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veryace-ficrecs · 21 hours
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Hi! Hope you take requests: any Trafalgar Law-centric angst/dark/whump recs? I would really like to see him suffer. Thank you!
I absolutely do!! I love answering asks! :D
Trafalgar Law Angst Fic Recs
This list will include all ratings and tags, so read at your own discretion! :)
Some Kind of Joke by gryphonshadow - Rated E
When Trafalgar Law’s duel with Doflamingo on Green Bit ends disastrously, he winds up the shichibukai’s prisoner. He never expected this outcome. How did it come to this? And is there any escape from this hell? AKA a dark re-telling of the events of Dressrosa and what came after.
Day 2: woven birdcage by via_the_cryptid - Rated T
Law doesn’t want to be caught. He knows what will happen if his pursuer catches up to him.
In the Hands of the Enemy by GrimoireReads - Rated T
Set after Doflamingo takes Law prisoner. Trafalgar Law was ready to die when he set foot on Dressrosa, but Doflamingo doesn’t make it any easier.
Frozen Heart by kitnjinx - Rated T
For as long as Law could remember, cold had followed him in one way or another. He had been running from Death for just as long, snapping and snarling back at a world that had only ever kicked him down. He always reasoned he would die the same way. Cold, angry, alone. Too bad there's so many people who keep having different ideas about his fate.
but were we ever really human? by Gali-La (Galileoleo), gendervapor - Rated T
There was hope. It wouldn’t end here. Fallen scrap and bolts tumbled from his arms as Law ran through the snow and permafrost, back to their hidden shelter. His frozen operating room. His second chance.
Again by Arrows4_Writes - Not Rated
At first, all he could see was white; all he could feel was the cold. It reminded him of home. It reminded him of Flevance. But he wasn't in Flevance. Flevance came with the sounds of screams and the smell of burning flesh. He wasn't sure what he was doing here. Or where "here" even was.
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Law has a Nightmare of Minion Island/the day Cora died
Tradition by Sleeping_Songbird - Rated G
After celebration with the Hearts, Law indulges in his own birthday tradition
lifeblood (i'd bleed for you every time) by kermit_coded - Rated T
Day Two Alternate: Gunshot Wound(s)
you are never alone by asphyxiiated - Rated T
With trembling hands, Law opened the casket to reveal the body that gave him the world.
Grief, as a Knife. by rosiinantes - Rated T
Trafalgar D Water Law, and his intimate familiarity with grief. -- That's when grief had gutted him. The knife had moved suddenly and all at once. Taken everything that he could have left. Lami: gone. Father: gone. Mother: gone. Everyone he had ever known. His teachers. The friends he had at school. The lunchtime bully. All of them were dead.
Self-Destructive Tendencies by Talvituhkat - Rated T
"Your three lives are a bargaining chip. If I refuse, Trafalgar Law will take my life along yours. A threat from a man unwilling to bet on tomorrow is something that raises concern for my own life."
Torture at the hands of Kaido's henchmen has certainly taken its toll on Trafalgar Law. Stressful situations mean that dissent ensues, pushing the Surgeon of Death to his limits and leaving the Heart Pirates in charge of their captain's recovery... both in body and mind. ____ Takes place after Episode 951/Chapters 950 & 951.
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imminent-danger-came · 10 months
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do you think MK is gonna have a circlet arc?? Going along with your eldritch mk theory jt could parallel his past life being contained and also more parallels to SWK and MK how fun
This ask has haunted my ask box for 3 days. Circlet arc??? CIRCLET ARC???? THAT WOULD BE TERRIBLE AND SO SO SO GOOD.
I have no idea if it would actually happen in show, but I have a feeling MK is at the very least going to have an "anti-circlet" arc. Go with me for a moment:
So, we know MK's bandana parallels Wukong's phoenix feathers in design, right?
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MK with the two ends of his bandana and Wukong with the two feathers coming out of his cap.
However, MK's bandana is ALSO a parallel to Wukong's circlet:
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And MK was given this bandana by Pigsy (presumably):
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This is basically a long winded way to say that MK has already been "crowned", in a sense. Unlike Wukong, MK never needed to be controlled in the same way his mentor did at the beginning of his journey. MK, instead, was given morals and love by our wonderful Dadsy from a young age, which effectively functioned as a "circlet", if that makes sense.
So, the bandana, a symbol of both who he is/was raised to be and the crown, is already his circlet. As MK is now, he doesn't need a circlet to exert control over him because of who he is—a good kid who is trying his best to make the right choices.
But, you know, there was that really scary scene that one time where MK didn't exactly feel like MK and he kind of went off the rails...and...WHAT IS THAT
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HIS BANDANA WAS DAMAGED BY HIMSELF IN AN EPISODE TITLED "Rip and Tear" !!?!??!?!?
SO.
Say MK were to rip his own bandana off, symbolically showing his complete decent into his "harbinger of chaos" role...that would mean another crown would have to go on to replace it, right?
Whether MK get's crowned symbolically with another bandana or an ACTUAL circlet remains to be seen, but the potential is definitely there! And I'm normal about it
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hella1975 · 5 months
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I come here today and bestow upon thee memes I made at 2 am after binging taob, except they’re all from the office.
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HELP I LOVE THESE
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sea-jello · 10 months
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WE GOT IT BACK GANG
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@celestetcetera SAVED BMC AUSTRALIA TO GOOGLE DRIVES EVERYBODY SAY THANK YOU CELESTE HOLY SHIT
LINK - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YzVDIrRE0je-fkXgmwARlf6xR9pftoZa/view?usp=sharing
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mako-neexu · 3 months
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a 'beginning' and 'end', a place to feel grounded, a place of bottomlessness, a place of safety and familiarity, the feelings of the living to a journey that seemed to feel as if there is no end in sight can be a burden no one can bear. a familiar feeling of floating as you fall almost endlessly, as if suspended in time, a memory that reminds you of someone from years past, a nostalgic feeling of soft gloves and pink hair, of a small smile of happiness and the faint smell of chemical and antiseptic... so close like a star. all the things you lost, all the sorrow, all the memories of cherished pain and joy shall be your guide until the end. you will reach that destination as one of the living. should you falter and feel as if time had stopped and nothing grounds you to the earth, and you feel that you have been falling endlessly without hope, may the bonds you have gained pull you up. again and again. should you fall, should your heart waver in the face of mind numbing ache to bittersweet nostalgia, everything that you keep close to your heart shall save you, one way or another. as long as there is an end to the fall, you are alive. you are alive.
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152glasslippers · 1 year
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tag game: shuffle your “on repeat” playlist from spotify and post the first 10 tracks
tagged by: the loves of my life @agentmmayy @myletternevercame @lizzybennets ❤️
I don’t actually have an “on repeat” playlist, so here’s 10 songs I’ve had on repeat lately
Long Day - Matchbox Twenty
Accidental Babies - Damien Rice
Borderline - Tove Lo
My Kink is Karma - Chappell Roan
Nostalgic for the Moment - Kathryn Gallagher
Monster - Hotel Fiction
Backwards Directions - Abby Sage
Bleachers - bluffs.
Way I Go - Gordi
Renaissance Man - Sidney Bird
tagging: @carry-the-sky @onebatch2batch @ballerinikelsea @majicmarker
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phoenix-flamed · 5 months
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My New Years resolution, or one of them rather, is going to be to have more of a presence on this blog again, especially in terms of roleplaying/interacting with people. Because I love this muse to bits, and I love Elwin as a character to bits too! And I will never stop pulling a Maes Hughes with him by whipping out my wallet of pictures of him and being like HAVE YOU SEEN MY BLORBO???! (yes Vonny we have seen him, we have seen him so many times by now oh my god)
I really, genuinely love interacting with you all, seeing you on my Dash and getting to know your muses and headcanons and thoughts, and exploring different scenarios and building up relations and unique dynamics between our muses and just. It's such a pleasure.
All of that is to say... thank you guys. When I first made this blog after the demo dropped, I don't know what I was expecting from it or the little RP community that would eventually form -- but I'm so glad I did impulsively make it back then, and I'm even more glad that I've stuck around, because for all of the little bumps along the way, and for as much as life has been kicking my creativity's ass... I've had the pleasure of meeting so many wonderful, talented people through it.
Thank you for sharing your visions of these characters with not just me, but with all of us. Here's to a brighter future for everyone, both on here and offline, and to all of the new folks we'll meet once the PC port of the game is released!
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fell-hound · 1 year
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“The fight for a better life starts with you” From my comic And We Love You.
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cambria-writes · 11 months
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hello! a week late for this one but believe me when i tell you it has felt like a hundred year war has been going on in my head. i'm alright now i think! should be getting better from here. i hope!
and here's to hoping that next week will have an upload, because that will be marking the end of Ravenloft. :)
thanks for sticking around! also sorry for any mistakes i did my best to proofread this but shit happens. yknow how it goes.
pairing: eddie munson x fem!reader rating: T warning: swearing, mention of death, reader's afab but doesn't have much description, lots of jump cuts but it's okay i promise, reader maybe has powers? 👀, mention of hospitals, intravenous hydration and needles, mention of wounds (and blood I think?), two people being idiot saps word count: 4, 253
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Eddie sits next to you at the top of the stairs, shoulder pressed into yours. He looks significantly better than he did when he walked in; as soon as your mother saw the sorry state he was in, she immediately ushered him into the bathroom with fresh towels and ordered you to get a change of clothes. Wayne tried to say that wasn’t necessary, but you and your mother both just kept talking like he hadn’t tried to turn down your hospitality.
Taking a quick glance at Eddie, you still find it unsettling. He’s wearing a pair of sweatpants you plucked from your brother’s room, and one of your old oversized Cocteau Twins shirt. Though he looks comfortable enough, you still think Eddie looks... out of place.
You take a breath and open your mouth to say something—anything, honestly, to break the silence—but Eddie clears his throat. Leans his elbows on his knees and lets his head hang low before turning to look at you.
“Carver’s dead.”
You blink twice. “Excuse me?”
“They found his—someone moved his car,” he says quietly, quickly glancing at the bottom of the stairs. You can hear your mother and Wayne talking. “They found his car at the Creel house. I dunno, someone reported a body, and...” Eddie clenches and unclenches his fists in front of him.
“You don’t,” you start, exhale sharply. “You’re not blaming yourself for—”
“Wha—no! Fuck, no, just...” Eddie sighs and brings his hands up to rub at his eyes. “I guess I figured if we could save Max, maybe...”
You nod. You understand. Maybe no one else would have to die.
“They’re pinning it on him, too,” Eddie whispered, running his hands through his damp hair before crossing his arms. “All of it. Cause of all the army surplus shit in the car.”
“Fuck, that’s...”
You don’t know what to say. Jason Carver was never someone you particularly liked; his behaviour was too strange, too erratic. You could never get a good read on him and, honestly, after seeing how he treated Hellfire—and pretty much anyone who remotely approached the punk vibe—you kept your distance.
Not that the hyper religiosity wouldn’t have been enough to keep you away, because it absolutely would have been.
But to know that he’s dead, now, probably because you’d left him in the damn house... and that he’s getting blamed for Henry Creel’s horrors in death? That didn’t. That isn’t fair. It’s a struggle to come to term with the fact that maybe this could’ve been avoided—
“Hey,” Eddie calls, turning a bit and placing a hand on your knee to grab your attention. “If I shouldn’t blame myself for it, neither should you.”
You huff and look away.
“Am I, uh,” Wayne starts, peeking out of the doorway to the kitchen, up the stairs at you. “Am I interrupting?”
“Wha—no, uh,” Eddie stutters, nearly tripping in an effort to stand up maybe a little too quickly. You clear your throat and shake your head.
“Where are you going?” You ask, craning your head to look up at Eddie. He gently pats his abdomen with a wince.
“Hospital,” he answers, carefully making his way down the stairs. “Now that I’m showered and been demoted back to town freak from murderer, y’know.”
You look down the stairs at Wayne for a few seconds, before getting up yourself to go down to see your mother. You lean into her side where she’s putting away the dishes.
“Do you mind if I take Eddie to the hospital instead?” You ask in a whisper. Your mother keeps a straight face and barely hesitates in her movements.
“Sure, why?” She asks quietly, stacking the plates and carefully placing them in the cupboard.
“Wayne looks exhausted,” You point out, stacking clean cups before passing them over. “Do you have any idea when’s the last time he slept?”
Your mother hums and puts her hands flat on the counter. She looks back at Wayne, still in the doorway, talking quietly to Eddie.
“I haven’t seen him sleep at all.”
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Going through triage is easy—for Eddie, at least. One look at the few injuries he’d gotten in the Upside Down had gotten him into a small room with a doctor right away. One look at you had a nurse bringing over an IV to help with what was apparently blatantly obvious dehydration.
No one puts up much of a fight when you and Eddie insist on remaining together. There were enough injured because of the ‘earthquake’ that the small rural hospital was already way over capacity, and they wouldn’t squander an opportunity to save rooms and beds.
The few bites and cuts Eddie had gotten from the bats were thankfully small enough not to warrant stitches, but they’d done up half his chest. You can see a few patches on his arms, too. Without being able to identify exactly what bit him, Eddie had also been antibiotics, fed through the IV he was also sporting for dehydration.
You lean back in the chair you’d been sat in while Eddie’s perched on the edge of the bed next to you. You stay quiet for a bit after the nurse leaves, after informing you both not to move your arms too much.
“So that...” you start, unsure what to say. “That was one hell of a spring break.”
Eddie’s bark of laughter catches you off guard. He laughs harder when he sees you nearly jump out of your skin.
“It’s not that funny,” you mumble, but you can’t help but start laughing, too.
It doesn’t even take a minute for your laughter to calm down, but the next deep breath feels a little bit easier afterward. Like there had been a vice around your chest that’s just... gone, now.
“I’m just glad we basically wrapped up the Cult of Vecna campaign,” Eddie sighs, fiddling with the IV with his off hand. “Don’t think I’d be able to keep going with it after...”
“Hmm. Yeah, well, at least now you’ve got songwriting material, right?” You’re rewarded with a short chuckle. “No, seriously, you could—”
“Hey, sorry, can I ask you something?”
“What—I mean yeah, sure, any time,” you answer quickly, frowning.
Eddie’s moved from fiddling with the IV to cracking his knuckles. You bite your tongue to keep from asking what’s wrong and decide to be patient about it. He opens his mouth to speak a few times but shakes his head. The fourth time, he speaks up.
“If you hadn’t been... caught up in all this shit,” Eddie starts slowly. “Would you have, I dunno, like. Would you have believed it?”
“What, the whole thing about the Upside Down?”
“No, I mean,” Eddie exhales sharply before raising his head to look at you. “About me. That I—that I killed Chrissy.”
You’re honestly so shocked by the question that it takes a second for you to try and formulate an answer that conveys just how unbelievable that bullshit story was to begin with.
“I’d literally eat my own arm before I’d believe something that stupid,” you try to say evenly, voice cracking. “No one who’s bothered to talk to you for more than ten seconds would honestly believe that.”
“Would... would you have come looking for me? If you hadn’t seen me?”
You open your mouth to answer right away, but pause to actually take a second to think. It’s almost easy to imagine a world where you’d never spoken to Eddie when the nightmares came back with a vengeance. A world where you kept either to the quiet shelves of the library or the silence of your room. Where you hear about Eddie’s alleged involvement in the murder of a high school girl and couldn’t believe your ears. Where you grabbed your car and headed straight for Forest Hills.
“I would’ve wanted to,” you answer quietly, turning to look down at your own lap. “I would’ve wanted to help.”
You turn your head back up when you hear the hospital bed creak. Eddie’s sliding over to make room, and pats the space next to him. You breathe out a short okay before carefully getting up from the chair and hopping up on the bed, careful to take the IV pole with you and not jostle your arm too much. Eddie brings his good arm around your shoulders and pulls you in; gently, though, like he’s worried you’d pull away.
You let yourself be reeled in, let him guide your head to rest just beneath his collarbone, and let him rest his head on yours.
Your stomach feels like it’s full of static. You feel like running away and crying at the same time.
You stay like that until the nurse comes back to check in.
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April 12th, 1986
You look around the apartment before dropping the last box on top of one of the stacks in Eddie’s room. Might not have been as big as his room in the trailer, but this is one of two rooms. Which means Wayne gets to have his own space for the first time in god knows how many years.
And Eddie is beaming. Not an ounce of care that the place is a bit narrower than he’s used to. You interrupt yourself mid-sigh when you notice that he’s already put up the Corroded Coffin flag and several posters. You can’t help but laugh.
“Dude, you don’t even know where the furniture’s gonna go yet!”
“Incorrect,” Eddie says, slapping the remaining corner of an Ozzy poster with a bit more force than necessary. “I know where shit’s not gonna go, so I know where it will go.”
You narrow your eyes and shake your head at him when he turns to look at you triumphantly. “Sure, bud. Come on, Pizza’s waiting.”
“I’m kind of weirdly happy those made it you,” you point at Wayne who, despite being at it since the crack of dawn, was still busy unpacking his collection of mugs, of all things. “Shame about the hats though.”
“Old man’s gonna have to live with the reality that he’s been balding since I was twelve,” Eddie quips, patting the man on the shoulder and trying to herd him into the kitchen.
You’re halfway through your first slice of pepperoni-bacon-onion pizza when you hear thumping and cursing from the direction of the front door. Eddie scoffs around his own slice of pizza and rushes to open the door.
“Thanks man, really appreciate it, super quick response time,” you hear Steve say, clearly through clenched teeth.
“Can we move, please?” you hear Dustin calling from behind the couch he’s apparently helping Steve carry. “Or did we forget I’m literally missing bones?”
“None in your arms, numbskull,” you hear Steve mutter. “Wait, did you guys start eating without us?”
“The fuck?”
You decidedly ignore the sausage fest at the front door.
“How’d you find this place anyways, Wayne?” you ask, pouring yourself a glass of coke. “I didn’t think anything would be available in April, especially after what happened.”
“Strangest thing,” Wayne starts, putting his slice down and leaning back in his chair. “Some government agent showed up at your parents place while y’all were out. Said the government’s giving me paid leave and ‘providing accommodations’, on account of the earthquake.”
You freeze, glass of coke nearly at your mouth. “A government agent?” Wayne only grunts in confirmation. “You’re right, that is strange.”
“Eh,” Eddie interjects, hopping up to sit on the kitchen counter next to the pizza. “We’ve seen stranger things.”
You twist and throw your arm around your chair to look back at Dustin and Steve as they make their way to the joint kitchen and dining room.
“Yeah, I heard Mike saw Susie on their way here. Spending time in a Mormon household...” You shudder and turn back to your pizza slice. “That’s definitely weirder.”
You ignore Dustin’s indignant and shocked gasp when Eddie catches your eye. He nods toward his (new) bedroom before hopping off the counter. You don’t bother excusing yourself; Wayne’s already back to unpacking and Dustin and Steve are busy bring a shining example of unrelated siblings.
“What’s up?” you ask when you enter the room. Eddie’s already bent at the waist going through one of the boxes.
“Got something,” he says shortly, quickly picking up the box and putting it aside to look through the next one. He gestures at the other boxes. “Find the one with the records?”
“Uh, sure,” you agree, hesitant, but you don’t have the chance to open a single box before you hear a loud ‘aha!’ Eddie’s victoriously holding a record over his head, before letting his arms drop and holding it out for you.
“What... Frank Sinatra? Dude are you good.” You frown down at the records—Fly Me to the Moon, of all things. It’s always been one of your favourite, but... but it’s not like you’ve ever told anyone that. Much less Eddie.
Not that you don’t trust that he would treat you the same as he always had, but... but, jazz isn’t. It doesn’t really match the rest of your personality? You’ve very much been catering your more punk inclinations, and jazz is...
“Your mom told me,” Eddie explains quietly, taking a careful step toward you. He leans a bit over to the side, trying to get a better look at your face. “She, uh. She said your grandpa played it for you a lot when you were a kid.”
You can’t swallow the lump in your throat.
“I... thank you, but why?”
Eddie nods at the record in your hands. “Pull it out.”
You look up at him long enough to give him a confused look. You pull the record out nevertheless. And it, itself, is completely unremarkable. The envelope that falls out, however, very much catches your attention. You slip the record back in its sleeve and pass it over to Eddie without looking.
You crouch to pick up the envelope and flip it over in your hands. No writing, huh. You flip it open, and it just takes the quickest of glances at what’s inside for you to scream and throw the envelope to the floor.
Two tickets for Judas Priest stare back at you.
You vaguely register Eddie shooing both Steve and Dustin away.
“You’re uh, you’re makin’ me nervous here,” Eddie says eventually. You crouch back down to pick up the tickets in their envelope.
“How?”
“Hush money,” Eddie shrugs, and with the amount of frowning you’re doing you’re almost worried your face will stay stuck that way.
“Judas Priest. In August, in Indianapolis. For Turbo.”
Eddie bites back a grin and nods. You look at him, down to the tickets, and back up at him.
“You’re coming with me right?” You’re barely done talking and Eddie’s pumping a fist in the air. “Wait, did you not intend for me to take you?”
“Uh, well, y’know I didn’t wanna assume—”
“And you put them in a Frank Sinatra sleeve?” You laugh, carefully tucking the envelope in the back pocket of your jeans before throwing your arms around Eddie’s neck and pulling him in for a hug. You almost pull away when you feel him tense.
But then Eddie sighs and wraps his arms around you, before promptly lifting you up just enough to spin you around once. When your feet are back on the ground, you look up at Eddie and can’t help but laugh again.
“We’re gonna see fuckin’ Judas Priest!”
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May 4th, 1986
It’s movie night, and this time it’s at your parents’ place. In light of which day it is—and the fact that the host gets to pick the movie—you’re forcing Steve to watch Star Wars.
The house is blessedly empty, save for the invited few. Your parents’ wedding anniversary is, very conveniently, also May 4th, which means they’re out enjoying a lovely vacation far, far away from the gaping hellmouth that is Hawkins. Your brother, after the initial mess and organization post-quake, went back home.
Steve is comfortably reclined in your dad’s La-Z-Boy, Nancy and Robin are glued together at one end of your parents’ 4-seater while Jonathan tries to look like he’s not bothered by the distance, leaning against the opposite arm. You’re sat in your mother’s rocking chair with Eddie sitting with his back against your legs.
Just as R2 starts playing Leia’s message, you hit the pause button on the remote and clear your throat.
“Just wanted to say that I’m moving out in July cause Helen owns a place but her tenants hauled ass when everything went to shit so if y’all wanna help just scream.” You hit the play button.
You get about a second of hearing Leia plead with Obi-Wan before she becomes absolutely inaudible under the cacophony. Robin and Eddie both stand up in shock, Steve tries to argue that he doesn’t even know if he can help you move, while Jonathan and Nancy seem content to let the other three run wild with their questions.
You can’t help but laugh. “So you’re all helping then?”
Eventually, when everything calms down—which is to say, once Robin and Steve have calmed down—and you’ve paused the movie again, you take the time to explain. Properly.
“So Helen,” Robin starts, staring down at her hands to keep track. “Library Helen that didn’t like you two years ago, went to see you, first, to offer you a house.”
You make a face and lean your head back.
“I mean yeah, but like. It’s not too far from Forest Hills, so the guy who lived there with his brother just left the day that—the, when the...”
“Wait, so is it like, furnished?” Steve asks, and you can already see the shining beam of hope flashing in his head. So you nod.
“Yeah, pretty much. Sense of style’s gonna be horrible but it’s whatever, right?” You look down at Eddie, still dutifully sat on the floor in front of your legs, and playfully tousle the top of his head. “What matters is that I have my own place now.”
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May 24th, 1986
“You didn’t have to come,” you say quietly, gripping your umbrella like it’s about to run away. Your shoes squelch uncomfortably with the rain. Your clothes feel damp and your left shoulder’s soaked.
“I know.” Eddie doesn’t say anything else, just occasionally bumps his shoulder into you to try and get you out of your own head.
And you were very, very deep in your own head.
It’s still hard to... to process, just. Everything that’s happened. There are three people dead. Three kids dead. And before that, there was—
Your throat still clenches when you think about what happened at Starcourt. Everything that led up to it—the progressively more imposing and suffocating feeling of something closing in. People going missing, the rumbling of the earth underfoot something massive.
Eddie bumps into you again. He doesn’t look worried or weirded out when you nearly jump out of your skin. When you look up at him, he just turns to look back ahead.
“We’re here,” he says, but gently puts a hand on your shoulder to hold you back. You can see Eddie’s gaze going from eye to eye to gauge your reaction—or maybe your current state of mind?—before gripping your shoulder a bit tighter. “If nothing happens...”
“Then I lose nothing,” you reply quietly, slowly reaching up to take his hand off your shoulder. “It’s fine. I’ll be fine.”
Eddie swallows thickly but nods. You don’t let go of his hand.
It was... maybe a little weird. It was probably a lot weird, actually, to want to come to a cemetery right around dinnertime. But with everything calming down, with no sign of anything extradimensional fucking with shit again, it was like there was a gentle pressure at the back of your neck pushing you forward. Nothing creepy, nothing unpleasant, just something like a hand trying to guide you somewhere.
You’d asked Eddie to come just in case.
You pull him along with one hand, first to Barbara Holland. Heavy in your other arm is a bouquet of carnations—two toned, the scarlet red edging the petals a contrast to the stark white of the rest. You place one in front of Barbara’s grave before taking a knee in the muddy ground. You put the bouquet down next to you after passing your umbrella over to Eddie. And then you just close your eyes and... and wait, for a bit.
You’re not sure you expect anything to happen. You’ve tried messing around with the cleric spell list, for lack of a better way to put it, but you seemed back to normal. No weird powers, no weird dreams. Back to being just a small down librarian.
You jolt back from a near-doze, and Eddie has to catch you—awkwardly, trying to manage two umbrellas—before you hit the muds.
“You good?” He asks, passing the umbrella back over to you once you’ve picked the bouquet back up.
“Y-yeah,” you stutter, looking back at the grave for a second. “Yeah, I’m... good.”
You go through several people like that; you find the grave, give a flower, kneel down for a second to... meditate? Only to eventually be shocked back into wakefulness.
The last person you go see is Chrissy Cunningham. If there’s a second of hesitation in his step, Eddie hides it well. There’s a moment when you feel bad, when you’re both standing in front of the grave. Eddie’s breathing sounds strained, even over the sound of the rain hitting your umbrellas. Your fingers bump into his when you blindly reach for his hand. You give his hand a last squeeze before taking a knee again.
You close your eyes, and when you let your fingertips brush against the headstone, it feels like a shock. The back of your eyelids are painted white, before everything gets eaten up by an endless black. This feels familiar.
When you open your eyes, you’re here—this strange in between place you’ve seen Eleven in. The headstone is still in front of you but there’s... something else, here. Something nagging at you.
You stand up to look around. There’s a feeling like knowing, in your bones, that there’s something else here. You take a deep breath and start by looking down at your feet. And then, slowly, outward.
There. In the shallow waters, something... red?
When you make your way to it, there’s no mistaking it: that’s a whole ass rose bud. Just sitting there like it’s always been there and this is exactly where it should grow. So, naturally, you move to pick it up. The thing doesn’t budge.
So you kneel down by the almost-flower, and gently try to pull it up. Somehow, it’s like the entire plan is... beneath you? And this bud is the only thing that’s made it to the surface. You don’t want to just—well, no, you don’t think you should just pluck the thing. That... doesn’t feel right.
Instead, you start digging your fingers into the ground as best you can to try and unearth the would-be rose. When you’ve cleared enough of the stem to get a grip on it and pull, you have to take a second to warm your fingers.
You don’t think about why the water’s cold.
Carefully, trying to dodge and protect the rosebud, you wrap your fingers around the stem and tug.
Nothing. Not that you figured a tiny tug would do it.
You flex your fingers around the stem a bit more firmly. This time, you take a deep breath, dig your heels in, and pull.
It’s slow at first, but as you keep the tension, the stem starts to budge. Then, all at once, it’s like an explosion of colours; like fireworks and paint flying everywhere. There’s a cacophony of sound, too; laughing, shrieking, popping corn and a crowd cheering. The sound of flash bulbs burning out, the smell of pine trees and ink and paper, the glint of glass.
You come too looking straight up at a very concerned looking Eddie. You’re having a hard time breathing; you’re not... entirely sure what just happened, there. You think you might understand, maybe. You hope that maybe you’re right. That maybe you just helped some people get... unstuck.
You only realize you’re crying when Eddie gathers you up in his arms and sighs. He doesn’t sound put out or upset.
“Your mom’s gonna kill me,” he says, nose in your hair. You laugh a little. “You’re gonna track mud all over the place.”
You appreciate that he doesn’t ask about what just happened. You don’t know that you’d be able to explain it even if you wanted to.
The two of you only spend a few more seconds like that before Eddie helps you back up to your feet. At arm’s length, he takes a look at you and makes you do a spin. He groans and pulls you along behind him, barely giving you enough time to grab the two umbrellas where they’d fallen.
“What the hell was that for?”
“My van doesn’t deserve this, man,” Eddie moans, looking down at himself before gesturing at you. “It’s gonna take forever to clean everything out! You’re lucky you’re cute.”
“...did you just—”
“Don’t. No. I didn’t say anything. Shut up and get in the damn van, you heathen.”
You return the kindness to Eddie; you don’t ask about why his ears are scarlet red the whole ride home.
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can i get Franzy in 1A? thank u~~
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sure, the horrors are unending, but you've got to serve <3
(outfit game here!)
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thefinalwitness · 9 months
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15 + 20 for atlas :3c
THANK U KIMMMMM FOR MY LIFE
15. What places hold significant meaning or memories for your OC? Do they have a positive or negative association with those places?
in a way, atlas considers all of etheirys sentimental and precious! it was the home of her original creator and best friend, and even though she's gone and the world is so different, atlas knows venat loved it then and would love it now. she was a force of change in a world that wanted to stagnate, movement where all else paused.
upon finding out they can traverse the reflections of the source though, and finding out an intact ruin of an ancient academy still exists, atlas does hold a special place in their heart for it. it's the only true fossil of what was, what they left so suddenly on their mission to save meteion. they didn't even think much of the school originally, but now that it's all that's left as it was 12k years ago, it's unfathomably precious to them.
they also, in a weird sort of way, feel sentimental about ultima thule. it was at the edge of the universe, more than lifetimes from etheirys, yet they spent 12k years there, and all 12k were in the effort of saving a friend they hadn't had for more than 48 hours previously. the place was lonely, hopeless and frankly it's the stuff of atlas's nightmares.
but it was also the destination of their last instruction from venat; the stage where her last wish to atlas would play out. and, for better or worse, it was their and meteion's home, and it was where meteion finally came back to them. they are permanently, intrinsically tied to ultima thule, and it'd be hard for them to feel only negatively or only positively for such a complicated place.
20. Has your OC ever done something terrible and lied about it? Did they run away or blame someone else for it? How long did they maintain the lie and did the truth ever come out?
post-ultima thule, i think they initially didn't LIKE minfilia very much? and minfilia didn't really like them either. but atlas sort of blamed her for venat's demise, even though minfilia was such a teeny, inconsequential part of it—like, whether or not minfilia had asked to return to life, venat was going to be no more that day. what she gave to save minfilia wouldn't have been enough to save herself.
but atlas struggles with that for a while, looking for a cause, a reason; it's easier to face loss when you believe there was anything you could have done differently, that there WAS a chance, that you DID have a say in the matter. but the reality is atlas didn't. venat was going to die that day no matter what they could've or couldn't've done. minfilia asking for life had no impact on that outcome whatsoever.
atlas, more than anything, lied to themself about it. that they didn't hate minfilia, not for that reason anyway, that they just didn't like her, even though they couldn't name one single other thing about her that made them angry. over the six months between 6.0 and 6.1, i think atlas is able to move through more of their grief and accept minfilia as herself, not as some kind of catalyst through which venat died. they're able to bond over their shared mourning. they both would've done anything to save venat, and they both have to accept that there was never anything they could've done.
they did admit they used to hate minfilia, and minfilia isn't surprised they felt that way. likewise, minfilia didn't like THEM much—venat often mourned their loss, even though she had ordered it, and minfilia found herself wondering, "how could you never come back?" even though she knew the answer was that meteion's song of oblivion would destroy everything, even though minfilia once had to make the very same choice herself, and had chosen the same as atlas. minfilia and atlas each felt as if the other had wronged venat, but really just saw a lot of themselves IN each other in how they'd "failed" venat, even though they'd done everything she asked, even though in her eyes they had beyond succeeded. minfilia and atlas never run away from each other, but they do have a wall between them that takes a long time to break down before they can admit to the truth of it all.
atlas isn't designed nor inclined to act outwardly cruel—as a creation of venat, they were designed to be a guiding star for the lost, in whatever way that person was lost (physically, mentally, etc). but on the topic of lying, they will lie if the truth brings little to no purpose or solace to someone else, and they will do so with ease. it's their purpose to help others find their way, not hinder them, and so long as the truth doesn't hold a crucial piece of the puzzle, they'll lie about it for the sake of the objective: helping that person find their way.
they don't always FEEL good about it though. even as a creation, a "concept" that was not born and does not necessarily hold a personality or "soul" the way a man does, they recognize that there is something to mourn in depriving another of the truth. that even if without the truth they are happier, even able to find hope they otherwise couldn't have, atlas recognizes that the sadness or anger remains, sitting between them and the recipient, never to be grasped, yet always touching both of them.
i think the one and only lie atlas has ever told, and it was to themself, that they'd never be able to face is that, every so often in ultima thule, they'd wished they had the power to kill meteion. that they hated her. that they wanted to go home. that meteion's belief that all hope dies, that all life is meaningless and death is the only answer, was further proven in atlas's weakest moments, when they almost wanted to give up, when the fight didn't feel worth it anymore.
they can't admit it because meteion believes atlas was one of the only people that never stopped believing in her, that never gave up hope for her. the fact atlas did eats at them, but to admit it—to confess that meteion was, at least sometimes, right about them—would be to obstruct her way. the truth would hinder meteion, possibly irreversibly, and so not only can atlas not tell her because they are not designed to obstruct someone's hope, they wouldn't even if they could. they don't think they could live with it being more than a ghost in their head, especially if anything happened to meteion as a result of it.
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imperaptorfuriosa · 1 year
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IM SO GLAD SOMEONE ELSE HAS SEEN CYBORG what are some of your fave 80s action movies?
AHHHHH YES HI HELLO THIS IS SUCH AN EXCITING ASK TO RECIEVE!! 80s action is one of my FAVORITE types of movie. some especially beloved ones besides cyborg are:
robocop <3 every time i watch it, it leaves this huge smile across my face. it is a perfect movie to me.
bloodsport. jcvd is king, cannon is king, this movie is trans imo, it deserved an oscar. end of thoughts.
police story. was stunt work even real before jackie chan?
the 1989 punisher. dolph lungren is so underrated it HURTS and he is BRILLIANT as frank castle.
road warrior. i'm a frank miller slut till i die. another Perfect movie.
american ninja 1 and 2. as i said before cannon is king, and when it comes to corny goofy but also Brilliant action, these are top notch. i legitimately think michael dudikoff should have been a star.
terminator, rambo, die hard, cobra, predator. classics, need i say more
over the top. might not count as "action" but it's everything to me so it's going on the list. another example of why cannon owns my ass.
i have to give a shout out to the 90s too, since were also such a great decade for arnold and JCVD especially with T2, last action hero, timecop, sudden death, knock off, double impact, i could go on
i'm also shamelessly linking to my two posts about transgenderism in 80s action and how trans arnold Schwarzenegger's movies are
[insert the "im not a fan, im an academic" scene from community]
:)
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itstimeforstarwars · 2 years
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Tell us all about the hollow sidewalks
Yes!!!
Putting it under a cut because it got long lol.
So here is the wikipedia article for Vaulted Sidewalks. It is very short, and basically boils down to "vaulted sidewalks are sidewalks that have a hollow area underneath."
Which is, yes, the definition. But they're very cool!
Basically, there's two things that tend to be under a hollow sidewalk, and those are vaults and tunnels. Vaults are little rooms that extend under the sidewalk that are simply connected to the building, whereas tunnels, obviously, go somewhere else. Both were very popular before cars became a big thing!
Most hollow sidewalks only go for a few streets or so if they're tunnels, but sometimes you can get a whole underground city! For example, after the Great Seattle Fire in Seattle, WA, USA, the city leaders decided to just raise the whole city about a story, but a lot of people continued to use the original streets and entrances in addition to the new entrances on the higher level. They only stopped using the underground cityscape because twenty years later, the city condemned the lower levels due to concerns about bubonic plague. I've heard that some of it is now available for guided tours.
A lot of hollow sidewalks were built before electricity, which means that they also have really cool Vault Lights. Some of them were just grates with glass in them to let in the light, but a lot of them had prisms to throw light into a wider array and fill the tunnel with light despite the small porthole. If you click through to the link, it's got a fascinating gallery at the bottom.
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Here's a vault light from Philadelphia! The bubbles in and around the star are small glass prisms that cast light in the hollow below.
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This is what a vault light looks like from below--this one only has five of the prisms still uncovered and functional, but that's still a lot of light!
Unfortunately, most of the hollow sidewalks in the US get dug up and filled with sand, because the weight of modern cars is simply too much for the hollow sidewalks to handle, and we prefer to bow to the whims of the automobile industry as they make bigger and heavier cars and trucks, so the cool underground sidewalks and cities have to go.
But!
That's not true in star wars. The GFFA has flying cars and hover technology for all of their heavy transportation needs, so I like to think that they have extremely walkable cities and many places have hollow sidewalks. The possibilities are infinite!
Mandalore? Hollow, reinforced sidewalks. The tunnels of Sundari double as bomb shelters due to the planet's violent past.
Hoth/Tatooine/Jakku/Ordo Plutonia? Underground tunnels are actually more popular than aboveground, due to the elements.
Corellia? Hollow sidewalks have a whole different city underneath. Corellia is barely respectable on the surface, but underground they drop even the veneer.
Coruscant? Trick question! The whole planet is about seventy thousand layers of hollow sidewalks. There's vault lights on Coruscant that haven't had daylight to give to the level below them in a thousand years, but prisms are still very popular in artificial lighting because electricity is expensive and you have to scatter that shit as far as it will go.
Considering that there are also a whole bunch of alien species who prefer to be underground, I think that pretty much any medium-sized town or larger would have a robust underground element. And when the weather sucks, wouldn't it be nice to have the option to go wherever you were going, but in a tunnel so you don't have to get wet/be hot/get blown away by the wind/etc? My university had underground tunnels that connected all the buildings, but students weren't allowed to use them, and every time I was walking the long mile between my first class and my second class in -10F (-23C) weather, the tunnels were literally all I could think about I was so mad lmao.
If you want to know more about hollow sidewalks/vault lights, I highly recommend clicking on all the links in the post, and also checking out the book The Tunnels Under Our Feet by Tracy Beach [B&N link]. The book is primarily about hollow sidewalks in Colorado, but it does also have a few chapters where it talks about hollow sidewalks all over the US, like the ones in Seattle.
Links in this post:
Vaulted Sidewalks [Wikipedia]
Pavement Lights [Wikipedia]
Philadelphia's Lost Vault Lights [Article]
The Tunnels Under Our Feet [B&N]
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edsbacktattoo · 1 year
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would love to hear you talk about hades!! what’s your favorite character or story beat? who has the best boons? which weapon do you like the most?
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oh my friend. oh my darling sweet friend. you have just opened a beautiful pandora’s box. in exchange i offer you my heart: ♥️
ok it is SO HARD TO CHOOSE A FAVOURITE. it’s super close between Thanatos and Zagreus because they’re both very special little angels to me. it’s the death and blood motif, it’s the red and purple, it’s their beautiful dynamic. like every time my boy Than shows up i gasp and go :0!!!!! at my screen. kicking my feet twirling my hair at him.
coming in at a close second/third is Achilles. oh i love him. he’s so beautiful. and then Patroclus and Dionysus and tisiphone and nyx and artemis and-
Favourite story beat?? SPOILERS BELOW THE CUT BABES
bringing persephone home. ouhhhghh. when charon is rowing you down the river and ‘In The Blood’ is playing as the credits roll? shut the fuck up. and then you see Hades get a verbal ass-kicking. perfection.
In terms of boons i tend to gravitate towards Poseidon, Artemis and Dionysus the most. Like there isn’t a single Artemis boon that i’m like :( this is useless to me. And I enjoy all their calls too!
and i will rank the weapons. this is correct and indisputable btw.
Shield (specifically with the aspect of zeus)
Fists
Sword
Spear
Gun
Bow (fuck the bow all my homies hate the bow)
i also have a slideshow presentation about how many shots i would have to ingest to hook up with all the characters in Hades, if you’re interested. it is, in fact, my magnum opus. spoiler, the answer is Not Many Shots for almost everyone.
thank you so much for asking me about this stupid dumb and wonderful game. I wanna know your favourites too!!!! favourite weapon, favourite god!!! do you pet cerberus every single time you’re in the house of hades??? do you ALWAYS greet the supportive shade in the colosseum? gimme the goods
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gggoldfinch · 1 year
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So this is so silly but I refuse to accept the fact that the Papas are the same height. Yes, I get that TF played them all, but in my head they have VASTLY different heights. Primo - an even 6’0. Secondo - like 6’4, dudes ridiculously tall (I refuse to accept any alternative). Terzo - 5.7 AT BEST, he’s a short king and we stan. Copia is 5’11 because I said so. It is law.
NO BECAUSE YOU’RE SO SO SO CORRECT and I think about this fr like daily ‼️‼️
Of course in reality I recognize that they’re all Tobias’ height, but they just don’t seem like they are. I honestly think it’s the ~vibes~ that they exude?? But even then, I can’t even properly explain the phenomenon. It just… is.
I totally agree with the height order you’ve put forward tho— Secondo being the tallest, then Primo, then Copia, then Terzo. It just makes sense imo. Personally, the way I envision them from tallest to shortest (as listed previously) is 6’4, 6’0, 5’7, and 5’5… but giving them a few extra inches (lol) like you’ve done is agreeable as well 😉 Also, I think Nihil is pretty tall too, like 6’1 or something 🤷🏻‍♀️
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cynicalmusings · 1 year
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hhhhhhhhhhhhhhnghgngn hw practically steamrolled all my energy ;-; but here are all the doodles i could muster drawing </3
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hehehfe i like to think that when cyno and the reader are together ( if that's even possible i feel major angst energy from this fic ) cyno kisses the flowers the reader leaves in the forest before they wither away in his grasp <33
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anyways im sleepin night night yall honkkkk mimimimir
WAHAHHAHWHWHOK I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT THAT LAST POINT AND NOW I CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF IT
if. if that ever comes up in one of the chapters, you know who i got it from. fuck. that’s so sweet. why am i imploding.
and, yeah, the reader’s face is definitely something resembling that cat’s…
you know, an interesting thing i’ve found while writing this au (and while writing most of my fanfictions, actually), is that i never really treat the reader as, well, a complete reader-insert. especially this reader; like, yes, you can step in their shoes if you want, but they’re also able to be a standalone character who has their own personality and aspirations and backstory and whatnot. it’s actually something i quite like about the way i write readers, now that i think about it.
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