#steal big steal little 1995

[angel-maldonado-enthusiast]

Steal Big Steal Little (1995), dir. Andrew Davis.

#steal big steal little #steal big steal little 1995 #1990s #andy garcia #andrew davis #holland taylor #joe pantoliano #ally walker

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

tuesday again 9/5/2023

moving closer to your best friend means hanging out in big groups a lot of the time. while this is theoretically good for mental health or whatever, in practice i overextended myself this weekend and am going to wake up tomorrow with the mental equivalent of a sore lower back

listening (2x bonus)

very fond of måneskin's new single HONEY (ARE U COMING?). sonically different from their other stuff, lyrics and tone-wise another incredible sad banger! spotify

my sister viewed the film Party Girl (1995, dir. von Scherler Mayer) last week at a party in philly and sent me this song featured in the film with no further explanation. Double Cross by First Choice (a Larry Levan remix) has what i want to call bollywood strings, a flute, and the funkiest bassline backing up some really classic disco vocals. First Choice were a group out of philly, which no one at the party knew at the time, and this blog calls this specific remix "dancefloor soul" which is probably as good a descriptor as any. i have had it on loop for a solid week. lyrics include

Love stealing, double dealing, two-timing lowdown son of a gun

which is just so much fucking fun to sing in the car. spotify

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reading (2x bonus here also)

i read the mandalorian comics in between volumes of berserk, which feels a bit like saying i took a break from watching the evil dead franchise to watch some cocomelon.

the mandalorian comics are a remarkably uninspired nearly shot by shot breakdown of the episodes. not in the way most film/tv comics are, where they’re very clearly traced screencaps, but screenshots redrawn. this would be interesting if the artist was not contractually obliged to the very flat marvel comics style. i am constantly reminded of how the mandalorian is simply…not very good. it’s entertaining as a spectacle of television to watch, but there are not a lot of fun ideas in there. something that made me fucking scream with laughter are these panels of baby yoda

pápá, your son is So high

back to the other series with a dark haired, roaming, grouchy, reserved man on a mission. unfortunately i don't have a lot of berserk thoughts just yet, i am waiting on vol 4 to come off my library holds and my brain is still digesting it. anyway i think not wanting random "friendly" embraces from strangers is a very reasonable thing for guts to dislike and i truly do not understand why ppl in-universe get so fucking offended. unfortunately reading these late at night did lead to an unpleasant sleep experience.

bitches love a fucked up interior space that can't ever actually exist (it's me i'm bitches)

not to be all therapeutic but im trying to be Curious About and Gently Interrogate why i get a real bee in my bonnet once a year to read some horror comics/manga when i am big squeamish baby about film depictions of those things. i think mostly bc comics gore is so much more stylized than some of the very effective practical and cgi effects? and crucially nothing is actually like writhing around on screen it’s a still image? does anyone else’s brain have a much easier time handling still images over moving images of gore? much to consider

as with many other things, me reading berserk is indirectly @dying-suffering-french-stalkers ' fault

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watching

i have viewed the first four episodes of Fire Force, the urban fantasy mercenary firefighter anime and do not think i will be continuing. while i have a great many questions about the worldbuilding (gravitational anomalies?? genetic predisposition to spontaneous human combustion?? solar god nuns??) it has a dead mom plot, which i am allergic to. this is also a 7.5-8 on the Ass part of the Weeb Ass Shit scale, and has a lot more casual assault than i try to encounter in anime. it's by the soul eater guy, remember the level of Stuff going on in soul eater? a little bit more ramped up groping and stuff that makes me say out loud "wow i don't like this" than soul eater.

the animation re: aforementioned fire is really top notch tho. visually complex and interesting television program.

how i found this: me and my best friend and my best friend's husband morosely poking around the anime section on hulu, looking for something to fill the spy x family void. this ain't it tho

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playing

i have no fun genshin tidbits to share bc i am grinding talent mats while catching up with the podcast episodes of the road to partizan and i don’t have much to say about the not-fun parts of gachas. why am i playing something if it’s not inherently fun? great fucking question

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making (3rd 2x bonus)

very uninspired (derivative, even) abbreviated sofrito thing over rice. with heavy application of Worcestershire sauce it was fine. no pics

also i finally bought a couch bc salvation army had 50% off everything for Labor Day. this is a question of ethics vs money i have decided for myself, and encourage you, the reader, to go off and quietly make your own philosophical choices without explaining them to me in detail.

it will be arriving on friday bc that is when the strapping young men who own trucks are available. my front door is a very non standard size and i have a very awkward front stair, so i needed something that could fit under the overhang while standing on its end. this one was the best size and (fortunately) the cheapest at $150. it is some sort of extremely flammable early polyester and 100% has a grandma’s soul trapped within its fibers. i will probably buy a cover at some later date to deter miss macaron but in the meantime we will do the strips of brown painters tape, which does successfully deter her. this really really does not want to be steamed so i will also be procuring some chemicals.

here are some other couches i could have bought but didn’t.

#tuesday again #tuesday again no problem

[blowflyfag]

WORLD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT/FEDERATION MAGAZINE: OCTOBER 1996

EL SID! 

THE POTENTIAL IS ABOUT TO BE TAPPED

By Vince Russo

In the early 1990s I just didn’t buy it. This man didn’t belong in anyone’s shadow. Especially a champion who had by far seen his better days. In my opinion, I will always view WrestleMania VIII as a disappointment. It should have been Sid's day… Sid’s year… and Sid’s era. Instead, a voodoo man, a Warrior, and immaturity crashed and ruined his party, thus forcing him almost into obscurity.

In 1992, at WrestleMania VIII, Sid Eudy should’ve, would’ve and could’ve beat Hulk Hogan. He was bigger, stronger, faster and smarter than the then champion. Unfortunately, in his own words, he was not ready for the “big time”. A hometown boy from Arkansas, Sid was not quite prepared for the lights, cameras and action of the World Wrestling Federation. As a matter of fact, before a deserved rematch could have even be issued, Sid had already packed his bags and headed back to “Razorback Country”.

After some extensive soul searching, a more grown-up, seasoned Sid made his comeback to the World Wrestling Federation three years later in 1995. Little did he know that the hurdle that would stand in his way this time was not himself, but rather something that would be far beyond his control. His “greenery” was small potatoes when compared to the professional jealousy that Sid would have to overcome in order to get to the place he wanted to be… the top. Kids, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again–WRESTLING = SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT = BIG BUSINESS = POLITICS and with politics comes jockeying for position. Yes, there are many Willie Shoemakers at TitanSports, both outside…and INSIDE the ring. When Sid made his long awaited return, those who ruled the ring at the time may have been intimidated by him… in more ways than one. He was the new kid on the block, not to mention the new “BIGGER” kid. Fans immediately began cheering him because he was “cool,” and that became threatening to many of his peers. I was at Monday Night Raw in Macon, Georgia, on  February 20, 1995, when Sid debuted as the new bodyguard of Shawn Michaels. To say the place became an asylum would be an understatement! When Sid made his way down that aisle, the patients went beyond CRAZY! They ripped off their strait-jackets and got ready to rock! 

Folks, to certain individuals–THIS WAS NOT GOOD.

“Warning, warning, Will Robionson. An intruder is looking to steal our spotlight!” That’s right, IN MY OPINION, a certain number of Sid’s peers may have been shaking in their boots. If Eudy were, by chance, to become more popular than them, it would be devastating… devastating to their egos, of course, NOT to the business as a whole! So, in more ways than one, they saw to it that Sid was buried. And, buried he was. Left out to rot… fossilize… chum for the maggots.

For the next six months, Sid would lie low. IN MY OPINION, he had become a victim of “circumstance”. For understandable reasons, he may have become sour with the business. The politics seemed to have pushed him into the “could have been” category. He even went so far as to announce his retirement from the squared circle. If this truly was the case, then it would be nothing short of a tragedy. A wasteful loss not only to the World Wrestling Federation, but to the business as a whole. 

But wait, at the end of the tunnel you could hear the firing of a match. Yes, there was light.

The balance of power shifted among the ranks of the World Wrestling Federation, largely due to the almighty buck. Those who may have buried Sid earlier were not being buried themselves in a gushing flood of undeserving greenbacks. Remember, those who tore Sid down behind his back said it was for the “good of the company”. Well, my question is, “Where was the ‘good of the company’ when you were negotiating behind the boss’ back?!”

You  know what, scratch that. I’m not going to get up on my soapbox because that is not what this commentary is about. This commentary is about SID. And, for the reasons I am about to mention, I strongly believe that Sid’s time has arrived!!!

Along with Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels is probably the most “confident” individual I have ever known. He doesn’t worry about the “threat” of others overthrowing his Kliq because as the World Wrestling Federation Champion he realizes what he brings to the dance. He doesn’t have to tear down others to build himself up, because he already is the tallest skyscraper in the city! He has no shortcomings. Nothing to hide or protect. He has the belief in himself that no man is  going to knock him off his perch. It’s the security of himself. Shawn Michaels knows that Sid is good for the “business”. He’s a monster with a personality and people will pay money to see him! Sid will help everybody–including Shawn Michaels–in the long run.

With Shawn Michaels on top, there is no question in my mind that Sid’s time is NOW! Politics can take a beat seat and let him do the driving! The potential has only thus far been tapped… but now it will EXPLODE!!! 

Yes, Sid Eudy just may soon… “RULE THE WORLD”!

#psycho sid #sid justice #sid vicious #wwf #world wrestling federation #magazine scan #magazine transcript #wwf magazine #killing Vince Russo because of his shitty writing killing killing

[irradiate-space]

Disney's Atlantis (2001) will have no more sequels, and Intellectual Property is why.

In short: IP law. But not the "make money by writing it off" thingy.

Epistemic status: a memory of a Q&A panel from 2002.

At length:

Atlantis was released in 2001. It had a giant mechanical lobster,

and some neat steampunk submarines,

These submarines go on a neat adventure through underwater passages past shipwrecks of ages past, break through a big door, and arrive at an underground cavern filled with forgotten machines, which power up when you insert glowing crystals in them.

And that's the whole problem with Walt Disney Animated Series film 41: Atlantis: The Lost Empire, its sequel, and really the entire story and concept.

In 1992, renowned painter James Gurney released the picture-book Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time, which featured a neat little steampunk submarine, the front one in this series of maquettes by Glenn Ludgate:

In 1995, Gurney published a sequel, Dinotopia: The World Beneath, where a group of intrepid explorers use a steampunk submarine to go on an underwater excursion through the remains of wrecked ships of ages past, through a door, to a cavern full of forgotten machines which power up when you insert glowing crystals in them. Including an evil lobster.

In 1999, Gurney published the prequel, Dinotopia: First Flight, which told the story of where those sunstone-powered mechanical marvels came from: the drowned city of Poseidos. The story included a chase sequence with sunstone-powered flying trilobites.

There are, shall we say, certain parallels.

In June 2001, Disney released Atlantis: The Lost Empire. The film allegedly underperformed at the box office, taking in $186.1 million against a budget of $90-120 million. In 2003, Disney released the direct-to-video sequel Atlantis: Milo's Return, which collected content previously intended for a canceled TV series. It competed with Shrek.

During his April-September 2002 exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of National History, an audience member asked Gurney about the parallels between the recently-released Atlantis and Gurney's designs for Dinotopia. Gurney replied that he couldn't comment, but that his lawyers had reached an agreeable settlement with Disney.

Because the lawsuit was settled out of court — if it in fact existed, which is what I here allege — it left no records. I have found nothing by search; if you find any documentation of this, you're welcome to publish it. Disney acknowledges that Atlantis drew from Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. For other plagiarism allegations, you will find much more documentation of alleged parallels between Atlantis and Nadia: Secret of Blue Water and Laputa: Castle in the Sky.

In May 2002, Hallmark Entertainment and Walt Disney TV released a three-episode, four-hour Dinotopia miniseries. A sequel series of 13 episodes was released beginning in November 2002, produced by ABC and Hallmark Entertainment. An animated film was released in 2005 by Hallmark Entertainment. There were also a series of Dinotopia video games for PC/MAC GBA, and GC/Xbox in 2002 and 2003. It's this really-tight cluster of activity, right after Atlantis came out.

In 2007, Gurney published the fourth and latest Dinotopia book, Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara. It's very beautiful.

In 2013, Disney remastered and rereleased the Atlantis films in 2013.

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These Atlantis gifs are hand-cut with ffmpeg in 720p 15fps, straight from the movie, and the Dinotopia images are sourced from James Gurney's blog, "Gurney Journey" which I highly recommend as a source of traditional-media painting advice as well as general art advice. The Dinotopia books are a joy to read, and if you want, there is a YA novel series as well as a pair of novels by Alan Dean Foster. Gurney also wrote several guides to illustration and painting, and in general is a nice old man.

Don't blame James Gurney for stealing Atlantis. Blame Disney for stealing Dinotopia.

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Reading Comprehension Questions:

What parallels does OP see between Atlantis and Dinotopia?

What sources does OP cite for the core allegations in this essay?

What is OP's stance towards Disney? Towards James Gurney?

Who does OP blame for Atlantis being dead IP?

How would your personal stance on copyright law affect the outcome of a lawsuit between James Gurney and Disney over stolen intellectual property?

Fanfic prompt: The Atlantis expedition wash up on the shore of Dinotopia. The expedition arrives a few years after the Dennisons do, with Will and Sylvia off on their new career, and Arthur having a bit of an empty-nest syndrome. No one knows where Lee Crabb is.

#dinotopia #atlantis #atlantis the lost empire #james gurney #disney #gifs #ffmpeg #reading comprehension questions #title edited several days after posting

[qdbs-writes]

A Divine Challange - Part 2

Summary: The Reader is still pretending to be a rabbit, shinanigans ensue. Raiden's description is based on his appearance in the 1995 film. Link to Part 1.

Words: 1.7k

See this on AO3

The rest of the day had been spent in your rabbit form dwelling in the laps of either Kung Lao or Liu Kang. Despite only knowing you for a short time, the two young men had become quite fond of you, holding you, petting you, gently brushing your fur. What they saw as calmness was actually the built-in freeze response in action. But of course, you should be afraid. You weren’t a rabbit! And you had no idea how these strange men would respond to their beloved “Mr Rabbit” turning out to be a human in disguise! And the strange, cloaked man, who if Lao and Kang’s discussions were anything to go by was certainly a god, was already calling your bluff! It’s times like this you sit and wonder how you managed to let this situation get so bad.

Mercifully the night brought some peace and quiet. Kung Lao had brought you into his bed to cuddle, murmuring a little “Goodnight, Mr Rabbit” and placing a kiss on your fluffy nose. Once he was snoring soundly, you made an effort to wriggle out of his arms, kicking your little bunny legs as you went. By the time you were off of Kung Lao’s bed, which was more of a futon, you finally let yourself turn back into a human. You stand on two legs for the first time in hours, groaning as your back and neck ached from being in animal form for so long. Kung Lao’s snoring pauses for a moment and you glance at him in horror, realising that your human form is still fully naked. If Kung Lao were to wake up at this exact moment, all he would see is a nude stranger standing over him ominously. You can’t help but think this is like all your socially awkward nightmares come to life. Mercifully, Lao continues to snore. Breathing a sigh of relief, you decide to try and find some clothes. You tiptoe slowly towards a small cabinet with a large, bladed hat perched jauntily on the corner. You creak the door open to find that, thankfully, there were some spare robes within. You quickly pulled one out and tied it around yourself. Evidently, it was several sizes too big, fitted for someone much taller than you were. Oh well, you think to yourself, it beats being naked. You toss one last glance at the sleeping man. The sleeping man that in the course of one day, you have decided to mislead then accidentally get adopted by and then steal from. Kung Lao has rolled slightly onto his side, his face mushed up against the pillow. Truly, you were underserving of the kindness he showed you today, but you still wanted to get away as fast as you could. You creak the sliding door open and slip out into the dark hallway.

The halls of the Shaolin Temple were shadowy and maze-like. You scurry past closed doors and identical corridors desperately looking for what might be the way out. Hope erupts in you when you enter some sort of courtyard but dies quickly when you realise it’s a closed off garden. You prepare to change into a cat and jump the fence when you notice a small hut on the other side, with a soft, warm light emanating through the covered windows. You slide the wooden door aside to reveal a steamy bathroom, with a bubbling large central tub and various washing supplies in nearby baskets. You creep in and dip a finger into the bath only to find the water pleasantly hot. Fuck it, you think, you’ve had a long day, why not enjoy a nice bath? You shuck off the stolen robe you wore and slipped into the tub. You hum in contentment as you sink into the soothing water. You go about washing yourself at a leisurely pace, making use of the nearby soaps and scrubs, which all appeared to be handmade by the local monks. You wonder to yourself if Kung Lao had helped make any of these wonderful items. It would only make sense, you supposed, after all the Shaolin pride themselves on their self-sufficiency, and even monks need to bathe every once in a while. Still, the large, warm tub seemed highly luxurious for some monks considering your naturalist lifestyle. When your fingers start to prune, you decide it’s probably time to leave the heavenly bath. You heave yourself out with no small amount of reluctance and dry yourself off with the conveniently provided towels. You draw the stolen robe back around yourself and went back into the courtyard, leaving small wet footprints in your place.

When you re-enter the courtyard, you notice a small stone lined path leading up a hill surrounded by bamboo trees. Maybe some higher ground would be easier to escape from, you think to yourself. You gingerly make your way up the hill, cringing as pebbles dig into your bare feet. Internally you regret not stealing some shoes as well. By the time you reach the top of the hill, you are dismayed to see that the bamboo trees were so thick they almost created a wall surrounding the hill. Man, since when did a bunch of monks need such tight security?

“Ah, there you are.” A strange voice from the darkness says, almost literally scaring the shit out of you. You gasp and stumble back, nearly toppling over a mossy lion statue in the process. On the other side of the clearing was the hooded stranger you saw earlier, the stranger that was most definitely a god. But without his cowl, you could vaguely make out his features in the moonlight from overhead. The god sat with his legs crossed, hands folded on his knees. His white shoulder length hair glowed under the moonlight, but not as brightly as his nearly entirely white eyes, which gazed at you unblinkingly. “Can I assume that you’ve decided to reveal yourself?” he queried, his face calm and curious.

“I-I, no, but... How did you know that I was-?” you stumble over your words as you tried to slow your panicked breath.

“Such a shame,” He tutted, “Someone of your talents would make a fine ally.” He mummed.

“Ally? What do you mean?” you tried to seem somewhat aloof, if this god wanted something to do with you then you were going to play as dumb as you could.

“Oh, you can’t fool me, little one.” He chided “You are much more than you let on… I can always see potential.” You might’ve imagined it but it almost seemed as if there was a twinkle in his eye.

“There was something about a tournament. That headband guy, what was his name?” you pause.

“Liu Kang.” The god finished for you.

“Yeah, him and Kung Lao seemed worried about it. But what could make Shaolin monks that freaked out?” You wondered aloud.

“What indeed.” The god had a coy smile on his face. “Ah! But where are my manners, I am Lord Raiden, God of Lightening and Guardian of Earthrealm.” He clapped his hands on his knees and stood, giving you a respectful bow.

“Holy shit, what like lightening in the sky? That’s you?” you curtesy back awkwardly.

Raiden chuckled slightly, standing from his bow “And I assume your name isn’t Mr Rabbit?” he smirked.

“Oh, no its Y/N…” you murmur, embarrassed at your situation with Kung Lao. “Hey look, me being here, it’s all some mistake, I need to get out now.” You plead, if anyone could help you right now, it would be Raiden.

“Oh?” Raiden raised an eyebrow, “But You’ve only just arrived!” Suddenly, you hear the panicked voices of Liu Kang and Kung Lao in the distance. You look at Raiden with panic as he returns to his kneeling position, with a challenging look in his eyes. “I think you’ll be quite useful here.” He almost giggles. You want to scream at him in frustration, but you don’t have any time, Kang and Lao are coming up the hill!

You send one last glare at the god before shifting back into a rabbit, the robe collapsing around you. Whatever Raiden wanted from you; you weren’t just going to give it to him. Kang and Lao appear in the grove, looking around until they spot your fluffy round form from beneath the robe.

“Mr Rabbit, there you are!” Lao exclaims as he lifts you into his arms, “Oh, we were so worried you had gotten lost- oh, you smell so nice, Mr Rabbit, did you have a bath?” he coos.

“Your little friend and I were just having a chat.” Raiden chuckles knowingly.

“My Lord, you were… talking to the rabbit?” Liu Kang questions, throwing the god a concerned look.

Kung Lao noticed the discarded robe on the ground next to you “Mr Rabbit, how did you steal my robe?” he holds it next to you and you begin to nibble on the fabric of the collar, it felt good to grind your teeth on something when you were so angry.

“I think we can give our friend a much better title than Mr Rabbit.” Raiden smirks.

Kung Lao struggles to pull the fabric from your large teeth so much that he doesn’t hear the god. Liu Kang, who can’t decide who to look at replies “Lord Raiden, what do you mean?”.

“In my godly opinion, we should call our friend Y/N”. Raiden says in a very matter of fact manner.

Kung Lao finally manages to wrench the fabric from your jaw, but rips off a slither of cloth in the process, which you continue to chew on aggressively, your long ears flopping indignantly. Lao drops the rest of his robe and holds you at arm’s length to better look at you. “Y/N, huh? Why Y/N?” Lao questions.

“Yes, ‘Y/N’ seems too human for a rabbit, my Lord.” Liu Kang concurs.

“Oh, I think it quite suits them, you will see.” Raiden looked endlessly pleased with himself.

You wriggled in Lao’s grasp to turn your short, fat neck as far as it would go and glare at Raiden. If looks could kill, then you’d be a rabbit guilty of deicide.

“Okay, Y/N, let’s go back to bed.” Lao cooed to you again, cradling you against his chest as he and Liu Kang made their way back down the hill. By now you had come to the realisation that escaping wouldn’t be easy.

#mortal kombat #mortal kombat x reader #a divine challange #raiden #liu kang #kung lao #qdbs writing

[princess-suzanne]

💗 MOVIE TAGS 💗  

A

🤍 a bear named winnie (2004) 🤍 a dangerous method (2011) 🤍 a fistful of dollars (1964) 🤍 a most violent year (2014) 🤍 a room with a view (1985) 🤍 a royal affair (2012) 🤍 a streetcar named desire (1951) 🤍 a woman is a woman (1961) 🤍 an education (2009) 🤍 agora (2009) 🤍 all about eve (1950) 🤍 amadeus (1984) 🤍 and god created woman (1956) 🤍 angel (2007) 🤍 armageddon time (2022) 🤍 the artist (2011) 🤍 ashes and diamonds (1958) 🤍 atonement (2007)

B

🤍 the banshees of inisherin (2022) 🤍 barefoot in the park (1967) 🤍 the beguiled (2017) 🤍 belle (2013) 🤍 the big sleep (1946) 🤍 the birds (1963) 🤍 bonnie and clyde (1967) 🤍 bram stoker’s dracula (1992) 🤍 breakfast at tiffany’s (1961) 🤍 brokeback mountain (2005) 🤍 brooklyn (2015) 🤍 bugsy (1991) 🤍 butch cassidy and the sundance kid (1969)

C

🤍 cabaret (1972) 🤍 captain america: the first avenger (2011) 🤍 carnival of souls (1962) 🤍 carol (2015) 🤍 casablanca (1942) 🤍 casino (1995) 🤍 cat on a hot tin roof (1958) 🤍 chicago (2002) 🤍 cléo de 5 à 7 (1962) 🤍 cleopatra (1963) 🤍 cria cuervos (1976) 🤍 crimson peak (2015)

D

🤍 daisies (1966) 🤍 dangerous liaisons (1988) 🤍 the danish girl (2015) 🤍 dead poets society (1989) 🤍 the debt (2010) 🤍 dirty dancing (1987) 🤍 don’t bother to knock (1952) 🤍 don’t worry darling (2022) 🤍 dracula (1931) 🤍 the duchess (2008) 🤍 dunkirk (2017)

E

🤍 east of eden (1955) 🤍 the edge of love (2008) 🤍 eileen (2023) 🤍 elizabeth (1998) 🤍 elizabeth: the golden age (2007) 🤍 elvis (2022) 🤍 emma (2020) 🤍 the end of the affair (1999) 🤍 the english patient (1996) 🤍 enola holmes (2020) 🤍 the eyes of tammy faye (2021)

F

🤍 fanny and alexander (1982) 🤍 the favourite (2018) 🤍 for a few dollars more (1965) 🤍 funny girl (1968)

G

🤍 gentlemen prefer blondes (1953) 🤍 giant (1956) 🤍 gilda (1946) 🤍 the girl on a motorcycle (1968) 🤍 gladiator (2000) 🤍 the godfather (1972) 🤍 the godfather: part ii (1974) 🤍 gone with the wind (1939) 🤍 the good, the bad and the ugly (1966) 🤍 goodfellas (1990) 🤍 the graduate (1967) 🤍 the grand budapest hotel (2014) 🤍 grand hotel (1932) 🤍 grease (1978) 🤍 the great gatsby (1974) 🤍 the great gatsby (2013) 🤍 guess who’s coming to dinner (1967)

H

🤍 the help (2011) 🤍 high noon (1952) 🤍 hiroshima mon amour (1959) 🤍 how to marry a millionaire (1953) 🤍 how to steal a million (1966)

I

🤍 ida (2013) 🤍 il gattopardo (1963) 🤍 the immigrant (2013) 🤍 in secret (2013) 🤍 inglorious basterds (2009) 🤍 it happened one night (1934)

J

🤍 jane eyre (2011)

K

🤍 the king (2019) 🤍 knife in the water (1962)

L

🤍 la dolce vita (1960) 🤍 la notte (1961) 🤍 la strada (1954) 🤍 ladies in lavender (2004) 🤍 lady chatterley’s lover (2015) 🤍 lady macbeth (2016) 🤍 the lady from shanghai (1947) 🤍 the last duel (2021) 🤍 legend (2015) 🤍 les misérables (2012) 🤍 the light between oceans (2016) 🤍 little women (2019) 🤍 the lover (1922) 🤍 the love witch (2016) 🤍 l’avventura (1960) 🤍 l’eclisse (1962)

M

🤍 macbeth (2015) 🤍 malèna (2000) 🤍 man with a movie camera (1929) 🤍 marie antoinette (2006) 🤍 mary, queen of scots (2018) 🤍 the master (2012) 🤍 meshes of the afternoon (1943) 🤍 miller’s crossing (1991) 🤍 the mirror (1975) 🤍 the misfits (1961) 🤍 moulin rouge! (2001) 🤍 the mummy (1999) 🤍 my fair lady (1964)

N

🤍 ninotchka (1939) 🤍 north by northwest (1959) 🤍 the northman (2022) 🤍 nosferatu the vampyre (1979)

O

🤍 once upon a time in america (1984) 🤍 once upon a time... in hollywood (2019) 🤍 once upon a time in the west (1968) 🤍 operation finale (2018) 🤍 the other boleyn girl (2008) 🤍 outlaw king (2018)

P

🤍 the pale blue eye (2022) 🤍 persona (1966) 🤍 phantom thread (2017) 🤍 the pianist (2002) 🤍 picnic at hanging rock (1975) 🤍 pride & prejudice (2005) 🤍 the prince and the showgirl (1957) 🤍 priscilla (2023) 🤍 the promise (2016) 🤍 psycho (1960) 🤍 the public enemy (1931) 🤍 purple noon (1960)

R

🤍 raging bull (1980) 🤍 rebel without a cause (1955) 🤍 rear window (1954) 🤍 repulsion (1965) 🤍 river of no return (1954) 🤍 the roaring twenties (1939) 🤍 rocco and his brothers (1960) 🤍 roman holiday (1953) 🤍 rosemary’s baby (1968) 🤍 rush (2013)

S

🤍 scarface (1932) 🤍 scarface (1983) 🤍 sense and sensibility (1995) 🤍 the seven year itch (1955) 🤍 the seventh seal (1957) 🤍 singin’ in the rain (1952) 🤍 sissi (1955) [trilogy] 🤍 slow west (2015) 🤍 some like it hot (1959) 🤍 the sound of music (1965) 🤍 splendor in the grass (1961) 🤍 the sting (1973) 🤍 stoker (2013) 🤍 summerland (2020) 🤍 sunset boulevard (1950) 🤍 sweet bird of youth (1962) 🤍 the swimming pool (1969)

T

🤍 their finest (2016) 🤍 the third man (1949) 🤍 this property is condemned (1966) 🤍 titanic (1997) 🤍 to catch a thief (1955) 🤍 to kill a mockingbird (1962) 🤍 tokyo story (1953) 🤍 the two faces of january (2014)

V

🤍 vertigo (1958) 🤍 vita & virginia (2018)

W

🤍 walk the line (2005) 🤍 waterloo bridge (1940) 🤍 west side story (1961) 🤍 white noise (2022) 🤍 who’s afraid of virginia woolf? (1966) 🤍 the wild one (1953) 🤍 wild strawberries (1957) 🤍 woman walks ahead (2017) 🤍 the wonder (2022) 🤍 wuthering heights (1992)

Z

🤍 the zookeeper’s wife (2017)

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[thebumblecee]

Real life is stranger than fiction. Some of the instances in 9-1-1 Lonestar plots with real life examples.

The examples have been fictionalised and sensationalised and made to fit Texas even if they’re from across the world.

Season 2 of Lonestar

02x01 Back In The Saddle - a man steal a tank and goes on a rampage

Real life: the story of Shawn Nelson who stole a tank and went on a rampage in 1995

02x02 - 2100° - Pilot Knob volcano erupts

Real life: The volcano that erupts in this episode, Pilot Knob, is a real (although extinct) volcano located south of Austin, Texas. (IMDb) obviously it’s never erupted but others have and fiction doesn’t that’s to be realistic, it has to be believable. I believed there was a volcano so I’m going to let it pass.

02x03 - Hold The Line - wildfires spread across Texas

Real life: they’re wildfires they happen everywhere. Here is a resource if you’re Texan or really into statistics.

02x04 - Friends With Benefits - a wedding suffers terrible food poisoning

Real life: (there were so many examples)

02x05 - Difficult Conversations - Grace helps a woman in a domestic abuse situation who ordered ‘pizza’

Real life: this is very common and we’re told to do it if we need help. Here is the domestic abuse helpline for the UK for those that need it and here is an org for the USA.

02x06 - Everyone and Their Brother - a conspiracy theorist tries to protect his property with land mines.

Real life: I won’t lie I struggled here and read some heart breaking statistics about landmine deaths. I also found a Reddit where men argued they should be allowed to put landlines on their property so it’s out there, I just can’t find a specific source.

02x07 - Displaced - a stowaway fell from a plane into a funeral

Real life: this happens more than you expect. The latest case happened in London where a man fell from a plane and landed in a residential garden. Article here

02x08 - Bad Call - a man with a fake bomb robs a bank and claims he was forced to do it

Real life: this happened in Scotland (again)

02x09 - Saving Grace - Grace and Judd’s car go over a bridge and into a river below.

Real life: this happens almost every day all over the world.

02x10 - A Little Help from My Friends - teenager gets hands caught inside an ice cream machine

Real life:

02x11 - Slow Burn - serial arsonist

Real life: they talk about this in the show but John Orr

02x12 - The Big Heat - again arsonist plot and Charles aneurysm

Real life: here is how to spot an aneurysm but I hope you never have too.

02x13 - One Day - A man starts a hostage situation to save his son on life support

Real life:

02x14 - Dust To Dust - A dust storm envelopes Texas (also known as a Haboob)

Real life: again freak weather is a common thing across the world but here is the USA weather guide to dust storms

Season one here

#911 lonestar #911 ls #911 ls meta #911 Lonestar meta #I’m just a nerd that likes to make comparison and read about freak accidents #cee speaks #not writing

[flowersshapedlikestars]

On the sun being out and dating men

Dear Portland,

The other day I was sitting outside on my porch, soaking up the cool February sun. Yes, the sun. She’s back and she’s better than ever.

Sitting outside gives me more time to think these days. I can stay out later, not bring a coat to class or work until nightfall, go for a smoke without having to wear a scarf. I feel like I have more rhythm.

So that leaves me, outside on the porch that other day. As I was sitting there I started thinking about a question one of my friends had asked me earlier.

“how do we maintain our power, our influence, our personhood in times, in places and in relationships where we simply don’t have it?”

She asked this in the context of her new relationship, this one with a man. And it’s a valid question to have. As a longtime man-lover and professional fangirl — I mean straight girl — I had to sit a while and think about it.

Let’s break down this question. First, it assumes a binary between men and women that suggests women are inherently not in power in the relationship. While this may sound like an anti-feminist, totally sexist take, I would push that it’s not really a take at all, but rather an unfortunate truth of the patriarchy. But does that mean we as women can’t thrive in heterosexual relationships? Absolutely not, I know of plenty successful heterosexual relationships (mine included) between hardcore feminists (myself included) and their male partners. So, let’s dive into it.

So, how CAN we maintain our power as women when in a heteronormative relationship, especially when that heteronormativity is kind of the main reason were searching for power in the first place? 

My answer? My boyfriend doesn't matter. 

Okay, he matters to ME, and he matters as a whole, but he doesn't have to have an influence on my womanhood or my feminism. Our relationships, especially our romantic ones, are a big part of who we are, but they don't have to be everything. It's okay if your relationship isn't the thing about you that's fighting the norms of the world, there is so much to you as a person and as an activist, and you're allowed to separate your personal relationship from that.

Love constantly defies and will continue to do so, to understand it completely is an exercise done in vain. So, might as well just have some fun!

Song of the Week

Despite the sun, it’s still winter which means songs that make you wistfully stare out the window are IN! The song of the week this week is “Fake Plastic Trees” by Radiohead. From the band’s sophomore album The Bends, this song genuinely made me develop romantic feelings for c. 1995 Thom Yorke. I think if he wrote this song about ME, I would immediately marry him (sorry to my aforementioned boyfriend).

Kate’s personal latest trend

My current trend is knee length skirts. Recently, I bought a vintage Valentino skirt from the 1980s from my local thrift for about three dollars — I personally identified this as the steal of the century. I’ve been really into the preppy-corporate look with a hint of Twin Peaks inspiration, so the knee length cut has been on my mind in every trip to the closet.

Thanks for tuning in on this little brain vomit. Sometimes it’s nice to spew it out online for the world to see, sometimes it’s not.

Cheers,

Kate

#girl blogger #fashion #radiohead

[thaliexvii]

Some Lee lore and my headcanons about him

Anonymous asked:

I was directed to you for some Lee lore/headcanons :) Early life as well as T1/T2 headcanons for Lee please?

Well, first thank you for asking me, Anonymous, I will try to tell you what I think of it even though my headcanon may not be the right one. I love to play him but everyone’s headcanons are different. It is very kind of erenaeoth to propose me for this and I hope it will give you some ideas for some parts. Since this is a long answer, I’ll put the rest under the cut.

First, in maybe historical details, if the time period of Tekken 1 was around 1994-1995, (Lee’s car from Tag is from 1999 but then that game is a bit of an anachronism, Lee was born during the Mao era in China (1949-1976 (around 1970, maybe 1973 if the car is some hint)). It was a time of many events and once Mao died in 1976, the Chinese economic reform (Gǎigékāifàng), known in the West as the opening of China, started in 1978, opening up of the country to foreign investment. The ‘BoluanFanzheng’ (Eliminating Chaos and Returning to Normal) was then a program attempting to correct the mistakes of the Cultural Revolution.

The Honda S2000 was manufactured in 1999 though it was shown as a concept car (Then called SSM) at the Tokyo Motor Show in 1995 so maybe Lee spoiled himself by already getting one of those futuristic cars in advance? He seems to love cars as we see him driving around for a bit in Tekken Tag 1, possibly as a way of relaxing and escaping the suffocating life with Heihachi or to get noticed, or probably both.

Of course, little Lee must not have understood all that was happening, maybe he does remember Mao’s state funerals and a few other events, maybe he remembers his parents having a little red book, but didn’t understand most of the events, but anyway what was important to know was that the opening may have been the reason why Heihachi was in China as a new investor and found Lee who was living in the streets.

My art of Heihachi finding young Lee Chaolan in the streets after a fight with other kids. (the background is a backstreet in Shanghai)

When Lee ended up in the streets, he probably was old enough to somehow fend for himself, since a three-year old would not have been able to steal food or find a shelter or anything like this and would possibly have found another parental figure to take care of him (of course, he could have found someone else who abandoned him, have lived in some homeless child shelter and escaped, but since there was no mention of it and Lee definitively took Heihachi as his father figure, I feel he was definitely alone once his parents died, with no people of importance around him). I think Lee didn’t have a big extended family and his parents must have died quite suddenly since otherwise he may have been taken under the wings of someone or some organization instead of ending up in the streets. In my headcanon, Lee is from Shanghai, and his immediate family died in a fire in an area with poor quality housing that exacerbated the fire.

Lee probably ended up living in the streets for a while, since he had time to learn how to fight to the point of looking like something of interest to Heihachi, who had to be really impressed by that kid’s fighting talent to decide he would make a good rival for his son. Of course, Lee could have begun to fight other kids even while his parents were still alive, but with the way it is said in his bio “Lee's parents died when he was a young child, leaving him to fend for himself on the streets. Facing a hostile environment each day, he quickly became a skilled scrapper with reflexes that were amazing for a boy of his age”, it seemed to have been out of necessity that he started to fight, so, once in the streets. 

This time in the streets and all its dangers probably toughened him in many ways and made him more distrustful of anyone. However, Heihachi was able to pass through those defenses and take him out of the streets, probably by offering him food and then promising him the world, telling him he would be in a rich family and never lack anything. For Lee, once he dropped his defenses and opened up to another person for the first time since his parents, Heihachi suddenly appeared like a savior, all cheerful, saving him from the street and even from death... Lee certainly felt gratitude that quickly turned to love for his new adoptive father. Lee was indeed grateful for the rescue, so he somehow wanted to repay his savior and be appreciated by him. Heihachi was now his new father, his new father figure, the one who took him out of poverty and offered him a new life and the one he opened up his heart to. Heihachi’s approval became something very important for Lee from now on.

And with Heihachi being a narcissist, he probably kept reminding his new son of all he did for him and probably often mentioned that Lee owed him everything. Even though he adopted him and Lee owed him everything, Heihachi never gave his family name to him. This must not have been a decision from Lee, to somehow honor and remember his biological parents, but a very calculated one done by Heihachi, who somehow wanted to make Lee feel not worthy enough to be a real Mishima and to fight to deserve a place into the family. He did not adopt that kid to give him a charmed life or out of fatherly instinct, he just wanted a rival for Kazuya. If Heihachi had wanted to name Lee (first name is Chaolan, Lee is the family name), Mishima, Lee would have had no say in this, no matter how much he would have wanted to honor his biological parents. So it was a Heihachi decision to show his adopted son that he wasn’t a real Mishima and it was not Lee’s decision to honor his dead biological family. Heihachi wanted to tell him: “I’m your savior, your father, but you are not worthy to fully be my son, unless you fight for it.”

Heihachi is indeed his savior so, Lee is at first very grateful and loves his adoptive father, he owes him so much but once adopted, once he had given his heart and devotion to him, he is hurt to discover that in fact Heihachi does not really care about him and is in reality a mean father to both him and Kazuya. He notices that Heihachi is really mean with his biological son, Kazuya, but also that Kazuya is the only one who really matters to Heihachi, the only one their father really focuses on, either in anger or in pride. Kazuya is the real Mishima, the important one, but also somehow, for some reason, hated by his father. Heihachi mostly ignores or humiliates Lee and mistreats Kazuya. But also, this makes Lee jealous since Kazuya is the real son, the one Heihachi’s thoughts are on, the one who mostly represents the Mishima prestigious family in events. Lee is somehow the proof that Heihachi was so generous to have adopted and raised that child, not a source of prestige himself. He had to bring honor to the family and act as it was requested but to show how Heihachi raised him. Heihachi was not feeling with him the emotions he did with Kazuya. And what also give Lee more of an inferiority complex, is that Kazuya is the eldest. Lee is the second one, the other son. The not important one. This is another thing that Heihachi wanted Lee to feel so that he would fight to be noticed and consider Kazuya as his rival, the one to fight against. Heihachi did not want to give a brother to Kazuya, he wanted to give him a rival. Lee probably did not care about fighting for money, the company, and larger prizes at this stage, since, as a kid, all those things were far from his mind. He probably only wanted food, shelter and a loving family, but Heihachi forced him to fight for his place in the family and spoiled the brotherly relation Lee could have had with Kazuya by introducing that rivalry. But in fact, just to say, neither Kazuya nor Lee could have won the title of best son since the real son was Kuma, the only one treated with some affection by Heihachi… Heihachi always cared far more for his bears, Kuma I and II, to the point of dressing up his second one and offering him the Mishima Zaibatsu, maybe as a joke and trying to take it back like in Kuma’s ending in Tekken 4 but Alisa talks about him having been considered to be the next CEO of the Mishima Zaibatsu in Tekken 6. Alisa: The bear in question was once a candidate to head the Mishima Zaibatsu. Lars: A bear running the Zaibatsu? Who comes up with this stuff? (Lars doesn’t know his dad…). Maybe after the whole Kazumi devil attack and his attempted murder of his son, Heihachi put all his love and affection on his baby bear... He had no place for humans anymore so Lee never stood a chance.

My art of Heihachi sending his children to school with the help of his favorite baby. In my headcanon, the Mishima polytechnical school already exists so they have the same uniform as Jin will have.

Of course the wealthy things Lee received were nice, mostly compared to having nothing in the streets, but it was constantly accompanied with stressful demands and expectations. Not only did Lee have to learn Japanese, he also had to learn Japanese customs, high society customs, how to write, and a few other remedial courses since he didn’t go to school when he was in the streets… And also, he may have been good at fighting but now he had to change his street fighting style to the Mishima ryu fighting style and learn the martial arts discipline while performing in his fights against Kazuya. All this forced him to study hard and learn fast. Lee was very intelligent as his bio says: “Lee was a prodigy both in smarts and martial arts”, so he succeeded in learning all of this probably quite fast but at the cost of his calm and peace of mind. He always had to perform for their father to show he was worthy of having been adopted. And when Heihachi shows he cares more about his bear than him, this must hurt him a lot. It probably turned him into quite a stressed child with his inferiority complex, always trying to please and satisfy his father, to not bring dishonor to Heihachi’s prestige and his claim that he raised that child. But Heihachi was not a supportive father. He seemed to have always told Lee that he was a disappointment, probably not good enough to be a Mishima. In the ending of Tekken Tag 2 when Violet has abducted his family to test Super Combot DX, Heihachi quickly mocks Lee over his robot: “You think were impressed by that hunk of junk? Pathetic!” and once Combot loses its head thanks to DJ, Heihachi says: “See? Nothing more than a disappointment!”, as if he’s saying, “See? You’re a disappointment, as always.” He then starts to laugh, somehow probably angering Lee who likely heard this a lot of time. Though Violet/Lee keeps his cool and makes them explode. So Heihachi always tried to make Lee feel like a disappointment, probably always threatening to send him back in the streets if he was not worthy enough, reminding Lee of his lowborn origins and his power over him. As we can see in the ending in Tekken 6 where Lee tied Heihachi, Kazuya, and Jin to missiles, as soon as the ball doesn’t reach him, Heihachi starts to laugh at Lee and tells him quite familiarly that he missed and once he discovers that the balls are explosive, he orders him to stop it right now, using his authority on him again. Heihachi seems to think he still hold authority over his adoptive son, like in Tekken 6 again, in scenario mode when he discovers that Lee built a new company, he says: “When did Lee (He does call him Lee, not Chaolan, to underline he is not a Mishima) have time to build up a corporation like this? I don't approve of this!”

To make Lee feel even more inferior, Heihachi also seemed to manipulate him by humiliating him with the spankings and noogies, as seen in the Tag games (All through Tekken Tag, if you pair Lee with Heihachi (with a certain combination of clothes) Heihachi spanks Lee or gives him a noogie at the start of each fight and when they lose, he grabs Lee and spanks him, he also spanks him in Tag 2 when they lose). Heihachi is always ready to mock Lee and it really shows that he was used to humiliating Lee. Lee is always a joke for Heihachi. He first took him as a rival for Kazuya but he also considered that kid as his thing and never respected him. He could do whatever he wanted to Lee, he was his toy. About the spanking, maybe it is also a form of Heihachi venting his own frustrations over his own father since as we can see in the continue scene of Tag 2, Jinpachi also spanks Heihachi… But Heihachi really treats Lee like a child, even when Lee had become an adult. He doesn’t take that son seriously, contrarily to Kazuya, who is the number one threat. Heihachi probably didn’t spank Kazuya anymore since he threw him from the cliff since Kazuya somehow scares him as a demon child. Heihachi sees a danger in him and Kazuya is not a joke like Lee. Even when innocent little five years old Kazuya did nothing wrong and ‘may’ only have that demon inherited from his mother, Heihachi is repulsed and scared by him. His fear and attitude then proceeds to turn Kazuya really evil… When Lee is grabbed by his father in the games for the spankings or noogies, Lee somehow does not resist much, he is more docile while Kazuya is even uncontrollable when tied in a space suit (Heihachi’s ending in Tekken 6).

Lee giving a revenge noogie to his father. Picture graciously provided thanks to @claudioseraph

That childish treatment is another manipulative attempt by Heihachi, to make Lee try to gain his father’s approval and do as his father requests, to finally be respected. But Lee respected his father and obeyed him, like a good son. Unlike Kazuya, who always showed Heihachi how much he hated him, calling him Oyaji (old man) and giving him hate letters, but he was never humiliated like this directly. The punishments for Kazuya seemed to have been more physical while those for Lee were more manipulative ones to humiliate him, even the physical ones were softer than the ones Kazuya received. Heihachi knew Kazuya would not be controlled like this - he could not use the need for affection or fear of losing everything on Kazuya since Kazuya already lost all those he cherished and didn’t want his hated father’s affection, but Lee could be controlled like this… Reminding Lee what he owed him, threatening to take it away from him, showing him some prizes he could win if he obeyed and giving him some compliments (very rarely but those few would give Lee hope for getting some more later) was a good trick, the rest of the time Heihachi would just ignore him, making Lee again work for his attention and approval. Having experienced how hard it was to live in the streets, Lee never wanted to go back there again and still thought that the abuse he lived in the Mishima house was better than starving in the streets. Even if they were often crushed, he had hopes of one day pleasing his father.

Lee’s wish, a loving father. (Panel from Tekken 2 comicanthology)

Lee was probably torn in all those feelings, he owed Heihachi, he still loved him, Heihachi was his father figure, and in return he wanted his love and approval but he also now really saw how Heihachi was to him and Kazuya. Maybe he felt he deserved the punishment and insults his father gave him since maybe he thought he may not have worked enough to please him, maybe he tried to convince himself that Kazuya deserved to be beaten for his insolence and stubbornness but I think he didn’t dare tell himself that in fact Heihachi was a bad father. Maybe if they both changed things a bit, Heihachi would be satisfied with them… Abused children always feel guilty and confused…

Despite not knowing why it happened exactly, Lee was aware of the war between his father and brother and he knew he was only caught in the middle of this. He somehow was on both sides while also being against both. When he was young his preoccupations were only to survive, to try to please his father so that he was not thrown out or punished but also to comfort his brother. Because even if they didn’t always get along, they still were brothers. Lee and Kazuya growing up together might have made them not only rivals, like Heihachi wanted, but also have brought them closer, since they are among the only two who knew what kind of a person Heihachi really was. Lee still wanted his father’s approval, still loved him, but he was not blind. Despite not knowing the real deep story, Lee was the only one who somehow understood Kazuya’s rebellion at the abuse while all the servants never saw any of this, or pretended to never see, and Heihachi made Kazuya pass at the little pest that needed to be punished. All narcissistic parents always shine in front of other people while only showing their true face to their abused children. In such a hostile and cold environment, it was good to have someone else, for both Lee and Kazuya. To feel less alone and know someone else knew the life they had. They might have fought often, have disagreements and jealousy but still they certainly cared for one another. They played together. They saw the abuse, fear and sadness the other lived. And they comforted each other. Until Heihachi pitted them one against the other again. So both Lee and Kazuya were rivals in things Heihachi forced them too, which also turned into a real rivalry, but also were brothers brought closer by the abuse. In my headcanon, they were homeschooled until highschool to hide the abuse and Heihachi not trusting his devil child Kazuya to behave.

While Kazuya was the little revolted devil in his youth and Lee was the well-behaved child, I think the roles somehow slightly inversed during their teenage years. Lee, who first probably was a nerd at school, loving mathematics (he was math teacher in Blood Vengeance even if it’s non-canon) and science like robotics, realized that his charm and beauty was attracting some students. So, enjoying the attention some people now were giving him, he started to flirt and exert that charm. He was the one others were fawning over, he was the one who got the attention, and he loved it. Despite still doing all the chores and training his father requested of him and still getting high grades at school, he decided that since he was almost invisible to their father, and tired of how disciplined all his Mishima life had been since then, but being also a bit more assured that he would not be thrown out of the house now that Heihachi put so much effort into schooling him (even if that threat probably came back sometimes but more rarely), he would become a bit more disobedient and he would also party with friends, somehow showing off his wealth to them to get more attention, and coming home back after curfew. Maybe sometimes being late at school, now busy smoking in some corner with other teenagers to look cooler and be more appreciated than the well-behaved nerd he was at the start of the school (Lee is often shown smoking in pictures). This probably pushed Heihachi to keep spanking his undisciplined teenager Lee, showing Lee even more that his father was not taking him seriously. But he also discovered that he could get others’ attention with his looks, his money and his flirting. If his father could not give him attention, he would get it elsewhere. Though he still wanted to be loved by his father but had found another way to heal his hurt over it. Meanwhile Kazuya also calmed down his angry revolt and was more focused on training to beat Heihachi one day. His angry tantrums were now useless, he was more calculating and less emotional.

But once they were adults, all would change again since Lee and Kazuya were now being implicated more with the Zaibatsu. Lee then began to realize that if he really could surpass Kazuya, he really could gain all of this fortune… Not just having great clothes and cool stuff like rich teenagers do, like he was enjoying until now, but being obscenely rich… even powerfully rich… Now not only was Lee confused between his love for his father, his need for approval, his fear to disappoint him, his own disappointment with how Heihachi was, his resentment for how he treated them, but now he also realized all he could gain from it. At first, he just wanted a loving family, he could now see that this would never be the case, but he could now have all this wealth… Yet he still hoped for his father’s love and approval… And between Kazuya and Heihachi things were still going well enough that Heihachi decided to teach Kazuya the more secret Mishima moves while he would instead send Lee to the United States, to the San Francisco Mishima Zaibatsu branch to complete his education. Another Heihachi calculated move that made both brothers jealous of the other. Lee was jealous of the favoritism and Kazuya was jealous of Lee’s freedom. A lot was going on in Lee’s head at this time. Not only was he jealous that Kazuya was getting the secret Mishima moves and time spent with their father as he was pushed aside in the U.S., he felt that his father did not deem him worthy of learning them (Lee never got to learn those moves in the games). Lee felt he had disappointed his father somehow and felt a lot of jealousy toward Kazuya…

So to forget his jealousy, his feeling of being pushed aside, feeling unloved and considered like an employee only, Lee started enjoying his freedom. He was in the U.S. far from the controlling presence of his father, far from Heihachi and Kazuya’s mysterious war, he had money, fame, he could party… Of course, he had a job for the Mishima Zaibatsu but he still could spend the rest of his time enjoying life… Trying stuff his father never allowed, more than cigarettes and coming home late, anyway not like Heihachi cared... He had the best in everything, he just didn’t have Heihachi's affection and esteem. But still, he had to keep up in his fighting, to impress his father when he would confront Kazuya again. He still did not want to displease his father. He still wanted to show him that he was worth something. So that his father would not really get rid of him. He may not throw him out of the house but he sends him halfway across the globe… So he hired a trainer, Marshall Law, and started to fight in underground tournaments, gaining his nickname Silver haired demon. Marshall Law and his friend Paul, and some other friends Lee made were not exactly the most elegant people so Lee let go a bit of the elegant costumes he had in Japan or at his work hours and dressed more like a rocker, wearing jeans and leather jacket. He was hanging with people from poorer backgrounds, like from where he originally came from. Maybe for a while, he felt like he could be pushed away from the family and those ordinary people were more his real social class and was a bit curious about them while wondering where he belonged… Though he would never tell them. No one had to know he was poor at first, no one had to know anything of his private life, in fact, but he liked to look like a rocker sometimes, meet simpler people and leave that corrupt world of business.

Lee relaxing with Marshall and Paul before a concert.

Because now that he was working more in those circles, Lee discovered how corrupt those practices really were. Not only the normal ones, that he had nothing against, it was the way it was, but also the horrible crimes, the threats, the murders… I always feel he had something to do in Mister Chang’s murder. Well, at least knew something about it. It happened when he was in the U.S. having a good position and learning of all the practices the Zaibatsu was using to get their way… So Lee probably knew (maybe a reason why he financed Julia’s researches, out of guilt of having something to do, even if barely, with her grandfather’s death). And he probably realized the full extent of the Mishima Zaibatsu’s corruption and evil practices, but did nothing against it. It may be troubling but it still was the way a business, some businesses, worked… (I feel that time period was when Lee was more selfish, caught up in his insecurities and ambitions). Lee still hoped he would get the Zaibatsu one day if he was not fully pushed away from the family, like he feared. Maybe he also had that small hope that maybe in fact his father trusted him enough to send him in the U.S… So he had to honor that trust. Either prove to his father that he was worth something or honor the trust his father put in him. Heihachi may be far away on the map but he was still very close in Lee’s mind. Lee still had to prove himself to him and please him. His stressful nature probably came back and he may have started to appease it with alcohol and maybe even drugs sometimes. He was realizing that things were getting more and more serious. He was enjoying the power, freedom, and fame his position now gave him but he would have to prove himself worthy to keep it while Kazuya was still near their father…

Lee probably didn’t fully know what would happen but he could feel something would happen between Kazuya and Heihachi. Either they become close and he is thrown away or they hate each other like they always did and one dies… The fact that one of them may lose everything probably troubled him very much. Lee really seems to undergo lots of changes at this time. I think Kazuya and Lee have grown more apart as brothers, they are not as isolated together as they were when they were children and they do not seem to have the same kind of life. And Lee does want to win everything but that impending family war was probably troubling him much. He probably does not want his brother to die or Kazuya to win everything and somehow both options were probably scaring him. He could not lose that rivalry but he could not accept his brother being killed. Or their father. He still owed so much to his father… And even if Lee still loves Kazuya, he does want to have the great life and prestige that Heihachi is showing before his eyes. If he is not rejected by Heihachi, if he can get his hands on all that, he will. When he was younger, he mostly wanted a roof, food, and love from his family but now the money and power did corrupt him more.

Once the first Iron Fist Tournament arrived and Lee truly realized that he could get the same as Kazuya if he wins, in fact get more than Kazuya, win the whole Zaibatsu, right now with that tournament, despite not being a full Mishima (so his father does care about him to deem him worthy enough to fight for it) he definitely does not want to back down. He may get on bad terms with Kazuya, but that is a once in a lifetime chance. Besides, it is also what their father wants, he must make him proud. His father will see he is worth something. Lee has a chance to not be the adopted child anymore, to not be the little brother anymore, the second one in everything, he can be a full Mishima by gaining the Mishima Zaibatsu and he won’t back away.

So when the first King of Iron Fist Tournament happened, Lee went back in Japan to participate. In the end, he was beaten by Kazuya before his brother went to beat their father and gained the Mishima Zaibatsu. The Tekken 2 bio says that once Kazuya won the tournament, Lee was mentally and physically destroyed and, in an old unconfirmed biography but very frequently found on Internet, Lee would have been so crushed that he fled to the mountains, screaming (somehow incapable of confronting his problems and showing his emotions. Lee does seem to be quite emotional by his ending where he jumps in joy and laughs in Tekken 1). In any Tekken 2 bio versions anyway, he had some kind of breakdown and depression. Lee still needed to prove himself to his father, to himself, and by this, he had to become a real Mishima and be better than Kazuya in many things to prove his worth and belonging. Kazuya learned the secret moves, Kazuya won the fight and the Zaibatsu, their father died… What did he have anymore? It put a lot of pressure on Lee’s shoulders which explains why Lee was totally destroyed after he lost to Kazuya in the first tournament.

Both brothers now believed Heihachi to be dead, Kazuya finally had his revenge and threw him down from a cliff. Lee knew that this tournament was the conclusion of Heihachi’s abuse towards Kazuya and him and he probably was relieved by it. Maybe once he calmed down about what he lost, he even joined his brother for this reason after the tournament. He knew that tournament was in fact an elaborate way for Heihachi to kill Kazuya and he was horrified by it. He still didn’t understand why Heihachi always hated his son so much. Though he also was disappointed to have lost his chance to win the Zaibatsu, Lee was probably still confused in his feelings toward his father. He may have been torn then between mourning his father's death or feeling relieved that his tyrannical attitude was over but he also understood why Kazuya killed him. They both knew that façade of cheerful, generous and philanthropic man, was hiding something much uglier.

Once Kazuya was at the helm of the Mishima Zaibatsu, he took Lee as a secretary. Despite Lee’s talents and knowledge of the Zaibatsu, he didn’t give him a better position, possibly to humiliate him since he was resentful that Lee tried to steal his inheritance. Lee accepted Kazuya’s offer since he didn’t really have any choice. He could quit and leave the Zaibatsu but then would lose all chances to one day get a better position, maybe even the Zaibatsu, and he probably had anxiety at the thought of trying to get a job elsewhere since he didn’t have faith in himself, he got his job at the Zaibatsu because he was Heihachi’s son. Heihachi never allowed him to be independent and confident in himself. Lee was now depressive, he wasn’t in a state to fight for anything anymore, so he then went to work for Kazuya as his secretary. He thought that Kazuya will probably stop being angry at him, he will probably elevate him to a better position soon and maybe, without Heihachi to pit them one after the other, they could get along…

My art of Lee and Kazuya celebrating a new beginning as brothers.

The fact that he tried to get the Zaibatsu and that Lee could not hide his frustration of having lost, brought Kazuya’s resentment upon him and it didn’t start as the best relation but working together, in the same office each day, also brought them closer once more. I like to think Lee tried to get along with Kazuya during that time and Kazuya calmed down in his anger. If he hated Lee, he would not have taken him near him, he wanted to annoy him, yes, but not get rid of him. Lee was one of the closest people to him (I often played Tekken bowl with both the brothers for this… throwing bowling balls at Heihachi’s head). Kazuya also could get along with Lee as long as Lee knew who was in charge. (You need to see @erenaeoth’s headcanons for Kazuya, they are excellent. It is deep and thought about the Kazuya he roleplays and writes him. Kazuya is not just a mean villain, all his life is taken into account). Hanging out together, Kazuya also probably helped Lee in getting out of this mourning and confusion by reminding him of how their father was toward him, toward them, how Heihachi was a monster, which probably brought Lee to more freely feel a lot of unavowed resentment toward Heihachi. Without his father to manipulate him, he started to realize and dare express all the hurt Heihachi did to them and that he didn’t deserve that treatment from his father.

With Heihachi gone, Lee thought that the crimes he knew were happening at the Zaibatsu, like the murders and threats to people who didn’t comply, like what happened to Mr. Chang, could now be a thing of the past. But Kazuya didn’t intend to let go of Heihachi’s efficient way of ruling the Zaibatsu so instead of stopping the crimes Heihachi was doing, Kazuya continued them and doubled down on it, bringing a bad reputation to the Zaibatsu. He more openly started committing heinous crimes, he had abductions and murders carried out and even started experimenting on endangered animals. Lee was very disappointed but again he did nothing to stop it for fear of losing his job, his advancement in the Zaibatsu, and he still hoped to get along with his brother. Maybe it was even out of fear of Kazuya, since, in Tekken 7, he does mention that he possibly was banished because he knew of Devil “I believe the real reason the Mishima family banished me was because they suspected I knew about the devil within Kazuya”. (The Mishima family consisted then of only Heihachi since he killed everyone else but maybe you could add Kuma, his favorite son. Little seven years old Lars had nothing to do in this of course, he wasn’t there). So Lee possibly may have witnessed Kazuya’s devil during that time. I like to think Lee and Kazuya really tried to be close, they were the only ones who knew all of the other’s life and traumas, but it just didn’t work out: Kazuya was too bossy, Lee too jealous, they didn’t have the same life or interests for the most part and they completely disagreed on how to rule the Zaibatsu. They both were frustrated that the other didn’t see their point of view.

So Kazuya kept on taking the Zaibatsu in a bad direction, once more attacking the Chang family (to get the amulet they had, like Heihachi had done), Kazuya ordered Michelle Chang’s mother to be abducted, another reason why Lee would feel guilty toward them and help Julia’s research for a while. He also abducted Doctor Bosconovitch to get his precious knowledge and scientific talent on creating intelligent fighting animals from endangered and even extinct animals and creating robots like the J.A.C.K, the doctor had previously made for Russia. So Prototype JACK was now upgraded. In my headcanon, Lee worked with the abducted Dr Bosconovitch on Prototype JACK, which gave him the knowledge required later to work on his robotic company and to even help repair Alisa.

There seems to have been a time where Lee was also a bad guy and killed the old man who trained him so that he would not tell Kazuya but that seems to be a very old version and non-canon anymore if it ever was, like the running to the mountain thing (but maybe it was why Lee was the bad guy in Tekken: the Motion Picture). Then in other versions, the old man turned into Wang, who of course wasn't killed and Wang asked him to save the honor of the Mishima Zaibatsu, meaning that despite Lee working for Kazuya, Wang had faith that Lee would be kinder than Kazuya and Heihachi (Wang was tricked by Heihachi in Tekken 1 and believed him to be a good man for all those years but by then had finally realized what Heihachi was, maybe even suspecting him of having killed his friend Jinpachi, Heihachi’s father. What Wang really knew was never confirmed but Jinpachi did tell him before disappearing that he had to stop the Mishima bloodline and later Wang tells Heihachi that he won’t fool him again).

Living in the Mishima garden since Jinpachi and Heihachi allowed him, Wang possibly knew Lee since childhood and probably knew that he was a good person. He possibly saw that Lee still was, despite the situation Lee was now in, since Wang decided to put his trust in him to bring back honor to the Zaibatsu and restore it to the way Jinpachi intended it to be, by stopping all those crimes that both Heihachi and Kazuya did. Wang possibly did not want Lee to become like him: not taking action only to regret it later. He probably had affection for that little child who was cut off from his Chinese culture, since Wang seems very traditional. But unlike Heihachi, Kazumi, Jinpachi, and Wang, Lee and also Kazuya have never really been attracted to the traditional side - they never have traditional clothing, unlike many other characters. Lee only finally had a Chinese armor in Tekken 7 (my headcanon is that Wang gave him) and nothing traditionally Japanese. He had an old costume in Tekken 6 but more of an historical 18th century European costume (and the rapier item move to go with it). I imagine growing up, he probably watched seventies animes, like of course all those mecha animes that were legion, and Rose of Versailles, an anime happening during the 18th century, that is full of elegant people and full of roses and dreamed about this romanticized side. Wang is a more traditional person, more from the time period before the Cultural Revolution (he probably left China in 1966 if not earlier, when Mao ordered the purge of all capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society to preserve Chinese communism). He probably wanted to teach Lee the more traditional Chinese customs. Maybe if he had the occasion, Wang may have helped Lee keep his Chinese language and write Chinese, though Heihachi probably watched so that his children were not influenced by anyone else but him, limiting contact with old Wang. But now Wang could freely get to Lee.

More historical looking clothes Lee likes (and a vampire cape) and his childhood animes, full of roses and robots. (Rose of Versaille/ Berusaiyu no Bara,  and the robot ones, UFO Robot Grendizer and Mazinger Z)

But one thing is sure and canon, and that is that Wang offered to train Lee for the upcoming tournament (that Kazuya organized once he learned that Heihachi was alive). Wang was the boost that helped Lee get out of his apathy and depression. He acted as his mentor then and Lee always showed a lot of respect toward him afterward, calling him master or teacher in each game. So being given Wang’s trust, probably helping him in having more faith in himself, pushing him to listen to his conscience against those crimes, Lee decided to participate in the second King of Iron Fist tournament. His ambitions were to get the Zaibatsu, to stop Heihachi from getting it back, but also to stop the crimes Kazuya was committing with it. Yet by this time, Kazuya had also in his own internal struggle after meeting Jun. And his battle between Devil and Angel, between embracing revenge or love, which would weaken him against Heihachi in the tournament. Jun seemed to have been a good influence on Kazuya, she seemed to appease his paranoia and resentment. Lee probably knew Jun a bit and probably knew she had a good influence on Kazuya but he weirdly suspects her of being to blame for all that’s happened in Tekken 6 scenario mode. Lee Chaolan: "Kazama Style Traditional Martial Arts Dojo." Hmm, does someone here have a connection to Jun Kazama? Alisa Bosconovitch: Yes. One of her blood relations opened this dojo. It may be worth our while to investigate Lee Chaolan: I see. Perhaps the cursed blood of this family is to blame for all that’s happened.

I wonder if Lee had found out about Devil at the same time he knew Jun was going out with Kazuya? But technically Jun was in fact taking away that devil… In my headcanon, I prefer to imagine he noticed that she had a positive effect on Kazuya, I had read in the very old wiki that he helped her try to exorcise Kazuya by keeping Heihachi at bay and fighting him, which is why he is Heihachi’s sub boss in Tekken 2. But it was a passage that had no real official proof and got taken away since now everything has the official sources. But I would like to think they got along and wanted to save Kazuya…

Once Kazuya lost, Heihachi proceeded to punish his sons, both of them since he was angry at Lee for taking Kazuya’s side. He threw Kazuya in a volcano, apparently killing him, and expelled Lee from the Zaibatsu. He didn’t kill Lee, maybe he did not do it because, after all, despite the way he treated him, Lee had been his son for years, and even not loving him, he could not do that, Lee was not like Kazuya, he was a normal human, not a monster like he perceived Kazuya, and he felt a bit of pity toward him, so he expelled him from the Mishima Zaibatsu. He probably left him with nothing since in Tekken 6, Heihachi does seem angry to find out that Lee built himself some successful company so if he had given him something, he would not be surprised like this. Heihachi probably wanted to humiliate him once again by telling him, “Without me, you are nothing. I made you, I undo you.” In my headcanon, he brought him back to China, to the same street he found him in, to remind him what he was before. Being a narcissistic father, Heihachi wanted his son to see that he could do nothing without him, like he was nothing before meeting him and that since he betrayed him to go to Kazuya, he would not enjoy what his father could give him anymore, which also explains Lee’s constant anger toward Heihachi, who tried to humiliate him once again by exiling him with nothing (and also explains Lee’s revenge that are always kind of humiliating for Heihachi. Payback.).

With his many failures, the stress of competing, now truly realizing that he was nothing and never would be anything for Heihachi, and his brother’s brutal death (I headcanon Lee was in the helicopter, waiting for his turn to be punished by Heihachi so he knew what happened and was traumatized), Lee seemed quite worn-out once he was expelled. I think he really was destroyed and depressed when Heihachi got rid of him, he never really had the chance to rise from his previous depression when he lost the Zaibatsu to Kazuya. And it probably took some years before he could come back stronger, he didn’t build Violet Systems in a day. (I like to imagine he had to work and was a math teacher for a while like in Blood Vengeance before he started his company, I also headcanon that he put some money aside before he got expelled and could use it to partly help to start his project, but knowing his way of life, he probably spent most of his previous money on cars, clothes, parties, and beauty care sessions so he didn’t put that much aside). Since he was expelled and tried to hide himself when coming back, I feel that Violet Systems only recently became successful and Lee probably started implanting it in Japan only when he dared come back as Violet in Tekken 4.

But despite being miserable and shattered then, he probably would have kept hanging around his family if he had not been exiled by Heihachi. Somehow depressing and frustrating, that exile probably saved Lee’s life. Otherwise, he probably would have gotten even more corrupted by all the Mishima ways, by his resentment and frustration, while exiled and away from the toxicity of the Mishima family, he had time to think it all over without a bad influence around. He was alone. He could think by himself without trying to appease or please anyone. He first had that resentment and depression but like it was said in Tekken 4’s prologue, the idea of revenge left him so he started his new life and gained new confidence in himself. Maybe he learned to relax once exiled and this is why he is often seen taking life the good way, everything is excellent, his twenty years away probably helped him gain confidence in some of his capacities and gain some serenity. Until he went back toward the Mishima family… in a way to prove himself to them again…

In terms of his personality, I think Lee’s flirty and charming side is an attempt to get esteem and love from people since he lacked those things. But also he will never want real commitment or really give his heart. He will flee since he has to protect himself. Despite often being around a lot of people, I think Lee is a solitary person. I think he got hurt too much in his relations with his family. He was friend with Marshall and Paul before Tekken 1 and trained with them but there is no mention of it anymore, we do not know why but it seems none of them are trying to be friends again. I think Lee wants to keep people away from him. He looks very welcoming but his heart is hidden since he does not want to be hurt.

It is said that after his exile, Lee distanced himself to lead a solitary life. If we believe Harada, his secretaries are robots too, so he is surrounded by robots instead of humans. Of course, not all people who surround him are robots, he has a lot of humans at his parties, like for example, Tiger Jackson, who in my opinion seems to come often to those parties since he’s even got a place of honor on the couch in the Pool Party stage in Tekken 5 when Lee is not on it (not a robot, unless the lights on his clothes somehow indicate something… though in fact I do not think so).  Apparently a solitary life full of parties, so not so solitary… Then how was he solitary? By not getting attached to anyone. All those people all come there for superficial reasons. They are not close: they party. If you can see the lyrics to Plastic Love, it might be a bit like this. He was hurt in his previous relations with his family, he doesn’t want to be hurt again so I think Lee decided to close his heart to any deep relations. It’s not because he has some show off and exhibitionistic sides that he truly shows himself. He is in fact a secret person, presenting a superficial side to keep people far from his real self. Violet is the proof of that. He used the flamboyant Violet when he needed to be hidden, he played superficial to a larger degree to protect himself. Violet acts more expressively, crazily and even ruder than Lee who is more classy and polite. He uses that personality not only to reach Heihachi in Tekken 4 but also to boost himself with self confidence. Violet seems more carefree and it is probably good for the stress Lee feels normally. Violet is an escape and an armor, underneath his sunglasses, Lee is protected, like an armor. He is invincible. He is excellent.

In love as well, Lee seems quite superficial and to keep his distances. I don’t think he even wants more than admiration and attention. When he flirts with his secretary in the Fight Lab of Tekken Tag 2, he flirts like a teenager and seems to mostly have fun being rejected rather than winning her. Like he doesn’t want to really catch her, he also doesn’t want to be caught, and shows it clearly by having many women around him, warning anyone that he isn’t serious. His goal does not seem to be to have a deep romantic relation, he likes to offer the image of the sexy man or romantic man with roses but he always keeps his distance.

Maybe the only person he may get closer to now in terms of friendship would be Lars but even then, maybe not. They have a plan to make and are carrying it out, but they are not that close. Lee was interested in being his friend, maybe even brother since he seemed to know who Lars was, and he did offer to help Lars and seemed a bit disappointed when Lars refused (though Lee was also secretly already helping Lars’ army, Yggdrasil, with his money before this…)

Lars telling Lee he cannot involve him in this, refusing his offer when Lee asks to join force with him. Lee remains a bit frozen before he acts all “I don’t care, that’s fine.”

Julia was a good friend, as Lee mentions, but she is now reduced to streaming to get money, indicating, not that Lee doesn’t necessarily want to help her, but likely that all his money is going to Yggdrasil now… but still, again, maybe they are not that good friends since apart from the Tekken 6 scenario campaign, it never was mentioned that he was friend with Julia, again it might just be out of guilt for her family suffering at the hands of the Mishimas. Like Alisa, Julia also thinks he is strange, maybe another way to keep people away and avoid being seriously close to anyone. He does likes to flirt and even has some kinky sides, like we can see when he plays with Anna in her interlude in Tekken 5, he roleplays with her at first, then the loser seems to pay a price. I think the fun here for him was the risk of being punished, not being punished. Anna seems to be more the dominant one and enjoyed winning while Lee accepts his fate, maybe coming from the fact that Lee always obeyed. He lost the game so he had to comply...

Anna and him also seem to be friends but not serious lovers since Anna went to get married and Lee didn’t do anything. I think it is a side they both have and appreciate: they leave the other their freedom. They are friends with how they both seem to regret having to fight each other in Tekken 6 scenario campaign: Anna: “Yes, I became Kazuya Mishima’s bodyguard in order to work against her. But I never thought you and I would end up as enemies.” Lee Chaolan: “Neither did I.” Anna went to get married but Lee seems to fear commitment.

Lee is that self-assured seductive guy throwing some ‘Excellent!’s a bit everywhere, he doesn’t want to show the unsure, bitter and resentful person he is underneath. He wants people to see someone who has never been poor and never has been hurt. And being near him could get people hurt since he knows he doesn’t want to be closer. My headcanon about Lee is that he is a cis man, grey ace, polyamorous, akoiromantic, sensually attracted, pansexual. But that is my opinion. He likes to be sensual and look sexy but doesn't need to go further. He also wants affection from many people to feel loved but does fear to show himself too much, that is why the relations never go too far emotionally and seriously. Once he gets their love, he leaves to not go further and either hurt them or be stuck with any people who see deeper actions as commitment. That fear of commitment also comes from his past since he was hurt a lot and does not want to be hurt again so he leaves it more 'superficial'. He loves to be wanted, to be the center of attraction, like he never was in his family and that is what matters to him. Someone closer would dig too much to see the real him and, since he left the suffocating Mishima family, he is free and intends to remain free.

The forty-eight-year-old Lee is less hurt and more sure of himself; he succeeded with his business by himself; he has also somehow learned to let go, like he abandoned his ideas for revenge, and he does spend a lot of time relaxing to appease his stressed nature. He still has his moments and his need to be alone. We see how he is still unsure when he just beat Kazuya in Tekken 5 interlude, he says it like it was a surprise then jumps in joy. And falls, then quickly gets up and acts like it never happened. Even though he is more sophisticated in later games, then, he still seems to have a more anxious side underneath that he tries to hide.

As for his family, in the games, Lee now seems to hate Heihachi but he only seems to focus on the rivalry or be angered by Kazuya, but all his interactions with him are not as hostile as with his father. He does receive Kazuya with calm in the Tekken 6 scenario campaign:

“Kazuya. I wasn't expecting a personal appearance. Rebel army? Nonsense. I'll ask you to cease these mad accusations, unless you have some proof. Ahh, you always lacked elegance, Kazuya.” While he loses it when Heihachi invades his place: “What? Why are you in my palace?! You have no right being here! That's enough! It's time I released years of resentment upon you!”

And in his Tekken 5 interlude: Lee: Kazuya why do you always get in my way? Kazuya: You’re the one who won’t stay put, you maggot. Lee: You stole the position in the Mishima Zaibatsu from me! Now it’s time to take back what’s rightfully mine. Kazuya: You have no idea what’s going on. It’s a shame how stupid you are. Lee: Shut up! Quit your rambling and fight! Come on.

Though insulting, calling Lee stupid and maggot, Kazuya seems more dismissing of him, scornful but he doesn’t have the hate for Lee that he has for his father. Lee is an annoyance, not an enemy. And Lee seems to be angry as a part of their rivalry but not for some personal hurt, even when he worked for him as secretary. Of course it annoyed him, but his anger toward Kazuya still seems more like a matter of rivalry, while Heihachi hurt him more. So their relation may have turned bad with all that happened between them, but still to a lesser degree than the one between them and their father. It is Heihachi who is at the center of all Lee’s revenge endings, rather than Kazuya. Lee sees that Kazuya is the product of his father’s mistreatments and hate, another reason to push some anger toward Heihachi. Though he does seem to blame it all on Kazuya to the journalist in Tekken 7… “his blood has cursed the Mishima household.” But I think it’s on the devil inside him that he really puts the blame. And he will fight against Kazuya in that war now going on but again, it is to stop the war, not a revenge thing.

In their winning pose in Tekken Tag 2, Kazuya keeps his stoic air while Lee makes a small smile, somehow showing some familiarity and no real hate between them both.

#lee chaolan #tekken #headcanon

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Andy Garcia Filmography Part 2

Jennifer 8 (1992)

When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)

Steal Big Steal Little (1995)

Night Falls on Manhattan (1996)

Death in Granada (1996)

Hoodlum (1997)

Desperate Measures (1998)

The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)

Ocean's Eleven (2001)

#Andy Garcia #Jennifer 8 #When a Man Loves a Woman #Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead #Steal Big Steal Little #Night Falls on Manhattan #Death in Granada #Hoodlum #Desperate Measures #The Man from Elysian Fields #Ocean's Eleven

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Maia Kelly Intro

MAGGIE, 21+, CST; SHE/HER. | if you’re hearing VIENNA by ULTRA VOX playing, you have to know MAIA KELLY (SHE/HER; CIS FEMALE) is near by! the 28 year old BARTENDER AT AMBROSIA LOUNGE has been in denver for, like, EIGHT MONTHS. they’re known to be quite MANIPULATIVE but being ADAPTABLE seems to balance that out. or maybe it’s the fact that they resemble COURTNEY EATON. personally, i’d love to know more about them seeing as how they’ve got those ALWAYS QUICK TO RUN, LOOKING FOR ANSWERS, & WANTING TO FEEL LIKE YOU BELONG SOMEWHERE vibes. and maybe i’ll get my chance if i hang out around the RINO DISTRICT long enough!

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★𝘽𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙘 𝙄𝙣𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣★

Birth Date: May 28, 1995 Zodiac: Gemini Gender: Cis Female Pronouns: She/Her Sexual Orientation: Pansexual Romantic Orientation: Demiromantic

★𝘼𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚★

Height: 5′10″ Faceclaim: Courtney Eaton Hair color/style: Long, Black, Wavy Eye color: Dark Brown Tattoos: She has a small moon on one wrist and a small sun on the other

★𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮★

Positive Traits: Adaptable, Loyal, Charismatic Neutral Traits: Observant, Determined, Ambitious Negative Traits: Manipulative, Impulsive, Calculating Fears: Being alone, Failure, Being known, Death Goals: Being loved for who she is, Settle down somewhere, Find a purpose Hobbies: She’s very crafty even if she hasn’t really explored it much - especially painting, Listening to music, Cooking, Exploring new places

★𝙋𝙖𝙨𝙩★

Hometown: Auckland, New Zealand Education: High School Mother: Kora Kelly (fc: Simone Kessell) Father: Rhett Lancaster (played by Audi) Siblings: TBD

★𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩★

Residence: Rino District Job: Former con artist, bartender at Ambrosia Lounge Significant Others: No one currently How Long She’s Been Here: Eight months

★𝘽𝙞𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙮★

Maia had to laugh that her name in Māori meant “one who has unconditional love” because she seemed to have anything but.  She barely knew her father, only knowing that he knew her mother from a con she was involved in, so naturally when he wasn’t in the picture her mother tried her best to raise Maia on her own in her home country of New Zealand.  However her mother, Kora, couldn’t stay out of the business for long.  Most of the time Maia couch surfed, family and friends taking her in until Kora came back for her, and it wasn’t until Maia started being able to realize what the family business was that she realized she needed to be useful.

She started using her childlike charm and cuteness on her mother’s cons, always believing that if she did well enough her mom would make enough money and they could actually settle down together and live a normal life - maybe even her mom would reconnect with her birth dad.  But the more Maia grew up the more cynical she got, knowing dreams were something that she should never afford to let herself fall into one.  As Maia was of age she ran from home and started doing her own jobs, soon having a crew of trusted individuals that she thought she could call family.

Little did she know that trust was misplaced.

The last con that Maia did was one that was monumental, to say the least.  She was to pretend to be the long lost daughter of a banker, and if she wasn’t used to breaking people’s hearts she would pity how happy he was to actually have someone in his life.  After spending as much time was needed with him to trust her, Maia would start introducing him to a cast of convoluted characters and plot lines - eventually having him steal from his bank.  He got so far as hiding the money in his own place.  One of Maia’s crew members was supposed to set up a in-home robbery, even so much as getting the banker’s own personal savings, but on the big day when Maia walked into the house they were all waiting for her.  Seeing the look on everyone’s faces, Maia knew they had double crossed her.  

She grabbed what she could and got the hell out of dodge.  She tried to go home to her mother but her mother wanted absolutely nothing to do with her, saying how she wasn’t a good con artist and therefor had no use to Kora.  Maia stayed long enough to at least get information on her father.  Kora didn’t have to tell Maia twice, she left town and never thought of looking back.  

It didn’t take long in finding where her father was, she was good at finding information on people.  So without thinking twice she came to Denver in hopes of getting help.  Plus if Maia was being honest with herself, she wanted to know this other part of her history.  But she had to reason with herself that it was just getting information - after all she couldn’t let herself dream.

★𝙒𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨★

Grounding Presence - Maia can be a bit of a wild child and would benefit from someone to calm her tf down

Family - Either her actual family or a found family, Maia would love to get to know people enough to trust them and not feel like she’s always On A Job™️ and trying to sell someone she’s not

Wild Child - On the other hand let’s go crazy, let’s get stupid and have some fun.  She’s always down to have fun and try new things

Role Models - Maia could use some role models in her life, she hasn’t exactly had proper ones in her life growing up

International Friends - Maia has spent most of her life in New Zealand/Australia but has probably traveled to some countries around the world since turning 18 so maybe they met up?

One Night Stands/Friends With Benefits - Maia takes some time for true romance to blossom but she’s totally down for some sexy fun times/flirting

Neighbors - She’d make friends easily with those living near her (on the flip side maybe they have had a run in or two)

Old Marks - This doesn’t have to necessarily be her last mark that got her fleeing but it could be someone she scorned in the past (will be an official WC sent in)

Crew Members - Doesn’t have to be the one(s) to turn on her but imagine if it was 👀👀 (will be an official WC sent in)

★𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩★

Vienna by Ultravox

Stuck by The Aces

She’s A Guillotine by The Blood Arm

My Number by Foals

Heart of Glass by Blondie

Masseduction by St. Vincent

Drinkee by Sofi Tukker

Let’s Go On the Run by Chance the Rapper

Electric Feel by MGMT

Pursuit of Happiness by Lissie

#&& this means nothing to me (maia kelly) #maia intro #chq;intro #absent parent tw #literally nothing has changed except for updated amount of time here to reflect it ksdjrew

[angel-maldonado-enthusiast]

Steal Big Steal Little (1995), dir. Andrew Davis.

#steal big steal little #steal big steal little 1995 #1990s #andrew davis #andy garcia #rachel ticotin #alan arkin #joe pantoliano

[soft-and-exhausted]

I doubt that I'll ever write it, so here are some notes for a fun little Talia x Margot AU! Feel free to add thoughts!!!

Potential Marlia Highschool AU

- 1986 (they're 16) 

- They meet at a party after Margot came to their school in the middle of the year

- She is constantly watched over by a pale bulky guy standing outside the school, who drives her places, too (bodyguard)

- Margot has been the talk of the school, with that sudden arrival and the golden locks, and her uh... attitude, so Talia notices her right away

- Sort of standing by herself after fending of some guys

- Margot clearly doesn't belong (its a teenage rebellion thing, she'll go back to private school in a few years - but her mother is very upset)

- No one's really talking to the new Student, just a bunch of guys hitting on her (Talia knows the feeling)

- So Talia moves in and offers her a drink, no ulterior Motive

- They're both super flirty from the get go, its just how they communicate (smoothly lmao)

- Talia practically abandons her friend group to hang out with Margot that night (they're not very happy)

- Talia tries to include Margot in their activities after, but it doesnt go so well; something about them doesn't mix

- Margot introduces her to wine and Talia takes her to a Mall/Retail park (Margot loves a bargin, she realizes)

- Talia realizes that Margot seems a little lonely and pressures her friends and family to invite her in and they inevitably hang out even more

- share a love for; art, trespassing, nighttime strolls, workouts (Talia boxes and Margot plays tennis, they find common ground with jogging)

- obviously they go on jogs together and end up late one evening in the forest, by a lake, so they go skinny dipping

- they realize that they share a passion for working each other up and making out too

- teasing, banter and silent long glances are their love languages

MARGOT

- Margot the oldest of Three Daughters

- Her sisters and Mother (father deceased, Mother killed him actually) don't live nearby so she's by herself in one of the families vacant properties 

- Nobody at school knows though (until Talia), because she's pretending to be a regular normal person, for funsies

- She's already had her first kill and she's not too upset about feeding lol

- She's getting better at leaving no trace and body behind, too!

TALIA

- Talia has a younger brother

- Her mother is ususally traveling for work but she's close with her dad

- They have a very homey two story with a big yard that shows all the landmarks of a happy childhood

- She's lived here all her life but longs for the world outside of xyz-town

- Talia has her life mapped out, college plans and all

- Love isn't really part of her plan (yet), because she sees how lonely her father gets when her mom isn't around

- she DOES enjoy the occasional flirt and is not immune to Attrection (tm)

HOW IT ENDS

- Margot ultimately teaches Talia how to be a hunter (to protect herself when they're out together... against potential threats and against Margot herself)

- Talia joins the guild after their falling out

- Margot returns to her mother's 'protection' after

- They dont see each other again until they're way older

- Margot meets Sebastian in 1995 (while she is lingering in the small town that Talia has chosen to marry Jack in - watching from afar

(He's very sweet and helpful and a litttle cocky, but sickly pale - so she doesn't feed on him - he sure enough manages to charm her head off though, Sebastian is determind like that - and Margot has a not so secret weakness for headstrong lovers with big hearts!)

- Talia never finds out that Margot was there (that for a moment, the blonde had considered crashing her wedding to steal her away, even after all this time)

- Sebastian knows that Margot was chasing a lost flame and took the risk of being a (late) rebound anyway

PRESENT DAY

- It's a bit of a shock when their daughters fall in love in highschool. But to be fair, how could Talia know that Margot would have returned to Savannah?

- Maybe they were both chasing the ghosts of their first love

- It becomes apparent quickly that (whoever spoke to the other first in the show) wants to pretend that they're strangers and the other is fine with that!

- Margot teases her by saying she can tell they'll be friends

- old feelings bubble up quickly, rage is all that can really push them down

#marlia #talia burns #margot fairmont #talia x margot #first kill #first kill netflix #first kill au #au #highschool au #babbling

[ghost-guard-13]

Quite a Disguise

Requested by @oolunafoxoo Hope this is kinda what you imagined <3

Nick Fury x Talos

Warnings: Language, Guns, Blood, Violence, Death, Smoking

Summary: Going undercover per Fury's request yet again, Talos wants nothing more than to get into his own skin once the mission is done. When Nick unexpectedly appears in the middle of the final day, Talos must play along, but can't help but mess with his friend along the way. (Takes place around the 1990's - 2000's, no real specific date) (This isn't my best work ngl but I sorta like it) (Also sorry if they're a little OOC, sometimes I have trouble with writing characters that aren't mine so- sorry :])

Talos dragged the unconscious body into a supply closet, mimicking the mans appearance as he did so.

The man's name was Novak Smithy, a member of the organization known as The Raven. They had been causing trouble on a national level, and although it was important enough to get on Nick Fury's radar, it wasn't big enough to drag S.H.I.E.L.D into its mess.

Hence why the shifter was here, taking another mans face and stealing the means to take the organization down from the inside, per his good friends request.

He harbored deeper feelings for the dangerous director of the world's largest, most secret company meant to keep the world safe, of course. He had since around 1995. But that was a problem for a later date.

Slipping Novak's I.D. and other possessions from his person, he rehearsed what information he knew about him prior.

Nick hadn't given him much time to prepare for this job, nor a specific target to shift into, so he had taken it upon himself to choose a higher ranking officer in The Ravens ranks and study him for a week or so from afar, taking the appearance of passerbys throughout the days. Finally he felt confident enough to get the ball rolling and finish this mission. He wanted to be in his own skin again.

"Just a few more days," he whispered to himself, shaking out the broad shoulders he now had.

And so, turning off the lights and entering the empty hallway - one of the only ones without a camera - He straightened his now shoulder length hair and army green jacket, breaking off the closets jaunty doorknob on his way out and dropping it into a nearby bin.

Copying the low-hipped saunter he had seen Novak take on throughout his day, he began the hard part of his job, copying the mannerisms and such from his hosts everyday life.

He just hoped it wouldn't be long.

~ Six Weeks Later ~

Talos walked beside Novak's closest friend and associate, Isaac Lloyd, the chilly breeze whispering the coming of Autumn in their ears. The Skrull shimmied further into his jacket, muttering to his 'friend' in vague codes, or simply commenting on the pedestrians of New Jersey.

He had learned more than he thought he would in the last month, most likely enough to give Nick an update, if not blow the place to the ground, and he was ready for the final day to end.

What he had seen here though...he knew he'd never forget. The morbid methods they planned for the future, the ideas he had to give in order to stay out of suspicion, the way they treated their prisoners was inhumane. He wanted to leave during the first hour within the compound, but he stuck with it, knowing no one else would suffer if he saw this to the end. At least not by their hand.

Which led to now, where he and Isaac travelled to a nearby coffee shop to pick up lunch for the members of today's shift. They visited so often that the middle aged employees paid below minimum wage had memorized their entire order.

As Isaac rattled off their orders anyways in that husky accent only smokers seemed to master - a sound Talos wasn't fond of - Talos let his eyes wander the danky diner. He saw a few sketchy regulars, and an old lady he's seen visit every other week for one reason or another. She always gets the same thing, and an extra plate of steak and chips to go, he assumes for some sentimental value of a lost one.

Besides that however, he didn't see anything new. Same flickering fairy lights, same checkered tiles and same peeling rose red walls. A sad little place really, but the food was decent.

He nearly turned back to boredly stare into the tip jar when a shadow in the back seat caught his eye. The seat that always seemed to be empty.

First looking out of the corner of his eye, he made out a silhouette he couldn't help but call familiar, the warm and dark colors adorning its limbs pulling him in.

Stretching back and turning his head, he locked eyes - or eye - with none other than Director Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Shit.

Why was he here? How was he here? When was he-

Shit.

That seemed to be the main word going through his head at the moment.

But the strangest thing? Nick didn't use any secret signal or mouth a word, never even kept eye contact for more than that second. He looked away so fast that Talos wasn't sure if it had happened at all.

But Talos couldn't not stare.

The dim lights shining on his dark hickory skin, the eye patch he wore blending with the shadows, the intense calculation that rested within his deep iris watching his cup of coffee with personal offence, the natural turn of his lip set in his skin.

He must be here for more than a cup of coffee though.

When the one-eyed man glanced his way again, he quickly looked away, thankful for the tan skin that overpowered the blush creeping up his neck.

Wait a second-

That's right, he didn't know he was him.

Nick didn't know who he had taken the face of, but there was no chance he hadn't been keeping tabs on the group since his arrival either, so while he didn't know who he was...

He knew Novak.

Shit.

~ Five minutes Later ~

Issac had went out back for a smoke, leaving Talos on a bar stool staring at his coffee, keenly aware of the director watching him discreetly like the spy he was.

The Skrull wanted nothing more than to sit and chat with his human friend, inform him of the horrid things he saw and give him Intel on other organizations The Raven was working with. And he would on any normal day.

But many things were at stake here.

For one, Issac could come back at any second. His smoke breaks were inconsistent, so he wasn't able to tell when he'd be returning.

Then there's the fact that Nick could choose not to believe him. He could think he, Talos, had been captured.

He was sure that with enough time, he could be convinced, but what time he had was unsure and running out...

He could give a hint, a few actually seeing as Isaac wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed and he loved to brag.....

Talos decided, finally, to bring a bit of light into his currently sorrowful situation.

Sure enough, Issac appeared minutes later, tapping Talos' shoulder, nodding his head back to the door he had just entered. Having no other choice, he nudged his chin up in confirmation. But just before he closed the door, he glanced at Nick suspiciously and quickly looked away.

That outta get his attention.

As the man beside him dug out another cigarette, he stuffed his hands into his pockets, watching his breath swirl with the rising smoke beside him.

"What's new, man?" He asked, the human slang falling naturally from his lips.

"The boss called, started talking about our next delivery."

Delivery, of course, meant one of two things. Drugs, and prisoners. Experiments, more like.

Humming in that deep voice he had adopted, Talos waved away the offered joint, leaning his head against the brick wall behind him, faintly hearing the door open. So soft that Issac surely wouldn't notice.

"What does she want us to do?" He questioned, keeping his indifferent tone. No one in the compound was bothered by their work, so neither must he.

"Oh the usual, break 'em in and all that." The brunette shrugged, letting the cigarette rest between his teeth. Talos needed to reveal a bit more than that if Nick wasn't going to do anything himself.

"What if we tried something different this time? Y'know, fuck 'em in the head instead of with guns and shit." He muttered.

Issac gave him a strange look.

"You've never had a problem with it before."

This was going south very fast.

"I just mean, y'know we could test out some other methods, see how it affects the experiments."

"Do you know how much trouble we'd be in if the tests went wrong? You really wanna risk that?"

"Well of course not, I just thought-" Talos struggled to fix this conversation.

"You've been asking so many questions lately, man. I thought you were just going through something, y'know all that shit with your wife, but now it's getting weird." He studied him with a scrutinizing stare. "You aren't...doubting anything right?"

Even as he asked, he dropped his joint, letting it burn out in the snow as he reached not-so-subtly for the pistol he had attached to his hip. Talos gulped, cursing Nick sending him on a mission alone.

"Nah man, I'm just tired is all, don't worry about it." He raised his shoulders, eyeing his hand warily. Issac narrowed his eyes, his hangover from the night before still apparent.

There was a moment of silence, no one moved, no one spoke, and Talos didn't dare breath, the two just watched each other, pupils shifting.

The moment ended when Issac pulled his gun, only to find himself disarmed a second later, his hand now broken and his 'friend' trapping him in a chokehold. Talos finally let out a breath, the precipitation clouding around his enemies head.

"Sorry mate, but we can't have that now can we?" And he snapped his neck with a jerk, catching the body already in his arms.

Dragging the 160lb man around the corner and to the dumpster, he hid him from plain sight. Rummaging for his I.D and all other identifications, he shoved them in his pocket and tossed some trash bags over his body, wiping his hands of death on his jeans.

The adrenaline completely rid his memory of Nick following them, or the danger he posed to his host's identity.

He was reminded, however, when the barrel of the same gun he had kicked away was pressed to his temple.

"Hands up. I don't take murder lightly." Nick spoke.

"Oh we both know we do what's necessary when needed." Talos said as he did what he was told, smirking at the fact he knew something Nick Fury didn't. He wondered if he should keep his disguise much longer.

"Is something funny?" Nick asked rhetorically.

"Not at all, Fury." He shrugged, glancing to the side and seeing Nick narrow his eyes with a scowl.

Suddenly the biting metal was removed from his skull, but his relief was short lived as a blinding pain erupted from his calf, causing him to fall to his knees.

"Shit!" He cried, grasping the wound and watching the man now above him. "What the Hell Fury?!" He could feel the skin around the wound burn and shift - as well as the blood seeping into the snow - his green skin revealing itself to the shocked Nick Fury.

"Talos?" He exclaimed, kneeling down beside him after dropping the gun.

"Who else, you lunatic?!" Talos huffed, tearing a piece of his shirt to better compress his wound.

"How was I supposed to know?" He muttered back, placing a hand on his back and the other on his leg, assessing the damage as he helped Talos tie the strip of fabric.

"You're the damn spy here! You read into everything,"

"Well clearly you've been getting better."

Hissing as pressure was applied, Talos grasped the director's arm, sighing as he sat in the shadows. Fury sat with him, thinking of a way to get out of here inconspicuously. It'd be a bit difficult, but he may be able to manage.

"Can you stand?" Fury asked quietly, aware that someone could walk by any second. Talos let out a hard breath and nodded, using the wall to help him while Fury held his other arm. Taking a moment to shift into one of the men he and Issac had passed by earlier, he made sure the man's coat swept over his leg to hide the oozing blood.

Limping to the end of the alley, Talos watched him look down either side of the street before deeming it safe enough to come out. Helping him walk to the car, it took everything for Talos to walk like a half-normal human. Albeit a possibly drunk one.

He was sitting in the front seat of Nick's Impala SS, observing his friend drive from out of the corner of his eye.

"So," he edged, a question for information. However it was parried with,

"So..."

Alright, he'd just have to start then.

"There's a shipment coming in soon, within the week most likely. Drugs and prisoners they'll be experimenting on. I could get you the passcodes, maybe go in myself." Talos informed him, watching the road as they drove.

"Are you sure you'll be up for that? You just got shot for fucks sake." Fury quizzed.

"You shot me. And I'm well aware." He gave him a side-glance. Nick grumbled in response.

"Well that was quite the disguise, Talos." He managed to murmur.

"Wasn't that the point?" He shot back. "Anyways, I'll give you more of what I've learned, I have a few data sticks in my pocket...er, somewhere." Talos looked down at his current disguise, shrugging it off. "Back to the diner, what were you doing there?"

"We'd been tipped off that something may be going down, and due to surveillance I need Novak, you, would be at the diner today. I was planning on calling in your mission today anyways. If at least for just a check up."

Talos accepted the answer, any fight soon leaving him. Resting his left hand on the console and resting his eyes, he peered down when a weight was placed over his skin. Covering his knuckles was the hand of the man beside them, a light touch, but a reassurance all the same. His heart beat just that much faster, but he took the chance. Before Nick could even consider pulling away, he turned his hand, trapping his fingers between his own.

A surprised noise came from the director's throat, but Talos just smiled, closing his eyes with his temple on the windows glass.

And together they drove home.

~ Bonus ~

Cleaning the wound and nursing it properly, Nick then carried the now half-conscious man to his room he often stayed in when working with S.H.I.E.L.D.

Laying the Skrull down and pulling the covers to his chin, Talos shifted on the mattress, sighing once he got comfortable.

The fearsome Nick Fury couldn't help but smile at him, his markings, his ears, and he could just imagine his beautiful black eyes glittering under the light.

Unable to resist himself any longer, he kneeled down and pressed his lips softly against his forehead, quickly feeling heat rush up his skin at the realization of what he'd done.

Quietly wishing his...friend goodnight, he left the small apartment and locked the door behind him.

Maybe friend wasn't the right word anymore...

#gay #secret invasion #talos x nick #nick x talos #for you page #fyp #lgbtq #marvel #fanfiction #fanfic #requested

[aether-friskets]

I posted 668 times in 2022

That's 668 more posts than 2021!

203 posts created (30%)

465 posts reblogged (70%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@ap0stle

@heather-garland

@carlyraejepsans

@friskibitz

@aether-friskets

I tagged 653 of my posts in 2022

Only 2% of my posts had no tags

#fanart - 209 posts

#op's art - 188 posts

#silent hill - 149 posts

#rambles - 134 posts

#undertale - 128 posts

#heather mason - 110 posts

#silent hill 3 - 109 posts

#safeutdr - 105 posts

#silent hill fanart - 99 posts

#frisk - 91 posts

Longest Tag: 137 characters

#and honestly? op's suggestion of him having been a member of the order is way more interesting to me than just 'otherworld manifestation'

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

not the most extravagant piece I've ever made for something like this but. Here's a little drawing I made for Undertale's anniversary!! Like I said I would!

It would've been nice to get a piece with more of the characters but alas

Also I feel like Chara could be better but I always have trouble drawing them quite right >:|

Anyway uhhhh yeah!!

23 notes - Posted September 15, 2022

#4

See the full post

31 notes - Posted August 2, 2022

#3

so I recall this line in outlast 2 when you end up in St. Sybil one of the first times. Blake says somethin like "Great. Back in the Fourth Grade." meaning those the stuff he's reliving must've happened in that grade.

And we know that 4th graders are typically either 9 or 10

(assuming Jess was in the same grade she was only 9 or 10 as well which. damn.)

But we ALSO know what year this takes place in, because there's multiple instances on papers and stuff with the year 1995 (in fact it's December 1995 iirc). I don't have any screenshots on-hand but I could totally go get some at some point lol

MeaninG Blake was 9 or 10 in 1995

We also know that Outlast 2 takes place not all that long after the first game does (due to the Murkoff Account, which, admittedly I haven't read in a while so feel free to correct me there). And we know Outlast happened in 2013.

This mean that our pal Blake is most likely 28 (or 27). Which also makes him the youngest, since Miles and Waylon are both supposedly in their "early to mid 30s" (I couldn't see the cited tweet so for all I know this could be inaccurate but it sounds reasonable enough for me to believe).

Also Waylon has two kids so I'm inclined to believe he's the oldest but like they're all like a few years apart in age anyway lol

Anyway this is probably really obvious stuff but I thought it was interesting for some reason

38 notes - Posted August 6, 2022

#2

random minor thing but I always thought that while Frisk's SAVEs are like normal manual save point saving you'd expect to see, when Flowey steals back control as Omega Flowey, the whole "File x loaded/saved" thing gives the vibes of someone using an emulator. Where you have multiple interchangeable save states that you can save or load to whenever you want, even if the game isn't normally capable of that.

In particular it makes me think back to repeatedly loading a save state in Majora's Mask because of the goddamn town shooting gallery mini game AUGh

Which I guess it kind of makes sense? Omega Flowey is artificially stealing control of the game, sort of like how an emulator gives you an artificial way of accessing a game (in the sense of like I could play a PS1 game on my pc, or a N64 game on my Wii U, for example). So not only does his save system make sense from an in-game stand point, it's kinda cool from a meta standpoint too.

At least, I think it is.

63 notes - Posted June 19, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

late night posting of an old-ish drawing

Psychonauts was big on my mind for a short while there and although it's not my current focus, the games are still really great!! And I still like this little drawing I did of Raz.

It was interesting trying to translate his design to my art style, because that game has a very particular look (in a good way).

also hope y'all don't mind my random mish-mash of posting and reblogging various stuff, I cannot be consistent to save my life

Hopefully I'll have some new art to share soon though!! Assuming this funk of mine dies down, anyway.

71 notes - Posted May 16, 2022

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[nickwildexx]

✩‧₊˚      NEXT GEN FACTSHEET       ( created: sept 2022 )

featuring : ELWOOD GRAY ( aged 24 ), mentee of nicholas wilde.

Elwood was taken in by Nick Wilde when he was 13 years old. Originally forced to work for Mr. Big after he tried to steal from him, Nick convinced Mr. Big to have the boy come under his wing and the mafia lord agreed. Since then, Elwood has been with Nick, expanding on his skills, learning as much as he could, coming with him to visit all the kingdoms and countries of the world. It wasn't long before Elwood became Nick's right-hand man, always at his side for big heists and cons (the start of the Wilde Bunch). He loved this life, truly, but recent events have had him second-guessing what kind of life he wants. Following a passion for music, following a love ... can he really have everything ?

inspiration : rusty ryan ( ocean’s 11-13 ) , michael pardue ( miss pettigrew lives for a day ) , orpheus ( greek myth / hadestown ), raoul ( phantom of the opera ), dimitri ( anastasia ), linus larrabee ( sabrina 1954/1995 )

zootopian attributes : as a gray fox, elwood’s traits are night vision, skilled climber, and enhanced hearing. it’s not superpower levels, but it’s higher than the average human being.

other skills : con artistry, playing the piano & improvising music, knowledge of criminal underworld/networks

** connections at the end !! **

GENERAL

full name. elwood gray . nicknames. el. date of birth. 21 april age. 24 years old. gender. male. pronouns. he/him. sexuality. bisexual. place of birth. zootopia, tundra town. current residence. here ... there ... everywhere ... (mainly in elias tho)   occupation.  part of nicholas wilde’s crew ( the wilde bunch )         

APPEARANCE

height.   6' 0" (1.83m)   build. lean muscley. hair colour/style. brown hair, cut short, bit flippy, looks like this.  eye colour. blue. piercings. ear piercings. tattoos. a switch-knife inside his left shin, club-diamond-heart-spades along his left knuckles. notable markings. lines of 4 scars in his inner right arm, made from spiked brass knuckles. glasses/contacts? n/a 

faceclaim. mike faist <3

PERSONALITY

tropes. anti-hero, deadpan snarker, number two (second in command of nick’s crew ... this also affects their dynamic in general so its v important!), gentleman thief, five-finger discount, took a level in kindness, dance of romance 😌 positive traits. humorous, calm, patient, observant, hopeful negative traits. reserved, insecure, sarcastic, dishonest (sometimes ://), cold likes. food (trying new things yes always), games, stealing, cooking/baking shows, classical music, performing music, movie scores, roses dislikes. being patronised, disloyalty, betrayal, being called out for unexpected things rip, being cornered, uncertainty vices. smoking

RELATIONSHIPS

mother. N/A! father. mentor nick wilde.  siblings. N/A significant others. shh its a secret.  friends/acquaintances. ( more detailed gdoc available on discord! )

rosalie charmont : close .... friends ❤️👀 

ezrael binx : close friends

nanami nakamura : friends

laurent utonium : business friends 

seth charmont : close friends 

kieran adrastus : polite acquaintances

ada teague : acquaintances ? polite ? 

rory utonium : the wilde bunch, work besties 

cthulhu “carrie” skellington : the wilde bunch 

marisol bowie : friends 

alessi paguro-scorfano : ??? 

sofia paguro-scorfano : friends 

levi paguro-scorfano : friends

dixie reyes : nobody friends 

manuela nunnelley : friends/sister-figure

TESTS

zodiac sign. taurus hogwarts house. hufflepuff.

SKILLS & STATS

languages spoken. english, french, ASL drive? yes. jump start a car? yes.  change a flat tire?  yes. ride a bicycle? yes. swim? yes. play an instrument? piano, expertly. play chess?  yes but doesn’t like it. braid hair? learning lmao. tie a tie? yes. pick a lock? YES VERY WELL sew? no rip it’s wobbly

[ WANTED CONNECTIONS ]

> friends. being under nick wilde’s wing, elwood would have been with him visiting all his friends in different places. he is very charming and a quiet soul, but also gets into a lot of reckless shit. 

fellow thieves? fellow con-ners?

much more better at physical fighting than nick lmao. stands his ground, doesn’t run.  bar-brawl buddies?

music-lover pals. do a little concert together pls

wise friends. el is a bit of a mess in terms of decision-making. there’s a lot he has to decide on rip (to be revealed in full bio eventually).

> close friends. confidant, ride or die, no judgement circle. 

> exes (before age 22). short-term relationships, can end amicably or not. elwood is somewhat distracted in relationships ...

> enemies. anyone who doesn’t agree with him. he hangs around royalty a lot and is still very much involved in cons and criminal organisations (mainly based in zootopia, though nick also pulls some international games). he doesn’t advertise that he’s a thief, but if he’s walking with nick wilde, everyone can suspect it.

#watask #nextgen. #nextgen: elwood gray #PLS ELWOOD NEEDS FRIENDS #this took me so long and its just a factsheet cries