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risuola · 18 days

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▶ ONE BEDROOM?! — a short memory about how you found yourself sharing a bed with two of your best friends.

contents: college!au, roommates to be, fluffy, silly Satoru, caring Suguru and all that jazz — 0,9k words

a/n: feel free to send me suggestions for entries of this series! any specific situations you think might be funny? any topics that sound interesting to you? let me know!

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“Alright, I found one,” Satoru informed, a grin of mischief tugging on his lips and both you and Suguru knew immediately that there are some gears turning below the mop of white hair of your best friend. “Near our uni, rent’s cheaper than any other we looked at, it looks nice, and there’s even a balcony for the addict. Available anytime.”

It sounded too good to be true, really. You’ve been looking for weeks now, desperate to find the right balance between the price and quality and it turned out to be the hardest thing you had to face in your lives. It was honestly a nightmare, turned out that you were way too late to find a rental with three rooms in the college area – everything was already taken and you were forced to scratch the idea of all having separate rooms. Two bedrooms, turned out, were just as hard to find. You were slowly coming to terms that you’re gonna have to either spend three hours in metro every day just to get in and out of uni or pay an unreasonable amount of money just to live even moderately close. In your head, you already saw yourself searching for the second job.

“Where’s the catch?” Suguru’s raised an eyebrow, his mind analytic as always and his questioning tone matched your thoughts perfectly. He wrapped one arm around your waist and reached with the other to snatch a phone out of Gojo’s hands, but the snow-whites grin grew even wider as he dodged the attempt. You could feel your friend taking a deeper breath behind your back, you were seated next to him, resting against his body whilst Satoru was on the floor, with his head comfortably on your thigh. “Is it one of those ‘rent a room along with ten other students’ kind of deal?”

“Nah, it’s a separate apartment. It’s not big, by any means, but as far as I’m concerned, it should be more than enough for us,” you reached your hand, but instead of giving you his phone, Gojo put his chin on your palm, smiling with the typical amount of cat-like mischief. “In fact,” he said, pulling the lollipop out of his mouth with a loud pop and threatening to lick you. The trail of sticky sugar covering his lips in a reddish tint from the cherry, his favorite, flavored candy. “I already sent a message to the renter.”

“Toru, spill it,” you pushed, pinching his cheek and with a theatrical roll of his pretty blue eyes, he put his phone into your hand, sticking the candy back into his mouth. You leaned back against Suguru’s chest again and with his head on your shoulder, you swiped through the pictures of the offer. “It… does look nice?”

“Sus,” the brunette mumbled, reaching to swipe over the screen with his own finger. “Very sus. What’s wrong with it?”

“Nothing’s wrong with it,” Satoru said in fake offense and got up to his knees to peek on what you two were doing, sticking his nose in front of the screen so aggressively that you had to push him away. “But—”

“Wait, is there one bedroom in this apartment?” You noticed. The pictures you were analyzing all showed the same room and the living area with joined kitchen, the bathroom, and again the same room, and some weird kind of storage? and again the same room.

“That explains a lot,” Suguru laughed lightly and leaned back again.

“We can see the place in an hour” Satoru showed off his pearly whites. “Come on, let’s at least see it, yeah?”

“I guess we can see it,” you gave it a nod. “The price is really nice.”

“Alright… so let’s get going.”

And so, all of you hopped on the bikes, you behind Satoru, and took the ride to see the apartment. Turned out, it really was perfect. Despite the apartment having just one bedroom, it was spacious enough to fit all three of you. The bed was so big it could easily fit five and during the many years of friendship, you and two of your friends shared way too many single person mattresses, sandwiched and squished together to think twice about it. The odd storage room seemed to be a perfect candidate to become a guest room (later called: a fuck room).

“It’s nice, isn’t it?” Satoru grinned, looking at both of you as he was bouncing his ass on the bed, testing it as if he was already the owner.

“It is nice, I’ll admit,” you said, looking at Suguru to hear his opinion, but the man seemed to be thinking still. “Sug?”

“For me, it’s perfect. But,” he looked at you, a concern clearly written in his eyes, “is it alright with you?”

Geto has a way of constantly reminding you why you love him. He doesn’t look like it, in fact, he looks quite intimidating to anyone who doesn’t know him, but to you he’s just the sweetest, most caring friend you could ever wish for. If anyone was to worry about your comfort, it was him because it is true that all three of you slept together already, sharing sheets and being as close and personal as it was possible, but a random sleepover doesn’t equal sleeping with them every single day.

“It’s fine with me, don’t worry,” you reassured him, squeezing his bicep playfully.

“If it’s fine with you, then I guess we have a place.”

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uplatterme · 1 year

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a/n: did somebody say another writing style?? is this zandik? (idk). is this modern au? (idk). you can decide for yourselves really. dottie may not be a girl but he’s babygirl. therefore, onahole.

cw: sub!dottore, dom!reader (gn!terms,reader penetrates) | pwp, objectification, deepthroating (character!receiving), slight asphyxiation, crying, toys underneath clothes, humiliation, overstimulation, aphrodisiac, semi-public (why are there so many. i may have gone too wild, i fear.)

5 Important and Essential Steps To Remember Into Becoming the Perfect Onahole <3 (ft. Il Dottore)

1. Open Up! Nothing is too big. If you think it is, you’re simply not trying hard enough. Your throat is there for a reason!

Dottore’s in tears as he tries to take in your entire length, not even halfway. The edges of his mouth hurt, he can’t breathe, and worse of all, you’re judging him while he pathetically gags, saliva dripping all over his legs.

“Teeth, Dottore.” You say.

He sobs even more, the fact that he has to adjust and open up wider due to his sharp teeth is agonizing. He needs air, he wants to breathe deeper but he knows that’ll only mess things up, pulling you even deeper into his throat.

He uses his hand, pulling down his jaw. He can take you—he can—he can—he will!

Dottore practically almost faints once you’re all the way to his throat, he rolls his eyes, he can’t say anything or think at this point. His groaning is vibrating on your skin, if he tries to speak, he’ll die.

You drag your finger down his throat, you’re bulging, the soft skin barely doing anything to hide your curve.

“Such a perfect sleeve, my love.”

He can’t hear you anymore.

2. Always Be Ready! An onahole must always be ready for its owner’s use. Make sure you’re always lubed up and stretched out!

Dottore shudders as the vibrator shakes inside his walls, he wants to buckle over, it’s been so long since he’s taken it out. He wants to, but he can’t. What if you were to pull him away right now? He can’t be caught unprepared and dry! He has to please you after all.

His wetness damps his pants and he hastily tries to cover it with his laboratory gown. Each step ruins him, sending the vibrator even deeper. He breathes out his moans, it’s embarrassing. Climaxing due to walking like this in public? Dottore shivers as he thinks.

He needs a release, please. He begs silently, in whimpers, hoping that you were able to somehow magically hear them.

He has to assist himself on a wall, walking and finding somewhere he won’t be seen. The Doctor ends up in an alley, collapsing on his knees as he finishes, his legs shaking against one another. The vibrator ruthlessly pounds into him even after that, making him remember that he can’t turn it off. He trembles as he stands up, he can’t stay here.

Dottore licks his lips and smiles.

3. Be Quiet! As an onahole, you have no right to argue with your owner. Whether they fill you up or thrust ruthlessly, that is up to them!

Dottore’s body is limping as you keep pushing. He’s exhausted, how many hours…? The aphrodisiac has made it hard to tell.

His lab is ruined, secretions everywhere due to the different positions he has been in. Right now, he’s flipped over, unable to see your face, not even for comfort. He swallows down a cry, anybody could walk in right now. It’s been hours of gasping and panting, just so he avoids specific lewd noises that may come out of his mouth.

“W-When will we finish?” He asks.

“Be patient.”

Another vial is forced into his mouth. The immediate effects are already showing. His skin burns, touch him, please.

“Oh god…” He yearns.

He agreed to this, he tells himself. Still, he’s barely able to do anything except lay down on the laboratory table, on top of his very important studies, cumming all over them.

“S-Stomach’s full…I can’t—”

4. Stay Still! Where are you going? You aren’t done until your owner says so, silly! An onahole lets their holes be used in any way they want.

Dottore flushes in embarrassment. The bathroom stall had such a limited space, and yet he still grinds down on you. He silently cries, begging you to be done.

You don’t even bother to close the door. His reputation would be at risk here! He’s warm. When you called him here, he did not expect for such a thing to happen, and yet, here he is, bouncing up and down, liquids audibly mixing and painting his walls.

The toilet is clean and he may as well replace that instead with how much you’ve excreted into him. He does a far better job than that.

This is not for his pleasure, he allows his body to be used by you like this. Yet, he still wallows in it, as if it was him using you instead.

Dottore yelps once his body is pushed down by his waist. He chants out your name, pleading for no more due to how tired he is.

He hopes no one hears that.

Unfortunately for him, the sound of a toilet flushing follows.

5. Keep Practicing! In order to achieve perfection, you must have lots and lots of experience first. Once you’re confident in your skills, that’s when you can truly call yourself the perfect onahole.

Dottore’s insides have been carved out just for your shape. His body knows just what to do to please you.

Starting with his mouth, which can now open wide. Not gagging anymore as it’s filled to the brim. He uses his throat to his advantage, learning how he can effectively control it by studying the folds that move whenever he speaks. He still cries in pain, but he promises to do better next time! He’ll get there!

Then his thighs, you’ve used them so much to the point it feels as if nerves of pleasure have started to sprout there. His body arching just from a simple pinch of his skin. He can’t get enough of it.

Finally, his hole. Unclenching and clenching at the right rhythm, now knowing how to keep everything you give him inside, not letting a single drop spill. He can take you whole now, his guts having the pleasure to remember you well.

Such a perfect cocksleeve.

No matter how many times you’ve used him, it never gets old. Like every single time is perfect, a repeating cycle of pure pleasure for each of you.

Shit, you’re addicted.

#ugh dottore content again??#dom reader #sub genshin impact #dom!reader #sub genshin #genshin impact smut #plattered writings #genshin impact x reader #sub dottore #sub!dottore

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ravewing · 3 months

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Could you talk about your infection au? I'm invested in it and I've been thinking about it all day

YES HULLO !! i dont want to spoil anything too much and im also working on a field guide sort of thing for the different stages of infection so im gonna try not to talk about those rite neow BUT im so glad that people r enjoying it! so id been seeing these scary mlp infection things ALLL over my tik tok feed for weeks and i was like .. yanno .. itd be really silly if i made this wof .. so i spent like 3 days mulling over what i could make the infection actually BE and i almost made it like the icewing plague but like it went scary but i didnt really know how to keep going with that so then i came up with a super smart idea which turned into this😋i dont wanna say where it started yet cuz ermm lore stuff but i will say that liek in the story the infection doesnt officially have a name yet so everyones just calling it like. the sickness at jade mountain. most of the infected originated IN jade mountain with the first symptoms being noticed in moon and turtle respectively, and then with the icewing students. i cant tell you guys how they got sick bc again . lore ..... but i think that its like kinda possible to find out. but i dunno. vulture and fierceteeth are also sick. there is ONE singular factor that unites these 4 + icewings, which miight b the reason WHY they got sick.kinkajou technically SHOULD be sick but she isnt for another reason that i cant say but if you really look into wof lore then i think u can figure it out idk. the infections transmitted via saliva/blood transmission, so mainly bites. tail barbs of infected sandwings are capable of spreading the sickness. there are 4 stages (5 if you count death) and it takes around 3 to 3.5 weeks for all stages to finish,, by ep3 the sickness has been around for ~2.5 weeks. the only KNOWN cure is amputation of wherever the infected area is,, so MUCH easier in early stages, unfortunate if its on an inconvenient spot, and impossible after hives start spreading. obvi flame had to be important bc i heart flame and i was like .. wait .. hes a healer in canon ...... so that worked out perfectly !! ik that in canon liana is like one of glorys MANY bodyguards but idc shes a healer here bc ermm i said so . also liana and mango r dating but i dont think that its relevant to the plot theyre just girlfriends in my head . as of right now kinkajou and peril are the only known immune dragons, with kinkajou for reasons currently unknown and peril bc . yknow . shes on fire . glory is in close contact with ruby and both kingdoms have taken measures to notify their kingdoms; the rainforest is under a sort of lockdown with rainwings on constant patrol/lookout for outsiders entering, they accept anyone who isnt infected to stay there for refuge while the skywing kingdom is in basically total lockdown other than ruby's messengers. ruby and glory also exchange their respective kingdoms medical knowledge, with the skywings having very good technology and rainwings having an expansive knowledge on medical herbs. nobody has heard from coral- the last thing she did was call for anemone's return back to the kingdom, and once she arrived, they all went underwater and have since then cut all outside contact. the mudwings are aware of the sickness but have so far done nothing about it; moorhen has warned her subjects but thats really it. i havent really decided what the sandwings or the icewings are up to but let me tell you guys its looking really rough for the icewings . so far it looks as though royal icewings are more resilient- tundras currently sick, but the sickness seems to be progressing much slower. this was initially believed to be because of the cold, but then other icewings started getting sick, and so its believed to just be a royal thing- likely something in their genetics. icicle is also sick but shes in stage 4 .. pray for my girl guys. lynx is helping snowfall out the best she can, but with the population getting increasingly sick seemingly spontaneously, its extremely difficult and stressful. the talons have quarantined sanctuary too. ok im outta characters but ya ty 4 the support!!

#wof #wings of fire #wof au #infection au #infection #fragariapathosis #yap session #idk if any of this makes sense its 2am and i did NOT proofread #fragariapathosis explained

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bones-of-a-rabbit · 8 months

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infodumps abt a new au idea (the demon-familiars au, or the un-familiars au)

TL,DR: Reader is a witch/wizard hired by a town to handle a poltergeist/demon problem (Vanny has a cult and is trying to summon demons lol), but they aren't very good at being a witch/wizard and after a bunch of 'throwing things at the wall to see if anything sticks' and absolutely nothing working, they, in a panic, kind of accidentally summon Sun and Moon, who are equally shocked to see them and after a bunch of staring at each other like ?????????? reader ropes Sun and Moon into helping them and hides them in plain sight as their 'familiars' until they've taken care of the demonic cult problem, promising to send them home as soon as things are ok again. PLOT TWIST THEY GET ATTACHED TO EACH OTHER AND KISS PROBABLY HAHAHAAAAAA

(the long initial ramblings/brainstorming i did w the space aces in discord is copy-pasted below, if anyone wants only vaguely coherent ideas n concepts abt this au and ur willing to torture urself, go nuts w it ig lol)

taken directly from the space aces discord, i present: the reason all of my aus are barely coherent and somehow overly thought through and barebones all at once, as shown by the following example (unfamiliars au edition)

weird silly demons/familiars Sun Moon au where Reader is a (less than talented) amateur witch/wizard trying to lie themselves into a position of relative security (bc theyve had to move three different times bc towns shun n drive away witches/wizards that proves to be unhelpful) and they werent actually trying to summon sun n moon so they end up getting them involved in their scheme but oops there is some kind of other demonic threat that is actually a big problem and oops oops now we have to seriously work together to not get killed by the other eviller demon or the cult summoning it while also fooling the townsfolk into thinking that u r competent and have everything under control

Sun and Moon, a couple of demons just chilling when suddenly summoned to the material world: what in the heck Reader, having just performed a spell/ritual they've never read the instructions for backwards and facing the wrong cardinal direction: SHUT UP AND PRETEND TO BE MY FAMILIAR FOR A MINUTE OR WE ARE BOTH GONNA GET KILLED, BURNING-ON-A-CROSS STYLE

hhhgj i just had. a rlly sappy idea for the 'familiars' part

basically like. witches n wizards naturally end up casting their own 'summoning' spell for their familiar at some point, most of th time when they are really starting to understand and control their magic? so to see a witch or wizard without one it's like 'wow they're a beginner' or 'something is wrong with them, why dont they have a familiar??'

so Reader asks Sun n Moon to pretend to be their familiars partly bc 'uh oh i summoned two whole entire demons without even meaning to i have to make this look intentional' and 'if i have a familiar the people will assume im a Real Witch/Wizard and respect me more'

and at one point when they r getting to be like, actual friends instead of 'weird roommates', Sun gets curious bc ofc he does

Sun: Soooo,, we're your pretend-familiars? Reader: Yea Sun: Sooooooooo,, do u not have a familiar? I've never heard of a wizard with no familiar Reader, visibly upset/disappointed (in themselves): Yeah, well, it turns out it's only the witches and wizards with actual skills that can summon familiars. So. Couldn't tell you if I've got one or not, I've never managed a proper summoning spell. Sun, foot in his mouth: oh,, Reader: Yep.

and then later. It turns out. There are ways to make a demon into a familiar! Turns out in the distant past some wizards used to make demons they frequently summoned for spell/magic services into familiars bc it was way easier than just doing the entire summoning ritual every single time

but at this point, Reader and Sun n Moon are close enough to be good friends, and Reader doesnt want to force that kind of permanent connection on them, they probably just want to go home, theyre probably sick of being here and being around u, and,,, u get the idea

and Sun n Moon dont wanna force that kind of permanent connection on YOU bc what if ur sick of them, or ur tired of feeding and housing them or putting up with their jokes n bickering, or maybe after everything u really dont want anything to do with demons!!!

so there's a lot of sad pining that none of them know abt

bc ofc they r all idiots in this au sorry thems the rules

and then at some point there is some big threat/place they have to go to, or maybe Reader gets injured in a fight, idk take ur pick, anyway in a heat of the moment panic Moon is like 'HEY U WANT US TO BE UR FAMILIARS RIGHT??' and reader like barely conscious is like 'w??? yea??????' thinkin he means the pretend thing theyve had going on

anyway spur of the moment/'im doing this to save ur life bc i love u' familiar binding spell/ritual performed BAM now ur stuck together

and when everything is calm again n the fighting is over reader looks at Moon and is like 'so ur like,, my actual familiar now,,' and Moon, sweating bullets, unsure if this is rlly what u wanted or if u went with it out of fear of dying, is like 'yyyyyyyyyes?'

and reader starts bawling their eyes out and kisses him bc this is like. th dream scenario to u

anyway reader n sun n moon are th worlds least likely wizard/familiars combo but somehow they r absolutely unstoppable together thank u for coming to my tedtalk

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8um8le · 1 year

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I absolutely adore your cyberpunk au! The designs are so lovely and cool and your backgrounds are just absolutely gorgeous! I just fell in love with it and love everything about it, including the world!

I was curious about some things though and hope it's alright asking a couple of questions!

1. All relating to their job here, but: Have the boys ever taken on a job that they regretted in the end? Have they ever accidentally hurt a child during their job? Have they ever been backstabbed/set-up?

2. I'm not sure if you answered this or mentioned it before but, what are the boys to each other? Friends, brothers, etc.?

3. Okay, another one sort of relating to their jobs again: Have the boys ever had their night job cross over to their day job? Like, has someone sought revenge by threatening the daycare or something along those lines? Maybe just an incident where they've dealt with some not so great adults that wandered in?

4. Okay, another job related question: Have either of the boys gotten seriously hurt on their night job before? How do they go about fixing each other up? How protective/worried are they for each other?

5. Which of the boys is more affectionate? How would they react to a surprise hug? (I figured a silly, simple question was due after all the previous serious ones XD).

Sorry for the long list of oddly specific questions, I'm just really curious, happen to be up at 1 am with questions circling in my brain, and adore this au to pieces! I hope you have a lovely day/night, and thank you for taking the time to answer this ask! Sorry again for how long it is!

Heheh like these questions, long post under the cut <33

Before the two became hit-men under a contract, they had to build their way up to that position, in their previous two forms they were backstabbed multiple times. An example would be how sometimes they would be assigned one task within an organized group, and after they did their deed, their “team mates” would try to take them out and take credit for their work.

As for accidentally hurting a child in their day job, one of the kids cut their hand from getting too close to Sun’s rays. The parents really didn’t mind, but ever since, Sun has been very careful with the kids and his rays. (Funny how the rays that were meant to defend him, backfired in a way)

2. The boys have this found-family type of situation, they were born with nothing, thrown away left to rot, without knowing why they were even made. They’re all that they have when it comes to family, they see each other as brothers. Though I must say Sun is most definitely the responsible older brother who stresses over everything, and Moon is the chaotic little brother who needs to be put on a backpack leash.

3. When it comes to the day and night job crossing, it never happened yet, since their night job is top secret. Also since they are ranked pretty high as hitmen at this point, they have protection when it comes to identity.

Also the jobs they take are never personal, they’re just sent by someone, so it wouldn’t really make too much sense for someone related to their deceased targets to go after em.

4. Every gig they take in their night job is a life or death situation, so they are in constant danger, they have been badly damaged during their night jobs. Mostly moon because of his careless behaviour.

They try their best to not get damaged though, their contract does comes with their own robot doctor, that will patch them up, it will just cost them money, taken straight out of their paycheque. When it comes to weapon damage or replacement, they don’t have to pay nearly as much though.

Although they complain about the stupidest shit with each other, they really do care for one another, they never verbally say it upfront to one another, but their actions and constantly making sure one another is okay goes to show their affection. Also Moon’s chill nature can be very helpful when it comes to calming Sun’s panic attacks.

5. I think the more affectionate one would be Sun, he understands human emotions a bit more than Moon does. He’s very caring, sometimes too caring which leads him to a spiral of overthinking. Moon on the other hand is just naturally loveable, he doesn’t need to try when it comes to charming others.

Funny little thing I’d like to add is their skill at each job, and who does what better, since there is a bit of irony there. Sun is excellent when it comes to his night job, he’s calm, calculated, and swift, perfect for clean and quick executions. Though at his day job, he finds that he can unintentionally scare the kids with him being jittery and over-enthusiastic.

Moon on the other hand, He’s very smart when it comes to countering attacks and could take mechs twice his size, but he does poorly at stealth, and lacks patience. In his day job, the kids love him, since he is super easy going and nonchalant.

Sorry for the grammar mistakes im sleepy~

Ty for the cool questions!!

#cyberpunk au

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anneapocalypse · 6 months

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So. About Minfilia.

This one really got to me.

I don't think I've cried over a character death in this game like this since Haurchefant--both of whom, incidentally, I knew going in were going to die at some point, because I'd encountered spoilers well before I ever imagined I would play this game. (Having Ariane fall for both of them in turn was not the plan, it just happened along the way and felt right for her character, and the extra tragedy it ended up adding was a side effect but one that's become lode-bearing for her story in a lot of ways.)

So I'll say to start that given what the writers had to work with going into Shadowbringers, I think Minfilia's story ends about as well as it could have. The variant flow of time in the First, and specifically the fact that a century has passed there since she arrived, is vital to Shadowbringers' story. Minfilia was never meant to be an immortal being, nor did she want to be. And while there's probably an interesting AU in her becoming mortal again and returning home (and I could see myself writing something like that), that's a very involved concept that wouldn't have worked well with the story Shadowbringers was telling. So, her fate was sealed when she departed for the First. Furthermore the way she goes out is really thematically in line with the Scions as a whole, from Louisoix to Moenbryda to Papalymo: one person giving their life to contain an existential threat--not even to destroy it completely, but to slow the tide so that others can carry on the fight. And Minfilia even takes it a step further, managing to stick around in some form long enough for the other Scions to make it to the First. The Warrior of Light even gets to see her one last time, so her promise to return to them when her work was done--it wasn't an empty one. We get to say goodbye.

I'm okay with this. It's a decent end to her story, given where we started from this expansion.

That doesn't make me especially okay with how we got here, though.

I am still a sprout here, having just started playing last year and being mid-Shadowbringers for the first time now. I was not around when ARR was new, and cannot speak to the fan reception of Minfilia at the time. I have heard through my grapevine, however, that she was not well-liked. Whether because she was a non-combat character, a quest-giver in an annoying location, a woman who told people to do stuff while wearing a mildly revealing outfit (and I do mean mildly)... Idk what the dealbreaker was. That's just what I've heard. Having heard that, though, it makes the choice to write her out at the end of ARR feel... motivated, in a way that maybe it otherwise wouldn't.

There is nothing meaningfully wrong with Minfilia's character in ARR that couldn't be said about any of the core Scions.

Wahhh I don't want to return to the Waking Sands for the 80th time? Fair, but that's a game design issue getting taken out on a character who happens to be connected to it. Call it the Preston Garvey Problem. Her outfit is silly? It's hardly meaningfully sillier than other NPC outfit designs, or Final Fantasy fashion generally. Go tell it to the catgirls in the 2b tights by the aetheryte. She doesn't even fight? Honestly kind of refreshing to me to see non-combat characters play a major role in the story, because fighting isn't the only thing that drives stories! (Hey, didn't Tataru have a whole subplot about that?)

She's underdeveloped? Name me a character who gets great character development in ARR. (There is a correct answer to this question. It's Cid Garlond. 😛) But the Scions? A handful of them feel like very well-rounded characters now because they've had whole expansions that explored them as people and deepened their relationship to the setting and story in meaningful ways--Lyse, Alphinaud, Alisaie, Urianger, Y'shtola, Thancred. But none of them are well-rounded in ARR. ARR is not about character development. It's basically a very long tutorial level that gets you acquainted with the world, its major conflicts, and the major players in those conflicts. The character-driven storytelling really starts with Heavensward. If we truncated all the Scions' stories at the end of ARR, I don't think the others are any deeper than Minfilia.

I liked Minfilia right off because she was kind and caring, and she had an obvious talent for bringing people together, probably in a similar way to Louisoix himself. Hence her becoming the Antecedent and continuing to do diplomatic work across three nations. Did she make mistakes? Yeah, absolutely. Lest anyone is tempted to single her out in the Crystal Braves disaster, though, I will point to what I said in my post about how the Scions failed Alphinaud: every adult in the room should have seen the red flags about that, and not one of them did, including Urianger who is extremely protective of the twins, and Thancred who is extremely protective of Minfilia. And yes, she was in charge, and she does bear a greater share of the responsibility. But whatever you think of that plot point, whether it's leaning a little too heavily on Rule of Stupid or whether believable for a group of idealistic apocalypse survivors with martyr complexes, it's written as something that all the Scions failed to foresee. And for the others, especially for Alphinaud, that mistake and subsequent disaster is used as an opportunity for character growth. Alphinaud has to confront his own arrogance, which drives his character growth as he continues to play a major role in every expansion. Yda/Lyse and Papalymo get themselves involved with the Ala Mhigan resistance, providing the setup for Stormblood and a tremendous amount of character development for Lyse. Y'shtola in desperation turns to darker and more dangerous forms of magic, setting us up for her transformation into a black mage in Shadowbringers where will continue to see her turn to dangerous magics at desperate times. Thancred's wilderness survival journey precedes us getting to see a darker and lonelier side of him. And so forth.

Minfilia throws herself on Hydaelyn's mercy, and gets tempered. I mean, carried unto her bosom, granting her a strength long sought. Because of course we're meant to take it as a given that she was weak before. She was the leader of an international organization who did diplomatic work across three nations, but she couldn't throw fireballs or hit people good with a stick, so. She loses her very will for a while there, until Hydaelyn mercifully decides she's strong enough to give it back to her.

And now, no one talks about the work she did as the Antecedent, or with the Path of the Twelve before that. It's all about her noble sacrifice, how she gave up her whole life to save the First. And she was noble, and generous, and a hero. But she was a person before that, and she could have been more. She could have been a character with a real arc, who got to struggle and learn from her mistakes and grow with us, as the others have.

Minfilia didn't get that. She got to be a sacrificial vessel for the salvation of others, over and over again until there was none of her left. And we never have to reckon with her feeling scared or uncertain or angry about this, because she is always the willing sacrifice, always noble and generous and a hero. Shadowbringers spends far more time on Thancred's feelings about Minfilia than on Minfilia's feelings about her own fate. And I do like Thancred, so please don't read this as me hating on him; I even liked getting more of their history onscreen, at first. But at a certain point I just wanted to shake him and say, You are not the only one who loved her! And your feelings about her are not the only thing that matters here!

I love characters who are deeply and deliberately kind, especially when they have a history that gives them plenty of reasons to be otherwise. I love characters with a passion and drive to make their world better, even when that comes at great cost. It's why I love Julie Farkas, and Vanessa Kimball. But I also like to see how they reckon with the cost, how they struggle with the burden of that kindness. I love it when Kimball loses her temper, when she isn't patient and virtuous all the time. We do finally get some of that with Ryne. But not for the original Minfilia. She goes gently into that good night with gentle words and a gentle smile. And yes, after a hundred years, she has earned a rest.

But having loved her gentle soul from the beginning, I am mourning what she could have been, if she had ever been allowed to be anything else.

#ngl i'm kinda fucked up about this #anne plays ffxiv #shadowbringers spoilers #stormblood spoilers #heavensward spoilers #arr spoilers #just spoilers all around #ffxiv critical #afk by the aetheryte #minfilia warde

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demonic-hypocrite · 2 years

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So, imagine:

Obey me replaced!au mc, but they're a weird maniac. I used GN/You pronouns for mc on this but this is a headcanon I made up for my transmasc oc. Very disorganized ramblings ahead. General TWs for replaced!MC, you know, swearing, murder, etc.

First they didn't mind that much, sure it sucks these people you have come to love and loved you too suddenly are taking their attention away from you in favor of someone else. Someone who suspiciously looks more like their dead sister than you, her actual descendant.

But it wasn't that you had never fought with them, in fact, you had gotten very good at controlling them, fiscally and emotionally. Still you had no intention of holding your pacts over their head yet... YET. But you still did some petty things like hiding their things when you felt they had gone a bit far.

The girl not hiding her superiority complex also didn't help you with taking the things she did lightly, like trying to hug and monopolize the brother in front of you. But rather, the things is, why would you hold on at this point? They made it very clear that they no longer desired you, which did hurt, but it stopped hurting when they were seriously starting to get on your nerves.

So, you started to also be very clear on showing them that you fixed them before, and you can break them again. But not just their "silly family play", you wanted to break their cores, make them ashamed of who they are. After all, Diavolo said yes already, how could those brothers hurt his favorite not-so-human-anymore human? And for another human that was utterly annoying and devoid of likable traits? Just because she looked like some dead angel? Who do they think they are?

No more hiding their clothes or their d.d.d's, you were serious about this now, a bit blinded by rage and betrayal to be considerate. You first started reciprocated their name calling, not holding back on the real insults, finding the pleasure on calling Asmodeous a public toilet when he tried to bodysame you, and calling the twins nothing more than dead weight when one tried to justify the other almost harming you.

Mammon is a whole different thing entirely tho. Your first man was the last one to turn on you, at some point you even thought he wouldn't, but that wasn't the case. You truly did love Mammon a little bit more than the other ones, he always respected your feelings and beliefs, gave you comfort when you most needed it and never hesitated to just, be there for you.

You still had some hope he would come back to you. But nah, you saw that girl clinging to his arm and decided that he belongs to the streets, after crying for 2 days straight in your bestie Solomon's room of course. So you worked hard on slowly erasing your traces on his room, make this think twice if your things where even there or not, but still leave your scent in there, no one would realize that the calming barely noticeable smell on the air was given off by the good old human, until they were gone of course.

Nobody payed mind to your weird purchase of a stack of flat cardboard boxes, at most they thought it was one of your weird art projects you spend entire weeks on, working while you're "on the zone". Most of them ended up being really thoughtful gifts for the brothers... That you had already taken back for yourself of course.

But anyways, while you worked really hard on being sneaky with your secret move, the brother were starting to come down of their high, sure the new girl looked an awful lot like Lilith but, she want exactly, pleasant, like Lilith was. And also, you were looking at them differently, Why? Why were you calling them those awful things? Right after they... OH GOD THEY- they were so sorry but didn't know how to apologize to you.

After all you had all of this trust in them but they didn't hesitate to chuck it out a window the moment some shiny new thing appeared, they were mad at themselves, ashamed and distressed on how they were going to make it up to their human- what did you mean you weren't their human?

One day you posted a photo of your room looking quite empty, with most of the things of it being just piles of boxes, the caption was "something something animal crossing but the house of lamentation is Lucifer's Island and I'm an islander in boxes, anybody wants to come ask me to go to their island? ;]".

Lucifer was the first to barge into your room, wanting it to be one of those cruel jokes you were so fond of lately, but it wasn't, rather he found the room empty, just like it was right before as you moved in, in fact, as if you never had moved in.

The brother were fighting and blaming one another when you posted "Kidding! I actually bought this plot of land sometime ago and had a house built on it. Finally! My forever home is finished I'm so glad!"

What the fuck did you mean FOREVER HOME, THE HOUSE OF LAMENTATION WAS YOUR FOREVER HOME- oh yeah what happened to that girl? The brothers tore her limb from limb alive when she asked why did they even bother, after all she was better than you and they didn't need you. Sike they totally do, after all, you fixed them before only you can fix them again.

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That's all folks, it's not that good, maybe even ooc and too self indulging, but I couldn't sleep without writting this one out.

I have many other ideas for this with my oc, like Him becoming a literal demon eater after being unsupervised, like this demon was threatening him on his demon form once and mf just janks out his tail (like a lizards) and gives it a bite.

It was for intimidation purposes and he planned to spit it out, but it was actually tasty and juicy, like a mix between a coconut and a lychee.

So while the brothers aren't looking he just gains this reputation of public menace #1

But also he starts a cam show, where he doms other demons, no actual physical contact is happening but other demons are still getting to know the side of him that was just for the brothers and makes their blood boil but also makes them sad because it's their fault.

They still make up in the end but not after my oc dying like, two more times, adding death to his harem and becoming a demon himself.

Thanks for reading, if you want to make something with this please do, it's would be really cool!

Goodnight ☆

#shall we date obey me #obeyme #obey me lucifer #obey me mammon #obey me leviathan #obey me satan #obey me asmo #obey me beelzebub #obey me belphegor #obey me mc #obey me solomon #obey me diavolo #obey me headcanons #forgotten!au #obey me replaced mc au

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I'm a bug fan of your Revenant series! It's such a cool team 😁

One thing that struck me was that on learning the shadow king was back Lorna specifically asked for her brother and shot down seeing her father. She was even reluctant to tell Wanda what was happening until Pietro convinced her.

What was going on in her head at that moment and how do you feel about her respective relationships with her father and siblings (In the story and in cannon)

YESSSSSSSS I’ve been waiting for someone to ask this 🥰🥰🥰also thank you so much for enjoying Revenant, I have literally so much more of it to write (you have no idea this has gotten way out of control, this entire AU was created for a silly oneshot TerryLorna idea I had and I am STILL NOT EVEN AT A PLACE WHERE I CAN WRITE THE TERRYLORNA)....anyway this is about to be word vomit bc I have a LOT of thoughts

Okay so one of the big things here is that Lorna and Pietro have both had pivotal moments in their stories where they were mind controlled and made to do things that hurt people they cared about and neither of them really ever got a whole lot of support in recovering from that. And Pietro is, for all his faults, incredibly protective and incredibly loving of his sisters and while Lorna has spent a LOT of time pushing back against that protectiveness because she really and truly can handle herself and she and Pietro don't have that kind of history where he's seen her almost burned at the stake etc etc.... this is a moment where she wants someone to be ride or die in her corner and to be ride or die in her corner after it's all said and done even if she is controlled again...... and Pietro's fatal flaw is loyalty. She wanted someone who would come in and try to make it better even though there was nothing they could do, and she knew that if she called Pietro would come running. It's more an act of desperation than of familial love? But it's something that's really going to set the stage as the story progresses for how their relationship is going to evolve. We also know that Lorna is very afraid of seeming weak in front of her father- he has these grand expectations of her and when she doesn't meet his impossible standards she cracks under that weight and for as much as I love Erik and as much as I appreciate the steps he's taken to repair his relationship with her, being his daughter is not easy. And with Wanda, they arguably have the easier relationship within this group of siblings, where it really has become more genuinely sisterly and almost...dare I say? normal? But Wanda isn't really involved in X-Men stuff and hasn't really been to any grand extent barring her intro and M-Day (and much more recently Trial of Magneto)- her very presence on Krakoa is enough to inspire hatred and anger, with the Shadow King there Wanda as a first choice is probably not smart, and Wanda herself has so much baggage with mutantkind thanks to M-Day that it puts her in a weird position too.

I'm playing a lot with Wanda, Lorna, and Pietro's relationships with each other and with their father. I feel like Pietro is very underutilized and that he's not taken seriously by writers or by fans and so I really wanted to build on this Lorna-Pietro relationship that was starting to get established in All New X-Factor and to really kind of I guess force my readers to remember that Pietro isn't a bad guy? Which sounds stupid bc he's a hero but like people don't read for Pietro and take wildly ooc shit as fact. Like it's important to me that my readers know that it was Pietro who pushed for he and Wanda to leave the Brotherhood, and that Pietro tries so so so hard for his family and just wants to keep his sisters and daughter safe and that like he is a victim of much of the same trauma as Wanda and he's allowed to have responses to it without being whiny or having to get over it (no matter what Wanda said in Quicksilver: No Surrender).

But yeah, I have lots of Revenant thoughts, and feel free to dm me or send me asks about it anytime I love talking about it!

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hiemaldesirae · 14 days

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Swap AU:

Vox's Goetia does join the Hazbin hotel. He takes what was Husk's canon job, as Husk has a casino to run and his parents think it's a good thing for their son to work for the Princess. (Even if they don't believe in her redemption plan. And he is the spare's spare, so it's not like they have any idea what to do with him. Having his and his children's souls permanently bound to the media overlord might do him some good. (Vox stipulated that into his contract. So he'll eventually have numerous goetia souls bound to him.)

Since Alastor was up to his antics during the overlord meeting and sir Pentious has been on his best behavior (after Charlie asked Vox to talk to Pentious about things, and Vox talked to him about building stuff in the lab outside the hotel he never got the Eggbois taken away) the hotel crew doesn't know how to hurt angels/heavenborn. They know Carmilla killed the Angel--Husk caught her reaction to Him bringing out the head, after all. (He also caught Alastor's reaction to Zestial saying that they'd probably go after the Hotel first--not that he'd tell Vox. But he'd seen how furious and fearful the stag had looked at those words.) So they're debating on who to send over to the carmine/Zestial mansion. It's dangerous ground over there, after all.

Angel Dust steals more of Vox's clothes (and doesn't get caught) to make up for the set Charlie destroyed. He also gets away with one of Vox's shark plushies, which irritates Vox as it's the one with heating pad function in it that he uses for his cramps/neck pain/back pain. (Alastor rubs his scent all over the plush, before he returns it that night laying it beside Vox.)

Vox writes an entire speech for Charlie and Vaggie for their meeting up in Heaven. He's listened to Vaggie (and Lucifer's) descriptions of Adam and Lute and has given his best advice to the two for them. Unfortunately the meeting pretty much goes the same way, except that Charlie managed to get Adam pissed at Vox? So that's cool. Nothing like having the first man wanting you dead, right?

Vox drinks himself into a stupor that night. While, yes he's afraid of Alastor--the MAIN THING he is desperately, desperately trying to avoid is permanently dying. He doesn't want to die. At all. That's why he too the deal with Lucifer. Now he's gotta figure out more ways to help Charlie so he can gain more power so he can fight off Adam himself? Or at least beat him back enough so that Lucifer can arrive to kill him or Charlie can kill him or something. He doesn't know. Vox collapses into his bed that night, and passes out not noticing the radio demon stepping out of the shadows and joining him in the bed and curling around him.

swap nonny i may have to rename you to sadist nonny at this point. Why are you like this /affectionate

the stuff with the goetia is sooo silly. love that little bird thing even though ive no clue what the hell he would look like or even do at all honestly! hope he has fun trying to bartend (and hoo boy thatd probably be a big scandal, wouldnt it, having a goetian prince bartend at princess charlie's hotel...) for a bunch of idiot sinners lmao

al overhearing carmilla and zestial talking about the newly pushed forward extermination and immediately jumping to think about vox... he cant lose him AGAIN so soon after hes found him once more so after that his shadow sticks even closer to vox, and vox finds that sometimes when he passes out from working too much without taking a break that he wakes up in the morning with a fluffy blanket and food placed in front of him. he assumes its husk but when he asks, the other overlord denies it

LMFAOOO i can imagine angel sweating when vox storms downstairs in a frenzy going 'where the FUCK is my shark'. husk turns to look at him very slowly and just raises a singular eyebrow at him and angel shrugs very slowly. alastor returning the plush with his scent all over.... orugh. vox probably cant even smell it really, but for some reason his processors ingest the scent easily and he falls asleep better than ever for the first time in seven years.... </3 AUgh my heart...

and seriously. alastor you are SUCH a freak what the FUCK are you doing.... going to have to tag noncon cuddling at one point on madmans vice istg :sob:. i love them so much ugrh. swap radiostatic save me swap radiostatic

#ran rambles #hazbin hotel #general asks #radiostatic #swap au

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creepycassidy · 2 years

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hiii!! I really love AU Albert where he isnt the Grabber (Also I jst love Ethan with long hair really and the behind the scenes of him without the Grabber mask and his long hair makes my heart melt, he looks so… Soft ??😭😭) can u make more headcanons for AU albert i think youre the only one ive come across that has made the HC for AU Albert 😭

Yes, of course!! I’m so glad you enjoyed the other HCs for Alt Al! This is going to be sorta messy but it’s fine, mostly just other random headcanons I have for him. I LOVE doing these, so if anyone has any more specific HC requests for Alt Al, please feel free to send them in!

Fluffy Alternate Universe!Albert Shaw HCs Pt. 2

Warnings: mentions of food, lots of fluff!!

Al cannot cook. Even in this universe, most of what he makes for himself is eggs, mac and cheese, very simple things that he can pop into the oven or cook in a microwave/toaster oven.

If you’re a good cook, he LOVES it when you make dinner. Simple things and take out is alright, but nothing compares to sitting down with you for a home cooked meal.

This big dope wants to help you out, but don’t forget that he’s a major klutz. He will burn himself on a hot pan. Probably more than once. You should also expect to get a little messy, honestly!! Eggs are getting dropped, and he’s totally gonna squeeze and hug you with flower all over his hands. He’s a goofball.

But this all obviously results in you tending to his burns.

On the other hand, if you ever happen to get hurt in or out of the kitchen, Al is going to kiss your booboos and you can’t stop him!! He loves to baby you like that, it makes him feel good to take care of you.

Al kisses you so softly, brows furrowed together in silly determination to take away the ouch. He’s a magician, after all. Magicians can do that, didn’t you know?

“One, two, three… mwah! See, we’re alllll better, yeah?”

This man is such daddy material and he doesn’t even know it

Though as much as he loves kids, he could never and would never have them himself. This version of Albert is stable enough to know better than to pass his genes down. He knows he’s a mess.

Sammy and his rabbit are enough like children for him, thank you very much.

Back to the topic of take out, those are his favorite types of dates. If he’s not taking you out to dinner, he loves to order it in and get all fancied up. (I hc that he needs glasses, so he may even wear those.) guh!! He smells so nice too.

Put on a movie, keep the lights dim. Voilà. Abracadabra. Instant romance.

Sit in Al’s lap, pleaasssseeeee!! You are so very soft and warm and he loves to touch your skin/stroke your hair throughout the movie.

Afterwards, if you’re feeling up to it and aren’t too tired, don’t put it past him to clear the living room floor to dance with you.

He’s not a particularly good dancer. As a matter of fact, he really has two left feet when it comes to it, but it’s endearing.

Max has given him several records for Christmas gifts over the years, so you pick the music.

Funny enough, the van is an optimal date spot too. Simple, but there’s nothing wrong with that. The back is kinda cluttered (y’know since he’s not picking up children in it lmao) but that can be cleaned up. Throw some blankets back there, park, and bam. You’ve got yourself a prime place for cuddles and kisses and lots of stupid puns and jokes from Al all night long (along with possible other things that I may discuss in another post…)

It’s goofy, you could just do all that stuff at home…but, well, he’s goofy.

If you haven’t taken the big step of moving in with him yet, he always asks that you call him up when you get home, just to let him know you made it safe. There’s too many weirdos around Galesburg.

#the grabber #albert shaw #the black phone #creepycassidy #the grabber x you #the grabber x reader #headcanons #the grabber headcanons #alternate universe #tw: food #anon request

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thatsgoodsquishy0 · 6 months

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WIP Wednesday!

Tagging: @fangbangerghoul @spookyspecterino @bearlytolerant @aro-pancake @aislingdmdt @silurisanguine @dryad-of-the-dogwood @5oh5 & YOU!! Share your WIP’s!!

What started as a silly little one shot babysitter au turned into something way more creatively powerful than I thought, and by that I mean this fucking idea has highjacked my attention morning, day, and night.

Needless to say, I’m very excited to share this with you!

A Reader/Sam Coe POV fic set during Sam’s younger years, in which he was a Freestar Ranger working with his wife, Lillian Hart, as the two (really one…) care for their toddler daughter, Cora. As circumstance, and impossible luck, would have it, you’re desperate for a place to stay and the Coe’s need a nanny. You take a shine to Cora and the kindness of The Coe’s, eventually realizing the toll Lillian’s absence has taken on both her daughter and husband. He’s charismatic, sweet, and undeniably lonely. His job no longer fulfills him and his wife seems to prioritize her career over her family. You want nothing more than to comfort him, show him the same kindness you were shown the moment they blasted through on that spaceship, the moment they untied your hands, the moment they saved you from a fate worse than death, the moment your history became their history — something not so easily shaken despite your new start.

But chemistry is a strange mistress, and so are the morals of the heart.

I hope you enjoy this little sneak peek!

“Anton,” you say, fighting the lump in your throat. “You’re late.” The ceiling light glared against his earrings, matching his dubious grin as he planted himself to the ground.

“Angel. It is so good to see you again,” his russian accent stung in your ears like a bee sting. “You remember Dmitri. Boris.” He motioned to the men that hung behind him like pack dogs. You’d only seen these men a few times during Anton’s benders, or was it the glow of their hungry eyes you saw against the blackness of the drug den? Even now, darkness cloaked their unkempt presence. The hairs on the nape of your neck stood up as they stared at you.

A rock hardened in your stomach the moment you spotted the twine loosely wrapped around Dmirtri’s hands.

“I — I just came for my books,” you barely managed.

“I know dat. I’m just surprised you aren’t happy to see me,” he frowned, like a scorned lover. His grin strengthened, excitement lining the sickness of his smile the moment you eyed the rope “Are you not happy to see Anton?”

The door shrunk away from you. Your feet froze, as if you’d just stepped in freshly poured concrete. As it hardened, you gulped down your breath, your heartbeat thundered inside your chest as you forced yourself to speak. “I’m — I’m here for my books.” A pause. None of the men moved. Your pulse sped up. “Where are they?”

“Tsk. Tsk. Why do you bother with such old things?”

“Anton — “

“I do not have your books. After you left them, I … realized, they are of no use to me.”

“W-What?” An ache filled the back of your throat as you imagined him dumping the books into the ocean, on a strange planet, burning them, literally anything that disposed of your hard work and history’s greatest literary callbacks. “Where are they?” You asked again, your teeth clenched and fists balled. Your eyes bulged out of their sockets.

“Nowhere you need to concern yourself with ever again.” He snapped his fingers. Dmiriti and Boris charged like bulls as if you held a red flag. Your limbs twitched as adrenaline pumped through your body. You dodged his henchmen’s grip and bolted towards the door. Your ankle twisted as you ducked their trap a second time, ignoring the sharp pain as you turned and bolted away. The exit was so close. You just had to keep moving.

#it started out with a prompt how did it end up like this #expect lots of angst and lots of filthy smut because why the fuck not #thank you to my lovely friends who greenlit the idea for me and encouraged me to see where it might go #coemancer #starfield fanfiction

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dykevanny · 5 months

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haz i know absolutely nothign about zeno rpg but ur zeno au has intrigued me and im curious about it,,, i saw smth abt like. meomory loss and being handcuffed together and ik they eat ppl but thats it 😭 explain the au if u want ig bc im interested and i think thye look so silly. also bc u put vanny n will in my brain and they wont leave im shooing them with a boom and they are not moving

OK LET ME GET THE INFODUMP<3

So ummm Zeno au<3 I’m really normal. Allow me to give a brief explanation of what Zeno is first You see, Zeno is a fictional disease sort of thing that makes people cannibals. Specifically an oneset is caused by traumatic events/extreme cases of unrequited love(specifically mostly familial) and the only cure is eating the flesh of someone else with Zeno.(not widely known.) It’s also transmittable through biting like zombies. there’s one specific facility with scientists dedicated to getting to the bottom of how to cure zeno, also housing ‘patients’ (or, people with zeno being used as lab rats). Now onto character lore.

So william and henry were good friends right. Yeah. Considering that they even have a small diner together. Well one day will got zeno (oh no!) and started slowly picking off kids going to the diner. He even accidentally attacked Charlie, who escaped in one piece luckily. Charlie went to the afton household to see if he was doing okay (because will’s like an uncle to her and all! And also what if everyone else got hurt?) only to find will ate them all oops. And yeah same happened to her, but since he transmitted zeno to Charlie he was cured! How convenient! The people in charge of the labs ended up roping him and henry into being scientists for them through shady shady means and well the two aren’t on good terms and avoid each other like the plague. Henry’s still sore over the ‘you ate my fucking daughter’ thing. Luckily he has his assistant/the archivist (tape girl) to keep him company. So Vanessa right! Crazzy I know. Nessa as we know comes from a broken family. In this specific au I’m mixing her backstory with the character who’s place she’s taking (hi kuro) so basically her parents. Neglect her. In favor of her younger sibling because she was born from her mom’s affair and blablabla… she grows up basically taking care of herself. Eventually she develops zeno and starts you know. Killing and eating random girls as you do. When one night she comes home and is confronted by her parents about this!! And well you can guess. What happens to them lol. She gets captured and taken to the zeno facility where she’s specifically studied/talked to by William! They’re funny bc nessa hasn’t had anyone willingly spend so much time around her and be so nice to her. Will … well she’s a specimen to him lol. Since being cured himself zeno has been a subject of interest to him, he’s thrown himself completely into his work (under the guise of feeling soooo guilty for his actions which henry can see right through) and well. He’s realized the consumption of human flesh has something to do with it, since eating Charlie cured him. So he’s been …. Robbing the morgue/killing people when needed to feed vanessa every time they meet. Which, she’s more docile when she’s not hungry so it kind of works but she’s not like cured you know. It has the side affect of her being hungry when it’s time for someone to chat with her though which was funny the one time henry had to go in will’s stead cause he offered her a granola bar and she was like 😐 ew.?? Anyways will has gotten her total trust because he also plays board games with her yay!! He’s the only one not enforcing the whole straightjacket-dog muzzle combo also so she’s like woah !! He sees me as another human unlike these other guys :DD (needless to say zeno patients are not treated very humanely.lol) there was also one time tape girl had to be a substitute for william but nothing of note happened they just kinda chilled and ness threatened her in a backhanded and mildly gay sort of way.as you do.

Anyway yeah so basically Henry’s been experimenting with treatment through amnesia and totally surely unrelated note at the actual start of the story, Will and Nessa wake up in a strange room with no clue who they are or how they got here, and have to navigate the now bloody and corpse-strewn facility while handcuffed together with nothing to guide them except each other and the only clue to their pasts is tampered resumes which effectively switch their backstories!! Nessa is under the impression that she’s the scientist (the whole cannibalism part was left out) and she thinks William is the serial murderer/cannibal. Which was funny cause she read her own resume like wow… I’m kind of a big deal huh :) and then read Will’s like ERM.OKAY… Will didn’t read either of the resumes. Also tape girl gave everyone code names and said code names were swapped on the resumes also! So ‘bonnie’(nessa) and ‘vanny’(will) are just kind of cluelessly walking around like damn this place is really… corpsey:) until henry starts showing up and trying to kill them (he contracted zeno big surprise) and also tape girl (assumed dead) shows up sometimes just to see how things are going. Lots of shenanigans and also murder ensue.

The game also has multiple endings so. sometimes nessa ends up killing william lol. Intestine jumprope…. … ……… Also side note.will found out it’s specifically zeno infected humans that need to be fed to patients to cure them but kinda. Didn’t cure nessa on purpose<3 because she’s sort of entirely dependent on him in this way and she’s kind of his only friend.the same way he’s her only friend……wacky wild!

Tape girl is having a fucking.day. Because henry mentioned he was going to do something but likeee. She didn’t expect to be caught in the crossfires of a HUGE MASS MURDER CANNIBAL EVENT.AS LIKE ONE OF THE 4 PEOPLE STILL ALIVE IN HERE,.. once he chilled out henry explained himself and she agreed to help out (she also decided to distribute some of her recorded notes.just for fun…after the two get separated for the first time ‘vanny’ listens to them and is like woah… i was a patient here⁉️ And bon was my unethical doctor⁉️⁉️ which is funny) but like. She is the only one NOT infected in here and would like to keep it that way so she’s having quite the time. Seeing vanessa walking around unrestrained keeps jumpscaring her LOL. Once ness’s zeno symptoms start returning well ofc will as the only one she’d encountered here who she cares about is the first target but tape girl nearly gets chomped too lol.

Zeno has an interesting affect on the subjects mood which is funny. Basically when an oneset happens and the person with zeno is running around eating people they’re in a crazed manic state which. Is really fun.will and nessa are wandering around handcufffed and he’s like uhh bonnie you okay cause her facial expressions.well they went from the example on the left to the one on the right.

It’s funny bc. The memory erasure actually technically did work… her symptoms only started returning bc she got bit LOL

Pre-the amnesia incident the other three’s interactions with vanessa were pretty.limited. Considering she’s theeee most dangerous patient. Will talks to her for like an hour daily but Henry only really knows her as ‘william’s mutt’ (he was especially not a fan when he found out will had been FEEDING HER HUMAN FLESH.) and tape girl is afraid of her but also. Kind of endeared from their two in person interactions. The second one in which vanessa tried to convince her to let her cannibalize her but hey she was very polite about it..!! Henry and tape girl are both shocked and stunned that she’s actually pretty chill when she’s not insane and eating people.

TL;DR

^these fuckheads are almost all cannibals and beating each other up forever

#zeno au #yippie!!!!!!

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what do you think both societies would be like if toons and cogs finally make peace with each other and got along? (like with inklings and octolings from splatoon)

ohh!! interesting!! to be honest though, i know nothing about splatoon - but i can still work with this!

thing is, as the game is right now, peace really can't be made because it removes the main conflict that makes toontown, well, toontown - without it there's no gameplay. but imagining an au and a future where cogs and toons get along is interesting!

with my past headcanons i spoke of, i think it'd apply mostly to just toons from toontown and cogs inc or suitopia in general. i'll keep it as just toons of toontown and suitopia in general to keep things a bit easier to speak of since i did state i imagine suitopia as the one place where cogs are while toons are all over the place in different 'toontowns'.

in the case of ttcc (of course), i think it'd have to come with the defeat (or change of heart) for robert. probably not possible for the latter. cogs didn't know much about toons and stayed in their own place until robert and thomas started their company and basically invaded toontown.

i am not sure how that could happen - but i imagine if toons and cogs unite, perhaps they had to go against a third, bigger threat who's after them both. not all toons would agree to make peace with cogs, and not all cogs would be exactly thrilled to have to be friendly with toons -

but in the end it is better for the both of them. the cogs would have retract their invasions, polluting and taken over buildings. however, they don't have to worry about having to be repaired or have pies thrown at them due to a toon attack. that certainly saves some money - even if there's no in-come from all the other things cogs inc does.

cogs inc would probably disband completely, or turn into something else under new leadership because i highly doubt robert would agree with any of this. possibly thomas, since he's getting friendlier with the toons. (but then again, he still does regular cog stuff and doesn't stop anyone - just pointing out he isn't perfect and good himself either.)

but i imagine they could make a profit for having a place for cogs to travel to and relax in and have toontown as a tourist area. i am sure many cogs are curious about the toons and we know how tourists are. despite this being very controversial especially in relation how real life tourist attraction hot spots are (high living costs for natives living there, driving them away from their own homes), i can see this totally happening for toontown. not only that but the cogs and toons could even work together! but yeah it's to drive the point that the cogs are still cogs, they wanna make a profit. even if they're nice with the toons now

especially if they have a bigger threat now which could drive them to work together - because if everything's at peace there's just little to no story to tell.

i can see the cogs helping toons produce more gags to fight with - and perhaps helping with whatever goofy tech they may be building.

i feel like the toons and cogs would be on good terms but have conflict in a silly way - with the temperament of a lot of cogs they're still very serious and just want to get their work done - and not deal with a toon being silly and loud and annoying. still some looney tunes conflict, but in a more light-hearted, well meaning way. like, the war's over.

many toons would take time to adjust, and many would disagree with this. i can see this kind of like HTTYD, when the vikings first began befriending the dragons and inviting them into berk. they had to think of adjustments and how to live together to suit both sides.

on the other hand some cogs wouldn't be fans of this either - but in their case they can just quit, honestly. go somewhere else, find a different job. but that's okay because they're not being like sent to fight the toons now or anything. the cogs that are neutral or even happy about this would stay though.

like it'd take a looong time to adjust yknow? ive mostly been rambling about how they're FIRST getting used to each other without even knowing HOW and WHY it occurred in the first place. it'd need them to put their differences aside and see something they both want to fight for, or some other thing they share. issue is cogs and toons have MANY differences - they are supposed to be polar opposites in general if we don't think about individuals.

but again toontown is a cartoon and i think some big friendship unity COULD happen even if its less realistic. but yeah the first changes that cogs inc would have to be is to stop polluting shit and find different ways to make the company work. i'd say just turning the company place into a living area works since i already headcanon that cogs inc offers that, its basically its own smaller country for cogs outside of suitopia.

in the faaaaaaaaaaar future, things could be far different. it's just second nature that cogs and toons have peace now. perhaps the cogs learn to live simpler, more fun-filled lives. perhaps what the toons could do for the cogs is just go Fuck Capitalism and there's some reforming for suitopia? who knows! hard to imagine for the cogs who are all based on this. a hard question to answer 'coz it's like asking how to fix OUR real life society, LMFAO.

the cogs can learn that, despite them being robots made for work - there's more to life than that, they don't need to live according to their past like that. we don't even know where the cogs come from, but obviously someone had to have built them (even if i imagine cogs as part cartoon magic since they ARE alive they aren't 'JUST' robots)

the toons (of toontown) at least don't have to live in fear of the cogs invading anymore and they're possibly doing well from the new attention from the cogs AND other toons around the world. the toons can relax now, too, and focus on whatever fun hijinks they wanna get up to instead of strategizing and fighting off mean cogs. instead they can just, yknow, be chillin with them!

my brain's a bit scrambled now, i promise i had better comprehensive thoughts last night when i first read this ask so i'm sorta just blurting things out. hope y'all get what i mean!

i don't think it'd be impossible, with how many toons wanna be friends with the cogs (or lovers) (hell even family) with the cogs. but it'd be a hard feat to achieve considering how cogs are. But since many cogs just follow orders it'd need to be a change in how things are lead. (but some cogs would be more easier convinced, we already have some toon friendly/neutral cogs after all)

if i just think about this more and flesh out some of my tooniverse suitopia headcanons more, i think i'd have more comprehensive less repetetive and all over the place thoughts. but still, this is a fun thing to think about, and i'm sure it's something a lot of us cog fans would like to see in-game even just a little bit though it goes agains the whole point of the game. (but it's still in there! just within the realms of how the game works i suppose. looking at misty especially, she's the one who actively wants to befriend toons. then there's neutral cogs like cathal who doesn't even wanna fight. or chip. can't say much i haven't finished his fight yet. or hell, even high roller - they're neutral to cogs and toons - bringing them together on the show. then there's dave dave is something else okay)

but YEAH These are some long ass closing thoughts so lemme end this here since it's LONG. i just wanna explain myself my adhd is showing. TOODLES! i love your guys' asks, please do keep them coming!!

#long #[answered]#i still wanna think about a possible enemy for the toons and cogs thatd make them unite #who could it even be #if i may rain world autism in a bit - could it be like what the ancients are to the iterators?#whoever made cogs? who knows perhaps they were made to be work robots #but ended up having feelings and needs and wants of their own and - i dont think theyd kill or destroy their creators #but perhaps this was a very long time ago and they just... arent around. extinct maybe. they made the cogs to be helped but the cogs leave #to be their own people and start their own society and without that help their creators just... poof! gone #and with all that cogs learned how to make more of themselves since they ARE robots and this is how suitopia grew to be bigger and bigger a #it is now #who knows! fun to think about

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Fic title: Night changes

(From this old one direction song xD)

okay, I know this song a little so this may influence it, but I'm thinking modern au friends to lovers slowburn. it starts when they're very young kids and follows them into adulthood, seeing how they changed and grew and evolved together. I think it'd portray several stages of their lives, each told in one chapter

first is kindergarten: they meet and become best friends

then high school: they first start to have feelings for each other but because it's high school and they're silly kids who don't know how to deal with emotions yet, neither ever says anything and they date other people instead and both pretend it's okay until they eventually suppress their feelings enough to move on

college: they actually have to separate because they go to different colleges and it's really difficult for a while and they start talking to each other less and less until they finally see each other again face to face during a Christmas break, roughly a year after the last time they talked. they finally hash it out and admit that they both really missed each other and they promise to do better in the future to keep their friendship alive because they're still really important to each other

post-college: they finish college and decide to find an apartment for themselves together and become roommates because hey, they're best friends and it's easier to pay rent, except oh no, the feelings are returning again! what to do

getting together: like two years after they moved in together, Jyn gets a job offer in a different state that she's considering taking but she does have a few hangs up because yeah okay, she and Cassian can't live together forever, she knows that, he'll eventually find someone and move in with them (a day she's dreading), but she also doesn't want to be so far away from him or any of her other friends that she considers family. so it's a tough choice. meanwhile Cassian's panicking because he wants to be happy for her but he can't lose her again, this is gonna end up just like when they were in college and they'll talk less and less until they lose contact again for good this time. he's not prepared for that, he still hasn't told her he loves her but telling her now feels manipulative like he's just trying to make her stay.

so he tries to be selfless and he doesn't ask her to stay, meanwhile Jyn's hoping so bad that he'll ask her but it looks like he's just really cool with the whole thing, and wow, he won't even miss her? okay then. so there's ton of miscommunication going on.

Jyn accepts the job and begins to pack her things, and now Cassian will definitely not say anything, it's too late. on her last night, the gang goes out to celebrate and get drunk until eventually it's just the two of them left. with her imminent goodbye and the alcohol they consumed, emotions are running high, and they end kissing for the first time but nothing else happens. it's awkward in the morning, neither know what to say or if this even means anything, maybe it was just the alcohol and the nostalgia, right? Cassian offers to take her to the airport, except oh no, a giant snow storm reached the city, all flights were cancelled! how terrible. now they actually have a few more days together, just enough time for them to actually sort this out.... anyway, they try to avoid each other a bit at first but eventually break down and talk. both confesses their feelings, and they kiss. Jyn decides not to go. Cassian feels bad, but she reassures him that she was already apprehensive, and part of her only took the job because she was hurt she felt like he didn't even care. so it all works out in the end, happy ending <3

I think that'd be the real ending, but maybe we can do a bonus epilogue chapter where they get married or have kids or something. something super cute and fluffy! and in their home, they have two pictures on the shelf side by side: one taken of them on the first day of kindergarten when they met at just 4 years old, and one decades later on their wedding day.

#replies #pfirsichspritzer #rebelcaptain #my fics #best friends slowburn

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riewritten · 2 years

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12 WAITING FOR YOU TO COME

DUSK IN THE BRIGHTEST | chapter directory

erwin smith/fem!reader, erwin smith/you, no y/n | slow burn, angst, hurt/comfort, fluff & smut, mutual pining, canon AU, college/univ AU, professor erwin smith, commander erwin smith, non-linear narrative, manga spoilers

Trigger warning: canon-typical violence, graphic description, explicit sexual content, suicidal thoughts, mental health issues, trauma, implied/referenced sexual harassment, implied/referenced abuse, attempted murder, overdosing

Plot: It was always the nightmares, really. Entrapped with walls, human-eating giants, fighting through metal strings and swords – utterly violent, dreary, recurrent. But behind the blurry faces was a man with menacing blue eyes and vivid features; eventually appearing before you as your new reputable professor, Erwin Smith. Since then, the disaster had slipped beyond your subconscious. AO3

It was as if you were just waiting for the next expedition to die.

It went like that for several months; training and doing errands during the day then lurking around the city at night. You got berated for not following the curfew but since they had noticed you were too listless to care (and it doesn't affect your day job, anyway), people let you be.

You thought of your brother then. What would he say? Would he get alarmed because this was your exact expression back to your childhood days, when Murdoch's household kicked both of you out?

But then again, that's the thing. He's not here to see you anymore.

You had spent the remaining days before the expedition at the cemetery. First was Isabel's grave that looks like it hasn't been taken care of for months. Levi's too busy to do so after all, and you have all the time for your brother when the sun sets. After cleaning her, you sat down to watch the candle you had lit, it went on until you heard footsteps towards you; it was a glowering Levi, heavily annoyed at you lurking around his precious friend's grave. It didn't help that he seemed to be already in a foul mood before seeing yoy.

"What's this?" he scowled, "Got nothing to do so you just decided to lurk around the graves of people you were barely acquainted with?"

You curled your eyebrows in disdain, but more than that, you thought he might be misunderstanding something.

"I just thought of cleaning her up since it looked dirty."

"What for?" annoyance still laced strongly in his voice, "No one in this silly regiment genuinely regarded their presence here so I don't get where you're coming from."

"You're misunderstanding something here, Levi."

"Am I misunderstanding the fact that you're doing this for fun and thought it's a noble thing to do?"

Perhaps it was just due to Levi's upbringing, unaccustomed to favors and sincerity unless it comes from his two dear friends, and so you didn't reciprocate the anger yet. Furthermore, it was true, no one in the regiment acknowledged whatever his two friends had done, let alone their presence. In fact, they were disliked by almost everybody. It brought you immense disappointment, too. Isabel wasn't able to get the endearment she very much deserved just because she died that easily.

"What we had for a short time might be trivial but I really liked her company the most. I'm sorry if it looked like I was messing around–"

"Lies," he quickly cut you off, "step away from that. Now."

You stepped aside but this time, albeit composure on the tip of an iceberg due to his misdirected behavior, "Stop cutting me off."

"I knew it," he crouched on Isabel's stone to brush off the rest of the dust on it, "I knew why you made Isabel stick with you like a fucking gum while she's here. You can't fool me. I'm a sly thug myself."

You stood frozen; that's something you cannot counter, and it's not like you could just assert your narrative to prove that you regarded Isabel with genuine endearment. It's not about you; it's about Levi's misconception about everyone viewing their death as a trivial matter.

His glare towards you tightened, "I just know I should hold you with disdain for this because you fooled this brat into thinking that she finally had a genuine company aside from us when all you did was be a cunning rat. You thought she'd be the most convenient person to approach, no? She's too gullible to begin with, after all. I'm sure you were able to do a good job as Erwin's doll. You don't have any ascendancy to fake your sincerity here. Not in front of me."

You flinched at the nickname, "That's not true! I didn't do it for Erwin's benefit. What the fuck is wrong with you?"

"You're trying to save face now, I can see."

"I did it because I want you to be successful in killing Erwin off during that time!" Your remark signalled Levi's turn to be surprised. "You're right, I really garnered her favor because she's the most convenient person to approach, but I stood close so I could watch and offer needed support, even if I'm not in any way sympathizing with the likes of Lobov."

And you regret that, you regret being insincere to guts, too.

"But I failed to embody that half-heartedness, miserably so, because I came to love her quickly. After all, she's just so overly sincere with everything. She wouldn't fail to garner anyone's favor if she tried. What you said isn't true at all! You’re not the only one devastated with their deaths. She will always be stuck on me and her decapitated body will haunt me in my sleep for the rest of my life."

A pause came as you tried to gulp down the heavy emotions teetering to spill out.

"I'm sure that's what others feel as well. No sane person would stick to this mission and deem their comrades irrelevant just because they died so quickly. It doesn't work that way. I know it won't be easy to learn that, but it will never work that way."

Silence enveloped the cemetery for a while. It was as if the rustling wind was Isabel trying to ease the tension between the two of you. Levi averted his gaze somewhere and furrowed his brows. "Stop spurring such bullshit on me," but then his voice wasn't as firm as before, "I don't believe you wanted to kill that man; not when you mindlessly follow him like a doll."

"Don't even call me his doll." Funny enough, that was the thing that completely dissipated your patience, not his accusatory remarks about your friendship with Isabel. You don't have much energy to deal with bad-mouthed bastards anymore. "The reason I tend to follow his errands with no talk is because I don't want to prolong the conversation. What you see on the surface doesn't give you the right to conclude stuff. Same goes with my affection for Isabel."

Just when you were about to throw the rug you used to clean Isabel's tomb and stomp out of the place, you noticed Levi's gaze somewhere. Following through made you understand what was up.

Erwin was standing there with candles in his hand as he stared at the tomb nearby. He heeded both of you no mind, and yet it was crystal clear that he had heard everything.

"Fuck," you rolled your eyes, not in the mood to spend time with your brother anymore.

As you walked away, however, you noticed a lit candle beside the grave of your brother. Knowing that it was Erwin to put that there churned your stomach in further disdain.

With that, the awaited expedition came again. The plan was clearer, to say the least, because Shadis finally let Erwin take the lead beside him. Your squad stood in the front lines of the formation, with Levi and you placed on both sides of the command unit to stand in defense,

Despite all the preparation, you knew better than to think that clear plans guarantee tolerable results. The only positive thing in the expedition was scouting longer than usual. Shadis didn't look better the past few months—that you noticed—but you were completely appalled that he brought that here in the battleground. You're not the one to talk on emotional threshold, but squads were just getting wiped out by the titans left and right.

"Commander!" you shouted at him, "Get back to your senses, please! We're about to lose everyone if you don't!"

Just after that, an abnormal titan started running right in front of you. It was too fast; you were left with no choice but to confront it.

"Ready!" Levi shouted and you synchronously fled towards immobilizing the titan. The command unit fired a flare.

"Three meter titan from the right!" Moses, the squad letter behind the command unit, fired the flare and flew towards it. "Special ops, stay back and protect the Commander! Our squad is enough for this!" And thus he signalled his subordinates to formation. "Get ready! Let's teach this thing the power of the human race!"

Erwin and some from the command unit followed suit.

You glanced at the commander and while his mind still seemed to be working, he looked like losing his sanity already. You tried to comply with the order—you really did—but when you saw Moses breaking his stance and the titan catching him, you stood on your horse to attack.

He was able to slash it away, albeit faltering already due to what seemed to be cracked bones. You figured you could still protect him if you fled. Moses is a capable soldier and he'd be able to work around it with needed help.

"Don't leave the commander!" he yelled at you and the other soldier. After all, even Erwin would take a couple of seconds before reaching him, too. "I'll just—hah—s-serve as a distraction!"

The rest of his squadmates were thrown badly to the ground and unable to move due to the impact, which was an utterly bad sight because only Erwin was left to immobilize it.

"Moses, no!" you shrieked in horror as his speed turned even slower, completely ready to leave the commander.

"I know! I'm facing my death without—hng—without fear! The soldiers… we'll be leaving behind will… continue the fight!"

With that, he was finally grabbed by the titan. On Erwin's end, it became an easy feat now that the monster was distracted.

"T-that's why protect the commander! Continue protecting the commander! He'll get us out of here someho—" Just before he could finish his words, however, the titan already chugged his body down.

Erwin was able to cut the nape, but you reached them too late. All you could do is to grab as many bodies as you can towards the wagon, whether it was still full in shape or already cut to pieces.

When you reached a relatively safer zone, you grabbed Moses' hand from the wagon, wrapped it up with a thick cloth, and stormed in front of the commander angrily, "Hold this!" You made sure to register your anger; he looked immensely taken aback. "Hold the arm of the soldier who swore to protect you until his last breath. Grip on that tightly until we enter the walls again." Alas, that was more than enough to bring Shadis back to his senses, albeit a little too late.

More than half of you died upon reaching the walls, marking the expedition as a failure again—abundant losses and smaller gains. You were a bloody mess as well, unsure if it was your own blood or from the bodies you picked up. Although succumbing to your injuries would be way easier, you still tried to keep yourself on your horse until the walls opened.

The people of Shiganshina were quick to notice the losses you had garnered. The coins clanked and chortles were heard as those who bet for fewer survivors won.

"Braun, Braun!" An old woman exclaimed, something you quickly noticed because out of all the whispers, she was the only one utterly worried. Shadis approached her as she continued, "Excuse me, my son, I—I'm sorry… I can't see my son. What happened to him?"

"She's Moses' mother," a female soldier clarified from behind.

"Bring him here," Shadis replied.

The poor woman was beaming for a while until the female soldier walked back only with a wrapped up cloth. Shadis gently handed it to her, "Here it is. That's what we're able to recover from him."

When horrendous arm was uncovered, the mother reached her tipping point and wailed. The coins stopped clanking, the chortles tipped into silence, and Shadis couldn't do anything but console her.

"Really, it doesn't have to be something outstanding!" she cried, "my strong son offered himself for humanity's freedom, didn't he?"

You were barely conscious, certainly shutting down anytime soon, but then Shadis cried loudly, "No! It was all for naught! We weren't able to make any progress at all! I've been nothing but incompetent, toying around with the lives of our soldiers. We couldn't find out where they came from, not at all!"

"God… shut the fuck up…" your balance finally faltered, "you should've just…" and this time, other soldiers noticed your unsteady movements, "you should've just died, you arrogant bastard… You should've just…"

Erwin quickly caught you as he shouted for back up, his voice being the last thing you heard before physically admitting defeat.

You thought Shadis breaking down in pathetic admittance was already the worst thing you could ever lay your eyes upon. However, when you shot your eyes open, everything was way darker than usual. The air reeked of sorrow, the wind was darker, and what can only be heard were cries. Your comrades at the infirmary seemed as though they've been wailing for hours already. You panicky stood up, grabbed a cane for support, and stormed outside the hall. There were no people to be seen, an awful reminder of the wipe out. You shot the window a look, and the rest of the soldiers were lying on the ground as they shook and cried in horror.

It was an utter nightmare, the scenery of doomsday.

"What's happening…?"

When a door creaked open, you almost lost your already faltering balance. Erwin looked at you in surprise, "You're supposed to be resting right now. Go back to the infirmary."

You forgot all your disdain towards the man; you ran all the way in panic until he caught you, "Erwin, what's happening?"

"I knew the number of titans we had encountered was odd. They were thrice the usual. Not even the strictest preparations can ever save us from that." he muttered grimly, still holding onto you tight. The Erwin Smith beside you looked utterly horrified and he wasn't even able to hide it—eyes extremely dark and shot wide, while the color on his face flushed in white. It was more than enough for you to cower in fear.

"What's happening?" you shrieked, "Tell me properly, Erwin!"

"Wall Maria fell. Citizens are helplessly evacuating as we speak. The titans finally did it."

You completely dropped down to the ground and Erwin wasn't able to save you from it anymore. Your stomach churned way more immensely than it did during your first expedition. You threw up—or attempted so—as nothing was coming out. You tried again, and again, and again, until Erwin stopped you.

"Please, just go back to the infirmary and rest. We don't have many people as it is. The last thing I'd let is you dying like this."

"Shadis, where is he? Where's the commander?"

Erwin froze on the spot which churned you to further horror. He massaged his temples frustratingly to keep himself calm, "He just relieved himself from his post."

"Then, what about the Scout? Who's replacing him?" you already knew the answer but you were still hoping for everything to turn out as a big bad joke. All hope left you when he struggled to answer.

"Me," he paused for a while, then regained his composure slowly, "I'm the Survey Corps Commander now."

You shut your eyes tight in sheer frustration but when you opened it again, you were not in the barracks anymore.

You thought that the scariest nightmare you could ever have was Isabel and Furlan dying on you, but man oh man, it just keeps on getting darker.

And thus the only goal ringing in your head was to not sleep ever again.

On the first day, you were completely incapacitated to move and did nothing but shake back and forth at the corner of your bed. No food, no water even, until the phone alarm rang which marked the second day of your cries.

You had to drink two bottles of energy drink just so you could go to your classes, and took your make-up seriously to cover the eyebags and dread.

You figured that you might need a serotonin boost before going to Historia, so before entering the building, you laid down in the university field first to bond with the stray cats with the food you bought from a nearby pet shop.

"Hello there," you mumbled as another cat went towards you, which made them five in total. As the little ones went on eating, you remembered your counterpart who had this similar hobby of liking cats. You can't fool yourself anymore; that world is dead real and you have nothing to anticipate from hereon but worsening dread.

You averted your eyes around the field to ground yourself back until you saw Erwin sitting down on a bench nearby, indulged with a book. There was a cat eating soundly on a paper cup beside him, and when it rubbed on his hand, he swiftly poured another serving and went back to reading.

It brought you to another realization: your feelings will never be linear about this man, too. From fear that transitioned into awkwardness and recently became lightheartedness, you dropped down into something negative again. You might not be immensely afraid of Erwin Smith of this world anymore, but you don't think you'll be dropping the feelings your counterpart had towards her now commander, not anytime soon.

Erwin closed the book; you noticed how tired his eyes were when he massaged his temples and looked up at the sky.

Despite its subtlety, you saw his facade slip away. He doesn't look ahead of everything anymore, and doesn't seem like he completely knows how to deal with things; he's just weary and dreary—just like you.

Oh, yes, just exactly like you.

Your realizations finally came on a positive note; you have someone completely the same as you and if you push the button, you won't be alone dealing with this anymore. Erwin is not on a higher footing, not even in authority to control you the way the commander does. You don't have to drop the feelings your counterpart has; you can still hold the commander in prejudice, but this one in front of you can never make you feel that way. For the first time in a while since you woke up, you were filled with solace again.

When Historia shouted your name from afar and Erwin turned immediately upon hearing it, you quickly stood up and ran to her without staring back.

"Woah," Historia blurted out, "you're completely fixed today."

"Do I look better?"

She curled her eyebrows in ponder and eventually shook her head in disappointment. "Knew it. I thought you just didn't feel like going to school yesterday. When was the last time you slept?"

You gulped, completely taken aback. Despite that, you still came up with an answer, "That's rude. Are you telling me I only fix my face up when I'm not in the right mind?"

"You can't fool me. You know better than that." She turned her back on you and started walking.

"You're overreacting. Maybe I'll do this every day from now on so you won't be too appalled."

Upon entering the hallways, you saw her shoulders shaking. "You're getting worse recently and I hate the way you keep on brushing that off from me. I know I can't completely help you with this but at least spare me from your lies. It's getting on my nerves now." Even before you can hold her shoulders to assure it wasn't a big deal, she spat, "Don't try to comfort me on this now. I don't need it."

"Hisu," you lamented, "I'm sorry. I made you very worried, hadn't I?"

"I said don't make this about me." Historia turned to you with furrowed eyebrows and eyes getting moist, "I don't know whether you have something in mind to outlive your state and I'm just not capable of helping you hence you don't bother to tell me—which is fine, of course—I just… Please, don't try so hard to hide the fact that you're not okay, not with me."

You looked down at the ground upon realizing that every time Historia checks up on you, you either ignore or lie. There's no in between. "You're right. It's really getting worse now but I don't know how to move forward from it just yet."

"I'm sure that man has an idea at least. I may not be able to help you this time but he can. Don't talk to me until you finally confront him about that," Historia turned her back on you to walk away and signalled you to not dare follow her, "you just need a really hard push so betting our friendship on this. I'm sure he's still on the field. Go to him now, okay?"

With that, you’re all alone in the hallway. You knew how adamant she could be hence your guilt reverberated; she must've been enduring this a lot lately. If you can't do it for yourself, then do it for her, Isabel, Furlan, Levi, and everyone who cares deeply for your welfare. Erwin is the only way you can move forward. You started running towards the field again in hopes that he was still there. You stopped in your tracks in gratitude, he was on the exact spot you were sitting in earlier, the only difference is that the cats doubled in number.

He looked at you while crouching down the ground and you heaved a chuckled at him.

Despite the subtle similarities you have with our counterparts, you were still able to construe how different this one is. There's a difference with you as there's with him. Like the person you are in that world, you’re still tormented by your lack of direction in life, but you have people to care for you here, people you can sincerely dedicate your heart to without a doubt. Erwin Smith is still ten steps ahead and can do everything flawlessly to make things go his way, but he’s as tranquil as he could ever be in this world. He's not covered in grim darkness, can easily smile here, and he can even treat the cats with the same endearment as you do.

It doesn't matter if the nightmares aren't just nightmares.

You walked towards him and he stood up to greet you. As his eyes fixed on your figure, you felt the anxiousness but finally gulped it down—steps not faltering and fear not ruling you back.

"Look at you. When's the last time you slept?" Erwin remarked when you finally reached him.

"Eh?" He noticed it too? "Well, same goes with you."

"You noticed it too?" Erwin mused, "Levi scorned when he saw me this morning."

Oh, the glaring similarities. "Fair. Hisu just berated me."

"Just as you deserves. She looks so worried recently."

"I'm sorry if I'm too late but… uh… if I ever got ready to tell you everything about my nightmares, can I come to you anytime I want? Can I…" you gulped down, but then Erwin's surprise gave you a boost of encouragement, "can I come to you from now on?"

"You don't even need to ask. I’m just waiting for you every day to come."

Your chest tugged in ways unknown. If this was said by another person, you wouldn't care too much, but this is Erwin Smith and no one can surpass the connection you had with him—the disdain, the gloom, the pain, the sympathy, and all the tragic things you had experienced together.

Erwin is your way out, both from your nightmares and your reality from hereon.

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