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simsim54 · 8 months
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blond haired emotionally repressed princes + dark haired anti monarchists boys with curls the other one is obsessed with + them playing a piano together = best scenes ever
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shizukano · 8 months
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Wanderer & Albedo don't produce body heat...so they're just watching in envy as you cuddle up close to Tighnari for warmth, his tail curling around you like a fluffy heated blanket...
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Counter measure! Get the fluffiest warmest blanket(s) & pull both Albedo & Wanderer into a cuddle pile! Surely you'll all be snug & warm...plus, your loves won't have a reason to sulk anymore~
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bratfiction · 3 months
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ugh… socialite + itgirl!reader who felix is kind of, sort of obsessed with but her ‘n her clique don’t even give him the time of day and he’s so not used to that… and yes, he’s even more pissed off when farleigh manages to become friendly with her before he even works up the courage to say hello…
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loguetowns · 5 months
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to be young
roronoa zoro x reader
your boyfriend thinks he's got jokes
"let's burn it down" + zoro for anon
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a/n: it's fluff with very minimal plot (like absolutely none). also slightly ooc zoro? he's very lovey dovey and i'm not sorry about it
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zoro knows he was a pain in the ass as a child. dragging his feet to do chores, loud-mouthing all the older kids, challenging kuina day and night for just one more battle - he knows he was a brat.
and, now, at the ripe age of 21, he likes to think that he's grown out of his childish ways. he's mature, seasoned by the hardships of adulthood - a promising young man, if you will.
"ha!" zoro snickers, "i made you look."
"you're so lame," you groan. "i don't know how you tricked me into thinking you were some playboy."
you knock his hand out of your face, but (like the playboy he is) in one smooth motion, he locks his fingers with yours.
"no tricks," he flashes you a grin reminiscent of your first meeting in that hole-in-the-wall bar. "a man can be both, you know?"
"don't i know it," you mumble. yet, for all your grumbling, there's a bashful smile tugging at the corner of your lips that reminds zoro of the moments before he kissed you in that hole-in-the-wall bar.
"anyway," you ignore the look of triumph on zoro's face. "as i was saying, that's my elementary school over there."
against the crimson sky, zoro follows your finger and spies a schoolhouse in the horizon. your other hand is still holding his, swinging in rhythm to his pace.
"that dinky little thing? can you even call that a school?"
"okay, not all of us grew up in a dojo with zen gardens and..." you motion in the air. "-and... meditation grounds."
zoro has to laugh at what you've come up with. his laughter bounces against the cobblestone streets, landing in every spot marked by the setting sun.
"meditation grounds?" he repeats. you scowl. "we didn't have any of those."
"no objections to the zen gardens, i see," you huff.
"they were nice! and i know you liked them. i heard you tell ol' man shimotsuki they were pretty," he pokes your cheek and you swat him away.
"well, here in this li'l town, we don't have any zen gardens but we do have a playground behind the church."
at this point, the schoolhouse has come into view, framed by the aforementioned church. it's got stained-glass windows that glimmer (like your eyes when you laugh) and there are flowers lining the fence (rosy like your cheeks when you blush).
around the back, zoro can spot the essentials of a playground - slide, swings, seesaw, and a carousel that looks like it's seen better days.
"oh, that's... nice."
"thanks for your enthusiasm, baby."
"you know what? you're welcome," he grins.
his sarcasm earns him one of your signature eye rolls, the one that says you're so annoying. and he responds with a devilish smile that says i know, but you love me.
carrying on, you motion towards the playground at the back of the church. "see that carousel? it flung me off this one time and i broke my knee."
he tries to picture a tiny you — baby fat in your cheeks, in a mismatched outfit, holding onto your bloody knee on the concrete. knowing how much of a crybaby you are now, he knows that you were probably bawling when it happened.
he wonders vaguely if you were also cursed with an ugly childhood haircut and snickers at the thought of it. unfortunate hair or not, he's sure of one thing — you must've been the most darling little kid.
"that's terrible," zoro tries not to laugh. "what a shitty thing for a carousel to do."
"right? i was so traumatized, that was the last time i ever rode it."
"should we teach it a lesson?"
the last time you saw zoro teach anybody a lesson, it ended with a bloody nose and a black eye. so it's with much confusion that you turn towards him with a knitted brow.
"what are you on about?"
"the carousel."
"what about it?"
"let's burn it down."
"burn it down," you repeat with an exasperated sigh and a loving smile. "are you crazy?"
he throws an arm around your shoulder, pulling you close. instinct has you tucking into him and, enveloped in his warmth and the scent of steel and mint soap, you find shelter in the spot next to his heart.
"crazy for you maybe," he says with a kiss on your head. "you know what could be fun though? we could go full scorched earth and burn the whole playground down."
"as romantic as arson sounds, i don't want to be complicit in your crimes."
"you're dating a pirate. fraternizing with a criminal doesn't exactly make you innocent."
you turn to zoro, looking up at him with your best doe-eyed look and the cutest pout you can muster (he almost kisses you right then and there in the middle of the square).
"but i'm too cute to go to jail."
that much is true, and zoro knows it more than anyone. you're cute when you're shy, cute when you're happy, and cute even when you're mad. in fact, how adorable you are is the one thing that zoro and that stupid cook can agree upon.
but your darling little heart belongs to him and he'll do anything to keep it in his hands - even if it means jail.
"i'd bail you out though," he rests his chin on your head.
"with what money?"
"hmm, good point. can i borrow some money?"
"are you gonna pay me back?"
"of course, i would never go back on my word."
"how good is the word of a dirty pirate though?"
zoro fakes an offended look, "i shower every day."
"mm, even so," you tap a finger against your chin, as if you're in deep consideration of your options. "i'll loan you the money but you'll have to pay interest."
"who's the crook now?" he chuckles. "okay, so what's the damage?"
"10 kisses per day," you declare. "compounding."
"easy. i'll even pay in advance for ya."
and before you can protest, zoro starts peppering every inch of your loveable face with kisses. he kisses you on your forehead and your cheek and your nose and along your jawline, ignoring your squeals and giggles. you couldn't even escape if you wanted too; he has you tight in his embrace, effectively trapped.
"stop!" you laugh. "i don't want your cooties."
"liar," he growls between kisses. "you want me so bad."
his barrage is relentless, lips brushing skin, as he gently edges you towards the corner around the back of the church. you land against the wall with a soft thud, cushioned by zoro's arms that are holding you so dear.
then, you sigh against him — a shy, little moan in the shadows — and, in this spot away from prying eyes, a switch flips inside him.
surely, he's exceeded his hypothetical debt but how could he stop now? not when his lips finally find yours, and his teasing turns into hunger for your cherry sweet kisses. he cages you between his arms, hands against cold stone, bracing himself as he takes more of you and gives more of himself.
"hah- zoro..."
he responds by leaving a trail of sweet nothings as he travels down to your neck, little confessions of love left on your skin. your hands travel up his arms and the way your fingertips kiss his skin leaves him dizzy.
but then, you suddenly break away and look over his shoulder with a quiet gasp and wide eyes. like an experienced fighter, zoro reacts with protective instinct.
"what? what's wrong?" he whips around but all he sees is an empty playground. hand still on his swords, he turns back toward you — only now you have a mischievous sparkle in your eye and a devious smile.
"made ya look," you cackle.
zoro's shoulders relax, but the absence of a real threat doesn't let you off the hook. he rounds on you, chuckling darkly.
"oh, you are so gonna get it."
and then the tickles start.
you squeal and he laughs, and you are both so, so in love. hiding away from the rest of the world, you giggle and kiss like two teenagers making out for the first time. zoro smiles against you as he appreciates the delightful irony of it all.
zoro's a fearsome pirate with a schoolboy crush and a love that leaves him with butterflies that he'll never admit to — but you know it anyway.
just like how you know his tough side, his soft side, his immature and kiddy side that still snickers when nami trips. the fact that you adore him for all these different parts means more to him than you'll ever know.
and whether zoro's a pain in the ass or not, a kid or an old man, 21 or 81 years old, he hopes that the way he feels about you will forever be timeless.
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long-distance-muse · 3 months
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Nimona Headcanons that just popped into my head and won’t leave me alone
Nimona, being both young and old at the same time but preferring to present as young, sometimes bullies Bal to ‘respect his elders’.
Bal, having had enough of this, once replied with ‘what’s there to respect?’
Nimona reacted like one of those offended pets that gasp when you repeat what they do to them like you committed some kind of taboo.
Neither of them talk about that event, but they also agree not to tell Ambrosius about it.
After their relationship starts evolving into ‘tolerable friend-in-law’ Ambs and Nimona would share tips on styling hair.
Most of those tips involve taking care of long hair, since Ambrosius was forbidden from growing his luscious locks out.
“Wait, how do you know all this? Your hair is even shorter than mine?” “Shhh, I had a phase- I don’t wanna talk about it.”
Ambrosius tries to get Bal to grow out his hair again too, but Bal saw all the products Ambs uses to get his nice and silky and thought ‘yeah, no thanks, the effort ain’t for me’
But the irony is that his hair would flow like a majestic nymph with just coconut oil, prayers, and genetics. (-Pavitr Prabhakar, Across the Spiderverse)
On the other hand, Bal and Nimona would start bonding over makeup.
Makeup wasn’t allowed for knights in the institute, but Bal always thought it looked pretty and wanted to try some on.
Nimona acted like those makeup gurus during the start, and now it’s a running joke between them to hold non-makeup objects like they were introducing a makeup brand.
It goes without saying that Bal rocks a smoky eye and dark lipstick, but he also sometimes wears some very vibrant pink eyeshadow and gloss while Nimona rocks the dark makeup.
It goes without saying that Bal with makeup on made Ambrosius feel a little hot under the collar.
It goes without less that Diego the squire fainted from a nosebleed when he saw Bal wear makeup.
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night-fighter-x · 5 months
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cowboyscaviar · 2 months
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thinking soooo many crazy thoughts rn
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wheels-of-despair · 1 year
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Wake-Up Call Pairing: Eddie Munson x You Summary: Eddie doesn't want to get up. Sucks to be him. Contains: Sleepy Eddie, snuggling under false pretenses, drastic measures, a hasty getaway. Word Count: 400ish
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Eddie Munson is not a morning person.
He would stay in bed all day if you let him.
Normally, you're happy to indulge him. You love spending a lazy day in bed just as much as he does. But today's schedule is packed, so Not Today, Munson.
You'd already hit snooze on your alarm once, and he'd grumbled and burrowed further into your warmth. You figured you could afford five more minutes. Five more minutes never hurt anybody.
And then the alarm went off again. Reaching over and turning it off this time, you begin the process of trying to wake Eddie up.
"Eds. It's time to get up." You know he hates getting up early, but he'll hate missing out on today's plans even more.
He responds with a muffled something that sounds a lot like a "no."
"C'mon, babe," you say softly as you rock against him.
A groan.
"Places to go. People to see. Up and at 'em."
Silence.
"Edward."
He whines.
"At least let me up?"
"No." He grips you tighter, and you wiggle in retaliation. He's not moving, and neither are you.
You scoff and begin to contemplate more drastic measures, and a wicked thought enters your twisted brain.
"Okay," you exhale in apparent defeat. Pretending to give in, you turn to face him and snake an arm around his back. He's awake enough to smirk like he's won. He really should know better by now. Your hand rubs his back for a moment, making him sigh happily… and then your fingers find the edge of the blanket.
In one firm jerk, the covers are on the floor and the cold air rushes in around you. He squeaks and instinctively curls into a ball.
"Mornin', sunshine," you say cheekily, giving him a peck and rolling out of bed with a smirk.
He's still in shock as you begin grabbing clothes to change into… and once he realizes what you've just done to him, he kicks his feet.
He kicks his feet like an overgrown toddler throwing a tantrum.
It's adorable. And it's also fucking hilarious.
You start laughing, and you can't stop. You laugh so hard, you have to catch yourself on a dresser before you collapse. Tears stream down your face. By the time you've caught your breath and dried your eyes, he's sitting up in bed, seething in your direction with eyes narrowed to the point they're barely slits.
You grab your clothes and make a break for the bathroom before he can get up and get even, cackling the whole way.
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originally inspired by gif #3 in this work of art by josephchocolatebuttoneyesquinn (and then I let it sit in my drafts for far too long and remembered it existed when I saw this beauty by userquinn)
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slasherscream · 1 year
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the crazy ass boys gang or yandere until dawn boys spending the holidays with the reader/reader’s family? 👀
A/N: a little late on this but better now than never! happy holidays my loves (tried to keep the headcanons vague so you could imagine a variety of winter holidays in here, but i'm sorry if it's still christmas centric, honey, that's what i celebrate and so i tend to get carried away with it)
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crazy ass boys gang + spending the holidays with reader
billy loomis:
It will be a hard sell to get him to enjoy the holidays with you. I won't lie to you. The reason? Besides the fact that he thinks he's too cool for the holidays, they bring up a lot of.... undealt with feelings regarding his own family. You might be tempted to let him grump it out because that will be easier. Resist! He wants you to pull him from his totally-not-seasonal-depression into holiday bliss with you. He just wants you to earn it.
So put on your working boots and get to it. Drag him into tradition, decorate the house, fill it with the smell of well-cooked food. Eventually, the cheer and vigor with which you do everything will get to him. He'll begrudgingly join in and find himself enjoying the holidays for the first time in years.
Pick one battle at a time and leave the roadblock of celebrating with your family for next year's holiday season. Trust me.
josh washington:
Polar opposite of Billy. He loves the holidays. All of the holidays! He's incredibly happy to spend them with you, no matter how many years you've spent them together before. Each year feels special to him, in the corniest way possible.
The biggest problem during the holiday season is deciding who you'll be celebrating with. Are you going to party with mutual friends this year? Go to his family's house or yours? Everyone wants to see you two during the holidays. You're everyone's favorite couple.
You two sometimes stretch yourselves a little thin, practically promising to be in two places at once! While that can add stress to the most magical time of the year, you try and relax and focus on what really matters in your few moments of downtime: each other.
stu macher:
Stu isn't one for traditional holidays at home with the family because that's never how he spent his growing up. The holidays meant trips around the world to far-off places. He doesn't want to give that up now that you're together. In fact, he wants to travel even more, especially if you aren't well-traveled.
The holidays for Stu are synonymous with adventure. If you humor him, he'll make it worth your while and let you pick the location of your trip. The best part is, no matter how expensive the trip gets, he pays for the whole thing.
His family has the money. Why not spend it? Actually, the best part is one of his love languages, as a rich boy, is gift-giving... and he does not consider paying for the holiday vacation his holiday gift to you. You're getting that expensive vacation plus a boatload of gifts under the Christmas tree. He knows how to spoil his partner when he wants to, that's for sure.
jd/jason dean:
Is completely willing to spend the holidays with your family (but I cannot stress this enough); do not take him home to celebrate with your family unless you have a perfect relationship with every single member. He will sense discord in relationships and he will choose to say the tiniest remark perfect for igniting holiday chaos and discontent.
Why? He couldn't tell you why. Maybe chaos is more fun than holiday harmony. When he senses a problem, his instinct is to dig into that problem to find its source. It's an addiction of his.
Other than that, during the holidays, instead of succumbing to melancholy over the past, he strives to make your time together as sweet as possible. He goes along with tradition with minimal cynical commentary and enjoys the happiness the holidays bring you. If you're content, he's content.
kevin khatchadourian:
As disrespectfully as possible, he hates the holidays and hates that you want to celebrate them. Any of them. The more you push, the more irritated he becomes.
Everything about the holidays highlights all the parts of society he finds most unpalatable. The fake cheer people greet each other with. Consumerism. The vigor with which they adore and worship their religious figures. It all makes him sick.
Still... there is a certain glow about you around this time of year. So when you ask him to do things, he goes along with your inane wishes with gritted teeth holding back the venomous words he wants so badly to say (do you have any idea how much he holds back for your sake?) Compliance is truly the best gift you can receive from Kevin any time of year.
nathan prescott:
Before you, he'd spend most of his holidays under the influence of whatever substance he could get his hands on first. He's slowed down on the abuse of most things since being with you. Still, the holidays are no walk in the park for him.
There's no way you'll spend the holidays with his family, even if his father "requested" his presence. He'd break his own leg to keep from having to look his father in the eye.
When you bring up the possibility of spending the holidays with your family, he's a little upset, he wanted to spend the holidays with you. When you clarify that you meant the two of you spending time with your family... well, he had a small panic attack, admittedly.
No matter how much you reassure him that everything will be fine, nothing helps until he actually meets your family and is warmly received. He'll be a little awkward the entire time, but the sheer warmth of love coming from everyone around him is enough to make him cry. Come next year it will be Nathan who suggests spending the holidays with your family again.
sebastian valmont:
To Sebastian, the holidays means receiving a few very expensive (but ultimately quite meaningless) gifts from his father which he reciprocates and then going back to pretending, like neither the holidays nor his father, exist. Cold? Certainly. Sad? Absolutely. But that's how it's always been.
If there was ever a Christmas full of love, it happened before he could remember, so it might as well have never happened at all.
Now you're here and things are different. There's a buzz in the air this time of year. You talk, you dance, you cook, you smile. You do everything together, attached at the hip. You drag him to spend time with your family and even that is tolerable, and Sebastian hates spending time with anyone's family (even yours.)
Being with you has been blissful, even with everything you had to overcome to be happy with one another. How well the holidays went will cement the knowledge in his head that you're what's it for him. You're what he wants, for now and always.
He'll surprise you on New Years Eve with one last tiny present, or that's what he tells you, as he puts you in the car and drives you to an unknown location, blindfolded the whole way there. When you arrive, he'll guide you tenderly up some steps and through a door, and then he'll take off the blindfold. You'll be standing in the most beautiful home you've ever seen. A place plucked directly from your wildest dreams (or all your late night talks with Sebastian).
"Move in with me?" He'd say, somehow smug and earnest at the exact same time.
It's a wonderful way to bring in the New Year.
david mccall:
Will insist on spending time with your family if your relationship with them is good. But if it's bad? Even better, he gets you all to himself.
Goes along with everything you want to do. He's at your beck and call. Whatever you want is yours and nothing you ask is too much. He'll cook with you for hours. He'll clean the house from top to bottom and then smile when you tell him you still have to decorate together. He loves the domesticity of it all.
When you give him his gift he'll be genuinely choked up. You'd already discussed the fact that you were exchanging gifts this year, but it still moves him to receive this physical reminder that you know him, and that you care. Frankly, he hasn't received many gifts in the course of his lifetime. Yours means everything to him.
Even though you both agreed to just one gift each, when you wake up that morning there will be a pile of gifts waiting for you. What can David say? He likes to spoil you.
sparrow!ben hargreeves:
The holidays are the busiest time of year when it comes to preventing crime. People are more desperate around the holidays, more prone to violence than words during the most "magical" time of the year. The holidays have never meant much, just a promise of more crime to fight. Still, this is the worst holiday for him yet.
Stuck in some strange, alternate world his father created, all his Sparrow siblings dead and all the Umbrellas having gone their separate ways? When he's not fighting crime, he's keeping himself wasted. Rebuilding a legacy for himself as a superhero when he did all this groundwork for himself when he was just a kid in the original timeline. It's brutal. It's humiliating.
It's not all bad though... there is, of course, you. The super-powered plus one that the Umbrellas had dragged along through two separate apocalypses until you'd apparently manifested into his reality. When everyone went their separate ways, you'd, for some reason, stuck with Ben.
He tries to pretend, but you both know he's grateful for your company, even though he's an asshole on his best of days.
You're not an Umbrella anymore. And he isn't a Sparrow. Now you're a super-hero duo and it works, somehow. You make a good team.
In a short time, against the odds (the odds being Ben's award-winning personality), you've become friends. Maybe even a weird, two-person family. Except he's pretty sure most families don't have the suffocating amount of sexual tension you do.
You've kissed before. Under the light of a dying universe, when you were pretty sure you were both going to cease to exist. You opened up to each other that night. But then there was the stress of... kinda saving the world? And then you wound up in this new, broken, strange one. You haven't talked about the kiss since.
He feels like he's going crazy.
Especially because you live together. He's not sure why he insisted on moving in together (because he's in love with you? because he's never lived alone before? because he misses his family?) but he did. Now he deals with the consequences every day. He hears you singing in the shower to start your day. He hatefully makes you cups of coffee that he insists are poison for the body (don't bring up the fact that he got blackout last night) when you have a long day ahead of you. He preps you for the interviews you two have started doing together, the whole world entranced by this new super-hero duo that the two of you make. He even holds your hand before your public appearances, because he knows you get stage fright.
There's something deeply wrong with him.
He tries to get you both to focus on crime this year, but you fight him every step of the way. Let's decorate, you chirp! Let's watch holiday movies, you smile. Let's cook our favorite foods together instead of getting them delivered, you beg. It's all maddening!
And now, having made it through all the holidays relatively emotionally distant and unscathed, you have the nerve to be laid up against him, staring up at him with big, drooping eyes waiting for midnight to hit on New Years Eve, and you ask him if he misses his family.
He snaps and finally kisses you, months of wanting and waiting and burning boiling over into this moment.
How could he miss his family when you're sitting right beside him?
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miracle-romance · 2 months
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Happy Birthday Haruka <3
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clandestinechain · 2 months
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Currently working on a little thing conveying my humble vision of a classic scenario of rivalry between two Harbingers over the resident hottie’s booty…
… Except the resident hottie (aka: you) is not exactly that hot to be wanted by anyone (barring those who have got a few screws loose) and the rivalry is not that much of a rivalry as it is just a matter of perspective of one certain participant of this fake vaudeville.
There is this zealot of a woman who is absolutely devoted to her mistress, the said mistress, in turn, having no intention of giving up on mourning her centuries-dead lover of a knight, and then there is a puppet who overestimated his inability to get so strongly interested in some puny human.
The Balladeer was never on good terms with The Fair Lady and he couldn’t care less about her pets, but your bizarre demeanor did catch his attention when he, by chance, had to witness one of your many lame attempts to appease your mistress ending up in complete failure.
Even by the standards of the most loyal of Fatui Harbingers’ servants, you seemed to be too… passionate about your work, to put it lightly. Your actions screamed of intense feelings, this should be obvious even to simpletons the likes of Childe. It’s the whole another level of sycophancy: from the way you prefer to dress in the most revealing outfits of matching colors to not-so-subtle undertones in your words when you are allowed to open your lips and set your immodest proposals free while almost kneeling at her feet and begging to be given a treat of licking her toes…
Are you that desperate for her? Is this fanaticism born of gratitude for giving your miserable soul temporary salvation in the form of blind worship? Or is it driven by that particular thing that leaves a bad taste in his mouth each time he is forced to pronounce its name?
Unlucky you, the heartless doll smirks. If only you knew that you are of no real importance to that woman, if only you knew you will never be anything but a disposable tool to her when your usefulness as a maid is fulfilled, if only you knew she has been taken long ago by—
No. It won’t be as hilarious in the end if he spills the beans right now. He would rather sit down and watch the tragedy of your pathetic life occur at its own unhurried pace as you find out what fate awaits you, but the thing is…
The thing is that, against his better judgment, you quickly came to be viewed as a “desirable object” and not as merely an “entertaining worm” – and he is not that insensitive to not notice the unpredictable change of his perception of you once your antics have became the vital component of his routine.
Oh, The Balladeer would be delighted to have you all to himself. All of a sudden (out of blatant envy, to be exact, because how dare that bitch have such a faithful and diligent puppy while his lackeys are naught but a brood of incompetent fools), your unconditional adoration is seen as the attractive trait. It’s something he would usually mock and claim as being one of many faults of human character, but your amusing behavior did manage to intrigue him. You are not being led by fear or promises of eventual benefit as those idiots under his command, and your… love (or whatever humans tend to call this perversion of individual’s reason) is of no trite nature. It is forbidden, as depraved as his own love towards your kin once was; illogical, if one wastes precious seconds of their short existence to ponder on ingredients that imbue it and deduce that gestures of affection made between mortals of identical build beget nothing. But mortals are stupid in general, so the lack of rationality in their brains is of no wonder to Scaramouche. And he does like to both detest and savor the imperfections of your species, much as he often does deny the fact.
This ugly obsession, this foul love of yours is a rare treat. He may not have a sweet tooth, but what superficial sugar that coats the cake is of no challenge to him if the hideously delicious contents are soon to melt on his tongue.
With you under his… shall we say, “care” he wouldn’t ever feel bored, he is sure of this. He would fuel your sinful need and feast on it as soon as you are assigned to his chambers. He would make you an exception to the rule of “don’t involve yourself with mortal filth” and make you fall in love with him – no less madly than with La Signora – and play with you all you want. It would be a mutual enjoyment you could not be able to resist contributing to; the endless days and nights of twisted fun and delight shared together by spilling blood, tears, and sweat (and you would have to realize he is sacrificing his pride for the sake of your quality time, so do pretend to be grateful and kneel before him like you always do for her).
After all, you want to be appreciated and appreciate the magnificence of your owner, don’t you? You want to be given a leg to kiss and a leash to constrict your thoroughly marked neck? You want to be simultaneously pampered and punished with lust? Consider yourself privileged, then. He, too, wants to indulge his whims (which so conveniently correlate with yours); wants nothing else but to train his personal pet of a dog and, perhaps, make her into someone worthy to be declared as his moth—
Yet how can he continue with the eloquent description of what you two are going to do, of your bright future together when you are… not into men? Not even god-made puppet men? Not even this one man of immense power who is willing to humiliate himself by hunting the already cornered and crippled mouse instead of teasing the fierce lion of equal standing?
You didn’t state your opinion, yes. But your revulsion is as evident as ever – it is of a silent, passive type. It’s when your body trembles ever so slightly in the presence of anyone adorned with masculinity; when you whisper about their cruel deeds to yourself with no animosity hidden in your otherwise meek voice and when your hand almost raises to slap the cheek covered by mask in reprimanding fashion before you remind yourself to stick to manners befitting The Fair Lady’s handmaiden. Only then, in these moments when your shell slowly but steadily cracks, does he get to admire your real self – and it’s only then he understands that he, too, could rile you up and burn your every nerve just because you haven’t gotten over the shallowness of your wounds (how hypocritical).
He is clever enough to make such a precise conclusion. With that unpleasant experience of knowing your kind inside and out constantly assisting him whenever he gets to stain his dignity by exchanging glances with talking lumps of meat, he could never be proven wrong. Your gross human stomach is inclined to empty itself not because of your aversion to The Balladeer as a person (albeit it would have gotten a sarcastic laugh out of him if this was the case because who on this planet could achieve the feat of tolerating him, really?) but of your allergy to those specific parts that all men – artificial or not – possess… How unfortunate.
Apparently, he has once again lost to a woman and that…
That must have hurt his ego quite a lot.
Doesn’t mean he is going to give up, though, for if there is something The Balladeer could be praised for even by those who loathe him, it’s his his determination and stubbornness – as eternal as his unearthly youth – to get what he covets at all costs.
Then, as ever, the good old method of fallacious interpretation is there to aid him in his pursuit. Things aren’t as simple. They cannot be that simple; the naïve Kabukimono learned that through the pain of betrayal and bitter disillusionment. There has to be something else. There has to be a contradiction. There must be self-deception whetting your emotions because humans cannot live without exhaling lies and breathing in warped justifications to make themselves feel better about their not-so-sound prejudices or outright hatred.
Are you complicating things to preserve your status as a victim? Are you defending your fragile heart from further corruption instead of embracing it? May this distaste of yours be your peculiar way of asking him to expose himself and surprise you with the revelation you couldn’t ever think of facing?
Worry not, for he shall enlighten you soon enough.
The dark-haired beauty has a knack for tinkering with other puppets – especially those made of flesh and bone – and he, the Country Destroyer, has also developed a habit of ruining the poorly written tales before he was even named to the appropriate seat.
You see, Rosalyne-Kruzchka Lohefalter may turn to ashes with no satisfying resolution of her story, but her everlasting commitment to Rostam won’t yield even to the flames of death itself. You ought to get it through that thick skull of yours and The Balladeer is going to help you comprehend the hopelessness of trying to revise the established narration.
Exemplary two-legged slaves must work hard to earn what grace their master has to offer. You are an eligible candidate for a reward, but every bit of it should be fought for with proper dedication. You are permitted to cry all you wish as long as you do it for him, not her; you are permitted to belong to whom you must belong because you were recruited for the sole purpose of impressing the only one you must obey and serve.
He shall reverse your affinity. He shall reshape your focus. He shall change you. If he, Kunikuzushi – the stillborn god robbed of his role – was able to correct the flawed philosophy of his past self and implement the necessary improvements, then how could he not be able to do the same to you when you are practically begging for the adjustments to be made? How could he let himself suffer yet another defeat when nothing apart from the minor nuisance impedes his steps to victory?
Nothing in this turbulent world is permanent, be it the span of life or the disorder in one’s mind and body. Therefore, should this vessel finally perish in the fire that once refused to erase the torment eroding its cogs, then you must be thoroughly prepared to merge with its ashes whenever the day of reckoning comes.
You shall join him on your own will. You shall repent for the mistakes of his creator and for the error of your initial choice. Without your honest expression of love, there won’t be a peaceful acceptance of the inevitable; without you as scorched as the threads that tied the remnants of his humanity together, there won’t be a reign of serenity.
No matter what it takes, the lone child shall have the confession he always deserved to hear. If the tin soldier has to break his ballerina’s leg in order for her to complement him and forget about her fruitless infatuation with the wicked witch of a lower rank… Well, there won’t be a problem with becoming a jack-in-the-box for a while.
Limbs do have the property of reattaching, don’t they?
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simsim54 · 7 months
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Alex: Henry shoved me!
Alex after one kiss: Not that there is anything wrong with shoving. Henry can shove me off the roof and I’ll be attracted to that.
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mr-carnival · 11 months
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Mellow Mind...
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dark-angel-of-muses · 7 months
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More bridal wing bois! @breannasfluff
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If Buddie does go canon this season, I am very intrigued to see how this will impact fic.
Seriously.
Will people stop writing? (Pff, no chance...?)
Or will it be a Schitt's Creek situation, where we just keep going with our little stories for the canon couple because we CANNOT RESIST.
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the-husbando · 4 months
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Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow~
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