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Luke and Sebastian Walk Into A Bar
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, @hold-him-down !!! Here is this absolute chaos spin-off/crossover event.
NOTE: The characters of Luke Bennett and Leo Evans are entirely Holdy's. I am just borrowing them to play in our shared most-non-canon cinematic universe. Also, our world building details don't always align so adjustments have been made & rules don't count here.
WARNINGS: BBU/BBU-adjacent, alcohol, talk of sexual content, heavy talks of slavery, asshole politicians
“Vodka soda.” Sebastian saddles up to the last seat at the bar, putting the most distance possible between himself and the next patron.
The place is a dive; dimly lit and underpopulated, both of which are characteristics he actively sought out. It’s been a stressful, exhausting forty-eight hours in Washington D.C., and his social meter has all but depleted. This seems as good a place as any to blow of steam.
Under the bar, he pulls out his phone and types a message.
Early flight tomorrow. Can’t wait to be home. Everything good?
As usual, the reply comes almost immediately.
J: everything is good. we are watching a movie. ezra taught me how to sous vide chicken.
Before Sebastian can type out his response, his phone buzzes again.
J: I’m glad you’ll be home soon.
Something swells in his chest in the way he’s becoming accustomed to when Jaime decides to say the most casual thing that takes an emotional baseball bat to his heart. He shoots off another message, telling Jaime to sleep well and that he’ll see him in the morning.
Just as he is slipping his phone back into his pocket, a man settling in across the bar catches his eye. Not to be a cliche, but the tall-dark-handsome combination has always done it for Sebastian, and this guy is certainly no exception to the rule.
Their gazes meet just long enough for them to acknowledge each other and… Well, this wasn’t exactly the kind of stress relief he had in mind for tonight, but Sebastian isn’t one to look a gift horse in the mouth.
Sebastian doesn't consider himself to be particularly good at flirting, even with the crutch of alcohol, but he has learned to navigate this sort of interaction with enough poise to get by. Usually. It was a learned skill, born out of necessity; if you’re going to restrict all intimate interaction in your life to anonymous strangers from a bar, you’ve got to get good at picking them up.
Still, it’s been a while. Casual sex hasn’t been a big part of his life since Jaime came into the picture, and Sebastian is rusty.
The bartender places his drink in front of him, and Sebastian knocks it back in three long swigs. He slides off of his stool and saunters over to the empty seat beside the stranger.
“Anyone sitting here?” he asks.
The man angles slightly toward him on his barstool. His dark brown eyes cast a look of approval over Sebastian and a small smile flicks up the corner of his mouth.
“Just you,” he says.
Still got it, baby.
“So,” Sebastian tries after a beat of not-entirely-comfortable silence. “You come here often?”
Okay, so maybe he is rusty after all. The handsome stranger raises an eyebrow.
“Zero points for originality.”
“Sorry,” Sebastian says. “I’m usually not this bad at flirting with strangers.”
This earns him a smile Sebastian chooses to read as amused. “Is that what you’re doing?”
“Trying to? I’m not usually this sober when I attempt it.”
“That, I can help with. What are you drinking?”
“What’s that?” Sebastian asks, pointing to the man’s drink.
“Whisky.”
He grimaces. “Nevermind. I’ll take a vodka soda.”
The man waves down the bartender with the air of someone who has been here before. When Sebastian has his drink in hand, he angles his stool toward the stranger. “I’m Sebastian,” he says.
Something hesitant flickers over his expression, just a fleeting moment, before he turns to him with an outstretched hand. “Luca.”
“Wow, a handshake, huh?” Sebastian can’t help but chuckle, even as he meets the firm grip with his own.
A sheepish smile graces his expression. “Sorry. Hard to get out of the professional headspace sometimes.”
“What do you do?”
Luca studies him for a moment, eyes darting over his face in search of… something. Finally, he says, “I’m in politics.”
“Ah.” Sebastian nods. “Should have guessed.”
“What about you?”
Sebastian’s fingers tense slightly around his glass. He briefly entertains the idea of concocting a fake backstory on the fly, but promptly remembers he’s a nervous liar and defaults to the simplest truth.
“I’m a doctor,” he says.
“Oh. Wow.”
“Don’t sound so surprised.”
“I’m not,” Luca lies, then concedes to a guilty smile. “It’s just… you look young is all.”
“Thanks. Pretty soon I think they’re going to let me upgrade from safety scissors in the OR. If I’m really good.”
He rolls his eyes. “Oh, he’s quick with the jokes, too. What kind of medicine are you in?”
Well, this is one way to kill a mood fast. “Shop talk isn’t exactly what I was hoping for tonight,” he says.
The glass pauses halfway to Luca’s lips. He cocks an eyebrow. “And what, exactly, are you looking for?”
Now they’re getting somewhere.
“Depends. What are you offering?”
“Depends,” he echoes. “How much have you had to drink?”
Sebastian smirks. “If you’re into playing daddy, you could have just said so,” he flirts, and the words surprise even him coming out of his mouth. Maybe he hasn’t forgotten how to do this, after all.
It earns a surprised laugh. “How old do you think I am, exactly?”
“I’m not saying you’re my daddy,” Sebastian argues. “Theoretically, you could have a baby at home. Or maybe you had kids young. I don’t know your life.”
“Well, I didn’t,” Luca drawls. “And I don’t.”
“No kids,” Sebastian repeats. “What I’m hearing is… your place is empty?”
This… does not get the reaction he was hoping for. Luca's smile drops a bit, eyes averting to the bar.
“Oh,” Sebastian backtracks, sobering slightly. “I—Sorry, did I misread this? Oh god, please don’t tell me you have a wife.”
“I’m not married,” he assures him. “Definitely not to a woman. It’s just… my place. It’s not…”
Sebastian levels him with an appraising gaze. “I’m trying to decide if you're hiding a body or a rare Barbie collection." Luca flushes slightly and Sebastian decides to take pity on him. “Lucky for you, my hotel is three blocks away.”
Luca swallows down the rest of his drink and flags down the check.
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As with every hot, steamy rendezvous, their night takes a brief interlude at a 7/11.
At this hour on a Friday night, the cast of characters includes one miserable cashier, a man reciting bible verses under his breath on a loop, and a gaggle of stumbling-drunk college kids. Sebastian’s eyes catch on one of the latter: a boy with blond curls and thin wrists protruding from his cuffed sleeves. For just a moment, at just the right angle before he turns, Sebastian sees a flash of Jaime, and the comparison sends a shockwave through his gut.
In another life, that could be him; laughing with his friends on a Friday night, arm slung around a girl with blue streaks in her hair, being slightly too loud in a public space.
It should be him. He should be here, living a normal, happy life, not holed up in Sam and Ezra’s guest room, waiting for the owner of his contract to come home.
“Next in line.” The cashier’s voice pulls him back to the present, and Sebastian blinks, realizing he’s suddenly a little more sober and a lot less horny than he was a minute earlier.
They lay their items on the counter—a three-pack of condoms, travel sized lube, and two bottles of water—and both pull out their wallets to pay.
“On me,” Luca says, pushing forward a silver Amex.
“Chivalry isn’t dead,” Sebastian cheeks, trying to nudge them back toward the path of flirtation instead of depressive-crisis-in-a-convenience-store.
It almost works, too, until they step outside and a voice calls out:
“Senator Luke Bennett.”
Beside him, Luca stiffens. A man appears in front of them. He casts a look to the condoms and lube in the transparent bag, to Sebastian, then back at Luke. A smirk edges up his mouth and—wait.
Sorry. Did he just say senator?
“Is your boy not doing it for you anymore?” The man’s breath smells of liquor and mint when he leans too close. “I hear WRU has a good return policy for unsatisfactory performance.”
Suddenly, the senator bombshell doesn’t feel all that important. Sebastian takes a step back, watching the image of the attractive stranger warp before his eyes.
“You have a contract?” he asks.
“Ooo,” the man chuckles. “Didn’t mean to stir the pot.”
“No, Richard, that doesn’t sound like you at all.” Senator Luca is all ice.
“I’ll leave you to it.” Richard backs off with both hands raised and a smile firmly in place. “My best to Leo.”
Luke watches him retreat with cold steel in his eyes. When he’s gone, he turns to Sebastian, halfway through an apology. “Listen, I—”
“You have a fucking contracted worker at home?” Sebastian cuts in. “That’s why we couldn’t go back to your place?”
The look on his face is all the answer he needs.
“Jesus,” Sebastian scoffed. “I would have preferred a wife. God, I don’t know what I expected. I guess when-in-Washington, you’ve got to screen your hookups a little better. One, are you a conservative? Two, are you a fucking senator? Three, do you support the literal modern day slave trade?”
Luke’s jaw is cut in a way that might have been hot before Sebastian knew a few key details. He lifts his chin, keeping his voice infuriatingly even.
“I am in the public eye,” he says. “I have never been shy about my stance firmly against the system.”
“That’s one hell of a mixed signal you’re sending.”
And… okay. Sure. Sebastian is being a little bit hypocritical. But his situation… it’s different. Right? And highly unlikely that he just so happened to stumble upon a high ranking government official who just so happens to own a contract out of system resistance.
“I don’t expect you to understand,” Luke says. “But I also can’t fault you for being angry. I’m glad you are. It means you’re one of the good ones. That being said…” He throws a half-hearted wave with the hand not holding a bag of condoms and lube. “It was nice meeting you.”
He’s a few steps down the sidewalk when something possesses Sebastian to call after him.
“What does that make you?” he says.
Luke stops.
“If I’m one of the good ones,” Sebastian repeats. “What does that make you?”
He turns back to Sebastian, and the honest look of sadness in his eyes catches him off guard.
“I try to be good for him,” he says. "I do my best."
And Sebastian knows he should let it go and walk away, but he hears himself respond anyway. “Yeah, you and every other prick who thinks they’re doing these people a favor. I know how that goes. I see it every day, what that kind of ‘goodness’ does to them.”
Luke’s brow furrows. Sebastian’s brain catches up to his mouth a few seconds too late.
Shit.
“What do you mean you see it every day?”
“I…” Sebastian scrubs a hand over his mouth, “You know what? Never mind.” He steps around him, making a beeline for his hotel. This time, it’s Luke who calls after him.
“Wait.”
Sebastian waits. Luke lowers his voice, closing the distance again. “Do you…?” His mouth shapes and reshapes a few attempts at words. “Are you in resistance work?”
Is it really a lie to leave out part of the truth? As long as the part you do say is still true? Probably best to go for avoidance altogether.
“If I was,” Sebastian says, “I probably wouldn’t run and tell the first government representative I meet.”
Something like recognition flashes in Luke's eyes. “You’re in town for the supply trade. A group of medical resistance workers were planning to network in the city this week.”
Sebastian takes a step back. He’s struck with the sudden paralyzing fear that federal agents were about to pop around the corner and drag him away.
“How do you know that?” he whispers.
“I…” Luke begins. “I know someone who does some work in that area. When he can.”
Sebastian crosses his arms. “Public opposition is one thing,” he says. “Knowledge of illegal action against the system is another, Senator.”
Finally, a bit of the hardness in his expressions gives way to a smile.
“Then I guess we know where my allegiances lie.”
#do no harm: jaime & sebastian#the fighter#peachy-panic hold-him-down cinematic universe#crossover#bbu#like bbu adacent?#listen when i told you this was chaotic#i wasn't kidding#but it's a birthday present for holdy and she deserved a treat
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Tom Hiddleston for Gentleman's Journal by Tomo Brejc, June 2022
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I have done endless research on the story of The Snow Queen. I have looked into grief, death, symbolism for death, symbolism for family, symbolism for hope, research on miscarriages, over-protecting, parenting, emotional support, uncurable sickness, funerals, adoption, mirror symbolism, perfectionist, therapy, spirits, disability, and how it feels to drown and freeze to death (there's a lot of burning feelings for deaths so cold.) All for a fan fiction based on a Spanish cat and his Mexican wife and friend. 🤣
#puss in boots#puss in boots the last wish#fan fiction#the fan fic is finally out of the outline phase#amd the first chapter in finally being written#i have to say#I'm looking firward to sharing certain charaters#red riding hood being one and her relationship with her wolf brother#goldie and baby bonding#through grieving of course#oh amd of course the shipping and romance#but what I'm most excited about#is the wolf and seven kids scene#can't wait to share that one#i wasn't kidding#when I said I was giving Dulcinea the darkest situation
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So I have a rough draft of what Knashthra looks like
Just because there are a shit ton of trees doesn’t mean that there’s a shit ton of people; their population is actually quite small.
#country: knashthra#knashthra aes#Campaign: The coming of the dark#dnd#map#When I said the blessings tree was fucking huge compared to everything else#I wasn't kidding#dnd map#I know this isn't how mountains work but it's fantasy#is it accurate to any feywild map? absolutely not#do I care at all and want my little homebrew town to exist there anyway? obviously.#maps
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💍 here's a ring as a token of my love
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being really real is pretty scary. so sometimes you gotta dial it back and just say stuff like "the movie ET was originally supposed to just about some guy, not an alien at all, until 'the woke mob' got involved
#taking a breather#with that being said#trans pride#today and tomorrow#and forever#i'm trans#i wasn't kidding#about that
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I am loudly pushing the batdad agenda i am loudly pushing the— DPxDC Prompt
“Woah. You look like shit."
Granted, that’s probably not the first thing Danny should be saying to the guy that just bit the curb, but in his defense; he’s not running on 100% right now either.
The man -- tall, towering, and broader than Danny is tall -- whips around on his heel, black frayed cape flaring out impressively. Danny would've whistled in appreciation, but he takes the time instead to wipe the back of his hand across his mouth, smearing the blood running from his nose across his cheek.
"Sorry." He blinks widely, not even flinching as the man with the horns zeroes in on him. "That was rude of me. I have a really bad brain-to-mouth filter; Sam says its what always gets me into trouble."
And she's not wrong either, per say. His smart mouth is what landed him in this situation -- with blood blossom extract running through his veins and cannibalizing the ectoplasm in his bloodstream. Thanks Vlad.
The man grunts at him; a short, curt "hm" that shouldn't make Danny smile, but he does because he's somewhat delirious and probably concussed. The man keeps some kind of distance, sinking towards the shadows of Gotham's alleyway like he dares to melt right into it.
If it's supposed to scare Danny, it doesn't work. Danny's never been afraid of the dark; he's always been able to hide himself in it. He blinks slowly at the mass of shadows.
"You look hurt." The shadows says, blurring together around the edges. Danny squints, and licks his lips to get the blood dripping down his chin off. Ugh, he hates the taste of blood.
"I am." He says, "My godfather poisoned me. M'dying." The agony of the blood blossom eating him from the inside out looped back around to numbing a while ago, so all he feels is half-awake and dazed.
"Hey," Danny stumbles forward towards the man, a bloodied hand reaching out to him. "You-- you're a hero, right? You're not attacking me; which is more than I can say for most costumed people I've met." Maybe it's a poor bar to judge someone at, but he's already established that Danny's not in his right mind.
The man makes no change in expression, but Danny realizes blearily that it's hard to tell with the shadows on his face. He stays still long enough for Danny to latch onto the cape -- stretchy, but almost soft under his fingers.
He looks up blearily into the whites of the man's eyes. "Can you help me? I don't-- I don't wanna die." Again. He doesn't wanna die again. He blinks slow and lizard-like. "I mean- I'll probably get to see mom and dad again, but I told them I'd at least try and make it to adulthood."
There's a clatter down the street, and Danny's ghost sense chills up his spine and leaves a bitter, ashy taste in his mouth. He immediately knows who it belongs to even before the deceptively gentle; "Daniel?" echoes down the way.
"Daniel? Quit your games, badger, Gotham is dangerous for children."
Danny's mouth pulls back, and blood spills against his tongue. "Please." He rasps, and grabs onto the shadow's cape with both hands. "Please. He's going to kill me. Please--"
"Daniel? Is that you?"
His lips part, dragging in air to plead with the darkness again. He doesn't need to, the whites of his eyes narrow, and the cape whirls around him before Danny can blink. Soon swaddled in shadows, the Night lifts him up, and steals him away.
#I AM LOUDLY PUSHING THE BATDAD AGENDA#anyways— add ons are encouraged i wanna talk more dpxdc with folks i just cant find any aus i really like enough to engage with#which is nobody's fault and its why im making my own content in order to reach more people#danny fenton is not the ghost king#dpxdc#dp x dc#dpxdc crossover#dp x dc crossover#dpdc#dc x dp#dpxdc prompts#i took a ‘which batfam member are you (except its personal)’ quiz a few days ago#and got bruce wayne. and then was promptly read to filth why im most like him and it rudely but accurately explained why im the most like#him. it also consequently explained to me why i like him so much. whenever i see him in his kindest form i see a mirror looking back#anyways lots of ‘danny rejecting bruce as a parent’ aus. may i present: bruce and danny finding family in each other aus. batdad aus pls.#dpxdc prompt#dcxdp#this prompt can take place at any point of Batkid accumulation but personally i was imagining this as before Bruce has any of his kids yet#eldest brother danny supremacy and also just that one on one bonding#danny being someone who was never afraid of the dark as a kid and even less so as he got older. taking solace in it as a ghost because you#cant hide in the dark when you glow. his enemies can't jump out at him. but he can jump out at them. how can he be afraid of the dark when#the dark is where the stars like to live? there's a comfort in the shadows. there might be something hiding in it. but he's hiding in it to#blood blossoms eat ghosts headcanon#wasn't sure where i was gonna go with this at the beginning and then i caught steam.#batman casually kidnaps an orphan upon kid's request. also the kid was Actively Dying Of Poison. What was he gonna do?? NOT help him?#mister 'keeps candy in his utility belt specifically for scared children'??? no way.
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OH I DON'T LIKE THE IMPLICATIONS THAT WUKONG KNEW SOMETHING WAS UP WITH MK THE MOMENT HE SAW THE STONE
#this is.........oh i don't like this#the fact that he saw the stone but knew it wasn't his. these are HIS memories but THAT'S NOT WUKONG'S STONE#he knew something was up with mk but he didn't know WHAT#lego monkie kid#lmk#lego monkie kid sun wukong#lego monkie kid mk#lego monkie kid qi xiaotian#lmk mk#lmk sun wukong#lmk qi xiaotian#lmk sunburst duo#sun wukong#qi xiaotian
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Powerpuff Girls is really great.
#i wasn't allowed to watch cartoons as a kid so i missed out on all of these#tulli showed me some of their fav episodes as a kid and they're fucking hilarious#SO mean too so fucking meanspirited it's really really funny#i love the upa revival style too and how you can see pencil markings and paint under the lineart in the cels in earlier eps#it all feels very homemade#personal#delete later#prof utonium is hot too
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the next thing u know, yuu would have the possession of malleus' bones
#just kidding; but imagine if malleus kept his baby tooth to make it into a necklace and give it to lilia#nvm i think the information of lilia hatching him was kept by the council wasn't it ; it was further in book 7 & malleus was angry about it#but if the council hates lilia so much; how did malleus end up being being allowed to be around lilia now; even when baby silver was around#maybe we'll figure it out much later#twst#twisted wonderland#sebek zigvolt#malleus draconia#twst yuu#twst mc#fanart#no wait no way yuu get his bones ; he won't die before yuu#anyhow probably dragon teeth will regrow when they fall off like crocodile or shark
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Why I appreciate Kabru and Mithrun's relationship in the story (with pictures!)
I just want to express how much I loved reading through the chapter with the 6 days they spent together and how I think their relationship developed in a pretty sweet way.
I feel like a lot of people reduce their dynamic to "nurse and patient" and that makes me sad because I personally got a lot more from it than that.
I do wanna start off by saying I'm here appreciating their dynamic as it is in the text.
Read more (spoilers ofc):
The beginnings
When they first met, there was an air of intimidation surrounding Mithrun as the captain of the ominous Canaries. He demonstrates his proficiency as a fighter and leader which worried Kabru because he knew it would lead to the dungeon falling into elven hands once again. But this threatening aura begins to dim in Kabru's mind as they get to know each other.
Even before they fell down the hole, the both of them ended up relying on each other's abilities a number of times (when the underground governor turned out to be corrupted Mithrun defeated him and Mithrun needed Kabru's deduction skills during the battle on the first floor) which is already the beginning of a great dynamic
(Kabwu is scared but Mithrun just asks for his help)
After Cithis tasked him with "taking care of Mithrun's needs" for the time being, Kabru treated Mithrun with proper respect and doesn't take advantage of his disability, even using his title “Captain” when he knew Mithrun wouldn’t have cared either way after learning about how he lost his desires. This is in contrast to Cithis who immediately took advantage of her position to mess around with Mithrun when she was taking care of him.
(When Cithis was put in charge of taking care of Mithrun)
The whole time Kabru is with Mithrun, he treats him like a person and more than just someone to be taken care of, as also he relies on Mithrun's fighting skills, knowledge of the dungeon, and teleportation magic.
When you reduce their dynamic to just "caretaker and patient", you're ignoring Mithrun's own capabilities and making him seem totally helpless. It actually feels rather ableist. They have a more balanced relationship with what Mithrun brings to the table than you may think. Mithrun couldn't have survived down there on his own, but it's the same for Kabru (who famously dies every time he fights)!
Kabru doesn’t show signs of trying to manipulate Mithrun either, and he's no longer intimidated by him in the slightest once he learns he’s not a threat or after his life. Though he does instinctively revert to his "sparkly" persona to get Mithrun to eat the disgusting mushroom, it doesn’t work so Kabru just has him eat it normally and never tries it again. This is the beginning of Mithrun unintentionally encouraging Kabru to be more honest with others.
(Kabru realizing he can chill out)
(Kabru being unreserved and Mithrun being silly)
bonus funny moment:
Bonding
Throughout the journey they talked to each other, shared things with each other, and ate with each other. And Kabru expresses genuine concern about whether Mithrun is comfortable (which is something he could live without and wasn't something the Canaries told him to do).
(Kabru showing he wants to make him comfortable by making food for him which is a very important part of the narrative)
(Kabru sharing intimate memories with Mithrun)
(Kabru initiating conversation without hesitation or worry. This part also is referencing how Mithrun shared very important details of his life with Kabru. Kabru also ends up trusting Mithrun with information about Laios despite knowing he could possibly tell the other Canaries about him and impede his plans..which he does lol they do end up knowing about Laios before meeting him.)
For a bonus Lycion implies Kabru was taking better care of Mithrun than they had been which is interesting to me.
Mithrun also shows that he has come to trust Kabru's decisions over the Canaries' when he says he wants to stay in the dungeon after fulfilling the caretaker requirement. They did talk to each other a lot, during that time. I wonder what Mithrun's Shapeshifter double of Kabru would look like now?
Here, Kabru goes out of his way to make sure Mithrun doesn’t overexert himself by knocking him out after the demon leaves with Marcille (again, when his time taking care of him is already over), and I think that demonstrates an extra level of concern he holds for Mithrun.
(Kabru holding back a hellbent Mithrun)
(KNOCKOUT!)
He even managed to make Mithrun mad. It's probably because he "let the demon get away" but I think it's cute and funny because would he huff like that at anyone else? Lol
When the demon breaks through the surface
Kabru begins panicking after Laios turns into the giant monster because he's wondering if he made the right decisions etc. If Mithrun didn’t care about Kabru at least a little bit, he would’ve just left him alone when he started losing it (right after Marcille did the same thing and she is technically more to blame for empowering the demon than Kabru was for not allowing Mithrun to go after it), but he went out of his way to snap him out of it.
It also means a lot to me that Mithrun even says Kabru's name, because in Japanese you can go your entire life without referring to someone by name and it wouldn't sound wrong (just rude) and it's the first time Mithrun says Kabru's name on screen (I checked).
Though it was with a slap, I think it says a lot, because if Mithrun didn’t care at all he wouldn’t have done anything and left him alone. It's not like Kabru could've done anything to stop the demon. He didn't even to tell him to do anything even though Kabru looked ready for an order.
(To be honest I don't know exactly why Mithrun starts beating him up here but you can say it's another rare demonstration of emotion Kabru was able to evoke in him lol. Maybe it's payment for Kabru stopping him the first time. That can be interpreted as paying it back and/or paying it forward I think.)
The last few chapters
And in the end when Kabru’s motivating Mithrun to continue living his life, he speaks to him like they’re friends/have no rank between them despite using the Captain title for him the whole time. Even Lycion initially gets upset that he’s acting “too familiar” with Mithrun.
It feels like Mithrun changed so much in the short time he spent together with Kabru and before the final battle, and it’s thanks to Kabru that Mithrun finally starts to be able to move past his lingering obsession with the demon and begin to really heal.
This is despite the fact that he spent so much time with Milsril and the other elves who never managed to break through to him like that.
(Before Kabru) (After Kabru)
And even after his role as Mithrun's caretaker was loong complete, he still shows concern for Mithrun and tells him to take a break when he's using up all his magic to slice the Falin meat (lmao).
He didn't need to do that! But it shows how he at least slightly considers Mithrun some kind of friend.
It all culminates with Kabru helping Mithrun regain his wil to live and Mithrun confiding in Kabru. Their relationship is important. Kabru continuing to do things for Mithrun to me is more of a sign that he just plain cares about him. Isn't it normal when a friend needs medication for you to remind them to take it? I think it's like that.
Kabru is there with Mithrun when he comes out about his feelings of uselessness AND when Senshi helps him put a spin on the 'vegetable scraps' metaphor and he find meaning in his life again. He's the first one to see him cry :')
Along with the fact that it feels like Mithrun is the first person we see Kabru doesn't feel the need to change his personality with or put on airs for since Mithrun doesn't need buttering up and he won't get offended if someone were to say something socially awkward, I think they made a pretty good team!
BUT ALSO the REAL reason I became endeared to them is cute shit like this:
GOD I love them!!!!! There are so many funny sides to Mithrun Kabru was able to bring out, and really show his charm as a character. Mithrun also brings out the best in Kabru while Kabru’s the most genuine he’s been since his debut with Mithrun. We are able to see that he’s just a kind and caring person, rather than the shady obsessed guy most fans have come to believe him to be.
The true depths of their dynamic also grew on me over time :)
TLDR
All in all it’s so nice seeing how even though Mithrun is a really deadpan person, and Kabru is a really secretive and withheld person, they clearly seem to have developed some kind of bond while they traveled together and even changed each other to an extent.
Doesn't Kabru feel more honest near the end? Maybe it's because of how much he talked to and shared with Mithrun during those 6 days so candidly...because they taaaalked a looooot like wow.
They mean so goddamn much to me. I don’t need them to be in a romantic relationship but I do want them to be together forever :'))) or like at least hang out when they have off time since they're still in the same country lol. Praying for Kui to make another side comic of them some time (crying).
Thanks for reading if you made it this far, I mostly arranged this because it makes me sad to see people reduce their dynamic to only one singular aspect.
Anyways ya...love 'em (heart hands)
#dungeon meshi#dunmeshi#mithrun#kabru#kabumisu#MITHRUN DESERVES MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS TOO DAMMIT!!!!!#i wasn't gonna ship tag it buuut w/e#omg i just came up w something#you can reduce their dynamic...but all you'd end up with...is a nice sauce#for like..steak..get it? reduction..cooking..no ok#also for an extra i think it's highly unlikely kabru met mithrun as a kid because he showed NO signs of recognizing him when they met#like KABRU of all people would remember lol
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Oh, and one more thing: Can I just point out that the "I dun fucked up, I guess I'ma wait outside your room all night until you'll let me grovel and atone for my misdeeds" is not, and has never been, a platonic trope?
(I mean, we all know who wrote this episode and how she felt about these two as a couple, but it bears mentioning that even administering a heavy dose of Death of the Author here doesn't absolve this scene from being way more shippy than it deserves to be.)
#zutara#the southern raiders#elizabeth wasn't subtle#this scene is many things but sibling energy it is NOT#siblings don't stay up all night outside each other's rooms to right a wrong#are you kidding me#they're more likely to barge in unceremoniously and insist that shit needs to get sorted out and I mean right NOW#thank you and good night
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You know how the sky changes color when Danny transforms?
So! This is just something that came to me literally 5 seconds ago.
When Danny Transforms, the Sky and color pallet of the world around him changes as well right? The Sky turns Green, and the buildings turn Purple and the such, and I like to think that the everyone feels a sense of Death when it happens.
Now imagine this scene.
Danny had moved to Gotham, and he was making sure to stay under the Radar. He didn't want to reveal that he was a Ghost, since the GIW was still semi active.
But right now, he was about to he attacked by Joker, so he really didn't have a choice.
He transformed.
The sky turned green, the buildings turned purple, and everyone in the vicinity felt a sense of pure Death in the area.
Off to the side, one of the Bats saw that, and mumbled to themselves, "Oh my God, he has a Domain Expansion."
#Dpxdc#Dp x dc#Dcxdp#Dc x dp#Danny Phantom#Dc#Dcu#JJK#Jujutsu Kaisen#Domain Expansion#Idk which one it was#But I think it would be funny if it wasn't even one of the Kids#What if it was Bruce?#Or even Joker himself?#Idk but this scene popped into my head when I was watching Dragon Ball Super and Shenron was summoned#The Sky turning black reminded me of the sky changing in Danny Phantom and this came to mind
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