#(I am undecided on what he does but I think he does have a job (probably a librarian I’d that’s not TOO cliche…))
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Back at it with my enchanted merthur shenanigans
#when Merlin goes to work#(I am undecided on what he does but I think he does have a job (probably a librarian I’d that’s not TOO cliche…))#he sets Arthur up with a bunch of history books and documentaries to try get him up to date (as much as he can)#and in the evenings they watch all Merlin’s favourite tv shows and movies#I can’t pick what kinds of movies Merlin and Arthur like#I get the feeling they both like pride and prejudice but I’m also biased#I think Arthur would like murder mysteries#ALSO If anyone’s got any fics where Merlin introduces Arthur to modern society please please PLEASE GIVE THEM TO ME#my art#bbc merlin#merlin#merlin emrys#arthur pendragon#merthur
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The Robins as RA’s Because I Said So
Credentials: I’m an RA, trust me.
Dick Grayson: The “Cool” RA
His friends told him he’d be great at it so he applied
Holds your hair back when you’re throwing up in the bathroom
Gives life lessons at every opportunity even when you don’t want them
Sees his residents in the hallway and proceeds to talk their ear off
Knocks on your door if he hasn’t seen you in a few days to make sure you’re doing alright
Has the “I’m not mad. I’m just disappointed” face on point
You actually feel bad when he catches you drinking in the halls :(
Jason Todd: The Cool RA
Wanted something to pad his resume so he applied
Will help you hide a body. “Just ask.” You didn’t, but you can’t remember how it came up either
Doesn’t care about the Rules, per se, but he will judge you for lacking common sense
“You know what, Derek? I’m writing you up just for being stupid. You could have at least put it in a paper bag.”
Organizes all of his events last minute, best attendance in the building
One day, he lets it slip that he has a 4.3 GPA
No one believes him until he actually shows them with a shit-eating grin plastered on his face
Tim Drake: The Invisible RA
Didn’t want to go apartment hunting so he applied for the free housing
Do you even have an RA? Does he even live here?
Apparently, he’s like triple-majoring or something, but like…no one knows what for. Or how. (He's really Undecided)
Does the bare minimum, but somehow still excels at his job
Everyone who sees him has a completely different description of what he looks like
One person starts the rumor that he’s a vampire, which is only made worse when someone sees him looking ghostly pale while chugging some weird red drink (Ultra Red Monster) in the middle of the night
Stephanie Brown: The Best Friend RA
One of those people who actually likes living in student housing so she applied
Gossips with everyone
“You didn’t hear this from me but-“ and “What am I, your mother?” are her most common phrases
Will probably get fired just because of how many university secrets she’s spilled
Keeps her door open at all times, her room is super cute too
One of her residents walks in and says, “You won’t believe what my boyfriend did this time!” Stephanie is already popping popcorn.
Will let you get away with shit if you make a good case for yourself
Damian Wayne: The Try-Hard RA
It’s a tradition in his family now, and he takes those very seriously, so he applied
A troublemaker’s worst nightmare
He will catch you drinking. No one knows how. Even his boss thinks it’s suspicious.
Seconds from a mental breakdown at all times of the day
Absolutely livid when the event he spent the least amount of effort on gets the best attendance (He just brought all of his art supplies to the lounge and taught people how to draw)
Writes incident reports like they’re addressed to the Pentagon
A resident comes to his door crying because her grandmother passed away, and Damian completely blanks on what to do so he lets her into his room and gives her a really long hug while she calms down, then he sits her down and lets her vent for an hour. A week later, she comes back and thanks him for being there when she needed it. It sticks with him for years.
#batfamily#dick grayson#jason todd#tim drake#stephanie brown#damian wayne#batfam#robin#batfamily headcanons#dc robin#dc#tw death
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You reblogged that one post a while ago that said crowley loves mischief but only the kind of mischief that doesn't hurt people and what he actually wants is to be kind and that azi loves kindness and being kind but that he wants to be be free to be selfish sometimes and i think it captures it.
There is no good one and no bad one because they're both good. They have flaws but not bad flaws. They care, they're selfless, they're kind, and they want to do the right thing. Neither of them would ever want to hurt or harm anyone, not the other and not humans or whoever. The hurt sometimes caused like in the final 15 isn't caused by intention or hurt pride or whatever but because they care so much about the other, because they want the other to be safe and happy. The key here isn't that either of them is bad but the miscommunication and azi's refusal to let go of heaven and heal (everything you listed in response to the first nonny). The intentions towards each other and in general are and have always been good. That's what makes it so tragic yet beautiful.
Mhhhhmh I am making a very undecided noise right now.
Neither of them is bad OR good. No one is, and that's part of the point—the entire dichotomy from start to finish is nothing but a purely imaginary construct that has no factual basis. Angels aren't good, demons aren't bad, that divide is arbitrary and subjective.
If you were to ask Michael or Uriel if they're good they'd tell you yes, they are, and they believe it. They're angels, of course they're good! To them, morality is not decided by actions, there are two options and you don't get to choose.
To quote NG and TP:
Everyone is fundamentally people, including every single angel and demon, which makes Crowley just Crowley and Aziraphale just Aziraphale.
They can choose to be kind, they can choose to harm people, they can choose to protect—everyone has the capacity for both 'good' and 'bad' actions, and no one will always do only one kind.
Crowley does find fun in hurting people, e.g. the paintball scene, and while his moral compass is more down to earth (pun intended) than Aziraphale's he isn't a saint. He is never intentionally cruel, sure, but he also doesn't intervene e.g. when Morag is dying, he still scares Job's kids, he kills a duck (then brings it back for Aziraphale), and he has no qualms doing his little hypnotizing act if it makes a situation more convenient for him.
Aziraphale, boy, Aziraphale is in some aspects worse than Crowley. The way he talks about poor people alone is horrific, he hoards books and actively scares and manipulates people to keep them away, he uses humans like PUPPETS during the ball, he tells Wee Morag Elspeth will go to hell with a smile on his face. His morality is equally complex and makes him just Aziraphale.
Not good or bad. Just themselves. They do kind acts and nice acts, harmful acts and selfish ones, and so on and on.
Side note: Aziraphale doesn't actually care that much about individual humans but rather humanity tm as a group, while Crowley does actively care about the occasional single human and is more personal in his interactions with him.
#alex answers asks#alex talks good omens#good omens#crowley#aziraphale#good omens season 2#go2#aziracrow#crowley x aziraphale#ineffable husbands#ineffable wives#ineffable spouses#ineffable divorce#the final fifteen
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hello! can I ask if you have any head canons for Peeta getting to do normal, typical teenage boy things once he returns to 12 after the war? things he didn’t really get to do while he was fearing and fighting for his life? Like annoying and irritating Haymitch, finding cool looking rocks and junk to excitedly bring home to show Katniss, and other similar dumb but adorably endearing things? Also maybe some HSc of Everlark just generally getting to be free and fun teenagers together post-war? 🥹❤️
Oh ho ho, Anon. You have come to the right place. *cracks knuckles* Currently raising two teenage boys, so I am ready for this ask like you would not believe. Some of these are pure fluff and some of them have a little more spice to them (which are NOT inspired by my boys lmao).
Corny jokes. Like all the damn time. His goal becomes to make Katniss roll her eyes or groan. He comes up with an elaborate point system. A "Joke Score" as a play on a training score. Getting a soft, inanimate object such as a napkin or a pillow thrown at him in combination with a verbal response earns him a perfect 12 for that joke. Examples! When they are going through everything in their Victor's Village house(s), deciding what goes and what stays, Katniss starts labeling everything with pinned/taped on notes. They say things like Donate or Give to Delly or BURN/TAKE AN AXE TO in the case of the giant desk that Snow once sat behind. And one day, Katniss goes to ask Peeta a question, and when he turns around, he's got one of the notes, in her handwriting, that says Keep taped to his forehead.
He gets perverse joy out of tickling Katniss until she can't breathe and/or is about to pee her pants.
He helps Haymitch give the geese absolutely ridiculous names
Katniss is the one who brings him pretty things from the woods. A blossom, a freshly fallen autumn leaf (look at the colors! this one's almost your favorite color), a neat looking rock. He keeps them on the kitchen table for a day or two before returning them to nature.
The cloud game, where they lay in the meadow and give names to the shapes of clouds, the more ridiculous the better, which Peeta usually wins (an alligator swallowing a garbage truck... no it is, look!)
"IT WAS A FISH I SWEAR!" in the lake... It was not a fish swimming up her shirt Peeta, you naughty boy. That was your hand.
Sitting upside down on the sofa to watch Plutarch's ridiculous new show that he won't shut up about so they watch it once. "Why are you sitting like that?" "Just getting the proper perspective."
Everything is a competition. Like... everything. Who can hold their breath longer (Katniss), who can toss their clothes across the room into the laundry hamper during sexy times and actually make it into the hamper (Peeta, which Katniss is MAD about btw and totally starts cheating by um... kissing or grabbing sensitive areas), who can kiss better (a tie but we need to try again to be sure), who can toast their bread faster in the fire (Katniss, but now it's burned, can I have yours, Peeta? *pouty face* only if you marry me, Katniss. Psssh we're literally already married, you goob), who can shovel snow off the walkway faster (Peeta but he does a sloppy job of it and Katniss makes him do his half of the walkway again and no it is totally not so she can check out his ass (narrator voice: it was totally so she could check out his ass)), who can eat the most *insert food item here* (Katniss, every time), who can make the most ridiculous silly faces (tie again unless there's alcohol involved and then it's Katniss), who can wash the dishes faster (...undecided, Katniss thinks Peeta is cheating by putting extra dishes in the sink or moving ones she's already washed back into the dirty pile. Once, when she accused him of cheating, he grabbed a dirty plate and licked it like he did in the cave scene. "All clean! See! I helped!")
Pillow fights, food fights, water fights, snowball fights, paint slinging fights... pretty much ALL instigated by Peeta, many of them because...
Whenever Peeta tries to teach Katniss how to bake something new and she gets frustrated, his go to method of getting her out of her head and to relax is to smear frosting/batter/dough/flour/whatever is closest on her face.
Singing very loud and off key in the shower to get Katniss out of bed when it's not really a bad day, but not a great day either.
Dunking food in milk. Like all of it, to try it out. Dropping candy into different beverages to see how it changes the flavor. "I'm experimenting for the bakery, Katniss!"
Dramatically flopping on the bed when he's had a long day and whining that he's not moving until Katniss *insert whatever kind of affection and or bribe he wants to glean out of her such as kisses, cuddles, foot rub (ew Peeta, I've smelled your dirty socks and that's not happening -- what if I wash my foot first? or here *presents her with his prosthetic foot* rub this one! but you might have to put some oomph in it before I can feel it)*.
So many one leg/amputee jokes
Pretending to be asleep when he's definitely not and Katniss is clearly horny... just to see how far she'll go.
Both anti-depressants and depression call kill sex drive, but when they're in the mood... they're not seen for at least a day and a half so Peeta has to work up a discreet signal to let Haymitch know not to come a knockin' because the first time it he didn't know, Katniss screamed bloody murder and Haymitch dropped a bottle of "perfectly good wine what is wrong with you two? Is that the chair I sit in for dinner?!?!?" It was not, but Katniss was mortified. And other smutty shenanigans happen on occasion, despite how carefully both Katniss and Peeta guard their privacy and intimacy.
"Hey Katniss, remember when I called you 'pure?' ... I take it back." *pillow to the face*
"Hey, Katniss, watch this..." *does something ridiculous like getting a ball of dough to stick to the ceiling.*
"Hey Katniss, remember when you broke your butt and I had to carry you around?" "I bruised my tailbone, Peeta.. And you had to carry me because I twisted my ankle too." *said with great exasperation right before he hoists her off the ground and carries her somewhere because he can. The shorter and more ridiculous the distance, the better. "We have to move the laundry!" *carries her to the fancy new machines Effie sent them as a toasting gift.* She tries not to laugh or snuggle in close. She fails.
Tucking silly notes everywhere. In her game bag, under her pillow, on her plate at the table, on the window sill where she likes to sit and read/watch the rain, in her shirt when he's feeling extra naughty.
*with the most serious expression ever* "Real or not real, Katniss... this cheese is the stinkiest cheese that ever cheesed?" *shoves some seriously stinky cheese under her nose before she can react* "UGH! GROSS, PEETA!"
Over the top dramatics when he asks her to dance. Only every now and then, though because Katniss also loves to slow dance with him and act stupidly romantic with him, but you didn't hear that from me.
Ice cream for dinner
Blanket forts
Raspberries. You know, when you put your mouth on someone's bare skin and blow out air really hard and it makes a sound like someone is farting? Yeah, those.
"You sleep with the windows open! Of course I'm going to hog the blankets!" Katniss shouts. Peeta solves this by laying on top of her and saying "I'm a blanket!" until she's laughing and agrees to share the actual blankets.
Smearing literal cinnamon and dill all over his body after she confesses that she liked that smell on him.
Attempting to build a catapult to launch cheese buns from the kitchen to where Katniss is sitting on the couch when she's pregnant. Okay, let's be real. It happens BEFORE she gets pregnant with toastbaby the first, but he perfects it during that first pregnancy.
Peeta can't shoot an arrow, but they start making a list of everything he's hit that he WASN'T aiming for... the ground, that patch of violets, the tree next to the tree you were aiming for, the stream, that giant rock, that thankfully unoccupied bird's nest ("thankfully? I would've called it a good shot if you'd hit something we could eat," Katniss says).
"I'm a fluffy bunny." If you don't know what that means, I cannot help you.
"Real or not real, you are the most beautiful woman in the entire world." "No more cough syrup, Peeta--" *LOUD BUZZER NOISE* "WRONG! The correct answer is REAL, Katniss."
“Who ate the last *insert food item here*?!?!” Peeta from the other room around a full mouth “Not me!”
And if you think any of this stops when they have kids, oh boy are you wrong. The kids just get to get in on the fun (of the not spicy variety, of course.)
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future projects.
back to the main masterlist
below you can find the stuff i am working on, in order of (hopeful) release date. i have a lot of simultaneous projects so these will be coming out slowly over the coming months. thank you for bearing with me ♡♡ you are shinier than a lilac bush full of fireflies and more precious than pocket-sized pegasuses.
i am hoping to be done with current works on the following timeline:
windfall 𖤣𖥧𖡼⚘.˚⭑ ~ june/july 2024
florescence ❀ ~ august/september 2024
cicatrix .⋆☁︎ :･꧂~ october 2024
may-june 2024
the raccoon, the witch, & the roadtrip.
angst, comfort, & fluff | rocket & wanda | multipart headcanon | word count: 1,370.
for @hibatasblog
During a watch party for Avengers: Endgame on Twitter, Markus revealed the idea to team Wanda with the Guardian of the Galaxy captain actually made it into several versions of the film's script. "We had whole drafts with Wanda on a road trip with Rocket," Markus wrote, "but after the Vision plot in Infinity War, nothing we came up with was anything but wheel spinning for her character." CBR
june-july 2024
warm compress ☾.༊·˚⋆⭒
fluff | no use of y/n | gn reader | oneshot | word count: pending.
you've taken care of rocket when he's been hurt in the past. when he comes to visit you and finds you tired, in pain, and less-than-receptive to company, he decides to return the favor. can be read platonically or romantically.
WARNINGS: reader is experiencing abdominal pain attributed to hormonal/ovulation cycle. reader cries at one point.
･:*𑁍✧˚₊ overheard on the bowie
18+ only MDNI | no use of y/n | f!reader | oneshot | word count: TBD.
rocket laments building the bowie with such thin walls between bunks. ie, you haven’t been able to get off in a while, and your neighbor knows it. [preview]
july-august 2024
᠊ᡃ࡚ࠢ࠘ ⸝່ࠡࠣ᠊߯᠆ࠣ࠘ᡁࠣ࠘᠊᠊°.⋆｡✶˖ evasive maneuvers ⌖˖✶｡⋆ expansion: practice (day 9) of °˖✧♡kinktober 2023 18+ only | no use of y/n | f!reader | ?? | word count: pending. providing more context and, uh, follow-up. title may change.
untitled Domestic Scenes in Space Travel finale.
18+ only MDNI | no use of y/n | f!reader | length pending | word count: pending.
The Nineteenth & Twentieth Visits. Series Finale. based on Guardians of the Galaxy (2019).
love is blind: andromeda
18+ only | rocket x f!oc | 5 parts | word count: pending.
rocket has broken out of twenty-three prisons. this one will be no different.
slow burn + probable smut with feelings. mcu/comic medley (kinda au?)
september 2024
⭑.⋆๋࣭✪ hot local dads in your spaceport ✪⋆๋࣭ ⭑
undecided rating | no use of y/n | undecided reader | ?? | word count: pending.
born of this statement i made ages ago and think about daily: daydreaming about quitting my job and running away to outer space. i’d live in a city in a giant floating skull and i’d run a street-food stall for the neighborhood. i’d teach the local sentient tree how to play stardew valley, and just fucken recklessly hit on his hot dad every chance i got
⊹₊⋆☁︎⋆⁺☀︎ sunshine ☀︎ ⋆⁺☁︎⋆₊⊹
expansion: sunshine (day 15) of °˖✧♡kinktober 2023
18+ only | no use of y/n | f!reader | ?? | word count: pending.
after what was intended to be a one night stand, rocket & sunshine reader navigate the awkward aftermath of being new crewmates. oops.
october 2024
★♫｡°𝄞☕︎✎▤ other duties as assigned▤✎☕︎ 𝄞°｡♫★
18+ only | rocket x f!oc | ?? | word count: pending.
natasha romanoff is an administrative nightmare - a fact that does not go unnoticed by the (interim) captain of the milano. First she demands that the remaining two guardians of the galaxy be reachable via a primitive terran messaging system, and then she can't be bothered to read the frickin' emails. thank fuck she's hired a new assistant. mcu-based, slight au, begins five months post-snap; rocket x oc email romance/LDR (lol); slow burn + probable smut with feelings.
#aspirations#rfh fanfic#future projects#guardians of the galaxy#rocket raccoon#rocket raccoon fanfiction#gotg fanfiction#gotg rocket#rocket raccoon x oc#rocket gotg#rocket raccoon x you#rfh masterlist
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Hello, as the resident Rohan Person, I was wondering if you have any thoughts/headcanons about Gamling? He's one of my fav background characters in the books. No worries if not and very much looking forward to hearing more about Gúthlaf and Wídfara!
Oh my gosh! I love that you love Gamling! He doesn’t appear in a lot of the story, but when he’s there, he’s great – wise and observant and educated and still a mighty warrior despite being an old man. (Sorry to Bruce Hopkins, who I like, but he was way too young to be cast as a character who is literally called Gamling the Old!)
Gamling is someone that I haven’t *entirely* worked out in my head canon yet. Part of me really likes the idea that he’s actually Erkenbrand’s father – that Gamling was himself lord of the Westfold during his prime years and turned the job over to his son once he got old. But then when things started to go to shit with Isengard and the Westfold got increasingly dangerous, Erkenbrand asked his dad to come back into service to help out and that’s how he ended up commanding Helm’s Dike.
That gives an explanation to something that always stuck out to me when Aragorn and the others first arrive at Helm’s Deep…Gamling tells them that his “son’s son” is there to fight alongside him, but his son doesn’t seem to be there. You’d think that the son would have been the first called into action since the grandson is noted to be too young to really be in the fight, so where is this kid's dad? Well, if he’s Erkenbrand, he’s out dealing with the aftermath of the Second Battle of the Fords of Isen and won’t be back until later. And Gamling DOES take the first opportunity to ask for news about Erkenbrand, which, as his father, he would presumably very much want to know! (We also see that both Gamling and Erkenbrand speak Dunlendish, so it would make sense that Erkenbrand learned it from his father – lords of the Westfold are well served to know how to communicate with the nearest neighbors.)
That’s kind of the limit of my formal thoughts so far, though he’s definitely someone I want to get more into. As a member of Théoden’s generation, they could have had some good adventures together when they were both younger men. And the whole Dunlendish thing could lend itself to making him a distant ancestor of Freca, the dude of mixed Dunlending and Rohirrim ancestry who got into it with Helm Hammerhand and got himself punched to death. Most of Freca’s family went on to ally themselves with Dunland (which is a reasonable thing to do when the king of Rohan has just murdered your father and then declared your whole family to be enemies of the state!), but maybe there were some relatives who stuck it out in Rohan and worked hard to prove themselves loyal to the throne in Edoras through great service? I’m undecided on that, but it’s interesting to think about!
What I am most interested to know now, though, is about why YOU love Gamling! What makes him stick out to you as a favorite background character? Or, I could send that to you as an Ask if you’d prefer so that you could answer it as separate post?
#asks#answered asks#gamling#rohan#with a dash of erkenbrand#background rohirrim#lotr#lord of the rings
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i came across "like rain, I fall" and it love(d) it so much. I adore what Denis did to Chani's character and I love how Zendaya brought her to life. I also kind of wonder what was even the purpose of the first Leto II since he dies, and its just like 'sad...okay...'
Chani is so much more interesting to explore, especially your Chani as you write her because she's grappling with mourning someone that is still alive and trying to protect her son from just everything, enemies, his birthright, even his grandmother. I love how Chani really does not fu*k with Jessica, it makes sense they are so different that part of Chani thinking about Jessica trying to control Paul in the womb just blew me away, it's so poignant. I think the really crazy part is that Chani leaving and hiding from Paul inadvertenly saved her child, as Irulan in the books was feeding Chani contraceptives so her rejecting that 'game of thrones' esque role as concubine is what leads her to give birth to Abiel (love the name by the way). Chani is very straightforward and honest, the name makes sense and I'd think in their talks and just moments of intimacy, she'd kind of know Paul would want to name his son after his beloved father but she cant for obvious reasons. I think the name is also Chani grappling with just how much she loves Paul and how much she misses him (even when she says she doesn't) and just her lonliness. She can't really bask in anything regarding her pregnancy, hence why she's just winging it depsite her culture's norms. because it means confronting the fact that she lost the love of her life. Which also makes me wonder where exactly you're taking this, is it going to go towards a reconcilliation? A permanent break or like a grey one, no absolution just a gritty bliss.
In the book Paul's visions kinda stop when Chani is pregnant, her birth is early and catches him off guard, so like he knew Chani was going to die but he couldn't see the twins coming so it's like he can and can't see much and considering how he's trying to give Chani her space I'm wondering if he even knows she's pregnant. Also like him tracking her down to see her with a baby and her just kindof running and peacing out on the back of a sandworm with Abiel tied to her is kind of funny to picture, i'd think she do it in a petty way to piss off not just Paul but all the atriedes, like I got the vibe she realllllly didnt fu*k gurney because he really represented that colonizer perspective, viewing the Fremen as tools rather then beings, something a lot of the other powerplays probably thing as well. That being said there's only so many places you can run away in Dune and when your Most Wanted #1 and you have nuts like Stilgar after you...
I'm so interested in the niche trope of tragic romance, where you partner becomes a villian and (oddly) you die (Padme and Anakin, Snow and Lucy Gray and now Chani and Paul). I think it's so underutilized and just the heartbreak, angst and complexity would be so fun to write. Also Chani is still alive and has so much difficulty ahead of her, I can't wait to see where you take this but also like whenever you want to update no pressure. thank you for adding to thia dry tag, it's rough out here :')
thank you for taking the time to write for this fandom, it's so appreciated xxxx
So glad you found my fic. I'm so happy that your enjoying it so far. Chani has quickly become one of my favorites characters in Dune. I didn't really pay much attention to her in the books but Zendaya and Denis Villeneuve did such a wonderful job with her character that I couldn't help but fall in love with her.
Lady Jessica is actually my favorite character in Dune (books and movie) and so I really wanted to portray her in a way that is satisfactory to me while also having her character add to Chani (since this is HER story)
I am still undecided on how exactly I want to end the fic but I definitely don't think I'll make them reconcile (or go back to how they were before Paul did what he did)
And as for updates, I am very busy at the moment so it will take me some time to finish the next chapter. Spoiler alert: we'll be seeing Jessica and our favorite weird child 😌
Thank you so much for sending this ask. It really does make my day.
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Ren Jinguji (Repeat)
Translator: Mimi (twitter: _mimisaurora)
December - A Fickle Score
It's now December, and I still haven't been able to talk much with Jinguji-san.
To study abroad....
It's without a doubt an amazing opportunity, but....
It's such a significant decision to make.
Besides....
I catch a glimpse of Jinguji-san.
He looks to be having a fun chat with the girls about the dance party.
Haruka: It’s already that time of year, huh….
A dance party will be held on Christmas Day at the academy's party hall.
The party hall.... The place Jinguji-san took me to during summer break.
I would like to go to the dance with him too....
Should I try asking him...?
Select the phrase!
Talk to him (+20 Love +0 Music)
Haruka: U-Um… Jinguji-san.
I muster up my courage and try to approach him, but he just stares at me silently.
I can tell without him having to tell me.
His gaze clearly shows that he did not want me getting any closer or speaking to him.
Haruka: Nevermind….
I give up and back away.
I will try to talk to him another time.
I couldn't bring myself to talk to him at another point during the day, and now, it was after school.
Haruka: Sigh… Looks like there’s no one I can talk to about this….
Ryuya: Hey, Nanami. You’re here at the right time. I thought someone might still be sticking around, and you're the right person for the job.
Do you have any plans after this? If not, I'd like you to help me... Can you transcribe this song onto some sheet music?
Select the phrase!
Leave it to me! (+0 Love +15 Music)
Ryuya: Great. I can count on you then.
And so, while listening to the song he'd given me, I transcribe it onto sheet music.
Haruka: Let's see... This part is…
Ryuya: By the way, Nanami. Have you gotten the chance to talk to Jinguji about you studying abroad?
At the abrupt question, I pause for a moment.
Select the phrase!
It’s been difficult talking to him about it (+20 Love +0 Music)
Ryuya: If you’re struggling to talk about it, does that mean you’re seriously considering the offer?
Haruka: …No, I’m still undecided…. I just don’t know how to bring it up to him….
I came to this academy because I want to become a composer.
I’ve been working hard to write songs for idols.
All I had to say is, "I'm going to study abroad."
Those words are the golden ticket for my dream come true.
It will come true, but....
Why does my heart hurt so much?
Ryuya: Are you having second thoughts?
Haruka: Yes. I think it’s a wonderful opportunity. I honestly am undeserving of it.
I'm also well aware that it would be rude to turn it down. But….
Ryuya: It’s Jinguji, isn’t it? You’re worried about him. Well, he is your partner, so it’s only natural to be concerned.
Haruka: …You’re right. I am helplessly captivated by Jinguji's voice and his very presence.
I can't allow this to end with that voice, that incredible presence, that brilliant aura… going to waste.
I want to write him a song that is second to none. It’s what I’ve been working so hard toward this entire time.
My dream is no longer merely just about becoming a composer. I want to debut with Jinguji-san.
Ryuya: I see. It sounds like you're pretty devoted to Jinguji.... In that case, it would be all the more reason to go now and decline the offer to study abroad. Why are you hesitating?
Haruka: ...It's exactly because I'm so obsessive over Jinguji-san that I'm having second thoughts. I wonder if he really needs me.
I guess you could say our enthusiasm towards all this is so vastly different. Jinguji-san is not as interested in singing or being an idol as I thought he was.
I'm the only one devoted to this debut, and it's pushing me to get desperate. I see how I might actually be more of a nuisance than anything else.
Ryuya: Well, that may be true. But it’s useless mulling it over without confirming the details without confirming with the guy himself.
Haruka: I know….
What he’s saying is right.
It’d be faster to just ask, than worry about it.
But….
Ryuya: What? Are you scared?
Haruka: ….
I suppose… I am afraid.
If he were to tell me he didn’t need me….
“I have no desire to have you by my side.”
Those words he said to me last month. Every time I remember them, it feels like my heart is being torn to pieces.
Ryuya: Looks like I’m right. Well, supposing he does say he doesn't need you as a partner, I'm sure that would sting like hell….
But you've known for a long while that he couldn't care less about being an Idol, haven't you? And yet, you've been working hard all this time.
Am I wrong?
Haruka: ….
He's absolutely right.
Despite Jinguji-san not showing up for practice or even letting me hear his voice, I still pushed on.
But now....
If Jinguji-san were to say he doesn't need me, I might break.
Ryuya: So why are you losing that drive now?
Haruka: ….
I think it is because I am in love with Jinguji-san.
A one-sided romance is not a violation of school rules. So it doesn't necessarily mean that I have to give up my feelings for him.
But I can't imagine I'll be able to stop loving him now, and even if we can't be together, at the very least, I don't want him to hate me.
Ryuya: Well, you’re probably going through all this trouble because you don’t understand it yourself. Sorry about that. I’m not criticizing you or anything. Don’t take it to heart.
After that, he gently pats my head.
Haruka: Sensei….
He’s worried about me….
Oh, I’m eternally grateful!
Ryuya: Anyway, no matter how scared you are, you shouldn't avoid him. Just talk to him straight.
Haruka: I will!
I’ve made up my mind that I can’t make a decision on this without telling Jinguji-san first.
I need to face him properly sooner rather than later!
I’m ready.
The next day, I sent Jinguji-san a message.
I didn’t want anyone else to know about my studying abroad, and I figured no one would hear about it if I told him here....
But honestly, whether he would come or not was a gamble.
He still hadn't been talking to me much lately, which made it all the more uncertain....
Ren: Hey, Lady. Inviting me to a place like this is rather intense.
Jinguji-san glances around, amused.
Haruka: Jinguji-san!! I’m… glad you’re here!
Ren: It's something important, right? Ah, I also want to apologize about the other day. I took it a little too far, saying you were unneeded. I'm really sorry about that.
Haruka: No, you’re fine…. I’m the one who overstepped your boundaries….
Ren: …You kind of scared me a little. You were suddenly so straightforward and earnest….
His eyes, unlike last time, look at me kindly.
But his gaze is a bit sad.
Haruka: Jinguji-san…?
I didn't sense any of his usual enthusiasm.
Instead, he sighs and looks down.
Ren: I was just glad to hear how you felt. I appreciate your kindness. So, what can I do for you?
I wanted to talk to him about studying abroad….
But….
Haruka: Um, before that, can I ask you something?
I want to find out if he needs me as a composer, if what I'm doing is helping him.
Ren: Go ahead.
Haruka: Jinguji-san… What am I to you… Is my music….
…wanted? I can’t bring myself to say that word.
Haruka: …. …Would you miss me a little if I were to be gone?
I realized exactly what I was muttering.
Ah... Wait.
Why did I ask that? I didn't mean to….
Ren: No, not at all. We don’t have that kind of relationship.
He averts his gaze and mutters back under his breath.
Whenever I try to bridge the distance, I am confronted with merciless rejection....
He will never allow me to be by his side.
How much does he need me?
What can I do?
Haruka: I see… I guess you’re right.
Ren: …Please don’t… make that face. It troubles me when you do… You look best with a smile….
His hand, which rose for a brief moment, fell back down effortlessly, and Jinguji-san looks down again.
Select the phrase!
Jinguji-san… (+20 Love +0 Music)
I grab onto a corner of his clothes without thinking.
Ren: Lady? What’s wrong?
Haruka: Ah, I-I’m so sorry. Uh! Everything’s alright. I’m fine!
I tried my best to manage a smile, not wanting him to worry, and Jinguji-san looked a bit worried.
He then gently brings me into a hug and softly pats me twice on the back.
Ren Jinguji: It's nice to see you smile, but not when you have to force it.
He whispers in my ear and lets go of his embrace.
A fleeting touch.
But that tenderness hurt, and it almost brought me to tears.
Haruka: It’s… about me studying abroad….
I somehow manage to get the words out.
Haruka: ...I've been recommended to study abroad in America….
"It was on your brother's recommendation."
I kept that part to myself.
I feared that if I said that, it would only serve to cause Jinguji-san even more grief.
Haruka: After studying in America, I'll be able to debut as a composer….
Jinguji-san brows shoot up slightly and he brushes his hair out of his face.
Ren: Oh, that’s great to hear. I assume it's the result of your abilities being duly judged.
Jinguji-san replies with a coy smile on his face without batting an eye.
I should be happy to hear his praise, but...
It fills my heart with loneliness.
Haruka: …I am very grateful for the opportunity to debut, but I....
I want to work hard with Jinguji-san….
Is what I was about to say….
Ren: Go wherever you want to go, even if it’s the States. I have no right to stop you.
He interrupts me and I'm left speechless.
What Jinguji-san said is valid.
I have to make the decision because it is my life.
It's wrong to leave that choice to someone else.
But....
There's something that still bothers me.
Select the phrase!
I want to do debut with Jinguji-san… (+20 Love)
Haruka: If I’m to debut, I want to… I’d like to do it together with you.
Ren: Of course, as your partner, I'm delighted you feel that way. But your debut is not guaranteed if you try with me.
Now, if you study abroad, your debut will be practically confirmed at that point. Did I get it right?
Haruka: …Yes.
Ren: Say, Lady. What's your dream?
He places a hand on my shoulder and whispers in my ear.
Haruka: My dream is… to become a composer.
My voice shakes as I answer.
Then, grabbing both of my shoulders, he looks into my eyes with a serious expression.
Ren: Exactly, you’re here to become a composer. And now, they’re rolling out the red carpet for you. So why are you hesitating?
I’ve told you before, haven’t I? You’re destined for this. You should think about that.
With those words, he lets go of his grip.
Ren: Is that all you wanted to talk about? Then I’ll get going now. I have somewhere I need to be after this.
Haruka: Yes… Thank you.
So… that was it?
My absence didn't seem like a big deal to him.
Ren: Well, I’ll see you around.
Flashing his usual smile, he raises a hand and walks away.
I wish Jinguji-san would have stopped me.
It was a thought I had entertained somewhere in the back of my mind.
I was naive enough to think that I would give up the idea of studying abroad if he did so.
I had hoped Jinguji-san would make the decision for me, even though it was only for me to make.
This is my life after all.
I've relied far too much on Jinguji-san just because he was my partner.
Let's rethink this.
What is best for me and for Jinguji-san?
And above all.
What do I want to do?
It’s been a few days since I last went over everything with Jinguji-san.
I still couldn’t decide on an answer.
I definitely think that studying abroad would be better for me in the long run.
But I don't want to leave Jinguji-san's talent untapped.
By coming to this academy and meeting him, I have found a new dream.
I want him to sing with his heart.
And I want to share that song with the world.
But...
It's nothing more than my own selfish dream.
I'm just forcing him to become someone he's made clear he doesn't want to be....
Tokiya: So, I heard the news, Nanami-kun. It sounds like you’re going to study abroad.
In the classroom, Ichinose-san approaches while I’m lost in my thoughts.
Haruka: Ah… Yeah. I was invited to study abroad and pursue a more advanced study of music.
The truth is, I haven't formally replied yet, but for some reason, the proposal is continuing to move forward, and it's hard to say no....
But then again...
I wonder how he possibly could have heard about it, I've been trying to keep this a secret for as long as possible....
I guess I can't keep it to myself forever.
Syo: Seriously?! How come I didn’t know about this? And Ren…? What do you think?
Ren: It doesn’t matter to me… It’s her life. It's up to her what she wants to do, right? Who am I to interfere with that?
His cold words stung a bit.
Syo: Oh, come on. You’re so mean! You should be trying to stop her!
Syo-kun retorts, looking annoyed.
Tokiya: Syo…. They are entitled to think what they want. It's not something for others to meddle in.
Ichinose-san calmly reminds him.
Syo: Yeah, I guess I see your point… It’s just kind of sad. Let’s all at least throw her a huge going away party!
Haruka: Thank you.
It made me happy to know he’d miss me.
But... seeing as the offer has gone ahead and my classmates are even aware of it...
There is no turning back now.
If they took my silence for confirmation, I can't refuse them at this point.
I will soon have to part ways with Jinguji-san....
Then I have to at least finish the song before that.
This is my unrequited love.
My final selfish act.
I'll write a song for the graduation audition, hand it to Jinguji-san, and then wish him farewell with a smile.
Then, in a matter of what seemed like seconds, things moved quickly, and it was decided I would leave the day after Christmas.
So that I could leave with no regrets.
I poured my everything into this.
All of the love I carry... every single bit of it, I put it all into this song.
I weave a melody straight from the heart.
And then, I carefully arrange the melodies one by one.
And finally....
Haruka: …It’s done.
On the day before the dance party, I finally managed to end up with something I was happy with.
I leave the day after tomorrow....
It came down to the wire, but....
Even so, I'm thankful it's done.
Haruka: I hope he listens to it….
Preferably, I want him to listen to it right now, in front of me.
He's a busy guy, so it's unlikely he'll show up on such short notice.
Still....
I really wanted him to listen, so I sent him a message.
“The song is ready. Please give it a listen. I'll be waiting for you in the recording studio.”
Haruka: …I wonder… if he’s coming….
An hour has passed since I sent the message.
I just sat in the recording studio looking out over the booth, unable to motivate myself to do anything.
Ren: Hey, Lady. I heard you finished the song?
Haruka: I did!
He really came….
What should I do? I'm over the moon.
Haruka: Um… Thank you so much!
Ren: You’re… thanking me? That should be my line. This is the song for the graduation audition, right?
Jinguji-san gives a genuine smile, looking really happy.
Up until July, he never really showed any interest in music or singing.
If anything, it almost seemed more like a chore to him than anything.
But during summer break, little by little, he started to look more interested.
Whenever I composed a new song, he would enjoy listening to it, and even sometimes share some advice on how I could improve it.
Before the school festival, he was having a lot of fun with it, and I wish we could have kept writing music together like that.
But those fun times came to an end with the school festival.
I hurt him by going too far.
I believed he hated me already.
But my songs....
He didn’t hate it.
I could tell just by looking at his eyes.
Jinguji-san still loves music even now!
Ren: You've probably been swamped preparing to study abroad. Do you mind if I take a listen?
Haruka: O-Of course! I’ll play it now!
And so, I played the newly completed song.
I wonder what he thinks....
From the start until the end, Jinguji-san listens to the song intently.
I hope he likes it.
After the song ends, he parts his lips to speak.
Ren: … I see. Not bad.
Haruka: So… d-does that mean you’ll sing it at the graduation audition?
Ren: Naturally…. I am the only person in this world who can perfectly handle performing this song.
He replies with a wink.
Haruka: Thank you!!!
He likes it….
I’m so glad….
But, in the next moment, his face clouds over.
Ren: …You’re leaving the day after tomorrow, right?
Haruka: …Yes.
We'll have to part ways in two days' time.
Thinking about it makes my heart ache.
We won't... be able to see each other anymore....
I will no longer be able to have him smile at me like this or listen to my songs.
Ren: You don’t look too excited….
Jinguji-san walks up next to me and brushes my bangs aside.
Ren: You were having doubts about studying abroad a little while ago, right? Is it because you were worried about not knowing the language? Or maybe you lack confidence in your own talent? Or perhaps....
He trails off, biting his bottom lip.
Ren: No… Nevermind. Anyway, this is a huge opportunity for you. Do your best out there. I have high hopes for you.
Using the hand that had brushed back my bangs, he lightly caresses my cheek and flashes a kind smile.
Haruka: …I will.
Jinguji-san is sincerely cheering me on.
I want to meet his expectations….
Ren: Ah, right. The dance party is tomorrow, may I escort you to the dance?
Haruka: Oh! Are… Are you sure?! I-I’m really glad… but…. Are you sure you want to go with me?
Ren: Of course, tomorrow is the end….
The end….
Those words pierce my heart.
Ringo: Ah, there you are…. Phew, I'm glad you're still here. Hurry back, everyone is waiting.
Ren: Waiting…? Didn't we already wrap up the interview a while ago? I made sure to check with the director.
Ringo: It seems there was one thing they missed, so it should only take a second.
Ren: I see, if that’s the case, then fine. Well then, Lady, I’ll be seeing you tomorrow.
With a wink, Jinguji-san leaves the recording studio.
Ringo: Thank goodness… What a relief. Looks like everything will work out in the end. I got so worried about what I was going to do when my cell wasn't getting through.
Haruka: U-Um… About Jinguji-san’s interview….
Ringo: Oh, it's for the Jinguji conglomerate. It happens from time to time. That kid is really liked among the bigwigs because of his good looks and great way with words.
He's often sent out whenever there's a special feature on the wealthy. He's usually really good about standing by for a while after the interview is over....
This time, though, he wanted to finish early for some reason.... He didn't even wait for them to check over the footage, he just asked the director if it was okay to go....
Haruka: Oh… I see….
Jinguji-san.
Despite being so busy, he made sure to come….
Ringo: But I’m glad to still see your face around campus. Well, I have to go now too. I’ll catch you later, Haru-chan.
Haruka: Of course. Thank you.
What am I going to do with myself…? I'm so happy.
He came in spite of his busy schedule....
He didn't even look annoyed at me for sending a message on such short notice....
He hurried as soon as he was done to listen to my song....
Tomorrow will be the end.
I poured all of my feelings into this song.
And even now, I feel my love for him about to overflow.
I didn't want to leave, my heart felt like it was going to weep.
And then, the next day.
Tomochika: Alright! You’re perfect. I think I did pretty good if I do say so myself.
Tomo-chan helped me dress and apply my makeup before the dance party.
Haruka: T-Thank you. I’m sorry for leaving you with all the work. You’re still not even ready.
Tomochika: Oh, I don't mind at all, I can get myself ready in 10 minutes. And besides, I actually enjoy doing makeup for others.
It's fun to be able to see things objectively and, with my own hands, watch it all come together to form something pretty.
It's practically a hobby, and I like doing it, so don't worry about it.
Haruka: …Thank you.
Tomochika: Anyway, I’m glad to hear you’re going to be studying abroad.
Haruka: …Yeah. It’s a great opportunity….
Tomochika: You don’t look too happy about it…. Well, you can do whatever you want with your life but... If it gets tough, you know I'm always here for you.
Just make sure you have no regrets!
We're friends no matter where you go. You can talk to me anytime. And... I'll make sure to keep your space here ready for you if you ever decide to come back.
Speaking, she gestures to my bed.
Haruka: …Thank you.
Ren: Lady, are you in?
Haruka: Ah, yes.
Tomochika: Looks like your partner’s here…. Perfect timing. I’ll be leaving soon too, so you go on ahead.
Haruka: …T-Thank you.
Ren: You look absolutely beautiful in that dress. The lace stands out perfectly against your fair skin. You look like a princess straight out of a fairy tale.
Haruka: Uh… I… I don’t…. T-Thank you.
Ren: I'll be with you for the entire evening.
Haruka: Huh... With me? But, the other girls….
I thought he'd at least be dancing with the girls....
But Jinguji-san just grins and without another word, we start walking.
Huh…?
Isn’t the party hall over there?
Haruka: W-Wait… The party hall….
Ren: We’ll be here tonight.
Haruka: ???
And then, we arrive….
Ballroom music plays in an empty auditorium.
Haruka: There’s… no one here. I knew the party hall was in the other direction….
Ren: No, this is the right place. I don't want anyone disturbing us, at least this one last time. Come on, let's dance.
Jinguji-san takes my hand and we start dancing.
Haruka: Um, y-you know, I’m not really… good at dancing….
Ren: Then allow me just one song. Don’t worry, I’ll lead you along well.
He winks and begins to take steps forward.
He skillfully moves his arms and hips to lead the dance, not minding my clumsy gait.
Jinguji-san was so good at leading that although I was hardly moving on my own, I almost believed I was dancing magnificently.
...This is it.
This is the final night I can call myself Jinguji-san's partner.
With a heavy heart, I still found myself able to be happy dancing together with him.
When the dance ends, Jinguji-san holds my hand and escorts me to the center of the stage.
A small table and two chairs were placed there with food, cake, and wine glasses arranged on the table.
Ren: It's not much, but I prepared a cake and some drinks. No champagne, of course.
He speaks up with a soft smile.
Ren: I thought about reserving a restaurant… or something like that… but I figured you wouldn’t be too happy with that…. So….
I put it all together myself. I didn't rely on using my family's wealth, but instead, I did everything from scratch.
Haruka: Um….
Ren: It’s not really something I’m used to doing. The cake turned out looking a bit funny.
Haruka: You made all of this yourself!? That’s amazing… I don’t know what to say, that makes me so happy to hear….
What should I do?
I feel like I'm going to cry….
Everything is handmade…. I’m so overjoyed that Jinguji-san went through such lengths for me that I didn't know what to do with myself.
Ren: I had watched the chef make it and thought it would be easy for me to do myself. Well, I ended up making a mess with the whipped cream flying all over the room.
I ended up just leaving it as it was, and I'm sure Hijirikawa will complain about it later. But, like I care.
Finishing that thought, he suddenly smiles.
Ren: Now, the taste may not wow you… but since I followed the recipe, it should still be pretty good, don’t you think?
Haruka: I don't even know how I can possibly repay you for treating me so kindly. Ah, I should have also prepared something for you.
Ren: Lady, you don't have to worry about a thing. We're celebrating you studying abroad tonight. Please, go on, have a seat.
He smoothly pulls out a chair and, with a practiced hand, helps me sit.
Haruka: Ah, s-sorry.
Ren: There’s no need to be so nervous, I want you to relax.
Haruka: Ah, a-alright. I’ll do my best!
Re Jinguji: Come on, relax, relax.
He lighty pats me on the shoulder and smiles.
As he gazes at me tenderly, I naturally begin to break out into a smile.
Ren: Yes, there we go. That smile. I hope it remains that way always. Tonight's a special occasion, after all.
A glass of a richly hued grape juice is poured and a plate of cake and chicken is served.
Haruka: I-It’s alright, I can serve myself.
Feeling grateful, every time I try to do something....
Ren: Not today… Allow me to do this for you.
Jinguji-san kindly assures me, and I end up leaving everything in his capable hands.
This is the first time in my life I've experienced something like this….
I've never had someone handle everything for me this way before.
I wonder if… this is really okay?
It feels like a scene straight out of a drama, and my heart begins to race.
Ren: Here’s to your new beginning… Cheers.
The sound of our clinking glasses resonates throughout the spacious hall.
Haruka: Thank you very much.
Ren: Now, go ahead and eat….
Haruka: Alright.
Jinguji-san watches me with a smile on his face as I bring the food to my mouth.
Haruka: Ah… It’s delicious….
Ren: That’s good to hear. I hardly ever cook, so I was a little worried how it’d turn out.
Haruka: No way, it's super tasty! I'm very grateful that you made this for me….
Ren: It's worth all the hard work to hear you say that. It's very rewarding to know when someone is happy as a result of something you created yourself. Oh, and by the way....
Jinguji-san stands and comes up behind me.
Ren: Stay still for a moment….
He brushes my hair aside, brings his hands around my neck and places something on it.
Is this… a necklace…?
Ren: There, that’s better. You look lovely, my Lady.
He kisses the pendant at the end of the necklace and smiles.
Ren: I actually also handmade this myself. I was looking through some jewelry during the school festival and thought maybe I could do it myself instead of buying something that already existed.
I gave it a try and it turned out to be surprisingly easy. That is the first piece I ever made... Do you like it?
Haruka: I-I do. I’ve never seen anything so wonderful!
Ren: Then, will you cherish it forever?
Haruka: Uh… W-Well….
Ren: It’s already yours. There’s no one better suited for it than you.
Haruka: Thank you so much!
Ren: You’re very welcome… Ah, look, you’ve stopped eating. Go on, your food will get cold.
Haruka: R-Right.
Every time Jinguji-san flashes me a kind smile, tears threaten to well up in my eyes.
But if I cried now, surely I….
I don't want to leave, I want to stay by your side.
I love you.
...Is what I'd like to say....
But I knew I couldn't do that.
So, I held back my tears.
Ren: …Oh, it’s gotten quite late…. There’s actually one more gift I have for you.
Haruka: Please, I’ve already received plenty. This is too much. I already don’t know what to do….
Just celebrating with you like this fills me with so much joy! I can't imagine anything better….
Ren: My lady…. Don’t hold back. Today, I want you to leave everything to me.
Haruka: Ah… Is that….
Ren: Yes, this is your final gift!
Jinguji-san swiftly pulls out his saxophone from under the table, hiding behind the tablecloth.
He’s going to play… for me.
…I’m so happy!
Ren: I knew it.... You love music better than any costly item. You look absolutely delighted right now.
Then, with the saxophone in his hands, Jinguji-san wears the most serene and tender smile I've ever seen.
Haruka: Ah… Yes. I love your saxophone playing, Jinguji-san, so I'm honored I get to be able to listen to it.
I really don’t know what to say. This will become a very treasured memory. Thank you so much.
Ren: Good. I dedicate this music to you!
With a determined look on his face, he breathes in, grins, and begins to play on his saxophone.
He was just as incredible the last time I heard him perform, but....
His technical skills are in a completely different league.
I always considered Jinguji-san to have a superb ear for music, and his ability to draw people in was remarkable.
While gazing at him, transfixed, our eyes suddenly locked.
Then, Jinguji-san smiles and winks at me.
Ah!
He's so cool!
He now plays with an even greater range of expression, making his performance on par with that of professionals.
If music were to be compared to writing, technique would be language.
If someone with a natural talent for writing learns many words, the number of ways in which they can express themselves will increase dramatically.
Even if they want to convey something as universal as "love", the more words available to them, the more impactful their message will be....
His performance is splendidly majestic.
It is passionate, yet delicate in its delivery.
Just listening to it, my heart trembles, and tears well up in my eyes.
I was so absorbed in applauding that I forgot to wipe away the tears that were falling down my face.
As I continue to clap, Jinguji-san gives a wry smile, sets down his saxophone, and approaches me.
Ren: Was it good enough to make you cry?
He gently wipes away my tears with his fingers.
Haruka: Yes… It was… very touching…. I’m so happy….
My tears continue despite his best efforts to wipe them away.
Ren: I didn’t mean to make you cry, but if they’re tears of joy, I can live with it….
I guess all that practice paid off a little. Oh, and I also wrote some lyrics for your song, even though it's not quite finished yet.
Jinguji-san opens a notebook and hands it over to me.
The moment I see the words written on the page of the notebook, the melody of the song I composed comes to mind and Jinguji's voice plays in my head.
It's only an imagining, of course.... But, it's so cool, and I want to hear the song as soon as possible.
Haruka: Um… Could I… listen to you singing this?
Ren: I'm afraid I can't do that. The lyrics aren't even complete yet. I would like to work on it some more.
Besides, I need more practice. I can't let you hear it when it's still incomplete.
Saying that, he takes the notebook from my hand.
Right....
Of course. I also wouldn't want to show off a song that was unpolished….
But it’s really a shame….
Ren: You really wanted to listen, huh?
Haruka: Yes… but I’ll deal with it. Oh… the graduation audition!
I will make sure to return on the day of the graduation audition. So… please let me hear it then. Um… I’ll be looking forward to it….
I want to listen to it soon so badly.
I want to create a song with him.
But we are unable to stay together.
If I were to cancel my plans to study abroad now, it would only cause trouble for Jinguji-san's brother....
I never did end up telling him that his brother is the one who made this study abroad possible but....
Inconveniencing his brother would ultimately be the same as inconveniencing Jinguji-san....
I want to stay here.
I want to remain by his side forever.
Biting back the words that nearly slipped from my mouth, I tightly clench my fists.
Haruka: I will continue to support you no matter how far away we are from each other.
I truly believe that you will become a wonderful idol.... I'm sorry I couldn't be with you until the end.
But with your talent, you'll be able to debut even without me around.... Ah, but wait, that's right....
You... don't even want to become an idol.... You never need me to begin with….
Huh? That’s strange….
I didn’t mean to say any of that….
What should I do….
I can’t control myself….
If I let myself continue like this, I might end up saying things I shouldn't….
Haruka: Uh… so that’s why… I’m sorry. I’ll be going now.
I find myself starting to run away.
But....
His hand quickly shoots out and grabs onto my arm.
Ren: Don’t go!
Haruka: What…?
Before I can react, he pulls me into an embrace.
Jinguji-san's fingers bury themselves in my hair as he hugs me, so tightly that it hurts.
Haruka: U-Um… I….
Ren: Today is not over yet!
Jinguji-san raises his voice. As I tremble under the fierceness in his voice, he loosens his hold and gently strokes my hair.
Ren: I give up. I wanted to see you off smoothly... but you... the look that you have on your face….
His voice quivers, hugging me tightly again.
Ren: I don’t want to let you go….
Jinguji-san mutters in a voice so small I thought I’d imagine it.
Haruka: I… don’t want to go. I want to stay by your side forever. But I'll be causing problems if I don't leave, so…
Ren: That’s not true. I need your song…. Is that selfish of me?
Haruka: That… I'm so happy to hear you say that. But….
Now that the offer has gotten this far, I feel it would be rather disruptive to turn it down now.
Besides... Jinguji-san's brother is the one who recommended that I study abroad....
Haruka: ...Your brother recommended that I study abroad. To refuse now would be…
Jinguji-san's shapely eyebrows twitch.
Ren: It was my brother…? If I had known that, I would have never supported this in the first place....
He must be trying to use you for something absolutely idiotic. That man wouldn't have suggested you study abroad otherwise....
He tightly bites his bottom lip.
Haruka: But… studying abroad… Jinguji-san… You said it was fine.
Ren Jinguji: I won’t let you go!
He tightens his hold on me.
Ren: This is your future we're talking about. I don't care if my brother is involved, as long as it's really for your benefit. But there's no way to be sure. Besides....
Haruka: Jinguji-san….
I murmur softly and glance up at his face.
He then places a kiss on my forehead before letting go of his embrace.
Ren: Sorry… This isn't like me. It seems I got caught up in the spirit of Christmas Eve and got a little emotional....
But... I still don't want to let you go. At first, I genuinely believed it would be better for you if you studied abroad.
I thought it would help you release the music I was so captivated by out into the world as quickly as possible.... But it seems I was wrong.
It was a new chapter in your life, but you were on the verge of tears the entire time. I can't allow a woman with such a look on her face to leave.
You have something more important on your mind than making your debut. Tell me, what is your real dream....
My real dream….
Haruka: …I want to…. I want to make a song with you. I want to….
I want to properly get through the graduation audition. I want us to work hard together. I want to… aim for our victory….
Holding back tears, I finally confess my honest feelings.
Ren: Alright lady, I'll make sure that dream of yours comes true. I swear on this night, I will.
Haruka: T-Thank you….
Ren: I won't let you cry alone. If you're going to, do it in my arms.... Okay?
Gently, he pulls me closer to him and guides my face to rest on his chest.
Haruka: …Okay.
And so, Jinguji-san gently caresses my back until I stop crying.
He told me not to go.
He needed me.
And that made me happy….
The very thought of ever leaving him completely vanishes.
The next day.
Haruka: Please accept my most sincere apology!!
I stand in the principal's office and bow my head.
Despite the fact I had never given them a formal reply, they had already started making arrangements for me to study abroad.
And they canceled it on the day of my departure.
I can't think of anything more tremendously inconvenient than that.
Haruka: It was very last-minute…. I caused trouble for so many people….
Ryuya: To be fair, they had already made their moves before you even had a chance to give them a proper response….
When it comes down to it, it’s better than getting on that plane only for you to have to come back later.
Shining Saotome: Hahaha!! Well, we somehow managed to salvage the situation! Shining’s political power is invincible!
Haruka: T-Thank you very much!
Sensei….
Shining Saotome: In return, give it your all and do your best!
Haruka: Absolutely! I will try my hardest!
Ryuya: Oh, and I'll let them know, so you don't have to worry about it.
Harukai: Hyuga-sensei… Thank you so much!!!
And so, I canceled my study abroad.
I caused trouble in many different ways, but even so, I decided to take a stand and give it my all.
Haruka: Ah, Jinguji-san. Did you wait for me?
Ren: Well, yeah. It seems like things went well from the looks of it. Now then, shall we go? I've reserved a recording studio for us.
Haruka: Thank you!
Starting today, I’ll work hard together with Jinguji-san!
And together, we will win the graduation audition.
Without fail….
Mini Game
Ryuya: Hey, Nanami. Sorry for calling you out here. But, here's the thing. I'd like to ask for your opinion as a composer.
There's an unfinished set of lyrics that a student of mine wrote, and he’s still struggling with a few parts.
When you think about putting a melody to it, as a composer, which phrases would you choose? I'd like you to choose from among these options.
Just think of it the same way you did the previous lyric test. But since the lyrics are not yet set in stone, it's not like there is a clear-cut right answer.
If I had to say, it would be about how well it might resonate with him… or something like that. You know what, nevermind.
Are you ready? We’re about to start.
The next day, I show Jinguji-san the lyrics I had written.
Ren: I knew I could create this with you. My own personal music. I'm sorry for stopping you. But I have no regrets. Let's debut together.
Haruka: Yes! I have no doubt in my mind that we will definitely debut!
I won’t be sparing any effort.
I will do whatever it takes.
Chapter End
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Tangled Fullmetal Au!
TANGLED AU DUMP! ✨
Now I originally reblogged an older blog, but thought that since a lot of people don't usually read the blogs I decided to make this a whole post!
GIF by gurbets-world
As for tangled Au, of course I have a bit more ideas! Nothing 100% decided, these are the random ideas I have been getting!
Been thinking What job Roy has? Like, is he a thief just like Eaugen? Then the idea of him being an outlaw but helping people came to me- maybe he is just like Robin Hood? Maybe stealing from the rich so he could help the poor ordeal? Maybe he has a teacher’s job + this as a secret gig?
And maybe Roy was married to Riza and they had Al as their son ( undecided if I should make Al their bio or adopt a kid.)
Mayliz mentioned the pan ordeal! And I am 100% with the frying pan! Although I am trying to avoid making fun of Ed’s height ( which I will make a post about as soon as I can.) I can see how Frightened Ed is when he sees a stranger man coming to his tower so he would attack him
Still musing if Ed should have all of his limbs, thinking he shouldn't have either his leg or arm. Maybe the arm so that is why he can't take care of his very long hair, so he needs help with it and I love Roy taking care of Ed’s hair. Maybe he was the one to braid it, just like the tiny Girls did for Punzel!
I think Ed would be so skeptical at first, so scared and stuff. Thinking Van maybe wasn't the best dad, ( honestly, my headcanons have him as an abusive man, which would make Roy’s actions mean a lot whole more to Ed and Al.) still thinking if he was abusive in the Au- but locking a child in a tower is pretty hurtful.
And then there is the last bits where in the movie Mother Gothal when she chained Punzel. Tbh, I think that scene is what inspired the whole au.
For how it happened I am thinking something like this,
So Roy took Ed to his home with his wife and kid and for the first time, Ed experienced what family feels like, a mom’s love, and dad’s love, and a sibling’s love. Homemade meals and beds and soft coverings and other beings around him!
But one night, Ho was able to kidnap Ed from the Mustang household and Roy put 2 and 2 together and used his horse and dashed to the tower and got inside and then
Van stabs Roy as soon as he entered the place.
Exactly what happened in the movie happened there, except I think that Roy was able to kill Ho.
Does that mean Alchem is a thing here? Probably. Maybe that is why Ho kept Ed in a tower? Because Ed is so powerful?
These These are my thoughts so far! What do you guys think? I looked around for my sketches, and can't seem to find the rest, I only found a very BAD doodlish sketch
Definitely will draw more for this Au, concept customs, and stuff! I just need to push a little more before I have free time hehe
#fma#Tangled#Au#doodle dump#idea dump#like I love tangled#I grew up with it#My birthday when I was in first grade was tangled#Did I just say how old am I?#Maybe#Do I care?#maybe idk#moving on#Tangled Fma time!
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If you're still accepting questions: 2 for Tredayn, 8 and 26 for Llether, and 19 for Merry? 👀
I absolutely am, thank you! in general now if I ever post an ask game and someone wants to ask relatively later go ahead... I always love it
2. How educated is your oc? Did their parents teach them, did they have a tutor or were they apprenticed to a master, or did they attend a university? What university? What are they educated in? How long did their education take? (Learned skills like blacksmithing count here too!)
a very good question for the dayn... I'm still a bit undecided on his earliest years but as the son of nobles and even a duke, he would have gotten the best education one could buy in Morrowind. well, what happened in practice is he probably couldn't follow through with it, because of the interesting decade he was born in. he does receive something, and an education at the College of Winterhold when he's older... he was meant to specialize in alteration and be a mender, very menial work for a mage, he turned out an archivist at the college itself. I think it would help him to take care of his books, so maybe that's what his background is. I think of him as an eclectic mage but not an excellent one. his education continues on and on :)
26. How helpful is your oc, and why? Are they helpful or kind even during difficult situations? Are they pragmatic, or do they have a hero syndrome?
8. for Llether answered here and for this one, I think it depends on what point in his life we're talking about and how his mood swings. now in theory and mostly in practice, he really likes helping people, but it tires him out easily to do it in all the ways he attempts to. he's not the mer who can go into a cave full of monsters and fetch your family sword, it's not something that touches his world in the first place. but he's surrounded by injustice and corruption that he was determined to mend from within from back when he was younger, less disillusioned. today and ever, he would give money and food to the poor of the city but he wishes to help them on a legislative level too. he is pragmatic in the regard that he would often keep his head down and do what was the least problem at the time. he's not proud of it but at the same time acknowledges that someone's got to do it
19. If your oc is a werebeast, how much control do they have over their transformations? Have they ever lost control? What happened? If not, why do they have such strong control? Does Hircine ever call on them, and do they answer?
I planned her to be very in control of herself as a werebear because she's been one since she was born, but it sort of takes the edge off the frightening experience that is being a werebeast. and it is a bit frightening for her. she turns with the full moon and it's not like an instant "see the moon and bam, werewolf" thing because applying that immediately causes problems, instead the moon's presence is something that pushes her over the edge over time and her turning could be called semi-voluntary. she's in an altered sort of state as a werebear, usually spending that time running across Skyrim on her job or hanging out with her family and friends who watch her. she's ended up in trouble on occasion without them. she hates Hircine so ultimately she wants to break free from him, even if she fears losing something deeply tied to her as being a werebear... it's complicated
#three of them :') this has been such a nice companion to the stories i've been putting out. i'm so happy to get questions!#answered#oc tag#tredayn tag#llether tag#merris tag
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Liveblogging Mission: Impossible 3, Lens Flare-ily
BACK. BACK AGAIN. THE MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE. THE ETHAN: HUNTED MAYBE I ASSUME??? THEMATIC COLOUR BASED ON THE PARAMOUNT+ BANNER: COOL BLUE.
i think these are just getting longer. liveblogging below.
this movie released in 2006, when i was sixteen and therefore very likely to have seen it. i have the vague impression that i did. i still don’t remember anything specific about it, but we’ll see if any Buried Memories resurface during this viewing lol
paramount logo now comes with Vaguely Sinister Sounds
oop, i hear ethan getting electrocuted
and oh BOY is he looking rough. my boy :( we’re in media res i guess lol. “we’ve put an explosive charge in your head.” i bet you’re wondering how i got into this mess--
is that philip seymour hoffman??? yes it is, as our villain for the piece, one assumes. you don’t waste philip seymour hoffman on your cold open only villain who never shows up again lol
“you’re gonna tell me where the rabbit’s foot is or she dies” so firstly: obviously The Villain has made an accurate assessment of Ethan Hunt’s Survival Instincts. secondly: whomst? whomst this? “jules” apparently.
ethan goes from “we can talk like gentlemen”-- shot of a goon with a broken nose that i assume ethan gave him here, btw, which: split second of levity, thank you movie-- to RATTLING THE CHAINS ON HIS CHAIR LIKE A DOG ON A CHOKE CHAIN between the villain counting from two to three. i am. FULL OF CONCERN. movie has done a genuinely good job setting a High Stress Threshold from the word go lol
OOF villain just shot hostage lady in i think the knee? it went pretty fast. either way he is Not Impressed with ethan’s attempts at negotiation.
you know i am genuinely not sure ethan actually knows what villain guy wants? he seems to be legitimately losing his mind about hostage lady, i’m not sure he’d still be prevaricating by this point. sometimes he surprises me though!
HMM. got to count of ten, and i’m not sure if that was a gunshot or the Mission Impossible Match Lighting for the opening! will be interested to see if we’re going back in time or if this was the Trauma Setup for the film
so who’s our director on this-- oh it’s JJ ABRAMS? where is this in his filmography… huh, i guess this was his directorial debut in film. he’d previously worked as a director in tv on alias and lost, though-- alias is presumably what got him this one. okay, so i should expect lens flare and, ugh, “mystery boxes” lol
and the credits end with I THINK hostage lady jules opening her fridge. kind of hard to tell without the duct tape lol. but i believe this means we’re in Flashback Territory
oh ethan is kissing on her. look at that smile! one must imagine ethan hunt happy
okay her family’s over. awww, ethan: “it’s going well right?” i wonder if this is the first time he’s meeting her whole family or? regardless he is seeking Validation. insecure ethan hunt. bless.
oh it’s their engagement party! but yes it seems like this is the first time they’re meeting him. whirlwind romance?
“ethan doesn’t have his parents anymore either”-- i guess his mom died between movies?
dfklha;ldkfha;slkh ethan boring everyone at the party with his “i work at the department of transportation” cover lol
dfl;kkhas;ldkfha;lskh okay the ladies are in the kitchen gossiping and i am PRETTY SURE ethan is reading their lips from across the room lol
jules is a nurse! and apparently they met while skydiving or something lol, which based on ethan’s Freeclimbing Hobby i guess does track as something he’d do in his freetime, but DOES also open the possibility that they met on a job. i’m undecided on whether she Knows™ lol
this is all very wholesome, even without the cold open i’d know it was doomed
phone call “is this mr. ethan hunt” and he doesn’t Get It immediately despite the Sinister Tone bc he’s in Happy Ethan Cover Mode.
aaaand the penny drops. “all-expenses paid trip to mexico”
ethan: chucks the ice out the back door
ethan: oh nooo we ran out of ice i’ll go get some
listen i don’t know enough about cars to tell you what kind this is, but it is a Dad Car. ethan hunt is engaging Dad Mode before he even gets married
omg they even have a DOG. does the dog die??? hang on i have to know this before i become emotionally attached-- okay per doesthedogdie.com NO. THE DOG IS SAFE.
anyway i can’t believe The Local 7/11 is where ethan has meetings with his handler lol. oh hm ethan is Training Operatives now instead of working, apparently. this seems like a positive career move! i’m sure it won’t last!
“agent farris” is missing-- that’s not nyah is it? …no, nyah is nordoff-hall. someone else ethan trained, presumably. (speaking of which, what happened with nyah?)
and of course ethan can’t resist at least Retrieving the mission brief hidden in the disposable camera lol. oh good lord, i figured it would just be on the film reel, no, this thing has an IRIS SCANNER, someone introduce me to imf’s q, who is the silly bastard inventing these
oh we got a name for villain guy now, “owen davian”-- has farris hostage, they aren’t disavowing her bc they want her intel, apparently.
new team!
declan gormley-- sorry about your name my guy-- is an “aviation machinist” (so probably our pilot) and a sysop engineer, so probably also our hacker
zhen lei is a “lan computer networker”-- …sure-- with “combat assault skills” which should come in handy even if ethan is now specced more for soldiering than he used to be
luther! love to see you but why haven’t you retired with your bajillion dollars yet. also why are there so many hackers on this team. anyway, he’s also got “artillery equipment specialist” listed in his credentials, which i assume is from that one time he fired a bazooka at a car chasing ethan last movie lol
“this message, let’s call it my excellent engagement gift to you--” dhf;lakhd;flkhas dude. no.
i will say the latest imf bigwig seems less infuriating than the last two, even if he is Dragging Ethan Out Of Retirement. it is an “if you choose to accept it”! i mean ethan will, inevitably, accept it, bc he’s Himself, but there’s at least a hypothetical out.
ethan’s having nightmares :(
and yep, now he’s telling julia he’ll have to “go on a business trip”. although he tells her it’ll only be for a night, which is probably over-optimistic of him.
LUTHER!!!! he is exuding Competence and Confidence which is an interesting change of pace from him, lol, he’s often been a bit Anxious in the previous two movies. not about his skills, but about like. The Inherent Dangers Of The Job. i guess this is Older Wiser Luther lol
and it looks like we’re going STRAIGHT into the extraction, no setup, so uh. i’m not sure it’s gonna go well. also, first of the Really Noticeable Lens Flares lol
i will say, egregious lens flares notwithstanding lol, this is actually really well lit for a night scene. you remember when films used to LIGHT for dark scenes instead of just doing them IN the dark? those were the days
okay this is an interesting exchange between ethan and luther. luther says “you know i got your six.” and ethan’s response is just “hey, man. that’s your job.” which, objectively speaking, is TRUE-- but there’s a beat afterwards where they just look at each other before they move on. i’m not sure if this is some kind of unresolved tension from ethan having gotten out of field work for a while, if this is luther alluding to ethan’s tendency from the last movie to go into situations without the POSSIBILITY of backup, if luther is trying to remind ethan that he’s got a Full (and Fully Trained) team for possibly the first time since the first movie, if luther is trying to remind ethan that they’re FRIENDS and being kind of gently rebuffed bc this is a high-stakes field operation… unclear.
anyway luther has gotten Four Computer-Operated Guns that he can run from the safety of his little combat van setup, lol.
lkafd;lkfh;alsh okay listen. luther has heat-vision on the building. okay. i’ll buy it. luther locates a heat-signature that appears to be sitting in a slightly reclined position that looks uncomfortable and probably like restraint-- cool! that’s probably our hostage! but the computer then announcing “target match” with “VASCULAR ID CONFIRMED”-- that! is not! how that works!
okay so real quick: vascular pattern recognition is real, blood vessel patterns are about as unique as fingerprints and iris patterns, but significantly harder to counterfeit bc they’re Beneath The Skin. but you DO NOT identify vascular patterns by heat signature, they ARE NOT analyses of the entire vascular system of the body, they usually FUNCTION LIKE FINGERPRINT SCANNERS, bc they assess the blood vessel patterns beneath the skin of a fingertip. it’s a photographic comparison between the database pattern and the registered pattern, which is scanned with infrared leds and fancy cameras. it’s only more secure than a fingerprint bc of the Beneath The Skin part. don’t ask me why i know this, i write fanfiction, you just pick these things up. THIS IS NOT HOW IT WORKS!!!
look at some more lens flare. also i need you to know that the yellow lights on the left side are flickering in time with the fluttering cymbal in the score.
fh;alksdhf;lakkh luther, mid-op, “at some point we gotta go over this whole getting married thing.” luther is demanding to know if julia is good enough for his ethan lol i’m guessing he’s grumpy he wasn’t consulted
hmm, they’re drugging farris with something, “give her 10ccs more”-- oh hey, the one creepily petting her hair is the goon with the future broken nose, btw. deserved.
blow some charges and luther is lighting this place UP with his four guns lol. this seems like it might be SLIGHTLY risky with ethan and a hostage inside, but i assume they’re accounted for in the targeting ranges
ethan takes down one goon with a short burst, so he’s upgraded from hand guns to something more robust. he just gets Shootier and Shootier each movie lol
farris gets an adrenaline shot so that she can participate in her own rescue, i assume-- hopefully that doesn’t interact too badly with whatever she’s drugged with
i haven’t seen enough of the new teammates to really get a sense of them yet but zhen admittedly looks cool as hell moving through the facility towards her objective lol. i can’t get a decent screengrab of this bc the lights are flashing constantly, the cuts are too fast, and paramount+ won’t let me scroll frame by frame but just trust me that she is cool and we love a woman in military gear. also she VERY narrowly avoids getting blown up by a grenade by flinging herself out a window.
uh-oh, farris is telling ethan to turn off his transmitter so she can talk to him Privately. that’s ominous, especially Mid-Rescue while the building is full of holes
they were interrupted by a firefight, and farris’ adrenaline has definitely kicked in! looks like ethan trained her well
the intel (?) that zhen came for has been slightly blown up, hopefully still useful
fkha;ldkfh;lakshdf;lkah
lindsey: i’m out, how many rounds you got?
ethan, making The Most Concerned Unconcerned Face: …………Enough
also he makes like a thousand tiny flinching faces while he’s gearing up to take his One Shot, which Must Kill This Man bc “enough” means “one bullet”, which makes it extremely clear how much his blase “now i’m out :|”
after said shot does kill said man is a FUCKING MASK. ethan hunt knows half his reputation is cool one-liners after he does something absurd and that that’s the part people will remember, and he plays into that ON PURPOSE bc his previous job role was BEING THE FACE. i am begging everyone on earth to remember that this man’s SECOND career is soldier, and he came from THE THEATRE OF ESPIONAGE. he is a dramatic bitch INTENTIONALLY to ACCOMPLISH SOMETHING.
one INCREDIBLY hot extraction on the top of luther’s van later, and everybody’s getting on the helicopter without farris getting to have her solo talk with ethan-- aaaaand now she’s complaining of a sudden intense headache, which probably means her head is about to explode ala “we’ve put an explosive charge in your head” from the cold open
…uhoh, declan-- i was right, he is our pilot-- is hesitating to take off, and i hear another helicopter approaching-- yeah, that’s a gunship. and alas it does not get taken out by the van blowing up, so they’re being pursued-- through a field of wind turbines which is an interesting visual AND an interesting tactic by declan
oh my god so much lens flare though lol. the music is getting increasingly ominous
they've located the bomb in farris' head! according to ethan’s little magic scanner device, it contains at least nitroglycerin and magnesium, and it looks about the size of a pill, so… possibly her head does not explode as such, just. burn from the inside out.
declan doing some VERY tight maneuvering to dodge some missiles. luther is leaning out the side of the helicopter with a handgun apparently hoping he can use it to shoot down a gunship lol. MAYBE if he can get a shot through the windscreen???
….okay so ethan’s plan for dealing with the explosive is to shock farris with the defibrillator-- i’m kind of unclear on whether the plan is to use the defib on the chest as intended or like. on her HEAD. hopefully the former lol
second missile fired-- ah, okay, it looks like luther’s gun was actually a flare gun, he’s just fired it in an attempt to divert the missile ala firing chaff. which works! shears a turbine blade off into a field of very alarmed sheep lol
third missile lock, and declan just went BETWEEN THE BLADES of a wind turbine, which the following gunship really should not have attempted lol, it got crunched like tinfoil. we love to see that imf competence on display-- which their AGENTS typically do! their organization as a whole, less so
aaand the aed’s thirty-second charging window was just slightly too long and farris’ charge has detonated in her brain. relatively bloodless, although her eyes get kind of fucked up, which i will do you the favour of not screencapping
this is the face of ethan hunt about to go on the warpath, by the way
ethan hunt returning to his nice domestic life after a mission that ended in complete failure despite everyone technically doing a spectacular job
aaand putting the mask on for the almost-wife. there was a MOMENT where he wasn’t caught up and he still looked lost and devastated, and she caught it-- bc of course she did-- and he couldn’t tell her what it was about, so-- The Patented Ethan Hunt Grin comes on. this is almost extra tragic? bc like… clearly he doesn’t want his spy life to overlap with his wife life. understandable (hi cold open) and probably unavoidable, given she wouldn’t have clearance to know 99% of it anyway. but just the emotional distance between Party Ethan who seemed genuinely happy and excited and nervous in that Border Collie way-- meeting new people! being nice to them! getting his girlfriend’s brother a beer! “it’s going well, right?”-- and this ethan, who is papering over his hurt bc he can’t afford to show her what it’s about.
and you can see she doesn’t entirely buy it, either. if she survives this movie, that’s going to become an ongoing source of conflict.
oh i take it back, apparently laurence fishburne is the REAL IMF brass of this movie, and he sucks just as much as the rest of them lol. “i read your training brief on agent farris. the words you used were “beyond capable.” that still stand, mr hunt?” fuck you dude, like ya’ll don’t lose agents left and right around here
oof, yep, the intel did get fried by the grenade, which is not making the imf any happier. not, to be clear, that i want the imf to be happy. fuck the imf ethan, GO FREELANCE, these people have sucked in EVERY MOVIE
oof, farris was his First Ever recommendation for field duty. no wonder this is hitting him like a train
hmm, ethan just got a call at farris’ funeral asking for a “mr. kelvin” which must be one of his cover identities, since he answers to it. apparently farris-- or “farris”-- sent him a postcard from berlin. the postcard has no text-- it has a “microdot”, per luther’s examination, but there’s nothing on THAT either. Mysterious™
luther just asked if there was anything going on between ethan and farris-- honestly, fair question, given his track record with hooking up with the ladies he works with lol, although in at least one case that was a honeytrap working on him lol-- and ethan reports that she was “like his little sister”, which-- aww, and also :(
fla;ksdhf;laskh;lkh ethan @ luther “remember when you were sweet? can you remember that far back?” ETHAN IT WAS AT MOST TWO MOVIES AGO. arguably last movie, no i am not over his little terrified teary voice when ethan is doing dumb shit lol
new character! benji, who i have gathered from @leupagus is part of the Ongoing Team-- currently he is apparently a desk tech at imf who is complaining that the hard drives they recovered are fried lol. ethan already knows him, which is interesting.
flkahdl;fkhasl he did recover something from the Fried Drives anyway lol, so i guess he just wanted to complain. specifically he’s uncovered that davian is going to be at the vatican, and also that he’s there to get The Rabbit’s Foot (of cold open fame)
benji is one of those “tell a rambling story to get around to the point” people lol
interesting, ethan is trying to get musgrave-- the guy i originally thought was the imf brass of the movie, not technically ethan’s handler since ethan technically isn’t doing field work lol, i think he called himself a branch manager or something at some point-- “deniability” on the operation he’s about to undertake based on benji’s find. meaning he’s trying to protect musgrave’s reputation after it took a ding from the failure to recover farris.
ethan letting julia know he’s going to be “away on business” again, this time for TWO days. he interrupted her at work to have this conversation on, apparently, the roof of the hospital she works at, which is an interesting choice lol. she is Not Happy About It and asking for explanations which i can’t imagine he’s going to give her.
alskdhf;laskhdf;lkash;lkh she asks for reassurance that their relationship is real and he’s like “you know what fuck it let’s get married Right Now in the hospital chapel”. they have to use some little plastic rings he got in the gift shop or something lol. adorable. i’m love them.
aaaaand time to break into the vatican! plan: kidnap davian (and also get his buyers, which i’m assuming means ethan will be pulling out a Davian Face Mask at some point)
this is their hilariously analogue solution to not being able to loop a static shot to a vatican cctv camera. hopefully ethan didn’t get a bird in the frame lol
also he’s now dressed up as a priest and i would love to know how uncomfortable it was to keep those robes wrapped up inside the worker jumpsuit he was wearing earlier
i’m guessing this is zhen who’s underwater breaking into a vent, and it looks like declan has had his own costume change into a tourist!
actually come to think of it, how does this whole team from the failed op have time to do ethan’s off-the-books operation? how frequently do imf agents get work? we know the imf keeps tabs on them, from that time they tracked ethan down during his freeclimbing vacation, so the imf surely Knows they’re all in the vatican, and that would be suspicious even without whatever equipment they requisitioned-- surely they don’t just own all of this shit themselves-- and especially with them all having been on a failed op together like. last week. so either the imf is spectacularly incompetent-- totally possible-- or they’re aware of this operation and tacitly approve bc it means they can just DOUBLE disavow everyone if it goes wrong
oh it was luther underwater! i assumed he was in the van. this begs the question of where zhen is-- ah, i hear her teasing declan lol-- they have her in a Very pretty car, although bright orange makes me suspect this is a decoy rather than a getaway vehicle lol
alksdhf;lkash;lkah luther and ethan just blew a hole in a wall of the vatican catacombs. way to destroy some irreplaceable art history boys lol
ma’am you didn’t have to slay me like this but thank you
ooooh are we going to get to see how they make the plastic face masks???
dflaksjdf;lkahs luther is trying to patch things up with ethan about him being snippy about ethan’s engagement. WAIT until he hears ethan is already married lol.
luther: a normal relationship isn’t possible for people like us
ethan: i don’t agree with that
luther: then i’m smarter than you
LUTHER YOU DON’T HAVE TO ROAST HIM LIKE THAT (pls continue it’s very entertaining)
The Facemaskification Process-- put a big plastic sheet over the dummy head, input a bunch of photos of the target face at various angles, i’m unclear if these are lasers or saws but Something cuts away the plastic to match
luther has ethan as a captive audience while they prep for him to pretend to be davian, so he’s continuing to harangue ethan about his relationship lol. “23 months” is his estimate for how long it’ll last, which is Suspiciously Specific, luther, you projecting a bit babe?
Continued Facemaskification: airbrushing the colours from the same photos. this raises some questions about lighting-- both in terms of the lighting the source photos are taken in-- does the mask hold up to the same scrutiny under different lighting conditions than the source photos?-- and things like subsurface scatter, which presumably wouldn’t work with a mask that’s built like this one seems to be. obviously you can paint a facsimile of subsurface scatter, but again, that won’t hold up under various lighting conditions. many questions remain.
lol luther is continuing to try to talk ethan out of this by telling him how much he’s going to screw up the girl, and ethan finally breaks in with “jules and i got married two days ago.”-- which is an interesting timeline note, by the way-- and luther after a beat is just “..........congratulations.”
zhen has just dumped red wine on davian to divert him to a bathroom lol
very creepy ethan lol
ah, and now we get a look at how the vocoder gets set up the first time-- he’s having davian read a phonetic passage to collect voice samples to clone. idk how accurate that was to 2006, but voice cloning ai is actually pretty achievable today-- unfortunately, for deepfake reasons.
ksdhf;lkashd;lflkah okay so post-kidnapping switcheroo the cover to get ethan/”davian” away from his bodyguards is to have zhen offer to “wash his shirt”/offer sexual favours and having “davian” take her up on it lol. which, i’ll grant you, he seems plausibly like that kind of creep and zhen looks. uh. listen we’d all follow her to a hotel room is what i’m saying.
fajhdlfas;lkh the center console in zhen’s car rolls back so they can all exfil into the sewers-- meaning the bodyguards can’t even follow her car. “what’s up”
and then they BLOW UP THE CAR, which is going to a) have vatican security Swarming, and b) davian’s bodyguards (and anyone else who knows him) will now think he’s dead!
lovely full team shot zipping away on a speedboat. ethan has “dad taking the kids on a joyride” energy lol
and we’re only halfway into the movie so can’t wait to see how this unqualified success goes spectacularly tits-up
fakhdl;fkhas;ldkh musgrave just claimed to be aware the operation was happening, presumably to give ETHAN cover from the brass for going off-book (well, also to get credit)-- you boys need to coordinate better on who is covering for who
davian Starts Off this interrogation with “do you have a wife, girlfriend? bc i’m going to hurt her” which like. accurate from the cold open. apparently he thinks his best strategy is to Antagonize his captor, which, well, it’s a choice lol
ethan responds, as you might expect, by threatening to dump davian out of a moving plane if he doesn’t get the information he wants. luther has to talk him down-- “this isn’t you”, which is interesting, bc i would have said that was true TWO movies ago, m:i ethan avoided conflict like the plague, but m:i 2 ethan MIGHT have pulled a stunt like this. and of course now in mi:3, ethan is Emotionally Compromised by losing his protege and having a Very New Wife to worry about. which might ultimately be the real reason that romantic relationships outside of the intelligence community are unwise.
luther ultimately does talk him down, but it’s a close thing. (and davian a) doesn’t talk, and b) heard ethan’s first name when luther was pleading with him not to lose his single strand of chill.)
davian gets picked up in an armoured vehicle into imf custody, but given we’re following its progress i doubt he’ll stay in it long enough to get to a detainment facility
on the drive luther has apparently gotten farris’ microdot file decrypted and sent back to him! let’s see what was so important-- OOOOOH, she traced a call to davian from laurence fishburne’s office at the imf. can’t trust any of these motherfuckers
and yep, the convoy’s going-- looks like they’re being attacked by missiles of some kind. (ah, there’s a fighter (? very small silhouette) in the air, that’s probably where the missiles came from, so air-to-surface rather than rocket-propelled) lots of civilian traffic also getting caught as collateral, and they’re on a bridge, so could very well be a collapse coming.
jeez, and a HELICOPTER. they’ve certainly got air coverage locked down
(zhen and declan are both here and trying to help, but i mean. options are pretty slim.)
ethan shouts at all the civilians to get down as the heli squad starts firing indiscriminately onto the bridge-- at least once woman gets shot, luther goes out to try to get her into cover, and ethan takes off to try to get a good shot to do something Useful with his handgun Versus A Helicopter with multiple armed combatants onboard
oh interesting, he’s trying to get davian out of the truck-- presumably to hold him hostage so the helicopter will stop shooting at civilians. no dice, they just shot the driver, and they make those trucks hard to break into for, you know, the obvious reasons
fa;lkdhf;lah ethan’s got to crawl back into his Flipped Truck, which is one good shove away from falling through a hole in the bridge, to get a gun that can actually do shit to a helicopter
heli squad has dropped onto the bridge to extract davian, this foam presumably will either explode or eat through the side-- huh, looks like it sort of flash-froze, i assume so they can shatter the metal somehow
ah okay, the “fighter” is a drone being piloted from the helicopter
ethan nearly gets blown up and DOES get to bodyslam a car. this after the car crash from the initial missile impacts. this boy is coming out with broken ribs and a concussion minimum, he’s lucky his wife is a nurse
ethan gets his new gun put together and manages to take out the drone, which ALMOST but not quite dings one of the helicopters (which, i hadn’t realized there were two until now, scenes have been a little disjointed) on its way down
ethan makes a FLYING leap across the destroyed bridge-- gratuitous lens flare again lol-- unfortunately doesn’t quite make his jump, manages to hold on to some rubble so he doesn’t tumble into the water but it slows his pursuit of davian, who is now being hustled to a helicopter
ethan manages to fire a few rounds at the helicopter on its way by, but no dice, davian is in the wind (literally). ethan calls home right away bc i guess he assumes davian can have her kidnapped Instantaneously-- which apparently is true, bc julia isn’t home and her brother (apparently crashing at their house lol) asks ethan if “his friend” found him and that he told “some english guy” that julia might know where ethan was and to try her at the hospital. soooo great job rick, your sister’s maybe gonna die.
ethan has requisitioned the least-crashed car on the bridge, which seems fair under the circumstances, although i’m sure the owner-- if they aren’t shot-- will have other opinions
oh julia’s not kidnapped yet! she’s still at work, that’s why she’s not answering ethan’s calls
okay the receptionist at the hospital knowing ethan well enough to respond to his very abrupt “I Need To Talk To Julia” with “hey honey, i’ll transfer you” is adorable
…Some English guy just stuck a Mysterious Yellow Dot (which will make her pass out momentarily i’m sure) to julia’s arm and her reaction is just :)? what’s that? sweetheart… no… develop an aversion to people putting things on you without your permission…
oof, ethan literally passes right by Julia On A Gurney being taken out of the hospital, but of course Some English Guy has her under a sheet, so he doesn’t realize
and davian calls to give ethan a “julia’s life for the rabbit’s foot” 48 hour ultimatum. problematic given ethan still doesn’t know what the hell that is, although he does at least tell ethan that the location is in the case they got with davian.
aaand of course this is the moment the imf rolls up to take ethan into custody, so yet again he’s about to be at odds with his own organization. i’ll say it again, ethan: GO. FREELANCE.
this is really gonna cut into his 48 hour timeline also why the fuck have they MUZZLED HIM
laurence fishburne of course is saying Some Bullshit, musgrave of course is nodding along like “yes sir of course sir ethan hunt is a traitor sir”-- ACTUALLY, stray thought. farris didn’t hear laurence fishburne talk to davian, she just knows the call came from his office, which seems to be the same building musgrave works in. musgrave making calls from his boss’ office, perhaps?
hmm, musgrave is mouthing to ethan silently so ethan can read his lips without the rest of the office picking it up, and then slips him something to get out of his restraints. this does not make him less suspicious, if he’s working with davian he has a motive to want ethan out and hunting the rabbit’s foot.
captain america stole his elevator fight scene from ethan hunt. except ethan’s doing it while still half-tied to a gurney, so who really wins here?
escape into the elevator shaft, shockingly well-lit lol
fha;lkdhf;alskhdlk brassel (laurence fishburne, i’ve finally learned his name lol) hearing His Own Voice giving orders he hasn’t given over the radio. ethan works fast. why he has a voice strip with brassel’s voice encoded on its easily to hand i don’t know, but it’s better than last movie when he did a full outfit swap, vocoder, and face mask switcheroo with the villain’s not-boyfriend
oh huh looks like the imf facility is actually underneath the department of transportation, that’s where that cover story comes from lol. df;lkha;ldkfh;lak and ethan ditches his radio next to a boombox so the only thing on the imf security channel is sister sledge playing “we are family” lol
musgrave apparently directed the entire team to the same shanghai apartment he told ethan to go to on Rabbit’s Foot duty
the team settles in to debate their entrance strategies and ethan, Of Course, chooses the roof access lol. he’s gonna Jump from one building to the target building. well, swing, but still. and the basejump from the building to exfil lol
we are at 2 hours until the Julia Dies ultimatum
ethan looking very brooding and cool, and presumably doing math in his head about the velocity and angles he needs to hit if he doesn’t want to unceremoniously splatter on a roof. luther gives him a pep talk which is very matter-of-fact and does not allow for the plan to go sideways, which, like. it will, but we appreciate the solidarity. luther, yet again, for best boy.
awww, ethan thanks luther for coming and luther’s response is “that’s my job.” CALL BACK TO THE WEIRD MOMENT FROM THE FARRIS OP, whatever that weird tension was-- probably about julia, considering the rest of the movie-- it has been Resolved in the midst of this Crisis.
julia if you survive this movie you should have No Doubts about this man’s love for you ever again lol
oof, at the terminus of the swing he still has like a twenty foot drop ONTO A GLASS ROOF which he is now sliding directly down. ethan. babe. i know time is short and options are limited but pls.
catches himself on the gutter and literally says “...okay” in the most strangled voice lol. oh, more lens flare. honestly there’s been so much i can’t even call it out specifically lol
luther: he made it! he made it! ….i knew he’d make it
I TOLD YOU HE WAS STILL SWEET ETHAN.
we aren’t even seeing ethan’s actual theft of the rabbit’s foot, we’re watching the team outside wait for him and count down the minutes, which is a fascinating choice that i actually really like. we’ve seen ethan do impressive spy shit, none of that’s new. watching the new team react to ethan’s radio silence, that IS new. luther is trying to maintain chill. declan is Fretting. zhen is apparently PRAYING under her breath. (apparently a prayer she’d say to bring home her Lost Cat as a kid, which-- love you zhen, pls stick around for next movie.) flkah;dlkfha;lkh aww, declan asks her to teach him the Lost Cat Prayer, presumably bc he needs Some Kind Of Distraction-- they get interrupted by ethan finally coming back on the line (things have, predictably, gone pear-shaped) but it’s a cute moment
so, ethan’s base jumping From The Roof was already going to be cutting it very close on the lower limits of height for that-- he instead jumps out a window like halfway down the building, which means if he hits the ground he will do it Hard-- so instead he crashes into the window of, i think, a different building, although it’s unclear how intentional that was given how much drag he was fighting
oop, his chute is about to drag him back out the window lol. having been dragged around campus by my own portfolio getting caught in a wind tunnel-- my sympathies, ethan, you belong to the north wind now
his chute catches on a streetlight, which does him the favour of not splattering him, although it does drop him into oncoming traffic-- that truck driver is a hero for not obliterating him or spinning out and slamming into every other vehicle on the road btw
team picks him up and they’re now in a highspeed car chase with building security while ethan tries to make the call to davian to tell him he’s got the rabbit’s foot
oh noooo zhen got hit. that better be a flesh wound ma’am we’ve had enough women dying this franchise thanks
apparently ethan decided the angles INSIDE the car weren’t good enough and he’s sick of being shot at. being the Best Spy, he of course manages to blow the pursuit vehicle's tires, so they're home free!
musgrave still so suspicious. “go secure” ethan says, “we are” musgrave says, sir. that’s your cellphone and you didn’t do literally anything, if that’s secure i’ll EAT your phone. anyway, ethan is calling to tell him that he’s tagged the rabbit’s foot so that the imf can retrieve it after ethan makes the exchange with davian. which, if anyone at the imf is both competent and not a traitor-- A BIG ASK, I AM AWARE-- means the cold open should have some cavalry coming, hypothetically
the team Reluctantly lets ethan go off to make his Solo Handoff/get captured
ethan at the drop point gets into a vehicle and on instructions from Some English Guy also Drinks A Mystery Vial, which i’m sure will go great for him
interestingly it appears to be making him hallucinate being intimate with julia, and then we wake up in the cold open!
so yeah, it seems like ethan legitimately thought he’d given the rabbit’s foot to davian and his confusion and prevariation here are bc he legitimately doesn’t know how to fix this
meanwhile the team has arrived home to uh. This on the landing strip
well. it WAS indeed a gunshot. and julia does now seem to be dead.
One Must Imagine Ethan Hunt Happy
and in comes musgrave i KNEW IT you little rat
oh ooof. “it’s complicated. you can’t just open the canister. we had to be sure you brought the real thing. now we know.” so LITERALLY he brought you what you wanted, and you killed julia For Show.
unfathomable that ethan hunt is not fully deranged by the end of this movie. i would be eating musgrave’s bone marrow by the end of the runtime.
…gross, but apparently that is some other RANDOM woman-- actually i think it’s davian’s other bodyguard, which, not great benefits there-- they just killed with a julia mask on? i guess that’s good for ethan but also What The Fuck???
ah, bc musgrave is using her as further leverage to find out What Farris Knew.
flkha;lfkhd;lkfahs;lhkds musgrave is complaining that brassel is an “affirmative action poster boy” DUDE YOUR MOTIVE IS JUST RACISM? RACISM AND JEALOUSY? YOU WHINY LITTLE PISSBABY SIT DOWN
“and when the sand settles, our country will do what it does best. cleanup. infrastructure. democracy wins.” god were people really buying that in 2006. i guess that was only five years after 9/11, nationalism was High and the bush admin was still in place. anyway, Yet More Racism from this twerp
ethan asks for a phone call to confirm that julia is alive. amusingly, the fact that julia can remember what the lake is called means it’s Much Less Likely to actually be her on the phone, given she couldn’t remember it during The Party
i see now why they muzzled him lol
huh, ethan called benji as his first point of contact once he’s knocked out musgrave and gotten out of his restraints
benji goes from “you’re on interpol’s most wanted! i’m hanging up!” to “i’m going to lose my citizenship over you” in the space of like thirty seconds and ethan doesn’t even say PLEASE lol
lol benji is being ethan’s on-call gps service. he is doing this At Work, by the way, at the organization that currently wants ethan’s head on a stick, so he keeps having to pause to make Pleasant Office Noises at his coworkers lol. also featuring: The Ethan Sprint
jkhfjkhskdfak a couple of little old chinese men took one look at ethan gasping and bleeding in the doorway and ratted out the villain’s location
aaand while looking around he promptly knocks a bunch of shit off a table. guess those concussions are finally catching up to you, babe. but we’ve found julia!
unfortunately at exactly THAT moment, davian remembers he put a bomb in ethan’s head
well, if he can win this fight with davian while his brain is about to fry, at least his wife is a nurse! she can probably shock him both to death and back to life! if there’s an aed around! which i haven’t seen one, but for plot reasons, probably is somewhere!
ethan has, as per tradition, engaged Emergency Fight Mode at the threat to a loved one! i don’t know why these villains keep threatening people he cares about, it goes SO MUCH WORSE than when they just threaten him
dfl;kha;ldkfha;l okay rolling davian on top of him and into the path of an oncoming vehicle is novel and definitely ends the fight quickly, which is good given ethan has a couple of minutes before his brain melts. also honestly refreshing after the like fifteen-minute fight with the main antagonist of the last movie
fha;lkdhfl;aksh;l ethan hands julia his gun, tells her it’s a very accurate close range weapon, and then immediately follows up with “don’t point it at me” lol
he’s a good teacher! giving julia instructions about how to use the gun that mirror things she’s done at home-- “shove the new mag in like the batteries in the flashlight in the kitchen”. also he is clearly setting up a diy electrocution, which, well, it’s not like he’s got a better option, apparently this don’t use defibrillators at whatever sketchy back alley clinic this is
and of course AS SOON as julia flips the switch to short out the bomb/shock him to death, someone starts shooting at her so she can’t immediately start resuscitation. so ethan is now lying dead on the floor (it’s! temporary!!!) and julia has been promoted to Action Girl!
aaaand since she’s a brain death time limit with ethan, she does NOT wait for the goon to come to her, she just figures out where he is, pops up, and empties an ENTIRE mag into him lol
oooh! and then turned around and did the same to musgrave! well done ma’am, marriage material indeed
now the Sad CPR
also ethan goes from Dead to Firing Position in the space of One Heartbeat
lol sees musgrave dead on the floor and his response is “you did that? …wow” in this very admiring tone lol while julia is still reeling from him not being dead
and yeah ethan kind of has to spill the beans to her at this point lol
apparently the white house is now asking for ethan directly and by name
hey, julia gets to meet the team!
and off they go on their honeymoon!
alright MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3 COMPLETE. about as much lens flare as i expected, only “mystery box” that i detected was that no one ever fessed up about what the fuck “the rabbit’s foot” was supposed to be for, but for the purposes of this particular film it doesn’t really matter, it’s just a plot macguffin.
i did not, in fact, remember a single goddamn thing about this movie lol
ethan gets physically put through a wringer in this film, this might be the most cumulatively beaten up he’s been so far. i didn’t make a count or anything, but he’s got probably more than one concussion, multiple broken ribs, has to have sprained every joint in his body, wouldn’t be surprised if he’s fucked up his spine, and also he was dead for a few minutes after electrocuting himself with an unknown voltage.
on the other hand, this is the happiest we might have ever seen him! also the most despairing. dichotomy of ethan. i’m glad julia didn’t die! not just bc she’s good for ethan, she also seems cool in her own right, i’m hoping that unlike nyah she’ll stick around for further movies.
actually i would like to keep this whole team! declan and zhen were fun in the screentime they got. benji was fun and they could use somebody at the home office who isn’t a Complete Twit.
i still think they should all go freelance. luther’s done it before! and the imf keeps fucking ethan in particular over! and apparently their ranks are absolutely RIDDLED with traitors who want to work with black marketeers lol.
i’m not sure ethan’s Ethan Stunts here should contribute to the Does Ethan Have A Death Wish conversation, bc in this particular film most of them are motivated by Trying To Save Julia and he’s clearly at the end of his mental and emotional rope from the moment she’s taken. it is, admittedly, probably not healthy for him to hinge so much of his sense of security and comfort on one person, but it’s too late now.
8.5/10, the style was a little too frenetic to keep track of the action all the time and the lens flare was exactly as much too much as you’d expect, but the story was solid except for the rabbit’s foot contrivance being a little too meta-textually irrelevant for my tastes and there was a lot of good Pathos in ethan finally trying and failing to settle down, and good performances from everybody.
would watch zhen swan around in a red dress again.
#ODE TO IMPOSSIBLE#mission: impossible#mission: impossible 3#tumblr is harassing me personally with the 30-image limit#there were so many more screengrabs i would have included in this one#it was still not quite as visually interesting as the first but it had some good shots
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serirei swap!au !!!
some info about it (idk how to add the read more thing on mobil, sorry!!): also, there is a lot here but there’s also i didn’t add that i think abt a lot so feel free to ask me about it !! (pls i wanna talk abt it so bad)
- when reigen quits his job at the water cooler place, he never reads that one magazine, and instead is barely scraping by. he stays in his apartment a Lot.
- serizawa is somehow inspired to leave his room (undecided how yet) and open up spirits and such to help people and make a difference.
- toichirou shows up at reigen’s apartment. reigen, to this, says “look man you got the wrong guy, i’m not even an esper… but, i have nothing better to do with my life.” and joins claw.
- toichirou offers to embue his power on reigen for protection, but he declines. after some persuasion though, he does take the psychic embued umbrella.
- at the same time this happens… Serizawa is struggling every day at spirits and such, wanting to close the place up for good. but he always promises himself just one more day. until Shigeo shows up.
- at this point he’s basically “geez. i can’t just leave this kid hanging…” and promises to help him learn his power. he tells Shigeo that he himself doesn’t have powers, but used to, and knows enough to teach him. (this is the lie. he still has powers, however he refuses to use them.)
- during the season 1 finale… it works about the same. serizawa tells Shigeo it’s okay to run away, his power is given to serizawa, and then he proceeds to beat the crap out of everyone. this is an important moment for not just Shigeo, but for Serizawa to realize that holding his own power away may not be as great as he thought.
- during season 2 he opens up to the idea of maybe trying out his own power for the first time in a long time.
- i am… unsure how separation arc works still, so sorry :(((
- serizawa feels very guilty for mogami arc because he knows he could have done something sooner, but his fear held him back
- season 2 finale… this will be hard to explain with words. but!!! i know for a fact that when shou confronts touchirou, reigen is very fast to step in front it the kid to protect him. toichirou does not punish him for this physically, but does make him leave the room. this is when he meets Mob.
- the fight with Mob is again pretty similar, he absolutely refuses to fight him, but also refuses to give up on claw, though, instead of it being out of denial of the truth, it’s more a desperate cry of “i’ve gone this far, what’s the point now?”
- Mob teaches him that it’s never too late to make a change.
(bonus doodle of reigen protecting shou because … yeah )
#serirei#swap!au#mp100#mp100 swap au#sorry for all the tags#king’s art#serizawa katsuya#reigen arataka
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City Of Love
City of Love (Personal Assistant AU—Reversed Roles)
A/N: So, in this imagine, Shawn is Y/n’s personal assistant and Y/N is the popstar. Andrew is still her manager, but Brian is a girl, and his name is Brianna. Haha, hope you like it
Summary: Shawn is Y/N’s assistant and he’s head over heels for her. Does she feel the same for him?
Warnings: Swear Words
There was no doubt in anyone’s mind that Shawn was in love with the Y/N L/N. It was a known fact. The team knew, the fans knew it, hell even Y/N herself knew it. And it wasn’t like he tried to hide it either. Not in the loving glances he sent to her. Not in the long hugs he pulled her into at the end of her shows. Not in the soft kisses he planted on her forehead when she was feeling extra stressed. He was completely transparent.
Y/N on the other hand was a different story. No one could really tell with her how she felt for him. And she did it on purpose. She couldn’t date her personal assistant. It would be too messy. Plus, he was her best friend. She couldn’t ruin that friendship for a relationship that might not even last.
So, when Shawn would give her those glances, she would roll her eyes at him and act oblivious. When he would pull her into those bear hugs, she would pat his back in a friendly way. And when he would kiss her on the forehead, she would brush it off as a kind act.
She was chastised by her friends, her team, and her family. “You can’t keep letting him wander around you like a lovesick puppy. Just put poor Shawn out of his misery. You have to tell him that you don’t feel that way about him.”
But she did feel that way about him. She just couldn’t. And she knew it was wrong to lead him on like she was, but she couldn’t do anything. She wanted him in her life. She wanted him in any way that she could get. And if that was just as a best friend/personal assistant then that was how it would have to be. And it wasn’t like he had ever told her about his true feelings for her. He had never actually said the words “I love you in more than a platonic way.” So, until that happened, she was perfectly fine with the way their relationship was.
*****
Shawn was mesmerized with the way she sung to the crowd so passionately. It honestly put him in a daze. “You’re so whipped,” Brianna laughed.
“Shut up,” he blushed. “If only I knew she felt the same. Does your best friend really have to be the most confusing women on this planet?”
“I ask myself the same question every day. I’m not even sure how she feels about you. She hasn’t ever come out and explicitly said she likes or dislikes you. It’s almost like she doesn’t know if she should like you or not. She’s undecided. It’s weird and so unlike her. You know her probably better than me. You spend more time with her. She’s never indecisive. She always seems to know what she wants. It’s only when it comes to you that she doesn’t. I can’t tell if it’s a good or a bad thing.”
Shawn sighed. “Somedays I wonder if she even wants me here. And then others, it’s like I’m the only person that exists to her.”
Y/N finished her last song and came running off the stage. Shawn pulled her into one of his famous hugs while she patted his back. “You were amazing! Not that I don’t think every show is fantastic, but I think this one is your best one yet!”
“You say that every night,” she chuckled.
“Cause it’s true! It gets better every time you preform.”
She pulled away from the hug. “You’re only saying that because I am your boss.”
And there she went ruining a sweet moment. She always had to bring up her job around him and frankly it hurt his feelings. She was more than just his boss to him. She was his confidant, the person who knew him better than anyone else, the person who helped him through his anxiety.
She didn’t seem to notice the shift in his demeanor as Andrew patted her on the shoulder congratulating her. Brianna sent him a sympathetic smile and rubbed his arm.
This small gesture caught Y/N’s attention from the corner of her eye. She felt a small pang of jealously go through her, but it faded quickly when Shawn turned back to her and sent her one of his signature smiles.
*****
After showering and getting back on the tour bus, Y/N headed for the back of the bus towards her room. They were going to Paris the next day, the city of love. It had always been on Y/N’s bucket list to go there, but they had skipped it her last tour. To say she was excited was an understatement. She had even convinced Andrew to give them three extra days after her show in Paris for her and the team to explore. Andrew obliged even though everyone knew that he secretly wanted to explore France just as much as the rest of them.
“Knock, knock,” Shawn said outside her door.
“Come in.” She was laying on her bed reading a book in her sweatpants and one of Shawn’s old band t-shirts. And that was another thing that confused Shawn. She and Shawn would often sleep in the same bed together because they both enjoyed the comfort. Occasionally Shawn would lend her his shirts (which he thought she looked adorable in), and she would willingly accept. Which probably wasn’t an odd thing for best friends to do, but she rarely gave them back which pulled on Shawn’s heartstrings, making him think that maybe he had a chance.
She glanced up at him and felt her heart stop. He was shirtless, which wasn’t a new thing for her. But damn did he look fine tonight. His hair was a tousled mess, and it was so extremely attractive to her. She tried to hide her infatuation by glancing back down at her book, but she couldn’t focus on the words.
“Are you going to stay the night in here,” She asked him to try to seem nonchalant.
“Obviously! We still have that season of the bachelorette to finish! I’m so excited to see who she’s going to choose.”
Y/N shook her head at him. “And to think that three months ago you thought this show was obnoxious.” She thought it was sweet that he wanted to watch something with her.
“Hey, once it gets started it’s actually kind of entertaining. But at first glance it doesn’t seem that way.”
“Just quit lurking in my doorway, it’s rude. Get in this bed right now!”
She didn’t have to tell him twice. He was under her covers in the blink of an eye.
“So, Mr. Mendes, what’s on the schedule for tomorrow,” she questioned while she turned on the T.V. and hit play on the episode.
“You’ve got an online interview at 10:00 am and then you’ve got soundcheck at noon. The meet and greets at 4:30 and you’re show starts at 7:30 tomorrow. A little later than usual, but we’re not getting to Paris until like 11:00 am so…late show it is.”
She sighed laying her head on his bare chest and placing her book on her nightstand. “How would I ever do it without you? You’re the best. Thanks Shawn.”
Shawn hummed a your welcome and felt his heart rate increase. He hoped she wouldn’t be able to hear it thudding against his chest.
*****
“Y/N, honey. It’s time to wake up,” a soft voice filled the room, shaking her from her sleep. She sat up, her hair a mess, and her eyes half closed. Shawn let out a little chuckle. She was adorable.
“Sorry to wake you, but you’ve got that interview in an hour and I didn’t know how long you wanted to take to get ready.”
“You’re good Mr. Mendes! Thanks for always keeping me on schedule.” At this point she had stood from the bed and was walking towards him. She placed a kiss on his cheek as she walked towards the shower.
The second the door closed to the bathroom, Shawn went to the living quarters of the bus. “I saw that, you know,” a sly voice said from the corner of the room. Shawn turned to see Brianna.
“Saw what?” He could feel himself blushing.
“You walk out of her room. Her kissing your cheek. The basics.”
“Well, she kisses my cheek a lot, it’s nothing new. And we sleep in the same bed a lot. It’s honestly become rarer for us to not sleep in the same bed.”
A pregnant pause went through the room as they heard the shower in the background.
“I was thinking of ways to get her to confess her feelings to you. Or at least drop a hint of something. It’s getting so obnoxious seeing you follow her around like a puppy.”
“I’m listening.”
“In high school, she really liked this boy. But no one knew because she never acted like she did. Well anyways, one day we were playing spin the bottle and I was chosen to kiss him. She was insanely jealous and hardly talked to me the next couple days. I finally confronted her about it, and she told me she had a massive crush on him.
“I thought she was so mad at me. But she had distanced herself from me because apparently, she couldn’t get the image of me and him kissing out of her head. If she reacts the same way with you, it means she really likes you.”
Shawn hesitated. “Look, you’re an amazing girl, but I just don’t want to kiss anyone besides Y/N.”
Brianna laughed. “I have a boy that I’m talking to. I know the feeling. We don’t have to kiss, but we should make it seem like we’re flirting or something. Maybe you could hug me like you always hug her. Maybe a few forehead kisses, some holding hands, and voila, if she has feelings for you, all will be revealed. If she doesn’t, then she’ll probably try to encourage our relationship or something.”
“It doesn’t hurt trying.”
They both turned their heads as they heard the door to Y/N’s room opening as she stepped out. A light blue blouse adorned her beautiful figure and complimented her eyes. Her hair lay in soft curls framing her face and Shawn couldn’t help but be breathless for a few seconds.
“Sorry, am I interrupting something?” Y/N asked as she stared between the two. Brianna had moved closer to Shawn to make it seem like they were having a more than friendly conversation before she walked in.
“Nope, not at all. Need help getting ready?” Brianna quickly asked to draw the attention away from Shawn who had his mouth slightly open as he stared at Y/N.
*****
“Oh my gosh Shawn, you’re hilarious,” Brianna had said while they ate lunch at the stadium where Y/N would be performing later that night.
Y/N looked across the way at Brianna and sent her a questioning glance. She hadn’t thought Shawn’s joke was funny enough to warrant a reaction like that. But that most likely meant that Brianna was flirting with Shawn. Which was a new thing.
A very new thing. Y/N wondered when her friend had developed this flirty relationship with her assistant. Before today, Brianna would always roll her eyes at Shawn’s cheesy jokes. Now she was sending googly eyes at him.
A pang of jealousy coursed through her. But she didn’t have much time to dwell on it before Andrew was walking over to the trio to tell them that Y/N’s sound check was supposed to be starting in ten minutes.
“Shawn, why didn’t you tell me sound check got moved to thirty minutes earlier?”
Shawn stared cheekily at Brianna. At this point, they had let the whole team in on their plot and everyone was working hard to play it off. They all wanted Y/N’s feelings to be revealed once and for all.
“I guess I just got distracted, sorry,” he sent a wink to Brianna that didn’t go unnoticed by Y/N.
She scoffed. “Well try to not to get distracted again. You are working right now, not trying to get a date for tonight.” She stood from the table and walked away calmly.
Shawn pointed his thumb after her and looked to Brianna. “She seems more pissed that I wasn’t doing my job than about our flirting.”
“Just give it a few more days. She’ll eventually crack. Either by threatening to fire you or telling you she loves you.”
Shawn’s eyes grew twice in size. “She wouldn’t actually fire me though. I’m basically as close to her as you are.”
“No, she’ll definitely fire you. But then she’ll rehire you once she’s calmed down a bit. You know how she is.”
That he did know. She was the most kind-hearted person he knew. She would do anything for anyone. But she was a very feisty women who wasn’t afraid to fight for what she believed in. And to top it all off, she had a mean sense of humor. And sometimes that could make her a little scary.
Shawn remembered the first time he ever met her. He thought she was going to fire him on the spot. He had bumped into her when she had been walking out of the recording studio and he had been walking in. It was his first day on the job and he had brought hot chocolate as a kind gesture.
The scorching hot chocolate had spilled all over her clothes. After looking down to assess the damage (her white shirt would probably have to be thrown in the trash) she glanced back up at Shawn. “Watch where you’re going,” she had scoffed.
Shawn felt his cheeks burn with embarrassment. “I am so, so, so sorry. I will pay for a new shirt. Please forgive me.”
She crossed her arms over her chest, reading his name tag. “So, you’re my new assistant. Looks like you’re off to a rough start. The shirt is 150 dollars. Cough it up,” she held out her hand, as if she was waiting for cash to be placed in it.
Shawn scrambled to get his wallet from his back pocket when he heard Y/N laughing. It was a melodic noise, but it surprised him. She hadn’t sounded angry. He dared a look at her.
“I’m sorry but the look on your face was priceless. Don’t worry about it, this shirt was only like 20 bucks and it’s a few years old. It might’ve been time to donate it anyway.”
Shawn was shocked. Her sudden change in demeanor threw him off guard.
“I’m Y/N by the way. And sorry if I scared you about that, but I have an awful sense of humor. Sometimes it’s just funny to be serious and play into the diva stereotype. I hope I can prove to you that I’m not actually like that. Forgive me?”
He stared at her for a few seconds as she held out her hand to him. “…I already knew who you were,” he chuckled. “You’re like my favorite celebrity so it’s really a huge honor to be working for you. And I’m the one that needs to be forgiven.” He reached out and shook her hand.
“Don’t worry, I forgave you the second I saw that smile. You should look into modeling.” And with that she brushed past him and walked into the bathroom no doubt to try and clean off the spill on her shirt.
*****
When Y/N ran off the stage after her performance that night, she was disappointed to not see Shawn standing right by the stage where he usually was. Instead, she heard sounds of laughter and rounded the corner to find Brianna and Shawn sitting on a couch and watching a show together.
“No way she said no! I totally thought he was the end all be all!”
Y/N was confused. She didn’t remember Shawn and Brianna ever being this close of friends. He had his arm around her shoulders and a blanket rested over their legs. Her head was on his shoulder.
Y/N was upset. Not only because she was jealous, but because her two best friends had somehow gotten close to each other overnight without her knowing. And to top it all off, they hadn’t even told her that their relationship was changing. It would’ve been a nice warning for Y/N before she got her heart broken.
Andrew observed Y/N’s reaction quietly from behind her. A smug smile played at his lips. Y/N stood there for only a few seconds, but he could tell she was not happy with the two’s proximity. She turned to walk back to the dressing room.
“Hey when they get out of their googly eye love land will you have both of them come to my dressing room. Looks like they forgot to include me in our after-show celebration,” she forced a smile onto her face that didn’t go unnoticed by Andrew.
As Y/N walked away, Brianna slid out from under Shawn’s arm and shudder. “Ew. That was weird.”
“Yea, seriously. Notice anything Andrew?” The two looked up at him.
“She just seems upset. I’m assuming you guys heard what she said to me?”
They both nodded. “Tell her we’ll meet her on the bus.”
Andrew sighed. “Are you kids sure this is a good idea? How long are we going to let this go on for?”
“Just until she does something about it.”
“Alright then. “
*****
Y/N walked onto the bus a half an hour later. After hearing that her two best friends had bailed on their tradition of celebrating after a show, she had broken down in the dressing room.
The show hadn’t gone as well as she had hoped. She had missed a few notes and being the perfectionist that she was, it really upset her. She craved one of Shawn’s hugs. He always noticed when she was feeling down about her performance. But instead, he was off swooning her best friend.
She dried her eyes and walked onto the bus, hoping they weren’t still red from crying. Brianna and Shawn were on the couch cuddling and asleep! Shawn had his arm wrapped around her middle and they looked so peaceful. It was hard to find a time where Shawn looked so relaxed. She didn’t even think he was that laid back with her.
And then it hit her. If they were both going to make the other person happy, she should quit being a jealous and selfish friend and let them do what they want. She wouldn’t try to force them into being around her if they didn’t want to be.
She felt a stinging sensation in her eyes, and she knew she was about to cry again. She lost her chance with Shawn and there was nothing she could do about it. She walked to her room, turning off the light and instantly falling asleep. She even forgot that the last episode of the Bachelorette was on that night!
*****
For their first day in Paris, Shawn had found a small Parisian café to eat breakfast in. He knew Y/N was somewhat fluent in French and she wanted to get the full experience. It originally was only going to be the two of them going to the café, but he decided that Brianna needed to come so they could keep up their act.
“Knock, knock,” Shawn said opening her door. He had a terrible night’s sleep. His insomnia flared up (she usually helped with that), and he was exhausted. He and Brianna had faked being asleep on the tour bus couch, but she hadn’t even spared them a thought. She had just walked to her room.
“Hey, you look tired.” She herself didn’t look to awake either. Her eyes were a little bloodshot, but makeup did a good job covering up the bags under her eyes. Her hair was flawless like always and she wore a white sundress. She was breathtaking.
“Yeah, I didn’t sleep too good last night.”
“Me either. I was planning on watching the last episode of The Bachelorette with my best friends, but y’all already watched it without me,” she chuckled to play it off as a joke, but he could hear the sadness seeping through her voice.
He scratched the back of his neck guiltily. Truth be told he didn’t really want to watch The Bachelorette without her, but Brianna convinced him it was a good idea. “Yea, sorry about that. I was just too excited to see who she chose. But I’ll watch it with you tonight if you’d like.”
“Yea, that sounds nice.”
There was an awkward lull in their conversation until Brianna popped up next to Shawn. Her hair was in perfect curls. Her makeup was flawless. And she was wearing a blue dress that complimented her eyes and red hair.
“You guys ready to go?”
Y/N tried to hide her surprise at the question. She assumed Shawn had invited her which was fine. She just had to act like it didn’t bother her. Shawn looked at Y/N shyly, trying to silently apologize.
“Yea, let’s go,” Y/N said brushing past Shawn and walking to the front of the bus.
*****
The café had only a few people in it when they arrived. “Bonjour!” Y/N said to the waitresses. They smiled at her, and she held a light conversation with them in French before they were seated. Shawn would never stop being impressed at the many talents she had.
Shawn and Brianna chose to sit across from each other leaving Y/N to sit by herself. She felt like the third wheel on a date. Funny how it was supposed to be just her and Shawn, but she’s the one who feels like the third wheel, not Brianna.
Y/N was quieter than usual which didn’t go unnoticed by her two best friends. But instead of bringing it up, they decided to let her fester in her emotions. She would eventually say something, they concluded.
But that went on for the entire day. They went sight-seeing in Paris with the rest of the team, and Y/N tried to avoid being around the two. She went to hang out with Connor, her photographer, who sent Shawn an evil eye. He looked after Y/N like his little sister. While he agreed that Y/N needed to fess up, he didn’t like the way she as being manipulated into doing it.
“Just ignore him,” Brianna whispered.
“Yea, ok.” That didn’t stop Shawn from feeling like a piece of shit for treating Y/N like this.
That night, Y/N got ready for bed hoping that Shawn would eventually come into her room to watch The Bachelorette, but that never happened.
*****
The next day went almost the same as the first. But by the last day, Shawn and Brianna were getting sick of pretending to like each other.
“You know what, scrap that dumb plan I made up a few days ago. Clearly, it’s not working and it’s just making her more and more upset. Which is not something we need. I never wanted to hurt her feelings and I’m sure you didn’t either. Take her to the Eiffel Tower tonight. Just you two. No one else.”
“…I’m guessing you’re going to say I should confess my love to her like in all those cliché love stories,” he chuckled. “Well, it’s better than your first plan.”
“Hey, you agreed to that!”
“Yea, yea. More like I got pressured into it.”
Brianna crossed her arms as Y/N walked out of her room. She was wearing a brown cardigan over a light blue dressed. She stared between the two before walking towards the small kitchen and pulling out some cereal and a bowl.
Brianna tilted her head towards Y/N, insinuating that Shawn should talk to her. She walked away and Shawn went to the kitchen.
“Hey, what if I took you out for dinner tonight?”
“Well actually I just wanted to stay in and rest.”
“Yea, but you can do that all day tomorrow when we’re heading to the next city.”
“Yea, but my bed is so warm and cozy, and I just want to lay down in it.”
“Nope, you’re coming with me. I’ve barely spent any time with you this whole trip.”
Shawn grabbed Y/N’s hand and pulled her towards the exit of the bus. She pulled back with a force just as strong.
“No! If you wanted to spend time with me, you and Brianna would stop making me feel like a third wheel. I don’t want to even be around you guys because you leave me out. It’s not fun!”
“Brianna isn’t coming. It’ll just be me and you.”
Y/N raised her eyebrows at him. “Uh huh. And Brianna is ok with this?”
“Yea, why wouldn’t she be?”
“Just seems like you two have to do everything together since we got to Paris.”
Shawn turned away to hide his smile. Maybe their first plan had worked a little. Y/N definitely did seem a little jealous.
“Well, I promise she’s not coming. Let me take you to dinner and we can go see the top of the Eiffel Tower. It’ll be fun. Please,” he used his puppy dog eyes on her. The ones he knew she couldn’t resist.
“Fine,” she rolled her eyes, but was secretly excited for their little outing.
*****
“Notre Dame was so pretty. I think it’s been my favorite place so far.”
“Yea Notre Dame was cool. I just wished that I got to spend more time with you,” Shawn said as he took a bite out of his food.
Y/N scoffed. “If you wanted to spend more time with me, you would’ve spent less time flirting with Brianna.”
“Hey! It’s not like you weren’t flirting up a storm with Connor!” That wasn’t an entirely false statement. Y/N had tried to make Shawn jealous, but she didn’t think it had worked.
“Please Shawn,” she waved her hand at him, “he’s like a brother to me. You know that.”
“Ok and you’re like a sister to me! Brianna…” he paused. He didn’t know why he had said that. In a round-a-bout type of way, he was trying to insinuate to her that his relationship with her was like her relationship with Connor. They acted like siblings but would flirt. Connor knew Y/N was off limits though because Shawn had already staked a claim.
“Brianna what?” She was red in the face from arguing with him.
“She’s like a friend to me. I mean I don’t really know her that well. I spend more time with you than with her.”
“It sure didn’t seem like it this week. You know what though, I think we need to leave. Let’s just leave this argument in the past and have a good time tonight. You ready to go?”
Shawn nodded his head and placed a bill down on the table. Y/N tried to beat him to it but he said, “Nuh uh. I’m paying for this.”
*****
The air was cold at the top of the Eiffel Tower and Y/N shivered in her dress as they stared out at the city lights. It was a beautiful sight, but Shawn couldn’t tear his eyes away from Y/N’s figure. She looked so free and happy. Something he hadn’t seen on her the entire week. He knew he was to blame for that. It was now or never that he told her his feelings.
“Here, you look cold,” he draped his jacket around her shoulders.
“Thanks.”
“Look Y/N, the real reason I took you up here tonight is because I have to tell you something. It’s kind of a big deal. It’s a secret I’ve been keeping from you since I first met you,” he grabbed her hand and she glanced at him.
“I know Shawn. I know that you used to love me, but now your feelings have shifted, and you want to figure out whatever it is that you have with Brianna. I’m not offended or hurt or anything. And if talking to mean is your way to find closure, I’m here for you. And if you want my advice,” she paused and looked back out at the city, “I would resolve the fight you two were in before we left.”
Shawn stared at her dumbstruck. She was letting him go so easily. No fight. Nothing. That surely meant that she didn’t love him.And she already knew that he loved her. It wasn’t like he hadn’t made it obvious, but he just thought she didn’t know.
Shawn didn’t say anything for a few seconds and Y/N tried to stop the tears from coming to her eyes. She had once again lost something to her best friend and she once again, couldn’t be mad at her for it.
“You know, I always pictured myself up here with a man I had fallen head over heels with,” she took a deep breath. It was now or never. She had nothing to lose. “I guess I just didn’t realize that he would’ve fallen for my best friend instead.” Shawn’s mouth opened in shock. “I was such an idiot. I thought that by hiding my feelings and waiting for you to confess first to me I would have it confirmed that you loved me back. I wouldn’t have to make that leap of faith. But I waited too long, and I lost my chance.” She looked into his eyes, into the very depths of his soul.
And at the top of the City of Love, she whispered, “I love you, Shawn. As more than a friend. More than you’ll ever know. And I am so, so sorry that I was a coward about all of this. I cost us a beautiful relationship. But I want you and Brianna to be happy. It’ll give me peace of mind knowing that I didn’t screw everything up.”
And with that, she pulled her hand away from Shawn’s and turned to walk away. Shawn went after her. “Where are you going?! We’re at the most perfect spot in the city! You can’t just drop that on me and walk away!”
She turned around. “Please Shawn, I can’t have you doing this. Don’t get my hopes up. I’m tired and I want to go back to the bus.”
“Y/N wait—”
“Please! I can’t do this tonight!”
He wrapped his arms around her waist and turned her around to face him. He didn’t waste another moment before capturing her lips in his. She wrapped her hands around his neck and tugged on his hair. She finally pulled back, slightly pushing him away.
“I love you ok. If you just would’ve let me talk, I would’ve gotten to that point. This whole week me and Brianna have been trying to make you jealous,” he chuckled at her appalled face. “We just wanted you to break first and confess to me. We realized we had taken it too far when you distanced yourself from us. Me and Brianna were arguing because she was trying to pressure me into telling you my feelings tonight. I promise she is just a friend. Nothing more.”
There was a long pause and Shawn watched something shift in Y/N’s eyes. “You are such an idiot! You know what, you’re fired!” She stared at him with crossed arms, a red face, and angry eyes.
Shawn couldn’t tell if she was being serious or if she was joking.
“You’ve pushed me too far this time. That was so dumb of you! I don’t care if you say you love me, you wouldn’t have done that if you did! I expect your things to be packed up. You’re leaving at the next city!”
Shawn scrunched his eyes at her, and she turned away, starting to walk down the steps of the Eiffel Tower.
By the time they had made it to the bus (which was in walking distance), Y/N hadn’t spoken a word to Shawn. Even though he had begged and begged for forgiveness.
When they got on the bus, Brianna waited for them on one of the couches. “So…I’m guessing by Y/N’s face it didn’t go too well,” she said to Shawn.
“NO! He’s fired! And how dare you do that to me!”
Brianna made eye contact with Shawn and her eyes widened when she realized that Y/N wasn’t joking.
“Woah Y/N, think about this for a second. Shawn is your best friend.”
“Yea and you guys are such idiots to think that I would actually fire you!” She turned around laughing at Shawn.
He rolled his eyes. “I guess we kind of deserved that. But I hate your sense of humor.”
“Oh, shut up! You love it like you love me!”
“Hmmm, I don’t know about that. We were having a sweet moment and you had to ruin it.”
“Maybe just be transparent next time and I won’t have to use my ‘mean humor’ on you.” She threw her (his) jacket at him with a smile on her face and walked towards her room.
“You better go be with your girl,” Brianna sent him a wink and he rolled his eyes at her.
“Thanks for everything!”
“Don’t mention it. It is the city of love, it was bound to happen.”
A/N: lol what is this garbage. I loved the plot but executed it so badly. Thanks for reading anyways. Feedback is appreciated.
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SPOILERS: Teen Justice Issue 2 Is Now Out (Finally) Part 2
Here's Part 1. Read it before this one cuz I'll only be talking about the second half of the comic
Deja Vu 3
The way Laurel (and Jess) would just drop everything and go help Talia, no questions asked is top tier Super Sons deja vu.
I will not stop comparing the two of them to Damian and Jon. I know they're two very different pairs but I can't stop thinking about what could've happened and what might have been if Jon didn't leave.
Talia was trained by both Batwoman AND the League of Assassins
This gets me thinking, what age did Talia leave the League to go live with her mother?
Cuz if I remember correctly, both in animated and in the comics, Damian wasn't trained by Bruce. (I'm not updated with ALL the comics). And he went on becoming Robin without his training. So if Talia met her mom at an earlier age (maybe 7 or 8), Batwoman may have given her a bit of training before putting her out on the field, regardless of her training with the LOA.
Either that, or it's referred that she's still currently training under her.
Klari's suspicion of Raven
Klari is suspicious of Raven. And I'm starting to think she wont be too fond of him till next issue (I'll say why later).
She doesn't trust him and I get that. That's been implied since the first issue when she said, "Sure, let's get excited when someone, who doesn't even likes us, shows up". And I think she thinks Raven didn't join cuz he just hates them, and not because he doesn't wanna hurt them cuz he knows people who get too close to him get hurt.
"Don't get misdirected by your team dynamics" What does that mean exactly? Does it mean Klari's instincts/powers are different from when she's alone and when she's with her team? Her powers start to really look like Raven's.
Laurel's powers
Few things
Laurel, sweetheart, you can see their bones. Of course they're dead.
That's possible? Is it in her X-Ray or her Heat Vision powers? How is it possible that Laurel can see people's auras? (That's Raven's job). And if she can see their auras, can she turn that on and off or can she see it inevitably?
The adults are dead, the kids turned into old people because their energies were taken from them...sound familiar?
His Undecided
I don't care what anyone says, Troy calling Raven his undecided is the cutest thing that's happened in this comic. Friend? Boyfriend? Nope, that's his undecided.
Troy, don't leave him unattended. Your undecided is picking fights. P.S. if you go into a bookstore with him, holding his hand ain't enough; tie a balloon to his wrist so you don't lose him.
Troy, please tell me you see him more than an emo boy. Please. He is so much more than that and if you actually mean that, I will slap you.
Raven...please tell me you understood the assignment.
Please tell me that you knew that this was just his way of protecting you and getting you out of there cuz he knew that if you didn't, something bad would happen to you and he wouldn't have been able to forgive himself for it.
Please tell me you knew that and you didn't think he actually hates you.
He loves him
You willingly waited 90 minutes to check? 90 minutes...damn.
And if it hasn't been implied yet, he loves him. With all his heart, he does. He will do anything for Donald Troy and nothing will stop him.
Okay, maybe that was an overstatement
It's okay, Raven, you'll get him back. You guys will figure it out and you'll get your undecided back. Just calm down cuz your emotions are all over the place
Look, even Teekl is scared.
BONUS:
Not part of Teen Justice #2 but related
As you should know, I am obsessed with genderbent DC. And I make up headcanons about Teen Justice sometimes. One of which is their heights and ages, as I've said here
So here are my headcanons for their heights and ages. (I can't put the picture since I've reached my limit)
Klarienne: 12 yo (Appearance based) - 154 cm (5'1 ft)
Laurel: 12 yo - 170 cm (5'7 ft)
Talia: 15 yo - 156 cm (5'1 ft)
Jess: 16 yo - 166 cm (5'5 ft)
Raven: 16/17 yo - 170 cm (5'7 ft)
Donny: 17 yo - 178 cm (5'8 ft)
Jacqui: 17 yo - 168 cm (5'5 ft)
But then I remembered this pic existed:
I refuse to believe Jess is shorter than Talia. They're not. Even if Talia is wearing platform shoes, she's cannot be taller than Jess and Jacqui.
I'd also like to think Klari wears heels. She doesn't but I like to think she does. And Laurel, baby girl, you know flying wont make you taller, right?
So Laurel is taller than Talia, Talia and Klari are around the same height. Talia and Klari are the shortest ones. Raven is as tall as Donny but Donny is taller.
Also, the height difference between Jess and Donny in this picture is akrhlsicbwhfidve. Like wtf? That's got to be at least 2 feet.
#robin#damian wayne#dc comics#dc#teen justice#teen titans#dc spoilers#spoilers#talia kane#laurel kent#earth 11#jacqui hyde#jess chambers#klarienne the witch girl#klarion the witch boy#raven#rachel roth#donald troy#troy#donna troy#wondergirl#kid quick#jackson hyde#aquagirl#aqualad#superboy#jon kent#super girl#young justice
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Sariel Noir. Love that never fades
Chapter 1.
Part 1/1
When the doctor told me I had amnesia, I was surprised, but was able to accept the fact as reality.
There is "something" missing in me. Because I felt it somewhere in my heart. But..
(That "something" is so hard to believe. I never thought it was possible...!)
When I visited the hall with Mr. Sariel, a court official, I found the eight princes of the country waiting for me there. The first princes I talked to gave me a mixed, ambiguous reaction. ....
(...But some of the princes were seriously concerned about me. Even though I was a commoner...)
Now I have no recollection of "being in court".
When I remembered the princes who had spoken to me so casually, I realized again the gravity of the situation, and my body staggered.
A moment later, I felt a hand on my shoulder.
Sariel: MС, are you okay? If you're not feeling well, I can take you to the infirmary...
I was surprised to hear his breath in my ear, and my face heated up.
MC: Sorry. I'm not feeling too bad, but...
MC: I didn't know I had contact with the princes... I still can't believe it.
When I confessed to him, the expression on Sariel's face softened and he looked at me intently.
Sariel: You have nothing to worry about, all the princes liked you.
Sariel: And of course, I liked you too.
(Sariel doesn't take me seriously!)
MС: Are you kidding me, Mr. Sariel?
I asked, trying to cover up my upset, and she laughed more gently than I expected.
Sariel: No, it's different.
Sariel: You have a beautiful heart, worthy of being a Belle.
Sariel: It's no wonder you're so useful, isn't it?
(I was the one who would choose the king as Belle, and even after that I worked for the country under you, Sariel...)
MC: I still can't believe that either.
Sariel: It's understandable that you don't believe me, since you have no memory of it.
Sariel says softly, as if to comfort me.
Sariel: Please rest and relax for a while.
Sariel told me to take a break, but I felt terrible doing nothing even though my body was fine.
After spending a few days walking around the castle and talking with the princes to somehow regain my memory, I decided to do "something".
Part 1/2
At night, when Sariel is always busy with his work, I come to his office.
MС: Mr. Sariel, let me do my work!
As I stared at him, undecided, Sariel lifted the edge of his lips.
Sariel: Does that mean you're going to help me do my job again?
MС: Yeah... I'm not sure if I will be able to work as I used to, with my memory not being able to come back.
MC: I would like to work. I don't care if it's a chore or anything else. Is there anything I can do to help?
When I ask, Sariel lets out a small breath.
Sariel: May I ask why?
MC: During my stay in the castle for a few days, I learned of the love that the princes and officials have for their country.
MC: So... And I thought... I wish I could do something to help.
MC: So... I'd like to do something for you, too.
Telling him all at once, I embrace him for some reason I can't tell Sariel.
(... I want to help you, Sariel, who is always busy, even if just a little.)
(I don't know why, but I just can't help thinking about it...)
I was about to look away when I felt as if the dark purple eyes were going to see through me.
Part 1/3
Sariel: You have been my... You were a disciple of the devil.
Sariel narrowed her eyes nostalgically and smiled quietly.
(... Devil. I know that's what people say about Sariel, but you don't look like that at all.)
(From my point of view, Sariel is just trying to help his country.)
Sariel: Now you will be my apprentice once again.
Sariel: That's... I think you need to be prepared for this in a different way than you were before.
Sariel looks straight at me, as if challenging me.
Sariel: I'm very strict, but are you ready to bet on everything? MC
I took a small breath.
MC: Yes. I want to be of service to this country - my desire remains the same.
I said, and Sariel laughed with satisfaction.
Sariel: Thank you.
Sariel: I am the devil. I will bet my life on your beautiful heart, your eyes and your ambition.
Sariel said, and with his long gloved fingertips, she took my hand and...
Part 1/4
He hung his head reverently as he detained his fingertips.
In the moonlight, Sariel looked suspiciously out-of-this-world beautiful, and my heart beat surprisingly loudly.
(But, what is it?.....This feeling...)
(It's not just a pounding. It's something very, very... It's like a tight squeeze...)
The sweet, sad, mysterious sensation did not go away, and I exhaled a long, thin breath to cover it up.
The next morning, I followed Sariel's instructions to help with bureaucratic tasks.
(Sariel's teaching methods are easy to understand and rewarding.)
(.... It's hard work, but a lot of fun. I think I might like this job)
(All right, let's do my best!)
So I put my energy into it, and worked on the work as a result---
Sariel: Your ability is alive and well, even if you don't have a memory.
Part 1/5
When I was working in the oval office that night, Sariel looked at me and smiled.
MC: I think the way I worked was deeply ingrained in my body.
(I have no memory, but I know how to sort the materials and the procedure for negotiation.The head works and the hand moves naturally)
(And unconsciously, this is..)
(It looks exactly like Sariel's way. I was really a disciple of Sariel...)
MC: You taught me a lot of things before, right?
I smile, and Sariel smiles in response.
His smile was so kind that my heart was squeezed.
(Maybe Sariel is now remembering memories of "me that I don't know".)
(... Is it impure to miss the memories we lost because of something like this?)
(I want memories with Sariel, who is supposed to be my boss...)
I exhaled a little, and then...
Sariel: MC...
Sariel: I didn't teach you just to work as a bureaucrat, did I?
Sariel said in a teasing tone of voice and led me to the door...
Sariel: I have the last job of the day. Please come.
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I'm loving the Lincoln idea cuz I think Slueth jesters has swallowed me whole as well 🤣
I understand that Moon in this situation is undecided. But I would like to know if the reason they do doordash is for fazbear or if it's to try and survive in the real world and that is currently the only way they can reliably make money?
Also I can definitely see Moon being the type to find whatever Y/N's job is to be extremely interesting (even if he will never admit it) and try to do whatever Y/N does for a job. Like if they are a digital artist of some kind- Moon tries to make digital paintings that he tries to keep away from Sun ect.
IF ONLY MOON WAS PROGRAMED FOR MORE THAN CHILDRENS DRAWINGS
But that's cute as hell, oh my god. I could see him starting out with the default level of skill from the daycare days and just... This is not working. This isn't right. How do humans turn into printers??? what the fuck?????? So he'd end up both frustrated and also determined if he tried to copy that. Sun treats it like it's just adult arts and crafts but Moon being more like... Less active with the kids in that regard from back then just sees it as a normal hobby activity and it being something HE could do to help make money possibly instead of being just as shielded off from the world as YN would be (though not by choice, but he still can't really be trusted around humans safely) he doesn't have that many options.
THOUGH this actually does kind of circle back to a headcanon I was debating pulling in for... technically 2 things I'm working on, but more for Sun cause he's more active with arts and crafts, of him having his own actual painting stuff that he works on in private during the hours the daycare is closed and painting pictures based on the descriptions the kids give him of the outside world, and also the images he's seen on their clothing so it would be a kind of surreal style of cartoony trees and more realistic ones, not totally gathering the concept that they're not both real, but also things from the Fazbear approved kids library of books for story/naptime they'd have with the varying art styles. Kinda sad before he gets to see the actual outside world and realizes he really doesn't understand how anything beyond the pizzaplex looks. Same for Moon though, cause even though he's got more free range of the whole place, he wouldn't have seen the world outside the shutters like the other animatronics can during the day so I AM REALLY digging the concept of them becoming artists in their other spare time.
THOUGH cicrling around again, I don't see them still being "employed" by the Faz, this probably taking place a bit later after the plex initially burns to the ground and they end up as sort of a refurbished piece (stares at copper cogs longingly) that either slipped away from whoever restored them for (pick a shitty reason) or they're now working 'for' the person that refurb'd them that's still in that stage of treating them like a tool and not like a person which would also push Sun's anxiety and Moon's distaste for people into a more focal point (and also leave room for them to decide they're done with that guy and just... dip and try and move in with YN) for future plot~
(unrelated I have been eating up Sleuth Jesters this week piece by peace and it's giving me life~ I'm not all the way through yet though)
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