Dean. We both knew it had to end this way

I’ll Freud you

Whatever you’re about to say, I want you to know that we’ve heard worse. We’ve heard weirder

I don’t lie to you. I look out for you

That’s not how this story goes

Oh, you would promise a girl the moon, Dean Winchester

Of the three potential vessels, Ashley had the best hair

God? He is not exactly Shakespeare. He’s more of a low rent Dean Koontz

Be a good boy and show me that BIG GUN, huh?

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nihilnovisubsole · 4 years

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Honeeeeey, I just finished A Curious Case of Miracles, talk to me about Sabrael, that woman owns my whole fucking soul. I need an episodic spin of her busting balls through Heaven's cases (and being all buddy buddy with Aziraphale). Do you have details about her that you you had to leave out? Is there more Behind-The-Scenes stuff about her?? I need mooore

anon, i am so sorry. you opened the floodgates. i’ll put most of this under a cut because, well, oof. enjoy the brain purge!

in terms of sabrael’s visual design, i wanted her to look like the kind of woman a powerful businessman would seek out as a trophy girlfriend. impressive, but intimidating. tall. untouchable. graceful, but not warm. fashion choices that are a little too haute for the rest of us. i liked the precedent the show gave me with the angels’ suit designs, and i especially liked the color symbolism, so i gave her a limited palette. aziraphale wears a nice spectrum of white, brown, beige, cream, gold, and pale blue. sabrael wears white and gold. that’s it. she doesn’t allow herself anything else. but i also wanted to give her inklings of being different, so i decided to play with the costume team equating wings and lapels. i’ve mentioned the lapel thing before: sabrael’s huge, fluffy collar is overcompensating on a cosmic scale. she wants you to think she’s the most committed angel around. she doesn’t want you to entertain the idea that she may have questioned the great plan.

she also has a thing about swans, which, i have to admit, i didn’t go into with any meaning in mind. google tells me there are no particularly significant passages in the bible about swans or anything. i just knew that people think of swans as being beautiful, but mean, so i went for it.

the biggest thing i left out of the fic for lack of room is the backstory of sabrael’s relationship with gabriel. gabriel and sabrael are meant to be a foil to crowley and aziraphale. if you go with the fan theory that crowley fell for aziraphale as soon as he found out he’d given away the flaming sword, sabrael has probably admired gabriel about as long. they’ve both had to keep their relationships secret. nobody else has seen the yawning span of history the way they have, which is why aziraphale tells sabrael that crowley “understands.” sixty centuries is a long, lonely time to be around. you’ll only get real comfort from someone who knows what that’s like.

but where aziraphale and crowley have that sweet, earnest affection we love, gabriel and sabrael are a sleazy cocktail of office politics and lust. they’re both archangels, so gabriel is sabrael’s equal, but like, not really. nobody’s gabriel’s equal. he’s the golden boy with the nuclear codes. as funny as it is to treat him like don draper’s incompetent evil twin, he knows what he’s doing, and that makes him extremely dangerous. he’s just so used to the power that he’s become casual about it. of course everything he does is right! otherwise, he wouldn’t be him.

i’m not sure whether sabrael admired him too much to see his red flags, or she brushed them off and convinced herself he was better than that. either way, she fell in love with the gabriel we see in manuscripts and cathedrals - a gold and marble idol that’s nothing like who he really is.

then something happened on their trip to egypt in 1929 that made sabrael realize he wasn’t the angel she looked up to. on the one hand, once gabriel had been knocked off his pedestal, it made him accessible. she finally got what she’d been hoping for. but it also made him a broken shadow of the colleague she’d had in her head. and once he figured out that sabrael had grown soft on humankind and questioned the great plan, it came with a sour aftertaste of blackmail. i think gabriel had been sizing her up as a conquest for a while, and was thoroughly pleased with himself for bagging an angel of her rank. if he has any depth of feeling for her beyond that, i don’t know. maybe he doesn’t, either. it’s not like he’s, uh, self-aware.

earth is where aziraphale and crowley feel safe and at home. earth for gabriel and sabrael is a love hotel. he takes her there for off-the-clock indiscretions, and they both stroll back in on monday morning with their hair combed and their shirts starched. the fact that he knows she questioned the highest company policy hangs heavier and heavier over them the longer they go on. gabriel keeps expecting sabrael to get over the phase and step back in line, but she never does. the end result is a sticky maze of lies of omission and lurid honesty: they’re upfront about what they want from the physical side of relationship, but the minute sabrael can undermine him and help aziraphale, she does.

so on the outside, sabrael has everything she wants. she’s got her handsome, powerful boyfriend. she’s good at her job. her forbidden feelings about the great plan are - as far as she knows - safe. earth itself is safe! thanks to crowley, aziraphale, and the rest, the thing she feared most didn’t come to pass. but she’s not happy. she sees in crowley and aziraphale what she wants from gabriel and isn’t getting, and that hurts. so for probably the first time ever, she goes with her gut. she does the right thing instead of what will keep her professionally secure. she makes a friend and discovers forgiveness, and kindness with no strings attached, and the kind of warmth that heaven should be all about.

i think i’ve already confessed this to someone in an ao3 comment, so: i got about 4,500 words into a one-shot exploring this stuff. and then i set it aside, because i didn’t want to cast a pall over the loving, lighthearted tone i was going for with ‘a curious case of miracles.’ it’s not that there isn’t plenty of dark good omens fic, and i might think about it, and there’s a place for “hot and dysfunctional,” but… i don’t know. it doesn’t feel like it’s in the spirit of either canon or the first story. in the meantime, i assure you that crowley is off somewhere making fun of her to aziraphale over a drink or a plate of duck.

#good omens #good omens for ts #anon #asks #long post

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porcupine-girl · 5 years

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This Got Long: It Was Supposed to Just Be About Dean and Cas

This is not exactly a prediction, but it’s not not a prediction either.

Dean fucks around and sulks for a few episodes. In 15x06, Sam tries to get him to make up with Cas but he’s too stubborn and still hasn’t dealt with whatever shit it is he has to deal with.

Finally, somewhere around the midseason finale or premiere, Dean gets his shit together enough to not only apologize to Cas but to actually open up to him in a way he hasn’t in years. I’m not expecting romantic love confessions, but definitely admitting that Cas is one of the people he cares most about in the world and he doesn’t want to lose.

They better hug.

OOPS HAHA THAT MAKES CAS HAPPY SO NOW HE’S IN THE EMPTY

Well wow, look at that, being vulnerable for three seconds resulted in Dean losing the thing he was being vulnerable in order to not lose. That sounds like the kind of thing that could cause an emotional backslide hard enough to carry Dean through to the end of the season.

Oh hey, Jack’s in the empty!

You know who I bet the empty is pissed at?

Chuck.

I don’t even know why, but I bet the empty has some reason or other to fucking hate Chuck.

Which means that Jack and Cas now have a chance to get the empty on their/our side.

I don’t even know exactly what the status of things with Chuck will be by then, but you know when he finds out they sealed the hell gash he’s just gonna whine and do something else hack-writer-y. So he’ll still be the big bad. Or, rather, predestination is the big bad, and he’s the personification of predestination.

So Cas and Jack get out and now they have the empty on their side.

I like the theory that at some point Rowena will come back and not so much be Queen of Hell in the way Crowley was King of Hell but be leading some kind of change in hell to make it less torture-y.

And look, at this point, Heaven is running out of things to lose, right? They’re down to like three angels (unless those newbies Jack signed on actually became angels? I’m not sure on that, but even if they did that brings them up to like ten angels). They’re gonna collapse soon one way or another.

Which means that by the end of the season, we have the possibility of Heaven, Hell, Earth, the Empty, and Amara all coming together against Chuck for the final Free Will vs Fate showdown. All any of them want is to control their own destinies, man.

But that wasn’t the original point of this post. That’s a tangent my brain just went off on.

The point

is that

Cas will get back out of the empty.

And Dean will get him back yet again.

(I heard a rumor Cas might lose his powers; if so, I think this is the point he’ll lose them, it’ll be part of getting out of the empty, so he may be human now.)

And I think at this point Dean is gonna get so fucking clingy. Like the exact polar opposite of what he’s ever been with anyone but Sam.

Like if Cas tries to leave his sight for three fucking seconds he will get so pissed.

This is not a healthy reaction, it’s just a different unhealthy reaction. It’s going to lead to him being kind of a controlling dick to Cas, but in a totally different way than ever before. Just total overcompensation.

But only for like one episode because...

Boy, will this piss Cas royally the fuck off. Like, he finally got some agency and left Dean and Dean got his shit together and Cas chose to come back to him and then he got himself out of the empty again so that they can all come together to fight for Free Will... and Dean is trying to control his every move like a jealous husband? When right now we’re all about casting off external loci of control?

So I think that’s what will cause the Final Blowup between Dean and Cas, which will lead to their Final Resolution as they finally, finally find a happy (or at least acceptable) medium.

And ISTG if Cas doesn’t get to make the final decision on where he winds up and in what form I will be so pissed. Anyhow, it doesn’t really matter for these purposes what it is - angel or human, with the Winchesters or in Heaven or somewhere else entirely - just that Cas gets to decide, and now he and Dean have something remotely healthy to build their relationship on going forward. Not, like, normal-person-healthy, but relative-to-everything-else healthy.

#spn spoilers #spn meta #spn predictions #season 15 #castiel

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