#riley loves eva but so does kate

[mermaidsirennikita]

random thirdly (?) State of the Goodreads Challenge 2022

I cannot guarantee that I will give State of the Goodreads Challenge updates on the regular, but as my blog has increasingly slanted towards "if there is one consistency, it's my love of romance novels", I think I should try. I'd love to say I'll do this in a quarterly fashion, like businesses do, but like... we're 4-ish months into the year. Quarterly, thirdly. It is what it is.

My 2022 Goodreads Challenge: 50 Books

My 2022 Goodreads Challenge Status As of May 10, 2022: 32 books

Those books:

Tempting the Vicar by Liana LeFey. 3/5. ARC. I recall a very strange oral sex scene and an annoyingly sanctimonious hero, though little else.

In Bed with The Devil by Lorraine Heath. 4/5. The hero kills people! Or does he? She thinks he does. Classic Lorraine.

His Lessons on Love by Cathy Maxwell. 4/5. ARC. Very cute baby. Very incompetent hero. It is actually his baby!!! From his mistress! Gasp!

Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton. 5/5. Pirates and assassins and magical girls and batty old ladies and a "she's wasted, bro" scene. Yes!

The Good Girl's Guide to Rakes by Eva Leigh. 4/5. ARC. A classic "take me on a walk on the wild side, SIR" book. The hero wears eyeliner. She does a little striptease. The word "cunt" is used in a sex scene. God bless.

How to Deceive A Duke by Samara Parish. 4/5. ARC. Second chance romance, a duke with damage, the lady wears pants. Very classic.

The Duke Goes Down by Sophie Jordan. 3/5. Was doing so well until the last minute twist! Do appreciate a hero named Peregrine, and does he EVER go down.

The Rake Gets Ravished by Sophie Jordan. 4/5. ARC. Thank GOD this hero has a fetish for oranges, or this heroine would be fucked. Instead she just gets fucked.

The Duke I Tempted by Scarlett Peckham. 5/5. Sexually submissive duke. Whipping houses. Dark secrets. Fuck yes.

The Viscount Made Me Do It by Diana Quincy. 3.5/5. A lady chiropractor makes it sexy.

The Earl I Ruined by Scarlett Peckham. 4.5/5. So you can do that with an apple? Noted.

A Duke, The Spy, An Artist, and A Lie by Vanessa Riley. 2/5. ARC. I don't know what happened here. So much promise!

White Knight Needed by Betina Krahn. 3/5. ARC. The cover fucked, but this book did not.

The Marquess Makes His Move by Diana Quincy. 4/5. ARC. A married heroine! How will they get out of this one??? .... Oh, like that? Bold.

How to Be A Wallflower by Eloisa James. 3/5. ARC. The heroine is heiress to a toilet fortune and I was raised to find toilets distasteful if necessary.

A Relentless Rake by Anna Harrington. 3/5. ARC. This could have been rated higher if not for the slut shaming, whoops!

Crying Wolfe by Kerrigan Byrne. 4/5. ARC. I was a bit thrown by the rough American angle, but then they started fucking and I was significantly more okay with it.

The Heiress Hunt by Joanna Shupe. 3.5/5. A 3.5/5 Joanna Shupe is still better than the best from many other authors. A cute friends to lovers romance, made better by my one true love, the Duke of Fuckwood.

The Lady Gets Lucky by Joanna Shupe. 4/5. A hot hot hot seduction lessons book. The Duke of Fuckwood gets cuck(wood)ed again!!!

The Bride Goes Rogue. 4.5/5. ARC. Fucking killed it, one of the hottest "we'll do shit in a carriage" scenes I've ever read. Not to be cucked this time, the Duke of Fuckwood instead glowers broodingly, and I need to lie down.

Rules for Engaging the Earl by Janna MacGregor. 4/5. ARC. A wounded hero! A single mother! A marriage of convenience! Facesitting!

A Scot is Not Enough by Gina Conkle. 3/5. ARC. Alas, the title was better than the book itself, though I do love the sex scenes.

A Daring Pursuit by Kate Bateman. 4/5. ARC. Classic light enemies to lovers, if it ain't broke don't fix it, there is also a rescue bear.

The Wedding Season by Katy Birchall. 3/5. ARC. Would possibly be rated higher if it was actually a romance.

A Duke for Diana by Sabrina Jeffries. 3/5. ARC. A lot of "oh my"s in this one, and I am still very ambivalent on such as that.

How to Steal A Scoundrel's Heart by Vivienne Lorret. 5/5. ARC. "Fellas is it gay if I cuddle my mistress while she's on her period" the book. Fabulous.

The Lady Loves Danger by Anabella Bryant. 3/5. ARC. And I couldn't help but wonder, would my heart have opened more to this book if it didn't have a cartoon cover?

Lady Derring Takes A Lover by Julie Anne Long. 4/5. One thing I appreciated deeply about this book is that the hero says "oh God, so good" during, because I do love a hardened spy acting like a total simp once he finds the right puss.

Angel in a Devil's Arms by Julie Anne Long. 4/5. The hero literally jumps out from behind walls to be like "BOO" to scare people who conspired to murder him years ago, and I do relate to that.

I'm Only Wicked With You by Julie Anne Long. 4/5. A+ "heroine gives hero a boner by talking about nudity and making eye contact with him while her parents are right there" scene.

Scoundrel of My Heart by Lorraine Heath. 5/5. A bitch did in fact gasp and say "oh my God" aloud during this, and I felt like a whole loser after, but she earned that.

A Night to Surrender by Tessa Dare. 4/5. "I only wish to touch you through your shift" *proceeds to eat her out through her shift*.

#romance novel blogging #state of the goodreads challenge 2022

[murdercheerleadersincorrect]

Kate: I have something to tell you...

Riley: Come on, Kate. You know you can say anything to me. We’ve known each other for a long time now, and we’re a great team. There is absolutely nothing that could dent our impenetrable bond.

Kate: I'm dating Eva.

Riley: You're dead to me.

#we are the tigers #kate dalton #incorrect quotes #eva sanchez #riley williams #kate x eva #riley loves eva but so does kate #riley also thinks the team has a bond #they don't

[thewhizzyhead]

gotta hand it to WATT for excellent characterization tho woo even those who have little screentime like Clark and Mattie are really likable characters. Heck Eva was barely in Act One and is literally in only one group song (Finale) but thanks to her what-the-fuck-is-going-on vibes and her amazing what-the-fuck-is-going-on song (Shut Up and Cheer), we all still love her to pieces and frankly she seems like a fan favorite around here so yeah good job on that WATT woo!

#like all the characters have their fair share of time in the limelight #riley and cairo are kinda the main-character-conflict-duo here if that makes sense like Worst Team Ever kinda frames Riley as the main #while Defense frames Cairo as one of the major-plot-movers (that term does not make sense i know) when she convinces the team #to frame the murder on mattie #Kate is shown to be very confrontational so boom conflict and she even has her Skype Tomorrow solo #annleigh has the best one liners ever God i love her and her dealing with grief in Act 2 does flesh her out a lot more #reese (altho i wished she had a lot more lines in act 2) gets Captain of the team and an amazing dance number as well #chess and farrah get the scenes before the 'before the breakdown' and are the stars of that number (and the reprise) #and even mattie gets the amazing act 2 opener aka the what-the-hell-did-i-even-do number #and clark's loving nature is shown throughout Forever #so all in all i love how the characters are treated in the show woo really good writing #we are the tigers #we are the tigers musical #watt musical #watt clark #watt mattie #eva sanchez #watt eva

[highkey-lowkey-as-hell]

hi random watt hcs perhaps????????

- adhd kate is a hill i will die on :)

- also consider: adhd reese

- kate and cairo hate each other so much because they dated the summer after kate’s freshman year, except cairo still isn’t out so nobody knew then and nobody knows now

- and actually nobody finds out for a really long time even after cairo does come out and starts dating chess

- which makes for some Very Awkward Moments when kate is third-wheeling them

- (eva figures it out and she’s very proud of that)

- also hey remember how guitar eva is canon according to pma?

- yeah eva learns lucky people as a surprise for kate 

- kate cries (but denies it)

- mattie! and! eva! friendship!

- they have a sort of big-sister-little-sister relationship

- sometimes they go and get coffee for the whole team together before practice (if anyone has ever read her name in the sky it’s always basically the scene where hannah and wally go get coffee and beignets-)

- cairo is 100% the team’s mom friend i’m taking 0 constructive criticism

- she’s always got hair ties, snacks, and extra water bottles at competitions, she Will stop practice to force riley to take a nap Do Not Test Her, she helps mattie and farrah with homework, there’s granola bars in her backpack because she knows kate, eva, farrah, and riley almost never eat breakfast, etc

- and reese is the cool big sister of the team

- she’s the one who helps with hair at competitions/games, she’ll always listen to you venting (but she probably gives really bad advice, tbh), she’s definitely yelled at people making fun of chess, she’s just the Cool Big Sister

- clark is just kind of always awkwardly There, he’s annleigh and farrah’s ride home so he always hung around at school waiting for practice to finish so they can leave and then riley started inviting him to watch them practice (in the hopes that having an audience would make them suck less) (it didn’t) and he was too awkward to say no and now he’s just kind of There

- so i feel like it’s already an established thing in the fandom that the reason cairo was always bothering kate about chess is because she wanted someone else to come out first so she could gauge the reaction

- kate never actually really came out, it was kind of just a thing everybody knew, which actually was part of the frustration between them - cairo wanted kate to officially Come Out, kate preferred it just be a Known Thing and that it be treated normally

- and then kate started dating eva and nobody on the team cared that they were girlfriends so finally cairo asked chess out and put a little pride pin on her backpack and that was that

- annleigh doesn’t do dressage anymore but she still rides, she has a fancy friesian/quarter horse cross gelding and he is the light of her life

- she doesn’t really compete anymore but occasionally there’ll be an open show nearby and her trainer will offer to take her along with everyone else that’s going so she goes

- clark and farrah are always super embarrassing and cheer for her

- she loves it

#we are the tigers #them <3 #also if it wasn't obvious all of these are riley never does the stabby au-

[slouchyspines]

Just read and enjoy:

Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a bakery called “ Kate's Bake Shop ”. You could get every sweet treat you can imagine. Cupcakes, bread, baguettes, even soup. But that didn't mean the treats were specifically 'good', Kate has no idea how to bake and just needed money.

What she thought was their specialty, was actually a disaster; Cupcakes. God they were disgusting.

They gave you a certain fright. But there was one person who LOVED them, and she wanted EVERYONE to eat at least one cupcake. Just one. But no one let it happen.

“ Hold on to your baguette's!! ” Clark screamed as Riley went ballistic. Almost forcing Annleigh to eat one of Kate's disastrous treats.

Farrah considered trying one, but got distracted by the pretty designs. Sure the cupcakes were disgusting, but god were they pretty. Almost like a mirage bamboozling you.

Cairo wanted to capture this moment. I mean, Clark holding on to a baguette for dear life is kinda HILARIOUS.

Mattie didn't think much of it, she has seen worse in prison.

Eva never expected her day as a cupcake delivery person to turn out like this.

And Chess? Chess was having the time of her life.

Kate just watched, as the chaos rapidly grew. Sometimes she makes bad decisions. And owning a bakery and selling abominations is one of them.

--

I AM SO SORRY THIS IS WHAT SLEEP DEPRIVATION DOES TO ME

#don't take this too seriously like at all #this was created in a live stream i did #although Baker!Kate is a concept that i can get behind #but she does need to be a bad baker though #anywhoodle enjoy this masterpiece i made when being sleep deprived #we are the tigers #watt #chess watt #kate watt #slouchyspines #farrah watt #slouchy writes #Clark watt #food cw #Riley skipped leg day

[merriconstance]

IDK but put through obnoxious amounts of google translate

[Cairo, said]

Well done! Do you want a killer? Let's look at the facts

[Song]

Well done! I think I'm safe

We all agreed

Anyone who meets Farah can kill him

It's easy

[Kate]

But everyone loves chess.

[Cairo]

Love, you two?

[Kate]

It will be the real Kai

If I Kill Someone

It will be you

[Cairo]

Touch but you can not

Then I'm coming to go

[Kate]

Well done! Why should I wait?

[Cairo]

Because ... I do not know!

[REESE, announced]

I have already said that I killed someone.

[Cairo, said]

If not ...

[REESE, announced]

If nothing

[Cairo, said]

Without:

[Song]

You killed Kate

Let your truck get out

[REESE]

Cairo, I'm not very smart

[Cairo]

Or it was all action

[Kate]

Cairo, please, he is not very good

[REESE, announced]

Oh

[Kate]

You told him

[REESE]

But still!

[Cairo]

Acknowledge what he can do

[Kate]

Well, he killed Clark

I dont no

[Announcement]

But who bathed Pharaoh to kill him?

[Cairo; ရိစ်၊ K EVA]

What?

[Announcement]

The bathroom where Farah was killed

[Cairo]

Oh, he did not kill him. This is murder

Or I was the last word

God did not grant this help

[Discussion]

Is this true? Do you want English? You told the police your story before you came to the police haha?

[Announcement]

God never says he killed the fugitive

She made her decision

[Cairo]

So Ferra's died of alcohol poisoning.

[Announcement]

I dont no

[Kate]

But Enleg hated chess

[REESE]

Otherwise

[Cairo]

I do not know.

[Announcement]

Farah hates me.

[REESE]

So can a runner kill him?

And chess may have been killed by Farah

Except for someone else

[Cairo]

... but you

[Kate]

However, Cairo You drank sweet wine

[Cairo]

For fun.

[Kate]

So let's say he's in prison

See how fun he is

[Cairo]

Oh! Matthew can kill them

And it was her drug action game

[Kate]

You see the girl missing

How can you kill them?

[Cairo]

IDK

[Announcement]

ကိတ်၊ Should I trust you? I do not know

We are all as bright as the sun.

Chess

And all these things.

[Kate]

Is it like killing?

[Announcement]

Yes!

[Kate]

This is true. I'm coming back

And let me tell you what I want

Let her go to school instead of dying

Did we go back to Cairo?

[Cairo]

Why? I did not say anything

If I had been a murderer, I would never have told you

We are wasting time Riley, right?

There is nothing we can do about it

[REESE]

Oh! Cairo hates Ferrara!

[Cairo]

And Farah hates Farah.

[Announcement]

But Cairo hates chess.

[Kate]

No one hates Cairo

[Cairo]

That is true.

[Kate]

This is true.

List of people you like

[Announcement]

Kate

[Kate, Cairo, talk]

what ??

[Announcement]

You love Kate. Well done!

[Kate announced]

analog, I don't think you feel that way

[Cairo, said]

I have a boyfriend

[Announcement]

I have a cat. This does not mean that I want to mess with him

[Cairo]

Listen! I do not know what to drink

[Kate]

I have to go to Cairo

[Kat, Sero]

We are not the same

[REESE]

Or you are together this time!

[Cairo]

You're crazy to lose everything

Love this emotional laughter

I think I'm looking for your killer

See you in hell

#they continue to do annleigh dirty #we are the tigers #annleigh we are the tigers #cairo we are the tigers #kate we are the tigers #reese we are the tigers #this is walmart WATT

[ghostlypawn]

here’s all my watt AUs from this quiz in case u wanted to read any of the results you didn’t get

cairo x reese: royal au

“royal balls are such a bore, aren’t they?”

Biting. Cold. Sharp. Cairo has no interest in being sold off to some conceited swaggering peacock for her family's benefit. But what happens when her parents withdraw her authority and make the decision for her? Her new marriage might get slightly more complicated when she runs into a vaguely familiar face by the stables...

tags: princess!cairo/stable girl!reese, prince!clark, stable girl!annleigh, background clark/annleigh, childhood friends reunited, arranged marriage, angst, pining, forbidden love

riley x reese: ceo au

“if you want to last a day here i suggest you keep your mouth shut.”

When the former CEO of Williams Inc. died under mysterious circumstances his younger sister Riley takes reign. When rumours fly around the office Reese keeps out of it. One late night at the office is all it takes to change that when she realises there's more to this company than meets the eye and her life is about to get a lot more dangerous...

tags: ceo!riley/employee!reese, slow burn, murder, organised crime ties, hurt/comfort, morally ambiguous characters, kidnapping

mattie x farrah: witch au

“i don’t cast curses, but i might change my mind if you keep testing me.”

The chimes by the doors sang every thirty minutes or so as stragglers came to pick up herbal remedies for whatever illness they had. Like clockwork, Mattie attended to the regulars placing whatever they needed: hollyhock, eucalyptus, sage. It was uncommon to see people in, what Mattie calls, the 'cryptic' secton but she can't help but be intrigued by the young girl she sees inspecting the bat baculum. Eye-contact was made and before Mattie could make her way to the girl the chimes tell her she left. She thinks nothing of it, perhaps she realised she was late for something, and finishes the last ten minutes of her shift. During her final sweep of the apothecary she notices an out-of-place book sat in the cryptic section. An unfamiliar language accompanied by diagrams of flora and fauna fills the pages; she can only make out a few words that she'd seen them around the store. How curious. There was no name but she concluded that it belonged to the girl from earlier. She never returned in the following days so Mattie decided to find the girl herself, however, she's left with more questions than answers.

tags: witch!farrah/mattie, strangers to friends to lovers, slow burn, violence, angst, minor character death, farrah does not know how to use her powers

farrah x kate: bodyguard au

"i’m not saying i like having you around or anything, but… thanks for not letting me die."

Up-and-coming actor Farrah gets fanmail like any other celebrity but one day she recieves a letter unlike any other. Much to her dismay, a bodyguard is placed by her side whilst she feigns normalcy but as the threats become more dangerous, Kate finds herself becoming more protective.

tags: celebrity!farrah/bodyguard!kate, enemies to lovers, fake friends, violence, hurt/comfort, slow burn, there was only one bed, near death experience

farrah x eva: doctor AU

"is that a copy of twilight? please don't tell me that's your research."

Farrah found herself in the ER so often that she'd befriended most of the staff. A majority of the staff was sick of her taking up a bed after yet another night of drinking. Eva, however, would patiently sit by her waiting for her to regain conciousness so she could take her vitals; she knew more about the girl than she intended after many drunk confessions and would spend every Saturday night waiting for the girl to stumble through the entrance with blood running down her face. What she didn't expect was to see her arrive already unconcious on a gurney getting paler by the minute. Being declared the Farrah-tamer, Eva brought her into a room attending to her as best as she could before she woke. A quick break later and she returned to Farrah sitting up right complaining about the bright lights, as she usually did. When re-checking her vitals she noticed that she had no pulse, no matter when she tried she couldn't find one, it was only when she tried her neck that she noticed two small puncture wounds below her jaw...

tags: doctor!eva/vampire!farrah, friends to lovers, angst, id imagine being a newly turned vampire is angsty and stressful, skeptical eva, in-denial farrah, hurt/comfort, mutual pining, there was only one bed

chess x riley: mutant AU

"i don’t want to hurt you. i’ve never wanted to hurt you. but it’s my job to bring people to justice.”

The world was changed... divided... mutated. Some people began exhibiting supernatural tendencies. Other people became threatened. Chess went into hiding. Riley started hunting. When the mutants start fighting back, what happens when an old acquaintance appears on her dead pool?

tags: hunter!riley/mutant!chess, mutant AU, enemies to lovers, violence, slow burn, nuclear apocalypse, angst, minor character death

annleigh x cairo: pirate AU

"not all treasure is found in silver and gold, mate."

Every night Annleigh would sneak out of the castle to watch the moon dances amongst the waves; she longed to escape from her noble duties to explore the world. When the docks become more crowded Annleigh walks into a girl who might just allow her to do that. Cairo had no reason to bring her aboard but there was something about the pendant that hung against her pale collar that compelled her to... a symbol she almost remembers. Annleigh is soon to find out that she has a deeper connection to the sea than she could ever know.

tags: noble!annleigh/pirate!cairo, strangers to friends to lovers, teasing, mutual pining, pirate violence, kidnapping, tragic past, possible mermaid!annleigh

cairo x kate: lawyer AU

"you know, there is such a thing as being gracious in victory as well as defeat."

There's not a single case that Cairo hasn't won and she's not ashamed to rub it in Kate's face. The tension between them is as just as evident in the courtroom than out of it. When a string of dead bodies appear around town the tension between the two doesn't cease. But what happens when Cairo is taken off the case as soon as her best friend becomes a suspect?

tags: prosecutor!kate/defense attorney!cairo, riley's here too, rivals to lovers, unresolved tension, bickering, murder, emotional hurt/comfort, confiding over alcohol

#we are the tigers #feel free to ask things/tell me how you think things would go idk #i dont have the entire stories planned out for any of them

[elliewritessometimes]

hello. have you seen this post by @notsomightymightytiger?? that’s my friend!!! and this is completely and utterly inspired by that and completely and utterly written for her. love you stabby friend <3

also known as: the tigers go to disneyland, kateva like to kiss, chess, reese and mattie have an understated bromance and cheerwives can actually be fluffy for once

tw: swearing, theme park kind of things??? aka rollercoasters and fireworks and all that. as always, let me know if i’ve missed anything

(sidenote idk if you can tell but i have never in my life been to disneyland don’t come for me if i wrote it all wrong i tried my best)

---

"We're going to Disneyland."

There was silence in the gym for a solid thirty seconds before all hell broke loose.

"WhAT???"

"Wait, really?!?"

"Oh my God, Riley, you're the best, oh my gOd!"

"Why the fuck did you think that taking us to fucking Disneyland was a good idea??" Kate looked less than pleased at the proposition, a stark contrast to the delighted faces of Reese and Mattie.

Riley smiled brightly. "Team bonding!!"

Kate rolled her eyes. "Right. Of course." Their voice rose in pitch, sarcasm delicately lacing their words. "For the best of the team-"

Chess cut them off, not so subtly stamping on her foot. "Katherine, please."

Farrah had been wobbling on her tiptoes, peering over Annleigh's shoulder. She gave a long-suffering groan. "Annleigh, Clark's not a Tiger, he can't come."

"But-"

"No. It's unfair."

Annleigh ignored her sister and switched her attention to Riley, making her best puppy eyes at the captain. Riley only widened her smile. It probably hurt her face a little bit. "You know what? Fine. Clark can come. It's gonna be fun, right?!"

Annleigh giggled at the answer, sticking her tongue out at a fuming Farrah. Kate was in a similar predicament, being held back by a smirking Chess with an arm around their shoulder. They pulled out their phone as well, already dialling a number, “If Annleigh’s boyfriend gets to come, then my girlfriend should be allowed as well. Otherwise that’s nepotism.”

“Fine.” Riley was steadily regretting her decision to hold a cheer trip. On her left, Cairo squeezed her hand, pressing a kiss to her shoulder. Kate gagged in their direction. “You better not, Kate, or I’m banning your girlfriend from Disneyland.”

“Fuck you.”

“Wait,” Reese spoke up, “If Kate and Annleigh can have Eva and Clark, and Cairo and Riley have each other, can I bring my boyfriend?”

“No more significant others!” Riley clapped her hands, ignoring Reese’s pout. “If you can’t get Eva and Clark here in the next eight minutes, we will be leaving them behind! I paid so much money for these tickets and we will not be late.”

The team headed towards the door, being greeted by Eva and Clark already standing beside Cairo’s minivan. They split the rides evenly between the van and Chess’ car (Kate was more than pissed to find that their best friend had been in on the plan all along). 

At one point, Mattie took Reese’s hand. “Hey, even if you can’t bring your boyfriend, you’ve got me, right? Ultimate bromance and all that?”

Reese grinned and squeezed the freshman’s hand. “Hell yeah.”

-

“I want that pin.”

“No, you don’t.” Reese hugged the Belle pin closer. 

Chess held out a hand. “Yeah, but I do though.”

Reese shook her head.

“Look, I’ll give you my Tinkerbell diamond one.” They held out the rare pin in their other hand.

“No! Belle is my favourite!”

“She’s my favourite as well though!”

Cairo sighed. “We’ve been here literally ten minutes.”

Reese linked arms with Mattie, turning on her heel to walk off, “I’m going now and you’re not getting my Belle pin!!!!”

“HEY!” Chess chased after the two, trying so hard to keep up their grumpy demeanour and failing when a smile crept onto their face.

Turning to an anxious-looking Riley, Cairo sighed again. By now, she’d sighed more than she’d spoken today. “Chess does know that they could just... buy their own Belle pin if they really wanted, right???”

“It’s the fun of it, Cai.” Riley looked around, craning her neck. “Where on Earth have the other five members of our team gone?”

“Holy shit.” At this rate, Cairo must have been running out of oxygen from the intense sighing. “It has been. Ten. Minutes.”

-

Farrah wouldn't call herself a Disneyland regular, but she's been a few times before. She remembered a time before her mother had left, when she was still just a little kid, coming to the park for the first time. It had been the kind of magical that only a child can experience, filled with glitter and laughter and something that might have been called family. Her mother bought bubblegum flavoured cotton candy, handing the stick to a seven-year-old Farrah with a smile and a wink. They agreed that it was the first thing that you had to do when going to Disneyland - buy cotton candy. Every time since, Farrah bought the same bubblegum pink sugar from the same tacky stand and ate it with the same wonder as she did the very first time.

Now, Farrah had a new family. In, perhaps, more ways than one. Here, away from home, she's still with her family, maybe a slightly dysfunctional one made up of teenage cheerleaders (and Clark), but still, they are her family in one way or another.

Annleigh returned as Farrah was mulling over all this, a stick of worryingly neon pink cotton candy in her hand. "Figured you'd want to start the day off with your usual sugar rush."

Farrah took the treat with a smile, wondering if Annleigh is only so glad to buy such unhealthy food because at least it's not alcohol. "Thanks."

"Come on, ladies! We've got a whole park to explore!" Clark had apparently already visited a store, a pair of Mickey ears stretched over his head. Farrah rolled her eyes, but followed her sister and brother-in-law (nearly) further down the street because, after all, they are her family.

-

“I can’t believe you’ve never been to fucking Disneyland before,” Eva looked mildly horrified, “Has Chess never taken you?”

“I didn’t really want to go.”

Eva narrowed her eyes. “Why the fuck-”

“Reasons.” Kate’s voice was sharp and Eva backed off, only kissing the top of their head. Kate squeezed her hand in response. “Anyway, come on, show me everything. Mountain rides challenge, right?”

“Ugh, Katie, the queues with be forever...”

“Lucky for you, I’ll be there to while away the time with you.” She winked, laughing when Eva blushed. “Let’s go.”

-

Of all the things to happen at Disneyland, Reese was not expecting to get sneak attacked by a literal cuddly pig. She yelped, reaching a hand to smack it away, nearing the point of ‘this might as well happen’, when a small head poked out from behind the toy. Mattie grinned, “Boo!”

“Jesus Christ, you scared the life out of me.”

The younger girl giggled brightly. “Look what I got!”

“...Is that the pig from Moana?”

“Obviously.” Mattie rolled her eyes. “You should know by now that Moana is the best Disney movie of all time.”

Reese rummaged in her backpack for a second before pulling out yet another pin. “Look! Moana pin. Girl, I would give it to you, but me and Chess are tryna see who can get the most pins by the end of the day. Speaking of, was Chess in the store?”

“Yeah, actually.” She hesitated. “Dude, I hate to tell you this, but they had a Belle pin.”

“Shit.”

-

Perhaps queuing had been a mistake. It had probably been hours. Kate would have known more accurately if they’d worn a watch like Chess always told them to. She was stubborn though, and hadn’t. “Aves...” 

“Yeah?”

“How long have we been waiting?”

“Twenty-five minutes.”

“Oh.” They craned their neck to see over the heads in front of them, realising that they were only a few people from the front. “Oh.”

Eva laughed and took her partner’s hand again, “Told you the queues were long.”

However, in only a matter of minutes, they were seated in an uncomfortable car, the seatbelts just a little too tight to be comfortable and a little too loose to feel actually safe. To say Kate was uncomfortable would be an understatement. She was also maybe a tiny bit scared. 

Eva squinted at them. “You look like you’re gonna throw up.”

“I’m fine.” 

And so the ride began.

Around halfway through, they began the steady climb to the highest peak. Kate turned to Eva, yelling over the shouts of other passengers. “Hey, babe? Remember when I said I didn’t come here with Chess because of reasons? Now might be a good time to tell you that those reasons are that I’m scared of heights.” 

“You fucking idiot.” Eva turned carefully to them, holding their hands tighter, worry and amusement shining in her eyes. The car reached the peak of the ride. “Look at me and don’t fucking think about looking down. It’s okay.” She cupped her cheek. They fell suddenly and Kate's heart jumped into her throat. Eva laughed a little at their surprise. “You know what they say, babe, you gotta confront your fears straight on.”

“I can’t do anything straightly.”

And that was how they found themselves kissing on a rollercoaster, hair slightly in their faces, just as the camera shutter went off. 

-

The team somehow reconvened for lunch, stopping on a bench somewhere as Clark unpacked a multitude of sandwiches and juice boxes. Of course, only Clark, Annleigh and Riley ended up eating the home-brought food, everyone else opting to buy their own trashy, mostly-sugar lunch. 

“How the fuck did you know to bring all this if we only organised the trip this morning?” Kate sounded suspicious, eyeing Clark like he was the imposter. 

Clark looked mildly sheepish. “Oh... We all knew already.”

“WHAT?”

“Yeah, sorry Kitkat.” Chess stifled a snort of laughter. “We organised this weeks ago. We had a group chat and everything.”

Kate spluttered for a second. “Alright, traitors, who else was left out of this?”

Mattie, Farrah and Reese all raised a hand. 

“This makes no sense. Cairo, I trust you to tell the truth, why the fuck didn’t you tell us?!”

Cairo smirked. “We didn’t tell Mattie and Farrah because they’re children-”

“Rude!” Mattie smacked Cairo on the arm. “I am possibly more responsible than half of the rest of you.”

Riley cut in. “Don’t be silly, Cai. We didn’t tell Reese, Mattie or Farrah because they like Disney the most and we wanted it to be a surprise treat for them.”

The rest of the group made noises of appreciation or fondness. Kate, however, was less than pleased, “What about me?!”

“Oh, we just wanted to see your face when we announced it.” Cairo didn't hold back.

“Fuck you all.” But they were holding back a smile, already moving on to the next thing. “Hey, Farrah, you okay? Why aren’t you eating?”

The sophomore groaned. “I feel sick.”

Annleigh hugged her sister to her side, rubbing her back gently. ‘It’s because you ate all that cotton candy earlier.”

“It was so good, though.” Farrah frowned, regretting her past-self and her need for sugar. 

Clark reached into his backpack, pulling out a pair of Minnie ears, before plonking them awkwardly on Farrah’s head. He grinned. “That’ll make you feel better!”

“Dude, I don’t know, but thanks for the effort.” She fought a smile, reaching up to arrange the ears around her plaits. 

-

Riley had been anxious about the trip ever since it had been first suggested. She’d pored over the plans for hours on end, triple checking each detail with Cairo and Chess. Now that they were here, it was all going well enough. Sure, maybe they had gotten lost a couple of times, and sure, maybe they hadn’t stayed as much of a team as she’d planned, but yeah, it was going fine. Everyone else was having fun. 

“Hey, Rye, you doing okay?”

She nodded with a smile, clutching Cairo’s hand. “Yup! All good!”

Cairo did not look convinced. “Look, you've been stressing about everyone else all day, how about we leave them be and go visit some princesses, huh?”

“Cai... Cai, that would be honestly amazing.” Hesitating, she watched the retreating backs of the rest of the team. “You’re sure they’ll be okay?”

“They’ll be fine, I promise. Besides, they’ve got Clark and Chess and Eva in case anything goes wrong.” The taller girl didn’t hesitate from naming who she perceived as the ‘responsible ones’. 

“Okay.” Riley opened her mouth to suggest a destination, when they were approached by the one and only Peter Pan. 

“Hey!”

“OhmygodCai.” She clung to her girlfriend’s arm. “It’s Peter Pan.”

Cairo snorted, nudging Riley to spark her reply. She watched as the two had what was possibly the purest and most wholesome conversation she had ever heard, sneakily taking photos that she would treasure because of Riley’s true delight. Riley skipped towards her after a couple of minutes, grinning properly from ear to ear. “That was so cool!”

“Amazing, Rye. Who shall we visit next?”

“Oh my God, we have to see Tangled!”

“....Rapunzel.”

Riley paused from where she was dragging Cairo into another set of rooms. “What?”

Cairo laughed, “She’s not called Tangled, babe, her name’s Rapunzel.” 

“Oh. Yeah, right, of course, forgot.”

The other girl only laughed harder. “You're so stupid, Jesus Christ, I love you.”

Riley blushed. “Love you too.”

-

“So you did the mountain rides challenge.”

“Yes. Obviously.”

“And somehow, just magically, you two found yourselves making out in every single ride photo.” Chess crossed their arms, grinning at the couple in front of them.

“I- It was noT making out!!” Kate spluttered a reply, hiding her face in Eva’s shoulder. Chess only laughed harder.

Eva hummed as if she was making a difficult decision. “I don’t know, babe, you got pretty into it at one point.”

The senior cackled, high-fiving Eva over Kate's head. Kate continued to hide in their girlfriend's shoulder, only lifting a middle finger in Chess’ direction as a reply. Chess took the offending finger in their hand, pulling Kate up so she could walk between the other two. “Damn, Kitkat.”

“I’m not ever replying to that name again. I have been too attacked to allow it.”

Eva kissed the top of their head, “You came here to have a good time and you’re just feeling so attacked right now.”

“Exactly!” Kate nudged their head up into Eva’s chin, “This is why I’m dating you, meme girl.”

“Ew, gross.” Chess tugged Kate, who tugged Eva, who finally got them walking again. “Come on, lovebirds, it’s firework time.”

-

By the time the fireworks began, they’d been at the park for hours. Farrah still had her Minnie ears on, ones which Clark occasionally tried to steal due to his own ears being lost on one ride or another. Annleigh would only bat his hand away, laughing when he pressed kisses to her palm. 

Kate kissed Eva again when the first firework exploded above them, being caught by yet another camera, this time in the hands of Riley. The photo found its way onto the Tigers group chat by morning, greeted by a pouting Kate begging them to take it down against the protests of the rest of the team (“But you’re just so cute!”). Somehow, she didn’t complain when it even later worked its way onto Eva's Instagram feed. 

Chess and Reese jumped at the first fireworks, too absorbed in counting pins to pay attention to the rest of the world. Mattie wormed her way between them, sneakily stealing both Reese’s Moana pin and Chess’ newly-bought Belle pin. They were too distracted by the light show to notice and Mattie celebrated her little victory by also stealing some of the cotton candy that Farrah had bought herself again, despite her earlier regrets. She supposed some people never learnt.

Cairo stood quietly at the back of the group, showing a still-bouncing Riley the pictures taken with the various characters they’d encountered. Riley kissed her for the final firework, a silent ‘thank you’ for today. 

With the lights of Disneyland glimmering maybe slightly tackily behind the group, Riley took one last picture. It was them, the team, the Tigers, silhouetted in the lights but, if you zoomed in and maybe turned the brightness up a bit, you could still see them smiling. That made its way onto the group chat as well and maybe it still hangs in more than one of their rooms. It was certainly a day that qualified for the scrapbooks.

#KIERA IT'S HERE #sorry it took longer than expected these last few days have been crazy #in other news my cousin is living with us for a while #with that in mind i can't promise a whole lot of content in the next week or so #we never know tho #its not like I was particularly persistent in the first place #anYWAY #proper tag time #we are the tigers #swearing tw #kateva #cheerwives #I refuse to tag characters im sorry im lazy #they're so cute and so at disneyland #its great #I really hope you like it I tried by best #I love yous tabby friends #kiera (yay for gay) #caps tw (for the tags) #I think that's all

[theshowerthatkilledfarrah]

Things I hear at school part 2

(This is what my account is gonna be, this brings me so much joy for literally no reason)

Kate: *walks into class to find random boy with a trump 2020 flag*

Kate: oh heck no *leaves class*

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Mattie: Does earth count as a planet?

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Annleigh: *copying off of an answer key she found online*

Kate: *copying off of Annleigh*

Eva: *copying off of Kate*

Annleigh: What has our life come to?

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*Farrah and Kate running to Riley after a fight*

Farrah: Riley, Riley, Riley! I have something to report!

Kate: me too!

Farrah: Kate said she would fuck my little brother if she needed to

Kate: *trying not to laugh* I don't even know if you have a little brother

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Kate: *drops Calculator on the floor from high up so it makes a loud noise*

Kate: *picks it up and snaps it in half*

*the fraction key and on button go flying across the room*

*on button hits Eva in the head*

Eva: can I keep this?

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Clark: What's 2 plus 4

Farrah: 5

Clark: No-

Farrah: Yes it is. I know my division

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Kate: I couldn't help it! It was my anxiety!

Chess: *mimic voice* anxiety

Chess: GIRL! YOU GOT THIS! YOU'RE STRONG! YOU HAVE THE POWER IN YOU! YOU'RE A TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLE!

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Riley: has Riley lost her mind? No, but she's close to it!

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Mattie: Have you ever heard of the squid game?

Kate: Huh?

Mattie: It's where you play red light green light but if you move on red light you get shot

Kate: OH! I love that game! It's so much fun playing it in real life

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Riley: OH MY GOD IM GONNA KILL HER! IM GONNA STRANGLE HER

Mattie: I have dumplings!

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*Chess forcing Kate to take a buzz feed quizz*

Chess: How do you like your boys?

Kate: Nonexistent

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*the team playing kahoot*

Kate: Your mom just joined

Cairo, who is leading it because Riley is sick: ...

*ur mom pops up on screen*

Cairo: Oh you weren't lying. Hey mom

#musical theatre #cairo watt #we are the tigers #watt #chess watt #riley williams #eva sanchez #kate dalton #clark watt #farrah watt #riley watt #mattie watt #annleigh watt #annleigh o'daniel

[myfriendthedictionary]

watt headcanons but it's literally just me projecting at this point let's be honest

- everyone expects riley to have super neat handwriting vibes and everything she does that she shows to people is like color coded. but when she is taking notes or putting her thoughts down or something private, it's just straight up illegible. also her spelling is just . she's trying okay. she's trying her best

- mattie always has about 128212092 tabs open on her laptop at any given time. they're her tabs. also she gets stressed about not wanting to lose them when she closes them.

- kate also has a lot of tabs open but theirs are on their phone and just because she forgets. how many are open at one time. occasionally she switches to a new tab on purpose and theyre like... oh dear god that's more than i remembered.

- cairo and riley know how to do all sorts of like craft stuff because they went through a phase in the 5th and 6th grades where they needed to do every art kit ever. cairo is still really good at making flower crowns.

- reese is a really good tutor !! she gets hired a lot to help, especially w kids, and her favorite subject to teach is math because she thinks its fun and that more people would like it if it was explained well !

- chess just saves everything to her camera roll. what if she needs it? you never know when she might!!! so she saves everything (especially every stupid meme that kate and eva send them) and deal with the fact their camera roll has like 1229019012 photos in it and they cant locate anything

- both clark and farrah are super good at monopoly. board game night at that household is a nightmare. both are determined to win and then annleigh's vibing because she just likes having get togethers :]

- farrah uses the dog, annleigh uses the thimble, and clark is either the car or the shoe depending on the day. we love variety.

- eva studies better in coffee shops or libraries or cafes or anywhere where theres just like. background noise and people talking in the background. she's also really into people watching (even though she doesn't mean to be) and she's constantly trying to come up with background stories for people she meets or sees in places.

#listen have all of my watt hcs always been projection? yeah honestly #but is this one much more specific than the rest? also yea #thats where we are at this point in life i think. i am thinking about them again #also i think about farrah clark and annleigh game night a lot i want farrah and clark to be friends okay #watt #we are the tigers #watt farrah #watt clark #watt annleigh #watt cairo #watt riley #watt mattie #watt reese #watt kate #watt chess #chess watt #watt eva #eva sanchez #mattie wheeler #annleigh o'daniel #riley williams #ask to tag

[kitkat404]

❤️🧡

what’d you expect from me

I shoulda known if anyone was gonna ask for cheerwives it would be you Oll, so here ya go!

Similar to Kate and Ches, they’re always having sleepovers (pillow fights are necessary for the full experience)

Riley’s parents are never home so she likes going over to Cairo’s house for dinner, the Adekoya’s are so used to it that Riley has her own designated spot at the meal table

They drive to Starbucks and get tea after practice, every time, no exceptions

Cairo likes to steal Riley’s bow from time to time, she’ll just walk by and pluck it right off her ponytail, Riley pretends to be annoyed but she secretly loves seeing Cairo clip it into her own hair (to Riley it’s like the equivalent of having your girlfriend wear your clothes)

They’ve been going to the same summer cheer camp since 6th grade, they had their first kiss (and many other kisses) while canoeing

BONUS KATEVA BECAUSE I FORGOT TO PUT IT IN THE OTHER POST

Eva loves stealing Kate’s hats, she’ll just grab it off her head and run away, and Kate both loves and hates it, she hates that it messes up her hair and also because she just likes her hats, but she loves the big smile that Eva gets whenever she does it, and loves hearing her laugh as she runs away (and also loves hearing her shriek when Kate inevitably catches up)

#we are the tigers #we are the tigers headcanons #cairo we are the tigers #riley we are the tigers #cairo adekoya #riley williams #cheerwives

[starstaiined]

we are the tigers

FARRAH: unhealthy coping mechanisms, desperately wants connections and people to notice she’s struggling, self destructive, needs to look after herself for the love of god ; mmmm well i think the choice of @annleighstidestick is obvious

CHESS: always wants to be the best, Gifted Kid BurnoutTM, tries to keep positive, puts up a front, difficulty askingfor help or accepting criticism, won’t admit that she needs help, someone please give her a hug for the love of god ; we’ll give this title to cami @camismulti

CLARK: golden retriever boy, adorkable, very devoted, kind hearted, patient, deserved a Lot better lmao ; leo , @eousins

ANNLEIGH: responsible, doesn’t like change very much, can come off as cold but has a very warm center, incredibly defensive of the people she loves ; bel has always given me annleigh vibes @oh-boleyn

KATE: Feisty, not afraid to back down, sarcastic at times, loyal to a fault, puts up walls to protect herself, Abandonment IssuesTM, hardworking, protective ; mmm we’ll give this to louis @kinglouisthefourteenth

CAIRO: badass, critical on the outside but soft on the inside, sharp tongue, rules over every room she walks into: vi, my beloved older sister, you get cai @choiicesmade

REESE: wants to be accepted, quirky, driven, talented and often overlooked, deserves all the love, literally such an icon, humor to fend off negative feelings, probably loves puns; @aveasorae auds my punny partner in crime

MATTIE: innocent, wide eyed, trusting, wants to fit in so badly, willing to go to any length to make it happen, often gets the short end of the stick, forgiving, truly a smol bean ; oh this has mimi vibes @historianadora

RILEY: PerfectionistTM, will go to any extreme in order to accomplish her goals, does not handle things well, consistently on the verge of a BreakdownTM ;  well given that your performance of the breakdown is my fav, i think i will give you this spot 

EVA: has no idea what’s going on at any given point, tiredTM, just trying to get ahead as best as she can, the only one who has her shit together lmao ; riles my beloved you get eva @lukepttrsn

#IGNORE THIS #IM EDITING IT RIGHT NOW #IM AN IDIOT AND PUBLISHED BEFORE IT WAS READY #okay there we go #this is harder than i thought :o #but i am making an attempt #i will need the Time #answers #where you lead ; madi

[i-want-anne-hathaway]

WATT as Things I’ve Said pt. 6

I’m still going, bitches

———

Annleigh: I’m going to the store to get some rum cake

Farrah: Ooh, rum

———

Riley: I TRUSTED YOU

Cairo: NO! WHY?! THAT WAS YOUR FIRST MISTAKE

Riley: HOW WAS I TO KNOW THAT YOU WERE TOO STUPID TO KNOW YOU COULD MAKE A U-TURN AND THAT INSTEAD YOU WERE GOING TO STOP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD

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Farrah: Is this sour cream still good?

Farrah:

Farrah: Well, God did say “YOLO” so-

Annleigh: What the fuck

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Reese: What do you mean the word limit is 2500?? How do you write a slowburn in 2500 words??

Mattie: S P E E D R U N

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Cairo: I AM BEING READ A MANGA ABOUT AMONG US STREAMERS, I HATE THIS FUCKING FAMILY

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Annleigh: My mom just asked me if I had any gay friends

Kate: I’M TRYING SO HARD TO MAKE IT OBVIOUS

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Mattie: Eva always looks so stoic and calm

Mattie: I wonder what she’s thinking about all the time

Eva internally: YE, SCURT, YEET, SCURT, ROLL UP, DROP THAT, SCURT THAT, POP THAT, AY AY AY AY, YOU NEVER LOVED ME MOM, BUT I NEEDED YOU WOAH

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Kate: So Eva asked me to watch The Prom movie with her because she’s on vacation and is bored. But you see we are clearly at school.

Cairo: Please tell me you didn’t skip school to watch a movie you’ve already seen two times

Kate: I didn’t skip school to watch a movie I’ve already seen two times.

Cairo: Good

Kate: I’ve seen it three times

———

The teacher: So Juliet has no idea what’s going on

Cairo: Dumbass bitch

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Kate: Before I go see The Prom, does anybody want to admit they have a crush on me

Eva: Welp

Kate: WELP?!

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Kate: You did not just compare Nick Wilde to Maria Reynolds

Farrah: Okay, heAR ME OUT

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Reese: I feel really bad for Mary Lincoln. She lost so many people in her life

Cairo:

Cairo: Ain’t she the crazy lady who jumped out of a window

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Teacher: The more you guys unmute yourselves and talk during class, the less homework you’ll have

Kate: So are you saying that if I argue with Cairo all class we won’t have any homework?

Teacher: No-

Kate: Because I’ll do it

———

Them doing interactive lessons in history

Kate: I think it’s worth pointing out that I’m pretty sure John Wilkes Booth is cheating on his wife

Cairo: Okay, but I know you’re cheating on your wife because my mistress’s sister is your mistress. Check and mate

Annleigh: Or you could just not cheat on your wife

()

Reese: I would like to point out that Mary Lincoln’s “proof” that I shot Lincoln is useless because she’s insane

Annleigh: YOU JUMPED IN FRONT OF A CROWD OF PEOPLE AFTER KILLING MY HUSBAND??

()

Farrah: Are we gonna talk about how Atzerodt is mad suspicious

Riley: YOU’RE DEAD, FARRAH, STAY OUT OF THIS

Farrah: YOU’RE TRYING TO KILL THE PRESIDENT??

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#we are the tigers #watt #i have way too kuch fun with these #tw murder mention #i love how most of this is just me in class being chaotic #if i missed any triggers let me know

[highkey-lowkey-as-hell]

Ooh that Percy Jackson au looks cool! :0 Do you mind expanding on it?

ok ok ok so most of those aus have the watt characters in those universes but this one has the pjo kids in the watt universe!! it's kinda been awhile ajdnsnsjf but i think i had

riley - silena

cairo - clarisse

chess - annabeth

kate - thalia

farrah - nico

annleigh - hazel

reese - leo

mattie - will

eva - reyna

clark - frank

so basically, silena, a senior, is the new captain of the goode high school cheer team, which is widely known as the worst team ever. she's hosting the annual sleepover, but it's not going well. the cheer team consists of silena's best friend clarisse, also a senior; annabeth, a senior, who was almost an olympian but a knee injury forced her to drop out; thalia, a junior, annabeth's best friend who's a little bit in love with her but in denial about it; hazel, a junior, a very religious girl who's always babysitting her stepbrother; nico, a sophomore, hazel's stepbrother who's an alcoholic; will, a freshman, who's new to the team this year; and leo, a senior, the mascot who's dreamed about being on the team for years but has never made it on.

last year, at a game, during a stunt, annabeth was high on the painkillers for her knee and dropped nico. the failed stunt was recorded, and it still haunts the team to this day.

after introductions, the group plays truth or dare, and silena can tell the sleepover isn't going well - clarisse dared will to drink from nico's "water" bottle, hazel is upset about clarisse's unsolicited co-captain comment, and when nico and thalia get into a fight and thalia storms out of the basement, silena is backed into a corner. in the meantime, thalia admits to her fear of annabeth forgetting about her once she's in college, but after finding annabeth's bottle of pills, is furious and leaves her out there alone. nico tries to apologise to hazel, who snuck her phone away and is texting her boyfriend, but accidentally breaks her phone, and hazel also storms off. annabeth is just about to go find thalia and say they can leave when someone appears from nowhere and kills her.

hazel retreats to silena's kitchen, trying to get her phone to turn on, but it won't. someone surprises her in the kitchen, and she's overjoyed to see her boyfriend, frank. they kiss and talk, and he proposes unexpectedly, but then clarisse shouts hazel's name and frank hides in the pantry. the doorbell rings, and hazel and clarisse go to answer it, while frank sneaks out.

the doorbell is the pizza delivery girl, reyna, the captain of west high school's cheer team and the highest ranked flyer in the state. clarisse recognizes her, and reyna doesn't handle the conversation as well as she could've, and leaves awkwardly. hazel and clarisse go down to the basement, and clarisse tells silena who answered the door, and she gets excited and shows will a video of reyna from last year. while silena tells will about what it's like to be a cheerleader, leo watches from the corner and laments the fact that he's never been allowed on the team. thalia comes back down to the basement without annabeth, and clarisse teases her about her feelings for annabeth. silena asks leo to go find annabeth and nico, but leo has just barely left the basement when will rushes into the bathroom and pukes.

nico, upstairs, is also puking. leo finds him, and asks if he's okay, and maybe he should go get hazel? but nico says no, hazel hates him. they talk for a bit, but nico accidentally fucks up and says the wrong thing, and leo leaves the bathroom. nico stares at himself in the mirror and hates that this is his life, and resolves to get better, but someone barges through the door and kills him just moments after he makes the decision.

back in the basement, leo comes downstairs, pretending he didn't find nico and actually having not found annabeth. thalia asks about annabeth, and clarisse keeps teasing her and joking that they're a couple, which silena overhears. silena comes downstairs and tells thalia she's "welcome here in whatever color of the rainbow with which she identifies," and thalia is horrified and storms out of the basement to go find annabeth so they can leave. will, who's drunk from whatever was in nico's water bottle, comes out of the bathroom after hitting his head, and his entire face is covered in blood. silena goes up to find a first aid kit in the kitchen and clarisse follows her, and they argue over who's done more for the other. they're about to go back downstairs when they hear thalia scream from outside - leo almost follows the scream, but he's holding a bloody rag from will hitting his head and goes to find somewhere to get rid of it.

outside, thalia has found annabeth dead on the bench and is desperately trying to stop the bleeding. silena goes back into the house to try to find the phones, but the phones are gone. thalia tries to say that annabeth needs help, but then they hear a scream from inside.

in the meantime, leo heard a scream from the bathroom and runs to find nico. he goes in the bathroom and finds nico's body in the shower, and screams. frank hears the scream and comes running, surprising leo - the lights are off and leo can't see, so he hits the intruder with the showerhead and frank falls to the ground. leo turns on the light and realizes who it is, but when frank won't get up, leo realizes he accidentally killed him. right then, silena, clarisse, thalia, and hazel come in and find leo with the dead bodies, and leo immediately pretends frank was already dead when he got there. they all go back down to the basement, but clarisse doesn't want the team to go viral again and convinces them all to blame will.

onto act 2!!!!!

will, in prison, laments how much his life FUCKING SUCKS NOW, but there's nothing he can do about it, even though he really doesn't think he killed nico, annabeth, and frank.

silena is holding a second practice at the beginning of second semester. thalia shows up, and then leo does, and he reveals he's on the team now! they see hazel, and when asked if she's okay, hazel says frank and nico were sleeping together and "got what they deserved." thalia tries to argue with her, but hazel won't hear a word about it. reyna shows up at the door - silena arranged a scholarship for her to transfer to goode and take nico's place. clarisse demands to know what she's doing here, and she explains that she took the scholarship because goode has an awesome science program and she's looking to go into something sciencey. silena comes out and welcomes all of them back into the house - thalia stops reyna and compliments her pride pin and they introduce themselves. clarisse and silena argue a little, but silena has resolved to put the murders behind them and move on.

thalia is upset that they're all just moving on like nico and annabeth never existed, especially when they all know will didn't kill anyone, and after fighting again with silena and clarisse, she storms out of the basement to call the police and try to get will out of prison. hazel hears frank's voice and follows thalia, and the two of them think about their lost loved ones and how hard it is to move on.

outside, leo comes to thalia and tells her that she can't go to the cops and admits to killing frank on accident, but swears he doesn't know who killed nico and annabeth. hazel overhears and is furious and physically attacks leo, and thalia jumps out of the way onto the bench. silena and clarisse come up, too, and the three of them try to separate hazel and leo. reyna watches and wonders if transferring to goode high is really worth it - the science program is nice, and she really doesn't miss her old school, but these kids are absolutely insane. she resolves to shut up and cheer and stay out of the other kids' way, and she can just get into the science program and keep her head down.

they all go back downstairs to get their things, but silena discovers the basement door is locked, and the wifi suddenly stops working (there's no cell service in the basement). thalia, clarisse, hazel, and leo fight over who killed nico and annabeth, while silena looks for a key and reyna questions how the hell she got herself into this situation. eventually, silena becomes agitated and reveals that she's the one who killed nico and annabeth, because they were bringing the team down. the others try to calm her down, but she pulls a knife on them. thalia tries to knock her out with a weight, but silena catches her and stabs her in the thigh and nearly kills her, saying thalia is so good but she's so fucking annoying, but leo grabs the weight and knocks her out. reyna helps thalia with the stab wound, leo and clarisse tie silena up, and hazel finds a landline and calls the police. silena says the police won't believe them, but reyna reveals that she recorded silena's entire confession on her phone, and silena is arrested.

an unspecified amount of time later, the team returns to the gym. leo, thalia, clarisse, and hazel all have community service for being accessories to the crime, clarisse is captain, will is out of prison and rejoined the team, and reyna and thalia have started dating. they resolve to all try to heal, even if it's hard, and they don't have a happy ending but it's a hopeful ending!!!!!

i might try and write this eventually? i have a long to-write list but i'm really attached to this one-

#we are the tigers #percy jackson and the olympians #heroes of olympus #silena beauregard #clarisse la rue #thalia grace #annabeth chase #nico di angelo #hazel levesque #will solace #leo valdez #frank zhang #clarisse x silena #tw murder #murder tw #death tw #drugs tw #alcohol tw #addiction tw #knife tw #ask to tag #reyna avila ramirez arellano

[thewhizzyhead]

you very much Should Keep going (if you’d like) I’m reading your tags like 👀👀👀 I wanna know More!!!

dude believe me i only just thought up 90% 9f this while doing my math homework last night so yea this is very barebones and this is very very new have very little to offer but um imma try to explain a bit more fjdjdc SO ANYWAYS GRADE 11

Warning: this is very long and I am very sorry aaAAAA also i only just thought of this last night and a while ago while attending class so um yea it's chaotic.

the songs i've mentioned so far in the tag ramble aren't um consecutive so yeah there are a lot of blank spaces in between fjsjsj and yea I haven't figured out the other leads and their arcs yet (probably 5-6 leads). for now um the planned songs feature 3 of the leads:

Kate - basically answers the question of What If Eva Sanchez Was The Protagonist and What If Eva Sanchez Saw The Hell That Is Don't Even (in this show, this song is called "Anakpota?" or "The Fuck?"); she's a transferee and is having a bit of a hard time adjusting to the new school environment; her reasons for transferring run a bit deeper than just "humanities is a lot more interesting than stem or business shits"; i guess her main character themes are burnout, the want for childlike wonder again and overcoming the fear that comes with chasing what you really want and no i am definitely not self projecting what are you guys talking about smh rhhdhs /hj (altho i admit that this is loosely based on my own experience with deciding to transfer schools) and yea she's a very closeted lesbian that slowly starts to comes out to others and to herself more throughout the course of the show. and also she gets a girlfriend YAY

Noel - rn i don't have that much planned out for him cause u know barebones plot but so far um i guess he's the chill dude, overall good guy, rantaro amami from danganronpa v3 vibes, and he's initially framed as the "love interest" for Kate esp in the song "Ikaw Ba Ay..." or "Are You..." (i wanted that to be a play on the typical Filipino Teen Hetero Romance CAUSE THAT SHIT IS IN EVERYWHERE JFJSJD I AM GONNA MAKE A WHOLEASS RANT ON THAT SOON AND NOBODY CAN STOP ME) but surprise motherfucker BOTH OF THEM ARE GAY AND BOTH BOND OVER IT AND BECOME BEST FRIENDS YAY WOOOO i kinda want him to be like the typical "Filipino Teen Heartthrob" star student with the twist being that he's gay and not make that a throwaway joke cause um yea that's a throwaway joke here that someone who is real catch for the heteros but is actually gay is "sayang" or "worthless" here.

Ella - ngl she is probably gonna end up as the main lead here fjdjd i'd say she has riley+chess vibes aka The School's Hotshot Achiever and Student Leader That Is Very Intimidating But Is Actually Really Freaking Kind and i guess with a dash of Kate Dalton-ish snark. Like i said the plot is barebones rn so i dunno anything but i do imagine them being the one that drives the plot forward due to her outspokenness. I also imagine her to be the one (along with Noel) that makes Kate a lil bit more comfortable with her sexuality and yup you guessed it Ella is gay too (bi to be specific oh and she uses she/they pronouns) and altho still a bit closeted, they're a bit more comfy with it. also they become Kate's gf yay!

those are the leads that i have kinda planned out so far but yea i still gotta expound kna lot of atuff and make up more leads for this but then again i just started conceptualizing this last night so ANYWAYS HERE ARE THE OTHERS SONGS THAT I LITERALLY JUST THOUGHT UP LAST NIGHT (aside from the ones already mentioned)

+ "Nakakapanibago" or "Well This Is New" - Ella and Kate work together on a school project aaand gay panic ensues. both of them take turns in addressing the audience and panicking over each other in um er an "Oh My God She's Very Fucking Cute What The Fuck" way. it kinda has What Is This Feeling from Wicked vibes if you remove the aggression and antagonization jdjsd and i kinda emphasize on how overwhelmed they are cause for Kate, everything - from the school to the subjects to the people - is new and her attraction to Ella is like a cherry bomb on top of a chaos cake while for Ella, who has studied in the school since kindergarten which is why nothing about the school fazes her anymore, Kate is a literal breath of fresh air and the spontaneity scares them and excites them at the same time. The number is comedic (and is chance for me to add a shit ton of wordplay cause yAY WORDPLAY) but i guess also hints at their fears which will definitely come into play later.

+ "Mabuting Laban" or "Good Fight" - a group number led by Ella, this is the first song in the musical that isn't mostly comedic. like um the musical so far (before this song) is mostly somewhat of a parody-just-for-laughs-don't-take-this-seriously piece but with this, the show finally hints to something a lot more serious and insightful. so basically ella tells kate (this scene comes right after the Nakakapanibago sequence) that they have noticed that the latter is um very very shocked at the blatant show of LGBTQ+ stuff. Kate mentions that altho many students have since then spoke up for LGBTQ+ acceptance, things were a lot more conservative back in her former school (once again wooo definitely not self projection /hj) so like seeing all this is very new to her. Ella then mentions that things weren't always like that - a lot of fighting had to be done in order to get to that point. and because most of the students already were branded with a rebellious reputation (for a lot of delinquent behavior), they really didn't give a fuck anymore if they were being controversial or not. What mattered was that they would make the school environment a lot more welcoming for themselves and for others. That sentiment is also shared by other leads singing along as they go out of their way to ensure a much better environment for everyone (in terms of lgbtq+ rights, undoing the stigmatization of mental health matters, student activism yadda yadda)

(oh and also this kinda serves as something that bridges the prejudices between the two schools since Ella's school is famous for a lot of student delinquency while Kate's former school is famous for being known as the "Best School In The Region With The Best Students" (which is why Ella understands why the students in Kate's school are a bit more hesitant to speak up because Kate's former schoolmates got way too much to lose) and the rivalry those schools have with each other cause students from ella's school think those from kate's school are pompous little shits while those from kate's school think that ella's schoolmates are delinquents and yes this is commentary on the dynamic my former school'scstudents and my current school's students share) (i should probably give this its own song)

+ "Ayoko" or " I Don't Want It" - (this does not come right after Mabuting Laban fjsjd i honestly dunno where to put this) this comes right after a conversation regarding her reputation in her former school and yea this is Kate poking fun at the "I Want" song musical trope. Like um she addresses the audience saying something along the lines of "oooohh wow complicated backstory exposition! you are probably expecting a song rn ala "How Far I'll Go" from Moana but guess what bitches fuck you all cause i'm gonna sing a song about the things I don't want just to fucking annoy you." it starts off as incredibly satirical and um Kate Dalton-vibes all throughout the scene with lots of pettiness which will then gradually transition to her singing about how she threw all the opportunities presented to her by the former school just because she really didn't want to do them and was tired of saying "yes" just to be enough for them. She then starts singing about her taking control of her own narrative by finally leaving the school. She still laments about those lost opportunities and admits that she still kinda wants to pursue those, but if she has to sacrifice rest for greatness, then she doesn't want it. The song ends with a verse akin to most I Want songs as she finally admits what she really wants the most: rest and wonder.

also here's a verse i made up just a while ago

Diyos ko, sabihin mo, ano pa ang kailangan kong gawin/upang mabawi ang mga ninakaw sa akin/upang maibalik ang pag-asang nawala/upang sa wakas ako'y makakapagpahinga/sapagkat hindi na ako nagnanais ng kadakilaan/ang hinihingi ko lamang ay ang aking kabataan

translation (i'll try my best to make it rhyme): My God, tell me, what else do i have to do/so I can take back all that they have taken from me/so that I can bring back the hope I've long so been deprived of/so that for once in my life, I'll be able to breathe/ cause I no longer want all the greatness that you say I could've had/ I only want to wonder, I only want my childhood back

+ "Halos Lagi Nalang"or "Almost Always The Same" - if this sounds familiar yes i rambled about this before gjdjdjd I started conceptualizing this song even before i even started conceptualizing the musical. So yea this is in Act 2 the song starts with mentioning the exhaustion that comes with being an LGBTQ+ teen in the philippines cause yup same old conservative religious bullshit same old same old shit and despite many a lot of people advocating for LGBTQ+ rights, nothing ever changes around here because well conservative religious bullshit. so yea this is kind of an extension of "Good Fight" but make it more about the burnout felt by a lot of teens that want something better than whatever we have right now. Then it will also apply to the other causes that the leads fight for (activism,destigmatization of mental health stuffs, etc). I'd say it's a combination of Before the Breakdown + Move On musically speaking (yea PMA has influenced me by a LOT). eventually this becomes one of the star numbers fo the show cause yea all the leads will do a shit ton of singing and harmonizing (but for here i'd say Noel and Kate have a tiny bit more of the spotlight since for now they are the ones with the very LGBTQ+ based plotlines). I really REEAAALLY want this song to work aaaa i've been playing around with the melody a lot recently and if i can't write the whole musical, then i'll be content with at the very least writing this song

+ "Try Lang Natin" or "Let's Try It Out" - this is a very barebones sequence atm but basically it's a scene where both Kate and Ella come to terms with their fears related to uncertainty and go "fuck it we don't know jackshit about the future anyway so why not ondulge a bit and ejoy what we have today" and decide to start going out with each other YAYYYYY and also this is like one of the few scenes here were Ella is much more visibly nervous compared to everyone else in the scene so yay for helping each other come to terms with their own vulnerabilities WOOOOO (also paige i remember you saying once that kate and eva could've had a Forever reprise duet right? And correct me if i'm wrong but i think u said it could be about eva assuring kate that she won't go anywhere? WELP I'M STEALING THAT JFJSJJDF /lh /hj AND YUP KATE AND ELLA ARE BASICALLY UM KINDA KATEVA IF YOU SQUINT SO THANK YOU PAIGE FOR THAT IDEAAAA)

AND THAT'S IT SO FAR WOO THIS TOOK ME 5 HOURS TO TYPE IT ALL OUT FJDJSJFF i'm kinda impressed with this ngl considering that i literally started making this up last night and i hope that i can make something out of it woo

And if you guys somehow reached the end of the post and have read every single thing, I'm sending you a lot of hugs and a lot of milkshakes

#paige i am so so sorry it took a long time and i am so sorry that the response is VERY VERY LONG DJXJS #but i hope you liked it! #the ask cheered me up btw fjsjx like i wasnt expecting anyone to be interested but then u sent the ask and YAY KRKDJ #if anyone has any questions or comments or anythjng then um feel free to um hit me up with them YAYYYYY #okay to rb btw if you wanna express ur opinions in the tags #i like hearing other people's opinions on my rambles so feel free to do so if you wanna #thanks for the ask paigeee #paige! (literally riley) #ask me stuff #hmm i should make a tag for this #Izzy's rambles and shit #yea that

[ghostlypawn]

im just gonna babble about riley n cairo okay? okay. its mostly from cairos perspective. its 3am this could be garbage mama idk.

we all know that cairo and riley knew eachother since they were babies and grew up together,, like the spent every minute they could with eachother. as time went on they began to drift yet still call eachother friends simply because they dont have anyone else. they know everything about eachother from their favourite colour to deep secrets about their insecurities. their lives revolve around eachother so much that they dont know what life would be like without the other. they began to drift a lot when riley got on the cheerteam as a freshman,, riley for once has a interest that cairo didnt and she liked it. cairo however didnt; she felt scared and angry due to the unknown of the future, she relied so much on riley and now all her time was spent cheerleading which left cai alone. she made ‘friends’ with others but could never fill the hole that riley left; those friends led her to parties where she would get drunk to forget riley for a few hours. she would over-use socials to almost prove to herself that she did have friends other than riley and she could survive without her. she still remained friends with riley during the school day (they sat next to eachother in every non-designated seat class) but would find herself getting angry when riley had to practise at lunch/after school ultimately leaving her alone). sometimes people would make fun of rileys commitment to cheer which led to fights in the hallways after someone made a snide comment about her bow (though she’d never tell riley the actual reason for the fights). 

riley saw this change in cairo and ultimately felt bad for her, this was the girl who had helped her through middle school breakdowns and her first freshman year break-up which led to riley asking cairo to join the team. when riley proposed it to cairo she couldnt help but breakdown. she thought riley had started to forget about her. she felt stupid for wanting riley to be such a big part of her life but she truly doesnt know how to be without her, nonetheless she vowed to herself that she would try to become her own person. riley said that she’d always be by cairo’s side. as the years went on riley kept her focus on training to be captain whilst cairo kept up her social presence which ultimately led to her being crowned prom princess. she didnt enjoy cheerleading but kept to it to keep riley in her life. riley started to rely less and less on cairo which cairo noticed when riley didnt have a complete breakdown over the viral stunt (she was upset and disgruntled but not the the extent that cairo expected from her). she wasnt sure if it was because riley had become happier in life and didnt need help or it was because she didnt trust her but cairo reciprocated the action by bottling up her feelings instead of sharing them with riley. 

when riley became captain, cairo found out by a social media post. what she didnt expect was riley asking for cairos help preparing for the sleepover; cairo thought that mayb the old riley had come back now that she’d gotten what she wanted: to be captain. cairo obviously said yes and went to her house with the mentality of ‘act like it was before as if nothing happened and we remained close throughout the years’. she starts to feel happy and pokes fun at the viral video bc she thinks riley isnt overly bothered about it and she feels like her old self. its only when everyone arrives and riley gives her welcome speech that she realises this isnt gonna be like old times and riley is gonna be the kinda cheer-focused captain go-getter she turned into over the years. she, however, tries to make this fun for everyone (aka truth or dare) but riley is not about that and just wants to get on with the cheering. cairo spends all night trying to cater to rileys needs (finding annleigh, getting the pizza, being the first to put her phone away etc.) but riley doesnt notice or seem to care. in fact the only time riley doesnt talk about cheer is when shes talking about eva; which we know cairo isnt the happiest about,, she just wants riley to appreciate her like she does eva. i think at this point we start to truly notice cairos urge for a friendship with meaning because she begins to obsess over kate/chess (”trouble in paradise” she quips knowing full well its her and riley who’s having trouble). enter mattie covered in blood: cairo notices riley’s warning signs to her freakout so she follows her out. this is when cairo verbally mentions that she doesnt like the way riley treats her to which riley brushes her off because at this point she has no feelings for cairo and is only keeping her around because she has no one else. the defense scene is the last attempt and cairo holding onto the shred of their friendship hoping that if she can do this then she’s still of worth to riley and worth her time (and obviously it works,, kinda)

we know that cairo tried to contact her after that night to which riley straight up ignored her. she just wanted to know if riley was coping well and if they were going to rely on eachother during this hard time. she never knew how riley was dealing bc she ignored her but at least she knew she was in this alone. this was when she began to overthink that night, all the possible scenarios that couldve played out and all the culprits. she came up with many possible answers but the feeling in her gut was telling her it was the one she least wanted it to be. none of her previous ‘friends’ like her anymore after that night and dont want to be involved with the girl who was apart of the murder squad. when she finds out evas on the team her first thought is that this is truly the end of her friendship and shes going to be replaced by eva. but when she sees the state rileys in her heart cant help but feel bad for the girl knowing shes not in the best state of mind. and we see her try to comfort her throughout phoenix. (“you dont have a relationship with chess, kate” she cries subconciously knowing that, although very different circumstances, her relationship with riley is also dead and gone). at this point she only had herself to look out for so she gets super defensive when kate says shes going to the police and kinda threatened eva. then we get to the scene where cairo suggests that riley wouldve been blamed and rileys first instinct is to go no they wouldve blamed you; cairo sounds so hurt when she says this bc this is the moment she realises that riley has zero trust in her and riley has changed and outgrown their friendship. she cant even fathom the girl who she helped all throughout the years and the girl who helped her would blame her without reasonable suspicion. she tries to work out why riley is just letting this slide bc it just Doesnt make sense to her and the perfectionist captain riley she knew. for a short moment her thoughts go flying and before she knows it shes accusing everyone and everyone because it CANT be riley it just CANT. but when riley begins to breakdown she just knows that her gut feeling was right and it tears her apart to think that if theyd stayed closer friends this couldve been prevented,, if perhaps cairo still relied on riley then she would realise that cairo was there for her too but it doesnt matter bc its too late for that so she doesnt what she knows best and tries to deesculate rileys breakdown. she hates to admit that she misses riley sometimes and is scared that she will forever but she still goes on one day at a time becoming a better person than she couldve been if riley had still been in her life.

bonus: i like to think that due to their closeness they did harbour some romantic feelings during their middle school years however they didnt actually realise they were in love it was just what they knew/thought all friendships were like that. it wasnt until high school when they would think back on those memories that they realised perhaps there was something there but it doesnt matter now because theyve became too seperated for it to be anything.

#we are the tigers #hcs #<- more analysis but yolo